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CLEVELAND, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NACCO Industries® (NYSE: NC) today announced that the Board of Directors increased its regular cash dividend from 19.75 cents to 20.75 cents per share. The dividend is payable on both the Class A and Class B Common Stock, and will be paid June 15, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on May 31, 2022. The new dividend is equal to an annual rate of $0.83 per share.
About NACCO Industries
NACCO Industries® brings natural resources to life by delivering aggregates, minerals, reliable fuels and environmental solutions through its robust portfolio of NACCO Natural Resources businesses. Learn more about our companies at nacco.com or get investor information at ir.nacco.com.
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What Are DataDots and are They a Waste of Money?
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, May 18, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
641 PM CDT Wed May 18 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN OLDHAM AND SOUTHWESTERN HARTLEY COUNTIES...
At 641 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Romero, or 13
miles northeast of Nara Visa, moving southeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect some tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings. People and animals outdoors will
be injured. Expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows,
and vehicles.
Locations impacted include...
Romero.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
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. TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
DALLAM HANSFORD HARTLEY
HUTCHINSON LIPSCOMB MOORE
OCHILTREE OLDHAM ROBERTS
SHERMAN
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — House lawmakers heard from experts Wednesday about what the country could look like if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court.
In a hearing following the court’s leaked draft opinion that said they’d indeed reverse the landmark decision, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., told the House Judiciary Committee that the impact of having Roe v. Wade overturned would be “devastating.”
“Roe v. Wade protected millions of Americans by assuring that they have access to safe, legal and life-saving medical care,” Nadler said. “It would exacerbate an already dire crisis in abortion care access.”
Rep. Andy Briggs, R-Ariz., said simply, “this is about killing babies.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said abortion rights shouldn’t be left up to states, and he “would not trust even the best politicians to make those judgments for my daughters.”
The Supreme Court is expected to issue its final decision in the next two months, and Democrats are urgently trying to push a bill through that grants abortion access nationwide, but Republicans are pushing back as expected. All 50 Republicans and Democratic Sen. Joe D. Manchin blocked a bill earlier this week, the Hill reported.
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Democrats Press Biden to Go Big on Forgiving Student Loan Debt
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- Elizabeth WarrenAmerican politician
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- Raphael WarnockAmerican politician and pastor
(Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and fellow Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Raphael Warnock pitched President Joe Biden to go big with student loan forgiveness during a White House meeting Wednesday.
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The three Democrats, who have been leading the effort in the Senate, support $50,000 in student debt relief, which is five times what Biden has indicated he would support.
“I’m pushing him to do this in a way that we help the Georgia folks I’m running into everyday,” said Warnock, who is running for re-election in a hotly contested race for his Georgia seat.
Warnock said Biden “is receptive to getting this done.”
After the meeting, the trio of Democrats had an intense private conversation on the Senate floor. Warren, who made student debt forgiveness a pillar of her 2020 presidential campaign, looked agitated while Schumer kept shaking his head.
Warren wouldn’t comment on the discussion with Biden, but said afterward that she was still pushing for $50,000 in student loan debt to be forgiven for each individual.
“I want to see the maximum amount of debt relief possible,” Warren said in an interview. “Fifty thousand dollars would give immediate relief to tens of millions of families.”
Warren previously said that amount would do the most to help close the racial and gender wealth gaps.
While Democrats generally favor forgiving at least some of the debt, Republicans are opposed. A group of GOP senators led by Mitt Romney of Utah on Wednesday introduced legislation that would prohibit the administration from canceling student loan debt.
“This decision would not only be unfair to those who already repaid their loans or decided to pursue alternative education paths, but it would be wildly inflationary at a time of already historic inflation,” Romney said in a statement.
With legislation to wipe loans off the books unlikely, advocates have turned to the White House to provide relief.
Biden said that he was considering forgiveness of at least $10,000, but not as much as $50,000. The White House has signaled that people making more than $125,000 a year would likely be ineligible.
But the president hasn’t made up his mind about many details of the plan, including how much debt to forgive per borrower, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. And though White House officials have debated the contours of a forgiveness program internally for more than a year, there is no real consensus on the best path forward.
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Midday Report: Hovnanian Enterprises, (HOV) Falls on May 18
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. - Class A (NYSE: HOV) are down 6.62% Wednesday.
As of 11:53:36 est, Hovnanian Enterprises, is currently sitting at $43.60 and has moved $3.09 per share in trading so far.
Hovnanian Enterprises, has moved 7.56% over the last 30 days and has moved YTD 63.32% based on the previous close.
The company anticipates its next earnings on 2022-06-02.
For technical charts, analysis, and more on Hovnanian Enterprises, visit the company profile.
About Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. - Class A
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., founded in 1959 by Kevork S. Hovnanian, is headquartered in Matawan, New Jersey and, through its subsidiaries, is one of the nation's largest homebuilders with operations in Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia. The Company's homes are marketed and sold under the trade name K. Hovnanian Homes. Additionally, the Company's subsidiaries, as developers of K. Hovnanian's Four Seasons communities, make the Company one of the nation's largest builders of active lifestyle communities.
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HOUSTON, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imperial Capital, LLC ("Imperial Capital") announced that it served as exclusive financial advisor to Service Compression, LLC ("Service Compression" or the "Company"), a leading provider of natural gas compression services to exploration & production companies at the wellhead, in connection with the commitment of $215 million of first lien senior secured credit facilities with Crestline Investors, Inc. ("Crestline"). The Company plans to direct the net proceeds from the financing to the acquisition of incremental wellhead compression in the Permian Basin and the kickoff of a newbuild electric-driven wellhead compression program.
Dusty Womble, Chairman of Service Compression, and Managing Partner at Masked Rider Capital, LLC, commented, "We are excited to announce our partnership with Crestline and believe this transaction puts us in an excellent position to realize our goal of creating meaningful value for our investors along with opportunity for our employees."
Rhett Newberry, President and CEO of Service Compression, commented, "We are pleased to announce this transformative financing with Crestline. The Company currently has 15,000 horsepower of electric-driven compression on order that will expand our total fleet to over 250,000 horsepower. We look forward to advancing the ESG initiatives of our customers and continuing to make strategic investments in equipment and technologies that differentiate our business."
"This transaction demonstrates Imperial Capital's ability to leverage our extensive relationships with prospective sources of capital across multiple industry verticals, and highlights the expertise and knowledge of our Energy Group," said Chris Shepard, Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking at Imperial Capital. Lenny Bianco, a Managing Director in the Energy Group, added, "We are pleased to have crafted a bespoke debt structure and identified an ideal partner to support the Company's growth plans while limiting dilution to existing shareholders."
About Service Compression, LLC
Service Compression is a leading provider of natural gas compression services to exploration & production companies at the wellhead. Service Compression is focused on advancing the ESG initiatives of the upstream oil & gas sector through its differentiated service and technology offerings. The Company is headquartered in Lubbock, TX with field offices in support of its operations. For more information, please visit www.servicecompression.com.
About Crestline Investors, Inc.
Crestline Investors, Inc., founded in 1997 and based in Fort Worth, Texas, is an institutional alternative investment management firm with approximately $15.0 billion in assets under management. Crestline specializes in credit and opportunistic investments, including financing and restructuring solutions for mature private equity funds. In addition, the firm manages a multi-PM equity market-neutral hedge fund, and provides beta and hedging solutions for institutional clients. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the company maintains affiliate offices in New York City, London, Toronto and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.crestlineinvestors.com.
About Masked Rider Capital, LLC
Masked Rider Capital, LLC ("Masked Rider Capital" or "MRC") is a multi-family office founded in 2012 that is focused on acquiring and investing in private companies. Masked Rider Capital proudly serves lower and middle market businesses in West Texas communities and the surrounding areas through innovative capital solutions. MRC provides capital in the form of control and non-control equity, debt and hybrid securities. The firm is industry agnostic and participates in real estate development opportunities. MRC is headquartered in Lubbock, TX. For more information, please visit www.maskedrider.com.
About Imperial Capital, LLC
Imperial Capital, LLC is a full-service investment bank offering a uniquely integrated platform of comprehensive services to institutional investors and middle market companies. We offer sophisticated sales and trading services to institutional investors and a wide range of investment banking advisory, capital markets and restructuring services to middle market corporate clients. Paired with our proprietary research and sales & trading desk analysis, we provide investment analysis across an issuer's capital structure, including bank loans, debt securities, the hybrid/bank capital marketplace (through our ELP Framework), post-reorganization equities, special situations claims and listed and unlisted equities. Our comprehensive and integrated service platform, expertise across the global capital structure, and deep industry sector knowledge enable us to provide clients with research driven ideas, superior advisory services, and trade execution. We are quick to identify opportunities under any market conditions and we have a proven track record of offering creative, proprietary solutions to our clients. Imperial Capital, LLC has three principal businesses: Investment Banking, Institutional Sales & Trading and Institutional Research. More information about Imperial Capital, LLC can be found at www.imperialcapital.com.
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Primaries fuel questions about potency of Trump endorsements
Tuesday’s primaries are fueling questions about the strength of Donald Trump’s endorsement even as the results underscored the extent to which the former president has molded the party in his image.
While Trump’s favored Senate candidate in North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd (R), won his primary decisively, others who had received his endorsement, including Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) and Idaho Lt. Gov Janice McGeachin, were defeated. Even more disappointing for Trump, his endorsed candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate primary, Mehmet Oz, remains locked in a tight battle with hedge fund manager Dave McCormick.
While last night’s primaries are far from a defeat for the former president, they could stoke further questions about the extent to which he can clear primary fields and play kingmaker for the GOP.
“It’s a good ticket, but it’s not a golden ticket,” Republican strategist Doug Heye told The Hill of Trump’s endorsement. “As it would be a Barack Obama nomination or a George W. Bush endorsement in the past. It’s the same as that.”
“The party is more broadly turning Trumpier whether it’s with or without Trump,” Heye said. “That to me is the broader and more important story moving forward.”
Heye echoed this in a recent op-ed for CNN, writing that “the media may continue posting Trump-based scorecards like a Preakness Stakes tip sheet,” but Trumpism is in the GOP for the long term.
Even as Trump endorsed and campaigned for Oz, McCormick and conservative commentator Kathy Barnette stayed in the race and sought to portray themselves as the candidates most aligned with Trump’s brand of conservatism.
Every race in which Trump has endorsed has been watched closely. J.D. Vance’s surge from the middle of the pack to a win in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary earlier this month was seen as the first major win for a Trump-backed candidate this cycle. And last week, Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.), who was backed by Trump, won his primary against Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) in the state’s 2nd Congressional District. Meanwhile, Trump-backed Charles Herbster lost his gubernatorial bid in Nebraska’s GOP primary that same night.
“The more you put yourself out there, the more likely it is you’re going to lose some, and he clearly has,” said one Republican strategist.
Operatives argue that while Trump’s pull with the conservative base may be decent, it’s not the only factor that can influence election outcomes.
Some pointed to Budd and Doug Mastriano, the newly minted GOP Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee, as two who, while benefiting from Trump’s endorsement, could have won their primaries without it. For Budd, strategists say outside spending from the conservative group Club for Growth was a boost. The group spent more than $11.2 million on ads in support of Budd over the last week alone, according to AdImpact.
“The spending they have done for Budd — if it weren’t for them, he wouldn’t be where he is now,” said North Carolina GOP strategist Carter Wrenn. “Did the Trump endorsement help him? Yeah, but was it that big of a deal? No, it wasn’t the decisive factor.”
In Mastriano’s case, he was already leading in the polls when Trump endorsed him, despite being outspent on air by the other GOP gubernatorial hopefuls — though he rose to prominence as a supporter of Trump’s claims the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
Trump’s call to give Cawthorn, who had been plagued with numerous scandals, a “second chance” did not appear to do much to help the first-term congressman. Cawthorn called one of his six primary challengers, state Sen. Chuck Edwards, to concede on Tuesday night. As of midnight on Monday, Edwards led with 33.4 percent of the vote. Cawthorn came in with 31.9 percent.
“When you step back and try to judge and assess what happened last night, there are some things that worked against [Trump] that probably aren’t his fault and some things that he did in the past that make him look better,” said the GOP strategist.
“For instance, endorsing a gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania who was going to win the nomination well in advance of that endorsement,” the strategist continued, referring to Mastriano’s primary win.
Out in Idaho, McGeachin’s loss to incumbent Gov. Brad Little (R), was more expected. Little trounced McGeachin, winning 52. 8 percent of the vote. McGeachin trailed with 32.2 percent.
McGeachin hit Little over his decision to issue a stay-at-home order in March 2020, despite Idaho’s economy reopening by June of that same year. The awkward dynamic of the lieutenant governor challenging her own governor in a primary can be traced back to McGeachin’s past clashes with Little over the pandemic. Last year, McGeachin banned mask and vaccine mandates on two separate occasions when Little was out of state.
Ultimately, though, it appears that Little had an incumbency and money advantage in Tuesday’s primary.
Pennsylvania’s Senate race is less clear-cut. As of Wednesday, Oz led McCormick by fewer than 3,000 votes.
Trump, seemingly feeling the pressure, urged Oz to declare victory as soon as possible on Wednesday.
“Dr. Oz should declare victory,” the former president wrote on his Truth Social application. “It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they ‘just happened to find.’”
The statement has some asking whether the loss could ultimately damage Trump’s brand.
“What he’s really trying to push Oz to do which is declare victory now is in his best interests and not in Oz’s best interests,” the GOP strategist said. “I think that is just yet another sign of somebody in an infrastructure that’s so desperate to keep these wins because they know what it means to them.”
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Jenet Yellen says dollar rise is understandable, raises concern for inflation
2 min read . Updated: 19 May 2022, 06:21 AM IST- Dollar appreciation is an aid to US policy makers as they try to rein in surging inflation
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that it’s understandable the dollar has appreciated amid rising US interest rates, and that these gains have posed a concern for some other countries.
“From the standpoint of the administration, we’re committed to a market-determined exchange rate," Yellen said at a press briefing in Bonn, Germany, on Wednesday. “It’s understandable that the dollar has risen" as higher US interest rates spur capital toward the greenback, she said. She also cited “safe-haven" flows amid highly uncertain times.
While the Treasury chief has declined to adopt the “strong-dollar" policy followed by some of her predecessors, her remarks Wednesday showed little concern with recent gains in the currency. The appreciation is an aid to US policy makers as they try to rein in surging inflation, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has separately endorsed a tightening in US financial conditions -- of which a strengthening dollar is a part.
The Bloomberg Dollar Index earlier this month reached its highest since the stress of spring 2020, when the Covid-19 crisis erupted. For many emerging and developing nations, the gains are making it more costly to service dollar-denominated debt. Even for some advanced nations, such as Japan, the decline in their own currencies against the dollar has been unwelcome, in adding to inflationary pressures.
“There are many countries with dollar-denominated debt, and a rising dollar makes it more difficult for countries to bear that debt," Yellen said. “We know that often emerging markets worry about how they will fare in an environment of higher interest rates and tightening monetary policy."
The impacts on other countries “is a concern," she said. For the US, the key is “to keep our neighbors well informed" about Washington’s policy stance. It’s “an important strategy for helping our neighbors adjust," she said.
Yellen was speaking ahead of a meeting of finance chiefs from the Group of Seven advanced economies in Bonn May 19-20. Among her priorities at the confab is securing a commitment to large-scale reconstruction funding for Ukraine and shoring up a global corporate-tax deal.
The US is enjoying “a great deal of economic momentum" that’s allowed it to outpace most peers, Yellen noted. “We have inflation -- obviously the Fed is tightening monetary policy to address it -- and we’re in a global environment in which there are significant risks and pressures. But I really don’t expect the United States to fall into a recession."
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GENEVA (AP) — After a nearly 2-1/2-year hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Swiss town of Davos is set to again host global elites from business, government and activist groups for the World Economic Forum.
Russia’s war in Ukraine and climate change worries are expected to be on many minds at the event starting Monday as concern over the pandemic ebbs.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to pipe in virtually. The biggest delegation of top Ukrainian government officials to leave the country since the war started are set to attend Davos in person, organizers said.
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, forum hosts invited no Russian officials or business leaders this year.
“I’m positive that that was the right decision,” forum president Borge Brende said during a news conference Wednesday. “We do hope, though, that Russia will follow a different path … in the years to come, to start to stick to the U.N. Charter and to their international obligations.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are among the event headliners.
Brende said more than 2,500 participants from business, civil society, media and government are expected to attend, including more than 50 heads of state and government.
Organizers of the meeting, which usually takes place in Davos each January, hope to catapult out of a pandemic that repeatedly thwarted their hope of holding the event. The last one took place in 2020 as the pandemic was emerging, and then-U.S. President Donald Trump attended.
Skyrocketing inflation, growing signs of climate change, and food and oil shortages sparked by the Ukraine war have increasingly inherited international attention as the COVID-19 crisis has ebbed around the world. Davos organizers trotted out superlatives to reflect the many challenges.
“Under the theme ‘History at the Turning Point,’ the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this year will be the most timely and consequential annual meeting since the creation of the forum over 50 years ago,” forum founder Klaus Schwab said.
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CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Classic Lotto" game were:
03-14-16-19-31-49, Kicker: 5-9-3-6-2-0
(three, fourteen, sixteen, nineteen, thirty-one, forty-nine; Kicker: five, nine, three, six, two, zero)
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The Dormaahene, Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II has finally seen something good about the Akufo-Addo led New Patriotic Party (NPP).
It follows his decision to heap praises on the President and the administration for the various programmes and policies they have rolled out since taking over the reins of the country.
Chief among them, he said was the introduction of the ‘Free Senior High School’ and the ‘One District, One Factory’ policies.
At a meeting with the President at the Presidency (Jubilee House) today with members of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs of which he is the President, the Dormaahene who has not hidden his love for the National Democratic Congress administration and virtual dislike for the NPP could not but admitted “when you watch all around the globe today, you will realise that times are hard and things are difficult, but you and members of your government are steering the affairs of the nation very well and we are all doing our part and we thank you for that.”
“If we are here today, we want to thank you for the introduction of the Free SHS policy because lots of the nation’s children are benefitting from it”, he noted whilst beaming with smiles.
He further stated “there are a lot you are doing but if I say I will talk about all that, then I may lose focus of the issue I brought here. But we know you are still doing them so we thank you and members of your administration” to the surprise of many, including some of his own chiefs.
“Apart from that is the One District, One Factory policy which has been of immense benefit to the entire nation”, he confessed.
He also had cause to thank the President for the construction of the Sunyani airport, stressing the hope that in good time the President will commission the project.
He however complained about a number of road projects in the Bono region he said are progressing slowly and pleaded with the President to help expedite action on their completion.
Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu also asked the President to help upgrade the Sunyani regional hospital to the status of a teaching hospital as well as ensure the building much needed infrastructure in the two universities in the Bono Region; the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) and Sunyani Technical University.
Meanwhile, the chiefs and elders of the region have made available a huge parcel of land for the construction of the Sunyani sports stadium.
On his part, President Akufo-Addo could not help thanking the chief for the compliments.
He promised his government will do well to complete all the projects complained of and even do more.
On the road network, referring to available data, the President said a considerable number of roads, are under construction and same will be completed.
Meanwhile, he indicated that feasibility studies on the construction of the Sunyani sports stadium have been completed and the Finance Ministry is currently looking at the estimates of the $45 million dollars proposed 15,000 seater project.
He therefore assured the chiefs that all things being equal, the project will commence in due course.
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BEIJING, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zhihu Inc. (NYSE: ZH; HKEX: 2390) ("Zhihu" or the "Company"), the operator of Zhihu, a leading online content community in China, today announced that it will hold an annual general meeting of the Company's shareholders (the "AGM") at 11:00 a.m. Beijing time (or soon after the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting, both of which are defined below) on June 10, 2022 at Room Xinzhi, Gate 10, BKL-B, 768 Creative Industry Park, 5A Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China, for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing each of the Proposed Resolutions as defined and set forth in the notice of the AGM (the "AGM Notice"). The AGM Notice and the form of proxy for the AGM are available on the Company's website at http://ir.zhihu.com. The board of directors of the Company fully supports the Proposed Resolutions and recommends that shareholders and holders of American depositary shares ("ADSs") vote in favor of the Proposed Resolutions.
The Company will hold a class meeting of holders of Class A ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.000125 each (the "Class A Meeting") and a class meeting of holders of Class B ordinary shares with a par value of US$0.000125 each (the "Class B Meeting") convened on the same date and at the same place as the AGM, for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing the Class-based Resolution as defined and set forth respectively in the notices of each of the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting. The notices and forms of proxy for each of the Class A Meeting and the Class B Meeting are available on the Company's website at http://ir.zhihu.com.
Holders of record of ordinary shares of the Company at the close of business on May 17, 2022, Hong Kong time, are entitled to notice of, to attend and vote at, the AGM or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and, as applicable, the Class A Meeting or the Class B Meeting. Holders of record of ADSs as of the close of business on May 17, 2022, New York time, who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying Class A ordinary shares must give voting instructions to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., the depositary of the ADSs.
The Company has filed its annual report on Form 20-F, including its audited financial statements, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The Company's annual report on Form 20-F can be accessed on the Company's website at http://ir.zhihu.com and on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
About Zhihu Inc.
Zhihu Inc. (NYSE: ZH; HKEX: 2390) is the operator of Zhihu, a leading online content community in China where people come to find solutions, make decisions, seek inspiration, and have fun. We have been dedicated to expanding our content and service offerings to enable our users to explore and enjoy "fulfilling content" (有获得感的內容) that broadens horizons, provides solutions, and resonates with minds. Since the initial launch in 2010, we have grown from a Q&A community into one of the top five comprehensive online content communities and the largest Q&A-inspired online content community in China, both in terms of average mobile MAUs and revenue in 2019, 2020, and 2021, according to CIC. For more information, please visit https://ir.zhihu.com.
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Downton Abbey: A New Era Stars Elaborate On The Days That Were Harder To Film Than Expected (And Yes A Lobster Was Involved)
By Mike Reyes published
The Downton experience isn't solely heated yet polite conversations in a drawing room.
A film experience like Downton Abbey: A New Era looks absolutely effortless on the surface, but everyone knows that a lot of hard work and effort goes into such an undertaking. Working on one of this weekend’s upcoming movies certainly had its challenges, with every cast member I spoke to being able to share their own unique story in that regard. Perhaps the greatest surprise of all is the fact that a lobster happened to be involved in one scenario that just might take the cake.
Sitting down with several of the cast members during the press day of Downton Abbey 2, I posed the question of what the most difficult day on set had to be. In a movie that’s been rumored to feature the death of an iconic Downton character, I was ready for potential stories about sobbing takes and fond farewells.
Instead, I was treated to some stories that would probably make the fictional counterparts of the Downton Abbey: A New Era cast either laugh or blush. Starting with Allen Leech, Tom Branson himself, the tales from those wild days in the south of France kicked off with a bit of a fishy accent:
For readers that aren’t on the Celsius scale of temperature, Leech’s story entails a day that was roughly 90 degrees Fahrenheit. It figures that the cinematic sequel to the wildly successful Downton Abbey: The Motion Picture would throw this sort of twist. That previous picture saw Leech engaged in a last minute dance scene that saw him rushed back to set, which worked well as a segue into another cast story of interest.
Night dances are certainly a specialty when it comes to making for interesting Downton stories. This time, actor Laura Carmichael was the one that had a particular memory involving a dance under less than ideal conditions. As the woman known to fans as Edith Pelham, the Marchioness of Hexham, explained, those complications came due to a bit of moviemaking trickery:
Surely with all of these problems, the more domestic half of Downton Abbey: A New Era’s story was easier to film, right? As it would turn out, some of the chaos thrown into the mix by a major film production in Julian Fellowes’ latest cinematic narrative actually led to real chaos. In the case of one character in particular, a change of costume led to a rather perilous situation.
We turn now to Phyllis Logan, the woman who brings Mrs. Elsie Carson to life in this particular universe. Without spoiling the experience that led a loyal member of the Downstairs team into some new threads, Logan explained how these changes led to a very threatening obstacle:
Reading back Phyllis Logan’s story of bathroom woes recalls some of the most interesting stories from comic movies past. Just as Jason Momoa had some issues going with his Aquaman costume, Logan can now count herself a cinematic superhero of sorts. Depending on what solutions was eventually reached, she may have had to display some sort of feat of strength and agility to make it all work, so the point still stands.
As for Joanne Froggatt, her Downton Abbey sequel experience wasn’t as strenuous as the stories provided above. Her character Anna Bates is still very much a part of the chaos that overwhelmed Downton in this second film. However, as Froggatt herself highlights in her contribution to the question at hand, it was a piece of cake on her end:
Sometimes the days you think are going to be easy end up being the real wringers on set. Then again, some moments members of the Downton Abbey 2 were dreading turned out to be absolutely comfortable scenes. Movies truly are a form of magic, as you don’t always know what you’ll get once someone yells action, and that first lobster tail gets cracked on camera.
Downton Abbey: A New Era finally graces domestic theaters, starting with fan events showing this evening. Early showings will continue tomorrow night, with Friday marking the proper wide debut of the movie in theaters. Depending on when you’re planning to book your tickets, you might have enough time to rewatch Downton Abbey: The Motion Picture, which at the time of this writing is streaming only for Peacock Plus subscribers.
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Price Alert: Shares of Matson (MATX) Trade 6.35% Lower at Midday May 18
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of Matson Inc (NYSE: MATX) lost 6.35% Wednesday.
As of 12:02:57 est, Matson is currently sitting at $85.99 and dropped $5.82 per share.
Matson has moved 5.17% over the last 30 days and has a YTD change of 2.47% based on the prior day’s close.
The company expects its next earnings on 2022-07-28.
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About Matson Inc
Founded in 1882, Matson is a leading provider of ocean transportation and logistics services. Matson provides a vital lifeline to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Alaska, and Guam, and to other island economies in Micronesia. Matson also operates two premium, expedited services from China to Long Beach, California, provides service to Okinawa, Japan and various islands in the South Pacific, and operates an international export service from Dutch Harbor to Asia. The Company's fleet of owned and chartered vessels includes containerships, combination container and roll-on/roll-off ships and custom-designed barges. Matson Logistics, established in 1987, extends the geographic reach of Matson's transportation network throughout the continental U.S. Its integrated, asset-light logistics services include rail intermodal, highway brokerage, warehousing, freight consolidation, Asia supply chain services, and forwarding to Alaska.
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Banco Santander, S.A. (NYSE:SAN – Get Rating) was the recipient of a large increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 3,370,000 shares, an increase of 25.3% from the April 15th total of 2,690,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 7,690,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.4 days.
Shares of SAN stock traded down $0.09 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $2.84. The company had a trading volume of 4,777,928 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,508,841. The company’s fifty day moving average is $3.22 and its 200 day moving average is $3.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 13.98, a current ratio of 2.63 and a quick ratio of 2.63. Banco Santander has a fifty-two week low of $2.68 and a fifty-two week high of $4.38. The stock has a market capitalization of $49.25 billion, a PE ratio of 5.07 and a beta of 1.30.
Banco Santander (NYSE:SAN – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 26th. The bank reported $0.16 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $13.81 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $13.31 billion. Banco Santander had a net margin of 19.12% and a return on equity of 9.25%. Equities analysts forecast that Banco Santander will post 0.59 earnings per share for the current year.
Several analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Citigroup assumed coverage on shares of Banco Santander in a research note on Wednesday, January 19th. They set a “neutral” rating and a €3.30 ($3.44) price objective for the company. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upped their price objective on shares of Banco Santander from €3.90 ($4.06) to €4.20 ($4.38) and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. TheStreet raised shares of Banco Santander from a “d+” rating to a “c” rating in a research note on Friday, February 18th. UBS Group upped their price objective on shares of Banco Santander from €4.35 ($4.53) to €4.40 ($4.58) in a research note on Wednesday, January 26th. Finally, Societe Generale increased their price target on shares of Banco Santander from €4.00 ($4.17) to €4.10 ($4.27) and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 28th. Six research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $3.79.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Wedbush Securities Inc. grew its position in Banco Santander by 3.1% during the 1st quarter. Wedbush Securities Inc. now owns 99,689 shares of the bank’s stock worth $337,000 after purchasing an additional 2,996 shares during the last quarter. Scotia Capital Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Banco Santander by 13.6% in the third quarter. Scotia Capital Inc. now owns 32,624 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $118,000 after purchasing an additional 3,915 shares during the period. Pinnacle Wealth Planning Services Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Banco Santander by 7.6% in the first quarter. Pinnacle Wealth Planning Services Inc. now owns 55,662 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $188,000 after purchasing an additional 3,942 shares during the period. Keybank National Association OH lifted its stake in shares of Banco Santander by 32.4% in the first quarter. Keybank National Association OH now owns 16,861 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $57,000 after purchasing an additional 4,128 shares during the period. Finally, Balentine LLC lifted its stake in shares of Banco Santander by 17.9% in the first quarter. Balentine LLC now owns 27,906 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $94,000 after purchasing an additional 4,236 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 8.34% of the company’s stock.
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Banco Santander, SA provides various retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, and large companies worldwide. It offers demand and time deposits, and current and savings accounts; mortgages, consumer finance, syndicated corporate loans, structured financing, cash management, export and agency finance, trade and working capital solutions, and corporate finance; and insurance products.
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Kansas State Athletics announced its Ring of Honor Class of 2022 Wednesday afternoon.
The class, which will be officially inducted the weekend of the football season opener agaisnt South Dakota, includes linebacker Arthur Brown (2011-12), running back Larry Brown (1967-68), defensive end Darren Howard (1996-99), quarterback Collin Klein (2009-12), wide receiver Tyler Lockett (2011-14) and quarterback Ell Roberson (2000-03).
“Each of these men hold a special place in the history of our program, and it will be an honor to be a part of their induction into our Ring of Honor,” K-State coach Chris Klieman said in a release. “Their hard work and achievements on the field are well-documented, and we are excited to welcome them back to Manhattan for a special induction weekend.”
The six players being inducted have accumulated 31 total All-America citations during their careers, including 11 first-team honors.
They have combined to reside in the top 10 of K-State game, single-season or career records on 209 occasions, which includes 48 total school records.
“As with past classes, I am truly honored to have coached five of these special young men who continue to represent Kansas State University in a special manner,” legendary former Wildcat head coach Bill Snyder said. “They are men of character, great leaders, talented football players and great representatives of their highly successful football program and the 16 Goals for Success.”
Arthur Brown
A linebacker from Wichita that played at K-State in the 2011 and 2012 seasons, Brown anchored a defense that would go on to help K-State win its second conference championship of the modern era.
Brown transferred to K-State from Miami and went on to earn Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year (2011) honors and was named First Team All-Big 12.
He ended his career with 218 tackles (142 solo), three sacks, thre interceptions and nine passes defended.
Brown was a named First Team All-American in 2012 by the Football Writers Association of America and a Second Team All-American by the Associated Press, Walter Camp, Sports Illustrated and CBSSports.com.
He was also a finalist for the Lott IMPACT Trphy and the Bednarik Award and was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.
Brown was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in 2013 and played four season including stints with Jacksonville and the New York Jets.
Larry Brown
A physical blocking back from Pittsburgh, Brown arrived to K-State in 1967 after two seasons at Dodge City Community College.
He went on to rush 50 times for 282 yards his junior season and 402 yards on 111 carries his senior year.
He was selected in the eighth round of the 1969 NFL Draft by Washington where he played eight seasons.
In 1972, he was selected as the NFL MVP by multiple outlets and was also named the Bert Bell Award Winner and the AP Offensive Player of the Year.
He led the league in rushing in 1970 with 1,125 yards.
Darren Howard
The Kansas State school record holder for forced fumbles in a season (6, 1999), sacks in a career (29.5) and forced fumbles in a career (9), Howard was a terror at the defensive end spot, earning All-Big 12 honors his sophomore, junior and senior seasons.
Howard ended his career with 191 tackles (114 solo), 29.5 sacks, six forced fumbles and two interceptions.
The St. Petersburg native was drafted in the second round of 2000 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints where he played 10 seasons split between the Saints and Philadelphia.
He was selected to the 2000 All-Rookie Team.
Collin Klein
Considered to be one of the greatest players in school history, Klein led K-State to the 2012 Big 12 Championship and was a 2012 Heisman Trophy Finalist along with a finalist for the Maxwell, Walter Camp and Davey O’Brien Award. He was the recipient of the 2012 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.
Klein holds 21 individual game, season and career school records including the season record for rushing touchdowns (27, 2011) which tied the Big 12 and NCAA FBS quarterback records. He also owns the K-State career rushing touchdowns and rushing touchdowns by a quarterback record (56), and ranks fifth in NCAA history among quarterbacks.
A Ron Prince recruit, Klein made the move over to quarterback after Bill Snyder took over and made his mark under center in the 2010 season.
In all, Klein ended his career with 4,724 passing yards and 2,485 rushing yards and 87 total touchdowns.
After a stint in the Canadian Football League, Klein started his coaching career as a defensive quality control coach in 2014 before moving over to the offensive side as a grad assistant.
Klein coached quarterbacks at Northern Iowa for a season in 2016 before returning to K-State in the same role. He held the title of co-offensive coordinator under Snyder during the 2018 season and was recently re-promoted to offensive coordinator by Klieman in January.
Tyler Lockett
The youngest of a K-State dynasty (until his younger brother Sterling arrives on campus next fall) Lockett, a undersized and dynamic receiver from Oklahoma, left his four-year career as a Wildcat with 15 individual game, season and career records.
His 440 all-purpose yards versus Oklahoma in 2013 rank first in school history and seventh in NCAA history.
Lockett owns K-State career marks in receptions (249), receiving yards (3,710), 100-yard receiving games (17), most consecutive 100-yard receiving yard games (5), receiving touchdowns (29), kickoff-return attempts (77) and kick-off return yards (2,196).
As a freshman, Lockett was named the Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year. He was a crucial part of the 2012 Big 12 Championship team. In 2014, Lockett was named a Consensus All-American along with being a Biletnikoff Award Semifinalist and a First Team All-Big 12 selection.
Lockett ended his career with 3,710 yards recieving on 249 catches with 29 touchdowns. He registered 2,196 kickoff return yards and 488 punt return yards and six total return touchdowns.
Lockett was selected in the third round of the 2015 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks, where he’s been ever since. He is entering his eighth NFL season and he earned All-Pro honors in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2015.
Ell Roberson
A dual-threat electric force on K-State’s 2003 Big 12 Championship team, Roberson currently holds eight individual school records including touchdowns thrown in a season (24), career rushing yards by a quarterback (2,818) and career total plays (1,232).
The Texas native was an honorable mention All-American by College Football News in 2003 and he was a Third Team All-Big 12 selection.
In the 2003 Big 12 Championship game versus No. 1 Oklahoma, Roberson went 10-for-17 for 227 yards and four touchdowns while rushing for 62 yards.
After graduating in 2004, Roberson spent two seasons with the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League.
K-State’s six 2022 Ring of Honor inductees will now join a group of 14 past inductees including Lynn Dickey (quarterback – 1968-70), Steve Grogan (quarterback – 1972-74), Jaime Mendez (defensive back – 1990-93), Sean Snyder (punter – 1991-92), Gary Spani (linebacker – 1974-77) and Veryl Switzer (running back – 1951-53); Class of 2008 members David Allen (running back/punt returner – 1997-2000), Martin Gramatica (place kicker – 1994-98), Terence Newman (defensive back – 1999-2002) and Mark Simoneau (linebacker – 1996-99); and Class of 2015 inductees Michael Bishop (quarterback – 1997-98), Jordy Nelson (wide reciever – 2005-07), Clarence Scott (defensive back – 1968-70) and Darren Sproles (running back – 2000-04). | https://themercury.com/townnews/sport/new-k-state-ring-of-honor-inductee-class-selected/article_20bbdcde-2006-5470-8fab-1b6bdc30c69b.html | 2022-05-19T01:31:36Z | https://themercury.com/townnews/sport/new-k-state-ring-of-honor-inductee-class-selected/article_20bbdcde-2006-5470-8fab-1b6bdc30c69b.html | true | 1 |
Alabama’s ‘New’ Way of Collecting Election Results
The polling offices will be using tabulation equipment that is not connected to any internet or bluetooth devices. Officials say this will ensure that there is no voter fraud or electronic tampering with the votes collected.
After the voting location closes, the staff will then upload all of the data to a type of USB device that will then be placed in a secured envelope and taken to the probate office in each county.
“We will be able to know that they are coming from a secure location in that county seat to the central office here in Montgomery.”
The Secretary of State says that they will only be using secure devices to transfer all the data so that there is no confusion with the data as it is passed from the voter location all the way up to the state capital.
“we have been transferring the data through a jump drive, we are continuing to do that its just that the transfer of the data from the central reporting location in the county is still being done electronically but its only being done with a dedicated instrument that was purchased by us 247 thousand dollars spent state wide to make sure that those units that are being used are only being used for election night reporting”
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-05-14-20-34
(three, five, fourteen, twenty, thirty-four)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
03-05-14-20-34
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday paused a new and controversial board’s work on disinformation and accepted the resignation of its leader, capping weeks of concerns about impinging on free speech rights and frenzied conspiracy theories about the board itself.
Former Disinformation Governance Board director Nina Jankowicz told The Associated Press hours after resigning Wednesday that the wave of attacks and violent threats she’s fielded since the board’s launch will not stop her from speaking out about disinformation campaigns pulsing through the social media feeds of Americans.
“We need to have a grownup conversation about how to deal with threats to our national security and that’s not what happened here,” Jankowicz said. “I’m not going to be silenced.”
What remains to be seen is how the board’s disastrous rollout and ensuing criticism around it will damage ongoing U.S. efforts to counter disinformation used as a weapon by Russia and other adversaries. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged the board’s controversy had become a distraction to the department’s other work, which includes safeguarding U.S. elections, two officials familiar with his decision said.
While the board has not formally been shuttered, it will be reviewed by members of a DHS advisory council that’s expected to make recommendations in 75 days. The Washington Post first reported the board’s pause.
Federal and state agencies treat disinformation as a national security threat. In a statement announcing its launch, DHS said the new initiative would coordinate efforts around threats of Russian disinformation campaigns aimed at the U.S. and false claims that encourage migrants to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The new board was hampered from the start by questions about its purpose, funding and work that Mayorkas struggled to answer even as he appeared in front of lawmakers on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
Mayorkas made the decision to pause the board after the negative reaction and growing concerns that it was hindering DHS’ other work on disinformation, according to two department officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
“The Board has been grossly and intentionally mischaracterized: it was never about censorship or policing speech in any manner,” the department said in a statement. “It was designed to ensure we fulfill our mission to protect the homeland, while protecting core Constitutional rights.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted the board had never met and neither the department nor Jankowicz had any power to censor or remove content labeled as disinformation.
DHS officials had tried to quell concerns about how the board would impact issues of free speech and online privacy by describing it as an internal working group intended to study definitions of disinformation across the department.
But opponents remained unconvinced about the board’s work and purpose.
The top Republicans on the House intelligence and homeland security committees issued a joint statement Wednesday calling the board “a political tool to be wielded by the party in control.”
“This board was only successful in reinforcing that the Department of Homeland Security’s priorities are severely misplaced,” wrote Reps. Mike Turner of Ohio and John Katko of New York, who previously said DHS had not disclosed information to them about the program.
Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, told Mayorkas the board was a “terrible idea” that “communicates to the world that we’re going to be spreading propaganda in our own country.”
Twenty Republican attorneys general, led by Jason Miyares of Virginia, threatened Mayorkas with legal action over the board “unless you turn back now and disband this Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board immediately,” Miyares said in a statement.
Reception online and across conservative television shows to the board was even worse.
The phrase “Ministry of Truth” — a reference to George Orwell’s “1984” — trended on Twitter in discussions about the board. Conservative pundits and social media users pushed conspiracy theories and falsehoods around its purpose, with some falsely claiming the board was quickly developed by DHS in response to billionaire Elon Musk’s quest to buy Twitter. Others put out false claims that Jankowicz planned to edit the tweets of everyday Twitter users.
“It’s been really mischaracterized from the beginning,” said Cindy Otis, a disinformation researcher and former CIA analyst.
Experts on disinformation warned the controversy around the board could hurt existing efforts to identify and stop the spread of false narratives about elections and hot-button issues in American society.
Russia has tried to influence the last two presidential elections by boosting false stories and using social media to inflame divisions in American society on issues like race and the coronavirus pandemic. It has continued to spread false and misleading narratives about its invasion of Ukraine. U.S. intelligence officials have also accused China and Iran of peddling disinformation to Americans. DHS has several ongoing programs to counter disinformation, including the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s efforts to debunk claims of election fraud.
But, Otis warned, “It would be really unfortunate if they just decided that disinformation is too publicly sensitive of an issue.”
Jankowicz, too, became the center of sexist and antisemitic attacks, and even death threats online. A Fox News personality recently questioned whether Jankowicz should have agreed to lead the board while pregnant.
Jankowicz said Wednesday that she was reporting violent threats that came in daily through phone calls, emails or Twitter messages. Some included rape or death threats. Others encouraged her to kill herself.
“It was horrible. It was constant,” she said. “That’s obviously really scary and really unpleasant. I was trying to do important work to protect Americans from a real threat.”
The department, she said, failed to address concerns about privacy and free speech issues around the board’s work.
Other critics suggested Jankowicz was too partisan for the job, pointing to statements she made that questioned the provenance of a laptop said to belong to Hunter Biden, the president’s eldest son, and replaying a TikTok video she taped about disinformation to the tune of a song from “Mary Poppins.”
Supporters of Jankowicz have accused the department of not doing enough to protect her from trolls and online attacks.
“It is deeply disappointing that mischaracterizations of the board became a distraction from the Department’s vital work, and indeed, along with recent events globally and nationally, embodies why it is necessary,” Jankowicz wrote in her resignation letter. | https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/dhs-pauses-disinformation-board-director-will-resign/ | 2022-05-19T01:45:26Z | https://www.mystateline.com/news/politics/dhs-pauses-disinformation-board-director-will-resign/ | false | 27 |
NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., a nationally recognized shareholder rights law firm, reminds investors that class actions have been commenced on behalf of stockholders of Lucid Group, Inc. ( LCID), AbbVie, Inc. (: ABBV), Playstudios, Inc. ( MYPS), and International Business Machines Corporation (: IBM). Stockholders have until the deadlines below to petition the court to serve as lead plaintiff. Additional information about each case can be found at the link provided.
Lucid Group, Inc. ( LCID)
Class Period: November 15, 2021 – February 28, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 31, 2022
On February 28, 2022, Lucid disclosed that it had only delivered approximately 125 EVs in 2021 – 452 less than expected – and would only produce between 12,000 and 14,000 EVs in 2022, despite previous claims that it would produce 20,000. The Company also announced that it would delay the launch of its Lucid Gravity SUV from 2023 to 2024, citing “the extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges” as the cause.
On this news, Lucid’s common stock fell $3.99, or 13.8%, to close at $24.99 per share on March 1, 2022, thereby injuring investors.
The complaint filed in this class action alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants overstated Lucid’s production capabilities while concealing that “extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges” were hampering the Company’s operations from the start of the Class Period.
For more information on the Lucid class action go to: https://bespc.com/cases/LCID
AbbVie, Inc. (: ABBV)
Class Period: April 30, 2021 – August 31, 2021
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: June 6, 2022
AbbVie is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. The company's revenues will come under significant pressure in the coming years when its best-selling drug, Humira, will lose patent protection in 2023. Accordingly, AbbVie's future revenue and earnings depend in large part on its ability to develop new sources of revenue to offset Humira's lost sales. Rinvoq—an anti-inflammatory drug manufactured by AbbVie and used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other diseases by inhibiting Janus kinase (JAK) enzymes—was touted as one such drug. Rinvoq was initially approved in the United States to treat only moderate to severe RA. However, AbbVie was actively pursuing additional treatment indications and, in 2020, asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve Rinvoq for the treatment of several other diseases.
As is relevant here, Rinvoq is similar to other JAK inhibitor drugs, including Xeljanz, manufactured by Pfizer Inc. When the FDA approved Xeljanz in 2012 for the treatment of RA, it required an additional safety trial to evaluate Xeljanz's risk of triggering certain serious side effects. Beginning in February 2019, the FDA repeatedly warned the public that the safety trial indicated that Xeljanz's use could lead to serious heart-related issue, cancer, and other adverse events. Notwithstanding the similarities between Rinvoq and Xeljanz, during the Class Period, Defendants assured investors that Rinvoq was far safer than Xeljanz and not subject to the same regulatory risks.
However, investors began to learn the truth about Rinvoq's significant risks on June 25, 2021, when AbbVie revealed that the FDA was delaying its review of expanded treatment applications for Rinvoq due to the safety concerns associated with Xeljanz. On this news, the price of AbbVie common stock declined $1.76 per share, or approximately 1.5%, from a close of $114.74 per share on June 24, 2021, to close at $112.98 per share on June 25, 2021.
Then, on September 1, 2021, the FDA announced that final results from the Xeljanz safety trial established an increased risk of serious adverse events, even with low doses of Xeljanz. As a result, the FDA determined that it would require new and updated warnings for Xeljanz and Rinvoq because Rinvoq "share[s] similar mechanisms of action with Xeljanz" and "may have similar risks as seen in the Xeljanz safety trial." The FDA also indicated that it would further limit approved indications for Rinvoq as a result of these safety concerns. On this news, the price of AbbVie common stock declined $8.51 per share, or more than 7%, from a close of $120.78 per share on August 31, 2021, to close at $112.27 per share on September 1, 2021.
After the Class Period, on December 3, 2021, AbbVie announced that the FDA had updated Rinvoq's label to require additional safety warnings and limit marketing of Rinvoq to only its use after treatment with other drugs has failed. On January 11, 2022, Defendants admitted that these changes to Rinvoq's label would negatively impact sales, forcing the Company to reduce its long-term guidance for Rinvoq's sales in 2025.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, the Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, about the company's business and operations. Specifically, Defendants misrepresented and/or failed to disclose that: (1) safety concerns about Xeljanz extended to Rinvoq and other JAK inhibitors; (2) as a result, it was likely that the FDA would require additional safety warnings for Rinvoq and would delay the approval of additional treatment indications for Rinvoq; and (3) therefore, Defendants' statements about the company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis, As a result of the Defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the significant decline in the market value of AbbVie's securities, AbbVie investors have suffered significant damages.
For more information on the AbbVie class action go to: https://bespc.com/cases/ABBV
Playstudios, Inc. ( MYPS)
Class Period: June 22, 2021 – March 1, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: June 6, 2022
Playstudios repeatedly communicated to the market that its game Kingdom Boss was “on track” for a 2021 release throughout that year. The Company represented that it would enjoy significant revenue and profits from this launch, including representations near the SPAC merger between the Company and Acies Acquisition Corp. The Company then announced on February 26, 2022, that Kingdom Boss had been indefinitely “suspended.”
The filed complaint alleges that defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Playstudios was having significant problems with its flagship game, Kingdom Boss; (ii) Playstudios would not be releasing Kingdom Boss as expected; and (iii) Playstudios had not revised its financial projections to account for the problems it had encountered with Kingdom Boss. As a result of defendants' wrongful conduct, Class members paid artificially inflated prices for their Playstudios securities and suffered substantial losses and damages.
For more information on the Playstudios class action go to: https://bespc.com/cases/MYPS
International Business Machines Corporation (: IBM)
Class Period: April 4, 2017 – October 20, 2021
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: June 6, 2022
On October 20, 2021, after the close of the market, IBM disclosed that it was going to suffer a revenue shortfall, with its Cognitive & Cloud Computing segment the main culprit. Unbeknownst to the investing public, the Company had stopped and/or curtailed its improper conduct described below, which caused Company results to suffer.
On this news, IBM's common stock fell from its close on October 20, 2021, of $133.87 per share to close at $121.07 per share on October 21, 2022, a loss of almost $13.00 per share, thereby injuring investors.
The complaint filed in this class action alleges that prior to and throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants overstated IBM's revenues from its strategic side of the business, by misclassifying and/or shifting revenues from its non-strategic mainframe part of the business, to appease market expectations about the Company's future prospects and boost incentive compensation for its executives. This misconduct began prior to the start of the Class Period and continued throughout. The defendants in the case are IBM, Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, James J. Kavanaugh and Arvind Krishna. The Complaint alleges that the conduct of Defendants violates Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act of 1934.
For more information on the IBM class action go to: https://bespc.com/cases/IBM
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Tooth from mysterious human relative adds new wrinkles to their story
Discovered thousands of miles south of the only other known Denisovan fossils, the molar provides fresh evidence of the enigmatic humans’ spread across ancient Asia.
After scrambling up a steep rocky pitch in the Annamite Mountains of Laos, Laura Shackelford was initially underwhelmed. The palaeoanthropologist from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign stood in a cramped hollow known as Cobra Cave, looking for bones that a local Hmong boy had mentioned seeing. Flipping on her flashlight, she swept the beam of light from one seemingly barren wall to another.
Then she looked up.
“I saw almost nothing but bone,” says Shackelford, who is also a National Geographic Explorer. Embedded in the rubbly ceiling were fossils of animals long gone, scattered across the cave’s roof “almost like stars.”
For years Shackelford and her team had worked in Laos’s labyrinthine cave systems in search of ancient human remains, and she knew that this narrow passage was special. Shortly before her first trip into the cave, Shackelford’s colleague had found a particularly exciting fossil within the cave’s constellations of remains: a wrinkly partial molar more than 130,000 years old.
As Shackelford and her colleagues report in a new study partially funded by the National Geographic Society, the tooth is likely from a young girl who was part of a mysterious group of ancient humans known as the Denisovans. If confirmed, the find marks the southernmost fossil found to date of this enigmatic group.
Denisovans split from their sister group, the Neanderthals, some 400,000 years ago as Neanderthals spread across Europe and Denisovans moved east into Asia. While scientists have uncovered many Neanderthals remains, Denisovan fossils have proven elusive. All of the previously confirmed Denisovan bones and teeth could easily fit in a sandwich-size plastic bag, and they all come from just two sites, one in Siberia and another in Tibet.
But scientists have long suspected Denisovans traipsed much farther south. Whenever the Denisovans crossed paths with early humans, they seem to have interbred, leaving their genetic fingerprints in most modern people of Asian descent.
The latest find in Laos, published this week in Nature Communications, reveals the stunningly varied range that Denisovans achieved, from frigid mountains and high plateaus to the steamy lowlands of Southeast Asia. “It kind of makes me think about how similar they are to us,” Shackelford says. “We’re incredibly flexible—that’s sort of the hallmark of modern humans.”
The likely Denisovan tooth is one of many new finds that hint at how much more is just waiting to be discovered in the region. “I do have to say, we’re so proud,” says study co-author Souliphane Boualaphane, an archaeologist with Laos’s Ministry of Information, Culture, and Tourism.
Unearthing an ancient menagerie
The tooth is the latest fossil find from the Annamite Mountains, which sprawl about 700 miles along the border between Laos and Vietnam. Over millennia, rivers have carved out the local limestone—the remnants of an ancient seafloor—into a system of caves that now snake through the range.
Though these craggy confines have proven fertile grounds for discovery, they’re not easy places to work. The area’s hot, humid climate causes bone to break down rapidly, and the rugged terrain means that whatever survives is hard to find. Despite these challenges, recent discoveries in Laos have documented tens of thousands of years of human activity in the region, including some of Southeast Asia’s oldest modern human remains.
Much of the modern research interest in Laos traces back to Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy, an influential Laotian archaeologist who painstakingly relocated sites that had been studied and abandoned in the 1930s, including the area that contains Cobra Cave. Sayavongkhamdy, a co-author on the new study, died in April; the study is dedicated to his memory. “It’s really thanks to him that our team has been able to work in Laos,” says Fabrice Demeter, the study’s co-lead author and a palaeoanthropologist at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Demeter and Shackelford have each spent more than a decade working in Laos, recently teaming up with cavers to navigate the steep escarpments. In 2018 they caught wind of Cobra Cave, whose entrance sits atop a rock face more than 110 feet above the surrounding plain. The cave is so cramped, a person of average height standing inside can touch both walls and the ceiling all at once.
Retrieving the cave’s fossils is also tricky since they’re embedded within breccia, a fruitcake-like type of rock that forms from jumbles of stony fragments. Chipping through it “is like trying to excavate out of concrete,” Shackelford says.
Yet Cobra Cave yielded amazing finds from the start. On December 3, 2018, geologist and caver Eric Suzzoni headed to the hollow on a reconnaissance trip ahead of Shackelford’s first visit inside, and he collected bits of rock and bone to show the team. He clambered down from the cave just before lunch to pass around his many fossil finds. “At some point Eric said, Oh, but I got something here,” Demeter says. From his front shirt pocket, Suzzoni pulled out the unusual molar.
“Almost immediately, we knew that it was hominin of some sort,” Shackelford says. “But it wasn't modern human.”
A black box of life
For nearly a decade, the only known remains of Denisovans were a few teeth, a pinky bone, and a fragment of skull uncovered at Denisova cave in southern Siberia. Then in 2019 a blockbuster announcement revealed a Denisovan jaw—known as the Xiahe mandible—in Baishiya Cave, on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
The newfound Laotian molar may just be one tooth, but it could still add a lot to scientists’ understanding of Denisovans. “Teeth are like a little black box of the life of the individual,” says Clément Zanolli, the study’s co-lead author and a palaeoanthropologist at France’s University of Bordeaux. In their shape, internal structure, chemistry, and wear patterns, teeth can preserve hints of an animal’s age, diet, and even the climate of their habitat.
Tooth shapes can also help scientists identify species among humans and their extinct cousins. The chewing surface of the Cobra Cave molar is much more wrinkled than that of modern human molars, and it has a crest that’s common within the teeth of Neanderthals. But the tooth’s overall shape and inner structure resemble the Denisovan teeth in the Xiahe mandible.
The Laotian tooth’s lack of roots or surface wear suggests that it belonged to a child who died before their adult teeth had fully formed, likely between 3.5 and 8.5 years of age. The molar probably washed into the cave alongside remains from other large animals, including ancient rhinos, pigs, macaques, and bovids. Based in part on the age of these animal remains, the molar is most likely between 131,000 and 164,000 years old.
After x-ray scanning the fossil to study its shape, the researchers sampled the tooth’s enamel in search of preserved proteins. Unlike delicate strands of DNA, proteins have a higher chance of surviving Laos’s hot, humid climate. The amino acid building blocks of these proteins can then give hints to the underlying genetic code, helping scientists untangle a specimen's identity.
This analysis revealed that the tooth belonged to an individual within the genus Homo, rather than an orangutan or other great ape. Proteins also show that the tooth belonged to a girl. Yet researchers didn’t find the proteins needed to place the tooth within a specific branch of the hominin family tree.
While the analysis cannot confirm Denisovan identity, “there’s nothing stopping us from looking for other proteins present in the enamel,” says study co-author Frido Welker, a palaeogeneticist at the University of Copenhagen’s Globe Institute. As methods for extracting and analysing DNA and associated proteins improve, Welker and his colleagues hope the tooth will yield more details.
And by minimising the amount of sample they took from the tooth, the study team has left the door open for future research that’s yet to be imagined. “People who are working on this field in 30, 40, 50 years with totally new technologies are going to appreciate that," says National Geographic Explorer Kendra Sirak, a Harvard Medical School research associate and ancient DNA expert who wasn’t involved with the new study.
The next mountain
For now the Cobra Cave tooth’s strongest Denisovan ties come from its location and its resemblance to the molar of the Xiahe mandible. While the Laotian molar is somewhat similar to those of Neanderthals, that species has never been found as far east as Laos, and genetic data show that Denisovans probably lived in Southeast Asia.
“Everything fits with what we would expect for a Denisovan lower molar,” says Bence Viola, a palaeoanthropologist at Canada’s University of Toronto who wasn’t involved with the study.
Piecing together the mysterious hominins’ anatomy has been a persistent challenge because, at least for now, Denisovan fossils are so scarce. The fact that the newfound tooth is a lower molar makes confirmation even more difficult, since only the Xiahe mandible contains lower molars firmly identified as Denisovan. Without support from DNA or additional proteins, “it’s very difficult to say anything conclusive,” says Aida Gomez-Robles, a palaeoanthropologist at University College London who wasn’t part of the study team.
Yet many more Denisovans might be hiding under scientists’ noses—or in cave ceilings above their heads. A dazzling array of hominin fossils have been found across Asia, many of which have been assigned to a vague catch-all group known as “archaic Homo.” In recent years, studies have suggested that some of these hominins could be Denisovans, or at least close relatives.
“Most likely we’ve been looking at Denisovans in museums and … fossil institutions for a very long time, but we haven't known what to call them,” Shackelford says.
Researchers also have more studies planned. According to Zanolli, the team is analysing the oxygen and carbon chemistry of the tooth’s enamel. Such studies could hint at the climate in which the Denisovan girl lived, as well as what she was eating as the molar formed.
For Shackelford, one of the study’s most exciting implications is the sheer number of discoveries that lie in wait among Laos’s cave-riddled peaks. “We’ve been working there for more than 10 years,” she says, “and we still haven’t made it off the first mountain.” | https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/05/tooth-from-mysterious-human-relative-adds-new-wrinkles-to-their-story | 2022-05-19T01:53:01Z | https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/05/tooth-from-mysterious-human-relative-adds-new-wrinkles-to-their-story | true | 1 |
Billy McFarland, the fraudster behind the ill-fated Fyre Festival, was sprung from prison this spring after serving less than four years of a six-year sentence in connection with his disastrous 2017 Caribbean retreat.
McFarland, 30, was released on March 30 and transferred to community confinement where he was expected to remain through August, TMZ reported Wednesday.
The Short Hills, New Jersey native had pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in March 2018 for using bogus documents to entice investors into giving him money for the sham festival he planned with Ja Rule. He originally faced up to 20 years in prison.
As part of his plea deal, McFarland agreed to a forfeiture order of $26 million to reimburse his many victims.
Just months later, McFarland also pleaded guilty to selling fake tickets to events like the Met Gala and Burning Man, swindling more victims out of about $100,000.
McFarland had duped about 80 investors and thousands of festival goers who paid up to $12,000 to attend what was billed as a luxury music festival on the Bahamas island of Great Exuma.
Customers were promised an extravagant all-inclusive experience featuring performances from dozens of musical acts like Pusha T and Blink-182, gourmet food and luxury accommodations.
The jet-setters arrived at the Fyre Festival to instead find no musical entertainment, prison-grade cheese sandwiches and FEMA disaster tents.
The fiasco was immortalized by several documentaries. In a 2021 jailhouse interview, McFarland blamed the dire situation on the “unrealistic time frame” he set for the festival in.
“[There’s] no excuse and I wish I could have just woken up one of those mornings in the beginning and I just had stopped,” he said.
At the time of McFarland’s sentencing, a Dutchess County man who was duped out of $180,000 told a Manhattan federal judge that a six-year bid was far too lenient for the con man.
“I am shocked. I was hoping he was going to get 10 to 15 years. He ruined a lot of people’s lives and he can’t help himself — he is going to continue,” John Nemeth said in 2018. | https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/fyre-festival-fraudster-billy-mcfarland-released-from-prison-early/ | 2022-05-19T01:53:02Z | https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/fyre-festival-fraudster-billy-mcfarland-released-from-prison-early/ | false | 2 |
Sonoma County’s Summit State hires senior commercial underwriter
Jocelyn Henderson has joined Santa Rosa-based Summit State Bank as vice president and senior commercial underwriter.
“We are pleased to welcome Jocelyn as a valuable addition to the Summit team. She brings a wealth of knowledge in Commercial Lending, and we are fortunate to add her expertise to our experienced Loan Underwriting Team,” said Brian Reed, president and CEO of Summit State Bank.
The bank stated prior to joining Summit State Bank, Henderson held the position of senior commercial underwriter for several financial institutions in Sonoma County, specializing in commercial real estate and business lending. She received her bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of San Francisco, and her human resources certification from Sonoma State University.
Summit State Bank Summit State Bank, a local community bank, had total assets of $981 million and total equity of $84 million as of March 31. | https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/sonoma-countys-summit-state-hires-senior-commercial-underwriter/ | 2022-05-19T01:54:16Z | https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/sonoma-countys-summit-state-hires-senior-commercial-underwriter/ | true | null |
Booze could be sold in hundreds of Indigenous communities in the NT for the first time in 15 years – but not everyone is pleased: 'It's a recipe for disaster'
- NT Intervention Measures made in 2007 restricting alcohol sales could be lifted
- Yet advocates say there wasn't enough consultation with Aboriginal groups
- There are fears law could undo 'good results' of NT government alcohol reforms
The NT government says its amended liquor laws, which were passed by parliament late on Tuesday, will give communities 'greater power' to choose if they want alcohol restrictions when the Intervention-era Commonwealth law ends in July.
'The Stronger Futures legislation is one of the last living remnants of the Intervention, which was a race-based policy targeting Aboriginal Territorians,' Chief Minister Natasha Fyles said in a statement.
'This government will not support continuing the mandatory restrictions and obligations of the Intervention.'
Some 430 community living areas, town camps and small communities will have to opt into the new scheme to remain alcohol-free
The NT Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance spokeswoman has said the 'dangerous move could undo the good results of many of the NT government's own alcohol reforms'
Ms Fyles was critical of the Morrison government, saying it had 'notified the territory at the eleventh hour that it would be walking away and leaving the NT government to clean up its mess'.
'In line with our commitments to local decision-making and self determination, this bill empowers affected communities with a choice to decide what is best for their community,' she said.
Under the law, communities must choose to remain alcohol-free. If they don't there will be no alcohol restrictions when the Commonwealth law expires on July 17.
The NT government says extra support will be provided to communities that don't opt in to ensure alcohol returns 'safely and that any risks are properly managed'.
Some 430 community living areas, town camps and small communities will have to opt into the new scheme to remain alcohol-free.
Under the law, communities must choose to remain alcohol-free. If they don't there will be no alcohol restrictions when the Commonwealth law expires on July 17
About 100 communities will revert to the previous NT liquor restrictions in place before Commonwealth law came into force in 2007.
NT Council of Social Service chief executive Deborah Di Natale says the new law is 'disgraceful' and there was not enough consultation with Aboriginal communities.
'At best the government's process around these significant liquor changes lacks integrity,' she said.
Ms Di Natale called on the government to start 'genuine' consultation as a matter of urgency.
The NT Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance has previously warned the law change would 'open the floodgates' to alcohol in communities if they fail to ask the Liquor Licensing department to declare them dry.
'This is a dangerous move that could undo the good results of many of the NT government's own alcohol reforms,' a spokeswoman said.
'If (communities) either do nothing or choose to let takeaway alcohol in, the upshot will be a mix of dry and unrestricted communities that will be impossible to monitor, with alcohol flowing freely between them.
'It's a recipe for disaster.'
The territory has Australia's highest alcohol consumption per capita and rate of deaths attributable to alcohol, the NT Council of Social Service says.
Organisations including the Northern Land Council, Central Land Council, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency have been contacted for comment.
Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles (pictured) said the bill 'empowers affected communities with a choice to decide what is best for their community' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10827981/Alcohol-sold-hundreds-Indigenous-communities-NT-time-15-years.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-05-19T01:55:13Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10827981/Alcohol-sold-hundreds-Indigenous-communities-NT-time-15-years.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 2 |
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md.— The Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation program office (PMA-268) is moving forward with integrating its two key elements—the MQ-25 air vehicle and the MD-5 Ground Control Station (GCS) at the program’s System Test and Integration Lab (STIL) at Patuxent River.
PMA-268 is the lead systems integrator, working closely with its two prime industry partners, Boeing and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works ®, to ensure the expeditious integration of the MQ-25 Stingray Air Vehicle, the MD-5 GCS, and Aircraft Carrier (CVN) modifications required to support MQ-25 operations.
The MD-5 GCS is part of the Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control System (UMCS), the system-of-systems required for MQ-25A command and control. UMCS also includes CVN and shore site infrastructure modifications, Navy produced ancillary equipment, and integration with command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) systems.
Rear Adm. Brian Corey, who oversees the Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, visited the lab May 17 for a firsthand look at the equipment required to operate MQ-25.
“It is great to see momentum with GCS following the successful MQ-25 flight demonstrations last year,” he said to the government/industry team. “The air vehicle and GCS are equally important to this program and this is the team that is going to stitch it together.”
Just recently, Lockheed Martin delivered the latest System Developmental Release (SDR) to the Navy, and plans to help integrate the MD-5 system with the air vehicle next month.
“This will be the first time we are integrating an air vehicle and GCS from two different prime contractors,” said T.J. Maday, MQ-25 labs and integration manager. “And this is all being done with the government as the lead system integrator (LSI) within the government lab.”
Early integration allows for risk reduction and integration testing between the air vehicle and ground control station and provides the opportunity to ensure network connectivity between development environments are functional.
Lockheed Martin also recently delivered two MD-5 GCS stations to Webster Outlying Field in Saint Inigoes, Maryland to support MQ-25’s Test Transportable control stations. These will be the first assets to control the MQ-25’s initial UMCS flight in the 2023 timeframe.
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SHANGHAI, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenTree Hospitality Group Ltd. (NYSE: GHG) ("GreenTree" or the "Company"), a leading hospitality management group in China, today announced that it filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on May 17, 2022.
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The Company will provide a hard copy of its annual report containing the audited consolidated financial statements, free of charge, to its shareholders and ADS holders upon request. Requests should be directed to the Company's IR Department at ir@998.com.
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GreenTree Hospitality Group Ltd. ("GreenTree" or the "Company") (NYSE: GHG) is a leading hospitality management group in China. As of December 31 2021, GreenTree had a total number of 4,659 hotels. In 2020, HOTELS magazine ranked GreenTree Top 12 Ranking among 225 largest global hotel groups in terms of number of hotels in its annual HOTELS' 225. GreenTree was also the fourth largest hospitality company in China in 2020 based on the statistics issued by the China Hospitality Association.
GreenTree has a broad portfolio of diverse brands spanning from the economy to mid-scale, up-scale and luxury segments of the hospitality industry mainly in China. Through its strong membership base, expansive booking network, superior system management with moderate charges, and fully supported by its operating departments including Decoration, Engineering, Purchasing, Operation, IT and Finance, GreenTree aims to keep closer relationships with all of its clients and partners by providing a diverse brand portfolio that features comfort, style and value.
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Despite two board members expressing doubts that a new spending measure would be approved by voters, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to move forward with a possible sales tax ordinance to fund projects protecting local water supply and boosting local fire services.
“I feel very strongly that this is something that will define this board,” 1st District Supervisor Glenn McGourty said. “If we don’t take this opportunity to be leaders on water infrastructure and fire, given what’s going on with our climate the last 10 years, we’ll be missing a huge opportunity, and people will be wondering, ‘why didn’t you do more when you had the chance?’
“What I’m hoping is that we can chart a path forward for the next 100 years, because we’ve been living on about a hundred years of legacy decision-making in Mendocino County on water, and our time has literally run out,” McGourty continued. “For instance, we’ve had all this wonderful free, abandoned water from the Potter Valley Project, which has helped us fill Lake Mendocino, and provided very expensive water for water uses here, to clear down to Marin.”
During public comment, John Reardan, who serves on the board of the Russian River Flood Control & Water Conservation Improvement District as well as on the Inland Water and Power Commission of Mendocino County, said he supported using some of the county’s tax revenue “to sustain water reliability in the county,” pointing out that the IWPC “is in the middle of a battle to try and secure water through the Potter Valley Project, and we can’t afford to wait a year and a half for a possible source of revenue in order to proceed with that battle.”
Reardan said he also “wished I had been around when they decided how much of Lake Mendocino to apportion to Mendocino County versus Sonoma County, to see that we got more than our roughly 15 percent of what Sonoma County got.”
Second District Supervisor Maureen Mulheren said she was also concerned about not repeating what many people perceived as a mistake regarding the lack of investment in Lake Mendocino, and instead wanted her grandkids to be able to look back proudly on steps the current board was taking now.
Fourth District Supervisor Dan Gjerde said he wanted to clarify that decades ago when Lake Mendocino was formed by the new Coyote Valley Dam, “there was an option for the Board of Supervisors to raise property taxes in order to be a partner with Sonoma County in creating Lake Mendocino, but there were not three votes. There were two supervisors from the greater-Ukiah area who were willing to raise taxes, but not the north county or two coastal supervisors.
“So it wasn’t that Mendocino County was asleep at the wheel,” Gjerde continued. “It was that three-fifths of the board did not support a project that was perceived to not benefit the entire county. Sonoma County saw it differently, and they’ve definitely reaped some economic benefit from their ownership of the bulk of Lake Mendocino.”
Gjerde also said he would prefer that a group of residents rally to put a measure on the ballot rather than the board, because “if the board puts out a sales tax, it wouldn’t be favorably received. I don’t think we have the credibility to go to the voters and say, ‘of all the ways you can spend your tax dollars, this is the way you should spend them.’ I think the suggestion to raise the tax dollars needs to come from the voters themselves. It’s not by finding three votes on the Board of Supervisors, because that’s a path to nowhere.”
Third District Supervisor John Haschak agreed, explaining that “I think people are still kind of sour on what happened with Measure B taking so long. We can say, ‘Hey, it’s working now – the Crisis Residential Treatment center is open, the training center is open and we have a plan for the Psychiatric Health Facility – and it will really reap benefits, but I don’t know if we went for a tax at the November ballot, if we would be successful. So I’m very hesitant to go ahead with any kind of sales tax at this point.”
Via phone call during public comment, Devon Boer of the Mendocino County Farm Bureau pointed out that water projects can also return tax revenue to the county, explaining that “fire suppression does not happen without water, and that neither does housing, agriculture, and all kinds of tourism,” which she said bring in “sales tax, income tax, property tax and employment … into the county that benefit roads, the Sheriff’s Office and all the other types of programs that the county administers.”
Despite the hesitancy expressed by two supervisors during the discussion, the board ultimately voted unanimously to have staff “begin drafting a sales tax ordinance regarding allocations for fire and water, and return to the full board on June 8, 2022.”
“I think when we come back we need to have a plan that’s very specific and explains to the public exactly what we’re trying to do with the water portion of this, and the fire portion,” said Haschak. “Because without real specifics, they’re going to vote it down.” | https://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/2022/05/18/mendocino-county-mulling-sales-tax-to-fund-water-projects-fire-services/ | 2022-05-19T02:06:11Z | https://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/2022/05/18/mendocino-county-mulling-sales-tax-to-fund-water-projects-fire-services/ | false | 2 |
On the eve of the 2016 presidential election, former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann sought to create an "October surprise" by feeding the FBI a bogus story claiming Donald Trump was secretly communicating with the Kremlin through a Russian bank, prosecutors charged in opening statements in Sussman's trial in federal court.
Sussman – who was indicted in special counsel John Durham's probe of the Obama investigation of now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion – is charged with falsely claiming he was operating merely as a private citizen rather than a campaign operative when he gave the information to the FBI.
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CBS News reported that among the high-profile witnesses scheduled to testify this week in federal court in Washington, D.C., are former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and former Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias.
It was Elias who organized the fraudulent Steele "dossier" that along with the Russian Alfa Bank lie helped ignite the Obama administration's Trump-Russia probe.
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In court on Tuesday, prosecutors backed the "October surprise" claim by focusing on a Sept. 19, 2016, meeting between Sussmann and then-FBI general counsel James Baker.
Sussmann gave Baker thumb drives and memos purporting to link Trump to the Russian bank.
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"There was a crime in all of this: the defendant's lie to the FBI general counsel," said prosecutor Deborah Shaw. "Whether we hate Donald Trump or like him, we have to agree that some things have to be above politics. One of those things s our law enforcement agencies. The other is the truth."
Sussmann's defense shot back, CBS reported.
"You think Mr. Sussmann would throw his career away, his life away, to tell a lie to that guy," they asked the jury, referring to Baker.
Sussmann's defense insisted he contacted Baker to help the FBI prepare for a New York Times story on the data.
"If Michael Sussmann didn't care about the FBI, we wouldn't be here," defense attorney Michael Bosworth told the jury.
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He contended the charge against Sussmann is "nonsensical."
However, one of Durham's first witnesses, FBI special agent Scott Hellman, argued Tuesday that knowing where the data comes from "gives me context."
"Do I think it's real and do I trust it?"
Hellman was assigned with investigating potential ties between Trump and Alfa Bank. He said it would have mattered if he had known of the political connections the source had to the data.
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Helen Swift celebrated her 105th birthday — with all the bells and whistles — at Eden Heights Assisted Living and Memory Care Community on Wednesday.
Her celebration started with the Olean City Fire Department arriving in a fully lit up fire truck outside the community’s main entrance. Firefighters stopped and presented Helen with an honorary member fire hat in recognition of her special day in the presence of her family and friends.
Olean Mayor William Aiello also joined the celebration, presenting Helen with a certificate from the city recognizing her. Michele Miller, mayor of Cuba, sent in a proclamation declaring May 18, 2022, as Helen Swift Day in honor of Helen’s lifelong residency in Cuba.
Jackie Moore, executive director of Eden Heights, presented a lilac bush that will be planted in the memory care courtyard with a plaque in recognition of Helen.
Helen’s daughter, Mary Schwartz, and son, Donn Swift, as well as several family members and friends, were on hand as Helen celebrated the momentous day. The festivities ended with a chorus of "Happy Birthday" and special cake made by Barbi Gordon, activities director.
Helen has been a resident of the Eden Heights community for the past seven years.
Meanwhile, a look back at 1917, the year of Helen's birth:
Woodrow Wilson was president and the United States had, a little more than a month ago, declared war on Germany and joined the allies in World War I. "I Want You," James Montgomery Flagg's iconic recruiting poster, featuring Uncle Sam and based on a 1914 British poster, attracts thousands of U.S. recruits to duty.
The worldwide Spanish flu epidemic raged and, later in the year, the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule ended with the Russian Revolution as the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power.
Several Charles Chaplin movies — silent, of course — including "Easy Street" and "The Immigrant," were among the top films of the year while the Chicago White Sox won the World Series over the New York Giants.
The price of a stamp? 2 cents. The price of a gallon of gasoline? Give or take 15 cents. | https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/state-union-local-woman-celebrates-her-105th-birthday/article_11af3e11-e43e-5727-8205-387653ef3510.html | 2022-05-19T02:10:45Z | https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/state-union-local-woman-celebrates-her-105th-birthday/article_11af3e11-e43e-5727-8205-387653ef3510.html | false | 1 |
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The grant given through the Beirut Critical Environment Recovery, Restoration and Waste Management Program, was agreed on Wednesday between the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the presence of Lebanon's Environment Minister Nasser Yassin, Xinhua news agency reported.
"This project will implement environmental recovery activities in the city of Beirut to mitigate risks of a solid waste crisis and other environmental impacts which resulted from the Port of Beirut explosion," said Saroj Kumar Jha, World Bank Mashreq Regional Director.
For her part, Melanie Hauenstein, UNDP Resident Representative, said addressing the impacts of the port explosion on the environment and people's health is of the utmost importance.
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Citing the second-highest business activity index for 13 months in April, the rating agency on Tuesday forecast economic growth of 12-13 percent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. However, Icra has kept its annual GDP forecast at 7.2 percent for this fiscal year, citing concerns about inflation and the resulting tightening of the RBI, Trend reports citing Pechip.
“Our business activity monitor for April at 115.7 shows activity was around 16 percent higher year-on-year (period) and pre-COVID despite global headwinds,” Icra chief economist Aditi Nayar told PTI.
This high growth could continue in May, especially on an
annualized basis, which should result in double-digit Q1 GDP growth
of 12-13 percent. However, this cannot be sustained and annual
growth in volume and activity may weaken, she said.
They think higher input costs could dampen GVA growth to single
digits. “Therefore, we maintain our FY23 GDP growth forecast of 7.2
percent.”
Citing rising inflation concerns, she said the consumer price index is expected to average 6.3 to 6.5 percent this fiscal year.
The main upside risks to inflation and growth come from skyrocketing fuel prices and the fallout from the war in Ukraine. Unless the war de-escalates in the short term, the impact will be much wider than anticipated, she said.
This is also the main reason for keeping the low GDP growth forecast of 7.2 percent for the full year and higher due to a low base effect.
On the interest rate front, Nayar said the central bank is expected to hike rates by 25 basis points in both June and August policy reviews, and September’s actions will depend on the direction of the war and its impact on commodity prices.
Earlier in the day, the agency said in a report that its business activity monitor came in at 115.7 in April, the second highest in 13 months, and a low base exaggerated growth to 16.1 percent.
The index stood at 123.7 in March versus 107.8 in February.
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The monitor consists of 14 monthly high-frequency indicators, including automatic production, the issuance of
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MORENO VALLEY — A motorist killed in a crash that authorities say was triggered when he tried to go around traffic in a no-passing zone north of Moreno Valley was identified Wednesday.
Daniel Reyes, 47, of Moreno Valley was fatally injured at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday on San Timoteo Canyon Road, near Live Oak Canyon Road, roughly halfway between Moreno Valley and Redlands, according to the Riverside County coroner’s office.
California Highway Patrol Officer Jason Montez said Reyes was at the wheel of a 2000 Honda Accord going eastbound on San Timoteo when he encountered a slower-moving 2021 GMC Sierra just ahead of him.
Montez said Reyes “attempted to pass (the pickup) and crossed over the double yellow lines into oncoming traffic.”
As he attempted to go around the GMC, Reyes encountered a 2022 Toyota Camry approaching from the opposite direction, prompting the victim to swerve back into the eastbound lane, where the Honda struck the pickup, according to Montez.
The impact caused the Honda to veer back into the path of the Toyota, hitting it on the left front side in the middle of the two-lane corridor, the CHP spokesman said.
Riverside County Fire Department crews arrived within a few minutes and pronounced Reyes dead at the scene.
The Toyota driver, identified only as a 50-year-old Calimesa man, was taken to Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley for treatment of minor injuries. He is expected to fully recover.
The pickup driver, identified only as a 23-year-old Newport Beach man, was not hurt.
Both sides of San Timoteo Canyon were shut down between Live Oak Canyon Road to the north and Redlands Boulevard to the south until about 4 p.m. Tuesday, while the CHP conducted a preliminary investigation.
Montez said alcohol or drugs have not been ruled out as possible factors in the crash. | https://www.sbsun.com/2022/05/18/chp-says-fatal-crash-north-of-moreno-valley-was-triggered-when-driver-tried-to-pass-traffic-in-a-no-passing-zone/ | 2022-05-19T02:24:43Z | https://www.sbsun.com/2022/05/18/chp-says-fatal-crash-north-of-moreno-valley-was-triggered-when-driver-tried-to-pass-traffic-in-a-no-passing-zone/ | true | 4 |
Granit Xhaka has unleashed a furious criticism of his Arsenal team-mates after they were stunned 2-0 by Newcastle United on Monday.
The Gunners needed a win to keep their top-four fate in their hands but were absolutely thumped by Eddie Howe's side, leaving them fifth in the Premier League table and two points behind Tottenham with just one game to play.
Antonio Conte's side face a final-day trip to Norwich which they are expected to win comfortably, meaning the Newcastle defeat may well have cost Arsenal Champions League football for another season.
After the game, Xhaka was livid with his side's performance.
“We came here to show a different game but from the first minute until the 90th minute we didn’t deserve to be on the pitch today," he said.
“I can't explain to you. We didn’t do what the game plan was. Not listening to the coaches. Doing our things. And then when we do our things this game happened what happened. It was a disaster performance and like this, you don’t deserve to play Champions League, you don’t deserve to even play Europa League, and it’s very hard to take it at the moment.
“I don’t know why we are not doing what the coach is asking for us.”
Xhaka was then asked whether Arsenal's young squad could be to blame for their struggles dealing with the pressure, but the Swiss midfielder stressed that mental strength is not guaranteed in any player.
“I don’t know... if someone is not ready for this game, stay at home," he continued. "Simple as that.
“It doesn’t matter the age. You can be 30, you can 35, you can be 10, you can be 18. If you’re not ready for that, if you’re nervous, stay on the bench, stay at home, don’t come here.
“We need people to have the balls - I’m sorry to say this - to come here to play because we know this game is one of the most important games for us.
“I feel very, very sorry for the people who came here, for the Arsenal supporters, but this is not the way we want to go and that’s the only thing I can say, and to say sorry to them. I don’t have any other words.”
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Police released images Tuesday of seven people of interest in the fatal shooting of a Fells Point bouncer early Monday morning.
Marco Nunez, the 30-year-old bouncer of Rodos Bar, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 1700 block of Thames Street around 1 a.m. Monday. He was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Homicide detectives are looking to identify and question three men and four women pictured in a release:
female 1a, BPD
female 2, BPD
female 3 and male 2, BPD
female 4, BPD
male 1, BPD
male 2a, BPD
male 3a, BPD
Male 3b, BPD
Baltimore Police urge anyone who recognizes the people to call detectives at (410) 396-2100.
Governor Larry Hogan on Tuesday announced the state will match the Metro Crime Stoppers’ $8,000 reward for information in the slaying, doubling the reward to $16,000.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Ian Cole beat Igor Shesterkin at 3:12 of overtime to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New York Rangers 2-1 Wednesday night and take Game 1 of their second-round playoff series.
The defenseman’s second career playoff goal capped a late comeback by the Hurricanes after they trailed most of the night. Sebastian Aho finally pushed one past Shesterkin in the final minutes of the third period to send the game into OT.
Then came Cole’s rebound shot, which clipped the stick of Rangers defenseman Ryan Lindgren to change direction on the way toward the net before slipping past Shesterkin to end this one.
Carolina also got a key effort from Antti Raanta, who had 27 saves and helped the Hurricanes hang around as the Rangers controlled play through the first two periods.
The Hurricanes won home-ice by claiming the Metropolitan Division title, secured with a win against the Rangers in Madison Square Garden in the final week of the regular season. They nearly handed it over to the Rangers on the series’ opening night, but now will look for a sixth straight home win this postseason when they host Game 2 on Friday night.
Filip Chytil scored a first-period goal for the Rangers, while Shesterkin finished with 24 saves.
Both teams advanced through grueling seven-game first-round series, first with Carolina finally getting past Boston on Saturday followed by New York rallying past Pittsburgh in overtime a day later.
The Hurricanes never trailed in their series nor in their four home wins. The Rangers had to rally from a 3-1 series deficit with three straight wins, which included Shesterkin — finalist for the Vezina Trophy for league’s top goalie and Hart Trophy for league MVP — bouncing back from surrendering 10 goals in Games 3 and 4.
Yet when this one started, it was the Hurricanes who looked a step slow while the Rangers moved the puck effectively and gave up few quality chances.
And the Rangers were also opportunistic at the perfect moment to seize early momentum.
As defenseman Tony DeAngelo tried to send the puck back to teammate Jaccob Slavin for a reset, Rangers forward Alexis Lafrenière stole the pass to lead a 3-on-2 rush. Lafrenière passed to Chytil, who one-timed the puck from the right side past the extended stick of Slavin and Raanta at 7:07 of the first.
That score held up for the Rangers nearly the rest of the night until the Hurricanes finally showed an urgent third-period edge to build some momentum. They even twice got pucks past Shesterkin only to ping the crossbar, first on a breakaway by Nino Niederreiter and later from Aho.
But Aho responded less than 30 seconds later to finally find the net, taking a feed from rookie Seth Jarvis and then going to his backhand side. Shesterkin made the initial stop, but Aho knocked the rebound across for the tying score with 2:23 left in the third.
POSTSEASON WORK
Both of Chytil’s postseason goals have come in the last four games. Lafrenière is up to three assists in his first postseason.
Carolina’s Teuvo Teravainen assisted on Aho’s tying goal for his sixth helper of the playoffs, while Jarvis also posted his third assist.
SIREN SOUNDERS
Retired Hurricanes defenseman Sean Hill, part of the team’s run to the Cup final in 2002, sounded the pregame “storm warning” siren for the team to take the ice.
Duke women’s basketball coach Kara Lawson and Raleigh-born PGA Tour golfer Chesson Hadley sounded the siren for the first and second intermissions, respectively.
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BOSTON (AP) — The Astros littered the seats of Fenway Park with home runs during their rout of the Red Sox on Tuesday.
A day later, Boston pitcher Nick Pivetta barely allowed Houston to put the ball in play.
Pivetta pitched a two-hitter, Xander Bogaerts hit a solo home run, Rafael Devers added an RBI double and the Red Sox beat the Astros 5-1 on Wednesday night in the rubber match of their three-game series.
It marked the first complete game by a Red Sox pitcher since Chris Sale on June 5, 2019, at Kansas City. It was the first at Fenway Park since Rick Porcello against the New York Yankees on Aug. 3, 2018.
"He had that look. He had it," Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. “From the bullpen, he came in, he gets into this — he goes somewhere else mentally.”
It was the fourth complete game in the major leagues this season after Ryan Detmers’ no-hitter for the Los Angeles Angels, Walker Bueher’s three-hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Patrick Corbin’s nine-hit effort for Washington.
It also marked the second straight victory for Pivetta (2-4), who has bounced back from a disastrous April in which he lost three of four starts and saw his ERA balloon as high as 8.27.
“I didn't want to come out,” Pivetta said. “I felt good. I felt confident. I was in the zone. They weren’t taking great hacks against me, so I just kind of ran with that”
Pivetta gave up a leadoff home run to Jose Altuve, but settled down to retire the next 18 batters as Boston built its lead. The Astros didn’t get their second hit of the day until Michael Brantley led off the seventh inning with a double.
Pivetta finished with eight strikeouts and didn’t issue a walk. He threw 112 pitches, 78 for strikes.
Kiké Hernández and Christian Vázquez added RBI singles for Boston, which took two of three from the team that beat them in the ALCS last season.
“This is why you love baseball right?" Cora said. "To go from what happened last night to a 10-pitch at-bat homer and it looked like, ‘Oh boy, here we go again.’ He did an outstanding job."
Houston’s Luis Garcia (3-2) lasted four innings, allowing five hits, five runs (three earned), three walks and a home run while striking out four. It matched his shortest outing this season, another four-inning day in his first start on April 12.
Altuve opened the game by battling Pivetta for 10 pitches before getting under a 95-mph fastball and lifting a fly ball over the fence in center field for his eighth homer of the season to put the Astros in front 1-0.
Devers got aboard with a one-out triple during Boston’s half of the first and scored off J.D. Martinez’s sacrifice fly to right to tie it.
Bogaerts was next and jumped all over Garcia’s third pitch, hitting a high line drive just over the top of the Green Monster for his fourth home run of the season to make it 2-1.
Hernández reached via a throwing error on Jeremy Peña in the third inning. He then scored on Devers’ double off the Monster.
Boston added two more in the fourth via back-to-back RBI singles by Vázquez and Hernandez to stretch the lead to 5-1.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Astros: Pitcher Jake Odorizzi said an MRI on his left leg showed damage that will sideline him for an indefinite period. Odorizzi was stretchered off the field after he heard a pop in his ankle during Monday night’s start against Boston that caused him to collapse after throwing a pitch. He said the current plan calls for rehab to improve range of motion and strengthening. There is no set timeline for his return. “There’s some other damage in there, but not on the Achilles (tendon) itself,” Odorizzi said. “I’d say it’s the best-case scenario at that point.”
Red Sox: Barring a setback, right-hander Michael Wacha (left side soreness) is expected to be activated from the injured list and start Friday in the second game of Boston’s series against Texas.
LEADOFF MAN
Altuve’s first-inning blast was his fourth leadoff home run of the season and 25th of his career.
UP NEXT
Astros: LHP Framber Valdez (2-2, 2.93 ERA) will get the ball Thursday for the opener of Houston’s four-game series against the Rangers. Valdez is facing Texas for the second time this season. He got a no-decision during Houston’s 6-2 loss on April 25.
Red Sox: LHP Rich Hill (1-1, 2.89) will be the starter Thursday when Boston opens its four-game set against Seattle. He allowed two earned runs and no walks over six innings during an 11-3 win over the Rangers on May 14.
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Tallapoosa County Schools adopted a new dress code for the district’s schools, with the updated dress requirements particularly tailored toward elementary students.
The board of education approved the proposed policy change during a regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, May 9. Superintendent Ray Porter noted that he feels the enforcement of certain rules is beginning to interfere with schools’ academic performance.
He specifically highlighted the rule requiring tucked shirts and belts for all students K-5.
“We’ve had belts and tucked shirts, but we’re losing academic time sending students to ISS [in-school suspension] for not wearing a belt. I'd much rather see a student sitting in a classroom and not wearing the belt than I had in ISS for only a belt,” Porter said.
Board member Michael Carter then proceeded to raise the issue that the belt enforcement would create the problem of sagging pants.
Following this comment, the board then proceeded to have an extended discussion about the belt requirement.
In response to the concern Porter explained that he would prefer students wear professional attire, but added that schools currently lack the ability to enforce that particular dress code during school hours.
“I understand it very well could. I wish we could say professional dress is required, but that's different in people's minds so we can't just do that. And we could never cover all the areas of a dress code properly,” Porter said.
Board President Carla Talton chimed in as well saying that even with professional dress attire, sagging pants have remained an issue, but recommended a strict dress-requirement nevertheless.
“I never in my tenure saw that rectified the problem. Students who are going to do it will, but the more lenient the dress code, the more violations. It is always contentious with students and the dress code., but you will never convince them that we need one,” Talton said.
Board member Matilda Woodyard-Hamilton also made the point that the board of education has revised the school district's dress-code requirements repeatedly over the last several years, making it difficult to track policy changes.
Porter expressed his hopes that the most recently adopted policy will be in place for a good while, but added changes do still sometimes occur as young people’s fashion choices are constantly evolving.
“So about every two years, we're probably going to have to revisit this and morph it again. This is not going to be permanent, I can assure you because trends change for young people too quickly.” he said.
Deputy Superintendent Casey Davis spoke next and elaborated to the board on other notable revisions as he led the committee for the new policy. Parents, students and TCS faculty also chaired the committee.
Among the other changes included a streamlined list of acceptable clothing items, which Davis explained increased clarity among students and parents.
“In our previous handbook, it was a little more wordy, and some of it was repetitive because you had a section that said items that were acceptable and then items that were not acceptable. So, what we tried to do was blend them into just not acceptable, as opposed to a parent having to read, going back and forth between the two,” Davis said.
The dress code will also now apply to students in the sixth grade and up, which had previously begun in the third grade.
Any apparel that displays obscene words, or references to sexually suggestive remarks, gangs and drug or alcohol use is still prohibited.
Porter concluded the discussion by reiterating his earlier point that the updated dress-code policy pertains to education and academics and added that parents would be receiving a letter on the updated policy.
“I feel every school should have the same policy, because again I don't feel good as an educator having a student in ISS for three days because they don't have a belt,” he said
The policy is expected to go into effect during the 2022-2023 academic school year later this year.
The entire prohibited dress wear for sixth through 12th grades include:
Sunglasses without a doctor's prescription for a medical condition.
Clothing article or apparel which displays obscene words, suggestive or immoral behavior.
Pictures, and/or designs; including but not limited to any article that conveys a sexually suggestive remark, gang-related, or alcohol message, or tobacco and/or drug-related message.
Pants, shorts, skirts, skorts, and/or jeans not worn at the natural waistline. Belts and tucked shirts are not required. Skirts, shorts, skorts and dresses more than four inches above the knee.
Leggings/leggings (not referring to jeans with jeggings in the name) can only be worn under skirts, shorts, skorts, tops, and dresses must conform to the four-inch rule meaning slits/splits in items that extend more than four inches above the knee.
See-through, skintight, spandex and/or revealing clothing and any exposed underwear..
Open or chain belts, including metal chains on pants and chain wallets.
Shirts, sleeveless shirts, boat neck, tank top or dress tops that do not cover the shoulders, chest, abdomen and back.
All clothing not worn as intended by the manufacturer.
Attire for special days not pre-approved by the administration.
Not wearing shoes.
Head covering inside the building (curlers, picks, or combs).
Athletic wear, including sweat pants, gym shorts, pajama/lounge pants and house shoes.
Sports teams will be allowed to wear team attire on game day only if approved by the administration.
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President Joe Biden’s top health official tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the latest member of his Cabinet to be infected with the virus.
U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra tested positive while visiting Berlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services said. Becerra, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, was experiencing mild symptoms.
HHS spokeswoman Sarah Lovenheim said he will continue to work in isolation in Berlin.
Becerra was last at the White House last Thursday. He is not considered a close contact of Biden.
Becerra was in Berlin for a meeting of health ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy nations on Thursday and Friday. The meeting’s focus is on drawing lessons from the coronavirus pandemic, protecting the vulnerable and unvaccinated from COVID-19, and how to ease the strain on health systems.
On Tuesday, Becerra met with Germany’s health minister, Karl Lauterbach. He separately met the head of Germany’s disease control agency, Lothar Wieler, two of the country’s top virus experts and the management of Berlin’s biggest hospital, Charite.
None of their offices immediately responded to requests for comment.
Pictures posted on social media of the meetings with Wieler showed the men standing close together outside without masks, but wearing masks while indoors.
Prior to Berlin, Becerra attended a meeting of health ministers in Bali, Indonesia.
A wave of coronavirus cases has spread recently through Washington’s political class, infecting Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, White House staffers and lawmakers including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/us-health-secretary-tests-positive-for-covid-on-germany-trip/ | 2022-05-19T02:56:15Z | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/us-health-secretary-tests-positive-for-covid-on-germany-trip/ | false | 45 |
We Need Gang Control NOT Gun Control
Appearing on News Talk ZB in response to reports of two more gang related shooting incidents in Wairoa, and the failure of people to report them, Police Association President Chris Cahill claimed “It’s why we’ve been arguing for so long about the need to have much better gun control in New Zealand because this is the outcome of it, it becomes the norm.”
Chaz Forsyth President of the Sporting Shooters Associations says “ gun control only affects law abiding licensed firearm owners, gangs ignore new firearms laws. That is why we need more effective gang control rather than more controls on law abiding citizens."
We understand that Act MP Nicole Mckee introduced a Criminal Proceeds Revovery Amendment Bill into parliament last evening, which would allow police to seize the assets of gang members when they are found in unlawful possession of a firearm. This would hit gangs where it hurts, in their wallets, however the government did not support such a practical measured and voted it down.
As Forsyth says "with gangs growing faster than our police force, we need the public to be the eyes and ears for the cops in order to keep us all safe, and at the same time for our government to pass practical laws that reduces crime rather than further political ideology as has been the case to date. | https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2205/S00158/we-need-gang-control-not-gun-control.htm | 2022-05-19T02:57:24Z | https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2205/S00158/we-need-gang-control-not-gun-control.htm | true | 1 |
Why Did Israel Execute Shireen Abu-Akleh?
By Steve Salaita – May 13, 2022
Simply put, because she was Palestinian.
Immediately after Israeli soldiers executed Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu-Akleh and fired at a group of her colleagues, observers began asking how such a horrible thing could happen. Why would Israel murder a journalist well-known throughout the Arab World? A noncombatant wearing appropriate press gear? A high-profile Palestinian with U.S. citizenship? At best, it seemed like a terrible PR move. It didn’t make any sense.
Except it did make sense. In fact, from a certain point of view killing Abu-Akleh was painfully sensible.
It’s natural to seek rational explanations for what appear to be mindless acts of violence. Explanation is contingent on material conditions, though, and so we have to understand the situation in context of Zionist settler colonization. Using the humanistic logic prevalent in most civil societies, Israel’s conduct was baffling. Its soldiers murdered a civilian in full view of people whose job is to report news. Those soldiers had to know that they couldn’t keep their act a secret, that targeting journalists would result in worldwide outrage. And yet they did it anyway.
Why?
To arrive at an answer, we have to discern the colonizer’s psyche. We’re not dealing with normal civil society standards, first of all. The relevant context is military occupation. In such a context, gratuitous state violence is normal. Obviously, killing Abu-Akleh has the immediate benefit of silencing a prominent voice of Palestinian resistance, one that had long exposed Israeli crimes of aggression.
There is more to the story, however.
We also have to explore the assumptions underlying a desire for simple explanations. By asking for reasons over and over again, observers seek answers to incongruous questions. In so doing they’re apt to tacitly implicate the victims in their own suffering. The journalists must have done something. There had to be a provocation. Israeli soldiers don’t just shoot innocent people for the hell of it.
But that’s exactly what Israeli soldiers do. Israel has murdered around fifty journalists over the past two decades. One or two might be an aberration. Fifty is a policy.
We needn’t turn to the victim’s behavior for answers to the colonizer’s violence. He is violent because of colonization.
So there’s no need to seek legible reasons for Abu-Akleh’s murder according the rationale of civic decency. The settler doesn’t need a “reason” to kill the native. The settler kills because deracinating the native is a precondition of his social identity. It is a function of his legal status and class position. Israeli forces viciously attacked a crowd carrying Abu-Akleh’s coffin—abusing our beloved martyr even in death—which only affirms the fact that the settler kills precisely when confronted by the native’s vulnerability. There is a higher purpose to his violence. The settler doesn’t kill simply to produce death; he kills to negate the native’s existence.
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Israeli forces attacked Abu-Akleh’s corpse because killing her wasn’t enough. They needed to expunge her from a land they claim by divine mandate. Her body impedes a mythological birthright underlying the settler’s entire sense of self. She has to be rendered nonexistent in order for the settler to survive. Such is the logic of desecrating ancient Muslim cemeteries and planting flora over the ruins of ethnically cleansed Palestinian villages.
The same forces attacked hundreds of mourners not because they were unruly, but because they weren’t also in the casket.
The settler’s violence, in short, is endless. It is the only way he knows how to be a good citizen. And it is the only way, in the end, he can imagine a meaningful existence.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mets ace Max Scherzer removed himself from a start Wednesday night against the St. Louis Cardinals with discomfort in his left side.
He will have an MRI on Thursday, the team said.
The three-time Cy Young Award winner exited with two outs in the sixth inning and a 1-1 count on Albert Pujols. With two runners on, Scherzer threw a slider in the dirt and immediately signaled to the New York bench that he was done.
Mets pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, manager Buck Showalter and a trainer came out of the dugout to visit Scherzer on the mound. After a quick discussion, the 37-year-old right-hander walked off the field.
Scherzer threw 61 of his 87 pitches for strikes and left with a 6-2 lead against his hometown team. Adam Ottavino was given all the time he needed to warm up, and he struck out Pujols to end the inning.
Scherzer was unable to make his last scheduled start for the Los Angeles Dodgers in last year’s NL Championship Series against Atlanta because of a tired arm. His first start for the Mets was pushed back a day because of a hamstring issue that cropped up late in spring training, but otherwise he’s been healthy since signing a $130 million, three-year contract with New York in the offseason.
Off to a terrific start this year, the Mets have been without injured ace Jacob deGrom (right scapula stress reaction) all season, and he’s not expected back until at least late June or July. His effective replacement, Tylor Megill, went on the 15-day injured list Sunday with right biceps inflammation.
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More Ukraine fighters surrendering in Mariupol, Russia says
By Max Hunder
KYIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine, May 19 (Reuters) - Moscow said nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Russian-held Mariupol as it shored up a key gain in the south, while the United States became the latest Western country to reopen its embassy in Kyiv.
Ukraine has ordered its garrison in Mariupol to stand down, but the ultimate outcome of Europe's bloodiest battle for decades remains unresolved.
Top commanders of Ukrainian fighters who had made their last stand at the Azovstal steelworks in the port city are still inside the plant, according to the leader of pro-Russian separatists in control of the area, Denis Pushilin, quoted by local news agency DNA on Wednesday.
Ukrainian officials have declined to comment publicly on the fate of the fighters.
"The state is making utmost efforts to carry out the rescue of our service personnel," military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzaynik told a news conference. "Any information to the public could endanger that process."
Ukraine confirmed the surrender of more than 250 fighters on Tuesday but did not say how many more were inside.
Russia said on Wednesday an additional 694 more fighters had surrendered, bringing the total number to 959. Its defence ministry posted videos of what it said were Ukrainian fighters receiving hospital treatment after surrendering at Azovstal.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Red Cross and the United Nations were involved in talks, Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko said, but gave no details.
Mariupol is the biggest city Russia has captured so far and allows Russian President Vladimir Putin to claim a rare victory in the invasion it began on Feb. 24.
Moscow has focussed on the southeast in recent offensives after pulling away from Kyiv, where, in a further sign of normalisation, the United States said it had resumed operations at its embassy on Wednesday.
"The Ukrainian people ... have defended their homeland in the face of Russia's unconscionable invasion, and, as a result, the Stars and Stripes are flying over the Embassy once again," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
A small number of diplomats would return initially to staff the mission but consular operations will not resume immediately, said embassy spokesperson Daniel Langenkamp. The U.S. Senate later approved veteran diplomat Bridget Brink as ambassador to Ukraine, filling a post that has been vacant for three years.
Canada, Britain and others have also recently resumed embassy operations.
Moscow says it is engaged in a "special military operation" to demilitarise and "denazify" its neighbour. The West and Kyiv call that a false pretext for invasion.
NATO APPLICATION
Finland and Sweden formally applied for NATO membership on Wednesday, a decision made in the wake of the Ukrainian invasion and the very kind of expansion that Putin cited as a reason for attacking Ukraine.
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith called for an expedited accession process that could be "done in a couple of months", but NATO member Turkey said its approval depended on the return of "terrorists", namely Kurdish militants and Fethullah Gulen followers.
Finland and Sweden were both militarily non-aligned throughout the Cold War.
Although Russia had threatened retaliation against the plans, Putin said on Monday their NATO membership would not be an issue unless the alliance sent more troops or weapons there.
Russia could, however, cut off gas supplies to Finland this week, Finland's state-owned energy provider Gasum said.
The European Commission announced a 210 billion euro ($220 billion) plan for Europe to end its reliance on Russian oil, gas and coal by 2027.
Meanwhile, Google became the latest big Western company to pull out of Russia, saying its local unit had filed for bankruptcy and was forced to shut operations after its bank accounts were seized.
DONBAS ATTACKS
On the battle front, Russian forces pressed on with their main offensive, trying to capture more territory in the eastern Donbas region which Moscow claims on behalf of separatists.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said Ukrainian saboteurs had blown up the tracks ahead of an armoured train carrying Russian troops in the occupied southern city of Melitopol.
"The partisans got it, although they did not blow up the armoured train itself," he said in a video posted on social media, contradicting an earlier statement from Ukraine's territorial defence force that the train had been blown up.
Arestovych said the incident showed that the partisan movement was actively disrupting Russian forces.
The capture of Mariupol, the main port for the Donbas, has given Moscow full control of the Sea of Azov and an unbroken swathe of territory across Ukraine's east and south.
The governor of the Luhansk region, part of the Donbas, said there had been a number of attacks there.
"Most of the shelling today was conducted in Severodonetsk and villages nearby... The Russians are still trying to cut the "road of life" through the centre of Luhansk region linking Lysychansk and Bakhmut," Serhity Gaidai wrote on Telegram. ($1 = 0.9550 euros)
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets and Max Hunder in Kyiv and a Reuters journalist in Mariupol; Additional reporting by Reuters bureaux; Writing by Costas Pitas and Stephen Coates; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien and Richard Pullin) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10831731/More-Ukraine-fighters-surrendering-Mariupol-Russia-says.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-05-19T03:08:01Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10831731/More-Ukraine-fighters-surrendering-Mariupol-Russia-says.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 5 |
Mariners first. Adam Frazier singles to right center field. Ty France singles to right field. Adam Frazier to second. J.P. Crawford singles to right field. Ty France to second. Adam Frazier to third. Jesse Winker out on a sacrifice fly to center field to Teoscar Hernandez. Adam Frazier scores. Eugenio Suarez singles to left field. J.P. Crawford to second. Ty France to third. Julio Rodriguez grounds out to shallow infield. Eugenio Suarez out at second.
1 run, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Mariners 1, Blue jays 0.
Blue jays third. Matt Chapman singles to center field. Santiago Espinal singles to left center field. Matt Chapman to second. Danny Jansen pops out to Cal Raleigh. George Springer reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Santiago Espinal out at second. Matt Chapman to third. Bo Bichette walks. George Springer to second. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walks. Bo Bichette to second. George Springer to third. Matt Chapman scores. Teoscar Hernandez grounds out to shallow infield, J.P. Crawford to Ty France.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Mariners 1, Blue jays 1.
Mariners fifth. Cal Raleigh homers to center field. Adam Frazier lines out to right center field to Teoscar Hernandez. Ty France singles to shallow right field. J.P. Crawford reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Ty France out at second. Jesse Winker pops out to shortstop to Bo Bichette.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Mariners 2, Blue jays 1.
Mariners seventh. Mike Ford strikes out swinging. Cal Raleigh strikes out swinging. Adam Frazier singles to left field. Ty France homers to center field. Adam Frazier scores. J.P. Crawford grounds out to shallow infield, Ryan Borucki to Vladimir Guerrero Jr..
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Mariners 4, Blue jays 1.
Mariners ninth. Abraham Toro homers to right field. Mike Ford walks. Cal Raleigh strikes out swinging. Dylan Moore steals second. Adam Frazier grounds out to second base, Santiago Espinal to Vladimir Guerrero Jr.. Dylan Moore to third. Ty France grounds out to shortstop, Bo Bichette to Vladimir Guerrero Jr..
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BTS: Jimin credits RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, V, Jungkook, ARMY for reminding him of his essence, keeping him 'centred'
- BTS: Jimin spoke about the songs he chose for Proof. He credited his friends--RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, V, Jungkook and ARMY for reminding him of his essence. He also said that they kept him centred.
Ahead of the release of BTS' anthology album, Jimin has revealed that he chose Filter and Friends for Proof. Taking to Twitter, BTS' agency Big Hit Music on Wednesday shared a video in which Jimin spoke about his ‘Proof of Inspiration’. The singer said that he wanted to 'live up to ARMY's expectations' and show fans his different sides. Jimin also credited his friends--BTS members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, V and Jungkook as well as ARMY for reminding him of his essence and keeping him centred. (Also Read | BTS' Jin says 'ARMY, I are inseparable like Earth-Moon': 'Assimilated into one')
Jimin also gave a peek of his new tattoos--a half-moon just below his nape and ‘youth' inked behind his ear, in the video. The clip also featured his fellow group members goofing around and also ahead of their performances at the recent Las Vegas concert.
In the video, Jimin said, “I wanted Filter and Friends to be included in this album. I wanted to live up to ARMY's expectations and show them many different sides to myself. And I still have many different colours left to share.”
He also added, “I might have come across as being colourless instead of colourful if I'd have accommodated myself to other people's ideas without having a distinct hue of my own. But my Friends--the members and ARMY- were always there to help me remind myself of what my essence is, and keep myself centred. You are my Proof."
Reacting to the post, a fan commented, "No matter what happens Park Jimin living up army expectations to show his different sides just like Taehyung got to show his both sides is so endearing for 95's!!!" Another fan said, "Jimin you are the most beautiful person I have ever met, I love how you always want to show everything about yourself and how you think of others all the time, you will always be the best for me Jimin no matter what you do, I will always have you in my top of all I will look forward to everything new you have to show us, my love."
"You’re far from being colourless, you’re always so full of life, so full of colour, the brightest sunshine, and everyone can see that you genuinely enjoy what you’re doing. Thanks for being someone who is so easy to love, Jimin. You’re an angel. I love you so so much," read a comment."You are my light Jimin. You are proof that the strongest and purest love exists. you are my angel," tweeted a person. "So PARK JIMIN made a video of his family members and this is the FAMILY picture of Bangtan and Armys!!! My friends - the members and ARMY, I'm crying," wrote a Twitter user.
"Jimin, the brightest, most colourful soul. Our proof," said another person. A fan also commented, "Jimin-ahhh, my angel! You are the PROOF of my dreams, my motivation, my inspiration. You gave me comfort when I needed. Your comfort talks, sweet hugs from apart made removed my anxiety. You are the PROOF of my Dreams, my Love for you." "Park Jimin you have never been colourless. You are brighter than any star in the sky and your beautiful vibrant colours are more plentiful than the colours of the rainbow. I love you," read a tweet.
Proof, BTS members' upcoming album will release on June 10. The album consists of old songs as well as new ones such as Run BTS, Yet To Come, Born Singer, I Need You, Run, Fire, Fake Love, Persona, Moon, Jamais Vu, Seesaw, N.O, Boy in Luv, Danger, IDOL, Dynamite, On, Butter and Life Goes On, among others. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/music/bts-jimin-credits-rm-jin-suga-j-hope-v-jungkook-army-for-reminding-him-of-his-essence-keeping-him-centred-101652892447706.html | 2022-05-19T03:14:39Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/music/bts-jimin-credits-rm-jin-suga-j-hope-v-jungkook-army-for-reminding-him-of-his-essence-keeping-him-centred-101652892447706.html | true | 2 |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Ian Cole beat Igor Shesterkin at 3:12 of overtime to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New York Rangers 2-1 Wednesday night and take Game 1 of their second-round playoff series.
The defenseman’s second career playoff goal capped a late comeback by the Hurricanes after they trailed most of the night. Sebastian Aho finally pushed one past Shesterkin with 2:23 remaining in the third period to send the game into OT.
Then came Cole’s rebound shot, which clipped the stick of Rangers defenseman Ryan Lindgren to change direction on the way toward the net before slipping past Shesterkin to end this one.
Carolina also got a key effort from Antti Raanta, who had 27 saves and helped the Hurricanes hang around as the Rangers controlled play through the first two periods.
Filip Chytil scored a first-period goal for the Rangers, while Shesterkin finished with 24 saves.
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Power resist rushing Dixon back to AFL
A week after almost suiting up for West Coast in the WAFL, Port Adelaide forward Charlie Dixon will return to the more familiar surroundings of the SANFL in a bid to prove he is ready for an AFL return.
Dixon hasn't featured at AFL level since undergoing ankle surgery in February and Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has ruled out a return for Saturday's clash with Geelong at GMHBA Stadium.
The 31-year-old spearhead booted a goal from 10 disposals in his playing return via the SANFL a fortnight ago, but last week's bye saw Port Adelaide reach out to AFL rivals West Coast in a bid to get Dixon some game time in the WAFL.
The Eagles' injury and COVID woes meant their WAFL side was down to the bare bones, with the club even forced to borrow two players from their opponents in last week's 123-point loss to East Fremantle.
Dixon's bid to play for West Coast's WAFL side was eventually knocked back, and he'll suit up in Sunday's SANFL match against West Adelaide before pushing for an AFL return next week.
"He has got a big body that's got to carry around that ankle, and it's going to take him a bit of time to keep moving with it," Hinkley said.
"But we think we're getting really close to when he's ready.
"We want to give him the best chance to be successful when he plays, and we just need to be a little bit patient. It's hard sometimes to stay in the patient spot."
Hinkley said how Dixon feels physically rather than his statistics will be the determining factor of whether he plays in next week's home clash with Essendon.
"It won't be about how many marks he takes or goals he kicks, it's just the way he gets through physically, because clearly he's a very, very good AFL player," Hinkley said.
Last week's unused sub Orazio Fantasia, who underwent knee surgery earlier this year, will again be named in the 23 despite not getting any minutes in the 69-point win over North Melbourne.
Port Adelaide's season looked set to plunge into chaos after slumping to 0-5, but four straight wins have thrust them back into the finals mix.
The Power have lost their past seven matches at GMHBA Stadium, with their most recent win there coming in 2007.
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Jurassic World Dominion's Mamoudou Athie Talks Creating a New Character in an Established Franchise
Jurassic World: Dominion is finally being released in June and it will feature the return of many fan-favorite stars as well as some franchise newcomers. Mamoudou Athie (Oh Jerome, No, Underwater) is playing Ramsay Cole, a highly educated employee of the powerful biotech company Biosyn and colleague to Ian Malcolm (Jeff...
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were:
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01-02-15-31-33
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In the first week of this six-week election lead-up, our experts analysed Scott Morrison’s “stalker cam” ad. Next was the United Australia party’s sloshing sea of yellow, followed by Labor’s attack ads. Then it was the Greens doing Grindr, and the teals’ attempts to seal the deal.
This week, as the campaign period draws to a close, we asked Dr Andrew Hughes, a political marketing lecturer at the Australian National University, and the University of Canberra’s Dr Chris Wallace, to talk about the best and the worst advertisements of this election.
Both Wallace and Hughes swiftly picked the one they hated the most. The Coalition’s holey bucket.
In the ad, released last week, a rusted bucket sits in a spotlight, with a faded Labor symbol on it.
“There’s a hole in your budget, dear Labor, dear Labor,” the female narrator sings, then headlines flash on the screen warning of economic disaster under Labor.
“More taxes are coming, more taxes, more taxes, there’s a hole in your budget, dear Labor, a hole.”
The song finishes, and a male voice intones:
“It won’t be easy under Albanese.”
“Every time I hear it and see it I want to throw a rock at the television,” Wallace says.
Hughes agrees: “It’s driven us all bonkers, because it’s been on ad nauseam, on whatever channel, and even on social media platforms. It’s getting traction for all the wrong reasons.
“There’s a hole in people’s heads from it. Focus groups would have said, ‘Labor, our fear is they spend and tax big’ … That does not translate into a leaky bucket ad. It doesn’t take long to make a video these days, why not have the creative content out there?”
He likens it to the government’s Covid ad that showed a woman in intensive care, gasping for air. It got attention, he says, but missed the mark.
“They were targeting people who couldn’t get the vaccine,” he says.
What ads were successful? Wallace says while she hates the bucket ad, unfortunately the song was an “ear worm”, whose “annoyingness makes it extremely memorable”.
It reminded her of the “Whinging Wendy” Labor ads of 1987, she says, referring to ads featuring a woman looking down the barrel of the camera, asking John Howard what cuts he would make in office.
“The repetitiveness is … so annoying but so effective,” she says.
Wallace says one of the criticisms of Labor’s 2019 campaign in her book, How to Win an Election, was that the party did not put out a single memorable ad.
“That’s true this campaign as well, and I think that’s a problem,” she says.
“The conservative side of politics understands that it’s emotion that moves voters. On the progressive side of politics, people think if you test the facts and come up with a good policy, that’s it. They don’t understand that you have to harness emotions to win voters.
“Labor still has not learned that. The whole advertising industry is built on that idea, that you win people and get them to do things using emotion not reason. If you’re not coming up with ads that move voters, that’s a failure of political craft.”
Hughes also struggles to nominate an ad he actually likes, although he says the “teal” candidates resisted the urge to go low.
“They rarely dipped their toes in anything negative,” he says.
“It was a breath of fresh air … against these old, stuffy campaigns from both parties that are wholly negative. Look at the falling of the primary vote count. It’s [because of] negative campaigning.”
He adds that he thinks Australians are sick of Clive Palmer’s United Australia party ads, and that people have told him they think the best ads came from a party they’d never consider voting for.
“People said to me the Pauline Hanson cartoon series was the most convincing thing they saw all campaign,” he says.
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Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney’s High Court libel battle will draw to a close as lawyers for each of the women set out their cases.
Mrs Rooney, 36, was dubbed “Wagatha Christie” when she publicly claimed an account behind three fake stories she had posted on her personal Instagram account and which appeared in The Sun newspaper belonged to Mrs Vardy, 40. Mrs Rooney, the wife of former England football captain Wayne Rooney, accused Mrs Vardy of leaking “false stories” about her private life to the press.
Mrs Vardy, who is married to Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, denies the accusation and is suing her fellow footballer’s wife for libel, while Mrs Rooney is defending the claim on the basis that her post was “substantially true”. Over six days in courtroom number 13 at the Royal Courts of Justice, the pair have each given evidence, as has Mr Rooney, also 36, who played for Everton and Manchester United and now manages Derby County.
Mrs Vardy's barrister, Hugh Tomlinson QC, had previously told the court that she had “no choice” but to bring the legal action against Mrs Rooney so she could clear her name and “establish her innocence and vindicate her reputation”.
David Sherborne, representing Mrs Rooney, told Mrs Justice Steyn, the judge hearing the trial, the case is essentially a “detective story” and “like any good detective story, you never find a person standing over the body with a smoking gun”. He said there was “inference”, saying: “You do not have to be convinced beyond reasonable doubt, you just have to conclude that it is more likely than not that Mrs Vardy was responsible, either directly or through Ms (Caroline – Mrs Vardy’s friend and agent) Watt.”
Their lawyers will summarise the case in closing speeches today, following which the judge will reserve her ruling on the case to a later date. Mrs Rooney is defending the claim on the basis of truth and public interest.
The three fake Instagram posts at the centre of the 'Wagatha Christie' libel trial
Three “false” stories Coleen Rooney claims to have uploaded to her private Instagram account during a months-long “sting operation” are at the centre of her libel dispute with Rebekah Vardy. In her now famous October 2019 social media “reveal” post, Mrs Rooney claimed her fellow footballer’s wife’s account was the only one to see the posts and alleged that information from them was leaked to The Sun newspaper – something Mrs Vardy denies being responsible for.
Here the PA news agency takes a look at what has been heard in court about the social media posts:
The gender selection post
Mrs Rooney claims to have made this “sting operation” post about a so-called gender-selection treatment on April 8, 2019. The post featured a photograph of the back seat of an airplane overlaid with the text “Let’s go and see what this gender selection is all about”.
She alleges that the invented post was marked on Instagram as “seen” only by Mrs Vardy’s account, with her lawyers providing a screengrab to the High Court. In August that year, the Sun published an article claiming Mrs Rooney travelled to Mexico to look into the treatment.
The story, carrying journalist Andy Halls’s byline, is headlined “COL’S BABY GIRL BID Coleen Rooney travelled to Mexico to look into £8k ‘gender selection’ treatment in desperate bid to have baby girl”. The article, referring to “a source” and “pals”, alleged Mrs Rooney is “so desperate for her fifth baby to be a girl” that she wants to hear more about a process “in which doctors examine embryos in a lab before implanting only those of the desired gender back into the womb”.
TV decisions post
A private fabricated post about planning a return to TV was made on September 25, 2019, Mrs Rooney claims. She says it featured a “selfie” and the text “Up and out!! Easing my way back into work!! TV decisions today…. maybe it’s time for Australia” and claims it was seen only by Mrs Vardy’s account.
Three days later, a Sun article under Michael Hamilton’s byline was published under the headline “ROO-MBA Coleen Rooney in talks to join Strictly next year as she looks to revive TV career when Wayne returns to UK”. It quoted an anonymous source and claimed to exclusively reveal Mrs Rooney was “locked in talks with producers”, planned to “front a fashion programme” and “could well do” the Strictly Come Dancing TV show.
The court has been told Mr Hamilton has denied that Mrs Vardy or her agent Caroline Watt were the source of the article. Mrs Rooney’s lawyers have accepted that the post and article “do not match up entirely” but argue the timing was “very close” and it fuelled Mrs Rooney’s suspicions about the leaking of her information and therefore supports her defence that the sting operation was in the public interest.
The flooded basement post
Mrs Rooney says she shared false information about her basement being flooded on October 2, 2019 in another “sting operation” post. She again alleged to the High Court that the post was viewed only by Mrs Vardy’s Instagram account. Her lawyers have shared a screengrab of the post featuring a bottle of wine overlaid with the text: “needed after today… flood in the basement of our new house… when it all seemed to be going so well”.
On October 8, The Sun published a story, with Simon Boyle’s byline, headlined: “IN ROO-INS Wayne and Coleen Rooney’s £20million ‘Morrisons mansion’ flooded during Storm Lorenzo”. The article, quoting a “source close to the couple”, claimed to reveal that bad weather had “wreaked havoc” at the Cheshire property, with Mrs Rooney being “called in to find the cellar had been flooded”.
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Connecticut Boy, 6, Suffers Third-Degree Burns to His Face After 'Bully' Sets Him on Fire: Family
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A 6-year-old Connecticut boy has been left with third-degree burns to his face and other parts of his body after his neighbor allegedly set him on fire.
Little Dominick Krankall remains in hospital after suffering horrific burns in what his family says was the result of a bully's attack on Sunday.
"My little brother Dom has been bullied for a while by the tenants downstairs. It escalated to a deadly intent. Dominick, MY 6 YEAR OLD BROTHER could've died," Dominick's sister, Kayla Deegan, wrote on GoFundMe.
"The kid covered a ball in gasoline, lit it on fire, and threw it at him," Deegan alleged. "All in the matter of SECONDS. Dom has second and third degree burns on his face and leg. He's going to be scarred for life mentally and physically."
Deegan said her little brother was playing in the backyard of their home in Bridgeport on Sunday, per NBC New York. She then alleges that an 8-year-old got into a shed on the property and got ahold of gasoline and lighters, and lured Dominick over.
"What he did was pour gasoline on a tennis ball, took a lighter, lit it up and just chucked it right at my brother's face — and then ran away from him and watched him burn," Deegan told the outlet.
"I heard him screaming, 'Mommy help me, they set me on fire,' " Maria Rua, the boy's mother, told ABC7.
Preliminary reports show that up to four unattended children were seen playing with gasoline and lighting things on fire Sunday afternoon, and police are now investigating the incident, according to ABC7.
PEOPLE's request for comment from the Bridgeport Police Department was not immediately returned.
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The boy's father, Aaron Krankall, told local news outlet WFSB that they expect Dominick to stay in the hospital for about another week, and the community has been nothing short of amazing in supporting the family as Dominick recovers.
"We have people bringing us dinners to my family before I get home so they have dinner. We've had relatives and aunts, people coming over, and cousins coming over and helping out. it's just been amazing," said Aaron.
"Dominick is doing a little better. Yesterday was the first time he actually was able to get a few bites of food past his extremely swollen lips and into his mouth. He could only handle a few bites, but that is some good news. He will sip soup out of a straw as well," Deegan wrote in an update on GoFundMe on Wednesday.
"He's such a tough little cookie. The bravest 6 year old I've ever known," she continued. "Being an older sister and so close to your siblings, seeing my baby brother like this is absolutely heart wrenching. No baby should have to lay in a hospital bed like this."
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US traffic deaths at highest in 16 years; state police ramping up traffic enforcement
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DES MOINES, Iowa – The Biden Administration calls it a crisis on America’s roads. Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. streets and highways last year, the most in 16 years as Americans returned to driving after staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before 2020, the number of U.S. traffic deaths had fallen three straight years. But police say they’ve seen a lot more reckless drivers during the pandemic. Iowa State Patrol troopers say it’s not uncommon to spot drivers speeding at 150 mph on highways.
While traveling, drivers likely don’t pay attention to traffic in the sky. But Iowa State Trooper Pilot Taylor Grimm is paying attention to drivers below.
“I am looking for people that are excessively speeding, going really fast, weaving all over the road,” Grimm said. “We stop people for a hundred miles an hour almost daily with our airplanes.”
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He communicates with State Trooper Mark Griggs on the ground, letting Griggs know which cars are speeding as they approach him.
“Speed, specifically since the pandemic, has just skyrocketed. It’s pretty bad,” Grimm said.
Trooper Alex Dinkla says speed is to blame in a nearly 15% increase in Iowa traffic deaths compared to the same time last year.
US TRAFFIC DEATHS SOARED TO 16-YEAR RECORD OF 42,915 IN 2021
The entire country is seeing similar increases.
Traffic deaths nationwide jumped over 10% from 2020 and nearly 1% from 2018.
Safety advocates blame speeding, distracted or impaired driving and not wearing seat belts.
“Our speculation is that, during the pandemic, when the roads were really empty, a number of people took to the roads and used our roadways as racetracks,” said Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. “And they were speeding and letting off aggression and frustration and depression. And that’s still lingering, but our roads are populated again. So, it’s kind of a perfect storm of what’s happening on our roads right now.”
The safety advocates group is pressuring the U.S. Department of Transportation to require more crash avoidance technology in new cars, like automatic emergency braking and blind spot detection.
“They don’t see officers, but we’re out here, and we’re going to make traffic stops. And people are going to have a consequence for driving those speeds,” Dinkla warned.
Police caution that reckless drivers are risking lives and their freedom.
“If somebody is killed because of your reckless driving, you can be charged criminally as well,” Grimm said.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced his department’s new Safe Streets and Roads for All program this week. It will provide federal cash to communities that pledge to promote safety for pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists.
The Biden administration is sending $5 billion in federal aid to help communities slow down cars, carve out bike paths and widen sidewalks. The administration is also hoping to ramp up public transit usage. | https://1010wcsi.com/fox-news/us-traffic-deaths-at-highest-in-16-years-state-police-ramping-up-traffic-enforcement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-traffic-deaths-at-highest-in-16-years-state-police-ramping-up-traffic-enforcement | 2022-05-19T03:30:48Z | https://1010wcsi.com/fox-news/us-traffic-deaths-at-highest-in-16-years-state-police-ramping-up-traffic-enforcement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-traffic-deaths-at-highest-in-16-years-state-police-ramping-up-traffic-enforcement | false | 2 |
Florida Mom Who Escaped Domestic Abuse Stabbing in 2015 Is Found Buried in Yard
Authorities have recovered the body of a Florida mom of three who was missing since February, WJAX-TV reports.
The body of LaDonna Williams, 41, was found buried in the backyard of a Jacksonville, Fla., rental home, according to the station.
On April 20, the owner of the rental property called 911 after he discovered a dead body while he was preparing his house for new renters, per the outlet. Loved ones identified her as LaDonna shortly after.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office believes LaDonna was murdered, but they are still trying to figure out how she was killed and by whom.
"She was a very good mother, she was a good mother to all my friends, my siblings as well," LaDonna's daughter Tammy Williams told WJAX on Monday. "She did not deserve to die like that."
RELATED: Florida Man Charged with Murder After Authorities Find Human Remains Buried on His Property
WJXT-TV had previously spoken to LaDonna in 2015, after she and her son reportedly survived a domestic knife attack.
"I wasn't sure who was going to live and who wasn't," she told the station at the time. "I feel like my son put his life on the line for me and he very well could have lost his life."
Now, family and friends have launched a GoFundMe campaign to help lay to rest the "independent, strong, motivated" mother they knew and loved.
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"She lived life day by day ready for whatever God had planned," the fundraiser description read. "She was the grandmother of two, soon to be four. She was a daughter, sister, aunt, cousin and friend to many. She was loved by everyone she met and kept faith in her heart."
As of publication, $560 of the campaign's $9,000 goal had been raised. | https://people.com/crime/florida-mom-who-escaped-domestic-abuse-stabbing-in-2015-is-found-buried-in-yard/ | 2022-05-19T03:30:59Z | https://people.com/crime/florida-mom-who-escaped-domestic-abuse-stabbing-in-2015-is-found-buried-in-yard/ | true | 1 |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
1-9-2
(one, nine, two)
¶ Ticket-holders with all three winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17183061.php | 2022-05-19T03:33:19Z | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17183061.php | true | null |
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Day 2 Rundown Of The Michael Sussmann Trial
Authored by Techno Fog via The Reactionary,
Day 2 of the Michael Sussmann trial started with some housekeeping. Here are the rulings of note:
Robby Mook, who has a scheduled vacation in Spain, will testify on Friday. He’s a defense witness.
Evidence of Steele’s meetings with Sussmann and Fusion GPS in July 2016, and his tasking to conduct research on Alfa Bank, according to the judge, “can come in.”The judge observed they are “relevant to Mr. Sussmann’s activities for the campaign and his attorney-client relationship, as far as it went, with the campaign as it relates to Alfa-Bank.”
Onto the witnesses. We start with the short testimony of Deborah Fine.
Fine began working for the Hillary Clinton Campaign (aka Hillary for America) as “one of several deputy general counsels” in May 2016. She answered to Marc Elias, the campaign’s general counsel.
After being presented with calendar entries confirming her daily calls with Fusion GPS, she testified that she worked with them as “part of my work for the campaign.” In fact, she regularly interacted with Glenn Simpson and co-founder Peter Fritsch. Fine conceded that Fusion GPS were seemingly free to conduct research on their own, stating she “personally didn’t direct them” to accomplish specific tasks.
On cross, she admitted she didn’t now if Marc Elias spoke to anyone else at the Clinton Campaign about the activities of Fusion GPS. She was out of the loop regarding efforts to bring the Alfa Bank allegations to the NY Times or to the FBI.
Testimony of Laura Seago
Laura Seago worked with Fusion GPS back in 2016, where she reported directly to Fritsch and Simpson. She has been granted immunity by the Special Counsel for her testimony. She understood Marc Elias to be the Fusion GPS contact for the Clinton Campaign.
Seago stated she was present at a summer 2016 meeting with “Mr. Elias, my colleague Peter Fritsch from Fusion GPS, Mr. Sussmann, and Mr. Sussmann’s client Rodney Joffe.” As to the nature of that meeting:
“The general purpose, to the best of my recollection, was to discuss allegations of communications between the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank.”
Once the Alfa Bank allegations were developed, Seago met with journalist Franklin Foer (who would write the October 31, 2016 Alfa Bank article in Slate). The purpose of that meeting was to discuss “the allegations of communication between the Trump Organization and Alfa-Bank.”
They sold Foer on the Alfa Bank data at that meeting, telling him there were “highly credible computer scientists who seemed to think that these allegations were credible.” These “credible computer scientists” would ultimately be cited in Foer’s article. She admitted that Fusion GPS did nothing to validate the DNS records - something she said was “beyond my capabilities.”
Seago was walked-through a number of e-mails she had with Joffe and other members of Fusion GPS. Some of these were privileged (the Joffe e-mails) so the Special Counsel was unable to discuss with Seago the contents. However, she did know about contents of the Joffe e-mails generally:
Finally, she admitted to understanding whose interests were served by planting the Alfa Bank story.
Now we get to Marc Elias.
Elias meet weekly with Fusion GPS at his office. Typically Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson would be in attendance. Generally, those meetings involved discussions of Elias’s “needs” and Fusion GPS’s “work” - which included what Elias described as the “unusual connections” the Trump Campaign had with Russia. They would also report to Elias on their findings related to Trump during the election.
Anyway, Elias also testified that the Clinton Campaign paid them (Perkins Coie) a “flat fee” for their legal services. Why is this important? Because it explains why Sussmann would block bill the Clinton Campaign (see tweet below). (“Block billing” is having a multi-hour entry with a generalized description. Example: “6.5 hours on confidential project.) For flat fee work, attorneys are generally allowed block billing because the client isn’t paying the hourly rate.
Proceedings have resumed with more of Elias being queried on billing records that show Sussmann toiling on a "confidential project." July 29, 2016, $4,455 for 5.3 hours, and Aug. 12, 2016, $1,252 for 1.5 hours on “confidential meetings with M. Elias, others.” #SussmannTriaL
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The Special Counsel then walked Elias through a number of billing entries/emails from and involving Sussmann. These included meetings with Elias, meetings with Joffe, and Fusion - and involved “the Alfa-Bank allegations.”
That concludes the morning session. We’ll update this post once we receive the afternoon transcript… | https://www.zerohedge.com/political/day-2-rundown-michael-sussmann-trial | 2022-05-19T03:37:37Z | https://www.zerohedge.com/political/day-2-rundown-michael-sussmann-trial | false | 1 |
Influencer Lexi Reed Is 'Still in Pain Constantly' as She Continues Treatments for Calcium Buildup
Lexi Reed is still searching for a solution for her severe stomach and leg pain.
After going back to the hospital three weeks earlier, the 31-year-old weight loss influencer learned that her pain is likely calcinosis, a rare condition where "calcium buildups" form in and around joints like the elbows and knees, and in Reed's case it's a result of her kidney failure and dialysis treatments earlier this year.
Reed's doctors now have her getting regular IV treatments for the condition, but it's difficult to treat, and she's still struggling.
"Still getting my IV treatments for my calcinosis," she said on her Instagram Story Monday, adding that it's possibly her last week of the infusions, "but sadly I'm still in pain constantly and don't think it's working."
RELATED: Influencer Lexi Reed Rattled by Hospitalization: 'I Didn't Realize How Quick Your Health Can Turn'
Reed said that she and her husband Danny are hoping to find another solution for her pain.
"Every day is a new day," she said. "@DiscoveringDanny and I are looking for another opinion and praying."
Reed shared at the beginning of April that she decided to go back to the hospital because her pain was only "getting worse."
"I've been experiencing hard, painful knots on my stomach, thighs, and legs that have been getting worse and spreading, causing me to be in excruciating pain/tears," she said.
RELATED VIDEO: Weight Loss Influencer Lexi Reed Hospitalized After Her 'Organs Started Failing'
Reed said that she's struggling to stay positive as her health woes continue.
"It just keeps reminding me of my reality that I'm not getting better anytime soon and the struggles this year has brought so far to my health, friends and family," she said.
Reed first went to the hospital on Jan. 20 after four days of being unable to keep any food down. Almost immediately after she arrived, Reed's blood sugar dropped and her organs started to fail, she said, and doctors decided to put her on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma.
RELATED: Weight Loss Influencer Lexi Reed Back Home After Experiencing Organ Failure: 'Happy to Be Alive'
After nearly a month in the hospital, she was able to go home, but needed frequent dialysis treatments. Those she was able to stop on March 21, but she hasn't been able to walk on her own and was still dealing with stomach and leg pain.
When Reed went back to the hospital on April 4, she said she and husband Danny are "just ready for some answers."
"Ready for all this to be over," she said. "Ready to be healthy and in the gym … I just haven't said a lot in the last two weeks because I was hoping I would get better and here we are. So, positive prayers, thank you." | https://people.com/health/influencer-lexi-reed-is-still-in-pain-constantly-as-she-continues-treatments-for-her-calcinosis/ | 2022-05-19T03:37:42Z | https://people.com/health/influencer-lexi-reed-is-still-in-pain-constantly-as-she-continues-treatments-for-her-calcinosis/ | false | 1 |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
8-7-9
(eight, seven, nine)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
8-7-9
(eight, seven, nine) | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17183100.php | 2022-05-19T03:38:59Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17183100.php | true | null |
Updated May 17, 2022 at 6:46 PM ET
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Two years later, more than a million people have died in the United States from the disease. To put a face on this number and pay respect to the departed, NPR asked our audience to share songs that reminded them of a loved one lost to COVID-19. What follows are individual stories of those who have passed, those mourning them and the songs that continue to unite them.
My uncle lived in Littlerock, Calif., and was originally from Santa Clarita, Calif., a true cowboy at heart. "Over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole was a song that brightened his spirit whenever he was feeling down.
He never failed to smile anytime he saw you, even if he wasn't feeling his best. He loved to cook his barbecue — he had a gift, which he passed on to his son, my cousin Albert. He had a great sense of humor and a caring heart. When my aunt was a little girl (he was married to her older sister), she was having a hard time learning how to tell time, and he was the one who taught her how to read the clock. My older brother is on the spectrum and has his quirks, but in the last couple of years they became best friends. I loved talking about politics with him: I'm a Bernie Sanders supporter and he respected my views even though he was a Republican. We were all so lucky to have him in our lives. —Adriana Martinez, niece
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Honored for Financial Acumen and Support of French Culture
NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- J. Christopher Giancarlo, a Wall Street lawyer and business figure renowned in the financial world for his expertise in cryptocurrency, has been awarded the rank of Chevalier in the French National Order of Merit by President Emmanuel Macron.
The award will be given to Giancarlo in June at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C.
"This honor reflects the French authorities' great respect for your understanding of financial markets and the potentials of cryptofinance," France's Ambassador to the U.S. Phillippe Etienne informed Giancarlo. "It also acknowledges our gratitude for your support for French culture and the French language as a longtime trustee of the French American Academy. The success of that institution owes a great deal to your advice and vision."
Giancarlo was humbled by the Chevalier honor. "As the grandson of a French emigree, I am honored to receive the National Order of Merit. It recognizes the creation of well-regulated crypto trading markets and strengthening of overseas regulatory ties with the help of many fine public servants during my time of government service. It also confirms the critical role of bilingual elementary education in furthering cross border deference and understanding."
The Order of Merit was established by President Charles deGaulle in 1963 for "distinguished merit" in service to France and the causes it supports. It is rare for a non-citizen of France to receive the Order of Merit. Recent American honorees include poet Joseph Brodsky, composer Quincy Jones, writer Toni Morrison, technology magnate Bill Gates, and film directors Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
Known as "CryptoDad" for his celebrated call on the U.S. Congress to respect a new generation's interest in cryptocurrency, the Honorable J. Christopher Giancarlo served as 13th Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Considered one of the most influential individuals in financial regulation, Giancarlo also served as a member of the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Committee, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, and the Executive Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions.
Giancarlo is the author of CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money (Wiley, 2021), an account of his oversight of the world's first regulated market for Bitcoin derivatives and the coming transformation of financial services.
Giancarlo is Senior Counsel to international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He is a board director, advisor and angel investor in numerous technology and financial services companies. In addition, Giancarlo is a co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project, a not-for-profit initiative to advance exploration of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday reported 262,270 more suspected COVID-19 cases as its pandemic caseload neared 2 million — a week after the country acknowledged the outbreak and scrambled to slow infections in its unvaccinated population.
The country is also trying to prevent its fragile economy from deteriorating further, but the outbreak could be worse than officially reported since the country lacks virus tests and other health care resources and may be underreporting deaths to soften the political impact on authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un.
North Korea’s anti-virus headquarters reported a single additional death, raising its toll to 63, which experts have said is abnormally small compared to the suspected number of coronavirus infections.
The official Korean Central News Agency said more than 1.98 million people have become sick with fever since late April. Most are believed to have COVID-19, though only a few omicron variant infections have been confirmed. At least 740,160 people are in quarantine, the news agency reported.
North Korea’s outbreak comes amid a provocative streak of weapons demonstrations, including its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile in nearly five years in March. Experts don’t believe the COVID-19 outbreak will slow Kim’s brinkmanship aimed at pressuring the United States to accept the idea of the North as a nuclear power and negotiating economic and security concessions from a position of strength.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Wednesday that U.S. intelligence shows there’s a “genuine possibility” that North Korea will conduct another ballistic missile test or nuclear test around President Joe Biden’s visit to South Korea and Japan that begins later this week.
After maintaining a dubious claim that it had kept the virus out of the country for two and a half years, North Korea acknowledged its first COVID-19 infections May 12 and has described a rapid spread since. Kim has called the outbreak a “great upheaval,” berated officials for letting the virus spread and restricted the movement of people and supplies between cities and regions.
Workers were mobilized to find people with suspected COVID-19 symptoms who were then sent to quarantine — the main method of curbing the outbreak since North Korea is short of medical supplies and intensive care units that lowered COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in other nations.
State media images showed health workers in hazmat suits guarding Pyongyang’s closed-off streets, disinfecting buildings and streets and delivering food and other supplies to apartment blocks.
Despite the vast numbers of sick people and the efforts to curb the outbreak, state media describe large groups of workers continuing to gather at farms, mining facilities, power stations and construction sites. Experts say North Korea cannot afford a lockdown that would hinder production in an economy already broken by mismanagement, crippling U.S.-led sanctions over Kim’s nuclear weapons ambitions and pandemic border closures.
North Korea also must urgently work to protect its crops from a drought that hit during the crucial rice-planting season — a worrisome development in a country that has long suffered from food insecurity. State media also said that Kim’s trophy construction projects, including the building of 10,000 new houses in the town of Hwasong, are being “propelled as scheduled.”
“All sectors of the national economy are stepping up the production to the maximum while strictly observing the anti-epidemic steps taken by the party and the state,” Korean Central News Agency reported.
The virus controls at workplaces include separating workers by their job classifications and quarantining worker units at construction sites and in its key metal, chemical, electricity and coal industries, KCNA said.
Kee Park, a global health specialist at Harvard Medical School who has worked on health care projects in North Korea, said the country’s number of new cases should start to slow because of the strengthened preventive measures.
But it will be challenging for North Korea to provide treatment for the already large number of people with COVID-19. Deaths may possibly approach tens of thousands, considering the size of its caseload, and international assistance would be crucial, Park said.
“The best way to prevent these deaths are to treat with antivirals like Paxlovid,” which would significantly lower the risk of severe disease or death, Park said. “This is much faster and easier to implement than sending ventilators to build ICU capacity.”
Other experts say providing a small number of vaccines for high-risk groups such as the elderly would prevent deaths, though mass vaccinations would be impossible at this stage for the population of 26 million.
It’s unclear, however, if North Korea would accept outside help. It already shunned vaccines offered by the U.N.-backed COVAX distribution program, and the nation’s leaders have expressed confidence the country can overcome the crisis on its own.
Kim Tae-hyo, deputy national security adviser for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, told reporters on Thursday that North Korea has ignored offers of help from South Korea and the United States to contain the outbreak.
Experts have said North Korea may be more willing to accept help from China, its main ally. South Korea’s government had said it couldn’t confirm media reports that North Korea flew planes to bring back emergency supplies from China this week.
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New Zealand government forecasts narrower deficit for 2021/22
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WELLINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - New Zealand's government on Thursday increased income support and promised significant investment in the health sector while forecasting that returning the budget to surplus would take longer than previously forecast.
The deficit for the current financial year, ending on June 30, will be narrower than previously forecast.
Heavy spending was targeted towards infrastructure, including new schools, and defence, while funds were also allocated to ease the impact of global inflation on New Zealanders.
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The highlight was billions of New Zealand dollars in new funding for the country’s health system, which will, among other things, see more funding for drugs and infrastructure.
"As the pandemic subsides, other challenges both long-term and more immediate, have come to the fore. This Budget responds to those challenges," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a statement.
"COVID-19, climate change and the war in Ukraine have taught us we need to build a more secure economy that protects New Zealand households from the external shocks we know are coming," she added. Ardern was not at the release of the budget as she currently has COVID.
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The government predicted a budget deficit of NZ$18.978 billion ($11.97 billion) for 2021/22, narrower than a deficit of NZ$20.844 billion forecast in a half-year fiscal update in December. However, the government now expects the budget to surplus in 2024/25, a year later that previously forecast.
Net debt under an old method of calculation was forecast to peak at 41.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023/24, compared with the December forecast for a peak in 2022/23 at 40.1% of GDP.
Under a new calculation method, introduced to bring the measure more in line with international norms, net debt for 2022/23 will be 31.8% of GDP.
INFLATION
With New Zealand facing its fastest inflation in three decades, the government moved to provide support for households. It has extended subsidies on petrol and public transport and will extend supplementary payments to middle-income families not already receiving support.
"While we know the current storm will pass, it's important we do what we can to take the hard edges of it," said Ardern.
Along with the funding, Robertson announced new legislation that would remove land covenants that currently allow existing supermarkets to prevent competitors from building nearby. It is hoped this will make the sector - currently dominated by two companies - more competitive.
SECURITY
Defence spending will rise over the next five years. Government documents show the defence establishment will spend NZ$5.9 billion on new equipment in the five years beginning 2021/22, up more than 40% on an earlier outlook.
Minister of Defence Peeni Henare said in a statement that the defence force would receive an additional NZ$662.5 million to maintain existing defence capabilities and more money to boost salaries of lower-paid staff in the defence force.
"What we are funding today is the regeneration and strengthening of our Defence Force," said Henare.
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Beijing: China will host the BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting on Thursday via video link in which External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will take part along with his counterparts from the five-member bloc, a top Chinese official said on Wednesday.
Besides Jaishankar, South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor, Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Franca and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend the meeting which would be chaired by China's State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said.
During the meeting, the BRICS Foreign Ministers will have a "BRICS+" dialogue with their counterparts from emerging markets and developing countries, he told a media briefing here.
He, however, did not disclose the names of the countries taking part in the BRICS Plus dialogue.
Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Uruguay and Egypt have been previously admitted as members of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), further expanding the bank's global outreach.
China holds the chair of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) this year.
About China's expectations of the BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting, Wang Wenbin said that the meeting will send a "clear message" of unity and make preparations for the annual summit of the five-member bloc.
"We will send a clear message of BRICS countries working together in solidarity, upholding true multilateralism, staying united in fighting COVID-19 and promoting peace and development," Wang said.
"More importantly, we will make good preparations for the BRICS Summit," he said.
This year's summit is being held in the shadows of Russia's military offensive against Ukraine.
"BRICS is a cooperation mechanism of emerging markets and developing countries with global influence," Wang said.
"In the face of the once-in-a-century pandemic and changes, the BRICS mechanism is of special and importance significance for deepening cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries and promoting post-COVID world economic recovery," he said.
The Foreign Ministers meeting was proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping during China's chairmanship of the five-member bloc in 2017, he said.
Under the strategic leadership of BRICS leaders, the foreign ministers' meetings have played an important role in strengthening political mutual trust and deepening political security cooperation among the five BRICS countries, Wang Wenbin said.
"As the BRICS chair for 2022, China looks forward to enhancing communication and coordination with fellow BRICS partners on the new features and challenges of the current international situation and major international and regional issues," he said.
On the sidelines of this year's foreign ministers' meeting, a "BRICS+" dialogue will be held for BRICS foreign ministers and foreign ministers of some emerging markets and developing countries to have an in-depth exchange of views on global governance, he said.
"We believe this dialogue will further enhance solidarity, build consensus, and give emerging markets and developing countries a bigger say in global governance so as to better safeguard common interests," Wang Wenbin added. | https://www.greaterkashmir.com/world/jaishankar-to-take-part-in-brics-foreign-ministers-meeting | 2022-05-19T03:52:09Z | https://www.greaterkashmir.com/world/jaishankar-to-take-part-in-brics-foreign-ministers-meeting | false | 7 |
Julian Lennon Talks 'Love-Hate Relationship' with 'Hey Jude': 'Dark Reminder' of Parents' Divorce
Julian Lennon is opening up about his relationship with The Beatles' "Hey Jude."
On a recent episode of the SiriusXM Volume radio show Debatable, the 59-year-old singer-songwriter spoke in-depth about The Beatles' 1970 hit — written for him at five years old by Paul McCartney amid his parents John and Cynthia Lennon's separation — and how it inspired his new album, Jude.
In the interview, Julian recalled learning about his parents' split and how it affected him as a young child. "I wasn't really aware of what was going on except when I started seeing Yoko [Ono] around, obviously that made a bit of an impact and apparently I struggled with the separation a great deal at five," he told the radio show, per The Independent. "I would have raving moments of being a screaming child, but those moments haven't stuck with me."
Rather than harping on the negative aspects of the situation, he said, "For me it has always been about moving forward, protecting mum the best that I could and making her proud, keeping an eye on her, arms around her, protecting her all the way up until the end. She was my priority."
While creating his new album Jude, Julian says he was able to reevaluate his relationship to the song and see it from a new point of view. "The album allowed me to explain what 'Hey Jude' meant to me because the fact of the matter is it was a love-hate relationship," he said. "I thought I had heard it enough."
"I am thankful to Paul for writing it and putting some hope behind what was to come," the Kiss the Ground documentary producer continued. "But the downside of it was it was a dark reminder of what actually went down at the time, the separation."
Julian revealed watching the 2021 documentary series The Beatles: Get Back also gave him the chance to revisit childhood memories with John. "After watching the documentary there was so much pride seeing dad the way I used to know him as a kid, remembering him and seeing him being a goofy bugger but also being such a great writer, performer, and singer," he said. "It reminded me how much love I actually had for him. It just brought a lot of memories up."
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Earlier this month, Julian performed John's signature 1971 hit "Imagine" for the first time ever at Global Citizen's televised Stand Up for Ukraine benefit concert, which raised over $10 billion to help refugees. "Why now, after all these years? — I had always said, that the only time I would ever consider singing 'IMAGINE' would be if it was the 'End of the World,'" he wrote in the clip's YouTube description.
"The War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy... As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled to respond in the most significant way I could," continued his note. "So today, for the first time ever, I publicly performed my Dad's song, IMAGINE."
When discussing the performance on Debatable, Julian said, "It was the easiest and the hardest thing I have ever had to do."
In a recent interview with the iHeartRadio podcast Inside the Studio, Julian spoke to host Jordan Runtagh about the positive response he received following the "Imagine" performance.
"I was fearful. I never said I would never sing it. I just said it'll be one day when the time is right and it's appropriate," he detailed. "And so, a week ago when I said, 'Yes, OK, now's the time,' I thought, 'Oh, bugger, how am I gonna do this?!' Because for literally 30, 40 years I've been afraid for this moment to come."
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Despite his initial nerves, the performance received rave reviews and directed fan attention toward his new music. "I've gotta say the last week, 10 days has been mind-blowing for me because I've never had such positive response across the board, not only to dad's song "Imagine," but even for the two new songs that have just come out," he said, referencing recent singles "Every Little Moment" and "Freedom."
Julian said the positive reception toward the performance has also altered his feelings toward the experience of being viewed as the son of a Beatle. "I feel, probably for the first time ever, that I can walk around not being afraid with my head held high," he said, recalling awkward stories of being recognized. "You know, on the road in the older days, we'd stop at a diner and they just put Beatles songs on to see if I reacted to see if it was me. 'Really, that's all you've got!? Can't you just come up and say, 'Hey, Julian!'?'"
"I used to have to deal with that crap all the frigging time. It was so frustrating. Anyway, I'm over all of that now," Julian continued. "I think I've laid my foundation on many levels of what I do and I'm proud to be doing everything that I'm doing now. So it's a different world, you know? I'm feeling like maybe just a little bit of an adult now… It's been magical. It's been magical probably for the first time ever." | https://people.com/music/julian-lennon-talks-love-hate-relationship-with-the-beatles-hey-jude/ | 2022-05-19T03:54:23Z | https://people.com/music/julian-lennon-talks-love-hate-relationship-with-the-beatles-hey-jude/ | false | 1 |
By Vinish Bawa, Head of Enterprise, Emerging Business and Webscale, Nokia Networks, India
As the demand for on-premises and customised connectivity continues to grow among the enterprises and businesses, LTE or 5G based private wireless has emerged as the go-to technology for providing a reliable and secure connectivity, tailored to specific needs for supporting business and mission critical applications. More so in the asset-intensive physical industries, such as manufacturing, mines, ports, utilities etc., that are looking at Industry 4.0 to increase their business efficiency, improve safety, become more agile and sustainable, and be better prepared for the future.
Public safety agencies and armed forces are also looking at LTE or 5G based private wireless for increased digitalization of their operations and enhanced situational awareness as their existing networks, mostly narrow band and based on P25, TETRA etc., are not able to meet the performance requirements.
Private wireless is the clear choice
Compared to LTE or 5G based private wireless, traditional industrial connectivity solutions, including Ethernet, Wi-Fi, etc., lack the capabilities to control the various aspects of workflows and applications at industrial scale. Cabling lacks flexibility and is not very cost efficient for connecting a large number of IoT sensors, devices and machines, and Wi-Fi does not meet the performance, mobility or security specifications. Below are some of the key features of private wireless that substantiate its benefits:
- Predictable performance
- High multi-user capacity
- Pervasive coverage for indoor and outdoor applications
- Very high reliability
- Full mobility
- Supports low-powered sensor communication
- Intrinsic security
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Nokia’s has powered more than 450 enterprises and public sector bodies across verticals- from factories and warehouses, to ports, airports, mines, utilities, through to public safety, defence and smart cities- to fuel their digital transformation and make their operations safer, more sustainable, productive and efficient.
Our
Nokia Bell Labs has a dedicated research practice on industrial automation, edge computing and private wireless. We deployed the world’s first LTE private wireless solution in 2012, launched the world’s first standalone private 5G network in 2020 and are working with NASA to put private wireless on the moon.
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end-to-end private wireless solutions including IP, optical, applications and devices for private, public and hybrid deployment models with solution blueprints tailored to specific segment needs, both in licensed and unlicensed spectrum. Further, if needed, our solution allows to combine the enterprise private network with shared public network slices. Our solution interacts seamlessly with public networks, which makes it easy to get the right network mix for your business.
Based on Nokia Bell Labs research and our experience with private LTE deployments, we believe that 85–90% of today’s industrial applications can be run on LTE. This is further substantiated by the GSA February 2022 report - LTE is used in 78% of the catalogued customers deploying private mobile networks globally. Many big enterprises and organizations are today deploying LTE based
private networks for this very reason – it gives them a competitive advantage and these networks will continue to play a key role even as 5G is introduced at a later stage to handle the more demanding use cases as they develop.
Unleashing the era of private wireless in IndiaWe are actively engaging and collaborating with various Indian enterprises and businesses across a range of verticals – ports, airports, railways, defence, power utilities, smart city, manufacturing, mines, refineries etc. - to help them prepare for digital transformation with private wireless as the enabler.
We have already deployed LTE based private wireless at our Chennai factory for enhanced automation and higher operational efficiency – that was also India's first 'real-world' application of Industry 4.0. Our strong global experience and partnerships with various device suppliers, industrial OEMs and system integrators, coupled with our partnerships with CSPs gives use the reach and depth to help our India customers unleash the private wireless and be future ready.
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Is There An Opportunity With DGL Group Limited's (ASX:DGL) 21% Undervaluation?
Does the May share price for DGL Group Limited (ASX:DGL) reflect what it's really worth? Today, we will estimate the stock's intrinsic value by projecting its future cash flows and then discounting them to today's value. Our analysis will employ the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. There's really not all that much to it, even though it might appear quite complex.
We generally believe that a company's value is the present value of all of the cash it will generate in the future. However, a DCF is just one valuation metric among many, and it is not without flaws. For those who are keen learners of equity analysis, the Simply Wall St analysis model here may be something of interest to you.
See our latest analysis for DGL Group
Step by step through the calculation
We are going to use a two-stage DCF model, which, as the name states, takes into account two stages of growth. The first stage is generally a higher growth period which levels off heading towards the terminal value, captured in the second 'steady growth' period. In the first stage we need to estimate the cash flows to the business over the next ten years. Where possible we use analyst estimates, but when these aren't available we extrapolate the previous free cash flow (FCF) from the last estimate or reported value. We assume companies with shrinking free cash flow will slow their rate of shrinkage, and that companies with growing free cash flow will see their growth rate slow, over this period. We do this to reflect that growth tends to slow more in the early years than it does in later years.
Generally we assume that a dollar today is more valuable than a dollar in the future, so we discount the value of these future cash flows to their estimated value in today's dollars:
10-year free cash flow (FCF) estimate
("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = AU$203m
After calculating the present value of future cash flows in the initial 10-year period, we need to calculate the Terminal Value, which accounts for all future cash flows beyond the first stage. The Gordon Growth formula is used to calculate Terminal Value at a future annual growth rate equal to the 5-year average of the 10-year government bond yield of 1.8%. We discount the terminal cash flows to today's value at a cost of equity of 5.9%.
Terminal Value (TV)= FCF2031 × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = AU$63m× (1 + 1.8%) ÷ (5.9%– 1.8%) = AU$1.5b
Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)10= AU$1.5b÷ ( 1 + 5.9%)10= AU$870m
The total value, or equity value, is then the sum of the present value of the future cash flows, which in this case is AU$1.1b. The last step is to then divide the equity value by the number of shares outstanding. Relative to the current share price of AU$3.1, the company appears a touch undervalued at a 21% discount to where the stock price trades currently. Remember though, that this is just an approximate valuation, and like any complex formula - garbage in, garbage out.
The assumptions
The calculation above is very dependent on two assumptions. The first is the discount rate and the other is the cash flows. Part of investing is coming up with your own evaluation of a company's future performance, so try the calculation yourself and check your own assumptions. The DCF also does not consider the possible cyclicality of an industry, or a company's future capital requirements, so it does not give a full picture of a company's potential performance. Given that we are looking at DGL Group as potential shareholders, the cost of equity is used as the discount rate, rather than the cost of capital (or weighted average cost of capital, WACC) which accounts for debt. In this calculation we've used 5.9%, which is based on a levered beta of 0.972. Beta is a measure of a stock's volatility, compared to the market as a whole. We get our beta from the industry average beta of globally comparable companies, with an imposed limit between 0.8 and 2.0, which is a reasonable range for a stable business.
Next Steps:
Valuation is only one side of the coin in terms of building your investment thesis, and it shouldn't be the only metric you look at when researching a company. It's not possible to obtain a foolproof valuation with a DCF model. Preferably you'd apply different cases and assumptions and see how they would impact the company's valuation. For instance, if the terminal value growth rate is adjusted slightly, it can dramatically alter the overall result. Can we work out why the company is trading at a discount to intrinsic value? For DGL Group, there are three pertinent aspects you should assess:
Risks: You should be aware of the 3 warning signs for DGL Group (2 are potentially serious!) we've uncovered before considering an investment in the company.
Management:Have insiders been ramping up their shares to take advantage of the market's sentiment for DGL's future outlook? Check out our management and board analysis with insights on CEO compensation and governance factors.
Other High Quality Alternatives: Do you like a good all-rounder? Explore our interactive list of high quality stocks to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!
PS. The Simply Wall St app conducts a discounted cash flow valuation for every stock on the ASX every day. If you want to find the calculation for other stocks just search here.
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Which De’Longhi espresso machine is best?
Italy is the home of espresso, so it makes sense to opt for a De’Longhi espresso machine. With roughly three decades of experience making espresso machines and a good reputation overall, De’Longhi is a solid choice, but picking the best can seem daunting.
Learning more about De’Longhi espresso makers will make it easier to find the right one for you, whatever your budget and requirements.
Types of espresso machines
De’Longhi makes two types of espresso machines: automatic and super-automatic.
Automatic
Automatic espresso machines make espresso at the press of a button, so you don’t need to concern yourself with timings or use a manual pump. While they can have built-in grinders, you usually still control the grinder and tamp the ground coffee manually. Plus, you’ll need to use the steamer arm to make any specialty drinks.
Super-automatic
Super-automatic machines are capable of making espresso, and usually other specialty drinks, from start to finish. You can expect the machine to grind the beans and foam the milk internally, so you just need to press one button and wait for your drink to be made for you.
De’Longhi espresso machine features
Steamer arm
Many De’Longhi espresso machines have a steamer arm to froth milk. If you want to make any specialty drinks, such as cappuccinos and flat whites, you’ll need a machine with a steamer arm. That said, super-automatic machines usually have integrated milk frothers, so you don’t have to foam your own milk.
Tamping station
Properly tamping your ground coffee in your portafilter before pulling a shot of espresso results in a better-tasting brew. Some De’Longhi machines have built-in tamping stations, but if not, you’ll need to buy a coffee tamper separately.
Temperature settings
On high-end espresso makers from De’Longhi, you may find a range of temperature settings to choose from. This lets you tailor your espresso according to bean type and roast since some react better to particular temperatures. If you’re unsure which temperature settings to use, this is a good opportunity to experiment and see what works well and what doesn’t.
Drinks menu
If you choose a super-automatic espresso maker, you may have a digital display with a drinks menu. Simply pick your drink of choice and the machine will do all the hard work for you, from grinding beans to pulling a shot of espresso to foaming milk in the correct quantity and density. This is a great choice for anyone who loves specialty coffees but is intimidated by using a steamer arm.
What’s the difference between cheap and expensive espresso machines?
The cheapest espresso machines from De’Longhi cost under $100, while the most expensive cost over $2,000, so what’s the difference?
While even the cheapest models produce enough pressure to pull a good shot of espresso, one major difference is in the consistency of pressure and temperature. These elements must remain consistent through the whole process for a high-quality espresso, but it costs more to create a machine capable of this. As such, you’ll get significantly better results from a pricier machine.
There’s also the issue of build quality — more expensive machines are made from better quality parts and materials and therefore last longer. Plus, some of the most expensive machines are super-automatic or have high-end features, such as built-in burr grinders or temperature control settings.
However, as you reach higher price points, the return on investment diminishes. The difference in espresso quality between a $100 machine and a $1,000 machine is huge but is much less pronounced between a $1,000 machine and a $2,000 machine.
Best De’Longhi espresso machines
De’Longhi Espresso and Cappuccino Machine
This basic espresso machine is perfect if you’re looking for an affordable version. It has a steamer arm to froth milk for cappuccinos and lattes. Sold by Amazon
De’Longhi Dedica Deluxe Automatic Espresso Machine
With sleek good looks and a sturdy build, this is an excellent midrange choice. The automatic controls are easy to use and the steamer arm lets you make specialty drinks. Sold by Amazon
De’Longhi La Specialista Maestro Espresso Machine
If you’re looking for a professional quality espresso machine, it’s a perfect choice. The built-in burr grinder has eight settings, while the active temperature control helps you get the best from your beans. Sold by Amazon
De’Longhi Dinamica with LatteCrema Espresso Machine
You can make a range of specialty drinks at the press of a button with this super-automatic espresso machine. It does everything for you, from grinding beans to foaming milk. Sold by Amazon
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Megabucks" game were:
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Rasmussen (4-1) allowed four hits and no walks while striking out seven across five scoreless innings to earn the win Wednesday against the Tigers.
Rasmussen allowed two hits in the first inning but proceeded to retire 12 of the last 14 batters he faced. He recorded more than five strikeouts in a start for only the second time this season, which was backed by an impressive 20 swinging strikes across 87 total pitches. Rasmussen has now allowed one or fewer earned runs in each of his last five starts, spanning 26.2 frames. Overall, he's maintained a 2.33 ERA with a 34:8 K:BB across 38.2 innings. | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/rays-drew-rasmussen-five-shutout-innings/ | 2022-05-19T04:12:19Z | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/rays-drew-rasmussen-five-shutout-innings/ | true | null |
Fireblocks, a blockchain infrastructure & crypto tech provider, announced today the launch of a new, dedicated ‘Web3 Engine’ with a suite of tools for developers to build DeFi, GameFi, and NFT products.
Also, Fireblocks’ new web3 engine allows developers to easily build dApps on top of Fireblocks’ tech stack or securely access the full range of existing web3 apps.
“As we already provide a secure platform and a suite of dev tools for businesses to build digital assets and crypto businesses, unlocking access to web3 was an important next step. Now, with a fully tailored experience for connecting to web3, we aim to accelerate the launch of a new wave of super apps.”
– Michael Shaulov, CEO of FIreblocks
In order to interact with web3 applications, users have to connect to these websites via a crypto wallet. Any mismanagement of private keys will create a security risk that could put billions of dollars of user or investor funds at risk.
As the emerging sector becomes a more appealing target for hackers, Fireblocks is enabling the next generation of web3 companies like Animoca, Stardust, MoonPay, Xternity Games, Griffin Gaming, Wirex, Celsius, and Utopian Labs with the ability to provide the highest level of protection against human error and malicious attacks by hackers.
For gaming studios, NFT services, and institutions planning to build web3 products, Fireblocks provides a comprehensive and secure suite of web3 solutions.
The new Fireblocks’ Web3 Engine includes:
- Web3 custody technology for powering the creation and direct custody of millions of end-user wallets.
- Connectivity across 35+ blockchain networks like OpenSea, Rarible, Uniswap, Aave Arc, dYdX, and secure access to top dApps directly from the Fireblocks console.
- A tokenization engine to manage the full lifecycle for whitelisting, minting, burning, and token transfers, including NFT and gaming assets from top blockchains with EVM and non-EVM compatibilities.
- Rest API and SDKs to access all of Fireblocks’ features via an easy-to-use code library with detailed documentation.
- Treasury management for secure storage, transfer, and yield opportunities.
- Advanced policy control to web3 access and transactions to set amount limits for transfers for any smart contracts to better manage risk. | https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2022/05/17/crypto-tech-platform-fireblocks-unveils-new-web3-engine-with-suite-of-developer-tools/ | 2022-05-19T04:15:16Z | https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2022/05/17/crypto-tech-platform-fireblocks-unveils-new-web3-engine-with-suite-of-developer-tools/ | true | 1 |
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government said Thursday it will hand out an extra few hundred dollars to more than 2 million lower-income adults to help them navigate what it describes as “the peak of the global inflation storm.”
The payments are part of a package of new measures announced in the government’s annual budget. Other plans include increasing health spending by a record amount, putting more money into reducing greenhouse gas emissions and boosting defense spending.
A report by Treasury painted a rosy picture of the nation’s economy through next year but warned growth would slow markedly from 2024 due to rising interest rates, a reduction in the government’s pandemic spending, and supply issues made worse by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A Treasury report forecast unemployment would hit a low of 3.1% this year before rising to 4.7% by 2026. It predicted inflation would fall from its current 30-year high of 6.9% to 2.2% over the next four years.
The inflation payments of 350 New Zealand dollars ($220) over three months begin in August and are targeted at the half of all adults who earn less than 70,000 New Zealand dollars ($44,000) per year. The government also decided to extend some other temporary measures aimed at combatting spiraling living costs, including a cut to gas taxes and half-price public transportation fares.
“Our economy has come through the COVID-19 shock better than almost anywhere else in the world,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a statement. “But as the pandemic subsides, other challenges both long-term and more immediate have come to the fore.”
Ardern has been isolating at her Wellington residence this week after catching the virus. Her office said she’d experienced moderate symptoms and was improving, and at this point still planned to travel to the U.S. next week for a trade trip and to give the commencement speech at Harvard University.
The record 1.8 billion New Zealand dollar ($1.1 billion) boost to health spending next year comes as New Zealand overhauls its publicly funded system by getting rid of a patchwork of 20 district health authorities in favor of a single system. The extra money will help pay off the debts of the district authorities, rebuild three hospitals and boost medicine spending.
“This is going to make a massive difference to every New Zealander, in terms of the health care that they get,” said Finance Minister Grant Robertson.
Treasury predicted the government’s books would return to the black by 2025 after it borrowed heavily during the pandemic. New Zealand’s net government debt is forecast to remain much lower than in most developed nations, peaking at 20% of GDP in 2024 before dropping to 15% two years later.
Earlier this week, the government announced a new initiative to help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as part of a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The budget plan also included a boost of 660 million New Zealand dollars to defense spending over four years to cover the cost of depreciating assets.
Conservative opposition leader Christopher Luxon said the governing liberal Labour Party had an addiction to spending and the budget plans would put the economy into reverse, with New Zealanders experiencing the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
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Gardening for the Greater Good
Sustainable Gardening and Agricultural Best Practices from Santa Barbara’s CEC and Lotusland
By Leslie Dinaberg | May 19, 2022
The benefits of sustainable gardening and regenerative agriculture took the spotlight at a recent sustainability salon featuring Community Environmental Council (CEC) climate resilience program director Sharyn Main and Lotusland sustainability manager Corey Welles. Here are some of the nuggets they shared at the gathering in Belle Hahn’s beautiful garden on the Upper Eastside.
1) Change Can Happen: After 32 years at Lotusland, Welles certainly has the dirt on the esteemed garden’s best practices in plant healthcare. “Lotusland wasn’t always a perfectly organic operation,” he admitted. “In the very beginning, it was completely conventional, and they used pesticides. If you were an organic farmer walking in, you would have been horrified.” But the will to become more environmentally sound was there, and they worked to find the way.
“We literally cracked the code; we stopped listening to the conventional minds and started listening to biologists,” he said. “Fertilizers caused 80 percent of the diseases at Lotusland. Once we got the pesticides and chemical fertilizers out of there, we never went back. It was a moment of taking responsibility — if something’s wrong, you take responsibility for it.” And it worked. The first year, they had a 70 percent reduction in pests, and it increased from there.
2) More than No Pesticides: A sustainable garden involves more than just getting rid of chemical pesticides. Other key principles include using natural materials such as alfalfa meal, sea kelps, and organic nitrogen sources to feed plants and the soil.
Building up insect ecology is also important. While it may seem counterintuitive, Welles shared that increasing the number and variety of insects in the landscape and providing a habitat for beneficial insects helps control invasions of plant pests. Native plants are especially good for this.
The other key sustainable practice at Lotusland is recycling all of the plant material removed from the garden back in the form of compost teas and mulches that are reused in the garden.
3) Demonstrate the Way: Lotusland wasn’t yet open to the public when Main was a teenager in the 1970s, but she confided that it didn’t stop her from sneaking in to explore. As one of the first wave of environmentalists working for CEC, Main and her colleagues had an organic demonstration garden at the organization’s first offices on the Mesa in one of the earliest green buildings in the country. They had composting toilets (“the cutting edge for energy efficiency”) and a green rooftop with plantings to help cool the building, and they taught people about organic agriculture and gardening while discouraging the use of pesticides. She even co-wrote a book called BUGS (“Beneficial Urban Garden Strategies”), which was published in both English and Spanish.
“That garden was super important to our program,” said Main. “We talked a lot about the value of using native plants to protect biodiversity and improve soil health as part of an organic food garden.”
4) Regenerative Ag: One of the ways CEC is working to reverse the climate threat today is by encouraging regenerative, climate-smart agriculture. “These practices — like applying compost on working lands and planting native plants along edges of fields — can actually help sequester carbon from the atmosphere. By restoring a natural balance in this way, plants respond by pulling more carbon from the air (through photosynthesis) into the ground, where it’s beneficial to the soil and plants,” said Main.
Carbon farming, a land-based, natural solution to climate change, is a way to transfer excess carbon out of the atmosphere — where it is causing a lot of harm — and store it in the soil, where it does a lot of good.
CEC is actively working with ranchers and large landowners, said Main. “If we can apply compost to just 10 percent of our agricultural lands, we could offset the emissions of the entire agriculture sector in Santa Barbara County. So this is doable. This is actually a reasonable thing we can achieve.”
5) Everyone Can Compost: One of the simplest ways for people to help at home is by making and using compost, said Main. Mow or trim weeds instead of pulling them out at their roots, and compost instead of landfilling yard waste and food scraps.
6) Watch Your Water: Last but not least on the path to sustainable gardening is the importance of carefully managing water use, a key factor that was mentioned by both Welles and Main. Water conservation is made much easier when pests are under control through the promotion of pollinators and beneficial insects, natural materials are used to feed plants and soil, plant materials removed from the garden are recycled into compost or mulch, and native species are primarily what is planted.
Following sustainable practices includes avoiding polluting chemicals, preserving natural resources, and reducing waste whenever possible. Sustainable gardening is not just about growing plants and maintaining a garden; it’s also about growing a greener future. As Welles said, “You don’t have to sacrifice beautiful, breathtaking gardens to be responsible.” | https://www.independent.com/2022/05/18/gardening-for-the-greater-good/ | 2022-05-19T04:29:44Z | https://www.independent.com/2022/05/18/gardening-for-the-greater-good/ | true | 1 |
Baby Dies in Hot Car After Father Walks into Police Station and Is Arrested on Outstanding Warrants
Authorities in Georgia are blaming the death of an infant girl on her 20-year-old father, who, after being arrested on an outstanding warrant, failed to mention to officers he'd left his daughter in his car.
Nova Grace Whatley-Trejo's grandmother found the unresponsive 8-month-old inside her father's vehicle Tuesday evening.
Detectives confirm that Davied Japez McCorry Whatley was arrested shortly after 2 p.m. on Tuesday, after walking into the Snellville Police Department to recover guns that were previously confiscated by cops as part of a separate investigation.
In accordance with department policy, officers ran a warrant check on Whatley, and learned he had an active probation violation warrant, according to a statement.
Police allege that, after taking him into custody, Whatley did not tell them his infant daughter was in his car, parked nearby.
All of their interactions with Whatley that day were recorded on police body camera.
Nova's grandmother brought the child to the emergency room, where the baby was pronounced dead.
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Officials believe the infant was in the vehicle for seven hours. Temperatures surpassed 80 degrees on Tuesday, according to weather data.
Whatley was released Tuesday after posting bond for the probation violation. He was again arrested on Wednesday and charged with second-degree murder in connection with the baby's death.
He is being held without bond and has yet to enter a plea to the charge.
Lawyer information for him was unavailable.
Speaking to 11Alive, Nova's mother, Selena, said the baby "had the biggest personality."
Added the grieving mom: "She laughed and smiled since she was a month old. She talked to you in her baby language and answered you with noises when you said her name. I loved her more than I could ever imagine and my heart is breaking that she is gone so soon." | https://people.com/crime/baby-dies-in-hot-car-after-father-walks-into-police-station-and-is-arrested-on-outstanding-warrants/ | 2022-05-19T04:30:43Z | https://people.com/crime/baby-dies-in-hot-car-after-father-walks-into-police-station-and-is-arrested-on-outstanding-warrants/ | true | 1 |
He’ll have plenty of time to swipe right but will have to settle for a Zoom date.
A New York man was sentenced to three months of home detention Wednesday for storming the US capital after being busted last year when he bragged about the Jan. 6 insurrection to a woman he met on the dating app Bumble.
A federal judge slapped Robert Chapman, of Putnam County, NY, with 18 months of probation after the home detention, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Chapman must also pay more than $1,200 in fines and restitution.
The Bumble-ing bachelor bragged to a woman he matched with on the popular dating app that he entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 about a week after the breach, federal authorities outlined when they arrested him in April 2021.
“I did storm the Capitol,” Chapman boasted in a message to the match, adding he was interviewed by The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
“I made it all the way into the Statuary Hall!” he proudly wrote.
But his humblebrag did not go over well with his potential date.
“We are not a match,” she replied tersely.
“I suppose not,” he wrote back, according to an affidavit by the FBI.
He also used Facebook to share some of his illegal adventures in DC.
Under the Facebook name Robert Erick, federal authorities said Chapman posted, “I’M F—– INSIDE THE CRAPITOL!” He also posted a photo on Facebook of him in front of a statue that is inside Statuary Hall, according to the feds.
Chapman was originally arrested for knowingly entering any restricted building without lawful authority and violent entry on Capitol Grounds but eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of picketing in a Capitol building. | https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/jan-6-rioter-robert-chapman-turned-in-by-bumble-match-sentenced/ | 2022-05-19T04:33:09Z | https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/jan-6-rioter-robert-chapman-turned-in-by-bumble-match-sentenced/ | true | 3 |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
02-10-26-38-45, Mega Ball: 9
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and authorized flights to import supply from overseas, as he faces mounting political pressure over a domestic shortage caused by the safety-related closure of the country's largest formula manufacturing plant.
The Defense Production Act order requires suppliers of formula manufacturers to fulfill orders from those companies before other customers, in an effort to eliminate production bottlenecks. Biden is also authorizing the Defense Department to use commercial aircraft to fly formula supplies that meet federal standards from overseas to the U.S., in what the White House is calling “Operation Fly Formula.”
Supplies of baby formula across the country have been severely curtailed in recent weeks after a February recall by Abbott Nutrition exacerbated ongoing supply chain disruptions among formula makers, leaving fewer options on store shelves and increasingly anxious parents struggling to find nutrition for their children.
“I know parents across the country are worried about finding enough formula to feed their babies,” Biden said in a video statement released Wednesday by the White House. ”As a parent and as a grandparent, I know just how stressful that is."
The announcement comes two days after the Food and Drug Administration said it was streamlining its review process to make it easier for foreign manufacturers to begin shipping more formula into the U.S.
In a letter Wednesday to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, Biden directed the agencies to work with the Pentagon to identify overseas supply of formula that meets U.S. standards over the next week, so that chartered Defense Department flights can swiftly fly it to the U.S.
“Imports of baby formula will serve as a bridge to this ramped-up production,” Biden wrote.
Regulators said Monday that they’d reached a deal to allow Abbott Nutrition to restart its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, the nation's largest formula plant, which has been closed since February due to contamination issues. The company must overhaul its safety protocols and procedures before resuming production.
After getting the FDA’s OK, Abbott said it will take eight to ten weeks before new products begin arriving in stores. The company didn’t set a timeline to restart manufacturing.
“I’ve directed my team to do everything possible to ensure there’s enough safe baby formula and that it is quickly reaching families that need it the most,” Biden said in the statement, calling it “one of my top priorities.”
The White House actions come as the Democratic-led House approved two bills Wednesday addressing the baby formula shortage as lawmakers look to show progress on what has become a frightening development for many families.
One bill with wide bipartisan support passed by a vote of 414-9. It would give the secretary of the Agriculture Department the ability to issue a narrow set of waivers in the event of a supply disruption. The goal is to give participants in an assistance program commonly known as WIC the ability to use vouchers to purchase formula from any producer rather than be limited to one brand that may be unavailable. The WIC program accounts for about half of infant formula sales in the U.S.
“I want to say to the mom struggling that we hear you in Congress and you do not need to handle this on your own. We are working to find you a solution," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn.
The other measure, a $28 million emergency spending bill to boost resources at the Food and Drug Administration, passed by a mostly party-line vote of 231-192, and it’s unclear whether the Senate will go along.
“This bill just continues the Democrats' strategy of throwing money at the same bureaucrats who caused the crisis and who have not made its solution a priority," said Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the Democratic chair of the House Appropriations Committee, said the money would increase FDA staffing to boost inspections of domestic and international suppliers, prevent fraudulent products from getting onto store shelves and acquire better data on the marketplace.
“It is essential that we ensure the federal government has the resources it needs to get baby formula back on the shelves," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Abbott’s voluntary recall was triggered by four illnesses reported in babies who had consumed powdered formula from its plant. All four infants were hospitalized with a rare type of bacterial infection and two died.
After a six-week inspection, FDA investigators published a list of problems in March, including lax safety and sanitary standards and a history of bacterial contamination in several parts of the plant. Under Monday’s agreement, Abbott must regularly consult with an outside safety expert to restart and maintain production.
Chicago-based Abbott has emphasized that its products have not been directly linked to the bacterial infections in children. Samples of the bacteria found at its plant did not match the strains collected from two babies by federal investigators.
But FDA officials pushed back on that reasoning Monday on a call with reporters — their first time publicly addressing the company’s argument. FDA staffers noted they were unable to collect bacterial strains from two of the four patients, limiting their chances of finding a match.
“Right from the get-go we were limited in our ability to determine with a causal link whether the product was linked to these four cases because we only had sequences on two,” FDA’s food director Susan Mayne said.
Fixing the violations uncovered at Abbott’s plant will take time, according to former FDA officials. Companies need to exhaustively clean the facility and equipment, retrain staff, repeatedly test and document there is no contamination.
As part of the FDA’s new import policy, regulators said companies would need to provide documentation of their factory’s inspections. | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Biden-invokes-Defense-Production-Act-for-formula-17183263.php | 2022-05-19T04:33:54Z | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Biden-invokes-Defense-Production-Act-for-formula-17183263.php | true | 89 |
As Deepika Padukone continues to shine at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival in France, the actor took to her social media platforms to reveal what a day as a jury member at the prestigious film festival is like. Deepika took to Instagram stories, where she shared a couple of videos of herself preparing for day one at the mecca of cinema. She wore a beautiful short sequined dress–the same one that she wore for her first red carpet event–and excitedly shared what she was looking forward to.
She said, “Today is the day I am going to meet the jury for the first time and a quick intimate dinner, and maybe a quick debrief from the president, I think. I think a large part of my day, yesterday, went into fittings, and also in the terms of schedule, what is a screening, what is a red carpet, what is a meetings, because then I can really just focus on what I am really here to do, which is be a jury member.”
In these videos, Deepika appeared to be in a relaxed mood as she danced away with her team. She then gave a lowdown of what her schedule looks like. At the end of her IG story, Deepika said, “Day one, under control.” The star’s fan pages shared videos of Deepika attending her first gala dinner as a jury member.
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Deepika left for Cannes on Monday, May 16. She is among the jury members at Cannes 2022. This year, six Indian films will be screened at Marche du Cinema. These include R Madhavan’s Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, Nikhil Mahajan’s Godavari, Shankar Shrikumar’s Alpha Beta Gamma, Biswajeet Bora’s Boomba Ride, Achal Mishra’s Dhuin, and Jayaraj’s Tree Full of Parrots.
The India Pavilion at the ongoing 75th Cannes Film Festival was inaugurated on Wednesday amid some folk songs and dance. Deepika was joined by Tamannaah Bhatia, Urvashi Rautela and Pooja Hegde as they danced to singer Mame Khan’s impromptu performance at the India Pavilion.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards. | https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/deepika-padukone-glimpse-into-what-it-means-to-be-a-cannes-jury-member-screening-red-carpet-meetings-7924951/ | 2022-05-19T04:36:34Z | https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/deepika-padukone-glimpse-into-what-it-means-to-be-a-cannes-jury-member-screening-red-carpet-meetings-7924951/ | false | 1 |
NEW YORK — Massachusetts on Wednesday reported a rare case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada, and health officials are looking into whether it is connected to small outbreaks in Europe.
Monkeypox is typically limited to Africa, and rare cases in the U.S. and elsewhere are usually linked to travel there. A small number of confirmed or suspected cases have been reported this month in the United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain.
U.S. health officials said they are in contact with officials in the U.K. and Canada as part of the investigation. But "at this point in time, we don’t have any information that links the Massachusetts case to cases in the UK,” said Jennifer McQuiston of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Though it's the only U.S. case the CDC is aware of, “I do think we are preparing for the possibility of more cases,” she said.
The U.S. case poses no risk to the public, and the Massachusetts resident is hospitalized but in good condition, officials said.
The man traveled to Canada at the end of April to meet friends and returned in early May, McQuiston said. A CDC statement said he used private transportation.
The case is the first in the U.S. this year. Last year, Texas and Maryland each reported a case in people who traveled to Nigeria.
Monkeypox typically begins with a flu-like illness and swelling of the lymph nodes, followed by a rash on the face and body. In Africa, people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals, and it does not usually spread easily among people.
However, investigators in Europe say most of the cases have been in gay or bisexual men, and officials are looking into the possibility that some infections were spread through close contact during sex.
Monkeypox comes from the same family of viruses as smallpox. Most people recover from monkeypox within weeks, but the disease is fatal for up to 1 in 10 people, according to the World Health Organization. | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/us-case-of-monkeypox-reported-in-massachusetts-man/article_0d272916-b70e-5958-80d6-3df42e1794b0.html | 2022-05-19T04:41:04Z | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/us-case-of-monkeypox-reported-in-massachusetts-man/article_0d272916-b70e-5958-80d6-3df42e1794b0.html | false | 30 |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
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Face-to-Face with Japan’s Female Leaders
Florist Fukuju Mizuki: Taking a Different Approach to Social Assistance
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Keeping an Eye on the Needs of Society
INUYAMA KAMIKO Japan today is seeing a growing focus on employment of disabled persons in a manner that respects their dignity as workers. How did you first become interested in the issue?
FUKUJU MIZUKI I started working for a sports management company right out of university, helping professional baseball players set up philanthropic projects. I was uncertain about the path I wanted to take, and the experience impressed on me the importance of giving back to society. Being of service to others gave my life new meaning, and it got me thinking about what more I could do.
So in 2013, when I was 23, I opened my flower shop, Lorans, and after three years in business I started hiring staff with physical and emotional disabilities. At the time, employment of disabled persons typically was framed as a social issue. However, I wanted to shift the narrative away from the one-sided perception that people with disabilities must be supported and frame them instead as stakeholders who contribute to society.
INUYAMA As well as employing persons with disabilities, Lorans focuses on showing how people who are receiving work support contribute to society in a deep and meaningful way. This has particularly been the case with your program to help disadvantaged children. What was the genesis of this effort?
FUKUJU The pandemic has been hard on families that are struggling financially, and I had the idea of opening up the café part of the store to local children. We initially provided meals once or twice a month as part of a Shibuya municipal initiative called Children’s Table. As the coronavirus situation worsened, though, we closed the shop or reduced business hours in line with government recommendations. It became harder to provide in-person meals, so we shifted to deliveries. Fortunately, the word of the program spread, and the number of companies offering financial and other support steadily grew.
It quickly became apparent from news reports and other sources that the pandemic was hitting single-parent households particularly hard due to businesses shutting down. The scale of the problem was brought into stark focus when a new staff member with experience in the field pointed out that one in seven Japanese children live below the poverty line.
Along with providing meals, I decided to open the shop as a kind of after-school daycare. We continue delivering meals, and with financial help from the Nippon Foundation, the café is now open to local children on weekdays from five to seven in the evening.
INYUAMA I was particularly interested in how you involved floristry in the program, such as decorating tables with flower arrangements to create a warm atmosphere.
FUKUJU Since Lorans is a flower shop first and foremost, it made sense to incorporate that side into the program. Some of the children take the flowers home to their mothers, which we hope helps foster communication between parent and child.
Providing an Adult Presence
INUYAMA Providing meals fulfills a basic physical need, but it is also comforting, which has a positive impact on children’s emotional wellbeing. Have you seen this at Lorans?
FUKUJU Growing up in Ishikawa Prefecture, I regularly came into close contact with different adults in the community. This is something that I’ve found to be lacking in the lives of many children in Tokyo. They interact with their teachers and friends’ parents, of course, but they don’t have many opportunities to spend time with other adults in the community.
At the shop, though, children can talk and hang out with staff as well as the university students who volunteer. Through these interactions they get to experience different life perspectives, which helps them grow as individuals. They also benefit from spending time in the company of peers other than their siblings or school friends. Many of the children are in similar situations, such as having to spend hours at home alone while their parents are at work, and can share their feelings of loneliness and other concerns. Sometimes quarrels break out, but even these are important as they help children learn to deal with individuals outside their normal circle of family and acquaintances.
How to Keep Assistance Programs Running
INUYAMA Children who are suffering abuse or neglect at home, or are struggling to fit in at school, often seek solace on the streets, which puts them at risk of further abuse. The pandemic has shown just how important it is to have places outside of school and home where children can spend time in a safe, supervised environment. However, funding and staffing such initiatives is a challenge. How do you do it at Lorans?
FUKUJU It’s vital to give children places where they can go and safely hang out, but establishing and maintaining such programs is no easy task. Many groups rely on community centers, where they rent rooms to provide meals. The government provides a level of support, but funding is often minimal and groups frequently have to reach into their own pockets or find other means of covering costs. There are many hurdles to overcome, and organizers need to be flexible in their approaches to keep programs going. One tactic would be for authorities to make it easier to work together with local restaurants to allow children to come in during off times between lunch and dinner, when shops aren’t as busy. Incorporating neighborhood businesses into a program is good because it makes it easier for children to regularly utilize the spaces.
I took the approach of covering the costs of meals and staff with the donations we receive from supporting companies, positioning this program as part of our corporate social responsibility activities. Relying on volunteers and other support is great, but without a steady source of financing, a program can unexpectedly find itself short of funds and have to fold. This is something I experienced helping with the philanthropic work of professional baseball players, who would support the programs they established as long as they were playing and making money, only to pull financial backing once they retired.
I hope Lorans can become a model for other organizations. This of course means getting things right on our end. There is a mountain of issues to contend with, and we are doing our best to deal with new challenges as they arise.
Different Views to Include
INUYAMA How have the shop’s disabled staff responded to the child meal program?
FUKUJU It’s been a very fulfilling experience. Many of our staff are dealing with emotional disabilities stemming from family situations or issues in their relationships with the people around them. One staff member says that it has been a healing experience to do for the children what she wished her mother had done for her. As a person who is often on the receiving end of support efforts, it’s wonderful that she is learning the joy of assisting others.
Another positive outcome is that staff are now more willing to take the initiative in their work, whereas in the past they would often wait for instructions. Typically, persons with disabilities are entrusted with only simple tasks. For instance, they may be put to work assembling components without even knowing what the final product is. This approach suits some people, of course, but I feel it’s important to clearly convey to staff the importance of their contributions so they can share in the pleasure of bringing happiness to others. This in turn deepens their sense of gratitude when they receive help. I’ve noticed this especially in how staff now say thank you to each other more often.
The children’s meal program has been an invaluable experience that has reinforced the benefits of giving disabled staff the opportunity to enjoy contributing to the organization in an equal and meaningful way. As Lorans moves forward, I want the perspectives of our employees to guide our trajectory as we continue the children’s project and further grow our staff.
INUYAMA It’s a wonderful project, and it’s refreshing to see a focus on removing obstacles to social participation by a diverse group of people, rather than on their disabilities alone. It’s clear that your staff are experiencing the joy that comes with being needed by others—I hope we’ll see many more workplaces like this take shape in the future. Thank you for your time today!
(Originally published in Japanese. Banner photo: Fukuju Mizuki, right, and Inuyama Kamiko at flower shop Lorans in Tokyo’s Harajuku. All photos © Uwadaira Tsunebumi.) | https://www.nippon.com/en/people/c08308/florist-fukuju-mizuki-taking-a-different-approach-to-social-assistance.html | 2022-05-19T04:45:45Z | https://www.nippon.com/en/people/c08308/florist-fukuju-mizuki-taking-a-different-approach-to-social-assistance.html | true | 1 |
Hello, all you horror shooter fans!
In this update, we got some cool changes.
-A new weapon has been added. The Incinerator! Basically a homemade blowtorch, aka flamethrower (as flamethrowers seem to be fan favs with all my games). But this isn't like the flamethrower in Fossilfuel, this thing will make quick work of weaker enemies and can clear a room in seconds! Plus it looks really cool when you use it. You can find it in the Park where the Snowmen are or in the Hospital by the front door reception room.
-The "Underworld" Level has been greatly expanded to be a "new" level. Before it was just a boss fight room, now it is a full level. I really thought that level looked really cool and wanted the player to spend more time there.
Tweaks:
-Skeleton's health was reduced by 50%. They were a little too tankie.
-Guns each have a unique sound when they are switched/equipped.
-The Secret Final Boss battle has been tweaked to be a bit more epic. | https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/8767443/ | 2022-05-19T04:50:15Z | https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/8767443/ | false | 1 |
Carlton coach Michael Voss wants his players on edge and they’ll be the ones testing Sydney’s hardness
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Greens call for Labor to follow US and UK on climate pledges
Anthony Albanese should step in line with the likes of US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnston if Labor comes into power, according to a new Greens push
Greens Leader Adam Bandt made it clear on Thursday his party would favour Labor over the Liberals in a balance of power, but he wants to see more action on the environment if a minority parliament does eventuate.
He said they would push Labor to join the “Powering Past Coal Alliance” (PPCA), which was established by Mr Johnston and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, if they form government.
The PPCA is a group of 48 countries as well as businesses and organisations from around the world who are working to advance the transition from coal power to clean energy.
“The Greens will use our power in the next parliament to kick the Liberals out and push the next government to join the Powering Past Coal Alliance,” Mr Brandt said.
“Joining the PPCA will be the entry ticket for the next global climate summit in Cairo as well as hosting any future summit here in Australia. We support Labor’s call to host a climate summit here, but if Labor keeps backing new coal mines, the world won’t let it happen.”
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Rate the politiciansMr Brandt also expressed his desire for a Labor government to join the US and European Union’s “Global Methane Pledge”, an agreement to cut global methane emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.
112 countries have joined the pledge, which is aimed at strengthening global action on climate change and growing related technical and policy work.
“Australia should sign onto that, that would be a big move around the world,” Mr Brandt said.
It comes after Mr Albanese promised on Wednesday to get Australia out of the “naughty corner” on climate change in diplomatic relations with other countries.
“We are in the naughty corner at UN Framework Convention on Climate Change conferences. That’s the truth,” he said.
“One of the ways that we increase our standing in the region, and in particular in the Pacific, is by taking climate change seriously.
“The Biden Administration and Australia, I think, will have a strengthened relationship in our common view about climate change and the opportunity that it represents.”
Mr Brandt acknowledged that while Australia is not a big international political power, it is a “critical player” on climate change because of its reputation as a fossil fuel exporter and carbon footprint.
“Even though we’re a small player diplomatically speaking, we’re a big player in the climate stakes,” he said.
This desire for Australia to join these international climate pledges is accompanied by a push from the Greens to stop new coal and gas projects.
“We’ve got to stop making the problem,” Mr Brandt said.
“Liberal and Labor want to open up 114 new coal and gas projects. The Greens will kick the Liberals out and push Labor to adopt a comprehensive plan to power past coal and gas, including by joining the worldwide movement of countries striving to do the same.”
Originally published as Greens call for Labor to follow US and UK on climate pledges
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