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US Dollar, USD/THB, USD/IDR, USD/PHP, USD/SGD – ASEAN Technical Analysis
- The US Dollar mostly extended gains against ASEAN currencies
- The Thai Baht, Indonesian Rupiah and Philippine Peso are at risk
- Singapore Dollar is putting up more of a fight, will resistance break?
Thai Baht Technical Outlook – Bullish
The US Dollar roared higher against the Thai Baht last week, with USD/THB pushing its highest rate since March 2017. Moreover, the pair took out the critical 34.759 – 34.850 resistance zone, placing the focus on the midpoint of the Fibonacci extension at 35.426 next. Further gains would subsequently expose the 61.8% and 78.5% extensions at 35.751 and 36.215 respectively. Otherwise, a turn lower could see the 50-day Simple Moving Average hold as support.
USD/THB Daily Chart
Indonesian RupiahTechnical Outlook – Bullish
The US Dollar also gained against the Indonesian Rupiah, extending gains since late May. USD/IDR confirmed a breakout above the May high at 14730. Now, the pair is fast approaching highs from September 2020. The latter makes for a key zone of resistance between 14915 and 14975. In the event of a turn lower, the 20- and 50-period SMAs could hold as key support, maintaining the broader focus to the upside.
USD/IDR Daily Chart
Philippine Peso Technical Outlook – Bullish
The US Dollar appreciated against the Philippine Peso last week, extending gains since early April. Immediate resistance appears to be the 100% Fibonacci extension at 53.89. Beyond the latter is the 2018 high at 54.43. Should prices turn lower, immediate support appears to be the 78.6% Fibonacci extension at 53.307. Under that are the 20- and 50-period SMAs. The latter could hold as support, continuing the broader upside bias.
USD/PHP Daily Chart
Singapore Dollar Technical Outlook – Slightly Bullish
The US Dollar consolidated against the Singapore Dollar last week. USD/SGD rejected the 1.3946 – 1.3986 resistance zone, pivoting lower. However, the pair was unable to get far. A bullish Golden Cross remains in play between the 50- and 100-day SMAs, offering an upside technical bias. Clearing resistance would offer a stronger bullish bias, placing the focus on the 61.8% Fibonacci extension at 1.4017. Otherwise, extending losses would bring the pair closer to the May low at 1.3660.
USD/SGD Daily Chart
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ST. GEORGE -- The funeral service for Robert Columbus Felder of St. George will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, June 20, 2022, at Stevens Funeral Home.
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Health Department offers tips to help avoid rabies
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How Can You Promote Your Child’s Brain Development?
From birth to three years old, children's brains grow fast. Brain development plays an important role in all aspects of a preschool-going child's development. Here are some suggestions for stimulating brain development For more details, contact us: https://www.palosverdesmontessori.com/ PalosVerdesMontessori@gmail.com (310) 541-2405 28451 Indian Peak Road, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274
From birth to three years old, children's brains grow fast. Brain development plays an important role in all aspects of a preschool-going child's development. Here are some suggestions for stimulating brain development For more details, contact us: https://www.palosverdesmontessori.com/ PalosVerdesMontessori@gmail.com (310) 541-2405 28451 Indian Peak Road, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274
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From birth to three years old, children's brains grow fast. Brain development plays
an important role in all aspects of a preschool-going child's development.
Development is divided into four categories: motor (physical), language and
communication, social and emotional, and cognitive. Cognitive development
includes brain development. Cognitive development is the process through which
a child's intellect develops and involves thinking, learning, and problem-solving
abilities.
The first three years of a child’s existence are very important. Many parents
wonder how they may aid their child's brain development. The greatest solution is
to actively involve your child in ordinary activities such as playing, reading, and
being there when he or she is stressed.
Here are some suggestions for stimulating brain development:
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Play
Daycare Rancho Palos Verdes, CA teachers believe play is a wonderful technique
to aid in a child’s brain development. To actively engage your child's brain, the play
might be a game, talking, or singing. "Peek-a-boo" and holding toys out to observe
aid in the development of a baby's brain.
Comfort and adequate rest
Babies can experience stress. Hold and embrace your newborn. Let him/her know
you are available to console and assist them when they are stressed. According to
many Preschool teachers, attentive, caring, and supportive care helps kids cope with
the stress better than anything else.
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Reading is one of the most effective techniques to boost a child's brain growth.
Reading helps children develop language and communication abilities even before
they can recognize letters or words. Rereading the same literature reinforces the
connection between the words you say and the visuals on the page. As a youngster
becomes older, ask him or her to point to specific images on the page, such as "Where
is the dog?"
5.
There are some foods that you can include in your child’s diet to promote brain
development.
Greens - Spinach and kale, which are high in folate and vitamins, have been
associated with a decreased risk of dementia later in life. Kale is a superfood that is
high in antioxidants and other nutrients that promote the growth of new brain cells.
Eggs - The protein and minerals in eggs help children focus.
Fish - Fish is high in vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, which protect the brain
against cognitive decline and memory loss. Omega-3 fatty acids are abundant in
salmon, tuna, and sardines.
6.
Seeds and nuts - Nuts and seeds, which are high in protein, vital fatty acids,
vitamins, and minerals, may improve your mood and keep your nervous system in
balance.
Oatmeal - Protein- and fiber-rich oatmeal helps keep arteries in the heart and brain
clean. In one research, children who ate sweetened oatmeal outperformed those who
ate sugary cereal in memory-related school activities.
Plums and apples - Children frequently desire sweets, especially when they are tired.
Apples and plums are lunchbox-friendly fruits that contain quercetin, an antioxidant
that may help prevent cognitive decline.
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B. Riley upgraded shares of Apple Hospitality REIT (NYSE:APLE – Get Rating) from a neutral rating to a buy rating in a report issued on Thursday, MarketBeat.com reports. B. Riley currently has $19.00 price target on the real estate investment trust’s stock.
Other equities analysts have also issued reports about the company. TheStreet lowered Apple Hospitality REIT from a b- rating to a c rating in a research note on Thursday, April 7th. Oppenheimer began coverage on Apple Hospitality REIT in a research report on Thursday, April 21st. They issued an outperform rating and a $23.00 target price on the stock. StockNews.com began coverage on shares of Apple Hospitality REIT in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a hold rating on the stock. Finally, Barclays raised their price target on shares of Apple Hospitality REIT from $19.00 to $21.00 in a research report on Tuesday, March 1st. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has given a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of Hold and a consensus target price of $21.00.
NYSE APLE opened at $14.71 on Thursday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.91, a current ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49. Apple Hospitality REIT has a 52-week low of $13.83 and a 52-week high of $18.69. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $16.77 and its 200 day moving average price is $16.80. The firm has a market cap of $3.37 billion, a P/E ratio of 39.76 and a beta of 1.06.
The firm also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, June 15th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 2nd were paid a $0.05 dividend. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.08%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, June 1st. Apple Hospitality REIT’s payout ratio is presently 162.16%.
In related news, Chairman Glade M. Knight bought 5,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, May 16th. The shares were bought at an average cost of $16.22 per share, for a total transaction of $81,100.00. Following the completion of the acquisition, the chairman now directly owns 488,093 shares in the company, valued at $7,916,868.46. The acquisition was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Over the last 90 days, insiders have acquired 7,342 shares of company stock worth $117,451. Corporate insiders own 6.80% of the company’s stock.
Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Acadian Asset Management LLC acquired a new stake in Apple Hospitality REIT during the first quarter worth about $25,000. Meeder Asset Management Inc. acquired a new stake in Apple Hospitality REIT during the first quarter worth about $36,000. Valley National Advisers Inc. acquired a new stake in Apple Hospitality REIT during the first quarter worth about $51,000. New York State Teachers Retirement System grew its position in Apple Hospitality REIT by 275.0% during the first quarter. New York State Teachers Retirement System now owns 3,000 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $54,000 after buying an additional 2,200 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Herold Advisors Inc. acquired a new stake in Apple Hospitality REIT during the first quarter valued at approximately $54,000. 78.99% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) today announced it will be taking steps to close its marketplace business in Turkey, GittiGidiyor. eBay acquired the majority stake in GittiGidiyor in 2011 and has operated the business as an independent platform. eBay regularly reviews its business operations globally and made this difficult but strategic decision based on the ongoing competitive dynamics in the market.
eBay will work closely with GittiGidiyor buyers and sellers to assist in the migration off the platform, and will share more detailed information with them directly later today. As of today, sellers will no longer be able to list new items and as of July 18, buyers will no longer be able to make new purchases. Buyers and sellers will be able to access their My Account page until September 5, 2022.
The closure of the GittiGidiyor business is not anticipated to have a material impact on eBay's Q2 or full year results. For reference, GittiGidiyor contributed approximately 4 million active buyers to eBay's consolidated active buyer count at the end of Q1 2022.
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A new course is being launched to examine the "collective trauma" of Covid on young people - with one of the experts involved warning that the full impact of the pandemic has not yet been seen.
Glasgow University lecturer Christine Hadfield said: "We have yet to witness the full impact of the Covid pandemic on our children and young people."
She spoke out as the university launched a free new course which will look at how young people's emotional wellbeing has been impacted by the Covid-19 crisis - which has seen school children have to deal with periods of learning from home during lockdown.
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University students have also had to cope with this, with some having to isolate in halls of residence at times during the pandemic.
The two-week long, online course, "Supporting young people's mental wellbeing post-Covid", has been developed with staff in the University's School of Education.
It will examine the impact trauma can have on the developing brain, as well as how isolation and loss may have impacted on young people.
And it sets out to provide specific strategies and tools which could be used by teachers, social workers, parents and others to encourage children and young people to both recognise and discuss their emotions post pandemic.
Ms Hadfield said the course was aimed at anyone who was involved with children on a daily basis "whether it is parents, guardians or professionals in a variety of contexts".
She said: "We have all been through what I would consider to be a collective trauma during Covid.
"Over that last two and a half years, we have become increasingly aware of the importance of our emotional and mental wellbeing as well as the importance of our connection with others.
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"Through this course we will explore this issue in a bit more depth to see how we can support each other and our young people in the post Covid-19 era.
"We don't know the long-term effects of this pandemic for any of us, but we hope that our two-week course will help to start that conversation and also look at how we might support young people to move forward post pandemic."
Mary Lappin, a lecturer in grief and loss education, who is deputy head of the School of Education, said: "For many, an experience of loss and bereavement will have had a considerable impact.
"Significant loss can be a painful and lonely experience and the accompaniment of adults, the modelling of healthy grief and a growing understanding of the potential impact of loss can be a most helpful way to support the wellbeing and flourishing of our young people post pandemic."
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Sovereign gold bond opens for subscription: Issue price, discount in 10 points
2 min read . 11:21 AM IST- Capital gains on sovereign gold bonds, if any, at maturity is tax-free. This is an exclusive benefit available on gold bonds
The first tranche of Sovereign Gold Bond or SGB scheme for the current fiscal opened for subscription today. The issue price has been fixed at ₹5,091 per gram of gold. The Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2022-23 - Series I will remain open till June 24, 2022. Investors who apply online and make payment online get a discount of ₹50 per gram. For such investors, the issue price will be ₹5,041 per gram. The date of issuance will be June 28, 2022. In the futures market, gold prices were trading slightly higher at ₹50866 per 10 gram.
The first tranche of Sovereign Gold Bond or SGB scheme for the current fiscal opened for subscription today. The issue price has been fixed at ₹5,091 per gram of gold. The Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2022-23 - Series I will remain open till June 24, 2022. Investors who apply online and make payment online get a discount of ₹50 per gram. For such investors, the issue price will be ₹5,041 per gram. The date of issuance will be June 28, 2022. In the futures market, gold prices were trading slightly higher at ₹50866 per 10 gram.
The second tranche (2022-23 Series II) will be available for subscription during August 22-26, 2022.
The second tranche (2022-23 Series II) will be available for subscription during August 22-26, 2022.
Here are 10 things to know about Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme
Here are 10 things to know about Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme
1) The sovereign gold bonds mature in eight years, with an option of premature redemption after fifth year.
1) The sovereign gold bonds mature in eight years, with an option of premature redemption after fifth year.
2) Investors are paid a fixed rate of interest of 2.5% per annum payable semi-annually on the nominal value.
2) Investors are paid a fixed rate of interest of 2.5% per annum payable semi-annually on the nominal value.
3) Minimum permissible investment is one gram of gold. The RBI issues the bonds on behalf of the Government of India.
3) Minimum permissible investment is one gram of gold. The RBI issues the bonds on behalf of the Government of India.
4) The Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme was launched in 2015 with an objective to reduce the demand for physical gold and shift a part of the domestic savings - used for the purchase of gold - into financial savings.
4) The Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme was launched in 2015 with an objective to reduce the demand for physical gold and shift a part of the domestic savings - used for the purchase of gold - into financial savings.
5) During 2021-22 and 2020-21, the two COVID-impacted financial years, investors bought the bonds for an aggregate amount of ₹29,040 crore.
5) During 2021-22 and 2020-21, the two COVID-impacted financial years, investors bought the bonds for an aggregate amount of ₹29,040 crore.
6) “Investment in non-physical gold, digital gold eliminates storage costs. Also, an investment in SGBs comes with an interest coupon payable semi-annually," said Nish Bhatt, Founder & CEO, Millwood Kane International - an Investment consulting firm.
6) “Investment in non-physical gold, digital gold eliminates storage costs. Also, an investment in SGBs comes with an interest coupon payable semi-annually," said Nish Bhatt, Founder & CEO, Millwood Kane International - an Investment consulting firm.
7) "After touching a high in the month of April, gold prices have cooled off due to the rally in the US Dollar. A higher US dollar makes it expensive to own gold. An expectation of a further rise in inflation, interest rates, and yields across the globe will restrict much of the gains for gold. Traditionally, gold prices tend to rise during uncertain times. The escalation in the geopolitical tensions in Russia-Ukraine, new variants of the virus may push gold prices upwards," he added.
7) "After touching a high in the month of April, gold prices have cooled off due to the rally in the US Dollar. A higher US dollar makes it expensive to own gold. An expectation of a further rise in inflation, interest rates, and yields across the globe will restrict much of the gains for gold. Traditionally, gold prices tend to rise during uncertain times. The escalation in the geopolitical tensions in Russia-Ukraine, new variants of the virus may push gold prices upwards," he added.
8) These bonds are traded on exchanges, offering another route of redemption but liquidity is typically low.
8) These bonds are traded on exchanges, offering another route of redemption but liquidity is typically low.
9) Capital gains on gold bonds, if any, at maturity is tax-free. This is an exclusive benefit available on gold bonds.
9) Capital gains on gold bonds, if any, at maturity is tax-free. This is an exclusive benefit available on gold bonds.
10) But secondary sale and interest gained from sovereign gold bond comes under the income tax net. SGB can be used as a collateral in taking loans from the banks.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. ("Li-Cycle" or the "Company") (NYSE: LICY). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Li-Cycle and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 24, 2022, Blue Orca Capital published a report (the "Report") characterizing the Company as "a near fatal combination of stock promotion, laughable governance, a broken business hemorrhaging cash, and highly questionable Enron-like accounting." According to the Report, "Li-Cycle recognizes revenues using an Enron-like mark-to-model accounting gimmick.
Li-Cycle recognizes revenues months prior to the actual sales of its recycled black mass, based on its own provisional estimate of the future value of the product. This accounting treatment is plainly vulnerable to abuse, giving Li-Cycle discretion over its reported revenues. We suspect that under this framework, LiCycle marks up the value of its receivables on unsold products and runs the gains through its revenue line."
On this news, Li-Cycle's stock price fell $0.47 cents per share, or 5.60% to close at $7.93 per share on March 24, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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Swimming
FINA votes to restrict transgender participation in elite women’s competition
BUDAPEST, June 19 (Reuters) - Swimming's world governing body FINA on Sunday voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women's competitions and create a working group to establish an "open" category for them in some events as part of its new policy.
Transgender rights has become a major talking point as sports seek to balance inclusivity while ensuring there is no unfair advantage.
The debate intensified after University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender NCAA champion in Division I history after winning the women’s 500-yard freestyle earlier this year.
Thomas has expressed a desire to compete for a place at the Olympics but the new FINA rule would block her participation.
FINA’s decision, the strictest by any Olympic sports body, was made during its extraordinary general congress after members heard a report from a transgender task force comprising leading medical, legal and sports figures.
The new eligibility policy for FINA competitions states that male-to-female transgender athletes are eligible to compete only if “they can establish to FINA’s comfortable satisfaction that they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 (of puberty) or before age 12, whichever is later”.
The policy was passed with a roughly 71% majority after it was put to the members of 152 national federations with voting rights who had gathered for the congress at the Puskas Arena.
“We have to protect the rights of our athletes to compete, but we also have to protect competitive fairness at our events, especially the women’s category at FINA competitions,” said FINA President Husain Al-Musallam.
“FINA will always welcome every athlete. The creation of an open category will mean that everybody has the opportunity to compete at an elite level. This has not been done before, so FINA will need to lead the way. I want all athletes to feel included in being able to develop ideas during this process.”
The new FINA policy also opens up eligibility to those who have “complete androgen insensitivity and therefore could not experience male puberty”.
Swimmers who have had “male puberty suppressed beginning at Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later, and they have since continuously maintained their testosterone levels in serum (or plasma) below 2.5 nmol/L.” are also allowed to compete in women’s races.
HIGHLY DIVISIVE
Female-to-male transgender athletes (transgender men) are fully eligible to compete in men’s swimming competitions.
The issue of transgender inclusion in sport is highly divisive, particularly in the United States where it has become a weapon in a so-called “culture war” between conservatives and progressives.
Advocates for transgender inclusion argue that not enough studies have yet been done on the impact of transition on physical performance, and that elite athletes are often physical outliers in any case.
The International Olympic Committee issued a ‘framework’ on the issue, leaving eligibility decisions up to individual sports bodies, but adding that “until evidence determines otherwise, athletes should not be deemed to have an unfair or disproportionate competitive advantage due to their sex variations, physical appearance and/or transgender status”.
Athlete Ally, an advocacy group for LGBTQI+ people in sport, condemned FINA’s decision.
“FINA’s new eligibility criteria for transgender athletes and athletes with intersex variations is discriminatory, harmful, unscientific and not in line with the 2021 IOC principles. If we truly want to protect women’s sports, we must include all women,” they said in a post on twitter.
Former swimmer Sharron Davies, who won Olympic silver at the 1980 Games and has been a vocal campaigner for a more restrictive policy, welcomed the decision.
“I can’t tell you how proud I am of my sport, FINA and the FINA president for doing the science, asking the athletes/coaches and standing up for fair sport for females. Swimming will always welcome everyone no matter how you identify but fairness is the cornerstone of sport.”
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Writing by Simon Evans; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel, Hugh Lawson and Toby Davis)
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Singapore-based Space Matrix, the sixth-largest international design firm in the world by revenue, has acquired Pursuite, one of Asia’s first and largest B2B e-commerce platforms for procuring furniture, fixtures and equipment. With the move, Space Matrix aims to make planning and executing office designs more seamless, according to the company’s top executive. The acquisition could indicate a trend for design firms that are looking for a way to sell products and services through the lucrative e-commerce space and reach a larger market through an omnichannel approach, according to an analyst. “The annual addressable market size of the workplace design and build industry in Asia alone is more than circa S$15 billion [US$10.8 billion],” said Arsh Chaudhry, CEO of Space Matrix. “However, the process of procuring products and services to build an office is still very archaic and is filled with multiple issues including cost and time unpredictability, quality and consistency of products, price transparency, governance, and even product discovery. Hence, the applicability of a digital procurement platform like Pursuite for the workplace sector is immense.” Space Matrix has 16 offices in Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and the United States. “As a design and build company with high procurement volumes, setting up a commerce platform is a natural progression and in line with our plans to be a tech-first firm,” Chaudhry said. Pursuite, which focuses on the hospitality sector, has operations access across Asia and Europe. Space Matrix will bring more than 1,500 vendors across Singapore, India, China and the rest of Southeast Asia aboard the Pursuite platform. Use of ‘green’ office leases to catch on in Hong Kong, Deloitte says Space Matrix also sees growth opportunities in the acquisition because it plans to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to mine design data and provide valuable insights for its clients in designing future offices. With US$36.34 million in design fees last year, according to the publication Interior Design , Space Matrix is the sixth-largest international design firm in the world, following five design firms based in mainland China and Hong Kong. While the design industry has upgraded and improved various points in the design process, Chaudhry said, “procurement and project management have been inadequately addressed”. “What matters is that the conceived design also can be built as per the intent, and this is what influenced our decision to acquire Pursuite,” he said. “We have plans to further expand our operations in Southeast Asia. The acquisition of Pursuite will enable us to streamline and enhance our capability to deliver projects.” Another reason for the acquisition is strong demand for office redesign in Singapore, the rest of Southeast Asia and India, as companies adapt to more flexible working arrangements driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, Chaudhry said. Space Matrix said its annual global revenues have been growing by more than half annually in recent years. “The procurement process and the associated supply chain in the workplace sector is extremely disjointed, and technology has a significant role to play in solving it,” said Amit Shukla, founder and CEO of Pursuite. “We were trying to address this opportunity as an independent technology service provider. However with Space Matrix and its annual throughput of clients and business across Asia, we have the ability to immediately deploy our technology solutions against a very large total addressable market, and hit the ground running a lot faster.” Shukla will join Space Matrix as global chief technology officer, responsible for shaping the company’s global technological vision and fostering new skills tied to data, analytics, and machine learning. Besides catering to clients, the acquisition could also pave the way for Space Matrix to sell to consumers, according to Sing Tien Foo, professor and director of the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies at the National University of Singapore. “More firms are creating their omnichannel [structure] to sell their products, and e-commerce firms also extend their distribution and fulfilment to consumers by integrating their online platform with physical stores, which some call a ‘phygital’ model,” Sing said. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. | https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3182273/singapore-office-design-firm-space-matrix-acquires-b2b-e-commerce-site?utm_source=rss_feed | 2022-06-20T07:21:45Z | https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3182273/singapore-office-design-firm-space-matrix-acquires-b2b-e-commerce-site?utm_source=rss_feed | false | 1 |
The ecosystem includes solutions like BigCommerce, Netlify, and Cloudinary that work with Storyblok's headless CMS
LINZ, Austria, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Storyblok, an enterprise headless content management system (CMS) that enables developers and marketers to deliver powerful content experiences on any digital platform, today announced the launch of its Technology Ecosystem. This new program is a curated collection of MACH-ready technology solutions that can be integrated together, with Storyblok as the central content hub.
Storyblok's Technology Ecosystem contains an initial group of 15 partners, including BigCommerce, Netlify, and Cloudinary. Storyblok provides integrations for e-commerce, localization, deployment and hosting, personalization, marketing, analytics, and more to allow businesses to build successful digital experiences across channels on top of best-of-breed, composable technology.
"In the last few years, Storyblok's customers have already built more than 120,000 projects, not only on top of our headless CMS, but in a composable manner with multiple technologies connected," said Barry D'Arcy, VP of Partners at Storyblok. "We want to offer businesses a strong ecosystem of powerful API-led technologies to support the growth of their digital offerings. Partnering with other best-in-class solutions allows us to co-innovate within the ecosystem and deliver better digital outcomes."
"Jamstack is an approach to build for the web that has generated a large global community and movement over the past six years," said Sarfaraz Rydhan, Senior Director of Business Development at Netlify. "Netlify is focused on bringing the modern web community together and enabling the benefits of Jamstack with our platform alongside partners and customers. We are delighted to be part of Storyblok's Technology Ecosystem to help empower our customers to build better digital experiences with the Jamstack."
"Cloudinary firmly believes in establishing relationships with other software companies that share our belief in headless, API-first software and composable technology - which is why we're so excited to be a part of the Storyblok Technology Ecosystem," said Gary Ballabio, VP of Technology Partnerships at Cloudinary.
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Byline Bancorp: Attractive Opportunities, But Not Such An Attractive Valuation
Summary
- Byline exited the fourth quarter with improving loan demand and healthy capital to fund that loan growth, but asset sensitivity will be somewhat limited in the short term, as will growth.
- Byline occupies an attractive and valuable niche as a commercial lender to Chicago's small/medium-sized business community with meaningful operating scale.
- Solely based on its organic growth potential, Byline shares do look a little pricey, but there is upside potential here from capital deployment into M&A.
How to value opportunity is a question with no easy answer, but it’s a relevant question to ask when it comes to Byline Bancorp (NYSE:BY). This Chicago-based business lender has an attractive market opportunity lending to small and medium-sized businesses in the third-largest metro area in the country, not to mention taking share in what is still a very fragmented market. What’s more than fragmented market creates acquisition value for Byline, as well as M&A growth opportunity within the market.
So, the question is how much credit to give to M&A growth potential and/or how much of an M&A backstop to build in here. On its own, if Byline hits my core earnings growth targets, the shares aren’t all that attractive today, but I would be surprised to be looking at this bank again in a couple of years and not see either meaningful M&A to grow the bank or an acquisition of the bank.
A Solid Small Commercial Lender
Byline’s bread-and-butter is lending to the over 10,000 Chicago-area businesses with around $10M to $50M in annual revenue.
Unlike a lot of lenders of this size, Byline is not particularly leveraged to commercial real estate lending (around 37% of the current loan book), and likely at least some of that stems from the fact that bad CRE lending over a decade ago played a role in the bank having to be recapitalized and essentially reborn as Byline.
Instead, core commercial & industrial lending is a solid 35% of the loan book, and the bank also has a growing leasing business that makes up a little less than 10% of total loans. Byline is also a very active SBA lender, one of the 10 most active in the country, and the leading lender in its Illinois and Wisconsin footprint. The sale of SBA loans contributes significantly to the bank’s non-interest income (two-thirds of Q4’21 non-interest income), though about 15% of the bank’s loan book is made up of retained SBA loans.
Since recapitalization, Byline has generated above-peer net interest margin, a byproduct of the lending markets it targets, and below-average funding costs. The bank’s efficiency ratio is not exceptional, and bad debts as a percentage of loans and bank-owned real estate are a little higher than average (part of the “cost” of above-average loan yields).
Near-Term Lending And Rate Opportunities
Runoff from Paycheck Protection Program loans will pressure reported loan growth figures in 2022, but Byline did exit the quarter with around 6% quarter-over-quarter adjusted loan growth, including growth in both C&I and CRE lending. Byline’s commercial line utilization is already higher than most banks (over 53%), but loan demand is growing across its markets and I’m expecting loan growth in the mid-to-high single digits for the next couple of years.
Byline is pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to rate sensitivity, with the bank estimating a 5% move in net interest income on a 100bp move in rates. The bank’s loan/deposit ratio is a little high at 85%, and although close to 60% of the bank’s loan book is variable/floating rate, existing rate floors mean that it will take about one or two rate hikes for Byline to really benefit from higher rates.
On a more positive note, while Byline’s historical deposit beta has been relatively high next to peers (close to 40% in the last cycle), there’s been significant progress in the deposit base since then, with the bank seeing non-interest-bearing deposits grow from 28% at the start of the last tightening cycle to 42% in the fourth quarter of 2021.
M&A – Buy Until You Get Bought?
More than one CEO of a small bank has made comments to the effect of that in banking, you’re a buyer until you get bought. Given the nature of the Chicago market, I don’t think Byline will lack for targets – there are over 15 banks in the Chicago area with $1B to $2B in assets and no meaningful operations outside of Chicago, and there are likewise several credible targets if management wanted to acquire its way into Milwaukee.
With around 1% share in the Chicago metro area and an established presence in SBA lending, Byline should also hold appeal for a bank looking to acquire its way into the Chicago market, or looking to build on a small initial position in the market, particularly given cross-selling opportunities to that small/medium-sized commercial loan market.
The Outlook
Between PPP runoff and more normalized loan sale opportunities, I’m not expecting 2022 to be the best year for Byline in terms of pre-provision growth potential, but I do expect acceleration to double-digit growth in 2023. Management is also laying the groundwork for better operating leverage, continuing a branch-reduction program (six additional closures) that will see the bank go from 87 branches at the end of 2014 to 38 branches by mid-2022.
I’m expecting loan demand growth, higher rates, and share gains to help fuel above-average earnings growth, with Byline generating around 7% long-term normalized core earnings growth. I do believe the real number will likely be higher, as I expect management to look for acquisition opportunities, but I don’t see Byline as a bank where growth-by-acquisition is core to the strategy. With a CET1 ratio of 11.4%, the bank is arguably overcapitalized as is, depressing near-term returns, but giving the bank options to pursue M&A.
Discounting those core earnings back, I get a prospective total annualized return in the high single-digits, and I typically insist on double-digit returns for a bank of this size. Likewise, neither ROTCE-driven P/TBV nor P/E (13x ’23 EPS, with a higher P/E to reflect scarcity value) suggests the shares are significantly undervalued today.
The Bottom Line
I do believe that it’s more likely than not that Byline will make another acquisition at some point in the next year or two, and that likely means that my current earnings expectations are too low. I also believe that there is also an M&A backstop here – if the valuation were to get too low, I expect a buyer would move in. As is, though, while I like the Byline story well enough, I don’t see enough upside today to argue for choosing this bank over other options in the small bank space.
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SINGAPORE: Spot gold may retest a resistance at $1,856 per ounce, a break above which could lead to a into a range of $1,864-$1,871.
The correction triggered by the resistance seems to have ended around a support at $1,834, after gold managed to stabilise around this level.
The uptrend may have resumed. A break below $1,834 could cause a fall into $1,824-$1,830 range. On the daily chart, a retracement analysis reveals a few levels that control the current rise.
Spot gold may retest resistance at $1,876
After rising above $1,837, gold is expected to test the resistance at $1,867.
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Ana de Armas Transforms Into Marilyn Monroe In First Trailer For 'Blonde'
Netflix has released the first look at the upcoming film Blonde starring Ana de Armas as the legendary Marilyn Monroe . The first teaser trailer shows the de Armas as Monroe in front of a dressing room mirror saying, "Please come. Don't abandon me, as tears fall down her face. The film is based on the 2000 novel of the same name written by Joyce Carol Oates . The fictionalized movie "boldly reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, exploring the split between her public and private selves. Blonde has also earned an NC-17 rating, according to People .
The one-minute-long trailer shows recreations of some of Marilyn Monroe's most iconic moments including her white dress moment over a New York City subway grate, arriving at the 1953 premiere of her film Call Me Madam , and a shot of a theater playing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes . Flashes of camera lights and quick transitions of her de Armas as Marilyn sobbing in between these career highlights make for an eery first teaser trailer. It ends with Marilyn back in front of the mirror with her makeup and hair fixed, cheerfully laughing as if she hadn't been crying mere seconds ago. de Armas told Netflix Queue that the writer and director Andrew Dominik 's "ambitions were very clear from the start: to present a version of Marilyn Monroe's life through her lens." She continued, "He wanted the world to experience what it actually felt like to not only be Marilyn, but also Norma Jeane. I found that to be the most daring, unapologetic and feminist take on her story that I had ever seen."
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People who get their internet through Virgin Media have been warned they could face a new £25 fine if they fail to answer the door. The measure sees those who fail to answer their door to an engineer on a home visit hit by the charge.
The so-called 'doorbell tax' is added to the normal monthly broadband charge, which went up in March as the UK continues to feel the cost-of-living crisis. It has angered customers who have criticised the company's "worst customer service". Birmingham Live reported that customers were warned of the new fine — imposed when assistance has been requested by the customer but the engineer cannot gain access to the property — by text message. It read: “A £25 charge will be added to your next bill if you miss this visit.”
Emma Robinson, 42, from Surrey hit out at the announcement as she spoke to The Mirror. She said: “I have two young children and it’s not unusual for me to fail to hear the doorbell ring if I am upstairs giving my baby a bath. Now Virgin want to fine me for not answering my door when they rarely pick up the phone themselves and offer some of the worst customer service on the market. Unbelievable.”
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Martyn James, of complaints handling group resolver.co.uk, said: “Anyone who has spent ages trying to get an appointment for a fault – or has waited at home till the evening with no knock on the door – will be outraged that a missed appointment could result in a charge. The broadband industry has a pretty terrible reputation for missed appointments, service and sorting complaints. Until the sector has its house in order, it shouldn’t be charging extra for anything – including missed appointments and exit fees.”
Virgin, which has 3.2 million UK users, was criticised by the regulator Ofcom last year for poor service. It found customers waited an average of seven minutes and 40 seconds to speak to call-centre staff – the worst in the industry.
Under current rules, internet providers are obliged to pay customers £25 for each appointment the company fails to fulfil, or for appointments it cancels with less than 24 hours’ notice.
Virgin Media – formerly owned by tycoon Sir Richard Branson – merged with O2 last year in a £31bn deal and is part of telecoms giant Liberty Global. As well as the huge salary, boss Mike Fries has 120 hours a year personal use of the company’s jet. Virgin did not respond to requests for comment. | https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/virgin-media-customers-face-25-24269350 | 2022-06-20T07:48:00Z | https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/virgin-media-customers-face-25-24269350 | true | 4 |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — One photograph shows a kneeling soldier kissing a child inside a subway station, where Ukraine families shelter from Russian airstrikes. In another, an infant and a woman who appears on the brink of tears look out from a departing train car as a man peers inside, his hand spread across the window in a gesture of goodbye.
In an uplifting Father’s Day message Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted 10 photos of parents and children set against the grim backdrop of war, praising fathers who “protect and defend the most precious.”
There are scenes of childbirth, as a man and woman look toward a swaddled baby in what appears to be a hospital room where the spackled walls show scars of fighting. In another, a man lifts a child over a fence toward a woman with outstretched arms on a train platform.
“Being a father is a great responsibility and a great happiness,” Zelenskyy wrote in English text that followed the Ukrainian on Instagram. “It is strength, wisdom, motivation to go forward and not to give up.”
He urged his nation’s fighters to endure for the “future of your family, your children, and therefore the whole of Ukraine.”
His message came as four months of war in Ukraine appear to be straining the morale of troops on both sides, prompting desertions and rebellion against officers’ orders. NATO’s chief warned the fighting could drag on for “years.”
“Combat units from both sides are committed to intense combat in the Donbas and are likely experiencing variable morale,” Britain’s defense ministry said in its daily assessment of the war.
“Ukrainian forces have likely suffered desertions in recent weeks,” the assessment said, but added that “Russian morale highly likely remains especially troubled.”
It said “cases of whole Russian units refusing orders and armed stand-offs between officers and their troops continue to occur.”
Separately, the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate released what it said were intercepted phone calls in which Russian soldiers complained about front-line conditions, poor equipment, and overall lack of personnel, according to a report by the Institute for the Study of War.
In an interview published on Sunday in the German weekly Bild am Sonntag, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that “nobody knows” how long the war could last.
“We need to be prepared for it to last for years,” he said.
He also urged allies ”not to weaken support for Ukraine, even if the costs are high, not only in terms of military aid, but also because of the increase in energy and food goods prices.”
In his nightly address Sunday, Zelenskyy said the week ahead would be “historic” and perhaps bring Ukraine closer to membership in the European Union. But that move could portend a more hostile response from Russia, he warned.
EU leaders recommended Friday that Ukraine join the bloc, and their proposal was to go to members for discussion this week in Brussels. Zelenskyy called the outcome of those talks one of the most fateful moments for Ukraine since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
“I am sure that only a positive decision meets the interests of the whole of Europe,” he said.
“In such a week we should expect greater hostile activity from Russia,” he added. “And not only against Ukraine, but also against Europe. We are preparing.”
In recent days, Gazprom, the Russian gas company, has reduced supplies to two major European clients — Germany and Italy. In Italy’s case, energy officials are expected to huddle this week about the situation. The head of Italian energy giant ENI said on Saturday that with additional gas purchased from other sources, Italy should make it through the coming winter, but he warned Italians that “restrictions” affecting gas use might be necessary.
Germany will limit the use of gas for electricity production amid concerns about possible shortages caused by a reduction in supplies from Russia, the country’s economy minister said on Sunday. Germany has been trying to fill its gas storage facilities to capacity ahead of the cold winter months.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Germany will try to compensate for the move by increasing the burning of coal, a more polluting fossil fuel. “That’s bitter, but it’s simply necessary in this situation to lower gas usage,” he said.
Stoltenberg stressed, though, that “the costs of food and fuel are nothing compared with those paid daily by the Ukrainians on the front line.”
Stoltenberg added: What’s more, if Russian President Vladimir Putin should reach his objectives in Ukraine, like when he annexed Crimea in 2014, “we would have to pay an even greater price.”
Britain’s defense ministry said that both Russia and Ukraine have continued to conduct heavy artillery bombardments on axes to the north, east and south of the Sieverodonetsk pocket, but with little change in the front line.
Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said via Telegram on Sunday: “It is a very difficult situation in Sievierodonetsk, where the enemy in the middle of the city is conducting round-the-clock aerial reconnaissance with drones, adjusting fire, quickly adjusting to our changes.”
Russia’s defense ministry claimed on Sunday that Russian and separatist forces have taken control of Metolkine, a settlement just to the east of Sievierodonetsk.
Bakhmut, a city in the Donbas, is 55 kilometers (33 miles) southwest of the twin cities of Lysyhansk and Siervierodonetsk, where fierce military clashes have been raging. Every day, Russian artillery pummels Bakhmut.
But Bakhmut’s people try to go about their daily lives, including shopping in markets that have opened again in recent weeks.
“In principle, it can be calm in the morning,” said one resident, Oleg Drobelnnikov. ”The shelling starts at about 7 or 8 in the evening.” Still, he said, it has been pretty calm in the last 10 days or so.
“You can buy food at small farmer markets,” said Drobelnnikov, a teacher. ”It is not a problem. In principle, educational institutions, like schools or kindergartens, are not working due to the situation. The institutions moved to other regions. There is no work here.”
Ukraine’s east has been the main focus of Russia’s attacks for more than two months.
On Saturday, Zelenskyy made a trip south from Kyiv to visit troops and hospital workers in the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions along the Black Sea. He handed out awards to dozens of people at every stop, shaking their hands and thanking them again and again for their service.
Zelenskyy, in a recorded address aboard a train back to Kyiv, vowed to defend the country’s south.
“We will not give away the south to anyone. We will return everything that’s ours and the sea will be Ukrainian and safe.”
He added: “Russia does not have as many missiles as our people have a desire to live.”
Zelenskyy also condemned the Russian blockade of Ukraine’s ports amid weeks of inconclusive negotiations on safe corridors so millions of tons of siloed grain can be shipped out before the approaching new harvest season.
In other attacks in the south, Ukraine’s southern military operational command said Sunday that two people were killed in shelling of the Galitsyn community in the Mykolaiv region and that shelling of the Bashtansky district is continuing.
Russia’s defense ministry said seaborne missiles destroyed a plant in Mykolaiv city where Western-supplied howitzers and armored vehicles were stored.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has expressed concerns “that a bit of Ukraine fatigue is starting to set in around the world.”
“It would be a catastrophe if Putin won. He’d love nothing more than to say, ‘Let’s freeze this conflict, let’s have a cease-fire,'” Johnson said on Saturday, a day after a surprise visit to Kyiv, where he met with Zelenskyy and offered offer continued aid and military training.
Western-supplied heavy weapons are reaching front lines. But Ukraine’s leaders have insisted for weeks that they need more arms, and sooner.
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Julia Rubin in New York, Sylvia Hui in London, Frank Jordans in Berlin, Frances D’Emilio in Rome and Srdjan Nedeljkovic in Bakhmut, Ukraine, contributed to this report.
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UK braces for rail paralysis: Militant unions dig in their heels and threaten to continue action until CHRISTMAS with more crunch talks today - as week-long walkout looms from midnight
- RMT Union says it now has a mandate to strike regularly until Christmas - with just fortnight's notice each time
- Boris Johnson blasted for failing to carry through promise for 'minimum service' on railways in strikes
- Trade unions are threatening walkouts this summer with teachers and NHS staff also set to ballot
- Local government workers, including binmen, could join strike action as they demand giant pay rises
- Inflation is now sitting at more than 9 per cent and may hit 11 per cent in autumn. Unions want pay to match
Commuters were urged to stay at home today ahead of the worst shutdown of Britain's railways for 30 years from tomorrow as militant unions threatened to strike up until Christmas.
Millions of people will be forced to work from home or battle into work on foot, bike or in rammed buses due to the three days of strikes that run tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday. The strike has been designed so there will also be severe disruption for on non-strike days too, causing six days of chaos.
The rail strikes will also directly affect pupils, who are taking their GCSEs and A-levels this week, which rely on trains to get them to school. The walkouts will also cause misery for music and sports fans, especially the 200,000 people heading to the Glastonbury Festival after a three-year hiatus.
And today it emerged that teachers, doctors, binmen, barristers and postmen could join rail workers in heaping walkout misery upon Britain this Summer and into the Autumn.
Some of Britain's railway companies will run emergency timetables from this morning and Transport for Wales has warned people should 'only travel by rail if necessary' on Monday with trains from Scotland to London disrupted from 7pm and the Heathrow Express shutting down from 11pm.
The RMT Union claims it now has a 'mandate' for six months of industrial action - potentially at just a fortnight's notice each time - after boss Mick Lynch reportedly rejected a two per cent pay rise for his 40,000 members who walkout later. RMT assistant general secretary John Leach insisted today there had been no pay rise offered at all.
Rail bosses have also admitted that they believe they are in a war of 'attrition' that will last months and will hit millions of people and cost the economy up to £100million at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis and a potential recession. They may offer bonuses to any staff who cross picket lines to do their jobs.
Boris Johnson is under increasing pressure to bring in reforms to curb rail strikes that he promised in 2019. The Government has failed to keep its manifesto pledge and bring in legislation that will ensure a minimum train service of around 30% during strikes, which is already mandatory in France and Spain.
More than 40,000 RMT rail workers will walk out from tomorrow with tens of thousands of other union members in actions that will cripple much of the UK's transport infrastructure with disruption to last six days.
450,000 teachers are ready to strike if they don't like a pay offer from Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi due on Wednesday, with the National Education Union declaring they are ready to ballot staff.
Christina McAnea, the head of Unison, the country's biggest union representing much of the NHS, said last night that the Government must make a 'sensible pay award... or risk a potential dispute'.
The RMT will set out its next strike plans by the end of the week, with industrial action to disrupt the start of the summer holidays in late July being mooted. An union source told the Telegraph: 'We have a mandate for strike action for six months. The National Executive Committee will decide what to do next. They will only meet after this week and then need to give the employers two weeks' notice.'
Britain's unions have vowed to bring the country to a standstill in a 'summer of discontent' not seen since the 1926 General Strike with railway and Tube workers set to be bolstered by 155,000 comrades at airports, Royal Mail and BT. More than 1million council workers and teachers could strike in the Autumn.
Commuters at Waterloo Station ahead of national rail strikes that begin tomorrow but have already began to hurt millions of commuters
The scale of strikes has not been seen for decades and are already set to last for months
Mick Lynch, Secretary-General of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers speaks at a trades union organised protest march opposed to British government policies at Parliament Square in London on Saturday
Other trade unions are threatening walkouts this summer which could see action from teachers, NHS staff, barristers, postmen and more.
With services slashed to 20 per cent of their normal frequency, some locations have been cut off entirely and passengers warned not to travel unless their journeys are absolutely necessary, with the national network likely to be paralysed by walkouts.
Up to 1.5million workers are being balloted over strike action on a level not seen since the Winter of Discontent in the late 1970s.
Sir Keir Starmer yesterday again failed to condemn rail strikes that will cause chaos this week and cost businesses hundreds of millions of pounds.
'The plan by unions to bring Britain to a standstill by holding strikes across swathes of the economy and our public services is deeply selfish,' said Tory party chairman Oliver Dowden.
'Hard-pressed families and businesses will suffer extra costs and disruption caused by these unnecessary strikes.'
Lord Blunkett, the Labour former home secretary, urged union bosses to 'stop pretending they are in the 1970s or 1980s'.
Last night, senior rail sources said that agency workers are not going to be the 'silver bullet' many are hoping for to help stop the disruptive strikes.
The rail and Tube strikes are likely to cost the economy at least £91million in staff absences alone, according to analysis by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). They calculated that 0.8 per cent of staff – more than 250,000 people – will not be able to get to work.
They said that while the industry would welcome plans for agency workers to cover gaps in the workforce, it would 'only prove useful' in the 'less skilled parts' of railway companies.
The source told The Times: 'It takes a year to train someone as a signaller. In the same way you can't just put an agency worker in the cab of a train, it's not a silver bullet by any measure.'
Two teaching unions with a combined membership of around 750,000 yesterday became the latest to warn of walkouts unless salaries go up.
And half a million Health Service staff could strike over their pay offer.
Commuters will not be the only ones facing chaos this week, as doctors, nurses, workers in the civil service and local governments, postal workers, traffic wardens and BT engineers are said to be considering joining strike ballots.
RMT union boss Mick Lynch yesterday suggested the rail strikes could stretch into the autumn, warning: 'There are going to be many unions balloting across the country, because people can't take it anymore.'
Tory MP Brendan Clarke-Smith said Labour's failure to condemn the strikes showed it was in hock to the unions.
He added: 'Now they want to take us back to the 1970s and bring this country to a standstill. Many people still remember the Winter of Discontent, 25 per cent inflation, sky-high interest rates, IMF bailouts, three-day weeks and rubbish on the streets.
'We must tackle this head on and show that the British people will not be held to ransom.'
The NASUWT teaching union said yesterday that its 300,000 members would be balloted unless the Government backed demands for a 12 per cent pay rise.
General secretary Patrick Roach said Britain faced an 'existential emergency for the future of the teaching profession' because of the cost-of-living crisis coupled with 'real-terms pay cuts'.
He added: 'The Government wrongly assumed teachers would simply stand by as they erode pay and strip our education system to the bone. If a pay rise is not awarded, it will be won by our members in workplaces through industrial action.'
The National Education Union will also prepare to ballot its 460,000 members – ranging from teachers and lecturers to support staff – unless an acceptable pay rise is offered in line with inflation.
Joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said: 'If there is no significant improvement on 3 per cent – which will leave an 8 per cent gap with inflation this year alone – we cannot avoid a ballot. The mood among teachers has changed.
'Last year the issue was mainly workload. This year it is workload and pay.'
LONDON -- This Transport for London map shows greyed-out lines for those that will be affected by disruption from tomorrow. Only the Croydon Tramlink and Docklands Light Railway are shown as running normally
LNER: The operator says it will be running only 38 per cent of its usual trains, with the last from London to Edinburgh at 2pm
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY -- A very limited services will run Cardiff or Plymouth to London via Bristol, Swindon and Reading
SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY: There will be no trains beyond Southampton to Weymouth; or beyond Basingstoke to Exeter
SOUTHEASTERN - Limited services set to run between London, Kent and East Sussex next week on June 21, 23 and 25
GREAT NORTHERN, GATWICK EXPRESS, SOUTHERN AND THAMESLINK: This map from Govia Thameslink Railway shows the trains expected to operate on its network during strike action next week on June 21, 23 and 25 - a fraction of normal services
Unison members and members of the public take part in a TUC national demonstration in central London to demand action on the cost of living, a new deal for working people and a pay rise for all workers. Picture date: Saturday June 18, 2022
Unison, the country's biggest union, has indicated half a million members could strike over the upcoming NHS pay offer, which is expected in June, if it falls short of the 9.2 per cent rate of inflation.
The NHS walkout would likely see thousands of appointments and operations missed because patients will be unable to get to hospitals and surgeries.
National medical director of NHS England, Professor Sir Stephen Powis, said it was 'vital' that people sought appointments and treatment despite the disruption.
General secretary Christina McAnea said: 'The Government has a simple choice. Either it makes a sensible pay award, investing in staff and services and reducing delays for patients or it risks a potential dispute, growing workforce shortages and increased suffering for the sick.'
The British Medication Association has also said it would ballot members over junior doctors' pay. And the railways could be hit by further strikes in the summer holidays after the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association served notice to ballot hundreds of workers at Southeastern and Great Western Railway over demands for no compulsory redundancies and a pay rise.
Some 115,000 Royal Mail workers are set to be balloted by the Communication Workers Union in another dispute over pay.
Royal Mail announced last week that staff would receive a 2 per cent pay rise but CWU deputy general secretary Terry Pullinger said it was 'nowhere near acceptable'.
On Tuesday, teenagers sitting GCSE history or dance, or A-level German, religious studies, or maths could be hit. Those taking A-level chemistry or GCSE physics on Thursday could also be affected.
The Public and Commercial Services Union, which has around 180,000 members in the Civil Service, will also vote in September over possible action over its demand for a 10 per cent pay rise. Barristers are voting on whether to strike over legal aid rates, with a decision due today.
Lord Blunkett last night warned the unions that mass walkouts would be counter-productive. 'The one way to lose all support and ensure the re-election of Boris Johnson is to fall into the elephant trap,' he said.
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng will table legislation as early as this week to let businesses recruit temporary staff during walkouts, a practice that is currently banned.
And the walkouts are also expected to cause misery for music and spots fans, with Glastonbury Festival, which will see 200,000 revellers return to Somerset for the first time in three years, also hit.
Many festival-goers typically take the train to the nearest station at Castle Cary before catching a bus to the festival site.
While Great Western Railway said it planned to keep some trains running between the station and London Paddington during the festival, it has warned the times of some services might change.
Coach firm National Express said it had seen 'a significant increase in both inquiries and bookings' as people opt to travel with it, and warned of heavy traffic around the festival site.
Will rail strikes wreck your week? From hospitals and holidays, to glamping and Glastonbury... how the walkouts will bite across the country
Britain is braced for a week of chaos as the biggest rail strike in a generation looks likely to paralyse the national network.
With services slashed to 20 per cent of their normal frequency, some places cut off entirely and passengers warned not to travel unless their journeys are absolutely necessary, here is how the walkouts are set to cripple different sectors.
NHS
Thousands of appointments and operations are likely to be missed because patients will be unable to get to hospitals and surgeries.
Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said it was 'vital' that people sought appointments and treatment despite the disruption.
'I am urging those who have appointments booked in to plan ahead and look at alternative options for getting to their GP practice or hospital if needed,' he said.
Thousands of appointments and operations are likely to be missed because of next week's rail strikes
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said the walkouts will 'put patients at risk' as doctors, nurses and other frontline staff struggle to get to work.
One senior NHS leader warned the strikes 'will probably end up killing people because they'll prevent ambulance trust staff getting to work'.
The strikes are expected to hit London hospitals especially hard, as many have limited parking capacity for patients who decide to drive to appointments.
Both London Ambulance Service Trust and South Central Ambulance Service Foundation Trust have moved to the highest level of alert, which shows they are under extreme pressure.
Schools
Families of pupils sitting GCSEs and A-levels who usually rely on trains to get them to school have been urged to find travel arrangements for this week.
On Tuesday, those teenagers who are sitting GCSE history or dance, or A-level German, religious studies or maths could be hit.
On Thursday, those who will be taking A-level chemistry or GCSE physics papers may be affected.
Students sitting GCSE history or dance, or A-level German, religious studies or maths could be affected by the strike action
A total of 17 GCSE and 22 A-level papers could be disrupted by the strikes.
Schools will be allowed to begin exams up to 30 minutes late or relocate them to mitigate against disruption, according to guidance from the Joint Council for Qualifications, which represents the UK's biggest exam boards.
Julie McCulloch, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said while most pupils lived near schools and typically travelled by bus, it was important that families made 'alternative arrangements' for those reliant on trains.
She urged pupils worried about how they would attend exams to talk to their school to discuss their options.
Economy
The rail and Tube strikes are likely to cost the economy at least £91million in staff absences alone, according to analysis by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).
The CEBR calculated that 0.8 per cent of staff – more than 250,000 people – will not be able to get to work.
It estimates that almost half the £91million – £45.1million – will be incurred tomorrow, given the greater number of commuters then and the separate London Underground strikes.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps pictured during a press conference in Downing Street last month
On Thursday, output losses are estimated at £26.3million, while on Saturday, they are expected to be £19.6million.
The capital is set to face the largest hit, with a loss to the economy of £52million, it found.
Other estimates suggest the cost to the UK economy overall could be as much as £450million.
Major events
The walkouts are expected to cause misery for music and sports fans.
Following a three-year hiatus Glastonbury Festival returns from Wednesday, with 200,000 revellers heading to Somerset.
Many festival-goers typically take the train to the nearest station at Castle Cary before catching a bus to the festival site.
While Great Western Railway said it planned to keep some trains running between the station and London Paddington during the festival, it has warned the times of some services might change.
Coach firm National Express said it had seen 'a significant increase in both inquiries and bookings' as people opt to travel with it, and warned of heavy traffic around the festival site.
Following a three-year hiatus Glastonbury Festival returns from Wednesday, but festival-goers who usually take the train to the event will be affected
Sports fans are also set to be hit for six when England plays its third Test match against New Zealand at Headingley in Leeds from June 23 to 27.
The UK Athletics Championships run from Friday to Sunday in Manchester.
By-elections in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton take place on Thursday, while Elton John and the Rolling Stones are playing gigs in London's Hyde Park on Friday and Saturday respectively.
Nationwide events to commemorate veterans could also be disrupted as UK Armed Forces Day takes place on Saturday.
Hospitality and holidays
UK Hospitality, which represents the tourism, leisure and theatre sectors, warned the strikes could cost businesses over a billion pounds.
Footfall looks set to drop by 9.3 per cent across all retail outlets this week, with high streets due to be visited by 10 per cent fewer customers, while the figure for shopping centres will be 13 per cent down, according to the retail consultancy Springboard.
Holidaymakers hoping to travel by train to London airports are being warned to expect severe disruption and reduced timetables.
There will be no Gatwick Express services on strike days, while the Stansted Express and Heathrow Express services will run just two trains an hour, with much later first and earlier last trains.
Eurostar is running a reduced timetable next week and has cancelled 41 trains between London and Paris and Brussels and Amsterdam.
The roads
Experts have warned of a surge in congestion as commuters who usually take the train may opt to drive instead
People who decide to drive or take the bus due to the strikes should brace themselves for a surge in congestion, experts have said.
Many of those without cars are turning to bus travel. Stagecoach, the country's biggest bus and coach operator, said next week's bookings for its Megabus service had increased by 85 per cent.
Main motorway arteries and roads in rural and suburban areas are likely to be the worst affected, the AA predicted, although it said it expected the impact to be 'slightly cushioned by record fuel prices' and some commuters working from home.
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Biden says new shipping costs law may help tame inflation
WASHINGTON — (AP) — President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday meant to lower the cost of shipping goods across oceans, a move the White House says will help ease logistical costs for retailers that have remained high since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and helped fuel record inflation.
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act passed unanimously by the Senate via voice vote in March after winning bipartisan House support. It empowers the Federal Maritime Commission to investigate late fees charged by carriers while prohibiting ocean carriers and marine terminals from refusing to fill available cargo space.
The president also has stressed that a concentration of corporate shipping power in the hands of a few large companies has fed higher shipping costs in ways that hurt businesses and exacerbate problems with inflation.
“These carriers made $190 billion in profit in 2021, seven times higher than the year before,” Biden said. “The cost got passed on, as you might guess, directly to consumers, sticking it to American families and businesses because they could.”
The Federal Reserve this week raised its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point, the largest bump since 1994, after data released last week showed U.S. inflation rose in May to a four-decade high of 8.6%.
“People know that prices are too high and we have to do something, and this was one of the obvious culprits," said Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who cosponsored the law with South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune. "There’s a lot of things, but this was pretty glaring.”
Klobuchar, who attended the signing, said U.S. exporters saw their prices to access shipping containers increase by at least four times during the past two years of the pandemic.
The new measures should prompt shippers to quickly lower costs, Klobuchar said. But if not, lawmakers could take further steps — including examining antitrust exemptions.
“If I were them, I would take great heed at the unanimous vote in the Senate, the strong vote in the House, that we could act very soon if they don't start being fair,” Klobuchar said. “If they keep their prices so high and don't respond to the needs in our country, I think you will see legislation, more legislation, in the mix.”
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Ukraine Latest: Zelenskiy Awaits EU Vote; China Buys Russian Oil
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,(Bloomberg) -- President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his nation was facing a “historic week,” as the European Union’s 27 member states decide whether to approve its bid to become a candidate.
While the French, Italian and German leaders have already given their blessing, all member states must agree. They’ll reach a decision late this week.
Russian forces are intensifying their attacks on the east and south of Ukraine, meanwhile, with street fighting taking place around the clock in Sievierodonetsk, one of Ukraine’s two remaining footholds in the Luhansk region. A fire broke out when Russian forces shelled a fiberglass plant in the city, according to the Ukrainian President’s Office.
China continued to snap up Russian energy products last month, including a record quantity of crude oil, lifting purchases to $7.47 billion -- about $1 billion more than April and double the amount of a year ago.
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Poland Open to US Plan to Build Silos (8:36 a.m.)
Poland is ready to work with US to build temporary silos for Ukrainian grain with the decision expected within weeks, Rzeczpospolita newspaper reported, citing unnamed government sources.
The project would take three to four months to complete, it said. An area around Slawkow terminal in southern Poland is one potential site where the silos could be built given its wide-gauge track link, according to the newspaper.
President Joe Biden said during a speech at the AFL-CIO event in Philadelphia on Tuesday that he’s working closely with EU partners to build temporary silos along the Ukraine border and some in Poland to get much needed grain out.
Ukraine Says Russia Shelling Intensifying (8:35 a.m.)
Ukraine expects Russian troops to intensify attacks on the key city of Kharkiv as they continue to focus their guns on southern and eastern regions.
In the city of Sievierodonetsk, one of Ukraine’s two remaining footholds in the Luhansk region, a fire broke out when Russian forces shelled a fiberglass plant, according to the Ukrainian President’s Office.
Intense street fighting is taking place in the city, which is being shelled and bombarded by air along with nearby villages and the town of Lysychansk, according to Ukraine’s military. The majority of the residential areas in Sievierodonetsk are now controlled by Russia’s troops with fighting going almost around the clock.
Germany Brings Back Coal as Russia Cuts Gas (7:56 a.m.)
Germany plans to rely more on its legacy coal plants to keep the lights on in Europe’s largest economy after Russia cut flows of natural gas.
A package of additional measures was announced on Sunday by Economy Minister Robert Habeck, that also included incentives for the industry to reduce consumption. The government will also offer additional credit lines by state-owned lender KfW to guarantee gas injections at storage sites.
Drafting in plants burning the heavily polluting fossil fuel is the latest sign of how Europe’s climate fight is taking a back seat as governments ensure there will be enough energy to meet demand during the winter.
China Buys $7.5 Billion of Russian Energy (7:51 a.m.)
China continued to snap up Russian energy products last month, including a record quantity of crude oil, lifting purchases to $7.47 billion -- about $1 billion more than April and double the amount of a year ago.
Total Chinese imports from Russia accelerated in May, surging 80% on year to $10.27 billion, as Beijing continues to offer support to an otherwise isolated government in Moscow.
Crude imports rose 55% from a year ago to 8.42 million tons, with Russia overtaking Saudi Arabia as China’s main source of oil, according to customs data released Monday. Russian liquefied natural sales rose 54% to 397,000 tons, despite a 28% decline in China’s overall purchases of the super-chilled fuel.
Russian Gas via Nord Stream at 40% Capacity (7:29 a.m.)
Russian natural gas shipments via Nord Stream to Germany will remain at about 40% of capacity on Monday after Gazprom last week reduced volumes via the key export link. Flows via Ukraine are set to remain stable on Monday, based on orders.
China’s Alumina Exports Soar to Fill Russian Shortages (5:07 a.m.)
China’s alumina exports rose again last month, as buyers in Russia sought to plug a shortfall because of war and sanctions. The 190,000 tons shipped in May brings the year-to-date figure to 380,000 tons, nearly 1,000% higher than the same period in 2021.
Zelenskiy Hails ‘Historic Week’ Ahead of EU Decision (3:55 a.m.)
The European Union will decide on Ukraine’s bid for candidacy status to join the bloc this week. While the French, Italian and German leaders have already given their blessing, all member states must agree.
“Tomorrow, a truly historic week begins,” Zelenskiy said Sunday in his nightly address. “A week when we will hear the answer from the European Union on the candidate status for Ukraine. We already have a positive decision from the European Commission, and at the end of the new week there will be a response from the European Council.”
His country, and Europe in general, should expect “greater hostile activity from Russia,” he said, as Ukraine awaits the “fateful” decision.
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The Grand Entry kicked off the 2022 Siloam Springs Rodeo on Thursday night. For more rodeo pictures, see pages 4 and 5 of Siloam Sunday.
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The Grand Entry kicked off the 2022 Siloam Springs Rodeo on Thursday night. For more rodeo pictures, see pages 4 and 5 of Siloam Sunday.
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THE drone artists behind the stunning display for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations will light up the sky in a very different way this week.
The geniuses behind the amazing light display above Buckingham Palace are working their magic again – but this time with Spongebob Squarepants.
Featuring 600 drones – more than the 400 used in the Jubilee show – the nine-minute spectacle will bring the glamour of Hollywood to the West Midlands.
The drones will fly 600ft in the air above Hollywood Golf Club, in Bromsgrove, at 10.30pm on June 21.
They'll take the shape of iconic characters and scenes from Star Trek, Spongebob and Mission: Impossible to mark the launch of new streaming service, Paramount+.
Uma Thurman, Jack Whitehall and Naomie Harris have also teamed up for film Paramount Pete.
The two-minute video, which was filmed in the UK, follows Pete on his first day as he attempts to get hundreds of coffee orders right for stars including Christina Ricci, Miranda Cosgrove and Scream’s Ghost Face.
Mungo Denison, co-founder and director of SKYMAGIC, said: “This show has taken months to finesse due to the attention to detail required to give a faithful representation of the various characters we are depicting.
"It is quite a romp through Paramount’s most extraordinarily well-known characters and iconic images. It’s a phenomenal programming line-up.
"This is the largest drone show the UK has ever seen, and where better to showcase this content but Hollywood. We will light up the night there.”
The drone show will also feature a QR code. Viewers who scan it will treated to a free seven-day trial of the streaming service.
Paramount+, which will be available in the UK and Ireland from June 22, will include exclusive originals, blockbuster films from Paramount Pictures.
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A look at what's happening around the majors today:
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MACHADO INJURED
The Padres will see how star third baseman Manny Machado is feeling, a day after he sprained his left ankle while taking a tumble running out a grounder.
It's uncertain how long Machado will be sidelined.
Machado, who is hitting .328 with 12 home runs and 46 RBIs, was hurt Sunday in the first inning of an 8-3 loss at Colorado. The Padres said X-rays were negative.
"Fortunately, when he felt himself slip, he was able to shift his weight to the right and probably avoid more serious damage," acting manager Ryan Flaherty said. "All in all, it's as good as it could be."
"We have to wait for some of the swelling to go down and he gets treated," he said. "We'll probably have a better idea of that tomorrow."
Machado was injured after hitting a slow comebacker. He sprinted down the line and stretched his left leg toward first base as the throw arrived, but his cleat appeared to slip across the top of the bag and he fell to the ground, his leg buckling beneath him.
CENTRAL SHOWDOWN
Cardinals right-hander Miles Mikolas (5-4, 2.62 ERA) is scheduled to start when St. Louis opens a four-game series in Milwaukee — the teams are tied for the NL Central lead.
Mikolas came within one strike of pitching a no-hitter against Pittsburgh in his last start. He gave up Cal Mitchell's double that was just over the head of center fielder Harrison Bader with two outs in the ninth inning at Busch Stadium.
Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes (4-4, 2.52) is set to go for the Brewers.
CRUZ CONTROL
The Pirates plan to promote 6-foot-7 shortstop Oneil Cruz from Triple-A Indianapolis before their game against the Cubs.
The 23-year-old Cruz ranks among the game's most exciting prospects and made his major league debut last September. Pittsburgh sent him to Triple-A to begin this season, infuriating many fans who perceived the demotion as an effort to delay Cruz's free agency down the road. Cruz struggled at the start of the year with Indianapolis but has been better of late, hitting .233 with nine homers, 11 stolen bases and a .761 OPS overall.
Cruz will join the club a day after fellow rookie Jack Suwinski hit his third homer of the game in the ninth inning, giving the Pirates a walk-off victory over the Giants. Suwinski is the first rookie to cap a three-homer game with a game-ending shot, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
SLAMMIN' START
Marlins outfielder Jerar Encarnación tries to follow up a historic MLB debut in Miami's series finale against the Mets.
The 24-year-old became the first player since at least 1901 with a grand slam and an outfield assist in his debut Sunday during a 6-2 win over New York. He also stole a base in the ninth inning.
There's a good chance he'll be back in the lineup against Mets left-hander David Peterson -- assuming Peterson is around to make the start. New York manager Buck Showalter said the team is making contingency plans because Peterson's wife is expected to go into labor within the next few days.
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CONTROVERSIAL tennis star Nick Kyrgios accused a ball boy of putting him off in a semi-final loss to Hubert Hurkacz.
The Australian star was playing in the Halle Open in Germany as he continues his Wimbledon preparations.
Kyrgios, 27, has a reputation for his on-court outbursts and in his latest tantrum he took aim at a ball boy.
He shouted: "You just put me off. Run properly, please."
The ball boy had stumbled while going to pick up the ball after Kyrgios missed his first serve.
He then got his second serve in before hitting a wild forehand out that resulted in Kygrios bemoaning the ball kid.
At the time, the outspoken star was a set up against Hurkacz serving to draw the second set level at 2-2.
The Pole went on to win the match 4-6 7-6 7-6, setting up a final versus world No.1 Daniil Medvedev.
Kyrgios has been in fine form as he prepares to head to SW19.
In the quarter-final he beat Pablo Carreno Busta 6-4 6-2 making just four unforced errors all match.
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He also beat former Grand Slam finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas in the round previous.
That match also had it's drama as Kyrgios smashed a racquet after losing the opening set.
He was also given a warning by the umpire for taking too long between points.
This resulted in him arguing with the umpire and refusing to play until he could talk to a supervisor about the supposed unfair treatment he was getting from the official.
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WEIHAI, China, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news reported by CRI Online:
In an effort to gather frontier information and resources, embrace the new era with new perspectives, build new advantages by advancing industrial modernization, city internationalization, new urbanization, green development and modern governance, the Fifth Annual Meeting of Weihai Mayor's International Economic Advisory Council was held on June 11, with the theme of Enhance Core Competence of Manufacturing, Create New Engine for Weihai's High-Quality Development. 19 members of the Advisory Council from America, Germany, Japan, Austria, Belgium and other countries and regions met online, shared wisdom and insights, gave advice on promoting Weihai's industrial modernization. The First Weihai International Week was opened during the meeting.
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(LEAD) 'Emergency Declaration' is about people fighting off disaster while stranded on a plane
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By Shim Sun-ah
SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- Imagine being stuck on an ill-fated flight where a mysterious deadly virus is spreading.
"Emergency Declaration," a forthcoming Korean film starring iconic actors Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun and Jeon Do-yeon, depicts such a frightening scenario, as the country's first aviation-disaster genre film.
The story takes place on a flight, from Seoul to Honolulu, where the captain declares an emergency landing after a terrorist plants a deadly virus and the first victim is dead within hours.
During a press conference in Seoul Monday to promote the film set to open in local theaters in August, writer-director Han Jae-rim said that he intended it to be a thought-provoking movie about people fighting a disaster on top of its attraction as a disaster genre flick.
"I received an offer about 10 years ago. I found the setting and plan for the film project were fairly good at that time but didn't know how to do it," said the director best known for "The Face Reader" (2013) and "The King" (2017). "And then, unfortunately, there were many big and small disasters in Korean society over the past 10 years. As I brokenheartedly watched them, a certain idea came up to my mind and then I thought I should do this project."
He stressed he made efforts to shed light on how people fight the disaster and their emotions from overcoming it or suffering a defeat. He hoped audiences would not simply consume his movie as entertainment.
The film garnered wide attention from Korean movie fans from the initial stage of production for its star-studded cast.
Among the cast members are two Cannes-winning actors Song Kang-ho, Jeon Do-yeon; Lee Byung-hun, a top actor who was an award presenter at last year's Cannes Film Festival; as well as Kim Nam-gil, Im Si-wan, Kim So-jin and Park Hae-joon.
When asked how it was possible to have so many A-listers in the same film, the director said even he could not believe it at first.
"Actually, the actors here are symbolic figures of the Korean film industry as well as globally and others are also popular enough to take lead roles in other big-budget films. Any director would like to cast all of them," he said. "So, I couldn't believe that those people are in my film and kept feeling confusion while shooting it. I was confused whether I was shooting one film or seven different films at a time. I felt honored and appreciated it."
Han said, looking at the scenes after the shoot, he was impressed by the actors' outstanding performances. "There are a lot of passengers on the plane who are not here, but if you watch the movie, their acting will also be memorable," he added.
Song Kang-ho, who was named best actor for his performance in "Broker" at this year's Cannes, plays In-ho, a veteran police detective who is on board to track down a terror suspect after being tipped off about his plan to attack the Hawaii-bound plane. Jeon Do-yeon, who won best actress for her performance in director Lee Chang-dong's "Secret Sunshine" at 2007 Cannes, plays Suk-hee, minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport who struggles to find out the best way to protect Korean citizens from the terrorist attack.
Park Hae-joon's character is Tae-soo who has to make "a cool-headed decision" to save the nation as the chief of a crisis management center at the presidential office.
Lee Byung-hun plays the role of Jae-hyuk, a father with aviophobia who is on board to go get treatment for his sick daughter. Im Si-wan plays Jin-seok, a mysterious young man who boards the ill-fated plane while wandering around Incheon International Airport without a destination.
Kim Nam-gil and Kim So-jin play deputy pilot Hyeon-soo and chief flight attendant Hee-jin, respectively.
"Apart from the genre elements, it sophisticatedly and maturely expressed thoughts about family, neighbors and the community, which we usually don't think deeply about in our everyday lives. I was glad to be in such a film for this reason," Song said.
Lee said he was attracted by the script not just because it was tense and interesting as a disaster genre flick but also due to it being thought-provoking.
Jeon said she was fond of the script, too, but what she liked the most about the movie was the director's good intention to make it.
"I hope this movie can console people who are hurt while undergoing big and small disasters," she added.
The film is set to open in local theaters in August. It was selected for the Out of Competition section of the 74th Cannes Film Festival in 2021.
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Following a pike in inflation in the month of April this year, Nigerian banks have increased maximum lending rate on loans and advances to customers from 26.61 per cent in March 2022 to 27.79 per cent in April, indicating an increase of 4.43 per cent or 1.18 basis points.
THISDAY investigation revealed that Nigerian banks have as a result increased lending to real sector of the economy.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in its 'money market indicators' data showed a 0.51 percentage point increase in the average maximum lending rate to 27.79 per cent in April 2022 from 27.65 per cent in January.
The CBN data revealed that in the first four months of 2021, the maximum lending rate was hovering around an average of 28.56 per cent.
The apex bank in the first four months of 2022 maintained its Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) or lending rate at 11.5 per cent but increased it to 13 per cent in May, citing inflationary pressure that moved from 15.7 per cent in January to 16.82 per cent in April 2022.
The hike in MPR was the first time in two and a half years that the policy-setting committee of the nation's financial regulator would increase the rate.
The MPR is the baseline interest rate in an economy while every other interest rate used within such an economy is built on it.
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele in his communique at the end of Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in May had explained that the members were concerned about the somewhat aggressive rise in inflation by almost 90 basis points in April, 2022.
According to him, "To dampen the expectation of the inflationary pressure, MPC decided on the need to take a shift from its historically cautious approach on interest rate, to a policy rate hike, while still adopting an accommodative approach to development finance initiatives that have supported the growth of the economy and sustained recovery.
"The MPC is of the view that rates on the development finance initiatives of the Bank should remain at five per cent till March, 2023.
Consequently, as regards the decision on whether to hold. tighten or loosen, MPC feels that loosening in the face of the rising policy rates in Advance economies may result in a sharp rise in capital outflow and faster dry-up of foreign credit lines."
A member of the MPC, a Professor of Economics at the University of Benin, Mike Obadan in his personal statement had argued that, "A further tightening of monetary policy will not tame inflation. Rather, it will lead to an increase in lending rates of the commercial banks, limit access to credit, and hurt investment in the real sectors of the economy.
"Indeed, a further tightening policy will be antithetical to the CBN's goal of increasing access of investors to cheap credit in order to aid economic recovery, spur growth, increase employment and reduce poverty.
"On the other hand, easing monetary policy in the present circumstances could increase untargeted money supply growth and exacerbate inflation. The situation of low growth, high unemployment and poverty incidence and double-digit inflation, no doubt, entails difficult policy choices."
Meanwhile, analysts have attributed the increase in maximum lending rate to inflationary pressure, stressing that gap between the CBN's lending rate and the maximum lending is huge.
Speaking with THISDAY, Vice President, Highcap Securities Limited, Mr. David Adnori said, "The gap is almost like double-digit and it indicates a serious rant-seeking within the banking industry. The spread between the maximum lending rate and MPR should not be more than 10 per cent but when you have something more than 100 per cent, it means there is a serious rent-seeking activities in the banking sector that is eroding the nation's economy of resources."
On his part, analyst at PAC Holdings, Mr. Wole Adeyeye said, "A lot of countries like USA, Ghana among others have increased their policy rate and Nigeria cannot operate in isolation. Banks reacted to the hike in inflation rate and increased the maximum lending rate to 27. 79 per cent in April 2022."
Similarly, President, Bank Customers Association of Nigeria (BCAN), Dr. Uju Ogubunka attributed the increase in maximum lending rate to uncertainty surrounding and inflation rate in the business environment amid political tension in the country.
Ogubunka, who was the former Registrar/Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) expressed that Nigeria's economy in 2022 has not witnessed major improvement to warrant a hike in banking lending rate to the real sector.
Ogubunka explained further that banks opted to increase the rate on saving deposits to attract savings since the funds are not available.
Meanwhile, the data by CBN indicated that interest on savings deposits closed April 2022 at 1.28 per cent from 1.25 per cent, representing an increase of 2.4 per cent Year-till-Date (YtD) performance.
The date revealed that one-month deposit dropped to 2.96 per cent in April from 3.79 per cent in January, while three-month deposit closed April 2022 at 4.44 per cent from five per cent in January 2022.
Ogubunka questioned that, "How many bank customers are still saving money in the bank? It is a demand and supply related issue. If customers do not give to banks, they will not have enough to lend to the real sector.
"Ordinarily, if there is surplus in the system, the pricing goes down but if you do not have enough and there is demand for it, you increase the rate. I think what is happening now is that so many bank customers are incapacitated that they cannot save due to inflation rate, among others." | https://allafrica.com/stories/202206200080.html | 2022-06-20T08:43:38Z | https://allafrica.com/stories/202206200080.html | true | 2 |
A look at what's happening around the majors today:
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MACHADO INJURED
The Padres will see how star third baseman Manny Machado is feeling, a day after he sprained his left ankle while taking a tumble running out a grounder.
It's uncertain how long Machado will be sidelined.
Machado, who is hitting .328 with 12 home runs and 46 RBIs, was hurt Sunday in the first inning of an 8-3 loss at Colorado. The Padres said X-rays were negative.
“Fortunately, when he felt himself slip, he was able to shift his weight to the right and probably avoid more serious damage,” acting manager Ryan Flaherty said. “All in all, it’s as good as it could be.”
“We have to wait for some of the swelling to go down and he gets treated,” he said. “We’ll probably have a better idea of that tomorrow.”
Machado was injured after hitting a slow comebacker. He sprinted down the line and stretched his left leg toward first base as the throw arrived, but his cleat appeared to slip across the top of the bag and he fell to the ground, his leg buckling beneath him.
CENTRAL SHOWDOWN
Cardinals right-hander Miles Mikolas (5-4, 2.62 ERA) is scheduled to start when St. Louis opens a four-game series in Milwaukee — the teams are tied for the NL Central lead.
Mikolas came within one strike of pitching a no-hitter against Pittsburgh in his last start. He gave up Cal Mitchell’s double that was just over the head of center fielder Harrison Bader with two outs in the ninth inning at Busch Stadium.
Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes (4-4, 2.52) is set to go for the Brewers.
CRUZ CONTROL
The Pirates plan to promote 6-foot-7 shortstop Oneil Cruz from Triple-A Indianapolis before their game against the Cubs.
The 23-year-old Cruz ranks among the game’s most exciting prospects and made his major league debut last September. Pittsburgh sent him to Triple-A to begin this season, infuriating many fans who perceived the demotion as an effort to delay Cruz’s free agency down the road. Cruz struggled at the start of the year with Indianapolis but has been better of late, hitting .233 with nine homers, 11 stolen bases and a .761 OPS overall.
Cruz will join the club a day after fellow rookie Jack Suwinski hit his third homer of the game in the ninth inning, giving the Pirates a walk-off victory over the Giants. Suwinski is the first rookie to cap a three-homer game with a game-ending shot, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
SLAMMIN’ START
Marlins outfielder Jerar Encarnación tries to follow up a historic MLB debut in Miami’s series finale against the Mets.
The 24-year-old became the first player since at least 1901 with a grand slam and an outfield assist in his debut Sunday during a 6-2 win over New York. He also stole a base in the ninth inning.
There’s a good chance he’ll be back in the lineup against Mets left-hander David Peterson -- assuming Peterson is around to make the start. New York manager Buck Showalter said the team is making contingency plans because Peterson’s wife is expected to go into labor within the next few days.
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Jon Snow could return in a Game of Thrones sequel — but does anyone want it?
Game of Thrones could be getting another spin-off, this time a sequel series following the adventures of Jon Snow after the events of the eighth season. This news comes from The Hollywood Reporter , and includes the teaser that Kit Harrington is set to reprise his role.
But, in the words of Jon Snow himself, I don’t want it. Game of Thrones crashed and burned in spectacular fashion during its final season, and it’s about time HBO realized that it should be left to the annals of television history.
The sequel series is reportedly in early development, and marks the third attempt at a live action Game of Thrones spin-off. The first, Bloodmoon, starring Naomi Watts, never made it past the pilot stage, while the Targaryen-themed House of the Dragon is set to premiere on August 21.
Those of you who haven’t placed mental blocks around the Game of Thrones finale will remember exactly what happened to Jon Snow (and if you've not seen it yet, spoilers follow ).
The final season saw Jon discover he was the true-born son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, rather than Ned Stark’s bastard, and the only living character with any claim to the Iron Throne. Or what was left of it, at any rate.
Then, after killing Daenerys and preventing what felt like burgeoning genocide, Jon was imprisoned and exiled — sent to the north of the wall with the remainder of the wildlings.
Given that Jon’s fate was left open-ended, there are plenty of ways in which a sequel series could go — and some of them are even quite intriguing. For instance, we know that his cousin Sansa Stark has declared the North to be an independent kingdom, so there's potential there for conflict between Winterfell and the land beyond the wall.
We also know that the millennia-long winter north of the wall is finally thawing, which could entirely change the landscape of the region and provide plenty of opportunities for the characters to explore interesting areas and interact with fascinating creatures. What's become of the Giants, for instance? Do the Children of the Forest still exist?
But rich though the potential may be, I can't get remotely excited about the possibility of another sequel.
Oathbreaker
Game of Thrones was huge during its run, and the hype for the final season was electrifying.
However, the way things played out drove the entire franchise into the ground, to the point where one of the biggest TV shows of the 2010s, possibly of all time, disappeared from the pop culture consciousness.
There are no memes, no rewatch discussions, nothing. Only a bunch of very bitter people who can’t quite get over how much of a crapfest the final season was. There hasn’t been a backlash to a final season quite so immense since Lost ended. But unlike Lost, which was treated incredibly unfairly, Game of Thrones did deserve at least some of the reception it got.
It has been three years since the Game of Thrones finale blundered onto TV screens, and the time for a spin-off has long-since passed. People have stopped caring, and it means any related series faces an uphill battle — no matter how good it might end up being.
Had HBO been more proactive while Game of Thrones was still on the air, things might have been a little different.
For instance, we’ve already seen Amazon get to work on a bunch of spin-offs to The Boys . That comic adaptation is riding the popularity train at the moment, so whatever spin-offs Amazon greenlights should get an instant boost — even if, like the animated The Boys Presents: Diabolical anthology series, they aren’t all that great.
The wars to come
House of the Dragon, to its credit, seems to be focusing on the better things about the Game of Thrones franchise. For one, it promises to feature a bunch of dragons that are bigger and badder than the trio from its predecessor, as well as majoring on the harsher sides of fantasy politics that made the first few seasons of Game of Thrones so compelling. But it still faces the stigma of being associated with the original series.
Other live-action spin-offs we know about will also be set before the events of Game of Thrones. They include 10,000 Ships (a.k.a. Nymeria) with showrunner Amanda Segel, 9 Voyages (a.k.a. The Sea Snake) with showrunner Bruno Heller, and Dunk and Egg (based on George RR Martin’s novella) with showrunner Steve Conrad.
Being prequels, all of these shows have the advantage that they don’t need to try to course-correct. The unnamed Jon Snow Show, meanwhile, will have to grapple with the fact that it’s set after such a derided finale, and try to figure out a way to make people care again.
Then again, this may give the Game of Thrones franchise the chance to fix some of the biggest mistakes of the final season. My main criticism is that the finale was rushed, with little explanation or context for how and why characters ended up where they did. A little bit more context, either told through flashbacks or an ongoing story, could be the perfect way to help retcon Season 8.
That said, the show is only said to be in early development as it stands, and there’s no guarantee that it will make it to even the pilot stage, let alone get a full season. Personally, I'm hoping it won't.
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New technology could help type 2 diabetes patients lose weight in their sleep
A study is investigating whether sleeping in special tents, creating an environment of lower oxygen, is effective at improving blood glucose control.
People with type 2 diabetes could be helped to lose weight while they sleep with a new treatment method being tested by scientists.
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth are seeking volunteers to try out the new system which will see if breathing lower amounts of oxygen (hypoxia) during sleep could lead to weight loss.
The aim of the study is to investigate whether sleeping in special tents creating an environment of lower oxygen in the air is effective at improving blood glucose control and has an impact of weight loss.
Previous evidence has shown that hypoxia can reduce appetite and burn more calories in people who have type 2 diabetes.
Volunteers who take part in the trial from their own homes will sleep in a tent set up by the study team for two 10-day periods.
During one of the periods, oxygen levels will be set to 15%, similar to levels for passengers on an aeroplane or for people living at high altitude.
Dr Ant Shepherd, senior lecturer in the university’s school of sport, health and exercise science, said: “Type 2 diabetes is a common condition that causes blood glucose levels to become too high.
“For many people, it is a long-term condition which can negatively impact their everyday life and put them at a greater risk of developing other serious health complications, such as heart disease or eye problems.
“While it is possible to lose weight and reduce blood glucose levels through changes in diet and increased exercise, there are a range of factors and barriers which make these lifestyle changes difficult for some people to initiate.
“With the number of people living with type 2 diabetes expected to reach 700 million worldwide by 2045, is it vital that we find other successful interventions to help us treat and manage the condition, reducing the cost to the NHS and making people’s day-to-day lives better.”
Throughout the trial, volunteers will be asked to wear smart monitors, keep a food diary and provide blood, urine and stool samples.
They will also have body composition scans and their blood glucose levels tested, to help researchers understand the body’s response to hypoxia.
Dr Shepherd added: “There’s already quite a lot of evidence from other studies which shows that hypoxia improves the control of blood glucose levels and results in weight loss.
“We’re not entirely sure why this happens, but we think it’s likely to be because it helps you burn more calories and appetites become suppressed so that people don’t feel as hungry.”
Trial participant Janet Rennell-Smyth said: “It doesn’t feel claustrophobic and, when you get used to the noise of the machine, it feels no different.
“I’m enjoying participating in the study that may give us, in future, alternate treatments for this disease. I would recommend anyone who is able, to volunteer and help out on this study.”
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New York Yankees (49-17, first in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (36-30, third in the AL East)
St. Petersburg, Florida; Monday, 7:10 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Gerrit Cole (6-1, 3.33 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 91 strikeouts); Rays: Shane McClanahan (7-3, 1.84 ERA, .86 WHIP, 105 strikeouts)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Yankees -132, Rays +111; over/under is 6 1/2 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays will try to keep their three-game home win streak intact when they play the New York Yankees.
Tampa Bay has a 36-30 record overall and a 21-13 record in home games. The Rays have gone 21-5 in games when they scored five or more runs.
New York has a 49-17 record overall and a 20-10 record in road games. The Yankees are 29-2 in games when they scored at least five runs.
The matchup Monday is the eighth meeting between these teams this season. The Yankees have a 5-2 advantage in the season series.
TOP PERFORMERS: Randy Arozarena has 14 doubles, two triples and seven home runs for the Rays. Manuel Margot is 9-for-37 with four doubles and three RBI over the past 10 games.
Aaron Judge has 11 doubles and 25 home runs for the Yankees. Gleyber Torres is 13-for-33 with five doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 3-7, .231 batting average, 2.49 ERA, outscored by four runs
Yankees: 9-1, .265 batting average, 2.81 ERA, outscored opponents by 42 runs
INJURIES: Rays: Drew Rasmussen: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Andrew Kittredge: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Zunino: 10-Day IL (shoulder), J.P. Feyereisen: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Wander Franco: 10-Day IL (quadricep), JT Chargois: 60-Day IL (oblique), Chris Mazza: 60-Day IL (back), Brandon Lowe: 10-Day IL (back), Luis Patino: 60-Day IL (oblique), Brendan McKay: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Pete Fairbanks: 60-Day IL (lat), Tyler Glasnow: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Anderson: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yonny Chirinos: 60-Day IL (elbow)
Yankees: Jonathan Loaisiga: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Chad Green: 60-Day IL (elbow), Aroldis Chapman: 15-Day IL (achilles), Ben Rortvedt: 60-Day IL (oblique), Stephen Ridings: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Domingo German: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zack Britton: 60-Day IL (elbow)
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Abkhaz activist goes on hunger strike, demands authorities to reduce fuel prices
Abkhaz activist demands to reduce the price of gasoline
Activist Dzhansukh Adleiba is demanding the return of pre-crisis fuel tariffs in Abkhazia with his personal protest at Svoboda Square in Sukhum that has been going on for a week now.
Since the beginning of his hunger strike on June 11, Dzhansukh has not yet yielded to the persuasions of the authorities, who, with documents and calculations in their hands, are trying to prove to him that it is not in their power to lower gasoline prices.
Fuel tariffs have increased by 20% since March. The government explains the situation with a sharp global increase in oil prices amid Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Adleiba, on the other hand, cites South Ossetia as an example, where, according to him, such a surge in prices was avoided.
Mayor of Sukhum Beslan Eshba, Minister of Economy Kristina Ozgan, heads of fuel companies came to meet him at the bench where he is protesting.
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During his previous series of protests, Adleiba demanded that the parliament tighten anti-corruption laws. He demanded the implementation of already existing norms to combat corruption.
At some stage, Adleiba went on a hunger strike too. He ended the strike only after a special meeting of parliament, where a number of amendments to the law were adopted.
The Anti-Corruption Law has been adopted in Abkhazia, but why do activists say that it is a fiction?
The law will come into force only at the very end of the year, and it does not include the liability of adult children of officials and deputies
On top of that, the previous president, Raul Khadjimba, personally persuaded Adleiba to unblock the entrance to the Sukhumi city dump. But in the end, the landfill was closed, and the garbage had to be taken elsewhere.
Now the government is unsuccessfully trying to convey economic calculations to Adleiba: in order to sell gasoline cheaper, fuel companies must either not top up gasoline and not pay taxes, or close filling stations.
The leaders of fuel companies, during a meeting with Adleiba, suggested that he himself find a solution that would reduce gasoline prices.
“The problem is not the price of gasoline, but the lack of economic reform and corruption”
Abkhazia-Center telegram channel explains the history of the Abkhazian protests, including the current hunger strike, by the lack of real reforms in the country.
“We need to invite a dozen and a half financiers-economists, “wolves from Wall Street”, who will finally give the Abkhazian economy the right direction and place it on more or less modern tracks.
They will do this not by introducing more “kickbacks” and “cuts”, but by receiving the fees for services prescribed in the contracts”.
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DOHA, June 20 (Reuters) - JetBlue Airways Corp
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quarter, Chief Executive Robin Hayes said on Monday
There is still a lot of pent up demand that can't travel
this summer because there is not enough capacity, Hayes said at
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A special court dealing exclusively with criminal cases related to legislators has granted bail to former Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa in a corruption case.
Judge B Jayantha Kumar granted the bail on Saturday after the advocate for the complainant in the objections that were filed had stated that they did not oppose the granting of bail to the senior BJP leader.
The complainant's advocate K V Dhananjay, however, contended in the submission that they object only to some of the grounds assigned by the accused that was claimed to be irrelevant and improper.
The objections said the bail application of Yediyurappa refers to the case against Congress leader R V Deshpande and other accused against whom the original complaint was filed. But now the case is only against the BJP leader and reference to the others was improper.
"In his bail application, the accused B S Yediyurapppa, has further denied the commission of offence for which he has been summoned and has also offered justification for his actions that are subject of this criminal proceedings. The accused has further insinuated improper motive to this complainant," the objections stated.
"In a proceeding of this nature, it would be unnecessary, improper and unproductive for this complainant to deal with such contentions except to deny it," the objections further stated.
However, the bail was granted to Yediyurappa and the hearing adjourned to July 16.
The special court had summoned the 79-year-old leader in a private complaint filed by one Vasudeva Reddy in 2013.
The Lokayaukta police had filed a B Report in the case citing lack of evidence, but the special court had rejected it.
The complaint alleges that Yediyurappa as the then deputy chief minister in 2006 illegally denotified 15 acres and 30 guntas land in Bengaluru's Bellandur and Devarabeesanahalli that was acquired for an IT park.
R V Deshpande, the former industries minister, was the main accused in the original complaint but the Karnataka High Court had quashed the case against him in 2015. Yediyurappa is the only remaining accused and has been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act. PTI COR GMS HDA HDA
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GREAT BARRINGTON — With the closing of the Clean All Over Laundromat in February, Great Barrington has gone four months without a place where members of the public can wash their clothes, forcing travel to nearby towns.
A new laundromat is planned, but for now, people without washing machines in their homes must haul their dirty clothes out of town — to a small laundromat in Stockbridge, or others in Lenox and Lee.
People without cars must rely on friends or neighbors to help.
“This is something that I think about every day,” said Michelle Kaplan, a Great Barrington resident and longtime user of the now-shuttered laundromat in the Big Y plaza south of the town center.
“It's a major inconvenience for me because I have to alter my whole day around to do laundry now,” she said.
Still, Kaplan counts herself as among the lucky ones. “I'm thinking about people who don't have a car. Our public transportation just isn't so great here, either,” she said.
Friends have offered Kaplan use of their washing machines, but she doesn’t feel comfortable accepting.
Officials with Big Y Foods have not responded to questions from The Eagle about what the company plans to do with the space formerly occupied by Clean All Over. Its owner, Karen Faul of Sheffield, posted notices in February telling customers she'd lost her lease.
At the time, the closing caught people off guard.
Steven Coe of Great Barrington told a reporter for The Eagle he wasn't happy. “It’s our only place to go and do our laundry,” he said. “Big Y absolutely has every right to do this, but they didn’t let the community know, didn’t let anybody know this is what’s going on or even what’s going on.”
Heather Haim, owner of laundromats in Lenox and Lee, says she inquired about reopening a laundromat at the old Great Barrington location. Haim operates the Lenox Wash & Dry Laundromat on Pittsfield Road in Lenox and the Lee Wash & Dry on Park Street in Lee.
According to Haim, Big Y told her the company wasn't interested in a new laundromat and was instead looking for a retail operation.
Four months later, the space remains empty.
Since Kaplan works full-time, she says she is sometimes too tired to drive more to do her laundry. It becomes a time-consuming weekend task, and at times a wait for machines, including at the Village Laundromat in Stockbridge.
"There are only two large machines there and there are always people waiting. It's an all-day thing," she said of the Stockbridge business.
Busy places
In Lenox and Lee, people say they've seen an increase in foot traffic at laundromats in those towns.
Pam Rabbu, who lives in Lee, said she now tries to come between 7 and 9 a.m. or after 5 p.m. to avoid waiting for available washers and dryers.
With the summer, Rabbu expects the situation will get worse. Summer camp counselors, campers, wedding guests, and Appalachian Trail hikers are all known to visit area laundromats.
In addition to being a necessity, Kaplan believes an invaluable community space was lost with the closing of Clean All Over. “I was going once a week, and there was this sense of community," she said. "Sometimes we'd sit outside and just chat while we waited for our clothes.”
In particular, she kept running into a neighbor, Fran O'Neil, 88, also known as Nana Fran. “We had this weird psychic thing that we always ended up doing laundry at the same day and time, so we'd sit and talk,” Kaplan said.
O'Neil had a washing machine at her home in Great Barrington until 2018, when it was knocked out of commission by local flooding.
Looking on the bright side, she says she decided the situation offered good reason for her to get out of her house more often.
“I said 'Oh, that gives me a good excuse to remind elder people you should try to get out of your own house for a couple of hours and still converse with people,'" she said in an interview at her home. "You got to keep that human touch!”
She sees laundromats as an essential place to engage with different people. “We have to learn how to cultivate contention, taking offense. People need to practice that too.''
When the laundromat closed, she admits she was devastated. O'Neil moved to Berkshire County more than 50 years ago, but found only recently that the former Great Barrington laundromat was a great place to meet and visit with her neighbors.
Since she doesn't drive, O'Neil now relies on friends and family to drive her to clean her clothes once a week. They tried to talk her into replacing her appliances. “'You need to stay off the street,'" she recalls them saying.
She defended the virtues of going to a laundromat. “You have that fellowship. And Jesus said to the Holy Spirit that people have to embrace one another at every opportunity. That’s what the Bible says.”
Community spaces
O'Neil isn't alone in seeing a laundromat as more than rows of washers and dryers, plus counters for folding.
Kaplan says she's been a student of laundromats all over the world, particularly those that embrace the local community. “People open laundromats with cafés or bookstores. I guess there are endless possibilities,” she said.
Kaplan also views laundromats as spaces in which to be creative. She took many photos of the former Great Barrington location. “I loved sitting there and watching people,” she said. “One day, I just wanted to bring my Polaroid camera and take this photo. I'm really glad I did."
Because it's gone, she means.
Haim, meantime, has been working to turn her laundromat in Lenox into a gallery for Community Access to the Arts. The Great Barrington organization celebrates the artistic ability of people with disabilities.
“I've purchased some art from Community Access to the Arts, and I'm going to be hanging it as a gallery and educational element for our laundromat. I think everybody will really enjoy it,” she said.
Customers aren't the only ones who see a business void in Great Barrington.
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Emmanuel Macron: The French president and his family in profile
Leader‘s La Republique en Marche party wins most seats in parliamentary elections but falls well short of total needed to command absolute majority
France’s president Emmanuel Macron suffered a shock in Sunday’s parlamentary elections when his La Republique en Marche party won the greatest number of seats but still fell well short of the 289 required to command an absolute majority.
Instead, it was far-right National Rally candidates backed by Marine Le Pen, whom Mr Macron defeated in April’s presidential election, and the leftist United Front coalition led by socialist Jean-Luc Melenchon that made the most dramatic gains.
The outcome may have little direct or immediate impact beyond France, as matters of foreign policy, national security and European affairs remain deeply enshrined within the purview of the presidency, with parliament playing far less of a role than it does in other Western democracies.
However, to court independent lawmakers in other camps and cobble together a majority on domestic matters, Mr Macron may now have to give way to coalition partners on hot-button issues that do have an impact abroad, such as military support for Ukraine, trade negotiations with the UK or expansion of the European Union.
While the French public were happy to band together two months ago to support Mr Macron and keep Ms Le Pen out of the Elysee Palace, huge swathes remain unimpressed by their president’s pro-Europe, pro-business policies at a time when the country is mired in a cost of living crisis driven by inflation.
When Mr Macron was elected in 2017, he became the youngest president of the republic in France’s history at just 39.
He has since led the country through five years of domestic and international turmoil, from the “gilet jaunes” (yellow vest) protests on the streets of Paris against fuel tax rises to the coronavirus pandemic.
The ups and down of his first term are perhaps nowhere more starkly illustrated than in the contrast between the famous photograph of him celebrating France’s 4-2 World Cup Final win over Croatia in Moscow in July 2018, and his return to the Russian capital four years later to implore Vladimir Putin not to invade neighbouring Ukraine, where he was kept at a strict distance at the far end of a long banquet table.
As for his background and personal life, Mr Macron was born in Amiens, north of Paris, on 21 December 1977, his father Jean-Michel a professor of neurology at the University of Picard and his mother Francoise a doctor.
He has two younger siblings – Laurent and Estelle – and a paternal great-grandfather, George William Robertson, originally from Bristol.
The Macrons were not a religious family but their eldest son was baptised as a Catholic at the age of 12 at his own instigation. However, Mr Macron has subsequently said he considers himself to be an agnostic.
As a teenager, Mr Macron was educated at the Jesuit institute Lycee la Providence in his hometown and it was here that he first encountered literature professor Brigitte Auziere with whom he fell in love and would later marry, despite her being 25 years his senior and already married with three children.
The pair bonded during a theatre workshop preparing for a production of the Italian play The Art of Comedy (1964) by Eduardo de Filippo, prompting concern from Mr Macron’s parents, who sent him to complete his high school studies at the elite Lycee Henri-IV in Paris instead.
He complied, reluctantly, but promised the then Ms Auziere that he would return for her.
“A love often clandestine, often hidden, misunderstood by many before imposing itself,” was how he described their relationship in his memoir.
“I was totally charmed by his intelligence,” Brigitte Macron once told a France 3 documentary. “He wasn’t like the others.”
A classmate quoted by Le Parisien remembered: “In class, she always used him as an example. She was completely charmed by his literary talent. He wrote poems all the time and she read them aloud.”
Mr Macron went on to study philosophy at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Defense, writing a thesis on Machiavelli and Hegel, earned a master’s degree in public affairs at Sciences Po where he specialised in governance and economics and trained for the civil service, graduating from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in 2004 after serving an apprenticeship at a French embassy in Nigeria.
Between 2004 and 2008, he worked as an Inspector in the Inspection Generale des Finances, a branch of the French finance ministry.
It was during this period that the then Ms Auziere ended her 32-year marriage to banker Andre-Louis Auziere in order to marry him, their wedding taking place in October 2007 and seeing Mr Macron become stepfather to her children: Sebastien Auziere, an engineer; Laurence Auziere-Jourdan, a cardiologist; and Tiphaine Auziere, a lawyer.
Moving on to become an investment banker at Rothschild & Co between 2008 and 2012, Mr Macron then entered politics when he was appointed deputy secretary general by French president Francois Hollande shortly after his election in May 2012, making him a senior advisor in a position of influence.
From there, he was appointed to the French cabinet as Minister of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in August 2014 by prime minister Manuel Valls, serving two years in the role before resigning, leaving the Socialist Party and running as a centrist, pro-business candidate for La Republique En Marche!
That campaign saw him take on and beat Ms Le Pen in the competition to succeed Mr Hollande, her cause not helped by a disastrous display during that year’s televised debate in which she lost her composure, muddled her notes and appeared ill-prepared. The rest is history.
Away from government, Mr Macron and his wife – who has proven an asset on the world stage, not least in dealing so graciously with the likes of Donald and Melania Trump at the White House or Boris Johnson and Carrie Johnson at last summer’s G7 gathering in Cornwall – have an adopted black Labrador Retriever-Griffon named Nemo.
In his own time the president is an accomplished pianist, a keen supporter of Olympique Marseille and a fan of skiing, tennis and boxing.
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mountains...around 90 at Furnace Creek.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs 91 to 94 in the
mountains...115 to 118 at Furnace Creek. Lows around 70 in the
mountains...around 90 at Furnace Creek.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70 in the mountains...
around 90 at Furnace Creek.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 95 in the mountains...around 118 at
Furnace Creek.
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CAZ523-201100-
Western Mojave Desert-
Including Barstow, Daggett, and Fort Irwin
146 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 93. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 68. Northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 99. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph
shifting to the southeast 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs around 99.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy.
Lows 73 to 76. Highs 101 to 104.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs 104 to 107. Lows 75 to 78.
$$
CAZ524-201100-
Eastern Mojave Desert-
Including Baker, Mountain Pass,
and Mitchell Caverns
146 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 64. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 93. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 69. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 99. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 75. South winds 5 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around
80. Highs 104 to 107.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 107.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 107.
$$
CAZ525-526-201100-
Morongo Basin-Cadiz Basin-
Including Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley,
Twentynine Palms, and Vidal Junction
146 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 69 in Twentynine Palms...
60 to 63 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 100 in Twentynine Palms and near
Joshua Tree...91 to 94 around Yucca Valley. North winds 5 to
15 mph shifting to the east in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 71 to 74 in Twentynine Palms and near
Joshua Tree...66 to 69 around Yucca Valley. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 105 in Twentynine Palms...94 to
97 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree. Northeast winds 5 to
15 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 80 in Twentynine
Palms...70 to 73 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree. South
winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 104 in Twentynine Palms...
around 98 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 81 to
84 in Twentynine Palms...73 to 76 around Yucca Valley and near
Joshua Tree. Highs around 110 in Twentynine Palms...102 to
105 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 110 in Twentynine Palms...around
105 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 84 in Twentynine
Palms...around 76 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 110 in Twentynine Palms...around
105 around Yucca Valley and near Joshua Tree.
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The Houston Astros closed out their three-game series against the Chicago White Sox and have clinched it 2-1 after a slim victory in the battle of reigning division winners from last season.
The Astros defeated the White Sox 4-3 in yesterday's game courtesy of a Kyle Tucker RBI single, a Mauricio Dubon two-run blast, and a memorable first home run for rookie J.J. Matijevic. The 26-year-old first baseman opened the scoring in the fourth inning with a 343-foot bomb to left field.
"J.J. Matijevic gets his first MLB HR on his first MLB hit 🤯🔥 (via @Astros) - @ B/R Walk-Off
Matijevic's home run was the first hit of his major league career and was off the clinical Chicago White Sox pitcher Dallas Kopech, who just sports a 2.38 through 12 starts this season. The first baseman went 1-for-4 in his first major league game.
The win gave the Astros a record of 41-25 while the White Sox fell to 31-33. Houston are now 9.5 games ahead of the Los Angeles Angels in their division. While Chicago, on the other hand, are falling off and are five games behind the division-leading Minnesota Twins.
Houston Astros' Outlook
Just like last year, the Astros have dominated the American League West. They now have a run differential of +53 and have a 21-12 record against their divisional foes.
It will be a challenging week ahead for the Houston Astros as they host the New York Mets for a short interleague series then will travel to the Bronx to face off against the New York Yankees for a four-game series.
After their series with the Bombers, they will have a return fixture as they visit Queens for another interleague matchup with the Mets. It is perhaps the toughest week in the Astros' schedule this year. After the Mets series, they will face the Yankees at home in a one-off before battling division rivals the Los Angeles Angels.
The Houston Astros are currently one of the best teams in baseball in terms of pitching. Their rotation and bullpen carry a 3.04 ERA as a collective while holding opposing batters to a .220 average.
The ageless Justin Verlander is on track for another Cy Young worthy campaign. He currently holds a 2.30 ERA with a 8-3 record while only having a WHIP of 0.89. Verlander has been an integral part of this organization for years and it seems like there is no stopping him soon. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/baseball/news-watch-houston-astros-first-baseman-jj-matijevic-silences-chicago-white-sox-hammers-home-run-first-mlb-hit | 2022-06-20T09:36:13Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/baseball/news-watch-houston-astros-first-baseman-jj-matijevic-silences-chicago-white-sox-hammers-home-run-first-mlb-hit | false | 1 |
A driver who admitted a charge of drug driving had his case put back for a Probation Report.
Marciev Wiecczorek, (41) of Shalomar, Finisklin pleaded guilty to that charge and one of possession of cannabis on February 21 at First Sea Road, Sligo.
Sergeant Derek Butler said gardai noticed a car driving erratically and followed it. They noticed the defendant playing drumsticks on the steering wheel. The defendant was stopped and they found a container with cannabis and a grinder in the car. The defendant said the cannabis was for his own use. He failed a roadside breath test and was found to have cannabis in his blood in a subsequent test at Ballymote Garda Station. He has eight previous convictions including one for drink driving and no insurance and two for possession of drugs.
Defence Solicitor Tom MacSharry said his client could come back with a letter from his GP. Judge Sandra Murphy adjourned the case to November 10. | https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/news/courts/man-41-admits-drug-driving-charge-41769839.html | 2022-06-20T09:41:44Z | https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/news/courts/man-41-admits-drug-driving-charge-41769839.html | false | null |
COLOGNE, Germany — At a gas station near the Cologne, Germany, airport, Bernd Mueller watches the digits quickly climb on the pump: 22 euros ($23), 23 euros, 24 euros. The numbers showing how much gasoline he's getting rise, too. But much more slowly. Painfully slowly.
"I'm getting rid of my car this October, November," said Mueller, 80. "I'm retired, and then there's gas and all that. At some point, you've got to scale back."
Across the globe, drivers like Mueller are rethinking their habits and personal finances amid skyrocketing prices for gasoline and diesel, fueled by Russia's war in Ukraine and the global rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. Energy prices are a key driver of inflation that is rising worldwide and making the cost of living more expensive.
A motorcycle taxi driver in Vietnam turns off his ride-hailing app rather than burn precious fuel during rush-hour backups. A French family scales back ambitions for an August vacation. A graphic designer in California factors the gas price into the bill for a night out. A mom in Rome, figuring the cost of driving her son to camp, mentally crosses off a pizza night.
Decisions across the world's economy are as varied as the consumers and countries themselves: Walk more. Dust off that bicycle. Take the subway, the train or the bus. Use a lighter touch on the gas pedal to save fuel. Review that road trip — is it worth it? Or perhaps even go carless.
For the untold millions who don't have access to adequate public transportation or otherwise can't forgo their car, the solution is to grit their teeth and pay while cutting costs elsewhere.
Nguyen Trong Tuyen, a motorcycle taxi driver working for the Grab online ride-hailing service in Hanoi, Vietnam, said he's been simply switching off the app during rush hour.
"If I get stuck in a traffic jam, the ride fee won't cover the gasoline cost for the trip," he said.
Many drivers have been halting their services like Tuyen, making it difficult for customers to book rides.
In Manila, Ronald Sibeyee used to burn 900 pesos ($16.83) worth of diesel a day to run his jeepney, a colorfully decorated vehicle popular for public transportation in the Philippines that evolved from U.S. military jeeps left behind after World War II. Now, it's as much as 2,200 pesos ($41.40).
"That should have been our income already. Now there's nothing, or whatever is left," he said. His income has fallen about 40% due to the fuel price hikes.
Gasoline and diesel prices are a complex equation of the cost of crude oil, taxes, the purchasing power and wealth of individual countries, government subsidies where they exist, and the cut taken by middlemen such as refineries. Oil is priced in dollars, so if a country is an energy importer, the exchange rate plays a role — the recently weaker euro has helped push up gasoline prices in Europe.
And there's often geopolitical factors, such as the war in Ukraine. Buyers shunning Russian barrels and Western plans to ban the country's oil have jolted energy markets already facing tight supplies from the rapid pandemic rebound.
There's a global oil price — around $110 a barrel — but no global pump price due to taxes and other factors. In Hong Kong and Norway, you can pay more than $10 per gallon. In Germany, it can be around $7.50 per gallon, and in France, about $8. While lower fuel taxes mean the U.S. average for a gallon of gas is somewhat cheaper at $5, it's still the first time the price has been that high.
People in poorer countries quickly feel the stress from higher energy prices, but Europeans and Americans also are being squeezed. Americans have less access to public transport, and even Europe's transit networks don't reach everyone, particularly those in the countryside.
Charles Dupont, manager of a clothing store in Essonne region south of Paris, simply has to use his car to commute to work.
"I practice eco-driving, meaning driving slower and avoiding sudden braking," he said.
Others are doing what they can to cut back. Letizia Cecinelli, filling her car at a Rome gas station, said she was biking and trying to reduce car trips "where possible."
"But if I have a kid and I have to take him to camp? I have to do it by cutting out an extra pizza," she said.
Pump prices can be political dynamite. U.S. President Joe Biden has pushed for Saudi Arabia to pump more oil to help bring down gas prices, deciding to travel to the kingdom next month after the Saudi-led OPEC+ alliance decided to boost production. The U.S. and other countries also have released oil from their strategic reserves, which helps but isn't decisive.
Several countries have fuel price caps, including Hungary, where the discount doesn't apply to foreign license plates. In Germany, the government cut taxes by 35 euro cents a liter on gasoline and 17 cents on diesel, but prices soon began to rise again.
Germany also has introduced a discounted 9-euro monthly ticket for public transportation, which led to crowded stations and trains on a recent holiday weekend. But the program only lasts for three months and is of little use to people in the countryside if there's no train station nearby.
In fact, people are pumping just as much gas as they did before the pandemic, according to Germany's gas station association.
"People are filling up just as much as before — they're grumbling but they're accepting it," group spokesman Herbert Rabl said.
Is there any relief in sight? A lot depends on how the war in Ukraine affects global oil markets. Analysts say some Russian oil is almost certain to be lost to markets because the European Union, Russia's biggest and closest customer, has vowed to end most purchases from Moscow within six months.
Meanwhile, India and China are buying more Russian oil. Europe will have to get its supply from somewhere else, such as Middle Eastern exporters. But OPEC+, which includes Russia, has been failing to meet its production targets.
For many, spending on things like nights out and, in Europe, the near-religious devotion to extended late summer vacations, are on the cutting table.
Isabelle Bruno, a teacher in the Paris suburbs, now takes the bus to the train station instead of making the 10-minute drive.
"My husband and I are really worried about the holidays because we used to drive our car really often while visiting our family in southern France," she said. "We will now pay attention to train tickets and use our car only for short rides."
Leo Theus, a graphic designer from the San Francisco Bay Area city of Hayward, has to be "strategic" in budgeting gas as he heads to meet clients — he might not fill the tank all the way. Gas prices in California are the highest in the U.S., reaching close to $7 per gallon in some parts of the state.
When it comes to going to a club or bar after work, "you've got to think about gas now, you got to decide, is it really worth it to go out there or not?" Theus said.
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DAVAO CITY - Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte on Monday bade farewell to city government employees with a promise to increase their salaries and benefits as she prepares to work in the capital region as Philippine vice president and Education Secretary.
While the city government of Davao cannot afford to regularize all its workers, local officials are working improve salaries and benefits for city hall personnel, she told reporters.
"Hindi naman namin lahat mamigrate from job order to contract of service dahil napakarami nila. Limited lang naman yung mga items," she said.
"Ang ginawa namin, dinahan-dahan namin na iakyat yung suweldo nila. They started ay P6,000 noon... sa ngayon, it's more than the minimum wage," she said.
"Ni-recognize namin 'yung mga matagal na talaga - 15, 20, 25 years in government service pero hindi sila na-appoint to a permanent position - dinagdagan namin 'yun sa daily rate nila... depending on how long you have been serving the city government of Davao," she said.
A proposal to give more incentives for city hall workers is being "discussed with the city legal office," Duterte said.
In her speech during the city's first flag ceremony since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Duterte also thanked city government workers, who she credited for the success of her 2 mayoral terms.
"I would like to thank all of you. I have reached the vice presidency because of you, because of what we have done and achieved in Davao City," Duterte said.
"The city has experienced both triumphs and tough times and through it all, the local government never faltered because of all of you," she said.
When asked about her advice for her brother, Sebastian "Baste" Duterte, who will succeed her as Davao City mayor, the incoming vice president said: "As mayor, dapat niya lagi isapuso ang general welfare clause ng Local Government Code."
"There will always be many issues and challenges na hindi magiging masaya lahat ng tao, but kung gagawin lang niya at susundin niya lang ang general welfare clause o yung general welfare ng karamihan, ng majority, then you will always be on the right track," she said.
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France's ruling center-right coalition lost its absolute majority in parliamentary elections Sunday, presenting President Emmanuel Macron with the likelihood of a difficult second term in office.
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France's ruling center-right coalition lost its absolute majority in parliamentary elections Sunday, presenting President Emmanuel Macron with the likelihood of a difficult second term in office.
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Hong Kong’s New Health Chief Is Staunch Defender of Covid Zero
Bloomberg News
,(Bloomberg) -- For Hong Kong residents hoping the city will end its strict quarantine policies soon, the city’s new health secretary isn’t likely to inspire confidence.
Lo Chung-mau, approved by Beijing over the weekend as part of new Chief Executive John Lee’s Cabinet, made headlines in February saying that Hong Kong needed to maintain Covid Zero because living with the virus would “get us all killed.” At the time, he said the US and Europe were only easing restrictions because they failed to control Covid-19.
Lo appeared to soften his tone in his first meeting with the press on Sunday, saying that not all of the mainland’s Covid-19 policies would be right for Hong Kong. He pledged to carry out “evidence-based Covid policies” so that Hong Kong can reconnect both to the international community and to mainland China, repeating a line frequently uttered by other city officials.
“By using scientific, effective and precise control measures, the maximum results can be achieved with minimum cost,” Lo said, invoking a slogan that often appears in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speeches and Communist Party propaganda.
Lo, 61, will be a key figure in determining whether Hong Kong finally shifts away from the hardline Covid policies that have left the one-time financial hub cut off from the world even as main rival Singapore fully opens up. Besides a seven-day quarantine for travelers, the city still forces some mildly infected cases and close contacts into spartan isolation camps, while issuing near-daily compulsory testing notices to thousands of people.
Incoming leader Lee, who takes over on July 1, hasn’t indicated if he’ll shift policy.
Outgoing Chief Executive Carrie Lam over the weekend said Hong Kong’s tough border-control measures “are not tenable,” the South China Morning Post reported. It cited her as saying the business community was losing patience and a decision on whether to relax the policy must be taken soon.
Hong Kong’s daily Covid case tally has rebounded to more than 1,000 in the past four days, the highest in two months. The number of daily imported cases has exceeded 100 for most of the past week, the most since the pandemic began.
In response, Hong Kong has marginally tightened curbs, last week requiring patrons to show a negative rapid test result within the past 24 hours before entering bars and clubs. It’s also taking a strict approach to omicron subvariants including BA.2.12.1, sending confirmed cases and close contacts to centralized quarantine even if their dwellings are suitable for home isolation. The moves have been criticized by the international business community.
Lo, the incoming health chief, previously headed the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital. The Macau-born surgeon has more than 30 years clinical experience in Hong Kong and mainland China’s healthcare systems, and is considered an expert in liver transplants.
During his press briefing Sunday, he didn’t rule out stricter measures pushed by the mainland, including a compulsory universal testing campaign. During the height of Hong Kong’s omicron outbreak earlier this year, the surgeon said that compulsory universal testing was necessary and the city needed to prepare sufficient isolation facilities and manpower for the exercise, local media reported.
“The central authority has said recently said that mass testing is very important, but doing such large testing needs to be at the right time,” Lo told reporters on Sunday. “As to when Hong Kong will carry out compulsory universal testing, I believe it will be based on a government cross-agency policy assessment.”
Lo said his two other main priorities included a push for Hong Kong to play a leading role in medical innovation through better integration with the Greater Bay Area, and to optimize the healthcare system so the public can access good doctors.
Lo replaces Sophia Chan, a public health official who had consulted for the World Health Organization and worked in the Food and Health Bureau since at least 2012. She became health secretary in 2017.
Lo’s appointment indicates that Hong Kong could “close the door to the outside world more easily” if the Covid situation worsens, according to Sonny Lo Shiu-hing, who has written books on Hong Kong’s politics. Still, he added, the Covid policy would be a collective decision by Lee and his cabinet.
“John Lee’s appointment of Professor Lo seems to adopt a kind of security first policy,” Sonny Lo said. “Covid-19 is also about national security.”
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The two Republican candidates in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary runoff on Tuesday can each boast that at one point they had Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race.
Trump first backed U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in the spring of 2021. That endorsement stood for nearly a year until Trump rescinded it as the conservative firebrand languished in the polls. The former president took his time in issuing a second endorsement, supporting Katie Britt in the race only after she emerged as the top vote-getter in the state’s May 24 primary.
In other races Tuesday, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is facing voters amid growing concerns about crime. Runoffs in Georgia will resolve close contests in several congressional races and a secretary of state nomination, while primaries in Virginia will set up competitive congressional contests for the fall. Arkansas is holding primary runoffs for several legislative races.
What to watch in Tuesday’s primaries:
ALABAMA
The Senate runoff will decide the GOP nominee for the seat being vacated by 88-year-old Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, who announced his retirement in February 2021 after serving six terms.
Two months later, Trump announced his endorsement of Brooks, rewarding the six-term congressman who had objected to the certification of the 2020 presidential election and spoke at the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
But Trump soured on Brooks as the primary campaign progressed, growing unhappy with his showing in the race and some of his comments urging the party to move on from the former president’s fixation on his 2020 election defeat. He pulled his endorsement last March.
Britt, Shelby’s former chief of staff and a former leader of a state business group, won the most votes in last month’s primary, capturing nearly 45% of the ballots compared to Brooks’ 29%. Britt had needed to earn more than 50% of the vote to win outright and avoid a runoff.
Another top candidate, Mike Durant, best known as the helicopter pilot who was held captive in Somalia during the 1993 battle chronicled in the book and film “Black Hawk Down,” finished in third place and failed to advance to the runoff.
Brooks has been backed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, both of whom campaigned with him. Britt comes into Tuesday’s runoff with a fundraising advantage and a shiny new endorsement from Trump, which came a couple of weeks after the primary.
The former president, who has a mixed record of success in backing winning candidates in this year’s midterm elections, waited to make an endorsement to help stave off the embarrassment of backing a losing candidate in a high-profile race.
The winner of the GOP race will face Democrat Will Boyd in November, though Democrats have found limited success in the deep-red state in the last 20 years.
GEORGIA
A Democratic contest for secretary of state headlines the Tuesday runoffs in Georgia, while Republicans will settle three congressional nominations.
State Rep. Bee Nguyen, backed by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, is trying to defeat former state Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler in the secretary of state’s race. The winner will face Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the fall.
Raffensperger beat back a challenge in his May 24 primary from U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, who was endorsed by Trump. Trump made Raffensperger a top target for rebuffing his efforts to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state’s 2020 presidential election.
In congressional runoffs, Vernon Jones, a Trump-backed candidate and former Democrat, is competing against trucking company owner Mike Collins for the Republican nomination for the 10th Congressional District seat east of Atlanta. Collins was endorsed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who also won his primary over a Trump-backed challenger.
In the 6th District in Atlanta’s northern suburbs, emergency room physician Rich McCormick is trying to hold off Trump-backed lawyer Jake Evans. That race has revolved around accusations by each candidate that the other is insufficiently conservative.
The Republican winners in the 6th and 10th are heavy favorites in the November election over their Democratic opponents.
Republicans also have high hopes of knocking off 30-year Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop in southwest Georgia’s 2nd District. The GOP is choosing between former Army officer Jeremy Hunt and real estate developer Chris West.
VIRGINIA
In Virginia, voters will be picking Republican nominees to take on Democratic U.S. House incumbents in two of the most highly competitive districts in the country.
In the coastal 2nd District, which includes the state’s most populous city, Virginia Beach, four military veterans are competing for the GOP nomination. With a big fundraising lead and the backing of the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC dedicated to electing House Republicans, state Sen. Jen Kiggans is widely seen as the front-runner. The winner will face Democrat Elaine Luria, a retired Naval commander and member of the Jan. 6 committee, in the general election.
In central Virginia’s 7th District, six candidates are jockeying to take on Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Bowser, the two-term mayor of Washington, D.C., is trying to fend off challenges from a pair of Council members as the district contends with rising crime rates and homelessness concerns.
Bowser has had a tumultuous second term that saw her repeatedly face off against Trump and walk a public tightrope between her own police department and a vocal coalition of activists led by Black Lives Matter. She is campaigning on the need for proven leadership and her history as one of the faces of Washington’s ongoing quest for statehood.
Her primary challengers are Robert White and Trayon White, who are not related to each other. Both accuse Bowser of mishandling public safety issues amid rising violent crime rates and favoring developers as spiraling costs of living drive Black families out of the city.
The Democratic primary essentially decides the mayoral race in deeply blue Washington, D.C.
Robert White has a history of successful insurgent campaigns, having unseated an entrenched incumbent for an at-large Council seat in 2016.
Trayon White openly invokes the spirit of late D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, who remains a controversial but beloved figure among many Washingtonians. White was criticized in 2018 for claiming the Rothschilds, a Jewish banking dynasty and frequent subject of antisemitic conspiracy, were controlling Washington’s weather conditions. He later said he didn’t realize his comment could be construed as antisemitic.
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Associated Press writers Jeff Amy in Atlanta, Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Va., Ashraf Khalil in Washington, and Andrew DeMillo in Little Rock, Ark., contributed to this report.
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Repeats of NBA Finals games are available on-demand through Sky Sports on your TV and on the Sky Sports app
Monday 20 June 2022 08:38, UK
Lots of words have been written eulogising Stephen Curry for his stunning NBA Finals masterpiece but the Golden State Warriors roster contains more than just his incredible story.
Fair play to Steph, he would always acknowledge it's about the collective and after nursing a few sore heads over the weekend, the team is now readying itself for a fourth parade in eight seasons in the Bay Area on Monday.
This will be the first since the team moved to Chase Center in San Francisco from its previous base at Oracle Arena in Oakland and it comes after a championship that head coach Steve Kerr described as the "unlikeliest" of his time in charge.
It became a reality on Thursday night, as the Warriors beat the Boston Celtics 103-90 on the East coast and it's easy to see why Kerr feels that way.
This was a team which wasn't among the top three favourites to lift the Larry O'Brien with any bookmaker despite boasting more championship pedigree and DNA than anybody else.
That came primarily in the shape of Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala, all of whom won their fourth rings as they restored the team to glory. This title run marked quite the comeback for them as a unit.
Three men though, had individual comebacks for this Golden State team which are beyond remarkable – true sporting renaissances which will go down in the annals of history.
Wow! What a contrast compared to the way his last NBA Finals ended for Klay.
The 2019 NBA Finals saw the Warriors defeated by the Toronto Raptors with the five-time NBA All-Star tearing his left ACL in Game 6 which sealed them the title. He then spent over a year rehabbing and recovering before sustaining a torn right Achilles tendon in November 2020, forcing him to go through the torturous process again.
All in all, there was a 941-day gap between that game against the Raptors and the second Splash Brother's return to the floor against the Cleveland Cavaliers in January.
That was an emotional occasion. To see Thompson go on to pick up a fourth ring less than six months later was one of a number of true fairy-tale stories on this Warriors roster.
His is the biggest though, given his importance as a franchise cornerstone. He was at the heart of the dynastic run which saw them reach five consecutive NBA Finals between 2015-2019.
All in all, the Warriors have played 24 playoff series with Curry, Thompson and Green together in the last eight years. They've won 22 of them; the exceptions being the 2016 and 2019 finals, when injuries took a toll.
This time, there was no stopping the Dubs and Thompson called it early.
"I saw it in the beginning of season," Thompson said. "People called me crazy. I said 'Championship or bust' because I saw how we came out of the gate, 18-2. And playing just that Warriors brand of basketball that made us so successful, and then knowing I was going to be inserted in that, I knew we had a chance to do something special, and here we are. It's so incredible. Wow."
Wow indeed! Thompson finished the series against the Celtics averaging the third-most points in the team, with 17.0 per game, and the second-most minutes on the entire roster. A pivotal contributor as he picked up his fourth ring.
Less than a month before the first NBA Finals game, Gary Payton II fractured his elbow in a controversial fall against the Memphis Grizzlies during the Western Conference Semi-finals.
It looked like his chances of capping off a dream campaign in the perfect way was over.
Steve Kerr has since revealed that he was doing shuttle runs with his arm in a sling to ensure he got his shot at featuring in the NBA Finals. After all, at 29 years old and coming off his first consistent season of NBA basketball after bouncing around the G League and on the fringes of NBA rosters, the son of Hall of Famer Gary Payton knew his chance might not come around again.
But he wasn't to be denied. His toughness, desire and some remarkable powers of recovery saw him fight back to be ready for Game 1 against the Celtics.
Prior to the series opener, Payton II spoke exclusively to Sky Sports, and said: "Hopefully, you get to see the old GP you know, before the playoffs, in that first round of playoffs. So other than that, I'm ready to go."
Safe to say 'Young Glove' did that, and more, showing great hops offensively with a few impressive dunks and great tenacity defensively. In the Game 6 victory, which was the Warriors' most complete performance of the series, he played a big part in the huge run which saw the Warriors turn an early 12-point deficit into a huge half-time lead.
His boxscore from the final game sums up the all-round activity he displayed on the floor: six points, three rebounds, two assists, three steals and a block.
The man of just one (nearly) full season, proved to be the man for all seasons.
This is actually a story we have already told in considerable detail following Game 5, where Andrew Wiggins stepped up in Stephen Curry's one disappointing display of the NBA Finals to deliver a massive performance in the most important game of the series.
Game 5 saw the Warriors take the series lead for the first time and they couldn't have come close to doing it without Wiggins. In fact, they couldn't have come close to doing any of it without the No 1 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft.
It's safe to say that the old guard and role players alone couldn't have got it done by themselves this time. Wiggins gave the Warriors the added 'je ne sais quoi' needed to get them over the hump.
It's a brilliant story because of how written off he was during his time with the Minnesota Timberwolves. He was heavily criticised and nobody thought he was anything more than a trade piece when the Warriors acquired him in 2020.
How wrong that turned out to be! Wiggins was comfortably the second-best player in this championship run for the Dubs averaging 18.3 points and 8.8 rebounds per game, and in Game 4 he grabbed a career-high 16 boards to go with 17 points.
He was the biggest glass eater on the team, the second-highest points scorer and averaged the most minutes. Even more than that though, he was consistently deployed as the player tasked with locking down the opposition's star player.
On both ends, Wiggins was a massive player for the Warriors and thoroughly deserving of his first championship ring.
Kevon Looney was a pest on the glass throughout the NBA Playoffs for the Warriors and has earned himself a big pay-day. His offensive rebounding, in particular, was noteworthy and he is a perfect complementary piece in his role.
Otto Porter Jr. was brought into the starting lineup in place of Looney during these NBA Finals by Kerr, and his experience was useful on the floor alongside some of the less experienced members of the squad. It's also fairly common knowledge he knocked back more money to be part of this Warriors team. Now, he must feel fully vindicated in doing so.
Jordan Poole is explosive. He is now very much the heir apparent to Curry/Thompson and has that same potential to get roasting-hot at any given time, while being happily trigger-happy. He, clearly, has blossomed after facing off against Curry in practice all the time. Apt, that someone called Poole has turned out to be the apprentice Splash Bro.
Andre Iguodala didn't play much but got on the floor before the series was over as Kerr recognised his contribution. The man who won Finals MVP back when they claimed their first title is culturally vital for the Warriors and yet another winner with an important influence on the youngsters around him.
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Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida interacted with manga artists including Tetsuya Chiba, known for Tomorrow's Joe and other works, and Kenshi Hirokane, the author of "Kacho Shima Kosaku" series.
They exchanged views on manga culture in roundtable-style talks at Contemporary Manga Library, located in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward and run by Meiji University.
"It is said that when considering Japan's future, the source of the country's growth is soft power, not hard power, with manga playing a pivotal role," Kishida said of Japanese manga's huge popularity abroad.
Kishida said he recently read "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba," a blockbuster manga series by Koyoharu Gotoge.
Responding to a participant's comment that French President Emmanuel Macron is a manga fan, Kishida said that he wants to talk about manga culture with the French leader on the occasion of a Group of Seven summit to be held in Germany later this month.
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African Americans throughout the nation celebrate Juneteenth, but who knows what actually happened on June 19, 1865? As the nation observes the second federal legal holiday marking the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas, there are a number of misconceptions about the historical event that keep getting repeated.
Myth #1: President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, and it's outrageous that it took two and a half years for the news to finally reach enslaved people in Texas.
Fact: Many slaves knew about Lincoln's executive order emancipating them. The news was widely covered in Texas newspapers—with an anti-abolitionist spin—and Black people would have overheard white people discussing it in private and in public. Moreover, "There was an incredibly sophisticated communication network among slaves in Texas," says Edward T. Cotham, Jr., Texas Civil War historian and author of Juneteenth, The Story Behind The Celebration. "News like that spread like wildfire. We know some slaves knew about the Emancipation Proclamation even before slaveowners. It didn't mean anything because there was no army to enforce it."
June Collins Pulliam is a fifth-generation Galvestonian whose enslaved great-great-grandparents, Horace and Emily Scull, were freed by the Juneteenth Order. "It wasn't that all these poor people didn't get the message," she says, "It was that there was no one enforcing it, no one making it happen!"
Myth #2: Major Gen. Gordon Granger penned General Orders No. 3, the Juneteenth Order, and is credited with freeing Texas slaves.
Fact: The order—which includes the powerful language "all slaves are free" and "absolute equality"—was actually written by Granger's staff officer, Maj. Frederick Emery, who hailed from an abolitionist family in Free Kansas. "As a crusader against slavery in Kansas, Emery was well versed on the subject of emancipation," writes Cotham in his Juneteenth book.
Sam Collins III, the unofficial ambassador of Juneteenth tourism in Galveston, says, "Granger is just one of the characters in the story. He's not any great hero. Matter of fact, he was no friend of the enslaved people. There are reports of Granger sending runaway slaves back to slave states."
Myth #3: Gen. Gordon Granger read the Juneteenth Order from a balcony to the people of Galveston, announcing that "all slaves are free."
Fact: According to Cotham, Gen. Granger never read the order publicly, nor did any member of his staff. It would have been posted around town, particularly at places where Black people gathered, such as "the Negro Church on Broadway," as Reedy Chapel-AME Church was then called. Most enslaved people in Texas learned of General Orders No. 3 when the slavemaster called them together and read them the news.
Myth #4: The Juneteenth Order was basically a Texas version of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Fact: General Orders No. 3 stated unequivocally "all slaves are free," but it also contained patronizing language intended to appease planters who didn't want to lose their workforce. Forty-one words of the brief 93-word order urged enslaved people to stay put and keep working.
"The freed are advised to remain at their present homes, and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."
Sam Collins: "The last two sentences advised the freedmen to remain at their present homes and work for wages. So you're free, but don't go anywhere."
Ed Cotham: "Many years later, the formerly enslaved (interviewed for the 1930s WPA Slave Narratives) remembered when the Freedom Paper was read to them. The slaveholder wanted to keep them working, but they didn't hear it that way. Once they heard "all slaves are free" they said to hell with you. That's what made the Juneteenth Order so memorable and made it succeed."
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Today’s employees are different. Unlike their predecessors, they expect a workplace that values the time and talent of each individual. To achieve this, employers must be prepared to comprehensively address their workers’ total concerns—their professional progress, physical health, and personal financial security. By engaging in this manner, businesses make their employees feel respected and valued, which pays lasting dividends in productivity and retention.
While the forces leading up to this transition have been building for several years, the sudden arrival of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020 kicked the process into overdrive. Virtually overnight legions of workers who toiled daily in a cubicle were told to work from home.
To promote these ideas to its clients and the greater business community, Gallagher held a Leadership Summit at the Troy Marriott on June 6 and at the JW Marriott in Grand Rapids on June 7. The objective was to encourage companies to leverage their internal strengths to bring their organization’s HR performance to the next level.
According to Gallagher Area President Lenny Brucato, “Employers are facing unprecedented challenges with expectations for growth and increasing competition for talent. It’s imperative they have a laser-focus on their compensation approaches and retention strategies, including flexible workplace policies, emotional wellbeing support and benefit programs that stand out from the competition.” | https://www.crainsdetroit.com/sponsored-content/how-companies-can-leverage-human-human-resources-with-gallagher | 2022-06-20T10:06:51Z | https://www.crainsdetroit.com/sponsored-content/how-companies-can-leverage-human-human-resources-with-gallagher | true | 1 |
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has acknowledged the OPPO F21 Pro 5G as the fastest compatible 5G phone of its segment in Bangladesh.
This was the first time in Bangladesh that a testing of such nature was conducted by BUET on a 5G smartphone. Proving all its capabilities, the OPPO F21 Pro 5G passed on all parameters, says a press release.
The following parameters of the test were included: Voice call capability (circuit switch based), Voice call capability using 5G data, Video call capability using 5G data, Data connectivity: 5G uplink, Data connectivity: 5G downlink, Data connectivity: 4G uplink, Data connectivity: 4G downlink, Wi-fi connectivity, Bluetooth connectivity and GPS functionality.
The OPPO F21 Pro 5G - consisting of Qualcomm Snapdragon 6nm 5G processor- was marked "Capable" under all parameters, with an overall comment stating: "The cell phone sets were found compatible for using in 5G cellular mobile networks". BUET also certifying the phone as the fastest compatible 5G phone of its segment in Bangladesh. The testing was conducted by experts at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of BUET.
Liu Feng, Head of Brand, OPPO Bangladesh Authorized Exclusive Distributor said, "It brings us immense pleasure to have the brilliance in our devices proven beyond questions. Receiving this recognition from one of the leading institutions for engineering and technology in the country attests to the fact that OPPO delivers on its promises. OPPO F21 Pro 5G has already been welcomed by the fans and followers very warmly, and this testimony shall even boost it ahead".
The OPPO F21 Pro 5G, equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 6nm 5G processor supports super-fast internet 4G+ in locations with 4G network connectivity only. This featured, dubbed 4G+ by OPPO, ensures faster internet than any other smartphone with the same SIM card in the same bandwidth location. The F21 Pro 5G also comes with VoLTE", which stands for Voice over LTE. With this technology, users can concurrently send voice and data over the network without affecting the voice quality in VoLTE supported network. | https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=371223 | 2022-06-20T10:06:53Z | https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=371223 | true | 1 |
US women's soccer legend Megan Rapinoe says she is '100% supportive' of including transgender women in women's sports - and calls arguments to the contrary 'disgusting'
- Megan Rapinoe comes out strongly in favor of trans women in women's sport
- She denies there is problem with trans women dominating women's sport
- Comments come after FINA ban transgender women competing with women
- Caitlyn Jenner supportive of FINA's plan which bars trans swimmer Lia Thomas
US women's soccer hero Megan Rapinoe has come out strongly in favor of including transgender women in women's sport, labelling the arguments against 'cruel and disgusting'.
The veteran soccer star, who co-captained the United States Women's National Team in 2019 as they won a second successive World Cup, was dismissive of the notion that trans women are dominating women's sports and thus need regulating.
Instead, she argued that excluding them from competing at lower levels is cruel, as people value their 'kid's high school volleyball team' ahead of the lives and wellbeing of transgender people.
Her comments come in the wake of the furore surrounding professional swimming body FINA's (Fédération Internationale de Natation) new policy that bans transgender women from competing in swimming races.
The decision came in response to transgender UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas' record-breaking victories at college swim meets, which sparked claims the trans athlete had an extreme advantage as a result of going through male puberty.
'Show me the evidence that trans women are taking everyone's scholarships, are dominating in every sport, are winning every title,' the Rapinoe said. 'I'm sorry, it's just not happening.'
'I'm 100 per cent supportive of trans inclusion,' she told TIME. 'People do not know very much about it. We're missing almost everything.'
US women's soccer legend Megan Rapinoe has said she is 100 per cent supportive of trans inclusion, claiming the issue is misunderstood and arguments to exclude trans athletes are 'cruel and disgusting'
Elite swimming is the first sport to ban transgender athletes from women's races if they went through male puberty, the international sports federation for swimming announced Sunday. Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer, is pictured
Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges has recently been banned from competing against Laura Kenny in the National Omnium Championships by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world governing body
Jenner, 72, who famously won a gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, came out in support of banning transgender swimmers from competing if they transitioned after the age of 12
Rapinoe, who co-captained the United States Women's National Team in 2019 as they won a second successive World Cup, is a vocal advocate of trans rights
Rapinoe defended transgender women athletes on the grounds that the issue is little understood due to 'the right's talking points, because they're very loud, very consistent, and they're relentless.'
'At the highest level, there is regulation. In collegiate sports, there is regulation. And at the Olympic and professional level. It's not like it's a free-for-all where everyone's just doing whatever.'
She argued that we must approach the issue from the perspective of how to include transgender female athletes - 'but we can't start at the opposite. That is cruel. And frankly, it's just disgusting.'
The US women's soccer captain dismissed arguments about fairness as paling in comparison with 'people's lives' because people are 'committing suicide, they are being told that they’re gross and different and evil and sinful and they can’t play sports with their friends that they grew up with.
'I’m sorry, your kid’s high school volleyball team just isn’t that important. It’s not more important than any one kid’s life.'
But it is the supposedly unfair physical advantage that some transgender female athletes have over cisgender females that has caused outrage across the United States.
On top of the many international sporting organisations legislating against trans athletes, many US states are in the process of similar legislation. Texas is pushing for new laws relating to trans youths.
'We're putting everything through ''God forbid a trans person be successful in sports'', Rapinoe added. 'Get a grip on reality and take a step back.'
Caitlyn Jenner was one well-known transgender woman who came out against Rapinoe's position, celebrating FINA's ban on transgender women competing in women's races if they have completed their transition after age 12.
The decathlete shared her delight shortly after Sunday's announcement, writing: 'It worked! I took a lot of heat - but what's fair is fair! If you go through male puberty you should not be able to take medals away from females. Period.'
In order to compete, transgender swimmers will have to prove to the federation that they have continuously suppressed their testosterone levels since that age.
Jenner followed up that message by tweeting DailyMail.com's story on the ban.
Jenner, 72, famously won a gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal as Bruce. She also won gold in the same competition at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City.
Lia Thomas has broken a number of records in women's swimming for the NCAA since she transitioned to be a woman
She has caused controversy, with experts claiming she has an 'unfair' advantage because she went through male puberty, with her fellow competitors refusing to pose with her for a photo
To accommodate the transgender athletes, though, FINA is setting up an 'open category' for transgender athletes to compete against one another at events including the World Aquatics Championships, World Swimming Championships, and Swimming World Cup.
British trans cyclist Emily Bridges was also recently blocked from racing against Olympic Legend Laura Kenny in the National Omnium Championships by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world governing body.
A young healthy male's level of testosterone will range from 20 - 30 nanomoles per litre (the measurement for testosterone), compared to a female's range of 0.7 to 2.8 - transgender athletes who wish to compete with women must take hormone suppressant medication in order to be eligible.
Such a policy would prevent Thomas from competing in the international events that would raise her standing in international swimming and potentially land her a place at the Olympics - which she said in a recent interview she would like to compete at in the future.
Her quick rise to the top of the women's charts, though, has caused an uproar across the United States, with many arguing that she has an unfair physical advantage over her fellow competitors.
Megan Rapinoe has been a vocal proponent of a number of social justice issues, including gender equality in sports and fighting for equal pay between men's and women's international teams.
She has also been a consistent advocate for trans rights.
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CHANGSHA, China, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The year 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of SANY's acquisition of Putzmeister. Back in 2012, SANY Germany and CITIC PE acquired 100% of the equity shares in Putzmeister for 360 million euros. As a young and ambitious enterprise, this was a milestone move for SANY as well as a game-changing event in the landscape of the global construction machinery industry.
Over the past decade, Putzmeister, already a top concrete machinery manufacturer in Europe, has achieved steady growth and development under SANY Group. Putzmeister's sales volume grew from €500 million in 2011 to more than €800 million in 2021, maintaining its leading position in the global concrete machinery market.
With its R&D, manufacturing and sales network expanding to cover Europe, America, and Asia-Pacific regions, the former German family company now enjoys a broader global presence in 154 countries and regions.
Over the past decade, Putzmeister has been integrated into SANY's global business map. Today, nearly half of the concrete machinery products around the world bear the logo of Putzmeister or SANY.
For SANY, Putzmeister provides applicable experience in internationalization, intelligent manufacturing, and concepts and practices compatible with the fourth industrial revolution. For Putzmeister, its capability of developing new businesses is reinforced by SANY's financial support and resources.
The R&D cooperation between the two companies has been evidently fruitful. The joint R&D teams have successfully launched the V8 series and the 45m truck-mounted concrete pump for the European market and are now taking the lead in the new arena of electric, intelligent, and digital products. Putzmeister has released the world's first hybrid truck-mounted concrete pump - "iONTRON" and has applied big data technology in the concrete production, transportation, and placement process to improve productivity, operations, and fuel efficiency.
Both companies serve to open up markets for one another. More Putzmeister products gained access to the Chinese market through SANY, such as Putzmeister's shotcreting machines, mortar machines, industrial pumps, and telebelt. Similarly, many of SANY's products have become globally visible through Putzmeister's network. "Compared to the sales growth," said Dr. Jiang Xiangyang, Chairman's Representative on behalf of SANY and Board member at Putzmeister Holding GmbH, "the significance of the acquisition lies in that it gave SANY a closer view of a leading company in the west, the market in developed countries, and their way of company governance."
To date, the partnership between SANY and Putzmeister has yielded exponentially positive results in the areas of training, employee exchanges, R&D, and business development. Hand in hand, their partnership has yielded far better results than either company alone. One plus one has created far greater results than two.
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Any Berry Sorbet or Granita
As local summer berries start to barrel into markets, they need to be dealt with right away. Sorbets and granitas capture the just-picked sun-kissed flavor in icy, bracing, refreshing treats, writes Beth Dooley. This recipe requires nothing more than a food processor, freezer and a little time — no need to pre-warm the oven or turn on a burner. You can vary the berries with what's in season, which makes it an ideal warm-weather treat all summer long.
Mexican Street Corn Pasta Chicken Salad
Employing strategies such starting to cook early in the day and cooking several meals worth of meat and vegetables when you do fire up the grill is how columnist Meredith Deeds beats the heat. In a 2018 column, along with her beat-the-heat tips she also offered a pasta salad recipe inspired by the iconic Mexican street food, elotes. You can sauté frozen kernels if sweet corn isn't available — or if you can't wait until prime Minnesota sweet corn season to try this recipe.
Green Gazpacho
Two-thirds of all watermelons sold in the U.S. are grown in Florida, Georgia, Texas and California, and California and Arizona are the top cantaloupe producers. Which explains why the majority of melons sold in Minnesota supermarkets hail from elsewhere. That's a shame, wrote Rick Nelson in 2021, because nothing beats the flavor, texture, juiciness and alluring scent of a locally raised melon, a late-summer treat. That's where farmers like Jeff Nistler are making a difference. At his family farm in Maple Plain, he grows the trifecta of summer staples: melons, tomatoes and sweet corn. This recipe, found here, uses the often-maligned honeydew melon.
Shrimp Salad With Peas, Dill and Tarragon
A couple of summers ago, Rick Nelson became obsessed with this recipe from "How to Dress An Egg," a collaboration between New York City chef Ned Baldwin and longtime cookbook author Peter Kaminsky. He wasn't alone: The story was one of the most popular on our website that summer. Find the recipe here.
Open-Faced Steak and Arugula Sandwiches
Thinly sliced steak grilled steak, peppery arugula and rustic bread combine to make a light meal that elevates it from ordinary sandwich status. Making it open-faced accomplishes two goals, writes Meredith Deeds. Without the top piece of bread, the sandwich feels lighter — always a plus in the summer. It also forces you to eat it with a fork and knife, which just feels more special and slows things down a bit giving you a chance to relax and enjoy the meal. Find the recipe here.
Cucumber, Tomato, White Bean and Avocado Salad
There's not much more refreshing than cucumbers on a hot day (they say cool as a cucumber for a reason). And they grow prolifically almost everywhere, which is why they are key in recipes worldwide — from dainty British tea sandwiches, soothing Indian raita and spicy Asian marinades to Greek salads of salty feta and dark greens. Beth Dooley offers this salad: "With plenty of crunch, body and tang, this simple salad makes a terrific side dish and satisfying meal." Find the recipe here.
Strawberry Caprese Salad
Can you tell we're excited for strawberry season? Usually caprese salad puts tomatoes front and center, but author and cooking instructor Robin Asbell leans on strawberries. "It's not that crazy of a switch, since tomatoes are a fruit, right?" she wrote in 2018. "Sure, we usually eat strawberries as a vegetable, but there is plenty of sweet, tart and juicy fruitiness in there. Strawberries are also sweet, tart and juicy, and play well with milky fresh mozzarella. The familiar herbal flavor of sweet basil brings out the savory qualities of the fruit, letting you know that this isn't dessert. Find the recipe here.
Crab, Mango and Avocado Salad
Sandwiches and salads are the obvious choices when it comes to no-cook cooking, wrote Meredith Deeds. But when the temperatures soared in 2017, she made a dish that can fit both categories while still meeting the "keep it cool" theme. "I wanted to make a seafood salad that would be at home on a bed of lettuce and inside a sandwich roll." And that's how the Crab, Mango and Avocado Salad came about. Find the recipe here.
Summer cocktails
A repertoire of cooling cocktails — both spirit-filled and spirit-free — is a must. Last summer, Taste reporter Sharyn Jackson made the rounds to local bartenders and asked them to share summer cocktail recipes fueled by sunshine — and fresh flowers, herbs and fruit. Try a basil gimlet, Tropical Tequila or a Hibiscus and Orange Iced Tea (find the recipes here), or take to your herb garden and channel your inner mixologist and create your own.
Blueberry Salad
And finally, a metro-area favorite. This salad from Yum Kitchen and Bakery first hit the menu in 2007, when the Star Tribune asked a handful of chefs for their best blueberry recipes. It became so popular that they sold the dressing by the bottle. Find the recipe here (you'll have to scroll down a bit). | https://www.startribune.com/its-too-hot-to-cook-here-are-10-recipes-from-the-star-tribune-archives-that-help-beat-the-heat/600183591/ | 2022-06-20T10:15:18Z | https://www.startribune.com/its-too-hot-to-cook-here-are-10-recipes-from-the-star-tribune-archives-that-help-beat-the-heat/600183591/ | true | 2 |
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Sagging financial markets are hurting Alabama’s Employees Retirement System, but officials say the pension fund remains sound. Leaders of the fund got an update on the employees’ retirement system during a recent meeting in Montgomery.
Through April, its rate of return on investments was -5% for this fiscal year. Retirement chief David Bronner says he can’t remember a time when the global economy faced so many challenges. But Bronner says participants in the employees’ system shouldn’t be concerned because they have a defined benefit plan, which means it’s not dependent on investment earnings.
The system served more than 139,000 members last year. | https://whnt.com/news/alabama-news/alabama-state-pension-funds-down-facing-challenges/ | 2022-06-20T10:23:10Z | https://whnt.com/news/alabama-news/alabama-state-pension-funds-down-facing-challenges/ | true | null |
A college swimmer in the USA has changed sport forever as FINA reacts
By Phil Lutton
From the moment transgender athlete Lia Thomas began to make waves in American college pools, world swimming knew a moment of reckoning would soon arrive at the highest levels of the sport.
FINA, swimming’s governing body, has now taken decisive action in the minefield of transgender policy, introducing the strictest framework in Olympic sport as it effectively bans male-to-female transgender swimmers from racing at elite levels unless they transitioned before the age of 12.
It’s a monumental step that goes well beyond sports like cycling, which last week introduced its own transgender policy requiring a two-year transition period and monitored testosterone levels of 2.5 nmol/lt. Other sports may follow in swimming’s wake now a hardline path has been forged on an issue that is divisive, complex, politicised and charged with emotion.
And it all traces back to Thomas, who was an unremarkable male swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania before transitioning in time for the 2021-22 season. Thomas would go on to become the first transgender NCAA champion when she won the 500 yard freestyle in March, attracting national and international attention.
Soon, she would become a lightning rod in a sports and culture war. When she indicated that she wanted to one day swim at an Olympic Games, FINA knew it had no choice but to fast-track a new transgender policy that addressed the growing resentment among its cisgender female athletes, many of whom – including Australian stars Emma McKeon and Emily Seebohm – had concerns about the fairness of racing athletes who went through male puberty.
Now Thomas can never race at a major FINA-sanctioned meet. Its members met in Budapest on Sunday to hear a report from a taskforce of medical, legal, ethical and sporting experts who recommended a new ‘open’ category be created to accommodate athletes who didn’t fit into neat gender identities.
It was passed by 71 per cent of the 152 member nations, who had heard Australian great Cate Campbell make an impassioned speech about the importance of fairness as a cornerstone of international competition. After much soul-searching, she urged delegates to back the proposal.
“We see you, value you and accept you,” Campbell said of transgender swimmers. “My role, however, is also to stand up here, having asked our world governing body, FINA, to investigate, deliberate and uphold the cornerstone of fairness in elite women’s competition.
“And it pains me – that this part of my role – may injure, infuriate and, potentially, alienate people from an already marginalised community.
“Believe me, I have wrestled long and hard with myself, with what to say and do. I am aware that my actions and words, no matter what I say, will anger some people – whether they are from the [transgender] community or from the cisgender female community.”
Many athletes had been afraid to speak out over the issue but others, like former British swimmer and advocate for a more aggressive transgender policy Sharron Davies, hailed it as a victory for common sense.
“I can’t tell you how proud I am of my sport, FINA and the FINA president for doing the science, asking the athletes and coaches, and standing up for fair sport for females,” Davies said.
“Swimming will always welcome everyone, no matter how you identify, but fairness is the cornerstone of sport.”
Now the wait begins to see the ramification for other elite sports and whether the ruling will trickle down to the community level, something that has long been feared by transgender advocates and other experts in the field.
Dr Catherine Ordway from the University of Canberra, a leading voice in sport integrity, said FINA had simply found the issue too complex and ended up “taking a hammer to a walnut” with their policy.
“That’s exactly what has happened. They have just put a blanket ban over all transgender athletes instead of taking a nuanced, sophisticated approach where we treat case as an individual, which is the smart thing to do,” Ordway said.
“The reality is there aren’t that many transgender athletes and there aren’t that many who want to swim. What they are doing at FINA is saying you can’t compete, at all, in any of our disciplines, whether it’s synchronised swimming or water polo or diving.
“That means now and forever. You can’t compete in Masters swimming when you are 70 if you transitioned when you were 18. How is that fair? I don’t quite understand why they are taking a hammer to a walnut.”
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) updated its transgender policies after the Winter Olympics in Beijing but its document was criticised for lacking substance, overflowing with platitudes and handballing the issue back to the sports.
Now it has come home to roost for the IOC, which preaches inclusiveness but only managed to empower the powerbrokers of one of its biggest sports to take the most dramatic action yet seen by administrators.
Having Thomas swim at the Paris Olympics would have created one of the highest-profile controversies at a modern Games. FINA had squashed that prospect two years out, potentially saving them and the IOC from a media circus in France.
Should other major sports draw inspiration from the tough stance of swimming officials, the great transgender sporting debate could be over before it really began.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Energy Transfer LP ("Energy Transfer") (NYSE: ET) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired common shares of Energy Transfer stock between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, both dates inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Energy Transfer, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Energy Transfer includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) Energy Transfer had inadequate internal controls and procedures to prevent contractors from engaging in illegal conduct with regards to drilling activities, and/or failed to properly mitigate known issues related to such controls and procedures; (b) Energy Transfer, through its subsidiary Rover Pipeline, LLC, hired a third-party contractor to conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling Activities for the Rover Pipeline Project, whose conduct of adding illegal additives in the drilling mud caused severe pollution near the Tuscarawas River when a large inadvertent release took place on April 13, 2017; (c) Energy Transfer continually downplayed its potential civil liabilities when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") was actively investigating the Energy Transfer's wrongdoing related to the April 13 release and consistently provided it with updated information about FERC's findings on this matter.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention IonQ, Inc. ("IonQ") (NYSE: IONQ) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between March 30, 2021 and May 2, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in IonQ, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against IonQ includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) the Company's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) IonQ's quantum the computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; (4) a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper roundtripping transactions with related parties; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were the materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: August 1, 2022
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Tupperware Brands Corporation ("Tupperware") (NYSE: TUP) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between November 3, 2021 and May 3, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Tupperware, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Tupperware includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Tupperware was facing significant challenges in maintaining its earnings and sales performance; (ii) accordingly, Tupperware's full-year 2022 guidance was unrealistic and/or unsustainable; (iii) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Tupperware's financial condition; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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Good Morning Britain viewers have slammed comments made by a consultant oncologist who said the upcoming rail strikes were "selfish" and would lead to "a loss of life".
Rail workers are preparing to walk out this week in a bid to improve their pay and working conditions with disruption expected on most major lines on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. NHS Consultant Oncologist Professor Robert Thomas has now warned of the impact this will have on cancer patients and said he believes the strikes were "selfish".
Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, he said: "There is 120,000 people on chemotherapy right now and a similar amount on radiotherapy waiting for surgery. It is well established that if you delay the start of chemotherapy, the evidence is very clear you will have up to 20 per cent reduction in the benefit of cancer treatments and that means the pain is going to last longer, the distress from the cancer is going to be worse and more importantly that 20 per cent means that people are more likely to relapse from their cancer which will mean more deaths.
"So it is true, I do think it is selfish, I think it is inappropriate. Oncology services are under a particular breaking point at the moment due to a catch-up from lockdown and difficulty recruiting, etc. So this is going to lead to loss of lives, maybe not now but in the next few months."
Prof Thomas told presenters Ranvir Singh and Richard Madeley he was worried patients and staff would struggle to come to hospital because of the strikes and said there were many employees in oncology teams such as nurses and pharmacy technicians who "earn a lot less than railway workers".
Viewers have criticised his comments and said it was not the railway workers' fault that the NHS was currently struggling. Furthermore, many questioned how likely it was that immunocompromised cancer patients would use public transport to attend their appointments.
Carol Gardiner wrote on Twitter: "I’m surprised that the oncologist didn’t think that using public transport while receiving cancer treatment is risky. The number of Covid infections is rising alarmingly and cancer sufferers are often immuno suppressed. I would find alternative transport."
Dario CJ said: "People are going to die because of a rail strike. Covid didn’t delay any other procedures right?"
Tina Williams said: "What a stupid argument- getting an oncologist on to call #rmtstrike members responsible for cancer deaths. Moral authority? Should strikes be outlawed? Biased presentation not allowing sensible debate. Ridiculous!!"
Danny Garbett commented: "I hope you have this guy back on if/when the NHS staff strike. I’d like to hear if they are selfish too."
Freddy C said: "Oh GMB you can do better than this, now you bring a clinical oncologist?! That is scraping the bottom of the barrel in reporting. What is next? Individual anecdotal 'evidence'. Who will you bring when doctors and nurses go on strike? A rail worker?"
And Daniel wrote: "An NHS waiting list of months and months and suddenly a train strike is threatening patients lives."
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Apyx Medical Corporation ("Apyx") (NASDAQ: APYX) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between May 12, 2021 and March 11, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Apyx, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Apyx includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) a significant number of Apyx's Advanced Energy products were used for off-label indications; (2) such off-label uses led to an increase in the number of medical device reports filed by Apyx reporting serious adverse events; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur regulatory scrutiny; (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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Mountain View 52 83 60 92 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ510-210100-
East Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 101. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 60s. West winds
5 to 15 mph...becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
to mid 60s. Highs in the 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
Highs in the 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Concord 52 93 60 103 / 0 0 0 0
Livermore 49 90 60 100 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ513-210100-
Santa Clara Valley...including San Jose-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph decreasing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northwest winds around
5 mph...becoming west in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds
10 to 20 mph...becoming 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Jose 51 87 60 97 / 0 0 0 0
Morgan Hill 48 91 59 98 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ512-210100-
Santa Cruz Mountains-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 90s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s to lower 60s. North winds
10 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to upper 90s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s to lower 70s. North winds
5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s
to lower 60s. Highs in the 70s to 80s.
$$
CAZ515-210100-
East Bay Hills-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
around 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 10 to
20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 70. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Lows around 60. Highs in
the upper 80s.
$$
CAZ514-210100-
Eastern Santa Clara Hills-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s to upper 60s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s to upper 70s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 60s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid
60s. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
CAZ529-210100-
Northern Monterey Bay-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear except patchy fog. Lows in the
upper 40s. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds up
to 5 mph in the evening...becoming light.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Light winds...becoming
southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds
5 to 10 mph in the evening...becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs around 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Cruz 46 85 54 92 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ530-210100-
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to upper 80s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to upper 90s. North winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows near 60. Highs
in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Monterey 50 74 55 86 / 0 0 0 0
Big Sur 48 86 62 92 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ528-210100-
Northern Salinas Valley...Hollister Valley...and Carmel Valley-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to upper 80s. Northwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
10 to 15 mph...becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph increasing to northwest 10 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds 10 to
20 mph...becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Salinas 47 77 54 87 / 0 0 0 0
Carmel Valley 46 85 58 96 / 0 0 0 0
Hollister 47 87 58 96 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ516-210100-
Southern Salinas Valley...Arroyo Seco...and Lake San Antonio-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Light
winds.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s. North winds
around 5 mph...becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph decreasing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northeast winds around
5 mph increasing to south 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds
10 to 20 mph...becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
King City 43 90 56 99 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ517-210100-
Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. North winds
10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to upper 80s. North winds
10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to upper 60s. North
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 90s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s to mid 70s.
Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s to upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 50s to lower 60s. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 90s.
$$
CAZ518-210100-
Mountains of San Benito and Interior Monterey County including
Pinnacles National Park-
301 AM PDT Mon Jun 20 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. North
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s. North winds
10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to upper 90s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph...becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s. West
winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s to mid 60s. Highs in the mid 80s to upper 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s to
mid 60s. Highs mid 80s to 100.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pinnacles NP 44 94 59 101 / 0 0 0 0
$$
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Health Ministry said Monday authorities have detected the country's first case of monkeypox in a person who returned from abroad and is now isolating at home.
The ministry said the person is stable and that authorities are tracking the person's contacts. It did not provide further details.
Lebanon is the latest in the Middle East to join countries with reported monkeypox cases; Israel and the United Arab Emirates identified their first cases of the illness in May. The announcement came as Lebanon prepares for a busy summer season with hundreds of thousands of expatriates and tourists expected to visit.
The virus originates in primates and other wild animals and causes fever, body aches, chills and fatigue in most patients. People with severe cases can develop a rash and lesions on the face, hands and other parts of the body.
The smallpox-related disease, which first causes flu-like symptoms before progressing to a rash on the face and body, is commonly found in parts of central and west Africa. But this year, 1,880 infections have been reported in more than 30 countries where monkeypox isn’t typically found.
Some 85% of the cases were in Europe. No deaths have been reported.
The World Health Organization has said people with monkeypox could be infectious for up to four weeks and advised them to isolate until they have completely recovered.
Lebanon is in the grip of the worst economic crisis in its modern history, and its medical sector has been struggling with shortages in medicine and medical equipment. The country is home to some 6 million people, including 1 million Syrian refugees.
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In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Monday, June 20, 2022 ...
What we are watching in Canada ...
Labour troubles at Canada's largest rail company kicks-off the week.
The union representing about 750 Canadian National Railway employees, says signal and communication workers have walked off the job across the country.
Steve Martin of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers confirmed in a text that workers were legally on strike as of 11 a.m. local time on Saturday. The IBEW gave a 72-hour strike notice Wednesday morning.
While CN did not confirm that workers had gone on strike, spokesman Jonathan Abecassis says the company has implemented an "operational contingency plan," adding that operations are continuing "safely and at normal levels." The Montreal-based company says it continues to encourage the union to resolve sticking points on wages and benefits through binding arbitration.
The Canadian rail giant went through an eight-day strike by more than 3,000 workers represented by Teamsters Canada in November 2019 that halted shipments and disrupted industries across the country. CN hauls more than 300 million tonnes of commodities and consumer goods across the continent each year.
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Also this ...
Canadians will need to find alternatives for plastic straws and grocery bags by the end of the year as the federal government puts the final motions in place to ban some single-use plastics.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and several other ministers and Liberal MPs will lay out the plastics ban in a series of events across the country today. Guilbeault is also expected to discuss plans to mandate a minimum amount of recycled content in other plastic items as the government seeks to create a bigger market for recycled plastic in Canada.
The draft regulations to ban six plastic items were published in December and the government has to have at least a six-month-long phase-in period once the final regulations are published this month.
Only six specific manufactured plastic items will be affected by the initial ban after the government determined they were hard to recycle but have easy alternatives.
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And this ...
New research concludes allowing young hockey players to bodycheck at an early age doesn't protect them from injury as they move into older, harder-hitting leagues. In fact, University of Calgary researcher Paul Eliason (ell-EYE-uh-suhn) says kids who are already used to bodychecking by the age of 15 suffer injuries at a rate more than twice as high as players that age who are new to it. Eliason's paper is published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. He says he undertook the study to examine arguments that kids who learn early how to give and take an on-ice hit are safer than those who don't.
What we are watching in the U.S. ...
Members of the U-S House committee investigating the Capitol riot say they may subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence.
California Democratic Representative Adam Schiff says the committee is "not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified." He describes a Pence subpoena as "certainly a possibility." For example, the committee has been able to document most of Trump's end of his call to Pence on the morning of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, when the then-president made his final plea for Pence to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory when Pence presided over the Electoral College count in Congress. Members have not yet documented directly what Pence said in response.
The news about possibly issuing a subpoena for Pence comes as the committee, made up of mostly Democrats and a pair of Republicans, is waiting to hear from Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, about her role in the illegal plot to overturn the 2020 election. This past January, Justice Thomas was the lone member of the court who supported a bid by Trump to withhold documents from the committee.
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What we are watching in the rest of the world ...
Extensive flooding across the northern parts of Bangladesh has left millions of people struggling to find safe drinking water and food.
Officials say more than a dozen people have also died in different parts of the country since the monsoon began last week. The country's flood warning centre is warning that the flooding may worsen in the affected regions over the next 24 hours.
Last month, a pre-monsoon flash flood triggered by a rush of water from upstream in India's northeastern states hit Bangladesh's northern and northeastern regions, destroying crops and damaging homes and roads.
Bangladesh is a low-lying nation of 160 million people and is prone to natural disasters.
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This as well ...
Prince William, once a towheaded schoolboy, is set to celebrate his 40th birthday on Tuesday by assuming an increasingly central role in the royal family as he prepares for his eventual accession to the throne.
That was clear two weeks ago when William took center stage at the extravaganza concert marking Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne, lauding his grandmother as an environmental trailblazer as he delivered a call to action on climate change.
And experts say get ready to see more of this, as the 96-year-old queen, slowed by age and health problems, gradually hands over more responsibilities to her son and heir, Prince Charles. That in turn gives William, his eldest son, a more important role to play and more opportunities to put the stamp on a new generation of the monarchy.
Royal expert Pauline Maclaran says William has been very keen to kind of show how he will treat things differently. His charities and causes -- from mental health to the environment -- have given hints of what sort of monarch he might one day be.
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On this day in 1967 ...
Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted and was sentenced to five years in prison. (Ali’s conviction was ultimately overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court).
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Natera, Inc. ("Natera") (NASDAQ: NTRA) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class of all persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Natera common stock between February 26, 2020, and April 19, 2022, inclusive.
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East Midlands Railway has warned passengers to only try and travel by rail if absolutely necessary this Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday as the UK faces the biggest train strike in 30 years.
It is offering vastly reduced services during the strike and stopping trains after 6.30pm, and has warned people to leave plenty of extra time for their journeys.
Nationally only around 20 per cent of trains will run on each of the three days with further disruption on days following the action as members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at Network Rail and 13 train operators take action over pay and conditions.
The RMT and Unite is also holding a 24-hour walkout on London Underground which will cause huge disruption to the Tube.
The TUC is calling on the Westminster government to adopt a positive role in the dispute, saying it was “inflaming tensions” with comments such as threats to revoke workers’ legal rights and bring in legislation to allow temporary agency staff to fill striking workers’ roles.
East Midlands Railway runs services on the Midlands Mainline between London and stations such as Market Harborough, Leicester, Loughborough, East Midlands Parkway, Nottingham, Derby and Sheffield.
It said services will only run between 7.30am and 6.30pm on each of the three days.
It recommends that anyone needing to make essential rail journeys should check the services available before setting out.
It said: “Services have been reduced significantly during these dates. EMR will still offer booked Passenger Assistance [for people with disabilities] in line with their current policy of two hour booking window.
“EMR are proactively contacting customers who have booked assistance on the services that are affected and will be offered a refund or the chance to reschedule their journey.
“We expect that trains running on strike days to be extremely busy and crowded. Our team will be available to assist all customers during the affected dates.”
During the strike action East Midlands Railway said routes will be cut to a single service per hour, with some cancelled all together.
Managing director Will Rogers said: “We are extremely disappointed the RMT have decided to strike on the 21, 23 and 25 June.
“This is the wrong decision for the railway and communities we serve.
“There will be changes to our normal timetable and some parts of our network will have no train services on strike days and other lines will have a reduced level of service.
“I would urge all customers to think carefully about their journeys next week – and make alternative arrangements if possible.”
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady nobody took strike action lightly but rail staff had been left with “no other option”.
He said: “The Government has the power to help end this dispute but rather than working in good faith to find a negotiated settlement, ministers are inflaming tensions and trying to pitch worker against worker.
“Instead of threatening to do a P&O on these workers and rip up their rights, ministers should be getting people around the table to help agree a fair deal.”
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A guest at an Airbnb property said they were left feeling unsafe after their host sent “threatening” messages in response to a four-star review.
Dr Alex Moore, a US assistant ecology professor who identifies as gender non-conforming (GNC), shared their experience on social media after staying at the property in Vancouver, Canada.
Dr Moore had left a four-star rating for the apartment, along with a review saying: “Really enjoyed my time here and would certainly stay again.”
However, the host was allegedly less than impressed.
Dr Moore tweeted: “I left a 4/5 review with a positive message, and the host has contacted me at my personal number with increasingly threatening text because my review brought their average rating down from a 5 to a 4.95.”
They added: “In the interest of my own personal safety as well as public safety, @Airbnb: Can you explain to me and everyone else why the host who sent me this message is still active on your platform? This person is clearly a threat and should not be allowed to host guests.”
They then shared a screenshot of a message allegedly sent by the host, which said: “I have your picture, your name and your number.
“You have 48 hours to remove your review or I’m hiring a private investigator to obtain your address and then the fun begins.
“You’re blocked from messaging me on this number.”
Having contacted Vancouver PD, Dr Moore was told that an officer would be sent round to tell the host to leave them alone.
Following several conversations with Airbnb’s customer support team, the listing appeared to have since been removed from the homesharing platform.
Dr Moore concluded the thread: “It’s confirmed that his listing has been taken down! I will continue to follow up with @AirbnbHelp regarding next steps. Thank you all again for amplifying this and sharing your stories to help keep others safe.”
The Independent has approached Airbnb for comment.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. f/k/a Peridot Acquisition Corp. ("Li-Cycle") (NYSE: LICY) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between February 16, 2021 and March 23, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Li-Cycle, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Li-Cycle includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Li-Cycle's largest customer, Traxys, is not actually a customer, but merely a broker providing working capital financial to the Company while Traxys tries to sell Li-Cycle's product to end customers; (2) the Company engaged in highly questionable related party transactions; (3) the Company's mark-to-model accounting is vulnerable to abuse and gave a false impression of growth; (4) a significant portion of the Company's reported revenues were derived from simply marking up receivables on products that had not been sold; (5) the Company's gross margins have likely been negative since inception; (6) the Company will require an additional $1 billion of funding to support its planned growth (which is a figure greater than the Company raised via the merger); and (7) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: June 20, 2022
Aggrieved Li-Cycle investors only have until June 20, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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WASHINGTON — It's a question the country has been asking for a while now. When will the Supreme Court issue its decision on abortion rights?
In truth, no one in the public really knows because the high court doesn't tell reporters in advance when a case will be decided.
"Some of it is tradition, this is the way the court has always done it," Carolyn Shapiro, a former Supreme Court law clerk and professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, said.
Shapiro says beyond tradition, a bit of secrecy provides some benefits to the high court.
It makes organizing a protest outside the Supreme Court more difficult and makes the court less likely to impact the stock market should a case be financial in nature.
WHAT WE DO KNOW
By logging onto SupremeCourt.gov, you can learn about just as much as Washington reporters know about the Supreme Court schedule.
On the homepage, a calendar appears and "yellow days" are days in which opinions will be issued.
The calendar does not provide information regarding what specific opinions will be issued. It just says something will be released involving one of their remaining cases.
For those following at home…next opinion days at SCOTUS are on Tuesday/Thursday of next week. pic.twitter.com/5oxhQ4trRM
— Joe St. George (@JoeStGeorge) June 16, 2022
The calendar changes frequently and -- as of now -- this week opinions will be issued on Tuesday and Thursday.
There are 18 cases that need final rulings before the justices depart for their traditional summer break. That usually happens by the end of June or early July.
Apart from the abortion decision, which will impact what restrictions states will be able to impose, the Supreme Court will issue controversial opinions on religious freedom and gun rights as well.
"Is it possible that we could get an abortion, guns, and religious freedom all on the same day?" our Joe St. George asked Shapiro.
"Yes, that's a possibility," Shapiro said.
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW
In regards to the abortion decision, Shapiro suspects it is still being worked on. After all, it's not just the majority opinion that needs to be written, dissenting opinions must be finished too.
Ultimately, when an opinion is ready Chief Justice John Roberts plays a key role in deciding when to announce it.
The court does have a history of announcing its most important ruling of the term last.
"I think they are working on things, they are making adjustments," Shapiro said.
While the country continues to wait, outside the Supreme Court security remains heightened with real threats emerging.
A 26-year-old was recently charged federally with the attempted murder of justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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ZEE5 to premiere Kangana Ranaut's spy-thriller 'Dhaakad' on this date
'Dhaakad' is yet another strong addition to the list as it will help appeal to distinct viewers with varied choices. Watch Kangana Ranaut's character Agent Agni turn into an unstoppable killing machine in her latest spy-thriller flick.
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NEW DELHI: ZEE5, India and Bharat's largest home-grown video streaming platform and multilingual storyteller for multiple entertainment seekers, has announced the World Digital Premiere of 'Dhaakad' on 1st July. In addition to a strong line-up of original shows and movies, ZEE5 has been consistently bolstering its portfolio by acquiring World Digital Premiere rights of many theatrical releases including 'RRR', 'The Kashmir Files', 'Valimai', 'Antim', 'Jhund', 'Attack', and others.
'Dhaakad' is yet another strong addition to the list as it will help appeal to distinct viewers with varied choices.
Directed by Razneesh Ghai, 'Dhaakad' is a spy thriller with Kangana in lead and Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta and Saswata Chatterjee in supporting roles. Shot by Japanese cinematographer Tetsuo Nagata (La Vie en rose), 'Dhaakad' is truly international in scale and style as the action sequences are designed by an international crew. With blood, action, gunshots and characters with their own set of eccentricities, Dhaakad is a bold movie with a fierce, feisty and fearless Kangana in lead.
'Dhaakad' revolves around Agni (Kangana), a special agent with the International Task Force, who is assigned the mission to eliminate an international human and arms trafficker Rudraveer (Arjun Rampal), who is also running a coal mafia. During this battle, her tragic childhood past comes in the forefront more often than she would want and she unearths rather shocking truths about her tragedy, one of which is even linked to Rudraveer.
Manish Kalra, Chief Business Officer said, "We have been consistently curating a diverse portfolio with quality content across genres and are happy to add another action-film to the slate as this genre appeals to all. Dhaakad is a must-watch film for all action lovers. Apart from having an international crew choreographing its action sequences, the movie has a fierce Kangana in top form. It is also a trendsetting film with a lot of potential, and we are elated to have partnered with the producers to give Dhaakad a global audience".
Producer Deepak Mukut said, "Dhaakad is a film that's very close to all of our hearts. Usually action films are associated with the male actors in our industry, but here we made a film that redefines the action genre for actresses in Indian films and we are really proud of it. We wanted the vibe and feel to be at par with the well-known international action movies and we were successful in achieving that. The action pieces were appreciated on the big screen and now that the film is releasing digitally, we are sure more people will laud our attempt. Kangana delivered a superlative performance in Dhaakad, paving a new path for female-led action films. I am so glad that the film is now reaching out to wider audiences through ZEE5. Dhaakad is a fruit of our labour, and we are extremely proud to present it to the audiences worldwide through this platform".
Kangana Ranaut said, "Dhaakad was an intense film which required a lot of physical and emotional transformation. Indian films can be of international standards and can have female action heroes in the lead. Get ready to watch me as a killing machine only on ZEE5 from 1st July."
Watch the World Digital Premiere of Dhaakad on ZEE5 on July 1.
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The Government is looking at different ways to slash costs for householders as parts of its cost-of-living budget in October
As part of a plan to cut costs for families, the Government is to prioritise childcare fees in the next budget.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said it is the objective of government to look at the affordability issues of childcare.
The Government is looking at different ways to slash costs for householders as parts of its cost-of-living budget in October.
It has so far resisted calls to bring in an emergency budget, with Mr Martin saying they cannot chase inflation on a month-to-month basis.
Mr Martin did not provide details on how the Government plans to cut childcare costs, saying only that decisions will be made within the fiscal framework.
Speaking at the National Economic Dialogue at Dublin Castle, Mr Martin said: “The budget isn’t going to be announced today and I don’t mean that in any sort of facetious way. Childcare is a big issue.
“It’s a very significant cost pressure on families and we’re going to look at that.
“Last year, we took significant measures around giving resources to (Children’s) Minister (Roderic) O’Gorman to work with the partners in childcare around pay and conditions and to create meaningful career pathways for people working in childcare.
“We’re very clear across government that the next budget has to look at affordability issues in childcare.
“So that certainly is an issue that will merit consideration.
“That is the objective of government. We have to do it, obviously, within the fiscal framework.”
Mr Martin said the budget plans will be “comprehensive” and need to be sustainable over a longer period of time.
“We can’t chase inflation in a simplistic way, we do not want to repeat the mistakes in the 1970s when we had a decade of rampant inflation, which really damaged disposable income and the economy at that time,” Mr Martin added.
“We want to do this in a detailed, in an evidence-based way, with significant work and look at how we can bring costs down. The forthcoming budget will be a cost-of-living budget and what we do has to be comprehensive, has to be sustainable over a longer period of time than just going from a month-to-month situation.
“We’ve already brought in measures. There is no doubt people are under enormous pressure because of what is happening, but what we have to do is in the context of the budget, is to reduce the pressure on people but do it in a way that’s comprehensive, that’s sustainable, and that will be applicable this year.
“That can give relief to people in terms of the pressures that they’re currently facing.”
He said the Government will consider recommendations from a number of advisory and research bodies, including the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
The Fianna Fail leader said everything will be assessed on an evidence-based approach.
Asked if the Government will consider a new rainy day fund, Mr Martin said he will assess the idea in the lead up to the budget.
“A month-to-month approach is not ideal but we understand the pressures. But we’ve got to accept that the winter period could be the most significant period of this crisis so far,” he added.
“Therefore we’ve got to make sure that we have enough in reserve to deal with that and to keep the pressure off to make sure people have some quality of life and get through the winter period.
“That’s why we’re being particularly focused on the idea that whatever we do has to be sustainable.”
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HOUSTON, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today its SOCAR-KBR joint venture has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED), turnaround engineering, and procurement support services contract by BP Exploration for the Shah Deniz Alpha (SDA) platform in Azerbaijan.
This project will significantly reduce SDA's overall carbon footprint and increase operational efficiency, providing a robust, long-term, high-availability power supply. SOCAR-KBR will be responsible for the FEED services for decommissioning the existing five main power generators on the SDA platform. They will then create a power supply from the KBR-designed Shah Deniz Bravo platform through subsea cables and a back-up power generator.
"KBR has been working in the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey region since 1993, which gives us unrivaled expertise with on- and off-shore greenfield and brownfield assets," said Jay Ibrahim, president of KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions. "Our SOCAR-KBR joint venture allows us to combine KBR's proven tools, systems, procedures and project track record in the region with SOCAR's operations knowledge and experience in the energy sector."
This project will be delivered from SOCAR-KBR's Baku office to maximize local execution, with specialist subject matter expert support provided from KBR's London operations. KBR is proud that more than 95% of its current Baku-based SOCAR-KBR team are Azerbaijani engineers.
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission critical roles in 34 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long- term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
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The statements in this press release that are not historical statements, including statements regarding future financial performance, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's control that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the significant adverse impacts on economic and market conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the company's ability to respond to the resulting challenges and business disruption; the recent dislocation of the global energy market; the company's ability to manage its liquidity; the outcome of and the publicity surrounding audits and investigations by domestic and foreign government agencies and legislative bodies; potential adverse proceedings by such agencies and potential adverse results and consequences from such proceedings; changes in capital spending by the company's customers; the company's ability to obtain contracts from existing and new customers and perform under those contracts; structural changes in the industries in which the company operates; escalating costs associated with and the performance of fixed-fee projects and the company's ability to control its cost under its contracts; claims negotiations and contract disputes with the company's customers; changes in the demand for or price of oil and/or natural gas; protection of intellectual property rights; compliance with environmental laws; changes in government regulations and regulatory requirements; compliance with laws related to income taxes; unsettled political conditions, war and the effects of terrorism; foreign operations and foreign exchange rates and controls; the development and installation of financial systems; the possibility of cyber and malware attacks; increased competition for employees; the ability to successfully complete and integrate acquisitions; and operations of joint ventures, including joint ventures that are not controlled by the company.
The company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Form 10-Qs and 8-Ks, and other U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss some of the important risk factors that the company has identified that may affect its business, results of operations and financial condition. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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On Father's Day, several videos and photographs relating to gifts and wishes went viral, as did a video of Dua Zahra's father, Mehdi Kazmi's, crying while missing his daughter.
In the viral footage, Dua's father is seen sobbing on a couch. After the video went viral, several comments and messages circulated on social media for the grieving father.
Social media users hoped Zahra and her parents will meet after the video went viral.
Actress Yumna Zaidi also posted a photo of Mehdi Kazmi and wished him a Happy Father's Day, and praised him for 'being a great father.'
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Fitch Ratings announced on Friday that it has increased near-term price assumptions for iron ore, coking and thermal coal, nickel and zinc, citing stronger post-pandemic demand and supply disruptions, particularly from Russia.
The ratings agency said its increased 2022 iron ore price forecast reflects the strong average year-to-date price of $140 (R2 238) a ton.
"Supply concerns (the Ukraine-Russia war and seasonally lower Brazilian and Australian shipments) have supported prices, despite lower steel production in China year on year due to policy requirements and lower demand," it said.
Fitch said that while lockdowns were easing, construction activities were slow to resume, and manufacturing companies were hesitating to re-open due to fear of new infections.
The agency said it raised coking coal assumptions for 2022-2023, reflecting record pricing year to date due to disrupted supplies from Australia and Russia.
"Prices moderated in second quarter of 2022 once some exports recovered. Russian seaborne supply will remain below pre-war levels, with (analysis provider) CRU estimating a reduction of 20 million tons in 2022 and a further six million tons in 2023, before some recovery. We expect global long-term demand to fall on lower Chinese consumption, offsetting growth in other regions," it said.
The agency also increased the zinc assumptions for 2022-2023, reflecting smelter disruptions due to high energy costs, partially offset by a modest decline in demand in China and flat global demand.
"Supply is price-elastic and highly fragmented, which should spur smelter restarts once energy prices stabilise at lower levels," it said.
The thermal coal assumptions were also increased for 2022-2023, reflecting high year-to-date prices, supported by tight supply due to the Australian wet season, strong Indian demand mitigating lower demand in China and structurally higher prices of Newcastle 6000.
"Australian supplies will eventually recover, while India and China have increased imports from Russia, helping meet recovering Chinese demand," the ratings gency said.
Fitch’s increased 2022 nickel assumption reflected strong year-to-date pricing.
Low inventories, disruptions at Norilsk Nickel and Vale, sanctions fears, stronger-than-expected, battery-driven demand and a speculative rally in March, have rebased short- and medium-term prices, it said.
"We have raised assumptions for 2023-2024 as inventories, while normalising, will remain below historical levels, while demand from stainless steel and EV (electric vehicle) increases. However, Indonesian supply additions will leave the market oversupplied, although fast-growing EV demand represents some upside," the agency said.
The gold price and aluminium assumptions remained unchanged.
"Gold price assumptions reflected its ‘safe haven’ investment status amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict and rising inflationary pressures."
Investec chief economist Annabel Bishop said Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine had lasted longer than initially expected and still showed no sign of abating.
"The effects of the war were initially felt mainly through price channels, as the combat has disrupted supply chains, pushing up commodity prices substantially," Bishop said.
According to Bishop, South Africa’s key export remains coal, which was still running at historic high prices. This, she said, has not boosted the rand this quarter.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Spero Therapeutics, Inc. ("Spero") (NASDAQ: SPRO) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between October 28, 2021 and May 2, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Spero, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Spero includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the data submitted in support of the New Drug Application ("NDA") for the Company's product candidate, Tebipenem HBr, were insufficient to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"); (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the FDA would approve the Tebipenem HBr NDA in its current form; (iii) the foregoing would necessitate a significant workforce reduction and restructuring of Spero's operations; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: July 25, 2022
Aggrieved Spero investors only have until July 25, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADN – Get Rating) – Analysts at Jefferies Financial Group issued their Q2 2022 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for Advent Technologies in a report issued on Thursday, June 16th. Jefferies Financial Group analyst L. Alexander expects that the company will post earnings of ($0.24) per share for the quarter. The consensus estimate for Advent Technologies’ current full-year earnings is ($0.55) per share. Jefferies Financial Group also issued estimates for Advent Technologies’ Q3 2022 earnings at ($0.20) EPS and Q4 2022 earnings at ($0.21) EPS.
Advent Technologies (NASDAQ:ADN – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Monday, March 28th. The company reported ($0.31) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.12) by ($0.19). Advent Technologies had a negative return on equity of 36.33% and a negative net margin of 402.65%. The company had revenue of $2.90 million during the quarter.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in ADN. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its stake in Advent Technologies by 23.5% during the fourth quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 14,626 shares of the company’s stock worth $103,000 after purchasing an additional 2,779 shares during the last quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. boosted its position in shares of Advent Technologies by 7.6% during the fourth quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 49,952 shares of the company’s stock valued at $351,000 after buying an additional 3,534 shares during the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its position in Advent Technologies by 75.6% in the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 12,035 shares of the company’s stock worth $84,000 after purchasing an additional 5,180 shares during the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp lifted its position in shares of Advent Technologies by 13.5% during the 3rd quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 49,344 shares of the company’s stock valued at $429,000 after buying an additional 5,867 shares during the last quarter. Finally, American International Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of Advent Technologies by 89.7% during the 1st quarter. American International Group Inc. now owns 15,851 shares of the company’s stock valued at $37,000 after buying an additional 7,494 shares during the last quarter. 38.81% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
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Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc, an advanced materials and technology development company, operates in the fuel cell and hydrogen technology markets. It develops, manufactures, and assembles fuel cell systems and critical components that determine the performance of hydrogen fuel cells and other energy systems.
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Ofcom rules Channel 4 breached broadcast licence terms over subtitles outage
An Ofcom investigation has ruled that Channel 4 breached the conditions of its broadcast licence after an extended outage of its subtitle services last year.
The broadcaster experienced a number of major problems from September to November, caused by issues at the centre which handles its playout services.
Ofcom noted that the incident was “unprecedented” but found the “prolonged outage” of the broadcaster’s subtitling, signing and audio descriptions meant Channel 4 service “fell short of the statutory requirement to subtitle 90% of its programme hours over 2021 on the Freesat service.”
The media watchdog stated it also found the broadcaster had breached another licence condition by “failing to effectively communicate” with those affected audiences following the incident.
➡️ Channel 4 fell short of its subtitles quota on Freesat following outage➡️ Communication with audiences during incident severely lacking➡️ Broadcasters must improve disaster recovery plans
Read more from the findings of our investigation. ⬇️https://t.co/5qtbrdwN1g pic.twitter.com/1puL5EGRbz
— Ofcom (@Ofcom) June 20, 2022
A statement from Ofcom said: “An Ofcom investigation has found Channel 4 breached the conditions of its broadcast licence following an extended outage of its subtitling, signing and audio description services.
“These ‘access services’ are relied on by millions of people to watch and listen to television, including those who are deaf, have hearing loss, are blind or partially sighted.
“Our investigation found that, as a result of an incident at a broadcast centre run by Red Bee Media, Freesat audiences who rely on subtitles were unable to fully access Channel 4 programmes for nearly two months.”
The issues arose in September after a fire suppression system was triggered at the broadcast centre of Red Bee Media, severely damaging a large number of hard disks in a variety of systems.
The extended outage of Channel 4’s broadcast channels was not fully resolved until November 19.
Ofcom noted in the report that a number of other broadcasters were also affected by the incident but to “a lesser degree”.
Following the incident, the broadcasting watchdog has insisted broadcasters must improve their disaster recovery plans.
It stated: “Broadcasters must improve their disaster recovery plans and processes.
“Disaster recovery facilities must be specified to carry access services, as well as sound and vision, and be regularly tested under simulated emergency conditions.
“Technical infrastructure should also be regularly audited to identify any potential vulnerabilities.
“Staff at all points in the transmission chain must be properly trained to correctly follow the disaster recovery procedures.
It added: “Broadcasters must prepare effective communication plans in case of service interruptions.
“This includes taking into account the particular needs of the affected audience, and making use, as appropriate, of their own TV channels and not just social media to communicate with them.”
Ofcom added that it will be reviewing its ‘TV Technical Codes’ later this year where it will consider what changes are needed to bring the delivery of access services in line with sound and vision protocols.
Kevin Bakhurst, Ofcom’s group director for broadcasting, said: “When things go wrong, broadcasters must have plans in place to restore important services, but also to let audiences know what they can expect.
“By failing to do this, Channel 4 let down people who use subtitles, signing or audio description to enjoy programmes.
“There are a number of lessons for broadcasters to learn from this incident. We’ve told them they must improve and test their back-up plans and infrastructure to minimise the risk of such a disruptive outage happening again.”
A statement from Channel 4 said: “Channel 4 is very disappointed with Ofcom’s decision and will review its findings carefully.
“We would like to apologise once again to our audiences for the disruption to our access services following the catastrophic incident last September and since then we have implemented a number of new systems and processes to avoid a serious incident in the future.”
The broadcaster noted that its commitments for 2022 include returning to 100% subtitled content across all its linear channels, and on its on-demand service All 4 by the end of the year.
It is also aiming to increase the amount of signing on Channel 4 and E4 as well as upping the audio descriptions on linear channels. | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/ofcom-rules-channel-4-breached-111800961.html?src=rss | 2022-06-20T11:30:24Z | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/ofcom-rules-channel-4-breached-111800961.html?src=rss | false | 8 |
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ:AVXL – Get Rating) – Equities research analysts at Dawson James issued their Q3 2022 EPS estimates for Anavex Life Sciences in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, June 15th. Dawson James analyst J. Kolbert anticipates that the biotechnology company will post earnings per share of ($0.14) for the quarter. The consensus estimate for Anavex Life Sciences’ current full-year earnings is ($0.60) per share. Dawson James also issued estimates for Anavex Life Sciences’ Q4 2022 earnings at ($0.14) EPS, FY2022 earnings at ($0.57) EPS, FY2023 earnings at $0.78 EPS, FY2024 earnings at $15.23 EPS, FY2025 earnings at $19.52 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $19.88 EPS.
Anavex Life Sciences (NASDAQ:AVXL – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 10th. The biotechnology company reported ($0.14) earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.16) by $0.02. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned ($0.12) earnings per share.
Shares of AVXL stock opened at $8.47 on Monday. Anavex Life Sciences has a 1-year low of $7.13 and a 1-year high of $31.50. The company has a market cap of $655.65 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -14.86 and a beta of 0.92. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $9.11 and its 200 day moving average price is $12.09.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of AVXL. Bank of America Corp DE increased its holdings in shares of Anavex Life Sciences by 84.3% in the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 273,223 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $3,363,000 after acquiring an additional 124,953 shares during the period. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. grew its position in Anavex Life Sciences by 41.0% in the 1st quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. now owns 31,650 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock valued at $389,000 after buying an additional 9,200 shares in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. grew its position in Anavex Life Sciences by 15.3% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 438,764 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock valued at $5,402,000 after buying an additional 58,299 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp grew its position in Anavex Life Sciences by 45.5% in the 1st quarter. State Street Corp now owns 5,577,256 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock valued at $68,656,000 after buying an additional 1,743,222 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Engineers Gate Manager LP boosted its position in shares of Anavex Life Sciences by 41.7% during the 1st quarter. Engineers Gate Manager LP now owns 22,491 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock valued at $277,000 after purchasing an additional 6,619 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 29.01% of the company’s stock.
In other Anavex Life Sciences news, Director Athanasios Skarpelos sold 50,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $9.06, for a total value of $453,000.00. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 1,306,458 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $11,836,509.48. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. 11.00% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
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Anavex Life Sciences Corp., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development of drug candidates for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Its lead drug candidate is ANAVEX 2-73, which is in Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; Phase III clinical trial to treat pediatric patients with Rett syndrome; Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of Parkinson's disease; and preclinical clinical trials to treat epilepsy, infantile spasms, Fragile X syndrome, Angelman syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and tuberous sclerosis complex.
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Top contractor learning and networking event heads to Tucson, Arizona in January 2023
SEATTLE, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Business Development Resources (BDR), the training and business coaching authority for home services industry professionals, will host two jam-packed days of impactful keynote talks, breakout sessions, networking opportunities, and more for top contractors in the industry at SPARK 2023 Jan. 11-14 in Tucson, Arizona.
"SPARK 2023 is a powerful opportunity for contractors to cultivate new ideas, learn to communicate with younger generations, and collaborate with their peers," said Bruce Wiseman, president and owner of BDR. "Based on the success of the first SPARK event in San Antonio earlier this year, we're confident that we've developed a unique program that inspires and empowers the leaders in our industry."
At SPARK, contractors will be presented with opportunities to build significant industry connections and learn key areas of focus for their business in the current economic climate.
The event is headlined by keynote sessions from experts in leadership and team member engagement. Clint Pulver, professional drummer turned employee retention expert, will kick off the event with an electrifying opening presentation. Lt. Col. Waldo "The Wingman" Waldman, executive coach and author of the New York Times bestseller "Never Fly Solo," will deliver a powerful closing keynote.
SPARK 2023 also features time to enjoy activities in Tucson, a golf tournament, and great food and drinks – all in a uniquely Southwest setting. Held at the El Conquistador Tucson, guests will get to experience the colors, textures, and awe-inspiring views of the Sonoran Desert.
The inaugural SPARK event in San Antonio hosted representatives from 95 home service businesses with a combined annual revenue of $500 million.
For more information, including registration options and a preliminary agenda, visit https://www.bdrco.com/spark/.
BDR (Business Development Resources) is the premier provider of business training and coaching to HVAC contractors and distributors, established in 1998. BDR's Profit Coach program has a membership of 600 leading contractors. Ten thousand HVAC professionals across North America attend BDR training courses annually. Nearly 1,000 industry professionals attend Profit Launch, BDR's planning workshop. For more information, please visit www.bdrco.com.
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A WOMAN who got a simple henna tattoo was left mortified after the inking looked like it was drawn on with a cake decorating kit.
Mia Orrico, who is from Australia, took to TikTok where she shared a short video of the major blunder.
She captioned the post: "Pleaseeee how do you get it so wrong."
In the next clip, she shared a snap of the inking she asked for which read the date "1971" in clear black ink.
Pretty simple, huh?
Well, think again...
What Mia got was something completely different and it looked like it had been drawn on by a toddler rather than by a professional.
The post has since racked up an impressed 435,000 views and been inundated with comments.
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And many were quick to share their amusement at the tattoo fail.
"Is that the cake decorating kit?" joked one.
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In response, Mia commented: "LITERALLY."
A second quipped: "That looks like the burn marks you do on your projects in woodwork at high school."
A third admitted: "Still cackling from this."
Meanwhile, another added: "Oh my god it’s like a toddler did it."
A further sympathised and encouraged: "At least it isn’t permanent."
Elsewhere, one social media user commented: "You get what you pay for," to which Mia replied: "You ain’t wrong."
Another defended the artist: "It's henna it's harder to apply then a tattoo." | https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/5598829/i-wanted-simple-date-tattoo-its-terrible/ | 2022-06-20T11:34:03Z | https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/5598829/i-wanted-simple-date-tattoo-its-terrible/ | true | 4 |
NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Okta, Inc. ("Okta") (NASDAQ: OKTA) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between March 5, 2021 and March 22, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Okta, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Okta includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (ii) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (iii) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (iv) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: July 19, 2022
Aggrieved Okta investors only have until July 19, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
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By Cate McCurry, PA
Pregnant women are being offered the Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccines following a recommendation by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (Niac).
Women whose pregnancy is between 14 and 36 weeks are being encouraged by the HSE to take up the Covid-19 vaccine when it is offered to them.
All 19 maternity hospitals/units in Ireland are contacting pregnant women, offering them a consultation to discuss the vaccine with their obstetric caregiver. The HSE said this could be a midwife, GP or obstetrician.
COVID-19 vaccines are recommended during pregnancy. Learn more about #COVIDVaccines on our website and through your maternity team. Visit: https://t.co/ZKQiMHYQUL#ForUsAll pic.twitter.com/i14LmTNgf2
— HSE Ireland (@HSELive) May 28, 2021
Following this consultation, people can be vaccinated by the hospital or referred to a vaccination centre.
Dr Peter McKenna, national clinical director of the HSE National Women and Infants Health Programme, said: “The information we have so far shows that the Covid-19 vaccines do not have any negative effect on babies in the womb.
“We would strongly encourage people to consider taking up their vaccine when offered as it greatly reduces the chances of you becoming unwell from the Covid-19 virus.”
Dr McKenna added: “Unfortunately, the process of vaccinating pregnant women has been hampered by the cyberattack on the HSE’s IT system over the last week.
“Maternity units have had to come up with innovative ways to contact women about their vaccine, as they are without access to Patient Information Systems, or the Electronic Health Record that supports the hospitals.
Due to the ransomware attack on our IT systems, there continues to be disruption to our services. More details on service disruptions here: https://t.co/xihKOwb4KO pic.twitter.com/OT8uvCsyfd
— HSE Ireland (@HSELive) May 27, 2021
“Many maternity hospitals have set up helplines for pregnant women who wish to access this pathway.
“Based on the information we have, so far over 12,000 women have had a consultation with their obstetric caregiver about a Covid-19 vaccine.”
More than 3,800 women had either received a vaccine or had an appointment for a vaccine to date.
Most maternity hospitals and units were discussing Covid-19 vaccines with pregnant women and registering their interest so they could be booked for a jab.
Updated information about the Covid-19 vaccine was available on the HSE website. | https://www.echolive.ie/nationalnews/arid-40300745.html | 2022-06-20T11:35:01Z | https://www.echolive.ie/nationalnews/arid-40300745.html | false | 1 |
Anthony Kuhn is NPR's correspondent based in Seoul, South Korea, reporting on the Korean Peninsula, Japan, and the great diversity of Asia's countries and cultures. Before moving to Seoul in 2018, he traveled to the region to cover major stories including the North Korean nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster. | https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/music/music/2022-06-20/bts-hiatus-announcement-shocked-fans-and-global-music-industry-alike | 2022-06-20T11:35:06Z | https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/music/music/2022-06-20/bts-hiatus-announcement-shocked-fans-and-global-music-industry-alike | false | null |
Nairobi — The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has arrested former Lands Commissioner Wilson Gachanja over the illegal acquisition of a Sh30 million beach plot in Diani.
According to the anti-graft agency, Zablon Mabeya a Former, Senior Lands officer in charge of Coast Province and Jabu Salim Mohamed- Former Physical Planner at the Ministry were also arrested for facilitating illegal acquisition of public land by private developers.
The EACC indicated that the three are on their way to Nairobi for further processing for arraignment before Mombasa Law Court on Tuesday.
“EACC has this morning arrested Wilson Gachanja – Former Commissioner of Lands, Zablon Mabeya – Former, Senior Lands officer in charge of Coast Province and Jabu Salim Mohamed- Former Physical Planner, Ministry of Lands for facilitating illegal acquisition of public land by private developers,” EACC said.
The Anti-corruption watchdog pointed out that the land in question is a public access road- Kwale Diani/Beach Block/1072.
This arrest comes three weeks after six Members of the County Assembly of Makueni were apprehended by EACC detectives for fraudulently claiming and receiving Sh175,018.50 each in full per diem for a trip to Dubai which had been privately sponsored.
EACC said in a statement that the suspects had made the trip to the United Araba Emirates seven years ago.
“The private Dubai trip, which was fully sponsored by the then MP, Hon. Dr. Patrick Musimba was undertaken from 14/04/2014 to 21/04/2014. Upon return, the MCAs fraudulently claimed and received Kshs. 175,018.50 each as per diem, which they were not entitled to,” EACC said.
The Anti-corruption agency identified the suspects as Timothy Sirei Maneno, Bernard Wambua, Cosmas Mutunga, Bensley Mwania, John Muli and Bernard Muthoka.
Also accused was the Clerk of Assembly, Edward Libendi, who is accused of facilitating the illegal payments.
On May 6 this year, EACC revealed that it had recovered stolen assets worth Sh 6.3 billion in the 2020/21 Financial Year.
According to the latest annual report by EACC, the corruption watchdog completed 104 investigation files on corruption and economic crimes which were forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for review and recommendation.
The Commission received and processed a total of 4,894 reports during the past financial year out of which 2,029 reports were within the EACC’s mandate to investigate.
“Out of 2,029 reports recommended for investigation; 31 percent related to bribery, 21 percent to embezzlement of public funds, 11 percent to public procurement irregularities, 10 percent unethical conduct, and nine percent to fraudulent acquisition and disposal of public property,” the EACC report said.
The recovery was a result of 17 proactive investigations. | https://allafrica.com/stories/202206200430.html | 2022-06-20T11:38:59Z | https://allafrica.com/stories/202206200430.html | false | 1 |
After the Ford F-150 Raptor-based VelociRaptor 600, Hennessey unleashed the Ram 1500 TRX-based Mammoth 1000 in the California desert, for two straight days of torturous testing in temperatures exceeding 100F (38C), with high-speed driving, and the occasional jumping.
To mark the occasion, the Lone Star State tuner has also dropped a video showing some of the testing of the tuned Ram 1500 TRX, with lots of editing, and background music, which can be watched at the bottom of the page.
Don’t go scrolling down just yet, as first, we have to remind you about some of the things that make the Mammoth 1000 great, starting with the numerous new and tuned internals of the supercharged 6.2-liter V8. The engine normally develops 702 hp and 650 lb-ft (881 Nm) of torque, yet after Hennessey has had its way with it, it is good for 1,012 hp and 969 lb-ft (1,314 Nm). You don’t need to be a connoisseur to tell that it is more powerful than the original Bugatti Veyron and that on a good day, it can give supercars a run for their money in a straight-line sprint.
Setting it apart from the stock 1500 TRX are the typical badges on the outside, as well as a serial-numbered plaque under the hood. Customers who want more can get the Off-Road Stage 1 Kit at an extra cost, which brings new front and rear bumpers, LED lighting, 20-inch wheels shod in 35-inch off-road tires, and front leveling kit. The Off-Road Stage 2 Kit adds more gear, such as bigger tires and upgraded electric fold-out steps.
For the power boost, which is limited to 200 copies only, Hennessey is offering a 2-year/24,000-mile (38,624-km) warranty, whereas the Off-Road packages each come with a 3-year/36,000-mile (57,936-km) warranty. Now, this is the part where we invite you to scroll down and watch the video, and you won’t have to take a long break for it, as it is only two and a half minutes long.
Don’t go scrolling down just yet, as first, we have to remind you about some of the things that make the Mammoth 1000 great, starting with the numerous new and tuned internals of the supercharged 6.2-liter V8. The engine normally develops 702 hp and 650 lb-ft (881 Nm) of torque, yet after Hennessey has had its way with it, it is good for 1,012 hp and 969 lb-ft (1,314 Nm). You don’t need to be a connoisseur to tell that it is more powerful than the original Bugatti Veyron and that on a good day, it can give supercars a run for their money in a straight-line sprint.
Setting it apart from the stock 1500 TRX are the typical badges on the outside, as well as a serial-numbered plaque under the hood. Customers who want more can get the Off-Road Stage 1 Kit at an extra cost, which brings new front and rear bumpers, LED lighting, 20-inch wheels shod in 35-inch off-road tires, and front leveling kit. The Off-Road Stage 2 Kit adds more gear, such as bigger tires and upgraded electric fold-out steps.
For the power boost, which is limited to 200 copies only, Hennessey is offering a 2-year/24,000-mile (38,624-km) warranty, whereas the Off-Road packages each come with a 3-year/36,000-mile (57,936-km) warranty. Now, this is the part where we invite you to scroll down and watch the video, and you won’t have to take a long break for it, as it is only two and a half minutes long. | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/mammoth-1000-is-a-supercar-killing-dune-bashing-ram-1500-trx-191638.html | 2022-06-20T11:43:36Z | https://www.autoevolution.com/news/mammoth-1000-is-a-supercar-killing-dune-bashing-ram-1500-trx-191638.html | true | 1 |
WASHINGTON — It's a question the country has been asking for a while now. When will the Supreme Court issue its decision on abortion rights?
In truth, no one in the public really knows because the high court doesn't tell reporters in advance when a case will be decided.
"Some of it is tradition, this is the way the court has always done it," Carolyn Shapiro, a former Supreme Court law clerk and professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, said.
Shapiro says beyond tradition, a bit of secrecy provides some benefits to the high court.
It makes organizing a protest outside the Supreme Court more difficult and makes the court less likely to impact the stock market should a case be financial in nature.
WHAT WE DO KNOW
By logging onto SupremeCourt.gov, you can learn about just as much as Washington reporters know about the Supreme Court schedule.
On the homepage, a calendar appears and "yellow days" are days in which opinions will be issued.
The calendar does not provide information regarding what specific opinions will be issued. It just says something will be released involving one of their remaining cases.
For those following at home…next opinion days at SCOTUS are on Tuesday/Thursday of next week. pic.twitter.com/5oxhQ4trRM
— Joe St. George (@JoeStGeorge) June 16, 2022
The calendar changes frequently and -- as of now -- this week opinions will be issued on Tuesday and Thursday.
There are 18 cases that need final rulings before the justices depart for their traditional summer break. That usually happens by the end of June or early July.
Apart from the abortion decision, which will impact what restrictions states will be able to impose, the Supreme Court will issue controversial opinions on religious freedom and gun rights as well.
"Is it possible that we could get an abortion, guns, and religious freedom all on the same day?" our Joe St. George asked Shapiro.
"Yes, that's a possibility," Shapiro said.
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW
In regards to the abortion decision, Shapiro suspects it is still being worked on. After all, it's not just the majority opinion that needs to be written, dissenting opinions must be finished too.
Ultimately, when an opinion is ready Chief Justice John Roberts plays a key role in deciding when to announce it.
The court does have a history of announcing its most important ruling of the term last.
"I think they are working on things, they are making adjustments," Shapiro said.
While the country continues to wait, outside the Supreme Court security remains heightened with real threats emerging.
A 26-year-old was recently charged federally with the attempted murder of justice Brett Kavanaugh.
President Biden recently signed into law enhanced security upgrades for the court, including new protections for the family members of the justices. | https://www.tv20detroit.com/news/national-politics/why-dont-we-know-when-the-abortion-supreme-court-decision-will-be-announced | 2022-06-20T11:44:00Z | https://www.tv20detroit.com/news/national-politics/why-dont-we-know-when-the-abortion-supreme-court-decision-will-be-announced | false | 12 |
If you're shopping around for a car, either new or used, you know by now that a huge lack of inventory is driving prices up. But the market is finally starting to show signs of improving.
Cheryl Lucas, like so many car buyers right now, is stunned by high prices for both new and used vehicles.
"It's ridiculous, people can't afford them anymore," she said.
Ford dealer Matt Sander, though, sees some good news on the horizon at his dealership, Woody Sander Ford. While his customers still face long waits for hot sellers like the new Ford Bronco, new cars are finally rolling in again.
"We have Bronco Sports, Escapes, Edges, even F-150's," he said.
After a year with very little for sale, Sander said, "there is finally quite a selection here."
Good news for car buyers
One year ago, many new car showrooms were empty. That in turn sent buyers outside to the used car lot, causing prices to spike on those used cars.
Now though, as inventory begins to comes back in, and higher interest rate prices are causing some buyers to hold off, the pricing pressure is starting to ease on the used models.
According to the automotive site, i-See Cars.com used car prices have improved slightly since January.
But only slightly. The average 2-3-year-old gently used vehicle costs just one percent less than the new model.
Analyst Karl Brauer of i-See Cars says the difference should normally be closer to 20 percent.
"Just to get that car, right now, people will take a used one more expensive than a brand new one," Brauer said. "Because the new ones aren't around and the used one is sitting right there."
The full-size Bronco is a prime example.
Since there are year-long waits for a new one, if you can find one at all, one and two-year-old Broncos are selling for $10,000 over the price of a new one. (The smaller Bronco Sport does not have that price spread, however).
So what can you do? Brauer says:
- Hold off a little longer if you can: prices are expected to improve even more this fall.
- Continue to invest in your current car until then.
- Look beyond your local market for cars.
- Always look up the price of the new version before paying a high price for a used model.
"The trick is to find the new one that's even available," Brauer said, "or this whole problem wouldn't exist if the new ones were widely available."
Dealer Matt Sander is hoping he'll soon have even more new cars on his showroom floor, though I-See Cars says it could be a year before supply and demand is back to normal.
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In southern Texas, where the Rio Grande Valley hugs the Mexican border, people are already experiencing what it’s like to live in a post-Roe world.
In September 2021, Texas passed the SB8 law which banned abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy and penalized anyone who helps a person get an abortion.
With a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, the court is expected to rule on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization this month, a decision that could end Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion.
Abortion has been legal nationwide since 1973, due to the decision in the Roe v. Wade case. The U.S. Supreme Court decided that people had a constitutional right to an abortion before a fetus reached viability in that case. Further decisions said that the state could not put undue burdens on people seeking abortions.
But in May, a draft document published by Politico found that justices are likely to overrule Roe v. Wade which will lead to a near-total ban on abortion in numerous states including Texas.
As a result, abortion providers, people running abortion funds, and other reproductive rights groups have started to prepare for life after Roe v. Wade.
Life on the front lines of abortion care
In the Texas Rio Grande Valley, the future of abortion care is in the hands of people like Zaena Zamora, the executive director of the Rio Grande-based abortion fund Frontera Fund.
The Frontera Fund, which is staffed by just two people and a small group of volunteers, has kept up with the post-SB8 demand.
Zamora said the abortion fund has seen a surge in pregnant Texans needing to travel out of state to get an abortion. For people traveling from southern Texas, that means money for ground travel, air travel, lodging, food vouchers, rideshare costs, and child care vouchers.
To reach another state from the Rio Grande Valley, the drive can easily take over 6 hours to get to Louisiana and up to 12 hours to get to New Mexico.
For the entire year of 2020, the Frontera Fund spent about $4,000 helping pregnant people get an abortion.
For just the month of February this year, the organization spent close to $13,000 helping people travel out of state for abortion care.
But Zamora and her team know things could get worse quickly if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
If it falls, 26 states — including Texas — are poised to pass bans and restrictions that will outlaw abortion in some way, shape, or form. This means pregnant people in Texas seeking an abortion will have to travel further and spend even more money on abortion care.
The rise of ‘destination states’
While a significant number of states plan on restricting or banning abortion access, multiple states are passing laws with the goal of protecting reproductive rights.
These states are likely to become destinations for people seeking abortions.
Already, the Frontera Fund has sent patients as far as Baltimore, Washington DC, and Virginia — anywhere they can get an appointment.
“The amount of funding that we are providing per person has skyrocketed astronomically because of the additional travel costs associated now with getting an abortion,” Zamora said.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the Frontera Fund expects to see a 20 percent increase in call volume and a 20 percent increase in their direct support budget to send people to states that reliably offer abortion care.
Some progressive states like California and New York are planning to set aside money to help out-of-state patients traveling for an abortion.
California has long been an abortion sanctuary for out-of-state people seeking an abortion.
The Guttmacher Institute estimates there will be a 3,000 percent increase in patients whose nearest clinic would be in California. This could result in an increase from 46,000 to 1.4 million people who wind up traveling to California for abortion care.
Jessica Pinckney, Access Reproductive Justice’s executive director, is working with the California Future of Abortion Council on multiple pieces of legislation that would help improve access to abortion in California in the event Roe is overturned.
One of California’s bills, SB 1142, is asking for a $20 million contribution from the state to provide practical support — like child care, lodging, travel, and food — to anyone getting an abortion in California.
“We hope that would really be able to shore up our ability to provide practical support to folks who are coming from other states, as well as those who are in California trying to access care,” Pinckney said.
Another bill, AB 2134, aims to fund abortion clinics that provide free care to low-income people whose insurance does not cover abortion and other reproductive health services.
Both of California’s bills, AB 2134 and SB 1142, are expected to move through the legislative process this summer and be voted on by the end of summer.
The Hyde Amendment prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion care except in cases of rape, incest, or if the pregnant person’s life is endangered. But some states, like California, use their Medicaid funds to cover abortion care.
That said, even though California’s Medicaid program Medi-Cal covers abortion, the coverage does not apply to out-of-state callers.
And while some states require private insurers to cover abortion care, many states have some restrictions against abortion coverage in insurance.
Similarly, Vermont, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut are approving legislation that will protect the right to abortion and provide support for out-of-state patients traveling for care.
The cost of abortion care post-Roe v. Wade
Abortion funds have become a go-to way for people to afford and navigate travel to other states for abortion.
These nonprofit organizations are funded by individuals and organizations that are passionate about helping people that need to access abortion. They provide financial and logistical assistance to anyone who cannot afford an abortion and people from all over the globe can donate.
Zamora said that the Frontera Fund has seen bursts of what she calls “rage giving,” an uptick in funds whenever a new abortion restriction takes effect.
“People are just angry and they need to do something, right, so they give money to help with that and we’re very fortunate to be recipients of a lot of rage giving,” Zamora said.
According to the National Network of Abortion Funds, there are over 90 organizations scattered across the country. Most, if not all, are currently working to ensure they have the infrastructure in place to support the surge in callers that are expected if and when Roe v. Wade is overturned.
The Frontera Fund is hiring a third staff member, recruiting more volunteers, and ramping up its fundraising efforts in anticipation of the overruling.
“We’re a tiny organization and we have a lot of big things to do — and we get them done, but there’s a lot of growing pains right now,” Zamora said.
Access Reproductive Justice, the only statewide abortion fund in California operating outside of clinics, supported people who called in from 18 states in 2021. They expect to see a surge in out-of-state patients coming to California if Roe is gutted.
Pinckney said Access Reproductive Justice has the infrastructure in place to support a surge in out-of-state patients — it’s something they’ve been working toward for decades. They anticipate that the number of out-of-state people calling for help will increase by 30 percent to 50 percent, if not more.
Last year, they supported 500 people calling for care, both in and out of state. And if Roe v. Wade is overturned, they expect that number to at least double to 1,000 people.
“We have been preparing for this moment and there are systems and structures already in place to support folks in getting from one state to another to get the support they need,” Pinckney said.
Pinckney added that abortion funds vary in how they financially support people who call in for help. Most funds have a monthly budget to support callers. Once that runs out, the helpline closes until the next month.
The group can make adjustments so people who call in can still get help.
“Abortion funding is an art, not a science, so we make a lot of adjustments and whatnot in real-time, as we cannot predict just how large or small an influx in callers might be, or when it might occur,” Pinckney said.
If Access Reproductive Justice hits its limit, Pinckney and her team assess if funds can be pulled from other work. If for some reason that isn’t possible, they direct callers to other abortion funds across the country that can provide support — “although we’ve never found ourselves in a situation quite like that,” Pinckney said.
How clinics are preparing
There are over 700 clinics scattered across the country that provide a variety of care services, including abortion pills, abortion procedures, abortion referrals, ultrasounds, and post-abortion follow-up care.
For years, laws that restricted abortion rights have led to clinic closures nationwide.
As of 2017, at least 89 percent of counties in the country do not offer abortion care services, and past restrictions have made it near impossible for many pregnant people to find care in their communities, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
In May 2017 there were 6 states that only had one remaining clinic. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), if Roe v. Wade is overturned, more clinics will close, leaving some states with no clinics.
With abortion likely to be banned in many states, many of these clinics are working to figure out how to connect patients to services in other states.
Planned Parenthood, which operates over 600 health centers across the country, has been expanding its patient navigation efforts to help pregnant people in restrictive states figure out where and how they can get an abortion.
When a patient calls a clinic in Texas, for instance, the health center will help the patient secure an out-of-state appointment along with transportation, lodging, child care, and funding for the abortion itself in a nearby state that permits the procedure.
“Texas presents a case study of what we’re going to see in these 26 other states,” Lauren Kokum, the director of affiliate communications at Planned Parenthood, told Healthline.
Moving patients and helping them navigate the healthcare and legal systems has always been a part of accessing abortion care.
According to Erin Grant, the deputy director at Abortion Care Network, clinics are all too familiar with working with very little to provide services.
“We are definitely seeing clinics be their resilient selves — find staff, train staff, and find really creative solutions to deliver the care that patients need,” said Grant.
According to Grant, the interworking of clinics, abortion funds, and patient support networks are there and may be key to providing abortion services for many.
Planned Parenthood says they are ramping up patient navigation services and working with abortion funds more closely to coordinate people’s abortion care journey every step of the way.
Planned Parenthood clinics in critical access points — such as those along the border of New Mexico and Colorado — are also bolstering their patient navigation efforts to coordinate care, travel, and lodging for the influx of patients, according to Kokum. They’re expanding their health centers, extending clinic hours, and training more providers.
Telemedicine abortion providers prepare
Abortion provided via telemedicine has become more popular in recent years. Medication abortion now accounts for half of all abortions in the United States — a jump from 39 percent in 2017.
Research has shown that abortion pills are effective and can be safely taken at home in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Online abortion pill providers are planning to work within state restrictions and bans to get pills to people who need them.
Honeybee Health, an online pharmacy that ships the pills, says that they will only ship to patients in states where the medications are legal. But they’re doing all they can to ensure access — where it’s legal — remains fast and accessible to support the influx of patients traveling for care.
They’ve also teamed up with abortion funds to help people who can’t afford the medication.
Choix, which provides telehealth abortion medication to people in Colorado, California, and Illinois, is prepared to scale up its services to meet the increased demand they expect to see from out-of-state patients seeking telehealth care from the states it serves.
AidAccess, an organization based in the Netherlands that sends abortion pills to patients regardless of state law, has started prescribing abortion pills to people who would like to have the medications on hand just in case they eventually have an unintended pregnancy.
In addition to helping people get access to pills to end a pregnancy, telehealth medication can also help people cut down on the amount of time they would need to spend with a healthcare professional in person.
Planned Parenthood’s sites and other clinics say they are ramping up telehealth services to reduce the amount of time patients need to spend at a clinic along with the amount of in-person appointments they have to go to.
So instead of traveling to three in-person appointments, for example, patients will only need to travel for one or two, said Kokum.
“We’re doing whatever we can in order to meet the patient demand [in access points],” Kokum said.
Restrictions may limit the effect of telehealth providers
Telemedicine abortions are restricted in 13 states and banned in 6.
At least 20 states are expected to pass stricter restrictions on medication abortion via telehealth.
Proposed bills in 10 states would require patients to pick up the pills from a healthcare facility, rather than receiving them by mail. Proposed bills in four other states would ban telehealth consultations and require patients to take the pills under a provider’s watch.
However, if Roe v. Wade is overturned and these states ban abortion fully, then telehealth appointments for abortion in those states will be illegal.
Providers can only consult with a patient in the state where they, the provider, are licensed and the patient is based. The pharmacies can only ship to patients where the pills are legal, according to Kristen Moore, director of the EMAA Project, an organization that works to expand access to medication abortion.
Patients in states that ban abortion could potentially travel to a nearby state that permits medication abortion via telehealth, do a telehealth appointment from there, and have them shipped to a mailing address in that state (or look into mail forwarding).
But people may still face legal risks if they have a complication.
While people are legally allowed to take the pills at home, no matter where they live, if they have some type of medical complication and need to go to the emergency room, a healthcare professional in a state like Ohio or Texas that bans the pills could turn them in, if the patient tells them that they took the pills.
Bleeding due to a miscarriage versus bleeding due to abortion via medication may appear similar or indistinguishable in a medical setting.
“To be clear, that healthcare provider will have no evidence that [an abortion] is what happened. They can just make that person’s life a living hell,” Moore said.
Who loses access to reproductive care?
If Roe vs. Wade is overruled, an estimated 36 million people will be at risk of losing access to reproductive care, according to Planned Parenthood.
Even with all the work being done by clinics, abortion funds, and patient support networks, getting an abortion is about to get a lot more difficult for millions of people in the United States.
That means many people will opt for the other two options: self-managing an abortion or carrying the pregnancy to term.
“No state can absorb the amount of people experiencing pregnancy that may be looking for care,” Grant said.
And just because a government bans abortion does not mean that people are not going to try to get one.
Data from the Guttmacher Institute shows that abortion rates are similar in countries where the procedure is restricted and where it is legal.
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Russian state television showed video Friday of two U.S. military veterans who went missing last week while fighting in Ukraine, confirming that the men were taken captive and raising fears about their fate.
Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh, both from Alabama, were believed to be the first Americans captured by Russian forces since the war began on Feb. 24.
Drueke, speaking into the camera from what appeared to be an office, sent a message to his mother, concluding with a quick wink.
“Mom, I just want to let you know that I’m alive and I hope to be back home as soon as I can be. So, love Diesel for me. Love you.” Diesel is his dog, a mastiff.
His aunt, Dianna Shaw, said the video included both a key word and a gesture that Drueke and his mother had set up during one of his two tours in Iraq so she would know that it was indeed him and that he was OK.
Drueke, who served in the U.S. Army, and Huynh, who served in the U.S. Marines, went missing after their group came under heavy fire in the northeastern Kharkiv region on June 9.
Citing Drueke, the RT television report said the Americans became separated from the others and once it was safe they set off through the woods, ending up in a village where they were approached by a Russian patrol and surrendered.
RT, which broadcasts in English, said they were being held by Russian-backed separatist forces in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
Three other foreigners fighting for Ukraine, two Britons and a Moroccan man, were sentenced to death by a court run by separatists in Donetsk, which is in the Donbas.
The U.S. has insisted that anyone captured should be considered a prisoner of war and protected by guarantees of humane treatment and fair trials. But the Russian military has said it considers foreigners fighting with Ukraine to be mercenaries and claims they are not protected as combatants under the Geneva Conventions.
A reporter for the Russian state television network VGTRK recorded short clips of the two men speaking Russian and saying, “I am against war.”
There has been no official confirmation from the U.S. or Russian government that the Americans were being held.
The State Department said earlier this week that it was looking into reports that Russian or Russian-backed forces had captured two American citizens. It also reiterated its warning that Americans should not be going to Ukraine to fight, a message repeated Friday by President Joe Biden.
Asked about the missing Americans before the Russian videos appeared, Biden said he had been briefed on the situation but provided no further details.
“I don’t know where they are and I want to be clear: Americans should not be going to Ukraine,” Biden said. “I’ll say it again, Americans should not be going to Ukraine.”
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