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ABOUT TWO DOZEN Afghan women chanting “bread, work, freedom” protested in the capital today against the Taliban’s harsh restrictions on their rights.
Since seizing power in August, the Taliban have rolled back the marginal gains made by women during the two decades of US intervention in Afghanistan.
“Education is my right! Reopen schools!” chanted the protesters, many of them wearing face-covering veils, as they gathered in front of the ministry of education.
Demonstrators marched for a few hundred metres before ending the rally as authorities deployed Taliban fighters in plain clothes, an AFP correspondent reported.
“We wanted to read out a declaration but the Taliban didn’t allow it,” said protester Zholia Parsi.
“They took the mobile phones of some girls and also prevented us from taking photos or videos of our protest.”
After seizing power, the Taliban had promised a softer version of the harsh Islamist rule that characterised their first stint in power from 1996 to 2001.
But many restrictions have already been imposed.
Tens of thousands of girls have been shut out of secondary schools, while women have been barred from returning to many government jobs.
Women have also been banned from travelling alone and can only visit public gardens and parks in the capital on days separate from men.
This month, the country’s supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada said women should generally stay at home.
They were ordered to conceal themselves completely, including their faces, should they need to go out in public.
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The decree, which triggered international outrage, carried echoes of the Taliban’s first reign, when they made the all-covering burqa mandatory for women.
The Taliban have also banned protests calling for women’s rights and dismissed calls by the United Nations to reverse their restrictions.
Some Afghan women initially pushed back against the curbs, holding small protests.
But the Taliban soon rounded up the ringleaders, holding them incommunicado while denying they had been detained. | https://www.thejournal.ie/afghanistan-women-protest-burka-education-5777325-May2022/ | 2022-05-29T13:28:35Z | https://www.thejournal.ie/afghanistan-women-protest-burka-education-5777325-May2022/ | false | 11 |
Punjab Kings star batter Liam Livingstone extended best wishes to both Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Titans ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 final and said that Shane Warne must be looking down tonight very proud of his boys in pink.
"Good luck to both teams tonight the best two teams throughout the tournament in my opinion! @gujarat_titans vs @rajasthanroyals may the best team win! But there will be a certain guy looking down tonight very proud of his boys in pink! #IPLFinal," Livingstone tweeted.
Notably, RR reached the IPL final in its inaugural season under the leadership of Warne, who passed away in March 2022. Warne did not have the big names on his side in 2008, but he managed to get the team going with a collective effort and found match-winners in every game.
Good luck to both teams tonight the best two teams throughout the tournament in my opinion! @gujarat_titans vs @rajasthanroyals may the best team win! But there will be a certain guy looking down tonight very proud of his boys in pink! #IPLFinal
— Liam Livingstone (@liaml4893) May 29, 2022
"Great excitement to be able to play in the final of the biggest T20 tournament in the world.. it's incredibly exciting. Shane Warne has been such an influential figure for Rajasthan Royals and having led the team to the title in the first season. We will miss him dearly but we know he is looking down on us with a lot of pride today," Buttler had told Star Sports.
"I came to the season with very low expectations but a lot of energy. It is very exciting to stand in the final. I had a season of two halves, and had very honest conversations with people really close to me. I was feeling the pressure midway, and it was only about a week ago that I opened up about it. It helped me and I went to Kolkata with a freer mind," he said. | https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/ipl-2022/story/shane-warne-will-be-very-proud-of-his-boys-in-pink-liam-livingstone-wishes-rr-luck-ahead-of-ipl-2022-final-1955677-2022-05-29 | 2022-05-29T13:42:02Z | https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/ipl-2022/story/shane-warne-will-be-very-proud-of-his-boys-in-pink-liam-livingstone-wishes-rr-luck-ahead-of-ipl-2022-final-1955677-2022-05-29 | false | 1 |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials discussed revising stringent anti-epidemic restrictions during a meeting Sunday, state media reported, as they maintained a widely disputed claim that the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak is slowing.
The discussion at the North’s Politburo meeting suggests it will soon relax a set of draconian curbs imposed after its admission of the omicron outbreak this month out of concern about its food and economic situations.
Kim and other Politburo members “made a positive evaluation of the pandemic situation being controlled and improved across the country,” the official Korean Central News Agency said.
They also “examined the issue of effectively and quickly coordinating and enforcing the anti-epidemic regulations and guidelines given the current stable anti-epidemic situation,” KCNA said.
On Sunday, North Korea reported 89,500 more patients with fever symptoms, taking the country’s total to 3.4 million. It didn’t say whether there were additional deaths. The country’s latest death toll reported Friday was 69, setting its mortality rate at 0.002%, an extremely low count that no other country, including advanced economies, has reported in the fight against COVID-19.
Many outside experts say North Korea is clearly understating its fatality rate to prevent any political damage to Kim at home. They say North Korea should have suffered many more deaths because its 26 million people are largely unvaccinated against COVID-19 and it lacks the capacity to treat patients with critical conditions. Others suspect North Korea might have exaggerated its earlier fever cases to try to strengthen its internal control of its population.
Since its May 12 admission of the omicron outbreak, North Korea has only been announcing the number of patients with feverish symptoms daily, but not those with COVID-19, apparently because of a shortage of test kits to confirm coronavirus cases in large numbers.
But many outside health experts view most of the reported fever cases as COVID-19, saying North Korean authorities would know how to distinguish the symptoms from fevers caused by other prevalent infectious diseases.
The outbreak has forced North Korea to impose a nationwide lockdown, isolate all work and residential units from one another and ban region-to-region movements. The country still allows key agricultural, construction and other industrial activities, but the toughened restrictions have triggered worries about its food insecurity and a fragile economy already hit hard by border shutdowns because of the pandemic.
Some observers say North Korea will likely soon declare victory over COVID-19 and credit it to Kim’s leadership.
Yang Un-chul, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea, said the North’s recently elevated restrictions must be dealing a serious blow to its coal, agricultural and other labor-intensive industrial sectors. But he said those difficulties won’t likely rise to a level that threatens Kim’s grip on power, as the COVID-19 outbreak and strengthened curbs have given him a chance to boost his control over the population. | https://www.wavy.com/news/world/n-korea-moves-to-soften-curbs-amid-doubts-over-covid-counts/ | 2022-05-29T13:43:44Z | https://www.wavy.com/news/world/n-korea-moves-to-soften-curbs-amid-doubts-over-covid-counts/ | true | 28 |
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Netflix Geeked Week 2022 is right around the corner, so it's time to start getting hyped for everything we enjoy watching on the world's biggest streamer.
Things haven't been rosy for Netflix over the past few months. The streaming company has had to contend with its fair share of negative press born out of financial and subscriber-based woes, show cancellations, staff lay offs, and audience backlash over a crackdown on password sharing. So Netflix is hoping for a more positive outcome as we officially head into the summer months (read: winter for those in southern climes).
What better way to turn that negativity into something more favorable, then, than a week-long extravaganza of the best Netflix shows and Netflix movies around? And, while the streamer's at it, why not show off its plans to make a serious push into the video game industry?
Netflix Geeked Week 2022, the second annual celebration of everything to do with the streaming behemoth, is the perfect time to do so. For five days in early June, Netflix is set to provide updates on some of its biggest series and films, reveal more about projects coming in 2022 and beyond, release new trailers and first-looks at some of those productions, show off exclusive chats with its biggest stars, and much more. Suffice to say, you'll want to check into the forthcoming festivities.
Ahead of Netflix Geeked Week 2022's arrival, you'll need the lowdown on what to expect. Below, you'll find everything worth knowing about the virtual summit, including its start date, how you can watch along, the full schedule of what'll be shown off, and more. Strap in and let's begin.
Netflix Geeked Week 2022 start date: when will it begin?
Netflix Geeked Week 2022 will officially begin on Monday, June 6. It'll run for the entirety of that week, too, with each day devoted to a particular division within the company (more on this in a bit).
The event will begin at 9AM PST / 12PM EST for US audiences, while those in the UK will be able to check in each day at 5PM BST. India-based Netflix fans can also tune in from 9:30PM IST. However, Australian viewers will have to stay up late (or get up very early) if they wish to catch the event live, with Netflix Geeked Week 2022 not starting until 2AM AEST on Tuesday, June 7.
How to watch Netflix Geeked Week 2022
Netflix subscribers – or those who are simply interested in seeing what's on offer – can tune into Netflix's YouTube (opens in new tab) or Twitch (opens in new tab) channels to livestream the event in real time. Just make sure that you check into each platform's live video feed at the times listed in the section above (based on your world region), otherwise you may be too early or too late to watch along as announcements are made, trailers debuted, and interviews conducted.
Those of you who watch each day's events on Twitch will also be able to co-stream, so diehard Netflix fans and Geeked Week aficionados can get in on the action.
If you're unable to watch Netflix Geeked Week 2022, you can stay up to date on the latest news to break on Netflix's various social media channels. Be sure to follow their Twitter (opens in new tab), Facebook (opens in new tab), and TikTok (opens in new tab) pages to get the scoop on what's revealed as and when it happens. Netflix's in-house fan website Tudum (opens in new tab) will also provide more details on what's shown off.
Netflix Geeked Week 2022: full schedule
Netflix Geeked Week 2022 will see more than 60 projects – consisting of movies, TV shows, and video games – shown off to the public. With so many productions set to feature, it'll come as no surprise to learn that Netflix has divided its packed schedule up, with each day of Geeked Week dedicated to a specific brand of entertainment, genre, or solo TV series.
So what can fans actually expect? Netflix has confirmed that exclusive teaser and trailer premieres, behind-the-scenes action, table reads, cast interviews, and other sneek peeks will form a large part of what's on show. Expect a few other surprises to be unveiled during the five-day event, too.
Below, we'll reveal what each day will focus on, as well as break down the projects you can expect to see from Monday right through to Friday.
Monday, June 6 – TV series
- 1899
- Alice in Borderland
- All of Us are Dead
- Fate: The Winx Saga
- First Kill
- Locke and Key
- Manifest
- The Midnight Club
- One Piece
- Resident Evil
- The Sandman
- School Tales: The Series
- Shadow and Bone season 2
- Sweet Tooth season 2
- The Umbrella Academy season 3
- Vikings: Valhalla season 2
- Warrior Nun
Tuesday, June 7 – Movies
- Blasted
- Day Shift
- The Gray Man
- Interceptor
- Killer Book Club
- The School for Good and Evil
- The Sea Beast
- Spiderhead
- Troll
- Wendell & Wild
Wednesday, June 8 – Animation
- Arcane season 2
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
- The Dragon Prince
- Exception
- Farzar
- Inside Job
- Love, Death & Robots
- Moonrise
Thursday, June 9 – Stranger Things Day
- The Hellfire Club: A Stranger Things Dungeons and Dragons adventure
- Stranger Things season 4 volume 1 unlocked: official aftershow
Friday, June 10 – Games
- The Cuphead Show!
- DOTA: Dragon's Blood
- Netflix Games, including La Casa de Papel, Lucky Luna, and Poinpy
- Sonic Prime
- Tekken: Bloodline
For more Netflix-based content, check out the best documentaries on the streaming giant, why experts think Netflix can hold off competition from Disney Plus until 2026, and what films are leaving the service in the coming weeks. | https://www.techradar.com/sg/news/netflix-geeked-week-2022-start-date-how-to-watch-schedule-and-more | 2022-05-29T13:52:24Z | https://www.techradar.com/sg/news/netflix-geeked-week-2022-start-date-how-to-watch-schedule-and-more | false | 6 |
I've made nearly $13,000 in 3 months from posting on Pinterest. Here's how to make money from the new Creator fund.
The blogger Jennifer Leach posted to her Pinterest business account to draw traffic to her site.
She discovered the Pinterest Creator Hub and the "Earn" program, where popular users can get paid.
Leach, who has earned $12,700 since February through the rewards program, shares her content tips.
I discovered Pinterest in 2012 and enjoyed the platform for recipes, DIY ideas, and fashion inspiration. Since then, I've used Pinterest consistently as a part of my business strategy.
I'm self-employed, running my business and blog, Millennial Nextdoor. My work involves posting to social media regularly for myself and clients, contributing to my blogs, and freelance writing.
Using Pinterest for promoting content is part of my day-to-day work, and I have grown my account from zero to 15,300 followers in two years.
I post content on Pinterest about remote work opportunities, side hustles, money, finance, and lifestyle.
After using Pinterest to gain traffic and grow my audience over the past two years, I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the Creator Hub.
I stumbled upon the Hub on my profile, and nearly three months later that move has made me close to $13,000.
I discovered the Pinterest Creator Hub by accident
The Pinterest Creator Hub button is on any Pinterest business account's profile eligible to be in the Pinterest Creator Rewards program. I first noticed it in February.
To access the Pinterest Creator Rewards, you have to be over 18 and living in the US.
You also have to have at least 250 followers, 150 saves on content published in the past month, made three idea pins in the previous month, and use the Pinterest app.
When I clicked into the Creator Hub, there were five sections filled with tools to help make and track content: Inspiration, Creation, Engagement, Analytics, and Earn.
The Earn tab immediately caught my eye. It takes you to Creator Rewards, where you can make money creating Pinterest pins.
What is the Pinterest Creator Rewards program?
Creator Rewards is Pinterest's program for rewarding creators publishing popular content on Pinterest. Every month, new campaigns are published, allowing creators to monetize their Pinterest pins.
The campaigns are tied to goals. If you meet a campaign goal, you make money.
Each campaign goal is different. Some are tied to engagement, like the number of saves or comments, while others encourage consistent activity, like pinning once a week. If you think you've met a goal, you can submit the relevant posts in the "Earn" tab of the creator Hub under that campaign.
When the monthly campaign ends, Pinterest will review the goals you've submitted, and for the approved goals you get paid via direct deposit the following month.
How much does Pinterest Creator Rewards pay?
I started using the Pinterest Creator Rewards program in February 2022 and earned $900 that month. I then made $5,900 in each of the next two months.
I can claim rewards for simple things like $250 every time a pin gets 100 saves, or they can be multiple elements bundled together.
In April, I was rewarded $600 for posting three idea pins that showed my creative process regardless of how they performed. Idea pins are a series of video pins collated and are new to Pinterest.
I filmed food content for this $600 campaign goal, creating DIY coffee drinks in my kitchen. The videos took about five to 10 minutes each to make.
I've hit my "content creation" goal posting at least one idea pin a week. In April, I was rewarded $1,300 for that campaign.
How to schedule your Pinterest pins to maximize rewards
I now post my Pinterest pins directly in line with the monthly campaign goals, whereas before I would post to draw traffic to whatever was on my site.
I will usually pin one or two pins from other Pinterest users for every idea pin I create. It can be tempting to pin only your content, but it can look spammy if you don't include pins from other Pinterest creators in your idea pins.
That behavior can get your Pinterest account suspended, which I've seen happen to other creators.
I set some guidelines to maximize rewards: Pin to at least one campaign goal daily, pin other Pinterest users' pins daily, and for goals that require engagement — like a minimum of 50 saves — wait to see how a pin performs before using it toward a campaign.
When I started monetizing my Pinterest account, my activity did change a little. I still pin the same number of times each day but spend more time doing so.
Idea pins are all video content, which takes longer to create than photos. I also spend time reviewing which campaign goals have been approved.
On average, I spend 20 minutes a day on Pinterest.
My advice for creating successful content on Pinterest
I'm constantly trying out their new features like idea pins to get the most traction out of the platform.
I keep my eyes on my analytics to see what content is performing the best so I can create more of those pins for my audience.
My best advice is to be consistent, create and publish your Pinterest pins and others' pins three to five times a day, and take advantage of the features and tools offered, like Pinterest trends and idea pins.
Read the original article on Business Insider | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ive-made-nearly-13-000-121324777.html | 2022-05-29T13:53:21Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ive-made-nearly-13-000-121324777.html | false | 2 |
Texas School Shooting: Selena Gomez & More Celebrities React
Paying his respects.
Matthew McConaughey traveled to his grieving hometown of Uvalde, Texas following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary school earlier this week that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
During his visit on May 27, the Dallas Buyer’s Club star appeared with Rep. Tony Gonzales as he met with families and those affected by the tragedy, including parents who lost their kids during the shooting and staff in the city’s school district.
“Thank you Matthew for helping to heal our community,” the republican congressman wrote on Twitter. “Your visit brought so many smiling faces to Uvalde. See you soon my friend.”
McConaughey, 52, was born in the Texas town, roughly 83 miles west of San Antonio. His mother worked as a teacher at a school a mile away from the horrific scene where Salvador Ramos, 18 allegedly opened fire and killed nearly two dozen people on May 24 before he was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent.
The Oscar-winning actor—who shares three children with wife Camila Alves—was among one of the first high-profile celebrities to address the tragedy in a plea to control the epidemic of school shootings.
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“As you all are aware there was another mass shooting today, this time in my hometown of Uvalde, Texas,” the actor wrote on social media on May 24. “Once again we have tragically proven that we are failing to be responsible for the rights our freedoms grant us,”
He continued, “As Americans, | https://www.clichemag.com/celebrity-news/matthew-mcconaughey-returns-to-hometown-of-uvalde-texas-after-school-shootingcmpidrss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstoriesutm_sourceeonlineutm_mediumrssfeedsutm_campaignrss_topstories/ | 2022-05-29T13:56:41Z | https://www.clichemag.com/celebrity-news/matthew-mcconaughey-returns-to-hometown-of-uvalde-texas-after-school-shootingcmpidrss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstoriesutm_sourceeonlineutm_mediumrssfeedsutm_campaignrss_topstories/ | false | 1 |
SNL Exits: David Spade Explains Why It's Wild People Like Pete Davidson Make It 8 Or More Years
By Adreon Patterson published
The SNL alum questioned why cast members are staying longer.
Saturday Night Live’s recent season finale saw Pete Davidson leave the show alongside other cast members like Kate McKinnon. These departures came after months of speculation, which especially swirled around Davidson. What's still interesting, however, is the lengthy stints the stars had on the show. SNL tenures were arguably shorter back in the day, just ask series alum David Spade. Following the most recent exits, Spade explained why it’s wild that people like Davidson stay for eight or more years.
During SNL’s 1990s rebirth, the Just Shoot Me actor, along with Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Chris Rock, and other players didn't stay at 30 Rockefeller Plaza too long. David Spade stayed with the sketch series for six years before his film and TV career took off. That was the usual trajectory for most Saturday Night Live alums. But in recent times, viewers have seen cast members stay much longer. When speaking to TMZ, Spade admitted that he wouldn't have been able to stick around too long:
He’s correct to a certain extent. Watching any SNL sketch is like seeing a theatrical performance in real-time. There are so many moving parts, from cast members pitching and writing their own material to them later having to nail their lines without breaking character. And then, of course, all of this is done before a live studio audience, which can be daunting on its own. So yeah, there's a lot that comes with the gig.
Aside from the work itself, many also tend to leave due to offers brought upon by one's rising star status. In the '90s and 2000s, cast members would head to the sitcom realm (like David Spade) and many would also start venturing into film. The same thing happens even now, as we've seen of late. And with this increase in opportunities, one is forced to make a decision: either stay put on the NBC sketch series or venture into the next phase of one's career.
But SNL’s culture has shifted, as more cast members are indeed staying longer. The show’s longest-running cast member, Kenan Thompson, has even reached a major milestone with his historic tenure. And even he, like Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson, has had other career obligations throughout the past several years.
It's clear that the series has become more flexible when it comes to letting its stars branch out, which could be one reason why so many decide to stay on so long now. Still, it's inevitable that stars will leave, which can be bittersweet. But thankfully, many past alumni like Maya Rudolph return (and end up stealing the show).
Regardless of how long stars like David Spade or Pete Davidson stay though, you needn't worry, because SNL will always have a stream of steady stream of performers walking through its doors. And I'm curious to see who comes in this coming season to succeed the actors who've just departed.
While you wait for Saturday Night Live to return, check out CinemaBlend's 2022 TV schedule for info on what's coming your way this year.
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Four-time British Rally champion Cork’s Keith Cronin and his Killarney co-driver Mikie Galvin steered their VW Polo GTi to a fine victory in the Beatson’s Jim Clark Rally, round two of the British Rally Championship that was based in Duns in the Scottish Borders.
Prior to the event Cronin made the switch from Hankook to Pirelli tyres and on Friday night’s opener he led pre-event BRC leaders Welsh ace Osian Pryce and his Killarney co-driver, Noel O’Sullivan, also in a VW Polo GTi R5, by 7.6 seconds. On the repeat of the stage, albeit in darkness, Cronin was a staggering 22.8 seconds faster than his first run.
Drama unfolded when Pryce completed the stage with a puncture and dropped down the order only to be disqualified by the stewards prior to the start of Saturday’s final leg.
Apparently, he had breached one of the event’s regulations (in relation to the local council’s sensitivity to road damage) by not stopping to change the punctured wheel. Cronin began the leg with a 40.6 second advantage over Welsh driver James Williams (Hyundai i20 R5), who along with Cronin and two others, all beat the bogey time on S.S. 3.
Even by the fourth stage where he was quickest Cronin was already managing his pace and seemingly didn’t have to take any risks. Ruari Bell (Skoda Fabia R5) was best through S.S 5 as Cronin still led Williams by 40.6 seconds. The second run over Westruther was cancelled due to local difficulties.
Five drivers beat the bogey on S.S. 7 - including Cronin, who went on to record his first BRC win since he clinched his fourth title on the 2017 Manx International Rally. Williams was 36.2 seconds behind in second followed by Gary Pearson (Ford Fiesta Rally2) and Meirion Evans (VW Polo GTi R5).
Afterwards, Cronin said, “It feels great, it’s so nice to get a BRC win again. We started well here it was all about managing the lead. You start hearing noises and listen out for punctures, but it all came good.”
Meanwhile, Irish crews dominated the Junior BRC category with Donegal’s Eamonn Kelly (Ford Fiesta Rally4) and his Monaghan co-driver Conor Mohan taking the category win - some 30 seconds ahead of Down duo Kyle White/Sean Topping (Peugeot 208 Rally4), Antrim’s Johnnie Mulholland (Ford Fiesta Rally4) and his Cork co-driver Eoin Treacy completed the top three.
2. J. Williams/D. Roberts (Hyundai I20 R5) +36.2s; 3. G. Pearson/D. Furniss (Ford Fiesta Rally2)+58.3s; 4. M. Evans/J. Jackson (VW Polo GTi R5)+1m. 10.6s; 5. E. Payne/P. Walsh (Ford Fiesta Rally2)+1m. 13.4s; 6. Ruari Bell/Max Freeman (Skoda Fabia R5)+2m. 28.3s; 7. J. Pritchard/P. Clarke (VW Polo GTI R5)+3m. 05.9s; 8. A. Carmichael/ (Hyundai i20 R5)+3m. 31.7s;
2. J. Williams/D. Roberts 33pts; 3. O. Pryce/ 25pts; 4. E. Payne/T. Woodburn 22pts; 5. G. Pearson/D. Furniss 20pts; | https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-40883750.html | 2022-05-29T14:08:48Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-40883750.html | false | 1 |
HOOVER, Ala. (AP)Sophomore Timmy Manning and freshman Fisher Jameson combined to throw a six-hitter, Jud Fabian gave No. 7 seed Florida the lead for good with a second-inning home run and the Gators advanced to the championship game of the SEC Tournament with a 9-0 romp over No. 2 seed Texas A&M on Saturday.
Florida (39-21) will play the winner of Saturday night’s semifinal nightcap between top-seeded Tennessee and 12th-seeded Kentucky in Sunday’s title game.
Manning (1-0) went the first five innings, allowing five hits and a walk while striking out six to earn his first decision of the season. James yielded just one hit over the final four innings, striking out four for his first save.
The Gators scored at least one run in every inning but the first and eighth.
BT Riopelle had three of Florida’s nine hits in the game, driving in a run and scoring twice. Lead-off batter Wyatt Langford had a double and a two-run single. Catcher Mac Guscette had a two-run single that made it 4-0 in the fourth.
Prager (1-3) took the loss for the Aggies (37-18). He allowed four runs – three earned – on three hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings.
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From Tyler Altmeyer
PORT ROYAL, Penn. (May 28, 2022) — For the second time in as many tries, and for the third time in his career, the “Concrete Kid” Anthony Macri is a Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1 main event winner at Port Royal Speedway in Port Royal, Pennsylvania, continuing his winning ways with a Bob Weikert Memorial opening night triumph worth $10,000.
Macri, now a three-time Series winner in 2022 with his first occurring at Bloomsburg Fair Raceway on April 21, was forced to do things the hard way on Saturday night at the “Speed Palace,” outdueling National Sprint Car Hall of Famer, Lance Dewease, in a four-lap slugfest, utilizing a turn four slider to take command officially on lap 29 of 30. Not wanting to surrender, Dewease pulled even with Macri down the backstretch on the final circuit, but Macri’s momentum through turns three and four propelled the Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, native to the point with a final margin of victory equaling 0.289 seconds.
Gettysburg’s Danny Dietrich led the first 24 circuits before giving up the top spot to Dewease. The pair battled side-by-side through turn four, but contact with the outside retaining wall by Dietrich allowed Dewease to ultimately slip by.
“That was a blast,” Anthony Macri said, driver of the J&S Classics/C&D Rigging/Valley Supply/No. 39M sprint car. “I knew Lance was probably way too tight to run the top like I was. I knew that was where I was going to make my momentum. At that point, I knew I just had to keep the tires underneath me and force myself to think how Lance would think. He’s a smart race car driver, and he was probably trying to mess my air up. I just tried to zig when he zagged and do what I could to get by him.
“Hats off to this entire team,” Macri concluded. “Everyone works so hard and I’m proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish. Hopefully we can come back here tomorrow and do it again.”
Danny Dietrich held on to finish third to open Weikert Memorial weekend, followed by Brent Marks and Justin Peck.
The Bob Weikert Memorial, honoring legendary car owner and National Sprint Car Hall of Famer, Bob Weikert, will continue at the “Speed Palace” Sunday, May 29, with the $29,000-to-win finale.
Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1
Bob Weikert Memorial – Opening Night
Port Royal Speedway
Port Royal, Pennsylvania
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Dixie Vodka Qualifying
1. 69K-Lance Dewease, 16.156[10]
2. 13-Justin Peck, 16.346[1]
3. 5C-Dylan Cisney, 16.391[7]
4. 70-Sammy Swindell, 16.462[2]
5. 1-Logan Wagner, 16.513[26]
6. 39M-Anthony Macri, 16.526[31]
7. 7-Scott Bogucki, 16.531[3]
8. 67-Justin Whittall, 16.543[8]
9. 29-Danny Dietrich, 16.574[28]
10. 19M-Brent Marks, 16.610[17]
11. 11T-TJ Stutts, 16.634[5]
12. 21-Brian Brown, 16.651[21]
13. 17B-Bill Balog, 16.651[27]
14. 18-Giovanni Scelzi, 16.713[39]
15. 10-Zeb Wise, 16.738[19]
16. 19MM-Landon Myers, 16.762[13]
17. 6-Ryan Smith, 16.769[18]
18. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr, 16.832[32]
19. 17-Steve Buckwalter, 16.847[15]
20. 98-Tyler Bear, 16.858[4]
21. 55W-Mike Wagner, 16.879[24]
22. 20-Ryan Taylor, 16.885[6]
23. 26-Cory Eliason, 16.901[33]
24. 11-Parker Price Miller, 16.904[14]
25. 7BC-Tyler Courtney, 16.940[38]
26. 19-Chris Windom, 16.977[23]
27. 5W-Lucas Wolfe, 16.980[20]
28. 47K-Kody Lehman, 17.065[9]
29. 77-Zach Newlin, 17.069[12]
30. 45-Jeff Halligan, 17.073[22]
31. 91-Kyle Reinhardt, 17.085[35]
32. 28-Brandon Spithaler, 17.144[25]
33. 24-Rico Abreu, 17.189[30]
34. 4-Cap Henry, 17.237[34]
35. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg, 17.260[37]
36. 19S-Curt Stroup, 17.261[40]
37. 14T-Tyler Walton, 17.329[16]
38. 8-Nick Sweigart, 17.366[11]
39. 9K-Kevin Thomas Jr, 17.402[29]
40. 35-Tyler Reeser, 17.775[41]
41. 12W-Troy Fraker, 18.625[36]
Hunt Brothers Pizza Heat Race #1 (10 Laps)
1. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[2]
2. 29-Danny Dietrich[6]
3. 55W-Mike Wagner[3]
4. 69K-Lance Dewease[8]
5. 17B-Bill Balog[5]
6. 6-Ryan Smith[4]
7. 1-Logan Wagner[7]
8. 24-Rico Abreu[9]
9. 14T-Tyler Walton[10]
10. 12W-Troy Fraker[11]
11. 77-Zach Newlin[1]
CSI Shocks Heat Race #2 (10 Laps)
1. 45-Jeff Halligan[1]
2. 19-Chris Windom[2]
3. 20-Ryan Taylor[3]
4. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[5]
5. 19M-Brent Marks[6]
6. 39M-Anthony Macri[7]
7. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[4]
8. 13-Justin Peck[8]
9. 4-Cap Henry[9]
10. 8-Nick Sweigart[10]
All Pro Aluminum Cylinder Heads Heat Race #3 (10 Laps)
1. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[2]
2. 17-Steve Buckwalter[4]
3. 26-Cory Eliason[3]
4. 10-Zeb Wise[5]
5. 91-Kyle Reinhardt[1]
6. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[9]
7. 5C-Dylan Cisney[8]
8. 11T-TJ Stutts[6]
9. 9K-Kevin Thomas Jr[10]
10. 7-Scott Bogucki[7]
Mobil 1 Heat Race #4 (10 Laps)
1. 98-Tyler Bear[4]
2. 11-Parker Price Miller[3]
3. 21-Brian Brown[6]
4. 35-Tyler Reeser[10]
5. 28-Brandon Spithaler[1]
6. 67-Justin Whittall[7]
7. 47K-Kody Lehman[2]
8. 70-Sammy Swindell[8]
9. 19MM-Landon Myers[5]
10. 19S-Curt Stroup[9]
Classic Ink USA B-Main (12 Laps)
1. 26-Cory Eliason[1]
2. 6-Ryan Smith[5]
3. 45-Jeff Halligan[6]
4. 7-Scott Bogucki[4]
5. 35-Tyler Reeser[9]
6. 19MM-Landon Myers[8]
7. 11T-TJ Stutts[2]
8. 24-Rico Abreu[14]
9. 19-Chris Windom[3]
10. 4-Cap Henry[15]
11. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[7]
12. 9K-Kevin Thomas Jr[17]
13. 47K-Kody Lehman[13]
14. 19S-Curt Stroup[19]
15. 91-Kyle Reinhardt[11]
16. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[10]
17. 77-Zach Newlin[18]
18. 28-Brandon Spithaler[12]
19. 8-Nick Sweigart[20]
20. 14T-Tyler Walton[16]
21. 12W-Troy Fraker[21]
Tezos A-Main (30 Laps)
1. 39M-Anthony Macri[3]
2. 69K-Lance Dewease[7]
3. 29-Danny Dietrich[2]
4. 19M-Brent Marks[10]
5. 13-Justin Peck[8]
6. 5W-Lucas Wolfe[18]
7. 5C-Dylan Cisney[5]
8. 1-Logan Wagner[11]
9. 67-Justin Whittall[1]
10. 10-Zeb Wise[14]
11. 21-Brian Brown[9]
12. 55W-Mike Wagner[19]
13. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[17]
14. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[12]
15. 11-Parker Price Miller[16]
16. 17B-Bill Balog[15]
17. 45-Jeff Halligan[23]
18. 26-Cory Eliason[21]
19. 6-Ryan Smith[22]
20. 98-Tyler Bear[6]
21. 7-Scott Bogucki[24]
22. 70-Sammy Swindell[13]
23. 17-Steve Buckwalter[4]
24. 20-Ryan Taylor[20]
25. 11T-TJ Stutts[26]
26. 33-Gerard McIntyre Jr[25] | https://tjslideways.com/2022/05/28/macri-wins-thriller-to-open-weikert-weekend-at-port-royal/ | 2022-05-29T14:10:14Z | https://tjslideways.com/2022/05/28/macri-wins-thriller-to-open-weikert-weekend-at-port-royal/ | true | 1 |
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Kanu’s family warns Simon Ekpa to stop from using IPOB leader’s name for material gains
The face off between the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and his self-styled disciple, Simon Ekpa, has taken a new dimension after the Kanu family issued a 14-day ultimatum to Finland-based Biafran agitator to stop using the name and image of Kanu in his broadcasts or fundraisers.
In a letter by the attorney to Kanu’s family, Magnus Jonsson, and dated May 17, 2022, the family threatened to commence legal action against Ekpa if he failed to comply with the demands of the letter.
The letter also instructed Ekpa to desist from making defamatory comments against members of the family.
The letter entitled “A demand to cease and desist from using the name of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu for material gain”, reads:
“Dear Mr Ekpa,
The Kanu family, both in Nigeria and in the diaspora, has retained undersigned to formally demand from you as follows:
“That you should forthwith cease and desist from using the name and image of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, either in your broadcasts or otherwise, for any material gain whatsoever including any fundraising.
“That you should forthwith cease and desist from addressing yourself as a Disciple of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, either in the guise of you being a member of IPOB (which we are informed you are not) or in any other manner relating to Biafra agitation.
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”That you should forthwith cease and desist from any further defamatory publications against any member of the Kanu family, whether such publications are personally uttered by you or by others that you invite to your social media networks.
”That you are hereby given Fourteen (14) days from the confirmed receipt of this Legal Mail within which to comply with the demands in this letter.
“That your failure or refusal to comply with the demands herein will result in costly legal actions against you, including but not limited to the following:
“(a) Direct criminal complaint against you to Finnish authorities and/or to any European country in which you are encountered.
“(b) Tortious and injunctive claims against you for the civil injuries enumerated above.
“(c) Petitions against you to the Finnish authorities that regulate legal practice such as you are currently applying in Finland.
“Finally, you are hereby warned that this Legal Mail constitutes a pre-action Notice that no further formal warnings will be forthcoming to you before our commencement of the forgoing legal actions against you.
“Thank you for your anticipated cooperation in the regards of the contents of this Legal Mail.”
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As PWMania.com previously reported, MJF was booked on a cross-country trip leaving Las Vegas on Saturday night.
In an update with MJF and his scheduled flight out of Las Vegas, the plane took off, but he’s still in Las Vegas, so while it’s not certain that he’ll be at AEW Double Or Nothing, things appear to be leaning that way.
MJF is still in Las Vegas, according to PWInsider, and has not returned to the East Coast. He did have a ticket to Newark, and he was scheduled to arrive after 6:30 a.m.
It’s unclear whether MJF and Tony Khan have reached an agreement, but at this moment, it appears that MJF vs. Wardlow will take place tonight.
The 2022 AEW Double Or Nothing pay-per-view will air this tonight from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can order the PPV via FITE.tv by clicking here.
Stay tuned to PWMania.com for more. | https://www.pwmania.com/latest-update-on-mjfs-status-for-aew-double-or-nothing | 2022-05-29T14:16:36Z | https://www.pwmania.com/latest-update-on-mjfs-status-for-aew-double-or-nothing | true | 1 |
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Lambertville graduate earns honors at St. Ursula Academy
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TOLEDO -- Ainsley Nungester of Lambertville earned summa cum laude honors from St. Ursula Academy.
Ainsley, the daughter of Nicole and Paul Nungester, will attend University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the fall and will major in biology on a pre-veterinary medicine track.
Ainsley previously attended West Side Montessori School in Toledo. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/05/29/lambertville-graduate-earns-honors-st-ursula-academy/9939823002/ | 2022-05-29T14:26:06Z | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/05/29/lambertville-graduate-earns-honors-st-ursula-academy/9939823002/ | false | null |
NOPD: Wagon used to carry items stolen from shed
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans Police Department is trying to identify and locate a man who is suspected of stealing tools from someone’s storage shed. Video indicates that the man used a wagon to transport the stolen...
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Ralf Rangnick has two-year consultancy role with Man Utd SCRAPPED after shocking interim spell as manager
RALF RANGNICK has had his consultancy role at Manchester United SCRAPPED after a dismal season at Old Trafford.
The German had been scheduled to transition into an advisory role for the next two years.
Now though that is no longer the case after the two parties mutually agreed to part ways.
SunSport exclusively revealed last month that Rangnick's position at the club was in doubt.
The 63-year-old confirmed the news in a press conference with the Austrian national team.
The "demands of his new role" as boss of Austria are the reason for his exit.
In a statement United thanked Rangnick for his efforts, which included a lowest Premier League points tally in Red Devils' history.
It said: “We would like to thank Ralf Rangnick for his efforts as interim manager over the past six months.
“By mutual agreement, Ralf will now focus solely on his new role as manager of the Austria national team and will not therefore be taking up a consultancy role at Old Trafford.
“We would like to wish Ralf the best of luck in this next chapter of his career.”
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Rangnick had been scheduled to work just six days a month in his consultancy position, juggling the role with being head coach of Austria.
Reports earlier this month claimed Rangnick was determined to juggle the consultancy position with the Austria job.
Rangnick's poor time at United is underlined by his points-per-game value of 1.5 and win rate of just 42 per cent, the lowest of any United manager in the Premier League era.
More to follow... | https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/18721144/ralph-rangnick-consultancy-role-man-utd-scrapped/ | 2022-05-29T14:29:00Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/18721144/ralph-rangnick-consultancy-role-man-utd-scrapped/ | true | 2 |
MEDIA ADVISORY: Press conference on the case of suspected Guatemalan war criminal Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes
OTTAWA, ON, May 29, 2022 /CNW Telbec/ - Guatemalan survivor Ramiro Osorio Cristales, accompanied by Lawyers Without Borders Canada (LWBC), in collaboration with the Canadian Partnership for International Justice (CPIJ), will be in Ottawa to present a statement to the office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Mr. David Lametti, calling for the prosecution of suspected war criminal Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes. Mr. Sosa Orantes is allegedly involved in the massacre of the family and village of Mr. Osorio Cristales. The statement is supported by 20 human rights organisations.
LWBC Executive director, Pascal Paradis and Mr. Osorio Cristales will make some brief comments as they leave the Department of Justice of Canada.
They will be available to answer questions from the media.
When: May 30 2022, 13h00, at the exit of the Department of Justice at 275 Sparks Street
SOURCE Lawyers Without Borders Canada
View original content: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2022/29/c0486.html | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/media-advisory-press-conference-case-130000285.html | 2022-05-29T14:30:22Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/media-advisory-press-conference-case-130000285.html | true | 2 |
SPEAKER: Hi. Welcome back to finance for non finance professionals. I'd like to talk right now about an overview of what we call the capital budgeting process, which is how firms spend money. Now when we think about firms, where do they get their money? They get their money from the fact that firms have a set of assets, and they use those assets to try to generate profits. What happens with those profits that the firm brings in? They take that cash flow, or the profits that they make, and the financial manager, or the CFO, or the treasurer, the comptroller, someone in doing the finances of the business, thinks about what to do with the cash flow that's being generated by use of the firm's assets. Well, one thing we could do is just pilot it right back through to the people that own the firm. The capital markets. The bondholders, the debt holders, the equity holders. That cash flow generated by the firm could be paid directly out through dividends or repurchases, to the financial markets, the investors in the company. The other thing the financial manager could do with that cash flow is, rather than give it back to shareholders or bondholders, reinvest it. Buy more stuff. Increase the firm's assets in order to increase future profitability. The other thing the financial manager could try to do is, maybe the assets aren't generating enough cash flow, and so the financial manager decides to pull in extra cash from the financial markets. Issuing bonds, getting another bank note, issuing additional equity. Pulling cash from the capital markets into the firm. You could use that to buy more assets. This sort of diagram that links all these things together, is what we call the capital budgeting process. If we use other people's money, either through debt or through equity, have to pay them for it. As we spend the firm's money, what is it that we pay the investors, who we're asking to be patient? If you think back to our lecture one, when we were talking about compounding and interest rates, we were thinking that people didn't want to be patient, naturally. And so if we were asking people to be patient, we had to pay them something. We had to pay them that return or that interest rate. And that's exactly what we're going to do when we're using the firm's assets to generate money, because all of the bondholders, and stockholders, and banks that are sort of letting the firm borrow money to do its business, have to get paid. So what should we pay them? Implicitly we're going to pay them that r. That discount rate, that compound rate, that interest rate that we talked about all through week one. And so capital budgeting is really the science or the decision making that goes on behind how, when, and where the firm should spend its money in order to maximize the return that it can give to its investors, its bondholders, and its stockholders. You can think about this very similarly to the fact that if a friend or a family member wants to borrow money from you, what are the sort of things that you would ask them? You would ask them, well, when am I going to get my money back? You would ask them, OK, how much risk is involved in whether or not I'm going to get my money back? And, what would I have done with the money? Oh, gosh, I can't lend you the money right now. I need a new car or I need a new refrigerator. The opportunity cost is simply too high. And those are the-- exactly the kinds of things that the firm is going to think about when deciding whether to invest or give that money back to its investors, the timing, the risk, and the opportunity costs. All of that's going to come down to a trade off between risk and return. And that's exactly what we're going to try to measure through our use of capital budgeting tools. We want to come up with a practice for capital budgeting that sort of incorporates a lot of the best policies and practices that we see in large corporations. The two main things that we're going to look for in any capital budgeting measure are first, that it's an arm's length measure. What that means in sort of accounting terms is that there's no inside dealing. It's not me and my cousin deciding how we're going to split up the assets of the firm, but that there's a sort of separation between everyone acting in their own interests. That the interests of the people that are borrowing the money aren't commingled with the interests of the people that are lending the money, an arm's length transaction. The other is that it's objective. The two of us can sit down, both the borrower and the borrowee, can sit down together and say, yeah, OK, these metrics seem to make sense. We could look at the spreadsheet together and agree. And that also goes into being transparent. We could report it to external investors, or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the accounting standards boards, or any member of the board of directors or investor groups, that want to see our results and look at our metrics and look at our capital budgeting decisions, that they're easy to understand, that they're transparent. So our capital budgeting tool should be arm's length, objective, and transparent. If they meet those three criteria, then it's probably a good tool for deciding how and where to spend money. The kinds of decisions that we're going to make in the capital budgeting process involve whether to accept or reject a project, whether we're going to rank a set of projects, and figure out which one is best, or whether we're going to within a group of projects decide which one, or maybe both, or maybe neither. All of this, what we're going to do is basically comes down to a very basic cost benefit analysis in economics, which sounds obvious, but it's actually kind of tricky to measure once we get into multiple projects and multiple timings of the projects. We're going to need to bring in a little bit more technology in order to figure out what the best practices are. What we're going to do in this week, is review the different tools that we use for capital budgeting. We're going to try to understand the trade offs between using each of those different tools. And we're going to talk about how those metrics are used in perspective of capital markets versus decisions inside the firm. And then we're going to talk about the sensitivity analysis that goes on. If we pull and push on each of these different metrics, to what extent do they give us different answers? And at the end we're going to put all those metrics together and build out some real applications, and some spreadsheet models, and some practical examples of the capital budgeting process. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/finance-for-non-finance/overview-of-the-capital-budgeting-process-ena3e | 2022-05-29T14:34:13Z | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/finance-for-non-finance/overview-of-the-capital-budgeting-process-ena3e | false | 1 |
David Alaba chair celebration: Why Real Madrid star marks victories by waving seat around
Among the wild celebrations by Real Madrid players after their Champions League final victory, David Alaba's was the one that stood out most.
The Austrian defender was seen waving a chair around Stade de France after his team's 1-0 victory against Liverpool to secure the European trophy.
The chair celebration has become a bit of a signature celebration of Alaba's recently, as it was not the first time he waved a seat around in jubilation.
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What is the David Alaba chair celebration?
The celebration is quite simple.
The 29-year-old will grab a chair, hoist it into the air and wave it around in front of the team's supporters.
He did so again after the victory in France when team-mate Eder Militao brought one out for him.
The pair then held it up and waved it around in front of the supporters.
Why does David Alaba celebrate with a chair?
Alaba's chair celebration was initially a spur of the moment one.
It began in the wake of Madrid's comeback victory against Paris Saint-Germain in the 2021-22 Champions League round of 16.
The Spanish giants fought back from a goal down to book their place in the quarter-finals and Alaba grabbed a chair and held it up as his team celebrated their win.
Asked about the celebration, he said: "It’s good to try new celebrations every now and then. And the chair was there at just the right moment. I didn’t think about it, it was just the emotion of it all."
The chair made another appearance after Madrid won La Liga, too.
The Santiago Bernabeu team finished top of the table ahead of Barcelona and yet again Alaba was spotted hoisting a chair into the sky as part of the celebration.
Alaba, who joined the capital club on a free transfer from Bayern Munich last summer, featured in 46 games in all competitions as Madrid finished the 2021-22 season with a double of trophies. | https://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/david-alaba-chair-celebration-why-real-madrid-star-marks/bltf1b7249c090aac02 | 2022-05-29T14:36:49Z | https://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/david-alaba-chair-celebration-why-real-madrid-star-marks/bltf1b7249c090aac02 | false | 10 |
Aave (AAVE) traded up 2.6% against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 10:00 AM Eastern on May 29th. Aave has a market capitalization of $1.33 billion and $127.93 million worth of Aave was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. In the last week, Aave has traded up 2.6% against the dollar. One Aave coin can now be bought for $96.18 or 0.00327568 BTC on major exchanges.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded 1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $29,360.10 or 0.99991864 BTC.
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00003403 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00003409 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded up 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.60 or 0.00002042 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.50 or 0.00001703 BTC.
Aave Coin Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Aave is a decentralized non-custodial money market protocol where users can participate as depositors or borrowers. Depositors provide liquidity to the market to earn a passive income, while borrowers are able to borrow in an overcollateralized (perpetually) or undercollateralized (one-block liquidity) fashion. The goal of Aave as a protocol is to bring decentralized finance to the masses. Aave protocol has been audited and secured. The protocol is completely open source, which allows anyone to interact with Aave user interface client, API or directly with the smart contracts on the Ethereum network.. Feel free to refer to the White Paper for a deeper dive into Aave Protocol mechanisms. Aave (LEND) is migrating to Aave (AAVE), please refer to the following announcement. “
Aave Coin Trading
It is usually not presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Aave directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Aave should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Coinbase, Changelly or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Aave using one of the exchanges listed above.
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Rangnick cancels Man Utd consultancy role to focus fully on Austria job
Ralf Rangnick has confirmed he will not continue in his role as a consultant for Manchester United.
The initial agreement that saw Rangnick take over as interim manager at Old Trafford said that he would help shape the club's strategy in an advisory role.
However, Rangnick has decided not to continue with the Premier League side.
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Rangnick cancelled Man Utd consultancy contract
Rangnick has been appointed Austria coach and his side will take on Croatia, Denmark and France in the Nations League.
In his first press conference as Austria boss, Rangnick confirmed he would not stay on at United.
"We have come to the conclusion that it is better for me and the club to concentrate fully on the Austrian national team," he said.
"I cancelled the consultancy contract."
A statement from United said: "We would like to thank Ralf Rangnick for his efforts as interim manager over the past six months.
"By mutual agreement, Ralf will now focus solely on his new role as manager of the Austria national team and will not therefore be taking up a consultancy role at Old Trafford.
"We would like to wish Ralf the best of luck in this next chapter of his career."
What next for Man Utd ?
Rangnick, who took charge of the Old Trafford team in December, helped United to a sixth place finish in the Premier League.
The Red Devils eventually appointed Erik ten Hag as first team coach and the club's CEO says they are putting a plan in place that will help the club gain long-term success.
Chief executive Richard Arnold said at a fans' forum: "We also feel confidence that change is coming because of the action being taken to drive long-term success.
"The appointment of Erik ten Hag was the most visible example of that action and the most important. Success won't be achieved overnight but we are determined to get there." | https://www.goal.com/en-tza/news/rangnick-confirms-he-will-not-stay-on-at-man-utd-as/blt9595e8f07fdf77b7 | 2022-05-29T14:43:58Z | https://www.goal.com/en-tza/news/rangnick-confirms-he-will-not-stay-on-at-man-utd-as/blt9595e8f07fdf77b7 | true | 10 |
(Originally broadcast Jan. 5, 2004.) His new documentary, The Fog of War has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The film is a profile of the man many considered to be the architect of the Vietnam conflict, Robert McNamara. Morris' other films include The Thin Blue Line, Vernon, Florida, Gates of Heaven, and Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control. He's also done a number of commercials. His clients include Apple, Nike, Miller High Life and PBS.
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KARNS, Tenn. (WATE) — After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic and repair the Karns Lions Club community pool is open.
“It is a very large pool,” Lions Club member Cynthia Bridges said. “One of the things that set it apart is we do have handicapped access. We have ramp access. This is just something we want to provide recreation opportunities for the community.”
Two brothers were happy to be at the pool Saturday.
“Just hanging out with family and being all together,” Jeremy Walker said.
“The weather was pretty nice. The sun came out just for a minute, but I mean the pool was a little colder when I got in,” Mason Walker added.
However, the fun could stop at the pool very soon.
“We’ve had lifeguard issues that which are happening around the country,” Bridges said. “We were not even sure we would be able to open the pool this weekend until yesterday. We need a certain number of lifeguards to even open the pool. With it being large we have to have four on duty and then have to have more than that hired just to cover the rotation of a full weekly schedule.”
“This is kind of my first official job I guess you could say so it teaches you a lot of just good life skills you can have,” lifeguard Noah Watts said. “This is a very team-based job. You have to be aware of what’s going on around.”
According to Bridges, the lifeguard shortage is so dire it’s up in the air if the pool will be open on Memorial Day.
“We do have a few more that are completing training next weekend so hopefully after that, we will be better staffed. We still need to hire a number of additional lifeguards to be able to operate on a full schedule so we may be having to reduce hours this summer. It could mean that some weekdays we have to close. We’re playing it by ear,” she said.
In Tennessee, you must be 15-years-old and complete some training to be a lifeguard.
“There is a written test,” Watts said. “It’s pretty easy once you’ve gone through the course. After that point of the course, it’s more about just common sense which as a lifeguard you kind of need to have that.”
A good chunk of revenue from the pool pays for the operation and taxes on the Lions Clubs’ handicapped accessible park.
“If the pool closes we could potentially put the entire park into jeopardy,” said Bridges.
If you want to become a lifeguard, visit karnslionsclub.com/job-opening. | https://www.wate.com/news/lifeguard-shortage-may-close-karns-community-pool/ | 2022-05-29T14:46:48Z | https://www.wate.com/news/lifeguard-shortage-may-close-karns-community-pool/ | false | 1 |
MOVIE TRAILERS
Trailer for 'Becoming a Queen' Doc About Toronto's Queen of Carnival
by Alex Billington
May 29, 2022
Source: YouTube
"Everybody wants to win." Gravitas Ventures + Callowgrove Ent. have revealed a trailer for a documentary film called Becoming a Queen, made in Canada by filmmaker Chris Strikes. This is opening on VOD in the US coming up in June, after premiering last year at a Canadian film festival. The film is described as an "intimate portrait of one woman’s quest to become Queen of Caribbean Carnival for an unprecedented tenth time in her final competition." Through Joella Crichton's lens we explore expressions of identity, love and family through Caribbean artistry, against a larger society that often lacks understanding of its significance. Becoming a Queen focuses on Joella's attempt to win for her 10th time in a row in the Caribbean Carnival's Queen Competition in Toronto. From design to assemble, this film follows the exhaustive preparations for Joella, her costume designer Kenney Coombs and the tight knit team consisting of her mother, Lou-Ann and older sister, Mischka. This does look like a TV doc, but it seems fascinating following her story nonetheless.
Here's the official trailer (+ poster) fro Chris Strikes' doc Becoming a Queen, direct from YouTube:
Joella aims to win for a historic tenth time in Caribbean Carnival's Queen Competition, in her final year. A tenth win would forever solidify her legacy in the Caribbean-Canadian community. Joella hopes to leverage this legacy to be viewed as an ambassador for Caribbean Carnival, educating youth and the larger society on its significance so that the vibrant event is seen as the fine art that it truly is. Becoming a Queen takes us inside Toronto’s world-famous Carnival, an annual celebration of Caribbean pride and identity in this ultra-multicultural city. Among the biggest events of its kind, Toronto's Carnival draws participants and tourists from across the Caribbean, Europe, and all over North America. This immensely enjoyable and insightful film invites viewers to experience Carnival through the eyes of Joella and her tightknit team. It's the celebration of the year, suffused with meaning and significance. And at its centre is the King & Queen competition that Joella has been preparing for. It's where the real artistry of Carnival is. Becoming a Queen is directed by the Canadian filmmaker Chris Strikes, making his feature directorial debut after a number of shorts & music videos previously. This premiered at the 2021 CaribbeanTales Film Festival last year. Gravitas will debut the doc direct-to-VOD on June 14th, 2022 this summer - out soon.
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If you believe what you see on social media, you may think of multi-thousand-dollar, bright RGB gaming-room setups as the only “real” gaming. Save your money, and use these tips to enjoy gaming for its own sake, without the frill.
1. Don’t Buy Games When They Launch
We’ve discussed why you shouldn’t buy video games at launch before, but it boils down to paying the highest price for the worst version of a game for no good reason other than FOMO. Unless you absolutely must play a game at launch (e.g., because it’s multiplayer), you’re spending more money than you have to on games.
2. Buy Used Physical Games
Physical video game sales still make up a significant chunk of the gaming market and one major advantage they have over digital games is that they can be resold. Plenty of those folks who buy their games full price at launch trade them in a few days or weeks later, which means you can snap up recent titles for big discounts. The older the games are, the cheaper they get, and you can get amazing used physical games for single-digit prices.
3. Wishlist Games for Sales
Digital gaming has given rise to digital sales. Popularized by deep discounts in infamous Steam Sales, it’s not unheard of for games to receive 90% discounts during certain times of the year. The best strategy to get good sale prices is to wishlist all the games you want, and then check your wishlist (and your wishlist only) for discounts when the time comes. This is also a great way to limit impulse buying, where you buy deeply discounted games only to never actually play them because you didn’t actually want them in the first place.
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4. Game on Non-Gaming Devices
You don’t need to buy specialist gaming hardware to enjoy video games. The smartphone or tablet you may already have likely has enough performance to play surprisingly complex games. If you own a higher-end device, you can even play games like GRID Autosport or Civilization VI, and other impressive console ports. The same goes for an Android TV or Apple TV device. Both Android and iOS support wireless game controllers too, so you may already have a pseudo-console hooked up to your TV without knowing it.
The same goes for PC gaming. Any PC can be a gaming PC, as long as you choose games that fit the power you have at hand. Modern mid-range integrated GPUs are more than capable of playing AAA titles from a decade ago and entry-level computers such as the base model M1 MacBook Air pack more punch than a PlayStation 4. Sites like Good Old Games (GoG) give you access to thousands of games that can run on absolutely any modern system, so you’ll never lack anything to play.
5. Play A Few Generations in the Past
There’s a sweet spot in gaming generations where prices for consoles and games are low, before they start going up again as retro collectors start paying attention to them. At the start of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series era, the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 4, are examples of this.
These relatively modern consoles still have plenty of great games on them, and if you look around carefully you could pick up great deals from gamers eager to get into the latest generation of systems. If you pretend it’s still the 2000s, you’re going to have a great time without breaking the bank.
6. Get a Console or PC for (Almost) Free
Sometimes you may see give-away listings on sites like Craigslist or the local paper where people just want to get rid of old gaming gear. The same goes for computer components that aren’t worth selling because they are simply too far past obsolescence.
This is a goldmine for thrifty gaming since you can turn this hardware into a viable retro gaming solution, or trade-up with other people in the gaming community who might see more value in that discarded hardware.
RELATED: Consider a Retro PC Build for a Fun Nostalgic Project
7. Use Subscription Services
Gaming hardware, such as consoles, is often the smallest part of the cost equation. The real expense is in the software that you buy, i.e. games! Using services like Apple Arcade, Game Pass, PlayStation Plus Premium, and the numerous other options that are out there can make gaming super-affordable.
Since these subscriptions represent a fixed cost, they are easy to budget for, and you’re guaranteed to have something to play every month. Of course, the downside is that you don’t get to choose what’s available on the service. However, unless you’re extremely picky, there’s bound to be something you’ll like. Plus, since you’re paying a flat fee, there’s no risk in trying something new.
8. Use Cloud Streaming Services
Games streamed over the cloud remove the cost of gaming hardware from the barrier to entry into the hobby. Not only that, if you combine it with a game subscription service (e.g. Game Pass and xCloud) you boil the cost of gaming down to whatever your monthly subscription fee is.
Of course, you need adequate internet connectivity and a smartphone, smart TV, streaming box, or web browser on a computer to access these services. Since many people already have these for non-gaming purposes, we don’t consider that part of the cost.
9. Get Free Games
Did you know that plenty of digital gaming storefronts simply give away games for free? The Epic Game Store has given away hundreds of games and if you install their client on your computer, you’ll be alerted every time new ones are available to claim.
The same goes for GoG, which has a selection of classic games that are free to anyone who opens an account, and they’ll make certain games free to claim forever over limited periods of time. Just sign up for the email newsletter so you know when it happens.
If you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber, you also get a selection of free games every month through Prime Gaming that are yours to keep forever. You’ll also get a heap of premium content for free-to-play (F2P) games.
10. Play Open Source Games
There are many completely free open-source video games you can download right now and enjoy, without paying a cent for them. Great examples include 0 A.D, Red Eclipse, FreeOrion, and FreeCiv. You can also try modern open-source ports of classic games, though these may not be entirely free.
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America's diners and fast-food restaurants have long penetrated the UK food scene, but one came much sooner than the golden arches of McDonald's or the likes of Burger King and KFC. Little Chef became one of the most popular food chains in the country - and the very first store opened here in Berkshire.
Stopping off at a Little Chef during a long road trip on the way to or from a holiday was one of life's little pleasures. The chain had 439 restaurants across the UK in its heyday, having started off with a tiny restaurant on Oxford Road in Reading.
Inspired by popular diners in America, Little Chef opened its first store in 1958 in Berkshire. The very first branch had room for just 11 seats before the chain expanded over the years.
Most of its subsequent restaurants were found on major A-roads across the UK, as well as at motorway service stations, making it the perfect place to take a break from travelling. The very first branches were prefabricated buildings but from the mid-1960s, the stores began to be built with brick and there would be room in each one for around 40 customers.
Within a decade of the first Little Chef opening, there were 25 restaurants around the country. This jumped to as many as 44 branches by 1970 and then 100 two years later.
The chain was best known for its Olympic Breakfast, a take on the classic full English, as well as Jubilee Pancakes. By 1976 there were 174 outlets across the UK.
By the 1980s, Little Chef's parent company acquired all of its rival Happy Eater restaurants, leading to its peak of 439 restaurants in the late 1990s. But things took a turn in 2005, when its newest owners announced that 130 underperforming restaurants would be closed.
This reduced the number to 234 at the time, as a number of restaurants had already shut down. A year later the chain was taken into administration.
Between then and now, various attempts to revitalise Little Chef took place but with little triumph. Even Heston Blumenthal's intervention in 2009 during a Channel 4 documentary was unsuccessful.
In February 2017, Euro Garages purchased the Little Chef locations from its previous owners, Kout Food Group. As a result, Little Chef branches began to be replaced by the likes of Starbucks and Greggs, and the number of Little Chefs dropped to 66.
By 2018, all of the country's Little Chef restaurants had closed or rebranded. By October of that year, the ones that had yet to be converted were shut down and Little Chef was lost to memory.
The retro feel of Little Chef was a huge part of its charm. But unfortunately, it also led to its downfall as a lack of modernisation saw the chain fall behind its rivals.
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Impax Asset Management Group plc cut its stake in shares of Mettler-Toledo International Inc. (NYSE:MTD – Get Rating) by 6.4% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 126,057 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock after selling 8,655 shares during the period. Impax Asset Management Group plc’s holdings in Mettler-Toledo International were worth $213,945,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the business. Alliancebernstein L.P. increased its position in shares of Mettler-Toledo International by 10.8% during the fourth quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. now owns 209,094 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock valued at $354,876,000 after acquiring an additional 20,328 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp increased its position in shares of Mettler-Toledo International by 2.8% during the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 1,004,301 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock valued at $1,704,510,000 after acquiring an additional 27,181 shares during the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC increased its position in shares of Mettler-Toledo International by 4.3% during the fourth quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 1,135 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock valued at $1,926,000 after acquiring an additional 47 shares during the last quarter. Unigestion Holding SA acquired a new stake in shares of Mettler-Toledo International during the fourth quarter valued at about $1,349,000. Finally, Parallax Volatility Advisers L.P. acquired a new stake in shares of Mettler-Toledo International during the fourth quarter valued at about $6,400,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 93.88% of the company’s stock.
Several research firms have recently commented on MTD. The Goldman Sachs Group lowered shares of Mettler-Toledo International from a “neutral” rating to a “sell” rating and set a $1,240.00 price objective for the company. in a research note on Thursday, March 10th. Wells Fargo & Company raised shares of Mettler-Toledo International from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and lowered their price objective for the company from $1,600.00 to $1,410.00 in a research note on Monday, April 25th. StockNews.com began coverage on shares of Mettler-Toledo International in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “buy” rating for the company. Finally, Robert W. Baird raised their price objective on shares of Mettler-Toledo International from $1,531.00 to $1,595.00 in a research note on Friday, February 11th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has given a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Mettler-Toledo International has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $1,449.25.
Mettler-Toledo International (NYSE:MTD – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 5th. The medical instruments supplier reported $7.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $7.32 by $0.55. Mettler-Toledo International had a net margin of 20.82% and a return on equity of 540.97%. The company had revenue of $897.80 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $868.08 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $6.56 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 11.6% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Mettler-Toledo International Inc. will post 38.35 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
In other news, CFO Shawn Vadala sold 400 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $1,245.00, for a total transaction of $498,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 4,900 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,100,500. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, insider Christian Magloth sold 1,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $1,421.12, for a total transaction of $2,131,680.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 41,748 shares of company stock valued at $54,043,714 in the last quarter. 2.80% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Mettler-Toledo International Company Profile (Get Rating)
Mettler-Toledo International Inc engages in the manufacture and supply of precision instruments and services worldwide. It operates in five segments: U.S. Operations, Swiss Operations, Western European Operations, Chinese Operations, and Other. The company's laboratory instruments include laboratory balances, liquid pipetting solutions, automated laboratory reactors, titrators, pH meters, process analytics sensors and analyzer technologies, physical value analyzers, thermal analysis systems, and other analytical instruments; and LabX, a laboratory software platform to manage and analyze data generated from its instruments.
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Austria Manager Ralf Rangnick No Longer Taking Up New Manchester United Role
Rangnick had been expected to stay at Old Trafford for the next two years in a consultancy post, but last month he was appointed as the new manager of Austria and it appears holding the two jobs at once is no longer a viable option for the 63-year-old.
- Agence France-Presse
- Updated: May 29, 2022 08:06 PM IST
Manchester United announced Sunday that Ralf Rangnick has decided against taking up a consultancy role with the English Premier League giants due to the demands of his new job as Austria manager. The German took charge of United on a caretaker basis for the last six months of the recently concluded 2021/22 season after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was sacked in November and led the club to a sixth-placed finish in England's top-flight. Rangnick had been expected to stay at Old Trafford for the next two years in a consultancy post, but last month he was appointed as the new manager of Austria and it appears holding the two jobs at once is no longer a viable option for the 63-year-old.
"We would like to thank Ralf Rangnick for his efforts as interim manager over the past six months," said a United statement.
"By mutual agreement, Ralf will now focus solely on his new role as manager of the Austria national team and will not therefore be taking up a consultancy role at Old Trafford.
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Journey Strategic Wealth LLC bought a new position in iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (NASDAQ:ESGU – Get Rating) during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund bought 72,915 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $7,868,000. iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF makes up about 0.8% of Journey Strategic Wealth LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 13th biggest position.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Alliancebernstein L.P. bought a new stake in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF in the 4th quarter worth approximately $4,571,000. Credit Suisse AG purchased a new position in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF in the fourth quarter worth approximately $1,207,000. LPL Financial LLC increased its position in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF by 7.7% in the fourth quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 11,107,152 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,198,462,000 after acquiring an additional 798,092 shares in the last quarter. IHT Wealth Management LLC increased its position in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF by 9.2% in the fourth quarter. IHT Wealth Management LLC now owns 5,068 shares of the company’s stock worth $547,000 after acquiring an additional 429 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its position in shares of iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF by 23.2% in the fourth quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 1,952,741 shares of the company’s stock worth $210,699,000 after acquiring an additional 367,614 shares in the last quarter.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF stock opened at $92.57 on Friday. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $95.29 and its 200-day simple moving average is $99.97. iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF has a fifty-two week low of $84.75 and a fifty-two week high of $108.91.
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Video shows scene outside of elementary school shooting in Texas
Kim Hammond describes the chaotic scene outside her home as a large police presence surrounded Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
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JSW Steel plans to invest ₹20,000 crore in capital expenditure this financial year and does not expect the new export duty to either impact its sales and output or bring down capacity utilisation.
The fresh capex includes ₹18,000 crore investment in JSW Steel and ₹2,000 crore in Bhushan Power and Steel. The company will spend ₹18,000 crore to increase production capacity to 36 mt, from 26 mt despite the possible moderation in demand due to hike in interest rate. The 10 mt production capacity will be added by March, 2024 .
Seshagiri Rao, Joint Managing Director, JSW Steel, told BusinessLine the company will not cut down on capex spending despite the possible moderation in demand or fall in prices due to the export levy.
The company had cut its planned capex of ₹18,240 crore to ₹14,198 crore last fiscal due to the second Covid wave , said Rao.
The company has given a guidance to produce 25 million tonnes of steel and sell 24 mt this fiscal. Despite the export duty, Rao expects shipments to be at last year’s level of 4.5 mt. The government had imposed an export duty of 15 per cent on steel products to bring down spiralling domestic prices.
However, in a bid to bring down production cost, the government has also waived off customs duty on the import of some raw materials, including coking coal and ferronickel, used by the steel industry.
Temporary measure
Rao said the export duty, as the company understands, is a temporary measure to cool down inflation.
JSW Steel has developed a long standing relation with customers in the overseas market and it cannot go to them and say that steel will not be sold to them due to the new export duty, he added.
Steel prices have fallen by 10 per cent in last few days tracing the trend in the international market on the back of a dip in raw material prices, he said.
While markets have given too much weightage to the export duty and turned negative on steel sector, it has completely missed out on the fall in raw material prices. The government has also increased the export duty on iron ore from 30 per cent to 50 per cent which will bring down cost substantially, he said.
Steel demand in the March quarter may be down when compared to the same period last year but sequentially it is up 7 per cent indicating that demand is still strong with robust government spending, he said.
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Modi seems invincible in his ninth year as PM
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters are celebrating his ninth year in power, the opposing parties are desperate to grab political space. Will Modi be able to match Jawaharlal Nehru’s third consecutive general election triumph in 2024? Will the Opposition be able to thwart his efforts?
The election campaign is going to pick up towards the end of the year, but the Opposition seems to be in disarray. The Congress, of which people once had high expectations, is fraying at the edges. The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has failed spectacularly in pulling the party together and winning elections for years now. The Grand Old Party is a shadow of its former self today with more and more high-profile desertions. The Congress being in such tatters is the main impediment to Opposition unity.
In the last election, the Congress faced off against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 191 seats. In 2019, it received approximately 119.5 million votes, accounting for around 20% of the total voter turnout. No regional party can match this on its own.
Over the last two years, the Congress has performed poorly in assembly elections held in Bihar, Bengal, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Goa, Manipur, Punjab, and Uttarakhand. It did not win a single assembly seat in Bengal, and it won only two in UP. In Bihar, the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Lalu and Tejashwi Yadav believe that they lost the election only because, driven by an old political friendship, they gave the Congress 70 seats. This is why Tejashwi did not opt for any collaboration with the Congress in the Legislative Council elections.
Some strategists feel that if efforts are focused on relevant issues going forward, Modi’s charisma will begin to fade. Perhaps this is why, on Gandhi Jayanti, Rahul Gandhi will begin his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
To underscore this point, analysts frequently mention the successful agitation carried out by Jayaprakash Narayan in the 1970s and Vishwanath Pratap Singh in the 1980s. What was the environment in the country when Jayaprakash Narayan began his agitation in 1974? We had been independent for 27 years at that time. There were many people around who had fought for or sympathised with the freedom movement. They believed that true freedom had still not been won and were willing to fight for it all over again.
With Independence came an increase in urbanisation and several new issues. A sizable proportion of the youth believed we had been duped. At the time, youth all over the world were agitating for freedoms in one way or the other. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro were considered heroes in India at the time.
You may recall that Naxalism, which evolved from Naxalbari, was rapidly spreading in many states. Mao Zedong was also a hero in the eyes of these youth. Rebellious expressions were visible in literature and cinema; Amitabh Bachchan, the angry young man in films, seemed to speak for millions.
In such a situation, when Jayaprakash Narayan called for a “total revolution,” there was already widespread support for it. But thanks to the political ineptness of the leaders of that time such as Morarji Desai and Charan Singh, these sentiments were dissipated. Indira Gandhi came back to power. However, she was assassinated on October 31, 1984.
Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, riding a wave of sympathy generated by her murder, stormed to power with an unprecedented majority of 414 Members of Parliament. Three years later, he became involved in the Bofors controversy. As a result, Vishwanath Pratap Singh emerged as a hero in 1988 and went on to become PM the following year. People began comparing him to Mahatma Gandhi in terms of integrity, but he couldn’t keep his hodge-podge government running for even two years.
This was a second blow to the dreams of India’s youth.
Those planning to stop Modi in his tracks seem oblivious to the reality that the Opposition no longer has a leader of the stature of Jayaprakash Narayan. Unemployment was a problem back then, and it is still a problem today. Inflation was a problem back then, and it is still so today. But the Opposition does not appear to be in a position to do much about all this because of its shortcomings. In addition, there does not seem to be any taint of corruption on either Modi or his ministers.
Take a look at the state of the governments in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, for example. Regardless of how much the Opposition claims that central agencies are being abused, it is clear that they act only when they have secured incontrovertible evidence.
Due to investigations by central agencies, two Maharashtra ministers have been arrested, and a third is under the scanner. The manner in which raids were carried out in Jharkhand has also sparked controversy. Even anti-BJP leaders are unable to see any reason to be hopeful in the face of such a situation.
This is why, in his ninth year, Narendra Modi is the only PM, after Jawaharlal Nehru, to have had such a smooth ride. This is yet another feather in his cap of enviable achievements.
Shashi Shekhar is editor-in-chief, HindustanThe views expressed are personal
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters are celebrating his ninth year in power, the opposing parties are desperate to grab political space. Will Modi be able to match Jawaharlal Nehru’s third consecutive general election triumph in 2024? Will the Opposition be able to thwart his efforts?
The election campaign is going to pick up towards the end of the year, but the Opposition seems to be in disarray. The Congress, of which people once had high expectations, is fraying at the edges. The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has failed spectacularly in pulling the party together and winning elections for years now. The Grand Old Party is a shadow of its former self today with more and more high-profile desertions. The Congress being in such tatters is the main impediment to Opposition unity.
In the last election, the Congress faced off against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 191 seats. In 2019, it received approximately 119.5 million votes, accounting for around 20% of the total voter turnout. No regional party can match this on its own.
Over the last two years, the Congress has performed poorly in assembly elections held in Bihar, Bengal, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Goa, Manipur, Punjab, and Uttarakhand. It did not win a single assembly seat in Bengal, and it won only two in UP. In Bihar, the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Lalu and Tejashwi Yadav believe that they lost the election only because, driven by an old political friendship, they gave the Congress 70 seats. This is why Tejashwi did not opt for any collaboration with the Congress in the Legislative Council elections.
Some strategists feel that if efforts are focused on relevant issues going forward, Modi’s charisma will begin to fade. Perhaps this is why, on Gandhi Jayanti, Rahul Gandhi will begin his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
To underscore this point, analysts frequently mention the successful agitation carried out by Jayaprakash Narayan in the 1970s and Vishwanath Pratap Singh in the 1980s. What was the environment in the country when Jayaprakash Narayan began his agitation in 1974? We had been independent for 27 years at that time. There were many people around who had fought for or sympathised with the freedom movement. They believed that true freedom had still not been won and were willing to fight for it all over again.
With Independence came an increase in urbanisation and several new issues. A sizable proportion of the youth believed we had been duped. At the time, youth all over the world were agitating for freedoms in one way or the other. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro were considered heroes in India at the time.
You may recall that Naxalism, which evolved from Naxalbari, was rapidly spreading in many states. Mao Zedong was also a hero in the eyes of these youth. Rebellious expressions were visible in literature and cinema; Amitabh Bachchan, the angry young man in films, seemed to speak for millions.
In such a situation, when Jayaprakash Narayan called for a “total revolution,” there was already widespread support for it. But thanks to the political ineptness of the leaders of that time such as Morarji Desai and Charan Singh, these sentiments were dissipated. Indira Gandhi came back to power. However, she was assassinated on October 31, 1984.
Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, riding a wave of sympathy generated by her murder, stormed to power with an unprecedented majority of 414 Members of Parliament. Three years later, he became involved in the Bofors controversy. As a result, Vishwanath Pratap Singh emerged as a hero in 1988 and went on to become PM the following year. People began comparing him to Mahatma Gandhi in terms of integrity, but he couldn’t keep his hodge-podge government running for even two years.
This was a second blow to the dreams of India’s youth.
Those planning to stop Modi in his tracks seem oblivious to the reality that the Opposition no longer has a leader of the stature of Jayaprakash Narayan. Unemployment was a problem back then, and it is still a problem today. Inflation was a problem back then, and it is still so today. But the Opposition does not appear to be in a position to do much about all this because of its shortcomings. In addition, there does not seem to be any taint of corruption on either Modi or his ministers.
Take a look at the state of the governments in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, for example. Regardless of how much the Opposition claims that central agencies are being abused, it is clear that they act only when they have secured incontrovertible evidence.
Due to investigations by central agencies, two Maharashtra ministers have been arrested, and a third is under the scanner. The manner in which raids were carried out in Jharkhand has also sparked controversy. Even anti-BJP leaders are unable to see any reason to be hopeful in the face of such a situation.
This is why, in his ninth year, Narendra Modi is the only PM, after Jawaharlal Nehru, to have had such a smooth ride. This is yet another feather in his cap of enviable achievements.
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Schroder Investment Management Group lessened its holdings in OneMain Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:OMF – Get Rating) by 79.5% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 211,009 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after selling 817,633 shares during the period. Schroder Investment Management Group owned about 0.16% of OneMain worth $10,559,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other large investors have also bought and sold shares of OMF. Janus Henderson Group PLC boosted its position in OneMain by 100.0% during the 3rd quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC now owns 4,330,149 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $239,562,000 after purchasing an additional 2,164,897 shares during the period. Wellington Management Group LLP lifted its stake in shares of OneMain by 17.8% during the third quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 4,097,152 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $226,695,000 after purchasing an additional 619,255 shares in the last quarter. Key Colony Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of OneMain during the fourth quarter worth about $99,805,000. Wedge Capital Management L L P NC lifted its stake in shares of OneMain by 6.2% during the fourth quarter. Wedge Capital Management L L P NC now owns 1,792,723 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $89,708,000 after purchasing an additional 104,319 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of OneMain by 27.2% during the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 1,682,442 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $93,091,000 after purchasing an additional 359,662 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 84.43% of the company’s stock.
A number of brokerages have commented on OMF. Zacks Investment Research cut OneMain from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 13th. Citigroup reduced their price objective on OneMain from $72.00 to $54.00 in a research note on Monday, May 2nd. Wells Fargo & Company reduced their price objective on OneMain from $70.00 to $65.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, April 25th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “buy” rating and set a $75.00 price objective on shares of OneMain in a research note on Friday, April 29th. Finally, StockNews.com assumed coverage on OneMain in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “buy” rating on the stock. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $67.67.
OneMain (NYSE:OMF – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 28th. The financial services provider reported $2.35 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.20 by $0.15. OneMain had a return on equity of 40.03% and a net margin of 25.60%. During the same period last year, the company earned $3.37 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts anticipate that OneMain Holdings, Inc. will post 8.7 EPS for the current year.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, May 13th. Stockholders of record on Monday, May 9th were issued a dividend of $0.95 per share. This represents a $3.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 8.59%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, May 6th. OneMain’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 41.53%.
In related news, CEO Douglas H. Shulman bought 1,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 1st. The stock was bought at an average cost of $48.37 per share, with a total value of $48,370.00. The purchase was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Douglas H. Shulman bought 2,500 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 10th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $40.64 per share, with a total value of $101,600.00. Following the completion of the acquisition, the chief executive officer now directly owns 348,612 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $14,167,591.68. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. Insiders have bought 5,000 shares of company stock valued at $212,525 over the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 0.13% of the company’s stock.
OneMain Company Profile (Get Rating)
OneMain Holdings, Inc, a financial service holding company, engages in the consumer finance and insurance businesses. The company originates, underwrites, and services personal loans secured by automobiles, other titled collateral, or unsecured. The company also offers credit insurance products comprising life, disability, and involuntary unemployment insurance; optional non-credit insurance; guaranteed asset protection coverage as a waiver product or insurance; and membership plans.
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Gotham Asset Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of ICU Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ICUI – Get Rating) by 524.0% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 5,485 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock after acquiring an additional 4,606 shares during the period. Gotham Asset Management LLC’s holdings in ICU Medical were worth $1,302,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other large investors also recently modified their holdings of ICUI. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of ICU Medical by 7.5% in the fourth quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 847 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock valued at $202,000 after purchasing an additional 59 shares in the last quarter. Quantinno Capital Management LP bought a new stake in ICU Medical in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $236,000. Trexquant Investment LP bought a new position in shares of ICU Medical during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $273,000. Equitable Trust Co. raised its holdings in shares of ICU Medical by 3.7% in the fourth quarter. Equitable Trust Co. now owns 1,307 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock valued at $310,000 after purchasing an additional 47 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Hsbc Holdings PLC lifted its position in shares of ICU Medical by 26.9% in the third quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC now owns 1,357 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock worth $318,000 after purchasing an additional 288 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 94.93% of the company’s stock.
In other news, CEO Vivek Jain sold 36,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $240.00, for a total value of $8,640,000.00. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, VP Virginia Ruth Sanzone sold 750 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $173.56, for a total transaction of $130,170.00. Following the sale, the vice president now owns 3,371 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $585,070.76. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 36,967 shares of company stock valued at $8,807,175. Insiders own 7.30% of the company’s stock.
ICU Medical (NASDAQ:ICUI – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Monday, May 9th. The medical instruments supplier reported $1.32 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.53 by ($0.21). The firm had revenue of $543.10 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $557.33 million. ICU Medical had a net margin of 2.68% and a return on equity of 7.89%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 70.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.34 earnings per share. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that ICU Medical, Inc. will post 7.68 EPS for the current fiscal year.
ICUI has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of ICU Medical from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 19th. TheStreet downgraded ICU Medical from a “b-” rating to a “c” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 11th. StockNews.com lowered ICU Medical from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, May 12th. Finally, Raymond James lowered their price target on ICU Medical from $286.00 to $265.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, February 28th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has assigned a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $263.33.
ICU Medical Company Profile (Get Rating)
ICU Medical, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells medical devices used in infusion therapy and critical care applications worldwide. The company's infusion therapy products include needlefree products under the MicroClave, MicroClave Clear, and NanoClave brands; Neutron catheter patency devices; SwabCap and SwabTip disinfecting caps; Tego hemodialysis connectors; ClearGuard HD, an antimicrobial barrier cap for hemodialysis catheters; and ChemoClave and ChemoLock closed system transfer devices, as well as Diana hazardous drug compounding system for the preparation of hazardous drugs.
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How to Watch 2022 Eastern Conference Finals Game 7: Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat Live Online For Free on May 29, 2022: Streaming/TV Channels
On Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 8:30 PM EDT, the Miami Heat face the Boston Celtics. The game is airing exclusively on ESPN, which you can stream with a Live TV Streaming Service.
Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics
- When: Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 8:30 PM EDT
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Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat Game Preview: Game 7: Heat, Celtics set to finally decide East champion
MIAMI (AP) — Erik Spoelstra didn’t even have to finish the sentence. The Miami Heat coach was speaking in the locker room after a season-extending win in Boston, players and staff standing around him in a semicircle.
“There’s no two better words,” Spoelstra said.
“Game 7,” about a half-dozen people responded, in unison.
Game 7, for a berth in the NBA Finals. Either the Heat or the Boston Celtics will become Eastern Conference champions on Sunday night, when they’ll finally finish their series and see which club will face the Golden State Warriors in the title round.
It’ll be the second Game 7 between the teams; the other was in 2012, when the Heat topped the Celtics 101-88 to win that year’s East title.
“Look, we’re here,” Spoelstra said after Miami fended off elimination with a 111-103 win in Boston on Friday night, behind a 47-point, nine-rebound, eight-assist, four-steal effort from Jimmy Butler. “This is the way it should be with these two teams. It should have gone seven games.”
Miami has the home-court advantage for the finale, though home court has meant nothing in this series. The Heat went 2-1 in Boston, the Celtics have gone 2-1 in Miami so far with the two wins coming by a combined 38 points and Boston’s 6-2 road record is the best of any teams in this season’s playoffs.
And that has the Celtics brimming with confidence, even though road teams are 34-110 all-time — a winning percentage of .236 — in Game 7s.
“Scale of 1 to 10? Ten. I mean, it shouldn’t be any less than that, right?” Celtics forward Jayson Tatum said when asked how certain he is that Boston can win the series on Miami’s floor. “You know, it’s the last game. That’s what it’s all about.”
Injuries have been one of the major storylines of the series, and that remains the case Sunday.
Butler has been dealing with knee issues and twisted an ankle late in Game 6 though still came through with arguably the best game of his career. Kyle Lowry and Max Strus — who had big bounce-backs Friday after posting a combined zero points in Game 5 — still have hamstring concerns. For Boston, Marcus Smart’s ankle has been balky, Robert Williams III’s knee is an ongoing question and Jaylen Brown banged a knee on a drive in Game 5 though finished the game with no obvious ill effects.
“This time of year, there’s nobody 100% healthy, both sides,” Miami’s P.J. Tucker said. “I’m sure they got a bunch of guys, too, just trying to figure it out and give what they can. Try to win. That’s it. You can’t get these days back. It’s living in the moment, trying to just do what you can.”
The Heat might get one key piece back: Tyler Herro, who has been sidelined for the last three games with a strained groin, is going to try some on-court work Sunday in hopes of playing in Game 7.
“For us, it’s just another opportunity,” Celtics coach Ime Udoka said Saturday. “You put yourself in this position, going up 3-2, to have two games to win one. And so, as much as you’d love to finish it on your home court, we’ve been up and down in the series and due to that it’s where it is right now. … It’s just another opportunity and we obviously see the big picture ahead.”
The Celtics last went to the NBA Finals in 2010. This is their fifth trip to the East finals since, and Friday’s loss made them 0-5 in potential East clinchers over that span.
“We’ve just got to come out and play, come out and respond,” Brown said. “Backs are on the wall, Game 7, loser go home. We’ve got to come out and find a way to win.”
From Miami’s perspective, the seeds began being planted for this just moments after Game 5. The Celtics had just won in Miami to take a 3-2 series lead, and Spoelstra stepped into a defeated locker room to lay out the objective. He repeated it, over and over.
“Bring this thing back on the 29th,” Spoelstra kept saying.
The 29th is Sunday.
They brought it back. Game 7 awaits.
“There’s nothing like a Game 7,” Spoelstra said. “And I’m just really excited that we all get to experience that together.”
HEAT FINED
The NBA fined Miami $25,000 on Saturday for violating league rules regarding team bench decorum. The league said “on multiple occasions, several players stood for an extended period in Miami’s team bench area, stood away from the team bench, and were on, encroaching upon or entering the playing court during live game action” during Game 6 in Boston.
It has been a point of emphasis for the league of late. Dallas was fined a total of $175,000 for three similar infractions.
POWER OF 3
No opposing team has ever won three games at Miami in the same playoff series, a trend that Boston will aim to break on Sunday.
This deep into the playoffs — conference finals or NBA Finals — such a feat has occurred only 10 times in the last 40 seasons, most recently when Toronto won three times at Golden State in the 2019 NBA Finals.
GAME 7 HISTORY
Miami has two players who have scored at least 30 points in a Game 7. Lowry had 35 for Toronto in a 2016 romp over the Heat, and Victor Oladipo had 30 for Indiana in a 2018 loss to Cleveland. Tatum has averaged 24.0 points in four previous Game 7s, the best of anyone on this Boston roster.
The Celtics are 25-9 in Game 7s, Miami 6-4.
TRENDS
There have been two Game 7s so far in these playoffs, both in the second round: Boston beat Milwaukee by 28 and Dallas won at Phoenix by 33.
Road teams have won three of the last four Game 7s.
CENTURY MARK
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From Software has reportedly confirmed that it will rekindle the Dark Souls franchise's servers.
The company took down the servers used by Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, Dark Souls: Remastered, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, and Dark Souls 3 in January to address a vulnerability that could be exploited to enable remote code execution on target PCs.
That was roughly a month before Elden Ring—which the community speculated was also susceptible to this security flaw—debuted. So it wasn't necessarily surprising that From Software didn't have a patch in the month after the Dark Souls franchise's servers went dark.
Elden Ring was finally released in February, though, and the developer has stayed quiet about the status of these seemingly forgotten servers. Until now: PC Gamer reports(Opens in a new window) that From Software does in fact plan to bring Dark Souls' servers back online when the relevant patches are ready.
"We are currently in the process of restoring the online servers for the Dark Souls series on PC," the dev told PC Gamer. "We plan to restore online service for each game progressively, bringing back servers for Dark Souls 3 once we complete the necessary work to correct the problem."
So remain hopeful, Dark Souls fans, and don't you dare go hollow.
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Meghan Markle failed to fit in to the Royal Family because she "lacked understanding" and "confounded the worlds of celebrity and royalty", a royal expert has claimed.
The Duchess of Sussex has been open about how she was unprepared to join the Royal Family when she married Prince Harry in a lavish ceremony back in 2018.
In their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, Meghan revealed that she didn't “know much about the Royal Family” and even had to Google the British national anthem.
This is a stark contrast to Kate, Diana and Camilla who had all travelled in the same social circles.
Now, Professor Cele Otnes, a Royal Family branding and marketing expert has claimed that Meghan failed to adjust to her new role because she "lacked understanding" of the Royal Family's social significance.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Ms Otnes said: "I think Kate, and Diana, and Camilla [adjusted] just by the virtue of being British.
“Even if they hadn't had any association with the aristocracy and Kate didn't really, but Camilla and Diana certainly did – they travelled in those circles – had the sort of natural socialisation process from the time of their young childhood, about the sort of the preciousness of the brands and how much had to be invested to keep the Royal Family brand at its pinnacle.
“Megan didn't have that kind of context.
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“It has all that socialisation and internalisation about, you know, protecting it. Megan had no understanding of that.”
During their interview with Oprah, Megan said she had "seen celebrities all the time" while growing up in LA but that it "wasn't the same".
Ms Otnes said Meghan had “confounded the worlds of celebrity and royalty” and couldn't "grasp the situation".
A spokesperson for Meghan has been contacted for comment. | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/meghan-didnt-understand-what-royalty-27095520 | 2022-05-29T15:40:31Z | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/meghan-didnt-understand-what-royalty-27095520 | true | 1 |
New Delhi: The killing of Punjabi singer and politician Siddhu Moose Wala should be considered a ‘state-sponsored murder’, said Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Daljit Singh Cheema on Sunday. Moose Wala was shot dead by unidentified assailants at Jawahar Ke village in Punjab’s Mansa district earlier today. Cheema also slammed the Chief Minister Bhagwant Maan-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab for releasing the named of the VIPs whose security covers were withdrawn.Also Read - Sidhu Moosewala, Punjabi Singer Shot Dead In Broad Day Light, Goldy Brar Claims Responsibility | Live Updates
“Murder of Siddhu Moose Wala has shocked the country. This should be considered a state-sponsored murder. Firstly, the security of 400 people was withdrawn and then their names were published on social media. It’s criminal negligence,” the SAD leader told news agency ANI. Also Read - Sidhu Moosewala Killing: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann Condoles Death of Singer, Assures Action
Moose Wala was attacked just a day after Punjab government withdrew the security of 424 VIPs in an exercise to crack down on VIP culture. As per reports, Moose Wala earlier had four police gunmen on his security, out of which two were withdrawn with the state government. Also Read - Sidhu Moose Wala Shot Dead: Punjabi Singer's Last Tweet Goes Viral
The attack took place when Moose Wala and two of his friends were driving to their village Mansa in Punjab. His two friends were also injured in the firing.
Earlier, BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa also came down heavily on the Punjab government for withdrawing Moose Wala’s security cover, and demanded to lodge an FIR against Punjab Chief Minister for negligence.
“We have been warning Punjab government to pay attention to Punjab’s situation. I demand an FIR against Bhagwant Mann for negligence of his Chief Ministerial duties which has cost the life of Sidhu Moose Wala. Bhagwant Mann along with Arvind Kejriwal should be booked u/s 302,” Sirsa said in a tweet.
In 2022, Moose Wala contested the Punjab assembly election on a Congress ticket from Mansa and was defeated by AAP candidate Vijay Singla. Interestingly, Dr Singla, who was Health Minister in Punjab government, was recently sacked from the Cabinet over the charges of corruption
Last month, Sidhu Moose Wala landed in a controversy after he attacked the Aam Aadmi Party and its supporters in his song ‘Scapegoat’. The singer had termed AAP supporters ‘gaddar’ (traitor) in his song. | https://www.india.com/news/india/state-sponsored-murder-sad-slams-punjab-govt-over-siddhu-moose-walas-killing-5419839/ | 2022-05-29T15:41:18Z | https://www.india.com/news/india/state-sponsored-murder-sad-slams-punjab-govt-over-siddhu-moose-walas-killing-5419839/ | false | 1 |
Rangnick severs ties with Man United to focus on Austria
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ralf Rangnick will not take up his role as a consultant at Manchester United, the Premier League club said Sunday, because of the demands of his new job as Austria coach. Rangnick was due to move into a consultancy position after being United’s interim manager for the second half of the recently completed season. Erik ten Hag has been hired as United’s next full time manager and started this week. | https://ktvz.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/29/rangnick-severs-ties-with-man-united-to-focus-on-austria/ | 2022-05-29T15:48:48Z | https://ktvz.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/29/rangnick-severs-ties-with-man-united-to-focus-on-austria/ | false | null |
Djokovic breezes into last eight
Novak Djokovic has shown glimpses of his brilliant best to demolish Diego Schwartzman 6-1 6-3 6-3 and secure a record 16th career Roland Garros quarterfinal.
The world number one's pace was too much for the Argentine, who barely threatened despite enjoying a 3-0 lead in the second set on Sunday.
From then on it was one-way traffic and Djokovic won 12 of the remaining 15 games on a chilly Court Suzanne Lenglen again Schwartzman, a semi-finalist at Roland Garros in 2020.
"I have a lot of respect for him. He's good guy on and off the court and he's a clay-court specialist so it's not easy, especially in slow conditions today with a ball that was not bouncing high," said Djokovic.
"I found the good serves at the right moments."
Djokovic has now reached the last eight in Paris for the 13th year in a row. and has yet to drop a set.
He faces the winner of the clash between 13-times French Open champion Rafael Nadal and Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime.
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(NEXSTAR) — The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation just might be the best Twitter account you’re not following.
The department, which oversees the protection of Oklahoma’s fish and wildlife resources, is taking a somewhat unusual approach to maximizing engagement on social media — at least as far as a state-run agency is concerned.
Ahead of Mother’s Day, for instance, the ODWC shared this sweet gem:
“Get your mom a fishing license because at least it will show up at her house and not be such a disappointment.”
Granted, the majority of the department’s other tweets aren’t nearly as Wendy’s–level brutal as the one above. But most are extremely silly, at the very least.
“Our ultimate goal with all of our social media accounts is engagement,” Kelly Adams, the communication and education supervisor at OKWC, told Nexstar.
Adams explained how the OKWC’s social-media strategy changed back in 2020, after the department went viral with a tweet warning residents to never invite mountain lions into their homes.
“YOU are cold. They have fur. Do not let inside,” the tweet warned.
“It unexpectedly went viral and helped our leadership recognize the importance of being relevant (which can sometimes be ‘silly’),” Adams said.
After that, the department hired a social media coordinator to help “develop a voice” for the OKWC, according to Adams. In the years that followed, the OKWC has earned plenty of retweets and “likes” for its memes, its posts about “hot girl fishing licenses,” and its frustration with a local husky that keeps jumping into the water feature outside the OKWC headquarters.
“If we had a nickel for every time an intern had to clean husky hair out of the office pond filter, we’d have two nickels — which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice,” the department tweeted last month.
More recently, the OKWC amassed over 260,000 likes for a post explaining how “bear spray DOES NOT work like bug spray.”
“We would like to not have to say that again,” last week’s cryptic tweet said.
That particular post wasn’t prompted by any specific bear-related incident, Adams told Nexstar. Rather, it was designed as a means to spread awareness for conservation efforts and the wildlife of Oklahoma’s great outdoors.
“We recommend [everyone] follow their state’s fish and wildlife state agency,” Adams said. “If someone has a niche interest like snakes, birding, bats, etc. there is likely a page for that as well.” | https://www.wbtw.com/nexstar-media-wire/oklahomas-department-of-wildlife-conservation-goes-viral-with-silly-brutal-tweets/ | 2022-05-29T15:49:10Z | https://www.wbtw.com/nexstar-media-wire/oklahomas-department-of-wildlife-conservation-goes-viral-with-silly-brutal-tweets/ | false | 16 |
[MUSIC] Cascading is a fundamental feature of CSS. It's an algorithm defining how to combine properties values originating from different sources. As the name itself suggests, cascading style sheets, in other words the cascade algorithm, is at the core of understanding and using CSS. The cascade combine the importance, origin, specificity and source order of the applicable style declarations to determine exactly which declaration should be applied to any given element. And if there's a conflict, how to resolve that conflict. In other words, how to tell which CSS rule wins. There are a lot of terminology and concepts surrounding the cascading algorithm. However, I believe to have a working knowledge of the cascading algorithm, you should understand these four concepts. And these are origin, or origin precedence, merge, as well as inheritance and specificity. So let's tackle the first two, origin and merge. When two declarations are in conflict, in other words they specify the same property for the same target, origin precedence rule kicks in, and it's a very simple rule. And the rule is, the last declaration wins. Now, when trying to figure out what the last declaration is, you have to remember that HTML is processed sequentially. That means top to bottom. So as you see the declarations happen, the lower on the page they are, the more precedence they have. And also for precedence, think of external CSS as declared at the spot where it's linked to. So usually it's declared in the head somewhere, but there could be other styles that I declared in the head. And to figure out which one was declared last, imagine that the entire contents of an external CSS file were cut and pasted straight into the head portion, where that external CSS is declared. When different CSS declarations do not conflict, that is, they still target the same element, but the CSS properties with which they target that element are different, there's even a simpler rule. And that is that declarations merge. So a declaration for, for example, font size, and a declaration for color, since they're two different properties, when they're targeted to the same element, even if they're targeted from two different origins, they will merge into one. And the element will get both the font size and the color. Let's take a quick look at an example of that in code. Okay, so here I am in Sublime Text and I'm looking at origin.html. And it's located in the examples Lecture17 folder. Let me go ahead and hide the sidebar so we could see the file a little bit better. So to go over the structure of our HTML, in the head we have a link that links our external.css, which is also located in the same folder as this file, and you could see that file is right here. And it specifies that every p, every paragraph tag, should have font size increased to 130%, the background will be gray, and the color of the text will be white. Now, right after that, we have a style tag, again, still in the head, that overwrites the p element and says that the color, that is, the text color, should be maroon. Now, when we get to the actual viewable content, we have a couple of paragraphs here. The first one is just a simple paragraph and the second one is a paragraph where we've declared an attribute style and specified color of the text to be black. So let's take a look at the first paragraph. You could see that the background of the paragraph is gray and the text color is maroon. Now, how do we get this gray and maroon? Well, let's take a look. We first declared external.css. That's the first thing that comes in the HTML file. So remember, I told you to think about it as if we basically took these contents and pasted them straight into this spot. So basically we've declared we want the font size to be increased, the background color should be gray, and the text color should be white. However, right after that, we turned around and overwritten that with another color declaration and said that the color in fact should be maroon. And that's really the last thing that we could see as far as the text color of our paragraph text. And that is why this paragraph right here does in fact have its text color maroon. That is because of the last declaration of that color, one. The second paragraph, however, has its text color black because the very last declaration of the text color is black, so therefore the text color is black. So that's our origin precedence rule in action. However, unlike the color property, we have other properties here, which are the background color and the font size, that are still being applied to both paragraphs and that's our example of a merge. In fact, if we right-click on this paragraph and go ahead and inspect the element, we can see that the first paragraph does in fact have the color: maroon and it's coming from origin.html, line 9. That's our style tag inside our head section. But you could see that it's showing you that other things apply as well, that background color is gray and the font size is 130. And the Chrome developer tools are clearly showing you here that we've overwritten the color that was specified in external.css with our color: maroon. And that's why you see the color crossed out here. The next concept we're going to take a look at is inheritance. And it's a pretty simple concept. The basic idea is that you have the document object model tree. And if you specify some CSS property on some element, all the children and grandchildren and so on and so on of that element will also inherit that property without you having to specify the property for each and every element. So for example, if I specify one property on the body tag, every element that is a child of a body tag, or even a child of a child of a body tag and so on, will inherit that property. Similarly, if I specify a property on some element within my HTML page, every child and grandchild and so on of that element will also inherit that property. But obviously, no parents of that element will inherit that property and therefore will be completely unaffected by it. So let's take a look at what inheritance looks like in code. While inheritance in CSS is a pretty simple concept to understand, it happens to be a very powerful technique as well. It allows me to specify one rule and have all the children of the target element inherit that rule. Let's take a look at inheritence.html, which is also located in the same folder as the previous file. It's a very common practice to specify some declarations for the body tag and the reason is obvious. Body is the top element in our HTML as far as the view port is concerned. In it, I can specify some rules for the entire HTML document and then using our cascade origin precedence, overwrite some specific rules a little bit lower down the line, while keeping everything else very consistent. So here in our example, as you can see, I specified that any text appearing in our document should be color: red. And I also specified that everything should be align: center and, which is very common, to specify one font that will be consistent throughout the entire HTML document, in this case, Helvetica. Then what I did was I specified a particular color of the text just for paragraphs. And even though each paragraph will inherit color: red, we're here to override that with color: blue. Last, in the H2 tag here a little bit lower to the bottom, I'm using again the origin precedence rules to over write the text color to green for this particular subheading too. And as you can see, our H1 here in the browser is red and so is the first H2. And they're red even though I never specified H1 or H2 to be red. I just said that anything inside the body, color should be red. And you notice that every single block level element here is centered, and the reason it's centered is because I specified again in the body that the text-align should be centered. Same goes for font-family. It's Helvetica throughout the entire document. Again, I never specified text-align or font-family for every single element in the page, but I did specify it for the parent element, the body tag. So as you can see, this is pretty powerful. Okay, so since this lecture is getting a little too long, I'm going to split it up and we'll finish specificity in part two. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/html-css-javascript-for-web-developers/lecture-17-part-1-conflict-resolution-WDDCB | 2022-05-29T15:52:09Z | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/html-css-javascript-for-web-developers/lecture-17-part-1-conflict-resolution-WDDCB | true | 1 |
Several gunshot victims were transported to a hospital Saturday night following a shooting in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, police said in a news release.
Officers patrolling the area heard gunshots just after 11:45 p.m. near the area of 100 Cherry Street and arrived at a scene of "multiple parties exchanging gunfire and numerous people fleeing the area," said police.
Multiple gunshot victims were taken to a hospital for treatment, said police Sgt. Jeremy Eames, but he didn't specify how many people were injured.
"I don't have ages or a status on the victims," said Eames. "However most of them will be teenagers to early 20's. We had large groups of juveniles walking around the downtown area this date and we believe it's from within that group that the shooting took place."
Police said they've detained at least one person in relation to the gunfire.
The location of the shooting is less than a mile from the Tennessee Aquarium and the city's waterfront.
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A coalition of Akwa Ibom gubernatorial aspirants has demanded the immediate cancellation of the April 30, 2022 adhoc congress and all primaries held by People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa ibom state, citing massive irregularities and illegalities.
The coalition which members are Obong Ide Owodiong Idemeko, Mr James Iniama, Mr David Okpon and Hon Idoreyin Umoh made this known to newsmen through a press statement tagged “Impunity upon Impunity,” in Uyo on Sunday.
They urged the National Working Committee and National Executive Committee of PDP to cancel the conduct of the gubernatorial primaries in Akwa Ibom state pending the hearing and determination of the reliefs contained in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/606/22.
They further noted that the primaries conducted for the House of Assembly, House of Representatives and Senate positions using the three (3) adhoc delegates per ward in Akwa Ibom state be immediately invalidated on grounds of its illegality.
The press statement further reads in parts, “To say that the exercise of choosing a governorship candidate for the PDP in Akwa Ibom state was a charade is stating the obvious.
“The exercise was fraught with widespread irregularities, subterfuge, and intimidation. The impunity upon impunity was palpable and brazen. It was a mockery of civilized behaviour and opposite of what is right and decent.
“Sadly, the skewed political culture in the state, governed by patron-saints would rather go for the ephemeral.
“Instead of allowing a level playing field for all aspirants to convince the electoral college to choose their preferred aspirant based on a thorough and cursory analyses of the capacity, character and competence of individual aspirants, our know-all chieftains resorted to mundane considerations and subterfuge, and the result is the charade that came out of the State Congress held on May 25, 2022 for the purpose of nominating a Gubernatorial candidate for the Party.
“In fact, this charade and shambolic conduct has trailed all congresses leading up to the May 25, 2022 Special State Congress in Akwa Ibom State.”
They further highlighted, “We reiterate that the complaints contained in our petitions did not in any form mean that we had withdrawn from the contest; and this informed our presence at the Special State Congress to enable us to observe at close range the conduct of the primaries as well as offer us the locus standi to further challenge the validity of the processes in law court, if need be.
“One of such seeming irregularities, is that the so-called adhoc delegates did not go through any proper identification and accreditation process before being allowed into the venue of the State Congress for Gubernatorial primaries.
“Secondly, the list of these adhoc delegates were not published for all aspirants to be properly informed of who to consult and engage. Only the government sponsored aspirant had prior knowledge of who the adhoc delegates were and only he was able to meet with them before the primaries.
“Finally, only the government sponsored aspirant, Pastor Umo Bassey Eno and his wife were listed as adhoc delegates and had the opportunity to vote for themselves. Other aspirants were denied this privilege.”
The aspirants further said, “Unfortunately, our political culture, especially that of our party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State is not only skewed but strewn with all sorts of debris that precludes the emergence of any organized and cerebral candidacy, and where such seems possible, is immediately sacrificed on the altar of short-sighted considerations and predatory elite instincts.” | https://www.blueprint.ng/2023-pdp-guber-aspirants-want-cancellation-of-primaries-over-illegalities-in-akwa-ibom/ | 2022-05-29T16:01:45Z | https://www.blueprint.ng/2023-pdp-guber-aspirants-want-cancellation-of-primaries-over-illegalities-in-akwa-ibom/ | true | 1 |
I’m a couples therapist – the two key signs it’s time to end your relationship
ENDING a relationship is never an easy task, but if you're not happy then sometimes it just has to be done.
Writing in Metro couples therapist Susanna Abse has revealed some warning signs that your relationships is on the rocks. However, these don't mean that it's certain to fail.
Feelings of uncertainty and unhappiness
Many people will experience feelings of uncertainty and unhappiness at some point in their relationship. These feelings certainly don’t mean that your relationship is doomed.
However, in the wake of these feelings miscommunications may develop. Susanna says these issues can be difficult to discuss with your partner: “Sharing that much uncertainty with a loved one is a very high-risk strategy as threats of abandonment have a habit of raising the emotional temperature between a couple to boiling point.”
Discussing any issues you have in your relationship though can help you work out if they can be fixed, or if you are perhaps just incompatible on certain things.
Thoughts of leaving
Daydreams about up and leaving your partner may be something of warning sign, however Susanna says that many people have these thoughts sometimes, adding: “It can be difficult to acknowledge to yourself that thoughts of leaving are in your mind — the romantic ideal has us believing that being in love precludes such things.”
Similarly to feelings of uncertainty and happiness, this doesn’t necessarily mark the end of your relationship.
It can depend on just how often you’re having these thoughts. If you’re unhappy and think about breaking up with your partner everyday, that may be a sign that it’s time to act upon these fantasies.
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If you do decide to end your relationship, Susanna warns against immediately starting a new one. She says that this can be quite a common occurrence as it can cover any sense of loss the individual may feel.
She also adds: “Leaving your partner for someone else can be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire and it never makes a break-up easy. If you go, your partner is bound to be upset, but going straight to someone else’s bed can be extra wounding.” | https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/8869035/couples-therapist-signs-to-break-up/ | 2022-05-29T16:07:00Z | https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/8869035/couples-therapist-signs-to-break-up/ | false | 4 |
POETRY: Memorial Day
MEMORIAL DAY
Memorial Day – as children we cheered
To enjoy a day off of school.
We marched in parades and listened to bands
And picnicked and opened the pool.
We’d wave our flags as the bands went by
And helped to plant flowers on graves.
But we wondered why sadness was hidden beneath
The pleasurable mood of the day.
And so as we grew, we learned the real truth
About what this day should recall.
Our history books brought the past back to life;
We heard stories from vets who saw it all.
We read about valor and brave acts of courage,
Of solidarity and following orders.
We heard stores of friendships and lives that were lost
While trying to save someone’s borders.
Our soldiers helped end World War 1 over there.
In World War 2, they pushed Hitler back.
Then our troops went to Korea and North Vietnam,
The Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq.
And through it all, living just day to day,
They faced their enemies and their fears.
They fought bravely, stoically and courageously;
Left with good and bad memories for years.
America’s veterans have all served her well,
Each made sacrifices while they served.
The Navy and Coast Guard, Air Force and Army,
The Marines and our local reserves.
So we should remember these brave men and women;
And their families who each played their part.
On the last Monday in May, each American should stand,
And salute them with hand over heart.
MARTHA WOODRUFF
Lake Wales
PRETTY ROOMS
So, let us imagine a chamber where
The greatest art of the age hangs on walls;
And, as we spend delightful hours there,
Gentle, lovely music upon us falls.
Then, as night comes on, let love find us in
A plush, carpeted space in such a bed
That, once we’re done, we can’t wait to begin
Again to converse, though no words be said.
This world can be a gruesome, awful place
With disease and death, and with warring things
That set a foul grimace upon our face
And rob us of the music our heart sings.
Since we deserve better than all these glooms,
Let us now build in sonnets pretty rooms.
ROBERT P. TUCKER
Lakeland
BETWEEN THE RAIN STORMS
Ah yes, Florida in early spring, when the rain clouds drift through
in parades large and small,
At various speeds, fast and slow, and wind, sometimes too serious
to ignore
And in between the dark clouds, seeking to soak us really good,
We are overjoyed to see the gorgeous amaryllis, bursting
with the brilliant red blooms, we all adore
And the hedges in the neighborhoods, so drab for months,
Have come alive with color, stunning purple, pink and various reds,
As if a magic painter changed them all in the dark of night
With a huge colorful brush to dazzle our heads
Oh, Dear Spring, how we love you and welcome your return
We look forward to the greatness by which Florida’s summers are filled
We know the rain is not forever, it will always move away
So, we dream between the rain storms in the Spring, of summer’s joy,
and reasons to be thrilled
DENNIS C. ORVIS
Winter Haven
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release benefits under the PM CARES for Children Scheme on May 30 at 10:30 am via video conferencing.
The Prime Minister will transfer scholarships to school-going children. A passbook of PM CARES for Children, and health card under Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana will be handed over to the children during the programme.
The PM CARES for Children Scheme was launched by the Prime Minister on May 29, 2021 to support children who have lost both the parents or legal guardian or adoptive parents or surviving parent to Covid-19 pandemic, during the period from 11 March 2020 to 28 February 2022.
The objective of the scheme is to ensure comprehensive care and protection of children in a sustained manner by providing them boarding and lodging, empowering them through education and scholarships, equipping them for self-sufficient existence with financial support of Rs 10 lakh on attaining 23 years of age and ensuring their well-being through health insurance.
A portal named pmcaresforchildren.in was launched to register the children.The portal is a single window system which facilitates approval process and all other assistance for children. | https://www.thestatesman.com/india/pm-cares-benefits-kids-released-tomorrow-1503076497.html | 2022-05-29T16:12:09Z | https://www.thestatesman.com/india/pm-cares-benefits-kids-released-tomorrow-1503076497.html | false | 11 |
Home-town heroes: local candidates’ triumphant run in polls
Independent MP Helen Haines says the inflow of seven new independents MPs, most in previously secure Liberal seats, displays voters’ starvation to be represented by group champions reasonably than get together apparatchiks.
“People want their MP to speak the truth of their electorate, not the truth of the party,” Haines says.
“It’s called the House of Representatives for a reason, it’s not called the ‘house of the parties’.”
Haines represents the regional Victorian seat of Indi, which impartial candidate Cathy McGowan famously nabbed from Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella. Haines adopted McGowan into parliament in 2019, turning into the primary impartial in Australian historical past to succeed one other impartial in a federal seat.
Haines, a former midwife who grew up on a dairy farm, achieved a formidable 8 per cent swing in direction of her at this election. Best recognized nationally for championing a federal anti-corruption fee, she says the outcome was a reward for her deal with hyper-local points corresponding to telecommunications infrastructure and inland rail. Then there was her enthusiastic volunteer military, which knocked on nearly each door within the cities of Wodonga and Wangaratta.
In a lot of the nationwide election protection, the teal independents operating in blue-ribbon seats have been offered as an amorphous grouping bankrolled by Simon Holmes a Court’s Climate 200 fundraising arm. But whereas the teals actually ran on a standard coverage platform – robust motion on local weather change, integrity, ladies’s rights – their campaigns have been pushed by grassroots activists.
Paediatrician Monique Ryan, for instance, determined to run in Kooyong after seeing an commercial in The Age by native teams in search of a candidate to run in opposition to the then treasurer Josh Frydenberg. “I have raised my children in Kooyong, where they loved growing up and going to school,” Ryan mentioned in her marketing campaign literature. “I can think of no better place to raise a family: that’s why we chose to do so right here in Hawthorn.”
However, it wasn’t solely impartial candidates who received large by differentiating themselves from the main events. Haines factors to the success of Liberal MP Bridget Archer, who held onto the often unstable Tasmanian seat of Bass.
The former native mayor rose to nationwide prominence within the final parliament for crossing the ground to vote for a federal anti-corruption fee and in opposition to the federal government’s non secular discrimination invoice. While campaigning for re-election, Archer careworn that she was not a “drone” and that she labored for the folks of Bass reasonably than the prime minister.
“Bridget Archer won a lot of publicity and respect for being a frank advocate for her local community who was prepared to speak her mind,” Richard Eccleston, a professor of political science on the University of Tasmania, says.
“The big picture nationally is that politicians from the major parties are on the nose. Even if voters don’t have very strong views about the issue, the fact she’s sincere and committed and was willing to speak up was significant. She’s not just a creature of the party, toeing the party line.”
Eccleston says Archer has continued a practice of political “mavericks” in Tasmania who received respect from voters by difficult the orthodoxy of their get together. He factors to longtime Labor backbencher Harry Quick who was ultimately expelled from the get together for failing to pay his membership dues.
At this stage it appears just like the Liberal Party will choose up only one new seat: Gilmore on the NSW south coast. Star candidate Andrew Constance, a former NSW state treasurer and transport minister, is main Labor incumbent Fiona Phillips by round 300 votes.
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No-one might accuse Constance of parachuting into the realm, given his former state seat of Bega overlaps the federal voters. He was a vocal critic of the federal authorities’s response to the 2019-20 bushfires, saying Morrison acquired “the welcome he probably deserved” when he was confronted by locals within the devastated city of Cobargo.
This made for some awkward encounters alongside Morrison on the marketing campaign path, however seems to have paid off with voters.
While campaigning, Constance vowed to be “fierce in my representation of the people of Gilmore”, saying: “I’m not going to sit there as a wallflower, I’ll call it how it is. And I care about the community that I’ve lived in for most of my life. Our people deserve the best.”
It was a distinct story for the Liberals in Bennelong, a north Sydney seat the get together had solely misplaced as soon as earlier than – in 2007 when Maxine McKew sensationally defeated then prime minister John Howard. Former tennis star John Alexander received again the seat on the subsequent election and restored it to secure Liberal territory by means of energetic native campaigning and by assiduously courting group teams.
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His retirement opened a possibility for Labor, which chosen well-known former Ryde mayor Jerome Laxale as its candidate. His opponent was Liberal Simon Kennedy, who grew up within the space however had a low profile after dwelling abroad and within the jap suburbs for a number of years.
Influential native teams, which had beforehand backed Alexander, swung behind Laxale due to their established relationships.
“I’ve known the Labor candidate for 10 years and Simon Kennedy for maybe four weeks,” Hugh Lee, president of the Eastwood Chinese Seniors Citizens Club, mentioned within the lead-up to election day.
Felix Lo, president of the Australian Asian Association of Bennelong, mentioned: “John Alexander worked with our Chinese community very closely – he has always been there and we love him. Jerome is a bit the same.”
By distinction, Lo mentioned, Kennedy appeared to have “come out of nowhere”. Laxale received the seat with an 8 per cent swing.
The Coalition had hoped to grab the regional coal-mining seat of Hunter after Labor suffered a whopping 14 per cent swing in opposition to it on the final election. After the retirement of veteran MP Joel Fitzgibbon, Labor selected former Olympic shooter and coalminer Dan Repacholi as its candidate.
Repacholi, who stands two metres tall and sports activities a particular bushy beard, was something however a refined candidate. It was revealed that in previous social media posts he had known as India a “s–thole” and mentioned opponents of coalmining ought to “sit in the dark and freeze” in winter. Such views could be unpalatable within the inner-city, however Repacholi’s model proved slot in Hunter. He received the seat with a slight swing in direction of him.
As Helen Haines prepares to welcome the gang of recent impartial MPs to Canberra, she expects to see much more arrive in coming elections. “This idea has taken hold now,” she says. “It’s not just about MPs going to Canberra and voting along the party line. We’re in a whole new world really.” | https://thewall.fyi/home-town-heroes-local-candidates-triumphant-run-in-polls/ | 2022-05-29T16:13:06Z | https://thewall.fyi/home-town-heroes-local-candidates-triumphant-run-in-polls/ | true | 1 |
In this section, we're going to look a learner analysis in terms of instructional design. But one, we'll be focusing on the differences and similarities among our learner population. So, here is again the Addie model for instructional design processes. In terms of learner analysis, we are here as the first stage of the Addie model. So, why learner analysis? Wat is the important for instructional designers to understand the value as well as the processes of conducting learner analysis? First, learner analysis will tell us about our learners and how they prefer to learn in different environments. Learner analysis also will help us scope the intended learning task and learning environments, this is within individual learning module or instructional unit. Third, learner analysis will tell us where our learners are in reference to the intended learning objectives as well as learning goals. Finally, learner analysis will tell us in terms of the scope of our design efforts. This is in reference to the overall instructional design efforts, sometimes it's beyond individual units. Here is a relevant quote, "A common error resulting from failure to analyze the characteristics of an audience is assuming that all learners are alike. An even more common era is assuming that the learners are like the designers.'' So, the first part of the statement speaks to the fact that learners are different among themselves. Second part of statement reminds us that learners oftentimes are very very different from designers of the instructional units. So, in terms of the information we will like to collect from a learner analysis, first of all, generally speaking, we would like to know who they are in terms of gender, age groups, educational backgrounds, ethnicities, ratio backgrounds, disability status, socio-economic status and other relevant social stratification factors? As much information as we can collect, the more information we're able to collect, the better we will get the value of the learner analysis. The second component would like to know for learner analysis is what are the cognitive, psychomotor, effective, and social characteristics of the learners? Basically, this category of information will tell us what our learners might be able to do before receiving the instructions, and to what extent they can accommodate to the exploitation of the instruction we're about to design. The third category would be the information from the analysis can help us determine; first, what instructional content might be needed. Sometimes, maybe the learners already have certain level of skill, knowledge, or ability we might need to revisit the initial scoping of the instructional unit. Sometimes we need to add more content, sometimes we can trim the content down a little bit. Second part of it, we will figure it out, based on the information from the learner analysis in terms of the question we should begin the instruction. This is more relevant to the previous point. But this is more for the instructional designers, where we can really focus our efforts when we begin the design processes. Here is the in-video question for you, what information do instructional designers need to know about the learner population? In ideal situation of course, so come up with ideas as many as you can, based on your experiences, based on your own experiences as learners in order to respond to this in-video question. So, while we would like to know more specifically about the learner population. Useful information might be including the following; first will be the prior knowledge or experiences the topic area according to a learner's response or reporting. Second, attitudes toward the content area and the potential delivery system. This is more relevant to today's online learning environments for example, to some extent will learners be comfortable for instance, receiving or interacting with learning environments in a mobile learning environments, receiving and interacting with contents from their mobile devices. So, we should not assume that all learners are comfortable doing that in this day and age. We still need to figure out to what extent will they be willing to receive instruction interacting with learning environment in different types of technology-enabled systems. Next will be their motivation to learn. We will touch on a little bit more later on in today's section. Motivation drives everything we do, motivation also will drive everything your learners will be doing, is a key factor we need to understand in terms of learner analysis. What are your learners educational levels and their ability levels? So, this type of information we can often get from, for instance, standardized tests results. A little bit more generalizable, they will provide a strong background information to initiate the learner analysis processes. The next one will be learners general learning preferences. How would our learners prefer to interact with learning environments? Let's go back to the early example of mobile learning environments. Some learners will be more likely to learn or to interact with the content through their mobile devices, some learners might not be feeling comfortable doing so. So, that will also deal with their preferences in terms of how they prefer to read, how they prefer to watch videos online, how they prefer to interact with their peers in different types of learning environments. Learner's attitudes toward the organization or the providers of the content also is an important factor. This is a more of a culturally relevant consideration. We can ask learners in terms of to what design they will feel comfortable interacting with the content provided by certain organizations, certain institutions, and this is an important bit information we would like to collect if possible. The final item will be what I call group characteristics. So, this could be as general as their age group capabilities within the population. For instance, if you are designing instructions for a group of college students, their group characteristics will be very, very different from designing instruction for a group of retirees. So, those are very important information we like to collect, and to a large extent, they can also tell you the general representation among your learners. To be more specific, we also like to look at learners cognitive, physiological, affective, and social aspects of their characteristics. In terms of the cognitive, we'd like to know where their mental capacities might be, their abilities to memorize information for instance. Sometimes it's relevant to the intended instruction and learning objective, sometimes it's not. So, really again, you need to look at your learning objectives and to see the role of their cognitive abilities. In general, cognitive abilities, we will like learners to be able to perform basic skills, memorization being one, being able to differentiate concepts, being able to apply newly acquired skills, knowledge, and abilities. Those are general cognitive abilities we would like to see from our learners. But again, it depends on the scope and the depth of the learning goals and objectives. Physiological aspect, this is more relevant if the learning objectives are associated with certain type of demonstration through physical activities. Age groups, for one, will tell you something about that. You can easily see the difference in terms of physical strength between a group of 20-30 years old with a group of perhaps more than 60 years old. So, that's just physical capabilities as they become relevant to the intended learning objectives. Affective, this is relevant to the earlier point that we need to figure out learner's perceptions, one part of it will be toward the provider of the instruction. Also, is important for us to figure out learner's general attitudes toward the topics, sometimes due to personal belief, sometimes due to other social factors, learners might feel strongly about certain topics that you intend to cover with instruction. It's always nice to know as early as we can so we can incorporate those considerations into the design of our instruction. The social aspect of the learner analysis will be more relevant if your instruction is situated in teamwork context. To what extent would our learners be comfortable working with peers in a face-to-face setting versus in any synchronous online setting? So, that's just one of the information bit we would like to get if teamwork or working with peers seems to be an important part of the instruction delivery. So, these are four major and relatively basic components of learner characteristic we will like to collect from the learner analysis stage. Here's a table to show similarities in terms of the group of learners and differences among individual learners. That's the horizontal part of the table. The vertical part of it, you can see the stable and the changing aspects. So, if you combine the two, you have the two by two, four combinations to begin with. First combination would be similarities within the group that are relatively stable. So, their sensory capabilities, their preference to process information, their conditions for learning. So, those are three characteristics you can relatively see as they are stable within group of learners. The second category, if you will, let's look at the differences among individuals that are stable learner characteristics. First of all, they're their aptitudes. You can get that information from, for instance, standardized test results. Second will be their cognitive styles, their habits when interacting with information. Third one will be their psychosocial traits. That will be the results of your learner's interactions with social environments, so that has been accumulated for a while. Therefore, they are relatively stable. Your learner's gender, ethnicity, racial backgrounds, those are also stable characteristics among individual learners. Know your socioeconomic status, so this is the short list of the stable learner differences among individuals. Let's look at the next one, will be the changing similarities in the group of learners. The first one will be their developmental processes. Earlier, we talked about John Piaget's work, if you can recall, the idea will be based on different experiences with social interactions learner's developmental stages might be similar to each other assuming that they are interacting with similar social environments. So, we can look at their intellectual, they can look at language abilities, their psychosocial behaviors, as well as moral standard. You can identify this category of learner characteristics for a group of learners to begin with due to their similarities, and it's the changing part of it that's different from the stable aspect of it. The next category would be the changing differences among individual learners. First one will be their developmental state. So, in the previous category, we looked at their developmental processes. A group of learners can go to similar developmental processes. For instance, they have gone through certain schooling. However, the outcome of the developmental process might be different among individuals. Therefore, these are changing differences among individual learners in terms of their intellectual levels as one of their developmental state. Learner's prior learning, again, to what extent your learners individually chose to engage with learning activities? That also might be very different among individual learners. You might have a group of 30 learners intended by the instruction, and depending on their prior learning experiences, their responses to your instruction might be different. In terms of prior learning, these are two additional quotes just to emphasize its importance, for instance, to design. One is from Ausubel,1968. "If I had to reduce all of educational psychology to just one principle, I will say this: The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him or her accordingly." Here's another one. "The most important factor for a designer to consider about the audience is specific prior learning." Specific prior learning in this context will be learner's prior learning relevant to the intended learning objectives. So, these two quotes again showed us the importance as prior learning, and we should try our best to gathering this information as much as we can during the learner analysis process. Another crucial factor when it comes to learner analysis is learner's motivational state. Learner's motivational state goes beyond, or you can consider the motivational state will be relevant to all four categories of the learner characteristics we discussed earlier. Why is motivation important when it comes to a learner analysis? Because motivational states will control learners and direct their flow of efforts during the learning processes. Motivation to learn, could be situational, is somewhat complex and it's a changing characteristics among individuals. It's important because it initiates, and more crucially, it sustains the learning processes carried out by the learners. In terms of learner's cognitive effort investment, in terms of learners emotional engagement to the learning processes, to the learning text, those are both relevant for us to understand learner's motivational state. In terms of motivational support in instructional design, unfortunately motivational support is often neglected during the instructional design process. Although it is feasible for motivational support to be realized through instructional strategies, in order to elicit curiosity, relevance of the learning task, the confidence from learners, and the overall satisfaction from the learning experience. Jiang Keller's work, ARCS motivational design model, is a good reference point if you're interested in learning more about motivational support and how we can design them into instruction. In his work, attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction are four important components for us to devise instructional strategies for effective motivational support. Motivational support is also a multidimensional construct. People like to use intrinsic and extrinsic to differentiate the source of the information and the outcome of the motivational support. Interesting motivation is ideally internalized. Learners would carry out intended learning processes, participating in learning tasks without any external reward or incentives, which would be the extrinsic part of the motivation. Ideally, we would like to see learners to develop intrinsic motivation throughout their learning experience. However, extrinsic motivation in terms of rewards and incentives also play an important role in initiating the intended learning processes. So, the reality check for this section. First, learner analysis is important. We all know that the value of a learner analysis, but perhaps not implementable in some contexts, especially when you're working with a large group of learners, or learners are dispersed among different locations. Second, learner diversity is important and needs to be understood and incorporate into instructional deliverables. The diversity aspect of a learner analysis can be referred to our earlier mention, in terms of learner's gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability status, and relevant social stratification factors. Third, some learner characteristic information could be gathered through standardized test results, and usually that will tell you about learner's general aptitudes. In terms of their generalized ability, we need to be cautious when applying those information to understand our learners. Finally, motivational support is crucial, but often neglected for many reasons. For one, again, in order to understand learner's motivational state, we need to devise instruments and spend more time to collect that aspect of data, and the logistics of it sometimes is the major limiting factor. Nevertheless, it is important to understand your learner's motivational state, therefore we can design relevant and effective motivational support. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/instructional-design-foundations-applications/learner-analysis-part-i-differences-and-similarities-zvPPo | 2022-05-29T16:18:38Z | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/instructional-design-foundations-applications/learner-analysis-part-i-differences-and-similarities-zvPPo | false | 1 |
Leicestershire implode for 89 as Shan Masood fifty sets up Derbyshire
Derbyshire 159 for five (Masood 53, du Plooy 38*) beat Leicestershire 89 (Kerr 2-6, McKiernan 2-17) by 70 runs
Derbyshire Falcons picked up their first win of the Vitality Blast marketing campaign as Leicestershire Foxes crashed to a second heavy defeat.
Leicestershire fancied they might go shut however on what proved to be a troublesome floor to attain fluently they stumbled to 47 for 4 within the powerplay and by no means recovered because the Falcons bowlers saved the stress on all through, dismissed for 89 to go down by a 70-run margin. Legspinner Mattie McKiernan’s 2 for 17 was the decide of some miserly Falcons bowling figures.
The Foxes misplaced Scott Steel, recalled rather than Louis Kimber, when he was bowled by a full supply from Hayden Kerr, the Australian left-armer who has changed the injured Suranga Lakmal, and Hamish Rutherford, out first ball on his debut on Thursday, perished within the second over, leg earlier than to Wayne Madsen.
Madsen produced a beautiful piece of fielding to expire Arron Lilley with a direct hit working in from level earlier than Colin Ackermann sliced Sam Conners to backward level.
Lewis Hill was run out by wicketkeeper Brooke Guest earlier than Rishi Patel was leg earlier than to McKiernan. Foxes tried to hit their method out of hassle however Rehan Ahmed succeeded solely in choosing out mid-off. Callum Parkinson turned a second sufferer for McKiernan earlier than Mark Watt, the left-arm spinner, picked up a deserved scalp, turning one previous Roman Walker’s bat. Kerr picked up his second wicket to complete the job as Naveen-ul-Haq skied to mid-off.
Having gone near chasing down 200 in opposition to Birmingham Bears on Friday, Falcons had begun confidently. They misplaced Luis Reece, bowled behind his legs by Walker, and Harry Came, caught at backward level off the final ball of the opening six overs, however had 52 runs from the powerplay.
Falcons slipped to 77 for 4 after Wayne Madsen was bowled swinging fulsomely at Ben Mike and Guest, after his half-century the night time earlier than, noticed his off stump knocked again as he made room to chop Callum Parkinson.
But Masood, prolific within the Championship, accomplished his first Blast half-century quickly after ending a seven-over boundary drought with a pair off Naveen, and du Plooy, having pushed Parkinson down the bottom for 4, cleverly ramped Steel off the again of his bat. The pair had added 51 in 26 balls when Masood sliced the identical bowler straight to brief third man.
du Plooy and Kerr managed to eke out one other 31 within the final 4 overs. Kerr drove Walker to the straight boundary and du Plooy picked up a fourth boundary with one other progressive shot over the keeper’s head. Foxes appeared completely happy to have saved Falcons beneath 160 however within the occasion that they had greater than sufficient. | https://thewall.fyi/leicestershire-implode-for-89-as-shan-masood-fifty-sets-up-derbyshire/ | 2022-05-29T16:18:42Z | https://thewall.fyi/leicestershire-implode-for-89-as-shan-masood-fifty-sets-up-derbyshire/ | true | 1 |
PARIS (AP) — Tear gas fired indiscriminately around children and the elderly. Pepper spray unleashed at close-range on frustrated fans. Ticket holders blamed for delaying kickoff when they’d spent hours trying to enter the stadium in bottlenecks in tight spaces.
Liverpool supporters have been defending themselves against accusations by French authorities they were responsible for the unrest at the Champions League final amid overcrowding outside the Stade de France caused by operational failings on Saturday.
The British government called the treatment of the fans “deeply concerning.”
UEFA officials spent the hours after Liverpool lost 1-0 to Real Madrid in talks about the chaotic scenes that delayed the start of the final for 37 minutes in the biggest club match of the year.
Even as the final started, riot police were firing rounds of tear gas immediately outside the stadium doors into wide open spaces to disperse any lingering people around Gate U.
The French ministers for the interior and sports blamed ticketless Liverpool fans trying to force their way into the stadium, contrary to the scenes witnessed by reporters of people who appeared to be local youths climbing over fences. “Get down,” Liverpool supporters could be heard shouting.
“The stigma around English fans is being used by the French public authorities for cheap political gain,” Ronan Evain, executive director of Football Supporters Europe, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The closing of gates sparked concerns among hundreds of fans outside the Liverpool section but little obvious aggression from them. Hostility by police appeared to inflame frustrations.
Problems had been encountered even before getting to the final turnstiles with entry points into the wider perimeter blocked off, forcing fans through narrow passages that caused bottlenecks.
While UEFA blamed fans arriving late for delaying kickoff in stadium announcements greeted by jeers, thousands from Liverpool were seen arriving hours before the game to be greeted by organizational disarray in the heat of the late afternoon.
The congestion was partly caused by fans being diverted to a small entrance rather than a bigger one 150 meters away, said Evain, who advises UEFA on supporter issues.
“There have always been mobility problems around the Stade de France,” Evain said.
“We are appalled by the communication by the French public authorities. Liverpool and Real Madrid fans are the victims of yesterday’s fiasco and are not the culprits here.
“Tear gassing people trying to enter the stadium is insane.”
The British government called on UEFA to launch a formal investigation into what went wrong with officials from the stadium and French authorities.
“The footage and accounts from Liverpool fans and the media on their entry to the Stade de France last night are deeply concerning,” Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said.
“It is in the interests of everyone involved to understand what happened and to learn lessons from these events.”
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(NEXSTAR) – Feeling “financially comfortable” is getting more challenging for Americans as the cost of just about everything has skyrocketed over the past year.
The cost of all goods is about 8% more than this time last year. The housing market is especially tough right now. A recent CoreLogic report found the cost of homes nationwide rose more than 20% between March 2021 and March 2022, pricing out many would-be homebuyers. Renters haven’t had it easy either — a Zumper analysis published this week found the price of a one-bedroom apartment was up about 13% compared to last year.
With those rising costs in mind, what would it take to feel financially comfortable?
A survey, conducted by Logica Research for a Charles Schwab report, posed that question to people in 12 U.S. cities. The researchers spoke with people ages 21 to 75, from Atlanta to Denver to Los Angeles.
The cost of living is so high in cities like San Francisco and Seattle, survey respondents said they’d need to be millionaires just to feel comfortable financially.
Here’s the net worth people feel they would need to be financially secure in 12 U.S. cities, according to the Modern Wealth Survey:
- Atlanta: $771,000
- Boston: $892,000
- Chicago: $956,000
- Dallas: $840,000
- Denver: $671,000
- Houston: $919,000
- New York City: $1.4 million
- Phoenix: $747,000
- San Francisco: $1.7 million
- Seattle: $1.2 million
- Southern California (covering Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego): $1.3 million
- Washington, D.C.: $1.1 million
A person’s net worth includes the value of everything they own (like cars, homes, and savings) combined, minus any debt they have (like a mortgage or student loans).
Think those numbers are sky-high and out of reach? The net worths required to qualify as “wealthy” are much higher, the survey found. | https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/national-world/how-much-money-do-you-need-to-be-financially-secure-a-lot-survey-finds/ | 2022-05-29T16:24:18Z | https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/national-world/how-much-money-do-you-need-to-be-financially-secure-a-lot-survey-finds/ | true | 20 |
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Agency: 1 dead, 7 injured in Oklahoma festival shooting
TAFT, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say one person was killed and seven were injured in a shooting early Sunday at an outdoor festival in eastern Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that two juveniles were among those shot at the Memorial Day event near Taft, about 10 miles southeast of Tulsa.
The agency reports that witnesses said an argument precluded the gunfire just after midnight. No one has been arrested.
OSBI says about 1,500 people attended the event and that members of the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office who were also in attendance immediately rendered aid to those who were shot.
The agency provided no other details including the conditions of the injured.
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Three of Ontario's four major political parties are promising to take steps to lower the cost of food and tackle food insecurity, though they offer differing plans for how they would address the hot-button issue.
Statistics Canada reported earlier this month that overall food costs rose 8.8 per cent compared with a year ago, while Canadians paid 9.7 per cent more for food at stores in April, the largest increase since September 1981.
Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca says his party would remove the 8 per cent provincial harmonized sales tax on all prepared food items under $20 and ensure that local Ontario-based food suppliers "have a real shot" at not only selling what they produce, but doing so in a "fair" way.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says her party would create a provincial food strategy that involves working with farmers to make locally-sourced food more readily available, while also supporting agriculture jobs and backing the Grocery Code of Conduct to improve transparency and fair dealings in the industry.
The Green Party of Ontario is proposing to provide start-up funding and land for community-owned healthy food markets, community gardens and rooftop growing spaces, as well as a nutritious school lunch program for the public school system.
The Greens also say they would invest in research and innovation that improves the sustainability of how the province grows, produces and distributes food.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 29, 2022.
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Stephens Inc. AR cut its holdings in AmerisourceBergen Co. (NYSE:ABC – Get Rating) by 50.4% in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 7,112 shares of the company’s stock after selling 7,227 shares during the quarter. Stephens Inc. AR’s holdings in AmerisourceBergen were worth $945,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
A number of other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Ieq Capital LLC lifted its stake in shares of AmerisourceBergen by 1.6% in the 4th quarter. Ieq Capital LLC now owns 4,733 shares of the company’s stock worth $629,000 after acquiring an additional 74 shares during the period. Pinnacle Associates Ltd. grew its holdings in shares of AmerisourceBergen by 4.7% during the fourth quarter. Pinnacle Associates Ltd. now owns 1,851 shares of the company’s stock worth $246,000 after buying an additional 83 shares in the last quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC grew its holdings in shares of AmerisourceBergen by 1.8% during the fourth quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC now owns 4,650 shares of the company’s stock worth $618,000 after buying an additional 84 shares in the last quarter. Harbor Investment Advisory LLC boosted its position in shares of AmerisourceBergen by 6.3% in the fourth quarter. Harbor Investment Advisory LLC now owns 1,458 shares of the company’s stock worth $194,000 after acquiring an additional 87 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P boosted its position in shares of AmerisourceBergen by 7.0% in the fourth quarter. Loomis Sayles & Co. L P now owns 1,354 shares of the company’s stock worth $180,000 after acquiring an additional 88 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 64.17% of the company’s stock.
Shares of NYSE ABC traded up $1.06 during trading on Friday, reaching $156.86. 1,650,204 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,976,581. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $156.66 and its 200 day moving average price is $141.46. AmerisourceBergen Co. has a twelve month low of $111.34 and a twelve month high of $167.19. The company has a quick ratio of 0.56, a current ratio of 0.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.13. The company has a market capitalization of $32.86 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.13, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 0.45.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, May 31st. Investors of record on Monday, May 16th will be paid a $0.46 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 13th. This represents a $1.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.17%. AmerisourceBergen’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 22.44%.
In other AmerisourceBergen news, major shareholder Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. sold 6,000,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $150.00, for a total transaction of $900,000,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 52,854,867 shares in the company, valued at $7,928,230,050. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, EVP Gina Clark sold 43,704 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, March 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $153.71, for a total transaction of $6,717,741.84. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 6,078,379 shares of company stock valued at $912,048,947. Insiders own 28.40% of the company’s stock.
Several equities research analysts recently issued reports on ABC shares. StockNews.com raised shares of AmerisourceBergen from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Friday, May 6th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reduced their price target on shares of AmerisourceBergen from $168.00 to $167.00 in a research report on Wednesday. Robert W. Baird lifted their price target on shares of AmerisourceBergen from $179.00 to $187.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 5th. Argus lifted their price target on shares of AmerisourceBergen from $140.00 to $160.00 in a research report on Monday, March 14th. Finally, Barclays raised shares of AmerisourceBergen from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and lifted their price target for the company from $175.00 to $182.00 in a research report on Thursday. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, three have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $168.29.
AmerisourceBergen Company Profile (Get Rating)
AmerisourceBergen Corporation sources and distributes pharmaceutical products in the United States and internationally. Its Pharmaceutical Distribution segment distributes brand-name and generic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter healthcare products, home healthcare supplies and equipment, and related services to various healthcare providers, including acute care hospitals and health systems, independent and chain retail pharmacies, mail order pharmacies, medical clinics, long-term care and alternate site pharmacies, and other customers.
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(NEXSTAR) – One of the blue-and-white checkered dresses worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz” won’t be going home this weekend.
The dress was slated to sell for up to $1.2 million at Bonhams auction house in Los Angeles on Tuesday, CNN reports. But Monday, a U.S. District Judge in Manhattan halted the sale.
The reason? A fight over who actually owns the dress.
According to court documents, 81 year-old Barbara Anne Hartke says the dress belonged to her late uncle, Father Gilbert Hartke. Barbara claims the dress was given to her uncle, who worked at the Catholic University of America, by actress Mercedes McCambridge in 1973, NBC News reported.
After Father Hartke’s death, the dress got lost in the shuffle and was only rediscovered in a shoebox at the university last year. Barbara Hartke filed a lawsuit after learning the school was planning to auction it off.
Hartke says there’s no evidence her uncle ever “formally or informally” donated the dress to the university and that it belongs to her as his only living heir, NBC reported. Meanwhile, the university’s countersuit reads that Father Hartke had taken a vow “to never accept gifts in his personal capacity,” so it couldn’t be part of his estate.
Barbara Hartke’s attorney told CNN that the university is “not clear exactly what the vow consisted of,” claiming that Father Hartke “always accepted and [had] personal gifts.” Catholic University of America says there’s “overwhelming evidence” refuting Hartke’s ownership.
“Catholic University continues to be committed to its plan to use proceeds from a sale of the dress to endow a faculty position in the Rome School of Music, Drama and Art, which it believes is in line with Mercedes McCambridge’s original intent and Father Gilbert Hartke’s desire to support and grow the University’s drama program,” the school told CNN in a statement.
Bonhams’ auction catalog indicates that the dress was worn by Garland in scenes set at the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Despite the dress drama, the frock likely isn’t the most recognizable — or coveted — item from “The Wizard of Oz.”
Several pairs of the red-sequined heels — widely known as the “Ruby Slippers” — worn by Garland in the film have a storied history of sales and even theft. Smithsonian reports there are at least four surviving pairs of Ruby Slippers, including one that disappeared from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005.
The missing pair was ultimately located and seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation during a sting investigation. According to the FBI, the shoes, known as “the traveling pair,” were located after someone with knowledge of their whereabouts approached the company that insured them to discuss how they could be returned.
But the FBI soon discovered this person was “in reality attempting to extort the owners of the slippers.”
As of 2019, another pair is located at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, while the fourth — an early prototype — is last known to be owned by late actress Debbie Reynolds.
Meanwhile, the National Museum of American History’s Preservation Services spent about two years restoring Smithsonian’s own pair, which it acquired in 1979 from an undisclosed donor. As part of this process, conservators had to make repairs or restorations to each and every sequin, bead and thread, a Smithsonian spokesperson said. | https://www.cbs17.com/news/national-news/wizard-of-oz-dress-auction-blocked-by-judge-heres-why/ | 2022-05-29T16:36:40Z | https://www.cbs17.com/news/national-news/wizard-of-oz-dress-auction-blocked-by-judge-heres-why/ | true | 17 |
Plane missing in Nepal with 22 onboard
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Rescuers zeroed in on a possible location of a passenger plane with 22 people aboard that is feared to have crashed Sunday in cloudy weather in Nepal's mountains, officials said.
The Tara Air plane, which was on a 20-minute scheduled flight to the mountain town of Jomsom, took off from the resort town of Pokhara, 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Kathmandu. The turboprop Twin Otter aircraft lost contact with the airport tower close to landing in an area of deep river gorges and mountaintops.
An army helicopter as well as private choppers were taking part in the search, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in a statement.
Army troops and rescue teams were headed to the possible site of the crash, believed to be around Lete, a village in Mustang district, Narayan Silwal, the army spokesman, said on Twitter.
But bad weather and nightfall caused the search to be suspended until Monday morning, Silwal said.
"Poor visibility due to bad weather is hindering the efforts. The plane has not yet been located," he said. Rescuers were trying to reach an area where locals allegedly saw a fire, although it is still unclear what was burning, Silwal added. He said that officials can only verify the information once the troops reached the location.
Sudarshan Bartaula, spokesman for Tara Air, said that rescuers had narrowed down a possible location of the plane.
According to plane tracking data from flightradar24.com, the 43-year-old aircraft took off from Pokhara at 04:10 GMT and transmitted its last signal at 04:22 GMT at an altitude of 12,825 feet (3,900 meters).
There were six foreigners on board the plane, including four Indians and two Germans, according to a police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media.
The plane carried 19 passengers and three crew, Bartaula said.
It has been raining in the area for the past few days but flights have been operating normally. Planes on that route fly between mountains before landing in a valley.
It is a popular route with foreign hikers who trek on the mountain trails and also with Indian and Nepalese pilgrims who visit the revered Muktinath temple.
Nepal has had a spotty air safety record.
In 2016, a Tara Air Twin Otter flying the same route crashed after takeoff, killing all 23 people aboard. In 2012, an Agni Air plane also flying from Pokhara to Jomsom crashed, killing 15 people. Six people survived. In 2014, a Nepal Airlines plane flying from Pokhara to Jumla crashed, killing all 18 on board.
In 2018, a US-Bangla passenger plane from Bangladesh crashed on landing in Kathmandu, killing 49 of the 71 people aboard.
The Twin Otter is a rugged plane originally built by Canadian aircraft manufacturer De Havilland. It has been in service by small airlines and other operators around the world for more than half a century.
The plane, with its top-mounted wing and fixed landing gear, is prized for its durability and its ability to take off and land on short runways.
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The Adani Group is in talks with the () to raise about Rs 12,000 crore in long-term project loans that would be utilised to build the Ganga Expressway, billed as the country’s longest and linking Meerut in the northwest of Uttar Pradesh to Prayagraj in the state’s east.
SBI is engaged in a road traffic survey before loan terms are finalised, three people familiar with the matter told ET. In December, (AEL) won contracts from the Uttar Pradesh government to build three stretches of the 594-km Ganga Expressway. The fourth section was awarded to . AEL’s share of work is 80% of the total project. The loan will be of a longer maturity - anything between 10 and 30 years - although the terms are yet to be fixed.
The loan, if finalised, can be offered in high single-digits, in the range of 7-9%, sources said. SBI can down-sell parts of the total loan given to other local banks. Hide quoted text The Adani Group and SBI did not respond to ET’s queries. The Ganga Expressway will reportedly be India’s longest expressway to be implemented on Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) basis.
“The bank is conducting a survey on road traffic with the help of an external agency, which could be one of the Big Four firms,” said one of the persons cited above. This survey primarily predicts the potential of road toll collections. This helps lenders decide on the debt-equity ratio. Higher potential of toll collections lowers the share of equity. The debt-equity ratio can be up to 80:20 if there are no parallel roads, brightening the prospects of higher toll collections. The Ganga Expressway may have eight lanes and is expected to be completed by 2024.
It would be constructed over 6,500 hectares of land. The estimated cost against AEL’s three awards is Rs 17,000 crore. Holistically, it caters to huge real estate business opportunities for Uttar Pradesh as the project covers a dozen densely populated districts, including Hapur, Bulandshahar, Badaun and Raebareli. graded Adani Enterprises A+ (Stable outlook) for its bank facilities citing the group’s financial flexibility and completion of substantial capex.
In the roads segment, AEL now has 14 projects including three large greenfield packages of the Ganga Expressway. The rest of the projects are mostly HAM (Hybrid Annuity Model) projects.
Two months ago, Navi Mumbai International Airport, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, availed a long-term credit line from SBI for the greenfield project. The bank had committed the entire debt requirement of Rs 12,770 crore for the ambitious project.
SBI is engaged in a road traffic survey before loan terms are finalised, three people familiar with the matter told ET. In December, (AEL) won contracts from the Uttar Pradesh government to build three stretches of the 594-km Ganga Expressway. The fourth section was awarded to . AEL’s share of work is 80% of the total project. The loan will be of a longer maturity - anything between 10 and 30 years - although the terms are yet to be fixed.
The loan, if finalised, can be offered in high single-digits, in the range of 7-9%, sources said. SBI can down-sell parts of the total loan given to other local banks. Hide quoted text The Adani Group and SBI did not respond to ET’s queries. The Ganga Expressway will reportedly be India’s longest expressway to be implemented on Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) basis.
“The bank is conducting a survey on road traffic with the help of an external agency, which could be one of the Big Four firms,” said one of the persons cited above. This survey primarily predicts the potential of road toll collections. This helps lenders decide on the debt-equity ratio. Higher potential of toll collections lowers the share of equity. The debt-equity ratio can be up to 80:20 if there are no parallel roads, brightening the prospects of higher toll collections. The Ganga Expressway may have eight lanes and is expected to be completed by 2024.
It would be constructed over 6,500 hectares of land. The estimated cost against AEL’s three awards is Rs 17,000 crore. Holistically, it caters to huge real estate business opportunities for Uttar Pradesh as the project covers a dozen densely populated districts, including Hapur, Bulandshahar, Badaun and Raebareli. graded Adani Enterprises A+ (Stable outlook) for its bank facilities citing the group’s financial flexibility and completion of substantial capex.
In the roads segment, AEL now has 14 projects including three large greenfield packages of the Ganga Expressway. The rest of the projects are mostly HAM (Hybrid Annuity Model) projects.
Two months ago, Navi Mumbai International Airport, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, availed a long-term credit line from SBI for the greenfield project. The bank had committed the entire debt requirement of Rs 12,770 crore for the ambitious project.
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In the aftermath of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, schools around the U.S. have brought in additional security staff and restricted visitors as they deal with a new rash of copycat threats.
For some families and educators it all has added to uneasiness in the wake of the deadliest school shooting since the 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Jake Green, 34, of Los Alamos, New Mexico, was jolted when he saw a plainclothes police officer for the first time while walking his 7-year-old daughter into school Friday morning. He grew up in Colorado, not far from where two Columbine High School students shot and killed 12 classmates and a teacher in 1999. Green remembers attending memorials and candlelight vigils as a fifth-grader, but he’s torn about whether having police at his daughter’s school is best.
“In a way, I don’t really feel any safer with police around,” Green said. “Seeing the police there, it really made it seem like the worst possibility was even more possible today.”
In El Paso, Texas, where a gunman killed 23 people in a racist 2019 attack that targeted Hispanics at a Walmart, schools are on edge. The El Paso Independent School District has already encountered some reported threats that turned out to be false. They were either “students joking or overly-sensitive parents,” said Gustavo Reveles Acosta, a district spokesperson.
“Our community is still raw from that incident,” Acosta said. “It hits us in a pretty emotional way.”
The district, which has its own police department, has also stepped up patrolling at all 85 campuses. Officers have been pulled from monitoring traffic or other duties. Schools already have updated camera surveillance systems. Visitors are required to ring a doorbell and show identification before they can enter.
The district is making a point to look out for teachers' and students' mental health. A counseling team has been visiting every school to speak about the shooting in Uvalde. They are also urging people to talk in private about any distress.
Mia Baucom, a 15-year-old student at a Forth Worth, Texas, high school said it was surreal to think the Uvalde killings happened in her home state. It also stirred memories of a lockdown at her school two months ago that was prompted by a shooting.
“I’m a little more stressed out about it because just the fear of what if that happened at my school?” said Baucom, whose last day of school was Thursday. “Let’s say we get more police officers. Most likely that’s not going to stop people from going crazy and just shooting up schools.”
Schools have ramped up police presence in a host of states, including Connecticut, Michigan and New York, after the shooting Tuesday that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
In Buffalo, New York, where a white gunman fatally shot 10 people in a racist attack in a supermarket on May 14, the largest school district announced new security rules effective immediately. Any visitors — parents, siblings, vendors — have to call ahead for approval. No exceptions will be made. They may be subjected to a search by a wand detector. Doors will be locked at all times.
In Jacksonville, Florida, the Duval County Public Schools' chief of school police banned backpacks or large handbags at any school through Friday, the last day of school. Small purses were allowed but could be searched.
A discredited threat against a middle school prompted a Texas school district 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Uvalde to end the school year a week early. The Kingsville Independent School District announced Friday would be the last day of school. But students should not see any penalty for the premature end to the year.
“In light of the tragedy in Uvalde, there has been an enormous amount of stress and trauma. Unfortunately, more stress and trauma are added with ‘copy-cat threats’ that start circulating such as the one that was sent today for Gillett (Middle School),” Superintendent Dr. Cissy Reynolds-Perez wrote in a statement on the district's website.
It's clear staff and students nationwide are on edge as several reports of firearm sightings on campuses have popped up in the past few days.
Two Seattle-area schools went into lockdown Friday morning and police eventually recovered an airsoft gun. The Everett, Washington, schools then had their lockdowns lifted.
Two people were arrested Thursday after a Denver high school locked down its campus. Police found a paintball gun but no other firearms. Classes were canceled anyway. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/05/29/after-texas-shooting--schools-around-u-s--boost-security | 2022-05-29T16:51:05Z | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/05/29/after-texas-shooting--schools-around-u-s--boost-security | false | 25 |
Parks Dept: Cordoned Off Section of Williamsbridge Oval Unrelated to Legionnaire’s Possible Cluster
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation has allayed fears that a section of Williamsbridge Oval park in Norwood may have been cordoned off to curtail the potential spread of Legionnaire’s disease, following an announcement on Saturday, May 21, by the Bronx Borough President that the City’s health department were...
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Okay. You've written a little bit about something called the imposter syndrome. What is the imposter syndrome and how can students overcome it? Okay, the imposter syndrome is like a tape that plays inside people's heads, not just students, a lot of people. Let's do it in a student context though. The tape is like this, so the student is sitting in class, looking around and thinking, "Boy, these people are really good. They get this stuff, they can answer the teacher's questions, they can do the homework, they can do fine on the test. But I," the tape inside the head continues, "I'm really not." Right? I've managed to fool them all over the years, the tape goes, my friends, my family, my teachers, into thinking that I'm this real hotshot who belongs at this first-class university taking engineering, taking science, taking economics, whatever I'm taking. But I know better. The tape continues, "The very next tough question I get in class, the very next hard test that I have to take, that's what's going to finally once and for all reveal me as the fraud, the phony, the imposter that I know I am." Then what happens then is usually too horrifying to contemplate and so at that point, the imposter usually stops the tape, rewinds it, and gets it going again. The interesting thing about that phenomenon is how utterly common it is. But every student playing that tape imagines that he or she is the only one who's doing it and the idea that a lot of people are doing it and that hotshot in the front row with a 4.0 average, the tape is playing louder than it is in anyone else's head, comes as a surprise to them. The reason that I'm so sure about how common this phenomenon is is that I've given this talk many times to students. So, I am in an auditorium full of students that I'm giving this talk to and when I get to the part about they all think I belong here but I know better, it's like I plucked a guitar string. There is a quiver that goes over the entire audience and eyes dilate and jaws go slack and then they start checking each other out and there's this tangible relaxation that goes over the entire room as they realize this is just a scam. I'm playing on myself and it is a scam. If a student managed to do everything needed to get into this college, to pass all of the entrance requirements, maybe to get through that difficult first year, then obviously, they have the ability to do it because they did it. So, when I make that speech, as I say, it relaxes a lot of students and once you're familiar with that phenomenon, what happens is imposters keep showing up. In my office, not a week goes by that I don't see two or three imposters coming into my office and as soon as they start talking about the problems that they're having, "Okay, here's another imposter." I reach into the left middle drawer of my desk in a file folder there. I pull out a copy of a little column that I wrote on the imposter phenomenon and I say, "Here. Check this out. You might find it intriguing." So, this imposter in my office reads his or her biography and it's high drama. I get the tears from male and female imposters. I get practically screaming. I had one woman student accuse me of stealing her diary. So, it's a really good thing for teachers to know about and it's a very, very good thing for students to know about because we're all playing it. It may surprise you to know that a lot of us have that imposter feeling often and that's something that each of us has struggled with in our whole adult lives as well as some of our students. The power, I think, is in naming it, oh, it's the imposter. Once you realize that that's what you're doing, then it diffuses a lot of the power. You can just remind yourself, "Okay, I know how to do this, I can. This may be something new, but I've met challenges before. I'll meet this one. I can do it," and go ahead and push on. You'll find that as you get into whatever the task may be, that you settle down and you realize you really can do it and you have resources if you have trouble. Right. So, now, let's turn to something a little different. What do you both do to avoid procrastination when it comes to something you'd really rather not be doing. Do you ever struggle with this? It's hard to think that two of these. Let me get to you later on that. Yeah. When we figure it out, we'll let you know. No, we definitely both struggle with it as I'm sure you knew when you asked that question. We found some strategies, [inaudible] for each of us that work, but it is still something we struggle with. I like to try to schedule myself if I've got a big task, schedule a small amount of time every day to work on it, to do just a little bit. Not try to do everything all at once but to bite off a small chunk. I've also found it to be really helpful where I keep a to-do list on my phone and if I break the task down into smaller pieces, whats the very next thing that I need to do that's manageable, then that makes it less overwhelming and I'm able to get going on it. Once you get started, it's easier to keep going. Oh, absolutely. This is one area where Rebecca and I are exactly on the same page. So, I use the same strategies. There were two points in the strategy that she mentioned which I'll just reiterate. One is breaking it up into small pieces. If I think I've got to write the book or I've got to write the dissertation or I've got to write the 25-page proposal, it's Mount Everest and it's very hard to get myself to take that first step. But if I say, "I've got to write the first two pages of the introduction to this thing," that I can do. That's not that formidable. So, if I just break it up into small pieces and set easy targets for myself, then I can keep marching. Then the other suggestion that she made which I would agree with is make appointments with yourself. So, if I work well in the morning, I'm a morning person, I think well, I'm clear headed then, then 10 O'clock to 10:30 every morning on my calendar, I make an appointment with myself, I'm going to work on that proposal for that half hour then I'll stop and I'll go back to the rest of my life. Next day, 10 O'clock, assuming I don't have other obligations at 10 O'clock, I'll do another half hour on it. It's incredible how stuff gets done when you can do things on a regular basis and the ones that you're most reluctant to do that you're putting off because I don't want to do that, those are the ones that you've got to schedule appointments with yourself. What a lot of people do is they work on the block of time theory and a time to work on the proposal now or the term paper now, but as soon as it's the weekend, as soon as this fall break or anything like that, that's when I really get it done, and it doesn't work. Among other things, as soon as you get to this block of time, other things rush in to fill it. Also, it can be so long since the last time you worked on it, you forgot what you were doing, and by the time you figure it out and get your momentum back up, the block of time may be over. But the steady appointment to just do the next chunk for half an hour, it'll get done. Some people find some form of accountability is helpful. A charge where they're checking off the stamps or a friend who will check in with them regularly, "How's it going on that project? Are you making progress?" But those kinds of things can be good strategies to. Absolutely. Well, I'm a big believer in the half hour chunk. That time frame seems to work really well for me for something that I'm having difficulty completing. I would like to thank you ever so much for your incredible responses that I think people will find enormously helpful. It's a great pleasure. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/learning-how-to-learn/optional-part-3-the-imposter-syndrome-and-dealing-with-procrastination-interview-nnVjq | 2022-05-29T17:07:39Z | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/learning-how-to-learn/optional-part-3-the-imposter-syndrome-and-dealing-with-procrastination-interview-nnVjq | true | 1 |
Egypt sentences ex-presidential candidate to 15 years: judiciary
Aboul Fotouh was sentenced by an Egyptian emergency court to 15 years in prison for "spreading false news" and "incitement against state institutions"
An Egyptian emergency court on Sunday sentenced former presidential candidate Abdelmoneim Aboul Fotouh to 15 years in prison for "spreading false news" and "incitement against state institutions", judiciary sources said.
Aboul Fotouh has been in detention since 2018 and his trial began last November, though Egyptian law sets a legal cap of two years for pretrial detention.
The verdict cannot be appealed.
He was sentenced alongside 24 others, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood group, from which the former candidate had defected years before.
Also receiving a 15-year sentence was the Brotherhood's former supreme guide Mahmoud Ezzat, who is already serving multiple life sentences on other charges.
Mohamed al-Qassas, the deputy head of Aboul Fotouh's Strong Egypt party, received a 10-year sentence, while the remaining defendants were sentenced to between 10 years and life in prison.
Lawyer Khaled Ali, a prominent opposition figure and himself a former presidential candidate, last month submitted what he said was irrefutable evidence of Aboul Fotouh's innocence.
Episodes of a TV series screened during the month of Ramadan -- featuring real-life footage of Aboul Fotouh criticising the Brotherhood, filmed by state intelligence without his knowledge -- were used in his defence.
Amnesty International condemned Sunday's ruling, describing the trial as "grossly unfair and politically-motivated" and alleging that the defendants had been "subjected to a litany of abuses including torture".
The rights group also said that Aboul Fotouh, aged 70, had been denied medical care for years.
In 2012, Aboul Fotouh was among a number of candidates who ran unsuccessfully in elections that saw the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi voted into power.
Morsi's divisive rule lasted for just one year, before he was ousted by then-defence minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following mass protests in July 2013.
The Brotherhood was subsequently declared a terrorist organisation and thousands of its members and sympathisers arrested in an ensuing crackdown.
Aboul Fotouh was arrested in 2018 after he joined a call to boycott that year's presidential election, in which Sisi was reelected with a landslide 97 percent of votes.
Once a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the former candidate had supported the mass protests against the Islamists, before going on to become a critic of Sisi and his ensuing clampdown on dissent.
He was sacked from the Brotherhood's leadership in 2009, and has since denied any ongoing association with the group.
Aboul Fotouh's assets have been frozen since he was arrested and added to the state's terror list for "leading a terrorist organisation". | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10865825/Egypt-sentences-ex-presidential-candidate-15-years-judiciary.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-05-29T17:20:24Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10865825/Egypt-sentences-ex-presidential-candidate-15-years-judiciary.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 8 |
(The Conversation) – Americans have blamed many culprits, from mental illness to inadequate security, for the tragic mass shootings that are occurring with increasing frequency in schools, offices and theaters across the U.S.
The latest, which occurred on May 24, 2022, at a Texas elementary school and left 19 children and two teachers dead, was the 213th mass shooting this year – and the 27th that took place in a school.
Yet during much of America’s ongoing conversation about the root causes of gun violence, the makers of guns have typically escaped scrutiny. As a public health researcher, I find this odd, because evidence shows that the culture around guns contributes significantly to gun violence. And firearm manufacturers have played a major role in influencing American gun culture.
That’s beginning to change, particularly since the $73 million settlement between the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the maker of the rifle used in the massacre. This may open the door for more lawsuits against firearm manufacturers.
To help support this much-needed discussion, I’d like to share some critical facts about the firearm industry that I’ve learned from my research on gun violence prevention.
Surging handgun sales
The U.S. is saturated with guns, and has become a lot more so over the past decade. In 2020 alone, U.S. gun manufacturers produced 11.1 million firearms, up from 5.4 million in 2010. Pistols and rifles made up about 75% of the total.
In addition, only a small number of gun-makers dominate the market. The top five pistol manufacturers alone controlled over 70% of all production in 2020: Smith & Wesson; Sig Sauer; Sturm, Ruger & Co.; Glock and Kimber Manufacturing. Similarly, the biggest rifle manufacturers – Sturm, Smith & Wesson, Springfield, Henry Rac Holding and Diamondback Firearms – controlled 61% of that market.
But all that only tells part of the story. A look at the caliber of pistols manufactured over the past decade reveals a significant change in demand that has reshaped the industry.
The number of manufactured large-caliber pistols able to fire rounds greater than or equal to 9 mm has soared over the past 15 years, rising from just over half a million in 2005 to more than 3.9 million by 2020. The number of .38-caliber pistols – small handguns designed specifically for concealed carry – jumped to a record 1.1 million in 2016 and totaled 660,000 in 2020, compared with 107,000 in 2005.
This indicates a growing demand for more lethal weapons, especially those focused specifically on self-defense and concealed carry.
The production of rifles has also increased, doubling from 1.4 million in 2005 to 2.8 million in 2020, though down from a record 4.2 million in 2016. This is driven primarily by a higher demand for semi-automatic weapons, including assault rifles.
Explaining the stats
So what can explain the jump in the sale of high-caliber handguns and semi-automatic rifles?
Gun-makers have become very effective at marketing their wares as necessary tools for self-defense – perhaps in large part to offset a decline in demand for recreational use.
For example, in 2005, Smith & Wesson announced a major new marketing campaign focused on “safety, security, protection and sport.” The number of guns the company sold soared after the switch, climbing 30% in 2005 and 50% in 2006, led by strong growth in pistol sales. By comparison, the number of firearms sold in 2004 rose 11% over the previous year.
There’s strong survey evidence that gun owners have become less likely to cite hunting or sport as a reason for their ownership, instead pointing to personal security. The percentage of gun owners who told Gallup that the reason they possessed a firearm was for hunting fell to 40% in 2019 from almost 60% in 2000. The share that cited “sport” as their reason fell even more.
Meanwhile, Gallup found that 88% of gun owners in 2021 reported self-defense as a primary reason, up from 67% in 2005.
‘Stand your ground’ laws flourish
Another possible explanation for the uptick in handguns could be the widespread adoption of state “stand your ground” laws in recent years. These laws explicitly allow people to use guns as a first resort for self-defense in the face of a threat.
Utah enacted the first “stand your ground” measure in 1994. The second law wasn’t adopted until 2005 in Florida. A year later, “stand your ground” laws took off, with 11 states enacting one in 2006 alone. Another 15 have passed such laws since then, bringing the total number of states that have them on the books to 28.
These laws were the result of a concerted National Rifle Association lobbying campaign. For example, Florida’s law, which George Zimmerman used in 2013 to escape charges for killing Trayvon Martin, was drafted by former NRA President Marion Hammer.
It’s not clear whether the campaign to promote stand-your-ground laws fueled the surge in handgun production. But it’s possible that it’s part of a larger effort to normalize the ownership of firearms for self-defense.
This overall picture suggests that a marketing change fueled an increased demand for more lethal weapons. This, in turn, appears to have fostered a change in gun culture, which has shifted away from an appreciation of the use of guns for hunting, sport and recreation and toward a view that guns are a necessity to protect oneself from criminals.
How and whether this change in gun culture is influencing rates of firearms violence is a question I’m currently researching.
This is an updated version of an article published on Feb. 23, 2018. | https://wreg.com/news/nation-and-world/6-charts-show-key-role-firearms-makers-play-in-americas-gun-culture/ | 2022-05-29T17:34:45Z | https://wreg.com/news/nation-and-world/6-charts-show-key-role-firearms-makers-play-in-americas-gun-culture/ | true | 41 |
Well, there's a lot of interesting discussion these days, in the field of the neuroscience of pain, especially as it relates to various psychological phenomena that had been well studied in another context, such as the placebo effect or expectancy effects. It very well may be that these Affects are mediated via projections that modulate how this periaqueductal gray. Then mobilizes the resources of the brain stem. To modulate the transmission of no susceptive signals in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. So, stay tuned. I'm sure we will learn much more about these mechanisms in the years to come. And now, let's turn our attention to feedforward modulation of nociception. And this gets us into a really fascinating discussion of an idea that's more than 50 years old now, and it's called the gate theory of pain. And the idea essentially is this. That somewhere in the central nervous system, there is competition between the signals that are being driven from our mechanoreceptor afference and those that are driven from our no susceptive afference. And this competition, potentially, can allow for a mechanoreceptor to close the gate on the transmission of pain signals. Well, here's one circuit that was proposed by Melzack and Wall about 60 years ago. That attempts to provide a way of understanding why we do something as simple squeeze a finger after we've hit it with a hammer. Well, The idea is that in addition to the usual projection to the dorsal columns that our mechanal receptor apharent might provide, perhaps there's a collateral that synapses on one of these small inter-neurons in the substantal gelatenosa That potentially can inhibit the transmission of pain information from let's say an A delta afferent synapsing upon a dorsal horn projection neuron. Well, if we imagint that this A beta fiber conveying the[UNKNOWN] sensation. Fires action potentials that converge upon such an interneuron. Then perhaps the effect is to suppress the firing of our C fiber afarrent on the dorsal horn neuron. And this conceptually would be a paradigm for closing the gate on pain transmission. So getting back to hitting your thumb with a hammer, our first impulse often is to squeeze that thumb that's just been struck. Well, I think what our impulse is driving us to do is activate mechanoreceptors, and that competition between nociceptors and mechanoceptors might be playing out in the circuitory of the dorsal horn of the cervical spinal cord as we squeeze our thumb, such that what we actually experience then has more to do with the sensations that are driven by the mechanoreceptors than those that are driven by the nociceptors. Well, this is a rather vague concept that I think still remains to be well established in the neuroanatomy in the neurophysiology of the circuits of the dorsal horn, but the idea itself has been very powerful and it's led to a number of new interventions that are aimed at closing the gate to paint transmission, perhaps at other levels for example, one surgical intervention now to address some forms of pain would be to stimulate with a micro-electrode the dorsal columns of the spinal cord. So, the idea would be that perhaps there is another gate, or maybe a series of gates. At higher levels of processing along our symatic sensory pathways. Perhaps in the thalamus, or perhaps in the cortex itself. And by activating mechanosensory fibers, perhaps the gate to the transmission of painful information can be shut. Well let's move on now and talk about a few remaining topics before we rack, wrap up and, and let's just spend a few minutes thinking together about chronic pain. Well chronic pain is a huge problem in societies around the world. It's the source of untold disability, and suffering from people from all walks of life. And chronic pain can usually be conceptualized, as either being related to some no-susceptive source or not all. So there is a nociceptive chronic pain that results from ongoing stimulation of nocicepters. You might imagine there is some ongoing sites of inflammation or injury to peripheral structures that continues to drive [unknown] activity in our nociceptors. Such forms of chronic pain would stimulate both our a delta and our c fibers and so one would expect both first and second pain sorts of signels. There's also a chronic pain syndrome that has largely remained somewhat of a amysterty to meducal neuroscience. Typically this is a syndrome of chronic pain when there is no known nociceptive idiology. Examples might include some individuals who suffer with chronic lower back pain perhaps fibromyalgia. That doesn't mean that there is not nociceptive source, it's just that to date none has been discovered when we apply this label of chronic pain syndrome. The actual etiology therefore remains poorly understood but in most cases we consider it to be not a matter of a psychogenic etiology. But rather just, an ideology that remains poorly understood in terms of the fundamental neuroscience that underlies the source of these signals that are interpreted as pain. There have been a variety of recent proposals about, where these chronic pain states might come from. One idea that is under investigation is that perhaps there's some dysregulation of those feedback descending systems that run through structures like the periaqueductal gray and ultimately through the brain stem and into the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Some disregulation of the brain's intrinsic means of dampening down nociception, potentially could lead to sustaining a chronic pain state. But undoubtedly there's more to it than that and probably a lot more interesting neuroscience involved. Which leads us to our final topic, and that would be neuropathic pain. So neuropathic pain refers to pain that arises because there's abnormal activity in a nociceptive pathway that's unrelated to the presence of a nociceptive stimulus out in the peripheral structures of the body. Well, one can imagine at least two kinds of sources of this kind of abnormal activity. One could be if there's direct compression on a nerve and that compression can cause there to be a physical opening of ion channels in the membranes in that region of the compression. Should that be the case, one can imagine the development of an ectopic focus for the generation of action potentials that then propagate centrally and ultimately, the central nervous system interprets that as pain. So nerve compression can be a common peripheral cause of neuropathic pain. Now, if that's the case, one might expect there to be other accompanying sensations, and often that is the case. There are paresthesias, which is a term that's used to describe just unusual somatic sensory sensations. That don't commonly map on to the usual experience of encountering a mechanical stimulus. Well this is one common scenario where neuropathic pain can be trouble. But neuropathic pain can also arise through central mechanisms. So among the central causes of neuropathic pain Would be the sustained sensitization of neurons in a nociceptive pathway. We've already talked some about this phenomenon of windup. One can imagine if neurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, for example, stayed in that state for an extended period of time then that might lead to the development of a chronic pain condition. Another idea about neuropathic pain is that perhaps it's a reflection of abnormal autonomic nervous system output, to visceral structures, including perhaps even the vasculature. So one idea is that maybe the sympathetic outflow to the viscera Is disregulated in some way. And then visceral sensory inputs back into the nervous system are what's driving this interpretation of pain. But I think perhaps the most interesting idea that's emerged in recent years is the notion that neuropathic pain may arise because of plasticity. That's become maladaptive for human behavior. And this maladaptive plasticity might be sustaining the chronic pain state. 1 prime example of such phenomena, might be those that are affiliated with phantom limbs. So, phantom limb sensations are those that are generated following a nerve injury or limb loss either through trauma or through surgical intervention. And, here before us are illustrations of what some patients have reported to be the sensations associated with body parts that are no longer present. And you can see that these sensations take a variety of forms. Sometimes there's nearly a complete sensation of the missing limb. Sometimes it's only a partial sensation of that missing limb. Sometimes there's this phenomenon of telescoping, such as what we find here. Where the more distal part of the missing limb feels like its more proximal than it actually would be or the limb intact. Well these sensations I think really capture what I started off telling you about. And this is that pain is a tremendously complex phenomenon. It involves more than just new susception. But perhaps even more signifigantly, it involves how those no susceptive signals become integrated into our conscious awareness. And that phenomenon is 1 that, I think, will continue to be a problem, in health care. But also. I think neuroscience offers wonderful opportunity to approach this problem through new multi disciplinary means. One might imagine for example, if the problem of pain really is one of in the forebrain. Then there may be different ways to intervene. That don't necessarily work through the peripheral channel that might have triggered the pain in the first place. Perhaps this is why social structures, physical exercise often can be such a benefit to people that are experiencing pain states. Well, there's much more research that needs to be done in this fascinating field of, of pain and pain-management. And I hope that you all might have an opportunity to contribute to the advancement of this field and the alleviation of human suffering. But in the meantime, let's apply ourselves well. To the studies of the mechanisms of nociception and to the organization of the central pathways that convey nociceptive signals into the nervous system and on up to the levels of the cerebral cortex. So, if you've not yet looked at the tutorial on the pain pathways, you might want to go ahead and queue that up next. So, I'll see you there, when we. Briefly review the pathways for pain transmission in the central nervous system. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/medical-neuroscience/pain-systems-part-3-ZAZlm | 2022-05-29T17:45:14Z | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/medical-neuroscience/pain-systems-part-3-ZAZlm | true | 1 |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister said Sunday that protesting youth groups will be invited to be part of governance under political reforms he is proposing to solve the country’s political crisis triggered by an economic collapse.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that under proposed constitutional reforms, powers of the president will be clipped and those of Parliament strengthened. In a televised statement to the nation, he said that governance will be broad-based through parliamentary committees where lawmakers, youth and experts will work together.
“The youth are calling for a change in the existing system. They also want to know the current issues. Therefore, I propose to appoint four youth representatives to each of these 15 committees,” Wickremesinghe said.
Protesters consisting of mainly young people have camped out outside the president’s office for more than 50 days. They’re demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, holding him and his family responsible for the country’s worst economic crisis. They also want an overhaul of a system of governance, saying successive administrations since independence from Britain in 1948 have misruled the country leading to economic and social crises.
Students have led nearly daily protests in capital Colombo and elsewhere as Sri Lanka tethers on the brink of bankruptcy. It has already defaulted on its foreign loans, and is battling acute shortages of essential goods like cooking gas, fuel and medicines. People have been forced to wait for hours in long lines to try to buy goods and many still go empty handed.
The country’s foreign currency reserves have dwindled to just enough to purchase two weeks of needed imports.
Authorities announced last month that they were suspending repayment of nearly $7 billion foreign debt due this year. Sri Lanka has to pay up $25 billion through 2026. Total foreign debt of the Indian Ocean island nation is $51 billion.
According to Wickremesinghe’s proposal, one of the youth representatives will be appointed by the so-called “youth parliament” and the other three will come from protesting groups and other activist organizations. “The methodology used to chose these individuals can be decided by the youth organizations themselves,” he said.
There has been no immediate comment from youth groups to his proposal. Setting up new broad-based parliamentary committees apparently can be done under the current constitution, but broader reforms such as reducing presidential powers would need approval of the Supreme Court and a two-thirds parliamentary majority. It isn’t clear when the bill will be introduced for debate.
Violence erupted on May 9, when Rajapaksa supporters attacked peaceful protesters. Nine people including a governing party lawmaker were killed and homes of Cabinet ministers burnt down. The unrest nearly dismantled the Rajapaksa dynasty after the president’s brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned as prime minister. Three of the president’s siblings and a nephew had already quit their Cabinet posts.
Sri Lanka has been ruled by a powerful executive presidential system for nearly 45 years, and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa strengthened it further with constitutional changes as soon as he was overwhelmingly elected in 2019.
Wickremesinghe has said that he will have an economic reform plan ready within two weeks to seek approval from the International Monetary Fund for a bailout package. | https://www.ktsm.com/news/international/sri-lanka-pm-invites-protesting-youth-to-join-governance/ | 2022-05-29T17:49:09Z | https://www.ktsm.com/news/international/sri-lanka-pm-invites-protesting-youth-to-join-governance/ | true | 21 |
CINCINNATI (AP) — San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler, who has been avoiding the field during the national anthem as a protest following last week's school shooting in Texas, said he may suspend that decision Monday in recognition of Memorial Day.
Kapler said Friday he would refuse to take the field for the anthem to protest the nation’s political direction. He said his protest would continue "until I feel better about the direction of our country.”
But before Sunday's game in Cincinnati, when asked specifically what he would do on Memorial Day, when his Giants play in Philadelphia, Kapler wasn't definitive, saying he may take the field for the anthem.
“I'm very comfortable taking it day by day,” Kapler said. “I think I’ll just decide what makes the most sense in the moment.
“Memorial Day is an important day in our country’s history and a special day and a unique day,” he said. “I find it to be one that deserves special attention.”
On Friday, Kapler used his personal blog to discuss the shooting deaths Tuesday of the 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. The attack occurred just 10 days after a gunman espousing racist hatred killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
“Every time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I’m participating in a self congratulatory glorification of the only country where these mass shootings take place," Kapler wrote on his blog.
Several of Kapler’s fellow managers offered their support for his decision to avoid the field during the anthem. But Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa said that while he agrees with Kapler that something needs to be done, the anthem isn't the proper time to protest.
“While I was making allowances for other opinions on all sides of the topics, I understand that opinions are wide-ranging,” Kapler said Sunday.
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Valley, Guthrie, Paducah graduates Class of 2022; Motley, Silverton commencements Friday
Twelve seniors graduated on Friday night from Valley High School, 17 from Paducah and 10...
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This course will help you be a better negotiator. Unlike many negotiation courses, we develop a framework for analyzing and shaping negotiations. This framework will allow you to make principled arguments that persuade others. It will allow you to see beneath the surface of apparent conflicts to uncover the underlying interests. You will leave the course better able to predict, interpret, and shape the behavior of those you face in competitive situations. In this course, you will have several opportunities to negotiate with other students using case studies based on common situations in business and in life. You can get feedback on your performance and compare what you did to how others approached the same scenario. The cases also provide a setting to discuss a wide-ranging set of topics including preparing for a negotiation, making ultimatums, avoiding regret, expanding the pie, and dealing with someone who has a very different perspective on the world. Advanced topics include negotiating when you have no power, negotiating over email, and the role of gender differences in negotiation. To close out the course, we will hear insights from three negotiation experts: Linda Babcock, Herb Cohen, and John McCall MacBain. Enjoy. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/negotiation/justifying-your-value-fUsqS | 2022-05-29T18:00:12Z | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/negotiation/justifying-your-value-fUsqS | true | 11 |
Jose Trevino hits RBI single in 11th to give Yankees 7-6 win over Orioles, snaps three-game losing streak
Where were you for the Jose Trevino game?
A back and forth, marathon contest at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night ended with the catcher smacking a ball down the left field line for a walk-off single in the 11th inning. The clutch hit gave the Yankees a 7-6 win in a game that looked to be slipping away from them, including in the top half of the eleventh.
Trevino finished the game 3-for-4 with three RBI, a home run and a walk. After the game, Trevino, a native of Corpus Christi, Tex., revealed the game had extra significance for him.
“I just want to start by saying my thoughts and prayers are with everybody in Uvalde, Texas tonight,” Trevino said, referring to the town where 19 children were killed in a school shooting earlier in the day. “I know y’all saw some tears. There’s a reason behind it. My dad was a huge Yankees fan. He would always put me in these scenarios. ‘Ninth inning, down one, we need a base hit here to tie the game or win the game, at Yankee Stadium.’ My dad passed away in 2013. Today was his birthday.
“It would have been awesome for him to be here today, but I know he’s watching.”
Isiah Kiner-Falefa scored the winning run on Trevino’s knock. The two played together in Texas as well, and Kiner-Falefa revealed that he was part of another special moment for Trevino involving his dad in 2018.
“I was on second base, and it was Father’s Day,” Kiner-Falefa began. “He hit a walkoff single. That was a cool moment that I got to be a part of. I scored the winning run. For me to score the winning run again in kind of the same situation, on a bigger stage for the Yankees, that was a cool moment for him to earn those pinstripes.”
The Yankees started the game looking like a team that was tired of losing, even if their streak was only at three in a row. After four innings they had a three-run lead that is often enough to take care of a team like the Orioles. While they lost their way a bit during the game, they still left the field after three hours and 36 minutes with a win in hand.
Anthony Rizzo got that no-nonsense plan in motion early. Strolling to the plate as the Yankees’ third hitter of the night, Rizzo turned around a 90 mile per hour fastball on the inside corner and watched it sail into the second deck. The picturesque home run was Rizzo’s 12th of the year but only second in the month of May. Before the game, Yankees’ manager Aaron Boone suggested that Rizzo’s month-long slump was coming from a timing issue, and that sometimes one good swing is all it takes to get right again.
If Rizzo’s first at-bat of the night was any indication — he struck out, sharply grounded into the shift and drew two walks in his remaining plate appearances — the barrage of home runs that defined the beginning of his season may be on their way back.
With Joey Gallo and Josh Donaldson (COVID injured list), Kyle Higashioka (activated from the COVID IL just hours before the game) and DJ LeMahieu (left wrist discomfort), all out of the lineup, Trevino’s unexpected big day came at the perfect time. With just 11 career home runs entering the game, he demolished a ball 413 feet into the Baltimore bullpen in the third inning for the Yankees’ second tally of the night.
Gleyber Torres joined the solo home run party in the fourth inning. At that point, a Yankee win seemed like a formality, but the Orioles get paid to play in the big leagues too. Rougned Odor started their comeback with an RBI groundout in the fifth to give the O’s life, Austin Hays slapped one over the short porch in the seventh, and four batters later, Odor landed what looked like the knockout blow.
Odor’s line drive into the right field seats off his former teammate Michael King gave Baltimore a late 5-3 lead, stunning the crowd who were both expecting a straightforward win and had watched King blow the ball past hitters all season.
The Yankees were able to answer the bell after Odor got his revenge. In their half of the seventh — right after Estevan Florial unexpectedly pinch hit for Giancarlo Stanton, who Boone reported was dealing with a “lower leg” that flared up on him in the batting cage — Torres connected for his second jack of the night. Trevino came up later in the inning with two outs and put an RBI single into right field.
That sent the AL East foes into the eighth inning with the game tied at five, waiting for the other side to blink first. That fatal blink finally came from Baltimore’s Bryan Baker in the bottom of the 11th. The Orioles’ reliever couldn’t do anything to stop Trevino, a man who, at least for one night, was the king of Yankee Stadium.
“I tell you guys all the time that adversity is coming,” Boone said. “We just gotta keep on competing and fighting. That game embodied that. Get out to a lead, lose the lead, scratch and claw and get back into it. Then, fight to the end there to pull one out with some real winning at-bats.”
With the revelation that Trevino’s storybook day came on his late father’s birthday, the Yankees added a wonderfully wholesome moment to a week that’s been anything but .
“I woke up this morning, had a good cup of coffee in one of his favorite coffee mugs,” Trevino said of his father. “It was definitely a fun one. He helped me a lot.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2614974458826/jose-trevino-hits-rbi-single-in-11th-to-give-yankees-7-6-win-over-orioles-snaps-three-game-losing-streak | 2022-05-29T18:03:41Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2614974458826/jose-trevino-hits-rbi-single-in-11th-to-give-yankees-7-6-win-over-orioles-snaps-three-game-losing-streak | false | 7 |
Gateway Sports Hall of Fame plans to honor Class of 2022
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 | 11:01 AM
Plans are in motion for the Gateway Sports Hall of Fame to resume honoring athletic greats this year.
The committee charged with selecting the Class of 2022 tentatively is scheduled to meet this month to finalize the class and also discuss other matters relating to the banquet and induction ceremony in November, hall of fame chairman Tony Petrocelli said.
Petrocelli said he is excited for the immediate future of the hall of fame which will induct new members for the first time since 2019.
After the Class of 2019 was enshrined in October of that year, the committee members were looking forward to the next biennial induction ceremony in 2021.
However, the ongoing covid pandemic scuttled the opportunity to form a new induction class, and plans were postponed to this year. Petrocelli said the decision was made proactively in the fall of 2020 as the ongoing pandemic created a lot of long-term uncertainty.
“Rather than hold a spot, I sent a letter out to everybody that basically said we were going to skip the 2021 banquet,” Petrocelli said last summer.
Petrocelli said this year’s selection process began with a strong group of nominees — coaches, athletes and teams — ‘who have distinguished themselves in athletics at Gateway.’
The hall of fame inducted a class every year from 1999 to 2011, but it decided to move inductions to every other year, starting with the 2013 class of John Nemec, Vince Lamberti, Mike Livorio, Shannon Ruane, Mike Rugh, Rege Laughlin, the 1983 Gators baseball team and the 1965-66 wrestling team.
Petrocelli said the decision was made to go every other year so the hall of fame would stay fresh.
The 2019 class, the 16th since the hall of fame formed two decades earlier, featured athletes Paul Krusey (football, basketball, track), Gregg Nemec (football, wrestling), Crista Coles (soccer), Matt Houy (football) and Katrina Streiner (swimming); former Gators football coach Russ Gratton; and the 1976 record-setting boys track and field team.
In all, the hall of fame has enshrined 79 individual athletes, 18 coaches, a swimming relay quartet, seven teams, and five other contributors to the success of Gateway athletics.
Hall of fame members Pete Antimarino, Larry Hanley, Terry Smith, Michelle Chow, Melanie Morgan, Curtis Bray, Justin King and the 1986 WPIAL and PIAA champion football team also have been enshrined in the WPIAL Hall of Fame.
Petrocelli said plans also are moving forward to construct a hall of fame website which would be fully supported financially by current hall of fame members.
The website, Petrocelli said, will display many pictures from each induction banquet, biographies from each inductee, and any other items an inductee would wish to submit from their time in high school.
The Furrie Sports Complex houses banners recognizing each hall of fame class, and a hall of fame room in the front foyer displays induction plaques and other forms of recognition.
Petrocelli said the room filled up quickly, and he hopes, with support of the Gateway school board, it can one day expand to other parts of the facility.
To nominate someone for the Gateway Sports Hall of Fame, send information outlining why the athlete, coach or team warrants consideration to Gateway Sports Hall of Fame, Attention: Nominating Committee, 103 Trotwood Drive, Monroeville, PA, 15146.
Michael Love is a Tribune-Review Staff Writer. You can contact Michael by email at mlove@triblive.com or via Twitter .
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This year’s Licensing Expo, the world’s largest licensing trade show, took place this past week from May 24 to 26, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, and it featured an abundant roundup of booths pertaining to all kinds of entertainment, including various anime and video game titles. While attending the event, Collider’s own Steve Weintraub was able to snag some images of some of the best displays on the expo floor.
For over four decades, the Licensing Expo has aimed at connecting entertainment and corporate brand owners with consumer goods manufacturers, licensees, and retailers. Naturally, what was arguably the most popular video game of the year thus far, FromSoftware’s newest RPG Elden Ring had its own large banner right next to publisher Bandai Namco. On the more vintage side of the gaming industry, there was a nostalgic booth dedicated to a classic version of Sonic The Hedgehog’s Green Hill Zone stage. Other gaming content featured in the exhibition pertained to the popular installment in the Persona series, Persona 5, and the 2021 multiplayer game Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania.
A huge Pikachu balloon hovered above the Pokémon booth making it so that it wouldn’t be easily missed even by those who were not looking for it. Also well represented was Riot Games’ League of Legends. In one of the pictures, you can observe a number of figurines and collectibles of the game’s most iconic champions like Jinx, Ahri, Lux, and the newer Xayah and Rakan. In addition, the Netflix animated series Arcane was also highlighted with large posters — if you still haven't seen the show, we definitely recommend checking it out. Another epic poster belonged to Dungeons & Dragons, the tabletop RPG which has seen a new wave of fans and enthusiasts partly thanks to the rising popularity of Critical Role and its recent animated series The Legend of Vox Machina.
On the anime side of the exhibition, there was of course a booth belonging to the world’s largest anime streaming platform Crunchyroll. There was also a colorful booth entirely dedicated to tokidoki, the Japanese-inspired Italian brand which produces all sorts of adorable apparel, accessories, and art.
As for the anime titles that were most highlighted in the exhibition Dragon Ball Super was among them, with its own booth depicting two life-sized characters in the middle of battle. Some of the posters that can be seen in the photos belong to the sports anime Haikyu!!, in which we can see the lovable red-headed Hinata holding a volleyball in his hands, Tokyo Revengers, with Tokyo Manji’s Mikey and Draken in the front, and there was even a whole wall dedicated to My Hero Academia, which featured Class 1-A’s Midoriya, Bakugo and Todoroki. Other anime titles included in the exhibition were the upcoming and highly-anticipated Chainsaw Man, the horror anime Tokyo Ghoul, the classic Code Geass, and the comedic Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun, among others.
Although the in-person exhibition has ended, an online offering is taking place until June 3, 2022. Check out the rest of our images from Licensing Expo down below. | https://collider.com/arcane-sega-dragon-ball-super-dnd-elden-ring-licensing-expo-images/ | 2022-05-29T18:04:46Z | https://collider.com/arcane-sega-dragon-ball-super-dnd-elden-ring-licensing-expo-images/ | false | 1 |
When I was a girl, I spent hours prying dandelions from our front yard. Our “grass” was actually a collection of various shades of green weeds. But when the bright yellow dandelions reared their perky heads, the green disappeared under their sunny umbrellas. My parents worked, supporting three kids, a mortgage and a car payment, and didn’t care about our lawn quality. But our neighbor, Mr. Melton, had the greenest, plushest lawn you’d ever seen. He was out there constantly—watering, fertilizing, edging, applying weed killer, mowing. He put our tattered turf to shame. Eventually, I came to agree with my parents: There were better things to do. Over the intervening years, I have just kept my motley green weeds short. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2613726190127/mixed-media-wild-flower-display | 2022-05-29T18:09:19Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2613726190127/mixed-media-wild-flower-display | false | null |
Thane, May 29 (PTI) For 29-year-old Ashish Sawant, it came as a big shock when he heard that four members of the Tripathi family, for whom he works as a driver here, were on board the plane that crashed in Nepal on Sunday, as recalled dropping them to the Mumbai airport just two days back.
"I have lost everything," he said with tears rolling down his cheeks even as the fate of the Tripathi family and 18 others on board the ill-fated plane remained unclear as bad weather made it difficult to locate the aircraft that went missing in the mountainous region of Nepal minutes after taking off on Sunday morning.
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According to the police here, Ashok Kumar Tripathi (54), his wife Vaibhavi (Bandekar) Tripathi, their 22-year-old son Dhanush and 15-year-old daughter Ritika were on board the Nepalese plane.
Sawant, who resides at Diva in Thane, said he has been working as the Tripathi family's driver for the last seven years and used to drop Vaibhavi Tripathi to her office in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai.
"It was just two days back that I had dropped the family to the Mumbai international airport and today I received this shocking news," he said.
After learning that the Tripathi family was travelling in the plane in Nepal, he rushed to their house in Rustomjee Athena apartment located in Balkum area of the city, to enquire about them.
He also said that it was just two months back they had purchased a new car.
The watchman of the building, 55-year-old Sunil Chalke, said the Tripathi family members were very loving.
"It is sad that they part of this tragedy," he said.
The turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to Tara Air took off at 10.15 am from Pokhara in Nepal to Jomsom, another popular tourist town. The aircraft lost contact with the control tower 15 minutes later, according to an airline spokesperson. The missing plane could possibly be located on Monday, officials have said.
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MELBOURNE: Western United stunned defending champions Melbourne City 2-0 to win the A-League grand final Saturday and lift the silverware in only their third season as a professional club.
The Melbourne-based United only joined the league in the 2019-20 campaign as an expansion club and were in their maiden decider.
But rather than be overawed against more experienced opponents, they quickly took charge at AAMI Park, going 1-0 up inside two minutes thanks to a Nuno Reis own goal.
Serbian striker Aleksandar Prijovic got the second on the half-hour mark before they put on a gritty rearguard action as City launched relentless attacks in the final 45 minutes.
“It is pretty incredible to see this amount of people for a club that is just three years old,” said captain Josh Risdon, with 22,495 fans in the stadium.
“We have got a lot of ambition at this club and we have only just started.”
The last team to win the final in their first appearance was Brisbane Roar 11 years ago.
“This was a target of mine when I came here and I’m happy I could fulfil it,” said Prijovic, who has been capped 13 times by his country and was named man of the match.
“Today the final was very clear, in our favour. From the very beginning we were very sure in the final we were going to win.”
Defeat was deflating for City who had finished the regular season in first place and were widely seen as favourites on their home ground.
They were looking to emulate sister club Manchester City and win back-to-back titles.
Formerly Melbourne Heart, they were taken over by City Football Group — which owns Pep Guardiola’s Premier League title winners — in 2014 and after years of struggle have become the benchmark in recent seasons.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Searchers have found the bodies of three missing boaters after two boats collided on a Georgia river, bringing the crash's death toll to five people.
Two people had been found dead shortly after the Saturday collision on the Wilmington River near Savannah, authorities said. The bodies of the three boaters still missing were recovered Sunday morning, Georgia Department of Natural Resources Sgt. Cindy Miller told WTOC-TV. They were found in water about 14 feet (4.3 meters) deep, and in close proximity to each other, authorities said.
One of the boats had six people aboard and the other carried three people, the U.S. Coat Guard said in a statement. At least four people were taken to hospitals, authorities said. The names of those involved were not immediately made public.
The incident is the second involving a boat and serious injuries on the Wilmington River this month. A local businessman was killed May 5 when a boat he was aboard struck an unlit channel marker near the Savannah Yacht Club and he was struck on the head by an unknown object, authorities said.
Saturday was the start of the three-day Memorial Day weekend, one of the busiest of the year for recreational boaters. | https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/3-more-bodies-found-after-deadly-georgia-boat-crash/BCSMKJKIRJAJ5AYX5YVYNHFQMI/ | 2022-05-29T18:12:07Z | https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/3-more-bodies-found-after-deadly-georgia-boat-crash/BCSMKJKIRJAJ5AYX5YVYNHFQMI/ | false | 29 |
‘Forgettable comforts’: What people should get rid of to combat cost of living pressures
Financial experts have weighed in on what you should be cutting out to combat cost of living pressures — and the tips might surprise you.
Cost of living pressures are continuing to mount for many Australian families, but experts have revealed how you can start saving money immediately and reduce your debt.
HPH Solutions financial planner Matt Hern told NCA NewsWire the first thing to cut out was “forgettable comforts”.
“You won’t miss them. Forgettable comforts include the sweet treat with your morning coffee, takeaway meals, or at least cut the home-delivery of takeaway,” he said.
“Rather than having multiple streaming services at once, subscribe and binge one service every three months.”
Finance Quarter director and broker Sean Lee told NCA NewsWire how people spent money on food was a major factor.
“Some quick wins people can look at to save a bit of money is reviewing how often they go out to restaurants and using food delivery services, such as Uber Eats,” he said.
“Meal planning, sticking to a shopping list, bulk cooking and eating in could easily save a couple at least $200 per week.
“Consider replacing more expensive fitness memberships with cheaper alternatives or free outdoor exercises, limit the use of air conditioners and heaters, and turn off any devices that don’t get used often as energy costs are expected to rise.”
Craig McDonald, from CBM Mortgages, has seen Australians start to worry about increasing rate rises over the past two months. He told NewsCorp the first thing people are ditching to combat cost of living pressures is eating out.
The broker, based in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, said: “Clients are conscious of how the banks are scrutinising their day to day spending, so the avo on toast and $5 coffees at weekends are the first things to go.”
Financial planner and Edith Cowan University lecturer Damon Brown told NCA NewsWire that entertainment and travel were the main expenses people should dump if they were struggling financially.
“Particularly travel that involves driving based on the fuel costs. The five-hour drive to a camping location and things like that — just because the cost of fuel has just skyrocketed,” he said.
“What used to be a cheap holiday ... has become considerably more expensive.”
Mr Brown also agreed food delivery services should be scrapped for anyone trying to save money.
“That’s a discretionary item that can be cut back on. We’ve just got to be better at budgeting food rather than relying on discretionary buys,” he said.
“I don’t think it’s a staple item that you need to have. I ordered out just two nights ago and it cost me $80 ... it’s just mental, it just adds up.”
Mr Hern warned having all of your money in a single account made it too easy to overspend.
“Limit your likelihood of overspending impulsively by automatically setting aside money in a separate account every pay to cover your commitments, such as bills and essentials,” he said.
“Also set up automatic savings for your goals and extra debt repayments. Amounts left over may be spent on impulses and indulgences.
“Remove temptation to spend impulsively by unsubscribing from marketing newsletters, and avoid browsing the shops without a list and a set budget.”
Mr Lee agreed having a separate account was a good idea and said it was important for people to set up a budget.
“Record your weekly income, add up your expenses and calculate how much you have left over, if any, to see if this is enough to meet your annual saving goals. If not, adjust your budget and review your expenses,” he said.
“Transfer your budgeted weekly savings to another account to avoid spending this.
“Pay your credit card in full every month to avoid interest charges or don’t use credit cards at all to prevent yourself from getting caught in a debt trap.”
Mr Hern said cutting spending could be confronting, so people should start with quick and easy steps.
“Look at the direct debits from your account and cut subscriptions you no longer use,” he said.
“Next, swap to lower cost versions of your current spending habits.
“For example, take your lunch to work rather than buying it, and rather than dining out socialise with friends at home with homemade snacks.
“Use public transport or carpool if possible, and refuel your car at the lowest point in the fuel cycle.”
Mr Lee said he recommend anyone with a loan should speak to a finance broker.
“This is usually your biggest expense so it makes sense to review your loan structure and interest rate,” he said.
“More often than not people are paying at least 0.50 per cent per annum more than they should be and on a $600,000 home loan — and this equates to $250 per month in interest savings just by reviewing your home loans.
“The major banks are forecasting the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase interest rates by at least one per cent by year end.
“For the average home loan balance, this equates to a minimum $500 per month increase in your mortgage repayments – be prepared and budget for this.”
Mr Lee noted banks were competing hard for business and it paid to shop around.
“Some banks are paying a rebate of up to $6000 for you to refinance your loan to them, subject to certain terms and conditions, which could be an added bonus to the interest savings,” he said.
Mr Brown agreed mortgage holders should review their mortgages.
“Is it still competitive in the market? Because often we find that if we’re stuck in products that are a few years old ... there are better products on the market,” he said.
Mr Brown also recommended paying down credit card debt.
“We’re gonna see credit card interest rates increase considerably more than what just the Reserve Bank increase in prices,” he said.
Mr Brown said if people were feeling under pressure financially they should feel comfortable to talk about it.
“Speak to family and friends about it. Don’t feel embarrassed about it because there’s a lot of people that are under financial pressure,” he said.
“Historically ... for the boomers, it was all very confidential and they never spoke to friends and family if they were under financial pressure.
“I think we’re in a new age now where financial pressures are really common and there’s no judgment.”
Mr Brown said it could save you having to go out with friends and family when you could not afford it.
“Or if your employer wants to offer you opportunities to work from home more so you don’t have to incur the costs of driving to work and things like that,” he said.
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Unmarried Asian Females
Asia the most polarizing regions global. You can be impressed by the their economic growth of for the last years otherwise pick the person rights procedures atrocious, nevertheless the something that isn’t up to possess a topic is how charming Chinese ladies are. Relationship a good Chinese woman is something any kid might be delighted to experience one or more times within the a lifetime. Information on how to fulfill Chinese women, how exactly to time him or her, and just why you must know a good Chinese lady as your companion at all.
Preciselywhat are Chinese Lady Such?
Chinese ladies are exotic enough, nonetheless they have lots of common characteristics you’re wanting during the girls. This is what helps make Chinese girls very popular certainly one of West males.
Stunning beyond trust
You will probably find Far eastern females to get breathtaking generally speaking, but Chinese women are a charm standard of her. The good thing about Chinese people are sensitive and painful, however it is as well as hitting. He’s got really well well-balanced possess: escort Jackson almond-shaped, black eyes, black mellow locks, adorable mouth area, and you will highest cheekbones. Chinese women are extremely petite and you may narrow, and so they know how to browse well women towards the proper dresses and makeup.
Some old-designed
China was a fairly progressive nation together with same can definitely getting said regarding Chinese females. Yet not, they are contrary to popular belief old-designed. Chinese females can even be quite superstitious, but some them have only extremely traditional opinions toward existence and you can family, which make him or her old-designed in the current community. Chinese women are monogamous, dreaming out-of a big friends, plus don’t consider its career becoming it is important around the globe.
Highly knowledgeable and you will challenging
Within the last partners many years, degree was probably one of the most respected attributes from Chinese lady. It scholar away from schools and you will colleges, manage a number of care about-teaching, as well as go abroad to examine. As a result, Chinese ladies is proficient in the field, features impressive industry accomplishments and many more epic goals, and certainly will effectively talk to your from the some thing around the globe.
Prepared to start to just one boy
Might seldom satisfy a great Chinese lady exactly who acts discover as much as people and you may loves to be the center off focus. Chinese females is actually substantially shy and booked, specifically doing boys, but this shyness gradually disappears whenever a great Chinese woman gets hotter around one man. After you see the Chinese females starting to be more discover and you may sociable close to you, it indicates she undoubtedly considers your to own a romance.
High around the kitchen area
Utilizing the education and you will ambitious requires, Chinese women plus be aware that the center of every house is the kitchen. If you’ve never ever tried homemade Chinese eating from a woman exactly who spent my youth understanding the fresh new passion away from cooking of the woman mommy and you may grandmas, then you have not experimented with Chinese restaurants whatsoever. Chinese people set excellent value into nourishment and can never ever other individuals until their loved ones try better-given.
Manage Chinese Females Make A beneficial Spouses?
You can rest assured you’ll delight in relationships an effective Chinese lady, but if you are already seeking a potential wife, you will find no less than around three reasons why you should envision marrying a great Chinese females:
- He is difficult-working. There are many Chinese ladies who require simply are a housewife, but more about younger and you will ambitious Chinese women must show the duty off getting to the family with their husbands. Chinese spouses are ready to performs without having to pay any shorter interest to their group. | http://www.hurfikirler.com/relationships-an-excellent-chinese-lady-where-to/ | 2022-05-29T18:15:09Z | http://www.hurfikirler.com/relationships-an-excellent-chinese-lady-where-to/ | false | 1 |
Authorities: 1 dead, 7 injured in outdoor festival shooting in Oklahoma
One person was killed and seven were injured in a shooting early Sunday at an outdoor festival in eastern Oklahoma, authorities said.
Two juveniles were among those shot at the Memorial Day event near Taft, about 10 miles southeast of Tulsa, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.
Witnesses said an argument preceded the gunfire just after midnight, the agency said. No one has been arrested, it said.
About 1,500 people attended the event. Members of the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office were also in attendance and immediately began rendering aid, OSBI said.
The agency provided no other details including the conditions of those injured. The Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office referred the Associated Press to OSBI for more information. A bureau spokeswoman has not responded to the AP's calls. | https://www.kcra.com/article/shooting-at-outdoor-festival-in-oklahoma/40135595 | 2022-05-29T18:16:52Z | https://www.kcra.com/article/shooting-at-outdoor-festival-in-oklahoma/40135595 | true | null |
ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of flights worldwide were cancelled by midday Sunday, adding to the mounting number of scrubbed flights during the busy Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S.
More than 1,030 flights had been canceled as of 11:30 a.m. EDT Sunday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. That followed more than 2,300 cancellations Friday and another 1,500 on Saturday.
More than 250 of Sunday’s cancellations involved aircraft scheduled to fly to or from U.S. cities.
Delta Air Lines cancelled the most flights among major U.S. airlines, with more than 250 flights, or 9% of its operations, eliminated Saturday. More than 140 Delta flights were canceled by mid-day Sunday, according to FlightAware.
Saturday’s cancellations were due to bad weather and “air traffic control actions,” Atlanta-based Delta said in an email to The Associated Press, noting it’s trying to cancel flights at least 24 hours in advance of the Memorial Day weekend.
Delta announced on its website on Thursday that from July 1 to Aug. 7, it would reduce service by about 100 daily departures, primarily in parts of the U.S. and Latin America that Delta frequently serves.
“More than any time in our history, the various factors currently impacting our operation — weather and air traffic control, vendor staffing, increased COVID case rates contributing to higher-than-planned unscheduled absences in some work groups — are resulting in an operation that isn’t consistently up to the standards Delta has set for the industry in recent years,” Delta’s Chief Customer Experience Officer Allison Ausband said in a post.
Airlines and tourist destinations are anticipating huge crowds this summer as travel restrictions ease and pandemic fatigue overcomes lingering fear of contracting COVID-19 during travel.
Many forecasters believe the number of travelers will match or even surpass pre-pandemic levels. However, airlines have thousands fewer employees than they did in 2019, and that has, at times, contributed to widespread flight cancellations.
People who are only now booking travel for the summer are experiencing the sticker shock.
Domestic airline fares for summer are averaging more than $400 for a round trip, 24% higher than this time in 2019, before the pandemic, and a robust 45% higher than a year ago, according to travel-data firm Hopper. | https://www.wrbl.com/news/national/flight-cancellations-pile-up-on-busy-memorial-day-weekend/ | 2022-05-29T18:17:08Z | https://www.wrbl.com/news/national/flight-cancellations-pile-up-on-busy-memorial-day-weekend/ | false | 22 |
A suspected street criminal was shot dead and a police constable was wounded during an exchange of fire in the Surjani Town neighbourhood on Saturday.
Officials said the encounter took place in Khuda Ki Basti, which falls within the jurisdiction of the Surjani Town police station. They said policemen on routine patrol tried to intercept two suspects on a motorbike.
However, they added, the suspects opened fire on the police and tried to escape, and resultantly, a police constable, namely 27-year-old Mansoor, was wounded. Officials said police returned fire and killed one of the suspects, but the other one managed to escape under the cover of fire.
Police said the casualties were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), where the dead suspect was identified as 25-year-old Naeem Yaqoob. Officials said the record of the deceased revealed that he had been a habitual criminal. They also claimed recovering a pistol from Yaqoob.
Three arrested
Police arrested a suspected robber in an injured condition following his and his alleged accomplice’s attempt to escape after injuring a citizen named Dilawar Bahadur over resisting a bid to mug him near the Punjab bus stand.
Sachal police officials said the injured citizen and suspect were taken to the ASH. They said two suspects had been trying to escape after injuring the citizen when policemen on routine patrol arrived on the scene and arrested one of them after injuring him in a shoot-out, but the other one managed to escape. Two more suspects were arrested in an injured condition after an exchange of fire with the police in Hangora Goth, which falls within the jurisdiction of the SITE Super Highway Industrial Area police station.
Officials said the injured suspects were identified as Sanaullah and Amir Hussain. They said police had seized the suspects’ weapons and impounded their motorbike.
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LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Saturday reiterated his resolve to transform Pakistan into 'an economic power'. He regretted that inflation had skyrocketed but promised that the economy would be revived and relief would be provided to people, which was the first priority of the coalition government.
Commemorating the 24th anniversary of becoming a nuclear power, he stressed attaining economic sovereignty and self-dependence. In a series of tweets, he said the nation would have to move ahead with the same spirit as manifested on Youm-e-Takbir.
On May 28 in 1998, Pakistan successfully carried out five nuclear tests in Chaghi, Balochistan. The successful nuclear explosions made Pakistan the first nuclear power in the Muslim world and seventh in the world.
In a message on the silver jubilee celebrations of the country's nuclear tests, the PM said the day was a clear declaration of "no compromise on the country’s sovereignty and defence."
He underlined that it was a day to get united for the solidarity of the country as it was the main strength of the nation and expressed his determination that with unity, hard work and staunch faith, they would turn Pakistan into an economic power.
The PM paid tribute to the patriotism of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, also his brother, who enabled Pakistan to hold its head high among the comity of nations with pride. He also lauded ex-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, and also paid rich tribute to all those who had worked during the tenures of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to Nawaz Sharif for making the defence of the country invincible.
The prime minister also expressed his gratitude to Saudi Arabia and other brotherly and friendly countries that had helped Pakistan during economic sanctions. He said the mountains of Chaghi still echoed with the same resolve, and the province of Balochistan still bore distinction with regard to the country's defence. The prime minister stressed that 10-day celebrations should be dedicated to the nation’s unity and progress and prosperity of the country.
In another tweet, he said, "In 2018, as the leader of the Opposition, I proposed the idea of the charter of economy which was ignored with disdain by the-then government. It is the need of the hour now. We are starting a process of consultation with all political stakeholders to build a consensus on the charter. Let us turn Pakistan into a country where the difference of opinion is not treated as an act of enmity; where criticism is faced with courage; where public service delivery is the definition of politics; where women are treated with respect and rights of minorities are protected,” he added.
Meanwhile, during the proceedings of a case in court, Shehbaz Sharif took to the rostrum and said: “My family suffered a lot for my decisions when there was adequate production of sugar." He reiterated that he had not even withdrawn his salary in 12.5 years. “God made me the PM of this country. I am a majnoo. I did not take any benefit," he added.
He recalled that the secretary had sent a summary to him for sugar export during his tenure as Punjab chief minister, adding that he had set an export limit and rejected summaries. “My family lost over Rs2 billion owing to my decisions. My family lost Rs800 million annually because of the decision,” Shehbaz added.
“I proposed subsidy at that time. My decisions were actually in favour of Pakistan, and not in favour of my family. Please not consider my words in the sense that I am praising myself,” he said.
He sought permission to leave the court, which was granted.
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CryptalDash (CRD) traded flat against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 13:00 PM E.T. on May 29th. During the last week, CryptalDash has traded flat against the dollar. CryptalDash has a total market capitalization of $6.62 million and approximately $402.00 worth of CryptalDash was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One CryptalDash coin can now be bought for about $0.0066 or 0.00000017 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges.
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For Casper, who prefers not to reveal his real name to Efe, the end of the war in Ukraine is still far away.
Together with his fellow soldiers, he has been fighting on the front line in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city and one of the worst-hit by Russian forces, for over three months. EFE
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Searchers have found the bodies of three missing boaters after two boats collided on a Georgia river, bringing the crash’s death toll to five people.
Two people had been found dead shortly after the Saturday collision on the Wilmington River near Savannah, authorities said. The bodies of the three boaters still missing were recovered Sunday morning, Georgia Department of Natural Resources Sgt. Cindy Miller told WTOC-TV. They were found in water about 14 feet (4.3 meters) deep, and in close proximity to each other, authorities said.
One of the boats had six people aboard and the other carried three people, the U.S. Coat Guard said in a statement. At least four people were taken to hospitals, authorities said. The names of those involved were not immediately made public.
The incident is the second involving a boat and serious injuries on the Wilmington River this month. A local businessman was killed May 5 when a boat he was aboard struck an unlit channel marker near the Savannah Yacht Club and he was struck on the head by an unknown object, authorities said.
Saturday was the start of the three-day Memorial Day weekend, one of the busiest of the year for recreational boaters. | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/3-more-bodies-found-after-deadly-georgia-boat-crash/ | 2022-05-29T18:42:55Z | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/3-more-bodies-found-after-deadly-georgia-boat-crash/ | true | 29 |
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A Tulsa man accused of participating in the January 6th attack on the United States capitol is now in federal custody. Levi Gable admitted to attending the rally on January 6th but told agents he never actually went inside the capitol building. The FBI says surveillance video, social media posts, and cell phone data all show him going inside.
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Activists marched through downtown Tulsa to protest the most restrictive abortion law in the United States. The law bans nearly all abortions in Oklahoma from the moment of conception and the procedure is no longer available at clinics in our state. Abortion rights activists marched and chanted through downtown Tulsa to express their outrage over the law, they also used the march as a call to mobilize to fight it.
Abortion clinics in Tulsa are reacting to Oklahoma having the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, now that Governor Kevin Stitt has signed House Bill 4327 into law. Abortion clinics in Tulsa are reacting to Oklahoma having the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, now that Governor Kevin Stitt has signed House Bill 4327 into law.
Teachers around Tulsa said hearing about the recent massacre at a Texas elementary school is breaking their hearts. Now, some Tulsa-area teachers are thinking about their own students and how they would protect them. Two teachers said hearing about mass shootings like the one in Uvalde makes them think about their own plans if something like that were to happen, and how horrific it would be for their students.
OWASSO, Oklahoma - A popular Owasso park is back open this weekend after a major renovation. City leaders held a ribbon-cutting for Funtastic Island on Friday. Photojournalist Michael Blair was there for the kick-off to summer!
JENKS, Oklahoma - The City of Jenks opened a new splash pad Friday morning just in time for Memorial Day weekend. The splash pad is located at Veterans Park near South Elm Street and West Beaver Street.
A Tulsa man has created some beautiful custom woodwork with the help of a special team. Everyone that Joe Erwin hires for his woodworking business is deaf, but Joe said it's never slowed them down. Workers at Erwin Custom Woodworks create beautiful cabinets, staircases, and more, and while his employees may not be able to hear, they can do everything else.
Thursday's Amazing Oklahoman takes home a top honor from the US Navy. Chief of Staff for the OKC City Council Debi Martin was awarded the Meritous Service Award for her 28 years of work as a liason for the USS Oklahoma City. The submarine was decommissioned last Friday. There's a...
There are many different ceremonies and programs planned throughout Green Country this weekend to honor those who paid the ultimate price for our country. There are several different events happening at Floral Haven in Broken Arrow, including a ceremony on Saturday where family members of veterans whose casket flags have been donated in the last year will raise them for the first time.
The Oklahoma State Cowgirl softball team is heading back to Oklahoma City!. The Cowgirls beat Clemson 5-1 on Friday night in Stillwater. The scoring started with a wild pitch in the first inning that allowed Chelsea Alexander to score. In the 2nd the Cowgirls opened up the game, scoring off... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2614407723217/tulsa-police-arrest-woman-accused-of-stabbing-man-to-death | 2022-05-29T18:44:19Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2614407723217/tulsa-police-arrest-woman-accused-of-stabbing-man-to-death | false | 1 |
[MUSIC] >> Finally and ultimate thing I want to say, is I'm very interested in positive theology. >> Hello, my name is David Yaden I'm a research fellow at The Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. And today I'm going to be talking about spiritual experience broadly under the rubric of what Marty calls Positive Theology. So I'll go through some theoretical information about what Positive Theology might mean and the more specific aspects about it. And then I'll go over some psychological and neurological research that's going on in that area. So first some disclaimers. Positive psychology is a science. So it must stick to what is measurable. That means that we're looking at people's reactions to things that people consider religious or spiritual, we're not looking at doing any kind of theology or philosophy. That's more outside of the purview of positive psychology. And second positive psychology findings are broadly applicable to people regardless of their belief system. So whether you're religious, spiritual or an atheist, the findings of positive psychology shouldn't be influenced too much by that belief system. Thirdly, positive psychology in my opinion can and should investigate how religion and spirituality influence well being. And that's what i'll be really expanding on today. So one thing that I'm doing now with Professor Justin McDaniel, who's the Chair of Religion Department here at Pen, is breaking down spirituality, not with a propositional definition, that is one sentence that tries to capture the essence of spirituality but with a substantive definition. And a substantive definition captures the various components that are involved with spirituality. And so, these here are the seven dimensions that we've identified having to do with spirituality. And each of these, there's a number of studies and there's a lot of literature that can be filed and organized under these various dimensions. And in psychology whenever you put together a list like this you need to choose a really corny acronym and I promise this was just a coincidence, but we have one. So when you think about defining spirituality in a substantive way I want you to think about the really corny acronym praise be. And I think when you hear about Positive Theology you should also think about this acronym, because there is studies that can be filed under each of these aspects, and importantly these aspects can be differentiated from one another. And that's what we're going to explore now. So first let's take a look at examples of practices and rituals and how they might relate to well being. So mindfulness and yoga are ubiquitous. Many people practice both. Mindfulness is one of the fastest growing intervention in health care, yoga's practiced in almost every town and city in America. And it is important to remember that mindfulness meditation was an originally religious practice. There's a lot of neuro science research on this topic, and a lot of psychology research linking it with well being. I just want to give one example of great study by Sara Lazar at Harvard, showing that long term changes in brain anatomy can take place frrom the regular practice of mindfulness meditation. So this is a really important, really popular, really potent intervention that was an originally religious practice. Another dimension of spirituality or religion is affiliation. This is where you get a survey and it asks you what religion you are, and you check a box. Okay, so it's what you, if someone would ask you what's your religion, this is what you would reply. One study that we've done with the World Well Being Project is to look at Linguistic Correlates of religious affiliation versus nonreligious affiliation across many thousands of social media posts. Okay, so here's what the language of religion looks like, and in it you see a lot of positive emotions. You see a lot of mentions of religion explicitly which is to be expected. But I want to draw your attention to the positive emotions you see there. Love. Smile. Instances of gratitude, thank. And also a lot of social processes, so you see family, friends. And so as a positive psychologist, this should give you some pause to say well, this is language of religion but mixed in there is a lot of positive emotion and positive relationships. Now, here's the language of non religion. And it looks quite different, so here you see curse words. But also a lot of negative emotion, anger. As well as some markers of cognitive processes, like the words actually and apparently. Now with a study like this, it's hard to draw too many conclusions. Because one might say that religious communities are less willing to express in a public forum negative emotion or swear words. But there's also the possibility that religious people in fact do experience more positive emotions and more tight net relationships. A lot of the research on health would make more sense, if that were true, because it's been shown that people who attend religious services, are generally in better health. So I want you to notice that beliefs are only one seventh of this model. Usually when people think of religion or spirituality, they think it's all about belief. And so I think it's really important and a very important message that I want you to take away from this, is that belief is only one out of several dimensions of religion and spirituality. For the purposes of this little talk, I want to give kind of a real quick and dirty definition of what I mean when I say spiritual beliefs or religious beliefs. Generally, I think what people mean when they say spiritual belief, is that they involve some kind of nonphysical mind. And I use the word mind there in a philosophical sense, drawing from the philosophy of mind. Something that has the capacity for experience and the capacity for agency. But for most people, it make more sense to insert the word consciousness or spirit or God in that place. And the distinction I want to make between spiritual and religious here is just that, religious beliefs and religion in general is institutionally sanctioned in a more specific and coherent way. But this is a fuzzy boundary. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/positive-psychology-visionary-science/positive-psychology-and-spiritual-experience-jfHZz | 2022-05-29T18:46:04Z | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/positive-psychology-visionary-science/positive-psychology-and-spiritual-experience-jfHZz | true | 1 |
LONDON (AP) — Britain is getting ready for a party featuring mounted troops, solemn prayers — and a pack of dancing mechanical corgis.
The nation will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne this week with four days of pomp and pageantry in central London. But behind the brass bands, street parties and a planned appearance by the aging queen on the balcony of Buckingham Palac e lies a drive to show that the royal family still remains relevant after seven decades of change.
“The monarchy is not elected, so the only way in which a monarch can demonstrate consent is not through the ballot box, but through people turning out on the streets,” said Robert Lacey, the historical adviser on “The Crown″ series. “And if the monarch turns up on the balcony and waves and there’s no one there, that’s a pretty definitive judgment on the monarchy.
“Well, when it comes to Elizabeth, the opposite has been the case. People can’t wait to mass and cheer together,” he added.
And the royals, sometimes criticized as out of touch with modern Britain, want to show that their support comes from all parts of a society that has become more multicultural amid immigration from the Caribbean, South Asia and Eastern Europe.
As part of the jubilee pageant, dancers from London’s African-Caribbean community will don costumes of giant flamingos, zebras and giraffes to re-imagine the moment in 1952 when Princess Elizabeth learned she had become queen while visiting a game park in Kenya. Another group will recall the queen’s 1947 marriage to Prince Philip and celebrate weddings around the Commonwealth with Bollywood-style dancing.
The jubilee is an opportunity for the royals to demonstrate their commitment to change and diversity, something the queen has embodied as she traveled the world over the last 70 years, said Emily Nash, royal editor of HELLO! magazine.
“She’s been everywhere and she has engaged with people from all walks of life, from all creeds and colors and faiths,” Nash said. “I think it’s easy to see, in the sort of pomp and pageantry, perhaps more of a lack of diversity. But if you look at what the royal family actually do, the people they engage with, the places they go to, I think it’s perhaps a little unfair to say that it’s not as diverse as it could be.”
If the depleted stock at the Cool Britannia gift shop is any indication, the jubilee has caught public attention. The shop around the corner from Buckingham Palace has run out of Platinum Jubilee tea towels. Spoons are sparse. Mugs are in short supply.
And it’s not just foreign tourists who are buying all things Elizabeth. Visitors from around the U.K. are also hunting for jubilee mementos, said Ismayil Ibrahim, the man behind the counter.
“It’s a very special year,” he said. “They’re celebrating it as a big event.”
The question for the House of Windsor is whether the public will transfer their love for the queen to her son and heir, Prince Charles, when the time comes.
It is a problem that stems, in part, from the queen’s unprecedented reign, the longest in British history. The only monarch most people have ever known, she has become synonymous with the monarchy itself.
Since assuming the throne after the death of her father on Feb. 6, 1952, Elizabeth has been a symbol of stability as the country negotiated the end of Empire, the birth of the computer age and the mass migration that transformed Britain into a multicultural society.
The shy woman with a small handbag, a trailing corgi and passion for horses presided over an era that spawned Monty Python, the Beatles and the Sex Pistols. People who thought they knew her thought wrong — as evidenced by her star turn as a Bond Girl at the 2012 London Olympics.
Yet through it all, the queen has built a bond with the nation through a seemingly endless series of public appearances as she opened libraries, dedicated hospitals and bestowed honors on deserving citizens.
Susan Duddridge feels that connection. The administrator from Somerset will dance in the Platinum Jubilee pageant, 69 years after her father marched in the queen’s coronation parade.
“I think it’s amazing that the country always comes together when there’s a wedding, a royal jubilee, whatever the royals are involved in,” she said. “We love the queen!’’
The past two years have highlighted t he monarchy’s strengths as the queen alternately consoled a nation isolated by COVID-19 and thanked doctors and nurses battling the disease.
But its frailties were also on display as the 96-year-old monarch buried her husband and was slowed by health problems that forced her to turn over important public duties to Charles. That came amid the all-too-public tensions with Prince Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, who made allegations of racism and bullying in the royal household, and the sordid allegations about P rince Andrew’s links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Against this backdrop, the jubilee is also part of the effort to prepare the public for the day when Charles takes the throne. Now 73, Charles has spent much of his life preparing to be king and battling a somewhat stuffy image that wasn’t helped by his ugly divorce from the still-adored Princess Diana.
Charles reportedly may play a key role during the first event of the jubilee weekend, taking the salute of passing soldiers during the annual military review known as Trooping the Colour. The queen will attend the more than 400-year-old ceremony that marks her official birthday if she feels ok, but will decide on the day.
Elizabeth, who only recently recovered from COVID-19 and has begun using a walking stick, has given Charles an increasingly important role as the public face of the monarchy. Earlier this month, he stood in for his mother when what the palace describes as “episodic mobility problems” prevented her from presiding over the state opening of Parliament.
Still, in the days afterward, she t urned up at a horse show, opened a subway line and toured the Chelsea Flower Show in a chauffeur-driven royal buggy — a sort of luxurious golf cart.
“There is no blueprint for a reign of this length and, subsequently, I think the palace and courtiers are having to improvise all the time,” said Ed Owens, a royal historian and author of “The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public 1932-1953.”
“In the case of Elizabeth II, we haven’t had a monarch this elderly who has reigned for so long and is so meaningful to so many people having to essentially transfer her role to the next in line.”
But don’t expect the queen to leave the scene any time soon.
Robert Hardman, biographer and author of “Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II’’ said he expects to see an even bigger party four years from now when Elizabeth turns 100.
“A 100th birthday raises the intriguing prospect: Will she send a card to herself?” Hardman mused, referencing the queen’s tradition of sending a personal birthday card to anyone who reaches that milestone. “I’m looking forward to that debate in 2026.”
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Follow all AP stories about Britain’s royal family at https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii. | https://www.newsnationnow.com/entertainment-news/entertainment-headlines/uk-to-hold-days-long-bash-to-celebrate-queens-70-year-reign/ | 2022-05-29T18:59:41Z | https://www.newsnationnow.com/entertainment-news/entertainment-headlines/uk-to-hold-days-long-bash-to-celebrate-queens-70-year-reign/ | true | 28 |
The legendary jockey Lester Piggott has died at the age of 86 at his home in Switzerland.
He won almost 4,500 races including a record nine Derby victories in a career which spanned nearly half a century.
But it was not without controversy – he was sentenced to three years in jail after being convicted of multi million pound tax fraud in 1987.
Fellow jockeys described him as a hero and a legend who would never be forgotten. | https://www.channel4.com/news/lester-piggott-dies-tributes-paid-to-legendary-jockey | 2022-05-29T19:00:50Z | https://www.channel4.com/news/lester-piggott-dies-tributes-paid-to-legendary-jockey | false | null |
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services said there are multiple people, including children with injuries after a vehicle struck a tree off Parsons Road in Manor.
ATCEMS said there were five total patients being treated and additional ambulances were called to the scene. All of the patients were being taken to the hospital.
“[One] unconscious adult patient has been transported to Dell Seton with critical life-threatening injuries,” ATCEMS said.
In a final update from ATCEMS, of the five patients, one adult is in critical condition, one adult with non-life-threating injuries was taken to Dell Senton and three pediatric patients were taken to Dell Children’s with non-life-threatening injuries.
ATCEMS is no longer on the scene, but drivers should continue to avoid the area and expect continued closures.
This is a developing story. Stay with KXAN for the latest information. | https://www.kxan.com/news/local/atcems-responding-to-crash-in-manor-reports-of-multiple-injuries/ | 2022-05-29T19:08:27Z | https://www.kxan.com/news/local/atcems-responding-to-crash-in-manor-reports-of-multiple-injuries/ | false | null |
Tom Cruise got his first $100 million opening weekend with “Top Gun: Maverick.” Paramount Pictures said Sunday that in its first three days in North American theaters, “Top Gun: Maverick” earned an estimated $124 million in ticket sales.
It’s a supersonic start for the long-in-the-works sequel and the film still has the wide-open skies of Memorial Day Monday to rake in even more cash.
According to projections and estimates, by Monday’s close “Top Gun: Maverick” will likely have over $150 million.
The film is playing on a record 4,735 North American screens. | https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2022/05/29/top-gun-maverick-wins-tom-cruise-1st-100-million-opening/ | 2022-05-29T19:11:21Z | https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2022/05/29/top-gun-maverick-wins-tom-cruise-1st-100-million-opening/ | false | null |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
5-3-4-2, SB: 2
(five, three, four, two; SB: two)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
5-3-4-2, SB: 2
(five, three, four, two; SB: two) | https://www.newstimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Midday-game-17206675.php | 2022-05-29T19:15:39Z | https://www.newstimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Midday-game-17206675.php | false | null |
Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham and San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson had to be separated prior to Friday night’s scheduled game between the two clubs in Cincinnati.
According to reports, no punches were thrown in the incident that happened in left field. Players, coaches and staff members from both teams helped diffuse the situation.
Eyewitnesses accounts pegged Pham as the instigators but Pham told reporters afterward that Pederson started the incident.
Pederson declined comment, saying he had to go take batting practice.
“We’re investigating it and learning as much as we can about the incident,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. “I sense we’ll have a clearer understanding after the game.
“We’re taking it very seriously. Until we have a clear understanding of what happened, not willing to discuss it.”
The San Jose Mercury-News reported that approximately 20 people associated with the Reds and 10 with the Giants were in the outfield while the two players were separated.
The start of the game was delayed due to rain.
Pham, 34, is in his first season with the Reds and is batting .233 with five homers and 17 RBIs in 42 games. He also has played with the St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays and San Diego Padres during a nine-year big league career.
Pederson, 30, is batting .260 with 11 homer and 24 RBIs in 35 games in his first season with the Giants. He also has played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves during his nine seasons.
–Field Level Media | https://sportsnaut.com/reds-pham-giants-pederson-separated-in-pregame-altercation/ | 2022-05-29T19:20:04Z | https://sportsnaut.com/reds-pham-giants-pederson-separated-in-pregame-altercation/ | true | 2 |
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