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Married At First Sight's Vanessa Romito is bombarded with 'uncomfortable' messages from men after her bombshell makeover
Former Married At First Sight star Vanessa Romito recently underwent a dramatic makeover.
And now the 34-year-old has been receiving 'uncomfortable' messages from her male followers, including one awkward marriage proposal.
The pharmacy worker took to Instagram this week to hit back at the unwanted attention, telling fans she's purely on Instagram for entertainment and nothing more.
Unwanted attention: Married At First Sight star Vanessa Romito recently underwent a dramatic makeover, and now she is receiving 'uncomfortable' messages from her male followers
She also posted a direct message she'd received from a man who asked to marry her.
'I had a vision... We get married in a few years from now. We should cut to the chase and not waste any time,' it read.
'I could definitely wake up to your face every morning.'
Firing back, Vanessa wrote: 'I don't like these DMs! This s**t makes me feel so uncomfortable. I don't know how many times I need to say this.'
She also said women should be able to post on social media 'without getting hit on'.
Vanessa's struggles with self-confidence due to her lifelong battle with acne were highlighted on Married At First Sight's seventh season.
And since appearing on TV two years ago, she has undergone a dramatic makeover.
Flashback: Vanessa's struggles with self-confidence due to her lifelong battle with acne were highlighted on Married At First Sight's seventh season (pictured)
She debuted her new look on Instagram last week by stripping down to an extremely revealing lingerie set.
The semi-sheer bra and underwear could barely protect her modesty, but did a good job of highlighting Vanessa's gym-honed physique.
She had smoky eyeshadow for a sultry look, and wore a thick pair of false eyelashes.
Vanessa also had vampish red hair, which she'd styled in seductive waves.
New look: The star has recently had a dramatic makeover, which includes dyeing her hair red (pictured)
Earlier this month, Vanessa dyed her jet black hair red, telling her followers at the time: 'When a woman changes her hair so dramatically you know something big is coming from the glow up.'
In addition to changing her hair, the former reality star has also been undergoing regular facial rejuvenation treatments to help with her acne scarring.
During her wedding to TV husband Chris Nicholls on the show, she confessed that her battle with severe acne had negatively affected her love life.
'I think I'm probably most attractive at night, when the lighting is dim,' she said.
Skincare: In addition to changing her hair, the former reality star has also been undergoing regular facial rejuvenation treatments to help with her acne scarring
'Acne damaged my confidence a lot. I don't think anybody would truly be satisfied with this. I've always felt like I was going to be left on the shelf.'
The beauty was visibly shaking before walking down the aisle, and became so overwhelmed that she fell to the ground in tears.
Vanessa also bemoaned the 'superficial' culture of modern dating on MAFS, where her struggle with self-confidence became a huge storyline in early episodes.
'I don't think it's a choice that I'm single,' she admitted. 'I'm ready for a relationship but modern dating is very superficial.'
'Acne damaged my confidence a lot': During her wedding to TV husband Chris Nicholls on the show, she confessed that her battle with severe acne had negatively affected her love life | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10831757/Ex-MAFS-star-bombarded-uncomfortable-messages-male-fans.html | 2022-05-19T04:56:27Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10831757/Ex-MAFS-star-bombarded-uncomfortable-messages-male-fans.html | false | 2 |
Witt homers off Giolito, Melendez connects as KC tops Chisox
By MARC BOWMAN
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr. and MJ Melendez homered and fellow rookie Emmanuel Rivera hit a go-ahead triple, leading the Kansas City Royals over the Chicago White Sox 6-2. Witt, Melendez and Rivera each had two hits. Rivera’s sinking liner escaped a diving Adam Engel, rolling into the right field corner for a triple that drove in Melendez with the tiebreaking run in the sixth. Witt hit his fourth home run, a 436-foot drive off White Sox starter Lucas Giolito. In his return from the COVID-19-related injured list, Giolito labored early, needing 54 pitches to complete the first two innings, allowing four hits and two walks. After Witt’s leadoff homer in the third, Giolito struck out six of the next seven batters and permitted only a pair of singles before being lifted after five innings. | https://ktvz.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/18/witt-homers-off-giolito-melendez-connects-as-kc-tops-chisox/ | 2022-05-19T04:56:37Z | https://ktvz.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/18/witt-homers-off-giolito-melendez-connects-as-kc-tops-chisox/ | false | 7 |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
20-32-33-38-42
(twenty, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-eight, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $105,000
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
20-32-33-38-42
(twenty, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-eight, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $105,000 | https://www.sheltonherald.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Hit-5-game-17183253.php | 2022-05-19T04:57:26Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Hit-5-game-17183253.php | false | null |
Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts Announces 2022–23 Dance Series
Learn more about the lineup here!
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced the performances that will be part of its 2022-23 Dance Series.
Scottsdale Center for the Preforming Arts is among the premier contemporary dance presenters of the Southwest. This season, witness the spirit of Los Angeles with BODYTRAFFIC, established contemporary works with Dance Heginbotham and pieces by critically acclaimed and emerging international voices with Limón Dance Company.
"We have an exciting season of dance coming up at the center, including the Arizona premiere of Dance Heginbotham! The company will be working with local musicians and dancers for its show, which will make the program much more special," said Diandra Adamczyk, senior programming coordinator for the center. "We'll also be presenting Limón Dance Company with a program of legendary and new repertoire, and we're bringing back the much-loved Los Angeles-based company, BODYTRAFFIC."
BODYTRAFFIC starts off the season with a performance on Dec. 9, 2022. BODYTRAFFIC uses the creative spirit of Los Angeles to fulfill its mission of delivering performances that inspire audiences simply to love dance. Since its inception in 2007, the company has held its place at the forefront of the concert dance world with a compelling style.
BODYTRAFFIC is composed of artists who received their training at some of the finest schools throughout the world, including Alana Jones, Guzmán Rosado, Ty Morrison, Katie Garcia, Pedro Garcia, Jordyn Santiago, Joan Rodriguez and Tiare Keeno. This combination of superb dancers and accomplished choreographers led the Los Angeles Times to describe BODYTRAFFIC as "one of the most talked about companies - not just in LA, but nationwide."
Following BODYTRAFFIC into the new year will be Limón Dance Company on Jan. 14, 2023. Limón Dance Company has been at the vanguard of dance since its inception in 1946, becoming the first dance group to tour internationally under the auspices of the State Department, as well as the first modern dance company to perform at Lincoln Center in New York and perform twice at The White House.
Limón Dance Company founder José Limón is one of the most important and influential dance makers; he spent his career pioneering a new art form and fighting for its recognition. It is with this ethos that the Limón Dance Company continues to commission works by critically acclaimed and emerging international voices 50 years after Limón's passing. His works continue to influence the evolution of the art forma??with their arresting visual clarity, theatricality and rhythmic and musical life.a??
Rounding off this spectacular start to the Dance Series is Dance Heginbotham on March 25, 2023. Founded in 2011, Dance Heginbotham has established itself as one of the most adventurous and exciting new companies on the contemporary dance scene, celebrated for its vibrant athleticism, humor and theatricality. With their full range on display, the evening's works are inspired by an array of styles, from ballet to flamenco, accompanied by live musicians to offer an extraordinary opportunity to experience the thrill of music and dance live on stage.
All dance performances will take place in the Virginia G. Piper Theater at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. 2nd St., Scottsdale, Arizona. Subscriptions to all three performances are now on sale. Individual events will be available for Scottsdale Arts ONE Members to purchase on June 2, and individual events for the general public go on sale June 10. Visit ScottsdalePerformingArts.org/events or call Scottsdale Arts Guest Services at 480-499-TKTS (8587) for more information. | https://www.broadwayworld.com/phoenix/article/Scottsdale-Center-For-The-Performing-Arts-Announces-202223-Dance-Series-20220518 | 2022-05-19T04:59:54Z | https://www.broadwayworld.com/phoenix/article/Scottsdale-Center-For-The-Performing-Arts-Announces-202223-Dance-Series-20220518 | false | 1 |
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LOS ANGELES, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has declared regular quarterly dividends for the preferred series stock of the company as follows:
The dividends are payable on July 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on June 10, 2022.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, and increasingly renewable gas service to 21.8 million consumers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. Gas delivered through the company's pipelines will continue to play a key role in California's clean energy transition—providing electric grid reliability and supporting wind and solar energy deployment.
SoCalGas' mission is to build the cleanest, safest and most innovative energy company in America. In support of that mission, SoCalGas is committed to the two goals of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045 and replacing 20 percent of its traditional natural gas supply to core customers with renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030. Renewable natural gas is made from waste created by dairy farms, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. SoCalGas is also committed to investing in its gas delivery infrastructure while keeping bills affordable for customers. SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), an energy services holding company based in San Diego. For more information visit socalgas.com/newsroom or connect with SoCalGas on Twitter (@SoCalGas), Instagram (@SoCalGas) and Facebook.
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The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), following a review of the accidents that happened between January and April of this year, said that most of the incidents happened while experienced drivers were driving the bus.
According to the review, 39 per cent were caused by drivers who are in the age bracket of 40-50 years and are experienced drivers. About 23 per cent of accidents were caused by drivers aged between 36 and 40, while newly joined drivers in the age group of 21-30 are involved in just 1.2 per cent of the accidents. Considering the fatality of the accidents, 44 per cent were reported to have been caused by two-wheelers and 19 per cent by pedestrians, with 27 per cent occurring during the afternoon between 1 pm and 5 pm, the review report by KSRTC revealed.
The report further stated that in 2022, 71 accidents have been reported involving KSRTC buses, claiming the lives of 28 people and injuring 67. A week after 26 passengers were injured as a speeding KSRTC bus rammed into the metro pillar on Mysuru Road in Bengaluru, Managing Director of KSRTC Anbu Kumar held an interaction with 35 drivers.
Anbu Kumar said, “This workshop would help the drivers to correct their errors and build a plan about taking measures to prevent accidents in future. Accidents must be prevented, even though they are unexpected.”
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Kumar expressed his deep regret over the bus accidents happening in the corporation even though they take many measures to prevent accidents.
“During the workshop, most said that the main cause of the accident were pedestrians talking on mobile while crossing the roads, and two-wheelers taking sudden turns while riding on the main road without giving any indication. KSRTC has made it a practice to keep its vehicles in the best shape by doing maintenance work from time to time, providing technical training to the drivers, checking the speed and asking the drivers to drive with great caution to prevent fatalities,” Kumar added.
- 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/cities/bangalore/karnataka-srtc-accidents-experience-drivers-7925051/ | 2022-05-19T05:14:46Z | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/karnataka-srtc-accidents-experience-drivers-7925051/ | false | 1 |
911 dispatcher who took Buffalo shooting call put on leave
Published: May. 18, 2022 at 11:30 PM CDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A 911 dispatcher is on leave and may lose her job after allegedly hanging up on an supermarket employee hiding during this weekend’s shooting rampage in Buffalo, New York.
A spokesperson for the Erie County executive said “termination will be sought” for the dispatcher at a disciplinary hearing later this month.
An employee at the supermarket where 10 Black people were killed by a white gunman on Saturday told The Buffalo News that she was whispering during the 911 call because she feared the shooter would hear her.
The employee alleges the dispatcher shouted at her, asked why she was whispering — then hung up.
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Stood with his arms aloft, that now-familiar broad grin stretched across his face, Brice Samba had a few seconds to take everything in, before chaos descended around him.
Brennan Johnson’s pace ensured he was the first to pull him into an embrace, even as the masses arrived from the stands, to celebrate as one.
Samba, born in the tiny villageof Linzolo in the Republic of the Congo, has gradually earned himself cult status in a city more than 4,000 miles away, since signing from Caen in 2019.
But his remarkable performance, which helped Nottingham Forest secure a place in their first-ever play-off final and their first Wembley appearance in 30 years, will have ensured that he never has to buy a drink in the city again.
Samba’s penalty shootout heroics stemmed from a meticulously-researched list, stuck to a water bottle, which outlined how he should face every possible taker. Hidden under a towel and guarded like the combination to a safe, it proved to be the code that solved Forest’s previous play-off failures. In four previous attempts, Forest had not even made the final.
@samba_brice you are a genius 🔥 pic.twitter.com/TYYUVYRbPK
— Isaac Jennings (@isaacjennings80) May 17, 2022
When they head to the capital on Sunday May 29, to face Huddersfield, Samba might have to watch his water bottle more carefully. But whatever happens there, his antics on a dramatic night at the City Ground will be remembered for years.
There were two massive saves at either end of the game, both to deny Iliman Ndiaye. But the second, in the 115th minute, felt most significant, given the timing. A game of head tennis ended with the ball falling to Ndiaye, who had scored four goals in his previous six appearances and attacked his opportunity with the kind of confidence that would reflect that, sweeping an instant shot to Samba’s left.
“In those situations, you can work on techniques in training, but it is mainly instinct. It was quite a similar save to the one Alisson made for Liverpool against Napoli, in the Champions League,” says Matt Pyzdrowski, The Athletic’s goalkeeping analyst and former Chicago Fire and Portland Timbers player, who then played professionally in Sweden from 2011-19.
As the ball drops for Ndiaye, Samba is stood on his line, but swiftly takes a big step forward, in order to close the angle.
Samba then not only spreads his arms out wide, to cover as much of the goal as possible, but also nimbly stretches out a leg, to somehow block the path of a shot that seemed certain to find the back of the net.
The United players are left holding their heads in their hands, as they see the ball go spinning away from goal to safety.
“There was no defender between him and the ball. You just have to make yourself big. You have to close the gap as quickly as possible. That is what Samba did. It was quite incredible how composed he was. He spread his limbs and kept it out with his left foot. Don’t try to wait or react. If you do that, you might not even have an opportunity to make the save,” adds Pyzdrowski.
With Brennan Johnson’s first-half goal cancelled out by Morgan Gibbs-White and John Fleck, Samba’s save was integral in forcing penalties, with the aggregate score locked at 3-3.
Which was when Steve Cooper’s plan came to the fore. Forest knew which players would take their penalties — Cafu had been brought on with two minutes left, purely to take one — and Samba had been extensively briefed, working with keeper coach Danny Alcock and the club’s team of analysts. They — along with Cooper — are normally among the first to arrive at the training ground and the last to leave. And, in the dressing room, the packages of clips they compile for players are seen as invaluable.
Samba’s starting point owed more to mischief than analysis, as he left Oliver Norwood to wait for a full 90 seconds, to take the first penalty. Samba took a drink, he checked his boots and socks – he took what felt like an age to get himself into position.
“The longer the taker has to wait to take the penalty, the lower his chances of scoring become,” says Pyzdrowski. “The taker just wants to get it over with. With each passing second, the pressure just rises. Some referees won’t let you get away with it. As a keeper, you just do every small thing that can give you an advantage. Samba was incredible at that.”
Samba’s save was still not easy, as he threw himself full length to his right to push the ball away. His second, after Brennan Johnson had converted, was arguably even better, as Conor Hourihane stepped up.
“The one that takes most balls is the one where he stands still. There is such psychological strength needed there. Because if you do not move and they go one side or the other, it feels like such a missed opportunity — mentally, you feel as though you have lost your chance to make a save.
“He had the research to know there was a high probability it would go down the middle. But even so, to stay calm and believe that was impressive. The ball was struck with real power, so he had to get his forearm and fist behind it.”
After Cafu had scored for Forest, Sander Berge netted United’s third penalty. Steve Cook kept a calm head to make it 3-1, before Ndiaye finally beat Samba to make it 3-2. Joe Lolley had the chance to win it, only to clear the bar. But, any pangs of sympathy you felt for Lolley were instantly forgotten, as Samba dived to his right again, to keep out Gibbs-White’s low effort.
“Patience was his biggest asset because, with all three saves, he just waits and waits,” says Pyzdrowski. “One of the hardest things for a keeper is — when you believe you know where somebody is going to put it — to be patient. If you go too early, you expose part of your goal and these players are so good, they can just slide it to the other side.”
Forest had done plenty of work, to prepare themselves for the pressure of having their promotion fate decided from the spot.
“We had looked at so many minor details,” says midfielder Ryan Yates. “Have I got that composure in my locker? I am not sure. It would have been two or three more penalties before I would have taken one. But we had been practising them a lot. When you are in it, you do not feel as much pressure watching things unfold. But I was nervous just taking a penalty in training, so I imagine it was different for those lads who went up to take one. Penalty shootouts are horrible, aren’t they?
“But Brice has stepped up when it counted — and he has done that a lot of times this season. He is literally the character he is on the pitch. He is chilled out; full of confidence. He comes to meetings at the last minute. But when all eyes are on him, he produces. Hopefully Wembley will suit him.”
A delighted Samba conducted a post-match interview, that basically revolved around him apologising for being unable to put his emotions into words. But it is on Twitter where the 28-year-old tends to do most of his talking.
"Samba Samba Samba…" I and we really want to thank all the fans, through the difficulty we did it all together tonight. The strength you gave me. I'll never forget that ❤️ One last step, we have conquered and we will conquer 🙏🏾 #dreamcometrue #godisgreat pic.twitter.com/YLKlzscsz4
— Brice Samba (@samba_brice) May 17, 2022
Manager Cooper was wary of giving too much away, ahead of Forest’s biggest fixture in 23 years, since they were relegated from the top flight. But Forest — and Samba — will be armed with a fresh blueprint against Huddersfield. “Brice deserves the accolades. He delivered the plan perfectly,” says Cooper. “I do not want to say too much about it, because we still have another game.
“They were all great saves. Brilliant. But that is his job.”
If Samba can continue doing that job with the same level of panache, Forest’s chance’s of taking that step back into the Premier League, will only improve.
(Top photo: Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | https://theathletic.com/3319174/2022/05/19/brice-samba-nottingham-forest/ | 2022-05-19T05:18:46Z | https://theathletic.com/3319174/2022/05/19/brice-samba-nottingham-forest/ | false | 1 |
By David Adeoye
Ogbomoso (Oyo State), May 18, 2022 Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Wednesday, flagged off the construction of a 76.67 kilometres Ogbomoso-Iseyin Road, reinstating the commitment of his administration toward infrastructure development across the state.
While flagging off the ceremony at Adeniran Memorial Grammar School, Ogbomoso, Makinde said his government would continue to execute road projects in its quest to continue in the work of engineering a modern Oyo State.
He said that the Ogbomoso-Iseyin Road, when completed, would be named after the former Governor of the state, the late Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, who hailed from Ogbomoso.
According to him, development follows where roads go and we will continue to fulfill our mandate given to us by the people.
“We will not relent in all our efforts to move Oyo State to prosperity as we focus on protecting the interests of the good people of our dear state.
“Some people have come out to say we should focus on one section of the state and ensure it is developed, but this is not the path to sustainable development.
“So, here in Oyo State, we have chosen that we will develop all the zones in the state and the best way to do this is by creating an effective road network.
“And this road will facilitate both intracity and interstate movements to give way for easy access between the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) campuses in Ogbomoso and Iseyin.
“In addition, we are leveraging our comparative advantage in agriculture, because of what good is it that our farmers are producing, but cannot move their produce to the market?
“Or that our farmers have access to just local markets where only people from the same vicinity can buy.
“Whereas, they can get paid more when they are able to easily travel to larger markets, not just within the state, but also outside it,” Makinde said.
He said that his government was expanding the economy of the state through efficient road network.
The governor thanked his counterpart from Kwara, Dr AbdulRasaq AbdulRahman, who witnessed the flag off ceremony, said that the Ogbomoso-Iseyin Road project “is of vital economic importance to both Oyo and Kwara States.
“Many people may not know, but Oyo State shares a border with Kwara State here at Ogbomoso.
“When it comes to the facilitation of trade between the two states and movement of agricultural produce, our farmers and other investors will be able to go from Iseyin, all the way to Kwara, through this route.”
In his remarks, AbdulRahman congratulated Makinde for the flag off of the 76.67 kilometres road project, saying that the project was important.
He said that road infrastructure was the right step, if Nigerians truly desire growth.
According to him, if a huge percentage of our people are farmers, it is a no gain-saying that agribusiness value chains will only thrive when we connect our vast arable lands to the city centre through good roads or rail.
He said the Ogbomoso-Iseyin Road, when completed, would bring comfort to travellers and reduces travel time for the road users who want to travel further south to Abeokuta in Ogun.
AbdulRahman said that the road represents a short cut for those coming from the Northern part of Nigeria, including Kwara, who are travelling to Iseyin or to Igboora or Abeokuta.
“In all of these, you are creating huge economic values along this axis, you are also saving lives, because the ever-busy Oyo-Ogbomoso Road will be decongested,” he said.
The Kwara governor said that Makinde’s commitment to road infrastructure was similar to his administration’s strategic investments to open up the Kwara agrarian belts for economic growth.
He said that his government was constructing the first section of the 64 kilometres Kishi-Kaiama Road, which links part of Kwara to Oyo State.
“To its North-West, we are fixing the 33 kilometres Ilesha-Gwanara Road.
“Down South, we are linking the Osi-Obbo Road, where Ekiti empties into Kwara, among several other road projects connecting our hinterlands to market,” AbdulRahman said.
He promised that, as neighbours to Oyo State, Kwara would always collaborate with Makinde on all fronts to improve the lots of people.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Public Works in Oyo State, Prof. Daud Sangodoyin, said the need for construction of the road was borne out of the commitment of Makinde’s administration to improve the socioeconomic activities of the citizenry.
Sangodoyin said that the entire work scope was split into two concurrent lots on Dec. 6, 2021 for feasible delivery within 13 months.
According to him, the first lot of 38.10 kilometres was awarded to Kopek Construction Ltd., at a sum of N20.1 billion, while the second lot of 38.57 kilometres was awarded to Craneburg Construction Company at a sum of N23.4 billion.
He said that the total contract sum of the 76.67 kilometres for the new road was N43.62 billion.
In their seperate remarks, representatives of the contractors handling the project, Mr Gilbert Sassine of Craneburg Construction and Mr Issam Feghali of Kopek Construction Ltd., assured the state government that quality job would be delivered.
The duo appreciated residents of Ogbomoso, Iseyin and other affected communities in the road project, for their cooperation, promising to continue engaging indigenous people in the execution of the contracts. | https://naija247news.com/2022/05/19/makinde-flags-off-construction-of-76-67km-ogbomoso-iseyin-road/ | 2022-05-19T05:19:17Z | https://naija247news.com/2022/05/19/makinde-flags-off-construction-of-76-67km-ogbomoso-iseyin-road/ | true | 1 |
Usually when French actor Jean Reno joins a production, he brings an added layer of sophistication and excitement. Sadly, this isn’t the case in the Season 3 premiere of Netflix’s Who Killed Sara?, as the Die Hart star manages to add more confusion and questions to the series than answers.
That’s saying a lot for a telenovela that ended its sophomore season with the show’s title and main conceit being tossed on its head by suggesting that Sara wasn’t dead at all. This is also after Marifer — more on her in a bit — confessed to killing Sara. As it turns out, Marifer cut Sara’s parachute strings so that she could die, but she didn’t.
Instead, Reno’s character Reinaldo faked her death and made her patient zero in some sort of bizarre medical experiment he was conducting. The conspiracy behind the experiment was so twisty that Sara’s psychiatrist Dr. Hugo Alanis was involved in it, and so was Reinaldo’s son, Nicandro. Sara, who was pregnant with Cesar’s baby when she was supposed to have died, meanwhile, ended up giving birth to the baby.
But where Sara and her baby are these days remains a mystery — for now. Thankfully, Alex and Elisa are on the case. The hospital where they visited Marifer (who is also not dead) appears to be the same strange facility where Reinaldo kept Sara and conducted his unethical and highly controversial tests. Alex and Elisa found out about the clinic when a nurse called them on Marifer’s behalf so that Marifer could talk to them before she died.
While visiting Marifer, she typed in Dr. Alanis and Nicandro’s names on Alex’s phone to let him know something nefarious was taking place. Even without Marifer’s information, Alex and Elisa could tell the facility was suspicious because of all the security cameras. Two goons eventually ousted the couple from the grounds, and that’s when Alex decided to pay Nicandro a visit.
Prettier than he is bright, Nicandro accidentally revealed that he knew Marifer couldn’t speak because her lungs were burned in the casino fire. If he wasn’t part of the fake clinic conspiracy, he wouldn’t have known that detail. Before Alex could get more intel out of him, however, Nicandro tripped an alarm, and Alex narrowly escaped before the police arrived.
All of this, plus a file Alex found at the clinic and Dr. Alanis’ dead body, pushed Alex to turn to the authorities, who then exhumed Sara’s grave and found an empty casket! Oh snap! Is Sara still alive after all?
Elsewhere in the premiere, Chema performed a sexual favor in prison for a phone without a battery (can this man please catch a break?!), and Rodolfo figured out that his father Cesar is in the Seychelles. Soon after, Cesar’s money was stolen by a hacker, but it was unclear if Alex was the culprit or if it was someone else.
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Editor:
Re: Stefanik Criticized for Rhetoric story, May 17, 2022
Based on this reporting, the congressperson does not have the moral stature to represent this district.
Her rhetoric has no place in our society since we are a country of immigrants.
She also is in a leadership role in the Republican minority, where she has not demonstrated any courage to challenge and denounce similar rhetoric. How can we hold her up as a role model for citizenship? She is an embarrassment.
Arthur Webb, Johnsburg
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1 dead in shooting at Tenn. university during high school graduation
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - Officials confirmed the shooting of two people during a high school graduation on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University.
Police confirmed the death of one person in the shooting Wednesday night during the Riverdale High School graduation at Murphy Center. They also said another was injured in the incident and is now in critical condition.
Investigators said the two people were shot near the tennis courts. It is unknown at this time whether either victim was a student, WSMV reports.
“Tonight’s shooting is a tragedy for our community. We mourn with the family who lost a loved one and the family of the person injured,” police officials said.
Rutherford County Schools District Public Information Officer James Evans said Riverdale High School would be closed tomorrow as a safety measure.
Authorities said there are no suspects that have been identified at this time.
If you see any suspicious activity, officials ask that you report it to MTSU Police at (615) 898-2424.
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Flames outfire Oilers in explosive series opener as rivals combine for 15 goals
Calgary's Tkachuk records hat trick; Edmonton's McDavid tallies goal, 3 assists
Matthew Tkachuk scored a hat trick for the Calgary Flames in Wednesday's 9-6 win over the visiting Edmonton Oilers to open their playoff series.
The NHL's first playoff Battle of Alberta in 31 years compensated for its long absence with an abundance of goals in Game 1.
Blake Coleman scored twice for the Flames. Rasmus Andersson and Andrew Mangiapane each had a goal and two assists.
Zach Hyman scored twice for Edmonton. Connor McDavid produced his fourth straight multi-point game in the playoffs with a goal and three assists.
Edmonton's captain leads the league's post-season points race with five goals and 13 assists.
WATCH l Flames defeat Oilers in high scoring Game 1:
Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists and Kailer Yamamoto and Evan Bouchard also scored for the Oilers.
Edmonton starter Mike Smith was pulled in the first period after allowing three Calgary goals on 10 shots. Mikko Koskinen made 32 saves in relief.
The winner of the best-of-seven series advances to the Western Conference final.
Game 2 is Friday at the Saddledome before the series heads to Edmonton for Sunday's Game 3 and Tuesday's Game 4.
Teams that take a 1-0 lead in a best-of-seven series hold a series record of 503-232 (.684), according to NHL statisticians.
Calgary dominated that department early. The Flames scored twice in a 25-second span in the first minute and led 3-0 by 6:05 when Smith was replaced by Koskinen.
Calgary's two goals in the opening 51 seconds was the fastest two goals to start an NHL playoff game, and electrified a sea of red dotted with Oiler orange and blue at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
The Oilers would not go quietly, however.
The Flames had survived a goaltender-dominated, grinding series with the Dallas Stars in the first round.
Wednesday's Game 1 was, by contrast, an open-ice track meet of mediocre goaltending. The Flames held a 40-18 edge in shots after two periods, but led 6-5 heading into the third.
Edmonton's Yamamoto briefly tied the game at 1:28 putting McDavid's rebound over Markstrom's outstretched pad.
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Andersson regained the lead for Calgary at 2:57. Mangiapane from behind the net fed the all-alone defenceman whose wrist shot beat Koskinen's glove.
Tkachuk gave the Flames a two-goal lead at 8:55 with his second of the night. He snared a Draisaitl turnover at the blue line and beat Koskinen five-hole on a breakaway.
Tkachuk scored into an empty net to complete his hat trick. Hats rained down onto the Saddledome ice and chants of "we want 10" goals soon followed.
Draisaitl pulled the visitors within a goal at 19:21 of the second period when he beat Markstrom far side on an odd-man rush with McDavid.
Hyman scored at 9:38 and 14:06 of the second period. He circled out from behind the net and whipped the puck by Markstrom's glove for his second.
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Hyman skated the puck into Calgary's end, stopped and got a shot away between defenceman Michael Stone's legs that deflected off Markstrom and into the top corner for his first.
Tkachuk batted in a rebound for a power-play goal at 8:24 after Bouchard converted a McDavid pass at 7:10. McDavid spun off of Dillon Dube to get a cross-ice pass away to Bouchard.
Zack Kassian's roughing penalty after Bouchard's goal gave Calgary the man-advantage for Tkachuk's goal.
Coleman struck 45 seconds into the second period and again at 6:10 for a 5-1 Flames lead.
McDavid glided in front of the net and patiently waited for Markstrom to commit before tucking the puck between the goalie's pads at 7:41 of the first period.
Ritchie scored his first career playoff goal at 6:05. He knocked Edmonton's Evander Kane off the puck at the Oilers' blue line, reached to collect the loose puck and got a shot away under Smith's arm.
From behind the net, Backlund dished to an undefended Mangiapane in the slot for the latter to beat Smith from close range 51 seconds after opening puck drop.
Lindholm converted Calgary's first shot of the game into a goal 26 seconds after opening faceoff. He settled a bouncing puck off a cross-ice dish from Rasmus Andersson and swept it far side over Smith's glove.
The Flames were minus top shutdown defenceman Chris Tanev a second straight playoff game. He was injured in Game 6 of Calgary's first-round series against Dallas.
Tanev skated in both Tuesday's practice and in Wednesday's morning skate, but did not dress for Game 1. | https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/edmonton-oilers-calgary-flames-game1-may-18-1.6458494?cmp=rss | 2022-05-19T05:31:14Z | https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/edmonton-oilers-calgary-flames-game1-may-18-1.6458494?cmp=rss | true | 25 |
SHANGHAI, May 19 ― The Covid-19-hit financial hub of Shanghai will start to allow more businesses in zero-Covid areas to resume normal operations from the beginning of June, a deputy mayor said today as the city looks forward to the end of lockdown.
Shanghai, fighting China's biggest ever coronavirus outbreak, has been steadily allowing more businesses to reopen and letting larger numbers of residents leave their homes for the first time in nearly seven weeks.
The city was “striving to achieve a full resumption of work and production as soon as possible”, deputy mayor Zhang Wei told a media briefing.
“The rhythm of work resumption” would be based on the epidemic prevention situation, he said, adding that for the rest of May, many workers would remain in “closed loops”, which often involves staff living at their work places.
Shanghai's stable energy, water and information infrastructure throughout the outbreak “guarantees that the city's pulse has the strength to beat after the slowdown, and also supports the continuous recovery of the city's economy”, he said.
After nearly two months of disruptions, cargo deliveries were gradually returning to normal, Zhang said, with daily container throughput at Shanghai's ports now at about 90 per cent of levels a year ago.
Pudong Airport cargo throughput had reached 70 per cent of last year's levels, while freight vehicles entering and leaving the city was back to two thirds.
Yu Fulin, an official with Shanghai's transportation commission, told the briefing the city would start to restore main cross-district public transport on May 22. The priority would be reopening routes connecting the city's airports, railway stations and hospitals, he said. ― Reuters | https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2022/05/19/more-work-to-resume-in-shanghais-zero-covid-areas-from-june/7623 | 2022-05-19T05:32:33Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2022/05/19/more-work-to-resume-in-shanghais-zero-covid-areas-from-june/7623 | true | 2 |
AMLT (AMLT) traded down 8.4% against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 22:00 PM Eastern on May 18th. Over the last week, AMLT has traded 1.1% higher against the US dollar. AMLT has a market cap of $1.79 million and approximately $528.00 worth of AMLT was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One AMLT coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0045 or 0.00000016 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:
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- yOUcash (YOUC) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.50 or 0.00001732 BTC.
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Man charged in Buffalo massacre due back in court
The white man accused of slaughtering 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was scheduled to appear in court Thursday as authorities continue to investigate the possibility of hate crime or terrorism charges
Man charged in Buffalo massacre due back in court
Show all 5The white man accused of slaughtering 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was scheduled to appear in court Thursday as authorities including the FBI continue to investigate the possibility of hate crime and terrorism charges.
Payton Gendron, 18, livestreamed the attack from a helmet camera before surrendering to police outside the grocery store. Shortly before the attack last Saturday, he posted hundreds of pages of writings to online discussion groups where he detailed his plans for the assault and his racist motivation.
Investigators have been examining those documents, which included a private diary he kept on the chat platform Discord.
At his initial court appearance last week, Gendron's court-appointed lawyer entered a plea of “not guilty” on his behalf.
The massacre at the Tops supermarket was unsettling even in a nation that has become numb to mass shootings. All but two of the 13 of the people shot during the attack were Black. Gendron's online writings said he planned the assault after becoming infatuated with white supremacist ideology he encountered online.
The diary said Gendron planned his attack in secret, with no outside help, but Discord confirmed Wednesday that an invitation to access his private writings was sent to a small group of people about 30 minutes before the assault began.
Some of them accepted the invitation. It was unclear how many read what he had written or logged on to view the assault live. It also wasn't clear whether anyone tried to alert law enforcement.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia has said investigators were working to obtain, verify and review Gendron’s online postings.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday authorized the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, to investigate social media platforms used by Gendron to determine if they were liable for “providing a platform to plan and promote violence.”
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DENYS KARLOVSKYI
In captured Melitopol, the Ukrainian resistance movement has managed to blow up a Russian armoured train as it was transporting soldiers and equipment.
Source: local media; Mirror of the Week, quoting the Defence Headquarters of the Zaporizhzhia region
Details: Eyewitnesses in Melitopol reported hearing explosions and gunfire in the area of the meat-packing plant. Local journalists later confirmed that Ukrainian guerrillas had remotely detonated an armoured train near the meat-packing plant in Melitopol.
The train consisted of 10 cars. The explosion was carried out under a car carrying personnel from Russian occupying units, who were rotating.
The explosion damaged two railway tracks. The armoured train has now been stopped, and the fuel and lubricant cars following the armoured train have also been blocked.
Background :
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On the morning of 18 May, the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration confirmed that guerrillas in Melitopol had killed high-ranking Russian commanders.
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The Ukrainian resistance movement is also putting up pro-Ukrainian leaflets in public places in Melitopol.
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In April the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine reported that guerrillas in Melitopol had killed about 70 servicemen in three weeks. | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/guerrillas-blow-up-a-russian-armoured-train-in-captured-melitopol/190470/ | 2022-05-19T05:36:42Z | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/guerrillas-blow-up-a-russian-armoured-train-in-captured-melitopol/190470/ | true | 2 |
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.
South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Thursday it assesses that North Korea has all but finished preparations to conduct a nuclear test, which would be its seventh overall and first since 2017, and only has to determine the timing, according to lawmakers who attended the closed-door briefing.
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.
While North Korea says more than 1.2 million people have already recovered, it’s clear officials are simply releasing people from shelters or other quarantine facilities like schools after their fevers subside, according to South Korean lawmaker Ha Tae-keung, who attributed the information to the spy agency briefing. Although the North may lack medical equipment, it does seem to have enough thermometers to check temperatures, likely imported from China, Ha 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. | https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/health-headlines/north-koreas-suspected-covid-19-caseload-nears-2-million/ | 2022-05-19T05:38:30Z | https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/health-headlines/north-koreas-suspected-covid-19-caseload-nears-2-million/ | true | 56 |
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
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TV series adaptations of “Fearless” and “Cold War,” two of the highest-profile Hong Kong action movies of the 21st century, are now in development.
The shift into TV represents a major expansion and diversification for Edko Films, the studio headed by legendary producer-financier-executive Bill Kong (“Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,” “Monster Hunt,” “Mulan”).
The original 2006 “Fearless” was an iconic portrait of martial arts ace Huo Yianjia that was directed by Ronny Tong and starred Jet Li. It received studio-level distribution in many territories through Buena Vista, UIP and Sony Pictures Releasing.
“Cold War” is a 2012 crime action film involving a mole inside the Hong Kong police. It was written and co-directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk and had Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Charlie Young in lead roles. It spawned a sequel movie in 2016 with an even higher profile cast that included Chow Yun-fat and Eddie Peng.
“We have often received inquiries from abroad about buying the rights to develop these [films] into series. But I’ve never made a deal with anybody. So, since I didn’t make any deal, those rights are all available for myself and Edko to produce,” Kong told Variety.
Kong says that streaming platforms have changed the opportunities for rights owners and producers like Edko.
“We look around the world and see that way that people have tuned in. Not only are there enormous numbers of subscribers, it is changing audience customs and viewing habits. As a company we cannot limit ourselves only to the theatrical world, video, DVD and cable,” said Kong.
Through the pandemic years, Edko has quietly expanded its in-house production development staff. But Kong has not yet allied the company to any streaming platform, either for individual titles or through a slate deal.
“I have been moving things along by myself. It moves much faster that way. In fact, I have many projects, and right now, Edko is funding the development. All those projects are either at script stage. Some of them even may be ready to do the pilot,” said Kong. “I hope when people read our script, or see our pilot, that we can win them over — that they say, ‘Wow, these are very great pieces.’”
Kong is at pains to point out that Edko is not shifting into series production with the intention of abandoning the feature film sector in which he has acted as a unique bridge between Hollywood, Hong Kong and mainland China.
“We are not quitting or stopping to make theatrical movies. We still have a huge slate of movies for Hong Kong and China, and for the regional audiences,” Kong said. The company achieved notable counter-cyclical success last year with the release of “Anita,” a lavish biopic of Cantopop singer-actor Anita Mui. Its current slate includes “Table for Six,” a seasonal comedy that was delayed by COVID-related cinema closures that Kong has high hopes for as a summer release.
Scaling back would have been an understandable position, given the enormous difficulties faced by the cinema exhibition industries in Hong Kong and mainland China, which Edko also straddles. One of Hong Kong’s other major cinema operators filed for liquidation last year.
Hong Kong’s production sector has also been starved of revenues and now suffers the additional hurdle of navigating a way around a new censorship law, which places a heavy emphasis on national security issues. The new law might appear to encroach upon many of Hong Kong films’ favorite themes, such as crime, corruption and triad gangs, but few have so far sought to test it.
Kong says he remains optimistic about the territory as an entertainment production hub. “It is still pretty good. It still has the people, the production crews. They are still very good. There’s certain kinds of cinemas. If you’re looking to make a martial arts movie, there’s no place else you should go other than Hong Kong. If you want to make an action, or police action movie, people from China and Taiwan are still coming to Hong Kong to make them.” | https://variety.com/2022/film/asia/fearless-cold-war-series-bill-kong-edko-1235269063/ | 2022-05-19T05:39:53Z | https://variety.com/2022/film/asia/fearless-cold-war-series-bill-kong-edko-1235269063/ | true | 1 |
The May 4 editorial “Conn. positions itself as abortion sanctuary” praising Connecticut’s actions to become an abortion sanctuary was disappointing. It’s bad enough that the editorial board would endorse abortion, but the last sentence was very arrogant, stating that “Connecticut is on the right side of history.”
Declaring something to be on either the right or wrong side of history is arrogant. It takes many years for history to judge current events. Still, I find it hard to believe that history and future generations would look kindly upon a society that kills its young. The small percentage of abortions that are performed due to rape, incest or situations where the mother’s life is in danger may be justified by future historians. But I believe that the majority of abortions, which are performed for convenience, would be hard to justify. That is for future historians to ponder, with regard to being on the right or wrong side of history.
When a young life is lost, one often wonders if we have lost a great leader, or a future scientist who might have found a cure for cancer or Alzheimer’s, or developed a clean and inexpensive source of energy. Multiply that by the 63 million American lives snuffed out by abortion since 1973, unable to live out their purpose on this earth.
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BENGALURU: Indian shares dropped 2% on Thursday, weighed down by a broader market selloff, as investors dumped risky assets on worries over stubborn inflation and economic slowdown.
The NSE Nifty 50 index was down 1.95% at 15,924, as of 0353 GMT, with all its major sub-indexes in the negative territory, while the S&P BSE Sensex fell 2.11% to 53,067.39.
Broader Asian equities tumbled after a sell-off in U.S. indexes overnight, with the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 dropping 3% as a rally in growth shares faded amid slowdown concerns.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan snapped its four-day winning streak to slump 2.3%.
Aluminium and copper producer Hindalco Industries and software services provider Infosys were the top percentage losers in the Nifty 50, falling 3.9% each.
Shares of ITC rose 1.3% to be the sole gainer in the Nifty 50 index after the cigarettes-to-hotel conglomerate on Wednesday reported an 11.8% rise in its March-quarter profit.
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — He was known by all as simply Dr. John, the quiet, calm physician who mentored kids in kung fu, finding time between patient appointments to encourage people to learn self-defense. So it was no surprise to friends and colleagues that John Cheng spent his final moments saving others by rushing a gunman who fired on a Southern California church luncheon of mostly older Taiwanese people, including Cheng’s recently widowed mother.
The 52-year-old father of two often looked for ways to protect people. He was concerned enough about the growing number of mass shootings that he had taken safety courses to prepare himself for a situation like the one that cost him his life Sunday.
“It was characteristic of Dr. Cheng to charge forward at that gunman,” said Erica Triplett, Cheng’s office manager. “It does not surprise any of us. Dr. Cheng exemplified what he was built for — his heroism that saved so many people not only at that church, but throughout his career.”
The family and sports medicine physician was like family to the staff and he encouraged them to learn kung fu, telling them about the importance of knowing self-defense techniques. He also learned how to handle a gun for that same reason.
That preparedness combined with Cheng’s serene disposition likely gave him a proclivity for acting heroically, according to active shooter experts. Most people in those situations freeze.
“People don’t rise to the level of the occasion; they fall to the level of training that they have,” said active shooter expert Chris Grollnek, who believes such trainings should be as common as fire drills. “This man obviously as a doctor was inoculated (to deal) with bad things from a bone sticking out of somebody’s arm to a tragic event like what happened inside the church in Orange County.”
Authorities credit Cheng’s quick action with saving perhaps dozens of lives at a celebratory luncheon for congregants and their former pastor at Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, which worships at Geneva Presbyterian Church in the Orange County community of Laguna Woods.
Prosecutors say the gunman, David Chou, 68, of Las Vegas, was motivated by hatred of Taiwan, where he was born and grew up after his family was forced from mainland China when Communists took control. He had no connection to the church but it afforded him access to a large group of Taiwanese to target, authorities said.
Chou spent about an hour with attendees at the luncheon, apparently to gain their trust so he could execute his plot, authorities said. He chained doors shut and glued locks. He had two 9 mm handguns and three bags, containing four Molotov-cocktail-type incendiary devices and ammunition.
When Chou began shooting, Cheng charged him and was shot. He died at the scene but his quick action disrupted the shooter, who was then hit by a chair thrown by the church’s former pastor, Billy Chang, and jumped on by three members of the congregation who used an extension cord to tie him up until police arrived.
Cheng was the only one killed. Five others were wounded, including four men ages 66 to 92 and an 86-year-old woman.
Sheriff Don Barnes called Cheng’s heroism “a meeting of good versus evil.”
“Dr. Cheng’s selfless love for others stopped a hate-filled act from claiming more lives beyond his own,” Barnes said in a tweet.
Those who knew Cheng said that selflessness defined his life.
He started his practice by knocking on doors to introduce himself as the new family doctor in the area, said Johnna Gherardini, executive director of South Coast Medical Group. Cheng gave physicals to student athletes and then donated the money he was paid to Aliso Niguel High School.
Gherardini took kung fu with her daughter at Cheng’s urging.
“He’s always taught us how to protect ourselves,” she said.
His patients remembered him as a concerned listener. “He was unfathomably kind,” read a note left by a patient taped to the door of his office, where people left flowers to pay homage.
In a video posted online, Cheng said he was inspired to get involved in medicine after seeing the care his father provided as a physician in their small community in East Texas, where the family had moved to from Taiwan when Cheng was a baby.
“It’s those small-town values that were ingrained in me when I was younger that really helped create this sense of community,” said Cheng, who graduated from Texas Tech University School of Medicine and did his residency in California. “And in this modern society, in these modern times, we miss a lot of that.”
He called the patient-doctor relationship special “so you get to know a lot about the patient, their family, the community that they live in. And what’s beautiful is that I live in the same community.”
Cheng’s pastor and close friend, Ira Angustain, took a class with him to learn how to handle a gun safely.
“We talked about how people were losing their minds and going around shooting people for no reason,” said Angustain, pastor of Kingdom Covenant Church in the nearby community of Lake Forest. “He didn’t want to feel helpless.”
On Sunday morning, Cheng texted Angustain to let him know he wouldn’t be coming to service because he was taking his mother to her church.
She had stopped going since her husband passed away a couple of months ago, still grieving his death. But Chang, the church’s former pastor who had written to her expressing his condolences, was visiting from Taiwan and the church had invited her to a service and luncheon to see him.
Cheng volunteered to drive his mother, but in a horrible twist of fate, instead of the outing giving her peace, she would end up witnessing his death that day.
“My heart is aching,” the visiting pastor wrote in a statement.
Shortly before the shooting, Angustain replied to Cheng’s text, telling him to say hello to his mother.
“You’re such a good son,” Angustain texted to Cheng.
“I can always be better,” Cheng replied.
Less than 15 minutes later, Cheng didn’t hesitate to charge the gunman.
“Evil didn’t take Dr. John out,” Angustain said. “Dr. John chose to lay down his life for others so they could live.”
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Washington, May 19
US President Joe Biden would travel to Japan for the second in-person Quad summit during which he would hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his national security advisor said Wednesday.
Formed with Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, Quad was an initiative of the Trump Administration, which Biden has elevated to the leadership level. There have so far been three summits, two of them virtual.
“We believe that this summit will demonstrate both in substance and in vision that democracies can deliver and that these four nations working together will defend and uphold the principles of a free and open Indo-Pacific,” US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters during the daily White House news conference.
While he's in Tokyo, Biden will also launch a new and ambitious economic initiative for the region, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which will be a 21st century economic arrangement, designed to tackle new economic challenges, he said.
The framework, he said, will involve work ranging “from setting the rules of the digital economy to ensuring secure and resilient supply chains to managing the energy transition to investing in clean, modern high standards infrastructure." Biden will be joined in person by the Prime Minister of Japan for the launch of IPEF and virtually by leaders from a number of Indo-Pacific partners from down under to southeast Asia to northeast Asia.
“On security and economics, on technology and energy, on investment in infrastructure, we think this trip is going to put on full display President Biden's Indo-Pacific strategy and that it will show in living colour that the United States can at once lead the free world in responding to Russia's war in Ukraine, and at the same time, chart a course for effective, principled American leadership and engagement in a region that will define much of the future of the 21st century,” Sullivan said.
Before arriving in Japan, Biden is scheduled to travel to South Korea for a summit meeting with its leaders.
“The message we're trying to send on this trip is a message of an affirmative vision of what the world can look like if the democracies and open societies of the world stand together to shape the rules of the road to define the security architecture of the region to reinforce strong, powerful historic alliances,” Sullivan said.
“We think putting that on display over four days bilaterally with the ROK and Japan through the Quad, through the Indo-Pacific economic framework, it will send a powerful message.
“We think that message will be heard everywhere. We think it will be heard in Beijing. But it is not a negative message and it's not targeted at any one country,” he said.
“It's targeted at an audience the world over about what American leadership working flanked by allies and likeminded partners can deliver for people everywhere," he added.
“And we think we go into this trip very much with the wind at our back with a strong case to make that we have what it takes to be able to deliver against the security and economic challenges of our time,” Sullivan added.
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BEE is not corruption, says finance minister Enoch Godongwana
Opposition MPs say BEE is stifling economic growth and enriching only the ANC political elite and their cronies
Minister of finance Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday took offence at a spirited attack on BEE by MPs during a debate on his budget vote.
Godongwana was responding after MPs, mainly representing the DA, voiced their disapproval of BEE, saying it was nothing but a scheme to line the pockets of the ANC political elite and their allies.
Thanks to BEE, the opposition argued, the country's potential for economic growth was held at ransom and nothing but its scrapping would set SA on the path to an economic boom.
But according to Godongwana, who admitted to being a proponent of BEE, such blanket statements cannot be accepted as true.
This because corruption was just that — corruption — and it had nothing to do with BEE.
“Corruption is a glaring problem but it is unfortunate that the opposition links that purely to BEE,” said an irate Godongwana. “Let us take corruption basically as something South Africans across the board must fight. Once you associate corruption with BEE then those of us who support BEE find this difficult because corruption is corruption — let us deal with it as that.”
Mogamad Hendricks of Al Jama-aha was the lone backer of Godongwana’s belief in BEE, saying white South Africans must accept that they had an unfair advantage during apartheid.
“We cannot scrap BEE otherwise we must then take away the advantages like the generational wealth that whites had during apartheid — this we must do in the form of reparations, the confiscation of property without compensation,” he said.
Godongwana’s rant came after DA’s Dion George classified BEE as “nothing but a failed economic model of BEE designed to make a few politically connected cronies rich while everyone else remains in poverty”.
George added that BEE alongside the ANC’s cadre deployment policy had created a fertile ground for corruption to flourish while stifling economic growth.
Because of BEE, charged George, the country’s SOEs were on their knees while public debt was spiralling out of control.
“No amount of borrowing can fix what the ANC has broken,” he said.
FF Plus MP Wouter Wessels concurred with George, saying BEE and its reformed version, broad-based BEE, “has failed to address inequality as intended”.
Wessels fired: “It has rather created a few multibillionaire cadres of the ANC and has left millions of South Africans poor.”
The DA’s Jan de Villiers said there was no denying that the BEE policy was the main enabler of widespread corruption in the public sector.
He said it was high time to dump BEE and appoint companies that will provide goods and services to government and public institutions based on merit.
“Current BEE rules award tenders based on the narrow criteria of race and ignore the many economic and social contributions that the private sector can and do make.
“It goes without saying that this scares off investors, both local and international. The 30 years of BEE policies have done nothing to redress imbalances of the past but have caused more inequality, higher unemployment and more poverty.”
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Clean Juice, the first and only national USDA-certified organic juice bar franchise and quick-service restaurant announced today it has hired Tripp Setliff to Chief Operating Officer (COO). In the role, Tripp will oversee all store operational initiatives including development, supply chain, training, and field support to grow average unit sales volumes and profitability, while Clean Juice continues its explosive expansion across the United States.
Tripp is a veteran fast-casual, quick-serve franchise restaurant executive having worked with Jersey Mike’s Subs and Cici’s Pizza brands. Tripp’s franchise operations, development, and marketing experience led him to executive leadership roles at Driven Brands, Inc. and Business Network International where he most recently held the role of Vice President of Global Marketing.
“I am extremely humbled and thankful for the opportunity to join such an amazing company focused on offering clean, all organic food options to people across the nation,” said Setliff. “As a North Carolina native, I am proud to be a part of the Clean Juice family, where my aligned core values and professional experience will be utilized to continue growing Clean Juice into a household name while embracing the brand’s mission of “Healthy in Body, Strong in Spirit” for all people and communities.”
From a leadership development standpoint, Tripp will be tasked with continuing the brand’s significant impact on the quick-serve restaurant segment while exploring new ways to support the implementation of scalable and efficient models. Clean Juice recently announced the signing of its 200th unit in less than 7 years and is on track to reach 500 in a record-setting time. Tripp’s goals not only focus on location growth but mentoring and creating a team of health-minded professionals to take Clean Juice into the next era of its amazing story.
“Kat and I are very proud to welcome Tripp and his family to our Clean Juice family,” said Landon Eckles, CEO of Clean Juice. “Tripp brings a level of expertise, drive, and passion that is reflective of our core values, and we are inspired by his commitment and vision as Clean Juice continues a historic growth march and storied journey.”
Tripp earned both a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degree from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. When Tripp isn’t working on fine-tuning the operations at Clean Juice, he is found coaching his children’s sports teams or on an outdoor adventure exploring North Carolina’s majestic Blue Ridge mountains with his family.
For more information about Clean Juice, its leadership team, its core values, and franchising opportunities, please visit www.cleanjuice.com or www.cleanjuicefranchising.com.
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A sharp slowdown in China's economy caused by its strict zero-COVID rules and Beijing's shift away from a traditional reliance on external demand have cast doubts over how much the country will contribute to future global trade and investment.
While China staged a remarkably quick recovery from its initial pandemic slump, thanks to bumper exports and factory production, analysts expect the current downturn will be harder to shake off than the one seen in early 2020.
The gloomier outlook presents challenges not only for leaders in Beijing worried about rising unemployment, but foreign businesses counting on China to resume its level of engagement it had with the rest of the world before the pandemic.
Calculations based on International Monetary Fund projections show China's expected average annual contribution to global economic growth through to 2027 at about 29%. While that's a considerable addition, it contrasts with the years following the 2008 global financial crisis when that averaged closer to 40%.
ANZ's chief economist for Greater China, Raymond Yeung, said Beijing's economic policies have more recently shifted to home-grown solutions and reforms, rather than the resumption of its past model that focused on greater engagement with the world.
"Successful implementation of these may pave the way to sustainable growth over the long term," Yeung wrote in a note.
"However, the risk of failing to achieve a similar growth rate is higher. If MNCs (multinationals) begin to withdraw their onshore presence, the process of economic convergence may come to an end sooner than anticipated."
China's export growth slowed to single digits in April, the weakest since the onset of the pandemic, while imports barely changed as COVID-19 curbs halted factory production and slashed demand.
Authorities are expected to tread a careful policy path around COVID ahead of a key Communist Party meeting towards the end of the year.
In a sign of that caution, China last week gave up hosting rights for the Asian Cup football finals next year due to COVID concerns.
Peiqian Liu, China economist at NatWest Markets in Singapore, said faced with a choice, Beijing would likely prioritise maintaining wins in hard-fought battles against COVID and rampant debt over its 2022 growth target of 5.5%, which many analysts consider ambitious.
"Broadly speaking, there has been a long-term shift starting as early as 2018 to a more domestic-driven economy, boosting the services sector and upgrading the manufacturing supply chain, (and) steering away from debt-addicted stimulus and growth," Liu said.
A broad and sustained slowdown in investment would weigh on demand, contributing to a deeper slowdown in global growth, she said.
IMMEDIATE CONCERNS
Beijing has defended its policies and downplayed the global ripple effects. An opinion piece in state-owned Global Times last week said zero-COVID was the most suitable strategy to fight the virus and keep the economy stable and expected a continued strong contribution to global growth.
Others broadly agree -- Fitch Ratings chief economist Brian Coulton acknowledged the disruptions from zero-COVID but did not see it being a more serious drag on global growth.
"If anything the reliance of the rest of the world on Chinese production has increased in the last couple of years so I don't see any waning of the influence of China on the global cycle in the near-term anyway," Coulton told Reuters.
For now, however, foreign businesses in China are becoming vocal about worsening operating conditions.
Under the zero-COVID policy, Chinese citizens enjoyed a long period of relative openness and freedom within the confines of the domestic economy, but remained tightly shut off from the rest of the world.
However, more recent domestic outbreaks mean authorities have not only locked down large parts of the manufacturing sector, adding to global supply shocks, but also doubled down on curbs restricting the movement of people in and out of the country.
While travel curbs in much of the rest of the world are easing as countries try to "live with COVID", China said last week it would strictly limit unnecessary foreign travel by its citizens, continuing an effective freeze that has been in place for the past two years.
The American Chamber of Commerce in China warned on Tuesday that strict COVID-19 controls would hamper foreign investment into the country for years to come as limits on travel block the pipeline for projects.
A survey from Germany's Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) last week showed 47% of German companies in China were critically rethinking their activities there and one in eight companies were even considering leaving the country.
"It usually takes years to establish oneself here and given the size of the country, a relocation is all the more difficult, the more astonishing the survey result is," said Volker Treier, head of foreign trade with the German chambers.
(Reporting by Stella Qiu in Beijing, Tom Westbrook in Singapore and Christian Kraemer in Berlin; Additional reporting by Mark John and Howard Schneider; Writing by Sam Holmes; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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The Warehouse Group has apologised for releasing a poster of a map of Aotearoa with many misspelled Māori names including Rotorua (spelled Roturua), Wairoa, (spelled Weiroa) and Paraparaumu (spelled Paraparaumo).
And a Māori staff member at The Warehouse Group expressed disappointment that the company did not act sooner to rectify their mistake.
Other misspelled place names were: Tongariro (spelled Tongario), Taupō (spelled Taupo) and Whanganui (spelled Wanganui).
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"Since we were made aware of this mistake and removed this item from sale, we've been developing a training module for our merchandise and sourcing teams on what must be checked and why from reo and tikanga perspectives," the spokesperson said.
"We apologise to our customers for the incorrect spelling of place names in Aotearoa used in this map."
Many consumers took to The Warehouse website to express their disappointment with the company.
"Absolutely terrible. How hard is it to check the spelling before you print," said a customer with the username Bob27.
A Māori worker within The Warehouse Group, who didn't want to be named, posted on an internal company page to inform management. The worker says The Warehouse Group didn't rectify the issue immediately but is happy the employer eventually took it seriously.
"What I do know is, although they are still for sale, so it looks like nothing has been done by this, there has been movement in the background," the staff member told Māori Television at the time.
"It definitely is an important kaupapa and I am proud to say The Warehouse Group is amending its mistake."
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Advertise with NZME.Te reo Māori columnist and exponent Stacey Morrison says someone with even a basic knowledge of te reo Māori should have noticed the errors. She applauds The Warehouse Group for owning up to its mistake and apologising.
"What I do appreciate is The Warehouse has made an apology. That's a good example of how companies can respond in a way that actually shows they have respect for te reo Māori."
Morrison hopes The Warehouse Group will continue to consult mātanga reo (language experts) whenever they have products and services that incorporate tikanga or te reo Māori to avoid a mistake like this happening again.
"There's safety and value for everybody if they get experts involved. It's really good when they listen and they admit and say it wasn't very well done. I have respect for that."
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SAN FRANCISCO — Had Game 1 of the Warriors and Mavericks’ playoff series come in round one instead of the Western Conference Finals, things might have been different.
Instead, this series looks lopsided in favor of the Dubs after only one contest.
The Warriors didn’t just beat the Mavericks on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals, they very well could have broken their code and exposed it as simplistic.
In all, Golden State’s win was emphatic and unimpeachable. For a Warriors team that has shown flaws even in its best playoff performances to this point, there’s not much to pick on after Wednesday’s 112-87 win.
The Warriors’ offense was strong in both transition and the half-court. They were able to build a 12-point first-half lead despite woeful offensive play from Steph Curry and Klay Thompson — both of whom found their games in the second half.
The Dubs’ defense was sterling. Dallas had a number of open looks from distance early in the contest — they shot 3-of-19 from beyond the arc in the first quarter — but Golden State tightened up on the side of the court as the game progressed and the Mavericks looked downright flummoxed as the Warriors tossed a new defense at them seemingly every time Dallas walked down the court.
Neither smoke nor mirrors were needed for Golden State to win Wednesday. They played Dallas straight up and steadily built a 30-point fourth-quarter lead.
It was classic Warriors. Curry (21 points) only had to play 30 minutes; Draymond Green (a plus-25 in the game) only saw 28 minutes of action.
It was title-worthy play.
And it was the kind of performance that seemed so far away for the Dubs only a few days (and certainly a few weeks) ago.
Now, to the Warriors’ credit, they entered the postseason without pretense — they knew they were a work in progress. Their goal — expressly stated — was to peak at the right time.
Yes, the Warriors were going to have to figure it all out on the fly. There was a level of experimentation happening in real time in the postseason, all while the Dubs faced two tough matchups in Denver (elite center play) and Memphis (young and physical).
They put together just enough to survive and advance.
But let’s be real: heading into these Western Conference Finals, Golden State had showed as many flaws as strengths.
Perhaps that long-sought peak was Wednesday.
Maybe it’s yet to come.
But there’s no question the Warriors are a different team now than when they started in these playoffs.
“We’re really connected as a team,” Jordan Poole, who was marvelous off the bench with 19 points, said after Game 1.
Wednesday’s performance had me thinking back to a month ago. Dallas was a possible first-round matchup for the Warriors. That would have been a nightmare for Golden State.
Dallas knows exactly what it is. Their script for success is not complicated. Their direct style of play would have proven incisive against a nebulous Dubs team, leaving them to bleed out and exit in the first round.
But now that the Warriors’ rotations are set and the game plans on both side of the floor are understood and practiced, Dallas is the best possible team for the Warriors to face.
While the 2022 Warriors might be a jack of many trades but a master of none, the Mavericks — as their logo would suggest — are a one-trick pony.
The only way the Mavericks are going to win this series is if Luka Dončić is the best player on the floor for at least four of the next six games. Now, that’s not a terribly tall order — he is a superb player. But there is no alternative for this team. The Warriors have some experience with playing teams like that before. One played in the same state. You only have to change one letter of “Cavs.”
But the Warriors had Dončić downright flummoxed on Wednesday.
The experimentation that the Warriors have been doing for the last month paid off. Seemingly time Dončić walked the ball down the floor, he had Andrew Wiggins in front of him — checking the full 94 feet. And when he looked over Wiggins, he saw a different, sometimes downright exotic defense from the Warriors.
“They were box-and-one, they went zone,” Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said. “They did a good job… Wiggins did a really good job.”
Faced with unfamiliar looks, Dončić leaned on his instincts — he tried to take on all five Warriors defenders by himself. He scored a bit — 18 points in the first half — but he was not efficient. The Warriors baited him into a losing tendency, and in the second half, he crumbled, going 1-for-6 from the floor, scoring two points and turning the ball over six times, counter to only two assists.
“You can’t do the same thing with Dončić every possession. You have to be able to mix it up,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “One game, we did an excellent job defensively, but we are under no illusion that we’ve figured anything out… There’s a good chance those shots are going to start going in next game.”
But even if Dončić can counter the Warriors’ defensive tactics, and even if he distributes the basketball well, setting up his teammates for possibly open looks, can Dallas’ video-game, five-out offensive keep up with the Warriors’?
Golden State didn’t win by 25 on defense alone — they were cooking on the other end of the court, too.
The Warriors’ ability to convert not just turnovers (Dallas had 13 in Game 1), but also missed baskets into transition scores was a trademark of their dynastic run. But it’s something we haven’t consistently seen from the Dubs since early this season.
But there it was, in all of its glory, in Game 1.
That’s why the Dubs were able to post an offensive rating of 115 and only have to play 40-or-so minutes Wednesday, despite being average at best shooting — 10-of-29 — from beyond the arc.
Dallas puts five shooters on the floor at all times. Not one of those shooters can protect the rim. The Warriors exploited this critical oversight again and again and again in Game 1.
We’re only a few games away from seeing the NBA’s friendly giant and the Mavericks’ white flag — Boban Marjanović — play serious minutes.
All it took was one drive, one cut for the Warriors to net a quality shot near the basket Wednesday. The Dubs went 22-for-32 in the paint, scoring 44 points. They made a stupefying two out of every three shots they took from inside the arc.
Perhaps the Warriors won’t shoot that well — they were incredible on mid-range shots Wednesday — moving forward, but the looks will be there. Dallas is a good team defense, but they lack one truly great perimeter defender and the Warriors’ system is built to break exactly what the Mavericks are throwing their way,
If these two teams were playing in April, the Warriors wouldn’t have the connectivity, the necessary understanding on the floor, to exploit Dallas’ game plan.
All those janky defenses they threw at Dončić would have broken down with a single pass.
And the cuts that carved up the Dallas defense would not have been made.
But this is a different Warriors team.
No, this squad won’t rival previous, dynastic iterations of this team, but the same end result — a trip to the Finals and another banner in the rafters — absolutely seems possible. | https://www.thereporter.com/2022/05/18/kurtenbach-the-warriors-finally-look-title-worthy/ | 2022-05-19T06:26:46Z | https://www.thereporter.com/2022/05/18/kurtenbach-the-warriors-finally-look-title-worthy/ | false | 11 |
- Turkey's Erdogan has doubled down on his opposition to Sweden and Finland joining the NATO alliance, in a move some analysts say is aimed at gaining concessions.
- NATO ascension for a new member state requires consensus approval from all existing members.
- Turkey, which joined the alliance in 1952, is a crucial player in NATO, boasting the second-largest military in the 30-member group after the United States.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has doubled down on his opposition to Sweden and Finland joining the NATO alliance, a move that would be historic for the two Nordic countries in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"We will not say 'yes' to those [countries] who apply sanctions to Turkey to join security organization NATO," Erdogan said at a news conference late Monday. He was referring to Sweden's suspension of weapons sales to Turkey in 2019 over its military activities in Syria.
Sweden's Foreign Ministry said Monday that it planned to send senior officials joining with officials from Finland to the Turkish capital of Ankara to address Erdogan's objections. But the Turkish leader essentially said they'd be wasting their time.
"Will they come to persuade us? Excuse us, but they shouldn't bother," Erdogan said. He added that the two countries joining would make NATO "a place where representatives of terrorist organizations are concentrated."
Finland's Foreign Ministry responded to a CNBC request for comment, saying that it "implements the UN as well as the EU terrorism sanctions against any person or entity … in accordance with EU legislation" and that "the EU and Turkey have regular dialogues on counterterrorism issues." CNBC has also reached out to the Swedish government for comment.
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Sweden and Finland have provided refuge to members of Kurdish militant separatist organization the PKK, which Turkey classifies as a terrorist organization and which has carried out attacks in Turkey. The two countries have also provided support for and held high-level meetings with members of the YPG, which is the PKK's branch in Syria credited with helping defeat ISIS as well as fighting against Turkish forces.
Why is this so crucial?
Sweden and Finland are on the brink of applying for membership in NATO, after the governments of both countries expressed their support for the move to abandon their traditional positions of nonalignment between the alliance and Russia.
This would expand the Western defense organization's clout and territory and make a dramatic statement in pushing back against Russia, and has already spurred anger and threats from Moscow. Sweden and Finland are members of the EU, but not NATO, and the latter shares an 830-mile border with Russia.
The two countries joining NATO would give Moscow "more officially registered opponents," its former president and high-ranking security official Dmitry Medvedev warned in mid-April.
But NATO ascension for a new member state requires consensus approval from all existing members.
While NATO's leadership has welcomed the news, suggesting the applicants could be accepted into the group quickly, one of its most militarily powerful members stands in the way: Turkey.
Turkey, which joined the alliance in 1952, is a crucial player in NATO, boasting the second-largest military in the 30-member group after the United States.
For both Sweden and Finland, the decision to apply for NATO membership is monumental and was triggered by Russia's brutal invasion of its neighbor Ukraine, which itself had aspirations to join NATO. Not until after the invasion did public opinion in both countries soar in favor of joining the 73-year-old defense alliance.
"The stakes here are now massive," Timothy Ash, emerging markets strategist at Bluebay Asset Management, said in a note Tuesday. "It feels like a major crisis is looming in Turkey-Western relations over Finland and Sweden's NATO bid."
"Other NATO members will be furious with Turkey given the now clear and present danger to Europe presented by Putin in Ukraine," Ash added. "Turkey will be seen an an unreliable partner. This will leave even more bad blood/faith between the two sides — gone will be any remnants of a Turkish EU accession bid."
Turkey's highly strategic Incirlik air base is home to 50 of the U.S.' tactical nuclear weapons, which some U.S. officials have suggested removing due to increasing tensions with Washington and Ankara in recent years. Those tensions were centered partly on Erdogan's warming ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin and its controversial decision to purchase Russia's S-400 air defense system, which saw it kicked out of NATO's F-35 program.
While Turkey has supported Ukraine by sending it weapons, in particular its lethal Bayraktar drones, and has tried to mediate between Moscow and Kyiv, it has so far refused to join its NATO allies in sanctioning Russia.
Just tough talk?
Some analysts are skeptical of Erdogan's tough talk, convinced he won't actually block the NATO membership bids — rather, they predict he will simply use his country's leverage to extract concessions and boost his own waning popularity at home.
"Despite its objections, Ankara will not block the countries' entry into NATO," analysts at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group wrote in a research note late Monday.
"Erdogan is likely looking for concessions for green-lighting NATO's expansion, mainly from Sweden. These might include the easing of Stockholm's bilateral arms embargo on Turkey and some recognition of PKK as a terrorist organization to curtail its fund-raising and recruitment activities," the note said.
Erdogan's top foreign policy advisor, Ibrahim Kalin, over the weekend reassured allies by saying in an interview with Reuters: "We are not closing the door. But we are basically raising this issue as a matter of national security for Turkey," concerning NATO accession for Sweden and Finland.
Weapons deals will likely play an important role in whatever negotiations take place. The Biden administration is currently seeking approval from Congress to finalize a sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, for which Ankara will likely seek assurances.
But a more pressing reason behind Erdogan's brinksmanship may be the need to boost his weakening popularity domestically, amid an inflation and cost-of-living crisis. Opinion polls in Turkey have hit their lowest in years.
Turkish inflation hit an eye-watering 70% in April, due in large part to years of refusal by Erdogan to raise interest rates while burning through currency reserves. The country of 84 million has been hit hard by the global rise in the cost of energy and basic goods, with fuel and agricultural commodity prices skyrocketing thanks in part to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"There are two things which rally the nation in Turkey," Ash wrote. "Opposition to the PKK and perceived Western hypocrisy." | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/business/money-report/the-stakes-here-are-now-massive-turkey-is-threatening-to-block-nato-membership-for-sweden-and-finland/2948267/ | 2022-05-19T06:27:48Z | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/business/money-report/the-stakes-here-are-now-massive-turkey-is-threatening-to-block-nato-membership-for-sweden-and-finland/2948267/ | true | 2 |
Property guru with a multi-million dollar portfolio of 18 homes shares the PROS of using you super to get into the market for the first time
- Lloyd Edge is an investment property guru with 18 homes under his belt
- He outlined if dipping into super is wise to help purchase your first home
- It follows after the Prime Minister announced a new policy ahead of the election
- It will allow first home buyers to unlock $50K of their super to help buy a house
A real estate expert who owns 18 investment properties has listed the possible advantages and disadvantages of dipping into your superannuation to help pay for a home deposit.
Lloyd Edge, a buyer's agent from Sydney, said using superannuation will help thousands of Australians get into the property market for the first time.
It follows after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a new policy ahead of the election on Saturday in a bid to keep the nation's top job.
The policy will allow first home buyers to withdraw up to $50,000 from their super to put towards a home deposit.
Lloyd Edge, a buyer's agent from Sydney, (pictured) said using superannuation will help thousands of Australians get into the property market for the first time
The main advantage of the policy is the ability to get first home buyers into the market sooner using your own money.
Mr Edge told Daily Mail Australia with the rising cost of living, people are struggling to save for a deposit more than ever before.
'Being able to access their superannuation will be the extra leg up a lot of young families need to buy their very first home,' he said.
People will also likely feel comfortable using their own money for a deposit rather than borrowing from the bank.
'Unlike other proposals to address the issue of housing affordability, if you use super, you're still using your own savings and will therefore own your home outright once the mortgage is paid off,' he said.
For most people their property will be their greatest investment and biggest financial decision made - reinforcing the importance of getting into the market sooner rather than later.
'With property value doubling roughly every 10 years, owning your own home is also an excellent investment that will set you up well for your financial future,' Mr Edge said.
'A key part of the Morrison Government's proposal is that if the house is sold down the track, the original $50,000 plus a portion of the property's capital gain will need to be returned to your super fund, so your nest egg is still protected for retirement, mitigating any long-term risk.'
But there's a certain level of risk and disadvantages when it comes to discussing accessing your super.
Mr Edge said if any amount of money is removed, your super will never be the same.
'Even if you manage to pay the money back over time, due to compound interest your super won't grow to the same level it could have been,' he said.
'But what you lose in potential super you'll more than make up for in the value of your home down the track.'
The main advantage of the policy is the ability to get first home buyers into the market sooner using your own money (stock image)
Before considering removing money from your super, first home buyers should consider why they want to buy a home and think of extra costs needed.
When purchasing a home, buyers often need to pay stamp duty, ownership costs, a building and pest inspection fee, and lender's mortgage insurance (LMI) if the deposit is under 20 per cent.
'The $50,000 from super might just be enough for a deposit on an entry level home (if your income can sustain the repayments, of course) however, it won't cover the additional costs that are part of purchasing a home,' Mr Edge said.
Over time the money in your superannuation account grows as it's diversified across a range of investments.
Mr Edge said purchasing a home lacks diversification in your portfolio as all the money is invested into a single asset.
Before buying it's best to speak to a mortgage broker who will consider your expenses against your income to determine your borrowing power from the bank. But Mr Edge warned to avoid borrow as much as the borrowing capacity will allow
Before buying it's best to speak to a mortgage broker who will consider your expenses against your income to determine your borrowing power from the bank.
But Mr Edge issued a harsh warning when it comes to borrowing money.
'It's very unwise for people to borrow as much as their borrowing capacity will allow, especially for first home buyers,' he said.
'It's important that you always borrow under your maximum capacity and leave yourself a buffer, so that you don't find yourself in financial distress should your circumstances change or interest rates go up.
'By borrowing less, your stamp duty and deposit will also be less, which might save you some money that you can use for something else, like doing some renovations on your new home.'
To assist those wanting to invest in property but aren't sure where to start, Mr Edge wrote the tell-all book titled 'Buy Now: The Ultimate Guide to Owning and Investing in Property'. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/real-life/article-10831629/Property-guru-Lloyd-Edge-shares-pros-cons-using-super-buy-home.html | 2022-05-19T06:29:16Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/real-life/article-10831629/Property-guru-Lloyd-Edge-shares-pros-cons-using-super-buy-home.html | false | 2 |
By Dan Walsh
Rugby league’s favourite cliche may insist on an 80-minute game, but in recent years a Parramatta win or loss can be all but taken to the bank at the 20-minute mark.
Ahead of Friday’s grudge match against old foes Manly, Champion Data figures reveal the Eels have lost just two of 25 games they have led after the opening quarter in the past three seasons.
That 92 per cent win rate is offset by their success rate if Parramatta find themselves behind after 20 minutes; only four of their 37 wins since 2020 have been pulled out of the early fire.
Wins over premiership frontrunners Melbourne and Penrith have proven Parramatta can beat the best on their day, but their inconsistent starts remain a source of frustration.
Eels skipper Clint Gutherson is well aware his side is living and dying by their opening exchanges, challenging his star-studded pack to muscle up from the outset after the Roosters scored three tries in 24 minutes last week.
“Our middles were pretty disappointed with how they went against the Roosters on the weekend,” Gutherson told the Herald.
“In all our losses this year we’ve probably just been a bit outmuscled at the start of the game.
“Those boys take something like that personally, they weren’t happy with what they produced to start the game. We clawed our way back but it was just a bit too late and we can’t give the better teams that sort of lead early on.
“It’s up to them and they know that for us to be going well, they need to be going well. We’ve got a chance this week to go after a great pack in Manly and they’ll do a job for us and accept that challenge.”
While Reagan Campbell-Gillard and Junior Paulo gear up for a Manly pack on the bounce from a 38-0 Broncos thumping, fan favourite Maika Sivo is on track to make his long-awaited return from injury via NSW Cup.
Provided he pulls up well from Thursday’s final training session, the famed ‘Siiiiivo’ chant could well be back in business in the CommBank Stadium curtain-raiser on Friday night.
An ACL rupture has kept Sivo sidelined since August last year, with his bruising carries to start Parramatta’s sets sorely missed since.
A return to the paddock would cap a fine week for the Fijian sensation after taking up his 2023 option to remain at the Eels on Tuesday.
Marata Niukore is also back on the bench against Manly after hamstring and calf injuries have limited him to just one game in his final season at Parramatta before joining the Warriors.
Gutherson, meanwhile, plays his 150th NRL game against his junior club Manly, who tapped him on the shoulder a few months after a 2016 extension when Geoff Toovey was moved on as coach.
All bar five games of his games have come in the blue and gold after Brad Arthur picked Gutherson up during the final stages of his own recovery from a knee reconstruction, identifying a future club captain almost the moment he walked through the door.
“With those ACL injuries you do wonder at times how it’s all going to work out, so this is special,” Gutherson said.
“You don’t want to make it all about you, but it is a nice moment. That said, all my mates knew it was my 150th before me and they’re all Manly fans so I’ve been copping it all week. I’ll focus on getting the win and they can focus on getting on the beers in the stands.”
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'A clear case of wacktivism': Elon Musk AGAIN lashes out at 'scam' S&P 500 ESG Index after Tesla was removed from its list following claims of racial discrimination and questionable handling of autopilot crashes
- Musk continued to lash out on Twitter after Tesla was delisted from ESG Index
- The electric carmaker was removed from the index measuring 'sustainability'
- Dow Jones cited multiple issues that lowered its score, including concerns about its lack of low carbon strategy and codes of business conduct
- It also cited allegations of racial discrimination and deaths involving Autopilot
- The self-driving technology has been linked to at least 11 deaths since 2016
- Last year, a jury gave an ex-Tesla contractor $137M for alleged racial harassment
- Tesla remains on the regular S&P 500 measuring market capitalization
Elon Musk lashed out on Twitter after Tesla was removed from a widely-followed sustainability index on Wednesday over concerns about the company's lack of low carbon strategy, allegations of workplace racism and Autopilot deaths.
Tweeting into the wee hours of Thursday, Musk responded to well-known tech investor Cathie Wood, who called Tesla's removal from the S&P 500 ESG Index 'ridiculous', adding: 'Not worthy of any other response.'
'Yup,' responded Musk, 'A clear case of wacktivism.'
'What I love most about wacktivists is their incredible sense of humor,' he added in another tweet.
Tesla has become the most valuable auto industry company by pioneering electric vehicles, but was removed from the ESG Index, which measures the 'performance of securities meeting sustainability criteria.'
Elon Musk lashed out on Twitter after Tesla was removed from a widely-followed sustainability index on Wednesday
An executive with S&P Dow Jones Indices, which maintains the index, said that Tesla had been removed because of issues including claims of racial discrimination and crashes linked to its autopilot vehicles.
The move was effective on May 2 but was only announced on Wednesday in a blog post from SPDJI.
In other changes, the sustainability index also added soon-to-be-Musk-controlled Twitter and oil refiner Phillips 66 while dropping Delta Air Lines and Chevron, according to an announcement.
'ESG' stands for environmental, social and governance. The criteria is used by 'socially conscious' investors when deciding where to put their money, according to Investopedia.
Tesla remains on the regular S&P 500 index, which measures the largest companies in the US by market capitalization.
The index provider cited various issues at Tesla that significantly lowered its ESG score, including Autopilot technology that has been linked to at least 11 deaths since 2016.
Allegations of racism also contributed to the company's removal. Last October, a jury awarded $137 million to a former contractor who called Tesla's Fremont plant a 'hotbed of racist behavior.'
Earlier, Musk slammed the decision on Twitter, claiming that the index 'has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.'
S&P Dow Jones Indices removed Tesla from the S&P 500 ESG index after it failed to meet sustainability and social responsibility criteria. Above, the company's HQ in Beijing, China
Musk slammed the index on Twitter, which ironically was added to the index at the same time that Tesla was taken off
Tesla's stock has fallen by nearly 29 percent in the past month, after founder Elon Musk filed a bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion
On Twitter, Musk added: 'Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list! ESG is a scam.'
The de-listing is the latest blow to Tesla. The company's stock has fallen by nearly 29 percent in the past month, after Musk announced plans to buy Twitter for $44 billion.
The move is 'related to Tesla's (lack of) low carbon strategy.'
Even though Tesla is contributing to reducing emissions with its electric cars, its issues and lack of disclosures relative to industry peers should raise concerns for investors looking to judge the company across ESG criteria, said Margaret Dorn, the organization's head of ESG indices for North America,
'You can't just take a company's mission statement at face value, you have to look at their practices across all those key dimensions,' she said.
S&P Dow Jones also blamed the company's codes of business conduct, which it describes as 'a company's implementation, transparent reporting on breaches and the occurrence of corruption and bribery cases and anti-competitive practices.'
Tesla is at risk of controversy after an analysis 'identified two separate events centered around claims of racial discrimination and poor working conditions at Tesla's Fremont factory, as well as its handling of the NHTSA investigation after multiple deaths and injuries were linked to its autopilot vehicles,' the index provider said.
'Both of these events had a negative impact on the company’s S&P DJI ESG Score at the criteria level, and subsequently its overall score.
'While Tesla may be playing its part in taking fuel-powered cars off the road, it has fallen behind its peers when examined through a wider ESG lens,' it added.
Last October, a California jury awarded former Tesla contractor Owen Diaz (pictured) $137 million verdict after he sued alleging racial harassment at the Fremont factory
Black workers at Tesla's Fremont factory (pictured) were regularly subjected to deeply offensive racial slurs and jokes by co-workers and managers, according to a complaint
Elon Musk and Tesla haven't commented on the company being de-listed from a sustainability index used by 'socially conscious' investors. Above, Musk at the Met Gala on May 2
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has sent teams to at least 27 crashes involving Autopilot since 2016. The technology has been linked to at least 11 deaths.
The agency doesn't publicize names of victims, though some have been revealed by local law enforcement and reported in media outlets.
Last October, a California jury awarded former Tesla contractor Owen Diaz a staggering $137 million verdict after he sued alleging racial harassment at the Fremont factory.
Diaz's lawsuit described the Fremont, California, plant, as a 'hotbed of racist behavior' where he was subjected to daily racist abuse including the N-word over a course of 11 months from 2015 to 2016.
The 52-year-old contracted elevator operator claimed fellow employees drew swastikas and left racist graffiti around the plant, while he said one of his supervisors drew a person with a black face and a bone in his hair and wrote 'booo,' short for 'jigaboo.'
The supervisor then allegedly told him 'he couldn't take a joke' when Diaz confronted him. Diaz contended that none of his supervisors stepped in to stop the abuse.
Kevin Kish, the director of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), said the agency had received hundreds of complaints from workers at the plant.
The agency filed a complaint against the company in February after it found evidence of 'segregation and hostile work environment' at the carmaker's Fremont plant.
The DFEH 'found evidence that Tesla's Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, discipline, pay, and promotion', Kish said in a statement reported by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
'The facts on this case speak for themselves,' Kish added.
Ahead of the filing, Tesla released a statement saying it 'opposes all forms of discrimination and harassment' and that it is committed to providing 'a workplace that is safe, respectful, fair and inclusive.'
The family of 15-year-old Jovani Maldonado (pictured) has sued Tesla after he died in an Autopilot-involved accident
But according to the DFEH, workers at the factory would be 'taunted by racial slurs and then baited into verbal and physical confrontations' by non-black workers and would subsequently face disciplinary action.
The company's Autopilot technology is also part of the reason it was removed from the ESG index.
Last October, the NHTSA demanded to know why Tesla hasn't recalled cars with a suspected autopilot flaw that caused several crashes.
The agency's investigation covered 765,000 vehicles and included almost everything that Tesla has sold in the US since the start of the 2014 model year up to that point.
In 2019, 15-year-old Jovani Maldonado was killed after a Tesla on Autopilot hit a Ford Explorer pick-up truck on a California highway, sending the truck rolling.
His family sued the electric car giant.
Last month, video emerged of a Tesla crashing into a $2m private yet while being 'summoned' across a Washington airfield by its owner.
The rogue Model Y kept on going after slamming into the Cirrus Vision at the airfield, believed to be in Spokane.
In January, California prosecutors filed charges against a man who allegedly ran a red light and killed two people in 2019 while driving a Tesla on Autopilot.
Kevin George Aziz Riad, 27, pled not guilty to two counts of vehicular manslaughter.
HisTesla Model S was moving at a high speed when it left a freeway and ran a red light before striking a Honda Civic on December 29, 2019, police said. The two people in the Civic died at the scene.
Experts calling it the first set of serious charges against someone using a widely available driver-assist system.
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Pidilite Ind Standalone March 2022 Net Sales at Rs 2,084.40 crore, up 12.24% Y-o-Y
May 19, 2022 / 10:57 AM IST
Reported Standalone quarterly numbers for Pidilite Industries are:Net Sales at Rs 2,084.40 crore in March 2022 up 12.24% from Rs. 1,857.01 crore in March 2021.
Quarterly Net Profit at Rs. 318.16 crore in March 2022 up 15.06% from Rs. 276.52 crore in March 2021.
EBITDA stands at Rs. 447.52 crore in March 2022 up 6.66% from Rs. 419.58 crore in March 2021.
Pidilite Ind EPS has increased to Rs. 6.26 in March 2022 from Rs. 5.44 in March 2021.
Pidilite Ind shares closed at 2,162.95 on May 18, 2022 (NSE) and has given -11.34% returns over the last 6 months and 14.25% over the last 12 months.
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John Hewit
Oh well. More Spaces For People, more cycle lanes, more road closures, more planters in the middle of the road. A new LEZ in town, work parking space tax, etc, etc. Can’t say we don’t have ourselves to blame for it all.
Sam McIntosh
So what can we do to help people and businesses struggling after lockdown? The council – Let’s implement an LEZ; let’s implement a workplace parking tax; let’s look at congestion charging.
Bill Whyte
Well, that seals the fate of Edinburgh. The city centre empty of people as they will go to out of town retail parks as there are free parking facilities in most of them. Residents parking permits city wide, closed roads meaning emergency services having to make lengthy detours which puts lives at risk. This all leads to reduced funding for street cleaning and bin collections education and social care as the majority of council expenditure will be used for cycle lanes and the trams!
Tony Ward
So, we can all "look forward" to more kerbside parking being removed while more roads are narrowed and/or closed?
Renée La Racineuse
Oh dear, as I won’t be able to drive into the city soon, and don’t want the social stigma which becoming a self-entitled cyclist attracts, I’d better get myself a battery powered helicopter.
Liam James
I cant wait to see what utter dross policies and ridiculously over budget ‘regeneration / renewal / upgrading’ works they manage to come up with over the next few years. Who knows, maybe they’ll just have me paying to get my bin uplifted or start charging me to walk on Princess Street.
Thomas Red Matthew
Fiasco written all over it, but those who voted for this, wanted it.
John Smith
Tragic that within five year, our city centre traffic will succumb to cardiac arrest as a result of the cholesterol of gross mismanagement. And come every Fringe Festival, the gridlock will not raise one eyebrow in the Chambers, as the city reaches out desperately for a defibrillator…
Barry MacKay
Time to surrender the polluting cars and start walking, cycling, bussing it. You know it’s better for you at the end of the day.
Smith C Karen
Hopefully the rest will see sense and create the right opposition.
Allan Taylor
Cyclists will be happy.....about two per cent of the population of Edinburgh.
Ian Hodgson
Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse.
Andrew Donaldson
Just means SNP/Greens will not be able to railroad their policies through, which is good. All the other parties have to do is vote against them.
Botanic bust-up
Dignitaries visiting the Botanics left their limousines in spaces where blue badge holders have been banned from parking.
Renée La Racineuse
Of course they did, and no doubt felt no sense of shame in displaying once more than it’s one privileged set of rules for them and another completely disadvantaged set for the rest of us.
Tony Ward
Shouldn't Maciness and McVey be cycling their "dignitaries" to the Botanics to show off their "no vehicles" policy in action?
Jean Irvine
What happened to their bikes or the bus that stops near the east gate? They should have been ticketed – absolutely appalling.
Mark Coley
"It had come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote."
Andrew Davidson
Shameful and disgusting. Why can't these so called dignitaries take the bus like everyone else?
Diana Karlins
Haven’t they got parking tickets? They are parked on double yellow lines.
Willie Anderson
Why are they not cycling? That’s the Macinnes plan.
Mark Fairbairn
Ah, more stupidity brought into this city by the council under the guise of Covid measures. The chauffeur- driven never follow rules.
David Funnell
Standard practice for those people who think they are better than the rest of us. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/council-coalition-talks-your-views-online-3698917 | 2022-05-19T06:48:39Z | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/council-coalition-talks-your-views-online-3698917 | true | 1 |
Major, a cinematic homage to Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, will be released in theatres on June 3rd. Before the biopic’s release, the film’s star Adivi Sesh and his team have started promoting their upcoming project. The recently released trailer has also sparked interest among viewers. Now, to add to the frenzy, the makers have released a new song named ‘Oh Isha’ from the film on Wednesday.
The song perfectly captures the vibe and feelings of the first love. Sricharan Pakala composed the soundtrack. Both Sesh and the film’s leading lady, Saiee Manjrekar, lived in their roles and had great chemistry. It depicts friendship, affection, an unbreakable bond, and the agony of being apart from one other while the male protagonist is at war.
Armaan Mallik and Chinmaya Sripada have lent their mesmerising voices to the song, on top of the lyrics written by Poojan Kohli. It’s shot in an old-school style, transporting us to the 1990s and making us nostalgic for our first love. Major depicts the commitment, heroism, sacrifice, love, and zeal of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan’s life.
Meanwhile, the trailer for Major was recently released at a spectacular gala in Hyderabad. The video shows Adivi Sesh taking the martyr’s valour to the big screen. He skillfully represents the army officer’s personal and professional accomplishments.
Major covers the life of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, the hero of the 26/11 2008 Mumbai attacks. It traces his life from his youth through the unfortunate events of the Mumbai attack, in which he was martyred.
Major, directed by Sashi Kiran Tikka and bankrolled by Sony Pictures International Productions in association with Mahesh Babu’s GMB Entertainment and A+S Movies. The film stars Adivi Sesh, Made in Heaven fame Sobhita Dhulipala, Saiee Manjrekar along with Prakash Raj, Revathi, and Murali Sharma and it will be released on a pan Indian level in Hindi, Telugu, and Malayalam.
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Joe Schoen, Brian Daboll’s mutual trust sets Giants’ rebuild on right path
Joe Schoen took the field in a white, long-sleeve shirt with a small Giants logo on it and tossed passes during Friday’s rookie minicamp practice. A day later, he reported he felt soreness in the shoulder and core muscle areas and then shook his head when he was reminded that, at 42, he is two years younger than a certain quarterback for the Buccaneers.
Schoen smiled and spent a minute reminiscing about his brief career as a college quarterback back home in Indiana at DePauw University before switching — being told to switch, more precisely — to wide receiver. Then he sounded excited to catch a flight to Buffalo to celebrate his 4-year old daughter’s birthday, a needed respite after the protracted grind of the NFL draft process.
This is a new age of Giants football, and Schoen, along with his handpicked head coach, Brian Daboll, are the driving forces to what will be a rejuvenation. Does that mean this rebuilding team will finish with a winning record in 2022? No, it does not. It is already clear, though, that the days of this franchise as a doormat are nearing an end.
The final cycle of Tom Coughlin’s 12-year run — 7-9, 6-10, 6-10 — put on display an operation in decline. After a one-year bump thanks to an infusion of mercenary imports on defense, the embarrassments of 3-13, 5-11, 4-12, 6-10 and 4-13 under three head coaches will eventually be remembered with chagrin as the dark days. There are lighter times ahead. How bright it shines remains to be seen, but it is already evident the linkage of Schoen and Daboll is going to reap rewards for the Giants.
That Buffalo Bills connection has an advantage that so many previous Giants general manager-head coach alliances did not. Schoen and Daboll are friends. Seeing the two of them, and their wives, sitting together at a round table during a party at the owners’ meeting in Palm Beach, Fla., interacting so naturally was merely one snippet of their bond. They attended two Rangers playoff games together. They spent the past four years in Buffalo filling similar in-waiting positions, Schoen as the assistant to Brandon Beane and Daboll as the offensive coordinator for Sean McDermott. Their shared success with the Bills earned the promotions the Giants were eager to bestow upon them.
“I think alignment is very important,” Daboll said not long after he was hired. “The last few years at the Buffalo Bills I got to see that firsthand. If you put people in a leadership position and make sure that they’re aligned and have a proper plan and then surround them with good people, you have a chance.’’
This is what will make the difference. The alignment here is snug and secure, unlikely to loosen if losses mount in the early stages of all this. The Dave Gettleman-Joe Judge alignment the past two years devolved from adequate to indiscernible.
There is no feeling-out process with Schoen and Daboll as they both settle into their coveted promotions. There is no need for one to investigate how the other values certain traits in players; they already know. There is no feeling-out period, in terms of personality quirks or personal situations; they already know. Schoen’s agenda is Daboll’s agenda. They are sympatico in that they arrived together and theirs is a shared timeline. Daboll, 47, will endure growing pains as a first-timer, as will Schoen, but there will be no conjecture about one distrusting the other.
The first NFL draft with Schoen calling the shots and Daboll shaping his own roster was seamless and collaborative. Schoen said “the coaching staff did a tremendous job.’’ Daboll recalled “Joe and myself and about eight other people’’ watched three particular prospects “for what seemed like 12 hours a day.’’
They could grind it out and then laugh about it afterwards.
“Three times, Joe flipped a coin and decided who he was going to pick,’’ Daboll said. “We were calling heads and tails over there.’’
https://embed.acast.com/fae5b95d-1ca9-5e3b-a486-796f62b40b29/626f70270241f80012536756?accentColor=2a2a2a&bgColor=f6f6f6&font-family=proxima%20nova&logo=false&secondaryColor=cc3333This is not said, even in jest, in a new relationship.
Schoen was the lead player in this, as the draft is mostly a general manager orchestration, and Daboll easily ceded the media spotlight. Starting with the now-completed rookie minicamp, the attention shifts to the on-the-field action, and Daboll takes center stage, with Schoen agreeably moving in public to the background.
Schoen is putting the finishing touches on a new-look front office and scouting department and the result will be an upgraded and more coherent operation that should be a boon to the franchise.
There are high hurdles ahead, and Schoen and Daboll are living under the blanket of an undefeated existence. That there will be losses ahead does not shade the reality that the Giants are back in the game now. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2604278328387/joe-schoen-brian-daboll-s-mutual-trust-sets-giants-rebuild-on-right-path | 2022-05-19T06:54:38Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2604278328387/joe-schoen-brian-daboll-s-mutual-trust-sets-giants-rebuild-on-right-path | false | 3 |
Buffalo shooting: Sites yank videos faster, but not by much
NEW YORK — (AP) — Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years. It's just not clear they're moving quickly enough.
Police say that when a white gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others — most of them Black — in a "racially motivated violent extremist" shooting in Buffalo Saturday, he livestreamed the attack to the gaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon. It didn't stay there long; a Twitch spokesperson said it removed the video in less than two minutes.
That's considerably faster than the 17 minutes Facebook needed to take down a similar video streamed by a self-described white supremacist who killed 51 people in two New Zealand mosques in 2019. But versions of the Buffalo shooting video still quickly spread to other platforms, and they haven't always disappeared quickly.
In April, Twitter enacted a new policy on "perpetrators of violent attacks" to remove accounts maintained by "individual perpetrators of terrorist, violent extremist, or mass violent attacks," along with tweets and other material produced by perpetrators of such attacks. On Sunday, though, clips of the video were still circulating on the platform.
One clip purporting to display a first-person view of the gunman moving through a supermarket firing at people was posted to Twitter at 8:12 a.m. Pacific time, and was still viewable more than four hours later.
Twitter said Sunday it was working to remove material related to the shooting that violates its rules. But the company added that when people share media to condemn it or provide context, sharing videos and other material from the shooter may not be a rules violation. In these cases, Twitter said it covers images or videos with a “sensitive material" cover that users have to click through in order to view them.
But later Sunday, Twitter changed course on how it was treating material related to the shooting. In a subsequent emailed statement, the company said it is “removing videos and media related to the incident” and “may remove” tweets disseminating the shooter’s writings. Earlier, the company’s statement said it “may” remove material produced by perpetrators.
“We believe the hateful and discriminatory views promoted in content produced by perpetrators are harmful for society and that their dissemination should be limited in order to prevent perpetrators from publicizing their message,” Twitter said in a statement.
At a news conference following the attack, New York Gov, Kathy Hochul said social media companies must be more vigilant in monitoring what happens on their platforms and found it inexcusable the livestream wasn't taken down “within a second.”
“The CEOs of those companies need to be held accountable and assure all of us that they’re taking every step humanly possible to be able to monitor this information,” Hochul said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “How these depraved ideas are fermenting on social media – it’s spreading like a virus now.”
Hochul said she holds companies responsible for “fomenting” racist views. “People are sharing these ideas. They’re sharing videos of other attacks. And they’re all copycat. They all want to be the next great white hope that’s going to inspire the next attack,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that investigators were also looking into a diatribe the gunman posted online, which purports to outline the attacker’s racist, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic beliefs, including a desire to drive all people not of European descent from the U.S.
Police said the suspected gunman, identified as Payton Gendron, of Conklin, New York, shot 11 Black and two white victims in a Buffalo supermarket, echoing a deadly attack in a German synagogue that was also streamed on Twitch in October 2019..
Twitch is popular among video game players and has played a key role in boosting the spread of esports. A company spokesperson said the company has a “zero-tolerance policy” against violence. So far, the company hasn’t revealed details around the user page or the livestream, including how many people were watching it. The spokesperson said the company has taken the account offline and is monitoring any others who might rebroadcast the video.
In Europe, a senior European Union official with oversight of digital affairs for the 27-nation bloc said Sunday that the livestreaming on Twitch showed the need for administrators to continue working with online platforms so that any future broadcasts of killings can be quickly shut down.
But Margrethe Vestager, who is an executive vice-president of the European Commission, also said it would be a stiff challenge to stamp out such broadcasts completely.
“It’s really difficult to make sure that it’s completely waterproof, to make sure that this will never happen and that people will be closed down the second they would start a thing like that. Because there’s a lot of livestreaming which, of course, is 100% legitimate,” she said an interview with The Associated Press.
“The platforms have done a lot to get to the root of this. They are not there yet,” she added. “But they keep working and we will keep working.”
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said Sunday that it quickly designated the shooting as a “terrorist attack” on Saturday, which triggered an internal process that identifies the suspect’s account, as well as copies of his writings and any copy of or link to video of his attack.
The company said it has removed the video of the shooting from the platform and added that instances of it still being shared are through links to streaming sites. These links, in turn, are blocked and “blackholed” by the company, meaning they can't be uploaded again.
But new links created as people upload copies to outside sites would have to be individually blocked in a game of cat and mouse — unless the company choses to block an entire streaming site from its platform, which is unlikely.
Jared Holt, a resident fellow at Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, said live-content moderation continues to be a big challenge for companies. He noted Twitch's response time was good and the company was smart to watch their platform for potential re-uploads.
“It would behoove other video hosting platforms to also be aware of this content to the extent that it may have been recorded - may also be republished on their own products,” Holt said.
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AP technology reporter Barbara Ortutay contributed to this story from Oakland, Calif.; AP reporter John Leicester contributed from Paris.
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If he sees sense in what the Cevian activist thinks, he can easily go aggressive.
Its enigmatic new name is not the only thing that is puzzling about e&. The Persian Gulf-based telecoms giant, formerly known as Etisalat, has invested $4.4 billion in a 9.8% stake in Vodafone. CEO Hatem Dowidar says he is content to be a passive minority. He wants no board seats and has endorsed Nick Read and his strategy. But with activist Cevian Capital pushing for changes, including a possible breakup, that passivity may not last.
With $600 million of net cash on its books, the $75 billion e& has plenty to spend. And Vodafone seems cheap. Including debt, it is valued at only 5 times the ebitda forecast for 2023, half the multiple of its new shareholder. The poor results justify the discount. Vodafone’s revenues are growing at an anemic 1% annually and its EBITDA margin remains at 33%. If Dowidar sees sense in what Cevian is thinking, it will be easy for him to go from passive to aggressive. | https://voonze.com/the-new-and-passive-investor-in-vodafone/ | 2022-05-19T07:03:14Z | https://voonze.com/the-new-and-passive-investor-in-vodafone/ | false | 1 |
What are the best Pixel Watch alternatives?
While many agree with the sentiment that “patience is a virtue,” waiting for the arrival of Google’s smartwatch is enough to test anyone’s patience. Recently, the company confirmed the launch of the Pixel Watch after years of anticipation. However, that’s about all we know. There is scarce information about features, price or specs and no official release date.
Fortunately, wearable technology continues to evolve, and there are a ton of smartwatches worth considering. So, if your patience is wavering, here are 12 Pixel Watch alternatives.
What to know about the Pixel Watch
- Release date: At the Google I/O 2022 conference, the company confirmed that the Pixel Watch is coming sometime this fall. However, that could be anywhere from August to November 2022.
- Design: The Pixel Watch will have a domed, circular design with a recycled stainless steel casing and quick-release bands.
- Fitness features: For those who are familiar with Fitbit fitness tracking, the Pixel Watch will use the same fitness system.
- Wear OS: The Pixel Watch will run an updated Wear OS, and it won’t be compatible with iPhones.
How to choose a smartwatch
Phone compatibility
One of the most attractive features of a smartwatch is its ability to integrate with your smartphone. So, confirming a smartwatch will work with your phone is the first and most crucial step. For example, iPhone users will get the most functionality from an Apple Watch, while those with an Android will want to look for a smartwatch that runs Android Wear, such as Samsung smartwatches. If you are considering a smartwatch that is compatible with both an iPhone and Android, be sure it supports the apps and features you need.
Fitness tracking
Do you want a smartphone primarily for its fitness capabilities or to take phone calls and send text messages? While smartwatches and fitness trackers were once two separate devices, smartwatches have evolved over the past few years, blurring the line between the two. For example, the earlier Fitbits were strictly for fitness and included features that track heart rate, running distance and steps. However, now they can replace your phone while working out because they have a built-in GPS and the ability to store music.
Battery life
If you’re looking for a watch that completely integrates with your smartphone that you’ll be using often in your daily routine, it’ll likely need to be charged nightly as you would your smartphone with the help of a charging station. If you don’t want to charge your smartwatch every night, be sure to check the reviews to see how long it lasts before needing a charge. Generally, smartwatches with more apps and features will need to be charged more often.
Best Pixel Watch alternatives
Affordable smartwatches
If health tracking is your primary concern, this Fitbit offers all the necessary features, including a built-in GPS, a daily readiness score that recommends a day of exercise or recovery and sleep tracking. Plus, you can control some features using Google Assistant or Alexa.
This Wear OS watch features the Mobvoi dual processing system and Snapdragon Wear 4100, which is the most powerful processor by Qualcomm. While this lightweight smartwatch is one of the most affordable, it’s also the most comparable.
Sold by Amazon
Those looking for an affordable fitness smartwatch will appreciate the 14-day battery and 15 workout modes. While this large watch is best suited for those who have large wrists, it boasts a 1.39-inch AMOLED display with an extremely accurate touch response.
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Powered with Wear OS, this smartwatch works with both Android and iPhones and comes with a leather band. Features include heart rate tracking, Bluetooth calling, a speaker and app notifications.
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This Fitbit Sense focuses on mental well-being, fitness and health over other smartwatch apps or features. It boasts an on-wrist skin temperature sensor, heart rate notifications and electrodermal activity detection.
Compatible with Android and iOS, this smartwatch is built to support apps, receive phone calls and perform operations with its offline voice assistant. With a 5 ATM water-resistance grade, you can enjoy a dip in the lake without taking off your watch.
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With the updated Wear OS 3.0, you’ll get better integration with Samsung devices and a more in-depth app selection. Additional features include ECG monitoring, connecting to calls and texts and group challenges with friends.
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This smartwatch has built-in Amazon Alexa, which can be used to set reminders, track Amazon orders or manage your day. It is compatible with both Android and iOS and can answer and make calls when your phone is out of reach.
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This stylish smartwatch is the best option for fashionistas. Aside from its visually appealing exterior, it shows notifications from apps and messages, accepts or ignores calls, has built-in GPS tracking and boasts a contactless payment feature.
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The Garmin Venu 2 combines an attractive watch with convenient features, including stress tracking, preloaded workouts and call, text and social media alerts. It also has enough storage to download up to 650 songs from Spotify or Amazon Music.
Suunto 7 GPS Sports Smartwatch
The battery on this watch can last up to 40 days in battery saver mode, two days using the smartwatch and 12 hours in GPS mode. It’s a versatile GPS sports watch with smartwatch features from Wear OS, such as smart widgets, downloading music and seeing incoming calls.
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If you’re not sold on an Android smartwatch, this Apple watch is one of the top options on the market today. It features a highly crack-resistant crystal front screen, continuous ECG monitoring and contactless Apple Pay.
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Nuclear weapons at a top secret US air force base were “disabled” by aliens, according to a former officer.
Robert Salas claimed that around 10 nuclear weapons were disabled in 1967.
He was on duty as commander at a secret underground launch facility at the Malmstrom Air Force base in Montana.
Speaking after the secretive hearing held by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) task force this week, he told the Sun: “Nuclear missiles were shut down by UFOs over the span of eight days and this is well documented and there are testimonies by witnesses.
“The primary witnesses, myself included, are still alive and able to give testimony about this incident.
“Without a doubt, I would testify to the inquiry, under oath, and I would bring documentation in the form of audio recordings, letters etc.
“After the incidents took place, we were told not to speak about them, in other words, there was a cover-up.
“We were never debriefed about the causation or the attempt to find the causation by the investigative teams and this was kept secret.”
“There’s excessive secrecy surrounding the whole thing.
“There’s a cover-up ongoing and there must be an organised group within intelligence agencies that are holding these secrets.”
During the first day of the The Pentagon's alien hearings this week, it was revealed that there were 400 reported cases of UFO sightings at a recent conference, which is the the first UFO conference the department has held in 50 years.
Senior defence officials were on hand to talk through the updated sightings list, as well as pledging their commitment in trying to understand "unidentified aerial phenomena".
Two officials, Ronald Moultrie and Scott Bray, appeared before a House of Representatives subcommittee for the first hearing on the subject in half a century.
The hearing comes just under a year after a government document reported more than 140 cases of unidentified aerial phenomena since 2004, a number which has since rocketed up to 400.
While research from Scott Bray said no evidence of aliens had been found, the deputy director of Naval intelligence said that while the incidents cannot be explained, there is nothing of alien origin.
Bray added that none of the documented objects had tried to communicate with US aviators, who had been recording UFO sightings since 2004, nor had they been able to communicate with the unidentified flying objects.
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Jamie Redknapp has claimed that Liverpool cannot afford to lose Virgil van Dijk at the club, stating that the Dutchman should not be earning less in wages than Mo Salah.
This comes as the summer window fastly approaches, with talks presumably set to be the full focus of the club’s negotiators after the Champions League final.
“I’m sure Mo Salah’s been offered a vast amount of money, but sometimes you have to think: ‘Well if we give him that much, what will Virgil van Dijk want?’,” the former Red told Sky Sports.
“Virgil van Dijk for me is the most important player at the club. I wouldn’t give anyone more money than him. That’s how I see it.
“I know strikers should get more, in terms of that’s always been the way it is, but whatever Virgil gets, he should be on the most.
“They will find another Mo Salah. You can’t find another Virgil van Dijk right now.”
With a contract set to expire in 2023, it’s more than understandable why the recruitment team is keen to add on a few years to his current deal – especially in light of his current status in world football.
The signing of Virgil van Dijk, alongside that of Alisson Becker, was thought to be the most transformative of Jurgen Klopp’s additions since the German’s move to Merseyside.
Regardless, it seems inevitable that the Egyptian King will end up with the largest salary in the squad should Julian Ward and Co. manage to convince our No.11 to extend his current terms.
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Game On! Two Basketball Courts Come with Mansion Built for Piston Joe Dumars
It seems only fitting that former Detroit Piston and Basketball Hall of Famer Joe Dumars would live in a home designed for a legend, and his custom-designed mansion did not disappoint. Complete with all the bells and whistles you'd expect, the mansion has not one, but two basketball courts, and it's on the market.
The current owners bought the home in 2015 from Dumars, and have remodeled some parts of it. Dumars originally built the home with over 26,000 square feet of living space back in 1995. The home is located on Franklin Road in Bloomfield Hills and sits on 4 acres that includes frontage on Lower Long Lake.
Of the seven bedrooms, 2 are master suites and 5 full guest suites. There are also 12 full and 3 half bathrooms. Of course, the home is decked out with premium cabinets, state-of-the-art appliances in the 2 gourmet kitchens, and even stamped Versace tile and more extras that set the home apart, but it's the extra extras that make this mansion stand out.
Entertainment Wonderland
Welcome to an entertainment wonderland. Dumars built the home to completely reflect his love of basketball. Inside the home, you'll find a custom indoor basketball half-court that still bears the champion player's name embedded on the court. The court area comes complete with a viewing area, sauna, and locker room. When you're ready to unwind, kick back in the theatre room with custom leather interactive seating.
The game continues outside with a full-size basketball court, regulation tennis court, pool with jacuzzi, custom firepit area, and detailed pavers that lead the way through the meticulously landscaped grounds.
The final cherry on the top of this delicious home is that the entire place is a Savant Smart Home. That means you can control every aspect of the estate with your phone. Pretty slick right?
The home and all its perks can be yours for $9,950,000. Interested? Take a look inside below and contact the selling agent here.
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Elon Musk Emerges Again in Johnny Depp Trial, Here's What Amber Heard Revealed About Him
As the drama of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial continues, the name of Elon Musk came up Monday in court.
The Hollywood star is suing his ex-wife over a 2018 Washington Post Op-Ed in which the actress described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Depp claims that although he was not named in Heard’s Op-Ed, she falsely implied that he was a domestic abuser, which deeply damaged his career.
He is suing her for $50 million.
So how does Musk come into this?
Before Heard began testifying this month at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, outlets such as the New York Post’s Page Six and the United Arab Emirates’ National were running headlines reminding readers that Heard and Musk were briefly in a relationship after her divorce from Depp.
The billionaire’s name has come up a few times in the trial, Newsweek reported. He was also named on Heard’s witness list, according to the U.K.’s Independent.
But on Monday, Heard herself brought up Musk during her testimony.
She said that in 2016, Depp stood her up at the Met Gala in New York City even though they were still married at the time.
The actress said his absence led her to have a conversation with Musk at the event.
“So I ended up going by myself. Frankly, I wasn’t sure if he’d show up on the carpet or if he’d show up at the hotel before. I had no way of knowing,” Heard said.
“I got out of the car and walked the red carpet by myself, escorted by someone on Ralph Lauren’s team, and I sat next to an empty place setting for Johnny that they cleared as soon as we realized he wasn’t,” she said. “He effectively stood me up on the red carpet.”
Heard said she ended up near Musk.
“I was standing in line right in front of a gentleman. It was Elon [Musk]. I didn’t recognize him until we started talking,” the actress said. “And he reminded me that we had met once before.
“He was with his mother. He seemed like a real gentleman, he was really nice. He sat next to me, he sat kind of in a nearby table, and we got to speaking that night and then eventually became friends.”
Later, a month after her divorce from Depp in 2017, Heard and Musk began dating. But they broke up in 2018, the Independent reported.
The former spouses’ agent, Christian Carino, also previously testified at the trial that Heard was dating Musk around the same time that she was also trying to reconcile with her husband.
In earlier statements in the trial, Heard’s lawyers claimed that Depp had been “obsessed” with Musk.
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Acquisition of Leading French UX Insights Company Expands UserZoom's Footprint to Better Serve European and Global Customers
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UserZoom, the pioneer of the Digital User Experience (UX) Insights category, today announced the acquisition of Testapic, the leading UX insights company in France. This enables UserZoom to empower more teams across the globe with the high quality user insights they need to build exceptional digital experiences.
Testapic is the leading remote UX insights platform in France, known for the company's innovative approach to sourcing and providing research expertise. Testapic's unique target criteria allows businesses to grow and mature their experience capabilities based on tailored feedback from diverse participants across Europe and worldwide. The acquisition will further boost these capabilities with UserZoom's added support and investment.
"We're extremely excited to add Testapic to the UserZoom family. We view this as a natural partnership to address the growing need for quality user experience insights across Europe, enabling companies to deliver excellent personalized and digital experiences," said Alfonso de la Nuez, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, UserZoom. "This acquisition will boost our multilingual panel capabilities and cement our lead in Europe's largest economies with a partner that shares our values and domain expertise."
As UserZoom continues to expand its global footprint, acquiring Testapic was both an ideal business and cultural fit. Testapic's participant recruitment capabilities paired with UserZoom's innovative testing and benchmarking solutions provide customers with a powerful UX Insights System, including high-quality research, smart participant sourcing and the global expertise of the two companies, giving today's businesses what they need to deliver better user experiences and a distinct competitive advantage.Testapic already counts Carrefour, Crédit Agricole, Decathlon, Europcar, Samsung and SFR as proud customers and will continue to serve them and others going forward.
"We are excited to join forces with UserZoom to help companies test and measure product UX and leverage that insight to deliver the best possible digital experiences," said Nicolas Guirao, Co-Founder and CEO, Testapic. "UserZoom's people-first company culture is aligned with ours, making this an easy decision, and we're eager to get started so we can best support one another, and ultimately our customers."
About UserZoom:
UserZoom is the leading Digital User Experience Insights System. Its all-in-one platform, participant recruitment engine and professional services provide the in-depth quantitative and qualitative insights essential to testing, measuring and improving digital product experiences at speed and scale throughout the product development lifecycle. UserZoom helps businesses connect insights to their most important performance metrics, so they can make confident, customer-focused decisions that drive growth and deliver competitive advantage. With operations in North America and Europe, the company helps global brands such as Google, Oracle, Aetna, Santander, Kimberly-Clark, and half of the Fortune 100 raise the bar for an outstanding digital experience. To learn more, visit www.UserZoom.com.
About Testapic:
Testapic is the pioneer and leader in France of digital user experience (UX) evolution and remote exploratory research. Since 2011, our mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) approach - coupled with a highly qualified and large panel of participants - leverages the user's voice to become a strategic ingredient for market and performance differentiation.
Always focused on innovation with a user centric approach, Testapic's all-in-one platform delivers efficient remote user feedback in France and Europe. More than 50% of the Cotation Assistée en Continu (CAC) 40 companies trust Testapic to improve their customer journeys. To learn more, visit www.testapic.com.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Scott Dixon won't sugarcoat the start he has had this season: “It’s been pretty horrendous,” the six-time IndyCar champion admitted.
There’s no race like the Indianapolis 500 to turn a season around, and Dixon got off to a strong start in pursuit of his second win at “The Greatest Spectacle of Racing.”
He spent hours atop the scoring pylon on the opening day of Indy 500 preparations until a late run by Takuma Sato bumped Dixon to second on the speed chart. Dixon put little stock in Tuesday's showing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
“Let’s see what the rest of the week brings," he said.
Wednesday brought rain to the speedway and hours of idle time for drivers.
Dixon wanted to be in his car working with Chip Ganassi Racing to figure out how to jumpstart his season. The 41-year-old New Zealander has high expectations for himself and simply hasn't been meeting them since he wrapped up his sixth title in 2020 — a championship that moved him within one of A.J. Foyt's record seven titles.
He was overshadowed much of last season by new teammate Alex Palou, who won the season-opening race to launch his own championship-winning campaign. Dixon won only once last season and failed to win multiple IndyCar races in a season for just the sixth time in 21 full years with Ganassi.
That 51st victory last year did move Dixon within one win of tying Mario Andretti for second on the all-time wins list, but that's where he's sat for the last 18 starts. It is Dixon's longest winless streak since 2003 through 2005 when he went 40 races between wins.
He's called “The Iceman” because Dixon is typically so calm and collected. This challenging stretch has tested his temperament.
“I definitely get frustrated. I swear a lot,” he said. “But that’s just because we’re all competitive. It’s always tough, been in this position before, it’s nothing new. We’ll turn it around and we’ll get on with it.”
What's jarring through five races is how underwhelming he has been. He has struggled in qualifying, has yet to score a podium, his highest finish is a pair of fifths and he's not led any laps since the 26 he was out front in the season opener.
Dario Franchitti, Dixon's close friend and former teammate and rival, noted Dixon has never not rebounded.
“We've had a lot of chats over the last month or so and he's mad. He hates being beaten,” Franchitti told The Associated Press. Franchitti beat Dixon for the title head-to-head four times, including three times as Ganassi teammates.
“He's been through a lot more difficult situations through his career, and if you look at 2007, when I beat him for the championship and the 500, you watch his recovery in 2008 and it shows you he's tough. He's as mentally tough as any person I know.”
Franchitti believes the 500 can be the turning point Dixon needs.
“Scott knows they've got to improve, everybody on that team knows that,” Franchitti said. “And they know how to improve it. If you don't know what you are doing wrong, then you've got a problem. He's not in that situation.” | https://www.decaturdaily.com/sports/pro_sports/dixon-looking-to-jumpstart-season-with-strong-indy-500/article_03e13349-862d-5209-b233-abfbcf816e9a.html | 2022-05-19T07:16:18Z | https://www.decaturdaily.com/sports/pro_sports/dixon-looking-to-jumpstart-season-with-strong-indy-500/article_03e13349-862d-5209-b233-abfbcf816e9a.html | false | 14 |
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US Air Force Announces Successful Test of 'Game-Changing' Hypersonic Weapon
The Air Force announced the successful test of a hypersonic missile that can travel more than five times the speed of sound, according to a Monday news release.
A Boeing B-52H Stratofortress launched the AGM-183 AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon off the coast of California on Saturday, the Air Force said.
The missile is designed to strike long-distant targets in what the Air Force denotes as “contested environments,” or heavily defended areas.
“This was a major accomplishment by the ARRW team, for the weapons enterprise, and our Air Force,” Brig. Gen. Heath A. Collins said.
“The successful flight demonstrates the weapon’s ability to reach and withstand operational hypersonic speeds, collect crucial data for use in further flight tests, and validate safe separation from the aircraft to deliver the glide body and warhead to designated targets from significant standoff distances,” Lockheed Martin said in its news release on the test.
JUST IN: @LockheedMartin Martin and @usairforce successfully complete an Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) #hypersonic boosted test flight. pic.twitter.com/h1m7I9i06c
— Lockheed Martin News (@lmnews) May 17, 2022
This is a major step toward delivering this capability to the @usairforce.
— Lockheed Martin News (@lmnews) May 17, 2022
China and Russia also have programs to develop hypersonic weapons.
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, described a Chinese test last October as a “Sputnik moment.”
Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, claimed Russian forces used hypersonic missiles to destroy a Ukrainian ammunition warehouse during the invasion of Ukraine in March, according to The New York Times.
“Our highly-skilled team made history on this first air-launched hypersonic weapon,” said Lt. Col. Michael Jungquist, commander of the 419th Flight Test Squadron.
“We’re doing everything we can to get this game-changing weapon to the warfighter as soon as possible,” Jungquist said.
The missile is expected to reach an early operational capability in September, according to Air Force Technology, a military aerospace news site.
An ARRW has the capability to hit targets up to 1,000 miles away in as few as 10 minutes, according to a 2020 report by Air Force Magazine.
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St. John’s Walks Off Georgetown in 11 Innings, 10-9, Claims Series
QUEENS, N.Y.- In a back-and-forth series finale, the St. John's baseball team delivered the decisive blow to defeat Georgetown in walk-off fashion, 10-9, in 11 innings on Sunday afternoon at Jack Kaiser Stadium. For the second time this season, Kevin Michaels tallied five hits, going 5-for-6 on Sunday. The...
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GST Council recommendations not binding on Centre, states: Both can legislate on it says SC
New Delhi, May 19: The Supreme Court has said that the GST council's recommendations are not binding on the Centre and states. The recommendations only have persuasive value the court also said.
The court said that it gave these findings because India is a cooperative federalism. The judgment was delisted by a bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud.
The Bench also held that both the states and Centre can equally legislate on matters of Goods and Service Tax (GST).
Recommendations of GST council are product of collaborative discussion. It is not imperative that one of the federal units must always possess a higher share, the court said. The order of the Supreme Court emphasises on the importance of the principles of cooperate federalism.
Further it said that Article 279A of the Constitution does not begin with a non-obstante clause and Article 246A does not envisage a repugnancy provision. Indian federalism is a dialogue in which state and Centre always engaged in a dialogue the Bench also said. | https://www.oneindia.com/india/gst-council-recommendations-not-binding-on-centre-states-both-can-legislate-on-it-says-sc-3410138.html | 2022-05-19T07:23:05Z | https://www.oneindia.com/india/gst-council-recommendations-not-binding-on-centre-states-both-can-legislate-on-it-says-sc-3410138.html | false | null |
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — The first Battle of Alberta in the playoffs in 31 years didn't disappoint.
The Calgary Flames got a hat trick from Matthew Tkachuk to outlast the Edmonton Oilers 9-6 and grab Game 1 of the second round series Wednesday night after a blistering game that saw the most goals in a postseason game in 29 years.
“Strange game,” Flames coach Darryl Sutter said. “We scored on our first two shots and there were probably six different games out there. Take the win. Move on.”
Blake Coleman scored twice for the Flames. Rasmus Andersson and Andrew Mangiapane each had a goal and two assists, and Elias Lindholm and Brett Ritchie also scored. Jacob Markstrom stopped 22 shots for the win.
Zach Hyman scored twice for Edmonton, and Connor McDavid had a goal and three assists for his fourth straight multi-point game in the playoffs. McDavid leads the league’s postseason points race with five goals and 13 assists. Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists and Kailer Yamamoto and Evan Bouchard also scored for the Oilers.
Edmonton starter Mike Smith was pulled in the first period after allowing three goals on 10 shots. Mikko Koskinen made 32 saves in relief.
“We fought back and made it a game, but we can’t feel good about that in any way because we scored six goals in game and found a way to not win it,” Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft said.
The winner of the best-of-seven series advances to the Western Conference final. Game 2 is Friday at the Saddledome before the series heads to Edmonton for Sunday’s Game 3 and Tuesday’s Game 4.
It was the highest scoring postseason game since Los Angeles beat Calgary 9-6 in the 1993 division semifinals.
In a matchup of potent offenses, the Flames scored twice in a 25-second span in the first minute and led 3-0 by 6:05 when Smith was replaced by Koskinen. Calgary’s two goals in the opening 51 seconds was the fastest two goals to start an NHL playoff game, and electrified a sea of red dotted with Oilers orange and blue at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
“Couldn’t ask for a better start, but you’ve got to have that killer mindset and you’ve got to be able to put teams down and keep pushing them down,” Coleman said. “We made some mental mistakes in the second period, got away from our checking game a little bit. The good news is it’s correctable.
“That’s not our style of game, 9-6. It’s great that we got the Game 1 win but there’s a lot to dissect here.”
The Oilers did not go quietly, however. The Flames held a 40-18 edge in shots after two periods, but led 6-5 heading to the third.
Yamamoto briefly tied the game at 1:28 of the final period, putting McDavid’s rebound over Markstrom’s outstretched pad.
Andersson regained the lead for Calgary at 2:57 after getting a pass from Mangiapane from behind the net. Tkachuk made it 8-6 at 8:55 with his second of the night and scored into an empty net to complete his first postseason hat trick.
Hats rained down onto the Saddledome ice and chants of “we want 10” goals soon followed.
“Not good. Not good at all,” Tkachuk said. “Probably our worst game of the playoffs so far. We got super-lucky. ... That’s just not the recipe for success. Maybe we win this one, but we’re not going to win many more if we’re going to play like that.”
Coleman struck 45 seconds into the second period and again at 6:10 to push the Flames' lead to 5-1.
Bouchard converted McDavid’s pass at 7:10, and Tkachuk batted in a rebound for a power-play goal at 8:24 after Edmonton’s Zack Kassian was sent off for roughing.
Hyman scored at 9:38 and 14:06 to pull the Oilers to 6-4. Draisaitl made it a one-goal game with 39 seconds left in the second when he beat Markstrom far side on an odd-man rush with McDavid.
Lindholm converted Calgary’s first shot of the game into a goal 26 seconds in, and Backlund fed an undefended Mangiapane in the slot to beat Smith from close range at 51 seconds.
“If you go down 2-0 before it hits the 19-minute mark on the clock, it’s obviously not a good start,” Draisaitl said. “Clearly we weren’t ready and it’s tough to play catch up for the whole night. ... We can all be a lot better away from the puck, and that starts with myself.”
Ritchie scored his first career playoff goal at 6:05 to make it 3-0, and McDavid tucked the puck between Markstrom's pads at 7:41 to get Edmonton on the scoreboard.
INJURY
The Flames were missing top shutdown defenseman Chris Tanev a second straight playoff game. He was injured in Game 6 of Calgary’s first-round series against Dallas. Tanev skated in both Tuesday’s practice and in Wednesday’s morning skate, but did not dress for Game 1.
NOTES: With his 94th career playoff win as a coach, Darryl Sutter joined Pat Quinn ranked No. 6 all-time. ... With three assists in Game 1, Johnny Gaudreau joined Jarome Iginla and Martin Gelinas (2004) among Flames players to have a six-game point streak in the playoffs. ... McDavid was the first Oilers player to score a goal in four straight postseason games since Michael Peca and Shawn Horcoff in 2006. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4543575 | 2022-05-19T07:23:30Z | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4543575 | true | 34 |
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Airtel needs another tariff hike to reach Rs 200 ARPU: ICICI
“Q4FY22 ARPU reflects a significant portion of benefit of tariff hike taken in Nov’21 of 20% in prepaid category as its ARPU has increased 18% vs Q2FY22, adjusted to lower days. Bharti needs another tariff hike for ARPU of >Rs200 and it is possible in FY23,” ICICI said in a note seen by ET.
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel will need another price hike to achieve an average revenue per user (ARPU) of Rs 200 in the next 12 months even as the telco reported an increase in ARPU to Rs 178 in Q4FY22, brokerage firm ICICI Securities said Thursday.
“Q4FY22 ARPU reflects a significant portion of benefit of tariff hike taken in Nov’21 of 20% in prepaid category as its ARPU has increased 18% vs Q2FY22, adjusted to lower days. Bharti needs another tariff hike for ARPU of >Rs200 and it is possible in FY23,” ICICI said in a note seen by ET.
Airtel MD Gopal Vittal in an earnings call Wednesday said a tariff hike can be expected this year to reach an ARPU of Rs 200. “Though getting to Rs 300 will happen over a period of time,” Vittal said.
The Big 3 telcos – Reliance Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea – had raised prepaid tariffs by up to 25% last November/December to boost APRUs.
The Airtel MD conceded there had been some SIM consolidation among 2G feature phone users after the doubling of base prepaid rates to Rs 99, but said “a bigger pain” is the continuing shortage of semiconductors and rising chipset prices that has increased entry-level smartphones prices to almost Rs 10,000 (from Rs 6,000 previously), which is inhibiting customer upgrades from 2G-to-4G devices.
He, though, expects this to be only a temporary blip, saying that consumer behaviour, typically, adopts to a new normal over a period of time. In fact, Airtel added more 4G users (5.24 million) in the March quarter compared to around 3 million in the previous three-month period, even after sharply hiking prepaid tariffs last November.
ICICI noted that Airtel’s revenue grew 25% year-on-year to Rs 176 billion, as compared to Reliance Jio’s 20% and Vodafone Idea’s 6.6% year-on-year growth, implying that “Bharti’s market share win continued”.
“Our consolidated revenues for the quarter grew by 5.5% (sequentially) and Ebitda (operating) margins expanded to 50.8%, underscoring our focus on all-round delivery,” Gopal Vittal, managing director (India & South Asia) at Airtel, said in a statement. “The mobile business revenues were up 9.5% as we saw the full flow through of tariff increase.”
The growth came from a quarterly ARPU jump of 9.7% to Rs 178 and subscriber base growth of 1% quarter-on-quarter to 326 million. “It also benefits from steady 4G net add at 5.2mn, and post-paid subs add of 0.2mn to 17.8mn,” the brokerage said.
ICICI cautioned that Airtel’s growth may slow down in FY23 due to lower 4G subscriber net additions on higher handset price which “should salvage as prices get absorbed”.
“Non-mobile business performance is now drawing attention, and rightly so on strong and consistent EBITDA growth. Bharti’s FCF generation has grown to Rs58.5bn in Q4FY22, and if we adjust for negative working capital (seasonality), it has reached quarterly run-rate of Rs70bn,” ICICI said.
“This should help deleverage in coming quarters; near-term bump includes 5G spectrum auction. However, Bharti has cash infusion pending from Google and partly paid rights issue. We have marginally tweaked our EBITDA estimate and our SoTP-based target price now works out to Rs812,” it said, maintaining a ‘Buy’ rating.
He said the Vi merger did not work as “UK’s Vodafone is an MNC with a very open culture, whereas the Birlas “are a large business enterprise rooted in India with a financial-results orientation”.
"Mr Balakrishnan V has submitted his resignation from the position of non-executive chairman with effect from April 23, 2022," Tejas said in the filing. | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/airtel-needs-another-tariff-hike-to-reach-rs-200-arpu-icici/91656700 | 2022-05-19T07:25:42Z | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/airtel-needs-another-tariff-hike-to-reach-rs-200-arpu-icici/91656700 | true | 1 |
The world-class flute and guitar ensemble “Folias Duo” will return to the Yuba-Sutter area for a concert in Yuba City on Sunday.
“Performing concerts in intimate settings, they share their instrumental compositions inspired by life on the road, the Rocky Mountains, Argentine folk music, classical literature and impressions of the natural world,” read a release issued by Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture.
Entering into their nineteenth season, the duo consists of a husband-and-wife team with Carmen Maret on flute and Andrew Bergeron on guitar. Before the pandemic, they performed live together in more than 50 concerts a year on stages throughout the United States, South America and Europe.
According to the release, Maret and Bergeron met in graduate school at Michigan State University through a mutual love of writing original classical music and playing tango dances.
Since April of 2020, Andrew Bergeron and Carmen Maret have adapted their creative efforts by presenting over thirty livestream concerts from their home featuring original flute and guitar music resulting in dozens of new pieces.
“Coming out of the pandemic, we can’t tell you how thrilled we are to make our yearly journey across the country for live in-person concerts in the West,” said Maret.
Folias Duo has recorded seven albums of original compositions and arrangements, including five albums on the Blue Griffin Recording label and two on their own Folias Music label: Dreaming to Live and Delicate Omens.
“We’ll be taking our listener on a journey of our new and recorded music from the past two decades,” said Maret.
Sunday’s concert will include music from their most recent recording, “Delicate Omens.”
The performance will take place at the Sutter Theater Center for the Arts, 754 Plumas Street, Yuba City.
Doors, the bar and concession stand will open at 1 p.m. and the show will begin at 2 p.m.
Tickets cost $20 and are available online at www.yubasutterarts.org.
For more information, call 530-742-2787 or email david@yubasutterarts.org. | https://www.appeal-democrat.com/spotlight/folias-duo-returns-sunday-with-music-inspired-by-life-on-the-road/article_8abdb8d4-d6d3-11ec-8d29-f783026f3aed.html | 2022-05-19T07:33:05Z | https://www.appeal-democrat.com/spotlight/folias-duo-returns-sunday-with-music-inspired-by-life-on-the-road/article_8abdb8d4-d6d3-11ec-8d29-f783026f3aed.html | false | 1 |
KÖNIGSWINTER: G7 partners meet Thursday hoping to find a solution for Kyiv’s budget troubles as the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to roil the global economy.
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised nations are holding talks in Koenigswinter in western Germany to coordinate their response.
“The bilateral and multilateral support announced so far will not be sufficient to address Ukraine’s needs, even in the short term,” United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a speech in Brussels on Tuesday.
Yellen, who is attending the meeting in Koenigswinter, called on US partners to “join us in increasing their financial support” for war-scarred Ukraine.
The United States has forged ahead with a $40 billion (38 billion euros) aid package to fill Kyiv’s coffers and military stores.
But domestically, the world’s top economy is faced with soaring inflation, while fears mount that the country could tip into recession.
The story is similar in Europe, where the disruptions caused to supplies of raw materials, components and agricultural goods have darkened the outlook.
The continent’s heavy reliance on Russian energy imports also leaves it exposed to further fuel price rises or potential disruptions to supply.
Financial support
G7 partners have to “assure Ukraine’s solvency within the next days, few weeks,” German Finance Minister Christian Lindner told German daily Die Welt ahead of the meeting.
The war has blown a hole in Ukraine’s finances, as tax revenue has dropped sharply, leaving it with a shortfall of around $5 billion a month.
G7 foreign ministers vow to continue economic pressure on Russia
Around $7.5 billion of the US aid package is earmarked to help plug the hole in Ukraine’s government budget caused by the war, a source close to the G7 organisers said.
Ahead of the meeting on Wednesday, the European Union also proposed to boost its aid to Ukraine by up to nine billion euros.
Announcing the new funding, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was time to think about rebuilding Ukraine whenever the war ends, adding the EU has “a strategic interest” to support the effort.
The discussion on how to finance Ukraine’s long-term reconstruction was however “just beginning”, Yellen said at a press conference in Koenigswinter Wednesday.
‘Turbulence’
The outbreak of the war has diminished growth prospects globally and pushed inflation rates even higher.
The US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates aggressively in response to high inflation rates has created concerns that the central bank could step on the brakes too hard, hurting growth.
Yellen said Wednesday she did not “expect” a recession in the United States, but warned of the risks for Europe.
Europe’s reliance on Russian energy imports for much of its needs means further disruptions to supply could come at a heavy cost for industry.
Shortages of raw materials and agricultural products caused by the conflict also threatened to heap extra pressure on consumers.
The rise in energy and food prices was being felt particularly hard in developing nations, German finance minister Lindner said, just as rising dollar interest rates made their debts harder to finance.
The combined pressures “risked turbulence”, the G7 host added, calling on China, one of the world’s biggest creditors, to be more transparent about its lending. | https://www.brecorder.com/news/40174243/g7-finance-ministers-to-thrash-out-ukraine-aid-plan | 2022-05-19T07:33:40Z | https://www.brecorder.com/news/40174243/g7-finance-ministers-to-thrash-out-ukraine-aid-plan | true | 4 |
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TAIPEI, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TAICCA is calling for projects that place creative content at their cores and deliver immersive content narratives with technology and with a co-funding or co-production between Taiwanese and international teams. Each selected project will receive up to USD120,000 (NTD 3.5 million).
The Metaverse will radically change how we live,work, travel, and communicate. People will be living in a new era of digital experience. Creative content, undoubtedly, will also play a huge role in the Metaverse. To encourage the relevant stakeholders to discover the creativity and energy of technology innovation in Taiwan and explore new mediums and new forms of storytelling for immersive content, TAICCA Immersive Content Grant is supporting the co-funding or co-production of future content projects-the immersive experiences.
Taiwan takes pride in innovative professionals, nationwide broadband internet infrastructure, and prosperous industries in close contact with the globe. Creating the metaverse ecosystem will require synergy among several key industries, but the most important part is content. In the past few years, Taiwanese XR and immersive content have been delivering outstanding performances on the global stage, recognized by international juries and festivals. Many splendid Taiwanese XR works have been selected for the Tribeca Film Festival, New Images Festival, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Raindance Immersive Award, Cannes XR Award, SXSW and Ars Electronica. In 2021, seven works presented by Taiwan were nominated for the 78th Venice International Film Festival. Taiwan is the place in the world where you can find all the players needed to develop this ecosystem.
TAICCA promotes the 2022 International Immersive Content Co-Funding and Co-Productions Program and welcomes creators to prompt the immersive content to constitute creative responses and explore innovative narratives. The proposed immersive content projects can be interactive, multiplayer, AR, VR, MR, haptic, sound, or location-based. Each selected project will receive up to USD120,000 (NTD 3.5 million) and the open call will close on 15th June 2022.
Visit TAICCA official website for more information: https://en.taicca.tw/article/5f18b19f
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Shares of Molson Coors Beverage Co. Cl B
TAP,
-6.11%
slipped 6.11% to $52.44 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-4.04%
falling 4.04% to 3,923.68 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-3.57%
falling 3.57% to 31,490.07. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. Molson Coors Beverage Co. Cl B closed $9.04 below its 52-week high ($61.48), which the company reached on June 10th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. ADR
BUD,
-4.18%
fell 4.18% to $55.23, Constellation Brands Inc. Cl B
STZ.B,
-1.54%
fell 1.54% to $280.54, and Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd. ADR
KNBWY,
+1.09%
rose 1.09% to $14.84. Trading volume (1.9 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.5 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/molson-coors-beverage-co-cl-b-stock-underperforms-wednesday-when-compared-to-competitors-01652908982-4c588e4d8744 | 2022-05-19T07:48:50Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/molson-coors-beverage-co-cl-b-stock-underperforms-wednesday-when-compared-to-competitors-01652908982-4c588e4d8744 | false | 5 |
A relatively famous charter yacht from Dominator Yachts, Naseem, has sunk off the coast of Italy, after it caught fire. First-responders were unsuccessful in putting out the blaze, which spread to the entire vessel.
Naseem was delivered in 2009 by Dominator and had been used mostly for charter in recent years, being described as “the perfect vessel for [an] Italian adventure.” Formerly known as Carocla III, it featured an exterior design by prestigious Nuvolari Lenard, with an interior by Team for Design – Enrico Gobbi and naval architecture by Dominator Ilumen AG.
Measuring 27.2 meters (89.5 feet) in total length, with a GRP planing hull and GRP superstructure, it was designed for comfort and performance. Twin Caterpillar 1,801 hp engines took it to a top speed of 24 knots (27.6 mph / 44.5 kph), with a total range of 420 nautical miles (483 miles / 778 km) at a still-brisk 20 knots (23 mph / 37 kph).
The yacht offered accommodation for eight guests and four crew, and amenities like a variety of water toys, deep jacuzzi, a flybridge for panoramic views, outdoor dining area and a formal dining salon, and a beach club with a swim platform.
Naseem is now at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea, after being consumed by a fire and sinking. The news is confirmed by Vigili del fuoco and local coast guard, through the video available below. A fire broke out on board on May 12, while the ship was 5 miles (8 km) out off Santa Maria di Leuca, in Puglia, Italy.
First-responders did their best to put out the fire, but it soon spread to the entire ship. Hours later, whatever was left of Naseem went under. The Maritime Authority is now conducting an investigation into the incident, which will also reveal the cause of the fire. All people on board the ship were rescued and carried to safety by the coast guard.
The owner of Naseem is not known, and neither is the price of the build, nor the value of the damages, in this particular case. That said, a Dominator yacht of this size can sell for as much as $5 million on the used market.
Measuring 27.2 meters (89.5 feet) in total length, with a GRP planing hull and GRP superstructure, it was designed for comfort and performance. Twin Caterpillar 1,801 hp engines took it to a top speed of 24 knots (27.6 mph / 44.5 kph), with a total range of 420 nautical miles (483 miles / 778 km) at a still-brisk 20 knots (23 mph / 37 kph).
The yacht offered accommodation for eight guests and four crew, and amenities like a variety of water toys, deep jacuzzi, a flybridge for panoramic views, outdoor dining area and a formal dining salon, and a beach club with a swim platform.
Naseem is now at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea, after being consumed by a fire and sinking. The news is confirmed by Vigili del fuoco and local coast guard, through the video available below. A fire broke out on board on May 12, while the ship was 5 miles (8 km) out off Santa Maria di Leuca, in Puglia, Italy.
First-responders did their best to put out the fire, but it soon spread to the entire ship. Hours later, whatever was left of Naseem went under. The Maritime Authority is now conducting an investigation into the incident, which will also reveal the cause of the fire. All people on board the ship were rescued and carried to safety by the coast guard.
The owner of Naseem is not known, and neither is the price of the build, nor the value of the damages, in this particular case. That said, a Dominator yacht of this size can sell for as much as $5 million on the used market. | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/dominator-yacht-naseem-catches-fire-sinks-off-the-coast-of-italy-189134.html | 2022-05-19T07:49:50Z | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/dominator-yacht-naseem-catches-fire-sinks-off-the-coast-of-italy-189134.html | false | 1 |
Vietnamese swimming team exceeds gold medal target at SEA Games 31
Vietnam’s national swimming team surpassed the gold medal target set for the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) after winning two more gold medals on May 18.
Ben Tre-born swimmer Pham Thanh Bao wins a gold medal in the men's 50m breaststroke event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam’s national swimming
team surpassed the gold medal target set for the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) after winning
two more gold medals on May
18. Ben Tre-born swimmer Pham Thanh Bao opened an impressive competition day of Vietnamese athletes with his an ecstatic performance in the men's 50m breaststroke event. The 21-year-old swimmer won a gold medal with a time of 28.28 seconds, beating strong rivals from Indonesia and Singapore. It was also his second gold at this year’s Games.
Meanwhile, Tran Hung Nguyen pocketed a gold medal after his surprising performance in the men’s 200m medley event with a time of 2 minutes and 1.22 seconds. The 19-year-old swimmer competed with their strong rivals Kaewsriyoung Dulyawat of Thailand and Maximillian Wei Ang of Singapore in this event.
The silver and bronze medalists in the day were Vo Thi My Tien and Hoang Quy Phuoc, respectively, who competed in the women’s 1,500m freestyle and the men’s 200m freestyle events.
Closing the 5th day of competition, the Vietnamese swimming team pocketed a total of nine gold medals, 10 silvers and two bronzes, officially exceeding the set target of 8 gold medals.
Dinh Viet Hung, Vice Chairman and General Secretary of the Vietnam Aquatic Sports Association (VASA) attributed the results to great efforts of the swimmers in training and competition.
The swimmers who are expected to win gold medals have completed their task, he said.
However, he noted that the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years has had hindered swimmers from improving their performance.
As scheduled, swimming events will run to May 19. The team is pinning hope on Nguyen Huy Hoang in the men’s 800m freestyle event, which is firstly included in SEA Games 31.
Thirty two Vietnamese swimmers have been competing at SEA Games 31.
Nine members of the team, including gold medal hopeful Nguyen Huy Hoang, were trained in Hungary before the regional sports event.
Swimming events are running from May 14 to 19 at the My Dinh Water Sports Stadium in Hanoi.
The entire team is determining to defend Vietnam's second place in the swimming tally.
In the past three editions of the Games in 2015, 2017 and 2019, Vietnam was ranked second in swimming, with most of the gold medals brought by Anh Vien.
SEA Games 31, themed “For a Stronger South East Asia”, is being held in Hanoi and 11 nearby localities namely Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, Nam Dinh, Ha Nam, Hoa Binh, Hai Phong, Phu Tho, Hai Duong, Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh, and Vinh Phuc.
It features 40 sports with 523 events. The biennial event was initially slated for late 2021 but delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vietnam is aiming for 140 gold, 77 silver and 71 bronze medals at the regional sporting event.
Vietnam had claimed 125 gold, 76 silver and 74 bronze medals as of May 18 evening, the sixth official competition day of the ongoing SEA Games 31, retaining the top position in the medal table./. | https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnamese-swimming-team-exceeds-gold-medal-target-at-sea-games-31/228839.vnp | 2022-05-19T07:50:25Z | https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnamese-swimming-team-exceeds-gold-medal-target-at-sea-games-31/228839.vnp | true | 1 |
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Federal election 2022: Scott Morrison talks up low unemployment rates ahead of flying to Perth
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Cannes 2022: Ricky Kej sets sustainable fashion goals, repeats Grammy 2022 outfit on red carpet
Ricky Kej’s red carpet look for the 75th Cannes Film Festival comes with a strong message that encourages everyone to do their bit for mother earth.
Indian music composer Ricky Kej has always been vocal about the environment and sustainability; his music is proof of that! At a time when celebrities are often worried about not repeating their outfits, especially on red carpets, Kej has gone ahead to set sustainable fashion goals.
The two-time Grammy Award winner, Ricky Kej, chose to repeat his red carpet outfit, back-to-back. His decision for repeating the outfit is backed by a strong sense of responsibility toward the environment and at the same time, make it look uber cool.
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Ricky Kej wore a navy-blue achkan with golden buttons and intricate work at the standing collar. He paired it with a white knee-length kurta and grey straight pants. This is the same look that he wore for Grammy Awards that were held in April.
A month later, Ricky Kej made an appearance on the second red carpet event, one of the biggest in the world, wearing the same apparel. But, instead of worrying about repeating an outfit that most celebrities would dread to do, Kej set the ball of ‘sustainable fashion’ rolling.
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Taking to Instagram, the humble artist, said, “Fashion can be trendy twice.” Speaking of choosing to reduce the “damage dealt to the earth”, Ricky Kej wrote: “This year, I was on 2 of the biggest stages in the world - the Grammy Awards & Cannes Film Festival and chose to wear the same outfit.”
“Fast fashion isn’t always fashionable,” Ricky Kej continued writing in his post. “Especially when we consider it's impact on our planet (The fashion industry is one of the most polluting on the planet). The use of toxic textile dyes, cheap materials and massive use of water & translates to environmental pollution. For decades, repeating an outfit for galas and events would be considered a fashion blunder - encouraging people to switch up outfits for every event, making clothes 'Single Use'. Its time to change that narrative. Its time we consider our planet in this equation. Fashion Can Be Trendy Twice,” he wrote further.
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Ricky Kej further encouraged people to use the hashtag “#ReWear4Earth” for posting pictures of wearing repeated outfits and doing a bit for the planet. In the end, he had a strong message for his Instagram family that read: “The Earth wouldn’t remember what you wore. It will remember how you treat it.”
Ricky Kej is attending the ongoing 75th Cannes Film Festival; he is a part of the Indian contingent, led by Union Minister Anurag Thakur. Kej, bagged his second Grammy award this year for his album Divine Tides in the Best New Age Music category.
Take a look at his post here: | https://newsable.asianetnews.com/lifestyle/cannes-2022-ricky-kej-sets-sustainable-fashion-goals-repeats-grammy-2022-outfit-on-red-carpet-drb-rc46s6 | 2022-05-19T07:52:47Z | https://newsable.asianetnews.com/lifestyle/cannes-2022-ricky-kej-sets-sustainable-fashion-goals-repeats-grammy-2022-outfit-on-red-carpet-drb-rc46s6 | false | 1 |
Caligari and Ochre are already waiting for you at your range! Destroy your opponents in the updated brawl on the new map, collect all rewards of the festive event and don’t forget about the gift and special promotion! Let’s start celebrating “Crossout Day”!
Crossout day
Attention! The “Crossout day” event will last until June 1 inclusive!
This year, for the 7th anniversary of Crossout, we’ve updated the brawl that many enjoyed playing last year:
- “Crossout day” is a confrontation similar to the “Free for all” brawl, where the player has no allies. You are surrounded by enemies and you need you to destroy as many of them as possible!
- The battle takes place on a new map “Sand harbour”.
- Players take part in the battle on pre-prepared vehicles, sometimes highly unusual. All armored vehicles in battle are created by our players.
- This year, we’ve updated the list of blueprints for the brawl.
- The brawl also has respawns.
- After respawning, you can choose which vehicle you can choose the vehicle on which you will continue fighting: there will always be 3 random blueprints to choose from.
- The points are awarded for both shooting off parts and for destroying the enemy. The points for destroying the enemy are also added to the points for all parts that were mounted the enemy’s armoured vehicle at the time of destruction.
Challenges and rewards:
Each player will have access to a special event reward scale with levels for free:
- The level can be increased by completing the daily challenge to find the malfunctioning Caligari drones on the “Crossout day” brawl map.
- All uncompleted daily challenges on finding the drones accumulate. If you missed a few days, then you can easily complete several challenges at once.
- Leveling up rewards include: unique or rare cosmetic items, containers with resources and CKs, workbench coupons, storage expansions, workpieces, a structural part, range items and Engineer badges.
New starter pack “Cleaner”
- Unique armoured car: “Accomplice”;
- Weapons: turret cannon “ZS-33 Hulk”, turret “DT Python”;
- Cabin: “Bear”;
- Unique character portrait: “Hog”;
- Unique sticker “Scavenger’s mark”;
- Unique paint can “Crust”;
- 650 in-game coins.
- Maximum number of parts increased to 50.
Everybody in the Valley knows that Scavengers are a part of the “Brotherhood” — a military organization that also includes Steppenwolfs. That’s why discipline and strict hierarchy are highly important and beneficial for Scar AB’s people. Like a strict hierarchy. But every career ladder has a downside — its first steps. Hog has joined the Scavenger ranks just recently, but he has already proven himself to be a responsible worker in the field of finding the useful “junk” and protecting it from hostile gangs. Scar would gladly promote the rookie, but “he has just started working here”. Good thing that Hog is a professional mercenary who is only interested in his reward, and Scavengers always pay their debts.
Special Crossout Anniversary pack: “Crossout turns 7!”
Attention! The Gift pack will be available to everyone who logs into the game from May 19 at 06:00 GMT to June 1 at 23:59 GMT!
- Unique armoured car: “Survivor”;
- Cabin “Fury”;
- 2 autocannons “AC43 Rapier”;
- Hologram “Crosshairs”;
- A paint can “Commotion”;
- Sticker “Magnificent seven”;
- Unique character portrait “Julius”;
- Background and logo for profile customization.
Special Crossout anniversary promotion
We are launching a special promotion during which:
- You will be able to freely switch between the in-game factions.
- Part production will be instant (you will still need to claim the finished parts from the workbenches).
- The amount of free respawns in raids will be increased from 1 to 2.
Please note:
- The promotion will be available from May 19, 06:00 GMT, to June 2, 05:00 GMT.
- Free transition between factions will be available immediately if you have not changed your faction the day before the promotion started. If you have already switched between factions, then you need to wait until the timer expires;
- All parts that were in production before the promotion started will be manufactured for the allotted time. Instant production will be active only for those parts, the production of which was launched after the start of the promotion.
Additional bonuses
With this update, all players will receive pleasant bonuses, the contents of which will depend on how long you’ve been fighting in the Wasteland world. The more years you have been with us, the more significant the bonus will be because you will not only receive the gift that is based on your time in the game, but all the previous gifts as well!
You can get your bonus while the “Crossout day” event is active.
New map “Sand harbour”
- The map was specifically created for the game’s anniversary and the “Crossout day” brawl.
- Share your impressions and feedback regarding the new map! If you like this map, we may use it in other timed or permanent modes in the future.
Festive garages
Such an important event as the game’s anniversary couldn’t pass by your garages! Check out how they have changed for the duration of the event! Panoramas of garages can be found here.
Raids
- Changed the respawn points in the final stages of raids on the maps “Lost coast” and “Terminal-45”. Now the player will be respawned closer to the battlefield.
- Now the towers in raids can be highlighted with markers.
- Improved animations for the appearance of quick ally messages on the minimap.
- Now you may check each radiator's bonus when used with shotguns in the description.
- Improved the placement of vehicles with mechanical legs “Bigram” in the garage.
- Fixed the surface collision model on the map “Fortress”.
- Fixed a bug where it was possible to look inside the rock using a certain camera position on the “Blood rocks” map.
- Fixed a bug where it was possible to install certain range objects outside the special construction zone.
- Improved the physical model of the cliff on the “Factory” map.
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New Orleans Saints release 2022 schedule
NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO ) — The New Orleans Saints have released their 2022 schedule presented by SeatGeek, for which the regular season kicks off on Sunday, September 11, at the Atlanta Falcons and features three primetime games and an eight-game Caesars Superdome home slate that features both Super Bowl LVI participants.
The Saints will open their season at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, when they play the Falcons (noon CT). It will be the ninth time that the Saints have opened their season against Atlanta.
After starting the regular season on the road, the Saints host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on September 18 (noon) at the Caesars Superdome and then will close out the first three games of their NFC South Slate at the Carolina Panthers on September 25 (noon), the first time the Saints have opened with three straight division contests since 1995, when they resided in the NFC West. New Orleans will then travel to London to play the Minnesota Vikings at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on October 2 (8:30 a.m.) in a contest that will be nationally televised on the NFL Network. Upon returning from overseas, New Orleans will immediately spring into action the following Sunday when they host the Seattle Seahawks at the Caesars Superdome on October 9 (noon).
New Orleans will then host the Cincinnati Bengals the following Sunday (October 16; noon) for the first matchup of their 2022 NFC North slate and then will have a quick turnaround to travel to Arizona to play the Cardinals on Thursday Night Football (October 20) as part of Amazon’s new exclusive streaming package, which will have a 7:15 p.m. CT kickoff. New Orleans will then host the Las Vegas Raiders on October 30 (noon), their 14 th opponent as part of the 17-game season that was introduced in 2021. The Saints will then play a home Monday Night Football contest for the fourth consecutive season as they host the Baltimore Ravens on November 7 (7:15 p.m.).
New Orleans will then begin one of their most challenging stretches of the season where they face four consecutive 2021 playoff teams, three on the road, starting with when they travel to Pittsburgh to play the Steelers on November 13 (noon), before they return to New Orleans to host the Super Bowl LVI champion Los Angeles Rams on November 20 (noon). The four-game stretch will conclude with road tilts at San Francisco on November 27 (3:25 p.m.) and at Tampa Bay on Monday Night Football (December 5-7:15 p.m.).
Following the Buccaneers matchup, New Orleans will have a Week 14 bye, the latest the Saints have had a week off since the National Football League’s institution of the bye system in 1990. Following the bye, the Saints will host the Atlanta Falcons in a Week 15 contest (Date and Time TBD), play at Cleveland on Christmas Eve (noon) and at the Philadelphia Eagles on New Years Day (noon) New Orleans will close out the 2022 regular season, when they host Carolina in Week 18 (Date and time to be announced following conclusion of Week 17 contests).
Nine of the Saints’ 17 games will be against teams that finished with a winning percentage of .500 or better in 2021, all teams that went to the playoffs – Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Arizona, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay (twice), San Francisco, Philadelphia and the Rams. New Orleans will play each of their NFC South rivals twice, one game each against each of the NFC West and AFC North teams and will play the 2021 second place teams in the NFC North (vs. Minnesota), NFC East (at Philadelphia) and AFC West (vs. Las Vegas).
New Orleans’ eight road games and the October 2 Vikings tilt in London in 2022 will have the team travel 24,976 miles (roundtrip) away from home after they traveled a total of 18,444 miles (roundtrip) in nine road games and one home contest relocated to Jacksonville, Fl. due to Hurricane Ida in 2021. The longest trip will be the Week Four trek to London to play the Vikings (9,254 air miles roundtrip).
Thanks to the Vikings contest in London and away schedule that includes road contests at NFC South foes Carolina, Tampa Bay and Atlanta and at the Browns, 49ers, Cardinals, Eagles and Steelers, the Saints will leave the Central Time Zone nine times over the course of the season to play six contests in the Eastern Time Zone, one in the mountain time zone (Arizona), one in the Western Time Zone (Seattle) and one in Greenwich Mean Time (vs. Vikings in London).
All New Orleans Saints games can be heard on WWL Radio (870 AM and 105.3 FM).
For information on buying and transferring tickets, please visit www.seatgeek.com ., the Official Primary Ticketing Partner of the New Orleans Saints.
2022 NEW ORLEANS SAINTS PRESEASON SCHEDULE PRESENTED BY SEATGEEK
(All times CENTRAL)
Date Opponent Kickoff TV _
Aug. 11-15 (TBD) at Houston Texans TBD FOX 8/Gray TV
Aug. 18-22 (TBD) at Green Bay Packers TBD FOX 8/Gray TV
Aug. 25-29 (TBD) LOS ANGELES CHARGERS TBD FOX 8/Gray Comm.
2022 NEW ORLEANS SAINTS REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE PRESENTED BY SEATGEEK
(All times CENTRAL)
Date Opponent Kickoff TV_______
Sept. 11 at Atlanta Falcons Noon FOX
Sept. 18 TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS Noon FOX
Sept. 25 at Carolina Panthers Noon FOX
Oct. 2 MINNESOTA VIKINGS (London) 8:30 a.m. NFL Network
Oct. 9 SEATTLE SEAHAWKS Noon FOX
Oct. 16 CINCINNATI BENGALS Noon CBS
Oct. 20 at Arizona Cardinals (Thursday) 7:15 p.m. Amazon Prime Video
Oct. 30 LAS VEGAS RAIDERS Noon CBS
Nov. 7 BALTIMORE RAVENS (Monday) 7:15 p.m. ESPN
Nov. 13 at Pittsburgh Steelers Noon FOX
Nov. 20 LOS ANGELES RAMS Noon FOX
Nov. 27 at San Francisco 49ers 3:25 FOX
Dec. 5 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Monday) 7:15 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 11 BYE
Dec. 17/18 ATLANTA FALCONS TBD TBD
Dec. 24 at Cleveland Browns (Saturday) Noon CBS
Jan. 1 at Philadelphia Eagles Noon FOX
Jan. 7/8 CAROLINA PANTHERS TBD TBD
*-Sunday night games in Weeks 5-17 subject to change; Week 18 game TBD
A look at the Saints’ 2022 regular season opponents, and dates:
Atlanta Falcons (at September 11, vs. December 17/18): In 2021, the clubs split the season series with New Orleans pulling out a 30-20 season-ending victory at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on January 9, 2022…After New Orleans closed out the 2021 season with Atlanta, they will open the 2022 regular season campaign with the Falcons…Atlanta holds a 53-52 regular-season advantage in the all-time series, although New Orleans has won 22 of 32 meetings since 2006…The Saints have played the Falcons 105 times in the regular season, more than any other opponent…The Saints are 26-26 all-time against the Falcons at home…New Orleans is 26-27 all-time in games played in Atlanta…This will be the ninth time that the clubs have opened against each other, the first time since 2014…The date and time of the Week 15 contest will be announced in-season as part of the NFL’s flexible scheduling…New Orleans Head Coach Dennis Allen’s late father, Grady, played for the Falcons from 1968-1972 and Allen served on Atlanta’s coaching staff from 2002-05…New Orleans quarterback Jameis Winston and Atlanta signal-caller Marcus Mariota were the first and second respective picks in the 2015 NFL Draft and the 2013 and 2014 Heisman Trophy winners.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (vs. September 18, at December 5): New Orleans holds a 39-21 regular season edge in the all-time series against the Buccaneers, the club’s best winning percentage (.650) versus an NFL opponent that they have played more than 11 times…New Orleans is 21-12 all-time at home against Tampa Bay and 18-9 in contests played at Tampa…In 2021, the Saints swept the Buccaneers in the regular season for the third consecutive time for the second time in club history (2012-14)…Entering his first season as head coach of the Saints in 2022, Allen successfully handled Sean Payton’s head coaching duties, when Payton was sidelined by COVID-19 protocols in a 9-0 shutout win at Raymond James Stadium on December 19, 2021 to complete the season sweep…Both Allen and Tampa Bay’s Todd Bowles will be in their first season as New Orleans’ and Tampa Bay’s head coaches respectively after both served as defensive coordinator for their respective teams in 2021…After the Saints and Buccaneers had only played on prime time once prior to 2020 (2002), the two clubs will face off on national television for the third consecutive season in 2022…The December 5 tilt at Raymond James Stadium will be the first time that the Saints and Buccaneers play each other on Monday Night Football.
Carolina Panthers (at September 25, vs. January 7/8): New Orleans leads the regular season series 28-26 with the Saints capturing the only playoff meeting…After sweeping the Panthers for two straight seasons from 2019-20, the clubs split in 2021, rebounding from a 26-7 loss at Bank of America Stadium on September 19 to win 18-10 on January 2, 2022 at the Caesars Superdome…The Saints are an identical 14-13 all-time in the regular season on the road and at home against Carolina…With New Orleans facing the Minnesota Vikings in London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium the following Sunday, the Saints have played at the Panthers all three times prior to playing a contest overseas, previously happening in 2008 and 2017…The September 25 matchup at Bank of America Stadium will close out a three-game stretch to start the season against NFC South foes, the first time New Orleans has faced three division teams to open the season since they were members of the NFC West in 1995…The date and time of the regular season finale will be announced by the NFL at the conclusion of all Week 17 contests…Panthers CB Jaycee Horn was the eighth pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, whose father Joe Horn played for New Orleans from 2000-06, ranking fourth in club record books in receiving with 523 receptions for 7,622 yards (14.6 avg.) and 50 touchdowns. Jaycee Horn had his first career interception against New Orleans in the September 19, 2021 tilt in Charlotte.
vs. Minnesota Vikings (October 2-London): Minnesota owns a 19-12 advantage in the regular season series, but New Orleans has won five of the last six regular season tilts…New Orleans has a 2-0 record played at games in London, but this will be their first matchup against an NFC club overseas…New Orleans will be looking to win their third consecutive season regular season contest against the Vikings…In the last matchup, a home contest for New Orleans on Christmas Day in 2020, RB Alvin Kamara put together an electrifying performance in a 52-33 win to clinch the team’s fourth straight NFC South title, as he tied an NFL record with six rushing touchdowns and six total touchdowns, the hallmark of a 22-carry, 155-yard performance, where he set a career-best in rushing yards as well.
vs. Seattle Seahawks (October 9): The Saints will face the Seahawks for the 16 th time in the regular season, with New Orleans leading the series 9-6, while Seattle has captured both playoff contests…On Monday, October 25, 2021, New Orleans defeated Seattle 13-10 at Lumen Field behind a dominating defensive performance and a game-winning field goal with 1:56 left…The Saints have a 4-2 record in contests played against Seattle in the Caesars Superdome, the last a 25-20 victory on October 30, 2016.
vs. Cincinnati Bengals (October 16): With the series tied 7-7, the Saints won the last meeting, a 51-14 victory on November 11, 2018 at Paul Brown Stadium…The Saints have a 2-4 record in games played at the Caesars Superdome in the series and will be looking for their first home win against the Bengals since a 20-13 victory on January 2, 1994…This will mark a homecoming for Bengals QB Joe Burrow, a former Louisiana State University standout and the 2019 Heisman Trophy winner and WR Ja’Marr Chase, who was a standout at Archbishop Rummel High School and LSU and the 2021 Associated Press NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.
at Arizona Cardinals (October 20): The regular season series is tied 15-15, with the Saints having captured the last meeting at the Superdome on October 27, 2019, 31-9…As part of Amazon’s Thursday Night Football package, this will be the first time the Saints play the Cardinals on prime time…Winston was the first overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft and Cardinals signal-caller Kyler Murray was the first overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.
vs. Las Vegas Raiders (October 30): The Raiders will be New Orleans’ AFC West opponent, an addition following the 2021 expansion of the NFL regular season to 17 games in the offseason, marking the first time the Saints will host Las Vegas since the 2016 season opener…The Raiders lead the all-time series 7-6-1, with contests having been played in New Orleans, Oakland, Los Angeles and Las Vegas…New Orleans has a 3-3-1 record against the Raiders at home…Allen served as head coach of the Raiders from 2012-14.
vs. Baltimore Ravens (November 7): The Ravens lead the series 5-2, but the Saints broke a three-game skid with a 24-23 win at M&T Bank Stadium on October 21, 2018, as Drew Brees became the third quarterback at the time to defeat all 32 teams…New Orleans will be seeking their first home win against the Ravens in their third try, which would give them home wins against all 31 clubs…This will mark the fifth consecutive season New Orleans is featured twice on Monday Night Football, the second time the Saints play the Ravens on the NFL’s most memorable national showcase.
at Pittsburgh Steelers (November 13): New Orleans owns a 9-7 edge in the series and has won the last three meetings…New Orleans has a 3-3 road record against the Steelers, 1-1 at Heinz Field…The Steelers contest will also start a four-game stretch for New Orleans of playing against 2021 playoff teams, only one of the matchups at home.
vs. Los Angeles Rams (November 20): Old NFC West rivals from 1970-2001, the Rams lead the all-time regular season series 42-33, with the postseason series split at 1-1…The Saints have a 14-16 record against the Rams in home contests played at the Caesars Superdome in the regular season, splitting the two postseason contests…The Saints will play the defending Super Bowl Champion for the third consecutive season, having lost to Kansas City at home in 2020 and swept Tampa Bay in 2021…When facing a defending Super Bowl champion, the Saints have posted an 10-21 all-time record after sweeping the Buccaneers in 2021…New Orleans will be looking for their fourth consecutive home regular season win against the Rams for the first time…In playing the Super Bowl finalist Bengals on October 16, this will mark the second time in three seasons that the Saints host both the Super Bowl champions and finalists.
at San Francisco 49ers (November 27): With the Saints and 49ers NFC West rivals from 1970-2001, San Francisco holds a 48-27-2 edge in the all-time regular season series, but the Saints have captured nine of the last 12…The San Francisco contest will close out New Orleans’ 2022 slate against NFC West opponents.
at Cleveland Browns (December 24): The Browns lead the all-time series 13-5, but New Orleans got the best of them in the last meeting, a 21-18 win at home on September 16, 2018, the start of a ten-game winning streak….New Orleans has a 2-5 record in Cleveland…This will be the tenth time New Orleans has played on Christmas Eve, but the first road matchup since a 30-7 win at the New York Giants in 2006, with the Saints winning all three Christmas Eve road contests…Saints CB Marshon Lattimore, who is a Cleveland native, prepping at Glenville High School and starring at Ohio State, will play in his hometown for the first time in the regular season.
at Philadelphia Eagles (January 1): New Orleans will be looking to rebound from two consecutive losses to Philadelphia, including dropping a 40-29 decision to the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on November 21, 2021…Philadelphia owns an 18-12 regular season advantage, with the Saints winning three of four postseason contests…This will mark the third time that the Saints will play a road game in three consecutive seasons at Philadelphia, having also done so from 1967-69 and 1991-93…This will be the fourth time the Saints will play on New Years Day.
A look at the Saints’ 2022 preseason opponents:
at Houston Texans (Week One-Date and kickoff time TBD): New Orleans is scheduled to open the preseason on the road for the sixth time in the past seven seasons (The 2020 NFL preseason being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)…The Saints are 26-28 in preseason openers all-time…New Orleans and Houston have played in the preseason ten times since 2002 when the Texans entered the NFL as an expansion franchise and they are tied 5-5 in exhibitions.
at Green Bay Packers (Week Two-Date and kickoff time TBD): The Packers lead the preseason series 7-2, but New Orleans got the best of Green Bay in the 2021 regular season opener, a 38-3 victory played at Jacksonville’s TIAA Bank Field due to Hurricane Ida displacing the team’s operations…The last time New Orleans played Green Bay in the preseason was a 38-10 loss at Lambeau Field on September 3, 2015.
vs. Los Angeles Chargers (Week Three-Date and kickoff time TBD): The Saints will close out the preseason at the Caesars Superdome against the Cardinals prior to the roster cutdown to 53 players on Labor Day weekend, under the league’s three preseason game, 17-regular season contest format which is in its second year. 2022 will be the sixth consecutive time that New Orleans finishes the preseason at the Caesars Superdome. The Saints lead the all-time preseason series against the Chargers 5-4, having won the last four dating back to 2010.
All three preseason contests will be broadcast regionally on the Gray Television network of stations on the Gulf Coast, available in the New Orleans area on FOX 8 WVUE, with dates and times to be announced.
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FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING NOTE
This season, “flexible scheduling” for Sunday night maybe be used twice between Weeks 5-10 and during Weeks 11-15 and Week 17. In weeks of the season eligible for “flexible scheduling,” the games listed for the Sunday night window are tentative and subject to change. Only Sunday afternoon games are eligible to be moved to Sunday night, in which case the tentatively scheduled Sunday night game would be moved to a Sunday afternoon.
In Week 15, three of five designated matchups will be played on Saturday with the remainder to be played on Sunday. Specific dates and start times for the designated Week 15 matchups will be determined and announced at a later date during the season.
In Week 18, two games will be played on Saturday (3:30 p.m. CT and 7:15 p.m. CT) with the remainder to be played on Sunday afternoon (12:00 p.m. CT and 3:25 p.m. CT) and one matchup to be played on Sunday night (7:20 p.m. CT). Specific dates, start times and networks for Week 18 matchups will be determined and announced following the conclusion of Week 17.
Flexible scheduling will not be applied to games airing on Thursday or Monday nights.
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School bus monitor accused of choking 7-year-old student
GREECE, N.Y. (WHAM) - A New York school bus monitor is facing charges over accusations he put his hands around the neck of a 7-year-old student.
Police say 70-year-old Alonzo Peritore, a school bus monitor for the Greece Central School District, is charged with criminal obstruction of breathing and endangering the welfare of a child. The district earlier placed him on leave, pending the outcome of an investigation.
The 7-year-old victim’s mother called police after her son reported the incident Monday.
A school resource officer worked with the district to interview everyone involved and review video evidence from the bus.
Abdul Bounds, the victim’s father, said his son was left with marks around his neck and had trouble swallowing after the incident.
“What went through my head was ‘what person in their mind would grab a 7-year-old little boy by his neck then laugh about it and say this is how we play?’ Who plays with kids like that?... I want answers, and I want them now,” Bounds said.
Bounds says he believes Peritore should have been fired immediately.
A spokesperson for the district says time is needed to review the charges and ensure due process is followed.
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Night of Ideas 2022: Patti Smith and More Join 250+ Artists and Visionaries in Marathon of Public Programs and Performances
Registrations for Villa Albertine's free in-person mega-event are now open.
Villa Albertine today announced the lineup for the US edition of Night of Ideas, a free annual nocturnal marathon of philosophical debates, performances, readings and more, hosted in 19 cities across the country this May. The US joins the international community in celebrating this global event, which is being hosted in over 100 countries and is coordinated by the Institut français.
In this period of intense geopolitical upheaval in Europe and around the world, compounded social and political challenges are producing deep crises, particularly in Ukraine. The Night of Ideas creates a rare and powerful forum, enabling 250+ artists, researchers, and community leaders to engage with each other and the public on these core issues of our time. The theme, "Where Are We Going?" sparks conversation about war and the future of global democracy, on the stage of pandemic recovery and economic turmoil. It also leads to important discussions about community-based climate action, about concrete steps toward equity and racial justice, and more.
Night of Ideas is the continuation of a long-running successful collaboration with Brooklyn Public Library, alongside both new and returning partners in 18 other cities. The bespoke programming will welcome a wide diversity of speakers and performers, including participants in Villa Albertine's inaugural residency program. Highlights include: musician, author, and poet Patti Smith, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, Goncourt Prize-winning Franco-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani, philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist Bruno Latour, resident musician and composer Sélène Saint-Aimé, author and urban thinker Ryan Gravel, Director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center Rama Yade, Poetry Foundation President Michelle Boone, Director of the Umass Energy Transition Initiative Erin Baker, resident numerical analyst Aurélie Jean, Los Angles Chief Sustainability Officer Lauren Faber, political scientist Claire Sagan, food author and chef Adán Medrano, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Erin Harkey, ethologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, resident multidisciplinary artists Loo Hui Phang and Joseph d'Anvers, and Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
The US edition of Night of Ideas is organized by Villa Albertine, in partnership with 50+ institutions, including the Ukrainian Institute of America. Alongside its public programs, Villa Albertine, a new cultural institution launched by the French Government in fall 2021, is pioneering a new model for customized artist residencies - hosting more than 60 artists, thinkers, and cultural professionals across 10 major US cities annually.
"Night of Ideas is an act of global solidarity, with the conviction that problems are best solved when we collaborate across institutions, disciplines, and countries. I am very proud that this is the first major event of Villa Albertine," said Gaëtan Bruel, Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the US and Director of Villa Albertine. "We are honored to welcome such an impactful lineup of speakers and performers across the country, including some of Villa Albertine's first artists and thinkers-in-residence. It's a rare opportunity to gather so many creative, socially-conscious projects under one roof, in the service of philosophical exploration and cross-cultural connection."
Select program highlights at the iconic location in Brooklyn, as well as featured events from across the country, are below. Explore the full city-by-city program-the largest to date-and register at nightofideas.org.
New York City - Saturday, May 21
5pm-12:30am @ Villa Albertine New York and the Brooklyn Public Library
Embark on an original on the road happening from Villa Albertine headquarters in Manhattan to Brooklyn Public Library, where 60 members of the public will enjoy a private 1:1 discussion with the artist or speaker sitting next to them on the bus. All will then gather for a marathon of talks, musical performances, screenings, and lively forums, headlined by a performance from Patti Smith. Programming includes Goncourt Prize-winning novelist Leïla Slimani, Chief AI Scientist at Meta Yann LeCun, political scientist Claire Sagan, and Kathryn Kolbert, co-founder of the Center for Reproductive Rightsand more.
Presented by: Brooklyn Public Library.
Atlanta - Saturday, May 14
6pm-12am @ The Woodruff Arts Center
The first-ever Night of Ideas in Atlanta will invite intellectuals, artists, and entrepreneurs to embrace themes of city and culture in this moment of crisis, and ponder Where Do We Go from Here?. The night will offer a rich multidisciplinary program, combining debates, art installations, screenings, and a DJ set with the participation of Atlanta Mayor André Dickens, Diane Landais and Miryam Houali of the French video game collective Accidental Queens, and Ryan Gravel, urban thinker, designer, author, builder, speaker, and original visionary of the Atlanta Beltline.
Presented by: City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs and The Woodruff Arts Center.
Boston - Friday, May 6
6pm-11pm @ Harvard University's William James Hall
Leaning on issues inspired by the French presidency of the Council of the European Union, participants will focus on the concepts of anticipation, decision-making, and resilience in the context of ever-growing uncertainty. Highlighted speakers include ethologist, neurologist and psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, Boston University Professor of Emerging Media James Katz, Director of the Umass Energy Transition Initiative Erin Baker, and theoretical astrophysicist Fabio Pacucci.
Presented by: Harvard University, Bunker Hill Community College, and International School of Boston.
Chicago - Thursday, May 12
6pm-11pm @ The Chicago History Museum
Engage with the past, present, and future of the city through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion and hear from a variety of experts, including Erin Harkey, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Poetry Foundation President Michelle Boone, Villa Albertine resident Chayma Drira, and social justice artist Tonika Johnson.
Presented by: Chicago History Museum, France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago, and Alliance Française Chicago.
Houston - Thursday, May 5
5pm-10pm @ Literal Publishing
Speakers from Texas and Mexico-including gallerist Yvonamor Palix, food author and chef Adán Medrano, and Tricia Cortez, executive director of the Rio Grande International Study Center-will gather for central debates on Texan Mexican culture, Latino creators' expression of identity, objectivity and polarization in different communities and sustainability and pollution in the Rio Grande.
Presented by: Consulate of France in Monterrey (Mexico), IFAL - Instituto Francés de América Latina.
Los Angeles - Monday, May 9
6pm-9pm @ The French Residence
Visual and sound art performances will unfurl alongside debates centered on environmental action, democracy and citizenship. Speakers include journalist Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Chief Sustainability Officer Lauren Faber O'Connor, scientist and Villa Albertine resident Aurélie Jean, sound artist Bill Fontana, and many more.
Presented by: Consulate General of France in Los Angeles.
Miami - Thursday, May 19
6pm-10pm @ FilmGate Miami
Paired with a diverse lineup of film screenings, the night will address botanics as a means of resistance to the exploitation of nature and cultural uprooting. Among the speakers: traditional Caribbean medicine practitioner and member of the Tramil project Laurent Jean-Pierre, Christopher Baraloto, associate director of Florida International University's Institute of Environment and Casey Zap, Co-founder of the Center for Subtropical Affairs.
Presented by: FilmGate Miami, Letra Urbana, Books and Books, Center for Subtropical Affairs, Tramil, Alliance Française Puerto Rico, Alliance Française Miami Metro.
New Orleans - May 18
7:30pm-9pm @ New Orleans Jazz Museum
For its first in-person edition the New Orleans Night of Ideas will engage with creatives across disciplines to explore how they have adapted their creatives processes in recent years. What impact have the pandemic, social justice movements, and international crises had on their artistic practice and the dissemination of their work? The evening will feature performances and talks from a diverse lineup of artists, including Villa Albertine residents Sélène Saint-Aimé, Joseph d'Anvers and Loo Hui Phang, as well as painter James Michalopoulas and photographer L. Kasimu Harris.
Presented by: New Orleans Jazz Museum, Hilliard Museum, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Alliance Française of New Orleans.
San Francisco - Tuesday, May 17
7pm-9pm @ KQED headquarters
Join interactive community challenge sessions and small circle conversations with local community leaders, experts, and organizers. Together, they will ask how we can reimagine the social contract that binds our shared political, environmental, and cultural future. Featured speakers include Anuradha Mittal, Founder and Executive Director of the Oakland Institute, Sharaya Souza, Executive Director & Co-Founder of the American Indian Cultural District, Jacqueline Fabius, Chief Operating Officer at QBI - UCSF, and more.
Presented by: KQED, San Francisco Public Library, SFMOMA, and California Humanities.
Washington, D.C. - Wednesday, May 11
6:30pm to 9pm @ Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
Director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center Rama Yade, Co-Director of the University of Virginia's Democracy Initiative Laurent Dubois, European Union Ambassador to the US Stavros Lambrinidis, and others will discuss common goods, the question of governance and how we can make our democracies stronger.
Presented by: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
Night of Ideas was first introduced to the US in New York City in 2015 by the French Embassy, and further developed through an ongoing partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library. Today, Night of Ideas is a nationwide event, drawing tens of thousands of attendees across the country.
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A 64-year-old company director has been sentenced to community service after admitting benefit fraud.
James Richard Haggas failed to declare bank accounts held by him and his partner which resulted in him being overpaid £17,781 in Jobsseeker’s Allowance, to which he was not entitled.
Magistrates ordered him to do 200 hours unpaid work in the next 12 months.
We previously reported that Haggas had been receiving Jobseeker’s Allowance between April 2020 and July 2021, based on him being unemployed.
He submitted his claim on April 6, 2020, with his partner also named in the claim forms.
However, in February 2021, a review of bank statements revealed that Haggas, who lives at Old Castletown Road, Port Soderick, had received a payment into his account of £20,000 on December 22, 2020.
He had then made two withdrawals of £10,000.
A letter was sent to him asking for an explanation and for his partner’s bank statements.
His partner’s statements were provided but no explanation was given for the £20,000.
Other accounts were found which had not been declared relating to Haggas, including a business account, with credit balances of £213,169.
His partner was said to have received £121,663 into her personal account between May 2020 and July 2021.
In August 2021, Haggas was interviewed by DHSC staff and said that the £20,000 payment was money received from his father to pay school fees for his children.
He claimed that he had no access to one of the business accounts mentioned but offered no explanation for other amounts.
When asked about his partner’s statements and income, Haggas said ‘she sold stuff’ and said she had been doing well.
The investigation concluded that both Haggas and his partner had been receiving regular amounts prior to his Jobseeker’s Allowance claim.
The court heard that he has since paid back £1,778 on March 3 and £12,000 on May 10 so just over £4,000 remains outstanding.
In court, Haggas pleaded guilty to making a false representation to obtain a benefit and failing to inform a change in circumstances.
Defence advocate Sara-Jayne Dodge handed in letters of reference and a letter of apology from her client.
Ms Dodge asked magistrates to follow the sentencing recommendation of a probation report, for a community service order.
The advocate said: ‘Mr Haggas simply failed to understand the importance of completing the forms with care and attention. ‘He had directorships which he failed to consider as they weren’t providing him income. He has poor administrative skills.
‘There was a failure to understand the meaning of “household”. They weren’t married and had separate finances.’
Of the failure to inform a change of circumstances, Ms Dodge said: ‘He was simply of the belief that his circumstances had not changed. He wasn’t receiving income from employment at the time.
‘It was a misunderstanding and a lapse of judgement.
‘Mr Haggas’s life has completely changed and he is truly devastated. At the time he was operating under a considerable amount of stress.
‘He wasn’t using the funds to fund a lavish lifestyle but was paying school fees.
‘It was to meet the needs of his children and debts of his businesses.
‘He did genuinely need the income at that time. There was a misunderstanding as to what “income” meant.’
A probation report assessed Haggas as a low risk of reoffending.
Ms Dodge said that her client had resigned all his directorships and had started work as a painter.
Magistrates’ chair David Christian said: ‘We do believe you showed genuine remorse and didn’t fully understand the forms you were completing.
‘But we have to send out a message that fraud of the public purse will not be accepted.’
Haggas was also ordered to pay £50 prosecution costs within one month.
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Martha Gallagher, MD, a retired anesthesiologist living in the Boston area, is an avid lifelong backpacker, hiker and wannabe skier. Over the years, she has plied the slopes of Aspen and Snowmass, walked the trails of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness and visited with her close friend, Judie Blanchard of Carbondale.
My wake-up call these days is no longer an alarm clock, but most often a very full bladder. I gently roll out of bed. The mornings of leaping from bed are long behind me. As I stand, my creaky right knee voices its usual morning complaint, a reminder of an encounter with a slippery root on a trail a couple of years ago. My left shoulder, another reminder of past misadventures, moans in harmony with my knee. And an overall stiffness sets the scene for these actors on my personal stage.
I trundle toward the bathroom, acknowledging the existence of these symptoms, but otherwise ignoring them. I know that soon, with a coffee, the stiffness and aches and pains will mostly be gone, and I will be able to get on with my day: household chores, reading, exercising, engaging with friends, taking or teaching courses at a local lifelong learning institute.
It may take two days, rather than the one it used to take, to clean the house. My exercising will involve lighter weights or fewer reps compared with what I handled a few years ago. And I will walk my miles briskly instead of running them. But I am grateful for and enjoy what I can do. I have accepted my current status and made accommodations for it.
Acceptance (in human psychology): A person’s assent to the reality of a situation, recognizing a process or condition (often a negative or uncomfortable one) without attempting to change or protest it.
Accommodation (in human psychology): The process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences or situations.
Returning to our bedroom, I find my husband of over 50 years sitting on the edge of our bed. He is going through his own morning ritual before making his way to the bathroom. First, he mentally prepares himself to stand on feet that have suffered fallout from chemotherapy. Now standing, but before taking a step, he reaches for his cane, which both helps with his unpredictable balance and lowers the demand on a severely arthritic hip — a hip he refuses to have replaced because, “I’ve had enough of hospitals.” He, too, has had to accept and accommodate.
The attributes of acceptance and accommodation do not magically appear and are not only important in the later years of living. Our then six-year-old son’s reluctant acknowledgement that he understood he wasn’t allowed to ride a monster roller coaster because of his height was, at the time, an example of acceptance. His verbal comeback, “but can we ride that one and the one over there?” demonstrated accommodation. Achieving the ability to accept and accommodate is a process — often a challenging one. It occurs in fits and starts, often without our awareness or conscious effort, and is molded by time and the external and internal experiences of living. Ultimately, achieving the ability to incorporate these attributes into our lives enables us to live more fully and meaningfully.
Acceptance and accommodation are not only applicable to and essential for successful living at an individual level. Families, organizations, countries, societies and cultures all struggle with and attempt to apply, through a variety of processes, these powerful adaptive responses we have evolved. If nothing else, the past few years have demonstrated what can happen in a society when its collective members neither have the will nor have found the way to apply on a larger scale these fundamental tools.
I don’t get out of bed thinking profound thoughts about the psychology, sociology and politics of our times. In fact, such mornings are very rare. Most days, my first thoughts are focused on emptying my aging bladder. But, when these less prosaic musings surface, I marvel that the incredibly mundane activity of getting out of bed can provide an example of what people are capable of. And I wonder why we humans so often have such difficulty extending to others the acceptance and accommodations that we so naturally extend to ourselves.
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With Religious Persecution Rising Internationally Advocates Urge the Senate to Pass Religious Freedom Bill
Church of Scientology joins 90 religious freedom advocates asking for the US Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act to be passed
More voices are needed to speak out on abuses against individuals solely because of their religious belief. USCIRF is a vital part of this infrastructure.”
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, May 19, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Religious persecution by governments and others around the world continues to be a crisis. The United States is a leading supporter of those who suffer for their beliefs with a robust Office of International Religious Freedom and its Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom in the State Department. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan US government agency, is part of the vital infrastructure supporting religious freedom issues internationally.— Rev. Susan Taylor, Church of Scientology National Affairs Office
In a letter addressed to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 90 religious freedom advocates from the International Religious Freedom Roundtable urged the committee to pass Senate bill 3895, called the US Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2022. This act will ensure the commission continues to protect and defend religious freedom for all faiths internationally.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is an independent, bipartisan, US federal government commission created by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) that monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad. USCIRF uses international standards to monitor religious freedom violations globally and makes policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress.
The letter said, “From our various experiences, we’ve seen the Commission play a vital role as a pillar of U.S. foreign policy infrastructure by reporting on those around the world who suffer for their beliefs, conscience, or religion. Robust reporting products, advocating for prisoners of conscience, and resources such as prisoner lists are essential to international advancement of the fundamental right of religious freedom. As you know, this freedom is a foreign policy priority of the United States as defined by Congress in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
“Additionally, being heard and respected by a prominent government commission is invaluable to those who have been persecuted for their beliefs. The impact of their story being told and published by the U.S. government encourages them, supports recovery, and inspires their broader community to become even greater advocates for those who are still harmed.”
One of the signers of the letter, Rev. Susan Taylor, Public Affairs Director for the Church of Scientology National Affairs Office in Washington, DC, said, “With religious freedom continually under attack around the world, we must fully support those organizations that fight daily for our right to believe and practice our faiths. More voices are needed to speak out on abuses against individuals solely because of their religious belief. USCIRF is a vital part of this infrastructure. Congressional reauthorization of USCIRF is a vital step in ensuring that religious freedom is fought for globally.”
In introducing the bill, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said, “Freedom of religion is a God-given right afforded to all individuals. Our nation is blessed to have a constitution that protects this right and a proud tradition of defending this principle since its founding.” He further commented, “Tragically, many around the world are deprived of this fundamental protection. Christians in Nigeria, Nicaragua, and Cuba, Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, Buddhists in Tibet, and many more risk persecution and even death because of their beliefs. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom plays a critical role in shining a light on religious freedom violations worldwide. I’m proud to lead my colleagues in this bipartisan effort so that men and women across the globe are free to safely and peacefully worship.”
Co-sponsor Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) stated, “As we bear witness to dangerous global trends toward authoritarianism and democratic backsliding, religious freedom, like other human rights, is increasingly imperiled worldwide.” He added, “From China’s genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and horrific abuses against Buddhists in Tibet, to Iran’s totalitarian restrictions and undeniable violence against religious minorities, the United States’ action to advance and support free religious expression is more crucial than ever. Today’s reauthorization of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom reflects our enduring commitment to safeguard human rights, and I remain deeply committed to continue our work to build on and strengthen the ways the US government elevates the voices and causes of marginalized religious communities everywhere.”
Another co-sponsor, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) remarked, “The United States has a long tradition of promoting religious freedom abroad, and this Commission is dedicated to advising Congress and the Executive Branch about how to successfully ensure religious freedom is protected and that religion is not exploited to justify human-rights abuses. As the global refugee crisis worsens, the United States must do more to address the scourge of religious persecution, including holding perpetrators accountable and providing a safe haven to refugees. It’s heartening to see a bipartisan group of Senators come together on this pressing issue to ensure that the Commission can effectively fulfill its mission.”
Founded in 2010, the IRF Roundtable is an informal group of individuals from all faiths and none who gather regularly to discuss IRF issues on an off-the-record basis. The IRF Roundtable which meets weekly has and will continue to advocate and advise on policies regarding international religious freedom around the world and in the United States.
The Church of Scientology National Affairs Office in Washington, DC, has been a participant in the IRF Roundtable since its early days. The Church of Scientology has stood for basic human rights, as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, since its founding by L. Ron Hubbard in Washington, DC, in 1955.
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By Denny Jacob
Bath & Body Works Inc. shares fell 3.9% to $41.26 in late trading Wednesday after the company updated its second-quarter and fiscal 2022 outlook.
The specialty retailer said it is forecasting second- quarter earnings per share between 60 cents and 65 cents, down from 77 cents a year earlier. For fiscal 2022, the company guided for earnings per share between $3.80 and $4.15. The company said the updated outlook reflects its decision to accelerate investments in information technology and customer loyalty program, as well as projected increases in inflationary pressures.
Net income declined to $154.9 million, or 64 cents a share, for the first quarter ended April 30, from net income of $276.6 million, or 97 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted earnings were also 64 cents a share, above analysts' expectations of 53 cents.
Sales ticked down to $1.45 billion from $1.47 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.44 billion.
Interim Chief Executive Sarah Nash said in prepared remarks that the company saw positive store traffic and transaction trends as more consumers engaged in-person.
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BOGOTA: Colombia's majority state-owned energy company,
Ecopetrol, on Wednesday announced an agreement to develop four offshore, deep-water blocks with a subsidiary of U.S. oil major
Occidental.
The four blocks are located in deep waters some 150 kilometers off Colombia's northern
Caribbean coast, Ecopetrol said in a statement.
Ecopetrol will take a 40 per cent stake in the blocks while Occidental subsidiary
Anadarko Colombia Co will have a 60 per cent stake and will serve as the blocks' operator, Ecopetrol said.
"We're very pleased to seal this new alliance with (Occidental), a first-rate partner, to continue strengthening our exploration portfolio in Colombia's Caribbean," Ecopetrol Chief Executive
Felipe Bayon said in the statement.
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PACIFIC OCEAN – Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Commander Yatsuada Kohisa, middle, and JMSDF Commander Makoto Tentaku, right, both assigned to Fleet Submarine Force, board the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Annapolis (SSN 760), May 13. Annapolis is conducting maritime operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to maintain a safe and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Darek Leary)
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BEIJING (AP) — The locked-down Chinese metropolis of Shanghai will reopen four of its 20 subway lines Sunday as it slowly eases pandemic restrictions that have kept most residents in their housing complexes for more than six weeks.
The city will also restart 273 bus lines connecting major urban centers, airports, train stations and hospitals as it resumes cross-district public transit, Yu Fulin, director of the Shanghai Transport Commission, said at a daily pandemic briefing Thursday.
It wasn't immediately clear how frequent the service would be. Bus service resumed on a trial basis within three outlying districts this week, with buses running every 30 to 90 minutes during daylight hours.
The lockdown of China's largest city has dealt a blow to the economy and frustrated residents, particularly as many countries elsewhere in the world move away from such harsh measures as they try to live with the virus. But officials have stuck to a ‘zero-COVID’ approach, saying that lifting restrictions could strain the public health system and lead to more deaths, particularly among the not fully vaccinated elderly.
The outbreak in Shanghai has taken 580 lives, according to official statistics, making it the deadliest one since the initial outbreak in the city of Wuhan in early 2020.
Even as the number of new cases plummets, authorities are relaxing restrictions in a slow and deliberate manner as they try to ensure that the virus no longer spreads anywhere outside of quarantine facilities and areas with known infections.
The city of 25 million people recorded about 700 new cases on Wednesday, accounting for most of the about 1,000 cases nationwide.
Authorities in Beijing, which reported 55 new cases, closed some subway stations and bus lines, banned dining in restaurants and strongly encouraged residents to work from home as they try to prevent a Shanghai-scale outbreak in the Chinese capital.
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Portugal product design team brings deep healthcare design expertise to precision neurology
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rune Labs, a precision neurology software and data platform company, today announced the creation of a team of lead designers based in Lisbon, Portugal who will be focused on expanding features and workflows for Rune Labs' StrivePD ecosystem for Parkinson's care. The subsidiary will also be Rune's first permanent presence in Europe.
Because people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease have a wide array of symptoms that vary from person to person, a personalized approach that takes into account each patient's unique disease experience is necessary when providing care. That's why Rune Labs developed StrivePD, a digital care ecosystem that enables people with Parkinson's to share their daily disease experience with their care team in between clinical visits. StrivePD aggregates multimodal data, ranging from peripherals such as an Apple Watch to implanted devices such as deep brain stimulation, to enable the care team to personalize treatment via the clinician web portal.
The Portugal design team will research and incorporate the Parkinson's patient experience across StrivePD, and work closely with the engineering and neuroscience teams to co-develop solutions that take into account researcher, clinician, and patient needs. The team will also be responsible for designing data-focused experiences that feature complex multi-modal datasets for neuroscience and patient care.
"Rune Labs is focused on enabling human-centered care to people living with Parkinson's, and the Portugal team of product designers will ensure that patients, clinicians, and researchers have a voice in our products," said Will Newby, VP of Product at Rune Labs. "StrivePD was developed to provide care teams with the necessary data to optimize each patient's treatment, but we want to ensure that Parkinson's patients are also directly involved in their care."
The design team members bring a wealth of experience in healthcare product design, particularly in creating user experiences that empower patients and provide caregivers with tools to improve treatment decision-making. The team has worked together for over seven years and developed 10 marketed products across data analytics and digital pathology. The majority of team members contributed to a patent for the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche.
Rune's first-in-class precision neurology software platform integrates electrophysiology, brain imaging, and device data together with wearable data and clinical labels. The combination provides researchers, drug developers, and clinicians with the tools to guide treatment, uncover hidden disease phenotypes, and design better-targeted therapies. Its lead product, StrivePD, allows patients to track their symptoms and medication use in advance of clinical visits. The platform also includes a comprehensive dashboard tool that helps movement disorder specialists and neurologists visualize various data sources, to identify patterns within and across patients to tailor and optimize care.
About Rune Labs
Rune Labs is a software and data analytics company for precision neurology, built to support care delivery and therapy development. StrivePD, our care delivery ecosystem for Parkinson's, enables patients and clinicians to better manage Parkinson's disease by providing access to curated dashboards that summarize a range of patient data sources. For therapeutics development, biopharma and medical device companies leverage our technology, network of engaged clinicians and patients, and large longitudinal real-world dataset to expedite their development programs.
For more information, please visit www.runelabs.io.
For more information on StrivePD, please visit Strive.group.
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Third-Party Chemical Distribution Market size is expected to grow by USD 101.80 billion, at a CAGR of 7.27% during the forecast period, according to Technavio. The report offers an up-to-date analysis and to know the exact growth variance and the Y-O-Y growth rate Request our latest sample report.
The growing focus on chemical distribution, increasing emphasis on outsourcing distribution services and rising demand for third-party chemical distribution from MEA and APAC will offer immense growth opportunities. However, the advent of innovative distribution channels, highly fragmented market, and stringent regulations associated with chemical distribution will challenge the growth of the market participants.
To make the most of the opportunities, market vendors should focus more on the growth prospects in the fast-growing segments, while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments.
Third-Party Chemical Distribution Market 2021-2025: Segmentation
- Type
- Commodity Chemicals
- Specialty Chemicals
- Geography
- APAC
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- MEA
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The report analyzes the market's competitive landscape and offers information on several market vendors, including:
- Azelis group
- Biesterfeld AG
- BRENNTAG AG
- Helm AG
- IMCD NV
- Omya International AG
- Sinochem Hong Kong (Group) Co. Ltd.
- Stockmeier Holding GmbH
- Tricon Energy Inc.
- Univar Solutions Inc.
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APAC will account for 47 percent of market growth. The primary markets for third-party chemical distribution in APAC are China, the United States, and India.
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Table Of Contents :
Executive Summary
Market Landscape
- Market ecosystem
- Value chain analysis
Market Sizing
- Market definition
- Market segment analysis
- Market size 2020
- Market outlook: Forecast for 2020 - 2025
Five Forces Analysis
- Bargaining power of buyers
- Bargaining power of suppliers
- Threat of new entrants
- Threat of substitutes
- Threat of rivalry
- Market condition
Market Segmentation by Type
- Market segments
- Comparison by Type
- Commodity chemicals - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Specialty chemicals - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Market opportunity by Type
Customer landscape
Geographic Landscape
- Geographic segmentation
- Geographic comparison
- APAC - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Europe - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- North America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- South America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- MEA - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Key leading countries
- Market opportunity by geography
- Market drivers
- Market challenges
- Market trends
Vendor Landscape
- Landscape disruption
Vendor Analysis
- Vendors covered
- Market positioning of vendors
- Azelis group
- Biesterfeld AG
- BRENNTAG AG
- Helm AG
- IMCD NV
- Omya International AG
- Sinochem Hong Kong (Group) Co. Ltd.
- Stockmeier Holding GmbH
- Tricon Energy Inc.
- Univar Solutions Inc.
Appendix
- Scope of the report
- Currency conversion rates for US$
- Research methodology
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The National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) issued a health risk alert due to the sudden drop in temperature in some regions of the country. In all, 11 states and the Federal District are in the danger zone. The notice began at 10:55 am today (18) and continues until 11 pm on Friday (20).
According to the alert, temperatures should remain 5ºC below average for a period of 3 to 5 days.
Inmet recommends that, in case of need, people contact the Civil Defense, by phone 199.
Forecast
The polar air mass, coming from the south of Brazil, arrived today in the Federal District, which registered a minimum of 8.7°C, during the dawn. Temperatures are expected to drop further in the coming days, reaching 5ºC tomorrow, according to Inmet’s forecast.
Civil defense
In a statement, the Civil Defense of the Federal District cites the health hazard alert and gives guidance to the population regarding the cold:
- Pay special attention to children, the elderly and sick people;
- Keep warm. Also protect the extremities of the body, use caps and gloves;
- Avoid keeping the environments too closed. Keep your home and workplace clean and well-ventilated. Prevent yourself against respiratory diseases.
- Try to wrap up your pet. Consider wearing protective clothing. Shelter from the wind. Adequately lining the sleeping area;
- Be supportive. Donate coats and blankets to those in need. Load, if possible, this material in the car;
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MAX CONCERN
Mets ace Max Scherzer is scheduled for an MRI a day after pulling himself from a start with discomfort in his left side.
The three-time Cy Young Award winner signaled that he needed to come out of an 11-4 victory over St. Louis after throwing a pitch in the sixth inning.
“I don’t think this is a major strain,” Scherzer said. “I was kind of tight and then all of a sudden it went. But I don’t feel like I really ripped it. It just kind of got worse. So hopefully I got out of there quick enough to prevent a major injury here because I know oblique, intercostal, those things can be nasty. Hopefully I avoided a serious injury.”
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.
STRO’S A GO
Marcus Stroman (1-3, 5.13 ERA) is set to come off the COVID-19 injured list and start for the Cubs against Arizona. The right-hander hasn’t pitched since May 1, when he delivered seven scoreless innings against Milwaukee in his best start since signing a $71 million, three-year deal with Chicago in the offseason.
He’ll oppose Zac Gallen (2-0, 1.05) in the opener of a four-game series at Wrigley Field. Gallen held Chicago to two hits and a run over six innings in his previous start Saturday.
BAT-ONLY BRYCE
Phillies slugger Bryce Harper may not play right field again until late July as he recovers from a platelet-rich plasma injection in his right elbow.
The reigning NL MVP sat out a third straight game Wednesday but is hoping to possibly return as the designated hitter for Thursday’s game against San Diego. He had the injection Sunday because of a small tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of his throwing elbow that’s forced him into the role of designated hitter.
Phillies manager Joe Girardi said Wednesday that doctors said Harper should not throw for at least six weeks.
The 29-year-old star is batting .305 with nine home runs, 14 doubles, 27 RBIs, and an .634 slugging percentage.
A LUCKY LOSS
Astros pitcher Jake Odorizzi will be sidelined indefinitely with damage to tendons and ligaments in his left ankle, but he’s feeling fortunate his Achilles tendon is unharmed.
The 32-year-old right-hander feared a serious injury to the Achilles tendon when he heard a pop in his ankle Monday against Boston. He collapsed after throwing a pitch and taking a step toward first on a ground ball and was stretchered off.
“I think the stretcher made it worse than it actually was,” Odorizzi said Wednesday. “It was just a quick, loud pop. I heard it and felt it, so I kind of thought it was the worst-case scenario.”
Odorizzi is 3-2 with a 3.13 ERA and 21 strikeouts in seven starts this season.
A FINAL BITE OF THE APPLE
Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina make their last scheduled appearance in New York when the Cardinals finish a four-game series against the Mets — although it’s possible neither will be in the afternoon lineup after playing Wednesday night.
The longtime stars plan to retire after this year, and this week marks the Cardinals’ only visit to the Big Apple during the regular season. There's always a chance of postseason trip, too.
“It’s always fun playing here,” Pujols said. “There’s a lot of great memories.”
The 42-year-old slugger received some warm applause during introductions at Citi Field and before his first at-bat of the series Wednesday night. He grounded a two-run single against Max Scherzer that deflected off first base for his 3,313th hit, tying Eddie Collins for 10th place on the career list.
Pujols later passed Collins with a broken-bat single in the fourth, and then stole second base without a throw. Paul Molitor is next on the hit list at 3,319.
Pujols and Molina were teammates on the Cardinals’ 2006 World Series championship team that defeated the Mets in Game 7 of the NLCS at old Shea Stadium on Molina’s tiebreaking homer in the ninth inning.
“Obviously, a great history going back and forth with the Cardinals, coming though here,” Pujols said. “I think although it’s not in the same division, we almost felt like it was always a rivalry. ... Those are great memories that you’re obviously going to take with you.”
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Several analysts have recently updated their ratings and price targets for NEXT (LON: NXT):
- 5/16/2022 – NEXT had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Royal Bank of Canada. They now have a GBX 7,200 ($88.76) price target on the stock.
- 5/6/2022 – NEXT had its “neutral” rating reaffirmed by analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co.. They now have a GBX 7,280 ($89.74) price target on the stock.
- 5/6/2022 – NEXT had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft. They now have a GBX 7,850 ($96.77) price target on the stock.
- 5/5/2022 – NEXT had its “hold” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Shore Capital.
- 5/3/2022 – NEXT had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Barclays PLC. They now have a GBX 8,800 ($108.48) price target on the stock.
- 5/3/2022 – NEXT had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Royal Bank of Canada. They now have a GBX 7,500 ($92.46) price target on the stock.
- 4/11/2022 – NEXT had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Royal Bank of Canada. They now have a GBX 7,500 ($92.46) price target on the stock.
- 4/11/2022 – NEXT had its “hold” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Shore Capital.
- 4/1/2022 – NEXT had its price target lowered by analysts at Berenberg Bank from GBX 7,100 ($87.52) to GBX 6,900 ($85.06). They now have a “hold” rating on the stock.
- 3/25/2022 – NEXT had its price target lowered by analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. from GBX 7,800 ($96.15) to GBX 7,280 ($89.74). They now have a “neutral” rating on the stock.
- 3/25/2022 – NEXT had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft. They now have a GBX 9,250 ($114.03) price target on the stock.
- 3/22/2022 – NEXT had its “under review” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Shore Capital.
Shares of NXT stock opened at GBX 6,302 ($77.69) on Thursday. NEXT plc has a 52 week low of GBX 5,578 ($68.76) and a 52 week high of GBX 8,484 ($104.59). The company has a market cap of £8.26 billion and a PE ratio of 12.03. The company has a current ratio of 1.99, a quick ratio of 1.38 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 208.54. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 6,203.45 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 7,117.56.
NEXT plc engages in the retail of clothing, footwear, and home products in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and internationally. The company operates through NEXT Retail, NEXT Online, NEXT Finance, NEXT International Retail, NEXT Sourcing, Lipsy, NENA, and Property Management segments.
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Dublin, May 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Alternative Protein Market by Type, Application - Global Forecast to 2029" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The Global Alternative Protein Market is expected to reach $36.61 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 12.4% during the forecast period of 2022 to 2029.
This market is driven by the growing population and awareness about the benefits of alternative proteins, the increasing number of venture investments in alternative protein companies, the high nutritional value of edible insects, and the environmental sustainability benefits offered by alternative proteins.
Additionally, the increasing inclination towards a vegan diet provides significant growth opportunities for alternative proteins manufacturers. However, the high cost of alternative proteins and the significant preference for animal-based products hinder the growth of this market to a notable extent.
Based on type, the alternative proteins market is segmented into plant proteins, insect proteins, and microbial proteins. In 2022, the plant proteins segment is estimated to account for the largest share of the alternative protein market. The large share of this segment is mainly attributed to the growing demand from food & beverage manufacturers, the increasing vegan population, the rising number of plant-based product launches, and the large presence of plant protein manufacturers.
However, the insect proteins segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during 2022-2029. The high growth rate of this segment is driven by the growing demand for environmentally friendly protein-rich food and the rising number of investments in edible insect farming.
Based on application, the alternative protein market is segmented into plant protein-based applications, insect protein-based applications, and microbial protein-based applications. In 2022, the plant protein-based applications segment is estimated to account for the largest share of the alternative proteins market.
The large share of this segment is attributed to the growing vegetarian and vegan population, consumers' rising demand for clean-label products, and the increasing number of investments and expansions by plant-based product manufacturers.
In 2022, North America is estimated to account for the largest share of the alternative proteins market. However, Asia-Pacific is expected to record the highest CAGR during the forecast period.
The high market growth in Asia-Pacific is attributed to the increasing awareness regarding the importance of protein-rich diets, the increasing technological advancements in the food & beverages industry, rapid economic growth, and the wide availability of raw materials.
Key questions answered in the report
- What are the high-growth market segments in terms of type, application, and countries?
- What is the historical market for alternative proteins across the globe?
- What are the market forecasts and estimates for the period of 2022-2029?
- What are the major drivers, restraints, challenges, trends, and opportunities in the global alternative proteins market?
- Who are the major players in various countries, and what shares of the market do they hold?
- How is the competitive landscape?
- What are the recent developments in the global alternative proteins market?
- What are the different strategies adopted by the major players in the market?
- What are the key geographic trends, and which are the high-growth countries?
- Who are the local emerging players in the global alternative proteins market, and how do they compete with the other players?
Key Topics Covered:
1. Introduction
1.1. Market Definition
1.2. Market Ecosystem
1.3. Currency
1.4. Key Stakeholders
2. Research Methodology
2.1. Research Process
2.2. Data Collection & Validation
2.3. Market Assessment
2.4. Assumptions for the Study
2.5. Limitations for the Study
3. Executive Summary
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Segment Analysis
3.2.1. Alternative Protein Market, by Type Analysis
3.2.1.1. Plant Protein, by Type
3.2.1.2. Insect Protein, by Type
3.2.1.3. Microbial Protein, by Type
3.2.2. Alternative Protein Market, by Application Analysis
3.2.2.1. Plant Protein Market, by Application
3.2.2.2. Insect Protein Market, by Application
3.2.2.3. Microbial Protein Market, by Application
3.2.3. Alternative Protein Market, Regional Analysis
3.2.4. Competitive Landscape & Market Competitors
4. Market Insights
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Drivers
4.2.1. Growing Population and Awareness About the Benefits of Alternative Protein
4.2.2. Growing Venture Investments in Alternative Protein Companies
4.2.3. High Nutritional Value of Edible Insects
4.2.4. Environmental Sustainability with Production and Consumption of Alternative Protein
4.3. Restraints
4.3.1. High Cost of Alternative Protein
4.3.2. Preference for Animal-Based Products
4.4. Opportunities
4.4.1. Increasing Inclination Towards Vegan Diet
4.5. Investment/Funding Scenario
4.6. Pricing Analysis
4.6.1. Introduction
4.6.2. Plant Protein
4.6.2.1. Soy Protein
4.6.2.2. Wheat Protein
4.6.2.3. Pea Protein
4.6.2.4. Canola Protein
4.6.2.5. Potato Protein
4.6.2.6. Rice Protein
4.6.2.7. Corn Protein
4.6.3. Insect Protein
4.6.3.1. Crickets
4.6.3.2. Black Soldier Fly
4.6.4. Microbial Protein
4.6.4.1. Algae Protein
4.6.4.2. Fungal Protein
4.6.4.2.1. Mycoprotein
4.6.4.2.2. Mushrooms Protein
4.6.4.3. Bacterial Protein
4.6.4.4. Yeast Protein
4.7. Value Chain Analysis
5. COVID-19 Impact Analysis on the Alternative Protein Market
6. Global Alternative Protein Market, by Type
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Plant Protein
6.2.1. Soy Protein
6.2.2. Wheat Protein
6.2.3. Pea Protein
6.2.4. Canola Protein
6.2.5. Potato Protein
6.2.6. Rice Protein
6.2.7. Corn Protein
6.2.8. Other Plant Protein
6.3. Insect Protein
6.3.1. Crickets
6.3.2. Black Soldier Fly
6.3.3. Other Insect Protein
6.4. Microbial Protein
6.4.1. Algae Protein
6.4.2. Fungal Protein
6.4.2.1. MycoProtein
6.4.2.2. Mushroom Protein
6.4.3. Bacterial Protein
6.4.4. Yeast Protein
7. Global Alternative Protein Market, by Application
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Plant Protein-based Applications
7.2.1. Food & Beverages
7.2.1.1. Meat, Poultry, and Seafood
7.2.1.2. Bakery
7.2.1.3. Meat Analogs
7.2.1.4. Dairy Alternatives
7.2.1.5. Cereals & Snacks
7.2.1.6. Beverages
7.2.1.7. Others
7.2.2. Animal Feed
7.2.3. Nutrition & Health Supplements
7.2.4. Pharmaceuticals
7.2.5. Others
7.3. Insect Protein-based Applications
7.3.1. Processed Whole Insects
7.3.2. Animal Feed and Pet Food
7.3.3. Processed Insect Powder
7.3.4. Insect Protein Bars and Shakes
7.3.5. Insect Baked Products and Snacks
7.3.6. Insect Confectioneries
7.3.7. Insect Beverages
7.3.8. Others
7.4. Microbial Protein-based Applications
7.4.1. Food & Beverage
7.4.2. Animal Feed
7.4.3. Nutraceuticals
7.4.4. Cosmetics
7.4.5. Others
8. Alternative Protein Market, by Geography
8.1. Introduction
8.2. North America
8.2.1. U.S.
8.2.2. Canada
8.3. Europe
8.3.1. Germany
8.3.2. France
8.3.3. U.K.
8.3.4. Italy
8.3.5. Spain
8.3.6. Rest of Europe (RoE)
8.4. Asia-Pacific
8.4.1. China
8.4.2. Japan
8.4.3. India
8.4.4. Australia
8.4.5. Rest of Asia-Pacific (RoAPAC)
8.5. Latin America
8.6. Middle East & Africa
9. Competitive Landscape
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Key Growth Strategies
9.3. Competitive Benchmarking
10. Company Profiles
- Archer Daniels Midland Company (U.S.)
- Cargill Incorporated (U.S.)
- Roquette Freres (France)
- Ingredion Incorporated (U.S.)
- Kerry Group (Ireland)
- International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) (U.S.)
- Now Foods (U.S.)
- Tate & Lyle Plc (U.K.)
- Axiom Foods Inc. (U.S.)
- Burcon NutraScience Corporation (Canada)
- Beneo GmbH (A Part of Sudzucker AG) (Germany)
- Glanbia Plc (Ireland)
- Sotexpro (France)
- Farbest-Tallman Foods Corporation (U.S.)
- CHS Inc. (U.S.)
- Ynsect (SAS) (France)
- Enterra Feed Corporation (Canada)
- Protix B.V. (Netherlands)
- Entomo Farms (Canada)
- Global Bugs Asia Co. Ltd. (Thailand)
- Aspire Food Group (U.S.)
- EnviroFlight LLC (U.S.)
- Haocheng Mealworm Inc. (China)
- JR Unique Foods Ltd. (Thailand)
- Armstrong Cricket Farm Georgia (U.S.)
- Rocky Mountain Micro Ranch (U.S.)
- Cricket Lab Limited (U.K.)
- DIC Corporation (Japan)
- Cellena Inc. (U.S.)
- Taiwan Chlorella Manufacturing Company (Taiwan)
- Cyanotech Corporation (U.S.)
- Bluebiotech International GmbH (Germany)
- Pond Technologies Holdings Inc. (Canada)
- E.I.D.-Parry (India) Limited (India)
- Tianjin Norland Biotech Co. Ltd. (China)
- MycoTechnology Inc. (U.S.)
- Enough. (U.K.)
- Corbion NV (Netherlands)
- Sun Chlorella Corporation (Japan)
- Plantible Foods Inc. (U.S.)
- Parabel Nutritional Inc. (U.S.)
- Far East Bio-Tec Co. Ltd. (Taiwan)
- Far East Microalgae Industries
- Co. Ltd. (Taiwan)
- Roquette Klotze GmbH & Co. Kg (Germany)
- Yaeyama Shokusan Co. Ltd. (Japan)
- Unibio Group (Denmark)
- String Bio (India)
- Calysta Inc. (U.S.)
- Angel Yeast Co. Ltd (China)
- Lesaffre (France).
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Don’t Give Money To A Poor Man Because He Has Many Children, Let Him Suffer – Omokri
Sensational Nigerian author and socialite, Reno Omokri has taken to social media to advise scores to desist from giving donations to the poor in society on basis that they have wives and many children.
According to the popular author, the practice has given some poor people the mentality that they can give birth as many times as they wish without the financial strength to take care of the children and leave the burden on the few benevolent folks around. He added that instead of feeding such people, they should be left to face the consequences of their actions.
“Stop justifying giving help to a poor man because he has a wife and many kids. Let him suffer! Such a man needs to suffer, so that other people see him suffer and learn not to have kids they can’t cater for. Or we will have MORE of such in society, if you help them.
If you keep helping men for the sole reason that they are poor and have many kids, their mentality will be: born as you like, God will use mumu people to help you train them. In case you don’t know, that is already the mentality of many low, or no wage earners, who have many children. Your ‘kindness’ is feeding that mentality and creating a population explosion, resulting in insecurity!” | https://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/news/dont-give-money-to-a-poor-man-because-he-has-many-children-let-him-suffer-omokri | 2022-05-19T08:37:33Z | https://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/news/dont-give-money-to-a-poor-man-because-he-has-many-children-let-him-suffer-omokri | false | 2 |
Partial and even full stadium closures could be imposed on clubs in the EFL next season as the league seeks to crack down on pitch invasions and other fan disorder.
Nottinghamshire Police arrested a 31-year-old man after Sheffield United’s Billy Sharp was assaulted at the City Ground at the end of the Championship play-off semi-final against Nottingham Forest.
The league joined the players’ union, the Professional Footballers’ Association, and Forest in condemning the incident and warned it will look at strengthening its deterrents against supporter misbehaviour over the summer.
Addressing the pitch invasion at Forest and similar scenes at other play-off and end-of-season fixtures, the EFL said: “We recognise that this lawlessness is being conducted by a small minority of individuals and that the majority of people attending matches are a credit to their club.
“However, it is not acceptable for supporters to enter the field of play at any time given the EFL’s objective is to ensure our matches remain a safe and welcoming one for all.
“Therefore, over the summer we will consider what further measures are now at our disposal, including the potential use of capacity reductions or other similar mitigations.”
It is understood all options will be looked at in the close season, and ordering teams to play matches behind closed doors has not been ruled out.
The EFL statement added: “Supporters are reminded that it is against the law to enter the pitch at any time and could result in a club ban and criminal record.
“More importantly it puts the safety of players, coaches, managers and match officials at risk. It is vital that those playing the game can do so safe in the knowledge that they will not be subjected to violent, threatening or anti-social behaviour going forward.”
The PFA described the Sharp incident as a “senseless assault” and called for matchday security and fan disorder to be reviewed ahead of next season.
“We will be raising player safety with the clubs, leagues and the UK Football Policing Unit,” the union said.
Fan disorder has been on the rise this season, with figures from the UKFPU released earlier this year showing a 36 per cent increase in reported incidents in the first half of the 2021-22 season compared to the same period in 2019-20.
Former Forest player Sharp described his assailant as a “scumbag” in a social media post, but said he would not let what had happened ruin his respect for the club’s supporters.
Forest said they would issue a lifetime ban to the individual found to have attacked Sharp, while since the incident the club’s fans have already contributed more than £2,500 to a JustGiving page to be donated to a charity of Sharp’s choice to show their condemnation for what happened.
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All the Best Looks from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet
Now that awards season has come to an end, it's easy to fall into a fashion slump. Thankfully, every spring, the Cannes Film Festival comes to rescue us with a red carpet that rivals the Met and the Oscars.
Year after year, Cannes delivers some of the most jaw-dropping, eye-catching, and avant-garde fashion, from Bella Hadid's necklace top to Kristen Stewart's super-short romper. While the nearly two-week-long film extravaganza is technically about the movies, the celebrity style always steals the show.
This year's festivities mark the 75th celebration and takes place from May 17-28, showcasing 24 feature films over the 12 days, including Eva Longoria's Final Cut (Coupez!). This year's jury is making history, with Deepika Padukone, the first-ever Indian jury member, joining Noomi Rapace, Jasmine Trinca, Vincent Lindon, Rebecca Hall, Asghar Farhadi, Ladj Ly, Joachim Trier, Jasmine Trinca, and Jeff Nichols. Together, they'll decide which movies take home the coveted Palme d'Or and the competition's other awards
Read on for the award-worthy looks from the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
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Flywire presently has a consensus price target of $41.10, suggesting a potential upside of 121.80%. As a group, “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies have a potential upside of 59.22%. Given Flywire’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Flywire is more favorable than its peers.
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Flywire Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a payment enablement and software company in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and internationally. Its payment platform and network, and vertical-specific software help clients to get paid and help their customers to pay. The company's platform facilitates payment flows across multiple currencies, payment types, and payment options; and provides direct connections to alternative payment methods, such as Alipay, Boleto, PayPal/Venmo, and Trustly. It serves education, healthcare, travel, and business to business organizations. Flywire Corporation was formerly known as peerTransfer Corporation and changed its name to Flywire Corporation in December 2016. Flywire Corporation was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes, Cleveland forward Evan Mobley and Detroit guard Cade Cunningham were unanimously voted Wednesday to the NBA All-Rookie first team.
Orlando’s Franz Wagner and Houston’s Jalen Green were the other players chosen for the first team by a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters.
Barnes, the No. 4 pick by the Toronto Raptors, edged Mobley for the Rookie of the Year in the smallest margin under the current format that began in 2002-03. They both received 200 points in the All-Rookie balloting, along with Cunningham, the 2021 No. 1 pick.
The second team was New Orleans’ Herbert Jones, Oklahoma City’s Josh Giddey, Denver’s Bones Hyland, Chicago’s Ayo Dosunmu and Indiana’s Chris Duarte.
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DUNN, N.C. (WNCN) – All lanes of Interstate-95 are closed near Dunn early Thursday due to a vehicle fire, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said.
The incident began just after 2 a.m. near the Jonesboro Road/mile marker 75 area in the northbound lanes.
NCDOT said all lanes of traffic are closed.
The following detour is in place:
Motorists must use Exit 73 for US 421 S and turn right on US 421.
Continue on US 421 then turn left on NC 55 E. Continue on NC 55 E then turn left on NC 242 N. Continue on NC 242 N and continue straight to return to I-95 N.
This story will be updated as it develops. | https://www.cbs17.com/news/vehicle-fire-closes-i-95-near-dunn/ | 2022-05-19T08:57:41Z | https://www.cbs17.com/news/vehicle-fire-closes-i-95-near-dunn/ | true | null |
Victoria Bredikhina is a 33-year-old hairstylist who lived in a small town near Kyiv called Vyshhorod, until the Russians started their invasion on 24 February.
She was forced to embark on a long and dangerous journey to save her 5-year-old son, who has pancreatitis and needs to follow a very strict diet.
“I was really scared when we went through Kyiv, because I heard stories of whole families getting shot and I couldn’t see any car in the street that day”, she told Independent TV.
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Kate Humble has revealed her top tip about how to make a garden more wildlife friendly. This simple trick works whether you only have a tiny balcony or acres to fill.
The TV presenter and writer’s easy garden ideas will encourage insects and animals into your outdoor space. Time to let nature thrive!
The Kate Humble trick for welcoming wildlife
‘Irrespective of how big your garden is, there are ways to encourage wildlife,’ Kate Humble tells us. ‘The first thing is to think about planting and it may seem like a silly thing to say, but think about the food chain.’
‘Think about it. If you’ve got insects you’re going to get everything else,’ continues Kate. ‘If you don’t plant for insects then you’re not going to attract birds or small mammals. You need to think about that what there needs to be to encourage the next step of the food chain.’
So take your mind back to school and think about what eats what when working out how to plan a garden. If you plant for insects, then each successive step in the food chain will be catered for and make an appearance.
Planting for insects will help your actual gardening, too.
‘If you grow any sort of vegetables or you have fruit trees, encouraging pollinators like bees and wasps and hoverflies is really, really important,’ says Kate.
‘This is because they will do all the hard work for you.’
Take things one step further and design your garden for the food chain with more than just planting. Water feature ideas can do more than add a stylish feature.
‘The other thing that’s just brilliant is building a pond,’ adds Kate. ‘There are lots of resources out there to show you how best to do it, but I would point you to the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust.’
‘It doesn’t have to be very big, but a pond will be hugely pleasurable for you because it will bring in things like dragonflies, frogs and newts. You can also have beautiful plants around it, so it can be a really attractive feature but also an amazing resource for wildlife.’
Kate Humble’s wildlife garden ideas trick is easy to put into action, even for the less green-thumbed among us. So let’s get planting for the insects and let everything else fall into place. | https://www.idealhome.co.uk/news/kate-humble-trick-for-welcoming-wildlife-311069 | 2022-05-19T09:01:42Z | https://www.idealhome.co.uk/news/kate-humble-trick-for-welcoming-wildlife-311069 | true | 1 |
Ahead of Mental Health Action Day, this new tool provides a new resource to empower young people to advance advocacy efforts
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evokate, a new online tool to address the growing mental health challenges facing youth and young adults, launched today to give young adults access to resources and tools to learn how to advocate for mental health policy changes in their communities.
Evokate was created by the National Mental Health Advisory Board, a group of young adults from across the country, aged 16-24, committed to strengthening mental health awareness and advocacy efforts. The Advisory Board was convened and supported by leading mental health advocacy groups Active Minds, Well Being Trust, and Young Invincibles.
The development of this tool is in direct response to survey results from 400-plus young adults who, when asked what they think about mental health, reported that their top three issues of concern included racial justice, LGBTQ+ health and well-being, and access to health care. The survey also showed that a high percentage of youth and young adults did not feel adequately equipped to advocate for mental health issues in their communities.
"We must continue to combat stigma and tear down the negative connotations of mental illnesses," said Olivia Zhen, a member of the National Mental Health Advisory Board. "Evokate gives youth and young adults the framework to utilize mental health resources to work toward increased mental health care access and equity in their communities."
The digital tool's name blends the concepts of 'evoking' and 'advocating', because of its purpose to evoke powerful emotions through recounting real stories and lived experiences about mental health and well-being, and because the tool is a source for existing and up-and-coming advocates who wish to bring forward their passion and skills about these issues to demand and take action toward improving them.
Organized into three main sections — Get Informed, Engage Others, and Change Minds — Evokate equips users with knowledge on how to learn, advocate and organize at the intersection of mental health and social issues for change at the local and state level.
Trace Terrell, a student from Oregon who recently testified to Congress said, "I feel an obligation to the past version of myself who struggled so much with mental illness to help ensure no one else feels alone in their struggles. I want to ensure that everyone is informed about the mental health resources available to them so they know they are not alone."
Recognizing the unique mental health challenges facing Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, (BIPOC), and LBGTQ+ youth, this new tool provides information on a wealth of topics, such as racial justice, and links to resources such as a directory for mental health providers focused on the LBGTQ+ community.
Evokate resources span a variety of topics including an overview of mental health insurance coverage, strategies and solutions for destigmatizing mental health care and expanding care access for all. Users can also engage with videos, advocacy toolkits, statistics and links to related organizations.
Explore Evokate at EvokateApp.org.
More from the organizations that worked with the National Mental Health Advisory Board to develop Evokate:
Active Minds
"In my almost 20 years working in the field of mental health, one thing has always been consistent - the power to create real and lasting change starts with mobilizing and listening to young adults. They are our future, and our present, and deserve to not only have a voice in the room, but also the resources and space to bring their ideas to life," said Alison Malmon, founder and executive director of Active Minds. "The Mental Health Advisory Board is an extraordinary group of young adults who are working to make a tangible difference in the way that our country talks about, treats, and funds mental health. I'm honored that Active Minds has been able to work alongside these inspiring leaders to help them develop Evokate to help drive real innovation in the field."
Well Being Trust
"As we work to create mental health resources to support young adults, we must always ensure that they not only have a seat at the table, but they are actively engaged in every stage, including leading. From the first day, these inspiring young adults worked side-by-side to develop Evokate, which will equip them with skills to advocate for the mental health and social issues that are important to them." – Dr. Benjamin F. Miller, president, Well Being Trust
Young Invincibles
"We are so proud to be a part of launching Evokate, most of all because it's a tool that is created by and for young people. We know that young people know their own lives and their own needs best and Evokate represents all these things: a tool that meets young people where they are and allows them to take action across all the issues that matter to them." - Kristin McGuire, Executive Director of Young Invincibles
About Well Being Trust:
Well Being Trust is an impact philanthropy dedicated to advancing the mental, social, and spiritual health of the United States.
We believe the health of our mind is inseparable from the health of our body and spirit. Our goal is to save lives from deaths of despair and to increase equitable well-being for all. We are committed to improving systems of care, coverage, and community conditions as essential to addressing the most critical mental health challenges facing America.
For more information, visit wellbeingtrust.org and follow us onTwitter, @WellBeingTrust
About Active Minds
Active Minds is the nation's leading nonprofit organization promoting mental health awareness and education for young adults. Active Minds has a presence at more than 1,000 campuses, schools, communities, and workplaces nationwide, and is powered by a robust Chapter Network, the nationally acclaimed Send Silence Packing® exhibit, inspiring Active Minds Speakers, and our tailored Active Minds @Work initiative. The organization is dedicated to ending the silence and changing the culture around mental health for everyone. To learn more, visit www.activeminds.org.
About Young Invincibles
Young Invincibles is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to engage young adults ages 18 to 34 in the political process and expand economic opportunity for our generation. Founded by and for young adults in the summer of 2009 during the debate over health care reform, YI has quickly grown into a leading voice for young people on the broader spectrum of economic justice, with a focus in the issue areas of health care, higher education, and economic security. The organization has achieved major successes in areas ranging from the regulation of college health plans to Pell grants, and has successfully engaged hundreds of thousands of young adults online, through a network of over 100 partner organizations. https://younginvincibles.org/
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A drunk youngster spat blood through a window at a Renfrewshire country club and threatened to “slash” his pals.
Colin Crawford, 18, turned up sozzled to Ingliston Country Club on June 22, last year where a group of his pals had rented a cottage.
Rather than socialise, he smashed his head off a wall, spat blood through a window and threatened to “slash” the group of pals who had invited him there.
Procurator fiscal depute Alison McFadyen told Paisley Sheriff Court on Wednesday that a group of friends were staying in a cottage at the country club on June 22 last year.
One of the people staying at the Bishopton resort was the accused’s girlfriend, who had invited him to attend.
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Ms McFadyen explained: “Around 7pm, the accused attended to socialise with the group. He attended with alcohol.
“He was asked to stop drinking as he was extremely intoxicated on his arrival. He continued to drink and starting arguments with others.
“Crawford then hit his head off a wall and punched a wall. The patio doors were locked so he was asked to leave another way and he continued to shout, ‘I’ll f*****g wreck the place.’
“One member of the group tried to reason with him and he continued to shout, ‘I thought yous were my pals, I’ll f*****g slash yous all.’
“He then spat, spitting blood through a window into a bedroom.
“The accused’s sister arrived to take him home and he got in the car, rolled down the window and shouted, ‘Tell the boys I’m gonna get them, I’m gonna stab them.’
“Staff were alerted and the police were contacted.
“A search of the premises was carried out and blood marks were seen on a bed in the property.
“The accused was traced at his home address where he was cautioned and charged and made no reply.”
Defence agent Jonathan Paul told the court Crawford was only 17 at the time of the offence and feels "ashamed".
Mr Paul added: “He is 18 now and he is very ashamed. His recollection is sparse.
“He had taken far too much alcohol on this day and he has refrained from alcohol since this event.
“He truly is ashamed of his conduct.”
Sentencing, Sheriff Gillian Craig said: “It is a relatively sad state of affairs when I find a young man in front of me for the first time.
“You were too young to be this drunk and being this drunk is no excuse for this behaviour.
“I do hope this is an isolated incident and I hope I don’t see you before the court again.”
Sheriff Craig ordered Crawford to pay £500 in compensation at the rate of £10 per fortnight, stating: “There will be nothing further and I hope you’ve learned your lesson.”
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National Grid will become the biggest investor in the transition to a green economy on the FTSE, its chief executive said on Thursday.
John Pettigrew, who runs the grid giant, said the firm wants to balance this with keeping bills down for customers.
It comes during a time of transition for the business, which has agreed to sell one of its units to the Government to set up a new authority which will oversee the grid system.
The business will be investing £24 billion into green projects to decarbonise energy networks in the UK and elsewhere over the next five years.
It is part of a £30 billion to £35 billion investment plan.
“It’s a record level of investment for National Grid, I think it makes us the largest investor in the energy transition in the FTSE.
“It just gives you a sense of the scale of investment we’re going to be doing over the next few years.
“Of course we are going to try to do that as efficiently as possible to keep bills down for customers.”
In the Queen’s Speech last week ministers included plans for a new authority which will operate the electricity system.
As a result the Government will buy National Grid’s Electricity System Operator arm from the company.
“We’re really pleased actually,” Mr Pettigrew said.
“From our perspective it’s a relatively small part of National Grid, but nonetheless it will have an important role in the energy transition.”
He said that the deal is planned to be completed by 2024. The sales process is starting at the moment, but things will move fairly slowly until MPs pass new laws.
National Grid on Thursday announced a 107% rise in pre-tax profit to £3.4 billion in the year ending March. Most of this was down to its £7.8 billion purchase of Western Power Distribution.
When mitigating for the impacts of the acquisition and some other things, profit was up 16%. | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2022/05/19/national-grid-will-become-the-biggest-green-investor-on-the-ftse-says-boss/ | 2022-05-19T09:02:25Z | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2022/05/19/national-grid-will-become-the-biggest-green-investor-on-the-ftse-says-boss/ | false | 7 |
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BOZEMAN – Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning classic, “A River Runs Through It” will return to The Ellen on Saturday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m., 30 years after its world premiere at the very same theater.
“Filmed in and around Bozeman, Redford captures the majesty of Montana wilderness and the strength of the American family in this acclaimed adaptation of Norman Maclean’s memoir,” wrote The Ellen in an April 19 press release.
Starring Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer and Tom Skerrit, the film won the 1993 Academy Award for “Best Cinematography” and sparked a surge in anglers, recreationalist and visitors to the Gallatin River to experience the cool flowing waters for themselves.
Reserved seating for the screening costs $8, and wine, beer and other concessions will be available for purchase in the lobby starting at 6:30 p.m.
Visit TheEllenTheatre.org to purchase tickets and for more information. | https://www.explorebigsky.com/the-ellen-theatre-to-host-30th-anniversary-screening-of-a-river-runs-through-it/44027 | 2022-05-19T09:09:18Z | https://www.explorebigsky.com/the-ellen-theatre-to-host-30th-anniversary-screening-of-a-river-runs-through-it/44027 | false | 1 |
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