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The Duchess of Cambridge has called for all schools to teach children about empathy after meeting a “tiny teacher” in the shape of a real baby.
The Duchess was charmed by 10-month-old Saul Molloy, who visits a Scottish primary school once a week with his mother to help older children learn about feelings.
Saying “lots” of primary schools should have similar programmes, the Duchess joined in with nursery rhymes and actions with a class of seven-year-olds for a “Roots of Empathy” programme.
Joined by the Duke for a one-day visit to Glasgow, she spoke about the importance of “emotional vocabulary” and “expressing negative emotions” as an adult.
The Roots of Empathy programme originated in Canada and is now used at schools including St John's Primary School in Port Glasgow.
Each stars a local baby and parents who visit the classroom, with an instructor on hand to talk children through his or her development and feelings.
It is designed to help children develop emotional literacy and empathy over nine lessons, and has been running in Scotland for 12 years through Action For Children, of which the Duchess is patron.
Saul has been a “tiny teacher” since he was four months old, spending one lesson every week with the children.
During the morning royal visit, the Duchess removed her navy blue jacket, and sat cross-legged in blue trousers, blouse and heels for the class, asking Saul's mother Laura Molloy, 34, about his progress.
As the couple began their visit, Prince William joked: “Can you get my wife out of here before she gets broody?”
The Cambridges both joined in nursery rhymes, singing and making the required actions for the Wheels on the Bus and Incy Wincy Spider.
At the end of the session, Kate asked: “Do you think lots of schools should have a programme like this?”
After the 35 kids all sang out “yes”, Kate glanced at William and responded saying: “We do too.”
The Cambridges then joined 12-year-olds Annie Jones and Zac Hughes, who took the Roots of Empathy classes when they were younger.
Describing the class, Kate said: “It's really amazing as he first came in so small and is now crawling around.
“Amazing just watching, seeing how they reacted to different situations. Do you think enough young people know about empathy and what it means?”
The Duchess, who has three children of her own, looked delighted as she held baby Saul in her arms and helped him leaf through a children's book called “That's not my dinosaur”.
Afterwards, Mrs Molloy, 34, said: “She was really lovely and she said that she would like to see this in every school because it's such an inspirational programme.
“She thought it was beneficial and could tell by the kids’ reaction how much they love the baby.
“She also loved Saul too and held him for a moment in her arms and said she loves this baby stage. You could tell how motherly she is.”
The royal couple were cheered outside by 150 pupils waving Action For Children balloons.
Schoolgirl Aria Dow presented the couple with a bottle of gin on behalf of the school. William joked: “Well that's mine.”
Kimberley Murray, year one teacher, said: “The Duchess asked Jacob (five years old) what he likes to do and he said he likes climbing trees. Kate replied: “I like climbing trees as well.”
Since 2010, Action for Children has delivered Roots of Empathy to more than 29,000 pupils across 28 Local Authorities in Scotland.
The award-winning programme helps promote emotional competence and development of empathy in primary school children, decreases aggression, including bullying, and has been found to increase prosocial behaviours such as caring, sharing and inclusion.
An independent report, discussed with the Duke and Duchess during the visit, found 96 per cent of teachers felt pupils were talking more about their feelings, while 75 per cent stated pupils were more empathetic to one another.
The study also found 80 per cent of pupils reported a better understanding of how others feel and that 86 per cent were more social towards their classmates. | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/05/11/duchess-cambridge-meets-tiny-teacher-baby-giving-school-lessons/ | 2022-05-11T15:18:04Z | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/05/11/duchess-cambridge-meets-tiny-teacher-baby-giving-school-lessons/ | true | 1 |
WASHINGTON — Four men were shot, one of them fatally, in D.C. on Tuesday evening, all within an hour and a half.
First, two men were shot at 8:07 p.m., in the unit block of Galveston Street, Southwest. One man was discovered conscious and breathing. The other was pronounced dead a short time later, according to police.
Another man was shot around 9:20 p.m. in the 600 block of Malcolm X Avenue Southeast. He was found by police unconscious but breathing. He was taken to the hospital for treatment, but his condition is not known.
Just 10 minutes later, police responded to a shooting at 9:30 p.m., also in Southeast, at 2600 Stanton Road. Police found that victim conscious and breathing.
Police are still on the lookout for suspects and have not yet confirmed any arrests. They also have not specified any additional identifying details about the men who were shot.
Anyone with information about any of these shootings is asked to call the Metropolitan Police Department at 202-727-9099 or text the department's tip line at 50411. | https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/dc-4-men-shot-in-sw-se-dc-in-violent-tuesday-night/65-67248cdf-9300-4026-949d-1a84c5153204 | 2022-05-11T15:18:42Z | https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/dc-4-men-shot-in-sw-se-dc-in-violent-tuesday-night/65-67248cdf-9300-4026-949d-1a84c5153204 | true | 1 |
Arsenal will travel to the Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday in the Premier League. Mikel Arteta's wards are fourth in the league table, while Spurs are four points behind in fifth.
Meanwhile, the Gunners have to pay €50 million for a Manchester City striker. Elsewhere, the north London side are unwilling to let go of Thomas Partey this summer.
On that note, here's a look at the key Arsenal transfer stories as on 11 May 2022:
Arsenal have to pay €50 million for Gabriel Jesus
Arsenal will have to pay €50 million to secure the signature of Gabriel Jesus, according to The Hard Tackle via Fichajes. The Brazilian striker is likely to leave Manchester City this summer. The Gunners are looking for a new number nine and have their eyes on Jesus.
The 25-year-old has been in blistering form of late for the Cityzens but is likely to drop down the pecking order next season. Manager Pep Guardiola has brought in Erling Haaland to lead the line, so Jesus is unlikely to hang around to play second fiddle to the Norwegian. The Gunners are planning to take advantage of the situation.
Arteta is on the lookout for a new striker this summer. The Spaniard allowed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to leave in January and now desires an upgrade on Alexandre Lacazette. Despite Eddie Nketiah's superb recent form, Arsenal are eyeing a new number nine to spearhead their attack next season.
Jesus is among the shortlisted candidates. Arteta is already aware of his qualities, having worked with the Brazilian before.
The 25-year-old will enter the final year of his contract this summer, so the Gunners are hoping to secure his services on a cut-price deal. However, his recent form has elevated his valuation, with City set to demand €50 million for him.
The price should not be a problem for the north London side, though, as Jesus has experience in the Premier League. His age and the fact that he could slot in seamlessly into Arteta's tactics could see a deal go through.
Gunners unwilling to offload Thomas Partey
Arsenal are not ready to let Thomas Partey leave this summer, according to AS.
The Ghanaian is generating attention from Juventus, who are planning to revamp their midfield this summer. Manager Massimiliano Allegri wants to add Partey to his team and is even willing to part ways with Arthur to help facilitate a move.
However, Arteta has no intentions of letting the 28-year-old leave the Emirates. The Spaniard sees Partey as a vital component in midfield as he prepares to fight on all fronts next season. The Ghanaian is also not looking to leave the Gunners right now.
Noel Whelan backs Eddie Nketiah to leave this summer
Former Leeds United striker Noel Whelan has tipped Eddie Nketiah to leave Arsenal this summer. The 22-year-old is enjoying a golden run in the first team but will be without a contract at the end of the season.
Speaking to Football Insider, Whelan said that a new striker arriving this summer will push Nketiah out of the club.
"He’s in the strongest position possible, there’s no doubt about it. He is putting in a real shift, scoring goals for Arsenal despite his contract coming to an end this summer. No one can doubt his connection and love for the club. Nketiah is a natural goalscorer, it’s brilliant. He makes it look very easy at times, and that’s an ability that a lot of clubs would love to have," said Whelan.
He continued:
“The question is – will Arteta go big and get a new number nine this summer? The answer is probably yes. Nketiah right now is looking to start every week. If that is the case, he shouldn’t sign a contract with Arsenal." | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/news-arsenal-transfer-news-roundup-gunners-pay-50-million-manchester-city-striker-club-unwilling-offload-thomas-partey-11-may-2022 | 2022-05-11T15:19:37Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/news-arsenal-transfer-news-roundup-gunners-pay-50-million-manchester-city-striker-club-unwilling-offload-thomas-partey-11-may-2022 | true | 1 |
Woman found dead in Van Nuys home; boyfriend arrested
VAN NUYS, Calif. - The boyfriend of a woman who was found dead in an abandoned home overnight in Van Nuys has been arrested on suspicion of murder, according to police.
It happened around 1:30 a.m. near Ranchito Avenue and Oxnard Street.
According to police, the 24-year-old woman was found shot to death inside the home. Her name has not yet been released.
The suspect's name has also been withheld at this time.
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You had one job!
Firefighters are true heroes that deserve our eternal respect and appreciation, and yet they are also human and as such are prone to errors in judgment like any of us. Even starting a brushfire, which is probably the absolute last mistake we’d expect from a firefighter, has been known to happen and just did recently in Akita Prefecture.
On 7 May at about 1:25 p.m., the chief of the Akita Prefecture Kazuno Wide-Area Administrative Union Fire Department was out clearing land by his parents’ home in Kazuno city. Suddenly, he was confronted by several insects which reports refer to as “hachi“, a Japanese word that can encompass all kinds of yellowy, stingy bugs from humble bumble bees to terrifying murder hornets.
▼ A Japanese giant hornet
I suppose we can give him the benefit of the doubt and say it was murder hornets, because the encounter spooked him enough to pull out a road flare and light it to ward off the flying beasts. After throwing the flare at the bugs in self-defense, it landed in a pile of dry grass and ignited it.
Luckily, a high-ranking firefighter was already at the scene and called for backup. However, by the time three fire engines and eleven other firefighters arrived, about 45 square-meters (484 square feet) of grass and trees were already engulfed in flames.
It took about 30 minutes to extinguish the blaze, but luckily no one was injured and there was no serious damage to property. In a press conference on 9 May the chief apologized, saying: “I am very sorry that I started a fire, having just called on residents to be careful not to start wildfires.”
▼ The fire chief’s public apology
Many comments online seemed to appreciate the rich irony of the whole situation, but some took a sterner stance.
“Oops.”
“That’s really basic safety. He should resign for something like that.”
“It’s like a comedy sketch.”
“When I saw this on the news, I knew it was wrong to laugh, but I did.”
“This is the time of year that the giant hornets build their nests.”
“But did he kill the bugs?”
“Maybe, I don’t know, keep a can of bug spray when going into the brush?”
“It wasn’t that big of an area anyway.”
Indeed, the damage was very limited and the fact he will absolutely never live this down with everyone at the fire department ought to be a suitable punishment. It also serves as a reminder to the rest of us, that fires can happen anywhere and to anyone if not careful, so please stay safe out there!
Source: Akita Sakigake Shimpo, FNN, Hachima Kiko
Top image: Pakutaso
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NEW YORK (AP) — More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic record in the nation’s escalating overdose epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Wednesday.
The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes. It marked a 15% increase from the previous record, set the year before. The CDC reviews death certificates and then makes an estimate to account for delayed and incomplete reporting.
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, called the the latest numbers “truly staggering.”
U.S. overdose deaths have risen most years for more than two decades. The increase began in the 1990s with overdoses involving opioid painkillers, followed by waves of deaths led by other opioids like heroin and — most recently — illicit fentanyl.
Last year, overdoses involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids surpassed 71,000, up 23% from the year before. There also was a 23% increase in deaths involving cocaine and a 34% increase in deaths involving meth and other stimulants.
Overdose deaths are often attributed to more than one drug. Some people take multiple drugs and inexpensive fentanyl has been increasingly cut into other drugs, often without the buyers’ knowledge, officials say.
“The net effect is that we have many more people, including those who use drugs occasionally and even adolescents, exposed to these potent substances that can cause someone to overdose even with a relatively small exposure,” Volkow said in a statement.
Experts say the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the problem as lockdowns and other restrictions isolated those with drug addictions and made treatment harder to get.
Overdose death trends are geographically uneven. Alaska saw a 75% increase in 2021 — the largest jump of any state. In Hawaii, overdose deaths fell by 2%.
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`Devastated´ Adam Peaty ruled out of world championships due to broken foot
Adam Peaty admitted he was “devastated” at having to withdraw from the upcoming World Aquatics Championships in Budapest after breaking a bone in his foot earlier this week.
Peaty sustained the injury while training in the gym and faces six weeks out, meaning he will be unable to defend the 50 and 100 metres breaststroke and men’s 4x100m medley relay titles he won in 2019 in Gwangju, South Korea.
The men’s 100m breaststroke, Peaty’s signature event where he won Olympic gold at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, is due to start on the opening day of the championships on June 18, so the 27-year-old has reluctantly ruled himself out of the trip to Hungary.
“I’ve fortunately never had to deal with an injury in my swimming career so this is a real blow and a new challenge for me,” the three-time Olympic champion said in a post on his social media channels.
“I’m already in great hands and starting to recover but, honestly, I’m devastated. I was on track for a huge summer so, like when anything doesn’t go according to plan, it’s a really challenging time.
“I won’t compromise my recovery and I will use this time to reflect on what the sport means to me and what it feels like to watch someone else win a race I should be in. It’s not going to be easy!”
Peaty, who has topped the podium in the 50m and 100m breaststroke at the last three world championships, will now look towards the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, which starts on July 28.
Peaty won 100m breaststroke gold four years ago on the Gold Coast, where he settled for silver over half the distance.
“I’ll never shy away from a challenge but on this one I’ve got to use my head more than my heart,” Peaty added.
“I will be back in the pool as soon as I can be, with my focus on recovering and building up my strength ahead of the Commonwealth Games this summer.” | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10805783/Devastated-Adam-Peaty-ruled-world-championships-broken-foot.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-05-11T15:27:26Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10805783/Devastated-Adam-Peaty-ruled-world-championships-broken-foot.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 11 |
Hyundai recalls 215K Sonatas; faulty hoses can leak fuel
Published: May. 11, 2022 at 9:31 AM CDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai is recalling more than 215,000 midsize cars in the U.S. - most for a second time - because fuel hoses can leak in the engine compartment and cause fires.
The recall covers certain 2013 and 2014 Sonata sedans, many of which were recalled for the same problem in 2020.
The Korean automaker says in documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators that a low-pressure fuel hose can crack over time due to heat from the engine.
That can cause fuel leaks and increase the risk of a fire.
Dealers will replace the hoses. Owners will be notified starting July 5.
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Liquid brings additional capacity to submarine cables in Kenya in partnership with PEACE Cable
Nairobi, Kenya, 11 May 2022 / Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies, has partnered with PEACE Cable to deliver an additional 800 Gbps subsea capacity in Mombasa on the highly anticipated global submarine cable. This will increase the availability of reliable, high-performance Internet access across Africa, leveraging 100,000 km of liquid terrestrial fibers in 12 countries. Acting as a new global Internet route between Asia, Europe and the United States, the additional capacity will help increase the penetration of faster, more affordable and more accessible cloud and cybersecurity services for cybersecurity services for African individuals and businesses.
“We are pleased to offer new subsea capacity between Mombasa, Karachi and Marseille, with planned expansions to Singapore and Asia,” said David Oren, CEO of Liquid Dataport (a division of Liquid Intelligent Technologies). This creates a diverse, profitable network and latency path. Our customers can take advantage of it for their business vital connectivity needs. The submarine cable will be ready in 2022.”
Liquid already has access to several subsea cables in Africa including Equiano, WACS, SAT3/SAFE, EASSy, TEAMS, SEACOM and 2Africa. With the new Peace Cable, the continent will benefit from much-needed additional capacity from the east coast of Africa to Europe. In addition, it will add diversity to an important path, allowing for improved repeatability and low latency (102ms between Mombasa and Marseille).
“We are seeing 40-50% growth in internet traffic every year, so we are investing heavily in submarine cables to provide the best internet experience in all countries in Africa,” explained Eurin. “We have worked closely with Salam to expand subsea capacity to more landlocked countries (including Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Burundi and northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo). This is critical for our customers to take advantage of the increased bandwidth, and is expected to make Internet is faster and more expensive in the area.”
The 100,000 km fluid geological fiber backbone has been a major point of interest in Partnership with Peace. Through its extensive network, Liquid will expand this new capacity to many destinations, including access to other submarine cable landing stations, such as Luanda in Angola, Mwanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Pointe Noire in the Congo. This led to the creation of the first secure, reliable, high-capacity road between the two coasts of the continent, allowing a new global Internet route between Asia and the United States (through Africa).
Connecting Africa with the rest of the world and unleashing the potential of a young and dynamic workforce may be the key to driving international trade and Africa’s economies to a whole new level. “The peace agreement is another important step on this path,” Yoren concluded.
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WILSONS, Va. (AP) — Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they circled their house and chased their chickens.
When Medeiros confronted a hunter nearby, the man told him he had permission to hunt on Medeiros’ property. In disbelief, Medeiros called the agency that enforces a state law allowing hunters to retrieve their hunting dogs from private property, even when the property owners object.
“He told me, you can't prohibit people from coming onto your land,” recalled Medeiros.
He then pointed out that his land was posted with no trespassing signs.
“I said, 'You don't understand. My land is posted,'" Medeiros said.
“You don't understand," the official responded. “You can't stop them.”
After years of putting up with baying dogs and dead chickens, Medeiros and several other property owners are suing the state over its “right to retrieve” law, arguing that allowing hunters to go on their property without permission amounts to an uncompensated taking of their land and violates the state and federal constitutions.
A number of states allow hunters to retrieve their dogs without permission from property owners under certain circumstances, such as properties that do not have “no trespassing” signs. But Virginia's law says hunters are allowed to retrieve dogs even when the property owner has specifically denied access.
A 2016 report prepared by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, (now the Department of Wildlife Resources), said only one other state, Minnesota, had a similar law. Minnesota's law says a person can enter private land to retrieve a hunting dog without permission of the owner, but cannot have a firearm when doing so and must immediately leave after recovering the dog.
The Virginia property owners are suing the Department of Wildlife Resources, which enforces the law. They are represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative legal organization that won a major property rights case at the U.S. Supreme Court last year. The high court found that a California regulation requiring agricultural businesses to allow union organizers onto their property for up to three hours a day, 120 days per year, amounts to the government appropriating “a right of access to private property” and “constitutes a per se physical taking” under the court's precedents.
Daniel Woislaw, a lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, said he believes Virginia's “right to retrieve” law amounts to a similar physical taking of private property.
“When Jim has to let deer dogs and deer dog hunters enter his property, and he's not allowed to tell them to stay away, and when they're killing his livestock and disrupting his operations, that's a taking of a valuable property interest," Woislaw said.
The law itself was first put on the books in 1938, but the tradition of hunting with dogs dates back 400 years to colonial times, said Kirby Burch, a bear hunter who owns eight hunting dogs and is the chief executive officer of the Virginia Hunting Dog Alliance, a political action committee that represents about 90,000 hunters in the state. Burch said most hunters try to be considerate of land owners and quickly retrieve their dogs when they cross onto private property.
“A lot a people who move here from other states are offended by the notion of hunting with dogs so when a dog runs across their property, they're offended, and I understand that, but I think the vast majority of hunters with dogs try in every way possible to avoid irritating their neighbors," said Burch, 75, who has been hunting with dogs since he was 5.
Burch's group estimates that more than half of the 254,000 licensed hunters in Virginia hunt with dogs.
The lawsuit asks the court for a judgment declaring that the law takes the plaintiffs' private property without compensation for public use, a violation of the state constitution and the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Multiple attempts have been made in the legislature to overturn the law, but none have succeeded.
Ryan Brown, executive director of the Department of Wildlife Resources, declined to comment on the lawsuit. Brown said hunters and private landowners have been able to peacefully co-exist for the most part, but as more rural land has been developed and Virginia has become more suburbanized, the two groups have been at loggerheads over the hunting dog issue.
“Both sides of the debate have vested interests, with the hunters being very interested in the protection of their hunting dogs and real property owners being interested in protection of their rights as land owners,” Brown said.
“Both sides have been very passionate about their views.” | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Private-property-owners-sue-over-Virginia-s-17164876.php | 2022-05-11T15:31:40Z | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Private-property-owners-sue-over-Virginia-s-17164876.php | true | 30 |
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Casey White and Vicky White led police on a chase that ended abruptly in a crash, leaving Vicky with a gunshot wound and Casey with non-life threatening injuries. Evansville Central Dispatch released the audio recording of Vicky White’s 911 call she made as they tried to escape during the pursuit. That 911 call can be heard below.
Tuesday evening, Vanderburgh County Coroner Steve Lockyear determined White died of single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He says the manner of her death has been ruled a suicide.
Some listeners may find the audio disturbing. Listener discretion is advised. | https://www.abc4.com/news/national/audio-vicky-white-called-911-before-crash/ | 2022-05-11T15:32:58Z | https://www.abc4.com/news/national/audio-vicky-white-called-911-before-crash/ | false | null |
Nairobi — Kenyans have a reason to smile, with the timely entry of Max International LLC in Kenya, at a time the World Health Organisation has encouraged people to strengthen their immune systems to fight COVID-19 and other diseases.
Max International is a US-based company that develops and distributes proprietary and patent-protected nutritional supplements, weight loss, and beauty products.
The company, set to be launched on Saturday, May 14, 2022, will be based in Nairobi, with a singular intention of helping Kenyans get the most out of their lives, from both a health and wealth perspective.
This will be the company's first entry into the East African market, valued at multi-billion shillings.
Ahead of the launch, Max International Chief Executive Officer Mr. Joseph F. Voyticky said, "Max's nutraceutical products focus on helping the cells of the body to produce glutathione or support glutathione's functions."
Max Beauty is a makeup line designed to help women across the world celebrate their beauty boldly and with confidence.
"Max is committed to enhancing the health and longevity of people around the world using nutraceutical and personalized nutritional solutions that enhance the body's ability to manage inflammation, oxidative stress, and the effects of the aging process while strengthening the human body's natural immune system," he said.
Voyticky pointed out, "One of the most effective ways to do so is to ensure that our immune systems are in better shape and one of the proven ways to that is to live well and enhance our level of Glutathione."
"Antioxidants are substances that mitigate damage to cells caused by free radicals, which are unstable molecules that the body produces as a reaction to environmental toxins, stress, and other pressures. Glutathione is the most important and abundant antioxidant in the human body."
Glutathione is considered the master antioxidant that exists inside every one of the trillions of cells that make up the human body. It plays roles as an antioxidant and an anti-toxin, effectively providing a major defense system against illness and aging.
Glutathione production naturally declines as a person ages and bodily stores are depleted when one is stressed, lack sleep, or have suffered prolonged illnesses.
Max's technologies, expanding on decades of research funded by the United States National Institutes of Health, are patented compounds that fully protect the sulfhydryl group on cysteine and as a result significantly improve the bioavailability of this substance for the production of glutathione.
There are currently 44 peer-reviewed research studies demonstrating the effectiveness of Max's flagship patented molecule RiboCeine™.
Max International launched in the United States in 2007.
The company is currently operating in 20 different countries throughout North, South, and Central America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania (Aus/NZ & Fiji).
Max first came to Africa through Ghana in March of 2014. The value that Max's products deliver to its customers lead Max to expand to Nigeria, and Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa.
In total, Max has 11 offices in West Africa and 13 in the African continent.
"One of Max's commitments is to bring world-class products and business opportunities to all of Africa," the CEO said.
As such in 2022 Max is set to grow its wings in Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"For Max expanding into Kenya and all of East Africa is a natural progression of the company's commitment to the continent," he said.
He noted that "The East African countries economies have shown tremendous resiliency through the pandemic with relatively low inflation rates as compared to the rest of the world. However, there is a great need for the value that Max International offers with respect to its technology based nutritional supplements and the personal development platform provided through Max." | https://allafrica.com/stories/202205110619.html | 2022-05-11T15:33:53Z | https://allafrica.com/stories/202205110619.html | false | 2 |
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That much each month means putting aside slightly more than a pound a day. It seems practical to me, even if other unexpected bills pop up.
Over time, the monthly £35 will add up and form the basis of my plan. I will invest the money in shares that pay dividends. It will take me a few months to save enough that I can start buying shares without dealing fees eating into my purchases too heavily.
During that time, as well as saving, I would open a share-dealing account or a Stocks and Shares ISA. That way, when I am ready to buy shares, I could take action straight away. I would also take time to learn more about what sorts of shares might be good dividend choices for my passive income plan.
Learning about shares
There are lots of good resources I can use to learn about dividends and how to value shares.
Just because a company makes big profits does not mean that it will have a high dividend. For example, it may also have lots of debt that needs to be serviced instead of paying dividends. If the business does not enjoy a sustained competitive advantage, a new market entrant might hurt its profitability – and dividends. Past dividends are no guarantee of future payments.
So I would hunt for businesses with a competitive advantage in a market I expect to remain large. For example, I think people will keep buying alcoholic beverages, and Diageo has a brand portfolio that is impossible for a competitor to copy exactly. Similarly, I reckon customers will keep needing water for their homes and businesses. Severn Trent owns water assets that make it hard for other companies to compete cost effectively.
Dividends as the source of passive income
Having identified companies I could buy, I would buy shares in different ones. An unexpected turn of events could change even a strong business’s fortunes. Diversifying my portfolio across different businesses could help reduce my risk from any one holding.
How much passive income I could expect would depend on the average dividend yield of the shares I bought. By putting aside £35 every month, I would have £420 in a year. If I invested that in shares with an average yield of 2% like Diageo, I would expect £8.40 of passive income in a year. Investing it in shares with an average yield of 3.4% like Severn Trent, my prospective annual passive income from one year’s saving would be higher at around £14.
Long-term passive income plan
I could aim to boost my passive income by investing in higher-yielding shares. But I would never buy shares just because of their yield – I would always focus on their profit-making potential first.
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Detectives investigating the disappearance of a 15-year-old are now treating the case as child abduction. Maddie Thomas has been missing from her foster home in the Southmead area of Bristol since Tuesday, April 26 and officers believe she is likely to be with a man.
Officers had previously been treating her disappearance as a missing persons case and Avon and Somerset Police have issued multiple public appeals to find her. In an update issued on Wednesday afternoon (11 May), the force says they are no longer treating her case as a missing person investigation but as a child abduction.
Police say Maddie is known to use social media to meet new people who provide her with money and a place to stay but is then exploited by the people she meets. Read more: Missing teen Courtney could be in Abergavenny, Swansea or Cardiff
Detectives say there is a chance Maddie could have travelled out of Bristol and may be as far afield as Wiltshire, London, Cardiff, Bedfordshire or Birmingham. She is known to be found in hotels with men so the police are asking people to have a considered thought and call police if they spot anyone looking like her being booked into a hotel.
Detective Inspector Laura Miller said: “We are no longer investigating Maddie’s disappearance as a missing person case but as a child abduction. When Maddie has previously gone missing she has been found in the company of adult men and it is mainly due to this history that we believe she is likely to currently be with someone.
“Maddie is a child in foster care, no-one has permission to keep her from her carers. She is vulnerable and at risk of being taken advantage of. We’re really concerned about her safety and have a dedicated team working extremely hard to locate her.”
DI Miller added: “No one has seen or heard from Maddie for 15 days – since she saw a relative on April 26 when she said she was going to the shop. The circumstances of her disappearance are deeply worrying for us; her family and her carers.
“We have a number of lines of enquiry and while we’ve had great deal of help from the public to date for which we’re incredibly grateful, we still need more. Officers have carried out CCTV enquiries in the Southmead area where Maddie was last seen and posters have also been handed out to local residents by officers going house to house.
“But Maddie could be anywhere in the country and so we really need our appeal to be shared and reported on as widely as possible. We’re asking anyone who sees Maddie to call 999 immediately and anyone who speaks to her or sees her online to call 101. Maddie – if you see this please contact us if you can to let us know you’re safe. Everyone is worried about you.”
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LONDON (AP) — Members of the World Health Organization’s European region have condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine, which could result in moving one of the agency’s offices out of Russia and suspending all meetings there until Moscow pulls its troops out of Ukraine.
In a statement after a resolution passed on Tuesday, countries in the WHO’s European region said they were “highly concerned” over the situation in Ukraine that was “triggered by the unprovoked and unjustified military aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.” More than 40 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the U.K., voted in favor of the statement, while Russia, Belarus and Tajikistan voted against it.
The resolution said the WHO should do “whatever is possible to support the government in Ukraine” and to consider the possible relocation of the United Nations health agency's Moscow-based European Office for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases to another country. It also asked the WHO’s European director to consider temporarily suspending all meetings in Russia until the country withdraws its military forces from Ukraine.
To date, the WHO has confirmed more than 200 attacks on health facilities and first responders in Ukraine, resulting in at least 75 deaths.
After a recent trip to Ukraine where he spoke with health workers and victims of the invasion, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday that “what Ukraine really needs more than anything else is peace,” and appealed to Russia to stop its war.
Still, some academics doubted the European resolution would have much impact.
Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO’s Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights at Georgetown University, called it “a weak rebuke that won’t bother Putin.” In a tweet, he called instead for the WHO to remove Russia’s voting rights at the World Health Assembly, the WHO’s annual meeting of its member countries, scheduled for later this month.
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American Public Education, Inc., one of America's Leading Educators of Pre-Licensure Nurses, Commemorates Nurses as Part of National Nursing Week
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: APEI) is proud to celebrate National Nurses Week on May 6 – 12, as one of the nation's leading educators of pre-licensure nurses. This commemorative week honors the many contributions and sacrifices of nurses worldwide.
"Nurses play a vital part in both our healthcare system and community, especially over these past two and a half years, and we thank them for all their hard work and sacrifices," said APEI President and Chief Executive Officer Angela Selden. "We are honored to provide affordable, high-quality education both to create new nurses and to provide learning opportunities for the advancement of all nurses, ensuring each student can achieve their purpose."
APEI-owned institutions have conferred nearly 15,000 pre-licensure nursing degrees since 2019. With a total nursing enrollment of over 10,000 students at its institutions – APEI is committed to helping mitigate the chronic nursing shortage by training students with expanded, robust nursing curriculums at Rasmussen University, Hondros College of Nursing and American Public University System (APUS). Combined, these schools cover a full ladder of nursing curriculum spanning from LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) to MSN (Master of Nursing) and DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice).
New LPN nurses can complete their studies at APEI-owned schools in as little as 15 months, and new RNs (Registered Nurses) can complete studies in as little as 2.5 years (with completion times dependent on number of courses completed each term). Rasmussen students can attend school at one of 23 campuses across 6 states including Florida, Illinois and Minnesota and online; Hondros students can choose one of 7 campuses in Ohio and Indiana; APUS students attend their programs online, save for in-person practicums and shadowing.
About American Public Education
American Public Education, Inc. (Nasdaq: APEI), through its institutions American Public University System (APUS), Rasmussen University, Hondros College of Nursing, and Graduate School USA, educates the service-minded student by providing career-focused higher education and career learning.
APUS, which operates through American Military University and American Public University, is the leading educator to active-duty military and veteran students* and serves approximately 90,000 adult learners worldwide via accessible and affordable higher education. Rasmussen University is a 120-year-old nursing and health sciences-focused institution that serves approximately 15,900 students across its 23 campuses and student service centers in six states and online. It also has schools of Business, Technology, Design, Early Education and Justice Studies.
Hondros College of Nursing focuses on educating pre-licensure nursing students at its six campuses in Ohio and one in Indiana. It is the largest educator of PN (LPN) nurses in the state of Ohio** with approximately 2,400 students. Graduate School USA is a leading training provider to the federal workforce with an extensive portfolio of government agency customers. It serves the federal workforce through customized contract training (B2G) to federal agencies and through open enrollment (B2C) to government professionals.
Both APUS and Rasmussen are institutionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Hondros is accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). GSUSA is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training (ACCET). For additional information, visit www.apei.com.
*Based on FY 2019 Department of Defense tuition assistance and Veterans Administration student enrollment data, as reported by Military Times, 2020.
**Based on information compiled by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and Ohio Board of Nursing.
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Pilot down, passenger takes over with ‘no idea how to fly’
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A passenger in a small plane off Florida’s Atlantic coast used the cockpit radio to make an urgent plea for help after he realized that the pilot was too sick to handle the controls.
“I’ve got a serious situation here,” the man said Tuesday. “My pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane.”
An air traffic controller in Fort Pierce responded, asking if he knew the position of the single-engine Cessna 280.
“I have no idea. I can see the coast of Florida in front of me, and I have no idea,” he said.
Twin controls enable a Cessna 280 to be steered from the passenger seat. Speaking very calmly, the controller told him to “maintain wings level and try to follow the coast, either north or southbound.”
Minutes passed before controllers were able to locate the plane, which by then was heading north over Boca Raton. Then the man’s voice seemed to fade, so the controller in Fort Pierce asked for his cellphone number to enable controllers at Palm Beach International Airport to communicate with him more clearly.
Air traffic controller Robert Morgan, a 20-year veteran, took over at that point, talking the passenger down to a safe landing.
“Kudos to the new pilot,” one controller told him after the plane smoothly wheeled down the tarmac.
Morgan told WPBF that he felt like he was in the right place at the right time.
“I knew the plane was flying like any other plane. I just had to keep him calm, point him to the runway and just tell him how to reduce the power so he could descend to land. It felt really good to help someone,” Morgan said.
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Generally speaking, so you’re able to see an undue adversity discharge, the debtor’s failure to settle their finance have to “result[] perhaps not of his choice, however, out-of circumstances beyond their reasonable handle.” 191 In order to show, particular courts have refused to discharge figuratively speaking owed from the debtors whoever violent histories made her or him incapable of get gainful a career, reason that those debtors’ incapacity to repay their fund was an effective dilemma of their own and make. 192 | http://www.hurfikirler.com/ultimately-brunner-s-third-prong-requires-the/ | 2022-05-11T15:46:01Z | http://www.hurfikirler.com/ultimately-brunner-s-third-prong-requires-the/ | true | 1 |
4 takeaways from the Nebraska and West Virginia primaries
By Gregory Krieg, Jeff Zeleny and Dan Merica, CNN
Tuesday’s Republican primaries in Nebraska and West Virginia were a test with mixed results for former President Donald Trump‘s endorsement power.
Trump suffered his first big loss of 2022 in Nebraska, where his chosen candidate for governor in the Republican primary lost to the state party’s choice.
He fared better in West Virginia, where his pick in a hotly contested GOP House primary cruised to victory in a battle of Republican incumbents — one backed by the former President, the other endorsed by the state’s GOP governor and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin — drawn against each other by the state’s congressional mapmakers.
While Trump’s hold on the Republican Party remains strong, the result in Nebraska shows it is not complete — especially when he endorses a candidate like wealthy businessman Charles Herbster, who is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct (all of which he has denied).
The clear winner in Nebraska, though, was the state’s Republican establishment.
University of Nebraska Board of Regents member Jim Pillen, CNN’s projected winner in the primary, was endorsed by term-limited Gov. Pete Ricketts, and incumbent GOP Rep. Don Bacon, who had taken some flak from Trump, also won renomination. Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, a Republican who resigned earlier this year after being convicted of a federal crime but remained on the ballot, was blown out by a Ricketts-backed candidate.
Here are four takeaways from Tuesday night’s primaries — and a look ahead to more stress tests for Trump in the coming week.
Trump’s winning run stalls in Nebraska
Trump’s midterm election streak ended Tuesday night in Nebraska.
A week after the former President swept into the state and spoke for two hours at a rally for Herbster in the Republican governor’s primary, a wide majority of voters rejected his advice and instead chose Pillen, the contender backed by the GOP establishment.
Trump has presided over an era where all politics is increasingly nationalized, but an age-old adage prevailed in the fiercely competitive gubernatorial primary: All politics is still local.
In one of the most expensive and vicious political campaigns in recent Nebraska memory, it was the endorsement from Ricketts that mattered most. Ricketts not only supported Pillen and guided his campaign from the start, he also invested millions of his own money to defeat Herbster.
Trump implored voters to ignore sexual misconduct allegations against Herbster, saying the claims from eight women were “malicious.” At a rally on May 1, Trump declared, “He’s been badly maligned and it’s a shame. That’s why I came out here.”
In the end, the former President’s words of support and his visit to Nebraska did not save Herbster, a wealthy agribusinessman with close ties to the Trump family. He fell short to Pillen, but appeared to receive more votes than an alternative Republican candidate, state Sen. Brett Lindstrom.
For Trump, it was not his only failure of the night.
Nebraska GOP gets the matchups it wants in House races
Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican who drew the former President’s ire for supporting the bipartisan infrastructure plan, easily won his primary on Tuesday night, despite Trump’s calls to defeat him.
Bacon had been mildly critical of the former President over the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol and voted for Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure legislation. Trump, at his speech in Nebraska earlier this month, called Bacon a “bad guy” and shouted out his challenger, businessman Steve Kuehl.
“Good luck, Steve,” Trump said, “whoever the hell you are.”
In the end, even those kind words weren’t enough. Trump did not endorse in the race and Bacon now has a November date with CNN’s projected winner in the Democratic primary, state Sen. Tony Vargas. Highly regarded in Democratic circles, Vargas is expected to lodge a legitimate challenge to Bacon in a district, centered in Omaha, that Biden won in the 2020 presidential election.
While Trump carried Nebraska with 58% of the vote in 2020 — and would almost certainly win again if he decides to run for President in 2024 — the outcome of the state’s primary showed the limits of the power of his endorsements. And even bigger tests for Trump are still to come this month in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and beyond.
Meanwhile, the political fate of former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, who resigned in late March after being convicted of lying to the FBI, was sealed by Republican primary voters in the state’s 1st Congressional District.
Fortenberry didn’t mount a campaign, but Trump publicly defended him and his name was locked into the ballot — and, should he have won, would have set off a complicated process for the GOP in a reliably red district. In the end, though, state Sen. Mike Flood, endorsed by both current Gov. Pete Ricketts and former Gov. Dave Heineman, easily won the nomination, CNN projected on Tuesday night. He’ll be a heavy favorite against Democrat Patty Pansing Brooks in the general election.
Trump tops Justice, Manchin in West Virginia primary
If Nebraska mostly ignored the former President, at least for a night, West Virginia doubled down on Trump’s advice.
Rep. Alex Mooney, the Trump-backed candidate in the first incumbent-vs.-incumbent primary of the year, topped Rep. David McKinley in the GOP primary for West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday night. The race quickly became one of the most vicious in the country, with Mooney attacking McKinley for voting in favor of the bipartisan infrastructure plan and McKinley accusing Mooney, who previously ran for office in Maryland, of being a carpetbagger.
A bipartisan group of West Virginia power centers tried to save the more pragmatic McKinley, including Republican Gov. Jim Justice and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. But in a state that backed Trump by nearly 40 percentage points in 2020, Mooney making the former President’s endorsement the focal point of his campaign was too much for McKinley to overcome.
The win further strengthens Trump’s hold on the Republican Party and for his desire for vengeance. Trump backed Mooney primarily as a vehicle to oust McKinley, who drew the former President’s ire for backing the infrastructure legislation, which gave President Joe Biden a win, and for supporting a bipartisan inquiry into the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol before Senate Republicans killed the idea.
Even still, Trump remains largely the only endorsement that matters in Republican primaries, forcing candidates, especially those in contentious races, to continue to run campaigns that appeal to him.
Democrats with big decisions ahead and a key Trump test to come
The first few rounds of 2022 primaries have doubled as a proving ground for Trump’s ability to bend the Republican Party to his will. That theme will continue into next week’s slate, especially in Pennsylvania, where his endorsed Senate candidate, Dr. Mehmet Oz, is locked in what’s shaping up to be a three-way race, with David McCormick and Kathy Barnette, for the GOP nomination.
Trump is also looking to flex in North Carolina, where his endorsed GOP Senate primary candidate, Rep. Ted Budd, has led former Gov. Pat McCrory, former US Rep. Mark Walker and Marjorie Eastman in the polls.
But the May 17 primaries will also ask big questions of the Democratic Party, which will select its own nominee for the open Senate seat in the Keystone State. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a progressive stalwart, is the favorite in that contest, with moderate Rep. Conor Lamb his closest competition, according to recent polls.
Pennsylvania, Oregon and North Carolina are also home to a handful of Democratic House primaries that pit progressives against moderates who, in a handful of races, have been boosted by remarkable sums of outside spending.
Most of the contested primaries are for open seats, but in Oregon’s redrawn 5th Congressional District, Rep. Kurt Schrader is facing a tough challenge from Jamie McLeod-Skinner, whose local supporters have clashed with Democratic leadership in Washington.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated the congressional district where Rep. Alex Mooney defeated Rep. David McKinley in the Republican primary on Tuesday. It was West Virginia’s 2nd District.
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LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As a leading designer of unique engagement rings for over 40 years, Barkev's has intimately experienced trends changing over time and captured a variety of insights and customer feedback along the way. That has given the company a unique ability to see what's on the horizon and, in particular, how both black and blue diamond engagement rings are here to stay.
In the early days the classic white diamond solitaire was the iconic engagement ring, however as the world evolved, ranging from the influence of pop culture to social media, the engagement ring market started to transform as well. People are no longer stuck in a box and forced to choose what's "normal" and are now being inspired to gravitate towards what makes them happy.
Over the past two years Barkev's has seen sales of black and blue diamond engagement rings increase by over 100 percent and the company projects that trend to continue.
"When I started Barkev's over 40 years ago my goal was to create the most unique, highest quality engagement rings while also delivering the best customer experiences possible," stated Barkev Meserlian, Founder of Barkev's.
He added: "And today, we see how black and blue diamond engagement rings are taking off, and our designers are working to roll out new collections that will be announced soon."
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New-look Champions League will be ‘truly open’ competition, Uefa chief insists
A new format for Europe’s premier club competition was finally signed off in Vienna on Tuesday
Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin says the new-look Champions League will be a completely open competition despite the qualification system appearing to be weighted in favour of Europe’s top domestic leagues.
A revamped format for the 2024-25 season onwards was finally signed off by Uefa in Vienna on Tuesday, and included the allocation of an extra qualification spot to one club each from the two countries with the best collective performance records in Europe in the previous season.
In four of the last five seasons, England would have gained an extra place if this system had been in use.
The coefficient scoring system awards four bonus points to each team which reaches the Champions League group phase, handing an instant advantage in the race for the extra places to the countries afforded four automatic qualification spots.
A previous proposal to award two places to clubs who had failed to qualify but had the best club coefficient scores over the last five seasons was scrapped amid concerns it was too favourable to the continent’s heavyweights, and Ceferin was confident the new model would find favour with the vast majority of people.
“It’s truly open, it’s as open as it can be,” he said at the end of Uefa Congress on Wednesday. “Whatever you do in football, somebody says you didn’t do it right. Even if you score, they say you should score with the other foot.
“Ninety nine point nine per cent of football fans know this is a completely open competition. It’s for more small and middle-sized countries and France, which is correct, gets one spot more.
“We are all happy and when you see national associations, clubs and leagues and fans being happy you should enjoy the moment, because it will not last.”
Uefa’s deputy general secretary Giorgio Marchetti said there were no plans to review the country coefficient scoring system, describing it as “dynamic”, and pointing to the fact that the other qualifier this season would have been Holland, largely thanks to the performance of that country’s clubs in the new Europa Conference League competition.
Football Supporters Europe welcomed the decision to drop the earlier coefficient proposal, describing it as the “worst case scenario”.
The approved proposal is understood to have been received with cautious optimism by European Leagues, the group which represents 37 domestic leagues across the continent, but it feels the coefficient system should be kept under review to ensure it does not become dominated by the big five leagues.
The agreement would appear to put to bed fears around any renewed attempt to launch a European Super League for years to come.
Ceferin said he thought that the idea would not come back now for at least 20 years, and did not rule out the possibility of Uefa’s disciplinary committee taking action against the three clubs who refused to renounce the ESL – Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus.
The lifting of a Madrid court injunction last month appeared to open the door for Uefa to reopen disciplinary proceedings which had to be halted, but European football’s governing body is set to wait until the verdict in the Super League clubs’ competition law case against Uefa at the European Court of Justice.
Asked whether he would meet with Real president Florentino Perez at the Champions League final in Paris later this month, Ceferin said: “I will meet Perez in the stadium, he will sit close to me because they are the finalists.
“I was not in touch with any of the three clubs. It’s up to them to ask for a meeting, not for me to ask them.
“We did not have any meeting, the only greeting we get is from the courts from time to time, or some threats. The usual stuff which we are not nervous about.”
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Animal welfare organizations across New Mexico have requested assistance from the ASPCA to evacuate homeless animals and provide additional support in affected communities
SANTA FE, N.M., May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the urgent request of the Animal Welfare Coalition of Northeastern New Mexico (AWC), the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), in collaboration with Helping Paws Across Borders (HPAB), mobilized to provide critical support for animals impacted by the recent wildfires spreading dangerously across New Mexico. The ASPCA is assisting AWC with ongoing sheltering needs at a temporary shelter in Santa Fe, including daily care and supply donations for homeless animals, as well as supporting Bernalillo County Animal Services by providing pet food and additional sheltering supplies.
In addition, the ASPCA is facilitating the transport of more than 20 homeless cats from Española Humane to animal welfare organizations in Colorado including Longmont Humane Society, Foothills Animal Shelter, and Larimer Humane Society. The unowned cats were all in New Mexico animal shelters prior to the wildfires and will be made available for adoption. The ASPCA continues to communicate with emergency management agencies and animal welfare organizations across New Mexico and stands ready to assist with additional field operations and transports upon request.
"The Animal Welfare Coalition of Northeastern New Mexico, Helping Paws Across Borders and many other local agencies have been working tirelessly to provide sheltering and care for animals displaced by these devastating wildfires, and the ASPCA disaster response team is proud to collaborate with these agencies to ensure the ongoing safety and wellbeing for animals in impacted communities," said Tim Rickey, Vice President, ASPCA National Field Response. "As historic winds cause these wildfires to continue spreading, we urge pet owners to create disaster preparedness plans and include pets in all potential evacuations."
This lifesaving work is made possible thanks to support from The Emergency Fund by Rachael Ray Nutrish® and the Alex and Elisabeth Lewyt Charitable Trust. In addition, FedEx assisted by providing complimentary transportation of pet food donated by Hill's Pet Nutrition to the emergency shelter operation in Santa Fe.
Last year, the ASPCA announced the results of a nationally representative survey indicating that 21 percent of U.S. pet owners said they faced wildfires in their communities. Pet owners in the Western region of the country, including New Mexico, were most impacted with nearly 60 percent reporting they lived in an area that experienced wildfires. May is National Wildfire Preparedness Month, and the ASPCA recognizes a vital need to support residents in areas impacted by wildfires and other disasters and encourages all pet owners to always include their pets in disaster preparedness plans, especially those involving a potential evacuation.
To learn how to incorporate pets into preparedness plans, visit aspca.org/disasterprep.
About the ASPCA®
Founded in 1866, the ASPCA® (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) was the first animal welfare organization in North America and continues to serve as the nation's leading voice for animals. More than two million supporters strong, the ASPCA is committed to its mission of providing effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States. As a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA is a national leader in the areas of anti-cruelty, community outreach and animal health services. For more information, please visit www.ASPCA.org, and be sure to follow the ASPCA on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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In the past few months, news reports have been repeatedly tipping Gabriel Jesus with an exit from Manchester City.
The Brazilian made the switch from Palmeiras to the English champions in January 2017. But despite being a major threat in front of goal, Pep Guardiola constantly shifts him in and out of the starting lineup.
Moreover, the Citizens have announced the capture of Erling Haaland who will join the club next season. Therefore, the writing in on the wall for Jesus.
According to TuttoJuve, Man City have placed the Brazil international on the market, with Juventus and Arsenal both interested in his services.
The source adds that the Gunners are willing to splash 50 million euros for the player’s services, which is more than what the Old Lady can offer. However, the 24-year-old could be tempted to try his luck in Italian football.
This season, Jesus contributed in eight goals and nine assists in his 26 Premier League appearances. He also struck four times in the Champions League.
Juve FC say
While Juventus emerged victorious in their last two transfer battles against Arsenal (Manuel Locatelli and Dusan Vlahovic), the Gunners’ possible Champions League return would surely improve their stance.
Moreover, if the North Londoners are truly willing to splash the cash for the striker’s signature, then one would believe that they’ll have the upper hand in this one. | https://www.juvefc.com/juventus-and-arsenal-to-battle-for-wantaway-epl-striker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=juventus-and-arsenal-to-battle-for-wantaway-epl-striker | 2022-05-11T15:53:47Z | https://www.juvefc.com/juventus-and-arsenal-to-battle-for-wantaway-epl-striker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=juventus-and-arsenal-to-battle-for-wantaway-epl-striker | false | 1 |
May 11 (UPI) -- A head-on collision with a school bus and dump truck in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday morning left 17 injured, including one person with life-threatening injuries, officials said.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools bus was on its way to South Mecklenburg High School when the accident happened. A car was involved in the accident as well, authorities said. | https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/05/11/Charlotte-school-bus-crash-dump-truck/2791652278685/ | 2022-05-11T16:00:42Z | https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/05/11/Charlotte-school-bus-crash-dump-truck/2791652278685/ | true | null |
For Swee Kombucha, Bedow used a stacked chart as a food label to show the ingredient breakdowns for various beverages. The greater the area is, the more ingredient by volume there is in the drink.
This project takes me back. See also nutritional facts redesigned, alcoholic beverage pie charts, the engineer’s guide to drinks, and coffee drink breakdowns. The two-year span from 2010 to 2011 was quite the renaissance period for beverage percentages. | https://flowingdata.com/2022/05/11/chart-used-as-drink-label/ | 2022-05-11T16:01:12Z | https://flowingdata.com/2022/05/11/chart-used-as-drink-label/ | true | null |
Mum of Washington student accused of planning terror acts says he 'struggles to tie own shoe laces'
The mother of a student accused of preparing acts of terrorism has told a jury he struggles with basic tasks and has difficulty tying his shoe laces to this day.
Deborah Skelton told the jury at Teesside Crown Court on Wednesday 11 May how her 18-year-old son Luke had been diagnosed with autism as a young child.
Giving evidence, often through tears, she said he had only ever been invited to two parties at school and had been socially isolated and awkward growing up.
It is alleged the teenager, of Kielder Oxclose, Washington, went on a reconnaissance trip to Forth Banks police station in Newcastle and had identified it as a potential target.
His mother told the jury he got fixated sometimes and would say things but did not mean them.
She added at one point her son could not even boil an egg and struggles to remember the PIN number to his bank card.
Dismissing some of the things he had spoken about as 'la la land', she said he was not capable of a terror act and would not want to do something like that.Earlier in the hearing, under cross examination, the teenager also repeatedly denied there being any malicious intent to some of the information it is alleged he downloaded or things he had researched on the internet.
The court was court told he had looked up information on making a flame thrower, how dynamite is made and had downloaded a recipe for dynamite.
He said he could not remember why he had done certain things but was certain things had not been done with any intent.
Scratching his head in the witness box at points, he told the court he might have 'accidentally' bookmarked something.
Questioned about a note made on looking for a cheap storage unit and building a flame thrower, the defendant said: “These two are separate things put into one note.”
The flame thrower he said was and is a fantasy. The storage unit he said he 'thought was a nice way to deal with some clutter'.
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Muse have recruited British songwriter and Bring Me The Horizon collaborator Dan Lancaster to be part of their live band.
Performing their first major shows of 2022 with two special charity gigs at London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith earlier this week, Muse treated fans to new songs and “deep cut” rarities, as well as unveiling a live line-up that features Lancaster on additional synths, keys, percussion and guitar duties. Lancaster also provided mixing duties for their recent single ‘Won’t Stand Down‘.
Lancaster took to Twitter to say that he’d had an “amazing couple of nights playing with Muse”, adding that he was “looking forward to the summer”.
Amazing couple of nights playing with @muse thank you everyone! Looking forward to summer pic.twitter.com/iPBvLK6UOk
— Dan Lancaster (@DanJLancaster) May 11, 2022
Alongside his work as a solo artist, Lancaster’s life as a producer and mixer has seen him work on records by the likes of Blink-182, Enter Shikari, Don Broco, Mallory Knox and One OK Rock. He mixed Bring Me The Horizon’s 2015 album ‘That’s The Spirit’, 2019’s’ ‘amo‘ and a number of songs on their ‘POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR‘ mini album/EP.
Taking to Instagram stories, BMTH’s Jordan Fish shared footage of Lancaster on stage with Muse at Hammersmith Apollo with the caption “I feel like a proud dad”.
Since 2006, this role in Muse’s live band had been filled by former Senseless Things member Morgan Nicholls, who had previously toured with The Streets and collaborated with Gorillaz.
Writing on Twitter earlier this week, Morgan posted: “Wishing MUSE and all their family, friends, crew, management and lovely fans all the very best for the ‘Will Of Th People’ album tour. Sure to be utterly brilliant as always! Going to miss you all… until next time.”
Wishing MUSE and all their family ,friends ,crew , management and lovely fans ,all the very best for the " Will Of Th People" album tour.. sure to be utterly brilliant as always !..Going to miss you all … until next time , lots of Love Morgan ❤️❤️❤️xxx pic.twitter.com/pHycr4SkI7
— Morgan Nicholls (@CaptMorganized) May 9, 2022
As well as surprising fans with rarer, choice cuts from their seminal 2001 album ‘Origin Of Symmetry’, Muse’s opening show at Hammersmith Apollo this week also saw them drop a couple of B-sides into their set.
Described by frontman Matt Bellamy as “back from the dead, from a weird B-side version”, the band then played the rocked-up ‘Grand Omega Bosses Edit’ of ‘Black Holes And Revelations‘ track ‘Assassin’ (which was the B-side to the ‘Knights Of Cydonia’ vinyl release) before the singer told the crowd: “This is the deepest of deep cuts. If anyone knows this, I’ll be very surprised”.
They then performed the instrumental ‘The Gallery’ live for the first time ever since it appeared as a B-side for ‘Bliss’ in 2001 and later ‘The Hullabaloo Soundtrack’ in 2002.
Muse will release their ninth album ‘The Will Of The People’ on August 26.
Alongside a long summer of festival appearances – including Mallorca Live, Mad Cool, and Andalucia Big Festival – Muse will headline the Isle of Wight Festival in June alongside Lewis Capaldi and Kasabian, with tickets available here.
The BandLab NME Award Best Band From The UK winners Bring Me The Horizon, meanwhile, have said that they’ve recorded “about 45 songs” for the next part of their ‘POST HUMAN’ project.
They also have a packed summer of touring, including their own curated festival weekend in Malta and headlining Reading & Leeds Festival 2022 alongside the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Halsey and Rage Against The Machine. | https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/muse-recruit-bring-me-the-horizon-collaborator-dan-lancaster-for-live-band-3223276 | 2022-05-11T16:04:10Z | https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/muse-recruit-bring-me-the-horizon-collaborator-dan-lancaster-for-live-band-3223276 | false | 4 |
Trump claims Republicans will stay home in November if his pick doesn't win the GOP gubernatorial primary in Georgia. Voters say otherwise
Watkinsville, Georgia (CNN) — David Perdue and Donald Trump often say that Gov. Brian Kemp has irrevocably divided Georgia Republicans. "He has alienated a good part of the Republican Party," Perdue said on a humid evening in late April to a group of voters in Oconee County, a short drive from...
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Frontenac Mortgage Investment Corporation Appoints Two New Directors
SHARBOT LAKE, ON, May 11, 2022 /CNW/ - The Board of Directors of Frontenac Mortgage Investment Corporate is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Ryan Wykes and Ms. Allison Martin as Directors of the Corporation. Mr. Wykes and Ms. Martin have been appointed to replace one vacancy and one retiring Director and will stand for election, by the shareholders, at the Annual General Meeting in June 2022.
Ryan Wykes is a Managing Partner at The Spring Team, based out of Toronto, Ontario. He has worked to build one of Toronto's top real estate teams from the ground up, by setting KPI's and strategy goals for a team of Mortgage Agents, Operations, and Marketing. Ryan has vast experience as a Real Estate Broker with Re/Max and as SVP of Sales for Property.ca.
Mr. Wykes graduated with awards and honours from McMaster University in 2004 with a B.Comm Marketing Degree. To further his education, Mr. Wykes attained his MBA in Marketing from Sejong/Syracuse University in 2008.
Allison Martin is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, EMEA with AIG Insurance Group, based out of Toronto, Ontario. Allison has worked with the EMEA CEO to design, implement, and measure a corporate communications programme across the 29 EMEA countries, and has a deep knowledge and understanding of global marketing and sales strategies.
Ms. Martin graduated from McMaster University in 2001 with from the Bachelor of Arts Program in Sociology, followed by an MBA from the Lausanne Business School in Switzerland.
Frontenac has assets under management of over $214,000,000.00. Investors pool their funds and invest in mortgages on real property. Frontenac is a prospectus product that is managed by W. A. Robinson Asset Management Ltd. Frontenac's website is located at www.robinsonsgroup.com.
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DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai is recalling more than 215,000 midsize cars in the U.S. – most for a second time – because fuel hoses can leak in the engine compartment and cause fires.
The recall covers certain 2013 and 2014 Sonata sedans, many of which were recalled for the same problem in 2020.
The Korean automaker says in documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators that a low-pressure fuel hose can crack over time due to heat from the engine.
That can cause fuel leaks and increase the risk of a fire.
Dealers will replace the hoses.
Owners will be notified starting July 5. | https://fox8.com/news/hyundai-recalls-215k-sonatas-due-to-fuel-leak/ | 2022-05-11T16:05:13Z | https://fox8.com/news/hyundai-recalls-215k-sonatas-due-to-fuel-leak/ | true | null |
EXCLUSIVE: Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Laura Nyro, one of the most revered singer-songwriters of the 20thcentury, will be the subject of an upcoming documentary from Vistas Media Capital.
Ben Waisbren (300, The Equalizer, Blood Diamond) and music producer Bonnie Greenberg (RBG) will produce the documentary about a talent who burst onto the scene in the late 1960s. Nyro made a breakthrough performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival at the age of 19, possessing a multi-octave voice that could move easily through folk, jazz, soul and blues.
Nyro’s songs included “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “Wedding Bell Blues” (covered by The Fifth Dimension), “And When I Die” (covered by Blood, Sweat & Tears), and “Stoney End” (recorded with soaring vocals by Barbra Streisand). She was David Geffen’s first client as a music manager and he helped secure her a recording contract with Clive Davis at Columbia Records. Nyro’s music and activism turned her into an icon of the feminist movement.
“I was first attracted to Laura Nyro’s music and life story by what David Geffen so poignantly said about her in Susan Lacy’s 2010 feature film Inventing David Geffen,” Waisbren said in a statement. “Her lyrics touched and galvanized a generation of women—words that have resonance today.”
A director has yet to be announced for the project. Production is expected to begin this year. Laura’s son, Gil Bianchini, will serve as an Associate Producer. Among the executive producers on the project are award-winning documentary composer Miriam Cutler (RBG, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib), who will write the score for the feature, and lawyer-producer George Gilbert (Laura Nyro Go Find The Moon: The Audition Tape; Trees Of Ages – Laura Nyro Live In Japan).
“We are proud to make a documentary that illuminates such an important and respected artist who has a passionate following throughout the world,” commented Abhayanand Singh, co-founder and group CEO of Vistas Media Capital. “There is a universality to Laura’s persona that appeals to audiences no matter where they live, and this is precisely what we are attracted to as producers and distributors–material that can really travel and be embraced globally. Vistas is excited to be working with such an experienced team from the music and documentary communities, who bring to the project a deep passion for Laura and her music.”
Nyro died in 1997 of ovarian cancer, at the age of 49 (her mother died of the same disease, also at age 49). She shied away from the spotlight, often turning down opportunities to appear on television shows, preferring in general to keep her focus on activism. In addition to the women’s movement, she devoted energy to animal rights and environmental causes.
Joni Mitchell, Elton John and Kate Bush are among the artists who cite Nyro as an influence. Speaking about Nyro’s 1968 album, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, record producer Todd Rundgren noted, “It just blew everybody’s mind-–everybody’s. It blew my mind, but it blew everybody’s mind that a girl [that] young was singing with [that] much soul, and the songwriting was hers and wasn’t like anybody else’s songwriting.”
The upcoming documentary will be based, in part, on the 2003 book Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro by Michele Kort, which Waisbren optioned in 2021. The producers say the film “will feature new live performances of Nyro’s songs by current artists.”
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Superintendent praises district’s ‘resilience to stay strong’
In a word, the state of the Santa Barbara Unified School District is resilient, according to Superintendent Hilda Maldonado.
Students have adjusted to fluctuating schedules and learning environments.
Educators have shown up to their classrooms, tangible and virtual, despite a pandemic, despite experiencing great personal loss, despite being exhausted.
And Dr. Maldonado remains inspired by what she’s seeing across SBUSD.
“When I go to schools, I see a lot of kids engaged and learning and socializing and connecting,” Superintendent Maldonado said. “The thing I’m most proud of is the resilience that has been displayed by everyone who works for Santa Barbara Unified — the resilience to stay strong, to stay connected, to stay together to be honest and have courageous conversations when we don’t agree.”
Dr. Maldonado is preparing to give a “State of our Schools” update to the Santa Barbara community at 8 a.m. May 19. The presentation will be given at the Godric Grove at Elings Park and recorded for the community to view shortly thereafter.
And the superintendent will be joined by some very special guests to help give the SBUSD update: students.
“Who better than to hear from what the state of our schools is than the students themselves,” Dr. Maldonado said.
Dr. Maldonado took the helm of SBUSD in July 2020, just as COVID-19 was wreaking havoc across the country — and it didn’t spare schools.
“It was a series of steps and learning that we went through” during the pandemic, Dr. Maldonado previously told the News-Press, recalling how SBUSD traversed ever-changing metrics, created socially distant classrooms and navigated staffing issues. “It’s been layers of learning that happened, but we knew that the best place for students was going to be in person.”
As she reflects on how the district has weathered the pandemic in preparation for her update, it is axiomatic how the myriad changes COVID brought have impacted SBUSD employees’ mental health.
“It’s weighed on our mental health, it’s weighed on our emotions, to keep giving, but I know we do it because people who work in education do it for kids,” she said. “We don’t pay a lot. We don’t have promises of fame and fortune. These are very caring individuals that just do it for the love of students. I want the community to really help me in thanking people for that.”
Looking ahead, Dr. Maldonado said the district should “focus back on creating the new education system.”
“We’ve learned a lot about how we can pivot as a school system when we went from being in-person to a long time in distance learning with the use of technology — which made some things easier, but we need to scale back that technology use and focus back on the whole child,” Dr. Maldonado said.
Concerns about technology use among children — from excessive screen time to access to harmful content — sparked a recent grassroots movement among Santa Barbara parents. The coalition of parents, called TechWise SB, has asked the district to remove access to YouTube on elementary school campuses, keep younger students’ iPads in the classroom instead of allowing them to be taken home, and provide parents more training and information about how to monitor a child’s use of an iPad or similar device.
Services provided by the school district have also changed over the years, Dr. Maldonado noted. Educators are now focused on learning initiatives as well as emotional and nutritional needs and more.
“I am looking forward to us getting back to that way of connecting holistically to each other as adults but also to children, and then doing it with the mindset that public education is an incredible driver of change in our society — particularly for those of us who grew up in poverty and are growing up in poverty,” Superintendent Maldonado said. “We know it opens doors; it opens opportunities.”
“It’s not lost on me that I still need to improve academics,” she continued. “I still need to improve literacy rates, mathematics, and look at all the ways we now know our children learn and access our materials.”
And then there are the racial incidents that have rocked the district of late.
A recent meeting of a new anti-blackness working group — made up of parents, district employees, community members and some school board members — discussed hiring a consultant who could conduct a racial climate assessment of the schools and district. (“Anti-blackness” is a term that is used to describe actions, words or behaviors that dehumanize or marginalize black people.)
Dr. Maldonado said the process of finding an outside organization to conduct the assessment is ongoing.
The group is also discussing current policies across the district and in specific schools about how to handle racial incidents that arise before the assessment is concluded.
“I’m very proud that we are taking on a conversation that is very difficult around race issues in our community and in our schools,” Dr. Maldonado said. “This district has always been really courageous about taking on these types of issues and that makes me really proud.”
To be sure, there is much to address within SBUSD schools in the coming months and years. But still, Dr. Maldonado remains inspired by the resiliency of the district — staff, educators and students alike.
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PM Pashinyan meets with the Speakers of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Netherlands
YEREVAN, MAY 11, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, who is in the Netherlands on an official visit, met with President of the Senate of the Netherlands Jan Anthonie Bruijn and the Speaker of the House of Representatives Vera Bergkamp.
ARMENPRESS reports Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Vahram Dumanyan, Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanosyan, Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan, Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Eduard Aghajanyan participated in the meeting from the Armenian side.
Nikol Pashinyan also met with members of the Foreign Affairs Committees of the two houses of the Dutch Parliament. | https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1082952/ | 2022-05-11T16:09:19Z | https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1082952/ | true | null |
Berlin: Germany on Wednesday said it had agreed to raise its contingent in the UN’s MINUSMA peacekeeping mission in Mali to a maximum of 1,400 troops from 1,100 previously to help plug gaps left by a French pullout. “The upper limit was increased by 300. This is intended to compensate for capacities previously undertaken by French forces,” said government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann, who added that the Mali mandate had been extended to May 31, 2023. The announcement comes as France is pulling its forces out of Mali, which are separate from MINUSMA, after relations with the country’s ruling junta broke down. These forces — part of France’s Barkhane anti-jihadist mission in the Sahel — have also played an important part supporting UN troops in the country, especially with air power. As a result of the French decision, Germany has been mulling its deployment in Mali. Alongside its extension of its MINUSMA participation, it said it was shrinking its training mission as part of the EU’s deployment EUTM to “minimal presence” as the bloc put the mission on ice. The upper limit of its deployment in EUTM would be halved to 300 from 600, with the majority of the forces to be stationed in neighbouring Niger, where the training mission Gazelle continues. An impoverished nation of 21 million people, Mali has over the past decade been wracked by Islamist violence. Swathes of the country are in thrall to myriad rebel groups and militias. Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes. Mali’s under-equipped army has also often been accused of committing abuses during the brutal conflict. France, Mali’s former colony, dispatched troops in 2013 to help quell a jihadist-fuelled revolt in the north of the country. The rebels were scattered but regrouped to lead a bloody insurgency in the centre of the country that then spread into Niger and Burkina Faso. The Barkhane force is winding up its operations in Mali after relations broke down following the ouster of elected leader Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August 2020. | https://dailytimes.com.pk/933207/german-govt-agrees-to-boost-its-mali-un-contingent/ | 2022-05-11T16:13:08Z | https://dailytimes.com.pk/933207/german-govt-agrees-to-boost-its-mali-un-contingent/ | false | 1 |
LONDON (AP) — Members of the World Health Organization’s European region have condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine, which could result in moving one of the agency’s offices out of Russia and suspending all meetings there until Moscow pulls its troops out of Ukraine.
In a statement after a resolution passed on Tuesday, countries in the WHO’s European region said they were “highly concerned” over the situation in Ukraine that was “triggered by the unprovoked and unjustified military aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.” More than 40 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the U.K., voted in favor of the statement, while Russia, Belarus and Tajikistan voted against it.
The resolution said the WHO should do “whatever is possible to support the government in Ukraine” and to consider the possible relocation of the United Nations health agency’s Moscow-based European Office for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases to another country. It also asked the WHO’s European director to consider temporarily suspending all meetings in Russia until the country withdraws its military forces from Ukraine.
To date, the WHO has confirmed more than 200 attacks on health facilities and first responders in Ukraine, resulting in at least 75 deaths.
After a recent trip to Ukraine where he spoke with health workers and victims of the invasion, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday that “what Ukraine really needs more than anything else is peace,” and appealed to Russia to stop its war.
Still, some academics doubted the European resolution would have much impact.
Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO’s Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights at Georgetown University, called it “a weak rebuke that won’t bother Putin.” In a tweet, he called instead for the WHO to remove Russia’s voting rights at the World Health Assembly, the WHO’s annual meeting of its member countries, scheduled for later this month.
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ROME (AP) — At 37, John Isner is just happy to be back on tour in Europe with his wife and three kids.
No longer dreaming of a Grand Slam title, he’s trying to make the back end of his tennis career not seem “like such a job” and make it “fun.”
Yet there’s serious business coming up Wednesday with a second-round match against 10-time champion Rafael Nadal in the second round at the Italian Open.
And get this: Isner believes he has a chance against the holder of a record 21 Grand Slam titles.
While Isner has only beaten Nadal once in eight previous meetings — and that lone win came indoors — the big-serving American pushed Nadal to five sets at the 2011 French Open.
“This is a very cool opportunity for me,” Isner said an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. “At 37, I get another crack at one of the all-time greats.”
“In my estimation and I think Rafa would say it, too, he’s not playing the best he’s ever played,” Isner added. “He’s been hurt and he’s just coming back. So he maybe doesn’t have his full complement of confidence that he’s used to. So maybe I can try to take advantage of that.”
The 6-foot-10 Isner certainly looked confident in a 6-4, 6-3 first-round win over Miami Open semifinalist Francisco Cerundolo.
Nadal, meanwhile is preparing to play his second tournament since returning from a rib stress fracture that kept him out for six weeks. Nadal was beaten by Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz in the Madrid Open quarterfinals last week.
In other action on the red clay courts of the Foro Italico, five-time champion Novak Djokovic looked solid in a 6-3, 6-2 win over Aslan Karatsev in his opening match.
Djokovic missed several key tournaments earlier this year because he was not vaccinated against the coronavirus — which led to him being deported from Australia ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam.
Still seeking his first title of 2022, Djokovic showed off some vintage scrambling abilities late in the first set when he ran down one shot near the net post then sprinted back across the net to dig out a low backhand volley winner.
“You always hope you can play some exciting and attractive points and come out as a winner of those points and celebrate with the crowd,” Djokovic said. “That’s what the crowd is looking for — they’re looking for energy, excitement, fight and they want to see some good tennis.
“It’s always great to play in the colosseum of tennis,” Djokovic added.
In a women’s matchup of two U.S. Open champions, Bianca Andreescu advanced when Emma Raducanu retired due to a lower back injury with Andreescu ahead 6-2, 2-1.
Isner recently won doubles titles at Indian Wells and Miami with partners Jack Sock and Hubert Hurkacz, respectively.
“I’ve been spending a lot of time on the match court and I haven’t been spending much time on the practice court, which is exactly how I would I would want to have it,” said Isner, who is back in Rome after missing the Italian Open the last two years during the pandemic.
“I like the fact that the match was about an hour and a half today,” Isner said. “So I don’t think it took too much out of me.”
Isner is also playing in an eye-catching doubles partnership in Rome with the diminutive Argentine Diego Schwartzman — who is 15 inches shorter than him. They won their opening match on Monday.
“Does make for a good photograph,” Isner said. “And on top of that, I think we’re pretty good.”
Including Isner, there were eight Americans in the singles draw at the start of the tournament — matching host Italy for the most players from any country. Jenson Brooksby, Tommy Paul and Marcos Giron also reached the second round.
“American men’s tennis, I can truly say right now, is definitely on the upswing,” Isner said.
So is Isner, still ranked in the top 30, contemplating retirement?
“No, not right now. But it’s certainly weird seeing a lot of my contemporaries retire or about to retire,” he said, mentioning Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Kevin Anderson and Juan Martin del Potro — who have all retired recently or plan to soon.
“I’m still ranked relatively high and still seeded at Grand Slams and I’m still hungry,” Isner added. “So I want to try to keep it going.”
Up next for Isner will be his 53rd Grand Slam tournament at the French Open, which starts May 22.
First, though, he’ll take his family for a little break on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
“Going to rent a place on the beach and just enjoy it,” he said. “I am trying to make it very, very fun and I’m doing that with my family here.”
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NEW YORK, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mutual of America Financial Group recognized RTI International's Clean Water for Carolina Kids program as an Honorable Mention recipient of its 2021 Community Partnership Award during a special event on May 10 at Mutual of America's headquarters in New York City.
RTI International received $50,000, as one of five nonprofit organizations selected for their outstanding contributions to society, in partnership with public, private and other social sector organizations.
Launched in 2017, Clean Water for Carolina Kids is making critical advancements in protecting children from lead exposure. RTI partnered with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Center, and NC Child to evaluate legal, regulatory and economic options for statewide lead testing. Together with input from outside stakeholders, they successfully updated North Carolina's statewide childcare sanitation rule to require all licensed childcare centers to test for lead in water being used for drinking and food preparation.
"Clean Water for Carolina Kids is the first program to make available large-scale, yet scientifically robust, lead-in-water testing, while empowering school and childcare administrators as 'citizen scientists,'" said Jennifer Hoponick Redmon, Senior Environmental Health Scientist and Program Director at RTI International. "We are elated that it has become a model for eliminating childhood exposure to lead and other contaminants."
John R. Greed, Chairman, President and CEO of Mutual of America Financial Group, said of the award winners, "The 2021 award-winning programs have created innovative solutions that address the challenging social, emotional and physical issues faced by many individuals and families in their local communities. Through collaboration and exemplary leadership, these programs are making a meaningful difference in the lives of those they serve, and we are honored to recognize them for their efforts."
About the Mutual of America Community Partnership Award
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Eventex award wins are the latest for RainFocus, adding to other recent industry-leading recognitions
LEHI, Utah, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RainFocus™, provider of the next-generation enterprise event marketing platform, today announced it was awarded eight 2022 Eventex Awards, including the Platinum award for the Event Management Solution category, six Gold awards, and one Silver award. This total made RainFocus the most awarded technology platform in this year's Eventex awards program.
Among RainFocus' awards is its gold recognition in the People's Choice Event Technology category, showcasing the company's expertise and commitment to delivering superior user experiences for event management and marketing professionals. The Eventex Awards is the most esteemed accolade in the world of events and experiential marketing, a true symbol of excellence.
The complete list of RainFocus' 2022 Eventex wins includes the following:
- Event Management Solution, Platinum
- People's Choice Event Technology, Gold
- Audience Engagement Technology, Gold
- Conference Technology, Gold
- Data Collection/Event Analytics Technology, Gold
- Event Registration Technology, Gold
- Hybrid Event Platform, Gold
- Attendee Management Technology, Silver
"The past two years have been anything but ordinary for the events industry. Marketers needed agility and flexibility to pivot at a moment's notice," explained RainFocus CEO JR Sherman. "Whether in person, remote, or hybrid, clients need to engage with attendees effectively. We're steadfast in our commitment to providing our customers with the right data-driven technologies to deliver compelling content pre-, during, and post-event – ensuring events are integrated and lead-generating, serving as key components of a marketing strategy. We're extremely proud of these Eventex recognitions."
The Eventex award wins are the latest industry recognitions that RainFocus has received for innovation and expertise in end-to-end event management and marketing. The company was awarded a silver award from the American Business Awards in the Event Management Solution category. SaaSworthy also recognized RainFocus as the Fastest Growing Software in Event Management. These award wins further validate RainFocus' next-gen event management platform as the standard for providing first-rate event experiences that drive attendee engagement and help marketers maintain existing customers and convert new ones.
About RainFocus
RainFocus is a next-generation event marketing platform built from the ground up to capture, analyze, and harness an unprecedented amount of data for significantly better events and conferences. As a true SaaS platform, RainFocus simplifies event registration, content management, and exhibitor activation seamlessly across physical, virtual, and hybrid experiences, all from a single dashboard. For more information, visit www.rainfocus.com.
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The British Royal Family are a mysterious bunch about whom the public is eager to learn behind-the-scenes details. Although the most senior royals have been reported on a great deal over the years, there are still some key details about their lives which may come as something of a surprise.
It's no secret that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, had a marriage before she and Charles reignited their flame. During her marriage to Andrew Parker-Bowles, Camilla had two kids: Tom Parker-Bowles, 47, and Laura Lopes, 44. Andrew, a retired British Army officer, was married to Camilla from 1973 until their divorce in 1995. Their oldest child Tom has built a successful career as a food writer and critic and has published seven cookbooks.
Laura Lopes on the other hand, Harry and William's stepsister, has also forged her own career and lives a much more normal life than that of her stepbrothers. Camilla’s only daughter has built a career as an art curator, who managed The Space Gallery in Belgravia in the mid-2000s before co-founding London’s Eleven gallery in 2005.
In 2006, Camilla's daughter Laura married accountant Harry Lopes, and the couple now share three children together, one daughter, Eliza, and twin boys, Gus and Louis. Laura's husband Harry Lopes, who is the grandson of Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough, is in line to one day inherit Gnaton Hall in Devon and Skelpick Estate in the Scottish Highlands.
Gnaton Hall is a Grade II listed country house boasting five acres of glorious gardens and Skelpick Estate benefits from being on the River Naver with two holiday homes on site. The latter is well known for its abundance of wildlife with wild salmon, red deer and pheasants to be admired within the grounds.
Laura's daughter Eliza was even a bridesmaid at Kate and William's wedding in 2012, proving the stepsiblings must share quite a strong bond. What's more, both Prince William and Harry were also in attendance at their stepsister's wedding, as was Kate Middleton.
Laura and her husband also attended Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle a few years on, and although she isn't regularly spotted out and about with the princes, she does make a public appearance with her mum, Camilla, on occasion.
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Skipping meals. Racking up debt. How inflation is squeezing single parents
With daily life now the most expensive it's been in 40 years, single parents say they are running out of places to cut costs.
The price of groceries, gas, rent and utilities has marched higher over the past year; but wages have not kept up — and more than half of single parents make less than $15 an hour, according to recent research from Oxfam.
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That has left many single parents skipping meals so their children have plenty of food, providing less healthy meals for their families, and culling expenses to the point where any unforeseen cost could mean more debt — or worse.
For these families, whose finances often have slim-to-no wiggle room, inflation — coupled with the end of federal relief efforts like enhanced child tax credit payments — is compounding the financial strain.
"It's a really tricky game to figure out what can I do, what can I not do and how can I squeeze a little more money here and there?," said Elisabeth Mendes Saigg, 33, whose husband passed away from sudden heart failure in 2020 at the age of 37. Mendes Saigg was left to raise their two-year-old son, Khayonni, on her own.
For a time after her husband's death, she received food stamps to help with grocery costs, but after she was able to start working again — teaching high school biology — she was no longer eligible. Her $25,000 annual income will also soon make her ineligible for the spousal death benefits she's received from Social Security. Between the loss of the survivor's benefits and the nutrition assistance, the Fort Pierce, Florida, mother will have $700 less on hand per month this year than she did last year.
She says she has cut back across all aspects of her daily life: She'll keep the air conditioner set warmer to help ease energy bills (forgoing the luxury of a cool house on hot Florida days), she is no longer able to enroll her son in gymnastics, she's taken on an extra tutoring role at work, and she's made a box of pasta suffice for four meals for herself so that Khayonni, now three-and-a-half years old, could enjoy his favorite hot dogs and salads.
Living paycheck to paycheck
In March, about 30% of single parents surveyed by Morning Consult said their household finances were worse than average, versus just over 22% of all adults.
During the 12-month period that ended in March 2022, single-parent households say they made about 16% less than adults overall per month and spent about 8% less per month, according to Morning Consult data.
While adults overall consistently report a solid gap between average monthly spending and income, single parents have a much narrower difference, said John Leer, chief economist at Morning Consult.
"If there are no variables to our month, no one has to go to the doctor, no one has to go to the dentist ... then all of my bills get paid with less than $100 left over every month. If there is a variable of something going wrong, then something always gets paid late," said Shae Beery, a 44-year-old Nashville, Tennessee, resident who has raised her now 10-year-old son, Kingston, on her own.
When prices start increasing, single-parent families have less ability to cut back further, so they buy less food at the grocery store and end up putting more expenses on their credit cards. During the past three months, more of those balances are going unpaid, Leer said.
"On a month-to-month basis, single parents really don't have a lot of extra room to help cover costs," he told CNN Business. "They're really living paycheck to paycheck. They're taking their incomes and diverting them immediately into expenses, which means that they don't have savings that allows them to weather any unforeseen storm."
In Brooklyn, New York, Jessica Ridout, 41, and her two children, aged 8 and 10, have adapted to a more vegetarian diet because of the rising prices at the grocery store.
Pre-pandemic, Ridout would spend about $50 to $75 per week on food. That weekly bill now is $100 to $125, she said.
No longer making it in the basket are items like sparkling water, treats, junk food and, especially lately, meat.
"Meat is expensive, and I would be lying if I didn't say I wouldn't kill for a nice piece of salmon once a week," she said.
But she can't justify the indulgence of a $17 piece of salmon when she can use veggies to make two weeks' worth of lunches for that cost, she said.
The belt-tightening is not just at the grocery store. A couple of weeks ago, Ridout's car started smoking. After sending a video to a friend, it was determined that an oil leak was the likely culprit. Rather than take it to a mechanic, she went to AutoZone, spent $14 on an oil leak seal additive, and crossed her fingers.
Fears of a recession
While the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve look to address rising prices, families are bracing for the potential of a recession — and higher interest rates — as part of that solution.
Key inflation data set to be released this week, including the latest Consumer Price Index data on Wednesday, will likely provide further indication that high costs aren't going away any time soon.
That's pushing the Fed to keep hiking its benchmark interest rate in an attempt to cool down the economy. But while that may reduce consumer demand, it will also ramp up the cost of borrowing — and that will hit hardest for families who lean more on credit cards or other loans to get by each month.
"The likelihood of us experiencing an additional downturn is increasing right now, which is going to likely expose some of those most vulnerable households," Morning Consult's Leer said.
The pandemic has already pushed America toward higher rates of food insecurity, a trend that has only accelerated with the recent surge in inflation: In March, nearly two-thirds of the 200 Feeding America food banks reported an increase in demand for food assistance.
Since the onset of the pandemic, the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano counties in Northern California's East Bay has seen a 40% to 60% increase in its client base, from 178,000 people per month to as high as 300,000 clients per month, said Cassidie Bates, the food bank's government and public affairs manager.
She has also seen an uptick in the number of clients coming to the food bank, including people who had never previously experienced food insecurity.
"One bad month is enough to set some people back," she said, adding that she is anticipating the increased demand to remain for at least the next few years.
"When individuals fall into food insecurity and poverty, it's very cyclical, difficult to escape and hard to get back on your feet," she said.
Living with a disability for 32 years and on a fixed income, 68-year-old J.R. Young of Colorado Springs, Colorado, has plenty of experience in making every dollar count — a prospect made easier with the support of his wife as they raised their now 17-year-old granddaughter.
But after Young's wife passed away in March 2021, meeting those monthly expenses got increasingly challenging, especially when prices started to rise. Canned and frozen food has now replaced fruits and vegetables; the roast beef he buys for his granddaughter has gone up by 33%; and the end of the month typically means that Young doesn't have fresh milk in the house and he's surviving solely on peanut butter sandwiches.
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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – A 28-year-old Farmington Hills man bribed letter carriers to obtain other people’s credit cards and later expanded his scheme to have those carriers intercept fraudulent COVID unemployment benefits he had filed for and sent to homes along their routes, officials said.
Credit card theft scheme
Andre Taylor Jr., 28, of Farmington Hills, started to steal credit cards in October 2019 and use them without the consent of the cardholders, according to authorities.
Federal officials said Taylor obtained the cards through various methods, including paying bribes to letter carriers in exchange for the cards and other access devices stolen from mail routes.
After he obtained the cards, Taylor used them to make purchases at various retailers, officials said. He also purchased prepaid gift cards in bulk, so he could use the stolen money like cash and easily transfer it, according to court records.
He operated this scheme in Michigan and other states, authorities said.
Unemployment fraud
In March 2020, Taylor expanded his scheme to include stealing COVID unemployment insurance benefits, federal officials said.
When enhanced pandemic unemployment insurance became available, Taylor started to gather personal information from others and file claims with several state workforce agencies, including Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to authorities.
In some cases, Taylor directed the benefits to be electronically loaded onto bank cards or accounts that he controlled, officials said.
He would also have agencies arrange to mail pre-loaded debit cards containing stolen PUA funds to addresses he had access to, court records show. Those addresses were often along the routes of letter carriers he had bribed, authorities said. The letter carriers could intercept the unemployment insurance mailings and give them to Taylor, federal officials said.
Sentencing
Taylor pleaded guilty in December 2021 to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
He was sentenced Monday (May 9) to 75 months (six years and three months) in federal prison. He also has to pay $774,607 in restitution to his victims.
“This defendant indiscriminately stole from pandemic relief programs, from banks, and from the public,” United States Attorney Dawn Ison said. “He took money from wherever it was available, and he did not care whom he harmed along the way. Mr. Taylor’s conviction and sentence is a reflection of my office’s commitment to aggressive prosecution of those who steal identities to defraud both public and private victims.” | https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2022/05/11/farmington-hills-man-bribes-letter-carriers-to-get-credit-cards-steals-covid-unemployment-benefits/ | 2022-05-11T16:37:07Z | https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2022/05/11/farmington-hills-man-bribes-letter-carriers-to-get-credit-cards-steals-covid-unemployment-benefits/ | false | 1 |
Every morning in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, a fleet of bright yellow school buses heads out to playgrounds in remote communities—not to deliver children to school, but to bring school to them. The buses are mobile classrooms in places where regular preschools and kindergartens don’t exist.
Five years ago, just one in four children in the country went to preschool; in rural areas, only one in ten children had access to a preschool. Other toddlers had to walk long distances to reach schools. Many preschools had been shut down after the collapse of the Soviet Union, while others were privatized. The government realized that school buses could provide new access immediately—and just years after the program started in 2017, preschool enrollment has jumped from 27% to 67%. More than 6,200 children now attend school on the buses.
“While the government gradually builds public preschools across the country, we have to think of those children who will not be able to have a proper kindergarten anytime soon in their area,” says Shaknoza Mirziyoeva, adviser to the preschool education ministry in Uzbekistan. “We do not want to leave them behind, because our aim is to provide equal starting opportunities for every child. Also, as of last year, buses were over 80% more economically efficient if compared to building a conventional kindergarten.”
The buses are equipped with solar panels and tiny bathrooms so they can run off the grid. “The majority of remote areas do not have the necessary infrastructure in place, meaning that even if we build a small kindergarten, it will have problems with water and the electricity supply as well as sewerage,” Mirziyoeva says. The solar panels power basic equipment on board, including air-conditioning and a microwave oven.
In the morning, each of the 65 buses in the fleet drive to locations where children otherwise couldn’t access preschool easily, pulling up to a playground built at a location chosen to serve the most students. As many as three groups of children under age 6, with 16 kids at a time, can attend three hours of play-based learning on the bus. The next day, the bus goes to a second location in the community; preschoolers in each location attend school every other day.
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'You never get used to heartbreak': Anna Richardson, 51, admits she's 'filled with dread' at the thought of the future after splitting from Sue Perkins, 52
She split from partner Sue Perkins last year after eight years together.
And Anna Richardson, 51, has admitted that 'you never get used to heartbreak' in a revealing new interview.
The presenter, who is still single following the June break-up, spoke to OK magazine about love as well as her fears of growing older, admitting she's 'filled with dread' at the prospect of what could happen in the future.
Heartbreak: Anna Richardson, 51, has revealed that 'You never get used to heartbreak' in a revealing new interview following her split from Sue Perkins, 52 (pictured together in 2014)
Speaking about the split, the Naked Attraction host told the publication: 'I suppose I don't know whether you become more resilient as you get older, but heartbreak is still that mystery that needs to be solved, and how you get over it and become stronger'.
The couple, who dated for eight years, allegedly parted ways after 52-year-old Sue's reluctance to start a family, with Anna previously revealing she had thought about adopting a child and felt that 'time is running out' for her to do so.
Anna, who began dating Sue after her separation from her partner of 18-years Charles, went on to reveal, 'it’s a really fundamental and visceral realisation [if you haven’t had children] that, "Oh my God, I can’t do that anymore." Even if I wanted to.'
She added that she feels 'slow, inexorable dread' when she thinks about the next 30 years of her life, saying: 'It seems to be a bit of a decline. And it’s very, very difficult.'
Sad: The presenter, who is still single following the June break-up, admitted she's 'filled with dread' at the prospect of what could happen in the future.
MailOnline exclusively revealed in June that nobody else was involved in Sue and Anna's decision to split, which the couple made with 'a heavy heart'.
A source said: 'The split is as amicable as these things can ever be. After so long together it wasn't an easy decision to make and they both did so with heavy hearts.
'But Sue and Anna are determined to remain friends and keep in touch. Nobody else is involved and now the pair are throwing themselves into work.'
It was reported Anna moved out of their shared £2million North London home to live in Staffordshire to be close to her mum, who is caring for her father who is suffering from dementia.
Exes: The pair first began dating in 2013 after meeting at a Halloween party following Anna's split from her partner of 18 years Charles Martin (pictured together in 2018)
A friend of the former couple said at the time: 'It's really sad they've split, but it's been on the cards for a while. We know Anna was really keen to be a mother, but Sue just didn't feel it was the right time for her.
'She loves travelling and working on various projects and she appreciates that lifestyle and the responsibility of being a parent doesn't marry well.'
It's also claimed she and Sue struggled to live together during lockdown given they are both 'workaholics' who are used to their independence.
'They haven't spent much together in recent months, they've been living separate lives with Anna staying in Staffordshire and Sue remaining in London. The only time they see each other now is when they hand their dog over to each other'.
The pair first began dating in 2013 after meeting at a Halloween party following Anna's split from her partner of 18 years Charles Martin.
Speaking to The Telegraph in 2015, Anna explained she had known Sue for years, but it was a meeting her at a party after her separation from Charles, that made her realise she felt something more than just friendship.
She gushed: 'When I was invited to the party, I was told Sue would be going and I felt, what, a frisson? A spark of interest? And I thought: "Hmm, that's interesting". There was something in the air.
'It was an extraordinary night. I was dancing on the table. It felt like a defining moment in my life.'
She wasn't keen on giving herself a label in regards her sexuality at the time, after she had previously spent almost two decades with a man.
'For me, it's just a case of I am who I am. I'm not interested in being labelled gay or straight, my sexuality is fluid. I just happen to have fallen in love with a woman - simple as that,' she explained.
Tough: It's also claimed she and Sue struggled to live together during lockdown given they are both 'workaholics' who are used to their independence (pictured together in 2018) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10805723/Anna-Richardson-reveals-filled-dread-future-split-Sue-Perkins.html | 2022-05-11T16:47:24Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10805723/Anna-Richardson-reveals-filled-dread-future-split-Sue-Perkins.html | false | 3 |
Keith Lee made an appearance on MackMania to discuss a wide range of topics. Here are the highlights:
What it’s like being in AEW:
“I would say first and foremost, I think I feel for the most part very welcome. I think that’s in part due to the people that I’m familiar with there, or have a history with, or may have seen or worked with on the independents. I had a couple of meetings with Tony. They were just like, friendly, ‘get to know each other meetings’, which helped a lot, because with what I’ve gone through, I definitely had a few trust issues in terms of like, you know, if you’re a billionaire, I don’t know if I can trust you anymore. But we had a lot of talks that helped me dispel a lot of that.”
If he would work in Ring of Honor:
“Well, I think that considering that I have just recently joined AEW, I’m pretty committed to trying to raise the bar there in a multitude of ways, like something about more marketing, or an interest in just growing the name itself is kind of my goal and purpose right now.”
“Ring of Honor is something I haven’t seen since 2017, but I’d be willing to have a match there under the right circumstances. There’s quite a few that are interesting like Mr. Samoa Joe. He’s a circumstance where I would consider him to be a bit of a mentor, especially from the business side of things. He taught me a lot. For all intents and purposes, he’s the reason that I ever took a chance going to the East Coast. If it was not for his advice, him and Mr. Brian Cage, I never would have gone to the East Coast. I’ve never would have had that match with Dijak that kind of changed the trajectory of my career as a whole. I could have been just another dude stuck in Texas doing random stuff.”
“But yeah, there’s something special about those three letters, especially when you come from it and then it’s something that’s helped you build who you are. Yeah, I’d be open to fighting there.”
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Any development, whether social or economic, is increasingly linked with communications, so levelling up must have telecoms at its heart, or it is doomed to fail.
Low productivity, skill shortages and a widening regional divide between the affluent areas of the country and the less fortunate can be attributed to the digital divide, and the need for increased telecoms infrastructure. Whether it's for education, to deliver work, or to access goods and services, affordable connectivity touches every part of our lives, yet two million people in the UK are still unable to access it.
David Crawford is Managing Director at Cellnex UK.
Currently, many regions aren't getting what they need. The North East of England – a key target for the Government's levelling up agenda – has been hampered by a productivity gap, lagging behind other areas of the UK. A recent report highlighted the area as having a particularly low broadband performance score , contributing to a lack of growth in some industries.
Greater connectivity brings greater prosperity
As the UK’s largest independent telecommunications wireless infrastructure owner and provider, with 9,000 sites throughout the country, it’s clear to us that more infrastructure – whether towers or street level small cells – is required to address the UK’s current and future needs.
Without this infrastructure, businesses could struggle to keep up with developing technology that relies on connectivity. For example, more than half of manufacturing executives surveyed by SAP believed Industry 4.0 would significantly impact sectors and businesses in the next five years. To compete in the era of hyper-connected Industry 4.0, manufacturers need to know they will be able to operate their complex, wirelessly enabled machinery reliably and at peak performance.
The Made Smarter Commission’s task of setting a vision for the future of UK manufacturing will be critical to the growth of this market beyond city hubs, helping regional areas to provide local jobs and preventing talent from moving elsewhere to gain industry employment. As the nature of work changes, with more people moving to rural areas to work remotely, or building commuting hours into the working day, there is a demand for fast, reliable connectivity. And, as passengers return to rail commutes it is astonishing that, in 21st century Britain, reliable connectivity is not more widespread across the country.
These recent changes in the way we work, combined with Government ambitions, present huge opportunities to increase both fixed and wireless connectivity to ensure every corner of Britain enjoys the same access to reliable services. When it comes to levelling up, connectivity should be seen as being as fundamental as the supply of electricity or water.
The shared infrastructure opportunity
Implementing the agenda requires significant investment in less-affluent regions. During a period of rising costs and inflation this comes with challenges but, fortunately, telecoms infrastructure solutions already exist to reduce costs whilst improving reach.
To date, shared telecoms infrastructure has been a missed opportunity, and has an important role to play in levelling up. By sharing the cost of one tower across multiple mobile network operators (MNOs), who can reduce planning, build and operational expenses by tapping into services supplied by the infrastructure owner, an opportunity to roll out more connectivity at greater speed is created. Furthermore, the cost savings to MNOs can be passed directly to consumers.
And with upgrades to rail infrastructure a clear theme throughout the agenda, there is significant potential to incorporate telecoms, and shared telecoms infrastructure into these plans as a means to enhance social and economic benefits UK-wide. With networks passing through many rural areas, ubiquitous wireless connectivity along all routes can do more than create a better passenger experience. It can help to drive local economic growth and support local businesses through an increased productivity. The opportunity for shared infrastructure here is huge and, as we continue to deliver improvements along the Brighton London Mainline route, we’re looking forward to seeing how the benefits are felt by all.
Actions speak the loudest
The UK is at a crossroads and levelling up is not only welcome but critical for the country to address competing and compounding crises. Fortunately, there is cross-party support for vastly improved national connectivity, and good progress is being made; for example, with the Shared Rural Network (SRN) and Gigabit Britain initiatives. But it's clear that without addressing our digital divide, reducing inequality and creating a more balanced economy simply cannot happen.
It's not a small task and will take time to implement, so collaboration is key. We see great intent, but action needs to go further and be more consistent. The private sector is keen to invest in telecoms infrastructure and will work with government to ensure nationwide connectivity where there are no digital divides. Infrastructure providers are ready and waiting to support - both with shorter-term solutions like shared infrastructure and through collaboration with policymakers to provide a swift rollout for connectivity in the longer term. | https://www.techradar.com/in/features/uk-telecoms-infrastructure-must-level-up-for-the-future | 2022-05-11T16:50:55Z | https://www.techradar.com/in/features/uk-telecoms-infrastructure-must-level-up-for-the-future | false | 6 |
Going into the 2022 football season, Aggies Wire will be looking at each scholarship player listed on the Texas A&M roster.
Over the preseason, each profile will cover where the player is from, how recruiting websites rated them coming out of high school, and what role they will play for Jimbo Fisher this season.
Denver Harris was one of the last high-profile players to join the greatest recruiting class in college football history, signing with the Aggies after many predicted that he would end up with the Texas Longhorns. Coming out of North Shore High School in Houston, Texas, Harris made the varsity team at the starting cornerback position as a sophomore during the 2019 season, gaining recognition as one of the top defensive backs in the country after being named to the Texas district 21-6a all-state selection as a cornerback, and soon helping the North Shore squad to a second straight state championship. During Harris’s junior year, his level of play to an outstanding leap, becoming one of the premier “shut down” corners in the country, winning the Texas 21-6A Defensive Player of the Year award, gaining a flood of division 1 offers in the process. During his senior year, Denver Harris had already cemented himself as one of the top 5 defensive backs in the country and was focused on helping his team get back to the state championship game, which indeed ended up achieving, winning their third championship in four seasons, and Harris’s second overall as a player at North Shore. As he enters the 2022 season as one of the most talented prospects for the Aggies in school history, don’t be surprised if you see that #2 jersey for four quarters in the opener on September 3rd.
Preseason Player Profile
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Height: 6-1
Weight: 180lbs
247Sports Composite Ranking
Class in 2022: 5-Star player ranking, 6th ranked player in Texas, 4th ranked cornerback in the country
Depth Chart Overview
Denver Harris is currently projected as a reserve cornerback in the Defensive Back rotation for the Aggies, backing up cornerbacks Jaylon Jones (Junior) and Myles Jones (Grad Student). With fellow true freshman 4-Star cornerback Bobby Taylor recovering from a recent ACL tear, Harris has a chance to continue to impress the coaching staff during the summer, and heading into fall camp. As a prospect, Harris is very technically sound at the corner position and is extremely fluid on his turns, with the speed needed to cover go routes and post routes efficiently. Because of the competition, he has faced at the Texas 6A level, his development is years ahead of a number of prospects, going against some of the best wide receivers in the country, with many slated to start right away with their respective teams. Overall, Harris’s size, speed, and competitiveness make him one of the most intriguing players headed into the 2022 campaign.
Players’ Photo Gallery
The future.@0fficial_evan @DenvoBandz pic.twitter.com/5zhwmzHd9J
— Mark Passwaters (@mbpRivals) April 10, 2022
I’m Stayin Home #GigEm pic.twitter.com/V1lpKJLrTX
— Denver Harris (@DenvoBandz) December 18, 2021
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Everyone's Disappointed Hollow Knight: Silksong And Sports Story Weren't At Nintendo Indie World
Womp womp.
Another Nintendo Indie World presentation means another opportunity for Hollow Knight: Silksong and Sports Story fans to have their hopes dashed against the indifferent rocks. Today's Nintendo Indie World featured a slew of cool-looking games, some of which are out today, but not two of the most anticipated indies that have been missing-in-action for some time.
Hollow Knight: Silksong, a sequel to the beloved action metroidvania game, was first announced in 2019, but since then updates have been sporadic and infrequent. It may seem longer because every time Nintendo announces a showcase, and especially an indie showcase like Indie World, the community gets its hopes up. This time those hopes were partially fueled by a recent statement given by developer Team Cherry at its acceptance of a 2021 Unity Award.
"We're honored that Hollow Knight: Silksong won the 2021 Unity Award for the most anticipated game, and hugely appreciate all of the fans who support us as we work on the game. Thank you so much. We're looking forward to the day we can share the game with you all. It can't be too much longer, surely!"
Granted, it's not Team Cherry's fault that it made a cheeky comment about the wait and then shortly after Nintendo announced an Indie World. But this is a game that fans have been pining after. Our own Jordan Ramée wrote it a love letter! So some disappointment is to be expected.
Similarly absent has been Sports Story, the anticipated follow-up to Sidebar Games' RPG Golf Story. After originally targeting a 2020 release, it has slipped into a nebulous "TBA" window. The most recent update was last year, assuring fans that development is ongoing.
Merry Christmas🎄 Work is ongoing. pic.twitter.com/ae8bpBO1IR
— Sidebar Games (@sidebargames) December 24, 2021
As mentioned, both games were absent from the Nintendo Indie World Showcase. This isn't exactly confidence-inspiring in either case. But the year is young, and both studios have plenty of time left to give more news if either or both are indeed coming this year.
In fact, we don't actually know for sure if either one will be shown at an Indie World Showcase, as they may have both passed a certain degree of indie notoriety that will put them on the main stage. If that's the case, we could see more from them at a Nintendo Direct, the streaming presentations reserved for Nintendo first-party and bigger third-party releases. Or they could pair up with one of the indie collective presentations that began to populate after E3 went on hiatus during the pandemic.
And since June is coming, those larger presentations may be on the way soon. Keep up with our Not-E3 Press Conference Schedule for more on when you can see tons of presentations on upcoming games.
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Gemma Atkinson has announced that she has postponed her wedding to Strictly Come Dancing star Gorka Marquez.
The former Hollyoaks actress has said that the pair’s busy schedules have resulted in them delaying the wedding.
She told New magazine: “Gorka is literally on tour all of this year. We've only got four days off together”.
Gemma has said that when they do get married, it’ll likely be a small wedding.
The couple met on Strictly Come Dancing and got engaged four years later in 2021. They also have a daughter together who was born in 2019.
But before her relationship with Gorka, Gemma had a wild dating history, including two engagements and flings with famous footballers.
We’ve taken a look back on her past relationships.
Cristiano Ronaldo
In 2007 Gemma dated a world-class footballer - and one of the most eligible bachelors at the time - Cristiano Ronaldo.
Despite being one of the biggest football stars in the world, Gemma hilariously admitted to Manchester's Key 103 radio that they went on a very laid-back date.
She said: "We went to my house and drank cups of tea and watched Only Fools and Horses. Genuinely!
"I don't know if he's into it now but he seemed to enjoy it.”
Gemma also said that she was offered a lot of money to discuss their relationship but she declined it.
She said: “When we did split up I got offered so much money to speak about him and I didn’t want that."
Cleveland Campbell
Gemma had a two-year relationship with her Emmerdale co-star Cleveland Campbell between the years of 2003 and 2005.
Cleveland played antique dealer Danny Daggert from 2001 until 2007.
In 2006 he was accused of punching someone at Gemma’s 21st birthday the year before, but he was later cleared of GBH charges.
Marcus Bent
Gemma had an on-off relationship with footballer Marcus Bent.
The pair first dated in 2006 put split as Marcus went on to date glamour model Danielle Lloyd.
It was during their split that Gemma dated Ronaldo.
But in 2008 the pair rekindled their romance and Marcus was spotted moving his belongings into Gemma’s home.
The couple even got engaged in 2008 but it wasn’t to be, and Gemma reportedly returned his ring to him by December of the same year.
Liam Richards
Gemma also had another engagement in 2013, this time to BGT star Liam Richards.
Gemma first met martial arts expert Liam in 2008 while starring in a panto.
Liam had reached the final of Britain's Got Talent.
The pair dated for two years and at the time Gemma said: “Liam is lovely and gets on really well with all my family. We have great fun.”
But their engagement was called off after reports that they had drifted apart. | https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/gemma-atkinsons-explosive-dating-history-26939566 | 2022-05-11T16:53:19Z | https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/gemma-atkinsons-explosive-dating-history-26939566 | false | 2 |
Baltimore judges, state’s attorney’s employees might testify at trial of former city homicide prosecutor accused of stalking women
Baltimore Circuit Court judges and State’s Attorney’s Office employees might testify at the trial later this year for the former city homicide prosecutor accused of using his law enforcement authority to stalk ex-girlfriends, a state prosecutor said during a hearing Wednesday.
The Office of the State Prosecutor brought 88 criminal charges against Adam Chaudry in December, alleging he subpoenaed phone records for over two years to harass women he had dated.
On Wednesday, state prosecutors offered Chaudry a deal: Plead guilty to three counts — operating a theft scheme, obtaining telephone records without authorization and stalking — and be sentenced to five years in prison with all but one year suspended. There would have been a term of probation for each charge.
Chaudry, 43, appeared in reception court over Zoom from his attorney’s office and rejected the offer, meaning the case is headed for trial.
Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn tentatively scheduled his trial for Dec. 5. Phinn said she needed to consult with Judge Audrey Carrion, chief of the Baltimore Circuit Court, about bringing in a judge from a different jurisdiction to preside over Chaudry’s case.
His trial is expected to go on for at least two weeks, with the state calling approximately 30 witnesses.
“We have quite a few witnesses in this case, including from the Judiciary and the State’s Attorney’s Office,” said Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Sarah David.
Chaudry’s defense attorney, Patrick Seidel, a former Baltimore homicide prosecutor himself who had worked alongside his now-client, told Phinn he filed legal papers that need to be resolved before — and could impact — the trial.
One of the pleadings was a motion to dismiss the case for prosecutors’ failure to comply with the statutory provisions of the Office of the State Prosecutor, Seidel said.
He declined to comment, citing the ongoing case.
The brief and largely procedural hearing Wednesday offered some insight into how the case against the former homicide prosecutor will be handled and who Chaudry’s trial will feature.
State prosecutors say Chaudry went to extremes to track women he dated.
In one instance detailed in court documents, he made a spreadsheet listing the ages, phone numbers, addresses and Instagram pages of an ex-girlfriend’s friends, family and coworkers. He allegedly monitored her phone calls and sent emails about their travel.
Under the guise of a special investigation, he subpoenaed a woman’s phone records 33 times more than two years after she ended their relationship, according to court records.
In May 2021, investigators with the state prosecutor’s office and Maryland State Police executed a search warrant at the State’s Attorney’s Office. | https://news.yahoo.com/baltimore-judges-state-attorney-employees-162000910.html | 2022-05-11T16:54:39Z | https://news.yahoo.com/baltimore-judges-state-attorney-employees-162000910.html | false | 3 |
What if Wembley received the same cash as many grassroots clubs?
Saturday, May 14, marks the 150th men's FA Cup final since the first in the 1871/72 season.
Liverpool, who are challenging for trophies on four fronts, will take on Chelsea (whose women's team are also in the ladies' final on Sunday) at Wembley Stadium.
There will be many top players on show in the final including Liverpool's Luis Diaz and Trent Alexander-Arnold and Chelsea's Christian Pulisic and Romelu Lukaku.
But what if Wembley received the same funding as many grassroots clubs. Would the final be able to take place at all?
A new design by leading pub company and brewer, Greene King, has revealed what Wembley stadium would look like if it received the same level of funding as a grassroots football pitch.
The graphic, which depicts the pitch and stadium in total disarray, was created to accompany a new report from Greene King’s Proud to Pitch in scheme, which revealed that grassroots football clubs are at risk of losing talent due to poorly maintained pitches.
In many cases for local sports clubs, grass is either overgrown or completely missing, which not only makes gameplay more difficult, but also increases the risk of injury.
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Ukraine halts Russian gas exports to Europe at eastern transit point
CommentsUkrainian authorities have stopped the flow of Russian natural gas through one key hub that feeds European homes and industries.
Ukraine’s natural gas pipeline operator (GTSOU) said it would stop shipments through an eastern part of the country due to interference from “occupying forces”.
Russian-backed separatists who control the region have been accused of siphoning off gas at the Sokhranovka transit point.
It is the first time since the start of the war that Kyiv has symbolically disrupted the flow of Russian energy exports to the west.
The Sokhranovka transit point usually handles around a third of Russian gas flows to Europe -- mostly to Austria, Italy, Slovakia and other east European states.
The head of GTSOU said on Facebook that Moscow must bear full responsibility for any humanitarian consequences of the halt of gas to Europe.
The immediate impact of the cutoff was likely to be limited since much of the gas can be directed through another pipeline, according to analyst Zongqiang Luo at Rystad Energy.
Luo told the Associated Press that the move by Ukraine would make it harder for European countries to refill underground storage for next winter.
The interruption of supply would also “hasten Europe’s plans to move away from imports of Russian gas,” he added.
The European Commission said on Wednesday that the sudden interruption would have an impact on part of the bloc's gas supply but that there were no "immediate security of supply concerns".
EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson is due to speak to Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko.
Russia’s state-owned giant Gazprom has indicated some drop in supply reaching Europe but stated that it was continuing to meet its obligations.
Gazprom said on Wednesday it was sending 72 million cubic metres of gas through Ukraine, down around 25% from the previous day.
The European Union has sought to reduce its dependence on Russian energy, phasing out its use of coal and considering doing the same for oil. Gas presents a more complicated problem, given both how much Europe uses and the technical difficulties in sourcing it elsewhere.
Gazprom had already decided to cut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after the two countries refused to pay in roubles.
It was not clear if Russia would take any immediate hit since it has long-term contracts and other ways of transporting gas. | https://www.euronews.com/2022/05/11/ukraine-halts-russian-gas-exports-to-europe-at-eastern-transit-point | 2022-05-11T17:05:26Z | https://www.euronews.com/2022/05/11/ukraine-halts-russian-gas-exports-to-europe-at-eastern-transit-point | true | 1 |
Pretoria – The Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court sentenced a 52-year-old woman, who was a financial adviser, to 12 years in prison after stealing R1.2 million from her client.
Aletta Hendrina Steyn was arrested in January last year after she failed to pay off the late Christina Plotz’s vehicle with the car dealership as she was appointed an executor.
Hawks spokesperson Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu said Plotz left a will of her entire estate which amounted to about R1.4m and a Hyundai SantaFe, which was still financed by ABSA bank.
“Steyn was the deceased’s financial adviser and appointed an executor for Plotz’s estate, however she failed to fully pay the outstanding amount owed for the Hyundai to ABSA bank.
“Steyn managed to sign off R175 000 to one of the beneficiaries and kept the rest of the money for herself,” said Mulamu.
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The matter was brought to the Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation in Pretoria for further probing which resulted to Steyn’s apprehension.
She was sentenced with no option of a fine.
Major-General Ebrahim Kadwa applauded the investigation team together with the justice system for bringing the accused to book and to account for stealing the deceased’s estate.
“When one is entrusted with such responsibility, what the deceased’s family expect is honesty.
“The money stolen by the accused could have been utilised in good use as per the deceased’ wishes for her loved ones.
“The accused received a well-deserved punishment compared to the crime committed and appreciate everyone who makes an effort to report suspicious criminal activities to authorities,” said Kwada.
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A New York judge said Wednesday that he would lift a contempt of court finding against former President Donald Trump by next week if Trump's legal team provides more information about a search for documents sought by the state Attorney General and pays a $110,000 fine.
If those conditions are not met by May 20, Judge Arthur Engoron said he would reinstate a $10,000 per-day fine against Trump for being in contempt for having failed to comply with a subpoena issued by Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump and his lawyers have said they cannot locate documents sought by James as part of her civil investigation of the Trump Organization and its valuation of several real estate assets.
Engoron previously has said he was not satisfied with the explanations that Trump and the lawyers have given detailing their search for those documents.
The Manhattan Supreme Court judge held Trump in contempt last month, and imposed the $10,000 daily fine.
James's office is eyeing allegations that the Trump Organizations illegally manipulated the stated values of different properties in order to obtain financial benefits when applying for loans, obtaining insurance policies and paying taxes.
A lawyer for Trump had no immediate comment on Engoron's ruling Tuesday.
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RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — A 28-year-old man who was rescued from a raft off the coast of New England in 2016 after his boat sank awaited arraignment Wednesday on charges he killed his mother at sea to inherit the family’s estate.
Nathan Carman was expected to be arraigned in federal court in Rutland on multiple fraud charges and a first-degree murder charge in the death of Linda Carman. He shouted “Not guilty!” in the direction of reporters as he approached the courtroom.
Authorities allege in the indictment unsealed Tuesday that Carman also killed his grandfather, John Chakalos, at his home in Windsor, Connecticut, in 2013 as part of a scheme to obtain money and property from his grandfather’s estate, but he was not charged with that killing.
“As a central part of the scheme, Nathan Carman murdered John Chakalos and Linda Carman,” the indictment reads.
Carman was found in an inflatable raft eight days after leaving a Rhode Island marina to go fishing with his mother, who was never found. Prosecutors allege Carman altered the boat to make it more likely to sink that day. He has denied doing anything to intentionally make the boat unseaworthy.
Carman, who was arrested Tuesday, faces life in prison if convicted of killing his mother. His attorney did not return an email seeking comment.
Prosecutors allege the inheritance scheme that has spanned nearly a decade began with Carman buying a rifle in New Hampshire that he used to shoot Chakalos on Dec. 20, 2013, while he slept. He then discarded his computer hard drive and the GPS unit that had been in his truck, prosecutors said.
Police have said Carman was the last person to see his grandfather alive and owned a semi-automatic rifle similar to the one used to kill Chakalos — but the firearm disappeared.
After Chakalos’ death, Carman received $550,000 from two bank accounts that his grandfather had set up and that he was the beneficiary of when Chakalos died. He moved from an apartment in Bloomfield, Connecticut, to Vernon, Vermont, in 2014. He was unemployed much of the time and by the fall of 2016, was low on funds, prosecutors said.
In September 2016, Carman arranged to go on a fishing trip with his mother on his boat named the “Chicken Pox.”
“Nathan Carman planned to kill his mother on the trip,” the indictment reads. “He also planned how he would report the sinking of the ‘Chicken Pox’ and his mother’s disappearance at sea as accidents.”
Before the trip, Carman altered the boat by removing two forward bulkheads and trim tabs from the transom of the hull, the indictment states.
“After leaving the marina, Nathan Carman killed his mother, Linda Carman, and eventually sank the Chicken Pox,” it states.
In 2019, a federal judge in Rhode Island decided that Carman contributed to the sinking of the boat. U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a written decision in favor of an insurance company that had refused to pay an $85,000 claim to Carman for the loss of his 31-foot fishing boat.
Carmen denied the allegations, telling the Coast Guard that when the boat filled quickly with water, he swam to the life raft and called for his mother but never saw her again.
He was found floating in the raft off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island, by the crew of a freighter eight days after the boat was reported missing.
Chakalos, who was a real estate developer, left behind an estate that was worth nearly $29 million, which was to be divided among his four daughters. Carman is in line to get about $7 million of the estate, as his mother’s only heir.
Chakalos’ three surviving daughters sued Carman in New Hampshire probate court, seeking to bar him from receiving any money from Chakalos’ estate. A judge dismissed the case in 2019, saying Chakalos was not a New Hampshire resident. The probate case was refiled in Connecticut, where it remains pending.
William Michael, an attorney for Carman’s mother’s sisters, said Tuesday the family had no immediate comment.
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AP reporters Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, Lisa Rathke in Montpelier, Vermont, and Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Man-to-face-charge-of-killing-mother-at-sea-for-17165250.php | 2022-05-11T17:14:06Z | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Man-to-face-charge-of-killing-mother-at-sea-for-17165250.php | true | 13 |
POTOMAC, Md. , May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Z Advanced Computing, Inc. (ZAC), the pioneer Cognitive Explainable-AI (Artificial Intelligence) (Cognitive XAI) software startup, has won its 3rd US Air Force (USAF) contract for its detailed 3D image recognition. For the USAF projects, ZAC had demonstrated major AI and Machine Learning (ML) breakthroughs, including using only a few training samples, and using only an average laptop (using only CPU), for both training and recognition. In addition, ZAC has got similar major AI tech breakthroughs for the Smart Appliance project with Bosch/ BSH (the biggest appliance maker in Europe). ZAC tech is based on Cognitive Concept-Learning (as opposed to Pixel-Learning, by other algorithms). This is in sharp contrast to the other algorithms in industry that require thousands to billions of training samples, trained on large GPU servers.
"This cannot be done with the other algorithms, such as Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or ResNets, even with an extremely large number of training samples on a large number of GPU servers. Deep CNN is also very fragile and is easily fooled, with no explainability for its output," emphasized Dr. Bijan Tadayon, CEO of ZAC.
Some applications are: autonomous vehicles, e-commerce, ads, medical, satellite/aerial imaging, security, and smart homes/ appliances.
ZAC owns a very strong IP portfolio with over 450 inventions, including 13 issued US patents.
ZAC has an impressive team of scientists and developers. The development is headed by Saied Tadayon, a scientist and veteran software developer, and a math prodigy who ranked 1st as an undergrad at Cornell, and got his PhD from Cornell at age 23.
ZAC world-renowned advisors include Prof. David Lee (Nobel Laureate, Physics), Prof. Mory Gharib (former Vice Provost of Research, Caltech), late Prof. Robert Buhrman (former Sr. Vice Provost of Research, Cornell), Prof. Mo Jamshidi (UTSA, Founding Dir. of NASA Center for Autonomous Control, and US Army Science Board member), and Prof. Gholam Peyman, MD (Inventor of LASIK, and awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation by the US President). The late Prof. Lotfi Zadeh of UC Berkeley (Father of Fuzzy Logic, co-inventor of Z-Transform, and AI Hall-of-Fame inductee) is also one of ZAC inventors.
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A California legislator who is married to state Attorney General Rob Bonta disclosed Tuesday that she had an abortion as a 21-year old.
Speaking at a state Capitol event supporting reproductive rights, Democratic Assemblywoman Mia Bonta said she was coming out of Yale University and had obtained her first job when she learned she was pregnant. She was dating her future husband at the time -- Bonta says he held her hand when she made her choice.
Bonta joins a growing number of public officials, celebrities and musicians who have discussed their experiences after a leaked draft opinion suggested that the U.S. Supreme Court could strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
“I had to weigh all of the decisions that came with that reality. And I chose to get an abortion. I chose to own my body,” Bonta said. She added that her decision allowed her to break what she called “the cycle of poverty in my family.”
If the Roe ruling falls “those choices and those decisions will not be available for women in places like Mississippi or Georgia or 20 other states," she added, calling the prospect "unfathomable.”
Bonta, a Black Latina, called the potential court ruling “an attack on women of color.”
She serves in the San Francisco Bay Area’s 18th Assembly District, a seat her husband held before being appointed attorney general. The couple has three children.
The court's draft ruling could change, and a decision is not expected until the end of the court’s term in June. California is seeking to expand abortion rights. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the state to be a “refuge” for those seeking an abortion. One proposal in Legislature would cover costs for pregnant women to come from out of state. | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/california-lawmaker-mia-bonta-reveals-abortion-as-more-women-speak-out/2829857/ | 2022-05-11T17:22:38Z | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/california-lawmaker-mia-bonta-reveals-abortion-as-more-women-speak-out/2829857/ | false | 20 |
Dis-Chem has announced that an unauthorised person or party has accessed the personal information of data subjects through one of its third-party service providers on or about 28 April.
The retail pharmacy said in a statement that it has contracted with a third-party service provider and operator for certain managed services.
“In these circumstances the operator developed a database for Dis-Chem which contained certain categories of personal information necessary for the services offered by Dis-Chem.
“It was brought to our attention on 1 May 2022, that an unauthorised party had managed to gain access to the contents of the database. Upon being made aware of the incident, we immediately commenced an investigation into the matter and to ensure that the appropriate steps were taken to prevent any further incidents,” Dis-Chem said.
A total of 3,687,881 data subjects have been affected. The following personal information was accessed –
- first name and surname;
- email address; and
- cell phone number.
Dis-Chem warns that there is a possibility that any impacted personal information may be used by the unauthorised party to commit further criminal activities, such as phishing attacks, email compromises, social engineering and/or impersonation attempts. For example, it may be cross-referenced with information compromised in other third-party cyber incidents, for the further perpetration of crime against data subjects.
“Whilst investigations into the incident are still ongoing, the operator has confirmed it has deployed additional safeguards in order to ensure protection and security of information on the database. These safeguards include, but are not limited to, enhanced access management protocols to the database.
“We are not aware of any actual misuse or publication of personal information from the personal information that may been acquired. We are however continuing, with the assistance of external specialists, to undertake web monitoring (including the dark web) for any publication of personal information relating to the incident,” Dis-Chem said. | https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/661/227742.html | 2022-05-11T17:24:15Z | https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/661/227742.html | false | 1 |
—One third of senior leaders are receiving higher equity values—
BOSTON, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Executive compensation consultancy Pearl Meyer has published new data that show companies are going deeper into their organizations with equity grants, and that burn rates have increased dramatically.
- 28% indicated more employees are receiving equity than in the previous year
- 34% have increased the value of equity granted to top leadership
- 37% have raised the value of equity offered to new senior leadership hires and 30.5% have raised equity grant values for other lower-level new hires
- 45% have increased their equity burn rate this year; just 7.5% noted it will be lower than 2021
"This outcome is not surprising," said Aalap Shah, managing director at Pearl Meyer and a sponsor of the survey. "We have heard many compensation committees and management teams discuss the need to broaden equity eligibility in order to be competitive. This speaks to the current difficulty in both retaining high performers and recruiting new talent. However, there is also concern, and rightly so, about overall share usage and shareholder sentiment."
The survey shows that fewer than a third—just 29%—take the value of unvested equity holdings into account when making new equity grant decisions.
"A review of an executive's unvested equity value can be an important tool for the compensation committee to manage costs, particularly when there is so much external pressure," noted Shah. "Having that information at hand provides a more accurate context for making decisions and evaluating whether or not you actually have a retention risk."
The online survey "Trends in Granting Equity" was conducted between March 16-25, 2022 and 187 organizations responded. Most taking the survey (76%) reported they are either in HR or the c-suite and 19% are board members. Complete data and analysis is available at www.pearlmeyer.com.
Pearl Meyer is the leading advisor to boards and senior management on the alignment of executive compensation with business and leadership strategy, making pay programs a powerful catalyst for value creation and competitive advantage. Pearl Meyer's global clients stand at the forefront of their industries and range from emerging high-growth, not-for-profit, and private companies to the Fortune 500 and FTSE 350. The firm has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and San Jose.
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Gun found in backpack at Hankins Middle School causes brief lockdown
Published: May. 11, 2022 at 12:11 PM CDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A gun found in a backpack at Hankins Middle School caused a brief lockdown this morning.
According to the Mobile County School System, the lockdown is now lifted and students have resumed normal activities and classes.
The School is currently investigating the incident with the Mobile Police.
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Lucknow, May 11
Uttar Pradesh police chief Mukul Goel was on Wednesday removed from his post for neglecting his work, an official statement said.
He has been made the Director General (DG) of the Civil Defence department, it said.
The statement added that Goel was removed from the post of DGP for neglecting official work and not taking interest in departmental work.
Goel, a 1987-batch IPS officer, was appointed the Uttar Pradesh director general of police (DGP) in June last year.
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Randa will lead the organization to further power the future of quality recruitment for organizations across the globe
NEW YORK and LONDON, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Symphony Talent, a global leader in recruitment marketing technology, today announced the appointment of Kermit Randa as its new Chief Executive Officer. Randa joins Symphony Talent as it enters its next phase of growth and continues to enable its customers to deliver exceptional recruiting experiences – at speed and scale.
Randa succeeds former CEO Roopesh Nair, who will assume a new role as the company's Chief Product Officer. In his new position, Nair will leverage his extensive product engineering expertise to continue driving innovation that addresses the evolving needs facing time- and attention- acquisition teams.
"As the Great Resignation evolves to the Great Reimagination, where organizations are rethinking the meaning of jobs, employees, and flex work, it's critical that we empower them with successful strategies and innovative tools so they can succeed now and in the future," said Randa. "Our people, technology and data-driven insights are uniquely positioned to deliver customer-centric solutions that address the challenges that CEOs, CHROs and their talent acquisition teams contend with today. It's energizing to join an organization with a progressive vision, and I look forward to helping realize this vision."
"Kermit's highly accomplished background as an executive leader gives us much to be excited about for the future of Symphony Talent," said Sunit Mukherjee, Managing Director at Symphony Technology Group (STG), the private equity firm backing the company. "Symphony Talent is attuned to the challenges that talent recruitment teams face around the world. With Kermit onboard, and partnering with Roopesh, we are confident that Symphony Talent will continue to grow its loyal customer base exponentially and further evolve its already impressive product portfolio."
With over 30 years of experience leading SaaS-based companies through periods of innovation and transformation Randa's expertise includes software and business intelligence, organizational growth and innovation, and strategic partnership cultivation. Most recently, Randa was CEO of Syntellis Performance Solutions where he and his team significantly advanced the business through innovation, acquisitions, and operational enhancements. Prior to that, he served as CEO of PeopleAdmin, a management SaaS company, and chief growth officer at Waystar .
As a recognized team builder, Randa's vision, and ability to help companies realize significant top-line growth and bottom-line results, while consistently delivering an exceptional customer experience, make him an ideal leader for Symphony Talent.
About Symphony Talent
Symphony Talent is a recruitment marketing technology company that helps talent acquisition teams automate tasks and empower innovative candidate interactions. Symphony Talent's award-winning EVP strategy, employer brand campaigns, career site design and recruitment technology support customers across the globe, including the world's leading brands. Visit symphonytalent.com to learn more.
About Symphony Technology Group
STG is the private equity partner to market-leading companies in data, software, and analytics. The firm brings expertise, flexibility, and resources to build strategic value and unlock the potential of innovative companies. Partnering to build customer-centric, market-winning portfolio companies, STG creates sustainable foundations for growth that bring value to all existing and future stakeholders. The firm is dedicated to transforming and building outstanding technology companies in partnership with world-class management teams. STG's expansive portfolio has consisted of more than 35 global companies. For more information, please visit www.stgpartners.com.
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Port Arthur ISD officials detail security response to gun on campus at Thomas Jefferson Middle
Published 10:06 am Wednesday, May 11, 2022
A Thomas Jefferson Middle School student has been suspended for bringing a firearm to campus.
A written release from Port Arthur Independent School District leaders said school administrators implemented safety procedures after they were notified Monday morning.
It was reported that the student “accidentally” arrived at school with a firearm in a backpack.
Once the realization occurred, the student immediately went to a teacher on campus to report the weapon in their backpack.
The teacher escorted the student to the main office and notified the building principal and off-duty PAPD officer on campus.
The school implemented and followed procedures and protocols to maintain safety inside the building.
The Port Arthur Police Department responded to the campus call. The student has been suspended pending further disciplinary actions.
“The safety and security of our students and staff remain our top priority, and we respond to every report. We would like to remind parents it is urgent to talk with our students – your children – at home about the dangers of weapons and the importance of reporting any suspicious activity they learn of while on campus to school administrators immediately.”
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After numerous rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF), Genevieve Pearson Adair was excited to have 18 fertilized eggs. But it turned out that 14 of them have the Fragile X gene associated with intellectual and developmental disability. She has kept them frozen, unsure of what to do, hoping for a time when medical science could provide clearer answers.
But now, with the constitutional right to abortion hanging in the balance, she fears the right to determine their fate may be taken away from her.
A Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, amid the roiling landscape of state reproductive politics, is expected to open the door to state laws that give human embryos legal rights and protections - a possibility that would throw the fertility industry into upheaval and potentially limit choices would-be parents currently have about whether to use, store, or discard genetic material that is part of the in vitro fertilization process.
"I and others are fearful of being labeled murderers for trying to do what is best not just for our children, but for future generations of humanity," said Adair, 38.
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The passage of fetal “personhood” laws and the legal fights over their constitutionality would likely go on for years, experts say. So Roe’s reversal is unlikely to have an immediate effect on assisted reproduction, which plays a role in the births of 55,000 babies each year, or 2 percent of all births in the United States. But such state statutes would almost surely lead to new state regulations regarding IVF, which in turn could spur policy overhauls and cost increases more broadly, they said.
IVF involves removing eggs from a woman's ovaries, fertilizing them with sperm in a laboratory, and returning the resulting embryo to the woman's womb to develop. To make the process cost- and time-efficient, women take drugs to stimulate the growth of more than one egg at a time. One often misunderstood aspect is the number of fertilized eggs, or embryos, that will never grow into babies and are discarded. A couple might find, for instance, that among 10 embryos, most carry a mix of normal and abnormal cells, or have abnormal cells with an infinitesimally low probability of implanting in a woman's uterus. Even fertilized eggs that test as "normal" often do not result in pregnancies.
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Many on the religious right are uneasy with IVF for some of the same reasons they oppose abortion - they believe life begins at conception and therefore embryos should be accorded the full protection of the law. With the 1973 legal precedent of Roe under threat, and authority potentially returning to state legislatures to decide the issue, efforts to reevaluate abortion laws are underway. Thirteen states have so-called "trigger" laws banning abortion that would go into effect immediately if Roe is overturned.
Alabama has added language to its law that makes it clear eggs fertilized in a laboratory for the purpose of IVF are excluded from the state's ban. But lawmakers in Louisiana advanced a bill last week seeking to make abortion equivalent to homicide and defining human life as starting from the moment of fertilization. In Nebraska, lawmakers are considering a bill that the American Civil Liberties Union said may create barriers for women struggling with infertility due to the ambiguity of the wording regarding when life begins.
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The fall of Roe would create "a whole cascade of questions and problems" for a wide range of reproductive technologies, including contraception and IVF, said Jane Maienschein, director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University.
Lab-made human embryos fall into moral and legal limbo for many people - between life and not-yet-life. Some believe they should remain outside state control to give families the freedom and privacy to manage eggs, sperm and embryos in accord with their own religious and moral views, while others view them as autonomous beings deserving of the full protection of the law.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine, which is made up of fertility experts, said it is "very concerned" about the issue and is fighting state legislation that "intentionally or otherwise may endanger access to infertility care."
"Health care decisions, particularly on reproductive matters, need to be the purview of patients and their physicians, not politicians," ASRM president Marcelle Cedars said in a statement.
But several organizations opposed to abortion rights have also fought against standard IVF procedures, including the discarding or donation of unused embryos. When Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was going through the confirmation process, abortion rights advocates noted that she had previously belonged to an organization that held that discarding unused embryos during the IVF process should be a crime. It is not known whether she shares those views.
Stephanie Boys, an associate professor of social work and an adjunct professor of law at Indiana University, wrote a 2019 paper on the subject of Roe and IVF, shortly after conservative Brett Kavanaugh was elevated to the Supreme Court. She said the absence of a constitutionally protected right to abortion might create challenges for a number of accepted practices in the US fertility industry, such as screening embryos for genetic diseases, as well as “selective reduction,” which is used to terminate one or more embryos when a woman is carrying multiples that might threaten her health.
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At the time, Boys said she thought of her analysis as a theoretical exercise. Today, she wonders about the possibility of IVF no longer being a viable option for some people, if states limit practices that potentially lead to lower success rates and increased costs.
"To be honest," Boys said, "I really didn't see this happening in real life."
The modern-day fertility industry began in 1978, when Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby," was born in Manchester, England. Since then, more than 8 million babies have been born using in vitro fertilization, a procedure now accepted by most major religions.
A key reason for the success of the fertility industry in the United States is that there are fewer limits than in some other countries, which restrict the number of eggs fertilized at the same time, require that all fertilized eggs be implanted instead of frozen, or limit genetic screenings.
Past efforts to enact stricter controls on IVF clinics and processes have mostly cropped up after revelations of doctors impregnating their own patients, freezer malfunctions that resulted in the destruction of eggs or sperm, or as part of "wrongful birth" lawsuits in which women were implanted with embryos that were not theirs. But such campaigns have failed to result in significant change, and the IVF industry remains mostly self-regulated.
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But that may change in a world without Roe. For instance, a measure under consideration in Nebraska - one of the states where abortion is likely to be banned - that defines life as beginning at fertilization "has a very real potential to impact our ability to safely and effectively perform IVF procedures," said Elizabeth Constance, a doctor at the Heartland Center for Reproductive Medicine in Omaha.
Constance explained that "human reproduction is really inefficient" and often requires multiple efforts to implant fertilized eggs to achieve pregnancy. The language used by some laws raises questions about what might be considered a crime: "There are concerns about whether there will be repercussions related to embryos that don't survive in the lab," she said. "What about those put in the uterus and don't implant? That's all in a gray area."
Any laws on IVF would potentially impact large segments of the American population. One in 8 couples is estimated to be impacted by infertility, including cancer survivors who are often offered a chance to freeze eggs or embryos before treatment, and wounded veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nina Osborne, 40, and her husband have been trying to conceive through IVF for more than two years after a previous pregnancy ended in miscarriage. She's had four egg retrievals, and is preparing for a fifth next month. Of the 11 embryos the couple has created, only three have come back normal after genetic testing, and doctors have said they will likely need more to have a good chance of having the two children they desire.
Osborne, an American Sign Language interpreter from Parkville, Md., said she and other women in her position are living in "pure fear" now - racing against time to give birth before their access to assisted reproductive technologies may change.
"If the Supreme Court makes the decision to overturn [Roe] final, what's next?" she wondered. "Will we lose access to care that we need to grow our family?"
Amity Gilman, 43, who lives in Alexandria, Va., and works in information technology, shares similar worries. She said the decisions she has had to make during eight years of fertility treatments have been agonizing without government involvement. In 2019, she experienced her only successful pregnancy, but the embryo implanted outside her uterus in a fallopian tube, threatening her life. Even as she screamed in pain as the tube ruptured, she said her heart broke when she could hear the heartbeat of the embryo they had to remove to save her life.
Daniela Matarazzo, who founded a Facebook support group for women facing infertility, went through seven rounds of IVF. Along the way, Matarazzo, who is Catholic, said she struggled with what to do with extra embryos. She ended up using all of them - giving birth to twins six years ago - but she knows of many women who have embryos in storage.
"They are asking, 'Does that count for 30 lives if you discard them?'" she said.
Many women undergoing fertility treatments tend to have complex medical needs that may also put them at higher risk of needing to terminate a pregnancy.
Matarazzo herself suffered extreme, persistent nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, was hospitalized several times in the first trimester for broken blood vessels, and developed cholestasis, a potentially serious liver condition, in week 24. Doctors managed to stabilize her and her babies were born healthy. But it might have gone very differently.
"I would hate for someone to be in the middle of a deadly pregnancy, and the doctors wouldn't know how to act for fear of being in trouble because some of these laws are changing," she said.
Adair, the woman who has 18 embryos, lives in California, which guarantees the right to abortion. But friends in more conservative states whose embryos also carry the Fragile X gene are starting to move them to states that protect abortion. She also worries about the possibility of a Republican-controlled Congress imposing a nationwide abortion ban and what that might mean for women like her, who have embryos with potentially fatal or serious genetic abnormalities.
“No one should be forced to carry a child to term they don’t want,” said Adair, who works as a producer on reality shows in Los Angeles. “But there is another level of horror when it’s a child you want, but who faces a life of pain and suffering if they are brought into this world.” | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/11/nation/legal-gray-areas-could-arise-fertility-treatments-if-roe-overturned/ | 2022-05-11T17:34:11Z | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/11/nation/legal-gray-areas-could-arise-fertility-treatments-if-roe-overturned/ | true | 3 |
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Welcome to Wednesday’s Marlins (13-17, +1 RD) vs. Diamondbacks (17-14, -5 RD) game thread. The D-backs have an opportunity to complete a season series sweep of the Fish for the first time ever.
Our free Marlins prop bets contest has returned...with a few tweaks.
Use this Fish Picks link prior to every Marlins series to submit your predictions. I have divided the Marlins schedule into nine separate “innings” and will be awarding a BreakingT t-shirt to each inning’s points leader. The second inning runs from April 29 through May 18.
Marlins Game Notes
Marlins Starting Lineup
- 2B Jazz Chisholm Jr. (167 wRC+ this season, career 104 wRC+)
- 1B Garrett Cooper (123, 119)
- DH Jorge Soler (81, 110)
- 3B Joey Wendle (116, 104)
- RF Avisaíl García (43, 102)
- SS Miguel Rojas (48, 86)
- CF Jesús Sánchez (104, 104)
- LF Bryan De La Cruz (134, 118)
- C Jacob Stallings (51, 87)
RHP Sandy Alcantara
Lineup Changes from Previous Game: Chisholm, De La Cruz and Stallings in, Jesús Aguilar, Erik González and Payton Henry out; Soler switches from LF to DH, Cooper switches from DH to 1B, Wendle switches from 2B to 3B
Additional Notes: Alcantara’s 11.0% walk rate is his worst since 2018, and he’s going up against an Arizona offense which ranks third in the majors in that department (10.6 BB%)...Rojas got himself back up to the Mendoza Line (.200 BA) for the first time since April 10. Many aspects of his batted ball profile are the same as ever, so expect his results to continue gradually improving.
Diamondbacks Starting Lineup
- C Daulton Varsho (130, 100)
- RF Pavin Smith (122, 100)
- LF David Peralta (103, 111)
- 1B Christian Walker (85, 99)
- 3B Josh Rojas (82, 88)
- 2B Ketel Marte (85, 111)
- DH Seth Beer (81, 101
- SS Geraldo Perdomo (92, 96)
- CF Alek Thomas (124, 124)
RHP Merrill Kelly
Notes: Same lineup we saw in the series opener, except with Perdomo and Thomas flipping spots at the bottom of the order...The D-backs starting rotation is thriving with a 2.34 earned run average through 31 games. No doubt, they’ve benefited from good luck, such as MLB’s lowest batting average on balls in play (.235) and home run/fly ball rate (5.7%).
How to Watch/Listen/Follow
First pitch is scheduled for 3:40 p.m. ET. Watch on Bally Sports Sun—Paul Severino and J.P. Arencibia in the booth—or listen to the radio broadcast on Fox Sports 940 Miami (Glenn Geffner and Rod Allen). Out-of-market viewers can stream the game on MLB.TV.
I will handle the game recap article.
All four Marlins full-season minor league affiliates are also in action. Follow @FishProspects for notes and highlights.
DraftKings Odds | https://www.fishstripes.com/2022/5/11/23066196/mlb-preview-lineups-game-predictions-marlins-diamondbacks | 2022-05-11T17:36:08Z | https://www.fishstripes.com/2022/5/11/23066196/mlb-preview-lineups-game-predictions-marlins-diamondbacks | true | 1 |
A New York judge said Wednesday he’s close to releasing Donald Trump from a contempt finding, but only if the former president meets certain conditions, including paying $110,000 in fines accrued for failing to turn over documents in a state civil investigation.
Judge Arthur Engoron said he will conditionally lift Trump’s contempt finding if, by May 20, Trump submits additional affidavits detailing efforts to search for records and explaining his and his company’s document retention policies, a company he hired to aid the search completes its work and he pays the fines.
Engoron ruled Trump in contempt on April 25 and fined him $10,000 per day for not complying with a subpoena for documents in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation, which is probing whether Trump may have misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for over a decade.
The total Engoron ordered Trump to pay is the fine accrued through May 6, when Trump’s lawyers submitted 66 pages of court documents detailing efforts to locate the subpoenaed records. Engoron could reinstate the fine if the conditions he set forth on Wednesday are not met.
A message seeking comment was left with Trump’s lawyer.
James, a Democrat, asked Engoron to hold Trump in contempt after he failed to produce any documents to satisfy a March 31 deadline to meet the terms of the subpoena.
Trump attorney Alina Habba said in the May 6 filing that the responses to the subpoena were complete and correct and that no relevant documents or information were withheld.
Habba conducted searches of Trump’s offices and private quarters at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, according to the filing, but didn’t find any relevant documents that hadn’t already been produced. The filing also detailed searches of other locations including file cabinets and storage areas at the Trump Organization’s offices in New York.
In a separate sworn affidavit included with the filing, Trump stated there aren’t any relevant documents that haven’t already been produced.
He added that he owns two cellphones: an iPhone for personal use that he submitted in March to be searched as part of the subpoena, then submitted again in May; plus a second phone he was recently given that’s only used to post on Truth Social, the social media network he started after his ban from Twitter, Facebook and other platforms.
Also Wednesday, a state appellate court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Trump’s appeal in another subpoena matter: Engoron’s Feb. 17 ruling requiring him to answer questions under oath in James’ investigation. | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/judge-says-if-trump-pays-110k-in-fines-meets-other-conditions-he-will-end-contempt-finding/2943444/ | 2022-05-11T17:36:49Z | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/judge-says-if-trump-pays-110k-in-fines-meets-other-conditions-he-will-end-contempt-finding/2943444/ | true | 21 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Executives at contract vaccine manufacturer Emergent BioSolutions covered up quality control problems that led to more than 400 million doses of coronavirus vaccines needing to be trashed, congressional investigators said in a report Tuesday.
The number of destroyed doses was far higher than previously thought, and senior executives had been warned for years that its quality systems were deficient, according to the House committee report.
“Despite major red flags at its vaccine manufacturing facility, Emergent’s executives swept these problems under the rug and continued to rake in taxpayer dollars,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
The report said inexperienced staff and high turnover rates contributed to vaccine contamination.
The problem-plagued Baltimore factory was shut down by the Food and Drug Administration in April 2021 due to the contamination. The company was forced to trash what was thought to be the equivalent of tens of millions of doses of vaccine it was making for Johnson & Johnson. The bulk vaccine had been contaminated with an ingredient for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, which was being made in the same factory.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed Emergent to resume COVID-19 vaccine production in August 2021. Emergent received $330 million in taxpayer funds before the federal government terminated the contract in November, the report said.
A company spokesman said Tuesday the report contained “nothing new,” and that the company had already provided the information to the media and FDA.
“Emergent has been open and forthcoming with the FDA, Congress and our partners about the work at our Bayview site,” the spokesman said in an emailed statement.
Emergent’s chief executive, Robert G. Kramer, has apologized for “the failure of our controls” and blamed the factory's problems on the complexity of scaling up production quickly on two different vaccines. | https://www.manufacturing.net/safety/news/22223433/house-panel-alleges-coverup-by-contract-vaccine-maker | 2022-05-11T17:37:14Z | https://www.manufacturing.net/safety/news/22223433/house-panel-alleges-coverup-by-contract-vaccine-maker | false | 18 |
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Arnaud Démare relishes Giro d’Italia win after Mark Cavendish, Caleb Ewan dropped
Groupama-FDJ help tow the big French sprinter over the stage's hard climb that proved too much for several key rivals.
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MESSINA, Italy (VN) — Arnaud Démare knew the category-two Portella Mandrazzi climb midway through Wednesday’s fifth stage at the Giro d’Italia was just as important as the finish line.
In fact, he knew his chances of being first across the line in Messina could only be assured if he made it up and over the short but steep climb.
And the French veteran also knew his chances of victory would be even more greatly enhanced if a few of his sprinter rivals didn’t get over the top with him.
So when the crackle of the race radio revealed that pre-stage favorites Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) and Mark Cavendish (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) were struggling, Démare buried himself.
“I knew it would be difficult today on the climb and the teams were trying to make it hard for the sprinters,” Démare said. “Instead of risking exploding today, I went at my own pace, and I had my entire team around me. We did a very, very fast descent, and were catching groups, and we were able to reconnect with the leaders.”
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And once Démare and his FDJ-Groupama teammates were at the front, it was their turn to pile on the speed to make sure Ewan and Cavendish never came back.
“Also on the flat section after the downhill we rode hard,” Démare said. “When we heard that Ewan and Cavendish were off the bike, we had to keep going to stop them coming back.”
Such is the harsh, no-pity world of bunch sprints.
There are only a handful of chances for sprinters in this Giro, and they all come in the first two weeks. With the final week stacked up with climbs, the Giro is over pretty much for all the sprinters by the end of the second week.
So riders like Démare and every other fast finisher had stage 5 marked in their road books.
In fact, Démare won here in 2020, after making it over the same climb on a very similar course. In that Giro, Démare rattled off one big Giro stage victory after another.
This year, Démare’s been struggling to find the wins. In fact, he was winless this season until he out-kicked Fernando Gaviria and Giacomo Nizzolo to take his first of 2020.
“Any sprinter likes to win, and win often,” Démare said. “It didn’t happen for me since Paris-Tours last year, and since the beginning of the year I felt good but I did not win. When I raised my arms up in the air today, only five seconds later that I felt a big relief.”
Will one win feed another? It’s hard to say.
There are few more chances this week before the grueling stage 7 and the Blockhaus summit Sunday.
“Today was a day for us to win,” Démare said. “We knew it was a good chance, and once you win once, it only builds your confidence.”
It might not be so easy next time if Ewan and Cavendish are back in the mix. | https://www.velonews.com/events/giro-ditalia/arnaud-demare-relishes-giro-ditalia-win-after-dropping-mark-cavendish-caleb-ewan/ | 2022-05-11T17:39:18Z | https://www.velonews.com/events/giro-ditalia/arnaud-demare-relishes-giro-ditalia-win-after-dropping-mark-cavendish-caleb-ewan/ | true | 1 |
In the U.S., 40% of the nation’s baby formula is out of stock.
Contaminated formula by a major producer, recalls and the coronavirus pandemic have all contributed to the shortage — but that is only part of the problem, according to Derek Thompson, staff writer for the Atlantic.
Thompson explains why he thinks U.S. trade policies and the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of formula have made the country much more vulnerable to supply chain issues.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kuaf.com/2022-05-11/americas-baby-formula-crisis-the-role-of-regulations-and-trade-policy | 2022-05-11T17:40:00Z | https://www.kuaf.com/2022-05-11/americas-baby-formula-crisis-the-role-of-regulations-and-trade-policy | false | null |
Judge announces he’ll block DeSantis’ redistricting plan
Published: May. 11, 2022 at 1:13 PM EDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A congressional map approved by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and drawn by his staff is unconstitutional because it breaks up a district where Black voters can choose their representatives, a state judge said Wednesday.
Leon County Circuit Judge Layne Smith said he would issue a formal order Thursday or Friday to keep the maps from taking effect in November’s election. He made it clear he would rule in favor of voting rights groups challenging the maps.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wsaz.com/2022/05/11/judge-announces-hell-block-desantis-redistricting-plan/ | 2022-05-11T17:41:05Z | https://www.wsaz.com/2022/05/11/judge-announces-hell-block-desantis-redistricting-plan/ | true | null |
West Northamptonshire Council has confirmed that schools WERE told that free school meal vouchers were being scrapped and they are now contacting schools to explain why the decision has been changed.
Multiple parents got in touch with Chronicle & Echo to say their children's schools had sent out letters saying that WNC would not be issuing vouchers over the half-term, which is from Monday, May 30 to Friday, June 3.
This newspaper had seen emails from a number of schools, which confirmed these reports.
The school's emails to parents were identical, saying: "We have been informed that WNC has made the decision to not fund school holiday food vouchers for the May half-term period and therefore we will not be issuing any voucher links for our free school meal children as in previous holidays."
This newspaper contacted the council on Monday (May 9) for a response and an explanation.
However, after receiving no response from the council, this newspaper printed the story to say the council had “reportedly scrapped the scheme helping the most vulnerable children in society”.
The story was met with outrage from Chron readers.
A number of Conservative councillors also took to social media to state the story was inaccurate and some posted images of Donald Trump, declaring the Chron's original article to be “fake news”.
Later this morning (May 11), WNC had issued a statement to say it would be offering free school meal vouchers during the May half-term, which was at odds with what schools had apparently been told.
However, following a further approach from the Chronicle & Echo for clarification, the council confirmed that schools had been told that the vouchers would not be issued. The schools would now be contacted again, stating that the vouchers would, in fact, be issued, the spokesman said.
In a statement, a West Northamptonshire Council spokesman said: "We are always reviewing the support we can provide to vulnerable residents and, having recently completed the review of all the outstanding claims being processed for 2021/22 we identified that we still have funding available to provide free school meal vouchers during the May half-term holiday.
"We are in the process of informing schools about this change in arrangements and expect the vouchers to be issued this month ahead of the half-term holidays."
A North Northamptonshire Council spokesman added: "The latest communications [from the free school meals service based in the North of the county] were sent out on Friday and the picture at the time was that FSM for May half-term were only being offered in the North."
The spokesman added that schools have been updated today. | https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/politics/west-northamptonshire-council-confirms-schools-were-told-free-school-meal-vouchers-were-being-scrapped-but-now-theyre-told-the-scheme-will-continue-3690137 | 2022-05-11T17:42:32Z | https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/politics/west-northamptonshire-council-confirms-schools-were-told-free-school-meal-vouchers-were-being-scrapped-but-now-theyre-told-the-scheme-will-continue-3690137 | false | 1 |
Ski season still going strong on Mt. Hood with extra blast of snow
CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - Rain continues this weekend in Portland, which means snow in the mountains. It’s not unusual for people to head to the mountain but, what is unusual, is the fresh snow in May. Mt. Hood Meadows announced it received a foot of snow Friday...
www.kptv.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2595932501627/ski-season-still-going-strong-on-mt-hood-with-extra-blast-of-snow | 2022-05-11T17:44:41Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2595932501627/ski-season-still-going-strong-on-mt-hood-with-extra-blast-of-snow | true | null |
Ten countries advanced last night from the first round of Eurovision semi-finals to the final round of the songwriting competition, which will take place on Saturday in Turin, Italy.
Among them was Ukraine, represented by rap-folk band Kalush Orchestra. The three-member group — with their iconic pink bucket hat, energetic breakdancer and colorful traditional clothing — is favored to win the competition, with bookmaker Parimatch Ukraine putting their odds at 73% on Wednesday. (Votes are cast by professional juries and viewers from the participating countries.)
They received a standing ovation after last night's performance, during which Ukraine's Eurovision commentator could be seen broadcasting from a bomb shelter. And it wasn't just Ukrainian fans rooting for them: Acts from other countries, including Lithuania and Iceland, showed their support for Ukraine with statements and symbols.
The rap, flute loop, the bucket hat, the breakdancing, the sparkly waistcoat. We will never be as cool as Kalush Orchestra. 🇺🇦 #Eurovision #ESC2022 pic.twitter.com/TeUmYjiI7m
— Eurovision Song Contest (@Eurovision) May 10, 2022
The core members of the group, which was founded as Kalush in 2019, are Oleh Psiuk, multi-instrumentalist Ihor Didenchuk, and dancer Vlad Kurochka, also known as MC Kilimmen.
They launched Kalush Orchestra, which combines hip-hop with elements of traditional Ukrainian folk music, in 2021 with additional musicians, including Tymofii Muzychuk, Vitalii Duzhyk, and Dzhonni Dyvny.
The band's Eurovision entry, "Stefania," is a unique earworm combining old Ukranian melodies and traditional flute with contemporary beats and rap. The performance itself included both folk dancing and break dancing, and the musicians wore a mix of embroidered Cossack shirts and modern streetwear.
Psiuk wrote "Stefania" about his own mother before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since then, many Ukrainians have come to associate the song — with translated lyrics like "I will always walk to you by broken roads" and "the field blooms, but she is turning gray" — with their own motherland.
"After it all started with the war and the hostilities, it took on additional meaning, and many people started seeing it as their mother, Ukraine, in the meaning of the country," Psiuk told the Associated Press last week. "It has become really close to the hearts of so many people in Ukraine."
The song has broad popularity in countries across northern Europe, where it's climbing up several Spotify charts.
While Eurovision calls itself a nonpolitical event, Russia's war in Ukraine has loomed large in the international competition. Organizers banned Russian acts back in February, and Kalush Orchestra replaced Ukraine's original contestant, Alina Pash, after the country's national broadcaster suspended her while investigating a 2015 trip she made to Crimea.
The all-male group needed special permission from Ukrainian authorities to travel to Italy for the contest, as the country has banned men of fighting age from leaving the country. One original band member stayed behind to fight, the AP reports, and all plan to return to Ukraine after Eurovision ends.
While they are hoping to boost Ukrainians' morale with a win, they have said in interviews that shining a global spotlight on the country's culture and identity is in itself a form of victory.
"We understand that we must be totally focused and concentrated, because we are here to show that Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian music exist," Psiuk said at a press conference, according to an English translation. "They are alive and they have a very beautiful and special signature. So we are totally focused on this purpose."
This story originally appeared in the Morning Edition live blog.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wbaa.org/2022-05-11/a-fan-favorite-band-from-ukraine-advances-to-the-eurovision-grand-final | 2022-05-11T17:45:15Z | https://www.wbaa.org/2022-05-11/a-fan-favorite-band-from-ukraine-advances-to-the-eurovision-grand-final | false | 13 |
Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc. increased its position in Legg Mason International Low Volatility High Dividend ETF (BATS:LVHI – Get Rating) by 0.5% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 115,141 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 629 shares during the quarter. Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc.’s holdings in Legg Mason International Low Volatility High Dividend ETF were worth $3,052,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. raised its position in shares of Legg Mason International Low Volatility High Dividend ETF by 10.2% in the 3rd quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 9,119 shares of the company’s stock worth $233,000 after buying an additional 843 shares during the period. Dynamic Advisor Solutions LLC raised its position in shares of Legg Mason International Low Volatility High Dividend ETF by 15.4% in the 4th quarter. Dynamic Advisor Solutions LLC now owns 15,670 shares of the company’s stock worth $415,000 after buying an additional 2,092 shares during the period. Venturi Wealth Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Legg Mason International Low Volatility High Dividend ETF in the 3rd quarter worth $479,000. UBS Group AG raised its position in shares of Legg Mason International Low Volatility High Dividend ETF by 433.7% in the 3rd quarter. UBS Group AG now owns 4,430 shares of the company’s stock worth $114,000 after buying an additional 3,600 shares during the period. Finally, LPL Financial LLC raised its position in shares of Legg Mason International Low Volatility High Dividend ETF by 21.2% in the 3rd quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 49,453 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,264,000 after buying an additional 8,659 shares during the period.
BATS:LVHI opened at $26.84 on Wednesday. Legg Mason International Low Volatility High Dividend ETF has a 12 month low of $26.56 and a 12 month high of $32.65. The business’s 50-day moving average is $26.96 and its two-hundred day moving average is $26.70.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Garth Brooks will be back in western New York this summer for a stop on The Garth Brooks Stadium Tour.
It’s been more than seven years since the United States’ top-selling solo artist of all time has performed here. The local stop on his international tour will take place July 23.
And plenty of people are expected to go, as this one will be at Highmark Stadium. Brooks will have no trouble filling the seats, it seems, as numerous previously-announced dates have already sold out.
Happening rain or shine, the concert will kick off at 7 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 20 at 10 a.m. and there will be an eight ticket limit. They’ll cost $98.95.
To get tickets once they’re on sale, either go to Ticketmaster, call 1-877-654-2784 or use the Ticketmaster app.
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Dimensional Fund Advisors LP boosted its holdings in shares of Mueller Industries, Inc. (NYSE:MLI – Get Rating) by 0.9% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 1,970,731 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after purchasing an additional 17,425 shares during the quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP owned about 3.44% of Mueller Industries worth $116,981,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new stake in Mueller Industries during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Costello Asset Management INC bought a new stake in Mueller Industries in the 4th quarter worth approximately $35,000. Whittier Trust Co. bought a new stake in Mueller Industries in the 4th quarter worth approximately $47,000. First Horizon Advisors Inc. increased its stake in Mueller Industries by 273.9% in the 3rd quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 344 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $48,000 after acquiring an additional 252 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Point72 Hong Kong Ltd bought a new stake in Mueller Industries in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $57,000. 88.66% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
In other news, Director John B. Hansen sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, April 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $60.33, for a total transaction of $120,660.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 57,885 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,492,202.05. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, Director Scott Jay Goldman sold 2,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $57.11, for a total value of $142,775.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders own 2.90% of the company’s stock.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, June 17th. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.91%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 2nd. Mueller Industries’s dividend payout ratio is currently 10.08%.
Separately, StockNews.com assumed coverage on Mueller Industries in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “strong-buy” rating on the stock.
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Mueller Industries, Inc manufactures and sells copper, brass, aluminum, and plastic products in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, the Middle East, China, and Mexico. It operates through three segments: Piping Systems, Industrial Metals, and Climate. The Piping Systems segment offers copper tubes, fittings, line sets, and pipe nipples; PEX plumbing and radiant systems; and plumbing-related fittings and plastic injection tooling.
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Unbeaten Bivol posts upset of Canelo with unanimous decision
LAS VEGAS — (AP) — It didn’t matter that Dmitry Bivol entered Saturday night’s title defense with the WBA light heavyweight belt.
He walked to the ring first, amidst boos, and allowed challenger Saul “Canelo” Alvarez a grand entrance filled with a Mariachi band, fireworks, and boxing’s pound-for-pound great on a raised platform.
Bivol just wanted to fight. And fight he did.
Using height and reach to his advantage, Bivol continually battered Alvarez throughout the fight to retain his title by unanimous decision at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip.
“Doesn’t matter which one, first or second, doesn’t matter to me — I just wanted this fight,” Bivol said of the ring entrance. “Doesn’t matter which sound he has, which sound I have, how he went in. ... And when he was going to the ting, and I heard the crowd, I really enjoyed how the crowd was yelling.”
The unbeaten Bivol (20-0, 11 KOs), who has held a version of his belt since May 2016, handed Alvarez (57-2-2, 39 KOs) just the second defeat of his career. All three judges scored the bout 115-113 in Bivol's favor.
In dominating fashion, Bivol landed 36% of his power punches, per CompuBox, and outpunched Canelo, 152-84. Canelo’s 84 landed punches were the fewest landed in a 12-round fight.
“I knew that he has hard punches and he will beat on my body or my arm,” Bivol said. “I think from the (start) of the fight, I see him; I see what he wants to do.”
After opening the fight with a trio of very close rounds, it was clear Bivol would be able to utilize his taller and longer advantages to pepper Alvarez and keep him off when charging with his power punches.
Bivol seemingly took control in the fifth round, when he got Alvarez on the ropes and landed several punches to his face. Alvarez brushed them off and waved him in for more, but Bivol backed off with poise and drew the action back to the center of the ring.
It was poise and control that allowed him to land straight shots through Canelo’s arms and onto his face to close the fight and help him win seven of the final eight rounds on all three judges’ scorecards.
Alvarez, who moved back up to the heaviest weight of his career to contend for the 175-pound title, disagreed with the judges and said he thought he lost four or five rounds at the most.
“I definitely didn’t lose the fight,” Alvarez said through a translator. “I think I got a little bit tired toward the final rounds, but I felt good.”
Alvarez, who wore sunglasses to his post-fight press conference, but was clearly swollen around his eyes and forehead, fought at light heavyweight only one other time in his career, beating Sergey Kovalev in late 2019.
Alvarez’s only other loss was to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013.
With a rematch clause in the contract, Alvarez said during an interview in the ring after the fight he wanted a rematch with the Kyrgyzstan-born Russian champion.
Bivol responded: “No problem.”
Both fighters, however, were non-committal in their press conferences, saying they would need to see what’s next for both of them.
In the co-main event at 140 pounds, Montana Love (18-0-1, 10 KOs) beat Gabriel Valenzuela (25-3-1, 15 KOs) by unanimous decision with identical scores from all three judges (114-112). With the win, Love solidifies himself as a contender in the junior welterweight division.
Also from the main undercard, Shakhram Giyasov (13-0, 9 KOs) beat Christian Gomez (22-3-1, 20 KOs) by unanimous decision (98-89, 99-88, 99-88) in a 10-round welterweight bout.
Marc Castro (7-0, 5 KOs) won via unanimous decision (60-54) over Pedro Vicente (7-5-1, 2 KOs).
Zhilei Zhang (24-0-1, 19 KOs) knocked out Scott Alexander just 1:54 in the first round in a heavyweight clash. Alexander was a replacement after Filip Hrgovic was forced to withdraw from his scheduled bout against Zhang.
Earlier Saturday, Joselito Velazquez (15-0-1, 10 KOs) won with a 6th-round TKO over Jose Soto (15-2, 6 KOs).
Aaron Silva (10-0, 7 KOs) won via fourth-round TKO over Alexis Espino (9-1-1, 6 KOs).
Elnur Abduraimov (9-0, 8 KOs) won by way of second-round TKO over Manny Correa (11-1, 7 KOs).
Fernando Molina (8-0, 3 KOs) won a split decision over Ricardo Valdovinos (8-2, 5 KOs) with scores of 58-56, 57-56 for Molina and 57-56 for Valdavinos.
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Like any champion racer we search every single corner for gains, for performance and for perfection The 2023 KTM SXs will reshape the market as well as riders’ expectations. We haven’t changed our approach for outright excellence, so that means we’ve changed quite a bit for 2023.
We still have 12 models that scale from electric learner bikes through to two-stroke minicycles (50, 65, 85cc) to larger two-stroke thrillers at 125, 250 and 300cc capacity. The KTM SX-Fs consist of 250, 350 and 450 four-strokes. A potential AMA 450SX winner or MXGP world champion can grow in orange from his or her first metres on the dirt right up until those last few corners as a winner at the very highest level. So, we have the bikes but why jump into the family? Why embrace the KTM DNA? Well, the KTM SXs are the most powerful in each class and have the finest components. They are the most race focused.
Racing enables us to empower you. The 2023 KTM SXs are sleeker, slimmer, more controllable and the most desirable. They our best expression of the ultimate motocross race so we’re ready for when you want to get really serious.
We are market leaders with the use of cutting-edge ideas and technology throughout our motorcycle portfolio and the 2023 KTM SXs are primed. Partnerships with companies such as KEIHIN, PANKL, and Brembo means performance possibilities have expanded. The 2023 KTM SX range will count on two maps (one standard, softer and linear power and another for a more aggressive response), launch control*, traction control*, a roll-over sensor for large crashes, an hourmeter as standard with electronic fuel injection status and a fuel indicator through the Keihin engine management system. Other preparatory steps come through the tool-free adjustments now possible with the latest spec WP Suspension engineering. New 7.2 litre polythene fuel tanks can be filled (feeding into the protected one-piece fuel pump and filter) and a quick spin of the Excel alloy wheel rims is quicker and easier to check thanks to the fresh spoke nipple design. You’re READY TO RACE.
Gate-drop and surging into action
Fired up with the electric starter (on all models) KTM SXs hammer along the straight and into the corners and jumps with aplomb. Our engine packages are more compact, more durable, more serviceable and offer the best power-to-weight ratio across the board.
New cylinder heads translates into performance gains but rearwards rotation of the engines by 2 degrees has given better centralization and a more profound effect for the chassis concept. Brand new 5-speed PANKL Racing Systems transmissions with an additional sensor for the four-strokes mean that up-shifts (from 2nd gear onwards) are slicker thanks to the Quickshifter function. The Quickshifter can be disabled with a switch on the handlebar but a weight-optimised shift shaft in the transmission itself means that the operating force of the change is now less and, therefore, easier. A Brembo hydraulic clutch ensures top-of-the-range dependability whatever the conditions.
With our 2-strokes, less carbs = more muscle. We’ve graced our KTM SXs with a new electronic fuel injection to ensure simplicity, enjoyment and uniqueness. Therefore, the SXs get a new 39mm throttle body with injectors positioned for pinpoint response. A ‘remix to the premix’ counts on a TPS-sensor for better behavior while idle and for the fuel-air mixture (not forgetting the cold start mechanism which is the same as the KTM SX-Fs). The effect is more: more power, more response, more assurance, more ease, more fun.
The demands of competition, fitness and the track set the tone for any moto. It’s in the depths of this hard, physical stage of a race when the connection and feeling with any motorcycle can make the difference and fully harness the excitement and fulfilment. We’ve taken our chassis and frame design principles back to the core and have sought better dynamics, stability and strength. Longitudinal rigidity is a key phrase and with accentuated rider feeling coming through an anti-squat philosophy. This has been achieved by a new frame and mounts, subframe, swingarm, engine repositioning, ergonomics and WP Suspension tech.
The frame is hydro-formed, laser-cut and robot-welded. the wall thickness has been optimised to achieve improved rigidity in specific high stress areas such as the steering head and all new shock mounts. The KTM SX two-strokes have new parallel frame mounts. The design is sportier with sights on extra agility; an example comes through the new inwardly moved footpegs for even greater clearance in ruts and for dropping the bike flat for scrubs. New footpegs are even larger in surface area, even if the die casting means they are lighter than before. Stiffness has been dialed with lighter die cast hollow swingarms (new casting processes allow for even more weight saving) and a new rear axle.
The WP Suspension XACT shock is shorter and lighter. The internal flow of liquids is more flush, reliable and resistant, and the shock’s smaller dimensions lower the chances of pollutants and dirt intrusion. The shape permits higher ground clearance with the linkage and advanced damping means better traction as the bike swallows the bumps with the new geometry setting. Entering corners or landing jumps, any KTM SX can take full profit from WP XACT forks with AER air technology featuring a new hydrostop for more effective performance and more bottoming resistance.
The 2023 KTM SXs are narrower and honed, but we have managed to increase contact area and surfaces to allow even more input into the handling of the bike. The flat orange seat – offering excellent grip and greater control – and the reworked front fender are other identifiable marks. The mud flaps of the fender prevents excessive dirt being flicked up towards the rider and the radiator in particularly wet conditions.
Finishing the moto strong
You’ve gone faster and longer than ever, but any Pro racer will tell you that the last two or three laps of any moto are key. This is where the versatility and usability of the new KTM SXs are further fortes. The rate of energy absorption is high thanks to the forgiving chassis and other components such as the fresh CNC milled triple clamps with optimised bar mounts and wider grip surface area. This leads to less handlebar twist. The whole unit is protected by a new number plate design. The subframe is now a finely engineered hybrid thanks to polyamide reinforced aluminum, applying strength into the lower part of the frame and extending flexibility for control and comfort in upper sections. The subframe has been designed with advanced finite element analysis and weighs less than two kilos.
Count on the last centimetres of traction and performance provided by the Dunlop GEOMAX MX33 tires; chosen for the 2023 KTM SX line-up after a careful testing and selection process.
Once across the finish line it will be time to recover, to reset and to think about the next outing. At this point riders will consider mods and this is when accompanying KTM PowerParts and KTM PowerWear will have you covered. Riding gear, protection, extra parts and much more can be found and have been especially crafted for our 2023 KTM SX incarnations.
Welcome to the future. But don’t just take our word for it, watch out for a very special and exclusive video series on KTM digital channels to further breakdown the 2023 KTM SX range.
2023 KTM SX Collection highlights
// New, innovative and highly advanced generation of KTM SX motorcycles with unrivalled feeling and performance across 12 different models and the most complete collection from kids to Pro ass-kickers
// Brand new anti squat frame concept with redesigned and revitalized chassis setting and architecture. Even more centralisation
// Ergonomics bringing the rider in closer contact with the bike to help the stability, agility and feel
// Lighter, more powerful engines and distinctive fuel injected two-stroke motors
// Greater usability to make the motocross experience easier and more intuitive than ever before.
*only for SX-F models.
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Chicago, Illinois. MacKenzie Trexler is grateful for her two wonderful fur babies, Bean and Flynn, who always bring her tons of joy every day.
Especially for Bean with his cuddly and sweet personality. The kitty is currently 11-months-old and loves curling up on MacKenzie’s laps. Bean also bonds with Flynn, MacKenzie’s other cat. The two do everything together everywhere. They are just inseparable.
Unfortunately, MacKenzie found out last month that sweet little Bean has a liver shunt, which could be fatal if left untreated.
When MacKenzie first adopted Bean, she was informed about Bean’s liver issues. However, the staff at the rescue allegedly told her it wasn’t something too concerning, and Bean would eventually outgrow the problems with dietary supplements.
It turns out that wasn’t the case. With Bean’s vet’s careful examinations, the hospital told MacKenzie that Bean was born with this fatal condition, and testing was never done to rule out a liver shunt.
A liver shunt is an illness where the liver cannot filter out the toxicity of blood, so with this condition, Bean’s blood isn’t appropriately purified, which would slowly start poisoning him.
In addition, Bean would start experiencing painful neurological symptoms and even seizures if left untreated.
Cats with liver shunts also tend to have short lives. Two years is the average number for how long those cats could live.
GoFundMe; pictured above is Bean
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SAN DIEGO — These artists use music, art, and dance to express themselves through art.
But for these Asian American Pacific Islander Artists, it's more than just performing. It's a way of bringing their culture to life.
They're part of a brand new network called the United AAPI Artists or UAA. The network was created to empower AAPI artists in San Diego by providing support to help them reach their goals.
From networking opportunities to setting up open spaces where each artist can practice their craft.
Artist Trixi Agiao said, "It was nice to be in a room with Asian people from different places from not just film anymore. But also we have like actors and writers, more dancers more just like artists and writers who are like, willing to be together. It was nice to see that representation in the room."
The group has now taken on its own identity, opening doors for these artists who are changing the landscape, which has been lacking AAPI representation.
Thelma De Castro, with UAA says, "some people may not be comfortable with it. They may not be comfortable with people with accents or values. But that's part of our diversity, and that's what makes each artist's voice so special. There's no way to leave it behind."
With May being Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, these members are hoping the community steps in to support their artists by discovering the arts in San Diego.
Artist, Vietca Do says, "It's one of those months where we can celebrate eating and gathering and being together and art. Art is such a major factor in everyone's life that they just don't realize it, and it comes in so many different forms. You can come in TV and media and plays."
To learn more about the group, visit www.unitedaapiartists.org.
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CAIRO (AP) — Fighting on Wednesday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula left a general and four troops dead, the military said, just days after an attack there killed 11 forces.
In a statement, the military’s spokesman said the forces had been killed during a clash with militants, and that it came after airstrikes in recent days. The military claimed that at least seven extremists had been killed in the same bout of fighting.
Two security officials said the clashes took place after militants attacked a checkpoint belonging to the country’s border guards near the city of Rafah, on the country’s Mediterranean coast that borders the Gaza Strip. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to media.
Saturday’s attack, one of the deadliest on Egyptian security forces in recent years, was claimed by the Islamic State group.
Egypt is battling an insurgency in Sinai that intensified after the military overthrew an elected but divisive Islamist president in 2013. The extremists have carried out scores of attacks, mainly targeting security forces and Christians, but the pace has slowed in recent years.
On April 30, suspected militants blew up a natural gas pipeline in Northern Sinai’s town of Bir al-Abd, causing a fire but no casualties.
The military has claimed that insurgents have suffered heavy losses in recent months as security forces, aided by armed tribesmen, intensified their efforts to eliminate them.
The pace of militant attacks in Sinai’s main theater of operations and elsewhere has slowed to a trickle since February 2018, when the military launched a massive operation in Sinai and parts of the Nile Delta and deserts along the country’s western border with Libya.
The fighting in Sinai has largely taken place hidden from the public eye, with journalists, non-residents and outside observers barred from the area. The conflict has also been kept at a distance from tourist resorts at the southern end of the peninsula.
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Malaysia is the second-largest palm oil producer in the world, behind only Indonesia. In 2020 alone, Malaysia was responsible for more than a quarter of global palm oil production. But for the country’s forests and wildlife, plantation agriculture is an industry that comes at a cost. Across Peninsular Malaysia, where nearly half of the country’s palm oil is produced, demand for agricultural land is increasing in step with population growth and expanding commercial use of oil palm. And while 84% of Peninsular Malaysia’s remnant native forest cover is classified as permanent forest reserve, these forests remain threatened by land clearing, and with them the rich bird life that depends on the habitat these forests provide. A recent study presents one possible way to mitigate the threat habitat loss poses to Malaysia’s bird life: the creation of more diverse agroforestry systems. These multicrop agricultural environments create a more complex habitat for birds — and might just benefit farmers too. The study, published in Forest Ecology and Management, compared and analyzed the number and type of bird species found in plantations of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) and rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) in Peninsular Malaysia against agroforestry orchards, where multiple species are grown in the same plantation. In doing so, it sought to determine the overall effect of changes to land use on bird biodiversity in the region. The researchers found more species in mixed orchards than in monoculture plantations, suggesting that agricultural areas with more tree species are better structured to support…This article was originally published on Mongabay | http://www.envirolink.org/2022/05/11/in-oil-palm-dominated-malaysia-agroforestry-orchards-are-oases-of-bird-life-study/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-oil-palm-dominated-malaysia-agroforestry-orchards-are-oases-of-bird-life-study | 2022-05-11T18:06:15Z | http://www.envirolink.org/2022/05/11/in-oil-palm-dominated-malaysia-agroforestry-orchards-are-oases-of-bird-life-study/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-oil-palm-dominated-malaysia-agroforestry-orchards-are-oases-of-bird-life-study | true | 1 |
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to discuss the stakes ahead of a vote in the Senate Tuesday on a measure to codify abortion rights.
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A veteran Al Jazeera correspondent who was shot dead on Wednesday during an Israeli raid in the West Bank was a highly respected journalist in the Middle East whose unflinching coverage was known to millions of viewers.
News of Shireen Abu Akleh's death reverberated across the region. The 51-year-old journalist became a household name synonymous with Al Jazeera’s coverage of life under occupation during her more than two decades reporting in the Palestinian territories, including during the second intifada, or uprising, that killed thousands on both sides, most of them Palestinians.
Described as “the face of Al Jazeera in Palestine" by the network, Abu Akleh's name trended across Twitter in Arabic on Wednesday, setting social media alight with support for the Palestinians. Her image was projected over the main square in the West Bank city of Ramallah as mourners flooded the Al Jazeera offices there and her family home in east Jerusalem.
Abu Akleh's coverage of the harsh realities of Israel’s military occupation was inextricably linked with her own experiences as a Palestinian journalist on the front lines. Her death underscores the heavy price the conflict continues to exact on Palestinians, regardless of their role as journalists.
Although she was also a U.S. citizen who often visited America in the summers, she lived and worked in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, where those who knew her said she felt most at home. A Palestinian Christian whose family was originally from Bethlehem, she was born and raised in Jerusalem. She leaves behind a brother and her parents.
In an Al Jazeera video released last year, Abu Akleh recalled the scale of destruction and “the feeling that death was at times just around the corner” during her coverage of the second intifada, from 2000-2005. “Despite the dangers, we were determined to do the job," she said.
“I chose journalism so I could be close to the people,” she added. "It might not be easy to change the reality, but at least I was able to communicate their voice to the world.”
Abu Akleh joined Al Jazeera in 1997, just a year after the groundbreaking Arabic news network launched. Among her many assignments were covering five wars in Gaza and Israel’s war with Lebanon in 2006. She reported on forced home evictions, the killings of Palestinian youth, the hundreds of Palestinians held without charge in Israeli prisons and the continuous expansion of Jewish settlements.
Her longtime producer, Wessam Hammad, said Abu Akleh possessed an incredible ability to remain calm under pressure. “Shireen worked all these years with a commitment to the values and ethics of our profession,” he said adding: “Shireen is considered an icon of Al Jazeera.”
He and Abu Akleh were often caught in Israeli cross-fire during the many stories they covered together, he said. On one assignment, their car filled with tear gas and they struggled to breathe. When they would think back on these moments, he said Abu Akleh would laugh and marvel at how they managed to survive.
Images of the moments after Abu Akleh was shot in the head in the West Bank town of Jenin circulated online and were broadcast on Al Jazeera and other Arabic news channels. Wearing a helmet and a vest clearly marked “PRESS," Abu Akleh’s body was shown lying face down in a patch of sand. A Palestinian man jumped over a wall to reach her as gunshots rang out, dragging her motionless body to a car.
In video from the West Bank hospital where Abu Akleh was pronounced dead, a male colleague was seen weeping at her hospital bed as others choked back tears. A female correspondent for Al Jazeera in the Gaza Strip wept on air as she reported from a vigil for the journalist.
Later Wednesday, Abu Akleh’s body, draped in a Palestinian flag and covered by a wreath of flowers, was carried through downtown Ramallah on a red stretcher. Hundreds chanted, “With our spirit, with our blood, we will redeem you, Shireen.”
An outpouring of condemnation came from governments around the world. The U.S. State Department called her death “an affront to media freedom.”
Al Jazeera and witnesses, including her producer who was shot in the back Wednesday, said Israeli forces killed her. Israel said it was unclear who was responsible, calling it “premature and irresponsible to cast blame at this stage.”
It had started as another routine assignment for Abu Akleh. She'd emailed colleagues that she was heading to the Jenin refugee camp to check on reports of an Israeli military raid. “I will bring you the news as soon as the picture becomes clear,” she wrote.
“Generations grew up seeing her work,” producer Hammad, said. “People listened to Shireen’s voice and were influenced by her to study journalism so they could be like her.”
Abu Akleh's niece, Lina Abu Akleh, described her as a “best friend” and “second mom”.
“She is someone that I was looking up to since I was a kid, watching all of her reports," she told journalists from the family's home. "I never thought this day would come where the news would be about her."
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Clément Turpin to referee 2022 UEFA Champions League final
Wednesday 11 May 2022
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An international referee since 2010, the 39-year-old Frenchman Clément Turpin will be officiating at his first UEFA Champions League final.
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The UEFA Referees Committee has appointed Clément Turpin to referee the 2022 UEFA Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, which takes place at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, on Saturday 28 May at 21:00 CET.
The 39-year-old Frenchman, an international referee since 2010, will be officiating at his first UEFA Champions League final, after serving as fourth official in the 2018 final. He has refereed seven UEFA Champions League matches as of the play-off round, this season, including the quarter-final first leg between Chelsea and Real Madrid. Last season, he refereed the UEFA Europa League final.
Turpin will be assisted by countrymen Nicolas Danos and Cyril Gringore, while another Frenchman, Benoît Bastien, will be fourth official. The VAR role has been assigned to Jérôme Brisard (France), and he will be assisted by Willy Delajod (France) and two Italians, Massimiliano Irrati and Filippo Meli.
2022 UEFA Champions League final refereeing team
Referee: Clément Turpin (France)
Assistants: Nicolas Danos, Cyril Gringore (both France)
4th official: Benoît Bastien (France)
VAR: Jérôme Brisard (France)
VAR Assistants: Willy Delajod (France), Massimiliano Irrati (Italy), Filippo Meli (Italy) | https://www.uefa.com/news/0275-151e8ecbd274-6977b4d49988-1000--clement-turpin-to-referee-final/ | 2022-05-11T18:15:02Z | https://www.uefa.com/news/0275-151e8ecbd274-6977b4d49988-1000--clement-turpin-to-referee-final/ | false | 2 |
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- I Peace, Inc. (CEO: Koji Tanabe), a Palo Alto-based biotech start-up in the field of GMP cell manufacturing CDMO, announced that the company, in collaboration with Genequest Inc., a Tokyo-based direct-to-consumer genetic testing service provider, established a data-driven method to identify potential cell donors with specific haplotypes. With this high-throughput method, the company has already succeeded in identifying 1,547 HLA-homozygous potential donors and has already generated iPSCs. By combining Genequest's inventory of genomic information of tens of thousands of customers, and I Peace's mass production capability of GMP grade iPSCs (induced pluripotent stem cells) and iPSC-induced cells, it is now possible to identify potential donors with specific HLA (human leukocyte antigen) haplotype and manufacture multiple lines of iPSCs. Unlike conventional methods of identifying specific potential donors that yield only a handful of matches at best, this process can help identify a large number of potential donors with high efficiency.
We sequenced 98 HLA loci by high-resolution, next-generation sequencing-based HLA haplotyping from seven people, and found that the algorithm accuracy was above 93%. While the process can be applied to the identification of various genotypes and therefore has widespread usability including sourcing donors with genetic predispositions for disease modeling, HLA homozygosity was used to verify the reliability of the process because sourcing HLA homozygous donors is an ongoing challenge to meet demands of the rising allogeneic cell therapy industry. This process that combines the pool of genetic information and the mass manufacturing capability of iPSCs can be applied to identifying potential donors and manufacturing iPSCs with various types of genetic characteristics and support organ transplant and drug discoveries.
About I Peace, Inc
Founded in 2015 in Palo Alto, California, USA, I Peace, Inc. is a leading CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) of clinical-grade cell products. The founder and CEO Dr. Koji Tanabe earned his doctorate at Kyoto University under Nobel laureate Dr. Shinya Yamanaka and was the second author of the groundbreaking article on the development of human iPSCs. I Peace's mission is to ease the suffering of diseased patients and help healthy people maintain a high quality of life. With its proprietary manufacturing platform that enables parallel production of discrete iPSCs from multiple donors in a single room, I Peace can provide a large volume of high-quality clinical-grade iPSCs at a competitive cost. Our goal is to create custom iPSCs for every individual to become their stem cells for life while supporting drug and cell therapy companies to accelerate their development to make cell therapy an affordable option.
Founder, CEO: Koji Tanabe
Since: 2015
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California
Japan subsidiary: I Peace, Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan)
Cell Manufacturing Facility: Kyoto, Japan
Web: https://www.ipeace.com
About Genequest Inc.
In 2014, Genequest launched the first large-scale genetic testing service for consumers in Japan. We provide a service that allows you to check genetic variations associated with disease susceptibilities and traits by examining personal genomes covering about 300 items such as the risk of diseases such as lifestyle-related diseases and the characteristics of your trait. With the vision of promoting genetic research, spreading correct usage, and enriching people's lives, we are actively conducting research activities that utilize accumulated genomic data.
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SOURCE I Peace, Inc. | https://www.nbc12.com/prnewswire/2022/05/11/i-peace-accelerates-allogeneic-ipsc-derived-cell-therapies-with-g-high-throughput-method-identify-large-number-donors-with-specific-hla-haplotypes/ | 2022-05-11T18:20:49Z | https://www.nbc12.com/prnewswire/2022/05/11/i-peace-accelerates-allogeneic-ipsc-derived-cell-therapies-with-g-high-throughput-method-identify-large-number-donors-with-specific-hla-haplotypes/ | false | 11 |
LA Lakers superstar LeBron James should want out of the franchise, according to Mike Greenberg. The superstar is stuck with a team that is not in contention for a championship.
Appearing on ESPN's morning show "Get Up," one of ESPN's premier sports media personalities, Mike Greenberg, spoke about how this Lakers team is going nowhere and that James should want to leave the franchise and seek a move elsewhere. Mike Greenberg said:
"Stephen A. Smith said last week on First Take that the Lakers should consider trading LeBron James. Not only was he right, but I will go one better - he (LeBron James) should want that.
"He has ZERO chance of winning a championship in L.A. in the next two years. He has a much better chance of doing it someplace else."
The Lakers and LeBron James were eliminated without making the Play-In tournament this year. They finished 11th in the highly competitive Western Conference, with a record of 33 wins and 49 losses.
Is Mike Greenberg right about LA Lakers trading LeBron James?
LeBron James is nearly untouchable for the LA Lakers right now. He is without question their best player and is the only reason this team wasn't a lottery team and had a shot at being in the postseason this year.
However, the difficulties have led to reports of unrest between superstar LeBron James and the Lakers' front office, including general manager Rob Pelinka.
LeBron has been involved in a power struggle with Pelinka and the team's hierarchy. Many reports said the superstar might be interested in a move back to his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers. The idea is that he may stand a better chance at winning a championship with them than the Lakers.
The Lakers pursued Russell Westbrook over Buddy Hield in the summer due to explicit instructions from James, who wanted to play alongside Westbrook. The move has backfired as Westbrook's performances have been shockingly poor. He has failed to establish chemistry with James and has leaked turnovers.
Anthony Davis' injury proneness and Russell Westbrook's poor performances have led to the Lakers having only one huge tradeable asset in LeBron James.
While James is still their best player, by far, the fact of the matter is that this is a poorly constructed roster that is going nowhere unless taken apart and reconstructed.
This could mean that the LA Lakers, as Mike Greenberg suggested, might have to trade away their most valuable asset and get enough compensation in return to build for the future. Furthermore, LeBron James is in the last few years of his career and will want to play for a championship caliber team. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-he-zero-chance-winning-championship-la-next-two-years-mike-greenberg-believes-6-time-nba-all-defensive-team-member-want-leave-la-lakers | 2022-05-11T18:21:07Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-he-zero-chance-winning-championship-la-next-two-years-mike-greenberg-believes-6-time-nba-all-defensive-team-member-want-leave-la-lakers | false | 1 |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
8-8-6-8, SB: 7
(eight, eight, six, eight; SB: seven)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
8-8-6-8, SB: 7
(eight, eight, six, eight; SB: seven) | https://www.greenwichtime.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Midday-game-17165519.php | 2022-05-11T18:24:09Z | https://www.greenwichtime.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Midday-game-17165519.php | false | null |
Members of the BC Nurses’ Union ended a rally Tuesday afternoon on the legislature grounds to the beat of Aretha Franklin’s Respect, which ran as a theme amid their demands for more equitable work conditions.
More than 200 nurses and nursing students from Dawson Creek, Prince George, Okanagan and just about everywhere in between arrived downtown for National Nursing Week to march from the Fairmont Empress Hotel to the legislature May 10, following a vigil held Monday.
RELATED READ: B.C. nurses mourn lives lost to COVID, drug crisis, during Monday vigil in Victoria
Dozens of participants sported signs demanding greater respect for B.C. nurses amid the challenges and hardships of the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.
“Many of you have had to endure the heartbreaking act of holding the hand of a patient with COVID who is dying alone,” said Aman Grewal, BCNU president and a nurse of 35 years’ experience.
“It is time for real change for nurses,” she continued. “It is time for (the provincial government) to respect our nurses.”
In solidarity with protesters’ demands for greater respect from Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix, Joseph Thomas of the Esquimalt Nation shared a couple moments of Indigenous singing and drumming.
BCNU vice-president Adriane Gear reported that nurses are facing crushing workloads in unsafe conditions without personal protective equipment, having to work overtime and receiving parking tickets at work.
In wards such as emergency and intensive care, as many as one in two nurses are considering quitting their jobs, Gear said.
“The truth is we’re not heroes and we don’t have super powers. We are mere mortals.”
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BC legislatureHealthcarenursePractical nursesprotest | https://www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/news/mortal-b-c-nurses-rally-at-legislature-call-for-better-working-conditions/ | 2022-05-11T18:24:54Z | https://www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/news/mortal-b-c-nurses-rally-at-legislature-call-for-better-working-conditions/ | true | 14 |
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