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LOS ANGELES (AP)The Los Angeles Dodgers added outfielder Trayce Thompson to the active roster on Tuesday after acquiring him from the Detroit Tigers for cash.
Thompson returns to the Dodgers after spending parts of the 2016 and 2017 seasons with them. He hit .207 with 14 home runs and 34 RBI in 107 games over that span.
The 31-year-old outfielder, whose older brother, Klay, plays for the NBA champion Golden State Warriors, began this season with San Diego. Thompson went 1 for 14 with two RBI in six games before being cut on May 10. He joined Detroit a week later and was sent to Triple-A Toledo, where he was batting .299 with eight homers and 19 RBIs in 25 games.
Thompson figures to help fill the void left by right fielder Mookie Betts, who is on the IL with a cracked rib.
The Dodgers open a nine-game road trip Tuesday night at Cincinnati.
In other moves, left-handed pitcher Caleb Ferguson went on the injured list with left forearm tendinitis. It’s his second stint on the IL. He is 0-0 with a 0.00 ERA in five innings.
Right-hander Walker Buehler was transferred to the 60-day IL to make room for Thompson.
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ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), Special Aide to Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and the Middle East Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Ashrafi said that relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are not dependent on any individual or any third force but are the relations of two nations which are getting stronger with time.
“Pak-Saudi relations are improving at the trade level as Saudi Arabian businessmen are ready to invest in Pakistan. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has always stood by Pakistan under all circumstances and both the countries will continue to stand by each other in the future as well,” he said while talking to representatives of national and international media here on Tuesday.
Ashrafi said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is ready to facilitate investors of Arab Islamic countries. “There is positive news regarding financial and oil assistance with Saudi Arabia,” he said, adding that Saudi Arabia, China and UAE helped Pakistan in past and present, and saved Pakistan from bankruptcy.
He said that the government of Pakistan is grateful to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the ‘Road to Mekkah’ initiative. “The Mekkah program is a source of great relief for the pilgrims and a great proof of Pak-Saudi relations and mutual respect,” he said. He said the Saudi government has not cancelled the Hajj despite the Corona in the last two years. “The services of the Saudi government are commendable and the 2030 Vision Program of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman will facilitate Hajj and Umrah pilgrims to a greater extent.”
To a question, Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi said that the visit of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to Egypt, Turkey and Jordan is a matter of happiness for the Muslim Ummah. “The solution to the problems of the Muslim Ummah from Palestine to Kashmir lies in unity and stability of Muslims,” he said. He said, “At present, the OIC is headed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and expectations are pinned on the visits of Muhammad bin Salman, which will be fulfilled.” The Chairman PUC said Pakistan wants to see the Islamic world united and strong and Pakistan will never support any organization parallel to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.” To another question, he said the stance of the Muslim Ummah on the blasphemy issue is unanimous. “Friday sermons delivered in Harmain Al-Sharifain in last Friday Congregations have clearly expressed sentiments of Muslim Ummah,” he said. The way, he said, Muslim Ummah and the Arab Islamic world boycotted Indian product is a testament to the awakening and unity of the Muslim Ummah. “Insha’Allah we will succeed on the issue of blasphemy as we succeeded in the United Nations over Islamophobia,” he said.
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HANOI, Vietnam, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has announced its approvement of 34 transactions valued up to1.4 billion USD that advance development impact in developing countries. Among these projects, Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank, stock code: SSB) is the only Vietnam-based bank to be approved an up to $200 million loan in order to encourage socioeconomic development in the country through supporting women-owned, women-led corporations, SMEs, and addressing the climate crisis.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is an independent U.S. government's development finance institution. DFC partners with the private sector to provide finance support and solutions for projects with great economic potential and new economical tools that enable it to grant loans and offer credit solutions. DFC invests across sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and technology; while provides financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs in order to create jobs in emerging markets; adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.
According to DFC's annoucement in this quarter, it has approved several transactions of development priorities, focusing on food security, climate change, gender equity, and increasing financial access. These 34 approved projects total more than $1.4 billion, in which 22 transactions assist Corporations in developing regions including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Among the approved corporations in this quarter, SeABank is the first and only financial organization in Vietnam receives an up to $200 million loan to encourage socioeconomic development, particularly supporting women-owned, women-led corporations, SMEs, and addressing the climate crisis – one of the developmental strategies that SeABank prioritizes.
DFC's loan for SeABank will help enhance the bank's financial capability to carry out its planned projects, focusing on addressing the credit gap for women-owned and women-led corporations, SMEs, dealing with the difference between the addressable demand of market and the exisiting supply in the economy.
Before receving the loan from DFC, SeABank has been granted a $150 million loan package by IFC and 5 international investment funds include Banque Internationale de Commerce-BRED, BlueOrchard Microfinance Fund, KASIKORNBANK PCL, OPEC, and ResponsAbility Investments AG to provide financial assistance to SMEs, women-owned, women-led corporations and addressing climate crisis. This showcases SeABank's commitment to sustainable development strategies, affirming its credibility, great impacts of sustainable projects as well as the acknowledgement of world-class financial organizations for SeABank.
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Crypto Exchange AQX Joins Klaytn's Governance Council
AQX, an emerging cryptocurrency exchange, has announced it will join the Governance Council of Klaytn, a project seeking to make blockchain technology available to a broader audience globally.
VICTORIA, SEYCHELLES , June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Klaytn is a public blockchain focused on the metaverse, gamefi, and the creator economy. The project’s mainnet went live in June 2019 and has developed rapidly to become one of the most trustworthy brands in the industry.
Klaytn’s Governance Council is an alliance of multinational businesses and organizations, responsible for the platform’s governance, consensus node operation, and ecosystem growth. Its goal is to optimize Klaytn’s platform and drive ecosystem growth.
AQX will be in good company as the Council already includes prestigious brands across numerous industries. So far, over 40 enterprises, including LG Electronics, Union Bank of the Philippines, Celltrion, and Yeahmobi, have entered the Council. In addition, some of the largest crypto exchanges like Binance and Huobi are in its ranks.
After launching in early 2022, AQX has continuously introduced new services, including futures and derivatives trading. Spot trading will also be available later this year. People can look forward to using the AQX app to trade various cryptocurrencies soon. Furthermore, the platform provides users with a wallet function giving them an overview, spot, and futures options.
By joining Klaytn's Governance Council, AQX pledges its efforts to support Klaytn in the growth of its platform and ecosystem, and to drive global adoption. Being accepted as a member of the Klaytn Governance Council is also a testament to the project's reliability and long-term potential.
AQX’s co-founder, Yongjin Kim, spoke about the project’s participation in Klaytn’s Governance Council, saying, “AQX shares a mutual vision with Klaytn and we hope that this partnership will help foster a sustainable growth of the blockchain industry. We strongly believe that the cross-industry collaborations facilitated by the Council can help to create more meaningful use cases of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, thus bringing more people to the financial world of the future.”
“AQX is a fast growing trading platform that promises to unlock more options for traders in the Klaytn ecosystem. We’re excited to welcome them into the Governance Council, and look forward to their support to drive further growth and development on Klaytn,” said David Shin, Head of Global Adoption at Klaytn Foundation.
About AQX
AQX is a new cryptocurrency exchange with multiple trading options. Its acronym stands for "Access, Quality, and Xtraordinary,” the project’s primary goals. More precisely, AQX aims to provide 24/7 customer service, world-class security, and professional trading functionalities. All these services are possible thanks to the team’s long experience in the crypto and traditional finance industries.
AQX shares Klaytn’s mission of making blockchain technology and its services accesible to people around the world. To this end, the project provides a series of how-to guides and Medium articles, helping new and expert users understand crypto trading better.
For more information about AQX, please follow the links below:
|Website | Twitter | Telegram | Medium | Discord |Facebook | TikTok | Instagram | YouTube |
About Klaytn
Klaytn is a public blockchain focused on the metaverse, gamefi, and the creator economy. Officially launched in June 2019, it is the dominant blockchain platform in South Korea and is now undergoing global business expansion from its international base in Singapore.
These business expansion activities are supported by the Klaytn Growth Fund, which aims to grow the ecosystem of companies built on Klaytn. The fund is managed and disbursed by Klaytn Foundation, a Singapore-based non-profit organization established in August 2021.
For more information about AQX, please follow the links below:
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Visualizing The World’s Most Popular Religions
June 21, 2022 | Tags: ZEROHEDGE
Visualizing The World's Most Popular ReligionsAccording to some estimates, there are over 4,000 religions, faiths groups, and denominations that exist around the world today. Researchers and academics generally categorize the world’s religions into five major groups: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism.
This graphic by Chit Chart visualizes the most popular religions around the world, using the latest available data from Index Mundi’s world demographics.
As Visual Capitalist's Trixie Pacis, in addition to the five major religious groups, the graphic includes two more categories: one for a collective of Folk religions and another for people who are unaffiliated with a religion.
The Religions with the Most Followers
Although the number of people who follow a religion has decreased in recent decades, 82.8% of the global population still identifies with one of the world’s major religions.
Here’s a breakdown of the most popular religions, ranked by their following as a percentage of the world’s population:
Christianity has the largest following with approximately 31% of the global population. Muslims make up the second-largest religious group, accounting for 23.2% of the world’s population.
Roughly 16.4% of the global population is unaffiliated with a religion. This figure exceeds the percentage of people who identify with Hinduism (15%), Buddhism (7.1%), Folk Religions (5.9%), or Judaism (0.2%).
The World’s Religions from Oldest to Newest
Hinduism is considered the oldest religion in the world, originating in the Indus River Valley (modern-day Pakistan) circa 7000 BCE.
While Judaism came after Hinduism, it is thought to be the oldest of the three monotheistic Abrahamic faiths, making it older than Christianity and Islam.
It began circa 2000 BCE in the Southern Levant (modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Jordan). By contrast, Christianity was founded in the 1st century and began as a movement within Judaism.
Scholars typically date the creation of Islam to the 7th century, making it the youngest of the world’s major religions on this list. Islam was established in Mecca (modern-day Saudi-Arabia).
One religion that’s not included on this list is Sikhism. Founded in the late 15th century, it’s relatively new, especially compared to other religions like Hinduism or Judaism. Yet, despite being new, Sikhism has a large following—according to some estimates, there are over 25 million Sikhs worldwide.
What are Folk Religions?
A folk religion is defined as an ethnic or cultural practice that exists outside the theological doctrine of organized religions.
Lacking sacred texts, Folk religions are more concerned with spirituality than rituals or rites. Examples of Folk religions include Native American traditions, Chinese folk religions, and traditional African religions.
Since Folk religions are less institutionalized, they are especially challenging to measure and often excluded from surveys. With that said, an estimated 5.9% of the global population (approximately 430 million people) practice a Folk religion.
The Fastest-Growing Religions
While Islam is the newest of the big five religions, it’s currently the world’s fastest-growing one too. For context, here’s the estimated percent change among the seven religion categories, between 2015 and 2060:
Islam’s rapid growth means it may surpass Christianity as the world’s largest religion within the next half-century. What’s causing this growth?
According to Pew Research Center, the main reason is simply demographics—on average, Muslim women have 2.9 children, which the average of all non-Muslims is 2.2.
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New call to thank SA health workers
The Greens have renewed calls for South Australian health workers to get a bonus payment as the latest modelling points to a spike in virus infections in coming weeks.
The arrival of the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants is likely to result in a significant jump in cases, with a daily peak of up to 5000 expected around July 12.
A rise in hospitalisation is also possible.
Greens MP Robert Simms said more cases would put the hospital system under increased pressure.
"We know that our hospital system is at breaking point and things are only going to get worse in the months ahead," he said.
"We need to not only retain healthcare workers but also recruit new workers."
Mr Simms said the state government should follow the lead of Victoria and NSW and provide a $3000 thank-you payment to healthcare workers.
He said that would be a simple gesture that would send a positive message.
"It really is the least the government can do given the nightmare unfolding in our state's hospitals," he said.
Revealing the latest modelling on Tuesday, Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said it was probably the most uncertain ever provided, with the total number of infections across the community and the ongoing impact of vaccinations adding to the complexity.
Professor Spurrier said the modelling also did not take into account the growing use of antiviral treatments, which could reduce hospitalisations.
"But what is clear is there is a reasonable certainty that we will have another peak in the next month," she said.
"The actual size of that peak, there's a lot of uncertainty around that."
In light of the latest modelling, Premier Peter Malinauskas said the current COVID-19 restrictions in SA would remain in place.
They are limited, but require positive cases to isolate for seven days and for close contacts to get regular testing and wear masks.
Masks also remain a requirement in certain areas including health and aged care facilities and on public transport.
SA reported 2270 new infections on Tuesday along with 11 deaths with some of those dating back to February.
There are 230 in hospital with nine in ICU.
The state's case numbers have been dropping slowly in recent weeks and dipped below 2000 on Sunday for the first time since early March.
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Lawyers for exes Julia Haart and Silvio Scaglia duked it out legally on Tuesday over a highly contested venue for a political fundraising party that Haart was set to host at the couple’s former multimillion dollar marital home.
Page Six has exclusively learned that Haart — who is currently filming for her Netflix show “My Unorthodox Life” — was granted permission to go ahead with the event on Tuesday just hours before guests were set to arrive, but with a number of stipulations.
Page Six reported this week that Haart’s pro-choice fundraiser for Texas politician Beto O’Rourke, scheduled for June 21, was hanging in the balance with her ex, Scaglia, objecting since he did not give his permission to use the space.
Sources told us the building’s “management company, per Mr. Scaglia, have been instructed not to allow anyone who is not a resident of the apartment in.”
The home is owned by Scaglia’s Freedom Holdings. In May, Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn of the Delaware Court of Chancery declared that despite earlier claims by Haart, she does not own half Freedom Holdings.
However, Judge Douglas Hoffman decided in an order via the Supreme Court of New York on Tuesday that Haart, who is living in the Vestry Street home, could go ahead with the event and ruled that Scaglia “shall not interfere . . . in any fashion.”
Going forward, Haart must give Scaglia 10 days advanced notice if she plans to hold an event with more than 30 people. If Scaglia objects, he will have to raise the issue through his lawyers within three days.
The reality star has also been ordered to try and obtain insurance for the “contents of the Penthouse.” Without it, she “shall personally guarantee the safety and protection of the contents.”
Attendees at the fundraiser, which has a guest list including high-profile names like NY Attorney General Leticia James, may notice something is unusual.
The judge also ordered that there must be signage in the Penthouse stating that “Freedom Holdings Inc, controlled by Silvio Scaglia, is politically neutral and does not endorse any political position or views. It does however, welcome guests to tonight’s event.”
Nancy Chemtob, attorney for Julia Haart, tells us, “Trying to shut down an event that supports and celebrates women’s rights was a new low even for someone as desperate as Silvio — who once again failed to embarrass Julia as part of his ongoing harassment. She looks forward to welcoming this group of feminist leaders to her apartment.”
Meanwhile, Freedom Holdings attorney Lanny Davis, who made it clear he has no issue with the politics of the event, tells us, “We are very pleased with the outcome today. That finally Julia Haart can’t fake it till she makes it anymore. She has to now acknowledge that he owns the apartment and that she is there as a tenant. Now she has to check with him if she wants to have another party, which she should have done to begin with.”
How the couple’s assets — including the apartment — are divided will be decided in the upcoming divorce case.
The brouhaha over the fundraiser is just another battle in an ongoing messy split.
Scaglia has alleged that Haart stole from Elite World Group to fund her lavish personal lifestyle, buying designer clothes and getting a boob job on the “company dime.”
Haart has called the accusations “ludicrous,” and said, “I’ve never taken a penny that doesn’t belong to me.”
They have also been battling over a $132,000 company Bentley.
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These products can give you a bronze glow without spending a second in the sun
Who doesn’t love having a healthy, sun-kissed glow in summer? But laying out in the sun and soaking in its ultraviolet rays can wreak havoc on your skin, putting you at risk for skin cancer, dark spots, fine lines and wrinkles.
However, just because you don’t want to expose yourself to the sun doesn’t mean you can’t get a fabulous tan. With the right self-tanner, you can have a lovely bronze glow that looks natural without going on too orange or streaky.
If you’re on the hunt for a natural-looking formula that’s easy to apply, check out these top-rated self-tanners that deliver the perfect tan without any sun required.
What is self-tanner?
Self-tanners are creams, lotions, foams, wipes or sprays that contain dihydroxyacetone. This coloring agent reacts with the amino acids in your skin to give it a tan color. But unlike a tan caused by the sun’s UV rays, DHA only affects the outer layer of the skin, so it doesn’t do any damage.
How to apply self-tanner
The trick to an even, streak-free tan with self-tanner is to start with smooth, healthy skin. If you have rough, dry patches, the self-tanner can collect in these spots, causing splotches where the faux tan is darker than the rest of your body.
Start by exfoliating your skin with a body scrub or other exfoliator to remove any dry, dead skin that might mess up your tan. Be especially thorough when scrubbing areas like your elbows, knees and ankles, where the skin tends to be thickest. Allow your skin to dry for 15 to 20 minutes before applying the self-tanner.
When you’re ready to apply the tanning product, work in sections such as your legs, torso and arms. Apply your self-tanner in thin layers, massaging it in circular motions to smooth it on as evenly as possible. In areas with thick skin like your elbows and knees, you may want to wipe the self-tanner a bit with a damp towel after applying it. That dilutes it, so it doesn’t look splotchy.
Make sure to wash your hands with soap and water after applying the self-tanner to each area of your body to prevent you from having orange hands. You should also wait at least 10 to 15 minutes after application to get dressed, so you don’t stain your clothing.
Best self-tanner
Under $20
St. Moriz Professional Fast Tanning Mousse
This tinted self-tanning mousse lets you see exactly where you apply the formula and provides an instant glow. You can rinse off the foam after an hour for a light tan, two hours for a medium tan and three hours for a deep tan. It contains vitamin E and olive milk to hydrate and protects the skin, too. Sold by Ulta
SOL by Jergens Water Mousse Sunless Tanning
Derived from natural sugars, this water-based self-tanner provides a long-lasting, natural-looking tan that lasts for days. It doesn’t contain any dyes and is available in medium and deep shades. It even has a pleasant passion fruit scent. Sold by Amazon
Alba Botanica Sunless Tanner Lotion
This affordable self-tanner is ideal for anyone on a budget. It applies evenly without any streaking and absorbs quickly to provide a rich, natural-looking tan. The formula is vegetarian and cruelty-free, too. Sold by Amazon
b.tan Tanned AF 1 Hour Self Tan Mousse
If you want the darkest tan possible, this self-tanning mousse can get the job done. You can rinse it off in as little as an hour, but leaving it on for four hours provides the deepest bronze. The formula is also 100% vegan and doesn’t have a strong odor. Sold by Ulta and Amazon
For $20-$30
Beauty by Earth Self-Tanner Tanning Lotion
Formulated with natural ingredients like shea butter, aloe vera and botanical extracts, this self-tanner not only tans your skin but also helps hydrate and nourish it. It develops into a natural golden-brown shade and allows for streak-free application. The formula is cruelty-free, too. Sold by Amazon
James Read Tan H20 Tan Face Mist
This lightweight facial spray gives the skin a natural sun-kissed glow. It contains pure rose water, vitamins and minerals that hydrate, nourish and provide anti-aging benefits. It also dries quickly and allows you to control how deep the color is because the tan builds slowly. Sold by Amazon and Skinstore
These convenient self-tanning wipes provide a mess-free application for your arms and legs. They’re perfect for travel and touch-ups on the go. The tan also develops in just two to four hours and lasts for up to a week. Sold by Amazon
Available in three shade options, this hydrating self-tanning foam contains aloe vera and coconut to help hydrate and soothe the skin. It provides an even, streak-free tan that develops over six to eight hours. It works best for those with an olive complexion or who prefer a deep tan. Sold by Ulta
Australian Glow One Hour Express Self Tan Mousse
If you want a rich, deep tan, this self-tanning mousse can provide the perfect color in just an hour. It contains natural ingredients that are good for your skin, including aloe vera, green tea extract, goji berries and plum. It never goes on streaky or orange, either. Sold by Ulta
$30 and above
Isle of Paradise Self-Tanning Oil Mist
This self-tanning spray contains hyaluronic acid, glycerin, squalene, sea kelp and other natural ingredients that help moisturize the skin for up to 24 hours. The specially designed mister provides a natural, even spray and lets you apply the tanner to your entire body in less than two minutes. Sold by Sephora and Kohl’s
Coco & Eve Sunny Honey Bali Bronzing Self Tanner Mousse
With a quick-drying formula, this self-tanner takes just a minute to set. It has a lightweight mousse texture that applies smoothly to minimize streaks. You don’t need much to achieve a full body tan, either, so each bottle has enough for 10 to 20 applications. Sold by Amazon and Ulta
St. Tropez Self Tan Classic Bronzing Mousse
This lightweight self-tanning mousse provides a long-lasting tan with even coverage. It comes with an applicator mitt to ensure it goes on smoothly and dries quickly without any sticky residue. It also offers effective hydration. Sold by Amazon, Sephora and Ulta
Tan-Luxe The Creme Gradual Self-Tanning Face Moisturizer
This option features a combination of amino acids and antioxidants to give your face a healthy glow and help nourish and treat your skin. It can soften dark spots and fine lines and help plump the skin, too. It’s suitable for daily use and allows you to build a gradual tan. Sold by Sephora and Ulta
Isle of Paradise Self Tanning Glow Drops
These custom self-tan drops work for the face and body because you can mix them into your favorite skincare or body care products. You can also control the depth of your tan depending on how many drops you add. You can choose from a light, medium or dark formula, too. Sold by Sephora and Kohl’s
Coola Organic Sunless Tan Express Sculpting Mousse
This organic self-tanner contains DHA naturally derived from sugar beets and provides a tan within a few hours. The formula is lightweight, so it absorbs quickly without streaking. It has a natural pina colada scent, too. Sold by Ulta and Sephora
St. Tropez Self Tan Purity Vitamins Bronzing Water Body Mist
This lightweight, easy-to-use self-tanning spray is 100% vegan and contains a natural tanning agent that fades evenly. It provides a natural golden tan that develops within just four to eight hours. The formula contains natural ingredients that are even safe for sensitive skin. Sold by Sephora and Ulta
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — The judge presiding over the criminal corruption trial of Delaware State Auditor Kathy McGuiness limited or prohibited testimony from several prosecution witnesses Tuesday after the defense attorney complained of prosecutors trying to engage in a “trial by ambush.”
Superior Court Judge William Carpenter Jr. disallowed testimony from one prosecution witness and set parameters on the testimony of three others.
Defense attorney Steve Wood argued that certain testimony from the witnesses should be prohibited because it involved alleged conduct not included in the indictment against McGuiness or involved matters for which the witnesses would have no personal knowledge.
McGuiness, a Democrat elected in 2018, is responsible for rooting out government fraud, waste and abuse. She faces felony counts of theft and witness intimidation, and misdemeanor charges of official misconduct, conflict of interest and noncompliance with procurement laws.
Prosecutors allege, among other things, that McGuiness hired her daughter and a friend as temporary employees in 2020, even though other temporary employees had left because of the lack of available work amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Prosecutors also say McGuiness, in her role as auditor, orchestrated a no-bid “communications services” contract for My Campaign Group, which she had used as a campaign consultant when running for lieutenant governor in 2016, then deliberately kept the contract payments under $5,000 each to avoid having to get them approved by the Division of Accounting.
McGuiness also is charged with intimidating and retaliating against employees who reported her alleged wrongdoing or who she believed might be cooperating with investigators. Prosecutors allege that the intimidation, which included monitoring employees’ emails, began as early as March 2019, even though McGuiness was not told until September 2021 that she was the subject of a criminal investigation.
On Tuesday, Carpenter prohibited testimony from one former employee who claimed to have done campaign work for McGuiness on state time after Wood noted that the indictment does not mention any such activity.
The judge also limited questioning of two people who were expected to testify about alleged witness intimidation by McGuiness. According to prosecutors, Melissa Schenck, who still works at the auditor’s office, thought she was treated unfairly because officials rescinded approval for her to work from home because of the coronavirus after she showed up at the office to attend an employee luncheon.
Dan Hamilton, a former high-level auditor, was reprimanded for several statements he made about co-workers, including that some of them were “shady” and engaged in a “cover-up” in advance of McGuiness’ trial, and for suggesting in a conversation with male colleagues that a female chief of staff was dressed inappropriately for a budget meeting with state lawmakers. Hamilton was specifically prevented from testifying about a purported investigation he had conducted regarding McGuiness’ use of employee recognition funds. He acknowledged under cross-examination that, apart from the reprimand, he was treated fairly by the auditor’s office.
Carpenter also limited testimony from Andrena Burd, a former employee of the auditor’s office who Wood, the defense attorney, said had “a long-running vendetta” against McGuiness.
Prosecutor Mark Denney told Carpenter that Burd was a critical witness for the state who could offer testimony supporting their claim that McGuiness knew her alleged conduct was wrong. Denney noted that Burd had helped McGuiness in her 2018 campaign before going to work for her and had told her of problems in the office and alleged misdeeds by former chief administrative officer Kathleen Davies, who ran against McGuiness in the 2018 primary.
With the jury out of the room, attorneys questioned Burd and argued over how much of her testimony should be allowed in front of the jury. Carpenter refused to allow certain testimony to be presented to the jury and lashed out at Denney at one point when the prosecutor began shaking his head.
“It is your indictment,” the judge told Denney in a loud voice. “It’s what you wrote. It’s your words.”
“I’m at a loss a little bit as to where we’re spinning this case,” the judge added.
In front of the jury, Burd testified that she had told McGuiness about fragmenting of contract payments during the previous auditor’s tenure to keep them under the reporting threshold, and of the misuse of state credit cards that Burd had discovered while working at Delaware State University between stints at the auditor’s office. Prosecutors will likely rely on that testimony to argue that McGuiness knew about the impropriety of similar conduct in which she later allegedly engaged.
Burd also testified that McGuiness told her at one point to delete text messages regarding Davies, who returned to the auditor’s office in 2019 after being terminated by McGuiness’ predecessor, and told Burd to ask other employees to do the same.
Burd also said she informed a co-worker after discovering that the employee’s email was being monitored by McGuiness. | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Judge-limits-witness-testimony-in-auditor-17256766.php | 2022-06-22T02:11:51Z | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Judge-limits-witness-testimony-in-auditor-17256766.php | false | 11 |
Citizens Advice charity receives council grant
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Citizens Advice South Hams will be reaching more local people struggling with the rising cost of living thanks to a £7,000 Community Grant from Totnes Town Council.
The grant will help fund Citizens Advice’s outreach support worker based in The Mansion in the heart of town, ensuring the vital advice and support service can be accessed by as many local people as possible.
Totnes Mayor, Cllr Emily Price said: “We are huge supporters of the invaluable, committed and compassionate work of Citizen’s Advice to support people in the town.
“We are delighted to be able to contribute in some small part to helping this service to continue and thrive.”
Janie Moor, the charity’s chief officer said: ““We are incredibly grateful for the ongoing support we receive from Totnes Town Council.
“Receiving their community grant means we can continue to operate in the heart of the town and reach as many people as possible that need our advice.
“The cost of living crisis is making life increasingly difficult and we urge anyone who is struggling to please come and see us, our advisers are there to help.”
Citizens Advice South Hams offers a free, confidential and impartial service.
Trained advisers provide a range of support from debt and energy advice to help making benefits claims, consumer problems and health related matters.
Operations manager Emma Richards explained: “Our trained advisers can help you find a way forward, no matter how big or small the problem.
“Drop into the Mansion on a Wednesday between 9.30am and 12.30pm, no appointment needed and one of our advisers will be there to help.”
In April, Totnes Town Council allocated grants worth £24,000 to a range of community groups to enhance wellbeing or offer other benefits to the area.
Other grant recipients include Totnes Caring, Totnes Bike Hub, St John’s Church, Inclusive Totnes and Bridgetown Alive!
The next round of Town Council grants will open for applications in September.
Totnes Town Council has also supported projects across Totnes to access funding worth over £545,000 from government grant schemes and other sources in the last year.
To find out more about how the town council could help your community group, email [email protected]
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Matthews wins Hart Trophy as NHL's most valuable player
TAMPA, Fla. -- Toronto's Auston Matthews won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player on Tuesday night, becoming only the third Maple Leaf to win the award and the first since Ted Kennedy in 1954-55.
The 24-year-old forward received 119 first-place votes in voting by the Professional Hockey Writers Association and finished well ahead of Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Igor Shesterkin of the New York Rangers for the honor presented during the NHL Awards Show.
'I can't lie, it feels really good. ... It's pretty special,' Matthews said, though he conceded there were some bittersweet feelings about accepting the award in Tampa, where the two-time defending champion Lightning and Colorado Avalanche will meet in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday.
'There is some angst, wishing you were still playing,' Matthews said.
Shesterkin claimed the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender. Colorado's Cale Maker took the Norris Trophy, presented to the league's best defenseman, and Detroit's Moritz Seider claimed the Calder Trophy as the top rookie.
Matthews became the first player to score 60 goals since Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos did it 10 years ago, helping the Maple Leafs (54-21-7, 115 points) set franchise records for wins and points. Toronto lost to the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Lightning in the first round of the playoffs.
The Maple Leafs star, who posted career bests with 46 assists and 106 points, also took home the Ted Lindsay Award as most outstanding player in the regular season, an honor determined by voting by members of the NHL Players Association.
Shesterkin became the third Rangers goalie in the past 40 years to win the Vezina, joining Henrik Lundqvist (2011-12) and John Vanbiesbrouck (1985-86). He went 36-13-4 with an NHL-best 2.07 goal-against-average and .935 save percentage before leading a playoff run that ended against Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference final.
Seider is the first Red Wings player to win the Calder Trophy since goalie Roger Crozier during the 1964-65 season. He led all first-year defensemen with 50 points and finished ahead of Toronto's Michael Bunting and Anaheim's Trevor Zegras in balloting for the award.
Maker is the fifth defenseman to win Norris within his first three regular seasons, joining Adam Fox, Erik Karlsson, Denis Potvin and Bobby Orr (twice). He led all defensemen with 28 goals while helping the Avalanche finish with a Western Conference-best 119 points (56-19-7).
The 2019-20 Calder Trophy winner beat out Tampa Bay's Victor Hedman and Nashville's Roman Josi.
'They are such incredible players,' Maker said of the other Norris finalists. 'They pushed me hard all season.'
Calgary's Jacob Markstrom and Nashville's Juuse Saros were finalists for the Vezina.
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S.Korea's new COVID-19 cases below 10,000 for 13th day; tests under way for 2 suspected monkeypox cases
SEOUL, June 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's new COVID-19 cases came below the 10,000 mark for the 13th consecutive day Wednesday as omicron slows, while authorities were examining two possible monkeypox cases in what could be the first outbreak in the country.
The country added 8,992 new COVID-19 infections, including 106 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,298,341, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.
The KDCA reported 11 deaths from the disease, putting the death toll at 24,474. The fatality rate stood at 0.13 percent.
The number of critically ill patients came to 64, down from 68 the previous day.
The KDCA said tests were being carried out on two cases of rash and other symptoms to determine whether they are monkeypox.
The first individual is a foreigner who arrived in South Korea on Monday and the other is a South Korean national who returned from Germany on Tuesday. They showed symptoms like a sore throat, rash, fever and exhaustion and have been admitted to designated hospitals in Busan and Incheon for treatment.
South Korea classifies monkeypox as a Class 2 infectious disease that requires an immediate report from hospitals and private clinics when a suspected case is found. Potential patients must be quarantined.
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The state Department of Justice is investigating a shooting in San Bernardino County in which a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed an unarmed person Tuesday morning, June 21, after a traffic stop near Adelanto, authorities said.
The incident unfolded around 2:41 a.m. when a deputy made a traffic stop in the area of Highway 395 and Cactus Road, according to the Sheriff’s Department. A foot pursuit ensued and then a deputy shooting happened, sheriff’s officials said.
The person was pronounced dead at the scene and their identity was pending notification of next-of-kin, authorities said.
It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the traffic stop, what prompted the foot pursuit and what initiated the shooting. The Sheriff’s Department declined further comment on the incident, citing the DOJ’s investigation.
The DOJ’s investigation of the shooting was done under the authority of a law passed in 2020. The law, known as AB 1506, requires the state to investigate the shooting of unarmed civilians by police. | https://www.dailybulletin.com/2022/06/21/unarmed-person-killed-in-deputy-shooting-near-adelanto/ | 2022-06-22T02:23:44Z | https://www.dailybulletin.com/2022/06/21/unarmed-person-killed-in-deputy-shooting-near-adelanto/ | false | null |
The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol has released a list of witnesses who will appear at Thursday's hearing on Capitol Hill.
That hearing is expected to focus on the pressure then-President Trump put on the Department of Justice while making unfounded claims of voter fraud.
The witnesses expected to testify on Thursday are, former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Engel, the Select Committee revealed.
Also on Thursday, British filmmaker Alex Holder is expected to go in to be deposed by lawmakers after he revealed on Twitter that he has complied with a subpoena from Congress to turn over all footage he shot while covering the final weeks of Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, as the Associated Press reported. | https://www.kxlh.com/news/national/house-select-committee-investigating-jan-6-announces-next-hearing-witnesses | 2022-06-22T02:38:35Z | https://www.kxlh.com/news/national/house-select-committee-investigating-jan-6-announces-next-hearing-witnesses | true | null |
Following the success of the live event earlier this month, the London Wine Fair digital event launches today, which will include an intuitive digital platform with unmissable masterclasses, AI-powered matchmaking and much more.
Working with Bottlebooks, the most intuitive digital wine data platform in the industry, virtual attendees will be able to buy, sell and discover wine, browse virtual stands by producer, importer, grape type, region and wine name and order samples to their door.
There are also a host of masterclasses for sign-ups to attend today and tomorrow (20-21 June), including Miles Beale's talk on the Alcohol Duty Review and a session on how to get involved in the London Wine Fair 2023.
To find out more about the LWF digital event click here.
Meanwhile, three years after the last in-person LWF, a total of 8,822 visitors attended the 2022 event between 7-9 June, a 33% decrease from the last pre-pandemic show in 2019, when 13,260 visitors attended.
This drop in numbers, said the organisers, reflected several challenges, including a date change, ongoing uncertainty in the aftermath of the pandemic, tube strikes and the difficulty for under-staffed on-trade in attending.
“In 15 years as an event organiser, I have never experienced a show quite like this one,” head of London Wine Fair, Hannah Tovey said. “There have been many highs and lows, but crucially, the London Wine Fair team and its exhibitors have pulled off something very special; a show which has brought the industry back together after a period of incredible uncertainty. The buzz at the show was palpable as the trade returned to face-to-face business, tastings, networking and discovery.
“Feedback from exhibitors has been overwhelmingly positive – many have already re-booked their stands for 2023 – with reports that seriously high-quality visitors from the buying sectors, and key decision-makers were in abundance. We rigidly pursued the policy of charging attendees introduced in 2019, despite knowing it would negatively affect the overall number of attendees. We remain completely committed to delivering quality attendees over quantity.” | https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/30374/London_Wine_Fair_digital_event_is_now_live.html | 2022-06-22T02:45:15Z | https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/30374/London_Wine_Fair_digital_event_is_now_live.html | true | 1 |
Former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan has urged Leeds United to play hardball over the potential sale of Raphinha.
Arsenal have made a bid for the Brazilian, according to reports from The Athletic. The bid is expected to be rejected out of hand by the Peacocks but speculation will continue to grow over a potential move.
Raphinha was a key part of Leeds' Premier League survival under Jesse Marsch, managing 11 goals and three assists in 35 league appearances.
The fee being touted as what Arsenal have looked to have proposed for the former Stade Rennais star is £42.9 million (per TeamTalk).
Simon Jordan believes that Raphinha is vital to the West Yorkshire club and that the £42.9 million reported fee is below what Leeds should look to sell the player for.
He told talkSPORT (via TeamTalk):
“Not enough, not enough for Leeds. He’s a good player, an integral part of Leeds. He’s a very very talented footballer from the same genre as Riyad Mahrez.”
Jordan continued:
“If Leeds are going to be forced into a situation where they sell him because Arsenal are currently doing better, they’ve got to pay top, top money. That’s what Leeds have to do and what Andrea Radrizzani has to achieve."
Jordan believes that Leeds should drive a hard bargain in negotiating over Raphinha, urging the side to negotiate a higher price:
“For Raphinha, as much as I can get. If they offer me £50million, I want £70million. If they offer me £70million, I want £80million. I’d want them to work as hard as they can and sweat the asset.
"They must make sure they get nothing from me that was vaguely resembling what they thought was a deal."
Arsenal have competition in their pursuit of Leeds United winger Raphinha
Arsenal are not the only top European side attempting to lure Raphinha away from Elland Road this summer.
The Athletic reports that Barcelona and Chelsea are also in the race to sign the Brazilian, with both sides' Champions League qualification being key.
Barcelona could do with his addition but financial complications are plaguing the La Liga side's pursuit of the Brazilian.
Chelsea would be a good destination for Raphinha as they have shown a great pedigree for winning silverware in recent history.
The Gunners' north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur are also showing an interest but he is not a first-choice option for Antonio Conte. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/news-if-offer-50-million-i-want-70-million-simon-jordan-urges-club-raise-selling-price-very-talented-arsenal-target | 2022-06-22T02:45:59Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/news-if-offer-50-million-i-want-70-million-simon-jordan-urges-club-raise-selling-price-very-talented-arsenal-target | false | 1 |
If you’ve checked out of this road trip before it even began, I can’t say I blame you. That five-game series against a freefalling Angels team was, to put it bluntly, soul crushing. Five Mike Trout homers, four of them being game-winners? Just two runs across the last three games, including a 21-inning scoreless streak? Blech, blech, blech. Thankfully, it’s all behind us now, and even if you have given up on playoff hopes, the season marches on.
I mean, glancing at the A’s lineup, things could be worse? Rolling out an all-righty lineup against Marco Gonzales is the right move, but man, ideally you have someone better than Christian Bethancourt - who’s moonlighted as a pitcher a few times - in the cleanup spot. Jonah Bride and Nick Allen are two new guys who both have incredibly Oakland A names, but other than that, no real surprises from them tonight. May Elvis Andrus not be a pest for five minutes.
It’s also a Toro- and DMo-less lineup tonight, with Adam Frazier manning second base and Taylor Trammell in right. While it’s nice to see JP at leadoff once again, it would be just lovely to see Frazier and his single-digit June wRC+ start bouncing back. You’re so fun when you’re hitting, Adam! More of that, please! Justin Upton is once again at DH, and personally? I’d love to see a homer from him tonight.
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As distance grows between present day and when the pandemic started, annual events once torn away and fractured by safety precautions are returning to full swing.
The Rotary GroveFest is no exception.
After a pandemic-era fest last year, members of the Rotary Club of Downers Grove are excited to see the fest at full capacity with old and new things in store. This year’s fest will begin Thursday and run through Sunday.
“We’re very excited to be opening Thursday night with bands and the beer garden,” said Lisa Rasin, chairperson of the committee organizing the event. “We’re back to normal, and we’re excited, as well as the community.”
A four-day event as large as Rotary GroveFest doesn’t just get thrown together. It takes months of planning and hundreds of volunteers. Many of the volunteers for the event are nonprofit organizations, Rotary member Keith Hoffman said, and despite the large number of volunteers the fest already has, there is a need for more.
It takes nearly 500 volunteers to run the event, Rasin said, and the Rotary Club is looking for people interested in volunteering specifically for Thursday setup and Sunday tear down. Anyone 18 and older can volunteer for setup and tear down, Rasin said. The Rotary Club has a stipend program that provides pay to some qualified volunteers, she added.
“These things can’t be put on without volunteers, and our volunteers are strong, but we need more. We always need more,” Hoffman said. “We’re responsible for tearing it all down and setting it all up and everything in between.”
As for planning, the committee never really stops, Hoffman said. Whether Rotary members are meeting or not, the event takes anywhere from eight to 10 months to organize, Rasin said. From coordinating which restaurants and businesses will have booths to booking bands for the stage, the fest keeps Rotary members busy.
This year’s entertainment lineup features some familiar names as well as some new ones, including popular ‘80s cover band Sixteen Candles, who will perform from 9:30 to 11 p.m. Friday, and pop rock band 7th Heaven, who will perform from 9:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday.
The restaurant and business booths featured along Main Street will be a highlight, Hoffman said. Many of the booths represent local businesses. One booth Hoffman said he is particularly excited about is the D’Capo booth. D’Capo, he said, is run out of a gas station on Ogden and Belmont and serves Italian food.
Rasin said the Rotary Club expects thousands of people will show up at the fest. Money raised at the event will go right back into the community, Rasin said. The Rotary Club could not put on the event without the support of the community, the village of Downers Grove, the Downers Grove Downtown Management Corporation and all of the participating businesses and restaurants, she said.
“This is an event that takes a lot of participation,” Hoffman said. “There’s a lot of moving parts, and we’re extremely happy to put this event on for the community.” | https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/2022/06/22/rotary-grovefest-returns-to-downers-grove/ | 2022-06-22T02:50:55Z | https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/2022/06/22/rotary-grovefest-returns-to-downers-grove/ | false | 1 |
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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer money.
The 6-3 outcome could fuel a renewed push for school choice programs in some of the 18 states that have so far not directed taxpayer money to private, religious education. The most immediate effect of the court’s ruling beyond Maine probably will be felt next door in Vermont, which has a similar program.
The decision is the latest in a line of rulings from the Supreme Court that have favored religion-based discrimination claims. The court is separately weighing the case of a football coach who says he has a First Amendment right to pray at midfield immediately after games.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative majority that the Maine program violates the Constitution’s protections for religious freedoms.
“Maine’s ‘nonsectarian’ requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Regardless of how the benefit and restriction are described, the program operates to identify and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise,” Mr. Roberts wrote.
The court’s three liberal justices dissented. “This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote.
Justice Stephen Breyer noted in a separate dissent that Maine “wishes to provide children within the State with a secular, public education. This wish embodies, in significant part, the constitutional need to avoid spending public money to support what is essentially the teaching and practice of religion.”
But Justice Roberts wrote that states are not obligated to subsidize private education. Once they do, however, they can’t cut out religious schools, he wrote, echoing his opinion in a similar case from two years ago. “Maine chose to allow some parents to direct state tuition payments to private schools; that decision was not ‘forced upon’ it,” Justice Roberts wrote, quoting from Justice Sotomayor’s dissent.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said during a Tuesday radio appearance that he was not surprised by the court’s decision, but he felt it was not consistent with his reading of the Constitution.
Mr. Frey also said the court’s ruling will require a reevaluation of how it applies to state law.
Until now, Maine’s exclusion of religious schools has been upheld, Mr. Frey said during the appearance on Maine Public. “Frankly, it is concerning, even though we saw it coming.”
The ideological split in Tuesday’s decision also was evident during arguments in December, when the conservative justices seemed largely unpersuaded by Maine’s position that the state is willing to pay for the rough equivalent of a public education, but not religious inculcation.
In largely rural Maine, the state allows families who live in towns that don’t have public schools to receive public tuition dollars to send their children to the public or private school of their choosing. The program has excluded religious schools.
Students who live in a district with public schools or in a district that contracts with another public system are ineligible for the tuition program.
The Monitor’s Chelsea Sheasley and Harry Bruinius highlighted the Carson v. Makin case last December as one that could potentially take down the wall between church and state:
Behind these cases ... lurks a larger question about the nature of American pluralism in the modern era. For those who maintain traditional religious views of marriage and human sexuality, they believe their sincerely held religious beliefs should continue to be protected from certain nondiscrimination laws in order for them to express their faith freely.
At the same time, many religious institutions and people of faith have battled to be treated like any other group, able to participate fully in public benefit programs – like Maine’s tuition assistance program.
Michael Bindas, a lawyer for the libertarian Institute for Justice who argued for the parents at the high court, said the court made clear Tuesday that “there is no basis for this notion that the government is able to single out and exclude religious options.”
Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, sharply criticized the court for “forcing taxpayers to fund religious education” and cloaking “this assault on our Constitution in the language of non-discrimination.”
In the Maine case, parents sued in federal court to be able to use state aid to send their children to Christian schools in Bangor and Waterville. The schools in question, Bangor Christian School and Temple Academy, are uncertain whether they would accept public funds, according to court filings.
The Bangor school said it would not hire teachers or admit students who are transgender. Both schools said they do not hire gay or lesbian teachers, according to court records.
In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that states must give religious schools the same access to public funding that other private schools receive, preserving a Montana scholarship program that had largely benefited students at religious institutions.
In that case, the court said states don’t have to allow public money to be used in private education. But they can’t keep religious schools out of such programs, once created.
But even after that ruling, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Maine program, holding that the state was not violating anyone’s constitutional rights by refusing to allow taxpayer money to be used for religious instruction. The three-judge panel included retired Justice David Souter, who occasionally hears cases in the appeals court.
Most of the justices attended religious schools, and several send or have sent their children to them.
The story was reported by The Associated Press. | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2022/0621/Supreme-Court-ruling-Maine-s-religious-schools-can-get-public-money | 2022-06-22T03:04:01Z | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2022/0621/Supreme-Court-ruling-Maine-s-religious-schools-can-get-public-money | true | 53 |
Crews fix roads after highways buckle from the heat
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Marathon County Highway Department crews had to repair a large buckle in the road on Highway 29 on Tuesday night .
Marathon County Highway Commissioner Jim Griesbach said pavement buckles during prolonged periods of extreme heat. Griesbach said the moisture in the ground allows it to expand and crack.
Griesbach said it usually happens in late afternoon after the sun has been heating the roads all day.
“That moisture gets into the ground and when the roadway gets so hot from expansion the concrete has to go one way. And if there is no expansion joint usually it’s going to go up cause it’s not going to go down into the dirt. So it’s going to go up and that’s how come you see those expansions,” said Griesbach.
Crews are ready 24/7 to fix road buckles. On weekends they even have skid steers loaded with asphalt so they can respond faster. Griesbach said it’s important they fix them quickly to avoid accidents on the road.
If you notice the road buckle call the Marathon County Highway Department on weekdays during business hours. if it’s on a weekend or at night you can call the non-emergency number for the Sheriff’s Department.
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'Nowhere I feel safe': Election officials detail threats during Jan. 6 committee hearing
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Updated: 9:47 PM EDT Jun 21, 2022
do you swear our firm on the penalty of perjury? That the testimony you're about to give is the truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help you God, thank you. Please be seated. Let the record reflect that the witness answered in the affirmative. MS walker. MS Moss, thank you very much for being here today. I understand that you are here along with your mother today. Would you like to introduce your mama? Hi ma uh Miss Moss Today. We'll be asking you about some of the threats that you received following the 2020 election Since you've been an election worker for over 10 years. I want to ask you in your decade of service, have you ever experienced threats like these before? Uh Don't be nervous. Just understand. So, uh I want to make sure that the record reflects that you've done it for quite *** while and you never received *** threat and your answer was no, thank you Pursuant to section 5 C8 of the house resolution 503, the chair recognizes the gentleman from California mr Schiff for questions. Good afternoon Miss Moss, thank you for being here. I understand that you were employed by the Fulton County registration and elections department for more than 10 years and I understand that you love that job. Please tell us what made you so fond of the work that you did. Um Well I've always um been told by my grandmother how important it is to vote and how people before me, *** lot of people, older people in my family did not have that, right? So what I loved most um, about my job were the older voters. Um younger people could usually do everything from their phone or go online, but the older voters like to call, they like to talk to you, they like to get my card. They like to know that every election I'm here. Um, and like even college students, *** lot of parents, um, trusting me to make sure their child does not have to drive home, they'll get an absentee ballot. They can vote. And I really found pleasure in that. I like being the one that um, you know, if someone can't navigate my voter page or you know, they want *** new precinct car and they don't have *** copy machine or computer, all of that. I could put it in the mail for them. Um, I was excited always about sending out all the absentee ballots for the elderly, disabled people. Um, I even remember driving to an hospital to give someone her absentee application. Um, that's, that's what I love the most. So you really enjoyed helping people vote and participate and uh, and that was something the right to vote that your grandmother taught you was precious. Well, I know the events that we're here to talk about today are incredibly difficult to relive your proud service as an election worker took *** dramatic turn on the day that Rudy Giuliani publicized the video of you and your mother counting ballots on election night? President trump? Rudy Giuliani and others claimed on the basis of this video that you and your mother were somehow involved in *** plot to kick out observers bring suitcases of false ballots for biden into the arena and then run them through the machines multiple times. None of that was true, was it? None of it? I'd like to show you some of the statements that Rudy Giuliani made in *** second hearing before the Georgia state legislators *** week after that video clip from state Farm Arena was first circulated by mr Giuliani and President trump. I want to advise viewers that these statements are completely false and also deeply disturbing tape earlier in the day of Ruby Freeman and Chez Freeman Morris and one Other Gentleman quite obviously Surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if their vials of heroin or cocaine. I mean it's our state, it's obvious to anyone who is *** criminal investigator or prosecutor, they are engaged in surreptitious illegal activity again that day and after *** week ago and they're still walking around Georgia. Why should have been, there should have been, should have been questioned already. Uh, there are places of work. Their homes should have been searched for evidence of balance evidence of USB ports for evidence of voter fraud. That video was from Rudy Giuliani's appearance at *** Georgia state Senate hearing on december 10? How did you become aware, how did you first become aware that Rudy Giuliani, the president's lawyer was accusing you and your mother of *** crime. I was at work like always. Um and the former chief Mr jones asked me to come to his office and um when I went to his office, the former director Mr Baron was in there and they showed me *** video on their computer. Um it was just like *** very short clip of us working at State Farm and it had someone on the video like talking um over the video just saying that we were doing things that we weren't supposed to do, just lying um throughout the video. And that's when I first found out about it? And were their social media posts that they showed you responding to those false claims? Well, um when when I saw the video, of course the first thing that I said was like why why why why are they doing this, what's going on? And um they you know, just told me that trump and his allies were not satisfied with the outcome of the election and they were getting *** lot of threats and um being harassed online and asked me, you know have I been receiving anything and I need to check on my mom. Yeah, I told them, you know, I was like where where have they, you know, where have you been getting these threats? I don't believe I have any. And um Mr jones told me like they're attacking his facebook and I don't really use facebook. I have one. So I went to the facebook app and I'm just kind of panicky at this point because this is never happened to me and my mom is involved and I'm like her only child. So I'm just asking like where are the messages? All I see is the fees like how do you get to the messages? And he said it's another icon on your phone that says messenger. And I went to that icon and it was just *** lot of horrible things there and those horrible things that they include threats. Yes, *** lot of threats um wishing death upon me telling me that you know, I'll be in jail with my mother and saying things like Be Glad It's 2020 and Not 1920. Yeah. Were *** lot of these threats and and vile comments, racist in nature. *** lot of them were racist. *** lot of them were just hateful. Yes sir. In one of the videos we just watched. Mr Giuliani accused you and your mother of passing some sort of USB drive to each other. What was your mom actually handing you on that video? *** ginger mint? It wasn't just Rudy Giuliani, we heard President trump make these false allegations repeatedly during his call with secretary raffensperger, let's listen to *** portion of what he had to say about you and your mother, we had At least 18,000 that's on tape. We had them counted Very painstakingly 18,000 voters having to do with Ruby Freeman, that's she's *** vote scammer, *** professional vote scammer and hustler Donald Trump attacked you and your mother using her name 18 times on that call 18 times. Mr ross. Can you describe what you experienced listening to former president trump attack you and your mother in *** call with the Georgia Secretary of State? I felt horrible. I felt like it was all my fault. Like if I would have never decided to be an elections worker, like I could have done anything else, but that's what I decided to do and now people are lying and spreading rumors and lies and attacking my mom, my only child going to my grandmother's house, her only grandchild and and my kid is just um I felt so bad, I just felt bad for my mom and I felt horrible for picking this job and being the one that always wants to help and always there never missing out one election. I just felt like it was, it was my fault for putting my family in this situation. Well it wasn't your fault. Your mother was kind enough to come speak with us earlier. Let's listen to her story in her words, my name is ruby Freeman, I've always believed that when God says that he will make your name great, but This is not the way it was supposed to be. I could have never imagined the events that followed the presidential election 2020 for my entire professional life. I was lady ruby, my community in Georgia where I was born and lived my whole life, knew me as lady ruby. I built my own business around that name. Low ruby's unique treasures, *** pop up shop catering to ladies with unique fashions. I wore *** shirt that proudly proclaimed that I was and I am lady ruby. Actually I had that shirt on. I had that shirt in every color. I wore that shirt on election day 2020. I haven't worn it since and I'll never wear it again. Now I won't even introduce my self by my name anymore. I get nervous when I bump into someone I know in the grocery store who says my name, I'm worried about who's listening. I get nervous when I have to give my name for food orders. I'm always concerned of who's around me. I've lost my name and I've lost my reputation. I've lost my sense of security All because *** group of people starting with number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter shay to push their own lives about how the presidential election was stolen. MS Moss, How is this experience of being targeted by the former president and his allies affected your life. This turned my life upside down. Um, I no longer give out my business card. Don't transfer calls. Um, don't want anyone knowing my name. I don't want to go anywhere with my mom because she might yell my name out over the grocery aisle or something. I don't go to the grocery store at all. Haven't been anywhere. Um at all. I've gained about 60 lb. I just don't do nothing anymore. I don't want to go anywhere *** second guess everything that I do. Oh, it's affected my life in ***, in *** major way. Every way. All because of lies for me, doing my job. Same thing I've been doing forever. Your mother also told this committee about how she had to leave her own home for her safety and go into hiding After the FBI told her that it would not be safe for her there before January six and until the inauguration. Let's listen to *** clip of her story in her own words. Around the week of january 6th, the FBI informed me that I needed to leave my home for safety. Um and I left my home for safety. Around that time, understood how long did you stay out? Did you remain outside of your home for your own safety? I stayed away from my home for approximately two months. It was horrible. I felt homeless. I felt, you know, I can't believe I can't believe this person has caused this much damage to me and my family, Um to have to leave my home. That I've lived there for 21 years and you know, I'm having to have my neighbors watch out for me, you know, um and I have to go and stay with somebody. It was hard, it was horrible and that your conversation with the FBI about needing to leave your home for your own things, you're perhaps recommending it. Um Do you remember was there *** specific threat that prompted that or was it the accumulation of threats that you have received? What prompted it was um was getting ready to january 6th was about to come and they did not want me to be at home because of all the threats and everything that I had gotten, they didn't want me to be there in fear of, you know, the people were coming to my home and I had *** lot of that, so they didn't want me to be there just in case something happened. I asked, how long am I gonna have to be at home? They said at least until the inauguration. MS Moss, I understand that people once showed up at your grandmother's house, tell us about that experience. Um I received *** call from my grandmother. It's moment is my everything. I've never even heard her or seen her cry ever in my life. And um she called me screaming at the top of her lungs like Shay Shay oh my God Shane just freaking me out saying that um there were people at her home and they, you know, they knocked on the door and of course she opened it and seeing who was there, who it was and they just started pushing their way through claiming that they were coming in to make *** citizen's arrest. They needed to find me and my mom, they knew were there um and she was just screaming and didn't know what to do and I wasn't, they're so you know, I just felt so helpless and so horrible for her and she um was just screaming, I told her to close the door, don't open the door for for anyone and um No she's *** 70 something, I won't say your old woman and she, she doesn't like having restrictions, she wants to answer the door, she likes to get her steps in walking around the neighborhood and I had to tell her like you can't do that, you have to be safe. Um You know, she would tell me that night um people would just continuously send pizzas over and over to her home um you know, and they were expecting her to pay for these large amounts of pizzas and she went through *** lot that she didn't have to and once again it made me just so horrible in addition to the personal impact this experience has had on you and your family. one of the things that I find most disturbing is how these lies discourage long time election workers from continuing to do this important work. Tell us if you would of the other election workers shown in that state farm Arena video and their supervisors. How many are still election workers in Fulton County? Um there is no permanent election worker or supervisor in that video that's still there. And did you end up leaving? You're leaving your position as well? Yes, I I left MS Moss, I want to thank you for coming in to speak with us and thank you for your service to our democracy. What we have just played is *** truly horrible and appalling sample but just *** sample of the things that were said about you and your mother fall in the election. Want to say how very sorry I think we all are for what you've gone through and tragically you're not alone. Other election workers around the country have also been the subject of lies and threats. No election workers should be subject to such heinous treatment just for doing their job. With your permission. I would like to give your mother the last word. Yes. Mm We're just gonna play the tape. There is nowhere I feel safe nowhere. Do you know how it feels to have the President of the United States to target you. The President of the United States is supposed to represent every american Not to Target one but he targeted me. Lady Rudy, *** small business owner, *** mother, *** proud american citizen who stand up to help Fulton County running the election in the middle of the pandemic. Thank you Miss Moss, thank you Miss Freeman. Or is America now knows her lady ruby for your service to Fulton county Georgia, our country and our democracy. Mr chairman. I yield back.
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'Nowhere I feel safe': Election officials detail threats during Jan. 6 committee hearing
Wandrea “Shaye” Moss testified Tuesday to lawmakers about how her life was upended when former President Donald Trump and his allies falsely accused her and her mother of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase in Georgia.The former Georgia elections worker recounted in a wrenching appearance before the House Jan. 6 committee how the defeated president latched onto surveillance footage from November 2020 to accuse her and her mother, Ruby Freeman, of committing voter fraud — allegations that were quickly debunked, yet spread widely across conservative media.Moss, who is Black, said she received messages “wishing death upon me. Telling me that I’ll be in jail with my mother. And saying things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.’”“A lot of them were racist,” Moss said. “A lot of them were just hateful.”The committee also played testimony from Freeman, who sat behind Moss in the hearing room, showing support for her daughter and at one point passing over a box of tissues as lawmakers heard about their shattering ordeal.“There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere,” Freeman told the committee in the prerecorded video. “Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you? The president of the United States is supposed to represent every American, not to target one.”“But he targeted me,” she added. The emotional testimony from mother and daughter was just the latest attempt by the Jan. 6 panel to show how lies perpetrated by Trump and his allies about a stolen election turned into real-life violence and intimidation against the caretakers of American democracy: state and local election officials and workers.Several of the people who bought into the election lies even showed up at the home of Moss' grandmother to make a citizen's arrest.“I’ve never ever heard her or see her cry, ever in my life," Moss testified. “She called me screaming at the top of her lungs ... saying people are at her home."“I just felt so helpless," she added.The barrage of threats against the two county workers mounted after Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani played surveillance footage of them counting ballots in a Georgia Senate committee hearing on Dec. 10, 2021. Giuliani said the footage showed the women “surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they are vials of heroin or cocaine.” What they were actually passing, Moss told the committee, was a ginger mint.Giuliani and Trump allies kept repeating the false conspiracy theory that Moss and Freeman, along with other election workers in key battleground states, were packing ballots into suitcases. The claim was disproven by several Georgia election officials, who investigated and found the footage showed regular ballot containers used in Fulton County.But it was too late. Conservative networks like One America News Network seized on the false claim and it began to spread with the help of Trump himself. Moss and Freeman eventually filed a defamation lawsuit against the network and Giuliani last December. The case against OAN has since been dismissed with a settlement.Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led Thursday's hearing, noted that Trump mentioned Freeman's name 18 times in a call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. At one point Trump called Freeman a "professional vote scammer and hustler.”“This has affected my life in a major way. In every way. All because of lies. All for me doing my job. The same thing I’ve been doing forever," said Moss, who had been an election official for 10 years.With so many threats swirling, the FBI urged Freeman to leave her house ahead of Jan. 6 for safety reasons. She testified that she wasn't able to return for two months and felt homeless.“The point is this: Donald Trump didn’t care about the threats of violence,” Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the vice chair of the committee, said in her opening remarks Tuesday. “He did not condemn them, he made no effort to stop them; he went forward with his fake allegations anyway.”Raffensperger, Georgia's top election official, and his deputy, Gabe Sterling, also testified about the relentless attacks they and their colleagues faced as Trump falsely claimed widespread voter fraud in Georgia.Raffensperger and his wife were victims of organized harassment — commonly known as doxxing. His wife, he said, received “disgusting” text messages that were sexual in nature, and supporters of the president's election claims broke into the home of Raffensperger's daughter-in-law, where she was staying with her children.Sterling recalled the moment in December of 2020 that pushed him to speak out. It was a tweet about a staffer for Dominion voting machines — the focal point of other Trump-promoted conspiracies about voter fraud — that said “you committed treason. May god have mercy on your soul." It included a slowly twisting GIF of a noose.“And for lack of a better word, I lost it," Sterling told the committee. "I just got irate.”That day Sterling gave an impassioned plea at a press conference pleading with Trump to condemn the threats against election workers. “This has to stop,” he said.
Wandrea “Shaye” Moss testified Tuesday to lawmakers about how her life was upended when former President Donald Trump and his allies falsely accused her and her mother of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase in Georgia.
The former Georgia elections worker recounted in a wrenching appearance before the House Jan. 6 committee how the defeated president latched onto surveillance footage from November 2020 to accuse her and her mother, Ruby Freeman, of committing voter fraud — allegations that were quickly debunked, yet spread widely across conservative media.
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Moss, who is Black, said she received messages “wishing death upon me. Telling me that I’ll be in jail with my mother. And saying things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.’”
“A lot of them were racist,” Moss said. “A lot of them were just hateful.”
The committee also played testimony from Freeman, who sat behind Moss in the hearing room, showing support for her daughter and at one point passing over a box of tissues as lawmakers heard about their shattering ordeal.
“There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere,” Freeman told the committee in the prerecorded video. “Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you? The president of the United States is supposed to represent every American, not to target one.”
The emotional testimony from mother and daughter was just the latest attempt by the Jan. 6 panel to show how lies perpetrated by Trump and his allies about a stolen election turned into real-life violence and intimidation against the caretakers of American democracy: state and local election officials and workers.
Several of the people who bought into the election lies even showed up at the home of Moss' grandmother to make a citizen's arrest.
“I’ve never ever heard her or see her cry, ever in my life," Moss testified. “She called me screaming at the top of her lungs ... saying people are at her home."
“I just felt so helpless," she added.
The barrage of threats against the two county workers mounted after Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani played surveillance footage of them counting ballots in a Georgia Senate committee hearing on Dec. 10, 2021. Giuliani said the footage showed the women “surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they are vials of heroin or cocaine.” What they were actually passing, Moss told the committee, was a ginger mint.
Giuliani and Trump allies kept repeating the false conspiracy theory that Moss and Freeman, along with other election workers in key battleground states, were packing ballots into suitcases. The claim was disproven by several Georgia election officials, who investigated and found the footage showed regular ballot containers used in Fulton County.
But it was too late. Conservative networks like One America News Network seized on the false claim and it began to spread with the help of Trump himself. Moss and Freeman eventually filed a defamation lawsuit against the network and Giuliani last December. The case against OAN has since been dismissed with a settlement.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led Thursday's hearing, noted that Trump mentioned Freeman's name 18 times in a call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. At one point Trump called Freeman a "professional vote scammer and hustler.”
“This has affected my life in a major way. In every way. All because of lies. All for me doing my job. The same thing I’ve been doing forever," said Moss, who had been an election official for 10 years.
With so many threats swirling, the FBI urged Freeman to leave her house ahead of Jan. 6 for safety reasons. She testified that she wasn't able to return for two months and felt homeless.
“The point is this: Donald Trump didn’t care about the threats of violence,” Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the vice chair of the committee, said in her opening remarks Tuesday. “He did not condemn them, he made no effort to stop them; he went forward with his fake allegations anyway.”
Raffensperger, Georgia's top election official, and his deputy, Gabe Sterling, also testified about the relentless attacks they and their colleagues faced as Trump falsely claimed widespread voter fraud in Georgia.
Raffensperger and his wife were victims of organized harassment — commonly known as doxxing. His wife, he said, received “disgusting” text messages that were sexual in nature, and supporters of the president's election claims broke into the home of Raffensperger's daughter-in-law, where she was staying with her children.
Sterling recalled the moment in December of 2020 that pushed him to speak out. It was a tweet about a staffer for Dominion voting machines — the focal point of other Trump-promoted conspiracies about voter fraud — that said “you committed treason. May god have mercy on your soul." It included a slowly twisting GIF of a noose.
“And for lack of a better word, I lost it," Sterling told the committee. "I just got irate.”
That day Sterling gave an impassioned plea at a press conference pleading with Trump to condemn the threats against election workers. “This has to stop,” he said. | https://www.wxii12.com/article/nowhere-i-feel-safe-election-officials-detail-threats-during-jan-6-committee-hearing/40368354 | 2022-06-22T03:06:51Z | https://www.wxii12.com/article/nowhere-i-feel-safe-election-officials-detail-threats-during-jan-6-committee-hearing/40368354 | true | 10 |
CAMANCHE – Easton Valley traveled to Camanche in a battle that saw the Storm take a large lead early. However, this didn’t last long as thunderstorms ended this game in the bottom of the fourth inning with Camanche leading 11-2. The game did not count as a win for either team.
Camanche head coach Darryl Cochran and his team were coming off of a doubleheader sweep against Bellevue on Monday night that moved him to number one all time in wins at Camanche.
“I got to give credit to all my coaching staff and all my players, parents and the fans. Without them I couldn’t have done it.” Cochran commented.
Baseball was still played as Ethan Schultz was on the mound for the Storm, pitching a perfect three up, three down first inning.
A leadoff walk started the offensive side of things for the Storm. A stolen base set up an RBI ground rule double for Mike Delzell. Zach Erwin followed that up with an RBI single to make it a two run advantage.
Two walks loaded the bases with one out before a grand slam broke this one open early, giving the Storm a 6-0 lead. A hit batter and an error gave the Storm two more base runners with just one out still. Tucker Dickherber got on with an RBI single up the middle to add to the lead. Delzell capped the scoring off with a sacrifice fly to make it 8-0.
“It was nice. We’ve been hitting the ball really well,” Cochran said. “We were up in Bellevue the other night and put up 18 runs in both games and we were on track for that again tonight”
The second inning flew by as neither team got on base, sending it to the third inning.
A one out single got the River Hawks their first base runner of the night, poking one out to shallow center field. Pitcher Aidan Gruver helped himself out, hitting a home run out to the scoreboard in left to cut into the lead and make it a 8-2 game.
A one out walk and a bunt single gave the Storm two runners in the bottom of the third. A ground ball scored another run for a 9-2 Storm lead.
The River Hawks had two runners in scoring position in the fourth, but were unable to produce as they stranded both of the runners.
The bottom of the fourth was more offense from the Storm with Delzell doubling to lead off. A walk and then a single to right by Erwin scored two to make it an 11-2 game with nobody out. The Storm looked like they could blow this one open even further but that’s when the lightning rolled in.
After 20 minutes of delays, the teams called the game and neither team picked up a win. The Storm left two on with nobody out and will be back in action on Wednesday night against Mid-Prairie at 7 p.m. | https://www.clintonherald.com/sports/thunderstorms-end-local-matchup-early/article_654bae76-f1d1-11ec-8ca7-43126d57cba4.html | 2022-06-22T03:10:34Z | https://www.clintonherald.com/sports/thunderstorms-end-local-matchup-early/article_654bae76-f1d1-11ec-8ca7-43126d57cba4.html | false | 1 |
Will BigLaw Regret Its Hiring Spree As The Economy Softens?
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Waukee residents sound off over scattered scooters across town
Bird scooters, a type of e-scooter, made their debut in Waukee back in April. Now, they're scattered about the town and you don't have to look very far to find one without using the app.
Residents say the new addition is convenient. However where people place them when their done using them is starting to become a problem.
"The only thing is that they're everywhere. It's like when you drive you're like 'Oh, there's one, there's one,'" Waukee resident Leah Gomes said.
Other residents have taken to social media with their concerns.
The city's parks and recreation department oversees the usage of the scooters along with Bird. They say the scooter pilot project has been very popular in the area and they haven't received many complaints.
"There is a local fleet manager hired by Bird scooters that manages the fleet, charges them, replaces them on a daily basis," Matt Jermier of Waukee Parks and Recreation said.
The city also urges people to contact Bird if they see a misplaced scooter.
The pilot program will last until November and then the city council will vote to see if the scooters are a good fit for Waukee.
Some community members believe these obstacles are something the city can work through and they would like to see the scooters stay.
"I personally don't mind it. I think that they're fun and as long as they're safe and people are having a good time then go for it," Gomes said.
Waukee residents can call, email or file a report on the Bird scooter app regarding misplaced scooters.
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TBI investigating after finding burned body inside a vehicle in Cumberland Co.
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A 15-year-old girl was among nine members of a "caring and animal loving" family who have been found dead in what appears to have been a suicide pact over financial debts.
The bodies were found in two separate houses that belonged to two brothers from the family in the Sangli district of Maharashtra, India.
Only two cats remain alive at one of the homes with the family described as "caring and animal loving" by locals with a vet, Dr Manik Vanmore, among the dead.
Police believe that the nine people died after consuming poison and that the family was going through financial problems, reported Indian Express.
Suicide notes refer to "repeated and public" harassment that the family suffered from money lenders which was both "mental and physical", it is reported.
The ages of the family range from a girl aged 15, to a 72-year-old woman.
The brothers have been named as Popat Yallapa Vanmore, 52, and Dr Manik Yallapa Vanmore, 49.
The seven other bodies were identified as Sangeeta Popat Vanmore, 48, Archana Popat Vanmore, 30, Shubham Popat Vanmore, 28, Rekha Manik Vanmore, 45, Aditya Manik Vanmore, 15, Anita Manik Vanmore, 28, and Akkatai Vanmore, 72.
Footage taken at the scene shows the corpses lying inside rooms.
They were found by locals who noticed the front doors had not been opened for some time.
Sangli's District Superintendent of Police Dixit Kumar Gedam said: “Nine dead bodies have been recovered in Mhaisal village of Sangli district, out of which three bodies have been recovered from one house and six dead bodies from the other house.
"The forensic team is present on the spot.”
A police investigation is currently under way, with officers registering an unnatural cause of death. The bodies will be sent for autopsies.
Fifteen people from the region, who have allegedly lent money to the brothers, have been arrested and the police are searching for 10 more suspects, reported Indian Express.
A family friend Ashwini Sawant said that they were a "caring" family.
“I literally grew up in their home,” he said,
“All of them were very caring and considered me as one of them. From all the special dishes cooked at their home to all the major events, I have been there. Less than a week ago, I came to their house for a paani-puri party.
"They were a happy family and loved animals. But I also know that over the past few years, they have been under stress because of debt. But we had never imagined this.”
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Taiwanese church shooting suspect is charged with hate crimes
A 68-year-old man accused of killing one person and injuring five others at a Taiwanese Presbyterian church in Laguna Woods has been charged with hate crime enhancements, Orange County prosecutors announced Friday.
David Wenwei Chou of Las Vegas had previously been charged with murder, attempted murder and other felony counts in the May 15 shooting.
Prosecutors this week added a hate crimes enhancement to the murder charge, alleging that Chou’s killing of Dr. John Cheng, 52, was motivated by race, color, religion, nationality or country of origin.
Prosecutors also added hate crime enhancements for each of the five counts of attempted murder against Chou.
Chou could face the death penalty if convicted of all charges, which also include four counts of possession of an explosive device, enhancements of lying in wait and personal discharge of a firearm causing death. He has not entered a plea, according to court records.
The hate crime enhancements were filed after prosecutors reviewed additional evidence, Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer said. Authorities did not provide details about that evidence.
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes last month characterized the shootings as a “politically motivated hate incident” and said authorities think Chou “specifically targeted the Taiwanese community.”
Barnes said Chou left notes in Chinese in his car stating that he did not believe Taiwan should be independent from China. He apparently had an issue with Taiwanese people because of the way he was treated while living in Taiwan, Barnes said. Chou grew up in Taiwan as a waishengren — someone with recent roots in China.
China considers Taiwan a breakaway province and has grown increasingly aggressive about reclaiming the democratic, self-ruled island. Within Taiwan, a majority of people favor maintaining the status quo, with some wanting to openly declare independence and a small minority wanting to someday unify with China.
The Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church is known for its support of pro-independence causes, and the Laguna Woods congregation conducted services in the Taiwanese dialect, rather than Mandarin.
Prosecutors allege that Chou entered Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, where the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church rents space, with two 9-millimeter handguns, several backpacks that contained extra magazines and four Molotov cocktail devices.
He allegedly hid the backpacks in a church banquet hall and chained several doors shut, then mingled with parishioners. The group was there for a luncheon honoring longtime Pastor Billy Chang, who was visiting after two years in Taiwan.
When the gunman opened fire, Cheng, the doctor, fought back and was fatally shot. Five others, ranging in age from 66 to 92, were hospitalized and survived.
After Cheng attempted to stop the gunman, Chang, the visiting pastor, ran up to him with a chair as a weapon.
Chang said he pushed the gunman to the floor, then hogtied him with an electric cord with the help of other parishioners, according to officials and eyewitness accounts.
“He got scared. I don’t think he expected someone to attack him,” Chang said in an interview with The Times.
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XIYU: Since moving from Taiwan´s capital to the outlying Penghu islands for the peace and the fishing 11 years ago, Lin Chih-cheng has grown accustomed to the roar of Chinese fighter jets puncturing the lull of the surf.
"If there´s a day where they don´t take off, it feels weird," laughed Lin, an affable 61-year-old who runs a juice stall with his wife on the western Xiyu Islet.
The archipelago´s location about 50 kilometres (30 miles) out in the Taiwan Strait means it is likely to be on the front line of any potential invasion by China -- a perennial possibility that has loomed ever larger in the last few years.
Beijing claims all of Taiwan as its territory, and its pledge to take it by force if necessary has begun to seem less farfetched as China projects an increasingly aggressive stance on the world stage.
But in the sleepy fishing towns on the islands, many locals are sanguine despite the frequent -- and noisy -- reminders of the military threat.
"Everyone says tension between both sides is high now, but I am not worried," said Lin. "I have confidence that our government is not beating the war drum."
Xiyu´s azure waters and twisting, heart-shaped stone weirs have made it an Instagrammer´s paradise.
Business is good at the juice stall, where Lin and his wife blend cactus fruit and ice flower into sweet, cold drinks for a stream of thirsty tourists.
Just down the road are a very different set of customers -- the soldiers at a Sky Bow base, home to Taiwan´s surface-to-air anti-ballistic missile and anti-aircraft defence systems.
"I actually do a lot of deliveries to the base," Lin said. "I have been inside. It feels quite normal to me."
The presence of troops has been a fact of life for decades on the island, where they are seen more as a source of income than one of dread.
"People from both sides (of the strait), we actually share the same language and culture," Lin said.
"Who wants war? We actually get along with each other. The affairs of those in power are none of our business."
But Penghu has found itself at the mercy of geopolitical forces many times throughout its history.
"Penghu is a hard-to-defend place," Chen Ing-jin, a 67-year-old local historian and architect, told AFP. "It´s flat and has many coastal areas, which makes it very hard to prevent possible landings."
The Dutch, French and Japanese all invaded with little trouble, and signs of war -- past and present -- are everywhere.
The historic forts, now there for tourists rather than defence, have been replaced by serious modern firepower.
In addition to Sky Bow, the islands also harbour Hsiung Feng II anti-ship cruise missile bases -- Chen helped build one of them during his military service.
Xiyu also hosts a radar station that would give vital early warning of any planned attack.
Those are all reasons Beijing might choose to take the islands before any attempt on Taiwan´s main island in a bid to disable the military instalments and gain a resupply base.
Few locals think they would stand much chance against China´s People´s Liberation Army.
"Their ships will surround the islands and that will be it. There´s nothing we can do about it but accept," said Chen´s friend, Wang Hsu-sheng.
Like many, Wang´s family history tracks the islands´ tumultuous changing of hands.
His father was put to work in naval yards under the Japanese occupation, and only returned to the family business -- creating painstakingly detailed miniature paper deities for temples -- after their withdrawal at the end of World War II.
Wang, now 70, learned the craft from his dad, but calls it a "dying art" in this day and age.
He said China´s actions over the last few years have made him "very uncomfortable".
"The Chinese are like the Russians. What´s yours is mine. What´s mine is still mine," he said, referencing the recent invasion of Ukraine.
Andy Huang, who runs an ice cream shop in the main town of Magong, has more experience than most in facing Beijing´s belligerence.
A former coastguard, the 29-year-old was based in the South China Sea´s contested Spratly Islands when a "3000-tonne Chinese coastguard ship was circling our island with their big guns pointing at us".
He and his colleagues were ordered into their far smaller boats to drive it away, though a confrontation never materialised.
"I was really scared, scared of dying in a gunfight," he said.
That brush with war seems far away today as he hands out icy treats to sunburnt visitors.
But Huang was clear he would fight to defend his home if need be.
"I would be one of the first to be called up to serve if war breaks out," he said stoically.
"But until that happens, life goes on."
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A two-year-old ‘princess’ tragically died in hospital after catching E. coli on a dream family holiday to Turkey.
Allie Birchall began suffering from stomach cramps, diarrhoea and vomiting just days into the sunshine break with her loved ones in July, 2019.
But 11 days after falling ill, the youngster, from Wigan, had deteriorated so much that doctors were unable to save her as she suffered brain damage, the Manchester Evening News reports.
The child and her family, from Atherton, near Wigan, had visited an all-inclusive with her family on July 23, 2019, an inquest at Manchester Coroner's Court heard last month.
"Allie was found to have a unique strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) which must have originated in Turkey but it is not possible to say how Allie acquired it," the coroner has concluded. The child was admitted to Royal Bolton Hospital.
Doctors were concerned that Allie was suffering from Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome caused by Shiga[-Toxin] producing Escherichia coli, the coroner found. Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome is a potentially fatal blood condition linked to Shiga-Toxin E. coli which can lead to kidney failure and brain damage.
As she was diagnosed with both illnesses and worsened, medics decided Allie needed to be transferred to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital for more supportive treatment, including dialysis, the inquest heard. Allie was placed into an induced coma on August 1 and her family made the heart-wrenching decision to terminate her life support two days later, after an MRI scan revealed she had suffered brain damage, they told the inquest.
After almost three years of waiting for answers about what happened to their little girl, the family hopes others might be saved from their suffering as they watched Allie be 'snatched away in the cruellest way possible'. Allie's mum Katie, 36, said: "Losing our little Allie so tragically and suddenly was heartbreaking for us all, and it's still incredibly difficult to think we'll never see her again.
"When she was admitted to hospital, we were all praying she would pull through. To be told she had suffered brain damage was absolutely devastating. The whole experience has been nothing short of traumatic and we have lost a huge part of our lives.
“Allie had her whole life ahead of her before it was snatched away in the cruellest way possible. Her death is something we'll never get over. Sadly nothing can turn back the clock and bring our princess back to us, but we're grateful that the inquest is over and we at least have some answers.
“All we can hope for now is that others don't have to suffer like our family has."
The coroner found little Allie's medical cause of death to be encephalopathy (brain swelling) and other complications associated with Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome, brought on by Shiga-Toxin producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) infection.
Jatinder Paul, the Senior Associate Solicitor at Irwin Mitchell representing Allie's loved ones, said: "Allie's death continues to have a profound effect on her family, including her mum Katie who in particular is understandably still struggling to come to terms with what they've all been through.
"While we can't change what happened, Allie's family at least now have some answers as to why she was taken from them so soon. The dangers of gastric illnesses and infections should never be downplayed.
"E.coli is extremely serious and can result in long-term health problems and in the worst cases, such as this, death. We'll continue to support them as they attempt to come to terms with their loss."
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Egypt and Saudi Arabia signaled their intention to strengthen economic ties on Tuesday during a visit to Cairo by Saudi de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, announcing deals worth $7.7 billion.
Saudi Arabia has already provided billions in support since Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014, and Cairo is struggling with the economic knock-on effects of the Ukraine war.
The stop in Egypt was the start of the first tour outside the Gulf region in over three years by the prince, widely known as MbS. He left on Tuesday evening for Jordan, and will later visit Turkey.
The prince and Sisi discussed trade, investment and security, as well as a regional summit in Saudi Arabia next month that will be attended by U.S. President Joe Biden, a statement from Egypt’s presidency said.
The 14 deals signed on Tuesday ranged from renewable energy to petroleum, food and fintech. They included a $1.5 billion agreement between Saudi Arabia’s Acwapower (2082.SE) and the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company to build a wind power plant, according to an Egyptian cabinet statement.
Among the other agreements was the development of the multi-purpose terminal at Egypt’s Damietta port, Egypt’s General Authority for Investment and Free Zones said in a statement, and the establishment of a $150 million “pharmaceutical city” by Egypt’s Pharco Pharmaceuticals in Saudi Arabia, the company’s chairman told Alsharq TV.
A joint statement said Saudi Arabia was resolved to lead investments in Egypt worth $30 billion, though it was unclear what the figure referred to.
Even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February led to higher commodity prices, hit tourism revenues and prompted investors to exit emerging markets, there were concerns over Egypt’s current account and budget deficit, bankers said.
In March, Saudi Arabia deposited $5 billion in Egypt’s central bank. The Egyptian government had said previously that cooperation with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund would result in $10 billion in investments.
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While “the time of the Elves” is pretty much over by the start of The Lord of the Rings, the Elves are still some of the most powerful beings in Tolkien's colorful universe. They created robust kingdoms, created mighty jewelry with magical powers, and fought malicious evils during their best years in Middle-earth. As the first of the Children of Ilúvatar, they are considered the fairest and wisest of all earthly races.
It is no surprise that fans are captivated by the Elven characters in both the books and on-screen adaptations. Legolas and Arwen are the most well-known of the Elves, thanks to Orlando Bloom and Liv Tyler's portrayal in Peter Jackson's movies. There are a plethora of other Elven characters that are never seen on screen, and all of them deserve the same recognition.
Galadriel
Galadriel is the Lady of the woods of Lothlórien, and is known for surpassing “nearly all others in beauty, knowledge, and power.” She played a pivotal role in many council formations and wars and wielded Nenya, the Ring of Water, that possessed radiance that matched the stars.
Galadriel was arrogant and rebellious in her younger years, but she later founded and ruled the kingdom of Lothlórien. She grew to be one of the most powerful Elves in Tolkien's universe thanks to the wisdom she gained throughout her long life. She was the only one who was able to perceive Sauron's deceitfulness when he began to manifest into a different form.
Fëanor
Fëanor's importance in Tolkien's universe surpasses many. He was a master blacksmith and battle strategist, he was born with a piece of his mother's spirit inside him, and he constructed the Silmarils – the most precious gems in all of Arda. He created them from the Two Trees of Valinor with a level of craftsmanship that was never replicated again.
While the Elf walked the line of genius, he was also incredibly selfish and prideful. He was very skilled and understood things flawlessly, but this did not translate into his relationships with his fellow Elves. He was a terrible brother and brought significant turmoil to his people with the Oath of Fëanor.
Legolas
With his long, icy blonde hair and ever-equipped Bow of the Galadhrim, Orlando Bloom's portrayal of Legolas changed pop culture in the early 2000s. Both children and adults admired his powerful eyesight and hearing that enabled him to hit any target after joining the Fellowship.
As the Prince of Mirkwood, Legolas was blessed with many talents. He is a master archer, a horse whisperer, a silent hunter, and he could even sleep while walking – which allowed him to travel “45 leagues in less than 4 days." His friendship with the grumpy Dwarf, Gimli, is also one of the most endearing in the Tolkien universe. Their relationship beats long-held prejudices and Legolas even lets the Dwarf into the sacred Undying Lands.
Arwen
The Lord of the Rings has some of the best heroes in any fantasy universe, and Arwen remains one of the most captivating and empathic. She is the most well-known female character from the books and movies, thanks to Liv Tyler's flawless portrayal of the headstrong and passionate daughter of Elrond.
Arwen is described as the “most beautiful of the last generation of High Elves in Middle-earth,” and can summon powerful water spirits. She goes out of her way to always help those in need as well. One of the more important things she does is unite Elf and Man in peace again, like Beren and Lúthien before her. By marrying Aragorn after the War of the Ring, she became Queen of the Reunited Kingdom.
Elrond
Half-Elf and half-Man, Elrond's telepathy is incredibly powerful and his presence in the world of Middle-earth changed numerous things for the better. Elrond founded the Elven town of Rivendell, ruled it fairly, and shaped the legacy of Middle-earth's Third Age. He is, without doubt, the most reliable Elf in The Lord of the Rings.
He played a significant role in the first war with Sauron, and as soon as the One Ring was found, he called for the Council of Elrond to encourage beings from around Middle-earth to figure out a solution together. A young Elrond will be seen in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power where you will be able to watch his rise to power for the first time on screen.
Thranduil
Thranduil ruled over the Woodland Realm during the Third Age and his army was the key to victory in the Battle of Five Armies. He also happens to be the father of Legolas. In the books, he is a strong leader and an absurdly intimidating warrior who practices isolationism in his kingdom of Mirkwood.
The Elvenking is also ruthlessly unhelpful to those in need outside his kingdom, and he comes across as bigoted and selfish at times. It is because of this that he is seen as a flawed father and king. While it is easy to pin him as being a bit evil, he suffered many great losses throughout his life that contributed to his bitter coldness. Despite his melancholy, he is known to get things done to protect his people.
Lúthien
Lúthien is never portrayed in Peter Jackson's movies, to great shame. The Elven woman shines with immense power and beauty; she is the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar. It is also said in the great stories of the Elder Days that her bloodline will never perish.
The powerful Elven woman gets many things done throughout her life, like reversing the Gift of Men granted by Ilúvatar, being the first and only being to resurrect a Man – her husband, Beren, and enchanting Morgoth into a coma so that they can steal a Simaril. Lúthien is even able to shame Sauron into hiding, a feat that no one else can claim.
Gil-galad
There aren't many characters in The Lord of the Rings that are capable of facing off with the Dark Lord of Mordor, but Gil-galad is one of them. He was also the last High King of the Ñoldor and held “the highest authority among the Elves.” Gil-galad's importance cannot be overstated, he was very well-respected, and he also formed the kingdom of Lindon, which became the longest-lasting Elven kingdom.
He makes a very brief appearance next to Elrond during the battle of Sauron at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring. A young Gil-galad will be making an appearance in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power though, where more of his backstory will be brought to life.
Celeborn
Celeborn is known as one of the wisest elves to ever live and he is an especially benevolent ruler. He is also Galadriel's supportive husband. The two rule Lothórien together, though Celeborn takes a back seat to the powerful Galadriel most of the time.
His depiction of a loving and supportive husband in Jackson's films is incredibly important. The Lord of the Rings is filled with powerful women who rule kingdoms and females' opinions who hold just as much weight as their male companions. While Celeborn is mighty on his own, his greatest feat might just be partnering with Galadriel.
Glorfindel
Glorfindel is among the mightiest of Elves to have ever lived, with “hair of shining gold, a face fair and fearless, and his hand set with strength." He was once the lord of the House of the Golden Flower until he died in the First Age. No one can kill Glorfindel just once – he was brought back from the dead and re-embodied as Valar with even greater power.
While the original Glorfindel is praised for being a noble lord, he is best known for his battle with a Balrog. In the legendary story, he single-handedly defeats a Balrog all on his own. And while this is what ultimately leads to his first death, bringing down a Balrog is a pretty cool way to go out. | https://collider.com/top-elven-characters-in-lord-of-the-rings/ | 2022-06-22T03:49:26Z | https://collider.com/top-elven-characters-in-lord-of-the-rings/ | false | 1 |
NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu gets Z+ security cover
BJP president JP Nadda on Tuesday announced that Murmu, a party leader from Odisha who served as Jharkhand governor, will be NDA’s candidate for the upcoming presidential polls. The decision was taken following a meeting of the party's parliamentary board, which included Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders.
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New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday provided round-the-clock Z+ security cover by armed CRPF personnel to NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu.
The CRPF commandos took over the security of Murmu early this morning, a senior officer told PTI.
BJP president JP Nadda on Tuesday announced that Murmu, a tribal leader of the party leader from Odisha, will be the ruling NDA's candidate for the upcoming presidential polls.
The decision was taken following a meeting of the party's parliamentary board, which included Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders.
Following the announcement, the Union Home Ministry directed the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to deploy its VIP security protection team to take charge of Murmu's security.
The 64-year-old, who also severed as governor of Jharkhand, will be the first person from Odisha and the first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post if she wins the poll.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed confidence that Murmu will be a "great President" and said she has devoted her life to serving society.
"Droupadi Murmu Ji has devoted her life to serving society and empowering the poor, downtrodden as well as the marginalised," PM Modi said on Twitter.
He also said that she has rich administrative experience and had an outstanding gubernatorial tenure and that her understanding of "policy matters and compassionate nature will greatly benefit our country,".
Millions of people, especially those who have experienced poverty and faced hardships, derive great strength from the life of Droupadi Murmu, the Prime Minister said.
The Opposition has announced former Union minister Yashwant Sinha as its joint candidate for the post.
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CHONGQING, China, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In early June, invited to attend the "Petit Maupassant International Art Joint Creation Tour Exhibition" sponsored by CHONGQING JIANGJI DISTILLERY CO., LTD., Chinese plum wine brand "Meijian Green Plum Wine" made its debut at the Louvre in Paris, France. As an invited Chinese liquor brand, Meijian was well acclaimed by the international audiences present in the fashion capital and attracted the world's attention.
A renowned cultural expert commented that wine has influenced the oriental world with European culture, including religion, art, lifestyle and aesthetics. Likewise, the debut of Meijian in Paris not only offers European consumers a taste of the oriental plum wine but also helps more foreigners get to know China's time-honored culture of five thousand years.
In history, liquor has always been the common language of different nationalities. People from different origins taste the liquor of different regions and learn about each other's customs and cultures. Perhaps, by this event of Eastern and Western cultural exchange, Meijian had a chance to rejuvenate the thousand-year oriental cultural tradition and present it to the world with modesty and grace.
Charm of Oriental Flavor in Global Market
Compared with some strong spirits, green plum wine is reserved, elegant and relaxed. Such a charm is easily accepted by overseas markets.
In the 2022 MONDE SELECTION, the jury of the competition praised that Meijian is very expressive and open, and it exudes strong ripe plum aromas accompanied by honey, almond and wood notes. In terms of taste, the caramel and the grain are also readily identifiable. It is because Meijian's base liquor is the typical oriental sorghum liquor.
It is obvious that the taste of Meijian is very close to the international mainstream appreciation criteria. In terms of food culture, French food values the artistic match of food and wine. Meijian has an elegant, refreshingly sweet and sour taste, so it is not only pairs well with Chinese food but also goes well with overseas local food cultures.
In Malaysia, Meijian on ice is a perfect choice for local spicy seafood and it can relieve the pungency in the mouth. And in Germany, mixed drinking of Meijian is more popular, which both enriches the taste of plum wine and brings more fun to drinking. Aside from traditional spirits and beer, Meijian is becoming the third choice for consumers.
Nowadays, tipsy and self-pleasing have become the drinking attitude and drinking style of new generations around the world, which offers a chance to revive the oriental taste and lifestyle represented by Meijian.
Millennium Elegance Within A Bottle of Green Plum Wine
Drinking a glass of wine was once regarded as an elegant lifestyle in the oriental world. The cultural implications of Meijian's products and charm of oriental culture it delivered have now begun to influence the western mainstream culture as well.
In the long history of China, the story of green plum wine can be traced back to Wei and Jin Dynasties. It can be found in calligraphy, traditional Chinese painting, and literature. A cup of green plum wine runs through the cultural life of Chinese people for thousands of years.
Meijian is the epitome of Chinese green plum wine. The character "Mei" comes from Lu Jianzhi's calligraphy in Tang Dynasty, while the character "Jian" comes from Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty. Although the two characters are from different dynasties and calligraphy schools, it creates a unique romance when combined.
In 2021, Meijian restored an utmost famous painting "The Night Revels of Han Xizai" by modern means, and the replica video of "Tang Palace Night Banquet" went viral on Chinese social platforms, and was praised to be a "Movable Feast" by Chinese netizens.
Recently, Meijian has combined the ancient tea-making and liquor-making crafts and launched an ingenious series of tea and plum wine products. Also, inspired by the legendary Chinese painting "Auspicious Cranes", the bottle body adopted a special visual design.
Consumer goods are actually a mirror reflecting social psychology and the development of the times. As of now, Meijian has been recognized in nearly 20 international mainstream markets such as France, Canada, the United States and Austria, reflecting the charm of both the product quality and Chinese traditional culture. Meijian's strategy of going out is a nice try.
The popularity of Meijian in the Louvre shows the charm of China's green plum wine for its world-class quality. More importantly, it declares that Chinese brands can gain strength from their 5,000-year-old cultural matrix, and their cultural texture and cultural spirits can absolutely strike a chord of beauty all over the world.
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Pivetta Goes 7 Strong with 10 Ks; Red Sox Hold off Cards 6-4
Nick Pivetta pitched seven dominant innings with 10 strikeouts, Christian Vázquez hit a three-run homer and the Boston Red Sox held off the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 on Sunday to win their fifth straight series.
Trevor Story added a solo shot and Jackie Bradley Jr. had a go-ahead single for the Red Sox, who rebounded after getting blown out 11-2 on Saturday night for their 13th victory in 17 games.
St. Louis wrapped up just its second visit to Fenway Park in 14 years. The Cardinals have lost three of four.
Juan Yepez had a pinch hit three-run homer in the ninth and Tyler O'Neill had three hits for the Cardinals but had to leave the game due to left hamstring tightness after legging out a double.
Pivetta (7-5) continued his hot stretch, giving up just one run and four hits, with four walks. He's 7-1 with a 1.77 ERA in his last nine starts.
"I was really happy with the way it finished," said Pivetta, who struck out the side in his final inning. "I was really focused on putting a zero up on the board. It was still a 2-1 game."
He gave up all of his walks in the first three innings.
"We had to get back to the normal Pivetta we know," said catcher Vázquez. "When he attacks the zone with the fastball no matter who's hitting, he doesn't care who's hitting. He attacks everybody."
Pivetta said he was still pumped up afterward.
"He's an electric kid," Vázquez said.
Tanner Houck struck out Brendan Donovan for the final out after Yepez's homer with a runner on second for his fourth save.
Vázquez hit his shot into the Green Monster seats, making it 6-1 in the eighth.
Cardinals' slugger Albert Pujols, who announced he's retiring at the end of the season, started at DH despite a right-hander pitching and went 0 for 3 with three strikeouts.
Making just his third career start, rookie right-hander Andre Pallante (2-2) pitched sharply into the sixth, allowing two runs, four hits, striking out four and walking one.
"Pallante did a nice job," St Louis manager Oliver Marmol said. "He competed extremely well, under control the whole time, a lot of ground balls. ... Overall, a solid mix. We wanted to keep him right around 75 today. We got to that pitch count. A nice job."
Bradley broke a tie with a two-out single up-the-middle in the fifth, a grounder that slipped past the dive of shortstop Tommy Edman, scoring Alex Verdugo from second.
Story hit Pallante's fastball to the opposite field, a drive that sailed over Boston's bullpen in the second for his 10th homer.
The Cardinals tied it in the fourth when O'Neill singled leading off, stole second and scored on Harrison Bader's two-out single.
SOUVINER SHOPPING
Cardinals LHP Génesis Cabrera had a gift he bought for himself hanging in his locker - a Celtics Jayson Tatum road jersey.
Cabrera, from the Dominican, wanted to buy one of his fellow countrymen, Al Horford, but couldn't find one in the store, so he bought Tatum's instead.
FATHER'S DAY GREETING
Marmol's wife, Amber, and young daughter, Riley, were on the trip.
"They were here and, yes, I woke up to kisses," he said.
NEW GUY
Red Sox RHP James Norwood, acquired Saturday from the Phillies for cash, was added to the roster. RHP Kutter Crawford was sent to Triple-A Worcester.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Cardinals: RHP Jack Flaherty will make his second start after returning from a right-shoulder injury on Tuesday in Milwaukee with the plan to throw about 75 pitches before there's expected to be no limit after that. "We'll build up his pitch count this next time out," manager Oliver Marmol said. "He was 60 last time. We'll drive that up. . After that, he'll be a regular big-league pitcher."
Red Sox: LHP Chris Sale (out since spring training, fracture rib cage) is expected to throw a second simulated game off the Fenway mound on Monday. . OF Verdugo was in the lineup after getting Saturday off.
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A long-time plan to build an hydroelectric project in Moose Pass, on the eastern Kenai Peninsula, is one step closer to coming to fruition. That’s after the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly greenlit a reclassification of land in the area, paving the way for an easement and access road to the proposed plant.But the route saw pushback from residents in Moose Pass, who rejected the reclassification at a local planning commission meeting. | https://www.kdll.org/tags/grant-lake | 2022-06-22T04:07:07Z | https://www.kdll.org/tags/grant-lake | true | null |
APA-Total JV makes oil discovery off Suriname coast
APA has a 50 per cent working interest in the block where the oil discovery was made, with TotalEnergies the operator and the holder of the remaining stake.
APA has a 50 per cent working interest in the block where the oil discovery was made, with TotalEnergies the operator and the holder of the remaining stake.
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Rangers fifth. Kole Calhoun grounds out to shallow right field, Rhys Hoskins to Kyle Gibson. Mitch Garver lines out to deep center field to Matt Vierling. Nathaniel Lowe homers to center field. Jonah Heim homers to center field. Josh Smith flies out to left field to Kyle Schwarber.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Rangers 2, Phillies 0.
Rangers sixth. Leody Taveras flies out to center field to Matt Vierling. Marcus Semien doubles to left center field. Corey Seager singles to shallow center field. Marcus Semien scores. Adolis Garcia flies out to deep center field to Matt Vierling. Kole Calhoun strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rangers 3, Phillies 0.
Rangers eighth. Josh Smith lines out to deep center field to Matt Vierling. Leody Taveras singles to deep center field. Marcus Semien homers to center field. Leody Taveras scores. Corey Seager grounds out to shallow infield, Rhys Hoskins to Jeurys Familia. Adolis Garcia singles to left field. Kole Calhoun homers to center field. Adolis Garcia scores. Mitch Garver walks. Nathaniel Lowe grounds out to second base, Yairo Munoz to Rhys Hoskins.
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Ruffles Has a New Chip Flavor That Tastes Like a Spicy Dill Pickle
Fans can also purchase the new chip flavor for the chance to win a new pair of sneakers.
Spicy pickle fans, it's your time to celebrate. Ruffles, the brand synonymous with potato chip ridges, just dropped a Spicy Dill Pickle flavor.
The chip brand added spicy heat to a "classic" pickle taste, but the new flavor isn't all Ruffles has. It's also working with NBA player Jayson Tatum to spice things up a bit.
Basketball fans will be able to purchase a specially marked bag of the new Ruffles Spicy Dill Pickle, Ruffles Original, Ruffles Cheddar & Sour Cream, or Ruffles Flamin' Hot BBQ, and enter the code on the bag at RufflesSneakers.com for a chance to win one of the weekly sneaker sweepstakes prizes. The sneakers were designed and signed by Tatum and encapsulate the ruffles brand and Tatum's personal style.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
8-3-3
(eight, three, three)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
8-3-3
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Rangers Blast Phillies To Open Short Series
The Texas Rangers put on a show of power against Philadelphia as they hit four home runs in a 7-0 victory over the Phillies at Globe Life Field on Tuesday night.
The Rangers (32-35) had back-to-back homers from Nathaniel Lowe and Jonah Heim in the fifth inning, while Marcus Semien and Kole Calhoun both hit two-run shot in the eighth. The Rangers now have 31 home runs for the month, tied for fourth-most in the Majors in June with the Phillies.
Rangers manager Chris Woodward was happy to see the power surge.
"We know this offense can be a lot better than it’s been," Woodward said. "We have a deep lineup. We just have to be really disciplined. At times we let that go sideways, chase balls and things like that. We want to get back to being really disciplined."
The Rangers were coming off losing two straight games at Detroit, followed by an off-day on Monday that seemed to recharge their batteries. The Phillies (36-33) entered the game having won 14 of 17 since they fired manager Joe Girardi and elevated Rob Thomson to interim manager.
The Rangers face Philadelphia at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday to wrap up the two-game series. The Rangers also swept their two-game set in Philadelphia in May, so Texas is going for a sweep of the season series.
The pitching matchup was the build-up going into the game. The Rangers started left-hander Martin Pérez, who entered the game with a 2.10 ERA, fourth-best in the American League. The Phillies started former Rangers right-hander Kyle Gibson, who signed a three-year, $28 million deal with Texas in 2019, and was named to the AL All-Star team last season. The Rangers traded Gibson to the Phillies at last year’s deadline.
Pérez scattered six hits over six innings, striking out six and walking three. He stranded eight Phillies and they went 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position. He threw 98 pitches before giving way to the Rangers bullpen, which threw three scoreless innings.
“Martin has been outstanding all year,” Heim said. “He continues to impress and be the workhorse for our staff. All of his pitches were hitting tonight and that makes it so much easier for me.”
Pérez benefited from some great defense, too. Rangers third baseman Josh Smith – who was activated just before Tuesday’s game — turned a first-inning double play that quelled a potential Phillies rally. Left fielder Kole Calhoun did the same in the top of the sixth with a brilliant diving grab in shallow left field. Had he not caught it, the Phillies likely would have scored a runner from second.
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Pérez left with a 3-0 lead, thanks to the Rangers offense getting to Gibson for three runs in the first six innings.
Gibson actually faced the minimum for the first four innings and recorded the first two out of the fifth before he ran into Lowe, who hit a solo home run just over the left-field fence for a 1-0 lead. Heim followed Lowe with a home run off his former battery mate to make it back-to-back solo shots and a 2-0 Rangers lead.
“Kyle is an awesome human,” Heim said. “I wish him all the best, but when we’re on the field, we’re competitors. I think I can see his pitches a little better because I helped shape them (last year). You can make a game plan and go from there.”
In the sixth, Texas added a run as Semien scored on a Corey Seager single.
Gibson pitched into the seventh, but after giving up a one-out single to Lowe, he left the game for reliever Jeurys Familia, who got out of the inning with a double play as he struck out Heim and catcher J.T. Realmuto threw out Lowe trying to take second base on what appeared to be a hit-and-run.
Gibson went 6 1/3 innings, giving up seven hits and three runs while striking out four.
Familia gave up a two-run home run to Semien in the eighth inning, which was Semien’s third hit of the game. He was a triple away from the cycle. Calhoun followed two hitters later with his own home run.
The Rangers made a flurry of moves before Tuesday’s game, two of which had an impact on the lineup. The Rangers activated Mitch Garver from the COVID-19 injured list and started him at designated hitter. Smith was activated from the 10-day injured list and started at third base in place of Ezequiel Duran, who got a second off-day after the entire team had Monday off.
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A Philippine official says the mayor of Philadelphia expressed shock and sorrow to him over the killing of a Filipino lawyer shot in the city over the weekend.
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LOUISVILLE — Louisville’s surging football program already had a highly ranked 2023 recruiting class, and it is likely to get even a further boost with a commitment from what would be the second-highest-ranked high school recruit ever.
Rueben Owens II, a 5-star prospect who is rated either the No. 1 or No. 2 running back in the nation by various recruiting services, announced Monday he has committed to the Cardinals following a visit this past weekend. The 5-foot-11, 190-pounder from El Campo, Texas, chose UofL over Texas, Texas A&M and TCU. He is the No. 16 overall in 247Sports composite rankings.
“I have always been a trailblazer, and aimed to create my own legacy on the road less traveled in hopes of inspiring others to believe in themselves,” Owens said in a Twitter post. “It was the driving force in me making this life-changing decision on where to spend the next 3-4 years of my life. Last but not least, I want to thank all of my fans. I appreciate you and look forward to traveling on this journey with you for years to come.”
Louisville’s highest-rated recruit in history is hometown running back Michael Bush (2003-06), who was ranked No. 11 overall.
As a junior at El Campo, Owens rushed for 2,989 yards and 40 touchdowns in 13 games while averaging 12.1 yards per carry and 229.9 yards per game. He had 15 receptions for 252 yards and two TDs.
Owens is also a star in two other sports — he is one of the top long jumpers in Class 4-A, leaping over 23 feet to win the bronze medal at the Texas state track championships in May and and he runs a 10.68-second 100-meter dash.
Among the Cards’ other nine recruits so far in the 2023 class are four-star quarterback Pierce Clarkson of Bellflower, Calif., cornerback Aaron Williams of Centennial, Calif. and four-star wide receiver DeAndre Moore of Los Alamitos, Calif. Clarkson has been on a recruiting mission himself and is responsible in part for convincing those Golden State recruits to join him at Louisville.
“And we are still not done,” Clarkson told Jody Demling of 247Sports. “More are coming.”
UofL’s current 10-player class is 11th in the country and No. 2 in the ACC behind Clemson. Beside the Tigers, the Cards trail only Notre Dame, Ohio State, Georgia, Texas Tech, Clemson, Penn State, Cincinnati, Northwestern, Arkansas and USC.
UofL coach Scott Satterfield predicted an upcoming recruiting bonanza when talking about the 2022 class on national signing day in February.
“It’s a lot of momentum right now,” he said. “The most we’ve ever had. I’ve told all these recruits, this will be the best class Louisville football’s ever signed, the 2023 class. And we’re headed that way. We’re gonna make it so.” | https://s25849.pcdn.co/sports/199072/uofl-lands-five-star-rb-owens | 2022-06-22T04:34:29Z | https://s25849.pcdn.co/sports/199072/uofl-lands-five-star-rb-owens | true | 3 |
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Nathaniel Lowe and Jonah Heim hit consecutive homers off former teammate Kyle Gibson, Martín Pérez went six innings in his fifth scoreless start this season and the Texas Rangers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-0 on Tuesday night.
Lowe broke a 0-0 tie in the fifth with his solo shot before Heim also hit his ninth of the season in the Rangers’ eighth consecutive victory over the Phillies. It’s the longest winning streak for Texas against an NL team since interleague play began in 1997.
READ MORE: Elderly Man On Daily Walk Shot In Head, Killed In Juniata, Philadelphia Police SayMarcus Semien and Kole Calhoun each connected on a two-run homer against Jeurys Familia in the eighth. Semien had three hits, including a double, before Corey Seager’s RBI single when Gibson was still around in the sixth.
Texas relievers Matt Bush, Dennis Santana and Brock Burke pitched a 1-2-3 inning apiece as the Rangers retired the final 11 batters.
Pérez (5-2) outdueled Gibson in the matchup of a lefty well on his way to a first All-Star nod in his second stint with the Rangers and a right-hander who was Texas’ opening day starter last year and a first-time All-Star.
Gibson (4-3), who allowed three runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings, was sent to the Phillies at the trade deadline last year, less than three weeks after throwing a scoreless inning in the midsummer classic.
It was just the fourth loss in 19 games for the Phillies, while interim manager Rob Thomson lost for the first time in six series openers since taking over after Joe Girardi was fired.
Thanks to a couple of early double plays, Gibson had faced the minimum number of hitters with two outs in the fifth when Lowe went the other way to left on the first pitch.
Heim pulled a 2-1 pitch just over an angled corner of the wall in right, the crowd’s reaction delayed by a leaping try from Nick Castellanos.
READ MORE: Skippack Pharmacy Taking Unique Approach To Vaccinating Children 6 Months To 5 Years Old Against COVID-19Pérez helped himself by knocking down a two-out liner from Castellanos with two on when the game was still scoreless in the fifth. Shortstop Corey Seager scooped the roller that deflected off Pérez’s glove and threw to first to end the inning.
The Phillies had runners on first and again in the sixth, this time with one out, when left fielder Kole Calhoun made a diving catch of Matt Vierling’s sinking liner.
Pérez struck out six while pitching around six hits, three walks — all to Rhys Hoskins — and two wild pitches. The 31-year-old lowered his ERA to 1.96.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Phillies: Thomson said the infected blister on slugger Bryce Harper’s left index finger was better and he could return to the lineup for the finale of the two-game series Wednesday. … Thomson said RHP Zach Eflin (right knee discomfort) was on track to start Saturday at San Diego after getting pulled after just two innings in Sunday’s 9-3 loss to the Nationals. … INF Johan Camargo (right knee strain) was activated off the 10-day IL.
Rangers: C/DH Mitch Garver (COVID-19) and rookie 3B Josh Smith (left shoulder sprain) were activated and in the lineup. … RHP Glenn Otto (COVID-19) was scheduled for a rehab start with Triple-A Round Rock on Tuesday night.
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PARIS: French opposition leaders told beleaguered President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday that they would not make life easy for him as he sought a way to avoid political paralysis after this weekend's election setback in parliament. Macron should fire his prime minister, some opponents said, after he earlier refused to accept her resignation, review his reform plans and drop his top-down approach to power. Macron needs to find support from opponents, after disaffected voters angry over
inflation and his perceived indifference delivered a hung parliament on Sunday.
"I told the president that it was out of the question to enter into a coalition deal, that would be a betrayal of our voters," Christian Jacob, leader of the conservative Les Republicains, said after meeting Macron, whom he had earlier described as "arrogant". Les Republicains provide the most obvious place for Macron to find support. The conservatives' economic platform is largely compatible with Macron's. However, the conservatives, whose past presidents include
Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, have so far ruled out a formal coalition pact. Even so, Jacob said his party would be "responsible", seemingly opening the door to potentially messy bill-by-bill negotiations.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, a hard-left veteran who united the left in an alliance that won the second-biggest number of MPs, told reporters that PM Elisabeth Borne had to go. "We're just wasting our time," he said bluntly, in a sign of how combative his camp plans to be. The Elysee said Borne had tendered her resignation but Macron had refused so that the government could keep working. Nonetheless, the wording of the Elysee statement hinted it could be only a temporary reprieve.
Marine Le Pen, whose far-right National Rally now has 89 MPs, from eight in the previous legislature, stressed that Macron must hear what her party has to say and "cannot continue the policy he has led (so far)". Olivier Faure, leader of the Parti Socialiste, which joined the left-wing Nupes bloc ahead of the election, said his party could back some policy proposals - but only if Macron took on board their ideas. | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/compromise-to-win-support-oppn-to-macron/articleshow/92375957.cms | 2022-06-22T04:39:32Z | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/compromise-to-win-support-oppn-to-macron/articleshow/92375957.cms | true | 1 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chris West wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Georgia's 2nd Congressional District.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s congress voted Tuesday to extend for a third time the state of exception that has suspended some fundamental rights and led to the arrests of more than 41,000 people during the past three months.
The government says the extraordinary powers are necessary to confront the powerful street gangs that control neighborhoods, extorting and driving people from their homes.
President Nayib Bukele first requested the state of exception in late March, a day after gangs killed 62 people, shattering one of the president’s most touted achievements — a dramatic decrease in murders.
The proposal passed with votes from 67 of the 84 lawmakers in the unicameral Legislative Assembly. While the proposal was debated, Bukele said on Twitter that construction had started on a massive new prison.
Under the state of exception, the time people can be held without seeing a judge was increased to 15 days from 72 hours. They also do not have to be informed of why they are being arrested or given the right to speak with a lawyer, and authorities can tap phones without a judge’s order.
The constitution allows for the suspension of rights to be extended only if the circumstances that justified it in the first place continue. Civil rights organizations have argued that the state of exception was never justified, because authorities already had the ability to investigate and make arrests.
Critics say that many of the arrests have been arbitrary, violate due process and have resulted in innocent people locked away. Judges have been practically automatic in ordering people held in jail for months while authorities try to build cases against them.
On Tuesday, Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro said that authorities were winning the war against the gangs, but there was more work to do. “The mission that Salvadorans are giving us is clear, eradicate these terrorists from Salvadoran territory,” he said.
Bukele’s approval ratings have remained high and the measures have been popular among a population tired of living in constant fear of the gangs.
José Heriberto Hernández, a 51-year-old laborer, said Tuesday that he supports the measures, but added that “I also think that they need to take steps to free the innocent more quickly.” | https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/El-Salvador-extends-special-powers-to-combat-gangs-17256952.php | 2022-06-22T04:41:56Z | https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/El-Salvador-extends-special-powers-to-combat-gangs-17256952.php | false | 11 |
NEW YORK, USA – Stocks on global indexes rose sharply on Tuesday, June 21, with major US stock indexes each ending up more than 2% following a recent sell-off, while the Japanese yen fell against the US dollar to its lowest level since October 1998.
Wall Street climbed as participants returned from a long weekend, with investors buying up shares of megacap growth and energy companies hit last week by global economic worries.
“After back-to-back weeks of 5% declines, you’ve pushed the ball under the water far enough now that we’re getting a bounce,” said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Investment Management in Chicago.
But, Nolte said: “Interest rates are still going higher. Oil is still going higher.”
Energy shares climbed along with oil prices. Oil gained on high summer fuel demand. The S&P 500 energy index jumped 5.1%.
Last week, the S&P 500 confirmed it is in a bear market as investors sold stocks amid worries over whether the Federal Reserve will be able to tame inflation without triggering a recession.
Investors expect interest rate hikes from other major central banks as well.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 641.47 points, or 2.15%, to 30,530.25, the S&P 500 gained 89.95 points, or 2.45%, to 3,764.79, and the Nasdaq Composite added 270.95 points, or 2.51%, to 11,069.30.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.35% and MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe gained 1.91%.
US Treasury yields were higher as the risk-off mode that weighed on US markets last week took a breather.
Benchmark 10-year yields climbed to 3.303% from their 3.239% close at the end of last week.
All eyes are now on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony to the Senate banking committee on Wednesday, June 22, for clues on rates.
Goldman Sachs has said it now thinks there is a 30% chance of the US economy tipping into a recession over the next year, up from its previous forecast of 15%.
In the foreign exchange market, the yen dropped to a new 24-year low.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the central bank should maintain its current ultra-loose monetary policy. This makes it an outlier among other major central banks.
The dollar index was little changed at 104.41, but it was supported overall by the expectations of rate hikes at upcoming Fed meetings.
Brent crude futures rose 52 cents, or 0.5%, to settle at $114.65 a barrel. The US West Texas Intermediate crude contract for July expired on Tuesday, closing at $110.65, with a gain of $1.09, or 1%. The more active August contract was up $1.53 at $109.52.
Spot gold dropped 0.3% to $1,832.77 an ounce.
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Plans have been submitted to convert a hotel and bar in Hull's Beverley Road into a residential drug and alcohol recovery centre.
The Mayfair Hotel between the junctions of Lambert Street and De Grey Street currently has 19 bedrooms, a function room, and a public bar called The Bevvy. It also has a raised terrace seating area overlooking Beverley Road.
Under the proposed change of use, the building would be taken over by the Forward Trust which has been delivering male-only residential rehabilitation services at The Bridges in Holderness Road for over 18 years. During that time, the trust has supported over 600 men on the road to recovery working in conjunction with Humberside Probation.
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In a planning statement that forms part of the new application, town planning consultant Doug Jennings said: "The Forward Trust empowers people to break the cycles of addiction or crime to move forward with their lives. Since 1991 the trust has been working with people to build positive and productive futures.
"It believes that anyone is capable of lasting change, whatever their past. Their services have supported thousands of people to make changes to create better lives with jobs, family, friends, and a sense of community."
Mr Jennings said The Bridges had long been regarded as a good neighbour in the immediate Holderness Road area and had not received any official complaints about disturbance or noise. He claimed the Beverley Road project would follow that example.
"The intention is for the Forward Trust to provide residential alcohol and drug abstinence recovery services at the property. Primarily this will involve a short-term and varied residential element up to a maximum of 12 weeks with a maximum occupancy of 20 persons.
"There will be a total of 16 staff employed with a 24-hour staffing cover. This includes one member of sleep-in night staff with back up from on-call staff. The project will run on a weekly programme Monday to Friday.
"This will entail group therapy, step groups, health and wellbeing groups. These will run from 8 am to 5pm. The clients will be allowed to come and go from the property but at early stages of their stay will be chaperoned by other peers and staff. On the weekend there will be activities coordinators on hand to support health and wellbeing days and activities in the community such as park runs and local events."
In the statement, Mr Jenings claimed the proposed use would result in "significantly less activity" than the current hotel and bar. As a result, he said this would mean there would be less impact on the local neighbourhood.
Previously, some councillors have spoken out against the high number of drug and alcohol treatment centres in the Beverley Road area, claiming they are a magnet for drug-dealers while leading some nearby streets to suffer increased crime and anti-social behaviour because of high numbers of drug users living there. The Mayfair Hotel scheme is expected to go before the city council's planning committee later this year.
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Haverhill’s new Roasted Coffee Bar, open every day for breakfast and lunch, already has a loyal and growing following—particularly for its unique coffee and fresh-baked biscuit sandwiches.
Ben Graves and Mike Eras opened Roasted just this month in space formerly occupied by Cafe GRaffs at 181 Groveland St., in Haverhill. In an interview with WHAV, Eras said its perfectly roasted coffee and a few specialties sets it apart.
“Everything we do here is made from scratch including our syrups. We make our biscuits fresh every day—giant biscuits. We do cinnamon rolls, different pastries,” he said.
Eras said Roasted Coffee Bar partnered with Bedford, N.H.-based Flight Coffee Co., described as an award-winning roaster that obsesses over creating the perfect roast profiles for each of its storied blends. He said they considered roasting their own, but once they tried Flight Coffee, there was no question.
“So, we use a lighter roast. I’ve always liked dark roast myself just because I like the full flavor, but after you try Flight, you really taste the different nuances in the coffee—different florals, citruses. It’s just really high-quality coffee,” he explained.
Customers enjoy specialty sandwiches like the “Land of Milk and Honey” which features buttermilk fried chicken—marinated for 24 hours, local honey, stone-ground mustard and house-made pickles. There are a choice of breads—sour dough, multigrain, gluten free, but customers appears to have picked out their favorite.
“So far our biggest sellers are our biscuit sandwiches, and soon we’ll be coming out with different types of biscuits like everything biscuits, blueberry biscuits as a weekly special,” he said.
Syrups for coffee made from scratch every morning include vanilla, crème brûlée, salted caramel and hazelnut.
Besides Flight Coffee, other nearby partners include Carolyn’s Farm Kitchen of Haverhill and Honey Pot Maple Farm of Wilmington. | https://whav.net/2022/06/22/roasted-coffee-bar-opens-in-haverhill-with-fresh-baked-biscuit-sandwiches-more/ | 2022-06-22T04:47:04Z | https://whav.net/2022/06/22/roasted-coffee-bar-opens-in-haverhill-with-fresh-baked-biscuit-sandwiches-more/ | false | 1 |
Enverus Earns 2022 Great Place to Work Certification™
Workplace accolades continue to mount for leading energy SaaS and data analytics company
AUSTIN, Texas, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enverus, the leading energy SaaS and data analytics company, is proud to announce that it has been certified™ as a Great Place to Work® for 2022-23. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, and with offices around the globe, Enverus has been certified in Canada, India, Spain, the U.K. and U.S.
This prestigious certification is based on a survey on what current employees say about their experience working at Enverus, and a culture brief highlighting the company's culture and competitive benefits. Eighty-four percent of those surveyed said Enverus is a great place to work.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation.
"Great Place to Work Certification™ isn't something that comes easily — it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. "It's the only official recognition determined by employees' real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Enverus is one of the best companies to work for in the country."
"Retaining top talent, especially in today's hyper competitive market and amid 'the great resignation' era, is a universal challenge for companies big and small," said Jeff Hughes, CEO of Enverus. "To have 84% of our employees respond so favorably is unbelievably gratifying and speaks to the culture our team has worked so hard to create. We pride ourselves on creating an environment where the whole person can thrive, both personally and professionally. It's a privilege to be leading these incredible, talented individuals who remain unwavering in their commitment creating the future of energy."
According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, earn a fair share of the company's profits and have a fair chance at promotion.
Want to join our growing team? Explore career opportunities at Enverus today!
About EnverusEnverus is the leading energy SaaS company delivering highly-technical insights and predictive/prescriptive analytics that empower customers to make decisions that increase profit. Enverus' innovative technologies drive production and investment strategies, enable best practices for energy and commodity trading and risk management, and reduce costs through automated processes across critical business functions. Enverus is a strategic partner to more than 6,000 customers in 50 countries. Learn more at Enverus.com.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
9-3-4-9, SB: 6
(nine, three, four, nine; SB: six)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Evening" game were:
9-3-4-9, SB: 6
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Greenliant High Endurance, High Reliability Data Storage on Display at embedded world 2022
June 21, 2022
Press Release
At embedded world in hall 2, booth 532, learn how Greenliant's latest solid state storage products, including wide temperature microSD memory cards and high capacity (up to 8TB) industrial temperature SSDs, meet the needs of demanding embedded systems.
Greenliant's high reliability, high endurance NANDrive™, ArmourDrive™ and Industrial Enterprise solid state storage products will be on display at embedded world 2022 in Nuremberg, Germany, June 21-23, in hall 2, booth 532. Greenliant will also be presenting a Micron IQ Partner TechTalk session about how integrating Micron's 176-layer NAND flash with Greenliant's industrial-grade SATA and NVMe PCIe controllers provides robust solid state drive (SSD) solutions ideal for data / video recording and other embedded applications in high-stress environments.
Title: Next-Generation 1TByte+ Industrial SSDs
When: Wednesday, June 22, 11:30am
Where: Micron booth 530 in hall 1
Greenliant's portfolio of SSDs and memory cards includes:
• NANDrive SSDs: Ball grid array (BGA) form factor, multiple interfaces (eMMC, PATA, SATA), 1GB to 128GB, endurance from 5K to ultra-high 300K program-erase (P/E) cycles
• Industrial Enterprise SSDs: High capacity SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" and NVMe PCIe Gen3 U.2, 800GB to 7.68TB, endurance from two to unrestricted drive writes per day (DWPD) for five years
• ArmourDrive SSDs: SATA and NVMe, multiple form factors (mSATA, M.2 2242 / 2280, 2.5"), 4GB to 3.84TB, endurance from 3K to ultra-high 300K P/E cycles
• ArmourDrive Memory Cards: CFast and SD / microSD, 8GB to 1TB, endurance up to 30K P/E cycles
Visit Greenliant at its distribution partner, Macnica ATD Europe's booth 2-532 to learn how Greenliant's NANDrive, ArmourDrive and Industrial Enterprise solid state storage products, including SSDs designed with EnduroSLC™ technology, address the endurance, longevity and reliability needs of demanding embedded systems.
About Greenliant
By leveraging more than 30 years of solid state storage design expertise, Greenliant is dedicated to developing durable, reliable and secure storage solutions for embedded systems and enterprise datacenters. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with product development centers in Santa Clara, Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen and Hsinchu. https://www.greenliant.com | https://embeddedcomputing.com/technology/storage/greenliant-high-endurance-high-reliability-data-storage-on-display-at-embedded-world-2022 | 2022-06-22T04:54:50Z | https://embeddedcomputing.com/technology/storage/greenliant-high-endurance-high-reliability-data-storage-on-display-at-embedded-world-2022 | false | 2 |
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White sox second. Jose Abreu flies out to right field to Teoscar Hernandez. AJ Pollock doubles to deep right field. Adam Engel doubles. AJ Pollock scores. Seby Zavala flies out to deep center field to Raimel Tapia. Adam Engel to third. Josh Harrison grounds out to third base, Matt Chapman to Vladimir Guerrero Jr..
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. White sox 1, Blue jays 0.
White sox fifth. Danny Mendick walks. Tim Anderson singles to right field. Danny Mendick to second. Andrew Vaughn strikes out swinging. Luis Robert doubles to deep left field. Danny Mendick scores. Jose Abreu grounds out to shallow infield, Santiago Espinal to Vladimir Guerrero Jr..
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. White sox 2, Blue jays 0.
Blue jays seventh. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. flies out to left field to AJ Pollock. Alejandro Kirk homers to center field. Teoscar Hernandez flies out to right center field to Luis Robert. Santiago Espinal called out on strikes.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. White sox 2, Blue jays 1.
Blue jays eighth. Matt Chapman walks. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. singles to shallow infield. Matt Chapman to second. Raimel Tapia out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Davis Martin to Josh Harrison. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to second. Matt Chapman to third. Cavan Biggio pinch-hitting for George Springer. Cavan Biggio singles to shallow center field. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to third. Matt Chapman scores. Bo Bichette singles to shortstop. Cavan Biggio to second. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. scores. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walks. Bo Bichette to second. Cavan Biggio to third. Alejandro Kirk walks. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to second. Bo Bichette to third. Cavan Biggio scores. Teoscar Hernandez strikes out swinging. Santiago Espinal called out on strikes.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Blue jays 4, White sox 2.
White sox ninth. Josh Harrison walks. Danny Mendick grounds out to second base. Josh Harrison out at second. Tim Anderson walks. Andrew Vaughn doubles to deep right center field. Tim Anderson to third. Luis Robert singles to right center field. Adam Haseley scores. Tim Anderson scores. Jose Abreu singles to left field. Luis Robert to third. AJ Pollock lines out to center field to Bradley Zimmer.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Blue jays 4, White sox 4.
Blue jays tenth. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doubles to right center field. Bo Bichette scores. Alejandro Kirk flies out to right center field to Adam Engel. Bradley Zimmer called out on strikes. Santiago Espinal walks. Matt Chapman called out on strikes.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Blue jays 5, White sox 4.
White sox tenth. Adam Engel walks. Jake Burger pinch-hitting for Seby Zavala. Jake Burger called out on strikes. Josh Harrison singles to right field. Adam Engel to second. AJ Pollock to third. Danny Mendick singles to shortstop. Josh Harrison to second. Adam Engel to third. AJ Pollock scores. Tim Anderson grounds out to shallow infield. Adam Engel out at home.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Blue jays 5, White sox 5.
Blue jays eleventh. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit by pitch. Raimel Tapia singles to right field. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to second. Matt Chapman scores. Cavan Biggio out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Danny Mendick to Josh Harrison. Raimel Tapia to second. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to third. Bo Bichette grounds out to shallow infield, Tim Anderson to Jose Abreu. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. grounds out to shortstop, Danny Mendick to Jose Abreu.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Blue jays 6, White sox 5.
White sox eleventh. Adam Haseley out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Matt Chapman to Santiago Espinal. Tim Anderson to third. Luis Robert out on a sacrifice fly to right field to Raimel Tapia. Tim Anderson scores. Jose Abreu strikes out swinging.
1 run, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Blue jays 6, White sox 6.
White sox twelfth. AJ Pollock pops out to Vladimir Guerrero Jr.. Adam Engel is intentionally walked. Reese McGuire called out on strikes. Josh Harrison singles to shallow center field. Adam Engel to second. Jose Abreu scores.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. White sox 7, Blue jays 6. | https://www.myplainview.com/sports/article/Toronto-Chicago-White-Sox-Runs-17257075.php | 2022-06-22T05:10:19Z | https://www.myplainview.com/sports/article/Toronto-Chicago-White-Sox-Runs-17257075.php | false | 11 |
Watch: Heartbreak for David Warner as Australia opener gets stumped out on 99 during 4th ODI against Sri Lanka
Australian batter David Warner fell agonizingly short of his century when he was stumped out on 99 during the fourth ODI against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Chasing a 259-run target to win and stay alive in the series, Warner stuck at one end as wickets continued to fall on the other, but couldn't see Australia off the finishing line as Dhananjaya de Silva dismissed him for the visitors' seventh wicket of the innings.
De Silva came around the wicket against Warner, and the left-handed batter, who had already committed to the drive towards cover, was beaten by the outside edge. Warner had also walked down the track and wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella made no mistake as he dislodged the bails before the Aussie batter could get back.
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Despite Warner's fall, Pat Cummins led Australia's fight with a strong 35 off 43 balls but he was dismissed in the penultimate over of the innings. With 19 runs required off the final over, Matthew Kuhnemann slammed Dasun Shanaka for 14 runs off the first five balls (including three fours); however, he was caught on the final delivery as Sri Lanka registered a thrilling win.
Earlier, Sri Lanka did not have an ideal start, losing Niroshan Dickwella (1), Pathum Nissanka (13) and Kusal Mendis (14) by the time the team scored 34.
It was then Dhananjaya de Silva and Charith Asalanka who rebuilt the innings for the Lankans. The duo took Aussie bowlers to attack, forming a 101-run stand, which ended after all-rounder Mitchell Marsh sent back Silva to the pavilion for 60 off 61.
On the other hand, Asalanka put up a brave fight against the Australians. He kept one end steady while the wickets kept falling at the other end and smashed his maiden ODI century. He ultimately fell to pacer Pat Cummins for 110 when the team's score was 256. With efforts from Asalanka, Dunith Wellalage (19) and Wanindu Hasaranga (21*), Sri Lanka was able to reach 258 runs before they lost all their wickets. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/watch-heartbreak-for-david-warner-as-australia-opener-gets-stumped-out-on-99-during-4th-odi-against-sri-lanka-101655869298797-amp.html | 2022-06-22T05:13:29Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/watch-heartbreak-for-david-warner-as-australia-opener-gets-stumped-out-on-99-during-4th-odi-against-sri-lanka-101655869298797-amp.html | false | 2 |
Report: Brooklyn Nets unlikely to match offers for Nic Claxton
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With free agency approaching at the end of the month, the Brooklyn Nets need to make some decisions, but reports tell us that the team has decided not to match offers for young big man Nic Claxton.
Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle reported that the Rockets would be upgrading their center position and the Nets are “unlikely” to match a mid-level offer for Claxton.
Though the Rockets traded Wood because he no longer fit with the rebuild and to acquire a first-round pick, the Rockets are weighing keeping Marjanovic as one of the center options they are considering. They are not expected to keep other players acquired in the deal — Marquese Chriss, Sterling Brown and Trey Burke. The free-agent class at center is considered unusually deep with players that might be available to teams, including the Rockets, that are over the cap but can offer the full mid-level exception, starting at $10.5 million. The Nets are considered unlikely to match a mid-level offer to Nic Claxton.
Claxton is a very talented young player with a lot of upside, including an elite defensive presence in the paint. Claxton is a restricted free agent this summer, allowing him to test his value and receive other offers.
The news that the Nets are unlikely to match Claxton’s offers comes about a month after it was reported that Brooklyn would retain the center. | https://sports.yahoo.com/report-brooklyn-nets-unlikely-match-163144114.html?src=rss | 2022-06-22T05:17:44Z | https://sports.yahoo.com/report-brooklyn-nets-unlikely-match-163144114.html?src=rss | false | 2 |
VANCOUVER, BC, June 22, 2022 /CNW/ - Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. (the "Company" or "ReconAfrica") (TSXV: RECO) (OTCQX: RECAF) (FSE: 0XD) and its joint venture partner NAMCOR (the state oil company of Namibia) are pleased to announce completion of the second phase of seismic (761 km) and commencement of the first seismically defined, initial four well drilling program with the first well 1819/8-2 ("8-2") scheduled to spud on or before June 25, 2022.
The joint venture partners, ReconAfrica and NAMCOR, have successfully completed the second seismic acquisition program comprising 761 linear kilometres of 2-D seismic completed on budget and on schedule. 180,312 human hours were utilized during the campaign, of which approximately 80% were Namibians recruited nationally and, predominantly, from local communities. As with the Phase 1 program, the Company will utilize multiple processing companies to provide the best possible seismic images.
Including Phase 1, ReconAfrica has currently acquired 1,211 kilometres of seismic within its over 34,000 square kilometre licensed area.
Planning is currently underway for the next phase of 2D seismic acquisition, which is anticipated to comprise in excess of 1,000 kilometres of 2-D seismic. This will be an extensive program and subject to permitting, the Company anticipates on the ground acquisition to begin the fall of 2022.
This initial four well program will be executed continuously and will target seismically defined structures with the objective of testing two of the three play types; oil prone Karoo Rift Fill and Intra Rift Fault Block plays.
The Company owned 1000 HP drilling rig (Jarvie-1) is now on the first drilling location (8-2) rigging up and scheduled to spud on or before June 25, 2022.
The well will be drilled to a planned depth of approximately 2,800 meters (9,184 feet) and is designed to test potential conventional oil and associated natural gas reservoirs in clastic rocks (sandstones) in the Karoo Rift Fill, the Company's primary play. The well will also be drilled deeper into the Pre-Karoo Mulden and Otavi formations. These intervals correspond to zones in the Company's first well, the 6-2, which is approximately 6.5 kilometres to the East, that had good oil and gas shows. It is anticipated the well will reach total depth within 60 days from the initial spud. Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. ("NSAI"), the Company's independent qualified reserves evaluator, has estimated an unrisked gross 799 million barrels of original oil in place (OOIP) for the well 8-2. The estimated unrisked gross prospective resource, (P50 case) with a projected 17% primary recovery, is 138 million barrels of oil for this well. Prospective resources are the arithmetic sum of multiple probability distributions.
These estimates are based on un-risked prospective resources that have not been risked for chance of discovery and chance of development. If a discovery is made, there is no certainty that it will be developed or, if it is developed, there is no certainty as to the timing of such development. There is no certainty that any portion of the resources will be discovered. If discovered, there is no certainty that it will be commercially viable to produce any portion of the resources. Prospective Resources are those quantities of petroleum estimated, as of a given date, to be potentially recoverable from undiscovered accumulations by applying future development projects. Prospective Resources have both an associated chance of discovery and a chance of development. See the NSAI report, relating to the Company's prospective resources on the Company's licences located in Northeast Namibia effective as of December 31, 2021, which is based on the first two wells and the initial 450 kilometres of 2D seismic. The resource report is available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. This NSAI report describes the geologic setting for well 8-2 and the resource and associate risking is described on page 9 of the report as 'Location 25' and illustrated on the map on page 6. The Company has a 90% working interest in petroleum exploration licence (PEL) 73 in northeast Namibia. Per the NSAI report, it should be understood that the prospective resources discussed and shown herein are those undiscovered, highly speculative resources estimated beyond reserves or contingent resources where geological and geophysical data suggest a potential for discovery of petroleum but where the level of proof is insufficient for classification of reserves or contingent resources. The unrisked prospective resources shown in this report are the range of volumes that could reasonably be expected to be recovered in the event of the discovery and development of these leads. This exploration project is pre-concept in regard to any potential development scenarios, as we do not know the production characteristics of any undiscovered PIIP (Petroleum Initially In Place). It should be understood that there is no certainty that any portion of the resources will be developed. If discovered there is no certainty that it will be commercially viable to produce any portion of the resource. As this project is at an early stage of exploration, it is too early to estimate total cost required to achieve commercial production, the general timeline of the project, or the recovery technology to be utilized. The Company's ability to execute projects and market oil and natural gas depends upon numerous factors beyond the Company's control, including: the availability of infrastructure, equipment and supplies; the availability and proximity of pipeline capacity; the availability of storage capacity; the supply of, and demand for, oil and natural gas; the availability of alternative fuel sources; the effects of inclement weather; unexpected cost increases; accidental events; currency fluctuations; changes in regulations; the availability and productivity of skilled labour; and the regulation of the oil and natural gas industry by various levels of government and governmental agencies. As a result of these factors, the Company could be unable to execute projects on time, on budget or at all, and may not be able to effectively market the oil and natural gas that it produces.
ReconAfrica is a Canadian oil and gas company engaged in the opening of the newly discovered deep Kavango Sedimentary Basin, in the Kalahari Desert of northeastern Namibia and northwestern Botswana, where the Company holds petroleum licences comprising approximately 8.5 million contiguous acres. In all aspects of its operations, ReconAfrica is committed to minimal disturbance of habitat, in line with best international standards, and will implement environmental and social best practices in all of its project areas.
Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute forward-looking information under applicable Canadian, United States and other applicable securities laws, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, statements with respect to timing for the commencement of, the execution of, and the goals and objectives of, the Company's seismically defined four well drilling program, the planned depth, goals and objectives and timing to total depth of the first well in such drilling program, estimates of prospective resources, the processing of images from the Company's recently completed second seismic acquisition program, the permitting of and anticipated timing for commencement of the Company's phase two extension seismic acquisition program and the Company's commitment to minimal disturbances in line with international best standards and its implementation of environmental and social best practices in all of its project areas. These statements relate to future events or future performance. The use of any of the words "could", "intend", "expect", "believe", "will", "projected", "estimated" and similar expressions and statements relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking information and are based on ReconAfrica's current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such future events. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as the Company's actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of the factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section in the Company's amended and restated annual information form dated May 19, 2021 available under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com. Actual future results may differ materially. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to ReconAfrica. The forward-looking information contained in this release is made as of the date hereof and ReconAfrica undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities laws. Because of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions contained herein, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The foregoing statements expressly qualify any forward-looking information contained herein.
SOURCE Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd.
For further information: Scot Evans CEO | Tel: +1-877-631-1160; Grayson Andersen Manager, IR | Tel: +1-877-631-1160; Email: [email protected]; IR Inquiries Email: [email protected]; Media Inquiries Email: [email protected] | https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/reconafrica-and-namcor-complete-2nd-phase-of-seismic-amp-prepare-to-spud-the-first-of-four-oil-targets-in-the-kavango-basin-893171646.html | 2022-06-22T05:19:45Z | https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/reconafrica-and-namcor-complete-2nd-phase-of-seismic-amp-prepare-to-spud-the-first-of-four-oil-targets-in-the-kavango-basin-893171646.html | false | 2 |
STOCKTON — With temperatures on the rise in San Joaquin County, many residents will more than likely leave water standing on their property, either through bird baths, ponds or pools.
And with the increase in standing water sources, there will likely be an increase in mosquito population.
To curb that increase, the San Joaquin County Mosquito and Vector Control District will be distributing free mosquitofish to residents to residents throughout the week.
“Mosquitofish are a natural way to control immature mosquitoes in existing water sources,” district spokesman Aaron Devencenzi said. “They work well in ornamental ponds, abandoned or neglected swimming pools, water features, and animal water troughs. If you don’t need mosquitofish, visit us at one of the locations and receive free samples of insect repellent while supplies last.”
District staff will be distributing the mosquitofish at the Lodi Softball Complex, 401 N. Stockton St., on June 24 from 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Staff will also be at the Swenson Park Golf Course parking lot, 6803 Alexandria Place in Stockton, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 22.
Each resident will receive as many 15 fish, depending on the size of the area where the fish will be placed.
District staff will provide a fish carry container, informational brochures, and a small bag of fish food.
Mosquitofish are small animals that resemble guppies, and when released into water, will eat as much as 500 mosquito larvae a day.
Larvae typically develops around the rim of standing water.
Mosquitofish live as many as three years, and females give birth to about 50 young every six weeks from spring to fall, the district said.
They require minimal care, just an occasional feeding each week, and a little more food in the winter.
Reducing the amount of mosquitos in the region can help stem the spread of West Nile Virus, the most common and serious vector-born disease in the state.
According to the California Department of Public Health, 56 mosquito samples with the virus have been found in the counties of Nevada, Yolo, Sacramento, Contra Costa Merced, Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside.
A mosquito sample can have as many as 50 insects.
Ten dead birds have also been found throughout those counties. There have been no reported human cases as of Monday, the CDPH said.
Last year, there were 148 human infections across the state and 12 deaths. Eight of those infections and one death were reported in San Joaquin County.
In addition, 210 dead birds throughout the state tested positive for the virus, of which 17 were in San Joaquin County, the third highest in the California, the CDPH said.
For more information, go to www.sjmosquito.org or westnile.ca.gov. | https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_c9a48c04-f10d-11ec-a7ac-f3a5d2e5238f.html | 2022-06-22T05:30:42Z | https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_c9a48c04-f10d-11ec-a7ac-f3a5d2e5238f.html | true | 1 |
Theo Deproost shines a new light on a museum’s old objects
A collaboration with London’s Museum of the Home sees the photographer create fresh narratives for its extensive collection of vintage clothing, old woodworking tools and more
When we think about historical artefacts, the images that come to mind are often ones of documentation – the sort of photographs that live in a dusty archive somewhere or in the pages of an equally dusty textbook.
It was this association that photographer Theo Deproost was keen to counter with his new project Re:Collect, which is composed of a series of images that artistically reinterpret – rather than document – pieces from London’s Museum of the Home. The photographs are on display at the museum until the end of August.
“Re:Collect aims to present subject matter in an entirely different way to what the viewer might expect,” says the photographer. As such, his images seek to inspire new narratives for objects that are no longer suited to their original purpose.
Fascinated by the idea they “have been pulled from their natural timeline and denied their inevitable disintegration and reintegration with the earth”, Deproost wanted to capture them in a state of limbo – caught between periods of utility and appreciation.
To do so, he underwent a slow, thoughtful and intricate process of photographing each object using abstract compositions and controlled lighting, while at the same time capturing every tiny detail on the object’s surface.
“To produce an image where the entire object is in focus, revealing all the fine detail hidden to the naked eye, anywhere up to 250 individual shots must be taken, fractionally refocusing the lens each time,” he explains.
These shots are fed into a programme that stitches them all together to create a single image, which is then transferred to Photoshop so that the object can be cut out and layered over another image of the coloured background. However, if the “shots have not been captured diligently enough” and the automated stacking process fails, the object must be painstakingly re-photographed.
In spite of these frustrating setbacks, the final result undoubtedly makes the effort worthwhile. Deproost’s dramatic and eye-catching artworks breathe new life into items that may otherwise go unseen and unappreciated.
The striking colours and evocative silhouettes encourage a more imaginative understanding of these artefacts. “Each image passes through a filter of the viewer’s thoughts and experiences, where unique connections and interpretations are formed,” says Deproost. “It is in these personal connections that a new future for the objects may yet be defined.” | https://www.creativereview.co.uk/theo-deproost-museum-home-photography/ | 2022-06-22T05:31:12Z | https://www.creativereview.co.uk/theo-deproost-museum-home-photography/ | false | 1 |
Media is the plural of mediocre
Jimmy Breslin
To paraphrase Charles Barkley, you know the world is going to hell when FOX News deserves praise for (ZOUNDS!) carrying the congressional Treasongate hearings while PBS airs old news shows or kiddie cartoons.
That’s what happened in this region last Thursday and Monday and will again today.
Public Broadcasting System KNPB TV-5 and FOX affiliate KRXI TV-11 both blacked out last Thursday’s premier of Czar Donaldov’s latest TV series.
FOX, understandable. PBS? WTF?
The only official explanation I got from TV-5 President and CEO Kurt Mische is that they livestreamed it on their website instead. Huh? What about people without computers, iPads or iPhones? Or viewers who simply prefer the public network’s analysis and coverage?
Yes, ABC TV-8, CBS TV-2 and NBC TV-4 carried the show, but that’s not the point.
This is the type of programming for which PBS was established and still scores substantial taxpayer subsidies. Every station agrees to serve the community in order to get its federal license.
Most embarrassingly, FOX network aired the second installment of the hearings last Monday morning and is scheduled to air today’s at 7:00 a.m. PDT. (Station ownership remains free to censor.)
KNPB TV-5 will again sit shiva.
Last Monday, I phoned and emailed PBS back east.
“How many of your affiliates ran the congressional hearing live on their main channels and how many did not?” I queried. “Among those which did not, if any, did they livestream as did KNPB; rebroadcast at a later time or not run anything at all via any of their resources.”
I have not heard back. PBS is supposed to be “non-commercial,” but they air hot and cold running sponsor announcements for any outfit with cash. If you’re rich enough, you even get your pretty face on station promos.
So why did TV-5 black out Treasongate? First, they are in the middle of a station fundraising drive where large blocks of time are devoted to telethonitis. Nothing gets in the way of their repetitive money hustle, not even the public interest on the public airwaves on a publicly supported station. They also did not want to pre-empt daytime kiddie shows. (I’m not speculating.)
Nationally today, all of the major networks as well as many cable channels have scheduled Treasongate-3.
Local exceptions will be KNPB TV-5 and very probably KRNV TV-4, a Sinclair Broadcasting station which blacked out Monday morning’s program after airing the Thursday premier. Sinclair also controls FOX-11 and uses the news departments of its more than 200 stations to air right-wing biased news. Why? They’ve noticed how FOX can net over a billion a year in pure profit by pandering to residents of Oz, Narnia and Mar-a-Loco. So don’t count on FOX-11 today.
There’s also an unseen hand in this market. Northern Nevada has always been a Republican stronghold. They are the establishment, rich, stodgy and powerful. Go too far and their law firms will be ordered to quietly make moves to torpedo a station’s major advertisers. The mediocre media never know what (or whom) hit them.
The invisible hand of the market is always at work here in the High Desert Outback of the American Dream.
Unlike most first-world countries, U.S. public airwaves have always been sold to the highest bidder. Washington pols quake in fear of the television-industrial complex. Witness the taxpayer-subsidized giveaway of high-definition channels a few years ago.
Want to take America back? Start with our formerly public airwaves.
BOB CARROLL, 1937-2022. The longtime radio-tv personality left us for the big studio in the sky a few days ago. He hosted his KUNR-fm “Best of Big Bands, Blues, Ballads and Broadway” program almost until the end.
Although not a journalist by trade, Bob became the face of KTVN TV-2 News in the station’s infancy in the late 1960s. In the early 1970s, he opened an ad agency which was very successful. We were friendly competitors for many years. He ran for Reno City Council in 1973 and Washoe County Commission in 1974.
Bob’s the second familiar face to recently sign off. John Howe, former news director at KOLO TV-8 in the 1970s, died last month at 93. (Barbwire 6-1-2022)
His memorial service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 25 at Mountain View Mortuary, 425 Stoker in Reno. That’s an hour earlier than originally scheduled.
Bob Carroll’s sendoff will happen at the same location at 2:00 p.m. this Friday, June 17.
Good knowing you, gentlemen. You done real good.
BUYER BEWARE. Madcap Washoe Assessor Mike Clark, whose staff obtained a restraining order against him for running a white collar sweatshop, is advertising his wares to replace County Commissioner Bob Lucey in his southwest Reno district. I’m no fan of Mr. Lucey whose tenure on the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) precipitated the successful Teamsters Union Hat Trick Strikes of 2021. With Clark, I’ll make an exception.
Clark won an upset for assessor against a good public servant, Joshua Wilson, eight years ago. I was amazed at Clark’s website which all but promised he would cut people’s property taxes, something the assessor has no power to do. It worked.
The Reno Gazette-Journal did an extensive roundup on the current contest. Awhile back, Clark was even banned from entering his own assessor’s office. This yayhoo should never be elected to anything.
MASS TRANSIT MAYHEM. Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve was elected by the city council to replace Councilmember Oscar Delgado on RTC. The commission will thus have four Republicans plus the non-partisan mayor to continue the grotesque mismanagement of the local mass transit system.
Councilmembers Naomi Duerr, Jenny Brekhus and Devon Reese, all Democrats, also wanted the job. Monitor NevadaLabor.com for some interesting revelations ahead of this Friday’s RTC meeting.
BEER PONG AT CITY HALL? Read ThisIsReno.com’s report of the heated beating some councilcritters and Mlle. Mayor administered to Ms. Brekhus last week. The two ladies are both running for the mayoralty.
Take care of each other and be careful out there.
Pray for Ukraine and 53 other currently war-torn lands.
Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.
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Shiv Sena Minister Eknath Shinde, who has raised a banner of revolt, has the support of 34 MLAs, claimed his supporter and Minister of State Omprakash Babarao Kadu alias Bachhu Kadu.
Kadu, of the Prahar Janshakti Party (PJP), further contended that the number of legislators supporting Shinde is increasing and could even cross 40 as the Maharashtra political drama shifted from Surat in Gujarat to the Northeast state of Assam.
"Whatever decision Shinde takes shall be acceptable to all of us," said Kadu, speaking to a private Marathi channel.
Earlier, claiming that he had not left the Shiv Sena nor revolted, Shinde said there were 40 MLAs with him who travelled to Guwahati - ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, early on Wednesday.
However, Shiv Sena and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) declined to comment on the issue and claims made by the rebels, saying that many of the MLAs will return to the party fold soon.
Sena Chief Spokesperson Sanjay Raut, MP, said that the party team had gone to meet Shinde on Tuesday and heard him out.
"He had certain issues and we shall discuss further. We have always fought and shall continue to struggle," said Raut.
The MVA government plunged into its gravest crisis early on Tuesday after Shinde suddenly revolted along with a group of Shiv Sena MLAs and Ministers, and reached Surat early on Tuesday morning.
While the Shiv Sena with help from allies Nationalist Congress Party-Congress, launched all-round fire-fighting operations, the BJP stirred the political cauldron first in Gujarat and then in Assam early today. | https://www.ibtimes.co.in/maharashtra-crisis-sena-rebels-eknath-shinde-claim-support-34-mlas-849691 | 2022-06-22T05:49:00Z | https://www.ibtimes.co.in/maharashtra-crisis-sena-rebels-eknath-shinde-claim-support-34-mlas-849691 | true | 3 |
Alex G has announced that his next proper studio album will be out September 23rd via Domino. It’s called God Save the Animals, and he’s previewing the record with the new single “Runner.”
Alex G tends to loosely envelop his albums in broad metaphors and concepts, and God Save the Animals is no different. Though he references “God” multiple times on the record, he uses the term to embody faith as a whole and a means of connection among the human race rather than a strict religious doctrine.
Longtime fans will also note that the album sheds Alex of his typical homespun grit, as he’s opted to use proper studios and a larger team of engineers for the first time. The result means God Save the Animals might objectively be his most high-quality record yet, but it still includes the oddities that make an Alex G album an Alex G album. Pre-orders for physical copies of God Save the Animals are ongoing.
“I like people who I can open up to/ You don’t judge for what I say, but judge me for what I do,” Alex sings in the opening lines of “Runner” over a deceptively “normal” power-pop jaunt. But soon, any sign of sanity starts to fade as the vocal track mutates: “I have done a couple bad things,” he sings in a distorted tone, culminating into an ear-splitting screech. Watch the music video for “Runner” below.
To support the release, Alex G has mapped out a lengthy tour taking place this fall. The full itinerary is below, and tickets are available via Ticketmaster.
Not long before Alex G shared his previous single “Blessing” back in May, he released his first-ever film score for the new movie We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. His last proper studio album was 2019’s House of Sugar.
God Save the Animals Artwork:
God Save the Animals Tracklist:
01. After All
02. Runner
03. Mission
04. S.D.O.S.
05. No Bitterness
06. Ain’t It Easy
07. Cross the Sea
08. Blessing
09. Early Morning Waiting
10. Immunity
11. Headroom Piano
12. Miracles
13. Forgive
Alex G 2022 Tour Dates:
08/12 – Gothenberg, SE @ Way Out West
08/14 – Utrecht, NL @ Ekko
08/15 – Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof
08/17 – Paredes de Coura, PT @ Paredes de Coura Festival
08/19 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop
08/20 – Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Festival
08/22 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK @ The Cluny
08/23 – Edinburgh, UK @ The Liquid Room
10/06 – Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom ~
10/07 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel ~
10/08 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse ~
10/09 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl ~
10/10 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway ~
10/12 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre ~
10/14 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell ~
10/16 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox ~
10/17 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom ~
10/19 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore ^
10/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern ^
10/22 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park ^
10/23 – The Glasshouse @ Pomona, CA ^
10/24 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren ^
10/26 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s ^
10/27 – Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips ^
10/29 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young
11/01 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue ^
11/02 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall ^
11/03 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall ^
11/04 – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre ^
11/05 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall ^
11/06 – Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre ^
11/08 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club ^
11/09 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club ^
11/11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ^
11/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ^
11/17 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club ^
11/18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^
11/19 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer #
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^ = w/ Hatchie
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By UK Correspondent
FORMER ZRP boss Augustine Chihuri secured some relief Tuesday after the High Court gave him back a luxury Harare mansion valued at US$7 million.
Chihuri, reportedly now based in South Africa, is accused of stealing some US$32 million in public funds while at the helm of the country’s police service.
He was head of the ZRP for some 25 years before being sacked after backing the losing side in the 2017 military coup which brought President Emmerson Mnangagwa to power.
Chihuri initially moved to Malawi but is now understood to be based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
His vast wealth was placed under management in 2020 after the State slapped him with unexplained wealth orders which required explanation of the sources of his various businesses and properties.
However, in a High Court ruling delivered Tuesday, Justice Pisirayi Kwenda varied the orders, directing the return of some of Chihuri’s property.
The property included the luxury Gletwyn mansion which reportedly features 16 en-suite bedrooms, seven lounges, nine garages, a helipad and a fishing dam.
Chihuri had denied owning the property in 2017, warning that; “Let the nation be warned that police will not fold hands in dealing with those misusing social media to settle their issues.”
Meanwhile, also returned to the former ZRP chief were five vehicles, several houses as well as equipment for his two farms in Chinhoyi and Shamva.
Chihuri’s lawyers led by Harare attorney Addington Chinake, had wanted the judge to consider the validity of the unexplained wealth orders.
The State accuses Chihuri of using his authority as head of the police to fleece million of dollars in public funds which were channeled to five companies linked to family members and relatives.
The companies reportedly received US$32 million to supply various goods and materials to the police.
Chief law officer and head of assets forfeiture unit Chris Mutangadura represented the State in the case. | https://www.newzimbabwe.com/ex-zrp-boss-chihuri-gets-us7m-mansion-back-property-features-16-bedrooms-helipad-and-fishing-dam/ | 2022-06-22T06:02:02Z | https://www.newzimbabwe.com/ex-zrp-boss-chihuri-gets-us7m-mansion-back-property-features-16-bedrooms-helipad-and-fishing-dam/ | false | 3 |
White sox second. Jose Abreu flies out to right field to Teoscar Hernandez. AJ Pollock doubles to deep right field. Adam Engel doubles. AJ Pollock scores. Seby Zavala flies out to deep center field to Raimel Tapia. Adam Engel to third. Josh Harrison grounds out to third base, Matt Chapman to Vladimir Guerrero Jr..
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. White sox 1, Blue jays 0.
White sox fifth. Danny Mendick walks. Tim Anderson singles to right field. Danny Mendick to second. Andrew Vaughn strikes out swinging. Luis Robert doubles to deep left field. Danny Mendick scores. Jose Abreu grounds out to shallow infield, Santiago Espinal to Vladimir Guerrero Jr..
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. White sox 2, Blue jays 0.
Blue jays seventh. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. flies out to left field to AJ Pollock. Alejandro Kirk homers to center field. Teoscar Hernandez flies out to right center field to Luis Robert. Santiago Espinal called out on strikes.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. White sox 2, Blue jays 1.
Blue jays eighth. Matt Chapman walks. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. singles to shallow infield. Matt Chapman to second. Raimel Tapia out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Davis Martin to Josh Harrison. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to second. Matt Chapman to third. Cavan Biggio pinch-hitting for George Springer. Cavan Biggio singles to shallow center field. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to third. Matt Chapman scores. Bo Bichette singles to shortstop. Cavan Biggio to second. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. scores. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walks. Bo Bichette to second. Cavan Biggio to third. Alejandro Kirk walks. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to second. Bo Bichette to third. Cavan Biggio scores. Teoscar Hernandez strikes out swinging. Santiago Espinal called out on strikes.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Blue jays 4, White sox 2.
White sox ninth. Josh Harrison walks. Danny Mendick grounds out to second base. Josh Harrison out at second. Tim Anderson walks. Andrew Vaughn doubles to deep right center field. Tim Anderson to third. Luis Robert singles to right center field. Adam Haseley scores. Tim Anderson scores. Jose Abreu singles to left field. Luis Robert to third. AJ Pollock lines out to center field to Bradley Zimmer.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Blue jays 4, White sox 4.
Blue jays tenth. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doubles to right center field. Bo Bichette scores. Alejandro Kirk flies out to right center field to Adam Engel. Bradley Zimmer called out on strikes. Santiago Espinal walks. Matt Chapman called out on strikes.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Blue jays 5, White sox 4.
White sox tenth. Adam Engel walks. Jake Burger pinch-hitting for Seby Zavala. Jake Burger called out on strikes. Josh Harrison singles to right field. Adam Engel to second. AJ Pollock to third. Danny Mendick singles to shortstop. Josh Harrison to second. Adam Engel to third. AJ Pollock scores. Tim Anderson grounds out to shallow infield. Adam Engel out at home.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Blue jays 5, White sox 5.
Blue jays eleventh. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit by pitch. Raimel Tapia singles to right field. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to second. Matt Chapman scores. Cavan Biggio out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Danny Mendick to Josh Harrison. Raimel Tapia to second. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to third. Bo Bichette grounds out to shallow infield, Tim Anderson to Jose Abreu. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. grounds out to shortstop, Danny Mendick to Jose Abreu.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Blue jays 6, White sox 5.
White sox eleventh. Adam Haseley out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Matt Chapman to Santiago Espinal. Tim Anderson to third. Luis Robert out on a sacrifice fly to right field to Raimel Tapia. Tim Anderson scores. Jose Abreu strikes out swinging.
1 run, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Blue jays 6, White sox 6.
White sox twelfth. AJ Pollock pops out to Vladimir Guerrero Jr.. Adam Engel is intentionally walked. Reese McGuire called out on strikes. Josh Harrison singles to shallow center field. Adam Engel to second. Jose Abreu scores.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. White sox 7, Blue jays 6. | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/sports/article/Toronto-Chicago-White-Sox-Runs-17257075.php | 2022-06-22T06:02:39Z | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/sports/article/Toronto-Chicago-White-Sox-Runs-17257075.php | false | 11 |
Health trackers worn on the wrist could pick up Covid-19 days before symptoms even appear, research suggests.
The trackers monitor changes in skin temperature, heart and breathing rates and could be combined with artificial intelligence (AI) to offer a diagnosis, according to a new study.
A team writing in the journal BMJ Open tested the AVA bracelet, a fertility tracker that people can buy online to track the best time to conceive.
It monitors breathing rate, heart rate, heart rate variability, wrist skin temperature and blood flow.
In the study, 1,163 people under the age of 51 in Lichtenstein were followed from the start of the pandemic.
They were asked to wear the AVA bracelet at night, with the device saving data every 10 seconds. People have to sleep for at least four hours for it to work.
The bracelets were synchronised with a smartphone app, with people recording any activities that could affect the results, such as alcohol, prescription medications and recreational drugs.
They also recorded possible Covid-19 symptoms such as fever.
All those in the study took regular rapid antibody tests for Covid while those with symptoms also took a PCR swab test.
Overall, 1.5 million hours of physiological data were recorded and Covid was confirmed in 127 people, of which 66 (52%) had worn their device for at least 29 consecutive days and were included in the analysis.
The study found there were significant changes in the body during the incubation period for the infection, the period before symptoms appeared, when symptoms appeared and during recovery, compared to non-infection.
Overall, the tracker and computer algorithm identified 68% of Covid-19 positive people two days before their symptoms appeared.
The team, including from the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Basel, concluded there were limits to the research, including that not all Covid cases were captured.
But they added: “Wearable sensor technology can enable Covid-19 detection during the pre-symptomatic period.
“Wearable sensor technology is an easy-to-use, low-cost method for enabling individuals to track their health and wellbeing during a pandemic.
“Our research shows how these devices, partnered with artificial intelligence, can push the boundaries of personalised medicine and detect illnesses prior to (symptom occurrence), potentially reducing virus transmission in communities.”
The algorithm is now being tested in a much larger group (20,000) of people in the Netherlands, with results expected later this year. | https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40900988.html | 2022-06-22T06:03:19Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40900988.html | true | 23 |
38m ago
Als' WR Wieneke, LB Ackie out vs. Roughriders
Wide receiver Jake Wieneke and linebacker Chris Ackie have each been placed on the injured list and ruled out for Thursday's matchup with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
TSN.ca Staff
Cue the QB carousel in Montreal?
Wide receiver Jake Wieneke and linebacker Chris Ackie have each been placed on the injured list and ruled out for Thursday's matchup with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
WR Jake Wieneke (hamstring) & 🇨🇦LB Chris Ackie (ankle) have both been played on the injured list & are ruled out for Thursday’s game against #Riders. Eugene Lewis (hamstring), Nick Usher (illness) & Philippe Gagnon (illness) all listed as questionable. @CFLonTSN @TSN_Edge #AlsMtl
— Farhan Lalji (@FarhanLaljiTSN) June 22, 2022
Wiekeke is dealing with a hamstring issue and Ackie an ankle injury.
Meanwhile, wide receiver Eugene Lewis (hamstring), defensive end Nick Usher (illness) and guard Philippe Gagnon (illness) are all listed as questionable.
The Alouettes are 0-2 to begin the season but have lost by just four combined points, dropping their season-opener to the Calgary Stampeders 30-27 and then losing 20-19 to the Toronto Argonauts in Week 2. | https://www.tsn.ca/jake-wieneke-chris-ackie-injuries-montreal-alouettes-1.1816092 | 2022-06-22T06:06:29Z | https://www.tsn.ca/jake-wieneke-chris-ackie-injuries-montreal-alouettes-1.1816092 | true | 1 |
Investment analysts at StockNews.com started coverage on shares of Art’s-Way Manufacturing (NASDAQ:ARTW – Get Rating) in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday. The firm set a “hold” rating on the industrial products company’s stock.
Separately, TheStreet cut Art’s-Way Manufacturing from a “c” rating to a “d+” rating in a report on Friday, April 29th.
NASDAQ ARTW opened at $2.78 on Wednesday. The company has a market capitalization of $12.89 million, a PE ratio of 139.07 and a beta of 0.63. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27, a quick ratio of 0.29 and a current ratio of 1.49. The business’s fifty day moving average is $2.79 and its 200 day moving average is $3.65. Art’s-Way Manufacturing has a fifty-two week low of $2.13 and a fifty-two week high of $7.70.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of ARTW. Sigma Planning Corp purchased a new position in shares of Art’s-Way Manufacturing during the first quarter valued at approximately $274,000. Sweet Financial Partners LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Art’s-Way Manufacturing in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $155,000. Shufro Rose & Co. LLC raised its stake in Art’s-Way Manufacturing by 31.2% in the first quarter. Shufro Rose & Co. LLC now owns 24,639 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $136,000 after buying an additional 5,855 shares in the last quarter. Virtu Financial LLC bought a new position in Art’s-Way Manufacturing in the first quarter worth approximately $104,000. Finally, Jane Street Group LLC bought a new position in Art’s-Way Manufacturing in the first quarter worth approximately $76,000. 5.38% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
About Art’s-Way Manufacturing (Get Rating)
Art's-Way Manufacturing Co, Inc manufactures and sells agricultural equipment, specialized modular science buildings, and steel cutting tools in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Agricultural Products, Modular Buildings, and Tools. The Agricultural Products segment offers various specialized farm machinery, including portable and stationary animal feed processing equipment and related attachments; hay and forage equipment, such as forage boxes, bale processors, running gears, and dump boxes; manure spreaders; sugar beet harvesting equipment; dirt work equipment; and after-market service parts.
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As real estate agents know all too well, today’s homebuyers are navigating one of the most difficult housing markets in recent memory, and affordability has become a major obstacle. Home prices are at the highest levels ever recorded, there is limited inventory to choose from, competition for affordable homes is still fierce and recent mortgage rate increases have sapped some of their purchasing power. Buyers are stressed—exhausted by the process and strained financially by the increasing cost to buy.
Mortgage insurance (MI) may be the key to helping more buyers afford a home in this environment. It works by lowering the traditional 20% down payment barrier, which has become increasingly difficult for buyers to save up. With the median price of a home in the United States now above $300,000, that means buyers need to have more than $60,000 saved for a 20% down payment. With a 3% down payment loan made possible by private MI, those buyers only need about $9,000.
Thinking of MI as an advantage for homebuyers requires a change of perspective for many agents who are used to viewing it as something to be avoided at all costs. But consider this: MI has a range of benefits that can help struggling buyers achieve their dream of owning a home even in this challenging market.
Here are four significant ways MI can help buyers:
- Afford a home sooner. Waiting to save a 20% down payment can be a huge barrier for many homebuyers. And, as home prices continue to rise, the savings needed also increases. With private MI, a buyer may be able to purchase a home with as little as 3% down and begin to build equity and long-term wealth.
- Increase their budget. If your buyer is struggling to find the right home in their price range, MI can help increase their purchasing power by putting a lower percentage down on a more expensive home. For example, a buyer planning to make a 20% down payment on a $300,000 home could use those same savings to put 15% on a $400,000 home if they qualify for the loan amount.
- Cover an appraisal gap. MI can be a simple and nearly seamless solution that may also work for buyers facing an appraisal gap. In certain instances, MI may be used to shift the loan-to-value ratio (LTV) and restructure the loan so buyers can cover appraisal gaps and still have enough money to meet minimum down payment requirements.
- Preserve their savings. Even for buyers who could afford a 20% down payment, they may still prefer a lower down payment with MI as an opportunity to set aside some cash as a cushion for uncertain economic times.
Keep in mind that most MI products are temporary. Once the homeowner makes a certain number of payments or the property appreciates to a certain loan-to-value ratio and meets loan seasoning requirements, the insurance may be eligible for cancelation. When home prices go up rapidly, as they have in recent years, the payment can drop away even faster.
It is time to change the mindset on MI to a benefit—not a burden—for those who need it. MI helps millions of buyers achieve their dreams of homeownership each year, and it may be able to help your clients, too.
Visit radian.com to learn more about private MI and educational resources for homebuyers.
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Rescue crew brought out residents trapped in their homes in Zhejiang province. (Credit: AP)
BEIJING: Major flooding has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in southern China, with more rain expected.
The manufacturing hub of Guangdong suspended classes, office work and public transport amid rising waters and the threat of landslides.
In the neighboring province of Jiangxi, almost 500,000 people have seen damage to their homes and their lives uprooted.
Roughly the same number have been affected in Guangdong, largely in the cities of Shaoguan, Heyuan and Meizhou.
The heavy rainfall has collapsed roads in some parts of cities and swept away houses, cars and crops, and more rain is forecasted for coming days. Chinese authorities on Sunday issued the year's first red alert, the most severe warning, for possible mountain torrents.
In Zhejiang province a little further north, rescue crews in inflatable boats brought out residents trapped in their homes in inundated villages.
China regularly experiences flooding during the summer months, most frequently in central and southern areas that tend to receive the most rainfall. This year's flooding is the worst in decades in some areas and comes on top of strict Covid-19 regulations that have strangled travel, employment and ordinary life in much of the country.
China's worst floods in recent years were in 1998, when more than 2,000 people died and almost 3 million homes were destroyed, mostly along the Yangtze, China's mightiest river.
The government has invested heavily in flood control and hydroelectric projects such as the massive Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze.
Globally, more intense tropical storms are on the rise as a result of climate change, leading to increased flooding that threatens lives, crops and groundwater.
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South Carolina Preview 2022: Season Prediction, Breakdown, Key Games, Players
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South Carolina Gamecocks Preview 2022: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the South Carolina season with what you need to know and keys to the season.
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South Carolina Gamecocks Preview
Head Coach: Shane Beamer, 7-6, 2nd year at South Carolina
2021 Preview: Overall: 7-6, Conference: 3-5
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Season Prediction, What Will Happen
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South Carolina Gamecocks Preview 2022
You see that?
It’s one of the hardest things in sports to spot, but it you look off in the distance, way out there, you might be able to catch a quick glimpse.
It’s an SEC football fan base that actually appears to be sort of … happy? Without winning a national championship?
After going a combined 6-16 in two years before the breakthrough 2021, you can understand why the Gamecock base is excited. That’s what happens when you get a good season that no one saw coming.
These things are gone in a snap, and certainly South Carolina football fans are going to want a whole lot more out of head coach Shane Beamer – losing 30-0 to Clemson is never going to sit well – but there’s real, reasonable anticipation now for a program and team that should be dangerous.
There’s a theory that there’s no better time to be a sports fan of a team than when it’s just on the verge of being really good.
South Carolina is still building, and it’s not going to be easy with a nasty schedule that would bury most teams, but there’s a ton of experience, it has a good young head coach, and with the addition of Spencer Rattler, an argument could be made that no one outside of the Denver Broncos did more to upgrade a quarterback situation.
Is South Carolina going to beat Georgia? Almost certainly not, and it probably won’t beat Texas A&M or Clemson, either, but at least the team is good enough that an upset in any of those three games wouldn’t be insanely crazy – that’s a far cry from where the program was at last year at this time.
And that’s the next step. In 2021 it was the blowout win over Florida that came out of nowhere – along with the rocking of North Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl – and this year there needs to be another surprise or two considering how good this starting 22 should be.
SEC fan happy time goes away when the expectations start to become outsized, and that’s coming for South Carolina soon enough.
But for right now, the fan base has a team to get jacked about for the next several months.
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South Carolina Gamecocks Preview 2022: Offense
The offense is about to make a jump up. The ground game should’ve been a whole lot stronger, and the chains didn’t move easily enough, and there were WAY too many turnovers.
However, even thought the O was 111th in the nation and only scored 23 points per game, it all looked great in the bowl win over North Carolina, ten starters are back – depending on the alignment – and there’s been a talent upgrade at some of the skill spots.
Think of it this way. The Gamecocks won seven games with a rough offense, and now … look out. And why?
The Gamecocks have a star at quarterback. Spencer Rattler might not have been perfect at Oklahoma, but he’s a real, live, NFL prospect with a brilliant deep arm and the attitude to show the world that he’s ready to be everything he was supposed to be last year.
South Carolina has a 70% passer who threw 40 touchdown passes and 12 picks at a high level – the quarterback game just got upped. 2021 top quarterback Luke Doty is a capable No. 2.
The receiving corps is going to be fantastic. Josh Vann led the team with 43 catches, Dakereon Joyner and TE Jaheim Bell – along with Oklahoma transfer TE Austin Stogner – are solid, and coming in is Antwane Wells, a 116-catch, 1,853-yard, 21 touchdown receiver from James Madison who’ll be a factor right away.
The offensive line is loaded with veterans, but now it has to be better. There’s size, depth, and talent, but it has to bring a push for a running game that averaged just 136 yards per game and 3.8 yards per carry. The Gamecocks ran for just nine touchdowns with six coming in three separate games.
MarShawn Lloyd is a good back who should shine with room to move, and Juju McDowell is a speedster who needs the ball in space. Helping the cause is Wake Forest transfer Christian Beal-Smith, a four-year veteran who averaged 4.8 yards per carry with 1,871 yards and 14 touchdowns at his old gig.
South Carolina Gamecocks Preview 2022: Defense
The defense might not have been Georgia’s, but it was good enough to pick up the slack for an offense that wasn’t always cranking up the production. There’s more than enough experience back to expect at least as much success as it enjoyed last year.
It was sixth in the SEC allowing 356 yards and 24 points per game, and while it wasn’t great against the run or getting into the backfield, the pass defense led the SEC and was seventh in the nation giving up 181 yards per game.
The pass rush died over the second half of last year – but picked back up in a big way in the bowl win – and the top sacker of the last few years is gone.
Kinglsey Enagbare might be done, but Zacch Pickens is a great interior pass rusher who can get behind the line, and former Georgia State Panther Jordan Stachan is good enough on the edge to do more. There’s the depth to come up with a good rotation inside and out.
The linebacking corps gets back Brad Johnson on the outside and Sherrod Greene in the middle. Johnson was second on the team with 74 tackles, and Greene was second in 2018 with 73 tackles, but hasn’t had a lick of luck with injuries over the last few seasons.
The No. 1 pass defense in the SEC will be good again. Granted, the stats are a tad skewed because everyone was busy running the ball, but this group was good, starting with CB/Nickel Cam Smith – he came up with three picks and broken up 11 passes.
Leading playmaker Jaylan Foster is gone at safety, but in comes Devonni Reed from Central Michigan, a two-time All-MAC performer who’ll be a statistical star along with 65-tackle strong safety RJ Roderick.
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South Carolina Gamecocks: Key To The 2022 Offense
Pound the rock … pound the rock …
Actually, just be good when the rock is being pounded.
South Carolina has a talent at quarterback in Spencer Rattler, and it has a terrific receiving corps. It’s going to be tempting to throw and keep throwing, and that’s just fine – the running game doesn’t have to crank up 250 yards per game for the O to work.
However, it has to be effective. It only averaged 3.8 yards per carry last season, and it only busted past four yards per pop three times.
Once when when the ground game went off on Florida, once was when it went wild on North Carolina, and the third time was in the opener against Eastern Illinois – all three were wins.
The Gamecocks hit 4.5 yards per carry from 2018 to 2020. Do That – and, BTW, they need to chill on the fumbles when they do.
South Carolina Gamecocks: Key To The 2022 Defense
Just keep taking the ball away.
The pass rush wasn’t great, there were times when offenses ate up third down conversions like M&M’s, and everyone who got inside the 20 left with points on the board.
But the South Carolina defense made up for a whole slew of issues here and there with a whole lot of takeaways.
It came up with 24 on the year, and while they chilled over the second half of the season, the 14 in the first five games served notice for everyone the rest of the way to be far more careful with the ball.
Takeaways didn’t always matter – USC lost to Georgia, Kentucky, and Missouri even though it came up with three takeaways in each game. However, the program is 2-20 over its last 22 games – with that said, it’s 2-1 in its last three – when it doesn’t come up with multiple takeaways.
South Carolina Gamecocks: Key Player To The 2022 Season
DE/LB Jordan Strachan, Sr.
We know he can do it. We know he can get behind the line.
It’s asking for too much to be the main man that Kingsley Enagbare was over the last two seasons when it came to getting into the backfield, but Strachan has the ability to be a force.
The 6-5, 250-pounder was hardly bad in his first year with South Carolina – he made three sacks and six tackles for loss along with a nice interception – but he didn’t roll like he did in his last season at Georgia State.
The veteran made 41 tackles with 9.5 sacks and 14 tackles for loss in ten games in 2020 – the Gamecocks could use that disruption out of him.
South Carolina Gamecocks: Key Transfer
QB Spencer Rattler, Jr.
He was a real, live, Heisman candidate and top pro prospect at Oklahoma going into last season, and he wasn’t horrible. He just 1) struggled to move the offense consistently, and 2) wasn’t Caleb Williams.
It’s too much to say he played like he had all the pressure in the world on his shoulders, but he wasn’t as strong as he was when he let it rip.
For all of his faults and criticisms at OU, he’s a big-armed, big talent passer who throw 39 touchdown passes and close to 4,600 yards in the last two seasons, won a Big 12 Championship, and a Cotton Bowl.
He was a great get for the Gamecocks.
South Carolina Key Game To The 2022 Season
at Arkansas, Sept. 10
So how real are you, 2022 South Carolina?
Arkansas is going to get asked the same question as it hosts the Gamecocks to start the SEC season right after opening up against Cincinnati.
The Hogs should win this – it’s a home game – but the pressure is going to be on South Carolina to make an early statement and pull this off.
Lose, and there’s a big problem because what’s next in SEC play – Georgia, at Kentucky, Texas A&M.
There are winnable non-conference games and a week off mixed in there, so it won’t be a miserable start before things ease up a wee bit, but with what’s coming and a brutal finishing kick, getting a win on the road early on would mean everything.
South Carolina Gamecocks: 2021 Fun Stats
– Opponent 1st Quarter Scoring: 104 – Opponents 4th Quarter Scoring: 43
– Fumbles: South Carolina 24 (lost 13) – Opponents 16 (lost 9)
– Field Goals: South Carolina 16-of-17 – Opponents 19-of-22
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South Carolina Gamecocks Season Prediction, What Will Happen
This might be the toughest team in the SEC to figure out.
On the one hand, there’s a TON of experience returning after a strong winning season.
There’s upside, momentum, excitement, more talent – especially at quarterback – and there are plenty of reasons to think this could be a breakthrough team that takes what it built in 2021 and goes bigger.
And it took a late fight to sneak past Vanderbilt last year. And East Carolina was the only win over a team that finished with a winning record. And it was badly outclassed by Georgia, and Texas A&M, and Florida, and Tennessee.
But this was a rebuilding year under a new head coach, and the Gamecocks went 7-6 with a bowl victory. It was a great season, but this schedule is going to make things a whole lot tougher.
Set The South Carolina Gamecocks Regular Season Win Total At … 7
There’s no question the team is good enough to pull off a big upset somewhere, like at home against Texas A&M or maybe against Georgia.
But can it get by an improved Florida on the road?
The Gamecocks have to go to Arkansas, and Kentucky, and Clemson, and that doesn’t even factor in the date with Tennessee and the home game against a Missouri team that pulled off the win last year.
Having a quarterback as good as Spencer Rattler should be enough to account for at least one more regular season win than last season, but there should be a good base of four wins with Georgia State, Charlotte, South Carolina State, and at Vanderbilt – at least if everything goes right.
There will be at least three wins in there somewhere, and don’t be shocked if there are a few more.
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Tuesday dismissed news reports carried by a section of media regarding the new Domain Name System (DNS), saying it had not implemented centralised DNS control.
“It is clarified that PTA has only implemented an automation of blocking of unlawful content as mandated to PTA under PECA 37,” a statement issued by the authority read.
Clarification: With regards to news appearing in a section of media regarding new Domain Name System (DNS) implementation by PTA, it is clarified that PTA has only implemented an automation of blocking of unlawful content as mandated to PTA under PECA 37. pic.twitter.com/kbxImOqJqb
— PTA (@PTAofficialpk) June 21, 2022
Domain Name System (DNS) is the decentralised naming system used to identify computers or other devices like mobile phones and tablets reachable through the internet.
Contrary to the claims, it said it has not implemented a Centralised DNS Control thorugh which all resolution will be centrally performed by PTA. Instead, the resolution will be performed at ISP’s end, it added.
“The blocking of illegal content was already being done however to improve the effectiveness of the same, an automation process through domain name resolution at ISP level has been implemented under the policy directives of GoP [government of Pakistan]. This has been done in consultation and extensive due-deliberation with the Internet Service Providers (ISP) of Pakistan,” the statement said.
The PTA further clarified that the recent development will have “no effect on increasing the cost of internet services, no impact on slowing down of internet nor has any implications on privacy of the citizens whatsoever, as wrongly portrayed in some media reports”.
“Furthermore, it will also have no effect on the current arrangements with Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). In view of above stated position, all speculations related to the process should put to rest,” PTA stated.
The authority in April announced setting a Central Domain Name System (CDNS) for the prevention of immoral content specified in section 37 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca 2016).
According to the authority, the CDNS will ensure immediate, uninterrupted and automatic blocking of illegal content.
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Expos sweep doubleheader from Belle Fourche
Post 22 Expos prevail 15-5 and 10-0
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) -The Belle Fourche legion baseball team hit the road Tuesday night to take on the Post 22 Expos. The Expos swept the doubleheader 15-5 and 10-0.
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Indonesian leader to travel to Russia, Ukraine
Indonesian President Joko Widodo is planning to meet the leaders of Russia and Ukraine following the Group of Seven summit in Germany later this month.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said Wednesday that Widodo will travel to Kyiv and Moscow after attending the G-7 summit in the Bavarian village of Elmau on June 26-27.
“The president’s visits shows his concern for the humanitarian issues, trying to contribute to dealing with the food crisis caused by the war and its impact that is felt by all countries, especially developing and low-income countries,” Marsudi said.
Widodo in April officially invited Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a summit of leading rich and developing nations, known as the Group of 20, on the resort island of Bali. He said the gathering will be a catalyst for the world recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the war in Ukraine.
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Kate Bush continues to set records with 1985 song featured in ‘Stranger Things’
She’s running up the charts!
British recording artist Kate Bush continued to take the charts by storm with a song that was last popular 37 years ago.
Bush’s eerie 1985 art-pop tune “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” set three all-time records Friday, thanks to its appearance in the Netflix sci-fi drama series “ Stranger Things .”
The 37-year-old resurgent hit now holds the record for the longest time ever taken for a single to reach No. 1, according to the Official Charts Company.
Bush, 63, can now also boast of being the oldest female artist to top the charts.
Additionally, she now holds the record for the longest gap between No. 1 singles. Her song “Wuthering Heights” was a top hit in the UK 44 years ago, when she was 19.
When “Running Up That Hill” was first released, it peaked in the No. 3 position.
“It’s very touching that the song has been so warmly received, especially as it’s being driven by the young fans who love the shows,” Bush said in a statement earlier this month.
It’s not the first time a classic hit recharted after finding renewed appreciation from a recent pop culture moment.
In 2020, Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 song “Dreams” shot the band up to No. 3 on the Billboard charts after a TikTok clip of a man drinking cranberry juice and longboarding while listening to the breezy tune went viral.
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Workers in Ōtangarei were stunned to discover a young fur seal in a carpark several kilometres from the nearest waterway.
The seal pup, who they named Lucille, was first spotted at the side of a container in the carpark of the Ōtangarei Trust's administration building on William Jones Dr on Wednesday morning.
It later moved to sun itself on a tree trunk in the corner of the carpark and went to sleep.
Quinton Bush, who works at the Ōtangarei Trust, said it was not something they had ever seen in the area before.
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Advertise with NZME."We've had stray cats, all sorts of stuff like that, but never a seal," he told the Advocate.
Bush's co-worker Charlie Kelly-Kaipo - who named the seal - said their colleague who first discovered it initially mistook the marine mammal for a cat.
Lucille, whose gender is unconfirmed, was unfazed by the number of onlookers and appeared tired after what was presumably a long journey.
"It's quite tame - they're mostly really easily intimidated," Bush said.
One local walking past was startled by the sight of the seal just behind the carpark fence - but the seal was unmoved.
Onlookers believed Lucille had come from the Hatea River, close to two kilometres away from where it was found.
Department of Conservation (DoC) workers who arrived to collect the seal estimated it to be one- to two-years-old.
They placed the seal in a sack and put it in the back of their vehicle to transport it back to its natural habitat.
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Advertise with NZME.Just last week, DoC warned that it was the start of the fur seal silly season when the animals come ashore.
Another seal was seen on Whangārei Heads Rd two weeks ago and reported to DoC.
There was another case where a seal was found at Okara shops and was taken in a shopping trolley to be released in a nearby river, which DoC said was not the way to deal with seals.
"It's that time of year again - seal silly season," DoC marine science advisor Laura Boren said last week.
"Despite it happening every winter, it takes people by surprise. It's exciting because it really indicates that fur seals are doing well, and this time of year provides for some unique and special encounters with them," Boren said.
Young seals, including newly-weaned pups, leave their breeding colonies to explore and rest between May and September every year.
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Safety guidelines when watching seals:
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■ don't disturb seals by making loud noises or throwing things
■ keep dogs and children away
■ don't feed the seals
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The following are all natural behaviours and you don't need to intervene. You may see:
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■ seals sneezing, coughing and with weepy eyes
■ seals drifting in the waves
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■ seals immobile
■ seals fighting
■ seal pups spending time away from their mothers.
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Ask: is the seal in danger, injured or being harassed by people or dogs?
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At Westminster dog show, new focus on veterinarians' welfare
The dogs get the spotlight, but the upcoming Westminster Kennel Club show is also illuminating a human issue: veterinarians' mental health.
In conjunction with a first-time Veterinarian of the Year award that will be presented on the show's final day Wednesday, the club is giving $10,000 to a charity focused on veterinary professionals' psychological welfare.
It's new emotional territory for the 145-year-old event at a point when the coronavirus pandemic, and a changing culture, have bared the internal struggles of people from schoolchildren to health care workers to college athletes and professional sports stars.
For veterinarians, too, the pandemic added new strains — wrung-out clients, soaring caseloads and more — and amplified longstanding ones.
“We love what we do, and there’s a certain mystique about working with animals — a lot of people think we play with puppies all day long. But there's a lot behind this,” said American Veterinary Medicine Association President José Arce of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He hopes Westminster's award will educate people about vets' wellbeing.
The show begins with an agility competition Saturday and continues Monday through Wednesday, with the best in show prize awarded live on Fox Sports’ FS1 channel Wednesday night. For the first time, some action will also appear on the Spanish-language FOX Deportes.
Nearly 3,500 canines — the most since the 1970s — are expected at the historic Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York , show co-chairman David Haddock said. The 200-plus breeds and varieties include two newcomers, the mudi and the Russian toy.
It's the second year in a row that pandemic concerns shifted the United States ' most storied dog show to its June date and suburban outdoor venue, rather than New York City's Madison Square Garden in winter.
Westminster has given scholarships to veterinary students since 1987, but the new award recognizes a practicing vet. Inaugural winner Dr. Joseph Rossi has treated many show dogs at North Penn Animal Hospital in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, and his and his wife's Norwich terrier Dolores won the breed at Westminster in 2020.
Co-sponsored by pet insurer Trupanion, the honor comes with a contribution to MightyVet, which offers mentors, courses and other support on topics including work-life balance, handling tough conversations with clients and looking for signs that colleagues might be in serious distress.
"We want to make sure that our animals are taken care of, but to do that, we need to make sure that our vets are taken care of,” Westminster spokesperson Gail Miller Bisher said.
Concerns and research about burnout, depression and suicidality among veterinarians have percolated for decades in the field.
But the issue got wider attention after a 2019 study in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine Association showed that a higher proportion of deaths due to suicide among U.S. veterinarians than in the general population. Various other occupations have above-average suicide rates, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As in human medicine, veterinarians feel the strain of handling emergencies, caring for the sick — and, often, starting out a career with six-figure student debt.
Veterinary doctors, however, also confront the responsibility of advising pet owners about euthanasia and carrying it out.
There are emotionally painful, ethically trying moments when people can't let go of a suffering pet — or, conversely, can't afford treatment that could be life-saving. (Some charities and veterinary facilities provide financial help.) Even when euthanasia isn't under discussion, there are the challenges of communicating with anguished pet owners and coming to terms with cases that don't go as hoped.
“As the veterinarian, it hits us hard,” Rossi said. “We love animals, and that’s why we do this.”
In an average week, several veterinarians or other staffers seek out one-on-one guidance for a problem — job-related or not — from veterinary social worker Judith Harbour, who also works with pet owners at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center in New York.
Veterinarians need to be able to move from crisis to crisis at AMC , which treats more than 50,000 animals a year and has a 24-7 emergency room and highly specialized care.
“But then there needs to be a time when the difficult experiences are dealt with,” says Harbour. She aims to help vets and other staffers talk though those experiences “in a productive way that’s not just a venting session.”
She advises them to focus on their inner motivations and values, be kind to themselves and remember that that many situations don't have perfect solutions.
The American Veterinary Medicine Association also offers help, ranging from free suicide prevention training to a “workplace wellbeing certificate" program that engages entire veterinary practices in learning about such subjects as giving feedback, navigating conflict and fostering diversity and inclusion.
The pet-owning public has a role to play, too, Arce says.
“We understand how passionate people are about their pets and the health of their pets, but treating your veterinarian roughly because you're under stress, because your pet is ill, is not the way to go,” he said.
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Ghana coach Paa Kwesi Fabin blamed his team's painful defeat to Burkina Faso on the referee's penalty decision, which he sarcastically described as "wonderful."
Fabin believes it was not a penalty, and it cost them a spot in the final of the WAFU Zone B U-17 tournament.
Ousmane Camara’s converted the contentious penalty to secure a 1-0 victory for Burkina Faso at the Cape Coast Stadium.
"In the first half, they veered a little bit from the instructions they were given but in the second half they came back and played better only for some wonderful penalty to be taken against us," Fabin said at the post-match presser.
Burkina Faso set up a final meeting with Nigeria, who defeated Ivory Coast 3-1 earlier in the day.
The defeat means Ghana failed to qualify for the 2023 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations tournament.
Ghana have now failed to qualify for the U-17 AFCON for the second time in a row, after failing in 2019.
Burkina Faso and Nigeria will represent the WAFU Zone B at next year’s youth championship in Algeria.
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G20 chair to seek Ukraine-Russia peace
Indonesian president and G20 chairman Joko Widodo will visit counterparts in Ukraine and Russia next week and press for a peaceful resolution to their conflict, his foreign minister said, the first such trip by an Asian leader.
The Ukraine war has overshadowed meetings of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies this year, with Indonesia struggling to unify its members while resisting pressure from Western states threatening to boycott a November leaders' summit and pushing for Russia's exclusion.
Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said on Wednesday the visits by Jokowi, as the Indonesian president is known, to both Kyiv and Moscow would be conducted in a "not normal" situation.
"The president is showing compassion on the humanitarian crisis, will try to contribute to the food crisis caused by the war, and the impact felt on all countries, especially the developing and low-income ones," she told a news conference.
"And he'll keep pushing for the spirit of peace."
The months-long fighting in the region began in February with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow calls a "special military operation".
The conflict has caused major disruption to supply chains, stoking a food and energy crisis that has seen inflation soar in many countries, some of which have imposed export curbs to ensure domestic supplies.
Jokowi will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, having previously invited both to attend the G20 summit on the island of Bali.
Retno did not elaborate on what Jokowi would raise at the talks, which would follow the G7 Summit in Germany and bilateral meetings with leaders of those countries and others.
Jokowi's office did not immediately respond to a request for further details.
The president would discuss food security issues at those meetings in Germany, noting the global importance of Russia and Ukraine in terms of natural gas, oil, wheat and barley, Retno said.
"The situation is very complex right now. The continued war will have an impact on humanity including food, energy, and financial crises," she said, adding as G20 chairman Jokowi had spoken to leaders of the UN, Germany, Turkey recently.
"We've decided not to use a 'megaphone diplomacy' so that big benefits for the world can be achieved," she added.
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Fabio Carvalho: How Liverpool's new boy reached stardom in Balham
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During a regular training session at Balham FC in 2013, the club's founder and director, Greg Cruttwell, did something out of the ordinary.
When a young boy appeared on Clapham Common in south London asking to join in with his under-11s side, Cruttwell relented. That boy's name was Fabio Carvalho, who has just signed for Liverpool after helping to guide Fulham back to the Premier League.
"I was with another coach and we wouldn't usually let somebody get involved without contacting the club officially first," Cruttwell tells BBC Sport.
"We gave him a go and within 30 seconds you could see he was pretty special. I looked at the other coach and we both said, 'wow, this kid'."
'He had an aura about him'
Carvalho - now 19 - had just arrived from Portugal, where he had been on the books of Benfica. To help him settle in England, his parents encouraged him to find a team. Cruttwell and Balham were happy to oblige.
But despite his obvious ability, there was no pressure for him to progress and return to an academy.
"There was an aura about him, he had star quality," says Cruttwell.
"The first ball he played was like a five-iron hitting the middle of the fairway. He had great technique, superb balance and he was so quick. A natural number 10.
"At the end of that session, I said to his mum, who hardly spoke any English, 'please bring him to another training session, he's amazing'. He kept coming and we signed him. eventually.
"He was such a likeable kid, as humble as they come. All he wanted to do was play football, anytime, anywhere. His parents had their feet on the ground, they weren't pushy.
"He wasn't thinking about becoming anything in the game, he just wanted to play. Our team was Balham Blazers at the time and somehow he heard about us. We had a reputation for developing players and playing pass and move football. By luck, when he turned up, we were working with a similar age group to him and the rest is history."
Carvalho settled at Balham and, in 2015, he began to attract attention from the biggest clubs in England and Europe. Cruttwell, a self-confessed Fulham fan, played a key role in facilitating his next move, but even then, nobody was in any great rush for the next step.
"Even though he'd been at Benfica, his parents just wanted him to be at a good club, developing," adds Crutwell. "They were quite happy for him to stay at Balham longer than he did. Eventually, the inevitable happened and the offers came in.
"They were super-relaxed and trusted us to develop him, they saw he was doing well. When you are between the ages of 10 and 14, you need to be developing but you need to be having fun, too.
"He played in a six-a-side tournament for us in Guildford and word went round about him. He was unbelievable. We were packed into the clubhouse when it was raining and I could hear people talking about him. He was whipping crosses in with rabonas and all sorts!"
'He has changed the landscape for us'
Fulham caught on to Carvalho early, while Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool courted him as well.
"We dealt with the clubs because his parents felt under pressure from them all getting in touch," says Cuttwell.
"They were at an arm's distance, but there was a circus around him. It was the right time for him to move and Fulham seemed to be the best fit.
"Their academy is a category one, it is still flying today. It is one of the best around and we felt Fabio would have a good chance there. Huw Jennings, who ran the academy at the time, had done amazingly bringing through the likes of Patrick Roberts and Ryan Sessegnon.
"His parents and Fabio weren't dazzled by Chelsea, for example. If you go to Cobham [the club's training ground], it is like Disney Land, but they saw the bigger picture. They also insisted Balham were part of the deal, we played a crucial role.
"We played hardball and got a deal that is unprecedented for grassroots football. We've got sell-on percentages and all that, Balham have done well out of this. It is fantastic business. What he's done has changed the landscape for us."
'He will be patient and work hard'
While in Fulham's youth ranks, Carvalho played alongside future Liverpool teammate Harvey Elliot, while captaining England at under-17 level.
After signing a professional contract at Craven Cottage in 2020, he made fleeting appearances under Scott Parker in the Premier League before becoming a mainstay in Marco Silva's Championship winning side, scoring 10 goals and assisting eight in 38 games from an attacking midfield role.
Since the turn of the year he has played for Portugal's under-21s - and now he is hopeful of a first senior call-up.
"The attention is worldwide, but he's shut the noise away and is the same kid," Cruttwell adds.
"I've kept in touch with him his family. They insisted we joined them on the pitch celebrating Fulham's promotion against Preston. It was wonderful, a dream come true."
Cruttwell was not involved in Carvalho's move to Liverpool, but he backs him to make a success of himself on Merseyside.
"The type of player he is, he suits [Jurgen] Klopp down to the bone," predicts Cuttwell. "The great thing about him is he keeps things simple. He passes and moves at pace, he sees things. He could be in that generation that replaces the likes of [Roberto] Firmino and Sadio Mane.
"If he has to be patient, he will be, he will keep working hard. I'm very confident he will succeed."
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Anna Rita Zippilli Jardine, age 82, departed this life on Saturday, June 18, 2022, at the Kline Hospice House in Mount Airy, Maryland.
Anna was born July 31, 1939, in Camden, New Jersey, to Domenico Zippilli and Rosa D’Ascentiis Zippilli. In addition to her parents, Anna was predeceased by her loving husband of 54 years, Chester Jardine, in 2015. Anna was also predeceased by her brothers, Joseph Zippilli, Dominic Zippilli, John Zippilli, Carmen Zippilli, Vincent Zippilli and Gabriel Zippilli; and sisters, Assunta Agostini, Angeline Tomasetto and Natalie Fanelle. Anna is survived by her sister, Lucia MacPherson.
Anna leaves behind her four children, Roslyn Breitenbach and husband Mark, Joseph Jardine and wife Michelle, Celeste Welch and husband Chuck, and Susan Evans and husband Thomas. Anna also leaves behind seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, Dustilyn Rodgers and son James; Hillary Courter, husband Ben and daughters Harper and Callie; Jace Evans; Kimberly Ernst, husband Josh and daughters Coralynn and Loretta; Brooke Evans; Emily Hurd, husband John, daughter Rylie Anne and son Dean; and Marla Wills and son Jiraiya.
As a young woman, Anna worked at RCA in Camden, New Jersey, for a couple of years. She enjoyed her job there as a statistical typist. Anna worked as an administrative aide for 16 years at Linganore High School. She also served as a Girl Scouts leader in Rockville, Maryland, for several years.
Anna attended Calvary United Methodist Church and participated with the OWLS program. Anna loved to sing. As a member of the Chancel Choir at Calvary Methodist, she sang during church services, and as a member of the Heirs of Joy Choir, she visited and sang in nursing homes.
While living at Country Meadows, Anna was a member of the Meadowlarks Choir and the Giving Back Committee. She loved singing for and entertaining the residents. Anna also enjoyed reading, crocheting and Bible study.
A memorial service will be held at Stauffer Funeral Home, 8 E. Ridgeville Blvd, Mount Airy, Maryland, on Saturday, June 25, 2022. A visitation will be held at 11 a.m., with the memorial service immediately following at noon. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Anna’s memory to Frederick Health Hospice.
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Ten million Americans camped for the first time during the height of the pandemic according to Campgrounds America and — with the popularity of RV campgrounds growing — a city in the one of Iowa’s tourism hot spots is reviewing its zoning rules for RV parks.
Okoboji City Administrator Michael Meyers says RV camping is currently allowed in his city’s commercial district along the Highway 71 corridor. “It just kind of came up here and we kind of started doing a hard look at our own zoning text and trying to figure out how we fit into that puzzle,” Meyers said. “I think the feel of the community is that we want to make that a conditional use moving forward.”
Making property use conditional in a commercial zone gives Okoboji residents a chance to provide input. “Our zoning districts are generally split into two different sections: permissible uses and conditional uses,” he said. “Conditional uses generally require much more approvals from the city including going through the Planning and Zoning Commission as well as going to the Board of Adjustment, notification of neighbors and just some heightened regulations around the specific use.”
Okoboji’s Planning and Zoning Commission will meet soon to consider these changes, which would ultimately have to be approved by Okoboi’s City Council. According to the RV industry, more than 50 new campgrounds and RV parks opened this summer in the United States.
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Some friends and family gathered in Baker Park on Tuesday to celebrate someone they lost a year ago and play a sport she enjoyed — bocce.
The group dedicated a bench and tree to Betsey Gibson, who died on June 22, 2021, a day after her 76th birthday. The bench and tree were placed near the newly constructed bocce courts.
Friends and family hosted a potluck meal along with the dedication.
Gibson and her friends Susan Chapman and Michael McCrossin were born in June, July and August, respectively. They took an annual trip together with other friends to celebrate their birthdays.
Chapman, McCrossin, Gibson and other friends would gather at the William R. Talley Recreation Center to exercise.
Arlene Smith, who met Gibson in 2012, said she was the only one willing to attend a pennyfarthing race with her, referring to high-wheeled bicycles.
The group loved to play bocce together. On Sunday nights, while a concert series was happening in the bandshell, the friends would gather in Baker Park.
Starting in 2018, they played on the grass fields, behind two trees to the left side of the bell tower. They loved to play on the bocce string court.
“It wasn't necessarily that we love the game, but it was fun, just being together,” McCrossin said.
Even though he has played on the new paved courts a couple of times, he is still getting used to them, McCrossin said. The official courts don’t have the same bumps and friction that the grass does, he said.
The bumps and lumps in the grass were part of why Judy Briley proposed bocce courts to the city. A group she gathered to play in 2014 quickly noticed that on park land, well-aimed balls went in the wrong direction.
In January 2015, Briley talked to the city. The process to get bocce courts was a long one.
Briley first created a steering committee to help manage and organize construction.
The committee connected with Friends of Baker Park, an organization "continually working toward a sustainable park environment through preservation, restoration, use, and maintenance,” according to its website.
Michael Paskowsky, a part of the organization, said it was happy to help Briley and the committee work toward bocce courts.
“The board of directors approved a $5,000 grant as seed money for the project,” he said.
The organization continued to help raise money for construction supplies, which required around $125,000, according to Briley. Friends of Baker Park helped organize wine-tasting events and set up donations to buy benches and the pavilion that sits by the bocce courts.
One bench now honors Gibson. Her friends wanted a place to visit and remember her.
It took about $3,500 to purchase, according to Chapman. Extra money from a fundraiser paid for a tree behind it.
After the money for materials was raised in 2019, the city provided workers to construct the bocce courts.
Unfortunately, right before a scheduled groundbreaking ceremony, everything shut down because of the pandemic, Briley said.
The steering committee evolved into Frederick Bocce, and had to wait until September 2021 for construction to begin.
Frederick Bocce did the designs. It consulted experts around the world about how to make the best courts, according to Briley.
Frederick Bocce hosts competitive bocce on Wednesday evenings and casual bocce on Sundays. About 100 people attend each week, Briley said.
Anyone can use the courts. The Talley recreation center has four sets of bocce balls that can be used without a fee. The courts can also be rented for priority access, games or parties.
One big focus was accessibility. The court has an Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant ramp. Gates provide wheelchair access onto each court.
The four courts have sliders to help with scoring.
Paskowsky wants the courts to be accessible to all. He said Briley has talked with the Special Olympics and hopes to have Frederick County Public Schools' Unified Bocce Team play there.
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• A 28-year-old Alcoa woman reported at 2:33 p.m. Saturday that her 31-year-old boyfriend, also of Alcoa, took her phone from her and grabbed her, injuring her arm. A witness reportedly confirmed her account of the incident. Police arrested the boyfriend and charged him with simple domestic assault.
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• A 31-year-old Walland woman told police at 9:43 p.m. June 18 that the 43-year-old man she lived with had thrown her glasses from her face, breaking them. A witness told police that the 43 year old had also threatened to hit the Walland woman over the head with a can of corn. The man was arrested and charged with simple domestic assault.
• A 24-year-old Maryville woman told police at 8:51 p.m. June 19 that her 26-year-old girlfriend, also of Maryville, struck her in the face with a broom after the 24 year old dropped a glass bowl. Police note that the younger woman appeared shaken and had visible injuries. The 26 year old was arrested and charged with simple domestic assault.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Elite swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk doesn’t know if his father was able to see him winning a medal for Ukraine at the swimming world championships.
Romanchuk’s father is fighting in the east of Ukraine, where pockets of resistance are still denying Russia full military control of the region almost four months after it unleashed its invasion.
“He’s in a hot spot and it’s a hard time,” Romanchuk said after taking bronze in the men’s 800-meter freestyle race on Tuesday.
Romanchuk doesn’t dare talk to his dad out of fear his father’s location could be tracked through the call.
“It’s not possible for them to join the network because the Russians can search everything,” Romanchuk said. “But every morning he sends me (a message) that he is OK.”
The 25-year-old Romanchuk – who still intends to race the men’s 1500, then the 10K and 5K races in open water at the worlds – almost never made it to Budapest.
“My mind was to go to the war to defend my home,” said Romanchuk, who spent 10 days agonizing with his wife and family over the best course of action after Russia invaded his country on Feb. 24.
“We decided that I cannot do anything with the gun. For me, it’s better to continue training, to do everything that I do best,” said Romanchuk, who won bronze in the 800 and silver in the 1500 at the Tokyo Olympics last year. “With my swimming, I can tell all the world about the situation in Ukraine.”
As training facilities were destroyed by the war, Romanchuk was invited by German swimmer Florian Wellbrock – who finished second behind American Bobby Finke in the 800 – to come join him in Germany to train.
Romanchuk and Wellbrock embraced after finishing 1-2 in qualifying for Tuesday’s race. But Finke’s strong finish prevented a repeat in the final. Romanchuk finished 0.69 seconds behind Finke. The top three all set national records.
Romanchuk said he was both “proud and disappointed” of his third place. He said his medal proves “that Ukrainians will fight to the end, it doesn’t matter what the situation.”
Swimmers from Russia and its ally Belarus have been excluded from the championships. Romanchuk said he doesn’t know how he would have reacted if they hadn’t been.
“My reaction could be maybe aggressive, I don’t know,” said Romanchuk, who referred to Olympic backstroke champion Evgeny Rylov appearing at a pro-war rally in Moscow. “Inside of me, I was ready to go and to kill him,” he said of Rylov. “But before he was a good friend. Before. But everything changed.”
Romanchuk spoke of the destruction Russia has caused in his country, the people killed, the lives shattered.
It makes it hard for him to focus on swimming.
“Especially in the beginning when I moved to Germany to join the group. It was hard because mentally you are in the war and you are sleeping just three or four hours because you are always reading the news,” Romanchuk said. “It was so hard in the beginning, but then you understand that all you can do is to swim, to train, to represent your country.”
For the freshly minted medalist, it’s a time to feel proud.
“I’m so proud of all the people in Ukraine. This is all I can say. I’m proud of the people, of the government, the president. I’m so proud of them,” Romanchuk said. “And I’m really happy to be Ukrainian.”
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One of the best parts of all my years in the daily newspaper business was honoring the student-athletes at our year-end banquet.
It was a night when the East Bay Athletic League athletes all came together under one roof with their families in an event that was every bit for the parents as it was for the students.
At the end of the evening the highlight was the announcing of our male and female athletes of the year for the fall, winter and spring seasons.
As the daily newspapers moved further away from local coverage and to more regional coverage, those banquets faded away into oblivion.
It wasn't until 11 years ago that local access station Tri-Valley Community Television stepped in to fill the void.
This year TV30 celebrated its 11th annual Outstanding High School Athletic Awards program. Thirty-five awards were presented to high school students from Dublin, Livermore and Pleasanton to honor them for their accomplishments. Viewers can watch the televised program broadcasting on Comcast Channel 30 or AT&T U-Verse via Channel 99. It is also available streaming and Video on Demand at tv30.org.
One of the highlighted awards each year is the Coach of the Year, which this year was presented to Dublin High boys' basketball coach Tom Costello.
Costello began coaching at the school in 2006, and since then, his teams have won 20 or more games seven times and earned numerous league titles.
Earlier this year, Costello won his 300th game at Dublin.
The 35 student-athletes honored include All-EBAL selections, MVPs and NCS champions representing 16 different North Coast Section sports.
The event is produced by Tri-Valley Community Television, the TV30 Foundation, their donors, and the cities of Dublin, Livermore and Pleasanton.
"The Annual Athletic Awards is probably our most complex undertaking to produce. However, the deep appreciation by the students and their families makes it so very worthwhile," said Dr. Marshall Kamena, president of the Tri-Valley Community Television Foundation.
"We were so pleased to be able to continue this uplifting tradition in spite of the challenges this past year," added Melissa Tench-Stevens, executive director at TV30.
Weekly throughout the 2021-22 school season an outstanding high school athlete was selected and highlighted on TV30's weekly sports program, "Tri-Valley Sports Final."
Those student-athletes were recognized during this award program. "Tri-Valley Sports Final" hosts Ian Bartholomew and Tim Sbranti presented the awards to the honorees.
The 2021-22 Athletes of the Week included:
Nick Walsh (Foothill football), T.J. Costello (Dublin football), Grayce Olson (Foothill volleyball), Jayden Petrus (Dublin football), Nayeli Ti'a (Granada volleyball), Kenny Olson (Foothill football), Tony Schillaci (Foothill football), Camille Ernst (Amador Valley volleyball), Jaclyn LaHa (Amador Valley golf), Keira Howard (Amador Valley golf), Jana Barron (Granada cross-country), Daniel Trampe (Dublin cross-country) and Lauren Reilly (Amador Valley water polo).
Montana Parkinson-Lubold (Amador Valley tennis), Courtney Anderson Jr. (Dublin basketball), Gianna Ghio (Amador Valley basketball), Kevin Gad (Granada basketball), Donovan Cooks (Dublin basketball), Jackson Morgan (Granada wrestling), Andrew McKeever (Granada basketball), Henry Baalman (Dublin wrestling), Timothy Cowan (Livermore wrestling) and Tallon Chambers (Livermore wrestling).
Makayla Winchell (Granada softball), Taylor Rodriguez (Livermore softball), Avery Francis (Foothill softball), Jack Basseer (Foothill baseball), Tyler Gebb (Foothill baseball), Joshua Morano (Granada baseball), Evan Bilter (Foothill baseball), Torre Anderson (Foothill track and field), Abigail Herscu (Granada swimming), Nate Clinton (Amador Valley volleyball), Kieran Campbell (Granada volleyball) and Brandon Burns (Dublin track and field).
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NACKA STRAND, Sweden, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hexagon AB, a global leader in digital reality solutions combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies, today announced the introduction of the all-new, next-generation Leica BLK360, which dramatically advances reality capture by delivering two of the most sought-after necessities: speed and efficiency.
Drawing on the success and innovative features of the award-winning Leica BLK series, the new BLK360 creates stunning, photorealistic, accurate digital twins within just 20 seconds. Like its predecessor, the new BLK360 encourages new users to introduce reality capture to new industries and markets due to its speed, portability, and ease of use.
Today's projects demand fast, accurate, real-time data collection. The new BLK360 is an ideal sensor for any application requiring fast, up-to-date scanning, such as digital construction and building lifecycle monitoring. It enables users to move quickly about any environment without interruption, viewing and sharing the data during the capture process to provide real-time access to updated digital twins.
"We continue to bring speed and agility to reality capture to accelerate the world's sustainable transformation with Smart Digital Realities that free industry to do its best work. When you have an up-to-date, 1:1 digital twin of reality fused with infinite, real-time data from the physical and digital worlds – you gain ubiquitous access to invaluable insight. Not only can this save time but also eliminate human error to improve safety and reduce waste," says Hexagon President and CEO Ola Rollén.
"If reality capture can continue to keep up, or even outpace, the needs of modern industry while also improving sustainability, everyone wins," continued Rollén. "The new BLK360 is a vital tool for democratising reality capture in so many different applications – from public planning, architecture, construction and environmental applications to the advancement of media & entertainment by supporting the creation of mind-bending visual effects. The possibilities are endless."
The BLK360 accelerates Hexagon's portfolio of sensor-software systems, which form the basis for creating Smart Digital Realities by fusing the digital and physical worlds, in real-time. Combined, the new scanning and imaging technologies onboard the BLK360 enable extremely fast and highly accurate reality capture workflows, speeding up every step of the process. Depending on project scope and size, a BLK360 user could save days or weeks of precious time with rapid scanning, pre-registered data, and high-speed transfer to preferred software workflows. BLK360 data can be automatically uploaded to HxDR, Hexagon's cloud-based reality capture platform where users can build their own Smart Digital Realities.
The new BLK360 was introduced yesterday at HxGN Live Global 2022 in Las Vegas, USA, as part of the keynote address by Thomas Harring, President of Hexagon's Geosystems division. The BLK360 is now available for demonstration and purchase through BLK360.com.
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Citigroup’s South Korean subsidiary will sell its performing loan portfolio worth some 8 trillion won ($6.1 billion) to local financial giant KB Kookmin Bank and the internet-only Toss Bank, sources said Wednesday.
The move is part of Citibank Korea’s decision announced in October last year to shut down its retail banking operations in phases, after its monthslong attempt to find a buyer of the business failed. Its parent firm and US banking giant Citigroup decided in April last year to pull out its consumer banking business from Korea among 13 countries mostly in Asia, with its CEO Jane Fraser saying they “don’t have the scale” needed to compete.
KB Kookmin Bank, a commercial lender under the nation’s No. 1 banking group by total assets, has reached the final stages of purchasing the loan portfolio from Citibank Korea, according to its official.
“KB Kookmin Bank is currently discussing the details of the deal, including the interest rate for loan repayment, and the related announcements are expected to come by the end of the week,” a KB Kookmin Bank spokesperson, requesting anonymity, told The Korea Herald.
“KB Kookmin offers a very similar loan system in terms and conditions to Citibank Korea, so it is expected to be convenient for customers to move to our bank,” the official added.
An official at Toss Bank also confirmed to The Korea Herald that they were in the final stages of the negotiations Wednesday, saying that Citibank Korea is planning to sell its loan portfolio to one commercial lender and one internet-only bank at the moment.
For customers seeking to meet loan maturity at Citibank Korea, they can extend the maturity date for existing loans until end-2026.
Citibank Korea was reportedly having difficulties in negotiating with the two banks, with the US Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes sending waves through the Korean market and affecting borrowing rates here.
Citibank Korea posted a net loss of 796 billion won last year, according to a regulatory filing, a result of providing its employees with a retirement package of a combined 1.1 trillion won.
KB Kookmin Bank’s first-quarter net profit jumped 41.9 percent to 977.3 billion won on-year, while Toss Bank posted a net loss of 65.4 billion won in the cited period, regulatory filings showed.
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Indore (Madhya Pradesh): We have often heard that 'Passion and love know no boundary'. An engineer from Education Department seems to give it a face.
A Sub Engineer from Indore has quit his government job and filed a nomination for the post of independent mayor in the municipal elections.
The story of him quitting his government job and contesting mayoral elections is nothing but a tale of the love and passion of a son for his mother.
33-year-old Mahendra Makasre who is a sub-engineer in the MP Education Department has resigned from the government job and filed his nomination. Makasre's nomination form has been approved and he will also be allotted the election symbol on Wednesday i.e. today.
Not to be mentioned, Makasre has competed against the candidates of BJP, Congress, AAP and NCP in the civic body elections.
"My father used to work as a laborer and mother used to clean utensils from house to house. My mother wanted me to study hard and become an engineer. Due to financial problems in the house, I worked as a laborer with my father, and also did the work of selling vegetables, because I wanted to fulfill my mother's dream. Now my mother wants me to become the mayor of Indore city and serve the public. I want to fulfill every dream of my mother and that is why I have left my government job and entered the electoral fray for the post of mayor. Even if I lose, I will continue to serve the public. I am ready to do anything to fulfill my mother's dreams," said Makasre.
"I have full faith that the people of Indore will make me the mayor of Indore by giving me their blessings. I am 33 years old and have two daughters. After starting the job of sub-engineer in the education department, I surveyed 24 dilapidated schools of 80 to 100 years old in Indore and submitted their report to the collector," added he.
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Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office searching for Reginald Nelson
Published 12:01 pm Monday, June 20, 2022
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Reginald Lakeith Nelson
Sex: Male
Age: 38
Race: Black
Height: 5’09”
Weight: 175
Criminal Charges
Theft of Property 2nd Degree
Burglary 3rd Degree
Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office
Reginald Lakeith Nelson is wanted by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office for Burglary and Theft of Property.
Reginald Nelson unlawfully entered his ex-girlfriend’s house and stole her purse and other unspecified items.
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