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ORLANDO, Fla., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCT) celebrated its second annual day of service, Pure Planet Day, in Florida and Ohio. Florida volunteers helped build a greenhouse for Millennia Gardens Elementary, an award-winning Title I school located in Orlando, while the Ohio crew collected solid and plastic waste scattered on the roads of Ironton in partnership with the Lawrence-Scioto Solid Waste Management District.
Tamsin Ettefagh, chief sustainability officer, PureCycle said, "Pure Planet Day is more than just about picking up waste on the side of the road or along a riverbed. From working with Millennia Gardens Elementary School in Orlando on environmental and educational projects to helping beautify the City of Ironton where our flagship facility is located, Pure Planet Day is about making change happen for the betterment of our environment and humanity. It's about leaving the communities in which we live and work better than we found them."
Michelle Carralero, principal, Millennia Gardens Elementary School, said, "We are thrilled to work with PureCycle, a neighbor in our community, to continue to advance our environment-focused programs here at Millennia Gardens. We are doing more than building a greenhouse. We are creating a sanctuary that is both beautiful and safe for our children to learn and play. We are building the next generation of eco-conscious adults and we are proud of the work we have done."
As a part of Pure Planet Day, PureCycle has donated to Millennia Gardens Elementary through the Foundation for Orange County Public Schools to help further their eco efforts. In 2021, PureCycle celebrated its first Pure Planet Day in Ironton, Ohio, collecting solid and plastic waste along the Ohio riverbank and County Road 1A. All collected polypropylene plastic was later transformed into PureCycle's ultra-pure recycled (UPR) resin.
PureCycle transforms polypropylene plastic waste into a versatile resource through a patented, unique purification process that removes colors, odors, and other impurities to create an ultra-pure recycled resin that is as good as new plastic. The company's mission is to revolutionize plastic waste into a renewable resource and create an infinitely sustainable planet.
Media Contact:
Anna Farrar
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(954) 647-7059
About PureCycle Technologies
PureCycle Technologies LLC., a subsidiary of PureCycle Technologies, Inc., holds a global license for the only patented solvent-driven purification recycling technology, developed by The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), that is designed to transform
polypropylene plastic waste (designated as No. 5 plastic) into a continuously renewable resource. The unique purification process removes color, odor, and other impurities from No. 5 plastic waste resulting in an ultra-pure recycled (UPR) plastic can be recycled and reused over and over again, changing our relationship with plastic.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the financial condition, results of operations, earnings outlook and prospects of PCT. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict," "should," "would" and other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of PCT and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of the Quarterly Report to be filed on Form 10-Q. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in the section of PCT's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 entitled "Risk Factors," those discussed and identified in public filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") by PCT and the following:
- PCT's ability to meet, and to continue to meet, applicable regulatory requirements for the use of PCT's UPR resin in food grade applications (both in the United States and abroad);
- PCT's ability to comply on an ongoing basis with the numerous regulatory requirements applicable to the UPR resin and PCT's facilities (both in the United States and abroad);
- expectations and changes regarding PCT's strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans, expansion plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and PCT's ability to invest in growth initiatives;
- PCT's ability to scale and build the Ironton facility in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- PCT's ability to complete the necessary funding with respect to, and complete the construction of the Augusta facility, its first U.S. cluster facility located in Augusta, Georgia, in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- PCT's ability to sort and process polypropylene plastic waste at its plastic waste prep ("Feed PreP") facilities;
- PCT's ability to maintain exclusivity under the Procter & Gamble Company license;
- the implementation, market acceptance and success of PCT's business model and growth strategy;
- the success or profitability of PCT's offtake arrangements;
- the ability to source feedstock with a high polypropylene content;
- PCT's future capital requirements and sources and uses of cash;
- PCT's ability to obtain funding for its operations and future growth;
- developments and projections relating to PCT's competitors and industry;
- the outcome of any legal or regulatory proceedings to which PCT is, or may become a party, including the recently filed securities class action case;
- the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the previously announced business combination consummated on March 17, 2021;
- unexpected costs related to the business combination;
- geopolitical risk and changes in applicable laws or regulations;
- the possibility that PCT may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors;
- changes in the prices and availability of labor (including labor shortages), transportation and materials, including significant inflation, and PCT's ability to obtain them in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- the potential impact of climate change on PCT, including physical and transition risks, higher regulatory and compliance costs, reputational risks, and availability of capital on attractive terms;
- operational risk; and
- the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic, including any new and emerging variants and the efficacy and distribution of vaccines, and local, state, federal and international responses to addressing the pandemic may have an adverse effect on PCT's business operations, as well as PCT's financial condition and results of operations.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of PCT prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements or other matters attributable to PCT or any person acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this press release. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, PCT undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has indicated that the recently launched Development Bank of Ghana (DBG) has a total of $750 million resources available to the bank in equity and debt.
Those resources, he said, included equity commitment of $250m out of which $200m had been paid and a German Kfw subordinated debt of €46.5m Euros that included an additional €3m grant for technical assistance.
“The World Bank and EIB have given the Bank $225m and 170m Euros respectively. AfDB have also given the Government $40m grant, which has been given to the Bank as equity,” he said.
Speaking at the launch of DBG, he urged the board and management of the bank to work hard towards getting an international rating for the Bank within the shortest possible time.
“It is our firm expectation DBG will manage its affairs prudently, that soon it will be able to go to the market, both domestic and international, to raise its own funds on the basis of its balance sheet,” he said.
The Minister said DBG would focus more on economic transformation, especially industrialisation and value-addition in agriculture while providing support to businesses in technology, tourism, and high value services.
He added that “the aim will be to focus on SMEs and relatively large Ghanaian corporates in these sectors to help transform the economy and create jobs.”
Mr Ofori-Atta hinted that the Bank would among other things provide long-term finance to economic units operating in the productive sectors of the economy at competitive interest rates, provide funding facilities with tenures of up to 15 years and lend funds to participating financial institutions for on-lending to SMEs.
He said DBG would also operate a Partial Guarantee Window and a digital platform to facilitate factoring of invoices by SMEs.
Mr Ernest Addison, the Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana (BOG) observed that the inability of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) to effectively address market gaps, facilitate meaningful increases in financial intermediation had led to a resurgence in the establishment of new ones.
Overtime, the role of development banks, he said, had expanded to include finance for infrastructure expansion, environmentally green projects, as well as a wide range of developmental objectives.
“Despite these, DFIs maintain the provision of medium to long-term finance and project finance at the core of their activities,” he added.
He said there was broad international consensus that a strong regulatory and supervisory regime needed to underpin the operations of DFIs.
“This consensus was made following the observation that inadequate regulation and supervisory framework and undue political interference were major contributory factors that led to the collapse of development banks in Africa during the 1960-80.”
In that regard, he said that the Central Bank would subject the DBG to the same regulatory and supervisory standards that held banks and Specialised Deposit-taking Institutions (SDIs) in check while maintaining oversight on the Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) that DBG would be working with.
“The Bank of Ghana will strive to work in close partnership with DBG to achieve this from two key angles. First, in helping to safeguard and protect DBG’s governance structures, and second, in working to create the right enabling environment both for DBG and its partners,” he said.
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Virginia lands LEGO factory in suburban Richmond
CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — Global toy manufacturer the LEGO Group plans to invest more than $1 billion to build a factory in suburban Richmond, Virginia. Gov. Glenn Youngkin made the announcement Wednesday. The factory is expected to open in 2025. It will feature a carbon-neutral design including an on-site solar park and will employ more than 1,760 people. The Virginia factory will be the seventh globally for the family-owned company headquartered in Billund, Denmark. Construction is expected to commence this fall. The project will be eligible for tens of millions of taxpayer-funded incentives. | https://keyt.com/news/2022/06/15/virginia-lands-lego-factory-in-suburban-richmond/ | 2022-06-15T19:03:19Z | https://keyt.com/news/2022/06/15/virginia-lands-lego-factory-in-suburban-richmond/ | false | null |
Heat wave bakes one-third of Americans, highlighting urgency of climate legislation
There have always been heat waves. They typically showed up in July or August, covered a limited area and were gone in a few days. But as we wrote a year ago when the Pacific Northwest blistered under record-shattering heat, this is not your grandparents’ climate. A look at this week’s national heat map can’t leave any but those in deepest denial feeling sanguine about the climate crisis.
As more than 100 million Americans face withering heat, it is time to ring the alarm bell yet again, only louder and more urgently. We’ve been kicking the can for so long that we’re now running out of road for stabilizing temperatures below internationally agreed-upon levels. Like the public outcry over the recent rash of murderous gun violence, can this time be different?
Can this be the moment that our elected representatives finally awaken to the urgency of the climate emergency and deliver the action Americans are calling for?
One of the clearest impacts of a warming climate is the increase in extreme heat. It’s been observed across the globe, and projections are that it will get much worse unless we act to rapidly reduce heat-trapping emissions. A recent analysis co-authored by one of us found that heat stress is expected to become more severe due to an increase in the frequency, duration, severity, geographic extent, as well as length of extreme heat and humidity.
Climate disruption is also bringing temperatures that our human bodies simply cannot tolerate. We cool ourselves by producing sweat, which evaporates from our skin, pulling heat from our bodies into the air. But when the air is not only extremely hot but also very humid, the sweat can’t evaporate and cool us down as quickly, and the damage to our bodies can be fatal. Some places on Earth are already experiencing conditions this hot and humid, and more will soon. Children and the elderly are particularly at risk.
Human-caused climate disruption is making extreme heat waves hundreds of times more likely, greatly increasing the odds of events like the one we’re suffering through now. In a disturbing twist on “The Hunger Games” blessing, the odds will not ever be in our favor going forward, unless we rapidly slash heat-trapping emissions.
While other climate-change-fueled disasters like hurricanes are more visually dramatic, extreme heat is invisible and silent, but very costly in both lives and dollars. Extreme heat caused more deaths on average in the U.S. than hurricanes and floods combined over the past 30 years. Heat’s impact on the U.S. economy in 2020 was $100 billion in worker productivity losses alone. That’s projected to double by 2030, and reach half a trillion dollars by 2050. That’s 1 percent of U.S. GDP, and that’s only one dimension of heat’s impact.
To raise awareness around heat waves and alert people to how they can stay safe amid dangerous heat, it’s been suggested that we name and categorize them, like we do hurricanes. And speaking of naming, when the news media report on heat waves, and when we talk about them, we should name what, specifically, is causing them to become hotter, longer-lasting, more widespread and more frequent. And not just some vague “human activities,” but global heating, caused predominantly by the burning of fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas. Far too often these clear links are left out of our discussion.
Bringing these two ideas together, it’s been suggested that as we consider naming extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change, we choose names that call out companies and politicians who have denied climate science and blocked action to tackle the crisis: Names including Exxon, which was aware of climate change 45 years ago, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a leading denier of climate change along with many other lawmakers, and Koch Industries, one of the top U.S. corporate polluters.
This week’s heat wave highlights the urgency of passing strong climate legislation now. The Build Back Better Act would have been an excellent first step, but it was stalled by one man: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). Talks are now underway to revive many of the climate measures in that bill and get us back on track to speeding-up the clean energy transition. As we swelter through the days to come and a summer ahead that is sure to be rife with more disasters supercharged by climate change, let us remember the names of those who have brought us to this moment, and more importantly, those, like Manchin, who can still help us find our way out.
Susan Joy Hassol is director of the non-profit Climate Communication. She publishes Quick Facts on the links between climate change and extreme weather events. Follow her on Twitter: @ClimateComms
Michael E. Mann is distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of “The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet.” Follow him on Twitter: @MichaelEMann
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Oak Harbor Wealth Partners LLC acquired a new position in shares of Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:LCID – Get Rating) in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor acquired 16,207 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $617,000.
Several other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Citigroup Inc. bought a new stake in Lucid Group during the third quarter worth about $287,000. Credit Suisse AG bought a new stake in Lucid Group during the third quarter worth about $1,176,000. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company bought a new stake in Lucid Group during the third quarter worth about $759,000. Morgan Stanley bought a new stake in Lucid Group during the third quarter worth about $33,703,000. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada bought a new stake in Lucid Group during the third quarter worth about $1,020,000. 69.37% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
LCID has been the topic of several analyst reports. BNP Paribas initiated coverage on Lucid Group in a report on Monday, April 11th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $45.00 target price on the stock. Citigroup dropped their target price on Lucid Group from $45.00 to $36.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, May 9th. Morgan Stanley dropped their price objective on Lucid Group from $16.00 to $12.00 and set an “underweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, March 3rd. Finally, Exane BNP Paribas began coverage on Lucid Group in a research note on Monday, April 11th. They issued an “outperform” rating on the stock. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of 34.17.
Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, May 5th. The company reported -0.05 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of -0.30 by 0.25. The firm had revenue of 57.70 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of 55.56 million. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 18334.5% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts anticipate that Lucid Group, Inc. will post -1.15 earnings per share for the current year.
Lucid Group Profile (Get Rating)
Lucid Group, Inc a technology and automotive company, develops electric vehicle (EV) technologies. The company designs, engineers, and builds electric vehicles, EV powertrains, and battery systems. As of December 31, 2021, it operates twenty retail studios in the United States. Lucid Group, Inc was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Newark, California.
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Comstock Resources Inc. (NYSE: CRK) kicked off on June 14, 2022, at the price of $18.60, down -8.15% from the previous trading day. During the day, the shares moved up to $18.71 and dropped to $16.325 before settling in for the closing price of $18.29. Over the past 52 weeks, CRK has traded in a range of $5.05-$22.11.
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Annual sales at Energy sector company grew by 60.10% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -188.70%. With a float of $80.88 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $231.98 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 205 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is +59.32, operating margin of +57.43, and the pretax margin is -12.44.
Comstock Resources Inc. (CRK) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Oil & Gas E&P Industry. The insider ownership of Comstock Resources Inc. is 0.70%, while institutional ownership is 32.80%.
Comstock Resources Inc. (CRK) Latest Financial update
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 3/30/2022, the organization reported $0.51 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at $0.49) by $0.02. This company achieved a net margin of -13.06 while generating a return on equity of -18.39. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.7 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -188.70% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 20.00% during the next five years compared to 37.30% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Comstock Resources Inc. (NYSE: CRK) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Comstock Resources Inc.’s (CRK) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.30. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.92. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 18.37.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -1.02, a number that is poised to hit 0.72 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.01 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Comstock Resources Inc. (CRK)
Comstock Resources Inc. (NYSE: CRK) saw its 5-day average volume 3.41 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 3.91 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 16.28%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.42.
During the past 100 days, Comstock Resources Inc.’s (CRK) raw stochastic average was set at 65.13%, which indicates a significant increase from 8.21% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 85.26% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 71.91% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $17.11, while its 200-day Moving Average is $10.99. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $18.23 in the near term. At $19.66, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $20.62. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $15.85, it is likely to go to the next support level at $14.89. The third support level lies at $13.46 if the price breaches the second support level.
Comstock Resources Inc. (NYSE: CRK) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 3.91 billion has total of 232,906K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 1,851 M in contrast with the sum of -241,730 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 524,840 K and last quarter income was -111,420 K. | https://newsdaemon.com/2022/06/15/recent-developments-with-comstock-resources-inc-crk-have-led-to-the-companys-beta-value-being-reach-1-11-cents/ | 2022-06-15T19:07:39Z | https://newsdaemon.com/2022/06/15/recent-developments-with-comstock-resources-inc-crk-have-led-to-the-companys-beta-value-being-reach-1-11-cents/ | true | 6580 |
Extreme heat is sweeping across the United States. Nearly 100 million Americans are under heat-related warnings and advisories — and the National Weather Service says it may be weeks before things cool down.
Many parts of the South and Midwest are seeing temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and a vast swath of the Southwest is scorching.
The heat isn’t just unpleasant or inconvenient: For vulnerable populations, it’s downright dangerous.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Matthew Cappucci, a meteorologist for the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang.
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Lockjaw, Cast in Fire, The Fiendish Phantoms, Operation Stillborn, Areal Haunting
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media release: Lockjaw celebrates 20 years of live performance. With special guests: Cast In Fire, The Fiendish Phantoms and Operation Stillborn. Also stage shows from Areal Haunting. $10 cover.
Lockjaw became a household name throughout the Midwest thanks in part for sharing the stage with national acts including Mudvayne, Type O Negative, Damage Plan, Wednesday 13, Hell Yeah, Prong, KMFDM, Powerman 5000, Mindless Self Indulgence, Lords of Acid and also providing direct support for multiple sold out shows for MARILYN MANSON.
Since starting out in 1998, Lockjaw has released 15 albums to date on Dark Drug Records with their previous effort being 2021’s “Somewhere In A Dream”. Lockjaw's "Bored Again" from the CD "Dirty Minds and Smiling Faces"(2004) is featured on the X-Box360 game "Dead Rising". Lockjaw is currently supporting their double ep CD release "Reverent/Somewhere in A Dream" and celebrating 20 years of live shows.
Cast in Fire Or Cats in Fire your decide. Local Madison metal
The Fiendish Phantoms from Madison,WI have been bringing their own twist on Horror Rock for over a decade. A mixture of rock, goth rock, punk and even a touch of metal in their music. From songs about Edgar Allan Poe stories, to Wisconsin serial killers, you will be in for a fiendish night indeed!
Operation Stillborn you take a handful of punk some hard core, mix in a cup of MadisSIN, a pinch of Seattle, a dash of gangster and as much fuck you as you can cram into the mix. 16+ years of pissing of everyone….wait I mean pissing on everyone. | https://isthmus.com/events/lockjaw-cast-in-fire-the-fiendish-phantoms-operation-stillbo/ | 2022-06-15T19:10:23Z | https://isthmus.com/events/lockjaw-cast-in-fire-the-fiendish-phantoms-operation-stillbo/ | true | 1 |
BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom announced a reduction in natural gas flows through a key European pipeline for the second day in a row Wednesday, creating further energy turmoil for Europe as it tries to reduce its extensive use of Russian oil and natural gas amid the war in Ukraine.
The state-owned energy giant said on Twitter that deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany would be cut again Thursday, bringing the overall reduction through the undersea pipeline to 60%.
The drop in shipments of gas used to power industry and generate electricity would amount to some 16 billion cubic meters by the end of the year, or around 10% of total European Union gas imports from Russia, according to Simone Tagliapietra, an energy policy expert at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels.
The new cut came a day after Gazprom said it would reduce flows by 40% after Canadian sanctions over the war prevented German partner Siemens Energy from delivering overhauled equipment. It blamed the same issue for the additional reduction.
But German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said Wednesday that Gazprom’s initial move appeared to be political rather than a result of technical problems. He said the new developments “clearly show the Russian side’s explanation is simply an excuse.”
“Obviously, the strategy is to unsettle people and push up prices,” Habeck said.
Gazprom also told Italian gas giant Eni that it would reduce gas through a different pipeline by roughly 15% on Wednesday. The reason for the reduction has not been made clear, and the Italian company said it was monitoring the situation.
The reduced flows to two of Europe’s biggest importers of Russian natural gas follow Russia’s previous halt of gas supplies to Bulgaria, Poland, Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark.
Europe is working to reduce its dependence on Russian energy as the war worsens rising oil and gas prices that are fueling record inflation. Gas demand has fallen after the end of the winter heating season, but European utilities are racing to refill storage ahead of next winte r with prices high and supplies uncertain.
While gas storage is refilling well, the cutoffs and reductions come on top of an explosion at a liquefied natural gas terminal in Texas whose exports were largely going to Europe, adding another squeeze to the tight natural gas market, energy expert Tagliapietra said. He urged Europe “not to be complacent and urgently scale-up coordination” so the continent is “prepared for a possibly difficult winter ahead.”
Tagliapietra said the Kremlin was pursuing several goals in order to undermine European unity and backing for sanctions against Russia.
One was short-term market manipulation to drive up gas prices, creating more stress on Europe and more revenue for Russia. Another goal, after the cutoffs to smaller countries, “is to remind the big countries that the gas is not to be taken for granted.”
“Russia never acts on a general level. It is always targeting individual countries, one by one, always to play this divide and rule strategy from the very beginning,” Tagliapietra. “This is a strategic game, this is not random.”
Siemens Energy said a gas turbine that powers a compressor station on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline had been in service for more than 10 years and was taken to Montreal for a scheduled overhaul. But because of sanctions imposed by Canada, the company has been unable to return the equipment to Gazprom.
Habeck, who is also Germany’s economy minister and responsible for energy, told reporters in Berlin that he had established with the EU’s executive Commission that the maintenance of Siemens compressor stations on the pipeline isn’t subject to EU sanctions.
He said officials are in contact with Canada to check what is possible under Ottawa’s sanctions. But he added that, as far as German officials know, the first “relevant” maintenance session isn’t due until the fall, and because there are several such installations, that wouldn’t explain a 40% reduction.
“So I also have the impression that what happened yesterday is a political decision, and not a decision that is technically justifiable,” Habeck said. “What effect it has on the European and German gas market, we will have to wait and see. As a rule, suppliers have always succeeded in getting hold of gas from other sources.”
He said there’s no supply problem in Germany, which gets about 35% of its natural gas from Russia, and it should be able to keep filling up reserves. Habeck said the missing gas can be obtained on the market but the price will be higher.
The EU has outlined plans to reduce its dependence on Russian gas by two-thirds by year’s end. Economists say a complete cutoff would deal a severe blow to the economy, consumers and gas-intensive industries. The 27-nation bloc is already reeling from high inflation this year.
“If you have the feeling that all your homework is done and everything is going well, you’re wrong,” Habeck said. “It isn’t over yet. It may only just be beginning … making ourselves independent from fossil energy and Russian fossil energy must be advanced at high pressure.”
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AP reporter Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julie Andrews was honored by the American Film Institute last week for a Hollywood career that couldn’t have started more supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-ly — with an Oscar-winning performance in a film that would become an instant classic: “Mary Poppins.”
Before the AFI Life Achievement ceremony, which airs Thursday night at 8 p.m. Eastern on TNT, the 86-year-old Andrews recalled landing her first major movie gig.
“Walt Disney gave me my first big chance and I learned so much on that film. It was a wonderful film to learn the craft of moviemaking on because there were so many special effects, so much waiting around, so many complicated things to do because it was animated as well,” Andrews told The Associated Press.” It was a wonderful learning film to start my career with.”
A musical adaptation inspired by the beloved P.L. Travers children’s novels about a magical nanny, it first hit theaters in late August 1964. Quickly, “Mary Poppins” was a commercial and critical smash, becoming the year’s highest-grossing film released in North America . It earned 13 Oscar nominations including best picture, and won in five categories, including best actress for Andrews.
Just six months after “Poppins” hit big screens, along came what would be not only Andrews’ biggest hit — but one of the all-time box-office successes: the adaptation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s stage smash “The Sound of Music.” Andrews played the real-life Maria von Trapp, the nun-turned-schoolteacher-turned-stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.
Originally released in early March 1965, the film would stay in cinemas for more than four years. And while the critics weren’t nearly as kind to it as they were to “Poppins,” the academy again showed its love, with 10 nominations and five wins. There was no statuette for Andrews, but winning best picture was a great consolation.
On both the arrivals line and at the ceremony, Andrews spoke of “Sound of Music,” but only in general terms. “I’ve been the most lucky lady, because happening to be in the right place at the right time and having the wonderful directors and people that I’ve worked with and just learning my craft and learning what it’s all about. I never expected it to be like that.”
Fortunately, the celebrity guests inside the AFI tribute made it clear that “The Sound of Music” and Andrews are among their favorite things.
Viewers will discover recording artist Gwen Stefani says she idolized Andrews since childhood, after seeing “The Sound of Music” at the cinema with her parents. Decades later, Stefani was in a studio writing with Pharrell Williams, in a session that eventually resulted in Stefani’s 2006 hit “Wind it Up.” The tune ended up incorporating elements of a key “Sound of Music” song, “The Lonely Goatherd,” which didn’t thrill Williams.
“Obviously, I had to fight with Pharrell to get that in there,” Stefani recalled. “And it was a big fantasy of mine to be able to have that incredible sample in my song — it made the song. And it’s a dream come true. So, I’ve always been way too nervous to meet my idol. But tonight’s the night and I’m ready. I am beyond honored. I can’t believe this is happening.”
The special includes guests representing chapters of Andrews’ careers through the decades, including longtime friend and TV partner Carol Burnett, whose 1971 “Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center” won them Emmys; actor Hector Elizondo, her co-star in the two “Princess Diaries” films (2001, 2004); Steve Carell, who worked with Andrews on the upcoming animated “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” and Bo Derek who portrayed the titular perfect “10” in the 1979 comedy written and directed by Andrews’ late husband and frequent collaborator Blake Edwards. He and Andrews were married for 41 years, until his death in 2010.
“When Julie talks about her decades with Blake, of the love they had for each other, you can tell that’s not acting, that’s real, that’s authentic, and it’s very, very rare,” Derek said.
Including “10,” Edwards directed Andrews in eight films, also including the 1982 musical “Victor/Victoria,” earning seven Oscar nominations, including one for Andrews, with a win for the music by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse.
While accepting her AFI Award, Andrews thanked everyone from her directors to a studio security guard for her success. “And I really honestly mean that, she said, adding, “My husband Blake…” Andrews paused for moment. “I mean… thank you.”
As for Andrews’ professional legacy?
In addition the AFI’s turf of film and TV, there are award-winning recordings, books, Broadway and West End appearances.
“I just hope I gave a little pleasure,” she told The Associated Press. “That’s the only legacy I would be happy about. That’s what it’s all about. It’s the giving. And I just hope that, you know, they had a good time.”
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It's the peak season for local cottonwood trees shedding their fuzzy seeds
(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Depending on the location, residents of the Chicago area may experiencing the sensation of being in a snow storm as the cottonwood trees perform their spring ritual.
The fuzzies have been flying for several days as the cottonwood trees shed their seeds.
Julie Janoski is the Manager of the Plant Clinic at the Morton Arboretum.
"People call them everything- cotton, fluff...a lot of terms for them that we're all talking about the same thing. The seeds of the cottonwood tree," she said.
"So these trees are reproducing. They've already flowered and this is actually a seed dispersal mechanisms."
The fluff can clog pool filters and air conditioners.
Cottonwoods are native to the region and are very fast-growing, so the wood is somewhat weak, Janoski says, making them susceptible to storm damage.
That's not great for residential areas, because they can grow upwards of 100 feet tall.
Janoski said the trees do well around rivers, streams and lowland areas where there’s a lot of moisture.
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With the 2021/2022 FA Women’s Championship season over and Sunderland having secured another year in the second tier of women’s football, it’s time to stop and reflect.
Want to learn more about your favourite footballer or fun facts about some of the lasses biggest stars? Then look no further....
This summer, Roker Report is profiling some of the SAFC Women players by asking them some interesting questions, delving into their stats, and sharing our thoughts on them as both players and as people.
Faye Mullen
Where were you born?: I was born in Durham, England
Former teams you’ve played for (youth/school/club etc): I started out playing for the local boys' team at Coxhoe United U8s then moved over to the girls’ team at about U11s. I started playing for Sunderland Centre of Excellence U13s and have been at Sunderland ever since, going through the development team and then first team.
— Faye Mullen (@Faye_Mullen) March 4, 2013
Favourite food: I like everything! But if I had to choose it would be any type of Spanish/ tapas dish.
Favourite music genre/artist/band: I love ‘70s and ‘80s music. There is never a bad song
Who inspired or inspires you?: It has to be my dad who inspired and inspires me still now. He has always taught me to work hard, be committed and to believe in myself.
What would you sing on the team bus karaoke? Oh, it would be a Whitney Houston song. It has to be a power ballad. Something which gets everyone else joining in and singing along!
Do you have any superstitions or prematch rituals?: I don’t have any superstitions as such, but each week I try to keep my match preparations exactly the same.
Any other hobbies: Football being the main one, I also enjoy running, working out and socialising with friends and family. But working full-time as a teacher and part-time as a footballer doesn’t always allow me much free time
Who is your favourite women’s footballer past or present? I would have to say Lucy Bronze due to her supportive play and work ethic. She also plays in the same position as me and I would love to try and emulate her play style
Fun fact about yourself or hidden talent: Sorry but I don’t think I have anything interesting, I’m pretty boring haha!
If you weren’t playing football, what do you think you would do or want to do? I would do what I’m doing now, working as a Primary School Teacher. I love my job and working with children so would still be something similar to that!
Snapshot Analysis
Mullen has the engine and speed to match the team’s needs and perform to today’s modern full-back standards. Almost all of her defensive strengths are fuelled by her athleticism and drive to push forward and press, she is a powerful one-on-one defender who is both proactive in engaging wingers in wide areas and difficult to beat due to great acceleration and anticipation over short distances.
In the footage below, you can see just how often Mullen makes off-the-ball runs to get forward and how often and long she carries the ball forward.
Mullen’s tackling style is measured; she rarely dives in and prefers to stand opponents up before charging at the ball. She also enjoys defending on the offensive end, jockeying attackers before bursting into action to intercept loose or wayward passes.
Her game is built around technical prowess and tactical awareness, rather than focusing on flashy talents or dribbles to outshine her opponents. It is that technical and tactical prowess that distinguishes her from the pack. While that is an important aspect of her game, she also has excellent vision and can read the game well.
Mullen monitors the field frequently and is aware of opponents’ movement, which she reacts to fast, such as dropping off to cover a run into depth or pushing up to close space and apply pressure.
Overall, Mullen is a sharp defender who knows how to position herself to efficiently defend a variety of evolving situations, without overcommitting or under-committing herself.
That much is clear from her one-on-one defence. Mullen’s tackling style is described as methodical. Her high-level athleticism and outstanding defensive awareness work in tandem to great effect.
With solid posture and technique, she closes out to the ball, widening her base for balance and keeping her hips open to allow for quick changes in terms of player direction and ball movement. Instead of diving in or standing back, she uses her exceptional footwork and movement to match her opponent each step of the way.
Neve Herron piece done and published ✅
— Charlotte Patterson (@kirbyhazard) June 3, 2022
Megan Beer piece done and awaiting publication ✅
Now onto @Faye_Mullen, coming soon
Here are some of her highlights from this season. I absolutely love her acceleration and how she drives forward with the ball
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Mullen exudes a hardworking demeanour and has a great engine and can charge down the wing, making her a threat attacking down the right flank as well as reliable defensive cover She makes excellent use of her quickness and strong build when engaging in a one-on-one physical confrontation.
She can be a dangerous offensive threat if she can explode into space with or without possession. She prefers to stretch the play as wide as possible in search of opportunities to cross into the box and attacking area and has a fantastic ability to strike targets with crosses and cutbacks.
Mullen has strong in-game awareness and makes excellent forward runs. The 23-year-old knows when to underlap and overlap, but is also content to remain still if midfielders commit. She sometimes feints to join the assault before ghosting in unnoticed, either at the back post or as an extra player in risky spots to cause overloads.
In the offensive phase, she roves about the half-space to provide herself alternatives inside and out due to her proclivity towards coming inside. Her final-third vision is keen, and while she can play on the outside like a traditional wing-back, it is from these inside positions that she performs the most eye-catching creative work, such as sliding passes in between defenders for teammates making runs beyond the defensive line or playing teasing crosses into space in the far post area.
Mullen isn’t a particularly high-volume or dangerous crosser as an attacker, but her ability to get into advanced areas is outstanding. Her overlapping moves are well-timed, and she knows how to angle her runs inward to assault defences. She has also demonstrated that she can be a threat when holding high and wide positions and making strong depth runs.
Mullen is a flexible right back in terms of style and skill level, and she can play a variety of roles with varying duties, depending on how the team is set up. A fantastic player and an asset to have as Sunderland Women continues to evolve as a team.
2021-22 Season Stats (Averages)
- 17 Appearances in all comps
- 46.64 Total Actions
- 0.17 Shots
- 23.74 Passes
- 52.7% Passing Accuracy
- 3.36 Long Passes
- 2.18 Crosses
- 1.43 Dribbles
- 16.36 Duels
- 1.68 Aerial Duels
- 5.87 Interceptions
- 7.63 Recoveries
Ed’s Note [Rich]: As Charlotte has described in detail in this profile. Faye Mullen is another member of the Lasses squad who is quietly vital to the way we play, brining energy and drive to the right flank.
At 23 she’s already gained a decent amount of experience coming through the ranks with Sunderland, and is clearly trusted by Mel Reay to always do a job for the team, but she is also still developing as a footballer.
Her commitment to the cause, despite the demands of a full-time career outside the game, will be important to her moving on to the next level this season as we look to move up the ranks in the Barclay’s Championship. | https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/2022/6/15/23146460/lasses-interview-player-profile-faye-mullen | 2022-06-15T19:23:33Z | https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/2022/6/15/23146460/lasses-interview-player-profile-faye-mullen | true | 1 |
Black Death origin mystery solved... 675 years later
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Tokyo (AFP) – A deadly pandemic with mysterious origins: it might sound like a modern headline, but scientists have spent centuries debating the source of the Black Death that devastated the medieval world.
Not anymore, according to researchers who say they have pinpointed the source of the plague to a region of Kyrgyzstan, after analysing DNA from remains at an ancient burial site.
"We managed to actually put to rest all those centuries-old controversies about the origins of the Black Death," said Philip Slavin, a historian and part of the team whose work was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
The Black Death was the initial wave of a nearly 500-year pandemic. In just eight years, from 1346 to 1353, it killed up to 60 percent of the population of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to estimates.
Slavin, an associate professor at the University of Stirling in Scotland who has "always been fascinated with the Black Death", found an intriguing clue in an 1890 work describing an ancient burial site in what is now northern Kyrgyzstan.
It reported a spike in burials in 1338-39 and that several tombstones described people having "died of pestilence".
"When you have one or two years with excess mortality it means that something funny was going on there," Slavin told reporters.
"But it wasn't just any year -- 1338 and 1339 was just seven or eight years before the Black Death."
It was a lead, but nothing more without determining what killed the people at the site.
For that, Slavin teamed up with specialists who examine ancient DNA.
They extracted DNA from the teeth of seven people buried at the site, explained Maria Spyrou, a researcher at the University of Tuebingen and author of the study.
Because teeth contain many blood vessels, they give researchers "high chances of detecting blood-borne pathogens that may have caused the deaths of the individuals," Spyrou told AFP.
'Big Bang' event
Once extracted and sequenced, the DNA was compared against a database of thousands of microbial genomes.
"One of the hits that we were able to get... was a hit for Yersinia pestis," more commonly known as plague, said Spyrou.
The DNA also displayed "characteristic damage patterns," she added, showing that "what we were dealing with was an infection that the ancient individual carried at the time of their death."
The start of the Black Death has been linked to a so-called "Big Bang" event, when existing strains of the plague, which is carried by fleas on rodents, suddenly diversified.
Scientists thought it might have happened as early as the 10th century but had not been able to pinpoint a date.
The research team painstakingly reconstructed the Y. pestis genome from their samples and found the strain at the burial site pre-dated the diversification.
And rodents living in the region now were also found to be carrying the same ancient strain, helping the team conclude the "Big Bang" must have happened somewhere in the area in a short window before the Black Death.
The research has some unavoidable limitations, including a small sample size, according to Michael Knapp, an associate professor at New Zealand's University of Otago who was not involved in the study.
"Data from far more individuals, times and regions... would really help clarify what the data presented here really means," said Knapp.
But he acknowledged it could be difficult to find additional samples, and praised the research as nonetheless "really valuable".
Sally Wasef, a paleogeneticist at Queensland University of Technology, said the work offered hope for untangling other ancient scientific mysteries.
"The study has shown how robust microbial ancient DNA recovery could help reveal evidence to solve long-lasting debates," she told AFP.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s largest electricity provider has announced plans to eliminate its carbon emissions by 2045 by halting its fossil fuel usage and greatly increasing its reliance on solar energy, including using it to turn water into hydrogen to power its generating plants.
Florida Power & Light, which serves 5.7 million homes and businesses or about half the state, said the multibillion dollar plan will not result in any price increases beyond what would be anticipated normally.
FPL’s parent company, NextEra Energy, said in its announcement this week that when its “Real Zero” plan is fully implemented 23 years from now, 83% of the utility’s electricity will be generated by solar, including “green hydrogen,” or come from battery storage from periods when excess power is produced.
Green hydrogen is a process where solar power is used to break apart water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. That hydrogen is then used as a fuel source, eliminating the company's use of natural gas. Most of the solar facilities will be built on converted, unused farmland in the central part of the state.
The company says another 16% of FPL’s power will be generated by its two current nuclear plants and 1% from renewable natural gas, which is created from biomass such as plant waste. It has set five-year goals starting in 2025 that it says will allow environmental groups and others to audit its progress. The plan still must be approved by the state utility commission.
FPL spokesman Chris McGrath said Wednesday that the plan is a continuation of the company’s move since 2001 to reduce its carbon emissions. At that time, about a quarter of its electricity was generated by burning oil and coal, but that has been eliminated in Florida. A Georgia coal plant in which FPL owns a 25% stake will close by 2028.
Today, about two-thirds of FPL’s power comes from natural gas, which generates carbon emissions but less than oil and coal. Another 20% comes from nuclear, 4% from solar, while the rest comes from the Georgia plant and other sellers.
“This is a goal that we are setting because we think the technology exists and it can be done in a cost-effective way for our customers,” McGrath said. Wind power will not be used in Florida because that would require purchasing expensive coastal property to erect turbines, a move that would also be opposed by the tourism industry.
Rising levels of greenhouse gases are increasing global temperatures and fueling extreme weather, from wildfires to violent storms. The burning of coal, oil and natural gas for energy production is a major contributor and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the public is "firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” unless emissions fall faster than countries have previously committed.
Harrison G. Fell, a senior researcher at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, said FPL can reach its goals by 2045, “but it won’t be without challenges and some of the interim targets may be more difficult to meet.”
For example, he said, FPL’s goal to double its solar production by 2025 could run into problems finding supplies and production sites and then connecting those sites to the grid. He said the Biden administration’s policies that have lowered tariffs on imported solar equipment should help, but rising prices for raw materials could hamper FPL’s plan.
Still, he said, eliminating its use of natural gas might benefit FPL as the fuel’s price is soaring and could remain high.
“If that’s the case, becoming less natural gas reliant is not only a good environmental move by FPL, but may also prove to be a good long-run, low-cost energy production strategy as well,” Fell said.
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When Glen Schofield left Call of Duty developer Sledgehammer Games back in 2018, he needed a break. The game designer, best known as the creator of the seminal sci-fi horror series Dead Space, decided to head out to the desert in Arizona for a little R&R — which for him meant coming up with lots of new game concepts. “I would go out there and draw,” he says. “And while I was drawing, I was coming up with ideas.” He came back with a 40-page book that would ultimately turn into his return to the survival horror genre: a game called The Callisto Protocol.
The game — which is being developed by Striking Distance Studios, a new team under the umbrella of PUBG company Krafton — was first announced in 2020, and last week, a gruesome new trailer was unveiled at Summer Game Fest. (It was lovingly referred to as the “Schofield cut.”) Schofield says he’s been looking to get back into horror for a while, and the urge grew stronger while working on the zombies mode for Call of Duty.
“I just wanted to tell a different story,” he says. “I think of it kind of like Ridley Scott; he did Alien and then came back to do Prometheus. It’s something you like to do. I don’t see a lot of movies that are sci-fi horror because they’re so expensive to make. And it’s probably my favorite genre. So I thought, ‘Let’s see if we can bring it back.’”
The Callisto Protocol is set in the year 2320 on a prison colony housed on one of Jupiter’s moons, where players have to escape just as the other inmates are turning into strange alien monsters. (The setting was originally supposed to be a far-flung part of the PUBG universe, though that’s no longer the case. “The story was going in a different direction,” Schofield says of the change.) This premise, along with a number of other features — like gameplay that involves dismembering enemies and a diegetic interface that includes a health bar disguised as a prison barcode tattoo — drew immediate comparisons to Dead Space. And that’s something that Schofield has come to terms with over the course of making the game.
“In the beginning, I would be like, ‘Oh no, that’s Dead Space,’” he explains. “But after a while, I’m like: I don’t want a HUD, so is that copying Dead Space? I want him to have a stomp — is that copying Dead Space? Maybe. But it’s also my DNA. I didn’t want to just cut everything out. So I got a little more open to the idea the further we got into development.”
The big difference this time around, he says, is the technology, though it hasn’t changed everything. “We’re already 3D, so it’s not like it’s going to change the gameplay all of a sudden,” Schofield says. Instead, the current state of consoles and PCs means his team can craft a more believable world — something that’s particularly important for horror. That includes having more believable alien monsters, more immersive sound design, and being able to throw a lot more visual effects on screen. But one of the most important things is how much more detail they can put in the world.
“The realism helps the science fiction side, which a lot of times people don’t believe,” Schofield says. “But nowadays, you can put rust on it or have water dripping out of things, and the player is like, ‘I don’t have any idea what that thing is, but man, does it look real.’ It’s grounding the science fiction.”
One of the challenges, though, is making sure the game is adequately scary. As a self-confessed horror fan, Schofield is much more desensitized than the average person. (The same is true for many other members of the Callisto Protocol team.) “There are times when we don’t know if it’s scary or not,” he says. It doesn’t help that Schofield sees the game’s scenarios through multiple phases, from white box prototypes to fully fleshed-out interactive gameplay. That can take some of the punch out of them. Hitting the right level of scary, then, involves a lot of testing and tweaking things based on player feedback.
Inspiration, meanwhile, comes from many places, including film. “I watch a lot of horror,” Schofield says. “And a lot of it doesn’t affect me. But, there are a few that really got me… and I’m like, ‘Whoa, man.’ If they affect me, you know they’re going to affect players.” (At one point during our conversation, Schofield mentions having lunch with horror director Eli Roth, where the two discussed the sound effects involved in cutting an eyeball’s optic nerve with scissors in the first Hostel movie.) But outside of pulling from movies, Schofield notes, “a lot of it comes from the imagination of our chief creative officer, Chris Stone. I’ll sometimes say to him, ‘I need two more [deaths],’ or I’ll say, ‘I want the head taken off.’”
However, one thing they don’t test for is whether a kill or scare goes too far in the other direction. “The scarier, the better,” he explains. “I don’t know what too scary is.”
The Callisto Protocol is due to launch on December 2nd, and it comes at a time when there seems to be a resurgence of sci-fi horror games. There’s Fort Solis, the return of Routine, a new Aliens expansion, and even a remaster of the original Dead Space. Schofield understands there will be plenty of comparisons, but he also seems confident that his latest horror venture will stand on its own. “You may go in like ‘Hey, this is Dead Space 4,’” he says, “but I think when you come out, you’ll go ‘Nope, that’s Callisto Protocol.’” | https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/15/23169787/the-callisto-protocol-glen-schofield-interview | 2022-06-15T19:30:03Z | https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/15/23169787/the-callisto-protocol-glen-schofield-interview | true | 1 |
Once upon a time, I installed the Google Drive desktop client on my MacBook Pro, only to discover shortly after that it had filled up my local storage on the laptop. That was my original, Intel-based MacBook that only had a 500GB SSD drive. It took me no time to figure out what exactly had gobbled up my storage on the device and even less time to resolve the problem. Had I not been able to put that two-and-two together quickly, I'd have run into some problems with that laptop. Fortunately, that was not the case.
Since then, I've been very careful about how the Google Drive Desktop client is configured on my laptops. Now it's time that I pass that information on to you, so you can avoid the same storage problem I once had.
I will assume that you already have the Google Drive Desktop Client installed on either macOS or Windows (please, Google, create an official client for Linux!) and have it linked to your Google Drive account. The desktop client installation is very simple for both platforms, so you shouldn't have any trouble getting it up and running and connected to Google Drive.
With that taken care of, let's see how we can avoid a storage nightmare.
You must understand this most important concept for protecting your storage space with the Google Drive Client. Google offers two different types of sync with the client, which are:
Stream files: all files are stored on Google Drive cloud only unless you open a file or make it available offline. All files that are either opened or made available offline will be stored in a virtual drive in your local storage.
Mirror files: files are stored on both Google Drive and local storage and are all made available offline.
At this point, I'm certain you know what happened with that earlier installation. I connected Google Drive (via the Desktop Client) to my MacBook by way of mirroring the files, which synced every file in my Drive account to local storage. And given I paid for2TB of Google Drive storage, you can bet that consumed every bit of space on my drive. Do that, and the operating system will slow to a crawl.
Here's what I had to do to fix that.
Before I take you down this road, know that the Google Drive client does default to the stream option. However, during my original installation, I opted (for whatever reason) to go with the mirror option. Because I'm absolutely paranoid about my files and folders on Google Drive, I took the safest route possible and first uninstalled the Google Drive client from my MacBook Pro. Once the app was uninstalled, I double-checked to ensure all of my directories and files were safe on Google Drive. They were. Whew.
When you opt to stream files, they are saved in a virtual drive that can be mounted and unmounted. However, when you go with the mirror option, those files are saved in /Users/USERNAME/My Drive (Where USERNAME is your macOS username). Once you've uninstalled the Google Drive Client (and you've checked to verify all of your directories and files still exist on your Google Drive cloud account), delete that My Drive directory. Once you've done that, you've freed up the space Google Drive consumed and should be back to a more management disk.
Re-install the Google Drive client on your machine, and then you can ensure you configure it to stream and not mirror files. Here's how you do that.
Click on the Google Drive desktop client icon in the macOS topbar and click the gear icon in the resulting popup (Figure 1).
In the next popup menu (Figure 2), click Preferences.
In the resulting window, click the Google Drive tab in the left sidebar (Figure 3).
You should then see the stream and mirror listing, where you can choose between the two (Figure 4).
Make sure stream is selected. If not, select it, and the Drive Client should take care of the rest.
And that is all there is to prevent the Google Drive Desktop Client from using up your precious hard drive space on your device. Enjoy that newly-freed storage space. | https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-keep-the-google-drive-desktop-client-from-using-up-your-hard-drive-space/ | 2022-06-15T19:31:05Z | https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-keep-the-google-drive-desktop-client-from-using-up-your-hard-drive-space/ | false | 1 |
Toronto Raptors' Scottie Barns Got Dissed On Jimmy Kimmel's 'Mean Tweets' & It's So Harsh
They did Toronto's boy so dirty.
Toronto Raptors' Scottie Barnes got dissed on Jimmy Kimmel's Mean Tweets segment, and it read like a gut punch straight out of middle school.
Sometimes it can be easy to forget that celebrities can see the hot takes you post about them on the internet but Kimmel's popular segment Mean Tweets, where celebrities read mean tweets about themselves out loud, puts it into perspective.
On Kimmel's lastest NBA edition of the segment, Barnes and several other players were thoroughly roasted over the coals of Twitter.
In the segment posted on June 14, Barnes recited a tweet from a hater reading, "Scottie Barnes look like a big ass middle schooler who ain't hit puberty yet."
Toronto's sweetheart then covered his face with a hand before dragging it down his jaw and playfully saying, "I still got a baby face, bro," slapping both his cheeks."I got a cute little baby face, bro."
The Raptors' fanbase has quickly embraced the young 20-year-old. He even impressed some fans with his Toronto slang while playing NBA 2K22 on Twitch. But, regardless, it seems there will always be haters or, at the least, jokesters.
Jalen Green of the Houston Rockets also got an impressive burn on the segment reading, "Jalen Green has the basketball IQ of a baby hamster."
To which the player laughed and just responded with, "Damn."
The segment even brought former NBA star Gary Payton who was told he looks like an "aged Kanye West." Payton responded by saying, "don't ever say that again."
So, it's safe to say that plenty of NBA icons were humbled on Kimmel's show. | https://www.narcity.com/toronto/toronto-raptors-scottie-barns-got-dissed-on-jimmy-kimmels-mean-tweets-its-so-harsh | 2022-06-15T19:31:45Z | https://www.narcity.com/toronto/toronto-raptors-scottie-barns-got-dissed-on-jimmy-kimmels-mean-tweets-its-so-harsh | false | 1 |
John Hinckley Jr., who shot Reagan, freed from court oversight after decades
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was freed from court oversight Wednesday, officially concluding decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals.
“After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!,” he wrote on Twitter shortly after 12 p.m.
The lifting of all restrictions had been expected since late September. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington said he’d free Hinckley on June 15 if he continued to remain mentally stable in the community in Virginia where he has lived since 2016.
Hinckley, who was acquitted by reason of insanity, spent the decades before that in a Washington mental hospital.
Freedom for Hinckley will include giving a concert — he plays guitar and sings — in Brooklyn, New York, that’s scheduled for July. He’s already gained nearly 30,000 followers on Twitter and YouTube in recent months as the judge loosened Hinckley’s restrictions before fully lifting all of them.
But the graying 67-year-old is far from being the household name that he became after shooting and wounding the 40th U.S. president — and several others — outside a Washington hotel. Today, historians say Hinckley is at best a question on a quiz show and someone who unintentionally helped build the Reagan legend and inspire a push for stricter gun control.
“If Hinckley had succeeded in killing Reagan, then he would have been a pivotal historical figure,” H.W. Brands, a historian and Reagan biographer, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “As it is, he is a misguided soul whom history has already forgotten.”
Barbara A. Perry, a professor and director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said that Hinckley “would be maybe a Jeopardy question.”
But his impact remains tangible in Reagan’s legacy.
“For the president himself to have been so seriously wounded, and to come back from that — that actually made Ronald Reagan the legend that he became ... like the movie hero that he was,” Perry said.
Friedman, the federal judge overseeing Hinckley’s case, said on June 1 that Hinckley has shown no signs of active mental illness since the mid-1980s and has exhibited no violent behavior or interest in weapons.
“I am confident that Mr. Hinckley will do well in the years remaining to him,” the judge said during the hearing earlier this month.
He noted that lawyers for the government and Hinckley have fought for years over whether Hinckley should be given increasing amounts of freedom.
“It took us a long time to get here,” he said, adding that there is now unanimous agreement: “This is the time to let John Hinckley move on with his life, so we will.”
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lambert, a public relations, investor relations, and integrated communications agency, today announced that Paige Wirth has joined the company as Senior Director. In this newly created company position, Wirth is responsible for expanding Lambert's client service capabilities in marketing and content strategy.
"I'm excited to welcome Paige to our team, as her depth and breadth of marketing experience significantly strengthens our capabilities and commitment to providing our clients with integrated communications support," stated Lambert CEO Michelle Olson, APR. "Our growing client base will benefit from her expertise driving complex, multi-million-dollar national marketing campaigns across multiple platforms."
In her new role, Wirth will expand Lambert's marketing as a service offering and maximize current firm capabilities in market research, digital marketing, and creative design. She also oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm's client-facing marketing and content strategy teams. Lambert has always focused on driving value for clients through expert storytelling while creating the right visibility, at the right time, with the right message. The firm's investment in building its marketing service line bolsters this approach to exceed client expectations now and into the future.
Wirth joins Lambert with more than 10 years of experience leading and executing multimillion-dollar product launches, integrated marketing campaigns, and strategic brand initiatives during her tenure with global creative agencies and other public-private organizations. She most recently led strategic marketing efforts for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), the state's marketing arm and lead advocate for business development, job awareness, and community development. As Director of Marketing, Wirth supported MEDC programming goals, leading a multidisciplinary team in the execution of advertising, content marketing, digital marketing, sponsorships, experiential marketing, and more. Before that, she spent five years at the marketing firm Anthem Worldwide (now SGK), working on the Kellogg's account portfolio. She also held positions with Refuel, a national media and marketing services agency. Wirth earned her bachelor's degree in integrated public relations and advertising from Central Michigan University.
"Paige will be instrumental as we build our marketing operations to align with our known industry prowess in public relations and investor relations," stated Don Hunt, president at Lambert. "Over the years, our capabilities have evolved beyond earned media to cover shared, paid, and owned content platforms. As such, expanding our strategic marketing services is a natural progression to further client success."
About Lambert
Founded in 1998, Lambert invented the PR and IR integrated agency model with over 20 years of continuous growth attributed to the firm's laser focus on strategic communications and bottom-line results in the achievement of client goals. The award-winning national agency is a top-40 PR and top-15 IR firm with top-5 specialties in automotive and mobility, education, and M&A/private equity, alongside robust practice areas in consumer packaged goods, healthcare and biotech, and tourism and hospitality. The firm's reach spans six major talent hubs, including Grand Rapids, Detroit, New York, St. Louis, Houston, and Phoenix. Lambert is a founding partner of TiiCKER, a shareholder loyalty, marketing and perks platform, and an equity partner in minority-owned independent marketing agency 9th Wonder. Lambert's Founder and Chairman Jeff Lambert is the global board chair of PROI Worldwide, the world's largest and most diverse partnership of PR firms, and named 2021 Ally of the Year, the top diversity award in public relations issued by Diversity Action Alliance.
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With the US seeing inflation at historic highs, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday undertook its highest interest rate raise in nearly three decades, by three-quarters of a percentage point.
The Federal Reserve said it would increase its benchmark rate by three quarters of a percentage point, pushing its target range from 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent – the highest level since 2019, the BBC reported.
The rise, the third since March, comes after inflation surged unexpectedly last month and the Fed has warned that more rises are likely.
The hike, the largest since 1994, will impact millions of American businesses and households, making loans for homes, cars and other purposes more costly.
Until this week, economists and investors had expected the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate by half a point. However, after an inflation report last week revealed that price hikes are broadening across the entire economy, it was expected that the rate hike would be more.
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Antonetti Capital Management LLC lessened its stake in Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ – Get Rating) by 5.5% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 13,214 shares of the cell phone carrier’s stock after selling 770 shares during the period. Antonetti Capital Management LLC’s holdings in Verizon Communications were worth $687,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Econ Financial Services Corp bought a new position in Verizon Communications during the fourth quarter worth about $32,000. Gibson Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new position in Verizon Communications during the fourth quarter worth about $37,000. Bivin & Associates Inc. bought a new position in Verizon Communications during the fourth quarter worth about $46,000. Standard Family Office LLC lifted its stake in Verizon Communications by 3,512.0% during the fourth quarter. Standard Family Office LLC now owns 903 shares of the cell phone carrier’s stock worth $47,000 after purchasing an additional 878 shares during the period. Finally, Iron Horse Wealth Management LLC lifted its stake in Verizon Communications by 43.4% during the fourth quarter. Iron Horse Wealth Management LLC now owns 988 shares of the cell phone carrier’s stock worth $51,000 after purchasing an additional 299 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 63.78% of the company’s stock.
Shares of NYSE:VZ opened at $49.16 on Wednesday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $50.59 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $51.88. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.64, a current ratio of 0.76 and a quick ratio of 0.69. Verizon Communications Inc. has a one year low of $45.55 and a one year high of $57.44. The stock has a market capitalization of $206.45 billion, a PE ratio of 9.55, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.62 and a beta of 0.41.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, August 1st. Investors of record on Friday, July 8th will be paid a $0.64 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 7th. This represents a $2.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.21%. Verizon Communications’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 49.71%.
In related news, CEO Tami A. Erwin sold 23,647 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, April 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $49.77, for a total value of $1,176,911.19. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 21,817 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,085,832.09. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, EVP Craig L. Silliman sold 1,558 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, April 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $52.00, for a total transaction of $81,016.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 38,077 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,980,004. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last quarter, insiders sold 28,321 shares of company stock worth $1,415,192. 0.02% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on VZ shares. Wolfe Research cut their target price on shares of Verizon Communications from $60.00 to $51.00 and set a “peer perform” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, June 2nd. William Blair reiterated a “market perform” rating on shares of Verizon Communications in a research note on Monday, April 25th. StockNews.com raised shares of Verizon Communications from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 12th. DZ Bank lowered shares of Verizon Communications from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating and set a $44.00 price target for the company. in a report on Friday, April 29th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group lowered shares of Verizon Communications from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and lowered their price target for the company from $61.00 to $55.00 in a report on Monday, April 25th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have issued a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Verizon Communications presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $57.20.
Verizon Communications Company Profile (Get Rating)
Verizon Communications Inc, through its subsidiaries, offers communications, technology, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental entities worldwide. Its Consumer segment provides postpaid and prepaid service plans; internet access on notebook computers and tablets; wireless equipment, including smartphones and other handsets; and wireless-enabled internet devices, such as tablets, and other wireless-enabled connected devices comprising smart watches.
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VIRGINIA, USA — John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was freed from court oversight Wednesday, officially concluding decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals.
“After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!,” he wrote on Twitter shortly after noon.
The lifting of all restrictions had been expected since late September. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington said he'd free Hinckley on June 15 if he continued to remain mentally stable in the community in Virginia where he has lived since 2016.
Hinckley, who was acquitted by reason of insanity, spent the decades before that in a Washington mental hospital.
Hinckley's restrictions were gradually loosened over the years, including the lifting of limits on his social media use. Hinckley's following on social media has grown to nearly 30,000 followers on Twitter and YouTube over the past several months.
Freedom for Hinckley will include giving a concert — he plays guitar and sings — in Brooklyn, New York, that's scheduled for July.
But the graying 67-year-old is far from being the household name that he became after shooting and wounding the 40th U.S. president — and several others — outside a Washington hotel. Today, historians say Hinckley is at best a question on a quiz show and someone who unintentionally helped build the Reagan legend and inspire a push for stricter gun control.
“If Hinckley had succeeded in killing Reagan, then he would have been a pivotal historical figure,” H.W. Brands, a historian and Reagan biographer, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “As it is, he is a misguided soul whom history has already forgotten.”
Barbara A. Perry, a professor and director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said that Hinckley "would be maybe a Jeopardy question.”
But his impact remains tangible in Reagan's legacy.
“For the president himself to have been so seriously wounded, and to come back from that — that actually made Ronald Reagan the legend that he became...like the movie hero that he was,” Perry said.
Friedman, the federal judge overseeing Hinckley's case, said on June 1 that Hinckley has shown no signs of active mental illness since the mid-1980s and has exhibited no violent behavior or interest in weapons.
“I am confident that Mr. Hinckley will do well in the years remaining to him,” the judge said during the hearing earlier this month.
He noted that lawyers for the government and Hinckley have fought for years over whether Hinckley should be given increasing amounts of freedom.
“It took us a long time to get here,” he said, adding there is now unanimous agreement: “This is the time to let John Hinckley move on with his life, so we will.” | https://www.khou.com/article/news/nation-world/john-hinkley-jr-freed-court-oversight-ronald-reagan/67-5a88754b-3f94-4667-be52-7ae20261c73b | 2022-06-15T19:39:53Z | https://www.khou.com/article/news/nation-world/john-hinkley-jr-freed-court-oversight-ronald-reagan/67-5a88754b-3f94-4667-be52-7ae20261c73b | true | 32 |
Boris Johnson has said he hopes there is progress in the coming days in relation to Russia’s “unforgivable blockade” of Ukrainian grain.
The Prime Minister spoke on Wednesday evening with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky about how Ukraine could depend on the UK’s “full and steadfast support until its eventual victory”.
President Zelensky tweeted about the conversation, saying he is in “constant contact” with Mr Johnson.
The Russian naval blockade has imposed an economic stranglehold on Ukraine – one of the world’s biggest grain exporters – as well as threatening food supplies to some of the world’s poorest countries.
A Downing Street spokeswoman said Mr Johnson spoke to President Zelensky and reiterated the UK’s “unwavering support” for Ukraine during the Russian invasion.
The spokeswoman added: “The Prime Minister praised the strength of Ukraine’s heroic resistance in the recent days and weeks, which he said was clearly imposing a significant cost on Russia.
“The continued determination of Ukrainian forces to win was evident to the entire world, and Ukraine could count on the UK’s full and steadfast support until its eventual victory, the Prime Minister added.
“The Prime Minister said the G7 and Nato summits later this month were an opportunity to demonstrate the West’s unity and resolve to support Ukraine for the long-term.
“Both leaders agreed on the importance of increased military training, and the Prime Minister said the UK would continue to do all it could to support Ukraine with defensive aid.
“The pair discussed Russia’s unforgivable blockade of Ukrainian grain, and the Prime Minister said he hoped progress on the issue could be made in the coming days.
“The leaders agreed to speak again soon.”
President Zelensky tweeted: “In constant contact with @BorisJohnson. Coordinated positions on the eve of important international events.
“Discussed the situation on the battlefield, Ukraine’s defense needs and threats to food security.” | https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2022/06/15/boris-johnson-hopes-for-progress-to-end-blockade-of-ukrainian-grain/ | 2022-06-15T19:40:20Z | https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2022/06/15/boris-johnson-hopes-for-progress-to-end-blockade-of-ukrainian-grain/ | false | 8 |
Approximately $590 million of structured securities affected
New York, June 15, 2022 -- Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") has affirmed the ratings on seven classes in UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2019-C17, Commercial Mortgage Pass Through Certificates, Series 2019-C17 as follows:
Cl. A-1, Affirmed Aaa (sf); previously on Oct 15, 2019 Definitive Rating Assigned Aaa (sf)
Cl. A-2, Affirmed Aaa (sf); previously on Oct 15, 2019 Definitive Rating Assigned Aaa (sf)
Cl. A-SB, Affirmed Aaa (sf); previously on Oct 15, 2019 Definitive Rating Assigned Aaa (sf)
Cl. A-3, Affirmed Aaa (sf); previously on Oct 15, 2019 Definitive Rating Assigned Aaa (sf)
Cl. A-4, Affirmed Aaa (sf); previously on Oct 15, 2019 Definitive Rating Assigned Aaa (sf)
Cl. A-S, Affirmed Aa2 (sf); previously on Oct 15, 2019 Definitive Rating Assigned Aa2 (sf)
Cl. X-A*, Affirmed Aaa (sf); previously on Oct 15, 2019 Definitive Rating Assigned Aaa (sf)
* Reflects Interest-Only Classes
RATINGS RATIONALE
The ratings on the six P&I classes were affirmed because of their credit support and the transaction's key metrics, including Moody's loan-to-value (LTV) ratio, Moody's stressed debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) and the transaction's Herfindahl Index (Herf), are within acceptable ranges.
The rating on the IO class was affirmed based on the credit quality of its referenced classes.
Moody's rating action reflects a base expected loss of 5.2% of the current pooled balance and Moody's base expected loss plus realized losses is 5.1% of the original pooled balance. Moody's provides a current list of base expected losses for conduit and fusion CMBS transactions on moodys.com at http://www.moodys.com/viewresearchdoc.aspx?docid=PBS_SF215255.
FACTORS THAT WOULD LEAD TO AN UPGRADE OR DOWNGRADE OF THE RATINGS:
The performance expectations for a given variable indicate Moody's forward-looking view of the likely range of performance over the medium term. Performance that falls outside the given range can indicate that the collateral's credit quality is stronger or weaker than Moody's had previously expected. Additionally, significant changes in the 5-year rolling average of 10-year US Treasury rates will impact the magnitude of the interest rate adjustment and may lead to future rating actions.
Factors that could lead to an upgrade of the ratings include a significant amount of loan paydowns or amortization, an increase in the pool's share of defeasance or an improvement in pool performance.
Factors that could lead to a downgrade of the ratings include a decline in the performance of the pool, loan concentration, an increase in realized and expected losses from specially serviced and troubled loans or interest shortfalls.
METHODOLOGY UNDERLYING THE RATING ACTION
The principal methodology used in rating all classes except the interest-only classes were " US and Canadian Conduit/Fusion Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securitizations Methodology" published in November 2021 and available at https://ratings.moodys.com/api/rmc-documents/74473. The methodologies used in rating interest-only classes were "US and Canadian Conduit/Fusion Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securitizations Methodology" published in November 2021 and available at https://ratings.moodys.com/api/rmc-documents/74473 and "Moody's Approach to Rating Structured Finance Interest-Only (IO) Securities" published in February 2019 and available at https://ratings.moodys.com/api/rmc-documents/59126. Please see the list of ratings at the top of this announcement to identify which classes are interest-only (indicated by the *). Alternatively, please see the Rating Methodologies page on https://ratings.moodys.com for a copy of these methodologies.
DEAL PERFORMANCE
As of the May 17, 2022 distribution date, the transaction's aggregate certificate balance has decreased by 1.6% to $794.6 million from $807.3 million at securitization. The certificates are collateralized by 70 mortgage loans ranging in size from less than 1% to 6.3% of the pool, with the top ten loans (excluding defeasance) constituting 37.7% of the pool. Two loans, constituting 9.5% of the pool, have investment-grade structured credit assessments.
Moody's uses a variation of Herf to measure the diversity of loan sizes, where a higher number represents greater diversity. Loan concentration has an important bearing on potential rating volatility, including the risk of multiple notch downgrades under adverse circumstances. The credit neutral Herf score is 40. The pool has a Herf of 41, the same as at Securitization.
As of the May 2022 remittance report, loans representing 97% were current or less than one month delinquent on their debt service payments, and less than 3% were greater than 90 days delinquent.
Seven loans, constituting 15.6% of the pool, are on the master servicer's watchlist. Eight loans, representing 13% of the pool, indicate the borrower has received loan modifications in relation to the impact of the corona virus on the property. The watchlist includes loans that meet certain portfolio review guidelines established as part of the CRE Finance Council (CREFC) monthly reporting package. As part of Moody's ongoing monitoring of a transaction, the agency reviews the watchlist to assess which loans have material issues that could affect performance.
At this time no loans have been liquidated from the pool. Six loans, constituting 7.1% of the pool, are currently in special servicing.
The largest specially serviced loan is the Hudson River Hotel loan ($13.6 million 1.7% of the pool), which is secured by a 56-unit limited service hotel building located in New York, New York. The loan transferred to special servicing in June 2020 and was last paid through its May 2020 payment date. The Borrower filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2022 and the special servicer indicated they are evaluating all resolution options. In March 2022, an updated appraisal indicated a value of $17.5 million, which is a 22% decline in value from securitization but above the loan balance. The loan has incurred a minimal appraisal reduction of $503,172 as of the May 2022 remittance statement. Since securitization, this loan has amortized by 3.7%.
The second largest specially serviced loan is the Gatlin Retail Portfolio loan ($13.1 million 1.7% of the pool), which is secured by two retail shopping centers, The Forum at Gateways in Sterling Heights, Michigan and Wilson Square Shopping Center in Jacksonville, Florida. This loan transferred to special servicing in April 2020 due to payment default related to the pandemic. The special servicer is actively working with the borrower to bring the loan current and return to the master servicer. The loan has amortized by 4.6% since securitization and was less than one month delinquent as of the May 2022 remittance statement. Due to the historical performance and current performing nature, the loan was included in the conduit statistics with a Moody's LTV of 145%.
The remaining four specially serviced loans are secured by two limited-service hotels, one retail property and a mixed-use walk-up building located in New York, New York. All but the asset located in New York were either current or less than one month delinquent as of the May 2022 remittance statement. Moody's has estimated an aggregate loss of $8.3 million (a 42% expected loss on average) from the two specially serviced loans that were in foreclosure or more than 90 days delinquent.
The credit risk of loans is determined primarily by two factors: 1) Moody's assessment of the probability of default, which is largely driven by each loan's DSCR, and 2) Moody's assessment of the severity of loss upon a default, which is largely driven by each loan's loan-to-value ratio, referred to as the Moody's LTV or MLTV. As described in the CMBS methodology used to rate this transaction, we make various adjustments to the MLTV. We adjust the MLTV for each loan using a value that reflects capitalization (cap) rates that are between our sustainable cap rates and market cap rates. We also use an adjusted loan balance that reflects each loan's amortization profile. The MLTV reported in this publication reflects the MLTV before the adjustments described in the methodology.
Moody's received full year 2020 operating results for 94% of the pool, and full or partial year 2021 operating results for 95% of the pool (excluding specially serviced and defeased loans). Moody's weighted average conduit LTV is 117%, the same as securitization. Moody's conduit component excludes loans with structured credit assessments, defeased and CTL loans, and specially serviced and troubled loans. Moody's net cash flow (NCF) reflects a weighted average haircut of 15.4% to the most recently available net operating income (NOI), Moody's value reflects a weighted average capitalization rate of 10.2%.
Moody's actual and stressed conduit DSCRs are 1.63X and 0.96X, respectively, compared to 1.64X and 0.96X at the last review. Moody's actual DSCR is based on Moody's NCF and the loan's actual debt service. Moody's stressed DSCR is based on Moody's NCF and a 9.25% stress rate the agency applied to the loan balance.
The largest loan with a structured credit assessment is the Grand Canal Shoppes Loan ($50.4 million 6.3% of the pool), which represents a pari passu portion of a $760 million senior mortgage. The property is also encumbered with a $215 million B-note. The loan is secured by the borrower's fee simple and leasehold interests in The Grand Canal Shoppes and The Shoppes at the Palazzo, a three-level enclosed retail and entertainment center located in Las Vegas, NV. The asset is located on the Las Vegas Boulevard and is physically integrated within the first-, second-, and third-levels of the Venetian Hotel and Casino and the Palazzo Resort and Casino. The most recent rent roll reflected an occupancy of 83% in December 2021 which is consistent with December 2020, though well below the 94% at securitization. Performance was impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, but has begun to rebound in 2021. As of the May 2022 remittance, this loan was current on P&I payments. The structured credit assessment and stressed DSCR are baa2 (sca.pd) and 0.94X, respectively.
The second largest loan with a structured credit assessment is the 10000 Santa Monica Boulevard Loan ($25.0 million 3.1% of the pool), which represents a pari passu portion of a $200 million senior mortgage. The property is also encumbered with a $130 million B-note. The loan is secured by the borrower's fee simple interest in a luxury high- rise residential complex situated on 2.40 acres of land at the southwest corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Moreno Drive in Los Angeles, CA. The intersection borders the Beverly Hills and Century City neighborhoods. The property's improvements consist of a 41- story tower containing a total of 281 rentable units. The property reflected occupancy of 95% in December 2021 which was a substantial improvement from the 86% reflected in December 2020. As of the May 2022 remittance, this loan was current on P&I payments. The structured credit assessment and stressed DSCR are aa2 (sca.pd) and 1.02X, respectively.
The top three conduit loans represent 13.9% of the pool balance. The largest loan is the Phoenix Industrial Portfolio II Loan ($40 million 5.0% of the pool), which represent a pari passu portion of a $68 million loan. The loan is secured by borrower's fee simple interest in a portfolio of five industrial properties located in Wisconsin, Alabama, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Together, the properties contain approximately 2,390,648 SF of aggregate rentable area purposed for warehousing, assembly, light manufacturing and office use. The portfolio was 97% occupied as of December 2021, compared to 94% at securitization. The loan remains within the initial 3-year interest only period and then begins to amortize on a 360-month schedule. Moody's LTV and stressed DSCR are 123% and 0.84X, respectively, unchanged from securitization.
The second largest loan is the 600 & 620 National Avenue Loan ($38.9 million 4.9% of the pool), which represent a pari passu portion of a $137.9 million loan. The loan is secured by the borrower's fee simple interest in a 151,064 SF, Class A office building located in Mountain View, CA, which is approximately 11 miles northwest of the San Jose CBD. The property is currently 100% leased to Google LLC ("Google") through May 31, 2029. The building was constructed in 2017, it features a four-story design, and is LEED Gold certified. The loan is interest only for its entire term and Moody's LTV and stressed DSCR are 150% and 0.66X, respectively, unchanged from securitization.
The third largest loan is the Phoenix Industrial Portfolio I Loan ($31.4 million 3.9% of the pool), which is secured by borrower's fee simple and leasehold interest in a portfolio of three industrial properties located in Wisconsin and Tennessee. Together, the properties contain approximately 1,181,569 SF of aggregate rentable area purposed for warehousing, assembly, light manufacturing and office use. The portfolio was 100% occupied as of December 2021, the same as at securitization. The loan has already amortized 4.8% since securitization. Moody's LTV and stressed DSCR are 106% and 1.02X, respectively, compared to 111% and 0.97X at securitization.
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Note: A complete summary of today's Security Council meeting will be made available after its conclusion.
Opening Remarks
ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said today’s conflicts are amplifying gender inequality, poverty and climate disruptions. Millions of girls are out of school with no prospect of training, a job or financial independence, while rising numbers of women and girls are suffering from violence in the home. In some countries, extremists and military actors have taken power by force, cancelling previous commitments on gender equality and persecuting women for simply going about their daily lives. Misogyny and authoritarianism are mutually reinforcing and are antithetical to stable, prosperous societies. While the Council meets several times a year on the issue — “on the ground, the situation is going backwards,” he said. “The reason is simple. Women’s equality is a question of power.”
In Afghanistan, the Taliban have appointed a Government of men, closed girls’ schools and banned women from showing their faces in public, resulting in nearly 20 million women and girls being silenced and erased from sight, he continued. In Myanmar, a large proportion of women’s organizations have been forced to close since the military coup, while in Mali, women are becoming poorer and more marginalized as the country goes through successive military coups. Further, the Russian Federation invasion of Ukraine has forced millions of women and children to flee their country overnight, putting them at high risk of trafficking and exploitation. As of 3 June, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) had received 124 reports of conflict-related sexual violence across Ukraine, mostly committed against women and girls. “We know that, for every woman who reports these horrific crimes, there are likely to be many more who remain silent or unrecorded,” he said. In Sudan, two years after women’s role in the revolution was celebrated, another coup interrupted the transition, with alleged perpetrators of human rights violations still in power.
“In all these conflicts we have men in power and women excluded, their rights and freedoms deliberately targeted,” he pointed out. Welcoming to the debate representatives from the European Union, African Union, League of Arab States and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), he underlined that collaboration with those organizations is reflected in daily work on the ground. In Sudan, the United Nations is working closely with the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), with all three envoys asking every delegation to ensure that at least 40 per cent of participants are women. Meanwhile, in West and Central Africa, the Organization is working closely with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). It also been deepening collaboration with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) — which will be crucial to finding a solution to the crisis in Myanmar.
Turning to Afghanistan, he stated that the United Nations is unequivocal about the fundamental rights of women and girls. At the most senior level, the Organization is working to maintain the parity achieved since early 2021 among Heads and Deputy Heads of missions. Studies also show that the active engagement of women peacebuilders increases the chances of lasting peace. “That is why we need full gender parity,” he stressed — including through quotas to accelerate the inclusion of women across election monitoring, security sector reform, disarmament, demobilization and justice systems. Citing how the proposed New Agenda for Peace, included in the report on Our Common Agenda, puts women and girls at the centre of security policy, he nonetheless observed that the women, peace and security agenda continues to be challenged and even reversed around the world. He therefore encouraged the Council to commit to increasing support for women’s civil society, conflict prevention and peacebuilding work.
Briefings
SIMA SAMI BAHOUS, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), said 12 regional organizations have adopted action plans on women, peace and security, up from five since the fifteenth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000) in 2015. When Member States get together and make commitments, national actions often follow. Regional organizations have also played a key role in the development of networks of women mediators, with nearly every region and subregion now with at least one such network. “Yet, with all this institutional progress, almost every time there are political negotiations and peace talks, we still have to ask: ‘Where are the women?’,” she said.
For example, in the Sahel, there are the Group of Five for the Sahel (G5 Sahel) Women’s Platform, Network on Peace and Security for Women in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Network of Young Female Leaders, among others, she reported. However, the analysis and inputs from the platform are not adequately reflected in political updates. In the Great Lakes region, there is significant investment in mobilizing women, peace and security actors. Yet, those activities seem separate from the political talks to bring about a solution to the rising violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In that regard, women must be equally included and their voices and solutions heard, she said, urging all in the multilateral system to defend their values with the same determination as the women’s movement and be undeterred by current challenges and developments. All response efforts must fully include the voices of women leaders and ensure that women are part of finding peaceful solutions for recovery and prevention mechanisms. In addition, regional organizations, when convening negotiations, must ensure the participation of women so they can share their experiences, knowledge and vision for the future.
As well, the international community must do better at providing support, protection and in many cases asylum, temporary relocation or protected status to people facing gender-based persecution, she continued. Last year, the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund supported 215 civil society organizations, reaching 10.6 million people, including forcibly displaced women, women and girls with disabilities and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. UN-Women and partners plan to do much more, she said, urging the international community to stand in solidarity and fully honour the commitments made to and with women. “The peace and security to which we aspire will only be possible when women play a central role,” she emphasized.
HELGA MARIA SCHMID, Secretary-General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, underscored that the Russian Federation’s war on Ukraine is having a devastating impact on civilians and infrastructure, directly contradicting the core principles underpinning the European and global security order. Women and girls have been the victims of rape and face a high risk of trafficking and violence. Further, the war is also threatening food and energy security, with the prices of food and basic goods increasing with disastrous consequences for the poorest households — many of which are headed by women. Against this backdrop, she highlighted the importance of ensuring women’s role in peacebuilding, conflict‑resolution and decision-making in general.
To that end, OSCE is playing a vital role, supporting women’s leadership and direct participation in peace processes and post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, she said. In 2021, it launched a networking platform for women leaders, mediators and peacebuilders that included women from Ukraine and Afghanistan, allowing the sharing of experience and practices in a safe space. OSCE also supports survivors of gender-based violence by strengthening the capacity of service providers, networking women’s resource centres and developing police and justice-sector training curricula to address domestic violence. The organization also strengthens women’s participation in the security sector — particularly in the areas of conflict prevention, arms control and disarmament — by providing a scholarship training program to young women from across the OSCE region.
Emphasizing that OSCE “leads by example”, she noted that over two thirds of participating States have adopted action plans to implement resolution 1325 (2000), and that over 40 per cent of leadership positions within the organization are held by women. However, more must be done to advance gender equality, she stressed, calling for cooperation to ensure that the needs of women in conflict are adequately addressed and that women are part of the decision‑making process at all levels, “including the very important legislative dimension”.
BINETA DIOP, Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, said today’s topic is timely given that the constitutional changes of Governments, including the resurgence of military coups d’état, are accelerating in Africa. This has had dire consequences on the human security of women and girls, including access to social, economic services and rights. In the Sahel, where terrorist attacks continue, women are doubly affected by the coups and those terrorist acts. The condition that leads to a military coup is often exclusion and gender inequality.
Exclusion of women from decision-making in politics and economics is not only an example of gender inequality, but an indicator of poor democratic governance, she continued. Coups do not address those issues but exacerbate them. Research shows that gender equality is the number-one predictor of peace, she stressed, adding that full participation of all citizens, including women, is the best way to build sustained democracies, reduce conflict and achieve human development. This is what the women, peace and security agenda stands for, and if fully implemented, it will contribute to addressing these devastating situations.
In Africa, 58 per cent of States adopted the national plan on the women, peace and security agenda, she pointed out, also drawing attention to the region’s governance architecture, as well as the peace and security architecture. The United Nations could help implement that architecture, she noted, applauding the Secretary-General’s effort to work closely with the African Union in this regard. In addition, her office conducted a 2022 study, with the support of Luxembourg, on multiple impacts of coups, related insecurity, climate change and the pandemic on the situation of women in the Sahel. Evidence showed that their fundamental rights, access to services, livelihoods and abuses against them had deteriorated.
To promote women’s inclusion in peace and security, the African Union employed several tools, including a solidarity mission with the African Women Leaders Network to go underground and talk to the affected women, she continued. A technical team, with the support of UN-Women, is currently in Mali to follow up with the previous solidarity mission in support of peacebuilding efforts and the ongoing negotiations for a return to political stability and the draft of a new Constitution. She then urged the Council to deliver what women are asking for — action and impacts.
STELLA RONNER-GRUBAČIĆ, Ambassador for Gender and Diversity of the European Union, in its capacity as an observer, affirmed that regional organizations have a critical role to play in women, peace and security. However, in times of turmoil, commitments are interrupted. Women — whether journalists, peacebuilders, members of parliament or representatives of civil society — see their work, safety and security threatened or worse. “I can testify on the basis of my own experiences how difficult it is to ensure women’s full, equal and meaningful participation,” she said. Further, women continue to be left out of the political dialogue about their countries’ future in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen or Syria. “When decisions need to be made, including in this room, women remain underrepresented. We need to start discussing this reality,” she stressed.
With the world at a crossroads, she called for accelerating action over talk to guarantee women's participation in all diplomacy and political dialogue. As a concrete example of women’s empowerment, she spotlighted the European Union’s launch of the Afghan Women Leaders Forum in March — providing a platform for Afghan women from diverse backgrounds to contribute to the political dialogue of the European Union and the wider international community on the future of that country. Also citing crimes committed by Russian Federation armed forces in Ukraine, she said that the European Union is collaborating with the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In that regard, the war in Ukraine is another example of the need to work with local and regional organizations to make sure that action on the situation is based on reliable information and facts on the ground, she continued. That collaboration has led to women’s organizations to start collecting evidence and documenting cases of conflict-related sexual violence. Also citing the Common Anti-Trafficking Plan, she noted that, “without the role of regional organizations, we would not have been able to take this important step”.
Regarding women in Afghanistan representing local and regional networks and organizations, she affirmed the importance of feeding the views and positions of women into political dialogue. It can be done, she said, adding “it just requires a deliberate effort and a consistent and continuous banging on the door of those places where conflict and peace are being addressed.” Gender mainstreaming is a guiding principle of the European Union’s 18 civilian and military missions and operations, and it has committed to ensure that 85 per cent of all external action will have a gender dimension by 2025.
Calling for the Council to convene more often to ensure that women are offered a chance to participate meaningfully in its discussions, she proposed to relaunch the Regional Acceleration Resolution 1325 (2000) mechanism — a platform aimed to facilitate the exchange of best practices and lessons learned among the United Nations, European Union, African Union, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and OSCE, along with additional partners, such as the League of Arab States.
HAIFA ABU-GHAZALEH, Assistant Secretary General and Head of the Social Affairs Sector of the League of Arab States, said that, 21 years since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), the Arab region is still witnessing crises and conflicts and women’s potential to build peace remains untapped in the region. The League has been supporting efforts to political solutions and efforts to broker ceasefires initiated at the national levels that allow parties to establish legitimate, accountable and effective Governments. In 2015, the League formulated a regional strategy for women, peace and security, and supports member States' efforts to develop national action plans to implement resolution 1325 (2000). In 2019, it established the Arab Women Mediators Network, a regional mediation instrument comprising high‑level diplomats from the ministries for foreign affairs of member States within the region.
She went on to say that the League of Arab States also initiated the formation of an emergency committee for the protection of women during armed conflicts in the Arab region. In that context, several related strategies have been adopted to support, strengthen and protect women in peace and security. Moreover, in cooperation with UN-Women, the League developed the “Women, Peace and Security Project in the Arab Region”, which aims to provide technical assistance and political guidance for all aspects of women, peace and security commitments, she said, noting that the first and second synthesis reports were issued at the regional level on the progress made in implementing resolution 1325 (2000) after 15 years in the region. She suggested that the Secretary-General appoint a special envoy for women, peace and security and called on the Council to adopt a new resolution on women and mediation.
Statements
OLTA XHAÇKA, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania and Council President for June, speaking in her national capacity, said that regional and subregional organizations have continued to play pivotal roles in their respective regions in the areas of peace and security, human rights and development. Outlining global challenges that demonstrate the fragility of progress made on the women, peace and security agenda, she pointed out that the war in Ukraine has put immense pressure on — if not undone — substantive gains in women’s rights and gender equality made in recent years. “Ukrainian women and girls are facing today maybe the biggest challenge of their lives,” she stressed. Additionally, in Afghanistan, since the Taliban’s violent takeover in August 2021, women have been systematically erased from public life; in Sudan, Myanmar and Mali, violence has threatened the lives and work of women peacebuilders.
Welcoming the fact that many regional organizations have adopted — or are about to adopt — dedicated strategies to implement and prioritize the women, peace and security agenda, she pointed out that such organizations are often the first to react in crisis response, engage with concerned parties and ensure protection of civilians. They can be influential in advocating for women’s full, equal, meaningful and safe participation in all aspects of peace and security. Their voices must be heard in the Security Council and the broader United Nations system. Albania, through its participation in regional organizations, is committed to accelerating and implementing the women, peace and security agenda. She added that her country ranks among the top-five gender-balanced Governments in the world, where 75 per cent of the ministers are women. As well, important steps have been taken towards officially embracing gender-responsive budgeting at the central and local levels.
Statement by the United States to come.
GRY HAUGSBAKKEN, State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Equality of Norway, highlighted the leading role of regional organizations, including the African Union and ECOWAS, and their action plans on women, peace and security. The real test is translating general policy commitments into concrete action when conflicts arise. Regional organizations should insist on women’s full, equal, meaningful participation in all mediation efforts, in local and national conflict resolution, and in rebuilding from political crises. That should also include women in regional organizations’ own mediation teams, he said, drawing attention to the Regional Women Mediator Networks.
In regards to potential disengagement and marginalization of women, peace and security commitments after a coup or violent takeover, he noted that, in Afghanistan and Myanmar, women peacebuilders and civil society representatives have repeatedly called for formal and informal platforms to ensure their continued and direct engagement with those who have taken power. Regional organizations carry the weight of many diverse voices, he emphasized. They are uniquely placed to facilitate dialogue and re-build broken relations between those in power and their populations. Their engagement in peace diplomacy is critical, he said, adding that they are key actors and partners to the United Nations in translating the women, peace and security ambitions into actual impact.
ABENA OSEI-ASARE, Deputy Minister for Finance of Ghana, said Africa’s regional economic communities such as ECOWAS, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), ECCAS and the East African Community have a long history of engagement with the aspirations of the people of the continent, even though sociopolitical conflicts have eroded some gains. However, in West Africa, ECOWAS has developed legal frameworks to assure the role of women in governance, conflict prevention and resolution, and peacebuilding. The region is mindful of the role that women’s groups at national and regional levels have played in the resolution of conflicts including in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire at the beginning of the millennium. Citing the 2010 adoption of the ECOWAS Regional Action Plan for the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) and related resolutions, she said that organization continues to work towards inclusive and participatory governance processes to integrate women in the mechanisms of preventive diplomacy and mediation. She urged the Council to request the Secretary-General to allocate targeted, practical and rapid resources to facilitate responses to threats against women peacebuilders or avert the dangers they may face, especially in the context of military coups. The Council can also ensure that peace operations are adequately resourced to address the challenges in monitoring, reporting and providing support to women peacebuilders. She further called for regional organizations to ensure full participation by actively employing women as special envoys and senior mediators.
LANA ZAKI NUSSEIBEH (United Arab Emirates) underscored that regional organizations are the ones closest to conflict breakouts, with a deep understanding of conflict dynamics and first-hand experience with spill-over effects. She called for efforts to amplify their role in implementing the women, peace and security agenda. However, there is an alarmingly low number of women negotiators — currently only 13 per cent on average. Further, as of 2018, women’s organizations received only 0.13 per cent of total official development assistance (ODA). Among other points, she called for strengthened networks, localized security and gender-responsive leadership, including by appointing women to high-level positions. As of 2020, almost half of the world’s 30 major international organizations have never been led by a woman, and in 2021, only 18 out of 194 Heads of Delegations at the high-level week of the seventy-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly were women. “If we do not achieve gender-responsive leadership, we will not succeed in institutionalizing gender equality and the women, peace and security agenda — and may as well stop paying it lip-service,” she said.
NAME TO COME (United Kingdom) noted that her country has ensured that the landmark Murad Code of conduct for gathering information from survivors safely and effectively — launched by Lord Admad of Wimbledon and Nadia Murad during the United Kingdom’ Council presidency in April — has been translated into Ukrainian in order to hold perpetrators to account for their crimes. In November, the United Kingdom will host in London an international conference on preventing sexual violence in conflict, the centrepiece of a global campaign launched by Foreign Secretary Truss in 2021, she said, stressing: “For us, all options are on the table to strengthen international prevention and response to the heinous crimes of conflict‑related sexual violence.” The United Kingdom supports and funds the regional Women Mediators across the Commonwealth network, who have resolved electoral conflicts in Uganda, mediated the political conflict in Myanmar, and bridged divided communities in Northern Ireland and Cyprus. Also noting her country’s support for regional collaboration to drive change on the ground, she called for ensuring women are at the heart and forefront of organizations, in leadership and decision-making roles; actively promoting the women, peace and security agenda through communications and dialogue; and developing regional action plans, among other actions.
VASSILY A. NEBENZIA (Russian Federation) said the meeting’s agenda had been formulated vaguely, but could be projected on developments in Ukraine. That State’s deterioration and disintegration began in 2014 with an anti-constitutional coup d’état and the seizure of power by Western-backed radical nationalist forces, leading to the destruction of everything Russian, and the repression of opposition political parties and media outlets. Kyiv authorities unleashed a civil war against the Donbas population and “tried to drown dissenters in blood”, he said, including through eight years of shelling peaceful cities and instituting a blockade. Ukrainian authorities further persecute journalists and detain media representatives, including many female correspondents. By supplying weapons, the United States and NATO member States are accomplices in the killing and wounding of women in Donbas, he said, noting a maternity hospital there was shelled, without any condemnation in the West. “Fakes and lies are all that you have” regarding sexual violence crimes committed by Russian personnel, he stressed; meanwhile, in Ukrainian territories liberated from nationalists, the Russian Federation is investigating and documenting such crimes. He noted the importance of enhancing the role of women in the socioeconomic development of conflict or post-conflict States. Western partners proclaim themselves leaders on that agenda without evidence, he said — stressing that employing unilateral coercive measures is unacceptable, as they primarily affect women in socioeconomic spheres. Xenophobia and racism against women and people of African and Asian descent — a product of Western colonialism, now become neo-colonialism — must be eradicated.
NAME TO COME (India) noted that there are more than 1.3 million elected women representatives in his country. In addition, among other initiatives, 20 Indian states have made provisions for 50 per cent reservation for women in legislative bodies. Underlining the importance of women’s meaningful participation in the governance of Afghanistan, he expressed particular concern about the discriminatory inferior status being accorded to women there, which has, inter alia, adversely impacted the education of Afghan girls. Turning to the misuse of new technology, he noted that Internet and social media networks have the potential to augment women’s voice and increase their participation. However, extremist groups and terrorists have increasingly exploited these tools to the detriment of women. Pointing out that women and girls suffer disproportionately from terrorist activities, he urged the Security Council to focus on the consequences of terrorism on the rights of women. He also stressed that women police officers and peacekeepers have played a critical role in preserving the women, peace and security agenda and welcomed the uniformed gender parity strategy to increase the number of women peacekeepers. “Just as a bird cannot fly with one wing, durable peace cannot be achieved without the active participation of the other gender,” he said.
NAME TO COME (Brazil) emphasized that women briefers from regional organizations can help Member States better understand regional priorities and thus ensure an appropriate response when designing mandates. The international community must continue to demand all parties to adopt commitments to prevent and address sexual violence, develop a victim and survivor-centred approach and hold perpetrators to account. Moreover, the mandates of peacekeeping operations and special political missions must be strengthened to better respond to violations of international humanitarian law. The presence of women peacekeepers on the ground should continue to be pursued. Moreover, peacekeeping mandates must be updated so that they are more explicit in their role to promote women’s economic inclusion and empowerment in line with resolution 2242 (2015). The Council must work not only to bring women to peace negotiation tables, but also on ways to protect those invited to the table and those working on the ground from direct violence and intimidation. Normalizing the participation of women in peace processes and upgrading their role is a very concrete way to implement the women, peace and security agenda, he said.
MICHEL XAVIER BANG (Gabon) said his country is pursuing a policy that places women at the heart of its society, underscoring their central role in the revitalization of the socioeconomic and political landscapes. Gabon remains committed to international advocacy for the participation of women in situations of upheaval resulting from conflict, recognizing that conflict‑prevention and post-conflict recovery require the mediation, peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts of women. Turning to regional organizations, he said the African Union Commission's efforts to promote women's participation have led to the implementation of the Fem Wise-Africa programme, which aims to bolster the role of women in conflict prevention and mediation within the framework of the African Peace and Security Architecture. Those initiatives must recognize the networks of women leaders and peacebuilders and give them financial, technical and logistical support, he said, calling for increased efforts at the national, regional and global levels for a more comprehensive, inclusive and efficient implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). As well, partnerships between the United Nations and regional organizations must be strengthened through coordination of their actions on the women, peace and security agenda.
NAME TO COME (France) said that conflict, coups d’état and political unrest create major setbacks for women and girls, silencing their voices and setting back their rights. In Afghanistan, the Taliban continues to drive half of its population back into obscurity, and in Ukraine, women are bearing the brunt of Russian aggression. Further, many women human rights defenders and peacebuilders — even some that have spoken to the Council — are being threatened throughout the world. Against that backdrop, she called on the Council to intensify its efforts to implement the women, peace and security framework. She went on to support not only partnerships between the United Nations and regional organizations, but between regional organizations themselves, spotlighting the European Union-African Union partnership for women’s inclusion in peace negotiations. She added that, for its part, France will continue to promote ambitious, determined feminist diplomacy, also endorsing the statement of shared commitments of the Council presidencies on women, peace and security.
GERALDINE BYRNE NASON (Ireland) emphasized that disregarding gender and women only results in illusory peace and stability, urging the international community to ensure the prioritization of the women, peace and security agenda, not its marginalization. Eleven regional organizations have adopted action plans or dedicated strategies on the agenda. A twelfth is on the way — from ASEAN, which comes at a critical time in the context of the deteriorating situation in Myanmar. Making several recommendations, she said that, in addition to adopting regional action plans on the agenda, all of the peace and security initiatives deployed by regional organizations are gender-responsive. She also proposed breaking the “silos” by including women in discussions. Regional organizations often have unique access to emerging conflicts in their neighbourhood, she said, stressing the need to use this to respond rapidly, mount a robust response and apply gender-responsive approaches at all times, not as afterthoughts to be applied post facto.
NAME TO COME (China) said the advancement of women’s causes is inseparable from a stable political environment. Since 2021, many countries from Africa to Asia experienced changes on the political scene. Some were triggered by hasty withdrawal of foreign troops and others were caused by conflict that stemmed from the imposition of an ill-fitting foreign governance model. It has become clear that supporting the affected countries in exploring their development paths that suit their needs is the only way to maintain political stability. Rejecting the imposition of external solutions, he stressed the important roles played by regional organizations, such as the African Union, ASEAN and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, in supporting local solutions. Achieving peace is the best protection for women, who bear the brunt of conflict. Crisis response and humanitarian assistance are not an end. The international community must maintain the fundamental direction towards political settlement and eliminate the root causes of conflict.
JAYNE TOROITICH (Kenya) called for enhanced collaboration between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations to overcome the challenge of institutional bureaucracies. When aligned with political will, such efforts contribute to mainstreaming gender perspectives in multidimensional peacebuilding efforts and peace support operations. This is evident in the expansion of political space for women in the Central African Republic; inclusion of women in key political processes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and women representation in decision-making and governance in the joint efforts between the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), African Union and IGAD to support the implementation of the Revitalized Peace Agreement by the Transitional Government. She underlined the importance of meaningful partnership with regional women networks, particularly in fragile and conflict situations. Coups and military takeovers further compound the challenge of protecting women peacebuilders, journalists, civil society representatives and activists, she said, stressing the need for sustained and early investment in women in peacebuilding and peacekeeping through regional networks before such conflicts arise. There is also a need to ensure that regional women networks have sufficient financial and human resources.
NAME TO COME (Mexico) noted his country has a feminist foreign policy, granting high priority to the women, peace and security agenda, and that regional organizations on the ground are essential in bridging the gap between rhetoric and reality. Those organizations play a crucial role in in promoting political dialogue in conflict-affected countries, as they know the local actors first-hand — and their involvement is even more relevant in times of unrest, especially when they work with women leaders, peacebuilders and human rights defenders. Noting the situation worldwide has deteriorated, with rising sexual and gender‑based violence, he called for an update of women, peace and security action plans, and for strengthened capacities to assist the full participation of women in public life at all levels. It is also crucial to cooperate with the Secretary‑General’s mediators and special envoys, including to ensure that peace agreements contain specific provisions for treatment and redress for survivors of sexual violence. Calling for the promotion of inclusive networks of women mediators in various subregions, he asked UN-Women to ensure the women, peace and security and humanitarian action compact takes shape soon.
VILLE SKINNARI, Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade of Finland, speaking for Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, stressed that ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Sudan, Myanmar and Mali are threatening the fragile gains of the women, peace and security agenda and the lives and work of women peacebuilders. In the context of military coups and takeovers, regional and subregional organizations are often instrumental in developing context‑specific and tailor-made approaches, including building trust, promoting dialogue among concerned parties and offering support in mediation and reconciliation. Such organizations can be influential in advocating for women’s full, equal, and meaningful, as well as safe, participation in all aspects of peace and security, he said.
He went on to stress the need to stepup interaction with civil society and support for local women’s organizations and women peacebuilders at the international, regional and national levels. The Women and Peace and Security Focal Points Network, co-chaired by South Africa and Switzerland, provides an important platform for sharing best practices. Highlighting the value of contextual, local expertise, he stressed that investing in better, coordinated data collection, gender analysis and systematic monitoring of results across all peace efforts, will be key to making any radical shift on women’s meaningful participation possible. Initiatives, such as, the Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action and Commitment 2025, led by Finland and Spain, are important in this respect.
NAME TO COME (Jordan) said her country is in the process of drafting its second national action plan for coordinated, holistic efforts to integrate women and their perspectives into peace and security matters. As host to a large number of Palestinian and Syrian refugees, her Government also has included the needs of the most vulnerable in its action plan. Through that plan, strengthened prevention and protection mechanisms have reached more than 12,000 vulnerable women and girls with services addressing gender-based violence. Her country is also building on lessons learned, knowledge acquired and challenges and opportunities that have emerged, with the aim of setting new goals to increase the full, active and meaningful participation of women in public life, she said, stressing the pivotal role of civil society organizations and women human rights defenders in conflict regions. It is not enough to strengthen bilateral relationships with regional partners; collective regional efforts paired with international partners to reinforce implementation of the women, peace and security agenda are needed. A shared vision that respects the characteristics of each State and ensures a flexible, sustained flow of funding is crucial to achieving optimal results, she said, noting that her country is part of the League of Arab States’ regional action plan for the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), which accelerates Arab States’ efforts to advance the implementation of the women, peace and security agenda.
MYRIAM OEHRI (Liechtenstein) expressed concern over the situation of women and girls in Myanmar since the 2021 military coup, spotlighting increased risks of trafficking, child marriage and sexual violence. Recalling that the General Assembly condemned the use of lethal force by that country’s armed forces and called for the prevention of the flow of arms into Myanmar, she urged all Member States to implement these provisions and called on the Council to take complementary action. Turning to Ukraine, she said that systematic violations of international humanitarian law by the Russian armed forces — including the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war — are causing immense suffering. Millions of women and children fleeing Ukraine are particularly vulnerable to exploitation and human trafficking, and she supported OSCE’s practical recommendations on this issue “to prevent the current humanitarian crisis from turning into a human trafficking crisis”.
ROBERT KEITH RAE (Canada), speaking on behalf of the Group of Friends of Women, Peace, and Security, called for swift and concerted action to fully implement Council resolution 1325 (2000) and subsequent resolutions on women, peace and security, lest women and girls continue to be side-lined from political and peace processes, live in fear for their safety and be subjected to all forms of violence, including sexual and gender-based violence. In conflicts and crises, he urged regional organizations and regional networks to promote women’s full, equal and meaningful participation at all levels of peace and security processes. He commended initiatives to strengthen collaboration to improve data disaggregation and gender analyses, share best practices and coordinate gender‑responsive and human rights-based approaches to ensure the meaningful inclusion of women, in particular those from traditionally marginalized groups, in political and peace and security processes. The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission can play a role in supporting these efforts. It is also critical for regional partners to support safe and enabling environments for women peacebuilders, human rights defenders, activists and gender equality advocates. Speaking in his national capacity, he stressed that, in Ukraine and Myanmar, it is impossible to deny the evidence that gender-based violence is being used as a deliberate weapon of war — setting the international community back centuries.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — An unusual alliance of international activist groups, Mexican prosecutors and a dog trained to sniff out memory devices joined forces this month to catch a high-profile suspected pedophile in Mexico City.
First, Free a Girl, a Netherlands-based group that fights human trafficking, tipped off activists at the U.S.-based Operation Underground Railroad that Jason Maatman, a Dutch man who openly advocated sex with children, had gone to Mexico after fleeing pending court cases in the Netherlands.
Maatman apparently thought loose Mexican law enforcement would allow him to operate freely in Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of 21 million where most crimes go unpunished.
But he didn’t count on Hidu, a recent graduate of a dog academy that teaches canines to sniff out triphenylphosphine oxide, or TPPO, a chemical coating used in electronic devices like flash drives and memory cards.
“Three weeks ago, we learned that Nelson M. seemed to be active in Mexico, and was a serious danger to children,” said Evelien Hölsken, the director of Free a Girl. She said the group contacted Operation Underground Railroad “and asked if they could start an investigation.”
Maatman was apparently so sure of himself he talked openly about his activities on the internet. But Mexican prosecutors were ready to work with the nongovernmental organizations.
Operation Underground Railroad quickly set up a plan to lure Maatman into a trap, using the chat rooms and social media spaces he was active on.
“We were able to confirm he was in Mexico and then talking to him in just different chat rooms. He said, ‘I’m in a really kind of dangerous rundown area. I don’t want to give you my address. I don’t want you guys to come see me, but you can come meet me at a gas station’,” said Matt Osborne, OUR’s director of global operations.
Mexico City prosecution detectives were waiting when Maatman showed up at a bus station — near a gas station — on the edge of the city’s main park on June 5.
Prosecutor Ernestina Godoy said Maatman was found to have a pistol and several doses of cocaine in his possession.
Maatman is being held at a Mexico City prison on charges of human trafficking and drug and weapons possession. He does not have an attorney of record nor could he be reached for comment.
“Our understanding was that he was entertaining offers from other people who wanted to go into business with him,” apparently to sell or monetize a trove of sexually explicit material involving young children, Osborne said. “He was talking that he needed money.”
The problem was that he has caught at a bus stop — not at his home — and nobody knew were he was living. Nobody knew where he could have stashed any child sexual abuse material, which is usually held in digital form.
City prosecutors used a network of street surveillance cameras to trace Maatman’s movements back to a dingy apartment he was renting on the city’s rough east side. Tall and with reddish hair, the Dutchman stood out in that area.
Once police obtained a search warrant, that is where Hidu came in; a black lab, he had been trained by Todd Jordan at his Jordan Detection K9 academy in Indianapolis, Indiana.
TPPO is a chemical used in small, solid-state memory devices to avoid overheating. There is just enough of its distinctive odor for dogs to locate it.
Jordan started out by training “accelerant detection” dogs, to look for evidence in possible arson cases in which an accelerant — things like gasoline — may have been used to start a blaze.
But the electronics detection dogs he’s trained — now 83 and counting — have come to be more in demand because criminals now use flash drives to store everything from contacts to cryptocurrencies used in drug deals.
“I think the electronics dogs have now surpassed the accelerant canines because of just the need of them, and just because of the way the world is right now,” said Jordan. “These dogs, I mean just everybody, every internet crimes task force could use one of these.”
Hidu was brand new at the work; he had graduated just two weeks before and this was his first case — In fact, it was the first overseas case that any of Jordan’s dogs had handled.
O.U.R. flew Hidu and his handler to Mexico City, where prosecutors were about to search the apartment.
“My understanding is there was a cellphone hidden in a laundry basket with just rancid total terrible laundry, you know, dirty clothes in one corner that no one would go into,” Osborne said. “The dog found that phone.”
Hidu found more child porn material taped to a wall beneath a painting, Osborne said. “The dog sniffed out a couple of the hard drives in a few places in his apartment that were difficult for humans to find, but the dog sniffed it out.”
Prosecutors said the drives and devices contained about 4 terabytes of child sexual abuse material.
Godoy, the prosecutor, credited Operation Underground Railroad and Hidu for their help in the bust.
“The message is clear for those who prey on a girl, a boy or an adolescent: In Mexico City there will be no room for impunity, and those that hurt or target them will be found, tried and sentenced,” Godoy said.
But questions remained. “Why was he (Maatman) not placed on an international wanted list?” by Dutch authorities, Hölsken said. | https://www.wjbf.com/news/u-s-world-news/ap-international/electronic-sniffing-dog-helps-in-pedophilia-arrest-in-mexico/ | 2022-06-15T19:45:07Z | https://www.wjbf.com/news/u-s-world-news/ap-international/electronic-sniffing-dog-helps-in-pedophilia-arrest-in-mexico/ | true | 46 |
Watching Your Wallet: Managing rising credit card bills
Try to pay the minimum, on-time to protect your credit score
InvestigateTV - Credit card debt continues to climb in the U.S. as experts expect people to lean on their cards to offset inflation, rising interest rates and for help with basic expenses like food and utilities.
Rising prices could be detrimental to as many as 40% of Americans in households earning about $45,00 a year or less, according to recent analysis from NerdWallet.
Elizabeth Renter, a data analyst for NerdWallet, said if you are in financial trouble or can’t make your minimum payment on your credit card, get help. The first place to turn is your credit card issuer.
“Credit card issuers have financial hardship programs that aren’t just for the pandemic,” Renter said. “So, whether you lose a job or bills just get out of control. Give them a call and they may be able to help reduce your payments temporarily.”
If that doesn’t work, Renter said look for a nonprofit credit counseling or debt management firm that can help you make plans to tackle your debt.
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DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan police officer charged with murder after shooting Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head has been fired, officials said Wednesday.
Christopher Schurr, a Grand Rapids officer for seven years, waived his right to a hearing and was dismissed, effective last Friday, said City Manager Mark Washington.
Schurr's dismissal was recommended by police Chief Eric Winstrom after a second-degree murder charge was filed Thursday.
Washington declined further comment, noting the criminal case and a likely lawsuit over Lyoya's death.
Schurr's attorney, Matt Borgula, said he wasn't representing the officer in the labor matter and had no comment.
Lyoya, a Black man, was killed at the end of a traffic stop on April 4. He ran and physically resisted Schurr after failing to produce a driver's license.
Schurr, who is white, claimed Lyoya had control of his Taser when he shot him. Defense lawyers said the officer feared for his safety.
The confrontation and shooting were recorded on video.
Schurr, 31, had been on leave while state police investigated the shooting and prosecutor Chris Becker decided whether to pursue charges.
Schurr's personnel file showed no complaints of excessive force but much praise for traffic stops and foot chases that led to arrests and the seizure of guns and drugs.
He spent a night in jail before being released on $100,000 bond Friday.
Grand Rapids, population about 200,000, is 160 miles (260 kilometers) west of Detroit.
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Maximum relief given to masses in provincial budget: Punjab CM
Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz has said maximum relief has been given to people in the budget to enhance their standard of living.
Chairing a meeting of the provincial parliamentary party in Lahore on Wednesday, he said the provincial budget was successfully presented in the Punjab Assembly despite the drama staged by the opposition against it.
The chief minister vowed to work day and night to continue the journey of serving the people and healing their wounds.
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As the NBA Finals come to a conclusion between the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics, Rockets fans start to look forward to the June 23 draft. The Rockets are sitting at the top (or bottom, depending on how you look at it) of the draft, and many fans are anxiously anticipating the Rockets adding more talent.
One thing is for sure, the Rockets’ popularity hasn't waned even with the Rockets having the worst record two years in a row. That means fans are still showing their support for their hometown team, whether it's by support on social media or overall enthusiasm Rockets fans are looking for better days when it comes to their team.
Another way to show support is by repping your team's gear. Rockets fans have many options regarding this, but one of the best places for Rockets gear is Target.com. Here are five items that every Rockets fan should have.
NBA Houston Rockets 3' x 5' Banner Flag
What better way to show your team support than by a 3x5 banner flag of the Houston Rockets? You can place the banner anywhere, especially in your sports cave. For $29.99, you can order this today from Target's website, just in time for the draft.
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For $69.99, you can add a high-quality frame that surrounds the Rockets logo and never worry about someone saying you don't have enough art in your house.
NBA Houston Rockets Stainless Steel Tumbler - 20oz
This time of year, especially in Houston, keeping your drinks cool is necessary. With this Rockets steel tumbler at $34.99, you can do exactly that. Its 20oz, keeps your drink cold, and has the Rockets logo on the outside. You can't get cooler than that.
NBA City Chrome Double Rung Neon Clock
You don't want to be late watching the draft, and the best way to do that is with a clock. Even better is this red Rockets theme clock for $101.99 on your wall.
NBA Houston Rockets 18oz Hustle Travel Mug
It is summertime, so that means summer travel. This Houston Rockets travel mug is a great way to take your favorite drinks with you on the go. It has an easy on and off lid and is only $16.99.
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Which paleo protein powder is best?
If you’ve recently decided to transition to a paleo diet, you might be looking for ways to get in all of your daily nutrients and vitamins. While protein powders are a great way to do that, you’ll need something that’s paleo-friendly.
There are many excellent paleo protein powders out there, but it can be challenging to pick the right one. If you want to narrow down your options, PaleoPro Protein Powder is worth consideration. It’s easy on the stomach, provides plenty of protein and tastes great.
What to know before you buy a paleo protein powder
Size and packaging
Protein powder comes in a bag or a cylindrical container. Bags usually contain fewer servings but are more convenient for traveling. A container is best for those who have a shake at least once a day, as they usually offer more bang for your buck.
Also, if it’s your first time buying a specific brand or flavor, it’s best to buy the smallest size in case you don’t end up liking it. Luckily, you can find paleo-friendly protein powders in various quantities.
Do you need a protein powder?
Following a paleo diet can be challenging. There are several foods and ingredients you have to avoid. For many, getting enough protein every day can be difficult, making protein powders and shakes an excellent way to do so. However, if you eat enough high-protein foods, protein powder may be overkill.
Also, consider your lifestyle and health goals. If you’re an athlete or looking to gain weight, you need more protein on a daily basis.
Side effects
Paleo-friendly protein powder is usually easier on the digestive system than standard whey protein powders. However, any protein powder can cause unwanted side effects such as weight gain, bloating, constipation or diarrhea. Also, in excess, protein can cause a spike in blood sugar and affect skin health.
What to look for in a quality paleo protein powder
Protein source
Most protein powders contain proteins derived from dairy, whey and casein. These powders are packed with protein, but they’re not paleo-friendly, and you should avoid them unless you can tolerate small amounts of lactose.
Paleo protein powders usually contain proteins sourced from collagen, egg whites or grass-fed, hormone-free beef.
You can go with a soy-free, plant-based powder if you want a cheaper alternative to paleo-focused protein powders.
Ingredients
The best paleo protein powders contain high-quality ingredients with little to no added sugars. Some powders use artificial sweeteners such as Stevia or monk fruit extract. In addition to finding a dairy-free protein powder, you should also avoid other inflammatory ingredients such as gluten and soy. Take a moment to check the label to ensure your paleo protein powder is free of fillers, chemicals and allergens.
Flavor and taste
Protein shakes have a distinct texture, but some powders mix better than others. While a few blend up fine in a shaker with some water, others are clumpy unless you mix them in a blender. Many brands offer several flavors, with some of the most popular being chocolate, vanilla and caramel. However, many paleo protein powders are unflavored and unsweetened, which are great if you want something neutral to incorporate into a smoothie.
How much you can expect to spend on a paleo protein powder
Paleo protein powders vary significantly in cost. You can find a good one for $20-$40, but if you’re looking for something made with premium or more exotic ingredients, it can cost up to $80.
Paleo protein powder FAQ
Are paleo protein powders a suitable meal replacement?
A. No, most paleo protein powders are meant to serve as dietary supplements, but they’re acceptable as a healthy snack between meals.
Can I use paleo protein powder as an ingredient for other foods?
A. Yes, you can use paleo protein powder in several foods such as pancakes, muffins, oatmeal, popsicles and ice cream.
What’s the best paleo protein powder to buy?
Top paleo protein powder
What you need to know: This high-quality protein powder is derived from cage-free egg whites and grass-fed and pastured beef.
What you’ll love: It’s made with premium paleo ingredients and doesn’t contain any whey, soy, sugar, gluten or additional hormones. It offers 26 grams of protein and just 120 calories per serving and comes in five delicious flavors.
What you should consider: It doesn’t mix as well as other protein powders, and some users found the monk fruit made it too sweet with a slight aftertaste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top paleo protein powder for the money
NaturesPlus Paleo Protein Powder
What you need to know: This protein powder is unflavored, so it mixes well with other beverages and is an excellent source of protein, fatty acids and fiber.
What you’ll love: It dissolves easily, has no soy or added sugar and contains high-quality ingredients, including coconut, flaxseed, pumpkin seed oil, almond and sunflower. It offers 20 grams of protein and 135 total calories per serving and provides all essential amino acids.
What you should consider: While it’s unflavored and unsweetened, it has a slightly earthy taste and texture that some might find unpleasant.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb
Worth checking out
Reignite Wellness Paleo-Inspired All-in-One Shake
What you need to know: This dietary supplement is ideal for those who want to avoid dairy and gluten and is comparable to the more expensive paleo protein powders.
What you’ll love: This protein powder contains 21 grams of protein and one sugar per serving and provides bone broth health benefits without the unpleasant taste. It’s packed with plenty of BCAAs and has a milkshake-like taste and consistency. Also, you can choose from vanilla, chocolate and caramel flavors.
What you should consider: Some customers didn’t enjoy the taste. Also, it doesn’t dissolve well, so a blender is necessary for better results.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Newmills FC celebrated their 10 Year anniversary in style with a Gala awards evening held at the Seagoe Hotel.
With over 120 in attendance, it was a spectacular and fun evening had by all. After a fantastic four course meal, Kenny Shiels kicked off the speeches congratulating the club on their progress and achievements over the years and wished the club great success in the future.
And then on Saturday past, the Reserve team won the Mid-Ulster League Cup final.
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Which Estee Lauder eye cream is the best?
Your most fragile skin is on your face — and the area under and around your eyes is the thinnest and most sensitive of all. Eye cream is essential to keeping it hydrated and free of irritation. While some see eye cream as an unnecessary expense, it’s really an amazing investment in maintaining the area around and under your eyes.
For the perfect hydrating eye cream, the Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Eye Supercharged Complex Synchronized Recovery is a great choice to give the beautiful radiance that your eyes need.
What to know before you buy an Estee Lauder eye cream
About Estee Lauder
Estee Lauder was born Josephine Esther Mentzer in New York City, the daughter of Hungarian and Czech immigrants. (The name “Estee” is a variant of her childhood nickname, Esty.) She learned about making lotions and skin creams from an uncle and together with her husband, Joseph Lauter, founded Estee Lauder Inc. in 1946.
The company has grown to be a family of brands, including Aramis and Clinique, operating in 150 countries. Estee Lauder died in 2004, but her company continues, with more than 60,000 employees worldwide.
Skin type
Your skin type dictates what kind of eye cream you need. For instance, if you have dry skin, you want a hydrating eye cream that will moisturize the area and keep it plump. On the other hand, if you have oily skin, you’ll need one that’s lightweight and airy. People with sensitive or irritated skin should pick an eye cream that’s fragrance-free or hypoallergenic.
Skin concerns
Most eye creams focus on hydration, the most common concern for the thin skin of the eyelids and under the eye. Other common issues eye creams address are:
- Eye bags
- Dullness
- Rough textures
- Wrinkles
- Fine lines
- Puffiness
- Irritation
- Redness
- Darkness
- Dark circles
- Smoothing
- Color correcting
Be sure to know what’s necessary to make your skin feel as fresh and radiant as possible, and select a product that will do just that.
Necessity
When it comes to skin care, people have debated whether eye creams are truly necessary. The answer is, it depends. Eye creams are made to target specific skin concerns. If you are not experiencing any, an eye cream may not be necessary. For instance, children or teenagers are less likely to have dark circles or fine lines, so they would not need it.
What to look for in a quality Estee Lauder eye cream
Formula
Estee Lauder is an iconic brand known for its consistency in producing quality makeup and skincare. Over the years, its formulas have gained a cult following for this consistency and their use of repair technology to treat and prevent damage to the skin.
Because the skin around the eyes is the thinnest and most delicate, it’s important to choose products that do not feel heavy. Creams that are too heavy may end up leaving your eyes greasy and uncomfortable, while a lightweight formula ensures easy application and a flawless look. For heavier creams that contain tons of active ingredients, you need just a light layer for your daily skincare.
Hydration and eye care alternatives
The thinness of the skin around the eyes makes dryness its primary issue, and quality eye creams always contain products such as hyaluronic acid to promote hydration and keep the area moisturized. Many Estee Lauder eye creams also contain herbal ingredients that further support hydration and targeted concerns.
The brand also makes it easy to select products that suit your concerns and preferences by providing options such as serums, gels, balms and eye masks.
Active ingredients
Though the ingredients in eye cream vary depending on the brand and product, popular ingredients that target the most common issues are:
- Hyaluronic acid
- Ceramides
- Caffeine
- Retinoids
- Niacinamide
- Alpha hydroxy acids
- Vitamins C, K and E
- Herbal extracts
These ingredients, along with sun protection, aid in the revitalization of the skin and promote a radiant look. Note that many Estee Lauder products are free of fragrance and irritants and as such are usually suitable for people with sensitive or acne-prone skin.
How much you can expect to spend on Estee Lauder eye cream
Estee Lauder eye creams are relatively affordable, with a range of products from $25-$280.
Estee Lauder eye cream FAQ
Is eye cream different from face moisturizer?
A. Yes. Although they may have the same ingredients, the amount of active ingredients differs. Eye creams are formulated especially for the eye area.
Are Estee Lauder products cruelty-free?
A. Yes. Estee Lauder does not test any of its ingredients or products on animals. It uses only non-animal testing methods.
When should I use an eye cream?
A. Eye cream is best used at night but can be used in the daytime as well, depending on the specific product. Read the packaging for the best use.
What’s the best Estee Lauder eye cream to buy?
Top Estee Lauder eye cream
Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Eye Supercharged Complex Synchronized Recovery
What you need to know: This powerful, lightweight eye cream brightens the eye area, revives the skin and leaves it feeling silky and fresh.
What you’ll love: Hyaluronic acid and antioxidants are packed in for 24-hour hydration and prevention of free radicals. The company says that within three weeks, dryness, fine lines and wrinkles will begin to disappear.
What you should consider: Some people with sensitive skin have reported burning or irritation around the eyes.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Sephora
Top Estee Lauder eye cream for the money
Estee Lauder Day Wear Eye Cooling Antioxidant Moisture Gel Creme
What you need to know: Cucumber extract makes this cooling cream instantly refreshing and revitalizing.
What you’ll love: This gentle product is great for daily use — perfect for de-puffing and brightening the skin and is suitable for all skin types. It’s not just effective in reducing eye bags and common skin concerns — it is also soothing and leaves no residue.
What you should consider: Some reviewers suggest that it’s more suitable for summer and not colder times of the year.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Sephora
Worth checking out
Estee Lauder Revitalizing Supreme-Plus Youth Power Eye Balm
What you need to know: This is a nourishing cream that makes the skin supple and firm.
What you’ll love: Its delicate formula tackles a number of concerns such as wrinkles and dark circles and leaves the skin looking and feeling radiant. Formulated with extracts of hibiscus, moringa and cactus, it’s made to boost collagen and leave your skin looking fresher and brighter. The smooth balm is light and hydrating.
What you should consider: People with sensitive skin should use it carefully.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Ikea said Wednesday that it is seeking new owners for its four factories in Russia and to liquidate its product inventory there because of the war in Ukraine.
The world’s biggest furniture brand already had suspended operations at its 17 Russian stores and paused exports and imports involving the country. It also paused operations in Belarus, which is a Russian ally.
“The war in Ukraine has already had a terrible impact on so many people’s lives. It is a human tragedy that is continuing to affect people and communities,” Ikea said in a statement on its website.
“Unfortunately the circumstances have not improved and the devastating war continues,” the flat-pack furnishings retailer said. “Businesses and supply chains across the world have been heavily impacted and we do not see that it is possible to resume operations any time soon.”
The companies that control Ikea operations in Belarus and Russia therefore “have now each decided to enter a new phase to further scale down,” the statement said.
Ikea said imports and exports of products to and from Russia and Belarus will remain stopped, and that the purchase and logistics offices in Moscow and Minsk will close permanently.
Ikea was founded by Swedish entrepreneur Ingvar Kamprad, who turned a small-scale mail order business started on his family’s farm into a furniture empire in 1943 by letting customers piece together his simple and inexpensive furniture themselves.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Whether they watched it over and over or tried to avoid repeated viewings, the Green Bay Packers head into this upcoming season motivated by the stunning and sudden finish to their most recent playoff run.
The Packers have grown all too accustomed to postseason heartbreak over the past decade or so, but the circumstances surrounding their 13-10 NFC divisional playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers made it particularly tough to get over.
Green Bay led 10-3 and had the ball after making a fourth-and-1 stop on its 19-yard line with 6:10 left, but the Packers couldn't seal the victory. San Francisco scored the tying touchdown on a blocked punt with 4:41 left and made the winning field goal as time expired.
"I probably watched it over 20 times, trying to find ways we could've won," outside linebacker Rashan Gary said this week during the Packers organized team activities.
He's not alone.
Packers center Josh Myers studied game film from his rookie season, but only had six regular-season games and the playoff matchup to choose from since a knee injury and a finger problem caused him to miss the majority of the season.
That meant frequent viewings of the game that wrecked Green Bay's title hopes.
"I didn't have a full season of games to watch, so I watched all those games (that I played) 20 times over the offseason," Myers said. "It was a tough one to watch over and over, but yeah, I watched it over and over."
Special teams breakdowns made a big difference in that game. The Packers had a field-goal attempt blocked to go along with the crucial blocked punt. They had only 10 men on the field when San Francisco's Robbie Gould made his winning field goal.
The Packers have since fired Maurice Drayton as special teams coordinator and replaced him with former Las Vegas Raiders interim head coach Rich Bisaccia. They allowed punter Corey Bojorquez to leave via free agency and replaced him with Pat O'Donnell, in part because they believed O'Donnell was a more consistent holder.
But it's not just the special teams issues the Packers recall when they look back on that game. Other pivotal plays also have provided incentive.
The Packers led 7-0 and were driving in the first quarter when veteran tight end Marcedes Lewis caught a 1-yard pass and fumbled on a hit from Fred Warner. San Francisco's Dre Greenlaw pounced on the loose ball at the 49ers 41-yard line.
"I watched it once and I'll never watch it again," Lewis said last week during the minicamp.
He didn't need any other reminders. Lewis hadn't lost a fumble since 2013, and the play has been on Lewis' mind for much of the offseason.
"It's something that for at least a month-and-a-half, I had nightmares about," Lewis said.
Cornerback Jaire Alexander thinks about the tackle he didn't make in the game's final possession.
After missing the final 12 games of the regular season with a shoulder injury, Alexander returned to play eight defensive snaps against the 49ers. But the shoulder problem severely hindered his tackling ability.
Alexander missed a tackle that helped Deebo Samuel gain 9 yards on a third-and-7 play, giving the 49ers a first down at the Packers 29-yard line. Gould kicked his 45-yard field goal a few plays later.
"That fueled me for this offseason," Alexander said.
Plenty of other players also had that game going through their minds as the Packers continue chasing their first Super Bowl berth since their 2010 championship season. Last season marked the second straight year in which the Packers failed to reach the Super Bowl despite having the NFC's top playoff seed.
"I've had the fortune or misfortune I guess of how you look at it, of being really close a lot in my career to a ring, whether that be a national championship in college or a Super Bowl in the NFL," said Myers, who played on two Ohio State teams that lost in the College Football Playoff. "Being close but not quite being there has been something that's motivated me the last several offseasons."
Gary had two sacks in the 49ers game and also was in on the fourth-and-1 stop that seemed to put the Packers in control. Then he saw it all slip away in the last five minutes.
He wants to make sure it doesn't happen again
"It just made me hungrier," Gary said.
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COVID-19 shots for U.S. infants, toddlers and preschoolers moved a step closer Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration’s outside vaccine advisers gave a thumbs-up to Moderna’s two shots for the littlest kids. The panel is set to vote later Wednesday on whether to also recommend Pfizer’s three-shot series for those youngsters.
The outside experts voted unanimously that the benefits of Moderna’s shots outweigh any risks for children under 5 — that’s roughly 18 million youngsters.
They are the last remaining group in the U.S. to get vaccinated and many parents have been anxious to protect their little children. If all the regulatory steps are cleared, shots should be available next week.
“This is a long-awaited vaccine,” said one panel member, Dr. Jay Portnoy of Children’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. “There are so many parents who are absolutely desperate to get this vaccine and I think we owe it to them to give them a choice to have the vaccine if they want to.”
Dr. Peter Marks, FDA’s vaccine chief, opened the meeting with data showing a “quite troubling surge’’ in young children’s hospitalizations during the omicron wave, and noted 442 children under 4 have died during the pandemic. That’s far fewer than adult deaths, but should not be dismissed in considering the need for vaccinating the youngest kids, he said.
“Each child that’s lost essentially fractures a family,’’ Marks said.
FDA reviewers said both brands appear to be safe and effective for children as young as 6 months old in analyses posted ahead of the all-day meeting. Side effects, including fever and fatigue, were generally minor in both, and less common than seen in adults.
The two vaccines use the same technology but there are differences. In a call with reporters earlier this week, vaccine experts noted that the shots haven’t been tested against each other, so there’s no way to tell parents if one is superior.
“That is a really important point,”‘ said Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown University, a former FDA vaccine chief. “You can’t compare the vaccines directly.’’
If the FDA agrees with its advisers and authorizes the shots, there’s one more step. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will decide on a formal recommendation after its own advisers meet Saturday. If the CDC signs off, shots could be available as soon as Monday or Tuesday at doctor’s offices, hospitals and pharmacies..
Pfizer’s vaccine is for children 6 months through 4 years; Moderna’s vaccine is for 6 months through 5 years.
Moderna’s shots are one-quarter the dose of the company’s adult shots. Two doses appeared strong enough to prevent severe illness but only about 40% to 50% effective at preventing milder infections. Moderna has added a booster to its study and expects to eventually offer one.
Pfizer’s shots are just one-tenth its adult dose. Pfizer and partner BioNTech found that two shots didn’t provide enough protection in testing, so a third was added during the omicron wave.
Pfizer’s submitted data found no safety concerns and suggested that three shots were 80% effective in preventing symptomatic coronavirus infections. But that was based on just 10 COVID-19 cases; the calculation could change as more cases occur in the company’s ongoing studies.
The same FDA panel on Tuesday backed Moderna’s half-sized shots for ages 6 to 11 and full-sized doses for teens. If authorized by the FDA, it would be the second option for those age groups. Currently Pfizer vaccine is their only choice.
The nation’s vaccination campaign started in December 2020 with the rollout of adult vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, with health care workers and nursing home residents first in line. Teens and school-age children were added last year.
Moderna said in April that it is also seeking regulatory approval outside the U.S. for its little kid shots. According to the World Health Organization, 12 other countries already vaccinate kids under 5, with other brands.
In the U.S., it remains uncertain how many parents want their youngest vaccinated. While COVID-19 is generally less dangerous for young children than older kids and adults, there have been serious cases and some deaths. Many parents trying to keep unvaccinated tots safe have put off family trips or enrolling children in daycare or preschool.
Still, by some estimates, three-quarters of all children have already been infected. Only about 29% of children aged 5 to 11 have been vaccinated since Pfizer’s shots opened to them last November, a rate far lower than public health authorities consider ideal.
Dr. Nimmi Rajagopal, a family medicine physician at Cook County Health in Chicago, said she’s been preparing parents for months.
“We have some that are hesitant, and some that are just raring to go,’’ she said.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the U.S., gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to have it recognized as an official holiday in the states has largely stalled.
Although almost every state recognizes Juneteenth in some fashion, many have been slow to do more than issue a proclamation or resolution, even as some continue to commemorate the Confederacy.
Lawmakers in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and other states failed to advance proposals this year that would have closed state offices and given most of their public employees paid time off for the June 19 holiday.
That trend infuriates Black leaders and community organizers who view making Juneteenth a paid holiday the bare minimum state officials can do to help honor an often overlooked and ignored piece of American history.
“Juneteenth marks the date of major significance in American history. It represents the ways in which freedom for Black people have been delayed,” said Democratic Rep. Anthony Nolan, who is Black, while arguing in favor of making Juneteenth a paid holiday in Connecticut on the House floor. “And if we delay this, it’s a smack in the face to Black folks.”
Juneteenth commemorates when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War and about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Southern states.
Last year, Congress and President Joe Biden moved swiftly to make Juneteenth a national holiday. It was the first time the federal government had designated a new national holiday since approving Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Yet the move didn’t result in an automatic adoption from most states.
In Alabama, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey issued another proclamation marking Juneteenth a state holiday earlier this week after state lawmakers refused to take action on a bill during their legislative session even after she voiced strong support for making it a permanent holiday back in 2021. The state closes down for Confederate Memorial Days in April.
Similarly, Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon issued a statement last June saying he would work with lawmakers to make it a state holiday, but no legislation was filed during the 2022 session.
In Tennessee, Republican Gov. Bill Lee quietly tucked enough funding — roughly $700,000 — to make Juneteenth a state paid holiday in his initial spending plan for the upcoming year.
Despite the bill gaining traction in the state Senate, GOP legislative leaders maintained there wasn’t enough support for the idea even as Tennessee law currently designates special observances for Robert E. Lee Day, Confederate Decoration Day and Nathan Bedford Forrest Day.
“I asked many people in my district over the last few days, well over 100 people, if they knew what Juneteenth was and only two of them knew,” said Republican Sen. Joey Hensley, who is white and voted against the proposal. “I just think we’re putting the cart before the horse making a holiday that people don’t know about.”
In South Carolina, instead of working to approve Juneteenth as a holiday, Senate lawmakers unanimously advanced a bill that would allow state employees to choose any day they want to take off instead of the Confederate Memorial Day currently enshrined as a paid holiday in state law. However, the House sent the bill to a committee, where it died without a hearing when the Legislature adjourned for the session.
At the same time, many of these Republican-led areas have advanced bills limiting what can be taught about systematic racism in classrooms, while also spiking proposals aimed at expanding voting rights and police reform.
This year, nearly 20 states are expected to close state offices and give most of their public employees time off. At least six states officially adopted the holiday over the past few months, including Connecticut, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, South Dakota, Utah and Washington. A bill introduced in California passed the Assembly and moved to the Senate this month, and individual cities such as Los Angeles have already signed proclamations making Juneteenth official.
“Becoming a state holiday will not merely give employees a day off, it will also give residents a day to think about the future that we want, while remembering the inequities of the past,” said Democratic Del. Andrea Harrison, who sponsored the Juneteenth legislation in Maryland this year. “It will help us to reflect how far we’ve come as a nation, how much more we need to do as humankind.”
Attempts to give Juneteenth the same deference as Memorial Day or July Fourth didn’t begin to gain traction until 2020, when protests sparked a nationwide push to address race after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the deaths of other Black people by police officers.
“George Floyd protests against police brutality brought awareness to Juneteenth because there were people of all races learning about its significance for the first time following a public push to self-educate and learn more about Black history, culture and injustices,” said Tremaine Jasper, a resident and business owner in Phoenix who has attended Juneteenth celebrations across Arizona with his family.
Some cities in Arizona, including Phoenix, have declared Juneteenth an official holiday, paying city employees and closing municipal buildings. However, lawmakers are not currently considering statewide recognition.
“There are so many other important issues that we need to tackle — education, political issues, reparations — before we prioritize making Juneteenth a statewide holiday,” Jasper said, noting that those looking to celebrate know where to go.
Jasper, who was born and raised in Arizona, said it is going to be an “uphill battle” to get the state to recognize Juneteenth because there is not a large enough Black population outside of its largest cities to make the push.
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Kiwanis gets update on country’s largest wind farm
Kiwanis had special guest Kristi Sproul at its meeting Tuesday. Sproul works on external affairs for the renewal projects at the Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO). Sproul told Kiwanis members about Traverse, a 350-squaremile wind farm which stretches from north of Weatherford to Watonga. “The primary reason for starting this...
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Deserve to Win Podcast Episode 1: THE WOLF of the TCPA–Anthony Paronich [PODCAST]
Well folks I have been teasing this for long enough. Here it is–our first episode of Deserve to Win.
I think you’re going to love it.
We discuss:
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The huge changes to online disclosures imposed by Berman;
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The FTC being back to full strength;
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The FTC’s new earth shattering telemarketing record retention rules (is this constitutional?)
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Lead providers being chased for allegedly fraudulent leads in Mantha;
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CommerceBlock (CBT) traded flat against the US dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 15:00 PM E.T. on June 15th. Over the last seven days, CommerceBlock has traded flat against the US dollar. One CommerceBlock coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0153 or 0.00000064 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. CommerceBlock has a market cap of $2.67 million and $3,043.00 worth of CommerceBlock was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004534 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded down 0.7% against the dollar and now trades at $22,072.65 or 1.00050853 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 up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004534 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 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.50 or 0.00002266 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 11.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $7.20 or 0.00032634 BTC.
CommerceBlock Coin Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “CommerceBlock token was an ERC-20 token based on the Ethereum blockchain that powered the CommerceBlock platform. The platform will provide a combination of trust minimal trade, decentralised contract execution and on-chain derivatives allowing anyone to build and use financial products and services historically reserved for commercial banking customers. On September 2020, CommerceBlock announced the decision to migrate its CommerceBlock Token (CBT) from an ERC20 to an ERC1404 security token. This will result in the current CBT tokens exchanged for a new security token which will represent shares in CommerceBlock Holding Limited (CBH), a UK incorporated company which owns 100% of CommerceBlock Limited. CommerceBlock has retained Crowd For Angels(UK) Limited, an FCA regulated crowdfunding platform to facilitate the token swap, who has partnered alongside CommerceBlock on many projects, will be managing the token swap. “
CommerceBlock Coin Trading
It is usually not presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as CommerceBlock directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade CommerceBlock should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Gemini, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase CommerceBlock using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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The Black community has come a long way since the crack epidemic hit urban cities across the United States, upending families and destroying whole communities. But despite the advancements in the 50 years since, African Americans, and Black men, in particular, remain at the crossroads of the drug debate. According to a Pew Research Study released this year, a recent surge in drug overdose deaths has hit Black men the hardest. In Pennsylvania, a new $700,000 campaign by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, is driving Pennsylvanians to lifesaving harm reduction measures.
“The Wolf Administration remains steadfast in the fight against opioids and the campaign is another example of that commitment,” said Acting Secretary of Health Dr. Denise Johnson in a statement shared with EBONY. “We are working to do everything in our power to protect Pennsylvanians through awareness, education and support. By sharing real stories about real people right in our communities, we believe this media campaign will help tackle the stigma of addiction and promote the use of Naloxone to save lives.”
Naloxone is an FDA-approved medicine used to rapidly reverse an opioid overdose. Proponents of the new ad campaign believe that by promoting its use, the country can combat the overdose crisis actively taking place across the nation. “What we are experiencing in this country is largely preventable, and we know that making naloxone widely available is an effective strategy to reducing deaths,” said Daliah Heller, Director of Drug Use Initiatives at Vital Strategies.
The ad campaign spearheaded by the Department of Health in collaboration with Vital Strategies features Pennsylvanians touched by this crisis. Last year alone the state saw 5,168 people die from an overdose, and a research study conducted by Penn Medicine found that in 2020, opiate overdoses spiked in Black Philadelphians while dropping in white residents. According to the CDC, the United States as a whole saw nearly 92,000 Americans die of drug overdoses in 2020. And that figure was a 30 percent increase from the year before and a 75 percent increase over five years. Black men accounted for 54.1 fatal drug overdoses for every 100,000 Black men across the country, pointing to an alarming trend.
The $700,000 ad buy will run on TV and radio stations as well as streaming platforms like Hulu, and Pandora, and social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. The campaign is projected to have 44 million impressions.
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Why you’re happier if you make friends at work
By Claire Cohen
The idea of making friends at work is, when you think about it, deeply weird. You’re essentially being paid to pass hours on end with people you’d never have chosen to see more of than your own loved ones.
We spend anywhere between a quarter and a third of our adult lives at work, sitting beside – or interacting virtually with – our colleagues. They have a major impact on how we do our jobs and how we feel about them. Looking around the office now, I am surrounded by the people who dominate my daily life: co-workers I share tea runs, jokes and cakes with. Women I chat to in the loos. And yet, at any moment, wherever you work, those very people might be going for the same promotion, project or pay rise as you.
Little wonder that many of us are dubious about whether we should attempt to make friends at work. It can be uncomfortable to cross the rubicon from professional to personal. And it’s not, on the surface, the stuff that lasting friendships are made of.
I’ve certainly felt that way, unsure whether to share confidences and trust that they won’t reach the wrong ears. I’ve mistakenly assumed that just because I’m at a similar career stage, or age, to someone, that we would become pals, only to be rejected. I’ve found myself pitted against female colleagues – a victim of that outdated idea that only one woman can climb the ladder – and had to fight the sense of competition, not camaraderie, that settled between us. I moved in with someone I considered a work friend, only to find our bond was more superficial than I had imagined.
It can be a minefield. Yet the evidence suggests that we should be making friends at work and that there are greater benefits to doing so than just helping us get through the days. As Shasta Nelson, author of The Business of Friendship puts it: “Not all of us are sure we should be making friends at work. But we’re all happier when we do.”
“Not all of us are sure we should be making friends at work. But we’re all happier when we do.”
According to researcher Tom Rath, in his book Vital Friends, people who have three good work friends are 96 per cent more likely to report being “extremely satisfied” with life. A Gallup survey found that those of us with work friends are seven times more likely to fully engage in our jobs. While a poll by careers website Milkround in 2019 reported that almost half of us rate “practical and emotional support” as the benefit of workplace friendships.
The flipside is that, without work friends, we can feel isolated and unmotivated. In 2018, a Totaljobs poll found that 60 per cent of people felt lonely in work compared to their personal lives, with as many as a quarter having actually quit because of friendlessness.
So many of our fledgling workplace friendships are born out of difficulty, with colleagues bonding over horrible bosses, or the unique pressures of your industry. They can be someone with whom you rant, plot and celebrate – and who can make work feel just a little less like work.
But to take that everyday rubbing-along to the next level can feel daunting. When I was researching my new book on female friendship, several women told me how nervous they had been asking a workmate to meet up at the weekend – would they want to see you for a sixth day in a row? One woman, who was temping in an office, recalled trying to advance a friendship there. “I got on well with one woman but we’d only ever have chats by the watercooler,” she said. “Then one day, I called her in the evening. She said, ‘What is it?’ and I replied, ‘I just called to say hi.’ And she was like ‘But why?’ We laugh about it now because she became one of my closest friends.”
Being deliberate in that way, thinks Shasta, is part of getting serious about work friends. She cites three key elements that all workplace friendships need to thrive: positivity, so friendship makes you feel good and supported; consistency, you put in the time; and vulnerability, you can share who you really are (although, she adds, we “want to be mindful that we’re not using other people just to feel better ourselves”).
“Almost every workplace friend is not someone we would have chosen out of a line-up,” Shasta says. “We chose them because we saw them regularly. We were paid to interact and the consistency happened. And then we bonded with the people we were seeing regularly, who we felt like we got to know and who left us feeling good.”
With work friends, as with our “real life” ones, it’s shared values, emotional trigger points and a sense of humour that help to bind women together. These are the commonalities that, over time, can elevate a colleague-level bond to a friendship one – the qualities around which you’d hope to establish a connection that goes beyond a superficial, “How was your weekend?”
I have made close friends through my job. I’ve been to their weddings and am godparent to their children. But I’ve also had fleeting work friendships with women to whom I was close for a certain period, or specific reason – and that’s OK as long as you both feel the same way about it.
Woman’s Hour presenter Emma Barnett told me about a work friend whom she met at a random networking event and got talking to about her gruelling fertility treatment. “She was the only person I could bear to tell about my IVF at the time, because she didn’t know me,” says Emma. “She’s in my phone as ‘IVF fairy’ because I don’t even know her real name. But she used to send me texts to encourage me during the process.”
Too often, we are still encouraged to compete with one another, particularly in male-dominated environments when it can suit those in power to keep us down.
I love that you can make a work connection and have it play such an important role in a deeply personal part of your life – a friendship that lasts for a moment in time, but which is no less meaningful. It’s something Emma now tries to pass on, offering advice and support to others: “Through that I’ve met some lovely women and stayed in touch,” she adds.
The idea that you should befriend every woman you meet through work is something that could benefit us all, instead of seeing her as a rival. Too often, we are still encouraged to compete with one another, particularly in male-dominated environments when it can suit those in power to keep us down. But just because we can be put in that position by others, it doesn’t mean we don’t also do it to ourselves.
Jealousy is one of the last taboos in female friendship. We’ve all felt it – that little lurch of envy when a pal tells you about her success. If you’ve made a lot of work friends over the years, it can be even tougher as you might share goals in the same industry.
In an episode of my female friendship podcast, author and journalist Daisy Buchanan tells me that she envies the success of a work friend she met while freelancing early in her career. “You’re both on WhatsApp moaning about unpaid invoices – and then suddenly your friend isn’t facing the same struggles,” she says. “[I am] in a constant state of comparing and despairing. I don’t hate her, I’m not angry with her, but I feel nauseous with the shame of not being her.”
So what can help? If you’re the more “successful” friend – aware of having achieved an enviable career goal – it can help to paint a full picture, good and bad, so your work friends know that it’s not Instagram glossy and perfect all the time. While the envious friend should ideally admit how they feel - something Daisy did, and over which her pal was really moved and reacted kindly.
It’s also wise to stop focusing on your work friend and look in the mirror (something none of us likes to do). What do your feelings about their success say about your own ambitions? What’s your next move? Might you even be able to help one another?
It’s when you can form a relationship based on mutual support, reciprocity, honesty and enjoyment that true friendship can blossom. Work isn’t another country – our real lives play out there, too: success, failure, disappointment, joy. And to find someone who makes all that seem better, both professionally and personally, is what you’re aiming for. And friends, believe me, it can work.
BFF? The Truth About Female Friendship by Claire Cohen is out on June 23. Her podcast is called BFF? with Claire Cohen.
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PRAGUE (AP) — Russia's invasion of Ukraine and what Europe must do to counter the consequences of that have become the key task for the Czech Republic’s upcoming presidency of the 27-nation European Union.
The Czech Republic’s motto for the six-month presidency, which it takes over from France on July 1, is “Europe as a Task: rethink, rebuild, repower,” based on a 1996 speech by the late Czech President Vaclav Havel.
“Europe and the whole world have been undergoing a crucial change,” Prime Minister Petr Fiala said Wednesday as he introduced his country's priorities. “The Russian invasion have shaken many our certainties.”
The country has pledged to use the rotating presidency of the Council, which sets and moderates the EU’s political agenda, to help Ukraine in all possible ways. The Czechs are among Eastern European countries that warmly support speeding up Ukraine’s EU membership bid.
“We have two concrete goals," Fiala told the Czech Parliament. “The first one is to grant Ukraine a candidacy status as soon as possible … and the second one is our support for the toughest possible sanctions against Russia.”
More than 7.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russian troops invaded on Feb. 24 and another 8 million are displaced within the country, the U.N. refugee agency says. This has created the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
The Czech presidency will work together with the European Commission, the EU's executive body, to provide assistance to nations most affect by the influx of Ukrainians, including Poland, Romania and Hungary. Over 375,000 Ukrainians, mostly women and children, have registered in the Czech Republic to receive a special long-term visas that give them access to jobs and health care.
Looking ahead, the Czech's ultimate hope is to host a summit in Prague of European leaders on Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attending in person. That is not happening anytime soon, with fierce fighting raging along a front line that Zelenskyy says is now 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) long.
In another key item, the Czechs want the EU to “drastically reduce its dependence on hostile or unstable regimes.” That goal sets up a potential clash with European heavyweights such as Germany and Italy who are much more dependent than other EU nations on Russian energy imports, especially natural gas.
The Czech Republic, like France, is heavily dependent on nuclear power and is planning to build more nuclear reactors to "ensure the EU’s energy security and meet the EU’s climate goals.” Another Czech goal, the promotion of voluntary joint purchases of gas, might be more suitable for reaching a compromise among the EU nations.
Russia’s Gazprom announced a reduction in natural gas flows through a key European pipeline for the second day in a row Wednesday, creating further energy turmoil for Europe.
The Czechs also want to reinforce Europe’s defense capabilities, in cooperation with NATO, on the fight against disinformation and on cybersecurity.
Bringing down high inflation and boosting the resilience of the European economy also feature among the Czech priorities. Inflation in the eurozone soared to 8.1% in May and jumped to 16% in the Czech Republic, which doesn’t use the euro currency shared by 19 EU nations.
Fiala said such inflation “is a direct consequence of Putin’s war against the Western world.”
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Stocks rally after Fed’s big rate hike to fight inflation
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in roller-coaster trading on Wall Street Wednesday following the Federal Reserve’s sharpest hike to interest rates since 1994, and its assurance that such mega-hikes would not be common.
The S&P 500 was 1.3% higher in afternoon trading after several sudden moves up and down immediately after the Fed’s announcement. Treasury yields were sharply lower but also jerked up and down as investors struggled to digest the third interest-rate hike of the year and what Chair Jerome Powell said about future moves.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average swung between a gain of 530 points and a loss of nearly 180 before sitting on a gain of 344 points, as of 3 p.m. Eastern time. It was up 1.1% at 30,709, while the Nasdaq composite was 2.5% higher.
The Fed hiked its key short-term interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point, triple the usual move, in its quest to beat back high inflation. Powell said the Fed may consider an increase of either half a point or three-quarters of a point at its next meeting in July before increases may fall back to more normal amounts.
“The Fed is serious about inflation,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. “Instead of trying to let it naturally fall they want to give it a good shove even if it means slowing growth” for the economy.
Investments around the world, from bonds to bitcoin, have tumbled this year as high inflation forces the Federal Reserve and other central banks to swiftly remove supports propped underneath markets early in the pandemic. The fear is that too-aggressive hikes in interest rates will force the economy into a recession.
The Fed is “not tying to induce a recession now, let’s be clear about that,” Powell said. He said Wednesday’s big increase was about the Fed speeding up the move to get interest rates back to normal more than anything, calling it “front-end loading.”
Even if central banks pull off the delicate trick of slowing the economy just enough to stamp out inflation, without a recession, higher interest rates push down on prices for investments regardless. The hardest-hit have been the investments that soared the most in the easy-money era of ultralow interest rates, including high-growth technology stocks and cryptocurrencies.
Treasury yields have shot to their highest levels in more than a decade on expectations for a more aggressive Fed, though they eased Wednesday following Powell’s comments. A disappointing report showing that sales at U.S. retailers unexpectedly slumped in May from April contributed. So did a weaker-than-expected report on manufacturing in New York state.
The economy is still largely holding up amid a red-hot job market, but it has shown some signs of distress recently. A preliminary reading on consumer sentiment last week, for example, sank to its lowest reading on record due in large part to high gasoline prices.
The two-year Treasury yield fell to 3.26% from 3.45% late Tuesday, with the biggest move happening after Powell said not to expect 0.75 percentage point rate hikes to be common. The yield on the 10-year Treasury pulled back to 3.36% from 3.48%.
“The bond market right now is driving the broader market and that will continue,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors.
Cryptocurrency prices continued to sink, and bitcoin dropped as low as $20,087.90, nearly 71% below its record of $68,990.90 set late last year. It was down 2.2% at $21,652 in afternoon trading, according to CoinDesk.
Its tumble has worsened as investors ramp up their expectations for how aggressively the Fed will move on interest rates.
A week ago, almost no one was expecting a hike of three-quarters of a percentage point. But a stunning report on Friday sent shudders through markets when it showed inflation at the consumer level unexpectedly accelerated last month.
It dashed hopes on Wall Street that inflation may have already peaked, and the data seemingly pinned the Federal Reserve into having to get more aggressive. The Fed has gotten criticism for moving too slowly earlier to rein in inflation. Other central banks around the world are also raising interest rates, adding to the pressure.
Japan’s central bank has kept rates near record lows. That has caused the yen to fall to two-decade lows against the U.S. dollar as traders shift capital in search of higher returns.
The war in Ukraine has helped send prices for oil soaring because the region is a major producer of energy. COVID infections in China, meanwhile, have led to the closure of factories and disrupted supply chains.
It all helped pull the S&P 500 down more than 20% from its record set in early January, putting Wall Street into what investors call a bear market.
Markets were more relaxed Wednesday, with stocks climbing across Europe and some of Asia.
Germany’s DAX returned 1.4%, and the French CAC 40 rose 1.3% after the European Central Bank called an unscheduled meeting to address worries that rising interest rates will cause turmoil in the continent’s bond market. The central bank did not give a detailed plan, but it said it would act if needed against “fragmentation” as yields for some European countries’ bonds rise much more than for others.
Stocks in Shanghai gained 0.5% after government data showed Chinese factory activity rebounded in May as anti-virus controls that shut down businesses in Shanghai and other industrial centers eased. Stocks in Seoul and Tokyo, though, fell more than 1%.
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AP Business Writers Damian J. Troise and Joe McDonald contributed.
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More pain at the pump: Nationwide average for gallon of gas tops $5
The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline broke the $5 barrier for the first time, AAA said Saturday,
According to the automobile club’s website, the price of regular unleaded gas stood at $5.004. That marked the 15th consecutive day of record highs, CNN reported.
OPIS, an energy-data and analytics provider, said the record high was set as U.S. consumer inflation hit its highest level in 40 years and crude oil prices remain high, The Wall Street Journal reported. Energy costs rose by 3.9% from April to May, according to The Washington Post. Overall, energy prices have jumped by 35% since last year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a report that was released Friday. Inflation rose to 8.6% in May, the highest rate in 40 years.
The national average price for gasoline has risen 19 cents in the past week and is $1.93 higher than it was at this time last year, The Associated Press reported.
According to AAA, California has the highest average price, at $6.43 -- up from $5.85 last month -- while Mississippi has the lowest average at $4.52.
For consumers buying higher-grade gasoline, the prices have also soared. The average for mid-grade stood at $5.371 per gallon, according to AAA. Premium gasoline was at $5.666 per gallon and diesel topped $5.765.
GasBuddy, which also tracks gasoline prices, put the national average for regular unleaded at $5.01.
Shenetha James, a mother of four children in Jackson, Mississippi, said she has not seen her eldest daughter, who lives 700 miles away in North Carolina, since Christmas due to high gas prices.
“It’s been kind of hard not being able to really be there,” James told The Wall Street Journal. “We’ve got to manage this gas to get from one pay period to another.”
While the $5 average was reached for the first time nationally, it is not a record when inflation is taken into account, the AP reported. Gas peaked at $4.11 a gallon in July 2008, which would be the equivalent of $5.40 a gallon today.
Americans typically drive more starting around Memorial Day, increasing the demand for gasoline, according to the AP. Global oil prices are rising in part because of sanctions against Russia since it invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Sanctions against Russia have compounded the problem.
“People are still fueling up, despite these high prices,” Andrew Gross, a spokesman at AAA, told The Wall Street Journal. “At some point, drivers may change their daily driving habits or lifestyle due to these high prices, but we are not there yet.”
A barrel of crude oil topped $120 a barrel, according to CNN. The price was less than $100 last month.
The demand for gas continues to rise, and the cost of a gallon of gasoline could rise even higher this summer.
“Anything goes from June 20 to Labor Day,” Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for OPIS, told CNN. “Come hell or high gas prices, people are going to take vacations.”
That includes Chris Stevenson, 24, of New Jersey, who said he is going to ignore the higher prices for as long as possible.
“I don’t care about the gas. I’m doing a lot of trips,” Stevenson told The Wall Street Journal while filling up at a New York City station on Friday, where the average price was $5.18 on Friday. “It’s summertime, so you know, we have to be outside.”.
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(The Hill) — An outside Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Wednesday unanimously recommended the agency grant emergency use authorization to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years.
The agency’s vaccine advisers voted 21-0 to recommend the agency authorize the vaccine.
An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet this weekend to issue its own recommendation. If the panel votes in the affirmative and the CDC director signs off, children could start to get vaccinated next week.
Moderna’s two-dose mRNA vaccine is intended to be administered four weeks apart, and is one quarter the strength of an adult dose.
The FDA previously said the vaccines are safe and effective, though the vaccine did not perform very well in preventing symptomatic disease, mainly against the omicron variant.
Moderna found its vaccine was 51 percent effective in preventing symptomatic infection in children 6 months to 2 years old, and 37 percent effective in children 2 through 5.
The panel will vote on recommending Pfizer’s vaccine later this afternoon.
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World Central Kitchen Just Took Another Devastating Hit In Ukraine
Chef, restaurant owner and humanitarian Jose Andres announced on Instagram today that a train headed for his World Central Kitchen (WCK) outpost in Eastern Ukraine was hit with a Russian missile, destroying a wagon of food but not causing any casualties. The attack marked the second time in which the relief organization has been struck by Russian forces since their military invaded Ukraine on February 24. On April 15, a Russian missile hit a WCK restaurant partner in the city of Kharkiv, sending four staff members to the hospital with burn injuries and, according to The New York Times, killing two civilians.
WCK mobilized units in the region the day after Russian Vladimir Putin declared a special military operation and rained missiles down on Ukraine, initially displacing an estimated 100,000 people (via Reuters). Millions have since become refugees, often traveling for days at a time without food, as attacks on ports and border cities have caused massive supply chain disruptions leading to shortages within and outside of Ukraine. In April 2022, The United Nations estimated that 13 million more people are trapped in "the hardest-hit areas," incapable of leaving and inaccessible to aid workers. Kelly Clements, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, credited neighboring countries for opening their borders and volunteering food, transportation, medicine, and shelter amid the worsening humanitarian crisis.
Jose Andres's WCK once again shows resolve, resilience after Russian attack
"This won't stop us," Jose Andres wrote on Instagram, announcing the latest Russian attack, today, on a train car carrying food supplies that were headed to a World Central Kitchen (WCK) center in Eastern Ukraine. "Our amazing Ukrainian WCK teams will keep feeding the people!" Commenters were quick to voice their support for Andres's relief efforts, writing messages like, "May you all be blessed for your determination in helping and feeding the hungry wonderful people of Ukraine." According to WCK, "mobilizing teams of cooks in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, Spain, and Germany," the organization has served more than 44 million meals in more than 4,000 distribution locations, working in collaboration with restaurant partners, food trucks and other local food purveyors.
Triple Pundit reports WCK has become "the largest food relief operation in Ukraine," supplementing fresh meals with "grocery kits, shelf-stable packs, and meal vouchers," just as the organization has done in areas around the world since it was founded by Andres in 2010. The extraordinary story of Andres's humanitarian mission and the history of WCK is the subject of a documentary film by Ron Howard, "We Feed People," which premiered May 27 on Disney+. | https://www.mashed.com/896969/world-central-kitchen-just-took-another-devastating-hit-in-ukraine/ | 2022-06-15T20:19:33Z | https://www.mashed.com/896969/world-central-kitchen-just-took-another-devastating-hit-in-ukraine/ | false | 1 |
(NEXSTAR) – An umpire at Tuesday’s Angels-Dodgers game was forced to leave in the last inning after he was struck in the face by a broken bat.
Umpire Nate Tomlinson was behind home plate when LA Angels slugger Mike Trout shattered his bat after smacking the ball into the outfield. Images show a piece of the splintered bat catching Tomlinson in the face, right between the bars of his mask.
Trout, initially unsure of what to do, eventually ran to first base. The game was delayed while Tomlinson was attended to.
Tomlinson eventually walked off the field, and was replaced for the remainder of the game by second-base umpire Laz Diaz.
Images taken after Tomlinson’s injury show blood near his right eye. Tomlinson was also seen holding a towel to his nose.
“Never seen that in the mask,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts remarked of the incident after the game, which the Dodgers won 2-0. “That was really scary.”
The Dodgers play the Angels again Wednesday night.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.wnct.com/sports/mlb/umpire-at-angels-dodgers-game-injured-after-shattered-bat-hits-him-in-the-face/ | 2022-06-15T20:19:38Z | https://www.wnct.com/sports/mlb/umpire-at-angels-dodgers-game-injured-after-shattered-bat-hits-him-in-the-face/ | true | 23 |
Fallout 76 Gives Some Players a Head Start in Season 9
Fallout 76 has finally made the jump from Bethesda's launcher to the all-encompassing Steam to give PC players one central place through which they can play the game. This move followed an announcement from Bethesda which said its proprietary launcher would be shut down in May 2022, though even if you didn't migrate your account by that time, you could still do so later to keep playing. If you did move over your account before May, however, you've got some rewards coming your way that should show up in the next day or so.
Those rewards are tied to Season 9 which just started this week in Fallout 76. For those who moved their accounts over from Bethesda's launcher to Steam prior to the cutoff in May, you'll get 10 rank-ups on the "Scoreboard" which serves as Fallout 76's version of a battle pass. You do have to claim the rewards, however, but that's something done in a matter of seconds.
"We realize that having to do the 'paperwork; of moving your account from one platform to another is not much fun, and that you'd much rather spend that time perfecting your C.A.M.P. or hunting for legendary items," Bethesda said previously when detailing how the Bethesda-to-Steam transition would go down. "And so, we'd like to show our appreciation to everyone who makes the effort to migrate between April 27 and May 11 by awarding you 10 rank-ups on the Season 9 Scoreboard. These gift ranks will be applied shortly after the start of Season 9 in June. We hope you will enjoy the free rewards, just don't forget to claim them from the Scoreboard itself!"
#Fallout76 PC players:
— Fallout (@Fallout) June 14, 2022
If you migrated to Steam by May 11, your bonus rank-ups for Season 9 will be available within the next two days. pic.twitter.com/UV1202NIws
Rewards 2-10 from the Season 9 Scoreboard can be found below to show what you'll get for your thoughtful migration timing:
Fallout 76's First Season 9 Rewards
- Dread Island Skull Player Icon
- Scrap Kit x3
- Valut-Tec Supply Crate (Level 3)
- Green Moulded Carpet Floor and Foundations
- Skull Flair
- Lunchboxes x3
- Industrial Floodlight
- Legendary Modules x3
- Atoms – 150
This gives PC players a nice head start in Season 9, but no such rewards are coming to console players since they didn't have to move anywhere. | https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/fallout-76-season-9-pc-xbox-playstation/ | 2022-06-15T20:22:01Z | https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/fallout-76-season-9-pc-xbox-playstation/ | true | 1 |
Ghana has been rewarded $50,000 as prize money for finishing in third place at the 2022 edition of the four-nation Kirin Cup Soccer invitational in Japan.
Having suffered a defeat in their opening game against the host country, the Black Stars defeated South Americans Chile 3-1 on penalties after a draw in regulation time in a third place decider held at the Panasonic Stadium in Osaka Tuesday morning with nine players.
Goalkeeper Manaf Nurudeen emerged the hero with two spot-kick saves for Ghana who finished the 90 minutes with nine men following second half red cards to defender Alidu Sediu and midfielder Mubarak Wakaso.
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Ghana opened the tournament with a 4-1 defeat to hosts Japan on Friday, June 10.
Meanwhile, Tunisia thrashed Japan 3-0 in the final and pocketed $250,000 as prize money.
The competition served as preparations for the Black Stars ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be staged in Qatar. | https://www.adomonline.com/ghana-pockets-50000-for-participating-in-2022-kirin-cup/ | 2022-06-15T20:23:31Z | https://www.adomonline.com/ghana-pockets-50000-for-participating-in-2022-kirin-cup/ | true | 1 |
By Shalini Bhardwaj
New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): The air pollution study at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in India (EPIC India) on Wednesday said that more than 63 per cent of India's population lives in areas that exceed the national air quality standard of 40 micrograms per metre cube.
Residents of Uttar Pradesh could add more than 8 years to their life expectancy if they breathed cleaner air that met the latest WHO guidelines.
According to the EPIC-India's bio, it works hand-in-hand with government leaders to implement large-scale, pioneering projects in the nine states of the country, such that they could become models for the rest of the world.
Also Read | Mumbai: BEST To Add ‘Home Reach’ Option to Its App To Ensure Safety of Women Passengers.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) new guidelines recommend the air quality levels for 6 pollutants, where evidence has advanced the most on health effects from exposure. When action is taken on these so-called classical pollutants - particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon monoxide (CO), it also has an impact on other damaging pollutants.
"The health risks associated with particulate matter equal or smaller than 10 and 2.5 microns (um) in diameter (PM10 and PM2.5, respectively) are of particular public health relevance. Both PM2.5 and PM10 are capable of penetrating deep into the lungs but PM2.5 can even enter the bloodstream, primarily resulting in cardiovascular and respiratory impacts, and also affecting other organs. PM is primarily generated by fuel combustion in different sectors, including transport, energy, households, industry, and agriculture. In 2013, outdoor air pollution and particulate matter were classified as carcinogenic by WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)," the new guidelines suggest.
The guidelines also highlight good practices for the management of certain types of particulate matter (for example, black carbon/elemental carbon, ultrafine particles, and particles originating from sand and dust storms) for which there is currently insufficient quantitative evidence to set air quality guideline levels. They are applicable to both outdoor and indoor environments globally and cover all settings.
Emphasizing the need to pay attention to the climate change in the Air Pollution Study at EPIC India on Wednesday, the Pulmonologist of Fortis Hospital Dr Richa Sareen said that air pollution is a menace in India, especially in the Delhi- National Capital Region (NCR) and tier 1 cities of the country.
There are as many as tier -1/metropolitan cities in India-- Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, and Pune.
"Air pollution is a menace in India, specifically in the Delhi NCR region and tier 1 cities. Air pollution increases the risk of respiratory infections, including coronavirus. Prolonged exposure to air pollution increases the risk of Asthma, Emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and Lung Cancer even in the non-smokers," said Dr Richa Sareen.
"Polluted air is not conducive for the growth of young children and pregnant females. Air pollution exposure also predisposes to heart diseases and stroke. So it has a negative impact on the health of individuals who are exposed to it on daily basis and might even be reducing the life expectancy," she added.
Chairman of the Institute of Liver, Gastroenterology and Pancreaticobiliary Sciences at Sir Gangaram hospital, Dr Anil Arora, also remarked on the Air Pollution Study that it is the biggest threat to humankind.
"Air pollution is the biggest threat to the humankind because of the increasing concentration of Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5, especially in the thickly populated northern parts of India as it has been shown to have more detrimental and unsparing effects on the longevity of life as the deleterious effects are far more glaring than even smoking, alcohol consumption, and road traffic accidents," he said.
"It shortens the lifespan from an average of 2.5 years to ten years by causing and aggravating a multitude of problems like Asthma, Lung Cancer, Ventricular Hypertrophy, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, Psychological complications, Autism, Retinopathy, Fetal growth, and low birth weight etc. It's high time we heed the climate change warning sincerely before it is too late," he added. (ANI)
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The trial against Eric Holder, the man accused of shooting and killing Nipsey Hussle, is about to commence, and the jury has been selected according to Los Angeles’ ABC News affiliate. The jurors were sworn in on Monday, with the six alternate jurors chosen on Tuesday should any of the originals need to be replaced. The jury will hear opening statements today.
The trial has been a long time coming, with multiple delays due to COVID-19, Holder’s own stubbornness, and changes to personnel including the assigned judge and Holder’s defense lawyer. Holder pled not guilty to one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and one count of felony possession of a firearm in the case back in 2019.
Holder was accused of murdering the Los Angeles rapper in front of his Marathon Clothing store on the corner of the streets Nipsey avidly affirmed in his music: Crenshaw and Slauson. Prosecutors say that Nipsey and Holder had a disagreement, and Holder returned to the store, firing with two handguns, hitting Nipsey and a pair of bystanders. Nipsey was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Nipsey Hussle is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group. | https://uproxx.com/music/nipsey-hussle-murder-trial-jury-selected/ | 2022-06-15T20:23:42Z | https://uproxx.com/music/nipsey-hussle-murder-trial-jury-selected/ | true | 1 |
Follow the Brazilian Série A live Football match between Botafogo and São Paulo with Eurosport. The match starts at 20:00 on 16 June 2022.
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Conversation with Craig Melvin of 'Today' Show, Article on What It Means to Raise Free Black Children, Story on Juneteenth Traditions of Black Families Around the U.S., Among Other Features, Debut on Kindred By Parents Today
NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dotdash Meredith's Parents announces the official debut of Kindred, a first-of-its-kind digital destination and community created for the parents and caregivers who are raising the next generation of free Black children, providing a safe place for empathetically sharing wisdom and solutions-based news, and honoring the parenting cultures and familial traditions of previous generations.
Kelly Glass, Editorial Director of Kindred by Parents, said, "Culturally, we parent differently, and we do family differently. There's so much nuance in the Black family experience that parenting publications don't capture. Kindred is filling that gap. We're also inviting the entire village of people into the fold because we know firsthand how important the aunties, the grandparents, and those key figures in Black families are to the lives of Black children. All of us who take seriously the responsibility to raise Black children with a radical sense of freedom and joy are going to find community here in the news, stories, and experiences we share on Kindred."
With more than 175 articles and features available now and new content created daily, Kindred by Parents centers and celebrates the voices and experiences of Black families from a multitude of communities. Kindred by Parents reports news and covers topics through an intersectional lens, highlighting stories from Black parents; providing ideas, solutions and practical advice from experts in their fields; and offering lifestyle features that honor Black cultures and traditions while carving paths for new ones.
New features debuting on Kindred by Parents today include:
- What Does It Mean to Raise Free Black Children?
- The Juneteenth Traditions of Black Families Around the U.S.
- The Policy Changes That Would Really Make Black Families Free, According to Experts
- Do Black Families Still Live In Multigenerational Households?
- Black Girls Are Stereotyped By Their Natural Hair, New Study Confirms
- 'Today' Show's Craig Melvin Says Reconciling with His Dad Helped Him Break Unhealthy Parenting Patterns
Kindred by Parents has four original video series created by Senior Video Producer, Kareema B. Partin, with episodes that are available on parents.com, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook:
- Kickback with Kindred: In this interview series, Kelly Glass and members of the Kindred team have real conversations with people from all walks of life to discuss the Black family experience. Interviews have featured Garcelle Beauvais, Jaime Foxx, Anthony Anderson, and Kyla Pratt, among many others.
- We Live & We Learn: In this series, Black family members across generations unpack a parenting topic and connect with and learn from each other in a sometimes light-hearted yet always meaningful way. See an episode here: The Family Dinner Is Back, But the Tradition Looks a Little Different for Black Families These Days.
- Our Family Portrait: This docu-series follows the vibrant lives of Black families seen through an atypical lens. The first episode is titled "Black People Will Swim: Meet the Lamoniers."
- Dear (Expert): In each episode, an expert from a given field answers the concerns of Black parents. Episodes include: Anti-Racist Birth Work Is Key In Changing Birth Outcomes for Black Birthing People, For Black Parents, Deciding on Therapy For a Child Can Be Difficult, and How To Advocate for School Accommodations for Black Children, among others.
Kindred by Parents is on Instagram and YouTube and has a digital newsletter. To learn more, check out this introductory video and Q&A with Kelly Glass.
ABOUT PARENTS
Parents is by your side for the big life decisions and memory-making moments—to lighten the load and provide you with trustworthy advice and a supportive community as you raise the next generation of confident and compassionate kids. Parents is part of the Dotdash Meredith publishing family.
ABOUT KELLY GLASS
Kelly Glass is Editorial Director of Kindred by Parents, the newly launched digital destination and community from Dotdash Meredith dedicated to Black families. A first-of-its-kind offering, Kindred centers the village of people raising the next generation of free Black children. Before joining the Parents team to lead Kindred, Kelly was contributing editor for Romper and Parents. A respected editor and journalist, Kelly has reported stories for a range of notable media outlets over the years, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic and Men's Health. She's also planned and guest edited in-depth Parents series such as American Birth Story and the award-winning series Anti-Racist Curriculum. She's also the author of the young adult racial literacy book Looking at Power and Privilege. Kelly is a founding co-chair of the Parenting Journalists Society, a member of the NPR Illinois advisory board, and resides in Illinois with her two children and their rescue dog, Winston.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
8-7-4-5
(eight, seven, four, five)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
8-7-4-5
(eight, seven, four, five) | https://www.registercitizen.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Midday-game-17244057.php | 2022-06-15T20:26:14Z | https://www.registercitizen.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Midday-game-17244057.php | false | null |
Michigan State’s hockey program is headed in a new direction with the hiring of Adam Nightingale as the new headman in East Lansing. Nightingale will look to make an immediate impact at MSU in year one, taking over a team that finished the 2021-22 season with a record of 12-23-1.
The Spartans now have their non-conference schedule finalized and know who they will have to take on in the 2022-23 campaign outside of the Big Ten.
MSU’s non-conference schedule will feature the United States National Development Team, Bowling Green, UMass Lowel, Long Island, Miami and the Great Lakes Invitational tournament.
Get these dates into your calendar! Our non-conference schedule is now officially on the books! pic.twitter.com/FiRsGX2Zj3
— Michigan State Hockey (@MSU_Hockey) June 15, 2022
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lambert, a public relations, investor relations, and integrated communications agency, today announced that Paige Wirth has joined the company as Senior Director. In this newly created company position, Wirth is responsible for expanding Lambert's client service capabilities in marketing and content strategy.
"I'm excited to welcome Paige to our team, as her depth and breadth of marketing experience significantly strengthens our capabilities and commitment to providing our clients with integrated communications support," stated Lambert CEO Michelle Olson, APR. "Our growing client base will benefit from her expertise driving complex, multi-million-dollar national marketing campaigns across multiple platforms."
In her new role, Wirth will expand Lambert's marketing as a service offering and maximize current firm capabilities in market research, digital marketing, and creative design. She also oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm's client-facing marketing and content strategy teams. Lambert has always focused on driving value for clients through expert storytelling while creating the right visibility, at the right time, with the right message. The firm's investment in building its marketing service line bolsters this approach to exceed client expectations now and into the future.
Wirth joins Lambert with more than 10 years of experience leading and executing multimillion-dollar product launches, integrated marketing campaigns, and strategic brand initiatives during her tenure with global creative agencies and other public-private organizations. She most recently led strategic marketing efforts for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), the state's marketing arm and lead advocate for business development, job awareness, and community development. As Director of Marketing, Wirth supported MEDC programming goals, leading a multidisciplinary team in the execution of advertising, content marketing, digital marketing, sponsorships, experiential marketing, and more. Before that, she spent five years at the marketing firm Anthem Worldwide (now SGK), working on the Kellogg's account portfolio. She also held positions with Refuel, a national media and marketing services agency. Wirth earned her bachelor's degree in integrated public relations and advertising from Central Michigan University.
"Paige will be instrumental as we build our marketing operations to align with our known industry prowess in public relations and investor relations," stated Don Hunt, president at Lambert. "Over the years, our capabilities have evolved beyond earned media to cover shared, paid, and owned content platforms. As such, expanding our strategic marketing services is a natural progression to further client success."
About Lambert
Founded in 1998, Lambert invented the PR and IR integrated agency model with over 20 years of continuous growth attributed to the firm's laser focus on strategic communications and bottom-line results in the achievement of client goals. The award-winning national agency is a top-40 PR and top-15 IR firm with top-5 specialties in automotive and mobility, education, and M&A/private equity, alongside robust practice areas in consumer packaged goods, healthcare and biotech, and tourism and hospitality. The firm's reach spans six major talent hubs, including Grand Rapids, Detroit, New York, St. Louis, Houston, and Phoenix. Lambert is a founding partner of TiiCKER, a shareholder loyalty, marketing and perks platform, and an equity partner in minority-owned independent marketing agency 9th Wonder. Lambert's Founder and Chairman Jeff Lambert is the global board chair of PROI Worldwide, the world's largest and most diverse partnership of PR firms, and named 2021 Ally of the Year, the top diversity award in public relations issued by Diversity Action Alliance.
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WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Dr. Anthony Fauci, 81, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms, the National Institutes of Health said Wednesday.
Fauci is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice, the NIH said. He is currently isolating while working from home and has not recently been in close contact with President Joe Biden or other top government officials.
Fauci has been the face of the U.S.'s response to COVID-19 since 2020. He is Biden’s chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He was a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force under former President Donald Trump.
The NIH said Fauci is following CDC guidelines and his doctor's advice.
Fauci's positive COVID test comes two days after U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra again tested positive for COVID-19, less than a month after he came down with virus symptoms while on a trip to Germany.
Becerra woke up with symptoms again Monday morning and tested positive afterward, spokeswoman Sarah Lovenheim said.
His symptoms are mild and he is isolating in Sacramento, California. Lovenheim said Becerra had been in California for a “personal commitment.”
The Associated Press contributed. | https://www.wtol.com/article/news/nation-world/fauci-tests-positive-covid-19/507-b06f758e-545c-46b3-aa5b-2cbdd26967c1 | 2022-06-15T20:29:35Z | https://www.wtol.com/article/news/nation-world/fauci-tests-positive-covid-19/507-b06f758e-545c-46b3-aa5b-2cbdd26967c1 | false | 10 |
Justin Bieber is on the mend. During a Wednesday (June 15) appearance on Good Morning America, Hailey Bieber gave an update on how her pop star husband is doing amid his battle with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which caused paralysis to one side of his face.
“He’s doing really well. He is getting better every single day,” Hailey told GMA. “He’s feeling a lot better, and obviously it was just a very scary and random situation to happen, but he’s going to be totally OK and I’m just grateful that he’s fine.”
The 25-year-old model added, “The support has been very amazing, just from fans, friends, family … Every single person has sent well wishes, advice, recommendations. It’s actually been really amazing.”
Justin provided fans with an update of his own in a June 13 Instagram Story, in which he noted that his spirituality has been instrumental in his recovery. “Wanted to share a little bit of how I’ve been feelin,” the singer wrote in a text post. “Each day has gotten better and through all of the discomfort I have found comfort in the one who designed me and knows me.”
The “Peaches” singer first first revealed his diagnosis on June 10 via Instagram video, and shared that he had “full paralysis” on one side of his face after developing Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which, according to the Mayo Clinic, happens when a shingles case impacts the facial nerve near the ear. The syndrome can also result in a painful rash, paralysis or hearing loss.
“As you can see, this eye is not blinking, I can’t smile on this side of my face,” the two-time Grammy winner said in the video, highlighting the impacted areas of his face. “This nostril will not move. So full paralysis in this side of my face.”
“So for those who are frustrated by the cancellations of my next shows, I’m just physically obviously not capable of doing them,” he continued. “This is pretty serious, as you can see. I wish this wasn’t the case, but obviously my body’s telling me I gotta slow down.”
The “Ghost” singer has since multiple shows of his Justice World Tour to take time to recuperate. AEG Presents, who is promoting the tour, issued a statement on June 13 that said Bieber “is determined to resume the tour as soon as he and the doctors feel he is able to continue. Details on the rescheduled MSG shows will be made public shortly.”
Watch Hailey discuss how the star is healing below. | https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/justin-bieber-getting-better-ramsay-hunt-hailey-bieber-1235088101/ | 2022-06-15T20:29:53Z | https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/justin-bieber-getting-better-ramsay-hunt-hailey-bieber-1235088101/ | false | 1 |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) – Marijuana and cannabis products in prescription drugs are now officially decriminalized in North Carolina – if the federal government says they are.
Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 448, which removes medications containing marijuana and tetrahydrocannabinols – you may have heard of it as THC – from the list of Schedule VI drugs that are policed by law enforcement.
But this isn’t medical marijuana, which has passed the state Senate but not yet been considered by the state House – and may not be until at least next year.
This is related to the decriminalizing of hemp relative to federal law, as approved in the Farm Bill that allows for hemp products in the state.
This requires that those products are automatically lawful in North Carolina if these factors are met:
- The Federal Drug Administration approves the use of the prescription drug.
- The Drug Enforcement Administration makes the appropriate change to federal controlled substance schedules.
- The North Carolina Commission for Mental health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse does not object to excluding the new drug from Schedule VI.
If the commission doesn’t object to a specific drug, that drug automatically would be excluded from Schedule VI.
This law is so based on federal law that its active date isn’t even specified because it depends on the FDA.
Medical marijuana, as specified in Senate Bill 711, would require doctors to write a prescription for the marijuana processed to treat certain maladies, and it would license dispensaries to be used to obtain that marijuana.
The hemp bill, SB 455, which passed June 2 but has not been signed by Cooper, allows farmers to continue to grow hemp as a foundation for the fiber found in rope and garments and other products but also for the CBD products, such as oils, vapes and other consumables. The difference is that these products are very low in intoxicants, such as THC, and serve more to soothe people than to make them high. | https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/north-carolina-politics/north-carolina-legalizes-marijuana-in-prescription-drugs-but-only-if-fda-approves/ | 2022-06-15T20:30:21Z | https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/north-carolina-politics/north-carolina-legalizes-marijuana-in-prescription-drugs-but-only-if-fda-approves/ | false | 4 |
After Yellowstone, floodwaters move through Montana’s largest city
RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — Floodwaters that rushed through Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities earlier this week moved through Montana’s largest city on Wednesday, flooding farms and ranches and forcing the shutdown of its water treatment plant.
The water in the Yellowstone River hit its highest level in nearly a century as it traveled east to Billings, Montana, home to nearly 110,000 people. It hit 16 feet, a foot higher than the water plant needs to work effectively.
The historic floodwaters raged through the nation’s oldest national park earlier this week and may have forever altered the human footprint on Yellowstone’s terrain and the communities that have grown around it.
The floodwaters tore out bridges and poured into nearby homes. They pushed a popular fishing river off course — possibly permanently — and may force roadways nearly torn away by torrents of water to be rebuilt in new places.
“The landscape literally and figuratively has changed dramatically in the last 36 hours,” said Bill Berg, a commissioner in nearby Park County. “A little bit ironic that this spectacular landscape was created by violent geologic and hydrologic events, and it’s just not very handy when it happens while we’re all here settled on it.”
The unprecedented flooding drove more than 10,000 visitors out of the park and damaged hundreds of homes in nearby communities, though remarkably no was reported hurt or killed. The only visitors left in the massive park straddling three states were a dozen campers still making their way out of the backcountry.
The park could remain closed as long as a week, and northern entrances may not reopen this summer, Superintendent Cam Sholly said.
“I’ve heard this is a 1,000-year event, whatever that means these days. They seem to be happening more and more frequently,” he said.
Sholly noted some weather forecasts include the possibility of additional flooding this weekend.
Days of rain and rapid snowmelt wrought havoc across parts of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, where it washed away cabins, swamped small towns and knocked out power. It hit the park as a summer tourist season that draws millions of visitors was ramping up during its 150th anniversary year.
Businesses in hard-hit Gardiner had just started really recovering from the tourism contraction brought by the coronavirus pandemic, and were hoping for a good year, Berg said.
“It’s a Yellowstone town, and it lives and dies by tourism, and this is going to be a pretty big hit,” he said. “They’re looking to try to figure out how to hold things together.”
Some of the worst damage happened in the northern part of the park and Yellowstone’s gateway communities in southern Montana. National Park Service photos of northern Yellowstone showed a mudslide, washed out bridges and roads undercut by churning floodwaters of the Gardner and Lamar rivers.
In Red Lodge, a town of 2,100 that’s a popular jumping-off point for a scenic route into the Yellowstone high country, a creek running through town jumped its banks and swamped the main thoroughfare, leaving trout swimming in the street a day later under sunny skies.
Residents described a harrowing scene where the water went from a trickle to a torrent over just a few hours.
The water toppled telephone poles, knocked over fences and carved deep fissures in the ground through a neighborhood of hundreds of houses. Electricity was restored by Tuesday, but there was still no running water in the affected neighborhood.
Heidi Hoffman left early Monday to buy a sump pump in Billings, but by the time she returned her basement was full of water.
“We lost all our belongings in the basement,” Hoffman said as the pump removed a steady stream of water into her muddy backyard. “Yearbooks, pictures, clothes, furniture. Were going to be cleaning up for a long time.”
At least 200 homes were flooded in Red Lodge and the town of Fromberg.
The flooding came as the Midwest and East Coast sizzle from a heat wave and other parts of the West burn from an early wildfire season amid a persistent drought that has increased the frequency and intensity of fires. Smoke from a fire in the mountains of Flagstaff, Arizona, could be seen in Colorado.
While the flooding hasn’t been directly attributed to climate change, Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said a warming environment makes extreme weather events more likely than they would have been “without the warming that human activity has caused.”
“Will Yellowstone have a repeat of this in five or even 50 years? Maybe not, but somewhere will have something equivalent or even more extreme,” he said.
Heavy rain on top of melting mountain snow pushed the Yellowstone, Stillwater and Clarks Fork rivers to record levels Monday and triggered rock and mudslides, according to the National Weather Service. The Yellowstone River at Corwin Springs topped a record set in 1918.
Yellowstone’s northern roads may remain impassable for a substantial length of time. The flooding affected the rest of the park, too, with park officials warning of yet higher flooding and potential problems with water supplies and wastewater systems at developed areas.
The rains hit just as area hotels filled up in recent weeks with summer tourists. More than 4 million visitors were tallied by the park last year. The wave of tourists doesn’t abate until fall, and June is typically one of Yellowstone’s busiest months.
At a cabin in Gardiner, Parker Manning of Terre Haute, Indiana, got an up-close view of the roiling Yellowstone River floodwaters just outside his door.
In early evening, he shot video as the waters ate away at the opposite bank where a large brown house that had been home to park employees before they were evacuated was precariously perched.
In a large cracking sound heard over the river’s roar, the house tipped into the waters and was pulled into the current.
The towns of Cooke City and Silvergate, just east of the park, were also isolated by floodwaters, which also made drinking water unsafe. People left a hospital and low-lying areas in Livingston.
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Whitehurst reported from Salt Lake City. Associated Press writers Amy Beth Hanson in Helena, Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska, R.J. Rico in Atlanta, and Brian Melley in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A $13.8 billion budget that sends hundreds of dollars of rebates to many South Carolina taxpayers and also cuts cuts their income tax rates is on its way to Gov Henry McMaster's desk.
The House and Senate each passed a compromise spending plan Wednesday that also would raise the minimum salary for teachers from $36,000 to $40,000, put $1 billion extra into road repair and expansion and give state employees a 3% raise and $1,500 bonus.
The 2022-23 fiscal year budget also calls for raising a number of state law enforcement salaries, giving colleges money if they freeze tuition and setting aside about $1 billion in case this is the year the economy craters.
The approved budget is $3 billion more than last year's spending plan. The extra money comes from a booming economy, federal pandemic money and savings from the past two budgets just in case COVID-19 wrecked the financial system.
People can complain the budget is bursting, but Republican House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Gary Simrill said lawmakers are in a way sending back as much money to taxpayers as they can.
“Look at what is going back to the citizens of South Carolina either in infrastructure, non-spent revenue or tax cuts and rebates.,” the Republican from Rock Hill said.
The Senate passed the budget unanimously, while just a handful of House members voted against it. The governor has until early next week and has a line-item veto to take out any part of the budget he does not like. The General Assembly will return by the end of June to consider those vetoes.
Items McMaster has guaranteed he will not veto are the income tax cut and rebate.
The rebate will give every South Carolinian who pays income tax the amount they pay back for this tax year, up to about $800. About 44% of the state’s 2.5 million people who file returns end up paying nothing in income tax and won’t get a check when the rebates are given out in November or December. The rebates will cost about $1 billion.
“Delivery is expected in late November or early December – just in time for Christmas,” Republican Senate Finance Committee Chairman Harvey Peeler said.
The compromise also immediately cuts the state’s top income tax rate from 7% to 6.5%. for the 1.1 million taxpayers who pay the most. The plan then knocks 0.1% off the top rate each year the state continues to substantially increase revenues until the top rate is at 6%. It is the House plan backed by McMaster.
The other tax bracket will be at 3%, cutting taxes for the more than 300,000 taxpayers now between the 6% and 3% brackets. Anyone lower than that will not pay taxes at all.
The budget compromise also revamps the way the state funds education, simplifying a complex formula into money mostly based on student-teacher ratio and minimum teacher salaries.
Lawmakers are putting $275 million more into the formula. Districts can use the money however they like, and a number of lawmakers have suggested a $4,000 salary increase for all their teachers is a good start.
On roads, most of the money is going to accelerate major interstate plans, such as widening Interstate 26 from Charleston to Columbia to three lanes each direction or untangling where Interstates 20, 26 and 126 all meet west of Columbia.
But the budget also sends money directly to every county to spend as they see fit. “This budget helps fill in potholes," Peeler said.
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Follow Jeffrey Collins on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JSCollinsAP. | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Lawmakers-pass-13-8B-SC-budget-with-large-tax-17244148.php | 2022-06-15T20:34:52Z | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Lawmakers-pass-13-8B-SC-budget-with-large-tax-17244148.php | true | 11 |
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Republican candidate Kris Kobach on Wednesday endorsed lowering Kansas' legal drinking age to 18 and promised that if he's elected attorney general this year, he will challenge the federal policy preventing such a move.
Kobach criticized a 1980s federal law that threatens states with the loss of highway dollars if their drinking ages are below 21. He said he believes the U.S. Supreme Court is now conservative enough that it would overturn that law and allow states to set their own policies.
The issue arose during a debate in Overland Park between Kobach and the other two GOP attorney general candidates, state Sen. Kellie Warren and former federal prosecutor Tony Mattivi. All three candidates support gun rights, and a viewer of the public television station livestreaming the debate asked whether the drinking age also should be 18 if people can buy guns at that age.
“When you're 18 years old and you can vote — you can fight for this country — you should have all of the rights that other citizens enjoy,” Kobach said.
Both Warren and Mattivi said the issues are different because gun rights are protected by the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment while there is no constitutional right to drink alcohol.
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The headline has been corrected to note that Kobach backs lowering the drinking age to 18, not 21. | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/Kansas-AG-s-race-Kobach-backs-lowering-drinking-17243988.php | 2022-06-15T20:38:27Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/Kansas-AG-s-race-Kobach-backs-lowering-drinking-17243988.php | false | 11 |
Sippy Sidhu murder: CBI arrests HP high court acting chief justice’s daughter
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested Kalyani Singh, 36, the daughter of Justice Sabina Singh, the acting chief justice of the Himachal Pradesh high court, in connection with the murder of national-level shooter and corporate lawyer Sukhmanpreet Singh, alias Sippy Sidhu, over six years ago in Chandigarh.
Kalyani, who was working as assistant professor on contract basis in the home science department of Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 42, Chandigarh, was arrested after she was found “evasive and deceptive” along with evidence of her being present in the park.
Officials said that during investigation, the CBI found documentary evidence suggesting that Kalyani Singh and Sidhu were close and that the romantic relationship had turned sour.
Sippy was shot dead in a Sector 27 park in Chandigarh on September 20, 2015. His family had been accusing Kalyani, Sippy’s former girlfriend who was the judge’s daughter, of being involved in the murder. The family had been attributing the murder to the refusal of a marriage proposal.
The central agency had registered the first information report (FIR) in the killing of Sidhu, who was also a lawyer, on April 13, 2016, on the request of the Chandigarh administration.
The central agency had called Kalyani Singh for questioning where she was found evasive in responses following which she was arrested, sources said.
Earlier, the CBI had even filed an untraced report before the court, requesting further investigation into Kalyani’s role. During further investigation, the CBI said that the involvement of Kalyani came forth.
“Accordingly, she was examined and arrested. She was produced in the court of the special judicial magistrate, Chandigarh, on Wednesday and remanded in four days’ police custody,” the CBI spokesperson said.
CBI would be questioning her on identification of the fire arm and assailant, recovery of weapon, vehicle and to unearth the conspiracy and role of other unknown persons.
Refusal of marriage proposal and embarrassment led to murder: CBI
CBI said that the investigations so far conducted have revealed that Kalyani was in close relationship with Sippy. “She wanted to marry him but her proposal was turned down by Sippy’s family. Sippy had leaked her objectionable photos to her parents and friends, which had caused embarrassment to Kalyani and her family,” said the CBI while attributing motive to the murder.
The investigations pointed out that Kalyani on September 18, 2015 had contacted Sippy through mobile phones of other persons and compelled him to meet her in the park on Sector 27, Chandigarh, where the two had met between September 18 and September 20, the night when he was murdered.
Kalyani along with other assailant shot Sippy: CBI
The CBI said that investigations revealed that one unknown assailant and accused Kalyani killed Sippy by using the firearms. The postmortem report of deceased Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu reflects that the murder was committed by using short gun firearm ammunition. The CBI said both were seen running from the spot after murder. As per sources, a Maruti Zen car with its last four digit “1183” was spotted at the place of incident at the time of murder.
“During her earlier examination she was evasive in answering the relevant questions and was also found deceptive in the polygraph test on the questions/issues related to the murder,” said CBI concluding that accused Kalyani in conspiracy with unknown assailant murdered Sippy.
Declining remand would thwart investigations: CBI Court
The request for police remand, made by the CBI, was opposed by the counsels of accused Kalyani, “terming it abuse of law”.
“It is six-year-old case and CBI had even filed an untraced report. She (Kalyani) had earlier joined investigations but nothing incriminating was found against her.”
Dismissing their plea, special judicial magistrate, CBI Chandigarh, Sukhdev Singh, in an order granting four-day remand said, “Though it is an old case and earlier attempts to uncover real events of crime were not successful, the CBI kept attempting to collect evidence. Declining police remand at this stage would only thwart investigations in its early stage.”
The court, without commenting on merits of the case, granted four-day remand with directions that Kalyani’s counsels are to remain present during investigation in police station without actively participating or interfering in the investigation process. Kalyani was also allowed to use her own clothes subject to checking. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/sippy-sidhu-murder-cbi-arrests-hp-high-court-acting-chief-justice-s-daughter-101655323935243-amp.html | 2022-06-15T20:38:34Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/sippy-sidhu-murder-cbi-arrests-hp-high-court-acting-chief-justice-s-daughter-101655323935243-amp.html | true | 1 |
Former Pence counsel to testify to Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot panel
WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - A senior aide and a retired federal judge who advised former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence are set to testify on Thursday to the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the panel said on Wednesday.
Greg Jacob, who served as counsel to Pence, and retired U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig, who was an informal adviser, are scheduled to testify at the third of six public hearings the committee has planned for this month.
The hearing is due to focus on Pence's role that day in overseeing formal congressional certification of Joe Biden's 2000 election victory over then-President Donald Trump, who has made false claims that the election was stolen through widespread voting fraud.
Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to block the certification of the election results, attacking police and sending lawmakers fleeing for their safety. Some protesters chanted "hang Mike Pence" and set up a makeshift gallows outside the Capitol.
The committee is looking into Trump's contacts with Pence in urging him to refuse to certify the election and the rioters' chants that Pence should be hanged. Pence refused Trump's requests that he block the certification.
Pence in February of this year said Trump, under whom he served as vice president for four years, was wrong to believe that Pence had the power to reverse the outcome of the election.
"I had no right to overturn the election," Pence told an audience in Florida. (Reporting by Eric Beech and Richard Cowan; Editing by Will Dunham) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10921057/Former-Pence-counsel-testify-Jan-6-U-S-Capitol-riot-panel.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-06-15T20:39:20Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10921057/Former-Pence-counsel-testify-Jan-6-U-S-Capitol-riot-panel.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 3 |
New LPG connection made costlier
A new domestic cooking gas connection will come dearer, as will accessories, with petroleum companies increasing the prices from Thursday.
Now, for a new connection, you will have to shell out ₹2,200, with a cylinder weighing 14.2 kg instead of ₹1,450 charged in the past.
If someone takes two cylinders, then he will have to pay ₹4,400 as security money for the cylinder. Earlier, ₹2,900 had to be paid as a security for two cylinders.
Also, the security amount of the 5 kg cylinder has now been increased to ₹1,150 instead of ₹800 charged earlier.
The rates of regulators provided by the companies have also been increased. Now, instead of ₹150, the companies will charge ₹250 for the regulator. In a press release issued by petroleum companies like Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum it has been made clear that the rates would come into effect from Thursday (June 16). | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/new-lpg-connection-made-costlier-101655320694502-amp.html | 2022-06-15T20:41:28Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/new-lpg-connection-made-costlier-101655320694502-amp.html | false | null |
George Washington University’s Board of Trustees voted to rename the “Colonials” moniker for the school in the name of inclusivity, according to a statement from the university.
The board voted to change the name in hopes of finding a name that “unifies the community,” according to a university press release. The board is expected to select a new moniker for the 2023-2024 school year based on recommendations from the “Special Committee on the Colonials Monikers.”
“The committee said that changing names should be rare but also recognized that the GW community was divided on whether to change the Colonials moniker,” the statement reads. “In this case, the special committee found that the Colonials moniker does not adequately match the values of GW and can no longer serve its purpose as a name that unifies the community.”
BREAKING: The George Washington University has voted to get rid of the colonial mascot, after years of concerns from leftists about the “inclusivity” of the mascot. https://t.co/4QeF6K3cup pic.twitter.com/Cg271N6nlJ
— YAF (@yaf) June 15, 2022
Nearly 550 students signed a petition demanding that the university change the “Colonial” nickname, alleging that the name was racist, according to a student-run news outlet at George Washington University. (RELATED: College Prof Who Called Conservatives ‘The Enemy’ Alleges Termination Over Viral Video)
After the select committee to debate the moniker’s use was convened, the school slowly phased out the word “Colonial.” In 2019, student leaders changed the school’s fan section from “Colonial Army” to “George’s Army. The “Colonial Central” was renamed the Student Services Hub as well.
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A search is under way for a woman who has not been seen since setting out for a walk near a surging creek that is now causing localized flooding in Kelowna, B.C.
Kelowna RCMP say 31-year-old Chelsea Cardno left her home at around 8 a.m., and was planning to walk through the Mission Greenway bordering Mission Creek.
Cardno’s white BMW was found parked near the greenway but there has been no sign of her or her German shepherd dog, JJ.
Search and rescue crews, backed by an RCMP helicopter and an RCMP forensic identification team searched the area Tuesday and were continuing their efforts through Wednesday.
Search teams are concerned because they rescued overturned kayakers at the mouth of Mission Creek while searching for Cardno and they urge any civilian searchers to stay away from the banks of the swollen creek.
Cardno is described as 4′11′ in height, 108 pounds and was last seen wearing a blue or grey cap, a bright red puffy jacket, sweatpants and black lace-up style army boots.
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Werder Bremen are still keen on the signing of Daniel-Kofi Kyereh from St Pauli, according to reports.
The Bundesliga club's bid was rejected, with St Pauli asking for 4.5 million euros for the attacker who shone in the 2021-22 season.
Ghanasoccernet understands that the price is too high for Bremen, but they haven't given up and are planning their next move.
The Green-Whites continue to have legitimate hopes of being able to convince not only Kyereh but also FC St. Pauli of a transfer.
Apparently, Kyereh is calmly considering where he sees his future.
No one expects the attacker, whose contract is still valid for a year, to stay at FC St. Pauli.
Kyereh is clearly looking for a new challenge after missing out on Bundesliga promotion.
The Hamburgers don't want to obstruct his progress, but they also want to profit financially from it. As a result, the poker game may take a little longer.
Meanwhile, Freiburg, Stuttgart, and Mainz have all expressed interest in signing Kyereh. | https://ghanasoccernet.com/werder-bremen-keen-on-signing-ghana-midfielder-daniel-kofi-kyereh-2 | 2022-06-15T20:44:23Z | https://ghanasoccernet.com/werder-bremen-keen-on-signing-ghana-midfielder-daniel-kofi-kyereh-2 | false | 1 |
2022 XXL Freshman Class unveiled
In the past few hours, the famous American newspaper XXL shared the Freshman Class of 2022. The list is published annually and aims to put the spotlight on the artists who – according to the magazine – represent the contemporary face of the rap game.
In the last decade, Kendrick Lamar, Megan Thee Stallion, Fivio Foreign and J Cole have appeared in a Class anticipating the success of critics and audiences that they would later receive. More recently, however, we have seen the names of Chika, Jack Harlow, Lakeyah and Latto go around (recovered here those of the 2020 And 2021).
The XXL Freshman Class of 2022 is online: let’s discover it together!
According to XXL, the rising stars of hip-hop would be Nardo Wick, Babyface Ray And Saucy Santanatogether with Kali And KenTheMan. To these are added SoFaygo, KayCyy, Cochise, Big30, Big Scarr And Doechii. Unlike in previous years, we must admit that the almost unknown faces are numerous.
🏆 XXL FRESHMAN 2022 🏆 pic.twitter.com/YWrl3ZOCh7
– XXL Magazine (@XXL) June 14, 2022
Beyond Doechii, latest home purchase TDE, and Saucy Santana, the others have so far kept a very low profile musically speaking. On the other hand, the XXL Freshman Class has often represented for many a launching platform as well as a great opportunity in terms of the media.
Furthermore, we must remember that rappers of the caliber of Benny the Butcher, Nicki Minaj and Juice Wrld have in the past refused to appear for the most disparate reasons: Jay-Z himself, for example, would have asked the former to decline the invitation, while the Young Money first lady felt she had been called too late for the start of her career. Pop Smoke had been included in the 2020 one, but the assassination happened before the cover photography sessions.
In the coming weeks, the cypher and the interviews released by the individual members will land on the magazine’s Youtube channel. In the meantime, you just have to retrieve the video with which XXL made the announcement a little while ago. On their website, instead, you will find the article complete with photoshoot (click HERE) … good reading and good vision! | https://codelist.biz/2022/06/14/2022-xxl-freshman-class-unveiled/ | 2022-06-15T20:46:25Z | https://codelist.biz/2022/06/14/2022-xxl-freshman-class-unveiled/ | true | 1 |
BEIJING, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: FFHL) ("Fuwei Films" or the "Company"), a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality BOPET plastic films in China, today announced that the Company will report its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2022 on Friday, June 24, 2022 after the close of the market.
About Fuwei Films
Fuwei Films conducts its business through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fuwei Films (Shandong) Co., Ltd. ("Shandong Fuwei"). Shandong Fuwei develops, manufactures and distributes high-quality plastic films using the biaxial oriented stretch technique, otherwise known as BOPET film (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate). Fuwei's BOPET film is widely used for packaging food, medicine, cosmetics, tobacco, and alcohol, as well as in the imaging, electronics, and magnetic products industries.
Safe Harbor
This press release contains information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to risks. Risk factors that could contribute to such differences include those matters more fully disclosed in the Company's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which, among other things, include the significant oversupply of BOPET films resulting from the rapid growth of the Chinese BOPET industry capacity, changes in the international market and trade barriers, especially the uncertainty of the antidumping investigation and imposition of an anti-dumping duty on imports of the BOPET films originating from the People's Republic of China ("China") conducted by certain countries; uncertainty around coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and the effects of government and other measures seeking to contain its spread, potential delisting of our ordinary shares under the Holding Foreign Company Affordable Act if the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is unable to inspect our auditors located in China, uncertainty around U.S.-China trade war and its effect on the Company's operation, fluctuations of the RMB exchange rate, and our ability to obtain adequate financing for our planned capital expenditure requirements; uncertainty as to our ability to continuously develop new BOPET film products and keep up with changes in BOPET film technology; risks associated with possible defects and errors in our products; uncertainty as to our ability to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights; uncertainty as to our ability to attract and retain qualified executives and personnel; and uncertainty in acquiring raw materials on time and on acceptable terms, particularly in view of the volatility in the prices of petroleum products in recent years. The forward-looking information provided herein represents the Company's estimates as of the date of the press release, and subsequent events and developments may cause the Company's estimates to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking information in the future. Therefore, this forward-looking information should not be relied upon as representing the Company's estimates of its future financial performance as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Actual results of our operations may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of the risk factors.
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All the men and women of Watergate
Washington, June 14 (EFE).- Woodward, Bernstein, Mitchell, Liddy, Felt… Fifty years after Watergate, the names of its protagonists remain in the collective memory of the United States, although there are many more who had something to do with it. the scandal that ended the Presidency of Richard Nixon.
They are all men, but also some women, from Watergate.
When this week marks half a century of the raid on the offices of the Democratic Party that unleashed that crisis, the country remembers that moment in many ways.
Books, television series, exhibitions delve not only into the best-known names, such as Nixon himself or Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein -the Washington Post journalists who uncovered the scandal-, but also into many other protagonists, volunteers or not, of that moment.
The portraits of many of them hang these days in the National Portrait Museum in Washington, in the exhibition “Watergate: Portrait and Intrigue”, which reviews what happened.
And it is also, as the curator of the exhibition and historian of this Smithsonian museum, Kate Clarke, emphasizes to Efe, a tribute to journalism, without which Watergate would have remained an apparently minor event – the raid on the offices of the Committee Democratic National- no political consequences.
Time Magazine devoted numerous covers to Watergate, and some of them can be seen in this exhibition. They are iconic images that define Nixon and those who governed with him very well.
THE PALACE GUARD
So it is with the “palace guard.” Nixon and his four trusted men appear in a collage made from the presidential seal and that tries to show, as Clarke pointed out, that that group of advisers and senior officials kept Nixon “isolated” and away from reality and opinion. public.
That “guard” was made up of the chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, the attorney general, John Mitchell, and adviser John Ehlrichman.
All but Kissinger ended up serving time for conspiracy and obstruction of justice – for trying to cover up the event and his relationship with the White House.
Another cartoon that was on the cover of Time, with several of the advisers surrounding Nixon and pointing at each other and surrounded in turn by cables, shows how even the most faithful ceased to be so when they saw themselves with water up to their necks and chose to expose and to accuse.
THE DRAMA OF JOHN AND MARTHA MITCHELL
Of all of them, John Mitchell is considered the “mastermind” of Watergate. He headed the president’s re-election committee and, as he recalls to Efe, Clarke dedicated hundreds of thousands of dollars to numerous illegal operations, including wiretaps and bugs like the ones they planned to install in Democratic offices.
Another of the covers dedicated to Mitchell presents him in a bust made with a bottle of bleach in which he covers his hand with his mouth. He wouldn’t be the one to say anything that could hurt his boss.
Quite the opposite of his wife, Martha Mitchell, who knew a lot -or everything there was to know- about Watergate and, as Kate Clarke reminds Efe, had every intention of telling the press about it.
In the days following the search and arrest of the suspects, she was held against her will for several days by a former FBI agent working for her husband who prevented her from speaking to reporters.
Though he didn’t shut up afterwards. Even Nixon himself said in the famous interview with the British journalist David Frost that, without Martha Mitchell’s testimonies, Watergate would have remained an anecdote.
And recently it has become known that he was also one of Bob Woodward’s sources. Mitchell was thus another “deep throat” like the owner of that nickname, the deputy director of the FBI Mark Felt.
Her figure never fails to arouse fascination: Actress Julia Roberts plays Mitchell in a television series, Gaslit, also starring Sean Penn.
In the Smithsonian exhibition, Mitchell’s painting hangs opposite that of two other women who, as Kate Clarke points out, also played a role at that moment in history.
THE LOYAL SECRETARY AND THE PASSIONATE CONGRESSWOMAN
On the one hand, Nixon’s loyal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, who “accidentally” – so she claimed – deleted a conversation between Haldeman and Nixon that would have shown that the president was aware of the espionage attempt on Democratic offices.
And on the other, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who opened the Committee investigating Watergate with an impassioned speech in which she asked its members to work to find out if the president had engaged in conduct “not tolerated by the Constitution.”
A mission, that of the legislature, to which this exhibition also gives great importance.
And although at a time like the present, when Congress is investigating the assault on the Capitol, “anyone can think that there have been darker moments” in the country’s political history, Clarke told Efe, this exhibition also seeks to elucidate “what are the limits of presidential power” and “who is responsible for controlling the president”.
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Contestants from all over the western United States will gather in Sterling next week for the 49th Annual International Feedlot Cowboys Association team roping and barrel racing finals.
The event will be held in the Logan County Fairgrounds Event Center June 23 through June 25. The championship has been held in Sterling since 2017. Ken Bornhoft, IFCA president, said this week the finals will come back to Sterling once more, and then will end.
“We’re hoping for something really special for the 50th Anniversary finals, because after that, there won’t be any more,” Bornhoft said. “It’s just too hard to find people with time to put it on.”
Contestants in the finals already have been determined by regional competitions earlier in the year. Bornhoft said contestants from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado will be competing. Last year there were more than 800 total teams competing in the team roping and 33 barrel racers.
Ropers can enter with as many different partners as their checkbook will allow. Each roping team will get as many as five head to rope in what is called a “progressive after one” competition. That means a team has to successfully rope all of its steers in order to stay in the competition. Winners will be those who rope the most steers in the least time.
Barrel racers can ride as many horses as they can enter, but each racer gets only one run per horse per day. Lowest average time determines the winner.
Bornhoft said he already has commitments from more than 150 contestants. Team ropers are ranked according to expertise on a scale of 1 to 10, and contestants of varying skill are teamed for an event. For example, Bornhoft said, a No. 14 team might consist of two ropers ranked at No. 7, or one at No. 8 teamed with a No. 6.
There will be four days of competition, beginning with a “warmup roping” on Wednesday evening. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday barrel racing will open each day at 8:30, followed by team roping. Bornhoft said roping won’t start before 9:30 a.m. on Thursday and Friday and 10 a.m. on Saturday, but may start a little later, depending on how late the barrels go.
While most of the contestants will be riding and roping because they love the sport, there’s a financial incentive as well. Last year, Bornhoft said, the rodeo paid out $64,000 in cash prizes and another $24,000 in saddles, buckles and other non-cash prizes.
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Despite push, states slow to make Juneteenth a paid holiday
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the U.S., gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to have it recognized as an official holiday in the states has largely stalled.
Although almost every state recognizes Juneteenth in some fashion, many have been slow to do more than issue a proclamation or resolution, even as some continue to commemorate the Confederacy.
Lawmakers in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and other states failed to advance proposals this year that would have closed state offices and given most of their public employees paid time off for the June 19 holiday.
That trend infuriates Black leaders and community organizers who view making Juneteenth a paid holiday the bare minimum state officials can do to help honor an often overlooked and ignored piece of American history.
“Juneteenth marks the date of major significance in American history. It represents the ways in which freedom for Black people have been delayed,” said Democratic Rep. Anthony Nolan, who is Black, while arguing in favor of making Juneteenth a paid holiday in Connecticut on the House floor. “And if we delay this, it’s a smack in the face to Black folks.”
Juneteenth commemorates when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War and about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Southern states.
Last year, Congress and President Joe Biden moved swiftly to make Juneteenth a national holiday. It was the first time the federal government had designated a new national holiday since approving Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Yet the move didn’t result in an automatic adoption from most states.
In Alabama, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey issued another proclamation marking Juneteenth a state holiday earlier this week after state lawmakers refused to take action on a bill during their legislative session even after she voiced strong support for making it a permanent holiday back in 2021. The state closes down for Confederate Memorial Days in April.
Similarly, Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon issued a statement last June saying he would work with lawmakers to make it a state holiday but no legislation was filed during the 2022 session.
In Tennessee, Republican Gov. Bill Lee quietly tucked enough funding — roughly $700,000 — to make Juneteenth a state paid holiday in his initial spending plan for the upcoming year.
Despite the bill gaining traction in the state Senate, GOP legislative leaders maintained there wasn’t enough support for the idea even as Tennessee law currently designates special observances for Robert E. Lee Day, Confederate Decoration Day and Nathan Bedford Forrest Day.
“I asked many people in my district over the last few days, well over 100 people, if they knew what Juneteenth was and only two of them knew,” said Republican Sen. Joey Hensley, who is white and voted against the proposal. “I just think we’re putting the cart before the horse making a holiday that people don’t know about.”
In South Carolina, instead of working to approve Juneteenth as a holiday, Senate lawmakers unanimously advanced a bill that would allow state employees to choose any day they want to take off instead of the Confederate Memorial Day currently enshrined as a paid holiday in state law. However, the House sent the bill to a committee where it died without a hearing when the Legislature adjourned for the session.
At the same time, many of these Republican-led areas have advanced bills limiting what can be taught about systematic racism in classrooms, while also spiking proposals aimed at expanding voting rights and police reform.
This year, nearly 20 states are expected to close state offices and give most of their public employees time off. At least six states officially adopted the holiday over the past few months, including Connecticut, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, South Dakota, Utah and Washington. A bill introduced in California passed the Assembly and moved to the Senate this month, and individual cities such as Los Angeles have already signed proclamations making Juneteenth official.
“Becoming a state holiday will not merely give employees a day off, it will also give residents a day to think about the future that we want, while remembering the inequities of the past,” said Democratic Del. Andrea Harrison, who sponsored the Juneteenth legislation in Maryland this year. “It will help us to reflect how far we’ve come as a nation, how much more we need to do as humankind.”
Attempts to give Juneteenth the same deference as Memorial Day or July Fourth didn’t begin to gain traction until 2020, when protests sparked a nationwide push to address race after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the deaths of other Black people by police officers.
“George Floyd protests against police brutality brought awareness to Juneteenth because there were people of all races learning about its significance for the first time following a public push to self-educate and learn more about Black history, culture and injustices,” said Tremaine Jasper, a resident and business owner in Phoenix who has attended Juneteenth celebrations across Arizona with his family.
Some cities in Arizona, including Phoenix, have declared Juneteenth an official holiday, paying city employees and closing municipal buildings. However, lawmakers are not currently considering statewide recognition.
“There are so many other important issues that we need to tackle — education, political issues, reparations — before we prioritize making Juneteenth a statewide holiday,” Jasper said, noting that those looking to celebrate know where to go.
Jasper, who was born and raised in Arizona, said it is going to be an “uphill battle” to get the state to recognize Juneteenth because there is not a large enough Black population outside of its largest cities to make the push.
Arizona was also slow in recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day, not doing so until 1992. It was one of the last states to officially recognize the civil rights leader.
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Associated Press writer Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report. Mumphrey reported from Phoenix and is a member of The Associated Press’ Race and Ethnicity team. Follow her at https://twitter.com/cheymumph.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The West must step up weapons deliveries to Ukraine and prove its commitment to helping the country’s military fight along a 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line in a grinding war of attrition with Russia, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday.
Opening a meeting in Brussels on supporting Ukraine, Austin urged more than 45 participating nations to demonstrate “our unwavering determination to get Ukraine the capabilities that it urgently needs to defend itself.”
“We must intensify our shared commitment to Ukraine’s self-defense, and we must push ourselves even harder to ensure that Ukraine can defend itself, its citizens and its territory,” he said.
The meeting, also attended by Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, came on the opening day of a a two-day gathering of NATO defense ministers at the alliance’s headquarters.
Increased arms supplies can’t come soon enough for the Ukrainian forces battling to keep Russia from taking control of their country’s industrial east after more than 3½ months of war.
In his nightly address to the nation, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded Tuesday for more and faster deliveries of Western arms, specifically asking for anti-missile defense systems.
Austin told the Brussels meeting he was grateful for all the military aid the nations already have shipped or pledged to Ukraine, but cautioned that “we can’t afford to let up and we can’t lose steam. The stakes are too high.”
The formal NATO meeting was set to open later Wednesday with a dinner where ministers also will discuss Sweden and Finland’s applications to join the trans-Atlantic military alliance.
The meeting, less two weeks before a summit of NATO leaders in Madrid, comes with Kyiv imploring the West to send more and heavier weapons to help fend off Russia’s onslaught in eastern Ukraine.
“Allies are committed to continue providing the military equipment that Ukraine needs to prevail, including heavy weapons and long-range systems,” Stoltenberg said.
He added that Zelenskyy would be invited to address the June 29-30 Madrid summit, either in person or by videoconference.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said Tuesday that the invaded nation’s military had received only around 10% of the Western weapons it had requested “to create parity with the Russian army.”
“No matter how much effort Ukraine makes, no matter how professional our army, without the help of Western partners we will not be able to win this war,” Malyar said in a televised news conference.
She said Ukraine uses 5,000 to 6,000 artillery rounds a day, while Russia uses 10 times more.
The NATO meeting opens with a working dinner Wednesday evening at which ministers will speak with their counterparts from Ukraine, as well as Georgia, Sweden, Finland, and the European Union.
“This will be an opportunity for Defense Minister Reznikov to update us on what Ukraine urgently needs. And for NATO allies to make new announcements of support to Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.
The defense ministers meeting this week also plan to discuss moves to beef up forces along NATO’s eastern flank and elsewhere, which have gathered pace since Russia invaded Ukraine.
“This will mean more presence, more capabilities and higher readiness, with more NATO forward deployed combat formations to strengthen our battlegroups in the East, more air, sea and cyber defenses, pre-positioned equipment and weapon stockpiles,” Stoltenberg said.
He wouldn’t commit to a timeframe for Sweden and Finland joining NATO. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is blocking the membership bids as he accuses the Nordic nations of supporting Kurdish militants deemed by Turkey to be terrorists.
“My aim is to solve this issue as soon as possible, but since we are several nations involved in this process, there is no way to tell you exactly when we will solve it,” Stoltenberg said.
Because of Turkey’s concerns, “this will take some more time than we originally expected,” he said.
Erdogan signaled Wednesday he won’t back down.
“We will most definitely not change our stance until Sweden and Finland take clear, concrete and determined steps in the fight against terrorism,” Erdogan said in an address to his ruling party’s legislators.
He told Stoltenberg in a phone call that his government wants written guarantees of a “paradigm shift” in the two countries’ anti-terrorism efforts and their defense industry cooperation with Turkey, according to a statement from the Turkish leader’s office.
All 30 NATO members must agree to admit new members.
U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said at a meeting Wednesday in Oslo that the ambition for the NATO summit in Madrid is ensuring “that Sweden and Finland are successfully on the next step towards accession into NATO,”
“I think it is very important we listen and understand Turkey’s concerns and work to a position where Turkey will support the accession and indeed that we can mitigate any of those concerns,” Wallace said.
He added that the West needs to do more to support Ukrainians battling advances by far better equipped Russians.
“The Ukrainian forces in the east of the country, some of them have been on that front line for 90 days. They are exhausted. They are often, in artillery terms, outnumbered at very, very high ratios,” he said.
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Mike Corder in The Hague, Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed.
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RESTON, Va., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leidos (NYSE:LDOS), a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, today announced the recipients of the 2022 Supplier Innovation & Technology awards. The annual awards, presented at the Leidos Supplier Innovation & Technology Symposium on June 14, honor Leidos suppliers for their excellence in technology, collaboration, partnership and innovation.
"An increasingly complex and rapidly-evolving world requires new ways of thinking and collaboration with trusted partners," said Bob Gemmill, Leidos Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer. "The Leidos Supplier Innovation & Technology Symposium affords us the opportunity to publicly recognize outstanding teammates who have consistently delivered innovative solutions. Their contribution has had a direct impact on our success and delivered unparalleled solutions to our many customers."
Since 2017 the Leidos Innovation and Technology awards have recognized key supplier partners who contribute to Leidos and customer success. Suppliers are evaluated across seven different categories based on their support and contributions towards the business. In 2022, Leidos introduced the Secure Supply Chain Supplier of the Year category. The new award recognizes a supplier who has consistently provided supply chain risk management ideas and solutions to Leidos.
The 2022 winners are:
Alliance Partner of the Year: Cisco
The award recognizes a supplier that contributes to the success of Leidos customers through long-term relationships that support and advance the company's strategic objectives.
Innovation Partner of the Year: ServiceNow
The award recognizes a supplier who has consistently provided new ideas and solutions to Leidos, resulting in increased efficiencies for customer deliverables.
Value Added Reseller (VAR) of the Year: Carahsoft
The award recognizes a supplier who has helped Leidos go to market efficiently through innovative solutions resulting in effective bottom-line savings, increased revenue or performance outcomes, and who have consistently demonstrated a collaborative business relationship with Leidos.
Small Business Value Added Reseller of the Year: Thundercat Technologies LLC
The award recognizes a supplier who has helped Leidos go to market efficiently through innovative solutions resulting in effective bottom-line savings and increased revenue or performance outcomes.
Secure Supply Chain Supplier of the Year: CyberCore Technologies
The award recognizes a supplier who has consistently provided supply chain risk management ideas and solutions to Leidos, which resulted in increased security throughout the organization and helped our customers achieve mission success.
Emerging Technology Partner of the Year: HashiCorp
The award recognizes a supplier with outstanding product design and engineering in cutting edge technology products that help our customers achieve mission success.
About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company's 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $12.30 billion for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
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- Vodafone goes green in Wales
- Google Cloud weighs into the private wireless networks sector
- Global 5G subscriber total to hit 1.2bn this year, predicts CCS Insight
In today’s industry news roundup: Vodafone UK’s deployment of a wind- and solar-powered mobile mast; a private wireless network launch from Google Cloud; and some encouraging predictions for the 5G services sector from a respected industry analyst house.
Vodafone UK has deployed a mobile network mast that can be entirely powered by a combination of wind power, solar power and on-site battery storage, to provide commercial communications services to the village of Eglwyswrw in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The mast incorporates wind turbine technology developed by Crossflow Energy and is connected to solar panels and battery storage units. The mast is on trial for two years, during which Vodafone will gather data that will help it to “optimise the technology and determine which sites are most suitable for ‘self-powering’ masts”. The deployment follows tests of the technology that started in late-2021 – you can read all about the supporting technology and the potential benefits of such deployments in this article published by TelecomTV in November last year. Andrea Dona, chief network officer and development director at Vodafone UK, stated: “Connectivity is vital to everyone, no matter where you live. This self-powering mobile phone mast, with on-site battery storage, could help us connect places that were previously impossible to reach. It will also help us reduce carbon emissions and minimise our impact on local environments. If this trial is a success, we would like to roll out more ‘self-powering’ masts, with a focus on areas with poor or no coverage.”
Google Cloud has unveiled a private wireless networking solutions portfolio aimed at all enterprises. The new suite is based on Google Distributed Cloud Edge and uses Google’s independent software vendor (ISV) ecosystem. According to the tech giant, this offering solves the “distinct performance, service-level, and economic needs” of key industry verticals by mingling dedicated network capabilities with full edge-computing application stacks. Google suggested the ecosystem allows for rapid adoption of “turn-key, private network solutions with the flexibility to deploy management, control and user plane functions both in the cloud and at the edge”. It also touts the service as being backed by Google’s security best practices and able to scale to new use cases requiring “low latency and quality of service (QoS) for critical applications”. For the launch, Google has partnered with numerous ecosystem players, including Betacom, Boingo Wireless, Celona, Crown Castle and Kajeet. Google’s entry into the private networks space pits it against the likes of Ericsson, Nokia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Verizon.
Global 5G connections are set for “a strong pace of growth” in 2022, according to the latest market forecast by analyst CCS Insight. It noted “a clearer path to adoption” of the technology following a disrupted start due to the Covid-19 pandemic two years ago, and boosted by the fact that 5G has evolved from a nascent to a fledgling technology. Contributing factors for the uptake include the broad availability of 5G-capable smartphones, “refined operator strategies and delayed network launches [that are] starting to take place”. It is expected that devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops will account for 99% of 5G connections worldwide by the end of the year. “The world still faces a bleak macroeconomic and geopolitical outlook in 2022, coupled with supply chain difficulties. But the transition of mobile subscribers to 5G networks is set to make good progress, with 5G connections forecast to nearly double this year to 1.2 billion,” said James Manning Smith, senior analyst at CCS Insight. Fixed wireless access, machine-to-machine and cellular internet of things applications are also set to experience growth in 2022. Find out more.
Test and analytics system specialist Exfo has teamed up with Intel to develop an assurance system that, the partners claim, can automatically detect and identify network problems whether they occur in the cloud, network or service layers of a telco’s infrastructure. Exfo says its full-stack assurance solution combines the attributes of its adaptive service assurance (ASA) system with analytics built into Intel’s processors. “The solution enables operators to assess the operational state of the underpinning cloud-native infrastructure from the chip-level up, allowing faults to be isolated or correlated across all network domains. Together, the Exfo and Intel technology speeds up the time to resolution and eliminates domain-specific fault denial,” noted the Canadian test vendor in this press release.
The government of India has reportedly announced it will hold a 5G spectrum auction by the end of July. According to local media, companies will be able to bid for a total of 72GHz of spectrum. Up for grabs are 20-year contracts comprising various low-, mid- and high-frequency bands. The nation’s authorities will also reserve spectrum specifically for the development of private networks that are tipped to aid acceleration of innovation across Industry 4.0 applications, including machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Rollouts of the next-generation network technology are expected soon, according to the reports.
SoftBank looks set to list some of its stake in UK-based chip designer Arm on the London Stock Exchange, in what looks like a reversal of the decision to only list Arm stock in New York, Bloomberg has reported. SoftBank decided on a partial IPO of Arm stock after the Japanese giant failed to sell the British chip specialist to Nvidia in a $40bn deal that was announced in September 2020 but collapsed earlier this year. Now SoftBank, which initially acquired Arm in 2016 for some $32bn, appears to have been persuaded by UK financiers and politicians that having a dual-listing in New York and London would be the most appropriate way forward for a Cambridge, UK-based operation.
Qualcomm has overturned a €997m ($1.05bn) fine from European Union (EU) antitrust regulators, by winning a court case that accused the US chipmaker of anticompetitive practice in the form of paying Apple to exclusively use its chips on its devices, Reuters reported. According to a decision by the European Commission in 2018, the practice covered the period between 2011 and 2016, in which Qualcomm was paying billions of dollars to have its chips used in all of Apple’s iPhone and iPad products. Now, the General Court has reportedly revoked the EU findings. According to judges cited by Reuters, procedural irregularities have negated the commission’s analysis of the alleged conduct by Qualcomm. The EU can appeal to the highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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RESTON, Va., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leidos (NYSE:LDOS), a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, today announced the recipients of the 2022 Supplier Innovation & Technology awards. The annual awards, presented at the Leidos Supplier Innovation & Technology Symposium on June 14, honor Leidos suppliers for their excellence in technology, collaboration, partnership and innovation.
"An increasingly complex and rapidly-evolving world requires new ways of thinking and collaboration with trusted partners," said Bob Gemmill, Leidos Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer. "The Leidos Supplier Innovation & Technology Symposium affords us the opportunity to publicly recognize outstanding teammates who have consistently delivered innovative solutions. Their contribution has had a direct impact on our success and delivered unparalleled solutions to our many customers."
Since 2017 the Leidos Innovation and Technology awards have recognized key supplier partners who contribute to Leidos and customer success. Suppliers are evaluated across seven different categories based on their support and contributions towards the business. In 2022, Leidos introduced the Secure Supply Chain Supplier of the Year category. The new award recognizes a supplier who has consistently provided supply chain risk management ideas and solutions to Leidos.
The 2022 winners are:
Alliance Partner of the Year: Cisco
The award recognizes a supplier that contributes to the success of Leidos customers through long-term relationships that support and advance the company's strategic objectives.
Innovation Partner of the Year: ServiceNow
The award recognizes a supplier who has consistently provided new ideas and solutions to Leidos, resulting in increased efficiencies for customer deliverables.
Value Added Reseller (VAR) of the Year: Carahsoft
The award recognizes a supplier who has helped Leidos go to market efficiently through innovative solutions resulting in effective bottom-line savings, increased revenue or performance outcomes, and who have consistently demonstrated a collaborative business relationship with Leidos.
Small Business Value Added Reseller of the Year: Thundercat Technologies LLC
The award recognizes a supplier who has helped Leidos go to market efficiently through innovative solutions resulting in effective bottom-line savings and increased revenue or performance outcomes.
Secure Supply Chain Supplier of the Year: CyberCore Technologies
The award recognizes a supplier who has consistently provided supply chain risk management ideas and solutions to Leidos, which resulted in increased security throughout the organization and helped our customers achieve mission success.
Emerging Technology Partner of the Year: HashiCorp
The award recognizes a supplier with outstanding product design and engineering in cutting edge technology products that help our customers achieve mission success.
About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company's 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $12.30 billion for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
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Ben Affleck was planning a “James Bond-style” Batman movie
Before Robert Pattinson inherited the Bat-Man suit, it was well known that Ben Affleck had an agreement with Warner Bros. Pictures to direct, write and star in a solo film of the hooded vigilante. However, the filmmaker gradually gave up the project until he completely disassociated himself in 2019, as a result of the bad experiences he had on the set of Justice League, his own personal conflicts and even the influence of his great friend Matt Damon. However, to date details continue to be reported on how he could have been batman under the direction of Affleck, and it seems that there was a certain flavor of James Bond in his proposal.
According to Matt Reeves, who ultimately directed batman with Robert Pattinson, Ben Affleck’s version “was very James Bond-esque,” as he was able to confirm in one of the scripts that first landed on his desk. It was a script in which screenwriter Chris Terrio (Oscar winner for argus) from a draft co-written by Affleck and Geoff Johns. And in Reeves’ words, it was a “much more action-driven” story compared to the narratives he’s interested in telling as a director. Therefore, he decided to go a different way.
This was recently stated Matt Reeves on the podcast The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith (via ScreenRant):
“Originally, the movie was going to be directed by Ben Affleck. And the script they sent me had been written by Ben, but rewritten by another very talented writer. When I read it, I was like, ‘Oh, I get it.’ It was a stand-alone Batman movie that focused on Ben’s version of the character, but it was much more action-driven than I felt I could do.”
And I add:
“I didn’t connect with the film in terms of the filmmaker. It was very James Bond-esque. It was full of many set pieces. It could have been a very exciting movie for someone else to make, but it wasn’t for me.”
Previously there were reports that the Ben Affleck movie would have been mostly set in Arkham Asylum. For the script, it was said that his greatest references were the graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (1989) and the successful video game Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009). On the other hand, actor Joe Manganiello —who was going to play the antagonistic Deathstroke in the film— revealed in 2020 that there were certain similarities with the thriller The Game (1997) by David Fincher. Specifically, how Bruce Wayne’s life would be systemically dismantled “from the inside out” by the vengeful villain.
And honestly, the Arkham sum, plus The Game, plus James Bond, will only make countless Batman fans regret more and more that Affleck has decided to quit the project. Not at all?
You might also be interested in: This is what Batman Azteca looks like – Clash of Empires, the new HBO Max animation
However, Matt Reeves certainly solved a tape of batman worthy of praise and strong applause. With undeniable allusions to the film Se7en (1995) and to the gender of film noir, his version of Bat-Man boasts an 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, in addition to $770 million in global box office receipts. Confirmation of a sequel was made public at CinemaCon 2022, with Reeves back in the directing chair and Robert Pattinson as the titular character.
batman is currently available in the HBO Max Latin America catalog.
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They’re apparently not on the same page.
In rolling out his housing plan this week, Mayor Adams has refused to offer a target for how many affordable apartment units he would like to see developed in the city over a given time frame, contending it’s counterproductive to be “throwing out numbers” like that.
But just last month, Adolfo Carrion, Adams’ commissioner of housing preservation and development, laid out specific short and long-term benchmarks for the Big Apple’s affordable housing stock.
“We’ve generated about 11,000 units so far this calendar year. We expect that ... to be somewhere in the 16,000 unit range (by the end of 2022),” Carrion testified in a hearing held by the City Council’s Housing and Finance Committees on May 9.
In terms of the Adams administration’s ultimate goal, Carrion said “we’ll come up short” this year.
“Where we should be as a city is in excess of 20,000 and potentially closer to 30,000 units a year,” he said.
Later in the hearing, Carrion added he hopes the city can reach the 20,000 unit target “next year and we’ll keep inching up.”
Carrion’s comments stand in contrast to Adams’ reluctance to share any specific affordable housing development goals while unveiling his long-awaited housing plan during a press conference in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
In a Wednesday morning appearance on NY1, Adams continued to balk at the idea of staking out development targets.
“If we didn’t do our jobs correctly, we’re just throwing out numbers, and that’s not what I’m going to do,” he said. “I’m not going to sit here and say that, ‘OK, we’re going to get X number of housing’ — no.”
Speaking to reporters in the Bronx later in the day, Adams said that instead of development yardsticks, the city should focus on how many people are being placed in affordable housing every year — and suggested he came to that conclusion after analyzing media coverage of his predecessor.
“You in media, you criticized Bill de Blasio for focusing on units. Do you remember that?” he said. “You guys were right ... Don’t talk about when you signed the deal to build units. Talk about how many are allowing people to be in. That’s our focus.”
An Adams spokesman did not dispute the goals Carrion floated last month, but argued the mayor is seeking to make a broader point by not locking himself to one measure of success.
“The mayor is talking about a deep fundamental policy question, and there are a lot more metrics that go into that,” the spokesman said, referencing statistics like affordable and supportive housing vacancy rates.
Brendan Cheney, the director of policy for the New York Housing Conference, said he agrees that the focus should not solely be on a single long-term development figure, such as de Blasio’s goal of creating 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026.
“If you have one big target as your only focus, that ends up becoming the goal, even though many of the new units may not be truly affordable. That doesn’t address the crisis,” said Cheney.
But at the same time, Cheney said the alternative requires a goal.
“You need to set a target, but I think the metric can be instead of ‘How many units overall, how many units for low-income New Yorkers?’” said Cheney, whose group has called on the city to develop 8,000 units per year for New Yorkers at the “extremely low” income level.
The release of Adams’ housing plan comes at a time when the city’s affordability crisis is spiraling due to inflation and other factors.
According to a report from real estate firm Douglas Elliman, the average monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan was $5,717 in May, a 15% spike as compared to the same time last year.
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Opinion
OPINION: Is your child's self-esteem being impacted by social media?
Emma Motherwell
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Social media is an excellent resource to help children and young people connect to the world around them, be inspired by creative content and learn about exciting events taking place on their doorstep. It’s also a place to find the latest beauty trends, make-up tutorials and catch up with popular influencers, inspiring many children to try out the latest filter or video captions.
While the internet can be great for helping children to learn and socialise, it can also give a false or unrealistic impression of what life is like. Many people post selfies using filters, when in reality they look nothing like the photo they have shared.
For young people, as well as adults, this impression of perfectionism can be hard to maintain and it can greatly impact their self-esteem. People also have a tendency to only post good things about their lives on social media. For young people in particular this can make them feel that their own life is lacking in comparison to their peers - which is often not the case. It can be hard for them to try and live up to these unrealistic expectations.
As a parent, if you find that your child is being impacted negatively by social media there are some simple things you can do to help.
The most important thing a child can do if they find something upsetting online is to stop using that platform for a while or unfollow that page or person. They could try other offline activities instead and before they return to the platform consider what is upsetting them, and try following something that makes them feel better instead.
If they see something upsetting or harmful, they can report it to the platform, block the user responsible and avoid sharing or commenting on the post in question as this could make things worse.
As a parent or carer, it is good to let them know they can always speak to you or another trusted adult if something does upset them online. Having regular conversations with them about what they’re doing online can help to open up the conversation about what is and isn’t real in the online world. When they do speak to you it’s important to stay calm and take time to listen. It might seem like a small worry to us as adults, but this can feel like a huge burden to someone younger.
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Remind them that what they see online isn’t always real. Digital platforms have made it easier for anyone to share information online and it can be difficult to determine whether something is real or false. Why not research news stories together using trusted news sources such as Full-fact or Snopes and compare information. What a young person sees online can shape how they view the world and impact their overall wellbeing. It’s important to talk to them about how misinformation spreads and how to look out for it.
We can all be guilty about spending a little too much time online and getting ‘likes’ can become addictive, so it’s important to remember ‘likes’ should never define you. Try switching off notifications so you don’t feel the need to keep checking social media.
Despite its ability to connect us, social media can also make us feel lonely, isolated and like we aren’t good enough. Sometimes your child might not feel comfortable talking to you about it. If this happens, please let them know that Childline is here for them no matter what their worry is and we will be there for any child who needs us.
They can call us for free 24 hours a day, seven days a week on 0800 1111 or they can contact us at www.childline.org.uk. Children can also visit the online message boards for support from their peers who are going through similar experiences.
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Kyra Sedgwick has been acting since she was 16, stealing scenes from Julia Roberts in “Something to Talk About” and interrogating hardened criminals to Emmy-winning effect on “The Closer.” But she thinks she’s found her true calling as a director.
“I’m madly in love with it,” Sedgwick tells Variety as she prepares for “Space Oddity,” her latest directorial effort, to premiere at the Tribeca Festival. “I feel like this is what I was meant to do all along. All my years watching directors and being on set and knowing what it is like to have this giant piece of machinery in front of you and have to splay yourself open and be incredibly vulnerable, have made me able to do this in a certain kind of way.”
In “Space Oddity,” Sedgwick’s decades in front of the camera have helped her achieve a delicate balancing act between humor and heartache with a story about love and loss that strikes a chord in the pandemic era. The film centers on Alex (Kyle Allen), who has signed up for a one-way mission to Mars in the hopes of escaping a recent tragedy by starting a fresh life on a desert planet. But things get complicated after he has a “meet cute” with an insurance agent (Alexandra Shipp), who is tasked with filling out his life insurance policy. When he finds himself falling for her, he’s forced to reconsider his eagerness to be a pioneer and finds himself grappling with a family trauma he had tried to suppress.
Sedgwick spoke with Variety about the film’s political message, space travel and working with her husband, Kevin Bacon, who plays Alex’s father in “Space Oddity.”
Why did you want to make “Space Oddity”?
It’s a beautiful story and it has all the elements that I feel like I need in order to do my best work, which is this funny/sad genre that I’m totally into. It’s an Alexander Payne sort of thing, where it’s amusing, but meaningful. You can laugh and cry at the same time. And this story is about grief and loss and that’s something that we all struggle with and are especially struggling with now.
It also has a real ecological theme. Alex, the central character in the film, is kind of done with this world and wants to make a new life on Mars. Was that something you wanted to explore?
Definitely. There’s also a climate message which is just there’s no plan B. There’s no going to Mars. Life is hard and there’s loss and pain and people die and it’s scary to live on Earth, especially now, but it’s worth the fight.
You were originally supposed to shoot this before COVID. Did it take on a different resonance after the pandemic?
We’re all mourning for the way things were before COVID. We lost a million-plus people. We’ve basically been through war. Everyone knows someone who died of COVID. So many young people are dealing with existential feelings about why am I here? All the messages that we’re getting is ‘the end is near’ or ‘the end is here.’ What this young man at the center of this story is struggling with is something a lot of people are feeling. We’re all checking out in different ways. We’re checking out with our phones. We’re checking out with Instagram. And this movie is about how they need to check back in to deal with our grief and come back together. That’s something we all need to do. We need to check back in with our planet and with each other. Are we going to let all these dark forces take us down?
In the film, Alex’s Mars expedition is being funded by a big corporation. That’s not all that different from our reality. What do you make of all this effort to go to Mars?
The fact that we’re talking about going to Mars is such a way to deflect and check out. It’s like, ‘Look over here. Let’s pour all this money into this instead saving the planet.’ We have utopia right here and we’re thinking about going to an uninhabitable planet. How insane is that? But that’s what the corporations and governments do. And I understand the appeal of thinking, ‘great, we’ll just take a shit on this planet and then go to the next one.’ The idea we’re even considering it seems ludicrous and scary.
Much of “Space Oddity” unfolds in a flower farm. It’s so lush and pastoral. Were you trying to show a contrast with what Mars offers?
This film is a love letter to Earth. It was so important to shoot at the height of summer when everything was blooming. I wanted it to be clear that Alex should pick this planet.
Your husband, Kevin Bacon, plays a key role as the emotionally remote father, and your son, Travis Bacon, composed the music with Scott Hedrick. Did you set out to make this a family affair?
I’ve worked with Travis a few times. He did the music for my film ‘Story of a Girl.’ He did the music for my short and he did the music for a short that Kevin and I did over COVID. He’s remarkable.
I didn’t offer my husband the part of the father at first. The actor who was supposed to do it fell out, and I was like, ‘Hey, is there any world where you might consider doing this?’ Kevin was like, ‘I’ve been waiting for you to ask me.’ He’s stunning in the movie. I think I get great performances out of him. My dream is to direct Kevin to his Oscar, and I’m very good at forcing my dreams into reality. I think we’ll make that happen at some point in the next 10 years.
Did you set any ground rules about working together?
I told Kevin before we started that if he had a doubts about my direction to take me aside and tell me, but not to say anything in front of the crew. We know that everyone is watching us like hawks.
“Space Oddity” is looking for distribution. Do you have a preference for how it makes its way into the world?
I would love to work with any streamer that would give it some time in the theater. People want to come together right now and remind themselves of their pain and collective grief. They want the communal experience of laughing and crying together. But I also want the world to see it, so I want it on a streamer where it can have the biggest impact.
A lot of popular shows like “Law & Order” and “Criminal Minds,” are getting rebooted or revived. Would you ever want to revive “The Closer”?
“The Closer” had a lot of important things to say about women and women in power at the time in which it was produced. Any reboot would need to check those boxes. We don’t need to see the same story again. It would need to say something new and have something additive about it or why would we do it? | https://variety.com/2022/film/markets-festivals/kyra-sedgwick-politics-space-oddity-direct-kevin-bacon-oscar-1235295461/ | 2022-06-15T20:57:39Z | https://variety.com/2022/film/markets-festivals/kyra-sedgwick-politics-space-oddity-direct-kevin-bacon-oscar-1235295461/ | true | 1 |
Music expert addresses Sam Ryder's future after Celebrity Gogglebox 'He created a buzz'
MUSIC EXPERT Sigurdur Arnason has revealed why Sam Ryder continues to grow in popularity after making the nation proud at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Party at the Palace: Sam Ryder performs at concert
Sam Ryder became a household name following his Eurovision Song Contest triumph for the United Kingdom. Since the competition ended, the Essex-born singer has performed at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations and has joined the cast of Celebrity Gogglebox. A music expert has spoken exclusively to Express.co.uk about what the future hold for the Space Man singer.
Sam, who lives in Maldon, boasts an impressive 13 million TikTok followers and he has more than 100 million likes on his videos.
His social media presence was well established before his Eurovision Song Contest performance which is what Sigurdur Arnason, the co-founder of a musical content creation tool for social media called Overtune, believes contributed to his success.
His TikTok audience has continued to grow and the singer has appeared as a guest on dozens of shows since coming second place in the singing contest.
Sam, who has become renowned for his cheerful personality as well as his powerful vocals, made his Celebrity Gogglebox debut last Friday night to the delight of fans.
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Talking about the key to Sam's stardom, Sigurdur told Express.co.uk: “Sam Ryder’s social media following certainly contributed towards his success in Turin.
"The Eurovision Song Contest has transformed from being focused on songwriting alone to being more about the overall performance - including staging, dancers and even costume.
"Some might even say it’s become a popularity contest.
"But it’s no surprise that a TikTok star came in second place, as he was able to create a buzz around his song entry before the performance itself, which was then really well received both with audiences live in Turin and watching on TV around Europe.”
Discussing how musicians stand out from the crowd on platforms like TikTok, which has about one billion users, he explained: “Social media platforms have been instrumental in launching the careers of many performers and dancers in recent years."
He said the music industry is having to adapt to the rise of social media as it is how many singers are finding fame.
He added: "If singers/musicians - or simply creative people - can utilise these platforms for the purpose of launching their careers, then there is no limit on how big in terms of internet fame future musicians will become.
"One thing is sure: stardom will not be found through three-minute-long audio tracks played on the radio, as it was before.”
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Sam has expressed his love for Gogglebox in the past and Channel 4 viewers were thrilled when they discovered he had joined the cast for the latest series.
When asked what the future holds for the 32-year-old singer, Sigurdur exclaimed: “I hope he will continue to create videos for TikTok as well as furthering his professional music career.
"When there is so much content available at people’s fingertips, and new content being made every single day, the world can forget quickly - so creators need to continue to react to new trends and share new ideas.
"Sam Ryder is an example of how keeping up your social following can impact your real life in a positive way.”
The co-founder of the Iceland-born app also said it felt right to have Sam perform as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations last weekend where he belted out his hit song Space Man to huge crowds.
He sang at the Party at the Palace concert last Saturday night alongside George Ezra, Andrea Bocelli, Hans Zimmer and Rod Stewart.
The singer has recently added more dates to his European tour in Poland and Austria.
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Exiles and Neptunes both had to stage a late recovery to save the game and earn the points. Valletta had it easy against Otters.
Five goals by Exiles netted in the third session lifted the uneasiness that beset their game in the first two periods and was the cornerstone of their victory over Marsaxlokk in yesterday’s first match.
The first two sessions were close affairs as Nenad Navarin brought the best out of his young players, who kept breathing down their opponents’ necks. After Marsaxlokk twice pulled back to level to 2-2, they tried to make matters in hand to lead 5-3 in the second session.
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Approximately 15 Oklahoma National Guard cyber and computer security specialists are honing their skills, June 5-17, as part of Cyber Shield 2022, the Department of Defense’s largest unclassified cyber defense exercise involving approximately 800 National Guard cyber specialists as well as law enforcement, legal, government and corporate partners from across the country.
This year the exercise is being conducted at the Army National Guard’s Professional Education Center on Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Service members and civilian experts from 20 states and the U.S. territory of Guam have gathered for the exercise.
The Oklahoma National Guard members are part of the state’s Defensive Cyber Operations Element (DCOE). The DCOE will also bring home some hardware after its team won the coveted “Netwars” competition.
The two-night computer hacking competition and Morale, Welfare and Recreation event was brought to Cyber Shield by the world-renown SANS Institute on June 10-11. Netwars is sort of a digital “capture the flag.” Contestants and teams answer information technology puzzles while searching for flags within the network. The game gets increasingly more difficult, and the competition becomes more intense as the game goes on.
The Netwars victory was sweet, but Oklahoma Army National Guard Maj. Danny Slusarchuk, the DCOE lead, said “the real win” is in the relationships and cohesion built within the whole Sooner team.
“This is the third year I have attended and I find tremendous value not only for the Guard, but the State of Oklahoma. Our team is a joint coalition of Army, Air, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and Oklahoma Management Enterprise Services Cyber Command. We use the exercise to improve technically, but the real win is in the agency cohesion and coupling of authorities,” Slusarchuk said. “We become a total cyber force that Oklahoma needs to meet the current threats.”
The Oklahoma National Guard has participated in Cyber Shield since 2011.
The annual exercise, led by the Army National Guard and assisted by the Air National Guard, is a concentrated effort to develop, train and exercise cyber forces in the areas of computer network internal defensive measures and cyber incident response, according to the National Guard Bureau.
These cyber defensive measures can be employed to defend and protect critical cyber infrastructure including industry, utilities, schools, health care, food suppliers as well as military networks.
“Cyber warfare is not just our future — it is our contemporary reality,” said Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau during an April U.S. Cyber Command summit. “The National Guard is positioned to be leaders in the digital domain and continues to enhance our nation’s cyber capabilities in combat and in the homeland.
“With 4,000 National Guard cyber operators across 40 states, many working for leading tech companies, the National Guard has the knowledge, skills and abilities to play a critical role in the DOD’s cyber enterprise,” he added.
Cyber Shield 22 brings together the nation’s top cyber defense professionals from National Guard Soldiers and Airmen to various governmental, nongovernmental and high-tech partners. This year’s exercise also involves teams from the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard.
Effective cyber defense requires unclassified collaboration across multiple partners, said Maj. Gen. Rich Neely, the adjutant general of the Illinois National Guard and a master cyberspace officer. “We all need to be talking about these attacks and where they are coming from. To do that requires effective relationships and communications across all levels of government as well as the private sector.”
Neely said that many of those professional relationships the National Guard shares with its partners in cyber defense “all began at a Cyber Shield.”
The first week of the exercise involves training classes and hands-on exercises for participants. During this part of the exercise, service members have the opportunity to take top-notch information technology classes and earn industry-standard certifications that can be used both in the military and in civilian careers. These 15 different classes and certifications typically cost hundreds of dollars outside the exercise and are provided to participants at no cost.
On June 12, the second phase of the exercise begins. This second week puts the cybersecurity service members’ skills to the test pitting them against an opposing force of hackers. The cyber defenders will work on identifying an intrusion into a computer network and then countering the hacker’s actions, said George Battistelli, Cyber Shield 2022 exercise director and the deputy chief information officer for the Army National Guard.
“It is important for us to continue to train our Soldiers using real-world events, so they are able to cut down the noise and focus on the mission,” Battistelli said. “In the exercise, and in the real world, we strive to achieve and maintain information advantage over our adversaries.”
This year the exercise is focusing on responding to a “supply chain” attack similar to the SolarWinds attack that effected many corporate and government networks, Battistelli said. A supply chain attack is when the hackers insert malicious code into third-party software such as IT monitoring software. When the software, or updates to the software, are installed, the malicious software is also installed allowing the hackers access to the corporate and government networks. The SolarWinds attack infiltrated a wide array of corporate and government networks. The exercise also infuses social media “noise” into the scenario, making the exercise as realistic as possible.
This year the Blue Teams – the “good guys” – will work to defend the military’s own computer networks. In the past, the exercise scenario has had the Blue Teams responding under the authority of a state governor. This year, they are responding under federal authority. This changes the policy and regulatory bounds as well as the legal authorities of the response.
The exercise is also helping to train National Guard lawyers on assisting cyber service members in staying within those bounds and authorities, said Minnesota Army National Guard Capt. Cumah Blake, the lead staff judge advocate for the exercise.
“The Cyber Shield exercise is a great model,” Blake said. “The exercise pulls together an integrated team of experts, not just cyberspace experts. It addresses not just cyberspace operations in a vacuum, but how do you pull together other members of your team and make those missions successful.”
The Red Team – the “bad guys” – includes some of the best cyber experts in the industry, said Illinois Army National Guard Lt. Col. Jeff Fleming, the exercise officer-in-charge. Fleming said that members of the Red Team last year wrote their own malicious code and a bug bounty hunter brought proof of concept code to test a zero day vulnerability he discovered to train the Blue Teams with very sophisticated and challenging situations.
This year the exercise will have a “Purple Day” when the Red Team will meet with the Blue Teams to discuss the attacks, what was done, and where and when it could have been caught. This will help train the cyber service members to defend against real-world attacks.
The training cyber service members receive at Cyber Shield is vitally important to the ongoing effort to protect the nation in cyberspace.
“We have to be right 100 percent of the time,” Battistelli said. “Our adversaries only need to be right once to get into our networks.”
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Look: Alabama Football Reacts To Minkah Fitzpatrick News
The Pittsburgh Steelers made a lot of headlines on Wednesday morning.
They were able to ink star safety Minkah Fitzpatrick to a long-term deal since he was expected to be a free agent after this upcoming season.
The two sides agreed to a four-year deal that will pay Fitzpatrick $18.4 million per season. He also will get $36 million guaranteed in this contract.
He's now the highest-paid safety in NFL history (for now).
Shortly after the deal was made official, the Twitter account for Alabama's football program put out a tweet congratulating Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick played his college football at Alabama and was one of the best safeties in the nation under head coach Nick Saban.
Saban has also gushed about him numerous times over the years since the two shared a special bond.
Fitzpatrick was picked by the Miami Dolphins in the 2018 NFL Draft before being traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers after his sophomore season.
Since then, it's been all sunshine and roses as he's racked up 260 total tackles, three forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries, 11 interceptions, and 27 passes defended in three seasons with the team.
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A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously to recommend that the agency authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for children as young as 6 months.
The committee's recommendations, in a pair of 21-0 votes, pave the way for the FDA to make COVID-19 vaccines available to immunize the last group of people to become eligible for them. The agency is expected to authorize the vaccines soon.
"I feel incredibly relieved," said Jessica Herring, 33, of Upper Marlboro, Md., who has been waiting to vaccine her 2-year-old son, Glenn. "Young children can finally have some protection beyond isolation and the actions of other people. It allows myself and other parents like me to finally breath a huge sigh of relief."
On Friday and Saturday, a committee of expert advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to meet and make recommendations about use of the vaccines. Then, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will weigh in with a statement on their use.
If, as expected, she endorses them, the way would then be clear for vaccination of the youngest children to begin as soon as Tuesday.
While the risk of death and serious COVID-19 illness is lower for young children than people in older age groups, several committee members and a top FDA official said that authorization of vaccines that could protect young people from the worst outcomes would be worthwhile.
In remarks as the beginning of the day's deliberations, Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine official said that as of May 28 there had been 442 deaths from COVID-19 reported for children under 4 years old. "We are dealing with an issue where I think we have to be careful we don't become numb to pediatric deaths because of the overwhelming number of older deaths here," he said. "Every life is important. And a vaccine-preventable death [is one] we would like to do something about."
The expert committee found that the benefits of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine given as two shots four weeks apart outweigh its risks for use in infants and children 6 months through 5 years of age.
The advisers also voted in favor of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for infants and children 6 months through 4 years of age. That vaccine is given as three shots. The first two are given three weeks apart. The third dose is given eight weeks after the second shot.
Pfizer revised its vaccination protocol during its clinical trial to include a third dose after two doses didn't prompt a strong immune response in children ages 2 to under 5-years-old.
Rob Stein contributed to this report.
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Joy Taylor Makes Her Opinion On Kyler Murray Extremely Clear
With training camp a little over a month away, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray's contract situation remains uncertain. On Wednesday, FOX Sports' Joy Taylor shared her thoughts on this matter.
Taylor made it abundantly clear that Arizona should stop overthinking its negotiations with Murray.
While there might be some concerns about Murray's stature, the reality is the Cardinals are built to win right now with him under center.
"The Cardinals are in a position to win within the next 3-5 years. That's what you have with Kyler Murray," Taylor said. "Figure it out, get it done, don't drag this out."
Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury discussed Murray's future with the team on Tuesday. Like Joy Taylor, he wants the two sides to get a deal done.
"We're about to make him, I'm sure, the highest-paid player in this franchise's history and so he understands what comes with that," Kingsbury said, via ESPN. "The guys know what he can be at his best, and anytime we can get the whole band out there, things pick up."
Murray is set to enter the fourth year on his rookie contract. He'll make $5.5 million this season under this current structure.
Negotiations between Murray and the Cardinals should heat up as training camp inches even closer. | https://thespun.com/nfl/nfc-west/arizona-cardinals/joy-taylor-makes-her-opinion-on-kyler-murray-extremely-clear | 2022-06-15T21:04:19Z | https://thespun.com/nfl/nfc-west/arizona-cardinals/joy-taylor-makes-her-opinion-on-kyler-murray-extremely-clear | false | 1 |
Confederate flag-toting man, son convicted in Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday convicted a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol together during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to obstruct Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden delivered the verdict from the bench after hearing two days of testimony without a jury for the trial of Kevin Seefried and his adult son, Hunter.
McFadden convicted both Delaware men of a felony count: obstruction of an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College that day.
The judge also convicted the Seefrieds of misdemeanor charges that they engaged in disorderly conduct and illegally demonstrated inside the building. But he acquitted Hunter Seefried of other misdemeanor charges for clearing a shard of glass from a broken window at the Capitol.
They will remain free pending separate sentencing hearings in September.
McFadden, whom President Donald Trump nominated for the court in 2017, presided over two previous bench trials for Capitol riot defendants. He acquitted one of all charges and partially acquitted another.
Widely published photographs showed Kevin Seefried carrying a Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol after he and Hunter Seefried, then 22, entered the building through a broken window.
McFadden rejected the defense argument that Kevin Seefried never intended to interfere with the congressional proceedings.
“I find that he knew what he was doing,” McFadden said.
The judge described Kevin Seefreid as the “prime mover” in their decision to go to Washington on Jan. 6. McFadden said Hunter Seefried’s guilt on the obstruction charge was a “closer question,” but the judge ultimately concluded that the son engaged in “aggravated conduct” that supported a conviction.
“Hunter Seefried showed a pattern of deception and minimization of his actions” when an FBI agent interviewed him after the riot, McFadden said.
FBI agents said they did not find any evidence linking Kevin Seefried or his son to any far-right extremist groups. Kevin Seefried told an agent that he did not view the Confederate flag as a symbol of racist hate.
The trial included the first public testimony of Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman, who has been lauded for his bravery during the Jan. 6 attack by a mob of Trump supporters. Goodman led a group of rioters away from the Senate chamber as senators and then-Vice President Mike Pence were being evacuated. He also directed Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, to turn around and head away from the mob.
Goodman encountered Kevin Seefried before the mob chased the officer up a set of stairs, a harrowing episode captured on video. The officer said the elder Seefried cursed at him and jabbed at him with the base end of his flagpole three or four times without making contact with him.
Another Capitol police officer who confronted the mob near the Senate chamber recalled that Kevin Seefried asked, “Why are you protecting them?”
“I assumed he was talking about Congress,” Officer Brian Morgan testified.
The Seefrieds were not charged with assaulting any officers.
Neither defendant testified at their trial.
The father and son traveled to Washington from their home in Laurel, Delaware, to hear Trump’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6. They were among the first rioters to approach the building near the Senate Wing Door, according to prosecutors.
After watching other rioters use a police shield and a wooden plank to break a window, Hunter Seefried used a gloved fist to clear a shard of glass in one of the broken windowpanes, prosecutors said. But the judge found that two other rioters had destroyed the window before Seefried cleared the shard.
McFadden convicted the Seefrieds of four misdemeanor charges: entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a Capitol building or grounds, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
The judge acquitted Hunter Seefried of three other misdemeanor counts: destruction of government property, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with physical violence against property, and acts of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or building.
The Seefrieds, who waived their right to jury trial, were the first Capitol riot defendants to get a bench trial on a felony charge.
In April, McFadden acquitted New Mexico resident Matthew Martin of misdemeanor charges that he illegally entered the Capitol and engaged in disorderly conduct after he walked into the building.
In March, McFadden acquitted a New Mexico elected official, Couy Griffin, of engaging in disorderly conduct but convicted him of illegally entering restricted Capitol grounds. McFadden is scheduled to sentence Griffin on Friday.
Also on Wednesday, a bench trial concluded for Jesus Rivera, a Pensacola, Florida, man charged with four riot-related misdemeanors. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she intends to issue a written verdict later this week, according to Guy Womack, an attorney for Rivera.
McFadden has criticized prosecutors’ handling of Capitol riot cases. He suggested that the Justice Department has been unjustly tougher on Capitol riot defendants compared with people arrested at protests against police brutality and racial injustice after George Floyd’s 2020 murder by a Minneapolis police officer.
More than 800 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack. Juries have unanimously convicted five Capitol riot defendants of all charges. More than 300 other defendants have pleaded guilty to riot offenses, mostly misdemeanors. Approximately 100 others have trial dates in 2022 or 2023.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/06/15/confederate-flag-toting-man-son-convicted-capitol-riot/ | 2022-06-15T21:04:47Z | https://www.whsv.com/2022/06/15/confederate-flag-toting-man-son-convicted-capitol-riot/ | true | 16 |
A Victoria family on a visit to Parksville uncovered a unique buried treasure on June 12.
Lori Lumley was enjoying a day at the beach with her family at the Ocean Trails Resort when her son-in-law, Jeff Fowles, began to idly dig a hole in the sand near the high-tide line.
He made it about four or five feet down, when he tossed up a shovel-full of more than just sand.
His six-year-old daughter, Leah, pulled out an item out of the pile, which appeared to be a small glass cream bottle that contained a note, written more than 50 years ago.
“Leah just grabbed it and went, ‘what’s this?’” Lumley said. “And her mom went ‘ew, that looks dirty, throw it away,’ and I went ‘no, no, no wait, there’s something in it!’”
The bottle was topped with material similar to tinfoil and had rusted. Some water made it inside, though it did not disintegrate the paper.
“I think the parents and the grandparents were more excited than the six-year-old, she kind of glossed over it,” Lumley said.
Fortunately, the 56-year-old note was written in pencil, rather than ink, and was still readable.
The note reads:
October 10/66
Dick & David Brown were here, we buried this great note. Thanksgiving Weekend.
David Brown
Dick Brown
READ MORE: Parksville Beach Festival Society unveils sand sculptor list for 2022
Lumley, a former police detective, estimated the writing was done by a child in the eight to 10-year-old range. She added she thinks they likely only buried it a foot or so deep and over the decades more sand accumulated on top.
This was the fourth year the family has travelled to the Parksville-Qualicum Beach area to enjoy a stay at a resort. Lumley said she hopes to track down the note’s authors via social media. | https://www.aldergrovestar.com/news/b-c-family-discovers-56-year-old-message-in-bottle-on-vancouver-island-beach/ | 2022-06-15T21:08:13Z | https://www.aldergrovestar.com/news/b-c-family-discovers-56-year-old-message-in-bottle-on-vancouver-island-beach/ | true | 18 |
Photos: First Look at CIRCLE JERK at The Connelly Theatre
In Circle Jerk, it’s winter on Gaymen Island, a summer retreat for the homosexual rich and fame-ish.
Circle Jerk, the Pulitzer Prize Finalist opened last, night, Tuesday, June 14, at The Connelly Theatre (220 E 4th Street). Special guests included Julia Fox, Jeremy O. Harris, Ayo Edibiri, Larry Owens and more. Every performance of Circle Jerk is available both in person and live streamed simultaneously.
Check out photos below!
In Circle Jerk, it's winter on Gaymen Island, a summer retreat for the homosexual rich and fame-ish. This off-season, two White Gay internet trolls hatch a plot to take back what's wrongfully theirs. Cancellations, meme schemes, and political and erotically flip flops abound as three actors playing nine parts play out this chaotic live-streamed descent into the high-energy, quick-change, low-brow shitpit of the internet.
With Circle Jerk, co-writers and performers Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, joined by Cat Rodríguez, take inspiration from Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep and sci-fi genre films like Ex Machina to send up plotlines about the crisis of technology in relationship to humans and the concept of "reality." Circle Jerk is directed by Rory Pelsue and includes dramaturgy by Ariel Sibert.
The creative team for Circle Jerk includes video & co-lighting designer David Bengali, co-lighting designer & video associate Ted Boyce-Smith, scenic and props designer Stephanie Osin Cohen, sound designer Kathy Ruvuna, costume designer Cole McCarty, wig and make-up designer Tommy Kurzman, stage manager Codey Leroy Butler, production manager Violet Asmara Tafari, technical director Jesse Mattes, assistant stage manager Carolina Arboleda, assistant scenic designer and props manager Anthony Freitas, video associate Stivo Arnoczy, video engineer Ted Charles Brown, production electrician The Sovereign Candle - Kent Sprague and graphic designer Kameron Neal.
Miranda Gohh and Emma Orme co-produce this iteration of Circle Jerk. Salman Al-Rashid, Caroline Gart and Jeremy O. Harris serve as executive producers, with generous support from FourthWall Theatrical. Noah Eisenberg serves as co-producer and Steven Ebert serves as associate producer.
Circle Jerk was originally developed with Ars Nova's Makers Lab. It was also developed, in part, with support from Mitu's Artists-at-Home program.
Please visit https://circlejerk.live/ to purchase tickets and for additional information.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A dozen children and two adults were served floor sealant instead of milk at a day care summer program at an Alaska elementary school after containers were apparently mixed up, the school district superintendent said Wednesday.
Several students complained of burning sensations in their mouth and throats, and at least one child was treated at a hospital after the Tuesday morning incident in Juneau, Superintendent Bridget Weiss said.
Juneau police are leading the investigation of how the mix-up occurred, “not really because we believe there’s anything criminal or mal-intent at this point, but we do want a thorough investigation of what happened, how it happened, and they’re trained investigators," Weiss said.
The incident happened while students in the day care program at Sitʼ Eeti Shaanáx̱-Glacier Valley Elementary in Alaska’s capital city were served breakfast. The program is for kids ages 5 to 12.
All food items including milk from a dispenser were provided by a contractor and served by staff. The breakfast items were put on trays, which students took to tables to eat.
Shortly after, children began complaining that the milk tasted bad and caused burning sensations in their mouths and throats.
After school district and contract personnel looked at the container label, it was discovered the clear plastic bag of milk that had been placed in the dispenser was actually a floor sealant that resembles the milk.
Poison control officials were contacted as well as parents. Two of the children who were picked up by their parents may have sought medical advice, the district said.
Weiss said the milk and the floor sealant, which is also a milky, white substance, both come in large plastic bags that are stored inside cardboard boxes. For the milk, the pouch is removed from the box and placed inside the dispenser to serve with meals instead of in cartons.
Both the milk and sealant were stored at a district commodity storage site off campus.
Weiss said that somehow, boxes with sealant in large pouches were “stored or moved on the same pallet as large pouches of milk that were also in cardboard boxes.”
“We don’t know how that happened, but they were all put on the same pallet,” she said. “That pallet was delivered, and the assumption was that it was milk because that’s what we thought was being delivered.”
Part of the investigation will be to determine why food items were stored in the same building as chemicals.
There was no odor or chemical smell to the sealant, but school standards dictate that any chemical used must have a low ingestion risk.
“That was true of the sealant, so our students are doing fine,” she said. A couple of children still had upset stomachs Tuesday evening, but many others were feeling well, she said.
The sealant was removed and placed in chemical storage, and the school district had a state food inspector on site Wednesday morning to verify all proper protocols were in place.
“We are up and running today,” she said. | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Alaska-kids-served-sealant-instead-of-milk-at-17244218.php | 2022-06-15T21:13:00Z | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Alaska-kids-served-sealant-instead-of-milk-at-17244218.php | false | 39 |
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