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Russell Grant takes a look at what today could bring for your horoscope - while Gemini is urged to note down inner thoughts, Scorpio is advised to put their own feelings first to achieve maximum success.
There are 12 zodiac signs - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces - and the horoscopes for each can give you the lowdown on what your future holds, be it in work, your love life, your friends and family or more.
These daily forecasts have been compiled by astrologer Russell Grant, who has been reading star signs for over 50 years.
From Aries through to Pisces, here's what today could bring for your horoscope - and what you can do to be prepared.
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Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 20)
A senior colleague is looking into ways to reduce everyone’s workload. This may mean taking on extra employees or temporary workers. This move will be welcomed if it helps ease the pressure you have all recently been under. Ideas are shared. People are interested in what you have to say.
Taurus (Apr 21 - May 21)
Giving freely without expecting anything in return will attract abundance your way. You’re feeling grateful and generous, and whether it is money, friendship, guidance or a word of praise, you are giving from a place of compassion. Your generosity is making a positive difference.
Gemini (May 22 - June 21)
It might seem as if the rug had been pulled from beneath your feet and you aren’t sure of the best way to cope. Feelings you haven’t experienced before confuse you. You may even be wondering if you are supposed to feel this way. Putting your thoughts down on paper can help you understand yourself better. This will also release tension.
Cancer (June 22 - July 23)
You may be at a standstill when it comes to your job or domestic situation, but this doesn’t mean you aren’t making progress. The progress being made is within yourself as your resilience is put to the test and you are discovering more of who you are and what is right for you.
Leo (July 24 - Aug 23)
Now is the time to let other people know what you are thinking about. The planning stage is over and you need to take the initiative and get started in order to get results. The few details left to be considered can be managed as you go.
Virgo (Aug 24 - Sept 23)
A situation is coming to an end and the results are out of your hands. You’ve done all you possibly could in your hope that all will go as you are hoping. Now it is up to other people on how to move forward. Whatever the outcome, this part of your life has run its course.
Libra (Sept 24 - Oct 23)
News you’ve been waiting to hear will be disappointing. Give yourself a chance to think about what you have heard before reacting. Avoid making any rash decisions when emotions are heightened or you could regret an emotional outburst. Weigh up the pros and cons before deciding on what you are going to do.
Scorpio (Oct 24 - Nov 22)
Be brave and put your own interests first. Ignore anyone who accuses you of being selfish. Maximum success will come from focusing on the practical side of life. Others might indulge in creative or wishful thinking, but you won’t be following their lead. It is time to get down to business.
Sagittarius (Nov 23 - Dec 21)
You aren’t sure whether it is really worth continuing with a project when others who are involved don’t seem interested anymore. You seem to be the only one that is taking this seriously. You would probably get more satisfaction through making this a solo enterprise.
Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 20)
When other people see you feeling low and fed up, they will start doubting you, too. You might wake up today wanting to be more vibrant, more confident and more successful. There are many facets to your personality. This is your chance to try on a different you. Have fun discovering a new part of yourself.
Aquarius (Jan 21 - Feb 19)
You seem to have no choice but to have to get on with tasks you really don’t want to do. If you give it all you’ve got, no one can accuse you of shirking your responsibilities. You may even finish early enough to still have some time for yourself later.
Pisces (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
Responsibilities are heavy and may weigh you down, but you have a vivid imagination and they can’t stop you from escaping into a world of fantasy. You are free to go anywhere you please within your mind while keeping up appearances on the job. | https://www.ok.co.uk/horoscopes/todays-horoscopes-russell-grants-star-27039615 | 2022-06-09T08:23:02Z | https://www.ok.co.uk/horoscopes/todays-horoscopes-russell-grants-star-27039615 | true | 1 |
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An increase in rent for vendors at the CHamoru Village needs to be considered as costs rise and the Department of CHamoru Affairs continues to struggle financially, said Melvin Won Pat-Borja, the agency’s president.
During a budget hearing on Thursday, Won Pat-Borja explained that CHamoru Affairs generates most of its revenue through rent at the CHamoru Village, along with fees collected from the Wednesday Night Market vendors.
Won Pat-Borja also said that the venue, a long-time community staple, was originally conceived of as a business incubator and farmers market in the 1990s.
“Though business incubators are conceptually great, the reality is that when rental rates are so low to benefit businesses, the cost doesn’t just disappear. It is usually subsidized by the government,” he said.
Won Pat-Borja admitted that the CHamoru Village serves an important purpose, “But the costs of the overhead and what we incur in order to maintain that operation have increased. I mean, everything across the board has increased.”
While CHamoru village was shuttered through fiscal year 2021 and vendors only had to pay common area fees, CHamoru Affairs still made $148,000 because they no longer had to pay for utilities and contractual services like security, an audit from the Office of Public Accountability shows. In fiscal 2019, the village was operating at a $6,000 loss.
At the same time, Won Pat-Borja said CHamoru Affairs has two divisions shuttered due to lack of funding for staff: Research, Publications & Training, which produced the CHamoru Dictionary; and the Guam Archive.
While attempts to raise rent at CHamoru Village were unsuccessful in the past, Won Pat-Borja said he’s hoping to “grease the wheels” by upgrading the degraded facilities.
His agency is competing for a grant to upgrade a number of major issues for vendor facilities, including unsecure windows and doors that have led to break-ins, leaking roofs, electrical issues and unsafe walkways which have led to at least one lawsuit, he said.
The grant also will allow for some of the concrete huts built for the Festival of the Pacific Arts and Culture in 2016 to be enclosed and turned into permanent vendor stalls.
A major waterline repair also needs to be completed at the site.
CHamoru Affairs is asking for a status quo appropriation for fiscal year 2023 of about $2 million, including $1.78 million from the general fund and $285,997 from special funds.
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The Guam Museum also is in need of repair for one of the facility’s arches, Won Pat-Borja said, which, while structurally sound, is causing water to leak into the museum.
Additionally, about $1.8 million in American Rescue Plan money that went to CHamoru Affairs will be used to repair the HVAC unit needed to preserve items at the museum.
“Our AC just went down, we had to run a repair. And we’re notified that our chillers are kind of at their end,” Won Pat-Borja said.
ARP funds also will be used to hire more assistants to allow the Museum to host revenue-generating events on nights and weekends. The Museum also is looking to extend regular tour hours, which currently are limited to 10 a.m.-2 p.m., four days a week. | https://www.guampdn.com/news/chamoru-affairs-president-raising-rent-for-chamoru-village-vendors-needs-consideration/article_acf11130-e7c2-11ec-be23-1f6ba96d927a.html | 2022-06-09T08:38:12Z | https://www.guampdn.com/news/chamoru-affairs-president-raising-rent-for-chamoru-village-vendors-needs-consideration/article_acf11130-e7c2-11ec-be23-1f6ba96d927a.html | false | 1 |
Redditor shares grandma’s letter to grandfather that she wrote in 1962
A wonderful letter written by a woman in 1962 to her then to-be husband has warm people’s hearts. Shared by a Reddit user, the post details that the woman is their grandma and wrote the letter to their grandfather who passed away three years ago. There is a chance that the beautiful post will leave you emotional.
“Found in my late grandfather’s possessions, a letter my grandmother wrote to him in 1962,” reads the caption posted along with the screenshot of the letter. It is written in a way that it is not just romantic and charming but practical too.
“Dearest Morty: It's June first. That means our wedding is only three weeks away! I'm so happy, I just can't think of anything else. Isn't it marvelous, my sweet, that with all the millions and millions of people in the world, you and I should have met. .. and fallen in love... and now we'll soon be married! Or do you think it was all planned that way, long ago perhaps - even before we were born?” reads the first few lines of the letter.
“Anyway, precious, I think I'M the luckiest woman in the world! I'm going to devote my life to making you happy. I promise! Darling, we really should decide between Lake George and Lake Placid right away otherwise we're likely to spend our honeymoon in little old New York. But there's always your brother's [sic] in Canada,” it continues.
“Love me too, precious. Don't ever stop loving me. You are the most important thing in life to me now you know that, don't you? All my love and a million kisses. Pauline,” it further reads.
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The post has been shared about nine days ago. Since being posted, it has accumulated about 6,600 upvotes and the numbers are only increasing. It has also prompted people to post various comments and some of them also received replies from the original poster.
“Touches all the feels. I hope they had an amazing life together!” wrote a Reddit user. And they received a reply that read, “They were entirely inseparable until he passed nearly 3 years ago. They loved each other fiercely every single day, through thick and thin.”
“This is my relationship goal. Thanks for sharing the letter,” expressed another. “A wonderful letter!” commented another. “That was simply wonderful. Thanks for sharing,” posted a third.
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Simply incorporating modern designs and trendy furniture in a home is not enough to make it cosy and inviting. You need to use the right materials, soothing colours, carefully chosen decor elements and beautiful lights to achieve it. And this residence in Pune, a green and well-planned city in India will show you how. Thanks to the interior architects at Mavrick Design Studio, this abode combines wood in various shades with softly glowing trendy lights for a unique living experience. Designs are sleek, minimalistic, and very practical. Splashes of bright colours appear here and there to spice up the home as well.
The creamy white walls of this hall are nicely contrasted by the sleek and long cabinet in dark wood, as well as the large Buddha painting offering tranquillity to the space. The textured wall behind the painting adds visual depth, while the tripod lamp looks gorgeous. The white and geometrically inspired partition separating this hall from the dining room is a very modern touch.
The dining space is double-height and hence very airy, with a glass wall on the left separating it from other areas. The furniture is a tasteful mix of dark and light wood, and stands out aesthetically against the light-hued floor.
Different shades of grey pair up with bright lemon yellow to make the media room lively and bold. Embedded lights help in creating a very relaxing ambiance, while wooden cladding on the far end wall and floor ensure cosiness. The large and comfy settees with sleek backrests offer ample seating space, while colourful and silky cushions lend a luxurious look.
This collage of images captured from different spots in the home shows that the inhabitants love sleek and neat detailing. Shelves and partitions look minimal, practical and very elegant as well. Quirky porthole-like glass windows appear randomly for a unique look, while the wooden elements are precise and contemporary. The grey and lemon yellow wall in the media room features sleek and rectangular embedded lights for a futuristic appeal.
Here’s another tour if you are looking for more inspiration - A modern and stylish Mumbai residence | https://www.homify.in/ideabooks/2370916/an-beautiful-and-modern-pune-home-filled-with-cosiness | 2022-06-09T08:40:40Z | https://www.homify.in/ideabooks/2370916/an-beautiful-and-modern-pune-home-filled-with-cosiness | false | 1 |
Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan weaved magic on screen with their films. Be it Guru or Kuch Naa Kaho, the two never failed to make the audience fall in love with their duo. However, it’s been long since Aishwarya and Abhishek joined hands for a film together. During a recent interview, the Raavan actress revealed that though she wants to reunite with her husband on screen, but her family is her priority.
IT SHOULD HAPPEN: AISHWARYA ON WORKING WITH ABHISHEK
In IFFA 2022, Aishwarya was accompanied by Abhishek Bachchan and their daughter Aaradhya Bachchan. During the event, the actress expressed her desire to work with her husband while speaking to ETimes. When asked about when will she reunite with Abhishek on the big screen, she looked up to the sky and said, “It should happen,” but her priority is still her family. “I braved and stepped out to complete Mani sir’s Ponniyin Selvan, but that doesn’t change my focus for my family and Aaradhya,” the actor said. Aishwarya Rai will soon be seen in the two-part historical epic Ponniyin Selvan. The film is directed by Mani Ratnam.
WHEN AISHWARYA RAI, AARADHYA JOINED ABHISHEK FOR AN IMPROMPTU DANCE
IIFA is all about the glam and the glitter. Other than awards, the show garners attention for some of the best performances from Bollywood celebs. For instance, this year, Abhishek Bachchan won hearts with his performance. A video of him was shared on Instagram by IIFA that showed Abhishek pumping up the crowd while performing on India Wale from Happy New Year and Macha Macha from Dasvi. While dancing, he also approached his wife Aishwarya and daughter Aaradhya. They too turned up cheerleaders for him as they joined him for an impromptu dance together. Take a look:
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan got married in 2007. | https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/aishwarya-rai-wants-reunite-with-hubby-abhishek-bachchan-on-big-screen-but-says-family-is-priority-1960317-2022-06-09 | 2022-06-09T08:44:03Z | https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/aishwarya-rai-wants-reunite-with-hubby-abhishek-bachchan-on-big-screen-but-says-family-is-priority-1960317-2022-06-09 | false | 1 |
Unable to pay Rs 50,000 to claim son's body from mortuary, Bihar man takes to begging
Unable to pay Rs 50,000 to claim son's body from mortuary, Bihar man takes to begging
Samastipur: A man was forced to beg to claim his son's body kept at a mortuary in Samastipur district of Bihar, because the staffer was asking for Rs 50,000 for handing over the body to the claimant. Unable to pay the hefty amount, the man went out to seek alms from villagers, a video of which has been making rounds on social media.
Jolted by the viral video, the top brass from the administration, including District Magistrate, civil surgeon, ADM and others went on toes. However, the mortuary employee where the body of the deceased had been kept after the post-mortem examination, went into a denial mode saying that he didn't ask for the money.
The post-mortem department employee Nagendra Mallik said in a clarification that it was just a slip of tongue, and the fact was interpreted wrongly. "The corpse was yet to be identified. Hence, I asked the two claimants to go to the police station first to claim the body. Without the police's approval, I didn't allow to take the body. I didn't ask for money. They were asked to bring just polythene sheets and some clothes."
Officiating DM cum Additional District Magistrate, Vinay Kumar Rai, said, "No one asked for the money. The allegation was baseless. After the identification of the body, the corpse was sent to the home. The mortuary employee just said that the body will not be handed over even if someone pays Rs 50,000. Police brought the unclaimed body so get it through police."
Meanwhile, the mentally deranged son of Mahesh Thakur who was missing since May 25, was found at a place under Musharigharari police station limits in the Samastipur district of Bihar on June 7. Police later sent the body to Samastipur Sadar Hospital mortuary as no one came forward to claim the body. | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/post-mortem-worker-asked-50-thousand-for-dead-body-helpless-parents-begging-in-samastipur/na20220609133047197197334 | 2022-06-09T08:48:53Z | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/post-mortem-worker-asked-50-thousand-for-dead-body-helpless-parents-begging-in-samastipur/na20220609133047197197334 | false | 1 |
To the editor:
Helpless and alone, and haunted with the terror of being different, sick, and excluded. That was the major theme song for me growing up in Danvers with the unwanted curse of same-sex attraction. Danvers, like every other town and city, was incapable of providing a safe and holy place for me to grow as a healthy adolescent and young adult.
I am 80 next October. The scar tissue is still embedded in my soul, but little by little I have been able to come to terms with my truth and more and more I am surrounded by people who not only care, but do, truly, understand.
Our Human Rights and Inclusion Committee mini-rainbow celebration Sunday was an unexpected giant step forward for me. Never in my wildest dreams would I hope for or expect anything like rainbow Sunday on the lawn of the Peabody Institute library, at the edge of the Mill Pond where I learned to fish more than 70 years ago.
A simple “thank you“ feels grossly insufficient, so I shall repeat it over and over and over again. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
David Mills
Danvers | https://www.salemnews.com/opinion/letter-an-unexpected-giant-step-forward/article_184381f6-e751-11ec-aff5-ef22f47867b7.html | 2022-06-09T08:51:47Z | https://www.salemnews.com/opinion/letter-an-unexpected-giant-step-forward/article_184381f6-e751-11ec-aff5-ef22f47867b7.html | true | 1 |
A stepfather in Florida has been convicted of child abuse after a restaurant employee last year noticed concerning signs and used a surreptitious note to ask a boy if he needed help, the Orange County State Attorney's Office announced Monday.
A jury found Timothy Lee Wilson, 36, guilty of two counts of false imprisonment of a child under the age of 13, three counts of aggravated child abuse with a weapon, four counts of aggravated child abuse, and one count of child neglect, a news release from the state attorney's office said.
An investigation revealed the boy was kept away from his family in a hotel room used for storage, was regularly deprived of food and drink, and was subjected to military-style exercises and other abuses, according to the release. Officers recovered multiple items used as weapons against the child, the release added.
The 11-year-old boy and his family were at the Mrs. Potato restaurant in Orlando on January 1, 2021, when employee Flaviane Carvalho noticed he was sitting secluded from his parents and sibling, was being deprived of food and drink, and was bruised and scratched, CNN previously reported.
Carvalho stood behind the boy's parents and held up a note asking the boy if he was OK. When the child nodded no, she wrote a second note that asked, "Do you need help," she explained at a news conference.
After the boy nodded yes, Carvalho called her boss and then called 911.
After police arrived and questioned the child, Wilson was arrested at the restaurant, and the boy's mother, Kristen Swann, was taken into custody days later, Orlando investigators said.
Swann is facing multiple felony abuse charges, including neglect of a child, aggravated abuse and failure to report child abuse, records from the Orange County Clerk's Office show. She has pleaded not guilty. CNN is reaching out to Swann's attorney for comment.
Wilson will be sentenced on August 19, 2022. CNN has reached out to his attorney for comment on the verdict.
What police found after the parents' arrests
When Swann and Wilson were arrested, another 4-year-old child was removed from the home and was found to not have suffered any abuse, according to Orlando Police Detective Erin Lawler at the time of the arrests. Lawler said the 11-year-old boy is Swann's child and the 4-year-old is Swann's and Wilson's child.
After Carvalho called 911, the boy was taken to a hospital where he was found to be 20 pounds underweight for his age, according to Lawler, who added that the boy also had bruises in various stages of healing across his entire body.
Investigators later found that the boy had been "tortured" and "maliciously punished," the attorney's office release said. Prosecutors said the boy had been hung upside down from a door by his neck and feet and on one occasion handcuffed to a dolly cart.
"What this child had gone through, it was torture," Lawler said. "I'm a mother and seeing what that 11-year-old had to go through ... It shocks your soul."
"If Ms. Carvalho would not have said something when she saw it, that little boy would probably not be with us much longer," she added.
"I was used like a tool from God to, to help him," Carvalho told CNN affiliate WESH. "We need to pay attention for the ones that (are) in need, and step forward to do something to change the situation."
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Celebrations for the Queen’s Jubilee were held across the county with partygoers making the most of the four-day bank holiday.
Wellingborough gran Ria Sharp held a street party for the community in Sandpiper Lane and celebrated ‘in style’.
She said: “We were worried about the rain but it wouldn't have stopped us. We had the road closed from 10am until 11pm and we partied hard. My grandkids will not see another Platinum Jubilee so we had to celebrate in style.
Ria, owner of Mama Ria’s Cabs, is recovering from a battle with cancer and hopes to return to running her not-for-profit trips to Skegness soon.
She said: “At Mama Ria’s Cabs we pride ourselves on doing things for the community when we can. Pre-Covid we put on coach trips to Skegness and hope to resume next year – I am one year cancer-free this week.”
In Kettering more than 100 people shared lunch in the gardens of St Michael’s Church at a party organised by Headlands Area Residents’ Association.
Corby Silver Band entertained guests and Philip Hollobone, MP for Kettering, dropped in.
Organiser Janet Marchand said: “A chap brought his crepe making machine and ingredients, the children did a treasure hunt and we all ate far too much. It was a great atmosphere and some very inventive decorated cakes were consumed.”
Kettering Lodge Bowls Club held an afternoon of bowling with 34 members taking part followed by an afternoon tea attended by bowlers and past members of the club. In the evening there was a 1952-style dinner with music and entertainment. | https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/more-of-your-pictures-from-the-jubilee-weekend-3725326 | 2022-06-09T08:53:39Z | https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/more-of-your-pictures-from-the-jubilee-weekend-3725326 | true | 1 |
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Panopto's Chris Knowlton Talks the Value of VOD Content Searchability
Learn more about VOD and searchability at Streaming Media West 2022.
Tim Siglin: Welcome back to Streaming Media East 2022 here at the Westin Copley in Boston. I'm Tim Siglin, Founding Executive Director of the not-for-profit Help Me Stream Research Foundation. I know that's a mouthful, but basically we're 501c3 that takes in old first-world gear, repackages it into streaming solutions. And sends it to places in emerging economies. With me. I have Chris Knolton, who is Chief Evangelist now at Panopto [http://panopto.com]. And I didn't know that you moved to Panopto because the last tracking I had of you, after Wowza and BlueFrame was that you'd gone back to Microsoft. I had. And so how long have you been with Panopto now?
Chris Knowlton: I think this is week nine.
Tim Siglin: Oh, wow. So it is a relatively new thing. Is this your first trade show, or did you go to NAB?
Chris Knowlton: Didn't go to NAB. I went to something called ATD, the Association for Talent Development, which is where lots of instructional designers will go and get new information on the latest tech. That was my first time there. That was last week in Orlando. And this is my first Streaming Media show, obviously, since 2019.
Tim Siglin: For a number of us, it's our first Streaming Media show in a couple of years. So you had some really fascinating stats that you showed on the keynote presentation you did, one of which caught my attention and that of my wife, Michelle, a high wchool algebra teacher--the one where it said that students remember only 58% of what they learned 30 minutes ago, and a week later it's down to 35%. So therefore repetition makes sense if somebody wants to do it. And part of your premise was the idea that we would record that content and then allow people to come back and rewatch it multiple times.
Chris Knowlton: That's correct. I don't know about you, but a lot of times I have gone to trainings and I saw a video, or maybe it was a live training, and that's the only time I had exposure to that content. But if you capture it and then make it very accessible and searchable, you're much more likely to get a lot of value out of that content and help with that repetition, so somebody can have the knowledge they need when they need it.
Tim Siglin: As a matter of fact, we did a survey last year for Streaming Media around enterprise. And one of the questions that we asked people was, "During the pandemic, have you gone to more trade show events than you did in person?" And the answer was yes. And then we said, "What do you like about it? What do you dislike?" One of the things people said they really disliked in the live one was not to have a chance to do question and answer. But the other thing they said that they really liked about those trade shows was that the virtual ones were recorded, so they could go back and actually watch them multiple times. And some of the people said, "After the first three or four, I ultimately just stopped attending them live and would go watch the on-demand because I could learn at my own pace through those. And then I could send a question to the presenter with the knowledge of what that presenter had actually said."
Chris Knowlton: One of the challenges I always have at a show like this is that there are always multiple tracks going on, and inevitably, I will want to see two things happening at the same time. With on-demand or asynchronous video, you obviously have that opportunity. And to your point about not being able to do it all in one sitting--you can hit pause. Maybe it's helpful for you to have it bigger on the screen. So you do captions or a screen reader. All of these are things that you can't do if it's a live stream, but you can do them if it's on demand.
Tim Siglin: Now I've worked with a number of companies who have tried to attack this over the years--one of them being Sonic Foundry--and one of their big claims to fame was the ability to search through content that was on demand. Does Panopto have those kinds of options as well--agenda-based, or text-based?
Chris Knowlton: We do both speech-to-text, so we get every spoken word, as well as doing OCR on content. So any words that are shown, I will pick up as well. So if somebody's flipping through their slides fast, they don't say the keyword that you wanna look for later, we've still caught it because of the OCR. And when you search for it, you'll still find it in the right place and it'll take you right to that place.
Tim Siglin: And I think that last part is key. It's not just, "Oh, this is in this hour-long video." It's, "Hey, you searched for that particular word. Now, let me take you to the multiple instances where that word either showed up on screen or was said, so allows people to rapidly get back to where they want to learn.
Chris Knowlton: Exactly. It's much like a Google search result where you see the key phrase or word in context, so that if you remember what was being said around it, you can pick out the right one from the search results and go right to that spot in the video.
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With a 6-3 majority, conservative justices on the Supreme Court may appear poised to hand down decisions that the Republican presidents who appointed them would applaud.
As a political scientist who has published several books on law and politics, I know it’s true that the political affiliation of the president who appointed a justice is a powerful indicator of how that justice will vote.
But ideology does not explain everything. Not all cases divide neatly along partisan lines, and, what’s equally important, Supreme Court decisions consist of more than votes. They also set forth judicial reasoning, which offers vital clues to differences in how justices read the law and how they might rule in future cases.
Often, conservative justices are associated with a doctrine of legal interpretation called “originalism,” which looks to the meaning of a law’s language when it was enacted to determine what Congress intended to achieve. So, in interpreting the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment,” an originalist would try to understand what “cruel and unusual” meant when the Bill of Rights was adopted in 1791 as opposed to now.
Originalism may seem straightforward in the abstract, but it can take several forms in practice, and that’s where members of the court’s conservative majority sometimes part ways. This has happened in two recent cases that illustrate how internal divides among that six-justice majority may be more consequential than the divisions between them and the three-justice liberal minority that garner so much attention.
Gorsuch’s literal approach in Bostock
A case called Bostock v. Clayton County, decided in 2020, consolidated three lawsuits against employers who allegedly fired workers for being gay or transgender. The workers all sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, claiming sex discrimination.
In the decision, the conservatives split. Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court’s four liberals at the time – Associate Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor – to rule in favor of the workers. The remaining conservatives, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, disagreed.
Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion. He started by looking at the definition of the word “sex” when the law was passed in 1964. Quoting the employers’ arguments, which relied on dictionaries from that time, Gorsuch assumed that “sex” meant a person’s “status as either male or female [as] determined by reproductive biology.”
Applying this definition, he concluded that sex discrimination encompasses sexual orientation and gender identity. After all, if employers punish male workers – but not women – for being attracted to men, or for exhibiting traits they would accept in female employees, they are treating individual workers differently at least partially based on the worker’s sex.
In dissent, Kavanaugh criticized Gorsuch’s literal approach and looked to the law’s customary understanding when written. Using this method, Kavanaugh reasoned that sex, sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination were considered distinct in 1964 – as they are now – and that therefore, Gerald Bostock was fired because he is gay, not because he is biologically male.
Alito, joined by Thomas, wrote a different dissent. It echoed many of Kavanaugh’s arguments, but took a harsher tone. Alito said the law should be read according to its meaning in 1964, and not “2020 values,” those from the year in which the case came before the court. The opinion said that ordinary Americans in 1964 “would not have dreamed that discrimination because of sex meant discrimination because of sexual orientation, much less gender identity.”
Alito’s dissent claimed Gorsuch was entirely misusing the idea of originalism. Gorsuch took an extremely close-up and literal view, applying a dictionary definition from when the law was passed without regard to further context. Kavanaugh sought to place this language in historical perspective to assess whether Congress intended an expansive definition of sex discrimination in 1964. Alito and Thomas took Kavanaugh’s approach to a more impassioned extreme.
Alito’s historical approach in Dobbs
The leaked draft of an upcoming ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which emerged in May 2022, showcases Alito’s narrow brand of originalism.
The case is about a Mississippi law that bans abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. The statute is plainly unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, both of which guarantee the right to abortion before fetal viability – or about 23 or 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Alito’s draft opinion for the majority on the Dobbs case indicates it may be joined by Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and the newly appointed associate justice, Amy Coney Barrett. If that were true, the ruling would be a 5-4 decision, with Chief Justice Roberts once again defecting from the conservative bloc.
Alito’s reasoning in the Dobbs draft is similar to his explanation in the Bostock ruling in three ways that highlight his approach to legal interpretation.
First, he begins with the language of the governing law. Alito finds no specific reference to abortion in the U.S. Constitution, and no implicit right to abortion in any other constitutional provision, including the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, which says the government shall not deprive a person “of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”
Second, Alito argues that when the governing law is silent (or ambiguous) on issues, judges should let the elected branches decide them. In the Dobbs draft, he calls the finding of implied rights in Roe an “abuse of judicial authority.”
Third, Alito argues that history holds the key to reading the law. He says that any argument that abortion is implicitly included in the 14th Amendment’s due process clause fails because in 1868, the year the amendment was ratified, 28 of the 37 states criminalized abortion at all stages of pregnancy. And, he notes, eight of the remaining nine states passed laws doing so before 1910.
Alito further claims that the ruling would not mean the end of other constitutionally protected rights, like interracial marriage and same-sex marriage, because abortion is “unique” in that it destroys an “unborn human being.” But this statement is what lawyers call “dicta” – comments that are incidental to the resolution of the case. In fact, Alito’s legal methodology is not limited to abortion rights or even constitutional law, as seen from its use in the Bostock ruling.
The broader point is that justices’ reasoning matters. Just as Gorsuch’s literal approach to reading Title VII’s ban on sex discrimination potentially affects other statutes, Alito’s historical approach casts doubt on other decisions that rely on the due process clause, including cases establishing the right to gay marriage and contraception.
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CHENNAI: In an effort to boost their midfield, two-time Indian Super League champions Chennaiyin FC have signed Sourav Das on a two-year deal.
The arrival of Das, who has previously featured for three of India's top football clubs -- Mumbai City, East Bengal and Mohun Bagan -- will give further fillip to Chennaiyin's midfield, consisting of experienced Anirudh Thapa and youngster Jiteshwor Singh, who was signed by the club earlier.
Talking about the club's fifth signing this summer, Chennaiyin FC co-owner Vita Dani said: ''We are very happy to welcome hard working and combative midfielder Sourav Das to Chennaiyin FC. He has impressed at the three clubs that he has played for so far and we are confident that he can carry over that quality into next season with us.'' The 25-year-old footballer will be joining the Marina Machans from SC East Bengal for whom he played two seasons in the ISL. Last season Das played 18 matches, recording 66 tackles and 25 interceptions for the Red and Gold Brigade.
Das said: ''It is a great club with great achievements. I promise them and all the fans that I will put my every bit into training and matches and fight hard.'' A defensive midfielder, who bagged his maiden professional contract with Mohun Bagan in 2016 after spending his formative years at the Tata Football Academy, featured in three I-League seasons for the Mariners.
He appeared in 16 league matches and also played in the 2017 AFC Cup for them before moving to Mumbai City in the 2019-20 ISL season. He made eight appearances for the Mumbai outfit in two ISL seasons.
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POLICE have confirmed a cyclist has died following a crash between a pushbike and a vehicle on the outskirts of Lithgow.
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The pushbike rider died at the scene. He is yet to be formally identified.
Officers from Chifley Police District have secured a crime scene which will be examined by specialist police.
The driver was not injured. He has been arrested and taken to Lithgow Police Station where he is currently assisting with inquiries.
Major traffic delays are expected to last for some time and motorists are urged to avoid the area. Traffic updates can be viewed at Live Traffic NSW.
No further details are available.
As inquiries continue anyone who may have witnessed, or has dashcam footage, of the crash are asked to contact Lithgow Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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EMERGENCY crews are at the scene of a serious crash where a cyclist and car have collided on the Great Western Highway.
Police and Ambulance were called to the scene at around 11.15am, after receiving numerous triple 000 calls.
Duty Officer with Chifley Local Area Command Inspector David Abercrombie said the crash occurred on the outskirts of Lithgow.
A spokesperson for NSW Ambulance said three road crews were called to the crash site, and remain on scene, along with police and other emergency services.
Inspector Abercrombie said motorists should slow down and take care in the vicinity.
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Streaming services have become a vital part of our entertainment, with more introduced each year to quench our thirst for a wider selection of films and TV shows.
The problem is, with so many streaming services on the market, monthly subscriptions will soon add up. In order to save yourself some money without missing out on great content, here are a few ways to get streaming services for free in the UK.
Free streaming services
Not all streaming services charge a monthly subscription fee. There are plenty of services that offer free content you can access on mobile apps, streaming sticks or on your smart TV.
BBC iPlayer
BBC iPlayer has a tonne of free content including box sets of popular shows such as Line of Duty, to new releases like Killing Eve and What We Do in The Shadows, alongside a number of great films that you don’t want to miss.
You’ll have to be quick though. A lot of the content on iPlayer is only stored for about a week, so be sure to watch your favourite BBC shows as soon as they’re released.
Also, bear in mind that you’ll need to have a TV licence in order to watch all this great free content.
All 4
You can watch catch up episodes of the majority of shows that air on Channel 4 via its All 4 app and on its website. You can find all of Channel 4’s original content, as well as classic shows like The Simpsons and The IT Crowd, and a vast collection of films from its Film4 service.
The service is completely free, but you will need to register and watch ads in order to view the content. There is an ad-free service, All 4+, which lets you watch 1500 shows without ads for just £3.99 a month with a 14-day free trial.
My5
It’s a similar story with My5, the streaming service for Channel 5. The main difference being that it recently added extra channels from the US service, Pluto TV.
This has added over 200 films to its back catalogue, not all of which are Oscar-winners (see Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus). However, you can always access all your favourite Channel 5 content and stream episodes of shows like Neighbours, Home & Away and Geordie Shore.
YouTube
And don’t forget about YouTube which boasts an incredibly vast source of entertaining video content. With channels like Artflix and Viewster, you can watch a number of niche films on YouTube for free (and legally).
Free trials
Before you decide which streaming service you want to subscribe to, it’s helpful to get a good idea of the type of content it has to offer. As such, most streaming services offer some sort of free trial, although there are notable exceptions from Netflix and Disney Plus.
Netflix
Netflix is the king of content streaming platforms, and as such, decided to discontinue its free trials towards the end of last year. Since Netflix shows are released in their entirety, it would have been easy to sign up for a 30-day, or even 7-day, free trial and watch the entire series and cancel without having to pay a penny.
While it’s hard to imagine anyone who doesn’t already have a Netflix subscription, the streaming service is now offering a sample of free content to tempt new subscribers without giving away everything for free.
Head to netflix.com/gb/watch-free and you can watch the first episode of shows like Stranger Things, Our Planet and When They See Us, as well as full-length Netflix original features such as Sandra Bullock’s horror film Bird Box.
Amazon Prime Video
Since Prime Video is included in an Amazon Prime membership, you can access its massive collection of content during your Amazon Prime 30-day free trial. In addition to the thousands of films and TV shows, you can also try out all the other benefits of Amazon Prime including free shipping and access to Prime Video subscription channels like Starzplay and hayu which also offer a 1-week free trial.
NOW TV
You can get access to the best of US-television with NOW TV, including HBO exclusives and thousands of new films on channels like Sky Atlantic and Sky Cinema.
A free 7-day trial will give you access to most of the NOW TV monthly passes including the Entertainment Pass where you can watch the latest TV shows online and the Sky Cinema pass. The obvious exception is the Sky Sports pass which you will have to purchase a day pass or week pass to view any content.
BFI Player
If you’re interested in films that are a little less mainstream but full of acclaim, you can get a 14-day free trial to BFI Player to watch classic and cult films from across the decades. After that, the monthly subscription is just £4.99 a month which you can cancel at any time.
Britbox
With a lot of the free content that was previously available on BBC iPlayer and on the ITV Hub migrating to Britbox, you might be considering getting yourself a monthly subscription. The good news is that Britbox has all that great classic British content in one place. And you can try the service out for free for seven days.
Get a free streaming service with your mobile phone contract
You can get streaming services for free when you sign up with certain mobile networks or when you purchase a new handset from certain manufacturers.
Six months of free Disney Plus with O2
Whether you want to rewatch Disney classics, see the latest releases, or immerse yourself in the Marvel and Star Wars universes, you can do that all for free on Disney Plus when you take out a new contract or upgrade with O2. You simply choose it as your Extra when you check out.
Apple TV Plus
Apple TV Plus has a small yet prestigious collection of content on its streaming platform, with big name actors and directors drafted to create a score of original and exclusive content, including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey.
Normally £4.99 a month, you can get Apple TV Plus for free for a whole year when you purchase an Apple product, including the new iPhone 12. Once your new device is linked to your Apple ID, all you need to do is open the Apple TV app (make sure it’s updated) and activate your subscription when prompted.
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Amazon Prime Video or YouTube Premier for free on Vodafone Unlimited plans
When you sign up to a Vodafone Unlimited plan, in addition to unlimited data, you’ll get free access to either Amazon Prime Video or YouTube Premium for the length of your contract.
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Top leadership team of Sevilla FC arrives in Bengaluru
The Spanish football club, which has won the prestigious UEFA Europa League six times, announced a five-year collaboration with FC Bengaluru United in early 2021.
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Spanish football giants Sevilla FC's top leadership team has arrived in the IT capital of India - Bengaluru - on their first official visit, during which they will explore several opportunities along with their India partners FC Bengaluru United. The Spanish football club, which has won the prestigious UEFA Europa League six times, announced a five-year collaboration with FC Bengaluru United in early 2021 -- an endeavour that will see the two clubs focus on technological innovation, and development projects apart from increasing Sevilla FC's footprint in India.
A team of delegates from the Spanish football club, including Jose Castro Carmona (President, Sevilla FC), Jose Maria Cruz (CEO), Jorge Paradela (Business General Manager) and Elias Zamora (Chief Data Officer) arrived in Bengaluru on Tuesday for the 5-day visit. Expressing his team's excitement about being here in Bengaluru, Sevilla FC President Jose Castro Carmona said, "It is a great pleasure to be here to be in Bengaluru. We know perfectly, the huge amount of enthusiasm for our visit and the tremendous cooperation between FC Bengaluru United and Seville FC. We share many common values and one of them is the willingness to grow."
"Sevilla FC is the second-oldest team in Spain (1890); we have won the largest number of trophies in the last two decades and we have the right momentum to grow. As part of our international strategy for the future, India is paramount; it is the first destination to expand our brand internationally. We chose Bengaluru as it is one of the most important centres for technology in the world," he added. During their visit, Sevilla FC will launch their first official Indian fan club in Bengaluru as part of their World Club Alliance Program. The Fan Club will appoint its India President and Secretary from Sevilla FC fans in the city. The Fan Club will also conceptualize and host Sevilla FC engagement events in partnership with FC Bengaluru United across the city.
The Spanish club together with FC Bengaluru United will also be launching a Football Hackathon on June 10. This Hackathon will be a unique opportunity to effectively use data science in the space of professional football scouting and player performance analysis, and is the first time two football clubs have come together to host such an event. On June 11, the club will be launching the Sevilla FC Junior Cup, which will be focused on growing and developing the youth footballing talent in the city of Bengaluru. The inaugural edition will feature teams across five age categories (U- 8s, U- 10s, U-12s, U-14s, U-18s) plus a women's team (open age category) battling for top honours.
The development of women's football is a priority for Sevilla FC and today the leadership team officially launched FC Bengaluru United's KSFA B Division Women's team at the Bangalore Football Stadium. Speaking on Sevilla FC's visit to the city, FC Bengaluru United Owner Gaurav Manchanda said, "This is a momentous occasion for us at FC Bengaluru United to host Sevilla FC on their maiden trip to Bengaluru. We formalised our five-year-long partnership in early 2021 and since then, we have had several successes including being awarded the Best Internationalisation Strategy at the prestigious World Football Summit (WFS) Awards. This is the largest delegation of a leadership group from a top-performing European club to visit India. We have lined up exciting events during their stay and we wanted to reciprocate the wonderful hospitality Sevilla FC extended when we were in Seville earlier this year." (ANI)
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Easthampton, MA Author Publishes Historical Commentary
June 09, 2022 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News
Easthampton Massachusetts' Home-Grown Industries: Their Origins, Growth, Legacies, and Remains, a new book by Marvin J. Ward, Ph.D., has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.Easthampton Massachusetts' Home-Grown Industries documents the history of all the industries, several of them interconnected, that were established in the Town of Easthampton at the start of the Industrial Revolution in Western Massachusetts, beginning, in c. 1824, with a piece-work enterprise operated from a home with an office and small warehouse, proceeding, in 1834, to an industrial manufacture, initially in an existing factory in another town, and moving into the first factory being built in the town in 1847-1848. Most were started by Samuel Williston, who had different partners, although many of those had their hands in more than one, and some of them took over one or another of them. All of them were situated on property that Williston owned, having inherited it from his father, Payson, the first minister to settle in it, who bought a large tract of "18 or 19 acres" of land in 1790. It tracks them through to his death in 1874, and that of his wife, Emily (née Graves, from nearby Williamsburg; her family's property is also tracked), founder (in 1881) of the town library, in 1885. They manufactured the first products of their type in the US in the case of the first three, and in this region for the others, some having international exports and reputations. Williston was also involved in many civic endeavors: he funded numerous initiatives, including a school, a church, the Town Hall building, and a cemetery, to name the major projects; he was not a tycoon who spent lavishly on himself. The story unfolds, Sherlock Holmes-style, with documented facts, unraveling some mysteries, and destroying some tales that are myths and/or apocryphal, commonly believed among today's residents, some of which took root in early 20th century sources that are also, Sherlock Holmes-style, undermined. In the 20th century, other industries, many larger, moved there, all moving or expanding from their former locations, some reassembling their buildings that were disassembled there and brought along, all of these on the West side of the Lower Mill Pond, North of the location of the first ones, and alongside the railroad that ran beside the Pond (today a Rail Trail); they are not treated here. None of either exist today, but many of their buildings have been or are being repurposed, except for one that is part of the factory of an industry not entirely unrelated to the one for which it was built.
Easthampton Massachusetts' Home-Grown Industries: Their Origins, Growth, Legacies, and Remains is a 326-page hardback with a retail price of $60.00 (paperback $52.00, eBook $47.00). The ISBN is 978-1-6386-7151-0. It was published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For members of the press, to request a review copy, visit our virtual pressroom at https://dorrancepressroom.com/easthampton-massachusetts-home-grown-industries-hb/ or to buy the book visit our online bookstore at https://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/easthampton-massachusetts-home-grown-industries-hb | https://www.prleap.com/pr/284884/easthampton-ma-author-publishes-historical-commentary | 2022-06-09T09:14:45Z | https://www.prleap.com/pr/284884/easthampton-ma-author-publishes-historical-commentary | true | 1 |
GUANGZHOU, China, Jun. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Onion Global Limited ("Onion Global", the "Group" or the "Company") (NYSE: OG), a next-generation lifestyle brand platform that incubates, markets, and distributes the world's fresh, fashionable, and future brands to young people in China and across Asia, is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded as a "2022 Highly Influential New Business Enterprise" by the Guangdong E-Business Association at the Internet E-Business Expo ("IEBE") 2022. The accolade is a reflection of the recognition of Onion Global's industry-leading, distinct, and dynamic brand ecosystem and business model.
At the same time, Onion Global's Partner, Ms. Mio Ho, has also been named as a New Business Pioneer by IEBE, for her role in representing new entrepreneurs within modern enterprises, recognizing her responsibility, influence, leadership, and innovation, as well as her sense of social responsibility and good reputation in leading Onion Global's operations.
As one of the most influential new business exhibitions in Southern China, this is the 9th IEBE event since its inception in 2012. This year's event brought together a range of well-known and leading enterprises to discuss hot topics such as utilizing live e-commerce, private domain traffic, and digital transformation to deal with the dynamic business environment. As part of the exhibition, over 300 enterprises are assessed and the winners of the Highly Influential New Business Enterprise awards are selected based on their rankings within their respective focus areas and a measure of their general business standing and trustworthiness.
Mr. Cong (Kenny) Li, Founder, and CEO of Onion Global commented, "It is a great honor for our company and team to be recognized by IEBE and the industry. These awards are a recognition of Onion Global's ability to truly understand and deliver on the needs of the new consumer market and our corporate responsibility initiatives. The award will encourage Onion Global to make long-term and continuous efforts to grow our diversified brand management business, to continue to create a better lifestyle for consumers and to help more companies generate sustainable income and achieve growth."
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About Onion Global Limited
Onion Global Limited (NYSE: OG) is a next-generation lifestyle brand platform that incubates, markets, and distributes the world's fresh, fashionable, and future brands, which we refer to as "3F brands," to young people in China and across Asia. The Company's mission is to be the dream factory of lifestyle brands for young people. The Company's platform offers an integrated solution to develop, market, and distribute new and inspiring branded products, thereby reshaping the lifestyle shopping and consumer culture in China. Onion Global Limited has been listed on New York Stock Exchange since May 2021.
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Watch: Sunil Chhetri brace sees India beat Cambodia; Kolkata gets its money's worth
Sunil Chhetri scored either side of half-time in India's 2-0 win over Cambodia in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers.
India bagged all three points to get their AFC ASian Cup Qualifiers campaign off to a roaring start at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on Wednesday. With two Sunil Chhetri goals, India beat Cambodia 2-0 with goals on either side of half time.
With the brace, Chhetri took his international goal tally to 82 goals from 127 official appearances. Among active players, Chhetri now trails Cristiano Ronaldo (117 goals) and Lionel Messi (86) by 35 and four goals respectively.
️ @chetrisunil11: 3️⃣ points against set the tone for in the #AsianCup2023 Qualifiers #INDCAM ⚔️ #AsianCup2023 #BlueTigers #BackTheBlue #IndianFootball ⚽ pic.twitter.com/AZBT1NCzzC
— Indian Football Team (@IndianFootball) June 8, 2022
“It was important that we kept a clean sheet. I don’t want to sound harsh but we could have done better. We will be watching the videos and working on them,” Sunil averred. “As per the new format, there’s just one match per team. Hence, the margin of error is very small,” he said after the win.
“To start off the qualifiers with a victory means a lot. The conditions weren’t easy, and it was humid. That is a learning experience for the next game,” he informed.
A well taken penalty by captain Sunil Chhetri #IndianFootball ⚽️ #AsianCup2023Qualifiers
: IndSuperLeaguepic.twitter.com/5GlijFEQqx
— The Field (@thefield_in) June 8, 2022
Liston Colaco's run into the Cambodia box was disrupted just as he went past a couple of players. The referee pointed to the spot and Chhetri slotted the penalty into the left corner.
Scenes after the Full-time whistle ♥️#INDCAM ⚔️ #AsianCup2023 #BlueTigers #BackTheBlue #IndianFootball ⚽ pic.twitter.com/ioBNVJwvrW
— Indian Football Team (@IndianFootball) June 8, 2022
Hugs from the skipper @chetrisunil11 @SureshWangjam#INDCAM ⚔️ #AsianCup2023 #BlueTigers #BackTheBlue #IndianFootball ⚽ pic.twitter.com/fJBIKuLcHb
— Indian Football Team (@IndianFootball) June 8, 2022
At the hour mark, Chhetri lept highest to meet a cross from the left and headed the ball into the top right corner.
Kolkata = ⚽ + ♥️#INDCAM ⚔️ #AsianCup2023 #BlueTigers #BackTheBlue #IndianFootball ⚽ pic.twitter.com/RYvdryNEK6
— Indian Football Team (@IndianFootball) June 8, 2022
Before the game, Chhetri had asked the fans to throng the stadium and support the country in huge numbers. The Kolkata natives listened and got their money's worth in India's win and a clean sheet. This was the first game at the Salt Lake Stadium since facing Bangladesh in 2019.
India next face Afghanistan and Hong Kong on 11 June and 14 June respectively in the qualifiers.
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The Highly-Anticipated Illuvium Land Sale, sold out 20,000 land plots during the 72-hour launch event on Immutable X
SYDNEY, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immutable X, the leading Layer 2 (L2) Ethereum scaling solution for NFTs powered by StarkWare's zero-knowledge rollup technology, today reported the launch results of Illuvium's highly-anticipated June 2 Universe Land Sale, selling out 20,000 land plots valued at $72 million during the 72-hour launch event, making it one of the most successful NFT sales of all time. This initial sale represents merely the first 20% of available land on Illuvium, with the remaining 80% to be released in the future and sold via Immutable X.
The Layer 1 ETH smart contract sale was run as a dutch auction, allowing the community to determine fair value; the average sale price was $3,615; with the lowest sale price being $567 and the top sale fetching $133,283.
In comparison to other gaming-focused sales, Illuvium's Universe Land Sale, powered by Immutable X, generated 70x the value in USD (5x in ETH) of Axie Infinity's land sales in 2019 and 2020 combined, 20x the value of Splinterlands' land sale in 2021, and 10x of NetVRK's primary land sale. Further, Illuvium land sold more in this primary sale than most web3 games in all-time trading volume, including Alien Worlds, TreeVerse, TownStar, Voxels, World Wide Webb (land) and RaidParty.
By partnering with Immutable X as its exclusive protocol of choice, Illuvium delivers the next generation of blockchain gaming: a AAA game with true digital ownership, leveraging Immutable X's gas-free minting with near-instant and carbon-neutral transactions on L2.
"Immutable is the partner you want when that big moment hits," said Andrew Wall, Head of Marketing, Illuvium. "Our land sale launch went off without a hitch, and Illuvium land owners have been unanimous in their praise for Immutable's smooth minting process. Press the button, and it's minted - it's that simple."
"Our partnership with Immutable was an instrumental component in our successful land sale." said John Avery, CTO, Illuvium." Their Immutable X platform enabled gas-free minting and provided the APIs we use to drive our own marketplace experience. The Immutable X platform's performance was rock solid throughout the land sale. Working with Immutable was an equally smooth experience: they made themselves immediately available through a number of support channels, provided quick and accurate answers to our questions, and assisted us with timely operational support during both development and release. Immutable was also able to provide deep technical insight into Immutable X, and the blockchain as a whole, and they worked with us at the design level to ensure we took best advantage of their system. The results speak for themselves."
"We are beyond thrilled by the results of this monumental launch with Illuvium, being one of the most successful in history." Said Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable. "Achieving $72M in land sales is a testament to the incredible games that Illuvium is building - some of the first triple-A content in web3 - and the liquidity of Immutable X. Illuvium has an incredible shot of being the first major break-out gaming hit with hundreds of millions of players, and we're thrilled Immutable X can help enable that vision."
Illuvium is an open-world exploration, monster collector, and auto battler game, released on PC and Mac earlier this year. By building on the Ethereum blockchain, Illuvium brings its players a level of true ownership and interoperability of their digital assets never before possible in mainstream gaming.
Land in Illuvium allows owners to extract fuel, a critical element for catching and upgrading Illuvials, by building a virtual industrial complex in Illuvium Zero - the desktop and mobile partner game to Illuvium. There will be a total of 100,000 plots in the Ecosystem. The first 20,000 are now sold and minted with zero gas fees on Immutable X. As all in-game assets are blockchain tokens on Immutable X, players will also be able to sell fuel or other items on the IlluviDex marketplace shortly, rewarding them for their effort and investment.
Illuvium is an open-world exploration, monster collector, and autobattler game built on the Ethereum Blockchain, releasing on PC and Mac in 2022. Play-to-earn in an AAA sci-fi adventure and conquer the wilderness to help your crash-landed Ranger flourish
Race across crystal labyrinths, toxic deserts, and windswept mountain summits. Quest to uncover the cause of the cataclysm that shattered Illuvium. Hunt and capture Illuvials, powerful creatures who rule the land. Train and fuse your Illuvials into powerful evolutions. Build your ultimate Illuvial team to take into battles and tournaments in PvE and PvP Arenas. As you discover the capabilities of the Illuvials you collect, use your creativity to build unique synergies to outsmart your opponents. Hit a winning streak as you best other hunters to become the strongest Ranger on this planet.
Illuvium's collectible NFTs are interoperable across the entire Illuvium universe. The decentralized NFT collection offers players user-maintained custody never before possible in mainstream gaming.
Website: https://www.illuvium.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/illuviumio
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/illuvium
Immutable X, powering the next generation of web3 games, is the leading L2/L3 scaling solution for NFTs to enable strong liquidity at a huge scale without compromising decentralization or security of the most-used blockchain globally for NFTs, Ethereum.
The scaling solution, powered by StarkWare's innovative technology, offers instant trade confirmation, massive scalability (up to 9,000 transactions per second), and a fantastic developer and user experience. Immutable X has announced integrations with leading marketplaces and is powering some of the most prominent NFT plays across consumer apps (TikTok), DeFi (SuperFarm), and gaming (GameStop, ESL Gaming, Ember Sword, Planet Quest, Gods Unchained, Guild of Guardians, GreenPark Sports, Illuvium, MyCryptoHeroes+).
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Little Cypress-Mauriceville dishes out athletic awards; see the deserving winners
Published 12:06 am Thursday, June 9, 2022
The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Athletic Program had its Awards Banquet at the end of the school year, honoring so many outstanding athletes that represented the school throughout the 2021-2022 school year.
Here are the winners and awards of each sport that issued out the honors:
MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Ashton Landry
FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: DeAsia Tippins.
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FOOTBALL
Offensive MVPs: Ashton Landry and Da’Marion Morris
Defensive MVP: Dwight Davis
Special Teams Award: Nicholas Granger and Cade Hamilton
Lineman of the Year: Gunner Johnson
Bear Heart Award: Andy McDow
VOLLEYBALL
Defensive Player of the Year: Chrissy Joseph
Utility Player of the Year: Trinity Williams
First Team All-District: Hallie Maddox
Bear Heart Award: Olivia Hogan
BOYS BASKETBALL
Player of the Year: Ben Elliott
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Offensive Player of the Year: Asia Robinson
Newcomer of the Year: Keylie Washburn
Sportamanship Award: DeAsia Tippins
Most Improved: Alayna Booker
Coaches Award: Grace Huckaby
Team Outstanding Player: Keylie Washburn
First Team All-District: Aniyah Robinson
Second Team All-District: Kaitlyn Ewing
Honorable Mention All-District: Alayna Booker
GIRLS SOCCER
Most Valuable Player: Annabelle Fisher
Offensive MVP: Taylor Bull
Defensive MVP: Loren Rodriguez
Midfielder of the Year: Sarah Hormell
Heart & Soul Award: Kaylee Potter and Matalyn Hill
GIRLS TRACK
Most Valuable Player: DeAsia Tippins
Newcomer of the Year: Taylor Bull
Battlin’ Bear Heart Award: Annabelle Fisher
SOFTBALL
Most Valuable Player: Cami Shugart
Defensive MVPs: Rhylan Wilson and Ansley Moore
Offensive MVP: Keylie Washburn
Heart and Hustle Award: Shae Fontenot
BASEBALL
Offensive MVP: Reid Peco
Defensive MVP: Gunner Johnson
Pitcher of the Year: Dean Reynolds
Leader of Grit Award: Ashton Landry
Indy Parkhurst Award of Character: Gage Griffith | https://www.orangeleader.com/2022/06/09/lc-m-dishes-out-athletic-awards-see-the-tremendous-athletes-who-earned-them/ | 2022-06-09T09:26:09Z | https://www.orangeleader.com/2022/06/09/lc-m-dishes-out-athletic-awards-see-the-tremendous-athletes-who-earned-them/ | true | 1 |
Uxin Limited (NASDAQ:UXIN) went up by 3.09% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $5.82. The company’s stock price has collected 0.83% of gains in the last five trading sessions.
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UXIN currently public float of 337.17M and currently shorts hold a 1.87% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of UXIN was 2.05M shares.
UXIN’s Market Performance
UXIN stocks went up by 0.83% for the week, with a monthly drop of -24.50% and a quarterly performance of -50.89%, while its annual performance rate touched -90.18%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 7.74% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 11.57% for Uxin Limited. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is 3.46% for UXIN stocks with a simple moving average of -72.61% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of UXIN
Credit Suisse, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see UXIN reach a price target of $7.70. The rating they have provided for UXIN stocks is “Outperform” according to the report published on March 12th, 2019.
UXIN Trading at -35.61% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought UXIN to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -92.32% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 11.57%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 7.74%, as shares sank -11.63% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -70.01% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, UXIN rose by +0.83%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -86.38% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $0.4290. In addition, Uxin Limited saw -71.72% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Stock Fundamentals for UXIN
Equity return is now at value 27.90, with -50.80 for asset returns. | https://newsheater.com/2022/06/09/is-uxin-limited-uxin-a-keeper/ | 2022-06-09T09:28:11Z | https://newsheater.com/2022/06/09/is-uxin-limited-uxin-a-keeper/ | true | 17415 |
FBI raids home of man charged with attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh
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Federal agents raided the family home of the Simi Valley, California man accused of planning to murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Nicholas John Roske, 26, was charged with the attempted murder a Supreme Court Justice. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
The FBI busted down the front door of the home Wednesday night after obtaining a search warrant, CBS Los Angeles reports.
Roske was taken into custody overnight Wednesday near Kavanaugh's home and his backpack and suitcase were seized. Authorities say they contained a black tactical chest rig, tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crowbar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, and other items.
"Threats of violence and actual violence against the justices strike at the heart of our democracy," said Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Court documents state that Roske was upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision to possibly overturn Roe v. Wade and was concerned that Kavanaugh would vote to overturn gun laws.
Roske also told the Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center he had traveled from California to Maryland to kill a specific Supreme Court justice and had a firearm in his suitcase while having "suicidal thoughts," Department of Justice officials said. Montgomery County police officers dispatched to look into the call found Roske, who was still on the phone with the dispatcher, according to authorities.
Roske's grandfather, Dan Shannon, told CBS Los Angeles the allegations against his grandson are "extremely" out of character for him.
"He's a good kid," Shannon said.
Neighbor Zach Quadri told the station, "They were always nice people so it's a surprise more than anything."
"I think that it's a scary time we live in and people really need to look out for one another and mental health is a big issue going on in the world," said another neighbor.
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2022 Primary Election: Q&A with Washington County candidates Gil Almquist and Allen Davis
All three seats on the Washington County Commission are up for election this election cycle but only one is showing up on voters' ballots this month for the primary election — the competition between Republicans Gil Almquist, the incumbent, and Allen Davis, his challenger for Seat A on the commission.
Almquist is seeking his second term and trying to build on what has already been a long career in local politics. Before his time on the commission, Almquist was on the St. George planning commission for 16 years and was a member of the St. George City Council for eight years. His professional career outside of government revolved around landscaping.
This year marks the second time Davis has challenged Almquist from within the GOP, having lost to Almquist in the 2018 primary after Almquist won 66% of the vote. Outside of politics, Davis works for the Energy Services Department with the City of St. George.
At the Republican county convention this year, Davis received just over 43% of the delegate vote to Almquist's 57%, enough to get past the convention and force the primary.
The winner between Almquist and Davis will face Robert Davis, a Democrat, in the November general election.
The two other county commissioners were able to avoid to a primary but will have to face off against Democratic challengers. Incumbent Commissioner Victor Iverson will be against Chuck Goode and Commissioner Adam Snow, who was appointed to the post in a special party election last year, faces Rebecca Winsor for a limited two-year term.
The Spectrum sent Almquist and Davis questions on their candidacy and issues about Washington County. Here are their responses.
Water continues to be a scrutinized resource during this ongoing drought. What would you do as an elected official to protect this resource in the future?
Almquist: I would first build reservoirs. There are four in the works and another I have suggested inside Washington City limits. To protect our natural water resource means we can also use it over and over. If we construct a re-use system that can process and store water, we otherwise let go down the river, then we get the benefit of multiple uses before we lose it. Right now, we cannot retain all the water from storms or heavy run-off. We also cannot store everything we could from a fully operating reuse system. Therefore, the reservoirs are critical. Next, the infrastructure to re-use and distribute water across the county water is essential going into the future. The role of Commissioners is to help bring everyone together in planning, development and usage of water.
Davis: Most of the big, easy water projects have been developed. We need to develop a master plan with regards to water and prioritize the different projects. We need to reuse water; the Warner Valley Reservoir would allow us to store water from the Virgin River that would normally go to Lake Mead at high runoff because we have no other place to put it and start using the water we have better and more efficiently. Part of the problem is how we bill for water. Water is heavily subsidized; about 2/3 the true cost of water is from subsidy of taxes in one form or another and 1/3 is billed to the end user. Water is too cheap, someone else is paying for 2/3, there is little financial incentive to conserve, if we reduce the taxes that’s used to subsidize water and increase the cost to reflect the real cost of the water it would do more for the conservation of water than anything else. I would not be in favor of raising the cost of water to punish the end user to promote conservation but that would be up to the individual water company and how they price their water.
What needs to happen for Washington County if the Lake Powell Pipeline isn’t built?
Almquist: The first answer about water gets a big ditto here. If there isn’t a pipeline in the near future, then all of the reservoirs and reuse system will enable us to manage water needs for the foreseeable future.
Davis: As time goes by, it looks less and less likely that the Lake Powell Pipeline will come to pass. It is irrelevant to the problem of growth outpacing our ability to supply water at the current rate of new building and the time it takes to get new water resources developed. We need some automatic stops that would limit building permits when it is likely that we could not supply water to new construction until new water resources are put in to supply water. Each city is responsible for issuing building permits, but as a commissioner I would have some influence on permits that are being issued within those cities. At some point, with or without the pipeline, we are going to get too built out. We as a county need to decide what criteria will cause us to stop issuing new building permits; hopefully being proactive instead of reactive.
What are the most pressing issues for you for this election?
Almquist: Water, Transportation, Public Safety, Election Integrity, Housing, Land Use Planning and Federal Overreach into our lives. Not to understate my focus on jobs and wages.
Davis:
- Rights & Liberties: Other than water, we have lost rights and liberties because of government overreach on a federal, state, and local level. Our own commissioners have taken our rights and liberties.
- Election Integrity: we as a people need to believe that our elections are safe, fair, and secure. There is a lot we can do as a county to help with that along with encouraging our state representatives to make changes on a state level.
- 5-Member Commission: change the form of county government from a 3-commissioner commission to a 5-commissioner form of government.
How should nature conservation play into the development of southwest Utah?
Almquist: Our natural surroundings are what attract people here as tourists and provides our residents with a beautiful opportunity to get outside and have fun. I am all for reasonable protections of public lands. I am not in favor of denying access by the feds to our publicly owned spaces for hiking, fishing, hunting or any other general recreation.
Davis: Conservation of the natural resources is an important part of growth. I think that we can all agree that natural resources improve the quality of life for us in Washington county. The Red Cliff Reserve is playing a big role in conservation in the county. As a county commissioner I would be in favor of better management of our wildlands. For example, small control burns on the Pine Valley to reduce fuel that would help prevent large catastrophic fires from happening. However, with increased population there will be increased pressure on our wildlands and natural resources, and it needs to be managed to the best of our ability.
Do you support the Northern Corridor being built through the Red Cliffs Conservation Area?
Almquist: I do for several reasons. Congestion on our roads for east-west commuters would be minimized. Idling cars create pollution. The corridor is a way to by-pass lights and intersections where traffic builds up and fumes cause pollution. It has no commercial or residential properties along the route. The tortoise will have access to both sides of the road and have other protections in place to insure their survival.
Davis: I support a Northern Corridor of some kind. It is my understanding that it has already been approved and is in the designing/engineering stage with construction to soon start. I believe that it should be constructed in as environmentally friendly manner as we can, but the time to make changes would have been before approval.
What does ‘smart growth’ look like to you?
Almquist: Well-planned subdivisions with common areas, higher density with proper design and lighting. Water wise appliances, thoughtful landscapes, and covered pools will assist in so many ways. Well placed and walkable residential areas located near shopping and services to avoid long travel distances. Multiple transportation modes will also need to be planned for.
Davis: It doesn’t look like double digit growth; it is not just water that we are having trouble keeping up with. Roads, power grids, grocery stores, gas stations, everything is having trouble keeping up with double digit growth. A good master plan would go a long way to helping it turn out the way we want it to.
How would you describe yourself politically?
Almquist: I am a life-long conservative Republican who stands by the state and national party platforms as well as the United States and Utah Constitutions.
Davis: Constitutional Conservative. Less government is better.
What could Republicans in Utah be doing better?
Almquist: Study the Party Platform and become united under its principles.
Davis: Better access to the candidates, more debates and more opportunities to vet the candidates.
Should the government be doing more to create affordable housing? (Yes or No) What steps would you take around housing affordability if you are elected?
Almquist: Yes, by planning and zoning assistance. No, by saying the government should build it. This is a market issue, but I am willing to do anything to assist from the resources of the county and its excellent employees.
Well-planned and designed housing units clustered to lower costs. I have always said that “Design trumps Density.” There are some great projects around the country and a few here locally that meet this standard. We can work with cities about zoning and design. We are a great resource for anyone who wishes for some direction.
Davis: I am against any kind of subsidization of housing. Subsidization is a socialist/communist principle and subsidization never works, taking from one person and giving to another. One thing that would work is higher density housing. This would help but affordable housing is more of a city issue than a county issue. We are going to have to start paying more money to the people who do the work in Washington County but that is up to the free market.
Sean Hemmersmeier covers local government, growth and development in Southwestern Utah. Follow on Twitter @seanhemmers34. Our work depends on subscribers so if you want more coverage on these issues you can subscribe here: http://www.thespectrum.com/subscribe. | https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2022/06/08/2022-primary-election-washington-county-candidates-gil-almquist-allen-davis/9927935002/ | 2022-06-09T09:47:24Z | https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2022/06/08/2022-primary-election-washington-county-candidates-gil-almquist-allen-davis/9927935002/ | false | 1 |
'I have unfinished business in England' - Danjuma waiting for Liverpool call as Reds search for Mane replacement
Arnaut Danjuma admits to having “unfinished business in England” on the back of a previous stint in the Premier League with Bournemouth, but the highly-rated Dutch winger says he is still waiting on an approach from Liverpool as the Reds start planning for life without Sadio Mane.
There is plenty of speculation to suggest that a star-studded attacking unit at Anfield is set to be broken up this summer, with Mohamed Salah yet to commit to a contract extension beyond 2023 while Senegalese star Mane has become a top target for German giants Bayern Munich.
GOAL has learned that Liverpool are confident of winning the race for exciting Benfica striker Darwin Nunez, with a £75 million ($94m) deal being lined up there, but they may look to further bolster their ranks in wide areas and that could see Netherlands international Danjuma come back into the equation.
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Is Arnaut Danjuma a target for Liverpool?
The 25-year-old caught the eye at Bournemouth, registering 17 Championship goals for them in 2020-21, and enhanced his reputation last season when finding the target on 16 occasions for La Liga outfit Villarreal.
Those exploits are said to have him on a Merseyside recruitment radar, but Danjuma has told Sky Sports of the rumours that continue to rage around him: “It’s a bit of a funny story, to be fair.
“We’ve all read what has been said in the press, but I am a quick learner. I did an interview in Holland saying I’m aware of the interest. They asked me if I was aware of it and I am, as everyone is. I’m aware of it, you are aware of it because it has been in the press. My phone literally went off all the time.
“In that sense, I am aware of it because of the media but I never actually confirmed the interest from Liverpool because the only one that confirms it to me is my team. I haven’t heard anything from my team and as it stands now, I am enjoying my football at Villarreal. I am really happy there. We had a fantastic season.
“Unai Emery has been fantastic to me. The striking coach has been fantastic to me. The entire club has been unbelievable to me so I’d never in that way downgrade the club I’m playing for.”
Would Danjuma be interested in a move to Liverpool?
While the Dutch star is unaware of any formal interest from Liverpool being shown in him at present, he admits that a return to English football would hold obvious appeal.
Danjuma added: “There is definitely unfinished business for me in England. If you look back to the reasons why I joined Bournemouth initially it was for me to play Premier League football.”
The Cherries signed Danjuma from Club Brugge for £13.7m ($17m) in August 2019, but saw hamstring and foot injuries restrict him to just 15 appearances in a debut campaign at the Vitality Stadium which delivered relegation out of the top flight. | https://www.goal.com/en-sa/news/unfinished-business-england-danjuma-liverpool-mane/blt4a6dc41a71f8410c | 2022-06-09T09:51:06Z | https://www.goal.com/en-sa/news/unfinished-business-england-danjuma-liverpool-mane/blt4a6dc41a71f8410c | false | 11 |
Congressional hearings on the 2021 assault on the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters will spotlight testimony by the former president's top aides as a House committee seeks to show it was an orchestrated attack on democracy.
After almost a year of investigation, the US House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack moves into a new phase on Thursday with a prime-time hearing that will include videotaped testimony from senior Trump White House officials and campaign officials, committee aides said.
"We will be revealing that the violence of January 6 was the result of a coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, and indeed that the former president, Donald Trump, was at the centre of that effort," said an aide, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview the hearing.
The aides declined to name witnesses whose taped depositions will be featured. But close Trump associates who have spoken to the committee include his son Donald Jr., daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former Attorney General William Barr and senior aides to former Vice President Mike Pence.
The session is scheduled for 8pm on Thursday.
The hearing will feature two in-person witnesses, US Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards, who sustained a traumatic brain injury in the attack, and Nick Quested, a filmmaker who captured footage of the far-right Proud Boys group, accused of planning the deadly attack.
Thursday's hearing is the first of an expected six this month as the Democratic-led Select Committee attempts to reverse Republican efforts to downplay or deny the violence of the day, with five months to go until the November 8 midterm elections that will determine which party controls both the House and the Senate for the next two years.
The committee wants to make the case not just that January 6 was planned with the cooperation of members of Trump's inner circle, but that there is an ongoing threat to US democracy.
Four people died the day of the attack, one fatally shot by police and the others of natural causes. More than 100 police officers were injured, and one died the next day. Four officers later died by suicide. The Capitol sustained millions of dollars in damage.
Trump has kept up his false claims of election fraud since leaving office.
"Our democracy is on more tenuous ground than it was on January 6," Representative Adam Schiff, one of seven panel Democrats, told reporters on Wednesday. "We will succeed if we can reach people with an open mind, if we can awaken the American public to the threat that still exists to our democracy."
The major networks NBC, CBS and ABC plan to air the hearing live, but Fox News, a favorite of Trump's supporters, will not carry it on its main channel.
There are two Republican members on the committee, Representatives Liz Cheney, its vice chair, and Adam Kinzinger. Cheney will join the panel's Democratic chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson, in making remarks during the hearing laying out the panel's case.
Trump, who is publicly flirting with another White House run in 2024, has denied wrongdoing and accused the committee of engaging in a political attack.
Some congressional Republicans condemned Trump in the first days after the attack, but since then almost all have shifted their tone.
"This committee is not about seeking the truth. It is a smear campaign against President Donald Trump, against Republican members of Congress and against Trump voters across this country," Representative Elise Stefanik, who replaced Cheney in Republican leadership, told a press conference on Wednesday. | https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/law-and-order/us-capitol-riot-hearings-to-open-c-7111653 | 2022-06-09T09:53:56Z | https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/law-and-order/us-capitol-riot-hearings-to-open-c-7111653 | true | 13 |
We are happy to announce that in this update, we added friend lists.
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CA Sacramento CA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, June 8, 2022
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Interior Northern California Zone Forecasts for California
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Friday.
CAZ013-092300-
Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County-
Including the city of Shasta Dam
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Warmer.
Highs 79 to 94 higher elevations...90 to 98 lower elevations.
Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 53 to 68 higher elevations...61 to
71 lower elevations. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs 80 to
95 higher elevations...91 to 99 lower elevations. Prevailing
north winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 52 to 67 higher elevations...
62 to 70 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds 5 to 15 mph
shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs 75 to
90 higher elevations...87 to 95 lower elevations. Prevailing
northwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the
afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers.
Cooler. Lows 51 to 66.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely and a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs 63 to 78.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 39 to 54.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 64 to 79. Lows 39 to 54.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 71 to 86. Lows 43 to
58.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 77 to 92.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SHASTA DAM 96 69 97 / 0 0 0
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CAZ014-092300-
Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County-
Including the city of Burney
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Warmer.
Highs 75 to 86 higher elevations...84 to 90 lower elevations.
Light winds becoming north up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 50 to 59. Prevailing west winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs 80 to
92. Light winds becoming west 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 50 to 60. Prevailing west
winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the
south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 77 to 89. Light winds becoming
southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 49 to 58.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Cooler. Highs 61 to 73.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 35 to 44.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 61 to 73. Lows 34 to 44.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 69 to 80. Lows 35 to
50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 76 to 88.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BURNEY 88 54 89 / 0 0 0
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CAZ015-092300-
Northern Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Redding and Red Bluff
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM PDT
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Warmer.
Highs 96 to 102. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 75. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs 97 to
105. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 73. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 94 to 102. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 65 to 71.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Not as warm. Highs 79 to 87.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 53 to 62. Highs
79 to 87.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 87 to 93. Lows 55 to
65.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 100.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
REDDING 99 67 101 / 0 0 0
RED BLUFF 101 72 103 / 0 0 0
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CAZ016-092300-
Central Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Chico, Oroville, and Marysville/Yuba City
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM PDT
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Warmer.
Highs 97 to 103. Northwest winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 73. Northwest winds around
10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 101 to 107. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 104. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 69.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Not as warm. Highs 83 to 89.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 58. Highs
83 to 89.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs around 92. Lows 59 to
66.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
CHICO 101 74 105 / 0 0 0
OROVILLE 100 71 104 / 0 0 0
MARYSVILLE/YUBA CITY 101 68 105 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ017-092300-
Southern Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Sacramento
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM PDT
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Warmer.
Highs 95 to 103. Northwest winds up to 10 mph with gusts to
around 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 73. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 108. Northwest winds up to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 72. Northwest winds up to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 104. West winds up to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 70.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as warm. Highs 80 to 88.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 53 to 63. Highs
80 to 90.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 89 to 95. Lows 56 to
66.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 101.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SACRAMENTO 100 70 105 / 0 0 0
SAC EXEC AIRPORT 101 67 106 / 0 0 0
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CAZ018-092300-
Carquinez Strait and Delta-
Including the city of Fairfield/Suisun
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM PDT
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Warmer.
Highs 90 to 96. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 71. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 98 to 104. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 71. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 99. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 68.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Not as warm. Highs 78 to 84.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 56 to 62. Highs
79 to 85.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Clear. Highs 89 to 95. Lows 56 to
64.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
FAIRFIELD/SUISUN 98 64 105 / 0 0 0
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CAZ019-092300-
Northern San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Stockton and Modesto
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM PDT
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Warmer. Highs 92 to 100. Northwest winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up
to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 74. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 97 to 107. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 74. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 103. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 70.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as warm. Highs 79 to 89.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 52 to 62. Highs
79 to 89.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 87 to 95. Lows 56 to
66.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 100.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
STOCKTON 97 70 104 / 0 0 0
MODESTO 97 70 104 / 0 0 0
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CAZ063-092300-
Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County-
Including the city of Alder Springs
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM PDT
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Warmer.
Highs 72 to 87 higher elevations...90 to 98 lower elevations.
Prevailing northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 56 to 71 higher elevations...68 to
74 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs 75 to
90 higher elevations...92 to 100 lower elevations. Prevailing
northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 54 to 68 higher elevations...66 to
72 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 72 to 87 higher elevations...89 to
97 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds up to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Cooler. Lows 53 to 68.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 61 to 76.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 43 to 58. Highs
63 to 78.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 70 to 85. Lows 49 to
64.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 76 to 91.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
ALDER SPRINGS 80 63 83 / 0 0 0
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CAZ066-092300-
Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Paradise
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM PDT
FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Warmer.
Highs 83 to 95 higher elevations...90 to 98 lower elevations.
Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 75. Prevailing west winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 87 to 101. Prevailing northeast
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 73. Prevailing west
winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 98. Prevailing northeast winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 58 to 70.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 68 to 82.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Cooler. Lows 46 to 58.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 71 to 83. Lows 46 to 60.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 78 to 90. Lows 50 to
65.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 83 to 95.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
PARADISE 91 72 94 / 0 0 0
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CAZ067-092300-
Motherlode-
Including the cities of Grass Valley and Jackson
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 10 PM PDT FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Warmer. Highs 84 to 96. Light winds becoming west up to 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 71. Prevailing northwest winds up to
10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 90 to 102. Light winds becoming
west up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 71. Prevailing northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 100. Light winds becoming west up
to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 59 to 67.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers. Not
as warm. Highs 70 to 84.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Lows 49 to 57.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 72 to 84. Lows 49 to 59.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 80 to 90. Lows 51 to
64.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 85 to 97.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
GRASS VALLEY 88 64 93 / 0 0 0
JACKSON 91 67 97 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ068-092300-
Western Plumas County/Lassen Park-
Including the cities of Chester and Quincy
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Warmer.
Highs 69 to 84 higher elevations...76 to 90 lower elevations.
Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northwest
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 66. Prevailing west winds up
to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 71 to 86 higher elevations...78 to
93 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 50 to 65. Prevailing west
winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 68 to 83 higher elevations...75 to
90 lower elevations. Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Cooler. Lows 46 to 61.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 55 to 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 34 to 49.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 58 to 73. Lows 35 to 50.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 65 to 80. Lows 40 to
55.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 71 to 86.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
QUINCY 89 53 92 / 0 0 0
CHESTER 87 54 89 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ069-092300-
West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada-
Including the city of Blue Canyon
140 AM PDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Warmer. Highs 68 to 83 higher elevations...79 to 89 lower
elevations. Light winds becoming west up to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 48 to 63 higher elevations...58 to
70 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 72 to 87 higher elevations...84 to
94 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 48 to 63 higher elevations...59 to
71 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds 5 to 15 mph shifting
to the northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 69 to 84 higher elevations...81 to
93 lower elevations. Prevailing southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler. Lows 48 to 63.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 58 to 73.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 36 to 51.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 58 to 73. Lows 37 to 52.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 66 to 81. Lows 41 to
56.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 72 to 87.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BLUE CANYON 78 63 82 / 0 0 0
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Ironnet, Inc. ("Ironnet" or the "Company") (NYSE: IRNT) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Ironnet investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between September 15, 2021 and December 15, 2021. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
IRNT investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) the Company had materially overstated its business and financial prospects; (ii) the Company was unable to predict the timing of significant customer opportunities which constituted a substantial portion of its publicly- issued FY 2022 financial guidance; (iii) the Company had not established effective disclosure controls and procedures to reasonably ensure its public disclosures were timely, accurate, complete, and not otherwise misleading; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false, misleading, and/or lacked any reasonable basis in fact at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Ironnet during the relevant time frame, you have until June 21, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
View original content to download multimedia:
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According to Benzinga Pro, during Q1, Global Partners GLP earned $30.48 million, a 57.81% increase from the preceding quarter. Global Partners also posted a total of $4.50 billion in sales, a 10.0% increase since Q4. Global Partners earned $19.32 million, and sales totaled $4.09 billion in Q4.
What Is ROCE?
Earnings data without context is not clear and can be difficult to base trading decisions on. Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) helps to filter signal from noise by measuring yearly pre-tax profit relative to capital employed by a business. Generally, a higher ROCE suggests successful growth of a company and is a sign of higher earnings per share in the future. In Q1, Global Partners posted an ROCE of 0.06%.
It is important to keep in mind that ROCE evaluates past performance and is not used as a predictive tool. It is a good measure of a company's recent performance, but does not account for factors that could affect earnings and sales in the near future.
ROCE is a powerful metric for comparing the effectiveness of capital allocation for similar companies. A relatively high ROCE shows Global Partners is potentially operating at a higher level of efficiency than other companies in its industry. If the company is generating high profits with its current level of capital, some of that money can be reinvested in more capital which will generally lead to higher returns and, ultimately, earnings per share (EPS) growth.
For Global Partners, the positive return on capital employed ratio of 0.06% suggests that management is allocating their capital effectively. Effective capital allocation is a positive indicator that a company will achieve more durable success and favorable long-term returns.
Analyst Predictions
Global Partners reported Q1 earnings per share at $0.76/share, which beat analyst predictions of $-0.11/share.
This article was generated by Benzinga's automated content engine and reviewed by an editor.
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Designing and decorating homes don’t always have to be very expensive affairs. For instance, this 3bhk apartment in Pune was tastefully and functionally decked with a modest budget of 15 lakhs. From stylish lights to trendy furniture and neat, practical designs, the interior designers and decorators at I-Design Interior Designer’s accomplished a wonderful job here. Soothing and sober colours, elegant wooden elements, and smart utilisation of space make this home cosy, convenient and welcoming. So read on to gather more inspiration for your own project.
Creamy white hues and fashionable furniture contribute to the comfort and elegance of the living space. A sleek shelf above the sofa holds some artefacts and the brown printed cushions add some contrast here. An open plan layout allows the living to merge with the kitchen seamlessly, thereby making socialisation easy.
Soft golden lights have been creatively installed in the false ceiling as well as the wooden wall panel to make the entrance mysterious yet inviting. Trendy niches in the wall above the bench hold decorative pieces for aesthetic appeal, while the clear glass panel in the door allows us to take a little peek into the living area.
Striped wall panelling lends a whole new edge and glamour to the trendy TV unit in the living space. Cove lighting and the way the console table resembles a sailboat are truly inspiring.
Wood, white and bright lights join hands in this open and sensible kitchen. Smooth cabinets offer tons of storage space, while modern appliances make culinary chores easy. The glass and wood breakfast counter is accompanied by fashionable white chairs for you to sit comfortably while grabbing a quick bite or drink.
Mellow lighting enhances the soothing properties of this cream and wooden bedroom. The large bed comes with practical drawers underneath, while a vibrant bedspread adds colour to the space.
Bicycle prints on the cushions and bedspread make this bedroom retro yet contemporary. Greys, whites and browns dominate the space along with cosy textiles. The wall behind the bed features a smartly lit niche and subtle patterns for aesthetic appeal.
Utilising this corner of a bedroom as a study nook was a great idea. Smooth and simple wooden cabinets fitted with powerful recessed lights help you to store things and work with ease. The desk has space enough for two individuals to study together.
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Few laughs, tough questions as Biden chats with Kimmel
LOS ANGELES (AP) - There weren’t a lot of laughs, but President Joe Biden got some unsolicited advice from Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday when the president sat down for his first in-person interview with a late-night host since taking office.
The host of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” expressed frustration about the intractable problems in Washington, and advised the president, “I think you need to start yelling at people.”
Biden demurred, saying the country is still suffering from the effects of the pandemic, but he insisted he’s “never been more optimistic in my life.”
Kimmel swiftly interjected: “Why are you so optimistic? It makes no sense!”
Biden said he was pinning his hopes on young people, the “best educated, least prejudiced, most giving generation in American history.”
“This generation is going to change everything,” Biden said. “We just have to make sure we don’t give up.”
The show was taped in the afternoon in Los Angeles. Biden is visiting the city for this week’s Summit of the Americas, which brings together countries from across the hemisphere. First lady Jill Biden was in the audience, along with Biden’s granddaughter Naomi and her fiancé.
Biden’s only previous late-night appearance as president was in December, when he spoke remotely with Jimmy Fallon on NBC’s “The Tonight Show.”
Kimmel began his interview by asking about gun control, referencing a string of recent mass shootings.
“I guess, I mean, just to get into it, why haven’t we done anything about this?” Kimmel asked.
Biden responded that “this is not your father’s Republican Party,” and he blamed his political opposition for being too afraid to do anything about guns because they fear primary election challenges.
Kimmel pressed Biden on whether he could use executive orders to increase gun control, noting that former President Donald Trump “passed them out like Halloween candy.”
Although Biden has taken some unilateral steps on firearms, the president said he wasn’t interested in stepping beyond the limits of his authority.
“I don’t want to emulate Trump’s abuse of the Constitution and constitutional authority,” he said.
Biden said he knows some people feel like “Republicans don’t play it square, why do you play it square.”
“Well, guess what,” he said. “If we do the same thing they do, our democracy will literally be in jeopardy. Not a joke.”
Kimmel responded, “It’s like you’re playing Monopoly with somebody who won’t pass go or won’t follow any of the rules, and how do you ever make any progress if they’re not following the rules.”
“You’ve got to send them to jail,” Biden joked.
At another point in the interview, Kimmel suggested he was disappointed in the progress that was being made on issues like climate change and abortion.
“We’ve moved backwards,” he said.
Later on, Kimmel sympathized with Biden’s challenges, particularly the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision that is expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion access nationwide.
“What a terrible job you have,” Kimmel said. “I’m glad you’re doing it. But, boy oh boy, does this seem like a bad gig.”
Biden said he was looking at executive orders that could help with abortion access — “we’re looking into it right now” — but said the best solutions were through legislation and elections.
If the court overturns Roe v. Wade, Biden said, “it’s going to cause a mini revolution and they’re going to vote a lot of these folks out of office.”
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Liverpool announce departure of Champions League hero Divock Origi
The striker is leaving Anfield along with goalkeeper Loris Karius and former first-team players Sheyi Ojo and Ben Woodburn
Liverpool have confirmed the departure of seven players including striker Divock Origi when their contracts expire at the end of this month.
Goalkeeper Loris Karius and former first-team players Sheyi Ojo and Ben Woodburn have also been released, along with three members of the club’s academy.
Origi spent eight years on Merseyside and sealed the Reds’ stunning comeback to sink Barcelona 4-0 in the Champions League in 2019.
Announcing his departure, Liverpool wrote: “Divock Origi will leave the club when his contract expires at the end of June.
“Thank you for an incredible eight years of service and leaving us with so many special memories. @DivockOrigi, Liverpool legend”.
Karius became notorious for his error-strewn performance in the 2018 Champions League final against Real Madrid, and spent much of his subsequent Anfield career on loan.
Ojo made 13 senior appearances, scoring in the FA Cup win over Exeter, while Woodburn became the club’s youngest goalscorer – a title he still holds – when he scored in the League Cup match against Leeds at the age of 17.
Academy players Elijah Dixon-Bonner and Luis Longstaff – who made first-team appearances in domestic cup competitions – have also been released.
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Manchester United Pair Shown the Exit Doors at Old Trafford
After a disastrous 2021/22 season, Manchester United are looking for renewed life under their new manager Erik ten Hag. The former Ajax gaffer has already assumed his duties at Old Trafford and is outlining his summer transfer plans. Though the Red Devils are yet to sign a player, four...
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. f/k/a Peridot Acquisition Corp. ("Li-Cycle" or the "Company") (NYSE: LICY) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Li-Cycle investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between February 16, 2021 and March 23, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LICY investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Li-Cycle's largest customer, Traxys, is not actually a customer, but merely a broker providing working capital financial to the Company while Traxys tries to sell Li-Cycle's product to end customers; (2) the Company engaged in highly questionable related party transactions; (3) the Company's mark-to-model accounting is vulnerable to abuse and gave a false impression of growth; (4) a significant portion of the Company's reported revenues were derived from simply marking up receivables on products that had not been sold; (5) the Company's gross margins have likely been negative since inception; (6) the Company will require an additional $1 billion of funding to support its planned growth (which is a figure greater than the Company raised via the merger); and (7) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Li-Cycle during the relevant time frame, you have until June 20, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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Recipe by Danielle Maupertuis, Vegan Pastry Chef
I propose to re-baptise it “the Wimbledon cake”!
This is a brilliant answer how to combine creamy, fruity, soft and crispy textures, all in the same time!
LE FRAISIER, CLASSICAL FRENCH STRAWBERRY CAKE
Preparation notes
Makes: 6 cakes 8cm diam, 3,5cm height
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
1.FRENCH SABLE PASTRY
- 50g hard vegan block (Violife, Naturli…)
- 75g sifted icing sugar
- 25g vegan milk alternative (coconut,soya,almond,rice…)
- 125g plain gluten-free flour
- ¼ tsp xanthan gum
- ¼ tsp. baking powder
- pinch of salt
Method
- In a mixing bowl, using the paddle, at medium speed, beat the spread and the sugar until fluffy consistency. Reduce the speed and incorporate the milk. Add the flour, baking powder, xanthan gum and salt. Work on a low speed till all the ingredients are combined. Do not overwork the pastry.
Cling film the pastry and allow to rest for 2 h. at least in the fridge.
- Preheat the oven at 190C. / gas 5.
3.On a lightly floured worktop, roll out the pastry between 2 sheets of parchment paper, 2mm thick. Cut 6 circles same size as the rings and transfer on a pre-lined baking tray or a silicone mat. Bake for 15 mins at 190C.
MOUSSELINE CREAM
- 250g milk alternative
- 1 Tbsp cashew butter
- 25g cornflour
- ½tsp vanilla essence
- 50g unrefined caster sugar
- 80g hard vegan block
- 250g fresh strawberries medium size
Method
- Pour the milk alternative in a heavy bottom saucepan. Reserve 3 Tbsp to be added to the dry ingredients. Bring to the boil.
- Meanwhile, in a mixer, whisk together the cashew butter, sugar, cornflour, vanilla essence and the reserved liquid.
Out of the heat, pour this mix over the boiling milk and whisk until all the ingredients are evenly combined.
Bring back to a low heat and stir continuously until the mixture starts bubbling and thickens. Allow to cool down.
- Soften the vegan spread in the microwave for 10 secs. Transfer to a mixing bowl.
Using the whisk attachment, at medium speed, slowly add the custard- about ¼ at a time -making sure the cream remains smooth. Scrape the bowl 1-2 times.
Keep refrigerated.
VICTORIA SPONGE
- 75g gluten-free self raising flour
- 45g unrefined caster sugar
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- 75g milk alternative
- 30g rapeseed oil
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Method
- Preheat the oven 190C / gas 5
- Whizz all the ingredients in a food processor until smooth, with no remaining lumps.
- Pour the sponge into a pre-lined baking tray, spread evenly – 1cm thick – with a spatula and bake at 190C for 15mins.
- Check if a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool down.
ASSEMBLING
- Place the sweet pastry disc in the bottom of a stainless ring. Cut the strawberries in half, flat side against the ring. Strawberries should have the same size.
- With a piping bag cover the pastry base with a layer of mousseline cream, about 30g. Make sure you fill the spaces between the half strawberries.
With a round cutter, cut 6 discs about 3cm diameter in the sponge and place on top of the mousseline. Fill the ring with the remaining cream till the top.
Flatten with a palette knife. Let it set in the fridge for 3 hours at least.
- Remove the ring. Cover the top of the cake with a red marzipan disc, same size as the ring. Decorate with a strawberry.
Enjoy!
Photo credit Darrin Jenkins
(Extract from my cookbook “Vegans deserve better than a fruit salad”, Olympia Publishers, available on www.freefromdesserts.com/books)
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A couple of days ago, we published an article where we talked about five things we'd like to see and five things we expect to see at Summer Game Fest 2022. Considering we're only a few days out from the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, we think it's about time we gave Microsoft's event a similar treatment. Unlike Geoff Keighley's show however, we don't have a list of partners to reference, so things may just get a little wild at times. But anyway, let's crack on.
You might call it cheating to group these two together, but we've done so simply due to the recent delay announcement that saw both Bethesda games pushed to 2023. Even though both have been delayed, the fact that both were once far along enough in development that they were planning on releasing this year, makes it seem pretty much a certainty that they'll appear in some form - hopefully with gameplay and exact new release dates.
Fable is starting to feel like a well... fable at this point. Hopefully 2022's showcase will be the turning point for this title, as we're really excited to be heading back to Albion, and have been ever since the game was announced almost two years ago. Will it make an appearance however? That's the question. But we're really hoping that some fresh news will drop, whether that's another trailer or even a release window, we'd take anything at this point.
It does kind of feel like cheating to whack Sea of Thieves on this list, but considering the absolutely stellar reception to the A Pirate's Life Pirates of the Caribbean crossover last year, we'd put our money on something else being in the works for Rare's beloved and massively popular swashbuckling adventure being shown off during the event.
It was only last year that Contraband was officially announced, but its 70s tropical island setting, designed for chaotic cooperative gameplay (at least so we're told) has been more than enough to pique our interest. While we're not exactly expecting a full gameplay reveal or an exact release date this time around, some more information about the game and perhaps another fancy, illuminating cinematic trailer would really hit the spot.
We're still expecting some post-launch content for Forza Horizon 5, and that may make an appearance during the show, but considering how barren Xbox's portfolio is looking later this year, we think Forza Motorsport is set to be featured heavily during the showcase, as Turn 10 gears up for this racing simulator to occupy one of the big holiday slots this year.
A quadruple-A developer. The return of Joanna Dark. There are a lot of reasons to be excited for The Initiatives' Perfect Dark. Unfortunately, we're starting to hear more and more troubling stories about this ambitious game, with multiple staff members leaving the developer, but hopefully Microsoft will be looking at this year's show as a way to right the ship and ensure that fans all around the world are still amped up for this title.
Ninja Theory has been quite happy to show off Senua's Saga: Hellblade II as of late, which does include the recent lengthy gameplay video that was shared a few months back. With this sequel set to debut sometime in 2022, we think, alike Forza Motorsport, Microsoft is going to be setting this anticipated title up to fill its currently barren second half of 2022, and hopefully that means an exact release date is in the imminent future.
Fans have been quite excited for Indiana Jones the last couple of weeks, largely thanks to an image of the upcoming movie that was shared. While it's probably not ready to launch for a little while, we hope Microsoft and MachineGames use that attention to once again get fans all amped up for the Indiana Jones title that the Swedish developer is creating, perhaps by showing off the iconic action hero in-game.
Similar to Starfield and Redfall, we're cheating when it comes to Obsidian by simply saying that at least one of its projects will be making an appearance. Whether that's the anticipated The Outer Worlds 2, Grounded, the first-person RPG Avowed, or even a new game that it seems to be working on but is happy to tease, Pentiment. Either way, with so much to choose from we can at least count on Obsidian having some sort of significant appearance.
So hear us out. Gears 5 came out in 2019, almost three years ago. And we know that The Coalition has plans for the next iteration of this beloved shooter series, and is seemingly on the way to delivering precisely on that promise - those fancy Unreal Engine 5 demos can't be for nothing. This is why we're really hoping that at this year's show, we'll get the official announcement for Gears 6, perhaps in the form of a fancy cinematic trailer using that incredible looking tech that gave us those impressive demos.
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Jan. 6 Capitol attack committee goes prime time with probe
WASHINGTON (AP) - With never-seen video, new audio and a “mountain of evidence,” the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will attempt to show not only the deadly violence that erupted that day but also the chilling backstory as the defeated president, Donald Trump, tried to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.
Thursday’s prime-time hearing will open with eyewitness testimony from the first police officer pummeled in the mob riot and from a documentary filmmaker who recorded the melee, and it will feature the committee’s accounts from Trump’s aides and family members of the deadly siege that put U.S. democracy at risk.
“When you hear and understand the wide-reaching conspiracy and the effort to try to corrupt every lever and agency of government involved in this, you know, the hair on the back of your neck should stand up,” Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a member of the 1/6 committee, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“Putting it all together in one place and one coherent narrative, I think, will help the American people understand better what happened on January 6th — and the threats that that could potentially pose in the future.”
The 1/6 panel’s yearlong investigation into the Capitol attack will begin to show how America’s tradition of a peaceful transfer of presidential power came close to slipping away. It will reconstruct how Trump refused to concede the 2020 election, spread false claims of voter fraud and orchestrated an unprecedented public and private campaign to overturn Biden’s victory.
The result of the coming weeks of public hearings may not change hearts or minds in politically polarized America. But the committee’s investigation with 1,000 interviews is intended to stand as a public record for history. A final report aims to provide an accounting of the most violent attack on the Capitol since the British set fire to it in 1814 and to ensure such an attack never happens again.
Emotions are still raw at the Capitol, and security will be tight for the hearings. Law enforcement officials are reporting a spike in violent threats against members of Congress.
Against this backdrop, the committee will try to speak to a divided America, ahead of the fall midterm elections, when voters decide which party controls Congress. Most TV networks will carry the hearings live, but Fox News Channel will not.
The committee chairman, civil rights leader Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, will set the tone with opening remarks.
The two congressional leaders will outline what the committee has learned about the events leading up to that brisk January day in 2021 when Trump sent his supporters to Congress to “fight like hell” for his presidency as lawmakers undertook the typically routine job of certifying the previous November’s results.
“People are going to have to follow two intersecting streams of events — one will be the attempt to overturn the presidential election, that’s a harrowing story in itself,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the committee, told the AP.
“The other will be the sequence of events leading up to a violent mob attack on the Capitol to stop the counting of Electoral College votes and block the peaceful balance of power,” he said.
First up will be wrenching accounts from police who engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the mob, with testimony from U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who was seriously injured in the attack. Also appearing Thursday will be documentary maker Nick Quested, who filmed the extremist Proud Boys storming the Capitol. Some of that group’s members have since been indicted, as have some from the Oath Keepers, on rare sedition charges over the military-style attack.
Along with the live eyewitness testimony, the panel will unveil multimedia presentations, including unreleased video and audio, and a “mountain of evidence,” said a committee aide who insisted on anonymity to preview the hearing. There will be recorded accounts from Trump’s senior aides at the White House, the administration and the campaign, as well as members of Trump’s family, the aide said.
In the weeks ahead, the panel is expected to detail Trump’s public campaign to “Stop the Steal” and the private pressure he put on the Justice Department to reverse his election loss — despite dozens of failed court cases and his own attorney general attesting there was no fraud on a scale that could have tipped the results in his favor.
The panel, made up of nine lawmakers, faced obstacles from its start. Republicans blocked the formation of an independent body that could have investigated the Jan. 6 assault the way the 9/11 Commission probed the 2001 terror attack.
Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ushered the creation of the 1/6 panel through Congress over the objections of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. She rejected Republican-appointed lawmakers who had voted Jan. 6 against certifying the election results, choosing her own preferred members to serve.
Trump has dismissed the investigation as illegitimate, and many Republicans are poised to defend him.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York said at a GOP leadership news conference that the committee’s “shameless prime-time show” is nothing but a smear campaign against the former president, his party and his supporters.
But by many measures, the attack was set in motion shortly after Election Day, when Trump falsely claimed the voting was rigged and refused to concede once Biden was declared the winner.
The proceedings are expected to introduce Americans to a cast of characters, some well known, others elusive, and to what they said and did as Trump and his allies tried to reverse the election outcome.
The public will learn about the actions of Mark Meadows, the president’s chief of staff, whose 2,000-plus text messages provided the committee with a snapshot of the real-time scramble to keep Trump in office. Of John Eastman, the conservative law professor who was the architect of the unsuccessful scheme to convince Vice President Mike Pence to halt the certification on Jan. 6. Of the Justice Department officials who threatened to resign rather than go along with Trump’s startling proposals.
Lawmakers have also been caught up in the probe, including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who defied the committee’s subpoena requests for testimony. Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, who urged her father to call off the rioters, appeared privately before the committee.
The Justice Department has arrested and charged more than 800 people for the violence that day, the biggest dragnet in its history.
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
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For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siege.
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Dear Amy: I am beginning to think that I’m in violation of some unwritten social code with respect to gift giving.
After a very acrimonious divorce, we experienced the typical “siding off” of our mutual acquaintances.
This is understandable, as divorce puts friends in awkward positions.
Anyway, I have continued to send gifts as children of “our” friends marry, despite not being an invited guest. These gifts are not being acknowledged.
I’m trying to figure out if I just hit a streak of ungrateful young people or if my giving is so grossly out of place that it is just being ignored. Any guidance is really appreciated.
Bewildered Giver
Dear Bewildered: All gifts should be acknowledged, even if the gift bewilders the recipient.
You do not need to receive a wedding invitation in order to send a gift, but if you have never met the couple — or haven’t seen the marrying person in many years — you might want to switch your generosity to a warmly worded card.
Dear Amy: In 2020, my nephew, “TJ,” graduated from high school. My husband and I are especially close to him.
Due to COVID, there was no graduation party. During lockdown, I sent TJ a card and enclosed money.
Later, I sent a personal, heartfelt letter, wanting him to know how much I enjoyed seeing him grow, recounting memories we shared, giving him unsolicited advice about college (that he could take or leave), etc.
TJ called to thank me for the gift and the letter.
Months later, my sister-in-law mentioned to me that she was in TJ’s room and a letter was open on his nightstand. She said she saw it was from me and read it.
She said she thought it was so nice and that it made her cry.
I was speechless!
The issue for me is I feel the letter was private between TJ and myself.
I was raised in a household where we never opened mail that was not addressed to us because the contents of any mail was considered the private information of the recipient.
Now, two years later, TJ’s brother is graduating from high school. I had planned to write a similar letter for him, but now I feel constrained on how much of my personal feelings I want to put into the letter.
Truth be told, the joy of doing another letter is gone for me since I know it may be read by others.
I want to get your thoughts on whether I am overreacting.
Upset Aunt
Dear Upset: Yes, you are overreacting. By a mile and a half.
When people receive letters and cards of congratulation to mark a happy occasion, they often leave the cards and letters out and share the content of these with family members (unless the recipient is explicitly asked not to).
According to your account, this letter was lying open in your nephew’s room. It was not sealed, and your sister-in-law did not “open” it. She merely read it, as I maintain just about anyone would do. (You obviously wouldn’t, but I believe that most people would.)
My overall point is that when a letter leaves the writer’s heart, mind, pen and home, it becomes the physical property of the person who receives it, and that person can leave it lying out for others to see, put it into a scrapbook, post a photo of it on social media, sell it at an auction, or throw it away.
It is best to enter a correspondence assuming that others may see what you write, and to choose your words carefully.
Your sister-in-law was moved by the contents of this letter to the point of tears. She was thoughtful enough to tell you so, and your response is to consider denying your other nephew this gift of your time and wisdom.
This seems an extremely unkind reaction.
If you choose to write to your younger nephew, you should ask him to keep the contents of your letter private.
Dear Amy: I appreciated your response to “Torn,” the older man who wanted to announce his long-ago sexually exploitive relationship with his sister-in-law at the woman’s funeral.
Yes, I agree that what happened to him when he was a teenager was abusive. And, yes, I also agree that a funeral is not the time to disclose it.
Fan
Dear Fan: My heart fairly broke for this man, who had been struggling with the impact of this abusive sexual relationship. I hope he gets help.
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Pageant participants in queen's jubilee celebrate diverse UK
LONDON — (AP) — As designer Clary Salandy pushes open the kitchen door at a nondescript community center in west London, her visitors pause, astonished by what they find.
A dozen giraffe heads, crafted in shades of orange and brown with top hats and flowing eyelashes, smile in a tidy row atop the commercial-grade stove, while a pair of zebras peer out from a corner near the refrigerator.
That sense of surprise is exactly what Salandy hopes people will experience on Sunday, when the giraffes and zebras join a troupe of dancing elephants and flamingos outside Buckingham Palace as part of the pageant that will cap off four days of festivities celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne. In the meantime, the plastic foam beasts will remain locked in the kitchen for safekeeping.
Salandy and her team at Mahogany Carnival Arts want their playful reimagining of the setting where the young Princess Elizabeth learned she was queen in 1952, while on a wildlife expedition in Kenya, to spark a sense of fun and fantasy in a nation recovering from the coronavirus pandemic.
They want, in short, to inspire joy.
“When you see it, you should go, ‘Wow! You know, that’s amazing!’’’ Salandy said. “We’re going to lift people out of COVID and take them forward when they finish. People should feel positive that life is coming back and we’re going to move forward and back into enjoying our lives.”
That message will be delivered by a group of 250 artists and performers from the African-Caribbean community, which was particularly hit hard by the pandemic and is now being squeezed by the cost-of-living crisis.
But the performers want to reach out to everyone with a presentation that celebrates the diversity of Britain and the Commonwealth.
Children will become swans, older people will zoom around in mobility scooters decked out as flamingos and dancers will bring the giraffes and zebras to life, perhaps even to mingle with the crowds.
Another group of dancers will unite to form the queen’s coronation robe, with the symbols of every major faith and nods to all 54 Commonwealth nations woven into its purple and white fabric.
The dances and costumes — really wearable sculptures — grow out of the traditions of Carnival as it is celebrated in the Caribbean. That heritage inspired the Notting Hill Carnival, a celebration of Caribbean culture that has grown into Europe’s largest street festival. The end of summer party was canceled the last two years because of the pandemic.
Artist Carl Gabriel, who is collaborating with Mahogany, is still putting the finishing touches on an 85-kilogram (nearly 200-pound) bust of the queen, complete with crown and diamond necklace, that will form the centerpiece of the performance. On its plinth, it is four meters (13 feet) tall.
Gabriel has spent months building the sculpture using the traditional technique of wire-bending together with his own innovations. Created by painstakingly bending bits of wire around a metal frame using an assortment of pliers and hammers, the almost finished work resembles a giant macrame project. After he donned safety glasses and a leather apron at his studio on London, he said he wants the work to have meaning for the queen — and many others besides.
“I feel a lot of people are suffering,’’ Gabriel said. “The least I could do is provide those who suffered a hard time some enjoyment by presenting the work to them.’’
At its heart, the performance is a celebration of the queen’s 70 years of service, said Nicola Cummings, a costumer maker and a teacher at Queen’s Park Community School, who is working with 24 young dancers. The queen is at the heart of it all.
“Every visit that she’s ever been on, every time that she’s come out, she’s always represented the country at its best. We’ve never seen her looking scruffy,” Cummings said. “For that alone, you know, we’ve got to give back now. Here we are. We’re showing her our best.”
But the performance also carries a message of rejuvenation.
Mahogany’s community was an epicenter of the first outbreak of COVID-19, and the months of preparation for the jubilee have lifted the performers, many of whom lost family members during the pandemic.
Just as the queen promised the nation at the height of the pandemic that people would meet their friends and families again, so the performers are celebrating the ability to dance again as part of a community — a group even tighter now than before.
Cummings will be thinking about her father, who was also involved in carnivals. He died of COVID-19 last year.
“I feel like I’m representing him in a way,’’ she said, unable to hold back the tears. “This is almost like tribute to him.”
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Nairobi househelp gets 8 years in jail for sexually abusing minor, pornography
A house help who introduced a 13-year-old boy to family life at a tender age has been sentenced to serve 8 years in prison without an option of fine.
The 34-year-old woman, who is also a mother of five, was handed down the penalty by Milimani senior principal magistrate Esther Kimilu, who noted "the minor is now addicted to pleasure life."
Besides offering herself to the minor, the convict also introduced the complainant, who she was employed to take care of, to watching porn in the social media.
The magistrate convicted the home-care servant for two counts of sexually abusing the minor and introducing him to porn-life.
Ms Kimilu noted the convict first used her cell phone to introduce the minor to sex life by watching porn.
The accused had abused the minor between 2020 and 2021 when the government had limited movement during the Covid-19 lock-down.
Ms Kimilu said the prosecution had proven beyond reasonable doubts.
"The effect of the action by the adult woman has psychologically affected the minor who now cannot live without satisfying his thirsty for companion with the opposite sex;" the court noted.
In her sentence, Ms Kimilu considered the fact that the child has never recovered from the incident.
"I have considered the mitigation of the accused that she is a single mother struggling to feed her children," Ms Kimilu noted.
She added:"The victim has never recovered from the incident according to the ore-sentencing report."
During sentencing, the magistrate also noted that the accused person was married at a tender age of 14, according to the probation report filed in court and that she is also a victim of similar circumstances.
"Owing to the issues stated, I hereby exercise my discretion to sentence the accused person to serve 8years in imprisonment, the said sentence shall be served partly in custody and partly non custodial " ruled Kimilu.
The accused V.N.W was in February 2021 arraigned and charged with defiling the 13-year-old boy for eight months and exposing the adolescent victim to pornographic content.
At that time, it was alleged that V.N.W committed the offence in Mwiki area, Kasarani, Nairobi County between July 2020 and February 2021.
She was also charged with promoting a sexual offence for allegedly showing the minor pornographic content.
Further, she was charged with performing an indecent act with a child.
The incident, according to documents presented in court, was discovered by chance as the parents disciplined the boy on February 21.
The boy’s sister had complained that she had lost her phone while in the house.
After enquiring from her adolescent brother and sister, the two denied taking her phone leading to her parents’ intervention
The parent’s intervened by beating up the boy, who unable to stomach the pain, confessed that he had been using the sister’s phone to watch pornography after allegedly being introduced to the vice by the house help.
Alarmed, the parents rushed the boy to a clinic for a medical check-up and reported the incident to the police.
Police said the boy revealed that the house help began the abuse by first showing him videos of people engaging in sexual intercourse.
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Report highlights progress of company's industry-leading sustainability strategy, reinforces commitment to positive action
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Macerich (NYSE: MAC), one of the nation's leading owners, operators and developers of one-of-a-kind retail and mixed-use properties in top markets, today released its 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report.
The report highlights the Company's ongoing, 23-year commitment to meeting the needs of all stakeholders by developing properties with purpose and championing belonging in all areas of operations since Macerich launched its sustainability efforts in 1999. Additionally, the 2021 report focuses on the Company's return to normalized operations after the initial pandemic response of 2020, and an increased focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments.
"At Macerich, everything we do centers on our belief that our Regional Town Centers are properties with purpose — physical places at the heart of their communities where people come together to shop, eat, play and find connection," said Tom O'Hern, CEO, Macerich. "We are deeply committed to protecting natural resources and ensuring our spaces are welcoming gathering places for everyone."
Highlights from Macerich's 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report include:
- Macerich has achieved or is on track to achieve its 2030 carbon neutrality goal, waste reduction and water conservation goals. Significant results for 2021 include a 9% reduction in location-based greenhouse gas emissions since 2019, 35% solid waste reduction, and 20% reduction in water consumption since 2015.
- An industry leader in sustainability, Macerich received validation of its Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) goals. This milestone affirms that the Company is on track to play its part in meeting Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
- Macerich maintained a steady position as one of 200 companies out of 13,000 annual applicants on the CDP A List, which showcases companies leading on environmental transparency and action based on annual impact disclosures. The Company also received the #1 ranking in the GRESB Americas retail sector for the seventh consecutive year.
- Responding to calls for support in its communities, Macerich provided emergency response support for the Marshall Fire in Colorado, partnered with public and private organizations in New York City to provide thousands of turkeys for families in need, and donated hundreds of laptops to schools throughout the country.
- Macerich was the largest employer of the inaugural class of ICSC Foundation's Launch Academy for college student interns to explore career opportunities in retail real estate management and leasing.
- Macerich properties hosted more than 1,800 events supporting local causes and communities, such as blood drives, farmers markets, COVID testing sites, food drives, cultural celebrations and more.
- Macerich invested in and developed the employee community through mentorship programs, professional development opportunities, manager training and DEIB-focused employee training.
- In 2021, the Company added ESG oversight responsibilities to the charter of the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Board of Directors, which affirms ESG objectives and conducts quarterly reviews.
- Macerich added ESG-focused performance metrics to the executive compensation plan.
- The Company affirmed its ethical business practices with a commitment to transparency, responsiveness and principled action by providing clear written policies and ongoing training to shape expectations and outline behaviors for everyone who is part of the employee community.
- To learn more about Macerich's leadership in sustainability, access the Macerich Corporate Responsibility/ESG Report, with data for the period ending December 31, 2021.
Macerich is a fully integrated, self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT). As a leading owner, operator and developer of high-quality retail real estate in densely populated and attractive U.S. markets, Macerich's portfolio is concentrated in California, the Pacific Northwest, Phoenix/Scottsdale, and the Metro New York to Washington, D.C. corridor. Developing and managing properties that serve as community cornerstones, Macerich currently owns 48 million square feet of real estate consisting primarily of interests in 44 regional town centers. Macerich is firmly dedicated to advancing environmental goals, social good and sound corporate governance. A recognized leader in sustainability, Macerich has achieved a #1 GRESB ranking for the North American retail sector for seven straight years (2015-2021). For more information, please visit www.Macerich.com.
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Jan. 6 Capitol attack committee goes prime time with probe
WASHINGTON (AP) - With never-seen video, new audio and a “mountain of evidence,” the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will attempt to show not only the deadly violence that erupted that day but also the chilling backstory as the defeated president, Donald Trump, tried to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.
Thursday’s prime-time hearing will open with eyewitness testimony from the first police officer pummeled in the mob riot and from a documentary filmmaker who recorded the melee, and it will feature the committee’s accounts from Trump’s aides and family members of the deadly siege that put U.S. democracy at risk.
“When you hear and understand the wide-reaching conspiracy and the effort to try to corrupt every lever and agency of government involved in this, you know, the hair on the back of your neck should stand up,” Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a member of the 1/6 committee, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“Putting it all together in one place and one coherent narrative, I think, will help the American people understand better what happened on January 6th — and the threats that that could potentially pose in the future.”
The 1/6 panel’s yearlong investigation into the Capitol attack will begin to show how America’s tradition of a peaceful transfer of presidential power came close to slipping away. It will reconstruct how Trump refused to concede the 2020 election, spread false claims of voter fraud and orchestrated an unprecedented public and private campaign to overturn Biden’s victory.
The result of the coming weeks of public hearings may not change hearts or minds in politically polarized America. But the committee’s investigation with 1,000 interviews is intended to stand as a public record for history. A final report aims to provide an accounting of the most violent attack on the Capitol since the British set fire to it in 1814 and to ensure such an attack never happens again.
Emotions are still raw at the Capitol, and security will be tight for the hearings. Law enforcement officials are reporting a spike in violent threats against members of Congress.
Against this backdrop, the committee will try to speak to a divided America, ahead of the fall midterm elections, when voters decide which party controls Congress. Most TV networks will carry the hearings live, but Fox News Channel will not.
The committee chairman, civil rights leader Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, will set the tone with opening remarks.
The two congressional leaders will outline what the committee has learned about the events leading up to that brisk January day in 2021 when Trump sent his supporters to Congress to “fight like hell” for his presidency as lawmakers undertook the typically routine job of certifying the previous November’s results.
“People are going to have to follow two intersecting streams of events — one will be the attempt to overturn the presidential election, that’s a harrowing story in itself,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the committee, told the AP.
“The other will be the sequence of events leading up to a violent mob attack on the Capitol to stop the counting of Electoral College votes and block the peaceful balance of power,” he said.
First up will be wrenching accounts from police who engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the mob, with testimony from U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who was seriously injured in the attack. Also appearing Thursday will be documentary maker Nick Quested, who filmed the extremist Proud Boys storming the Capitol. Some of that group’s members have since been indicted, as have some from the Oath Keepers, on rare sedition charges over the military-style attack.
Along with the live eyewitness testimony, the panel will unveil multimedia presentations, including unreleased video and audio, and a “mountain of evidence,” said a committee aide who insisted on anonymity to preview the hearing. There will be recorded accounts from Trump’s senior aides at the White House, the administration and the campaign, as well as members of Trump’s family, the aide said.
In the weeks ahead, the panel is expected to detail Trump’s public campaign to “Stop the Steal” and the private pressure he put on the Justice Department to reverse his election loss — despite dozens of failed court cases and his own attorney general attesting there was no fraud on a scale that could have tipped the results in his favor.
The panel, made up of nine lawmakers, faced obstacles from its start. Republicans blocked the formation of an independent body that could have investigated the Jan. 6 assault the way the 9/11 Commission probed the 2001 terror attack.
Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ushered the creation of the 1/6 panel through Congress over the objections of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. She rejected Republican-appointed lawmakers who had voted Jan. 6 against certifying the election results, choosing her own preferred members to serve.
Trump has dismissed the investigation as illegitimate, and many Republicans are poised to defend him.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York said at a GOP leadership news conference that the committee’s “shameless prime-time show” is nothing but a smear campaign against the former president, his party and his supporters.
But by many measures, the attack was set in motion shortly after Election Day, when Trump falsely claimed the voting was rigged and refused to concede once Biden was declared the winner.
The proceedings are expected to introduce Americans to a cast of characters, some well known, others elusive, and to what they said and did as Trump and his allies tried to reverse the election outcome.
The public will learn about the actions of Mark Meadows, the president’s chief of staff, whose 2,000-plus text messages provided the committee with a snapshot of the real-time scramble to keep Trump in office. Of John Eastman, the conservative law professor who was the architect of the unsuccessful scheme to convince Vice President Mike Pence to halt the certification on Jan. 6. Of the Justice Department officials who threatened to resign rather than go along with Trump’s startling proposals.
Lawmakers have also been caught up in the probe, including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who defied the committee’s subpoena requests for testimony. Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, who urged her father to call off the rioters, appeared privately before the committee.
The Justice Department has arrested and charged more than 800 people for the violence that day, the biggest dragnet in its history.
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
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Headteachers have criticised a “shocking” rise in the number of pupils eligible for free school meals.
Government figures released on Thursday show that 22.5% of youngsters are currently eligible for free school meals, up from 20.8% in 2021 and representing just under 1.9 million children.
Julie McCulloch, policy director at the Association of School and College Leaders, said it is “shocking that in one of the world’s wealthiest economies we are seeing a very significant increase in the number of children eligible for free school meals, and therefore living in extremely difficult financial circumstances”.
She said the union recognises that the rise is “at least partly due” to transitional protections over a change in benefit payments, linked to free school meals eligibility, but added that it is “also likely that we are seeing the economic impact of the pandemic on many families affected by illness and job losses”.
“Their circumstances will become even more severe because of the cost-of-living crisis,” she said.
The proportion of pupils receiving free school meals in England has risen from around one in seven in 2015/16 to more than one in five in 2021/22.
The Government said that on April 1 2018 transitional protections were put in place for the rollout of Universal Credit, which meant pupils eligible for free school meals on or after that date retained their eligibility even if their circumstances changed.
“Prior to the pandemic, this had been the main driver in the increase in the proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals as pupils continue to become eligible but fewer pupils stop being eligible,” it said.
Ms McCulloch, of the ASCL, said it is “even more shocking” that current eligibility “does not even capture all the children who need help”.
“Free school meal eligibility now applies to 22.5% of pupils, but we know that the level of child poverty is about 30%,” she said.
She added that her union is campaigning for all children whose families are in receipt of Universal Credit to be eligible for free school meals.
“But the Government must also recognise the pressing need to do more for these children and their families in general,” she said.
“It is simply unacceptable that so many young people live in such difficult circumstances, and it has a huge impact on their education as they are less likely to be ready to learn if their families are struggling to provide them with basics such as a nutritious diet.”
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Riskified Ltd. ("Riskified Ltd." or the "Company") (NYSE: RSKD) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Riskified Ltd. investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Riskified Class A ordinary shares in or traceable to the Company's July 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
RSKD investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) as Riskified expanded its user base, the quality of Riskified's machine learning platform had deteriorated (rather than improved as represented in documents issued in connection with the July 2021 initial public offering), because of, among other things, inaccuracies in the algorithms associated with onboarding new merchants and entering new geographies and industries; (ii) Riskified had expanded its customer base into industries with relatively high rates of fraud – including partnerships with cryptocurrency and remittance business – in which Riskified had limited experience and that this expansion has negatively impacted the effectiveness of Riskified's machine learning platform; (iii) as a result, Riskified was suffering from materially higher chargebacks and cost of revenue and depressed gross profits and gross profit margins during its third fiscal quarter of 2021; and (iv) thus, the representations in documents issued in connection with the July 2021 initial public offering regarding Riskified's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of Riskified prior to and at the time of the July 2021 initial public offering, and were materially false and misleading, and lacked a factual basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Riskified Ltd. during the relevant time frame, you have until July 1, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Which Logitech gaming mouse is best?
Any serious gamer needs a fast, powerful computer and a responsive keyboard. But don’t underestimate the importance of your mouse. A good gaming mouse can make all the difference in your gaming experience. They’re more comfortable than a standard mouse and provide benefits that can take your gaming to the next level.
Logitech is an industry-leading computer electronics brand that offers several gaming mice, such as the Logitech G Pro X Wireless Gaming Mouse. It’s popular among gamers for its lightweight build, minimalist design and precise control.
What to know before you buy a Logitech gaming mouse
Weight
Most gamers prefer their mouse to be as lightweight as possible, so it moves around more effortlessly. Others prefer something heavier, as a mouse that’s too light can feel uncomfortable for some. The best wireless gaming mice have internal weights that you can remove to adjust the weight according to your preference.
Ergonomics
Naturally, any gamer wants a mouse loaded with neat features. But it’s essential to pay attention to the ergonomic aspects of a gaming mouse, too. You wouldn’t want to sit in an uncomfortable chair for the duration of your gaming sessions, so why would you want to use an awkward mouse? Most gamers play for hours on end, so using an ergonomic mouse is crucial for preventing soreness and joint pain.
Wireless vs. wired connectivity
Nearly all gaming mice are wireless, but if you prefer a wired mouse, these are still available. Wireless mice connect to a USB receiver that you plug into your computer. While these are more convenient for traveling, wired mice provide a more stable connection. And although they are a bit restrictive, there’s no need to worry about battery replacement. Some mice come with the option to connect with either a USB receiver or a wired connection.
What to look for in a quality Logitech gaming mouse
Mappable buttons
Look for wireless gaming mice that allow you to customize control layouts in a more comfortable setup. Some mice even have built-in memory for saving button profiles, so you don’t need to reprogram it every time you play. Also, you can program buttons to carry out basic computer actions such as cutting, copying and pasting.
LED lights
Gaming keyboards are known for their customizable red, green and blue (RGB) backlights, which light up in specific colors and patterns. Some wireless gaming mice also have RGB lights, so players can synchronize them with their team colors or keyboard setup.
Adjustable sensitivity
Adjustable mouse sensitivity is essential for new and seasoned gamers alike. Mouse sensitivity refers to how much distance the cursor travels when the mouse moves. You’ll likely want a specific sensitivity level for some games and different ones for others.
For example, in a first-person shooter game, you might want to quickly aim from one side of the screen to the other with minimal mouse movement. Conversely, some players prefer a lower mouse sensitivity as it can be easier to control gameplay with precision.
How much you can expect to spend on a Logitech gaming mouse
You can get a high-quality gaming mouse for around $40-$70. If you’re looking for something more robust that offers more customization and other premium features, you can expect to pay between $100-$160.
Logitech gaming mouse FAQ
Can I use a Logitech gaming mouse for anything other than gaming?
A. Yes, you can use a gaming mouse as a standard computer mouse for work and school tasks. However, many gaming mice have eccentric designs that make them stand out, so they may be suitable for professional use.
Are there any gaming mice with rechargeable batteries?
A. Most wireless mice use replaceable AA batteries, but there are some with rechargeable batteries. Check the charging instructions to find a mouse that can charge as you play with a wired USB connection.
What’s the best Logitech gaming mouse to buy?
Top Logitech gaming mouse
Logitech G Pro X Wireless Gaming Mouse
What you need to know: This ultra-lightweight mouse has a streamlined design and offers several premium features.
What you’ll love: It uses pro-grade technology for precise controls and has a sturdy but lightweight structural design. It has two left-side buttons, an RGB charge light indicator and an intuitive HERO sensor that adjusts frame rate based on mouse movements.
What you should consider: It doesn’t have any LED lights or as many buttons as other gaming mice.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Logitech gaming mouse for the money
Logitech G502 HERO High-Performance Wired Gaming Mouse
What you need to know: This mouse has a traditional gaming mouse design and offers plenty of customization.
What you’ll love: The clean clicking feel and 11 customizable buttons are perfect for gamers. And if you have multiple users, it saves up to five button profiles at a time. You can adjust and remove the additional 3.6 grams of additional weight inside the mouse based on preference.
What you should consider: It’s a large mouse, so it might feel awkward to those with smaller hands. Also, even with all of the additional weight removed, some customers found it heavy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Logitech G604 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse
What you need to know: If you want a mouse with plenty of gaming features and a sleek design, this one is great for gaming and office use.
What you’ll love: It has 15 fully programmable buttons and uses Lightspeed technology or Bluetooth for a wireless connection to your computer. It has a HERO sensor for precise controls, a programmable metal scroll wheel and offers 240 hours of battery life.
What you should consider: Some users find the thumb rest awkward or uncomfortable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon region’s Javari Valley, where a British journalist and an Indigenous affairs official are missing, is Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territory and sits in an isolated area bordering Peru and Colombia. Crime there is rife and government oversight scant, adding to fears about the duo’s whereabouts and condition.
Reporter Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira disappeared in an area that has seen violent conflicts between fisherman, poachers and government agents. Violence has grown as drug trafficking gangs battle for control of waterways to ship cocaine.
HISTORIC TENSIONS
The Javari Valley has been the stage for decades-long tension between Indigenous tribes and descendants of rubber tappers who live in dozens of communities along the region’s riverbanks.
Despite fierce resistance from the local non-Indigenous population, the federal government in 2001 created the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, aiming to protect an area about the size of Portugal. Non-Indigenous communities just outside the newly established protected land had historically fished within it, and were no longer allowed. Since then, tensions have only grown.
The government’s Indigenous agency, known as FUNAI, established a permanent base at the strategic point where the Itui and the Itaquai rivers meet. There have been shootouts in recent years between officials and invaders, mostly fishermen. Pereira was previously the head of FUNAI’s bureau there.
“To this day, the locals don’t accept that they can’t fish, hunt or cut wood there,” Armando Soares Filho, a retired FUNAI official who was in charge of monitoring the area’s uncontacted tribes between 2003 and 2005, told The Associated Press. “Colombians and Peruvians also considered the area as a reserve for them to take whatever they want.”
Demand for fish in the region has increased as populations grow in Brazilian city of Tabatinga and Colombia’s Leticia. And as fish stocks became scarce in the Amazon River, the Javari Valley has become an even more coveted resource. Foreign tourists to Leticia are likely to eat fish caught illegally.
DRUG TRAFFICKING
The past decade has seen a surge of coca crops planted in Peru, where law enforcement is even scarcer than on the Brazilian side of the border.
Traffickers process coca to make cocaine in Peru then send it through Brazil’s sparsely populated Javari Valley and Amazon River. It is then distributed among major cities of the region, and from there to other Brazilian cities or to Europe.
For years, the local Family of the North gang, the Sao Paulo-based First Command of the Capital and Rio de Janeiro-based Red Command fought for control of Amazonas. Since 2020, the latter has become dominant.
Amazonas is now Brazil’s most violent state per capita, after a 54% increase in the number of murders last year, according to a study by news website G1, the nonprofit Brazilian Forum of Public Security and the University of Sao Paulo.
UNCONTACTED INDIGENOUS
Eleven Indigenous groups live in voluntary isolation within the Javari Valley, the country’s biggest concentration of them — about 6,000 people in all. FUNAI is legally obliged to protect them.
Brazilian law says contact with isolated tribes is only permitted as a last resort to preserve their lives. Many members of these tribes or their ancestors have been traumatized by contact with outsiders, who spread disease or sowed violence.
Pereira led one of these rare missions to reach an uncontacted Indigenous population there in March 2019 shortly after President Jair Bolsonaro took office and weeks before he went on leave from FUNAI.
Pereira and another 22 men were sent in to find a group of the Korubo Indigenous community and reunite them with relatives, arguing at the time it was necessary to prevent confrontation with another Indigenous group in the region. The efforts were successful.
FUNAI and the army are the only government authorities present in the Javari area. Almost two years ago, a FUNAI employee was shot dead in Tabatinga, the region’s largest city. The crime was never solved, which locals say has contributed to a growing sense of impunity.
BOLSONARO’S INFLUENCE
Environmental and Indigenous rights groups have argued that Bolsonaro’s public stance regarding Indigenous territories has helped embolden some to engage in illicit activity without fear of reprisals.
Bolsonaro took office in January 2019 while pledging to bring development to the Amazon, much to the alarm of environmentalists and Indigenous rights groups. He quickly changed much of FUNAI’s leadership, swapping out career Indigenous affairs officials for military officers. He also appointed an Evangelical pastor who had been a missionary in Javari Valley to lead the agency’s isolated tribes sector.
Bolsonaro has often advocated for tapping Indigenous territories’ resources, particularly minerals, by non-Indigenous and companies. He has openly rejected demarcating new lands for native peoples, and on April 25 promised he wouldn’t do so even if ordered by Brazil’s Supreme Court.
He says his opponents don’t have the national interest at heart and at times has alleged they are agents for foreign meddlers. He criticizes journalists, like Phillips, for what he claims to be misleading coverage of deforestation that has surged on his watch to the the worst in 15 years. And he openly rejects the views of those, like Pereira, who say Indigenous people should be protected, saying instead they should be integrated and that they desire economic development.
FATE OF PHILLIPS, PEREIRA
It remains unclear what became of Phillips and Pereira, and authorities have begun investigating. Pereira is an ally to Indigenous movements but divisive among others in the area, as he had often led operations to seize fish, turtles, turtle eggs and other illegally extracted animal products.
Since taking leave from FUNAI, Pereira has been helping Javari’s local Indigenous association, comprised of several ethnicities, organize an independent surveillance network to locate and expel invaders — be they illegal fishermen, loggers, traffickers or religious missionaries. Pereira had received a steady stream of threats for his work, and traveled with a gun. Phillips joined him on the most recent trip as part of research for a book on Amazon conservation.
The pair was traveling the Itaquai River, which is the primary access route to the Javari Valley and whose banks are home to dozens of non-Indigenous families. Boat traffic is light but regular, with at least several craft passing each day, primarily small canoes powered by low-power outboard motors.
So it is unlikely Pereira, who had vast experience in the region, would have become lost or that a mechanical problem would have forced the pair to seek overland passage. Locals have speculated that they may have been ambushed.
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The homebuilder has released a trio of five-bedroom detached villa styles for sale at Florence Wynd, which will comprise 27 four and five-bedroom properties.
Currently available are the Garvie, Melville and Darroch, priced at £495,000, £569,000 and £469,995 respectively.
They are part of Cala’s Light and Space Collection, which has been designed to promote relaxed living and provide dedicated spaces for entertaining and working.
The Garvie has been developed for luxury family living. On the ground floor of Plot 6, there is a separate formal lounge to the front, which is accessed via elegant French doors and includes 208 sq ft of floor space.
There is an integrated double garage, ample storage and a utility room to ensure noise from appliances is kept to a minimum.
To the rear is an impressive350 sq ft open-plan family living, dining and kitchen area which features Bosch appliances, induction hob and bi-folding doors to the landscaped rear garden.
Upstairs, the master and second bedrooms boast a large-built in wardrobe and ensuite shower room. Bedrooms two and three also have storage and a fifth smaller bedroom can be used as an office or study.
The family bathroom includes sanitaryware by Laufen and contemporary taps and fittings.
The L-shaped Melville house type has a dedicated study off its entrance hall, which leads to a lounge with French doors to the patio, a WC and storage.
To the left of the lounge is a spacious open-plan islanded kitchen, living and dining space, covering almost 670 sq ft, with bi-fold doors to the outside.
The unit’s double garage is accessed through a separate utility off the kitchen.
Upstairs, the master bedroom features an ensuite bathroom and Juliette balcony, while bedroom two has an ensuite shower room.
The release follows the sell-out success of Cala’s Florence Gardens development, also in Doonfoot.
Liana Canavan, sales and marketing director for Cala Homes (West), says: “With more people keen to maximise outdoor space, the prospect of escaping to the coast permanently has never been more popular or appealing. Florence Gardens attracted buyers from across Scotland – and even south of the Border – so we’re expecting Florence Wynd to be equally in-demand.
“This more intimate pocket of outstanding family homes will tick a lot of boxes for growing and established families – including proximity to schools and local amenities, as well as access to an expanse of beach just ten minutes’ walk away.
“A handful of the plots even boast views across the Firth of Clyde which are just breath-taking, with the Isle of Arran visible on a clear day.”
Doonfoot is 1.5 miles south of Ayr, and an hour and 20-minute drive to the port town of Stranraer.
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The national teams are currently together all across the globe, with the various competitions and friendly matches going on. One of them is UEFA Nations League, where all the teams are expected to play a total of four matches across two weeks. But among Man United players currently off international duty is David de Gea.
The Spanish goalkeeper has lost his place in Luis Enrique’s squad and has not been called up once again. Luis Enrique is known for being blunt and not trying to hide what he thinks. That is why it was interesting hearing him explain why he decided against calling up De Gea to Spain’s national team for their matches against Portugal, Czech Republic and Switzerland.
Luis Enrique told Spanish media that Unai Simon is his first choice goalkeeper after accumulating interesting experience, stating that a goalkeeper should start the play and generate the first superiority. He said that his Spain necessitate a goalkeeper which will transmit peace and calmness and that they must dominate the aerial play.
Although it is clear he never mentioned De Gea but rather explained why he called up David Raya of Brentford and Brighton’s Robert Sanchez ahead of De Gea, it is clear Man United’s keeper is not fitting the bill anymore. But what could that mean for De Gea at Man United? Will his role under Erik ten Hag change or will the Dutchman try to find a new goalkeeper in his place?
What is true of Luis Enrique is also true of Ten Hag and his teams. He loves having a goalkeeper comfortable with playing with his feet, starting attacks from the back, the way his Ajax sides have always tried to do in the Netherlands and European football. He prefers goalkeepers which can beat the initial press with calm passing and there is no reason not to expect Ten Hag to try and replicate that at United. So should De Gea feel his place is in danger?
The main answer, for now, should be ‘no’. There are no indications that Man United will go after a goalkeeper this summer and that is probably a right thing to do. There are too many positions in this team that need upgrading and the goalkeeping situation is something that is definitely far from being a priority. So De Gea will be staying and there will not be any new big-name goalkeepers coming in to challenge him.
But this could change next summer. It all depends how De Gea suits himself to a new role. Maybe he adapts nicely to what Ten Hag asks of him, but maybe this coming season will be another exhibit of the Spaniard being far from the role of a modern goalkeeper. If that is to be the case, then next summer could bring in a change between the sticks. Yet for now, De Gea is safe. Ten Hag will give him a chance he lost in the Spain national team… | http://www.stretford-end.com/2022/06/david-de-gea-lost-place-spain-ten-hags-man-united/ | 2022-06-09T10:37:43Z | http://www.stretford-end.com/2022/06/david-de-gea-lost-place-spain-ten-hags-man-united/ | true | 1 |
Abortion has been legal in Italy for more than 40 years. But most doctors refuse to perform them, making it difficult to find a provider. As in America, women in Italy fear this right will go away.
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Abortion has been legal in Italy for more than 40 years. But most doctors refuse to perform them, making it difficult to find a provider. As in America, women in Italy fear this right will go away.
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EUROPE GAS-Prices jump on U.S. LNG plant outage
June 9 (Reuters) - British and Dutch wholesale gas prices rose sharply on Thursday morning, driven predominately by news of an outage at the Freeport liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in the United States, a key supply point for European customers.
In the British gas market, the contract for next day delivery TRGBNBPD1 was up by 9 pence to 95 pence per therm by 0843 GMT, while the contract for within-day delivery TRGBNBPWKD rose by 17 pence to 105 p/therm.
The winter contract TRGBNBPSH3 was up by 17.21 pence to 250 p/therm.
In the Dutch gas market, the day-ahead contract TRNLTTFD1 jumped by 10.65 euros to 87.50 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), while the July contract TRNLTTFMc1 rose by 6.70 euros to 85.50 euros/MWh.
The market was driven by news that Freeport LNG, one of the largest U.S. export plants producing liquefied natural gas (LNG), will shut for at least three weeks following an explosion, with the impact estimated at some 1 million tonnes of LNG, traders and analysts said.
"In a context of weak Russian supply, LNG is the main element that has prevented European gas prices from returning to their March highs," analysts at Engie EnergyScan said in a morning report.
The shutdown of Freeport LNG changes that picture, especially if some Asian players decide to return to the market for precautionary purchases, reviving competition with Europe, they added.
"If the impact is purely 1 million tonnes, then the price impact is an overreaction. But people remember Hammerfest, which took a lot longer to come back," a trader said, adding a risk premium was now priced in for a longer outage.
The Norwegian Melkoeya LNG plant in Hammerfest, operated by Equinor, only restarted earlier this month following a near two-year outage after a fire damaged the facility.
Meanwhile, a lingering supply impact from ongoing maintenance in Norway and a dip in Russian gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, added to a tighter supply picture, the trader added.
Britain’s gas system was undersupplied by around 1.7 million cubic metres (mcm), National Grid data showed.
In the European carbon market, the benchmark contract CFI2Zc1 rose by 0.50 euros to 80.31 euros a tonne.
(Reporting by Nora Buli in Oslo; Editing by Susanna Twidale)
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Natera, Inc. ("Natera" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NTRA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Natera investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class of all persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Natera common stock between February 26, 2020, and April 19, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
NTRA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) the Company's non-invasive prenatal test, Panorama, was not reliable and resulted in high rates of false positives; (2) the Company's screening test for kidney transplant failure, Prospera, did not have superior precision compared to competing tests; (3) as a result of defendants' false and misleading claims about Natera's technology, the Company was exposed to substantial legal and regulatory risks; (4) Natera relied upon deceptive sales and billing practices to drive its revenue growth; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Natera during the relevant time frame, you have until June 27, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Stockport County have now agreed deal to sign Notts County striker Kyle Wootton, report claims
Stockport County have now agreed a deal to sign Notts County striker Kyle Wootton, it has been claimed.
Stockport County are poised to snap up the National League striker according to a report by Football League World.
Wootton, 25, is out of contract at the end of the month and is due to become a free agent as things stand.
His current club have offered him a deal in attempt to keep him for longer. However, he is yet to sign it and appears to be heading out the exit door this summer for a new challenge.
Portsmouth are keen to land him, whilst Luton Town and Rotherham United took a look last season.
Read: Stockport County tie up for midfielder
Stockport County to win race?
Stockport County are preparing for life back in the Football League after an 11-year absence and have a big summer ahead.
Landing Wootton would be a big statement of intent by the North West outfit, especially due to the fact he has been attracting interest from clubs higher up the football pyramid.
The Hatters will know all about the attacker after lining up against him in the fifth tier in this past campaign.
The former Scunthorpe United man fired 22 goals in all competitors to fire the Magpies into the play-offs. However, they were knocked out by eventual winners Grimsby Town.
Wootton would provide Stockport County with more firepower in attack and would be useful competition with current options Paddy Madden and Scott Quigley up front. | https://the72.co.uk/275354/stockport-county-have-now-agreed-deal-to-sign-notts-county-striker-kyle-wootton-report-claims/ | 2022-06-09T10:42:30Z | https://the72.co.uk/275354/stockport-county-have-now-agreed-deal-to-sign-notts-county-striker-kyle-wootton-report-claims/ | true | 1 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A little more than two years ago, Juan Guaidó was showered with bipartisan applause when President Donald Trump during his State of the Union speech praised the Venezuelan opposition leader as a “very brave man” who carries on his shoulders the democratic hopes of an entire nation.
But in a sign of how far his political fate has fallen, and how quickly U.S. geopolitical calculations can shift, the 38-year-old wasn’t even invited to this week’s Summit of the Americas — despite the Biden administration’s persistent promotion of democracy and insistence it recognizes Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president.
Meanwhile, the man Guaidó has been trying to unseat, Nicolás Maduro, is taking something of a victory lap. On a rare foreign trip to Turkey this week, Maduro, who is the target of U.S. sanctions and a federal narcotics indictment, denounced the decision to exclude him and leftist allies from Cuba and Nicaragua from the gathering as a “stab” in the back of regional cooperation.
“This is a clear win for Maduro,” Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of Americas, said from Los Angeles, where he was attending the summit. “He’s seen allies take up his cause at the summit while preventing his primary rival, whom Washington recognizes as president, from attending.”
In what may be an attempt at damage control, Biden on Wednesday spoke with Guaidó. It was the first time the two leaders have spoken and during the call, which lasted around 17 minutes, Biden reiterated his support for Guaidó, whose claim to the presidency stems from his role as head of the National Assembly elected in 2015.
“President Biden expressed his support for Venezuelan-led negotiations as the best path toward a peaceful restoration of democratic institutions, free and fair elections, and respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all Venezuelans,” according to a White House readout of the call. “They discussed the role the United States and other international partners can play to support a negotiated solution to Venezuela’s crisis. President Biden reaffirmed the United States is willing to calibrate sanctions policy as informed by the outcomes of negotiations that empower the Venezuelan people to determine the future of their country.”
But coming on the heels of weeks of silence from the White House about whether Guaidó would be invited or not, the call provided little comfort to Venezuela’s pro-democracy movement.
“We don’t want to be seen as party crashers going where we aren’t wanted,” said one Guaidó envoy on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic dealings.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan downplayed suggestions the U.S. was snubbing a staunch ally.
Speaking aboard Air Force One on its way to Los Angeles, Sullivan insisted the decision to not invite anyone from the Guaidó camp, and instead involve civil society activists from Venezuela, was a tactical one to encourage negotiations between Maduro and his opponents that leads to “ultimately a better future for the Venezuelan people.”
Guaido’s possible presence at the summit also appears to have irritated many of the Venezuelan government’s allies, including Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who decided to skip the summit over the exclusion of Maduro and the leaders of Cuba and Nicaragua.
A Mexican official confirmed that his government asked the U.S. to exclude Guaidó as part of its back-and-forth with the Biden administration on the guest list, an effort that ultimately failed to persuade López Obrador to partake in the summit. The official, who requested anonymity to discuss diplomatic dealings, said that other countries had done the same.
Joining the Mexican leader’s boycott were fellow leftist leaders of Bolivia, Grenada, Honduras, St. Kitts & Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Also staying home in protest, although not in solidarity with Maduro, were the leaders of El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as the president Uruguay, who was exposed to COVID.
But it’s not just foreign pressure that has Biden wary of inviting Guaidó.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a spike in energy prices, the U.S. has started to re-evaluate its policy on Venezuela, a country that sits atop the world’s largest petroleum reserves but whose decades-long decline in oil production has been made worse by U.S. sanctions.
In March, U.S. officials led by Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council’s senior director for the western hemisphere, traveled to Caracas to meet with Maduro. Then, as now, Guaidó was kept on the sidelines, with U.S. officials not meeting with him during the several day trip. The goal of the talks was to dangle before Maduro the possibility of sanctions relief in exchange for a return to negotiations in Mexico with his opponents, something that so far hasn’t happened.
Meanwhile, Guaidó continues to fight for change, although his street appearances are less frequent, and crowds greatly diminished from when he launched his challenge to Maduro in 2019.
On Saturday, his supporters were met in the western city of Maracaibo, a short distance from Colombia and a flight onward to the U.S., with a barrage of flying plastic chairs and fisticuffs from allies of Maduro.
“The violent ones were left empty handed,” Guaidó told a small group of supporters to shouts of “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom” after the raucous brawl. “Let’s be clear: we are not going to take a single step backward.”
— Goodman reported from Miami. AP Writer Claudia Torrens from New York and Jorge Rueda in Caracas, Venezuela contributed to this report. | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/biden-sidelines-venezuelas-pro-democracy-leader-from-summit/ | 2022-06-09T10:42:32Z | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/biden-sidelines-venezuelas-pro-democracy-leader-from-summit/ | true | 38 |
Five years, one planned cancellation and one COVID-induced change later, the one-night, all-nighter festival Northern Spark is back.
Although this seems like a return to "normal," director Sarah Peters doesn't think of it that way.
"This is kind of an experiment like five years in the making," Peters said. "Northern Spark, to some degree, has always been an experiment. So I think for better or worse we're just continuing down that path."
This year's Northern Spark theme is "What the World Needs Now." The festival runs Saturday from 9 p.m.-2 a.m. along University Avenue in St. Paul across five locations — Victoria Theater Arts Center, Rondo Community Library, Springboard for the Arts, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. The single closing event runs from 2-5:30 a.m. on Raspberry Island.
Participating artist Xavier Tavera, one of seven Latinx artists included in the exhibition "Mestizaje: Intermix-Remix" at the M, welcomed the return to an all-night format. At this year's Northern Spark, there will be free tours, patches and posters at the M from 9 p.m.- 2 a.m.
"An after-dark event in the city allows us to regain ownership of the cities, travel freely from site to site, bike, eat by food trucks, gather with friends and artists with the specific objective to present, observe and experience art together, at least for one night," he said. "We are social beings and because of that specific nature we need to gather."
European inspiration
Northern Spark began in 2011 as a new Minnesota festival modeled on the nuit blanche or "white night" festival of arts & culture in Paris that stretches from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. It kept that format until 2018, when it tried out a festival that stretched over two nights.
Artist Zoe Cinel, whose collective CarryOn Homes participated in Northern Spark 2018, felt excited about the return to the all-nighter format.
"I love the concept of Northern Spark, because where I'm from in Florence — things like the "White Night Festival," or "Nuit Blanche," happened every year," she said. "It is pretty common that even small towns have one ... knowing that there was something like that here, it's obviously very different — it's very chaotic in Italy — it is something that makes me feel at home, weirdly."
Over the course of five hours — from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. — a bevy of artists will take over University Avenue in St. Paul.
Mino Oski Ain Dah Yung and the Native Youth Arts Collective's "Start at Home" invites people to work on creating a banner around positive change at the Victoria Theater Arts Center.
Felicia Cooper, Kallie Melvin and Alex Young's "The Official Bureau of Lost Things" at Springboard invites people to submit their "lost thing" and participate in a collective grieving process.
Pang Foua Xiong, Mai Vang, Suzanne Thao and Sandy Lo's "Community | Joy & Friendship," rooted in Hmong embroidery practice of "Paaj Ntaub" (pronounced "pan-dow"), offers people a chance to rediscover joy during uncertain times. The project, also at Springboard, is guided by refugees and first- and second-generation Hmong Americans.
The Rondo Community Library hosts "Library After Dark," with various activities and projects. The full list of events is available at 2022.northernspark.org.
This year's festival ends with Sequoia Hauck's "ingiw mekwendamowaad ziibi: the ones who remember the water," a large-scale installation of cloth replicas of the Mississippi River (Ȟaȟáwakpa in Dakota/Gichi-ziibi in Anishinaabe) and Minnesota River (Mnísota Wakpá/Ashkibagi-ziibi) that span across Raspberry Island in St. Paul. The interactive project includes song, visual storytelling and movement, and the public is invited to experience and interact with the teachings of water.
The idea of having a single closing event is another twist in the all-nighter experience.
"We were trying to imagine a festival format that could kind of funnel into a central location because audience numbers are smaller at that time of the night, and so that this year seemed like a great time to try that," Peters said.
It seems like a return to the one-night event is even more crucial after last year's COVID-induced two-week-long format that lost much of the momentum. Last year's theme, "Alchemy," included in-person, virtual and mail art projects and a three-night associated event by Ananya Dance Theatre. The vibe was not the same, but spreading out events ensured social distancing during the early days of vaccines and COVID uncertainty.
The 2020 event was canceled, not because of COVID but because founder Steve Dietz departed, and the organization took a year off to regroup.
At the same time, Peters noted COVID is still a concern, and "the majority of our programming is outside and the indoor venues either require or encourage masks."
Despite the necessary COVID navigation, Peters felt in awe of the way the festival has come together, yet again.
"What's always so curious every year is that you put this theme out there and an open call," she said. "Then it's always very interesting to see what comes back in — the threads that connect to them."
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Northern Spark 2022
When: Saturday, June 11, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. along University Av.; closing event 2-5:30 a.m. on Raspberry Island
Where: Locations on University Av. in St. Paul, including Minnesota Museum of American Art, 350 N. Robert St.; Victoria Theater Arts Center, 825 W. University Av.; Rondo Community Library, 461 N. Dale St., St. Paul; Springboard Center for the Arts, 262 W. University Av.; Raspberry Island, 2 Wabasha St., St. Paul. | https://www.startribune.com/northern-spark-returns-with-its-original-all-nighter-format/600180560/ | 2022-06-09T10:44:12Z | https://www.startribune.com/northern-spark-returns-with-its-original-all-nighter-format/600180560/ | true | 2 |
Actor Ezra Miller was accused by parents to be grooming their 18-year-old for the past six years in what they described to be a "cult-like" mentality and behavior, US media reported on Wednesday night, citing court documents filed to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Court.
Now-29-year-old Miller, who identifies as Jewish, was accused of developing an inappropriate and controlling friendship with then-12-year-old Tokata Iron Eyes in 2016 when they first met upon Miller's visit to the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota.
Among the different accusations of abuse were reports of Miller providing Iron Eyes with drugs and alcohol, physically battering her and of causing her to drop out of school.
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Miller, according to Iron Eyes' parents, uses violence, drugs, threats of violence and emotional manipulation, as well as a "cult-like and psychologically manipulative, controlling behavior."
In fact, they claim Miller is in part to blame for Iron Eyes dropping out of school this past December. This came after Miller offered to pay for Iron Eyes' schooling at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts, only to allegedly use this "to create a sense of indebtedness," according to the parents, as cited in the court documents.
The parents claim Miller "uses violence, intimidation, [the] threat of violence, fear, paranoia, delusions and drugs to hold sway over a young adolescent Tokata," according to the court documents.
What do Iron Eyes' parents want done against Miller?
Iron Eyes' parents have asked for the court to provide their daughter with an order of protection against Miller as a result.
A hearing is set for July 12.
How did Iron Eyes respond to the allegations?
As a response, Iron Eyes uploaded a post titled "CONTEXT" to Instagram within which they defend Miller.
"My comrade Ezra Miller for the entirety of the [past five months] has only provided loving support and invaluable protection throughout this period of loss," they said, referencing the recent passing of a friend.
"I am in no way, or under any circumstance have ever been during my short-lived adulthood, in need of a conservatorship," they continued. "My father and his allegations hold no weight are frankly transphobic and based on the notion that I am somehow incapable of coherent thought or opposing opinions to those of my own kindred worrying about my well being."
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They further claimed that the emotional manipulation the parents allege Miller carries out was actually something Iron Eyes experienced at their parents' home.
"This bout of blatant betrayal and toxicity my parents and others have chosen to punish me with has been desperately embarrassing and traumatically life altering."
18-year-old Tokata Iron Eyes
"Relationships in my life have been so grossly effected (sic), some detrimentally so. This behavior is unacceptable and needs to be called out," they concluded.
Earlier offenses
This is not the first legal trouble Miller's been in. They were imprisoned in Hawaii earlier this year for disorderly conduct and aggressive behavior at a bar. They were accused then of yelling obscenities and acting violently towards party-goers.
They were then arrested again for throwing a chair at a woman.
As a result of the now long list of accusations made towards them, DC and Warner Bros. have put Miller's projects on hold, according to a report by Rolling Stone. | https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-708992 | 2022-06-09T10:47:10Z | https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-708992 | true | 1 |
Bulgaria: People will be able to Pay for Administration Services with Bank Cards issued Abroad
“In the near future, it will be possible to pay for administrative services in Bulgaria with bank cards issued abroad.
This is already a fact in the Ministry of Electronic Government”, said Minister Bozhidar Bozhanov, who has received many signals about the problem. The ministry’s virtual POS terminal now accepts foreign bank cards.
"We have signed a joint letter with the Minister of Finance to all administrations to do the same for physical devices. This will make it easier for Bulgarians abroad to use administrative services, as well as those who use innovative solutions for card payments," he added.
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Rock band the Foo Fighters will be performing two tribute concerts for their late drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died March 25.
The band will have shows at the Wembley Stadium in London on Sep. 3 and the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Sep. 27.
"As one of the most respected and beloved figures in modern music, Taylor's monolithic talent and magnetic personality endeared him to millions of fans, peers, friends and fellow musical legends the world over," the band wrote. "Millions mourned his untimely passing on March 25, with passionate and sincere tributes coming from fans as well as musicians Taylor idolized."
To get notified about when tickets go on sale, fans can sign up here.
Hawkins joined the band in 1997 on tour, and was first recorded with the Foo Fighters for their 1999 album "There is Nothing Left To Lose." He appeared on every album thereafter as a drummer and vocalist.
Hawkins has won 15 Grammys and became a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.
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First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR – Get Rating) CTO Markus Gloeckler sold 980 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $73.14, for a total transaction of $71,677.20. Following the sale, the chief technology officer now directly owns 2,656 shares in the company, valued at $194,259.84. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link.
Markus Gloeckler also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Tuesday, March 15th, Markus Gloeckler sold 1,301 shares of First Solar stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $71.46, for a total transaction of $92,969.46.
- On Tuesday, March 8th, Markus Gloeckler sold 2,780 shares of First Solar stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $80.00, for a total transaction of $222,400.00.
First Solar stock opened at $71.69 on Thursday. First Solar, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $59.60 and a fifty-two week high of $123.13. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a quick ratio of 2.93 and a current ratio of 4.07. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $72.85 and a 200 day moving average price of $79.36. The company has a market capitalization of $7.64 billion, a PE ratio of 35.67, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 16.44 and a beta of 1.37.
A number of brokerages recently weighed in on FSLR. The Goldman Sachs Group decreased their price target on shares of First Solar from $67.00 to $57.00 and set a “sell” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, March 3rd. StockNews.com began coverage on shares of First Solar in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “sell” rating on the stock. TheStreet lowered shares of First Solar from a “b-” rating to a “c+” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 16th. Citigroup decreased their price target on shares of First Solar from $80.00 to $70.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, March 3rd. Finally, Roth Capital raised their price target on shares of First Solar from $78.00 to $85.00 in a research note on Friday, April 29th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have issued a hold rating and seven have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $87.83.
A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. increased its holdings in First Solar by 17.5% in the 1st quarter. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. now owns 75,989 shares of the solar cell manufacturer’s stock valued at $6,363,000 after purchasing an additional 11,323 shares during the last quarter. Weiss Multi Strategy Advisers LLC acquired a new position in shares of First Solar in the first quarter worth $1,084,000. Advisors Asset Management Inc. grew its stake in shares of First Solar by 24.2% in the first quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc. now owns 19,410 shares of the solar cell manufacturer’s stock worth $1,625,000 after acquiring an additional 3,785 shares in the last quarter. Point72 Hong Kong Ltd acquired a new position in shares of First Solar in the first quarter worth $468,000. Finally, Polarity Investment Partners LP grew its stake in shares of First Solar by 64.0% in the first quarter. Polarity Investment Partners LP now owns 14,090 shares of the solar cell manufacturer’s stock worth $1,180,000 after acquiring an additional 5,496 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 75.42% of the company’s stock.
First Solar Company Profile (Get Rating)
First Solar, Inc provides photovoltaic (PV) solar energy solutions in the United State, Japan, France, Canada, India, Australia, and internationally. The company designs, manufactures, and sells cadmium telluride solar modules that converts sunlight into electricity. It serves developers and operators of systems, utilities, independent power producers, commercial and industrial companies, and other system owners.
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Civil servant has long been the most sought-after job among South Korean job seekers. Look at Noryangjin, where people all across the country cram for their civil service exams, giving birth to their own unique culture.
For millennials and Generation Z, however, there have been several signs that civil service jobs are losing their appeal.
New data released Thursday by the Ministry of Personnel Management confirms this trend. The competition ratio for the grade 7 positions came to the lowest in 43 years, while the figure for the lowest level of grade 9 seats fell to a level that the country hasn’t seen in the past 21 years.
According to the ministry, some 33,527 applicants will sit the first round of the civil service exam to be held on July 23, vying for a total of 785 vacancies in grade 7, resulting in the competition ratio of 42.7:1. This is a drop by more than 10 percent from 2021’s 47.8:1.
Job seekers’ waning interest is more apparent in the grade 9 positions.
In 2013, nearly 75 applicants competed for one spot in the lowest rank of the civil service, but this is now down to below 30 applicants per spot this year.
Job market watchers say that in the past, job security and pension benefits were deemed enough to offset the perceived disadvantages of public sector jobs like frugal pay, lackluster career prospects and a conservative work culture. But pension reform in 2015 has apparently tilted the scale against government jobs. The reforms essentially meant contributors would be paying more, while receiving less and later.
Ministry data shows that the basic salary for grade 9 officers starts at 1.69 million won ($1,345) a month, although most take home more than that owing to various allowances and bonuses.
In surveys conducted biannually by Statistics Korea, government jobs topped the list of jobs preferred by Koreans aged 13 to 34 three times in a row until 2019. In the 2021 poll, it was down to third place after big-name conglomerates in first place and public enterprises in second.
In the same 2021 survey, 38.7 percent of respondents chose pay as the most important factor when choosing a job. Those who chose job security made up 24.8 percent.
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Sennheiser TV Clear Makes Dialogue Clearer, Blocks Outside Noise For Uninterrupted TV Viewing
Watching TV with the family is fun. Listening to your husband spoil the ending, your siblings gossip about the actors, or your mom talk about the neighbor’s new vertical planter while you’re watching the show? Not so much. That’s when it becomes a good idea to pop in a pair of...
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You don't need us to tell you that music, movies and TV shows can be vastly improved by upgrading the speakers built into the increasingly tiny bezels of even the best TVs, or that the best stereo speakers can open out the soundscape and improve vocal detail considerably – if you can hook them up.
Here, compatibility is cake. And when such a proposition comes from a brand as revered as this, there's every chance you might want overlook even the best soundbars and go for KEF's new TV-friendly wireless speaker setup instead.
Built-in HDMI eARC means the LSX II speakers can take lossless audio directly from your TV – and they include HDMI CEC control, which means as soon as they're plugged in, you can just use your TV remote to control their volume, and they'll come on automatically when your TV turns on.
When you combine this with their other features… well, we've talked before about the temptation of buying great wireless speakers instead of a soundbar, but I think the LSX II are the hardest-to-resist option yet.
Analysis: KEF's wireless music and home theater combo is a soundbar-beater
KEF's LSX II is much more than a simple update on the splendid KEF LSX, because it adds the even better KEF LS50 Wireless II's truly sublime W2 wireless platform, plus the addition of both HDMI eARC and USB-C connections to make it an ideal companion for TV, laptop and desktop computer set-ups as well as traditional hi-fi listening.
Each LSX II speaker uses a version of KEF’s 11th generation, tried and tested Uni-Q driver array. KEF explains that this signature tech acts as a point source, where the tweeter is placed at the precise acoustic center of the woofer, thus eliminating the traditional (and relatively tiny) 'sweet spot' some speakers can fall foul of, instead opening the sound out to all.
Elsewhere, LSX II boasts a combined 200W of system power, with the tweeter and woofer powered by their own dedicated amps to deliver room-filling sound in purposely compact cabinets.
And using the latest KEF Connect app, an exhaustive suite of options opens out. Apple AirPlay 2 and Google Chromecast are onboard to seamlessly stream audio from compatible devices, and Bluetooth expands the connectivity even further. You can use native apps to stream directly from Spotify Connect and Tidal, and it is Roon Ready. Plus, when using AirPlay 2, Chromecast or Roon, you can stream to multiple wireless speakers to synchronize music around your home.
Want to play music collection from a compatible NAS drive or music server? You can! And there's extensive file support of up to 24bit/384kHz (PCM, although you should note that anything above 24-bit/96kHz will be downsampled due to that pesky transmission limit between left and right wireless speakers), DSD, and full MQA rendering.
And now, the wired connections. Alongside Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, LSX II also boasts a huge collection of wired connections. Aside from HDMI eARC and USB-C inputs, there are also connections for your turntable, CD player or games console. And, if you like your movies and music with extra bass, there’s a dedicated sub output so you can connect a KEF subwoofer.
One other interesting bit of tech is the new Room EQ DSP, to actually fine-tune the sound to your room and personal taste. 'Normal' mode is designed to talk you through the process (by way of some simple questions) in the KEF Connect app, and to integrate a KEF subwoofer with LSX II, Room EQ includes subwoofer presets for the best possible system performance.
The KEF LSX II will start shipping on June 23 in your choice of five colorways, priced £1,199 (which is around $1,500 or AU$2,089). Yes, it's quite a bit pricier than even the likes of the Sonos Arc (which is available now for $899 / £799 / AU$1499) but having listened to KEF's skill in this area, I am willing to wager the KEF LSX II will become the only music and TV system you'll need. | https://www.techradar.com/sg/opinion/id-choose-kefs-new-speakers-with-hdmi-over-a-tv-soundbar-any-day | 2022-06-09T11:09:53Z | https://www.techradar.com/sg/opinion/id-choose-kefs-new-speakers-with-hdmi-over-a-tv-soundbar-any-day | false | 6 |
The tie-up adds momentum to Encentive’s drive to increase crypto adoption and everyday use cases with the Encentive Web3 OS DeFi Module Builder. The Module Builder is a turn-key solution that enables community leaders, influencers, and enterprises to instantly create and customize modules for their own DeFi marketplaces for crypto tokens and NFTs. Encentive’s Web3 OS capabilities include farming, staking, NFT marketplaces, GameFi, OTC, and more. With these tools community leaders can dramatically increase the empowerment and growth potential of the communities they serve. Encentive enables anyone with a community following to create a DEX overnight and customize the DEX’s properties to best serve and incentivize that community.
Alchemy Pay recently extended its partnership with Binance to enable Binance Pay crypto payments for Instpower power banks across 14,000 locations in Japan, Mexico, Austria, Italy, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Brazil and more. Users can now make payments in fiat, stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies.
Alchemy Pay’s fiat-to-crypto ramps allow Encentive users to seamlessly employ DeFi functions that require crypto transactions from their wallet addresses as well as card payment options such as Visa and Mastercard.
Merchant network partners who use Alchemy Pay can accept cryptocurrencies for offline and online payments at a low cost and with convenient conversion to local fiat currency. The all-in-one system also allows merchants and businesses to accept fiat payments via e-wallets and credit and debit cards so that they only require one system for all their needs. Alchemy Pay’s network is supported by its incentivising utility token, ACH, an ERC20 token issued on the Ethereum blockchain.
Over the past six months, Alchemy Pay has integrated a number of leading cryptocurrencies onto its global crypto-fiat network, including MATIC, TRX, AVAX, VET, and ALGO.
The partnership with Alchemy Pay dramatically expands Encentive’s Web3 OS users and organizations ability to incentivise their communities. Recent developments also include sophisticated DeFi marketplace tools, such as leveraged futures trading, adding to essential functions such as staked and farmed trading pairs, customized liquidity provider fees, native tokens & NFTs, airdrops, and user referral rewards.
About Encentive
The Encentive Web3 OS enables code-free overnight deployment of peer-to-peer DeFi marketplaces starting from a community of one, plus fiat/crypto on/off ramps. Any individual or organization can establish the next great DeFi marketplace almost instantly, complete with farming and staking, fine-tuned to benefit and serve the governance needs and trading preferences of their own unique communities and missions. The Encentive Web3 OS DeFi Dex Builder gives users the power to build their own core teams and communities around their own style of incentives, setting and adjusting transaction fees, stake-pool interest, referral rewards, governance protocols, and more.
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Dapp: https://app.encentive.io/
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About Alchemy Pay
Founded in Singapore in 2018, Alchemy Pay (ACH) is a payment solutions provider that seamlessly connects fiat and crypto economies for global consumers, merchants, developers, and institutions. It provides online and offline merchants with convenient acceptance of both fiat and crypto, enables easy onboarding to blockchain ecosystems, and makes web3 services highly accessible. Today, Alchemy Pay is supported in over 70 countries with 300 payment channels, has touchpoints with more than 2 million merchants through partnerships with industry leaders such as Binance, Shopify, NIUM, and QFPay. Alchemy Pay’s token, ACH, is an ERC20 issued on the Ethereum blockchain.
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Sometimes we’re asked a question and only later do we wish we had paused and been more thoughtful in our response. And so it was when a participant at the Hamazkayin Cultural Retreat in Boston in May asked if Armenian has served me professionally, at once wondering how they could make the case for young people to prioritize learning Armenian.
At face value, the answer would be that I don’t use Armenian on a daily basis in my job, but the question – and especially the driving sentiment – deserves more consideration than that.
What does it even mean to be a professional and when have we arrived? Armenians ask “inch masnaget es,” and I’ve never had a simple answer. I studied music and communication in undergraduate university. I moved to Armenia; studying music and communication helped me communicate with Armenians. Armenians helped me grow into myself which, long story short, led me to where I am today.
When I lived in Armenia 25 years ago, everywhere I looked the Armenian language was an entrance to something new, foundational, essential.
My friend Gayane patiently spoke Armenian with me as I clumsily responded, occasionally surprising her with a new word: xraxusel impressed her one day. My friend Tom knew Armenian so well he followed the laws of the newly independent Armenia as fast as they were drafted. Hagop and Anahit taught me songs in Armenian with melodies that helped me understand pain and loss better than any history book or conversation ever could.
Armenians spoke of love and pain in ways unfamiliar to me as someone from a stoic culture that spoke of neither. Armenian invited me to be me in new ways.
On a basic level, Armenian is just an extension of the vocabulary I learned before the age of 21. Another participant at the Hamazkayin event noted that children do not distinguish between languages until grownups tell them to do so. Children simply know to use this word with this person and that word with that person.
Words are building blocks, and if you ask most any kid, they’ll tell you that more blocks are better. Armenian, as a flexible language in many respects, is ideal for the person who wants to build cool things, including ideas, stories and ways of being.
As an odar (and I know that there is some negative connotation with that word but I use it with no such baggage attached), Armenian differentiates me. It sounds like nothing else, it looks like nothing else, it makes me feel like nothing else.
I hadn’t spoken much Armenian the past couple of years, so for two weeks before the event, which was conducted in a mixture of Eastern and Western Armenian, I sat on my couch and read Kristine Sargsyan’s book out loud each morning with a cup of coffee. My mouth and ears and mind reoriented to another way of communicating.
And it’s a language, sure, or an extension of a vocabulary, however you wish to see it, but it’s also a powerful statement about survival. I’d say resilience, but I’m sort of bored of that word; I know plenty of people who wish they weren’t so remarkably resilient and that life were just more peaceful.
It is possible that speaking Armenian is in fact revolutionary.
Survival is something else. A scar is beautiful, why? Because it’s evidence that you survived. A language, however many or few words remain in collective memory, is indicative that people have made it through, identity intact, one generation conveying to the next the stories they deem most valuable, or at least readily accessible in their mind. It is possible that speaking Armenian is in fact revolutionary.
The Armenian language is not only about oppression, genocide and transgenerational trauma though. It is also one that expresses the mundane and points guests to the best nearby coffee shop and wrestles with complex social issues of right now and relates to complicated societies around the world in deeply empathetic ways. It is a framework for understanding this moment in time and one that is as relevant as any other framework.
The language, whether Eastern or Western, is more than syllables and a reluctant accommodation for more commonly used languages. I have spoken Armenian in Ethiopia, Mexico, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Canada, England, Turkey, Greece, the United States, Artsakh and elsewhere. This is notable because it requires effort to provide the world with such tangible evidence of your presence. Doing so would seem to suggest that much more is possible, too.
You could say that Armenian as a second, third or fourth language is impractical and superficially of little value, but this is not a zero-sum game. There is room for a much bigger vocabulary: one that includes words that we call Arabic, words that we call French, words that we call Spanish.
To leave out words that we call Armenian is, in a way, casting doubt on people’s capacity for building. And if I’ve learned anything about Armenians, it’s that no one should second guess their capacity to learn, create and contribute. Were it not for this truth, I wouldn’t speak Armenian. | https://hyetert.org/2022/06/08/using-armenian-professionally/ | 2022-06-09T11:16:15Z | https://hyetert.org/2022/06/08/using-armenian-professionally/ | false | 2 |
Show your friend how much you care with one of these creative gifts
If you’re lucky enough to have a true-blue friend who’s always ready to share all of life’s ups and downs, you want to make sure they know exactly how much they mean to you. That’s why there’s always some pressure involved in finding the perfect gift for them.
It takes a little creativity to find a present that speaks to your buddy’s personality and interests and can really make their day.
Are you having trouble shopping for your bestie? Check out these unique gift ideas that will thrill your friend regardless of their favorite hobbies or pastimes.
Choosing unique gifts for friends
You usually have an advantage when gift shopping for friends since you probably share many of the same interests. Selecting a gift that celebrates your friend’s favorite hobby or encourages them to pursue an activity they’ve always wanted to try is often the best way to go. Consider your friend’s personality and how they like to spend their free time to find a truly special item they’re sure to love.
- Friends who enjoy cooking will appreciate items that help them try new recipes and techniques in the kitchen.
- Gardening supplies like seed starter kits are a safe bet for friends who have a green thumb.
- If your friend spends all their free time at the gym, don’t just stick to basics like workout pants or a fitness tracker. Gifts that add a little more fun to their workouts, such as a jump rope or a punching bag, are excellent options.
- Friends who love to try out the latest makeup and skin care products will get a kick out of the newest beauty gadgets, such as smart mirrors and facial exercisers.
Best unique gifts for friends
Unique gifts for friends who love to cook
Julie Pedersen Dessert and Baking Salts
This spiced salt kit is designed specifically with baking in mind, so it can bring out the sweetness in your friend’s favorite recipes. It offers unusual flavor combinations, including vanilla lavender and lemon ginger, to take the usual cookies, cakes, muffins and pies up a notch.
Sold by Uncommon Goods
DIY Gift Kits Hot Sauce Making Kit
If your friend likes a little more heat in their recipes, this DIY hot sauce kit allows them to craft their own at home. It contains all the ingredients necessary to make seven hot sauce recipes and includes plastic bottles and labels for the finished sauces.
Sold by Amazon
Cuisine R-Evolution Molecular Gastronomy Kit
Encourage your friend to do some experimenting in the kitchen with this molecular gastronomy kit that combines food and chemistry. It comes with food additives that allow you to turn liquids into jellies or powder for a truly unique culinary experience. It’s especially fun for dinner parties.
Sold by Uncommon Goods
Chefman Electric Crepe Maker Griddle
This electric crepe pan makes it quick and easy to whip up paper-thin crepes. It has a generous 13-inch cooking surface and comes with a spreader to distribute the batter and a spatula for flipping. It also doubles as a griddle for pancakes, omelets and more.
Sold by Amazon
Unique gifts for friends who garden
AeroGarden Harvest Indoor Garden
If your friend wants to grow their own herbs but lacks outdoor space, this indoor hydroponic garden makes the perfect gift. It comes with basil, parsley, dill, thyme, Thai basil and mint seeds and can grow up to six plants at a time. It also has a control panel that alerts you when it’s time to water and automatically turns the lights on and off as needed.
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This sunflower kit contains seeds for six heirloom sunflower varieties, including Autumn Beauty, Classic Mammoth and Velvet Queen. It includes a recycled egg carton for the flowers to sprout in. Some of the varieties grow up to 12 feet tall too.
Sold by Uncommon Goods
AvoSeedo Avocado Tree Growing Kit
This simple kit makes growing an avocado tree at home super easy. It features a plastic bowl with a hole in it to place an avocado pit, so it can float in a water-filled pot. It also includes small flags to insert in the bowl to keep track of the date you started germination.
Sold by Amazon
Unique gifts for gym junkie friends
Help your friend add some variety to their workouts with these fun fitness dice. The set comes with six dice that determine the exercises and a seventh with the repetitions and time. The workout doesn’t require any weights or equipment either. Instead, they rely on body weight, making it an ideal option for travel.
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This 3.6-pound hula hoop not only burns fat and strengthens the core, but it can also add plenty of fun to your friend’s workout. It features extra-thick padding to protect the skin during use and is easily assembled by pressing a button on each segment’s end to connect them.
Sold by Amazon
Unique gifts for friends who love tech gadgets
Hatch Restore Smart Sleep Assistant
This smart alarm cook allows you to customize a sleep-wake routine to aid in falling asleep, staying asleep and waking more easily. It offers a library of soothing sounds and white noise to encourage sleep and has a soft reading light that won’t strain the eyes.
Sold by Amazon
Petcube Bites 2 Wi-Fi Pet Camera
For a friend with a beloved pet, this Wi-Fi camera lets them monitor their cat or dog and even give their pet a treat when away from home. The camera offers a wide-angle view and night vision to make it easy to keep track of pets and even has a microphone and speaker that allow for communication with furry friends.
Sold by Chewy
PhoneSoap 3 UV Cellphone Sanitizer and Universal Charger
This handy device features two UV-C bulbs scientifically proven to kill 99.9% of germs and bacteria on the surface of a cellphone. It also has a USB port and a USB-C port to charge your smartphone while sanitizing it. Best of all, it works with nearly all smartphones, including larger models.
Sold by Amazon
Unique gifts for beauty-minded friends
Misavanity Bluetooth Makeup Vanity Mirror
This large, lighted mirror has a built-in Bluetooth speaker, so you can stream music — or a makeup tutorial on YouTube — from your smartphone or tablet. It also has a USB charging port and multiple lighting options. It has user-friendly touch controls and a magnifying mirror too.
Sold by Amazon
Nurse Jamie TriAngle Facial Beauty Tool
This sonic face massage can help the skin look firmer and more radiant when used with a favorite serum, eye cream or moisturizer. It offers two massaging modes, normal and heated, and works well for the eye area, brow area, cheeks, jawline, chin and neck.
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Unique gifts for hard-to-shop-for friends
Jill Henrietta Davis Wishing Ball
This beautiful, hand-blown glass ball is designed for holding messages of gratitude and hope. It comes with 52 strips of paper, so your friend can write down their wishes and place them inside to help send them out into the universe. Each one is unique because the ball is handmade, making it a lovely display piece.
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Sharper Image Light Up Word Clock
This striking clock provides the time in five-minute intervals, but it does so in a word design, lighting up phrases like “Five minutes past ten.” It is available in a copper or black finish and comes with a USB power cable and adapter, so you can plug it in anywhere.
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Urban Accents Movie Night Popcorn Kernels and Seasoning Variety Pack
Help your friend have the most delicious movie nights with this tasty popcorn variety pack. It comes with three types of popcorn kernels and five flavorings, including white cheddar, kettle corn, sriracha, chili lime and caramel corn. You can also use the seasonings for other foods, such as potatoes or corn on the cob.
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An Arizona man says he is still suffering from trauma nearly two years later after he was wrongfully jailed for 17 days when American Airlines falsely identified him as a burglary suspect to police.
"It continues to affect me. Every time I have to relive these moments, this anxiety rushes back, and I'm less trustworthy and more hyper-vigilant when I'm out and about," said passenger Michael Lowe in an interview with NPR.
A lawsuit against the airline filed Monday in a Texas district court argues Lowe, 46, is suffering from "incomprehensible trauma" following his experience in a New Mexico jail due to the "gross negligence" of American Airlines.
According to the lawsuit, the incident began on May 12, 2020, when Lowe boarded an American Airlines flight departing from Flagstaff, Ariz. to Reno, Nev., with a layover in Dallas.
During the layover at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, a burglary took place at a duty-free store in terminal D shortly before Lowe's flight departed, the lawsuit said.
Surveillance cameras at the airport showed the suspect boarding Lowe's plane, the lawsuit said.
To identify and locate the suspect in the burglary, airport police obtained a search warrant ordering American Airlines to "produce any and all recorded travel data" for passengers onboard flight 2248, according to the lawsuit.
But when police asked American Airlines for a list of passengers, according to the lawsuit, they provided only one name: Michael Lowe.
"In response to the search warrant, American did not produce 'any and all recorded travel data for all individuals,'" the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit did not go into detail as to why American Airlines only provided airport police with just Lowe's name.
"Michael was erroneously named by American as the culprit. The detective took them at their word and didn't do anything to disprove what they already provided him," Lowe's attorney Scott Palmer told NPR in an interview Wednesday.
As a result of the actions by American Airlines, the lawsuit said two arrest warrants were issued for Lowe; he was arrested a year later while in New Mexico on the Fourth of July.
During his incarceration at the Quay County, N.M., detention center for 17 days, the lawsuit argues that Lowe experienced an "unending nightmare," describing the gruesome experience he endured while in custody.
Lowe argues he continuously told authorities that they arrested the wrong person.
"I don't understand how, in 2020, American Airlines could misidentify a passenger and give only one name, my name only, as the sole culprit for a crime I didn't commit," Lowe told NPR.
The lawsuit goes into detail describing Lowe's experience at the detention center, emphasizing that he "lived in a constant state of fear of confrontation or abuse."
Lowe was eventually released from the detention center and the charges against him were eventually dropped, according to the lawsuit. However, the suit alleged that his experience in the Quay County Detention Center left him with continuous distress and anxiety.
"As a result of this sustained severe emotional pain, anguish, anxiety, depression and loss of self-esteem, Mr. Lowe has become a man desperate to find himself," the lawsuit said.
NPR reached out to the Quay County Sheriff's Department and the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport for a request for comment but did not immediately hear back.
In an emailed statement to NPR, American Airlines says they did nothing wrong regarding the incident, saying they were responding to a police request.
"As required by law, American cooperates with and responds to court orders for information related to possible criminal activity, and that's what we did in this instance when we were presented with a search warrant," American Airlines spokesman Rob Himler told NPR.
Palmer said: "It's baffling. It's troubling. It's wrong on a lot of levels. This lawsuit is going to get to the bottom of how this happened and why it happened."
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TravelPerk is opening a new office in Edinburgh this week, making the city its third hub in the UK, alongside London and Birmingham.
The travel management platform already has 10 people working in Scotland, but the new hub should add hundreds of jobs to the city over the coming years, beginning with an additional 30 employees before the end of 2022.
The site will be focused on developing a centre of excellence for software engineering, as TravelPerk has Scotland "firmly in its sights as a major tech hub".
Staff are currently working in a temporary space, with plans in motion to move to a central Edinburgh location soon.
The recent decentralisation of workers from London and other major hubs has seen an uplift in workers moving to Edinburgh, according to a statement from the company.
According to TravelPerk’s data, business travel in Scotland currently sits at around 95% of pre-pandemic levels, with Edinburgh Airport itself seeing a 5% rate of growth as compared to the first quarter of 2020.
Its analysis also shows that Edinburgh is seeing a quicker rate of recovery than other major capital cities such as London, Berlin or Madrid.
TravelPerk recently expanded in the UK with the acquisition of Click Travel, the UK’s largest business travel provider, making TravelPerk the biggest platform globally.
It also raised $115m in an extension of a previous Series D funding round, making the company a unicorn.
Vicki Williams, UK country manager at TravelPerk, said: “ The pandemic has changed travel patterns and Edinburgh has benefited from that.
“Opening a hub in the city was the obvious decision to fuel TravelPerk’s growth trajectory, and further showcases our clear commitment and belief in the city as a key business travel hub in the UK.
“With this new office, we are fulfilling our mission to create in-person connections by bringing people together sustainably and enjoyably in real life.”
Ross Mcnairn, chief product and technology officer at TravelPerk, said: “Edinburgh has warmly nurtured multiple unicorns in the past so we feel in good company.
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DENVER | Michael Diaz-Rivera hoped $25,000 in savings and a good credit score would give him enough leverage to buy a home. But his low teacher’s salary made that nearly impossible.
“The prices in Denver were just a little too steep for me and the market was just too high,” he said in late April. “Every time that I would find a house, while I was still thinking about whether I wanted to put the money down, somebody else is coming in and they’re just buying it all out with cash. It was wild.”
It took a year, but Diaz-Rivera was finally able to purchase a home with some help from a community land trust, one of a handful of programs working to make homeownership more accessible to low and moderate income Coloradans.
“To look at my kids and know we don’t have to worry about redoing a lease, knowing that everybody’s prices are going up and that we’ve got a stable house, is just something that I’m working for,” said Diaz-Rivera, who identifies as Black. “Now, I can say my kids have a house to grow up in, something I never really had.”
Homeownership is the primary means of accumulating wealth for the average family, housing advocates said, and closing the homeownership gap is the most effective way to close the racial wealth gap.
About 48% of white residents can afford to buy the typical home in Colorado, compared with 30% of Black residents and 32% of Latino people.
In the last decade, the gaps between Black and white homeownership have widened. In 1970, the homeownership gap between Black and white households was 19 percentage points and it has grown every decade since to 32 percentage points in 2020. In 2020, 73% of white Coloradans owned their own home, compared with 41% of Black Coloradans, new Census Bureau data says.
The news is better for Latino Coloradans. In 2020, the homeownership gap between Colorado’s white and Latino households narrowed for the first time in 50 years.
Home ownership rates among Latinos are highest now in the Adams County suburbs of Commerce City and Thornton.
“It’s encouraging that we see some closing of that gap among Hispanic homeowners and it is dispiriting to look at how wide the gap still is with Black homeowners,” said Mike Johnston, president and CEO of Gary Community Ventures, a nonprofit running a new down payment assistance fund for first-time Black homeowners. “When you look at a scenario where in Colorado the homeownership rates are almost twice as high for white families as for Black families, I think that is a major crisis.”
Nationwide, 63% of white Americans can afford to buy the typical home, compared with 43% of Black Americans and 54% of Hispanics, according to the National Association of Realtors.
In partnership with the Colorado News Collaborative and news organizations across the state, The Colorado Sun examined gaps in homeownership rates for “Chasing Progress,” an in-depth reporting project on the social, economic and health equity of Black and Latino Coloradans.
The U.S. is short about 3.8 million housing units relative to demand, making one of the toughest real estate markets in history even more difficult for middle and low wage earners trying to rent and buy homes.
The market has been further complicated by institutional investors buying single-family homes that might otherwise have gone to first-time homebuyers. Rising interest rates have made it even harder for the many buyers to afford homes as prices continue to rise.
Buying a home is a considerable feat for anyone. But the challenge is steepest for Black and Latino homebuyers, especially first-timers, who are still facing racial discrimination, income inequality, and the reverberating effects of predatory lending and exclusionary zoning practices.
Diaz-Rivera, who now owns a cannabis delivery company, was able to buy with some help from the Denver-based Elevation Community Land Trust, which made the house in his north Aurora neighborhood more affordable by retaining ownership of the land it sits on. Under the agreement with the nonprofit, if he sells the home, he will retain 25% of the equity that has built up. The remaining 75% remains with the home, which will make it affordable to the next buyer who will be selected from applicants who earn less than 80% of the area median income.
Diaz-Rivera moved into the three-bedroom house in February 2021 understanding that it won’t be a “forever home.” He wants total ownership one day and said his new home is a step toward financial stability.
The white/Latino homeownership gap
The homeownership gap between white and Latino Coloradans grew from 7 percentage points in 1970 to 21 percentage points in 2010, but then narrowed to 18 percentage points in 2020. It’s difficult for housing experts to explain the narrowing gap, but they said, a number of conflicting factors could help explain the trend.
“There’s this huge trend and desire within both the Black and brown communities to increase homeownership, and it’s a huge desire, especially with young Latino adults,” said Jonathan Cappelli, executive director of the Neighborhood Development Collaborative, which works to create equitable and sustainable development in Colorado and across the country.
“But there’s a dampening effect that’s countering that because of existing systemic racism and also direct racism and discrimination,” Cappelli said.
Latinos are 81% more likely to be denied financing for a conventional loan when compared to their non-Latino counterparts. Generational wealth disparities also play a role in the homeownership gap. Median white households have more than five times the wealth of median Latino households, helping them come up with all-cash offers or qualify for pre-approval in Colorado’s fast-selling market, according to the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals’ 2021 State of Hispanic Homeownership report.
Home appraisers are more likely to undervalue homes in majority Black and Latino neighborhoods relative to majority-white areas, leading to lower rates of homeownership for those two groups of color, according to a 2021 study by Freddie Mac.
Data from more than 12 million appraisals from Jan. 1, 2015, to Dec. 31, 2020, shows 12.5% of properties in Black census tracts were appraised at values lower than the contract price, compared with 7.4% of homes in white census tracts and 15.4% in Latino census tracts, according to Freddie Mac.
People hoping to buy homes in these majority Black and Latino areas are applying for loans that are based on the value set by the appraiser. If the appraiser is biased or intentionally discriminatory and sets a lower appraised value, the buyer will be approved for loan that may not be commensurate with the actual price of the home, Cappelli said.
Black and Latino people selling homes in those communities will also face wealth-building obstacles because a low appraisal would cause them to sell for less than their home is worth, he said.
Rachel Chaparro, a Colorado real estate broker who specializes in working with first-time buyers, said one of her Latino clients who had a 640 credit score, which is considered fair, was deemed high-risk and denied a conventional mortgage loan, while white clients with lower credit scores and more debt were approved.
Most people who are turned down for a conventional loan try for a mortgage backed by the Federal Housing Administration. While the FHA is willing to loan to those who might be a higher credit risk, its loans come at a higher cost, including mortgage insurance, which must be paid for the life of the loan if the recipient makes the minimum 3.5% down payment.
Now, Chaparro’s client is paying almost $400 per month for mortgage insurance, on top of his mortgage payment.
Latinos are twice as likely to purchase a home with an FHA loan than white homebuyers, according to the Hispanic Homeownership report.
Thornton and Commerce City
The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority conducted focus groups in 2017 and 2018 with Latino residents and housing professionals to gauge the gaps, opportunities and barriers to homeownership. Since then, the portion of households CHFA has served that are Hispanic/Latino has grown to 40% in 2021 from 28% in 2016. “This has contributed to the 3.6% increase in the overall Latino homeownership rate in Colorado,” Cappelli said.
Some of the highest homeownership rates among Latinos in Colorado are now in Commerce City, where 68% of Latinos owned their homes in 2020, and Thornton, where 61% of Latinos owned a home that year.
“The biggest thing with Thornton and Commerce City is just affordability,” Chaparro said.
Census data shows that homeownership rates are high in both cities for people of Hispanic origin between the ages of 25 and 44 as far back as 2010.
“That really points to the uniqueness of both markets in terms of both affordability and amenities that they offer to Hispanic homebuyers,” said Avilia Bueno, a labor economist and associate at Root Policy in Denver, which conducts economic and housing research.
Historically, Latinos have also been more likely to live in multigenerational households, compared to other demographics, according to the Hispanic Homeownership report.
“Once a relative buys in a neighborhood, maybe the son or daughter might want to buy in a close-by location. I think if they could afford it, they would buy two homes close together, and those may be markets where you can actually do that,” Bueno said of Thornton and Commerce City.
Latinos were also more willing than any other demographic to choose a house that was farther from shopping and entertainment and were more willing to endure a longer work commute, according to the Hispanic Homeownership report. Since the pandemic, they have increasingly moved to suburbs for more outdoor space and to accommodate live-in family members, and have been more likely to rent space in their homes to others to help pay the mortgage.
After the Great Recession in 2008, there was a significant decline in homebuilding, which created a shortage of housing that never caught up. Homeownership rates among Latino households was at 49% in 2008 and dipped to 45% in 2014, but by 2021, the rate was at 48%.
“Basically, they’ve (almost) reobtained pre-recession rates, so they’ve gone back to the same homeownership rates that they had before the recession, or right when the recession hit,” Cappelli said. “It’s not like this is an increase, historically speaking.”
The Black/white homeownership gap
Explaining the gap in homeownership between Black and white Coloradans appears more straightforward.
Redlining and other exclusionary housing policies, income inequality, discriminatory lending and appraisal practices have sidelined Black people in the past, and the reverberations of those inequities are affecting their children’s ability to buy a home today, Chaparro said.
Redlining, a policy in which banks determined whether to lend based on the racial composition of a neighborhood, kept Black people, other people of color, and others with low incomes from accessing mortgage loan, creating long-term and wide-ranging health, environmental and income disparities.
“Over time, those have accumulated to make it next to impossible to build wealth, particularly because one of the ways that you do it is in buying homes,” said Johnston of Gary Community Ventures.
The median white household has at least 10 times the wealth of the median Black household, according to the Brookings Institution. The racial wealth gap has continued to grow over the past 30 years. More than half of Black households lack any savings for retirement, according to Zillow.
The biggest obstacle for Black families is the ability to afford a down payment. About 93% of Black families with the credit scores and income to qualify for a home loan do not move on to purchase a home because they lack the cash for a down payment, according to an analysis by Gary Community Ventures. The organization is offering up to $40,000 in down payment assistance to at least 500 Black families in metro Denver, over the next 10 years, through its new Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth.
Bias in lending and appraising
Prejudice in the lending and appraisal system is still occurring, according to three housing professionals interviewed for this story.
In Colorado, Black mortgage applicants were turned down almost twice as often as white applicants. According to a Zillow analysis, 15% of Black mortgage applicants in Colorado were denied in 2020, compared with 9% of white applicants.
Owner-occupied homes in Black neighborhoods are undervalued by $48,000 per home, on average, which amounts to $156 billion in losses nationwide. When half of the residents in a neighborhood are Black, the homes are valued at roughly half the price of homes in neighborhoods with very few or no Black residents, according to Brookings.
April Denmon, a real estate broker, said she has had clients who, after seeking loans from five or six lenders, have come to her, frustrated and in need of help.
“Some lenders out there may discriminate a little bit, or may not want to work with you, so they may make it a little bit harder, or make your terms harder, whereas if you go to another lender that maybe looks like you or this person is supporting you, you may get a better rate, or they may give you a higher approval amount,” Denmon said.
“If you’re a seller and you see the name ‘Martinez’ versus ‘Smith,’ and Martinez has an FHA loan, and Smith has a conventional loan, there’s just inherent biases that people have, whether they’re intentional or not,” Chaparro said.
On the appraisal side, Denmon pointed to two experiences where homes she was helping to sell for two Black clients were significantly undervalued. In both cases, the appraisers knew the sellers were Black. Denmon disputed the appraisal for one of those clients, by finding other homes in the area that were comparable, and provided the information to the appraiser. After the challenge, the appraiser raised the price of that home by more than $50,000, Denmon said.
Many Black people are told by their real estate agents to take down any personal belongings that would indicate their race, Denmon said.
“As a homeowner myself, when I went to go and put my home on the market, I was asked to take down personal items, but when I walked into people’s homes I was looking at buying, I walked into a person’s home who had a Trump flag flying,” said Jice Johnson, founder and chief visionary officer of The Black Business Initiative, who purchased her home in Aurora, in 2021.
Solutions
To help close the gap, the government should institute a loan program specifically for Black Americans that would reduce the risk to banks and allow them to relax their policies to help close the homeownership and racial wealth gaps, Johnson said. She pointed to VA-backed loans, where the Department of Veterans Affairs guarantees a portion of the loan that a veteran (and their surviving spouse) gets from a private lender. If their VA-backed home goes into foreclosure, the guarantee allows the lender to recover some or all of their losses. Since there’s less risk for the lender, they’re more likely to give the veteran or their spouse the loan under better terms. Nearly 90% of all VA-backed home loans are made without a downpayment, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website.
The department’s Native American Direct Loan program also often has better terms than a home loan from a private lender, such as a private bank, mortgage company, or credit union.
“They made it specific to veterans,” said Johnson, a U.S. Army veteran. “They can create a program and make it specific to the Black community, in which they’ve caused harm.”
Latinos are more ready to become homeowners than ever before, and are the youngest of any ethnic or racial demographic, and in their prime home-buying years. They’re expected to make up 70% of homeownership growth over the next two decades. But that future growth is threatened by barriers in the housing market today, which could affect the nation’s productivity and economic wellbeing, according to the 2021 report.
Increasing the number of Latino real estate professionals could be one of the most effective strategies at increasing the number of Latino homeowners because they could create a “multiplier effect” that accelerates homeownership among their own friends and family, according to the report.
“It would help to make the name and race blind in all real estate transactions,” Chaparro said. “From loan applications to buyer offers and appraisals, not seeing the first and last name could help prevent intentional and unintentional discrimination.”
A glimmer of hope
Metro Denver has been a seller’s market since 2012, the year that the recreational sale and use of cannabis became legal. The COVID-19 pandemic cemented the market conditions, Realtor Denmon said.
In January 2021, there were only 912 houses and 1,119 condos on the market in metro Denver, which includes Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties. Many people began bidding on those houses, creating an appraisal gap on almost every home, which occurs when a buyer’s offer is higher than the appraised value of the property. It complicates the home-buying process, especially for low-wealth, first-time homebuyers.
“That was in January of last year. If you look at January of this year, it’s even worse,” Denmon said. “Now we only have 712 houses, and we have 436 condos.”
For comparison, in 2007, there were 35,000 houses on the market in metro Denver. In 1973, a person could buy a house in metro Denver for $20,000. In April, the median single family home sale was $600,000 in Colorado and $660,000 in metro Denver, according to the Colorado Association of Realtors. Both medians were up about $100,000 from April 2021.
“These prices are not going to stop,” she said. “They’re going to keep going up.”
Some of Denmon’s Black buyers won’t budge on the size, amenities or location of their home. But she advises that they be more flexible and get into the market as quickly as possible.
Normally homes appreciate at 6% a year. However, homes in the last year in metro Denver have been appreciating at just over 20% per year. So, if a person buys a house for $500,000, and the home appreciates at 20%, they will make $100,000 in equity in one year.
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Chandigarh, June 9
Recognising its efforts in advancing tobacco control, the WHO has awarded the Resource Centre for Tobacco Control (e-RCTC) of the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh with the Regional Director Special Recognition Award.
The Resource Centre provides information related to tobacco control in India, including circulars and orders, policies and legislations, multidisciplinary publications, said e-RCTC Director Sonu Goel.
Besides being a resource hub, the centre has achieved heights in capacity building by organising more than 50 workshops and webinars for around 3,500 program managers and academicians, Goel added.
Mentioning about the official publication of e-RCTC's Tobacco-Free Times, Rana J Singh, Deputy Regional Director, International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia (SEA), said this theme-based newsletter is released bi-monthly containing articles related to tobacco control, its industry, etc.
As many as 19 editions of the newsletter have been released.
The Resource Centre for Tobacco Control, a joint initiative of the PGIMER and the Union-SEA, was set up in 2018 by 25 organisations working over tobacco control in India with an aim to showcase tobacco control initiatives.
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NEW YORK , June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the market research report published by P&S Intelligence, the global hospital risk management market size was $1,115.4 million in 2021, which is predicted to touch $3,482.3 million by 2030, progressing at a 13.5% CAGR from 2021 to 2030. This will be because of the increasing occurrence of medical blunders, as well as the high ubiquity of chronic diseases at the global level.
The risk and compliance management category is likely to witness the highest growth rate, of over 14%, in the coming years. The main reason for this will be the increasing safety concerns of patients, need to lessen healthcare costs, and rising hospital-acquired infection occurrence. According to a government agency, there was a more than 30% increase in the standardized infection ratio related to ventilators, an about 15% surge in hospital-onset MRSA infection cases, and a 25% rise in the incidence of central line-associated bloodstream infections in 2020.
The cloud-based category had the larger share of the revenue, of over 80%, in 2021 in the hospital risk management market, and it is expected to show the higher growth rate, of 14%, in the near future. This was due to the increasing necessity to endorse interoperability among different hospitals and corporations, for exchanging information between databases, applications, and computer systems and lessening operating costs. Furthermore, the increasing acceptance of e-prescriptions, mHealth, EHRs, and telehealth is responsible for the market growth.
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Large hospitals are likely to have the largest share, of about 60%, in 2030. This is because of the increasing count of large hospitals, propagating hospital expenditure, and acceptance of EHRs. For example, 90% of the hospitals in the U.S. are validating EHRs. Hospital risk management is needed for the appropriate working of EHR systems, to eliminate the incidence of medical faults. The highest density of hospital beds is in Japan, South Korea, Russia, and Germany, which reflect a high potential for hospital risk management solutions.
Regional Analysis of Hospital Risk Management Market Report
- The hospital risk management market was dominated by North America in 2021. This is mainly because of the existence of numerous market players in the U.S., shift to cloud-based risk management solutions in the medical sector, and increasing use of data analytics to ease the workflow in hospitals.
- The spending of the U.S. is approximately $40 billion yearly on patients stricken with medication errors. Avoidable medical errors dominate the death rate from predictable hazards, such as car accidents, breast cancer, and AIDS
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Workflow management had the second-largest share, of about 20%, in 2021. The amount of medical data is increasing worldwide because of the escalating occurrence of chronic illnesses, thus putting pressure on medical infrastructure. A government agency states that chronic diseases bring about in excess of 40 million deaths each year. These solutions improve the internal processes in hospitals via automation and provide better efficiency in medical data regulation, thus pushing the hospital risk management market growth.
Hospital Risk Management Market Segmentation Analysis
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UW-GU partnered health building to open in July
SPOKANE, Wash. — The UW-Gonzaga Health Partnership’s new Medical School and Health Education Building is scheduled to be completed this month and open in July.
Construction on the 90,000-square-foot building began in September 2020. It will host 500 students from the University of Washington Medical School and Gonzaga University’s human physiology department, as well as nursing and health science students from GU.
The new building features classrooms, an anatomy suite, research labs and administrative offices for both university partners.
Students from UW Medical School will get to tour their new home on Wednesday, June 8. GU students toured the building in May.
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Schools, pupils and their characteristics
This release contains the latest statistics on school and pupil numbers and their characteristics, including:
- age
- gender
- free school meals (FSM) eligibility
- English as an additional language
- ethnicity
- school characteristics
- class sizes
The publication combines information from the school census, school level annual school census, general hospital school census and alternative provision census.
Headcount – Total
- 9,000,031
- All schools, increase of 88,000 from 2021
Number of schools
- 24,454
- All schools in England – increase of 41
Average class size
- 26.7
- Infant classes – up from 26.6 in 2021
FSM – Percentage of pupils
- 22.5
- Eligible for free school meals – up from 20.8 in 2021
Sector Response
Commenting on the increase in the number of pupils in England eligible for free school meals, Julie McCulloch, Director of Policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, said:
“It is shocking that in one of the world’s wealthiest economies we are seeing a very significant increase in the number of children eligible for free school meals, and therefore living in extremely difficult financial circumstances.
“We recognise that this rise is at least partly due to transitional protections over a change in benefit payments which are linked to eligibility, but it is also likely that we are seeing the economic impact of the pandemic on many families affected by illness and job losses. Their circumstances will become even more severe because of the cost-of-living crisis.
“Even more shocking is the fact that current eligibility does not even capture all the children who need help. Free school meal eligibility now applies to 22.5% of pupils, but we know that the level of child poverty is about 30%.
“We are campaigning, along with other organisations, for all children whose families are in receipt of Universal Credit to be eligible for free school meals in order to extend this support to all those in need.
“But the government must also recognise the pressing need to do more for these children and their families in general.
“It is simply unacceptable that so many young people live in such difficult circumstances, and it has a huge impact on their education as they are less likely to be ready to learn if their families are struggling to provide them with basics such as a nutritious diet.”
Commenting as the latest data on free school meals shows another rise in the number of children qualifying for support over the last year, Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said:
“Our members have described the rise in poverty in their schools’ communities over the past year as ‘shocking and stark’. It is clear that the combined pressures of Covid-19 and the cost-of-living crisis have driven more families and children into poverty.
“The children who have newly become eligible for free school meals are disproportionately drawn from more disadvantaged areas and are largely those pupils who already needed more support, which schools are increasingly struggling to give with over stretched budgets and the erosion of the value of pupil premium funding since 2015.
“Additional funding is urgently needed for both educational and pastoral support. Children who are hungry are not ready to learn. Teachers and school leaders are increasingly having to tackle the impact of poverty before they can even start teaching.
“Free school meals eligibility should be extended to every child from a family in receipt of universal credit, with auto-enrolment.
“These children are already the victims of a decade of austerity and the government urgently needs to act to avoid these children becoming an entirely lost generation.”
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5 things to know for June 9: January 6, Gun violence, Ukraine, Covid-19, Immigration
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN
This weekend will be a glimpse of the long, hot summer ahead for many Americans. A “dangerous and deadly heat wave” is on track to bake several southwestern states over the next few days, the National Weather Service warns. More than 25 million people are under heat alerts and some major cities will reach sweltering temperatures above 110 degrees — putting many power grids to the test.
Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.
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1. January 6
The House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, will hold its first prime-time televised hearing today at 8 p.m. ET. The committee’s central mission has been to uncover the full scope of former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election and stop the transfer of power to President Joe Biden. These highly choreographed hearings will be the panel’s first opportunity to show the public what it’s learned from more than 1,000 witness interviews and 135,000 documents during its 10-month investigation. Today’s hearing will also shine a spotlight on the nine-member committee, which features seven Democrats and two Republicans, and set the stage for subsequent hearings in the coming days.
2. Gun violence
Victims of the Uvalde elementary school massacre and other recent mass shootings gave first-hand descriptions of the horrors of gun violence at a House committee meeting on Wednesday. In a pre-recorded video, 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo, a fourth-grade student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, described trying to hide behind her teacher’s desk and covering herself in blood in an attempt to survive. It marked a rare moment for Congress to hear testimony from someone as young as Cerrillo on a subject as sensitive and disturbing as gun violence. Family members of shooting victims also made passionate pleas for gun legislation. The hearing, however, clearly displayed the partisan divide in the debate on guns as Democrats urged stronger gun control, while Republicans pushed back on restrictions.
3. Ukraine
Ukrainian officials say they are considering pulling back troops to more fortified positions as intense fighting continues for the key eastern city of Severodonetsk, the epicenter of the confrontation in Donbas region. “The Russians are destroying everything,” Serhiy Hayday, head of the Luhansk regional military administration, said in a televised announcement Wednesday, “They are firing tanks and artillery at residential buildings,” he added. Separately, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that “millions of people may starve” if Russia continues its blockade of Ukraine’s ports. The UN secretary-general made similar remarks Wednesday, saying the war threatens to “unleash an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution” around the world.
4. Coronavirus
The White House is set to announce a Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan today for children under 5. The Biden administration is partnering with state and local governments, health care providers, federal pharmacy partners, national and community-based organizations and other entities to ship and distribute vaccines across the country following next week’s meeting of the FDA’s vaccine advisers — who will review data on vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna — and the expected authorization from the full FDA. Following that expected authorization, the first vaccinations could start as early as the week of June 20 — with the program ramping up as more doses are delivered and more appointments become available, the White House wrote in a fact sheet.
5. Immigration
The immigration challenges facing the Biden administration along the southern border are “beyond anything that anyone has seen before,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN Wednesday. US officials have said immigration will be a key focus of a summit of regional leaders taking place this week in Los Angeles. Notably, however, the leaders of several countries that are crucial to addressing the influx of migrants at the border — including Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala — are boycotting the summit, dealing an embarrassing blow to the White House at a time when it is scrambling to handle the issue. At the US southern border, US Customs and Border Protection stopped more than 310,000 migrants from the Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador from October through April, according to the latest agency data.
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Disney apologizes to couple after employee ruins their proposal
Watch the not-so-magical moment here… it’s so awkward and uncomfortable.
Foo Fighters announce two tribute shows to honor late band member
The band is set to perform in London and Los Angeles to honor the life of their former drummer Taylor Hawkins.
‘Black Adam’ trailer unveils Dwayne Johnson as DC’s latest antihero
The Hollywood titan and wrestling legend plays DC’s latest warrior with super strength. Very fitting.
NFL’s first out trans cheerleader readies for her Carolina Panthers debut
Meet Justine Lindsay, the first out transgender woman to cheer in the NFL.
How a female Buddhist monk became one of Asia’s most revered chefs
This vegetarian “temple cuisine” showcases the best of Korean produce.
TODAY’S NUMBER
951
That’s how many more votes Mehmet Oz received in Pennsylvania’s Senate GOP primary, defeating Dave McCormick. According to a recount of the votes, Oz — a celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Trump — received 419,999 votes (31.1%) while McCormick received 419,048 votes (31.0%), the commonwealth’s acting secretary of state said Wednesday. Oz will now move forward to face Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in one of the nation’s marquee Senate races of this year’s midterm elections.
TODAY’S QUOTE
“As the President has consistently made clear, public officials — including judges — must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety or that of their families. And any violence, threats of violence, or attempts to intimidate justices have no place in our society.”
— White House spokesman Andrew Bates, saying President Biden strongly condemns the actions of the armed individual arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house in Maryland on Wednesday. The man, Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, was charged with attempting or threatening to kidnap or murder a US judge.
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Asus has released the third full iteration of its GPU tweaking application, the inventively named GPU Tweak.
GPU Tweak III (opens in new tab) comes with a completely revamped user interface, new metrics from your graphics card, and added language support for German, French, Turkish, Korean, and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese. It’s available for both desktops and laptops with dedicated graphics cards.
The updated design is both an aesthetic and intuitive improvement, intended to both refresh the appearance and improve the user experience by making the tool easier to navigate. New tooltips make using GPU Tweak III more self-explanatory than before, while the on-screen overlay can now be further customized to your liking.
The new version also gains access to additional operating information from Nvidia graphics cards, including Render Preset Latency and new framerate metrics. GPU Tweak III is obviously designed for Asus GPUs, but most functions will still work on non-Asus cards should you choose to upgrade your GPU but want to stick with Tweak as your software of choice.
Amusingly, the patch notes for Tweak III list that owners of Asus’ Evangelion-themed special edition EVA GPUs (opens in new tab) will enjoy a custom software theme based on the famous anime. The manufacturer is also currently running a hardware giveaway (opens in new tab) to celebrate the Tweak III launch, which is worth checking out.
Analysis: Do you need GPU monitoring software?
To hardware heads like myself, the idea of having a PC (especially a souped-up gaming desktop) bereft of system monitoring software is like garlic to a vampire. I love tweaking my components to squeeze out every last drop of performance, and that goes double for the graphics card.
But does the average PC gamer need to mess about with tools like GPU Tweak III or MSI Afterburner? GPU overclocking can risk shortening the lifespan of your card, although using proprietary software to activate overclocking presets is generally much safer.
You’re not likely to get a huge performance boost from GPU overclocking, but it could mean a 10% framerate increase in games. That might not sound like a lot, but if your PC is struggling to hit 60fps then it could be worth it. Modern overclocking software means no mucking about in the BIOS, too, which is a far more intimidating prospect than turning on an OC profile in GPU Tweak. Give it a go! | https://www.techradar.com/in/news/asus-launches-redesigned-graphics-card-tweaking-tool-with-new-features | 2022-06-09T11:29:42Z | https://www.techradar.com/in/news/asus-launches-redesigned-graphics-card-tweaking-tool-with-new-features | false | 6 |
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana as of Thursday, like a dream come true for an aging generation of pot smokers who recall the kick delivered by the legendary Thai Stick variety.
The public health minister's plan to distribute 1 million marijuana seedlings, beginning Friday, has added to the impression that Thailand is turning into a weed wonderland.
The decision by the Food and Drug Administration to remove all of the plant from the category of narcotic drugs makes Thailand the first nation in Asia to decriminalize marijuana for medical and industrial use. But it is not following the examples of Uruguay and Canada, the only two countries so far that have legalized recreational marijuana on a national basis.
So far, it appears there will be no effort to police what people can grow and smoke at home, aside from registering to do so and declaring it is for medical purposes.
Some Thai advocates celebrated on Thursday by buying marijuana at a café that had previously been limited to selling products made from the parts of the plant that do not get people high. The dozen or so people who turned up early at the Highland Café were able to choose from a variety of buds with names such as Sugarcane, Bubblegum, Purple Afghani and UFO.
“I can say it out loud, that I am a cannabis smoker. I don’t need to hide like in the past when it was branded as a illegal drug,” said 24-year-old Rittipong Bachkul, the day’s first customer. Marijuana is also known as cannabis or ganja in Thailand.
“As far as the government is concerned, it’s their job to promote medical use only. But it is pretty clear that we have come very far and finally are legalizing its use. The government understands that it’s more pros than cons," said Rattapon Sanrak, the café's co-owner and a longtime legalization activist.
The country is known for its Thai Stick variety, which is named after the way its potent flowers are dried and tied into sticks and is the origin of many strains now grown overseas.
Thailand’s government has warned that those eager to light up for fun that smoking in public could still be considered a nuisance, subject to a potential 3-month jail sentence and 25,000 baht ($780) fine. And marijuana extracts, such as oil, remain illegal if they contain more than 0.2% of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the chemical that makes people high.
Tourists should proceed cautiously until the rules become clearer after a new cannabis law is passed, said Prof. Sarana Sommano of Chiang Mai University's Department of Plant and Soil Sciences.
“There are still risks. The problem is that cannabis is no longer considered a narcotic but there are no ministry regulations and rules governing the use of it," she said. "There is no mention of limits on use, drug-impaired driving laws. This could be a mistake by the government in trying to rush out its policy to please voters without really planning the details and explaining to the public what’s going on,”
Thailand mainly wants to make a splash in the market for medical marijuana. It already has a well-developed medical tourism industry and its tropical climate is ideal for growing cannabis.
“We should know how to use cannabis,” Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, a marijuana booster, said recently. “If we have the right awareness, cannabis is like gold, something valuable, and should be promoted.”
Some immediate beneficiaries of the change are people who have been locked up for breaking the old law.
“From our perspective, a major positive outcome of the legal changes is that at least 4,000 people imprisoned for offenses relating to cannabis will be released,” Gloria Lai, Asia regional director of the International Drug Policy Consortium, said in an email interview.
“People facing cannabis-related charges will see them dropped, and money and cannabis seized from people charged with cannabis-related offenses will be returned to their owners,” she said. Her organization is a network of civic groups worldwide advocating drug policies that incorporate human rights, health and development.
Predicted economic benefits are at the heart of Thailand's marijuana reforms, projected to boost everything from national income to small farmers’ livelihoods. But there is concern whether the benefits will be distributed equitably.
One fear is that large corporations could unfairly benefit from proposed regulations involving complicated licensing processes and expensive fees for commercial use that would handicap small producers.
Taopiphop Limjittrakorn, a lawmaker in the opposition Move Forward party, said that under some proposed regulations, the cannabis industry could end up being controlled by a few big companies, as is the case with alcoholic beverages. His party wants the laws now being drafted to tackle the problem.
Small operators are eager to move into the marijuana business.
On a recent hot Sunday afternoon in eastern Thailand’s Sri Racha district, Ittisug Hanjichan, owner of the Goldenleaf Hemp cannabis farm, led his fifth training course for 40 entrepreneurs, farmers, and retirees. They paid about $150 each to learn tips on nicking seed coats and tending the plants to get quality yields.
One of the attendees was 18-year-old Chanadech Sonboon, who said his parents used to scold him for trying to secretly grow marijuana plants.
He said his father has changed his mind and now sees marijuana as a medication rather than something to be abused. The family runs a small homestay and café and hopes to one day provide cannabis to its guests.
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SIEM REAP, Cambodia, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Drone technology has been recently introduced in Cambodia's cassava cultivations to help small-scale farmers earn better yield while bringing down the costs of farm input. Cassava is the most important agro-industrial crop in Cambodia that provides employment and livelihood to thousands of rural workers. Supporting the national cassava policy, XAG delivers new energy to this sector with its agricultural drones that can use less water and chemical and ease the workload on farm.
A big leap forward in productivity
Broadly grown on over 600 thousand hectares of farmland in Cambodia, Cassava covers the second largest planting area after the rice paddy and contributes to 4% of GDP growth. However, the tradition of cassava farming involves intensive labour and time-consuming process. To meet the growing demand of cassava-based products including food, flour, paper and alcohol, Cambodian farmers have rapidly expanded their planting areas and started applying XAG's agricultural drones for productivity boom.
Chhay Thi is an early adopter of spray drone who owns 20 hectares of land in Varin District, Siem Reap Province of Cambodia. This May, he ordered services from XAG local partner Red Sparrow Cambodia and had the XAG Agricultural Drone to demonstrate autonomous weeding on his 10-hectare cassava field.
Unlike the large agricultural machinery, drones can be transported conveniently and deployed to the field much easier. After the liquid tank was filled with herbicide, the XAG agricultural drone automatically took off as the drone operator played simple clicks on mobile app.
The drone flew over ridges of cassava plants, sprayed precisely along the pre-set route, and finished 8 hectares of herbicide spraying via unmanned control. In the past, the same amount of work usually takes farm workers more than a week to complete manually, but now, it can be done within one hour by only one agricultural drone.
Despite the agriculture sector maintains an adequate workforce, farm owners are also faced with a rising cost up to $18-25 per hectare when they hire workers for pesticide spraying. A group of farm workers can only spray 1 hectare per day, which would struggle to catch up with the busy season of cassava growth.
A safer option to battle rising costs
Besides the increased efficiency, drones are helping farmers like Chhay Thi to reduce overall planting costs. "If I have an XAG drone in busy seasons to help me with crop protection, I can save $8-10 per hectare that is formerly spent on manual spraying. Drone operation also reduces the use of chemical by 10-30%, so the resources and money saved can be reallocated to the other crop cultivation," said Chhay Thi who witnessed the whole process of drone spraying demonstration.
The agricultural drone has other benefits of closing the yield gap and protecting farmers from chemical exposure. The way drone sprays top down from the air successfully prevents direct contact of large ground machinery on cassava crops, ensuring that pesticides or fertilisers can penetrate the plants with precision and avoid crop damage.
Cassava crop can grow higher than one meter and sometimes even over the height of human, but traditional spraying requires farmers to either carry backpack sprayers or drive tractors to enter the field. Instead of putting farmers into ground operation, drones can eliminate the health risks of inhaling chemicals and getting poisoned.
In Chhay Thi's hometown, many villagers cultivate cassava as their main source of income. "I believe the high efficiency and affordable price will accelerate the scale up of drone operation among more farmers. XAG's agricultural drone can not only help me reap more harvest, but also serve other farmers with the same demand for cassava boom," Chhay Thi said.
The production, processing and export of cassava has been the key driver of Cambodia's agricultural economy. According to the "National Cassava Policy 2020-2025" issued by Royal Government of Cambodia, the country is positioned to be a home of cassava production and processing industries and becomes a reliable supplier of cassava products for regional and global market.
Drone technology has showed its various advantages on farm management, from improving crop yield, using less pesticides to safeguarding the well-being of rural workers. As Cambodia is the world's tenth largest producer of cassava with plans for steps forward, XAG anticipates having more cassava farmers to adopt agricultural drone and get better profit in a sustainable way.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jocelyn Alo and Tiare Jennings fueled Oklahoma’s record-setting offensive burst to help the Sooners move a victory away from successfully defending their Women’s College World Series title.
Each hit two home runs and top-seeded Oklahoma rolled past unseeded Texas 16-1 on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the best-of-three championship series.
“It was like an avalanche,” Texas coach Mike White said. “Once it starts going, it starts gathering steam, and it’s harder to get it to stop.”
With former Oklahoma basketball star Trae Young and Sooners football coach Brent Venables present, Oklahoma (58-3) set a World Series record with six home runs and matched records for runs and victory margin.
A championship series-record crowd of 12,234 watched the show.
“People want to watch us play,” Alo said. “They love to watch us play. They love to watch us dominate. I think it’s super cool. It’s only going to get better from here.”
Alo set a single-game World Series mark with five runs and now has set the single-series record for runs scored with 11. She went 3-for-3 and increased her batting average to a nation-leading .527.
Alo and Jennings each have five home runs in the World Series, surpassing the single-series record of four set by several players, including Alo last year. Alo increased her career Division I homer record to 122, and Jennings drove in five runs to set a record for RBIs in a series with 14.
They had plenty of help — Oklahoma had 16 hits.
“They’re really frickin’ good,” Texas catcher Mary Iakopo said. “Hats off to their one through nine.”
Alo’s second homer was her 34th of the season, matching the Oklahoma school record she set last season. Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said she now expects homers when Alo steps to the plate.
“It’s ridiculous that I’m thinking that way,” she said. “But I see her at practice every day. I see what she’s capable of. It’s just so tough to beat her. She’s so strong.”
The teams will meet again Thursday in Game 2, with Oklahoma in position to win its sixth national title. Texas (47-21-1) need a win to stay alive. The Longhorns have won six elimination games since the start of the NCAA tournament.
“Just remember that the worst has already happened and play carefree, loose,” Iakopo said. “That’s all we can do.”
Oklahoma does not intend to play a third game.
“We’re prepared,” Alo said. “We’re going to have the momentum. It’s time to win another ballgame.”
Oklahoma escaped a bit of difficulty in the first and controlled the game from there. Hope Trautwein (22-1) gave up just two hits and a run in five innings, and Nicole May allowed just one hit in two shutout innings.
Bella Dayton had two doubles for Texas.
Alo cranked a no-doubt home run into the left field seats in Oklahoma’s half of the first, and Taylon Snow followed shortly afterward with a three-run blast — just her fourth home run of the season — to make it 5-1 heading into the second. Texas used three pitchers in the inning, and ace Hailey Dolcini (24-12) registered just two outs before getting pulled.
Jana Johns hit a solo shot in the third to make it 7-1 and Jennings hit a three-run blast later in the inning to make it 10-1. Alo and Jennings hit back-to-back homers in the fifth to make it 14-1.
Fortunately for Texas, none of those runs will matter on Thursday.
“Nothing from today carries over,” Dolcini said. “So you learn from it and you try not to make the same mistakes again. Then we just come out and play loose. I think we lost a little bit of that today.”
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anatomage Inc, a market leader in 3D medical virtualization technology, is thrilled to host the inaugural National Anatomage Tournament on Thursday, June 9 at 3 PM PDT. The Anatomage Tournament's championship round will be live-streamed on YouTube here.
The 2022 Anatomage Tournament invited high school students from across the United States to compete in a team-based competition that focuses on knowledge of anatomical structures.
Utilizing Anatomage's virtual dissection table, students compete against each other to test their anatomical and medical knowledge. Designed to support students' anatomy learning while fostering collaboration and teamwork, Anatomage Tournaments provide students a fun opportunity to enhance skill sets such as communication, goal-setting, preparation, and managing success and failure.
Over 200 teams totaling over 1,000 students have competed in this year's Anatomage Tournament. Through 3 rounds of elimination, we arrived at the top 8 teams who will compete live in a virtual head-to-head competition to be crowned the National Anatomy Champion.
The 2022 Anatomage Tournament will be live-streamed for viewers to watch at home and you can watch the live stream on the Anatomage Youtube channel.
Champions of the 2022 Anatomage Tournament will be awarded prizes and recognition. Top finalists will also receive special accolades for their hard work and perseverance. You can also learn more about the 2022 Anatomage Tournament here.
Follow Anatomage on Facebook and Twitter to receive their latest news and announcements.
As a market leader in medical virtualization technology, Anatomage enables an ecosystem of 3D anatomy hardware and software, allowing users to visualize anatomy at the highest level of accuracy. Established in both the education and healthcare industries, Anatomage is transforming standard anatomy learning, medical diagnosis, and treatment planning through its highly innovative products.
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Anatomage Inc.
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Tusa supports National Automotive Styling Centers™ franchise's strong growth and online strategy in new position
BOCA RATON, Fla., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tint World® Automotive Styling Centers™, a leading window tinting and automotive accessory franchise, has hired Jack Tusa to support the fast-growing company's global marketing and franchise development efforts as its new social content and e-commerce manager.
In his new role, Tusa is responsible for managing content across Tint World®'s social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. He also provides critical support for Tint World®'s public relations and e-commerce initiatives.
"We're committed to continuing to grow Tint World®, and our online strategy is a key part of that plan," said Charles J. Bonfiglio, CEO and president of Tint World®. "With his previous experience in digital marketing and his entrepreneurial spirit, Jack has shown that he has the insight and perspective to drive engagement with our customers and franchisees and build awareness of Tint World® as a leader in the automotive aftermarket franchise industry."
Tusa is a graduate of the University of Mississippi with a bachelor's degree in marketing and corporate relations. His responsibilities as Tint World®'s social content and e-commerce manager include developing and executing online strategies, coordinating the company's online brand messaging, and supporting Tint World®'s marketing and franchise development through social media and digital engagement.
"Tint World®'s success as a premier provider of automotive aftermarket accessories and services speaks for itself," Tusa said. "This team is focused on continuing to build the brand and supporting the hard-working franchisees driving the company's unprecedented growth."
Tint World® Automotive Styling Centers™ offer sales and installation of auto accessories, mobile electronics, audio video equipment, security systems, custom wheels and tire packages, window tinting, vehicle wraps, paint protection films, detailing services, nano ceramic coatings, maintenance, and repair services, and more. Tint World® is also the leading provider of residential, commercial, and marine computerized window tinting and security film services with locations throughout the U.S. and abroad, with franchise opportunities available worldwide.
About Tint World®
Founded in 1982, Tint World® Automotive Styling Centers™ is America's largest and fastest-growing automotive accessories and window tinting international franchise, specializing in window tinting, protective films, vehicle wraps, audio and electronics, security systems, car and truck accessories, wheels and tires, detailing and ceramic coating, and installation services.
Tint World® Mobile Services™ include marine, residential, and commercial window tinting films, solar films, decorative films, safety and security films, and protective ceramic coatings. Tint World® has locations in the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, with master franchise opportunities available worldwide. To find out more, please visit www.TintWorld.com or www.TintWorldFranchise.com.
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PITTSBURGH, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) (the "Company") today announced that Patrick S. Watson, currently Vice President Finance and Corporate Controller, will assume the role of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective immediately. Watson succeeds Damon Audia, who has served as CFO since September 2018 and is leaving the Company after a short transition period to pursue another opportunity.
As CFO, Watson will serve as a member of the Company's Executive Leadership Team, reporting to President and CEO Christopher Rossi. He will play a critical role in advancing the Company's strategy and will be responsible for leading the Company's finance, investor relations, information technology and sourcing functions.
"Pat has a proven track record at Kennametal, having spent the last 18 years in leadership roles of increasing responsibility in global finance, M&A and supply chain," said Christopher Rossi, President and CEO. "His deep knowledge of Kennametal and relationships both in and outside the Company will help us continue to drive our strategy and deliver shareholder returns. I look forward to his contributions in this important role."
Watson said, "I am excited for this opportunity and to continue our work to transform Kennametal. It is clear to me that the Company is positioned for success and our strategy will help us deliver long-term shareholder value."
Rossi added, "I want to thank Damon for his service to Kennametal. We appreciate his contributions and wish him all the best."
Watson brings more than 25 years of global finance and business experience to the CFO role. He is currently Vice President and Corporate Controller and will continue in that role until that position is filled. Watson's tenure at Kennametal also includes serving as finance lead for both business segments and the EMEA region as well as M&A and supply chain roles. Prior to Kennametal, he held financial and supply chain roles at Allegheny Energy, Inc. and Eckerd Corporation.
Watson holds a Master of Business Administration from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's degree in business economics from the University of Pittsburgh.
About Kennametal
With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,600 employees are helping customers in more than 60 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $1.8 billion in revenues in fiscal 2021. Learn more at www.kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Use Cases, Integration and Consolidation
Amidst the volatility of the crypto markets since the recent exodus, partly fuelled by the breakdown of the UST (LUNA) project, there has been a call for greater diligence surrounding consumer investments.
This article will cover how NFTs could be the safest bet for success within the Web 3.0 and Cryptocurrency ecosystem and why investing now could see strong returns in the coming years. As use cases continue to rise, so does cross-chain integration, with protocols such as Firepin, Loopring, and others pioneering the consolidation of digitalised assets on NFT marketplaces which opens up new opportunities to fuel sustained investor growth.
The Safe Bet
So why are NFTs potentially the safest bet for Cryptocurrency? Simply put, everything is becoming digitised. Whether it is trading cards, loyalty points, or the somewhat polarising artwork of Apes and other community-driven projects, we are now seeing a new way to own assets. Therefore, new ways of trading these assets are required, and low and behold, the rise of NFT marketplaces has commenced.
This is why many see NFTs and, by extension, NFT Marketplaces as one the safest bet within crypto. Integrating these new assets and consolidating them onto a platform is key to the continued expansion of Web 3.0.
Firepin (FRPN) A positive Disruptor Leading The Way For The Metaverse
One early-stage protocol worth looking at is FIREPIN Token (FRPN). FIREPIN Token has been touted by many as a potential high growth opportunity and recently received liquidity funding in the millions as it positions itself to be the leading player within the Metaverse NFT space.
While still in Presale, what gets us excited about Firepin Token is that their project is cross-network compatible (Ethereum ERC-20, BEP-20 or Polygon ERC-20) and allows users to participate in the development of the platform through the acquisition of their native token. Moreover, not only will the project look to bring VR gaming into the Metaverse, but they will also develop their NFT marketplace to allow trading of new-age gaming NFTs. This will occur in Q3 and Q4 of 2022 as part of Stage 3 in their roadmap, per their whitepaper.
As the bull market has come to a close, projects such as FIREPIN offer investors a good chance to maintain those high returns on their assets and a hedge against your larger market cap coins. You can win with Firepin, although cheesy, it is a real possibility given the good work the developers are doing, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see the project have a very strong second half of 2022.
Is Loopring (LRC) poised to become the leading NFT marketplace?
If you have followed meme stocks such as Gamestop (GME) over the past 2 years, you will be well aware of the partnership they struck with the layer 2 protocol Loopring (LRC) to fuel the development and launch of their NFT Marketplace. This is major news and great for those in the crypto space as it is yet another indicator that a paradigm shift is occurring, with those holding the token set to benefit.
When the news broke that integration of the marketplace with GME had occurred, the LRC token soared 57% in the 2 days following and led the way as one of the top performers amongst the top 100 coins (by market cap). Whilst this project is still in Beta, it is clear that NFTs are here to stay, and marketplaces such as the LRC could be poised to front-run.
Polygon (MATIC) Living Up To Its Name
Like LRC, Polygon (Matic) is a layer 2 protocol that builds off the Ethereum Network using a Proof-of-stake model (POS). Matic was introduced to address the problems associated with high gas fees on the ETH network and be the leading Cryptocurrency in cross-chain integration.
While LRC looks to integrate more traditional technology into Web 3.0 through their own marketplace, Matic is focused on growing the already existing ecosystem and allows trading across multiple marketplaces, such as OpenSea, NFTrade, and Refinable, with more set to come. Many are bullish on Matic’s progression, and it’s not hard to see why.
Final Thoughts
With the integration and everyday use cases of NFTs soaring, alongside the continued growth of Web 3.0 as a whole, NFTs are one of the best bets for investors moving forward. Therefore, looking into projects and marketplaces that offer cross-chain integration seems wise. Given the potential to have more consolidated trading, that's why new projects such as FIREPIN Token, have particularly high potential.
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2023 Afcon Qualifying Wrap: Mozambique shock Benin as Sudan stop DR Congo
Benin Republic’s ambitions towards qualifying for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations suffered a major blow following their 1-0 home defeat to Mozambique on Wednesday.
Geny Catamo’s first-half strike won the points in the keenly contested Group L encounter staged inside Stade de l'Amitie, Cotonou.
Still fresh from their 3-1 away loss to Senegal last time out, Michel Dussuyer’s Squirrels went into the fixture aiming to return to winning ways against the Mambas.
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However, they were stunned in the 38th minute despite dominating ball possession as Catamo beat goalkeeper Saturnin Allagbe with a fine strike after he was teed up by Reinildo Mandava.
The hosts came out stronger in the second half as they aimed to restore parity, albeit Chiquinho Conde’s side remained resolute in defending to halt Benin’s attacking forays.
Mozambique could have doubled their advantage, but Stanley Ratifo could not convert Catamo’s floating cross.
With this result, Benin Republic occupy the base of their zone with no points after two matches, while the Mamba moved to second with four points from the same number of outings.
In Omdurman, Sudan's senior national team bounced back from their opening day loss to Mauritania to silence DR Congo 2-1 at the Al-Hilal Stadium.
Fuelled by that last result, the Secretarybirds took the lead in the 16th minute as Waleed Bakhet broke into the box to beat goalkeeper Joel Kiassumbua.
Lifted by their early lead, the hosts continued to push for more goals but they fluffed several scoring opportunities. For the Leopards, they were unable to get any clear-cut opportunities even with the presence of Yoane Wissa and Malango Ngita in attack.
The Congolese stepped up their performance in the second half but their biggest undoing was their inability to convert begging opportunities.
With four minutes left on the clock, Sudan killed off the fixture thanks to Mohamed Abdel Rahman who finished off a good counter-attacking move from Abdel Rahman.
Nonetheless, there was still time for Hector Cuper’s men to pull one goal back courtesy of substitute Jonathan Bolingi before the blast of the final whistle.
Elsewhere, Gabon continued their unbeaten run after playing a 0-0 draw with Mauritania at the Stade de Franceville.
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The legend of O Fenomeno
In April 2008, a man was reported to the Rio de Janeiro police for threatening three prostitutes.
Although the case was later dropped when it appeared he’d been a victim of extortion, the escapade cost him $4.8 million in lost endorsements, led to a temporary break in his engagement to his long-term partner and saw him savagely criticised and satirised by the Brazilian media. His fans, though, didn’t give a toss: they only cared that he was recovering from knee surgery and, all being well, would soon don club colours in his homeland.
The man, of course, was Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima. Otherwise known as O Fenomeno, Originaldo and, to some heathens, Fat Ronaldo. The kid who burst out of Bento Riberio and blazed a swoosh-shaped trail across Europe. The footballer who made Sir Bobby Robson dance like your Dad at a wedding after too many Pernod and blacks. The bastard offspring of a beaver and a hollow point bullet who smiled at defenders before turning them to jelly. The greatest striker of the modern era who won three FIFA World Player of the Year awards, a brace of Ballon D’Ors, and scored over 400 career goals.
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Of course, we all remember the big moments. That goal for Barcelona, his seizure on the morning of the 1998 World Cup final and resulting horror-show of a performance, the glorious redemption in the Land of the Rising Sun four years later. We can talk rabidly about the time he scored a hat-trick at Old Trafford and was serenaded with a standing ovation and we can easily recall his outrageous double-dummy that won Inter the UEFA Cup.
Yet as time passes and his career becomes nothing more than a collection of YouTube videos set to appalling house music, and his deeds are crunched into numbers that are trotted out by people who prefer to lionise raw data over raw talent, we have missed the point. As Dads sit on sofas across the country, shaking their heads at his appearance on a Pokerstars ad which elicits murmurs of ‘Fat’ Ronaldo from the kids, we have forgotten not only that he was the most exciting player seen on a football pitch in at least the last 25 years, but that every time he crossed the white line he played with a childlike joy that is rarely seen in the paid ranks.
Ronaldo approached pretty much every one of his 600-odd games like a puppy who has just seen water for the first time, and is going in headfirst no matter how many times you call or whistle and, if he drowns, well f*ck it, because it was fun while it lasted. Even towards the end of his career, with millions in the bank and knees that hated him, his delight at getting on the ball and taking the p*ss was palpable.
Watching him elicited feelings like that first grope at your teenage disco or climbing a podium on your original lads holiday and reaching for those f*cking lasers. It was a shot of pure adrenaline that could eviscerate cynicism, shred club loyalties, and render whole pubs mute. Whole actual pubs full of men wearing ill-fitting jeans covered in today’s paint and yesterday’s curry left speechless by a bald blur with teeth like a Disney character.
In remembering only the milestones and tragedies in our endless search for bite-sized pub-chat, we have allowed some of the greatest things ever seen on a football pitch to slip down the cracks of our bleary-eyed storytelling. We have forgotten one of the Titans.
Brazil’s victorious 1994 World Cup-winning squad were an enigmatic bunch. There’s Dunga, a man who rattled into tackles and played simple give and go football (which is fitting when you consider he was a mere moustache away from being the third Chuckle Brother). Branco, the left back of the 40-yard free kick and a barnet that was lost to the world of 80s Glam Rock. Romario, the penalty box king who had the air of a lorry driver cruising for action in the bogs at a roadside cafe. It was amongst this throng that Ronaldo first smiled at the world.
Minutes after Roberto Baggio sent his penalty into orbit, as Franco Baresi broke down in tears and members of the Brazilian backroom staff performed somersaults in gaudy shell suits that Paulie Walnuts would’ve considered beyond the pale, Brazil’s 17-year-old reserve striker walked up the steps to get his hands on World Cup. “And there’s the number 20, the wonderkid Ronaldo,” said the American commentator. “We haven’t seen him, but they say he’s a special one.”
Think of any great South American talent and their childhoods are often seen as fuel for their inexorable rise. Luis Suarez playing in a sewer-lined gap next to a prison, Maradona bouncing a ball on his head on a patch of rutted dirt, Garrincha crippled by rickets and losing his virginity to a goat. Whether true or apocryphal, these tales stoke the need for a certain type of poverty tourism in the minds of Western football fans and journalists who, basically, lament the fact that you can’t find the next Bobby Charlton, living on a diet of mouldy bread and coal, playing one-and-in against a stinking outside toilet.
Ronaldo’s story has often been burnished to fit this narrative. Yet despite acknowledging that he saw the effects of poverty first hand, he came from a loving family where both parents worked and there was mostly enough food to pass around. Sure, he gave his Mum his first pay packet so that she could reupholster the sofa that had been his childhood bed, and his Dad climbed to the top of a hill to listen to that debut match for Cruzeiro on a long wave radio, but he wasn’t the ragged favela kid that some reports would have you believe. Not that it makes his early exploits any less remarkable.
In the 14 months that preceded USA 1994, Ronaldo had bludgeoned 44 goals in 47 games for Cruzeiro. Watch them back now and they are a beautiful portrait of the artist as a young man. Skinny, shaven-headed, and with the gait of a child wearing his Mum’s high-heels, he turns brutish Brazilian defences to dust with sheer brilliance and desire. Towering headers, first-time finishes, stepovers followed by screamers - they’re all there… But there are two in particular that serve notice of what was to come.
On November 7, 1993, Ronaldo exploded into the public consciousness by scoring five goals in a 6-0 win against Bahia. If the first four – a brace of penalties bookending a shimmy and finish and a towering header – show that he was well on his way to being the complete striker, then the fifth encapsulates his fun side. After the ball goes dead in the box, the Bahia keeper starts messing around and taunting the Cruzeiro fans. Caught up in his role as pantomime villain, he lets go of the ball for a split second. Ronaldo, lurking, reacts before the keeper can reclaim it, accelerates past him, taps it into the net, and runs off pissing himself laughing.
Think of all the difficult places you found yourself in at age 17: getting scowled at by your girlfriend’s dad over egg and chips, buying a bag of twigs off a nutter with his name tattooed on his knuckles via a school compass and a broken biro, heading to the back of Kwik Save for a fight you don’t want but definitely have to have to save face… None of them can compare to a Copa Libertadores tie against Boca f*cking Juniors.
In the reverse fixture at La Bombonera three weeks previously, Ronaldo had the shit kicked out of him by Cesar Luis Menotti’s Boca team. Popping up in the deep and wide attacking positions that would become his trademark, he taunted and traumatised defenders into several acts of classic South American thuggery. He wouldn’t have to wait long for his revenge.
Early in the second half, on April 6 1994, Ronaldo received a ball 50 yards from the Boca goal. After taking a touch, he drives at one defender and leaves him trailing, beats two more Boca players with an inside-chop before turning on the afterburners to leave the last man floundering. Composing himself, he gives the keeper the eyes, sits him down with a roll of his studs, and buries the ball into the bottom corner with his left foot. Less than ten seconds from start to finish, it was a goal that we would see countless times in his career. It was also one that lit the touch paper of a national campaign to have him included in the 1994 World Cup squad and had European scouts scurrying home to deliver gushing reports to the men in shite coats.
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Had Ronaldo played in the 1994 World Cup, it’s likely we’d be talking about an entirely different career. Alex Ferguson recently revealed that he was a whisker away from bringing him to Old Trafford, only to be scuppered by draconian work permit stipulations. Imagine the state of that team with Ronaldo in it: fed by Giggs and Cantona and backed up by a snarling central midfield, he would’ve turned the Premier League’s band of shitkickers to mince and consigned Alan Shearer to a life of cliché on late-night Eurosport.
Louis van Gaal also thought he’d got his man, salivating at the prospect of alternating Ronaldo with Patrick Kluivert and Kanu at Ajax and sending him dizzy with obtuse tactical instructions. Yet acting on the advice of Romario, Ronaldo chose to move to PSV Eindhoven for a fee of £3.83m, which was not only same price as Liverpool spunked on Phil Babb that summer, but also one that made him a very rich man when he trousered a 15% cut.
Despite the 5-4 scoreline, the UEFA Cup tie between Bayer Leverkusen v PSV played on September 13 1994 is hardly remembered as a classic, but he didn’t disappoint. It was the first time the wider European public had got to see him for 90 minutes.
“The Ronaldo show started and he scored three goals,” remembers Frank Arnesen, then PSV’s Technical Director. “But it wasn't about the goals even; there was one detail in the game that was incredible. He received the ball in his own half. The ball is played to him and the German right-back assaults him from behind in a dangerous way. He lifts the ball with the outside of his left shoe, around the defender, and jumps. Ronaldo passes him by on the other side and starts a solo. He moves past three or four men, one man two times. Then all of Europe knew about Ronaldo."
Watch the game now and it is a performance that no teenager, especially one only a month into his career in Europe and still deaf to his team-mates' instructions, had any right to give. The pick of the hat-trick was undoubtedly his second goal: a quivering belter hit from 30 yards that screams into the top corner and leaves the Leverkusen keeper, Rüdiger Vollborn, shaking his Friar Tuck haircut in absolute disbelief.
The wobbled heads, twitching arseholes, and broken souls of opposition defenders were a common sight that season as Ronaldo finished with 35 goals in 36 games in all competitions. One of his most memorable performances, though, came in a game where he failed to score entirely and PSV were battered 4-1 at home by the Ajax team he turned down.
Van der Sar, Reiziger, Blind, Rijkaard and de Boer rank up there with history’s very best club defences. Unlikely to win any beauty contests, they marshalled that Ajax team to an unbeaten league season, and though records state that they shut out Ronaldo on his home turf, the footage shows four world stars being legged all over the show by a whirling dervish in red and white.
Sensing early on in the game that he’s got the beating of Michael Reiziger, there’s something of the hungry lion stalking a runt antelope in the way he continues to drift towards the left-wing position. Reiziger was a fine right-back, yet by the time he’s been nutmegged twice, turned inside out on numerous occasions and left flummoxed by a peach of a body swerve, he resembled a sad clown slumped in his van after a particularly testing birthday party.
No one is spared the treatment: he makes Rijkaard look like a reversing tanker on at least two occasions, leaves de Boer in a flustered sweat, and causes Edgar Davids to gurn like a man feeding the pigeons in Amsterdam’s lariest techno club. Only a display of world-class goalkeeping from Big Edwin and some frankly blinkered refereeing stop him from crowning this 90-minute bloodletting with a goal.
For various reasons, Ronaldo’s second season at PSV was less successful. Although he still managed 19 goals in 21 games and won the Dutch Cup, he ran into strife with the authoritarian Dick Advocaat for an alleged lack of discipline on the training field, and, more importantly in the arc of his career, suffered the first serious injury to his right knee.
These days, thumbs-up Instagram footage of footballers recovering from injuries all takes place in the same pristine club gyms filled with rows and rows of identikit equipment. This was the 90s, however, and watching Ronaldo do a passable impression of Ivan Drago from Rocky IV in what appears to be someone’s living room serves as a stark reminder of how much the game has changed in the ensuing two decades. Interviewed after a gruelling set of leg weights, Ronaldo delivered a quote that not only highlights his love for the game, but also hints at the depths he must have constantly sunk to in the injury ravaged middle years of his career.
“I need football, I need to score,” he says with the pleading eyes of a cow about to feel the death kiss of a bolt gun. “Football for me is… my life. If I can not do this then, then…” He finishes by mumbling something about it being terrible, but the furrowed brow and forlorn expression point to something far deeper.
Thankfully, he returned to full health to make a handful of appearances before the season ended. By now, though, he wasn’t the rookie who had joined PSV through the back door and set the Eredivisie ablaze, he was the most sought-after striker in European football, not only for his gifts, but for his star quality and huge marketing appeal.
It soon became clear that, despite saying he wanted to stay another year at PSV to repay them for sticking by him after his injury, Ronaldo would be joining one of Europe’s top clubs.
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The Mike Tyson pre-Buster Douglas was an absolute monster of a fighter, and it may seem a stretch to compare what Ronaldo did in 1996-97 with his march through the Heavyweight division. There was, of course, no joy with Tyson, just cold stares, concussive punches, and the lateral head movement of a king cobra. That said, in terms of both raw excitement and superiority over opponents in their pomp, they’re cut from the same devastating cloth.
Some years after Tyson’s heyday, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates waxed lyrical about the young Iron Mike in the New York Review of Books. “To see Tyson’s early fights, both amateur and professional, is to see young boxers stalked, cornered, and swiftly beaten into submission by a younger boxer. To see these fights in quick succession, the shared incredulity of the boxers who have found themselves in the ring with the relatively short, short-armed Tyson, their disbelief and astonishment at the sheer force of their opponent as he swarms upon them, is to witness a kind of Theatre of the Absurd.”
Ronaldo’s season at Barcelona ran along similar lines. Now weighing 12 and a half stone and fitter than a gypsy’s whippet, Ronaldo spent a year making every opponent and team he faced look like relics. These men were meant to be his peers, yet they appeared out of time; physically inferior without a hope of stopping him. If you watch the highlight reels, you’ll instantly be drawn to the ridiculous footwork and incredible acceleration that he uses to leave them floundering. Look again and you’ll see that he’s turned up to a knife fight in a f*cking tank.
Swarming in packs they charge, grab, kick, and push to no avail. With granite thighs and torso allied to his fast twitch athleticism, they simply didn’t stand a chance. Defenders bounced off him like bumper cars at a fair, scattering in his wake as he repelled them with hip, forearm and elbow, physicality bristling from every part of his body. A Theatre of the Absurd played out three times a week, ninety minutes a pop, across Spain and mainland Europe.
On June 27, 1988, Mike Tyson fought the undefeated Michael Spinks, holder of the Ring Magazine Heavyweight title and tipped by Muhammad Ali and plenty of others to relieve Tyson of his three heavyweight belts. From the moment Tyson walks to the ring, stripped to only his shorts and accompanied by what he later described as ‘funeral music’, it’s clear there is only going to be one winner. Tyson annihilated Spinks in 91 seconds. He destroyed a man who had never been to the canvas with a minute and a half of devastating punching that Spinks later confessed ‘paralysed him’.
Six and a half years later, at Compostela’s San Lázaro Stadium, Ronaldo had his Spinks moment.
It is a goal that has been replayed millions of times: one that Nike used in an advert with the tagline “What if you asked God to be the best footballer in the world... And he listened?”; one that no matter how many times you watch it, leaves you breathless. The first defender had three wild kicks at him and grabbed his shirt. Fighting him off with arse and forearm, he sent the second for some churros by stepping on the ball, taking two swift touches and accelerating away to goal. If you paused it there it is the best of Ronaldo in a microcosm. That he finally scored after running from the halfway line at Olympic pace and cutting inside two defenders, rifling home as he fell over, almost doesn’t matter. “He is not a man,” said Real Madrid legend Jorge Valdano. “He is a herd.”
It was a goal so magnificent that Bobby Robson, a football man of such purity that his socks were probably arranged in formation, leaped from the dugout, hopped around his technical area and performed what can only be described as a proto-Mobot with colour draining from his face. Finally calming down, he forced his hands deep into the pockets of his charcoal grey blazer and staggered back to his seat.
“Ronaldo?” said Jose Mourinho, also in the dugout that day. “The best I have seen with my eyes.”
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By the time Ronaldo joined his Brazil team-mates in Bolivia for the 1997 Copa America, he had already scored 20 goals for the Selecao at U23 and senior level since making his debut in a friendly against Argentina in 1994. Taking his Barcelona form to Bolivia, he was the outstanding player in the tournament as Brazil lifted their fifth trophy, and it was what he did in the final against the hosts that proved he was ready to become Brazil’s undisputed leader.
After 78 minutes of being kicked to kingdom come and with the score resting at one apiece, Ronaldo dropped off the centre-half. Cushioning the ball onto Denilson’s left foot, he hit the space that the defender had haplessly vacated, received the return pass and leathered a murderous left-footed half volley from the 18-yard line into the top corner. As the commentator nearly swallowed his tongue, Ronaldo just sauntered off with outstretched arms, soaring like a phoenix as his megawatt grin lit up the stadium.
There are many differing accounts of exactly why Ronaldo left Barcelona after that tournament. Some say his agents had asked to renegotiate his contract after the goal at Compostela and the Barcelona board refused, others said that his agents pulled out of negotiations when they heard Inter were going to double his wages. Whatever the reason, after 47 goals in 49 appearances and a Cup Winners Cup victory, Inter paid his buyout clause and signed the FIFA World Player of the Year for a snip at £19m.
On Sunday, March 22 1998, Ronaldo scored his 17th Serie A goal of the season in the Derby della Madonnina against AC Milan at the San Siro. After 75 minutes of running Desailly, Maldini, and Donadoni ragged (and showing Patrick Kluivert and George Weah who was the real swinging d*ck) in what was then the finest league in the world, he pounced. His teammate, Francesco Moriero, received the ball in the outside right position. Taking it on his back foot with a glance forward, he saw that Ronaldo was already on his bike towards goal with only Marcel Desailly and Ibrahim Ba for company.
Moriero’s pass was an absolute peach: it bent around Desailly and reared up at the back post just outside the six yard box, but the trajectory meant that Ronaldo still had a lot to do to turn it into a goal. In the split second where it looks like Ba might stop him, he leapt into a full karate kick and volleyed it with the outside of his foot, while in mid-air, over the onrushing Sebastiano Rossi. It was preposterous.
It somehow came as no surprise, though. He’d been at it from the word go in Italy, and if his season at Barca was all about taking advantage of the large amounts of space afforded to him by embarrassed Spanish defenders, then it was at Inter that he became truly unstoppable. Operating in tighter spaces, against teams who sat back and tried to negate his pace, and defenders who would prefer to be castrated on live television than to be seen giving up, Ronaldo opened up a box of tricks he’d filled on the futsal courts of Rio to ensure he stayed three steps ahead of the rest.
He scored every kind of goal there is that season. The most important of his 34 being the beauty in the UEFA Cup final. Haring onto a diagonal through ball, he did that trick where he appears to be pedalling a bicycle, dumped the keeper, Luca Marchegiani, on his arse and rolled the ball into an empty net. Never in history has a player so often treated the man in the net as an 11th defender, to be embarrassed rather than being beaten with brute force.
Sandro Mazzola, who notched over 300 goals for Inter in the 60s and 70s, winning two European Cups and four Serie A titles along the way, was a fully-paid up member of the fan club. “If Ronaldo decided to score, there was nothing you could do to stop him,” he later said about that season. “He would do it in so many different ways, and sooner or later, just as an opponent thought they had him under control he would explode and score. He could not be marked on the pitch.”
Yet it was his all round play that should be feted. There’s a video on YouTube called ‘Ronaldo Brazil Impossible Technique and Dribbling Ever’. As snappy titles go, it probably needs a bit of work, but the content is 15 minutes of absolute fire. Nutmegs and elasticos, stepovers and dragbacks, all elicit a head shake as a 21-year-old - one with the weight of the world on his shoulders - revels in the simple glory of football in its purest form.
His season in bel paese behind him, Ronaldo rocked up at the 1998 World Cup as the finest player in the world. Delivering a handful of bravura performances littered with goals, he dragged Brazil to the final ready to cement his growing legacy. When future generations look back, all that will be remembered is his seizure on the morning of the game - a seizure that resulted in him being left out of the starting line-up. The archives will state that he then reappeared on the team sheet not long before kick off and proceeded to play like, well, a man who had a fit 12 hours earlier. Factually correct? Certainly. Missing the bigger picture? Absolutely.
When a star reaches critical mass, it explodes with a cataclysmic bang that can briefly outshine entire galaxies. And if Ronaldo’s marketability had been on the burn since his move to PSV, it went fully supernova in the summer of ‘98. The super-light R9 Mercurials were released to a fanfare that forever shifted the paradigms of boot launches and designs, his buck-toothed smile adorned billboards and buses, and amateur players marched like worker ants to grab a slice of the man who had recently been christened “Il Fenomeno” by the Italian Press.
Plastic bags, fizzy drink bottles, playing cards - his image could be found everywhere. Yet it was a three-minute TV spot that turned him into a global idol.
Ronaldo had already featured in several iconic adverts by the time France 1998 came around, yet all of them were knocked into a cocked hat by the commercial that dominated airspace in the run up to the tournament. Set to the glorious Mas Que Nada by the Tamba Trio and starring Ronaldo, Romario, Roberto Carlos and Denilson, it is a triumph of creative simplicity. “I know,” someone probably said in a room full of whiteboards. “Let’s just have them kicking the ball around in an airport and use an ace song, yeah?”
It’s never been bettered.
Clad in some tremendous leisurewear, the Brazil squad have a kick around that breaches every security measure known to man. When a spot of head tennis on a travelator and the sight of Lucio going through an X-Ray machine fails to raise suspicion, Ronaldo sizes up a shot. In a moment of genius that instantly humanizes his talent, he hits one of those silver queue posts before burying head in hands and grinning sheepishly. With those big old braces gleaming, you can pretty much hear the twang of knicker elastic and melting of hearts.
On the eve of the final, 24 hours before he became front page news, the French defence was filmed discussing how to stop Ronaldo. Manager Aime Jacquet, in a world-class case of missing the point, does a really slow stepover and states how easy it should be to stop him because he feints the same way every time.
Mike Tyson once said that “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face,” and as Jacquet starts to repeat his assertion in glorious slo-mo, Marcel Desailly stops him in his tracks. “He did it to me at Milan, I didn’t see the ball. Whether he goes right or left you don’t see the ball,” he squeals before waving his arms around like a maniac. “Where’s the ball? It is magic.”
“He stays there like that,” adds Thuram, gesturing to his planted feet and laughing. “You look down and the ball is gone.”
There would be no laughing from Ronaldo. The reasons for both his convulsive fit and subsequent inclusion in the starting line-up have and been pored over, sensationalized and spoken about to such a point that re-telling them is pointless. Yet the final makes painful watching. There he is, football’s anointed king, trundling around the Stade de France looking confused, lonely and like his ball has been punctured forever. It’s football’s JFK moment.
The Ronaldo of 1998/99 was a similarly forlorn figure. Every goal he’d scored before that season had been followed by a version of his Christ the Redeemer celebration. Due to a collection of niggling injuries and the inevitable hangover from his seizure, he could barely rouse himself to smile after scoring. Like the teddy bear your Mum refused to chuck in the bin, his stuffing was starting to stretch at the seams. It wouldn’t be long before they spectacularly burst.
On November 21 1999, Ronaldo ruptured the tendon in his right knee in a match against Lecce. Knee injuries are anathema to professional sportsmen and women, and there are a raft of studies that examine the psychological implications. Depression, anxiety, and overall poor mental health is high, and a holistic approach is recommended as the best route back to the pressures of professional sport.
In the Italy of 1999, it’s doubtful that holistic health was high on the agenda of club doctors. Five months after his injury, Ronaldo was back on the field for Inter in the first leg of the Coppa Italia Final against Lazio.
Seven minutes into his comeback, Ronaldo received the ball and drove at the Lazio defence. You can’t help but think “He’s back”. He most definitely wasn’t. Feinting to the right, he planted his foot to push off towards a gap in between two defenders and collapsed. The image of him screaming as he grabbed his right knee and fell sideways hits you right in the chest, but continue past the pause and your guts will churn.
He howled in agony for a full minute while a hapless physio sprayed water on his knee. Ivan Zamorano and Christian Panucci wore the faces of two men who had just witnessed a five-car pile up, and Zamorano’s already ghostly pallor became transparent with the shock.
As Ronaldo was carried off down the tunnel, his screams echoed off the walls as walkie-talkies crackled and concerned men bellowed in Italian.
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“Sometimes I look back, and I think about the operations, when I was lying in a hospital bed and blood was pouring from my knee. I think of that time, and the pain, and it gives me strength.”
Delivered on the eve of the 2002 World Cup final in Japan, it was a quote that many never thought they’d hear. Make no mistake about it, the knee injury that kept Ronaldo out for the best part of two seasons was meant to finish him.
It is hard to think of many sporting comebacks that rival a man with that knee – a knee that looks like a piece of lamb that has had a fight with a chainsaw – returning after spending the best part of two years out to score seven goals in the last 10 league games. That he then had the brass bollocks to fight his way into a World Cup squad beggars belief.
I’m pretty sure you watched the 2002 World Cup. Whether you were a starry-eyed kid clutching a Panini album or an adult chained to the sofa for a month under a blanket of cans and crumbs, you’ll remember the goals. The flying kick volley in the opening group game against Turkey, the tap in against China, the assassin’s brace to slay Costa Rica.
You’ll remember him shifting through the gears in the knockout rounds, nutmegging the keeper with a first time left-footer against Belgium and that ace slalom and toe-poke against Turkey in the semis. The artless toe poke, once the preserve of lumpen kids in cheap scuffed slip-ons, kids who got picked last and used the toe poke to try and obliterate your knackers, reclaimed as an art form in front of the world.
Of course you haven’t forgotten the pair against Germany in the final. Finally breaking Oliver Kahn’s spirit on 69 minutes after Der Titan had repelled an endless yellow avalanche, then sweeping home when Kleberson (remember him, Old Trafford) and Rivaldo combined to set up a simple side-footer into the bottom corner. Eight goals in total that answered all the questions, stuck two fingers up to the doubters and proved that the king definitely hadn’t left the building.
What you might not remember, though, is what had changed about Ronaldo. Most obviously was his overall game. Gone were the bursts from the halfway line: this was the sustained performance of a man who had realised he couldn’t be the same, but also that he could still be just as effective if he just positioned himself further up the field and destroyed teams in the last thirty yards.
His celebration had also changed. The pre-1998 one was that of a man who totally believed in his talent. With a confident head nod and palms pushing towards the floor, it said “of course I’ve f*cking got this, don’t worry.”
The semantics of his new celebration, though subtle to the naked eye, were markedly different. Running off in rapture with a double width smile, he opened his arms with palms pointing to the heavens as if he wanted to give the world a big hug. “I can still do it,” it said. “I can still score the goals.”
Nine months after leaving Inter for €46m, Ronaldo and Real Madrid faced Athletic Bilbao at the Bernabeu needing a win in the final match of the season to secure Los Blancos’ 29th La Liga title. Since scoring on his debut in September, the now three-time FIFA World Player of the Year had lit up La Liga. Despite the star names, this was a finely balanced Madrid side that had yet to go full Galactico. With Makélélé bossing things, Guti and McManaman flitting around and Raul being Raul, Ronaldo wreaked telepathic havoc with Zidane and scored 30 in 44 games.
The first of his league-winning brace that night is a beast. Luis Figo, all pomade and dipped shoulders, drove at the opposition right back before releasing the ball to Roberto Carlos. Overlapping at haste, powered by those worrying thighs, he drilled a cross across the box that took out the whole defence and left Ronaldo with a simple tap-in at the back post.
The second was all about beauty. With the clock showing 61 minutes and the fans dancing congas, Zinedine Zidane bisected the Bilbao rearguard with a perfect slide-rule pass. Timing, weight, accuracy - it had everything. Ronaldo, spinning the centre-half to beat the offside trap, scurried onto it and buried it with his right foot. Running to the corner flag with the same childlike joy he’d shown a decade earlier at Cruzeiro, he’s showered in thousands of white hankies and mobbed by his team-mates.
That game, hat-trick at Old Trafford aside, was the apex of his career in triple white. Beckham joined that summer, the team became unbalanced and they won jack shit until after he’d departed. Still, he scored over 100 goals for Madrid, and his bewitching presence on the ball and dead-eyed accuracy had a marked effect on a young tyro. “He was the best striker I have ever seen,” said Lionel Messi. “He could score from nothing and could finish better than anyone.”
It wasn’t only Messi who thought so.
Two years into his retirement, Zinedine Zidane was asked to name the best player he played with. Quick as a flash, he replies “Ronaldo.”
“Why?” enquires the interviewer.
“Why?” Zidane muses, nodding his head and smiling. “Because we very often see big players step up and perform in the biggest games and that’s what he did. But I was especially impressed with him in training. Every day I trained with him it would be different, I saw something new, something beautiful…”
Zlatan, Henry, Nesta, Ronaldinho, Maldini - pick a player who played with or against him and they’ll all tell you that he was the best. It’s worth pausing to remember that as we follow him home.
Ronaldo’s year and a bit at AC Milan - who he joined six months after scoring the last of his 15 tournament goals at the 2006 World Cup in Germany - was far from beautiful.
There are, though, two standout moments that tell us a lot about Ronaldo the man. On Sunday March 11 2007, nearly nine years after that flying lob for Inter, Ronaldo led the line for AC Milan in an ‘away’ tie and in front of the supporters who had worshipped him. Before the game, an Inter supporters club handed out 33,000 whistles that were blown with hatred throughout. He didn’t care.
Forty minutes into a ragged affair, he received the ball in the same inside right position Moriero had assisted him from all those years ago. Hurtling towards goal as the noise reached crescendo, he hit a violent 25-yard bullet with his left foot that barely left the ground before whistling into the bottom corner. Off he ran, roaring in Portuguese before clasping his hands behind ears in defiance.
“As a great Brazilian writer, Nelson Rodrigues, once said, any unanimity is stupid,” he told the FIFA website in 2013. “I don’t worry about not pleasing a few people. As long as I made most of them happy.”
Happiness is a key emotion when understanding Ronaldo, and not just his own. Steve McManaman was one of his closest friends when they played in Madrid. “He just had this amazing aura where everyone wanted to join him,” he said in a BBC interview in 2011. “Sometimes there'd be 20 to 30 people sitting at meal times with him. He was a good friend of mine and a wonderful person. Everybody would second that, no matter what club he played for.”
One player who would definitely second that is Alexandre Pato. Ronaldo’s last goals in European football were a pair in a 5-2 win against Napoli in January 2008. Neither of them were anything to write home about, yet what was truly special was his treatment of Pato on his debut. After giving the youngster a couple of reassuring pats on the back at kick-off, Ronaldo, wearing 99 and sporting an unfamiliar curly barnet, spent the whole game trying to get Pato on the scoresheet; cajoling him to make runs and consoling him if something didn’t come off. When Pato finally found the back of the net, you’d be hard pressed to decide who was happier with the outcome.
One month later his left knee exploded and Milan decided to not renew his contract. 14 years after leaving Brazil for PSV, a decade and a half in which he made the continent shake with his exploits and was often considered sui generis, Ronaldo was going home.
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In April 2009, almost a year to the day since Ronaldo had threatened to fight those prostitutes, he scored a pair of crackers against Santos to put Corinthians within spitting distance of the state title they eventually won.
A typically murderous finish and glorious 30-yard lob moved him to eight goals in the nine matches since his debut a month earlier. Brazil, predictably, went apeshit. Hollywood films about his revival were discussed, the country’s biggest rapper released a song about him, and a campaign to see him reinstated in the national team gathered pace. Even Lula, the country’s President, got in on the act. "I think that if he came back to the national side it would be extraordinary," he said. "I admire people who never give up."
Charles Bukowski, the laureate of American low-life and a writer who examined the human condition better than most, once said “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” He was talking about himself after a lifetime of penury, but he’d have surely recognised the bravery in how Ronaldo never once, in the face of suffering and ridicule, gave up on chasing his dream.
Every time the hammer of fate knocked him down he came back smiling. Every time they told him his knees wouldn’t stand up he returned in a blaze of goals. He erased the biggest disappointment of his career by shaking up the world four years later, laughed in the face of critics who called him fat and continued to bind himself to supporters with a mutual joy formed by cast iron will and 18-carat talent. Ronaldo didn’t just walk through the fire, he ate it. “You have to die a few times before you can really live,” said Bukowski. With a hat trick of figurative deaths to his name, Ronaldo would surely agree with the sentiment.
On Valentine’s Day 2011, the greatest striker of his generation called a press conference to announce his retirement. With his two sons sitting next to him, it’s an emotional affair from start to finish. Thanking Corinthians for allowing him an Indian Summer that saw him score 35 goals in 69 games and regain his self-worth, he is on the verge of tears for most of the interview before breaking down around the halfway mark.
He thanked the Brazil fans for ‘crying when he cried’, the team-mates who loved him and opponents who kicked him, the managers who backed him, and everyone who ever criticised him “for making him stronger.”
"It's very hard to leave something that made me so happy. Mentally, I wanted to continue but I have to acknowledge that I lost to my body," he says, choking on emotion. “My career was beautiful, wonderful and exciting. I had many defeats, infinite victories. I have made many friends and I don’t remember making any enemies.”
And how could he make enemies? He might have crossed divides and embarrassed opponents, caused fans to boo and left defenders impotent, but there was nothing snide about Ronaldo. He did it all with a smile that erupted due to his simple love of kicking a ball around, and there is something to be learnt from that.
Mike Tyson, Charles Bukowski and Ronaldo are undoubtedly a peculiar triumvirate. Linking an iconic, destructive heavyweight champion who spectacularly combusted, a self-destructive alcoholic writer who preferred the company of society’s dregs, and a striker whose heart was buried by wounded knees, could seem like gilding the lily if only the parallels weren’t so apparent.
Tyson, fuelled by a childhood that made The Wire look like Mary Poppins, set a standard for Heavyweight boxing that lives on in the minds of impressionable fight fans who refuse to accept two Gorgons wrestling over 12 rounds of nothing. Bukowski, a man who drifted across Post-War America working manual jobs and fighting in dive bars, hammered away at his typewriter to reach heights that more celebrated writers can only dream of. And Ronaldo, the kid who slept on a sofa and had his knees destroyed, picked himself up time and time again to deliver some of the finest moments in history and impress his peers beyond comparison.
They’re joined by tragedy, linked by desire, and bound by excellence. Surely that’s enough?
In a footballing sense, Ronaldo’s legacy reaches far beyond the goals and trophies. It’s fat blokes in parks celebrating with arms outstretched, toe-poked finishes at 5-a-side, and finger wagging at the dog after rifling his chewed tennis ball through a gap in the fence.
It’s advertising campaigns that turn players into Gods. It’s funny coloured boots that weigh less than nothing, and daft haircuts that your mates take the piss out of but you love anyway.
It’s you and me in the pub shaking our heads at his genius. It’s dads telling their kids that they’d better not bloody call him “fat” again, and it’s remembering him in full flight and refusing to think ‘what if…?’.
It’s R9: the kid who harnessed his talent to become the player who lived out all of our dreams. It’s the man who looked fate in the eye and told it “Not today, sunshine”.
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A special court here on Thursday rejected the pleas filed by Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and former minister Anil Deshmukh seeking a day’s bail to vote in the Rajya Sabha elections to be held on Friday.
Deshmukh and Malik, both senior NCP leaders, are currently lodged in jail in connection with different money laundering cases being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The duo had last week filed applications seeking temporary bail before special judge R N Rokade.
After hearing extensive arguments by all the parties, the court on Thursday refused temporary bail to Malik and Deshmukh. The ED had opposed their pleas, saying that prisoners do not have voting rights under the Representation of the People Act.
Deshmukh was arrested by the ED in November 2021 in a money laundering case. Malik was arrested by the ED on February 23 this year in connection with a money laundering probe linked to the activities of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides.
In the Rajya Sabha polls to six seats from Maharashtra, every vote is crucial for the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), of which the NCP is a constituent, to get the Sena's second candidate- Sanjay Pawar- elected.
After more than two decades, the state will witness a contest in the Rajya Sabha polls as there are seven candidates in the fray for the six seats. The ruling Shiv Sena has fielded two candidates, its MVA allies NCP and Congress have nominated one candidate each, while the opposition BJP has put up three candidates. The contest lies between BJP's Dhananjay Mahadik and Shiv Sena's Sanjay Pawar.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department said Wednesday it will phase out sales of plastic water bottles and other single-use products at national parks and on other public lands over the next decade, targeting a major source of U.S. pollution.
An order issued by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland calls for the department to reduce the purchase, sale and distribution of single-use plastic products and packaging on 480 million acres of federally managed lands, with a goal of phasing out the products by 2032. The order directs the department to identify alternatives to single-use plastics, such as compostable or biodegradable materials or 100% recycled materials.
“As the steward of the nation’s public lands, including national parks and national wildlife refuges, and as the agency responsible for the conservation and management of fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats,” the Interior Department is “uniquely positioned to do better for our Earth,” Haaland said in a statement.
The order essentially reverses a 2017 Trump administration policy that prevented national parks from banning plastic water bottle sales. Only a fraction of the more than 400 national parks, but some of the most popular ones like the Grand Canyon, had implemented such a ban.
Environmental groups hailed the Biden administration’s announcement, which advocates and some Democratic lawmakers have been urging for years.
“Our national parks, by definition, are protected areas — ones that Americans have loved for their natural beauty and history for over a century — and yet we have failed to protect them from plastic for far too long,” said Christy Leavitt, plastics campaign director for the conservation group Oceana.
Haaland’s order “will curb millions of pounds of unnecessary disposable plastic in our national parks and other public lands, where it can end up polluting these special areas,” Leavitt said. The group urged the National Park Service and other agencies to move swiftly to carry out changes in reducing single-use plastics well before 2032.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., also urged quicker action to address what he called the plastic pollution crisis. “With everyone – from park rangers to park visitors – doing their part we can get this done before the decade has passed!” Merkley said in a statement.
Merkley, who chairs a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Interior Department, is co-sponsor of a bill that would ban the sale of single-use plastic water bottles in national parks.
Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., who co-sponsored the bill in the House, hailed the Interior announcement as “a huge step forward in the effort to protect our environment and its creatures from the damage of single-use plastics.”
Quigley, who is planning a visit to Yosemite National Park, said he looks forward to learning how the park will implement the new rule.
Matt Seaholm, president and CEO of the Plastics Industry Association, called Interior’s announcement “disappointing” and counterproductive.
“In most applications, plastic products are the least environmentally harmful option, as long as they are disposed of properly,” said Seaholm, whose group represents the entire plastics industry supply chain. He urged improved recycling infrastructure in parks as “a better approach to sustainability.”
Oceana said a national poll conducted by Ipsos in November 2021 found that more than 80% of American voters would support a decision by the National Park Service to stop selling and distributing single-use plastics at national parks
Haaland said the plastics order was especially important because less than 10% of plastics ever produced have been recycled, and U.S. recycling rates are falling as China and other countries have stopped accepting U.S. waste.
Interior-managed lands generated nearly 80,000 tons of municipal solid waste in fiscal year 2020, the department said, much of it plastics.
Of the more than 300 million tons of plastic produced every year for use in a wide variety of applications, at least 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year, and plastic makes up 80% of all marine debris found from surface waters to deep-sea sediments, the department said.
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