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Magnolia man charged with making and selling cocaine
Published: May. 20, 2022 at 4:59 AM EDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
BOLIVIA, N.C. (WECT) - The Pender County Sheriff’s Office arrested Bobby Earl Dixon Jr. and charged him with manufacturing and selling cocaine on Wednesday, May 18.
According to the PCSO, Dixon was arrested in the parking lot of the Burgaw Food Lion following a drug investigation.
“Dixon is charged with numerous controlled substance violations and is currently being held in the Pender County Jail under a $150,000.00 secured bond,” said a PCSO representative. His charges listed on the sheriff’s office database include:
- Charge: 90-95 - POSSESS COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - POSSESS COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - POSS W/INTENT M S/D COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - POSS W/INTENT M S/D COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - MANUFACTURE COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - MANUFACTURE COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - SELL COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - SELL COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - DELIVER COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - DELIVER COCAINE
- Charge: 90-95 - POSS W/INTENT/M/S/D MARIJUANA
- Charge: 90-95 - POSSESS MARIJUANA 1/2 TO 1 1/2 OZ
- Charge: 90-95 - MANUFACTURE MARIJUANA
- Charge: 90-113 - POSS MARIJUANA PARAPHERNALIA
- Charge: 90-113 - POSSESS DRUG PARAPHERNALIA(NOT MARIJUANA)
- Charge: 90-95 - SELL SCHEDULE VI CS;
- Charge: 90-95 - DELIVER SCHEDULE IV CS;
- Charge: 90-108 - MAINTAIN VEH/DWELL/PLACE CS MISD
- Charge: 90-108 - MAINTAIN VEH/DWELL/PLACE CS MISD
- Charge: 90-108 - MAINTAIN VEH/DWELL/PLACE CS MISD
- Charge: 90-113 - POSSESS DRUG PARAPHERNALIA(NOT MARIJUANA)
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New York, US, May 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Industrial Control System Market Overview:
According to a comprehensive research report by Market Research Future (MRFR), “Industrial Control Systems Market” information by Technology, by Components, End Market, by Application and Region – Forecast to 2030” market size to reach USD 180 billion, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 10% by 2030.
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Market Scope:
The shift to Industry 4.0 is also projected to boost efficiency and productivity while introducing numerous changes to industrial processes. Because of its capacity to handle automated processes, the industrial controls market is in high demand across many industries, including automobile, utility, electronics, and semiconductors. The mounting expense of labor and the immense pressure on businesses to meet deadlines have led to greater use of automation in factories. The automation of factories has propelled the ICS business. Furthermore, the quality control issue associated with a human mistake is eliminated due to system dependability, efficiency, and faster work rate.
Dominant Key Players on Industrial Control Systems Market Covered are:
- Rockwell Automation Inc., (US)
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Japan)
- Azbil (Japan)
- Siemens AG (Germany)
- Fortune (US)
- Forescout (US)
- Lockheed Martin (US)
- Emerson Electric Company (US)
- Schneider Electric SE (France)
- Honeywell International, Inc. (US)
- ABB Ltd. (Switzerland)
- Metso (Finland)
- Cisco (US)
- Belden (US)
- Positive Technologies, (Russia)
- DarkTrace (UK)
- Claroty (US)
- Check Point (Israel)
- Applied Security (Netherlands)
- Yokogawa Electric (Japan)
- Cyberark (US)
- Kaspersky Labs (Russia)
- Nozomi Networks (US)
- Verve Industrial Protection (US)
- Dragos (US)
- Sophos (UK)
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Furthermore, the requirement for industrial controls to meet the needs of the rising population is fueled by the desire for mass manufacturing in manufacturing industries. Demand for IoT-based smart solutions and automation in various industries, mass production in the manufacturing sector, adaptation of industrial control systems in automotive and mining, and an upsurge in R&D investments drive the growth of the industrial control market.
Market USP Exclusively Encompassed:
Industrial Control Systems Market Drivers
Industrial control systems are mostly utilized for effective database management. Moreover, it protects a company's various internal information. In addition, many businesses are changing their accounting operations online. As a result, these are some of the major factors determining the industrial control systems Market. Governments all across the world are primarily financing development and research programs. Furthermore, the assistance of private firms will aid in the more efficient monitoring of the process. As a result, industrial control systems market opportunities are predicted to flourish in the future years.
The change and evolution of these verticals brought about by industrial automation and robotics technology are ultimately dependent on control systems. Government initiatives such as Industry 4.0 in Germany and Plan Industriel in France are likely to accelerate the expansion of IIoT solutions, increasing demand for ICS security solutions and services in the future years.
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Industrial Control Systems Market Restraints:
However, the costs of establishing industrial control systems are prohibitively expensive. As a result, it may be a substantial constraint that businesses confront in the future. Applying security and ideas is one of the major challenges for the industrial control systems market. In addition, the scarcity of experienced professionals capable of managing massive amounts of data can hinder market expansion. However, a lack of authentication procedures, an increase in cyber-attacks, a shortage of experienced personnel, and a deficiency of awareness about industrial security solutions are limiting the growth of the industrial control industry.
COVID 19 Analysis
The global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly influenced the market. However, according to the industrial control systems market forecast, the market is expected to grow rapidly. In addition, the work-from-home situation caused by the pandemic fueled industry development significantly. The COVID-19 epidemic has had a severe influence on the industrial control sector, has production facilities in the electronics and semiconductor industries have been canceled due to the global slowdown and personnel shortages. The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in a severe and long-term decrease in manufacturing usage.
Furthermore, travel bans and facility closures kept workers away from their factories, resulting in a slowdown in the development of industries control industry in 2020. However, the adverse effect of COVID-19 on the industrial controls industry is projected to be temporary. By early 2021, the market is predicted to see a significant rebound rate and widespread demand for the installation of industrial control systems around the world.
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Segmentation of Market Covered in the Research:
By Technology
SCADA segment is estimated to drive the industrial control systems market in the forecast period.
By Components
The software will bolster the growth of the industrial control systems market in the forecast period.
By End Market
Petrochemicals will define the expansion of the industrial control systems market.
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Regional Analysis
Canada and the United States make up the North American region. However, the Americas have the highest market share due to the lucrative manufacturing. In addition, the huge increase in demand for chemicals and oil is boosting the market growth. Furthermore, the European region is predicted to account for the second-largest proportion of the Industrial Control Systems Industry. Substantial investments by key companies, as well as government assistance, are projected to drive market expansion.
However, the Asia-Pacific region, including India, South Korea, Australia, Japan, and China, is driving market growth considerably. As a result, the availability of competent labor at a lower cost is the primary element driving the market value of industrial control systems. Furthermore, growth in the African and Middle Eastern regions is substantially slower than in other regions. In addition, substantially lower investment is a crucial element in such limited growth of the market in this region.
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Dozens of Ukrainian refugees accepted to stay with hosts in North Warwickshire have not yet reached the UK, new figures show.
The Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, also known as Homes for Ukraine, allows citizens to volunteer to house refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Sponsors offer accommodation for at least six months, with those receiving sponsorship allowed to live, work and study in the UK for up to three years.
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The Refugee Council said it had received reports of delays at every stage of the application process, and of necessary documents not reaching refugees quick enough for them to travel.
Head of advocacy at the charity, Andy Hewett, called the scheme "unfit for purpose".
He said: “Responding to a serious humanitarian crisis by offering complex visa routes, putting paperwork and bureaucracy before people was always going to have tragic consequences."
Some families are also not having their applications processed together, creating difficulties when not all visas are granted at the same time.
Others have flagged the potential for safeguarding issues from a lack of thorough checks on prospective sponsors, and there have been national reports of refugees becoming homeless after being turfed out by their hosts.
Refugees have also been arriving through the Ukraine Family Scheme, which allows Ukrainian nationals to join family members in the UK.
Across the UK, 107,400 visas had been issued to Ukrainian refugees through both schemes as of Tuesday, with 53,800 arriving in the UK by Monday.
The Government warned the data is likely to contain some duplicate records, while around 2% of sponsors could not be assigned to a local area.
The number of successful applications has increased compared to last month. As of April 19, 71,800 applications had been granted through both schemes – including 28 in North Warwickshire – and 21,600 had arrived in the UK as of the day before.
The Home Office said some refugees are choosing to stay put or travel elsewhere, which may explain some of the gap between arrivals and the number of visas granted.
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SHANGHAI, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boqii Holding Limited ("Boqii" or the "Company") (NYSE: BQ), a leading pet-focused platform in China, today announced that it plans to change the ratio of its American depositary shares ("ADSs") to Class A ordinary shares from one (1) ADS representing three fourths (0.75) Class A ordinary shares to one (1) ADS representing six (6) Class A ordinary shares (the "ADS Ratio Change"). The ADS Ratio Change is expected to become effective on or about May 31, 2022 (U.S. Eastern Time).
For Boqii's ADS holders, the ADS Ratio Change will have the same effect as a one-for-eight reverse split on the existing ADSs. Each ADS holder of record at the close of business on the date when the ADS Ratio Change is effective will be required to surrender and exchange every eight (8) existing ADSs then held for one (1) new ADS. The Bank of New York Mellon ("BNY Mellon"), as the depositary bank for Boqii's ADS program, will arrange for the exchange of current ADSs for new ADSs (subject to receipt of applicable ADS fees from the exchanging ADS holders). No action is required by holders of uncertificated ADSs to effect the ADS Ratio Change, as the change will be effected on the books of the ADS depositary.
No fractional new ADSs will be issued in connection with the ADS Ratio Change. Instead, BNY Mellon will attempt to sell any fractional entitlements to new ADSs and the net cash proceeds from the sale of the fractional ADS entitlements (after deduction of fees, taxes and expenses) will be distributed to the applicable ADS holders by BNY Mellon. Boqii's ADSs will continue to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "BQ". The change in the ADS Ratio will have no impact on Boqii's underlying Class A ordinary shares, and no Class A ordinary shares will be issued or cancelled in connection with the ADS Ratio Change.
As a result of the ADS Ratio Change, our ADS price is expected to increase proportionally, although the Company can give no assurance that the ADS price after the ADS Ratio Change will be equal to or greater than eight (8) times the ADS price before the change.
About Boqii Holding Limited
Boqii Holding Limited (NYSE: BQ) is a leading pet-focused platform in China. We are the leading online destination for pet products and supplies in China with our broad selection of high-quality products including global leading brands, local emerging brands, and our own private label, Yoken and Mocare, offered at competitive prices. Our online sales platforms, including Boqii Mall and our flagship stores on third-party e-commerce platforms, provide customers with convenient access to a wide selection of high-quality pet products and an engaging and personalized shopping experience. Our Boqii Community provides an informative and interactive content platform for users to share their knowledge and love for pets.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.boqii.com/.
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PhilSec 2022 Set to Discuss Strategies to Strengthen Philippines’ Cybersecurity
MANILA, May 20, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – With 74 million active internet users, the Philippines has been constantly battling a rich state of cybercrime. So much so that the National Bureau of Investigation’s Cybercrime Division recorded a 200 percent increase in the phishing campaigns since the country went into lockdown in March 2020.
Taking heed from the situation, Tradepass has taken the initiative to host the 2nd edition PhilSec on 12-13 July 2022 in Manila. In a pursuit to bolster the country’s cyber landscape, the mega scale cybersecurity summit now has Allan S Cabanlong, the author of National Cybersecurity Plan 2022 and Joey Fontiveros, the Deputy Commander/Commanding Officer-Army Signal Regiment as its Advisory Board Members.
In a statement issued, following the association announcement for the Advisory board, Allan S Cabanlong expressed, “PhilSec 2022 is one of a kind event that brings together cybersecurity experts around the globe to discuss pressing issues of cyber threats and cyber risks. I spoke and gave my insights in PhilSec 2021 which was held online and looking forward to a more collaborative engagement through a face-to-face conference this July in the Philippines! Kudos to the organizers.”
“PhilSec 2022 will be an exciting one as this will be a big convention of knowledge exchange across industry practitioners who demonstrated excellence and commitment in their respective domains. This is also the time to hear about actual experiences that will enable the participants to apply in its work environment as a guide to better manage the challenges that come along,” said Mel Migrino, Vice President and Group CISO, Meralco.
Leading organizations like Delinea, Okta, Recorded Future, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, Rubrik, BlueVoyant, Claroty, Synology and Tenable will lead the summit and showcase their thought leadership and cutting-edge solutions to 600+ cybersecurity experts including the Heads of Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Forensics and Cyber Law from the leading public and private enterprises across the Philippines.
The summit will power two knowledge-packed days filled with insightful presentations on the most pressing industry topics, deep dive panel discussions with the leading thought leaders, live showcase of the best cybersecurity solutions and abundant networking opportunities.
Some of the confirmed speakers for the summit include Allan S Cabanlong, Advisor & Former Assistant Secretary – Cybersecurity & Enabling Technologies, DICT; Lcol Francel Margareth Taborlupa, Battalion Commander – Philippine Army, Armed Forces of the Philippines; Mel Migrino, Vice President and Group CISO, Meralco; Angel Redoble, First Vice President, CISO, PLDT Group, ePLDT Group and Smart; Noel Cuestas, Chief – Audio, Video Forensic Section – Digital Forensic Unit, Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group; Marlon Sorongon, CISO, Maybank – Philippines and New York and many others.
Carrine Teoh, Chief Strategy Officer, Bond Holdings, is of the opinion, “Cybersecurity is a field where knowledge sharing and collaboration are key, while keeping abreast with technology. PhilSec2022 is a good platform to engagement for such purposes.”
Some of the crucial topics from the summit include: ‘Cyber Defense for Philippines’ Critical Infrastructure’, ‘Breaking the Cyber Kill Chain’, ‘Addressing The Importance of DevSecOps’, “Dark Web and Cryptocurrencies”, “Digital Forensics”, “Securing Application Layers With Effective WAF Gateway Technology” and many more.
Organizer and CEO of Tradepass, Sudhir Jena expressed, “PhilSec 2022 will bring together all the best names from Philippines” cybersecurity under one roof, thereby posing a networking opportunity like no other. Also, considering the heightened state of cybercrime in the country, the event platform will play a crucial role in encouraging collaboration between the public and private sectors.”
For more information about the event, log on to: https://philsecsummit.com/
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Providing access to the global emerging markets, Tradepass brings together people, products and solutions to power events for unparalleled business and networking opportunities. Being the most accredited event company, it helps organizations: enter new markets, grow sales pipeline, close prospects, raise capital and identify the right solution-providers.
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Englewood animal shelter has massive drop-off in volunteers, fears for its future
ENGLEWOOD — A city-based animal shelter has continued to see a massive drop-off in volunteers, making it difficult to run day-to-day operations and causing fear for its future.
As a volunteer-run, no-kill animal rescue group, START II — Save the Animals Rescue Team II — doesn’t receive funding from the state or local government. The group was started about 41 years ago in Elmwood Park by Marge Kayne, who moved the operation to a larger facility in Rockland County, New York, for about 15 years.
The animal shelter put out a call last year describing a need for volunteers, but did not have much success in retaining long-term volunteers. The shelter lost a lot of volunteers during the pandemic, and most of them haven’t returned.
"It’s very strange, since people will call [saying] that they want to be volunteers and they either don’t show up or they come and say, 'This isn’t for us — we aren’t being paid,' " Kayne said.
Volunteers who said they would come to help have disappeared, such as a Boy Scout group that didn’t show up to paint and someone who came once and left after half a day.
"We can’t operate like that," said Diane Errichiello, a public relations volunteer for the shelter. "We’re in dire need of volunteers."
Last year, the shelter had about 40 active volunteers, which was already below the 75 needed. This year, this number has shrunk even more, to 30, Kayne said. Right now, the shelter is housing about 30 cats and 10 dogs, and people aren't adopting as readily as they did during the height of the pandemic, she said.
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Another problem is the outdoor dog cages. Errichiello described them as "completely rotted out" at this point. The cages cost upward of $40,000, and Kayne is desperately seeking anyone in the community who could repair them.
Errichiello said she has a personal fear of the shelter having to close one day if they don’t find more help.
"We don’t have the volunteers that are handy," she said. "We’re mostly women, and a majority of the people are in their 70s or older, or they’re working."
Although the most dire need is at the Englewood shelter, START II also needs help socializing cats at the Wayne Petsmart store. The group also helps out at the Paramus Petsmart location, but it has enough volunteers there at the moment.
Supply chain issues, including the lack of truck drivers, has caused slower stocking of shelves at stores and has contributed to a decrease in canned food donations for the cats and dogs, Kayne said.
Beyond volunteering, gift cards are the next-best way to support the shelter. Kayne can be reached at 732-330-6692.
For more information about START II and to donate online, visit sites.google.com/view/save-the-animals-rescue-team-2/. Gift cards can be mailed to START II at P.O. Box 177, Elmwood Park, NJ 07407.
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Just after 9/11, Barbara Pagano took a leave from her work as an executive coach and spent six months sailing. She and her daughter traveled 2,000 miles from Pensacola, Florida to Antigua in a 43-foot sloop called “Revival.”
A decade later, the duo launched a company that worked with businesses to implement customized sabbaticals — a period of leave outside of traditional time off that allows workers to indulge personal interests.
But they were a little ahead of the times.
Despite consulting with several corporations and individuals to craft personal plans for sabbaticals, “there wasn’t enough work at the time to financially support two people,” Pagano said.
The sabbatical was once the domain of tenured university professors who would take a year away every seven years to teach at other institutions, write books or research topics of interest. As we began to live longer, corporations began to see the value in offering periods of rest and rejuvenation to their employees.
“We are looking at extended work lives now, well into our 80s ... Why aren’t we taking a break while we are working?” said Pagano, who is currently writing a book about pre-retirement.
The last few years have seen an upward trend in companies offering sabbaticals. According to a 2017 survey from the Society for Human Resource Management, the percentage of companies offering sabbaticals (paid and unpaid) rose to nearly 17% compared to 4% in 2011.
Then came a pandemic that left workers exhausted, disengaged and looking for a way out.
By November 2021, the 4.5 million employees that had quit their jobs marked the highest number since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the data in 2000. Some employees were leaving for better jobs. Others were leaving for a better life. The Great Resignation has slowly become the Great Revitalization.
Companies ranging from AARP to Zillow offer sabbaticals to their employees. Most programs offer one to three months for employees who have worked at the company for periods ranging from 5 to 10 years. Corporations like Citigroup and PricewaterhouseCoopers pay up to 25% of the employee’s base salary during the sabbatical.
Employers are “really paying for an experience just like you would pay for (employees) to go to a leadership development program,” Pagano said. But in this case, she said, not only does the individual on sabbatical benefit, the company benefits when the employees left behind have the opportunity to develop additional skills by filling in for their colleague.
To be successful, sabbatical programs have to have the support of upper management, Pagano said. They should be more than six weeks, otherwise it’s just extended leave. And it should be a structured program that is tied to employee development.
Naturally, concerns about fairness and equity arise. Who gets to take a sabbatical? If it is unpaid, is that fair to employees who can’t afford it? How long is long enough to recover from burnout? What if burnout isn’t the problem?
Pagano said one way for companies to answer those questions and determine if they have a sustainable sabbatical program is to introduce it as a pilot program. If a company does not offer a formal sabbatical, individual employees should feel empowered to craft their own plan and make the request to management, she said.
Jonathan McMurry, a professor of biochemistry at Kennesaw State University is taking a yearlong unpaid sabbatical in August. His decision has less to do with burnout and more with his current impact as an educator.
“I have had a growing sense of frustration that no matter what I do, I can’t help my students,” said McMurry, noting that so many of his students have fallen into a pandemic-induced academic chasm.
In addition, for the first time in his career at KSU, as of July, he will not have grant funding. A year ago, he had 16 people working in his lab through a grant from the National Institutes for Health. Now he has one.
“I am not going to win a Nobel Prize. I am not going to change science in any earth-changing way. My value to society has been training the next generation of biochemists in the science world,” he said.
McMurry is planning to focus on his health, read, and maybe help community organizations write grant proposals. And he will try to figure out the next act of his career.
For many employees, a sabbatical is a luxury. In the modern workplace, it should be the standard.
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Need help with your phone or laptop? Watch out for what's known as the "tech support scam," which is now targeting Apple customers as much as Microsoft Windows users, who represented most victims in the past.
A woman named Cookie Pridemore had a phone problem after she bought a new iPhone 13.
"I got locked out of it," she said, "And there was no way I could get back in it." She needed help.
"So I Googled Apple Customer Service off my husband's phone," she explained. She said she called the first number that popped up.
"The woman answered, she said she would be more than happy to help me," Pridemore said.
Scam numbers pop up during web searches
The number she called wasn't really Apple customer service at all. Pridemore did not realize that when you search online for a tech company's customer service line, you can easily stumble on a scam site instead.
It all happened, so quickly that she was helpless to stop the scam.
"She was inside my account and zoom, zoom, zoom, started transferring money out by Zelle," Pridemore said.
Within minutes the agent made three money transfers, at around $500 each, out of Pridemore's bank account out of the money transfer app that she provided details to.
Sarah Wetzel of the Better Business Bureau warns that scammers post fake tech support numbers as part of a larger scheme.
"They're getting very smart," Wetzel said. "They're even trying to take their logos, or they'll send emails saying they're from it. So it's very important when you see an email or a text that you're reading it through very carefully."
Any sort of spelling or grammar error is a red flag that it is not Apple or another major tech company, she said.
How to protect yourself
Wetzel says be especially careful looking up Apple support, Microsoft or Windows support, or Facebook support, and be suspicious of phone numbers or websites you find.
Apple says:
- Never share personal information like credit card numbers or your apple ID password with someone on the phone.
- Don't click on pop ups or ads saying your device has as security problem. Those are often scam popups to get you to call the scammer.
- Never download a caller's software to fix your device: it can steal your logins, which is what apparently happened to Cookie Pridemore.
"Yeah she's gone," Pridemore said, "but it's my money!"
We have contacted her bank to see if they can recover some of the funds, but have yet to hear of any resolution. In most cases, the money is gone forever.
Apple says "if you ever get an unsolicited or suspicious call from someone claiming to be apple support, just hang up."
According to Apple's support website, "Most Apple software and hardware products include unlimited complimentary support [for] incidents within the first 90 days of product ownership, or longer if required by applicable law."
Also, make sure you are really talking to Apple before you share any information, so you don't waste your money.
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NEW YORK, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of a class of all persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Lucid common stock between November 15, 2021, and February 28, 2022, inclusive.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until May 31, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
The filed complaint alleges that defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and failed to disclose material adverse facts about Lucid's business and operations. Specifically, the Company overstated its production capabilities while concealing that "extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges" were hampering Lucid's operations. As a result of the defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the significant decline in the market value of Lucid's common stock, Lucid investors have suffered significant damages.
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PHILADELPHIA, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berger Montague is investigating securities fraud allegations on behalf of investors who purchased the securities of Riskified Ltd. ("Riskified" or the "Company") (NYSE: RSKD) on or traceable to the Company's July 2021 initial public offering ("IPO") (the "Class Period").
If you purchased Riskified securities during the Class Period, would like to discuss Berger Montague's investigation, or have questions concerning your rights or interests, please contact attorneys Andrew Abramowitz at aabramowitz@bm.net or (215) 875-3015, or Michael Dell'Angelo at mdellangelo@bm.net or (215) 875-3080. You can also visit: https://investigations.bergermontague.com/riskified-ltd/
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On July 28, 2021, Riskified's Registration Statement for an IPO was declared effective and was used to sell 20 million Class A ordinary shares at $21 per share, generating more than $422 million in proceeds.
According to the complaint, on September 9, 2021, during a conference call to discuss Riskified's Q2 2021 financial results, CFO Aglika Dotcheva disclosed that Riskified tended "to experience higher chargebacks when we enter a new industry."
On November 16, 2021, in connection with the Company's Q3 2021 financials, Defendants revealed that, among other negative developments, Riskified's revenue growth had declined to 26% year-over-year, its Gross Merchandise Value ("GMV") growth had declined to 28% year-over-year, and gross profits had increased only 10% year-over-year. Defendants also disclosed that Riskified's cost of revenue had jumped to $28.3 million during Q3, primarily as a result of a sharp increase in chargeback expenses. CFO Dotcheva blamed Riskified's growing merchant base as a primary cause of increased chargebacks.
Finally, on February 23, 2022, in announcing Q4 and full-year 2021 results, Defendants disclosed that Riskified's revenue growth and GMV growth had continued to decelerate, and Riskified's cost of revenue had continued to climb. CFO Dotcheva stated that the year-over-year decline in gross profit margin experienced "was driven primarily by [Riskified's] expansion into new industries and regions, increase of the tickets in travel industry as a percentage of total billings as well as the onboarding of new merchants."
At the time of the filing of the complaint, Riskified Class A shares traded below $6 per share – more than 70% below the IPO price.
Berger Montague, with offices in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and San Diego, has been a pioneer in securities class action litigation since its founding in 1970. Berger Montague has represented individual and institutional investors for over five decades and serves as lead counsel in courts throughout the United States.
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Northern New Mexico's still raging wildfire—now the largest in that state's modern history—did not start out as entirely wild.
The wind-fueled blaze partly began as an intentional or prescribed U.S. Forest Service burn near picturesque Hermits Peak outside of Las Vegas, N.M. Such fires are set to thin forests of built-up fuel, restore forest health and prevent much bigger fires.
On April 6, a Santa Fe National Forest burn crew lit what was supposed to be a 1,200-acre prescribed burn in the area. By late afternoon the fire had jumped its burn area, pushed by what National Forest rangers called "unexpected erratic winds." It later merged with the nearby Calf Canyon fire, whose origins are under investigation, to become this historic blaze.
Forest ecologists and other experts now worry it may prompt a backlash against prescribed burns in New Mexico and across the West, throwing a monkey wrench into this vital forest management tool that experts say needs to be massively scaled-up to help reduce the number, size and intensity of catastrophic fires across the region.
Record-breaking wildfires in California and other states underscore the need to expand intentional burn programs
"There's already a tremendous amount of backlash," says James Biggs, who teaches wildfire ecology and fire behavior at New Mexico Highlands University whose campus in Las Vegas, N.M., is near the southern edge of the wildfire.
Biggs says ironically the scale and impact of this blaze underscores precisely why the Western U.S. needs to do more intentional burning after a century-plus policy of suppressing nearly every forest fire, which has resulted in the build up of dangerous and untenable amounts of fuel across forests.
"There are thousands of prescribed burns in the West every year, and they're done to improve these conditions in the forest in an attempt to reduce the threat of these large, catastrophic events," Biggs says.
The record-breaking wildfires in California and other states in recent years are also an argument for why land managers and state officials need to expand their intentional burn programs, not decrease them, he says. "And if we don't do this, then we're going to see this pattern [of catastrophic fire] repeat itself over and over."
The New Mexico blaze is deeply concerning, says Rebecca Miller, a scholar with the University of Southern California's The West on Fire Project. "Because we know that we need to be treating the massive amounts of vegetation that we've got across the Western United States, which is a direct result of historic wildfire suppression policies of the 20th century."
In California alone, nearly 20% of the state or more than 20 million acres of forest, Miller says, urgently need what's called "fuel treatments" meaning reduction of fuels through controlled fires, mechanical thinning or in some cases natural wildfires allowed to burn on remote lands away from communities.
The devastating impact of massive wildfires has worsened across the West, especially in California, amid record drought, human-caused climate change and these built-up fuels. Yet fear and apprehension around prescribed burning persists, including worries about liability, safety, cost and the impact of drifting smoke.
The origins of the Hermits Peak fire, experts say, risk unwinding even the modest gains by proponents of 'good fire' or intentional burns, both politically and in acres treated.
"The vast, vast, vast majority of prescribed burns are conducted safely, do not escape, and you'll never hear about them"
"When we see a prescribed burn, as in New Mexico, that escapes and becomes a massive wildfire that threatens communities, that prompts concerns about the safety of these prescribed burns of this very, very important tool," Miller at USC says adding, "the vast, vast, vast majority of prescribed burns are conducted safely, do not escape, and you'll never hear about them."
Hard data on just how often intentional fires escape their boundaries is hard to come by. But Miller says estimates from the early 2000s show that fewer than 1% of prescribed burns might escape to become a major wildfire. "So we're talking a really, really small percentage."
So far, the New Mexico fire has burned more than 300,000 acres, torched hundreds of structures and displaced thousands. The fire is just over 30% contained. The blaze is closing in on 500 square miles burned.
Nickie Johnny, a fire incident commander on the blaze, tells member station KUNM, it will continue to grow. "New Mexico hasn't seen a fire of this kind of size and this kind of fuel type. And this fire has the potential to grow twice, maybe three times its size," Johnny says.
Many residents want to know why the Forest Service went ahead with this intentional blaze despite forecasted high winds. The agency has not released its detailed "burn plan" and other documents, citing its own internal probe. There are reports that the agency team that ignited the burn had been warned beforehand of poor weather, including potential wind gusts up to 25 mph or more and very low humidity.
Steve Romero, the Forest Service ranger in charge of the area and crew that lit the prescribed fire, has apologized.
Residents are livid that the Forest Service went ahead with the intentional fire despite forecasted high winds
But that's done little to quell the deep anger and frustration. Many residents are livid. "Some one (sic) needs to lose their job and go to jail for criminal negligence," Brian Lee wrote on a local Albuquerque TV station post about the apology. "I have a crazy idea!" another viewer posted, "don't do [prescribed burns] during windy and severe dry time of year." Others posted: "fire the incompetent" and "this is pretty much par for the Forest Circus."
There have been scores of harsher comments across social media including a handful of thinly veiled threats of violence and retribution, most of which have since been taken down.
State officials have called for a full investigation. Some lawmakers have called the decision to light a controlled fire during the state's windy season highly irresponsible. "It makes zero sense to me, and this is also something we have to get to the bottom of," says New Mexico State Sen. Ben Ray Luján.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has generally supported beneficial burning as a forest management tool, called the decision to light the blaze "negligent" but an "earnest mistake." She also called for a temporary halt to all prescribed burns in the state. It's unclear how long that state ban will last.
"For me, it's negligent to consider a prescribed burn in a windy season, in a state that's under an extreme drought warning statewide," the governor said. "So I think that it is likely — likely – that Congress and most of our federal partners accept that there is significant federal liability."
Biggs, the forestry and fire behavior expert at New Mexico Highlands University, says he understands the angst and frustration. Many of his students and colleagues have had to evacuate or had property damaged.
"Either their homes have been lost or the families' homes have been lost. We've got faculty and staff that have lost homes and it becomes very chaotic and there's certainly periods of going through this shock," he says, "and so it's very difficult to cut through that."
But Biggs and others are calling for cooler heads to prevail.
"Let's wait for all the facts and the science" to come out in an investigation, he says. "The backlash that we're seeing in the media and by the politicians is right now a very emotional argument. The one thing that's for sure is these are not controlled laboratory experiments," he says. "And so sometimes these things, you know, are just unpredictable in terms of the weather patterns, and this weather at times was unprecedented."
These types of fires have got out of control before and have had a chilling effect on the practice
In the past, controlled blazes that got out of control have had a chilling effect, at least temporarily, on the practice.
In 2012 a prescribed fire in Jefferson County, Colorado reignited after officials thought it was out. It killed three people and burned more than 20 homes. After that, Colorado tightened the criteria and conditions required for intentional burns.
And in New Mexico a controlled burn by the National Park Service near Los Alamos in 2000 burned some 400 homes and structures and threatened the federal nuclear lab there. Congressional hearings and intense criticism followed. The U.S. Interior Secretary at the time called the planning for the blaze "seriously flawed."
Meantime, in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has come under criticism for an astonishing gap between rhetoric and reality on controlled burns. The Democrat has repeatedly promised to prioritize intentional fire and fuels reduction. But the state has failed to deliver on those pledges despite multiple years of deadly and destructive wildfires across the nation's most populous state.
In fact, an investigation by NPR's California Newsroom and Cap Radio found last year found that Newsom "overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state's most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 'priority projects' carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state's own data show the actual number is 11,399."
More recently, the state of California and federal land management agencies have pledged to treat by prescribed burns or other field options up to 400,000 acres a year and dramatically increase the use of beneficial fire. But many are skeptical the state will reach its goals. In 2020 the same agencies pledged to treat one million acres a year by 2025. "Unfortunately, we're still quite far from that goal," Rebecca Miller at USC notes.
The state's fire agency is currently well-behind its prescribed fire goals. In fiscal year 2021-22 Cal Fire did just 6,483 acres of controlled burns across the state, and 9,123 acres in other non-fire fuel reduction projects, according to Cal Fire spokesman Issac Sanchez. Data show that Cal Fire treated only about 64,000 acres in 2019 and only 32,000 acres in 2020.
Federal land agencies, too, have repeatedly failed to reach fuel-reduction goals in the state, posting figures that are far more aspirational than real.
Sanchez says Cal Fire fully expects the number of acres treated to rise in the months and years ahead. "It should be remembered that it takes time to hire and train the additional personnel required to carry out these projects," Sanchez told NPR.
"It's incredibly important to dramatically increase the pace and scale at which we're doing these fuel treatments if we hope to have any kind of handle on the wildfire seasons that repeatedly strike the Western United States," Miller says.
For Native American Tribes prescribed fire is one of the key parts of their forest management plan
While an escaped fire is clearly not good, says Darrell Clairmont the prescribed fire and fuels manager for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) in Northwest Montana, "It also is something that is natural, and it's not a one hundred percent guarantee that you're going to be able to control this every single time," he says. "The predicted weather, you know, it's not always completely accurate, and that's generally the one that will get you."
The CSKT tribes do between 3,000 and 5,000 acres of controlled fires a year, he says. "For us, it's part of our culture." Indeed, Native American tribes have long used controlled burns to clear out fuel, regenerate forest growth and promote forest health. "Prescribed fire is one of the key parts of our forest management plan."
Clairmont says intentionally sparking fires to control forest fuel and health is a huge responsibility. He and other expert "burn bosses" have to follow detailed burn plans that examine weather and wind forecasts, fuel moisture levels in dead and live vegetation, and other safety factors.
"I don't know any burn bosses who takes it lightly," he says. "There have been far more successful prescribed burns this year that you're going to hear nothing about."
In more than 30 years of doing intentional burns Clairmont says he's had only two blazes go wrong, and then only briefly. In both cases, he says, winds ended up pushing the fire outside the set burn area. "Both burned, you know, an extra one hundred acres, so nothing major. But we have had them," he says. "The majority of burns had absolutely no problem."
In fact, Clairmont would like to treat far more acres with intentional fires than what the tribes are currently doing. "If I could get 10 or 12,000 acres a year, do I think that would still be enough? I'm not certain. But it would definitely be better than the three thousand that we average at the moment," he says. "We need to do more. And our partners [at the U.S. Forest Service] need to do more of this, too."
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LONDON, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LumiraDx Limited (Nasdaq: LMDX), a next-generation point of care diagnostics company, announced today that its rapid COVID-19 antigen assay, LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag Test has successfully received the Emergency Use Listing (EUL) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in their latest response effort to combat COVID-19.
The LumiraDx antigen test is a microfluidic immunofluorescence assay that delivers results for the direct and qualitative detection of nucleocapsid protein antigen in nasal swab specimens collected from the patient. Used with the LumiraDx multi-assay Platform, the test delivers rapid results at the point of care enabling physicians to immediately commence appropriate treatment and patient management to maximize health outcomes and minimize further spread of infection.
"The ongoing complexities of the evolving pandemic require multiple lines of defense," said Dr Nigel Lindner, Chief innovation Officer. "This important milestone lets us offer a reliable and affordable, high-performance testing alternative to better manage the pandemic burden and help reduce the strain on health systems worldwide."
Through a partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, LumiraDx has already distributed 5,000 Platforms in 49 African countries in a variety of care settings, including field clinics, airports, primary healthcare facilities, occupational health settings, and walk-through clinics. In addition to its SARS-CoV-2 Ag test, other assays in LumiraDx's pipeline for TB, diabetes, HIV-AIDS and other health conditions have the potential to make a meaningful impact on global health.
The decision by the WHO to include the LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 antigen test in its EUL was based on an essential set of available quality, safety, and efficacy and performance data. In clinical studies the test demonstrated 95% positive agreement versus RT-PCR in patients tested within 12 days of the onset of symptoms. The LumiraDx antigen test joins a select group of antigen tests the WHO has included in its Emergency Use Listing and represents the first microfluidic assay to meet the criteria.
About LumiraDx
LumiraDx (Nasdaq: LMDX) is a next-generation point of care diagnostics company that is transforming community-based healthcare. Founded in 2014, LumiraDx manufactures and commercializes an innovative diagnostic Platform that supports a broad menu of tests with lab comparable performance at the point of care. LumiraDx diagnostic testing solutions are being deployed by governments and leading healthcare institutions across laboratories, urgent care, physician offices, pharmacies, schools, and workplaces to screen, diagnose, and monitor wellness as well as disease. LumiraDx has on the market and in development, 30+ tests covering infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and coagulation disorders, all on the LumiraDx Platform. In addition, LumiraDx has a comprehensive portfolio of fast, accurate, and cost-efficient COVID-19 testing solutions from the lab to point of need.LumiraDx is based in the UK with more than 1600 employees worldwide.
Further information on LumiraDx and the LumiraDx Platform is available at www.lumiradx.com
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the performance and benefits of the SARS-CoV-2 Ag test and about LumiraDx's pipeline of future products. These statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including, among others, general economic, political and business conditions and those factors discussed under the header "Risk Factors" in the Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, which was filed by LumiraDx with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on April 13, 2022, and other filings made by LumiraDx with the SEC. Although LumiraDx believes that it has a reasonable basis for each forward-looking statement contained in this press release, LumiraDx cautions you that these statements are based on a combination of facts and factors currently known by it and its projections of the future, about which it cannot be certain. LumiraDx undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise.
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Connecticut residents overwhelmingly favor keeping abortion legal, though with differences over the circumstances in which abortions should be available, according to a new poll commissioned by WTNH-News 8.
The findings mirror a recent national poll that showed voter attitudes are more nuanced than being simply for or against abortion as the nation braces for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling expected to overturn or greatly revise Roe v. Wade.
Only 9% of respondents in the Connecticut poll said abortion should be illegal in all cases. Another 23% would prohibit them except in cases of rape, incest or where the health of the mother was endangered.
The remaining 68% favored either no or few restrictions on abortion, though a subset indicated the current standard in Connecticut of fetal viability was perhaps too liberal.
Thirty-four percent said abortion should be legal in all cases, and 20% said it should be legal up to 20 weeks of pregnancy, while 14% favored a cutoff at six weeks.
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The poll of 1,000 voters was conducted by Emerson College for WTNH and The Hill on May 10 and 11, using calls to landlines and mobile phones and an online panel. It has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
A Connecticut law passed in 1990 affirms a woman’s right to an abortion, codifying in statute the standard set by Roe in 1973: No abortion should be banned prior to fetal viability, generally considered to be around 23 weeks.
The poll did not test voter views on whether parental notification should be required in most cases before a minor under age 16 could get an abortion.
Gov. Ned Lamont and his Republican challenger, Bob Stefanowski, each say they support maintaining the Roe standard in Connecticut, but they differ on parental notification. Stefanowski favors it, Lamont is opposed.
“I'm asking for parental modification. Thirty-seven states have it. My position on this is mainstream. Gov. Lamont is the extreme position on this topic,” Stefanowski said Wednesday.
Connecticut law requires counseling for minors seeking an abortion, including a suggestion that they consult with a parent or family member. Lamont said he is persuaded that there are cases of abuse where parental notification is not realistic.
“My instinct is that 98% of people, younger people, talk to their parents if they feel comfortable, they feel like it’s safe, it’s the right thing to do,” he said.
Rep. Jillian Gilchrest, D-West Hartford, the co-chair of the Reproductive Rights Caucus in the General Assembly, offered a rebuttal Wednesday to Stefanowski on whether there is a practical difference between parental notification and consent.
“If there is a child who feels as though they cannot speak with their parents in order to access an abortion, enacting parental notification or enacting parental consent is in effect the same thing,” she said. “And so it's going to prohibit a child who needs to access abortion care from getting that care here in our state.”
Stefanowski’s running mate, Rep. Laura Devlin of Fairfield, recently voted for a bill that provides a “safe harbor” to women from states with restrictive abortion laws who get abortions in Connecticut, as well as the clinicians who provide them. It was signed into law by Lamont.
It also conforms state law with a 21-year-old legal opinion permitting APRNs, nurse midwives and physicians’ assistants to perform first-trimester abortions by suction, the most common type of early abortion.
Stefanowski again declined to offer an opinion on the new law or whether he agreed with Devlin. “It’s not my place to agree or disagree with her,” Stefanowski said.
He did say he would not seek to change the new law.
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Scotland is a veritable treasure trove of amazing beaches – from long stretches of white sand to tiny idyllic coves hidden away from all but those in the know.
And with around 18,000 of coastline – including over 700 islands – it would take you a lifetime to explore them all.
Beaches are particularly popular with dog walkers, giving their adored pets a chance to stretch their legs, fetch sticks, meet friends, and take a dip in the water.
Scottish dog owners are lucky in that the vast majority of beaches are we.coming to four-legged members of the family, as long as people are careful to control and pick up after their pet.
But some places require dogs to be kept on leads or have a ban for some or all of the year.
Before you set out for an adventure, or book that dream coastal break with your pooch, here are the places that are less than welcoming to pooches.
Highlands
Achmelvich Bay – Dogs are not permitted on the beach during the peak tourist season and neither of the camping and caravan sites allow dogs.
Nairn East Beach – Dogs must be kept on a lead at all times.
Fife
Elie Woodhaven (Ruby Bay) – Dogs are restricted from the beach between May to September in line with the Harbour byelaws.
Shell Bay (Earlsferry) – Dogs must be kept on a lead.
St Andrews West Sands – Dogs are not allowed on the part of the beach nearest the town between the May 1 and September 30.
Lothian
Aberlady Bay – Dogs are not permitted on the nature reserve.
Borders
Coldingham Bay – Dogs are allowed on the beach but must be kept on a lead from June to September.
Strathclyde
Lunderston Bay – Dogs are allowed all year round but not in the picnic area or children’s play area.
Tayside
Broughty Ferry Beach – Dogs are excluded from the western area of the beach between May 1 and September 30. The eastern beach is dog friendly all year.
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Brokerages expect The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT – Get Rating) to report sales of $552.78 million for the current quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Two analysts have issued estimates for New York Times’ earnings, with estimates ranging from $550.82 million to $554.74 million. New York Times posted sales of $498.50 million in the same quarter last year, which suggests a positive year-over-year growth rate of 10.9%. The firm is scheduled to issue its next quarterly earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
On average, analysts expect that New York Times will report full-year sales of $2.32 billion for the current year, with estimates ranging from $2.31 billion to $2.33 billion. For the next financial year, analysts forecast that the company will report sales of $2.46 billion, with estimates ranging from $2.45 billion to $2.46 billion. Zacks’ sales calculations are an average based on a survey of research analysts that that provide coverage for New York Times.
New York Times (NYSE:NYT – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 4th. The company reported $0.19 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.18 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $537.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $543.35 million. New York Times had a net margin of 8.58% and a return on equity of 13.87%. New York Times’s revenue was up 13.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.26 EPS.
In other news, CEO Levien Meredith A. Kopit sold 10,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, February 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $42.78, for a total transaction of $427,800.00. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Company insiders own 1.90% of the company’s stock.
Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of NYT. Stockbridge Partners LLC raised its position in shares of New York Times by 61.5% during the 1st quarter. Stockbridge Partners LLC now owns 6,490,990 shares of the company’s stock valued at $297,547,000 after buying an additional 2,470,866 shares in the last quarter. Farallon Capital Management LLC raised its position in shares of New York Times by 23.0% during the 3rd quarter. Farallon Capital Management LLC now owns 8,136,258 shares of the company’s stock valued at $400,873,000 after buying an additional 1,521,000 shares in the last quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP grew its holdings in shares of New York Times by 31.9% during the 1st quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 5,741,738 shares of the company’s stock valued at $263,201,000 after purchasing an additional 1,389,189 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of New York Times during the 4th quarter valued at $65,345,000. Finally, Ardevora Asset Management LLP bought a new position in shares of New York Times during the 4th quarter valued at $64,127,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.76% of the company’s stock.
NYSE NYT opened at $33.79 on Friday. New York Times has a 1 year low of $31.68 and a 1 year high of $56.19. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.66 billion, a PE ratio of 31.29 and a beta of 0.89. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $41.57 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $43.73.
New York Times announced that its board has authorized a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, February 2nd that authorizes the company to buyback $150.00 million in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 2.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally an indication that the company’s board believes its stock is undervalued.
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The New York Times Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides news and information for readers and viewers across various platforms worldwide. It offers The New York Times (The Times), a daily and Sunday newspaper in the United States, as well as international edition of The Times; and operates the NYTimes.com Website.
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For Jack Harlow, everything was pointing to this being his summer to conquer. The Louisville, Ky. rapper's sophomore album Come Home The Kids Miss You, released earlier this month, arrived in a moment when Harlow had reached a new level of cultural clout. After the one-two punch of his 2020 hit "Whats Poppin" and a knockout verse on Lil Nas X's "INDUSTRY BABY," which he performed on-stage at his first Grammys performance, the past few years have brought the rapper praise from the hip-hop community and a devout fanbase on social media. His second single from the new record, "First Class," became the first hip-hop song to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022.
But even though Come Home The Kids Miss You was poised to launch Jack Harlow's worldwide takeover, the rapper's sophomore album misses the mark. The record simultaneously underutilizes his strengths and emphasizes his weaknesses, resulting in a middle-of-the-road body of work despite endorsements for his success and its potential.
Jack Harlow's story has been repeated ad nauseam in the wake of his celebrity: the 24-year-old is a suburban kid from Kentucky who started rapping in middle school, with his first mixtape released when he was in seventh grade. Several makeshift music videos from the "Mr. Harlow" era of his career are still online and watching them feels oddly personal, invoking a "boy next door" kind of sensibility. On his eighteenth birthday, he opened up for Vince Staples, and signed to DJ Drama's label in 2018.
The next few years positioned him as a rising star in the hip-hop world, someone that legends praise (he's been cosigned by artists including Kanye West and Sean "Diddy" Combs) and peers envy. But despite the puberty, fame and money, Harlow is, in essence, the same kid in his Mr. Harlow videos — walking around dimly lit school hallways with a goofy smile and accompanying swagger. His personality has always been a key part of his success, and part of his meteoric rise to the top of the pop-rap's collective consciousness is undoubtedly due to his charisma. There's something singular about his appeal; he has the charm of an underdog, someone you can't help but root for, able to woo an audience with a blue-eyed wink.
Harlow knows this. He's perfected the art of pandering, which has allowed him to cultivate a wide, diverse audience across demographics, as well as both gay fans and straight women through his casual, flippant flirtatiousness and assured comfort in his masculinity. Gen Z listeners love him because a song like "First Class," with its invocation of '00s nostalgia, is primed to start a million different TikTok trends. He's a cultural chameleon; someone that can simultaneously check every box he needs to gain attention.
But that box-checking is, maybe, also the problem. The singles to Come Home... are great pop songs; "Nail Tech" is a clever earworm with one of the best beats of the year thus far, and "First Class" is a similar, algorithm-perfected hip-hop song, founded on an extensive sample of Fergie's 2006 hit "Glamorous." With these two tracks alone, Harlow fashioned himself into a hitmaker, and managed to get inescapable press between early previews of his "First Class" snippets and claims that he was trying to get Dolly Parton "on some hard s***." These days, all you need to capture the public attention is a sustained hook on Gen-Z listeners, who in turn keep an artist's music trending through constant conversation and TikTok retooling; he's gamed the system to massive success.
Between the singles, Harlow's fanbase and palpable buzz, Come Home... was as well-positioned as it could be to become the most talked about pop-rap record of the year. But beyond those singles, the album is devoid of any discernible character; a blank slate of mediocre raps over instrumentals that could've been found by searching "Drake type beats" on YouTube. It becomes a missed opportunity, finding Harlow so focused on leaning into mass appeal that he seems to have forgotten that making a hit requires more than just jokey lyrics and impressive features.
Harlow wants to be in the same conversation as the artists he features on the album: Drake, Lil Wayne, an uncredited Snoop Dogg. In his cover story for Rolling Stone magazine he says things like "I'm in my well-oiled-machine era," and tells an anecdote about going over to Drake's house and asking him how he can improve as a rapper. The difference between Harlow and the artists he positions himself next to is that all of these people have a distinct, unique personality both in their music as well as outside it. In the case of Harlow, he doesn't have the ubiquity of Drake, the deftness of Lil Wayne, the personality of Snoop Dogg.
The whole album orbits around three central concepts: girls, Harlow's "come-up" and his rapping ability. But the repeated, passionless lines about women get old and boring, his come-up isn't very exciting (considering he's self-described himself as "start[ing] from the middle") and his rap prowess is often discounted by lines like, for example, one that references a sexual connection between pineapple juice and a certain bodily fluid. "Young Harleezy," the second track off Come Home..., is perhaps the most effective peek into the overall Jack Harlow ethos. "Y'all grew up shooting RPG's / I was in seventh grade selling hard CDs," he raps, over a beat that has seven different producers but still fails to excite. His whole life is about his grind, and addressing his position in a lineage of mainstream white rappers, he boldly states "this is not Vanilla Ice or Beastie Boys."
In a way, he's right. Harlow is someone that firmly wants to situate himself next to the Mac Millers of the world, to be a mainstream white rapper who sidesteps the trap of being a novelty one-hit wonder. But often he ends up being more of a Macklemore: someone that can't effectively find his footing on the careful wire of being goofy and sincere, and as a result is tossed between two radically different careers.
Even the silliness on this album is baked in self-importance; you would think a song called "Dua Lipa" would take the "just joshin'" energy of his previous hits and put it in a familiar context, but instead Harlow provides an unfocused trap ode that would be more fit on your local hometown rapper's Soundcloud page. "Like A Blade Of Grass" begins with a promising metaphor about photosynthesis and sex, but quickly devolves into a tedious conversation between Harlow and a made-up potential suitress.
If he wants to truly place himself next to the people he so clearly admires, Harlow needs to develop a career that combines these affectations, rather than teetering between both. He could be a rapper that winks to his lackluster upbringing, his whiteness and his goofiness while also being a technically impressive rapper and lyricist. There's inklings of that in his catalog: "Tyler Herro" for example, the lead single from his debut and a laid-back, suave ode to Kentucky that features the winking hook "five white boys, but they not NSYNC." But on Come Home..., Harlow has spent so much time thinking about his technical precision, he's lost the clever buoyancy that keeps his best raps afloat.
Come Home The Kids Miss You was Harlow staking his claim to be the best in the game. But in his pursuit to meet his own insurmountable expectations of quickly becoming legendary, he's left listeners with an album that demonstrates he still has more to learn than give. Harlow can continue to assemble all the separate parts of a successful modern day rap career — the streaming numbers, the Internet hype, the viral singles and the flashy features — but if he doesn't have a vision to tie it all together, he's not going to have an acclaimed career to call his own.
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CBIC sets framework for import of goods from Bangladesh by rail
2 min read . 02:28 PM IST- Rail line is being opened up for imports following requests from Dhaka as well as from central ministries in the Indian government and merchants
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NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has set the rules for allowing import of goods in sealed containers by rail from Bangladesh in a move aimed at boosting trade between the two nations.
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has set the rules for allowing import of goods in sealed containers by rail from Bangladesh in a move aimed at boosting trade between the two nations.
Rail line is being opened up for imports following requests from Dhaka as well as from central ministries in the Indian government and merchants, according to an order from the tax authority.
Rail line is being opened up for imports following requests from Dhaka as well as from central ministries in the Indian government and merchants, according to an order from the tax authority.
At present, India exports goods by rail to the neighbouring nation and the new framework will help set up logistics infrastructure to make possible imports as well. The ministry said, quoting Bangladesh High Commissioner to India, that containers going from India to Bangladesh by rail are returning empty after delivering India’s export goods there and that Bangladeshi companies have expressed interest to use such empty containers to export their products to India, said the order. Also, using the same containers for imports will help in lowering India’s export logistics cost.
At present, India exports goods by rail to the neighbouring nation and the new framework will help set up logistics infrastructure to make possible imports as well. The ministry said, quoting Bangladesh High Commissioner to India, that containers going from India to Bangladesh by rail are returning empty after delivering India’s export goods there and that Bangladeshi companies have expressed interest to use such empty containers to export their products to India, said the order. Also, using the same containers for imports will help in lowering India’s export logistics cost.
For imports to India, the carrier will be trains of Indian Railways plying between the two countries which cross international border through land customs stations. Use of returning empty containers for import of goods into India will apply to units of Container Corp. of India carried on trains operated by the Indian Railways. The movement of the train will be monitored through the government’s electronic tracking system up to various customs facilities in India.
For imports to India, the carrier will be trains of Indian Railways plying between the two countries which cross international border through land customs stations. Use of returning empty containers for import of goods into India will apply to units of Container Corp. of India carried on trains operated by the Indian Railways. The movement of the train will be monitored through the government’s electronic tracking system up to various customs facilities in India.
Container Corp. of India has to ensure that the import consignments go directly to customs depots, as per the rules brought out by the tax authority. India and Bangladesh customs authorities have been stepping up cooperation on bilateral trade.
Container Corp. of India has to ensure that the import consignments go directly to customs depots, as per the rules brought out by the tax authority. India and Bangladesh customs authorities have been stepping up cooperation on bilateral trade.
At a recent commerce secretary level discussion between the two countries early in March, the two sides had discussed development of railway infrastructure, port infrastructure, a joint study on comprehensive economic partnership agreement, and regional connectivity through multi-modal transportation.
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Bank of America Corp DE increased its holdings in Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALGS – Get Rating) by 3,351.9% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 1,164,300 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 1,130,571 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE owned approximately 2.73% of Aligos Therapeutics worth $13,820,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other large investors have also modified their holdings of ALGS. Royal Bank of Canada boosted its holdings in Aligos Therapeutics by 103.8% in the second quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 1,284 shares of the company’s stock worth $26,000 after purchasing an additional 654 shares in the last quarter. Citigroup Inc. boosted its holdings in Aligos Therapeutics by 49.7% in the third quarter. Citigroup Inc. now owns 3,122 shares of the company’s stock worth $48,000 after purchasing an additional 1,037 shares in the last quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC bought a new stake in Aligos Therapeutics in the third quarter worth $51,000. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. bought a new stake in Aligos Therapeutics in the third quarter worth $70,000. Finally, Macquarie Group Ltd. bought a new stake in Aligos Therapeutics in the third quarter worth $90,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 70.21% of the company’s stock.
A number of brokerages recently issued reports on ALGS. Piper Sandler cut shares of Aligos Therapeutics from an “overweight” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their price objective for the stock from $15.00 to $4.00 in a report on Wednesday, March 23rd. SVB Leerink cut shares of Aligos Therapeutics from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 5th. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of Aligos Therapeutics from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 10th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald restated an “overweight” rating on shares of Aligos Therapeutics in a report on Friday, April 1st. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $6.15.
Aligos Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ALGS – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 4th. The company reported ($0.84) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.73) by ($0.11). Aligos Therapeutics had a negative net margin of 2,263.64% and a negative return on equity of 75.34%. During the same quarter last year, the business posted ($0.74) EPS. Equities research analysts predict that Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. will post -2.95 earnings per share for the current year.
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Aligos Therapeutics, Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses to develop novel therapeutics to address unmet medical needs in viral and liver diseases. Its lead drug candidate is ALG-010133, a s-antigen transport-inhibiting oligonucleotide polymer that is in Phase Ib clinical trial for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB); and ALG-000184, a capsid assembly modulator, which is in Phase I clinical trials to treat CHB.
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Let's have a look at these five players who could be seen in the 16th edition of the IPL.
While the current Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 is yet to finish, there are already talks about the next season. The 15th edition did not go as planned for the defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and five-times title holders Mumbai Indians (MI), who were eliminated from the playoffs race.
READ | MS Dhoni to Ambati Rayudu, CSK cricketers who may not play IPL 2023
Even Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) were shown the door after they lost to Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), who became the second entrant after Gujarat Titans (GT) to the Playoffs.
With many teams, next year may see players not either take part next year or even more retire, there are, however, some players, who were not part this year, who make a comeback.
Let's have a look at these five players who could be seen in the 16th edition of the IPL.
1. Chris Gayle
Legendary West Indies batter Chris Gayle had disappointed fans by not registering for the IPL 2022 auction earlier this year. However, the superstar has vowed to make a return to the league next year.
"Next year I’m coming back, they need me!" Gayle had told a news organisation.
"I've represented three teams in the IPL, Kolkata, RCB and Punjab. Between RCB and Punjab, I would love to get a title, with one of those two teams. I had a great stint with RCB where I was more successful within the IPL, and Punjab, they've been good. I love to explore and I love challenges so let's see what happens," Gayle said.
2. Mark Wood
England pacer Mark Wood was signed by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) for INR 7.5 crore before he had to pull out of the 2022 tournament with an elbow injury.
"I thought it was the right time to go the IPL to try and prove my case there," Wood had said. However, the injury ruled him out. Fans would be able to see the fast bowler next year.
3. Ab de Villiers
Former Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Virat Kohli in an interview had hinted that South African great Ab de Villiers could be back in the camp for IPL 2023 in 'some capacity.'
"I miss him a lot. I talk to him regularly. He was in the US recently with his family watching golf. He is keenly observing RCB and hopefully, he will be here next year in some capacity," Kohli had said during an interaction with RCB's social media team.
4. Jofra Archer
England speedster Jofra Archer was taken by Mumbai Indians (MI) for INR 8 crore but had struggled with injuries and had to miss the IPL 2022.
Talking about his return for the next season, the 27-year-old, if found fit and fine and the England Cricket Board (ECB) terms his availability, could be seen donning the MI jersey alongside Jasprit Bumrah.
5. Suresh Raina
CSK saw a lot of problems in the 15th edition of the IPL and will be looking to make some changes. With talks about MS Dhoni, Ambati Rayudu's retirement and even that of a tiff between the management and Ravindra Jadeja, the side will be eyeing some players and Suresh Raina could be just that.
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Vikings get high marks after beating PV for sectional title
AID — If Symmes Valley coach Chad Renfroe had to grade his team’s performance on Tuesday, he would probably have given them an A-plus. In a strong all-around performance, the Vikings beat the Paint Valley Bearcats 7-1 to claim the Division 4 sectional championship. “We played really...
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Defender Antonio Rudiger has suggested Chelsea could have done more to convince him to stay prior to sanctions being imposed on the club.
The 29-year-old will leave Stamford Bridge on a free transfer at the end of the season after agreeing a four-year deal with Real Madrid.
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Chelsea wanted Rudiger to sign an extension, but sources have told ESPN the club were unwilling to meet his wage demands.
It is understood Chelsea made a final offer in excess of £220,000-a-week (€260,000) but Rudiger's deal with Madrid is thought to be worth £342,000-a-week.
Chelsea had been unable to hold further talks with Rudiger since March after owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the U.K government following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The club were granted a special license to continue fulfilling fixtures but are prevented from signing and selling players or renegotiating existing contracts. However, Rudiger said in a piece with The Players' Tribune that Chelsea could have been more proactive in discussions earlier in the campaign.
"Unfortunately, my contract negotiations had already started to get difficult last fall," he wrote. "Business is business, but when you don't hear any news from the club from August to January, the situation becomes complicated.
"After the first offer, there was a long gap of just nothing. We're not robots, you know? You cannot wait for months with so much uncertainty about your future. Obviously, no one saw the sanctions coming, but in the end, other big clubs were showing interest, and I had to make a decision. I will leave it at that, because business aside, I have nothing bad to say about this club.
"Chelsea will always be in my heart. London will always be my home. I came here alone, and now I have a wife and two beautiful kids. I also have a new brother for life named Kova [teammate Mateo Kovacic]. I have an FA Cup, a Europa League and a Champions League medal. And of course, I have hundreds of memories that will stay with me forever."
Rudiger spoke glowingly about head coach Thomas Tuchel, however, after becoming marginalised under his predecessor Frank Lampard amid rumours he was a troublesome figure in the dressing room.
Although several teammates defended him at the time, the Germany international attracted social media criticism from some supporters, but Tuchel's arrival in February 2021 instigated a remarkable turnaround in his fortunes.
"He [Tuchel] asked about me, as a person. That was big," Rudiger said. "When Tuchel gave me a chance, I had so much motivation that I was never going back to the bench. I had made up my mind that I was going to give 200 per cent to this club, to this badge -- despite everything that was said about me. For me, after everything I endured, the Champions League was just the pineapple on top of the cake."
Rudiger's revival was completed by last season's Champions League triumph, beating Manchester City in the final.
"The match itself was beautiful, because we won against an incredible City team by defending as a unit and hitting them on the counter," Rudiger said.
"We fought for our lives, and in the end, we were champions. At the final whistle, I was running around like mad, and Tuchel just happened to be coming my way, and I gave him a big hug. That was a special moment for me, and I will always be thankful to him, because he gave me a chance when I was left for dead." | https://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-transfers/story/4670388/antonio-rudiger-on-chelsea-exit-club-didnt-do-enough-to-keep-me | 2022-05-20T10:56:16Z | https://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-transfers/story/4670388/antonio-rudiger-on-chelsea-exit-club-didnt-do-enough-to-keep-me | false | 1 |
Georgia Southern blasts Mercer 21-7 to complete season sweep
STATESBORO, Ga. (WSAV) — Georgia Southern’s baseball team completes the season sweep against Mercer in convincing fashion, after a 21-7 win Tuesday night in J.I. Clements.
Georgia Southern fell behind in the top fifth when they gave up four runs, and the Mercer Bears took a 5-2 lead.
Despite falling behind midway through the game, Georgia Southern would fight back twice as hard. The Eagles exploded in the bottom of the sixth, scoring nine runs. Jason Swan tied the game with a two-RBI double to left field, bringing JP Tighe and Jesse Sherrill home. Later in the ending, Swan would cross home plate to give the Eagles the lead after Christian Avant nailed an RBI single.
However, the sixth inning wouldn’t be their only nine-run inning. The Eagles exploded again in the eighth, scoring nine runs. Georgia Southern’s offense continues to dominate teams. In their last eight games, Georgia Southern has scored 10+ runs in six of them.
The Eagles will host the University of Texas Arlington (UTA) this coming Thursday at 6:30 p.m. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2606850240138/georgia-southern-blasts-mercer-21-7-to-complete-season-sweep | 2022-05-20T10:58:05Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2606850240138/georgia-southern-blasts-mercer-21-7-to-complete-season-sweep | false | 2 |
IPL 2022 Updated Points Table Before Playoffs
Four teams have completed the league matches, and the remaining teams have to complete their last match. So, the playoff race is on. The two new teams of the IPL 2022 season, Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants have officially qualified for the playoffs. Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals are competing for fourth place.
In the last match against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans, RCB won the match and stood in fourth place, while DC dropped to fifth place. In today's match against Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals, if DC wins, they will jump to fourth place and RCB will be eliminated from the league.
Here is the latest IPL 2022 points table:
Team M W L NRR Points
Also Read: IPL 2022: Royal Challengers Bangalore Beats Gujarat Titans, Have They Entered Playoffs? | https://english.sakshi.com/news/sports/ipl-2022-updated-points-table-playoffs-155406 | 2022-05-20T10:59:45Z | https://english.sakshi.com/news/sports/ipl-2022-updated-points-table-playoffs-155406 | false | null |
BRO Recruitment 2022: Board Roads Wings, Board Roads Organization (BRO), General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF), Ministry of Defence, is soon expected to release the admit card for the recruitment of Store Keeper Technical (SKT) and Multi Skilled Worker (MSW). As per reports, 876 vacancies shall be filled through the recruitment drive out of which 377 vacancies for Store Keeper Technical and 499 for Multi Skilled Worker (Driver Engine Static).
It is to be noted that only Indian Male eligible candidates would be able to apply. The dates to apply shall be available soon on the official website i.e. www.bro.gov.in. The recruitment will be done under the advertisement number 02/2022.
The candidates are advised to keep track of the official website for the latest updates regarding the recruitment. | https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/bro-recruitment-2022-notification-download-check-vacancy-1653029406-1 | 2022-05-20T11:05:02Z | https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/bro-recruitment-2022-notification-download-check-vacancy-1653029406-1 | true | null |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities closed schools and asked public officials not to come to work in a desperate move to prepare for an acute fuel shortage that is expected to last days amid the nation’s worst economic crisis in decades.
The Public Administration Ministry asked the public officials — except for those who maintain essential services — to stay home from work Friday “in a view of current fuel shortage and issues in transport facilities” across the country.
State- and government-approved private schools also closed Friday amid the worsening fuel shortage, with thousands of people waiting in queues at fuel stations across the country for days at a time.
Sri Lanka is now almost without gasoline and faces an acute shortage of other fuels as well.
The government has been struggling to find money to pay for the importation of fuel, gas and other essentials in recent months as the Indian Ocean island nation is on the brink of bankruptcy.
Its economic woes have brought on a political crisis, with the government facing widespread protests.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa swore in nine cabinet ministers Friday, raising the total number to 13 as he attempts to stabilize the government after a string of resignations.
The new ministers include four independent lawmakers, three from the ruling party and two from the main opposition party. Four ruling party lawmakers were appointed as cabinet ministers last week.
Rajapaksa sought a unity government in early April but the largest opposition political party, the United People’s Force, had rejected the proposal.
For months, Sri Lankans have endured long lines to buy those essentials, most of which come from abroad. Shortages of hard currency have also hindered imports of raw materials for manufacturing and worsened inflation.
Protesters blocked main roads to demand gas and fuel, and television stations showed people in some areas fighting over limited stocks.
Authorities have announced countrywide power cuts of up to four hours a day because they can’t supply enough fuel to power generating stations.
Sri Lanka has suspended repayment of about $7 billion in foreign loans due this year out of $25 billion to be repaid by 2026. The country’s total foreign debt is $51 billion. The finance ministry says the country currently has only $25 million in usable foreign reserves.
Protesters have occupied the entrance to the president’s office for more than a month, calling for Rajapaksa to resign.
Months of anti-government rallies have led to the near-dismantling of the once-powerful ruling family, with one of the president’s brothers resigning as prime minister, and other siblings and a nephew leaving their Cabinet posts. Protesters accuse the Rajapaksas of triggering the crisis through corruption and misrule.
Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Monday that about $75 billion is needed urgently to help provide essential items, but the country’s treasury is struggling to find even $1 billion.
Attacks by Rajapaksa’s supporters on protesters last week sparked nationwide violence that left nine people — including a lawmaker — dead, and more than 200 injured. Homes of lawmakers and their supporters were burned down. | https://www.wnct.com/news/international/sri-lanka-closes-schools-limits-work-amid-fuel-shortage/ | 2022-05-20T11:10:58Z | https://www.wnct.com/news/international/sri-lanka-closes-schools-limits-work-amid-fuel-shortage/ | true | 27 |
The Wests Tigers survived a scare against Canterbury on Friday, inflicting more misery on the bottom-placed Bulldogs by claiming a 36-22 win.
In front of 15,124 fans at Leichhardt Oval, the Tigers nearly threw away an 18-0 lead against a Canterbury side still reeling from coach Trent Barrett's exit from the club on Monday.
Interim Canterbury coach Mick Potter will have been heartened by the second-half fightback to trail 18-16 but when Aaron Schoupp was sent to the sin bin for a dangerous throw in the 62nd minute everything unravelled for the Bulldogs.
Even without Josh Addo-Carr (illness) and Brent Naden, who made a dramatic switch to the Tigers earlier this week, Canterbury scored more points on Friday than they have done in the previous 10 games under Barrett.
Naden's first act as a Tigers player was to get hauled over the sideline and while his old Canterbury teammates smirked with delight, it was the new Tigers man who had the last laugh.
On their first attacking set halfback Jackson Hastings steered the Tigers downfield before Joe Ofahengaue displayed some deft ballplaying to the left to have Luke Garner over the line with five minutes played.
Hastings then set up fullback Starford To'a down the same side, with Ken Maumalo adding a double before the break to push the Tigers out to an 18-0 advantage.
Within the space of five minutes, however, that lead had been cut to just six points.
Matt Burton and Jeremy Marshall-King both crossed to haul the Bulldogs back into the fight after Hastings had been sinbinned for a professional foul.
Winger Jacob Kiraz scored down the Canterbury left moments after Hastings returned to the field to cut the Tigers' lead to just two points and allow the Dogs to dream of an unlikely comeback.
Any hope of that was distinguished when Aaron Schoupp lifted To'a above the horizontal and was sent to the sin bin.
On the next set, Fa'amanu Brown barged his way over from close range in his first NRL game since 2019 and young Tigers half Jock Madden then extended their lead.
Schoupp made amends with a late finish but by then the damage had been done.
Brown added a second in the final minute of the game to ensure the Tigers' third win of the season. | https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/rugby-league/tigers-extend-dogs-week-of-woe-c-6877394 | 2022-05-20T11:17:15Z | https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/rugby-league/tigers-extend-dogs-week-of-woe-c-6877394 | false | 4 |
SHANGHAI, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boqii Holding Limited ("Boqii" or the "Company") (NYSE: BQ), a leading pet-focused platform in China, today announced that it plans to change the ratio of its American depositary shares ("ADSs") to Class A ordinary shares from one (1) ADS representing three fourths (0.75) Class A ordinary shares to one (1) ADS representing six (6) Class A ordinary shares (the "ADS Ratio Change"). The ADS Ratio Change is expected to become effective on or about May 31, 2022 (U.S. Eastern Time).
For Boqii's ADS holders, the ADS Ratio Change will have the same effect as a one-for-eight reverse split on the existing ADSs. Each ADS holder of record at the close of business on the date when the ADS Ratio Change is effective will be required to surrender and exchange every eight (8) existing ADSs then held for one (1) new ADS. The Bank of New York Mellon ("BNY Mellon"), as the depositary bank for Boqii's ADS program, will arrange for the exchange of current ADSs for new ADSs (subject to receipt of applicable ADS fees from the exchanging ADS holders). No action is required by holders of uncertificated ADSs to effect the ADS Ratio Change, as the change will be effected on the books of the ADS depositary.
No fractional new ADSs will be issued in connection with the ADS Ratio Change. Instead, BNY Mellon will attempt to sell any fractional entitlements to new ADSs and the net cash proceeds from the sale of the fractional ADS entitlements (after deduction of fees, taxes and expenses) will be distributed to the applicable ADS holders by BNY Mellon. Boqii's ADSs will continue to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "BQ". The change in the ADS Ratio will have no impact on Boqii's underlying Class A ordinary shares, and no Class A ordinary shares will be issued or cancelled in connection with the ADS Ratio Change.
As a result of the ADS Ratio Change, our ADS price is expected to increase proportionally, although the Company can give no assurance that the ADS price after the ADS Ratio Change will be equal to or greater than eight (8) times the ADS price before the change.
About Boqii Holding Limited
Boqii Holding Limited (NYSE: BQ) is a leading pet-focused platform in China. We are the leading online destination for pet products and supplies in China with our broad selection of high-quality products including global leading brands, local emerging brands, and our own private label, Yoken and Mocare, offered at competitive prices. Our online sales platforms, including Boqii Mall and our flagship stores on third-party e-commerce platforms, provide customers with convenient access to a wide selection of high-quality pet products and an engaging and personalized shopping experience. Our Boqii Community provides an informative and interactive content platform for users to share their knowledge and love for pets.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.boqii.com/.
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Further information regarding such risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake any duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
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Dame Deborah James unveils her charity clothing collection with In The Style
Dame Deborah James has revealed she has been secretly working on her own clothing collection and the first item she will be releasing is a T-shirt for charity.
The bowel cancer awareness champion, who is also known as Bowel Babe and has raised over £6m for charity, shared the news in a post on social media.
Teaming up with In The Style, James – who has stage 4 bowel cancer – said her main collection isn’t ready yet but revealed she had already worn one of the dresses when she met Prince William who personally delivered her damehood to her family home.
The 40-year-old wrote: “I’m so excited to finally be able to share (at least part) of a project I’ve been working on for several months now. Together with the @inthestyle team I’ve been creating and designing a collection of beautiful clothes to hopefully make us all look good and feel great!!!
“The main collection isn’t quite ready yet, although some of you will have noticed recently I’ve been sporting a whole host of beautiful floral dresses – which I can confirm were worn for my visit from Prince William!”
The BBC podcaster went on to explain how channelling her creativity into the collection had served as a welcome distraction as she underwent gruelling treatment.
She said: “I cannot tell you guys how this partnership has kept me going through my hospital stays and taken me away from cancer. For years, I always talked about ‘Dressing up to make you feel better’ and over recent months all the ups and downs, being in and out of hospital, dressing up in nice clothes and popping on some Lippy has made a difference to my journey.”
James confirmed her first release will be a white T-shirt featuring the slogan “Rebellious Heart” with “with 100% of profits” from the sale of each going towards her Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK.
Posing in the T-shirt on Instagram, the mum-of-two explained: “Today though, as a sneak taster I wanted to share something really special…..
“As you all know I’ve always had a quote close to my heart… ‘Rebellious Hope’ so @inthestyle have kindly agreed with me to release a limited edition exclusive T-shirt in aid of @bowelbabefund which is available to order via the @inthestyle app NOW, with 100% of profits (minimum of £7.08 per t-shirt) from the sale of each one will be paid directly to Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK.”
James was originally diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and over the years has kept her thousands of followers updated with candid accounts of her condition and treatment.
The former deputy head teacher announced earlier this month she has stopped active treatment and she is now receiving hospice-at-home care, unsure of how much longer she has left to live.
“I can’t wait (or sadly I will be leaving it up to my family and ITS) to share the rest of the collection, which I’m also excited to say that the plan for that collection is that all profits will be in aid of the Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK. Know that I’ve have had so much fun designing and curating everything and I hope you have just as much wearing it all x,” the post concluded. | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/dame-deborah-james-unveils-her-104611998.html?src=rss | 2022-05-20T11:19:02Z | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/dame-deborah-james-unveils-her-104611998.html?src=rss | true | 1 |
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DWP: 1.4m legacy benefit claimants could get up to £220 more a month on Universal Credit
MILLIONS of Britons on legacy benefits will see their entitlement increase by an average of £220 a month after moving to Universal Credit, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said.
Rishi Sunak baffles MP with claims Universal Credit is 'generous'
In the next two years, The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) aim to move 2.6 million people on legacy benefits to Universal Credit. They have recently restarted the ‘managed migration’ process of move that was paused due to the pandemic.
As the cost of living crisis continues, and inflation sits at nine percent, some extra cash could be vital for families who are feeling squeezed.
The DWP said 1.4 million people could see an increase - once moved on Universal Credit - of up to £220.
Labour MP, Rachael Maskell, recently asked the DWP what estimates have been made of the average change in income per person that transfers from legacy benefits to Universal Credit.
In a written response, David Rutley MP, from the DWP, said: “Around 1.4 million people currently on older ‘legacy’ benefits would see their entitlement increase by an average of £220 a month on moving to Universal Credit and another 300,000 see no change.”
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The DWP estimated which groups could receive higher entitlement after being moved:
- Employment Support Allowance claimants: 600,000
- Tax Credits (Working and Child) claimants: 700,000
- Total, including other legacy benefits: 1.4 million
Only 500 people will initially be moved to Universal Credit through the managed migration process, however this will increase over the coming months in order to complete the move for all claimants by the end of 2024.
There are three ways people can migrate to Universal Credit, outlined in the DWP’s ‘2022-24 strategy for implementing the final phase of Universal Credit’.
These are:
- Natural migration - a change of circumstances triggers a move
- Voluntary migration - claimants chooses to move
- Managed migration - DWP triggered
People can read it in full on the GOV.UK website.
As inflation has increased to a 40-year high of nine percent in the 12 months to April, up from seven percent in March, many charities have urged the UK Government not to restart the moving process.
They argue that unless it can guarantee nobody’s income will be cut off during the cost of living crisis, the move should stop.
At the moment, the price of everything from food to fuel is set to increase, and many people could struggle to keep up.
Despite millions of people being better off, the DWP has also estimated that thousands of people could be worse off after making the move.
In its guidance it stated that some 900,000 people on legacy benefits will be worse off on Universal Credit.
Households who get ESA and receive the Severe Disability Premium and the enhanced disability premium, are expected to be worse off on Universal Credit.
Whereas, ESA claimants who are in the support group but who do not get the Severe Disability Payment could be better off.
Lower entitlement after moving to Universal Credit
- ESA claimants: 500,000
- Tax Credits (Working and Child) claimants: 300,000
- Total, including other legacy benefits: 900,000
300,000 will not experience any change in benefit payments after making the move.
No change after moving to Universal Credit
- ESA claimants: 100,000
- Income Support: 100,000
- Total, including other legacy benefits: 300,000 | https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1613396/Universal-Credit-legacy-benefits-dwp-move-better-off-cash-benefit | 2022-05-20T11:21:35Z | https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1613396/Universal-Credit-legacy-benefits-dwp-move-better-off-cash-benefit | false | 1 |
Friday May 20, 2022
Anne Hathaway dropped jaws with her glamourous presence at the Cannes Film Festival as she walked down the red-carpet for the first time in a beautiful white gown for the premiere of her film Armageddon Time.
The Princess Diaries actor opted for an elegant white strapless Armani Privé gown which had an oversized bow with a long train attached to it. The diva completed her look with a silver necklace featuring a gorgeous royal blue sapphire.
Taking about the reason she chose to wear white on the special occasion, the 39-year-old actor told People Magazine, "You hire Erin Walsh and you trust her."
"You know, I've never been to Cannes, and I've been watching the fashion of the film festival unfold for a couple decades now,” Hathaway added. “And I've noticed certain things you can never go wrong with."
She continued: "You never go wrong with a little sparkle. You never go wrong with something that looks chic and glamorous, but feels very, very comfortable.”
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Spring Concert Series: 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at Lake Jackson Civic Center 222 Circle Way St, Lake Jackson. Live music, dancing, and food trucks. Bring own refreshments. This week: Checkered Past. Contact Mallory Doyle at 979-415-2603 or mdoyle@lakejacksontx.gov.
BCFA Auto and Bike Show Swap Meet: Noon to 6 p.m. today, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Brazoria County Fairgrounds, 901 S. Downing Road, Angleton. Free admission. Autos, bikes and food trucks. To register, contact Ernest Lawson at elawson@bcfa.org or 979-849-6416.
“Art”: 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Dow Arena Theater in the Center for the Arts and Sciences, 400 College Blvd., Clute. Three longtime friends square off over one’s purchase of an expensive canvas, comically using it as an excuse to batter one another’s life failures. Tony Award-winning play contains profanity and is not recommended for children. Adults $22 and students $16. Call 979-265-7661 or visit bcfas.org.
West Brazos VFW Post 8551 Fish Fry: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the post, Corner of Highway 35 and FM 1459. $15 a plate. Call-in orders for delivery need to be placed by 10 a.m. Call 979-345-4409.
Free Drive-Thru Community Farmer’s Market: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Destiny Church, 211 S. Lazy Lane, Clute. Call 979-265-3590.
Concert in the Park Series: 7 p.m. at Veterans Park, 115 E. Magnolia St., Angleton. Bring lawn chair. Featuring: The Texas Eagles. Music, food and more. Call 979-848-5600.
Mix 96.5 Blood Drive: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Brazos Mall, 100 West Highway 332, Suite 1022, Lake Jackson. Contact Karen Juback at 979-297-8001 or kjuback@centennialrec.com.
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Clute Community Yard Sale: 8 a.m. to noon at Clute Parks and Recreation Department, 100 Parkview Drive, Clute. Call 979-265-8392.
Doggie Day and Cats Too Vaccine Clinic: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at SFA STEM Academy, 7351 S.F. Austin Road, Jones Creek. Free DAPP and FVRCP, $15 rabies and microchips, and $25 spay and neuter for Jones Creek residents. Call 979-665-2328 or 979-233-2700.
Shred Day: 8 to 11:30 a.m. at Lake Jackson Rec Center, 91 Lake Road, Lake Jackson. Limit 5 large boxes per vehicle. Also collecting eyeglasses, cellphones and string lights. Sponsored by Texas Gulf Bank. Visit facebook.com/LakeJacksonParks andRecreation.
Paul Shaffer with Brazosport Jazz Orchestra: 7:30 p.m. at The Clarion at Brazosport College, 500 College Drive Lake Jackson. For tickets, call 979-230-3156 or visit braz-internet.choicecrm.net.
NAMI Gulf Coast Fish Fry Fundraiser: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Michael the Archangel Church, 100 Oak Drive, Lake Jackson. $15 plate. Raffle, silent and live auction. Call 281-585-3100 or email namigc@namigulfcoast.org.
BCFA Auto and Bike Show Swap Meet: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Brazoria County Fairgrounds, 901 S. Downing Road, Angleton. Free admission. Autos, bikes and food trucks. To register, contact Ernest Lawson at elawson@bcfa.org or 979-849-6416.
Bobby Reed’s Reunion Show: 7 p.m. at Brazoria County Civic Center Theatre, 202 W. Smith St., Brazoria. Tickets $19 in advance, $22 at door. Call 979-345-3335 or 979-482-0915.
Richwood VFD Open House and Crawfish Fundraiser: Noon at the fire station, 218 Halbert St., Richwood. Call 979-265-8113.
What’s Really In The Water: 10 a.m. to noon at FOR Community Center, 20450 CR 510B, Holiday Shores Subdivision. Discussing results of recent water testing by Friends of the River San Bernard. Visit sanberardriver.com or call Linda Wright 979-264-3052.
Boy and Cub Scouts Free Pancake Social: 2 to 5 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 207 E. Seventh St., Sweeny. Call Michael Hebert at 713-325-8149.
Coffee With Cops: 8 to 10 a.m. at Manvel City Hall, 20031 Morris Ave. Discuss community issues and learn efforts to improve neighborhoods. Presented by Manvel Events Committee. Contact Brooke Cyphers at 832-603-4236 or brooke.cyphers@cityofmanel.com.
First Capitol Pool Swim Lesson Registration: 9 a.m. to noon at City Hall Council Chambers Room, 512 E. Brazos Ave., Wwest Columbia. Call 979-345-2266 or 979-345-3123.
“Apollo: The Next Giant Leap”: 1 to 2 p.m. at BASF Planetarium, 400 College Blvd, Clute. Adults $5; students $3; members free. Call 979-265-7661 or visit bcfas.org.
Varner Hogg Market Day: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site, 1702 N. 13th St., West Columbia. Free admission during market hours. Call 979-345-4656.
Bird Banding: 8 a.m. to noon via Gulf Coast Bird Observatory. 299 W. Highway 332, Lake Jackson. See birds up close and learn about birds migration through the Brazosport Area. Call 979-480-0999 or visit www.gcbo.org.
Gypsy Caravan: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Brazos Mall, 100 W. Highway 332, Lake Jackson. Outdoor farmer and artisan market with variety of vendors, food trucks and products. Call 979-297-8001.
Sunday
Bingo: Noon at Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 3111, 6818 Highway 332, Freeport. Public welcome. Call Louise at 979-236-4342.
Monday
Quilting Workshop: 10 a.m. to noon May 23 Monday at Brazoria County AgriLife Extension office, 21017 CR 171 Angleton. $5 supply fee. Call 979-964-1558 or email shana.kutac@ag.tamu.edu.
Blood Drive: 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Texas Dow Employees Credit Union, 1001 FM 2004, Lake Jackson. Call Christina Takami 979-299-0331 or email CTakami@tdecu.org, or make an appointment at giveblood.org. | https://thefacts.com/news/article_6ea6d264-0ef1-5678-be96-b100f6f7fcde.html | 2022-05-20T11:23:16Z | https://thefacts.com/news/article_6ea6d264-0ef1-5678-be96-b100f6f7fcde.html | true | 1 |
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HSINCHU, May 10, 2022
HSINCHU, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. ("ChipMOS" or the "Company") (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS), an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services ("OSAT"), today announced that it will present virtually to institutional investors at the 2022 Citi Regional Tech Conference from Wednesday, May 18 to Friday, May 20, 2022.
Management from the Company, including Jesse Huang, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Investor Relations, will discuss the Company's recent financial results, business trends and growth opportunities. The Company's latest investor update is available on the investor relations' section of its website at www.chipmos.com.
About ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC.:
ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. ("ChipMOS" or the "Company") (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS) (https://www.chipmos.com) is an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services. With advanced facilities in Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu Industrial Park and Southern Taiwan Science Park in Taiwan, ChipMOS provide assembly and test services to a broad range of customers, including leading fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers and independent semiconductor foundries.
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Fayetteville City Council approves $3 million contract to upgrade Archibald Yell Boulevard
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Fayetteville City Council makes moves to improve traffic safety in the city.
The council approved a $3 million contract with Benchmark Construction of NWA to make upgrades to Archibald Yell Boulevard.
The project is mainly focused on the intersection of Archibald Yell, College Avenue, and Rock Street.
Fayetteville drops to 7th ‘best place to live’ in U.S.City council members said that intersection has been a major safety issue, making these improvements a priority.
“It sounds like there’s been a really good, dedicated long-term thought process and design that’s gone into this,” councilmember Teresa Turk said. “And, hopefully, this will allow for that greater connectivity and safety that we all desire.”
Nearly $2.7 million of the project will go towards a transportation bond program that voters passed in 2019. Another $300,000 was approved for water and sewer work needed for the project.
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- Analysis
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The Queensland seats to watch as the results come in
After six weeks of official campaigning, and three years of tumultuous political debate in Canberra, Australia will finally deliver its verdict this weekend.
And millions of Australians will be glued to their television sets and laptops as the counting starts and the future direction of the nation becomes clearer.
While Queensland might not be as vital to the outcome as it has been, there is still plenty of intrigue in the Sunshine State.
Here’s a list of seats to keep an eye on as the numbers start coming in on Saturday night. They are not necessarily seats likely to change hands, but the voting patterns in each one could well be consequential.
Blair
- Incumbent: Shayne Neumann (Labor).
- Margin: 1.21 per cent.
- Why to watch: If there is a disconnect between urban and rural Queensland, this is where it will be felt and that could be bad news for Labor.
Of all Labor-held seats in Queensland, Blair is the LNP’s lowest-hanging fruit.
(Lilley is more marginal, but Labor’s Anika Wells has performed well enough, and the LNP campaign bad enough, to ensure her survival.)
A diverse electorate that stretches from Ipswich, out to the Lockyer Valley and north to the Somerset, Blair takes in Labor, LNP and One Nation heartlands.
Labor is confident of increasing its margin, but if there’s a repeat of 2019 and Labor plays badly in regional Queensland, Blair is where it would be felt the hardest.
Bowman
- Incumbent: vacant, following the retirement of Andrew Laming (LNP).
- Margin: 10.24 per cent.
- Why to watch: The retirement of a controversial incumbent could have unpredictable implications.
Nobody at Labor HQ holds too much hope of claiming Bowman, so the party hasn’t thrown significant resources to the Brisbane bayside seat.
But HQ has been quite impressed with candidate Donisha Duff’s local campaign, off the smell of an oily rag, so there will be more than a few party heavyweights closely watching results on Saturday night.
Adding to the intrigue is the retirement of controversial LNP incumbent Andrew Laming. There is a school of thought that incumbency is worth several percentage points, but given Laming’s adventures of late, a change of candidate might not be the worst thing for the LNP.
Henry Pike hasn’t come without baggage, however, and his campaign hasn’t been all smooth sailing.
Given all those factors, Bowman could be worth a look as the numbers come in.
Brisbane
- Incumbent: Trevor Evans (LNP).
- Margin: 4.92 per cent.
- Why to watch: Labor thinks this is its best chance to pick up a seat, but those hopes could easily be derailed by the Greens.
Before Christmas, barely anybody in Labor circles thought they were a chance against Trevor Evans, whose inner-city sensibilities were considered a buffer against dissatisfaction with the Coalition’s more conservative wing.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s sinking personal standing has changed all that, and now it’s considered the seat most likely to fall.
Labor’s Madonna Jarrett will be in a two-way battle for second with the Greens’ Stephen Bates, who has run an impressive ground campaign.
Whoever wins that battle will benefit from the other’s preference flow. Either way, that could spell bad news for Evans.
Brisbane is likely to have a red or green hue come Sunday.
Dickson
- Incumbent: Peter Dutton (LNP).
- Margin: 4.64 per cent.
- Why to watch: The LNP will be desperate to hold this seat, as Peter Dutton will be one of the few serious leadership contenders if the Coalition finds itself on the opposition benches.
Unless the baseball bats are out for the Morrison government, Dickson should remain in LNP hands.
That’s not to say Labor’s out of contention — in Ali France, it has a compelling and capable local candidate — but knocking off a sitting Defence Minister is no easy feat.
What makes Dickson so important is what it will mean for the future of the Coalition.
If opinion polls are to be believed (and, after 2019, many would view them with a silo of salt), the Coalition is heading to the opposition benches.
With Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in a fight to hold Kooyong, Dutton will be front and centre of any Liberal leadership conversations.
The result in Dickson could prove pivotal to the Coalition’s next parliamentary term.
Flynn
- Incumbent: vacant, following the retirement of Ken O’Dowd (LNP).
- Margin: 8.66 per cent.
- Why to watch: Labor insiders think Flynn could well be their surprise win of the night.
This is coal country. It is also a mix of Labor and LNP heartlands.
The LNP’s 8.66 per cent margin is significant, but incumbent Ken O’Dowd is retiring and Labor has recruited a high-profile candidate in Gladstone mayor Matt Burnett.
One senior Queensland Labor figure has described the seat at their “roughie”, an indication that while not bullish about its chances, Burnett’s campaign is certainly primed to shake things up.
If Labor does not pick this seat up, it’s a pretty safe bet the margin will be greatly reduced.
Griffith
- Incumbent: Terri Butler (Labor).
- Margin: 2.86 per cent.
- Why to watch: A spirited Greens campaign could well result in Labor’s only loss in Queensland.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s old seat has been in Labor hands for nearly 24 years. But while the inner-south-east Brisbane seat has always been marginal, until now Labor’s biggest concern has been the LNP.
Not any more. Now, their enemy is the Greens.
The electorate overlaps a Greens state seat and a Greens council ward, giving the party an impressive local ground game.
Rising Labor star Terri Butler, considered by some to be a potential future party leader, was 7 percentage points ahead of Greens challenger Max Chandler-Mather at the 2019 poll. In 2016, she was 16 percentage points clear of the Greens.
A similar improvement this time around will see Chandler-Mather, who is running again this year, join Greens leader Adam Bandt on the crossbench in coming weeks.
Butler would be a huge loss for Labor, and Griffith a monumental gain for the Greens. Labor HQ will be nervously watching this one.
Groom
- Incumbent: Garth Hamilton (LNP).
- Margin: 20.48 per cent (17.19 per cent following 2020 byelection).
- Why to watch: An insurgent Indi-style “voice of” campaign has made the super-safe LNP seat competitive for the first time in a generation.
As one of the safest Coalition seats in the country, it’s perhaps a little counterintuitive to include Groom in any “seats to watch” list.
But a spirited campaign by independent Suzie Holt has many thinking Groom is in play.
Holt’s campaign has strong parallels with Cathy McGowan’s 2013 campaign in Indi, which saw her defeat former Coalition frontbencher Sophie Mirabella in the regional Victorian electorate.
It’s a long way from a sure thing, but after what happened in Indi, Holt’s candidacy should not be written off.
Hinkler
- Incumbent: Keith Pitt (LNP).
- Margin: 14.5 per cent.
- Why to watch: It will be interesting to see how much impact popular Bundaberg mayor Jack Dempsey, a former LNP minister in the Queensland state parliament, has in this race.
Like Groom, this LNP-held seat is notable for its high-profile independent campaign.
Jack Dempsey, who served as police minister in Campbell Newman’s short-lived Queensland LNP government, quit the party in 2016 and is running against Resources Minister Keith Pitt.
Dempsey was elected mayor of Bundaberg with 71 per cent of the primary vote and Pitt’s clearly nervous about the challenge, preferencing Labor above his erstwhile LNP colleague on his how-to-vote cards.
Leichhardt
- Incumbent: Warren Entsch (LNP).
- Margin: 4.17 per cent.
- Why to watch: One word — tourism. And with that industry so dependent on the region’s natural beauty (Great Barrier Reef, the Daintree etc), climate change is a big concern.
If it was not for Warren Entsch’s personal vote in Australia’s northernmost electorate, Labor would be a shoo-in to claim the Cape York seat.
The tropical far-north is a very different electoral beast to the rest of regional Queensland.
The tourism industry, which drives much of Leichhardt’s economy, depends on the region’s natural wonders, so a keen interest in environmentalism and climate change is a hip-pocket consideration.
The importance of international tourism, also, cannot be overstated. And which market is most important to the industry? China.
The Morrison government’s antipathy towards China, as justified as it may be, may not play as well in Cairns as it does elsewhere.
Longman
- Incumbent: Terry Young (LNP).
- Margin: 3.28 per cent.
- Why to watch: On paper, it’s the LNP’s most vulnerable seat in Queensland.
As the Morrison government’s most marginal Queensland seat, Longman is considered one of Labor’s best chances in the state.
Indeed, the party has been expending a lot of energy into the seat, held by first-term LNP MP Terry Young.
Labor candidate Rebecca Fanning has spruiked her involvement, as a health policy adviser, in the Palaszczuk government’s COVID-19 response as a major selling point.
North of Brisbane, Longman is both geographically and demographically diverse, which makes it one of the nation’s most volatile electorates.
It has changed hands in four of the past five general elections and, along with Brisbane, Ryan, Flynn and Leichhardt, Longman is on Labor’s list of target seats.
Ryan
- Incumbent: Julian Simmonds (LNP).
- Margin: 6.03 per cent.
- Why to watch: Increasing concern about climate and various social issues could spell danger in what has traditionally been a blue-ribbon LNP seat.
There is no “teal” independence movement in Queensland, but if there was, Ryan would be the state’s ground zero.
Well-educated, largely socially progressive, Ryan in Brisbane’s inner-west has many demographic similarities to electorates such as Wentworth, Warringah, Kooyong and Goldstein. Unlike them, however, there’s no teal in this race.
There’s a school of thought that those votes could instead park with the Greens and, with the party having a state MP within its boundaries, that’s not such a foreign prospect for Ryan.
Like many three-cornered contests, it could come down to who comes second between Labor’s Peter Cossar and the Greens’ Elizabeth Watson-Brown before preferences are distributed.
If Simmonds can maintain close to his 48.61 per cent primary vote from 2019, that will be moot. However, even the most optimistic Liberal Nationals are expecting a swing, so it’s just a matter of how big that swing will be.
It’s no surprise Anthony Albanese campaigned there with Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Thursday, just two days out from the finishing line. | https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-queensland-seats-to-watch-as-the-results-come-in-20220519-p5amq5.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_politics_federal | 2022-05-20T11:30:17Z | https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-queensland-seats-to-watch-as-the-results-come-in-20220519-p5amq5.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_politics_federal | true | 6 |
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review.
Post-infection vaccination may reduce long COVID
Vaccination after infection with SARS-CoV-2 may contribute to a reduction in the burden of long COVID symptoms, a new study suggests.
Researchers tracked 6,729 volunteers ages 18 to 69, who got two shots of either AstraZeneca’s AZN.L viral vector vaccine or an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer PFE.N/BioNTech 22UAy.DE or Moderna MRNA.O after recovering from an infection with the coronavirus and who reported long COVID symptoms of any severity at least once between February and September 2021.
The odds of reporting long COVID – symptoms lasting at least 12 weeks – fell by an average of 13% after a first vaccine dose, the researchers reported on Wednesday in The BMJ.
The second dose, given 12 weeks after the first, was associated with a further 9% decrease in the odds of long COVID that persisted for at least 9 weeks, on average, the researchers said. The odds of reporting long COVID severe enough to result in functional impairment were similarly reduced, researchers reported.
Outcomes were similar regardless of vaccine type, interval from infection to first vaccine dose, underlying health status, or severity of COVID-19. However, the study was not designed to detect such differences, nor can it definitively prove that vaccines lower the odds of long COVID.
“Further research is required to evaluate the long-term relationship between vaccination and long COVID, in particular the impact of the Omicron variant,” which emerged after this study ended, the researchers said.
Desktop “air curtains” may deflect virus particles
When people cannot maintain a safe distance to avoid the spread of COVID-19, a newly designed desktop “air curtain” can block aerosols in exhaled air, researchers found.
Air-curtains – artificially created streams of moving air – are often used to protect patients in operating rooms. At Nagoya University in Japan, researchers tested their new desktop device by simulating a blood collection booth in which a lab technician is close to the patient.
Aerosol particles blown toward the curtain “were observed to bend abruptly toward (a) suction port” without passing through the air curtain, they reported on Tuesday in AIP Advances.
Even putting an arm through the air curtain did not break the flow or reduce its effectiveness, they said. A high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter can be installed inside the suction port, they added.
If further testing in real-life conditions confirms the effectiveness of the system, it could “be useful as an indirect barrier not only in the medical field but also in situations where sufficient physical distance cannot be maintained, such as at the reception counter,” the researchers said.
Antacid aids in COVID-19 by helping limit inflammation
Researchers have discovered just how the antacid famotidine, commonly sold as Pepcid by a Johnson & Johnson JN.N unit, was able to help alleviate COVID-19 symptoms in clinical trials.
In studies in mice, they found that famotidine stimulates the vagus nerve, which controls the immune system and other involuntary body functions.
When the vagus nerve is stimulated, it can send out signals to suppress severe immune reactions – so-called cytokine storms – in which high levels of inflammatory proteins are released into the blood too quickly.
When famotidine was administered to the mice, it significantly reduced levels of inflammatory proteins in the blood and spleen and improved survival. But when the vagus nerve was cut, famotidine no longer stopped the cytokine storms, according to a report published on Monday in Molecular Medicine.
The data “point to a role of the vagus nerve inflammatory reflex in suppressing cytokine storm during COVID-19,” coauthor Dr. Kevin Tracey of The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York, said in a statement.
Direct electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve is known to improve a variety of diseases.
“Famotidine, a well-tolerated oral drug, could offer an additional method” of activating the vagus nerve to reduce inflammatory protein generation and resulting tissue damage in COVID-19 and other diseases, the researchers concluded.
—Reporting by Nancy Lapid; Editing by Bill Berkrot | https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2022/05/20/217682/vaccination-after-infection-may-curb-long-covid-desktop-air-curtains-may-deflect-virus-particles/ | 2022-05-20T11:31:26Z | https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2022/05/20/217682/vaccination-after-infection-may-curb-long-covid-desktop-air-curtains-may-deflect-virus-particles/ | true | 6 |
ST. MARYS — St. Marys City Manager Joe Fleming provided updates on several upcoming and past happenings within the city during this week’s City Council meeting.
One of the biggest announcements Fleming made was that St. Marys has been chosen to be a part of the Endless Mountains Expedition Race June 20-25, which entails hiking, biking and canoeing through the Pennsylvania Wilds.
“There will be approximately 30-40 teams passing through our downtown area during the latter part of the race,” he said.
Fleming noted residents should be advised of a large number of people passing through the city during this time.
Fleming noted recent events such as the Arbor Day planting with South St. Marys Elementary School fourth graders at Luhr Park and the Shade Tree Commission, as well as funds from First Energy.
The City of St. Marys also held its annual Spring Clean Up Day on the weekend of May 13, Fleming said, where a good turnout of residents got rid of some items. The street crew also enhanced the lower parking lot to set up for this day.
“The parking lot can hold approximately 60-80 vehicles,” Fleming said. “Improvements will continue to be made in anticipation of the opening of the new soccer fields, hopefully in the fall or next spring.”
Fleming addressed the “Sound the Alarm” free smoke detector installation initiative held by the American Red Cross and Crystal Fire Department recently, as well as the Relay for Life event in downtown St. Marys held by the American Cancer Society.
Earlier on Monday, a Law Enforcement Memorial Service was held in Johnsonburg.
“Several of our officers attended the service to honor those who lost their lives in the line of duty,” said Fleming.
The City of St. Marys also received a generous donation, a painting given by artist Al Dornisch’s family.
“Mr. Dornisch’s artwork has been shown in art shows and exhibits throughout the country,” he said. “We would like to thank the Dornisch family for the artwork, and the painting will be displayed at City Hall.”
Other newsworthy items:
- City of St. Marys Parks and Recreation activities will be starting soon.
- Veteran banners for the Memorial Day celebration/parade will be going up shortly.
- The city is currently researching a Digital welcome sign for listing of city events.
- The second round of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) hearings will take place Tuesday, May 24.
Fleming also congratulated the graduating class of 2022. | https://www.thecourierexpress.com/news/st-marys-city-manager-announces-upcoming-bike-expedition-race-other-events/article_f0291308-d796-11ec-b3e8-6f794c84f9d1.html | 2022-05-20T11:32:36Z | https://www.thecourierexpress.com/news/st-marys-city-manager-announces-upcoming-bike-expedition-race-other-events/article_f0291308-d796-11ec-b3e8-6f794c84f9d1.html | true | 1 |
Developer Second Dinner has announced Marvel Snap, a free card battler that pits heroes and villains from across the Marvel universe against each other.
Revealed yesterday (May 19), Marvel Snap is a fast-paced card game where matches take just three minutes to play.
As detailed in a video from Second Dinner, Marvel Snap revolves around players competing to take over three locations on the board and gain cosmic cubes. Each of the three locations are random every match, and there are over 50 potential locations – all with unique effects on how the game is played.
Each match features simultaneous turns, and if a player thinks they are likely to win a match, they can ‘Snap’ – a feature which effectively doubles their rewards gained from taking over locations.
The game will feature a ranked mode, and over 150 cards for players to collect. Second Dinner has also shared that new cards will be added every month as part of the game’s seasons, and alternate artwork is available for players to customise their collection.
Marvel Snap is set to launch on mobile first, with an early access period planned for PC. Interested fans can currently sign up for a closed beta on Android, which can be found here.
On the upcoming game, Marvel Entertainment executive vice president Jay Ong said that from “seeing how our teams have been working together utilising our beloved Marvel characters and their stories, we know Second Dinner and Nuverse have all the ingredients to deliver a landmark video game.”
Ben Brode, chief development officer at Second Dinner, added that “we grew up obsessively playing CCGs and have spent decades designing them. We want the entire world to fall in love with card battlers just like we have.” Brode is best known until this point for his role as the lead designer and director of Blizzard’s card game Hearthstone, of which he was the public face.
In other gaming news, Borderlands 3 is currently free on the Epic Games Store. | https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/marvel-snap-is-a-free-card-battler-with-a-multiverse-spanning-lineup-3230124 | 2022-05-20T11:37:55Z | https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/marvel-snap-is-a-free-card-battler-with-a-multiverse-spanning-lineup-3230124 | false | 2 |
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament gave final clearance Friday to a plan that will allow people to use local transport across the country for just 9 euros ($9.50) per month this summer, a plan that has drawn praise but also plenty of criticism. The government also plans a three-month cut in fuel taxes.
Parliament’s upper house, which represents the country's 16 state governments, signed off on the 9-euro ticket plan — part of a bigger package of measures drawn up to cushion the blow of high energy prices for consumers following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The cut-price tickets, valid on regional trains and buses across Germany, will be available in June, July and August. Federal and state governments bickered over the funding, and it wasn't clear until Friday whether states would wave through a 2.5 billion-euro subsidy from Berlin that some of them said was inadequate.
Government officials hope that, in addition to reducing costs for frequent travelers, the tickets will lure more people onto climate-friendlier public transport. But a railway workers' union and others have voiced concern that it will lead to overcrowded trains, causing delays and frustration.
“A lot of people who so far had less interest in public transport want to give public transport a chance in the next three months,” Transport Minister Volker Wissing told the upper house. He acknowledged that the plan is likely to lead to full trains and buses in some areas on some days, and that will require “patience and in places strong nerves.”
The cut in fuel taxes will apply for the same three-month period, chopping nearly 30 euro cents off taxes on a liter of gasoline and over 14 cents on a liter of diesel.
Economists have warned that the fuel subsidy could reduce the likelihood of people switching to cleaner forms of transport. | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/German-parliament-OKs-3-months-of-cheaper-public-17186352.php | 2022-05-20T11:39:42Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/German-parliament-OKs-3-months-of-cheaper-public-17186352.php | false | 13 |
Simone Rede becomes next Portland auditor, winning first contested race for city watchdog in decades
Simone Rede will become Portland’s next auditor in January after voters overwhelmingly chose her to succeed Mary Hull Caballero, who declined to seek a third term as the city’s elected, independent watchdog. Rede, a longtime government auditor, was leading certified public accountant Brian Setzler 80%-20%, according to...
www.oregonlive.com | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2606827549474/simone-rede-becomes-next-portland-auditor-winning-first-contested-race-for-city-watchdog-in-decades | 2022-05-20T11:40:51Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2606827549474/simone-rede-becomes-next-portland-auditor-winning-first-contested-race-for-city-watchdog-in-decades | true | null |
Four Thursdays ago, Pitt arranged for a private plane to take star receiver Jordan Addison, head coach Pat Narduzzi, assistant Andre Powell and a member of the school’s media department to Washington, D.C.
Addison, a native of Frederick, Md., would be heading less than an hour from home to receive the DC Touchdown Club’s Washington Metro college player of the year award, after a consensus All-America season with the Panthers.
The following Thursday, Addison watched the other end of his battery, Kenny Pickett, become the highest-drafted quarterback in Pitt history, a list that includes Dan Marino. That Pickett was drafted by the neighboring Steelers only added to the charm of the moment for the quarterback, the school and the city.
The next day, about an hour before Narduzzi met with the local media to talk about the feel-good pick, Addison informed the coach of his intention to leave the program.
The story of the pursuit of the nation’s top receiver reached its end this Thursday. Addison announced he would transfer to USC, the destination that — despite a few twists and turns along the journey — always seemed to be the most likely landing spot.
In an era of constant firsts, here was another new scenario: one of the country’s best players transferring after his school’s spring season. The name (Addison is the best receiver in the country), the program he was leaving (Pitt is strong but not a modern blueblood) and the timing of the move (the Panthers enter summer with little recourse) clearly struck a nerve around the country, for better or for worse.
The reaction to the news has varied depending on location. It was discussed in most on- and off-the-record discussions during last week’s ACC spring meetings in Amelia Island, Fla. There, the consensus among league coaches was bordering on sympathy for Narduzzi during their three days of meetings, while also recognizing that this is simply how business gets done these days.
When asked in private conversations what they would do if Addison — then undecided on his future — approached them about transferring to their school, multiple ACC coaches said they didn’t know. This was a genuine reaction, as all of these coaches are paid handsomely to win on Saturdays while also sharing a collegial feeling among conference peers.
“I think tampering right now is one of the major issues in college football, that there really right now doesn’t appear to be any enforcement,” Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson said last week. “And so nobody’s quite sure what the rules are. And it’s like a road without a speed limit, right? If the speed limit is never enforced, people are going to drive fast. So right now, you don’t know what the rules are. And if there are rules and they’re broken, there doesn’t appear to be any consequences.”
Or proof, which is harder to obtain. Clawson said that a fifth-year player on his roster had a player from another school reach out to him about a certain amount of name, image and likeness money that would be available to him if he left Wake Forest for this unnamed school. No staffers from the school reached out, so does that count as tampering?
“There’s a bunch of stories in that room like that,” Clawson said, pointing to where ACC coaches had just met.
Clawson said the player shared the information with him — communication is usually a sign that he is hesitant to leave — and ultimately stayed with the Demon Deacons. Still, coaches have shared similar stories from the other side of such exchanges, where players or their representatives reach out to them about possibly transferring into their program. This can also put the receiving coach in a potential bind, because if he is not interested in the player but informs the coach at the player’s school of these conversations, he is putting that player in an untenable situation.
“We even somewhat seriously but half-jokingly talked about, like, do you really even want your players on an all-conference team now if they have eligibility left? Does that become the start of the tampering list?” Clawson said, laughing. “And we’re still going to promote our players, but in some ways if the Biletnikoff Award winner isn’t the Biletnikoff Award winner, is he still drawing the same interest?”
Addison won the Biletnikoff Award, which is given to the nation’s top receiver. He was a consensus All-American who caught 100 passes for 1,593 yards and 17 touchdowns, helping lead Pitt to the ACC title, which was the first outright conference championship in program history. He left for the glitz and glamor of USC and new coach Lincoln Riley, who have utilized the portal in an effort to quickly rebuild a college football powerhouse. That he is from the same state as Trojans quarterback Caleb Williams has not been lost on anyone.
Is all of this much different than Georgia losing Jermaine Burton — a top-100 prospect and the Bulldogs’ second-leading receiver — just one week after the Bulldogs won the national title? Burton’s move, from Georgia to Alabama, drew a much more muted response.
Addison’s quarterback from his breakout year, Pickett, will make millions this year with the Steelers. His coordinator from 2021, Mark Whipple, moved on to Nebraska. His position coach, Brennan Marion, left for a better-paying job at Texas.
When Mario Cristobal was asked a question last week that began with a preface suggesting that tampering didn’t use to happen the way it does now, the first-year Miami coach let out a laugh and an exaggerated “O-K.”
NIL, he conceded, did add a new layer to his job, but it hasn’t taken the fun out of the profession.
“That’s a very different aspect and it is playing a role in recruiting, I think we all know that,” Cristobal said. “Are guys still going where they want to go? Hopefully that’s the case, because there’s still an experience aspect. There’s still an educational and set-up-for-your-life-after-football aspect that goes with choosing (a new school). But is coaching any less enjoyable? I don’t think so. I don’t think so at all. To me, that’s the best part.”
Cristobal recalled walking with teammate Charles Pharms during the pair’s playing days with the Hurricanes, when they won a pair of national titles. New buildings went up on campus. Championship T-shirts were sold and players couldn’t afford to buy them.
All of that has changed. It is a whole new world in college football. And everybody is left on their own to figure out what’s right and what’s wrong.
“I’m sure that guys back then would have loved the opportunity for something like this,” Cristobal said. “It’s just that everything happened so fast and it’s going in so many different directions. You hear things, you see things printed, you see things in the news. You don’t know exactly what’s (real) and what’s not. What we do know is everyone wants guidelines. I think everyone’s for it. We just want guidelines.”
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Piper Sandler upgraded shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD – Get Rating) from a neutral rating to an overweight rating in a research note published on Tuesday morning, Marketbeat reports. They currently have $140.00 price objective on the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock, up from their previous price objective of $98.00.
Other equities research analysts also recently issued reports about the stock. KeyCorp decreased their price objective on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $165.00 to $150.00 in a research note on Wednesday, May 4th. Sanford C. Bernstein raised shares of Advanced Micro Devices from a market perform rating to an outperform rating and set a $150.00 price target on the stock in a report on Tuesday, February 22nd. Wells Fargo & Company cut their price target on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $180.00 to $140.00 and set an overweight rating on the stock in a report on Friday, April 22nd. Mizuho dropped their target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $160.00 to $145.00 in a report on Wednesday, May 4th. Finally, Susquehanna Bancshares increased their target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices from $175.00 to $180.00 and gave the stock a positive rating in a report on Wednesday, February 2nd. Eleven investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, seventeen have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of Buy and an average target price of $142.15.
NASDAQ:AMD opened at $96.67 on Tuesday. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $100.72 and a 200-day simple moving average of $121.53. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a current ratio of 2.40 and a quick ratio of 1.96. The firm has a market cap of $156.65 billion, a PE ratio of 35.94, a P/E/G ratio of 0.74 and a beta of 1.87. Advanced Micro Devices has a 1-year low of $76.25 and a 1-year high of $164.46.
In other Advanced Micro Devices news, Director John Edward Caldwell sold 10,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, April 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $109.28, for a total transaction of $1,092,800.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 4,672 shares in the company, valued at $510,556.16. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Mark D. Papermaster sold 20,180 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, March 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $125.00, for a total value of $2,522,500.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 1.00% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in AMD. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its stake in Advanced Micro Devices by 36.9% during the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 133,525,143 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock worth $14,599,640,000 after buying an additional 36,016,818 shares in the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 34.6% during the first quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 119,569,366 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $13,073,716,000 after acquiring an additional 30,732,205 shares during the period. State Street Corp lifted its holdings in shares of Advanced Micro Devices by 37.5% during the first quarter. State Street Corp now owns 65,577,025 shares of the semiconductor manufacturer’s stock valued at $7,170,192,000 after acquiring an additional 17,896,122 shares during the period. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the fourth quarter valued at $1,423,132,000. Finally, Renaissance Technologies LLC bought a new position in shares of Advanced Micro Devices during the first quarter valued at $777,111,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 69.61% of the company’s stock.
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Computing and Graphics; and Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom. Its products include x86 microprocessors as an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, discrete and integrated graphics processing units (GPUs), data center and professional GPUs, and development services; and server and embedded processors, and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) products, development services, and technology for game consoles.
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, May 20, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service New York NY
614 AM EDT Fri May 20 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS
MORNING...
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM EDT
SATURDAY...
* WHAT...For the Dense Fog Advisory, visibility a quarter of a
mile in dense fog. For the Heat Advisory, heat index values up
to 98 expected.
* WHERE...In Connecticut, Northern New London, Northern
Fairfield, Northern Middlesex and Northern New Haven Counties.
In New York, Orange, Rockland, Putnam and Northern Westchester
Counties.
* WHEN...For the Dense Fog Advisory, until 9 AM EDT this
morning. For the Heat Advisory, from noon to 8 PM EDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur. Hazardous driving conditions due to low
visibility.
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A Heat Advisory is issued when the combination of heat and
humidity is expected to make it feel like it is 95 to 99 degrees
for two or more consecutive days, or 100 to 104 degrees for any
length of time.
Seniors and those with chronic health problems or mental health
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conditioning can be much hotter than outdoor temperatures.
Use air conditioning to stay cool at home or go to a place that
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* WHEN...Until 9 AM EDT this morning.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.
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* WHERE...In Connecticut, Southern Fairfield County. In New
York, Southern Westchester, Northwest Suffolk, Northeast
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In Mauritius, thousands of volunteers are mobilizing in the wake of the devastating oil spill.
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Jamilu Collins: Cardiff City sign Nigeria defender from German side SC Paderborn 07
EFL Championship side Cardiff City have confirmed the signing of defender Jamilu Collins from German second-tier side SC Paderborn.
The 27-year-old Nigeria international becomes the fourth signing for the Bluebirds and he has signed a two-year contract ahead of the new campaign.
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“The Bluebirds are delighted to confirm the signing of Nigerian international Jamilu Collins on a two-year deal commencing from July 1st, subject to clearance,” read a statement on the club’s official website.
“The 27-year-old arrives in the Welsh capital from German side SC Paderborn 07, having made 137 appearances for the 2. Bundesliga outfit since September 2017.
“A versatile player, who most frequently features at left-back, Collins has 25 international caps for Nigeria to his name and featured at this year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon for the Super Eagles.
“Jamilu began his career with HNK Rijeka, and spent time with fellow Croatian clubs NK Pomorac, HNK Šibenik, and Istra 1961 before making the move to Germany.”
On signing the new deal at Cardiff City Stadium, Collins said: “I’m really excited to be in Cardiff, and I can’t wait to get started.
“The club has great history, and when I got the call to come to Cardiff, I was so excited, I couldn’t resist. I’m looking forward to the challenge of the new season. The goal is to fight for the Premier League. I can’t wait to meet the supporters and to fight for the jersey.”
Meanwhile, Cardiff manager Steve Morison revealed he has been monitoring Collins for quite some time and he was over the moon the deal had finally been sealed.
“I’m over the moon. We’ve been monitoring him for a long period, and we’re really pleased to get him signed,” Morison said. “He’s a great athlete, a really good left-back, and can play in that left wing-back position as well. I’m really pleased that we’ve got competition for places.
“I want to get as many bodies in for the start of pre-season, because the first ten days of pre-season are going to be huge.”
Born in Kaduna, Collins spent his youth years with Abuja Football College Academy. He was one of several players who moved from Abuja to the HNK Rijeka youth team in mid-2012. In October of that year, Collins signed his first professional contract with HNK Rijeka.
Collins received his first call-up to the Nigeria national team for an Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Seychelles on September 11, 2018. He made his debut a day later in a friendly against Liberia.
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The war has seen Sweden drastically ramp up its military readiness and take the “historic” step this week to apply for NATO membership, reversing two centuries of military non-alignment.
“You realise this is actually for real - I’m not here on some year-long summer camp,” says Axel Bystrom, a 20-year-old conscript on Sweden’s strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland.
“Now it’s for real and that makes you more serious,” added the young squad leader with the P18 regiment, which was only re-established in 2018.
Breaking off branches from nearby spruces, Bystrom and his fellow soldiers meticulously cover three armoured vehicles to camouflage them.
“You are working to be as good as you possibly can all the time, because you are thinking, ‘this could be a reality. We may have to use it’,” the native of Visby, Gotland’s medieval main town, tells AFP.
More military exercises are also being held across Sweden.
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Sweden has long had a fear of Russia. With the end of the Cold War, the country made swingeing cuts to its defence spending.
But following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, it decided to rearm and hike spending, reintroducing mandatory military service in 2017.
As only a fraction of the population is called up and avoiding service is quite easy, conscripts like Bystrom tend to be highly motivated.
Spooked by Russia’s assault on Ukraine, Sweden has announced a dramatic increase in defence spending, targeting 2% of GDP “as soon as possible”, up from around 1.5% expected in the next few years.
Overall, Sweden’s armed forces consist of some 55,000 people, including the Home Guard and part-time employees - around 23,600 are part of the regular forces.
For many Swedes, Gotland is a popular summer holiday destination known for its sandy beaches on a sleepy island of 60,000 people.
But it is also less than 350 kilometres (217 miles) from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
“Gotland is situated in the middle of the Baltic Sea. So if you own Gotland, you can pretty much control the air and naval movements in the Baltic Sea,” P18 commander Magnus Frykvall explains.
A common theory is that in a conflict Russia would want to seize the island and install its S-400 surface-to-air missile defence system, effectively blocking off most of the southern Baltic Sea.
The Gotland regiment is still growing. According to Frykvall, they can now field around 800 soldiers and plan to increase numbers to 4,000 during wartime.
The uptick has been accelerated after Russian President Vladimir Putin “made it clear that he is willing to use military force to gain his political goals”.
At its peak during the Cold War, some 25,000 troops and reserves were stationed on Gotland - more than six times the amount planned for now.
But the planned boost in artillery and anti-aircraft systems means the regiment would “probably” be enough to “meet any threat.”
If Sweden’s NATO application - currently facing diplomatic hurdles from Turkey - were accepted, it would deter anyone from attacking Gotland, according to Frykvall.
“Thirty-two countries are much stronger than one,” he says, referring to NATO’s guiding principle that an attack on one member is seen as an attack on all.
‘Make Gardens Not War’
For residents living near the regiment, the increased military activity has been very noticeable.
“We have machine gun fire, we have explosions, we have artillery shots, shots from tanks as well,” says Robert Hall, a local Green Party politician.
“We have tanks moving in and out of the military area and on the road 17 metres in front of our house, so we hear a lot of noise a lot of the time,” he says.
In an eye-catching contrast, the ecological commune he helped found lies just across from the entrance to the military area.
Next to the sign for the “Suderbyn Ecovillage”, a giant banner shows a tank overgrown with plants and reading “Make Gardens Not War”.
For Hall, who is originally from California, the nature of the whole island has gone through a dramatic shift since he first came.
“We moved here in 1995 and there was still a lot of euphoria on the island about the fall of the Iron Curtain,” he says.
“Gotland really wanted to position itself as the neutral meeting place in the middle of the Baltic Sea.”
That idea has now instead given way to a new line of division.
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Erik ten Hag is ready to clear out 10 players from Manchester United as he arrived in London for crunch talks.
The Dutchman touched down in the capital on Wednesday after flying in from Amsterdam by private jet. Ten Hag was immediately whisked to United's Mayfair offices to meet other high-ranking club officials including Richard Arnold and football director John Murtough.
Ten Hag will be in the stands for United's final Premier League game of the season at Crystal Palace but will not meet the players until Monday when he officially takes over, out of respect for interim manager Ralf Rangnick.
The former Ajax boss wants to see Man United up and close personal to form an opinion on the squad and how exactly it can be improved.
United's recruitment will certainly be on the agenda during the meetings this week with wholesale changes expected this summer. It is understood Ten Hag has told United's hierarchy his immediate focus is the spine of the team, with a central defender, central midfielder and a striker the priority.
In the other direction, a mass exodus is on the cards. Nemanja Matic is the first casualty of the manager's rebuild as the midfielder announced his decision to leave Old Trafford at the end of the season.
And as many as nine players could join the Serbian as United prepare to hit the reset button after what's been a very disappointing campaign.
Dean Henderson has re-opened talks with Newcastle, but the Magpies have been put off by his £50million price tag. A loan deal, however, could be on the cards.
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United will also listen to offers for right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka who has been frozen out the side during Rangnick's tenure with Diogo Dalot taking his place.
The Red Devils are also prepared to part ways with Eric Bailly and Phil Jones as they look to add a centre-back to their ranks with talks ongoing with Ajax star Jurrien Timber.
United's departures will be dominated by players leaving as free agents headlined by Paul Pogba who is in talks with Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid. The midfielder has reportedly turned down a move to Manchester City due to fears of a potential backlash from United fans.
Edinson Cavani, Juan Mata, Lee Grant and Jesse Lingard are all out of contract as well and will depart Old Trafford at the end of the season.
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Indian shares track positive global sentiment after China rate cut
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BENGALURU, May 20 (Reuters) - Indian shares rose 3% on Friday in a broad-based rally to log their first weekly gain in six, as investor sentiment around the globe improved after China cut a key benchmark lending rate to support its economy.
The NSE Nifty 50 index (.NSEI) ended up 2.89% at 16,266.15 while the S&P BSE Sensex (.BSESN) closed 2.91% higher at 54,326.39. Both indexes had dropped more than 2.6% in the previous session as investors fretted about the impact of high inflation.
Global equities gained on Friday, as China's move helped ease some pressure owed to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, prospects of bigger interest rate hikes to contain surging inflation and supply-chain issues that have been worsened by China's zero-COVID policy.
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The MSCI world equity index (.MIWD00000PUS), which tracks shares in 50 countries, rose 0.5% after China cut its five-year loan prime rate, which influences the pricing of mortgages, by 15 basis points.
In Mumbai, 48 of the 50 stocks in the Nifty 50 index settled higher, led by a 7.8% surge in Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (REDY.NS) a day after it reported March quarter results.
Heavyweight Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) was the top boost to the Nifty, surging 6.6% to log its best session since September 2020.
Metal stocks (.NIFTYMET), which slid over 4% in the previous session, rebounded to close 4.2% higher. The sub-index snapped five weekly losses and gained 7.4% for the week.
One 97 Communications (PAYT.NS), parent of digital payments firm Paytm, ended up 3.9% ahead of its March quarter results due later in the day.
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More than half of Ukrainian refugees accepted to stay with hosts in Liverpool have not yet reached the UK, new figures show.
The Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, also known as Homes for Ukraine, allows citizens to volunteer to house refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Sponsors offer accommodation for at least six months, with those receiving sponsorship allowed to live, work and study in the UK for up to three years.
Home Office data from Tuesday shows 170 visas have been granted to stay with hosts in Liverpool, from 202 applications – but as of Monday, just 76 of these refugees had arrived in the UK.
The Refugee Council said it had received reports of delays at every stage of the application process, and of necessary documents not reaching refugees quick enough for them to travel.
Head of advocacy at the charity, Andy Hewett, called the scheme "unfit for purpose".
He said: “Responding to a serious humanitarian crisis by offering complex visa routes, putting paperwork and bureaucracy before people was always going to have tragic consequences."
Some families are also not having their applications processed together, creating difficulties when not all visas are granted at the same time.
Others have flagged the potential for safeguarding issues from a lack of thorough checks on prospective sponsors, and there have been national reports of refugees becoming homeless after being turfed out by their hosts.
Refugees have also been arriving through the Ukraine Family Scheme, which allows Ukrainian nationals to join family members in the UK.
Across the UK, 107,400 visas had been issued to Ukrainian refugees through both schemes as of Tuesday, with 53,800 arriving in the UK by Monday.
The Government warned the data is likely to contain some duplicate records, while around 2% of sponsors could not be assigned to a local area.
The number of successful applications has increased compared to last month. As of April 19, 71,800 applications had been granted through both schemes – including 87 in Liverpool – and 21,600 had arrived in the UK as of the day before.
The Home Office said some refugees are choosing to stay put or travel elsewhere, which may explain some of the gap between arrivals and the number of visas granted.
A spokesperson called it "one of the fastest and biggest visa schemes in UK history" adding they are now “processing visas as fast as quickly as they come in” as a result of changes to the application system. | https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/your-merseyside/liverpool/more-than-half-of-refugees-expected-in-liverpool-yet-to-arrive-in-uk-3702293 | 2022-05-20T11:56:32Z | https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/your-merseyside/liverpool/more-than-half-of-refugees-expected-in-liverpool-yet-to-arrive-in-uk-3702293 | true | 22 |
The stargazer's original hunting technique
Hidden in the sand, these creatures haunt the ocean floor, leaving nothing exposed but their eyes and mouth. They are ready to hunt.
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Hidden in the sand, these creatures haunt the ocean floor, leaving nothing exposed but their eyes and mouth. They are ready to hunt.
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We must fight dynasty politics to save democracy: Modi
Jaipur, May 20, 2022
Virtually addressing a meeting of the BJP's national office-bearers here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress, without naming the party, of giving prominence to dynasty politics, which he termed as dangerous for democracy.
He said that the parties indulging in dynasty politics only want to take the country backward, as their life begins with the family and ends with the family.
During his 40-minute speech, the Prime Minister urged the BJP leaders to add new members to the party whose families have not been in politics.
"We have to give such people a chance in the BJP, so connect them with the party. We have to remember that only the BJP can restore the trust of those who have been deceived by family politics. Dynasty politics has given rise to corruption in the country. To save democracy, we have to fight against dynasty politics," Modi said.
He added that those engaged in dynasty politics are acting against Mahatma Gandhi's vision.
"But even amid dynasty politics, the lotus has bloomed. After Independence, family politics has caused great damage to the country. Parties only took the name of Mahatma Gandhi, but their works were contrary to his vision.
"Gandhiji had called for self-reliance, but for years the country remained dependent on foreign countries. But today the country is moving on the path of self-reliance, and the BJP is responsible for this."
The Prime Minister further said that politics of development should be encouraged.
"We can proudly say that it is the BJP which has brought politics of development into the mainstream. Every party talks about development ahead of elections. However, some people only try to cash in on a few weaknesses of the society such as casteism, regionalism and other issues by creating tension in the society.
"The world looks at India with great expectations today. Similarly, the people of the country look at the BJP with great hope and confidence. The aspirations of the people increase our responsibility. The country is setting the target for the next 25 years, and the BJP should also set targets for the coming years. The expectations of the people must be fulfilled. The challenges have to be met together with the people," the Prime Minister said.
Targeting the Congress, Modi said that the previous government didn't have any accountability left and the people also did not expect anything from them.
After 2014, the BJP has brought the country out of despair, he said.
"The citizens of the country want to see results, which I consider as a huge positive. When the expectations of the people increase, it is necessary for the government to act. As BJP workers, we have no right to sit in peace. Even after hoisting the victory flag, we are restless, impatient and eager, because our goal is to take India to the heights envisaged by those who sacrificed their lives for the country's Independence," Modi said.
The Prime Minister told the BJP workers that many attempts will be made to divert them from the politics of development.
"There are many parties which are trying to divert the attention of the country. When you do good work, you will not get any publicity, but you do not have to worry about it," Modi said.
A total of 136 top BJP leaders from across the country are participating in the meeting for which party President J. P. Nadda had reached here on Thursday.
The meeting is being attended by the top office-bearers of the party, including ministers, former chief ministers and state unit heads, among others.
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Religious backers of abortion rights say God’s on their side
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — It was lunch hour at the abortion clinic, so the nurse in the recovery room got her Bible out of her bag in the closet and began to read.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding,” her favorite proverb says, and she returns to it again and again. “He will make your paths straight.”
She believes God led her here, to a job at the West Alabama Women’s Center, tending to patients who’ve just had abortions. “I trust in God,” said Ramona, who asked that her last name not be used because of the volatility America’s abortion debate.
Out in the parking lot, protesters bellowed at patients arriving for appointments, doing battle against what they regard as a grave sin.
The loudest voices in the abortion debate are often characterized along a starkly religious divide, the faithful versus not. But the reality is much more nuanced, both at this abortion clinic and in the nation that surrounds it. The clinic’s staff of 11 — most of them Black, deeply faithful Christian women — have no trouble at all reconciling their work with their religion.
And as the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to dismantle the constitutional right to an abortion, they draw on their faith that they will somehow continue.
God is on our side, they tell each other. God will keep this clinic open.
Robin Marty, who moved from Minneapolis to Tuscaloosa a couple years ago to help run this clinic, was surprised to hear nurses pray for guidance as the future of abortion grows uncertain.
“That is one of the things that has caused a whiplash for me — I had this stereotype in my head of a Southern religious person,” said Marty. “I just assumed that there was no compatibility between people who are religious and people who support the ability to get an abortion.”
Marty realized she was wrong — most people are.
“We need to have a real conversation about what we describe as Christianity,” said Kendra Cotton, a member of the Black Southern Women’s Collective, a network of Black women organizers, many of them from faith-based groups.
The white evangelical worldview that abortion is murder has consumed the conversation, flattening the understanding of how religion and views on abortion truly intersect, she said.
Before Roe v. Wade, faith leaders in many places led efforts to help pregnant women access underground abortions, because they considered it a calling to show compassion and mercy to the most vulnerable.
Now, Black Protestants have some of the most liberal views on access to abortion: Nearly 70% believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to the Public Religion Research Institute. White evangelicals are the other extreme, with only 24% believing abortion should be allowed in most or all cases.
For faithful women of color, there’s often a very different balancing act of values when confronting the question of whether women should be able to end unwanted pregnancies, Cotton said.
“We know that Christianity supports freedom, and inherent in freedom is bodily autonomy. Inherent in Christianity is free will. When people talk about the body being a temple of God, you have purview over your body, there is nothing more sacred,” Cotton said.
The idea of the state restricting what a person can do with their own body is in direct conflict with that, she said, and it is reminiscent of being under someone else’s control -- of slavery.
“You don’t get to tell me what to do,” Cotton said
In Tuscaloosa, the West Alabama Women’s Center sits on the edge of a nondescript medical plaza, a half-mile from the University of Alabama campus. Though many of the center’s clientele are college students, others come from all over the state and some surrounding ones -- it is the only abortion clinic for two hours in every direction. Many of their clients are Black, many already have children and more than 75% survive below the poverty line.
Every patient comes into Ramona’s recovery room after their abortion. She keeps the lights low. Working here, to her, feels like a righteous calling. She believes the Christian way is to love people where they are, and that means walking kindly with them as they make the best decision for themselves.
Sometimes they cry, and tell her they didn’t want to be there. She’s heard stories of rape and domestic violence, but most talk about fear of having more mouths they can’t afford to feed. She always says, “I understand.”
“I mean that, I do understand, I’ve gone through that myself,” she said.
Ramona, 39, is a single mother of four children, and had her first child at 16. She sometimes imagines what her life might have been had she started her family later. She had to drop out of college. There were times, when her children were young, when she couldn’t pay the gas bill, and she boiled water so they could have warm baths.
“Women go through so much, it’s hard,” she said. “So you should have that choice, whether or not you’re ready to be a mother. No one else should choose for you.”
Her daughter used to say “Mom, I want to be just like you,” and she would stop her. “No ma’am,” she’d say to her. “I want you to be better.” Her daughter is now 22 and studying to be a doctor.
She clawed herself out of poverty and built a life she loves. Her co-worker at the front desk calls her Miss Wonderful -- she’s at peace with God, she said, so every day is a great one.
For a time, she tried to be friendly with one of the regulars who protested outside, trying to convince patients that abortion is murder and they shouldn’t go in. She’d visit on her breaks or as she was leaving for the day. They discussed Scripture, forgiveness, sin.
She’d say, “I can see where you’re coming from. Can you see where I’m coming from? I’m not going to love you any less because of what you believe in or what you think.”
Then one day she was walking by and he shouted at her: When you die, you know where you’ll be going, and it isn’t heaven. She doesn’t talk to him anymore.
Alesia Horton, the clinic’s director, eyed the protesters from the window.
“I don’t know what Bible they’re reading, ‘cause it’s not the one that I read,” she said. She and Ramona have been friends since childhood and share a Christian faith.
If people heard the stories she had inside this clinic, she can’t imagine trying to mandate that people be forced into motherhood. She had a patient once who had cancer, wanted the child but couldn’t continue chemotherapy while she was pregnant. She had to choose between her own life and the child she wanted.
Just two weeks before, Horton wept when she met a 13-year-old who’d been raped, and she can’t shake the look on the child’s face, staring blankly in the exam room.
“It’s going to be OK. Don’t think you did anything wrong because you didn’t,” Horton told her.
She often hears patients cry that they’re going to go to hell.
“I’ve had patients against abortion until it happened to their child, or it happened to them,” she said. “The first thing they say, ‘I don’t believe in this.’ And I say, ‘Let’s get past that. Now that you’re pregnant, what are you doing to do? Are you still not going to believe in this? Now you’re on the other side. Where you were judging, now it’s you.’”
They pray that the Supreme Court won’t overturn Roe v. Wade, because they know their poorest patients will bear the burden of abortion bans. Wealthy women will always find a way. They can travel to states where abortion is legal and all the headaches that entails: time off work, babysitters, a tank full of gas, hotel rooms.
If Roe falls, abortion would be barred in Alabama in almost every instance. A 2019 state law, put on hold by the courts for now, outlaws the procedure in all but emergency cases. This clinic is going to try to stay open for those left behind. It is expanding into a full-service gynecological office that people can turn to if they self-administer an abortion and require medical attention, without fear that someone will report them to the police.
In the meantime, the ideological gulf between the believers inside and outside remains wide.
Some of the protesters outside stand quietly, holding signs and hoping their silent presence rattles patients enough to head back to their cars and go home. Some shout at patients as they walk through the parking lot into the clinic, trying to hand them leaflets or direct them to the anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center next door. Some say they want abortion barred completely, with no exceptions even for rape or life-threatening complications, because they believe abortion is murder no matter the circumstances. Most would not give their names; the pregnancy center declined an interview.
The protesters are sometimes aggressive: They have screamed into the clinic’s back doors, recorded biohazard bins being carted away, called police if a patient lashes out when they tell them they’re going to hell.
The clinic locks the doors for security reasons during the lunch hour between morning and afternoon appointments. On a recent day, as Ramona read her Bible in the back room, a 23-year-old woman arrived and couldn’t get inside.
A group of protesters beckoned the woman, who did not want to be named. She was confused — perhaps these people worked for the clinic. “We can help you,” they told her.
“I just walked over there and had a million things thrown in my face,” the woman said. “I’m a baby killer, I’m a murderer.”
She ran away weeping. The clinic staff heard and sought her out.
“I’m so sorry,” Horton said.
She glared at the protesters from the window.
“God isn’t theirs,” she said, “God is all of ours.”
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Research polling 1,500 18-25-year-olds found 72 per cent have been inspired to take up a new interest as a direct result of watching clips on popular social media channels.
Of those with a hobby, more than half (53 per cent) spend at least four hours a week watching them on their phones – equating to a whopping 208 hours per year.
Videos of past times such as ASMR, tie-dying and coin collecting have a loyal following among young adults, as do ‘how-to’ clips featuring interests like meditation, photography, and extreme couponing.
Commissioned to mark the launch of the Samsung Galaxy A53 5G, the study found more than four in 10 have stepped behind the camera themselves to share their hobbies on social media.
Annika Bizon, marketing and omnichannel director for the tech firm, said: “After two years of various lockdowns where our creativity could have been stiffened, it’s no surprise we’ve seen an increase in awesome and unconventional hobbies coming from this generation.
“This audience craves expression, turning to social media outlets like never before, to watch, create and share their content.”
Of those who post their own content on social media, 86 per cent said it has been well received – and so much so, they’ve seen their followers increase by 21 per cent.
Motivated to learn new skills
Key motivators for sharing include showing off their new skills (26 per cent), personal enjoyment (25 per cent), connecting with others (24 per cent), while 23 per cent do it to learn new things.
A fifth said it took them three months to perfect their content – to ensure followers would like it.
And on average, the content creators among those polled spend an average of four hours a week filming and editing to ensure it’s up to scratch.
As a result of their popularity online, 48 per cent have even turned their social media accounts into a business venture.
When asked what they think of their hobbies, four in 10 described it as ‘awesome’ and 32 per cent described it as ‘underrated’.
While almost a fifth said their interest makes them feel ‘liberated’ and 37 per cent it makes them feel ‘proud.’
Of those with a hobby, 72 per cent said it was here to stay, while 22 per cent reckon it’s only a matter of time before they see a new one on social media and move on to that instead.
Good editing makes good content
When asked about the magic formula for good social media content almost half (46 per cent) of content creators said it was down to good editing.
Humour (43 per cent), a good camera (44 per cent), length of video (38 per cent) and authenticity (35 per cent) were also identified as key factors in the research carried out through OnePoll.
Samsung has partnered with urban-dwelling roller-skater, DeVante Walters, 27, from London – he said: “There has been a significant rise in the roller-skating community in the past twelve months.
“Being without the gym for so long meant we had to adapt and find new interests that made us feel alive!
“For me, roller-skating has always been a passion, so I took to social platforms like TikTok to share my moves, tips, and tricks - including dance routines.
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Lil Nas X has seen much success ever since he recorded the 2019 smash “Old Town Road” for $50 in a small Atlanta studio. The record, recognized as the longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit, served as the launchpad for a fast-rising music career loaded with multiple No. 1’s, Grammy wins, and a massive social media presence. Now the 23-year-old is about to enter another echelon as he is set to receive the Hal David Starlight Award at the upcoming 51st Songwriters Hall Of Fame gala.
The award recognizes “gifted young songwriters who are making a significant impact in the music industry via their original songs.” Lil Nas X joins Drake, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Halsey, Sara Bareilles, John Legend, Alicia Keys, John Mayer, and many more previous recipients of the high honor created in 2004 to maintain the legacy of its namesake, SHOF Chairman Hal David. Multiple members of the current SHOF board cited the young artist is being recognized for the success of his songs and his proud, outspoken representation of the various communities he identifies with.
In addition to Lil Nas X, the gala will celebrate the induction of Mariah Carey, The Isley Brothers, The Neptunes, Eurythmics, and more. This will be the first Songwriters Hall of Fame gala since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lusail, Lusail Iconic Stadium (80,000 capacity): Qatar's biggest stadium will host the final on December 18 as well as, amongst other matches, the first semi-final. Built in Lusail, a planned city for a population of 200,000 people situated 15 kilometres north of central Doha, there are plans for the stadium to be transformed into a community hub after the World Cup, with most of its seats being removed and donated elsewhere.
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Al Khor, Al-Bayt Stadium (60,000): The venue for the group-stage showdown between Spain and Germany, as well as the second semi-final, is constructed in the form of a Bedouin tent. There are plans for the upper tier to be removed after the competition. Situated on Qatar's north-east coast, around 35 kilometres from Doha, it is therefore beyond the reach of the capital's metro system, making it one of the harder venues to access for supporters.
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Al Rayyan, Education City Stadium (40,000): Situated among university campuses in Al Rayyan, just to the west of Doha itself, and reachable by metro, the stadium will notably host one of the quarter-finals. Its capacity will be reduced by half after the tournament with plans for the seats to be donated to developing countries.
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Al Rayyan, Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium (40,000): The home of one of Qatar's most successful clubs, Al Rayyan, the stadium has been built on the site of the old venue of the same name and is one metro stop beyond the nearby Education City. Located where the city meets the desert, its capacity will also be reduced by half after the tournament.
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Al Wakrah, Al Janoub Stadium (40,000): Located south of Doha in the city of Al Wakrah, the stadium's design was inspired by the traditional boats used for pearl diving and fishing.
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Doha, Khalifa International Stadium (40,000): Built in 1976, it is the only venue which already existed before Qatar was awarded the World Cup, although it has since been transformed. Hosted the 2011 Asian Cup final and also the final of the 2019 Club World Cup between Liverpool and Flamengo. Will host England's opening-day clash with Iran.
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Doha, Al Thumama Stadium (40,000): Situated to the south of central Doha, close to the city's Hamad International Airport, the stadium will host the tournament's opening game between Senegal and the Netherlands as well as one of the quarter-finals, while its capacity will be reduced to 20,000 after the World Cup.
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The design represents the gahfiya - a traditional hat worn across the Middle East.
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Doha, Stadium 974 (40,000): Built out of shipping containers on Doha's waterfront, the pop-up stadium will be completely dismantled after the World Cup. The number 974 is the international dialling code for Qatar but also represents the number of containers used for the stadium's construction.
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It echoes the nearby port and Doha's maritime history.
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IPOB Kidnapped 2 Of My Cousins Yesterday – Nnewi Man Cries Out
ESN/IPOB kidnapped 2 of my cousins yesterday night. A Thread #NnewiSouthisbleeding
1. My Cousins were coming from their Uncle’s wake keep, they met ESN/IPOB at Nkwo Ekwulumili junction and they started pursuing them
2. My Cousins seeing the danger decided to drive into the village of Ekwulumili to see if they will run for their lives but these guys were bold to pursue them and double crossed him.
They took his Jeep and they also took him, he said and I quote “They told me, We are fighting for you people but you are residing in Big Cities and you don’t show appreciation” So to them people should be paying them for destroying Igboland.
4. They recklessly drove his Jeep and jumped into a big hole and the motor couldn’t move again, and their own car will not contain them so they took his elder brother and left him and his car there.
5. My cousin said they didn’t just operate in Ekwulumili, News from Akwaihedi, Osumenyi etc shows that they collected cars from different people that same Yesterday.
6. They later allowed the elder brother to go after collecting money from them. @CCSoludo @AfamDeluxo @Ekwulu @adaigbo_2022 @UchePOkoye @Tokwonna @obyezeks @OnyedikaAnambra We need your voices, my people are in bondage.
7. I heard from good authority that they have different groups, Group of boys will organize themselves and claim they are ESN and start terrorizing the towns and villages they can intimidate with guns #Nnewisouthisbleeding
8. They target anybody that comes home for burial, marriages and meetings once you are dressed well with car they will target you and kidnap you.
9. @CCSoludo Sir I heard that the names of the people who reported ESN were released to the police and bc of that people are afraid to report them.
I don’t know if this is true the Town Union presidents are afraid instead they are paying dues to ESN to avoid attacks from them.
10. Something drastically have to be done and done quickly.
Unubi
Ekwulumili
Amichi
Akwaihedi
Ebenato
Osumenyi
Utuh
Ezinifite
Ukpor
We need your help
We are in bondage
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WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, May 20, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
722 AM EDT Fri May 20 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM SATURDAY TO 8 PM EDT
SUNDAY...
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 99 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of northern Connecticut, central, eastern and
southeastern Massachusetts and northern Rhode Island.
* WHEN...From 8 AM Saturday to 8 PM EDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...For the Dense Fog Advisory, visibility one quarter mile
or less in dense fog. For the Heat Advisory, heat index values
up to 101 expected.
* WHERE...In Connecticut, Tolland CT and Hartford CT Counties.
In Massachusetts, Suffolk MA, Southeast Middlesex MA, Eastern
Norfolk MA, Eastern Hampden MA, Eastern Hampshire MA, Western
Essex MA and Eastern Franklin MA Counties.
* WHEN...For the Dense Fog Advisory, until 10 AM EDT this
morning. For the Heat Advisory, from 8 AM Saturday to 8 PM EDT
Sunday.
illnesses to occur. Hazardous driving conditions due to low
visibility.
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.
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A few years ago during one of her trips back to Dundas to spend a few years training for the Olympics, cyclist Clara Hughes got reminiscing about the Sydenham Hill. Specifically, how much of a killer it is.
The multiple medallist explained how 10 times a day she’d ride up the roughly kilometre-long route with the nasty 11 per cent incline and then barely crawl back home when she was done because she was so exhausted.
Not sure what she’d say about Patricia Pedersen’s plan to pedal to the top 86 times on Saturday.
That’s right, 86.
“I’m going to have amazing legs after,” the 52-year-old says. “I may not be able to walk but my legs will be in great shape.”
Yes, the Burlington native is serious. No, she isn’t a masochist. No more than anyone who does Ironman triathlons. She tolerates pain but doesn’t love it. But this is about something different.
Her friend has been battling pancreatic cancer. It’s a tough disease that claims 92 per cent of patients within a year of diagnosis. Yet Lara Pawlowicz is apparently tougher than most because she’s been taking it on for six years.
This summer, the pair — along with Pawlowicz’s 18-year-old son — were planning to do a relay triathlon. Each would take one leg. It was through the sport that they’d met so it seemed appropriate.
But the health challenges have turned out to be just too great and her friend had to pull out. That hit Pedersen hard.
“I was kind of sad and I decided I would do something crazy to honour her battle,” she says.
But what? What could she do to attract attention to the illness while raising a bit of money to help fight it? What could be bold enough and massive enough? The answer came one day while she was surfing around online and came across a story about some folks who’ve “Everested” a hill.
Everested?
Yup, they cycled up it again and again and again until they’d climbed the cumulative height of the world’s tallest mountain. All 8,849 metres of it. Including Jacob Jamnicky, who did it on the Sydenham Hill two years ago.
Bingo.
It’s at this point we should mention that Pedersen is an unlikely candidate for this. As a kid she played some sports but the one she hated? Running. It wasn’t until she was 40 that she bought a pair of running shoes and did a 5K in Burlington.
“I pulled a Forrest Gump,” she says. “I just kept running.”
Eventually she tried a duathlon, which landed her on the couch for three days with dehydration. After she’d recovered, a friend said she should try a half-Ironman. Because, why not?
Just one small problem.
“I could float but I did not swim.”
No matter, Pedersen learned. Today she’s finished eight Ironman triathlons (a four-kilometre swim, a 180-kilometre bike ride and a 42-kilometre run). So having done all that, she’s confident she’ll be able to do the 86 climbs.
She’ll start at 4 a.m. on Saturday and go until she’s done. She figures it’ll take about 18 hours. Maybe longer, she’s not sure. She’s never done more than 10 climbs in a training exercise. But she’ll do it, she says. She has to. There’s no option.
She’s got her fingers crossed for cloudy skies with no wind and temperatures around 20 or 21 degrees. Yet the forecast calls for it to be a scorcher with temperatures feeling like 37. Plus the chance of heavy thunderstorms and strong gusts. Just to make it that much tougher.
Doesn’t matter. There’s an end, she says. She just has to keep reminding herself that each climb is one closer to finishing. The next day she can rest. It’s not forever.
Besides, it’s not all tough.
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Victims recount horrors in Times Square car-ramming trial
For now, that has left jurors to analyze the prosecutions case , which started with them seeing a selfie, flashed on a video screen, of Elsman, her daughters Ava and Alyssa, and a family friend seated on the red bleachers in the middle of Times Square moments before tragedy struck.The group was walking and just looking around, kind of eyeballing someplace to eat, when a car mounted the sidewalk, Elsman said.
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For some survivors, the sounds are a part of what still haunts them. People screaming. Car tires screeching. An engine revving.
It was "like somebody just floored it. … It was so loud," Jyll Elsman told a jury on a recent day in a Manhattan courtroom. "That is the last thing that I remember before everything went black." When Elsman came to her senses, she desperately searched for her teen daughters only to find a mother's nightmare. One of her children was dead and another severely injured — carnage left by a driver who plowed through pedestrians on what had begun, for a Michigan family, as a mundane tourist outing in Times Square in 2017.
Elsman's harrowing story is central to the ongoing trial of Richard Rojas, the man behind the wheel of a Honda Accord that killed Elsman's daughter and injured more than 20 other people in an alleged attack with a motive that remains elusive. Rojas, 31, has pleaded not guilty to murder, assault, and other charges.
Prosecutors are largely relying on the testimony of victims like Elsman to make a case against Rojas that could put him behind bars for decades. His lawyers say he had a mental breakdown that day and could not understand what he was doing.
At the time, he was someone "suffering from schizophrenia whose mind had deteriorated so much that he lost control," said defense attorney Enrico DeMarco in opening statements about a client who appeared impassive during the proceedings. DeMarco added: "The evidence is going to show he met the criteria for legal insanity." Prosecutor Alfred Peterson conceded Rojas had some mental challenges. But Peterson also argued the defendant was a military veteran who had led a mostly normal life and didn't meet the insanity standard.
"It was impossible for him not to know exactly what was happening," the prosecutor said.
Experts are slated to address the mental health question later in the trial. For now, that has left jurors to analyze the prosecution's case, which started with them seeing a selfie, flashed on a video screen, of Elsman, her daughters Ava and Alyssa, and a family friend seated on the red bleachers in the middle of Times Square moments before tragedy struck.
The group was walking and "just looking around, kind of eyeballing someplace to eat," when a car mounted the sidewalk, Elsman said. She testified she felt herself getting knocked down by the car, briefly going blank and then pulling herself up to look for her daughters.
The mother found Ava, then 13, on the ground but still alert. She then rushed around to look for Alyssa, who was 18. What she found was devastating.
"I looked at her eyes and I just knew she was dead. They were fixed. They weren't looking around," she said. "All I could do was scream." Thomas Patterson, an actor on his way to a rehearsal that day, took the witness stand to recall vivid memories of the mayhem.
"I saw somebody being thrown 25 feet into the air, people being knocked around. It was an intense sight," Patterson said.
On impulse, "I ran after the car," he said. "I'm not super proud of that. I don't know what I was thinking." He said he gathered himself and stopped to call 911.
Michael Elias, a tax lawyer, testified about seeing "bodies flying, pandemonium, people screaming, jumping out of the way." The first responders would find a survivor named Wissam Issa, a social worker who testified he felt the full impact of the runaway Honda. Issa said he took a hit on "my whole left side of my face, my whole left side of my body, my back, my arm with the windshield." Ava, the younger Elsman daughter, was mowed down similarly. She recited her injuries for the jurors: broken ribs, collapsed lung, a compound leg fracture, and other harm that kept her off her feet for months.
She said a deeper injury occurred in the hospital when she asked her mother about what happened to her older sister. She was answered with silence.
Her mother's "face dropped," she said. "And with no words, I knew exactly what had happened."
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Titanium Transportation Group (CVE:TTR – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, March 8th. The company reported C$0.04 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of C$0.05 by C($0.01). The company had revenue of C$111.28 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of C$105.87 million.
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Ashwani Kumar appointed as Special Officer of unified MCD, Gyanesh Bharti as Commissioner
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The Centre on Friday appointed IAS officers Ashwani Kumar and Gyanesh Bharti as the Special Officer and Commissioner of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) respectively, according to an order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Kumar, a 1992-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, was the chief secretary of Puducherry.
Bharti, a 1998-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, is currently the Commissioner of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation.
According to the order, the appointments will come into effect from May 22, the day when the three civic bodies get unified.
The Centre on Wednesday had issued a notification saying the three civic bodies of Delhi will be formally merged on May 22.
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A new solicitor has been appointed to represent the man accused of the murder of Ashling Murphy.
Jozef Puska (31), of Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Co. Offaly, is charged with murdering the 23-year-old primary school teacher at Cappincur, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, on the afternoon of January 12, 2022.
He is scheduled to go on trial at the Central Criminal Court in June next year.
At a brief hearing at the same court on Friday, an application from defence solicitors Padraig Langsch & Co to come on record in the case was granted by Mr Justice Paul McDermott after prosecution counsel Anne-Marie Lawlor SC informed the judge that the Director of Public Prosecutions did not object to the request.
Mr Puska was not present in court for today’s hearing.
Ms Murphy had been jogging along a path at the side of the Grand Canal in Tullamore when she was fatally assaulted.
At a previous hearing on April 25, defence barrister Rebecca Smith BL told the court her client required a Slovakian interpreter for future court appearances.
The trial, which will begin on June 6, 2023, is expected to last three to four weeks.
Ms Murphy, a talented traditional Irish musician and recent graduate from Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, was working as a teacher at Durrow National School at the time of her death. | https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-40877195.html | 2022-05-20T12:41:01Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-40877195.html | false | 14 |
Amanda Holden showcases her incredible figure in a chic white shirt dress while leaving Heart FM in the pouring rain
She's known for her daily fashion parade after work on the Heart FM Breakfast Show.
And despite the rain, Amanda Holden didn't disappoint as she dressed to impress for her Friday morning strut through London's Leicester Square.
The 51-year-old cut a stylish figure in an off white patterned button up dress which featured a crisp white collar and short sleeves from Suzannah London.
Stylish: Despite the rain, Amanda Holden, 51, didn't disappoint as she dressed to impress for her Friday morning strut through London's Leicester Square
The TV personality showcased her incredible figure by cinching in her waist with a matching material belt which she tied in a neat bow.
The Britain's Got Talent judge added some height to her frame in a towering pair of black patent pointed toe heels.
Amanda carried her personal belonging in a £2,800 Dior Saddle handbag which she tucked tightly under her shoulder.
Fashionista: The 51-year-old cut a stylish figure in an off white patterned button up dress which featured a crisp white collar and had short sleeves from Suzannah London
Looking good: The blonde beauty seemed in high spirits as he kept her long blonde tresses dry under a large black umbrella
The blonde beauty seemed in high spirits as she kept her long blonde tresses dry under a large black umbrella.
Amanda beamed as she opted for a glamorous makeup palette including a pretty pink lipstick and accessorised with several gold bracelets.
She hid behind a pair of black sunglasses and completed her stunning ensemble by adding a pair of large hoop earrings.
Incredible: Amanda carried her personal belonging in a £2,800 Dior Saddle handbag which she tucked tightly under her shoulder
Chic: The Britain's Got Talent judge added some height to her frame in a towering pair of black patent pointed toe heels
Glam: The TV personality showcased her incredible figure by cinching in her waist with a matching material belt which she tied in a neat bow
Amanda took to her Instagram Story to share the designers behind her look with her 1.8 million followers.
In one snap, the blonde beauty can be seen perching on a table from inside the Global building before strutting forwards holding the full dress skirt for a fun video.
Charlotte Hawkins was also spotted heading to Global ahead of her Classic FM show on Friday morning.
High spirits: Amanda took to her Instagram story to share the designers behind her look with her 1.8 million followers
Sensational: Charlotte Hawkins stunned as she was also spotted heading to Global ahead of her Classic FM show on Friday morning
Sensational: The ITV Good Morning Britain presenter flashed her toned legs through an eye catching leopard print wrap over dress
The ITV Good Morning Britain presenter flashed her toned legs through an eye catching leopard print wrap over dress.
The blonde beauty seemed in high spirits as she beamed wearing the bold patterned ensemble.
Charlotte added some height to her frame wearing a strappy pair of black towering heels as she strutted through Leicester Square.
The journalist kept her perfectly curled blonde shoulder length tresses dry under a bright red umbrella.
Charlotte completed her stylish look with a black tote bag and added a pop of colour with a red manicure.
Ready for work: Charlotte added some height to her frame wearing a strappy pair of black towering heels as she strutted to Leicester Square
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World Migratory Bird Celebrations will kick off Sunday, May 22, at the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuges.
Events at Ankeny, Baskett Slough and William L. Finley refuges will extend through Saturday, May 28. This event is dubbed a “great to see you again” to our feathered friends as they travel to and arrive at their summer homes and breeding grounds.
Did you know birds often migrate at night? And that light pollution can interfere with their ability to find their way? This year’s World Migratory Bird Day theme is “Lights out for birds at night.” Custom bookmarks with tips on how to help birds migrate will be given away at each event.
Partners in the celebration include the Salem Audubon Society, La Laja Twinning Partnership, the Marys River Watershed Council, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Audubon Society of Corvallis, Friends of the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex and the Institute for Applied Ecology.
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- Bird Field Trip, 8 a.m. to noon Sunday, May 22, Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge; meet at the Ankeny Hill Nature Center, 130 Ankeny Hill Road SE, Jefferson. Join Salem Audubon Society bird experts for a tour of the major wetlands and bird hotspots at Ankeny. See and hear which species are migrating through. Information: https://salemaudubon.org/events.
- “Celebrate Birds,” 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, headquarters building, William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, 26208 Finley Refuge Road, Corvallis. Bird crafts, calls, hikes, games and multiple activity stations. Educators will be on hand with supplies. The Wild Goose Nature Store will be open.
- “The Spring Bird Migration: A Miracle of Nature,” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, through Saturday, May 28, Ankeny Hill Nature Center. Some naturalists consider the semiannual bird migration to be one of the natural wonders of the world. Each spring, an estimated billion birds use the Pacific Flyway for their annual migration, flying from where they spent the winter to their breeding grounds. Learn about the migration strategies birds use, including some of the birds you’re likely to encounter at Ankeny.
- “Lil’ Tweets,” 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 26, Ankeny Hill Nature Center. Bilingual bird activities for families with young children. Visitors can pick and choose from interactive activities and crafts at multiple stations. Stay to walk trails and play in the Nature Explore Area.
- Bird Field Trip, 9 a.m. to noon Friday, May 27, Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge; meet in the parking lot of the Rich Guadagno Trailhead, on Coville Road southwest of McCoy. Passerines in the oak savanna, raptors in the agricultural fields, shorebirds migrating through the wetlands. Restroom and picnic facilities are available. Bring water, binoculars and a snack, and dress for the weather. Trails may be uneven; wear appropriate footwear.
- “Celebrate Birds,” 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 27, headquarters building, William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, 26208 Finley Refuge Road, Corvallis. Bird crafts, hikes, games and multiple activity stations. The Wild Goose Nature Store will be open.
- “Lil’ Tweets,” 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 28, Ankeny Hill Nature Center. Bilingual bird activities for families with young children. Visitors can pick and choose from interactive activities and crafts at multiple stations. Stay to walk trails and play in the Nature Explore Area.
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Police arrest two suspected kidnappers in Kogi
Two suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the Kogi State Police Command.
The police arrested the suspects in Odolu, Igamalamela Local Government Area of the state in collaboration with local vigilantes and hunters.
In a statement sent to DAILY POST on Friday by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP William Ovye Aya, said the security operatives dislodged the criminals from their hideout and arrested them.
He stated that the command recovered one English-made pump action gun, seven phones, and charms from the arrested suspects.
Explaining further, Aya said, “This is following report from the victim of kidnapping who escaped from their den on Thursday 19/5/2022 while the family were still negotiating for his release.
“Immediately, the Police operatives were mobilized along with the Vigilante, Hunters into the bush, on sighting the Police the criminals elements opened fire. During the gun duel that ensued, two were neutralized and two were arrested”.
Aya explained that the breakthrough is a result of the strategies adopted by the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Edward Egbuka, to curtail the activities of kidnappers, armed robbers, bandits, and other heinous crimes in the state.
He added that the Commissioner while commending the police officers as well as vigilantes and hunters for their prompt response to ensure the criminal elements met their waterloo, assured members of the public that the police will not rest on its oars in synergy with other security agencies in the state to ensure the safety of lives and property.
Aya admonished the general public to continue to collaborate with the police and other security agencies in the state by way of volunteering credible and timely information on the activities of criminal elements. | https://dailypost.ng/2022/05/20/police-arrest-two-suspected-kidnappers-in-kogi/ | 2022-05-20T12:48:13Z | https://dailypost.ng/2022/05/20/police-arrest-two-suspected-kidnappers-in-kogi/ | true | 1 |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Curiosity in Lake Mead increased after a human body was discovered in a barrel on the newly exposed shore of Lake Mead several weeks ago. Now a local company is using the headlines to increase sales.
In a small dark shop in the middle of a Las Vegas strip mall, Charlie Hanks casually helps a couple of women look for items related to magic, witchcraft, and other dark topics. One of them stops in front of several small bottles, almost vials, of what looks like dirty water and chuckles. The woman just found the Lake Mead Corpse Water.
“Traditional corpse water is used in different witchcraft practices. However, this is not real corpse water,” Charlie Hanks said. “It’s for fun. It’s a joke. Most of us who have lived in Vegas for a long time have been questioning our water quality for years. And that just kind of worked out when we found out that there was a corpse floating in a barrel. So I made this as a joke,” added Hanks.
Hanks and her husband have been operating her store, Blaspheme Boutique, for almost a year. Hanks opened the shop in the middle of the pandemic, not knowing how it would do. To her surprise, she said it had exceeded her expectations. Hanks said there’s an underserved need for the dark and sometimes morbid things she sells.
The Lake Mead Corpse Water was a product made on a whim to drum up business using social media. Hanks said within hours of advertising on Facebook, she had more than a dozen orders.
When asked what Lake Mead Corpse Water is, Hanks first said what it isn’t.
“It’s not from Lake Mead. I don’t want to steal water from Lake Mead to sell to people, but it’s a nice little concoction of water, some witch hazel, some glass rocks, dirt, and some green mica to give it a little bit of a green tint to it. It’s just for entertainment purposes, do not ingest,”
said Hanks.
He also understands this type of product isn’t for everyone, “I don’t want to make light of the fact that there are dead bodies in the lake. Those people, their families, and loved ones probably miss them and want to know what happened to them. What I’m making light of is the darker history of Vegas.”
Hanks added she’d never done so when asked if she had swum in Lake Mead and has no plans to jump in now. | https://www.mystateline.com/news/lake-mead-corpse-water-now-for-sale-in-las-vegas/ | 2022-05-20T12:48:46Z | https://www.mystateline.com/news/lake-mead-corpse-water-now-for-sale-in-las-vegas/ | true | 31 |
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia fires top commanders over Ukraine war failures
Posted/updated on: May 20, 2022 at 6:26 am(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the east. Ukrainian troops have offered "stiff resistance," according to U.S. officials.
The Russian military has since launched a full-scale ground offensive in eastern Ukraine's disputed Donbas region, capturing the strategic port city of Mariupol and securing a coastal corridor to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
Here's how the news is developing. All times Eastern:
May 20, 6:58 am
1,700 Ukrainian soldiers likely surrendered from Mariupol plant, UK says
As many as 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers have likely surrendered from the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works plant in war-ravaged Mariupol this week, according to the U.K. Ministry of Defense.
"An unknown number of Ukrainian forces remain inside the factory," the ministry said Friday in an intelligence update. "Once Russia has secured Mariupol, it is likely they will move their forces to reinforce operations in the Donbas."
For weeks, Ukrainian fighters and civilians were holed up inside the sprawling industrial site as the remaining pocket of resistance to Russia's relentless bombardment of Mariupol, a southeastern Ukrainian port city strategically located on the Sea of Azov between eastern Ukraine's disputed Donbas region and the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula. Russia claimed Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered in Mariupol over the previous three days, while Ukraine confirmed Tuesday that more than 250 had yielded in the initial hours after it ordered them to do so.
Mariupol is the largest city that Russian forces have seized since launching an invasion of neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24. Its complete capture gives Russia total control of the coast of the Sea of Azov as well as a continuous stretch of territory along eastern and southern Ukraine.
"Staunch Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol since the start of the war means Russian forces in the area must be re-equipped and refurbished before they can be redeployed effectively," the U.K. defense ministry said. "This can be a lengthy process when done thoroughly."
"Russian commanders, however, are under pressure to demonstrably achieve operational objectives," the ministry added. "This means that Russia will probably redistribute their forces swiftly without adequate preparation, which risks further force attrition."
May 20, 6:42 am
Belarus says nearly 28,000 Ukrainians have arrived since Russian invasion
Nearly 28,000 Ukrainian citizens have arrived in Belarus since Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to the Belarusian State Border Committee.
"Between 6 a.m. on February 24 and 6 a.m. on May 20, a total of 27,868 Ukrainian citizens arrived in Belarus, including 15,793 who crossed the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, 10,563 by transit through Poland, 1,305 through Lithuania, and 207 through Latvia," the committee said in a statement Friday.
In the past 24 hours alone, 154 Ukrainian citizens arrived in Belarus, including 120 via Poland, according to the committee.
Belarus shares a land border with both Ukraine and Russia, and is Moscow's main ally.
May 19, 8:07 pm
Biden to sign Ukraine aid bill while abroad
President Joe Biden will sign the $40 billion Ukraine aid bill while he's in Asia, a White House official said.
"The president does intend to sign the bill while he's on the road so that he can sign it expeditiously," national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force One while en route to the region Thursday evening. "The modalities of that are being worked right now so that he can get it and sign it."
The bill, which passed the Senate earlier Thursday with bipartisan support, will need to be flown to the region so that Biden can sign it. The practice of flying bills to presidents for signature dates back to the Truman administration, but this is a first for Biden.
Biden departed for South Korea Thursday and will visit Japan later in the week during his first trip to Asia as president.
-ABC News' Sarah Kolinovsky
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Top award for Young Environmentalists in Coláiste Mhuire Johnstown in Co Kilkenny
Students from Coláiste Mhuire in Johnstown have been honoured at the Young Environmentalists Awards.
Their project The Irish Wildlife Club claimed a Special Award for raising awareness during an online ceremony on Thursday.
The local group hosted a presentation and Q&A Session with the junior cycle students every Thursday on the different species of Irish wildlife.
The hope was to educate young people and celebrate Irish Wildlife and its place in our environment.
The YEA programme run by Eco Unesco, recognises and rewards the efforts of young people aged 10-18 years old for taking positive environmental action.
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Who would take on an uninhabitable, critter-infested, 475-square-foot cabin as a fun DIY project? A duo made up of a professional interior designer and carpenter, that's who.
Stephanie Lalley, designer director at Minneapolis-based Lucy Interior Design and her husband, Dan, were searching for a project when they came across a 3-acre property on Lake Barrow, a quiet body of water in Hackensack, Minn.
The Lalleys were undaunted by the age and condition of the one-bedroom, one-bathroom cabin. If anything, it was a chance to incorporate ideas they had tucked away over the years on how to design for a small space.
"The cabin is 200 years old and was considered a tear-down," Stephanie said. But "we love fixing up old houses in our spare time."
The project has paid off in more ways than one. In addition to a lakeside cabin that now can be enjoyed, Stephanie recently received a Design of Excellence first-place award from the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Minnesota in the residential design under 1,000 square feet category.
Rebuilding blocks
The Lalleys purchased the property in early 2020, just before the start of the pandemic.
With their work and social life ground to a halt, they used that free time to start the remodel, which required gutting the place and taking the cabin down to the studs. They pulled up floors and removed the rough-cut pine paneling so they could get behind the walls to insulate and update the plumbing and electrical systems. Besides subcontracting electrical and plumbing rough-ins and spray foam insulation, the couple did all the work themselves.
They salvaged the pine boards, which Dan later used to build cabinets for the kitchen and bathroom and cover up the bedroom and living room ceilings.
When their jobs resumed, they worked on the cabin whenever they could, making the approximately three-hour drive from the Twin Cities on weekends and holidays. With two children, ages 5 and 6, and full-time jobs, the project took nearly two years.
"During heavy construction, the kids stayed with Grandma, but they came with us otherwise. We camped out, swam and explored," said Stephanie, adding that the property didn't have running water for the first year.
Cozy not cramped
With such a tiny footprint, the couple made choices to keep the cabin from feeling cramped.
They left the ceiling in the main room exposed to the original trusses, which adds architectural interest and makes the space feel bigger. Painting the entire interior white also brightened up the cabin, though that decision was driven by the fact that the original log walls were smoke-damaged and had been crudely patched with concrete over the years.
"They were beyond restoration," said Stephanie.
She added that using the same color on the walls and ceilings throughout unified the space and didn't compete for attention with the woods and lake outside, the property's real star.
Their goal was to help the tiny cabin be the best version of itself: a simple, cozy retreat in the woods. They thought in inches instead of feet — how to make the compact floor plan work best for everyday living.
They built a dining banquette against a wall to provide space-efficient seating and keep traffic lanes clear. Curtains were installed instead of doors to separate rooms, eliminate awkward door swings and gain wall space.
A simpler kind of life
The couple kept other finishing touches functional and low-key as well.
The rebuilt kitchen has wood countertops, a matched set of floating shelves and a smaller refrigerator and stove but no dishwasher.
Stephanie said they're OK washing dishes by hand and that it fit the pared-down nature of the cabin. She thought about everything they would need in the kitchen and created a place for it — dishes on the shelf, a cubby for bottles of wine and olive oil, baskets for linens and dry goods.
"You realize when you're here that you don't need a ton of things," Stephanie said. "It's calming."
For them, the remodeling experience was a way to spend time together and create memories. When the project was finished earlier this year, the Lalleys weren't sure if they would sell and move on to a new project or keep the cabin.
Then a photographer friend Stephanie hired to take pictures of the cabin helped make that decision easier. He offered to buy it on the spot. It's now available as a vacation rental on Airbnb.
"Now, people all over the country get to enjoy the experience," Stephanie said. "And a major bonus for us, we can still rent it."
Tips on designing for tiny spaces
Stephanie Lalley suggests the following:
• Think about everyday use and traffic flow. Don't be afraid to rework the floor plan.
• Keep flooring uniform and limit paint colors to avoid harsh visual transitions.
• Consider using pocket or barn doors or curtains instead of hinged doors.
• Create a spot for essentials and design built-ins wherever possible to avoid "floating" furniture that takes up valuable floor space.
• Focus on multipurpose furniture such as sleeper sofas and benches with storage.
• Use wall sconces and pendants instead of lamps to limit cords and unwanted clutter. | https://m.startribune.com/lakeside-minnesota-cabin-is-475-square-feet-of-award-winning-design/600174983/ | 2022-05-20T13:04:12Z | https://m.startribune.com/lakeside-minnesota-cabin-is-475-square-feet-of-award-winning-design/600174983/ | false | 2 |
The corporate interests which fund conservative think tanks in the US see Brexit as a lucrative business opportunity.
On May 4, an investigation by OpenDemocracy revealed that the Tufton Street climate change denialist think tank Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) had been partly funded by the Donors Trust, a “dark money ATM” for right wing business interests such as Charles Koch.
The Trust has significant links to Koch family foundations, though it is bankrolled by probably hundreds of conservative donors who get a big tax write off for their contributions. A Mother Jones article from 2013 said that “The groups funded by Donors Trust more or less pursue the same agenda—eliminate regulations, kneecap unions, shrink government, and transfer more power to the private sector.”
Other groups which accept funding from the Donors Trust include the Heritage Foundation, which has recently hosted Conservative Party politicians like Oliver Dowden, who gave a weird culture war speech about the ‘privet hedges of suburbia’, and last week the former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost. You can read the text of his speech here.
Frost quit his ministerial position just as the contradictions in the UK’s Brexit deal with the EU over Northern Ireland were starting to become an unavoidable problem. The UK looks increasingly likely to override the Northern Ireland protocol, something that would be controversial in Washington DC, where there is wide bi-partisan support for the Good Friday Agreement. Overriding the Protocol could put that agreement, and peace in Northern Ireland, in jeopardy.
Three Tory ministers were in the US last week for meetings, including Northern Ireland minister Conor Burns, but Frost was also there, and according to the Irish Times, he “told the Heritage Foundation event on Thursday that talks had effectively reached the end of the road with the EU and now the UK government had to act.”
In his speech, Frost said he was happy to follow in the footsteps of Dowden, Brandon Lewis and Priti Patel in speaking at the Heritage Foundation.
“Their presence here symbolises the very close ties, personal and intellectual, that exist between our politics and our thought worlds in the US and the UK. They are also a tribute to the huge role that Heritage, and you personally, Nile, here at the Margaret Thatcher Centre, have played in this,” Frost said, thanking Nile Gardiner, Telegraph columnist and Heritage Foundation employee.
You could be forgiven for thinking Frost was on a self-publicity tour. It has been suggested that he might step down from the House of Lords to run for a seat as an MP. He would join a faction of Brexit fundamentalists within the Tories who would be much more hardline than Boris Johnson on social and environmental issues. Frost told his audience that “I haven’t been elected to anything – so far”.
On Northern Ireland, Frost said that the UK didn’t “need lectures” from the US, and also told the Telegraph that the UK should “act unilaterally to disapply part or all of the Protocol”. “We may, of course, face EU retaliation, though it would be disproportionate to the trade involved, only arguably legal and entirely self-defeating. If it happens nevertheless, it will complicate things – but we should not fear it”, Frost said.
In leaving the EU’s Single Market and Customs Union, the UK has created an untenable situation for Northern Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement rests on the UK and Ireland being in the same free trade area. Decoupling the UK from the EU means a customs border has to be placed somewhere.
The Heritage Foundation is interested in Brexit because it wants Britain to become a deregulated free-for-all for corporate power. Anthony Kim, a Research Fellow at Heritage, wrote this week that “unshackled from the strictures of EU bureaucracy, the British economy could register substantial improvements in key policy areas such as business freedom.”
Frost argued that Brexit allowed the UK to evade the “constraints on national democracy and freedom of choice” imposed by the EU. The “inability to make real choices and changes is surely part of the reason for the disaffection with mainstream politics very visible across Europe”, he claimed. Luckily, having left the EU, disaffection with politics has been totally eliminated in the UK!
Frost went on to blame internationalism for creating “political disaffection” and “identity politics”. Reasserting nationalism through Brexit should be “the first sign of a potential renewal of self-confidence in the West. It’s not a throwback—it is a move forward. It is the renewal of the formula that made the West successful: democratic states deciding their own affairs domestically and defending their security together against external enemies.”
This is similar to Dowden’s culture war rhetoric in his speech to the Heritage Foundation. The West was under attack by the forces of multicultualism and globalism, but now it’s back, baby! And part of being back is reasserting those national borders, except that one which cuts the island of Ireland in half, because that one’s a bit of a problem.
The UK doesn’t want to be the one to reassert that border, you see, because that would look bad, so it’s going to put the EU in a position where it will have to do customs checks at the Northern Irish border, and then blame it on the EU.
Nile Gardiner, a Telegraph columnist, former aide to Thatcher and Director of Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, plays a leading role in connecting the architects of Brexit to US conservative funders through his role at the Heritage Foundation. Here’s the panel of an event he hosted online in 2021.
Gardiner called Elliot, Hannan and Carswell “the central three figures in the establishment of Vote Leave”. The same dark money that funded pro-Brexit groups is no doubt interested in the outcome of any potential US-UK trade deal.
The Trade Justice Movement says that any Anglo-American trade deal would come with serious concerns on regulations related to the environment, health standards, and public services. They note that “As with other post-Brexit trade deals, there are big questions about how a US trade deal will be negotiated and agreed, and how the public and civil society will be consulted.”
It would be an immense irony for the Brexiters to have argued that the UK’s relationship with the EU was undemocratic, only to turn around and sell the UK’s public services and regulatory standards down the river for access to US markets with no democratic vote on the issue.
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Boris Johnson has insisted he will not seek to block names appearing in the Sue Gray inquiry report into partygate and said he is “looking forward” to seeing its contents “pretty soon”. The Prime Minister said he was “very grateful” for the Metropolitan Police’s investigation, which concluded with 126 fines for lockdown breaches in Downing Street and Whitehall.
There were demands for answers over how Mr Johnson escaped with just one fixed penalty notice (FPN) despite being believed to have been present at multiple rule-breaking events. Potentially damaging further details, including the names of some of those who attended gatherings, will be published in the report from senior civil servant Ms Gray.
Sources close to the investigation expect it will be published early next week, with individuals whose involvement will be mentioned to be contacted over the weekend. Mr Johnson declined to apologise again for the rule-breaking in No 10 during a visit to Hilltop Honey’s factory in Newtown in Powys, Wales, on Friday.
Instead, he said: “I’m very grateful to the Met for their work, I’m thankful for everything they’ve done. We just need to wait for Sue Gray to report, fingers’ crossed that will be very soon, and I’ll be saying some more next week.”
Asked if No 10 would be blocking any names from appearing, he said: “That will be entirely up to Sue Gray and I’ll be looking forward very much to seeing what she has to say, and fingers crossed that will be pretty soon next week.” | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/sue-gray-allowed-name-names-7107903 | 2022-05-20T13:08:02Z | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/sue-gray-allowed-name-names-7107903 | false | 4 |
Sebi asks bourses to conduct ‘comprehensive’ cyber audit twice a year
Along with the cyber audit reports, all MIIs are directed to submit a declaration from the managing director or chief executive officer "certifying compliance by the MII with all Sebi circulars and advisories related to cyber security issued from time to time", the market regulator added.
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Mumbai: Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday directed exchanges to conduct “comprehensive” cyber audit twice within a fiscal year.
The market watchdog in a circular said that the market infrastructure institutions (MIIs) "are mandated to conduct comprehensive cyber audit at least two times in a financial year".
Along with the cyber audit reports, all MIIs are directed to submit a declaration from the managing director or chief executive officer "certifying compliance by the MII with all Sebi circulars and advisories related to cyber security issued from time to time", the market regulator added.
The bourses, alongside cyber audits, are also required to carry out periodic vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT), which includes an inspection of all critical assets and infrastructure components like servers, networking systems, security devices, load balancers and other IT systems, the circular said.
While the VAPT is required to be conducted once in a fiscal year, MIIs whose systems have been identified as “protected system” by National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) would be required to undertake the exercise twice, the circular noted.
Any gaps or vulnerabilities detected during the VAPT should be "remedied on immediate basis" and a compliance of closure of findings should be submitted to Sebi within 90 days post the submission of final assessment report, it added.
The above norms, as stated in the circular, will come into force "with immediate effect", the regulator said, adding that the exchanges are required to "communicate the status of the implementation of the provisions of this circular to Sebi within 10 days".
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The greatest sporting moments in Umbro kits The kit manufacturer that started by selling football shirts from a cupboard in a pub in Mobberley has been present at some of football's greatest occasions
King George V meets players of Manchester City at the 1934 FA Cup Final. Septimus Rutherford scored for Portsmouth, who wore Umbro, as did City. (Image: Mirrorpix) 1 of 18 Triple olympic champion Gordon Pirie prepares for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a 5,000 metre race in Prague. The British olympic kits were provided by Umbro. (Image: Mirrorpix) 2 of 18 North Korea before beating the mighty Italy 1-0 at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough, during the 1966 World Cup. Both teams wore Umbro kits (Image: Mirrorpix) 3 of 18 North Korea before beating the mighty Italy 1-0 at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough, during the 1966 World Cup. Both teams wore Umbro kits (Image: Mirrorpix) 4 of 18 Manchester United star Nobby Stiles turns on the ball watched by Wolfgang Overath during the 1966 World Cup final. Both teams wore Umbro kits. (Image: mirrorpix) 5 of 18 (Image: Mirrorpix) 6 of 18 Bobby Moore holds the Jules Rimet trophy aloft as he sits on the shoulders of his teammates. They are, left to right: Jack Charlton, Nobby Stiles, Gordon Banks, Alan Ball, Martin Peters, Geoff Hurst, Ray Wilson, George Cohen and Bobby Charlton (Image: Mirrorpix) 7 of 18 Celtic captain Billy McNeill lifts the European Cup after defeating Inter Milan to become the first British team to win the trophy, 1967 (Image: Daily Record) 8 of 18 Lisbon Lion Willie Wallace held aloft by Celtic fans after winning the European Cup, 1967 (Image: Mirrorpix) 9 of 18 Celtic captain Billy McNeill strides through traffic with the European Cup outside the Estadio Nacional in Lisbon, Portugal, shortly after becoming the first British player to lift the cup. 1967. (Image: Mirrorpix) 10 of 18 Alan Hansen beams as he lifts Liverpool's second European Cup at Wembley in 1978 (Image: Mirrorpix) 11 of 18 Scotland players before a 3-2 victory over Holland at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Goalscorers Kenny Dalglish and Archie Gemmill are on the right. (Image: Mirrorpix) 12 of 18 Scotland's Joe Jordan and Holland's Jan Jongbloed at the 1978 World Cup, Argentina. Scotland would win 3-2. (Image: Mirrorpix) 13 of 18 Ian Rush on the ball for Liverpool during the European Cup final in Rome, 1984. (Image: Mirrorpix) 14 of 18 Graeme Souness lifts 'old big ears' after Bruce Grobbelaar's heroics in the penalty shootout ensured a Liverpool victory over AS Roma at their own ground (Image: Mirrorpix) 15 of 18 Brazil fans celebrate in a London pub after their team wins the World Cup on penalties, 1994. It was the second World Cup Brazil won in Umbro strips. (Image: Mirrorpix) 16 of 18 Sir Alex Ferguson and the Manchester United squad lift the Champions' League after snatching victory from the jaws of defeat against Bayern Munich at the Nou Camp in 1999. It was the trophy that completed the treble. (Image: Daily Express) 17 of 18 Sir Alex Ferguson and the Manchester United squad lift the Champions' League after snatching victory from the jaws of defeat against Bayern Munich at the Nou Camp in 1999. It was the trophy that completed the treble. (Image: Daily Express) 18 of 18 | https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/gallery/greatest-sporting-moments-umbro-kits-24014656 | 2022-05-20T13:10:52Z | https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/gallery/greatest-sporting-moments-umbro-kits-24014656 | false | 1 |
Scales should be banned from children's gyms. Parents should be permitted to watch. Rules of acceptable behaviour should be posted on gym walls with a toll-free line to report violations.
They may sound like basic safety precautions around children in sport, but they don't exist on a blanket scale in Canada. Amid what Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge has called a safe sport "crisis," many current and former athletes say the country is long overdue for a sport culture overhaul.
More than a 1,000 athletes from gymnastics, boxing and bobsled/skeleton have called for independent investigations into their sports in recent weeks, and last week former gymnast Amelia Cline filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Gymnastics Canada and six provincial federations.
The proposed class of plaintiffs allege abuse dating back to 1978, and claim the organizations created a culture and environment where the abuse could occur and failed to protect the athletes, most of them minors, in their care.
One of the class members told The Canadian Press she'd like the posting of proper behaviour, with a call-in number, made mandatory in gyms.
"A lot of these rules sound like common sense, (but) it's frightening the extent to which common sense doesn't seem to permeate the gymnastics culture," said the retired gymnast, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal.
St-Onge has said in her first five months as sport minister, she's received complaints about abuse, maltreatment or misappropriation of funds levelled against at least eight national teams, including rugby and rowing.
The outpouring of heartbreaking stories has prompted much conversation, around shared experiences and suggestions for fixes.
Ciara McCormack, the soccer player who first publicly accused Canada's under-20 women's coach Bob Birarda of inappropriate behaviour, said parents "have to have access to their children's training environments."
Few gymnastics facilities permit parents to watch.
McCormack also believes non-disclosure agreements involving misconduct should be eliminated, and education made mandatory for athletes and parents about what abuse looks like and how to report infractions. She also suggested an athlete-led organization with a hotline and disciplinary procedures -- similar to that of teachers or medical practitioners -- where cases of misconduct are recorded and accessible.
"(National sport organizations) have taken advantage of having all the power and all the resources with the result being an immense amount of harm, and I think its crucial that athletes are given power, resources and a voice in the system from children as rec athletes all the way up to national team athletes," McCormack told The Canadian Press. "It's long overdue."
Birarda, meanwhile, pleaded guilty in B.C. Provincial Court in February to four sexual offences involving four different people.
Kim Shore, a former gymnast and mom of a former gymnast, said she'd like to see bathroom scales banned from gyms. Gymnasts have said the public weigh-ins have left them with serious emotional scars years later around body image.
She also suggested an offenders registry. Several national sport organizations, including Skate Canada and Athletics Canada, have suspended coaches and athletes listed on their websites.
But there's plenty of holes in lists, including the inability to track coaches at the grassroots or even the provincial level. Coaches who are suspended, or permitted to leave quietly, from a club, a province or a national team, can often simply move to another. Or even another sport.
Shore said an international database would seem like a pipe dream to many in the sport world, but added that even a provincial and national database would be a "massive step forward."
She suggested parents do Google searches on prospective coaches, because there's often chatter about questionable behaviour on websites like Reddit.
"You're tapping into what I think is really our biggest problem in Canada, and that is that we take no action against enablers and institutions who are complicit to enabling further abuse," said Shore, a former member of Gymnastics Canada's board of directors.
"Sport has failed athletes because it tries to operate above the law, and sometimes even with their own laws. So there’s very little oversight and accountability," she added.
In her 32-page proposed class-action lawsuit, Cline alleges that she suffered numerous injuries during training, including back and neck injuries, and fractures in her wrist, hand, fingers and toes. She alleged her coach, Vladimir Lashin, overstretched her hamstring to the point it tore away from her pelvis, resulting in an avulsion fracture.
Cline told The Canadian Press that she was a frequent visitor to B.C. Children's Hospital to the point that staff knew her by name.
"It's kind of telling when they say, 'Oh, it's you again, you're back,'" said Cline, who's now 32.
Cline quit the sport at age 14, and she and her parents filed a complaint with Gymnastics BC. According to the claim, a harassment officer from Sport B.C. was appointed to investigate, but the Clines were never allowed to see the report.
Instead of receiving punishment, Lashin, who hasn't responded to a request for comment, was named head coach of Canada's national team for the 2004 Athens Olympics. Gymnastics Canada appointed him national coach and high-performance director of the women's artistic program in 2009. He resigned in 2010.
Mike Kwiatkowski, a former multi-sport athlete and a graduate of the International Olympic Academy's Masters program, said parents should view lack of transparency as a red flag.
"What's' the reason for the actions of an organization to provide barriers?" he said. "Child safeguarding is not just about checking the boxes, it's a responsibility. If there is no transparency or openness, there is a massive problem."
Sport Canada announced this week that its new Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC) will be operational as of June 20. The office will receive and address individual complaints of violations of the University Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport.
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Thrill-seeking mobility scooter rider stuns passers-by with impressive stunt riding as he travels the length of pavement tipped over onto one side
- Astonishing video shows mobility scooter rider pulling stunt in York city centre
- The footage shows the scooter rider maneuvering his scooter on to two wheels
- Driver Andrew Millard, who filmed the stunt, posted the astonishing video online
- Others said they had seen scooter driver pulling 'two wheel trick' on other roads
- Do you know the scooter driver? Contact me: james.robinson@mailonline.co.uk
They say you are never too old to dream a new dream - and for one thrill-seeking mobility scooter rider that is certainly the case.
The daredevil scooter driver was caught on camera popping a two-wheel maneuver while riding along a pavement in York city centre earlier this month.
Video shows the adrenaline junkie cruising along a pavement while tipped on to one side.
The astonishing moment was caught on dashcam by one stunned driver, who at first couldn't believe what he was seeing.
But more astonishingly is that it is not the first time the thrill-seeking mobility scooter rider has been spotted mid-stunt.
After posting the video online, one person responded: 'I saw that same guy doing his two wheel trick on Lendal bridge a few days ago.
Speaking about the incident, welder Andrew Millard, who filmed the video, said: 'At first I could not believe it.
The daredevil scooter driver was caught on camera popping a two-wheel maneuver while riding along a pavement in York city centre earlier this month
The astonishing moment was caught on dashcam by one stunned driver, who at first couldn't believe what he was seeing. Pictured: The mobility scooter driver before he pops the stunt
'Then I watched the dashcam footage again at home and thought this guy is brilliant and good at it.
'So, I shared it as it is unusual to see a guy on two wheels on a mobility scooter. He sure made me laugh.
'I would say that he was in his mid-late 60's.
'Other people have said that they often see him in York.'
The 53-year-old caught the moment on camera while driving through York city centre on May 16.
Video shows Mr Millard slowing down in traffic just as the thrill-seeking mobility scooter driver came into shot on the pavement to the right.
Within a split second, the man flips the electric vehicle onto just two wheels before casually driving along.
Mr Millard thought at first that the incident was a mistake but quickly realised the driver was firmly in control of what he was doing.
The footage shows the scooter driver continuing to drift along the pavement before reaching a dip that he navigates with ease.
The 53-year-old caught the moment the sexagenarian stuntman pull his stunt on camera while driving through York city centre on May 16
The footage shows the scooter driver continuing to drift along the pavement before reaching a dip that he navigates with ease
As he moves back up the dip, he momentarily sways from side-to-side but manages to regain his composure to carry on with the stunt.
He then makes his way around the corner, still on two wheels, before the clip ends.
Social media users were left impressed with the man's skills on the scooter, with one saying: 'That is pretty awesome'.
One said: 'That is pretty awesome.' Another wrote: 'Looks a bit risky right next to the road, but well done.'
A fourth added: 'What a stuntman does when he retires.'
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Antonio Rudiger has blamed a stall in contract negotiations during the early part of the season as an influential factor in his decision to leave Chelsea.
In a Players’ Tribune article released on Friday, Rudiger personally confirmed his exit from Stamford Bridge and his subsequent decision to join Real Madrid.
The Athletic revealed last month that Rudiger had decided to leave Stamford Bridge after contract negotiations between the parties had hit a roadblock.
Reflecting on the contract negotiations with Chelsea, Rudiger said: “Unfortunately, it (the negotiations) had already started to get difficult last fall.
“Business is business, but when you don’t hear any news from the club from August to January, the situation becomes complicated.
“After the first offer, there was a long gap of just nothing. We’re not robots, you know? You cannot wait for months with so much uncertainty about your future.
“Obviously, no one saw the sanctions coming, but in the end, other big clubs were showing interest, and I had to make a decision. I will leave it at that, because business aside, I have nothing bad to say about this club.”
It is understood the defender first told his team-mates that he would be signing for Real Madrid as early as last month.
It was news that came as a blow to the Stamford Bridge side and their coach, Thomas Tuchel. Rudiger has been one of Tuchel’s most dependable players for the past 18 months in particular and helped them to the Champions League title last season.
Chelsea were in talks to retain Rudiger but after their owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the British government in March, negotiations over new signings and contracts were prohibited.
The Germany international has signed a four-year deal at Real and it is believed that he will earn between €9-10 million per year after tax — plus a signing-on fee — which is significantly more than he was being paid at Chelsea and what they offered to extend his stay.
Rudiger has confirmed, however, that it was Chelsea’s inability to agree a new deal with the defender before owner Abramovich was sanctioned has cost them.
The Athletic reported last month that Chelsea’s first contract offer was made last August but the proposal was seen as something of an insult with Rudiger already one of the lowest-paid senior players on around £90,000-a-week.
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US intelligence officials are skeptical that any change in Russian public opinion against the Kremlin's war in Ukraine -- even a dramatic one -- would have an effect in persuading Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the conflict, according to multiple sources familiar with the latest intelligence.
Officials also doubt that the war, which many strategists believe has been an unmitigated disaster for Russia's military, is likely to lead to the removal of Putin from power, at least in the short term.
That assessment reflects the extent to which officials believe Putin has cemented his control over Russia during his more than two decades in power. Although intelligence officials believe Putin is keenly sensitive to small shifts in public opinion, his ability to crack down on protests and control the media still helps insulate him against any significant popular uprising -- leaving him free to prosecute the war on his own terms.
Putin is intimately involved in the day-to-day management of the conflict, according to three sources familiar with US and western intelligence, who told CNN that Putin directly participates in decision-making that in most Western armies would be reserved for lower-ranking officers. One source familiar with Western intelligence said that Putin often makes decisions on minutiae like the location of attack lines and day-to-day operational goals.
"He clearly is his own decision maker. He doesn't seem to rely even on experts within the government or the cabinet very much," said a senior NATO official. "So it's a bit hard to imagine that popular opinion sways him all that much."
That raises questions about the effectiveness of Western sanctions designed in part to make the war unpopular inside Russia by inflicting broad economic pain. Efforts to target Russian oligarchs have led to the seizure of millions of dollars in assets, including yachts and luxury properties around the world. But within Russia, analysts say Putin has succeeded in staving off the more immediate economic repercussions, at least for now.
And while there has been some grumbling among Russia's elites who are getting squeezed by sanctions, sources say it's nothing that would lead the intelligence community to believe that Putin will be forced to change course -- and certainly not enough to remove him from power.
"Wide range of opinions," said one of the sources briefed on US intelligence. "In my view, we are a long way from him being in any danger of being removed."
A popular war in Russia
Russian public opinion over the war remains high despite the heavy losses Russian forces have suffered, according to outside analysts and sources familiar with US intelligence. Officials are quick to note that most Russians don't fully grasp the reality of the war, thanks to the deeply repressive media environment inside Russia. Putin has tightened free speech laws surrounding the conflict and effectively shuttered the few remaining independent outlets.
Public dissent has also been quickly crushed. Widespread protests in the early days of the war were met with mass arrests. Even if disapproval is simmering beneath the surface of rosy public polls, fear of reprisal could keep that disapproval buried and ineffectual.
"Everybody will be against (the war) but they will be afraid of doing anything," said Dr. Natalia Savelyeva, a sociologist with the Center for European Policy Analysis who specializes in the conflict in Ukraine. "Kind of like a long-lasting, stable and horrible situation."
US intelligence officials are intensely tracking public views of the conflict inside Russia, in part because they do believe Putin's perception of public opinion might offer clues to his thinking and future decision-making, according to one source familiar with the latest reporting.
But sources say it has become increasingly difficult to measure public opinion from the outside. The US doesn't trust the available polling and Putin's crackdown on dissent has left American intelligence agencies without a confident picture of Russian attitudes -- and even poorer predictions of how those attitudes might shift as western sanctions begin to impact ordinary life or if Putin orders a mass mobilization amid mounting Russian casualties.
The US "has very little accurate insight post-invasion," said one source briefed on US intelligence. "The assumption right now is Putin has effectively isolated his people from information and repercussions regarding the conflict. How long he can do that is unknown."
For now, Putin appears to have been successful in pushing his alternate reality through state media, which has continued to report that Russia is fighting Nazis in Ukraine and that the West is to blame for the conflict. Even as unprecedented Western sanctions are expected to shrink Russia's GDP by at least 10% over the next year, both outside experts and officials familiar with US and western intelligence believe Putin and his war are broadly popular -- and are likely to remain so, in large part because of how effectively Putin has controlled the media narrative.
It is extremely unlikely that there will be a large enough shift in domestic attitudes to forge a popular uprising, according to one source familiar with the latest intelligence, and only slightly more likely that cracks in popular support for Putin and his war embolden Russian elites to stage a coup.
But even if public support were to tank, many officials familiar with the intelligence are doubtful that it would do much to alter Putin's commitment or ability to wage the war. Putin could simply move to repress any bubbling opposition, those sources and outside analysts say. Time is also on Putin's side: the Russian president doesn't face reelection until 2024.
"It would take a long time for that shift to happen anyway, given the way the information security culture works there," said one source familiar with western intelligence. "And that's not to assume he won't go full communist -- already you have people reporting on their neighbors.
"A culture of fear can live for a long time, even if you're not so popular," this person added. "And he is popular."
Percolating discontent
Despite the grim outlook, the Biden administration has in place a number of policy measures designed at least in part to turn Russians against the war. The CIA earlier this month published on social media instructions for how Russians concerned about the war can securely contact the agency. The State Department has started a Russian-language channel on Telegram, one of the few open social media platforms that remains available to Russians.
There have been some signs of percolating discontent inside Russia at different points since the beginning of the conflict, and there appears to be a growing awareness at least in Russia's urban centers and among younger Russians that the conflict isn't going very well. On Monday, a former senior Russian officer warned on state television that the situation will get worse, in a rare instance of public criticism of the conduct of Russia's military operations in Ukraine -- although, days later, he appeared to soften his criticism.
But inside the intelligence community, there is little optimism that Russian views of the war are changing.
"What we see is that the majority of the Russian people continue to support the special military operation," Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers earlier this month when asked directly about the impact of sanctions on popular resistance. "I think it's just very hard, frankly, for information to get into Russia to the Russian people. They have a very particular perspective that they're being fed by the government during this period."
Public opinion is still of "incredible interest" to the intelligence community, according to another source familiar with the latest reporting, because officials believe that Putin himself is closely watching for any cracks in his popular support. Watching public opinion may allow the intelligence community to predict Putin's next moves, this person said.
The Russian president -- long fearful of so-called democratic "color revolutions" -- is likely to be sensitive to marginal shifts in his popularity because his ability to command overwhelming support is one of the keys to maintaining his grip on power.
Popular sentiment may influence Putin's decision-making on ordering a mass mobilization, for example, even if it is unlikely to convince him to back away from the war, analysts say.
CIA Director William Burns said last week that the Russian leader is determined to fulfill a sense of personal destiny in seizing control of Ukraine through armed conflict, but as his forces continue to perform below expectations, he will likely be inclined to adjust his strategic thinking without quitting entirely.
Gaming out a post-Putin Russia
A mass mobilization order -- which senior US intelligence officials have said publicly that Putin would need to implement to achieve many of his war aims -- would also likely have an immediate impact on public perceptions of the war, analysts note.
"We can only guess," said Savelyeva of the Center for European Policy Analysis. "(But) that's a very different thing when you just observe the war on TV and support it, and when your child or yourself have to go and fight."
Some Russians will likely also blame the US and the west for the bite of sanctions, Savelyeva and other analysts note. Putin has primed the nation by insisting the west would have imposed sanctions against Russia no matter what action it took in Ukraine.
Multiple US officials and outside experts said that the only opinion Putin is forced to be truly responsive to is the opinion of Russia's security and business elite, who help keep him in power and whom he has made rich.
Still, the intelligence community has begun doing "serious exploratory analysis" in an effort to predict what the end of the Putin era might look like -- eventually.
"There's just a lot of ways that it looks super messy," this person said.
For now, the Biden administration has taken a wait-and-see approach.
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Lamoille Valley Dance Academy presents its spring 2022 production of “Snow White” on Saturday, May 21, at 6 p.m. and Sunday, May 22, at 3 p.m. at the Dibden Center on the campus of Northern Vermont University, Johnson.
Featuring local students ages 2 through 18, the production highlights dancers performing ballet, hip hop, contemporary dance and tap in this beloved Disney story. Always a popular sell-out event, the spring production appeals to all ages and is great for families.
Children performing represent Morrisville, Hyde Park, Stowe, Waterville, Jeffersonville, Cambridge, Craftsbury, Eden, Hardwick, Montgomery and Newport.
Original choreography and concept are by Alexis George-Owen, owner and artistic director of Lamoille Valley Dance Academy.
For tickets, go to buy.tututix.com/lamoillevalleydance.
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The Unusual Way Ikea Is Celebrating National Donut Day
Each year, the first Friday in June is reserved for all of us who have at least one thing in common with Homer Simpson — celebrating donuts. That's right, National Donut Day is June 3 of this year, so get ready to head over to your local bakery or favorite chain and indulge. Interestingly, per the Smithsonian Magazine, donuts "have a convoluted past that involves Dutch immigrants, Russian exiles, French bakers, Irving Berlin, Clark Gable, and a certain number of Native Americans." Moreover, it's believed that the Dutch olykoeks (oily cakes) came to Manhattan as the first type of donuts, and nowadays, the donut craze is so big that in the U.S. there are a whopping 10 billion donuts made annually.
These small, fatty, and sugary balls of fried dough with a hole in the middle are especially popular in Ohio's Butler County, which has its own Donut Trail running across "13 mom-and-pop donut shops" (via Travel Butler County). But what's the connection between donuts, Butler County, and the famous furniture store Ikea? It's all about the unusual way that Ikea West Chester is celebrating National Donut Day.
Ikea-inspired Meatball donuts make their debut on National Donut Day
Food & Wine reports that "Ikea West Chester has partnered with Travel Butler County to get in the donut day spirit with its own unorthodox pastry." The donut in question pays homage to Ikea food court's most famous food — Swedish meatballs. This unique donut will surely be an acquired taste as it features "a light and fluffy base, lingonberry glaze, lingonberry sauce, (and) a delectable Ikea meatball," which can be made from meat, or based on plants in a vegan version.
With their unusual mix of sweet and salty flavors, meatball donuts can be tasted at the West Chester Ikea on National Donut Day as well as the day after. The best part is that the meatball donuts will be given out for free, so anyone with an affinity for contrasting flavors will be able to indulge in them. If you find yourself on the Donut Trail, you can grab the official passport and collect stamps for donuts tasted at each stop. Once you complete the trail, you can exchange your stamped passport for a "complimentary Donut Trail T-shirt" (via Bake Magazine). If that's not a great incentive to try the quirky meatball donut, we don't know what is.
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In the not-so-distant future, 5G will become a regular part of internet users in India. Since 5G is around the corner, the industry experts have already started talking heavily about it. In a recently held event, the telecom industry experts said that 5G would open up a lot of new opportunities for Indians. But for the next-generation technology to be commercially successful, the industry and the government will have to work together.
Check What the Industry Executives and Experts had to Say About 5G
Anku Jain, Managing Director, MediaTek India, said with 5G, India has an exciting future to look forward to, and the onus is now on the telecom industry. Speaking at the 5th edition of the ‘5G India Leadership Summit 2022’, on the theme ‘Digitisation will define the future of 5G in India’, Jain said that India’s infrastructure is readying itself for the upcoming revolution and MediaTek is ready to lead from the front towards a smarter sustainable future.
Lt. Gen. Dr SP Kochhar, Director General, COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India), said with the inauguration of the prime minister’s 5G testbeds, the industry is on its way towards the indigenisation of 5G and that COAI is looking forward to working closely with the regulatory bodies and the service providers to navigate through the challenges.
Tarun Pathak, Research Director, Counterpoint said, devices are an integral part of the 5G ecosystem through which end users and enterprises will realise the value add and transformational power of this new G and this time, it will expand far beyond just consumer devices. Thus, India needs a strong 5G device ecosystem both on the consumer and enterprise front.
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By Carl Markham, PA
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is not allowing himself to even contemplate the dream scenario of a dramatic end to the title race where former captain Steven Gerrard does his old club a favour at Manchester City.
Pep Guardiola’s side have a one-point lead heading into the final match of the season so Liverpool, at home to Wolves, need to better their result if they are to snatch the championship away from their rivals.
The fact Gerrard, for whom the Premier League was the only winner’s medal missing from his career at Anfield, will be in the opposition dugout at the Etihad provides a more fantastical addition to a thrilling climax.
Setting up for the final day of the @premierleague season 👊🔴 pic.twitter.com/G6YFrRmsmI
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) May 19, 2022
While Klopp joked that he would have liked to have seen Gerrard on the pitch he insists he has not given much thought to how Sunday afternoon will play out.
“I can understand these kind of situations only by thinking myself in that role,” he said.
“If I would play a game and could help (Borussia) Dortmund or Mainz that would be, for me, an extra motivation – but I don’t play.
“And Stevie doesn’t play. That is a shame, much more of a shame that Stevie is not playing than I am not playing.
“We are all human beings. Stevie will take it 100 percent serious, I am sure, without me calling him or whatever, I don’t have to – the rest of the club probably already did it but I didn’t.
“A really good example of how motivated football teams are to fulfil their own targets is last night’s game for Crystal Palace.
“It was such an important game, one of the most important games in Everton’s history, and then Palace show up there and play incredible football and in the end they they lost, but the effort they put in, the passion they showed – the whole game from Palace was really good.
“We play to win and Aston Villa play to win. It (Etihad) is a difficult place to go, if you go there and don’t play 100 per cent you get five or six (scored against you) and if you are fully there you have a chance to get a result.
“But this is the game I am not concerned about, not thinking about, at all. Of all the things we speak about it is completely disrespectful to Wolves as they will do exactly the same.
“They don’t want to come here and be part of our celebrations. They come here and want to get three points, definitely.
“We have to be ready for this game not the other one.”
Irrespective of the outcome this weekend, whether or not Liverpool claim a record-equalling 20th league title and complete a domestic treble before next weekend’s Champions League final, Klopp said the season was one to be proud of.
They have already won the Carabao Cup and FA Cup and, having closed a 14-point gap to City from January his team remain on course to register 90-plus points for the third time in four seasons – a tally which would usually guarantee top spot were it not for the continued excellence of Guardiola’s side.
A victory parade is booked for Sunday May 29, the day after the Champions League final, and Klopp said it was only right their achievements were enjoyed.
An excellent attacking display against this weekend's opponents last season 🤩 #LIVWOL pic.twitter.com/YrNkHawqiO
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) May 19, 2022
“We have so many reasons to celebrate. We don’t know how many reasons but we have already enough reasons. It is enough to celebrate life,” he added.
“There is the Carabao Cup, the FA Cup and whatever will come. That we didn’t have the parade two years ago when we became champions is not the reason but another reason.”
Subliminally echoing a line from the song fans sing about it Klopp continued: “I am really happy what I promised that time and said ‘When it is possible we will have a parade’.
“It is all about us, what we want to celebrate. It is not about what other people think, I couldn’t care less.
“I know already what people will say about it – ‘Really?’ and all these kind of things – but it is just for us, just for Liverpool FC, for the people.
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8 insider tips for visiting L.A.'s only open weed bar
When the Artist Tree Studio Dispensary Lounge opened its doors on April 20, on the two floors above its West Hollywood dispensary, it became — for the next few months, at least — the only legal cannabis consumption lounge in the Los Angeles area to be up and running. (The Original Cannabis Cafe, which was open pre-pandemic at the opposite end of WeHo, is currently closed, and the City of Los Angeles has not issued any consumption-lounge licenses to date.)
To find out what it’s like to get high in public and surrounded by total strangers these days, I booked a table, grabbed my best blazing buddy, Chip, and set off to Santa Monica Boulevard. It turned out to be buzz-inducing balm for the soul, and the kind of place where both the seasoned social smoker and the novice cannathusiast will feel at ease.
In no time at all, we were cackling like schoolkids on the playground of the mind, back-and-forthing lines from those Progressive Insurance commercials about turning into your parents.
Even better, though we weren’t interacting with the pot-puffing patrons of the tables around us, we weren’t exactly not interacting with them either. And somewhere around the third smoking wand of Orange Apricot cannabis flower, public pot smoking went from feeling strange and new to feeling like the most natural thing in the world.
And then the chicken wings we’d forgotten all about (more on that below) arrived, flapping to their demise by way of clamshell container, devoured in between the snorts, guffaws and chortles of a well-had high.
With that smoke- and laughter-filled magic carpet ride in the rearview mirror, here are a few top takeaways and things to think about if you’re considering doing the same.
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Elevated decor
The Artist Tree’s four shops (three in the L.A. area and a fourth in Riverside) aren’t just dispensaries, they’re also functioning art galleries that sell the works adorning the walls.
That aesthetic carries over to the consumption lounge as well, where the art is displayed amid clubby library/SoHo House decor that includes bookcases, entry doors with stained-glass windows, a patio with boldly striped upholstered cushions and a well-stocked bar that, instead of alcohol (which is not on the menu), is a showcase for a range of cannabis flower, prerolled joints, concentrates and edibles in glass cases set into the bar top.
Instead of spirits bottles, the shelves behind the bar are filled with an assortment of glass bongs, futuristic vaporizers and other pieces of pot paraphernalia.
Plan (and book) ahead
Getting the most out of any outside-the-home high takes a little bit of advance planning, and it’s no different here. Although walk-ins are accepted on a space-available basis, it’s a smart idea to make a reservation (via OpenTable) in advance.
The upside is that you’ll get the lowdown on all the necessary and super-crucial details, including the proof-of-vaccination requirement, the fact that your reservation is for an 75-minute time slot, and the admission fee ($15 per person or $30 for a table of up to five people).
Although the lounge has a heavy-duty air filtration system to help keep billowing clouds at bay, the smoke-averse might prefer to take a table on the third floor, which is reserved for noncombustible consumption such as edibles, potables and tinctures. This third-floor space also will be where stoned yoga classes and puff-and-paint art classes (featuring the artists whose for-sale work fills the walls of the dispensary and lounge) take place. More on those below.
Also, plan to bring cash — or a debit card. Both are accepted methods of payment (the latter for a $3 fee), but credit cards, due to federal banking restrictions, are not.
Pro tip: The two ATMs in the dispensary downstairs do accept credit cards that allow for cash advances. Also, request an outside table, which will put you on a patio balcony overlooking Santa Monica Boulevard.
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Take a rideshare
This should go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway: The single smartest and most responsible thing you can do is to arrange for someone else to be behind the wheel to and from your visit. This has less to do with the lack of parking and more to do with the fact that driving while high is as stupid, dangerous and irresponsible as driving drunk.
The dispensary and lounge share just a handful of spots, and West Hollywood parking restrictions make the surrounding streets an exercise in futility in the best of circumstances.
Bring a friend (or five)
Saving a few bucks on the cover charge isn’t the only reason to bring baking buddies along for the adventure.
Smoking, especially out in the wild, has always been an inherently social thing, and having a few of your favorite weed-smoking friends along for the adventure will keep you from being the burly bearded guy chain-smoking prerolls at the weed bar all by himself and scanning the room like a sky marshal. Unless that’s your jam, of course.
Order food (first)
If you’re the kind of cannabis consumer prone to get the munchies, seriously consider placing your food order shortly after you’re seated. That’s because the eats, ordered online via a QR code at each table, come from Kitchen24, a block away on Santa Monica Boulevard, and will take about 20 minutes to get to your table. (Outside food and beverages aren’t allowed.)
Pro tip: While we couldn’t go wrong with the Buffalo-style Red Hot Wings, next time we’re determined to throw caution to the wind and order a messy-looking plate of Disco Fries — garlic french fries smothered in chicken gravy and topped with melted provolone cheese.
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Engage your ‘budler’
Cannabis products consumed in the lounge on-site must be purchased in the downstairs dispensary the same day as your visit or ordered via a digital tablet from your budtender/server/waitperson. I suggest the latter option, especially if you’re in the mood to try something different.
That’s because, in addition to helping you dial in your buzz by quizzing you on the desired effects or flavors, your tableside server (a.k.a. “budler” as Allyn Moriyon, who waited on us, referred to himself) will be able to point to two important pieces of information that accompany each menu item: the onset time (how long until you can expect to start feeling the effects) in the lower left-hand corner and duration (how long you can expect those effects to last) in the lower right-hand corner.
By way of example, the jar of Tree Orange Apricot flower ($45 for 3.5 grams of one of the dispensary’s in-house brands) we ordered listed an onset time of “0-10 minutes” and a duration of “2-4 hours.”
Artist Tree co-owner Lauren Fontein explained that efforts had been made to stock faster-acting edibles for on-site consumption, explaining that the longer onset time associated with most edibles meant the possibility of patrons not actually feeling the effects until after they’d left.
Pro tip: Yes, you should tip your budler as you would any other server at a restaurant.
Try something different
The consumption lounge format provides the perfect opportunity to switch things up both weed-wise and consumption-method-wise. If you usually skew toward vaporizer pens, snap into some prerolls while you’re here, and if you’re a pipe person at home, this is a chance to experiment with a bong (a.k.a. a waterpipe).
Your budler will bring a plastic grinder, a pack of rolling papers and a lighter to the table (all of which are yours to take home) free of charge, but bong rentals range from $7 to $40 (they’re cleaned and sanitized between uses, Fontein says).
In addition to bubblers and glass beaker bongs, the stylish devices on hand to experiment with include the sleek, futuristic-looking Puffco Peak (used to consume cannabis concentrates) and the new Nespresso-machine-like Beed joint-rolling machine, which will be rolled to your table on a bar cart complete with a portable battery pack.
Unlike the other rentals, use of the Beed is gratis with the purchase of the pot-filled pods ($7 per 0.5-gram pod, sleeves of eight for $49). But the showstopper to end all showstoppers — and the must-try toy — is the Stündenglass gravity bong.
The pricey pod-based Beed from an L.A. startup is the joint-rolling party trick that post-pandemic folks deserve.
Renting this gadget ($40) is the consumption-lounge equivalent of ordering bananas Foster flambé in a crowded restaurant, thanks to the twin, water-filled globes that somersault over each other and fill with smoke that is then forced out of a hose in a thin stream to be inhaled by the user.
It’s high-tech and “Alice in Wonderland’s” hookah-smoking caterpillar all at once and an experience for which you’d otherwise have to shell out the almost $600 purchase price. (The plastic hoses and wand-like tips come to the table shrink-wrapped in plastic and are recycled — not reused — after each use.)
Chip and I decided to go all in on the gravity bong, and it definitely set the tone for an evening of fun. Allyn wheeled the contraption to our table with great flourish and gave us a brief tutorial, and we were off to the races.
Wielding the hose wand like wannabe wizards, we took turns propelling jets of smoke across inches of open space from the pointed tip into our mouths like tendrils of mirth-inducing electricity.
Add in an activity
If you’re not used to getting high in a public setting, simply booking a table and firing up a prerolled joint might be entertaining enough. But for those more skilled in the smoking arts, I highly recommend scheduling a visit while one of the myriad activities or entertainment offerings is taking place.
The schedule currently includes a Sunday afternoon Wake & Bake Drag Brunch, cannabis-infused yoga classes on Monday evenings, sound bath sessions on Wednesday evenings and Thursday night live comedy shows. Information about and reservations for all of the events can be found at the lounge’s Eventbrite page and website.
Chip and I planned our visit to coincide with the first comedy show in the space, and being high in a roomful of other high people laughing (and, very occasionally, groaning) together was its own kind of surreal entertainment.
Most of the comedians who took to the postage-stamp-sized stage while we were there were genuinely funny, and even the ones who weren’t exactly killing it were still plenty entertaining thanks to the tumbling Stündenglass at our table.
The Artist Tree Studio Dispensary Lounge
Open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at 8625 Santa Monica Blvd., second and third floors, West Hollywood.
theartisttree.com
The Artist Tree’s consumption lounge won’t be a one-of-a-kind experience for very long. In July, the Woody Harrelson- and Bill Maher-backed the Woods (not to be confused with the Hollywood bar of the same name) will open its consumption lounge concept in West Hollywood. The dispensary side of that business opened its doors last Friday at 8271 Santa Monica Blvd., less than a mile from the Artist Tree.
Until then, though, this art-filled space is the only place to stylishly sesh surrounded by strangers, and, after two long years of hunkering down and getting high at home, will be balm for the social smoker’s soul. I’d say I can’t recommend trying it highly enough, but I’m pretty sure I just did.
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Coastal Farm and Ranch Will Offer Byrna's SD XL Product Line
ANDOVER, Mass., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Byrna Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: BYRN) ("Byrna", "the Company") today announced that Coastal Farm and Ranch, operating in the Pacific Northwest has begun carrying the Byrna SD XL product line. With 20 store locations in Oregon and Washington, customers will be able to purchase the Byrna SD XL product powered by the readily available 12 Gram CO2 cartridge. Capable of firing up to 30 shots at 300 feet per second with the factory installed Byrna Boost adaptor. The SD XL can incapacitate two and four legged creatures at standoff distances out to 60 feet! Perfect for self-defense, home defense, practice, training, and recreation for everyone from mom and daughter to the rancher, fisherman, and outdoorsman.
"Working closely with our distribution partner Big Rock Sports, and with our outside sales force in the Pacific Northwest, Maschmedt and Associates, Byrna is proud to continue expanding into more retail locations carrying Byrna products. The addition of these 20 locations is yet another example of the dealer sales team successfully implementing the company's long term growth strategy," stated Alan Vogel, Director of Dealer Sales.
Byrna is a technology company, specializing in the development, manufacture, and sale of innovative non-lethal personal security solutions. For more information on the Company, please visit the corporate website here or the Company's investor relations site here. The Company is the manufacturer of the Byrna® SD personal security device, a state-of-the-art handheld CO2 powered launcher designed to provide a non-lethal alternative to a firearm for the consumer, private security, and law enforcement markets. To purchase Byrna products, visit the Company's e-commerce store.
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With a potentially crucial trip to Plymouth Argyle just a couple of days away, Corry Evans was rested for the visit of Shrewsbury Town on Good Friday.
In the end, he called for Evans anyway: Sunderland had let a two-goal lead slip and for the first time in his tenure, he felt his side were being beaten up.
In a tiny pocket of the Stadium of Light there was some discontent at the substitution, but more broadly the growing importance of the Northern Irishman to this improving side was sinking in. Sunderland steadied, they won, they took a point at Plymouth and kicked on again.
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At Home Park he was roared off the pitch, again the anchor his team needed to keep their momentum growing. For player, for team, for club, a corner had been comprehensively turned.
It has been another exhausting season of ups and downs on Wearside and Evans has embodied that journey, the quiet heartbeat of a side that has without fuss produced a 15-unbeaten run to reach Wembley. A team that has dug in, played with resilience and gone 'til the end, time and time again.
The exhilarating early days of the season seem like they belong to another era, but so too do the trying days and nights of January and February when Evans was one of many under the spotlight as a campaign looked like it was imploding.
"It says a lot about the character in the squad, and that we have players with the quality to step up when it matters," Evans tells The Echo.
"We've got that in abundance here. The more you do it, the more you get that belief that you can keep reproducing it.
"It's all led to this point: one game to go and try and achieve our goal which is promotion next weekend."
For Evans himself, the factors behind his form have been two-fold and the first is a simple matter of fitness.
Without a full pre-season under his belt, the first half of the season was a constant battle to try and play and contribute while building that base level. It became something of a vicious cycle.
"I think at the start, you're chasing fitness," he says.
"I came in and played against Hearts two days later, at which point I think I'd done half a day of training.
"From then on you're in a position where you're playing games, but you haven't really got that base fitness level [to work from].
"You feel like you're always chasing it, you get a little niggle and when you come back, you're chasing again and all of a sudden you get another niggle.
"That repeated for a few months, and I think any footballer will tell you that getting a clear run of games, you find a consistency and a sharpness within your game.
"I think in the last few months I've been able to show that."
Evans has also been a vital part of Neil's subtle but important tactical changes.
The kind of counter-attacking goals that Sunderland were too often conceding when Neil arrived have all but disappeared, and a key part of that has been the savvy of his captain.
"The manager has changed a few things in the team, which I think has probably helped us in those things you mention, defending against the counter and our vulnerability behind the ball," Evans says.
"There have been little changes in our mentality in that way that have helped us, and they're also roles that I've been used to doing before. I've been able to use my experience to carry that out."
Ask Neil about Evans' importance, and he will outline how so much of his good work is reflected in the tackles he never has to make, the attacks that never happen because he snuffs them out at source.
As the midfielder himself said there is no doubt that his game is sharper and more incisive now than in midwinter, but what has also helped is the perspective that comes with over a decade in the game carrying out this exact task.
Like his manager, blocking out the noise quite clearly comes easily: "It's just about the team for me, at the end of the day.
"I think I'm fairly selfless as a player, it's just about the team getting the wins to go on and be successful. I've always been that type of player - team first.
"Throughout my whole career it's been a bit like that, where people might not appreciate me because I'm not scoring loads of goals or pulling off those wonder passes.
"But I think managers and team-mates have recognised the stuff that I do, the little things that I do within the game that you don't always naturally see.
"I'm used to that, so it's nothing new to me."
Evans may not fit the traditional mould of captain but his understated manner has of late been vital, particularly in the guidance offered to young players still taking their first steps in the game.
"I never doubted we could do this, even in that difficult period," he says.
"I could see the quality we had within the squad when I first joined, and some of the football we were playing and results we were getting, we were really good.
"Sometimes you can go through dips in form and I think we've come out of that period better as players and as a team.
"I think we've learned from those experiences, particularly the younger players who it will be invaluable for moving forward in their careers.
"We've got a lot of talented players who will go on to play at a really high level, and if I can help them in any way, even if it's just a little chat about something, where they could be [on the pitch] or what they could do in certain scenarios, I will.
"There's a good mix here at the moment."
The calm with which Evans speaks about the season gone and the challenge still ahead is striking.
Neil's message of never looking too far ahead has been the bedrock of the late push to get to Wembley and it's one that is reflected in Evans’ measured outlook.
There was pride at edging past Sheffield Wednesday, especially away from home and so late in the game, but attention quickly turned to Wycombe.
There will be a time to reflect on this rollercoaster campaign, but it's not yet.
"It's been a good period for us but you just keep that focus.
"The atmosphere at the Stadium of Light [for the first leg[, that was incredible. The walk out and just throughout the game, it was one of the best I've seen and played in. The fans were amazing.
"Over the past few weeks, it's just been about one game at a time.
"We've definitely enjoyed the moments as a team along the way, scoring late winners and things like that, fighting 'til the end.
"It's been good in the changing rooms afterward, the morale and the confidence, but it very quickly has moved to 'right, the next one'.
"That's been the mentality and it'll stay like that, because we want to win promotion and if you are able to do that, then you can sit back and soak in everything that has happened along the way."
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Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel’s recommendation, opening a third COVID-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids — just like what is already recommended for everybody 12 and older.
The hope is that an extra shot will shore up protection for kids ages 5 to 11 as infections once again are on the rise.
“Vaccination with a primary series among this age group has lagged behind other age groups leaving them vulnerable to serious illness,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, in a statement.
“We know that these vaccines are safe, and we must continue to increase the number of children who are protected,” she said.
Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s kid-sized booster, to be offered at least five months after the youngsters’ last shot.
The CDC takes the next step of recommending who actually needs vaccinations. Its advisers debated if all otherwise healthy 5- to 11-year-olds need an extra dose, especially since so many children were infected during the huge winter surge of the omicron variant.
But the U.S. now is averaging 100,000 new cases a day for the first time since February. And ultimately, the CDC’s advisers pointed to growing evidence from older kids and adults that two primary vaccinations plus a booster are providing the best protection against the newest coronavirus variants.
“This always perhaps should have been a three-dose vaccine,” said Dr. Grace Lee of Stanford University, who chairs the CDC’s advisory panel.
The booster question isn’t the hottest vaccine topic: Parents still are anxiously awaiting a chance to vaccinate kids under 5 — the only group not yet eligible in the U.S.
Dr. Doran Fink of the Food and Drug Administration said the agency is working “as rapidly as we can” to evaluate an application from vaccine maker Moderna, and is awaiting final data on the littlest kids from rival Pfizer. The FDA’s own advisers are expected to publicly debate data from one or both companies next month.
For the 5- to 11-year-olds, it’s not clear how much booster demand there will be. Only about 30% of that age group have had the initial two Pfizer doses since vaccinations opened to them in November.
CDC adviser Dr. Helen Keipp Talbot of Vanderbilt University said health authorities must put more effort into getting youngsters their initial shots.
“That needs to be a priority,” she said.
Thursday’s decision also means that 5- to 11-year-olds with severely weakened immune systems, who are supposed to get three initial shots, would be eligible for a fourth dose.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech currently make the only COVID-19 vaccine available for children of any age in the U.S. Those ages 5 to 11 receive a dose that’s one-third the amount given to everyone 12 and older.
In a small study, Pfizer found a booster revved up those kids’ levels of virus-fighting antibodies — including those able to fight the super-contagious omicron variant — the same kind of jump adults get from an extra shot.
Vaccines may not always prevent milder infections, and the omicron variant proved especially able to slip past their defenses. But CDC cited data during the omicron surge that showed unvaccinated 5- to 11-year-olds had twice the rate of hospitalization as youngsters who got their first two doses.
Health authorities say for all ages, the vaccines are still offering strong protection against COVID-19’s worst outcomes, especially after a third dose.
Some especially high-risk people, including those 50 and older, have been offered the choice of a second booster, or fourth shot — and the CDC on Thursday strengthened that recommendation, too, urging anyone who’s eligible to go ahead and get the extra dose.
Still to be decided is whether everyone will need additional shots in the fall, possibly reformulated to offer better protection against newer coronavirus variants.
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The Kaduna State Government has revealed that in the first quarter of 2022, 360 people were killed through banditry and communal clashes.
This was disclosed by the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan while presenting the 2022 First Quarter Report on security to the state governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, on Thursday in Kaduna.
The Commissioner also revealed that 3,251 animals were rustled during the period, with Kaduna Central accounting for 3,137, making up 97 per cent of the total.
What the government is saying
Aruwan revealed that 360 persons were killed between January and March 2022 through banditry and communal clashes.
He added that 1,389 persons were kidnapped during the period under review within Kaduna Central Senatorial District, citing that 169 persons were kidnapped from Birnin Gwari. Giwa recorded 158, Igabi 263, Chikun 287 and Kajuru had 203 people kidnapped from the Local Government Area.
Meanwhile, in Kaduna South, 249 people were kidnapped due to banditry and other violent attacks.
“3,251 animals were rustled during the period, out of which 3,137 were stolen from Kaduna Central, accounting for 97 per cent of the total.
“Some 41 bandits were neutralized by the ground force while more than 60 were neutralized through various air strikes carried out at identified bandit camps within the state.
“Arms intercepted included 18 AK47 rifles, 7 sub-machine guns, 5 pump action rifles and ammunition which includes 22 AK47 magazines, 254 pump action cartridges, and 1,195 rounds of live ammunition,” he said.
The commissioner said the state government will continue to collaborate with federal security agencies and stakeholders in their operations and support respectively within the state and for the establishment of a theatre to tackle terrorism and banditry in the Northwest, just like what exists in the Northeast,
What you should know
- Nairametrics reported earlier this year that the Kaduna state government revealed for the year 2021, 1,192 persons were killed by banditry and violent attacks in the state and 3,348 people were kidnapped, while 891 others were injured within the year.
- At least 2,085 persons were reportedly killed in Nigeria in the 4th quarter of 2021 in violent incidents, including attacks from Boko Haram, militia herdsmen, abductions, gang clashes and terrorists, according to SBM Intelligence, a socioeconomic research firm, in its Media Reported Killings in Nigeria report for Q4 2021 (October to December 2021).
- Nigeria experienced a 47% increase in media reported killings, from 7063 fatalities in 2020 to 10,366 in 2021. | https://nairametrics.com/2022/05/20/kaduna-state-says-360-people-killed-1399-kidnapped-in-q1-2022/ | 2022-05-20T13:27:58Z | https://nairametrics.com/2022/05/20/kaduna-state-says-360-people-killed-1399-kidnapped-in-q1-2022/ | false | 1 |
Recent decades have seen remarkable growth in astronomy on the African continent. Africa enjoys pristine dark skies and vast radio quiet zones, making it the ideal home for many advanced telescopes trained on our galaxy and beyond.
For instance, Namibia hosts the High Energy Spectroscopic System (HESS), which is an impressive gamma-ray telescope. The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) in the small South African town of Sutherland is the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. The MeerKAT telescope in South Africa’s arid and sparsely populated Karoo region is one of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes. It is also one of the precursor telescopes that have been built in preparation for an almighty radio telescope called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
The SKA is an international mega-science project. Part of it will be built in South Africa and will incorporate MeerKAT. The other part will be built in Western Australia. Construction of the SKA is expected to begin this year.
Through these and other projects, Africa is beginning to emerge as a world leader in astronomy. Many brilliant scientists contribute to this status – but without one, Dr Bernie Fanaroff, the SKA might never have come to South African shores.
We are both astronomers and, in March 2019 launched a podcast, The Cosmic Savannah, to showcase the amazing astronomy and astrophysics coming out of the African continent. When we reached the 50th episode, Bernie was the obvious guest for the landmark occasion.
Who better than Bernie, we thought, to reflect on how the discipline reached this point.
Globally famous
Fanaroff is one of the key individuals responsible for the current growth and strength of astronomy in South Africa. He is a world-renowned radio astronomer who, while working on his PhD at Cambridge University in the early 1970s, made a breakthrough discovery about radio galaxies. Radio galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their cores which spew out huge jets of plasma and glow at radio wavelengths.
Read more: Discovery of two new giant radio galaxies offers fresh insights into the universe
Bernie and his collaborator, a British astronomer named Julia Riley, were some of the first people to examine high-resolution images of such radio galaxies. They noticed that the luminosity of a radio galaxy was closely related to the shape of the plasma jets. This led to what became known as the “Fanaroff-Riley” classification system, still used today, in which galaxies are grouped by their “Fanaroff-Riley” type.
But it took decades for Fanaroff to learn that a classification system had been named partly in his honour. He left the field of astronomy shortly after completing his PhD. Incensed by the poor treatment of workers in apartheid South Africa, he joined the National Union of Metalworkers, eventually becoming its national secretary. He later served in Nelson Mandela’s government, beginning in 1994.
Come 2003, he attended an astronomy conference – and discovered he was world famous. He told us:
One or two people said to me, ‘Are you the Fanaroff of Fanaroff-Riley?’ This was actually news to me. And they said, ‘We thought you were dead! We heard you’d died because nobody’s heard anything of you since, you know, 1974.’ So I said, ‘No, I haven’t died and it is me,’ but it was all a bit of a surprise.
After this, Fanaroff returned to astronomy: he became the project director for South Africa’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array Telescope. Both South Africa and Australia were finalists in the bid; in 2012 it was decided by the international SKA consortium that the telescope would be split between both sites.
A long-term vision
Fanaroff and his colleague, Professor Justin Jonas, drove the bid. In our interview, he recalled:
So [Jonas] said, if we’re going to have the world’s largest telescope in South Africa and in Africa, we better develop a community of radio astronomers and engineers who can build it and use it. So we were able to persuade our steering committee that we should start building a precursor.
The project quickly became about more than just science: it also drove human capacity development in South African astronomy. At the time of the SKA bid there were only five or six radio astronomers in the country.
Read more: How the SKA telescope is boosting South Africa's knowledge economy
He explained:
“We decided very early on that we had to focus on getting the young people into science and making sure that we could develop them. So we put aside money for grants for undergraduate study in physics and engineering, for postgraduate study, for masters and PhD students, for research fellows.”
Ultimately, it was this long-term vision which led to Bernie and his team landing the biggest global scientific project in Africa.
A bright age of astronomy
Thanks to people like Bernie, the future is bright for African astronomy. His message to young researchers, he said on the podcast, is:
I think that you’re actually in a golden age of astronomy and I really envy you and the other young people who are coming into astronomy. Now you’ve got the MeerKAT, but you’ll soon have the SKA, which will be a wonderful telescope.
He added: “You’ll have the (James Webb Space Telescope), which will be a revolutionary optical and infrared telescope. You’ve got all the other new telescopes, the Extremely Large Telescope (in Chile), gamma-ray telescopes. And of course, you’ve now got gravitational wave telescopes. So you’re in a golden age where you’re going to be having so many opportunities.” | https://theconversation.com/how-visionary-scientist-bernie-fanaroff-put-african-astronomy-on-the-map-183248 | 2022-05-20T13:32:21Z | https://theconversation.com/how-visionary-scientist-bernie-fanaroff-put-african-astronomy-on-the-map-183248 | true | 3 |
American College of Cardiology NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Award recognizes sustained, high level performance in quality care
NEW BERN, N.C., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CarolinaEast Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology's NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2022. CarolinaEast is one of only 240 hospitals nationwide to receive this honor. The award recognizes CarolinaEast's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that CarolinaEast has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients.
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that over 800,000 Americans suffer a heart attack each year. A heart attack occurs when a blood clot in a coronary artery partially or completely blocks blood flow to the heart muscle. Treatment guidelines include administering aspirin upon arrival and discharge, timely restoration of blood flow to the blocked artery, smoking cessation counseling and cardiac rehabilitation, among others.
"It is an honor to award CarolinaEast with the Platinum Performance Award for their valuable national leadership and dedication to meeting comprehensive performance measures in patient care," said Michael C. Kontos, MD, FACC, chair of the NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Steering Subcommittee, and cardiologist at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. "The receipt of this award indicates that CarolinaEast remains committed to providing top quality, guideline-driven care for heart attack patients. Their success ensures patients are receiving the highest quality cardiovascular care."
To receive the Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award, CarolinaEast has demonstrated sustained achievement in the Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry for two consecutive years (2020 and 2021), and performed at the highest level for specific performance measures. Full participation in the registry engages hospitals in a robust quality improvement process using data to drive improvements in adherence to guideline recommendations and overall quality of care provided to heart attack patients.
Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patients according to the most current, science-based guidelines and establishes a national standard for understanding and improving the quality, safety and outcomes of care provided for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk heart attack patients.
"We are very pleased to have obtained this exemplary distinction due to the continued integrative efforts of our cardiovascular team," said Dr. Laurance Farmer, Cardiologist and Chest Pain Center Medical Director at CarolinaEast. "This recognition demonstrates CarolinaEast's dedication to providing high quality, evidenced-based care to all members of our community."
CarolinaEast also boasts an American College of Cardiology accredited Chest Pain Center, HeartCARE Center, Cath Lab and Heart Failure program. For more information, visit acc.org.
About CarolinaEast Medical Center
CarolinaEast Health System has been serving the growing needs of the coastal North Carolina community since 1963. In addition to the system's flagship, 350 bed CarolinaEast Medical Center, CarolinaEast includes a rehabilitation hospital, free- standing surgery center, the SECU Comprehensive Cancer Center, and numerous CarolinaEast Physician practices providing primary and specialty care for all phases of life from offices in four counties.
Contact:
Brandy Popp, Director, Public Relations
CarolinaEast Health System
252-633-8154
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AMITYVILLE, N.Y., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSSC), one of the leading designers and manufacturers of high-tech electronic security devices, wireless recurring communication services for intrusion, fire alarm, access control and locking systems as well as a leading provider of school safety solutions today announced that management will be presenting at the 22nd Annual B Riley Securities Institutional Investor Conference on Wednesday May 25, 2022, in Los Angeles, CA.
NAPCO management is scheduled to present at 9:30 AM PT (12:30PM ET) on Wednesday May 25, 2022. NAPCO management will be hosting one-on-one meetings held throughout the conference. We will discuss our recently released fiscal third quarter 2022 results including our record quarterly sales and the inflection points that are driving these and future results.
To receive additional information, request an invitation or to schedule a one-on-one meeting, please contact your B Riley Securities sales representative or Patrick McKillop, Director IR for NAPCO at pmckillop@napcosecurity.com.
About NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc.
NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc., is one of the world's leading manufacturers and service providers of high-tech electronic security devices as well as a leading provider of school safety solutions. The Company consists of four Divisions: NAPCO, plus three wholly-owned subsidiaries: Alarm Lock, Continental Instruments, and Marks USA. Headquartered in Amityville, New York, its products are installed by tens of thousands of security professionals worldwide in commercial, industrial, institutional, residential and government applications. NAPCO products have earned a reputation for innovation, technical excellence and reliability, positioning the Company for growth in the multi-billion dollar and rapidly expanding electronic security market. For additional information on NAPCO, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.napcosecurity.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections of future performance based on management's judgment, beliefs, current trends, and anticipated product performance. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic; the growth of recurring service revenue and annual run rate; the introduction of new access control and locking products; the opportunities for fire alarm products; and our ability to execute our business strategies. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including those risk factors set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Other unknown or unpredictable factors or underlying assumptions subsequently proving to be incorrect could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance, or achievements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. All information provided in this press release is as of today's date, unless otherwise stated, and the Company undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
Contacts:
Patrick McKillop
Director of Investor Relations
NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc.
800-645-9445 x 374
Mobile: 516-404-3597
pmckillop@napcosecurity.com
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A group of international hackers are attempting to distract Russian officials from the war in Ukraine with joke calls.
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By visiting the page and clicking a button, the website will start ringing a list of leaked phone numbers belonging to the Russian government, military and intelligence.
A short clip of audio has been released by the hackers.
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Recession could follow after historic California budget surplus
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — On the heels of recording a historic estimated $97 billion budget surplus, a recession could be on the horizon.
State financial leaders said it could happen soon and because of how Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to spend the massive budget surplus. California may face a significant budget shortfall as soon as next year.
The warning is coming from California’s non-partisan Legislative Analyst Office in response to Newsom’s latest state budget proposal. The LAO said his budget plan sets the state up for a fiscal cliff that could amount to budget cuts in the billions.
“The fiscal cliff that we’re talking about is that the state’s revenue picture is so strong it’s putting us on course to be above the state appropriations limit,” Gabe Petek said.
Petek said the governor’s budget proposal would leave the state $3.4 billion over that constitutional spending limit this year and another $22 billion next year.
California manufacturers want a halt to tax on purchases of new equipmentThe law — also known as the Gann Limit — is calculated every year based on population and inflation. It requires every dollar over the limit to be associated with $1.60 in required spending to get under the limit.
Recent years have made it tricky to stay under the limit as the state’s population slightly decreased while revenues have boomed.
And with more money comes more problems, the LAO notes this issue becomes worse with continued revenue growth, but at the same time, officials said there’s also a heightened risk of recession.
“There is the risk revenues could go down because of a recession. In fact, we think the risk of recession has increased and that would present a whole different set of budget problems of course because we wouldn’t have enough revenue to pay for our existing commitments. That’s why we recommend the state and legislature consider adding to discretionary reserves. The discretionary reserves help us in either scenario,” Petek said.
“We agree there’s a lot of uncertainty out there, but we believe however the governor’s revised version of the state budget places the state in a solid position knowing there’s that uncertainty ahead,” H.D. Palmer said.
H.D. Palmer is the spokesman for the California Department of Finance. He said billions of dollars are going into reserves.
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The LAO has said the legislature and governor have some time to figure this out and can address state appropriations limit problem in two ways: either cutting taxes over time or asking voters to change the limit.
Democratic leaders in the state senate and governor have signaled they’ll ask voters to change the limit in 2024.
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