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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian fighters battling Russian forces in the tunnels beneath Mariupol's immense steel plant refused to surrender in the face of relentless attacks, with the wife of one commander saying they had vowed to "stand till the end."
The battle, in the last Ukrainian stronghold of the strategic port city reduced to ruins by the Russian onslaught, appeared increasingly desperate on Thursday.
"They won't surrender," Kateryna Prokopenko said after speaking by phone to her husband, a leader of the steel plant defenders. "They only hope for a miracle."
She said her husband, Azov Regiment commander Denys Prokopenko, told her he would love her forever.
"I am going mad from this. It seemed like words of goodbye," she said.
The bloody battle came amid growing speculation that President Vladimir Putin wants to present the Russian people with a battlefield triumph — or announce an escalation of the war — in time for Victory Day on Monday. Victory Day is the biggest patriotic holiday on the Russian calendar, marking the Soviet Union's triumph over Nazi Germany.
Some 2,000 Ukrainian fighters, by Russia's most recent estimate, were holed up in a maze of tunnels and bunkers beneath Mariupol's sprawling Azovstal steelworks. A few hundred civilians were also believed trapped there.
"There are many wounded (fighters), but they are not surrendering," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Thursday in his nightly video address. "They are holding their positions."
He said the attack was preventing the evacuation of remaining civilians.
"Just imagine this hell! And there are children there," he said "More than two months of constant shelling, bombing, constant death."
The Russians managed to get inside with the help of an electrician who knew the layout, said Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's Internal Affairs Ministry.
"He showed them the underground tunnels which are leading to the factory," Gerashchenko said in a video posted late Wednesday. "Yesterday, the Russians started storming these tunnels, using the information they received from the betrayer."
The Kremlin denied its troops were storming the plant.
The fall of Mariupol would deprive Ukraine of a vital port, allow Russia to establish a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, and free up troops to fight elsewhere in the Donbas, the eastern industrial region that the Kremlin says is now its chief objective.
Capt. Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov Regiment, pleaded on Ukrainian TV for the evacuation of civilians and wounded fighters from the steelworks, saying soldiers were "dying in agony due to the lack of proper treatment."
The Kremlin has demanded the troops surrender. They have refused. Russia has also accused them of preventing the civilians from leaving.
The head of the United Nations said another attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol and the plant was underway. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: "We must continue to do all we can to get people out of these hellscapes."
More than 100 civilians were rescued from the steelworks over the weekend. But many previous attempts to open safe corridors from Mariupol have fallen through, with Ukraine blaming shelling and firing by the Russians.
Meanwhile, 10 weeks into the devastating war, Ukraine's military claimed it recaptured some areas in the south and repelled other attacks in the east, further frustrating Putin's ambitions after his abortive attempt to seize Kyiv. Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting village by village.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Russian forces are making only "plodding" progress in the Donbas.
The head of Britain's armed forces, Chief of the Defense Staff Adm. Tony Radakin, said Putin is "trying to rush to a tactical victory" before Victory Day. But he said Russian forces are struggling to gain momentum.
On Thursday, an American official said the U.S. shared intelligence with Ukraine about the location of a Russian flagship before the mid-April strike that sank it, one of Moscow's highest-profile failures in the war.
The U.S. has provided "a range of intelligence" that includes locations of warships, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The official said the decision to target the missile cruiser Moskva was purely a Ukrainian decision.
Fearful of new attacks surrounding Victory Day, the mayor of the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk urged residents to leave for the countryside over the long weekend and warned them not to gather in public places.
And the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, a key transit point for evacuees from Mariupol, announced a curfew from Sunday evening through Tuesday morning.
Mariupol, which had a prewar population of over 400,000, has come to symbolize the misery inflicted by the war. The siege of the city has trapped perhaps 100,000 civilians with little food, water, medicine or heat.
As the battle raged there, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Russian bombardment Thursday hit dozens of Ukrainian military targets, including troop concentrations in the east, an artillery battery near the eastern settlement of Zarozhne and rocket launchers near the southern city of Mykolaiv.
Five people were killed and dozens injured in shelling of cities in the Donbas over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian officials said, with shells hitting schools, apartments and a medical facility.
Ukrainian forces said they made some gains on the border of the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv and repelled 11 Russian attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that make up the Donbas.
The war has devastated the country's medical infrastructure, Zelenskyy said in a video link to a charity event in the U.K. Nearly 400 health care facilities have been damaged or destroyed, he said.
"There is simply a catastrophic situation regarding access to medical services and medicines," in areas occupied by Russian forces, he said. "Even the simplest drugs are lacking."
With the challenge of mine-clearing and rebuilding after the war in mind, Zelenskyy announced the launch of a global fundraising platform called United24.
At the same time, Poland hosted an international donor conference that raised $6.5 billion in humanitarian aid. The gathering was attended by prime ministers and ambassadors from many European countries, as well as representatives of nations farther afield and some businesses.
In addition, a Ukrainian cabinet body began to develop proposals for a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan, while Zelenskyy also urged Western allies to put forward a program similar to the post-World War II Marshall Plan plan to help Ukraine rebuild.
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GOP works to get out the vote after calling elections rigged
ATLANTA (AP) — Republican David Perdue has made election fraud the centerpiece of his run for Georgia governor. But if he hopes to win in this year’s midterm elections, his supporters will have to use the same democratic system he says they shouldn’t trust.
The only way to win a rigged election, he says, is to turn out in such high numbers that the Democrats can’t get away with cheating.
“If we get out the vote, if everybody votes, we will win,” Perdue told his audience at a campaign speech last month.
Across the nation, Republicans who have embraced discredited conspiracy theories about the 2020 election are attempting a similar high-wire act: campaigning for votes by preaching skepticism about elections.
For GOP contenders, it’s a tricky calculus. If they continue spreading former President Donald Trump’s lies that the election was stolen, they risk undermining faith in democracy and having their supporters stay at home. But those who reject Trump’s false claims face the wrath of the former president and his supporters, who wield sizable influence in many GOP primaries.
The tactic of campaigning on a distrust of democracy can confuse voters on whether their vote matters or not. Joe Kent, a Republican running for Congress in Washington, said voters sometimes ask him why they should bother voting at all, if elections are rigged. Kent said he believes Trump won and has said he would work to overturn President Joe Biden’s win if elected, even though there is no legal mechanism for doing so.
“I don’t have a perfect answer for you,” is what Kent said he tells voters who say they no longer trust voting. “I wish there was a remedy. If you buy into ‘It’s all rigged’ and ‘I’m not going to vote,’ we are 100% going to lose.”
In the 18 months since Biden defeated Trump, other issues have bubbled up to compete for the attention of candidates and voters: inflation, the bloody exit from Afghanistan, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and debates over vaccines and masks in schools.
Trump’s false statements about the election, meanwhile, have been roundly disproved — by courts, law enforcement, elected election officials from both parties, and independent investigations.
“We need to move on to solving problems for citizens,” said Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, the Republican from southwest Washington state facing a primary challenge this year from Kent. Beutler has said she supported Trump’s right to bring legal challenges, but there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Beutler is one of 10 House Republicans who supported Trump’s second impeachment. She also voted to certify Biden’s election victory, making her a major target for Trump and his supporters.
The former president began spreading doubts about the 2020 election years before the first votes were even cast, saying he would only accept the results if he was the victor. He’s spent the last year and a half repeating those same claims, despite an absence of evidence. Now, he’s using his power within the GOP to punish candidates for being insufficiently loyal.
When Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, a stalwart Trump backer, told a crowd of Trump supporters that it was time to move on from 2020, he was jeered. Trump ended up pulling his endorsement of Brooks in Alabama’s Senate race.
“He wanted the election rescinded and a do-over,” Brooks later said. “But there’s no legal way to do it.”
Many Republicans have leaned into Trump’s conspiracy theories. In Missouri, Rep. Billy Long, who is running for the U.S. Senate, released a 30-second ad claiming the “Democrats rigged the election.” YouTube later removed the ad from its platform for violating its rules on misinformation.
In Texas, one survey of 143 Republican candidates for Congress this year found that only 13 stated that Biden was the election’s rightful winner.
Georgia is perhaps the best example of how Trump’s self-serving conspiracy theories continue to resonate with Republican voters, and the candidates hoping for their support.
Republican turnout in Georgia dropped in the January 2021 runoffs amid Trump’s barrage of voter fraud claims in his own election defeat, leading many Republicans to conclude that Trump’s messaging cost their party control of the Senate when Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock beat Perdue and fellow Republican Kelly Loeffler.
Perdue, now running for governor at Trump’s behest, has made election fraud the centerpiece of his challenge to incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp. Perdue and Trump blame Kemp’s refusal to attempt to overturn Trump’s defeat in Georgia during the 2020 campaign for their losses.
In his campaign speech, Perdue pledged to eliminate Georgia’s Dominion voting machines, which Trump has falsely accused of flipping votes against him. But Perdue also said concerns about the machines shouldn’t discourage Republicans from voting, noting that Democratic-leaning Virginia elected Republican Glenn Youngkin with votes recorded on Dominion machines.
“Let’s give you some hope. In Virginia, we just elected a Republican governor using these same machines,” Perdue said. “How did we do it? Well, Trump told people, he said: ‘Look, they fixed some rules. We still use the machines. It’s not perfect yet, but we can overwhelm it if we all get out and vote.’”
Perdue has also touted Republican efforts to recruit more poll watchers, saying they will help prevent fraud, although Perdue’s accusations have focused on the disproven claim that fraud in Georgia centered on absentee ballots that were returned in drop boxes.
Running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, Herschel Walker has taken a different tack, saying he doesn’t want to look backward at the 2020 election. During an April 20 interview with radio station WDUN-AM in Gainesville, Georgia, Walker acknowledged concerns about election fraud among Republican voters. He sought to reassure voters that Georgia’s restrictive 2021 election law will put to rest worries about absentee ballots by requiring driver license numbers on ballot applications and by limiting ballot drop boxes.
“I don’t know if there are problems with the 2020 elections,” Walker said. “One thing I have to worry about right now is that I’m going to have a fair election, and that people can believe in our election when I run.”
Surveys indicate that many Republicans have harbored doubts about Biden’s win, skepticism that has been encouraged by Trump and his allies on cable TV and talk radio, along with conspiracy theories and misinformation spreading online.
Distrust of American institutions was already increasing when Trump began telling his supporters that the election was rigged if he lost. The COVID-19 pandemic then prompted many states to rush out new vote-by-mail rules that alarmed some conservatives and prompted even more falsehoods from Trump.
When the votes were counted, large numbers of those mail-in ballots helped tilt the outcome in states like Pennsylvania and Georgia toward Biden.
“They view what happened in Pennsylvania and Georgia with suspicion,” said Daron Shaw, a former campaign strategist and polling expert who now teaches at the University of Texas. “But it was their guy who said don’t vote by mail. Voters take their cues from partisan elites, but instead of pushing back on this (voter fraud claim), the party elites have acted as an accelerant.”
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Chief Justice Roberts Goes Nuclear, Activates Police Force Answerable Only to the Court Itself
It’s an unprecedented leak with an unprecedented aim — and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is taking unprecedented steps to get to the bottom of it.
In a media release Tuesday, one day after Politico first published a draft opinion from the court that indicated it would overturn Roe v. Wade, Roberts announced he had “directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak.”
(Here at The Western Journal, we’re staying on top of the fast-moving news regarding the Supreme Court’s biggest abortion case since Roe was decided — and what the leak means for the future of the court. If you support our news and analysis from a conservative, Christian perspective, please consider subscribing.)
The draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, written by Justice Samuel Alito and joined by four other conservative justices, held the logic of the original Roe v. Wade decision was “extremely weak” and said the decision “was egregiously wrong from the start.” The ruling also attacked another abortion case — 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which established the “undue burden” standard for abortion laws.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito wrote. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Even as Politico published the draft opinion, reporter Josh Gerstein acknowledged the breach that it represented:
“No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term,” he wrote.
In the media release, the Supreme Court acknowledged the authenticity of the draft opinion while stressing it was in no way final.
“Yesterday, a news organization published a copy of a draft opinion in a pending case,” the release stated.
“Justices circulate draft opinions internally as a routine and essential part of the Court’s confidential deliberative work. Although the document described in yesterday’s reports is authentic, it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case.”
In a release, Chief Justice John Roberts stated the matter would go directly to the Marshal of the Supreme Court, a law enforcement official that answers directly to the court.
“To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,” Roberts wrote.
“The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.
“We at the Court are blessed to have a workforce – permanent employees and law clerks alike – intensely loyal to the institution and dedicated to the rule of law,” the statement continued.
“Court employees have an exemplary and important tradition of respecting the confidentiality of the judicial process and upholding the trust of the Court. This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here.
“I have directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak.”
BREAKING – Chief Justice on #SCOTUS leak: pic.twitter.com/a346EUHjoD
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) May 3, 2022
The current Marshal of the Supreme Court is Col. Gail A. Curley, according to Fox News, who was appointed in May of 2021.
“As Marshal, Col. Curley will serve as the Court’s chief security officer, facilities administrator, and contracting executive, managing approximately 260 employees, including the Supreme Court Police Force, which provides security for the Justices, Court staff, visitors, the building, and surrounding grounds,” the Supreme Court stated in a media release when she was appointed last year.
“Col. Curley will call the Supreme Court to order in argument sessions, maintaining order and decorum during Court proceedings.”
And now, she’ll be charged with figuring out who leaked Alito’s draft opinion.
It’s unclear what other organizations will be involved in the investigation, although CBS News’ Jan Crawford reported it would “likely” involve the FBI.
Chief Justice Roberts is likely to order a full investigation involving the FBI into the reported leak of a draft majority opinion, reports @JanCBS — as some question if it will throw the Supreme Court’s legitimacy into question. pic.twitter.com/rJsIlQqjEU
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) May 3, 2022
According to Reuters, experts say that leaking draft opinions isn’t illegal in and of itself, given that they aren’t classified documents. However, the leaker may have committed an ancillary crime to obtain the opinion, like unauthorized use of a computer to obtain the file.
It could also lead to disbarment for the individual who leaked the document, if he or she is a practicing lawyer.
“This is the most egregious violation of confidentiality for a staff member or employee of the court that you can imagine,” University of California, Berkeley, law professor Orin Kerr told Reuters.
The leak appears to have been designed to put pressure on both the Supreme Court and/or Congress to somehow change the decision, either by swaying votes on the court or getting the Senate to pass a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade guarantee of abortion rights at the federal level.
What’s more, that pressure has come via mobs that resemble nothing so much as the “fiery but mostly peaceful” protests of 2020:
Pro-abortion protestors smash windows tonight in Los Angeles: pic.twitter.com/HwGyOqGd0Z
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 4, 2022
Crowd of protesters is growing quickly, and pushing toward the barricade that the handful of guards put up earlier tonight. Chants of “fascist scum have got to go,” interspersed with the names of the conservative justices pic.twitter.com/2OHtE2pLuy
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) May 3, 2022
Constitutional scholar and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wrote in a Twitter post that the leak represents “the greatest crisis that Chief Justice John Roberts has faced in his tenure on the Court.”
…If this is a true copy of the draft opinion it is hard not to view this as a malicious act. What is the motivation of releasing such a decision? The only intent of such a leak is to trigger a response from outside of the Court.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 3, 2022
“If this is a true copy of the draft opinion it is hard not to view this as a malicious act. What is the motivation of releasing such a decision? The only intent of such a leak is to trigger a response from outside of the Court,” he tweeted. “It is a breach of the most fundamental obligations and traditions of the Court.”
It’s a breach that, one hopes, will mended from the inside — if only to preserve whatever integrity remains in the court’s decision-making process.
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Freedom of the press is deteriorating at an unprecedented level across the world. Dubious legislation undermining digital rights and the draconian use of technology have helped authoritarian governments tighten their grip over their citizens and the news they can access.
Even though the use of software like VPN services can help evade surveillance and bypass tough internet restrictions, all this is irrelevant if the media is prevented from carrying on with their job. According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), journalism is completely or partly blocked in 73% of the 180 countries ranked in its 2021 World Press Freedom Index.
"The Index data reflect a dramatic deterioration in people's access to information and an increase in obstacles to news coverage," the report reads.
Journalists and independent media need to get creative to be up to the challenge. They must learn how to navigate through this stringent muzzle, simply to be able to practice their profession. And thankfully, technology is helping them do so.
In the lead up to World Press Freedom Day, we spoke to journalists working under these tough media restrictions to better understand how they manage to break through censorship, and how tech can shape the future of a free press.
A tightening grip
Last year's RSF report found that journalism is totally blocked or seriously impeded in 73 countries and constrained in 59 others. These include many states in Asia - like North Korea, Vietnam and Turkmenistan - Middle Eastern nations such as Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as African countries with Eritrea sitting in last position.
In 2022, this trend seems to have worsened still. Following the invasion of Ukraine, Russian independent media outlets had to shut their platforms as a result of increased control. While Russian VPN usage soared among citizens, for journalists it became more and more challenging to publish local news.
A veteran among the Media Freedom Index’s worst countries, China continues to keep tightening its grip on internet censorship, surveillance and propaganda. As Marc Hofer - cameraman, editor and co-producer for Sky News in the Beijing Bureau - told us: "There is not really a free press in China anymore. It's all state government controlled."
The price to pay for journalists who do not comply with imposed narratives is psychological pressure, illegal detention and, in the worst cases, their life.
Tech: a double-edged sword
Digital technology is allowing governments to spy on citizens, especially on dissident voices, in a way that was unthinkable a couple of decades ago. The use of spyware technology like in the case of the recent Pegasus scandal is sadly increasingly widespread.
Reflecting on his experience in China, Hofer said: "There's definitely digital surveillance going on. You can clearly notice that when you go in certain areas and the battery of your phone drains much faster than usual. They know where you are. They definitely follow our phones."
This climate of surveillance means that media actors must react to defend themselves and their sources as much as possible. So, protecting their online activities with the most secure VPN services or Tor browser has become imperative.
Short for virtual private network, a VPN allows users to bypass internet restrictions while protecting their identity and data. By connecting to one of their secure servers - all the top services offer a wide range across many countries across the globe - journalists can hide their real IP address location. Plus, all their data will be shielded inside an encrypted tunnel preventing the access to snoopers.
As strict regimes have found new ways to block the use of these services, one subscription might not be enough though. "I've used several VPNs, you can't just use one because sometimes the VPN gets detected and then it gets slowed down," said Hofer. "Jumping over this so-called Great Firewall of China also gets harder and harder because the Firewall gets smarter and smarter in controlling and detecting VPN traffic."
The so-called 'onion routing' behind the open-sourced Tor browser goes even further. It routes the data through at least three servers instead of only one. And, in terms of encryption, it uses multiple layers which get peeled off as users travel from server to server.
Journalists have also learned to use password manager software, encrypted hard drives and messaging apps like Signal to secure themselves and vulnerable sources' data.
"We are also moving from using tools like Excel spreadsheets, Word and Google Drive into a more secure platform,” said Júlia Martin, volounteer researcher at the Rojava Information Centre operating in North Syria.
Although, as Hofer says: "There's a whole range of things you can try to use, but you also know that there's only so much you can do in that sense. Because, whatever goes out on air, at the end they will watch it."
Foreign journalists' conditions are worsening
With past experience as an international video reporter across Africa, Middle East and other parts of Asia, Marc Hofer feels that China is the most difficult place for international journalists to work in at the moment.
Based in Beijing since 2018, he witnessed a constant decline in the circumstances for international media operating in China. This brought about an exodus of foreign journalists from the country.
"Our access to information is much more limited than it was before," says Hofer. "It's getting incredibly difficult to find people willing to talk to us. There's a concerted effort of trying to picture us journalists, especially international journalists, as foreign agents. Our freedom of movement is actively curtailed, too. You get followed, you get stopped, you get prevented from going to certain areas."
As the last annual survey conducted by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) shows, 99% of respondents said that reporting conditions did not meet what they considered to be international standards. Around a quarter also reported to have been targeted in online smear campaigns as a result of their work. The new use of the law against international media is also something that worries many.
As Hofer told me: "The situation will definitely get worse."
How is to work as a foreign journalist in China these days ? A little 🧵… ( with 📸)April 18, 2022
It's under this climate that humanitarian activists, researchers and independent journalists across the globe are looking into innovative ways to support local and international reporting.
Rojava Information Centre (RIC) is one of those. Operating in the Kurdish-led autonomous region of North and East Syria (NES), this non-profit organisation is helping journalists to get direct access to sources on the ground while supporting media with insightful reports and fact-checking activities. Their aim is trying to break through the fake news dissemination of the neighbouring Turkish regime.
Researcher Júlia Martin said their small team composed of about 10 volunteer-staffed members are always looking to develop new projects that could foster media freedom within the region.
"The RIC was created with the aim to reach the mainstream media and public, using a kind of discourse that Western countries could understand," says Martin. "However, I also think that our presence has helped the general environment inside the region."
This important work comes with not just a few risks. And these are not limited within authoritarian countries' borders. UK activist, journalist and co-founder of the RIC project Matt Broomfield, for example, was recently detained in Greece for 2 months and banned from entering the Schengen Zone for a decade as a result of his reporting.
However, Júlia doesn't seem put off by these risks. Quite the opposite - she feels even more motivated to carry on.
“I think that the fact of our colleagues being prosecuted by European states means that our work is important and we need to keep doing it. So I'm not scared, but there's always a concern,” she said.
Matt Broomfield, our long-time colleague & one of the founders of @RojavaIC, was recently jailed in Greece for 2 months & consequtively banned from entering the Schengen Zone for a decade.His only crime was reporting from NES.Read more here:https://t.co/txwgrv7Z2bDecember 13, 2021
Beating censorship from abroad
In some instances, local independent journalists are finding that working outside the country is the best way to evade censorship and surveillance.
Lázaro Chirino Díaz is indeed one of the many who have fled his homeland Cuba to be able to freely practice his profession. As Madrid-based NGO Prisoner Defenders confirm, Cuba has detained 1,027 people in just the last 12 months. Among these, many were journalists.
“Cuba is a constant ministry of truth where history is rewritten. Where the past, present and future are rewritten. And where each of the people who live there, lives in fear,” said Lázaro.
From his room in Madrid, Lázaro is now reporting on Cuban events as he always wanted. He works for the Valencia-based CiberCuba, one of the several free media outlets covering Cuban current affairs from abroad. Others include the CubaNet, ADN Cuba, Periodico Cubano operating from Florida and the Madrid-based Diario de Cuba.
From their exile, Cuban independent media are finding new ways to break through the muzzle suffocating the Caribbean island. To bypass censorship on their site and allow Cuban civilians to access news, CiberCuba has even developed its own encrypted app.
"We also actively used our Telegram channel and Facebook page to spread our content," explained Lázaro. "While in the whole world Facebook is being used less and less, in Cuba it has a very important role. We do have a significant presence on this platform inside the country. That is where Cubans read us the most.“
Despite the crucial role of independent media, Lázaro thinks that citizens are the ones that will make this change possible. How? By risking their freedom in denouncing on social media the problems wracking their beautiful island.
"We, journalists, are simple mediators between readers and sources," says Lázaro. "But it’s thanks to social networks that we, independent journalists outside of Cuba, learned about the 11-J protests. Thanks to that first boy who started broadcasting with his smartphone, and today he is in prison for this.
"I just would like to ask those people to never stop doing it. To continue having their phones charged, connected in any way. So that they can turn it on and help us with their citizen's journalism to shift the regime’s narratives.” | https://www.techradar.com/in/features/breaking-the-muzzle-tech-and-innovation-in-the-name-of-press-freedom | 2022-05-06T08:06:51Z | https://www.techradar.com/in/features/breaking-the-muzzle-tech-and-innovation-in-the-name-of-press-freedom | true | 6 |
Five years after, the United Kingdom government has eventually designated Nigeria’s Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organisation.
The federal government had in 2017 branded IPOB a terrorist group, since then, the sect has continued their agitation with insecurity rising in Southeast.
According to reports, UK’s U-turn followed series of atrocities committed by the group. The country has already banned members of the group from its asylum programme.
Among the atrocities listed by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) was the invasion of an All Progressives Congress (APC) meeting in Enugu state where a party chieftain was killed.
Another was the attack on an Imo Police Station where an officer was killed.
Also listed were the killing of Anambra residents during enforcement of ”sit-at-home” order; killing of some policemen en route to Anambra International Airport.
Not listed was the beheading of an army couple going home for a traditional wedding.
IPOB is proscribed as a terrorist group by the Nigerian government, and members of the group and its paramilitary wing – the Eastern Security Network (created in December 2020) – have reportedly committed human rights violations in Nigeria,” UKVI said in its latest policy notes.
“MASSOB has been banned, but is not a proscribed terrorist group in Nigeria. It too has reportedly been involved in violent clashes with the authorities.
“If a person has been involved with IPOB (and/or an affiliated group), MASSOB or any other ‘Biafran’ group that incites or uses violence to achieve its aims, decision makers must consider whether one (or more) of the exclusion clauses under the Refugee Convention is applicable.
“Persons who commit human rights violations must not be granted asylum.” | https://www.blueprint.ng/uk-makes-u-turn-brands-ipob-terrorist-organisation/ | 2022-05-06T08:08:13Z | https://www.blueprint.ng/uk-makes-u-turn-brands-ipob-terrorist-organisation/ | false | 1 |
After goals galore in the first leg, expectations are high for another absorbing encounter as Pep Guardiola's Manchester City head to the Bernabéu for this decisive semi-final second leg against Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid. City take a slender advantage into this game after winning a seven-goal first-leg at the Etihad Stadium last week. Follow our guide on how to watch a Real Madrid vs Manchester City live stream from anywhere today.
US fans can watch Real Madrid vs Manchester City with a 7-day FREE trial of Paramount Plus. US subscribers abroad should use a VPN to tune in. Those in the UK will need BT Sport.
Date: Wednesday, May 4
Kick-off time: 8pm BST / 9pm CEST / 3pm ET / 12pm PT / 12.30am IST / 5am AEST / 7am NZST
Venue: The Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid
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A superb attacking performance from the Premier League side saw them dominate long periods of the first encounter, with Kevin de Bruyne, Gabriel Jesus, Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva all getting on the scoresheet.
Real nevertheless showed plenty of fighting spirit, battling from off the canvas to hit back with a double from veteran striker Karim Benzema and Brazilian star Vinicius Junior to ensure they remain very much in this tie.
Will City be left to regret not putting the semi to bed at home or can they take a significant step closer to an illusive maiden Champions League title? Read on for all the information on how to watch a Real Madrid vs Manchester City live stream from anywhere in the world.
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How to watch Real Madrid vs Manchester City from outside your country
We've set out below all the ways you can watch tonight's Champions League action in a number of countries around the world. However, if you're away travelling for work or pleasure, you probably won't be able to watch tonight's match like you normally would at home.
That's because of the pesky digital restriction known as geo-blocking, which prevents certain streaming services from being accessed beyond the region that they're based in.
Help is at hand however if you run into this issue with the option of using a VPN to tune to your preferred coverage no matter where you are in the world.
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San Francisco: Several
iPhone users found themselves in a fix when the
Apple Music iOS app began installing itself directly to the iPhone's dock when downloaded, instead of the home screen, thus booting out other apps including music streaming service
Spotify.
The bug impacted different iPhone models, kicking out other apps in the dock at the bottom of the iPhone screen and taking their spot, reports TechCrunch.
Apple said that it was looking into the issue.
"Seems like if you download the
Apple Music app from the App Store, it will automatically appear on your device (iPhone) dock, more than this, it will change any other 3d party app with the Music app. If on your dock, you only have Apple apps it won't do anything," Kevin Archer, an iOS developer, tweeted late on Thursday.
Some iPhone owners also found the bug was causing Apple Music to make it default music service for
Siri requests, kicking off Spotify.
In a tweet, Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney said: "I just verified this on iOS 15.4.1. With Spotify installed and on the dock, installing Apple Music removed Spotify from the dock and put Apple Music there - without asking. Happens without Apple Music being run, so clearly Apple has rigged their OPERATING SYSTEM to do this!"
Epic is already fighting a long-drawn antitrust lawsuit with Apple.
In fact, the Apple Music app replaced all sorts of apps that were in users' docks, including first-party apps like the built-in Camera app.
"Apple said, awe treat every developer the same and 'the rules for every developer are the same'. It seems that they forgot to mention that the rules are the same, except for Apple. Basically, it just swapped my Spotify from the dock with Apple Music," Archer further tweeted.
Apple Music even bumped out
Safari browser app from their
iPhone dock.
"I have tidal in my dock, and it kicked out Apple Mail to put Apple Music in the dock instead," tweeted another iPhone user who is a software engineer. | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/apple-music-installing-itself-to-iphone-dock-kicking-out-apps-like-spotify/91365281 | 2022-05-06T08:14:50Z | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/apple-music-installing-itself-to-iphone-dock-kicking-out-apps-like-spotify/91365281 | true | 8 |
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The death toll in a building collapse in central China has risen to 53, the country's official news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.
A six-storey residential and commercial building collapsed in the central metropolis of Changsha a week ago. At the time, no casualty figures were disclosed.
After the rescue work was completed, Xinhua announced on Friday that 10 people were pulled from the rubble alive since the collapse.
Officials said it was partially an illegal construction project.
The police arrested the owner of the building and several people involved in the design and construction.
The edifice housed a hotel, a restaurant and several apartments, among other things.
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Leading diagnostics platform Redcliffe Lifetech on Friday said it has raised $61 million (around Rs 466 crore) in a funding round led by LeapFrog Investments.
Healthquad, Schroders, LC Nueva, Growth Spark Ventures and existing investors Chiratae Ventures and Alkemi Venture Partners also participated in the funding round.
The investment will be used to expand its geographic reach across the country, with a focus on expanding its low-cost high quality direct-to-consumer diagnostics, into tier 2, 3 and 4 cities, the company said in a statement.
The latest funding will also be used to scale its platform and increase its product offerings to radiology, disease data profiling and lifestyle management, furthering its mission to shift India’s healthcare focus from treatment to early diagnosis and prevention, it added.
"Preventative medicine is the future of health in India, helping to empower the average Indian with the information they need to take charge of their health and wellbeing,” Redcliffe Founder Dheeraj Jain noted.
The company has built a one-stop diagnostic shop offering a very wide selection of tests to choose from and delivering care closer to the customer and the fresh investment will help to scale up rapidly to achieve the goal to reach over 50 crore Indians within the next five years, he added.
"Redcliffe’s vision of shifting healthcare from treating the sick to enabling wellness will have profound implications for millions. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Dheeraj and his management team to further scale their reach across India,” LeapFrog Investments Partner and Global Co-Leader for Health Investments Biju Mohandas said.
Redcliffe currently has a network of 22 laboratories across 14 cities in the country. | https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/redcliffe-lifetech-raises-61-million-from-investors-8463241.html/amp | 2022-05-06T08:26:10Z | https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/redcliffe-lifetech-raises-61-million-from-investors-8463241.html/amp | true | 7 |
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Sri Lanka: Members of the Inter-University Students Federation were tear-gassed by the Sri Lanka police as they were protesting outside the parliament. The theme behind the protest was "Let's oust the government! Let's reverse the system!"
A student march was led from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura to the Parliament Roundabout from Polduwa Junction to enter the parliament. The Sri Lanka Police fired tear gas at the first roadblock and continued to do so even after the students dispersed, according to the eyewitnesses that spoke to Colombo Page. The students decided to occupy Diyatha Uyana near the Parliament at night and continued to protest. The protests were held against the Rajpaksha family-led government and demanded that the President- Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Prime Minister- Mahinda Rajapaksa should end their rule over the country.
The massive people's struggle "Go Home Gota" calling President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down at the Galle Face entered the 27th day.
All the roads near the Parliament have now been closed down by the police for those days when the house will be in session amidst the demonstrations throughout the country due to the economic crisis. The parliamentary activities were to be held on May 5 and May 6 and the roads are shut to avoid any hindrances to it, reported the police.
The economic crisis in Sri Lanka has been attributed to the foreign exchange falling short and the slump in the tourism industry due to the pandemic. This has led to an alarming shortage of food and electricity throughout the country, forcing Sri Lanka to seek help from the neighboring nations.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservatives suffered losses in their few London strongholds in local elections, according to results announced Friday that will pile more pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid ethics scandals and a worsening economic picture.
The vote for more than 200 local councils decides who collects garbage and fills potholes across the country, and is also seen as an important barometer of public opinion ahead of the next national election, which must be held by 2024.
The main opposition Labour Party, which has been out of power nationally since 2010, won control of Wandsworth, Barnet and Westminster, three London boroughs long held by the Conservatives.
With results from about half of England announced Friday morning, Labour had not made big gains outside of the capital, especially in working-class northern England — areas that Johnson successfully wooed in the 2019 general election.
Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden acknowledged the results in London were “difficult” but said the “more mixed picture” elsewhere showed Labour did not have the momentum to win the next general election.
Labour’s national campaign coordinator, Shabana Mahmood, argued that the results showed Labour was building a solid foundation to get back to power.
“Labour is making headway ... taking over key Conservative councils and winning in vital Parliamentary battlegrounds across the country,” she said.
Results are still to come from the rest of England, and all of Scotland and Wales. In Northern Ireland, voters are electing a new 90-seat Assembly, with polls suggesting the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein could win the largest number of seats, and the post of first minister, in what would be a historic first.
The election campaign was dominated by increasing prices for food and fuel, which have sent household bills soaring.
Opposition parties are demanding the government do more to ease the cost-of-living crunch — driven by the war in Ukraine, COVID-19 pandemic disruption and economic aftershocks from Britain’s exit from the European Union. Both left-of-center Labour and the centrist Liberal Democrats advocate a windfall tax on energy companies, which have reported record profits amid rocketing oil and gas prices.
Johnson’s Conservative government argues taxing big firms like Shell and BP would deter much-needed investment in renewable energy that’s key to meeting Britain’s climate commitments.
The election also comes after months of turmoil for Johnson, in which he became the first prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law in office. He was fined 50 pounds ($62) by police for attending his own surprise birthday party in June 2020 when lockdown rules barred social gatherings.
Johnson has apologized, but denies knowingly breaking the rules. He faces the possibility of more fines over other parties — police are investigating a dozen gatherings —and a parliamentary investigation into whether he misled lawmakers about his behavior.
The prime minister also faces discontent within his own party. A bad result could lead Conservatives to try to replace Johnson with a less tarnished leader.
Dowden, the party chairman, acknowledged there had been “challenging headlines for the past few months."
“But I do think that set against all of that, those sort of challenges that you would expect after 12 years in office, these are challenging results, but we have made progress in lots of places,” he told Sky News.
“Labour are certainly not on the path to power and I believe that Boris Johnson does have the leadership skills, in particular the energy and the dynamism that we need during this difficult period of time.” | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/UK-Conservatives-lose-London-strongholds-in-blow-17153339.php | 2022-05-06T08:35:09Z | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/UK-Conservatives-lose-London-strongholds-in-blow-17153339.php | false | 21 |
FREMONT, Ohio — Two people were shot around 10:30 p.m. Thursday night inside Rojas Rosas Cantina in Fremont, according to the Chief of Fremont Police.
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NY Burlington VT Zone Forecast for Thursday, May 5, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Vermont
National Weather Service Burlington VT
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
NYZ028-062000-
Eastern Clinton-
Including the cities of Champlain and Plattsburgh
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds around
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower
30s. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost. Lows in the mid
30s. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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NYZ031-062000-
Western Clinton-
Including the cities of Dannemora and Ellenburg
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows in the lower
30s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs
in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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NYZ026-062000-
Northern St. Lawrence-
Including the cities of Massena and Norfolk
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs
in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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NYZ087-062000-
Southwestern St. Lawrence-
Including the cities of Ogdensburg, Potsdam, and Gouverneur
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost. Lows in the mid
30s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds around
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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NYZ029-062000-
Southeastern St. Lawrence-
Including the cities of South Colton and Star Lake
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost. Lows in the lower
30s. East winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. East winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows around 40. Highs in
the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs
in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ027-062000-
Northern Franklin-
Including the cities of Fort Covington and Malone
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60. Northeast winds around
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost. Lows in the mid
30s. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs
in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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NYZ030-062000-
Southern Franklin-
Including the cities of Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Light and variable
winds, becoming north around 10 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. East winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows in the lower
30s. East winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
NYZ035-062000-
Eastern Essex-
Including the cities of Port Henry and Ticonderoga
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
NYZ034-062000-
Western Essex-
Including the cities of Lake Placid and Newcomb
319 AM EDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60. Light and variable winds,
becoming northeast around 10 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until midnight, then clearing. Lows in
the lower 30s. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost. Lows in the lower
30s. East winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds around
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
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A detached family home, it boasts six bedrooms and three bathrooms so has plenty of room to accommodate the family and guests too.
Visitors are welcomed in via an entrance vestibule, where there is an open alcove space perfectly situated for coats and shoes to be stored.
The statement entrance hall offers views straight through to the garden, access off to all living space and a neatly tucked staircase.
An open plan kitchen, dining and living space offers a fantastic social space with dual aspect views.
At its heart is a generous dining area, with a beautifully presented kitchen, with built in double oven, microwave, space for additional appliances and views onto the garden. There is a further breakfast bar and recessed unit coffee bar.
The utility is located directly off the kitchen, with access to a shower room, garage and door to the rear garden.
A separate main lounge has a stunning stone chimney breast and stove, encased with storage either side, large understairs storage cupboard and direct access out to the garden.
The ‘wing’ to the left of the property offers versatile accommodation, housing the main bedroom suite, with a large dressing area, built in mirrored sliding wardrobes and an en-suite shower room. There are a further two double bedrooms with built in sliding wardrobes/storage.
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The beautifully landscaped rear garden provides a lawn, borders and seating areas, with views over Tinto Hill. To the front, a gradual sloped drive offers ample parking leading to the double garage.
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SpaceX brings 4 astronauts home with midnight splashdown
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX brought four astronauts home with a midnight splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, capping the busiest month yet for Elon Musk’s taxi service.
The three U.S. astronauts and one German in the capsule were bobbing off the Florida coast, near Tampa, less than 24 hours after leaving the International Space Station. NASA expected to have them back in Houston later in the morning.
“That was a great ride,” said Raja Chari, the capsule commander. As for the reintroduction to gravity, he noted: “Only one complaint. These water bottles are super heavy.”
NASA’s Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, and the European Space Agency’s Matthias Maurer, were out of the capsule within an hour of splashdown, waving and giving thumbs-up as they were hustled away on rolling chaises for medical checks.
Their departure from the space station Thursday was bittersweet, as they embraced the seven astronauts remaining there.
“It’s the end of a six-month mission, but I think the space dream lives on,” Maurer said.
SpaceX brought up their U.S. and Italian replacements last week, after completing a charter trip to the station for a trio of businessmen.
That amounts to two crew launches and two splashdowns in barely a month. Musk’s company has now launched 26 people into orbit in less than two years, since it started ferrying astronauts for NASA. Eight of those 26 were space tourists.
SpaceX’s William Gerstenmaier, a vice president, called it “a pretty exciting time.”
“Satellites are nice, but flying people are a little special and a little bit different, and the team here sure understands that,” he told reporters. “There’s a sense of relief and and a sense of accomplishment that you know you’ve done something good.”
NASA is more impressed than ever, given SpaceX’s hectic pace of late. The only problem of note in the latest flight was a mechanical nut that wiggled loose and floated away from the SpaceX capsule following Thursday’s undocking. Officials assured everyone it would not pose a danger to the space station.
“Look at all this work in the last month,” said Kathy Lueders, NASA’s space operations mission chief. “I really want to personally thank SpaceX for just, wow, just performing such seamless operations on all those missions.”
The astronauts said their mission was highlighted by the three visitors and their ex-astronaut escort who dropped by in April, opening up NASA’s side of the station to paying guests after decades of resistance.
On the down side, they had to contend with a dangerous spike in space junk after Russia blew up a satellite in a missile test in mid-November. More than 1,500 pieces of shrapnel spread across Earth’s orbit for years to come.
While the war in Ukraine has caused tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the astronauts have stood by their Russian crewmates, and vice versa. Flight controllers in Houston and Moscow also continued to cooperate as always, according to NASA officials.
As he relinquished command of the space station earlier this week, Marshburn called it “a place of peace” and said international cooperation would likely be its lasting legacy. Russian Oleg Artemyev, the new commander, also emphasized the “peace between our countries, our friendship” in orbit and described his crewmates as brothers and sisters.
Up there now are three Russians, three Americans and one Italian.
It was Marshburn’s third spaceflight, and the first for the three returning with him. Chari and Barron’s next stop could be the moon; they are among 18 U.S. astronauts picked for NASA’s Artemis moon-landing program. Two others in that elite group are now at the space station.
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Overseas, Lexus, which is owned by Toyota, ranks alongside the likes of Acura and Infinity, the luxury brands of auto majors Honda and Nissan respectively. It is known for refined driving, luxury and the best engineering and technology.
In Western markets like the US and Canada, the larger flagship Lexus sedans, which included the LS400, were considered by auto experts to be a better choice than German luxury cars for a number of reasons. The prime one was that they had all the premium features one wanted while having a more practical price tag and being more cost effective to own and maintain. Despite being a new entrant, Japan’s Lexus was on par with the European brands in terms of automotive engineering, a huge achievement for a newcomer. And then, of course, there was the exceptional hospitality that customers received at Lexus dealerships—rarely before had buyers been treated like valued guest at a car showroom. It all combined for a beautiful experience and the brand gained in the US.
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In India, the brand Lexus still brings to mind stories from the 1990s of rogue stockbroker Harshad Mehta who was chauffeured around in Mumbai in a Lexus LS400 at a time when imported cars were near impossible to afford and own in India. Mehta’s car was considered such a prize that Mumbai-based entrepreneur Raja Dhody bought it when it went up for auction. Dhody recalls that he also owned a Mercedes-Benz at the time but nothing came close to the Lexus. “It was top class in comfort, styling, power, design… its drivability made it spectacular. There was no other word for it,” he says.
Of course, things have changed now and buying a luxury car no longer requires great determination to battle with customs and other government agencies and an insider’s knowledge of “grey market channels”. Today, almost every marque car-maker operates in India, having a network of sales offices, factories, assembly lines and dealerships. It is easy to walk into the closest showroom and pick out a colour and model of your choice. The car is not yet up for sale but is being offered to a few for test drives.
While Lexus has planted its flag in India, and sells four hybrid electric SUVs, three electric hybrid sedans and half a dozen other ICE-engine vehicles, such as the RX, NX, LX and the LC, its overall numbers are small. It is yet to create the mystique that it has in other Asian markets in order to drive sales and growth. It does have a loyal following in India, but it is still a niche one.
Lexus’ latest offering that is being showcased in India, the Lexus UX 300e, is sharply designed, compact and fitted with the right mix of technology that car-lovers regard as top-notch. It brings to the driver that blend of super-luxury and minimalism that only Japanese brands have mastered.
The dimensions and manoeuvrability make it the perfect compact SUV for Indian roads and traffic conditions as well as a practical car if you drive yourself around. The 17-inch alloy wheels (that come with a repair kit) not only handle bumps well but also give it good ground clearance. This is especially important in India, where speed breakers are usually designed like mini-mountains. Few luxury carmakers account for this trait of Indian roads and provide sufficient ground clearance.
The UX 300e comes with many of the bells and whistles common to all high-end cars now—a seven-inch media screen with a remote interface, reversing camera systems, front and rear parking sensors, and headlights with automatic high beams. It features what the Japanese call ‘dynamic and active safety equipment and features’. Examples of active features that kick in when you’re driving include vehicle stability control (VSC), active brake lights, lane tracing assist (LTA), acoustic vehicle alerting system (AVAS) and electronically controlled braking regeneration. On the passive side of safety features, there are child safety door locks, seatbelt pre-tensioners, audible and visual seatbelt reminders, and knee airbags for the front passenger seats.
Beyond the safety features and technology, the true essence of a Lexus is the luxury of its design, the smoothness of the ride and the quality of the engineering. Drive or sit in one, and the calm that one feels even while in motion says it all. There is nothing excessive about the interiors; everything contributes to the sense of quiet luxury. The car glides over road surfaces and silently cruises to almost illegal speeds without so much as a whimper—a typical characteristic of all-electric cars but which still takes a little getting used to. You only get to hear the engine when you are outside the electric 300 or momentarily while parking it, but it is not an unpleasant or grating sound. Like all electric cars, power flows on tap for this Lexus and one does not need to cycle through gears as with fossil fuel-powered cars.
While the company hasn’t shared what it plans to do with the UX 300e in India, it seems to be using this car to test the waters before it rolls out a slew of SUVs, all of which are likely to be electric. Lexus also sells the larger, more premium NX and RX SUVs with ICE engines here. Electric versions of these models may be more suitable in the Indian context given the price sensitivity of the market. Time will tell how the Japanese carmaker chooses to price these cars in India.
The international prices for UX 300e start at around £42,000 or ₹41 lakh, which when treated to India’s layers of duties would escalate the retail price to well over a crore. This is a large tag by any yardstick, and this probably explains the Lexus’ trepidation and the testing of the waters before a full-fledged launch. Pricing, ultimately, is what will determine its success. In the short term, it is a given that there will be few takers for electric cars for multiple reasons, including a yet-to-be-developed charging network and the high cost of the cars.
For Lexus, the 300 UXe demonstrates the power of Japanese luxury, its ability to combine power, drive comfort, ergonomics and aesthetics, and the consciousness of crafting an electric avatar that will appeal to a discerning and small audience of premium car buyers.
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Best wine subscription boxes 2021: delicious discovery boxes
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Whether you’re happier drinking at home than the pub these days, or if you’re simply keen to build up a home collection – wine clubs and wine subscription boxes have a lot to offer.
As well as the obvious convenience of having wine delivered to your door – and saving time spent researching wine when you could simply be enjoying it – there’s the added benefit of trying new and interesting varieties with ease.
To help you choose the right wine subscription or club for you, we’ve covered 8 of the best available in the UK. Many of these thoughtful selections are curated around a theme, such as sustainable wines, or a particular region.
While others allow you full control over which wines go into the boxes, or offer money-back guarantees for any bottles you don’t like. Whichever you choose – each one offers something unique.
Interested in getting the most out of your new wine? Check out our selection of the best wine glasses in the UK. You can store them on a stylish drinks trolley.
Savage Vines
Price: From £29.95 per box
Contains: Two bottles
Another top choice for new regions and grape varieties, with a focus on independent, biodynamic and organic producers who try to reduce their environmental impact. And the emphasis here is bypassing traditional supermarkets and high-street chains so the winemakers get a fair price.
You can choose to receive 2-12 bottles per month, and whether you get reds or whites, or both. And as well as tasting notes, this one comes with a monthly wine podcast too – which we think is a fun touch.
Corkk
Price: From £48 per box
Contains: Three bottles
With more than 800 vineyards in England now, there’s a surprising number of different wines to fill these boxes celebrating homegrown grapes. Choose from a rolling subscription of still, sparkling and mixed cases showcasing the best around, curated by Master of Wine and Canterbury Wine Festival founder Clive Barlow.
The information cards give plenty of detail on the background of the wines (great for if you want to impress with your local wine knowledge), plus tasting notes and pairing food suggestions.
Laithwaite’s
Price: £65 per box
Contains: 12 bottles
The big difference setting Laithwaite’s Wine Club apart from other wine subscriptions is that you’re in control when it comes to choosing what you get. You can specify your tastes beforehand so your boxes are tailored to you – then have a sneak peek before delivery, and swap out any you don’t want to receive.
Boxes of 12 wines come quarterly, and they’re filled with a selection of 800 of the best wines, whittled down from 40,000 by Laithwaite’s expert tasters, which live up to the wine merchant’s top reputation. And if you don’t like your wines, you get your money back.
The Wine Society Wine Without Fuss
Price: prices vary, lighter wines up to £110 per box
Contains: 12 bottles
Choose from five different plans: worldwide classics, French classics, wine rack essentials, ‘discovery’ (for more interesting, unusual wines from around the world) or a handy lower-alcohol wines (up to 12.5% for whites and no higher than 13% for reds).
Each curated selection is updated every two months, and includes tasting notes and pairing suggestions. You can choose when you receive your box – from as frequent as monthly to yearly. And there’s a money-back guarantee for any you don’t like, too.
Wanderlust Wine Club
Price: From £48 per box
Contains: Four bottles
Wanderlust Wine is all about new wines from new regions. And the main joy with their wine boxes is receiving unique sustainable, biodynamic and organic wines that you probably haven’t tried before.
Boxes come in three different options: Silver Membership, which contains four bottles worth £12, Gold membership with eight bottles worth £14.50 and Platinum, with 10 bottles worth £20 each.
Perks include an online discount and free tickets for tastings in London, and each box contains detailed tasting notes, pairing suggestions and the story behind how each wine is made.
Humble Grape Wine Club
Price: £120 per box
Contains: Six bottles
Humble Grape’s wine bars all have a sustainable ethos – and the Wine Club boxes are no different. Selected from Humble Grape’s network of independent, family-run, sustainable vineyards around the world, the wines are also tailored to your tastes. (You can choose white or red or even be more specific with your preferences, if you love an oaky wine, for example.)
Boxes include tasting notes – plus film recommendations and music to drink your wine to.
And you can choose for them to arrive monthly, every other month, or quarterly – with monthly Wine Club pricing ranging from £40 (for a case of six every quarter) to £120 (for a case every month).
Plus, if you’re in the club, there’s the added perk of 10% off your bill when you visit their bars.
Virgin Wines Discovery Wine Club
Price: £107.88 per box, plus delivery
Contains: 12 bottles
This quarterly box of 12 wines gives you an average of one bottle per week – with a booklet of tasting notes, plus access to online videos and info on all the wines in your latest delivery.
We like how fuss-free this subscription is: if you don’t like any of your wines, you’ll get a refund; there’s no contract or minimum number of boxes; and you can push back the delivery date or skip a box if you like too.
If you like to always have a well-stocked wine rack, and want to learn more about what you’re getting without too much hassle, this one’s for you.
The Online Wine Tasting Club
Price: £26.99 per box
Contains: Six 100ml wines
We love the interactive element of The Online Wine Tasting Club’s Discover Series. You’ll get six 100ml taster measures of wine sent through your letterbox every month, in small boxed pouches.
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From Hyderabad murder of 2022 to Ankit Saxena’s killing in 2018: When interfaith relationships met a deadly end
B Nagaraju — a Dalit Hindu — was brutally beaten and stabbed to death in Hyderabad’s Saroornagar for allegedly marrying a woman from the Muslim community against their family’s wishes. The incident has evoked memories of other such cases in recent times
On Wednesday, a man lay dead on the ground by a busy road in Hyderabad’s Saroornagar. His face was reduced to nothing but a bloody mess after being beaten by two assailants with rods and stabbed with a knife, while his wife tried to fight them off.
The man’s crime: he belonged to a different community – he was a Dalit Hindu, the woman, a Muslim – and the couple had tied the knot against the wishes of her family.
The Hyderabad police has taken the woman’s brother and his relative into custody in connection with the murder and an interrogation is being carried out.
ACP P Sreedhar Reddy told News18 that the woman’s brother had been against the marriage of the couple, identified as Nagaraju and Ashrin Sulthana (aka Pallavi).
Based on preliminary investigation, a senior police official told PTI that the woman’s brother was against her getting married to a person belonging to another religion (a Hindu) and decided to “eliminate” the man.
The heinous crime has been euphemistically called ‘honour killing’. The fact is that there is no honour involved. Crimes such as these are motivated by sectarian hatred. There’s no ‘killing’ here either, not in the legal sense of homicide not amounting to murder. This is murder, plain and simple, motivated and planned.
Ravi Nimbargi murder in 2021
In October 2021, a Hindu man was bludgeoned to death and his body was thrown into a well in an agriculture field in Karnataka’s Vijayapura.
The 34-year-old, who was identified as Ravi Nimbargi, was a victim of a hate crime over an interfaith relationship.
Police investigations into the murder revealed that Nimbargi, a Hindu, had fallen in love with a Muslim woman and wanted to marry her, despite the families not agreeing.
The police told The Print following his death that he was speaking to the woman on the phone when he was waylaid by her kin, who allegedly began assaulting him. Police said that while on the phone, Ravi told her that her brothers and uncle were attacking him before the phone line snapped.
Authorities later arrested the girl’s brother and uncle on charges of murder, criminal conspiracy and destroying evidence.
Dablu Singh stabbed to death
Just two kilometres away from where Ankit Saxena was killed by his girlfriend’s family in 2018, another man was killed by the maternal uncle and brother of his Muslim girlfriend.
Dablu Singh, 21, was stabbed to death in in west Delhi’s Raghubir Nagar on 30 November 2021.
While the police ruled out a communal angle in the case, his mother, Shobhawati told Times of India that Dablu was in a relationship with a Muslim girl, but had broken it off, as her family had carted her off to her village.
“The woman’s family was unhappy with my son. One of the relatives had even threatened Dablu of dire consequences," she had told Times of India.
The family thought the matter was resolved. However, that wasn’t the case. A few days when Dablu was out and crossed the girl’s house, he was caught by some men and was stabbed.
#Nagaraju isn't the only one who's killed by Muslim Wife/GF family. Dablu Singh was killed by Farhan and Shah Alam (maternal uncle of his girlfriend) in Dec--2021. Earlier a Hindu Photographer in #Delhi was stabbed to death by his Muslim girlfriend family!https://t.co/6BpQyWsY6X
— #Intolerant भारतीय (Sanjeev Goyal) (@goyalsanjeev) May 6, 2022
On 1 December, the police then arrested Laadla alias Farhan and her maternal uncle Shah Alam and were put behind bars.
Rahul Rajput’s case
On 7 October 2020, 18-year-old Rahul Rajput was thrashed to death in northwest Delhi by at least 5 assailants — Mohammad Afroz, Mohammad Raj and 3 others — for being in love with a Muslim girl.
Rahul Rajput was beaten to death in this Northwest Delhi locality, purportedly because he had been in an interfaith relationship with a Muslim girl.
The Rajput family has accused the police of negligence.@tahirjournalis3 🙌https://t.co/fYIlXaH2VD
— meghnad 🔗 (@Memeghnad) October 20, 2020
The girl’s brother, one amongst the five assailants, fiercely opposed their interfaith relationship and sought to teach a lesson to Rajput for his continuing relationship with the Muslim girl in defiance of his strong disapproval.
Reports said that the group of five rained down incessant blows on him and mercilessly flogged him. Somehow, he escaped the mob and was then rushed to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to the fatal injuries in his abdomen while undergoing treatment.
Lakshmipathy murder of 2020
Twenty-four-year-old K Lakshmipathi, a Hindu, who had eloped with a Muslim woman, was killed by the woman’s father and brother.
The incident emerged from Islampura area near Basavanahalli in Kartanatka’s Bengaluru district.
Investigations revealed that on the pretext of discussing their marriage, the father of the girl took Lakshmipathi to a secluded place and strangled him with the help of his son and others.
Sanjay Kumar killed in Haryana
The murder of Sanjay Kumar in Haryana grabbed headlines after it emerged that it was his Muslim ex-wife’s family had killed him.
What was particularly horrifying was that the woman’s family, had already forced the couple to split up.
It seemed that a divorce wasn’t enough and that the girl’s family keen on taking revenge, killed him.
Ankit Saxena killing in 2018
On 1 February 2018, New Delhi woke to the news of a 23-year-old professional photographer, Ankit Saxena, being stabbed to death by the family of his 20-year-old Muslim girlfriend in west Delhi's Khyala area.
According to The Times of India, he “was kicked and punched repeatedly by the girl’s father and uncle before the former stabbed him and slit his throat using a chopper and knife while her two other relatives held his arms”.
The girl, Shehzadi, later came forward and said that her kin was responsible for Ankit's honour killing, and that she was terrified of her family. “I was going to meet him when I got to know. My family has killed him. My uncle has done this,” she was quoted as saying, adding that they were about to get married.
The act was condemned by all, including Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who ensured that justice would be delivered in the case.
अंकित के पिताजी से बात की। जो हुआ उसकी जितनी निंदा करें उतनी कम है।
अंकित को न्याय दिलाने के लिए दिल्ली सरकार बड़े से बड़ा वकील खड़ा करेगी। हम हर सम्भव कोशिश करेंगे कि दोषियों को सख्त से सख्त सज़ा हो।
भगवान अंकित के परिवार को शक्ति दे। इस संघर्ष में हम उनके साथ हैं।
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 4, 2018
Sonu and Dhanishta murder of 2014
Twenty-year-old Sonu Kumar, a Jatav Dalit, and 18-year-old Dhanishta, a Rangadh Muslim, were killed in 2018 when the two, who were neighbours in Hapur village of Uttar Pradesh, expressed their desire to marry.
Reports said that the couple was slain by the brothers of the woman.
2- Sonu and Dhanishta were neighbours. Their family used to exchange sweets on Diwali and Eid. They were hacked to death by brothers of Dhanishta for loving each other. All ganga jamuna tehzeeb went to gutter just because she fell in love with a hindu boy. pic.twitter.com/6cMPfKqCZT
— Facts (@BefittingFacts) October 11, 2020
Times of India reports that as Sonu stepped out of his house, he was hacked to death, allegedly by Dhanishta's brothers Talib, Asif and Tasleem. Two friends of the brothers, Ameer and Zafroo, also joined the attack.
Hearing the commotion, Dhanishta rushed out. Her brothers then killed her too.
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Hyderabad Lynching: Nagaraju’s Muslim wife says she begged onlookers to save husband from her relatives
Ashrin Sulthana claimed that before their marriage, her brother tried to kill her and even attempted to hang her twice. She also said her husband told her brother that he would convert to Muslim and marry her, but he didn't approve
Man stabbed to death for interfaith marriage in Hyderabad, attacked by wife's family
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Tom Cruise turns real life action hero as he saves Australian reporter Angela Bishop from tumbling off a podium aboard an aircraft during the world premiere of Top Gun sequel
Superstar Tom Cruise is used to playing heroes.
And he got to perform a real-life rescue on the red carpet when he saved celebrity reporter Angela Bishop from taking a tumble during the premiere for his new film Top Gun: Maverick, sequel to the 1986 megahit, Top Gun.
The ageless 59-year-old movie actor grabbed the arm of the veteran Australian journalist just as Angela was about to take a tumble off the interview platform.
Saved! Reporter Angela Bishop (left) was rescued by Tom Cruise (left) when she was at risk of taking a backwards tumble off a podium during an interview at the world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick aboard US carrier USS Midway in Sand Diego Wednesday
'Please do not step backwards,' said Tom, as Angela quickly regained her footing.
'That would make a blooper real,' a clearly rattled Angela said.
Turning into the camera she told viewers that Tom had 'just saved me from falling off the podium.'
Real life hero: Turning into the camera she told viewers that Tom had 'just saved me from falling off the podium'
The interview was taking place aboard US carrier USS Midway, docked in San Diego harbour on Wednesday, US time.
Arriving for the premiere in a black helicopter, Tom strode across the deck of the aircraft carrier in movie-star style wearing a dark suit, tie and aviator glasses.
During the interview Tom revealed that making the movie was a dream come true.
Long awaited return: Four years in the making Top Gun: Maverick was made at a cost of US $152 million, with Tom repeating his role of Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell from the first film
'I always wanted to fly airplanes and make movies since I was four years old,' he said.
The US military experienced a surge in recruits thirty-six years ago after the original film was released and that fact gives the star a surge of pride.
'It's an incredible opportunity to work in the armed forces.'
Classic: Tom Cruise and co-star Kelly McGillis are pictured in the 1986 smash hit Top Gun
A bit of a daredevil himself, Tom, a licensed pilot, performed some of the aerial stunts in the film, though the Navy did not allow him to fly any of the jets used for the picture.
Four years in the making Top Gun: Maverick was made at a cost of US $152 million, with Tom repeating his role of Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell from the first film.
The story involves Maverick breaking in a fresh group of Top Gun recruits.
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cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ215-062215-
Jefferson-
Including the cities of Beaumont, Sabine Pass,
and Sea Rim State Park
348 AM CDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 90. Lows
in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ216-062215-
Orange-
Including the cities of Orange, Vidor, and Bridge City
348 AM CDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs around 90. West
winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Temperature falling into
the mid 80s in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
90s. Lows around 70.
$$
TXZ259-062215-
Northern Jasper-
Including the cities of Holly Springs, Jasper, Kirbyville,
Magnolia Springs, Mt. Union, and Roganville
348 AM CDT Fri May 6 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Areas of dense fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the
upper 80s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around
70. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ260-062215-
Northern Newton-
Including the cities of Burkeville, Farrsville, Jamestown,
Newton, Wiergate, Bleakwood, and Call
348 AM CDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ261-062215-
Southern Jasper-
Including the cities of Gist, Buna, and Evadale
348 AM CDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs around 90.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ262-062215-
Southern Newton-
Including the city of Deweyville
348 AM CDT Fri May 6 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Temperature falling into the
mid 80s in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
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RIO DE JANERIO RJ BR, Brazil (AP) _ Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras (PBR) on Thursday reported net income of $8.61 billion in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Rio De Janerio Rj Br, Brazil-based company said it had profit of $1.32. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $1.29 per share.
The oil and gas company posted revenue of $27.19 billion in the period.
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With food insecurity at an all-time high in Los Angeles County according to a government report, the departments of Public Social Services and Public Health has launched the county’s annual CalFresh Awareness Month Campaign, hoping to make residents aware of the state program that provides financial assistance for low-income people or households to purchase food.
“What pains me most is all the people who are entitled to and need the services, don’t (know) about them,” L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell said. The supervisors declared May as CalFresh Awareness Month and urged all residents to share information about the program with those who need it most.
CalFresh is California’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. According to the county health department, over the past year, food insecurity hit an all-time high in L.A. County, with an estimated 873,000 households reporting they experienced at least one instance of the struggle.
A health department report said the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity across all income levels, but has hit hardest in communities of color.
“These past two years have exposed many of the existing gaps in our food system which prevent access to affordable, healthy and nutritious food,” said Dr. Muntu Davis, the county health officer. “While many residents experienced food insecurity in the past year, low-income communities and communities of color continue to be disproportionately affected by this condition.
“We must continue to support nutrition assistance programs such as CalFresh and Market Match and embrace innovative programs and policies that can ensure nutritional security through a more equitable, sustainable and effective food system,” Davis continued.
Since May 2010, the CFAM campaign has collaborated on outreach with the health department and DPSS as well as all 88 cities of the county, college campuses, school districts, businesses and farmers markets, among others.
This year’s CFAM theme — CalFresh + Healthy foods and more — focuses on the other benefits of CalFresh, including free entry to local museums, discounts on utility bills and reduced fares on local transit.
For more information on the program, visit dpss.lacounty.gov/ or call 1-866-613-7777.
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YUNGBLUD and WILLOW have released their hotly-anticipated collaboration, 'Memories'.
After teasing fans on social media about the duet, the pair have shared the "cathartic" pop-rock anthem.
Speaking of the track, YUNGBLUD - whose real name is Dom Harrison - said: "This song is about letting go of past traumas you may have experienced and voicing them to the world.
"There's something freeing about turning painful memories from your past into lessons for your future - I want people to scream this song out and it be cathartic. It's about coming together and shedding pain, turning it into positive energy and sharing the burden with each other."
The musicians previously teased fans by sharing a picture of them in the studio together back in December.
What's more, YUNGBLUD had recently admitted he would love to collaborate with Will Smith's daughter - who dropped her famous surname for her music career - as he teased some "cool" features on his next album.
He said: "There's a lot of cool artists I'm working with on this next record. I've made a lot of friends. I made a lot of mates on this journey.
"I love what Willow Smith's doing right now. I'm obsessed with girl in red.
"There's a new wave of artists who are talking from their soul and their reality.
"You know what I'm saying? I ain't confirming anything but I would certainly love to work with them."
Meanwhile, the 24-year-old rocker recently insisted his "mission" in music is to win over his critics, and offered a word of warning to anyone doubting his "authenticity".
He told the latest issue of Spin magazine: “Don't you f****** dare question my authenticity. ‘Cause I got to fucking put cream on. You know what I mean?
"My mission is to make those people slagging me off wearing a Yungblud t-shirt next year, because it's not about telling them to f*** off. It’s about going, ‘Stop hating, get on the dance floor.’ "
The '11 Minutes' star pointed to the way he feels misunderstood by various scenes and fanbases, despite Sir Mick Jagger previously hailing him as proof that "there is still a bit of life in rock and roll".
YUNGBLUD explained: "To Exploited fans, I’m a f****** poser,” he says. “To fucking Ariana Grande fans, I’m scary.
"Ask any great, true, rock and roll artist. They’ve been ridiculed. But this is real. You saw it last night [at the show].
"Everyone’s dressed like each other, but there’s a thousand cultures in a room. It’s f****** liberating.” | https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/148462/YUNGBLUD-and-WILLOW-team-up-on-cathartic-pop-rock-duet-Memories | 2022-05-06T09:31:37Z | https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/148462/YUNGBLUD-and-WILLOW-team-up-on-cathartic-pop-rock-duet-Memories | true | 2 |
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* BA-owner IAG trades near 1-month low
* Beazley gains on reporting surge in gross premium
* FTSE 100 down 0.6%, FTSE 250 sheds 1.2%
* Both indexes set for weekly losses
May 6 (Reuters) - UK's top share index fell on Friday, with
British Airways owner leading losses after disappointing
results, while a recession warning from the Bank of England
weighed on sentiment.
International Consolidated Airlines Group tumbled
6.6% to a near one-month low after it reported a
bigger-than-expected quarterly operating loss and scaled back
plans to ramp up short-haul capacity at Heathrow airport.
The FTSE 100, which comprises global companies
including miners and energy giants, dropped 0.6% to 7,456.4,
with most subsectors in the red.
The British central bank warned on Thursday that the country
risks a double-whammy of a recession and inflation above 10% as
it raised interest rates to their highest since 2009.
The FTSE 100, while on track for weekly losses, has
outperformed on a year-to-date basis as a surge in oil and metal
prices as well as weakness in sterling has boosted commodity
giants and exporters on the index.
"The FTSE 100 is exposed to all the sectors that are causing
inflation concerns, and that benefits the UK equity market,"
said Caroline Simmons, UK chief investment officer at UBS Global
Wealth Management, who expects the index to hit 8,100 by
December.
"It hurts the economy because of the consumer squeeze but it
benefits the FTSE 100. Now, of course, sterling has weakened and
that's also helpful."
Sterling dropped below 1.23 against the dollar for the first
time in nearly two years on concerns about the economic outlook
as well as local elections.
The gloom in markets knocked the domestically oriented
midcap FTSE 250 index 1.2% lower, putting it on track
for its biggest weekly decline in two months.
Among the bright spots, insurer Beazley Plc gained
6.6% after it reported a surge in quarterly gross written
premiums.
Insurers Hiscox, Admiral Group and Direct
Line also rose between 2.1% and 3.8%.
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A WOMAN was left fuming when her neighbour signed for her £300 package and then claimed they didn't have it.
Mia was raging when her expensive delivery was handed to her neighbour - who then claimed they had no idea where the items have gone.
Taking to TikTok, the woman fumed at how she was left without her parcel - despite the delivery driver providing photos that the boxes were with the neighbour.
Despite the £300 haul being "boring" bedding and a laundry hamper, Mia said she was raging that she was left without her items.
In the video, she said: "Guys, I'm so angry. I had a delivery last week and my neighbour signed for it, and now she apparently doesn't know where it is. It's gone!"
"This is £300 worth of stuff. Not even exciting stuff either, it's a laundry hamper and some new bedding.
"There's a photo of my packages in this lady's doorway, and then another photo after she's closed the door of there being no packages left outside.
"So the delivery driver has done his due diligence and made sure this woman has signed for my package and then taken it inside.
"So I go over there and I'm like, 'Hi it's Mia, can I please have my package?', and she's like, 'No I don't have it, sorry'.
"I thought I must have made a mistake, so I came back home and checked the photo of the door because maybe it wasn't that flat, maybe it was a different one.
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"But no, it was the right one. The photo shows her with the door open with my packages."
Mia then asked her boyfriend to go over and speak to the neighbour - who then admitted to signing for the parcel, but said they didn't take them inside.
She explained: "She says to him, 'I did sign for it but I just left it outside. I didn't take it inside, and now it's gone.'
"Why would you sign for a package and then leave it outside? Why would you do that? Just don't sign for the package.
"I'm raging!"
After her upset, Mia posted on her TikTok account miaxmon that her £300 parcel mysteriously showed up on her doorstep the next day.
The boxes had allegedly been in a completely different flat which was not the one sent to her by the delivery driver.
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She said: "The parcels were in flat 5. Which isn't the apartment the photo was of.
"Why flat 5 had my parcels we'll never know, but I'm just happy they've been returned." | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/fabulous/8817412/neighbour-package-angry-tiktok/ | 2022-05-06T09:41:56Z | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/fabulous/8817412/neighbour-package-angry-tiktok/ | true | 4 |
Ukraine admits ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ fighter pilot is a myth
On social media, the “Ghost of Kyiv” was a military hero, an ace fighter pilot hailed for supposedly shooting down multiple Russian planes. The tales began just days into the war and circulated for months, bolstered by official Ukrainian accounts.
But on Saturday, Ukrainian authorities admitted that the legendary pilot was a myth.
“The Ghost of Kyiv is a super-hero legend whose character was created by Ukrainians!” Ukraine’s air force said in Ukrainian on Facebook.
The statement came after multiple media outlets published stories wrongly identifying Major Stepan Tarabalka as the man behind the moniker. Tarabalka was a real pilot who died on March 13 during air combat and was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine, Ukraine’s air force said last month.
But he was not the Ghost of Kyiv, the force said in Saturday’s statement.
“The information about the death of the The Ghost of #Kyiv is incorrect,” Ukraine’s air force wrote in a separate post Saturday on Twitter. “The #GhostOfKyiv is alive, it embodies the collective spirit of the highly qualified pilots of the Tactical Aviation Brigade who are successfully defending #Kyiv and the region.”
The legend emerged just a day after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, as social media users began to spread claims, without evidence, of an anonymous fighter pilot who had single-handedly taken down multiple Russian planes.
Memes, unrelated photos, and even footage from a flight simulator video game circulated on social media, claiming to show the Ghost of Kyiv during combat.
On Feb. 25, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tweeted a photo that Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense had shared three years earlier, falsely claiming it showed the Ghost of Kyiv who had taken down six Russian pilots.
Two days later, Ukraine’s official Twitter account shared a video including the same picture, along with footage of fighter jets in combat, set to pulsating music, with the caption: “People call him the Ghost of Kyiv. And rightly so — this UAF ace dominates the skies over our capital and country, and has already become a nightmare for invading Russian aircrafts.”
That same day, Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, shared the same old photo on Telegram — but now claiming he had shot down 10 occupying planes.
By the time news outlets, including the Times of London, falsely identified the pilot as Tarabalka on Friday, reports had increased the ghost’s toll to 40 planes. The Times later updated its story to reflect the air force’s new position on the Ghost of Kyiv. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589364773649/ukraine-admits-ghost-of-kyiv-fighter-pilot-is-a-myth | 2022-05-06T09:42:29Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589364773649/ukraine-admits-ghost-of-kyiv-fighter-pilot-is-a-myth | true | 24 |
Federal Bank net profit rises 13 pc to Rs 541 cr in Mar qtr
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Private sector lender Federal Bank on Friday reported a 13.2 percent rise in its standalone net profit to Rs 541 crore in the March 2022 quarter.
The bank had posted a net profit of Rs 478 crore in the same quarter previous fiscal.
The total income during the January-March quarter of 2021-22 increased to Rs 3,948.24 crore against Rs 3,843.87 crore in the same period of the preceding fiscal, Federal Bank said in a regulatory filing.
For the entire FY22, the net profit (standalone) surged by 18.8 percent to Rs 1,889.82 crore, compared to Rs 1,590.30 crore in FY21.
The total income in FY22 rose slightly to Rs 15,749.85 crore from Rs 15,716.61 crore.
On the front of asset quality, the gross non-performing assets (NPAs) improved to 2.80 percent of the gross advances as of March 31, 2022, from 3.41 percent a year ago.
In value terms, the gross NPAs stood at Rs 4,136.74 crore, down from Rs 4,602.39 crore.
Likewise, the net NPAs too declined to 0.96 per cent (Rs 1,392.62 crore) from 1.19 per cent (Rs 1,569.28 crore).
Thus, the provisions for bad loans and contingencies fell sharply to Rs 75.24 crore for Q4 FY22 against Rs 254.49 crore parked aside for the year-ago quarter.
Shares of Federal Bank were trading at Rs 91.55 apiece on BSE, down 2.71 percent from the previous close.
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Morning news brief By A Martínez, Leila Fadel Published May 6, 2022 at 2:10 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email If Roe v. Wade is over turned, certain groups of women would be disproportionately affected. Unemployment data is released Friday. Results are expected Friday in Northern Ireland's election. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-05-06/morning-news-brief | 2022-05-06T09:46:19Z | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-05-06/morning-news-brief | false | null |
A woman who was charged with drugging and robbing men in Matuu, Kitui County has been released on Sh500,000 bond.
Victoria Wanjiku Thuku was arrested and charged with administering numbing drugs to one Moses Wambua Mutua with intent to commit a felony.
According to court documents, the incident happened on April 1, 2022 with other reports indicating that it was not the first case.
For instance, she is also facing other charges including being in possession of Identity cards (IDs) that did not belong to her.
Read: Four in Custody For Allegedly Drugging Passengers on Nairobi-bound Bus
This, the detectives believed were to be used to commit various crimes. She is also said to have resisted arrest when she was caught and attempted to remove her clothes to stop the same.
In a different incident on April 19 and April 20, Wanjiku reportedly stole a phone, an ATM card, a watch and a valuable property from a local lodging.
In this incident, she was released on Sh300,000 bond and a surety of a similar amount.
The case has been scheduled for mention on May 12, 2022.
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Room for ASEAN rice exports to grow: MoIT
ASEAN's 700-million market has a lot in common with Vietnam in terms of culture, habits and preferences, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), and there is still room to grow for Vietnamese exports in ASEAN markets, including Vietnamese rice, a major export of the country.
Farmers during rice harvest season in the Mekong Delta. There is still much room for growth for Vietnamese rice exporters in ASEAN markets. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - ASEAN's 700-million market has a lot in common with Vietnam in
terms of culture, habits and preferences, according to the Ministry of Industry
and Trade (MoIT), and there is still room to grow for Vietnamese exports in
ASEAN markets, including Vietnamese rice, a major export of the country.To answer questions related to rice import and export among ASEAN markets, the ministry's trade facilitation department held a working session with Vietnamese exporters on May 5 in the southern province of An Giang, a major producer of rice in Vietnam.
According to the ministry, the Philippines was Vietnam’s largest rice buyer in 2021, with a purchase volume of 2.45 million tonnes and a turnover of 1.25 billion USD.
On average, Vietnamese rice to the Philippines fetched 509 USD per tonne, a 10.7 percent increase in volume and 7.1 percent in price from the previous year.
Export to the Philippines alone accounted for 38 percent of the country's total rice export throughout the year.
During the first quarter of 2022, the Philippines remained Vietnam’s largest rice buyer, accounting for 48 percent of the country's total rice export at more than 672,000 tonnes at an average of 462.8 USD per tonne, totalling 311 million USD.
Aside from the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Brunei were also top buyers of Vietnamese rice among ASEAN countries.
Pham The Cuong, Vietnam’s trade attache in Indonesia, said Vietnamese rice had gained popularity in Indonesia in both traditional markets and supermarkets. There had been fierce competition between Vietnamese and Thai brands. In 2020, Indonesia imported roughly the same amount from the two countries.
There has been an uptick in rice export to Malaysia in January 2022. Vietnam shipped nearly 35,000 tonnes of rice at 16.07 million USD to Malaysia in January, a 104 percent increase in volume and a 67.5 percent increase in turnover compared to the same period last year.
Vietnamese rice exported to ASEAN countries mainly was made up of lower-quality rice. As Vietnam has steadily moved to produce higher-quality rice, which currently accounts for up to 80 percent of the country's entire production, it will be difficult to compete with affordable brands from India, Myanmar and Pakistan in the future, according to the ministry.
As a result, Vietnamese rice prices have been on the rise since 2020. As the country continues to focus on producing high-quality rice, prices have been predicted to continue with an upward trend, especially after setting an export goal of just under 4 million tonnes annually by 2030.
To realise said objectives, industry experts and policymakers have called for rice producers to conduct a comprehensive review of major markets, including ASEAN markets, the EU and the US, to find a balance between supply and demand for Vietnamese rice./. | https://en.vietnamplus.vn/room-for-asean-rice-exports-to-grow-moit/228079.vnp | 2022-05-06T09:54:47Z | https://en.vietnamplus.vn/room-for-asean-rice-exports-to-grow-moit/228079.vnp | true | 2 |
Pakistan bus network gives women a ticket to work and study
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* Safe public buses help more women get to school, jobs
* Peshawar’s BRT system boosts safety, hires female staff
* Getting to the bus stop remains a problem for many women
By Zofeen T. Ebrahim
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – P akistani student Mah Jabeen credits a new public bus system in her home city with saving her from being stuck at her parents’ house doing chores – or even having to get married.
Thanks to the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in the northwestern city of Peshawar, 23-year-old Jabeen said she had been able to continue her master’s degree – keeping alive her dreams of becoming a botanist.
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“My parents had decided to stop my education … because they didn’t like me traveling in the disheveled Mazda wagons,” Jabeen said, referring to the city’s privately run minibuses while sitting on a shiny BRT bus en route to college.
They relented, she said, because the new bus stop was just a few minutes from her front door and dropped her off at the university gates.
Launched in 2020, the BRT has proved hugely popular among women in the ultra-conservative city, where burqas and veils are standard female dress and 90% of women reported feeling unsafe using public transport in a 2016 survey https://transpeshawar.pk/transpeshawar-invites-local-women-to-provide-feedback-on-demo-zu-bus.
Sexual harassment such as staring, whistling and touching is widespread on buses or at bus stops in Pakistan https://pcsw.punjab.gov.pk/node/248#:~:text=Ninety%20percent%20women%20face%20harassment,82%20percent%20at%20bus%20stops, making many women wary about traveling alone and putting many off looking for paid work, according to the World Bank https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/pakistan-womens-representation-workforce-remains-low.
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But in Peshawar, a quarter of seats are reserved for women on the fleet of diesel-electric hybrid buses https://news.trust.org/item/20210803090037-3m3xs, which are equipped with CCTV cameras, guards and have well-lit stations, making female passengers feel more at ease.
About 15% of the BRT’s 2,000 employees are female, too, said M. Umair Khan, spokesman for TransPeshawar, the government-owned company that operates the BRT.
He said such changes helped explain why women now account for about 30% of bus travelers in the city, up from just 2% two years ago.
BIKES AND RICKSHAWS
Pakistani women rely more on public transport than men, who are more likely to have cars, bikes or motorcycles, meaning they are “severely mobility constrained” without a good service, said Lala Rukh Khan, project manager at the Lahore-based Centre for Economic Research (CERP).
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That makes it harder for them to work or study outside the home, or build professional networks, socialize and take part in leisure activities, said Hadia Majid, director of Saida Waheed Gender Initiative at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
“Safe, reliable and affordable public transport makes it possible for workers to engage in a more extensive job search and find jobs more suited to their particular skill-set,” Majid added.
Women rarely ride bicycles or motorcycles in Pakistan, and taking rickshaws is considered unsafe. Buses or shared vans packed with men put many women off, or – like in Jabeen’s case – lead family members to stop them from traveling on them.
Such issues help explain why Pakistan’s female labor force participation https://news.trust.org/item/20220427154524-2hs38 rate is among the lowest in the world, dipping to 23% in 2019 from about 24% in 2015, World Bank data shows https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.NE.ZS?locati ons=PK.
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But with frequent buses, dedicated lanes, subway-like stations, and improved connectivity across the city, the BRT has made travel cheap and quick, as well as safer.
Maximum fares cost about 30 Pakistani rupees ($0.16), making the service especially popular among women from low-income households.
TransPeshawar employee Umme Salma said she used to spend 280 rupees to commute to and from work each day by rickshaw and private minibus. Not only does she save a fortune in fares, her daily commute is shorter.
“I also save a total of 30 minutes each day on travel time,” Salma said.
‘LAST-MILE’ PROBLEMS
But there is still room for improvement, CERP’s Khan said.
Salma, like many passengers, has to walk the 15-minute distance between her house and the bus stop – a “last-mile” connectivity problem that must be overcome to ensure women’s travel is completely secure, she said.
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“Investments in high-quality public transit also need to be complemented by other policies that make it safe for women to get all the way from door to door,” she added.
Poor street lighting, a lack of police patrols in secluded areas, and scant pedestrian infrastructure and public toilets can make that last stretch of travel dangerous, women’s rights activists say.
For Madiha Shakir, a new commuter on the BRT system, the buses alone have been a life-changing improvement.
“I was never allowed to use public transport alone. When I got married, I would wait for my husband to take me to the market since I was scared of going out unaccompanied,” said Shakir, a homemaker, aboard a bus.
“I can’t tell you how liberating it has been for me,” she said. ($1 = 185.3200 Pakistani rupees) (Reporting by Zofeen T. Ebrahim; Writing by Annie Banerji //news.trust.org) | https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/crime-pmn/pakistan-bus-network-gives-women-a-ticket-to-work-and-study | 2022-05-06T09:55:09Z | https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/crime-pmn/pakistan-bus-network-gives-women-a-ticket-to-work-and-study | false | 4 |
Rangers players rated as John Lundstram lands a perfect TEN to secure place in Europa League final in Seville
RANGERS are in the Europa League final after another stunning night at Ibrox.
The Light Blues raced into a two-goal lead after just 25 minutes with strikes from James Tavernier and Glen Kamara.
Christopher Nkunku levelled the tie on aggregate with a stunning goal but John Lundstram fired the winner with less than ten minutes to play to send Ibrox WILD.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Co are off to SEVILLE.
SunSport's Colin Duncan runs the rule over the Ibrox men.
Allan McGregor: A spectator in the first half. Excellent save to deny Kamier when he was clean through on goal. But, absolutely no chance with Nkunku’s stunning volley seconds later. 7
James Tavernier: Another lead by example performance from the Gers skipper. Popped up at the back to crash home the crucial opening goal. His 16th of the season. Fitness levels off the scale. 9
Connor Goldson: Had to walk a tightrope after being yellow carded in the first half for going through the back of Poulsen. But, apart from a few acres kept his cool when it mattered most. 8
Calvin Bassey: Another mature display from the most improved player at the club. Always prepared to surge out from the back with the ball. Booked midway through the first half. 8
Borna Barisic: Much more assured defensively and a real threat powering forward down the left wing. Excellent delivery from the flanks. Cautioned for scything down Henrichs. 8
Ryan Jack: Tested the keeper with early long range effort. Outstanding last ditch block in own box to deny Poulsen. Neat and tidy in midfield, and quietly effective. Subbed. 7
John Lundstram: Deployed on the right hand side of a back three before moving into midfield. Another powerhouse performance from the big Scouser. Crashed home the decisive goal ten mins from the end. 10
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Scott Wright: Started brightly and was quickly causing problems with his direct running. Clever lay-off into the path of Kamara for the second goal. Taken off just before the hour mark. Decent shift. 7
Glen Kamara: Back in the side after missing out on Sunday. Justified his selection in spades. Great hold up play at the opener and then brilliantly guided home the second from edge of the penalty box. 8
Ryan Kent: Comes alive on these big European nights. Terrific run and cross to put the first goal on a plate for his captain. Leipzig couldn't cope with his dribbling skills all game. Another assist for the third. 9
Joe Aribo: Deployed as the central striker. Missed an absolute sitter from inside the six-yard box on the half hour mark. Forced off just before break after taking an Angelino free-kick full in the face. 6
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Fashion Sakala: Replaced the injured Aribo at the end of first half. Went close with a glancing header. 6
Scott Arfield: On for Jack just before the hour mark. Got through a phenomenal amount of work in closing stages. 6
Leon Balogun: Replaced Wright. On to give Rangers more defensive protection and did his job well. 6
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AR Rahman’s daughter ties the knot with audio engineer
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Acclaimed Indian musician AR Rahman’s daughter Khatija Rahman got married to her fiance Riyasdeen Shaik Mohamed on Thursday.
The veteran singer shared the news on Instagram where he also shared a family photo with the newly-wed couple.
"May the Almighty bless the couple .. thanking you in advance for your good wishes and love @khatija.rahman @riyasdeenriyan #nikkahceremony #marraige," Rahman captioned the post.
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Khatija also shared an adorable photo with husband on Instagram. “The most awaited day in my life. Married to my man @riyasdeenriyan,” she captioned.
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As soon as he shared the news on social media, Bollywood celebrities congratulated the musician on his daughter’s wedding.
In December 2020, Khatija Rahman got engaged to Mohamed, an entrepreneur and audio engineer, in a close ceremony.
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After tasting defeat against Everton last weekend, Chelsea will be aiming to emerge victorious in the next English Premier League encounter against Wolves on Saturday. It helps that the match will be played at Stamford Bridge, the London club’s homeground.
In their last Premier League fixture, the Blues had to suffer a 1-0 away defeat against Everton. Thomas Tuchel’s men are currently placed in the third spot on the points table with 66 points from 34 matches.
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Wolves will have their own ambitions set when they will take on Chelsea on Friday. Bruno Lage’s men still have a chance to seal their berth for next season’s European competition and they will be desperate to clinch the full three points against Chelsea. Wolves come into the fixture after suffering a 0-3 defeat against Crystal Palace. Although, the Wolves have so far done a formidable job after managing to win 15 of their 34 Premier League matches.
Ahead of tomorrow’s EPL match between Chelsea and Wolverhampton Wanderers; here is all you need to know:
What date EPL 2021-22 match between Chelsea (CHE) and Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) will be played?
The EPL match between Chelsea (CHE) and Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) will take place on May 7, Saturday.
Where will the EPL 2021-22 match Chelsea (CHE) vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) be played?
The match between Chelsea (CHE) and Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) will be played at the Stamford Bridge in London.
What time will the EPL match Chelsea (CHE) vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) begin?
The match between Chelsea (CHE) and Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) will begin at 7:30 pm IST.
Which TV channels will broadcast Chelsea (CHE) vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) match?
Chelsea (CHE) vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) match will be televised on Star Sports Network in India.
How do I watch the live streaming of the Chelsea (CHE) vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) match?
Chelsea (CHE) vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (WOL) match is available to be streamed live on the Disney+Hotstar app and website.
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Chelsea Predicted Starting Line-up: Edouard Mendy, Cesar Azpilicueta, Thiago Silva, Antonio Rudiger, Marcos Alonso, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Mateo Kovacic, Reece James, Mason Mount, Kai Havertz, Timo Werner
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It is a 50 cm high bust, which sits at the top of a column, in a pedestrian alley lined with flowers. It is in the center of Zhytomyr, a city of 250,000 inhabitants located 100 km west of kyiv. The bust represents Alexander Pushkin in an officer’s uniform. The statue was unveiled in 1899, for the 100th anniversary of the Russian poet’s birth. But today, since Russia bombed Zhytomyr, a certain number of inhabitants wish to get rid of it.
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“I don’t want to see this monument anymore… Any sign of Russian presence now bothers me. We have our own writers who are best honored”says Oxana, 50, a doctor and resident of Zhytomyr. “I understand this rejection. But it’s a classic…”moderate Sergei, engineer, forties. “The Russians are destroying our culture, so it would be better to destroy itslice Paulina, 25, while waiting for her bus not far from the monument. We don’t want to have any ties with Russia anymore, and it doesn’t matter that they had brilliant artists. The Russians are killing our children…”
The mayor delays
The fate of this monument is the subject of intense discussion on social networks, since a large number of Ukrainian cities have undertaken to store the statues of Russian writers and poets, following the offensive of the February 24. This is the case in Ternopil, Ouzhhorod, Chernivtsi, Berdytchiv… In kyiv, the public transport administration has for its part launched a consultation on the Internet to find out whether the Leon-Tolstoï station should be renamed.
In Zhytomyr, while a petition has started to circulate on social networks, the mayor, Serhiï Sukhomlyn, wants to keep reason. He receives us in his office transformed into a fortress. The windows of the town hall are obstructed by sandbags. Armed soldiers camp in the hall. All the staff have put on military dress and a bulletproof vest is casually thrown over the back of their chair.
The elected official explains that he proposed to organize a local referendum to decide the fate of the monument. “But after the war, he specifies. Today we have more urgent tasks…”
4,000 displaced people from the East welcomed
Opposite the town hall, on the other side of the square, a school received a bomb which completely destroyed it. Fortunately, the building was empty. There were no casualties. The city is hosting around 4,000 displaced people from the east of the country, who have had to be housed.
The mayor is not afraid to say that statues like those of Pushkin “have been used by Russian propaganda to say that Ukrainians and Russians are one nation” and that this “served as a base to invade our country”. But he gets a little annoyed: “Waging war against monuments is not the most difficult thing…”
Russian television, in fact, is making a big splash out of these statue removals. Vladimir Putin’s whole speech consists precisely in saying that Ukraine is ruled by a handful of extremists who want to eradicate Russian culture, and that therefore it is necessary to intervene militarily to protect it… So, is the moment right? to deal with this issue? Vakhtang Kipiani is nevertheless convinced of this.
Ukraine in the process of decolonization
This Ukrainian intellectual is editor-in-chief of La Vérité historique, a general public site that publishes contributions from historians. For him, these monuments to Russian poets and writers are a legacy of Ukraine’s colonial past. “Zhytomyr has no connection with Pushkin, a city he has never set foot in. If this monument is there, it is because Imperial Russia wanted to install its presence as a sign of its domination., he said. For him, the current war is a conflict of decolonization which also involves the fight against all signs of forced Russification of Ukraine.
Long before the start of this war, Vakhtang Kipiani was already campaigning for the replacement of statues and the change of street names referring to Russian classics. “At the time, these ideas were very much in the minority. Nobody even wanted to hear about it”, he acknowledges. But, since February 24, minds are changing very quickly. “From now on, the question is no longer when the statues will be removed, but which ones will be put in their place. » And he quips: “All of this would never have happened if Putin hadn’t invaded Ukraine. So if the Russian nationalists have complaints to make, it is to the Russian president that they should send them…” | https://hindaily.com/in-zhytomyr-the-statue-of-pushkin-disturbs/ | 2022-05-06T09:59:51Z | https://hindaily.com/in-zhytomyr-the-statue-of-pushkin-disturbs/ | true | 1 |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Amnesty International says it has documented extensive war crimes by Russian forces in communities around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, including arbitrary executions, bombardments of residences and torture.
“The pattern of crimes committed by Russian forces that we have documented includes both unlawful attacks and willful killings of civilians,” Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said in a statement on Friday. “It is vital that all those responsible, including up the chain of command, are brought to justice.”
The organization said it collected evidence and testimony in eight cities near Kyiv, including Bucha. After Russian forces retreated from Bucha in April, corpses were found lying on streets, many with their hands bound behind their backs, and in mass graves. Kyiv regional governor Oleksandr Pavlyuk said that at least 1,235 civilian bodies have been found in the region.
AI’s report described the shooting in Bucha of Yevhen Petrashenko, a 43-year-old sales manager, who was shot in his kitchen while his wife and children were hiding in the basement. The Russian military allowed his wife, Tatiana, to enter the apartment, where she found her husband’s corpse.
“Yevhen was lying dead in the kitchen. He had been shot in the back, (near his) lungs and liver. His body remained in the apartment until 10 March, when we were able to bury him in a shallow grave in the courtyard,” the report quoted her as saying.
Their neighbor Leonid Bodnarchuk, a 44-year-old construction worker, was shot dead by Russian soldiers as he climbed the stairs, and then the military threw a grenade into the stairwell, the report said.
The executions in Bucha were carried out with specialized rifles used by some elite Russian units, the report said. Amnesty International staff found 7N12 armor-piercing rounds with a 9x39mm black tip at the murder scene, which are used by elite units of the Russian army.
The investigation also described bombardment of the city of Borodyanka, in which at least 40 people were killed in indiscriminate bombings that destroyed eight residential buildings.
It quoted Borodyanka resident Vasyl Yaroshenko as saying he had left his multi-story residence for his garage when a bomb hit the house.
“I saw a large gap in the building,” he said, according to the report. “My wife Halina was among those killed. I still see her by the door of our apartment, the home where we lived for 40 years.”
The report says researchers found evidence documenting specific units of the Russian army that were involved, including training books that belonged to the driver of the 104th regiment of the Airborne Forces.
“We have met families whose loved ones were killed in horrific attacks, and whose lives have changed forever because of the Russian invasion," Callamard said. “We support their demands for justice, and call on the Ukrainian authorities, the International Criminal Court and others to ensure evidence is preserved that could support future war crime prosecutions.” | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Amnesty-International-Russia-must-face-war-17153441.php | 2022-05-06T10:02:31Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Amnesty-International-Russia-must-face-war-17153441.php | true | 47 |
Equities analysts expect Jackson Financial Inc. (NYSE:JXN – Get Rating) to report earnings per share of $4.53 for the current quarter, Zacks reports. Two analysts have provided estimates for Jackson Financial’s earnings, with the highest EPS estimate coming in at $4.65 and the lowest estimate coming in at $4.40. The company is scheduled to issue its next quarterly earnings report after the market closes on Monday, January 1st.
On average, analysts expect that Jackson Financial will report full-year earnings of $20.95 per share for the current financial year, with EPS estimates ranging from $20.45 to $21.45. For the next year, analysts forecast that the firm will post earnings of $22.70 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $21.90 to $23.50. Zacks Investment Research’s EPS calculations are an average based on a survey of analysts that that provide coverage for Jackson Financial.
Jackson Financial (NYSE:JXN – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March 2nd. The company reported $7.48 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $5.28 by $2.20. The company had revenue of $1.62 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.80 billion. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 169.7% on a year-over-year basis.
Large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. acquired a new position in shares of Jackson Financial during the 3rd quarter worth $49,000. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY acquired a new position in shares of Jackson Financial during the 3rd quarter valued at $58,000. Shell Asset Management Co. bought a new stake in shares of Jackson Financial during the third quarter valued at approximately $68,000. Paradigm Asset Management Co. LLC bought a new position in shares of Jackson Financial in the 3rd quarter worth $69,000. Finally, South Dakota Investment Council acquired a new position in shares of Jackson Financial during the third quarter valued at about $71,000. 81.17% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Shares of NYSE:JXN opened at $43.69 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 0.34, a quick ratio of 0.34 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24. Jackson Financial has a one year low of $24.03 and a one year high of $47.76. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $42.67 and a 200-day moving average of $39.13.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, March 23rd. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 14th were paid a dividend of $0.55 per share. This represents a $2.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.04%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, March 11th. This is a boost from Jackson Financial’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.50.
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Jackson Financial Inc, through its subsidiaries, primarily provides a suite of annuities to retail investors in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Retail Annuities, Institutional Products, and Closed Life and Annuity Blocks. The Retail Annuities segment offers various retirement income and savings products, including variable, fixed index, fixed, and immediate payout annuities, as well as registered index-linked annuities and lifetime income solutions.
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The IPI global network welcomes the reopening of 77 radio stations in Guinea-Bissau after the government on April 7 suspended their broadcast licenses for non-payment of license fees. However, we remain concerned by the government’s abrupt intrusion into the country’s radio market, which must be regulated through independent and transparent licensing regimes and processes. We urge authorities to ensure that the country’s radio sector can operate independently and without fear of arbitrary closure and to safeguard the public’s access to information rights.
On April 3, the country’s media regulator, the Ministry of Social Communication, notified 88 radio stations that they had 72 hours to renew their licenses or risked having these revoked, according to reports. Of these operators, only nine – mostly religious stations – were able to complete this procedure within this timeframe. As a result, the inspector general ordered 79 radio stations to cease broadcasting. Authorities then followed with another decree warning those who continued to broadcast would be in breach of the broadcasting law and could face up to three years in jail or be fined.
On April 27, 77 of these radio stations were allowed to resume broadcasting after multiple media and civil society groups helped negotiate staggered payment plans between each station and the Ministry. However, two privately owned radio stations, Radio Cidade and Radio Capital, were unable to successfully negotiate their payments and remain off air, according to the Media Foundation for West Africa.
“While it is positive that most of the suspended broadcasters are back on air, the government’s sudden closure of these stations sets a dangerous precedent”, IPI Deputy Director Scott Griffen said. “We are concerned about the implications to press freedom and the public’s right to information caused by the month-long impasse between the regulator and licensed radio stations in Guinea-Bissau. Media licensing must be carried out by independent regulatory bodies based on principles of transparency and fairness.”
Radio Capital FM, one of the two stations that failed to negotiate their license fee payment schedule, was attacked by a group of armed men in military uniforms on February 8. This attack occurred just a week after the failed coup attempt on President Umaro Sissoco Embaló. According to reports, Radio Capital FM had been critical of the Embaló government. This was the second attack on the radio station in two years.
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One thing worth considering before making a decision is that some breeds make better companions for the more elderly owner – needing less in the way of exercise or grooming and tending to be chilled and relaxing pets.
Plenty of us decided to welcome new four-legged friends into our homes in the last couple of years – according to Kennel Club figures dog ownership soared by nearly eight percent – and post-lockdown demand for puppies remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
There’s even academic guidance to seek out, with Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ ranking breeds by instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt.
So, here are the 10 best and worst breeds of dog to consider when it comes to older dog-lovers.
1. Poodle
Starting with the pups that are top togs for the more elderly owner. Poodles - Standard, Miniature, or Toy - have every attribute needed to make a great companion dog. They are hugely intelligent and loving, easy to train, only need walked once a day, and only need groomed once a month.
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2. Maltese
One of the smallest breeds, Maltese may be tiny but they are also one of the most empathetic pets and are often used as therapy dogs. They need very little outdoor exercise and even giving them their daily brush can be fairly therapeutic and relaxing.
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3. Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
The diminutive Cavalier King Charles Spaniel requires a little more grooming than other breeds of small dog, but they are quiet, intelligent, easy to train, and never happier than when they are snuggled up in your lap.
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4. Boston Terrier
Boston Terriers tend to be completely devoted to their owners, who they enjoy sitting quietly beside for long periods. Their short coat means they need little in the way of grooming and are easy to care for generally.
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San Diego: It has been 36 years since Tom Cruise donned his aviators, jumped into a fighter jet and ascended Hollywood’s A-list with "Top Gun" -- and, finally, a sequel is about to land.
"I was a little slow -- sometimes I’m a little slow," Cruise joked to AFP at the world premiere of "Top Gun: Maverick," held aboard a retired US aircraft carrier in San Diego on Wednesday. Slow is not usually a word associated with Cruise, arguably the world’s biggest movie star, who landed via helicopter onto a red carpet that was rolled across the USS Midway’s sprawling top deck for the occasion.
Baghdad: One person died in Iraq and more than 5,000 were treated in hospitals on Thursday for respiratory ailments...
Elad, Israel: At least three people were killed in an attack in the central Israeli city of Elad as the Jewish state...
Dohuk, Iraq: More than 10,000 people have fled fighting between the Iraqi army and Yazidi fighters affiliated with...
London: Local and regional elections were being held across the UK on Thursday that could prove historic in Northern...
Vatican City: Pope Francis, who has suffered from pain in his knee, used a wheelchair for the first time at a public...
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Researchers at the Baker Center for Children and Families have released their findings on the stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic on kids.
According to the center, the pandemic has dramatically increased anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts in children as young as kindergarten through college age. As many as 175,000 children in the US have lost a caregiver due to COVID-19.
One mother, Jessi Champion, said she was breaking as a mom as her son struggled through the pandemic.
"We had hitting kicking, punching, biting and screaming," she said.
She turned to the Baker Center for Children and Families in Boston, where after six months of family therapy and summer camp, her son has learned to manage his emotions and his now enjoying life.
"He snuggles me all the time. He's so empathetic," Champion said.
Being willing to seek help is one of the recommendations from a startling new report from the Baker Center examining COVID-19's impact on the mental health of children.
"It's an epidemic of need that we're seeing across the state," said Dr. Bob Franks, CEO of the Baker Center.
The report says emergency departments saw a 51 percent increase in suicide attempts for adolescent girls and a 4 percent increase of adolescent boys since the pandemic began.
Despite increased access to online therapy, there are wait times up to 12 months for outpatient care for children.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 9, 2022
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Mountains, San Diego County Mountains, Apple and Lucerne
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* WHEN...From noon Saturday to 6 PM PDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
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* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The strongest winds are expected on Sunday
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DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Fleet Management in South Africa – 5th Edition” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
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How will the market for fleet management systems for commercial vehicles in South Africa evolve in 2022 and beyond? The publisher forecasts that the number of fleet management systems in active use in South Africa will grow at a CAGR of 12.6% from 2.0 million units at the end of 2021 to 3.6 million by 2026.
The penetration rate in the total population of fleet vehicles used by businesses is at the same time is estimated to increase from 41.5% in 2021 to 68% in 2026. South Africa is a relatively mature telematics market and the penetration rate is comparably high from an international perspective.
Far from all deployments are however full-scale advanced FM solutions. A notable share of the installed fleet telematics systems on the South African market is represented by comparably low-end tracking systems, e.g. light FM solutions, including SVR systems extended with basic FM features.
The South African fleet management market is clearly dominated by five domestic players with broad telematics portfolios that together represent 70% of the total number of fleet management systems in use in the country. The analyst ranks Cartrack and MiX Telematics as the largest providers of fleet management solutions in South Africa.
Cartrack alone has more than half a million active FM units in the country. The remaining top-5 players are Tracker, Netstarand Ctrack. Other top-10 players in the South African fleet management market include local providers such as Bidtrack (Bidvest Group), Digicell and GPS Tracking Solutions (Eqstra Fleet Management), as well as international players including Webfleet Solutions (Bridgestone) and Gurtam. Autotrak, Digital Matter, PFK Electronics, Key Telematics/Radius Payment Solutions and Pointer SA (PowerFleet) are additional top-15 providers, all having estimated installed bases of at least 15,000 fleet management units in the country.
Players just outside of the top list include Mtrack (Electronic Tracking Systems), Geotab, and Globaltrack. International commercial vehicle OEMs including Scania, Daimler, Volvo Trucks, UD Trucks, MAN, and Toyota have further all introduced fleet telematics solutions in South Africa.
Highlights from the report
- Insights from numerous interviews with market-leading companies.
- Data on vehicle populations and commercial fleets in South Africa and other African countries.
- Comprehensive overview of the fleet management value chain and key applications.
- In-depth analysis of market trends and key developments.
- Updated profiles of 27 aftermarket fleet management solution providers.
- Summary of OEM propositions from commercial vehicle brands.
- Market forecasts last until 2026.
- Outlook on the African fleet management market beyond South Africa.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Fleet Management Solutions
1.1 Fleet Management Infrastructure
1.1.1 Vehicle Segment
1.1.2 GNSS Segment
1.1.3 Network Segment
1.1.4 Backoffice Segment
1.2 Vehicle Management
1.2.1 Vehicle Diagnostics and Maintenance Planning
1.2.2 Security Tracking
1.2.3 Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems
1.3 Driver Management
1.3.1 Driving Data Registration and Analysis
1.3.2 Video-Based Driver Monitoring
1.3.3 Eco-Driving Schemes
1.3.4 Insurance Risk Management
1.4 Operations Management
1.4.1 Routing and Navigation
1.4.2 Transport Management
1.4.3 Mobile Workforce Management
1.5 Regulatory Compliance And Reporting
1.5.1 Driver Working Hours, Logbooks, and Tachographs
1.5.2 Electronic Toll Collection – E-Toll And E-Tags
1.5.3 Sars Travel Logbooks
1.5.4 Traffic Fine Management And Demerit Points – Aarto
1.5.5 Road Transport Management System (RTMS)
1.5.6 Distracted Driving
1.5.7 Special Transports
1.6 Business Models
2 Market Forecasts And Trends
2.1 Market Analysis
2.1.1 The South African Vehicle Market
2.1.2 Fleet Management Market Forecast
2.1.3 Fleet Management Vendor Market Shares
2.1.4 Local Market Characteristics In South Africa
2.2 Market Drivers And Barriers
2.2.1 Macroeconomic Environment
2.2.2 Regulatory Environment
2.2.3 Competitive Environment
2.2.4 Technology Environment
2.3 Value Chain Analysis
2.3.1 Telematics Industry Players
2.3.2 Automotive Industry Players
2.3.3 Telecom Industry Players
2.3.4 IT Industry Players
2.4 Future Industry Trends
2.5 African Fleet Management Market Outlook
2.5.1 Leading South African Telematics Players Active In The Rest Of Africa
2.5.2 Other African Fleet Management Providers And Distributors
2.5.3 International Players Active On The African Fleet Management Market
2.5.4 OEM Fleet Telematics Offerings In Africa
2.5.5 The African Vehicle Market
2.5.6 Analysis Of The Fleet Management Market In The Rest Of Africa
2.5.7 The Size Of The African Fleet Management Market
3. Company Profiles
3.1 International Aftermarket Solution Providers
3.1.1 Cartrack (Karooooo)
3.1.2 Geotab
3.1.3 Gurtam
3.1.4 MiX Telematics
3.1.5 PowerFleet
3.1.6 Webfleet Solutions (Bridgestone)
3.2 Local aftermarket solution providers
3.2.1 ACM Track
3.2.2 Afritelematics
3.2.3 Autotrak
3.2.4 Bidtrack (Bidvest Group)
3.2.5 Ctrack
3.2.6 Digicell
3.2.7 Digital Matter
3.2.8 FleetCam
3.2.9 Fleetkor
3.2.10 Globaltrack
3.2.11 Gosafe Tracking Solutions SA
3.2.12 GPS Tracking Solutions (Eqstra Fleet Management)
3.2.13 iCAM Video Telematics
3.2.14 Key Telematics and Radius Payment Solutions
3.2.15 Mtrack (Electronic Tracking Systems)
3.2.16 Netstar
3.2.17 PFK Electronics
3.2.18 Pointer SA (PowerFleet)
3.2.19 Real Telematics
3.2.20 SmartSurv Wireless
3.2.21 Tracker Connect
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Nearly 15 million more people died during the pandemic than would have in normal times, the World Health Organization said Thursday, a staggering measure of COVID-19’s true toll that laid bare how vastly country after country has undercounted victims.
In Mexico, the excess death toll during the first two years of the pandemic was twice as high as the government’s official tally of COVID-19 deaths, the WHO found.
In Egypt, excess deaths were roughly 12 times as great as the official COVID-19 toll.
In Pakistan, the figure was eight times as high.
Those estimates, calculated by a global panel of experts assembled by the WHO, represent what many scientists see as the most reliable gauge of the total impact of the pandemic. Faced with large gaps in global death data, the expert team set out to calculate excess mortality: the difference between the number of people who died in 2020 and 2021 and the number who would have been expected to die during that time if the pandemic had not happened.
Their calculations combined national data on reported deaths with new information from localities and household surveys, and with statistical models that aimed to account for deaths that were missed.
Most of the excess deaths were victims of COVID-19 itself, the experts said, but some died because the pandemic made it more difficult to get medical care for ailments such as heart attacks. The previous toll, based solely on death counts reported by countries, was 6 million.
Much of the loss of life from the pandemic was concentrated in 2021, when more contagious variants tore through even countries that had fended off earlier outbreaks. Overall deaths that year were roughly 18% higher — an extra 10 million people — than they would have been without the pandemic, the WHO-assembled experts estimated.
Developing nations bore the brunt of the devastation, with nearly 8 million more people than expected dying in lower-middle-income nations during the pandemic.
“It’s absolutely staggering what has happened with this pandemic, including our inability to accurately monitor it,” said Dr. Prabhat Jha, a public health researcher at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto, who was a member of the expert working group that made the calculations. “It shouldn’t happen in the 21st century.”
The figures had been ready since January, but their release was stalled by objections from India, which disputes the methodology for calculating how many of its citizens died.
Nearly a third of the excess deaths globally — 4.7 million — took place in India, according to the WHO estimates. The Indian government’s own figure through the end of 2021 is 481,080 deaths.
But India was far from the only country where deaths were substantially underreported. Where excess deaths far outstripped the number of reported COVID-19 fatalities, experts said the gap could reflect countries’ struggles to collect mortality data or their efforts to intentionally obscure the toll of the pandemic.
In some countries, flaws in government reports were widely known. Russia, for example, had reported roughly 310,000 COVID-19 deaths by the end of 2021, but the WHO experts indicated that the excess death toll was nearly 1.1 million. That mirrored earlier estimates from a Russian national statistics agency that is fairly independent of the government.
Alexei Raksha, an independent demographer who quit the Russian state statistics service after complaining of the failure to count COVID-19 deaths properly, said informal orders had been given to local authorities to ensure that in many cases COVID-19 was not registered as the primary cause of death.
“Excess deaths have established the true picture,” Raksha said. “Russia demonstrated a dismal performance in fighting the pandemic.”
In other nations, WHO experts used what limited data was available to arrive at estimates jarringly at odds with previous counts, though they cautioned that some of those calculations remained highly uncertain. In Indonesia, for example, the experts leaned heavily on monthly death data from Jakarta to estimate that the country had experienced over 1 million more deaths than normal. That figure would be seven times as high as the reported COVID-19 death toll.
Siti Nadia Tarmizi, a spokesperson for the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program, acknowledged that Indonesia had suffered more deaths than the government had reported. She said the problem stemmed in part from people not reporting relatives’ deaths to avoid complying with government rules for COVID-19 victims’ funerals. But she said the WHO estimates were far too high.
In Pakistan, Dr. Faisal Sultan, a former health minister, defended the government’s death reports, saying that studies of the number of graveyard burials in major cities did not reveal large numbers of uncounted victims of the pandemic.
For still other countries that suffered grievously during the pandemic, the WHO estimates illuminated even more startling figures hiding inside already devastating death counts. In Peru, for instance, the expert estimate of 290,000 excess deaths by the end of 2021 was only 1.4 times as high as the reported COVID-19 death toll. But the WHO estimate of 437 excess deaths for every 100,000 Peruvians left the country with among the world’s highest per capita tolls.
“When a health care system isn’t prepared to receive patients who are seriously ill with pneumonia, when it can’t provide the oxygen they need to live, or even provide beds for them to lay in so they can have some peace, you get what you’ve gotten,” said Dr. Elmer Huerta, an oncologist and public health specialist who hosts a popular radio show in Peru.
In the United States, the WHO estimated that roughly 930,000 more people than expected had died by the end of 2021, compared with the 820,000 COVID-19 deaths that had been officially recorded over the same period.
In Mexico, the government has kept a tally of excess deaths during the pandemic that appears roughly in line with the WHO’s. Those estimates — about double the country’s reported COVID-19 death toll — reflected what analysts there described as difficulties counting the dead.
“We responded badly, we reacted slowly. But I think the most serious of all was to not communicate the urgency, the wanting to minimize, minimize,” said Xavier Tello, a public health analyst based in Mexico City. “Because Mexico wasn’t or isn’t testing for COVID, a lot of people died and we don’t know if they had COVID.”
The WHO’s calculations include people who died directly from COVID-19, from medical conditions complicated by COVID-19, or because they had ailments other than COVID-19 but could not get needed treatment because of the pandemic. The excess death estimates also take into account expected deaths that did not occur because of COVID-19 restrictions, such as reductions in traffic accidents or isolation that prevented deaths from the flu and other infectious diseases.
Calculating excess deaths is complex, the WHO experts said. About half of countries globally do not regularly report the number of deaths from all causes. Others supply only partial data. In the WHO’s African region, the experts said that they had data from only six of 47 countries.
Scientists also noted that excess death rates were not necessarily indicative of a country’s pandemic response: Older and younger populations will fare differently in a pandemic, regardless of the response. And the WHO experts said that they did not account for the effects of heat waves or conflicts.
Where death figures were missing, the statisticians had to rely on modeling. In those cases, they made predictions based on country-specific information like containment measures, historical rates of disease, temperature and demographics to assemble national figures and, from there, regional and global estimates.
WHO officials used the release of their calculations to plead for greater investment in death reporting.
“When we underestimate, we may underinvest,” said Dr. Samira Asma, the WHO’s assistant director general for data, analytics and delivery for impact. “And when we undercount, we may miss targeting the interventions where they are needed most.”
WHO officials cited Britain as an example of a country that had accurately recorded COVID-19 deaths: Their analysis found that about 149,000 more people than normal had died during the pandemic, nearly identical to the number of COVID-19 deaths Britain reported.
The disagreement over India’s COVID-19 deaths spilled into the public this week when the Indian government on Tuesday abruptly released mortality data from 2020, reporting an 11% increase in registered deaths in 2020 compared with average annual deaths registered over the two prior years.
Analysts saw the release as an attempt to force the WHO to reconsider its calculations on the eve of publication. Indian health officials said their figures showed that the country had lost fewer people to COVID-19 than outside estimates suggested.
But scientists believe that most of the country’s excess mortality occurred in 2021, during a grievous wave caused by the delta variant. And even India’s 2020 figures gave additional credence to the WHO estimates, said Jha, who has also studied excess deaths in India.
“The Indian government wanted to deflect the news,” he said, “but they’re confirming, at least for 2020, the WHO numbers.”
Other experts said that India’s refusal to cooperate with the WHO analysis was rooted in the country’s history of ignoring how data can inform policymaking.
“It’s natural to miss some of the COVID deaths,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health who has been working with the WHO to review the data. But, she added, “Nobody’s been this resistant.”
The Ministry of Health in New Delhi did not respond to requests for comment. WHO officials said India’s 2020 death figures were released too late to be incorporated into their calculations but that they would “carefully review” the data.
Nations that report COVID-19 deaths more accurately have also been at the center of disputes over the reliability of excess death estimates. In Germany, for example, the WHO experts estimated that 195,000 more people than normal had died during the pandemic, a significantly higher toll than the 112,000 COVID-19 deaths recorded there.
But Giacomo De Nicola, a statistician at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, who has studied excess deaths in Germany, said that the country’s rapidly aging population meant that the WHO analysis may have underestimated the number of people who would have been expected to die in a normal year. That, in turn, could have produced overestimates of excess deaths.
He said that the WHO-assembled experts had accounted for trends in mortality, but not directly for changes in the age structure of the population. While Germany experienced excess deaths, he said, the WHO estimate for the country “seems very high.”
Overall, the WHO calculations were more conservative than separate analyses released earlier by The Economist and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Some experts said the WHO analysis benefited from relying more heavily than other estimates on actual data, even where it was incomplete, as opposed to statistical modeling.
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Indore (Madhya Pradesh): National Testing Agency (NTA), which has a contract for conducting the first edition of the common university entrance test (CUET), has extended the last date to register for the exam till May 22.
Previously, the deadline was May 6.
“According to information, nearly 5.5 lakh candidates have applied for CUET, a gateway to all 44 central and 28 other universities, so far,” said Prof Kanhaiya Ahuja, admission coordinator at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya.
DAVV has scrapped the common entrance test and opted for CUET for admitting students in its undergraduate programmes from session 2022-23.
According to NTA sources, more than 15000 students from Madhya Pradesh have applied for the inaugural edition of CUET.
Highest number of applicants is from Uttar Pradesh, followed by Delhi and Bihar and Haryana
More than 78000 students from UP applied for CET followed by over 46000 from Delhi, over 18000 from Bihar and 16,000 from Haryana.
As per information received from NTA sources, most of the students applying from Madhya Pradesh are opting for admission in undergraduate courses offered by DAVV.
The university has also decided to opt for CUET scores for admission in its professional postgraduate courses. However, NTA has not invited applications for CUET for admission in PG courses.
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NEW YORK, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID).
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With the European Union countries vowing to stop buying Russian oil, India and China might get some more crude for a discount, but it is not going to make up the lost profits for Russia.
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With the European Union countries vowing to stop buying Russian oil, India and China might get some more crude for a discount, but it is not going to make up the lost profits for Russia.
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Molly-Mae Hague shows off slim waist in a bikini after insisting she’s ‘not in shape’
MOLLY-Mae Hague showed off her slim waist in a bikini after insisting she's "not in shape".
The blonde bombshell looked stunning in the snap from her work trip to Mexico.
She was lounging by the pool in a bikini top and shorts, telling fans: "Think I’ve found my new favourite place…"
The multi-millionaire brought a pricey Prada beach bag on the trip to Tulum.
She's been out in Mexico doing a photoshoot for her Filter By Molly-Mae brand.
Her manager celebrated a successful work trip, saying: "Wrap dinner 🥂🇲🇽🌴 Amazing trip with an amazing team ."
Molly-Mae had told how she didn't want body insecurities to ruin her time away, admitting she wasn't in the best shape.
Speaking on YouTube she insisted: "I definitely am not in the shape I want to be for it but as I mentioned not too long ago, I have really taken the pressure off with healthy eating and exercise recently.
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“I’m just embracing my natural body and not even worrying about how I look.
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Analysts forecast that General Motors (NYSE:GM – Get Rating) (TSE:GMM.U) will announce sales of $38.56 billion for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Three analysts have provided estimates for General Motors’ earnings, with estimates ranging from $37.45 billion to $40.65 billion. General Motors reported sales of $34.17 billion in the same quarter last year, which would suggest a positive year-over-year growth rate of 12.8%. The firm is scheduled to issue its next quarterly earnings results on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that General Motors will report full-year sales of $155.31 billion for the current fiscal year, with estimates ranging from $149.75 billion to $162.81 billion. For the next financial year, analysts forecast that the company will report sales of $165.28 billion, with estimates ranging from $161.65 billion to $172.85 billion. Zacks’ sales averages are a mean average based on a survey of research firms that follow General Motors.
General Motors (NYSE:GM – Get Rating) (TSE:GMM.U) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 26th. The auto manufacturer reported $2.09 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.57 by $0.52. General Motors had a net margin of 7.61% and a return on equity of 16.37%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $2.25 EPS.
In other news, EVP Julian G. Blissett sold 21,742 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $50.04, for a total value of $1,087,969.68. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, Director Patricia F. Russo purchased 6,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, February 10th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of $50.61 per share, for a total transaction of $303,660.00. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. 0.40% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company Inc. acquired a new position in General Motors in the 1st quarter valued at about $26,000. Liberty Wealth Management LLC boosted its holdings in General Motors by 50.1% in the 3rd quarter. Liberty Wealth Management LLC now owns 518 shares of the auto manufacturer’s stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 173 shares during the last quarter. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. boosted its holdings in General Motors by 220.2% in the 1st quarter. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. now owns 602 shares of the auto manufacturer’s stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 414 shares during the last quarter. NuWave Investment Management LLC acquired a new position in General Motors in the 4th quarter valued at about $28,000. Finally, FSB Premier Wealth Management Inc. acquired a new position in General Motors in the 4th quarter valued at about $28,000. 82.66% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
NYSE:GM opened at $39.95 on Friday. General Motors has a 52 week low of $37.25 and a 52 week high of $67.21. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $41.87 and a 200 day moving average of $51.62. The company has a quick ratio of 0.93, a current ratio of 1.11 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.15. The stock has a market capitalization of $58.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.63, a PEG ratio of 0.55 and a beta of 1.20.
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Russia-Ukraine war: What would a victory look like now to Putin?
Having failed to take over Ukraine, what are President Putin’s military prospects now? Three defence experts weigh in.
Russia’s Victory Day parade is an annual extravagance in Red Square. Falling on May 9, it commemorates the Nazi surrender of World War II with a lavish spectacle meant to project might. Formations, tanks and sophisticated hardware go on display to remind the world of Russia’s lasting power. Celebrating what is known locally as the “Great Patriotic War” is used to stir nationalism and pay homage to the 24 million lives lost to fend off Hitler.
Rehearsals on the streets in front of the Kremlin in recent days hint at the spectacle next week. Show stoppers include an intercontinental ballistic missile and 11,000 marching forces. Fighter jets will fly above in a Z formation, the symbol of the invasion of Ukraine.
The Kremlin does not have much to celebrate, however. President Vladimir Putin has failed at his aim to take over Ukraine, a country he wrongly assumed would be a walkover. Tactical mistakes led to catastrophic Russian losses that the United Kingdom estimates at 15,000 over just two months.
What the world thought was a relatively modern and well-equipped army performed shockingly badly. Supply lines were attacked and stretched as troops scattered on too many fronts. The Russians underestimated their much smaller adversary or that a unified West would firehose billions of dollars of military support to Ukraine. Beaten back from Kyiv, the Russians have recalibrated to the Donbas region in the south and east to solidify territory they have occupied since 2014 and gain more. Yet securing that front by May 9 to declare triumph looks unlikely. Over the past week, that offensive, too, has struggled to gain any significant ground.
Winning means different things to different people. Having failed to occupy all of Ukraine, it remains unclear what victory would mean to Putin at this point. The highly motivated Ukrainians continue to enjoy Western support and will fight fiercely to defend their territory. On some level, one could argue that Ukraine has already won strategically because it united NATO and demonstrated effective wartime leadership. The vastly outnumbered Ukrainian military prevented the fall of their capital and pushed back against massive force.
The war now seems to be entering an attritional phase, where each side will try to wear the other down with no clear advantage by either. As the war on which he staked his tough-man reputation, as well as his country’s economy, fails to meet any of its objectives, how will Putin frame “victory” on May 9? And what are his military prospects for the months to come?
Al Jazeera sought answers from three defence experts who focus on the Russian military and security.
‘Putin’s proven himself quite capable of twisting truths’
–Margarita Konaev, research fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Konaev expects that to save face, Putin will try to distract from the reality of the war and double down on the narrative that has worked thus far: a call to nationalism and the argument that this is a war forced on the Russians by NATO expansion and that Ukraine is not a real country. “He will insist that the US and NATO are willing to risk continued violence and economic downturn around the world just to humiliate Russia and limit its power in the international order,” she says.
“Since it is May 9, they will evoke the Great Patriotic War and portray this moment as another when the Russian people must be steadfast and heroic while under attack,” she says. “Putin’s proven himself quite capable of twisting truths and reorganising the narrative in a way that might seem logically unsound but resonates nonetheless. It’s not his first rodeo or Russia’s with propaganda.”
In terms of how the war evolves, she expects the fighting to drag on through the northern summer, over modest patches of territory that might change hands back and forth, with small villages and towns destroyed in the process and Russia occasionally bombarding cities to frighten the population and demonstrate force. On the political side, she sees no real incentive for either side to compromise.
Ukraine has several advantages, Konaev says. It can move weaponry to the front lines faster than the Russians, even though what they need is coming from outside the country on the western flank. They have the benefit of internal supply lines and, with the help of Western backers, can gather good intel to avoid, prevent and retaliate against attacks.
Additionally, Russia thus far has suffered from a regimented top-down style of command that does not allow leadership on the ground to be flexible. “The Ukrainians strike as the situation unfolds on the ground as opposed to what they expect it to be,” Konaev says.
Yet it would be a tremendous challenge to push Russian forces completely out of Ukraine, including Crimea, which it has occupied since 2014, and the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia has airpower and favourable positions in the east. It also has math on its side: 900,000 active personnel and two million reservists. In contrast, Ukraine’s entire standing army, consisting of active-duty troops and reservists, numbers less than 300,000 (not counting the civilians who have joined the war effort). Russian forces will expand even more if Putin declares a mass mobilisation, although newcomers will need time to become combat-ready.
While Ukraine is receiving weaponry that gives them the ability to attack tanks and supply lines, like howitzers and drones with intelligence gathering radar systems, the survivability of equipment is important, too. “It’s not clear if they have enough parts and skills to maintain them as they wear down,” Konaev says.
But six months from now, “who knows where we will be,” she adds. “We’ve continued to be surprised by the incompetence of the Russian military and the defences of the Ukrainians.”
‘A long way from winning militarily’
-Tracey German, professor of conflict and security at King’s College, London
German noted that there is a big difference between a military and a political victory. One can win on the battlefields but not politically. “And they’re a long way from winning militarily.”
For that reason, she believes, the Russians have made great fanfare domestically about “liberating” Mariupol, the strategic port that has been levelled by the worst carnage of the war. Putin’s rationale for invading was to free Ukrainians from a “genocidal” government and restore them to Mother Russia. For sure, controlling this strategic port would curtail Ukraine’s industrial and agricultural exports, and help Russia create a land bridge between the separatist regions and Crimea. It also scores a propaganda win. Another pretext for the war was to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, and the city’s defence has included the members of the far-right Azov battalion.
But “liberation” from what? The bombardment of a city that, as of today, is still putting up resistance has shattered 90 percent of its buildings and left 20,000 dead. More than three-quarters of the 450,000 residents have fled. Those who remain struggle to find food, water, heat and electricity.
“What’s interesting is that the Russians were keen to make a big song and dance about something,” German notes.
The new offensive has gone so badly that she finds it hard to speculate what a victory for Putin could look like. The point of refocusing to the east and south was to solidify and gain more territory to encircle Ukraine from all sides. “Whether any of this is feasible right now, who knows,” she says.
Her gut is that Putin will manage to cling to power, even as sanctions begin to bite in a few months and if he calls an unpopular mass military mobilisation to plump up depleting forces. Putin has surrounded himself with loyalists who fear him and are as paranoid about threats to both him as a leader and to the regime more broadly. They buy into his conviction that a demonic West wants to break up the country, which makes a palace coup unlikely, she believes. “I think Putin is aware, if you look back at Soviet imperial history, that there’s a long history of leaders dying in office.”
A war of attrition that will last ‘as long as Putin is in place’
-Mathieu Boulege, senior research fellow at the Chatham House think tank in London
Boulege believes that, after initially receiving poor intelligence, Putin is finally cognisant that his forces are overstretched. He now knows that all in all, there is only so much his military can achieve. But he cannot be seen to be looking desperate.
“Putin will not admit defeat. The Kremlin will not compromise,” Boulege says. “Right before May 9 there will be a big moment for Putin to say, mission accomplished, this is my version of history. This is my legacy. It needs to be presented as a mission accomplished. Forget about taking over Kyiv. We’ve flattened Mariupol, we’ve liberated more parts of Donbas. Maybe they will announce a republic in Kherson [a city in the south that has been under Russian occupation since March].”
Going forward, he predicts a war of attrition that will last “as long as Putin is in place.” Boulege points out that much is unknown about his state of mind, and how far he is prepared to take down the country with him.
“He’s a spent 70-year-old Russian man,” Boulege says. “There might be something that we don’t know about his mental or physical health. This is about the hubris of a man who wants to make a stand, have a legacy. And it happens to be in Ukraine.”
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== Important notice ==
2 new languages are now available, Korean and Brazilian-Portuguese. Everhood community has been doing great so far, helping us with new languages, custom battles, fan arts, bugs hunting, wiki pages, and feedback; We would like to take the opportunity to send you all a big thank you for this great collaborative effort.
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- Added some invisible walls in the obstacle course.
- Some dialogues were adjusted in the waiting room.
- Some collisions enlarged in Prof Orange's room.
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- Shopkeeper death screen effect fixed.
- Tooltip is changed to Tip.
- Minor localization issues in the main menu adjusted.
- Junkyard collisions adjusted.
- Lore text adjusted in Gold Pig's temple.
- Credits updated.
- Russian fan translation updated.
- Japanese translation updated.
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What you need to know
- Apple silicon has a new type of data vulnerability.
- University researchers have found the world's first "Data Memory-Dependent Prefetcher (DMP) vulnerability" dubbed 'Augury'.
- It can let attackers access "at rest" data on chips like the M1 and A14 processors.
A new report from university researchers indicates Apple silicon has an exclusive new type of vulnerability that could make it vulnerable to attackers.
The research comes from a team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Washington, who have revealed a so-called a Data Memory-Dependent Prefetcher (DMP) vulnerability they've named 'augury'.
As explained by our friends at Tom's Hardware:
Augury takes advantage of Apple Silicon's DMP feature. This prefetcher aims to improve system performance by being aware of the entire memory content, which allows it to improve system performance by pre-fetching data before it's needed. Usually, memory access is limited and compartmentalized in order to increase system security, but Apple's DMP prefetch can overshoot the set of memory pointers, allowing it to access and attempt a prefetch of unrelated memory addresses up to its prefetch depth.
The upshot is that it could allow attackers to access "at rest" data that doesn't have to be accessed by the processing cores in order to be seen. As TH explains, that could mean "Apple's DMP can potentially leak the entire memory content even if it's not being actively accessed."
Affected devices include Apple's A14 chip that powers the iPad Air and iPhone 12, as well as Apple's M1 and M1 Max chips. The researchers speculate that M1 Pro and Ultra are also vulnerable, but they haven't been able to demonstrate this year.
Thankfully, Apple is fully aware of the discoveries and is hopefully working on a fix for the problem. Reassuringly, the researchers say the issue is "right now not that bad."
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Brandi Carlile Sings ‘Love Can Build a Bridge’ in Beautiful Tribute to Naomi Judd
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Brandi Carlile paid tribute to Naomi Judd , and sent a message of love to the late singer’s family, with a touching cover of The Judds ‘ “Love Can Build a Bridge.”
Naomi Judd passed away on Saturday (April 30) at 76. Her daughters first announced her death with a statement that said they had “lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness.” “We are shattered,” Wynonna and Ashley Judd said, according to The Associated Press . “We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public.”
On Sunday, Carlile wrote on Instagram that she had been scheduled to sing to The Judds that night (May 1), for the duo’s induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame . Instead, Carlile ended up singing for the Judd family virtually, from her yard, as she is currently recovering from COVID-19 at home; she canceled her set at this weekend’s Stagecoach festival.
“Having a bittersweet Sunday afternoon at home with my daughters today and praying for @wynonnajudd and @ashley_judd,” the singer-songwriter said in a post about Judd’s death, which was accompanied by a video of her performing the beloved duo’s early ’90s single “Love Can Build a Bridge” with her own daughter singing along nearby. “We know they woke up to a world without their mom today. We want them to know that they’re so loved and that they’ve given a language to not just mothers and daughters everywhere but that every family can learn something about love from @thejuddsofficial.”
Carlile continued, “They were my first, second and third concert in my life and they’ve given me more than they could possibly understand.”
“Tonight they will be Inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame and I was supposed to sing them this song tonight,” she wrote. “Let’s send them every bit of love and gratitude that they deserve.”
Naomi and Wynonna Judd recently performed “Love Can Build a Bridge” — which was a top five hit on Billboard ‘s Hot Country Songs chart — together at the 2022 CMT Music Awards. They were accompanied by a gospel choir.
Watch Carlile’s emotional performance of the song below. See more tributes to Judd here .
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One of Taiwan’s most beautiful roads has reopened
By Wayne Chang, CNN
Taiwan’s Southern Cross-Island Highway has reopened to the public following a 13-year closure.
The alpine highway, which was popular with tourists as well as locals due to its route through rural, scenic parts of the island, was devastated by a typhoon in 2009. More than 90% of the road was damaged and 22 bridges were washed away.
The 154 km (96-mile) long highway, which links Tainan City in southwest Taiwan with Taitung City on the southeast, cuts through Taiwan’s Yushan National Park — home to the island’s highest peak, Jade Mountain — and meanders through the imposing Central Mountain Range.
Along the way, drivers pass river gorges and alpine lakes, as well as hot springs, hiking trails and gigantic cypress woods.
The highest point is Yakou, at 2722 meters (8,930 feet) above sea level. The scenic “sea of clouds” there has long been popular with photographers.
More than 5,800 vehicles entered the highway on the first day of opening, according to Taiwan’s Directorate General of Highways, which oversees all roads on the island.
That is good news for the visitor-deprived island, which has lost out on tourist revenue during the Covid-19 pandemic.
While Taiwan has eased entry restrictions over the last two months and cut home or hotel quarantine from 10 days to seven days, effective May 9, leisure tourists are still unable to visit. This has made domestic travel even more vital for local tourism.
The highway reopened to car and motorbike traffic on May 1, just in time for the busy Labor Day holiday weekend, when many Taiwanese travel locally.
The reopening has been a long time coming.
Early on, rebuilt sections were wiped away after typhoons or heavy rain, sending engineers back to the drawing board.
Ultimately, engineers dredged deep into the rock beds, built retaining walls from more than 120 shipping containers, installed drainage pipes and increased vegetation on slopes to curb landslides and erosion of the road beds.
In addition, parts of the highway are so narrow that large construction equipment couldn’t be used.
At some of the more dangerous alpine sections, construction workers often had to cling from cliffsides with ropes to complete the repairs, including setting nets, spraying cement and securing beams.
“I guess this is what hanging by a thread means,” Lin Wen-lung, a construction contractor told local media in April this year.
Due to the challenging conditions, travelers must abide by some rules.
Popular Yakou will be closed on every Tuesday and Thursday, and motorists are required to enter the section between 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on all other days so as to minimize the impact on nocturnal animals there.
Additionally, only vehicles below 5 metric tons in weight, passenger vehicles with up to nine people and motorcycles are allowed access there.
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Joy and Pain: Navigating Grief
As America marks a million COVID deaths, grief is universal, but still misunderstood.
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With one million dead from COVID, many Americans are suffering through profound grief. And for Black Americans, the pandemic combined with the racial reckoning has made the mourning feel endless. On this week’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson talks with writer Marisa Renee Lee about her new book Grief Is Love: Living With Loss, and about making space for joy in the midst of grief.
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Babington Becomes a Member of The 5% Club
Babington is one of the largest providers of Apprenticeships in the UK, dedicated to developing future skills and talent both within its own organisation and with its clients and learners. It employs over 400 people and delivers apprenticeships and training solutions to more than 3000 employers and 7000 learners every year.
Babington has joined The 5% Club to demonstrate its commitment to providing earn and learn opportunities – offering a range of apprenticeship roles including IT, data, and customer support to new entrants to the business.
Jonathan Gallie, People & Talent Director at Babington, said: “We are proud to become members of The 5% Club – an industry-led initiative that will reinforce our ongoing drive to paid development opportunities across our business, upskilling our people, and creating meaningful careers in an inclusive environment. It will also support our work with employers across the UK, where we advise on learn and earn programmes, devising and delivering talent solutions which include apprenticeships, skills boot camps, and placements.”
Gill Cronin, Operations Director of The 5% Club, said: “I’m delighted to welcome Babington to The 5% Club as our latest member. With nearly 700 companies in our network, our fantastic movement of HR professionals continues to build on its original ethos of those offering earn and learn opportunities sharing and learning from each other. All our members are committed to creating a skilled workforce through ‘earn and learn’ development programmes, helping people develop meaningful career paths.”
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Segmentation – The global Non-Destructive Testing Equipment market is segmented based on product type, end-user, distribution channel, market value & volume, and region. Non-Destructive Testing Equipment Market 2022 brings out a vital outline of the important elements of the industry and the elements such as drivers, restraints, present, and future current trends, administrative scenarios, and growth in terms of technology. Afterward, studying the Non-Destructive Testing Equipment market report, one can tell which are the major segments in the global Non-Destructive Testing Equipment Market?
Geographic Zones – The location of stores will also impact sales, especially in areas that are difficult to reach or have less traffic because the company can control the customer experience to sell more products. The new trends mentioned in the Non-Destructive Testing Equipment market report are increasing sales by country in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. Consumer demand for Non-Destructive Testing Equipment has seen a marked increase in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Subsequently, the report assists you to figure out which region is expected to hold the highest market share in the Non-Destructive Testing Equipment market?
Covid-19 Impact – Before the pandemic and new variant omicron had come, the stock market marked the peak position. In recent years, brands are shifting their production methods to producing masks and hand sanitizers. On the other hand, as the number of vaccinations increases, the situation is expected to be normal. Lifting the lockdown and other restrictions have helped the economy regain growth, including the Non-Destructive Testing Equipment market.
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Non-Destructive Testing Equipment Business Dominant Manufactures:
Manufacturers mentioned in the report have company profiles, product portfolios, capacity, production value, current growth activities, Non-Destructive Testing Equipment market shares of the company, marketing policies, and future anticipations.
Olympus Corporation (Japan)
Magnaflux Corporation (United States)
YXLON International GmbH (Germany)
Nikon Metrology NV (Belgium)
Mistras Group Inc. (United States)
Zetec Inc. (United States)
Eddyfi NDT Inc. (Canada)
Sonatest Ltd. (United Kingdom)
GE Measurement & Control Solutions (United States)
Non-Destructive Testing Equipment Market Segmentation:
The report surveys the presence of the distinctive market segment at global as well as the regional scale that defines the Non-Destructive Testing Equipment market size, demands and growth opportunities, market areas that need to work on.
Global Non-Destructive Testing Equipment Market:
Global non-destructive testing equipment market: by Technology
Ultrasonic Testing (UT)
Radiography Testing (RT)
Electromagnetic Testing (ET)
Visual Testing (VT)
Other
Global non-destructive testing equipment market: by End Use Industry
Power Generation
Oil & Gas
Aerospace and Defense
Automotive
Others
Global non-destructive testing equipment market: by Geography
Non-Destructive Testing Equipment Market Research Scope:
Forecast Period: 2022-2031
Actual Year: 2021
Historical Data Available for: 2015-2020
Geographical Zones Covered For Non-Destructive Testing Equipment Market:
The location of stores will also impact sales, especially in areas that are difficult to reach or have less traffic because the company can control the customer experience to sell more products.
Region 1: North America( US, Canada)
Region 2: Europe( Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Rest of Europe)
Region 3: Asia Pacific( China, Japan, South Korea, India, Rest of Asia Pacific)
Region 4: Latin America( Brazil, Mexico, Rest of Latin America)
Region 5: Middle East & Africa ( GCC, South Africa, Israel, Rest of MEA)
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2022: Making business performance a priority
One year in as MD, Emile Burger unpacks growth during a pandemic and some key technology trends that are shaping the future of Micro Focus in South Africa.
In the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, Emile Burger became the Managing Director of Micro Focus South Africa. Taking the local reins of one of the world’s largest software providers during a once-in-a-century crisis is not for the faint-hearted, but Burger saw potential far beyond COVID-19. “A great opportunity at a great company is something I believe everyone enjoys,” he says. “In my career I’ve worked on the customer side, partner side and distribution. This was a great opportunity to round the picture and join the OEM side.” Even though Burger’s new position was far from the reality he was once familiar with early on in his career, the Micro Focus team was incredibly supportive. “The way we embed and engage has changed forever,” says Burger. “Overall, I feel blessed. I had what I call pivot people – leaders in the organisation that are part of the South Africa-based group that sit in global roles, gave me great support. People like Gary de Menezes, Allyson Towle and Kobus Robinson.”
Burger adds that making business performance a priority helped to make his first year a success. "There is obviously great potential in Micro Focus, given the scope we have to increase market awareness, knowledge and appreciation. But it does also present a challenge – we often start conversations explaining what Micro Focus is before we even start understanding what the customer needs. That does make the solution cycle a longer one, but we are starting to make headway.”
Burger pinpoints six key trends that are driving Micro Focus going forward:
A renewed focus on SaaS: As a company, we’ve expanded the availability of our solutions into SaaS in the application delivery management and IT operations management arena.
Cloud platforms: We remain the market leader for the modernisation of customers’ core business systems. We have big projects under way with big financial services players in South Africa.
Automation: What makes Micro Focus unique is that we have automation as part of all our solutions sets. That gives the technology an advantage – not looking at automation as an afterthought, but as primary while using the technology.
Working global: All of our solutions run from anywhere, link in anywhere and allow for working from anywhere. It is a design philosophy that has been part of Micro Focus’ fabric for many years.
Fit for purpose: We did not just look at the big and expansive technologies, but also at those that are suitable to customer-specific environments:
- OpsBridge Express (SiteScope), for example, is designed to monitor environments that are smaller or neglected or newly constructed like APIs.
- Micro Focus Data Centre Automation ensures perfection in patching across all platforms and capabilities – avoiding downtime and compliance gaps, backup and recovery with immutability.
- Micro Focus Hybrid Cloud Management X optimally manages cloud consumption and cost.
- Micro Focus Universal CMDB maps service uptime.
Total experience focus: We’ve worked hard at ensuring that our technologies integrate into a value offering and seamless interfaces. For example, in our IT Operations and Management portfolio, from any device to any end point, we integrate to give a single view. That wasn’t always easy and some hardware OEMs had challenges, but no great victory comes without great effort.
Going into 2022 and beyond, Burger’s focus as the MD will be dedicated to Micro Focus customers: “Trying to really understand customer pain points and new business growth trends, to see if our technology can play a role in making that easier. And try and assist with that journey to success,” he says. “I believe in our team; I believe in our partners and most of all I believe in our customers – both current and future.” | https://www.itweb.co.za/content/raYAyqornZGMJ38N | 2022-05-06T10:52:52Z | https://www.itweb.co.za/content/raYAyqornZGMJ38N | true | 1 |
Malcolm MacDonald has been living for six years with his penis attached to his arm.
The Norfolk resident, 47, shared his story on Britain’s Channel 4 documentary ‘The Man With a Penis on His Arm’ about how he came to be in the predicament after he had his appendage amputated in 2014 due to a blood infection which caused it to rot.
According to the Daily Mail, doctors told MacDonald he could have a new penis grafted from the skin on his arm in a £50 000 (about R950 000) NHS-funded operation.
But a lack of oxygen in his blood during surgery meant doctors had to abort midway and temporarily attached the penis to his left arm.
Hospital delays and the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic, meant MacDonald spent six years with it stuck to his arm – meaning he couldn’t pass urine or get an erection.
That was the least of his problems.
“I f****** slap myself in the eye with it, it's a dead weight, when you cuddle your nan at Christmas you hit her in the eye,” he told documentary makers.
MacDonald also added, “I went to Waitrose, there was an old lady that needed some help it fell out of the bandage and fell out on her head, I could have given her a heart attack, mate.”
Thankfully, the burden of having his penis attached to his arm has come to an end.
After a nine-hour procedure last year, MacDonald finally has his penis back where it belongs.
“This could be a turning point in my life,” he told Channel 4.
“Can you imagine six years of your life with a penis swinging on your arm? It's been a nightmare, but it's gone now – the little bugger,” he concluded. | https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/health/watch-british-man-describes-pain-and-embarrassment-of-having-penis-attached-to-his-arm-for-6-years-b9d9b6d2-ee20-4000-aab0-896336029c31 | 2022-05-06T10:53:34Z | https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/health/watch-british-man-describes-pain-and-embarrassment-of-having-penis-attached-to-his-arm-for-6-years-b9d9b6d2-ee20-4000-aab0-896336029c31 | false | 1 |
Eurovision organisers ‘appalled’ at online abuse targeting artists and crew ahead of 2022 contest
Statement was issued to remind fans that the event’s artists, crew and volunteers should be able to work ‘without targeted abuse, threats or harassment’
A statement has been issued on behalf of the Eurovision Song Contest condeming the “serious levels of online abuse” that have apparently been aimed at those organising the event.
Rehearsals are well underway for the annual international singing contest, whch is taking place this year in Turin, Italy.
However, the contest has run into difficulties over staging for the 2022 event, due to a giant kinetic sun prop that isn’t working.
The prop will now be in place for every performance during the semi-finals and grand final “out of fairness” to all of the contestants, which some fans appear to have taken issue with on social media.
“We strongly condemn all forms of discrimination and are appalled by the serious levels of online abuse that has been directed at those working hard on producing this year’s show including via their personal accounts,” Eurovision’s statement said.
“Anyone crossing the line into abusive behaviour will be blocked immediately and reported, and in serious cases we will work with our social media partners across all platforms to report those individuals to relevant local authorities.”
The statement continued: “We understand the passion and love for the Eurovision Song Contest runs deep, and the EBU [Eurovision Broadcasting Union] encourages freedom of speech, but our artists, crew and volunteers should be able to carry out their work without targeted abuse, threats or harassment.”
It concluded with a reminder of the Eurovision values, including “inclusivity, universality and diversity through music”.
“We would urge our online followers, and fans of the artists taking part in this year’s competition, to respect those values and all those taking part in the event and discuss this year’s show in a civilised and respectful way,” organisers said.
Eurovision 2022 officially kicks off next week with the semi-finals on 10 and 12 May, building to the grand final on Saturday 14 May.
This year, the UK is being represented by singer-songwriter Sam Ryder, who rose to fame with viral covers of hit songs on TikTok. He will be singing the original song “Space Man”.
Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s contest here, along with the latest odds on favourites to win here.
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A new study has found that the Omicron variant of coronavirus is as serious as earlier variants, contradicting the popular belief that while Omicron is more transmissible than earlier variants, it is not as severe.
The study, conducted in the United States, suggests that it was not Omicron’s lack of severity that caused relatively fewer cases of severe disease and deaths, but the effect of increased vaccination rollout.
Experts have said that this highlights the importance of vaccines, as increased vaccination has been shown to be effective in reducing severe disease and mortality even from Omicron, more transmissible than earlier strains and as severe as them.
Here is all you need to know about the study, its significance, and how it adds to our understanding of Covid-19.
What are research findings?
The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, uploaded on the pre-print repository Research Square, adjusted the linked state-level vaccination data with electronic health records from a large healthcare system, including 13 hospitals, in America’s Massachusetts state. The researchers studied over 1,30,000 Covid-19 patients.
It found that when looked at in isolation from the vaccination’s effect, Omicron appears to be less severe, but the case changes when increased vaccination is taken into account.
However, after adjusting hospitalisations and deaths for factors such as various demographics, comorbidity, and vaccination status, the study found that risks of hospitalisation and deaths were nearly identical between earlier variants’ waves and the Omicron-drive wave.
What is the study’s significance?
Firstly, the study, which is under review by Nature journal, dismisses the belief that Omicron is less severe. It therefore comes as a sign that healthcare systems as well as people should not let their guard down.
Secondly, the study highlights that infections and deaths cannot be looked at in isolation. They have to be looked at in the broader context of vaccination status, the availability of treatment options. By the time Omicron swept the area covered in the study, vaccination had picked up and better treatments had become available to people.
Dr Arjun Venkatesh of Yale School of Medicine told Reuters that if treatments like monoclonal antibodies and antiviral drugs that are known to reduce hospitalisations were not available at the time of Omicron wave, it’s possible that Omicron could have been much worse than earlier waves.
The study therefore highlights that one cannot skip vaccines or boosters thinking that deadly variants are a thing of past and current variants are mild. Omicron is mild because of the cumulative effect of vaccines and available treatments, not because of its lack of severity.
How does it add to understanding of Covid-19?
It has been said that variants and sub-variants of coronavirus are getting milder with time. The study counters the argument.
Lately, new sub-variants of Omicron have been discovered that are much more transmissible than earlier strains of Omicron and previous variants. As per the study, these variants – which are already driving surges in infections in South Africa and the United States – are not just more transmissible but also as severe as previous variants.
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Counting is underway in the Northern Ireland Assembly elections.
Polls closed last night at 10pm with a total of 239 candidates running in 18 constituencies across Northern Ireland.
Sixteen candidates will contest the election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
The nominations are as follows:
Derek Backhouse - Independent
Rosemary Barton - Ulster Unionist Party
Matthew Beaumont - Alliance Party
Paul Bell - Democratic Unionist Party
Emma DeSouza - Independent
Jemma Dolan - Sinn Féin
Alex Elliott - Traditional Unionist Voice
Tom Elliott - Ulster Unionist Party
Deborah Erskine - Democratic Unionist Party
Adam Gannon - Social Democratic and Labour Party
Colm Gildernew - Sinn Féin
Emmett Kilpatrick - People Before Profit
Denise Mullen - Aontú
Áine Murphy - Sinn Féin
Kellie Turtle - Green Party
Dónal Ó Cofaigh - Cross Community Labour Alliance
Five candidates will be elected, with voters using the single transferable vote (STV) form of proportional representation.
Candidates will then have to get over a quota of votes. If any candidate surpasses the quota they are deemed elected while the candidate with the fewest votes are then knocked out, with their votes transferred to other candidates based on the preferences given to them by candidates.
While the official final turnout figure will not be known until later today the Electoral Office said the indicative turnout at 9pm last night, an hour before the polls closed, was 54%. Turnout was 64% in the last Assembly election in 2017.
The verification of votes at Magherafelt began at 8am with the first results expected around lunchtime.
The final results could be known by the end of Friday but it is possible that counting could pause overnight and resume on Saturday morning.
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Fox Run Management L.L.C. purchased a new position in shares of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:RNR – Get Rating) in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm purchased 1,200 shares of the insurance provider’s stock, valued at approximately $203,000.
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. KBC Group NV increased its holdings in shares of RenaissanceRe by 97.4% during the 3rd quarter. KBC Group NV now owns 96,028 shares of the insurance provider’s stock worth $13,386,000 after buying an additional 47,375 shares during the last quarter. Balyasny Asset Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of RenaissanceRe during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $9,054,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its holdings in shares of RenaissanceRe by 15.4% during the 3rd quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 91,825 shares of the insurance provider’s stock worth $12,800,000 after buying an additional 12,248 shares during the last quarter. Earnest Partners LLC increased its holdings in shares of RenaissanceRe by 0.5% during the 4th quarter. Earnest Partners LLC now owns 342,749 shares of the insurance provider’s stock worth $58,038,000 after buying an additional 1,719 shares during the last quarter. Finally, abrdn plc increased its holdings in shares of RenaissanceRe by 1.9% during the 4th quarter. abrdn plc now owns 6,295 shares of the insurance provider’s stock worth $1,066,000 after buying an additional 120 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.18% of the company’s stock.
RenaissanceRe stock opened at $146.29 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20, a quick ratio of 1.45 and a current ratio of 1.45. RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. has a fifty-two week low of $134.70 and a fifty-two week high of $174.54. The company has a market capitalization of $6.46 billion, a PE ratio of -30.16 and a beta of 0.58. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $150.04 and a 200 day moving average price of $156.43.
A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on RNR. StockNews.com began coverage on shares of RenaissanceRe in a report on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “hold” rating for the company. TheStreet downgraded shares of RenaissanceRe from a “b-” rating to a “c” rating in a report on Thursday, March 10th. Finally, Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on shares of RenaissanceRe from $172.00 to $175.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 23rd. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, RenaissanceRe presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $177.80.
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In the spring of 2020, Ben Verlander was like a lot of people. The world was on lockdown, and he was spending a ton of time at home, playing video games.
Before we go deeper into the story, here are a few things you should know about Ben Verlander: He is nine years younger than his famous brother, Justin. The Tigers drafted him in the 14th round of the 2013 draft out of Old Dominion, where he hit .367 with 11 home runs in 2013. The younger Verlander dreamed of making the major leagues as an outfielder. But he never advanced past High A and finished his minor-league career with a combined average of .225. When his playing days ended after the 2017 season, he moved back home to Virginia.
And one day during the early stages of the pandemic, a roommate gave him a simple suggestion: “Hey, you should get on Twitch.” That’s when a whole new story began.
Verlander didn’t know what Twitch was. But soon he joined the interactive livestreaming service, and his gaming — particularly “MLB: The Show” — became something for all to see. Verlander had a few things going for him: He was really good at the game, he had a last name associated with baseball and he had a personality that resonated with an online audience. Soon his following started growing. He’s now up to 9,800 followers on Twitch.
Verlander, though, could not have guessed how all this would become relevant only a few months later.
Mike Bucklin, senior vice president of digital content at Fox Sports, was looking to add baseball talent. The idea was to find someone upbeat and energetic to fill a multimedia role.
If you want to stereotype traditional baseball media, you can divide the space into four categories: cynical local beat writers, national reporters locked in on transactions, stat-heads posting numbers the casual fan doesn’t understand and former players who rail about how the game was better in the old days. Bucklin was looking for something different. Something new.
One day, he got a call from Verlander’s agent, David Koonin. The conversation went something like this:
“Hey, I got a guy for you. He’s kind of interesting. He doesn’t have a lot of tape yet. You might have to take a bet on him. He’s gonna be in L.A. next week. His name is Ben Verlander. He’s Justin’s brother. But I think he’s really damn good. This isn’t some sort of, ‘Do it for his brother.’ He’s really good.”
Bucklin was intrigued but also skeptical. He hears these sorts of things all the time and goes through plenty of meetings that usually aren’t all that serious. But soon Bucklin heard from a friend in Brian Marshall, another Virginia native and brother of former MLB pitcher Sean Marshall. Brian Marshall knew Verlander was coming to Los Angeles to interview and wanted to put in a good word.
“He goes, ‘There’s something about him,’” Bucklin said. “‘I don’t know how to describe it, but he’s got this infectious personality. I think you guys are gonna get along.’”
Suddenly, Bucklin grew more interested. He called on the research department at Fox to take a closer look at Verlander and his online presence. Verlander was already all over social media, doing on-camera work. The Twitch stream was his biggest draw.
Bucklin knew all this when he met Verlander at a hotel in Marina Del Rey sometime in the summer of 2020. But what happened in that interview really made clear Verlander was different from anyone else Bucklin would find.
“He goes, ‘I just love baseball. This is crazy, but look at this,’” Bucklin said. “He just picks up his arm, and the entire arm is covered in goosebumps.”
Bucklin immediately thought: This guy is either a great actor, or he’s really in love with the game.
For more than an hour, Bucklin and Verlander talked about the sport. And almost immediately after, Bucklin called Verlander’s agent to tell him how well the meeting went.
“He goes, ‘Well, you need to make a decision because I think he’s either looking at doing ‘The Bachelor’ or doing something in baseball,’” Bucklin said. “I was like … OK.”
By that fall, Verlander was working with Fox, hosting a live interactive watch party for the 2020 World Series with the likes of Rick Ankiel, Tino Martinez and Nick Swisher. It was supposed to be fun and casual, but Verlander brought something different to the table.
“You had some guys with rings in the room, but then you had Ben as the energy,” Bucklin said. “We called him BPG. Big Positivity Guy. He just was positive and energetic and he did a great job. After that we were like, ‘We got to bring this guy on full time.’”
Verlander’s role at Fox Sports started small, with no real blueprint. “I didn’t really know what it entailed, and I don’t think they really knew exactly what it would be either,” Verlander said in a phone conversation this week.
Verlander’s bosses wanted him to do a little writing, a little video, a little audio. Much of it was working backward: taking Verlander’s passion and figuring out how to convey it to the audience. That came with some learning. Verlander, for instance, had never really written an article before. He turned in a preview of the Dodgers-Rays World Series with the story constructed more like a five-paragraph essay from an English class.
“There was an introduction, a body and a conclusion,” Verlander said. “The editor reached out and was like, ‘Good material, we’ll have to work on this a little bit.’”
But it did not take long for Verlander to start crafting his own niche. He wanted his content to mirror how he feels about the game, the sort of fervor that fuels the NBA’s hype machine or the NFL’s obsessive fan base. For Verlander, that meant harnessing energy and enthusiasm. That meant highlighting the most exciting parts of a sport too often criticized for excessive strikeouts and not enough action. It meant sharing all the reasons baseball can indeed be cool.
“I think for a long time baseball was in the dark ages in terms of how it was portrayed, how it was talked about,” Verlander said. “You start looking around other sports and you see players playing with passion and it’s fun and they’re showing energy and people talk about it. For a while, the game of baseball wasn’t like that. There was no energy, there were no bat flips, you put your head down when you succeed and go about your business the ‘right’ way. But now that’s becoming a thing of the past. It’s not doing something the ‘right’ way. It’s just having fun, playing a game.”
Verlander worked with a team at Fox to settle on a name for an upstart podcast. And as he thought about all the young players he loves to watch — think a host of “juniors” such as Fernando Tatis, Ronald Acuña and Vladimir Guerrero — a theme became apparent. They ended up deciding on a fitting name: Flippin’ Bats with Ben Verlander.
“Yes, the product out on the field is good, but for a while there just weren’t guys who were vocal about it, who were outspoken about it, who were outspoken about making the game fun,” Verlander said. “Now there are, and there’s a little bit of a shift, and you can see that throughout all levels. You go down to watch a Little League game now and they’re wearing the vibrant arm sleeves and they’re flipping their bats. It’s starting to trickle down, and you can see it and you can feel it, and that’s gonna make a difference for a long time to come.”
Early on, Verlander would start talking to Bucklin about Mike Trout and how Trout is like the LeBron James of baseball, only not enough people realize it. He would almost get angry.
“There’s so many players playing in baseball right now that are playing with energy and playing with passion, doing their part to grow the game,” Verlander said, “and it’s time for the people who talk about it to grow the game as well.”
In a relatively short time since, Verlander’s podcast — which is available in both audio and video formats — and overall media presence have taken on a life of their own.
When Trout was injured for most of last season, Verlander quickly latched onto the game’s other most incredible player: Shohei Ohtani.
Verlander now has an entire weekly segment devoted to Ohtani updates and talk. It has made him wildly popular among Japanese fans — Flippin’ Bats ranked among the most popular baseball podcasts in Japan. Once only weekly, Flippin’ Bats now produces three episodes per week.
Verlander’s audience also continues to grow on Twitter, where he’s constantly posting highlights, complete with capital letters, emojis and a general sense of excitement. It can seem contrived until you realize it never stops. Verlander brings the energy of an avid fan backed by the credibility of someone who has played at the professional level.
“I think the first time you’re around him you’re like, ‘Is this real?’” Bucklin said. “And the second time you’re around him you’re like, ‘Is this real?’ And then the third time you’re like, ‘Oh, this is definitely real.’”
Shohei Ohtani just hit a 400 foot SINGLE!! 😂😂😂
— Ben Verlander (@BenVerlander) May 5, 2022
“All the capital letters, the emojis, that’s what I’m doing in real life when I’m watching,” Verlander said. “I get excited. I get pumped up when something is going on, and that’s just my genuine, raw emotion coming out as best it can in a text format.”
In the online world, too many people get rewarded for simply being loud. Verlander is becoming a growing voice not so much because of his volume but because of his sheer enthusiasm about baseball.
“In preseason, there was a lot of negativity around the sport,” Bucklin said. “It’s easy if you say something nasty or you take a shot, you get that instant reward of a few retweets. And it’s just like … from our perspective, it’s just not needed. We don’t need more of that. We need people who love the game, who give you a reason to watch, who give you a rooting interest, who get you excited about the storylines, and Ben has that.”
It’s easy, too, to get the wrong idea, to think Verlander only got his platform because of his last name. In truth, being the brother of a future Hall of Famer who is married to a famous supermodel cannot hurt. This offseason, Verlander “broke” the news of his brother’s resigning with the Houston Astros via a tweet that was liked more than 11,500 times.
Those things might have helped boost his brand, but Verlander’s content, substance and vibe have made his burgeoning media career a success.
“It’s not like his brother every day or Kate (Upton) every day is like, ‘Hey everyone, go look at this podcast,’” Bucklin said. “He’s definitely done it on his own, and we’re all really proud of him for that.”
Bucklin said Fox initially viewed Verlander’s hire as a three-year process. It takes time to gain audience awareness, to build a brand, to become a voice. But in short order, the younger Verlander is having a big impact on the game in his own right.
“I don’t think we’ve seen half of what he’s gonna bring to the table yet,” Bucklin said.
For Verlander, it has been a quick rise and a thrilling journey. He might not be playing in the major leagues, but he’s fulfilling a dream anyway.
He could even be helping the entire sport.
“It became apparent when I was done playing that I wasn’t done with the game of baseball,” Verlander said. “My true calling in life was to be elsewhere and be able to talk about it, and I hope that shows.”
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DEERFIELD, Ill. — In the first six years of the WNBA, there was a four-peat and a back-to-back. But since the Houston Comets tipped things off with four titles and the Los Angeles Sparks followed with titles in 2001 and 2002, there hasn’t been a repeat winner of the WNBA Finals.
There have been a number of teams who have won titles every other year, most recently with the Minnesota Lynx (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) and the Seattle Storm (2018, 2020), modern dynasties if you will. The Sky’s title defense starts at home Friday night against the Los Angeles Sparks. What makes the Sky think they have what it takes to repeat?
“Maybe what’s unique about us is that first year wasn’t like necessarily a championship regular season,” veteran guard Allie Quigley said. “So we didn’t really play at a high level the entire year. So we just have to do it one out of the two years, but still obviously play at a high level the entire playoff run.”
The Sky’s 16-16 record in 2021 was really an outlier. In the previous 10 years, the worst regular-season record by a WNBA champion was 22-12 from the Indiana Fever in 2012 and the Minnesota Lynx in 2015. The only other season the Sky made the finals was in 2014 when they went 15-19. Courtney Vandersloot said one of the Sky’s goals should be “to put together a full season and be a championship-caliber team for more than just a month.”
“We haven’t really put together a complete season,” said Vandersloot, who was drafted by the Sky in 2011, two years before her now-wife Quigley joined the team. “You know, when we’ve had good regular seasons, we have poor playoff seasons and vice versa. So I think that’s our motivation right now, just being able to prove that it wasn’t a fluke and that we didn’t get quote-unquote lucky — which I don’t know if anybody feels that way. We don’t feel that way. We feel like we worked really hard and we deserved it.”
Of course, the Sky were 15-8 when Candace Parker played and just 1-8 when she was out. Parker had a team-high 19 points in the Sky’s season-opening win over the Mystics on May 15. Then she was put on the shelf with a left ankle sprain. Though the Sky won their first game without her, they then lost seven straight. When Parker returned June 9, they won seven in a row. As it turns out, Candace Parker makes a difference.
Like other teams, the Sky had massive cuts before the season tips Friday. They lost key players in free agency like Diamond DeShields and Stefanie Dolson.
Though the Sky are still missing players competing in Europe, Quigley and Vandersloot have been home since early March after leaving Russia following the detention of their UMMC Ekaterinburg teammate Brittney Griner and the suspension of their team from the EuroLeague after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
As Vandersloot noted, this is the first training camp she’s been to since she was a rookie with the Sky in 2011. (The Sky are waiting on the return of major contributors like WNBA Finals MVP Kahleah Copper, who is still playing in Spain, and newcomer Julie Allemand, who is playing in France. Rookie Rebekah Gardner is also still playing in Spain.)
For Vandersloot and Quigley, veterans in their 30s, they appreciated the unexpected break, but at the same time, the routine they’re used to has changed. “It’s almost like a blessing and a curse because we’ve never had to really build up for a season before,” Vandersloot said. “We just continued into the next season. So that has been a little bit of a challenge for both of us.”
With that in mind, Quigley was ruled out of the opener for “precautionary reasons” by coach James Wade on Thursday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
There are a number of reasons WNBA teams specifically don’t repeat — players going year-round to make money, a hard salary cap, etc. — but it’s not like you’re seeing a lot of repetition in any American sports leagues. As former Cubs president Theo Epstein used to say, “The main reason it’s hard (to repeat) is because it’s so hard to win one. There’s only one team in the position to repeat each year.”
In Chicago, the last team to repeat as champions practiced just down the road in Deerfield. But of course, the Sky are hopeful as the season tips off.
“I just have it in my mind that we were 16 and 16,” Quigley said. “And we went on this crazy amazing run. But I think we all want more.”
No offense to Elena Delle Donne or any old Chicago Bears who might work out there, but Parker is probably the biggest star to walk through the doors of the Sachs Center in Deerfield since Michael Jordan’s last practice there when it was the Deerfield Multiplex.
It’s almost jarring to see her walking around the park district facility, but there she was Tuesday, going from station to station, doing interviews and taking pictures and getting ready for her 15th WNBA season. It’s the second year of a two-year deal. Is this her final WNBA season?
“I’ve always been on a moment-to-moment (plan),” she said. “I want my heart to be in it and I know how much energy and effort, and how much sacrifice from a family standpoint as well, that goes into playing. And I just want to make sure that I’m mentally and physically ready for every season. Because one thing I will say from the get-go, I will never cheat the game of basketball. I won’t cheat it. It’s done so many positive things for me, and it’s taken me to so many places and given me relationships and memories and all of those things. So I will never cheat the game. And I think every year I have to ask myself if I’m willing to sacrifice for it.”
Parker averaged 13.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 4 assists in 26.7 minutes per game over 23 regular-season games last season and 13.8 points, 8.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 10 playoff games, while averaging 32.4 minutes.
Vandersloot turned 33 in February, and she doesn’t plan to quit playing any time soon. But would she be interested in following the WNBA point guard path to an NBA coaching job one day?
“No, I don’t think so,” she said. “That’s not something I’m interested in. I would more be interested in maybe a front office, GM-type position. But eventually, I would always end up back in the WNBA.”
Former San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon was always a hot name bandied about for a trailblazing head coaching job in the NBA. But she’s back in the WNBA now, having just taken over as the coach of the Las Vegas Aces. In that regard, Vandersloot could see herself following that path.
“I’m invested, I want (the WNBA) to grow,” she said. “And I think the NBA is an awesome learning experience, I would never turn down an experience like that, but to then bring (that knowledge) back.”
The Sky waived eight players in the two days before the opener, most notably Kaela Davis, the 10th pick of the 2017 WNBA Draft. The daughter of Antonio Davis, she didn’t play in the league last season after three seasons with the Dallas Wings and one with the Atlanta Dream in the “Wubble.” The Sun-Times reported Thursday she is a candidate to return if the Sky get roster exceptions for overseas players.
With a hard salary cap forcing teams’ hands, there were big cuts throughout the league, including the Lynx releasing Layshia Clarendon, Crystal Dangerfield and Yvonne Turner.
“It’s going to be a lot of tough decisions, not just for myself, but for the rest of the GMs, and coaches in this league as well,” said Wade, who’s also the Sky’s GM. “And we’re probably going to have some players that are actually WNBA players that are left without jobs for the moment.”
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Madrid Open: Nadal beats Goffin in thrilling tie-break to enter QF
By ANI | Published: May 6, 2022 04:16 PM2022-05-06T16:16:20+5:302022-05-06T16:25:02+5:30
World no.3 Rafael Nadal beats David Goffin of Belgium 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (11-9) to set up a quarter-final clash with compatriot Carlos Alcaraz.
World No.3 Rafael Nadal beats David Goffin of Belgium 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (11-9) to set up a quarter-final clash with compatriot Carlos Alcaraz.
Playing his second match after a six-week break due to a rib injury. The five-time champions won the first set comfortably.
The 21-time grand slam champion Nadal served for the match at 5-4 in the second set and held a match point before the Belgian clawed his way back to force a decider as he went on to win the second set 7-5.
The third set was a neck-to-neck battle where both the players fought hard to push the set to a tie-breaker. It was Nadal's turn to face match points in the tie-break as he saved four match points of them and prevailed 11-9 to set Carlos Alcaraz clash in the last-8 battle.
This win was Nadal's fifth win in seven matches as he is eyeing his sixth Madrid Open title.
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Parke Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:PKBK – Get Rating) Director Jeffrey H. Kripitz sold 2,500 shares of Parke Bancorp stock in a transaction on Monday, May 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $24.17, for a total value of $60,425.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 147,513 shares in the company, valued at $3,565,389.21. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website.
NASDAQ:PKBK opened at $23.95 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.52, a current ratio of 1.16 and a quick ratio of 1.16. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $23.62 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $22.93. Parke Bancorp, Inc. has a 1 year low of $18.50 and a 1 year high of $25.85. The company has a market capitalization of $285.24 million, a P/E ratio of 7.00 and a beta of 0.75.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, April 20th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, April 6th were given a $0.16 dividend. This represents a $0.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.67%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, April 5th. Parke Bancorp’s dividend payout ratio is currently 18.71%.
A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in PKBK. Morgan Stanley increased its position in Parke Bancorp by 20.6% in the second quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 20,751 shares of the bank’s stock worth $406,000 after buying an additional 3,539 shares during the last quarter. American Century Companies Inc. grew its position in shares of Parke Bancorp by 15.3% in the third quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 26,295 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $577,000 after purchasing an additional 3,486 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its position in shares of Parke Bancorp by 3.7% in the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 80,606 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $1,767,000 after purchasing an additional 2,898 shares in the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP grew its position in shares of Parke Bancorp by 6.2% in the third quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 268,183 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $5,881,000 after purchasing an additional 15,714 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Siena Capital Partners GP LLC grew its position in shares of Parke Bancorp by 34.3% in the fourth quarter. Siena Capital Partners GP LLC now owns 105,693 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $2,249,000 after purchasing an additional 27,000 shares in the last quarter. 37.18% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
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U.S. elections may thwart Democratic effort to cap insulin cost
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WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers attempting to cut the cost of insulin for more than a million Americans to $35 per month are unlikely to succeed as November elections draw near and complicate bipartisan support, health policy and political experts say.
The U.S. House of Representatives in March passed a bill capping monthly out-of-pocket insulin costs for those with health insurance at $35. Senators are drafting a wider bill that also provides incentive for drugmakers to lower list prices.
Both houses must pass the same legislation for it to move forward.
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The Democratic-backed legislation was once seen as likely to garner the support it needed because it sidestepped requiring drug companies to cut prices, which the pharmaceutical industry would have fought. Some Republicans have said they support drug pricing reform.
Health policy experts, pharmaceutical industry sources, patient advocates and Congressional staffers told Reuters that insulin legislation faces significant obstacles. Some said Democrats were still hoping to get support from 10 Republicans needed in the Senate to pass the bill.
"As we inch closer and closer to the summer and to the election, it seems like there may not be a lot of appetite to potentially give Democrats a win going into the elections," said Ipsita Smolinski, managing director at research firm Capitol Street.
Around 8.4 million of the 37 million people in the United States with diabetes use insulin, according to the American Diabetes Association.
About one-in-five insured Americans pay more than $35 per month for the treatment, while the rest pay about $23 dollars per month, according to a 2021 report on drug prices by health information company IQVIA (IQV.N).
Monthly out-of-pocket costs for insulin are already capped by 20 states and the District of Columbia. In nine of those states and D.C., the cap is $35 or lower, the ADA said.
The bill would help the estimated 1.7 million people who have private insurance or Medicare coverage and pay more than $35 a month for insulin because of their location, the design of their insurance plan, or the specific insulin they need.
Laura Marston, co-founder of advocacy group The Insulin Initiative, said the bill would only have lowered the co-pays for about 20% of diabetes patients, and that her organization will continue to battle for lower list prices.
"From my perspective, it's not a setback in our fight to cap the price, not just the co-pay, of insulin for all," she said.
About 17% of insulin users ages 18 to 64, or some 5 million to 6 million people, were uninsured or had a gap in coverage, according to a 2020 Commonwealth Fund study. Two thirds of that group paid the full price - an average of $900 a month - for the life-sustaining medicine.
That has left many people rationing or skipping insulin doses, endangering their health.
The legislation has the support of PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry trade group, and insulin makers. Three companies, Sanofi SA (SASY.PA), Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N), and Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO) make up 90% of the market for insulin, which was invented in the 1920s.
"A $35 co-pay cap is an elegant policy solution to help people afford their insulin," said Eli Lilly executive Shawn O'Neail.
Insurers would have to pass the after-market discounts they receive from drugmakers to patients rather than integrating them in the monthly premium price for everyone, O'Neail and other industry sources said.
AHIP, the health insurance industry's largest trade group, said capping the co-pays would result in a cost shift that would result in higher insurance premiums.
CVS Health Corp (CVS.N), Cigna Corp (CI.N), and UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH.N) are among the largest managers of pharmacy and health insurance benefits.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that setting that $35 co-pay would cost the U.S. government $20 billion over 10 years as premiums in government-sponsored Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid plans rise.
Higher private insurance premiums also would lead to lower wages and therefore lower tax revenue, the CBO said.
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Across England there were 9,243 people in hospital with Covid as of May 3, with 237 of them in mechanical ventilation beds – including three at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalised nationally has decreased by 44% in the last four weeks, while the number on mechanical ventilators has decreased by 26%.
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Stephen Archer will move to second place alongside Billy Holland on Munster's all-time appearance list when he starts at tighthead prop for his 247th Munster appearance in Saturday’s Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final against Toulouse at the Aviva Stadium (3pm). Archer and Holland are behind Donncha O’Callaghan on 268.
Peter O’Mahony captains the side. Mike Haley starts at full-back with Keith Earls and Simon Zebo on either flank.
Damian de Allende and Chris Farrell form the centre partnership with Conor Murray and Joey Carbery in the half-backs.
Josh Wycherley, Niall Scannell and Archer pack down in the front row with Jean Kleyn and Fineen Wycherley in the engine room.
O’Mahony, Greencore Munster Rugby Academy man Alex Kendellen and Jack O’Donoghue complete the starting XV.
Flanker Jack Daly is among the replacements and in line to make his European debut on his sixth Munster appearance.
A native of Currans in Kerry, Daly came up through the ranks at Castleisland RFC and plays his AIL rugby with Garryowen.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to announce on Friday that five major U.S. manufacturers have made commitments to boost their reliance on small and medium American firms for 3D printing.
The White House said GE Aviation, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Siemens Energy have agreed to take part in the program, which Biden will highlight during a visit to United Performance Metals in Hamilton, Ohio.
The program is being unveiled by the White House as Biden heads to the industrial Midwest to press Congress to approve a stalled competition and innovation bill that the Democratic president says is critical to bolstering domestic manufacturing and helping solve a semiconductor shortage that has delayed production of life-saving medical devices, smartphones, video game consoles, laptops and other modern conveniences.
“I’m determined to make sure the United States holds the technological high ground in competition with other nations, especially China, as we move forward,” Biden said this week. His comments on the Bipartisan Innovation Act came during a visit Tuesday to an Alabama Lockheed Martin plant building Javelin antitank weapon systems.
GE Aviation and Raytheon set a goal of looking to small and medium firms for 50% of their requests for quotes for products requiring 3D printing or related technologies.
Siemens Energy committed to targeting 20% to 40% of externally sourced 3D print parts and will work with 10 to 20 small and medium firms to help improve their capability. Lockheed Martin has agreed to work with smaller suppliers on research to improve the use of 3D printing as an alternative to castings and forgings. Honeywell is offering technical assistance including part design, data generation, machine operation and post-processing to small and medium suppliers it works with.
The semiconductor chip problem has been building since coronavirus pandemic-related lockdowns shut down major Asian chip factories more than two years ago. Now it could extend past this year, despite the semiconductor industry’s efforts to catch up with demand.
There is bipartisan support for boosting domestic chip production, but lawmakers in the Senate and the House still need to negotiate over differences.
The House in February passed a version of the legislation that could pump $52 billion in grants and subsidies to the semiconductor industry to help boost U.S. production. The bill must now be reconciled with a Senate version passed eight months ago.
House Democrats also tucked in other priorities that have raised Republican concerns about the bill’s cost and scope.
The bill includes $8 billion for a fund that helps developing countries adjust to climate change; $3 billion for facilities to make the U.S. less reliant on Chinese solar components; $4 billion to help communities with significantly higher unemployment than the national average; and $10.5 billion for states to stockpile drugs and medical equipment.
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Every working parent has to deal with this: the school year is about to end, which means it's time to look at summer camps.
2022 marks a return to camping for many families who kept their kids home for two years during the pandemic.
But many camps closed for good during the COVID shutdown, and others were forced to raise prices to keep operating, as mother-of-three Jenny Miele recently discovered.
"Especially after the pandemic, it's just so much harder to find," she said. "Camps that are available or open or have the before and aftercare."
She and her husband also work full-time jobs.
"That means every kid needs to have a camp or some kind of activity that they could do basically every week so that they're not sitting at home watching TV," she said.
Prices are higher than ever
Miele and her husband have spent plenty of time researching the internet and checking references to find a good fit and something that's within their budget.
And prices are much higher than in pre-pandemic times, she learned.
"On average, you're talking up to $500 or $600 a week," Miele said. "And then when you have three kids, that gets really expensive."
Sarah Wetzel of the Better Business Bureau says they've had plenty of complaints about summer camps, particularly about refunds.
"The biggest complaint is really about their refund policy, them not being clear or the consumer not understanding," Wetzel said. "In some cases, they paid a large sum of money upfront, and their child only goes to camp for maybe a day, maybe the camp wasn't a good fit for the child, or the child becomes ill, and they don't stay the duration of the camp."
What to ask before sending money
When it comes to filling your summer with camps, the BBB offers this advice:
- If possible, visit the camp before submitting a deposit.
- Find out if that deposit is refundable.
- Check out all of the emergency and safety features.
- Ask about extra fees and payment deadlines.
- Find out if meals and transportation are offered. What about after-care?
- And what is the return rate for both campers and staff?
Whetzel says you should also check the ACA for reviews.
"Another great thing is the American Camp Association. It's a great resource," she said. "All those accredited camps meet 300 nationally recognized standards. So you can always look there for camps as well if you're looking for one. "
Jenny Miele says choosing a camp for your loved ones is not easy.
"I mean, it is so stressful for us parents. Summer is supposed to be fun, and it's sometimes hard to think about sometimes," she said.
But it doesn't have to be hard if you take your time and follow these tips, so you don't waste your money.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX brought four astronauts home with a midnight splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, capping the busiest month yet for Elon Musk’s taxi service.
The three U.S. astronauts and one German in the capsule were bobbing off the Florida coast, near Tampa, less than 24 hours after leaving the International Space Station. NASA expected to have them back in Houston later in the morning.
“That was a great ride,” said Raja Chari, the capsule commander. As for the reintroduction to gravity, he noted: “Only one complaint. These water bottles are super heavy.”
NASA’s Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, and the European Space Agency’s Matthias Maurer, were out of the capsule within an hour of splashdown, waving and giving thumbs-up as they were hustled away on rolling chaises for medical checks.
Their departure from the space station Thursday was bittersweet, as they embraced the seven astronauts remaining there.
“It’s the end of a six-month mission, but I think the space dream lives on,” Maurer said.
SpaceX brought up their U.S. and Italian replacements last week, after completing a charter trip to the station for a trio of businessmen.
That amounts to two crew launches and two splashdowns in barely a month. Musk’s company has now launched 26 people into orbit in less than two years, since it started ferrying astronauts for NASA. Eight of those 26 were space tourists.
SpaceX’s William Gerstenmaier, a vice president, acknowledges it’s “a pretty exciting time.”
Barely five hours after splashdown, the company founded by Musk in 2002 launched a fresh batch of its own internet satellites known as Starlinks from Cape Canaveral. There were 53 of the mini flat-panel satellites in this predawn load.
“Satellites are nice, but flying people are a little special and a little bit different, and the team here sure understands that,” he told reporters. “There’s a sense of relief and and a sense of accomplishment that you know you’ve done something good.”
NASA is more impressed than ever, given SpaceX’s unprecedented pace. The only problem of note in the latest flight was a mechanical nut that wiggled loose and floated away from the SpaceX capsule following Thursday’s undocking. Officials assured everyone it would not pose a danger to the space station.
“Look at all this work in the last month,” said Kathy Lueders, NASA’s space operations mission chief. “I really want to personally thank SpaceX for just, wow, just performing such seamless operations on all those missions.”
The astronauts said their mission was highlighted by the three visitors and their ex-astronaut escort who dropped by in April, opening up NASA’s side of the station to paying guests after decades of resistance.
On the down side, they had to contend with a dangerous spike in space junk after Russia blew up a satellite in a missile test in mid-November. More than 1,500 pieces of shrapnel spread across Earth’s orbit for years to come.
While the war in Ukraine has caused tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the astronauts have stood by their Russian crewmates, and vice versa. Flight controllers in Houston and Moscow also continued to cooperate as always, according to NASA officials.
As he relinquished command of the space station earlier this week, Marshburn called it “a place of peace” and said international cooperation would likely be its lasting legacy. Russian Oleg Artemyev, the new commander, also emphasized the “peace between our countries, our friendship” in orbit and described his crewmates as brothers and sisters.
Up there now are three Russians, three Americans and one Italian.
It was Marshburn’s third spaceflight, and the first for the three returning with him. Chari and Barron’s next stop could be the moon; they are among 18 U.S. astronauts picked for NASA’s Artemis moon-landing program. Two others in that elite group are now at the space station.
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HarperCollins announces the publication of 'Editor Missing: The Media in Today's India' by Ruben Banerjee
As charges and countercharges fly, with no unanimity in sight, Indias national discourse, particularly its news media, is becoming increasingly divided and polarized.In Editor Missing, veteran journalist Ruben Banerjee attempts to provide clarity on the state of Indian media at a time when there is consensus only on the lack of it.
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NEW DELHI, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HarperCollins is proud to announce the publication of the first book evaluating the current state of the Indian media, written by an 'insider' who has had a ringside view of it. Editor Missing: The Media in Today's India by Ruben Banerjee; Releasing on 16th May, 2022.
Here is the brief synopsis of the book: This is a time when the space for free speech is shrinking in India, along with a growing intolerance of contrarian views. The right to dissent, which should be the bedrock of any democracy, is seriously endangered. There is widespread belief that we are in an undeclared emergency. Not everyone agrees with this, though, and the jury is out on the state of play in the world's largest democracy. As charges and countercharges fly, with no unanimity in sight, India's national discourse, particularly its news media, is becoming increasingly divided and polarized.
In Editor Missing, veteran journalist Ruben Banerjee attempts to provide clarity on the state of Indian media at a time when there is consensus only on the lack of it. The media mirrors society, and Banerjee is best placed to tell its contested story in contemporary India. As a top editor for various publications, he has had a ringside view for years of the decline in its standards, quality and objectivity. His own experiences reflect the time we live in. The book provides rare insights into the minefield that an editor today runs into – from pressures that are exerted to the risks of upsetting the powers that be. At the end of it, the reader is left with a chilling realization that defending the truth can come at a huge personal cost in present-day India.
''Editor Missing is an important book, more so because of our troubled times. It is not just the story of an editor who went missing from action after running a controversial cover that possibly angered those in power. More pertinently, the book tells the story of India's media and the reasons for its decline – from political to financial to the lack of a collective spine. Largely agenda-driven – both for and against the government – the media is shorn of balance and objectivity and its credibility is at an all-time low. Citing names and real instances, Editor Missing minces no words in identifying what the problems exactly are. That's precisely the reason why anyone interested in India and Indian democracy should read this book.'' - Ruben Banerjee, the author.
''The Indian media has come under close scrutiny in recent times, for reasons ranging from a lack of substance to a lack of balance. Ruben Banerjee has observed this world as an insider for decades, and in recent years as a senior editor and as editor-in-chief in mainstream publications. In Editor Missing, he gives us his undiluted perspective on what is wrong, and right, about Indian journalism, and in the process presents a picture that is as stark as it is disconcerting, in a book that is as riveting as it is worrying. A must-read for all those who begin their day with the news in any form – broadsheet, magazine, e-paper, or on social media.'' - Swati Chopra, Executive Editor, HarperCollins India.
About the author: Ruben Banerjee was the editor-in-chief at Outlook group during one of the most challenging times faced by the Indian media and there was never a dull moment. Even the manner in which his editorship ended was eventful, adding further drama to a long career characterized by many twists and turns.
Having started out as a reporter with Newstime, the now-defunct daily in Hyderabad, he worked across several states – first as a reporter with the Indian Express and then for India Today. He later went abroad and worked with Al Jazeera for twelve years in Doha, Qatar.
On returning and before taking over the reins at Outlook, he led the countrywide news network of Hindustan Times as its national affairs editor.
This is his third book, after The Orissa Tragedy: A Cyclone's Year of Calamity and Naveen Patnaik, an unauthorized biography of the Odisha chief minister.
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DENVER (AP) — Cale Makar sent a low liner through traffic and then quickly found himself surrounded by happy teammates.
Maybe the happiest of all was at the other end. After all, it was goaltender Darcy Kuemper’s 32nd birthday. The goal made for quite a present.
Makar scored 8:31 into overtime, Kuemper made 25 saves and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Nashville Predators 2-1 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in the first-round playoff series.
Makar got the rebound in the middle of the offensive zone and blasted the puck right on target — just like he was all night. His 12 shots on goal was a new franchise playoff record.
“It just felt like the puck was finding us up top tonight,” the humble Makar explained. “Not even me specifically, we were just trying to work it around.”
Nathan MacKinnon also scored for Colorado, which faced a more intense Nashville defense after winning 7-2 in Game 1. The Predators blocked 34 shots.
“We felt like we were on them the whole third period, and eventually most of the time, the hockey gods are going to reward you for that hard work,” Makar said. “For us, we were able to get a lucky one in overtime.”
The series moves to Nashville for Game 3 on Saturday.
Yakov Trenin scored for Nashville.
Connor Ingram stepped in and stepped up in stopping 49 shots as he made his first postseason start. He allowed MacKinnon’s goal on the first shot of the game and turned back everything until Makar’s goal.
The 25-year-old Ingram relieved David Rittich in the first game after the Avalanche scored five first-period goals. The Predators remain without top goaltender Juuse Saros, who is sidelined by a lower-body injury but could be back later in the series.
“This is what you dream about as a kid, to get the chance to do it and play in front of a crowd like that,” said Ingram, whose parents attended the game. “It’s a lot of fun.”
Since moving to Denver, the Avalanche are 14-2 in a best-of-seven playoff series when they capture the opening two games.
Colorado had a goal disallowed in the closing seconds of the second period for goaltender interference. Artturi Lehkonen fell on top of Ingram before a shot from Valeri Nichushkin went in. The Avalanche challenged the play and the officials confirmed the call on replay.
It put Nashville on the power play to start the third. Shortly after, the Predators had a 5-on-3 advantage for 1:52 when Nichushkin went to the penalty box for a high-stick. But they couldn’t capitalize. The best scoring chance was Makar on a breakaway, only to have his shot land in the glove of Ingram.
Ingram was at his finest in the third period when he stopped a point-blank shot from Nazem Kadri with his left pad. Ingram spent most of the season with the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League, where he went 30-17-9. He appeared in three regular season games for Nashville this season.
His counterpart applauded Ingram’s effort.
“He played great,” Kuemper said. “Stepping in with not a ton of experience, he was definitely ready to go. Made it tough on our shooters.”
Both teams struggled on the power play, going a combined 0 for 8. There were a combined 110 hits.
“They’re a top offensive team in the league. They do this to a lot of teams,” Predators coach John Hynes said. “If you’re going to beat them, you have to have strong goaltending. I thought the way that our guys defended and the way that they played when they were under duress was at the level that you need tonight.”
The first period was vastly different for the Predators than Game 1, when they allowed five goals. This time, they outshot the Avalanche by an 11-8 margin.
Trenin tied the game at 1-apiece with 4:41 left in the first. He celebrated by jumping into the boards behind the goal.
MacKinnon scored the first goal on the game’s first shot 5:25 into the action. He lined in a shot to the stick side of Ingram on a mini-breakaway. MacKinnon has 73 points (31 goals, 42 assists) in 52 career playoff games.
“He’s definitely a different animal in the playoffs,” Makar said. “That’s why he’s probably the best player in the world.”
MAKAR’S SHOTS
Makar’s 12 shots on goal surpassed the franchise playoff mark held by Claude Lemieux, who had 11 shots in a postseason game twice (May 8, 1996, at Chicago and May 9, 1997, at Edmonton).
MENTAL HEALTH
Ingram hasbecome a mental health advocate,talking about dealing with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He took part in an NHL player assistance program more than a year ago.
“It was also a point in his life where he hit rock bottom, but he also felt really supported,” Hynes said. “He’s grown up in multiple ways as a person, and also as a player.”
JOSI’S ASSIST
Predators defenseman Roman Josi set up Trenin’s goal to give him 31 postseason assists in his career. It ties Ryan Ellis for the most in Predators history.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ AG Mortgage Investment Trust Inc. (MITT) on Friday reported a first-quarter loss of $13.2 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had a loss of 74 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 2 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $33.4 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $17.3 million.
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LONDON (AP) — Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta would have to comply with tough British rules under a new digital watchdog aimed at giving consumers more choice online — or face the threat of big fines.
The United Kingdom government on Friday outlined the powers it's planning for its Digital Markets Unit, a regulator set up last year to take on the dominance of tech giants. It didn't specify when the rules would take effect, saying only that legislation would come “in due course.”
Authorities in Britain and across Europe have been leading the global push to clamp down on tech companies amid rising concern about their outsized influence and harmful material proliferating on their platforms.
The new U.K. watchdog would enforce rules that make it easier for people to switch between iPhones and Android devices or between social media accounts without losing their data and messages.
The government's digital department said smartphone users would get a wider choice of search engines and more control over how their data is used. Tech companies would have to warn small companies that do much of their business online about changes to algorithms that could affect their web traffic and revenue.
The watchdog also would get the power to solve pricing disputes between online platforms and news publishers to ensure media companies get paid fairly for their content, the government said.
Tech companies would face fines worth up to 10% of their annual global revenue for breaking the rules, which for the biggest companies would amount to billions of dollars.
Google and Meta did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
The U.K. rules are on top of a separate online safety law that is in the works, which would give users more power to block anonymous trolls and step up requirements for digital platforms to take down illegal material like posts involving child sexual abuse or terrorism.
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Guyana says it is willing to collaborate with the Czech Republic and Nigeria in agriculture and food security among other areas.
President Irfaan Ali, accepting letters of accreditation from diplomats from the two countries, invited them to attend the planned Agri-Investment Conference and Expo later this month being organized in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat.
Ali urged the Nigerian Ambassador, Abubakar Danlami Ibrahim, to meet with the key stakeholders in both the public and private sectors noting that his attendance at the Agri-Investment Conference could help in identifying specific areas of agriculture cooperation and investment.
President Ali also told the Nigerian ambassador he is looking forward to the continued exchanges between the two countries’ defense forces, as well as the possible signature of the negotiated bilateral air services agreement.
“Such an agreement will aid in the expansion of our trade relationships with Nigeria—an area which our two nations have already begun to embark upon, and it will also help to create vital connections on a regional and international scale.”
He said since both countries are oil-producing nations, they can share experiences and explore avenues for economic security, reminding also that Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy aims to support economic transformation through cleaner and cheaper energy, and the provision of climate and ecosystem services while allowing the country to invest in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
The Head of State told the Czech diplomat, Sandra Lang Linkensederova that the challenges of the 21st century transcend borders, and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the importance of interdependence at a global level.
“We should therefore not ignore what can be achieved collectively. Guyana is on a path of economic transformation and diversification leading to sustainable development. We recognize that if we want to achieve sustainable development as a developing country, one of the things we must tackle first is food security.”
Ali said since agriculture is a traditional sector of the Czech Republic’s economy, the two countries should seek cooperation in the area and that Guyana is also on a path to improving its health facilities and would welcome the Czech Republic’s assistance in the area.
“It is my hope that we could embark upon a practical program of bilateral cooperation in these and other areas for the mutual benefit of our peoples.”
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Mike Denver and wife Liz take two year old daughter Mia to Disneyland Paris
The country music star shared a series of snaps from the ‘happiest place on earth’, showing little Mia dressed as Snow White as the family of three pose in front of the newly renovated Cinderella's castle
Mike Denver and his wife Liz took their two year old daughter Mia to DisneyLand in Paris for a family trip making magical memories.
The country music star shared a series of snaps from the ‘happiest place on earth’, showing little Mia dressed as Snow White as the family of three pose in front of the newly renovated Cinderella's castle.
The family wore various pieces of Mickey Mouse clothing as they immersed themselves into the Disneyland experience
Mike captioned the snaps: “#funfilled days #makingmemories @disneylandparis”.
Mike met Liz when she attended one of his gigs in Westmeath with her mother and two sisters. Liz approached Mike after the gig to get him to sign her CD and he slipped her his phone number.
"It was way, way back," said Mike to RSVP. "It definitely was [love at first sight]. It started there."
As they say, the rest is history and the couple have been married for ten years.
The pair welcomed their daughter Mia two years ago, who quickly became the light of their lives.
"Having Mia is the biggest thing for us," he said. "There's nothing like it. It's great.
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In good news for the construction and infrastructure sector, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) have developed a hybrid fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) solution that can extend the life of structures that have deteriorated due to factors like aging and corrosion.
The technique offers a cost-effective solution for increasing the longevity of old and aging structures like railway bridges, and multi-story buildings.
Prof S. Suriya Prakasha’s CASTCON Lab at the IITH has developed the innovative hybrid FRP strengthening technique for improving strength and ductility under different loading combinations.
“The hybrid FRP strengthening technique is a very efficient solution to improve the strength and ductility for the real scale structural elements of bridges and buildings. We have extensively carried out experiments to understand the size, shape, and slenderness effect on the behavior of hybrid FRP strengthened elements for various loading scenarios. We are currently developing efficient analytical models for developing the design guidelines that practicing engineers could readily use,” Prof Prakash said.
Instead of having to destroy aging structures and build anew, using the hybrid FRP material, government and private sector infrastructure players can easily reinforce bridges and offshore structures that are reaching the end of their lifespan.
In recent times, the civil engineering industry has gradually accepted FRP (fiber-reinforced polymer) composites to repair and rehabilitate concrete structures. FRP strengthening has numerous advantages over conventional strengthening methods such as concrete and steel jacketing due to its lesser weight to strength ratio, corrosive resistance, easy installation, and higher durability, an IITH statement noted.
Congratulating the research team on this innovative hybrid FRP strengthening solution, Prof B Murty, Director, IITH, added: “The preservation and extension of service life of the existing civil infrastructure are essential for fuelling our country’s economic growth. At the same time, this innovation developed by Prof Suriya and his team leads to optimum utilization of the strengthening materials. It is cost-effective for increasing the longevity of civil infrastructure.” | https://www.thestatesman.com/technology/iit-hyderabad-technique-gift-1503068818.html | 2022-05-06T11:42:40Z | https://www.thestatesman.com/technology/iit-hyderabad-technique-gift-1503068818.html | true | 4 |
St George Illawarra forward Jack de Belin has put his hand up to play for the Kumuls as the PNGRFL prepare to appoint a new coach for the upcoming Pacific Test and World Cup, while reigniting their campaign for a team in the NRL.
Highly regarded and long serving PNG coach Michael Marum, who took charge of the Kumuls in 2016 after Mal Meninga stepped down to accept the Australian job, recently resigned from the post and is considering a tilt at politics ahead of this year’s elections.
The PNGRFL is expected to announce Marum’s replacement next week to give the new coach time to prepare for the June 25 Pacific Test double header at Campbelltown Stadium, which also features a clash between Samoa and the Cook Islands.
He will then oversee PNG’s World Cup campaign in England at the end of the season, with the Kumuls – the No.5 placed team in the IRL world rankings – drawn to play Tonga, the Cook Islands and Wales in their pool matches.
Storm pair Justin Olam and Xavier Coates, Rabbitohs winger Alex Johnston, Roosters halfback Lachlan Lam and Broncos back David Mead are among the current NRL stars to have represented the Kumuls in recent seasons and de Belin has declared his interest in joining them.
De Belin, whose grandmother Aileen Leary was born in PNG while her parents were serving as missionaries, has been considering declaring his eligibility for the Kumuls since the 2013 World Cup, when Adrian Lam was in charge of the team.
The former NSW Origin lock discussed his interest in representing his PNG heritage more recently with John Wilshire, who was a member of Marum’s coaching staff.
“My Nan on my mum’s side – my mum’s mum – was born in Papua New Guinea,” de Belin told NRL.com. “Her parents were doing missionary work in Papua New Guinea and she was born there.
“Unfortunately, her mum passed away when she was about five and her dad couldn’t look after the children, so they were sent back to the Australia and adopted out among cousins and family.”
De Belin first became aware of his eligibility for PNG when he debuted for the Dragons in 2011 but the 31-year-old said he didn’t feel comfortable playing for the Kumuls at the time.
“When I came to the Dragons, I had to fill in eligibility forms and they ask you where your parents and grandparents are born,” de Belin said. “That’s where my interest in playing for Papua New Guinea began.
“Adrian Lam was my under 20s coach at the Dragons and he was the Papua New Guinea coach, as well. He was trying to gee me up to play for Papua New Guinea but at that time I didn’t feel comfortable.
“I had never been to PNG and didn’t have any connection there, so I didn’t feel it was right to take a spot from someone who probably deserved it more than me, but if an opportunity arose now, I would certainly consider it.”
The PNGRFL hope successful World Cup campaigns by the Kumuls and Orchids will assist their bid for a team from the Pacific nation to join the NRL in 2025.
The PNGNRLBid2025 was officially launched in Port Moresby on Wednesday night by PNG sports minister Wesley Raminai and has been described as a “project of national significance”.
“Our PNGNRL bid team is ready. The time to start the journey is now. We can’t wait any longer,” Raminai said.
“This will put PNG on the map in ways never done before. I understand we did try something 12 years ago, but this bid is different.
“PNG’s passion for rugby league is undeniable, as we are the only country in the world who can claim this sport as our national sport.
“Our leaders understand the significance for our country to have a team in the NRL competition, which is followed passionately in our country.”
PNGRFL chairman Sandis Tsaka said the bid would meet the NRL’s minimum requirements of:
-governance and risk
-financial strength
-commercial strategy
-football competitiveness
-participation and pathways
“We know that it will be a competitive process with other teams from Australia and New Zealand also bidding for the spot but we are confident that our bid will be successful, given the investments and partnerships we have developed for the game in PNG,” Tsaka said.
“We have the massive potential for growth and expansion of the game in PNG and the Pacific market. We thank the Government and Prime Minister James Marape for partnering in this bid.” | https://postcourier.com.pg/new-kumuls-coach-to-consider-de-belin-as-png-launch-nrl-bid/ | 2022-05-06T11:42:47Z | https://postcourier.com.pg/new-kumuls-coach-to-consider-de-belin-as-png-launch-nrl-bid/ | true | 2 |
A woman has been banned from driving after using her Range Rover to try to move Insulate Britain protesters who were blocking the road while she was on the school run.
Sherrilyn Speid, from Grays, Essex, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to dangerous driving over the incident last October.
The 35-year-old, who appeared for sentencing at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on Friday, was disqualified from driving for a year, handed a community order and ordered to pay a total of £240.
The court heard that she had been at the wheel of her black Range Rover Sport when she came across an Insulate Britain protest in Grays at about 8.30am on Wednesday October 13.
Prosecutor Ashley Petchey said three demonstrators were sitting across the road and queues of traffic had built up behind them.
Speid got out of her vehicle and “remonstrated” with the protesters, the court heard.
The scene was caught on camera by a passer-by and the footage quickly went viral online.
Heavily bleeped clips, which were shown in court, captured Speid getting out of her car before swearing and shouting at protesters.
She can be heard saying: “I don’t care what the issue is.
“My son is 11, he needs to get to school today so move out the way and let me get my son to school.”
In a separate clip, the car could be seen jerking forward into the backs of protesters sitting on the road.
Mr Petchey said Speid, who cried in the dock throughout the hearing, was “clearly very angry and agitated by the situation”.
He added that she was not using “excessive speed” and “was using the brakes quite harshly”.
Mr Petchey said dangerous driving means that injury could have been caused.
He said: “She knew the protesters were there and had even remonstrated with them but nevertheless chose to move into them with her vehicle.”
The prosecutor also played a clip to the court of an interview Speid did with LBC the day after she pleaded guilty on March 28.
Speid told the broadcaster “I feel let down”, before calling the criminal proceedings an “injustice”.
However, Lauren Hebditch, defending, told the court that Speid was an “inspiring” woman who was “under severe pressure and stress” that week, having just left an abusive relationship of 12 years.
Ms Hebditch said her client had just moved into a new home after staying in a safe house and was taking new medication prescribed for her mental health.
She said: “She had had to flee her family home due to domestic violence she had suffered for 12 years.
“She was suffering from severe anxiety and depression which led her to having panic attacks at work.
“She had finally found confidence that week to leave that relationship.”
Ms Hebditch added that the footage clearly showed Speid was “anxious” and “stressed”.
The court heard that Speid had been in and out of care during her childhood but has channelled her experience into setting up a counselling service for vulnerable children, a WhatsApp group for mental health, and a podcast for working mothers.
“She is inspiring to everyone she meets despite the abusive childhood and adulthood,” Ms Hebditch said.
“She accepts her actions – she cannot watch the footage, she cannot bear it.
“She does not believe it is her she is watching – she is mortified.”
The court also heard that one of the protesters had written to the court saying they did not support the prosecution and did not want proceedings to continue.
Ms Hebditch said the driving ban will mean Speid can no longer shop for her mother, who has multiple sclerosis, drive to work, or drop off her son at school or football.
Chairman of the bench Susan Hawkins handed Speid a community order for 12 months, which includes 20 days of rehabilitation activity.
“We do feel it is serious enough for us to do that,” she said.
She also ordered Speid to pay £240 – a £40 fine, £95 victim surcharge and £105 in costs.
Speid was disqualified from driving for 12 months until March 28 2023 – following an interim ban she received at the previous hearing on March 28.
She was also told that she will have to retake her test. | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2022/05/06/woman-banned-from-road-after-driving-at-insulate-britain-protesters/ | 2022-05-06T11:44:01Z | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2022/05/06/woman-banned-from-road-after-driving-at-insulate-britain-protesters/ | false | 12 |
The dissent against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his clan is on the rise. According to the latest development, a group of students tried to storm into the Sri Lankan parliament, the protests were being staged by the inter-university students federation which is the largest student body in the island nation. | https://www.wionews.com/videos/sri-lanka-economic-crisis-university-students-stage-protest-near-parliament-476832 | 2022-05-06T11:47:47Z | https://www.wionews.com/videos/sri-lanka-economic-crisis-university-students-stage-protest-near-parliament-476832 | true | null |
Arsenal add third stop to their US tour by Yash
Arsenal are set to travel to Baltimore to play fellow Premier League side Everton in their pre-season in the United States.
The Gunners have already confirmed that they will also be playing against Chelsea and MLS side Orlando City as part of the FC Series.
The FC Series is a national expansion of the Florida Cup, held in the state since 2015 featuring clubs from across the globe.
Arsenal will play their first match against Orlando on July 20 at Exploria Stadium, the home of the MLS side. Then the Gunners will clash against London-rivals Chelsea at Camping World Stadium on Saturday, July 23.
Arsenal to confirm pre-season plans soon.
Two games in Orlando for Florida Cup, probably against Chelsea and Orlando City. Another game in the States (east coast) against Everton likely. One game in Europe, maybe Germany, and the Emirates Cup (just one day, not two).
— Charles Watts (@charles_watts) April 15, 2022
Camping World Stadium recently completed the latest in a $260 million series of upgrades. The historic venue has hosted several top-tier international matches including five matches during the 1994 FIFA World Cup, nine matches during the 1996 Olympic Games and three matches during Copa América Centenario in 2016.
Last month, manager Mikel Arteta sounded pleased to visit the US for their pre-season prep. The Spaniard said, “We’re very pleased to see our pre-season plans taking shape with the announcement of our trip to the United States to take part in the FC Series.”
He continued, “It’s been a long time since we’ve seen our fans in the US and we’re looking forward to playing in front of them. We’ll be playing some good sides that will provide strong opposition and the training and matchday facilities in Orlando will provide a first-class environment for our preparations for next season.”
Arsenal will release the home shirt for the 2022/23 season on the 19th May.
Arsenal will release the away shirt during the pre-season tour to the USA.
Arsenal will release the third shirt for the 2022/23 season on the 6th August during the Emirates Cup. #afc pic.twitter.com/EUuMoUcS71
— now.arsenal (@now_arsenaI) May 4, 2022
Technical Director Edu, added: “The FC Series, together with our Orlando training camp, will provide Mikel and the squad with an excellent level of preparation as we focus on next season. We look forward to confirming further plans for our pre-season very soon.”
Arsenal are also expected to have a pre-season training camp in Germany prior to the US trip. There are also still talks going on over the potential of a return for the Emirates Cup this season, although it is likely that this will only be a one-day event rather than taking place over two days as it has done in the past.
Pre-season preparations will be given the green light slightly earlier this season due to the World Cup, which is to be held in November-December in Qatar.
The 2022/23 season will begin on August 6th and is set to resume after the World Cup on Boxing Day, before finishing on May 28th 2023. | https://www.justarsenal.com/arsenal-add-third-stop-to-their-us-tour/309482 | 2022-05-06T11:50:16Z | https://www.justarsenal.com/arsenal-add-third-stop-to-their-us-tour/309482 | true | 1 |
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