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The City of Shenandoah is preparing for a spectacular fireworks display for the upcoming July 4th holiday weekend.
With only three weeks to go, Shenandoah Chief of Police Josh Gray said the city's fireworks order had been placed and would come with a pre-arranged layout showing in what order each firework should be set up to launch. Being the first year Gray has helped with the firework show, he said he is grateful for the layout plan.
On Saturday, July 2, the city’s fireworks display will follow a full day of events during the Star Spangled Shenandoah celebration that is hosted by The Forum to Revitalize Shenandoah. The show will take place at dusk out at Sportsman Park.
In early May, Gray and Bryston Dunkeson, who works for the Shenandoah Water Department, attended a certification class in Hutchison, Kansas, to learn the ins and outs of putting on a fireworks display of this magnitude. Along with other volunteers from the Shenandoah Police Department and the City of Shenandoah, Gray anticipates a great show this year. He said this would be the last year the American Legion Post 88 wishes to be involved with the fireworks display as their active members are aging.
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Compared to last year's show Gray said there will be about 120 more shells to light. He said the city spent around $4,400 on fireworks but noted the drastic increase in prices. Gray said the average cost of fireworks for large displays went up about 15% from last year, and smaller fireworks purchased at the tents by the public increased by up to 35% from last year. The Forum to Revitalize Shenandoah was able to raise $1,500 this year with donations from Little Waite Lanes, Sorensen Auto and Community 1st Credit Union bringing the total of the fireworks fund to $5,200.
“Hopefully, we have a little bit bigger and better show this year and get more people to stay here in town and come out to it,” said Gray.
Gray said the city has the equipment to shoot off around 2,000 shells throughout a show and hopes to raise enough donations to one day put on a show of that magnitude. He would like to see Shenandoah’s fireworks show grow but said that the increase in prices makes it even more challenging for the city to continue the annual show without donations from the public, let alone grow the show. Gray is in the process of making the donation to the fireworks fund tax-exempt.
Along with the help from the community to fund the show, it also takes a host of volunteers that will spend two days getting everything set up and wired correctly. Gone are the days of lighting each one by its fuse; as Gray said, pushing a button controls the entire show now. He said the shells come with an electronic device and are prewired. Standing at least 75 feet from the shells, Gray and Dunkeson will launch the fireworks by pushing the buttons on an electronic board.
Gray said the largest firework that will be lit during the show is six inches and will go about 1,500 feet in the air. Go any larger than that, and he said those igniting the display are required to stand behind a cement wall that sits near the area where the show is set up.
Throughout the certification class, Gray said they stressed the importance of safety, and he would like to pass that message along to the community by saying, “they’re dangerous, so be careful and keep a close eye on your kids.” Gray said he enjoys fireworks and is glad the community can enjoy them but reminds everyone to be mindful of their neighbors and their neighbor's property, be respectful and follow the guidelines. He also said to be aware of your surroundings, remove litter from the sidewalks and streets, and don’t light fireworks off in dry conditions. When disposing of the fireworks debris, he said to ensure it is cooled down properly so it won’t start a fire.
During the certification course, Gray said one demonstration stuck in his head. He said a watermelon was placed on top of a three-inch firework, and when lit, he said the firework shot through the watermelon up into the air sending the watermelon into many pieces. Gray said the moral of the story or the point they were trying to get across was that the shell does not care what's in its way. He said it's going to go through it and up and do its job, so those lighting the fireworks need to use caution and respect the fireworks.
The current fireworks ordinance for Shenandoah allows fireworks to be launched within city limits until 10 p.m. on July 1-3, until 11 p.m. on July 4 and 1 a.m. on New Year's Eve. Gray said fireworks are prohibited on city-owned property, which includes parks and Sportman's Park, where the city show will be held.
Gray said anyone interested in donating to the fireworks fund could mail or drop off a check to the Shenandoah Police Department or City Hall.
“Enjoy the fourth, have a good time and be careful,” he said. | https://valleynewstoday.com/news/improved-fireworks-show-coming-to-star-spangled-shenandoah-celebration/article_c2c405c0-ec0a-11ec-a690-275d010bed86.html | 2022-06-14T20:51:08Z | https://valleynewstoday.com/news/improved-fireworks-show-coming-to-star-spangled-shenandoah-celebration/article_c2c405c0-ec0a-11ec-a690-275d010bed86.html | false | 1 |
3 missing, swept away in drainage ditch after severe storms
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A child and two men were missing Tuesday after they were swept away in a Milwaukee drainage ditch a day earlier following severe thunderstorms that brought heavy rain and damaging winds to a wide swath of the Midwest and parts of the South, authorities said.
Crews resumed their search Tuesday morning for an 11-year-old boy, as well as two men, ages 34 and 37, who entered the water in an attempt to rescue the child Monday evening.
Firefighters focused their search Tuesday on three connected tunnels that carry water to the Kinnickinnic River. Search crews did not enter the tunnels Monday night because of dangerous conditions and instead sent a drone inside in an attempt to locate the three, officials said. Names of the missing weren’t immediately released. Police said all three knew each other, but didn’t elaborate.
The water was deep and fast-flowing following the severe storms, which also caused damage in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. And the storms also packed a punch early Tuesday as they rolled into West Virginia, where numerous roads were closed by downed trees and power lines.
According to the website PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide, more than 400,000 electric customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia were without service Tuesday afternoon.
The storms came as high temperatures and humidity settled in over states stretching from parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and eastward to the Carolinas. More than 100 million people were facing combination of heat advisories, excessive heat warnings and excessive heat watches through Wednesday following record weekend temperatures in parts of the West and the Southwest.
In Illinois, a supercell thunderstorm with winds in excess of 80 mph (129 kph) toppled trees and damaged power lines Monday evening as it left a trail of damage across the Chicago area and into northwestern Indiana, the National Weather Service said.
Numerous reports of wind damage were reported along the storm’s path, with Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport recording an 84 mph (135 kph) wind gust, the weather service said. Tornado sirens sounded in Chicago as the storm rumbled in, and crews were assessing the damage Tuesday to determine if any twisters touched down.
In Bellwood in Chicago’s west suburbs, village officials said winds stripped the roof off an apartment building, injuring a young woman who was hospitalized after being hit by falling debris but was expected to be fine.
“We just heard people screaming that the roof was off, get out, get out,” resident Larhonda Neal told WLS-TV.
In northwestern Indiana, the weather service reported storm damage in Ogden Dunes and said hail 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) in diameter pummeled the Lake County town of New Chicago on Monday night.
In northeastern Indiana, the weather service said a 98 mph wind gust was recorded at Fort Wayne International Airport, the strongest wind the airport has ever recorded, eclipsing the previous record of a 91 mph gust recorded on June 30, 2012. Extensive storm damage and downed trees were reported in Fort Wayne, where winds ripped siding and insulation from the hangar of SkyWest, an aircraft maintenance company southwest of the Fort Wayne airport’s terminal and runways, exposing the planes inside, WANE-TV reported.
Thunderstorm clusters in the lower Great Lakes region met the criteria to be considered a derecho, the National Weather Service tweeted Tuesday. A derecho is a widespread, straight-line wind storm that is associated with fast-moving severe thunderstorms.
In northern West Virginia, three firefighters were taken to a hospital for evaluation after responding to an electrical fire early Tuesday in Wheeling, the city about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh said in a news release. Two firefighters were shocked by a power line that fell on the roof of a building which had caught fire during the storm. The third firefighter was injured in a fall.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/06/14/3-missing-swept-away-drainage-ditch-after-severe-storms/ | 2022-06-14T20:53:05Z | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/06/14/3-missing-swept-away-drainage-ditch-after-severe-storms/ | true | 46 |
Freeze Warning issued June 14 at 1:00PM PDT until June 15 at 8:00AM PDT by NWS Medford OR
* WHAT…Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 expected.
* WHERE…Portions of Modoc and Northeast Siskiyou Counties in
California, and Klamath and Lake Counties in Oregon, including
the cities of Klamath Falls, Lakeview, Tulelake, Dorris, Sprague
River, Bly, Alturas, Silver Lake, Fort Rock, Chemult, and
Crescent.
* WHEN…From 2 AM to 8 AM PDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS…Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops and
other sensitive vegetation.
* View the hazard area in detail at
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?wfo=mfr
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent
freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should
be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have
in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above-
ground pipes to protect them from freezing. | https://ktvz.com/weather/alerts-weather/2022/06/14/freeze-warning-issued-june-14-at-100pm-pdt-until-june-15-at-800am-pdt-by-nws-medford-or/ | 2022-06-14T20:53:14Z | https://ktvz.com/weather/alerts-weather/2022/06/14/freeze-warning-issued-june-14-at-100pm-pdt-until-june-15-at-800am-pdt-by-nws-medford-or/ | false | null |
(Ames) -- Iowa State received a commitment from junior college prospect Oluwafunto Akinshilo on Tuesday.
Akinshilo comes to Ames from El Camino College.
The 6-foot-5, 310-pound offensive lineman played in 11 games for the Warriors last season.
He has three years of eligibility at Iowa State.
Find the full release here. | https://www.kmaland.com/sports/juco-ol-akinshilo-commits-to-iowa-state/article_e42844b6-ec18-11ec-a19f-c37b78926302.html | 2022-06-14T20:53:36Z | https://www.kmaland.com/sports/juco-ol-akinshilo-commits-to-iowa-state/article_e42844b6-ec18-11ec-a19f-c37b78926302.html | false | null |
RAWALPINDI, Jun 14 (APP):Director General Inter Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar on Tuesday said the National Security Committee it’s meeting made it clear that no evidence of conspiracy was found for alleged regime change in the country.
The ISPR DG in an interview with a private news channel that former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said that no one in the national security meeting said there was any conspiracy, it is not like that at all.
Major General Babar Iftikhar said all three services chiefs were present at the meeting. The participants in the meeting were informed by the agencies that there was no evidence of any conspiracy, nothing like that, he added.
He informed that the country’s armed forces have not increased their budget since 2020, DG ISPR Major General Babar Iftikhar told private TV.
He said Pakistan’s Armed Forces have not increased the budget since 2020, which has fallen below the inflation rate, added, whereas the defence budget was falling below the GDP ratio this year.
“Everyone has the right to have their discourses but distortion of the facts and lie was punishable. General (R) Pervez Musharraf is ill, the military leadership is of the view that he should return.
He is the first Army Chief to meet President Xi Jinping. Importantly, China has always stood by us. The purpose of this visit was to strengthen ties. Relations with China are very important for peace in the region, security forces of Pak-China Economic Corridor (CPEC) have been deployed, new wings have been formed for CPEC security. He said that China has strengthened Pakistan’s defence force. The Pak-China Economic Corridor (CPEC) has not diminished in any way in terms of security, and work was being done on CPEC at the governmental level, progress was being made in government-to-government contacts.
The Memorandum was signed, he said budget always discussed the defence budget. And the challenges are taken into account. Pakistan’s armed forces have fulfilled all their responsibilities and will continue to do so. He said that India has always increased its defence budget, compared to India’s 1.3 million troops, Pakistan Army army is 5.5 lac, of which 50 percent were deployed at the Eastern border. And some, 40 percent was deloyed on the western border.
He said that Pakistan Army has not increased its budget since 2020, the budget has been reduced due to inflation, defence budget is going below the ratio of GDP, now it has come down to 2%, due to inflation and other challenges. Despite this, the Pakistan Armed Forces did not allow its military capabilities to decline. He said that this year the defence budget has been reduced by Rs 100 billion.
On the instructions of Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the Pakistan Armed Forces reduced its utility bills by saving diesel and petrol, Pakistan Army vehicles would not run public vehicles extraordinarily on everything Friday in a week. Training exercises are also being restricted to cantonments so that travel expenses were kept to a minimum, he added.
DG ISPR Major General Babar Iftikhar said that the Pakistan Army has returned Rs. 6 billion after savings during COVID-19 period and Rs 3.5 billion in terms of savings in military equipment to the government of Pakistan. The Fauji Foundation was benefitting 2 million people from the health care of the Foundation, while 70,000 boys and girls were getting education in the education system.
In response to a question, he said that fabricated rumors were spread against the leadership of Pakistan Army and false propaganda was spread which should be avoided.
In response to the last query, he said, “General (R) Pervez Musharraf’s health was bad, may Allah grant him health.”.
In such a situation, Pervez Musharraf’s family has been contacted, only after the decision of doctors and family travel would be managed.
” The decision to return will be taken but the position of the Army leadership is that the former Army Chief should return.”
He said that he would not comment on the recent session of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) where India did lobbying to black list Pakistan.
As per the directions of the then Army Chief a set up was established between more than 30 agencies, ministries and divisions to prevent money laundering and terrorism.
“that’s why remittances have increased as we fulfilled all the parameters of FATF and received $28 billion remittances to Pakistan due to effective laws,” he said. | https://www.app.com.pk/national/national-security-committee-clarified-no-evidence-of-conspiracy-found-dg-ispr/ | 2022-06-14T20:53:51Z | https://www.app.com.pk/national/national-security-committee-clarified-no-evidence-of-conspiracy-found-dg-ispr/ | false | 1 |
Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins has lobbied several roasts at Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson after the massive philanthropist and content creator threw shade at his League of Legends skill.
On June 10, MrBeast tweeted that he may or may not be hosting a League of Legends tournament. He immediately replied to the tweet with the simple message, “Also Ninja sucks.”
Ninja quote retweeted MrBeast a few minutes later claiming he would dominate Jimmy in a League of Legends match “and it wouldn’t even be close.”
The banter took place while Ninja was streaming, so Tyler also shared his thoughts on stream doubling down on his ability to outplay MrBeast.
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Ninja roasts MrBeast on stream
He pulled up the “Ninja sucks” tweet on stream after a viewer brought it to his attention. Tyler stated, “MrBeast is talking s**t about some League, bro?”
After reading the tweets aloud, Ninja dug into MrBeast’s LoL game. “Do you guys know how bad MrBeast is at League of Legends,” he asked his chat. “This guy is like one of the worst support players I’ve ever seen in my entire life.”
He went on to claim MrBeast would stand a chance in a match between the two of them. “I don’t know if he’s hosting the tournament or if he’s a part of it. Either way, I would absolutely dominate MrBeast in a 1v1 situation. Or in a 5v5 situation, and it wouldn’t even be close.”
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MrBeast hasn’t provided any more details on the supposed tournament, but now fans are anxious to see the two superstars go head to head. Maybe fans will get to see the blue-haired streamer take down the king of content.
Until then, check out our League of Legends hub for all the latest news and guides. | https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ninja-claps-back-at-mrbeast-after-he-announced-league-tournament-1847924/ | 2022-06-14T20:54:03Z | https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ninja-claps-back-at-mrbeast-after-he-announced-league-tournament-1847924/ | true | 1 |
(AP) — “In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favorite movie. This is that movie.”
So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio's flagship franchise. It isn't a prequel to “Toy Story," exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. It's a potentially clever bit of reverse engineering by the Walt Disney Co., which, after decades of growing merchandizing out of its films, has reversed course. We aren't exactly through the looking glass, but we may be through the Happy Meal.
It's honestly a gambit — taking a fictional movie-within-a-movie and making it real — that I've wanted to see attempted before. Who hasn't watched “Seinfeld” and been curious to actually see “Rochelle, Rochelle” or “Sack Lunch"? Or those pseudo Adam Sandler movies like “Mer-man” in Judd Apatow's “Funny People”? I've seen the “Home Alone” movies enough to almost convince myself that “Angels With Even Filthier Souls” is a real gangster flick.
But the truth is, the appeal of all these faux-film cameos — like those that adorn Quentin Tarantino's “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” — is predicated on their brevity. So should “Lightyear" have been a feature film or a Pixar short? The answer, I think, is very much the latter.
The “Toy Story” films, once an almost perfect trilogy, were already stretching toward infinity and beyond with “Toy Story 4,” a nine-years-later-sequel that was perhaps propelled less by a need for narrative closure than it was box-office imperatives. But at the same time, Forky. Forky made it forgivable.
What's compelling “Lightyear” is harder to say, but there is a bland, vaguely “Planes” feeling here that smacks of a straight-to-video spinoff. Yet unlike that “Cars” detour, “Lightyear” bears the Pixar imprimatur. And, ironically, it's the first Pixar film in more than two years to debut exclusively in theaters. During the pandemic, “Luca," “Soul” and “Turning Red” were all routed instead to Disney+, sometimes reportedly against the objections of Pixar's own animators.
But “Lightyear,” helmed by “Finding Dory” co-director Angus MacLane (who made some of the “Toy Story” shorts and TV specials that have expanded the film series), arrives in theaters just as summer movies are reaching the stratosphere again. So it may be a bit of a buzzkill to call “Lightyear” — the biggest kids movie to come along in a while — a failed mission.
It's a surprisingly self-contained film — that opening title card is one of the only tethers to “Toy Story" — in which the “real” Buzz (drawn more human-like and voiced by Chris Evans, stepping in for Tim Allen), not the toy version, is marooned on a distant planet with fellow Space Ranger Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) and a spaceship full of people. Every time Buzz attempts to rocket into light speed to get help back on Earth, something goes wrong. Each trial takes a day but, back on the faraway planet, everyone else has lived through years. In a blip, Alisha (the first Black LGBTQ character in a major studio animated film) gets engaged, has a baby, sees her son graduate and grows old.
With its classic science-fiction framework, “Lightyear” borrows from “The Twilight Zone," “Star Trek,” Christopher Nolan's “Interstellar" and others. It's a little like Pixar made a straightforward sci-fi movie — one with obvious affection for the genre but little of the big-hearted splendor of “WALL-E.” It could be said that unorthodox approach to “Lightyear” allows Pixar to step outside the usual parameters of what the animation studio usually makes. “Lightyear” isn't ambitious or existential or likely to make you cry. It's just a flavorless movie, not much different from others.
“Lightyear” picks up a little when Buzz unites with a ragtag crew including Alisha's granddaughter Izzy (Keke Palmer), the accident-prone Mo Morrison (Taika Waititi, doing his best to add some comic life to the film) and Dale Soules' aged criminal Darby Steel. Buzz's most notable companion, though, is a highly intelligent robotic cat named Sox (voiced by “The Good Dinosaur” director Peter Sohn), an especially familiar kind of Disney sidekick surely designed to kickstart a new merchandizing opportunity.
That may be the only circle of life at work in “Lightyear,” a dead-end wrong turn in the usually boundless Pixar universe. Buzz, himself, is a bit of a bore, too. It's a character that, since he isn't the Buzz we know, must prove his mettle as a protagonist. But with little to distinguish him beyond a chin that makes Jay Leno's look petite, Buzz — like the movie itself — tries to skate by on name recognition. It's enough to make you wonder what Andy saw in him in the first place. Maybe someone should have shown him “Ratatouille.”
"Lightyear,” a Walt Disney Co. release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for action/peril. Running time: 105 minutes. Two stars out of four. | https://www.turnto23.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/review-sorry-pixars-lightyear-is-a-buzzkill | 2022-06-14T20:54:12Z | https://www.turnto23.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/review-sorry-pixars-lightyear-is-a-buzzkill | false | 40 |
P.E.I. updates province’s COVID-19 death count after review of death certificates
Health officials on Prince Edward Island are reporting one new death related to COVID-19 in the province’s weekly update Tuesday.
The province says the person was over the age of 80.
P.E.I. also updated the total number deaths reported in the province after a review of death certificates with Vital Statistics.
Five deaths did not list COVID-19 as an underlying or contributing cause of death on the death certificates and were removed from the count. Thirteen additional deaths, from January to mid-May of this year, that listed COVID-19 as an underlying or contributing cause of death were identified and added to the count.
The province now says there have been 44 deaths related to the novel coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.
The island is also reporting a slight increase in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
HOSPITALIZATIONS
As of Tuesday, there are 11 people in hospital with the virus -- up two people from last week’s report.
Of those in hospital, four were admitted due to COVID-19 and seven tested positive on or after admission.
Currently, there is no one in intensive care due to COVID-19 on P.E.I.
OUTBREAK UPDATE
P.E.I. is reporting outbreaks in two long-term care homes:
• Rev Phillips Residence Community Care
• Perrins Marina Villa Community Care
NEW CASES AND TESTING
P.E.I. is reporting 691 new cases of COVID-19 since its last update – 59 more cases than the 632 new cases reported last week.
Over the last week, there has been an average of 99 new cases per day on the island -- an increase of 9 from the 90 average daily new cases reported last week.
Currently, there are 926 active cases of COVID-19 on P.E.I.
An average of 304 COVID-19 tests have been conducted daily at provincial COVID-19 testing sites over the last seven days. Of those, 33 per cent came back positive, a slight increase compared to last week.
P.E.I. has confirmed a total of 39,377 COVID-19 cases to date.
Data from P.E.I.'s weekly COVID-19 update can be found on its website.
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OPINION | Tom Mulcair: Recent Liberal decisions point to a whole-of-government incompetence
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'Flag war' with Denmark over tiny Arctic island set to end peacefully with deal
A deal has been reached settling a dispute with Denmark over a 1.3-square-kilometre island in the Arctic and is expected to be signed today, according to a government minister. | https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/p-e-i-updates-province-s-covid-19-death-count-after-review-of-death-certificates-1.5946680 | 2022-06-14T20:54:33Z | https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/p-e-i-updates-province-s-covid-19-death-count-after-review-of-death-certificates-1.5946680 | false | 6 |
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court rejected former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid testifying in the state attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices on Tuesday, clearing the way for his deposition next month.
The state’s Court of Appeals said there was no “substantial constitutional question” that would warrant its intervention in the matter following an intermediate appellate court’s ruling last month enforcing a subpoena for Trump’s testimony.
The court also dismissed a motion by Trump’s lawyers to stay the subpoenas, saying that doing so would be “academic,” since it wasn’t taking up the former president’s appeal in the first place.
Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., agreed last week to answer questions under oath starting July 15 unless the Court of Appeals decided to step in.
A messages seeking comment on Tuesday’s ruling was sent to Trump’s lawyer. Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., declined comment. A message was also left with a spokesperson for Attorney General Letitia James.
The appellate division of the state’s trial court ruled May 26 that the Trumps had to undergo a deposition, upholding a lower court’s ruling that James’ office had “the clear right” to question Trump and certain other figures in his company, the Trump Organization.
James has said her three-year investigation has uncovered evidence that the Trump Organization exaggerated the value of assets including skyscrapers, golf courses and even his Manhattan penthouse to get loans, insurance and tax breaks for land donations.
A lawyer for her office told a judge last month that evidence could support legal action against the former president, his company or both, though the attorney said no decision had been made.
Trump has decried the investigation as part of a politically motivated “witch hunt” against him. | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/NY-high-court-nixes-Trump-appeal-clearing-way-17241448.php | 2022-06-14T20:54:53Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/NY-high-court-nixes-Trump-appeal-clearing-way-17241448.php | true | 60 |
(NewsNation) — When the temperature goes up, so does the homicide rate. May, June, July and August become the deadliest months of the year. And with gun violence already at an all-time high in cities across the country, the focus this summer is all about keeping communities safe and young people alive.
According to key statistics by the Brady Center to prevent gun violence, every day 22 children between 1 to 17 years old are shot in America. Among those, five die from gun violence and three are murdered.
In Philadelphia where close to 100 children have been shot so far this year, city officials are working to give young people safe havens.
Free summer camps are available, there are more than 8,000 summer jobs for kids 12 years old and older and they’re expanding hours at community centers.
The more time kids are off the streets, the better chance they have of surviving the summer.
Mayors across the country worried the lack of recreation for young people could put them in harm’s way.
“Children are dying on the streets of our cities, our state and our country like never before,” said Mayor Andrew Ginther of Columbus, Ohio.
A staffing shortage is forcing some camps to cancel programs and others to reduce to their hours, threatening the availability for recreation for kids. In an effort to keep staff, some camp organizations are even increasing pay.
This summer, Planet Fitness, one of the country’s largest fitness center chains, is giving teenagers a free summer membership. The program allows teens 14 to 19 years old to work out at no charge all summer.
“People are dying on our streets. They’re dying in our schools, grocery stores, and it’s our sworn duty to take action to prevent that,” said Mayor Aftab Pureval of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In Chicago, city officials have implemented a curfew for minors. Anyone younger than 12 has to be home by 8:30 p.m. during the week and 9 p.m. during the weekend.
The timing is intentional and strategic because most violent crimes happens after midnight, and guns are now the leading cause of death for children in America.
Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker signed a new law that will cover up to $10,000 in funeral expenses for families that lose their children to gun violence. | https://wgnradio.com/news/cities-work-to-keep-kids-safe-during-summer-months/ | 2022-06-14T20:56:24Z | https://wgnradio.com/news/cities-work-to-keep-kids-safe-during-summer-months/ | false | 18 |
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court rejected former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid testifying in the state attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices on Tuesday, clearing the way for his deposition next month.
The state’s Court of Appeals said there was no “substantial constitutional question” that would warrant its intervention in the matter following an intermediate appellate court’s ruling last month enforcing a subpoena for Trump’s testimony.
The court also dismissed a motion by Trump’s lawyers to stay the subpoenas, saying that doing so would be “academic,” since it wasn’t taking up the former president’s appeal in the first place.
Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., agreed last week to answer questions under oath starting July 15 unless the Court of Appeals decided to step in.
A messages seeking comment on Tuesday’s ruling was sent to Trump’s lawyer. Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., declined comment. A message was also left with a spokesperson for Attorney General Letitia James.
The appellate division of the state’s trial court ruled May 26 that the Trumps had to undergo a deposition, upholding a lower court’s ruling that James’ office had “the clear right” to question Trump and certain other figures in his company, the Trump Organization.
James has said her three-year investigation has uncovered evidence that the Trump Organization exaggerated the value of assets including skyscrapers, golf courses and even his Manhattan penthouse to get loans, insurance and tax breaks for land donations.
A lawyer for her office told a judge last month that evidence could support legal action against the former president, his company or both, though the attorney said no decision had been made.
Trump has decried the investigation as part of a politically motivated “witch hunt” against him. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/NY-high-court-nixes-Trump-appeal-clearing-way-17241448.php | 2022-06-14T20:57:00Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/NY-high-court-nixes-Trump-appeal-clearing-way-17241448.php | true | 60 |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – More than 1,000 new businesses registered to open in the Mountain State during the month of May 2022, according to West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner’s office.
Warner says his office registered 1,033 new businesses throughout the month of May. For percentage of new business growth, Ritchie County had the highest percentage with a 2.36% increase, gaining 11 new businesses. While Ritchie County had the highest percentage, it is not the county with the most businesses. The number of businesses the counties started the month with is factored into the percentage.
Five other counties also reported growth of more than 1.5% in the month of May. These included:
- Summers County: 1.92% with 14 new businesses
- Tucker County: 1.88% with 11 new businesses
- Taylor County: 1.82% with 11 new businesses
- Fayette County: 1.68% with 31 new businesses
- Mercer County: 1.67% with 41 new businesses
Warner’s office says the county with the highest number of new businesses registered in May is Kanawha County with 101 new businesses. The county’s percentage of growth is 0.87%, starting out the month with 11,597 businesses and ending with 11,663 businesses.
Other counties with high numbers of new businesses registered in May include:
- Monongalia County: 77 new businesses with a 1% growth.
- Berkeley County: 88 new businesses with a 1.39% growth.
- Cabell County: 64 new businesses with a 1.29% growth.
- Raleigh County: 46 new businesses with a 1.24% growth.
- Mercer County: 41 new businesses with a 1.67% growth.
Data from Warner’s office shows at least one new business registered with the SOS office in all 55 West Virginia counties.
According to Warner’s office, 12,758 new businesses were registered across the state between June 1, 2021 and May 31, 2022. Summers County also led the yearly growth rate with a percentage of 31.52%.
The SOS office also tracks the number of businesses that closed last month. However, officials with Warner’s office say this only includes businesses that have filed a termination of their registration with the SOS office.
Data from Warner’s office shows only one of the state’s 55 counties lost more businesses than it gained. Records show Calhoun County only added one new business in May while three filed a termination of their registration.
According to the data, while having the most new businesses open, Kanawha County also reported the most closures, with 35 businesses filing for termination of their registration in May.
Other counties with the highest number of business closures include:
- Berkeley County: 26 business closures; 88 new businesses
- Jefferson County: 24 business closures; 37 new businesses
- Harrison County: 17 business closures; 36 new businesses
- Raleigh County: 17 business closures; 46 new businesses
- Monongalia County: 16 business closures; 77 new businesses
Grant, Hardy, Wester and Wyoming counties did not have any businesses file for termination of registration in May and Gilmer, Pleasants and Wirt counties each lost one business while gaining one new business.
A spokesperson for the office says they have no way to track businesses that close without notifying them, but says those businesses would have their registrations revoked after three consecutive years without filing an annual report.
For a full breakdown of new businesses per county in the Mountain State, visit the WV Secretary of State’s website. | https://www.wvnstv.com/news/west-virginia-news/wv-registers-more-than-1k-new-businesses-in-may/ | 2022-06-14T20:58:53Z | https://www.wvnstv.com/news/west-virginia-news/wv-registers-more-than-1k-new-businesses-in-may/ | false | 6 |
Rapper Post Malone welcomes baby girl
Published: Jun. 14, 2022 at 2:26 PM MDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
(CNN) – He’s a rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Now, Post Malone can add “dad” to the list.
The rapper subtly announced the birth of his daughter during an interview with Howard Stern on Monday when he said he kissed his baby girl before heading to the studio.
His little girl’s mama is still a mystery, but he says they’re engaged.
The 26-year-old Grammy nominee first revealed they were expecting a child last month.
Malone, whose real name is Austin Post, grew up in Texas and has become one of the best-selling artists of all time.
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BATON ROUGE, La., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Weld Holdings ("UWH"), whose portfolio of companies focuses primarily on providing industrial pipe fabrication and pipe and fitting distribution to industrial and commercial markets, is pleased to announce the completion of the alignment of its operations following its acquisition of BendTec in Duluth, Minnesota.
BendTec has a longstanding reputation for high-quality, technically sound steel pipe bending and fabrication across multiple industries, including the power, structural and architectural, mining, industrial, chemical, and nuclear industries. The company has received worldwide recognition for its expertise, dependability, and innovation. It is the leading provider of critical power piping systems, with specific focus on heavy-wall, large-diameter pipe fabrication and bending for the power generation industry. In addition, BendTec is a proud partner of the Local 11 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada.
"Since we were purchased by United Weld Holdings, we have been forging a path forward with newfound direction," said Clint Zimpel, appointed President of BendTec following the transaction. "BendTec remains a united company, utilizing a strong union workforce provided by the Local 11 with whom we have a longstanding relationship. Now more than any other time over the past 20 years, we are looking to grow our business and strengthen our relationship, which will benefit the members of the Local 11 and all of our employees."
UWH's portfolio also includes Epic Piping, Epic Distribution, Emirates Prefabrication, and Epic Piping Supports. The alignment enables the companies to leverage UWH's corporate shared services functions and operate independently, giving each greater ability to expand their unique service offerings and grow their businesses based on their individual capabilities.
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Mental Health Addictions Services Advisory Board (MHASAB) Meeting
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Data-focused cloud consultancy, Vivanti, partners with modern data platform, Snowflake, and sponsors Snowflake Summit 2022
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivanti — the enterprise technology consultancy delivering impactful cloud experiences and data-driven innovations with a client-first ethical framework — has officially partnered with modern data platform provider, Snowflake. Vivanti is also supporting the 2022 iteration of Snowflake's flagship annual conference, Snowflake Summit (June 13 - 16), as a sponsor.
Vivanti's certified Snowflake experts enable organizations across the US to drive both strategic decision-making and real-time operational insights with the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform.
To read more about how Vivant works with Snowflake customers, to create powerful analytical insights, go here: https://vivanti.com/snowflake-cloud-data-platform/
"As a Registered Snowflake Partner, we're excited to be working with industry-leading technology and assisting Snowflake clients to realize their data goals," said Principal Consultant and founding member, James Hunt. "We're partnering with Snowflake, and supporting Snowflake Summit 2022, because we truly believe in its ability to transform organizations' most critical data workloads."
Katie Ecklund — Snowflake's Director of Partner Alliances across US, Canada and LATAM — said the company was pleased to add Vivanti's data expertise to its growing network of services partners.
"Snowflake's channel network plays an important role in helping our customers realize maximum ROI, in minimum time, from their data initiatives," said Ecklund. "Vivanti's data engineering, analysis and applications skill sets will help organizations leverage Snowflake to integrate, interrogate, analyze and share organizational data throughout the enterprise."
Speaking about Snowflake Summit 2022, Founding Partner and CEO, Mike Walker, said that this year's conference was tightly aligned with Vivanti's approach to consulting.
"Snowflake Summit 2022 is based around a core theme: 'The World of Data Collaboration'," said Walker. "As enterprise consultants, we always put client results above all else, working collaboratively hand-in-glove to produce valuable outcomes – whether it's running performant and cost-effective analytic databases, building reliable data pipelines or developing data-intensive apps. We're thrilled to officially launch our Snowflake partnership as a sponsor at Summit 2022."
For more information about Snowflake Summit 2022, and to register, go here: https://www.snowflake.com/summit/
About Vivanti
Vivanti is a modern data-focused cloud consulting company with a consultant-led, customer-first approach. Vivanti consultants are organizationally empowered, and professionally obligated, to advocate for clients' best interests at each step of every engagement — just as doctors or lawyers are entrusted to do.
Vivanti's mission is to deliver impactful cloud experiences and data-driven innovations that promote a new level of customer-centric operating standards across the US technology consulting industry. Based in New York City, with offices in Manhattan and Washington DC, Vivanti offers advisory, consulting and managed services across all major cloud platforms. Specializing in the latest cloud data technologies, designed to facilitate digital business transformation and future ways of working, Vivanti's cloud consulting services include Analytics and Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, DevOps and Digital Customer Engagement.
For more information, visit www.vivanti.com
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Marvel Cinematic Universe's (MCU) new series Ms Marvel is basking in the success and appreciation from the audience and critics alike since its release on June 8. A story about Kamala Khan, a self-proclaimed biggest Captain Marvel fan, turning into a superhero after gaining powers is striking a chord with many people, especially South Asians.
The heavy representation of South Asian culture in the series was also met with a positive reaction. Check out where and when you can watch the second episode of Ms Marvel.
Following the path of other MCU series, Ms Marvel was released on Disney+ in various parts of the world and Disney+ Hotstar in India. The second episode of the ongoing series will also air exclusively on Disney+ on Wednesday, June 15 at 3 a.m. ET / 12 a.m. PT / 8 a.m and on Disney+ Hotstar in India at 12.30 p.m. The series has six episodes in total with the last episode scheduled to release on July 13. Take a look at the list of episodes and the release dates of the same.
The 19-year-old actor Iman Vellani plays the titular role in the series. Before bagging the role in the Marvel series, the young actor revealed that she was an avid fan of Marvel comics, especially Iron Man. However, she also enjoyed her character Ms Marvel in the comics. In an interview with Vogue, Vellani explained how she 'fell into the rabbit hole' of exploring Ms Marvel in the comics.
''I was deeply obsessed with Iron Man and I just wanted to read more of those Invincible Iron Man comics. And then I picked up an Ironheart comic,'' she continued, ''Ms. Marvel was actually on the cover of that one. I was like, “Who is this brown person?” And I went down this rabbit hole of Ms. Marvel comics and completely fell in love with her. I must have been 15 or 16. My grandma and I sewed the Ms. Marvel costume together and I wore it for Halloween,'' Vellani concluded.
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Jennifer Lopez has revealed the reason she almost quit show business.
In her new Netflix documentary Halftime, the 52-year-old said that the criticism she faced for her curvy figure was overwhelming.
The reason Jennifer Lopez almost left show business
“There were many times where I was just like, I think I’m just going to quit. I had to really figure out who I was. And believe in that and not believe in anything else,” Jennifer said.
She continued: “When I started working, the beauty ideal was very thin, blonde, tall, not a lot of curves.”
“I grew up around women with curves, so it was nothing I was ever ashamed of. It was hard when you think people think you’re a joke — like a punchline.”
“But it wound up affecting things in a way that I never intended.”
Jennifer’s fiancé Ben Affleck also spoke in the documentary about the pressure she faced.
He said: “I said to her once, ‘Doesn’t this bother you?’ And she said, ‘I’m Latina, I’m a woman, I expected this.'”
Ben and Jennifer rekindled their relationship in 2021, nearly twenty years after they called off their wedding in 2003.
Jennifer is the mother of twins, 14, Emme and Maximilian. She shares her son and daughter with her ex-husband, singer Marc Anthony.
Ben also shares daughters Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and son Samuel, 10, with his ex-wife actress Jennifer Garner.
Jennifer Lopez said fame ‘complicated’ family life
Earlier this year, Jennifer said that fame made family “complicated.”
She told Rolling Stone: “When one person becomes famous in a family, it causes a lot of discord. It can be complicated for both sides. It got complicated for me, like, ‘Is this still, you know, my family who loves me and accepts me and understands me and feels like I’m the same person, or do they see me as different as well?’”
She added: “For them, it was like, ‘OK, well, now she’s this, and what does that mean? How much do I expect? How much do I ask for, and how much do I not?’ There’s confusion. There’s resentment and very mixed, complicated, adult feelings. You know, ‘What is all this?’”
Jennifer is the daughter of Guadalupe Rodríguez and David Lopez. She also has two sisters named Lynda and Leslie.
Speaking about how she tries to stay respectful to her kids when speaking about her private life, the If You Had My Love singer told TODAY with Hoda & Jenna: “It’s a lot of things. You have to be conscious, too, like what you talk about from your private life in public because they’ll read it, their friends will read it, these things will happen, all these judgments made.”
She added: “Social media is so different now. It’s not just tabloid magazines, like if you happen to pick it up. Everybody can see everything you say all the time, so it’s just about being respectful to them, too, and loving them and protecting them, and protecting our family and our love, that’s all.” | https://www.monstersandcritics.com/celebrity/jennifer-lopez-reveals-the-unbelievable-reason-she-almost-quit-show-business/ | 2022-06-14T21:02:48Z | https://www.monstersandcritics.com/celebrity/jennifer-lopez-reveals-the-unbelievable-reason-she-almost-quit-show-business/ | true | 1 |
Game 1 of Stanley Cup Final has highest average ticket price since 2010
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The 2022 Stanley Cup Final between the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning may be one of the most anticipated matchups in recent history, and the prices to get into the arena to catch it in person reflect as much.
The average price for a ticket for Game 1 of the series at Ball Arena in Denver comes in at US$1,061, based on the prices for tickets already sold, making it the most expensive average ticket for an opening game since the 2010 final between the Chicago Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers.
Highest average ticket price for Stanley Cup Final Game 1 since 2010:
2022 - Lightning at Avalanche: $1,061
2018 - Washington Capitals at Vegas Golden Knights: $951
2019 - St. Louis Blues at Boston Bruins $779
2021 - Montreal Canadiens at Lightning $578
2014 - New York Rangers at Los Angeles Kings: $512
Resale prices are also predictably high for the hottest ticket in town, ranging between $660 and $5,250, according to Ticketmaster listings.
Prices are slightly cheaper for Game 3 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, ranging from $536 to over $3,000.
This is the first time since the 2008 final between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings that the preseason betting favourites will face each other for the Stanley Cup. As of Oct. 12, 2021, the Avalanche (+600) were odds-on favourites to win it all, while the back-to-back champion Lightning (+700) trailed just behind, according to SportsOddsHistory.com.
Tampa Bay will be looking to complete a historic three-peat, becoming the first team to do it in the salary cap era and the first to do it since the New York Islanders won four in a row in the 1980s. Colorado last won the Cup in 2001, and is eager to make the most of its star-studded core and bring a championship back to Denver before its contending window closes.
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Acquisition enhances the platform's intersection safety products portfolio and will accelerate Eberle Design, Inc's product innovation and development efforts
LOS ANGELES, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vance Street Capital ("Vance Street"), a Los Angeles based private equity firm, today announced it has acquired Eberle Design, Inc. ("EDI" or the "Company"), a leader in intersection safety products across North America. As part of the transaction, EDI will become part of Vance Street's traffic and pedestrian safety ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) platform, which is comprised of Polara Enterprises ("Polara") and Carmanah Technologies ("Carmanah"). Vance Street partnered with Polara in December 2021 and Carmanah in May 2022.
Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, EDI is a leading provider of highly engineered traffic safety products and industry-leading ITS technologies that enable safe and connected infrastructure. With the most technologically advanced and durable intersection safety devices on the market, EDI's Advanced Traffic Controller (ATC) suite of products are the latest technological advancements to increase safety, cabinet reliability, functionality, and ease of maintenance across the United States and Canada.
Founded in 1980, EDI has more than four decades of electronics & engineering heritage and has been directly enabling smart and safe infrastructure across the traffic, parking & access, emergency response and rail segments. As part of the transaction, EDI's existing management team will continue to lead the day-to-day business operations.
"I am extremely excited about this partnership because it opens up significant opportunities for EDI to further its position as the leader in intersection safety and mission critical ITS products for safe & connected infrastructure," said Dr. John Shearer, President of EDI. "We believe the future is bright at EDI with Vance Street's ongoing support. Polara, Carmanah and EDI all represent best in class businesses in the ITS space and we are excited to work together to provide leading traffic and pedestrian safety solutions."
Steve Sandbo, Partner at Vance Street, added: "EDI has a long history of innovation and leadership within the intersection safety market and we are excited to be a part of EDI's next chapter of growth in the space. We believe there is tremendous opportunity to support the Company's commitment to intersection safety and ITS solutions and we are prepared to make significant investments at EDI to accelerate the business's product innovation, organizational infrastructure and manufacturing excellence."
"EDI is a great example of our efforts to invest organically as well as through M&A to build a leading ITS platform to support Vision Zero's movement to eliminate traffic related fatalities through providing a holistic product and technology solution to municipalities and DoTs," said John LeRosen, Partner at Vance Street.
Harris Williams and Paul Hastings LLP acted as financial and legal advisors to Vance Street Capital and Polara / Carmanah. Debt financing for the transaction was provided by Barings' Global Private Credit and Manulife Investment Management. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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The Green Team has been fully funded for another season of gardening work in downtown Peterborough.
Two seasonal horticultural positions with the Downtown Business Improvement Area association are being created through support from the arts community and patrons of the Painted Paddle Project auction through a partnership with One City Peterborough.
The Green Team gardening crew will tend to plants in 100 planters and green spaces in downtown Peterborough.
The Green Team program will also provide a series of gardening workshops. Green Team workers will learn new skills at the workshops including: native tree identification and care training at GreenUp’s Ecology Park with Vern Bastable a native tree expert and director of Ecology Park, a food production workshop on a working farm facilitated by Dobbs Farm in Lindsay, as well as an annual plant arrangement workshop where the Green Team will learn how to make a visually impactful annual garden bed with Deb McPhail of Johnsons Garden Centre on Crawford Drive in Peterborough.
The Green Team initiative operates as a social procurement program for people experiencing barriers to traditional employment, according to a release from the DBIA.
The DBIA’S Painted Paddle Project art crawl has become a sustainable funding model for The Green Team initiative, the release states.
The Green Team’s return was launched Tuesday with a community planting day involving the Green Team gardeners alongside past paddle artists and local volunteers.
“I’m really enjoying all the planters and patios downtown. The Green Team project inspires that sense of community. There’s a lot of people out and about and it feels hopeful,” Eileen Kimmett, a Painted Paddle Project artist and planting day volunteer, said in the release.
“We are so grateful to our urban planning department at the City of Peterborough for prioritizing green space in the downtown’s patio design, DBIA association executive director Terry Guiel said in the release.
“Urban gardens require maintenance, and by designing a greener patio layout we are able to create vital horticultural work opportunity in the downtown. I can’t wait to see the numerous planters and gardens in full bloom this summer, and to have our incredible Green Team tending to them.”
Anyone looking to help enhance the program as a partner can email the DBIA placemaking project manager Dawn Pond at dawn@ptbodbia.ca. Clint’s Property Maintenance and Tom Weichel have already provided support. | https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterborough-region/2022/06/14/photos-green-team-returning-for-another-summer-in-downtown-peterborough.html | 2022-06-14T21:04:53Z | https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterborough-region/2022/06/14/photos-green-team-returning-for-another-summer-in-downtown-peterborough.html | false | 1 |
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his debut novel, The Twilight World. It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII.
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First probable case of monkeypox found in Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Rhode Island Department of Health said that the first probable case of monkeypox has been found in the state. The Department of Health said that a Providence County man in his 30s tested positive for an orthopox virus, and is waiting for results from a Centers...
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As Britain plans to send its first group of asylum-seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday amid outcries and legal challenges, some who came to this East African country under earlier arrangements tell The Associated Press the new arrivals can expect a difficult time ahead.
“Sometimes I play football and in the evening I drink because I have nothing to do,” said Faisal, a 20-year-old from Ethiopia who was relocated to Rwanda from Libya in 2019 in the first group of refugees resettled under a deal with the United Nations. “I pray daily to God that I leave this place.”
Giving only his first name out of fear of retaliation, he remains at the Gashora center built to house refugees who had languished in Libya while trying to reach Europe. Gashora is called a transit center, but some like Faisal see nowhere to go.
A British court on Monday refused to stop the government from deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda despite arguments by rights advocates that the planned flights would undermine the “basic dignity” of people escaping war and oppression. The U.K. government’s deportation plan has been widely criticized, including by Prince Charles, according to newspaper reports.
Rwanda is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and still among the least developed despite its focus on modernizing since the country’s 1994 genocide. The migrants who sought better lives in Britain are expected to find fewer chances to pursue their dreams here, even as Rwandan officials describe their country as having a proud history of welcoming those in need.
One of those who has found a foothold is Urubel Tesfaye, a 22-year-old from Ethiopia who is happy he found a part-time job in a bakery in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. But his friends speak of moving on to Canada or the Netherlands.
Hundreds of people sent previously to Rwanda under the deal with the U.N. have since been resettled in third countries, according to the U.N. refugee agency. But those sent to Rwanda under the deal with Britain must apply for asylum in Rwanda.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame told diplomats in Kigali after the agreement with Britain was signed in April that his country and the U.K. aren’t engaged in buying and selling people, but instead trying to solve a global migration problem.
British Home Secretary Priti Patel said at the time that “access to the U.K.’s asylum system must be based on need, not on the ability to pay people smugglers.”
Rwandan authorities have said the agreement would initially last for five years, with the British government paying 120 million pounds ($158 million) upfront to pay for housing and integrating the asylum-seekers. Britain is expected to pay more as Rwanda accepts more migrants, although the exact number of people the U.K. is expected to send isn’t known.
Those set to arrive under Rwanda’s new agreement with Britain will be housed in shelters around Kigali with features like private rooms, televisions and a swimming pool. At one, the Hope Hostel, a security guard patrols outside, and clocks in the lobby show the times in London and Paris.
“This is not a prison,” manager Bakinahe Ismail said.
But the Gashora center for previous arrivals in a rural area outside the capital offers more basic shared living facilities instead.
“The U.K. government, my message to them is that human beings are human beings. You cannot tell them ‘Go and stay here’ or ‘Go and do this or that.’ No. Because if they feel better in the U.K., then the U.K. is better for them,” said Peter Nyuoni, a refugee from South Sudan.
“There is nothing for me to want to stay here,” he said.
Even those who came straight to Rwanda to escape troubles at home say the country, while peaceful, isn’t easy.
“When you are not employed, you cannot survive here,” said Kelly Nimubona, a refugee from neighboring Burundi. “We cannot afford to eat twice a day. There is no chance to get a job or do vending on the street.” But he described Rwanda as an oasis of order in the region.
Sensitivities around the arrival of the first asylum-seekers from Britain are so high that Rwandan officials are barring media from interviewing the new arrivals.
“Maybe later when they have settled,” said Claude Twishime, spokesman for the ministry of emergency management, which will take charge of their care.
Rwanda is already home to more than 130,000 refugees and migrants from other African nations and countries such as Pakistan, the government has said.
The prospect of taking in more is criticized by some in Rwanda. Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has said the government instead should focus on the internal political and social issues that push some Rwandans to become refugees elsewhere.
For years, human rights groups have accused Rwanda’s government of cracking down on perceived dissent and keeping tight control on many aspects of life, from jailing critics to keeping homeless people off the streets of Kigali. The government denies it.
Such tensions are expected to be just under the surface this month when Rwanda hosts the Commonwealth heads of government summit. Britain will be central there as it continues to face questions about its deal with Rwanda.
Some Rwandans said the local economy isn’t ready to handle the people arriving from Britain.
“Look, many people are unemployed here,” said Rashid Rutazigwa, a mechanic in the capital. He said he didn’t see many opportunities even for people with skills and training.
“But if the government promises to pay salaries to [the migrants], then it will be fine,” he added.
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Hilary Barry has taken to Instagram to reveal why she has been off-air in recent days.
The Seven Sharp presenter was noticeably absent from the show on Monday and Tuesday night with her co-host, Jeremy Wells being joined by Sacha McNeil.
And Barry took to Instagram last night to reveal her absence is a result of being in isolation due to Covid.
The TVNZ presenter posted a photo of a kereru in a tree with the caption "I've been spending a bit of time watching birds. (7 days actually as per Ministry of Health guidelines.)"
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The presenter however would be classed as a critical worker, which means she could continue to work as a household contact, should she wish.
Barry joins a long list of TVNZ presenters who have had to isolate due to the virus. Matty McLean revealed in April he was isolating after testing positive. He, like Barry, revealed the news on Instagram.
Posting a video to his social media account the Breakfast co-host said, "The novel coronavirus must've seen my cocky messages to my friends exclaiming how amazing it was I hadn't been infected yet," he wrote alongside a clip of his positive RAT.
"Feeling fine, but obviously hunkering down at home for a bit. See you soon!"
McLean's diagnosis followed TVNZ deputy political editor Maiki Sherman who shared on Twitter in early April that she and her whānau were Covid-positive.
TVNZ Breakfast's Jenny-May Clarkson was also off-air in March after potential contact with a positive Covid-19 case, her absence prompted speculation she had indeed contracted the virus. However, posts on her Instagram account later appeared to show she was on a family holiday rather than in Covid-induced isolation.
A spokesperson for TVNZ said, like many Kiwi organisations, they are feeling the impact of Covid but "at this stage", aren't down on presenter numbers.
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(The Center Square) – Half of the state attorneys general in the country want the Biden administration to walk back new federal guidance on sex-based discrimination for schools and other organizations that receive federal money for food programs.
The AGs, 26 of the 27 Republicans in those offices across the country, claim in a letter to President Biden the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s guidance means states, local agencies and programs that receive federal food dollars through the Food and Nutrition Act and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program could lose funding if they don’t comply, including in hiring practices.
"Using hungry children as a human shield in a policy dispute violates basic decency," Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said. "Aren’t there any parents in the Biden administration that can see past the edges of their ideology?"
In May, the USDA announced it will interpret the prohibition on discrimination based on sex in Title IX to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
“USDA is committed to administering all its programs with equity and fairness and serving those in need with the highest dignity. A key step in advancing these principles is rooting out discrimination in any form – including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said. “At the same time, we must recognize the vulnerability of the LGBTQI+ communities and provide them with an avenue to grieve any discrimination they face. We hope that by standing firm against these inequities we will help bring about much-needed change.”
The AGs called the interpretation drastically broader than originally defined in Title IX.
The guidance applies to about 100,000 public and nonprofit-private schools and residential child care institutions that participate in the national school breakfast and lunch programs, which provide subsidized free or reduced-price meals daily for nearly 30 million children.
“We have long had a productive relationship with the federal government, managing various food and nutrition programs guided by the principles of cooperative federalism. We would like to continue this cooperative relationship. But the guidance flouts the rule of law, relies on patently incorrect legal analysis that is currently under scrutiny in the federal courts and was issued without giving the states the requisite opportunity to be heard,” the letter reads.
Attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming and Virginia each signed the letter. The letter originates from Tennessee AG Herbert Slatery III.
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SEATTLE, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Structural steel is complete on the new Behavioral Health Teaching Facility at the University of Washington Medical Center-Northwest campus in Seattle. Representatives from Clark|Abbott, the joint venture team leading design and construction efforts on the project, joined University of Washington Medical Center officials, and trade partners for a topping out ceremony to celebrate this critical milestone.
Designed by SRG Partnership, the new six-story Behavioral Health Teaching Facility will include 150 patient beds, and more than 184,000 square feet of clinical and administrative space. The project will feature 75 long-term civil commitment beds, 25 geropsychiatric beds, and 50 licensed med-surgery beds with the capacity to treat patients with psychiatric diagnoses and/or substance use disorders. The facility also will include a 24/7 telehealth consultation program, a procedural area for electroconvulsive therapy, and neuromodulation to support patients' commitment to community-based living and healthcare, as well as space to conduct comprehensive workforce training and development for behavioral health and general healthcare providers.
Since breaking ground in October 2021, the Clark|Abbott team has erected 1,752 tons of steel to bring the project to full height. With structural steel operations complete, construction crews will shift their focus to fireproofing, adding concrete to metal decks, and enclosure.
The Clark|Abbott joint venture is comprised of general contractors Clark Construction Group and Abbott Construction LLC. The integrated project delivery team also includes architect SRG Partnership and additional project partners KPFF Consulting Engineers, Thornton Tomasetti, Ricca Design Studios, OJB Landscape Architecture, Mazzetti, PAE Engineers, McKinstry, VECA Electric, Schuff Steel, Performance Contracting Inc., and Queen City.
Substantial completion is slated for Winter 2024.
For more than a century, Clark Construction Group has been transforming the ideas and visions of its clients into world-class projects that make the United States a stronger, safer place. As one of the nation's largest asset creators, Clark has offices strategically located across the country to serve the needs of its clients. For more information, visit www.clarkconstruction.com.
Since 1983, Abbott Construction has been empowering clients with a construction experience unlike any other—one that's personal, powerful, abundantly clear, and financially rewarding. No matter where a client may be in their construction journey—Abbott can provide innovative solutions to guide a project towards success.
As a West Coast partner for STO Building Group, a family of 13 companies with offices throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, Abbott has the resources and expertise to provide their clients a complete range of services—site selection analysis, preconstruction, design constructability review and more—for new building construction, occupied tenant improvements, and major building infrastructure upgrades and modernization.
Abbott Construction is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices in Tacoma, Washington, and Los Angeles, California. For more information, visit www.abbottconstruction.com.
Founded in 1972, SRG Partnership, Inc. is an award-winning design firm providing architecture, planning, and interior design expertise from offices in Portland and Seattle. Being rooted in the Pacific Northwest contributes to the firm's focus on connections to nature, health and wellbeing, and a pioneering spirit that drives the firm forward. Nationally recognized for its research-based design and innovation in sustainability, SRG's projects span healthcare, education, science and research, sports and recreation, civic and cultural, workplace, and master planning. SRG embraces a wide range of perspectives in our culture and work, leading to design excellence that makes a positive impact on our communities. Our experience demonstrates that by working together we can invent a better future.
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Man held couple hostage, beat them in their own home, police say
CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) – A 29-year-old man is facing numerous charges after he held a couple hostage in their own home and beat them, according to police.
The Chesterfield County Police Department in Virginia said Christopher A. Courteau is being held at the county jail without bond.
Officers were called to a home around 3:30 a.m. Sunday for reports of an abduction in progress. Police said a woman called 911 to report that she and her boyfriend were assaulted and held against their will at home by Courteau, who is their roommate.
The woman was able to escape the house and call 911.
When police arrived at the home, the male victim ran out of the house and the suspect ran upstairs. According to police, when Courteau came back downstairs, he was wearing body armor and holding a gun.
Officers said they ordered Courteau to put the gun down, but he ignored their demands. Eventually, he did set the gun down on a table, but then he charged an officer, police said.
Several officers were assaulted during a struggle before Courteau was handcuffed.
After an investigation, Courteau was charged with:
- two counts of abduction
- two counts of attempted capital murder
- three counts of brandishing a firearm
- three counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony
- five counts of assault on a law enforcement officer
- shooting into an occupied dwelling
- malicious wounding
- unlawful wounding
- attempt to disarm a law enforcement officer
- possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
- use of body armor while committing a crime
- felony obstruction of justice
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Chesterfield County Police Department at 804-748-1251 or Crime Solvers at 804-748-0660.
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Keeping you and your family safe during this mini-heat wave.
Stay Hydrated Experts suggest that we drink half of your body weight (in ounces) of water!
Take lots of breaks if you must work outside Better yet, work early and late when the sun is Not so extreme
Wear Sunscreen Apply sunscreen 15 to 30 minutes BEFORE you go outside. *Re-apply every two hours.
Check on your neighbors
Check on your outdoor pets
FYI: If you can’t put your hand on the pavement for at least 5 seconds, it’s TOO hot for your pet’s paws.
Read more: www.wakehealth.edu/stories/5-simple-summer-safety-tips
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Minister Wilkinson Launches Discussion Paper to Inform Canada's Critical Minerals Strategy
TORONTO, June 14, 2022 /CNW/ - Critical minerals are essential to powering the green, digital economy of tomorrow. Increasing demand and constrained supply of these all-important minerals are presenting Canada with a generational economic opportunity, and the Government of Canada is committed to seizing that opportunity while delivering on its ambitious climate and nature goals.
Building on the government's nearly $3.8-billion commitment on critical minerals in Budget 2022, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, released the Government of Canada's Discussion Paper to inform Canada's Critical Minerals Strategy.
The Minister made the announcement at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Conference, attended by over 20,000 participants, including provinces, territories, leaders of national Indigenous organizations, as well as industry representatives and members of the public.
This Discussion Paper will seek input from provinces and territories, Indigenous Peoples, industry and interested stakeholders, guided by five key outcomes:
- economic growth and competitiveness;
- environmental protection and climate action;
- enhanced security and partnership with allies;
- advancing reconciliation; and,
- advancing diversity and inclusion.
Anyone interested in submitting comments on the Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy Discussion Paper may do so by August 31, 2022. Canada's Critical Minerals Strategy will be released in late 2022.
Also launched at PDAC was the Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP) Action Plan 2021. Developed by federal, provincial and territorial governments in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and in collaboration with industry, the innovation community and other stakeholders, the CMMP is a pan-Canadian plan to improve the competitiveness of the entire minerals and metals sector and position Canada to respond to opportunities.
"Canada's Critical Minerals Strategy will position Canada as the global supplier of choice for the critical minerals and materials needed for the green, digital global economy. We will work with provinces, territories, Indigenous Peoples, industry and stakeholders to create a Strategy that will create good jobs for Canadians, grow our economy and make Canada a vital player on the world stage."
Jonathan Wilkinson
Minister of Natural Resources
- The Critical Minerals Strategy is part of Canada's strengthened climate plan, A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy (HEHE), which advances Canada's goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, and reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.
- The Strategy will support the Minister of Natural Resources and the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry's mandate-letter commitment to develop and launch a Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy to position Canada at the forefront of critical mineral exploration, extraction, processing and manufacturing; to improve critical minerals supply chain resiliency; and to position Canada as a leading mining nation.
- This work will build on recent success in the Canadian critical minerals space, including major investments in the Canadian electric vehicle (EV) industry.
- The Critical Minerals Strategy will complement the work of the Regional Energy and Resource Tables.
- The federal-provincial-territorial Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP) was released in 2019 to boost Canadian competitiveness and take advantage of opportunities such as achieving a net-zero global economy. CMMP Action Plan 2020, Update to Action Plan 2020, and CMMP Action Plan 2021 include concrete measures to operationalize the CMMP and deliver results for Canadians.
- Action Plan 2021 includes concrete action to operationalize the CMMP. This includes the release of the Pan-Canadian Geoscience Strategy to help meet growing demand for responsibly sourced minerals and metals, mitigate climate change, stimulate economic development and deliver workshops across Canada to support procurement with Indigenous companies and businesses. Action Plan 2021 provides updates on actions to reduce mining's footprint, develop innovative Canadian solutions to global mining challenges, build mineral literacy, establish a Canada Brand and collaborate on critical minerals. It also introduces a strategy to track the progress of the CMMP in meeting its targets and to help identify areas for future work.
- Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy
- Discussion Paper - Canada's Critical Minerals Strategy
- A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy
- CMMP Action Plan 2021
- What is the Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan?
- Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada
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Formula One heads westward for the second time this racing season. The Canadian Grand Prix returns this coming weekend for the first time since 2019. The race has been part of the F1 schedule since 1961 but wasn’t held in the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
There will be three practice sessions ahead of qualifying and the race. Two practice sessions will be held on Friday, June 17th at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. ET. The third practice session will be at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, June 18th with qualifying following at 4 p.m. ET. The 2022 Canadian GP will be held Sunday, June 19th starting at 2 p.m. ET at the Circuit Filles Villeneuve.
All events will be broadcast on some form of ESPN and will be available for live stream at WatchESPN. If you don’t have an ESPN subscription to access WatchESPN, you can get a trial from YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, AT&T TV Now, FuboTV, or Sling TV to stream it.
In 2019, Lewis Hamilton headlined the podium, but Max Verstappen opens as the favorite to win the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix with -115 odds at DraftKings Sportsbook. He is followed by Sergio Perez (+285), Charles Leclerc (+330), Carlos Sainz (+2000) and George Russell (+3000) for the best odds to win the race. Hamilton has +3500 odds to win his eighth race which would be the most by a single driver at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Here’s the complete schedule for this weekend. All times below are ET.
Canadian Grand Prix weekend schedule
Friday, June 17
2 p.m. ET — Practice 1 — ESPNU, WatchESPN
5 p.m. ET — Practice 2 — ESPNU, WatchESPN
Saturday, June 18
1 p.m. ET — Practice 3 — ESPN2, WatchESPN
4 p.m. ET — Qualifying— ESPN2, WatchESPN
Sunday, June 19
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Man seriously injured in Kirkcaldy hit-and-run
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A man is being treated for serious injuries following a hit-and-run in Fife.
The 53-year-old pedestrian was struck by a large black car in Salisbury Street, Kirkcaldy, at about 17:00 on Monday.
Police said he was taken to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. The driver did not stop at the scene.
Officers are trying to trace the car and are appealing to anyone who saw what happened to contact them.
Sgt Lee Walkingshaw, of Fife road policing unit, said: "We are asking for anyone who was in the area around the time of the crash, or anyone with information on the vehicle involved, to please get in touch.
"I would also urge anyone with dashcam footage that could assist our investigation to contact police.
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NOW OPEN: LAS VEGAS' FIRST PERMANENT DIGITAL ART MUSEUM, PERCEPTION
New Space for Immersive and High-Tech Installations Debuts with World Premiere of Leonardo: The Universal Man
LAS VEGAS, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas Strip's first permanent digital art museum – PERCEPTION Las Vegas – is now open. The new space for immersive and high-tech installations is debuting with the world premiere of Leonardo: The Universal Man, chronicling the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci. The hour-long, three-gallery journey transports guests on a mind-bending exploration into the remarkable world of Leonardo da Vinci, an experience as remarkable as the man himself. Tickets are now on sale and available via perceptionlasvegas.com.
Robert Frey, PERCEPTION CEO, said, "Perception is a 360-degree, fully immersive, multi-sensory museum that will continually introduce fresh content celebrating the world's greatest artists. We're proud to be home to the world premiere of Leonardo: The Universal Man and to invite our guests to witness the genius of da Vinci in a truly special way, where we will push the limits of how art can be portrayed in a museum."
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Three unique, 360-degree gallery exhibits transport visitors into da Vinci's works, studies and findings as an architect, engineer, alchemist, artist, philosopher and sculptor:
- Grand Salon: Chapters of the Genius' Life – Guests enter a 28-foot-tall, four-wall theater where they voyage to Renaissance-era Italy through da Vinci's eyes, as chapters of his life unfold during this 35-minute film. Each wall of the theater portrays a different visual perspective of the same story as the narrative progresses. Using advanced laser projection and transportive audio, patrons learn about da Vinci's engineering and architectural feats as they take flight in his Flying Machine, stand in cathedrals digitally constructed through geometry and float through Tuscany on a parachute originally designed by the master himself.
- Painting with Light: The Last Supper – During their visual expedition, guests are introduced to this fresh take on one of da Vinci's most legendary paintings during the Italian High Renaissance: The Last Supper. In a gallery with floor-to-ceiling, surround-sound LED walls, one of the world's most famous works of art comes to life through an explosion of light, color, shape and sound.
- The Gallery: Mona Lisa's Perception – In this gallery, guests are greeted by six versions of Lisa del Giocondo – better known to the world as Mona Lisa. Accompanied by an original musical score, Mona Lisa primes guests to experience da Vinci in the digital age as they each take on intriguing and entertaining forms of the best-known, most-visited, sung- and written-about image in the art world.
PERCEPTION was created by nightlife pioneer Robert Frey and entrepreneur Ned Collett. The team engaged Dutch multidisciplinary creative agency, TWOFIFTYK, to bring Leonardo: The Universal Man to life. TWOFIFTYK has created digital entertainment for music giants and festivals including Electric Daisy Carnival, Martin Garrix and Armin Van Buuren.
PERCEPTION is located at 2780 South Las Vegas Boulevard. The museum is open daily from 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. and welcomes guests of all ages. Tickets can be purchased via www.perceptionlasvegas.com or by calling 702-476-9069. Groups of 10 or more can book the space for special events by calling 725-200-3701 or 866-633-0195 to reserve tickets.
Ticket Prices:
- Locals: $29.50
- General Admission: $34.50; $32.50 for military members with valid ID
- VIP Experience: $49.50; includes anytime entry and a beverage
- Children: $18.50 for children ages 5-12; under 5 are free
PERCEPTION is Las Vegas' first permanent digital art museum. PERCEPTION features a rotation of immersive digital art installations for guests to enjoy their favorite artists in new ways throughout the 17,000-square-foot-space. Tickets for Leonardo: The Universal Man start at $39.50 and can be purchased online via www.perceptionlasvegas.com or by calling 702-476-9069. PERCEPTION is open daily, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.perceptionlasvegas.com and follow on Facebook and Instagram.
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Don Martin: The fall of Justin Trudeau has begun
The Justin Trudeau brand is in trouble.
The 2015 fresh prince of politics with the celebrity hair and rock star aura is heading into a 2022 summer of inflation-driven Canadian discontent as a faded force of personality in need of an exit strategy.
You know there’s a reputation hit happening when Trudeau becomes the unnamed star of a children’s book "How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom," a satire about his handling of the Freedom Convoy and vaccination mandates, which now sits atop the Amazon Canada bestseller list.
On a more serious vein, there’s an alarm sounding over his leadership style when former top bureaucrat Paul Tellier unleashes in Policy Options magazine, warning Trudeau’s control freakdom of an office is “in the process of destroying the public service … and the word ‘destroying’ is not too strong."
'TOO WOKE, TOO PRECIOUS'
And while this is hardly scientific, after a weeks-long survey of just about everyone I’ve met and many of them Liberals by voting inclination, the overall judgment on Trudeau is one of being a political write-off with their body language alternating between exasperation and eye rolls.
He’s too woke, too precious, preachy in tone, exceedingly smug, lacking in leadership, fading in celebrity, slow to act, short-sighted in vision and generally getting more irritating with every breathlessly whispered public pronouncement. And that’s just the one-sentence summary.
As one prominent and wealthy 40-year Liberal supporter told me: “I won’t send them another dime until he’s gone. He’s a wimp.”
Trudeau is, of course, undoubtedly oblivious to all this. He didn’t even break a sniffle during question period Tuesday, although he seemed to have great trouble answering questions without reading a script as he copes with a second COVID-19 infection.
It was a daunting run of questions that demanded all his artful dodging talent for reading non-answers to questions. He needed to protect his foreign affairs minister for allowing a bureaucrat to attend a Russian caviar party in Ottawa, his public safety minister for promoting a nose-stretcher that police requesting the Emergencies Act to cope with the Freedom Convoy (they didn’t) and shrugging off a Globe-obtained government analysis showing his 2030 emission targets will be extremely difficult to meet.
That’s theatrical business as usual for Trudeau, but he’s delivering performance hiccups far beyond the Commons.
Take the recently completed Summit of the Americas, where Trudeau’s meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden produced jargon and rhetoric a’plenty, but not a whisper of accomplishment to mend our so-far unproductive relationship.
While Trudeau is the so-called dean of the G7 in terms of political longevity, he didn’t even try to convince Biden to reconsider the axed Keystone pipeline or thwart the Michigan governor’s threat to kill the Line 5 pipeline, this in a time when the U.S. is playing footsie with dictator-run Venezuela to alleviate the energy price crisis.
Even when Trudeau does spring into action, his motivation appears suspect.
The Wall Street Journal recently derided Trudeau for acting in response to U.S. developments by toughening Canadian gun laws in the aftermath of the Texas school massacre and re-emphasizing a woman’s right to an abortion in Canada ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling this month. “Apparently Canadian politics is too boring, or parochial, or something,” the editorial observed. “If he wants to influence U.S. politics, we recommend he emigrate and run for Congress.”
But mostly, Trudeau just doesn’t act. As Globe columnist Campbell Clark noted in taking aim at the prime minister's hesitancy to end vaccine mandates, a "political inertia" orbits the sloth-speed Liberal government where “without a political impetus to do something, the default is to do nothing”. Well said.
WILL TRUDEAU RUN FOR RE-ELECTION?
Many of Trudeau's talked-up commitments – be it targets for Afghan translator immigration, Ukrainian resettlement numbers, greenhouse gas emission targets, Indigenous reconciliation moves or even tree planting by the billions – are overpromises sent off for prolonged study to ultimately end up being underdelivered.
A cagey political operative recently insisted to me that, having been involved in the Trudeau negotiations for a power-influencing deal with the NDP, she’s convinced Trudeau is running for re-election to give the cement time to set on his legacy.
If so, his shaky display of true leadership should reward the Conservatives with a government mandate in the next election.
But Trudeau has enjoyed plenty of luck in politics, so unless coronation-bound Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre pivots somewhat into mainstream thinking, the hard-right Conservatives could fall short of what’s required to unseat Trudeau from a fourth mandate.
Speaking of pivoting to a current sign of the prime minister’s ailing status, his media party at 24 Sussex Dr. returns Wednesday with Trudeau away in COVID isolation. I asked a colleague if the missing celebrity host would hinder press gallery attendance. “Actually, I think it’ll be much better without him.”
There’s little doubt a lot of Liberals are thinking the same way about their party under Justin Trudeau.
That's the bottom line.
IN DEPTH
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Settled debate or not? Canadian politicians weigh in on U.S. Supreme Court abortion rights leak
The stunning leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion rights seized political attention in Ottawa on Tuesday. In the House of Commons, MPs' persisting differing views were on display after a symbolic push to affirm abortion rights failed, and the Conservative caucus were told not to comment on the leak.
Where the six Conservative leadership candidates stand on key policy issues
Six candidates are on the ballot to become the Conservative Party's next leader. In holding rallies, doing media interviews, and participating in debates, each contender has been releasing details of their policy platforms. Here's a snapshot of where the candidates stand on the economy, housing, climate, defence and social issues.
Liberals' deal with NDP will keep Trudeau minority in power for 3 more years
The federal Liberals and New Democrats have finalized an agreement that, if maintained, would keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government in power until June 2025, in exchange for progress on longstanding NDP priorities. Trudeau announced Tuesday morning that the confidence-and-supply agreement has been brokered, and is effective immediately.
Opinion
OPINION | Don Martin: The fall of Justin Trudeau has begun
'After a weeks-long survey of just about everyone I've met ... the overall judgment on Justin Trudeau is one of being a political write-off,' writes Don Martin in an opinion column for CTVNews.ca. 'He’s too woke, too precious, preachy in tone, exceedingly smug, lacking in leadership, fading in celebrity, slow to act, short-sighted in vision and generally getting more irritating with every breathlessly whispered public pronouncement,' Martin writes.
OPINION | Don Martin: It's time for the whiners to win and the government to unclog the airports
It's time for the whiners to win and the government to reopen the skies, a return to those glory times of flying when the biggest complaints were expensive parking, a middle seat and stale pretzels, commentator Don Martin writes in an exclusive opinion column for CTVNews.ca.
OPINION | Don Martin: A basic Doug Ford takes a middle-of-the-road victory lap in Ontario election
In an exclusive opinion column for CTVNews.ca, Don Martin says Doug Ford coasted to majority re-election victory in Ontario by sticking to the middle of the road: 'Not too progressive. Not too conservative.'
OPINION | Don Martin: Premier Jason Kenney deserved a better death
There's a lesson for Canada's political leaders in the short life and quick death of Jason Kenney as premier of Alberta, writes Don Martin in an exclusive opinion column for CTVNews.ca.
OPINION | Don Martin: Ford on cruise control to victory in Ontario while Alberta votes on killing Kenney as UCP leader
It's becoming a make-or-break week for two Conservative premiers as their futures pivot on a pair of defining moments, writes Don Martin in an exclusive opinion column for CTVNews.ca.
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Gina Harrison stands beside her daughter, Christina Harrison, center, and mother Tina Harrison, in front of the new restaurant, I Love Tina and Gina’s Sandwich Shoppe during the grand opening of the restaurant at the Pizitz Food Hall in downtown Birmingham on April 16.
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A ham and Swiss sandwich on a croissant with bacon made to order
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An entrepreneur who recently moved to Birmingham, Christina Harrison is originally from Long Island, and New York City still occupies a special place in her heart.
“New York is always going to be home to me,” she said. “It was where I was born, and I was raised there for the majority of my life.”
The Big Apple’s spirit is also a big part of the food and decor at the New York-style delicatessen — I Love Tina & Gina’s Sandwich Shoppe — that Harrison opened in April at The Pizitz Food Hall downtown.
“New York has that hustle and the bustle and the excitement and the lights,” Harrison said. “It inspires people and gives people hope and excites people.”
“I wanted to bring that feeling, that excitement, that inspiration to my deli in Birmingham,” she said.
And the menu items at Tina & Gina's — named for her grandmother and mother — are much-loved New York deli staples that aren’t easy to find in the Deep South.
“I have a lot of your favorites that you can’t get around here, like the Boogie Down Bronx Chopped Cheese, which is one of my top sellers,” Harrison said.
Other items include the SOHO Club, The Manhattan and the Italian Stallion.
The look and feel of the restaurant is meant to further evoke New York, Harrison said.
That includes subway tile on the walls and custom wallpaper that features New York streets and landmarks.
“The menu is even mapped out like a New York-style subway,” Harrison said.
“Everything from the decor to the food kind of screams New York,” she said.
Before getting into the restaurant business, Harrison worked in management for a large company in Washington, D.C. for 11 years.
“When COVID hit, the business slowed down, and I moved back to Atlanta, and I started my own consulting firm to help other companies learn to scale and grow their businesses,” she said.
One of the entrepreneurs she worked with was Erica Barrett, who already had some successful food enterprises.
“I fell in love with the food business,” Harrison said.
Harrison started her new food concept about a year ago and began looking for a home for it.
She considered a few other places in Alabama and Atlanta, but the Magic City was a revelation for her.
Harrison visited Birmingham originally to visit friends, including some who had moved here from Atlanta, and “fell in love” with Birmingham, she said.
“The food scene was amazing,” Harrison said. “It kind of drew me in.”
“When I came to Birmingham I said, ‘This is where Tina & Gina's needs to be,’” she said.
The store at The Pizitz is her first Tina & Ginas location.
And in May, Barrett — a Mobile native — opened her own eatery at The Pizitz, the second location of her SOCU Southern Kitchen.
Harrison has been a Birmingham resident for several months and also lives at The Pizitz.
She strives to make Tina & Gina’s an authentic New York deli. Her sandwiches are “piled high” with meat and other ingredients, which is “definitely similar to New York style,” Harrison said.
Harrison grew up going to places like Katz's Delicatessen and Carnegie Deli. “Their pastrami sandwiches are large enough to need two or three people at one time, so I wanted to make my sandwiches piled high,” she said.
“You can’t find a good pastrami sandwich anywhere down here,” said Harrison, who offers the Tommy Pastrami sandwich at Tina & Gina’s.
Harrison has also partnered with Boar’s Head — she calls a “big-time New York staple” — to supply her deli meats and cheeses.
Those selections include beef, ham, capicola, salami and pepperoni.
“I would say that 90% of the delis in New York have Boar’s Head, so I refused to open the deli if I could not have Boar’s Head meats,” she said.
“Everything is top notch, and I grew up on eating Boar’s Head meats in New York,” she said.
Harrison’s mother, Gina, and her grandmother, Tina, are very special to Harrison and introduced her to New York delis when she was growing up.
“They raised me on deli breakfast sandwiches,” she said.
Gina was a working mom and would take Harrison to the deli each day.
“We would get breakfast, bagels and coffee, or I would get my sandwiches for lunch,” she said.
The women “are just two of my favorite New Yorkers, and they are two of my favorite people,” Harrison said. “I just wanted to pay homage and show love to them in my own way.”
The Pizitz Food hall is a good location for the eatery, Harrison said.
“I kind of fell in love with the people inside the food hall,” she said. “The atmosphere seems very upbeat and fun.”
The response she has received so far “has been amazing,” she said.
“I sell out of items consistently,” Harrison said. “I have a line out the door everyday.”
“Everybody is really excited that it’s there,” she said. “They say that The Pizitz needed something like this for a long time.“
For more information, go to instagram.com/ilovetinasandginas or thepizitz.com/food-hall.
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UPS tests tiny battery-powered cycles in congested cities
NEW YORK (AP) - The sleek four-wheeled carts look familiar enough, but not even UPS knows precisely how to describe what could be the delivery giant's latest way to get packages to your door.
UPS unveiled Tuesday a battery-powered, four-wheeled cycle to more efficiently haul cargo in some of the world's most congested streets and to reduce its carbon footprint. The company is trying to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
The slimmed-down vehicles don the company's gold-colored logo and accompanying stripe on a dark brown background. But the "eQuad" - as the company calls it - garnered amusement from passersby.
Ian Lagowitz had never seen one and walked over to give it a look.
"It's funny looking," he said, "but it's probably good for the city, right?"
Mohammad Islam called the vehicle "cool stuff," and wished the program well.
UPS worker Dyghton Anderson peddles an eQuad electric bike in a bicycle lane while delivering packages, in New York, Tuesday, July 14, 2022. Delivery giant UPS is going back to the future in its latest way to get packages to the doors of its millions of customers. The company is considering launching a fleet of pedal- and battery-powered cargo cycles for deliveries in some of the country's most congested cities. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
"Big trucks always blocking the traffic," he said, "so if they do that kind of stuff, it's 10 times better for everybody."
The pedal-powered vehicle was dwarfed by one of the company's more traditional delivery trucks, which rumble through traffic and sometimes draw the ire of motorists trying to get by parked trucks on narrow streets.
Delivery companies have tried all sorts of ways to deliver packages - from traditional vans to drones. The company now has a fleet of more than 1,000 electric vehicles and thousands more that aren't powered by traditional gas engines.
UPS said a trial run is focused on New York City and in several cities in Europe.
"New York is a complicated city, when we look at the density," said Nicole Pilet, the industrial engineering director for UPS. "So if we can have success here in the city, then we can see how we implement in other cities throughout the U.S."
The company had its start in Seattle more than a century ago and the first deliveries were made by foot or bicycle. As the company grew, its motorized fleet did, too.
"This is right in my wheelhouse," said Dyghton Anderson, a 22-year-old UPS delivery person and an avid cyclist who is helping pilot the program. "I ride to and from work - from all the way from the Bronx all the way to here on 43rd - so it´s pretty comfortable for me."
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Associated Press writer Bobby Caina Calvan contributed to this story.
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The think-tank found that most people were skeptical about whether Environmental, Social, Governance ("ESG") proponents were motivated by a sincere desire to do the right thing or just wanted to "look good" to the media
DES MOINES, Iowa, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Corporate Citizenship Project, a think-tank dedicated towards a data-driven approach to corporate governance matters, today released the first in a new video series about Environmental, Social, Governance "ESG". In the video, Los Angeles residents are asked about their views on ESG.
"The central question we wanted to understand was whether ordinary people felt ESG advocates---including proxy advisors like ISS, asset managers like Blackrock, or ratings firms like S&P---were sincere when they commit themselves to making the world a better place," said Ghada Salahuddin, President of The Corporate Citizenship Project.
"We found that almost everyone we spoke to felt strongly that ESG advocates and the companies who claim to be the most supportive of ESG policies are often the ones who care the least about underserved communities," she added.
The video is the first in a series of videos in development by The Corporate Citizenship Project to illustrate the disconnect between corporate ESG advocates and the people who in theory are beneficiaries of ESG policies.
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CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — For more than a century they were buried far from home, in a small cemetery on the grounds of the U.S. Army War College. Now they’re heading home.
The Army began disinterring the remains of eight Native American children who died at a government-run boarding school at the Carlisle Barracks, with the children’s closest living relatives poised to take custody.
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CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — For more than a century they were buried far from home, in a small cemetery on the grounds of the U.S. Army War College. Now they’re heading home.
The Army began disinterring the remains of eight Native American children who died at a government-run boarding school at the Carlisle Barracks, with the children’s closest living relatives poised to take custody.
The disinterment process, which began over the weekend, is the fifth at Carlisle since 2017. More than 20 sets of Native remains were transferred to family members in earlier rounds.
The children had lived at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where thousands of Native children were taken from their families and forced to assimilate to white society as a matter of U.S. policy — their hair cut and their clothing, language and culture stripped. More than 10,000 children from more than 140 tribes passed through the school between 1879 and 1918, including famous Olympian Jim Thorpe.
“If you survived this experience and were able to go back home, you were a stranger. You couldn’t even speak the language your parents spoke,” said Rae Skenandore, of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. She is a relative of Paul Wheelock, one of the children whose remains will be disinterred.
The off-reservation government boarding schools — Carlisle was the first, with 24 more that followed — “ripped apart tribes and communities and families,” said Skenandore, adding she lost part of her own culture and language as a result. “I don’t know if we can ever forgive.”
She and her mother, 83-year-old Loretta Webster, plan to make the trip to Carlisle later this month. Webster said her own father ran away from a similar boarding school in Wisconsin when he was 12.
“It was like a a prison camp, what they were putting these little kids in,” Webster said. “It’s a part of our history that’s really traumatic and still affects the community today.”
The children to be disinterred came from the Washoe, Catawba, Umpqua, Ute, Oneida and Aleut tribes. The sex and approximate age of each child will be verified, according to Renea Yates, director of the Office of Army Cemeteries, with archeological and anthropological support from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
“We conduct a very dignified disinterment of each child … and then we do a very dignified transfer ceremony, sending the children back with their families,” Yates said.
The small cemetery has been enclosed with privacy fencing during the disinterment process, which is expected to conclude in July.
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Investigators search for leads in double shooting
LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Miss. (WTOK) - Investigators are searching for leads in Monday afternoon’s shooting that put a woman and a 5-year-old on the hospital.
It was around 5:10 Monday afternoon when shots rang out near a mobile home on J.O. Thomas Rd. Inside, a 5-year-old girl and another woman were hit by bullets.
“This was a mobile home and the projectiles entered through the walls of the structure,” Chief Deputy Ward Calhoun explained. “We are still trying piece together exactly what happened, why it happened and what motives may have been involved here.”
Deputies were able to find traces of evidence just down the road from the home.
“Both of these individuals were taken to a local emergency room,” Calhoun explained. “The child was then transported on to another medical facility in the Jackson area for further treatment.”
Right now, the search is on for the person or people that might have been involved. Calhoun says the injuries are non-life-threatening.
“We have a number of leads from the community, which has been helpful. Investigators are working to make a determination to how that occurred and to ultimately hold someone responsible for that,” Calhoun said.
If you have any information that can help authorities find the person responsible, you are asked to call the sheriff’s department or Crimestoppers at 855-485-TIPS.
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Audubon 10, Riverside 5: The Wheelers added a pair of insurance runs in the top of the seventh to extend its lead over the Bulldogs and come away with the Western Iowa Conference win Tuesday night in Oakland.
Gavin Smith and Gavin Larsen each had two hits, and it was Larsen that collected three RBIs in the win.
Grady Jeppesen had three hits and two RBIs for the Bulldogs. Rhett Bentley also had two RBIs.
CAM 10, Ar-We-Va 0: The Cougars pounced right away on the Rockets, scoring eight runs in the first inning and cruising to the win.
Cade Ticknor needed just 62 pitches to complete the five-inning shutout, striking out eight. Joe Kauffman had three hits, as he, Ticknor and Seth Hensley each brought in two runs.
ACGC 5, Woodward-Granger 1: A five-run third inning gave the Chargers the momentum needed in their win over the Hawks Monday night in Granger. Tegan Slaybaugh, Miles Kading, Reid Rumelhart and Andrew Mahaffey each had RBIs. Andrew Mahaffey had the win, pitching five innings of relief ball while striking out four.
Stanton 23, Griswold 2: Cody Dorscher had an RBI and one of the Tigers’ three hits in this Corner Conference contest.
Tri-Center 16, AHSTW 3: The Vikings gave up two big innings, but that’s where the Trojans did their damage – seven runs in the first, nine in the fourth – in their Western Iowa Conference loss.
SOFTBALL
Audubon 14-5, Riverside 1-6: The Western Iowa Conference rivals split their doubleheader Monday night in Oakland.
Kali Irlmeier needed just three innings to complete the no-hitter, as the Wheelers took advantage of eight walks in the first inning to build a 9-0 lead.
A three-run sixth turned the tide for the Lady Dawgs in the nightcap. Bailey Richardson and Mica Welch each had RBIs, while a wild pitch brought home another run and gave Riverside a 6-4 lead. Kylie Hartl had a solo home run in the bottom of the seventh but Lady Dawgs’ pitcher Ayla Richardson held on to get the win.
Alexis Obermeier struck out 10 in taking the loss for the Wheelers, who are now 5-6 after the doubleheader. Riverside improved to 4-13.
Griswold 11, Stanton 1: The Tigers won their Corner Conference game in five innings. Karly Millikan pitched the win, striking out nine while allowing just two hits.
The Tigers had 11 hits with Brenna Rossell and Makenna Askeland both 3-for-3 at the plate. Joey Reynolds was 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs.
Woodward-Granger 16, ACGC 6: The Hawks spotted the Chargers (0-10) the first two runs, but then put up seven in the second inning and went on to the relatively easy six-inning win Monday night in Granger.
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Storj (STORJ) traded 5.6% lower against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 16:00 PM E.T. on June 14th. One Storj coin can currently be bought for $0.36 or 0.00001627 BTC on exchanges. Storj has a total market capitalization of $143.27 million and $17.48 million worth of Storj was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last week, Storj has traded down 37.7% against the US dollar.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded down 5% against the dollar and now trades at $22,231.22 or 1.00017269 BTC.
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004499 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004499 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.50 or 0.00002250 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 7.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001850 BTC.
About Storj
According to CryptoCompare, “Storj is a decentralized cloud storage platform that allows anyone to rent their idle hard drive space and to earn a revenue by doing so. Endusers can use Storj to store their files at competitive prices and within a p2p network that is secure from sever downtime, censorship and hacks. Payments within the Sotrj network are conducted with the STORJ token, an ERC20 Ethereum-based token. “
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It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Storj directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Storj should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Coinbase, Changelly or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Storj using one of the exchanges listed above.
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AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — Costa Rica derrota 1-0 a Nueva Zelanda y se clasifica a la Copa del Mundo.
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Kevin Gates has a history of getting as nasty as he wants on wax. We're highlighting some of his most explicit records from through out his career.
In every era in hip-hop history, there are artists who excel at detailing the stories that are usually not intended for the general public's consumption.
From the days where 2 Live Crew got so wantonly filthy that it became a matter for the courts to Lil Kim’s revolutionary rhymes on Hardcore,Lil Wayne labeling himself the “pussy monster” and Plies’ ability to turn his most hedonistic thoughts into hit singles, telling tales from the boudoir has always struck a chord with hip-hop listeners. While in some cases, the sheer candidness of what they’re willing to divulge will remind you that anyone who thought that Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B’s “WAP” was a cause for moral panic clearly hasn’t listened to a Too Short record.
In the past week, one man who has made waves by expressing his innermost desires on wax is none other than Kevin Gates.
Hot on the heels of what appears to be an acrimonious split from his wife of seven years, Dreka, Gates made his way to the booth to deliver his “Super General” freestyle. Over ATL Jacob and Jambo’s now iconic “Super Gremlin” instrumental, Gates took a shot at prominent names in the industry, regardless of whether they were married or not.
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Alongside telling Nicki Minaj that "she need Kevin, she still playin' around with Kenneth," Gates also made an indecent proposal to the Carters, proclaiming that "ain’t no disrespect to Jigga, met through Nipsey, that’s my n***a." He continued, "Don’t know if they in the swingin’, Beyoncé need to let me hit her/Make her piss all on this dick, respectfully, her body shiver."
Although the two musical icons have unsurprisingly opted to ignore his advances, Rubi Rose, whom he told he wanted to "put that dick deep in yo' back and have you cum all on this missile" did take to Twitter to react, stating what many devout fans already know-- "Kevin gates freaky as hell lol."
For long-term listeners of the lynchpin of the Breadwinner’s Association, Gates toeing the line between lust and vulgarity is as commonplace as bars about whipping up bricks or copping cars are in the discography of others.
In fact, there have been many instances where he’s devoted entire songs to the subject. And while he’s disclosed his softer side and penchant for romanticism on notable songs like "Arms Of A Stranger" and the remorseful "Betta For You," there’s no denying that one of Gates’ preferred lyrical devices is discussing what takes place between the sheets or just about anywhere else you can think of. So, with that in mind, we’ve scoured the Baton Rouge native’s discography to rediscover some of his most carnally-minded compositions.
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"Love Or Lust" (2008)
In 2008, a young Kevin Gates was just finding his feet in the industry. Armed with little more than a few mixtapes to his name, the Louisianian could’ve been forgiven for playing it safe at the start. But if you know the man who’d one day become Luca Brasi, he’s not one to err on the side of caution when it comes to his bars.
An obscure cut from his early career which sees him adopt an almost Pac-like flow, the groove-laden tracks sees Gates unveil his propensity for dirty talk as he speaks of "exchanging fuck faces, while I touch places, spit on her pussy from behind while we love making."
Oddly, the track also sees him make the bizarre concession that "Orgasms won’t happen, unheard of with Kevin" which stands in sharp contrast to the claims of being a gifted lovemaker that has punctuated much of his later work.
"69" (2010)
Taken from 2010’s Behind Enemy Lines, this track isn’t just a celebration of one sex act in particular, it also contains odes to exhibitionism in the outside world or, more specifically, parking garages.
Recorded during his short stint at Baton Rouge’s own Dead Game Records, the track’s borderline gratuitous verse features the prototypical form of the rhymes that he’d eventually send Rubi Rose’s way, with Gates’ spitting "sucking all on your navel while fiddling with your kitty, I hope we don't wake the neighbors, you feel it all in your kidneys."
"Get Ya Back Broke" (2010)
Suffice to say, “69” isn’t the only sexually charged track on the Behind Enemy Lines tape. While he may emanate from Louisiana, there’s an undeniably Houston-oriented swing to the pulsating “Get Ya Back Broke.”
Amid the undeniably catchy hook from Gates and Malachi, he also discusses his streamlined approach to courtship as he reveals how “I try to fuck em right after I meet em / Nibble her ear, rubbing her clit, lot of touching and teasing, we went from just conversing briefly to frequently speaking."
Never one to waste a solitary bar, the comedic value of the track’s parting shot of "I can’t forget when I saw you out on the balcony, I made it my business to raw you out on the balcony" never quite wears off.
"What Must I Say/Do It In The Mirror" (2010)
As we know, Kevin Gates isn’t one to lead with subtlety when it comes to making his feelings known and “What Must I Say” is certainly no exception.
Complete with a hook that was previously part of the unreleased track "Do It In The Mirror," "What Must I Say" sees Kevin approach a lady with the sole intention of taking her home that night, planning to "do it in the mirror put your heels on the dresser/Good girls make a lot of noise/Squeal under pressure."
Yet while the original song comes embellished with the sound of a woman in the throes of passion, Kevin seemingly thought better of it the second time around.
"Strokin" (2013)
A long-time favorite among Gates’ fans, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Kevin’s insistence that he’s doing it in slow motion on the luxuriously produced “Strokin” would imply a certain degree of sensuality. But rather than looking to engage in a long-term relationship, Gates once again advocates for casual, no-strings-attached sex with a woman that he "sees in my dreams, or in the magazines" with a "left nipple" all in his mouth, "Licking on it all no feelings involved/Watching water fall took no time at all, pussy."
"Thinking With My Dick" feat. Juicy J (2013)
Although it was initially released in 2013, this Juicy J-assisted offering has received a resurgence in relevancy on TikTok in recent months. So much so that it is scheduled to be re-released on his forthcoming new album, Khaza.
A party anthem by design, Kevin has acknowledged the newfound popularity of the track by bringing Steven Barbosa, who featured in a viral video that helped kickstart the track’s second wind, up onstage with him at a recent show.
"Wild Ride" (2014)
Among the many attention-grabbing tracks from Luca Brasi 2: Gangsta Grillz, this atmospheric trap number finds Gates crooning over the beat before hitting a lady with an indecent proposal as he spits, "would I be wrong? I wanna fuck you with one of my n****s? If afterwards I promise that I wouldn't look at you different."
Later on, amid a host of braggadocious bars, Gates reveals some of his personal preferences, disclosing that "sometimes I like to watch my ho fuck, video makin' flicks, In the whip jackin' me off, know how to make it spit, Hand in my drawers, fondle my balls, she got the softest grip."
"Wit It" (2014)
Among the standouts of By Any Means, this seductively inclined number sees Gates discuss the temporary trance that the object of his affections has placed him under. Or, in his words, "jumping, pussy gushing, running like a water faucet. (Please) don't get off it,I'm out my mind don't know what to call it."
"Go Hard" (2014)
A more serene offering that comes with a pitch-perfect hook from Rico Love, By Any Means’ “Go Hard” is another exploration of his appetites in which he provides the understatement of the century when he forewarns the listener that he "is quite explicit in my metaphors."
An R&B-tinged number that veers towards an old-school slow jam, Gates even suggests that he’s willing to risk it all as he declares that "ain't no crying now, this ain't no crime that we committed, hol' up wait its boutta, can I leave it in."
Lil Kim "#Mine" feat. Kevin Gates (2016)
For the most part, Kevin saves his coarser bars for his own catalog but his collaboration with the BX’s own Queen Bee is a noteworthy and worthwhile exception. Complete with a verse and hook that was originally housed on an unreleased track of his own known as "When I Get Home," Kevin pulls no punches as he discusses how, "her momma hate me, say I'm too advanced, ask her how she's doing/She never say it to my face, I'm turnt up I'm a movie, yeah/At night she hear her daughter scream, Cassius Clay, I bomaye,/My hand around her throat she naked, I bent her over on the dresser."
Naturally, Lil Kim was all too happy to match him in terms of nastiness, veering from talk of her status as a hip-hop sex symbol to the admission that you can "see my pussy print all through my jeans."
"D U Down" (2017)
Taken from the sequel to By Any Means, this 2017 offering sees the BWA leader recall a conquest from his days on the road.
Alongside reinforcing his apparent affinity for biting as he discusses "nibbling like Tyson," the track’s central narratives comes from one of the biggest conferences in the music industry: "We had met out while out in Houston/South-by while out in Austin/I be fuckin her to my lil' brother/Bam music, you know I'm retarded."
"Luv Bug" (2019)
Dropped on the incredibly consistent EP that is Only The Generals Gon Understand, this precursor to I'm Him is pivotal in Gates' catalogue for a few reasons. First off, we have the impassioned rallying cry that is "Big Gangsta." But beyond that, there is one of Kevin's most forthright ruminations on romance in the form of "Luv Bug" in which the Louisianan rapper seems to veer between adoration and contempt for his chosen partner.
Although he lavishes praises on her skills as a "high power freak" that gets rid of "all discretion," he then takes issue with the decibel levels of their lovemaking as he protests that "You been doin' a lot of squirming and hollering, baby, now shut the fuck up." Rounded off with yet more allusions to his affinity for the posterior as he recounts "stickin' my tongue all in her ass, don't budge," this is quintessential Kevin Gates in that he doesn't spare the faintest detail over an engrossing, piano-led beat.
"Face Down" (2019)
Taken from his long-awaited sophomore album I’m Him, this DJ Chose-produced effort allows Gates to outline exactly how he likes to conduct himself. Complete with a chorus that was certainly not intended for radio play in which he discusses how he’ll "tell her bend it over, I'm gon' break her back, face down, make-up sex, choke her while I fuck her, she in love with that," he further elaborates on his unique approach to conflict resolution in the second verse where he reveals that "we had an argument, I'm solvin' it when I rip from the rear/I'll eat your clit out from behind, I crack a smile, a chandelier." | https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kevin-gates-freakiest-songs-news.153537.html | 2022-06-14T21:49:14Z | https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kevin-gates-freakiest-songs-news.153537.html | false | 1 |
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana Ballet Theater will stage “The Silk Road” ballet choreographed by Honored Worker of Kazakhstan Mukaram Avakhri on June 18-19, reported the theater’s press service.
According to Kazakh poet and screenwriter Bakhyt Kairbekov, who wrote the ballet’s libretto, he was attracted to the topic of the new project and closely worked with a choreographer.
“I was inspired by Mukaram Avakhri’s creative works and her perseverance. I believe the project will definitely be successful because she knows what she wants and foresees the future of the project,” said Kairbekov.
The original scenography was created by Askar Iskakov and 220 unique sets of costumes were made by film artists Assel Shalabayeva and Dina Buksikova.
It is also reported that the Astana Ballet Theater will premiere the one-act ballet “Orpheus and Eurydice” dedicated to the Day of the Capital on July 5, 6, 8 and 9. The ballet is a choreographic interpretation of the myths of Ancient Greece in the neoclassical style with elements of modernity. The play is staged by Kristina Paulin, a former dancer of the John Neumeier Hamburg Ballet. | https://astanatimes.com/2022/06/astana-ballet-theater-to-present-the-silk-road-ballet-this-weekend/ | 2022-06-14T21:49:28Z | https://astanatimes.com/2022/06/astana-ballet-theater-to-present-the-silk-road-ballet-this-weekend/ | true | 1 |
Blatter, Platini reiterate innocence in testimony to court
BELLINZONA, Switzerland — (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini strongly reiterated their innocence as the two former soccer leaders were questioned on day two of their criminal trial on charges of defrauding FIFA.
Blatter was due to testify on the opening day on Wednesday but the former FIFA president said he was bothered by chest pains and asked to respond the following morning.
“I feel much better, thank you,” the 86-year-old Blatter said at the start of Thursday’s session at the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland in Bellinzona.
Blatter’s 17-year reign as president came to an end in June 2015, when he resigned amid a corruption scandal. A few months later, federal prosecutors in Switzerland revealed their investigation into a $2 million payment from FIFA to Platini from four years earlier.
The fallout from the case also ended Platini’s campaign to succeed his former mentor and removed the France soccer great as president of UEFA.
Both have always denied wrongdoing and have also long questioned how the disputed payment came to light, airing unproven claims of prosecutors meeting a whistleblower on a park bench.
That was firmly refuted by Thursday's final witness, former federal prosecutor Olivier Thormann, as he gave testimony that was widely anticipated.
Blatter and Platini claim they had a verbal deal in 1998 for the latter to be paid 1 million Swiss francs ($1.02 million) to serve as advisor to Blatter if he was elected as FIFA president. That defense first failed with judges at the FIFA ethics committee, which banned them from soccer, and later in separate appeals at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Platini’s contract with FIFA, signed in August 1999, was for 300,000 Swiss francs ($312,000) annually and backdated to January. It is claimed Blatter said he would pay only the same as FIFA’s then-secretary general, and promised the balance later.
“In the verbal contract we didn’t determine the date he would get it, it was a contract between men, and we started work immediately. I didn’t give him a precise time when he would get it,” Blatter said.
“When I was elected FIFA president, we had a bad balance … at the time I had no idea (when the payment would be made), I simply had this man with me and he was worth this million but I didn’t know when and how he would get it.”
Platini backed up Blatter’s comments in his testimony and claimed he should have been paid more, but had miscalculated the discrepancy in the amount he had been promised and his salary during his four years in the advisory role.
“I made a mistake. I was convinced the salary was 500,000 (Swiss francs) and I realised when the prosecutor showed me the contract. But FIFA knew they cheated me,” Platini said.
The 66-year-old Platini was asked why he waited until 2011 to send FIFA an invoice for the money allegedly owed. The bill came not long after FIFA paid a seven-figure severance to Jerome Champagne, a French former diplomat who was ousted as a Blatter aide.
“I trusted the president and I knew that one day or the other he would pay me. I wouldn’t get into a deal with the president without trusting him,” Platini said. “It wasn’t vital for me that money. What was vital was the word of the president of FIFA.
“I have principles. I’m not going to ask for money from someone who owes me. Just that, one day, I knew that FIFA had given two big payments to employees who left and at that point I told myself it would be good that they remember they owe me money.”
The trial is set to last 11 days and the three federal judges hearing the case are scheduled to deliver their verdict on July 8. Blatter and Platini each face up to five years in prison, but suspended sentences are a likely option.
“I was in shock (when we were first questioned) and that shock has lasted seven years. It’s still here,” Blatter said. “I have already been punished for seven years. It has seemed like an eternity.
“That’s why I’m happy we’re in court now, to learn the truth about what happened. I’m happy we’re here and this will finally end.”
Blatter and Platini refused to answer questions from FIFA lawyer Catherine Hohl-Chirazi.
“What FIFA did to the president of FIFA and me is scandalous, they made us out to be cheaters, fraudsters, money launderers,” Platini said. “Just so that I wouldn’t become president.
“It’s not easy when you’re known worldwide to be criticised worldwide, especially when you have children and grandchildren … I hope there will be justice one day.”
Criminal proceedings were opened against Blatter in September 2015 and it was years later, after Thormann left the prosecution team, that Platini was targeted.
Platini’s lawyer, Dominic Nellen, attempted to show in court the prosecution office had colluded with soccer officials, and that this helped Gianni Infantino become FIFA president in 2016. A FIFA ethics investigation into the $2 million payment led to Platini being banned in 2015 and barred from the election race to succeed Blatter.
However, Thormann said information about the Platini payment was obtained in May 2015 from FIFA’s then-chief financial officer Markus Kattner. Swiss authorities had seized documents and data at FIFA offices in Zurich as part of their wider investigation at the same time as United States federal agents led their own investigation of corruption in international soccer.
The documents detailed FIFA payments to all members of its executive committee, including Platini.
“We received an alert and we opened up a dossier,” Thormann said in court, dismissing any notion of intrigue or conspiracy.
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New York Mets Shortstop Francisco Lindor Surprises Winner with Honor
ORCHARD LAKE, Mich., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In its 37th year of honoring the nation's most elite high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Brock Porter of St. Mary's Preparatory School in Orchard Lake, Mi. is the 2021-22 Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year. Porter won the prestigious award for his accomplishments on and off the field, joining an impressive group of former Gatorade National Baseball Players of the Year who have combined for four MLB MVP awards, 42 All-Star appearances and 27 MLB first round draft picks.
New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor virtually surprised Porter with the news, while his family, coaches and teammates showed up with the trophy at school. Check out a video of the announcement here.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Porter as the nation's best high school baseball player. The Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others to evaluate candidates, selected Porter from nearly half a million other student-athletes who play high school baseball nationwide.
Competition for the national award was fierce. Porter topped the list of state winners in baseball who collectively boast an incredible list of accomplishments, including 35 with signed National Letters of Intent to play at Division I colleges/universities, 27 who joined two or more charitable organizations and 18 with a GPA of 4.0 and above.
"Brock Porter is such a deserving winner of the Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year Award," said Jim Callis, senior writer for MLB Pipeline. "He's the best high school pitcher in the country, potentially the first pitcher to be selected in the 2022 Draft, and a driving force on one of the best high school teams in the nation. He's 6-0 with a 0.167 ERA and 87 strikeouts in 42 innings, and he does damage at the plate with a .517 average, four home runs and a 1.528 OPS in 29 at-bats. He also stands out with his work in the classroom and by helping others."
At the time of his selection, the 6-foot-4, 215-pound senior right-handed pitcher had led the Eaglets to a 42-0 record, a No. 1 national ranking by MaxPreps and the semifinals of the Division 1 state postseason tournament, scheduled for June 18. He compiled an 8-0 record on the mound through 42 games with a 0.271 ERA and 109 strikeouts against 23 walks in 51.2 innings. He also posted a WHIP of 0.619 and held opposing batters to a miniscule .056 average. In 35 at-bats this spring entering the state final four, he hit .486 with 17 RBI, four home runs and an OPS of 1.412. Ranked as the nation's No. 12 prospect in the Class of 2022 by Baseball America and No. 7 by Perfect Game, Porter was a 2021 MLB Player Development Pipeline invitee. Michigan's returning Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year, Porter was also the winning pitcher of the 2019 state title game, he fired a complete-game six-hitter in last year's semifinals, surrendering one run and fanning 12 to help lead St. Mary's to Collegiate Baseball News' No. 1 national ranking in 2021.
A past student council president and vice president at St. Mary's, Porter is an altar server at the Holy Spirit Church and is a student representative for his school with the Michigan High School Athletic Association Student Advisory Committee. He has also volunteered locally on behalf of St. Williams Church and the Miracle League, in addition to donating his time to the Pickens Baseball Academy as well as multiple community service initiatives in association with the National Honor Society.
Porter has maintained a 4.24 weighted GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball on scholarship at Clemson University this fall, but is projected as an early-round selection in July's Major League Baseball draft.
"There are nearly six million student-athletes who participate in the 12 sports we award Gatorade Players of the Year," said Gatorade Senior Vice President and General Manager Brett O'Brien. "It's a testament to Brock Porter's hard work and incredible achievements on and off the field that have outshined the competition not just in his state, but the whole nation."
Each year, a selection committee evaluates the nation's top talent to choose one state winner from each of the 50 states as well as Washington D.C., in 12 different sports: football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball, boys and girls soccer, and boys and girls track & field. In all, 608 athletes are honored each year. From the pool of state winners, one national winner is selected in each of the 12 sports.
Gatorade has a long-standing history of serving athlete communities and understands how sports instill valuable lifelong skills on and off the field. Since the program's inception in 1985, Gatorade Player of the Year award recipients have won hundreds of professional and college championships, and many have also turned into pillars in their communities, becoming coaches, business owners and educators. Previous winners include a distinguished list of athletes, such as Peyton Manning, Abby Wambach, Jayson Tatum, Elena Delle Donne and many other sports icons.
To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check out past winners or to nominate student-athletes, visit playeroftheyear.gatorade.com or follow us on social media on Facebook at facebook.com/GatoradePOY, Instagram at instagram.com/Gatorade and Twitter at twitter.com/Gatorade.
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By Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller and Ellen Knickmeyer | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden confirmed on Tuesday that he will visit Saudi Arabia next month for talks with its leaders, a dramatic change in his stance on the kingdom that he pledged to make a “pariah” as a Democratic candidate for the White House.
With the visit at the tail end of a July 13-16 Middle East trip that includes stops in Israel and the West Bank, Biden is edging off his adversarial stance against on the Saudis’ human rights record. He’s looking to reset the relationship at a time when the U.S. could use help from the oil-rich kingdom to alleviate soaring prices at the pump for motorists at home and around the globe.
The stop in Saudi Arabia will include talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of the kingdom, according to White House and Saudi officials. U.S. intelligence officials have determined Prince Mohammed likely ordered the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
In a brief exchange with reporters on Tuesday, Biden bristled when asked about his upcoming visit to Jeddah and noted that his team had laid out in a statement “everything I’m doing in the Middle East.”
Human rights advocates and some Democratic allies cautioned Biden about visiting the kingdom, saying such a visit without first getting human rights commitments would send a message to Saudi leaders that there are no consequences for egregious rights violations. The Saudis have been accused of using mass arrests, executions and violence to squelch dissent.
But at a time of skyrocketing prices at the gas pump, growing worries about Iran’s nuclear program and perpetual concern that China is expanding its global footprint, Biden and his national security team have determined that freezing out the Saudis, particularly the crown prince, is not in the U.S. interest.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, told CNN that Biden “has a tough job dealing with gasoline prices and trying to find ways to find new sources and supplies to bring down inflation in the energy sector.”
But Durbin said he had “mixed feelings” about the visit, calling the Saudi’s human rights record “an outrage.”
The Senate’s No. 2 Republican leader accused Biden of paying too little attention to American energy.
John Thune of South Dakota said, “It just seems having to go hat in hand to the Saudis to try and get them to increase energy production because we won’t do it here, I think it’s unfortunate that an American president is put in that position.”
The Saudi Embassy in Washington described the visit as coming at the king’s invitation “to strengthen the historical bilateral relations and the distinguished strategic partnership between” the two countries.
The White House announced the trip after Saudi Arabia this month helped nudge OPEC+ to ramp up oil production by 648,000 barrels per day in July and August, and the kingdom agreed to extend a United Nations-mediated cease-fire in its seven-year war with Yemen. Biden called the Saudi cease-fire decision “courageous.” Prince Mohammed, who is commonly referred to by his initials, MBS, played a “critical role” in brokering an extension of the cease-fire, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said King Salman invited Biden to visit the kingdom during a gathering in the port city of Jeddah of the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — as well as Egypt, Iraq and Jordan.
She suggested that Biden would raise human rights concerns with Saudi officials but did not directly answer whether the president would speak to Prince Mohammed about the Khashoggi killing.
“It’s important to also emphasize that while we recalibrate relationships, we are not looking to rupture relationships,” Jean-Pierre said. “But human human rights issues, human rights conversations (are) something that the president brings up with many leaders and plans to do so.”
Hala al-Dosari, a prominent rights advocate in Saudi Arabia now living and teaching in the United States, said Biden’s decision to meet with the crown prince is “a betrayal.” She also raised concerns that Biden’s visit to Israel glosses over last month’s fatal shooting of prominent American-Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh in the West Bank. Independent investigations by The Associated Press and some other news organizations concluded Israeli fire likely killed the veteran journalist. Israel has said it would investigate.
Al-Dosari accused the administration of “prioritizing immediate interests over long-term goals of supporting democratic transitions” in Arab countries and “the immediate interests of securing more oil, and support for Israel.”
Biden’s first stop during the Middle East swing will be in Israel for a long-planned visit with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem. He will then meet with Palestinian Authority leaders, including Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank. Biden will cap the whirlwind trip with the visit to Jeddah.
The trip to Israel comes at a fraught time for Bennett’s fragile coalition, as he tries to avert another election and the potential return to power of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and as Iran’s nuclear program continues advancing.
Biden while in Israel will take part in a virtual meeting of “I2-U2” leaders, an economic forum established late last year that includes Israel, India, the United Arab Emirates and the U.S.The president’s time in Israel also coincides with the Maccabiah Games, a sporting competition that brings together thousands of Jewish and Israeli athletes from around the globe. Biden is expected to meet with athletes taking part in the games.
Israeli officials in their engagement with the Biden administration have pressed their point of view that U.S. relations with Arab capitals, including Riyadh, are critical to Israel’s security and overall stability in the region. The visit could also provide an opportunity to kick off talks for what the administration sees as a longer-term project of normalizing Israeli-Saudi relations.
Bennett said in a statement that the visit will “reveal the steps that are being taken by the U.S. to integrate Israel into the Middle East and increase the prosperity of the entire region.”The Palestinians, meanwhile, will be looking for progress on reopening the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem. It served Palestinians before the Trump administration shut it in 2018 and folded its work into the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem as part of the controversial recognition of the city as Israel’s capital.
Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally. The Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state.The Palestinians also hope the Biden administration will make greater efforts to rein in Israeli settlement construction and other unilateral actions that they say hinder the eventual revival of a long-idled peace process.
Hussein al-Sheikh, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told The Associated Press that the Palestinians welcome Biden’s visit and hope for “positive results” but feel stymied in their decades-long quest for an independent state alongside Israel.
“What is the American vision for resolving the conflict?” he asked.
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A 19-year-old girl was struck dead by lightning in Malla village near Kembhavi in the district on Tuesday evening.
\The deceased has been identified as Vidya Sangappa Kumbara. She was working in the farmland when lightning struck her.
Meanwhile, Bidar and its surroundings received heavy rains in the evening.
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Hot, With Scattered Showers & Thunderstorms
From Chief Meteorologist David Paul in the 4Warn Storm Center:
SYNOPSIS – An early round of showers and thunderstorms will give way to partly cloudy skies overnight. We’ll see another round of showers and thunderstorms later Wednesday, but not before high temperatures soar into the upper 90s. Rain chances will be low with plenty of heat for later in the week and the weekend.
TONIGHT – Early showers and thunderstorms, then mostly to partly cloudy. Low near 74°. Winds W/NW at 5 mph.
TOMORROW – Partly cloudy, scattered showers and thunderstorms late. High near 98°. Winds N at 5 mph.
TOMORROW NIGHT – Early showers and thunderstorms, then mostly to partly cloudy. Low near 74°. Winds NE at 5-10 mph.
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THU: Partly cloudy, slight rain chance. Low: 74° High: 98° 10%
FRI: Partly cloudy, slight rain chance. Low: 76° High: 98° 20%
SAT: Partly cloudy, slight rain chance. Low: 76° High: 100° 10%
SUN: Partly cloudy, slight rain chance. Low: 75° High: 99° 10%
MON: Partly cloudy, slight rain chance. Low: 77° High: 96° 10%
TUE: Partly cloudy, slight rain chance. Low: 76° High: 97° 10%
COASTAL FORECAST WEDNESDAY – Light Chop on Coastal Lakes and Bays. Winds NW/W at 10-15 kts. Seas offshore 2-3 feet.
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How To Find Squat-proof Leggings
Buying Guide
Leggings shouldn't become see-through when you bend over or stretch. Here's how to tell if the fabric will stand up to your workouts.
With each bend, squat and stretch, a pair of leggings should be flexible, durable and opaque. Many of us have been there—sweating in a workout class and noticing somebody else's leggings (or our own) become sheer and see-through during a deep squat or forward fold. When choosing a pair of leggings, it's important to know how to test the quality and opacity of the fabric, so you can feel confident in your workout clothes and avoid potential wardrobe mishaps.
What Does 'Squat-proof Leggings' Mean?
What To Look For in Squat-proof Leggings
- Materials
Finding the right blend of high-quality, sweat-wicking materials is key. Look for a blend of polyester or nylon, plus elastane fabrics. For example, the Nike One Luxe leggings are non-sheer and squat-test approved and they're made from about 75 percent polyester and about 25 percent elastane. The fabric offers a sensation that's smooth and soft, feeling like a second skin, while also wicking away sweat from the body, thanks to the Nike Dri-FIT Technology that's embedded in the design.
Certain Nike leggings styles are constructed with recycled polyester fibres, which are made from plastic bottles that are cleaned, shredded into flakes, converted into pellets and then spun into a high-quality yarn. In addition to reducing waste, recycled poly lowers carbon emissions by up to 30 percent compared to virgin polyester.
For everyday wear, a blend that contains cotton will offer a soft, body-hugging feel, like a pair of Nike Sportswear leggings made from cotton, polyester and elastane. These will feel comfortable for lounging, though bear in mind that cotton tends to absorb moisture, so opt for a pair of Nike Dri-FIT leggings if you're planning to sweat.
- Fit
When looking for a pair of squat-proof leggings, make sure you select the right size. With any pair of leggings, if the material is stretched too tight, the knit may stretch and cause sheerness. For more information on sizing, see Nike's size charts for women's bottoms or for men's bottoms.
How You Can Tell if Your Leggings Aren't Squat-proof
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The first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, announced that her relatively autonomous government in Scotland would pursue a second referendum on full Scottish independence.
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The first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, announced that her relatively autonomous government in Scotland would pursue a second referendum on full Scottish independence.
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REDMOND, Wash., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.62 per share. The dividend is payable Sept. 8, 2022, to shareholders of record on Aug. 18, 2022. The ex-dividend date will be Aug. 17, 2022.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House gave final approval Tuesday to legislation that would allow around-the-clock security protection for families of Supreme Court justices, one week after a man carrying a gun, knife and zip ties was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house after threatening to kill the justice.
The Senate passed the bill unanimously last month, but it languished in the House as Democrats sought to broaden the measure to include protection for families of court employees. Republicans ramped up pressure to pass the bill after the arrest at Kavanaugh's house, asserting that Democrats were essentially trying to intimidate the justices as the court weighs a potential landmark ruling on abortion.
The House passed the security measure overwhelmingly, 396-27. All of the votes in opposition came from Democrats.
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“By passing this bill as is, we are sending a clear message to left wing radicals: you cannot intimidate Supreme Court justices," said House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy.
The Senate voted to expand security protections shortly after the leak of a draft court opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade and sharply curtail abortion rights in roughly half the states. Supporters of the legislation said threats to the justices have increased since then, with protesters sometimes gathering outside their homes.
“We don’t have time to spare when it comes protecting the members of the court and their families," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the bill's sponsor. “If, heaven forbid, something were to happen ... shame on members of the House of Representatives. It would be on them for their failure to act on this commonsense, bipartisan bill."
Democrats noted that the Supreme Court justices already have round-the-clock security details. They said they also supported extending security to immediate families. But they wanted “one itty bitty concession" to include security for families of court employees, such as the law clerks who work for the justices and help them prepare for cases.
“Democrats want to also protect employees and families who are getting threats from right wing activists," said Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif.
But last week's arrest clearly brought new emphasis to the bill and new pressure from Republicans seeking a vote. Democrats said they would pursue the protections for families of court employees separately.
“We can no longer delay in passing the only version of the bill they would apparently agree to," Lieu said of Republicans.
In the Kavanaugh case, authorities have charged Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, with the attempted murder of a justice. Clad in black, he arrived by taxi outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home around 1 a.m. Wednesday.
He spotted two U.S. marshals who were guarding the house and walked in the other direction, calling 911 to say he was having suicidal thoughts and also planned to kill Kavanaugh, according to court documents.
Roske said he found the justice’s address on the internet.
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Sonoma penalty report: Cliff Daniels suspended; No. 51 loses points
NASCAR officials issued penalties Tuesday to a pair of NASCAR Cup Series teams stemming from violations during last weekend‘s events at Sonoma Raceway.
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No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet crew chief Cliff Daniels and crew members Donnie Tasser and Brandon Johnson have been suspended from the next four events, through New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s race weekend on July 17. Kyle Larson’s No. 5 machine lost a tire on Sunday at the California road course, a violation of Section 10.5.2.6: Loss or separation of an improperly installed tire/wheel from the vehicle.
Hendrick will not appeal the penalty.
Separately, Rick Ware Racing and Cody Ware have been penalized with the loss of 20 NASCAR Cup Series championship team owner and driver points after multiple inspection failures. The No. 51 team failed pre-qualifying inspection four times, sending Ware to the rear of the field to start Sunday’s race and mandating a pass-through penalty after the green flag.
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Amber Heard reportedly won’t be seen in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) after all as Warner Bros. is reportedly recasting her character.
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After losing the defamation trial against her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, 56, the actress has seen defeat after defeat. She claims that the trial is a massive step back for women as the trial apparently sided with Depp with the media leading the Jury to favor her ex more than her.
The trial was a continuation of Depp trying to clear his name after being accused by Heard to be abusive and a “wife-beater”. Heard published an Op-Ed piece sharing her experience from the abuse, but decided not to name Deep in 2018 with The Washington Post. This led to an intense court trial between the two with the Jury reaching a verdict almost two weeks ago.
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Depp was found to be innocent and won the lawsuit against his ex-wife. Heard now owes Depp $15 million and he now owes Heard $2 million in compensatory damages. This lawsuit still left the actress with a role in the upcoming sequel to Jason Momoa’s Aquaman (2018) despite Depp losing all of his work with Warner Bros. and Disney.
Fans have been begging for Warner Bros. to cut her role and it seems that they have finally given in. According to a report from Just Jared, a Warner Bros. insider claims that the studio is recasting Mera. Reshoots will be happening later this year with someone else replacing Heard as the new Mera for any future DCEU projects. The source claims that Kidman will play Mera, but she actually plays Atlanna in the movie. This isn’t the first time that sources have claimed Heard would lose her role so it’s very likely that someone else will play Mera in the Aquaman Sequel.
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Surprisingly, Warner Bros. was already on the fence about keeping the actress for the movie and has leaned back and forth on what to do. DC has suffered from a lot of mishaps over the years and with Ezra Miller playing the Flash, it feels like Warner Bros. is just playing damage control.
While Heard may be seen as a liar and abusive person, Miller has shockingly been accused of grooming and brainwashing a teenage girl since she was twelve years old and Warner Bros. still hasn’t spoken up on what they plan to do. With Heard out of the picture, fans hope that Miller will be recast in The Flash (2023) as well, but it’s hard to tell what the studio will do.
Related: ‘Aquaman 2’ Producer Backs Heard’s Claim That Depp Fans Have “No Basis in Reality”
It didn’t take Warner Bros. very long to recast Johnny Depp in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, but the studio waited years before doing the same to Heard. With the trial over and Depp possibly getting some roles in future movies, things are starting to look better, but who knows what will happen next in the entertainment world.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom releases in theaters on March 17, 2023.
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Jamie Carragher has slammed the "clowns" who jeered and questioned Gareth Southgate as England were beaten by Hungary.
The Three Lions endured one of their worst nights in decades, losing 4-0 to their European counterparts in the Nations League at Molineux. It was England's worst reverse on home soil for well over half a century as alarm bells were rang ahead of the World Cup.
It brings down the curtain on a disappointing fortnight in which England have failed to win any of their last four games - drawing two and scoring just the once. Fans were understandably frustrated and booed at full-time whilst also slamming Southgate.
Carragher has been quick to hit back and remind them that the England boss has led the nation to the semi-finals of the World Cup and the final of the Euros. He tweeted: "'You don’t know what you’re doing' shut up you clowns. This manager has taken the country in two tournaments to the best positions since 1966.
His Sky Sports colleague Gary Neville, who too has been a big advocate of Southgate, added: "Sympathy for the fans and for the players. This isn’t right. Players/Coaches will have to collectively come together to start to influence the programme to get that clear break.."
Southgate confessed after the game that such a reaction did hurt but understood the emotion of the fans. He rotated the squad and admitted that the results were on him. He told Channel 4 : “Yes of course (he can understand them). In the end, this is about winning matches with England. Tonight was the sort of night that a lot of my predecessors have had and experienced, and it’s difficult.
How will England fare at the World Cup? Have your say in the comments!
"I’m not going to say it doesn’t hurt, but it’s very clear to me what we were trying to do across the four matches, and the irony is that the two Nations League campaigns have been the ones that have heaped negativity and pressure onto us. I’ve got to go with that and it’s my job to protect the players. The results are my responsibility.”
Captain Harry Kane, who scored the only goal in England's last four games, hit back and was keen to take fans down memory lane as he reminded them of their recent exploits: "We’re preparing for a big World Cup, and will learn a lot from this camp. Let’s not forget where we’ve come from: a first final in 60 years, and a semi-final at a World Cup.
"Compared to where we were over the last 50 years, it’s no time to panic. It’s not going to be perfect every game, the fans have to understand that.”
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Panchkula extortion racket: Fresh FIR against kingpin’s son
Police have lodged another FIR against Akash Bhalla, son of Anil Bhalla, the kingpin of the Panchkula extortion racket.
The case was registered following a complaint by Harinder Kaur of Sector 4, Panchkula, whose son, Sikander Singh Sangwan, was Akash’s business partner.
In her complaint to the Panchkula DCP on April 28, Harinder had stated that her son had a bank account at ICICI Bank, Sector 16, Panchkula, for his firm, AS Hospitality.
In February 2018, his business partner, Akash, forged her son’s signature on four cheques and transferred ₹61 lakh to his personal account.
She alleged that she had filed a complaint in this regard with the then DCP as well, but no FIR was lodged.
Following her complaint, police booked Akash under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) of the Indian Penal Code at the Sector-14 police station.
Earlier, on June 9, police had also booked Akash for selling Sikander’s SUV by forging the car’s documents while he was away at Canada in September 2018.
On the run since the extortion racket was busted on May 27, Akash was arrested from his hideout in Meerut on June 10.
Co-accused gets bail
Meanwhile, a district court granted bail to another accused in the extortion racket case.
The accused, Gaurav Pawah, 28, is the brother-in-law of Sahil Bhalla, another son of kingpin Anil Bhalla.
A resident of Zirakpur, Gaurav was arrested with his sister Anjali Bhalla and Anil’s wife Anju Bhalla in Sector 2 on May 30, three days after Anil’s arrest.
The trio were allegedly caught with ₹4.63 crore in cash, two unlicensed .12-bore pistols, three magazines, 11 bullets and 697 gm opium, besides a bunch of gold jewellery. Gaurav had since been in judicial custody at Ambala jail.
In his bail plea, Gaurav said the FIR against him and his family members was registered on false, bogus and concocted facts.
He said there was a money dispute between Anil and Sanjeev Garg, on whose complaint Anil was arrested on May 27. Anil had given ₹50 lakh to Sanjeev and his wife, however, they committed fraud with him, he alleged.
Pawah also claimed that when he was arrested with his sister and her mother-in-law, police placed weapons and narcotics in their bags, and showed them as recovery.
The court observed that the alleged narcotic substance was in non-commercial quantity and no further recovery was to be effected from Gaurav.
Stating that further investigation and conclusion of trial will take a long time and further confinement of the accused will not serve any purpose, the court allowed Gaurav’s bail application on furnishing of bail bond of ₹1 lakh.
The court also directed that the accused shall not influence the witness, tamper with the evidence or leave the country without prior permission.
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Maharashtra logs over 2K daily Covid cases, Mumbai accounts for 1,724 of them
Fresh recoveries showed improvement after 2,165 patients recuperated from Covid-19 as against to Monday's 774, the Maharashtra Covid bulletin data added. At 1,240, Mumbai accounted for the highest number of fresh recoveries in the state on Tuesday, the bulletin data added.
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Pizza chain female staff assaulted by 4 women for ‘staring’ at them | Video
The video shows the gang pulling the woman by her hair, as she cries and pleads for help. After the victim falls on the ground, one of the women starts beating her up with a bamboo stick. When the woman says that she will call the police, one of the assaulters dare her by saying, “Go file police complaint”.
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Ranchi violence: Cops take back posters with accused's names citing error
Ranchi Police have overall registered a total of 25 First Information Reports (FIRs) in connection with the violence over Prophet remarks. A police official said that some of the charges included in the FIRs include opening fire at cops, trying to snatch arms from policemen, pelting stones, targeting Hanuman Temple, and raising provocative slogans.
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Delhi's max temperature falls below 40°C after 13 days, rain likely in 2 days
According to the latest IMD bulletin, the western disturbance and easterlies are expected to bring scattered to fairly widespread rainfall in Delhi and its adjoining states and Union territories (UTs) of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and eastern Uttar Pradesh between June 16 and 18.
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Thane Police website hacked over Prophet remarks controversy restored
The hackers claimed to be supporters of an Islamic group. Following the hacking, a message popped up on the website, allegedly from the hackers in which they demanded an immediate apology to “Muslims all over the world”. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/panchkula-extortion-racket-fresh-fir-against-kingpin-s-son-101655238729441.html | 2022-06-14T22:05:22Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/panchkula-extortion-racket-fresh-fir-against-kingpin-s-son-101655238729441.html | false | 1 |
Police warn of the consequences for swatting after hoax call
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAW) - Stevens Point police investigators are still trying to find who prank-called dispatch on Friday. About a dozen officers were on high alert as they went into a potential murder-suicide situation that turned out to be a hoax.
Friday afternoon police officers set up on the corner of Fourth Ave. and Prentice Street in Stevens Point. Everyone was on high alert after police were alerted that a male had shot his girlfriend and was going to kill himself in 10 minutes.
“I started to request additional resources from other agencies around here, Portage County Sheriff’s Department assisted, UWSP police assisted, we had the Stevens Point Fire Department on stand by,” said Lieutenant Steve Spath, Stevens Point Police Department.
Lieutenant Spath said he considered calling in the SWAT team. While monitoring the home and attempting to make contact with the apparent suspect, a pizza was delivered to that same house. 10 minutes later, a second pizza arrived. That’s when officers started to wonder.
“Is this real or is this some sort of hoax,” said Lieutenant Spath.
Lieutenant Spath said he started to question if it was a set-up. He said Marathon County had a similar situation a week prior.
“What’s going on somewhere else that they had us come over here to set up, and you know, if there was possibly a robbery going on or something to that nature,” said Lieutenant Spath.
A squad car eventually approached the home and got a man to come out, but police quickly realized the man wasn’t the suspect and didn’t know what was happening.
“That’s not funny. It could have been dangerous. It could have been dangerous for that homeowner ‘cause we do have our weapons drawn,” said Lieutenant Spath.
Now, police want you to know that a prank like this is a felony that could cost you three years in prison or $100,000 in fines.
“It takes our resources away from other things that we need to be doing and it’s not a joke,” said Lieutenant Spath.
If you have any information please contact the Stevens Point Police Department non-emergency number at (715) 346-1500.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — With the latest announcement on a bipartisan gun reform bill, lawmakers weigh in on whether it is enough.
“The bill in and of itself is going to save thousands of lives. I have no doubt about that,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said.
House leaders say they are encouraged by an announced deal to pass a gun safety bill in the Senate.
“We look forward to the text,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said.
Jeffries says it is good to see the senate produce a bipartisan framework.
“Doing something to address the gun violence crisis,” Jeffries said.
The proposed legislation provides funds to improve mental health programs and school safety, something Rep. Pete Aguilar believes is essential.
“That’s what the house democratic caucus is concerned about. Will this save the lives of young people who are affected by gun violence,” Aguilar said.
Republican lawmakers are also welcoming the framework, but emphasize that they need to see the final version before providing their support.
“I just want to make sure that, you know, red flag and all this stuff doesn’t step on the second amendment. So I’ve got to see what they want,” Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas) said.
Williams and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) believe the framework is already better than ideas offered only by Democrats.
“Speaker Pelosi’s approach has been to make it harder for law-abiding citizens to get guns. President Biden even talked about taking handguns away from people, so that is not the answer,” Scalise said.
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Golden Nugget Pancake House Closes In Old Irving Park After 52 Years, Leaving Neighbors ‘Heartbroken’
OLD IRVING PARK — A beloved Northwest Side location of the Golden Nugget Pancake House closed this week after struggling for years with dwindling customers, reduced hours and fewer employees. Golden Nugget, 4229 W. Irving Park Road, was once one of the chain’s 24-hour spots, long popular with...
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Sophia Bush has got married.
The 39-year-old actress - who is best known for portraying Brooke Davis in drama series 'One Tree Hill' - and businessman Grant Hughes have tied the knot in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Multiple sources have told Us Weekly magazine that the happy couple - who got engaged in August - said "I do" on June 11th at the Philbrook Museum of Art.
Another insider told the publication: "The buzz around town was Sophia Bush’s wedding at the museum.
"A lot of people in town heard it was going on."
The Tulsa City County Clerk's Office told E! News a marriage licence was issued to Sophia and 40-year-old Grant on June 8th and was returned to the court but not completed.
A duplicate was then issued by the clerk, which needs to be returned to the court by July 8th for their union to be officially legal.
What's more, it stated in the city of Tulsa's Calendar of Special Events that the wedding was due to take place at the museum on June 11, with 250 people expected to attend.
And several stars were spotted in Tulsa over the weekend, including Colton Underwood and his fiancé Jordan Brown, who is pals with Sophia, as well as Aaron Paul.
Jensen Ackles and Jeffrey Dean Morgan - who are married to Sophia's fellow former 'One Tree Hill' co-stars Danneel Ackles and Hilarie Burton respectively - were also spotted in the area.
Sophia - who was previously married to Chad Michael Murray - took to Instagram in August to reveal she had got engaged after Grant popped the question while they were on vacation in Lake Como, Italy.
She wrote alongside a photo of the proposal: "So it turns out that being your favorite person’s favorite person is the actual best feeling on planet Earth #YES.
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CANTON, Mo. — It’s only summer, but Canton has plenty of reasons to be optimistic about its girls basketball team.
Canton has been participating in the summer league in Hannibal and recently competed in the Quincy Shootout, putting up solid performances.
“We love the summer stuff,” said incoming Canton senior Nariah Clay. “It’s really beneficial going into it, especially since most of us play softball (in the fall). Then, we go straight from softball to basketball.”
Canton will return every player from last year’s team, plus adding a few freshmen to its roster.
The Lady Tigers are coming off an 18-8 season that saw them narrowly fall to Schuyler County in the Class 2 District 6 semifinal.
Canton also won its first Tony Lenzini Tournament in 13 years during the 2021-22 season.
Clay and the Lady Tigers are hungry for more this coming season.
“I think we are really starting to put it together as a team,” Clay said. “(We) are going to do some good things this year.”
Clay earned a Class 2 District 6 All-District selection last season, and was joined by incoming junior guard Macie Fisher with those honors.
Incoming juniors Emma Hultz and Kendall Weathers, as well as incoming sophomores Kielyn Ott and Macy Glasgow are coming off strong seasons.
Clay prefers to lead by example, but is looked to for leadership by younger players on the team.
“I was kind of put into that role last year, so just moving off of that going into my senior year,” Clay said. “I think I’ll figure it out. I’m not much of a talker when it comes to leading.”
While Canton has plenty of experience, they have been focused on the basics during summer practices and games.
“A lot of boxing out and rebounding, mainly,” Clay said. “(Working on) our defense.”
Canton has also stayed strong in an area they excel at — 3-point shooting — during summer play.
Even some of Canton’s summer league opponents have noticed how well they play together.
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It was an eventful week for the Chicago Sky with huge road victories over Connecticut and New York as well as a visit with former President Barack Obama.
The Sky went 2-1 on a three-game road trip, edging the Sun and Liberty after a close loss to Washington. Chicago was able to overcome the second triple-double of New York's Sabrina Ionescu's career with a last-second 3-pointer by Courtney Vandersloot.
Before embarking on the trip, the Sky spent about 20 minutes with Obama at his office in Chicago. The meeting was set up by the team's ownership group.
“It was amazing. I know him from being from Illinois,” Candace Parker said. “The first time I met him I was like 14. To see him was cool. "
Chicago coach James Wade, one of three Black male head coaches in the WNBA, was moved by the meeting.
“Once he comes into the room you're in awe” he said. “All these feelings come up since he changed the way you think. He gave you hope for what you can imagine and what your kids can imagine.
“All those come to light when he talks to you. Having that feeling there was something you can't put into words.”
Wade and the players said Obama talked about many of their strengths and weaknesses.
“He knows the players. He told them how they play and what they do," Wade said. “He’s not just a basketball guy, but he’s a WNBA fan. He’s a Chicago Sky fan. To know he watches us and knows our players is pretty cool.”
POWER POLL
This week’s WNBA poll:
1. Las Vegas (11-2): The Aces continue to be the class of the league with the dominant inside-outside combination of A'ja Wilson and Kelsey Plum.
2. Connecticut (10-4): The Sun play three games this week with matchups against Atlanta, Seattle and Washington. Connecticut is still looking to get more consistent on the defensive end without Jasmine Thomas (ACL).
3. Chicago (9-4): The Sky have won five of their last six games and Emma Meesseman has been a major reason why. The free agent signee averaged 17.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists last week.
4. Washington (9-6): The Mystics got a scare when Elena Delle Donne had her back tighten up in a win over Chicago. The team has been cautious with her return this season after she missed all of last year. In her absence, Myisha Hines-Allen stepped up to help fill the void.
5. Seattle (8-5): The Storm have been on a roll lately, winning three straight behind Breanna Stewart and Jewell Loyd. The two have combined to average over 47 points a game during the winning streak.
6. Atlanta (7-6): The Dream have dropped two in a row and have a challenging week ahead with road games against top teams Connecticut and Chicago.
7. Phoenix (5-8): Three straight wins have lifted the Mercury out of the bottom of the standings. Next up this week are games at Washington, Indiana and Dallas.
8. Dallas (6-7): The Wings have struggled at home this season going 1-4 and hope to change that when Las Vegas, Phoenix and Los Angeles all come to Dallas this week.
9. New York (5-9): Sabrina Ionescu has been a major reason for the Liberty's success lately as they've gone 4-2 over their last six games. She's averaging 24.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 6.5 assists during that span and tied the WNBA record with her second career triple-double on Sunday against Chicago.
10. Los Angeles (5-8): A coaching change didn't immediately help the Sparks, who were routed in their lone game last week. Having some practice time under Fred Williams hopefully will help the Sparks get better on defense.
11. Indiana (4-12): The Fever snapped a five-game skid with a win over Minnesota thanks in part to No. 2 pick NaLyssa Smith. She's been a bright spot for the team this season and is part of the talented young core the franchise is building around.
12. Minnesota (3-11): The Lynx lost center Sylvia Fowles indefinitely to a knee injury last week. Fowles is playing her final season in the WNBA this year.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Breanna Stewart of Seattle was voted the AP Player of the Week for the second time in three weeks. Stewart averaged 25.3 points, 8.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists to help the Storm to three wins. Ionescu of New York and Wilson of Las Vegas also received votes.
HEARING ABOUT BRITTNEY
The Phoenix Mercury had a meeting with State Department officials on Monday to learn about the Biden administration's effort to secure Brittney Griner's release from Russia.
“Knowing the State Department at the highest level, from U.S President Joe Biden to the team that is working on bringing back all Americans who are wrongfully detained, gives us a lot of confidence that they’re working on it,” Mercury guard Diana Taurasi said in a release from the team.
DOCUMENTING HISTORY
A documentary ("Unfinished Business) about the New York Liberty debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday. The Liberty are the only remaining original WNBA franchise not to win a title. The film gave a behind-the-scenes look at last year's team as well as splicing in footage and interviews with many former Liberty greats like Teresa Weatherspoon.
“It was great to be part of that film and spend a night out with this group,” Ionescu said on the red carpet before the premiere. “As the film title states we still have work to do.”
GAME OF THE WEEK:
Storm at Liberty, Sunday. The Storm visit New York in what is most likely Sue Bird's final appearance in her hometown as a player. Bird has said that this will most likely be her final year in the WNBA.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centric Bank has appointed Todd Ferrara to Senior Vice President, Director of Cash Management, where he will lead the Cash Management department, announces Patricia (Patti) A. Husic, President & CEO of Centric Bank and Centric Financial Corporation (OTC Pink: CFCX).
Under Ferrara, the Cash Management team supports the seven financial centers and three loan production offices across Centric Bank's market areas in central Pennsylvania and suburban Philadelphia.
"We are thrilled to have Todd join our growing Philadelphia team. He brings over 25 years of banking experience to Centric Bank and has a proven record of success," says Husic. "He has spent the last 12 years of his career in the suburban Philadelphia market and will be located in the Devon Financial Center. Over 53% of our Centric Bank loan portfolio is generated in suburban Philadelphia, and we've only begun to tap into that potential. Todd's ability to envision cash management opportunities for our customers is vital to our compounding growth and allows our customers to spend more time on their business, not on their banking. Knowledge, trust, loyalty, and a genuine passion for helping businesses thrive make Todd a perfect fit for our relationship banking model."
As Director of Cash Management, Ferrara's responsibilities include sales leadership, business development, product management, and ensuring a responsive customer experience for Centric's cash management product suite. Reporting to Christopher Bickel, Market Leader Main Line, and Commercial Revenue Officer, Ferrara will also develop the growing cash management team; partner with commercial lenders and financial center teams to meet the banking needs of customers and prospects; and build relationships with Centric customers by providing exceptional solutions to their cash management needs.
"I am excited to lead our Cash Management team and happy to be part of the Centric Bank family," says Ferrara. "The Centric Bank Way culture is refreshing, and it's immediately evident why they are celebrated as a Best Banks to Work For. The people are wonderful! Their We Revolve Around You promise is true at every level of the bank. Centric Bank is all about relationships, valuing both the customers and the employees."
Before joining Centric Bank, Ferrara was at Bryn Mawr Trust in the role of SVP Small Business and Cash Management Manager. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, and currently resides in Royersford, PA. He can be reached at tferrara@centricbank.com.
An American Banker 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Banks to Work For, four-time American Banker Most Powerful Women in Banking Top Team, three-time Best Places to Work, and Top 50 Fastest-Growing Companies for eight years, Centric Bank is headquartered in south central Pennsylvania with assets of $1.1 billion and remains a leader in organic loan growth. A locally owned, locally loaned community bank, Centric Bank provides highly competitive and pro-growth financial services to businesses, professionals, individuals, families, and to the health care and dental industries with the Doctor Centric Bank Division. Centric Bank was named one of the Top 200 Community Banks in the U.S. in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019.
Founded in 2007, Pennsylvania-based Centric Bank has financial centers located in Harrisburg, Hershey, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, Doylestown, Devon, and Lancaster, as well as commercial loan offices in Devon, Doylestown, Lancaster, and an Operations and Executive Office campus in Hampden Township, Cumberland County. To learn more about Centric Bank, call 717.657.7727 or visit CentricBank.com. Connect with them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
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Katharine Graham Is Newest in Distinguished Americans Series
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A brilliant businessperson and publisher whose leadership helped elevate The Washington Post to national prominence, Katharine Graham today became the 17th honoree in the Distinguished Americans stamp series from the U.S. Postal Service.
Graham, who died in 2001, was often called the most powerful woman in America for the influential and shrewd decisions she made, starting in the turbulent 1960s until stepping down in the early 1990s.
"Katharine Graham was a trailblazer — the first woman to head a Fortune 500 company, and the first to serve as a director of The Associated Press," said Donald Moak, a member of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors who served as dedicating official for the ceremony.
Moak also mentioned Graham's legacy of strength amid the difficulties she faced by "refusing to bend to unprecedented political pressure in the midst of two critical chapters of history: the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
Joining Moak in dedicating the stamp were Graham's son Donald, who served as master of ceremonies; her younger son, Steven and daughter, Lally Weymouth, who both also spoke; Michael Beschloss, historian; and Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress.
The stamp features an oil portrait of Graham by Lynn Staley, based on a photograph taken during the peak of Graham's influence as owner and president of The Washington Post Co. and publisher of its flagship newspaper. Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamp.
Graham's name appears in red beneath the portrait. The word "PUBLISHER" is printed vertically downward from the top left and the words "TWO OUNCE" and "USA" are horizontally stacked at top right. These stamps will always be equal in value to the First-Class Mail 2-ounce price, ideal for additional postage needed for heavier First-Class letters. News of the stamp is being shared with the hashtag #KatharineGrahamStamp.
Born June 16, 1917, Katharine Meyer grew up in Washington with four siblings and attended the Madeira School in Virginia. She was 16 when her father purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy auction in 1933. The Post was then the least successful of the capital city's five daily newspapers. After graduating from high school, she attended Vassar College and transferred to the University of Chicago, from which she graduated in 1938.
In 1940, she married Philip Graham, a young attorney who would become publisher of the newspaper in 1946. She focused on raising their four children until unexpectedly widowed in 1963. It was at that point when necessity forced reinvention. Although concerned about her limited experience, Graham felt she had no other choice but to assume leadership of the company. She would learn the business from every angle and find she truly loved it.
The era of her journalistic leadership was tumultuous. One of Graham's great tests came in June 1971 with the leak of the Pentagon Papers, a classified government history of the Vietnam War. After The New York Times published several installments, a federal judge ordered The Times to cease publication. But The Washington Post also had acquired portions of the documents that were not included under the court's edict. It was, however, a critical moment for the company.
The Washington Post Co. was on the eve of a public stock offering. If Graham approved the publishing of the documents, as the newspaper's editors wanted, it could endanger the offering. Potentially more damaging: The government could revoke the company's highly profitable television licenses. Caught between the editorial and the business interests of The Post, Graham decided to print the contents of the Pentagon Papers. The government sought — and was granted — an injunction that took the issue to the Supreme Court, which ruled against prior restraint and for press freedom.
One year later came the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate office building. The Post's tenacious investigative reporting would ultimately lead to President Richard M. Nixon's resignation in 1974. Once again, Graham faced threats from the administration but decided to print the Watergate story while other media outlets stood by for months. These were heady years for journalists and those who led them, but they were not the most difficult time that Graham would face.
Her ultimate test of leadership began in October 1975 when a pressmen's strike at The Post turned violent. Workers beat their foreman, assaulted others and set fire to printing presses. The strike lasted almost five months, which Graham would cite as the most stressful chapter of her career.
Her time in the executive suite brought enormous growth, influence and national prominence to The Washington Post Co. She became a savvy, pioneering businesswoman and a high-profile role model for women.
In 1991, Graham named her son Donald as CEO of The Washington Post Co. while she remained chairman of the board. In 1993, he became chairman of the board and she stayed on as chairman of the executive committee. She wrote and published her memoir, "Personal History," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
Professionally active until the end, Graham was attending a media conference in Sun Valley, ID, in 2001, when she fell. She died three days later. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 2002.
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Y'all know me, still the same O.G. but I been low-key
hated on by most these &^$$@s with no cheese, no deals and no G's, no wheels and no keys, no boats, no snowmobiles, and no skis, mad at me cause I can finally afford to provide my family with groceries
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The man who set off multiple bombs in Penticton will have his sentence decided at a later date.
Blair Robert Blach, 50, appeared in Penticton’s Law Courts on June 14 to be sentenced after pleading guilty to charges of driving while prohibited, mischief and making explosives. Balch has a hefty criminal record, with 87 convictions some for violent crimes.
“I had no intent to hurt anybody, that’s why I did it at the time. I see around and make sure nobody would get hurt,” Balch told the court. “I’m not a terrorist.”
Following Crown and defence’s submissions, the judge determined he would need more time to review the case law and submissions before making his decision. Defence is seeking a 12-month conditional sentence.
Crown is requesting 13 months in jail for Balch, followed by a six-month sentence of 24-hour house arrest and then six months of strict curfew.
On March 6, around 2:30 a.m. RCMP received a complaint about hearing an explosion in King’s Park. An investigation at that time did not find anything suspicious.
The next day, just after 8 p.m. the same resident called in a second complaint, and RCMP Const. Robinson, who was in the area, was dispatched to the location. This time the caller reported seeing someone running from the area shortly after hearing the explosion.
At that time, no one was located, but a search of the area found two improvised explosive devices under the bleachers at King’s Park that had been detonated. Const. Robinson noted that the explosives had caused large dents in the bleachers.
Surveillance video from a nearby residence showed an individual riding a bicycle away from the area who appeared to show little attention to the explosion that occurred seconds before they appeared on video.
On March 8, multiple calls regarding a third explosion near the grounds of Carmi Elementary at 11:30 p.m. That explosive was found to have detonated on top of an electrical junction box, destroying the lock hinge and denting it.
A fourth IED was discovered in the creek near Carmi Elementary School on March 11 by Const. Robinson during a foot patrol. After informing the principal of the school, the principal provided the RCMP another device that had been sitting north of the park a few days prior to Robinson’s discovery.
After the explosive device team arrived on scene, a further search found a fifth IED, destroying both of the devices along the creek with a single blast.
Surveillance footage from businesses in the area showed two individuals, one with a distinctive bicycle. RCMP came to believe that Balch was a suspect. At Burdock House, where Balch lives, they found him and his distinctive bicycle.
READ MORE: Accused Penticton bomber makes first appearance in court
On March 18 they received a warrant and searched his residence, locating a backpack matching surveillance footage.
According to Balch’s defense, he claimed responsibility for only three devices, the instructions for which he had found on Youtube. He claimed the King’s Park explosive and the Carmi explosive, and one of the IEDs that was found in the creek was his, with the last device having been a dud.
The remaining bombs did not have evidence that clearly linked to Balch, and his lawyer noted that the presence of another individual in the area of Carmi as Balch that there could have been another bomb-maker.
He denied working with anyone else or making any other explosives.
Separate from the bomb charges, Blach was charged following an incident on Feb. 17 2021 where Balch was pulled over doing about 40 kilometres an hour on an electric scooter at around midnight. Balch did not have a license with him, and was previously suspended from driving a motor vehicle.
The Crown cited the extreme danger to the public as well as Balch’s extensive criminal record requires a jail sentence.
That record includes previous instances of violence, property crime, drug offences and breach of court orders, which landed him a lifetime firearm ban that also includes explosive substances.
According to the Crown, he fell into alcohol use at age 11 and then into harder substances including meth and cocaine. The last time he was employed was in 1998, and he also reportedly spends $100 a week gambling at the casino. He continues to use amphetamines on a daily basis.
The psychological report considered him to be at a moderate to high risk of future violence and a moderate to high risk of general recidivism. Both risks jump to the high range when he is using illegal drugs or experiencing overwhelming distress.
The report also recommends individual psychotherapy and or anger and emotional management programming as well as substance abuse programming.
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Officially known as the Type 1 during its original production run but also remembered by many other aliases around the world, the VW Beetle is currently dwelling in the land of car Valhalla alongside its modern incarnations.
An epitome of a bygone era, the Beetle nameplate could not be saved by the New Beetle or the A5-series follow-ups, but no one will deny it full immortality courtesy of the legions of fans. Those dwell across both the real world and the virtual automotive realm, of course.
And Robert, the virtual artist better known as rob3rtdesign on social media, is passionate about all sorts of stuff – but only if they revolve around a VW project. If that digital idea has to do with the VW Beetle, that is even better. Sure, some will say that such a big passion for a specific nameplate limits the possibilities of turning up fresh stuff, but that is luckily not a problem in this case.
The latest Beetle interpretation stemming from the prolific mind of this Volkswagen fan might be treated as an unsuspecting Cabrio project if not for the string of hashtag hints and virtual styling cues that point to something being amiss. Well, that could be an understatement, since we are dealing here with a little Bug that got slammed and stanced into the ground as hard as possible on huge deep-dish aftermarket wheels.
The polished look then provides a neat contrast against the aerodynamic kit’s exposed carbon fiber pieces and the “sweet” orange paintjob. Frankly, it looks more like copper to me, but the pixel master was the one who decided this is orange just like the vitamin C-riddled fruit. The paintjob could be of less consequence than the ultimate virtual JDM mix, though. As such, this creation proudly wears no top at all along with Rocket Bunny (also known as Pandem in certain places of the world) widebody attire!
And Robert, the virtual artist better known as rob3rtdesign on social media, is passionate about all sorts of stuff – but only if they revolve around a VW project. If that digital idea has to do with the VW Beetle, that is even better. Sure, some will say that such a big passion for a specific nameplate limits the possibilities of turning up fresh stuff, but that is luckily not a problem in this case.
The latest Beetle interpretation stemming from the prolific mind of this Volkswagen fan might be treated as an unsuspecting Cabrio project if not for the string of hashtag hints and virtual styling cues that point to something being amiss. Well, that could be an understatement, since we are dealing here with a little Bug that got slammed and stanced into the ground as hard as possible on huge deep-dish aftermarket wheels.
The polished look then provides a neat contrast against the aerodynamic kit’s exposed carbon fiber pieces and the “sweet” orange paintjob. Frankly, it looks more like copper to me, but the pixel master was the one who decided this is orange just like the vitamin C-riddled fruit. The paintjob could be of less consequence than the ultimate virtual JDM mix, though. As such, this creation proudly wears no top at all along with Rocket Bunny (also known as Pandem in certain places of the world) widebody attire! | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/stanced-vw-beetle-ducktail-cabrio-adopts-a-digitally-sweet-orange-jdm-widebody-mix-191144.html | 2022-06-14T22:34:35Z | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/stanced-vw-beetle-ducktail-cabrio-adopts-a-digitally-sweet-orange-jdm-widebody-mix-191144.html | true | 1 |
(NEXSTAR) – An investigation of an Airbnb rental in Philadelphia found no hidden cameras, the vacation rental company and police department confirmed, despite viral social media posts claiming to show the devices disguised as fire sprinklers.
The photos and video posted to Twitter by user @foxytaughtyou claimed to show camera lenses hidden on sprinkler heads on the walls and ceilings of the property. She said she found 10 such “hidden cameras” throughout the house, including one pointing toward the shower in the bathroom, as well as one in the bedroom.
“Luckily it was a girls trip so I wasn’t having intercourse… but I was naked and had to change in this room,” she tweeted. The posts went viral on Twitter and TikTok.
Airbnb put reservations for the property on hold as the Philadelphia Police Department investigated. The department confirmed to Nexstar Tuesday that a detective responded to the complaint and found no undisclosed cameras. The fire sprinklers had typical sprinkler heads, a police spokesperson said.
“Regarding our guest, we appreciate how she felt and we will continue to provide her with our full support, including with a refund,” said an Airbnb spokesperson.
In her viral TikTok, the guest said she conducted a “flash test” on the sprinklers to see if they were cameras.
A “flash test” may refer to a technique popularized by a viral TikTok last year. The video advises people to flash lights into any suspiciously placed smoke detectors, alarm clocks or shower heads. If a hidden camera is inside, you might see the lens reflect a blue or red light.
While this investigation found no hidden cameras, Airbnb says it still takes allegations of such devices seriously.
“Our policies strictly prohibit hidden cameras and we take forceful action in the exceptionally rare circumstances where this has been reported, including assisting law enforcement to help them hold criminals accountable,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.
The company allows listings to have surveillance cameras in public areas, like a driveway or front door, but it doesn’t allow cameras or other monitoring devices in spaces like bedrooms, bathrooms or living rooms guests might sleep in.
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Manchester United join pursuit of Eriksen with midfielder available on a free transfer
Manchester United have joined the pursuit of Christian Eriksen as the out-of-contract midfielder weighs up his next move.
The Denmark international is a free agent after seeing out his short-term deal at Brentford.
New United manager Erik ten Hag has made midfield his priority area in his first transfer window at Old Trafford, with Frenkie de Jong his leading target.
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What is the situation regarding Man Utd and Eriksen?
It is not clear if Ten Hag sees Eriksen as an alternative or a compliment to De Jong.
Talks have been held with his representatives, amid interest from Newcastle and Tottenham.
Brentford were also hopeful of signing the 30-year-old to a long-term deal after his successful spell there last season.
United tried to sign Eriksen when he left Tottenham in 2019 – but abandoned their interest after he made it clear he wanted to move to Inter Milan.
How many players will Man Utd sign this summer?
Ten Hag wants to make five signings this summer, with a forward and a right back also on his wanted list.
Midfield is the area most in need of address following the departures of out-of-contract Paul Pogba, Nemanja Matic and Juan Mata.
Donny van de Beek will return from his loan at Everton, but Ten Hag has set his sights on even more ball-playing midfielders to implement his preferred system.
Eriksen represents a bargain – even if he could command high wages as a free agent.
Who else are Man Utd watching this summer?
Man Utd have already indicated that while they plan to be highly active in the market this summer, they will not overpay for targets as they have in the past.
They pulled out of the race to sign Darwin Nunez to avoid a bidding war with Liverpool, though it is believed a move to Anfield was always the striker’s first choice.
Man Utd have also warned Barcelona against trying to price De Jong out of a move – insisting they are ready to switch to alternative targets.
Meanwhile, long-term interest in Declan Rice is unlikely to see them table a formal bid with West Ham demanding around £150million for the England international.
Ten Hag is also looking at Inter’s Denzel Dumfries at right back, as well as Ajax pair Antony and Jurrien Timber as forward and central defensive options.
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Updated June 14, 2022 at 6:30 PM ET
Dr. Meredith Niess saw her patient was scared. He'd come to the Veterans Affairs clinic in Denver with a painful hernia near his stomach. Niess, a primary care resident, knew he needed surgery right away. But another doctor had already ordered a chest X-ray instead.
The test results revealed a mass in the man's lung.
"This guy is sweating in his seat, [and] he's not thinking about his hernia," Niess said. "He's thinking he's got cancer."
It was 2012, and Niess was upset. Though ordering a chest X-ray in a case like this was considered routine medical practice, Niess understood something her patient didn't. Decades of evidence showed the chest X-ray was unnecessary and the "mass" was probably a shadow or a cluster of blood vessels. These non-finding findings are so common that doctors have dubbed them "incidentalomas."
Niess also knew the initial X-ray would trigger more tests and delay the man's surgery further.
In fact, a follow-up CT scan showed a clean lung but picked up another suspicious "something" in the patient's adrenal gland.
"My heart just sank," Niess said. "This doesn't feel like medicine."
A second CT scan finally cleared her patient for surgery — eight weeks after he'd come for help. Due to scheduling issues, another four months would pass before he finally had the operation.
Niess wrote about the case in JAMA Internal Medicine as an example of what researchers call a "cascade of care" — a seemingly unstoppable series of medical tests or procedures.
Cascades can begin when a test done for a good reason finds something unexpected. After all, good medicine often requires some sleuthing.
"Low-value care"
The most troubling cascades, though, start like Niess' patient's, with an unnecessary test — what Ishani Ganguli, a primary care physician who is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard University, and other researchers, call "low-value services" or "low-value care."
"A low-value service is a service for which there is little to no benefit in that clinical scenario, and potential for harm," Ganguli said.
Over the past 30 years, doctors and researchers like Ganguli have flagged more than 600 procedures, treatments and services that are unlikely to help patients: Tests like MRIs done early for uncomplicated low back pain, prostate cancer screenings for men over 80 and routine vitamin D tests.
Research suggests low-value care is costly, with one study estimating that the U.S. health care system spends $75 billion to $100 billion annually on these services. Ganguli published a paper in 2019 that found the federal government spent $35 million a year specifically on care after doctors performed EKG heart tests before cataract surgery — an example of low-value care.
"Medicare was spending 10 times the amount on the cascades following those EKGs as they were for the EKGs themselves. That's just one example of one service," said Ganguli.
Cascades of care are common. Ninety-nine percent of doctors reported experiencing one after an incidental finding, according to a survey conducted by Ganguli. Nearly 9 in 10 physicians said they'd seen a cascade harm a patient, for example, physically or financially.
And yet, in that same survey, Ganguli reported that 41% of doctors said they continued with a cascade even though they believed the next test was not important for medical reasons.
"It's really driven by the desire to avoid even the slightest risk of missing something potentially life threatening," said Ganguli. Critics of low-value care say there's a mindset that comes from medical training that seeks all the answers, as well as from compassion for patients, some of whom may have asked for the test.
As health care prices rise, efforts to root out low-value care keep emerging. In 2012, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation began urging doctors to reduce low-value care through a communication campaign called Choosing Wisely.
An electronic warning to doctors
Over that time, about a dozen companies have developed software that health systems can embed in their electronic health records to warn doctors.
"We pop up an alert just making them aware of the care that they were about to deliver," explained Scott Weingarten.
Weingarten worked as a physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for three decades and spent years lobbying hospitals across the U.S. to tackle the problem.
Weingarten realized even the most sophisticated, well-resourced hospitals and physicians needed help developing new routines and breaking old habits — like knee-jerk ordering a chest X-ray.
Fewer than 10% of health systems have purchased software tools known as "clinical decision supports." But Weingarten, who co-founded Stanson Health and has since left the company, said an internal analysis found the electronic warnings canceled unnecessary tests only 10% to 13% of the time.
"The glass half full is you stick an app in the EHR [electronic health record] and you eliminate 10 to 13 percent of low-value care, just like that," Weingarten said. "That could mean, if it's rolled out across the country, [we could eliminate] billions and billions of dollars of waste."
But that 10% to 13% also gnaws at Weingarten. "Why do doctors reject this advice 87 to 90 percent of the time?" he asked.
Even with software that warns physicians about unnecessary care, major barriers to change persist: a medical culture of more is better, doctors fearful of missing something, patients pushing for more.
Perhaps the biggest challenge: Hospitals still make most of their money based on the number of services provided.
Cheryl Damberg, a senior economist at the Rand Corp., said what may get hospitals' attention is money. "If payers stop paying for certain low-value care services, it will definitely change the calculation about whether the juice is worth the squeeze," she said.
Damberg said some commercial insurers and Medicare have started paying doctors bonuses to reduce specific low-value services and to hold providers accountable for the total cost of a patient's care. But those contracts are rare.
No one wants to deliver low-value care or receive it. But in American medicine, the pressure to "just do one more test" remains strong.
This story was produced by Tradeoffs, a podcast exploring our confusing, costly and often counterintuitive health care system.
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Wright Flood will service, administer and issue NFIP coverage for UPC policyholders, agents
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wright National Flood Insurance Company, the nation's leading provider of federal flood insurance, has announced an agreement to acquire the flood insurance policy book from United Property & Casualty Insurance Company ("UPC Insurance"). The transaction is expected to close on June 30, 2022, subject to approval by the Federal Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA").
Wright Flood will service, administer, and issue flood coverage under the National Flood Insurance Program ("NFIP") for UPC Insurance policyholders and agents.
Beginning in the third quarter of 2022, Wright Flood will manage UPC Insurance's NFIP flood placements. All new policies and renewals will be issued by Wright National Flood Insurance Company, which is A.M. Best-rated for financial strength as A- (Excellent). For retail agents accessing flood coverage through UPC Insurance, there will be minimal change in the process to continue to provide NFIP coverage for policyholders. Together, Wright and UPC Insurance representatives will be in contact with their agents.
Wright Flood has more than 40 years of experience exclusively in the flood insurance industry. It is widely recognized for its experience, claims response and long-standing commitment to partner with agents and policyholders, especially at the time of a flood loss. Wright Flood takes pride in user-friendly technology, exceptional claims reputation, and providing a high level of service.
Wright National Flood Insurance Services President Patricia Templeton-Jones said she is excited about the new partnership with UPC Insurance agents.
"United Property and Casualty Company has been around since 1999 for its policyholders and agent partners," Templeton-Jones said. "We are excited to carry on that long history and provide our experience in the flood insurance industry to create a smooth transition during this process."
"Wright Flood has long been a premier provider of NFIP flood coverage and private flood insurance options for both homeowners and businesses," she added. "That dates back to 1983 when it was one of the first Write Your Own ("WYO") participants in the National Flood Insurance Program. We have been diligent in staying current on all of the updates with Risk Rating 2.0 and look forward to providing those insights with our new agent partners and policyholders."
"We are pleased to have reached an agreement with Wright for the sale of UPC Insurance's NFIP flood book of business," said UPC Insurance's Chief Information and Chief Operating Officer Chris Griffith. "Wright's excellent reputation in the flood space and specialized knowledge of the NFIP Write Your Own program will serve the dynamic needs of UPC Insurance's NFIP policyholders and agents."
Wright National Flood Insurance Company, the largest flood insurance provider in the nation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., offers federal, excess and private flood insurance with leading industry expertise, rated A- (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Wright Flood takes pride in user-friendly technology, exceptional claims reputation and providing service clients deserve. Wright Flood enjoys a strong reputation for excellence with FEMA and participates on industry councils and advisory boards in Washington, D.C. to strengthen the flood program that serves 5.6 million flood policyholders. Agents and consumers may visit us at www.wrightflood.com and wrightfloodadvice.org. To find an agent, call (866) 373-5663.
United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UIHC) serves as the holding company for United Property & Casualty Insurance Company and its affiliated companies. Collectively, including United Insurance Holdings Corp., we refer to these entities as "UPC Insurance," which is the preferred brand identification we are establishing for our company. UPC Insurance is primarily engaged in the homeowners property and casualty insurance business in the United States. UPC Insurance has operated in Florida since 1999, and has successfully managed its business through various hurricane and tropical storm events. Learn more about UPC Insurance at www.upcinsurance.com.
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A naked woman attacked a Chicago police officer Monday before stealing his patrol vehicle and running him over, Chicago Police Superintendant David Brown said at a press conference.
The incident unfolded after officers were dispatched near the 4300 block of Jackson Boulevard shortly before 10:00 a.m. for a report of shots fired, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. At the scene, officers discovered the naked woman, who police have yet to identify publicly, lying in the road and went to render aid to her while attempting “to figure out why she was laying in the street,” Brown said.
She then “charged the officer,” who has not been identified, and assaulted him before taking his vehicle, running him over, and fleeing the scene, Brown said Monday citing preliminary information.
“In a statement, police said the officer was ‘eventually dragged from the vehicle.'” according to the Sun-Times.
The officer, who Brown noted sustained an injury to his leg and a laceration to his head, was treated at Stroger Hospital, WMAQ reported. He has since been released, according to the Sun-Times, and the Chicago Police Department has not revealed further information regarding his condition.
After taking the squad vehicle, the woman, 34, allegedly drove onto Interstate 290 and later crashed near West Harrison Street and South Damen Avenue, per the Sun-Times.
WMAG noted that a “police officer radioed that the woman had side-swiped five cars on Harrison Street at Damen.”
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What you need to know
- iA Writer now supports wikilinks in a big new update.
- The new update is free for existing users.
- Other improvements include changes to iPad Split View and more.
People who edit text on their iPhone, iPad, or Mac will likely already be familiar with iA Writer. It's long been a great option for doing exactly that, and now a big new update adds support for something that is becoming a must-have for power user text editing apps in the App Store — wikilinks.
The new update, which is in the App Store now, includes a number of improvements across the board. But without doubt, the biggest addition here is support for wikilinks that make it easier for people to link between documents in a way that's similar to how a link would work on a webpage. People can link to a master document from within another, for example, something that can be invaluable when organizing your thoughts, research notes, or any other text.
With wikilink support built into iA Writer, developer Information Architects has included an autocomplete function that will automatically suggest files from your library. Typing "[[" is enough to begin the process and iA Writer will start to autocomplete anything you type, so long as it can find a corresponding file to link to.
If you're someone who uses wikilinks in other apps you're already more than familiar with why they can be so important and they're hugely popular among users of other apps like Obsidian specifically. Wikilink support takes one of the best Mac text editing experiences and turns it into a whole new beast and iA Writer includes other features that make wikilinking as easy as possible — beyond autocomplete — including keyboard shortcuts and more.
- Wikilinks make it easy to connect, browse, and rediscover your writing
- A [[wikilink]] is a link from one text file to another
- To make a wikilink, just type [[ and the name of the file you would like to link
- Autocomplete suggests files from your Library
- Open the linked file using the Open Link button in the keyboard bar, ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎
- If the file doesn't exist, it'll be automatically created and ready to type
Other improvements in this update include improvements to the overall editing experience, additional iPad Split View support, and more. You can read all about the changes in the release notes and those who already have iA Writer installed will find the update waiting for them now. Everyone else can grab iA Writer now with the iPhone and iPad app costing $49.99 and the Mac version being a separate $49.99 purchase. The update is free for existing users, however.
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Review — Mario Strikers: Battle League is fun, but misses some shots
The newest Mario Sports game definitely hits the mark with its gameplay and charm. But with its convoluted multiplayer and missing content, it doesn't hit the mark in the way that it could.
Apple's deal with MLS is great for us, but is it a good deal for Apple?
Apple announced today that it has signed a new deal with Major League Soccer (MLS) that will see every game streamed live via the Apple TV app. And that's pretty great news for people who want to watch MLS content — but it's a deal that gets stranger the more you dive into it.
For All Mankind: Learn the mind-bending science behind the Apple TV+ show
Apple TV+ hit show For All Mankind is now streaming its third season and you can watch the first episode now — and after that, you can check out this new YouTube video that takes a look into the science behind that season three premiere.
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(The Hill) – A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Tuesday recommended the agency expand the authorization of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to children and teenagers ages 6 to 17.
The vaccine is currently approved for adults only.
The panel voted 22-0 to recommend authorizing Moderna’s two-dose vaccine for adolescents and teenagers ages 12 to 17. The panel similarly voted 22-0 to recommend authorizing the shot for 6-to-11 year olds.
Children ages 6 to 11 would receive smaller 50 microgram shots, while teens ages 12 to 17 would receive the same dosage as adults at 100 micrograms.
The FDA is likely to follow the panel’s advice in the coming days, but there ultimately won’t likely be much of an impact on vaccination rates, since children and teenagers have had access to Pfizer-BioNTech”s vaccine since last year.
After the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will consider the matter as early as Friday.
Moderna initially asked the FDA to clear its vaccine for adolescents ages 12 to 17 last June, but concerns over a rare heart condition led officials to delay authorization.
On Tuesday, health officials said the risks for myocarditis and pericarditis may be higher in adolescent males, but the overall incidence is relatively rare and not statistically significant enough to draw definitive conclusions. In addition, the vast majority who suffer the side effect fully recover.
Several panel members expressed concern that the emergency authorization would only be for a two-dose primary series, even though there’s evidence that a third dose will be needed.
Moderna’s clinical trials were conducted before the omicron variant became dominant throughout the country. The data was based on variants that are no longer a threat.
FDA’s Doran Fink said Moderna will present data on a third dose soon.
“I think the benefits clearly outweigh the risks, but I say that with the comfort being provided that there will be a third dose,” said panel member Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “If that was not true, I wouldn’t feel the same way. We’re not in the same part of this pandemic anymore. It’s a different time.” | https://fox5sandiego.com/news/national-news/panel-recommends-fda-authorize-moderna-vaccine-for-kids-teens-6-to-17/ | 2022-06-14T22:55:39Z | https://fox5sandiego.com/news/national-news/panel-recommends-fda-authorize-moderna-vaccine-for-kids-teens-6-to-17/ | true | 15 |
10 Funny Posts About the Challenges of Autocorrect
Autocorrect can sure be a pain in the you-know-what, right?
You know that’s the truth!
And we think you’re gonna laugh out loud at these funny examples of when Autocorrect went wrong.
Take a look!
1.
My autocorrect keeps changing “meh” to “men” and I feel like that accurately represents almost every relationship with a man since birth.
— Sweet Momissa (@sweetmomissa) December 30, 2019
2.
Autocorrect changed “fries” to “friends” and I’ve never felt so understood.
— Lurkin’ Mom (@LurkAtHomeMom) April 13, 2015
3.
My autocorrect changed “I meditated” to “I medicated,” which was more honest.
— The Dad Briefs (@SladeWentworth) January 27, 2021
4.
My phone just autocorrected “anxiety” to “nudity,” as in “nudity dream,” and sometimes I think they’re just messing with us for personal entertainment
— Meena Harris (@meena) March 5, 2021
5.
Meant to text my partner ‘how long for you to run errands’ but ‘run’ autocorrected to ‘ruin’ and I’m standing with autocorrect on this one.
— Amanda Mancino-Williams (@Manda_like_wine) January 31, 2016
6.
Tried to sign an email “soph” but it autocorrected to “soon” so now my whole email sounds like a threat.
— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) June 3, 2016
7.
Autocorrect just changed ‘morning’ to ‘morbid’ and now life makes perfect sense
— Pugnado 🐾🌪 (@LuvPug) July 22, 2017
8.
I really don’t understand auto correct sometimes. Why are you changing “food” to “good?” Is “food” not a word? We can’t be friends.
— Lilly (Be A Triangle Available Now) (@Lilly) August 11, 2017
9. .
I was texting “I appreciate a man with chivalry,” and it autocorrected “chivalry” to “chocolate”— and they kind of seem interchangeable
— Lili Reinhart (@lilireinhart) July 15, 2018
10.
My autocorrect just changed daughter to disaster and I’ve never been more paranoid that my smart phone could read my mind.
— Rhyming Mama (@sarabellab123) January 27, 2021
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Mother, boyfriend missing after abandoning children on camping trip, deputies say
ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a situation where a couple left behind three children during a recent camping trip.
WHNS reports the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office is searching for Courtney Taylor and her boyfriend, Eric Elrod, who were last seen leaving Cemetery Island on Lake Hartwell on Monday, where her three children were abandoned.
Deputies said around 3:45 p.m., three children between the ages of 12 and 15 years old were found stranded on the island by a passing boater.
The children told authorities they were camping with their mother and her boyfriend when the two reportedly left the children on the island to get water but never returned.
Deputies said they do not believe Taylor is in danger, but they have been unable to contact her. Elrod is wanted on a charge of distributing methamphetamine.
The sheriff’s office reports the child abandonment case remains under investigation and urged anyone with further information to contact 864-260-4405 regarding case number 2022-08094.
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Wright Flood will service, administer and issue NFIP coverage for UPC policyholders, agents
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wright National Flood Insurance Company, the nation's leading provider of federal flood insurance, has announced an agreement to acquire the flood insurance policy book from United Property & Casualty Insurance Company ("UPC Insurance"). The transaction is expected to close on June 30, 2022, subject to approval by the Federal Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA").
Wright Flood will service, administer, and issue flood coverage under the National Flood Insurance Program ("NFIP") for UPC Insurance policyholders and agents.
Beginning in the third quarter of 2022, Wright Flood will manage UPC Insurance's NFIP flood placements. All new policies and renewals will be issued by Wright National Flood Insurance Company, which is A.M. Best-rated for financial strength as A- (Excellent). For retail agents accessing flood coverage through UPC Insurance, there will be minimal change in the process to continue to provide NFIP coverage for policyholders. Together, Wright and UPC Insurance representatives will be in contact with their agents.
Wright Flood has more than 40 years of experience exclusively in the flood insurance industry. It is widely recognized for its experience, claims response and long-standing commitment to partner with agents and policyholders, especially at the time of a flood loss. Wright Flood takes pride in user-friendly technology, exceptional claims reputation, and providing a high level of service.
Wright National Flood Insurance Services President Patricia Templeton-Jones said she is excited about the new partnership with UPC Insurance agents.
"United Property and Casualty Company has been around since 1999 for its policyholders and agent partners," Templeton-Jones said. "We are excited to carry on that long history and provide our experience in the flood insurance industry to create a smooth transition during this process."
"Wright Flood has long been a premier provider of NFIP flood coverage and private flood insurance options for both homeowners and businesses," she added. "That dates back to 1983 when it was one of the first Write Your Own ("WYO") participants in the National Flood Insurance Program. We have been diligent in staying current on all of the updates with Risk Rating 2.0 and look forward to providing those insights with our new agent partners and policyholders."
"We are pleased to have reached an agreement with Wright for the sale of UPC Insurance's NFIP flood book of business," said UPC Insurance's Chief Information and Chief Operating Officer Chris Griffith. "Wright's excellent reputation in the flood space and specialized knowledge of the NFIP Write Your Own program will serve the dynamic needs of UPC Insurance's NFIP policyholders and agents."
Wright National Flood Insurance Company, the largest flood insurance provider in the nation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., offers federal, excess and private flood insurance with leading industry expertise, rated A- (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Wright Flood takes pride in user-friendly technology, exceptional claims reputation and providing service clients deserve. Wright Flood enjoys a strong reputation for excellence with FEMA and participates on industry councils and advisory boards in Washington, D.C. to strengthen the flood program that serves 5.6 million flood policyholders. Agents and consumers may visit us at www.wrightflood.com and wrightfloodadvice.org. To find an agent, call (866) 373-5663.
United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UIHC) serves as the holding company for United Property & Casualty Insurance Company and its affiliated companies. Collectively, including United Insurance Holdings Corp., we refer to these entities as "UPC Insurance," which is the preferred brand identification we are establishing for our company. UPC Insurance is primarily engaged in the homeowners property and casualty insurance business in the United States. UPC Insurance has operated in Florida since 1999, and has successfully managed its business through various hurricane and tropical storm events. Learn more about UPC Insurance at www.upcinsurance.com.
This press release may contain certain statements relating to future results which are forward-looking statements, including those associated with this acquisition. These statements are not historical facts, but instead represent only Brown & Brown's current belief regarding future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of Brown & Brown's control. It is possible that Brown & Brown's actual results and financial condition may differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results and financial condition indicated in these forward-looking statements. Further information concerning Brown & Brown and its business, including factors that potentially could materially affect Brown & Brown's financial results and condition, as well as its other achievements, is contained in Brown & Brown's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such factors include those factors relevant to Brown & Brown's consummation and integration of the announced acquisition, including any matters analyzed in the due diligence process, and material adverse changes in the business and financial condition of the seller, the buyer, or both, and their respective customers. All forward-looking statements made herein are made only as of the date of this release, and Brown & Brown does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or correct any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that subsequently occur or of which Brown & Brown hereafter becomes aware.
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Rob Langrell
Senior Communications Manager, Wright Flood
rob.langrell@weareflood.com
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (Border Report) – Growth and the need to respond to the challenges of its border location are driving this town’s need for a new public safety building.
Federal officials acknowledged those needs and recently informed city leaders that they will be getting $950,000 for the project. Mayor Javier Perea says the money will be used for a feasibility study.
“This is a building we hope will encompass a new firehouse and police department and be a little more centric in the community. Our hope is this will help improve the insurance rate in our community, but also provide additional space for our police and firefighters,” the mayor told Border Report.
Police officers, firefighters and city employees operate out of a building that was an elementary school in the 1970s. Sunland Park grew by 18 percent in the previous 10 years, according to the 2020 Census. And in the past three years, its first responders have had to adapt to a new normal of increased migrant-related calls.
“We are right on the U.S.-Mexico border and that has brought new challenges: numerous calls of migrants hiding in private property, suspicious activity calls and also medical calls,” Perea said.
The Sunland Park Fire Department for a while was responding to at least one daily call involving injured migrants who fell while scaling the border wall from Juarez, Mexico, or slipped while coming down Mount Cristo Rey, which straddles the U.S. and Mexico. The police department also has learned to be on the lookout for migrants lost in the desert and showing signs of dehydration to render aid.
“We’ve had to retrofit vehicles to access those desert areas, so our fire and police departments have had an increase in calls and also our equipment has had (to be retrofitted) to work in that environment outside the city,” Perea said.
Plans call for the new complex to have more bays for fire trucks, the acquisition of a ladder truck and the incorporation of a new ambulance service. He declined to identify a potential location for the complex.
“We need a centralized place to reduce response time. We do have a pretty good response time now, but people want to make sure we can be there on time in an emergency,” he said. | https://www.myhighplains.com/border-report/sunland-park-working-on-new-public-safety-complex/ | 2022-06-14T23:19:42Z | https://www.myhighplains.com/border-report/sunland-park-working-on-new-public-safety-complex/ | true | 18 |
André Rocha is touring the coast of Madeira on foot, in what he calls the “Great Indigo Route”. There are 200 kilometers that the founder of The Escapist intends to map to mark a future land route. The adventure has the support of the Madeira Promotion Association.
After, in 2021, having traveled the 961 kilometers of the coast of mainland Portugal, from Caminha to Vila Real de Santo de António, André Rocha began, last Monday, to discover the coast of the island of Madeira.
The route is being done solo, as happened in the crossing of the Portuguese mainland coast, but, while this route took 19 days, the coast of Madeira should be covered until next Friday, the 17th. Departing from Funchal towards West, there will be about 200 kilometers on what André Rocha calls the “Great Indigo Route”, due to the color of the sea that bathes the archipelago.
The project began to be designed a few months ago and has the support of regional entities, namely the Madeira Promotion Association, but also the Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation and the Caminho Real da Madeira Association. The objective is to map the entire coast of the island and, in the end, allow the generated GPS file to be used to mark a new land route.
The president of the Madeira Promotion Association and Regional Secretary for Tourism and Culture, Eduardo Jesus, emphasizes that this initiative by André Rocha, by presenting an innovative coastal pedestrian route, will allow us to offer another attraction in the set of recommended routes in the Region. “Madeira is a destination that privileges experiences and this future route will certainly reinforce the differentiation and offer in terms of nature tourism”, he says.
André Rocha, a 45-year-old university professor and manager, is the founder of The Escapist, a non-profit project that promotes hikes and expeditions in unusual or remote locations. | https://www.madeiraislandnews.com/2022/06/hike-to-map-madeira-coast.html | 2022-06-14T23:20:13Z | https://www.madeiraislandnews.com/2022/06/hike-to-map-madeira-coast.html | false | 1 |
New Report Shows Worrying Slow-down in Digital Inclusion for Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
LONDON, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The expansion of mobile internet access in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is continuing at pace, but risks leaving women further behind, according to new analysis published today by the GSMA.
The GSMA Mobile Gender Gap Report 2022 shows that after years of progress towards women's equal digital inclusion across LMICs, only 59 million additional women in LMICs started using mobile internet in 2021 compared to 110 million in 2020.
This recent slowdown in the growth rate at which women are adopting the mobile internet across LMICs is in contrast with continued high growth rates for men. It represents the first time GSMA data has recorded such a negative trend.
Across LMICs, the report shows that the mobile internet gender gap has narrowed every year from 2017 to 2020, from 25 per cent to 15 per cent. However, GSMA data from 2021 suggests that this momentum has been lost. Women are now 16 per cent less likely than men to use the mobile internet, which equates to 264 million fewer women than men using mobile internet.
In South Asia, traditionally the region with the widest mobile gender gap, this rebound has been even more stark. The mobile internet gender gap had narrowed significantly, from 67 per cent in 2017 to 36 per cent in 2020, but has now widened to 41 per cent.
GSMA Director General Mats Granryd said: "For decades, mobile internet has been transforming the lives of women across the globe, especially in low- and middle-income countries. But the worrying statistics in our Mobile Gender Gap Report 2022 show that far more needs to be done to prevent women being left behind in the digital economy. Institutions, corporations and governments around the world need to focus on the importance of inclusion, and actively seek to combat such inequalities. The GSMA is committed to working with mobile operators and governmental stakeholders to address this negative trend and ensure that women do not miss out on the transformative power of mobile technology, wherever they live in the world."
These findings are particularly significant, since mobile remains the primary way women access the internet across LMICs, and the benefits of internet connectivity can be life-changing. In particular, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of mobiles as a valuable tool for helping women access health information, stay connected to their families during lockdowns, continue income-generating opportunities and access government support.
Industry action
The GSMA introduced the Connected Women Commitment Initiative in 2016 to catalyse action to close the mobile gender gap. Over this time, over 40 mobile operators across Africa, Asia and Latin America have made formal commitments to accelerate digital and financial inclusion for women. These operators have already reached more than 55 million additional women with mobile internet or mobile money services.
However, mobile operators cannot work in isolation. The mobile gender gap is a significant global issue, requiring attention from all stakeholders to ensure women and their families can reap the full benefits of connectivity. In total, only 60% of women in LMICs now use the mobile internet, compared to 71% of men.
The annual GSMA Mobile Gender Gap report is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) via the GSMA Mobile for Development Foundation. It plays an important role in sizing the mobile gender gap and generating regional and country-level data to draw attention to this issue, as well as providing key evidence to inform action from stakeholders.
This year's findings demonstrate the importance of continuing to collect data to understand the issue and address the key barriers preventing women from accessing and benefiting from mobile internet, including affordability, digital skills, and social norms that inhibit women's access and use of mobile technology.
It is only with the concerted action and collaboration of different stakeholders that we can truly accelerate progress on this issue, and ensure that gender inequalities are not further entrenched.
The GSMA's Mobile Gender Gap Report 2022 is available at: https://www.gsma.com/r/gender-gap/
Further information on the Connected Women Commitment Initiative can be found at: https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/connected-women/the-commitment/
About GSMA
The GSMA is a global organisation unifying the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. Our vision is to unlock the full power of connectivity so that people, industry, and society thrive. Representing mobile operators and organisations across the mobile ecosystem and adjacent industries, the GSMA delivers for its members across three broad pillars: Connectivity for Good, Industry Services and Solutions, and Outreach. This activity includes advancing policy, tackling today's biggest societal challenges, underpinning the technology and interoperability that make mobile work, and providing the world's largest platform to convene the mobile ecosystem at the MWC and M360 series of events.
We invite you to find out more at gsma.com
About GSMA Connected Women
The GSMA's Connected Women programme works with mobile operators and their partners to address the barriers to women accessing and using mobile internet and mobile money services. Connected Women aims to reduce the gender gap in mobile internet and mobile money services and unlock significant commercial opportunities for the mobile industry and socio-economic benefits for women.
This report is the output of a GSMA Mobile for Development Foundation project funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The views expressed are not necessarily those of either organisation.
For more information, please visit www.gsma.com/connectedwomen
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Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram
June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) called on Meta to urgently revise its flawed content-moderation process for Persian-language content on the Instagram social media app.
The current process has enabled Iranian state agents to manipulate Meta into removing content that is considered critical of the Iranian government–despite not violating Instagram’s community standards policies:
Instagram suffers from a deficit in trust and transparency when it comes to its content moderation practices for the Persian community. Despite acknowledgments by the company, the caseloads remain high through the communication and network mechanisms that organizations like ours alone maintain, which represent problems from only a small fraction of the community. Many Iranians are abandoning the platform because they distrust the platform’s policies and/or enforcement.
The full statement has been reprinted below.
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Iran: Meta Needs to Overhaul Persian-Language Content Moderation on Instagram
ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) have come together to make recommendations to Meta and Meta’s Oversight Board to streamline processes to ensure freedom of expression is protected for users who rely on the social media platform in Iran, especially during protests.
On 7 June 2022, ARTICLE 19 hosted a RightsCon session that included Meta’s Content Policy manager Muhammad Abushaqra, a member of Meta’s Oversight Board Julie Owono, and the BBC Persian’s Rana Rahimpour. The event covered Instagram’s Persian-language content moderation processes and problems. Because Instagram, which is owned by Meta, is now the main platform for communication in Iran, given its status as the last remaining American social media app that’s unblocked in the country, the discussion focused on Meta’s regulation of this platform. According to polls, Instagram hosts 53.1% of all Internet users in Iran on its platform, the second most used app in Iran after WhatsApp.
Instagram suffers from a deficit in trust and transparency when it comes to its content moderation practices for the Persian community. Despite acknowledgments by the company, the caseloads remain high through the communication and network mechanisms that organizations like ours alone maintain, which represent problems from only a small fraction of the community. Many Iranians are abandoning the platform because they distrust the platform’s policies and/or enforcement.
Following the discussion, ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) are presenting the following recommendations to Meta with a view to helping the company better understand the complexities of Persian-language content, and ensure its content moderation practices uphold and protect the human rights and freedom of expression of everyone using Instagram.
Blocking Hashtags, Blocking Access to Information
Among the key issues discussed with Meta were mistakes and technical errors that prohibited people from accessing certain information, including blocks placed on hashtags. Reference was made in particular to the sanctions placed on the hashtag #IWillLightACandleToo used in support of the campaign for the families of the victims of the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 shot down in 2020, resulting in the deaths of all 176 people on board. The hashtag was temporarily blocked from being shared at the height of the campaign.
Speaking specifically about the censorship of #IWillLightACandleToo, the Meta representative explained that while the hashtag and the campaign did not violate any policies, the ability to search for the hashtag was temporarily locked because there was content being shared using the hashtag unrelated to the main message of the campaign, and this content did violate Meta’s policies. The Meta representative suggested that the violating content was part of counter-narratives to refute the campaign and was immediately removed because it violated the company’s Dangerous Organizations and Individuals standards. However, in addition to such individual removals, locks have been placed on the searchability of hashtags that have multiple violations. Meta said when it learned about the issue following a huge raft of complaints, Meta took down the violating content and restored access to the hashtag. The Meta representative also asserted there are systems in place to stop coordinated inauthentic behavior. In the case of the #IWillLightACandleToo campaign, Meta further claimed that such behavior would have been detected, even though, as the BBC’s Rana Rahimpour noted during the event, this problem was only rectified because of substantial media attention to the campaign and because of the strong networks and platforms of the association of families of victims of flight PS752.
Recommendations
ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and CHRI urge Meta to create better rapid response systems to ensure that those without platforms or access to international human rights organizations can escalate the removal of erroneous locks and similar mistakes through more equitable processes. We further urge Meta to actively follow similar campaigns on Instagram to understand their context and prevent these mistakes and eliminate the ability for bad actors, either nation-state affiliated or not, from using Meta’s policies to the detriment of Persian language human rights communities like those behind the PS752 association.
“Death to Khamenei” and Meta’s Consistent Inconsistencies
One of the recent issues raised within the Persian language community has been the takedowns of content on Instagram containing the protest chant “death to Khamenei” or other “death to…” slogans against institutions associated with the dictatorship in Iran. Meta previously issued a temporary exception for “death to Khamenei” during July 2021 following explanations from the Iranian community that clarified the specific cultural context of such chants. The Meta spokesperson has stated, however, that issuing exceptions goes against consistent policies the company maintains against allowing violent calls against leaders, even if they are rhetorical slogans. Meta had, however, granted this kind of exception to allow for hate speech in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While Meta has repeatedly declared it must be consistent on these global applications, there has been no further clarification on when and why in some instances – namely the case of Ukraine – such exceptions were granted, but in others not. Meta did clarify after the backlash on the exceptions that the company will not allow exceptions on statements calling for the death of any leaders, particularly calls to death for leaders in Russia or Belarus. However, the rules on their exceptions granting more carve-outs for Ukrainian speech in relation to self-defense against Russian invaders have remained vague.
Our organizations, however, are worried that this lack of nuance in content that is documenting protests causes problematic takedowns of newsworthy protest posts, or in other cases, posts that could help directly or indirectly corroborate human rights abuses. The lack of exception for this kind of speech is in direct contradiction to the six-part threshold test set out in the United Nations’ Rabat Plan of Action on the threshold for freedom of expression in its consideration of incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, which requires the context and intent of a statement into account, among other considerations
Recommendations
We propose that Meta clarifies in what cases they are making exceptions to allow for violent calls and why beyond the communications on leaders. We also encourage Meta to reinstate the ability for the Oversight Board to deliberate on content decisions in connection to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially to ensure oversight over these exceptions processes. We also ask Meta at the very least to preserve violating content. This is because allegedly offensive content from crisis zones is needed as corroborating human rights evidence.
We also urge the Meta Oversight Board to deliberate on protest content removed because of the slogan “death to Khamenei” to ensure consistency when it comes to granting exceptions, as well as to ensure its compliance with international human rights norms. We urge the Meta Oversight Board and Meta to work together to ensure appeals to the Oversight Board can be made beyond the two-week timeframe, as this has proven insufficient time for users who need to navigate the Oversight appeals applications in the midst of conflicts.
Lack of Transparency in Meta’s Moderation Processes
Two issues surrounding transparency were discussed during the RightsCon session: automated moderation processes and human review processes.
Automation
Participants discussed automated review processes whereby media banks or lexicons are used to remove phrases, images, or audio automatically. While Meta confirmed its use of these automated lists, we continue to ask for clarity on the content of these banks and lexicon lists. We note, for instance, that automated removals for non-supportive content of entities listed on the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals (DOI) are rampant. Most relevant in the Iran context is the listing of the Revolutionary Guards on the DOI list. Even after recommendations for the policy to better enforce nuance for contexts that don’t constitute support or praise the entities highlighted by the Oversight Board, and its acceptance by Meta, we continue to see this problem perpetuated. This includes satire, criticism, news and political art expressing criticism of or objection to the Revolutionary Guards, which forms a large chunk of the news or expression content that Persian language and even Arabic language users (Syrian activists, for example) post on Meta-related platforms.
Recommendations
We call for more transparency on the automated processes. We further ask for clarifications on what is contained in media banks used for automated takedowns within the Persian market. Erroneous takedowns continue on the platform, as the processes in place do not allow for nuance on content that references DOI-listed entities. These takedowns violate the commitments that Meta has made in reaction to the two DOI-related Oversight Board recommendations that require nuance in their interpretations.
Human Review Processes
Revelations by the BBC that Iranian officials have tried to bribe Persian-language moderators for Meta at a content moderation contractor Telus International center in Essen, Germany, have also raised concerns about the oversight of human moderation processes. Another BBC report revealed a series of allegations that included a claim that there is not enough oversight of the moderators to neutralize their biases. One anonymous moderator alleged that Meta only assesses the accuracy of 10% of what each moderator does. Meta clarified during this event that audits of reviewers’ decisions are based on a random sample, meaning it would not be possible for a reviewer to evade this system or choose which of their decisions are audited. Meta made public assurances to the BBC it would conduct internal investigations, and during our event, representatives assured us that those investigations have informed them that there are high accuracy rates.
Recommendations
We worry that the random samples Meta explained they used to prove accuracy might not disprove claims that there is still a large gap in oversight of ensuring no bias can impact decisions. Additionally, we are worried claims of “high accuracy” do not reconcile against the documentation and experiences of the Persian language community, which is undergoing constant streams of takedowns or unexplained “mistakes”. There must be clarity over what data is used to determine these accuracy statistics.
ARTICLE19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urge Meta to make this investigation transparent and clarify with more detail its training and review processes that maintain the integrity of the moderation processes. We urge investment and resources to build trust among these impacted communities. | https://iranhumanrights.org/2022/06/rights-groups-call-on-meta-to-fix-persian-content-moderation-for-instagram/ | 2022-06-14T23:25:05Z | https://iranhumanrights.org/2022/06/rights-groups-call-on-meta-to-fix-persian-content-moderation-for-instagram/ | false | 1 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators are trying to make a methodical case that President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election led directly to his supporters' insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The House panel investigating the attack has held the first two in a series of hearings providing its initial findings after a yearlong probe and more than 1,000 interviews. The committee has shown clips not only from the violent attack on the Capitol, but also from its own closed-door interviews with Trump aides and associates who were trying to dissuade him from spreading falsehoods about an election he lost.
A rundown of what we've learned so far from the public hearings of the select Jan. 6 committee — and what’s next:
REBUFFED ON ELECTION NIGHT
One after one, video excerpts have been played of Trump’s aides describing their conversations with the just-defeated president as returns came in on election night and in the days afterward, as it became increasingly obvious that he had lost to Democrat Joe Biden. The committee is trying to establish that Trump pushed lies about widespread election fraud despite hearing clear evidence that it didn't happen.
As the aides tried to be realistic with the president, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani took the opposite approach, telling him on election night that he should declare victory right away, according to the testimony. It was four more days until Biden was declared the winner.
Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, said she knew it was clear that the results would not be final on election night. Campaign aide Jason Miller said a better sense of the numbers was needed before making any declarations. Campaign manager Bill Stepien said he advised Trump to tell reporters that the race was too early to call, that he was proud of the campaign he ran and that he was in a good position to win.
But Trump didn’t listen. Miller said that Trump told the room that anyone who didn’t agree with Giuliani was being “weak." He went out and publicly declared the election “a fraud on the American public.”
“Frankly, we did win this election,” Trump said.
FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS COME UP EMPTY
In the weeks after the election, the Department of Justice investigated Trump’s claims of widespread fraud. States and localities that had counted the votes did their own checks. None found evidence to support the claims that Trump and Giuliani were pushing.
Attorney General Bill Barr, who resigned from office after publicly declaring there was no evidence of widespread fraud, described his interactions with the president as he tried to convince him of the facts. Not only was Trump angry, but he was becoming “detached from reality,” Barr said in a videotaped deposition.
Barr said that when he would tell Trump “how crazy some of these allegations were, there was never, there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.”
Two in-person witnesses at the committee’s hearing on Monday talked about Trump and Giuliani’s pressure to try and overturn the results in their states. BJay Pak, a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta who resigned as Trump pressured Georgia officials, said his office investigated Giuliani’s “reckless” claims about fraud in the state and found them to be “simply untrue.”
Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, the only Republican on the city’s election board, said Trump’s claims about fraud in his city were “fantastical” and thorough investigations turned up nothing of the sort.
FUNDRAISING USING FALSE CLAIMS
The panel detailed Trump’s fundraising off his own falsehoods. He and his allies raised hundreds of millions after the election, the committee said, and broadly misled donors as to where some of the money was going. Some of the dollars that were advertised as going to an “election defense fund” actually benefitted groups and entities connected to Trump’s family and friends.
“Not only was there the Big Lie, there was the Big Ripoff,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a member of the panel.
After the hearing on Monday, Lofgren said on CNN that Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, was paid $60,000 for a short speech at Trump’s rally ahead of the insurrection.
A REMINDER OF THE VIOLENCE
While some of the committee’s findings are new, some of the evidence they are presenting is not. But the seven Democrats and two Republicans on the panel want to remind the public of what happened that January day – not only how violent it was, but the lies that led up to it.
At the initial hearing on June 9, the panel showed new video of police officers being beaten as Trump’s supporters broke into the Capitol and interrupted the certification of Biden's victory. Images from body cameras and security video showed the huge and angry crowd as it surged toward the entrances and shattered windows and doors, repeating Trump's claims about fraud.
Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards described a bloody “war scene” and hours of hand to hand combat. She was one of the first officers injured, thrown to ground as the first rioters pushed past bike racks. She suffered a head injury and still hasn’t yet returned to the same unit.
“It was carnage,” she said. “It was chaos.”
WHAT’S NEXT
While the schedule is fluid, the committee plans up to five additional hearings to lay out its findings. While the first two hearings showed the violence of the siege and documented Trump’s resistance as his aides and allies initially tried to present the facts of his November loss, future hearings will describe how he continued to push the lies and eventually set his sights on the congressional certification of Jan. 6.
On Thursday, the panel will describe Trump’s efforts to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to illegally delay the electoral count or to object to Biden’s win as he presided over the congressional certification. In a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the committee's Republican co-chair, said the panel will examine Trump’s “relentless effort on Jan. 6, and in the days beforehand, to pressure Vice President Pence to refuse to count lawful electoral votes.”
Rep. Cheney also included a preview clip: former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann telling the committee in a video interview that he had told John Eastman, a lawyer who was working with Trump to push the false fraud claims, that he needed to “get a great effing criminal defense lawyer. You’re gonna need it.”
Other hearings will review Trump's pressure on Justice Department officials and what was happening in the White House as the violence unfolded at the Capitol.
“The Trump campaign legal team knew there was no legitimate argument — fraud, irregularities or anything — to overturn the election,” Cheney said at Monday’s hearing. “And yet President Trump went ahead with his plans for Jan. 6 anyway.”
A CRIMINAL REFERRAL?
After the hearings, the committee says its investigation will continue. And panel members will ultimately have to make a decision about whether they have found criminal activity and, if so, whether they should refer it to the Justice Department. The department, which is conducting its own investigation, could take or leave the recommendation.
Committee members have been debating that issue, but have emphasized a referral is not their main goal.
“We’re making a report to the American people about what happened, why it happened and how we need to protect ourselves in the future,” said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat on the committee.
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Associated Press writer Kevin Freking contributed to this report. | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Jan-6-hearings-What-we-ve-learned-and-what-s-17241800.php | 2022-06-14T23:27:43Z | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Jan-6-hearings-What-we-ve-learned-and-what-s-17241800.php | false | 44 |
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Symbotic Inc. Changes to Beneficial Ownership: SVF Sponsor III (DE) LLC (10%+) (Form4)
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Fashion Disaster! Kim Kardashian Slammed for Allegedly Damaging Marilyn Monroe’s Dress at Met Gala
Fashion emergency. Kim Kardashian has been slammed for allegedly damaging Marilyn Monroe’s dress that she wore to the Met Gala in May 2022.
The Marilyn Monroe Collection Instagram account posted new photos of the iconic dress before and after Kim, 41, wore it on Monday, June 13. Alongside the photos, the account claimed the bedazzled dress appeared to be “missing” a few crystals and others seemed to be “hanging by a thread.” There also appeared to be rips and tears along the back zipper.
Shortly after the account shared the side-by-side photos, fans rushed to the comments section to slam The Kardashians star for allegedly ruining the dress. “So sad that this has happened. I can’t believe anyone was allowed to wear this very special historical piece,” one person wrote. Another added, “So disappointing, especially when she had a replica made, there was no reason for her to try to fit into a dress that was NEVER meant for her body type.”
Marilyn wore the famous dress while singing “Happy Birthday” to then-President John F. Kennedy in 1962. While the ensemble had been preserved, Kim made headlines when she rocked the gown during the Met Gala on May 2.
“The idea really came to me after the gala in September last year. I thought to myself, what would I have done for the American theme if it had not been the Balenciaga look? What’s the most American thing you can think of? And that’s Marilyn Monroe,” the reality star told Vogue about wearing the gown to the event. “For me, the most Marilyn Monroe moment is when she sang ‘Happy Birthday,’ to JFK, it was that look.”
The Skims mogul admitted the dress didn’t initially fit her, so she took matters into her own hands by dropping 16 lbs in three weeks. In order to quickly lose the weight, Kim said she went on a “strict” diet and fitness regimen.
“I would wear a sauna suit twice a day, run on the treadmill, completely cut out all sugar and all carbs, and just eat the cleanest veggies and protein,” the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum explained, noting that the dress fit after a month.
Kim faced backlash for losing weight in a short period of time to fit into the dress, though she defended the decision during an interview with The New York Times in June.
“I didn’t do anything unhealthy,” she said of the weight loss process. “To me, it was like, ‘OK, Christian Bale can do it for a movie role and that is acceptable.’ Even Renée Zellweger gained weight for a role. It’s all the same to me.”
The SKKN by Kim founder added, “I wasn’t saying, ‘Hey everyone, why don’t you go lose weight in a short period of time?’”
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The risks and rewards of PPPs: How public-private partnerships have fared in Singapore
SINGAPORE: Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are under the spotlight after the Government took over the management of the Sports Hub last week, more than a decade earlier than agreed upon.
The S$1.33 billion facility was a tie-up between the Government and SHPL, a consortium made up of four companies – Infrared Capital Partners, Dragages Singapore, Cushman & Wakefield Facilities & Engineering, and Global Spectrum Asia.
SHPL was hired in 2010 on a 25-year contract to design, build, finance and operate the Sports Hub. It has run the sporting facility for eight years since it opened in 2014.
Last Friday (Jun 10), it was announced that government agency Sport Singapore (SportSG) will take over the ownership and management of the Sports Hub from Dec 9.
What is a public-private partnership?
The public-private partnership (PPP) was a form of procurement introduced under the best sourcing framework in 2004, according to the Ministry of Finance’s (MOF) second version of the handbook on PPPs published in 2012.
The best sourcing framework "encourages public agencies to engage private sector providers in delivering non-core government services if it is more efficient to do so", the handbook stated.
Traditionally, public agencies only engage private sector companies to construct facilities or supply equipment, said MOF. The public agencies will then own and operate the facilities or equipment to deliver services.
However under PPP, the public sector will "focus on acquiring services at the most cost-effective basis, rather than directly owning and operating assets".
In the long run, a PPP would mean public services could be delivered in a "more value for money way" by optimising the "expertise, resources and innovation” in the public and private sectors to “meet public needs effectively and efficiently".
WHY THE SPLIT?
A number of factors led to this breakup, analysts said, but this “isolated case” is not an indictment of the PPP model – which has worked well in many other instances here and abroad.
Professor Lawrence Loh, director at the Centre for Governance and Sustainability at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, said that the Sports Hub faced challenges even before the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the Sports Hub hosted international football matches in its early years, it drew flak for the poor condition of its pitch. Audiences attending concerts also had complaints about a leaky retractable roof and the sound system.
The National Day Parade was supposed to be held there annually but after one run in 2016, it moved back to the Floating Platform.
Prof Loh said that while the National Stadium at the Sports Hub has booked a few large events, these were probably not sufficient and large revenue streams failed to materialise. Due to the pandemic, the last two years have been “tough” and the Sports Hub’s profit has halved, he added.
At the same time, the aims of the Government and the consortium have diverged – the Government is emphasising broader participation in sports, while SHPL would need to raise more revenue, which may mean raising its rentals and fees.
“The pandemic has not helped but going forward they really need to up their revenue streams, including even upping their booking fee, so this will not help the social objective of broadening participation ... they don't square together,” he said.
“It's very hard to have a business model of sports while at the same time serve a social purpose.”
PPP SUCCESSES AND FAILURES
But while the PPP has not worked in this case, there are many other projects which have succeeded.
Said Prof Loh: “Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater … I think it’s just an isolated case, because of the speculative nature of the subject of the PPP, which posed a challenge.
“But PPP as a concept in finance, in management is definitely very sound because of the principle of synergy – synergy in risk sharing, synergy in resource allocation.”
Abroad, there are numerous examples of thriving PPP projects including airports in Japan, New York’s Central Park Conservancy and infrastructure like toll roads in China, said Prof Loh.
In Singapore, there has been a range of PPP projects since the early 2000s in areas ranging from water and sewage treatment and incineration plants to IT infrastructure, defence facilities, transport and education.
The book Exploring Public-Private Partnerships in Singapore by Kim Soojin and Kwa Kai Xiang counted 38 publicly known PPP projects launched between 2000 and 2019.
More than 80 per cent of these projects have been successful, according to the authors’ analysis. Some examples are the SingSpring desalination plant, ITE College West and TradeXchange.
Apart from the Sports Hub, some failed PPPs include the Changi Motorsports Hub, university accommodation at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore Management University, and the Tuaspring integrated water and power plant.
Mr Kwa Kai Xiang, a lecturer at the School of Social Sciences at NUS and co-author of the book cited above, said that there are some common factors that can determine if a PPP works out.
“On the whole, although there can be project-specific factors leading to PPP success and failure, there are nonetheless common critical success factors underpinning successful PPPs from various sectors,” said Mr Kwa.
Two factors are a “sound financial infrastructure” for the private company, and the “alignment of public and private sectors' interests”.
An external factor that could make or break the project is the stability of global economic conditions and supply chains. At a project level, one thing to look out for would be the corporate and financial management of the PPP, he added.
As detailed in his book, there have been at least five successful PPP water projects between national water agency PUB and the private sector from 2000 to 2010, including desalination plants and NEWater plants.
The National Environment Agency also contracted with Keppel Seghers to build and operate an incineration plant, which has been operational since 2009.
In the education sector, the ITE College West built by Gammon Capital has won several awards, including the Asia Pacific PPP Deal of the Year by Project Finance International, Singapore.
In contrast, sports facilities projects have not had such a good track record. With the Changi Motorsports Hub, the company involved, SG Changi, was investigated by Singapore’s Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau (CPIB) for irregularities in the tender.
This caused the project investors to withhold funding and the project not meeting key deadlines. In 2011, the then-Singapore Sports Council terminated the project partnership.
One notable failure that dominated headlines was the Tuaspring integrated water and power plant project by Hyflux. After Hyflux underwent court-supervised debt restructuring, PUB took over the desalination plant from Hyflux in May 2019.
On the other hand, there are PPPs whose success is difficult to fully ascertain, according to some industry analysts. One such project is the MRT system.
“I think it’s quite hard to talk about the issue because it’s actually very complex. The PPP encompasses a wide range of activities, and so it’s hard to say whether a PPP works,” explained Associate Professor Walter Theseira, who teaches economics at the Singapore University of Social Sciences.
“There is a wide range of arrangements for the MRT system, which span a range of different concepts. … Some external experts might not even call our system a PPP.”
When the MRT system first opened in 1987, its lines were fully owned and operated by the state. Then in 1996, more of the MRT system was privatised in hopes that it would lead to greater efficiency.
In 1998, SMRT – which was then a government-linked company under Temasek – began operating the North-South and East-West lines. SMRT later became a listed company in 2000.
LTA also awarded the operating licence for the North-East line to SBS Transit, another listed company.
But in 2016, following criticism that SMRT as a private company might have prioritised profits over providing an essential public good, SMRT was delisted. LTA bought back SMRT's rail assets, returning them to government control.
On the other hand, Associate Professor Raymond Ong, from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NUS, believes the MRT system's PPP has "largely worked".
"If we look at (earlier) days, what happened is that private operators had to do the maintenance, and also the operations of the stations and trains. And often, this would mean that lesser attention might be paid to the reliability of the service, the maintenance and quality level," he said.
"In this case, what happened is the Government took control of the infrastructure. And the operator takes control of the operations. So this means that they actually free the operator from the need to maintain the infrastructure. The operator will continue to invest in operations and improve the level of service, while the Government owns the railway operating assets. So that we will enjoy a better public transport system."
BALANCE NEEDED FOR PPP TO SUCCEED
However, like all PPPs, in the case of the MRT, a well-designed PPP is “meant to leverage the best aspects of private and public sectors”, said Assoc Prof Theseira.
“We believe the private sector has more flexibility, willingness to change and innovation, and is thus better placed to design, build and operate the system compared to the public sector. They’re not bound by civil service rules, for instance."
“On the other hand, what you hope to mitigate with public sector involvement is the private sector’s tendency to do (things) that might harm the public interest.”
Using the MRT system as a case study, a balance must be achieved when it comes to PPPs.
“The principle is that you look for competition and innovation … These things are more easily or readily available in the private sector. The problem is when you believe in this principle too much and don’t have the necessary safeguards, then you end up with undesirable outcomes," said Assoc Prof Theseira.
"It’s a trade-off… Just as it’s untenable to go to a completely private system, it’s also just as untenable to go to a completely national system without any sort of private sector involvement.
"Something in between is still all right. The problem is how far in between you are. It’s an open-ended question that we need to think about harder."
Where a lot of PPPs might “come to ruin” is when the private sector “bites off more than it can chew”, added Assoc Prof Theseira.
With an MRT system, this might look like a cost structure that might require them to charge a certain amount for fares that might not meet public sector objectives.
Another area of potential failure is when the government doesn’t uphold its end of the bargain, such as “building conflicting train lines” that might compete with the PPP.
“One should be quite careful about PPPs, because there are a lot of ways they can go wrong, and when they go wrong, the situation might result in a lot of taxpayers footing the bill. ... We can’t expect the system to always get it right,” added Assoc Prof Theseira.
Unforeseen circumstances, such as a pandemic, could also change the operating environment dramatically, forcing the need to "rewrite” a PPP.
As such, Mr Kwa noted that public and private sector parties who want to develop PPPs can consider establishing rigorous processes to identify risks and challenges so that they can mitigate them in a timely manner.
“At the external environment level, monitor more closely current and anticipated global economic and supply chain trends, especially trends that can have a direct impact on the ability of the concession company to deliver its project outputs,” he added.
The Sports Hub partnership seemingly failed to have a robust way of spotting and addressing risks and challenges, he said.
And in the bigger picture, there are "parallel" lessons to be drawn with the MRT system and the Sports Hub, namely understanding the "balance of who actually bears the risk of revenue and the risk of cost", said Dr Ong.
If only one party bears all the risks, it will be a "vicious cycle", where there is "less incentive to improve infrastructure". This would then lead to fewer "premium activities" being held in Singapore, as infrastructure is key to attracting sports events, he said.
"It's the same as the MRT. If we don't invest in infrastructure, then the train will break down, and who will take the system? But now people have restored confidence in the public transport system. Ridership has increased over the years, compared to, say, five to 10 years ago. Having shared ownership (of the system) has helped in this aspect," added Dr Ong.
With the Sports Hub, however, Dr Ong cautioned that looking at who benefits in the future does not always come down to monetary value.
"It is a bit unlike the MRT, because the MRT benefits the entire Singapore. Any breakdown will have a huge societal cost. ... Under the Sports Hub, what is the societal value, monetary or non-monetary, that we are bringing to the table? Sometimes it's not just about money." | https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/sports-hub-public-private-partnerships-singapore-government-2745756?cid=cna_flip_070214 | 2022-06-14T23:31:02Z | https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/sports-hub-public-private-partnerships-singapore-government-2745756?cid=cna_flip_070214 | true | 1 |
SHREVEPORT, La. - Some very big ideas were floated Tuesday concerning LSU-S and the LSU Health Science Center by LSU President William Tate.
Tate said these are not proposals, but ideas. The main one being what's called the "co-location" of LSU-S and the LSU Health Science Center. LSU-S would basically be connected to the Health Science Center by moving across the street on Kings Highway. He even brought artist renderings of the potential changes.
Another idea touched moving the School of Allied Health to the LSU-S campus.
"The key to all of our conversations are what can we do to be distinctive in the research and academic enterprise that will draw more students into school and give them greater opportunities when they get done. That is what we are trying to talk to the community about, get insight and help everybody understand we're going to have to do things a little differently if we're going to be successful," Tate said.
"There are opportunities to engage the community. One example would be, what would happen if you built a research building at the medical center and then began working with the Shreveport campus, Centenary and other schools to help foster interrelationships in those research environments. Another is moving Allied Health potentially to the LSU-S campus," said Tate.
Tate also told the Rotary Club that there's a decline in people enrolling in higher education in Louisiana and when you combine that with the population shrinking in Shreveport something "bold and distinctive" has to be done to attract people and to keep from "falling off the cliff." | https://www.ktbs.com/news/lsu-president-floats-ideas-of-merging-campuses-in-shreveport/article_fa5e6ee0-ec27-11ec-b7c9-17393d883ff9.html | 2022-06-14T23:32:46Z | https://www.ktbs.com/news/lsu-president-floats-ideas-of-merging-campuses-in-shreveport/article_fa5e6ee0-ec27-11ec-b7c9-17393d883ff9.html | true | 1 |
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