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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council called on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers Tuesday to “swiftly reverse" their policies and practices restricting the human rights of women and girls.
In a press statement approved by all 15 council members, the U.N.’s most powerful body expressed “deep concern” at the Taliban’s restrictions limiting girls' access to education and women's employment, freedom of movement and “full, equal and meaningful participation in public life."
“These restrictions contradict the expectations of the international community and the commitments made by the Taliban to the Afghan people,” the council emphasized.
When the Taliban first ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were subject to overwhelming restrictions -- no education, no participation in public life, and women were required to wear the all-encompassing burqa.
Following the Taliban ouster by U.S. forces following the 9/11 attacks in the United States, and for the next 20 years, Afghan girls were not only enrolled in school but universities, and many women became doctors, lawyers, judges, members of parliament and owners of businesses, traveling without face coverings.
After the Taliban overran the capital last Aug. 15 as U.S. and NATO forces were in the final stages of their chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years, they promised a more moderate form of Islamic rule including allowing women to continue their education and work outside the home, and initially announcing no dress code though they also vowed to impose Sharia, or Islamic law.
But in recent weeks Taliban hard-liners have since turned back the clock to their previous harsh rule, confirming the worst fears of rights activists and further complicating Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community.
Earlier this month, the Taliban ordered all women in public to wear head-to-toe clothing that leaves only their eyes visible. The decree said women should leave the home only when necessary and that male relatives would face punishment for women’s dress code violations, starting with a summons and escalating to court hearings and jail time.
The Taliban leadership has also barred girls from attending school after the sixth grade, reversing previous promises by its officials that girls of all ages would be allowed an education. And this week the Taliban began enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air.
The Security Council statement, supported by Afghanistan’s neighbor China as well as the United States and Russia, called for the Taliban to “swiftly reverse” its actions and reiterated the council’s previous call “to adhere to their commitments to reopen schools for all female students without further delay.”
The council held emergency closed-door consultations on the Taliban’s crackdown on Afghan girls and women on May 12 at the request of Ireland and Mexico, co-chairs of its Informal Expert Group on Women, Peace and Security.
They called the Taliban’s latest actions appalling saying they confirmed that Afghan’s rulers have “no intention of promoting, respecting or upholding the rights of women and girls, or of honoring the multiple commitments that they have made to Afghan women and to the international community in recent months.”
Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward said before the Taliban came to power last August, 3.6 million girls were in school, a quarter of the seats in parliament were held by women, and women comprised 20% of the workforce. She stressed after that council meeting that women shouldn’t have to accept “a life banished to the sidelines.”
The Security Council statement also expressed “deep concern” at “the volatile situation in Afghanistan” especially continued terrorist attacks across the country targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, and the cultivation and trafficking of illicit drugs. It also called for strengthened efforts to address “the dire humanitarian and economic situation” in the country.
In February, President Joe Biden signed an order to free $7 billion in Afghan assets frozen in the United States, splitting the money between humanitarian aid for Afghanistan and a fund for Sept. 11 victims. No money was immediately released, and the order called for banks to provide $3.5 billion of the frozen amount to a trust fund for distribution through humanitarian groups for Afghan relief and basic needs. The other $3.5 billion will stay in the United States. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/UN-calls-on-Taliban-to-reverse-new-rules-for-17195778.php | 2022-05-24T21:07:55Z | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/UN-calls-on-Taliban-to-reverse-new-rules-for-17195778.php | true | 11 |
Violent Bronx street gang terrorized housing complex — and killed a pigeon on livestream: prosecutors
Neither man nor bird was safe from this violent Bronx street gang.
Authorities announced a sprawling 65-count indictment Tuesday involving the River Park Towers gang, alleging the criminal enterprise operating in and around the housing complex overlooking the Harlem River was responsible for multiple shootings — and the live-streamed killing of a pigeon.
Officials announced the indictments of 23 gang members for gun crimes, attempted murder and Rikers Island beatdowns of a rival gang member and a correction officer. In an August 2020 incident, seven defendants were charged for blasting 11 gunshots into a building vestibule, narrowly missing the head of one target.
“These defendants allegedly engaged in gun violence, committing six shootings, one which injured a rival gang member,” said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark. “They allegedly fired wildly on the streets without regard for the lives of anyone else.”
Authorities also recounted members of the Highbridge neighborhood crew streaming video of the doomed pigeon, comparing the bird to a rival Crip gang member who invaded their turf.
“If we get 100 views, we’ll kill it,” said one of the gang bangers, with the bird then beaten to death with a cane on Facebook Live after the audience broke the century mark. Those involved face an additional misdemeanor count of animal cruelty, officials said.
According to officials, the RPT crew bragged about their violent behavior and access to firearms in drill rap videos posted on social media. The conspiracy indictment cited seven shootings and eight cases of gun possession, with ballistics linking one of the weapons to three shootings — a distinctive black and tan weapon that appeared in one of their videos.
The gang is a subset of the Bloods and linked to the Young Gunners, according to a police source. The youngest of the nearly two dozen defendants was a 17-year-old, authorities said, while the others ranged in age from 18 to 34.
The indictments, announced by Clark and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, came with a call from the Bronx prosecutor for a summit of borough rappers, record companies and radio stations to address the violence in the birthplace of hip-hop. Mayor Adams has criticized drill rap as fueling gang beefs that explode into real-life violence.
Officials were seeking six fugitive members of the gang. Nine of the defendants were arraigned earlier this month, while another eight were already behind bars on other charges, the officials said.
The takedown came as Bronx police continue to battle a nearly 2% bump in shootings, up from 154 last year to 157 so far this year.
Sewell said the long-term Gun Violence Suppression Division probes were “precisely focused tools” in dealing with the scourge of gun violence across the city.
“They underscore the importance of our mission to protect those who cannot protect themselves, in this case a violent crew whose members stand accused of multiple shootings, assaults and other crimes,” she said. | https://news.yahoo.com/violent-bronx-street-gang-terrorized-204000112.html | 2022-05-24T21:08:04Z | https://news.yahoo.com/violent-bronx-street-gang-terrorized-204000112.html | true | 2 |
Travelers are on pace to set a record year for short-term rental demand in 2022, with investors earning more money per stay and overall strong bookings in April.
Occupancy rates are slightly lower than last year, when a wave of pent-up demand sent those rates sky high. But that’s also in part because investors are adding to the short-term rental supply, according to a new report by the market data tracker AirDNA.
The report shows just how good things have been for investors in the short-term rental space: Revenue has risen by two-thirds since 2019, average daily rates (ADRs) are up by a-third, and demand is up 25 percent year-over-year.
“All but just a handful of top 50 STR markets have fully recovered demand back to 2019 levels,” the report said.
So far in 2022, bookings haven’t kept up with the pace of spring 2021, when pent-up demand from the pandemic and widely available vaccines led to a surge in travel.
Bookings were down 3.6 percent in April compared to last year. But that’s likely to change.
“We expect this to be the last month where bookings will fall below 2021 levels,” AirDNA wrote.
Occupancy was down 1.7 percent year-over-year, at 60.2 percent, the report said. That is still up 11.1 percent compared to before the pandemic, another indicator of how rampant demand was last year.
Occupancy declines were most pronounced in resort and destination markets and small cities.
“As was the case last month, most of the weakness in occupancy stems from increases in the nightly supply of listings,” the report said, “and not from systemic weakness in demand.”
For example, demand was up 25 percent in small cities and rural areas, but supply was up 32 percent.
“Most remarkable was Broken Bow Lake, Oklahoma, where its 52 percent occupancy level left it 16 percent below 2021 levels but 56 percent higher than in 2019, when occupancy was just 33.4 percent in April,” the report said.
Big city revival
Occupancy levels rose 4.9 percent year over year in big cities. It was up 37.5 percent in Washington, 24.1 percent in Boston and 19.7 percent in New York City.
Still, demand in similar big cities took such a hit during the first two years of the pandemic that it has yet to fully recover.
“A full recovery in demand to pre-COVID levels seems elusive, though, with very little improvement in demand relative to 2019 levels,” the report said.
Demand in Boston and New York City is still about half what it was in 2019 and 27 percent lower in Washington.
Prices are rising
Average daily rates (ADRs) nationally rose 10.6 percent over March prices, and 11.6 percent year-over-year. They were up the most in mid- to large-sized metro areas, where the average daily rate was up 15 percent compared to the year before.
“The overall rate of ADR growth should moderate some as we head into summer,” the report said. “As of mid-May 2022, ADRs are pacing 7.9 percent higher for the summer than last year.”
They are up most in coastal destinations this summer, where ADR has risen 12.1 percent year-over-year.
“As we look forward to the summer months, the largest cities are going to continue to see the largest growth in new bookings,” the report said. “Urban areas are already pacing 45 percent higher than the same time last year for summer bookings.”
“Even with occupancy levels expected to slide further as we head into the summer months, all location types should realize significant incremental growth in demand, especially during peak travel periods, which were supply-constrained last year,” the report said. | https://www.inman.com/2022/05/23/short-term-rental-demand-might-set-a-record-year-airdna-report-says/ | 2022-05-24T21:10:31Z | https://www.inman.com/2022/05/23/short-term-rental-demand-might-set-a-record-year-airdna-report-says/ | false | 1 |
Kimberley Alpine Resort may be closed for the season, but a lot is happening behind the scenes. Following last year’s devastating arson that put the Northstar Quad chair out of commission just one day into the 2021-22 season, the resort immediately placed orders for the components needed for their rebuild, and a May 19 update indicates that everything is on track to have it operational in time for winter 2022.
The main components required for the rebuild project include the drives or electronic devices needed to control the speed and braking of the chairlift, the programmable logic controller (PLC), which is the computer system responsible for the information coming from various safety and control systems of the lift, and the communication lines that connect those systems from top to bottom.
KAR said that these components are due to arrive at the Leitner-Poma facility in Kelowna, B.C. over the course of the next few months, where they will then be assembled and programmed to control the lift. After that, everything will be delivered to Kimberley and installed into a newly rebuilt lift control building with all components then connected to the Northstar chair.
“It is hard to give an exact timeline of this process,” KAR said in a social media post, “but Leitner-Poma has generously prioritized the rebuilding of our lift in their production schedule and all efforts are being made to ensure that the Northstar will be running before next winter.”
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Cidni Phipps fanned eight in Iowa Falls-Alden's 1-0 loss to South Hardin in Eldora. The pitcher's duel ended with just five combined hits and one walk.
Hailey Rosonke etched her name in the South Hardin record books Monday night. Just a sophomore, she tied Alaina Lake for the program mark for single game strikeouts with 14.
They came in a pitcher’s duel that the Tigers won 1-0 against Iowa Falls-Alden. Rosonke finished with those 14 Ks against no walks and just two hits. Cidni Phipps, a freshman, fanned seven for the Cadets, while walking one and giving up the one earned run on three hits.
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Fine Gael TDs have joined with Fianna Fáil colleagues in demanding Green Party leader Eamon Ryan reverse his “illogical” decision to axe a major Limerick road project.
During sharp exchanges in the Dáil, the TDs called on Mr Ryan to abandon his “solo run” and reinstate the road project, which has been in development for 20 years.
Mr Ryan has confirmed in the Dáil that it was on foot of his ministerial order that the proposed Limerick Northern Distributor Road (LNDR) had been halted, to the fury of backbench TDs.
In the Dáil on Thursday, under questioning from Kieran O’Donnell, Fine Gael TD for Limerick, Mr Ryan confirmed that he did remove the project from the regional strategy.
Mr O’Donnell said the National Transport Authority was before the transport committee a short time ago, stating that it would be in the new revised draft.
“However, they have now told us that it's not in the revised draft because of a direct intervention from you, as minister for transport, writing to the NTA and directing them to not include it. Is that correct?” he asked.
Mr O'Donnell said phase two was “hugely important” for the region.
“Phase one is proceeding, thankfully, we had that debate, so why are you intervening here, minister?” he asked.
“And even in the National Development Plan, it states that local authorities can bring forward important road infrastructure projects to deal with particular safety and access issues. That's what this phase two project is doing, so what are you doing?”
His Clare colleague, Joe Carey, was even more strident in his criticism.
He said: “Do you realise that Clare County Council is firmly behind this proposal? Do you realise that the Limerick Chamber of Commerce is behind it, all the chambers of commerce in Clare are behind this proposal?
“Do you realise that industrialists who provide thousands of jobs in Limerick support this road?
"And because of your intervention, it has been removed. It's illogical."
He called on Mr Ryan to reconsider the decision.
“I'm asking you to go away from the solo run and come back and re-evaluate what you've done. Put it back in that programme, it makes sense to do so,” he said.
Defending the controversial decision to stop the road, Mr Ryan was adamant that phase two would not happen and the rejuvenation, growth, and economic development of Limerick “will be met through the prioritised delivery of active travel and public transport infrastructure, rather than through road-based development”.
He said he is very open and public in giving the reasons why he believes the strategic development of Limerick is in the existing county and at the centre of the city.
It is important through the national planning framework to develop compact development and sustainable transport modes, Mr Ryan added.
The Taoiseach Micheál Martin gave a commitment to his own TDs last week to intervene in the standoff between them and Mr Ryan over the project.
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McFadden is expected to hear evidence and testimony from both sides, ask questions of any witnesses called and deliver a final verdict on each count. Of the six Jan. 6 cases to be tried and completed so far, only two were bench trials. McFadden was the judge randomly assigned to both of those cases and unlike the juries in the remaining four, the judge acquitted one defendant on all counts and another defendant on one of the two counts against him. Juries have convicted all four defendants who faced jury trials, on all counts, each in a matter of hours. “The extraordinary circumstance of so many criminal defendants in cases related by the same background facts and largely the same legal arguments before a single judge gives these defendants a huge advantage,” George Washington University law professor Catherine Ross said, adding that these defendants likely already know and take into account how a judge has previously ruled in relatively similar cases. Defendants cannot select the judges that preside over their cases in any situation. Judges are randomly assigned, but with more than 800 Jan. 6 cases so far charged in the D.C. federal courthouse, such overlap is unavoidable. Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. Brent Stirton / Getty Images Defendant Couy Griffin – a New Mexico county commissioner who was acquitted in March on one of two charges by Judge McFadden – called the ruling a “partial victory” while speaking with supporters in the courtroom shortly after the verdict. McFadden ruled from the bench that Griffin was guilty of the charge that amounted to knowingly and illegally entering Capitol grounds in the vicinity of then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was in the Capitol building to certify the counting of the Electoral College votes and remained in the Capitol complex during the riot. But McFadden found Griffin not guilty on the second charge of disorderly conduct, saying Griffin’s attempt to get the crowd to pray with him “arguably” was not disorderly, but an attempt to calm the crowd down. When asked by CBS News if he’d recommend others seek a “bench trial,” rather than a jury trial, Griffin said, “If I was anywhere besides Washington, D.C., I’d say go with the jury trial. You can’t get a fair jury trial in Washington, D.C., if you’re someone like me. I’m a strong conservative.” But Griffin said there is risk when a defendant puts his or her fate in the hands of a single judge as opposed to a jury that must unanimously find an individual guilty in order to convict. “You’re putting all of your eggs in one basket, he said. With a jury trial, you have twelve baskets. Each (defendant) is going to have to pray through it and make that decision.” Griffin is scheduled for sentencing on June 17 for the single misdemeanor trespassing charge for which he was convicted by McFadden. His lawyer did not respond to CBS News’ request for comment. Supporters of President Donald Trump protest inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. Getty Images Over a dozen defendants have argued the Jan. 6 jury pool won’t give them a fair trial and asked that their cases be moved out of D.C. Judges so far have rejected those claims and in four separate cases, the judges have successfully empaneled juries from Washington, D.C. McFadden acquitted defendant Matthew Martin, a contractor from New Mexico, of all four misdemeanor charges the Justice Department filed against him. After the ruling, Martin told CBS News, “I am very happy for the judge’s verdict. And I’m eager to get my life back together.” In his ruling, McFadden cited Martin’s demeanor while inside the Capitol, noting that he did not appear to be screaming or crowding anybody. McFadden also referenced video evidence indicating police didn’t physically block Martin as he entered the building, and one even appeared to possibly be waving him inside. McFadden said it was a “close call” on the charge of entering a restricted building. McFadden agreed that Martin had entered the Capitol, but said in his ruling that intent was key. After the verdict, his defense attorney, Dan Cron, said the decision to seek a bench trial before McFadden “could have cut both ways,” adding, “If it’s a jury trial, then all 12 have to convict somebody. In a bench trial, you just have one person.” Don Lewis, a New York-based attorney, agrees. “The defense has only one shot with a judge,” he explained. Despite that risk, Lewis said, some defendants may choose a bench trial in particularly high-profile cases like Jan. 6 prosecutions when the public opinion may be already formed. “The judge handling the case is obviously a critical factor,” Lewis said. Other Jan. 6 defendants have also asked judges for bench trials later this year, like Kyle Fitzsimmons, accused of multiple violent crimes against law enforcement. Fitzsimmons has pleaded not guilty and waived his right to a jury trial, instead asking Judge Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee, to rule on his guilt. The judge has yet to grant his request. McFadden has handled other high-profile Jan. 6 cases, too. In September 2021, he ordered the pretrial detention of restaurant owner Pauline Bauer, where she remains while she awaits her trial. Bauer, who is from Pennsylvania, faces lower-level charges, but has disrupted court proceedings with outbursts, used language consistent with “sovereign citizens” who consider themselves outside the purview of the federal government, and previously violated her release conditions. She has frequently interrupted McFadden during court hearings, as she represents herself in the case. Protesters take over the Inaugural stage during a protest calling for legislators to overturn the election results in President Donald Trump’s favor at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images In the Capitol breach case of Jenny Cudd, McFadden gained attention when he approved Cudd’s request to travel from her home in Midland, Texas, to hold a weekend retreat for her employees in Mexico’s Riviera Maya, despite pretrial release restrictions on her travel. Cudd was charged with two misdemeanors. McFadden’s order said Cudd had no criminal history and that he was given no evidence that Cudd was a flight risk or a danger to others. The order gained notoriety because it was issued in February 2021, less than a month after the Capitol attack. Cudd complied with the court’s order and ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of illegal entry. McFadden sentenced her to two months probation and imposed a $5,000 fine. He also denied separate attempts by both Kevin and Hunter Seefried to dismiss some of the charges against them, paving the way for the upcoming trial. McFadden was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Donald Trump in 2017. The Senate confirmed him by a vote of 84-10 on October 30, 2017. McFadden’s official questionnaire submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee said he had “volunteered as a vetter for President Trump’s transition team” both before and after Election Day in November (2016).” In his written responses to questions from the committee, McFadden described his role with the Trump transition team: “I reviewed public-source information regarding potential political appointees to the Executive Branch for evidence that may disqualify them or reflect poorly on the President should they be appointed to office.” According to his court-published biography, prior to his 2017 appointment as a judge on the federal bench, McFadden clerked for the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and worked as an attorney in private practice and for the Justice Department, most recently as deputy assistant attorney general and acting principal deputy assistant attorney general of the department’s Criminal Division. | https://www.wsgw.com/judge-who-delivered-first-acquittals-in-jan-6-cases-set-to-oversee-another-trial/ | 2022-05-24T21:24:32Z | https://www.wsgw.com/judge-who-delivered-first-acquittals-in-jan-6-cases-set-to-oversee-another-trial/ | false | 1 |
Southern Baptist leaders say they will release list of alleged sex abusers that has been kept secret for years: Officials apologize for 'pain and hurt' after bombshell report revealed decades of stonewalling and denials
- Southern Baptist leaders said on Tuesday they will release secret list of abusers
- Attorneys are working to scrub the list of any references to victims' identities
- It follows the publication on Sunday of an explosive report on sexual abuse
- Prior leaders in the church kept a secret list of abusive pastors, report found
Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse.
During a public virtual meeting, an attorney for the SBC's Executive Committee announced the decision in response to a scathing investigative report detailing how the committee mishandled allegations of sex abuse and stonewalled numerous survivors.
'The reality is we'll never know the extent of the pain and the hurt that was caused to survivors,' said Willie McLaurin, SBC executive committee interim president, in prepared remarks.
'Today on behalf of all Southern Baptists I want to issue a formal apology and say that we are sorry to the survivors for all that we've done to cause hurt, pain and frustration,' he added.
During the meeting, top leaders and several committee members vowed to work toward changing the culture of the denomination and to listen more attentively to survivors' voices and stories.
The 288-page report by Guidepost Solutions, which was released Sunday after a seven-month investigation, contained several explosive revelations.
Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret list of sex abusers
Among those were details of how D. August Boto, the Executive Committee's former vice president and general counsel, and former SBC spokesman Roger Oldham kept their own private list of abusive pastors. Both retired in 2019.
The existence of the list was not widely known within the committee and its staff.
'Despite collecting these reports for more than 10 years, there is no indication that (Oldham and Boto) or anyone else, took any action to ensure that the accused ministers were no longer in positions of power at SBC churches,' the report said.
Boto joined the Executive Committee in 1995 and became executive vice president and general counsel in 2007.
On Tuesday, the committee released a statement singling out and denouncing Boto's words written in a communication to survivors and their advocates on Sept. 29, 2006 that 'continued discourse between us (the Executive Committee and survivors' advocates) will not be positive or fruitful.'
The committee, in its new statement, said it 'rejects the sentiment (of Boto's words) in its entirety and seeks to publicly repent for its failure to rectify this position and wholeheartedly listen to survivors.'
Gene Besen, the committee's interim counsel, said during Tuesday's virtual meeting that releasing the list is an important step toward transparency. The names of survivors, confidential witnesses and any uncorroborated allegations of sexual abuse will be redacted from the list that will be made public, he said.
Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton promised to carry out reforms and drag the denomination out of the damaging report's findings, calling them 'failures' in his response
The report also claimed leaders of the church hid a secret database of abusers from victims and the public. Pictured: People take part in a worship service during the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee
Besen said the committee's leaders will also look into revoking retirement benefits for Boto and others who were involved in the cover-up. He urged committee members to set aside past divisions and stay united in a collective commitment to end sexual abuse in the SBC.
Willie McLaurin, the Executive Committee's interim president and CEO, issued a formal public apology to all those who suffered sexual abuse within the SBC, which has a membership of over 47,000 churches.
'We are sorry to the survivors for all we have done to cause pain and frustration,' he said. 'Now is the time to change the culture. We have to be proactive in our openness and transparency from now.'
Executive Committee Chair Wally Slade began the virtual meeting by acknowledging the survivors.
'Our commitment is to be different and do different,' he said. 'We can't come up with half-baked solutions.'
After the report's release, more sexual abuse survivors have been contacting the Executive Committee to tell their stories, Besen said.
He said he has asked Guidepost to open up a hotline so survivors who reach out 'are directed to the proper place and receive the proper care.'
The Sexual Abuse Task Force, appointed at the demand of SBC delegates during last year's meeting in Nashville, expects to make its formal motions based on the Guidepost report public next week.
Those recommendations will then be presented to the delegates for a vote during this year's national meeting scheduled for June 14-15 in Anaheim, California, according to Pastor Bruce Frank who led the task force.
Frank, lead pastor of Biltmore Baptist Church in Arden, North Carolina, said the crux of the task force´s recommendations based on Guidepost´s report would be to prevent sexual abuse, to better care for survivors when such abuse does occur and to make sure abusers are not allowed to continue in ministry.
Survivors and advocates have long called for a public database of abusers.
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page resigned over sexual abuse claims made during his tenure after accusing survivors of fabricating stories and filing unfound lawsuits
Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention from 2014-2016 resigned after being accused of preserving the base of the denomination and not allowing sexual abuse survivors to vocalize their experiences
The creation of an 'Offender Information System' was one of the key recommendations in the report by Guidepost Solutions, an independent firm contracted by the SBC´s Executive Committee after delegates to last year's national meeting pressed for an investigation by outsiders.
The proposed database is expected to be one of several recommendations that resulted from Guidepost's seven-month investigation presented to thousands of delegates attending this year´s national meeting.
The sex abuse scandal was first thrust into the spotlight in 2019 by a landmark report from the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News documenting 700 cases in Southern Baptist churches, including several in which alleged perpetrators remained in ministry.
Last year, thousands of delegates at the national SBC gathering made clear they did not want the Executive Committee to oversee an investigation of its own actions. Instead they voted overwhelmingly to create the task force charged with overseeing the third-party review. Litton, pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, appointed the panel.
The task force had a week to review the report before it was publicly released. The task force's recommendations based on Guidepost's findings will be presented at the SBC's meeting in Anaheim.
The report offers shocking details on how Johnny Hunt, a Georgia-based pastor and past SBC president, sexually assaulted another pastor's wife during a beach vacation in 2010. In an interview with investigators, Hunt denied any physical contact with the woman, but did admit he had interactions with her.
On May 13, Hunt, who was the senior vice president of evangelism and leadership at the North American Mission Board, the SBC's domestic missions agency, resigned from that post, said Kevin Ezell, the organization's president and CEO. Ezell said, before May 13, he was 'not aware of any alleged misconduct' on Hunt's part.
The report details a meeting Hunt arranged a few days after the alleged assault between the woman, her husband, Hunt and a counseling pastor. Hunt admitted to touching the victim inappropriately, but said 'thank God I didn't consummate the relationship.'
Pastor Johnny Hunt, based in Georgia, has allegedly sexually assaulted another pastor's wife during a beach vacation in 2010, the report also found
Hunt denied claims of inappropriately touching the woman, but confessed to interactions with her in the past. Pictured: Hunt with his wife
Among those reacting strongly to the Guidepost report was Russell Moore, who formerly headed the SBC's public policy wing but left the denomination after accusing top Executive Committee leaders of stalling efforts to address the sex abuse crisis.
'Crisis is too small a word. It is an apocalypse,' Moore wrote for Christianity Today after reading the report. 'As dark a view as I had of the SBC Executive Committee, the investigation uncovers a reality far more evil and systemic than I imagined it could be.'
According to the report, Guidepost's investigators, who spoke with survivors of varying ages including children, said the survivors were equally traumatized by the way in which churches responded to their reports of sexual abuse.
Survivors 'spoke of trauma from the initial abuse, but also told us of the debilitating effects that come from the response of the churches and institutions like the SBC that did not believe them, ignored them, mistreated them, and failed to help them,' the report said.
It cited the case of Dave Pittman, who from 2006 to 2011 made phone calls and sent letters and emails to the SBC and Georgia Baptist Convention Board reporting that he had been abused by Frankie Wiley, a youth pastor at Rehoboth Baptist Church when he was 12 to 15 years old.
Pittman and several others have come forward publicly to report that Wiley molested and raped them and Wiley has admitted to abusing 'numerous victims' at several Georgia Southern Baptist churches.
According to the report, a Georgia Baptist Convention official told Pittman that the churches were autonomous and there was nothing he could do but pray.
Christa Brown, a survivor of the SBC's abuse, speaks during a rally in Birmingham, Alabama, outside the SBC's annual meeting. Brown, an author and retired attorney, says she was abused by a Southern Baptist minister as a child. After Sunday's report, Brown said it 'fundamentally confirms what Southern Baptist clergy sex abuse survivors have been saying for decades. ... I view this investigative report as a beginning, not an end. The work will continue.'
The report also tells the story of Christa Brown, who says she was sexually abused as a teen by the youth and education minister at her SBC church.
When she disclosed the abuse to the music minister after months of abuse, she was told not to talk about it, according to the report, which said her abuser also went on to serve in Southern Baptist churches in multiple states.
Brown, who has been one of the most outspoken survivors, told investigators that during the past 15 years she has received 'volumes of hate mail, awful blog comments, and vitriolic phone calls.'
After reading through the report, Brown told The Associated Press that it 'fundamentally confirms what Southern Baptist clergy sex abuse survivors have been saying for decades.'
'I view this investigative report as a beginning, not an end. The work will continue,' Brown said. 'But no one should ever forget the human cost of what it has taken to even get the SBC to approach this starting line of beginning to deal with clergy sex abuse.'
The Southern Baptist Church Convention claims more than 13 million members in the United States and more than 40 million worldwide.
The scandal echoes the one faced by the Roman Catholic Church, which has been rocked by allegations of sexual abuse, when the Boston Globe newspaper revealed in 2002 that church hierarchy covered up sexual misconduct by its clergy for decades.
The U.S. Catholic Church has paid out an estimated $3.2 billion to settle clergy abuse cases, according to BishopAccountability.org, which tracks the issue. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10850681/Southern-Baptist-leaders-say-release-secret-list-alleged-sex-abusers.html | 2022-05-24T21:27:13Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10850681/Southern-Baptist-leaders-say-release-secret-list-alleged-sex-abusers.html | false | 2 |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday:
Best Buy Co., up 88 cents to $73.47.
The nation’s largest consumer electronics chain reported strong first-quarter revenue.
Nautilus Inc., down 48 cents to $2.03.
The maker of exercise bikes and treadmills forecast lower revenue for the current quarter than analysts expected.
Snap Inc., down $9.68 to $12.79.
The owner of social media app Snapchat warned investors that its second-quarter revenue will likely fall short of its forecasts.
Nordson Corp., up $4.96 to $210.86.
The maker of adhesives and industrial coatings raised its profit forecast for the year.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co., down $7.64 to $19.09.
The teen fashion chain's first-quarter earnings fell far short of Wall Street forecasts.
KB Home, down 88 cents $ to $31.37.
A government report showed that fewer newly built homes were sold last month than economists forecast.
Insulet Corp., up $14.98 to $217.83.
DexCom is reportedly considering buying the maker of insulin infusion systems.
Citigroup Inc., down 9 cents to $52.68.
Falling bond yields weighed on banks, which rely on higher yields to charge more lucrative interest on loans. | https://www.milfordmirror.com/business/article/Snap-Nautilus-fall-Nordson-Insulet-rise-17195959.php | 2022-05-24T21:29:27Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/business/article/Snap-Nautilus-fall-Nordson-Insulet-rise-17195959.php | true | 13 |
Cue the “fire” emojis.
Grete Griffin, the wife of former Ravens quarterback Robert Griffin III, dropped a series of bikini photos Friday on Instagram.
“Mom bod is what you make it,” she captioned the photos.
They didn’t didn’t go unnoticed by her husband.
“When you grind it pays off @glowfitness101 🔥,” Griffin commented on the post, referencing Grete’s fitness company, Glow Fitness.
It’s no secret that Grete and Griffin, 32, enjoy working out together, as the duo filmed a joint sweat sesh on Instagram in January. In the clip, the couple is featured doing squats and jumps together while moving to the “Cha Cha Slide.”
“Couples that train together, remain together,” Griffin captioned the post at the time, adding the hashtags, “couple goals” and “couple workouts.”
Grete, who has been married to Griffin since 2018, frequently shares workout videos via her Glow Fitness Instagram page. The business itself offers customers a series of workout programs and fitness accessories.
Elsewhere on social media, Grete regularly posts family photos, pics from her and Griffin’s date nights — including an outing at the Kentucky Derby earlier this month — and style-centric snaps.
In a recent post, which featured Grete modeling a Sabina Musayev dress, Griffin remarked on his wife’s “inner beauty.”
“I see the inner beauty,” he commented, to which she replied, “Lol good one baby.” | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/sports/rg3-reacts-to-wife-gretes-bikini-shots/197226/ | 2022-05-24T21:29:28Z | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/sports/rg3-reacts-to-wife-gretes-bikini-shots/197226/ | true | 2 |
GATINEAU, QC, May 24, 2022 /CNW/ - Accessibility Standards Canada and the British Columbia Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction met today to discuss the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) they recently signed. This joining of forces sets forth a collaboration to identify, remove, and prevent barriers to accessibility in Canada.
The MOU aims to improve coordination and collaboration between the mandates and objectives of the Governments of Canada and British Columbia relating to accessibility. Specifically, this agreement aims to optimize the efforts and resources of both entities. That way, they can strengthen their complementary approaches to accessibility. This would lead to a more consistent accessibility experience between jurisdictions.
In Canada, federal, provincial, and territorial governments develop their own policies and standards. Collaborations like this one allow uniformity between governments. This is crucial when developing accessibility standards.
Harmonizing accessibility standards nationally carries benefits for all Canadians:
- It increases the potential for a cohesive accessibility experience across Canada.
- It ensures that standards reflect the needs of people living with disabilities, regardless of jurisdiction.
- It promotes equity and consistency of accessibility for all Canadians as they live, work, and travel from coast to coast.
"Our collaboration with the British Columbia Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction will lead to better coordination of accessibility standards. We want Canadians to experience accessibility in a consistent and seamless way, no matter where they live. By harmonizing standards across Canada, we are ensuring accessibility is consistent across the entire country. Our ultimate goal is to work with all provinces and territories to create this kind of agreement. This will drive us to develop timely standards that Canadians really need."
– Philip Rizcallah, Chief Executive Officer, Accessibility Standards Canada
"It's very important to us that the work we are doing to improve accessibility and inclusion at a provincial level is in harmony with the work being done by our federal counterparts. We designed the Accessible B.C. Act to complement the existing Accessible Canada Act. That way, we can better work together to integrate accessibility into all aspects of our lives. As well, we can ensure that people living with disabilities can participate more fully in their communities no matter where they live."
– Dan Coulter, Parliamentary Secretary for Accessibility, British Columbia
- This MOU was officially signed on May 11, 2022.
- The harmonization of accessibility standards seeks to optimize everyone's individual and collective objectives. Sharing knowledge and best practices reduces and eliminates the duplication of resources and efforts. It benefits all Canadians.
- Accessibility Standards Canada's vision is that everyone, including people with disabilities, can expect a Canada without barriers. This ensures that opportunities and services are fully accessible.
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As a mere scribbler, it pains me to say this but a picture really is worth a thousand words, or in the case of so-called “partygate” a million of them. We all knew that during the pandemic Boris Johnson had attended “gatherings” that might be construed to have breached the lockdown rules that he imposed on the rest of us. Indeed, since he was fined by the Metropolitan Police for one of these events, and did not challenge the fixed penalty notice (FPN), he presumably accepted that he broke the law. We also knew, or could easily imagine, that at these functions the occasional drink was quaffed and a sandwich or two consumed.
But it takes a photograph to show the true nature of the occasion. The sight of the Prime Minister, glass of champagne in hand, toasting his departing press secretary, would in normal times hardly merit a comment. It was just a leaving do of the sort that takes place in offices up and down the land every day of the week.
But, as we all know, these were not normal times. On November 13, 2020 – the date on which the photographs leaked to ITV News were taken – the country had been plunged into another lockdown. For goodness sake (and I enter a personal gripe here), we weren’t even allowed to play golf, just two people walking in the open air whacking a ball down the fairway, let alone organise a shindig.
Worse than that, visiting dying relatives in hospitals or care homes or attending funerals was forbidden because of restrictions on numbers. We were just a few weeks away from Christmas, which that year was effectively cancelled for millions of us who could not (lawfully, at least) invite our nearest and dearest round for Yuletide lunch.
Looking at the photograph of Boris with the detritus of what looks suspiciously like a party strewn across the table, alongside his red box, you have to wonder what on earth possessed him to join in or why he did not tell everyone to pack up and go home.
Had he forgotten that just a few days earlier he had gone on television to “urge everybody to work together ... to get the R under control”? Or had the entreaty he made in the Commons the previous week slipped his mind? “I have asked much of the British people: more than any Prime Minister, I believe, has asked of the British people in peacetime. I have to say that the public have responded magnificently and selflessly, putting their lives on hold, bearing any burden, overcoming every obstacle, and tolerating every disruption and inconvenience, no matter how large or small – or inconsistent – so that they could do the right thing by their fellow citizens.”
Does that set of leaked photographs suggest that in No 10 they were “doing the right thing by their fellow citizens”? Did it not cross anyone’s mind that, while they may have been in a workplace and therefore exempt from the restrictions on numbers, they were acting in a way that was completely at odds with the behaviour expected of the rest of us?
It is irrelevant to say, as many now do, that this was hardly criminal so let’s move on and forget about it. True, Mr Johnson did not want to introduce such illiberal measures. But having decided that this was the right course of action, it was incumbent on him and his officials to stick rigidly to the rules.
Not to have done so is an insult to the great majority who scrupulously followed laws that they thought to be daft but were assured were necessary. Given the various gatherings in Downing Street during this period, the people who devised the rules evidently did not think they were that important, otherwise would they not have taken greater care? As they popped open yet another bottle of fizz, we must assume they did not consider themselves to be in mortal danger.
The Sue Gray report is finally expected to be published today to place these events in some context; but Mr Johnson will not be persuaded that what he was involved in amounted to a breach of the rules because it did not constitute a “party” as most people would understand it.
But parties per se were not forbidden. It was large gatherings that were specifically banned. People who had to go into offices to work tended to get on with their tasks and then go home, not carouse late into the evening. The sacrifices we were being asked to endure were not being shared equally. Mr Johnson’s difficulty is that he was asked in the Commons whether there was a party in Downing Street on the day on which the photographs were taken and said: “No.” This has now become a question of his integrity – whether the Prime Minister deliberately misled MPs.
The report we will be waiting for once Ms Gray’s has been published is that from the Commons Committee of Privileges into whether Mr Johnson’s denials amounted to a contempt of Parliament. Will the committee accept that he legitimately thought he was within the rules in attending the leaving-do for 15 minutes or so, or will it conclude that he must have known it was questionable behaviour and should have admitted as much, not sought to cover it up?
Mr Johnson can point to the fact that the police did not issue him with a fine for the November 13 event for reasons that are impossible to fathom because we do not know the criteria they used in reaching this decision.
Perhaps the Met was told another FPN for the Prime Minister could bring him down and were reluctant to deliver the coup de grace. Arguably, the police should never have been put in this position in the first place, but we should at least be told why some people were fined for taking part in the same get-together as Mr Johnson but he wasn’t.
However damaging Ms Gray’s report turns out to be, Tory MPs have already decided this is not enough to seek the Prime Minister’s removal, not least when no obvious alternative leader has yet emerged. But the prospect of a brace of by-election defeats next month followed by a Committee of Privileges finding against Mr Johnson will concentrate minds and change the dynamic again.
This episode is inflicting serious damage not only on the Tory party but also on the country’s institutions, from the police to the Civil Service and Parliament itself. Conservative backbenchers, even Cabinet ministers, need to decide soon how long they can let it go on. | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/24/attending-party-wont-topple-boris-misleading-parliament-still2/ | 2022-05-24T21:31:56Z | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/24/attending-party-wont-topple-boris-misleading-parliament-still2/ | true | 2 |
The CEO of rossoblù: “We don’t need to sell and we want young people to grow here”. On Friday or Monday at the latest there will be the official arrival of Sartori
Giovanni Sartori’s official status as the new sporting director and manager of the Bologna technical area will take place on Friday or Monday at the latest: the Atalantine president Percassi will be expected to return from the United States to define and close every detail. Claudio Fenucci, CEO of the club, placed the sealing wax on the handshake between Joey Saputo and Sinisa Mihajlovic at dinner on Monday evening. “It was a choice shared by all – says the CEO of Bologna on the sidelines of the Bulgarelli Prize – including the person who will come to lead the technical area. We had already talked to the coach and we made a second one. meeting with him. Together with the president we wanted to evaluate the performance of the sporting year, both the good things and the lower than expected results obtained in some matches, and also to share the future project. Sinisa is very convinced to move forward on this road and therefore there was nothing to decide, only to clarify how to proceed, especially in terms of project sharing “.
Growth and youth
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Sinisa has obviously returned to Bologna, the city that will follow him in every aspect and in which he will want to experience his fifth season in a row on the bench. “What will Bologna be? – continues Fenucci – The common will is to have an increasingly competitive Bologna. Our philosophy is not to start young people, but to make them grow in order to be competitive. We all need to improve, first of all by bringing boys here. We are a club with an enviable financial situation and very solid ownership, therefore we have no need to sell players: when situations arise that seem special we do it, but the will is to grow. summer we will see what scenarios will be created on the market, but in fact we want to improve and give increasing satisfaction to our fans. Did you know? The property had set goals that have not been achieved, so they asked us how to get there, through a disbursement but keeping the budget in line with the forecasts made in the past “. As soon as Sartori (who was not present at the Sinisa-executives dinner, but his endorsement obviously was) will be official he will immediately look for a deputy Arnautovic and a left side because Hickey will be sold (Naples, Arsenal and West Ham are looking for him; value , 25 million).
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Eliot Schrefer, author of Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. It's about how "natural sex" may not be as binary as some think.
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The Pioneering Web3 Technology Provider Hires Leading PR Firm as it Plans to Transform the Metaverse and Blockchain Industries
NEW YORK, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sortium Blockchain Studio (www.sortium.com), the pioneering Web3 technology provider, announced that it has retained Rubenstein Public Relations (RPR) (www.rubensteinpr.com) as its agency of record.
In its effort to establish itself as the world's leading Web3 technology provider focused on the needs of innovators from every corner of gaming, art, entertainment, fashion, and education, Sortium Blockchain Studio plans to leverage RPR's long-standing media connections and expertise in the blockchain, crypto, metaverse and technology industries, along with the firm's decades of experience in crafting corporate messaging and developing brand positioning to generate exceptional media results.
"RPR has become one of the leading PR firms in the blockchain, NFT, metaverse, and digital technology markets, known for their top-tier results," said Marc Seal, Chief Executive Officer of Sortium Blockchain Studio. "We look forward to partnering with them as we continue to expand our client base and creates immersive virtual experiences bridging the gap between digital life and reality."
"Sortium Blockchain Studio is positioned to capitalize on the growing metaverse and NFT marketplaces by establishing the standard for Web3 technology," said RPR President, Richard Rubenstein. "As we see the Web3 market steadily increase, we expect Sortium Blockchain Studio to be the leading provider of Web3 technology creating immersive virtual experiences for their clients' audiences."
About Rubenstein Public Relations:
Rubenstein Public Relations (RPR) is an independent, New York-based communications agency headed by veteran publicist and respected brand architect, Richard Rubenstein. For more than three decades, RPR's intensive media relations approach and dedicated team of senior practitioners have helped clients build brand equity and reach their target audiences. The firm specializes in brand messaging development, media relations, crisis communications, and thought leadership positioning. RPR has a proven track record in executing successful public relations campaigns for leading corporate, real estate, technology, healthcare, social impact, luxury consumer, entertainment, and hospitality brands across the globe.
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About Sortium Blockchain Studio:Sortium Blockchain Studio, the pioneering Web3 technology provider offering innovators from every corner of gaming, art, entertainment, fashion, and education, advanced technology to build immersive experiences inside metaverses and virtual worlds. Sortium creates immersive virtual experiences allowing audiences to engage with interactive narrative and new world concepts, bridging the gap between digital life and reality.
From defining advancements in the Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, Blockchain and NFT industries, Sortium empowers enthusiasts by giving them ownership of their digital assets and experiences by making blockchain technology accessible to everyone. Sortium's founders have been trusted by major brands such as Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, MLB, UEFA, Topps, and more, to build tailored web3 platforms to elevate their brands into the future of digital interaction, ownership, and community. For more information, visit www.sortium.com.
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The Government of Canada and the province of British Columbia pledge $31 million to support the 2025 Games
VANCOUVER, BC, May 24, 2022 /CNW/ - Last month, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, announced Canada as host nation for the first-ever winter hybrid Invictus Games. Today, the Governments of Canada and British Columbia committed $15 million each, in support of the Invictus Games Vancouver-Whistler 2025. An additional $1 million will be provided to the Soldier On program to support Canadian Veteran participation in the Games from the Government of Canada.
Thanks to the successful bid from True Patriot Love Foundation, Canada will welcome more than 500 competitors from 20 countries to participate in the most innovative and accessible Games to date. For the first time, the Invictus Games will include adaptive winter sports like alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, skeleton and curling.
In the spirit of truth and reconciliation, the Invictus Games Vancouver-Whistler 2025 is dedicated to respecting territorial protocols and cooperating with local Indigenous communities in the planning, execution and participation of the Games.
The Invictus Games are a powerful reminder of the extraordinary courage and perseverance of all those who have been injured or become ill through their time in the military.
See you in 2025!
"I'm excited that Canada will host the 2025 Invictus Games. Today's investment will help us welcome competitors from around the world to beautiful British Columbia to showcase their athleticism, drive, and competitive spirit. Canadians look forward to welcoming you once again."
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
"We are proud to be bringing the 2025 Invictus Games to British Columbia. Alongside local host nations, we look forward to welcoming athletes to Vancouver and Whistler for the most accessible, innovative and inclusive Invictus Games yet."
John Horgan, Premier of British Columbia
"Canada has a culture steeped in winter sports, many of which were first played by the Indigenous peoples of Canada. We look forward to welcoming the world to the inaugural winter hybrid Games in 2025. The inclusion of winter sports in the Games will provide new opportunities for the brave service men and women who so richly deserve every chance to compete."
The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
"We are honoured to host the Invictus Games and to celebrate the unsung heroes who have and continue to serve their countries with courage and bravery around the world. I truly believe sport is the great equalizer in our communities. I also believe sport has the power to heal and bring people together. By working together with all levels of government and the four local host First Nations Squamish, Lil'wat, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh, we are supporting and advancing our shared commitments to accessibility, inclusion, tourism, and reconciliation. I can't wait to welcome the outstanding athletes to our beautiful province and to cheer on our Canadian delegation."
The Honourable Melanie Mark, British Columbia Minister of Tourism, Art, Culture and Sport
"Together our Nations are proud to provide the stage for these unconquered warriors to inspire the world…"
Chief Sparrow, Respected Leader Khelsilem, Chief Thomas, Gélpcal Chief Joseph, Skalulmecw Chief Nelson - x ʷ məθ kʷə y əm (Musqueam), Sḵwxw ú7mesh (Squamish), S ə l ílw ətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), L íl wat ̓ Nation (Lílwat Nation).
"This significant funding for the Invictus Games 2025, from both the Government of Canada and the province of British Columbia, shows the commitment to honour, support and celebrate not only Canada's military community, but communities around the world. True Patriot Love is proud to have played a leading role in securing the Invictus Games 2025 Vancouver-Whistler. We look forward to continuing to work with all levels of government to ensure these Games support the recovery of all competitors and their families, as well leave a strong legacy of adaptive sport year-round."
Nick Booth, Chief Executive Officer, True Patriot Love Foundation
"Invictus Games 2025 will provide a platform to once again demonstrate how perseverance, determination, and unity can inspire, empower, and enable recovery and well-being. It also is an opportunity to reaffirm to ill and injured members of the Canadian Armed Forces, Veterans and those military communities around the world, that they are not alone, and need not to recover alone. The funding to Soldier On will further capitalize on this inspiration and allow the program to reach a wider audience, ensuring grassroots domestic opportunities and for all Veterans remain available from coast to coast to coast."
Jay Feyko, National Manager, Soldier On
"The Invictus Games are a wonderful opportunity to honour Veterans from around the world and a powerful reminder of the unparalleled sacrifices and bravery of military personnel, including those in our Canadian Armed Forces. I am proud that, in partnership with British Columbia, we have pledged $30 million to support the Games. I look forward to welcoming athletes, coaches, families and visitors to our country and showing them the best of Canada."
The Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of National Defence
"Canadians can all be proud that our country is a part of the Invictus movement. The Invictus Games let the entire world see the grit and determination of our Veterans and members of the Armed Forces. They remind us all that our injuries and disabilities do not define us. As a Paralympian, the wife of a veteran, and the mother of a serving officer, I know the difference that this investment will make in the lives of so many Canadians and families."
The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion
"I can't wait to see Invictus Team Canada make its mark in front of an enthusiastic audience on home turf in Vancouver and Whistler. The Invictus Games are the embodiment of diversity, inclusion, resilience and pride. Hosting the Games on Canadian soil will have a positive and lasting impact on host communities, the participants, and our reputation as a leading sport nation."
The Honourable Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Sport and Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec
"While Vancouver and Whistler are known globally, the tourism industry is now more competitive than ever, with hundreds of destinations worldwide competing for the same visitors. The additional exposure that Vancouver, Whistler, and all of British Columbia will receive as a host destination of the 2025 Invictus Games, has the potential to be leveraged for a significant competitive advantage, leading to stronger growth in visitation, a healthier tourism industry, and economic benefits around the province leading up to and following the Games. As the industry begins its recovery, and as Destination BC continues to support the development and improvement of accessible tourism opportunities around the province, we look forward to welcoming athletes and visitors to experience the BC Effect for themselves at the Invictus Games Vancouver-Whistler 2025."
Richard Porges, President and Chief Executive Officer, Destination BC
- The Government of Canada—through Veterans Affairs Canada—has committed $15 million in funding to support the Invictus Games Vancouver-Whistler 2025.
- The Government of Canada will provide an additional $1 million to the Soldier On program to train and equip Team Canada.
- The Government of British Columbia has committed $15 million in funding to support the Invictus Games.
- The Invictus Games use the power of sport to inspire recovery, support rehabilitation and generate a wider understanding and respect for wounded, injured and sick service members and Veterans.
- The Invictus Games Vancouver-Whistler 2025 will be the first to incorporate winter adaptive sports, in addition to the core Invictus Games sports of indoor rowing, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball.
- True Patriot Love is Canada's Foundation for the military community, working to support military members, Veterans, and their families at every stage of their journey. From global initiatives like the Invictus Games – of which True Patriot Love is a funder of Team Canada – to local wellness centres and mental health programs, True Patriot Love has a research-backed approach that provides ongoing funding, partnerships and knowledge sharing to Canada's most vital military and Veteran support programs.
- Soldier On is a program of the Canadian Armed Forces which contributes to the recovery of ill and injured CAF members and Veterans by providing opportunities and resources through sport, recreational, and creative activities. Soldier On, on behalf of the Canadian Armed Forces, leads and manages Team Canada and Canadian Friends and Family program at the Invictus Games, working closely with various supporting stakeholders such as Veteran Affairs Canada and True Patriot Love Foundation.
SOURCE Veterans Affairs Canada
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Here comes the sun! Spending time eating al fresco, reading and relaxing, or simply watching the world go by, is one life’s little pleasures.
But sometimes a sunhat and pair of shades aren’t always the best protection, especially when those rays get a little more fierce – and yet you still want to sit outside.
For a little garden therapy, parasols are proving a hot favourite this summer.
“Parasols might be something of an essential, but can be so much more than a practical addition to outside spaces,” says Brendon Haxby, founder of interiors specialists Naken.
“We’ve seen a real move in how homeowners are using their home’s exteriors. Gardens, regardless of size, are becoming an extension of the home, with more people using their outdoor spaces to socialise, entertain and cook.
“So, it’s no surprise that when it comes to exterior styling, people are getting more picky – even when it comes to their parasols.
“A battered brolly from summers past no longer cuts it,” says Haxby.
He says for summer 2022, we’re going to see a lot more parasols that are inline with interior styles. “Expect a more maximalist approach – parasols that are a little ‘extra’.
“Think, tassels, more considered curves and a range of finishes that will complement existing garden furnishings,” adds Naken.
And just in case you’re sizing up your precious piece of patio, designers are catering for bijou balconies, as well as a manicured lawn.
Dave Dryden, Christow’s home and garden guru says: “As well as standard two metre, 2.4 metre, and 2.7 metre diameter parasols, we also stock a ‘Half Parasol’. Basically, the canopy is half the size of a normal canopy – kind of like a parasol that’s been chopped in half!” he adds. “They’re a popular choice if you have a small patio or balcony area, because they take up half the space.
Here’s how to feel you’ve got it made in the shade…
1. Banana Parasol, 3m, Navy, Christow
Super for larger areas, this banana parasol has an offset base with an overhanging canopy, so there’s no pole in the middle to tie you to a table. Ideal for sun loungers or a paddling pool.
2. 2.4m Boho Tile Carousel Parasol, Dunelm
Pretty as a picture, this boho beauty makes you want to unfurl a blanket, scatter some cushions and pop the cork on a bottle of pink prosecco.
3. Norfolk Leisure 2.7m Round Geisha Parasols, Hayes Garden World
A kaleidoscope of colour, we’d have one of these gorgeous Geisha parasols in every shade, given half the chance.
4. Garden Must-Haves Carousel Outdoor Parasol – Anthracite & Green, Naken
With a crank and tilt option, this pretty parasol can follow your shadow as the sun rises and sets.
5. Olive & Lilac Carousel Stripe Parasol, Rockett St George
With a vintage-inspired design, trendy tassels and its own matching fabric carrier bag with straps, this parasol feels as much at home in the garden, as it does the beach. | https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandgardens/five-of-the-best-parasols-for-your-garden_arid-40864013.html | 2022-05-24T21:37:55Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandgardens/five-of-the-best-parasols-for-your-garden_arid-40864013.html | true | 4 |
Kim Kardashian: an obsessed fan threatened to kill Pete Davidson!
According to our colleagues from the Sun, a fan obsessed with Kim Kardashian would have threatened to kill her, as well as her darling Pete Davidson.
Being famous is good. However, this has some negative aspects. And it’s probably not Kim Kardashian who will say the opposite. Pete Davidson’s darling being threatened with death, as well as her boyfriend…
The end of SNL for Pete Davidson
However, the comedian will be a little less present on the screen. Since he recently bid farewell to Saturday Night Live. Farewells that brought together many viewers. And which undoubtedly moved all the fans.
But that doesn’t seem to have stopped Kim Kardashian’s stalker from calming down. Kylie Jenner’s sister, Khloé, or even Kourtney, had already expressed her concern. After receiving threats from an individual.
“He threatened me several times. He was also making some weird sexual references about me.”. Explained the ex of Kanye West. Our colleagues from TMZ revealing that the beauty would be afraid for several days.
The media continues:“She fears for her safety and that of her family. She is afraid that Resendiz will come after her. She therefore asked that her detractor not approach her within a radius of 100 meters..
But this request does not seem to have calmed the ardor of the one who is angry with Kim Kardashian and the one who was talking about Ariana Grande during her last SNL. Since The Blast announced that an obsessed fan had sent him over 30 letters.
Letters that did not only contain words of love… Indeed, in the words used, threats were there. Not enough to reassure the ex of Kanye West to believe our colleagues who gave more info on this subject.
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson harassed by a fan
The media was able to obtain various legal documents transmitted by Kim K. The lawyer of this one did not hesitate to alert of the seriousness of the situation and would like action to be taken. Because threats would be made.
“In these letters, he made numerous violent threats against Ms. Kardashian. Additionally, he made numerous sexual comments regarding Ms. Kardashian. And its partners. He further threatened to take different measures..
We learn in particular. But the letters don’t stop there. The lawyer explains that death threats were in the letters sent. “ The letters included threats that Kim was on the ‘hit list’ and that she was to “die soon””.
The fan in question reportedly put Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson on his HIT LIST. “If I ever see you in New York or your boyfriend in Los Angeles, I will that day. Pet must die this weekend and you next weekend”.
Spine-chilling letters. It remains to be seen whether measures will be taken to avoid the worst. Between love and hate, there is only one step. And the letters sent prove it. It remains to be seen who it is and if the identity will be revealed very quickly. Everything the Kardashian clan hopes for… | https://d1softballnews.com/kim-kardashian-an-obsessed-fan-threatened-to-kill-pete-davidson/ | 2022-05-24T21:40:18Z | https://d1softballnews.com/kim-kardashian-an-obsessed-fan-threatened-to-kill-pete-davidson/ | true | 1 |
Greece’s DEPA concludes payment to Gazprom for April gas supplies -report
DEPA Commercial, Greece’s biggest gas importer, has paid Russian gas producer Gazprom in euros for April natural gas supplies, the semi-state Athens News Agency reported on Monday.
State-controlled DEPA Commercial has a gas supply contract with Gazprom which expires in 2026.
The transaction was concluded in line with May 19 guidelines by the European Commission, without breaching sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and EU decisions, the report said, citing unnamed sources.
The debate over Russia’s demand that foreign buyers pay for gas in roubles has tested the resolve of European governments to take a hard line against Moscow over the war in Ukraine.
Poland, Bulgaria and Finland have refused to comply with Moscow’s demand that importers pay for gas via rouble accounts with Gazprombank and their supplies have been cut.
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Robert J. Vlasic died at his home earlier this month at age 96. The businessman helped grow Vlasic into America's number-one pickle by not taking himself, or the company, too seriously.
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Robert J. Vlasic died at his home earlier this month at age 96. The businessman helped grow Vlasic into America's number-one pickle by not taking himself, or the company, too seriously.
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The crowded race for Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial nomination might thin out quite a bit by the end of the week.
On Monday, the state’s Bureau of Elections released a stunning report stating that 5 out of 10 candidates for the GOP nomination had in fact submitted so many invalid signatures, they might not be eligible to appear on the Aug. 2 primary ballot. Michigan’s Board of State Canvassers will vote Thursday on whether or not the candidates’ qualify to appear on the ballot.
Here’s what you need to know:
A Seemingly Organized Signature Fraud Ring Has Totally Reoriented The Michigan Governor’s Race
Candidates for governor need to submit 15,000 valid signatures to appear on the primary ballot. To reach that number, it’s common practice for candidates in Michigan and elsewhere to hire individuals, called petition circulators, to collect signatures in addition to their own volunteers.
Now, the Michigan Bureau of Elections, which investigates complaints about invalid signatures, has found that multiple candidates — including leading GOP contenders James Craig and Perry Johnson — hired a group of petition circulators that, actually, submitted nearly 70,000 forged or otherwise invalid signatures.
Bureau staff “identified 36 petition circulators who submitted fraudulent petition sheets consisting entirely of invalid signatures,” the report said. “In total, the Bureau estimates that these circulators submitted at least 68,000 invalid signatures submitted across 10 sets of nominating petitions.”
Because of the “unprecedented” amount of fraud, the Bureau’s report said, it wasn’t able to individually check every signature. Rather, the state spot-checked signatures, confirmed they were all fraudulent, and then invalidated every signature gathered by this group of “fraudulent circulators.”
Footnotes in the report cited articles about signature gathering work in other states, all linked to the same man: Shawn Wilmoth. For the Bureau, he appears to be a key figure in this story. TPM’s messages to Wilmoth went unanswered Tuesday.
One Candidate Has Already Dropped Out
At least one of the five Republicans whose signatures were flagged as invalid announced that he is dropping out: Michael Brown, a captain with the Michigan State Police.
“The campaign was going great,” a deflated Brown told TPM Tuesday. “I can say that laughing, with a little tear in my eye.”
Petition circulators flagged as “fraudulent” by the Bureau of Elections collected the majority of Brown’s signatures — though the former candidate asserted that the bulk of his entries were actually valid. Brown confirmed that his campaign had hired Wilmoth’s firm, First Choice Contracting, to both collect signatures and validate signatures that Brown’s campaign volunteers had collected. On Tuesday afternoon, Brown told TPM that Wilmoth wasn’t responding to him, either.
“Individuals on my campaign team had known of his company and his ability to obtain signatures and validate them,” Brown said of Wilmoth. “In Michigan, there’s only a few companies that assist with that.”
On Thursday, Many More Candidates Could Be Disqualified
The report deeming thousands of signatures invalid on Monday isn’t the last word: The actual decision on whether candidates can appear on the ballot falls to the Board of State Canvassers, a four-person body with two Democrats and two Republicans. The Board will vote on qualifications Thursday.
You may have heard about the Board: In 2020, Donald Trump pressured its members to ignore Joe Biden’s victory in Michigan and certify the race for him instead. One Republican ultimately abstained from that vote, and the other sided with Democrats to affirm Biden’s win. The Biden-voting Republican was subsequently replaced by the state GOP.
There are some signs that the Board’s Republicans will heed the report from the Bureau of Elections — including recent interviews in which they voiced their commitment to election rules. But they’re no doubt feeling the pressure now that the Bureau has found leading Republicans may not have enough valid signatures to qualify. A consultant for the Johnson campaign said Monday night that he and others on the campaign “look forward to winning this fight before the Board, and if necessary, in the courts.”
A Key Figure In The Alleged Fraud Is The Forrest Gump Of Signature Schemes
As mentioned, the Bureau appears to believe that the group of allegedly fraudulent circulators are tied to a man named Shawn Wilmoth. Brown confirmed that he’d hired Wilmoth’s firm, and the Bureau’s report cites several news reports about him in its footnotes.
“None of my clients are willing to admit they are my clients,” Wilmoth told the website Sports Handle last year. “I pull the strings in the background.”
In 2011, Wilmoth pleaded guilty to two counts of election fraud in Virginia, admitting to hiring two ex-cons and tasking them with signing their names as witnesses to dozens of signatures they didn’t actually collect. (He reportedly later claimed that the allegations were false.)
In 2017, Michigan’s then-Lt. Gov. Brian Calley hired Wilmoth to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would make the state’s legislature operate seasonally, but the effort ended without enough signatures to make the ballot.
Last year, Wilmoth worked on an unsuccessful Las Vegas Sands-backed effort to gather signatures supporting the expansion of casino gambling in Florida. Officials across the state uncovered thousands of potentially fraudulent signatures for the campaign. They did not claim Wilmoth was involved in wrongdoing in Florida, and Wilmoth denied wrongdoing in that state in an interview with Sports Handle.
The Tumult Leaves An Opening For A Trump Die-Hard With DeVos Money
If the Board of State Canvassers does in fact rule that 5 out of 10 GOP gubernatorial contenders are ineligible to run, that would be a boon for one person: Tudor Dixon. Michigan’s wealthiest political kingmakers, the DeVos family, endorsed Dixon Monday before the fraudulent signature news broke, and a challenge to Dixon’s signatures failed. Donald Trump has also helped Dixon out, appearing at a fundraiser for her at Mar-a-Lago in February and shouting her out at a rally in Michigan last month.
Those supporters map well onto Dixon’s politics. She wrote after the 2020 election, “Steal an election then hide behind calls for unity and leftists lap it up.” And she supports a cause close to the DeVoses: privatizing education. She also opposes abortion, even in cases of rape or incest.
A super PAC supporting Dixon’s candidacy was among the Michigan political entities to file a complaint alleging widespread fraud in the signature sheets of Craig, one of her primary competitors. | https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/michigan-republican-governor-candidates-signature-forgery-shawn-wilmoth | 2022-05-24T21:47:40Z | https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/michigan-republican-governor-candidates-signature-forgery-shawn-wilmoth | false | 1 |
Lydia Ko, golf’s world No 3, has been praised for normalising the impact of periods on women in sport after rendering a male interviewer speechless with her answer to a question about some on-course treatment she received at an LPGA event in California.
The New Zealander was seen being stretched out by her physiotherapist midway through the final round of the Palos Verdes Championship on Sunday, prompting Golf Channel commentator Jerry Foltz to inquire whether the tightness in her back and hips would be a recurring problem.
“I hope not,” said Ko. “It’s that time of the month. I know the ladies watching are probably like, yeah, I got you.
“So, when that happens, my back gets really tight, and I’m all twisted. It’s not the first time that Chris has seen me twisted, but it felt a lot better after he came. So, yeah, there you go.”
"It's that time of the month. I know the ladies watching are probably like, 'Yeah, I got you.'"
— LPGA (@LPGA) May 2, 2022
Lydia Ko kept it real in her post-round interview after the @PV_Champ 😂🙌 pic.twitter.com/00swxr3Euv
Foltz floundered as he searched for a suitable response, and could only come up with “thanks”. Ko, for her part, was able to laugh off the awkward moment, saying: “I know you’re at a loss for words, Jerry. Honesty it is.”
Ko was widely lauded for being candid about an issue which evidently causes embarrassment in some circles, and is rarely talked about openly.
There is a growing understanding of the effects of menstruation and pre-menstrual symdrome on female athletes. Some professional sportswomen have their periods monitored by their sport’s governing body, with training adapted to suit different points of their cycle.
But it is only recently that athletes have spoken publicly about how it can impede performance.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui earned plaudits after her team came in fourth place in the 4x100m medley relay, telling reporters “my period started last night so I’m feeling pretty weak and really tired”.
In 2015, British tennis player Heather Watson put her poor Australian Open performance down to starting her period.
After Ko’s comments, Marama Davidson, the New Zealand Greens co-leader, said the issue of period pain was “definitely not acknowledged enough”.
Great work Joe Porter on @NZMorningReport just now towards normalising the issue of period pain for athletes in light of Lydia Ko speaking plainly about menstruation symptoms. Definitely not acknowledged enough.
— Marama Davidson MP (@MaramaDavidson) May 2, 2022
Clinical psychologist Karen Nimmo, who has worked extensively with high performance athletes, told New Zealand’s Today FM it was refreshing to hear a truthful account of menstruation’s effect on performance, rather than it being hidden behind other “ailments”.
“It’s really healthy that we actually mention it as a normal part of sport that has to be factored in, not just physically, but also psychologically. We have to consider that people go through cycles and we have to think about that when we are planning training and events.” “Menstrual problems are a common part of elite sport, and finally we have a gateway to discuss it,” Nimmo said. “So go Lydia, I say.”
Lydia Ko just said…
— Lisa Cornwell (@LisaMCornwell) May 2, 2022
“It’s that time of the month. You know, my back hurts.”@JerryFoltzGC had absolutely no idea how to follow up.
My night (maybe year) has been made. 😂😂😂
Despite Ko’s discomfort, the 25-year-old former world No 1 finished second at the tournament in Los Angeles, two strokes behind winner Marina Alex. | https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/golf/that-time-of-the-month-golfer-lydia-ko-stuns-reporter-after-talking-about-period_arid-40864046.html | 2022-05-24T21:48:21Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/golf/that-time-of-the-month-golfer-lydia-ko-stuns-reporter-after-talking-about-period_arid-40864046.html | false | 2 |
FAIRFAX, Va., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ICF (NASDAQ: ICFI), a global consulting and digital services provider, today confirms that its previously announced Investor Day will take place on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New York, New York. Senior management will focus their remarks on ICF's key growth markets within its government and commercial client sets, including IT modernization/digital transformation, public health, disaster management, utility consulting, as well as climate, environment and infrastructure.
Analysts and institutional investors interested in attending are encouraged to contact ICF Investor Relations at icf@advisiry.com. Those investors and analysts who cannot attend this live event in person can join a simultaneous webcast that will begin at 2:30 p.m. ET on May 25, 2022. To participate, please register at this link https://icfinvestorday2022.convene.com/user-login/ and use the passcode ICF2022 at least 15 minutes prior to the live event and download and install any necessary software. An archive will be available at the above address for one month following the live event.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Investigators didn't find a DNA profile for the man accused of killing his wife's co-worker on items recovered in the case, including a gun, a hacksaw and a knife, a state criminalist testified Tuesday.
Armando Barron's profile didn't turn up, but testing did find a DNA profile, or a “possible contributor,” for Jonathan Amerault, the man who died, said Katie Lynn Swanko under questioning from Barron’s lawyer in a Keene, New Hampshire courtroom.
Prosecutors allege Barron assaulted his wife, Britany Barron, the night he discovered she was texting with Amerault, then used her cellphone to lure him to a park just north of the Massachusetts state line in September 2020. They allege he beat and kicked Amerault, forced him into his own car and shot him three times.
Barron's trial began last week. The prosecution is expected to wrap up its case Wednesday.
Armando Barron has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, kidnapping and other charges. His lawyers argue that his wife shot Amerault, which she denies.
Britany Barron had testified that after Amerault was shot, she was then forced to drive the car 200 miles (322 kilometers) north to a remote campsite. There, she said, she was forced to behead Amerault and dispose of his body.
About a dozen items submitted to Swanko had tested positive for the presence of human blood, but the DNA profile on them was “unknown," Swanko said. She said comparisons were made to known profiles of Amerault, Armando Barron and Britany Barron. Amerault's profile came up on nearly all of the items.
“So across all of the items that you tested from this investigation, Armando Barron was not a possible contributor of the DNA to any of those items that you tested?" defense attorney Morgan Taggart-Hampton asked.
“That's correct," Swanko said.
A few items, such as a black tank top and a sample of a napkin, showed Britany Barron's profile, Swanko testified.
The tested items included a pair of blue sneakers. During earlier testimony Tuesday, a criminalist testifying about a zigzag impression left on Amerault's face, saying it could have been made by a blue sneaker that she was given to analyze. Prosecutors said earlier in the trial that Armando Barron owned a pair of blue sneakers.
Also on Tuesday, an investigator testified about messages on social media accounts recovered from Britany Barron’s and Amerault's phones that September night, including one on Britany's asking Amerault to come to a park, followed by one telling him to “turn to the right" and that she was there.
The jury also heard a recording of a conversation a police officer had with Armando Barron at his home a couple of nights later. Barron is heard saying he dropped his wife off to go camping, and that he thought the officer was serving him divorce papers. He also said he had driven up north.
Britany pleaded guilty last year to three counts of falsifying evidence and was released from jail on parole last month.
The Associated Press had not been naming the couple in order not to identify Britany Barron, who said she suffered extreme abuse. Through her lawyer, she recently agreed to the use of her name. | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Defendant-s-DNA-not-on-tested-items-in-beheading-17195963.php | 2022-05-24T21:50:12Z | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Defendant-s-DNA-not-on-tested-items-in-beheading-17195963.php | false | 14 |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – President Biden said on Monday that the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan. The White House quickly walked back the president’s comments, but not before it drew a sharp response from Chinese officials.
This is the third time the administration has clarified President Biden’s comments implying that the U.S. military would intervene in Taiwan.
President Biden is standing by his comments expressing support for Taiwan.
“We support the ‘One China’ policy, we support all that we’ve done in the past, but that does not mean that China has the jurisdiction to go in and use force to take over Taiwan,” President Biden explained.
The administration is clarifying that the president’s remarks do not express a change in U.S. policy.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said “he reiterated that policy in our commitment to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
Secretary Austin added that the U.S. has a longstanding pledge to support and aid Taiwan.
“He also highlighted our commitment under the Taiwan Relations Act,” Austin said.
The Taiwan Relations Act says the U.S. is not required to defend Taiwan militarily but is required to ensure it has to resources to defend itself.
Under the One China policy, the U.S. acknowledges—without endorsing–China’s position that Taiwan is part of China.
A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry expressed “strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition” to President Biden’s remarks and said China will not allow any external forces to interfere with internal affairs.
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ST LOUIS (AP) _ Caleres Inc. (CAL) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $50.5 million.
The St. Louis-based company said it had profit of $1.32 per share.
The footwear wholesaler and retailer posted revenue of $735.1 million in the period.
Caleres Inc. shares have declined nearly 8% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $20.93, a decline of 16% in the last 12 months.
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Mike Tyson said everyone has a plan until they take a slap in the puss. Robbie Henshaw knows it is at exactly that moment when Leinster will know whether they have what it takes to win a fifth European Cup.
The province last claimed the trophy with the defeat of Racing 92 in Bilbao in 2018, since when they have come up short in a quarter-final, a semi-final and a decider. Saracens evicted them twice and La Rochelle acting as bouncer the other time.
All three losses have raised questions with the consensus being that Leo Cullen’s side has fallen short due to a combination of their opponents’ physical prowess and their own failure to be clinical enough at key times.
Welford Road this Saturday will provide another searching examination of their credentials with Cullen, who spent two years as a player with the Leicester Tigers, bracing them for the tight confines and what Robbie Henshaw labelled a “cauldron” atmosphere.
“I’ve heard it from many a coach, you’ll never play the perfect game,” said the Ireland and Lions centre. “It’s never perfect. You need to be ready for things to not go your way. Be ready for a punch in the face, that’s what they say.
“So that’s the beauty of these games. When things don’t go right, you need to be able to respond and that will be a challenge this week because, if we do get it right, it will go well for us, but if some things don’t go right, we’ll need to be ready to respond.”
Leinster have proven their ability to roll with the punches.
Last year’s quarter-finals presented them with a trip to Sandy Park and a tie against Exeter’s reigning champions and they had a dozen points to spare by game’s end despite having trailed 14-0 early doors to their hosts.
Whatever about their ability to execute over the course of three more knockout games, Leinster will not lack the appetite for the fight with the squad readdressing last year’s loss to La Rochelle ahead of this latest assignment.
This one won’t be an exact replica, though.
“Probably a little bit different. They’re a very pragmatic team in terms of how they go about their kicking game, how they apply pressure, in the sense of going through their nine and their 10. Going aerially for their kicks.
“They stick to it and, as a player, it can probably be a bit of a frustration sometimes if it’s a kick tennis game, but for us we just need to make sure we’re patient. When we get our opportunities, we’ll be able to take them.
“It might be early, it might be late in the game that it might open up a bit. When it comes to the kick tennis, that’s where, as a player, you need to be patient. It’s hard work as well. There’s a lot of running up and back. Again, we just need to be patient.”
Leicester are unbeaten on their own patch after 15 games so far this season but Connacht came closer than most to messing with that last December when they found some purchase with their starter plays and general phase play before falling six points short.
Leinster are far better equipped to capitalise on any net gains made and will hope that the two weeks most of their Ireland stars spent at home preparing for this task while a shadow squad travelled to South Africa will stand them in good stead.
Henshaw should be fresher than most having played just eleven times for club and country this season but the inevitable frustration that produced seems to have been sated at least in part by those two Champions Cup meetings with Connacht.
“We were up against it in Galway and that was a different experience for me because I played there for so long and that was my first game back there. It was hostile and I felt the full heat of the Sportsground.
“There was that element of a bit of frustration from that game and definitely brought it through to the Aviva. We knew we had to do better than what we did in Galway. Thankfully, we did up it a few gears and that showed in our performance.” | https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/robbie-henshaw-leinster-must-be-ready-for-a-punch-in-the-face_arid-40864484.html | 2022-05-24T21:54:23Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/robbie-henshaw-leinster-must-be-ready-for-a-punch-in-the-face_arid-40864484.html | false | 2 |
Former WWE World Champion Jinder Mahal was a name on every WWE fan’s lips a few years ago. The former 3MB member ascended to heights we never thought were possible for him. When he first returned to WWE in 2016, many thought that he was back just to take losses. Instead, he became the WWE Champion. He may look clear cut as a character, but there’s a lot we still don’t know about the Modern Day Maharaja.
Here are six facts you didn’t know about Jinder Mahal.
#6 Jinder Mahal has held championships outside of WWE
While many fans think that Mahal has only won the United States and the WWE Championship, which is a feat in itself, that isn't the case. Long before he was The Modern Day Maharaja, Mahal used to wrestle as Tiger Raj Singh. The former WWE champion spent approximately eight years on the independent circuit, winning the PWA Heavyweight and Tag Team Championships.
#5 He’s from Canada
Despite his Indian heritage and vocal Indian-styled character on television, Jinder Mahal identifies as a Canadian. Mahal’s family migrated to Canada from India in 1960s, and they are of Punjabi Sikh descent. He was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1986. Jinder also learned how to wrestle in Alberta at the Premier Martial Arts Wrestling School in Calgary.
Despite having a strong Canadian affiliation, WWE bills him from Punjab, India. Perhaps this is Vince McMahon’s way of pushing his promotion to a more international audience.
#4 He was released unexpectedly
In a shock to absolutely everybody, Jinder Mahal was released mid-feud back in 2014. He was still with his fellow 3MB members Heath Slater and Drew McIntyre, with the trio being regularly featured on television. Mahal himself expressed his surprise at the decision:
“I was surprised because we were pretty well booked on everything and we were on a lot of the live events.”
At the time, Mahal didn’t allow the setback to knock out his dreams, as he claimed he’d love to return to the wrestling behemoth one day. Fast forward three years later and Jinder was the WWE Champion. He’s seemingly in the best shape of his life, which perhaps suggests that sometimes a release isn’t as bad as it sounds.
#3 His Uncle is Gama Singh
In wrestling, we all know that a famous lineage helps boost the credibility of a wrestler. Jinder Mahal’s uncle is the well-renowned Gadowar Singh Sahota, better known as Gama Singh. Of course, a lot of today’s fan base won’t remember who he is, but he has a pedigree, and his run in wrestling was particularly memorable.
Like Jinder Mahal, Gama Singh was a hated heel who even drew heat from fans outside of arenas. In the 1980s he was one of WWF's most loathed heels. Fast-forward a few decades, and his nephew is one of the most hated heels in wrestling. Funnily enough, Gama’s son tried out for the WWE at the same time as Jinder, however, it was only his nephew who made the cut.
#2 He has a degree in business
Coming from a middle-class background, Jinder Mahal was taught to never rest on his laurels. After initially entering the wrestling world, Jinder went back to university to give himself an insurance plan. He needed the qualification to ensure that if wrestling failed, which it nearly did, he’d have something to fall back on.
Jinder Mahal enrolled at the University of Calgary and obtained a business degree in Communications and Culture. This is the same university that former Canadian Prime Minister Steve Harper attended. The interesting part about this story is that Mahal was wrestling while in school and as soon as he graduated, he went on the road again.
#1 He failed his first WWE try-out
In life, many of these motivational talkers always tell you that if at first you don’t succeed, try, and try again until you do. This is exactly what Jinder Mahal did, and he succeeded. In one of the few times that WWE crossed the border to hold try-outs in Canada, Jinder Mahal ensured he made his presence known.
In his first try-out for the company, Mahal had to wrestle back-to-back three matches. The first was against the infamous Eugene. He recalls being completely out of breath by the time the third match came around. The third match was against Tyler Breeze. Apparently, Mahal was told to call the match, and he automatically assumed that the agents wanted to focus on Breeze's selling. He was wrong. The agents were looking at Jinder’s offence, and because he was demoralised by the focus of the match, he didn’t put effort into it. This led to it being an unsuccessful first try-out for the former WWE World Champion.
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A military commission has recommended new names for nine bases named after Confederate leaders. Two years ago, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Congress mandated the name changes.
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The 79th consecutive Elizabethton Spring Count was held Saturday, May 7, with 28 observers in about a dozen parties, plus two feeder watchers. The area covered included Carter County and parts of the adjacent counties of Johnson, Sullivan, Washington and Unicoi.
The weather was less than ideal, with cool temperatures ranging from 45 to 60 and mist or light rain for part or most of the day. The mountainous areas had the most rain.
Longtime compiler Rick Knight noted that participants tallied 147 species, which is slightly below the recent 30-year average of 150 species.
In addition, most species were in reduced numbers, likely due to the difficulties presented by the weather (less singing, fewer soaring birds) during the count. On the other hand, the weather may have grounded some of the shorebirds. Large numbers of swallows and swifts were foraging low over the water in different locations due to the cool temperatures.
Also significant were some of the species missed by participants, including ruffed grouse, sora, American woodcock, both night-herons, sharp-shinned hawk, red-shouldered hawk, brown creeper, ruby-crowned kinglet and hermit thrush.
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Some of the more abundant birds included American robin (924), European starling (730), Canada goose (482) and red-winged blackbird (302).
The list follows:
Canada goose, 482; wood duck, 58, blue-winged teal, 4; mallard, 113; bufflehead, 1; hooded merganser, 3; and common merganser, 1.
Wild turkey, 41; rock pigeon, 124; Eurasian collared-dove, 4; mourning dove, 259; yellow-billed cuckoo, 2; common nighthawk, 1; chuck-will’s-widow, 6; Eastern whip-poor-will, 12; chimney swift, 401; and ruby-throated hummingbird, 19.
Killdeer, 32; least sandpiper, 16; pectoral sandpiper, 2; semipalmated sandpiper, 1; spotted sandpiper, 34; solitary sandpiper, 13; lesser yellowlegs, 5; greater yellowlegs, 1; and ring-billed gull, 3.
Common loon, 3; double-crested cormorant, 75; great blue heron, 51; great egret, 3; and green heron, 10.
Black vulture, 40; turkey vulture, 56; osprey, 4; cooper’s hawk, 3; bald eagle, 5; broad-winged hawk, 2; red-tailed hawk, 8; Eastern screech-owl, 3; great horned owl, 2; and barred owl, 1.
Belted kingfisher, 11; red-headed woodpecker, 2; red-bellied woodpecker, 46; yellow-bellied sapsucker, 3; downy woodpecker, 20; hairy woodpecker, 7; Northern flicker, 36; and pileated woodpecker, 29.
American Kestrel, 8; great crested flycatcher, 14; Eastern kingbird, 30; Eastern wood-pewee, 11; Acadian flycatcher, 15; least flycatcher, 2; and Eastern phoebe, 61.
White-eyed vireo, 7; Yellow-throated vireo, 4; Blue-headed vireo, 25; warbling vireo, 8; red-eyed vireo, 149; blue jay, 192; American crow, 280; fish crow, 4 (present third year in a row) and common raven, 8.
Bank swallow, 6; tree swallow, 399; northern rough-winged swallow, 168; purple martin, 94; barn swallow, 405; and cliff swallow, 499.
Carolina chickadee, 123; tufted titmouse, 140; red-breasted nuthatch, 1; white-breasted nuthatch, 11; house wren, 53; winter wren, 1; Carolina wren, 161; and blue-gray gnatcatcher, 51.
Golden-crowned kinglet, 2; Eastern bluebird, 141; veery, 19; gray-cheeked thrush, 1; Swainson’s thrush, 3; wood thrush, 51; American robin, 924; gray catbird, 75; brown thrasher, 64; Northern mockingbird, 93; European starling, 730; and cedar waxwing, 75.
House sparrow, 50; house finch, 62; pine siskin, 3; and American goldfinch, 224.
Grasshopper Sparrow, 1; chipping sparrow, 95; field sparrow, 29; dark-eyed junco, 19; white-crowned sparrow, 1; white-throated sparrow, 1; savannah sparrow, 1; song sparrow, 290; Lincoln’s sparrow, 1; and Eastern towhee, 151.
Yellow-breasted chat, 11; Eastern meadowlark, 91; orchard oriole, 20; Baltimore oriole, 11; red-winged blackbird, 302; brown-headed cowbird, 101; and common grackle, 281.
Ovenbird, 88; worm-eating warbler, 13; Louisiana waterthrush, 25; Northern waterthrush, 1; golden-winged warbler, 1; black-and-white warbler, 37; Swainson’s warbler, 6; Tennessee warbler, 1; Kentucky warbler, 5; common yellowthroat, 17; hooded warbler, 85; American redstart, 14; Cape May warbler, 1; Northern parula, 46; magnolia warbler, 2; bay-breasted warbler, 2; Blackburnian warbler, 3; yellow warbler, 9; chestnut-sided warbler, 15; blackpoll warbler, 2; black-throated blue warbler, 33; palm warbler, 1; pine warbler, 9; yellow-rumped warbler, 9; yellow-throated warbler, 44; prairie warbler, 1; black-throated green warbler, 33; and Canada warbler, 10.
Summer tanager, 1; scarlet tanager, 60; Northern cardinal, 270; rose-breasted grosbeak, 11; blue grosbeak, 8; indigo bunting , 104; and dickcissel, 2.
Based on the count results, it’s not difficult to see that many birds are moving through the region as part of the yearly phenomenon of spring migration.
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Amazon may now have too much warehouse space, as the pandemic fuelled enthusiasm for ecommerce has slowly cooled off.
The retail giant could be set to start subletting over 10 million square feet of space and could potentially even vacate more by ending leases with landlords, according to sources reported by Bloomberg.
The excess space issues are affecting warehouses in New York, New Jersey, Southern California, and Atlanta, the anonymous sources have said.
How big is the problem?
Amazon’s excess space issue could exceed 10 million square feet according to two of sources, with one source claiming it could be triple that.
Amazon did not comment on the exact quantity of the surfeit of space, but Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll told the Associated Press the move will “relieve the financial obligations associated with an existing building that no longer meets its needs”.
“Subleasing is something many established corporations do to help manage their real estate portfolio,” Carroll added.
The reports come as Amazon seems to be adjusting to an atmosphere of lower growth post pandemic
The news comes after Amazon reported a net loss of $3.8 billion in the first quarter of the year, its first since 2015, compared to an income of $8.1 billion in the same period of 2021.
However, sales did increase by 7% to $116.4 billion in the quarter, compared to 44% growth in the same period of 2021.
Amazon's cloud hosting division Amazon Web Services (AWS) demonstrated stellar performance however, reporting 32% revenue growth in its first quarter.
“Today, as we’re no longer chasing physical or staffing capacity, our teams are squarely focused on improving productivity and cost efficiencies throughout our fulfillment network,” said CEO Andy Jassy in Amazon’s most recent earnings report. “We know how to do this and have done it before.”
“This may take some time, particularly as we work through ongoing inflationary and supply chain pressures, but we see encouraging progress on a number of customer experience dimensions, including delivery speed performance as we’re now approaching levels not seen since the months immediately preceding the pandemic in early 2020.” | https://www.techradar.com/nz/news/amazon-now-has-too-much-warehouse-space-and-wants-to-sell-your-business-some | 2022-05-24T22:09:03Z | https://www.techradar.com/nz/news/amazon-now-has-too-much-warehouse-space-and-wants-to-sell-your-business-some | false | 6 |
Ukraine round-up: Row over Ukraine's nuclear power and a colourful protest
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is now nearly into its fourth month. It is worth remembering that many people, including perhaps Russian President Vladimir Putin, did not expect it to last this long. But instead of swiftly taking the capital Kyiv, Russia faced strong resistance and last month switched focus...
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Mortgage rates started the week with a yawn, with most averages moving a single basis point or two. The 30-year average is currently sitting notably below its recent 13-year peak.
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Johnny Depp's Fingertip: How Did It Get Cut Off, and Who Is Responsible?
by Tyler Johnson at .The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial has been a national obsession for over a month now.
And despite the fact that the trial has seen far more shocking moments, two incidents seem to have sparked the most conversation, as well as burrowed deepest into the public's collective consciousness.
One of them -- the claim that Heard defecated in Depp's bed -- has inspired countless memes, and seems to be functioning as a bit of comic relief amid all the tabloid-ready drama.
The other has served as a sort of microcosm for the entire trial, as both sides are offering wildly different accounts of what really happened, and much will depend on whom the jury believes.
In 2015 -- while he and Heard were in Australia so that he could film the fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise -- Depp suffered an injury to his right hand.
In testimony, Depp said that the tip of his finger was severed when Heard threw a glass bottle at him during a violent altercation.
Both sides agree on certain aspects of the incident -- the fight took place late at night on March 7, 2015, and Depp seemed to suffer some sort of breakdown in the aftermath.
Heard and Depp concur that he stayed up all night blaring music by his friend Marilyn Manson and drawing on the walls of his rental home with his bloody finger.
But that's where the consensus comes to an end.
Heard says she's unsure of how Depp injured his finger, but she's not surprised that he was hurt, as he was heavily intoxicated at the time of the incident, and he had broken several bottles.
"She threw the large bottle and it made contact [with the bar] and shattered everywhere. I honestly didn't feel the pain at first," Depp testified on Aprl 20.
The following morning, Depp's on-call addiction specialist Dr. David Kipper took the actor to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for his injuries.
“No, I can’t take responsibility for what I now call 'Little Richard,' my chopped finger,” Depp told the court in response to a question about who caused the injury.
As for why he told the emergency room doctor that he caused the injury himself, Depp offered the following explanation:
“I didn’t think it wise to cause a ruckus, implicate Ms. Heard, and then have 8 million stories out in the press about how she’d thrown a bottle of vodka at me and how it smashed all the bones in the tip of my fingers, and it was also sliced down . . . it was pretty horrible.”
Depp maintains that he continued to lie to medical staff in order to protect Heard's reputation, as well as his own.
“I didn’t want to put her in this situation. I didn’t want to put any of us in this situation. I didn’t want to put the film [Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales] in that situation,” he said on the stand.
“That was why I said it was crushed in an accordion door.”
As for his strange behavior in the aftermath of the fight, Depp describes it as a sort of trauma response:
"I don't know what a nervous breakdown feels like, but that's probably the closest I've ever been," he told the court.
"I knew in my mind and my heart, this is not life. This is not life. No one should have to go through it."
In audio recordings that were played in court, Depp complained to Heard about the injury, but never explicitly blamed her for causing it.
Heard, of course, offered a very different account of the incident when she took the stand.
She told the court that on the night in question, Depp sexually assaulted her with a glass bottle.
Heard said under oath that she did not report the incident out of fear of her partner, as well as a concern for negative press that's similar to what Depp described.
Photos taken by Heard in the wake of the incident confirm that, using his own blood, Depp drew penises on the walls and artwork in the rental home.
He also scrawled messages that appeared to pertain to Heard's alleged infidelity, including one that read, "Starring Billy Bob and Easy Amber," seemingly a reference to the actor Billy Bob Thornton, with whom Heard recently co-starred in the film London Fields.
Needless to say, much will depend on whom the jury deems the more credible witness.
Heard's side is expected to wrap up its case by Friday, and the jury will begin deliberating shortly thereafter.
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Helen Wade, Sheena Greitens’ attorney, wrote in a statement to The Independent that the subpoenaed records were turned over last week. The information contained, Wade wrote, contradict Eric Greitens’ assertions that his ex-wife conspired with his political enemies to lie in an affidavit made public on March 21.
“The records subpoenaed by Eric Greitens refute his repeated public statements accusing Dr. Sheena Greitens of coordinating with political operatives in the preparation and filing of her affidavit, and of leaking that affidavit to the press,” Wade wrote.
The affidavit, and the subpoena, are part of the ongoing child custody dispute between the Greitens, who were divorced in 2020. They are due to be in court Friday in Columbia, when Associate Circuit Judge Leslie Schneider will hear arguments over whether the case should be handled in Texas courts, where Sheena Greitens now lives, or remain in Boone County.
Eric Greitens resigned the Missouri governor’s office in June 2018. He launched a campaign for Missouri’s open U.S. Senate seat last year.
Eric Greitens’ attorney Gary Stamper, wrote in an email that his review has uncovered contacts that Wade and Sheena Greitens will have to justify in court.
“I have repeatedly said that ‘a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,’” Stamper wrote. “The denial proffered by Dr. Greitens’ attorney ignores one, or more, easily identifiable calls.”
Stamper declined to give details on the calls he has identified but said he would question Sheena Greitens about them if she takes the stand Friday.
The Associated Press published the first story about the March 21 affidavit shortly after it showed up on the updated docket of the case in the online court filing system known as Casenet.
“Contrary to what has been repeatedly asserted by Eric Greitens, his attorneys and his political campaign, the records show absolutely no contact between Dr. Sheena Greitens and Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, or any person working for these men,” Wade said in her email to The Independent. “These records further reflect no contact between Dr. Sheena Greitens and the Associated Press, which rebuts the allegations made by Mr. Greitens, his attorneys and his political campaign that she provided her affidavit to the AP prior to it becoming available to the public on March 21, 2022 at 9:26 a.m.”
The immediate issue Friday is whether Schneider will send the case to Texas. If either Sheena Greitens or Eric Greitens testify, it will be the first time they have been questioned about the allegations and it would be the first time Eric Greitens has made any statement under oath about them.
All of Sheena Greitens’ accusations have been made in sworn statements. She could face perjury charges if she has lied.
Sheena Greitens has been seeking to move the case since last year, after Eric Greitens launched the Senate campaign intended to be his political comeback.
The case is in Boone County Circuit Court because Sheena Greitens lived in Columbia at the time she filed for divorce because she was on the faculty of the University of Missouri. A scholar who specializes in studying North Korea, she is now an associate professor at the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Eric Greitens was elected governor in 2016 and resigned June 1, 2018, amid allegations of violent sexual misconduct and an investigation of his campaign finances.
A Missouri House committee was considering whether to recommend his impeachment. Greitens agreed to resign as part of a plea deal with the St. Louis prosecutor to dismiss a felony charge stemming from allegations he stole from a veterans charity.
In the affidavit filed March 21, Sheena Greitens alleged Eric Greitens knocked her down and confiscated her cell phone, wallet and keys during a 2018 argument so she would be “unable to call for help or extricate myself and our children from our home.”
As his political problems increased in the first half of 2018, Sheena Greitens said in the affidavit, her ex-husband repeatedly threatened to commit suicide unless she showed “specific public political support” for him. As a result, she and others were so concerned they limited his access to firearms on at least three occasions that year.
“I started sleeping in my children’s room simply to try to keep them safe,” Sheena Greitens said in the affidavit.
In November 2019, the affidavit states, one of their sons came home from a visit with Eric Greitens with a swollen face, bleeding gums and loose tooth and said his father had hit him. The affidavit states Greitens said it was an accident while roughhousing. The tooth later had to be surgically removed.
In statements to the media, on social media accounts and in campaign fundraising appeals, Eric Greitens accused his wife of conspiring with his political enemies.
“I want to tell you directly, Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell,” Greitens said in a video tweeted March 25. “Hear me now. You are disgusting cowards. And we are coming for you.”
And friendly conservative sites published stories crowing about Greitens’ victory over his foes when Schneider agreed to allow the subpoena for Sheena Greitens phone records. “BUSTED: Judge Gives Eric Greitens Access to Ex-Wife’s Phone Records Following RINO Smear Job,” a headline on Big League Politics declared.
While she allowed Stamper access to Sheena Greitens’ telephone records, Schneider denied subpoenas for phones owned by Catherine Linkul, who is Sheena Greitens’ sister, and Austin Chambers, manager of Greitens 2016 campaign. A request for a subpoena of Karl Rove’s telephone records was dropped before Schneider could rule.
The path to McConnell, according to Greitens supporters, is Linkul, who works for Pathway Public Affairs, a Republican consulting firm led by Phil Cox, a board member of a PAC linked to McConnell.
In the statement, Wade said the records showed regular contact with her sister and Chambers, who is a personal friend. But that doesn’t equal a conspiracy, Wade said.
“Contrary to the statements of Mr. Greitens’ attorneys and campaign,” Wade wrote, “the records of Dr. Greitens’ communications are not indicative of any sort of collaboration with her sister, with Mr. Chambers, or with any other person.”
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Jeanie Louise Cassidy Burns, 79, a resident of Parsons, WV departed this life Wednesday May 18, 2022, at her home, with her family by her side and under the care of West Virginia Caring. She had been in declining health.
She was born Sunday, August 23, 1942, at Kempton, MD, a daughter of the late Adam Cassidy and Violet Wyoma Cassidy Jones. On April 7, 1961, at Oakland, MD, she was married to Delvin Burns, who preceded her in death November 11, 2009. Surviving are three sons, Delvin Richard “Rick” Burns and wife Lisa of Parsons, Mark Allen Burns and wife Nina of Shinnston, and Michael Dale Burns and wife June of Cleveland, OH; one daughter, Amy Ellen Nestor and husband Tommy of Texas Mountain; two brothers, Roger Cassidy of Yulee, Fla and Chuck Cassidy of Red House, MD; one sister, Sandy Hardy of PA; six grandchildren, Emily Cole Nestor Thornhill and husband Matt, Mark Allen Burns, Jr. and wife Madeline, Camey Joanna Nestor, Andrew Wesley Burns and wife Melissa, Abby Lane Nestor and Joshua Isaac Burns; two step-grandchildren, Kimberly Dawn Mackey and Bethany Ann Pennington and husband Chris; five great grandchildren, Ty and Emma Thornhill, Matthew and Micah Burns and Callie Nestor; five step-great grandchildren, Jaydon Hallem, Avyanna, Onyx, Brinley Ann, and Kensley Pennington.
Preceding her in death are two sisters, Velma Jones and Terry Wheland; two grandchildren, Matthew Dayton and Jacob Roy Burns.
She attended Parsons High School and was a member of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church since 1976. She was a former employee of the Tucker County Board of Education working as a cook for the school system and an employee of the former Tucker County Hospital. She was a homemaker and she loved taking care of her family. She loved her family and grandchildren and was very caring and loving, and she had a wonderful sense of humor.
The family received friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Parsons, WV on Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m.. Final rites were conducted at the funeral home on Monday, May 23, 2022, at 11 a.m. The Reverend Justin Jones officiated and interment followed at the Parsons City Cemetery at Parsons, WV. The Lohr and Barb Funeral Home in Parsons is in charge of arrangements for Jeanie Louise Cassidy Burns. Condolences may be expressed to the family at; www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com. | https://parsonsadvocate.com/pa-obituaries/jeanie-louis-cassidy-burns/ | 2022-05-24T22:19:13Z | https://parsonsadvocate.com/pa-obituaries/jeanie-louis-cassidy-burns/ | false | 1 |
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Marvel India fans can finally rejoice! The Netflix-made Daredevil, Defenders, Punisher, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage series are now available on Disney Plus Hotstar India. Since March, the shows could not be streamed in this region on the Mouse House’s streaming service after exiting Netflix due to the network’s licensing deal expiry.
Charlie Cox’s Devil of Hell’s Kitchen adaptation and the rest of the Defenders created under the Netflix-Marvel Studios partnership was initially unavailable to stream in India. It was reported the inconvenience was due to “some rights-related discussions”. Since then, MCU India fans have longed for its release on Hotstar and the streaming giant surprised its audiences with a new promo this week, confirming its availability. Readers can check it out below.
Welcome to the streaming home of Marvel. Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher, The Defenders, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are now streaming on @DisneyPlusHS India. pic.twitter.com/QFBHiMu9ol
— Disney+ Hotstar (@DisneyPlusHS) May 21, 2022
One great lawyer is here. #Daredevil
Can’t wait to meet the other one. #SheHulk
— Disney+ Hotstar (@DisneyPlusHS) May 23, 2022
ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is also among the new Marvel releases on Disney Plus India. Some fans have queried for the Hindi dubbed version to be included for Daredevil and Defenders. Though, the support for Hotstar stated, “Dubbing of content depends upon the availability of language-specific rights and dubbing rights for the content. However we’ll share your feedback with our concerned team.” It seems unlikely for the dubbed version to be updated anytime soon.
Also Read: Luke Cage star Mike Colter teases big announcement for The Defenders and team up with Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter
The news of Daredevil series availability in India comes as reports emerge that Cox’s Matt Murdock could appear in She-Hulk as a cameo. With Disney Plus India’s cryptic tweets and the timely inclusion of the Defenders show on Hostar, one can only wonder if the rumors were indeed true. It’s also being speculated the new Daredevil show will be a “new but continued series” indicating the events unfolded under the Netflix-produced 3 seasons won’t be erased.
Meanwhile, Disney Plus Hotstar still has miles to go in delivering a better OTT service in comparison to the US and Canada. The OTT in India is yet to provide the IMAX Enhanced feature, multi-user profiles, Premier Access, etc.
What do you think of Disney Plus finally including Daredevil and other Defenders shows on Hotstar India? Let us know in the comments or write to @RAKarthikPrasad on Twitter to discuss all things Marvel.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The midterm primary in South Carolina is June 14 and for the first time, South Carolinians will be able to vote early thanks to a new law signed by Governor Henry McMaster. While the new law allows early voting for every registered voter, there have been some changes in how you can vote absentee.
The biggest thing to remember is in-person absentee voting is no longer authorized by law. All absentee voting must be done by mail -- so allow time for forms to go through the US Postal Service -- AND voters must qualify to vote absentee.
VOTING ABSENTEE
The deadline is tight to apply, qualify for eligibility, and receive and return an absentee ballot for the June 14 primary election, but keep this information available if you should need to apply for absentee voting for the November 8 general election. In order to qualify for absentee voting, voters must meet one of the following conditions:
- be 65 years of age or older
- have a physical disability
- be active military or Merchant Marine in the United States, their spouses and dependents residing with them
- persons with employment obligations which prevent them from voting during early voting hours for the duration of the early voting period, and during the hours polls are open on election day
- persons caring for a sick or physically disabled person which prevents them from voting during early voting hours for the duration of the early voting period, and during the hours polls are open on election day
- persons admitted to a hospital as an emergency patient on the day of the election or within a four-day period before the election
- persons confined to a jail or pre-trial facility pending disposition of arrest or trial which prevents them from voting during early voting hours for the duration of the early voting period, and during the hours polls are open on election day
- persons who will be absent from the county in which they are registered to vote during early voting hours for the duration of the early voting period, and during the hours polls are open on election day
In order to vote absentee, registered voters must fill out an application for eligibility -- the deadline to get, complete and return a new application is 5 p.m. Friday, June 3.
- Get your absentee application by submitting a request by either calling, visiting, or mailing your county voter registration office. You must provide your name, date of birth, and last four digits of your Social Security Number before an application will be sent to you through the US Mail.
- Once you receive the absentee voter application, fill it out and sign it, then follow the instructions and return the application by US Mail or personal delivery. Deadline to return the absentee voter application is June 3.
- Voters who applied early to vote absentee will be mailed absentee ballots around 30 days before the election.
- After you fill out your absentee ballot, return the completed ballot to your county voter registration office or early voting center either by US Mail or personal delivery. When dropping off an absentee ballot in person, the voter must present a photo ID (driver’s license, SCDOT photo ID card, military ID issued by the federal government, passport, or SC voter registration card containing a photo of the voter). The deadline for returning a completed absentee ballot in person is 7 p.m. on election day. Completed absentee ballots returned by mail should be mailed NO LATER than ONE WEEK PRIOR to election day (in this case, postmarked June 7) to help ensure timely delivery.
EARLY VOTING
Early voting begins Tuesday, May 31 and ends Friday, June 10. Voters can cast early ballots at local county voting centers 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Bring a photo ID when checking in to vote.
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NEW YORK, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXSM) between December 30, 2019 and April 22, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 12, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Axsome securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Axsome class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=2221 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 12, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Axsome's chemistry, manufacturing, and control ("CMC") practices were deficient with respect to AXS-07 and its manufacturing process; (2) as a result, Axsome was unlikely to submit the AXS-07 New Drug Application ("NDA") on its initially represented timeline; (3) the foregoing CMC issues remained unresolved at the time that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") reviewed the AXS-07 NDA; (4) accordingly, the FDA was unlikely to approve the AXS-07 NDA; (5) as a result of all the foregoing, Axsome had overstated AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects; and (6) as a result, Axsome's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Axsome class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=2221 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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- Abbott to release limited quantities of EleCare® branded specialty formulas
- Product will be released immediately free of charge to children in need
- Parents and caregivers in urgent need should contact their healthcare professionals or Abbott at +1-800-881-0876 for additional information
- Abbott plans to restart production at the Sturgis facility on June 4 and will prioritize EleCare production, with initial EleCare product release to consumers beginning on or about June 20
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan has amended the recent consent decree allowing Abbott to release limited quantities of its EleCare® specialty amino acid-based formulas that were previously on hold following the Feb. 17 recall of some powder infant formulas from its Sturgis, Mich., facility. The consent decree was amended at the request of Abbott and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to enable the company to get EleCare to children in urgent medical need. These EleCare product batches were on hold pursuant to an agreement with the FDA.
All products have been tested and meet all product release requirements. In addition, Abbott has concluded additional, enhanced testing to provide assurance the product is safe to distribute. Abbott plans to restart production at the Sturgis facility on June 4 and will prioritize EleCare production, with initial EleCare product release to consumers beginning on or about June 20.
EleCare formulas are hypoallergenic and are used by infants and children who have severe food allergies or gastrointestinal (GI) disorders that require amino acid-based formulas. While Abbott has limited inventory of these products, there should be enough to fulfill current patient needs until new product is available in the coming months. The products being released are EleCare (for infants 0-12 months) and EleCare Jr (for ages one year and up).
Similac® and Alimentum® powder formulas that were voluntarily recalled in February are not included in this product release.
What Parents, Caregivers and Healthcare Professionals Should Do
EleCare products are used under the care of a healthcare professional. Parents and caregivers in urgent need should contact their healthcare professionals or Abbott at +1-800-881-0876 for additional information.
Abbott will fulfill requests to the best of its ability and as quickly as possible. Abbott expects to begin shipping product within the next several days. Product will be shipped directly to healthcare professionals, hospitals or consumers. Once production resumes in the Sturgis facility, Abbott will prioritize manufacturing of EleCare and other specialty and metabolic formulas to restock supplies as quickly as possible.
"Releasing this product immediately will help families impacted by the lack of availability of EleCare," said Robert B. Ford, chairman and chief executive officer, Abbott. "When we restart our Sturgis facility the first week in June, we will produce EleCare first and make enough so that several months of supply will be available."
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
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President Joe Biden will speak this evening on the latest school shooting in the United States after 14 students and a teacher were killed in Texas, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday.
"His prayers are with the families impacted by this awful event, and he will speak this evening when he arrives back at the White House," she wrote on Twitter.
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AvidXchange (NASDAQ:AVDX – Get Rating) was downgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report issued on Tuesday, Zacks.com reports.
According to Zacks, “AvidXchange Holdings Inc. is a provider of accounts payable automation software and payment solutions for middle market businesses and suppliers. The company’s software-as-a-service-based, end-to-end software and payment platform digitizes and automates the AP workflows for businesses and supplier. AvidXchange Holdings Inc. is based in CHARLOTTE, N.C. “
A number of other analysts have also weighed in on the stock. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft decreased their target price on shares of AvidXchange from $16.00 to $13.00 in a report on Monday, May 9th. Morgan Stanley began coverage on shares of AvidXchange in a report on Thursday, April 28th. They set an “equal weight” rating and a $9.00 target price on the stock. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group began coverage on shares of AvidXchange in a report on Thursday, January 27th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $15.00 target price on the stock. The Goldman Sachs Group lowered shares of AvidXchange from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their target price for the stock from $13.00 to $10.00 in a report on Friday, April 8th. Finally, Piper Sandler decreased their target price on shares of AvidXchange from $25.00 to $13.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, March 8th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, AvidXchange presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of 16.90.
AvidXchange (NASDAQ:AVDX – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, March 7th. The company reported -0.26 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of -0.11 by -0.15. The firm had revenue of 69.27 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of 66.06 million. Sell-side analysts predict that AvidXchange will post -0.67 earnings per share for the current year.
In related news, insider Michael Praeger purchased 69,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 10th. The stock was acquired at an average price of 7.11 per share, with a total value of 494,145.00. The purchase was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link.
Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Neuberger Berman Group LLC boosted its stake in shares of AvidXchange by 31.6% in the 1st quarter. Neuberger Berman Group LLC now owns 4,324,233 shares of the company’s stock valued at $34,647,000 after purchasing an additional 1,039,536 shares in the last quarter. Carolinas Wealth Consulting LLC bought a new stake in AvidXchange during the 1st quarter valued at $1,305,000. Quantbot Technologies LP raised its holdings in AvidXchange by 7,849.9% during the 1st quarter. Quantbot Technologies LP now owns 42,373 shares of the company’s stock valued at $341,000 after buying an additional 41,840 shares during the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its holdings in AvidXchange by 8,560.8% during the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 1,196,063 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,628,000 after buying an additional 1,182,253 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Tikvah Management LLC raised its holdings in AvidXchange by 24.9% during the 1st quarter. Tikvah Management LLC now owns 2,817,798 shares of the company’s stock valued at $22,683,000 after buying an additional 561,280 shares during the last quarter. 64.58% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
AvidXchange Company Profile (Get Rating)
AvidXchange Holdings, Inc provides accounts payable (AP) automation software and payment solutions for middle market businesses and their suppliers in North America. The company offers AP automation software, a SaaS-based solution that automates and digitizes capture, review, approval, and payment of invoices for buyers; the AvidPay network that connects two-sided payments with buyers and suppliers; and cash flow manager that provides cash management solutions.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an update on steps it has taken that will lead to millions of cans of additional infant and specialty formula being available to U.S. consumers.
"We continue to do everything in our power as part of the all-of-government efforts to ensure there's adequate infant formula available wherever and whenever parents and caregivers need it," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "Our recent steps will help further bolster supply of infant formula, including through the import of safe and nutritious products from overseas based on our increased flexibilities announced last week. Importantly, we anticipate additional infant formula products may be safely and quickly imported into the U.S. in the near-term based on ongoing discussions with manufacturers and suppliers worldwide."
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U.K.'s Kendal Nutricare Will Send About 2 Million Cans to U.S.
The FDA has informed Kendal Nutricare that the agency is exercising enforcement discretion for the importation of certain infant formula under the Kendamil brand. Under the agency's recent increased flexibilities regarding importation of certain infant formula products, the company initially estimates that about 2 million cans of infant formula are expected to land on U.S. store shelves beginning in June. Kendal Nutricare currently has over 40,000 cans in stock for immediate dispatch and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has initiated conversations to evaluate options for getting the products to the U.S. as quickly as possible. Kendamil has set up a website for consumers to receive updates and locate product once it arrives in the U.S.
The agency reviewed applicable information relating to certain Kendamil products and, based on the information provided, does not have concerns that the products can be used safely and that they provide adequate nutrition. In reaching this decision, the FDA evaluated information pertaining to nutritional adequacy and safety, including microbiological testing, labeling, and additional information about facility production and inspection history.
Today's announcement follows guidance issued last week that outlined a process by which the FDA would not object to the importation of certain infant formula products intended for a foreign market or distribution in the U.S. of products manufactured here for export to foreign countries. This guidance also may provide flexibilities to those who manufacture infant formula products domestically and may be able to increase further the quantity of domestically produced product for the U.S. market.
The agency remains in further discussions with manufacturers and suppliers regarding additional supply and intends to prioritize submissions for products that can demonstrate safety and nutritional adequacy and have the largest volume of product available and/or those who can get product onto U.S. shelves the quickest. The FDA has posted a webpage that will be updated with information about additional products headed to the U.S.
Abbott Will Release About 300,000 Cans of EleCare Specialty Formula on Case-By Case Basis
The FDA is announcing that it is not objecting to the release of about 300,000 cans of EleCare amino acid-based infant formula previously produced at Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Michigan, facility to individuals needing urgent, life-sustaining supplies of this specialty formula on a case-by-case basis. These products will undergo enhanced microbiological testing before release. Although some EleCare product was included in Abbott Nutrition's infant formula recall, these EleCare products that will be released were in different lots, have never been released and have been maintained in storage under control by Abbott Nutrition.
These EleCare product lots were not part of the recall but have been on hold due to concerns that they were produced under insanitary conditions observed at Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Michigan, facility. As noted above, these products will undergo enhanced microbiological testing prior to their release.
Given the critical need of this product for some individuals, the FDA encourages parents and caregivers to consult with their healthcare providers to weigh the potential risk of bacterial infection with this product. The FDA will continue to work closely with healthcare provider organizations and stakeholders to understand the potential risks and benefits of using this product. Parents and caregivers seeking access to these products should contact Abbott directly to request that a product be made available to them by calling 1-800-881-0876. Parents and caregivers should continue to work with their medical provider to consider whether comparable alternative products may be appropriate.
The FDA is also announcing that in response to the agency's concerns, Abbott has confirmed to the agency that EleCare will be the first formula produced at the Sturgis facility when it restarts production, and other specialty metabolic formulas will closely follow. Additionally, under the consent decree with the FDA, Abbott is required to retain an independent expert to review the Sturgis facility's operations to ensure compliance with the law.
Additional Ongoing Efforts to Increase Supply of Infant Formula
On Friday, the agency held a webinar with more than 700 attendees to review the recent guidance for the infant formula industry, particularly those manufacturers and processors not currently manufacturing infant formula products for the U.S. market.
The FDA's around-the-clock work as part of the all-of-government efforts has already begun to improve supply and availability. The agency expects that the measures and steps it is taking, and the potential for Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Michigan, facility to safely resume production in the near-term, will mean more and more supply is on the way or on store shelves moving forward.
As more formula becomes available to the general population of infants, the agency understands that availability of specialty products -- such as amino acid-based specialty formulas and metabolic products -- continues to be of concern. The FDA has already taken steps with Abbott Nutrition to make product available to those with life-threatening conditions on a case-by-case basis and will continue its efforts to make these products even more readily available as the agency works with the company to implement provisions of a consent decree. In addition, these products have been an area of focus for discussions with other manufacturers that make comparable products. As a result of the recall and work with the FDA, other manufacturers have increased production of comparable product lines and in some cases expedited the importation of these products where available.
The FDA continues to advise against making infant formulas at home or diluting formula. Caregivers are encouraged to work with their child's health care provider for recommendations on changing feeding practices, if needed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has also released a fact sheet with information to help families find infant formula.
The agency also monitors online marketplaces for fraudulent products and works with major online retailers to remove violative and harmful products offered for sale on their sites. Additionally, since many of these fraudulent products originate overseas, the agency targets and examines these products at ports of entry. The FDA also monitors and follows up on various external signals such as consumer complaints about potential counterfeit and fraudulent products.
The FDA will continue to dedicate all available resources to help ensure that infant formula products remain available for use in the U.S. and will keep the public informed of progress updates.
Additional Information:
- Enforcement Discretion to Manufacturers to Increase Infant Formula Supplies
- FDA Encourages Importation of Safe Infant Formula and Other Flexibilities to Further Increase Availability
- FDA Takes Important Steps to Improve Supply of Infant and Specialty Formula Products
- HHS Fact Sheet: Helping Families Find Formula During the Infant Formula Shortage
- FDA Investigation of Cronobacter Infections: Powdered Infant Formula (February 2022)
- Powdered Infant Formula Recall: What to Know
- CDC Information on Cronobacter Infection and Infants
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The first thing Wayne McLaughlin noticed when he saw his son for the first time in 31 months was how much weight he had lost.
Scott McLaughlin had moved to the United States in late 2020 to become an IndyCar driver, and pandemic restrictions in Australia and New Zealand prevented him from saying goodbye to his family. Finally able to travel out of New Zealand, his parents began their 14th trip to the United States to watch their son run the Indianapolis 500.
The overdue reunion for Wayne and Diane McLaughlin came at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
“It was weird, I was a little bit nervous to see them,” Scott McLaughlin told The Associated Press. “It was just all this energy and excitement and I was weirdly nervous.”
FaceTime had kept the family connected, but those calls had not prepared his parents for how they'd find their 28-year-old son. McLaughlin lost weight when he left Australia, where he won three consecutive V8 Supercars championships, but then had to build muscle to handle cars that lack power steering and travel 200-plus mph.
“We knew he lost a lot of weight," Wayne McLaughlin told AP. “He was always a pretty fat guy, he's already been reasonably solid, and I just got a big shock to see him.”
There was more to come.
McLaughlin's parents watched qualifying from a Team Penske pit stall and his mother couldn't take the speeds, which topped 230 miles per hour (370.15 kph).
“I was looking for a bucket,” Diane McLaughlin laughed.
Wayne and Diane had enjoyed racing as a couple before their two children were born. They bought their son a go-kart for his seventh birthday as a hobby, but wouldn't let him race for the first six months.
When they finally entered him in competitions, the kid turned out to be pretty good. Wayne McLaughlin decided to move the family from New Zealand to Australia — partly for a trucking business Wayne owned — but also to further their son's career.
“Wayne said, ‘If he’s going to be any good in racing, if he wants to get to V8, we really need to be in Australia,'” Diane McLaughlin said. “And I'm going, ‘The kid is only nine!’”
“Diane kept saying ‘It’s pie-in-the-sky stuff!'" recalled Wayne McLaughlin. “So when he won his first championship I said, ‘Pie-in-the-sky stuff, eh?’”
It wasn't long before Wayne McLaughlin realized it wasn't "dad and son racing anymore” and found some help with one rule: absolutely no open-wheel racing.
But then McLaughlin made it to V8 Supercars, and then Roger Penske bought into the team McLaughlin was with and the Kiwi became a full-blown star in Australia.
“Things were pretty nice before Roger Penske, but Roger just took everything to an entirely different level. He took Scottie's career to a totally different level,” Wayne McLaughlin said.
Team Penske wanted to move McLaughlin to the U.S. to race. McLaughlin assumed it would be a NASCAR opportunity; Penske instead took him to IndyCar — an open-wheel series.
“But he's a grown man now, what are we to say?” asked Wayne McLaughlin.
It was terrifying for his parents, but conversations with Penske and team president Tim Cindric "assured us they'd take care of our boy,” said Wayne McLaughlin.
When the pandemic began, McLaughlin was finishing his final Supercars season in Australia while his parents were in New Zealand. Travel lockdowns prevented them from seeing each other before McLaughlin and his wife headed overseas.
For the first time in his career, his parents weren't a part of it. McLaughlin was more than 8,000 miles away racing in a series they found uncomfortable and knew little about.
The rims around Wayne McLaughlin's eyes turned pink and teared up multiple times talking about the 31 months from when they last saw their son and the journey he's taken without them.
“We were heartbroken,” says Wayne McLaughlin.
“We didn't get to say goodbye,” added Diane.
“And now he's moving to America and going into a category that is the best in the world and we couldn't be there and we've been with him since this started when he was just a boy,” continued Wayne.
Watching their son compete in his IndyCar rookie season required waking up at 4 a.m., relying on McLaughlin's wife, Karly, to keep them informed during a race weekend, and a lot of yelling at the television. Wayne McLaughlin went viral when his son posted a video of his “Number One fan.”
When McLaughlin's sister arrives this week, it will be the first time the entire family has been together since McLaughlin's wedding in 2019. His parents' visa is good for 12 weeks and they'll travel to nine IndyCar races and spend time at Scott and Karly's North Carolina home.
They are ardent fans of the U.S. — this week marks the McLaughlins' 14th trip to America, his parents toured Indianapolis Motor Speedway years ago and Wayne McLaughlin has a decal of the American flag covering the back window of his Chevrolet Silverado.
The opportunity for their son to move to their favorite country and drive for Roger Penske, who promised McLaughlin was in good hands, was too good for to pass up.
“They knew we were very anxious and they pushed the safety, Roger invited us after the wedding to Charlotte to see the shop and meet everyone, and it made us feel better,” Wayne McLaughlin said. “This is new racing to us. But we're here now and we can't wait to see Scottie in the Indy 500.”
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s neutral stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine was a major topic of conversation as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Tuesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, to end his three-nation tour of Africa.
Speaking to the press in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, ahead of their private meeting, the two leaders said they will also consider developments on the African continent. Scholz’s visit comes as the war in Ukraine has been raging for three months and is causing oil and food prices to rise around the world, including in Africa.
South Africa has taken a neutral stance on the conflict, refusing to condemn Russia’s actions and calling for dialogue between the two countries.
Scholz said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was an important issue to discuss with his South African counterpart.
“Obviously one of the questions that is of big concern for all of us, is the war that Russia imposed on Ukraine, the brutal war, we have to say it like this,” Scholz said.
“And it is necessary for peace in the world that this war stops, as soon as possible and that there is a chance to defend the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine,” he said.
Another topic discussed was South Africa’s intention to reduce its dependence on coal-fired power plants. Germany is among the countries that pledged up to $8.5 billion at the COP26 climate change conference last year to help South Africa reduce its reliance upon coal to generate electricity. So far there have been no announcements of actual payments of those funds to South Africa.
South Africa is currently suffering nationwide rolling power cuts because its coal-fired power stations are unable to generate adequate amounts of electricity. The promised funds will help the country, which has Africa’s most developed economy, to shift to more environmentally friendly energy, Ramaphosa said.
“We anticipate constructive discussions around the green economy, clean energy and building climate resilience as we embark on new technologies such as hydrogen, and various other renewable energy technologies,” Ramaphosa told the press.
Later in the day, the two leaders announced a partnership between Germany and South African chemical firm Sasol to research and develop an environmentally friendly jet fuel.
“The Catalyst Research for Sustainable Kerosene project focuses on the development of catalysts for green jet fuel,” Ramaphosa said when he and Scholz visited the Sasol headquarters in Johannesburg.
“This is one of several areas of cooperation between companies, universities and government agencies on the technology that will reshape our economies,” Ramaphosa said.
He announced that Sasol was involved in a project to use the country’s solar and wind resources to export green hydrogen to the European Union, with a potential to export 10 million tons a year by 2030.
Scholz arrived in South Africa after visiting Senegal and Niger, where he expressed Germany’s interest in gas exploration opportunities in Senegal and his country’s long-term military and financial assistance to Niger. | https://www.news10.com/news/international/german-chancellor-to-discuss-ukraine-war-in-south-africa/ | 2022-05-24T22:50:57Z | https://www.news10.com/news/international/german-chancellor-to-discuss-ukraine-war-in-south-africa/ | true | 31 |
Carragher on why he loves Salah's revenge admission and how Liverpool won't be 'starstruck' by Real Madrid
Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher says that he likes the fact that Mohamed Salah said that he wanted to meet Real Madrid in the Champions League final and that it should give Reds fans confidence that their star winger will be out for revenge.
After Liverpool booked their spot in the Champions League final, Salah said that he hoped Madrid, not Manchester City, would meet them in Paris, explaining that he wanted to find some redemption after famously being injured by Sergio Ramos when the two sides met in 2018.
Salah's comments drew criticism from Madrid star Fede Valverde, but Carragher, who will be covering the game for CBS Sports, says Salah's honest admission is a breath of fresh air as the Egyptian admitted just how much that 2018 setback hurt him at the time.
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What did Carragher say about Salah?
"I think it will be a big motivation for him," Carragher said. "I think he was very aggrieved because that was his moment in some ways. He really burst onto the scene, he had been a revelation and the whole world had sat up and taken notice with him scoring I think 44 goals that season.
"The whole campaign for Liverpool was built around this guy winning the Champions League for them and he got Ramos'd, shall we say. Sergio Ramos used his experience, dark arts, whatever you want to call it, in that game and I think that was a huge blow for him really.
"Players and managers never like to talk about revenge. They don't like to use that word in the press to build up or maybe in some ways motivate the opposition but, really, we all think it! It's something that you just don't say, so I actually admired Mo Salah for actually just being honest to say 'Yeah, I'd rather play Real Madrid and not Man City because Man City are a better team and also because I've got unfinished business'.
"I liked the fact that he was honest about it and it also makes me realize that he is going to be so determined to win this game and that makes me feel good as a Liverpool supporter.
"Sometimes, you want to play well, do too much really, so I hope it doesn't manifest itself in terms of Mo taking stupid shots from silly angles when he should be playing people in. He does do that from time to time, but I think he's gonna have a huge role to play in the game.
"He hasn't been as best in the second half of the season. I think he's aware of that. I think you've seen signs of frustration from him at different times. But no, I think he'll feel like this is this is redemption."
Lessons learned from 2018
Salah isn't the only Liverpool player that will have bad memories of that 2018 final, even if the club returned a year later to beat Tottenham and reclaim the Champions League crown.
A total of eight Liverpool starters from that match in Kyiv remain key parts of the current team, but Carragher says that the current group is much different than the one that lost to Real Madrid four years ago.
"Even though there's a lot of Liverpool players that played in that final, I think Liverpool are in a completely different place mentally," Carragher said. "Now, I think they feel like they belong in the Champions League final. I think that's final four years ago, they deserved to be there but it was a case of pulling up against the very famous Real Madrid and Ronaldo, who had won two, three four European cups at that stage.
"I think this is a different Real Madrid even if there are a lot of familiar players in the midfield that were the same on that night.
"I think going into this game, Liverpool will not be starstruck or feel like they're in awe of Real Madrid. I think they'll be very confident and it is different. Liverpool are better and Real Madrid are not as good as that team.
"As we've seen at times this season within the Champions League, Real Madrid have lost more games or as many games in the Champions League as Liverpool have all season, which shows how strong Liverpool have become since that final four years ago. I think Liverpool have lost three games in 62 this season, which is a phenomenal record.
"I think they'll go into the final in a completely different place mentally than they did four years ago." | https://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/carragher-on-why-he-loves-salah-s-revenge-admission-and-how/blta41d05a54bf65483 | 2022-05-24T22:56:50Z | https://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/carragher-on-why-he-loves-salah-s-revenge-admission-and-how/blta41d05a54bf65483 | false | 10 |
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will host the 106th edition of the Indy 500, the most emblematic of the IndyCar series. Here you can find out all you need to know about this race, such as when, where, at what time, and how to watch or live stream it free in the United States. You can watch it in the US on FuboTV (free trial) and Peacock.
This will be the sixth challenge of the 2022 IndyCar Series season, although of course the meaning of this race goes much further. Not only because it is an emblematic, centennial race, but also because of its symbolic value, so much so that many runners from other motorsport categories register only for this event.
As if the prestige and honor of winning this race weren't enough, there's also some pretty hefty prize money for the driver who finishes first. The winner of the last 2021 edition was Helio Castroneves, who thus reached 4 wins, making him one of the top winners of the Indy 500 and if he were to win again he could become the top overall winner.
Indy 500: Date
This sixth Grand Prix of the 2022 IndyCar Series season, the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, which will take place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be raced this Sunday, May 29 at 3:00 (ET).
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The sixth race of the 2022 IndyCar Series season, which takes place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be broadcast in the United States on FuboTV (free trial) and Peacock. Other Options: NBC Sports App, NBCSports.com. | https://bolavip.com/en/sports/indy-500-date-time-and-tv-channel-to-watch-or-live-stream-free-in-the-us-this-2022-indycar-series-20220524-0019.html | 2022-05-24T22:59:12Z | https://bolavip.com/en/sports/indy-500-date-time-and-tv-channel-to-watch-or-live-stream-free-in-the-us-this-2022-indycar-series-20220524-0019.html | true | 1 |
NuVista Energy Ltd. (TSE:NVA – Get Rating) reached a new 52-week high on Tuesday . The stock traded as high as C$12.48 and last traded at C$12.43, with a volume of 1141295 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at C$11.94.
Several equities research analysts have commented on NVA shares. TD Securities boosted their price target on NuVista Energy from C$12.00 to C$12.50 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, March 10th. Royal Bank of Canada boosted their price target on NuVista Energy from C$11.00 to C$12.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Thursday, March 10th. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their price target on NuVista Energy from C$13.25 to C$15.00 in a research note on Thursday, May 12th. Scotiabank boosted their price target on NuVista Energy from C$14.50 to C$15.50 in a research note on Thursday, May 12th. Finally, Cormark boosted their price target on NuVista Energy from C$16.00 to C$18.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 11th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, NuVista Energy has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of C$12.64.
The business has a 50 day moving average of C$11.01 and a 200 day moving average of C$9.04. The company has a market capitalization of C$2.85 billion and a P/E ratio of 10.47. The company has a quick ratio of 0.46, a current ratio of 0.46 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 37.70.
NuVista Energy Company Profile (TSE:NVA)
NuVista Energy Ltd., an oil and natural gas company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas reserves in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It primarily focuses on the condensate rich Montney formation in the Wapiti area of the Alberta Deep Basin. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
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Tannehill building chemistry with his new Titans’ playmakers
By TERESA M. WALKER
AP Pro Football Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ryan Tannehill’s favorite receiver since becoming the Tennessee Titans’ starting quarterback now plays in Philadelphia. Luckily, the Titans got Tannehill a lot of new teammates to work with. The Titans quarterback is busy working to create chemistry and timing with all those new teammates. Tannehill said Tuesday it’s been fun working with the new Titans. A.J. Brown was traded on the first night of the NFL draft to Philadelphia. They signed two-time Pro Bowl tight end Austin Hooper and traded for Robert Woods. They netted receiver Treylon Burks from the Brown trade. One person Tannehill enjoys throwing to already is Woods. The veteran has been on the field despite tearing his left ACL last November. | https://ktvz.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/24/tannehill-building-chemistry-with-his-new-titans-playmakers/ | 2022-05-24T23:03:32Z | https://ktvz.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/24/tannehill-building-chemistry-with-his-new-titans-playmakers/ | false | null |
All major supermarkets will very soon no longer accept cash or card payments, and instead, force customers to use their face or fingerprints to pay for essential items, in what is another huge leap toward a dystopian cashless society.
Mastercard recently launched a program for retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning. At the checkout, users will be forced to authenticate their payment by showing their face or the palm of their hand instead of being allowed to pay by card or with cash.
The program has already gone live in five St Marche grocery stores in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with more trials also planned for Asia and the Middle East. Mastercard says it plans to roll it out globally later this year.
The payments company wants to roll the programme out worldwide for small and large retailers. Ajay Bhalla, the president of cyber and intelligence at Mastercard, said: “The way we pay needs to keep pace with the way we live, work and do business, offering choice to consumers with the highest levels of security.
“Our goal with this new programme is to make shopping a great experience for consumers and merchants alike, providing the best of both security and convenience.
“All the research that we’ve done has told us that consumers love biometrics”.
Did Mastercard only conduct its market research in China? It certainly sounds like it.
The current spin being used to justify using the biometric payment system and forcing the public to live in a dystopian cashless society is that it will “lead to shorter queues, be more hygienic than tapping in a pin, and be less vulnerable to fraud”.
A spokesman for Mastercard said: “No more fumbling for your phone or hunting for your wallet when you have your hands full – the next generation of in-person payments will only need a quick smile or wave of your hand. The trusted technology that uses your face or fingerprint to unlock your phone can now be used to help consumers speed through the checkout. With Mastercard’s new Biometric Checkout Programme, all you will need is yourself.”
Mastercard cited a study that claims 74% of the global population has a “positive attitude” towards biometrics. That number is highly questionable, but are the 74% aware of the dangers of implementing this kind of technology?
All the systems of Digital ID and data-gathering are vulnerable to security breaches. The Equifax breach, for example, compromised an astonishing 145.5 million Social Security numbers. Because of the potential for cyber breaches, hacks in the future could even larger and put entire systems at risk.
The rise of artificial intelligence also means that, as data from Digital ID systems is gathered, algorithms are being built that may have a major impact on people. These systems, though, like the data itself, are neither transparent in operation nor clear even as to who or what is building them, and for what purposes.
It may be, in the future, that people will find they no longer have consumer options such as low-cost bank loans due to the decisions of algorithms whose workings are not transparent to the public.
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DANGER: Idaho Incidents of Juvenile Fire-Setters Are On The Rise
The Meridian Fire Department recently noted the growing number of juvenile fire-setters in the Treasure Valley.
In their informational brochure, Juvenile Fire-Setters, the MFD highlights the critical need to understand why children are compelled to play with fire. Data points to two types of children most likely to start fires: curiosity fire-setters and problem fire-setters.
CURIOUSITY FIRE-SETTERS || Children aged 2 to 7 years are drawn to the sensory aspect of fire-setting. As the label indicates, these littles are eager to understand what fire feels like, sounds like, looks like, how it burns, and what it can do. The MFD agrees curiosity is a healthy tendency and characteristic for children to have. It’s when curiosity couples with destructive and life-threatening behaviors that it becomes a risk to the common welfare.
PROBLEM FIRE-SETTERS || Children and adolescents in this category range between 5 and 17 years but can also be as young as 2 years-old. Driven by emotion and mental disturbance, trauma typically provokes these fire-setters. The MFD finds children impacted by the loss of a loved one, divorce, and radical or sudden life-changes are more likely to intentionally experiment with fire than their unaffected peers are.
HOW TO HANDLE FIRE-SETTERS || The MFD implores parents and caregivers to exercise extreme precaution with a child’s access and proximity to open flames as well as ignition sources such as lighters and matches. Parents and caregivers who observe their children expressing a greater than normal interest in fire should address it immediately.
Talk to your children about the dangers of fire, and confirm their comprehension by having them explain it back to you in their own words. Also critical is the installation and routine maintenance of home smoke detectors. If you need assistance, contact your local fire department.
MOST CHILDREN are intrigued by fire at some point in their lives. It’s the manner in which parents and caregivers respond to the intrigue that can make the greatest difference in future outcomes. As a fireman’s daughter, my father was as concerned with helping me understand the risks associated with fire as he was the necessity for the responsible use of it in our everyday life.
As with most anything, providing examples was key to helping my young mind understand my father’s point. I vividly remember him turning the knob for the pilot on the stove top to illustrate the route a fire might pursue in our kitchen and what that could look like or result it. My six-year-old self was horrified at the idea that the fire could reach mine and my parents’ bedrooms. I knew fire hurt and burned, and I never wanted myself or anyone in our family to be hurt and burned. Was that a redundant sentence for a 30-something? Sure. But it was entirely appropriate for a small child.
RESOURCES || If you’re looking for help communicating the dangers and risks associated with children and fire-setting, explore the juvenile resources below from the National Fire Prevention Association.
Music & Video || https://sparkyschoolhouse.org/#music-section
Read & Play || https://sparkyschoolhouse.org/#read-section
Learn Not to Burn || https://sparkyschoolhouse.org/#learn-section
Lessons || https://sparkyschoolhouse.org/#lessons-section
Digital Backpack || https://sparkyschoolhouse.org/digital-backpack/
Sparky.org || http://www.sparky.org/
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Chelsea winger Charly Musonda has written an emotional farewell letter to the club after confirming his departure after a decade in west London, vowing to continue playing despite a serious knee injury.
The Belgian, who moved to Stamford Bridge at the age of 15 in 2012, was regarded as one of the most talented players in Chelsea’s academy and was handed his debut as a teenager by Antonio Conte.
But a PCL injury sustained while on loan at Vitesse has kept Musonda on the sidelines since 2018 and, despite still harbouring hope of playing for Chelsea again, the 25-year-old has taken the difficult decision to leave the club when his contract expires.
Writing a message to fans and confirming his exit, Musonda said: ‘It seems like yesterday I was arriving at Cobham, and that Chelsea football club welcomed me and my family to my new home. It has now been 10 years since that day and today, as the season ends, that journey has come to an end.
‘I had the privilege of being part of, and being able to learn in, such an incredible organisation in world football, and in the process had the opportunity of winning all that was possible at youth level within the club and country playing a part of an important chapter at Cobham – and more importantly doing so while growing as a person.
‘From the ages of 15 until 21, I worked extremely hard to make my professional debut at Chelsea, at a time in which it was extremely difficult to do so, and I will always be thankful for the opportunity to have been able to play at the Bridge wearing the blue shirt, which is never a given or should never be taken for granted, particularly from where I come from.’
He continued: ‘In all honestly, I would be lying if I said that I thought I would be leaving this way and even more so if I thought that I would go four years without playing football after my knee injury.
‘The people who know me, know how much football has meant to me since I started playing from the age of five and for me not to be able to play for four years has been heartbreaking. There is no other way to put it, it’s been soul wrenching.
‘Particularly because football is the only thing that I perhaps love more or as much as my family, or because I worked so hard the first six years at the club for one goal which was always to play for Chelsea. Never wanting or demanding to leave, partly because I really believed I could and would [play for Chelsea again] until the last day.’
Musonda added: ‘I fell in love with the club and the fans; people always say Chelsea fans don’t make noise in the stadium but I can assure you, the fans are amongst the best in the world and they have been unbelievable with me always – which is rare for a player who hasn’t even started more than once.
‘I want to thank Adi Viveash, the late Dermot Drummy and Joe Edwards for developing me. I want to thank Antonio Conte for giving me an opportunity to fulfil a dream. I want to thank all my teammates I had along the way at youth level and in the first team, all of those who reached out when I was injured too. Sport is all about camaraderie and pushing ourselves to better one another, we can’t achieve anything without our teammates and opponents.
‘I am extremely proud of all the boys I grew up with that are playing and representing the academy for Chelsea: Andreas, Rueb, Reece, Mase, Trevor. And across England and Europe at several levels: Tammy, Jeremie, Ake, Ola, Fikayo, Dion Conroy, Houghton, Swifty, Baker, Marc Guehi, T Lamptey, Billy, Jay Da Silva, Mukhtar, Wright and many more.’
On his future, Musonda continued: ‘What the future in football holds or where is still unknown, but what I do know is that while being injured I discovered my mental strength is my fortitude, not talent. Another thing that’s for certain is I will be back playing next season.’
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The Irish League of Credit Unions has unveiled Cultivate as the national farm finance brand for Ireland's credit union sector.
Helene McManus, president of the ILCU, said: “Cultivate has established a strong brand identity in Irish farming in the past few years. What began as a pioneering local initiative by four Galway credit unions just five years ago is now widely available across the country.
“The ILCU supports Cultivate as the agri brand of Irish credit unions. Most of the credit unions that offer Cultivate loans are members of the ILCU. We encourage any ILCU-affiliated credit union that wishes to enter the agri lending market to do so as part of the Cultivate brand.”
Cultivate’s loans are available in 120 credit union offices across Ireland. Cultivate is the brand name of Collaborative Finance CLG.
Cultivate provides unsecured lending of up to €75,000 to farmers across the country. Loans are used to develop farm buildings, invest in stock, working capital, and the purchase of tractors and machinery.
Helene McManus said credit unions are diversifying their loan portfolios by increasing their presence in business, agri and mortgage lending.
“It is widely acknowledged by credit unions that cross-sector initiatives and economies of scale are required if this expansion into new areas is to have a real impact in the market,” she said.
The ILCU has has an affiliated membership of more than 290 credit unions in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Joe Healy, chair of Cultivate, said: “Cultivate’s success has been built on a collaborative platform through engagement with all the key agri stakeholders including farmer representative bodies (in particular the IFA), agricultural advisers and training bodies (in particular Teagasc), agri businesses and merchants, accountants, marts and so on.
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Oyo PDP Primaries: Ilaka, Wolekanle, Tegbe Win Senatorial Tickets
....14 Reps candidates emerged
Luqman Oyebisi Ilaka, Akinwale Akinwole and Olasunkanmi Joseph Tegbe have clinched the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, ticket for Oyo Central Senatorial ,Oyo North Senatorial and Oyo South Senatorial Districts respectively.
Ilaka who was the former Chief of Staff to Governor Seyi Makinde defeated Wale Adegoke and Wale Ajani to emerge as the candidate of the PDP for zone.
The Oyo born was returned as the winner by Olugbega Adedamola Adebayo, the returning officer who stated that Ilaka got 322 votes, while his closest rival Wale Adegoke got 36 votes.
He defeated Wale Adegoke and Wale Ajani to emerge as the candidate of the PDP for Oyo Central Senatorial zone.
The PDP State Party Chairman Dayo Ogunbenro and Akeem Olatunji the Party’s Publicity Secretary in Oyo state as well as Executive Chairmen of the eleven local governments comprising Oyo Central Senatorial zone were on ground to monitor proceedings at the election.
Also, Akinwole,also known as Wolekanle ,the Ogbomoso-born entrepreneur was declared the winner by the electoral officer, Babatude Akeem at the election held in Iseyin.
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He polled 414 votes out of the 415 votes.
Likewise, Tegbe won the ticket at the election held at the primary election held at Gafo Arena, Ijokodo, Ibadan.
At the primary election presided over by the returning officer, Bolanle Oladeji, Tegbe who had no rival aspirant scored a total of 297 votes and was declared winner.
The primary elections were monitored by representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, People’s Democratic Party PDP electoral officers, security agencies and others
Meanwhile, fourteen House of Representatives seats were also elected.
The constituencies are spread across the three Senatorial Districts in the State.
The list of the winners showed that all the candidates are male. Ibadan North, Lanre Sarumi, Oluyole, Majeed Mogbojunbola, Akinyele/ Lagelu – Abideen Adeaga,Irepo/ Oorelope/ Olorunsogo , Hussaini Yusuf Ijabah and Saki East/ Saki West/ Atisbo – Lukman Adisa Salami.
Also, Ibadan South East/ North East – Abass Adigun,Iseyin/ Itesiwaju/ Kajola/ Iwajowa, Oyejide Oyesina, Ibadan North West/ Ibadan South West, Stanley Olajide, Ogbomoso North/ Ogbomoso South/ Oriire, Olufemi Onireti and Ido/ Ibarapa, Yemi Taiwo.
Others are Egbada/ Ona Ara Busari Olayemi, Ibarapa North/ Ibarapa Central, Adepoju Anthony, Ogo Oluwa/ Surulere, Ojo Sunday Makanjuola and AFIJIO/ Atiba/ Oyo East/ Oyo West, Mudashiru Kamil Akinlabi | https://businessday.ng/politics/article/oyo-pdp-primaries-ilaka-wolekanle-tegbe-win-senatorial-tickets/ | 2022-05-24T23:20:36Z | https://businessday.ng/politics/article/oyo-pdp-primaries-ilaka-wolekanle-tegbe-win-senatorial-tickets/ | false | 1 |
MANCHESTER, N.H., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Salmonella Lawyer Jory Lange has been retained by victims of the Buba Noodle Bar Salmonella Outbreak. At least 7 people have gotten Salmonella food poisoning in this outbreak.
"The scary thing about this outbreak is, as a consumer, there's nothing you can do to tell whether the food that you are buying is safe. You can't taste, smell, or see Salmonella. Food that is contaminated with Salmonella may look, smell, and taste just like any other meal. This is why it's critical that companies who make and sell our food, especially ready-to-eat foods, ensure the food is safe before they sell it," said national Salmonella food poisoning lawyer Jory Lange.
The Lange Law Firm, PLLC will be providing continuing updates on the Buba Noodle Bar Salmonella Outbreak.
Buba Noodle Bar Salmonella Outbreak
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services (DPHS), in collaboration with the City of Manchester Department of Health is investigating an outbreak of Salmonella infections potentially linked to a Manchester, NH restaurant. The health agencies identified at least 7 Salmonella cases that appear to be linked to the same restaurant Buba Noodle Bar located 36 Lowell Street, Manchester, NH.
Buba Noodle Bar voluntarily closed on May 20, 2022 while a public health investigation is conducted.
The investigation is ongoing.
Compensation for Salmonella
Those who contracted Salmonella infections after eating food tainted with Salmonella may be entitled to compensation. To learn more about making a claim for Salmonella compensation, please visit the Lange Law Firm's website, www.MakeFoodSafe.com or call 833.330.3663.
About the legal team:
Jory Lange with The Lange Law Firm, PLLC is one of the nation's leading Salmonella lawyers. Mr. Lange has helped families from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic, from Florida to California, and in states across the nation.
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Microsoft releases Windows 11 build 22000.708 with a ton of fixes
Today is the first day of Microsoft’s Build 2022 developer conference, but that doesn’t mean all of the firm’s news is coming out of the show. The firm is also releasing this month’s D week update for Windows 11, the optional update that includes most of what we’ll see next month on Patch Tuesday.
If you’re looking for optional updates on Windows 11, you’re going to get KB5014019, bringing the build number to 22000.708. You can manually download it here.
While there are a ton of fixes, there are actually a couple of news features, which are already being tested by Insiders. In fact, if you’re on the Release Preview ring, you already have this whole update. One is a better Family Safety verification experience when a child account sends a request for more screen time.
The other is Windows spotlight on the desktop, which will allow you to set rotating images as your wallpaper. This is something that we’ve seen on the lock screen for ages. Now, you’ll be able to set it as your wallpaper by choosing Windows spotlight in Settings.
Here are the rest of the highlights from this update:
Addresses an issue that fails to maintain the display brightness after you change the display mode.
- Addresses an issue that affects the IE mode window frame.
- Addresses an issue that prevents internet shortcuts from updating.
- Addresses an issue that causes an Input Method Editor (IME) to discard a character if you enter the character while the IME is converting previous text.
- Addresses an issue that causes Widgets to appear on the wrong monitor when you hover over the Widgets icon on the taskbar.
- Adds animation to the Widgets icon when you click or tap the icon and the taskbar is aligned on the left.
- Addresses an issue that affects the rendering of the default Widgets icon on a taskbar that is aligned in the center.
- Addresses an issue that causes blurry app icons in Search results when the display’s dots per inch (dpi) scaling is greater than 100%.
- Addresses an issue that causes file copying to be slower.
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Windows 11 build 22000.708 Fixes
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- Addresses an issue in searchindexer.exe that affects the search for shapes in Microsoft Visio.
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- Addresses an issue that affects the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) driver, which might increase the system’s startup time.
- Addresses an issue that might cause the Remote Desktop client application to stop working when you end a session.
- Addresses an issue that affects the behavior and shape orientation of a mouse cursor for Microsoft Defender Application Guard (MDAG), Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Edge. This issue occurs when you turn on a virtual graphics processing unit (GPU).
- Addresses an issue that causes Widgets to appear on the wrong monitor when you hover over the Widgets icon on the taskbar.
- Adds animation to the Widgets icon when you click or tap the icon and the taskbar is aligned on the left.
- Addresses an issue that affects the rendering of the default Widgets icon on a taskbar that is aligned in the center.
- Addresses an issue that fails to make the options Run as administrator and Open file location available for certain results when you search from the taskbar.
- Addresses an issue that fails to automatically give the search box input focus when you select the Start menu and start typing.
- Addresses an issue that causes blurry app icons in Search results when the display’s dots per inch (dpi) scaling is greater than 100%.
- Addresses an issue that causes file copying to be slower because of a wrong calculation of write buffers within cache manager.
- Addresses an issue that might cause a system to stop responding when a user signs out if Microsoft OneDrive is in use.
- Addresses a known issue that might prevent recovery discs (CD or DVD) from starting if you created them using the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) app in Control Panel. This issue occurs after installing Windows updates released January 11, 2022 or later.
- Addresses a known issue that affects certain GPUs and might cause apps to close unexpectedly or cause intermittent issues that affect some apps that use Direct3D 9. You might also receive an error in the Event Log in Windows Logs/Applications, and the faulting module is d3d9on12.dll and the exception code is 0xc0000094.
There is one known issue. If you install this update, some .NET Framework 3.5 apps might not open, so as a workaround, you’ll have to re-enable .NET Framework 3.5 and Windows Communication Foundation in Windows Features.
Once again, this is an optional update. That means that you can absolutely get it through Windows Update, but you don’t have to. If you choose to ignore it, you’ll get these fixes on Patch Tuesday, and that update will install automatically.
Source: Microsoft | https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-windows-11-build-22000-708/ | 2022-05-24T23:26:54Z | https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-windows-11-build-22000-708/ | false | 3 |
The attack on a Texas elementary school on Tuesday was the second deadliest school shooting since 2013, when a leading gun control advocacy group began tracking such shootings.
Fourteen children and a teacher were killed in Uvalde, Texas, according to Gov Greg Abbott. The gunman also died.
Everytown for Gun Safety started following school shootings in 2013 "to gain a better understanding of how often children and teens are affected by gun violence at their schools and colleges, and in response to a lack of research and data on the issue," according to a statement on its website.
The effort was initiated in the year following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In December 2012, 20 children and six adults were killed at the school.
The shooting in Parkland, Florida, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 were killed, was the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook, and the only one with a higher death toll than the mass shooting in Texas on Tuesday. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/newtown-parkland-uvalde-texas-attack-joins-ranks-of-deadliest-school-shootings/2976699/ | 2022-05-24T23:28:23Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/newtown-parkland-uvalde-texas-attack-joins-ranks-of-deadliest-school-shootings/2976699/ | false | 10 |
States are slowly rolling out digital driver’s licenses, aiming to give residents more control over their identifying information. California is heading that way too.
Are Californians ready for yet another new version of the driver’s license?
The most recent one — called “Real ID” — went over about as well as CNN+. As of April, less than half of the state’s drivers had obtained one, even though Californians will need a Real ID or a passport to get on a plane or enter a federal building in a year. The tepid reaction could stem from the fact that these IDs offer no new benefits to drivers, just another time-consuming obligation.
Now the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles is planning to test a version called a mobile driver’s license or digital ID — an identity-verifying credential stored on your smartphone. And unlike Real ID, a mobile license could give you more control over your personal information, although critics say a poorly designed system would threaten your privacy.
Louisiana, Colorado and Arizona already have rolled out mobile licenses, and Utah is testing them. Other countries, including Germany and New Zealand, are also creating digital identity systems. Yet the technology is still in its early days, experts say, with some key pieces unfinished.
Here’s a rundown of how mobile licenses would work, the benefits they could provide and the potential drawbacks.
What’s the point?
Eric Jorgensen, director of Arizona’s Motor Vehicle Division, said in a recent interview that the goal is to improve security, privacy and convenience. “It’s not about balancing one against the other,” he said. “It’s an attempt to make all three of those better.”
The easiest way to understand the push for change, though, is to consider the problems with conventional driver’s licenses.
The 9/11 terrorists used fraudulently obtained state IDs to board the planes they hijacked, putting an exclamation point on the vulnerabilities of physical ID cards. That day’s events prompted the federal government to pass the Real ID Act in 2005, which set higher standards for how licenses were designed and issued. The goal was to deter the cards from being counterfeited or obtained by people who were not legal residents.
Real ID was no panacea, however. While the watermarks and other design features were hard to copy, they were also hard for the untrained eye to recognize. You almost have to be a security expert to detect them, Jorgensen said.
And like all physical IDs, conventional licenses are not much help when it comes to verifying your identity on the internet. They’re not useless — see, for example, how ID.me uses licenses and smartphone cameras to verify identities online. But you have to jump through a lot of hoops on the web to prove that the ID card you’re using actually belongs to you, and the process is still vulnerable to scamming.
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Another problem with physical ID cards is that they can share too much information. When that creepy bouncer at the nightclub door demands proof that you’re old enough to enter, you can’t just show him the birthdate on your license. You have to show him the whole thing, revealing your name and address in the process. Ugh. (And as Jorgensen points out, nothing stops the bouncer from taking pictures of every license shown at the door.)
In addition, the information laminated into permanence on a physical ID is not, itself, permanently accurate. And nothing on the card will signal that it has incorrect information; the only way to verify details like your current name and address is to access the DMV’s database.
And finally, even a counterfeit-proof, updated ID card can’t confirm that the hand holding it belongs to the person who obtained it. There’s information on the card that a cashier or clerk can check against a person’s physical appearance, but that’s hardly a foolproof system of verification.
How would a mobile license be different?
The shortcomings of driver’s licenses are part of a larger problem with how people go about answering the question “Who are you?” It’s an even bigger challenge online, where identity theft has risen sharply over the past decade. The need for something more secure than ID cards and the ubiquitous login-password combo has inspired numerous companies and inter-industry groups, such as the Better Identity Coalition and the Fast Identity Online Alliance, to promote more reliable ways to verify identity.
In response, the tech world is steadily shifting toward solutions based on “multi-factor authentication.” A password is one factor — something only you know. An ID card is a single factor too — something you have. Multi-factor authentication is some combination of something you know, something you have and something you are, such as a fingerprint or facial scan.
That’s the approach taken by a mobile driver’s license app. It uses the biometric capabilities of your smartphone (something you are) to tie your mobile driver’s license or ID to your device (something you have). For certain uses, you could even require a passcode (something you know).
Proponents of mobile driver’s licenses say a system built around the technical standard published last year by the International Organization for Standardization addresses all of the shortcomings of a physical license. One caveat is that the ISO standard just covers in-person use at the moment; the standards for online use are still in development.
Imagine, just for example, you’re trying to enter that nightclub with the creepy bouncer:
- You can decide whether to let him check your mobile license — he can’t do so without your permission. And you don’t have to hand the bouncer your phone to display your ID; your license app will exchange information wirelessly with his device.
- You control which pieces of information from your license to share and which to keep concealed. Also, the license app is able to answer some yes/no questions, so it can reveal whether you are old enough to enter without telling the bouncer your birthdate.
- The way the system is designed, none of the information you disclose will be stored by the bouncer’s device.
- The mobile license is easier for the bouncer to check too. Instead of him scrutinizing your physical license for watermarks or other anti-counterfeiting features, his device will use cryptographic techniques to confirm that your license is authentic.
- Leave your phone at the bar after overindulging? The mobile license is more theft-resistant than its physical counterpart, thanks to the biometric controls on your phone. Plus, if your phone is lost, you can tell the DMV to revoke your mobile license, rendering it inoperable — in sharp contrast to a revoked physical license, which looks no different than a valid one.
- But let’s say a thief somehow manages to unlock your phone and your mobile license, then tries to rent a car with the license before you revoke it. When the thief shares the mobile license data with an agent at the counter, the picture stored with it will be transmitted electronically to the agent’s device so he or she can compare it with the person pretending to be you.
- One other benefit: When you change your address, you can update your information immediately. Similarly, if your driving privileges are suspended or revoked, the digital license would immediately reflect that, yet it would continue to function as an ID.
The two states first out of the gate with mobile license apps — Louisiana and Colorado — acted before the ISO standard was complete, limiting their licenses’ interoperability. At this point, Colorado’s app is accepted by that state’s agencies and police officers, and Louisiana’s works with government agencies, state liquor stores and other app users.
To enable broader use of mobile licenses, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a trade group of DMV officials from across the country, has issued guidelines for mobile driver’s licenses built around the ISO standard. And in keeping with a 2020 law, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working on ways to verify IDs electronically, using the same standard.
The Transportation Security Administration has started supporting standards-based mobile licenses in Apple’s wallet app. At selected airports, Arizona residents with a mobile license from the state can pass through a TSA screening with a single tap of their device, Jorgensen said.
State agencies in Arizona are also starting to accept its mobile driver’s license to verify applicants for other state licenses and services, Jorgensen said, adding that retailers and banks have also expressed interest in how they can implement the technology. In the program’s first year, he said, about 320,000 Arizona residents had downloaded the mobile license app, and since March about 60,000 had put their mobile ID into an Apple wallet. (The state has more than 5.3 million licensed drivers.)
Vittorio Bertocci of Okta, whose technology helps businesses verify identities, said that after two decades working on identity issues, “probably for the first time, I see that the standards and the technology are mature enough to give a good base, a good foundation” for mobile ID. “And I see the desire, the investment, from governments,” said Bertocci, who is a principal architect at the company.
So what could go wrong?
The fact that there is an international standard doesn’t mean every country is using it. Although the U.S. is building around the standard, Bertocci said that European countries are taking a different approach. Companies like Okta can provide ways to bridge the differences so digital ID systems can interoperate, he said, but that sort of arrangement may not be universally accepted.
Nor does everyone have a smartphone or tablet. That’s why every mobile license rolled out in the U.S. so far has been a complement to a physical ID, not a replacement for it.
More fundamentally, the notion of shifting IDs from physical to digital is troubling to some privacy advocates. Among other things, they’re worried that companies and governments will find a way to use digital licenses to track your movements and learn something about your personal life.
Granted, you leave a digital trail when you use your credit card or smartphone to pay for things away from home. But with a driver’s license on a card and a bunch of cash in your wallet, you can go about your business in relative anonymity.
Bill Lamoreaux, a spokesman for Arizona’s Motor Vehicle Division, said those concerns are being addressed by the people developing and implementing mobile licenses.
“Mobile ID, as implemented, is device to device,” Lamoreaux said. In other words, the device checking your ID doesn’t connect to the DMV, so it can’t track you. “As the issuing authority, we do not know when or where these are used, as is the case with a physical, plastic license or ID.”
Still, Alexis Hancock, director of engineering for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the standard for digital licenses includes a way for the app to stay in touch with the agency that issued it, and “it doesn’t really effectively address how to limit this.”
Jeremy Grant, coordinator of the Better Identity Coalition, said some government officials, especially those in law enforcement, would love to use digital licenses for tracking. And the consequences could be severe: Imagine, Grant said, if licenses could report when a woman went to an out-of-state abortion clinic.
But that kind of tracking can’t happen in a properly designed system, he said. Each mobile license will come with the state’s encrypted digital signature. When you share information from your license, the verifying device only checks to see whether the digital signature is valid — if so, your ID and the data on it are valid. “They can get a yes/no answer without the state knowing it was you,” Grant said.
Beyond that, a standards-based mobile license doesn’t transmit a unique identifier when it shares its data. So again, there are no electronic footprints to connect the mobile ID used at nightclub X or brewery Y to the person to whom it belonged.
Before moving forward with mobile licenses, Hancock said, governments need to work through a number of issues that could be raised by putting IDs on smartphones filled with sensitive personal information. For example, she said, what happens if a traffic cop or TSA agent demands that you hand over your unlocked phone for an ID check, even though they can get the information they need from your mobile license without you doing so? What safeguards are there against your phone being unlawfully searched?
Some privacy advocates want to spread out the storage of ID data online, using blockchain or other distributed ledger technology, rather than having it centralized in one state database. Each piece of a person’s identity information — name, birthdate, address, picture, etc. — would be stored separately so it could be checked independently of the others. That would reduce the risk of a massive data leak while also ensuring that the government keeps no record of where and when the digital IDs are used.
The decentralized approach, known as verifiable credentials, is being explored by the Canadian province of British Columbia and a coalition of groups across Canada. A bill by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), SB 1190, would require California by Jan. 1, 2024, to “provide industry standards and best practices” regarding the issuance of verifiable credentials for individuals and businesses.
Grant said his group doesn’t have a position on the technical question of how ID credentials are stored, just that the arrangement needs to preserve privacy and be secure. But his personal view, he said, is that the blockchain approaches “introduce some very complicated ways to manage identity and privacy that will overwhelm the average consumer,” such as requiring people to “manage a different private [cryptographic] key for every data point about them.”
He added, “You can preserve privacy and avoid tracking with technologies that do not require blockchain, and that are easier to implement, easier for people to use, and that scale better.”
Some of the most libertarian advocates of the verified credentials approach want to remove the government completely from the identity business. They would have people certify themselves, albeit in some verifiable way. The steep challenge for this group, Grant said, is persuading banks, government agencies and others to accept “self-sovereign” claims, rather than those backed by a DMV or other government agency.
What is California doing?
State lawmakers authorized the DMV last year to do a trial run with mobile driver’s licenses and ID cards, giving the department a year to come up with a timeline and cost estimate for the pilot project. At this point, the department is still talking to multiple vendors about possible approaches, with no date set for the launch of any pilots, the department said in an email.
The department declined to say how it would respond to the concerns expressed by privacy advocates. But the authorizing legislation, which lawmakers tucked into a 2021-22 budget trailer bill, laid out a number of mandatory protections for people taking part in the trial, including:
- No forced participation. Only volunteers will be included in the trial, which is limited to 0.5% of the state’s licensed drivers, or about 135,000 people.
- No tracking or data mining by your app. Your digital license or ID card and the corresponding mobile app are barred from collecting or holding any information beyond what’s needed to perform their stated functions, “including, but not limited to, any information related to movement or location.”
- No sneaky license checks. Before your mobile ID app responds to any request for information, you would have to approve the release of any amount of information.
- No warrantless searches. You cannot be forced to hand over your device in order to verify your ID, nor do you consent to having your device searched if you use it to verify your ID.
- No extra data provided. The information that can be released by the app is limited to what’s on your physical driver’s license or ID card.
Ultimately, the success of a mobile license will depend on how widely it’s adopted — not just by drivers, but by anyone who asks for your ID. There’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, Jorgensen said, because there’s not much incentive for companies to build apps that support mobile IDs if few people are using them, and states and their residents won’t have much incentive to adopt mobile IDs if there aren’t many places that accept them.
Yet there are plenty of other factors driving interest in digital IDs among state governments and businesses, particularly national ones. And millions of Americans have already gotten a taste of how their smartphones can be used to verify personal details — they’ve been using them over the past year to prove their vaccination status.
There’s a long way still to go on mobile driver’s licenses, though, with basic questions still to be answered about where identity credentials will be stored and how identity will be verified online. At the current pace, Grant said, it will take 10 to 15 years for mobile IDs to get to critical mass.
Californians is likely to have access to one well before that. But the DMV is the agency in charge of this effort, so a long wait time would be on brand.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. | https://lookout.co/santacruz/news/story/2022-05-24/california-digital-drivers-licenses-should-you-worry-about-your-personal-info | 2022-05-24T23:29:21Z | https://lookout.co/santacruz/news/story/2022-05-24/california-digital-drivers-licenses-should-you-worry-about-your-personal-info | false | 1 |
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PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — A man who died when he and three other people fell off a Southern California ocean cliff was identified Tuesday as a 25-year-old from Los Angeles, authorities said.
The four friends slipped and tumbled about 300 feet (90 meters) onto the beach below before dawn Monday in Palos Verdes Estates. Police were investigating the fall as an accident.
Jerardo Huitzil died at the scene, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
Two women were airlifted from the beach and each hospitalized Monday in critical condition. Though there has been no update on their conditions, officials said their injuries were not life-threatening, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
The fourth person, a 25-year-old man who suffered minor injuries, managed to climb back up the cliff and alert a passing police officer, Barber said.
Palos Verdes Estates is on the Palos Verdes Peninsula at the southern end of Los Angeles County. A trail runs along the bluff top above the Pacific Ocean. | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Man-who-died-in-cliff-fall-was-25-year-old-from-17196376.php | 2022-05-24T23:38:04Z | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Man-who-died-in-cliff-fall-was-25-year-old-from-17196376.php | false | 14 |
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Chinese camp guards told to shoot escaping Uighurs
By Verity Bowman
Chinese snipers were ordered to shoot Uighur Muslims attempting to escape internment camps in Xinjiang, according to rare leaked documents that appear to debunk tightly controlled Beijing propaganda.
The trove of documents from police databases reveal how China locked up Uighurs arbitrarily in military prisons, countering claims that Muslims entered “education camps” voluntarily.
The files, published by the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, also reveal a chain of command over the camps in the western region of Xinjiang leading all the way to Xi Jinping, the Chinese president.
The files have been made public just as Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, began a visit to Xinjiang on Monday. They contain the first images of the inside of the camps, where up to 1 million people are thought to have been detained.
The photos include images of Uighurs chained by military officials carrying batons and riot shields, and headshots of up to 5000 Uighurs detained for minor infractions.
One man was jailed for almost 17 years for growing an Islamic-style beard. Others were imprisoned for not using their mobile phones enough, which makes it difficult for China’s surveillance state to track them.
The files outline a police protocol that researchers said “describes the routine use of armed officers in all areas of the camps, the positioning of machine guns and sniper rifles in the watchtowers and the existence of a shoot-to-kill policy for those trying to escape”.
The images are at odds with Chinese claims that Uighurs entered the camps as “schools that help people free themselves from extremism”. In one photo, officials dressed in military uniform point their guns at a prisoner kneeling at the feet of people dressed in riot gear. Another shows a line of women in yellow uniforms as officials stand close by.
Dr Adrian Zenz, a scholar at the US-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, who has been sanctioned by China over his research on Uighurs, said the material “blows apart the Chinese propaganda veneer”.
“We have confidential documents. We have speech transcripts where leaders freely talk about what they really think. We have spreadsheets. We have images. It’s unprecedented,” he told the BBC.
“The material is unredacted, it’s raw, it’s unmitigated, it’s diverse. We have everything.” He obtained the files from a hacker who accessed Chinese police networks in Xinjiang, then shared the data with news outlets.
The files also list the reasons behind people’s imprisonment, including occasions where people were punished for “crimes” that occurred decades ago.
In one case, a man was detained for 10 years after he allegedly “studied Islamic scripture with his grandmother” for a few days in 2010.
Others were jailed for up to 10 years for not using mobile devices enough. There are more than 100 instances of “phone has run out of credit” included on a list of crimes, taken as a sign of avoiding digital surveillance.
The leaks are a “watershed moment” for the Uighur crisis, Rayhan Asat, a Yale human rights lawyer said.
China reacted angrily, accusing the US, Britain and other foreign powers of sabotaging the trip to Xinjiang by the UN official for human rights.
Inside the files are transcripts of speeches revealing the beliefs behind the policies, as well as evidence of where responsibility for the vast programme lies. Zhao Kezhi, China’s minister for public security, said in one speech that at least 2 million people in Xinjiang were holders of “extremist thought”.
The speech refers to Xi Jinping, praising him for the creation of new facilities to manage the detainees.
Another speech is from Chen Quanguo, until recently Xinjiang’s Communist Party secretary, in 2017. “For some, even five years re-education may not be enough ... Once they are let out, problems will reappear.”
Research by Dr Zen confirms that in one county at least 22,762 residents were either in a camp or prison between 2017 and 2018. This is about 12 per cent of the population. Applied to the rest of Xinjiang, it would mean 1.2 million Uighur and other Turkic minority adults were imprisoned.
The data finishes in 2018. Alongside other news outlets, the BBC was able to verify significant parts of the files.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Spurred by Tuesday's deadly elementary school shooting in Texas, California senators approved giving people the power to sue those who traffic in illegal firearms, mimicking a Texas law that is intended to deter abortions.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom sought the bill as a gibe to the U.S. Supreme Court after the justices gave preliminary approval to a Texas law allowing people to go after those who provide or assist in providing abortions. The California bill would automatically be invalidated if the Texas law is eventually ruled unconstitutional.
Democratic Sen. Anthony Portantino pointed to the Texas shooting, where 15 people were killed. He said California should use Texas’ abortion law as a model for good. “Let’s use that plan for something that keeps us safe, and not something that punishes women,” he said.
The California version would allow people to file civil lawsuits against anyone who distributes illegal assault weapons, parts that can be used to build weapons, guns without serial numbers, or .50 caliber rifles. They would be awarded at least $10,000 in civil damages for each weapon, plus attorneys fees.
The move comes in the wake of recent mass shootings, including the Texas school, a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and elsewhere, including what police call a gang shootout that killed six people and wounded 12 people within blocks of the California state Capitol last month.
Aside from the political statement, proponents said the measure addresses a so-far intractable problem of deterring the use of homemade or untraceable “ghost” guns. The problem is growing rapidly even though California already has some of the nation’s strictest firearms rules.
“Increasing gun violence in California is not an indictment of tough laws. It is a wake-up call for adopting even more prudent gun laws to (deter) these latest illegal weapons,” Portantino said.
Gun owners’ organizations and even some gun control advocates have questioned the wisdom of creating what amounts to a bounty to encourage people to bring civil actions to punish crimes.
But only Republican Sen. Andreas Borgeas spoke against the bill, saying that legislators should empower law enforcement to act against those who have guns illegally. He supported other measures, like requiring that guns have serial numbers.
“The private right of action, however, I think is taking this bill way too far,” he said, because it would encourage lawsuits by plaintiffs' attorneys.
The measure passed on a 24-10 vote, with Democratic Sen. Melissa Hurtado joining Republicans in opposition.
Senators approved three other gun control bills, sending them all to the state Assembly over the opposition of Republican lawmakers.
One would require schools to annually send parents information on the safe storage of firearms and immediately report threats of mass violence. But Portantino removed the most controversial provision, which would have required parents to report gun ownership to school officials.
The second would bar gun shows on state property, with Democratic Sen. Dave Min arguing the state should not be abetting firearm sales.
The third, also by Min, would require dealers to install safeguards to deter illegal gun sales and thefts, including digital video surveillance systems. | https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/California-advances-letting-people-sue-over-17196315.php | 2022-05-24T23:40:02Z | https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/California-advances-letting-people-sue-over-17196315.php | true | 29 |
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Risk of blood clots in lung doubled for Covid-19 survivors: US study
Coronavirus survivors have twice the risk of developing dangerous blood clots that travel to their lungs compared to people who weren't infected, as well double the chance of respiratory symptoms, a large new study said Tuesday.
The research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that as many as one in five adults aged 18-64 years and one in four of those over 65 went on to experience health conditions that could be related to their bout of Covid - a finding consistent with other research.
Among all conditions, the risk of developing acute pulmonary embolism - a clot in an artery of the lung - increased the most, by a factor of two in both adults younger and older than 65, as did respiratory symptoms like a chronic cough or shortness of breath.
Pulmonary embolisms usually travel to the lungs from a deep vein in the legs, and can cause serious problems, including lung damage, low oxygen levels and death.
Gunman kills 14 students, one teacher at Texas elementary school: Governor
A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in South Texas on Tuesday, killing 14 students and one teacher, Governor Greg Abbott told reporters.
Abbott said the suspect, who the governor identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was himself killed, apparently by police officers responding to the scene.
Official details on the circumstances of the midday shooting remained sketchy in the immediate aftermath of the violence, which unfolded at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.
Billionaire George Soros says 'civilisation may not survive' Ukraine war
US billionaire George Soros warned Tuesday that "civilisation may not survive" Russia's invasion of Ukraine but said Europe could have a stronger position against President Vladimir Putin regarding gas than it realises.
In his traditional dinner speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss mountain town of Davos, the Hungarian-born investor and philanthropist said the war has "shaken Europe to its core."
"The invasion may have been the beginning of the Third World War and our civilisation may not survive it," Soros said.
Countries agree to overhaul WHO funding model
The World Health Organisation's member states agreed Tuesday to overhaul how they fund the UN health agency, giving it much more money to spend on its own priorities.
The budget revamp will give the WHO a more stable income stream and control over a much bigger portion of the funding flowing through its Geneva headquarters.
The change is aimed at strengthening the organisation and making it more agile when responding to global health crises like the coronavirus pandemic.
Football: Premier League approves proposed takeover of Chelsea by Boehly-led consortium
The Boehly-Clearlake consortium, which agreed terms to acquire Chelsea for 4.25 billion pounds (US$5.33 billion) earlier this month, passed the Premier League Owners'and Directors' Test, the league said on Tuesday, paving the way for the club's takeover.
The proposal also needs approval from the British government before the consortium can complete the acquisition, with a week remaining before the club's current operating licence expires on May 31.
"The Board has applied the Premier League's Owners' and Directors' Test to all prospective Directors, and undertaken the necessary due diligence," the league said in a statement. | https://www.straitstimes.com/world/while-you-were-sleeping-5-stories-you-might-have-missed-may-25-2022 | 2022-05-24T23:42:04Z | https://www.straitstimes.com/world/while-you-were-sleeping-5-stories-you-might-have-missed-may-25-2022 | false | 1 |
U.S. Marine Corps recruits with Echo Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion compete against each other during a pugil sticks event at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, May 24, 2022. Recruits used Marine Corps martial arts techniques to compete in the pugil sticks event. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Cristian G. Torres)
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — More than 40% of the world's children have restricted access to books due to affordability and availability. It's a real problem for child literacy, but a new tool could change that.
It's now being used at Nuestro Mundo Public Charter School in Providence, Rhode Island. It's a dual-language school devoted to multilingual and multicultural learning. Co-founders Katie Cardamone and Joe Maruszczak recognized a void in the American school system.
"What we're doing here should be done in all schools," Maruszczak said. "I think unfortunately where a lot of the typical world language instruction here in America falls short, by teaching kids vocabulary and how to conjugate verbs almost in a vacuum, and not really apply it."
Their model is not to teach languages but rather content through those languages.
"In teaching the content through the different languages, we also take time to compare the languages and create what is known as bi-literacy so that the students can use one language to leverage the other language and realize what an advantage they have to be able to look at things from two different perspectives," Cardamone said.
When they discovered Andreas Von Sachsen-Altenburg and his new business, Storytime Online, they knew they needed to implement it within their school.
"A first grader can use this, and they fly through it. They have no problem using it. Even two-year old's and three years old's can understand using this app," Von Sachsen-Altenburg said.
Through the app, students can read and listen to interactive children's books in 25 languages.
"For families, this is a way for them to stay connected to their heritage. For teachers, it's a way for them to support their students who are coming from different countries and help them assimilate," Von Sachsen-Altenburg said.
He got the idea through helping his 11-year-old sister Julia read in multiple languages virtually. She is in Germany while he is in the states.
"And my favorite languages are German, Georgian, English, and Spanish," Julia said.
For some languages, resources did not exist. For others, they were extremely expensive. Storytime Online is free for many users and just five dollars for others.
"It's designed to be affordable for people in developing regions as well as people with economic hardships who need that support for education for their children," Von Sachsen-Altenburg said.
He developed the software with Julia in mind, and now kids, even those younger than her, are greatly benefiting from it.
"You push a button, you listen to it, you repeat it, and then tada, you know it," Julia explains.
It's exactly the kind of resource those with Nuestro Mundo Public Charter School say were missing from bilingual education.
"When I started teaching in this country in Spanish, it was like you had to translate all of the resources. I would like whiteout things and write in the Spanish parts, so luckily, things like Storytime Online are coming out now," Cardamone said. "For so many students in public schools, speaking another language or having another home language is seen as a deficit."
It's a tool helping to remove stigmas and truly serve the multi-lingual population.
"Dual language is the most efficacious methodology to use with students who are English language learners. Plain and simple," Maruszczak said. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/new-online-learning-tool-is-bridging-the-gap-for-bilingual-students | 2022-05-24T23:44:13Z | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/new-online-learning-tool-is-bridging-the-gap-for-bilingual-students | false | 11 |
Hyundai Recalls 239,000 Elantras, Accents for Potentially Explosive Seat Belts
Seat belt pretensioners in some Hyundai Elantra and Accent models can explode, sending metal fragments into the cabin.
Hyundai said Tuesday it would recall roughly 239,000 cars for potentially explosive seat belt pretensioners, which can send metal shrapnel through the cabin if they malfunction. The recall includes 66,000 2021-2023 Elantras, 12,000 2021-2023 Elantra Hybrids, and 61,000 2019-2022 Accents. Three injuries due to faulty seatbelt pretensioners have been reported so far.
The seat belt pretensioner tightens the seat belt in a crash to help keep passengers tightly in place to avoid injury. It uses a small pyrotechnic charge to tighten the belt once sensors detect a crash. In this case, the pyrotechnic charge is what can send metal fragments hurtling through the cabin. Both Hyundai and its supplier for seatbelt pretensioners, Samsong, are looking into the cause of the defect.
The recall follows a smaller recall for the same issue last year. That recall encompassed 7,712 vehicles with one reported injury.
Hyundai dealerships will install a cap over the pretensioner's "micro gas generator" to fix the potentially faulty system, and to keep any metal from entering the cabin and away from occupants. The fix for affected vehicles is free. According to the NHTSA, the estimated defect rate is 1 percent.
Customers with affected cars will have to wait until at least July 15 before bringing their cars in for repairs. If you own one of the cars mentioned in the recall and would like to know about your recall status before July 15, call 855-371-9460 and specify recall No. 229.
To prevent future issues, Hyundai said the pretensioner cap will be installed in cars built at its plants in Alabama and Korea beginning May 23.
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The Best Side Dishes to Order from Texas BBQ Joints
From traditional to decidedly untraditional, they steal the show.
Ask anyone what Texas is known for and you’re likely to get two consistent answers: being really big and making great barbecue.
They’re not wrong. Texas’s barbecue tradition runs deep. Pitmasters enlist wood-fired smokers to cook meat low and slow, giving brisket, ribs, and sausage the same loving attention usually reserved for fine-dining kitchens. People across the country—even across the world—make pilgrimages to Texas to see what all the fuss is about.
When it comes to Texas barbecue, brisket dominates the conversation—and rightfully so. The best examples are marbled with luscious fat, topped with a crispy, seasoned bark, and good enough to make visitors take up residence. But don’t sleep on the sides.
Potato salad, coleslaw, mac ’n cheese, and pinto beans comprise the classic side dish quartet on menus around the state, and, when treated with care, they make delicious accompaniments to the main course. But, occasionally, you find side dishes so good, so unexpected, that you forget all about that beef rib in your hand and dive back in for more.
These are eight of the best side dishes you’ll find at Texas barbecue joints. Some are creative takes on traditional favorites, while others stray from the classic templates entirely. They range from brisket-and-cream-cheese-stuffed jalapeños wrapped in bacon to smoky, creamy scalloped potatoes, and addictive greens swimming in a spicy gochujang broth. Add them all to your bucket list.
Texas Twinkies at Hutchins Barbecue
Frisco and McKinney
How do you improve on the spongy snack cake? Easy. Set it down and start over with jalapeños. Hutchins began serving Texas Twinkies in 2014, and it’s been a hit ever since. It stuffs the largest jalapeños it can find with cream cheese and chopped brisket, wrap the peppers in thick-cut bacon, and then smoke the meaty torpedoes until the bacon is crisp and rendered. It’s a perfect bite. If you can’t get to the Twinkies, they’ll go to you—Hutchins offers national shipping, so you can order a dozen (or several dozen) and they’ll be delivered straight to your door.
How to try it: Stop by for first-come, first-served seating, or purchase via the website.
Spicy Korean Braised Greens at Feges BBQ
Houston
Feges is the rare barbecue joint where the sides might be the star of the show. Sure, the brisket, pork ribs, and fried chicken are worthy additions to your plate, but Feges puts out more than a dozen sides, from traditional (coleslaw, charro Beans) to nontraditional, like the Moroccan Spiced Carrots and Spicy Korean Braised Greens. The latter is a take on Southern-style greens that sees kale cooked in a brothy mix of gochujang, red bell peppers, and garlic. Eat the tender greens, then scoop up every last bit of the potlikker with bread—or a spoon.
How to try it: Stop by for first-come, first-served seating, or order pickup via the website.
Jalapeño Cheese Grits at Goldee’s Barbecue
Fort Worth
This relative newcomer opened in early 2020, and after weathering more than a year of pandemic-related trials, the young barbecue joint was named Texas Monthly’s best in the state. So, expect a line. But once you get through the doors, you’ll find a small menu of expertly smoked meats (brisket, pork ribs, sausage) and thoughtful sides. Stalwarts like potato salad and coleslaw are joined by Jalapeño Cheese Grits, a warm and creamy dish that’s flecked with peppers and cheddar cheese. The spice cuts through the richness to keep you coming back for more.
How to try it: Stop by for first-come, first-served seating.
Smoked Scalloped Potatoes at Interstellar BBQ
Austin
The chefs behind the former Noble Sandwich Co. brought their artisanal ways to Interstellar BBQ, where the sides receive as much care as the meat. The best of the bunch is the Smoked Scalloped Potatoes, in which thinly sliced potatoes are layered into a bath of cream and garlic, topped with a generous helping of shredded Parmesan, and then thrown in the smoker until that top layer of cheese resembles a crackling creme brulee crust. It’s not light, but it is delicious. Fortunately, Interstellar also serves a bright, palate-awakening Tomato Zucchini Salad to balance you out.
How to try it: Stop by for first-come, first-served seating.
There’s more to Texas than just great barbecue, folks. Breathtakingly diverse landscapes, like Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park in West Texas, offer a natural respite for outdoor enthusiasts while the San Antonio River Walk is a 15-mile oasis for the urban explorer. No matter your interests, the Lone Star State is a vacation destination unto itself waiting to be explored, so, plan accordingly.
Chicharoni Macaroni at 2M Smokehouse
San Antonio
2M Smokehouse serves a menu of traditional barbecue with Tex-Mex accents, which can be seen in everything from the serrano-and-Oaxacan-cheese-stuffed pork sausages to brisket tacos served on fresh tortillas with pico de gallo. That treatment also applies to the sides, like the Pickled Nopales, Mexican Street Corn, and Chicharoni Macaroni. That last one is a serious departure from the sad, cafeteria-style mac ’n cheese that congeals the moment it hits your plate. 2M’s version features creamy, white cheese topped with crumbled chicharrones, providing a dose of salty, porky crunch with each addictive bite.
How to try it: Stop by for first-come, first-served seating.
Burnt End Beans at Cattleack BBQ
Farmers Branch
Cattleack is only open for three-and-a-half hours every Thursday and Friday, plus the first Saturday of each month (Hey, when the food’s this good, you can do whatever you want). Plan accordingly, then brave the line outside this unassuming strip mall spot for wagyu brisket, some of the state’s best and biggest beef ribs, and—in a twist—North Carolina-style whole-hog pulled pork. But also get the Burnt End Beans, a smoky, savory one-two punch of baked beans laced with flavorful hunks of the prized meat.
How to try it: Stop by for first-come, first-served seating, or place bulk preorders for pickup via the website.
Creamed Corn at Killen’s Barbecue
Pearland
Ronnie Killen has built a restaurant empire in the Houston area, with concepts spanning steakhouses, Tex-Mex, burgers, and barbecue. But his most beloved dish might be creamed corn, which appears on several of his menus, including at Killen’s Barbecue. Corn is shaved fresh off the cob and then combined with milk, cream, butter, sugar, white pepper, and cayenne pepper, plus a pinch of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. It’s rich, delicious, and a good reason to have a salad later. But, for now, pair that corn with brisket, beef ribs, smoked turkey, or pulled pork.
How to try it: Stop by for first-come, first-served seating, and order pickup or delivery via ToastTab.
Pork Hash and Rice at LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue
Austin
You’ll find this fan-favorite barbecue trailer parked at Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden. The owners source meat from responsible Texas ranchers and put out mains like Akaushi Brisket (available Saturday and Sunday only) alongside Barbacoa and Pulled Whole Hog. Bringing in whole pigs means there’s a lot of pork to go around, so LeRoy & Lewis incorporates the extra bits into its Pork Hash and Rice. The pork and rice are combined with mustard and hot sauce and receive a scallion garnish. Rather than boasting large hunks of that pork, the dish eats like rice with rich gravy. If you want to make the side a meal, you can upgrade to the Loaded Pork Hash and a hearty portion will be topped with salsa, crispy pork skins, Fritos, and pickled smoked jalapeños.
How to try it: Stop by for first-come, first-served seating. | https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-texas-bbq-side-dishes | 2022-05-24T23:46:30Z | https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-texas-bbq-side-dishes | false | 1 |
Government House has today announced that Dick Welsh MBE, has been appointed as the Isle of Man’s Commissioner on the Northern Lighthouse Board.
Mr Welsh, who received an MBE in the January 2020 Honours List for outstanding services to the maritime community on the Isle of Man, will serve for a three year term, from 1 June 2022 to 31 May 2025, following nomination for his appointment by His Excellency Lieutenant Governor Sir John Lorimer.
Commenting on his appointment with NLB, Dick Welsh said:
‘I am incredibly fortunate to be appointed as Commissioner, Isle of Man for the Northern Lighthouse Board. I am really looking forward to getting involved and becoming a valuable member of the Board.’
Mr Welsh succeeds Captain Mike Brew who retires from the post at the end of May, after representing the Isle of Man as a Commissioner for nine years.
The Northern Lighthouse Board is the General Lighthouse Authority for the Isle of Man and Scotland and is responsible for the superintendence and management of all lights, buoys and beacons within those waters. The organisation has provided this vital safety service for mariners since 1786. | https://www.gov.im/news/2022/may/24/dick-welsh-mbe-appointed-to-northern-lighthouse-board/ | 2022-05-24T23:52:22Z | https://www.gov.im/news/2022/may/24/dick-welsh-mbe-appointed-to-northern-lighthouse-board/ | true | 1 |
(The Hill) – President Biden on Tuesday ordered that the flags at the White House, federal buildings and military posts be flown at half-staff for the victims of a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
The White House issued the proclamation Tuesday evening, hours after news broke of the shooting, which left at least 14 dead. Biden ordered the flags be flown at half-staff through Saturday at the White House, public buildings, military installations, and embassies and consular offices abroad “as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence.”
Biden, who the White House said was briefed on the shooting while flying back from a trip to Asia, is scheduled to deliver remarks on the mass shooting later Tuesday evening after returning.
“His prayers are with the families impacted by this awful event,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said that 14 students and one teacher were shot and killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday when a gunman opened fire in the school. The gunman, whom Abbott identified at 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, is said to have been killed.
It’s the second mass shooting in less than two weeks that Biden has addressed. Days before departing the White House for Asia, Biden traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., to meet with families affected by the mass shooting at a grocery store that police have labeled a racially-motivated hate crime. That shooting left 10 people dead. | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/biden-orders-flags-to-half-staff-after-texas-school-shooting/ | 2022-05-24T23:53:52Z | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/biden-orders-flags-to-half-staff-after-texas-school-shooting/ | false | 18 |
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans police are investigating a possible break-in, that ended with a local artist being shot several times.
Joe Cooper is a bear of a man, well known for his creative tie-dye designs.
Monday around 3:00 p.m., somebody shot him in the doorway of his home in the 4400 block of St. Roch Avenue in the Gentilly Terrace neighborhood.
“People say they’ll take a bullet for you,” his wife Leslie Cooper said. “He took four.”
Leslie Cooper is a show host on WWOZ radio.
She says her husband, who friends sometimes call “Pappa Mojo,” was shot while trying to protect her from a possible intruder.
“He was protecting me. He said that’s my job.”
According to Cooper, a young man knocked on their door asking about a package that may have been delivered to their address.
Her husband told him no such package arrived.
She says about a half-hour later, the man and possibly a second suspect came back to their home and this time tried to force their way in.
Her husband blocked the door.
“He yelled at me, baby get down and he tried to push them out the door,” Cooper said. “At that point in time, they pulled him out with them, maybe, I don’t know and there were multiple, rapid, rapid gunshots.”
The bullets struck Joe Cooper in the abdomen and legs.
His best friend and business partner Anthony Filippone says he’s not surprised Cooper would put his life on the line for his wife.
“I would not expect anything less,” Filiponne said. “He’s as standup of a guy you could ever meet. “
Doyle Cooper is a New Orleans musician.
He says no telling what could have happened if his mother answered the door instead of his father.
“I love this city with all my heart,” Doyle said. “But stuff like this makes it really hard to justify staying here and making a life here.”
Police do not believe criminals looking for a package is a common ruse in the city.
“I can emphatically say this is an isolated incident,” NOPD Lt. Ernest Luster said. “We track all crime, and this is the first method of an incident that we’ve had here in the Third District.”
Police say a white vehicle, possibly an Acura or Honda was spotted fleeing the scene after the shooting.
The Coopers say if they can become victims of violent crime, no one is safe in the city.
“If you had to ask me if I was going back into my home, I can’t until these people are caught,” Leslie Cooper said.
“I never thought that something like this would hit this close to home,” Doyle Cooper said.
At last report, Joe Cooper was in serious condition, but stable at University Medical Center.
His son Doyle set up a Go Fund Me page to help raise money for his father’s hospital expenses and long-term care.
The Cooper family is asking people to donate blood for Joe.
Blood drives are now being held at a number of locations. They include Wednesday at St. Vincent's Community Center, 3500 Canal Street from 11a.m. to 6 pm.
And all this week at the Metairie Donor Center, 2617 Edenborn Ave. in Metairie.
“Luckily, we had the blood on the shelf to help him, but we’re looking at right now about a two-day supply of blood,” the Blood Center’s Paul Adams said. “We need a three-to-four-day supply of blood just in case there’s an emergency.”
Donors for Joe Cooper must specify he is the intended recipient.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden prepared to address the nation Tuesday night shortly after returning to the White House from a five-day trip to Asia that was bookended by “horrific” mass tragedy.
Biden was on Air Force One Tuesday afternoon when officials said a gunman acting alone killed at least 14 students and a teacher at a Texas elementary school. His departure for Asia last week came just two days after he met with victims' families after a hate-motivated shooter killed 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. The back-to-back tragedies served as sobering reminders of the frequency and brutality of an American epidemic of mass gun violence.
Biden directed that American flags be flown at half-staff through sunset Saturday in honor of the victims.
Vice President Kamala Harris said that people normally say in a moment like this, “our hearts break — but our hearts keep getting broken ... and our broken hearts are nothing compared to the broken hearts of those families.”
“We have to have the courage to take action ... to ensure something like this never happens again,” she said.
First Lady Jill Biden, herself a teacher, tweeted, “Lord, enough. Little children and their teacher. Stunned. Angry. Heartbroken.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden was briefed on the shooting by deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley-Dillon and other members of his senior team aboard Air Force One.
Shortly before landing in Washington, Biden spoke with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from the presidential plane “to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting in Uvalde, TX,” White House communications director Kate Bedingfield tweeted.
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Credit: Eugene Hoshiko | https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/biden-to-address-nation-following-texas-school-shooting/AOZRZQREKVBM7JZR5ARGTMVLI4/ | 2022-05-24T23:56:12Z | https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/biden-to-address-nation-following-texas-school-shooting/AOZRZQREKVBM7JZR5ARGTMVLI4/ | false | 17 |
Time to consider the impact of rocket exhausts on the atmosphere
Bob McDonald's blog: Researchers modelled exhaust gases from rockets along their trajectory to space
With rockets blasting off almost weekly, space tourism gaining momentum and plans to return to the moon within the decade, scientists are becoming concerned that hot exhaust gasses from rockets could have a negative impact on the atmosphere — from the ground all the way to the edge of space.
For more than half a century, rockets have been punching through the atmosphere on the way to space. Until now the effect of their exhaust plumes on the atmosphere has not been a major concern. Because rockets travel so fast, they only spend a matter of minutes in the atmosphere, so their impact has been considered minimal.
Now, with private companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Rocket Lab — along with space agencies in China, Japan, Europe and Russia — all sending more rockets into space than ever before, scientists are saying it's time to look at the long-term impact on the atmosphere of all those launches.
According to estimates, 2021 was a record year for launches with 160 attempted and 146 successes; these are only estimates because some military launches are unannounced because they are classified.
A report in the journal, Physics of Fluids, shows how scientists at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus modelled the effects of chemicals and heat released by rocket exhausts up to an altitude of 67 kilometres and found there are significant effects on the Earth's climate.
The rocket used for the model was the SpaceX Falcon 9, which has been making regular trips to space delivering satellites to orbit, as well as bringing cargo and crew to the International Space Station. It is not the largest rocket, nor is it the smallest, making it a good average example of rocket flight.
Rockets do not spend much time in the atmosphere, taking only about eight minutes to go from a standing start all the way to orbit. In fact, one reason they rise straight up off the launch pad is to get through the air as quickly as possible to reduce drag. But during that short time they burn tonnes of fuel.
The nine engines on the Falcon 9 burn RP-1 fuel, which is a refined version of kerosene similar to jet fuel. Since this is a fossil fuel, it produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in its exhaust.
The researchers found the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as the rocket climbs one kilometre into the mesosphere is equivalent to that contained in 26 cubic kilometres of ambient atmosphere air at that same altitude.
Another aspect of rocket flight is the effect on the surrounding air of heat and pressure from the exhaust plume. This can heat the atmosphere directly, possibly affecting ozone, and produces nitrogen oxides, pollutants that are harmful to human health.
Currently, these nitrogen oxide gasses created under high temperatures at lower altitudes are carried away by upper winds so the impacts are temporary at higher altitudes. But scientists are concerned that the expected increase in rocket travel in the future could have a cumulative effect.
These results suggest more study is needed on atmospheric response at all altitudes, plus consideration should be made to future designs of rocket engines and alternate fuels to minimize their impact.
One change that could be made is to use liquid hydrogen instead of kerosene to eliminate carbon emissions, although that comes with its own set of challenges, since the fuel is super cold and difficult to handle. But rockets in the past, such as the main engines of the space shuttles and the upper stages of the Saturn V moon rockets, used that fuel very successfully.
Rockets have been carrying people and goods off the planet for decades; now it is time to consider what they leave behind. | https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/time-to-consider-the-impact-of-rocket-exhausts-on-the-atmosphere-1.6459999?cmp=rss | 2022-05-24T23:58:17Z | https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/time-to-consider-the-impact-of-rocket-exhausts-on-the-atmosphere-1.6459999?cmp=rss | true | 1 |
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DENVER — Colorado leaders are reacting after 14 students and a teacher were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday.
"This morning I visited Mancos Elementary School and saw the joy on the faces of students and teachers in their last week of school as they looked forward to new adventures this summer and next school year," Gov. Jared Polis (D) said in a statement. "Now fourteen students and a teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas had their joy ended forever from a cold blooded attack and their parents, friends and families won’t ever hold them in their arms again or be able to watch them grow. Colorado’s hearts are heavy for our friends in Texas and join in showing love for the families and community affected.”
Sen. Michael Bennet (D)
Sen. John Hickenlooper (D)
Rep. Jason Crow (D)
Rep. Joe Neguse (D)
Fifteen people – a teacher and 14 students – were killed in the shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news conference.
Abbott said the shooter, who he identified as an 18-year-old man from Uvalde, was dead.
"He shot and killed, horrifically, incomprehensibly, 14 people, students, and killed a teacher," Abbott said. "It is believed that responding officers killed him."
He added that two officers were shot and wounded but were expected to survive.
Abbott said the man walked into Robb Elementary School, about 85 miles west of San Antonio, and opened fire. It was the deadliest school shooting in Texas history and occurred four years after a gunman fatally shot 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that President Joe Biden, who was returning from a multi-day trip in Asia, has been briefed. He will deliver remarks on the shooting at 6:15 p.m. MT.
Biden ordered that flags be flown at half-staff at all public buildings until sunset Saturday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
0-0-3-6, FIREBALL: 5
(zero, zero, three, six; FIREBALL: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
0-0-3-6, FIREBALL: 5
(zero, zero, three, six; FIREBALL: five) | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17196394.php | 2022-05-25T00:01:48Z | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17196394.php | true | null |
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The El Paso County District Attorney’s Office is getting a $3 million state grant to prosecute alleged Walmart mass shooter Patrick Crusius. The money brokered through Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Office will allow El Paso prosecutors to prepare for a possible trial change of venue.
“I want to assure the community that we have every intention of prosecuting this case here in El Paso. However, legal technicalities happen, so we always have to be prepared in the event we have to travel out of town.” El Paso County District Attorney Yvonne Rosales said in a news conference.
The governor’s office is giving Rosales leeway on how to spend the $3 million. The DA anticipates some will be invested in equipment – computer hard drives, for starters, to electronically preserve evidence – and to bring in expert witnesses from out of town. The county had previously earmarked $500,000 for the prosecution.
Rosales emphasized the state funds will ease local taxpayers’ burden on a case that shocked the community and left families on both sides of the Rio Grande grieving.
Crusius on Aug. 3, 2019, allegedly drove from North Texas to El Paso with an assault rifle, went into the Walmart near Cielo Vista Mall and started shooting. Twenty-three people died and 23 others survived gunshots. Authorities believed he posted a racist manifesto online, railing against an influx of Hispanics into the United States.
In the end, the dead and injured reflected the diversity of El Paso: whites, Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans, Mexican citizens and even one originally from Germany.
Crusius has pleaded not guilty to the charges. His attorneys have told reporters they need time to prepare a defense, so they won’t be ready to go to trial until 2025 at the earliest. The suspect faces state capital murder charges and separate federal charges that include hate crimes.
Rosales said 2025 is too long a wait.
“I’m anticipating sometime at the end of this year or possibly at the beginning of next year,” she said. “Justice needs to be served in this case and the victims and families need to have resolution as soon as possible.”
The DA admits she has fielded numerous questions as to when Crusius will be brought to trial. She emphasized that is up to the judge, and that judges and prosecutors all over Texas are dealing with a backlog of cases dating back to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the temporary closing of courtrooms.
“We’re trying to deal with the backlog caused by the pandemic. What all judges are trying to in all prudence is address the murder cases, sex assault of children cases, intoxicated manslaughter cases first,” Rosales said. “The judge of the 409th is proceeding all those cases first, eliminate the backlog of jury trials so we can get to Walmart and focus on that particular case.”
When asked if her prosecutors intend to ask for the death penalty, she said that’s what the families of the victims want. But she warned the process will be a lengthy one due to the automatic appeals process in death penalty cases.
“We feel the members of this community deserve the opportunity to impose and pass judgement on this case and any kind of punishment they feel is acceptable,” she said. “But a good attorney is always prepared for the alternative, that’s why we are prepared for a change of venue.” | https://www.8newsnow.com/news/el-paso-gets-3-million-to-prosecute-alleged-walmart-mass-shooter/ | 2022-05-25T00:06:08Z | https://www.8newsnow.com/news/el-paso-gets-3-million-to-prosecute-alleged-walmart-mass-shooter/ | true | 28 |
CHILLICOTHE – Gunfire rang out in the early morning of 5/19/22 last week, and now the local police department has a video they are reviewing. According to the Chillicothe Police department, Officer responded to 143 N Rose St. Reference to shots fired in the alley. When they arrived they did not find anyone around the location but were able to find some security video. According to the report in the video, Officer observes a white Volkswagen four-door car park at the rear of 152 N Brownell St. Two females and two males are seen getting into and out of the car in question. A short time later the two males walk N/W out of camera view and are seen running back with the sounds of several gun shots being fired at or from the subjects. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2610294941873/circleville-man-indicted-for-drive-by-shooting-in-ross-co | 2022-05-25T00:09:40Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2610294941873/circleville-man-indicted-for-drive-by-shooting-in-ross-co | false | null |
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Another day, another tragic story to report. While the nation is still reeling from the deadly mass shooting that took place in Buffalo, New York on May 14th, news of another causality scenario has made its way around the web.
This time in Uvalde, Texas, a town approximately 85 miles outside of San Antonio. According to reports, fourteen students and a teacher are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, according to Gov. Greg Abbott. The 18-year-old suspect, a student at Uvalde High School, is also dead, Abbott said.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin and The Texas Department of Public Safety and told members of the press that the shooter – who ran to the school – became barricaded inside it.
“There is an active shooter at Robb Elementary. Law enforcement is on site,” the school posted on Facebook. “Your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus.”
The suspect also allegedly shot his grandmother before entering the school and again opening fire, according to reports.
Update: 14 Students Killed, 1 Teacher Dead in Texas Elementary School Shooting was originally published on myhoustonmajic.com | https://mymajicdc.com/4579890/texas-elementary-school-shooting/ | 2022-05-25T00:11:01Z | https://mymajicdc.com/4579890/texas-elementary-school-shooting/ | false | 16 |
The President of DC Films has testified that Amber Heard's role being reduced in "Aquaman 2" had nothing to do with Johnny Depp.
Walter Hamada, president of DC Films at Warner Bros., says that Amber Heard's role in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom was not reduced due to Johnny Depp. Hamada commented on Heard's role through a pre-recorded deposition from March presented as testimony during Depp's ongoing defamation trial against Heard.
“I think editorially they were able to make that relationship work in the first movie,” the movie boss stated. “But there was a concern that it took a lot of effort to get there and that would we be better off finding someone with more natural chemistry with Jason Momoa and move forward that way.”
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He continued: "The size of the role in the film that she had was determined in the early development of the script, which would be in 2018. The character’s involvement in the story was sort of what it was from the beginning. From the early stages of the development of the script, the movie was built around the character of Arthur [Momoa] and the character of Orm [Patrick Wilson]."
Heard had claimed in the testimony of her own, last week, that her part as Mera was "very pared down" due to the drama with Depp.
“I was given a script and then given new versions of the script that had taken away scenes…they basically took a bunch out of my role. They just removed a bunch out,” Heard said at the time.
Heard's talent agent Jessica Kovacevic also alleged that negative press and online attacks directed at her client were what caused DC to distance itself from the actress.
Depp and Heard's ongoing defamation trial is expected to wrap up later this week.
[Via] | https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/dc-films-says-amber-heards-aquaman-2-role-reduction-was-unrelated-to-johnny-depp-news.152500.html | 2022-05-25T00:11:38Z | https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/dc-films-says-amber-heards-aquaman-2-role-reduction-was-unrelated-to-johnny-depp-news.152500.html | false | 1 |
Mathias had his contract selected by the Brewers on Tuesday.
Mathias was unable to earn a spot on Milwaukee's Opening Day roster, but he'll join the big-league club Tuesday with Hunter Renfroe headed to the injured list. The 27-year-old should serve as a reserve outfielder with Christian Yelich, Lorenzo Cain, Tyrone Taylor and Andrew McCutchen covering the three outfield spots and designated hitter. | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/brewers-mark-mathias-contract-selected-by-milwaukee/ | 2022-05-25T00:13:21Z | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/brewers-mark-mathias-contract-selected-by-milwaukee/ | true | null |
Ros Atkins on... Russia's food war
The West has accused the Russian military of holding food supplies hostage for millions around the world.
War has blocked Ukraine's main ports on the Black sea, severely impacting food supply chains around the world. The country is a major exporter of wheat, but now millions of tonnes of grain are stuck - impacting the countries that can least afford it.
Russia denies it is weaponising food supplies, claiming that Ukraine's attempts to mine the Black sea and sanctions are to blame - as the BBC's Ros Atkins explains. | https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-61574412 | 2022-05-25T00:15:48Z | https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-61574412 | true | null |
The number of COVID-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals jumped over the 400 mark again on Tuesday, May 24, and the county reported nearly 3,600 new infections.
According to state figures, there were 419 hospital patients with COVID in the county as of Tuesday, up from 391 on Monday. Of those patients, 53 were being treated in intensive care, the same as Monday.
Health officials have noted recently that the vast majority of COVID-positive patients in hospitals were admitted for reasons unrelated to the virus, and many only discovered they were infected when they were tested at the hospital.
The overall number of hospital patients has held relatively steady in recent weeks in spite of a sharp increase in the number of COVID infections —a statistic health officials attribute to growing protection from vaccinations and prior infections. The number rose above 400 over the weekend but quickly fell, until rising again Tuesday.
But the increase in cases has authorities on edge, noting that previous surges during the pandemic have led to swelling hospital numbers and eventually deaths. The county last week was moved from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “low” virus-activity level to “medium.”
The move didn’t trigger any additional health restrictions locally, but that would change if virus-related hospital numbers spike upward.
Under CDC guidelines, counties in the “medium” category will move to “high” if the rate of new virus-related hospital admissions reaches 10 per 100,000 residents, or if 10% of the county’s staffed hospital beds are occupied by COVID-positive patients.
As of last week, the county’s rate of new COVID-related admissions was 3.4 per 100,000 residents, and the rate of hospital beds occupied by COVID-positive patients was roughly 1.7%.
On Tuesday, the county reported 3,589 new COVID infections, giving the county a cumulative total from throughout the pandemic of 2,945,669. Another nine deaths were recorded, raising the overall death toll in the county to 32,095.
The average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus was 3.5% as of Tuesday, roughly the same as the past week. | https://www.dailybreeze.com/2022/05/24/la-county-covid-hospital-cases-jump-back-over-400/ | 2022-05-25T00:15:59Z | https://www.dailybreeze.com/2022/05/24/la-county-covid-hospital-cases-jump-back-over-400/ | false | 7 |
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A former Moldovan president was ordered detained following a series of police raids Tuesday as part of a judicial investigation into suspected treason, corruption, illicit enrichment and illegal party financing, prosecutors said.
Photographs showed members of Moldova’s Information and Security Service escorting former president Igor Dodon to a van after he was detained at his house in the capital, Chisinau. Dodon leads the Eastern European country’s pro-Russian main opposition bloc.
Senior anti-corruption prosecutor Elena Cazacov did not identify the detainee. She told a press conference that he and a second person were ordered held in custody for 72 hours after authorities deemed that otherwise there was a “risk of destruction of evidence.”
Earlier Tuesday, Moldovan media reported Dodon’s detention but authorities didn’t officially confirm it.
Moldovan website Protv.md broadcast a live feed of several police officers standing guard at the gate of a house described as belonging to Dodon, who was president from 2016 to 2020.
Cazacov said the investigation focused on suspected acts of “illicit enrichment, passive corruption, illegal party financing and (treason), which have taken place since 2014.” She did not provide details.
“The subjects of the investigation are mainly one of the former Presidents of the Republic of Moldova and those close to him, but also other persons who have a connection to the commission of the alleged acts,” she said.
During the police search, numerous supporters of Dodon as well as other protesters congregated on the street. Dozens of Dodon supporters also gathered outside Moldova’s parliament in the capital Chisinau demanding the government’s resignation. The former president’s party controls 22 of the parliament’s 101 seats and is the main opposition force, acting in a coalition with Moldova’s communist party.
Cazacov said a total of ten locations were searched, and sums of money in Moldovan lei and foreign currency seized.
“During the searches, one of the persons tried to destroy, by swallowing, documents … which confirmed real estate transactions worth about 700,000 euros,” she said.
“The searches revealed that only at the beginning of 2022 the persons under investigation benefited from leisure services, contracted through tourism companies in the Russian Federation, worth about 4 million rubles ($70,000),” the prosecutor added.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Moscow was “alarmed” at the “persecution” of Dodon, but noted that it was an internal affair of Moldova’s.
“We are, of course, alarmed that again such a practice and persecution is being used against those who are supporters of the development of friendly and mutually beneficial relations with the Russian Federation,” Peskov told reporters during a conference call.
One of Europe’s poorest countries, Moldova is an ex-Soviet republic that gained independence in 1991.
Russia maintains troops — nominally peacekeepers — in the separatist Moldovan region of Transnistria, a disputed, Russian-backed breakaway state that borders southwestern Ukraine. | https://www.wkrg.com/international/moldovan-ex-president-detained-in-treason-corruption-probe/ | 2022-05-25T00:17:11Z | https://www.wkrg.com/international/moldovan-ex-president-detained-in-treason-corruption-probe/ | false | 31 |
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The Chicago Bulls are going to Paris in 2023.
The National Basketball Association on Tuesday announced that next year's NBA Paris Game taking place on Jan. 19, 2023 will between the Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons.
"It is a great honor to bring Chicago Bulls basketball back to Paris for the NBA Paris Game 2023," said Chicago Bulls Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Artūras Karnišovas.
"I know how special this will be for our players, our organization, and our international fanbase. We look forward to representing Chicago overseas and are grateful for the opportunity to do so."
The regular-season game will take place at the Accor Arena in Paris, France. The last time the arena hosted a regular-season NBA game was on Jan. 24, 2020, between the Charlotte Hornets and Milwaukee Bucks.
According to a press release, this is the Bulls' third game in Paris in the team's history, having played two preseason games in the French capital in 1997.
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This will be the Pistons' first game in France, having previously played regular-season games in London in 2013 and Mexico City in 2019.
The NBA Paris Game 2023 marks the league's 12th game in France since 1991.
According to the release, tickets for the Pairs Game will be on sale at a later date. Fans can gain access to presale ticket information here. | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/chicago-bulls-to-play-in-2023-nba-paris-game/2954782/ | 2022-05-25T00:29:05Z | https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/chicago-bulls-to-play-in-2023-nba-paris-game/2954782/ | false | 11 |
Climate change and living costs are the main sources of future worry for almost four out of five teenagers in Ireland, while the majority doubt the country will meet its environmental targets over the next two decades.
Mirroring what has become one of the pressing issues of recent years for young people all over the world, nearly a quarter of Irish teenagers describe themselves as climate activists, research commissioned by Young Social Innovators (YSI) showed.
The non-profit organisation for young people examined the mental health concerns of so-called "generation Z", broadly defined as those born between the late 1990s and the end of the 2000s.
Young people have shown how serious they are about climate change, with school strikes all over the world led by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and others in recent years.
Cop26, the UN climate change summit in Glasgow last November, saw young people from all over the world, including Ireland, descend on the Scottish city as world leaders gathered, demanding real action on climate change, especially in countries bearing the brunt of the crisis through flooding, heatwaves, and drought.
The new research on 1,090 Irish teenagers found major scepticism about the Government's intentions in tackling the climate crisis.
Of future worries, some 78% cited climate change, just one percentage point below the top issue, the cost of living. Some 51% believe Ireland won’t hit its key climate goals within the next 20 years, while nearly nine in 10 believe society and the government is not doing enough.
It is not only political leaders that are failing in the crisis, most teenagers said.
More than four in five believe companies are failing to play their part, while 45% don’t believe individual people are doing enough.
When it comes to their own behaviour, some 94% claim they currently recycle, 76% say they are careful about food wastage, 70% use public transport, 53% buy secondhand clothes, and 42% buy food that doesn’t rely on plastic packaging.
Four in five claim they have no intention of owning a car powered by petrol or diesel. | https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/climate-change-and-cost-of-living-dominate-young-peoples-future-worries_arid-40859261.html | 2022-05-25T00:29:26Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/climate-change-and-cost-of-living-dominate-young-peoples-future-worries_arid-40859261.html | true | 2 |
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