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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to fly to Nepal on Buddh Purnima on Monday to pay a visit to Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha in Nepal, nearly seven months after inaugurating the Kushinagar airport in October last year.
According to reports, the PM will land at the newly constructed Kushinagar airport from where he would visit a Buddha temple, situated around 4km away, and later leave for Nepal in a chopper. Kushinagar is a Buddhist pilgrimage spot.
The BJP has been focusing heavily on reinvigorating India’s global and pan-Asia ties with Buddhism, even as the party has worked to consolidate the support of the Dalit community, who often embrace the religion. In 1956, Dr BR Ambedkar, the most revered Dalit icon, turned to Buddhism. The religion’s association with a Dalit icon, who is regarded as the foremost leader who fought for their rights and had them enshrined in the Indian Constitution, is bound to have its own social and political weight.
“Ambedkar reinvigorated Buddhism in India, and many Buddhists in India give gratitude to him for improving their lives," Ajahin Prasheel Ratana Gautam, a distinguished Buddhist monk once told the Indian Express.
The political grapevine is also alight with the possibility that Modi’s visit could help the BJP reconnect with Dalits, who make up the Bahujan Samaj Party’s core voters (BSP).
BSP’s Downfall
In the recently held Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) displayed its most dismal performance in the state. Mayawati had claimed the party would form an ‘iron clad’ government in UP, and while the declaration seemed far-fetched to most at the time, the party’s performance has proved it downright contradictory.
Mayawati has served four separate terms as the Chief Minister of UP. But now, according to political commentators, her party may be heading towards oblivion. And other parties have been quick to jump on the bandwagon, including the Congress, which is hoping to revive its Dalit-Muslim-Brahmin formula of the 80s.
As Even Jatavs Become Estranged, BJP Pushes Ahead
Mayawati’s sub-caste, the Jatavs, have a 14% share of the scheduled caste population. The BSP has received only 12.9% of the vote, indicating that even Jatavs may have abandoned the party. The BSP could win only one seat in the state. In 2017, the BSP received 22.2% of the vote and 19 seats. This indicates that the party has lost nearly 10% of its vote share.
In the background of this political situation, the BJP is steaming ahead with its focus on Buddhism.
PM Modi is scheduled to visit Lumbini (Nepal) on May 16, 2022 which is Lord Buddha’s birthplace recognised as a UNESCO world heritage site. The PM is expected to pay his reverence at the Mayadevi temple, which marks the birthplace of the Lord Buddha, born more than 2,600 years ago. Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is also expected to join PM Modi to mark the occasion of Buddha Purnima.
This would be the second Summit level interaction between the two Prime Ministers in less than two months after PM Deuba travelled to India for a bilateral visit in April 2022. This would also mark PM Modi’s first visit to Nepal since he was re-elected in 2019. In his previous term, he visited Nepal on four occasions, including twice in 2014 and twice in 2018. In May 2018, PM Modi had undertaken similar religious and cultural visits when he visited Janakpur and Muktinath.
And also, an upcoming museum dedicated to the Buddha has been envisaged in the national capital as part of the ongoing Central Vista Project.
In October 2016, the ‘5th International Buddhist Conclave’ was held in Varanasi, Hindu-Buddhist Initiative on Conflict Avoidance in Bodh Gaya. India also organised international conferences that facilitated interaction between members across sectarian and national boundaries such as ‘Buddhism in the 21st Century’ conference at Rajgir in 2017.
The opening of the Nalanda University is another example of India’s commitment to the cause.
The China Connect
During Nepal’s PM visit to India in April 2022, PM Narendra Modi and Sher Bahadur Deuba inaugurated passenger rail services between Jaynagar in India and Kurtha in Nepal. This rail link will be the first broad gauge passenger rail service in Nepal. The establishment of the Jayanagar-Kurtha rail line is also a part of priority to trade and cross-border connectivity initiatives for a smooth, hassle-free exchange of people between the two countries.
The rail link between the two neighbouring countries is part of an overall strategy for improved border management, planned and integrated development of border areas and infrastructure in a selective and phased manner.
Another important issue for Nepal is air connectivity. Nepal requested India to provide three additional entry routes from Mahendranagar, Nepalgunj and Janakpur,and also finalised another agreement on near-border operation for the Gautam Buddha International Airport, Bhairahawa, Nepal.
The airport, located less than 10 kilometres from the Indo-Nepali border, will start operations from May 20, 2022. The use of Indian RuPay card in Nepal was jointly launched by India and Nepal last month. This would open new vista for cooperation in financial connectivity, and is expected to facilitate bilateral tourist flows as well as further strengthen people-to-people linkages between India and Himalayan state.
Interestingly, China has proposed to link Lumbini by road and railway to Tibetan town of Kyirong on the Chinese-Nepali border, which would effectively connect it to the BRI network. China’s Buddhist soft power initiative has focused on strengthening its relationship with other Buddhist countries, which of course includes those involved in BRI negotiations, such as Sri Lanka also. Actually, the use of Buddhism to promote the BRI programme was explicitly listed on the agenda at the 2018 World Buddhist Forum, which China hosts every three years.
Nepalese PM Deuba’s visit to India and Indian PM Modi’s visit to Nepal would produce mixed results but at the least, it has resumed high-level political engagement between the two countries. It has also brought normalcy to Nepal’s geo-strategic debate by bringing India back into the fold. It gives a strong message that India is not only promoting the spiritualism and Buddhism in its own land but also in Nepal, a report by IANS said.
With inputs from IANS
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What day do I need to vote on?
Election day is on Saturday, May 21, 2022.
What is this election?
A federal election, which is held every three years so Australians can choose members of parliament to represent their views and interests in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Who has to vote?
All Australian citizens aged 18 years and over are required to enrol and vote in federal elections.
What do I need to know about voting in the Upper Hunter?
All residents enrolled to vote will head to the polls on Saturday, May 21 but not everyone will be voting for the same candidates.
The Muswellbrook and Singleton Local Government Areas (LGA) are located within the seat of Hunter while the Upper Hunter LGA is located in the seat of New England.
You can check which division you live in at aec.gov.au/electorate.
About the division of Hunter
The Hunter electorate covers an area of 10,640 square kilometres with the current electoral boundary first put in place for the 2016 election. Hunter extends from the Muswellbrook and Singleton LGAs in the north and parts of the Cessnock and Lake Macquarie LGAs in the south.
The main towns include Broke, Cessnock, Denman, Mulbring, Muswellbrook, Paxton, Putty, Singleton, Widden and Wyee.
The electorate has been represented by Labor's Joel Fitzgibbon since 1996, but the 2022 election will see voters in the Hunter elect a new representative following Mr Fitzgibbon's decision to retire.
The House of Representatives candidates for the division of Hunter in order of how they will appear on the ballot are:
- Janet Murray - The Greens NSW
- Dan Repacholi - Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)
- Victoria Davies - Animal Justice Party
- Stuart Bonds - Independent
- Cathy Townsend - Informed Medical Options Party
- Geoff Passfield - United Australia Party
- James Thomson - National Party of Australia (NSW)
- Dale McNamara - Pauline Hanson's One Nation
- Scott Fulvio Laruffa - Independent
For more information on candidates standing for Hunter go to aec.gov.au/election/candidates.
About the division of New England
The electorate covers an area of 66,394 square kilometres. It extends from the Queensland border in the north to Merriwa, Aberdeen and Scone in the south.
The main towns include Aberdeen, Armidale, Ashford, Barraba, Bingara, Glen Innes, Guyra, Inverell, Manilla, Merriwa, Murrurundi, Nundle, Quirindi, Satur, Scone, Tamworth, Tenterfield, Tingha, Urbenville and Walcha.
The electorate has been represented by Deputy Prime Minister and leader of The Nationals Barnaby Joyce since 2013.
The House of Representatives candidates for the division of New England in order of how they will appear on the ballot are:
- Pavlo Samios - Liberal Democratic Party
- Cindy Anne Duncan - United Australia Party
- Natasha Ledger - Independent
- Barnaby Joyce - National Party of Australia (NSW)
- Matt Sharpham - Independent
- Richard Thomas - Pauline Hanson's One Nation
- Carol Sparks - The Greens NSW
- Laura Hughes - Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)
For more information on candidates standing for New England go to aec.gov.au/election/candidates.
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Where do I vote on May 21?
You can vote at any polling place in your state or territory on election day. Polling places are open from 8am to 6pm.
Polling places are usually located at local schools, churches and community halls, or public buildings. To find a polling place go to aec.gov.au/where.
If you have a mobility restriction or disability, or care for someone who does, you can check the accessibility details of polling places at aec.gov.au/where. For blind or low vision voting options, visit aec.gov.au/assistance or call 13 23 26.
What if I'm in another state or territory on election day?
If are not in the state in which you live on election day you can vote at a designated interstate voting centre or consider voting early.
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What if I can't make it to a polling place on election day?
If you can't make it to a polling place in NSW on election day, you may be eligible to vote early in person or by post.
How to vote early in person
If you are eligible, you can vote before election day. Early voting centres open from Monday, May 9, 2022.
In the Muswellbrook and Singleton LGAs, early voting centres will open on Monday at the Stan Thiess Memorial Centre in Muswellbrook (173 Hill St) and the Singleton Youth Venue (Cnr Pitt & Bathurst St).
There are no early voting centres available in the Upper Hunter LGA, with the closest early voting centres located in Muswellbrook (Stan Thiess Memorial Centre) and Tamworth (515 Peel St).
Opening dates and times of the early voting centres vary. Visit aec.gov.au/where to check the details for each centre. For more information on early voting and to check if you're eligible to vote early visit aec.gov.au/early or call 13 23 26.
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How to vote early by post
Postal voting is available to eligible voters. Check your eligibility and apply online at aec.gov.au/pva. Complete your application for a postal vote so it reaches the AEC by no later than 6pm on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Phone 13 23 26 if you don't have online access and want to apply for a postal vote.
What if I get COVID and can't vote on May 21?
Legislation was passed in early 2022 to allow for COVID-affected voters to cast a telephone vote. Telephone voting for people with COVID-19 will be an emergency measure for the final three voting days only (May 19, 20 and 21). Voters with COVID will register and be issued with a unique code they use to cast their vote. They can then call the AEC, use the code to identify themselves and tell the official how they wish to vote.
I'm at the polling place, now what?
When you enter the polling place you will need to first speak with a voting official and have your name checked off the electoral roll. Voting officials are easy to spot on election day.
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The voting official will ask you for your full name and address, and if you've already voted before in the federal election.
You will be given your two ballot papers.
At the voting booth, carefully read the instructions on your ballot papers or ask a voting official for help.
Complete your ballot papers.
Fold your ballot papers and place them in the ballot boxes. There will be two clearly labelled boxes at the exit of the polling booth, one for the House of Representatives ballot paper and another for the Senate ballot paper. If you are unsure about which box to place your ballot paper, there will be election staff available to ask.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, once you've cast your ballot take part in the great Aussie election tradition of grabbing a sausage sanga on your way out of the voting centre (if there's a barbecue fired up). Most schools that are open for voting on election day will have a barbecue running, the canteen open or a cake stall running, with funds raised supporting that school's P&C or community groups.
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COVID-19 safety measures at polling places
There may be a limit to the number of voters inside a polling place at any one time.
You may be asked to queue outside.
Keep 1.5 metres from others outside and inside. In the polling place, follow the floor markers as a guide.
Comply with the mask requirements in your area.
Use the hand sanitiser provided.
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Voting booths and pencils will be regularly cleaned.
Bring your own pen or pencil if you prefer, but don't leave it behind.
Who do I vote for?
Who you vote for is your decision. Outside a polling place, candidate representatives may offer to give you how to vote cards, suggesting you vote in a particular way. You do not have to accept or follow how to vote cards.
How do I make my vote count?
At the polling booth you will be given two ballot papers - a small green one for the House of Representatives and a large white one for the Senate.
On the green ballot paper, you are voting for a representative of your local area or electorate in the House of Representatives. On this paper, the voter must number every box in order of their choice of candidate.
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On the white ballot paper, you are voting for representatives from NSW in the Senate. With this paper, there are two ways to vote: above the line or below the line.
If you choose to vote above the line, you need to number at least six boxes in order of your preference of party or group. Putting a number one in the box next to the party or group that is your first choice, a number two next to your second choice and so on.
If you vote below the line, you need to number at least 12 boxes. While similar to voting above the line, when voting below the line you place a number next to the box of the individual candidates. Vote number one for your top preferred candidate, a number two next to your second choice and so on until you reach 12. You can continue to place number in order of your choice in as many boxes below the line as you would like.
For more information on voting go to aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote.
You can also read the AEC's official guide to the 2022 federal election.
What if I mess up on my ballot paper?
Don't worry. If you make a mistake, simply ask for another ballot paper and start again.
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What's the difference between the House of Reps and the Senate?
House of Representatives
Australia is divided into areas called electoral divisions. Voters in each electoral division cast a vote to elect one person (a Member of Parliament or MP for short) to represent them in the House of Representatives, known as the lower house.
In the House:
- Members represent the views of Australians and discuss matters of national and international importance.
- National laws are made and changed by debating and voting on bills (proposed laws). A bill must be agreed to in identical form in the House and the Senate, and given Royal Assent by the Governor-General. It then becomes a law.
- The work of the government is closely scrutinised, especially in Question Time and through committees.
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The Senate
Voters in each state and territory elect Senators to represent them in the Senate, known as the upper house. Each state or territory votes for the Senate as one electorate. In NSW, all voters will be voting for the same NSW Senate candidates.
Twelve Senators are chosen for each State and two Senators are elected for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
The functions of the Senate are to represent the states equally and to review the proposals and decisions of the House of Representatives and the executive government.
The Australian Constitution provides the Senate with virtually the same power to legislate as the House of Representatives. The Senate has also developed a vigorous committee system, which scrutinises legislation and the decision-making processes of the government.
For a list of NSW's Senate candidates go to aec.gov.au/election/candidates.
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A husband and wife are arguing about whether or not to raise their baby vegetarian.
The mum wants to give her tot a plant-based diet as she doesn't eat meat – but her partner disagrees.
So the stressed woman took to Mumsnet's Am I Being Unreasonable forum to ask for advice on the matter.
She wrote: "I am pregnant and vegetarian.
"We're expecting a little girl in July and I'd like to bring her up as a vegetarian, as I don't feel it's fair to make her eat animals until she's old enough to decide she is happy to...
"My husband, on the other hand, thinks she should be made to eat meat until she's old enough to decide."
The mum, who cooks for the family, asked: "Who is being unreasonable here?"
And her post certainly divided opinion – with commenters split on the matter.
One wrote: "I would have to side with your husband here. The main reason it will be easier to ensure she's getting all her essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals etc by eating a variety of foods including meat and fish."
And another agreed: "Indeed, both my kids would struggle to get enough protein without meat and they are not that fussy compared to some kids.
"Personally, I think a balanced, healthy diet is the top priority."
But a third disagreed, noting: "If he isn't making meals then he can't have a say."
Others told the mum that there was no "right" or "wrong" approach to their baby's diet.
One said: "Neither of you are being unreasonable."
And another agreed: "You both have a say in this, neither is 'right' or 'wrong'.
"I'd say the fairest compromise is that if you buy her/make her a meal, it will be veggie, and if he buys her/makes her a meal, it can be veggie/carni.
"At some point she will show a preference."
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While at least 27 people died in the massive fire that broke out in the four-storey building in Delhi’s Mundka, over two dozen people are missing and their relatives are enveloped in despair and uncertainty.
An atmosphere of grief pervaded the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital where the injured, as well as the dead bodies, were taken after the incident on Friday evening.
Hundreds of relatives of those who were caught in the fire are waiting outside the hospital since early on Saturday morning and yet to get any details of their kin
The charred remains also made identification difficult. Meanwhile, the administration is also clueless about the whereabouts of those missing since the tragedy.
Talking to IANS, Sameer Sharma, DCP Outer said: “We rescued around 50 people yesterday. The identification process of the victims has started. So far, only five bodies have been identified.”
He also added that 12 injured persons have been discharged.
“We will initiate the DNA process for those dead bodies which cannot be presently identified. For this, an FSL team will try to complete the identification process within a short span of time,” DCP Sharma added.
While an injured witness told IANS that a meeting was going on with the factory owner when the fire broke out.
She said that since everyone was inside the meeting room, they came to know about the blaze only later.
When they started running from the building, the exit was closed, the witness said, adding that she jumped from the building to save herself.
Meanwhile, BJP MP Hans Raj Hans also visited the hospital on Saturday and said that “we should learn from this tragedy to avoid future incidents”.
He also slammed the authorities for not properly checking the fire licenses.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who also visited the site, said that the “guilty won’t be spared” and has ordered a magisterial enquiry into the incident.
He said that the kin of the deceased will be provided an ex-gratia relief of Rs 10 lakh each, while the injured will be given Rs 50,000 per person by the Delhi government.
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KalVista (KALV) Climbs 4.31% on May 13
Equities Staff Follow |KalVista Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: KALV) shares have risen 4.31%, or $0.41 per share, as on 12:00:00 est today. Since opening the day at $9.71, 124,107 shares of KalVista exchanged hands and the stock has ranged between $9.92 and $9.54.
Already this year the company has a YTD change of 28.12%.
KalVista is set to release earnings on 2022-07-12.
For technical charts, analysis, and more on KalVista visit the company profile.
About KalVista Pharmaceuticals Inc
KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule protease inhibitors for diseases with significant unmet need. KalVista has developed a proprietary portfolio of novel, small molecule plasma kallikrein inhibitors initially targeting hereditary angioedema (HAE) and diabetic macular edema (DME). KalVista is developing KVD900 as an oral on-demand therapy for acute HAE attacks, which completed a Phase 2 efficacy trial in February 2021, demonstrating statistical and clinical significance across all endpoints. KVD824 is in development for prophylactic treatment of HAE with a Phase 2 clinical trial expected to initiate in the second quarter of 2021. In addition, KalVista's oral Factor XIIa inhibitor program represents a new generation of therapies that may further improve the treatment of HAE for patients. In DME, an intravitreally administered plasma kallikrein inhibitor, called KVD001, has completed a Phase 2 clinical trial.
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A smartphone app designed by high schoolers is now showing users the way to amenities at all 90 park and recreation facilities in Pitt County.
The Parks and Facilities of Pitt County app is the first of its kind in the region, Pitt County senior planner Eli Johnson said Friday during a launch celebrating the tech and nine Pitt County Early College High School students who brought it online.
It places a catalog of easily updatable information at users’ fingertips, including interactive maps and searches for amenities like playgrounds, trails, picnic areas and athletic facilities. It also allows users to contact facilities, which include county, state and municipal properties and many county schools, whose grounds often double as parks on the weekend, in the summer and after class.
To help people with something like parks using today’s technology was a great project, said Taileah Barlow, one of the students who started working on the app back in 2018.
Users can pull it up on their phone and find a park with a feature like a basketball court quickly by going to the amenities search, said Barlow, who since graduated and is now a lance corporal in the U.S. Marines.
“I didn’t even know we had all these parks and places,” she said. “Having them all in one spot to navigate, the resources Pitt County has to offer are going to be utilized a lot more.”
Johnson said the app’s interface is easy to use, and the fact that it can redirect users to pages for all municipal parks departments in the county allows users to dig a little deeper if they want.
The app is one of only a couple in the state, with Guilford County having outsourced a similar application in 2019. For their design, leaders in Pitt County wanted to look a little closer to home.
A grant-funded proposal was shopped to Pitt County Schools in 2018 and eventually brought to the attention of Laurel Currie, a STEM teacher at the early college, while she taught at a summer camp.
“I said I could bring it up to our Girls Who Code club and see if that was a project they’d be interested in doing,” Currie said. “Ended up taking us about a year and a half to complete it. Literally, we were going to launch it early 2020 and, well, (the COVID pandemic) is kind of what happened.”
Currie attended Friday’s event along with Barlow, who was on leave from her station in Okinawa, and Amyah Jones, now a student at East Carolina University. Seven others in the coding club were unable to attend but were recognized along with Barlow and Jones.
Wynn Whittington, Pitt County Schools Early College High School Principal, said that capitalizing on student talent was a good move by the county. He said that students are required to attain 100 volunteer hours at the school and that opportunities like working on the app are tangible and part of a student’s lasting legacy.
Alice Keene, special projects coordinator for Pitt County Community Schools and Recreation, was impressed at the achievements of the app’s designers and the way partnerships are bringing progress to the county.
“We talk about a win-win,” Keene told Barlow prior to the ceremony. “This is one of the greatest win-wins.”
Pitt County Manager Janis Gallagher urged the attending leaders from schools, parks and public health to download the app. Currie had a chance to demonstrate how it works for the audience as well.
After her demonstration, she, Barlow, Jones, Whittington and the county staff who got the app ready for the launch were given special medals by Gallagher. Those who could not attend will be sent theirs in the mail.
The other seven students who worked on app are:
- Nyla Anderson, studying now at UNC Chapel Hill
- Tiona Bailey, studying at ECU
- Maria Borajas, graduating this year from the early college
- Andrea Beech, a student at ECU
- Cristal Gonzalez-Valdez, studying at N.C. State
- Angel Hower, studying at ECU
- Broderick Purvis, who joined the U.S. Marines
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A MAN IN his 30s has been jailed for six months after he grabbed a teenager by her underwear as she chatted with friends during her lunch break from school in Fermoy, Co Cork.
Kamil Szymczak, of Chapel Hill, Fermoy, Co Cork, appeared before the district court in the town yesterday where he entered a guilty plea in relation to the sexual assault of a teenager in Chapel Hill Fermoy on 7 February.
Inspector Tony Sullivan told the court that the girl was on her lunch break from school with two friends on Chapel Hill in Fermoy when Szymczak and another man came towards them.
The girls had their backs turned to the two men. The victim was shocked when the accused, who is 35 years old, grabbed the top of her thong underwear and pulled it.
A local male teenager witnessed the incident and confronted the two men. The girl and her friend went back to school and the injured party cried in the toilet before reporting what had had happened to her on her lunch break.
Defence solicitor Ciaran O’Keeffe said his client was under the influence of intoxicants at the time of the offence.
However, he stressed that he was in no way excusing the appalling and despicable behaviour of a grown man against a teenage girl.
O’Keeffe said that his client wanted to register his “deepest apology to the victim for any and all distress that he had caused her by his actions”.
“He accepts that it was a wrong and terrible thing to do to a young girl – indeed, that no matter what age the victim was, it was a reprehensible act.”
His said his client had attempted to address his alcohol and drug problems since going in to custody in relation to the offence on 8 February.
O’Keeffe said his client was aware of the gravity of the offence.
“It was a terrifying experience for a young girl sitting out with her friends at lunchtime in broad daylight in Fermoy.”
‘Shocking violation’
Inspector Sullivan said that Szymczak had a total of 26 previous convictions for possession of drugs, burglary, assault and criminal damage. He indicated that the accused had no previous convictions offences for sexual offences.
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Judge Joanne Carroll read the teenage girl’s victim impact statement, having risen for 15 minutes to give the document serious consideration.
“This was a sexual assault on a young schoolgirl out with her friends at lunch time – - it was a shocking violation of her person – the defendant by his action has stolen her right to be carefree and in doing so, he has wronged he most profoundly,” she said.
Sullivan said that Szymczak was on bail at the time of the offence on an assault charge of which he had been convicted and sentenced to 15 months earlier this week at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
Taking the guilty plea into consideration, Judge Carroll said the appropriate sentence was one of six months. The Polish national has served three months in custody and the remaining three months will run consecutive to the 15 month sentence imposed on him this week at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
Judge Carroll also ordered that Szymczak’s name be placed on the Sex Offenders Register for a period of 10 years, emphasising that he had “done a shocking wrong to a young, innocent girl”. | https://www.thejournal.ie/sexual-assault-teenage-girl-fermoy-cork-5764022-May2022/ | 2022-05-14T10:54:17Z | https://www.thejournal.ie/sexual-assault-teenage-girl-fermoy-cork-5764022-May2022/ | false | 10 |
Last Sunday, as pro-choice supporters reacted to the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that will likely overturn Roe v. Wade, a series of videos shot in lower Manhattan went viral. In one, a group of young men stood before an arched wooden doorway at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, reciting the Rosary while protesters demonstrated outside the church gates. In their center was a young man wearing an America First hat and an FDNY fleece, closing his eyes as he prayed. By that afternoon, the video had been shared on social media by far-right Republican Reps. Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who praised the men as "heroes" "defending their churches against the abortionist horde."
In two other videos taken the same day at the same location, the man in the America First hat heckled protesters, shouting from the church steps, "I am the people. The people have decided, the court has decided. You lose. You have no choice. Not your body, your choice. Your body is mine and you're having my baby."
The man was not, as the New York City Fire Department quickly pointed out, a firefighter. Nor was he merely a devout Catholic. Rather, he was a right-wing activist affiliated with white nationalist wunderkind Nick Fuentes' gleefully racist and antisemitic America First/"groyper" movement, which at its third annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) this February drew widespread condemnation for its glorification of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Fuentes' praise of Hitler and the call by one speaker, a state senator from Arizona, to build "gallows" to hang political enemies.
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On a popular groyper livestream show Sunday night, host and movement leader Dalton Clodfelter said he recognized the man in the videos and called him to join the show. As journalist and Western States Center senior fellow Nick Martin reported, Clodfelter said the man had made "a really bold statement today and it's going to be heard by a lot of people." The man claimed that many of the other praying men who assembled that afternoon were also groypers, described the demonstrators he'd been heckling as "demonic creatures" and "animals" and said that one Black protester should be "enslaved" or "shot." "Whatever church they're going to attack next," he pledged, "we'll be there, and we'll crush them."
None of that seemed to matter to the right-wing politicians and media who held the man up as a hero of the faith. Prominent among those was Church Militant, a far-right Catholic media outlet that promoted its Monday night coverage of the protest with a picture of the groyper's face. That was more than accident or coincidence — Church Militant and the groypers are increasingly collaborating to mobilize their respective audiences to confront what both are calling "proabortionist demons" at pro-choice rallies across the country, and, more generally, to grow their movements on both sides.
All of this is part of a broader pattern of increasing overlap between the far right, including overtly white nationalist movements and leaders, with the extreme right-wing fringe of the Roman Catholic Church. This emerging coalition includes such figures as Milo Yiannopoulos, who was effectively expelled from the MAGA movement in 2017 over his remarks about child sex abuse; Canadian white nationalist Faith Goldy, similarly disgraced after appearing on a podcast of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer; onetime "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander; and "Kent State gun girl" Kaitlin Bennett.
All four have rebranded themselves as "traditional" Catholics (or "trad-Caths," in internet parlance) and allied themselves with an existing network of far-right Catholics that includes Pizzagate provocateur-turned conservative commentator Jack Posobiec, Trump confidant and adviser Steve Bannon and groyper-guru Nick Fuentes himself.
In post-Trump America, white nationalists and Christian nationalists are putting their differences aside in a push to roll back abortion rights and enshrine white Christian dominance.
At one point, Resistance, the activist wing of Church Militant, began to mobilize supporters to counter-protest Planned Parenthood marches scheduled for this Saturday in Chicago, Nashville, Washington, San Antonio, Los Angeles and other cities. On Monday on the alternative social media site Telegram, Clodfelter called on groypers to attend these rallies. By Wednesday evening, more than five-dozen groypers on the site had eagerly signed on. As of Friday, however, Church Militant seemed to have abandoned this initiative, though Clodfelter still claims the groypers will rally in Nashville.
As we will discuss in part 2 of this investigation, at least one prominent staff member at Church Militant is also a groyper, and other employees of the right-wing Catholic group appear eager to build a united front between the two formations. In the larger political landscape of Trump-era America, this is more evidence that white nationalist and Christian nationalist movements, despite some meaningful differences on principle, strategy and tactics, are working side by side in the right's broader push to roll back abortion rights and enshrine white Christian dominance in America.
"We have to push the envelope"
From its beginnings, the groyper movement sought to straddle the gap between the white and Christian nationalist movements. In the later years of the Trump presidency, as the largely pagan or atheist alt-right fell into disarray, Fuentes sought to distinguish the mostly Gen-Z groyper movement from its disgraced predecessor by garnishing its core white nationalist principles with the flag and the cross.
"[The alt-right] was a racialist, atheist, post-American, revolutionary and transnational movement," Fuentes explained to followers in November 2019, attempting to chart a new direction for white nationalism in the U.S. "America First is a traditionalist, Christian, conservative, reformist, American nationalist Movement." While other white nationalists had given up hope of transforming the conservative establishment, the groypers, Fuentes argued, would redouble their efforts to influence the mainstream Right. This project continues today. "We have to push the envelope," Fuentes told followers in May 2021. "We are the right-wing flank of the Republican Party…we have got to be on the Right, dragging these people kicking and screaming into the future, into the right wing, into a truly reactionary party."
"We are the right-wing flank of the Republican Party," said Nick Fuentes last year. "We have got to drag ... these people kicking and screaming into the future ... into a truly reactionary party."
In today's groyper movement, classic white nationalist themes of "white genocide," white identity politics and conspiratorial antisemitism blend seamlessly with fervent appeals to Christian piety, slogans like "Christ is King" and militant calls to enshrine Christian fundamentalism as state policy. Most groypers are young and enthusiastic adherents of Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Latter-day Saints or other Christian faith traditions, and many are first drawn into the movement through its ubiquitous "trad" subculture — a largely online aesthetic celebrating a rejection of modernity and embrace of patriarchal, anti-LGBTQ values — and become "red-pilled" on the tenets of white nationalism along the way.
For the groypers, hard-edged, traditionalist opposition to LGBTQ rights, abortion and feminism is rooted in uncompromising misogyny and male supremacy, a worldview in which straight, white, Christian Gen-Z men are valorized as the rightful heirs to and guardians of the American nation. Today, the groypers' strategic blend of white and Christian nationalism has arrived right on time, helping the movement find natural allies among hard-right Christian groups — particularly Catholic right groups like Church Militant — and, from there, to build new pathways towards mainstream acceptance.
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In a parallel project, Church Militant also seeks to transform mainstream Catholicism from its rightward flank. Just two weeks ago, Church Militant made national news for its hourlong interview with Rep. Greene, in which the Georgia congresswoman suggested that Satan is controlling the Catholic Church (mostly because of Catholic support for refugees at the U.S. southern border). While it might seem odd for a Catholic media site to celebrate such a charge coming from an evangelical Protestant — Church Militant titled the first segment of its weeklong promotion of the interview "Marjorie for Pope" — the outlet has long waged a vitriolic campaign against the church's current hierarchy, which it derides as both milquetoast and liberal and an "international crime syndicate" run by a "lavender mafia." By comparison, Church Militant presents itself as the home of authentically orthodox Catholicism (even as the Archdiocese of Detroit, where Church Militant is headquartered, compelled the outlet more than a decade ago to stop using "Catholic" in its name and has repeatedly denounced the group).
Last November, the outlet hosted a noisy, daylong rally on the Baltimore waterfront to protest the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops next door. Church Militant's emcee for the event, fallen "alt-lite" star turned groyper leader Yiannopoulos — who joined Church Militant as a regular contributor in 2021 after declaring himself "ex-gay" — directed the roughly 1,200-person audience to chant "Lock them up" at the bishops gathered nearby. It was he, in fact, who reportedly arranged for Marjorie Taylor Greene to speak at Fuentes' AFPAC III in February.
Michelle Malkin told a Church Militant rally that the Catholic bishops had the goal of "fundamentally transforming the United States of America," directly echoing the "great replacement" conspiracy theory.
Another groyper leader speaking at Church Militant's Baltimore rally was anti-immigrant pundit Michelle Malkin. The day after speaking at the white nationalist American Renaissance conference, Malkin told the Church Militant crowd that USCCB aid to immigrants and refugees had the "ultimate goal of fundamentally transforming the United States of America and destroying the historic American nation" — white nationalist language that echoes the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, according to which whites in the U.S. are being "replaced" by non-white immigration.
Many of Church Militant's targets are within the Catholic Church itself. It has run articles "exposing" bishops as registered Democrats; called the first Black cardinal in the American church "African Queen"; demanded that Pope Francis resign; and vowed to use its claimed network of hundreds of priests and church staff, as well as thousands of lay activists, to dig up dirt on any bishops who "go after a good priest."
But much of the site's writing and advocacy is more directly political, as when it compared the Black Lives Matter movement to fascism, attacked the Catholic bishops' support for immigrants as a numbers game meant to "shore up" a "shrinking, shriveling church," and, in 2020, declared that "every Democratic leader in the country" should be "immediately arrested and imprisoned" for their role in pandemic public health restrictions. Church Militant was such an avid supporter of Trump's reelection campaign that it repeatedly warned readers that if Joe Biden were elected, Catholics would be "identified, hunted down, declared 'illegal,'" "gun[ned] down in the streets," or "herded onto the trains heading for the camps."
Church Militant is widely considered, even among many conservative Catholics, as so outrageous and aggressive that it is best ignored. But as Commonweal's Paul Moses reported, that outlet and the fellow-traveling LifeSiteNews together "garnered nearly 10 million visits to their alt-right 'news' websites during the last three months of 2020," helping to "spread bogus election-conspiracy claims to a huge Catholic audience." On Jan. 6, 2021, both Church Militant and its staff celebrated the riot at the U.S. Capitol, tweeting images of pro-Trump protesters carrying Catholic iconography and declaring the rioters "patriots."
The outlet has made common cause with many of the most controversial figures on the right, promoting interviews with Roger Stone, Joseph Flynn (brother of QAnon hero Michael Flynn), Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba and Steve Bannon, who was to be the keynote speaker at Church Militant's Baltimore rally, although he ultimately didn't attend — because he was arrested that week and charged with contempt of Congress. Beyond its Baltimore rally, the organization routinely platforms voices connected to the groyper movement as well. Multiple Church Militant articles have featured Torba and YouTube streamer John Doyle, who are both longstanding Fuentes allies and were featured as speaker and special guest, respectively, at AFPAC III. Church Militant founder Michael Voris recently appeared on a show hosted by white nationalist former Senate candidate Lauren Witzke, another prominent Fuentes ally.
Just a week after the Capitol insurrection, Voris interviewed another Fuentes acolyte, Jan. 6 planner Ali Alexander, about his then-recent conversion to Catholicism as well as their shared sense — in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot — that "dying an honorable death is an awesome thing." Alexander said he had come to realize there was a "war between the church and the people who have infiltrated the church," and Voris recounted attending several of Alexander's "Stop the Steal" protests in Michigan, including one at the state capitol in Lansing. That rally was led by Nick Fuentes and John Doyle and celebrated on Church Militant's Twitter account.
These points of overlap exemplify how the white nationalist movement and the Catholic right are both drawing together and influencing each other. But it is in the youth movement, and on the streets, where the most significant collaboration is now unfolding.
Church Militant founder Michael Voris says "establishment conservatism" has "betrayed the cause," and it's time to fight for "straight up, terrible, glorious Catholic truth."
"We are intensely trying to cultivate the youth," Voris said in a February 2022 video entitled "CM Youth Movement," claiming that 24 of Church Militant's 63 employees are under the age of 30. "As men, it's really important that we act," professed one young Church Militant staffer in the video. "We can't just sit by and watch our civilization and church collapse into a cesspool of degeneracy."
Voris took note when Fuentes held AFPAC III, praising the conference as "where all the youthful (read: future) energy is" in the "real struggle for the heart and soul of the [conservative] movement" — a struggle, Voris said, echoing Fuentes' framing, which "will dictate the future of the [Republican] party and, to a large extent, the nation."
In a subsequent video entitled "Young Conservative Catholics," Voris drove the point home. Bemoaning the "collapse of the American empire," Voris compared contemporary young Catholics to the "first young Romans" who, in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 4th century AD, "conquered the barbarians" and instituted a new Catholic civilization.
"Just like in the days of Rome, as it collapsed," Voris explained, "there was a generation of 20-somethings that beheld it, so too now, here, in the U.S…in the coming years but beginning now, what must be fought for is Catholic truth. Straight up, terrible, glorious Catholic truth." He went on to say that "establishment conservatism has betrayed the cause" and "it is the young more than anyone else who must understand the real war here." Fuentes and Yiannopoulos both shared Voris' video on Telegram, with a caption framing it as a direct appeal to the groypers: "'The cry "Christ is King" must ring loud across the land.' Church Militant's Michael Voris on America First."
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Market Mover: Nacco Industries (NC) Gains at Midday May 13
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of Nacco Industries Inc. - Class A (NYSE: NC) rose 7.53% Friday.
As of 12:03:16 est, Nacco Industries sits at $53.39 and has moved $3.76 so far today.
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Josh Donaldson tussles with ChiSox’ Tim Anderson over physical play at third
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CHICAGO — Josh Donaldson isn’t winning any popularity contests here. The Yankees third baseman and White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson got into it after a physical play at third base in the first inning of the Yankees’ 10-4 win at Guaranteed Rate Field.
In the Yankees’ defensively lacking first inning, Gerrit Cole had the bases loaded with one out. The White Sox shortstop was diving back to third base on a pickoff attempt when Donaldson’s tag was hard and pushed him off the bag. After he was ruled safe by third base umpire Chris Guccione, Anderson gave Donaldson a shove as he got to his feet. “We had an opportunity to get a pick right there and I thought we were gonna get him,” Donaldson said. “It’s a baseball play, going to make the tag, I leaned on him a little bit, not intentionally, but just going to make the tag. And obviously, he didn’t like that.
“Competitive guys, two guys competing, trying to make a play happen right there,” Donaldson continued. “We were unsuccessful, but ….Cole got us out of the inning.”
Guccione quickly got between them, but the benches cleared, bullpens emptied and there were minutes of standing around and staring angrily at each other.
“Guccione said you pushed him off the base and I said I think you’re right. I did. I think Tim might have said something. I don’t know,” Donaldson said. " But I thought Chris made the right call, if he did come off the base. I don’t know if he did or not. I didn’t know we were trying to make a play.”
The White Sox were unhappy with Donaldson last season and that may have played a factor.
“I don’t know. You’ll have to ask them about that. At the end of the day, I’m out there trying to make a baseball player trying to get it out for our team,” Donaldson said. “That’s all I can do.”
Last year Donaldson allegedly said “Hands not sticky anymore?” to Lucas Giolito after homering off of him. That was in regards to MLB’s crackdown on the illegal sticky substances that pitchers were using. Donaldson also called out Gerrit Cole.
“He’s a f---ing pest. That’s kind of a classless move. If you’re gonna talk sh—, talk sh— to my face,” Giolito said at the time.
HICKS BREAKS THROUGH
Aaron Hicks needed one. The Yankees centerfielder had been struggling going into Friday night’s game, on a 2-for-30 slide. In his first at-bat of the night, Hicks doubled and drove in a run in the Yankees 10-4 win over the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.
It was Hicks’ first extra base hit since April 12, when he homered. He finished the night 1-for-4.
Hicks found himself hitting in an unfamiliar spot. He was dropped to the No.9 spot in the lineup. Hicks had not been at the bottom of the starting lineup since 2017.
Aaron Boone said it wasn’t punishment or taking the pressure off the struggling outfielder. Instead, he sees his on-base percentage as something they can take advantage up while he finds his power. Hicks is among the best in the league in drawing walks with an 18% walk rate.
“The one thing Aaron’s doing really well right now still getting on base and to have that on-base presence on the nine hole is something that I value and can kind of serve as a double leadoff hitter,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said before Friday night’s game. . “He can get on base in front of our guys in the middle, Judge, Donaldson and Stanton tonight, so I just really value....while he’s kind of finding his way right now, still his ability to get on this has been there all season so far. I think that’s valuable.”
In his previous 10 games, the center fielder is 2-for-30 or .067/.263/.067. Overall, he’s hitting .215/.364/.253 with a .617 OPS, the second lowest of his career.
HELLO AGAIN
After just one start in the minors, Clarke Schmidt was back with the Yankees on Friday. The right hander took the spot left after the Yankees optioned spot starter Luis Gil back to Triple-A.
Schmidt began the season with the Yankees, made four appearances and pitched to a 1.08 ERA with eight strikeouts over 8.1 innings pitched. He was sent to Triple-A on May 1 when the rosters were cut down from 28 to 26. The plan at the time was to stretch him out as a starter.
He went 2.1 innings, allowing two earned runs on three hits. He walked two and struck out three in his only start.
“I mean, it’s tough. It’s a little bit of an environmental change. But yeah, it was good to get my pitch count up. That was my main goal going down there was to kind of build that pitch count up for a start,” Schmidt said. “And so I did like close to 50 (pitches) in my last start, so I mean, I would assume I’m available for around 70 or 80, whenever needed. So yeah, it’s very good to get that in.”
Gil gave the Yankees four innings Thursday night, but the Bombers had to send him back to replenish their bullpen with Schmidt.
“He’s got some length still built up, not the full starters build up, but he’s a guy that can give us some innings out in the bullpen,” Boone said. “He has thrown the ball really well for us when he was here and in his outings so he’s the guy that when we go to him, we have a lot of confidence in him and like where he’s at in the season.”
RORTVEDT UPDATE
Ben Rortvedt, the catcher the Yankees acquired from the Twins, has been shut down with a knee issue. Boone said they are trying to figure out what exactly it is.
“We’re kind of trying to get our heads wrapped around that and so he’s just caught the other day and then the knee was kind of catching on him a little bit,” Boone said. “So we’ve got to see.”Boone said he expects tests to be done soon.
Rortvedt just returned to the field after missing most of spring training with an oblique strain, which the Yankees knew he had when they acquired him in the deal that sent Gary Sanchez and Gio Urshela to the Twins and brought back Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Josh Donaldson and Rortvedt.
The Yankees were very high on the young catcher, who is considered an excellent receiver. When his recovery from the oblique injury turned out to be slow, the Yankees went out and traded for Jose Trevino. So Rortvedt obviously doesn’t factor into the big league picture at the moment.
“We’re obviously, knock on wood, in pretty good shape here right now with our catching situation,” Boone said. “But still, we’re really excited about him and what he brings to the table too. So we just got to get him right now and feel like at some point he’ll play a factor for us.” | https://sports.yahoo.com/aaron-hicks-moved-no-9-234600244.html?src=rss | 2022-05-14T10:57:58Z | https://sports.yahoo.com/aaron-hicks-moved-no-9-234600244.html?src=rss | true | 7 |
Gabrielle Union Slays In A Sparkly Fendi By Versace Dress
Gabrielle Union took to Instagram to show off her Fendi by Versace look and it’s everything!
In a short IG Reel, the actress showed off the iconic collaboration between the two fashion houses and we can’t get enough of the fashionable ensemble! The sparkly dress features Fendi’s signature F print throughout with Versace’s signature pattern on the dress’s straps. The dress also featured cut out slides that were only held together by a gold chain and was accented with pink ruffles at the dress’s hem.
The beauty paired the look with platform heels, dangly gold earrings, and a small gold clutch purse. As for her hair, the wife and mama rocked her locs in slicked back bun that was parted down the middle.
“When Mama Got Needs Too The sly pit check at the end is the chef’s kiss @versace #Fendace #FendiByVersace, ” the beauty captioned the fashionable video. Check it out below. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Gabrielle Union-Wade (@gabunion)
“I love this ,” Gabrielle’s friend and fellow actress Lala Anthony commented on the fashionable post while another one of the beauty’s millions of Instagram followers followed up with, “Excuse tf outta me ” and another wrote, “ Ok you understand the assignment .”
We’re loving this collab between the two fashion houses and loving the look on Gabrielle Union even more!
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Russia takes losses in failed river crossing, officials say
UPDATED: Fri., May 13, 2022
Ukrainian servicemen load bodies of Russian soldiers into a railway refrigerator carriage in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday. (Efrem Lukatsky)
KYIV, Ukraine – Russia suffered heavy losses when Ukrainian forces destroyed the pontoon bridge enemy troops were using to try to cross a river in the east, Ukrainian and British officials said in another sign of Moscow’s struggle to salvage a war gone awry.
Ukrainian authorities, meanwhile, opened the first war crimes trial of the conflict. The defendant, a captured Russian soldier, stands accused of shooting to death a 62-year-old civilian in the early days of the war.
The trial got underway as Russia’s offensive in the Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, seemed to turn increasingly into a grinding war of attrition.
Ukraine’s airborne command released photos and video of what it said was a damaged Russian pontoon bridge over the Siversky Donets River and several destroyed or damaged Russian military vehicles nearby.
Ukrainian news reports said troops thwarted an attempt by Russian forces to cross the river earlier this week, leaving dozens of tanks and other military vehicles damaged or abandoned. The command said its troops “drowned the Russian occupiers.”
Britain’s Defense Ministry said that Russia lost “significant armored maneuver elements” of at least one battalion tactical group as well as equipment used to deploy the makeshift floating bridge.
“Conducting river crossings in a contested environment is a highly risky maneuver and speaks to the pressure the Russian commanders are under to make progress in their operations in eastern Ukraine,” the ministry said in its daily intelligence update.
In other developments, a move by Finland and, potentially, Sweden to join NATO was thrown into question when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is “not of a favorable opinion” toward the idea.
He accused Sweden and other Scandinavian countries of supporting Kurdish militants and others Turkey considers terrorists.
Erdogan did not say outright that he would block the two countries from joining NATO. But the military alliance makes its decisions by consensus, meaning that each of its 30 member countries has a veto over who can join.
An expansion of NATO would be a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who undertook the war in what he said was a bid to thwart the alliance’s eastward advance. But the invasion of Ukraine has stirred fears in other countries along Russia’s flank that they could be next.
With Ukraine pleading for more arms to fend off the invasion, the European Union’s foreign affairs chief announced plans to give the country an additional $520 million to buy heavy weapons.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said heavy weapons from the West now making their way to the front lines – including American 155 mm howitzers – will take some time to turn the tide in Ukraine’s favor. He admitted there is no quick end to the war in sight.
“We are entering a new, long-term phase of the war,” Reznikov wrote in a Facebook post. “Extremely difficult weeks await us. How many there will be? No one can say for sure.”
The battle for the Donbas has turned into a village-by-village, back-and-forth slog with no major breakthroughs on either side and little ground gained.
The Ukrainian military chief for the Luhansk region of the Donbas said Friday that Russian forces opened fire 31 times on residential areas the day before, destroying dozens of homes, notably in Hirske and Popasnianska villages, and a bridge in Rubizhne.
In the south, Ukrainian officials claimed another success in the Black Sea, saying their forces took out another Russian ship, though there was no confirmation from Russia and no casualties were reported.
The Vsevolod Bobrov logistics ship was badly damaged but not thought to have sunk when it was struck while trying to deliver an anti-aircraft system to Snake Island, said Oleksiy Arestovych, a Ukrainian presidential adviser.
In April, Ukraine sank the Moskva, a guided missile cruiser that was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. In March it destroyed a landing ship.
Justin Crump, a former British tank commander who is now a security consultant, said Moscow’s losses have forced it to downsize its objectives. He said the Russians have had to use hastily patched-together units that haven’t trained together and are thus less effective.
“This is not going to be quick. So we’re settled in for a summer of fighting at least. I think the Russian side is very clear that this is going to take a long time,” he said.
Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating thousands of potential war crimes. Many of the alleged atrocities came to light last month after Moscow’s forces abandoned their bid to capture Kyiv and withdrew from around the capital, exposing mass graves and streets strewn with bodies.
In the first war crime case brought to trial, Russian Sgt. Vadim Shyshimarin, 21, could get life in prison if convicted of shooting a Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in a village in the northeastern Sumy region on Feb. 28, four days into the invasion.
In a small Kyiv courtroom, scores of journalists watched the start of the wartime proceedings, which will be closely watched by international observers to make sure the trial is fair.
The defendant, dressed in a blue and gray hoodie and gray sweatpants, sat in a small glass cage during the proceedings, which lasted about 15 minutes and will resume on Wednesday.
Shyshimarin was asked a series of questions, including whether he understood his rights and whether he wanted a jury trial. He declined the latter.
His Ukraine-assigned attorney, Victor Ovsyanikov, has acknowledged that the case against the soldier is strong and has not indicated what his defense will be.
Shyshimarin, a member of a tank unit that was captured by Ukrainian forces, admitted that he shot the civilian in a video posted by the Security Service of Ukraine, saying he was ordered to do so.
As the war grinds on, teachers are trying to restore some sense of normalcy after the fighting shuttered Ukraine’s schools and upended the lives of millions of children.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, lessons are being given in a subway station that has become home for many families. Children joined their teacher Valeriy Leiko around a table to learn about history art, with youngsters’ drawings lining the walls.
“It helps to support them mentally. Because now there is a war, and many lost their homes … some people’s parents are fighting now,” Leiko said. In part because of the lessons, he said, “they feel that someone loves them.”
An older student, Anna Fedoryaka, monitored a professor’s online lectures on Ukrainian literature.
The internet connection was a problem for some, she said. And “it is hard to concentrate when you have to do your homework with explosions by your window.”
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Midday Report: Semileds (LEDS) Shares Climb for May 13
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of Semileds Corp (NASDAQ: LEDS) are up 7.31% Friday.
As of 12:01:11 est, Semileds is currently sitting at $2.35 and has risen $0.16 per share.
Semileds has moved 29.35% over the last 30 days and has moved YTD 52.60% based on the previous close.
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UPSC Recruitment 2022: Apply for Assistant Director and other posts
- UPSC Recruitment 2022: Applications are invited for Assistant Director and other posts.
Union Public Service Commission, UPSC has invited applications from candidates to apply for Assistant Director and other posts. The application process is underway and the last date for the submission of application form is June 2. Interested and eligible candidates can apply online through the official website of UPSC at upsconline.nic.in.
This recruitment drive will fill up 50 vacancies.
Vacancy Details:
Drug Inspector (Ayurveda): 1
Assistant Director (BANKING): 9
Master in Hindi: 1
Assistant Director (Cost): 22
Assistant Registrar General(Map): 1
Scientist ‘B’ (Chemistry): 3
Junior Scientific Officer (Ballistics): 1
Junior Scientific Officer (Explosives): 1
Junior Scientific Officer (Toxicology): 2
Senior Lecturer (Obstetrics & Gynaecology): 1
Assistant Professor (Law): 8
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Candidates must pay a fee of Rs. 25/- (Rupees Twenty-five) only in cash or by using the SBI's net banking facility or by using a visa/master credit/debit card. There is no application fee for SC/ST/PwBD/Women candidated. Candidates can visit the UPSC website for more information.
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We have known the Arizona Cardinals’ 2022 opponents for months. On Thursday, the full regular-season schedule was announced. They will play four prime-time games.
They will play three of the final four games of the season on the road and will be without receiver DeAndre Hopkins for the first six because he tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance and was suspended six games.
They have the second-hardest schedule in the league, based on last season’s win-loss records.
They made the playoffs last season and hope to do so again, but didn’t change much with their roster, choosing to focus on re-signing most of their own players.
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Woman, 41, killed along with her three dogs in fatal smash as driver, 26, is arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving
A WALKER and her three dogs have all died after a horror car crash that left "traffic lights mangled".
A 26-year-old driver has now been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after the incident in Chelsea, London.
Cops are now appealing for witnesses after the 41-year-old woman was found dead at the scene.
Emergency services rushed to Cheyne Walk at 6.21am this morning.
One person wrote on Twitter: "I drove past this just after it happened.
"Absolutely awful scene - traffic lights mangled and three dead dogs in the road. There was damage to multiple cars."
Police are asking drivers to avoid the area as a crime scene has been put in place.
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A Met police spokesperson said: "Officers investigating a fatal collision in Chelsea are appealing for witnesses.
"Police were called to Cheyne Walk, SW3, at 06.21hrs on Saturday, 14 May, to reports of a collision involving a car, a woman, and three dogs.
"Officers attended along with paramedics from London Ambulance Service (LAS).
"A 41-year-old woman was found dead at the scene. All three dogs have also died as a result of injuries suffered in the collision.
"The woman's next of kin have been notified and are being supported by specialist officers.
"The 26-year-old male driver of an Audi car, which had been involved in the collision, was found with minor injuries.
"He has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and taken into custody.
"A crime scene has been put in place. Motorists are being advised to avoid the area as road closures are in place.
"Any witnesses, or anyone with any dash cam footage, is asked to call police on 101, quoting CAD 1500/14May." | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18566317/woman-killed-three-dogs-fatal-smash-driver/ | 2022-05-14T11:36:57Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18566317/woman-killed-three-dogs-fatal-smash-driver/ | true | 1 |
The Sun Never Sets: Why Is AFRICOM Expanding in Zambia?
By Jeremy Kuzmarov – May 9, 2022
Because of Zambia’s Copper and to Thwart the Chinese
On April 25, the U.S. government announced that U.S. African Command (AFRICOM) will open an Office of Security Cooperation at the U.S. Embassy in Zambia.
Brigadier General Peter Bailey, AFRICOM’s Deputy Director for Strategy, Engagement, and Programs, made the announcement in Zambia during a meeting with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema (HH), who took office on August 21, 2021.
According to AFRICOM, the new Office of Security Cooperation will “enhance military-to-military relations [between AFRICOM and Zambian armed forces] and expand areas of cooperation in force management, modernization and professional military education for the Zambian security forces.”
The U.S. government possesses a giant embassy in Lusaka and, since 2014, has invested more than $8 million in assistance for Zambian battalions deployed to a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR).
The U.S. is also rumored to possess secret spy facilities in Zambia, which borders on the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Betrayal of Non-Aligned Policy
Emmanuel Mwamba, Zambia’s former representative to the African Union (AU), had tried to block AFRICOM’s expansion into Zambia, following the precedent of Zambia’s last four presidents (Levy Mwanawasa, Rupiah Banda, Michael Sata and Edgar Lungu).
Mwamba emphasized that, since obtaining its independence from Great Britain in 1964, Zambia has promoted a non-aligned policy and cooperated with all powers, including Russia and China as well as the U.S.
Mwamba further noted that the AU and Southern African Development Community (SADC) have tried to resist the establishment of U.S. and other foreign military bases and security offices in Africa, and have been developing their own standby military forces and security architecture designed to prevent a return to the era of colonialism.
“Copper is the New Oil”
The U.S. interests and motivations underlying the AFRICOM expansion in Zambia are not hard to discern.
As CAM previously reported, Zambia is one of the world’s leading producers of copper, which according to a recent Goldman Sachs report, Copper is the New Oil, is crucial in the transition to a clean energy economy.
Copper is a key electrical conductor and component for solar and wind power plants, electric vehicles and batteries, and energy-efficient buildings.
Hichilema was favored by the U.S. State Department in Zambia’s August 2021 election because of his pledge to boost domestic refining capabilities and loosen regulations and lower taxes on foreign mining companies operating in Zambia to enable a $2 billion expansion of copper production.
One of the big beneficiaries of the new policies is Barrick Gold, a Canadian company which owns the $735 million Lumwana copper mine in Solwezi and is poised to expand its operations.
A major investor in Barrick Gold is BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager operating out of Wall Street.
Its founder and CEO, Laurence Fink, was a donor to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and John Kerry, along with Paul Ryan and other Republican and Democratic Party politicians who supported the expansion of AFRICOM.
BlackRock further invested in Glencore and Vedanta Resources, which own additional Zambian copper mines and, like the others, have checkered records when it comes to workers’ rights and the environment.
Protecting the Free Flow of Natural Resources
AFRICOM was established in 2007 with the official purpose of promoting a “stable and secure African environment in support of U.S. foreign policy.”
Today, AFRICOM sustains ties with 53 African nations and provides a cover for an estimated 9,000 U.S. troops stationed in Africa and at least 27 military bases.
AFRICOM founder Vice Admiral Robert Moeller admitted that one of AFRICOM’s guiding principles was “protecting the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market.” That description applies very well in the Zambian case.
Great Game Struggle with Chinese
Tied to the motive of natural resources exploitation underlying AFRICOM’s expansion into Zambia is the growing geopolitical competition with China.
Zambia has been a significant recipient of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and, in 2018, the volume of China-Zambia bilateral trade reached $5 billion in U.S. dollars, with a year-on-year growth of 33.9%.
As of December 2020, more than 600 Chinese companies operated in Zambia, the majority in the Copperbelt. Zambia even boasts two Chinese-built special economic zones and allowed banking in the Chinese renminbi instead of the kwacha, dollar, or euro to facilitate trade with China.
The latter is unacceptable to U.S. policy-makers who have attempted something drastic in response.
The danger of the AFRICOM expansion for Zambians is palpable not only in its function in protecting foreign control of its economy but aso in generating potential political instability.
According to Black Agenda Report, troops trained by AFRICOM have been behind nine coup d’états in Africa since AFRICOM’s formation.
Zambia could be next, particularly if Hichilema reverses his current policies in the mining sector, or if copper prices fluctuate because of some unforeseen event and Zambia’s economy falters more than it already has.
Featured image: Brigadier General Peter Bailey, right, and U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to Zambia Martin Dale, left, with President Hakainde Hichilema, center. Source: zm.usembassy.gov.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Jeremy Kuzmarov is Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine. He is the author of four books on US foreign policy, including Obama’s Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019) and The Russians Are Coming, Again, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018). | https://orinocotribune.com/the-sun-never-sets-why-is-africom-expanding-in-zambia/ | 2022-05-14T11:37:13Z | https://orinocotribune.com/the-sun-never-sets-why-is-africom-expanding-in-zambia/ | false | 2 |
ALBANY — The Alexander Board of Education had a pair of items on the agenda at their regularly schedule meeting Wednesday evening that had to do with the improvements of the track and football facility.
Under the heading of ‘Superintendent’s Recommendations,” one matter was recommending the board to approve entering into a contract with Musco Sports Lighting for the retrofit of the stadium lighting.
“I’m conflicted on this item,” board president, Blake Regan said. “I’m not really sure the cost of the lighting is worth the benefit. I do understand it’s an upgrade to our lighting system.”
Regan was concerned that the cost outweighs the benefits whether it be financially or just through the students use.
Board member, Josh Collins asked if the track design was forcing the district the change the lighting.
“It’s not a forcement of needing new lighting, but, as we talked about the track project and we moved through it, if we’re making it now would be the time to upgrade the lighting system,” Superintendent Lindy Douglas answered. “The halogen lighting systems are a thing of the past. A lot of districts are retrofitting back to LED lighting. It was a suggestion, through the architects, that if we were making these improvements, now would be the time to improve the lighting.”
Douglas said it would be a “better, brighter lighting,” as well as being a green, energy conserving action. he added that another possible problem with the current lighting is finding replacement parts or repair services.
“The longer we wait, we all know the inflation is going up consistently, it will be more expensive down the road,” Douglas said.
Collins explained the cost for the new lighting system was $147,000 and the difference between a six-and eight-lane track is $250,000.
“If you had make to your choice, an eight lane (track) with the existing lighting or a six lane (track) with the upgraded lighting what would you do?” Collins asked.
“If you’re asking me,” Douglas answered, “My recommendation would be the eight-lane track and upgrade the lighting. That is what would be best for the district at this time.”
When asked if she had to choose between the two, Douglas said she would choose the eight-lane track.
The motion to enter into the contract failed by a 3-2 vote with Regan, Collins and fellow board member, Lucy Juedes, voting against the recommendation.
The board did approve entering into a contract with Dant Clayton to add additional seating to the home side of the football field by a 5-0 vote. | https://www.athensmessenger.com/news/alexander-school-board-approves-additional-seating-rejects-new-lights/article_9a78532c-d211-11ec-b244-8746cb6ae0eb.html | 2022-05-14T11:40:03Z | https://www.athensmessenger.com/news/alexander-school-board-approves-additional-seating-rejects-new-lights/article_9a78532c-d211-11ec-b244-8746cb6ae0eb.html | false | 1 |
UOS Organizes Seminar On 'History Of Iran, Pakistan'
Muhammad Irfan Published May 14, 2022 | 04:08 PM
The department of History & Pak Studies of Sargodha University on Saturday organized an international seminar, in which, various proposals for further enhancing cultural and social ties between Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Central Asia and the subcontinent were considered
SARGODHA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th May, 2022 ) :The department of History & Pak Studies of Sargodha University on Saturday organized an international seminar, in which, various proposals for further enhancing cultural and social ties between Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Central Asia and the subcontinent were considered.
Renowned Iranian historian, researcher, secretary of the academy of Literature of Iran and eminent Persian writer Prof. Dr. Mohammad Reza Nasiri participated in the seminar as a special guest.
The seminar was chaired by Vice Chancellor Sargodha University Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Mazhar while Director Center for Iqbal Studies University of Punjab Prof Dr Syed Muhammad Farid, Chairman Department of Persian GC Lahore Prof. Dr Iqbal Shahid, Dean Faculty of Arts and Humanities Prof Dr. Ghulam Abbas Gondal,Prof. Dr. Muhammad Nawaz Tahir (Tamgha-e-Imtiaz), Chairman of Department of Sociology and Criminology, Prof. Dr. Ghulam Yaseen, Chairman of History department of UOS, Prof Ibrar Zahoor ,Faculty members of Department of History, Persian, urdu and Department of Communication, officials of Sargodha University and a large number of students participated.
Addressing the seminar, Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Mazhar said the people of Pakistan and Iran were socially, culturally, religiously and historically connected while different nations could be brought closer by providing opportunities for educated people of other countries including Pakistan and Iran to get together.
He said that Iran gave great importance to its culture, language and history due to which an honest society was being formed in Iran.
The vice chancellor said that Dr. Mohammad Raza Naseeri had compiled an encyclopedia of the subcontinent and linked it with the glorious past, for which, "we are grateful to him".
Iranian historian Dr Muhammad Raza Naseeri in his address introduced 'Farhangistan' and thanked prof Dr Muhammad Saleem for his special assistance in preparing the encyclopedia of the sub-continent.
He said that with the collaboration of department of Persian of the UOS, knowledge and research activities would be promoted, which would also promote people-to-people contacts between the two countries.
Chairman department of History Sargodha University, Prof Ibrar Zahoor said that Dr Muhammad Raza Naseeri was a renowned researcher of Pak-India subcontinent and author of dozens of books who was exploring Pakistan history sitting in Iran while his participation in this seminar was a great opportunity to learn culture and history of Iran.
In the current era, a lot of knowledge was confusing the young generation and we should learn from Iran's strategy to resolve such contradictions, he added.
At the end of event, Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Mazhar gave souvenirsto the distinguished guests.
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The Mundka building which was ravaged by a fire that claimed 27 lives had a single entry and exit point, which could explain the reason for the high number of casualties, a senior fire department officer said on Saturday. The building also did not have a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the fire department, the officer added.
The fire started from the first floor of the building that houses the office of a CCTV camera and router manufacturing and assembling company on Friday. The owners of the company, Harish Goel and his brother Varun Goel, who were detained earlier, have been arrested, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer) Sameer Sharma said. The building owner has been booked as well.
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In videos that emerged on social media, people could be heard crying for help while others were seen jumping from the building in a desperate attempt to escape the flames. "The rescue operation is over. The building had a single escape route which is the reason for so many casualties," said Atul Garg, Director, Delhi Fire Service.
Garg said they recovered some more charred remains on Saturday morning and the death told could rise up to 30. He said it was difficult to identify whether the remains were of one person or more. According to the officials, there was only one narrow staircase for entry and exit in the building which made the escape difficult.
Twenty-nine people are reported to be missing. | https://www.cnbctv18.com/india/mundka-building-fire-single-entry-exit-point-made-escape-difficult-26-dead-two-arrested-13484432.htm/amp | 2022-05-14T11:43:09Z | https://www.cnbctv18.com/india/mundka-building-fire-single-entry-exit-point-made-escape-difficult-26-dead-two-arrested-13484432.htm/amp | true | 5 |
Microblogging website Twitter is reportedly testing a new ‘Liked by Author’ label that appears when the author of the tweet likes a reply on the twitter thread. The label was recently spotted by a TechCrunch reporter within the Twitter Android app.
Also, a spokesperson from Twitter confirmed that the company has been testing different labels to assist in giving individuals context regarding the tweets they see. However, more information was not provided on the specific label, Techcrunch reported.
From what is seen in the screenshot shared by TechCrunch, it appears that once the author of a tweet likes a reply, it’s marked with a badge with a heart emoji, which is visible to the person who left the reply and to all other viewers. The label looks like TikTok’s ‘Liked by Creator’ badge that similarly appears when the creator of a video likes a comment, the report mentions.
It is not confirmed if the label is being tested globally. However, reports of users spotting the label in several countries have been received, according the Techcrunch. The label is still in the testing phase and therefore, it’s not clear if Twitter plans to officially roll it out to all users.
The new ‘Liked by Author’ label may be useful in instances where a tweet has received numerous replies and the original creator wants to highlight, encourage, or compliment a few replies without having to directly reply to them. However, the label can be bothersome to some users as it may serve as a distraction and add more to the already cluttered tweets.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alabama Power Company today announced that it issued a notice of redemption for the following series of preferred stock:
- 4.20% Preferred Stock, Par Value $100 Per Share CUSIP No. 010392207
- 4.60% Preferred Stock, Par Value $100 Per Share CUSIP No. 010392405
- 4.92% Preferred Stock, Par Value $100 Per Share CUSIP No. 010392702
- 4.52% Preferred Stock, Par Value $100 Per Share CUSIP No. 010392306
- 4.64% Preferred Stock, Par Value $100 Per Share CUSIP No. 010392504
- 4.72% Preferred Stock, Par Value $100 Per Share CUSIP No. 010392603
The redemption date for each of the above series of preferred stock will be June 21, 2022. The redemption price per share for each series of preferred stock to be redeemed shall be equal to $105.00 per share plus accrued and unpaid dividends to the redemption date for the 4.20% Preferred Stock; $104.20 per share plus accrued and unpaid dividends to the redemption date for the 4.60% Preferred Stock; $103.23 per share plus accrued and unpaid dividends to the redemption date for the 4.92% Preferred Stock; $102.93 per share plus accrued and unpaid dividends to the redemption date for the 4.52% Preferred Stock; $103.14 per share plus accrued and unpaid dividends to the redemption date for the 4.64% Preferred Stock and $102.18 per share plus accrued and unpaid dividends to the redemption date for the 4.72% Preferred Stock. No dividends on the preferred stock being redeemed will accrue on or after the redemption date, nor will any interest accrue on amounts held to pay the redemption price.
Questions relating to, and requests for copies of the notice of, this redemption should be directed to EQ Shareowner Services at 800-554-7626.
Alabama Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO), provides reliable, affordable electricity to 1.5 million customers across the state. Learn more at www.alabamapower.com.
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Going outside is expensive. Well, not literally, but it does seem like every time I walk out my front door I’m headed to another café or less-than-affordable activity. I by no means think cutting out your favorite coffee shop is the way to financial freedom, but with these weekend deals on coffee gear, speakers, and projectors, you can turn your house into the cozy home theater of your dreams to get up close and personal with every actor, athlete, and news anchor. Say goodbye to costly concessions and hello to cappuccinos and sitting court-side on your couch.
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If soundbars come across as complicated to you, the Vizio M-Series 2.1 is a great gateway to better home audio. It has an intuitive setup, easily connecting to your phone via Bluetooth, or your TV remote via HDMI ARC, so you won’t have to worry about working around a bunch of wonky settings. The Vizio was already more affordable than most, so at $20 off it’s definitely a steal.
Anytime you can get Apple products on sale is a good time, and the Beats Flex Wireless Earbuds are no exception to that rule. At $20 off, you can get a pair of earbuds that pair quickly, have crisp audio, and get 12 hours worth of battery life. Sounds good to me!
It’s no secret that we tend to enjoy Anker products at WIRED, but we really admire the Soundcore Life Q30 Wireless headphones. They’re noise-canceling and have a classic silhouette. Plus, Anker really holds it down when it comes to battery life—the Soundcores last for up to 40 hours.
Whether you’re staying home or headed to a friend’s, you can bring the Kodak Luma with you anywhere. It’s small and compact, and it comes with a threaded tripod so you can just toss it in your bag and pop it up wherever you want. On top of that, the projector is equipped with Android 9, so you can more easily download movies and shows for your viewing pleasure.
Step aside, Major Lazer —there’s a new top … laser in town. That joke may be lame, but this deal is not. The LG HU85LA is one of the most attractive and most versatile projectors we’ve tested, featuring laser projections that allow you to sit right on your TV stand and project on a screen. Like I said, this is major for lasers!
The Optoma UHD35 used to be our absolute favorite projector, with the perfect combination of performance and cost. It's got great image quality and a lower lag time, making it a solid option for watching your big playoff game of choice this weekend. Who wants to set it up and invite me over to watch the Heat play?
If you finally scored the elusive Playstation 5, it’s possible you’re in the midst of a gaming marathon. Keep yourself caffeinated with the GE Café Affetto, our favorite for automated latte and cappuccino machines. You can program it to make to make your favorite espresso drink, so you can save all your button pressing for your controller.
If you want a consistent cappuccino, but don’t want all of the fussy bells and whistles, the Mr. Coffee Cafe Barista may be for you. The espresso comes out rich, the milk froths itself, and it’s easy to clean and keep up with. And you can get a single shot, double shot, latte, or cappuccino at the press of a button.
Beans may be a magical fruit, but they get even more majestic when properly ground. The KitchenAid Conical Burr Coffee Grinder is a stylish and simple way to get a better grind for your favorite espresso. It features a dial for more concise grinding, offers output control, and is easily cleanable. | https://www.wired.com/story/weekend-deals-5-14-2022/ | 2022-05-14T11:52:58Z | https://www.wired.com/story/weekend-deals-5-14-2022/ | true | 1 |
CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Friday, May 13, 2022
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Western Nevada-Eastern Sierra-Northeast California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service Reno NV
332 AM PDT Sat May 14 2022
This is an automatically generated product that provides averaged
values for large geographic areas and may not be representative
of a specific area. To get a more specific forecast for your area,
please visit www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/?site=rev
CAZ072-NVZ002-150300-
Greater Lake Tahoe Area-
Including the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee,
Markleeville, Stateline, Glenbrook, and Incline Village
332 AM PDT Sat May 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
66 to 76. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 40 to 50. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 67 to 77. Light winds becoming southwest
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 37 to 47. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 74. Light winds becoming west 10 to
15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 35 to 45.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 66 to 76. Lows 37 to
47.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 68 to 78.
Lows 39 to 49.
.THURSDAY...Breezy. Partly cloudy. Highs 63 to 73.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Clear. Lows 30 to 40. Highs 54 to
64.
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CAZ070-NVZ005-150300-
Surprise Valley California-Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Empire, and Gerlach
332 AM PDT Sat May 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 72 to 82. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows 43 to
53. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 88. Light winds becoming south 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
42 to 52. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph
decreasing to around 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
72 to 82. Light winds becoming west 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
40 to 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 73 to 83.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy.
Lows 41 to 51. Highs 75 to 85.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers. Highs 67 to 77. Lows 30 to 40.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers. Highs 58 to
68.
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CAZ071-150300-
Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties-
Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
332 AM PDT Sat May 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 71 to 81. Light winds becoming west
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 40 to 50. West winds around 10 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 85. Light winds becoming southwest
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
39 to 49. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
70 to 80. Light winds becoming west 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming clear.
Lows 36 to 46.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 72 to 82.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows
39 to 49. Highs 73 to 83.
.THURSDAY...Breezy. Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers in
the afternoon. Highs 66 to 76.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 29 to 39.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
57 to 67.
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CAZ073-150300-
Mono County-
Including the cities of Bridgeport, Coleville, Lee Vining,
and Mammoth Lakes
332 AM PDT Sat May 14 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 81. Light winds becoming northeast
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 40 to 50. East winds around 10 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 71 to 81. Light winds becoming
southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 36 to 46. West winds 10 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 69 to 79. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
34 to 44.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Clear. Highs 71 to 81. Lows 36 to
46.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Breezy. Partly cloudy. Lows 38 to
48. Highs 69 to 79.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Breezy, clear. Lows 30 to 40. Highs
58 to 68.
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PK Halder, wanted in Bangladesh over financial scams, is arrested in India
Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 14 May 2022 05:28 PM BdST Updated: 14 May 2022 05:47 PM BdST
Law enforcement authorities in India have arrested Proshanta Kumar Halder, who is wanted in Bangladesh in connection with scams worth billions of taka, according to information from the Anti-Corruption Commission.
“We have learned that PK Halder has been arrested in West Bengal,” Khurshid Alam Khan, chief counsel for the ACC, told the media on Saturday.
The Enforcement Directorate of India conducted raids on 10 properties linked to Proshanta Kumar Halder, Pritish Kumar Halder, Pranesh Kumar Halder and Sukumar Mridha throughout Friday, according to media reports.
Halder is a former managing director of the International Leasing and Financial Services Limited or ILFSL and NRB Global Bank. He is accused of embezzling funds and purchasing large shares while taking control of four financial institutions, in which he placed his close associates in positions of power.
The ACC has so far prosecuted PK Halder and a number of his associates in 34 cases on charges of embezzlement of billions of taka and money laundering.
The investigators have charged them in court in one of the cases and three more charge sheets are awaiting the ACC’s approval.
As many as 13 of the accused have been arrested and grilled in custody while 11 of them have given statements confessing to their parts of the crimes. Court has slapped an overseas travel ban on 64 people in connection with the cases.
It also ordered a freeze on bank accounts of 83 associates of PK Halder and their immovable assets worth around Tk 10 billion.
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KOFU, Yamanashi Pref. – Testing has confirmed that a human skull fragment found in late April near a mountainside campsite in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is from a 9-year-old girl who went missing in 2019, police said Saturday.
The fragment found on April 23 and later confirmed to be part of a human skull had been examined by the police to determine if it belonged to Misaki Ogura from Narita, Chiba Prefecture.
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Abortion rights under threat across nation
A leaked majority Supreme Court opinion shows the landmark case Roe v. Wade may be struck down. The opinion, which was leaked to Politico and is supported by five conservative Supreme Court justices, may allow states to decide whether abortion is legal. News of the leak angered pro-choice activists...
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Former England skipper Michael Vaughan has questioned the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) decision to hire Kolkata Knight Riders coach, New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum, to guide the country’s Test side, saying that South Africa’s Gary Kirsten was better suited for the job.
The 40-year-old McCullum, a former New Zealand captain, was recently appointed the England Test team coach by England men’s cricket managing director Rob Key after weeks of speculation. McCullum will quit his job with KKR at the end of the IPL 2022 season to join the Ben Stokes-led side for their upcoming three-Test series against New Zealand, starting on June 2 at Lord’s.
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Vaughan termed McCullum’s appointment as a “big risk", with him saying in his column for the Telegraph that, while the New Zealander is “the perfect mentor, thinker and culture driver", his lack of experience could come in the way.
“He (McCullum) is the perfect mentor, thinker and culture driver who has done it before and has the t-shirt. What England have gone for in Brendon is exciting and a big name, but it is a big risk as well. He is taking over England at the right time. They are at their lowest ebb since the mid-1990s.
“He will not have to do much for us all to see a massive improvement but if it doesn’t happen quickly then there will be questions asked about his appointment and whether England would have been better off with a safer pair of hands, more experienced and know how to coach in Test cricket. But one thing is for sure, we are in for an interesting ride," opined Vaughan.
Vaughan added that former SA opener, Kirsten, would have been a “safer pair of hands". “England’s bold appointment of Brendon McCullum makes me nervous. If English cricket has overlooked someone like Gary Kirsten for a second time I do find it incredibly bizarre. I don’t see how we have made that call twice."
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How transfer portal is giving Mel Tucker and Michigan State football a recruiting edge
Rainer Sabin
Detroit Free Press
EAST LANSING — Xavier Henderson and Darius Snow glanced at each other and smiled, indicating they believed the answer to the question posed to them was obvious.
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In cartoon shows, we all have seen dragons spitting fire to target their enemies. Recently, Techz Express shared a breathtaking video in which a man was seen performing this dragon act. Confused? Let’s tell you more about this unbelievable video.
Techz Express is famous for its amazing videos, and recently, a clip of a man spitting — well, that’s how it appears — is going viral all over social media.
The video started with a man pouring a liquid into his mouth before performing the stunt. Then he brought a burning stick near his mouth. He blew on the fire and blazing flames were seen rising in the air. It also looked like the person was taking out flames from his mouth like a dragon.
Let us tell you how the person performed this stunt. The substance he is seen drinking at the beginning of the video is flammable. Usually, this substance is paraffin or purified lamp oil. When it is released from the mouth like a spray, it catches fire and the flame is seen rising in the air.
The video was captioned “What is the process?” The video received 310,000 views and 11,408 likes. One of the viewers wrote, “Show man for real”, another person wrote, “The guy is amazing” and some people have also reacted by sharing emojis. Everyone is shocked to see this stunt.
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Let us tell you that this is a very dangerous stunt and these performers practice it for years. Hence, never try to do such stunts at home because it can put your life in danger.
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With the resignation of Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to change another Chief Minister ahead of Assembly polls.
Biplab Kumar Deb announced on Saturday evening that he has submitted his resignation to Governor SN Arya. Deb had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda in the national capital on Thursday. The Tripura unit of the BJP has been rife with rumours of infighting. The 60-seat Tripura Assembly heads to elections next year.
Sources told News18 that Biplab Deb is likely to be accommodated in the organisation and a new Chief Minister is scheduled to be elected at the party’s Legislature Party Meet later in the day.
Senior leaders Bhupendra Yadav and Vinod Tawde have been sent to Tripura as central observers.
Biplab Deb’s resignation comes after similar exits by party Chief Ministers in Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Gujarat.
Sources said Deb’s exit was necessitated after adverse reports received by the BJP’s top leadership about the administration and dissatisfaction in the ranks.
The party’s ally in Tripura, the Indigenous Peoples’ Front of Tripura (IPFT), had also made its reservations about Deb known to the central leadership. The infighting in IPFT over re-constitution of the state committee has shaken up Tripura’s politics a year before elections. Pradyut Kishore Deb Barman of TIPRA Moth, too, is said to be eyeing tribal seats.
Biplab Deb was sworn in as the BJP’s first Chief Minister in Tripura when the party swept to power in 2018, dislodging the CPI(M) government which had ruled the state for over two decades.
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Alchemy Pay (ACH) traded down 2.5% against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 7:00 AM E.T. on May 14th. One Alchemy Pay coin can now be bought for about $0.0143 or 0.00000049 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last week, Alchemy Pay has traded 38.8% lower against the U.S. dollar. Alchemy Pay has a total market capitalization of $63.26 million and approximately $11.82 million worth of Alchemy Pay was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- Zcash (ZEC) traded 4.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $93.34 or 0.00322482 BTC.
- Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded 4.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $18.36 or 0.00063425 BTC.
- Horizen (ZEN) traded down 13.4% against the dollar and now trades at $19.00 or 0.00065644 BTC.
- Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded 2.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.86 or 0.00002976 BTC.
- Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded 11.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.33 or 0.00004600 BTC.
- BitcoinZ (BTCZ) traded down 10.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0002 or 0.00000001 BTC.
- Hush (HUSH) traded 8.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0848 or 0.00000293 BTC.
- Bit Hotel (BTH) traded up 1.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0246 or 0.00000085 BTC.
- ZClassic (ZCL) traded down 4.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0454 or 0.00000157 BTC.
- Bitcoin Interest (BCI) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0064 or 0.00000011 BTC.
Alchemy Pay Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Alchemy is a cryptocurrency payment solution and technology provider in Asia Pacific that powers online and offline merchants. It's designed to be a fast, secure, and convenient hybrid crypto-fiat payment systems and solutions. “
Buying and Selling Alchemy Pay
It is usually not presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Alchemy Pay directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Alchemy Pay should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Alchemy Pay using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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Market Mover: Group 1 Automotive, (GPI) Rises at Midday May 13
Equities Staff Follow |Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE: GPI) shares are up 4.59%, or $8.26 per share, as on 11:53:33 est today. Since opening at $182.12, 51,888 shares of Group 1 Automotive, have been traded today and the stock has traded between $189.30 and $180.11.
Already the company is down 7.61%.
Group 1 Automotive, anticipates its next earnings on 2022-07-28.
For technical charts, analysis, and more on Group 1 Automotive, visit the company profile.
About Group 1 Automotive, Inc.
Group 1 Automotive Inc. owns and operates 184 automotive dealerships, 237 franchises, and 49 collision centers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil that offer 31 brands of automobiles. Through its dealerships, the Company sells new and used cars and light trucks; arranges related vehicle financing; sells service contracts; provides automotive maintenance and repair services; and sells vehicle parts.
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The Chennai division of Southern Railway will start a leased Parcel Cargo Express Train (PCET) service on a round-trip basis from Saturday evening. The service from Royapuram in Chennai to Guwahati in Assam will carry cloth bales, two-wheeler spares, car tyres, fans and chocolates, among others.
The freight charges per round trip is ₹22 lakh for 15 parcel vans of 24-tonne capacity. The anticipated minimum revenue from this business development initiative will be ₹46 crore during the contract period of six years, says a release from Southern Railway.
The parcel cargo train will reach its destination in 62 hours, covering a distance of 2,716 km, originating twice a month from Royapuram (day 1) at 20:30 hrs and reaching Guwahati (day 4) at 13:30 hrs. In the return direction, the service will leave Guwahati (day 1) at 23:55 hrs and reach Royapuram (day 4) at 14:00 hrs.
After six months, the number of parcel vans would be increased to 20, till completion of a six-year contract period.
The service will attract piecemeal traffic benefitting traders, businessmen and industrial units, thus, enabling a wider market for their products in the North-Eastern states, the release said.
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There are mounting fears that
Pakistan could be headed for street clashes between the
Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and the
Shahbaz Sharif government. Ousted Prime Minister Imran
Khan has been exhorting the Pakistani public to join him and bring down the barely one-month-old government in the country that is in the grip of an economic crisis.
Khan, the
first Pakistani Prime Minister to lose a no-trust vote, has been hammering home his claim that he was unseated due to a “conspiracy” hatched by the US along with “local abettors”. Khan has called for a people’s march to Islamabad on May 20, claiming that “when people take to the streets, then everyone will understand that this nation cannot be made a slave.”
“Send your families if you cannot participate yourself for fear of losing your jobs,” Khan said at a rally in Attock on Thursday where he was appealing to government employees.
The PTI and ruling
Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) are on a collision course and it may result in public chaos, with fighting and large-scale arrests.
On Saturday (May 14),
police dispersed PTI workers by charging at them with batons and using tear gas as they were preparing for a rally in Sialkot. TV footage showed the police dismantling the structures erected for the rally amid clouds of tear gas smoke.
District Police Officer Hasan Iqbal who was present at the rally venue told reporters that the local Christian community had objected to the rally since the ground belonged to them and they do not want any political rally to be held on it.
‘Neutrals not neutral’
In a country where the Army is known to call the shots and its blessings required for political legitimacy, Imran Khan and his PTI colleagues have not spared the “establishment” either.
Imran Khan had written in a tweet: “Market awaiting policy and action which imported government has failed to provide. Both I and Shaukat Tarin had warned the 'neutrals' that if the conspiracy succeeded, our fragile economic recovery would go into a tailspin.”
The former PTI Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari on Friday said that “now everyone knows the neutrals were not actually neutral”. She even suggested that may have been a part of the alleged conspiracy to “derail Pakistan on the economic and democratic front”. The term “neutrals” is commonly used to refer to the Pakistan military.
PTI leaders have questioned institutions like the Supreme Court and Election Commission of the country for appearing to back the so-called plot against them.
Mazari demanded the
chief election commissioner of Pakistan resign because he “was silent” even as several PTI lawmakers defected to other parties. She expressed surprise that the Supreme Court ordered the date and time of the no-confidence motion.
Meanwhile, the PTI leaders’ attacks on the Army have instigated rare dissent against the forces by the Pakistani public.
This has prompted the
Pakistani Army’s media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations, to address the allegations. "Recently there have been intensified and deliberate attempts to drag [the] Pakistan armed forces and their leadership in [the] ongoing political discourse in the country," read an ISPR statement. “These attempts are manifest through direct, insinuated or nuanced references to the armed forces as well as their senior leadership, made by some political leaders, few journalists and analysts on public forums and…on social media,” it added.
“{The] Pakistan armed forces take strong exception to such unlawful and unethical practice and expect all to abide by the law and keep the armed forces out of political discourse in the best interest of the country,” it said, without mentioning who the politicians, journalists, and analysts were.
Imran Khans’ power march
Imran Khan has been drawing crowds at his rallies despite being out of power. At these gatherings, he tries to shape the narrative as one where his “honest struggle” for “true independence and international respect” for Pakistan was cut short by the “imported government”.
Khan claims the people have no confidence in the current government as it has failed to address the economic mismanagement and rising inflation problems which were of the PTI’s own making.
Even as Pakistan falls deep in debt and faces an unstable political situation, Khan is raising another storm by dividing the Pakistani people and preparing a perfect ground for more discord.
Reports in Pakistani media say that in a meeting with journalists at his Banigala residence on Friday, Khan said that it would have been “
better to nuke Pakistan" rather than set "thieves" upon it.
He is preparing for the march to the federal capital Islamabad along with “2 million Pakistanis” on May 20 to challenge the Sharif government.
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Ronaldinho slams Messi & Neymar's PSG critics: Do you want the worst players in the world instead?
Ronaldinho has hit out at the boos aimed at Lionel Messi and Neymar at Paris Saint-Germain this season, asking rhetorically if fans would rather have "the worst players in the world" as opposed to two of its modern greats.
The first reunion campaign between the former Barcelona duo has yielded a Ligue 1 title, but a failure in Europe once more saw supporters turn their ire on the pair of South American internationals.
Yet the former attacker - an ex-PSG man himself - feels the reception is unjust, hitting out at the dismissal of superstar talents while saying they need time to settle into a cohesive squad.
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What did Ronaldinho say about PSG's stars?
"I don't understand because there are all the great players," the Brazil legend told RMC Sport. "You want to change everything? What do you want to have, the worst players in the world?
"We have to wait for them to understand this new way of living and playing football. The rest will come slowly. This adaptation is normal, to do things well.
"[Neymar] is one of the best players in the world. He's had several injuries this year. When he's at 100 per cent, he's a really special player for this team. Neymar, Di Maria, Messi... the greatest players are together. If you're not happy with that, who are you going to play with?"
What did Ronaldinho say on Mbappe?
On Kylian Mbappe, he added: "He's going to become the best player in the world. The rest is up to him where he's going to play and what he wants to do."
On the matter of Mbappe - who is widely tipped to depart Parc des Princes for Real Madrid this summer - the Brazilian mooted that he would not offer suggestions to the star, instead saying the France star must go for what pleases him most rather than others.
"I have no advice," he added. "I love him very much. The most important thing is that he is happy, the rest will come normally.
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Against the backdrop of a war in Europe, the hugely popular Eurovision Song Contest reaches its flamboyant climax Saturday night as 25 bands perform in front of a live audience in the northern Italian city of Turin, while millions more watch on television around the world. The Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra is heavily tipped to win by bookmakers, which are giving the group that mixes traditional Ukrainian rhythms, costumes and dance moves with contemporary hip hop a 60% chance of winning. Britain’s Sam Ryder and Sweden’s Cornelia Jakobs are each given a 10% shot, while the Italian duo of Mahmood & Blanco have a 6% chance of winning.
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A Colorado judge has denied motions to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by an elections system worker against former President Donald Trump's campaign, two of its lawyers and some conservative media figures. District Court Judge Marie Avery Moses on Friday rejected arguments made to throw out the case filed by Eric Coomer. He was security director of the Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems. Coomer said he faced death threats after being falsely accused of trying to rig the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden. Among the defendants in the case are the One America News Network, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin and the Gateway Pundit website.
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Next year’s Academy Awards will take place March 13. The date for the 95th Academy Awards moves the show up slightly from this year, when they where held unusually late on March 27, partly due to the February Olympics. But it will also leave in place a stretched-out awards season that some have argued saps the Oscars of drama. The 94th Academy Awards didn’t lack for that, albeit not in the way the film academy intended. On a night that saw Apple TV+’s “CODA” become the first film with a largely deaf cast to win best picture, Will Smith's infamous slap of presenter Chris Rock overshadowed the awards.
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Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in “The Right Stuff,” “The Player” and “Tremors,” has died. He was 79. Ward died Sunday, his publicist Ron Hofmann said Friday. No cause or place of death was disclosed per the family’s wishes. Ward earned a Golden Globe and shared the Venice Film Festival ensemble prize for his performance in Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts,” and played the title character in “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.” He also reached new heights playing Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom in 1983′s Academy Award nominated film “The Right Stuff.”
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Can we just put this “Fire” out? Almost 40 years after the original adaptation of “Firestarter,” which was not a very good film, a second film from horror specialist Blumhouse also based on the 1980 novel by Stephen King arrives in theaters and on Peacock. Directed by Keith Thomas, whose one…
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CHICAGO — Three musical instruments including a 1758 violin were stolen from a town home in the South Loop Wednesday morning while a family of musicians was sleeping.
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Fred Ward, the rough-hewn character actor known for his work in “The Right Stuff” and “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins,” died Sunday at age 79.
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Kendrick Lamar will be taking his just-released and long-awaited fifth studio album, "Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers," on tour, including several stops in his native California.
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Planned Parenthood has tapped scores of young musicians, entertainers and influencers to condemn the U.S. Supreme Court's potential decision to strip their "constitutional right to abortion" by overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
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The winner of a Food Network cooking show competition has been found guilty in the beating death last year of a 3-year-old foster child in her care. News outlets reported the jury deliberated for about an hour before delivering the unanimous verdict Thursday against 30-year-old Ariel Robinson, of Simpsonville. She made no comment before Judge Letitia Verdin sentenced her to life in prison on a charge of homicide by child abuse. Robinson's husband, Austin Robinson, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting homicide by child abuse last month. He faces up to 20 years in prison. A sentencing date has not been scheduled. He testified that his wife beat Victoria Smith on Jan. 14, 2021. Medical evidence showed she died when blood pooled in her body and could not get to her brain.
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The director of the upcoming Marilyn Monroe movie insulted American audiences in a new interview after it was revealed the biopic will get an NC-17 rating.
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In Hulu's new adaption of Sally Rooney's 2017 novel "Conversations with Friends," one look on actress Alison Oliver's face is worth many flashing paragraphs of Rooney's kaleidoscopic prose.
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There’s a conversation that bubbles up every so often about the absence of sex scenes in contemporary film: Why is everything so chaste on screen? It’s true that Hollywood is making fewer movies about adult relationships at the moment, but it’s not hard to find serious-minded TV that is fill…
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Kendrick Lamar won’t be waiting long to promote his first album in five years, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” which was released Friday and is one of the most anticipated albums of 2022 for many fans.
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Growth Investors: Industry Analysts Just Upgraded Their Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:GDYN) Revenue Forecasts By 12%
Celebrations may be in order for Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:GDYN) shareholders, with the analysts delivering a significant upgrade to their statutory estimates for the company. The analysts have sharply increased their revenue numbers, with a view that Grid Dynamics Holdings will make substantially more sales than they'd previously expected.
Following the upgrade, the current consensus from Grid Dynamics Holdings' seven analysts is for revenues of US$298m in 2022 which - if met - would reflect a major 22% increase on its sales over the past 12 months. Before the latest update, the analysts were foreseeing US$265m of revenue in 2022. It looks like there's been a clear increase in optimism around Grid Dynamics Holdings, given the nice gain to revenue forecasts.
Check out our latest analysis for Grid Dynamics Holdings
The consensus price target rose 8.7% to US$23.83, with the analysts clearly more optimistic about Grid Dynamics Holdings' prospects following this update. There's another way to think about price targets though, and that's to look at the range of price targets put forward by analysts, because a wide range of estimates could suggest a diverse view on possible outcomes for the business. Currently, the most bullish analyst values Grid Dynamics Holdings at US$28.00 per share, while the most bearish prices it at US$18.00. Analysts definitely have varying views on the business, but the spread of estimates is not wide enough in our view to suggest that extreme outcomes could await Grid Dynamics Holdings shareholders.
Of course, another way to look at these forecasts is to place them into context against the industry itself. We would highlight that Grid Dynamics Holdings' revenue growth is expected to slow, with the forecast 31% annualised growth rate until the end of 2022 being well below the historical 106% growth over the last year. By way of comparison, the other companies in this industry with analyst coverage are forecast to grow their revenue at 13% annually. So it's pretty clear that, while Grid Dynamics Holdings' revenue growth is expected to slow, it's still expected to grow faster than the industry itself.
The Bottom Line
The most important thing to take away from this upgrade is that analysts lifted their revenue estimates for this year. Analysts also expect revenues to grow faster than the wider market. There was also an increase in the price target, suggesting that there is more optimism baked into the forecasts than there was previously. Seeing the dramatic upgrade to this year's forecasts, it might be time to take another look at Grid Dynamics Holdings.
It's great to see the analysts upgrading their estimates, but the biggest highlight to us is that the business is expected to become profitable in the foreseeable future. For more information, you can click through to our free platform to learn more about these forecasts.
Of course, seeing company management invest large sums of money in a stock can be just as useful as knowing whether analysts are upgrading their estimates. So you may also wish to search this free list of stocks that insiders are buying.
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A massive fire broke out at a government medical college in Punjab's Amritsar this evening. However, the patients were evacuated in time out of the building, averting any major tragedy. Visuals from the spot showed the hospital building completely covered behind a thick cloud of dark smoke.
The staff of Guru Nanak Dev Hospital claimed the fire started from an electricity transformer in the parking area behind a building near the X-ray department. The patients admitted in different wards of the building were timely evacuated by the hospital employees and their attendants, they said.
"Initially, the fire broke out in the transformers. Eight fire tenders reached the spot. The fire is under control. No injuries have been reported, Fire Officer Lovepreet Singh was quoted saying by news agency ANI.
The fire has been doused now.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said that he was monitoring the relief work. State Power Minister Harbhajan Singh is at the spot, the Chief Minister informed in a tweet in Hindi.
श्री अमृतसर साहिब में गुरु नानक अस्पताल में आग लगने की मंदभागी घटना की खबर मिली। फायर फाइटर्स मुस्तैदी से हालातों पर काबू पा रहे हैं। परमात्मा की मेहर से किसी जान का नुकसान नहीं हुआ
— Bhagwant Mann (@BhagwantMann) May 14, 2022
मंत्री हरभजन सिंह घटना स्थल पर पहुंच गए हैं...मैं लगातार राहत कामों को मॉनिटर कर रहा हूं
Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal shared a message extending his prayers for the well-being of those who were at the hospital during the incident.
Harbhajan Singh said the Punjab State Power Corporation has been ordered to to install new transformers and restore the electricity supply to the hospital. He also stated that a probe is underway to ascertain the cause of the blaze. | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/punjab-fire-breaks-out-in-amritsars-guru-nanak-dev-hospital-2975685 | 2022-05-14T12:42:54Z | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/punjab-fire-breaks-out-in-amritsars-guru-nanak-dev-hospital-2975685 | false | 1 |
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Floyd Mayweather's unique exhibition clash with Don Moore could reportedly happen as early as next week after their Saturday night bout was postponed amid tragedy.
The 'Money Man' was due to face his former sparring partner in Dubai on a hotel helipad - 700ft above sea level. The intriguing ring had already been set up with around just 20 VIP spectators set to watch, having paid the equivalent of £150,000 for a seat.
However, on Friday, came news of the death of 73-year-old UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed. Khalifa had been in the role since 2004 onwards, and was reportedly worth around $120million.
As a result, the UAE’s ministry of presidential affairs announced a 40-day period of mourning and a three-day suspension of work in all ministries. Mayweather himself shared a picture of Sheikh Khalifa on Instagram, along with the caption: "Sending my condolences to the entire UAE. RIP Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed."
It all meant that the two American stars, who had prepared for their big night by sparring in Dubai, saw their event scrapped with. no new date set. However, Global Titans Fight Service have insisted that the pair will still dance very soon.
In a released statement, they promised "a new date to be announced very soon." They added: "We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and reassure fans that this spectacular event will be staged in the future." And according to TMZ Sports, they have reported that the two boxers could reschedule the fight for sometime next week.
Is Mayweather's helipad jaunt going to be fantastic or a farce? Let us know in the comments section.
Despite announcing his retirement after beating UFC star Conor McGregor in 2017, a win which saw him go 50-0, Mayweather has continued to take exhibition fights. A year later he embarrassed featherweight kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa after initial confusion over the rules.
Last June he then faced YouTuber Logan Paul. Despite outclassing the influencer, the occasion drew much criticism with Mayweather appearing to ease up and deliberately prolong the clash.
And despite his latest showing being delayed, the icon shouldn't be desperate for the cash. Last week he bagged around £42,546 after betting big on Dmitry Bivol to beat his old rival Canelo Alvarez. | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/boxing/floyd-mayweather-exhibition-fight-moore-26963652 | 2022-05-14T12:45:22Z | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/boxing/floyd-mayweather-exhibition-fight-moore-26963652 | true | 1 |
Journalists packed a small courtroom in Kyiv for the trial of a captured Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian in the early days of the war — the first of dozens of war crimes cases that Ukraine’s top prosecutor said her office is pursuing.
As the trial of 21-year-old Russian Sgt. Vadim Shyshimarin got underway in the capital, Russian forces suffered heavy losses in a Ukrainian attack that destroyed a pontoon bridge they were using to try to cross a river in the east, Ukrainian and British officials said in another sign of Moscow’s struggle to salvage a war gone awry.
Ukraine’s airborne command released photos and video of what it said was a damaged Russian pontoon bridge over the Siversky Donets River in Bilohorivka and at least 73 destroyed or damaged Russian military vehicles nearby.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said Russia lost “significant armored maneuver elements” of at least one battalion tactical group in the attack. A Russian battalion tactical group consists of about 1,000 troops.
“Conducting river crossings in a contested environment is a highly risky maneuver and speaks to the pressure the Russian commanders are under to make progress in their operations in eastern Ukraine,” the ministry said in its daily intelligence update.
In other developments, a move by Finland and, potentially, Sweden to join NATO was thrown into question when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is “not of a favorable opinion” toward the idea. He accused Sweden and other Scandinavian countries of supporting Kurdish militants and others Turkey considers terrorists.
Erdogan did not say outright that he would block the two nations from joining NATO. But the military alliance makes its decisions by consensus, meaning that each of its 30 member countries has a veto over who can join.
An expansion of NATO would be a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who undertook the war in what he said was a bid to thwart the alliance’s eastward advance. But in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, other countries along Russia’s flank fear they could be next.
With Russia’s offensive in the Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, seeming to turn increasingly into a grinding war of attrition and Ukraine pleading for more arms to fend off the better-equipped Russians, the European Union’s foreign affairs chief announced plans to give Kyiv an additional 500 million euros ($520 million) to buy heavy weapons.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov welcomed the heavy weapons making their way to the front lines but admitted there is no quick end to the war in sight.
“We are entering a new, long-term phase of the war,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “Extremely difficult weeks await us. How many there will be? No one can say for sure.”
The battle for the Donbas has turned into a village-by-village, back-and-forth slog with no major breakthroughs on either side and little ground gained. In his nightly address Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said no one can predict how long the war will last but that his country’s forces have been making progress, including retaking six Ukrainian towns or villages in the past day.
Fierce fighting has been taking place on the Siversky Donets River near the city of Severodonetsk, said Oleh Zhdanov, an independent Ukrainian military analyst. The Ukrainian military has launched counterattacks but has failed to halt Russia’s advance, he said.
“The fate of a large portion of the Ukrainian army is being decided — there are about 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers,” he said.
The Ukrainian military chief for the Luhansk region of the Donbas said Friday that troops have taken nearly full control of Rubizhne, a city with a prewar population of around 55,000.
In the ruined southern port of Mariupol, Ukrainian fighters holed up in a steel plant faced continued Russian attacks on the last stronghold of resistance in the city. Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment, said his troops will hold out “as long as they can” despite shortages of ammunition, food, water and medicine.
And in Kyiv, Ukrainian soldiers dressed in white protective suits loaded the bodies of Russian soldiers onto refrigerated train cars on Friday. The bodies were wrapped in white body bags and stacked several layers deep.
Col. Volodymyr Lyamzin, who supervised the operation, said several hundred bodies were being stored on the trains in the capital and that there were several other storage trains elsewhere in the country. He said Ukraine was ready to hand the bodies over to Russia, but so far there has been no agreement to do so.
In the first war crimes case brought to trial, Shyshimarin could get life in prison if convicted of shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in a village in the northeastern Sumy region on Feb. 28, four days into the invasion.
The defendant, dressed in a blue and gray hoodie and gray sweatpants, sat in a small glass cage during the proceedings, which lasted about 15 minutes and will resume on Wednesday. The trial will be closely watched by international observers to make sure the trial is fair.
Shyshimarin was asked a series of questions, including whether he understood his rights and whether he wanted a jury trial. He declined the latter.
His Ukraine-assigned attorney, Victor Ovsyanikov, has acknowledged that the case against Shyshimarin is strong and has not indicated what the soldier’s defense will be.
Shyshimarin, a member of a tank unit that was captured by Ukrainian forces, admitted that he shot the civilian in a video posted by the Security Service of Ukraine, saying he was ordered to do so.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said she is readying war crimes cases against 41 Russian soldiers for offenses including bombing civilian infrastructure, killing civilians, rape and looting. She said two accused of bombing civilian infrastructure and residential buildings are in Ukrainian hands. It wasn’t clear how many of the suspects would be tried in absentia.
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Yesica Fisch in Bakhmut, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv, Jari Tanner in Helsinki, Elena Becatoros in Odesa, and other AP staffers around the world contributed to this report.
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The purported Supreme Court reversal of Roe v Wade has put the spotlight on abortion. It is a complex issue with no easy answer. Focus is often put on rare incidents not the vast per cent of those central in the matter. Studies show why young women often seek abortion? The reasons most frequently cited were that having a child would interfere with a woman’s education, work or ability to care for dependents (74%); that she could not afford a baby now (73%); and that she did not want to be a single mother or was having relationship problems (48%).
Approximately one million women obtain abortions each year. A small proportion of women who have abortions do so because of health concerns or fetal anomalies. Most result from passion and laziness meeting.
“Nobody has the right to tell me what to do with my body,” is often given in support of an abortion. That puts all of the welfare on the mother and none on the disadvantaged child. Did you ever go to a doctor at any time? You likely had him tell you such things as what medicine to take when. If you are a young woman you likely accepted birth control advice including preventative care and used it somewhat.
Nobody told you to have sex. You did it voluntarily. Upon doing so you accepted the response: pregnancy. You became responsible whether you wanted to or not.
If you deliver the child after birth you will hold it in your arms. Until giving birth you are holding that child in your body. Would you not hold that child in your arms and protect it so no harm would come to it? Why not exercise that same care and protection before birth?
The Scripture gives insight to preborns. The Greek word for what was in the womb of Elizabeth when Mary told her of her pregnancy is “brephos” and it is translated “babe.” (Luke 1: 41)
The same word “brephos” was used to help the shepherds find the one born to Mary, “You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes....” (Luke 2: 12)
The same word is used for the unborn John and the infant Jesus and is translated babe. In the womb of every pregnant person that is a baby in there, a brephos.
Should not an expectant mother hold her babe in her womb as carefully as she would later in her arms? Holding it in the womb is simply self-discipline and a willingness to practice delayed-gratification.
Once I helped provide a home for unwed mothers, the Clay Home. Recently I met a lovely young mother. She told me she had lived there and gave birth to her child while there. She named her son Clay. His mother continued her story. At the time of our conversation Clay was entering college as a freshman on an athletic scholarship. Her delayed-gratification showed on her radiant face in telling her story.
To abort a baby is to take a human life and rob one’s self of gratification for years to come.
The battle lost by our society that leads to abortion even being an issue is sexual abstinence prior to marriage. A synonym for abstinence is self-restraint.
The mothers of numerous well known individuals considered an abortion. Some are: Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Tim Tebow, Pope John Paul II, Justin Bieber, Jesse Jackson, Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli, Brooke Shields, Cher, Eartha Kitt, Faith Daniels, Ethel Waters and many others. Consider all the delayed-gratification in that list. | https://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/nelson-price-abortion-yes-or-no/article_93e09f36-d079-11ec-8f1b-abc4d3c6d2b6.html | 2022-05-14T12:48:40Z | https://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/nelson-price-abortion-yes-or-no/article_93e09f36-d079-11ec-8f1b-abc4d3c6d2b6.html | true | 1 |
OSWEGO - Springside at Seneca Hill will provide the next Oswego County Salvation Army’s guest chef dinner on Tuesday, May 17, with dining room and takeout service from 4:30-6 p.m. or until food is gone. The dinner has been planned and will be cooked by Michael Cali, Springside’s former food service manager and executive chef. He is now director of Springside operations. Dinner will include chicken and biscuits, tossed salad, and assorted desserts and beverages provided by members of the advisory board. The dinner will be at the Salvation Army Center for Worship and Service, 73 W. Second St., Oswego.
Other dinners this year will be on June 21, by Vona’s Restaurant; Sept. 13, complete roast beef dinner provided by the Oswego Zonta Club; Oct. 4, provided by the Press Box; and Nov. 1, given by Canale’s Restaurant. All dinners are on Tuesdays with dine in or take out service from 4:30-6 p.m. or until the food is gone. The guest chef dinners are organized by the Salvation Army Advisory Board and offered to the community to raise funds to support the Army’s services for individuals and families in need throughout Oswego County. The food is donated, so all receipts go to the work of the Army.
There is an increase in the dinner price this year, however, diners may purchase a sheet of six tickets at last year’s price. The tickets may be used in any combination at any of this year’s dinners. The sheets of tickets may be purchased at any dinner.
In March, the Corps provided 380 soup kitchen meals in Oswego and 172 in Fulton. It supplied 60 Fulton households with groceries for 1,296 meals and 68 Oswego households with groceries for 1,512 meals. It also distributed over 650 loaves of bread and pastries. Eleven families obtained low-cost food from the Food Bank of Central New York through The Salvation Army in Oswego. The corps offers families its Pathway of Hope program that seeks to prepare the younger generation for breaking the cycle of poverty.
Springside at Seneca Hill is the unique and upscale retirement community of Oswego Health. It is for adults, age 55 and older, and features a warm and caring environment with services and support programs designed to serve the needs and preferences of independent seniors. Housing options include one- and two-bedroom apartments in a congregate building, and one-story duplex-style homes and single unit cottages, featuring two bedrooms, two baths, kitchen, garages and other amenities. Congregate living offers the fullest possibilities of independent living by providing private apartments along with publicly shared space for daily restaurant-style, as well as social, recreational, and educational activities. The duplex homes and cottages include maintenance-free services and access to the activities of the congregate building.
Information about The Salvation Army or about serving as a volunteer is available at 315-343-6491 or at the office at 73 W. Second St., Oswego. | https://www.nny360.com/artsandlife/foodanddrink/springside-at-seneca-hill-to-provide-salvation-army-guest-chef-dinner/article_6bc23188-2bb0-53af-90f5-afc28765ac89.html | 2022-05-14T12:52:57Z | https://www.nny360.com/artsandlife/foodanddrink/springside-at-seneca-hill-to-provide-salvation-army-guest-chef-dinner/article_6bc23188-2bb0-53af-90f5-afc28765ac89.html | false | 1 |
Another very warm & muggy day with a mix of sun & clouds; spot shower possible late
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - A warm start this morning with overnight temperatures staying elevated in the upper 60s with sunrise officially at 5:30am this morning! Overnight cloud cover breaks up a bit this morning allowing for any patchy fog to lift quite easily. A mix of sun and clouds will remain for Saturday with more clouds developing later in the afternoon as high pressure begins to slide out of the area. The day is looking very warm with temperatures soaring to the mid 80s for the warmest day of the season! The day should remain dry but with a southerly flow bringing added moisture in the area (you can feel that mugginess!), air can become unstable at the surface a bit so we can’t rule out a spot shower to develop after sunset, but should be isolated if so.
Sunday tracks to be warm and humid once again as a southerly flow will remain out in front of an approaching cold front. There is more of a chance for a pop-up shower or thunderstorm on Sunday as temps settle in the low to mid 80s, so you want to be a bit more weather aware as you’re out and about Sunday afternoon!
Showers and thunderstorms are more likely for western Mass Monday as a cold front moves in from the west. As this looks to be our next potentially impactful weather, we’ve issued a First Alert Weather Day for Monday. The day looks hot and humid with scattered thunderstorms moving in by the afternoon and evening. Some storms may be strong or even severe with downpours, hail and high winds. To stay up to date with hour by hour coverage, make sure to download the Western Mass News Weather App, and stay weather aware!
Behind the front, humidity falls significantly and temperatures return to around normal. Breezy and dry with good sunshine Tuesday to Thursday. Temperatures look to climb again by Friday and there’s potential for significant heat next weekend.
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At its core, the abortion debate is between those who regard the fetus as a person and those who regard abortion as a rightful option for pregnant women.
While there are religious and non-religious people on both sides of the argument, the loudest voices are often those of religious traditionalists on one side and contemporary secularists on the other.
The discussion also entails biology, medical technology, policy questions and constitutional issues such as state's rights and a personal right to privacy. As the decades have passed, the discussion has also become saturated with partisan politics as the mix of opinion in the major parties has shifted dramatically.
But through it all, there is no denying the centrality of religion. It is not so much a matter of identification with one faith or church, but of the degree of intensity of an individual's involvement.
In a report issued Friday, Gallup senior scientist Frank Newport wrote:
"The pattern among Protestants and Catholics reflects the general pattern in the U.S. — the more religious the individual, the more likely that individual is to say that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances."
Newport noted that such an outright ban was favored by "only 9-10% of all Americans who seldom or never attend religious services," but that jumps to 19-23% among those who attend once a month or almost every week, and to 40% of those who attend church once a week."
To be sure, surveys also find differences in attitude that reflect gender, age, education, party preference and geographic residence. But all of these reflect the relative religiosity of individuals within these groups. The belief that abortion is morally wrong is embraced by 75% of those who attend services weekly, but less than half of those who seldom or never attend.
"In short the relative religiosity of Americans (that is how religious they are) is more predictive of their abortion attitudes than their broad religious identity," according to Newport.
Going all the way back to the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, which invalidated the anti-abortion statutes in effect in 46 states, the objections heard have come first and foremost from religious organizations and activists.
There have been secular institutions that criticized Roe as well, including some academic and legal organizations. The biggest, ultimately, has been the Republican Party, which had been neutral on abortion in the 1970s but has since aligned in opposition. But that has reflected the rising role of religion in that party, particularly the role of evangelical and Catholic traditionalists.
Many Americans, particularly those born since Roe, may find all this rather mystifying. The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning – and even before.
Religion was a driving and determinative force in politics on this continent even before the "United States" had been formed. And it has been brought to bear in widely disparate causes. Religion has been invoked to condemn slavery and segregation, to ban alcohol and the teaching of evolutionary science and to bolster anti-war movements.
Colonial origins
Persecution of religious minorities in the British isles and Europe drove many of the original white settlers of the American continent across the Atlantic in the 1600s. In New England colonies, one could find the origins of both tolerance and intolerance. Rhode Island had religious freedom for all, including Jews. But in Massachusetts there were witch trials and an emphasis on religious conformity.
The split tradition was in evidence at the founding of the Republic, with a mix of attitudes mainly devoted to minimizing religious rivalries and antagonism. The Constitution banned any religious test for office and the First Amendment barred the establishing of an official church.
In the early 1800s, there were waves of religious feeling and new formats emerged, from the transcendentalist movement in New England to the rise of the Latter-day Saints led by Joseph Smith, who eventually found a home in Utah.
But the main thrust of religion in the period was the challenge that the abolitionist movement, often led by preachers, made to the institution of slavery. The movement often adopted the language of liberation from the Bible and cast the "peculiar institution" of the South as not just wrong but sinful. Note the religious language in the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which speaks of Christ's death as the model for the Union's mission in the Civil War. ("As He died to make men holy / Let us die to make men free / His truth is marching on / Glory, glory hallelujah!")
Appropriating biblical images was also a habit for the populist hero William Jennings Bryan, who came out of Nebraska to lead a national movement against the gold standard used to establish value at the time. His "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention led to his first nomination for president at the age of 36. ("You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold.")
He was nominated — and lost — three times. But he later served as secretary of state and became a champion of those religious traditionalists opposed to the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. He appeared as both an attorney and a witness in the famous Scopes trial in Tennessee in 1925, arguing for a literal reading of the Bible's six-day story of creation.
Bryan was also influential in the temperance movement, largely a project of Protestant activists. Supported largely by church leaders, the movement found enough support in a still-largely rural America to ban the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. Backed generally by rural representatives from both parties, Prohibition was achieved in 1920 by constitutional amendment (the 18th) and ended by another (the 21st) in 1933.
Civil rights and anti-war movements
After the repeal of Prohibition, many religious white people in the U.S. turned away from politics. While distressed at many trends in the culture, they did not see a clear path to addressing them in the public sphere.
But something quite different was happening in the churches of African Americans, especially in the South. Much as the symbols of Exodus had been used a century earlier, they reappeared in the civil rights movement in the post-war American South. Songs with words such as "Tell old Pharaoh let my people go" were sung with new meaning, their words incorporated in sermons by preachers in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by the Rev. Martin Luther King.
Also borrowing from the Bible were some exponents of anti-war sentiment in both the Protestant and Catholic traditions who opposed the war in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s.
While there had been "conscientious objectors" in the two world wars who cited Christ's non-violent teachings to resist military service, their numbers were few and had little impact. That changed with Vietnam, and priests and preachers were often involved in encouraging such objections.
But after Vietnam, active engagement on major public issues more often came from the more conservative elements of the religious community. Some were mobilized by the Supreme Court's 1962 ruling that prayer in public schools violated the Constitution's establishment clause. Others were disturbed when courts began ruling against religious displays in official places, such as monuments to the Ten Commandments in courthouses.
As the 20th century came to a close, much of the traditional religious community shifted its focus to the rising gay rights movement and "the homosexual agenda." This activism had support in both parties, and President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, his reelection year. He later said that had been a mistake.
In the early years of the new century, resistance to gay rights and gender identity issues focused on same-sex marriage. In the 2004 presidential election year, Republican activists were able to include bans on such unions as ballot measures in a number of swing states – notably the bellwether state of Ohio.
Robust turnout among religious conservatives in those states that year contributed to narrow wins for Republican President George W. Bush, who would the following year nominate two conservative Catholics (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito) to the Supreme Court.
That was not enough to prevent the court from reaching a historic decision in the 2015 case of Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. With both Roberts and Alito dissenting, along with two other Catholic members appointed by earlier Republican presidents, the high court on that occasion overturned all state laws blocking same sex marriage.
But the reasoning found in Alito's draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson is regarded by some as applicable to Obergefell as well, raising the possibility of another precedent being overturned. Some legal scholars think the same could be said of the 1967 ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which struck down laws against interracial marriage. Alito wrote in his draft opinion that overturning Roe would not imperil other precedents.
An apparent contradiction in trends
It may seem surprising, or contrary to expectations, that contentious religious issues are gaining importance in the Republican Party at this point in U.S. history. The rising influence of religious conservatives in the GOP coincides with a steady decline in the percentage of Americans identifying with either Catholic or Protestant churches. That decline in percentage terms had begun in the latter half of the 20th century but it has accelerated since, according to periodic surveys by the Pew Research Center.
Pew also found the percentage of Americans who claimed no particular religious connection (including self-described agnostics or atheists) has risen from 17% to 26% since 2009.
Despite all this, or perhaps in part because of it, political activism has risen among those who do prioritize a religious connection. And that activism, including a heightened propensity to vote, has had substantial and sustained political impact over the last 40 years — owing in part to the issue of abortion and the force of Roe v. Wade.
Roe vote remains the big test
When Roe was decided, four of the seven justices who voted for it had been appointed by Republican presidents (three by Richard Nixon). Only one Republican appointee dissented.
But since then, and particularly since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the GOP has courted religious conservatives and promised them judges attuned to their causes — particularly opposition to Roe.
The five current Supreme Court justices prepared to overturn Roe (according to the leaked version of the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson) were all appointed by Republican presidents, three by Donald Trump alone. Trump had been more explicit than any of his predecessors in promising to appoint justices committed to ending Roe.
Most of the voters for Republican presidents have not been Catholic but Protestant, especially white evangelical Protestants. The Catholic vote, which was overwhelmingly Democratic for nearly two centuries, is now split about evenly nationally in presidential elections. But Trump got about three-fifths of the white Catholic vote each time he was nominated.
Republicans who get to the Oval Office have found the most likely nominees to please social conservatives with their eventual votes on the bench are the Catholic nominees. Non-Catholics named by Republicans since Reagan took office have not been as likely to oppose Roe. Of the seven justices they named who were Catholic, five are still on the court and four of them were named as supporting the draft of the Alito ruling overturning Roe.
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National Nurses Week, a week designated to raise awareness of the important role nurses play in society, is this week and this year’s theme is Nurses Make a Difference. We couldn’t agree more.
You can’t think of Nurses Week without thinking of the two people most often credited with the founding of the nursing profession – Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton.
Nightingale, considered the founder of modern nursing, was a British nurse put in charge of nursing British and allied soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War. She spent many hours in the wards, and her night rounds giving personal care to the wounded established her image as the “Lady with the Lamp.” Her efforts to formalize nursing education led her to establish the first scientifically based nursing school-the Nightingale School of Nursing, at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London (opened 1860). She also was instrumental in setting up training for midwives and nurses in workhouse infirmaries
Barton served as a nurse during the Civil War at the battles of Chantilly, Fairfax Station, Fredericksburg, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, South Mountain, Petersburg, Charleston, and Cold Harbor, often at the front line. Not only did she nurse the wounded, she comforted, cooked, read, wrote letters, and prayed for them. She was also responsible for founding the American Red Cross in 1881, at age 60, and led it for the next 23 years.
Nurses can be found on the front lines, providing comfort to those in hospitals on what is surely one of the worst days of their live, helping to care for the elderly in nursing homes, caring for children in schools every day, and helping terminally ill patients be able to die in the most comfortable, dignified way as possible.
Nursing is a balance between being an art and a science. While nurses are responsible for getting patients the appropriate medication and understanding what’s wrong with them to help treat them, they also strive to show their patients that they really care for them, develop a rapport, and let them know they are there for them during what is most likely the worst time in their life.
It takes a special kind of person to be able to do this job and we commend all those in the profession. This week we encourage our readers to take a little time to thank the nurses in your life.
— South Plate Sentinel Editorial Board, May 10 | https://www.greeleytribune.com/2022/05/13/editorial-thank-a-nurse-this-week/ | 2022-05-14T13:01:50Z | https://www.greeleytribune.com/2022/05/13/editorial-thank-a-nurse-this-week/ | false | 2 |
HoYoverse announces their latest game, Zenless Zone Zero, a new Action RPG, and opens the game’s Closed Beta Testing Phase. The Closed Beta Testing Phase of Zenless Zone Zero opened today. Fans of HoYoverse games Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact would be able to experience an all-new ARPG game, this time in a post-apocalyptic futurepunk setting. Zenless Zone Zero is HoYoverse’s brand-new urban fantasy IP and is the developers’ further attempt in exploring action-oriented gameplay. In this game, players will discover New Eridu, the last shelter for urban civilization due to the calamity Hollows. Together with a group of distinctive partners, players will fight alongside each other and unravel the mysteries in this post-apocalyptic world. Sign up for the Closed Beta here. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2597385478905/bike-mechanic-simulator-2023-officially-announced-for-pc-and-consoles | 2022-05-14T13:02:15Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2597385478905/bike-mechanic-simulator-2023-officially-announced-for-pc-and-consoles | true | null |
We look at how the fight over abortion access might turn out voters in the midterms. Also, how will the White House tackle the nation-wide shortage of baby formula?
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We look at how the fight over abortion access might turn out voters in the midterms. Also, how will the White House tackle the nation-wide shortage of baby formula?
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How Arsenal could line up against Newcastle with new formation to combat defensive crisis after Tottenham disaster
MIKEL ARTETA will be forced into a defensive reshuffle when his Arsenal side return to action on Monday night.
And by the time the Gunners travel to Newcastle they may have already been leapfrogged into fourth-place by Tottenham.
The game is a must-win for Arsenal, who will definitely be without Rob Holding after he was sent off in the 3-0 defeat to Spurs.
Fellow defender Gabriel Magalhaes meanwhile is a major doubt after limping off with a muscular problem.
That means Arteta will be forced to shuffle his pack and could name a makeshift centre-back pairing of Ben White and Takehiro Tomiyasu.
White was an unused sub on Thursday night despite Holding's sending off and is still working his way back to full fitness after a hamstring problem.
Tomiyasu has been playing at left-back recently but is set to move across into the heart of defence, with Granit Xhaka a candidate to replace him.
Arteta has not started Nuno Tavares in either of the last two games, and the summer signing from Benfica could be left on the bench once again.
Cedric Soares will continue at right-back with Aaron Ramsdale in goal.
If Xhaka is indeed moved into the back four Albert Sambi Lokonga could partner Mohamed Elneny in the middle of the park.
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The front four is unlikely to change from the north London derby defeat.
But alternatively in defence, Arteta could shake things up completely and name a back three.
The Spaniard could opt to employ Xhaka in the heart of defence alongside White and Tomiyasu in order to give the Swiss international more cover.
That would likely see Tavares start at left wing-back, and Martin Odegaard drop into a deeper role in the middle of the park.
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Thousands of people who support reproductive rights are marching Saturday in several cities to highlight the potential ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Osisko Development Corp. (OTCMKTS:RNGTF – Get Rating) saw a large decline in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 6,600 shares, a decline of 35.9% from the April 15th total of 10,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 59,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.1 days.
Separately, Desjardins lowered their price objective on shares of Osisko Development from C$24.75 to C$24.00 in a research report on Friday, February 4th.
Osisko Development stock opened at $8.35 on Friday. Osisko Development has a 1 year low of $3.06 and a 1 year high of $6.45. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $9.91 and a two-hundred day moving average of $10.60.
Osisko Development Corp., a gold mining company, engages in the exploration, evaluation, and development of mining projects. Its flagship project is the Cariboo Gold project covering an area of 2,071 square kilometers of mineral rights located in British Columbia, Canada. The company is based in Montreal, Canada.
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It was a strong session for
Missouri’s agriculture groups: From Farm Bureau to the Soybean Association to the Cattlemen, and really all of the Missouri ag community came together to not only get their MASBDA tax credits going again, but passed an eminent domain bill that they have been working on for years. One of the best sessions for ag in a long time — and that bar is high.
Senator Jason Bean: He passed several bills, including a gambling bill, but the big-ticket items were his leading voice on MASBDA and working with Rep. Mike Haffner on the eminent domain bill.
House Floor Leader Dean Plocher: He had a tough hand this year, but in the end, he carried a paranoid and dim-witted leadership partner and a Senate at war with itself to a surprisingly productive session. He was tough — sometimes real damn tough — when he had to be while keeping his reputation as an honest and willing deal maker. In the end, he was able to use his influence, which increased greatly Friday afternoon to force a congressional map out of the Senate and establish the House as the reasonable chamber for serious public policy discussions.
Senator Brian Williams: He brought in a haul for St. Louis County in the budget, a big haul. It really makes no sense how he delivered that haul from his position in the minority party. It just goes to show that relationships matter.
Senator Lincoln Hough: Speaking of the budget, this was another year of the Senate leading the budget process, and the senator leading that was Senator Hough. While this wasn’t the clear stomping that the three previous budgets have seen, the senate was clearly the leading chamber, and that dominance over the past four years has been led by Senator Hough.
Rep. Travis Fitzwater: He made his case as the serious candidate in SD 10 with a strong session highlighted by his legislation on workforce development. All the yelling and moaning from the outside of the real conversation doesn’t accomplish much; his work to bring consensus did deliver a big boost for Missouri employers.
Department of Social Services: Under new leadership, DSS is turning a toxic relationship with the legislature into a partnership. It wasn’t that long ago that DSS was seeing the General Assembly launch investigative hearings, make punitive cuts to the director’s office, and put Medicaid funding and the FRA in perpetual limbo. This year, DSS advocated loudly and successfully for the governor’s supplemental pay plan, received restoration of prior cuts, got funding for numerous technology upgrades, full funding for Medicaid, and the new Children’s Division Director Darrell Missey has been well-received by lawmakers.
Senator Rizzo and his Democratic Caucus: They deftly took every advantage of a Republican Caucus at war with itself.
Casinos and gray machines: The fight will continue next year on gray machines with no clear law to regulate them. Today, a gray machine is either legal or illegal based on how a local prosecutor reads an ambiguous law, and the casinos have continued to win by stonewalling VLTs and sportsbooks.
Rep. Jon Patterson: He will be a hero back home for navigating the legislation that puts Kansas City in the running for the World Cup.
Senator Caleb Rowden: What a tough hand he was dealt this year. No question it was messy, but he ended the session with a pretty solid list of accomplishments and having done what was necessary to make himself the overwhelming favorite to become the Pro Tem next session.
MOCANN: The group of businesses in the medical marijuana industry were able to stand pat on the existing law and watch their political opponents go from sheriffs and pastors to Cheech and Chong — while seeing the law enforcement and the religious community become some of the biggest defenders of the current regulatory system. Not a bad five months of work.
House Budget Committee: Last year it was pretty lopsided, but the House was able to sink Medicaid expansion funding … only to see the Supreme Court take back its win a couple of months later. This time the Senate position and House position weren’t nearly as lopsided, and against all logic, the House was able to pry $50 million for a series of highly questionable education programs that could have only been secured with some savvy legislating and skilled dealmaking. In short, they are moving in a positive direction to restore budget balance.
Senator Greg Razer: There was a specific bill that the majority was very eager to pass; it didn’t.
Rep. Dan Houx: He navigated some choppy waters on gaming and HB 2400, which will be the biggest economic development bill of session.
Rep. Phil Christofanelli: He delivered a number of significant budget wins for eastern St. Charles County. He passed legislation expanding access to virtual schools, and used his position as Rules chairman to negotiate compromises on some of the session’s thorniest issues.
Jorgen Schlemeier: He is fundamentally changing not just the tone, but the very vocabulary of Missouri Republicans.
Drew Dampf: He might be the most talented staffer in the Senate. His relationships bridge the partisan divide and the Senate and House’s physical divide. He navigated Sen. Dan Hegeman through every one of his budgets and acted as a trusted advisor to Sens. Caleb Rowden and Dave Schatz along the way. I’m not sure where he’s heading next, but someone is going to acquire a lot of talent when they land him.
Rep. Jim Murphy: The most quotable man in the Missouri Republican Party had a busy session, but his work calling on the state to do more than just run their mouths or post Facebook videos on illegal immigration paid off. There is money in the budget to actually do something reasonable to put some action behind the rhetoric.
Senator Doug Beck: He has been able to become a senator who kills legislation and be a senator who Republicans seek out to help pass legislation.
Rep. Kurtis Gregory: The former Missouri Tiger really came into his own in the last month of session moving several pieces of legislation, including the NIL legislation that has become so crucial in college recruiting. He crafted a reputation that will have several lobbyists making the trip to the farm in Saline County to ask him to carry their complicated legislation next session.
MATA: How about a session where no one took a serious run at them? Ken Barnes may want to run for presidencies after this.
Rep. Curtis Trent Despite having few bills referred to his committee by an inexplicably hostile Speaker, he finished having a strong session. He delivered on several Greene County priorities. Also teaming with Rep. Bruce DeGroot they passed the prison nursery legislation that is something reps in every district in the state can tout. In many ways it looked a lot like an audition for the Senate in demonstrating his chops as a workhorse, quietly helping move policy behind the scenes. This session showed the need for Senators who can work well with other personalities and navigate the precarious internal politics of the upper chamber. He made his case that he has the demeanor to be a calming and constructive addition to the Senate.
Palm Strategies A company that doesn’t exist but got hours of free press.
Missouri School Board Association: After being the first state association to drop the national group after their bizarre antics toward parents they led the discussion on fair compromises on some very challenging issues during what will likely be the toughest session public education will ever have to face. Before session was over senators were back to defending their school boards over frivolous lawsuits being flung at them.
Senators Rick Brattin and Eric Burlison: In what was a brutal congressional map process they both came out big winners. Burlison was able to get Webster County mostly axed from his congressional race, and Brattin was able to get Boone County, the county of the sitting floor leader, cut in half for his congressional race this summer. You can tweet all you want whining about gerrymandering; these two senators were just worried about winning.
Thomas Robbins of SCC: You know how you can tell when a lobbyist is making a legit difference in the Capitol? When the liberal papers start taking shots at him. A couple more Post or Star stories, and he will have to up his retainer fee.
Missouri Right to Life: You might be wondering what MRL will do now that Roe vs. Wade is on the way to the ash heap of history. Well, Susan Klein showed this session she can make any bill in the legislature about aboriton and bring a handful of senators with her. MRL has already had a good year, and they haven’t even got to the time of year when they are the most popular: campaign endorsement time.
Brian Grace and Kate Casas: They have the client that caused an eminent domain bill to be filed for nine years in a row. Ultimately, their client wasn’t impacted by the eminent domain reform that the legislature passed. That’s masterful.
Senator Mike Bernskoetter As chair of redistricting, he took on a seemingly impossible task and when all seemed lost, on the second to last day of session, executed pretty big win over the conservative caucus who had attacked his efforts all session. If he decides to run he has put himself in a position to be a top contender for floor leader.
Utilities It was a very successful year for utilities racking up several small good government regulatory changes that continue to keep rates low.
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver: He’s still in Congress, ain’t he?
Those who had a bit tougher session
Sportsbooks: About the time they finally came to an agreement with Senator Denny Hoskins … they found out the casinos were there in opposition the entire time and proved to be an even bigger obstacle.
House Speaker Rob Vescovo: After being kept from embarrassing himself all year by the floor leader, sometimes it’s the smallest thing, like whitewashing an Ethics complaint, to get people to start asking questions … or reading personal financial disclosure forms … or bankruptcy filings … or start asking what day he agreed to go on the payroll of that not for profit.
St. Charles County Republicans: 35 percent. That is roughly the amount of the vote in a Republican primary that will come from St. Charles County. All that rankor and all those hours on the floor, and in the end 35 percent. They can’t be happy about that in Wentzville. However, a tip of the hat and I know I may be in the minority in giving one to Senator Onder for at the very end not forcing a PQ on a map I know he hated.
IP reform: Initiative petitioners might have escaped House Floor Leader Dean Plocher, but will they escape House Speaker Dean Plocher?
The Attorney General’s Office: After an overwhelmingly popular effort to cut the masks off Missouri children, they ultimately lost a budget increase after continuing to sue school boards after the mask wars were over. The question swirling around the big brick building is how far down will they let Justin Smith drag them into the vortex of making skinny east coast triggered republicans happy while pissing off republican school board members in Mountain View?
Casinos: They make both lists because for years they have played the VLT/Gray Machine/Sportsbook issues like total pros. However, now Senator Hoskins is going to make them take the lead on opposing some pretty popular legislation.
Webster County They somehow got caught up in the congressional map mess, and ended up getting stuck in the same congressional district as Blue Springs. In other words they got the shaft, and I wish Senator Cunningham the best of luck in court.
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Israeli police fought to block a funeral march for Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh just outside of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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McDermitt, Ore. (AP) — Katie Fite crouched behind some waist-high sagebrush, and her dog Bell nestled in the plant’s cozy cavity to shield from howling winds.
It was the first Saturday in April, peak mating season for sage grouse on a remote stretch of the Oregon-Nevada border. From where Fite and her dog sat, they could see more than a dozen male grouse displaying their tail feathers and issuing their signature zip-popping call to bring all the girls to the yard.
All around the lek — the flat, open areas where sage grouse congregate during mating season — were wooden stakes marking where mining companies may one day scrape away this crucial habitat to get at the minerals contained in the cake-soft earth of the McDermitt Caldera.
The old supervolcano straddling the state line is laced with some of the highest concentrations of lithium in the United States, making it a prime target for miners and prospectors looking to feed a growing hunger for batteries to store renewable energy and power electric vehicles.
It’s also some of the country’s best remaining sage grouse habitat, which has declined precipitously in the past century.
“There’s still hope for sage grouse here, unlike many other areas,” Fite, who’s monitored sage grouse for decades and now serves as public lands director for the conservation group Wildlands Defense, told Oregon Public Broadcasting. “But it’ll be a death knell for sage grouse out here if industrial mega-mining for lithium takes place.”
Just a few years ago, the McDermitt Caldera was off-limits to new mining claims to protect sage grouse. But rule changes under the Trump administration opened the door to extractive industry, and industry walked in.
Multiple companies have staked mining claims in southeast Oregon and are issuing bold statements about the region’s lithium prospects to lure investors. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is making a big push to build a stand-alone battery supply chain in the U.S., further filling the mining industry’s sails.
The U.S. is heavily reliant on foreign imports of raw materials used in batteries, including lithium. That leaves the supply chain, and thus the country’s transition off fossil fuels, vulnerable to geopolitical conflicts like the U.S. trade war with China and Russia’s war on Ukraine.
“Clearly, the U.S. needs guaranteed domestic supply,” said Lindsay Dudfield, executive director of Jindalee Resources Limited, an Australian company exploring a large lithium deposit in Oregon’s Malheur County. “And so you’ve seen bipartisan support for the development of critical minerals projects in the United States growing.”
Companies touting southeast Oregon’s mineral potential, including Jindalee, are several years away at the earliest from developing mines if they get to that point at all. Any mine would require state and federal approval that could face legal challenges.
But conservationists like Fite say the damage to sage grouse habitat has already started with exploratory drilling tearing up patches of sagebrush, and that any new mining would be devastating.
“This would represent a total, tragic loss,” Fite said. “And I believe it has to be stopped.”
Sage grouse need sagebrush to survive. They use the plant for food, brooding and shelter. The birds do best in areas with continuous, abundant sagebrush and minimal to no human disturbance.
Excessive livestock grazing, oil and gas production, residential development, wildfire and mining have chewed away about half of the sage grouse habitat the American West historically supported.
Population declines sent the birds hurtling toward the federal endangered species list before 2015 when U.S. government agencies adopted alternative plans to try to save them.
Among other protections, the sage grouse plans recommended a “mineral withdrawal” to block new mining claims on 10 million acres of the best remaining habitat in the country — including the McDermitt Caldera.
Sarah Stellberg, a staff attorney for the environmental law firm Advocates for the West, said the decision to keep sage grouse off the endangered species list was predicated on preventing new mines on those acres, called sagebrush focal areas.
“The concern is that if you allow development to go forward that there aren’t actually enough concrete mitigation actions to protect the bird in areas that are being mined,” Stellberg said.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, under President Barack Obama, proposed the mineral withdrawal. That triggered a two-year period during which sagebrush focal areas were off-limits to new mining claims while the full proposal underwent environmental review.
But President Donald Trump’s first Interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, made quick work of unraveling the sage grouse plans when he took office.
Under Zinke, the Bureau of Land Management allowed the temporary mineral withdrawal to expire and abandoned the environmental review of a permanent mineral withdrawal in 2017, saying “future mining is not a significant threat to sage grouse habitat.”
That decision opened the McDermitt Caldera for business. The industry has responded.
Jindalee currently holds the only permit to explore for lithium in Oregon, but at least two other companies — Aurora Energy Metals and ACME Lithium — have nearby claims they say could hold promising lithium deposits.
Advocates for the West challenged the Trump administration’s decision to abandon the mineral withdrawal in court and won. As a result, the BLM is again considering a proposal to block new mining claims in prime sage grouse habitat, but it’s unclear how doing so now would affect existing claims in southeast Oregon.
Stellberg said every bit of habitat disrupted by mining or exploration, especially in well-preserved areas like the McDermitt Caldera, sends sage grouse closer to Endangered Species Act protection.
“If this is where we’re going to be allowing mines to go forward, then we’re left with lower-quality habitat that just can’t sustain the number of birds that we need to allow the species to persist,” Stellberg said.
Fite slung a camera over her shoulder and set out on ranch roads to get an up-close look at the Jindalee mining claim, which covers thousands of acres on the Oregon side of the caldera north of McDermitt Creek.
The company drilled 11 holes in December to try to increase its confidence in the amount of lithium contained in its claim. So far, Jindalee estimates it has the second-largest known lithium deposit in the United States.
Despite extensive mapping and monitoring by state and federal agencies marking the area as key habitat for sage grouse, Lindsay Dudfield says Jindalee is not aware of birds lekking on its claim.
“We understand that there are no sage grouse leks on our claims,” Dudfield said in an email, adding that the company still does not drill in winter or spring to minimize impact on breeding.
Signs of sage grouse are everywhere in the claim area, from stray feathers poking out of the dirt to piles of the birds’ Cheeto-like scat. Not to mention the nearby leks. Fite says neither Jindalee nor the government agencies regulating its activity have taken the time to look for sage grouse on the claim.
Over the course of multiple visits, Fite has documented new roadlets created by heavy machinery, piles of dead sagebrush and trash. She called the damage from exploratory drilling “classic habitat fragmentation” that, even if legal and permitted, is terrible for the sage grouse. Breaks in the continuous carpet of sagebrush can, for instance, invite fire-prone invasive plants like cheatgrass.
“They’re gonna destroy the habitat in the exploration alone before they even get to the mining,” Fite said.
Fite faults the BLM for allowing mineral exploration to go forward in such sensitive habitat when the agency’s charge under the 2015 federal sage grouse plans is to protect the birds. BLM spokesperson Brian Hires confirmed in an email that Jindalee’s claims are within a sagebrush focal area, the agency’s label for the best of the best sage grouse habitat.
However, because the Trump administration scrapped the proposed mineral withdrawal in 2017, “these lands have been open” to new mining claims, Hires said.
BLM regulations say any company exploring for minerals just needs to notify the agency of planned drilling activity at least 15 days before work begins. That’s if the amount of land disturbed is less than five acres. Anything more than that, and the BLM must approve a more detailed plan accounting for impacts to land, water and wildlife.
Dudfield said all of the company’s exploration activities are reviewed by BLM and the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries to ensure compliance with environmental regulations. He added that Jindalee is conducting environmental and cultural studies to help it avoid sensitive areas.
Experts argue mining regulations have not kept up with the industry.
The law governing most mining and prospecting on public lands is 150 years old. Thea Riofrancos, an associate professor of political science at Providence College and an expert on lithium extraction, says the General Mining Law of 1872 is woefully out of date when it comes to the environmental and social impacts of modern mining.
“It actually explicitly encourages prospecting in ways that can harm the ecosystems of public lands,” Riofrancos said, adding that those lands are often in close proximity to Native American reservations.
Riofrancos has closely studied mining in Latin America, which includes some of the world’s biggest producers of raw battery materials such as lithium and copper.
As governments there have pushed to expand the mining industry, she’s found it’s come at a tremendous environmental and human cost. Riofrancos said that though the U.S. has stronger protections for the environment, labor and people, mining is just as disruptive here as it is anywhere.
“We’re looking at a very invasive economic sector that is among the most environmentally destructive in the world,” Riofrancos said.
Riofrancos said the U.S. needs to envision a transition off fossil fuels that minimizes the amount of material coming out of the ground.
President Joe Biden has been cautious about encouraging new mining even as he’s taken a number of steps to support battery production in the U.S., most recently invoking a Cold War-era law to speed up the process.
Biden said at a White House event on critical minerals in February that the nation needs to “avoid the historical injustices that too many mining operations left behind in American towns.”
The Department of the Interior has formed a working group to potentially overhaul the federal mining law. Some lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, are promoting bills to improve cleanup operations at former mine sites and encourage more recycling of battery materials.
During a virtual town hall in March, Wyden said new mining projects can be carried out “without throwing environmental laws in the trash can.”
Several abandoned mines dot the McDermitt Caldera, including the Opalite mercury mine constructed in the 1920s. Warning signs stand before gaping pits, crumbling structures and huge piles of toxic waste.
People used to haul away truckloads of the contaminated gravel to use as fill for roads and driveways in the border town of McDermitt and on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, eventually requiring a $1.2 million Superfund cleanup.
The mine predated most environmental regulations in place today, but mineral extraction itself is still extremely damaging — and in some cases done at a much larger scale. Opalite is a speck relative to the acres upon acres of adjacent mining claims.
“This is tiny compared to the devastation that would be wrought by lithium mining here,” said Fite, standing at the old mine’s gate.
Achieving climate goals like electrifying vehicle fleets and increasing renewable energy production will require lithium and other raw materials. Some in Oregon and elsewhere in the country are eager to see the jobs and economic development that would accompany a new mining boom.
Many conservationists acknowledge that some new extraction may be necessary to meet future demand for these materials, but they’re urging government officials to be extremely cautious about where new mines are located.
Fite says mining in southeast Oregon, even for a metal as critical to fighting climate change as lithium, would be disastrous.
“You don’t save the planet by tearing up intact wildland ecosystems,” Fite said.
The flurry of mining claims and exploration on the Oregon-Nevada border has galvanized conservation groups like Fite’s and Native American tribes. They’re lining up to defend the landscape from new mining, particularly the Jindalee project and the proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada.
Dudfield estimates Jindalee is at least five years and a lot of work away from proposing a mine if it ever does.
“At any fork in the road, there can be a roadblock that stops you,” Dudfield said. “The lithium price could fall. There could be some sort of permitting issue that arises. And so we can’t just flick a switch and produce lithium immediately.”
Sage grouse could be a big roadblock.
The birds have continued to suffer, despite efforts to save them. A report published last year by the U.S. Geological Survey says the sage grouse population has dropped 80% since 1965, and about half those losses have come in the past two decades alone.
Jindalee has paused its mineral exploration in southeast Oregon until summer, and sage grouse are holding court on the sprawling high desert landscape. For now, the McDermitt Caldera still vibrates at daybreak with the ploinking song of this iconic Western bird.
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Lavrov says all will suffer from West's 'total hybrid war' on Russia
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- Sergey LavrovRussian politician and Foreign Minister
LONDON (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that the West had announced a "total hybrid war" against Russia and it was hard to predict how long it would last.
In a speech on the 80th day since Russia invaded Ukraine, Lavrov pointed to the barrage of sanctions imposed by the West against Moscow and attempted to portray Russia as the target, not the perpetrator, of aggression.
"The collective West has declared total hybrid war on us and it is hard to predict how long all this will last but it is clear the consequences will be felt by everyone, without exception," he said in a speech.
"We did everything to avoid a direct clash - but now that the challenge has been thrown down, we of course accept it. We are no strangers to sanctions: they were almost always there in one form or another."
Efforts by the West to isolate Russia were doomed to fail, Lavrov said, while pointing to the importance of Russia's relations with China, India, Algeria and Gulf countries.
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Live updates | Biden signs Ukraine ‘lend-lease’ program bill
WASHINGTON — Washington sought to portray a united front against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan measure to reboot the World War II-era “lend-lease” program that helped defeat Nazi Germany to bolster Kyiv and Eastern European allies.
The new legislation is largely symbolic, but comes as Congress is poised to unleash more resources of $33 billion or more to fight the war. It all serves as a rejoinder to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has seized on V-E day, the anniversary of Germany’s unconditional surrender and Russia’s biggest patriotic holiday, to rally his people behind the invasion.
Before signing the bill, Biden said that “Putin’s war” was “once more bringing wanton destruction of Europe,” drawing reference to the significance of the day.
Flanked by two Democratic lawmakers and one Republican, Biden signed the bill, which had sailed through the Senate last month with unanimous agreement, not even the need for a formal roll call vote. It passed overwhelmingly in the House, drawing opposition from just 10 Republicans.
“It really matters,” Biden said of the bipartisan support for Ukraine. “It matters.”
Despite their differences over Biden’s approach and perceived missteps in confronting Russia, when it comes to Ukraine the members of the House and Senate have held together in a rare bipartisan fashion. Other measures, including calls to investigate Putin for war crimes, have also gained widespread support.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— No end in sight for Ukraine war as Putin hails Victory Day
— Russian ambassador to Poland hit with red paint
— Russia marks WWII victory overshadowed by Ukraine
— More than 60 feared dead in bombing of Ukrainian school
Follow all AP stories on Russia's war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
WASHINGTON — Lithuania’s top diplomat said Monday that removing Russian President Vladimir Putin from power is the only way to protect the West and its allies from future threats from Moscow, urging an even tougher stance than the U.S. and many NATO allies have been willing to pursue since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In an interview with The Associated Press in Washington, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said Putin's annual Victory Day speech was "underwhelming" and that the "gloomy faces" of generals and others were signs of failing in the Ukraine war. Yet, he said a wounded Putin may be even more dangerous and that the only way to remove the threat is to remove him.
“From our standpoint, up until the point the current regime is not in power, the countries surrounding it will be, to some extent, in danger. Not just Putin but the whole regime because, you know, one might change Putin and might change his inner circle but another Putin might rise into his place,” Landsbergis said.
“And so as long as a regime that intends to wage wars outside Russian territory is in place, the countries surrounding it are in danger,” he said. “And, if one thing was proven to those who doubted it after 2008 in Georgia in 2014 when the first war in Ukraine started, it is that Russia is an aggressive country. That’s very clear.”
Lithuania is one of the three Baltic states that among NATO allies are particularly concerned about possible Russian designs on forcefully returning them to Moscow’s rule. Lithuanian officials, including Landsbergis have been especially outspoken about their fears but his overt calls for regime change go beyond what most NATO allies have been willing to express.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — The first telephone call Jill Biden made from her black SUV after an unannounced meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart inside the embattled country was to her husband, President Joe Biden.
Biden and Olena Zelenska, who had not been seen in public since President Vladimir Putin sent Russia’s military into her country nearly 11 weeks ago, had just spent about two hours together at a school in Uzhhorod in western Ukraine.
With her visit to the Ukraine war zone, the U.S. first lady was able to act as a second pair of eyes and ears for the president, who so far has been unable to visit the country himself.
“Sometimes the first lady is able to do things and get into places where the president can’t,” said Myra Gutin, author of “The President’s Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century.”
Jill Biden wrapped up her four-day trip to Eastern Europe on Monday after meeting in Bratislava with Zuzana Caputova, Slovakia’s first female president. Her trip over the border on Sunday to meet with Zelenska and refugees from elsewhere in Ukraine was a highpoint of the visit.
Seated across from Caputova, Jill Biden said she told her husband in their phone call “just how much I saw the need to support the people of Ukraine” and about “the horrors and the brutality that the people I had met had experienced.”
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BERLIN — The leaders of Germany and France welcomed the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t announce any steps to expand the war in Ukraine, including to other countries, in his speech marking the end of World War II.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters in Berlin that it important there had been no escalation, “at least as far as the rhetoric is concerned” in Putin’s Victory Day speech. “What actually happens in Ukraine is something we’ll see in the next days and weeks.”
His comments were echoed by French President Emmanuel Macron, who added that the goal of diplomatic efforts remains a cease-fire in Ukraine.
“In effect, today was marked by no verbal escalation nor a geographic escalation nor an escalation in the use of arms” he said. “Is this sufficient for us? No.”
“We will remain concentrated on our only goal, do all to get a cease-fire and help Ukraine to negotiate under the terms it decides for itself, because we are on the side of sovereignty and Ukrainian territorial integrity,” Macron said. “No more, no less.”
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BUCHAREST, Romania — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said during an official visit to non-NATO member Moldova on Monday that the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine escalating are “too frightening to contemplate.”
Guterres, who arrived in Moldova’s capital Chisinau on Monday, said in a joint press conference with Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, that the impact of Russia’s war in neighboring Ukraine “is profound and far-reaching.”
The U.N. chief’s visit to Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest countries, which has a population of about 2.6 million people, follows a series of unsettling incidents that have rocked Moldova’s pro-Russia breakaway region of Transnistria, which has put officials in Chisinau on high alert.
In late April, three men launched grenades at the region’s state security office, and two large broadcast antennas were downed a day later. On Friday, Police in Transnistria said explosive devices were dropped from a drone leaving 1-meter-deep craters near a village.
“I am deeply concerned about the continuation and possible spread of the war Russia is waging in Ukraine,” Guterres said, adding that Moldova’s sovereignty and territorial integrity “must not be threatened or undermined.”
Transnistria, a small strip of land with a population of about 470,000, has been under the control of separatist authorities since a 1992 war with Moldova. Russia bases about 1,500 troops in the breakaway region, ostensibly as peacekeepers. No casualties were reported in the incidents.
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WASHINGTON — The United States is suspending 25% import taxes on Ukraine’s steel in a show of support for the country’s beleaguered economy during the Russian invasion.
The Commerce Department said Monday that it would withdraw the tariffs for a year. Ukraine accounts for only about 1% of U.S. steel exports.
Some of the country’s largest steel communities have been among those hardest hit during the war, including the Mariupol mill that’s the only part of the strategically important port city not under Russian control.
“We can’t just admire the fortitude and spirit of the Ukrainian people — we need to have their backs and support one of the most important industries to Ukraine’s economic well-being,’’ Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo said. “For steel mills to continue as an economic lifeline for the people of Ukraine, they must be able to export their steel.’’
The steel levies were imposed in 2018 by the Trump administration, which deployed a little-used provision in U.S. trade law to call foreign steel a threat to American national security. The move outraged U.S. allies, and critics said they did little address the real cause of stress for U.S. steel producers: massive overproduction by the Chinese, whose steel shipments to the U.S. are already limited by other trade barriers.
The Biden administration has removed most of the tariffs on steel from the European Union, the United Kingdom and Japan, allowing their metals to come in duty-free up to a quota. No such quota applies to the Ukrainian imports in the move announced Monday.
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WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials say the country is ready to increase its energy assistance to neighboring Ukraine and provide steady deliveries.
Poland’s government ministers made the declaration Monday during a Polish-Ukrainian Energy Forum attended also by other countries and by the International Energy Agency. Climate and Environment minister, Anna Moskwa, said a round-the clock effort is being set in motion to “ensure energy security to Ukraine.”
Poland has been supplying Ukraine with some energy and fuels ever since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion. The level of the support is to be increased.
Ukraine’s first deputy minister for the economy, Yulia Sviridenko, said the country urgently needs diesel fuel and gasoline because Russia’s invading troops are destroying its fuels infrastructure, including a refinery.
Poland is in the process of cutting its dependence on Russian energy sources and increasing deliveries from other countries.
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BRUSSELS — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is traveling to Hungary in a bid to secure unanimity on the EU’s executive arm’s proposal to ban oil imports from Russia.
A spokesman for the European Commission said von der Leyen will meet with Hungary Prime minister Viktor Orban on Monday to discuss “issues related to European security of energy supply.”
Hungary has blocked progress in discussions to adopt the sixth EU package of sanctions targeting Russia for its war in Ukraine, and ambassadors from the 27 EU countries have so far failed to agree on the details of the new round of measures.
Von der Leyen has proposed having EU member nations phase out imports of crude oil within six months and refined products by the end of the year.
Hungary says it will not vote for the proposed sanctions, saying it would have the effect of an “atomic bomb” on its economy and would destroy its “stable energy supply.”
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ODESA, Ukraine — The president of the European Council, Charles Michel, has lamented that “silos full” of food for export is blocked in the Black Sea port of Odesa, which he visited on Monday.
The Ukrainian city has been the target of Russian missile attacks over recent days.
In a tweet, Michel said he was with Ukraine’s prime minister examining the war’s effect on the port.
“I saw silos full of grain, wheat and corn ready for export,” Michel wrote. “This badly needed food is stranded because of the Russian war and blockade of Black sea ports. Causing dramatic consequences for vulnerable countries. We need a global response.”
Ukraine is a global grain exporter, and U.N. officials have warned that failure for those products to ship will hurt food security in importing countries, especially poorer ones in Africa and elsewhere.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a statement said he spoke with Michel during the Odesa visit. “It is important to prevent a food crisis in the world caused by Russia’s aggressive actions,” Zelenskyy said. “Immediate measures must be taken to unlock Ukrainian ports for wheat exports.”
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ROME — The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow patriarch has made a personal and faith-based appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin for safe passage to Ukrainian soldiers defending the besieged port city of Mariupol.
Metropolitan Onufry recalled in an open letter Monday that Putin’s own family survived the siege of Leningrad in the 1940s. He said Putin’s relatives experienced “what it is like to live in isolation from the great land, under constant bombardment, without food, water, medicine, when death can come at any moment from the impact of a heavy weapon, hunger or lack of medical care.”
He said the civilians and soldiers of Mariupol are in the same situation today, a reference to the Ukrainian troops still defending the Azovstal steel mill. He wrote: “We hope that you will Christianly agree to the extraction procedure for the Ukrainian garrison in Mariupol, and give the opportunity to surrounded civilians, police, border guards and the military to enter the territory controlled by Ukraine or the territory of third countries.”
Onufry’s church enjoys broad autonomy but is loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church and its patriarch, Kirill. It is separate from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which split into an independent church in 2019.
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ROME — The Ukrainian embassy in Rome has been wrapped in a ribbon of European Union flags as a sign of EU solidarity with Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
European ambassadors posed with the Ukrainian ambassador in a ceremony Monday to mark Europe Day, which commemorates a key date in the founding of the EU.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Italy, Yaroslav Melnyk, urged the bloc to remain united for the sake of Ukraine and Europe.
The French ambassador in Rome, Christian Masset, called for a cease-fire, the withdrawal of Russian forces and EU unity to help the Ukrainian people.
The flag initiative was promoted by the pro-European association, Europa Now.
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BERLIN — The Russian ambassador in Berlin used a wreath-laying ceremony commemorating the end of World War II to repeat Moscow’s claims that it is fighting against “Nazism” in Ukraine.
Sergey Nechaev told reporters Monday that Ukraine “will be de-nazified for sure.”
“It will succeed,” he said. “We need a peace without Nazism, in Ukraine and in Europe.”
The diplomat also cited a need for “good cooperation, of course, but at eye level, without ultimatums and without threats and without sanctions.”
The occasion was the 77th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, traditionally celebrated by Russia on May 9.
A small group of people waved Russian and Soviet flags, despite a ban on doing so by Berlin police, imposed to prevent violence between pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine protesters.
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WARSAW, Poland — Protesters threw what appeared to be red paint, to symbolize blood, at the Russian ambassador as he arrived at a cemetery in Warsaw to pay respects to Red Army soldiers who died during World War II.
Ambassador Ambassador Sergey Andreev came to the Soviet soldiers cemetery to lay flowers. A group of activists opposed to Russia’s war in Ukraine were waiting for him.
The protesters carried Ukrainian flags, while some were dressed in white sheets smeared with a red color, symbolizing the Ukrainian victims of Russia’s war. Other men in the diplomat’s entourage were also seen splattered with what appeared to be red paint.
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BRUSSELS — The European Commission will aim to deliver a first opinion in June on Ukraine’s bid to become a member of the European Union.
The 27 EU nations have been fully united in backing Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion, adopting unprecedented economic sanctions against Moscow since the start of the war in February. But leaders are divided on how fast Brussels could move to accept Ukraine as a member.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said in a message on Twitter that she discussed Monday with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy “EU support and Ukraine’s European pathway. Looking forward to receiving the answers to the EU membership questionnaire.”
For now, Ukraine has an “Association Agreement” with the EU, which includes a far-reaching free trade pact and helps to modernize Ukraine’s economy.
The Ukrainian fast-track bid could take years, with unanimity among current members required to include a new member.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy released a video address to the war-ravaged nation on Monday, marking the defeat of the Nazi Germany in the World War II, and promising that Ukraine will soon have “two Victory Days.”
“We will never forget what our ancestors did in World War II. Where more than 8 million Ukrainians died. And every fifth Ukrainian didn’t return home. In total, the war claimed at least 50 million lives,” Zelenskyy said. “We don’t say ‘we can repeat.’”
Zelenskyy stressed that “soon there will be two Victory Days in Ukraine.” “And someone will not have even one left. We won then, we will win now, too,” he said, in reference to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to cast Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a forced response to Western policies.
Speaking Monday at a military parade marking the World War II victory over the Nazis, Putin drew parallels between the Red Army’s fighting against the Nazi troops and the Russian forces’ action in Ukraine.
He said the campaign in Ukraine was a timely and necessary move to ward off what he described as “an absolutely unacceptable threat just next to our borders.”
“The danger was rising” he said, adding that “Russia has preemptively repulsed an aggression” in what he described as a “forced, timely and the only correct decision by a sovereign, powerful and independent country.”
The Russian leader again scolded the West for failing to heed Russian demands for security guarantees and a rollback to NATO’s expansion, arguing that it left Moscow no other choice but to launch an action in Ukraine.
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BERLIN — The German government says Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate is one of many prominent buildings across Europe that will be illuminated Monday in the yellow and blue colors of the Ukrainian flag.
Government spokesman Wolfgang Buechner told reporters in Berlin that the decision to do so was taken some time ago and there was no link to a ban on flying Russian or Ukrainian flags near WWII memorials on May 8-9 imposed by police in the German capital. Police argued the ban was needed to prevent possible public unrest. Supporters of Ukraine and the country’s ambassador had strongly criticized that decision in light of Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Buechner said projecting the Ukrainian flag onto the Brandenburg Gate was a “sign of solidarity” to show that the European Union is on the side of Ukraine.
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The Indian hockey team's ace drag-flicker Rupinder Pal Singh has been ruled out of the Asia Cup Men's Hockey 2022 due to a wrist injury. The Asia Cup is scheduled to commence on May 23 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Rupinder Pal Singh was named the skipper of the 20-member Indian squad for the prestigious tournament. However, the ace drag-flicker injured his wrist during a training session. He will be replaced by defender Nilam Sanjeep Xess in the squad.
Experienced defender Birendra Lakra will now lead the Indian side with ace forward SV Sunil serving as his deputy.
Read: Former hockey captain Mohammed Riaz appointed Hockey India selector
Coach BJ Kariappa stated that while it was unfortunate to lose a talented player like Rupinder Pal Singh, the Indian team isn't too worried. He added that there is a vast talent pool and a suitable replacement has been immediately named. BJ Kariappa said:
"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."
India's schedule at Asia Cup Men's Hockey 2022
India are a part of Pool A along with Pakistan, Japan, and Indonesia. The host nation Indonesia will be participating in the tournament for the first time
India are the defending champions and will kickstart their campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan on May 23. They will then play Japan on May 24 and lock horns with Indonesia on May 26.
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Four Trinity House Merchant Navy Cadets are joining Britain’s new polar research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough this week in the Falkland Islands on a four-month training deployment.
During their time on board, the cadets will undertake a range of activities and tasks as part of completing their MNTB Training Record Books, including vessel familiarization, maintenance work and watch keeping duties.
RRS Sir David Attenborough is one of the most advanced research vessels in the world and is set to transform ship-borne science in the Polar Regions. The ship was commissioned by NERC, built by Cammell Laird and is operated by BAS.
BAS took delivery of RRS Sir David Attenborough in November 2020 and the ship departed the UK for its maiden voyage on 17 November 2021. The ship is currently sailing back to the UK following a successful first season in Antarctica, under the command of former Trinity House Merchant Navy Scholarship Scheme Cadet Captain Will Whatley.
Captain Nigel Hope, Director of Maritime Training for Trinity House, remarked: “We are delighted BAS have selected Trinity House cadets to train on board RRS Sir David Attenborough, as the training opportunities that BAS can provide will be invaluable. Trinity House cadets train on board a variety of different vessels during their sea phases. We are looking forward to working with BAS on this long-term partnership.”
Captain Will Whatley, Master of RRS Sir David Attenborough, said: “I started my career at sea as a Trinity House Cadet myself so it gives me great pleasure to be able to welcome this first group of cadets aboard our incredible new ship. This trip will give the cadets a fantastic experience as this ship has so many interesting features. I look forward to having Trinity House cadets on board RRS Sir David Attenborough for many years to come.”
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Joseph H. Mulligan, age 94, a lifelong resident of Quincy, died peacefully, Thursday, May 12, 2022, in the comfort of his home, surrounded by his loving family.
Joseph was born in Quincy, to the late James and Helen (Ferriter) Mulligan. Raised in Quincy, he was a graduate of the former Saint Mary’s Elementary School and Quincy Trade School, Class of 1945. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Education from the former Boston State College.
Joe was a World War II veteran having served in the United States Army.
A master plumber, Joe was a proud member of Plumbers Local 12 for over seventy years and had served as president. Joe was also employed as a trades teacher in the Boston Public Schools for thirty years.
Joe was a longtime active parishioner of Saint Mary’s Church in West Quincy. He was an avid reader. Most of all, Joe was devoted to his family. He relished spending time with them, and supporting their many activities and accomplishments.
Beloved husband for seventy-two years of Mary C. (Mangan) Mulligan.
Devoted father of Maureen Penta and her husband Charles of Allenhurst, N.J., Joseph E. Mulligan and his wife Linda of Braintree, Patricia Mulligan Flaherty and her husband Brian of Norwell, Kevin Mulligan and his wife Bonnie of Quincy, Anne Mulligan Mahoney and her husband Kevin of Quincy, and the late Helen A. Mulligan.
Loving grandfather of eleven and great grandfather of eight.
One of six siblings, he was the dear brother of Mary A. DePaulo of Quincy and was predeceased by Helen McKenna, Irene Schoaf, James Mulligan, and John Mulligan.
Joe is also survived by many nieces, nephews, and their families.
Visiting hours will be held at the Sweeney Brothers Home for Funerals, 1 Independence Avenue, Quincy, on Wednesday, May 18, from 4 – 7 p.m. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Divine Mercy Parish in Saint Mary’s Church, 95 Crescent Street, West Quincy, on Thursday, May 19, at 10 a.m. Interment, with military honors, to follow at Pine Hill Cemetery, West Quincy.
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Mounjaro delivered superior A1C reductions versus all comparators in phase 3 SURPASS clinical trials
While not indicated for weight loss, Mounjaro led to significantly greater weight reductions versus comparators in a key secondary endpoint
Mounjaro represents the first new class of diabetes medicines introduced in nearly a decade and is expected to be available in the U.S. in the coming weeks
INDIANAPOLIS, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Mounjaro™ (tirzepatide) injection, Eli Lilly and Company's (NYSE: LLY) new once-weekly GIP (glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide) and GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) receptor agonist indicated as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes. Mounjaro has not been studied in patients with a history of pancreatitis and is not indicated for use in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
As the first and only FDA-approved GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist, Mounjaro is a single molecule that activates the body's receptors for GIP and GLP-1, which are natural incretin hormones.1
"Mounjaro delivered superior and consistent A1C reductions against all of the comparators throughout the SURPASS program, which was designed to assess Mounjaro's efficacy and safety in a broad range of adults with type 2 diabetes who could be treated in clinical practice. The approval of Mounjaro is an exciting step forward for people living with type 2 diabetes given the results seen in these clinical trials," said Juan Pablo Frías, M.D., Medical Director, National Research Institute and Investigator in the SURPASS program.
Mounjaro will be available in six doses (2.5 mg, 5 mg, 7.5 mg, 10 mg, 12.5 mg, 15 mg) and will come in Lilly's well-established auto-injector pen with a pre-attached, hidden needle that patients do not need to handle or see.
The approval was based on results from the phase 3 SURPASS program, which included active comparators of injectable semaglutide 1 mg, insulin glargine and insulin degludec. Efficacy was evaluated for Mounjaro 5 mg, 10 mg and 15 mg used alone or in combination with commonly prescribed diabetes medications, including metformin, SGLT2 inhibitors, sulfonylureas and insulin glargine. Participants in the SURPASS program achieved average A1C reductions between 1.8% and 2.1% for Mounjaro 5 mg and between 1.7% and 2.4% for both Mounjaro 10 mg and Mounjaro 15 mg. While not indicated for weight loss, mean change in body weight was a key secondary endpoint in all SURPASS studies. Participants treated with Mounjaro lost between 12 lb. (5 mg) and 25 lb. (15 mg) on average.1
Side effects reported in at least 5% of patients treated with Mounjaro include nausea, diarrhea, decreased appetite, vomiting, constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia), and stomach (abdominal) pain. The labeling for Mounjaro contains a Boxed Warning regarding thyroid C-cell tumors. Mounjaro is contraindicated in patients with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or in patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2.1
"Lilly has a nearly 100-year heritage of advancing care for people living with diabetes – never settling for current outcomes. We're not satisfied knowing that half of the more than 30 million Americans living with type 2 diabetes are not reaching their target blood glucose levels," said Mike Mason, president, Lilly Diabetes. "We are thrilled to introduce Mounjaro, which represents the first new class of type 2 diabetes medication introduced in almost a decade and embodies our mission to bring innovative new therapies to the diabetes community."
Mounjaro is expected to be available in the United States in the coming weeks. Lilly is committed to helping people access the medicines they are prescribed and will work with insurers, health systems and providers to help enable patient access to Mounjaro. Lilly plans to offer a Mounjaro savings card for people who qualify. Patients or healthcare professionals with questions about Mounjaro can visit www.Mounjaro.com or call The Lilly Answers Center at 1-800-LillyRx (1-800-545-5979).
Tirzepatide is also under regulatory review for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in Europe, Japan and several additional markets. A multimedia gallery is available on Lilly.com.
About the SURPASS clinical trial program
The SURPASS phase 3 global clinical development program for tirzepatide began in late 2018 and included five global registration trials and two regional trials in Japan. These studies ranged from 40 to 52 weeks and evaluated the efficacy and safety of Mounjaro 5 mg, 10 mg and 15 mg as a monotherapy and as an add-on to various standard-of-care medications for type 2 diabetes. The active comparators in the studies were injectable semaglutide 1 mg, insulin glargine and insulin degludec. Collectively, the five global registration trials consistently demonstrated A1C reductions for participants taking Mounjaro across multiple stages of their type 2 diabetes journeys, from an average around five to 13 years of having diabetes.2-8
- SURPASS-1 (NCT03954834) was a 40-week study comparing the efficacy and safety of Mounjaro 5 mg (N=121), 10 mg (N=121) and 15 mg (N=120) as monotherapy to placebo (N=113) in adults with type 2 diabetes inadequately controlled with diet and exercise alone. From a baseline A1C of 7.9%, Mounjaro reduced participants' A1C by a mean of 1.8%* (5 mg) and 1.7%* (10 mg and 15 mg) compared to 0.1% for placebo. In a key secondary endpoint, from a baseline weight of 189 lb., Mounjaro reduced participants' weight by a mean of 14 lb.* (5 mg), 15 lb.* (10 mg) and 17 lb.* (15 mg) compared to 2 lb. for placebo.2,3
- SURPASS-2 (NCT03987919) was a 40-week study comparing the efficacy and safety of Mounjaro 5 mg (N=470), 10 mg (N=469) and 15 mg (N=469) to injectable semaglutide 1 mg (N=468) in adults with type 2 diabetes inadequately controlled with ≥1500 mg/day metformin alone. From a baseline A1C of 8.3%, Mounjaro reduced participants' A1C by a mean of 2.0%ꝉ (5 mg), 2.2%* (10 mg) and 2.3%* (15 mg) compared to 1.9% for semaglutide. In a key secondary endpoint, from a baseline weight of 207 lb., Mounjaro reduced participants' weight by a mean of 17 lb.ꝉ (5 mg), 21 lb.* (10 mg) and 25 lb.* (15 mg) compared to 13 lb. for semaglutide.4,5
- SURPASS-3 (NCT03882970) was a 52-week study comparing the efficacy of Mounjaro 5 mg (N=358), 10 mg (N=360) and 15 mg (N=358) to titrated insulin degludec (N=359) in adults with type 2 diabetes treated with metformin with or without an SGLT-2 inhibitor. From a baseline A1C of 8.2%, Mounjaro reduced participants' A1C by a mean of 1.9%* (5 mg), 2.0%* (10 mg) and 2.1%* (15 mg) compared to 1.3% for insulin degludec. From a baseline weight of 208 lb., Mounjaro reduced participants' weight by a mean of 15 lb.* (5 mg), 21 lb.* (10 mg) and 25 lb.* (15 mg) compared to an increase of 4 lb. for insulin degludec.6
- SURPASS-4 (NCT03730662) was a 104-week study comparing the efficacy and safety of Mounjaro 5 mg (N=328), 10 mg (N=326) and 15 mg (N=337) to insulin glargine (N=998) in adults with type 2 diabetes inadequately controlled with at least one and up to three oral antihyperglycemic medications (metformin, sulfonylureas or SGLT-2 inhibitors), who have increased cardiovascular (CV) risk. The primary endpoint was measured at 52 weeks. From a baseline A1C of 8.5%, Mounjaro reduced participants' A1C by a mean of 2.1%* (5 mg), 2.3%* (10 mg) and 2.4%* (15 mg) compared to 1.4% for insulin glargine. From a baseline weight of 199 lb., Mounjaro reduced weight by a mean of 14 lb.* (5 mg), 20 lb.* (10 mg) and 23 lb.* (15 mg) compared to an increase of 4 lb. for insulin glargine.7
- SURPASS-5 (NCT04039503) was a 40-week study comparing the efficacy and safety of Mounjaro 5 mg (N=116), 10 mg (N=118) and 15 mg (N=118) to placebo (N=119) in adults with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes already being treated with insulin glargine, with or without metformin. From a baseline A1C of 8.3%, Mounjaro reduced A1C by a mean of 2.1%* (5 mg), 2.4%* (10 mg) and 2.3%* (15 mg) compared to 0.9% for placebo. From a baseline weight of 210 lb., Mounjaro reduced participants' weight by a mean of 12 lb.* (5 mg), 17 lb.* (10 mg) and 19 lb.* (15 mg) compared to an increase of 4 lb. for placebo.8
*p<0.001 for superiority vs. placebo or active comparator, adjusted for multiplicity
ꝉp<0.05 for superiority vs. semaglutide 1 mg, adjusted for multiplicity
About Mounjaro™ (tirzepatide) injection1
Mounjaro™ (tirzepatide) injection is FDA-approved as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. As the first and only FDA-approved GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist, Mounjaro is a single molecule that activates the body's receptors for GIP (glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide) and GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1). Mounjaro will be available in six doses (2.5 mg, 5 mg, 7.5 mg, 10 mg, 12.5 mg, 15 mg) and will come in Lilly's well-established auto-injector pen with a pre-attached, hidden needle that patients do not need to handle or see.
PURPOSE AND SAFETY SUMMARY WITH WARNINGS
Important Facts About MounjaroTM (mown-JAHR-OH). It is also known as tirzepatide.
- Mounjaro is an injectable prescription medicine for adults with type 2 diabetes used along with diet and exercise to improve blood sugar (glucose).
- It is not known if Mounjaro can be used in people who have had inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis). Mounjaro is not for use in people with type 1 diabetes. It is not known if Mounjaro is safe and effective for use in children under 18 years of age.
Warnings
Mounjaro may cause tumors in the thyroid, including thyroid cancer. Watch for possible symptoms, such as a lump or swelling in the neck, hoarseness, trouble swallowing, or shortness of breath. If you have a symptom, tell your healthcare provider.
- Do not use Mounjaro if you or any of your family have ever had a type of thyroid cancer called medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC).
- Do not use Mounjaro if you have Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN 2).
- Do not use Mounjaro if you are allergic to tirzepatide or any of the ingredients in Mounjaro.
Mounjaro may cause serious side effects, including:
Inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis). Stop using Mounjaro and call your healthcare provider right away if you have severe pain in your stomach area (abdomen) that will not go away, with or without vomiting. You may feel the pain from your abdomen to your back.
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Your risk for getting low blood sugar may be higher if you use Mounjaro with another medicine that can cause low blood sugar, such as a sulfonylurea or insulin. Signs and symptoms of low blood sugar may include dizziness or light-headedness, sweating, confusion or drowsiness, headache, blurred vision, slurred speech, shakiness, fast heartbeat, anxiety, irritability, or mood changes, hunger, weakness and feeling jittery.
Serious allergic reactions. Stop using Mounjaro and get medical help right away if you have any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including swelling of your face, lips, tongue or throat, problems breathing or swallowing, severe rash or itching, fainting or feeling dizzy, and very rapid heartbeat.
Kidney problems (kidney failure). In people who have kidney problems, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting may cause a loss of fluids (dehydration), which may cause kidney problems to get worse. It is important for you to drink fluids to help reduce your chance of dehydration.
Severe stomach problems. Stomach problems, sometimes severe, have been reported in people who use Mounjaro. Tell your healthcare provider if you have stomach problems that are severe or will not go away.
Changes in vision. Tell your healthcare provider if you have changes in vision during treatment with Mounjaro.
Gallbladder problems. Gallbladder problems have happened in some people who use Mounjaro. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get symptoms of gallbladder problems, which may include pain in your upper stomach (abdomen), fever, yellowing of skin or eyes (jaundice), and clay-colored stools.
Common side effects
The most common side effects of Mounjaro include nausea, diarrhea, decreased appetite, vomiting, constipation, indigestion, and stomach (abdominal) pain. These are not all the possible side effects of Mounjaro. Talk to your healthcare provider about any side effect that bothers you or doesn't go away.
Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effects. You can report side effects at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
Before using
- Your healthcare provider should show you how to use Mounjaro before you use it for the first time.
- Before you use Mounjaro, talk to your healthcare provider about low blood sugar and how to manage it.
Review these questions with your healthcare provider:
- Do you have other medical conditions, including problems with your pancreas or kidneys, or severe problems with your stomach, such as slowed emptying of your stomach (gastroparesis) or problems digesting food?
- Do you take other diabetes medicines, such as insulin or sulfonylureas?
- Do you have a history of diabetic retinopathy?
- Are you pregnant or plan to become pregnant or breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed? It is not known if Mounjaro will harm your unborn baby.
- Do you take birth control pills by mouth? These may not work as well while using Mounjaro. Your healthcare provider may recommend another type of birth control when you start Mounjaro or when you increase your dose.
- Do you take any other prescription medicines or over-the-counter drugs, vitamins, or herbal supplements?
How to take
- Read the Instructions for Use that come with Mounjaro.
- Use Mounjaro exactly as your healthcare provider says.
- Mounjaro is injected under the skin (subcutaneously) of your stomach (abdomen), thigh, or upper arm.
- Use Mounjaro 1 time each week, at any time of the day.
- Do not mix insulin and Mounjaro together in the same injection.
- If you take too much Mounjaro, call your healthcare provider or seek medical advice promptly.
Learn more
For more information, call 1-800-LillyRx (1-800-545-5979) or go to www.mounjaro.com.
This information does not take the place of talking with your healthcare provider. Be sure to talk to your healthcare provider about Mounjaro and how to take it. Your healthcare provider is the best person to help you decide if Mounjaro is right for you.
MounjaroTM and its delivery device base are trademarks owned or licensed by Eli Lilly and Company, its subsidiaries, or affiliates.
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About Lilly
Lilly unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We've been pioneering life-changing discoveries for nearly 150 years, and today our medicines help more than 47 million people across the globe. Harnessing the power of biotechnology, chemistry and genetic medicine, our scientists are urgently advancing new discoveries to solve some of the world's most significant health challenges, redefining diabetes care, treating obesity and curtailing its most devastating long-term effects, advancing the fight against Alzheimer's disease, providing solutions to some of the most debilitating immune system disorders, and transforming the most difficult-to-treat cancers into manageable diseases. With each step toward a healthier world, we're motivated by one thing: making life better for millions more people. That includes delivering innovative clinical trials that reflect the diversity of our world and working to ensure our medicines are accessible and affordable. To learn more, visit Lilly.com and Lilly.com/newsroom or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. P-LLY
Lilly Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements (as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) about Mounjaro™ (tirzepatide 2.5 mg, 5 mg, 7.5 mg, 10 mg, 12.5 mg and 15 mg) injection as a treatment to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes, the timeline for supply of Mounjaro to become available, and certain other milestones and ongoing clinical trials of Mounjaro and reflects Lilly's current beliefs and expectations. However, as with any pharmaceutical product or medical device, there are substantial risks and uncertainties in the process of research, development and commercialization. Among other things, there can be no guarantee that Mounjaro will be commercially successful, that future study results will be consistent with results to date, or that we will meet our anticipated timelines for the commercialization of Mounjaro. For further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see Lilly's most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, Lilly undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this release.
References
- Mounjaro. Prescribing Information. Lilly USA, LLC.
- Rosenstock, J, et. al. Efficacy and Safety of Once Weekly Tirzepatide, a Dual GIP/GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Versus Placebo as Monotherapy in People with Type 2 Diabetes (SURPASS-1). Abstract 100-OR. Presented virtually at the American Diabetes Association's 81st Scientific Sessions; June 25-29.
- Rosenstock, J, et. al. (2021). Efficacy and safety of a novel dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist tirzepatide in patients with type 2 diabetes (SURPASS-1): a double-blind, randomised, phase 3 trial. Lancet. 2021;398(10295):143-155. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01324-6.
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- Frias, J.P. Efficacy and Safety of Tirzepatide vs. Semaglutide Once Weekly as Add-On Therapy to Metformin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. Abstract 84-LB. Presented virtually at the American Diabetes Association's 81st Scientific Sessions; June 25-29.
- Ludvik B, Giorgino F, Jódar E, et al. Once-weekly tirzepatide versus once-daily insulin degludec as add-on to metformin with or without SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes (SURPASS-3): a randomised, open-label, parallel-group, phase 3 trial. Lancet. 2021;398(10300):583-598. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01443-4
- Del Prato S, Kahn SE, Pavo I, et al; for the SURPASS-4 Investigators. Tirzepatide versus insulin glargine in type 2 diabetes and increased cardiovascular risk (SURPASS-4): a randomised, open-label, parallel-group, multicentre, phase 3 trial. Lancet. 2021;398(10313):1811-1824. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02188-7
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CHICAGO, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today declared a quarterly dividend of 36 cents per share. The dividend is payable July 29, 2022 to shareholders of record as of July 1, 2022.
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Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $265 billion in assets under advisement and management as of March 31, 2022. The Company has operations in 29 countries. For more information, visit www.morningstar.com/company. Follow Morningstar on Twitter @MorningstarInc.
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Sam Ryder has issued a voting plea to fans a across Europe as he aims to pull off a shock win at Eurovision and bookies and fans still have no real idea just where he will finish on Saturday night.
Before he was even announced as the UK’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, Sam was already known the world over, having a following of over 12 million on TikTok, after he became something of a lockdown sensation. And he’s relying on fans who aren’t in the UK to send some votes his way as he goes for glory in Saturday’s Eurovision final with his track Space Man.
While some fans are still trying not to be too optimistic about his chances, the Eurovision final running order has put Sam in a strong soothing, with him performing in 22nd position, after well tipped entries like ones from Norway’s Subwoolfer, Spain’s Chanel, favourites to win Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestr a and Sweden’s Cornelia Jakobs and before the ‘dark horse,’ Serbia.
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On Friday night, Sam took part in the jury final, which saw all 25 countries in the Eurovision final perform for jurors from each participating nation. Their scores are the ones who will be read out by the announcers during the results section of Saturday’s final, before the televote points are revealed.
And, before he took to the stage on Friday evening, Sam made a passionate plea for support online, including TikTok where, by Saturday morning, the video had already had over 10 million views. The caption for the clip read: "1 day to go before I sing my head off in front of 200 million people. YOU CAN SUPPORT BY…downloading the @Eurovision app and then tomorrow night you can smash that voting button 20 times.”
Clarifying the fact that UK based viewers won’t be able to vote for him, Sam added: “ UK LEGENDS, you can’t vote for UK, but I hope you’ll be roaring along with me and telling your overseas pals to vote! Love ya, thank you millions.”
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Lazard Asset Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSEAMERICAN:KLR – Get Rating) by 179.8% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 34,979 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 22,479 shares during the period. Lazard Asset Management LLC owned 0.08% of Kaleyra worth $351,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of KLR. Traynor Capital Management Inc. boosted its position in Kaleyra by 16.3% during the 4th quarter. Traynor Capital Management Inc. now owns 14,300 shares of the company’s stock worth $143,000 after purchasing an additional 2,000 shares during the period. Vahanian & Associates Financial Planning Inc. purchased a new position in Kaleyra in the 4th quarter valued at about $202,000. Two Sigma Advisers LP purchased a new position in Kaleyra in the 3rd quarter valued at about $625,000. Two Sigma Investments LP boosted its position in Kaleyra by 290.1% in the 3rd quarter. Two Sigma Investments LP now owns 69,567 shares of the company’s stock valued at $766,000 after buying an additional 51,733 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Atom Investors LP purchased a new position in Kaleyra in the 3rd quarter valued at about $179,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 41.34% of the company’s stock.
In other Kaleyra news, Director John J. Mikulsky sold 15,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $7.84, for a total value of $117,600.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Avi S. Katz sold 29,838 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $6.72, for a total transaction of $200,511.36. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 132,061 shares of company stock valued at $904,160. 50.98% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Kaleyra (NYSEAMERICAN:KLR – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February 16th. The company reported ($0.17) earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.21) by $0.04. The firm had revenue of $90.01 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $88.80 million. Kaleyra had a negative net margin of 11.93% and a negative return on equity of 26.68%. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Kaleyra, Inc. will post -0.77 EPS for the current year.
A number of equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Cowen cut their target price on shares of Kaleyra from $20.00 to $15.00 in a research note on Tuesday. Craig Hallum lowered shares of Kaleyra from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their price objective for the stock from $15.00 to $6.50 in a research note on Tuesday. Maxim Group dropped their price objective on shares of Kaleyra from $37.00 to $27.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 17th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Kaleyra from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Friday.
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First Horizon Advisors Inc. trimmed its position in shares of ITT Inc. (NYSE:ITT – Get Rating) by 31.6% in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 432 shares of the conglomerate’s stock after selling 200 shares during the period. First Horizon Advisors Inc.’s holdings in ITT were worth $44,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC purchased a new position in ITT during the 4th quarter valued at about $3,095,000. Transcend Wealth Collective LLC purchased a new position in ITT during the 4th quarter valued at about $2,176,000. Barclays PLC boosted its holdings in ITT by 13.0% during the 3rd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 77,268 shares of the conglomerate’s stock valued at $6,633,000 after acquiring an additional 8,888 shares during the period. Credit Suisse AG boosted its holdings in ITT by 4.0% during the 3rd quarter. Credit Suisse AG now owns 81,347 shares of the conglomerate’s stock valued at $6,983,000 after acquiring an additional 3,158 shares during the period. Finally, Twinbeech Capital LP purchased a new position in ITT during the 3rd quarter valued at about $2,663,000. Institutional investors own 95.64% of the company’s stock.
Several brokerages have recently issued reports on ITT. StockNews.com began coverage on ITT in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating for the company. KeyCorp decreased their price objective on ITT from $113.00 to $100.00 in a research note on Wednesday, May 4th. Robert W. Baird decreased their price objective on ITT from $90.00 to $84.00 in a research note on Wednesday, May 4th. Oppenheimer cut ITT from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Monday, March 28th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group decreased their price objective on ITT from $109.00 to $94.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, April 7th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $103.17.
ITT (NYSE:ITT – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 3rd. The conglomerate reported $0.97 EPS for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.97. The company had revenue of $726.20 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $695.93 million. ITT had a return on equity of 15.90% and a net margin of 10.92%. The firm’s revenue was up 4.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.06 earnings per share. Research analysts predict that ITT Inc. will post 4.42 EPS for the current fiscal year.
In other ITT news, CEO Luca Savi sold 10,290 shares of ITT stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, February 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $87.44, for a total transaction of $899,757.60. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Insiders own 0.50% of the company’s stock.
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ITT Inc manufactures and sells engineered critical components and customized technology solutions for the transportation, industrial, and energy markets worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Motion Technologies, Industrial Process, and Connect & Control Technologies. The Motion Technologies segment manufactures brake pads, shims, shock absorbers, and energy absorption components; and sealing technologies primarily for the transportation industry, including passenger cars, trucks, light- and heavy-duty commercial and military vehicles, buses, and trains.
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Freeze Warning extended for parts of Yakima, Kittitas and Umatilla counties
UPDATE: The Freeze Warning issued for Yakima, Kittitas, and Umatilla Counties has been extended to the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 11. The warning remains the same: Temperatures will drop close to or below freezing between 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., so community members are advised to take precautionary steps to protect exposed pipes and plants.
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YAKIMA, Wash. — Brace yourself for a dramatic temperature drop as a freeze warning has been issued for certain parts of Central Washington and Oregon, threatening to kill crops and damage exposed plumbing if not properly protected.
According to a public notice issued by the Alert Yakima system on Monday afternoon, this freeze warning will be in effect from 2:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Authorities expect temperatures to linger in the mid-to-low 30s with temperatures possibly reaching as low as 30 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas.
Weather trackers are bracing for this to impact Kittitas Valley, Yakima Valley, the foothills of the Northern Blue Mountains, and the foothills of the Southern Blue Mountains. Cities that are at risk of being impacted include Pendleton, Ellensburg, Naches, Sunnyside, Toppenish, Yakima, Heppner, Condon, Pilot Rock, and Thorp.
If you have tender plants and crops that need to be protected, you are advised to begin taking precautionary measures as soon as possible. If exposed to the freezing cold, your crops and plants could die overnight.
Experts suggest that anyone with outdoor water pipes take action by wrapping them, draining them, or following them to drip slowly. Furthermore, in-ground sprinkler systems in the aforementioned areas should be drained and covered to protect them from freezing.
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BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA cut its holdings in shares of Synaptics Incorporated (NASDAQ:SYNA – Get Rating) by 95.8% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 21,278 shares of the software maker’s stock after selling 488,833 shares during the quarter. BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA owned about 0.05% of Synaptics worth $6,160,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Ellevest Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Synaptics by 210.8% during the 4th quarter. Ellevest Inc. now owns 230 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $67,000 after purchasing an additional 156 shares during the period. Syquant Capital Sas purchased a new position in shares of Synaptics during the 4th quarter worth $72,000. Koshinski Asset Management Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Synaptics by 23.8% during the 4th quarter. Koshinski Asset Management Inc. now owns 260 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $75,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares during the period. Parallel Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Synaptics by 126.9% during the 4th quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 295 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $85,000 after purchasing an additional 165 shares during the period. Finally, CWM LLC acquired a new position in Synaptics during the 4th quarter worth about $86,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 91.93% of the company’s stock.
In related news, Director Kiva A. Allgood sold 196 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $155.61, for a total transaction of $30,499.56. Following the transaction, the director now owns 6,654 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,035,428.94. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, insider Dean Warren Butler sold 1,126 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $155.61, for a total value of $175,216.86. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 26,651 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,147,162.11. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Company insiders own 0.80% of the company’s stock.
Shares of NASDAQ SYNA opened at $145.21 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 2.80 and a current ratio of 3.17. Synaptics Incorporated has a fifty-two week low of $117.00 and a fifty-two week high of $299.39. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.75 billion, a PE ratio of 30.44 and a beta of 1.34. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $182.40 and its 200-day simple moving average is $222.73.
Synaptics (NASDAQ:SYNA – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, May 5th. The software maker reported $3.75 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.55 by $0.20. Synaptics had a return on equity of 34.97% and a net margin of 12.17%. The business had revenue of $470.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $464.65 million. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.39 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 44.3% on a year-over-year basis. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that Synaptics Incorporated will post 10.9 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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Synaptics Incorporated develops and supplies semiconductor products and solutions worldwide. The company offers AudioSmart for voice and audio processing; ConnectSmart for high-speed video/audio/data connectivity; DisplayLink for transmitting compressed video frames across low bandwidth connections; VideoSmart that enables set-top boxes or over-the-top, streaming devices, soundbars, surveillance cameras, and smart displays; and ImagingSmart solutions.
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G7 to continue economic pressure on Russia, tackle 'wheat war'
Group of Seven foreign ministers vowed on Saturday to reinforce Russia's economic and political isolation, continue supplying weapons to Ukraine and tackle what Germany's foreign minister described as a “wheat war” being waged by Moscow.
After meeting at a 400-year-old castle estate in the Baltic Sea resort of Weissenhaus, senior diplomats from Britain, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the US and the EU also pledged to continue their military and defence assistance for “as long as necessary”.
They would also tackle what they called Russian misinformation aimed at blaming the West for food supply issues around the world due to economic sanctions on Moscow and urged China to not assist Moscow or justify Russia's war, according to a joint statement.
“Have we done enough to mitigate the consequences of this war? It is not our war. It's a war by the president of Russia, but we have global responsibility,” Germany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock told reporters at a closing news conference.
Key to putting more pressure on Russia is to ban or phase out buying Russian oil with EU member states expected next week to reach an agreement on the issue even if it remains at this stage opposed by Hungary.
“We will expedite our efforts to reduce and end reliance on Russian energy supplies and as quickly as possible, building on G7 commitments to phase out or ban imports of Russian coal and oil,” the statement said.
The ministers said they would add further sanctions on Russian elites, including economic actors, central government institutions and the military, which enable President Vladimir Putin “to lead his war of choice”.
The meeting in northern Germany, which the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Moldova attended, also spotlighted food security concerns and fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over into its smaller neighbour Moldova.
“People will be dying in Africa and the Middle East and we are faced with an urgent question: how can people be fed around the world? People are asking themselves what will happen if we don't have the grain we need that we used to get from Russia and Ukraine,” Baerbock said.
She added that the G7 would work on finding logistical solutions to get vital commodities out of Ukraine storage before the next harvests.
Attention now turns to Berlin as ministers meet later on Saturday with Sweden and Finland gearing up to apply for membership of the transatlantic alliance, drawing threats of retaliation from Moscow and objections from NATO member Turkey.
“It is important that we have a consensus,” Canada's foreign minister Melanie Joly told reporters when asked about Turkey possibly blocking their accession.
Putin calls the invasion a “special military operation” to disarm Ukraine and rid it of anti-Russian nationalism fomented by the West. Ukraine and its allies say Russia launched an unprovoked war.
“More of the same,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters. “The one thing that is missing is pushing for a diplomatic engagement to get a ceasefire. It is missing because Vladimir Putin has been saying to everybody that he doesn't want to stop the war.”
Reuters | https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/world/2022-05-14-g7-to-continue-economic-pressure-on-russia-tackle-wheat-war/ | 2022-05-14T14:05:14Z | https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/world/2022-05-14-g7-to-continue-economic-pressure-on-russia-tackle-wheat-war/ | true | 7 |
Largest Known Capital Campaign in the History of Girls' Secondary Schools
TROY, N.Y., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emma Willard School today announced the public launch of a $175 million capital campaign that will support and strengthen the school's commitment to girls' education. Infinite Horizon: The Campaign for Emma Willard School, with $118,778,653 already committed toward the funding priorities of the campaign, is poised to achieve the largest known philanthropic investment ever for a girls' secondary school.
Emma Hart Willard was a trailblazer in the empowerment and education of young women, and this historic capital campaign seeks to honor and extend her legacy. Emboldened by the spirit of its founder, the school set out on a mission to provide its students with an unrivaled education and infinite opportunity. This pursuit gave rise to Infinite Horizon. The campaign, guided by the school's strategic plan "Leading with Purpose," will allow Emma Willard School to strengthen its commitment to academic excellence, ensure access for all deserving students, attract and retain a talented and diverse faculty, preserve its iconic campus, and elevate arts education and facilities to meet the needs of a dynamic and creative student body.
"Together, we are building a new legacy that evokes our commitment to the extraordinary," said Head of School Jenny Rao. "Infinite Horizon: The Campaign for Emma Willard School will extend the bold vision of our founder. In the spirit of Emma Hart Willard, we are walking fearlessly forward—guiding our students with intelligence and integrity, with compassion and tenacity, with excitement and enthusiasm for all we have achieved and for all that is still to come."
The campaign was ignited by an alumna, Alice Dodge Wallace '38, with a $30 million lead gift to build the Alice Dodge Wallace '38 Center for the Performing Arts on the Emma Willard School campus. The daughter of educators, Mrs. Wallace (1920-2020) displayed a lifelong devotion to education and teachers, providing for institutions that had touched her life and enriched the lives of others. Alice served as a trustee from 1988-90, a Trustee Fellow from 1990-2005, and as an Honorary Trustee from 2005 until her passing.
"We are humbled by this act of breathtaking generosity," adds Head of School Rao. "I had the honor of spending time with Alice and her family and was truly moved by her grace, her sage perspective, and her love for Emma Willard School. Over the years, Alice's gratitude for her Emma Willard education was evident in the wonderful way in which she helped to strengthen —and, with this gift, continues to strengthen—our entire community."
Infinite Horizon: The Campaign for Emma Willard School will be guided through a campaign steering committee composed of trustees, alumnae, parents, faculty representatives, and current staff. This committee will be co-chaired by Linda Gill Anderson '77 and Wendy Graham '85, both current Board of Trustee members.
The campaign announcement was made today during a school celebration on campus where faculty and students learned of this bold effort to invest in the community. Cemented in the vision created by the school's strategic plan adopted in 2021, Infinite Horizon: The Campaign for Emma Willard School has six key funding priorities: academic excellence, affordability and access, advancing the arts, campus and facilities, strengthening community, and the Emma Fund for annual giving.
"There is an urgency in our community to engage the complexities and challenges of our times," said Lisa Allen LeFort '72, chair of the Board of Trustees. "Through this campaign, we will build on our history and define anew the legacies that will serve us into the next century."
For more information on Infinite Horizon: The Campaign for Emma Willard School please visit: infinitehorizon.org
To support the campaign, contact: Ann Dejnozka, Head of Advancement, 518-883-1799
For media inquiries, contact: Luke Meyers, Chief Communications Officer, 518-833-1785
About Emma Willard School
Founded by Emma Hart Willard in 1814 at a time when girls were not afforded opportunities and access to education, her namesake school was established to foster in each student a love of learning, the habits of an intellectual life, and the character, moral strength, and qualities of leadership to serve and shape the world. Emma Willard School is located in Troy, NY, offering independent boarding and day schooling for nearly 360 students in grades 9-12. For more information about the school and admissions, please visit: emmawillard.org/admissions
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Effective: 2022-05-14 07:55:00 EDT Expires: 2022-05-17 20:00:00 EDT Urgency: Expected Severity: Minor Certainty: Likely Instruction: If travel is required, allow extra time as some roads may be closed. Do not drive around barricades or through water of unknown depth. Take the necessary actions to protect flood-prone property. Target Area: West Carteret COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT TUESDAY * WHAT...1 to 2 feet of inundation above ground level in low- lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways. * WHERE...Areas along Bogue Banks beaches, Bogue Sound, the Newport and White Oak Rivers, areas along the lower Neuse River, Pamlico, Core and Back Sounds, and adjacent tidal creeks. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT Tuesday. * IMPACTS...Flooding of lots, parks, and roads with only isolated road closures expected. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Strong king tide cycle in combination with southerly winds will lead to increased water levels lasting into early next week. Water levels will rise through the upcoming high tide cycles, peaking Monday night and Tuesday night before receding through the middle of the week. Time of high total tides are approximate to the nearest hour. Beaufort Marine Lab NC MLLW Categories - Minor 5.0 ft, Moderate 5.5 ft, Major 6.5 ft MHHW Categories - Minor -0.8 ft, Moderate -0.3 ft, Major 0.7 ft Total Total Departure Day/Time Tide Tide from Norm Waves Flood ft MLLW ft MHHW ft ft Impact -------- --------- --------- --------- ------- -------- 14/07 AM 4.4 -1.4 1.6 1 None 14/07 PM 5.3 -0.5 1.7 1 Minor 15/08 AM 4.5 -1.3 1.7 1 None 15/08 PM 5.4 -0.4 1.5 1 Minor 16/08 AM 4.5 -1.3 1.9 1 None 16/09 PM 6.0 0.2 1.9 1 Moderate | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2597364907290/flood-warning-issued-for-polk-by-nws | 2022-05-14T14:12:14Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2597364907290/flood-warning-issued-for-polk-by-nws | false | 10 |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president swore in four new Cabinet ministers Saturday in an effort to ensure stability until a full cabinet is formed in the island nation engulfed in a political and economic crisis.
The appointment of four ministers came two days after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reappointed five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, after his predecessor — the president’s brother Mahinda Rajapaksa — resigned Monday following violent attacks by his supporters on peaceful anti-government protesters.
His resignation automatically dissolved the Cabinet, leaving an administrative vacuum.
In a move bring back stability, president Rajapaksa reappointed Wickremesinghe on Thursday and swore in four cabinet ministers Saturday until a full cabinet is appointed.
Rajapaksa swore in ministers of foreign affairs, public administration and home affairs, urban development and power and energy, said a statement Saturday from president’s office.
All four ministers belong to the president’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Party. The new prime minister belongs to the United National Party.
Rajapaksa sought a unity government in early April but the largest opposition political party, the United People’s Force, or SJB, had immediately rejected the proposal.
The Indian Ocean island nation is on the brink of bankruptcy and has suspended repayment of its foreign loans pending negotiations on a rescue package with the International Monetary Fund.
It needs to repay $7 billion in foreign debt this year out of $25 billion due by 2026. Its total foreign debt is $51 billion. The finance ministry says the country currently has only $25 million in usable foreign reserves.
For several months, Sri Lankans have endured long lines to buy fuel, cooking gas, food and medicine, most of which come from abroad. Shortages of hard currency have also hindered imports of raw materials for manufacturing and worsened inflation, which surged to 18.7% in March.
Sri Lanka’s economic woes have brought on a political crisis, with the government facing widespread protests for several weeks.
Authorities on Wednesday deployed armored vehicles and troops in the streets of the capital after attacks on protesters triggered a wave of violence across the country. Nine people died and more than 200 were injured.
Security forces have been ordered to shoot peopledeemed to be participating in the violence as sporadic acts of arson and vandalism continued despite a strict nationwide curfew that began Monday evening.
Saturday marks protesters’ 35th day occupying the entrance to the president’s office in the capital Colombo, demanding that Rajapaksa resign. Rajapaksa family members have been in power for most of the past two decades.
So far, president Rajapaksa has resisted calls for his resignation. | https://www.wrbl.com/news/international/rajapaksa-swears-in-4-cabinet-members-amid-sri-lanka-crisis/ | 2022-05-14T14:15:59Z | https://www.wrbl.com/news/international/rajapaksa-swears-in-4-cabinet-members-amid-sri-lanka-crisis/ | true | 12 |
StockNews.com started coverage on shares of Saga Communications (NYSE:SGA – Get Rating) in a research note issued to investors on Friday. The firm issued a buy rating on the stock.
NYSE:SGA opened at $22.65 on Friday. Saga Communications has a 52 week low of $20.20 and a 52 week high of $27.49. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $22.87.
Saga Communications (NYSE:SGA – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 10th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The company had revenue of $29.15 million for the quarter.
Saga Communications, Inc, a broadcast company, acquires, develops, and operates broadcast properties in the United States. The company's radio stations employ various programming formats, including classic hits, adult hits, top 40, country, country legends, mainstream/hot/soft adult contemporary, pure oldies, classic rock, and news/talk.
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Hello Survivors!
Looks like people overall are enjoying the Blood Moon update, but I got some feedback regarding the balance of zombies when the Blood Moon is active.
Blood Moons were originally designed to be end game content for people who are Level 10, full talents and full Legendary weapons and armour as well damage increase accessories. You are supposed to die and slowly progress getting Lost Souls so it makes your next Blood Moon more manageable.
But it seems many people are missing that point and are wanting to participate in Blood Moons with little or no gear. This is overall fine, there's no point adding fun events into the game if people can't play them without spending a bunch of time first.
This patch will aim to nerf the Blood Moon so it's more manageable but still needing gear to properly survive. The spawns of the zombies have been drastically reduced but keeping the same buffed health and movement speed.
I have also noticed quite a bit of lag when zombies are spawning within Blood Moons. This is because many people are using cars and the zombies are just spawning behind and not aggro'ing anything. Leaving the server with over 200 inactive zombies spread throughout the world. This patch aims to fix this by deleting all none aggro'd zombies every time new zombies spawn. Keeping the zombie count low but not interfering with them if they are aggro'd onto a player. This should also help a lot when surviving a Blood Moon.
Read below for the full changelog. It's nothing major, just a simple balance update for Blood Moons.
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Changelog
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused Generators to delete when dropping the item on the floor
- Fixed a bug with dead Zombie Brutes
Balance & Changes
- Blood Moons will now happen every 7 days in game (or 7 hours) to help rotate the Blood Moon event better for each real life day.
- Reduced the numbers of zombies that spawn at night outside of a Blood Moon to 1-2 zombies per hour per player (45% chance)
- Reduced the number of zombies that spawn at night when a Blood Moon is active to 2-3 zombies per hour per player, down from 4-6 per player per player
- Reduced the number of zombies that spawn at night when a Blood Moon is active to 1-2 zombies per every 30 minutes past the hour per player, down from 2-4 per player
- Non aggro'd zombies spawned in a Blood Moon will now delete every time the next zombies spawn in the cycle
- Expedited the delete rate time of zombies on sun rise
- Expedited the spawn time of zombies during night or blood moon
- Increased the sample position to 2m, up from 1m when looking for a location to spawn zombies
- Changed the default GPUQueued frames to 1 frame. 2 Frames causes lower FPS on most gpu's in the Settings
- Increased the damage of Tomahawk to 60, up from 50
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Leeds United host Brighton this weekend knowing defeat could potentially spell the end of their two-year Premier League stay.
The Whites have two fixtures remaining, against the Seagulls and Thomas Frank's Brentford between now and the end of the season.
Meanwhile, relegation rivals Burnley and Everton still have three matches to play, leaving Leeds at a disadvantage.
Victory over Graham Potter's Brighton - who are safe from the drop and have little to play for except a more handsome league finish - would take the fight to stay up into the final day.
Potter's side are missing three first-team players, but report a clean bill of health otherwise and come into this fixture on the back of a 4-0 win over Manchester United.
Neal Maupay has something of a favourable scoring record against the Whites but is not expected to get the nod in attack this weekend.
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Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 14 (ANI): Soon after Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb resigned from his post on Saturday, Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh claimed that Biplab Deb's resignation is the result of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s internal conflict.
Speaking to ANI, Ghosh said, "The BJP's internal conflict has resulted in Biplab Kumar Deb's resignation."
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TMC spokesperson said the BJP which can't complete a single tenure as chief minister post in Tripura, can't rule the state in the interests of the people.
Further, he expressed his confidence and said TMC will form a government in Tripura next year when the state Assembly election is held in 2023.
Also Read | Manik Saha, Rajya Sabha MP, Elected as New Tripura CM.
"The BJP can't complete a single tenure as chief minister in the state. How can they rule the state in favour of the people? We are ready for the Tripura Assembly election that will be held in 2023 and to fight against the BJP. The TMC will form a government next year," Ghosh said.
Meanwhile, Union Minister and BJP central observer Bhupender Yadav, after Deb resigned as the Chief Minister, said, "A meeting of the legislative party will be held at 8 pm. The new leader will be elected."
Biplab Kumar Deb had taken oath as the first Chief Minister of Bharatiya Janata Party in the state in 2018 ending the 25-year-rule of the Communist Party of India in Tripura.
Sources said that the BJP wanted to go with a fresh face in the assembly polls and Biplab Dev would be engaged In organisational work.
Sources said BJP leaders Bhupender Yadav and Vinod Tawde are in Tripura as the central observers and the decision on a new leader to replace Deb is likely to be announced in the evening. (ANI)
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Jewel of Navi Mumbai to get major facelift
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Sanjay Desai, chief engineer of NMMC, said “A pump house and sewage treatment plant is being constructed to make sure that there is no contamination of the water body at the Jewel.”
Depending on the intensity of the monsoon, the work is expected to go till September. NMMC commissioner, Abhijit Bangar, said, “Walkways, meditation centre, children’s play area and developing Miyawaki forest are planned. The idea is to give a very calm and natural atmosphere to those willing to meditate and give a feel of natural forest while walking through the walkway. Proper end-to-end fencing, CCTV cameras and increased security guards are also being planned to ensure the safety in the area.”
The urban forest that is being developed using Miyawaki technique will have 1.20 lakh tree plantation of which 90,000 have already been planted. By May 31, the target of planting all 1.20 lakh will be achieved, said deputy municipal commissioner, Jaydeep Pawar.
“This will be the largest urban forest in India. At the time of the plantation, the trees are a foot long and in around five months, it is expected to grow 10 feet long,” Pawar said.
A 29-foot long flamingo statue weighing one-and-a-half tons made out of scrap materials has also been installed in front of the Jewel’s main gate.
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Delhi school guest teachers seek continuation of services during vacations
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BLive multi-brand EV experience store launched at Tilak road Multi-brand EV platform, BLive, opened its first EV experience store at Tilak Road in Pune. Abhishek Tilgulkar of Tilgulkar Industries Pvt Ltd, store partner for BLive said, “By partnering with Blive, we aim to be the complete electric two-wheeler pitstop where Puneites can buy an electric two-wheeler that fits their needs, style and budget.”
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The Thane Special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court, on Friday, has convicted a 45-year-old man for raping his 13-year-old daughter and impregnating her in 2017. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The case was registered with APMC police and the convict was arrested on December 27, 2017 after his wife registered a complaint against him. The convict and his wife, both labourers, stayed at Kopri village along with their daughter. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/jewel-of-navi-mumbai-to-get-major-facelift-101652536166700.html | 2022-05-14T14:33:26Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/jewel-of-navi-mumbai-to-get-major-facelift-101652536166700.html | false | 1 |
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(NEXSTAR) – Long COVID comes in many shapes and forms. Some people continue to have shortness of breath for months, while others complain they have trouble focusing or “brain fog.” One long COVID symptom is so commonplace, it might be going undetected: sleep issues.
“Sleep disorders are one of the most common symptoms that patients who suffer from post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection are having these days,” said Dr. Cinthya Pena, a sleep specialist for Cleveland Clinic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also lists “sleep problems” as a common symptom of long COVID, also called post-COVID conditions.
“So mainly what we are finding is that they complain from insomnia, fatigue, also brain fog, some of them present sometimes circadian rhythm disorders,” said Pena.
A circadian rhythm disorder is when your body’s internal clock isn’t lined up with your environment, explained Cleveland Clinic. That could mean you’re not getting sleepy and staying asleep at night, or you’re feeling really tired during daylight hours.
As with other long COVID symptoms, they could last months, or even years. The symptoms can be mild or severe, depending on the person. While you’re more likely to develop long COVID after a severe COVID-19 infection, it’s also possible to suffer long-lasting issues even after a mild case. Much more research is needed to understand the wide range of symptoms long haulers experience.
Sleep is so vital to your health, that insomnia, circadian rhythm issues and other sleep problems could bleed over into other aspects of your life, the Cleveland Clinic said.
If you think you may have sleep issues related to a past COVID-19 infection – or any other long-haul symptoms – the CDC recommends talking to a doctor. The agency also recommends tracking your symptoms so you can explain to your health care provider the full range of what you’re experiencing.
While living with long COVID can be frustrating, the Cleveland Clinic said treatment has been helpful for some patients.
“This is just from my personal experience that those patients we were seeing a year ago in our clinic, some of them that are already after 10, 12 months of treatment, I can see some of them are improving their sleep issues,” said Pena. “But there is no exact data, or the literature has not revealed how long symptoms are going to last.”
There are studies that look at how long long-haul symptoms can last, but even those can be difficult to draw conclusions from, explained the CDC.
“For example, some studies look for the presence of post-COVID conditions based on self-reported symptoms, while others collect symptoms and conditions recorded in medical records. Some studies focus only on people who have been hospitalized, while others include people who were not hospitalized. The estimates for how many people experience post-COVID conditions can be quite different depending on who was included in the study, as well as how and when the study collected information,” the agency said.
Based on the information we have now, the CDC estimates about 13% of people who get COVID-19 still experience symptoms one month after infection. That drops to 2.5% three months or more after infection.
The odds of getting long COVID are much higher if you were hospitalized. The CDC estimates more than 30% of people hospitalized for the virus are still experiencing symptoms six months later. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/having-trouble-sleeping-it-could-be-long-covid/ | 2022-05-14T14:37:11Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/having-trouble-sleeping-it-could-be-long-covid/ | true | 17 |
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — In a break from its socialist model, Venezuela's government plans to open for private investment a number of state-owned companies in vital sectors as it seeks to address a need for capital for severely underinvested businesses. Scant details on the move are fueling doubts.
The government intends to sell between 5% and 10% of shares in various companies, some of which were nationalized by the late President Hugo Chávez in his bid to transform the South American country into a socialist state. But basic information for a public offering, including number of shares, stock price and the exchange in which a company will be listed, remain unclear ahead of the planned Monday sale.
Chávez's successor, President Nicolás Maduro, this week said the sales would be geared “fundamentally” toward local investors but foreign money could also flow into the companies, including telephone and internet service provider CANTV, which the government nationalized in 2007 after buying Verizon’s stake.
“We need capital for the development of all public companies,” Maduro said during a televised event Wednesday. “We need technology. We need new markets, and we are going to move forward.”
Interest, however, may be limited to investors with ties to the government or those with an appetite for risk.
The country is still under economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and other countries that prevent investors from being able to funnel money to Venezuela’s state-owned companies. And the percentages Maduro announced would not give private investors decision-making powers to undertake much-needed changes within the corporations.
Among the companies Maduro mentioned are CANTV and its subsidiary Movilnet, petrochemical producer Petroquimica de Venezuela and a conglomerate focused in the mining sector. Some shares of CANTV already trade on the Stock Exchange of Caracas, the country’s oldest exchange.
At the turn of the century, Chávez carried out a series of takeovers in the electricity, telecommunications, natural gas and oil sectors. But the government made minimum investments in some of these companies, which have left them providing substandard services.
Days-long power outages are common across the country. Millions of households either do not have access to water or the service is intermittent. Internet and phone services are deficient.
Government supporters and opponents alike complain about poor basic services across the country even if an election is not approaching. But economists point out that Venezuelan’s government needs to improve some of those services even if it is slightly ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
“We are no doubt seeing a paradigm shift that is largely forced by the circumstances but also largely fueled by political survival,” Luis Prato, senior economist with the firm Torino Capital. “Since June 2014, with this significant drop in oil prices, the Maduro administration began to see a drop in oil revenues. Then, we went through a period from 2014 to 2019 of price controls, of a more intervening state. But to the extent that the state began to lose incidence in the ability to generate wealth and growth, it began to make room for participation of the private sector.”
Venezuela is still under a protracted social, economic and humanitarian crisis credited to plummeting oil prices, economic sanctions and two decades of mismanagement by socialist governments. But the government has taken steps to relieve some of the economic pressures, including by giving up its long and complicated efforts to restrict transactions in U.S. dollars in favor of the local bolivar, whose value has been obliterated by inflation.
Maduro during this week's announcement said the state-owned companies would be listed in the country’s “various stock exchanges" without specifying.
But by Friday, Gustavo Pulido, president of the Stock Exchange of Caracas, had not received any information of the planned stock sales. He said the process to register the other companies and eventually list them is lengthy and requires the disclosure of financial documents.
“It takes as long as you want to take to make the placement successful. I couldn’t tell you a certain time,” Pulido said, adding that an offering on the Stock Exchange of Caracas could not be structured by Monday.
The government established its own exchange in 2010. A government spokesman did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press regarding the exchanges it intends to use.
Prato said the government is likely to use its own exchange or a separate digital system for now but that it would have limited results.
Henkel Garcia, director of the Caracas-based firm Econometrica, said the companies require significant investments to improve the quality of their services, which were much better before they were nationalized. But he warned that the country lacks a mechanism to oversee the accounting and financial reporting procedures of the companies, making it impossible to guarantee the private investment in the state companies would be appropriately spent.
That missing component, he said, creates an scenario similar to post-Soviet reforms in which a large number of state-owned companies were privatized.
“If this really is the beginning of the total sale or the total handing over of these companies, which for me is a probable scenario, and one would have to ask to whom they would be handed over because we have episodes like the Russian one, in which these companies that once belonged to the state ended up in the hands of people who were close to the government,” Henkel said. “So, it is a complex phenomenon that one could say opens the door to something positive, but with the institutional weakness that we have and with the lack of credible referees, well, it might not end in the best way.” | https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Venezuela-plans-stock-sale-of-state-owned-17172946.php | 2022-05-14T14:38:56Z | https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Venezuela-plans-stock-sale-of-state-owned-17172946.php | false | 12 |
Cedar Rapids leaders to break ground on 1st & 1st West development
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — City and local leaders will break ground on the new 1st and 1st West development in downtown Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. The Cedar Rapids...
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C-Sections
Here's The Best Time To Remove Your C-Section Tape
Don’t rush this.
After you deliver your baby via cesarean section, there’s a whole lot of stitching/suturing/stapling and taping going on to help heal your incision. But once you get home, you might start looking at that tape and wondering when it can come off. Perhaps you want to take a peek at your incision scar or ensure that everything is healing as it should as part of your overall recovery process. Knowing when to remove the tape after a C-section is important to keeping both you and your incision safe, though, so here’s what you need to know about touching that tape.
When to remove surgical tape after a C-section
There are a lot of different dressings you might get after having a C-section, so before you start fiddling with them, you need to know which ones your doctor has used. And the first one that is used immediately after your surgery should always be left on — and alone. “Silk tape and paper tape are commonly used to keep the bandage on the incision immediately after a cesarean section,” Dr. Megan Gray, M.D., an OB-GYN at Orlando Health Physician Associates tells Romper. “Many times, the tape is used to create pressure against the incision to reduce the incidence of oozing from the skin edges along incision.”
Once you’re ready to leave the hospital, your doctor will change the bandages and use surgical tape (such as Steri Strips or Dermabond) to protect and let your incision heal while you’re at home. Of course, it’s understandable that you might want to tease off the tape. A PubMed study found that postpartum women who were allowed to remove their wound dressings earlier so that they could shower were significantly happier than those who were still stuck wearing the surgical tape.
But when can you start teasing the tape off your skin? Well, that depends on the type of tape used as well as how your recovery is going, Dr. CherubaPrabakar, M.D., an OB-GYN, explains to Romper. “Usually it’s okay to try to take the tape off after one week,” says Prabakar. “If you have staples, your doctor might put 4 x 4 abdominal pad on the wound, and that should be in place for a week to 10 days.”
Dr. Greg Marchand, M.D., an OB-GYN, says that it’s best to hold off removing surgical tape after a C-section if at all possible. “There are no dressings where a patient who has had a cesarean section needs to remove something in the first week,” he says. “The surgical tape is meant to sit and let healing occur, so don’t do any peeking at your incision until your post-op doctor’s visit.”
How to safely remove surgical tape after a C-section
Even though you might be ready to tear off the tape, your body (and in particular, your incision site) might not be. That’s why the experts agree that it’s best to let your surgical tape take its time in coming off all on its own and resume your normal activities (like showering) if you’re up to it. “Most dressings are fine to shower with,” says Prabakar. “If it gets wet it’s not a big deal.”
Still, you might be getting antsy to strip the surgical tape. If you’re going to remove it at home, you’d better be prepared for the possibility of some pain or even ripping some skin off. “Tape can be uncomfortable to remove,” says Gray. “Think of it as the largest most adhesive Band-Aid you could ever remove, like waxing on steroids.” There are solutions that can be applied to the tape to inactivate some of the adhesiveness of the tape and make it easier to remove, according to Gray, but it might be best to leave it on until it starts to fall off on its own, or let the nursing staff help to remove the bandage.
What happens if the surgical tape falls off early?
Let’s say that your surgical tape has started to separate from the skin, and you want to finish the job and pull off the rest. It’s best to proceed with caution, though. “Although it’s best not to touch it at all, if your surgical tape starts to come off, it’s good to know that it functions like a sticker,” explains Prabakar. “Even if it comes off a little bit, it can still stick, so try to reapply it until it’s really ready to come off.”
Here’s when to see a doctor about your C-section tape
For the most part, your C-section incision should heal just fine with the surgical tape acting as a protection for your incision. Still, there are times when you might need to schedule an appointment with your OB-GYN about your C-section tape. “If you’re having discomfort or if there is damage to the skin underlying the tape, you should speak to your doctor,” says Gray. Adds Prabakar: “Removing the bandage won’t increase your chances for infection, unless you’re obese, have diabetes, or had a bacterial infection during delivery, such as chorioamnionitis,” she says. If you’re having pain, a fever, or redness, make an appointment with your doctor.
If you absolutely can’t stand the surgical tape and want it off already, try not to touch it. It’s meant to protect your wound from your pants or undies rubbing against it, and it should stay in place while your skin underneath heals. When your body has healed, it will either fall off all on its own, or you can go to the doctor for its safe removal.
Study cited:
Peleg, D., Eberstark, E., Warsof, S., Cohen, N., Shachar, I. “Early wound dressing removal after scheduled cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial” 2016.
Experts:
Dr. Megan Gray, M.D., an OB-GYN at Orlando Health Physician Associates
Dr. Greg Marchand, M.D., an OB-GYN
Dr. Cheruba Prabakar, M.D., an OB-GYN | https://www.romper.com/pregnancy/when-to-remove-tape-after-a-c-section | 2022-05-14T14:44:12Z | https://www.romper.com/pregnancy/when-to-remove-tape-after-a-c-section | false | 1 |
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In 2020, a pandemic–hit India and the (Infosys) Foundation became extremely alert. The first agenda for us was to save the medical fraternity and look after patients, especially the underprivileged. We became busy assisting hospitals, providing beds, distributing sanitizers, masks, gloves, dry ration and cooked food. Then came the personal protective equipment (PPE) kits. Even though the medical staff resembled astronauts while wearing them, the kits were crucial in ensuring that the virus did not enter through their noses, eyes or throats. It was critical for us to supply them with more. However, obtaining the PPE kits wasn’t easy. We didn’t want doctors and nurses to face patients without the kits, so we ordered some imported ones. We found out that not only were they expensive, but that they were coming too late. When the government under Modi’s leadership can develop complicated homegrown vaccines at a pace comparable to the West, it gave me new hope, and I also caught the ‘Make in India’ bug! But who would do so efficiently, quickly, and with good quality at a reasonable price? Many hospitals were looking for these kits all over the country.
In the midst of this frantic search, one email caught my eye—it was from a young girl. She wrote, ‘I have a small garment factory that employs 50 workers. We are outstanding in the manufacturing and producing of any design that you give to us. If you can provide us with raw material and an imported PPE kit, we will make comparable ones. I am from a small town and do not have working capital, even though I have the talent and knowledge. I am happy to explain in more detail if you can give me an appointment.’
Something about the email struck a chord and I remembered the time I wrote a letter to J.R.D. Tata 50 years ago, without any connections. I requested him to go through the letter even if it was from a small-town girl who was unknown to him. I saw myself in the girl’s position and I called her to the office. The girl landed in my office with all the relevant documents. She was a simple girl with a no-nonsense attitude, and I drowned her with the questions I had.
‘I can mimic any design you give me,’ she said. ‘I think that skill can be used for a good cause in these times.’
‘Have you done this before?’ I asked.
‘Ma’am, my diploma is in design. If you are familiar with Chandni Chowk in Delhi, you know that plagiarized dresses of famous fashion designers sell there for one-tenth the price.’
‘That is not my area of interest, so I cannot comment on it,’ I responded.
‘I am telling you, Ma’am. Give me a PPE kit, the right raw materials and I will not disappoint you. I will rip open the kit and produce the same quality product. I will even deliver it wherever you want.’
‘But how will you do it? You only have 50 people in your factory currently. We need much more than you can produce,’ I said with complete transparency.
‘Please don’t worry. I can hire more people. That is my problem to address,’ she shot back.
‘What if there is a difference of opinion in the quality you produce?’
‘If the quality is not acceptable to you, then I will return your money in instalments, Ma’am.’
So, I took the risk, and I gave her a cheque for Rs10 lakh (Rs1 million) towards the first prototype and a small order. I said to her, ‘Look, I am giving this money to you personally. I hope you will keep your word and come out with an excellent product at a reasonable price. Any future orders will depend on the outcome of this pilot programme.’
She took the money with grace, thanked me and touched my feet. She said, ‘You will not regret this, Ma’am.’
Confidently, she walked out.
Five days later, she brought in the first prototypes, and I compared it to the imported product. It was comparable and cheaper too. The young girl had delivered it in neat packaging, and I sent the kits to a few hospitals and reliable doctors for genuine feedback. Soon, I received their inputs—the items manufactured by this young lady’s facility were better than the imported products!
Immediately, we handed her a big order from the Foundation, and she became our regular supplier. There were no complaints from the doctors or the hospitals where we donated them.
After a few months, the young girl came to meet me.
I asked, ‘What happened? Didn’t you get a cheque for your last shipment?’She smiled and said, ‘Everything is in order, Ma’am. I wanted to speak to you.’
‘Beta, about what?’
‘I want to give you something.’ She handed me a box and said, ‘This is dates poli specially made for you. Ma’am, if you add liquid ghee on it, the taste will be outstanding.’
‘Did you make this? And how did you know about the trick of adding liquid ghee?’
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‘How does your mother know that I like dates poli?’
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I was delighted. ‘Are you Sarala’s daughter, that little 5-year-old girl?’
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WINDSOR, Vt. (AP) — A bobcat burst into a home in Vermont on Friday morning and attacked a man before he was able to trap the animal in the bathroom, police said.
Windsor Police Chief Jennifer Frank told WCAX-TV that the bobcat had apparently been chasing a cat and ran through an open door and into the house.
An elderly man suffered injuries in an altercation with the animal but was able to trap get it in the bathroom and shut the door.
The resident was taken to the hospital for evaluation. Vermont Fish and Wildlife officials responded and euthanized the bobcat, which will be tested for rabies and other pathogens.
Frank said workers next door were cutting down trees which may have also impacted the animal's habitat.
“This is a very rare and unusual circumstance," she told the station. “I’ve never seen this happen before in my career, where it gained entry into someone’s home and then made contact with a person." | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Bobcat-enter-home-and-attacks-resident-17172992.php | 2022-05-14T14:51:29Z | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Bobcat-enter-home-and-attacks-resident-17172992.php | false | 12 |
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal trial for reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley on charges including bank fraud and tax evasion is set to start Monday in Atlanta.
The trial is getting underway just days after E! announced that it is moving forward with a new dating series, “Love Limo,” hosted by Todd Chrisley and weeks after the announcement that reality shows “Chrisley Knows Best” and “Growing Up Chrisley” have been renewed on USA Network and E!, respectively.
The Chrisleys were initially indicted in August 2019 and a new indictment was filed in February of this year. Prosecutors allege that the couple submitted fake documents to banks when applying for loans. Julie Chrisley also submitted a false credit report and fake bank statements when trying to rent a house in California, and then the couple refused to pay rent a few months after they started using the home, the indictment says.
The Chrisleys also used a film production company they controlled to hide income to keep the IRS from collecting unpaid taxes owed by Todd Chrisley, prosecutors say.
Both Chrisleys are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, five counts of bank fraud, one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of tax fraud. Julie Chrisley is also charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.
Peter Tarantino, an accountant hired by the Chrisleys, is charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of willfully filing false tax returns. He is set to stand trial alongside the Chrisleys.
The Chrisleys and Tarantino have pleaded not guilty to the charges and have been free on bond.
U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross has said jury selection will take place Monday with opening statements expected on Tuesday.
“Chrisley Knows Best” follows the tight-knit, boisterous Chrisley family. The series was just renewed by USA for a 10th season, while spinoff “Growing Up Chrisley,” featuring Chrisley kids Chase and Savannah living in Los Angeles, was just renewed for a fourth season.
The family had moved to Tennessee by the time the indictment was filed but the criminal charges stem from when they lived in Atlanta’s northern suburbs, prosecutors have said.
Before the initial indictment was even announced in August 2019, Todd Chrisley posted a lengthy statement on Instagram denying any wrongdoing. A former employee who was fired after the Chrisleys discovered in 2012 that he was stealing from them retaliated by bringing phony documents to the U.S. attorney’s office and telling prosecutors the Chrisleys had committed financial crimes, Chrisley wrote.
Prosecutors have said the Chrisleys directed that former employee to falsify documents. The scheme lasted from at least 2007 to 2012 and involved submitting fake bank and financial statements to financial institutions to get millions of dollars in loans, much of which they used for their personal benefit, the indictment says. They tried to hide their involvement by falsely claiming they didn't know their then-employee had submitted false documents, the indictment says.
Julie Chrisley sent a fake credit report and bank statements showing far more money than they had in their accounts to a California property owner in July 2014 while trying to rent a home, the indictment says. A few months after they began using the home, in October 2014, they refused to pay rent, causing the owner to have to threaten them with eviction.
Money the Chrisleys received from their television show went to a company they controlled called 7C's Productions, but they didn't declare it as income on federal tax returns, prosecutors said. The couple failed to file or pay their federal income taxes on time for multiple years, the indictment says.
Tarantino helped the Chrisleys hide income and lie about their tax returns, telling the IRS that Todd Chrisley didn't have enough money to pay a tax debt from 2009 despite money coming into their production company that they spent on personal purchases, the indictment says. He also filed false corporate tax returns for 7C's Productions to make it look like the company wasn't making money, the indictment says.
After federal agents served a grand jury subpoena on 7C's Productions in February 2018, Julie Chrisley submitted a fraudulent document, the indictment says. | https://www.milfordmirror.com/entertainment/article/Chrisley-Knows-Best-stars-to-stand-trial-in-17172902.php | 2022-05-14T14:56:11Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/entertainment/article/Chrisley-Knows-Best-stars-to-stand-trial-in-17172902.php | true | 35 |
China gives up 2023 Asian Cup hosting rights - AFC
China has relinquished its rights to host the 2023 Asian Cup finals due to the Covid-19 situation in the country, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on Saturday.
The event, which is played every four years and features 24 national teams from across the continent, was due to be held in 10 cities from June 16 to July 16 next year.
“Following extensive discussions with the Chinese Football Association (CFA), the Asian Football Confederation has been officially informed by the CFA that it would not be able to host the AFC Asian Cup 2023,” the confederation said in a statement.
“The AFC acknowledges the exceptional circumstances caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to the relinquishment by China PR of its hosting rights.”
The AFC said a decision about the hosting of the tournament would be revealed in due course.
The Asian Cup is the latest international sporting event to be affected by China's attempts to tackle the pandemic.
Earlier this month, Asian Games organisers the Olympic Council of Asia postponed the next edition of the multi-sport event, due to be held in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in September, until 2023.
China continues to implement a zero-COVID-19 policy and cities across the country have faced tight restrictions as a result of a recent outbreak of the Omicron variant.
Shanghai has been under lockdown for more than a month while other cities, including the capital Beijing, are facing a wave of additional curbs, frequent testing and targeted lockdowns.
Most international sporting events in China have been postponed or cancelled since the start of the pandemic, with the notable exception of the Winter Olympics, which went ahead in Beijing under strict health controls in February.
The Chinese Formula 1 Grand Prix has been not been held since 2019, while WTA events have been suspended due to a standoff over concerns relating to the safety of Chinese player Peng Shuai.
China is scheduled to host four ATP events this year, including the Shanghai Masters and the China Open in October.
The Chinese Super League yet to announce when the new football season will begin.
The Chinese Football Association also gave up the right to host July's East Asian Championships, with that tournament now taking place in Japan.
China had been due to host the Asian Cup for the first time since 2004, when the national team lost in the final in Beijing's Workers' Stadium to Japan.
Reuters
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Four Spoons Thai 2021 - Newton
796 Beacon Street, Newton
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796 Beacon Street, Newton
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1241 Centre Street, Newton
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Makena Capital Management LLC increased its position in shares of Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (NYSE:ELS – Get Rating) by 0.4% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 155,299 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 689 shares during the quarter. Equity LifeStyle Properties accounts for about 1.5% of Makena Capital Management LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 22nd biggest holding. Makena Capital Management LLC’s holdings in Equity LifeStyle Properties were worth $13,614,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Achmea Investment Management B.V. bought a new position in Equity LifeStyle Properties during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $25,000. CWM LLC bought a new position in Equity LifeStyle Properties during the 4th quarter worth approximately $40,000. National Bank of Canada FI bought a new position in Equity LifeStyle Properties during the 4th quarter worth approximately $46,000. Desjardins Global Asset Management Inc. bought a new position in Equity LifeStyle Properties during the 4th quarter worth approximately $50,000. Finally, Marshall Wace North America L.P. bought a new position in Equity LifeStyle Properties during the 1st quarter worth approximately $69,000. 90.90% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Shares of NYSE ELS traded up $2.43 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $72.38. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,042,267 shares, compared to its average volume of 978,992. The company has a current ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 0.03 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.37. Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $67.57 and a fifty-two week high of $88.70. The stock has a market capitalization of $13.46 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 47.62, a PEG ratio of 3.93 and a beta of 0.59. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $76.51 and a 200-day simple moving average of $79.68.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 8th. Investors of record on Friday, June 24th will be paid a $0.41 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, June 23rd. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.27%. Equity LifeStyle Properties’s dividend payout ratio is presently 107.89%.
Several analysts have commented on the stock. StockNews.com assumed coverage on shares of Equity LifeStyle Properties in a report on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “hold” rating on the stock. Truist Financial assumed coverage on shares of Equity LifeStyle Properties in a report on Tuesday. They set a “buy” rating and a $78.00 target price on the stock. Royal Bank of Canada dropped their target price on shares of Equity LifeStyle Properties from $85.00 to $82.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, January 26th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Equity LifeStyle Properties from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $92.00 target price on the stock in a report on Tuesday, April 26th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Equity LifeStyle Properties presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $83.78.
Equity LifeStyle Properties Company Profile (Get Rating)
We are a self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) with headquarters in Chicago. As of January 25, 2021, we own or have an interest in 423 quality properties in 33 states and British Columbia consisting of 161,229 sites.
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