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United States Postal Service letter carriers from around the country will participate in a nationwide food drive Saturday.
The National Association of Letter Carriers started conducting a food drive in 1993, according to a press release from the organization.
Those who wish to donate food can leave non-perishable items next to their mailbox on Saturday. Letter carriers will collect the donations and distribute them to local food banks, pantries, shelters and churches.
People are encouraged to leave sturdy bags containing items such as canned soup, vegetables, meats and fish, pasta, rice or cereal out before regular mail delivery on Saturday, according to the press release.
Food donations will stay in local communities. | https://www.starbeacon.com/news/letter-carriers-to-participate-in-food-drive/article_984cc718-d22a-11ec-964d-ffc279d8a98b.html | 2022-05-13T11:28:22Z | https://www.starbeacon.com/news/letter-carriers-to-participate-in-food-drive/article_984cc718-d22a-11ec-964d-ffc279d8a98b.html | false | null |
Disabled people forced to gamble on energy firms' 'inconsistent' tariffs, say charities
DISABLED people are being forced to gamble on energy firms' "inconsistent" social tariffs, say charities. In the UK, there are at least 14 million people affected, many directly dependent on energy for their survival.
Gemma Hope, of charity Leonard Cheshire, said: “Many disabled people can’t afford to gamble on energy firms’ social tariffs, but inconsistency in terms of availability means they are forced to do just that.”
Kamran Mallick, of Disability Rights UK, said: “Energy firms have been offering people heated blankets. It beggars belief that this kind of insulting measure is all that is left on the table. It costs £600 a month more on average to live with a disability.”
Richard Kramer, chief executive of Sense, said: “We need the Government to recognise the pressures facing disabled people and to provide targeted financial support. Suppliers should offer extra support.”
Energy UK said: “Struggling customers should contact suppliers as there are a range of schemes offering financial support…but the size of bill rises and numbers affected means the industry can’t provide all the help needed.” | https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1609802/disabled-people-help-energy-bills-social-tariffs | 2022-05-13T11:28:48Z | https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1609802/disabled-people-help-energy-bills-social-tariffs | true | 1 |
A red alert heatwave warning has been issued for west Rajasthan for today and tomorrow, meaning temperatures will be way above normal in the hottest part of the country. The entire western state will also continue to have heatwave conditions until May 17, indicating no relief from the sweltering heat anytime soon. Temperatures are soaring in most of west, central and north India.
Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, and parts of Jammu and Kashmir are also expected to experience heatwave throughout this week.
In Gujarat, heatwave conditions are expected to abate in the next 24 hours.
Most places in the Rajasthan have recorded maximum temperatures four to eight degrees above normal for this time of the year. Mercury has crossed the 48-degree Celsius mark in Barmer, Sri Ganganagar is close on the heels at 47.3 so far in the day, Bikaner is at 47.2, Churu at almost 47 degrees, Ajmer at 45, and Udaipur is at 44 degrees.
The national capital Delhi has recorded a high of 42.5 degrees Celsius so far, three degrees above the norm for this time of the year. Weather predictions say it's going to get hotter in Delhi as the day progresses, touching 44 degrees. The temperature is expected to touch 44 degrees today through Sunday. Some respite is expected from Monday when it could get cloudy in the capital.
On the other hand, Karnataka's Bengaluru has recorded a maximum of 23 degrees -- 11 degrees below the normal for this time. | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/heatwave-red-alert-in-west-rajasthan-as-mercury-touches-48-degree-celsius-2972879 | 2022-05-13T11:29:35Z | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/heatwave-red-alert-in-west-rajasthan-as-mercury-touches-48-degree-celsius-2972879 | false | 1 |
VIENNA (AP) — The European Union’s main representative at the nuclear talks with Iran says he was briefly detained with colleagues at Frankfurt Airport, in breach of diplomatic rules.
Enrique Mora of Spain, who has long led the EU delegation at the talks in Vienna, said the incident happened Friday morning as he was trying to make a connecting flight from Tehran to Brussels.
Mora wrote on Twitter that he received “not a single explanation” from German authorities for why he was detained. “An EU official on an official mission holding a Spanish diplomatic passport. Took out my passport and my phones.”
Mora said the EU Ambassador to the U.N. in Vienna and the head of the EU’s Iran task force were also detained.
“We were kept separated,” he wrote. “Refusal to give any explanation for what seems a violation of the Vienna Convention.”
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NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM).
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According to a filed complaint, International Business Machines Corporation issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Strategic Imperatives Revenue and growth, CAMSS and CAMSS Components' revenue and growth, and the Company's Segments' revenue and growth were artificially inflated as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives Revenue; (ii) the Company's present success and positive future growth prospects concerning its Strategic Imperative business strategy were being fueled by the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperative Revenue and, as a result (iii) the Company misled the market by portraying the Company's Strategic Imperative's financial performance and future prospects more favorable than they actually were as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives.
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Zack Greinke may pitch in the American League, but he has a wealth of experience against the Colorado Rockies.
Greinke, who spent the first seven seasons of his 19-year career with Kansas City and returned to the Royals in the offseason, also spent plenty of time in the NL West and logged heavy innings against the Rockies.
He’ll get another shot at Colorado when the Royals open a three-game weekend series in Denver on Friday night. Greinke (0-2, 2.67 ERA) will be opposed by left-hander Kyle Freeland (1-3, 3.94).
Kansas City is coming off 3-1 road loss to the Texas Rangers on Thursday night, while Colorado had a much-needed off day.
Despite his record, Greinke has been pitching well — and efficiently. In a time when strikeouts account for nearly a third of all outs across baseball, Greinke has been throwing few pitches, striking out only 7.5 percent of the batters he has faced through his first six starts.
He has fanned just 10 batters in 33 2/3 innings, and in only two of his six starts has he struck out more than one.
“It’s brilliant, that efficiency,” Royals manager Mike Matheny said recently. “And he’s going to be able to have some really efficient outings just because he’s making quality pitches, and he’s manipulating the ball to get minor movement from one pitch to the next.
“You’re not going to see the same thing. It could be the exact same pitch, but it’ll have different movement the second time you see it. He’s just trying to miss the barrel. That’s pitching. It’s undervalued in our game.”
Greinke could see his style get tested in the thin air of Coors Field, but he boasts some success against the Rockies, mostly from his days with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers. He is 14-7 with a 3.53 ERA in 36 career games (35 starts) against Colorado, 5-1 with a 4.01 ERA in 14 games (13 starts) in Denver.
Freeland, a Denver native, has never pitched against Kansas City, but he will get a chance to help the Rockies wash away their just-completed 1-5 road trip. Colorado lost two of three in Arizona and then was swept in a three-game set by the San Francisco Giants.
Usually the Rockies’ issues on the road are lack of pitching and hitting, and they were during the latest trip. The staff allowed 24 runs in the three games against the Giants, and the Colorado offense averaged just 2.2 runs during the six-game trek.
Another unexpected problem has cropped up this season for the Rockies — defense. Colorado has consistently played good defense over the years (the 2007 team had a .989 fielding percentage, which set a major league record).
This season, however, the Rockies have committed 24 errors, and their .980 fielding percentage ranks among the bottom third of major league teams.
“We have to assess where we all are as a group, individually and as a group,” infielder Ryan McMahon, who committed his sixth error on Wednesday, told MLB.com. “But then you have to move on from it because we have another ballgame in a couple of days. As a team, we take a lot of pride in defense. I do specifically, and it’s eating at me a little bit. But I’ll be good to go and I’ll move past it in time for the next game.”
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Hockey Hockey Rupinder Pal Singh ruled out of Men's Asia Cup due to injury Birendra Lakra will replace Rupinder as India's captain, while experienced forward SV Sunil will be the vice-captain of the team. Team Sportstar Bengaluru 13 May, 2022 16:52 IST India defender Rupinder Pal Singh. - AP Team Sportstar Bengaluru 13 May, 2022 16:52 IST Ace drag-flicker Rupinder Pal Singh has been ruled out of the Men's Asia Cup, starting May 23 in Jakarta, Indonesia, due to an injury.Rupinder, who was named captain of the 20-member squad, has sustained an injury on his wrist during a training session. He will be replaced by defender Nilam Sanjeep Xess for the tournament.Experienced defender Birendra Lakra will replace Rupinder as captain, while forward SV Sunil will step in as the vice-captain of the side."It is unfortunate that Rupinder has picked up an injury during the training session and will not be a part of the Asia Cup. Both Birendra and Sunil are vastly experienced and have been part of the leadership group for many years now. While we will miss Rupinder, we have plenty of options available in the pool. We've got a very talented group of players, and they are looking forward to utilizing this opportunity," expressed coach BJ Kariappa.Indian Men's Team:Goalkeepers: Pankaj Kumar Rajak, Suraj Karkera Defenders: Yashdeep Siwach, Abhisek Lakra, Birendra Lakra (Captain), Manjeet, Dipsan TirkeyMidfielders: Vishnukant Singh, Raj Kumar Pal, Mareeswaren Sakthivel, Sheshe Gowda BM, Simranjeet SinghForwards: Pawan Rajbhar, Abharan Sudev, SV Sunil (Vice Captain), Uttam Singh, S.Karthi, Nilam Sanjeep Xess Read more stories on Hockey. For more updates, follow Sportstar on : | https://sportstar.thehindu.com/hockey/rupinder-pal-singh-ruled-out-of-mens-asia-cup-due-to-injury/article38490480.ece | 2022-05-13T11:42:37Z | https://sportstar.thehindu.com/hockey/rupinder-pal-singh-ruled-out-of-mens-asia-cup-due-to-injury/article38490480.ece | false | 5 |
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BOSTON (AP)Bobby Portis made a putback off Giannis Antetokounmpo’s missed free throw with 15 seconds left, Jrue Holiday snuffed Marcus Smart on Boston’s final two possessions and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Celtics 110-107 on Wednesday night to take a 3-2 series lead.
Antetokounmpo had 40 points and 11 rebounds, Holiday finished with 24 points, eight rebounds and eight assists and Portis added 14 points and 15 rebounds for the defending NBA champion Bucks.
Milwaukee has a chance to wrap up the Eastern Conference semifinal in Game 6 at home Friday night. The have Bucks won two of the three games in Boston to swipe home-court advantage.
The Celtics led by 14 in the fourth quarter before the Bucks closed the gap, tying it at 105 on Holiday’s 3-pointer with 43 seconds left. Jayson Tatum, who scored 34 points in all, hit a pair of free throws to give Boston the lead.
Antetokounmpo went to the the line with a chance to tie it and made the first, then Portis grabbed the rebound of the second and put it in off the backboard to give Milwaukee its first lead since early in the second quarter.
Smart drove to the basket but Holiday blocked him and came away with the ball, throwing it off Smart while falling out of bounds. Pat Connaughton made a pair of free throws with six seconds left, then Holiday stole the ball from Smart on his desperation dash for a potential game-tying 3-pointer.
Jaylen Brown scored 26 points for Boston.
GRIZZLIES 134, WARRIORS 95
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Jaren Jackson Jr., Desmond Bane and Tyus Jones each scored 21 points and Memphis routed Golden State to avoid elimination and force a sixth game in the Western Conference semifinal.
The Grizzlies never trailed, turning in their best performance of this series to pull to 3-2 even with All-Star guard Ja Morant sitting out his second straight game because of a bone bruise in his right knee. They improved to 4-11 when facing elimination.
Memphis scored 77 points in the first half, the most in franchise postseason history. The Grizzlies pushed their lead to 55 in the third quarter, threatening the three biggest postseason blowouts in NBA history. Their 52-point lead after three tied for largest in a playoff game in the past 70 years.
Klay Thompson led Golden State with 19 points.
Game 6 is Friday night in San Francisco. | https://wgnradio.com/sports/holiday-bucks-beat-celtics-grizzlies-avoid-elimination/ | 2022-05-13T11:47:45Z | https://wgnradio.com/sports/holiday-bucks-beat-celtics-grizzlies-avoid-elimination/ | true | 11 |
My Chemical Romance have surprise-released their first song in eight years, 'The Foundations Of Decay’.
The emo rockers - comprising Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Mikey Way - have made their music comeback with the epic six-minute track.
The 'Helena' hitmakers reunited for a show in Los Angeles in December 2019, before going on to play a batch of shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
In January 2020, they announced North American and European tours, however, they were delayed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite performing live again, fans had not been expecting new music from the 'Welcome to the Black Parade' rockers.
The new song marks their first since 2014's 'Fake Your Own Death', which frontman Gerard previously declared as the final MCR song, released before the 'Teenagers' hitmakers broke their fans' - and their own - hearts by splitting up.
He explained at the time: “I consider 'Fake Your Death' to be the 'last MCR song', and to me, it is absolutely the final fully realised collaboration between the members of the band.
“What was not so obvious at the time was that the song was, and would serve as, a eulogy for the band, though I should have known it from the lyrics. I think internally I did, as I felt an odd sense of sadness and loss after hearing back the words on top of the music.”
He added: “I also felt a strange sense of pride in how honest it was, and could not remember a band recording a song of this nature, being so self-aware. Ending felt like something honest, and honest always feels like something new. So it will exist, and it is no cowardly act to release something of this nature, but a service to those who believed in a band that did not compromise, and a wave goodbye to all. And yes, it is f****** heartbreaking.” | https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/entertainment/my-chemical-romance-surprise-release-first-song-in-8-years/article_a20aa183-fd2f-5646-8d65-be191c99a97f.html | 2022-05-13T11:49:18Z | https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/entertainment/my-chemical-romance-surprise-release-first-song-in-8-years/article_a20aa183-fd2f-5646-8d65-be191c99a97f.html | false | 2 |
NANJING, China (AP) _ Ever-Glory International Group Inc. (EVK) on Friday reported a loss of $5.1 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Nanjing, China-based company said it had a loss of 34 cents.
The clothing company posted revenue of $64.8 million in the period.
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Republican Latrecia Pond on Tuesday officially announced that she is running for the South Carolina House District 15 seat. Pond, a Charleston native, is a mother of six children and spent her life in public service having served eighteen years in the Charleston County public school system. She currently works as a realtor. She also runs U.N.I. T.Y. (United Nations International Teamwork and You), whose stated purpose is to produce a bipartisan relationship designed to resolve complex issues, seek common ground, and learn from each other. She currently resides in North Charleston with her husband and two grandchildren. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2599558225947/quintin-s-close-ups-donna-brown-newton | 2022-05-13T11:53:47Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2599558225947/quintin-s-close-ups-donna-brown-newton | false | null |
concluded the Miami Grand Prix and one of the protagonists who left with the most bittersweet taste was Sergio Pérezwho despite finishing in fourth place and remaining in third place in the Drivers’ World Cuphad one of the tensest moments with his engineer since he arrived at Red Bulldue to the engine problems that plagued his RB18.
This led him to lose the possibility of fighting for the podium against the Ferrari from Carlos Sainz and even, according to his words, catch up with Max Verstappen to make another 1-2 for Red Bullas happened in the Grand Prix de Emilio Romagnawhere Verstappen took the win and Pérez finished second.
For this reason, after the first analyzes of the Miami GPthe Mexican attended the microphones of the formula 1 to evaluate his performance, especially after the tire change during the start of the safety carwith whom he excited the fans with a possible comeback in the last 10 laps.
“If I was able to win on the medium tyres? With a normal engine, I would have had the opportunity”, stated Checo Pérez after the Miami GP.
This occurred after he explained how he lost power in his engine in the last sprint, because when a large sector of followers were excited about his probable overtaking Sainz, the reality is that he was never able to recover optimal speed in his car. .
“I was in a great place. Unfortunately, even with a DRS, I couldn’t get close to Carlos, the deficit in a straight line was quite high. I was pushing really hard to stay close to him in the corners. My tires were overheating, so as soon as I had a small opportunity, I took advantage of it, ”explained the man from Guadalajara, who used the medium tires to counteract the horsepower that he lost from the first third of the race.
Although the Mexican was grateful to be able to finish the race, after his continuity was at risk due to problems with an engine sensor, the feeling was not the best for Czech y Red Bullbecause a new opportunity escaped to make a double on the podium and add valuable points for the Constructors Championship.
Even the director of Red Bull Racing, Christian Hornerexpressed his feelings about it and valued Pérez’s performance as good, as he withstood the problems and remained in fourth place, even with the latent possibility of overtaking Sainz at the end, something he was ultimately unable to achieve.
“(Checo) had a problem with a sensor on one of the cylinders. The guys managed to move the sensors, but probably lost 20kw of power as a result.” “It has been frustrating. Even with the advantage of the new tire that he had,I was half a second short of what the car was capable of on the straight. And I think without that, I probably would have even been second.”
The next race formula 1 will be the Sunday May 22 at the Barcelona circuit, corresponding to the Spanish Grand Prix. It will be at 8 in the morningin Mexico City time, so the morning schedule will return for Latin America from the practice sessions and classification, which will be on Saturday at 9:00.
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What's next for Event Horizon Telescope after its black hole pictures?
Now that the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released its picture of the Milky Way's black hole, the team is focusing on making movies of the two photographed black holes and finding other distant black holes large enough to study
On 12 May, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) revealed the first close-up picture of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. Now that it has taken images of both that black hole, called Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*, and the black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy, known as M87*, it is time for the collaboration to move on to new scientific pursuits. So, what is next?
First, the researchers will have to examine the data that they have already collected. The images of Sgr A* and M87* were both assembled from data gathered in 2017, but there have since been two more observation periods with extra telescopes added to the collaboration’s original eight-telescope network.
“Data does exist. We have taken data in 2018 with one additional telescope, 2022 with 3 additional telescopes, and we are working very, very hard to get that to you… as soon as we possibly can, but I can’t make any promises about when,” said EHT researcher Lia Medeiros at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey during a 12 May press event. It will probably take years before the results of that analysis are released, she said.
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The data is expected to clarify the structure of the material around Sgr A*, particularly the three bright “knots” of light shown in the new image. “Those knots tend to line up with the directions in which we have more telescopes,” said EHT researcher Feryal Özel at the University of Arizona during the press event. “Even though it’s natural in theory to expect these brighter spots, we don’t trust them in our data that much yet.”
While the images are consistent with Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity so far, deeper analysis will give us another check on how that theory might break down in the extreme areas around black holes. “It should give us a hint, at some point, of maybe something different than how we formulate gravity with the theory of general relativity right now,” said Özel. “We don’t see a crack in that theory yet.”
Finally, another major goal of the EHT collaboration is to make videos of Sgr A* and M87* as the material around them moves and changes over time. “We tried to use the data that we got to try to recover a movie,” said EHT researcher Katie Bouman at the California Institute of Technology. Although they do have some data they could use, there currently isn’t enough of it to make movies of the black holes, she said.
The additional telescopes recently added to the array should help with that. These will take data in multiple wavelengths, which will increase the resolution of the images and could produce colour pictures – the images that have been released so far have had colour added to indicate brightness.
So far, these two black holes are the only ones that we know of that can be imaged by EHT with high enough resolution to see their silhouettes against the light of the hot plasma around them – Sgr A* because of its proximity to Earth, and M87* because of its colossal size. Ongoing work is trying to identify other supermassive black holes the researchers could observe and compare to the two we have seen so far. Based on statistical studies, there should be other black holes that are enormous enough and not too distant for the EHT to resolve, but researchers haven’t found them yet.
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Customers Can Pick Up a Complimentary Cheese Slider with a Coupon on White Castle's Social Media Channels
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- White Castle invites customers far and wide to enjoy a complimentary Cheese Slider on National Slider Day, May 15. All they have to do is visit their favorite White Castle and present a digital coupon that can be found on the company's social media channels. No purchase is necessary to receive the free Cheese Slider.
National Slider Day is one of the most significant days of the year for White Castle. It gives the 101-year-old, family-owned business an opportunity to celebrate the little square burger that made them famous while showing their appreciation to the loyal customers who have fueled White Castle's popularity and success through the years. White Castle expects to give away tens of thousands of Cheese Sliders at its more than 350 locations.
"Giving our Cravers a complimentary slider on National Slider Day is one way of thanking our devoted fans," said Jamie Richardson, vice president at White Castle. "We're so grateful for their unparalleled passion for our sliders as well as our other delicious menu items."
White Castle offers more than 15 varieties of beef, chicken, fish, egg and plant-based sliders for breakfast, lunch and dinner, including the brand-new 1921 Slider, the Chicken & Waffles Slider, the Panko Breaded Fish Slider, the Breakfast Slider and the Impossible Slider, as well as limited-time seasonal favorites, like the Seafood Crab Cake and Sloppy Joe sliders. There's literally a slider for every taste, available any time of day.
White Castle fans have been known to go to great lengths, both literally and figuratively, for White Castle sliders. In fact, according to a recent national survey of 2,000 self-professed hamburger fans, nearly half (48%) of them said they would travel 30 miles or more for a White Castle slider, while more than 1 in 4 of them (27%) would go 50 miles or more. Fortunately, no one needs to go that far to satisfy the crave. White Castle's coast-to-coast retail presence means people can find several of these great-tasting sliders, including The Original Slider and the Classic Cheese Slider, in the freezer aisles of their nearby grocery, club and convenience stores.
Both the retail and restaurant versions of the tasty little burgers can be used to make all types of delicious dishes, from soups and salads to quiches and casseroles. Check out the White Castle recipe website for inspiration!
White Castle introduced National Slider Day in May 2015 to honor the iconic, steamed-grilled-on-a-bed-of-onions hamburger. Though the Original Slider is highly regarded for its hot and juicy taste, the 100% beef patty is equally as famous for its 2-by-2-inch size, making it so easy to eat it was dubbed the slider.
Here are a few more fun facts about White Castle sliders:
- The founder of White Castle invented the slider in 1921 by smashing a meatball on a griddle with a spatula.
- In 1954, White Castle introduced square sliders to maximize griddle space.
- That same year, White Castle added five holes to the slider patty to increase cooking speed and help the patty absorb the flavor of the grilled onions.
- In 1962, White Castle introduced Cheese Sliders as a standard menu item, more than 40 years after the first slider was served.
- In 2014, Time magazine declared The Original Slider to be "the most influential burger of all time."
National Slider Day falls smack dab in the middle of National Hamburger Month, another White Castle creation meant to honor the fast-food hamburger industry it pioneered.
About White Castle®
White Castle, America's first fast-food hamburger chain, has been making hot and tasty Sliders as a family-owned business for 101 years. Based in Columbus, Ohio, White Castle started serving The Original Slider® in 1921. Today, White Castle owns and operates more than 350 restaurants dedicated to satisfying customers' cravings morning, noon and night. Through its retail division, which launched in 1987, White Castle also offers its famous fare in freezer aisles of grocery, convenience and club stores nationwide. The Original Slider, named in 2014 as Time magazine's "Most Influential Burger of All Time," is served alongside a menu of creatively crafted Sliders and other mouthwatering food options, including White Castle's Impossible™ Slider, named by Thrillist in 2019 as the "Best Plant-Based Fast-Food Burger." White Castle's commitment to maintaining the highest quality products extends to the company owning and operating its own meat processing plants, bakeries and frozen-food processing plants. In 2021, 100 years after the first Slider was sold, Fast Company named the fast-food pioneer one of the "10 Most Innovative Dining Companies." White Castle is known for the legendary loyalty of its team members, more than 1 in 4 of whom have worked for White Castle for at least 10 years, and also for its faithful fans ("Cravers"), many of whom compete each year for entry into the Cravers Hall of Fame. The official White Castle app, available at iTunes App Store or Google Play, makes it easy for Cravers to access sweet deals and place pickup orders at any time. They can also have their orders delivered using one of White Castle's delivery partners. For more information on White Castle, visit whitecastle.com.
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The US are Working Daily with Bulgaria’s PM on the Gas Situation
The United States is developing measures to support Bulgaria after the cessation of gas supplies from Russia, said US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried.
She spoke at a hearing on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which was broadcast live on the congressional website.
"I want to make it clear that the administration (of President Joe Biden) fully supports Bulgaria," Donfried was quoted as saying by BTA.
She recalled that Russia has decided to suspend gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria.
"Poland is already moving towards giving up Russian energy, so it can handle this relatively well. Bulgaria is much more vulnerable," Donfried said.
She stressed the strong support Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov received during his visit to the United States this week.
"I have colleagues who work literally every day with Prime Minister Petkov to help Bulgaria consider how to deal with this ... how we can help them secure the necessary supplies," Donfried said.
She pointed out that, in general, the United States seeks to assist European countries in their search for alternative suppliers of resources.
"I think our role here is to help Europeans find alternative suppliers. And American liquefied natural gas plays a key role here," said Karen Donfried.
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Mwepu prays for injury-free season with Brighton & Hove Albion in Premier League
Zambia international Enock Mwepu is hoping to head into the new Premier League season with Brighton & Hove Albion without injuries.
The 24-year-old Chipolopolo captain moved to the Seagulls from Austrian club RB Salzburg at the start of the new season but it has been a testing debut season as he has twice suffered injuries that have kept him out of several matches.
With two matches left this season for Brighton - against Leeds United and West Ham United - Mwepu has already been ruled out of the season after picking a groin injury in the team’s 3-0 defeat against Manchester City on April 20.
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“It’s not easy to come to a new country, with a new language and the weather is not so good,” Mwepu told BBC Radio Sussex as quoted by BBC Sports Africa. “My family have always been supporting me so I am really grateful to them.
"The fans have made it even easier with the support they have given me this season. They have been phenomenal and I have so much I owe them.
“I can only pray that next season I am fit to be consistent the whole season. You never know what I can achieve. I want to be an important player for the team so that is my goal.”
Mwepu, who managed 17 appearances, scored two goals, and chipped in with five assists, has also explained his relationship with Brighton manager Graham Potter.
“Graham [Potter] has been a good gaffer for me,” Mwepu continued. “He is always telling me what I did in a game, what I need to improve, and how important I am in the team. That means a lot to me.
“He is like a father and a teacher for me. I have learnt so many things this season. I am trying to work on my physicality and speed as the tempo and quality of players is quite high in the Premier League.”
On Monday, Mwepu’s goal against Liverpool in the 2-2 draw at Anfield was voted the Goal of the Season by Brighton fans and the attacker has moved to thank the fans for the gesture.
“I have seen incredible goals all season from the guys,” added Mwepu. “Thanks to everyone who voted. It is a goal which will always be special to me and it is my highlight of the season.”
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Registration is open for the 10th Central Colorado UAS roundup on Sept. 11-12, which will focus on beyond-visual-line-of-sight technology.
Other topics will include specialized training, equipment, operational planning, tactical waivers and risk management, a press release stated.
Demonstration day will take place Sept. 11 at the Buena Vista Drone Park, and the organization will host a conference Sept. 12 at Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort in Nathrop.
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A-List Performers John Legend, DJ Cassidy, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Fat Joe, and More Turn Up the Volume at Midtown Manhattan's Newest Entertainment Destination
NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The energy of New York City was electric within Hard Rock Hotel New York, as the new hospitality and entertainment destination hosted an exclusive grand opening event, attended by some of the biggest names in music, film and nightlife. World-renowned artists including John Legend and DJ Cassidy celebrated the hotel's debut with intimate performances, while some of the most celebrated names in the entertainment industry graced the star-studded red carpet and enjoyed the launch of the brand's newest hotel.
Bustling with sensory experiences at every turn, each of the hotel's distinct venues offered moments of discovery as attendees made their way throughout the property. Guests entered the upscale NYY Steak while art and entertainment were taken to show stopping heights at RT60 with Artist and DJ Alec Monopoly painting an auction piece. Sessions and the Rock Star Suite welcomed sets from Chantel Jeffries and DJ Coleman and all before the headlining performance.
The marquee event and main show was hosted in The Venue on Music Row. The evening commenced with a traditional blessing of the Seminole Tribe of Florida given by S.R. Tommie, Seminole Tribe member and President of the largest Native American creative agency in the world, Redline Media Group. Kenan Thompson of Saturday Night Live fame played emcee and host, introducing key leadership for Hard Rock's celebratory guitar smash moment, with Chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida Marcellus Osceola Jr., and council representatives of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
During the ceremonial guitar smash led by Chairman of Hard Rock International (HRI) and CEO of Seminole Gaming, Jim Allen, HRI pledged monetary donations of $100,000 each to South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) and YWCA of Queens. Social purpose is the life of Hard Rock, a company founded on the mottos – Love All-Serve All, Take Time To Be Kind, Save The Planet, and All Is One. Hard Rock Hotel New York aims to further this mission at the property level, working to improve lives, help the community, sustain the earth and infuse the power of music along the way.
John Legend christened the stage of The Venue as the first of many headliners to perform in the intimate space. After John Legend set the stage, DJ Cassidy surprised guests with the New York debut of his viral phenomenon turned television series "Pass The Mic Live," featuring three New York City Hip Hop icons, Nas, Busta Rhymes, and Fat Joe. Wowing the crowd for nearly 90-minutes, the legendary recording artists took to the stage throughout Cassidy's electrifying genre-bending set performing some of the most iconic Hip Hop records of all time including Nas' "If I Ruled The World," Busta Rhymes "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See," and Fat Joe's "Lean Back."
The party continued 34 floors above the skyline in RT60 rooftop bar and terrace as Charly Jordan, and Zack Bia played back to back into the early morning.
Photo assets from Hard Rock Hotel New York's grand opening celebration can be found here. For more information and reservations, please visit www.hardrockhotels.com/new-york or following along at @hardrockhotelnyc.
About Hard Rock®:
Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies with venues in 68 countries spanning 241 locations that include owned/licensed or managed Hotels, Casinos, Rock Shops®, Live Performance Venues and Cafes. HRI also launched a joint venture named Hard Rock Digital in 2020, an online sportsbook, retail sportsbook and internet gaming platform. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world's largest and most valuable collection of authentic music memorabilia at more than 86,000 pieces, which are displayed at its locations around the globe. In 2021, Hard Rock was awarded the Top Employer in the Travel & Leisure, Gaming, and Entertainment Industry by Forbes, designated as a U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal and named the top performing hotel brand in J.D. Power's North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study for the third consecutive year. In 2020, Hard Rock was honored as one of Forbes Magazine's Best Employers for Diversity and a Top Employer for Women. Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos also received first place ranking in the 2020 Casino Gaming Executive Satisfaction Survey conducted by Bristol Associates Inc. and Spectrum Gaming Group. Hard Rock destinations are located in international gateway cities, including its two most successful flagship properties in Florida and home to the world's first Guitar Hotel® in South Florida, Global Gaming's 2020 Property of the Year. The brand is owned by HRI parent entity The Seminole Tribe of Florida. For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com or shop.hardrock.com.
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Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos is internationally recognized as a leader in the hospitality industry – offering world-class entertainment, contemporary designs, incomparable service and one-of-a-kind brand amenities, catering to modern travelers who seek a reprieve from traditional, predictable hotel experiences. Driven by integrity, philanthropy and unparalleled guest experiences, the brand adorns 26 distinctive Hotels and 9 Hotels & Casinos in the world's most enviable destinations. Hard Rock Hotels provide amazing live music, dining options that make guests' taste buds sing, head-to-toe wellness services and many more amenities, in addition to offering best in class protocols for health and safety which Hard Rock deems SAFE+ SOUND. For more information on Hard Rock Hotels, visit hardrockhotels.com.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The first factory to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Africa says it has not received enough orders and may stop production within weeks, in what a senior World Health Organization official described Thursday as a “failure” in efforts to achieve vaccine equity.
South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare said that it cannot let its large-scale sterile manufacturing facilities sit idle, and will return instead to making anesthetics. At the outset of the COVID pandemic, the company shifted its production and achieved capacity to produce more than 200 million doses annually of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
“It was widely hailed as a great achievement for Africa, a game-changer for the continent. But it has not been followed up with orders. We have not received any orders from the big multilateral agencies,” Stavros Nicolaou, senior executive for strategic trade development at Aspen Pharmacare, told The Associated Press Thursday.
“COVAX has placed orders for 2.1 billion doses of COVID vaccines and not a single one has been placed with Aspen or any other African manufacturers,” said Nicolaou, referring to the U.N.-backed effort to distribute coronavirus vaccines to poorer countries.
“It’s a cardinal sin to have valuable sterile manufacturing capacity and not put it to use,” said Nicolaou. “We cannot leave this production capacity idle. We will have to repivot from vaccine manufacturing and return to producing anesthetics unless in the short term we get firm orders for our COVID-19 vaccine.”
Nicolaou said the lack of orders “is not great for Africa’s ambition to reduce its dependence on imported vaccines from 99% to 40%. If we fail at this first step, this is bad not just for Aspen but for all others aspiring to make vaccines in Africa.”
At a press briefing on Thursday, Dr. Abdou Salam Gueye, the WHO’s emergencies chief in Africa said: “it may be a failure but we will learn from it.” He added that if orders were to ramp up, the factory could likely be restarted relatively quickly.
“It is unfortunate that this plant did not receive enough orders,” he said, saying that Africa got two-thirds of its vaccines via COVAX and that those vaccines were ordered by vaccines alliance Gavi.
He said Gavi has previously said they do not plan to order any more vaccines, since about 30% of shots shipped to Africa have yet to be administered, given persistent logistical problems.
Health officials have repeatedly decried the concentration of vaccine production in rich countries, saying the lack of manufacturing capacity in poorer countries was among several factors that put them at the back of the line when COVID-19 vaccines were initially made last year.
Some experts said Aspen’s imminent closure should change the world’s approach to public health security.
“The global community spends billions of dollars to shore up military defenses that might never get used, but refuses to spend a fraction of that to support global health defense,” said Zain Rizvi, research director at the advocacy group, Public Citizen.
He said global purchasers like COVAX should support manufacturers in poorer countries and described globally distributed vaccine manufacturing as “our protection against this virus.”
The production of locally-made shots at Aspen’s factory was heralded as a first step toward Africa’s efforts to meet its own vaccine needs — but there was significant criticism after reports emerged last year that the majority of its shots were being exported to Europe, according to its deal with J&J.
While nearly 70% of people in rich countries have been immunized against the coronavirus, just 17% of Africa’s 1.3 billion people have been vaccinated, according to statistics issued by the Africa CDC on Thursday. In South Africa, 45% of adults are fully vaccinated, although about 85% of the population is thought to have some immunity based on past exposure to the virus.
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Cheng reported from London.
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Hajime Koyama, who goes by Issan, is a retired hospice worker. He came to StoryCorps to remember his grandmother who shaped is understanding of grief and inspired him to care for those who are dying.
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This is the second time the theatre has produced its annual pantomime in partnership with Evolution Productions. It follows the success of last year’s production of Cinderella with another CBeebies favourite Andy Day which was nominated as Best Panto at the British Pantomime Awards.
Maddie will play fabulous, feisty fairy Tinkerbell. Since 2016 she has presented the wildly popular BBC CBeebies series Do You Know? exploring the secret workings of everyday objects. This saw her win the 2017 Best Presenter category at the BAFTA Children’s Awards.
She has also starred in the CBeebies Proms Live at the Albert Hall, multiple CBeebies Christmas Shows and presented the CBeebies Ballet. Beyond CBeebies, she has also hosted CBBC’s Show Me Honey as well as BBC’s Springwatch Academy and CNBC’s The Cloud Challenge.
Maddie has a huge online presence. Her own science and technology YouTube channel is enjoyed by millions of families worldwide. She takes her audience on educational adventures and inspires them to ‘say curious’.
More recently her channel has been the home of Let’s Go Live! With Maddie and Greg, her live daily live science show for families.
She also presents and makes films for a variety of other educational YouTube channels including Fully Charged, focusing on electric vehicles and future energy, and BBC Earth’s Unplugged where she investigates the quirks of our amazing planet.
She also appears on stage with her own live science and wildlife shows for families and children. Maddie is a patron of the Youth Stem Awards (YSA) and is an ambassador for Eureka: The National Children’s Museum.
York Theatre Royal creative director Juliet Forster, who is directing All New Adventures of Peter Pan, said: “I am delighted to be working with such a talented and much-loved CBeebies presenter. I know she will bring plenty of magic to our pantomime.”
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Wind, embers and defensible space: The science of destruction in Laguna Niguel
The weather conditions were unremarkable for coastal Orange County, and even a bit pleasant: Mild temperatures, relatively moist air and a seasonal onshore breeze.
But when firefighters struggled to contain a 50-by-50-foot brush fire on a sere hillside in Laguna Niguel on Wednesday afternoon, officials grew concerned. Within a few hours, multiple homes were ablaze and spewing hot embers as the Coastal fire chewed methodically through an upscale development overlooking the Pacific Ocean. By the time the fire’s spread slowed, at least 20 homes had been destroyed, many of them overlooking the canyon where the fire began.
The sudden and severe destruction has left many to wonder just how such a fire could erupt amid mundane conditions. Yet experts say that preliminary reports suggest the devastation was due to an unlucky combination of factors. Moderate winds, steep terrain and drought-ravaged vegetation worked together to drive flames into a community where homes had been constructed before fire-hardening building codes took effect.
“That’s not atypical, for a fire to happen when those pieces start to align — not aligned in our favor but aligned against us,” said Capt. Sean Doran, spokesperson for the Orange County Fire Authority. “As they start to stack, it becomes a more self-propagating force.”
After the fire started on the hillside due west of the South Orange County Wastewater Authority treatment plant, county firefighters arrived within minutes to find the blaze had spread to at least an acre, Doran said.
Firefighters trudged up the hillside with equipment and formed two flanks in hopes of extinguishing the blaze, he said. However, an ocean breeze drove the flames downhill and to the east. Winds peaked with gusts of up to 25 mph around 4 p.m., according to the National Weather Service in San Diego.
Fire brands then ignited hills to the east of the treatment plant, torching dry grasses and shrubs. The wind-driven flames continued west, and radiative heat and flames naturally reached higher and higher, swiftly racing up to homes perched on the hilltop, Doran said.
“Once the fire hit the base of the hill below the homes, it was like an arrow that just shot to the top,” said OCFA Chief Brian Fennessy.
On hillsides, fire creates a chimney effect as a column of hot gases, smoke, ash and debris rises, potentially overriding the ambient wind direction and creating a draft that pulls in oxygen. Features such as gullies, ravines or chutes concentrate this hot, rising air, called a convective column. The hot gases preheat fuels ahead of the fire as the blaze roars up a slope. Hot embers can be carried by this rising air and the wind, touching off smaller fires ahead of or behind the main blaze.
“A matchstick — or any fire — is doing the same thing,” said Issac Sanchez, a battalion chief for communications at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Hot air rises, and because nature abhors a vacuum, air from the surrounding environment rushes in to fill the void, he said.
Years of persistent drought and limited rain had killed brush on the hillside, Fennessy said. Although the fire broke out on what he would call a “normal” day — it wasn’t a Santa Ana wind event and the humidity was high, around 70% — the fuel moisture is so low that even a normal coastal wind caused the fire to spread rapidly, he said.
“What we’re seeing that we haven’t seen in years past is these fires are starting and the vegetation is so dry that with any wind behind it — even a normal wind for that area — it’s going to spread faster than we’re used to and faster than we can get our units at the scene,” he said.
Fennessy said that while he hadn’t walked the edge of the vegetation, he was in backyards during the chaotic first hours of the blaze and did not see anything that would cause him to believe there was a real challenge with the defensible space — the amount of vegetation cleared around homes.
But once flames reached those homes, the fire began to spread from structure to structure. Fennessy said the homes that he saw burn caught fire as a result of embers that blew into the attic space or became wedged into the roofing material.
“It actually creates a condition where the homes themselves become the fuel,” said Max Moritz, a UC Cooperative Extension specialist in wildfire at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School. Similar patterns could be seen when the Tubbs fire swept through the Santa Rosa subdivision of Coffey Park in 2017 and when the Camp fire destroyed the town of Paradise in 2018, he said.
Homes act as heavy fuels that give off a lot of heat and embers and can burn hotter due to the presence of synthetic, chemically treated materials. The result is a blaze that burns intensely and can be difficult for firefighters to control, he said.
“You can imagine a house is like many, many, many, many large trees’ worth of lumber, so it can take a long time for a home to actually burn,” he said. “And while that’s happening, it gives off a lot of radiant heat and it can produce a lot of burning embers that fly through the air to potentially ignite nearby structures.”
The effect is amplified when the homes are close together, said Crystal Kolden, a professor of fire science at UC Merced.
“Embers just go from house to house to house and find all the little nooks and crannies to get into the house, and in many cases burn it from the inside out,” she said.
Such urban conflagrations were more commonplace in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when buildings were made of flammable wood, resulting in fires that would burn down entire cities, Kolden said. Then building codes changed the way cities were constructed, and these events became much more rare.
“That’s changed in the last decade or couple decades,” she said. “What we have seen are urban conflagrations that start from wildland fires and then move into more densely built areas.”
Kolden attributes the resurgence to the fact that fires are igniting closer to the built environment, as development continues to push into wildland areas. Meanwhile, the climate change-supercharged drought has made it more difficult for authorities to prevent fires from reaching these populated areas, she said.
“They’ve got a heavy fuel load on those hillsides, it’s very, very dry this year, consistent with the drought in California, and it essentially is not containable before it gets into the neighborhoods,” she said. “And that is what we have seen, especially in the last five to 10 years across not just California but many places across the West and across the U.S.”
On top of that, Kolden said, it’s common for homes in areas that burn in these types of fires to have been built before contemporary building codes were enacted to minimize house-to-house spread. That appears to have been the case in the Coastal fire, which is burning in the highest fire severity zone as designated by Cal Fire, she said. At least 18 homes that burned were built in the late 1980s or early 1990s; two others were built in the late 1990s.
Chapter 7A of California’s building code lays out regulations for new homes built in designated fire hazard severity zones that include using non-combustible materials for roofs, wall sidings and eaves; attic vents that prevent embers from entering houses; and double-pane, tempered glass windows. The rules took effect in 2008 and apply only to new construction, and there is no requirement for homeowners to perform retrofitting.
Even if some homes had been retrofitted, Kolden added, if others hadn’t, the entire neighborhood could remain vulnerable, with embers either jumping hardened homes and igniting the next un-hardened structure, or finding a way to enter even the hardened homes.
“We’ve had so many destructive fires in recent years that Cal Fire has really been working overtime to track what’s going on across the state: which homes burn and which homes don’t,” she said. “And the pattern starting to emerge is that when whole neighborhoods are built to these higher standards, they’re so much more resilient that they essentially function as this barrier to the advance of fire.”
On Thursday, a day after the fire torched large swaths of the canyon, a gray haze hung over the charred hillside as residents returned to the community of Coronado Pointe.
As a firefighter trained his hose on the burnt remains of what had been a stately home in the gated enclave overlooking the canyon, 20-year resident Aimee Larr stepped out of her SUV and walked hesitantly to a string of yellow safety tape. She recognized the stone fountain in the frontyard.
“This was my house!” Larr said, voice trembling with emotion. “I can’t believe this. It’s completely leveled. Nothing is left.”
She recalled how Orange County Sheriff’s deputies called for neighbors to come out of their homes on Wednesday. Dressed in just sweatpants and a T-shirt, Larr left without medication or personal mementos.
When she returned Thursday afternoon, she held out hope that her house survived. After all, it was several thousand feet from the original blaze and the canyon her home overlooked was equipped with a sprinkler system that kept vegetation well-watered and green.
“I don’t know how fast it came to my house,” she said. “It was on the other side of the canyon, that’s why I had no big concern. I thought [firefighters] would drop something on it and it would be done.”
As of Thursday evening, the fire was 200 acres with 15% containment. Its cause remained under investigation, but Southern California Edison issued an initial report to state regulators saying that it had logged “circuit activity” around the time the fire started.
Times staff photographer Raul Roa and staff writer Luke Money contributed to this report.
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During the last session, Molecular Data Inc. (NASDAQ:MKD)’s traded shares were 45.83 million. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $0.09, reflecting an intraday gain of 16.67% or $0.01. The 52-week high for the MKD share is $1.05, that puts it down -1066.67 from that peak though still a striking 22.22% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $0.07. The company’s market capitalization is $12.76M, and the average trade volume was 14.27 million shares over the past three months.
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Molecular Data Inc. (MKD) registered a 16.67% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 16.67% in intraday trading to $0.09 this Thursday, 05/12/22, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -19.82%, and it has moved by -41.93% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -88.48%.
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While earnings are projected to return -51.20% in 2022.
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Molecular Data Inc. is due to release its next quarterly earnings on March 25. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Molecular Data Inc. (NASDAQ:MKD)’s Major holders
Molecular Data Inc. insiders own 10.08% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 2.71%, with the float percentage being 3.01%. TB Alternative Assets Ltd. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 11 institutions own stock in it. As of Mar 30, 2022, the company held over 1.6 million shares (or 0.97% of all shares), a total value of $0.32 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 1.11 million shares, is of Renaissance Technologies, LLC’s that is approximately 0.67% of outstanding shares. At the market price on Dec 30, 2021, these shares were valued at $0.24 million.
Data provided on Feb 27, 2022 indicates that Fidelity NASDAQ Composite Index Fund owns about 0.33 million shares. This amounts to just over 0.20 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $51165.0 market value. | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/05/13/molecular-data-inc-nasdaq-mkd-is-worth-evaluating-at-0-09/ | 2022-05-13T12:23:58Z | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/05/13/molecular-data-inc-nasdaq-mkd-is-worth-evaluating-at-0-09/ | true | 3 |
The final part of Seasider’s Way, leading to the huge car park used by tourists, will be shut to motorists as construction begins on a new multi-storey car park at the site, part of the £300m Blackpool Central tourist attraction scheme.
Drivers are being told to divert via routes at Parkinson Way, Waterloo Road and Bloomfield Road.
Visitors are being advised to use other car parks in the area which can be seen on this car park map. They include South car park, Bloomfield Road, Lonsdale Road, Seasider's Way and Foxhall Village.
The work had been scheduled for earlier in the year, but was delayed after hoteliers feared it would damage the vital Easter visitor trade.
But now the work must go ahead on the first part of the first phase of the huge project, this being building of a multi-storey car park, which will have space for 1,306 vehicles and eventually replace the outdoor car park which will be used to create indoor theme parks, a 200-room hotel, bars, restaurants and outdoor entertainment.
Central Car Park will remain open during the build, but its capacity will be cut to 800 spaces, access will be via the main entrance on Central Drive.
Disabled bays will remain accessible at Central Car Park, situated along the fence by New Bonny Street, opposite Coral Island, as well as near the entrance at Chapel Street.
And the council said disabled badge holders are permitted to use all the bays on the car park, not just the designated disabled bays, with three hours free parking.
Coaches are still expected to continue onto Yeadon Way and signage will be in place to allow drivers to initially follow their normal route towards Blackpool but informing them of the diversions ahead.
The New Bonny Street coach facility will remain in use in its current location, with routes clearly signposted and diversions in place. Coach parking information can be found here: Blackpool Coach Parking
A spokesman for Blackpool Council said: “Diversions will be signposted, with traffic diverted via routes at Parkinson Way, Waterloo Road and Bloomfield Road.
“Other car parks in the area remain unaffected – we are asking visitors to park as early as they can to avoid disappointment.” | https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/business/consumer/this-is-what-drivers-need-to-know-about-access-to-one-of-blackpools-major-car-parks-3692932 | 2022-05-13T12:24:28Z | https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/business/consumer/this-is-what-drivers-need-to-know-about-access-to-one-of-blackpools-major-car-parks-3692932 | false | 4 |
On May 13, in an overnight strike, Russian invaders hit the territory of Sumy region with two missiles.
Ukraine’s army Operational Command ‘North’ reports that the strike took place at 5:00 am.
The aggressors targeted a border checkpoint in the village of Ochkino.
No casualties have been reported, the emergency team is working on the site. | https://bykvu.com/eng/bukvy/rocket-strike-in-sumy-region-2/ | 2022-05-13T12:24:43Z | https://bykvu.com/eng/bukvy/rocket-strike-in-sumy-region-2/ | true | null |
MADRID (AP) — Espanyol has fired coach Vicente Moreno and its sports director with two games left in the Spanish league season, the club said Friday.
The Barcelona-based club said reserve team coach Luis Blanco will act as caretaker coach, starting for Saturday’s game against Valencia. The team is in 13th place with two matches to go.
Espanyol assured it would remain in the top division on Wednesday despite losing to Alavés 2-1.
Moreno joined Espanyol at the start of the 2020-21 season when it had just been relegated to the second division. He led the team back to the first division.
Espanyol, which is owned by Chinese businessman Chen Yansheng, also let go of sports director Francisco “Rufete” Pérez. Technical director Domingo Catoira was promoted to replace him.
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New rules to protect Oregon workers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke will provide the most comprehensive climate protections for U.S. outdoor workers, including those in construction, forestry, and agriculture, advocates say.
To protect against extreme heat, employers must as of June 15 afford workers paid heat breaks when temperatures surpass 80 degrees F and must provide access to shade and drinking water, among other measures. To protect against wildfire smoke, employers must supply workers as of July 1 with N95 masks when air quality dips. Masks mandatory will be mandatory when smoke pollution reaches dangerous levels.
The rules are more extensive than similar measures passed in Washington and California, the Oregon Capital Chronicle reported. Oregon’s regulations delineate the length and frequency of heat breaks and also require employers to give workers time to acclimate to severe heat.
“Oregon is really going to be a leader in the country in terms of the standards they have adopted,” Ira Cuello-Martinez, policy manager for the farmworker advocacy group PCUN, told the Oregon Capital Chronicle. “We do applaud these efforts.”
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UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan passes away
UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has passed away, media reports said on Friday.
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UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has passed away, media reports said on Friday. "The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE, the Arab and Islamic nation and the world over the demise of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the UAE," Emirates News Agency, also known as WAM, said in a statement.
Sheikh Khalifa Al Nahyan served as the president of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi since November 2004, Khaleej Times reported. He succeeded his father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in November 2004.
Born in 1948, Sheikh Khalifa was the second President of the UAE and the 16th Ruler of Abu Dhabi. (ANI)
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Convicted killer on the run in Texas after stabbing guard and escaping during prison transfer
A huge manhunt is now underway to find Gonzalo Lopez, a 46-year-old convicted of capital murder
A convicted murderer is on the run in Leon County, Texas, after he allegedly stabbed a prison guard during a prison transfer and escaped on foot.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, staged the dramatic prison break on Thursday when he was being transported from the penitentiary in Gatesville to Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) said in an alert to the public.
Officials said Lopez managed to get out of his restraints on the transport bus and attack Correctional Officer Randy Smith while he was driving the vehicle.
TDCJ spokesperson Robert Hurst said in a press conference that a “physical atercation” broke out between the pair as the officer struggled with him to stop Lopez from taking his service revolver from him.
“[Lopez] stabbed Officer Smith in the left hand with some sort of object,” said Mr Hurst.
The officer managed to prevent the inmate from taking his firearm and the bus came to a halt at which point Lopez bolted from the vehicle and ran.
Officer Jimmy Brinegar, the second officer on board the bus, opened fire on Lopez as he fled but the inmate managed to escape, fleeing across a cow pasture west of Centerville.
It is not clear if Lopez was struck by any of the bullets.
No other inmates escaped and they were still seated in their restraints at the end of the ordeal, officials said.
Lopez is serving a life sentence after being convicted of capital murder and attempted capital murder.
A huge manhunt is now underway to catch the 46-year-old, with local schools closed for the day on Friday amid concerns that he is on the loose and members of the public have been urged not to approach or try to apprehend him if they see him.
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UFC Fight Night card: Blachowicz vs Rakic and all bouts this weekend
All you need to know about the main card and prelims
Jan Blachowicz and Aleksandar Rakic are both intent on inserting themselves into the UFC light heavyweight title picture, but only one will be able to do so on Saturday night.
Former champion Blachowicz and Rakic will go head to head in a Fight Night main event at the UFC Apex institute in Las Vegas, with the winner of the bout potentially in line to face the winner of June’s title contest.
Glover Teixeira, who submitted Blachowicz to claim the gold in October, defends the belt against Jiri Prochazka in Singapore, and rising contender Rakic (14-2) will almost certainly take on the victor if he beats Blachowicz (28-9) here.
No 1-ranked Blachowicz also has a good chance of fighting for the belt next time out if he can secure a statement win against Austrian Rakic, though – at 39 – the Pole’s time to regain the gold is running out.
Here’s all you need to know.
When is it?
The event will take place on Saturday 14 May at the UFC Apex institute in Las Vegas.
The prelims will begin at 12.30am BST (4.30pm PT, 6.30pm CT, 7.30pm ET) on Sunday morning, with the main card following at 3am BST (7pm PT, 9pm CT, 10pm ET).
How can I watch it?
The card will air live on BT Sport in the UK, with the broadcaster’s app and website also streaming the fights.
In the US, ESPN+ will stream the action live, as will the UFC’s Fight Pass.
Odds
Blachowicz – 5/4
Rakic – 4/7
Via Betfair.
Full card
Main card
Jan Blachowicz vs Aleksandar Rakic (light heavyweight)
Ryan Spann vs Ion Cutelaba (light heavyweight)
Davey Grant vs Louis Smolka (bantamweight)
Katlyn Chookagian vs Amanda Ribas (women’s flyweight)
Frank Camacho vs Manuel Torres (lightweight)
Jake Hadley vs Allan Nascimento (flyweight)
Prelims
Viviane Araujo vs Andrea Lee (women’s flyweight)
Michael Johnson vs Alan Patrick (lightweight)
Virna Jandiroba vs Angela Hill (women’s strawweight)
Tatsuro Taira vs Carlos Candelario (flyweight)
Nick Maximov vs Andre Petroski (middleweight)
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Make Music Day is an international celebration of music, and it’s coming to SeaTac’s Angle Lake Park on Saturday, May 21, 2022.
This year, the city will be joining the celebration by hosting free musical performances.
In addition to several local musical acts, organizers have invited local artists to come and display their work.
Food trucks will be on-site so visitors can eat, listen, and enjoy a special afternoon.
For more information, please contact the SeaTac Community Center at (206) 973-4680 or [email protected].
WHEN: Saturday, May 21, 2022, from 12 – 5 p.m.
COST: Free
INFO: Click here for more info.
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Patna, May 13 : The Patna High Court on Friday issued an arrest warrant against Sahara India chairman Subrata Roy after he failed to appear before it despite repeated summons.
Hearing of the multi-crore fraudulent cases against Subrato Roy is underway in the single bench of Justice Sandeep Kumar. More than 2,000 cases have been filed against Roy. The court said the businessman was given enough time to appear before it but he refused. Hence, it had to issue an arrest warrant against him.
Roy was earlier asked to appear before court on May 11 but he refused. Hence, the court made strong remarks against him and said that Roy is not above law. He will have to physically appear before the court. Justice Sandeep Kumar asked him to appear on Thursday (May 12) but failed following which, he was called on Friday (May 13) at 10.30 am but he again denied.
Though his lawyer tried to cover up his absence citing his old age (74), illness and security threat, but the court refused to accept it and asked him to appear before it.
Notably, as per sources, over 3 crore people invested more than Rs 24,000 crore in various schemes, fixed deposits and debentures in Sahara India till 2008. The SEBI had detected the wrong-doings of Sahara India in 2010. The way Sahara India raised funds from the common people, its attributes to money laundering as per SEBI norms.
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RCD Espanyol have fired coach Vicente Moreno and sports director Francisco “Rufete" Pérez with two games left in the Spanish league season, the club said on Friday.
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The Barcelona-based club said reserve team coach Luis Blanco will act as caretaker coach, starting on Saturday’s game against Valencia. The team is in 13th place with two matches to go.
Espanyol ensured that they would remain in the top division on Wednesday despite losing to Alavés 2-1.
Moreno joined Espanyol at the start of the 2020-21 season when it had just been relegated to the second division. He led the team back to the first division.
Espanyol, which is owned by Chinese businessman Chen Yansheng, also let go of sports director Francisco Pérez. Technical director Domingo Catoira was promoted to replace him.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Many parents are hunting for infant formula because of a combination of short- and long-term problems that has hit most of the biggest U.S. brands.
Millions of babies in the U.S. rely on formula, which is the only source of nutrition recommended for infants who aren’t exclusively breastfed.
Here’s a look at what’s behind the problem and what parents can do:
WHY IS THERE A SHORTAGE?
Ongoing supply disruptions have combined with a recent safety recall to leave many pharmacy and supermarket shelves bare.
The problems began last year as the COVID-19 pandemic led to disruptions in labor, transportation and raw materials — economy-wide issues that didn’t spare the formula industry. Inventory was further squeezed by parents stockpiling during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Then in February, Abbott Nutrition recalled several major brands of powdered formula and shut down its Sturgis, Michigan, factory when federal officials began investigating four babies who suffered bacterial infections after consuming formula from the facility.
Abbott is one of only a handful of companies that produce the vast majority of the U.S. formula supply, so their recall wiped out a large segment of the market.
WHAT IS IN BABY FORMULA?
Most formulas contain protein from cow’s milk that’s been altered to be easier to digest and enhanced with extra nutrients needed for growth and development. The Food and Drug Administration sets specific nutritional requirements, including minimum amounts of protein, fat, calcium and a number of vitamins. Formula makers achieve those levels by adding various sugars, oils and minerals.
The formulas are designed to mimic breast milk, though studies have repeatedly shown better health outcomes for babies who are breastfed.
WHY CAN’T ALL MOTHERS RELY ON BREAST MILK?
Health professionals recommend exclusively breastfeeding babies until they are 6 months old. But federal figures show that only 1 in 4 are relying solely on breast milk at that age.
Mothers face a number of challenges to long-term breastfeeding, including returning to work and finding the time and equipment needed to pump breast milk. About 60% of mothers stop breastfeeding sooner than they had planned, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
State and federal laws have been enacted to encourage breastfeeding by requiringbreak time and accommodations for mothers of infants.
Rates of breastfeeding have consistently been lower among Black babies than other groups. About three quarters of Black babies are breast fed in infancy, below the national average of 84%, according to the CDC.
WHAT SHOULD PARENTS DO IF THEY ARE HAVING TROUBLE FINDING FORMULA?
Talk with your pediatrician or call a local food bank to see if they can help locate some options. Experts also recommend checking with smaller stores and pharmacies, which may still have supplies when larger stores run out.
Most regular baby formulas contain the same basic ingredients and nutrients, so parents shouldn’t hesitate to buy a different brand if they’re having trouble finding their regular one.
Some infants require specialty formulas due to allergies, digestive problems and other medical conditions. Parents should talk to their doctor if they can’t find those products, which manufacturers usually distribute through pharmacies and clinics.
Families that qualify for WIC — a federal program similar to food stamps that pays for about half the formula used in the U.S. — can also contact their local agency.
Health officials also warn against buying formula via social media websites or outside of conventional retailers because they could be counterfeit.
WHY ARE PARENTS TOLD NOT TO USE MAKE-YOUR-OWN FORMULA RECIPES ONLINE?
Many do-it-yourself formula recipes are made from cow’s milk and granular sugar that may be difficult for young babies to digest. They also lack the specific vitamins and proteins found in breastmilk and FDA-approved formulas that are needed for basic nutrition.
“Particularly for small babies, many of these formulas and mixtures that are found online don’t contain even the most basic nutrient mixes that babies need to survive,” said Dr. Steven Abrams, a pediatrician at the University of Texas, Austin.
Abrams also stressed that parents should never dilute infant formula.
WHAT ARE RETAILERS DOING TO KEEP FORMULA IN STOCK?
Several national chains have limited the number of containers customers can purchase in stores and online. For CVS and Walgreens, the limit is three per customer. Target limits purchases to four per person when buying online.
Amazon said Thursday it is working to keep the products available on its website and monitoring third-party sellers for price-gouging.
“If we identify a price that violates our policy, we remove the offer and take appropriate action with the seller,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.
WHEN ARE SUPPLIES LIKELY TO IMPROVE?
Health regulators recently announced several steps designed to boost supply, including allowing faster importation of formula made overseas. Typically, 98% of baby formula consumed in the U.S. is made domestically, according to federal officials.
The FDA is working with Abbott to fix the violations that triggered the shutdown of its Michigan plant, which produces Similac, EleCare and several other leading powdered formulas.
The company says its products have not been directly linked to the bacterial infections in children, pointing out that genetic samples collected from its factory did not match those found in several infants who got sick.
The Chicago-based company said this week that, pending FDA approval, it could restart manufacturing at its plant within two weeks. After that it would take another six to eight weeks before new products hit store shelves.
But even then, experts caution that many of the industrywide issues will continue to restrain supplies.
“This is going to be a problem and it’s not going away for at least a period of several months,” Abrams said.
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AP Business Writer Dee-Ann Durbin contributed from Detroit. Follow Matthew Perrone on Twitter: @AP_FDAwriter
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For months, TJ Finney stared at a $10,000 bill.
He made no payments, ignored collection letters and waited for the mistake to be corrected.
Then one day, last week, it disappeared.
The Remus resident logged onto the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency portal and saw his $10,000 overpayment was gone. Instead of a blaring “make payment on the outstanding balance,” Finney only saw an option to file a new claim.
“Really happy,” he said. “A lot of relief.”
Finney, an oil driller who works in Texas half the year, was not the only one breathing a sigh of relief. More than 55,000 Michiganders who were asked to repay their pandemic unemployment benefits—at no fault of their own—got a waiver clearing the debt last week.
Many more, however, are still waiting.
Related: Michigan erases $431M in pandemic unemployment overpayments
The issue stems from a mistake involving the state and federal governments.
During the pandemic, federal CARES Act dollars bolstered aid and extended benefits to people who wouldn’t normally qualify, like part-time and gig workers, through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program.
But Michigan allowed workers to claim these benefits for reasons that were not approved by the U.S. Department of Labor. As a result, the state determined nearly 700,000 people were overpaid and demanded benefits back from three-quarters of them.
Michigan has since been working with the U.S. Department of Labor to clear the overpayments.
For Saúl Ulloa, he watched his lifeline become a burden.
After losing his job as a Georgetown University research assistant in the spring of 2020, Ulloa moved back to his hometown of Grand Rapids. He turned to the Michigan UIA for help, collecting benefits for several months to stay afloat until landing a new job.
Then last June, the Michigan UIA notified Ulloa that his eligibility had been redetermined: He now owed the state $12,000.
“It was stressful for many reasons,” he said. “A resource that I had seen as a safety net during a time of crisis was being pulled out from under me and under many people as well.”
After being threatened with wage garnishment, making two payments to the state totaling $375, filing a protest and being emotionally exhausted for months, Ulloa’s overpayment was unexpectedly cleared.
A letter made it official: Your overpayment is waived on the basis of agency error.
“I’ve had this overpayment hanging over me since June of last year—almost a year,” Ulloa said. “It took them this long to look at my account and deliver some sort of final decision, frankly to me, was absurd.”
Related: Michigan can waive more unemployment bills under new federal guidance
Waivers have been slow to arrive for thousands of people hit with an overpayment notice.
After Michigan cleared an initial 350,000 overpayments in August last year, state officials asked the U.S. Department of Labor for additional waivers. When broader guidance came in February, the state started testing its system and determining who is eligible for a waiver.
“States paid benefits – in some cases – to individuals who were not entitled to receive them, although the individuals were not at fault,” the U.S. Department of Labor said in a news release announcing the waivers.
On May 4, the second chunk went out erasing $431 million in debt.
“To date the UIA has waived over $4.3 billion in overpayment debt for more than 400,000 thousand claimants with more to come,” a news release said.
Roughly $11 million will also be refunded to people who paid back the overpayment.
For Melissa, a Michigan massage therapist who asked for only her first name to be used out of concern for her business, she’s still waiting on her $18,000 bill to disappear. She felt like she had no choice but to rely on benefits to keep her business alive.
“I am the person the waiver would be for. I did nothing wrong. I followed the rules,” she said.
The state agency did not confirm how many people who qualify are still waiting for a waiver.
Michigan UIA Director Julia Dale originally told lawmakers at a joint state House and Senate Oversight Committee hearing that 96% of those eligible for waivers would see their overpayments erased. But the “conditional number” overlapped with waivers issued last fall meaning only 55,000 got a notice in their MiWAM and a letter in their mailbox last week.
There is no timeline yet on when the rest of the overpayments will be waived, according to Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity spokesperson Lynda Robinson. But state officials indicated in a recent court filing it could take until February 2023.
“I just think it puts everyone in a very hard position. Especially the group of people experiencing this are self-employed, small businesses, hairdressers, massage therapists, people of that nature,” Melissa said. “We make a living, and we are passionate about it. But I don’t think we’re rolling in money.”
A January class-action lawsuit argues the state acted unlawfully when it asked for the pandemic benefits back. Defendants filed an motion in March to suspend collections such as wage garnishment or intercepting tax refunds, which the state disputed.
Meanwhile frustration is mounting for likely thousands of people still saddled with an overpayment notice.
“I don’t trust that there is going to be a resolution,” Melissa said. “And if so, I don’t know if it’s going to be timely.”
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Foster Garvey Associate Justice Brooks Receives 2022 Portland Business Journal 40 Under 40 Award
PORTLAND, Ore., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Foster Garvey, PC is pleased to announce that Justice Brooks, an Associate in the firm's Litigation group, has been selected as a 2022 Portland Business Journal '40 Under 40' award honoree. The award annually recognizes 40 Portland-area young professionals for outstanding leadership in their careers and compelling community involvement.
Brooks, who serves in the Litigation practice group in the firm's Portland office, focuses primarily on business, commercial and construction litigation, as well as insolvency and bankruptcy matters. An attorney for eight years, his experience includes a broad range of trial and appellate experience in state and federal court, as well as providing advice and training to clients on business and employment matters.
"Justice has a reputation as a skilled litigator who is respected by his colleagues for his professionalism, candor, communication and legal skills," said Cynthia Fraser, Co-Chair of Foster Garvey's Litigation practice. "He is equally dedicated to his community through his professional and volunteer activities. Justice has an incredible drive and commitment to make an impact in every facet of his work, and we look forward to continuing to see his star rise here at Foster Garvey and in the community."
Highly active in both the legal and local community, Brooks is a "Crew Member" for Know Me Now, a Portland-based non-profit initiative that connects community members with soon-to-be-released incarcerated parents. He also currently serves on committees for the Multnomah Bar Association and the Oregon State Bar, as a mentor with the Professional Mentor Program at the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law, and as a member of the Foster Garvey Opportunity & Progress Council. Brooks previously served as a Board Member of his law school's Alumni Association, as President of the W. Harold Flowers Law Society, and as a Board Member of the American Red Cross of Greater Arkansas. Additionally, he devotes his time as a volunteer football, basketball and soccer coach for Portland-based youth teams.
Brooks was recognized earlier this year as a Top 40 Under 40 Attorney by The National Black Lawyers and was named a Rising Star by Mid-South Super Lawyers in 2017.
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5 for Good: Volunteers combat elder isolation
Boston-based Friendship Works connects volunteers with seniors looking for company, support
Boston-based Friendship Works connects volunteers with seniors looking for company, support
Boston-based Friendship Works connects volunteers with seniors looking for company, support
Lifelong Cambridge resident Nancy Clark Dodson is busy at 89 years old.
A lover of poetry and books, she attends poetry classes every Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday.
She said Mondays, however, are reserved for something extra special.
"Monday, I look forward to Lauren's call,” Dodson said.
She is referring to Lauren Badalucco, a 29-year-old cancer researcher from Somerville who visits her every week.
"We've been doing a puzzle recently,” Badalucco said. “We talk about reading and poetry. We both really like to read."
Badalucco may be 60 years Dodson’s junior, but she said that's no big deal.
"Even though there's a difference in age between us, there's not a lot of difference in personality or what we like," she said.
The two were initially connected through Friendship Works, a Boston-based nonprofit reducing elder isolation by matching volunteers with older adults.
Badalucco, said she came to understand the problems that come with isolation through her mother's work as a nurse.
"She worked at a nursing home through a lot of the pandemic,” Badalucco said. “She would just tell me a lot of stories about the residents there that would either be alone for long periods of time or would have no family coming to see them. Honestly, the thought of that made me pretty bummed out."
She says her friendship with Dodson with Nancy came easily.
"Recently I took Nancy to see her family for her birthday,” she said. “We kind of just do anything that normal friends would do."
Friendship Works is holding its annual fundraiser this month. The Walk to End Elder Isolation will take place May 15.
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Knight Riders acquires Abu Dhabi franchise in UAE's new T20 League
The deal has been inked between Knight Riders Group, majority-owned by Shah Rukh Khan and UAE’s T20 League Chairman, Khalid Al Zarooni
UAE’s T20 League announced that the Knight Riders Group has acquired the rights to own and operate the Abu Dhabi franchise and will set up Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (ADKR) as an integral part of the UAE’s flagship T20 league.
Over the last decade, the Knight Riders Group has become a household name in T20 cricket. After establishing Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2008 in the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Knight Riders became owners of the Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in 2015. Recently, the Knight Riders Group made a significant investment in Major League Cricket (MLC) in the USA and intends to set up a franchise in the greater Los Angeles area.
This investment by the Knight Riders Group, which is led by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, along with Juhi Chawla & her husband Jay Mehta, will establish their 4th T20 franchise around the world in IPL, CPL, MLC and now in UAE’s T20 league.
Shah Rukh Khan, commenting on the long-term agreement, said, "For several years now, we have been expanding the Knight Riders brand globally and closely watching the potential for T20 cricket in the UAE. We are excited about becoming part of UAE’s T20 League, which no doubt will become hugely successful”.
Khalid Al Zarooni, UAE’s T20 League Chairman said; “The commitment to grow the T20 format and the expertise gathered by the Knight Riders Group, through their involvement in franchise cricket across the world, is undisputed. We are exceptionally pleased with their foresight to join forces with the UAE’s T20 League and firmly believe it will elevate the reputation, and professionalism of the League throughout the cricket community.”
Mubashshir Usmani, General Secretary Emirates Cricket Board said, “We are pleased with the association of the Knight Riders Group with the League as a franchise team owner, we are very confident that this association will be mutually beneficial for both Knight Riders brand and the League. UAE’s T20 League will attract some of the biggest names in world cricket while also giving a platform and international exposure to local and upcoming players”.
Venky Mysore, CEO of KKR and Red Chillies Entertainment said "We feel fortunate to have been consistently recognized as a global brand in T20 cricket. As T20 cricket expands around the world, we are flattered by the regular invitations to play a major role in growing the sport across the world. We have had a keen interest in the developments in the UAE and our expansion is consistent with our long-term strategy”.
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Bitspawn (SPWN) traded up 3.3% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 8:00 AM ET on May 13th. During the last seven days, Bitspawn has traded 43.5% lower against the dollar. One Bitspawn coin can now be purchased for approximately $0.0029 or 0.00000009 BTC on exchanges. Bitspawn has a total market capitalization of $1.47 million and approximately $81,013.00 worth of Bitspawn was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
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A 12th century church steeped in history in East Yorkshire has been awarded funds towards vital roof repairs.
Rain has been getting in at the grade one-listed St Germain’s, Winestead, which has received £6,000 towards guttering and roof work. The church is one of six across Yorkshire celebrating the awarding of grants totalling over £32,000 from the Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust (YHCT).
Located next to the moated remains of an early manor house, St Germain’s houses some of the only remaining fragments of medieval glass in Holderness. After a spate of lead thefts in the 1980s, a new roof was added, but over the years water has been getting in and the guttering and roof is now in need of repair to prevent further damage.
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The church is the only community building in the village, and acts as an important focal point for the local area. St Germain’s has signed up to take part in the digital heritage apprenticeship scheme run by the Trust, which sees students from the University of York working with churches to help them harness the power of digital technologies to share their history and heritage with visitors and local communities.
Nicholas Hildyard, from St Germain’s, said: “We were excited and delighted to receive this grant from the YHCT towards the vital roof repairs needed to stop water getting in and causing further damage to the interior. St Germain’s is a much loved church and plays an important role as the only community gathering place in the village.
"The building is grade one listed and dates back to the early 12th century, with a fabulous interior, a romantic atmosphere and much history, being adjacent to a noted medieval moated site to the west." The future of many churches is under threat due to crumbling roofs, windows and stonework.
The YHCT works to ensure these places of worship are kept in good repair, recognising the contribution they make to society at large and the support they provide to local communities. The funding provides a vital lifeline to places of worship who have been unable to carry out their usual fundraising activities over the past couple of years, and at a time when many are increasingly providing a number of essential services to local communities, such as food banks and credit unions.
Grants were awarded to a range of places of worship across the region, from the large grade two-listed St Mary the Virgin in urban south Leeds, to the small early 19th century St Mary’s Church in Hutton Magna, a rural hamlet in Richmondshire.
Tom Ramsden, chairman of the YHCT, said: “Thanks to the generosity of our Friends and donors, we have been able to support a wide range of places of worship. Over the past couple of years we have witnessed the important role churches play in bringing their local communities together and helping them thrive.
"Now, more than ever, they need our help to ensure those churches continue to support their communities for many years to come”. You can become a Friend of the Trust and help support local places of worship – visit the website to find out more information.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has dismissed a lawsuitfiled by former U.S. Sen. David Perdue that alleged fraudulent or counterfeit ballots were counted in the state’s most populous county during the 2020 general election.
Perdue filed the lawsuit, along with an individual voter, in December a few days after he announced that he would be challenging Gov. Brian Kemp in the Republican primary. Among other things, the suit sought access to examine absentee ballots, saying that would allow the petitioners to prove that there had been fraud in Fulton County.
Investigators with the secretary of state’s office found no evidenceto support the fraud claims, but that hasn’t stopped former President Donald Trump, Perdue and others from continuing to spread them.
The suit was similar to another filed by a group of voters that was dismissed in October because a judge found the group hadn’t alleged a “particularized injury” and therefore didn’t have standing to sue. That ruling has been appealed.
Perdue and voter Elizabeth Grace Lennon argued that their state constitutional rights to equal protection and due process have been violated. Perdue claims his particularized injury was that he was a candidate for reelection in November but failed to achieve a majority, forcing him into a runoff with Democrat Jon Ossoff that Perdue lost. Lennon says she sought to cast an in-person early vote in October 2020 but was told someone had already submitted a mail ballot in her name.
In an order dated Wednesday dismissing the lawsuit, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote that it “is not really about Perdue’s loss or Lennon’s personal voting experience.” Its core claims, he notes, are that several batches of absentee ballots were scanned multiple times and thousands of unlawful counterfeit absentee ballots were counted and certified in Fulton County.
Those are claims that were repeatedly pushed in the aftermath of the 2020 election by people who allege that widespread fraud caused the presidential election to be stolen from Trump. Perdue, who is trailing Kemp in polls as the May 24 Republican primary grows near, has made claims of a “stolen and rigged” election a central pillar of his campaign and frequently talks about the lawsuit while campaigning.
The lawsuit asks the judge to declare that county officials violated the petitioners’ equal protection and due process rights, but such a declaration requires that they demonstrate that if the court doesn’t act, their interests will be harmed in the future, McBurney wrote. Instead, they asked him to make a declaration about something that had already happened in the past, and the court can’t do that, he wrote.
The lawsuit also asks the judge to issue a series of orders that would empower the petitioners’ experts to “intrude upon the sealed ballot materials of tens of thousands of Fulton County voters, hunt for speculative voter fraud or error, and then determine for themselves what the ‘actual’ vote count should have been in the Election,” McBurney wrote.
“This quixotic journey will not take place,” he added.
Perdue harshly criticized the ruling saying it was “another example of how the establishment continues to cover up what happened in 2020, and we will vigorously appeal the decision.”
The lawsuit “excoriates” county officials for “having ‘negligently, willfully, wantonly, outwardly, maliciously or corruptly and unapologetically acted with malfeasance’ thereby causing electors in Fulton County to experience ‘disenfranchisement, dilution, debasement, and corruption of their vote in the General Election,’” but it doesn’t seek a remedy for the alleged violations of the petitioners’ rights, McBurney wrote.
The lawsuit seeks a declaration that the court is unable to provide and without such a declaration, the petitioners’ requests “are left supported only by sour grapes which make a wine this Court will not serve,” McBurney wrote.
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Lowndes County Fire Rescue Hosts Training with Georgia Forestry Air Operations Unit
On May 5, Lowndes County Fire Rescue, in conjunction with Valdosta Fire Department and the Valdosta Airport Authority, hosted, joint training with the Georgia Forestry Commission. The course, led by GFC Pilot Kenny Beck, focused on operations using the agency’s two Single Engine Air Tankers or SEAT firefighting...
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Dr Shola slams Brexit and says UK is 'led by donkeys' and leaving brought 'no opportunies'
BORIS' Brexit has been slammed by a political activist with the UK and EU at loggerheads over the Northern Ireland Protocol and fears of a trade war.
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An EU insider has claimed the bloc would launch infringement procedures against the UK and suspend the Brexit trade agreement if Liz Truss puts forward legislation to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol. As the trading row explodes, author and women’s rights activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu slammed Brexit and the “donkeys” who have led the country into it. She said: “So Brexit is not done after all. Brexit has NOT produced ANY opportunities only PROBLEMS.
“Who would’ve thought it? Now comes lies, more lies and even more lies.
“Hey UK, aren’t you tired of being led by donkeys? You’re looking pretty stupid right now.”
Negotiations between the EU and UK have long been in stalemate as neither can reach a compromise on the de facto border in place between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Foreign Secretary reportedly delivered a 72-hour deadline for the EU to comply with UK demands or she will begin the steps to lift the protocol.
However, the EU is fighting back and may use economic power to punish the UK - lending weight to Dr Shola’s argument that Brexit has only brought problems.
According to Bloomberg, who the unnamed EU source spoke to, the bloc is prepared to freeze "the privileged access that UK companies have to the EU single market, [and] the bloc would also halt talks over the status of Gibraltar".
Right now, goods to and from the EU are tariff and quote free, according to GOV.UK, providing they meet the 'Rules of Origin' requirements.
However, if the EU follows through with their threat, the UK would automatically go on to World Trade Organization terms with EU countries - losing those privileges.
According to the BBC in 2020, tariffs on certain goods coming from the UK stood at 2.8 percent for non-agricultural products, 10 percent for cars and more than 35 percent for dairy products.
All this at a time when the cost of living is already being decimated by soaring inflation, and the possibility of a recession looms.
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But the UK has seen some advantages as a result of Brexit.
The possibility of a trade deal with India, a rapidly growing economy that an economics expert told Express.co.uk is set to overtake the EU, would not have been possible before Brexit.
Meanwhile last week political commentator Gully Foyle took to Twitter to defend the Brexit vote against criticism, claiming 14 benefits of leaving the EU bloc.
“From a trade deal perspective, the UK previously had access to around 40 trade deals, as part of EU membership - which it paid billions a year for.
“We have replicated all but 3 of those deals (Bosnia, Montenegro, Algeria) so no longer have to pay ££s each year for them,” he tweeted.
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He added: “Next tweet in the thread he noted: “Sticking with trade deals - since leaving the EU we have improved the rolled over deals with Japan and Singapore, and have completely new deals with Australia and New Zealand
“We would not have these deals right now, if we had stayed inside the EU.”
Mr Foyle mentioned other key legislative benefits such as more control over animal welfare and being able to suspend trade deals with countries such as Israel for moral reasons.
He also cited a “fairer” immigration policy that does not prioritise predominantly white Europeans.
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Reiterates 2022 Guidance of At Least $5 Million Revenue Based on Existing Business
Cash Balance of $7.8 Million at Quarter End
AIRPORT CITY, Israel, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MySize, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYSZ) (TASE: MYSZ.TA) ("MySize" or the "Company"), an omnichannel e-commerce platform and provider of AI-driven measurement solutions to drive revenue growth and reduce costs for its business clients, today announced financial and operational results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
Key Financial Highlights for the First Quarter Ended March 31, 2022 Compared to Prior Year Period
- Revenue increased 1400% to $404,000, primarily attributable to closing the acquisition of Orgad on February 7, 2022
- MySizeID revenue increased 63% to $44,000
- Gross profit increased 467% to $153,000
- Cash balance at March 31, 2022 of $7.8 million
- Inventory balance at March 31, 2022 of $1.1 million
- Operating loss increased 39% to $2,105,000
- Net loss increased 50% to $2,188,000
Business Highlights for the First Quarter Ended March 31, 2022
- Launched FirstLook Smart Mirror, an interactive, mirror-like touch display that provides shoppers in physical stores with an enhanced, online shopping experience and contactless checkout
- Closed the acquisition of Orgad, an omnichannel e-commerce platform, headquartered in Israel and operates globally, including the U.S. and Europe, and a presence on Amazon.com
- Appointed Chief Commercial Officer Javier Brandwain to accelerate revenue growth; adds extensive fashion retail experience and network of global business relationships
Management Commentary
Ronen Luzon, Chief Executive Officer of MySize, commented, "While it's early, we are extremely pleased with our acquisition of Orgad and the progress we have made since mid-February. We see opportunity to scale its business by being able to provide additional cash to bolster inventory and fuel more turnover in order to accelerate revenue growth. We believe Orgad has the potential to increase its inventory turnover by multiples over what it did in 2021."
Luzon, continued, "MySizeID has continued to gain traction and now reaches 1,000+ retail customers with additional reach throughout the world, including the U.S. and Turkey. Additional growth and synergies are coming from our new product initiative FirstLook Smart Mirror and the collaboration between our Orgad and MySizeID teams working together on cross-sell opportunities whereby MySizeID can leverage some existing relationships."
Luzon, concluded, "With that said, we reiterate our 2022 guidance of at least $5 million revenue based on existing business. We look forward to updating the market and our stockholders with our progress on both internal growth initiatives and potential strategic acquisitions to expand in e-commerce and digital management."
Financial Results for Three Months Ended March 31, 2022
- Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022 increased by 1400% to $404,000, compared to $27,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to $360,000 in revenue generated from Orgad from February 7, 2022, the date of closing of the Orgad acquisition through to the end of the first quarter 2022.
- Gross profit for the three months ended March 31, 2022 increased by 467% to $153,000, compared to $27,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The resulting gross margin for the three months ended March 31, 2022 was 37.9%, compared to 100.0% for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The increase in comparison with the corresponding period was due to the cost of goods of the revenues generated from Orgad's operations.
- Operating expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2022 increased by 49% to $2,297,000, compared to $1,543,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The increase in comparison with the corresponding period was mainly due to the hiring of new employees, expenses associated with Orgad activities and events and travel expenses and professional services attributed to the Orgad acquisition and salaries of Orgad management.
- Operating loss for the three months ended March 31, 2022 totaled $2,105,000, an increase of $589,000, or 39%, compared to an operating loss of $1,516,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
- Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2022 totaled $2,188,000, an increase of $731,000, or 50%, compared to a net loss of $1,457,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The resulting EPS loss per share was ($0.09) for the three months ended March 31, 2022, compared to ($0.16) for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
- Cash and cash equivalents totaled $7.8 million at March 31, 2022, a decrease of $2.9 million compared to $10.7 million at December 31, 2021.
- Currently, the Company has no material long-term debt on its balance sheet.
About MySize, Inc.
MySize, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYSZ) (TASE: MYSZ.TA) is an omnichannel e-commerce platform and provider of AI-driven measurement solutions to drive revenue growth and reduce costs for its business clients. Orgad, its online retailer platform, has expertise in e-commerce, supply chain and technology operating as a third-party seller on Amazon.com and other sites.
MySize has developed a unique measurement technology based on sophisticated algorithms and cutting-edge technology with broad applications, including the apparel, e-commerce, DIY, shipping, and parcel delivery industries. This proprietary measurement technology is driven by several algorithms that are able to calculate and record measurements in a variety of novel ways. To learn more about MySize, please visit our website: www.mysizeid.com. We routinely post information that may be important to investors in the Investor Relations section of our website. Follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
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It’s a banner year for weddings, with industry experts at the Wedding Report predicting that more than 2.5 million couples will tie the knot — a 40-year high. But you might find your finances aren’t quite ready to take on the costs associated with being a wedding guest.
Half (50%) of Americans say they plan to attend a wedding in 2022 — but less than a third (31%) have built attendance into their budgets, according to a new survey.
“I think guests are going to start looking at all the things that they never really looked at before and determining, ‘Is it really worth me attending this event?’,” says Sheavonne Harris, a wedding planner based in New York City. In some cases, they may just decide to send a nice gift in their absence, she says.
Before you RSVP, weigh important factors — from airfare costs to your relationship with the couple — and consider these ideas for fitting attendance into your budget.
THINK ABOUT SAVING ON TRAVEL COSTS
Among the top factors Americans consider before attending a wedding are how far it is from home (47%) and the cost of travel and lodging (43%), according to a NerdWallet survey of more than 2,000 people conducted online by The Harris Poll.
Airfare or driving costs plus lodging can add up. Using miles or points you’ve earned can help reduce travel expenses.
Getting around town once you arrive is another cost. “Each wedding is a few hundred dollars to rent a car when you’re there for a weekend,” says Elliott Appel, a certified financial planner in Madison, Wisconsin. Consider sharing rental-car or ride-share costs with other guests to save some cash.
Most couples are still providing hotel room blocks at a discounted rate for their guests, Harris says. Make sure you don’t miss the deadline to catch that deal. You might also consider sharing a room or splitting a vacation rental with other guests.
Appel also suggests making the trip do double duty if you have nearby family or friends who you were planning to visit this year.
SET REASONABLE SPENDING LIMITS FOR GIFTS AND OUTFITS
Getting to the wedding is only part of the cost. You also want to bring a gift and look presentable. After more than two years of pandemic living, formal clothes hanging in your closet might not fit the way they used to.
“If you can duplicate outfits as opposed to doing multiple different outfits for every wedding, I always recommend that,” Appel says. Clothing rental services like Rent the Runway or Nuuly help you cut costs and still feel special.
And don’t let expectations to spend outrageously on gifts hold you back.
“Just because we know the person well doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to spend a significant amount of money on a gift,” Appel says. He suggests a gift with personal meaning behind it, something “that maybe reflects back on an experience or a shared memory.” A group gift is another way to give a higher-priced item without busting your budget.
STRETCH THE BUDGET STRATEGICALLY
You’re likely to do everything you can to share a close friend’s or family member’s special day — even if it stretches your budget.
Appel doesn’t advocate going into debt for a wedding. But, he says, “I also don’t want people to miss out on those memorable experiences.” He suggests trying to reduce spending or temporarily increase income to cover extra costs.
If those strategies aren’t enough, you might consider putting your wedding guest expenses on a credit card.
However, make sure you have a plan to pay off that debt — the debt avalanche or snowball methods are popular. And use credit cards strategically. Moving charges to a card with a low or 0% APR for balance transfers gives extra time to pay without running up a lot of interest.
IF YOU HAVE TIME, SAVE BEFORE GOING
If you know there are weddings in your future, start planning now.
Build guest expenses into your budget with a sinking fund — a savings account dedicated to a planned expense. Consistently saving smaller chunks over time is more manageable.
Also, cutting costs across your budget not only helps you afford wedding attendance but also respond to rising inflation in general. Think about buying store brands, renegotiating bills, canceling subscriptions and trimming discretionary spending.
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This article was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet. Amanda Barroso is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: abarroso@nerdwallet.com.
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This online survey of 2,054 U.S. adults ages 18 and older was conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of NerdWallet from March 15-17, 2022. Respondents included 961 who will attend at least one wedding in 2022. The sampling precision of Harris Poll online surveys is measured using a Bayesian credible interval. For this survey, the sample data is accurate to within +2.8 percentage points using a 95% confidence level. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables and subgroup sample sizes, contact Sarah Borland at sborland@nerdwallet.com. | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/How-guests-can-honor-their-budgets-in-peak-17170266.php | 2022-05-13T12:57:16Z | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/How-guests-can-honor-their-budgets-in-peak-17170266.php | true | 15 |
Indigenous Australia demands recognition in constitution
The Australian constitution makes no reference to indigenous people, whose leaders have struggled to win recognition for injustices suffered since the beginning of European colonisation in the 1700s
Canberra — Activists at one of the world’s longest-running protests for the rights of indigenous people are not pinning their hopes for change on Australia’s May 21 general election.
The election campaign has been dominated by debate about rising prices, Covid-19 and climate change, with the plight of Australia’s 700,000 or so indigenous people, who track near the bottom of its 25-million citizens on almost every economic and social indicator, far from the top of the agenda.
“I don't vote and wouldn't vote until we have our own voice,” said Gwenda Stanley, an activist living at the “aboriginal tent embassy” camp of shelters on a lawn across from the old parliament building in Canberra.
The site was first occupied 50 years ago to protest against Australia’s treatment of its indigenous people, who trace their roots back 65,000 years before British colonialists arrived.
While there may be cynicism about the election, indigenous activists are taking advantage of the campaign to remind political parties of their core demand — that Australia for the first time recognises its original inhabitants in its constitution.
The constitution makes no reference to indigenous people, whose leaders have struggled for generations to win recognition for injustices suffered since the beginning of European colonisation in the 1700s.
Denied the vote until the mid-1960s, indigenous people face a 10-year gap in life expectancy compared with other Australians and make up 30% of the prison population. Aboriginal deaths in police custody have been a problem for years despite a Royal Commission looking into the issue since 1991.
The government only issued a formal apology for all injustices in 2008.
Campaigners are seeking a referendum, which is required to make changes to the constitution, on recognising indigenous minorities in the constitution and mandating governments to consult Aboriginal people on decisions that affect their lives.
Activists launched an information campaign last week running on all major television networks calling on political parties to back a referendum in 2023.
‘No more delay’
Constitutional recognition is a complex issue in a country that only started counting its indigenous people as part of its population in 1967.
But Australians are coming around in ever greater numbers in support of change. Public broadcaster ABC News said last week that 73% of people agreed there should be constitutional change to give indigenous Australians a greater say over their lives.
This was higher than the 64% of voters agreeing to a referendum in the 2019 election.
A successful referendum would bring Australia in line with Canada, New Zealand and the US in formally recognising indigenous populations.
But the big political parties are divided on how to handle the demand.
Campaigning for the polls, Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week refused to back a referendum, saying instead his government's policy was to establish indigenous representation in parliament through legislation.
The ruling coalition had promised in 2019 to hold a referendum and allocated $160m for the process but little came of it.
Morrison’s office did not respond to a request for comment on its views and plans on the issue.
The opposition Labor Party, however, has promised a referendum, a demand first enshrined in a 2017 Uluru Statement at a convention that brought together more than 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders at the sacred monolith in central Australia.
“Five years after the Uluru Statement was presented to the Australian people, there should be no more delay. We believe the Australian people are ready,” a Labor spokesperson said.
‘Begging for rights’
Constitutional change requires approval through a referendum, with the backing of a majority of votes in a majority of states — a rare feat achieved only eight times in 44 attempts since 1901.
But it's the only way to bring about real reform, analysts say.
“If we want to see true structural change that changes how our country works then we need to have a referendum,” said James Blackwell, research fellow in Indigenous Diplomacy at the Australian National University, who belongs to the Wiradyuri people.
“It’s disappointing in many aspects that we have to keep coming back begging for rights, begging for recognition. But it is the way our system works,” said Blackwell, a member of the Uluru Dialogue group of community leaders, legal scholars and activists.
The activists at the Canberra protest are staying put as the politics plays out.
“That’s the whole point of this embassy … to remind the government and the rest of the world that we are still oppressed people,” said Stanley, who is from the Gomeroi people.
“We are staying here forever.”
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Tennis Tennis Zverev sees off Garin to ease into Italian Open semi-finals World number three Alexander Zverev remained on course to claim his first title of the season after overcoming Cristian Garin 7-5 6-2 to book his place in the Italian Open semi-finals on Friday. Reuters 13 May, 2022 17:45 IST Alexander Zverev celebrates after winning his quarter final match against Chile's Cristian Garin. - REUTERS Reuters 13 May, 2022 17:45 IST World number three Alexander Zverev remained on course to claim his first title of the season after overcoming Cristian Garin 7-5 6-2 to book his place in the Italian Open semi-finals on Friday.Zverev, who won the title in Rome in 2017, proved too strong for Garin in the pair's first meeting since the Chilean upset him on home soil en route to winning the ATP 250 event in Munich three years ago.Garin had the first break point of the match at 3-2 but Zverev squirmed his way out of it and broke his 25-year-old opponent to take a 4-3 lead and, after some poor shot selection, closed out a gritty opening set.Zverev comfortably won the second set after Garin dropped serve in his first game, converting two out of his seven break points to wrap up the victory.READ: Nadal’s 13 French Open Titles Part Five - 2010"I think it was a high level match, at times it wasn't pretty tennis but I got the job done and that's the most important thing," said Zverev, who is yet to drop a set in Rome.The 25-year-old German will face the winner of the match between world number five Stefanos Tsitsipas and home favourite Jannik Sinner, which will be played later on Friday, for a place in the final.World number one Novak Djokovic will also be in action later and take on Felix Auger-Aliassime after Casper Ruud and Denis Shapovalov face off in their quarter-final. Read more stories on Tennis. For more updates, follow Sportstar on : | https://sportstar.thehindu.com/tennis/zverev-beats-garin-to-reach-semis-italian-open-tennis/article38490551.ece | 2022-05-13T13:05:36Z | https://sportstar.thehindu.com/tennis/zverev-beats-garin-to-reach-semis-italian-open-tennis/article38490551.ece | false | 2 |
Chorney-Booth: Gwailo brings a new “Hong Kong-adjacent” spin to a familiar space
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Sometimes a change to a restaurant space is drastic. New owners will come in and tear out walls, install new kitchens and completely transform a restaurant, almost as if they’re trying to erase all memory of the food enjoyed there prior to their arrival. In other cases, as with the new Gwailo in Inglewood, the switch from the previous restaurant, Gorilla Whale, has been much more nuanced.
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Customers would be excused for being confused as they walk into Gwailo since it still looks a lot like Gorilla Whale. The layout is the same and while the old Japanese rock posters have been switched out for quirky Asian-themed panels, the vibe is quite similar. Peek in the kitchen and you’ll see ex-Gorilla Whale executive chef Chris Wong cooking, and former operations manager Jason Wankel will probably be roaming the dining room. But despite a somewhat blurred transition, Gwailo is indeed a new restaurant.
In January, Gorilla Whale management posted on social media that the restaurant would be closed for a spell, eventually announcing a permanent closure due to “financial pressures exacerbated by the pandemic.” Wong and Wankel weren’t ready to see what they’d built evaporate, so the pair decided to become their own bosses and are now co-owners of Gwailo, keeping all of the things that worked well, tweaking those that didn’t, and changing the food concept to better speak to Wong’s journey as a chef.
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“When we were designing the space, we really didn’t want to fall into the trap where every westernized Chinese restaurant looks the same,” Wankel says. “We wanted to add some spice and a little bit of funk and some interesting artwork and have it be a little more unique.”
Wong was born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, so while the previous restaurant featured plays on Japanese food, Gwailo’s menu draws on what he calls “Hong Kong-adjacent” dishes. The restaurant’s name is meant to be tongue-in-cheek — “gwailo” is a Chinese term that roughly means “foreigner,” and as a Chinese-Canadian, Wong says it reflects how he felt when he did a four-year stint working in Hong Kong. His new menu reflects some of the fun that customers may remember from Gorilla Whale but with a little more gravitas — there are still plenty of bites for sharing and some decidedly modern takes on the classics, but Wong also pays homage to traditional Hong Kong cuisine.
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“The best time I had was cooking some really modern interpretations of Chinese and Asian-influenced food in Hong Kong,” Wong says. “This food definitely speaks to me because it’s what I grew up eating. Westernized Chinese food hasn’t really changed in 30 years — why hasn’t anyone taken a shot at doing something different? That’s how this idea came about.”
Menu highlights include a solid lineup of appetizers, with garlic-infused tempura confit mushrooms ($16), “naked” soft shell crab Rangoon in a sweet and sour sauce ($22) and charcoal-grilled shao kao sticks threaded with halloumi cheese ($9), lamb rump ($10), and other proteins, plus mains like a dan dan noodle bolognese ($21), steak fried rice with Mongolian beef and a fried egg ($21), and sticky Cantonese BBQ spareribs ($25). There are also some larger format family-style share plates like a half crispy chicken dinner ($65) and a kid’s menu. It’s all very approachable and full of flavour — Wong’s obvious love of this style of food shines with every dish.
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Wankel is a fan of interesting wines, which make up a good portion of the drink list, along with some nice cocktails and beers. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner Tuesdays through Sundays and also offers a weekend brunch featuring some regular menu items as well as a selection of Chinese-inspired bennies.
Gwailo is located at 1214 9th Ave. S.E. and can be reached at 403-226-9883 or gwailo.ca.
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In other food news, the Taste of Waterton festival is returning to Southern Alberta from May 26 through 30. Once again, the popular food festival will feature a pie cruise with the Waterton Shoreline Cruise Co. as well as two chef dinners and plenty of opportunities to explore Waterton’s various restaurants. For a full list of activities or to book one of the events, visit mywaterton.ca.
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And new on the Calgary food scene, local fashion stylist Leah Van Loon has spent much of the pandemic making and posting videos of beautiful craft moulded jellies on her Instagram account and this month she’s turned her hobby into a business with the official launch of Jelly Lab. Every week, Van Loon releases a limited number of featured gelatin desserts set in vintage gelatin moulds. The feature gets released each Monday and customers can book their jellies on Instagram via her @jellylab_yyc account. The wobbly jellies are fancy enough for special occasions but Van Loon also takes pains to use unique flavours, making them taste as good as they look.
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The Kardashians finally mentions Kim's romance with Pete Davidson (sort of)
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Pity the poor producers of The Kardashians. Hulu reportedly spent a metric ton of cash on the new reality series following the Calabasas clan — but four episodes in, the show had yet to deliver a single frame of footage chronicling Kim Kardashian's much-discussed romance with SNL's Pete Davidson.
All that changed this week — sort of — when a giddy Kim fielded questions about a new man in her life while attending a birthday party for her mom, Kris Jenner.
Scott Disick, the father of Kourtney Kardashian's three kids, sidled up to Kim — who was chatting with fellow guests Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi — to get the scoop. "How was last night?" he asked. "I FaceTimed you."
"I was probably busy," Kim replied with a sly grin. CUT TO:
"Leave me alone," Kim giggles. But the producer persists: "Does his name rhyme with feet?"
From there, the action cuts back to the party, where Scott was still attempting to get Kim to dish on the new dude in her life. "I look at all the comments and everyone is like, the guy is f---ing nice." Kim agreed, saying the mystery man (a.k.a. Davidson) is "truly the sweetest, nicest human being on the planet." And if you don't believe her, just listen to Ellen: "I heard that!" the host added.
But when Scott tried to ascertain how serious Kim is about this new man — "Aren't you guys just having a good time?" — she shut it down. "I'll tell you guys later," she demurred with a chuckle. "We'll talk later."
Though the words "Pete Davidson" are never uttered, the timing tracks. Episode 3 of The Kardashians followed her SNL debut on Oct. 9, 2021; Kim and Davidson began hanging out (do the kids still say that?) a few weeks later, around Halloween. And Kris Jenner's birthday, a centerpiece of the Kardashians' fifth episode, is Nov. 5. I rest my case!
Hey, if you feel foolish for reading this far, just think about how ridiculous I felt writing this post! And please, let's all take a moment of silence for the Kardashians producers, who are no doubt desperate to get Kim's boyfriend on camera. Still, he remains the show's tall, tattooed, white whale.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2022--
PAVmed Inc.(Nasdaq: PAVM, PAVMZ ) (“PAVmed”), a diversified commercial-stage medical technology company, and its majority-owned subsidiary Lucid Diagnostics Inc. ( Nasdaq: LUCD ) (“Lucid”), a commercial-stage cancer prevention medical diagnostics company, today announced that PAVmed and Lucid Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Lishan Aklog, M.D. was selected as one of the Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2022 by The Healthcare Technology Report.
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“I would like to thank The Healthcare Technology Report for this honor,” said Dr. Aklog. “I am so fortunate to work with a rapidly growing team of the best and brightest in the industry, who all share a passion to serve patients through technology and to drive long-term shareholder value through strategic execution.”
The Healthcare Technology Report described this year’s awardees as “some of the most cultivated, intelligent executives in the healthcare and technology industry.” Their “leadership and innovation remain crucial in the development of industry leading medical devices, next generation software platforms, cutting-edge drugs and therapeutics, and advanced diagnostics, among other technologies” all while making “momentous contributions and improvements across the globe.”
The editors carefully evaluated hundreds of CEOs across the fields of healthcare, medical devices, biotech, healthcare software, and more. The list includes CEOs from industry leaders such as Medtronic, Edwards Lifesciences and ResMed. Like Dr. Aklog, many of the recipients are founders or co-founders of their organizations.
About Lishan Aklog, M.D.
Dr. Lishan Aklog is Chairman & CEO of PAVmed Inc. (Nasdaq: PAVM), a diversified, commercial-stage medical technology company which he co-founded, and its majority-owned subsidiary Lucid Diagnostics Inc., a cancer prevention medical diagnostics company (Nasdaq: LUCD). He also serves on the board of the leading medtech industry group, AdvaMed, and as an independent public company director. He previously co-founded a medtech holding company which founded four medical device companies and led one of its portfolio companies which commercialized one of his life-saving inventions, AngioVac ®. Dr. Aklog has consulted for leading medtech companies and is an inventor on dozens of patents. The Healthcare Technology Report previously recognized him as a Top Healthcare Technology CEO of 2021. Prior to entering the life sciences industry as an entrepreneur and executive, Dr. Aklog had a distinguished career as an innovator in cardiac surgery, serving on the faculty of leading academic medical centers including Harvard Medical School and Mount Sinai Medical Center, and in professional society leadership positions. He was recognized as an America’s Top Doctor for over a decade. He received his undergraduate degree in Physics, magna cum laude, and M.D., cum laude, from Harvard University. He completed his training at Harvard teaching hospitals and leading medical centers in London and Paris.
About PAVmed and Lucid
PAVmed Inc. is a diversified commercial-stage medical technology company operating in the medical device, diagnostics, and digital health sectors. Its major subsidiary, Lucid Diagnostics Inc., markets the EsoGuard ® Esophageal DNA Test and EsoCheck ® Esophageal Cell Collection Device—the first and only commercial tools for widespread early detection of esophageal precancer to prevent esophageal cancer deaths. Another major subsidiary, Veris Health Inc., is a digital health company developing the first intelligent implantable vascular access port with biologic sensors and wireless communication to improve personalized cancer care through remote patient monitoring. PAVmed’s CarpX ® Minimally Invasive Device for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is currently in limited commercial release. The product pipeline also includes the EsoCure™ Esophageal Ablation Device with Caldus™ Technology, which complements EsoGuard and EsoCheck, the NextFlo™ Intravenous Infusion Set, the PortIO™ Implantable Intraosseous Vascular Access Device, and other earlier stage technologies. For more information on PAVmed, please visit www.pavmed.com, follow PAVmed on Twitter, connect with it on LinkedIn, and watch its videos on YouTube. For more information on Lucid, please visit www.luciddx.com, follow Lucid on Twitter, and connect with it on LinkedIn. For detailed information on EsoGuard, please visit www.EsoGuard.com and follow EsoGuard on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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VANCOUVER, BC, May 13, 2022 /CNW/ - – Maverix Metals Inc. ("Maverix" or the "Company") (NYSE: MMX) (TSX: MMX) is pleased to announce the voting results of its Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of Shareholders held on May 12th, 2022. Maverix shareholders voted in favour of all resolutions presented at the Meeting, including the election of the Company's nine director nominees. Detailed results of the vote for directors are shown below:
Shareholders also voted in favour of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the auditor of the Company. Each of the resolutions approved at the meeting were described in detail in the Company's Management Information Circular dated March 23, 2022 available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and the Company's website (www.maverixmetals.com).
A report on all items of business voted at the Meeting has been filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com).
Maverix is a gold-focused royalty and streaming company with a globally diversified portfolio of over 120 assets. Maverix's mission is to increase per share value by acquiring precious metals royalties and streams. Its shares trade on both the NYSE American and the TSX under the symbol "MMX".
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Messaging app WhatsApp will reportedly chat filters to its platform. The feature will enable users to find particular chats using filters.
According to a report of WABetaInfo, the chat filters feature will roll out in a future update for Android, iOS, and desktop users. The feature will let users add some simple filters to quickly find certain chats. Users will find four options under the section – Unread chats, Contacts, Non-contacts, and Groups.
In addition, the chat filter option is only visible when tapping the search option in business accounts. At the moment, the feature is not available on WhatsApp non business accounts.
According to the report, “WhatsApp is making it easier to search for unread chats, contacts, non-contacts, and groups. Standard WhatsApp accounts will also be able to use the same feature in a future update of the app, but there is another difference: the filter button will be always visible even when you are not searching for chats and messages.”
The chat filter option has been in the test phase for beta users of the desktop version of WhatsApp. It is visible by users of the WhatsApp beta UWP 2.2216.40 app. We expect WhatsApp to release it to the general public via an update soon.
Meanwhile, Meta-owned WhatsApp started rolling out message reactions feature for all users earlier this month. Now the users can express their emotions to their chats. Initially users will get only six emoji reactions, including like, love, laugh, surprise, sad, and thanks. To add a reaction, you need to long press on a message to which you want to react. Then tap to select the displayed emoji.
In addition, you can now send files within WhatsApp up to 2GB in size at a time, protected by end-to-end encryption. This is an increase from the previous limit of 100MB. WhatsApp also announced that it would also double the maximum size of group chats to 512 members up from 256. | https://www.themobileindian.com/news/whatsapp-may-introduce-chat-filters-to-all-users | 2022-05-13T13:21:00Z | https://www.themobileindian.com/news/whatsapp-may-introduce-chat-filters-to-all-users | true | 1 |
Pakistan parched and pummelled by blistering heatwave
Swathes of Pakistan have been smothered by high temperatures since late April
Pakistan was in the grip of a heatwave on Friday, with parts of the nation previously scalded by temperatures of nearly 50 degrees Celsius as officials warned of acute water shortages and a health threat.
Swathes of the country have been smothered by high temperatures since late April, in extreme weather the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned is consistent with climate change.
On Thursday the city of Jacobabad in Sindh province hit 49.5C (121 degrees Fahrenheit), the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said, with temperatures forecast to remain high until the end of the week.
"It's like fire burning all around," said labourer Shafi Mohammad, who is from a village on the outskirts of Jacobabad where residents struggle to find reliable access to drinking water.
Nationwide, the PMD alerted temperatures were between 6C and 9C above normal, with the capital Islamabad -- as well as provincial hubs Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar -- recording temperatures around 40C on Friday.
"This year we have jumped from winter right into summer," said PMD chief forecaster Zaheer Ahmad Babar.
Pakistan has endured heightened heatwaves since 2015, he said, focused in upper Sindh province and southern Punjab province.
"The intensity is increasing, and the duration is increasing, and the frequency is increasing," he told AFP.
Jacobabad nurse Bashir Ahmed says that, for the past six years, heat stroke cases in the city have been diagnosed earlier in the year -- starting in May, rather than June or July.
"This is just increasing," he said.
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Punjab province irrigation spokesman Adnan Hassan said the Indus river -- Pakistan's key waterway -- had shrunk by 65 per cent "due to a lack of rains and snow" this year.
Sheep have reportedly died from heatstroke and dehydration in the Cholistan Desert of Punjab -- Pakistan's most populous province, which also serves as the national breadbasket.
"There is a real danger of a shortfall in food and crop supply this year in the country should the water shortage persist," Hassan said.
On Tuesday climate minister Sherry Rehman warned residents in the megacity of Lahore "to take cover for the hottest hours of the day".
The heatwave has also ravaged India, with temperatures in parts of Rajasthan hitting 48.1C on Thursday.
Pakistan -- home to 220 million -- says it is responsible for less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
But it ranks as the nation eighth most affected by extreme weather events, according to a 2021 study by environmental group Germanwatch.
Extreme heat can also trigger cascading disasters that could pummel Pakistan's generally impoverished population.
The mountainous portions of the country are home to more than 7,000 glaciers, a number larger than any region outside the poles.
Quickly melting glaciers can swell lakes, which then burst their banks and unleash torrents of ice, rock and water in events known as glacial lake outburst floods.
Last weekend a key highway bridge in the Gilgit-Baltistan region was swept away in flash flooding caused by glacier melting.
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Tory MPs call for increased defence spending in light of `New Cold War´
Conservative MPs have called for a “meaningful” increase in defence spending in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In a report published on Friday, members of the backbench 1922 Defence Committee said the Government should re-evaluate its planned cuts to the size of the armed forces and rebuild weapons stockpiles to Cold War levels.
Committee chair and former Army officer John Baron said: “Across the Conservative backbenches there is a wide consensus that the Russian invasion of Ukraine requires an increase in defence spending alongside a broad reassessment of manpower and capabilities.
“In particular, the report concludes that there should be a moratorium on defence cuts until this reassessment exercise is concluded.”
In 2020, the Government pledged to spend an extra £24 billion on defence over the following five years, but the committee said there was “still substantial scope for more spending as befits what many regard as the beginning of the New Cold War”.
Warning that Germany’s announcement of extra defence spending would mean the UK no longer had Nato’s second-largest defence budget, the committee said the Ministry of Defence should aim for specific targets in terms of number of soldiers, ships and aircraft rather than the current goal of spending 2% of GDP.
The committee also expressed concern that the armed forces had become “too dependent” on reserves as part of a “cost-cutting exercise” and called for a rebalancing of personnel towards regular troops.
In order to cut costs, the committee suggested buying more off-the-shelf equipment, for example scrapping the troubled Ajax vehicle programme in favour of an available alternative. Ajax has already cost the Government more than £3 billion and the project is four years late.
The committee also called for recruitment to be taken back in-house after much-publicised problems with outsourcing arrangements that had failed to meet targets.
They added that the same should be done in order to improve “lamentable” food and accommodation services.
The report concluded: “Diplomacy and soft power should always be the primary tools for achieving Britain’s desired outcomes, and they also require increased resourcing.
“However, a comprehensive and well-resourced military instrument can help reinforce such means, while reducing the chances of armed conflict.
“Recent events mean that defence will have a heightened relevance at the next general election not seen since the ending of the Cold War.”
Mr Baron added: “The report has been submitted to the Government and circulated around Conservative MPs. We are looking forward to feeding its findings directly into the No 10 policy unit and to the Prime Minister.
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Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd climbed two spots to No. 53 on Forbes' latest Global 2000 list of public companies worldwide.
Forbes Global 2000 ranks the largest companies in the world using four metrics: sales, profits, assets and market value, Forbes said releasing the 2022 ranking of the world's top 2,000 companies.
Reliance is the top-ranked Indian firm on the list, followed by State Bank of India at No. 105, HDFC Bank at No. 153 and ICICI Bank at No. 204.
Other top 10 Indian firms on the list include state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) at 228 rank, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (HDFC) at No. 268, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) at No.357, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) at No. 384, Tata Steel at No. 407 and Axis Bank at No. 431.
"Energy and banking sector corporations were among the highest-ranking Indian companies in Forbes' Global 2000 list of public companies this year," the publication said.
Oil-to-telecom-to-retail conglomerate Reliance, which recorded sales of $104.6 billion between April 2021 and March 2022, became the first Indian company to generate over $100 billion in annual revenue.
"On the Global 2000, Reliance climbed two spots to No. 53 among all public companies worldwide and ranked first among Indian companies," it said.
"Earlier this year, Forbes estimated Ambani's net worth to be $90.7 billion, landing him at No. 10 on this year's billionaires list."
Mukesh's father Dhirubhai launched the business in the early 1960s, starting with import and export licences for nylon, rayon and polyester.
Today, the company's businesses include plastics and petrochemicals, mobile telecom services and retail.
With a market cap of $56.12 billion, SBI grabbed the No. 2 spot on the list of India's largest.
"The bank, headquartered in Mumbai, has 24,000 branches and 62,617 ATMs across the country.
"Private sector banks ICICI and HDFC followed next on the Global 2000 list of Indian companies, highlighting the growth of the banking sector in India."
Some notable newcomers to the list include billionaire Gautam Adani's companies: Adani Enterprises Limited, Adani Transmission Ltd and Adani Total Gas Ltd.
"Adani made headlines when he became the richest Asian billionaire in history.
"Earlier this year, Adani passed Warren Buffett to become the 5th richest person in the world," Forbes said.
His companies include a mix of businesses ranging from power generation and transmission to edible oil, real estate and coal. Adani Enterprise is ranked at No. 1,453 in the Forbes list, Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone at No. 1,568, Adani Green Energy at 1,570, Adani Transmission at No. 1,705 and Adani Total Gas at 1,746.
Gautam Adani, 59, is a college dropout who started a commodity export firm in 1988.
He first appeared on Forbes' list of the World's Billionaires back in 2008 with a net worth of $9.3 billion, which he has multiplied to a whopping $90 billion.
Meanwhile, oil, gas and metal conglomerate Vedanta Limited jumped 703 spots on the list, the highest leap among all Indian companies thanks to a surge in price. It is ranked at 593.
The Mumbai-headquartered company that mines aluminum saw a staggering rise in profits in 2021 after China's production declined. | https://www.rediff.com/business/report/reliance-top-ranked-indian-firm-on-forbes-global-2000-list/20220513.htm | 2022-05-13T13:25:58Z | https://www.rediff.com/business/report/reliance-top-ranked-indian-firm-on-forbes-global-2000-list/20220513.htm | true | 5 |
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Twitter's share price sank as much as 25% in pre-market trading Friday after Elon Musk declared in an early morning tweet that his bid to buy the company was "temporarily on hold." He included a link to a May 2 Reuters report on a Twitter filing estimating the proportion of fake or spam accounts on the platform. "Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users," Musk said. When the billionaire announced a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter last month, he vowed to "defeat the spam bots."
The Twitter filing acknowledged that the "estimation of false or spam accounts may not accurately represent the actual number of such accounts, and the actual number of false or spam accounts could be higher than we have estimated," per the Verge. Musk's tweet is another sign of "internal turmoil over the proposed acquisition," but it's not clear whether the issue will completely derail the deal, the AP reports. On Thursday, two top Twitter execs were ousted: Kayvon Beykpour, who led Twitter's consumer division, and Bruce Falck, head of the revenue product division.
Both execs said they had been fired, the BBC reports. Beykpour said he is currently on paternity leave and was disappointed when Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal told him he wanted to "take the team in a different direction." In a letter to staff obtained by the Verge, Agrawal said he had made some "difficult" decisions, including cost-cutting measures, to guide Twitter through "this time of change. "Effective this week, we are pausing most hiring and backfills, except for business critical roles," he said. (Read more Elon Musk stories.) | https://www.newser.com/story/320513/elon-musk-twitter-deal-is-on-hold.html | 2022-05-13T13:31:26Z | https://www.newser.com/story/320513/elon-musk-twitter-deal-is-on-hold.html | true | 1 |
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A video is going viral on internet, which shows a truck brushing past an SUV near a small town in Nevada, the United States. The man who shot the video claimed that the semi-truck was on a rampage.
The video, uploaded by ViralHog, begins with the shot of a parking lot for truck drivers. A semi, which later went on a rampage, is seen launching towards a small pick-up truck which was passing by. After missing it, the driver makes a sharp left turn and tries to mow down an SUV.
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The truck driver then goes around the back of a building in the parking area and comes on the main road. He then hits a car, which is just coming out of the gas station.
The person who shot the video has been identified as Jose Losoya by ViralHog.
Losoya told ViralHog the many people tried to help the woman in the first pick-up truck, while her husband kept knocking on the truck driver's door to get out.
The tape was seized by police and state troops, who later arrested the driver.
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Another harrowing video went viral last month when a motorcycle rammed into a car on a freeway in Thailand. After colliding with a car, the man on the bike was seen skidding across the road and making multiple twists. Fortunately, the man was protected by a helmet. | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/viral-video-truck-appears-to-go-on-rampage-in-us-town-2973377 | 2022-05-13T13:36:04Z | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/viral-video-truck-appears-to-go-on-rampage-in-us-town-2973377 | true | 1 |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jimmy Butler knocked Joel Embiid out of the playoffs, then walked over to his former 76ers teammate and hugged him, told him he loved him and was proud of him.
Butler then headed out of a familiar court a winner — and straight into another conference finals with Miami.
“Now I’m where I belong,” Butler said. “Guess where I should have been a long time ago.”
Butler scored 32 points and waved “bye bye” to the Philly crowd as he sent Miami into the Eastern Conference finals with a 99-90 victory over Philadelphia on Thursday night in Game 6.
The Heat will play the winner of the Milwaukee-Boston series. The defending champion Bucks lead that series 3-2, with Game 6 on Friday night in Milwaukee.
The Heat reached the conference finals for the second time in three seasons, again with Butler leading the charge. Philly fans — and many inside the 76ers organization — still can’t believe the franchise let Butler get away after the 2019 season. He did not mess around and scored 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting in the third quarter when the Heat used a 16-2 run to take control. Butler scored 33 points in Game 3 and 40 in Game 4 and took 29 shots in Game 6.
“I think he’s one of the ultimate competitors in this profession,” coach Erik Spoelstra said. “He was brilliant all series long. The challenges only get tougher here. He saw there was an opportunity to end this tonight and he wasn’t going to let this get to seven.”
Embiid, the NBA scoring champion, had no significant help and scored 20 points with 12 rebounds on 7-of-24 shooting.
“I know I tried. I think for the most part, we tried,” Embiid said. “It just wasn’t good enough.”
Embiid remained to this day befuddled and hurt that the Sixers passed on Butler after forming a trio with Ben Simmons that — egos aside — could have contended for championships for years.
“I still don’t know how we let him go,” Embiid said. “I wish I could have gone to battle with him still.”
Coming off a 35-point victory in Game 5, the Heat wore down a battered Sixers team. Embiid looked gassed as he gamely tried to carry the Sixers. He had little lift and had a pull-up jumper blocked by Bam Adebayo in the third.
The Sixers parted with Butler in large part because they chose Simmons as the cornerstone ball handler. Simmons was unhappy and forced a trade this season to Brooklyn for James Harden. Harden, a three-time scoring champion, was supposed to shoulder the load with Embiid for a potent postseason push. Harden instead all but disappeared in the playoffs. He had a fantastic Game 4 at home against Miami but otherwise was a turnover machine. When he lost another ball that led to a Heat bucket and an 80-63 lead in the fourth, the Sixers were booed off the court.
Harden scored all of his 11 points in the first half. He had four turnovers and four baskets. Harden, who has a $47.4 million player option for 2022-23, missed both shots in the second half and scored his last basket at the 3:31 mark of the second quarter.
Few in Philly would give The Beard a passing grade. Harden said he would return next season.
“I’m sure since we got him, everybody expected the Houston James Harden,” Embiid said. “But that’s not who he is anymore.”
Coach Doc Rivers implored his team to “fight for this!” in the huddle during the fourth. The 76ers just fell flat.
“I came to the conclusion at the end of this game that we were not good enough to beat Miami,” Rivers said.
Rivers is signed through the 2024-25 season and another early exit — the 76ers were the No. 1 seed last year and lost in the second round — and his job status is a hot topic of conversation.
“I don’t worry about my job. I think I do a terrific job. If you don’t, then you should write it,” Rivers said. “Because I worked my butt off to get this team here. When I first got here, no one picked us to be anywhere. Again this year, the same thing. If that’s how anyone feels, write it. I’m going to feel secure about it.”
Max Strus had 20 points and 11 rebounds for the Heat. Even another abysmal night from 3-point range — Miami missed 21 of 28 attempts —- failed to matter.
Embiid again gutted out a postseason game in his mask (right orbital fracture) and will have surgery on torn ligaments in his right thumb. He was only cleared to return last week from a concussion. He held the back of his head after he knocked it on the court after a fall late in the second quarter. Embiid still played 22 minutes in the first half and scored 14 points.
“Joel, my guy. My brother. Who I’d pick for MVP,” Butler said. “It feels good to beat him. I’m not going to lie to you. I’ve got a lot of love for this city. A lot of love for guys in that locker room. So any time you get to beat a former team, it’s special.”
Embiid missed the first two games of the series as he recovered from the concussion. The Sixers lost both games in Miami. Would a healthy Embiid have made a difference? Maybe not but it’s still another sudden end to the All-Star cornerstone who has yet to taste a conference final. Maybe he would have played in one or two had Butler stuck around.
“At some point, you’ve got to stop looking at coaches and the front office,” Embiid said. “You’ve got to look at the players. Maybe we’re just not good enough.”
Embiid still looks at the one that left him for Miami. Wearing black sunglasses and a black bucket cap, Butler said no hard feelings, the NBA is a business.
“It didn’t work out,” Butler said. “I’m not complaining. I love being in Miami.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Heat: Kyle Lowry sat out again with his left hamstring injury. He paced the Heat sideline like a coach and called over his teammates during free throws and other breaks in action to talk strategy.
76ers: Danny Green left in the first quarter with a serious left knee injury. Embiid went up for a bucket and crashed on Green as they tumbled to the court. Green, who averaged 5.9 points this season, grabbed his leg and was carried off the court.
TIP-INS
Heat: Are 7-1 in closeout Game 6s since 2006. … Won their 30th career playoff series.
76ers: Have not advanced past the second round since 2001.
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India’s inflation numbers continue to worry. Retail inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) – measuring from the basket of what consumers purchase/consume most – surged to 7.79 per cent in the month of April, according to government data released on Thursday. Inflation based on CPI was 6.95 per cent in March this year and 4.23 per cent in April 2021. Inflation in the food basket rose to 8.38 per cent in April from 7.68 per cent in the preceding month and 1.96 per cent in the year-ago month.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been mandated by the government to ensure that inflation remains at 4 per cent with a margin of 2 per cent on either side.
The current trend of rising retail and producer-price inflation, something seen from mid-2021, was – or has – hardly been part of any temporal rise in prices, as many policymakers and government analysts had earlier argued.
As this author argued in June 2021, the understanding of inflationary expectations during a pandemic (and given the inherent limitations in diagnosing the problem) can spell trouble over a medium- to long-term period not just for industrialised (or ‘developed’) nations like the US but also for low-income (‘developing’) nations like India. I also tried hard to convince NITI Aayog’s Amitabh Kant in a televised interaction, but in vain.
Can India Even Diagnose the Problem Correctly?
The current issue of price rise may surely be complex, but it’s not complicated. It requires a micro-lens of seeing data with evidence, which has macro-implications. What we see in terms of price-rise at a retail and/or wholesale level is a mixed effect of both supply and demand-side factors.
After weeks of a lockdown, if people want to get a haircut at a salon, for example, its price would depend on how many salon owners have their shops open and how many hair-dressers are back at work. These factors do not work in tandem. It may take time for salon owners to open up while ensuring that COVID protocols are in place, so that consumers feel safe. They would operate on low capacity (taking fewer appointments), and most hairstylists may be reluctant to work or may demand higher wages for their risk of exposure to infection. These factors could push up the general price of a haircut, or other salon services.
Similarly, in an informal space, if a chaiwaala (tea vendor) operating in Delhi sees a surge in demand for tea after a lockdown, he would immediately need a greater quantity of milk from his regular distributor. If the source of this milk happens to be a dairy operation in a state that still has COVID restrictions in place, milk supplies could be disrupted or delayed. In such a scenario, the price of tea would go up.
Interpreting such micro-level observations, I had forecasted a rise in CPI back in May 2021, which is now materialising. An interplay of localised factors has coalesced with a high degree of uncertainty around the lives and livelihoods of various economic agents across India, and this is likely to keep inflation high.
It is extremely hard to take a formulaic approach for addressing such a rise in inflationary expectations. Monetary policy may be less effective.
How COVID Battered Supply Chains
Globally, COVID-19 did induce restrictions on the mobility of goods and services, which affected supplies of essential intermediate goods across all major trading zones, thus delaying the disbursement of finished goods and future contracts, including for transit points like China, which has struggled to contain the pandemic in heavy trading route cities, such as Shanghai.
The wide impact of the Omicron variant in East Asia has left one of the most trade-intensive regions in the world struggling from January-February of this year (when India’s recovery was smoothening), while adversely impacting the region’s linkages with the rest of the world.
The Russia-Ukraine war has only added to pre-existing anxieties by pushing fuel prices up across the globe, making importers of crude oil incur a higher expense or look for alternative exporters in order to get a better deal. India has purposely sought to buy ‘cheaper’ Russian oil despite its projected ‘neutral’ position in supporting or condemning the war.
Inflation Is an Added Tax, It's Just Not Official
In the short term, everyone loses from a sustained price rise. It isn’t easy for producers to push supplies, given they have a fixed supply chain; making any adjustments to scale up production isn’t easy. For consumers, inflation is an added ‘tax’ to the price they pay for everything, from edible oil to onions to milk – a tax that is just not officially levied by the government.
In India’s deeply stratified society, low-income households struggle even more from ‘inflation tax’. One must know that India’s tax system is already regressive in its structural composition, ie, it depends on generating a larger share of income from indirect taxes (like GST, VAT) than direct taxes (income, wealth tax). In the case of revenue dependence on indirectly levied taxes, the incidence (or burden) of tax is the same on all irrespective of how much one earns, ie, the richest will pay the same tax for 1 kg of onion as the poor. In short, poorer households suffer worse, and the ‘inflation tax’ adds to their misery.
Before COVID hit Indian economy, aggregate demand was already weak, wages were low, unemployment was high, and production and investment capacity were teetering. Now, ‘inflation tax’ will further delay any attempt to coherently design a path towards a sustained, inclusive, economic recovery.
The RBI, India’s central bank, and perhaps the only public institution with a designated mandate to ‘target inflation’, was caught napping during this time.
In some ways, one can attribute the current (inflation) crisis directly to the RBI, which clearly failed over the past year to use monetary policy to check inflation despite repeated warnings and crisis indicators. No statements or remarks made by either the governor or his team in previous quarterly monetary policy review announcements were taken seriously, and inflation was dismissed as a ‘temporary’ problem.
RBI's Recent Rate Hike Is a Desperate Measure
The recent ad-hoc rate hike can now only be seen as a ‘desperate’ measure, maybe at a time when the crisis seems to have already hit the roof. The question is: is the RBI’s move to hike the rate of interest and increase the cost of borrowing to reduce excess liquidity in the economy enough? Can monetary policy alone play a role in taming the ‘inflation tax’?
This is a vital question and one that I raised in a column last June, where I argued about the limited effectiveness of monetary policy (working in isolation) in containing a kind of inflationary trend that is peculiarly defined/caused in a pandemic-hit economy.
A brief background context is needed here. ‘Excess liquidity’ was created in the global economy during the pandemic, especially in developed countries such as the US and much of Europe, where governments spent trillions to keep consumer demand high and prevent any labour market disruptions (because of shutdowns) from adversely impacting the wheel of the production-economy. That was the right thing to do at the time.
The situation in the US now is such that given high consumer demand, there are ‘supply constraints’ (plus the high fuel prices due to the Russia-Ukraine war) that have pushed overall retail prices up. Not just in the US, this trend has driven ‘retail’ prices of goods and services globally, and in India, too.
A Double Whammy for People in India
However, there is a caveat to the Indian scenario that merits a separate mention. Our own government during the pandemic focused mostly on enhancing some subsidies, increasing foodgrain delivery to the poor, and providing some liquidity support through government-backed credit guarantees to affected MSMEs for a short temporal period.
It didn’t spend excessively (like other nations) in terms of direct fiscal transfers to the poor or other low-income groups to either drive or keep ‘consumer demand’ high.
Most of the government spending during COVID, and as announced in the recent Union Budget, too, was principally guided towards supply-side measures (hoping to attract capital investment), while completely ignoring the brewing crisis on the ‘demand side’.
And so, with the ‘inflation tax’ raising all prices now, consumers and producers face a double whammy. Low-income groups face the wrath. With a lack of better employment prospects, already low wages, and high indebtedness, one can only imagine to what extent a higher ‘inflation tax’ will damage overall consumer sentiments across India in the weeks to come.
The damaging impact of an inflation tax, better understood and studied in the urban landscape, is likely to be far worse in rural India, where retail inflation has been twice as high, and the state of indebtedness, low incomes, lack of jobs is far more intensified.
Further, had the food price rise translated to increasing the incomes of farmers, one could have seen a rising motivation for farmers to produce more or save more. However, despite food inflation, existing distortions in the price-distribution network across India’s middlemen-laden farming network and the ‘urban price bias’ (where 1 kg price of onion sold in the urban market is not the price that the farmer gets for producing that same 1 kg) makes the farmer and the rural economy’s condition more precarious.
Can the RBI and the Government Do Now?
What can the government do in the short term to address the woes stemming from the ‘inflation tax’?
First, let RBI do everything it can in its mandated role to solely focus on ‘inflation targeting’ and suck excess liquidity out of the economy. As C Rangarajan recently argued:
“Inflation in India cannot be described just as ‘cost-push’. Abundance of liquidity has been an important factor (too). If we want to control inflation, action on liquidity is very much needed with a concomitant rise in the interest rate on deposits and loans”.
This may require some time through a tough monetary policy stance, which may be counterproductive to the government’s own efforts towards capital investment-centred growth, as a higher cost of borrowing will make credit more expensive.
Second, use instruments of fiscal policy to make a series of graded direct transfers (especially to the bottom of the income-consumption pyramid) to push for higher demand amongst the lower-income groups, especially in the rural economy.
A monolithic, macro approach to address a temporal rise in inflation, or an effort to fix supply disruptions solely through a monetary policy toolkit, will achieve little. It could even drive other aggregates, such as consumption and private investment demand, towards a deeper recession.
Govt Needs to Put Differences Aside
What is needed is a sustained, fiscal spending-backed income push in the short run to maintain a reasonable space for consumer demand in the rural economy. The Union government will need to cooperate with wtates on this – and this may not be easy given how badly the Centre-state dynamic is rigged currently.
The first prescriptive point here requires the Modi government to respect the RBI’s decision-making power as a public institution, while letting it perform independently and with clarity.
For the second point, the government needs to acknowledge its wrong and self-correct its fiscal trajectory for FY2022-23 by facilitating more direct transfers to lower-income groups. One short-term step here could be to announce and disburse higher allocations for PM-KISAN and MGNREGA, and launch a pilot urban version of MGNREGA to provide farmers and low-income workers with more ‘spending power’ at a time when regressive taxation combined with the invisible inflation tax is wrecking their household budgets.
(Deepanshu Mohan is Associate Professor and Director, Centre for New Economics Studies, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, OP Jindal Global University. He is Visiting Professor of Economics to Department of Economics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Ashika Thomas is Research Analyst with Centre for New Economics Studies, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, OP Jindal Global University. This is an Opinion article and the views expressed are the author's own. The Quint neither endorses nor is responsible for them.)
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Klopp takes aim at UEFA & Ceferin & calls for Nations League to be scrapped: One of the most ridiculous ideas in football
Jurgen Klopp's war of words with UEFA continued as the Liverpool manager slammed the Nations League as a "ridiculous" idea.
Klopp criticised UEFA last week over the allocation of tickets for the Champions League final against Real Madrid.
The governing body's president Aleksander Ceferin hit back and said that he contacted the German to explain why only 20,000 tickets were given to fans of each side for the European showdown.
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What has Klopp said about the Nations League?
Klopp confirmed that he had a conversation with the UEFA chief and admitted that part of his frustration stems from the introduction of the Nations League competition.
"We didn't speak, he texted me. I obviously said that there should be more tickets for supporters and then I think the same explanation [he gave me] he gave publicly.
"What is it? 93% of the Champions League money goes to the clubs and UEFA only get a few euros and I replied and said 'OK, this is one of those situations where you should have more information before you give answers' but I cannot constantly be prepared for these kinds of things, but I still have an opinion.
"So it's fine, I will try to clarify that here that obviously I didn't know enough about it. But I said as well in this conversation, I have said now that he spoke to me, that the reason I am not in such a good mood when I speak about UEFA is because of the Nations League.
"I still think it is one of the most ridiculous ideas in the world of football because now we finish a season where [some] players have played more than 70 games, easily - club games 63 or 64, plus internationals - and then go direct to 75, which is pretty mad. We continue with Nations League games because we have to play them [when] there is no tournament, who cares we play four, five or six games with the national teams...
"So that is the reason because I would prefer UEFA take more money from the Champions League final and kick out the Nations League again. That would be my preferred solution and more tickets for the people anyway.
"That is my personal opinion. I read about it but maybe I don't have all the information, but it is still my opinion."
What did Klopp say about the new Champions League format?
UEFA recently announced changes to the Champions League format for the 2024-25 season.
The number of teams will increase from 32 to 36.
Teams will play eight matches in the group stage as a result of the changes and Klopp is against the idea, telling reporters: "I had no time to really look. But more games is always a bad idea, to be honest. Always a bad idea.
"I spoke quite frequently about that, and obviously nobody is interested. That’s OK. I had no time to get into detail, but I heard a little bit about it. I knew before about the plans, I've had no time to get an opinion on it.” | https://www.goal.com/en-au/news/klopp-takes-aim-uefa-ceferin-nations-league-scrapped/bltb3bd2d031c40efc1 | 2022-05-13T13:38:15Z | https://www.goal.com/en-au/news/klopp-takes-aim-uefa-ceferin-nations-league-scrapped/bltb3bd2d031c40efc1 | true | 10 |
MainStay CBRE Global Infrastructure Megatrends Closed-End Fund (NYSE: MEGI) Announces Availability of 19(a) Notice
NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MainStay CBRE Global Infrastructure Megatrends Closed-End Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: MEGI) has announced the sources of its monthly distribution of $0.1083 per share paid to all shareholders as of record date May 16, 2022, pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution policy.
The following table sets forth the estimated sources of income of the current distribution, and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year to date from the following sources: net investment income, net realized short-term capital gains, net realized long-term capital gains and return of capital or other capital source. All amounts are expressed on a per share of common stock basis and as a percentage of the distribution amount.
The Fund has adopted a managed distribution policy (the "Distribution Policy"), pursuant to a Securities and Exchange Commission exemptive order, with the goal of providing shareholders with a consistent, although not guaranteed, monthly distribution. The Fund's monthly distribution is set by its Board of Trustees. The Board reviews the Fund's distribution on a quarterly basis in view of its net investment income, realized and unrealized gains, and other net unrealized appreciation or income expected during the remainder of the year. The Fund strives to establish a level monthly distribution that, over the course of the year, will serve to distribute an amount closely approximating the Fund's net investment income and net realized capital gains during the year. There is no assurance the Fund will continue to pay regular monthly distributions or that it will do so at a particular rate.
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What did Roy Keane say to Erling’s father Alf-Inge Haaland & did he end Man City midfielder's career?
Erling Haaland will not be the first member of his family to grace the books at Manchester City when a £51 million ($62m) transfer from Borussia Dortmund is pushed through, with his father, Alf-Inge Haaland, taking in 47 appearances for the club that included a now infamous derby clash with Roy Keane.
Back in April 2001, Haaland senior figured in a meeting with Manchester United at Old Trafford that saw a familiar foe sent off for a wild, knee-high challenge in the 86th minute.
Keane departed for an early bath that day after delivering a verbal parting shot at his stricken opponent to go with the physical abuse he had already handed out, but what did he say to Haaland and did he really end his fellow midfielder’s career? GOAL takes a look…
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What did Roy Keane say to Alf-Inge Haaland?
A combative presence in the heart of United’s midfield had taken issue with Haaland several years earlier when suffering a serious injury of his own.
Back in 1997, Keane ruptured his ACL during a Premier League clash with Leeds at Elland Road, but not everybody in attendance that day believed that the Irishman was in as much pain as he was making out.
Having bided his time in pursuit of revenge on Haaland, Keane revealed in his 2002 autobiography exactly what was said during a notorious incident.
He wrote: “I’d waited long enough. I f*cking hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you c***. And don’t ever stand over me sneering about fake injuries.”
Keane was fined £5,000 at the time and given a three-match suspension, but comments in his book saw him stung for a further £150,000 while also being ruled out of another five matches.
A man now famed for his no-nonsense approach to punditry had little remorse, though, and would go on to say in another autobiography published in 2014: “[He] p*ssed me off, shooting his mouth off. He was an absolute pr*ck to play against. Niggling, sneaky.
“I did want to nail him and let him know what was happening. I wanted to hurt him and stand over him and go: ‘Take that, you c***.’
“I don’t regret that. But I had no wish to injure him. It was action; it was football. It was dog eats dog.
“I’ve kicked lots of players and I know the difference between hurting somebody and injuring somebody. I didn’t go to injure Haaland. When you play sport, you know how to injure somebody.
“There was no premeditation. I’d played against Haaland three or four times between the game against Leeds, in 1997, when I injured my cruciate and the game when I tackled him, in 2001, when he was playing for Manchester City.
“If I’d been this madman out for revenge, why would I have waited years for an opportunity to injure him?
“Was I going around for years thinking: ‘I’m going to get him, I’m going to get him.’? No. Was he at the back of my mind? Of course he was.
“Like Rob Lee was, like David Batty was, like Alan Shearer was, like Patrick Vieira was. All these players were in the back of my mind: ‘If I get a chance I’m going to f*cking hit you, of course I am.’
“Haaland finished the game and played four days later, for Norway. A couple of years later he tried to claim that he’d had to retire because of the tackle. He was going to sue me. It was a bad tackle but he was still able to play four days later.”
Did Roy Keane end Alf-Inge Haaland’s career?
As pointed out by Keane, Haaland was fit enough to finish the derby in which he was upended by a shocking challenge.
He also turned out for his country four days later and took in 68 minutes of action for City in their next Premier League fixture.
Haaland did undergo surgery that summer, in what was to be the beginning of the end for him, but that operation was carried out on his left leg, while Keane clattered into his right.
The story of Keane ending the playing career of a derby rival has become part of football folklore, but there is seemingly little truth to that tale.
Even Haaland, who is now looking forward to watching his son follow in his footsteps when linking up with City ahead of the 2022-23 campaign, has admitted that the former United captain cannot shoulder sole responsibility for him having to cut short a career in England that also took in spells with Leeds and Nottingham Forest.
He told BBC Sport in 2014 of his clash with Keane: “I don’t blame him for kicking me in other games or that particular game. What I was concerned and worried about is that he said, in his first book, that he wanted to take revenge. And I don’t think that’s part and parcel of football.
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Hilary Duff had a vision for what her Lizzie McGuire character should be like all grown up and in her 30s, but it may have "spooked" Disney brass and, in turn, been the reason why the reboot went kaput.
The 34-year-old actress reveals in a Women's Health cover story that, after multiple passes on offers to reboot the popular Disney series, she finally agreed to revisit the role that defined her career. But, according to the magazine, the project tanked in 2020 after Duff and the network differed on their vision for adult Lizzie.
"She had to be 30 years old doing 30-year-old things," Duff explains. "She didn't need to be doing bong rips and having one-night stands all the time, but it had to be authentic. I think [the network] got spooked."
The plan came to fruition in 2019 when Disney announced Duff and the OG cast would return for a reboot. The original series aired 65 episodes and spawned a movie. Things looked optimistic for the reboot, so much so that Disney+ reportedly shot two episodes of the reboot before the network pulled the plug. Duff took to Instagram in December 2020 and made the news official.
“I know the efforts and conversations have been everywhere trying to make a reboot work but, sadly & despite everyone’s best efforts, it isn’t going to happen," she said in a statement. "I want any reboot of Lizzie to be honest and authentic to who Lizzie would be today. It’s what the character deserves. We can all take a moment to mourn the amazing womanish would have been and the adventures we would have taken with her. I’m very sad, but I promise everyone tied their best and the stars just didn’t align."
Duff posed nude for the magazine's Body Issue, and, within the issue, reveals why she decided to do so.
"I'm proud of my body. I'm proud that it's produced three children for me," she tells the magazine. "I've gotten to a place of being peaceful with the changes my body has gone through. I also want people to know a makeup artist was there putting glow all over my body and someone put me in the most flattering position."
For the issue, Duff also underscores the importance of taking care of one's mental health.
"We bust our a** to get our bodies in shape and to look the best we can," she explains. "We get facials and Botox and our hair done and highlights and brows and lash lifts and all this s**t. But I want to work on the inside. That’s the most important part of the system."
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Visibility To The Invisibles: Why Rehabilitation Of Street Children Remains Need Of The Hour
Supreme Court in a matter relating to contagion of Covid 19 virus in Children Protection homes issued directions to State Governments/ UTs on 26 October 2021 seeking status reports on the rehabilitation of children in street situations in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedure for care and protection of Children in Street Situations within a period of two weeks.
These directions of Supreme Court have put the spotlight on the plight of street children and has put the onus on the Union and State governments to focus on resolving this pertinent issue.
Situation of street children
All of us, at some point in time, would have noticed children in street situations. However, not many of us think about their origins, their wellbeing, or their livelihood. Children in Street Situations (CiSS) have always been vulnerable, with multiple deprivations around health, education, social security and protection.
Furthermore, the advent of COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns has made matters worse for these children. The street children have thus far remained invisible from policymakers’ perspective. Save the Children in its report “Life on the Street” found that there were more than 2 million street children in India, with no access to any welfare schemes being run by Central or State Governments.
Save the Children accordingly embarked on a significant journey to bring about a lasting change in the lives of Children in Street Situation (CISS).
SOP for Care & Protection of Street Children
One of the significant milestones of this journey was the development of the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Care and Protection of Children in street situations in collaboration with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) in 2017.
The SOP was an endeavor to strengthen Policy around the Care and Protection of Street Children in India. Save the children along with the respective Sate Commissions for Protection of Child Rights ensured the implementation of the SOP in seven States across India.
Armed with the valuable experience gained by implementing the SOP 2017, and in order to ensure effective implementation of child protection interventions in accordance with the SOP, NCPCR along with Save the Children, revisited the 2017 SOP and launched Standard Operating Procedure for Care & Protection of Children in Street Situations 2020 in November 2020.
The revised SOP aims to link children and their families to various government sponsored social schemes for their rehabilitation. The SOP also puts in a single document relevant provisions under various children centric laws such as the JJ Act, POCSO Act, Child Labour Act, etc.
NCPCR under the able leadership of Shri Priyank Kanoongo has been making sustained efforts for implementation of the SOP by organizing outreach activities in major tourist spots in country for rehabilitation of street children. However, Law and Order and policing, being the State subjects, effective implementation of SOP has been dependent on State governments.
Rehabilitation of Street Children
The cause of street children’s rehabilitation, care and protection has received a major fillip as the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has taken cognizance of the SOP for CISS. The SOP was referred to by the Amicus Curiae during the court proceedings on 26 October 2021 highlighting the need of rehabilitation of street children. With the Supreme Court directing NCPCR, State Governments/Union Territories and the statutory bodies under the JJ Act to submit status reports regarding the implementation of the SOP within next 15 days.
The SOP so developed by NCPCR in association with Save the Children thus will become the de facto document on the basis of which the state governments/UTs are required to act to ensure care and protection of CISS. This is a welcome development for children as a standardized approach by various State Governments and Union Territories will go a long way in rehabilitation of children in street situations since this is a cross cutting issue. Involving diverse stakeholders.
Way forward
Lack of reliable data has been found to be a major blind spot in addressing the issues of street children. While Save the Children has conducted studies to estimate the number of street children in 2016 and 2019 in select cities, there is no official estimate of approximate number of children living on/of the streets (with or without their families) pan India.
There must be a structured enumeration of street children, including it as part of the national census, or relevant government national sample surveys. We hope that the apex court also takes cognizance of this aspect as well.
The Supreme Court will next hear the matter on 15 November 2021, and though the street children will be unaware of the developments, we are hopeful that their lives will be positively affected by the judgement in the matter.
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ELKHART, Ind., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: PATK) today announced that on May 12, 2022, its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of $0.33 per share. The dividend is payable on June 13, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 31, 2022.
About Patrick Industries, Inc.
Patrick Industries (NASDAQ: PATK) is a leading component solutions provider for the RV, marine, manufactured housing and various industrial markets – including single and multi-family housing, hospitality, institutional and commercial markets. Founded in 1959, Patrick is based in Elkhart, Indiana, with over 11,000 employees across the United States.
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Both Jack Harrison and Raphinha are expected to be available to face the Seagulls despite coming off injured earlier in the week.
Raphinha sat down on the Elland Road pitch late on against Chelsea and appeared to be stretching out his right leg. Marsch said after the game the Brazilian's withdrawal was precautionary because he was cramping up. Harrison took a knock from Reece James early on and failed to run it off, Junior Firpo replacing him on 37 minutes.
Head coach Jesse Marsch says both men should be involved this weekend.
"Jack Harrison with the contusion looks positive, he should be in training tomorrow and ready to go," said the American.
"Rapha is fine and ready to go."
Patrick Bamford has been fighting to get fit and while Marsch was expecting the centre forward back in training this week, he's not yet able to say if the Brighton game will bring about his comeback.
"It's a bit too early to see where he's at, we'll evaluate it over the next few days," he said.
"I don't want to say too much about Patrick right now, let's just see. I want to give him the oppy to continue to progress and then make a decision on his involvement in each match. Everybody is working together, our medical team, Patrick, us as a coaching staff to evaluate where he's at."
Leeds are without the suspended Luke Ayling and Daniel James for their final two games, along with Stuart Dallas [femoral fracture], Adam Forshaw [fractured kneecap], Tyler Roberts [torn hamstring] and Crysencio Summerville [ankle]. | https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/too-early-leeds-united-evaluating-star-man-ahead-of-crunch-brighton-clash-after-double-boost-3693193 | 2022-05-13T13:52:47Z | https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/too-early-leeds-united-evaluating-star-man-ahead-of-crunch-brighton-clash-after-double-boost-3693193 | false | 1 |
Trek Metals Limited (ASX:TKM – Get Rating) insider Anthony (Tony) Leibowitz purchased 488,502 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 9th. The stock was bought at an average cost of A$0.08 ($0.06) per share, with a total value of A$39,080.16 ($27,139.00).
Anthony (Tony) Leibowitz also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Thursday, May 5th, Anthony (Tony) Leibowitz bought 511,498 shares of Trek Metals stock. The shares were acquired at an average cost of A$0.09 ($0.06) per share, with a total value of A$45,011.82 ($31,258.21).
- On Friday, February 11th, Anthony (Tony) Leibowitz bought 644,231 shares of Trek Metals stock. The shares were acquired at an average cost of A$0.08 ($0.06) per share, with a total value of A$52,826.94 ($36,685.38).
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During the last session, Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:CRBP)’s traded shares were 2.07 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.02. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $0.21, reflecting an intraday loss of -11.36% or -$0.03. The 52-week high for the CRBP share is $2.29, that puts it down -990.48 from that peak though still a striking -9.52% loss since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $0.23. The company’s market capitalization is $28.31M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 0.53 million shares, and the average trade volume was 984.88K shares over the past three months.
Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:CRBP) trade information
Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (CRBP) registered a -11.36% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -11.36% in intraday trading to $0.21 this Thursday, 05/12/22, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -33.35%, and it has moved by -48.50% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -84.89%. The short interest in Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:CRBP) is 6.4 million shares and it means that shorts have 6.61 day(s) to cover.
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Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (CRBP) estimates and forecasts
Statistics show that Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (CRBP) shares have gone down -79.00% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 21.62% against 9.70. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2022. Revenue is predicted to shrink -10.00% this quarter and then jump 21.40% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -71.60% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be $230k as predicted by 3 analyst(s). As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled $658k and $648k respectively.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 5.30%. While earnings are projected to return 73.90% in 2022.
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Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. is due to release its next quarterly earnings between March 14 and March 18. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:CRBP)’s Major holders
Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. insiders own 0.42% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 36.47%, with the float percentage being 36.62%. ETF Managers Group, LLC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 103 institutions own stock in it. As of Sep 29, 2021, the company held over 14.1 million shares (or 11.26% of all shares), a total value of $14.38 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 5.47 million shares, is of Vanguard Group, Inc. (The)’s that is approximately 4.37% of outstanding shares. At the market price on Sep 29, 2021, these shares were valued at $5.58 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. (CRBP) shares are ETF Managers Tr-EFTMG Alternative Harvest ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. Data provided on Sep 29, 2021 indicates that ETF Managers Tr-EFTMG Alternative Harvest ETF owns about 14.1 million shares. This amounts to just over 11.26 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $14.38 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 3.52 million, or about 2.81% of the stock, which is worth about $3.59 million. | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/05/13/the-time-to-buy-corbus-pharmaceuticals-holdings-inc-nasdaq-crbp-is-now/ | 2022-05-13T13:56:43Z | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/05/13/the-time-to-buy-corbus-pharmaceuticals-holdings-inc-nasdaq-crbp-is-now/ | false | 1239 |
Mohali explosion: Five arrested, police say nexus between Babbar Khalsa, ISI
Chandigarh: The Punjab Police has arrested five people in connection with the RPG attack at its Mohali office and pointed at the nexus of militant outfit Babbar Khalsa International and Pakistan's spy agency ISI.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Director General of Police V K Bhawra said a sixth accused is in police custody in a separate case.
The plot behind the incident has been traced and a nexus between militant outfit Babbar Khalsa International and gangsters at the behest of Pakistan's ISI has come to the fore, he said.
The DGP said key conspirator Lakhbir Singh, a resident of Tarn Taran, is a close associate of gangster-turned-terrorist Harvinder Singh Rinda.
Rinda is believed to be in Pakistan.
Bhawra said the five arrested include those who provided shelter, logistic support and the weapon to those who carried out the explosion.
The three people involved in firing the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) are still wanted, he said.
The DGP said Tarn Taran resident Nishan Singh, an accused in the case, is already under the custody of the Faridkot police in some other case. He will be arrested in this case too, he said.
Nishan Singh is facing several criminal cases, including one related to attempt to murder and another under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
In an audacious attack on Monday, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the state police's intelligence wing headquarters in Mohali's Sector 77.
Windowpanes on one of the floors of the building were shattered because of the explosion. No one was injured in the incident.
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Beijing Reports 51 New Local COVID-19 Infections
Umer Jamshaid Published May 13, 2022 | 06:36 PM
Beijing reported 51 new locally transmitted COVID-19 infections between 3 p.m. Thursday and 3 p.m. Friday, Pang Xinghuo, deputy head of the Beijing municipal disease prevention and control center, told a press briefing on Friday
BEIJING, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th May, 2022 ) :Beijing reported 51 new locally transmitted COVID-19 infections between 3 p.m. Thursday and 3 p.m. Friday, Pang Xinghuo, deputy head of the Beijing municipal disease prevention and control center, told a press briefing on Friday.
By 3 p.m. Friday, a total of 979 infections had been reported in Beijing in the latest COVID-19 upsurge since April 22.
Among all the cases, 358 were reported in Chaoyang District, 276 in Fangshan, 88 in Haidian, and the remaining cases were detected in 12 other districts across the city.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The former owner of a sober-living program in the Franklin County area of Ohio has been banned from charity work and his nonprofits have been dissolved, after years spent investigating financial exploitation and abuse claims, according to the Ohio attorney general.
Dave Yost said Thursday that Charles “Chuck” Kirk, director of Summer Rays Inc., and Reynoldsburg Revolve Church, and some members of his family all faced a combined $90,000 in fines for restitution, civil damages and providing false and misleading information. A judge also permanently banned Kirk from directly or indirectly creating or working for a nonprofit in Ohio.
With around 100 recovering addicts living in his Summer Rays properties, Kirk required them to pay a weekly program fee between $100 to $150 and attend weekly church services and meetings while abstaining from drugs and alcohol. However, Yost said there was no formal counseling or plan for each resident to finish and leave the program.
Among accusations of abuse, Yost said Kirk used the recovering alcoholics and drug addicts living in the Summer Rays sober-living properties as cheap labor. Kirk would pay them in cash, or discount their program fee in exchange for working for the family’s side businesses, such as Rev Cafe inside their church, and did not track the residents’ working hours or issue paychecks, according to the attorney general.
“This is more than just a philanthropy pitfall,” Yost said. “Chuck Kirk used his absolute control over the finances of Summer Rays and RRC to rip off the individuals he claimed to want to help. Charities are not to be confused with family businesses.”
As residents worked for little or no pay in his businesses and paid into the sober-living program, Yost said Kirk’s family got to live in a house financed by Summer Rays. Kirk also let two of his daughters live rent-free in Summer Rays addict housing, with no other recovering residents inside, while they attended college.
Alongside the penalties a Franklin County judge ordered Kirk and his family to pay, the attorney general’s lawsuit got back more than $1 million in mortgage loans and overdue real estate taxes. The lawsuit also netted $248,000 to pay back any Summer Rays’ residents and workers who file wage-and-hour claims and damages.
While the attorney general previously shut down Summer Rays in July 2018 as the accusations came to light, its residents could stay and the sober living program got permission to keep operating with new management later that month. With the recent completion of court-ordered work dissolving the Summer Rays nonprofit and Kirk’s church, however, the program is no more. | https://www.news10.com/news/national/recovering-addicts-used-as-cheap-labor-for-ohio-nonprofit-judge-rules/ | 2022-05-13T14:05:16Z | https://www.news10.com/news/national/recovering-addicts-used-as-cheap-labor-for-ohio-nonprofit-judge-rules/ | false | 24 |
Udaipur, May 13 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday condoled the death of UAE President and ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and said he will be fondly remembered as a visionary leader who brought rapid development to the UAE.
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed passed away on Friday. He was 73.
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"The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE, the Arab and Islamic nation and the world over the demise of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the UAE,” the official WAM news agency said in a statement.
Condoling his death, Gandhi said in a tweet, “My heartfelt condolences to the family of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and to the people of United Arab Emirates.”
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“He will be fondly remembered as a visionary leader who brought rapid development to the UAE,” Gandhi said.
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Tuchel on keeper tactics if final goes to penalties
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Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel refused to rule out again introducing Kepa Arrizabalaga from the bench if Saturday's FA Cup final against Liverpool goes to penalties.
Tuchel brought Kepa on in place of the outstanding Edouard Mendy shortly before the end of extra time when the Carabao Cup final against Jurgen Klopp's side was decided on spot-kicks.
The Spaniard failed to save a penalty, then missed with his own effort, as Liverpool won the trophy.
But asked if he had made any plans in the event of a repeat at Wembley, Tuchel said: “I will not tell you. I have an opinion about it. If it comes, you will see.
"In approaching the match, we always say: 'Let’s see how the game goes and if we still have the change available.'
"It is never done before. We have a plan of what we can do. I’m a bit torn in how much you can practise." | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c4n2rz2qzpeo | 2022-05-13T14:09:24Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c4n2rz2qzpeo | true | 2 |
HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 13 May 2022 - Tiger Bank, an NFT project founded by Asian digital marketing group Eagle Sky, announced that it will release its project roadmap on the 13th of this month. The biggest feature of this project will be its unique community operation model. This is a community dedicated to professional and successful people in various fields. Members come from different regions of the world. The project party has designed rich community mechanisms for sustainable operation. The goal is to build bridges for people from different countries and industries. Meanwhile, Tiger Bank community will provide a variety of courses, expert lectures and trend analyses related to blockchain and NFT.
Official Website: https://tigerbanknft.com/
Holding "Tiger Bank NFT" is the best way to join a community of successful people
To assist beginners who are not yet familiar with NFTs and all holders who have just come to its community, the biggest feature of the project will be to focus on establishing a network of contacts within the community and expanding its influence outwards continuously. Therefore, holders can immediately feel and enjoy community service after joining this community and get more NFT resource support.
Long-term values in both Web2 and Web3 Worlds: Five Community Resource Support
The first is "consulting service". Holders of Tiger Bank NFT can consult advertising, marketing, branding and business development related questions and exchange assets in the virtual world for real resources. Second, Tiger Bank will provide diversified courses because this is a community that helps each member grow. The project party will collect the actual needs of holders to provide courses and lectures; the third community support is to hold NFT master seminars. Besides experts and first-hand information from key opinion leaders, the community also provides opportunities for members to ask questions of experts. The fourth community resource is that the project party will regularly publish NFT trend reports, not just news! Finally, Tiger Bank will also hold offline events on various themes in different countries, allowing members to meet in the real world while building a Web2 and Web3 contacts network.
Tiger Bank's community resources come from the project's unique salary mechanism - besides its rarity, each NFT has its "salary leaderboard" called "TigerDollar", and holders can earn more their NFT TigerDollar for richer community support.
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Official Website: https://tigerbanknft.com/
Holding "Tiger Bank NFT" is the best way to join a community of successful people
To assist beginners who are not yet familiar with NFTs and all holders who have just come to its community, the biggest feature of the project will be to focus on establishing a network of contacts within the community and expanding its influence outwards continuously. Therefore, holders can immediately feel and enjoy community service after joining this community and get more NFT resource support.
Long-term values in both Web2 and Web3 Worlds: Five Community Resource Support
The first is "consulting service". Holders of Tiger Bank NFT can consult advertising, marketing, branding and business development related questions and exchange assets in the virtual world for real resources. Second, Tiger Bank will provide diversified courses because this is a community that helps each member grow. The project party will collect the actual needs of holders to provide courses and lectures; the third community support is to hold NFT master seminars. Besides experts and first-hand information from key opinion leaders, the community also provides opportunities for members to ask questions of experts. The fourth community resource is that the project party will regularly publish NFT trend reports, not just news! Finally, Tiger Bank will also hold offline events on various themes in different countries, allowing members to meet in the real world while building a Web2 and Web3 contacts network.
Tiger Bank's community resources come from the project's unique salary mechanism - besides its rarity, each NFT has its "salary leaderboard" called "TigerDollar", and holders can earn more their NFT TigerDollar for richer community support.
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Official Website: https://tigerbanknft.com/
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£250 funding for Stratford's Talking Newspaper service
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LEARN MOREThe vital work of Stratford's Talking Newspaper group has been given a £250 boost by the town’s Rotary Club.
Run by volunteers, the group meets every Thursday to read out the news contained in the Stratford Herald, recording it onto memory sticks. These are then sent out to blind, visually impaired and print disabled people to make sure they can keep up to date with what’s happening across the district.
The free service, which is run by former Stratford mayor Maureen Beckett, will use the money to buy some new speakers which are given to listeners.
Maureen said: “I have five teams that read the Herald on a rota basis and our listeners are referred to us by either Warwickshire Vision Support or word of mouth.
“I've previously visited every optician in Stratford and they are ever so keen when they hear about us, and I visited our new eye hospital when it opened and took them a speaker and send them a memory stick with the Stratford Herald on every week.”
She added: “I’d like to thank the Rotarians for their generous donation of £250. It will be put towards new speakers which all our listeners are given when they are first introduced to us.”
Anyone who is interested in receiving, or reading with Stratford’s Talking Newspaper can contact the Herald and we’ll pass on your details.
Stratford Rotary Club’s community fund is given away £250 each month to a good cause. To find out more and to apply, visit www.stratforduponavonrotary.co.uk/community-fund. | https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/250-funding-for-stratfords-talking-newspaper-service-9254291/ | 2022-05-13T14:10:37Z | https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/250-funding-for-stratfords-talking-newspaper-service-9254291/ | true | 1 |
PKK sympathizers attack Turkey's Consulate General in Paris
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2022
Sympathizers of the PKK terrorist organization attacked Turkey's Consulate General in Paris with firework-type explosives on Thursday, according to diplomatic sources.
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Guardiola snaps back at Evra and Berbatov criticism: I didn't see this character when we destroyed them with Barcelona
Pep Guardiola has hit back at criticism Manchester City have faced from former Manchester United stars Patrice Evra and Dimitar Berbatov.
Ex-United and Tottenham striker Berbatov said that the Premier League leaders crashed out of the Champions League semi-finals against Real Madrid because of a "small mindset and with no winning mentality".
Evra, meanwhile, said that Guardiola coaches as if "he is playing on the PlayStation" and accused him of having no backup plan when things go wrong for his side.
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What has Guardiola said about Evra and Berbatov?
Guardiola jumped to his side's defence following their defeat against Madrid, who scored two late goals to take their semi-final tie into extra time before securing the win by converting a penalty.
"The answer is so easy - it's the same character and personality that we lost in Madrid in the last few minutes," Guardiola told reporters.
"A specialist former player, like Berbatov and Seedorf, Patrice Evra and these type of people, they weren't there.
"I played against them and when I played against them I didn't see this kind of personality when we [Barcelona] destroyed them in the Champions League final vs Manchester United.
"It's the same character and personality. We don't have personality because we concede two goals in two minutes when we had two chances to score and we don't have personality.
"After the last four games, we scored 22 goals, we have incredible personality. I'm sorry but I completely disagree about this.
"Personality is what we have done in the last five years, every three days in all competitions. This is important.
"Maybe Liverpool win all four titles, maybe they win just one, I don't know but you say they don't have personality, character, they didn't do an incredible season?
"Even when they lost the Premier League by one or two points against us, they didn't have a bad season? They don't have character or personality?
"Of course they have, of course they are good. Sometimes football happens. You cannot control it, emotion, many things. When we are constantly arriving in latter stages, semi-finals, finals last four or five years.
"This is chapeau, this is incredible, because we arrive until the end, a lot of games, go through, playing good, this is the most important thing."
What next for Man City?
While Guardiola's team are out of the Champions League, they are on course to retain their Premier League title.
City are three points clear of Liverpool at the top of the table with two matches left.
The league leaders face West Ham on Sunday before finishing off the season with a home game against Aston Villa. | https://www.goal.com/en-za/news/guardiola-evra-berbatov-criticism-character-destroyed/blt287ac3c8c4993214 | 2022-05-13T14:13:20Z | https://www.goal.com/en-za/news/guardiola-evra-berbatov-criticism-character-destroyed/blt287ac3c8c4993214 | false | 11 |
The Nigerian-Irish ensemble, Adeniyi Allen-Taylor’s Afrobeat Orchestra. who will be performing in An Grianán Theatre Plaza on Saturday afternoon
An Africa Day celebration, jointly organised by Donegal County Council and Donegal Intercultural Platform takes place this coming Saturday at the Regional Cultural Centre and An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny. All events are free and everyone is invited to attend and enjoy.
Exhibitions and Talks
The celebration opens at 11am with a series of exhibitions, discussions and creative writing workshops, taking place at both venues.
The Women On The Front Line of Climate Change photographic exhibition will be staged at the Regional Cultural Centre, in association with the Changemakers group, will include a discussion and eyewitness accounts of the impacts of the climate crisis on Africa.
Similarly, at An Grianán Theatre (upstairs foyer), Balume Amstrong Dube will host and facilitate a gathering of African writers and fans of African writing, from 11am.
Family Fun Day
The afternoon will see a colourful Family Fun Day taking over the An Grianán Theatre Plaza between 1.30pm to 6.00pm, with free African food tasting - courtesy of Chef Lara and Burrito Loco restaurant - childrens' games, traditional and contemporary dance displays and workshops, arts and crafts, face painting, hair braiding and Henna tattoos, as well as music from all corners of Africa with DJ Thabo and the wonderful Nigerian-Irish ensemble, Adeniyi Allen-Taylor’s Afrobeat Orchestra.
Film Screening
The celebration concludes with a special showing, free of charge, of the award-winning film, A Girl From Mogadishu (15A), at the Regional Cultural Centre at 6.30pm. Based on the true story of Somali woman Ifrah Ahmed, the film is an Irish/Belgian production with a truly international cast of actors from Africa, the US and Ireland, including Aja Naomi King (as Ifrah), acclaimed Somali singer and actress Maryam Mursal, Barkhad Abdi and Martha Canga Antonio, with Irish actors Orla Brady, Stanley Townsend and Niall Buggy (as President Michael D. Higgins).
Funding and Minister’s Welcome
This Donegal Africa Day celebration is funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Irish Aid and Donegal County Council.
Minister for Overseas Development Aid and Diaspora, Colm Brophy TD, said Ireland has been enriched in so many ways by the presence of a vibrant African community.
"Ireland’s arts, culture, business, community development, sport and so much more have been strengthened by people of African origin or descent.
"Africa Day is about recognising that contribution and celebrating the culture and potential of the continent as a whole.
“After two years of online events, this year will see the welcome return of in-person events nationwide. Irish Aid’s partnership with local authorities will bring the fun of Africa Day to communities around the country. I am delighted that Africa Day 2022 is set to be our biggest-ever Africa Day celebration.”
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KBR Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Indigenous Service Provider JLB Yaran
HOUSTON, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with JLB Yaran that will further enhance KBR's engagement with Australian First Nations communities and businesses. The agreement was signed at the 2022 Indo Pacific Conference in Sydney Australia.
Under the non-binding agreement signed on Gadigal land, and witnessed by First Nations Elder Aunty Mary Doctor, KBR will collaborate with JLB Yaran to help recruit, connect and engage with First Nations peoples for multiple opportunities in locations across Australia. This will integrate JLB Yaran into KBR's wider technical support network.
Rob Hawketts, Vice President of Government Solutions APAC said, "KBR is committed to the development and empowerment of First Nations companies, particularly in the Australian defence industry. I am proud to have signed this Memorandum of Understanding with JLB Yaran so that we can continue to grow our partnership and foster greater opportunities for Australian First Nations communities."
JLB-Yaran is an Indigenous and veteran-owned professional service provider with a long history of supporting defence industry. The JLB-Yaran team has Australian Defence experience, both in and out of uniform, further enhancing their ability to support the Australian Defence Force.
The signing of this MoU with JLB Yaran forms part of KBR Australia's Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), which the company has been implementing for more than two years. The KBR RAP provides a framework upon which KBR can realise its vision for reconciliation and provides practical steps to engage with and respect First Nations organisations and improve cultural understanding throughout KBR Australia.
About KBR
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission critical roles in 34 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long- term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
Visit www.kbr.com
Forward Looking Statement
The statements in this press release that are not historical statements, including statements regarding future financial performance, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's control that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the significant adverse impacts on economic and market conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the company's ability to respond to the resulting challenges and business disruption; the recent dislocation of the global energy market; the company's ability to manage its liquidity; the outcome of and the publicity surrounding audits and investigations by domestic and foreign government agencies and legislative bodies; potential adverse proceedings by such agencies and potential adverse results and consequences from such proceedings; changes in capital spending by the company's customers; the company's ability to obtain contracts from existing and new customers and perform under those contracts; structural changes in the industries in which the company operates; escalating costs associated with and the performance of fixed-fee projects and the company's ability to control its cost under its contracts; claims negotiations and contract disputes with the company's customers; changes in the demand for or price of oil and/or natural gas; protection of intellectual property rights; compliance with environmental laws; changes in government regulations and regulatory requirements; compliance with laws related to income taxes; unsettled political conditions, war and the effects of terrorism; foreign operations and foreign exchange rates and controls; the development and installation of financial systems; the possibility of cyber and malware attacks; increased competition for employees; the ability to successfully complete and integrate acquisitions; and operations of joint ventures, including joint ventures that are not controlled by the company.
The company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Form 10-Qs and 8-Ks, and other U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss some of the important risk factors that the company has identified that may affect its business, results of operations and financial condition. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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FULL PERFORMANCE MIXED FROM ORIGINAL ANALOG TAPES BY GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER GREGG FIELD FOR RELEASE AS ELLA AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL: THE IRVING BERLIN SONGBOOK
ANIMIATED VIDEO FOR "PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ" DEBUTS TODAY
AVAILABLE JUNE 24 VIA VERVE RECORDS/UMe
LOS ANGELES, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 16, 1958, just a few months after Ella Fitzgerald recorded her now-classic album, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook, The First Lady Of Song performed selections from that album live at the Hollywood Bowl to an adoring, sold-out crowd. Conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, who also arranged and conducted the studio sessions, this concert marked the only time that Ella performed these iconic arrangements live with a full orchestra.
Widely considered her greatest achievement, Ella's Songbook records, with peerless renditions of the best songs by America's greatest composers, are the cornerstone of the Verve catalog and the undisputed standard for jazz vocal recordings. At the inaugural Grammy Awards, her Irving Berlin album won Ella her first Grammy for "Best Vocal Performance, Female," and was also nominated for "Album Of The Year." Aside from the lucky audience at the Hollywood Bowl that night, it wasn't generally known, until the discovery of these tapes, that Ella had ever performed any of the Songbook arrangements in concert, let alone that such a pristine and sonically sumptuous recording existed.
On June 24, Verve/UMe will proudly release the full, never-before-released 15-song performance, aptly titled, Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook, on CD, vinyl, limited edition yellow splatter vinyl, and digitally. This landmark record, discovered in the private collection of producer and Verve Records founder Norman Granz, marks the first time a live Songbook has been released from Ella. It is also significant in that it captures the only time Ella worked in concert with arranger-conductor Paul Weston. And, although she performed regularly at the Hollywood Bowl, this is the first full-length concert by Ella from this iconic venue to be released (notably, Ella was featured prominently on Verve's Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl album, recorded and released in 1956, the year Granz formed the label). The live tracks were mixed from the original ¼" tapes by Grammy Award-winning producer and musician Gregg Field who played drums for Ella in her later years. The album is rounded out with insightful liner notes about the concert and Ella's Songbook series by noted author and music critic, Will Friedwald.
Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook is available to pre-order now and is being previewed with a lively rendition of "Puttin' On The Ritz." The song debuts today, accompanied by an animated video, directed by Alberto Baroni, that cleverly brings the song and Giulia Pelizzaro's dynamic album art to life.
Pre-order the album here: https://EllaFitzgerald.lnk.to/HollywoodBowlPR
Listen/watch/share "Puttin' On The Ritz" here: https://EllaFitzgerald.lnk.to/OnTheRitzVidPR
While Ella's live appearances had evolved over the years from her early big band years where she primarily sang in ballrooms with the Chick Webb Orchestra to supper clubs, theaters and concert halls, she mostly stuck to a nightclub format of performing a selection of songs accompanied by a trio. This performance at the Hollywood Bowl was incredibly unique for her. As Friedwald reveals in the liners, "But to come on stage – with a full orchestra – and essentially sing the contents of a studio album, well, nobody did that. Not Sinatra, not Tony Bennett, not Miles Davis, nor any of the other key innovators who contributed to the development of what came to be known as 'the concept album." Friedwald continues, "so exactly why did Fitzgerald and Granz choose to face this particular music and dance in this singular fashion? We may never know, but the logical answer is that the songbooks were proving to be such a major component to her burgeoning career that… Fitzgerald and Granz were determined to do something special in honor of the ongoing series."
And special it was. Across 15 songs, Ella and the orchestra performed dazzling arrangements of some of Irving Berlin's best-known songs including the classic ballads "How Deep Is The Ocean" and "Supper Time," Hollywood tunes "You're Laughing At Me" and "Get Thee Behind Me Satan," and swinging up-tempo numbers "Cheek To Cheek," "Top Hat," "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm," "Heat Wave," and "Puttin' On The Ritz." The concert pops with an electricity not found on the studio recording as Ella feeds off the energy and enthusiasm of the crowd, whose applause and adulation bookend each song.
The Hollywood Bowl, which is celebrating its centennial this year, loomed large in Ella's life. She made her Bowl debut alongside Louis Armstrong in 1956 at a star-studded program, which was released as the double LP, Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl. Ella holds the rare distinction of having sold out the Hollywood Bowl in each of five decades, from the 1950s through the 1990s. Aside from headlining numerous times, Ella, who lived in LA for much of her career, also performed as part of the annual Playboy Jazz Festival; her last appearance was a couple years before her passing in 1996. Read more about Ella and her history with the Hollywood Bowl here: https://www.hollywoodbowl.com/about/watch-and-listen/bowl-history-spotlight-ella-fitzgerald
The voice of Ella Fitzgerald, the songs of Irving Berlin, the timeless arrangements of Paul Weston with a orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook is the pinnacle of American song – live and like never before.
Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she sold more than 40 million albums and received most every honor a performer could dream of winning, including the Kennedy Center Honor (1979), the National Medal of Arts (1987), France's Commander of Arts and Letters (1990), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1992) and 13 Grammy Awards. In 2007, the United States Postal Service honored Fitzgerald with a postage stamp.
In her six-decade long career, the Queen of Jazz recorded more than 200 albums and roughly 2,000 songs, making her the most recorded female – and the second most recorded – performer in history. Among those recordings are works with some of history's greatest musicians and legendary songwriters.
Fitzgerald's distinct style has influenced multiple generations of singers and her work transcends generations and musical genres. She had an extraordinary vocal range and flexibility and possessed a preternatural gift for pitch, rhythmic sense and flawless diction. Immensely versatile, she could sing it all from jazz and bebop to ballads, swing, pop and rock. With an unparalleled ability for mimicry and "scat" singing, Fitzgerald also produced melodic lines that put her in the category of great instrumental improvisers. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless.
She passed away due to complications from diabetes, dying in her Beverly Hills home on June 15, 1996.
The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation was created and funded in 1993 by Ella Fitzgerald in order to fulfill her desires to use the fruits of her success to help people of all races, cultures and beliefs. Fitzgerald hoped to make their lives more rewarding, and she wanted to foster a love of reading, as well as a love of music. In addition, she hoped to provide assistance to the at-risk and disadvantaged members of our communities - assistance that would enable them to achieve a better quality of life. The Board of Directors of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation seeks to continue Ella Fitzgerald's goals by making charitable grants serving four major areas of interest: Creating educational and other opportunities for children; fostering a love and knowledge of music; including assistance to students of music the provision of health care; food, shelter and counseling to those in need and specific areas of medical care and research with an emphasis on Diabetes, vision problems and heart disease.
TRACKLISTING
- The Song Is Ended
- You're Laughing at Me
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Heat Wave
- Suppertime
- Cheek to Cheek
- Russian Lullaby
- Top Hat White Tie and Tails
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- Get Thee Behind Me Satan
- Let's Face the Music And Dance
- Always
- Puttin' on the Ritz
- Let Yourself Go
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
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How Technology Can Inspire Teamwork and Collaboration
The way we work is always evolving, and it makes sense that where and how we work would also change. Office working isn’t for everyone and there is a lot more to consider than only your morning commute.
Enter collaborative technologies and with them, a boom in users per day by the millions. Companies are becoming more flexible and accessible to their employees and partners. It has become clear that maintaining an enjoyable working environment is crucial, even when workers are not sat within reach of each other.
Finder compiled a number of studies that show that working remotely with these technologies meant 83% of employees didn’t feel they need an office to be productive. A lot of companies are looking to continue using software to blend home and office working into a hybrid style of working thanks to the continuing evolution of cloud solutions. In this article, we’ll look at the ways that the technology we use can influence how we collaborate on our work.
Everything In One Place
An important factor when it comes to how a business operates is clarity. When we go hunting for information, we want to be able to find it as quickly as possible in the most convenient way imaginable. Collaborative technologies benefit work to increase productivity by keeping everything in one place.
Software such as Microsoft Teams, with its instant messaging and chat features, as well as calendar breakdowns for meetings and deadlines, results in a reduction to the amount of additional software required to get through a workweek.
Side-by-Side
Sometimes, several members of a team need to access and edit a document. Collaborative software allows the simultaneous viewing and amending of documents from places like Word. Workers can also track those changes and add comments, as well as compare the original and amended pieces.
This encourages team members to work together, so that any errors that may have been missed on the first review are more likely to be addressed before completion.
Faster Communication
One of the key elements to any successful business is communication across and between all departments and teams. While emails have long been the established means of communication, collaborative technologies have made processes much easier and lightning quick.
Group chat and thread functions cut down on time spent waiting for emails to arrive in your inbox. They can boost team morale too, as emails can feel impersonal compared to chats. The inclusion of video calling also provides for remote meetings to become a much better option than they were in previous years.
Strengthens Culture
It’s not always easy to implement new technologies into a workplace. Though the idea of where and how we work is constantly evolving, but studies by Owl Labs have shown that these changes can make teams feel more productive and involved with business processes.
Giving your employees the technology to make their working lives easier and more flexible helps to build a more cooperative environment. Not only that but investing in it also shows that you are willing to think outside the box and try new things to enhance productivity for your business’ well-being.
Positive Changes
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Lordstown Motors and Foxconn Close Asset Purchase Agreement and Enter into JV Agreement for MIH Based EV Development
$100 million Investment in Joint Venture
- Asset Purchase Agreement closing results in approximately $260 million in proceeds to LMC, in addition to prior $50 million common stock purchase
- Contract manufacturing of the Endurance by Foxconn at Lordstown facility with no interruption in operations
- Creation of $100 million joint venture, MIH EV Design LLC, to develop electric vehicles for the global market
- Foxconn and LMC to share expertise and resources to accelerate EV adoption
LORDSTOWN, Ohio, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lordstown Motors Corp. (Nasdaq: RIDE), ("Lordstown Motors" or "LMC"), an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of electric light duty trucks focused on the commercial fleet market, today announced that it has closed the sale of its Lordstown facility and signed a contract manufacturing agreement and joint venture agreement for product development with affiliates of Hon Hai Technology Group ("Foxconn") (TWSE: 2317).
As previously disclosed, on November 10, 2021, Lordstown Motors and Foxconn entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement ("APA") providing for the sale of LMC's Lordstown, Ohio vehicle assembly plant to Foxconn for $230 million plus the reimbursement of certain operating and expansion costs from September 1, 2021 to the closing date. The transaction was subject to several conditions, including that the parties enter into a contract manufacturing agreement for LMC's flagship vehicle, the Endurance, a full-size, all-electric pickup truck.
On May 11, the transactions under the APA were completed. Total proceeds to LMC were $230 million, plus the reimbursement of approximately $27 million in operating and expansion costs. In addition, Foxconn had previously purchased $50 million of LMC Class A common stock directly from the company. Concurrently with the closing, Foxconn and Lordstown Motors entered into a manufacturing supply agreement for the Endurance. Start of commercial production of the Endurance is targeted for the third quarter of this year, with the first commercial deliveries expected in fourth quarter. Foxconn will assume manufacturing operations at the Lordstown plant immediately with no interruption. Approximately 400 skilled and talented LMC employees will transition to employment with Foxconn. LMC will retain a presence in Lordstown, Ohio along with engineering and technical centers, as well as corporate staff, in Farmington Hills, Mich. and Irvine, Calif.
In connection with the closing of the APA, Foxconn and LMC also entered into a joint venture agreement to co-develop EV programs using Foxconn's Mobility-in-Harmony (MIH) open-source EV platform. The new joint venture will be called MIH EV Design LLC and will be 55% owned by Foxconn and 45% by LMC. Foxconn is committing $100 million towards the new joint venture, including a loan to Lordstown for $45 million to support its initial capital commitment. The joint venture creates an innovative business model whereby LMC and Foxconn would jointly develop new electric vehicles, utilizing the MIH platform, for LMC in the North American commercial vehicle market and for other OEMs internationally.
Vehicles developed by MIH EV Design would be built for North America at the Lordstown, Ohio plant, and at other Foxconn contract-manufacturing locations around the world. The objective is for OEM users of Foxconn's flexible MIH platform, manufacturing footprint, and supply chain to achieve production scale at lower volumes and with a shorter time to market. The joint venture also leverages Lordstown Motors' strong engineering and product development capabilities globally and provides LMC a scalable vehicle development platform in North America, accelerating EV development, reducing product development costs, and increasing the breadth of LMC's product portfolio over time.
"The closing of the Foxconn APA and the completion of a joint venture agreement for the development of new electric vehicles using Foxconn's MIH platform are important milestones for LMC," said Daniel Ninivaggi, CEO of Lordstown Motors. "Our strategic partnership with Foxconn provides LMC with a flexible and less capital-intensive business model, access to broad supply chain and software capabilities and an effective vehicle development platform to bring EVs to market faster and more efficiently. I have always been a strong believer in what Foxconn is doing to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and we are proud to be their partner."
"The creation of the MIH EV Design LLC joint venture between Lordstown Motors and Foxconn supports the EV ambitions of both companies. The MIH shared EV architecture will create synergies in vehicle design, engineering, development, testing, sourcing, and manufacturing. This will enable us to create innovative and winning products for our customers, while optimizing costs and reducing our time to market," said Edward T. Hightower, President of Lordstown Motors.
About Lordstown Motors Corp.
Lordstown Motors is an electric vehicle (EV) innovator developing high-quality, light duty commercial fleet vehicles, with the Endurance all electric pick-up truck as its first vehicle being launched in the Lordstown, Ohio facility. Lordstown Motors has engineering, research and development facilities in Farmington Hills, Michigan and Irvine, California. For additional information visit www.lordstownmotors.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This release includes forward looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified by words such as "feel," "believe," "expects," "estimates," "projects," "intends," "should," "is to be," or the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein due to many factors, including, but not limited to: the need to raise substantial additional capital to execute our business plan, achieve our production targets for the Endurance in 2022 and beyond, to continue ongoing operations and remain a going concern, and our ability to raise such funding on a reasonable timeline and with suitable terms; the cost and other impacts of litigation, regulatory proceedings, investigations, claims and availability of insurance coverage and/or adverse publicity including with respect to the matters raised by the March 24, 2022 stockholder letter, which may have a material adverse effect, whether or not successful or valid, on our liquidity position, business prospects and ability to obtain financing; our limited operating history and our ability to execute our business plan, including through our relationship with Foxconn; our ability to raise sufficient capital in order to invest in the tooling that we expect will enable us to eventually lower the Endurance bill of materials cost, continue design enhancements of the Endurance and fund any future vehicles we may develop; the rollout of our business and the timing of expected business milestones, including our ability, together with Foxconn as applicable, to complete the engineering of the Endurance, and conversion and retooling of the Lordstown facility, to establish and maintain appropriate supplier relationships, to successfully complete testing, homologation and certification, and to start production of the Endurance in accordance with our projected timeline; supply chain disruptions, inflation and the potential inability to source essential components and raw materials, including on a timely basis or at acceptable cost, and their consequences on testing, production, sales and other activities; our ability to obtain binding purchase orders and build customer relationships; our ability to deliver on the expectations of customers with respect to the pricing, performance, quality, reliability, safety and efficiency of the Endurance and to provide the levels of service and support that they will require; our ability to conduct business using a direct sales model, rather than through a dealer network used by most other OEMs; the effects of competition on our ability to market and sell vehicles; our inability to retain key personnel and to hire additional personnel; the ability to protect our intellectual property rights; the failure to obtain required regulatory approvals; changes in laws or regulatory requirements or new or different interpretations of existing law; changes in governmental incentives and fuel and energy prices; the impact of health epidemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, on our business; cybersecurity threats and compliance with privacy and data protection laws; failure to timely implement and maintain adequate financial, information technology and management processes and controls and procedures; and the possibility that we may be adversely affected by other economic, geopolitical, business and/or competitive factors, including the direct and indirect effects of the war in Ukraine. In addition, the transactions entered into with Foxconn are subject to risks and uncertainties. No assurances can be given that Lordstown Motors and Foxconn will successfully implement the contract manufacturing agreement, jointly develop additional EVs for launch through the joint venture or otherwise achieve the expected benefits of their business relationship. If we are unable to maintain our relationship with Foxconn or effectively manage outsourcing the production of the Endurance to Foxconn, we may be unable to ensure continuity, quality, and compliance with our design specifications or applicable laws and regulations, which may ultimately disrupt and have a negative effect on our production and operations. The success of the joint venture depends on many variables, such as technology, innovation, adequate funding, supply chain and other economic conditions, competitors, customer demand and other factors that impact new vehicle development, many of which are not within the parties' control. If we are unable to develop new vehicles for ourselves and potentially other OEM customers, our business prospects, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected. We will need additional funding to execute our 2022 business plan and achieve scaled production of the Endurance. As we seek additional sources of financing, there can be no assurance that such financing would be available to us on favorable terms or at all. Our ability to obtain additional financing in the debt and equity capital markets is subject to several factors, including market and economic conditions, the significant amount of capital required, the fact that our bill of materials cost is currently, and expected to continue to be, substantially higher than our anticipated selling price, uncertainty surrounding regulatory approval and the performance of the vehicle, meaningful exposure to material losses related to ongoing litigation and the SEC investigation, our performance and investor sentiment with respect to us and our business and industry, as well as our ability to successfully implement our arrangements with Foxconn. Additional information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of the Company and its forward-looking statements is included in its most recent Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and Lordstown Motors undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
Contacts:
Investors
Carter W. Driscoll, CFA
IR@lordstownmotors.com
Media
Colleen Robar
313.207.5960
crobar@robarpr.com
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McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Sebastian Munoz was standing in the middle of the fairway on the 18th hole thinking about his shot at a 59 in the first round of the Byron Nelson. After missing the green, he became the first player in PGA Tour history with two rounds of 60 in the same season.
Munoz made a nice flop shot from the right of the green, then holed the 12-foot birdie putt to wrap up his 12-under round that included an impressive surge after his only bogey.
“I mean, I wanted to give myself a chance. … It was 250 (yards) to the pin into the wind. I kind of wanted to hit like a bullet, like a little draw,” Munoz said. “I knew if I want to hit it close, had to be a fade, soft-landed shot. I tried to do that. Overdid it and ended up with a 60, which is really good around here.”
Good for a four-stroke lead over defending champion K.H. Lee, Mito Pereira, Peter Malnati and Justin Lower. Kyle Wilshire, a Monday qualifier making only his third career PGA Tour start, was alone in sixth after a 65 that included a near hole-in-one when he banged the flagstick with his tee shot at the 230-yard, par-3 seventh.
Lee won the 2021 Nelson at 25-under par when his low round was a 65. He played in the same group Thursday with Scottie Scheffler and Justin Spieth, the major champions from Dallas whose first PGA Tour events were both as teenagers at the Nelson when it was still at TPC Four Seasons.
Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, and Spieth both shot 67. So did 11th-ranked Dustin Johnson, who started on the back nine with five birdies and then had four more, along with four bogeys.
It was the first individual start for Scheffler since winning the Masters five weeks ago. Three-time major champ Spieth, ranked No. 9, played for the first time since his RBC Heritage victory the week after the Masters.
Munoz was 2-under after a one-stroke penalty because of a wayward tee shot at the eighth hole. The 29-year-old Colombian, who also lives in the Dallas area, then went 6 under in the next four holes. He eagled the ninth and 12th holes and had 3-foot birdies on both holes in between those par 5s.
After just missing a long birdie chance on No. 13, he made four birdies over the last five holes — the longest of those putts being the last one after only his second missed green in the round.
“It’s a great feeling whenever everything is clicking, hitting the tee shots, ball is coming out in the window that you imagined, the putts, that you’re reading good the putts. The speed,” Munoz said. “When everything is going, it’s just stay out of the way and just kind of let it happen.”
Munoz also had a 60 in the opening round of the RSM Classic at Seaside in Georgia in November, although that was a 10-under score. He went on to finish third. This is his seventh time as a first-round leader, but his only PGA Tour win came at the Sanderson Farms Championship two seasons ago when he was 43rd after an opening 70.
TPC Craig Ranch, the second-year home of the Nelson, is about 30 miles north of downtown Dallas and 30 miles east of the University of North Texas in Denton, where Munoz went to school.
Even though Munoz lives in North Texas, he said he hadn’t played TPC Craig Ranch since the Nelson’s debut there last year. Munoz finished 10 under for the four rounds combined last year, when he tied for 55th. He said he played the course a few times while in college.
Spieth started with seven consecutive pars before hitting his approach at the par-4 No. 8 inside four feet and made the birdie. He then missed the fairway of the tee at No. 9, but still got his second shot on the green and made a 12-foot putt for eagle.
Wilshire, who turned pro in 2014, earned $8,000 last weekend when he tied for second place during a mini-tour event in Oklahoma. The Nelson purse is $9.1 million, with the winner taking home more than $1.6 million and the runner-up almost $992,000.
After having knee surgery in 2018 and not playing well the following year, Wilshire took a job as a trash porter at his girlfriend’s apartment complex for four months during the pandemic shutdown in 2020. It was an evening job that allowed him to work on his game during the day.
“It wasn’t the most glamourous job, but I wouldn’t say it humbled me, but allowed me to work on my game,” Wilshire said. “It kept me in good shape and I just think it made me a little tougher. Made me just appreciate the opportunity to play.”
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Bucy alleges she’s getting death threats from Rebecca Malope’s fans. Image via Twitter @Mfundoyakhe_S
Gospel singer Bucy Radebe alleges she’s getting death threats from Rebecca Malope’s fans since Thapelo Thoboke’s incident.
Bucy alleges she’s getting death threats from Rebecca Malope’s fans. Image via Twitter @Mfundoyakhe_S
Thapelo Thoboke’s gospel singer wife – Bucy Radebe says she fears for her life as she’s allegedly been getting death threats fans of legendary singer Rebecca Malope.
This is after her manager and husband Thapelo Thobeka reportedly swore at Malope backstage at Sun City Superbowl two Saturdays ago (30 April).
Gospel singer Bucy Radebe suspects Rebecca Malope’s fans have been sending her death threats after the veteran artist and her husband – Thapelo Thoboke had a disagreement that went viral on social media.
Radebe has now held a media conference to apologise to Malope in the video says someone has sent her a message calling her ‘Sathane’ (the devil).
“I’m being called the devil and it hurts me. For all the drama that happened, I’m sorry sis Ribs.”
She held a media conference at the Apollo Hotel in Randburg yesterday (12 May) and said she was exhausted.
She added that she drives a personalised car and has been getting death threats from people who want to kill her. This is not right. I didn’t do anything. I don’t know why I’m being punished.
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Multi-award-winning gospel singer Rebecca Malope went on Twitter after the incident and told her fans that she wasn’t okay and that she was disrespected at the event.
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Radebe says she has no idea what happened between her manager and her idol.
“I was on stage. I only got off stage to change my clothes. I didn’t talk to any of the featured artists.”
“I don’t want to comment on that because I didn’t witness much.”
The singer also states that it’s unfair to be expected to explain what happened when she didn’t see anything.
Fans of Malope also accused her husband of controlling her and abusing her after the incident.
“It hurts me that GBV is being used as a joke as Thapelo has never laid a hand on me.”
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In groups of two, gendarmes covered in sweat came out of the dense forest with the remains of the victims wrapped in white sheets, a journalist from AFP noted.
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MGM Resorts International MGM and Entain Plc’s joint venture — BetMGM — recently provided a business update and reaffirmed its outlook for 2022.
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Lost in the sights and sounds, I no longer felt the heat of the desert or the sand beneath my feet. My mind and senses were back home in the state of Ohio where the taste of the cold humid air fills my lungs. The patches of sand on the dance floor now look to me like patches of snow, fighting to cover the fallen leaves and thick grass of fall in a visual transition to winter, my favorite season.
If you were to ask any wayward stranger from across the world to describe their culture, I would bet music would be mentioned within the first 10 minutes of your conversation. Music is deeply rooted in our memories of home, a fact made crystal clear to me as I watch and listen to the AFCENT band play 6,849 miles away from my home.
Even in the new era of technology where wifi is prevalent across most of Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, where American Airmen and Soldiers work, sleep and play, the band’s three day live music tour, May 9-11, just hits me differently. The front of the stage is a place of gathering where a community of homesick comrade-in-arms sing, dance and tap along with the beat of the band.
There isn’t a generation, regional demographic or subculture affiliation that is left out of the rhythm as the musicians setlist spans every musical genre from jazz, to pop, country, disco and rock. The latter of which, rock’n’roll, I grew up listening to with my dad every day, riding in the car or watching him restore a classic in the garage. Thanks to him, it put my musical tastes a little behind my generation.
The band said multiple times throughout the set that their mission is to bring a slice of home to the service members serving overseas. From where I stand watching the whole scene in the shadow of the crowd, I one hundred percent believe they are accomplishing that mission for me and many others.
It is evident in the sheer number of chairs, and a couch, lugged outside and placed in front of the stage. That’s not including the many introverts, like myself, tapping their feet and clapping their hands standing in the back, or PSAB’s more confident extroverts busting moves on the dance floor for the entertainment of themselves, the crowd and band.
To the members of the AFCENT Band: Master Sgt. Sam Kennedy, Tech. Sgt. Ryan Manzi, Staff Sgt. select Mike Roe, Airman 1st Class Ashley Arrington, Airman 1st Class Keegan Bushouer and the audio guy Airman 1st Class Colten Mortensen; I thank you from the bottom of my heart for bringing this reservist home, when I'm so far away telling the Air Force’s story. I may not have been a dancer on your floor or a karaoke singer on your stage, but I am a writer and this story is for you. Mission accomplished.
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Goode, out of California, was selected with the No. 224 pick on Day 3 of the draft on April 30, and Thompson, the Kansas State signal-caller, was taken at 247.
Goode was a three-year starter for the Golden Bears, earning second-team All-Pac-12 honors as a graduate student in 2021. In his college career, Goode totaled 170 tackles, 21 sacks, two interceptions, 12 passes defensed, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
Thompson, who will be a 25-year-old rookie as of June 4, was a four-year starter for the Wildcats, where he became the only player in school history with more than 6,000 career passing and 1,000 rushing yards. He started 40 career games, totaling 7,134 passing yards and 42 passing touchdowns while adding 1,087 rushing yards and 26 rushing touchdowns.
The Dolphins have two other rookies from their small draft class yet to be signed, third-round linebacker Channing Tindall, a Georgia product, and fourth-round wide receiver Erik Ezukanma from Texas Tech.
Miami also announced on Friday that it signed 14 undrafted free agents: offensive lineman Blaise Andries, defensive lineman Owen Carney, offensive lineman Ty Clary, tight end Tanner Conner, offensive lineman Kellen Diesch, cornerback Elijah Hamilton, punter Tommy Heatherly, linebacker Deandre Johnson, cornerback Kader Kohou, safety Verone McKinley, wide receiver Braylon Sanders, defensive lineman Ben Stille, running back ZaQuandre White and defensive lineman Jordan Williams.
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The Vikings on Friday morning officially signed sixth-round pick Vederian Lowe, who had agreed to terms Thursday.
Lowe, a tackle from Illinois, didn’t sign Thursday along with five other draft picks because he had a flight delay coming to Minnesota. He will take the field Friday for the start of a two-day rookie minicamp.
Lowe, selected with the No. 184 overall pick, agreed Thursday to a four-year, $3.86 million contract, He got a signing bonus of $197,873 and will count $754,468 on the 2022 cap.
The Vikings on Thursday signed safety Lewis Cine, a first-round pick, edge rusher Esezi Otomewo, a fifth-round selection who played at he University of Minnesota, running back Ty Chandler, a fifth-round pick, wide receiver Jalen Nailor, a sixth-round selection, and tight end Nick Muse, a seventh-round pick.
The Vikings had 10 selections in last month’s draft. Cornerback Andrew Booth Jr., a second-round pick, guard Ed Ingram, a second-round pick, linebacker Brian Asamoah, a third-round selection, and cornerback Akayleb Evans, a fourth-round pick are in line to start the rookie minicamp under injury protection agreement.
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Top 10 Backpacker Hostels In India Every Traveller Should Know in 2022
Best Hostels in India for Budget Travel
Looking for a budget stay while travelling? Forget hotels and welcome hostels if you are a backpacker in India. Staying at hostels is also a quite affordable and convenient option for solo travellers in India. Backpacker hostels are becoming very popular among the young tourists who also want to stay at a place for longer or are looking for a comfortable budget-friendly place when they are on a workation.
What do you get in backpacker hostels?
- A backpacking hostel has decent accommodation that you can get on a minimal budget.
- All the basic amenities are provided in backpacking hostels like bunk beds, Wi-Fi or wireless internet, community halls, etc.
Perks of staying in backpacker hostels in India?
- You get to stay at your travel destination for longer, as your per day expense is less.
- You can network with a lot of like-minded people and make new friends while travelling.
- You can save more for your other additional travel expenses.
Now let us share the list of the 10 best backpacker hostels in India:
1. The Madpackers Hostel
- Voted as the best hostel in India by the website Hostelworld which reviews hostels, The Madpackers Hostel of New Delhi is a must-visit.
- The hostel radiates a friendly and cozy atmosphere and the guests are provided with a complimentary breakfast.
- A library and a rooftop terrace with real grass are the USPs of this hostel.
Cost per person (depends on the season): Around INR 600 for dorm rooms, and INR 2000 for a private room.
2. Backpacker Panda
- Backpacker Panda first started in Goa and now they have expanded across the country in several big and small cities that include Udaipur, Manali, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc.
- The reviews of this hostel are very nice, the customers loved the ambience of India’s best hostel.
- All the basic amenities are present in this backpackers hostel ranging from hot showers to Wifi, kitchenette, lockers, and laundry.
- If you are a solo traveller, on cancellation prior to 24 hours before check-in you will get a full refund.
- They also let their customers hire bicycles in some locations which is a great USP of this hostel in India.
Cost per person (depends on the season and the location): Ranges around INR 300 to INR 800 and are very affordable.
3. Zostel
- If you have been backpacking across India, I am sure you must have heard about the hostel chain in India by the name Zostel. It is a budget traveller’s paradise and a second home for Backpackers in India.
- With all the amenities at a pocket-friendly cost, the backpackers love to stay here for long durations.
- They have air-conditioned dorms, a hot water supply, game rooms, lockers, kitchen to cook, free Wifi, and many more. The best hostel in India has some great reviews from happy customers.
- Zostel has its branches in many places across India like Varanasi, Delhi, Jodhpur, Mumbai, Jaipur, Ooty, Goa, Pushkar, etc. so far and is still growing.
- They also organize get together and travel talks.
- The best part is that you can cancel your booking 24 hours before your stay.
Cost per person (depends on the season and the location): The dormitory begins at INR 600 and the private rooms go up to INR 2000.
4. Bunkyard Hostel
- Bunkyard Hostel is located along the lakes of the beautiful city of Udaipur.
- All the tourist attractions of the city are close to the location of the hostel.
- The hostel has music-themed dormitories, playing a variety of genres like reggae, jazz, etc.
- You can interact with your fellow travellers, enjoy chai sessions, witness beautiful sunsets, and participate in yoga sessions on the hostel terrace.
Cost per person (depends on the season): The dormitories generally charge INR 499 or more, and the private rooms cost around INR 2000.
5. Youth Hostels
- The Youth hostels are run by the Youth Hostel Association of India. These hostels are affordable and convenient, especially for single backpackers and youth.
- The hostels are comfortable and have a kind and warm staff. They even organise treks and tours.
- One of the best backpackers hostels in India, the Youth hostels are spread across the country in almost all the places Ladakh, Delhi, Goa, Manali, Port Blair, Hyderabad, Darjeeling, and the list goes on.
Cost per person (depends on the season): The dorm price range starts from INR 300, and the private room costs INR 2000.
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6. The Mudhouse Experiential Hostel
- The Mudhouse Experiential Hostel is built with earthly materials like mud, stone, and wood in Jibhi, Tirthan Valley, in Himachal Pradesh.
- If you want to live in a cabin in the hills surrounded by forests, then this is the perfect place for you.
- It is an awesome spot to make friends, build conversations, and share your talents with people who come to stay in the hostel from all around the country.
- You can also go fishing, trek, and walk amidst pine trees and clear skies.
Cost per person (depends on the season): Starts at INR 500 per night.
7. Electric Cats Hostel
- Located in Bengaluru, the Electric Cats Bed & Breakfast hostel is very close to Indiranagar, one of the city’s most popular places.
- The hostel in India includes a complimentary breakfast and provides all the amenities for a comfortable stay.
- The hostel has a beautiful terrace and even a cafe where you can relax and enjoy your own company or the company of your friends or siblings.
Cost per person (depends on the season): The dorm rates start at a mere INR 500 per night.
8. The Hostel Crowd
- One of the best hostels in India, the Hostel Crowd group offers one of the cool, quirky, and fun accommodations in Goa and Kerala.
- This Indian hostel is very popular among tourists. It promotes sustainable living standards. The hostels are theme-based.
- You can find hammocks in Goa’s Vagator Jungle Hostel or take your mug-shots at Prison Hostel in Anjuna. The hostels also host parties from time to time.
- Some of the popular hostels run by this chain are The Maritime Hostel (Kochi), and Summer Hostel (South Goa).
Cost per person (depends on the season): The dorm beds start from INR 350, and the private rooms at around INR 1200.
Also Read: 10 Best Places To Visit In June In India (2022)
9. Moustache Hostel
- Moustache hostels are the backpacker hostels that are located in Jaipur, Udaipur, Agra, Varanasi, Pushkar, Rishikesh, and Jaisalmer.
- All the hostels located around eleven locations across the country have game rooms, gardens, and a terrace to chill and relax.
- The amenities include a kitchen where you can cook your own food, WI-FI which comes in handy if you are on a workation, lockers, hot showers, etc.
- The security and cleanliness of the hostels are top-notch for which the hostels get high ratings and reviews.
Cost per person (depends on the season): The price of this hostel is usually displayed in dollars, but the rooms start from INR 600.
10. GoStops Hostel
- One of the best backpackers hostels in India, GoStops first started off in Varanasi. Now the hostel chain has expanded to various places across the country like Udaipur, Delhi, Bir, and Dalhousie.
- The amenities in the hostel include WI-FI, fun games including Tennis, hot showers, lockers, a kitchen, a library, BBQ, TV, A.C., and the list goes on.
Cost per person (depends on the season and the location of your booking): If you book your stay in Varanasi, the dorm cost is around INR 600, and a private room around
INR 2000.
The dorm costs a little more in Delhi which is around INR 1000, and INR 3000 including Breakfast for a private room.
We hope that our list of the top 10 Backpackers hostels will help you in selecting the best one while you plan a trip or go on a spontaneous one. All the hostels mentioned above are budget-friendly and comfortable, even students can avail the one that suits them best.
Also Read: Top 20 Cheapest Places To Visit In India – Budget Travel 2022
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Detention of WNBA’s Griner in Moscow extended for 1 month
MOSCOW (AP) — The lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner said Friday her pre-trial detention in Russia has been extended by one month.
Alexander Boykov told The Associated Press he believed the relatively short extension of the detention indicated the case would come to trial soon. She has been in detention for nearly three months.
She appeared for the brief hearing handcuffed, her dreadlocks covered in a red hoodie and her face held low.
Boykov said “We did not receive any complaints about the detention conditions from our client.”
Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was detained at a Moscow airport after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage, which could carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
The Biden administration says Griner, 31, is being wrongfully detained. The WNBA and U.S. officials have worked toward her release, without visible progress.
The Russians have described Griner’s case as a criminal offense without making any political associations.
But it comes amid Moscow’s war in Ukraine that has brought U.S.-Russian relations to the lowest level since the Cold War.
Despite the strain, Russia and the United States carried out an unexpected prisoner exchange last month — trading ex-marine Trevor Reed for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal sentence for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. While the U.S. does not typically embrace such exchanges, it made the deal in part because Yaroshenko had already served a long portion of his prison sentence.
The Russians may consider Griner a potential part of another such exchange.
The State Department last week said it now regards Griner as wrongfully detained, a change in classification that suggests the U.S. government will be more active in trying to secure her release even while the legal case plays out. The status change places her case under the purview of the department’s Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, which is responsible for negotiating for the release of hostages and Americans considered wrongfully detained.
Also working on the case now is a center led by Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who helped the release of multiple hostages and detainees, including Reed.
It’s not entirely clear why the U.S. government, which for weeks had been more circumspect in its approach, reclassified Griner as a wrongful detainee. But under federal law, there are a number of factors that go into such a characterization, including if the detention is based on being an American or if the detainee has been denied due process
U.S. State Dept. spokesman Ned Price has confirmed that U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan had a meeting with Russian counterparts but would not say whether Griner was discussed or talk any further about her case.
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A cheating headteacher covered up 28,000 pupil absences in a five-year “web of deceit”, a tribunal has heard.
Peter Spencer, 52, ordered staff to log pupils at Queen Elizabeth High School in Carmarthen, South Wales, as present when they were missing from classes.
The distortion of data came after an inspection called for improved attendance at the 1,500-pupil school. More than 28,000 absences were altered between 2014 and 2019 before a whistleblower raised the alarm, an Education Workforce Council tribunal heard.
Mr Spencer, who had been headteacher for nine years, left the school two years ago and has now been struck off from the profession.
Luke Lambourne, presenting the case at the tribunal, described the cover-up as a “web of deceit” which finally unravelled when a staff member informed school governors of the practice in autumn 2018.
‘Staff under pressure to maintain deception’
He said that staff members were drawn into falsifying the records because of misguided loyalty and feeling “under pressure” to maintain the deception.
One senior staff member said he was among those Mr Spencer asked to replace codes “n” (“not present”) and “i” (“ill”) with a symbol showing that the pupils were present in class. He said he felt “anxious the whole time” while making the amendments.
Mr Spencer, who now works as the head of an international school in Qatar, did not attend the hearing.
In a written statement, he denied ever instructing staff to alter attendance data. He claimed that a member of staff had changed the figures and that he had failed to report it because he knew the pressure the school was under to perform well.
“I have never instructed any employee to falsely inflate attendance data,” his statement read. “I accept fully that being aware of malpractice and, in not acting, I condoned the malpractice.”
‘Data manipulation was a widespread practice’
Mr Spencer added that schools were under so much pressure to achieve good attendance figures that he heard data manipulation was a widespread practice.
However, the tribunal found that he committed unacceptable professional conduct and he was struck off the teaching register in Wales.
The panel said it was a “protracted, serious instance of misconduct over many years” and Mr Spencer’s “extent of regret and remorse is limited”.
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Junos 2022: Classical pianist Jan Lisiecki continues his exploration of Chopin and 'Night Music'
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In a 2021 profile of Calgary classical pianist Jan Lisiecki in the New York Times, the young musician’s discography is described by writer J.S. Marcus as focusing on the work of Frederic Chopin.
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Annik LaFarge, author of the book Chasing Chopin, is also quoted for the piece, calling Lisiecki’s “unhistrionic” style “extremely Chopinesque.”
On the line from Bavaria with Postmedia, the 27-year-old musician is certainly diplomatic when asked about his growing association with the composer, suggesting “if the New York Times says it, it’s an honour.”
But, like many young artists, Lisiecki also seems a bit wary about being too narrowly defined. The world of classical music, after all, is pretty wide and varied and the pianist has been a part of it for more than a decade now.
“It’s not a label I would necessarily want to embrace wholeheartedly,” Lisiecki says. “Because, as much as I love Chopin music and I’m sure I’ll be reaching for it for the rest of my career, I find that I have my own voice in other composers’ works as well and I’m more than happy to express it. I appreciate that people appreciate me for my Chopin. But I also know that I feel comfortable playing other composers and I think audiences are also interested to hear what my take is on them.”
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The assertion is understandable. Lisiecki’s discography begins with 2009’s Chopin: Piano Concertos and also includes 2014’s Chopin: Etudes, 2016’s Chopin: Works for Piano and Orchestra and 2021’s Chopin: Nocturnes, which has earned the pianist his sixth Juno nomination. But he has also released albums dedicated to the work of Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Mozart.
Lisiecki’s discomfort with being seen as narrowly focused on Chopin seems to reflect a desire to have tighter control of his image and career as his profile continues to rise. The Canadian online version of the New York Times came with the unfortunate headline referring to him as “Piano’s Doogie Howser.” It’s a somewhat outdated reference to the musician as a child prodigy, a term Lisiecki has been bristling against ever since he was an actual child prodigy in Calgary. The print version ran under the more agreeable headline “Jan Lisiecki Comes of Age with Chopin.” His coming-of-age has come with a few lessons that have proven valuable, particularly as he has become increasingly in demand.
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“The thing you learn early on is what to decline, what to say no to,” he says. “You never really have the right answer because I like playing in the large, famous concert halls as well as playing for smaller audiences. When you play in say Saskatoon or Regina or Winnipeg, the audiences are more appreciative than they are in a large centre where they have access to live events, live music and a choice of different events every night. I try to fit in a balance of both.”
At the time of this interview, Lisiecki was in the midst of a busy touring schedule that will have him travelling from Canada to the U.S., Europe, South Korea, Brazil, Monaco and back to Europe again. He is booked straight into August and likely beyond. The concerts are a mix of intimate solo recitals – on the day of this interview, organizers were attempting to add more capacity by putting chairs on the stage for an otherwise sold-out show in Neumarkt, Germany – and performances with orchestras. Many of the solo recitals will presumably focus on the Nocturnes record. But he performed Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at Roy Thomson Hall with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in April and was scheduled to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Dresdner Festspielorchester at the Dresden Music Festival earlier this week.
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In the past few years, Lisiecki and his team have attempted to make things easier by booking in clusters, rather than alternating from solo recitals to full orchestral concerts from night to night.
“It’s much easier now than it was five years ago,” he says. “Five years ago there was no way I could do that because you were thankful for every opportunity and, in fact, I still am. But it’s just easier in that sense to plan and you also learn what works for you and what doesn’t. In my case, I like having my concerts put together in thematic groups.”
Lisiecki recorded Chopin: Nocturnes in October of 2020 at the Meistersaal, a historic concert hall in Berlin. Marcus described the album as an “intimate, meditative reinvention from Lisiecki” of material that was written throughout Chopin’s career as a composer.
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Earlier this year, Lisiecki released the digital-only album, Night Music, which was captured live at his Wurzburg recital in 2018 and focuses on compositions from Mozart, Ravel and Schumann, among others. While it was recorded four years ago, promotional material from his label suggests it’s a natural continuation of the pianist’s Chopin exploration of the “universe of night music.” It’s a concept that has caught his imagination. He says he always pictures his favourite composers working by candlelight.
“Nocturnes have the emotional strength to them and they connect really closely to your soul and your own ideas of what you want to portray in that music,” he says. “While Night Music in the broader program, I was exploring what night music means. There was Gaspard de la Nuit, so also in the title you have the night, which is Ravel’s cryptic tone poems that were set to actual poems. It’s amazing that you have this completely different aspect of the night. There’s, of course, still the foreboding, there’s still the pain, the suffering and deep emotions. But it also has the little unpleasantness that you have of the night. It’s more of a sleepless night than one that is in a calm mental state.”
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