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NEW YORK (AP) — Mets ace Max Scherzer had his minor league rehab start with Double-A Binghamton pushed back a day to Wednesday, but New York manager Buck Showalter says there has been no setback in his recovery from a strained oblique.
Scherzer will be pitching on seven days of rest after his first rehab start with the Rumble Ponies on June 21. Over the weekend, New York dashed speculation that the three-time Cy Young Award winner would be ready to return for Sunday’s game in Miami.
The Mets instead announced the 37-year-old would pitch for Binghamton against the Hartford Yard Goats on Tuesday.
Showalter said the Mets decided Monday that Scherzer should pitch Wednesday instead, citing discussions with Scherzer about how he felt and general caution with the nature of his injury.
“There’s no reason to rush it,” Showalter said. “We’re not going to make that mistake.”
Showalter added that Scherzer “thinks he could pitch here tonight” for the Mets in their game against the Houston Astros.
“I think he came around,” Showalter added.
The NL East-leading Mets had Jeff McNeil back in the lineup Tuesday after he missed five games with right hamstring tightness. The 2019 All-Star was set to bat eighth and play second base.
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Delta County, part of GMUG National Forests rescind Stage 1 fire restrictions
Published: Jun. 28, 2022 at 5:43 PM MDT|Updated: 15 minutes ago
DELTA COUNTY, Colo. (KKCO) - Recent monsoons traveling across western Colorado have brought much-needed moisture to the valley, allowing Delta County and the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests to relax their fire restrictions. Stage 1 fire restrictions, which went into place at the beginning of June, have been rescinded for the area.
Delta County, the Uncompahgre National Forest, the Gunnison National Forest, and the Fruita division of the Grand Mesa National Forest are affected.
The Delta County Sheriff’s Office is still encouraging residents and visitors to exercise extreme caution with open fires, as the area is still highly flammable.
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Dodgers: Braves Pitcher Blames Bad Start on Freddie Freeman’s Ovation
The Dodgers were able to make the Braves work a little bit in the first inning of the game. Ian Anderson had to labor through 27 pitches to get through it, and he was able to do it with limited damage. Anderson allowed Los Angeles to push across just 2 runs...
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Worried over losing minority votes, mainly those of Muslims, the Congress top brass held a meeting with the party’s state leaders here on Tuesday, to formulate a strategy to retain their “core” vote bank.
Congress senior leader Rahul Gandhi held a brainstorming meeting attended by general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal, general secretary incharge of Karnataka Randeep Surjewala, leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah and KPCC president D K Shivakumar.
In the meeting, which lasted for more than four hours, Congress poll strategist Sunil Kanugolu made a presentation about the recent survey conducted in the state, sources said.
According to the survey, 20 to 30% of minority votes, mainly those of Muslims, had moved towards parties like SDPI and AIMIM.
The SDPI, which was limited to coastal Karnataka and Kodagu district, is making its presence felt across the state.
This is considered as a major threat to the Congress’ core vote bank.
The AIMIM is getting good support from Muslim communities in some places, mostly Hyderabad Karnataka region, the survey report said.
At the meeting, Siddaramaiah is learnt to have said that the Congress failed to stand by the minorities over issues like hijab, halal, restriction on Muslim traders in festivals and the anti-conversion bill.
This was the main reason for the Muslim community moving away from the party, he said.
“We should always stand by them without any hesitation,” the former CM is learnt to have suggested, the sources said.
Rahul felt that the state leaders should take up minorities’ issues so that they don’t feel betrayed by the Congress.
“Since only the Congress can stand by the minorities, we should always fight for their cause,” Rahul is learnt to have said at the meeting.
According to a Congress leader, Muslims constitute 12.91% of Karnataka’s population and are electorally significant in 20-odd urban seats.
The community is capable of changing the fortunes of candidates in at least 85 to 90 seats, said the leader.
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Price Chopper/Market 32 announced it is recalling kids’ hand soap due to a potential health risk.
The store announced the voluntary manufacturer recall on Mount Royal Kids Citrus Foaming Hand Soap with UPC 37432200293. Mount Royal, the manufacturer, is recalling this product due to possible contamination with P. Aeruginosa, a microorganism found in the environment which poses a potential health risk, primarily in immunocompromised individuals.
Customers who purchased the affected products can return it to their local Price Chopper/Market 32 store for a full refund.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
5-8-1-1, FIREBALL: 7
(five, eight, one, one; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
5-8-1-1, FIREBALL: 7
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Roe v. Wade ruling injects new urgency into midterms for Democrats
( The Hill ) – The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade catapulted the issue of abortion rights directly into the midterms campaign on Friday, with Democrats seeking to put the issue front and center.
Democratic candidates up and down the ballot issued their reactions in a slew of statements following the decision, while the party’s national campaign apparatus rolled out a website designed to “help voters channel anger into action and organize with local coordinated field campaigns.”
While issues like rising inflation, crime and the flow of migrants over the U.S. southern border have dominated campaign rhetoric on the GOP side, Democrats are hoping to use the high court’s decision to galvanize their own bases.
“This fall, Roe is on the ballot. The right to privacy is on the ballot,” President Biden said at a press conference following the decision’s release on Friday.
Roe demise shows conservative Supreme Court wants to move ‘very far and very fast’Democrats and abortion rights advocates point to what they say is conservatives’ goal to ban abortion nationwide.
“They won’t give up unless voters stop them. The stakes in November’s midterm elections are higher than ever for reproductive health and rights, including abortion,” Planned Parenthood said in a statement on Friday.
In swing states and districts across the country, Democratic candidates rolled out their own statements hitting their Republican opponents over the issue.
In Wisconsin, Senate candidate and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) called for the filibuster to be abolished so Roe could be “the law of the land.” Fellow Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate Alex Lasry also called for the filibuster to be abolished, accusing Republicans of “embracing extremism.”
In Pennsylvania, Democratic Senate nominee and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) drew a clear contrast with his Republican opponent Mehmet Oz on the issue.
“I will protect abortion rights. Dr. Oz will take them away. It’s that simple,” Fetterman said.
In Texas, which has an abortion trigger law that will go into effect within the next month, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke released a video calling for voters to support his campaign amid news of the ruling.
“We have to focus on the way in which we are going to overcome this,” O’Rourke said. “The only way to do this is to win political power.
At the House level, Democratic candidates and incumbents also issued reactions leaning into the issue.
Incumbent Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), who is facing a contentious election bid in the commonwealth’s 2nd congressional district, condemned the decision along with Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) announcement that he will seek a 15-week abortion ban following the decision.
“And there it is,” Luria tweeted. “Republicans in Virginia have a plan to remove existing protections for women to make decisions about their body.”
Over in Texas’ 15th congressional district, Democratic nominee Michelle Vallejo released a statement calling for Roe v. Wade to be codified into law.
“We need representatives that will codify Roe v. Wade and advocate every single day for our right to choose,” said Vallejo. “I will do everything in my power as the next congresswoman from TX15 to be a champion for Texas women and families.”
The issue is also poised to play a role in competitive state legislature races, like in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia and North Carolina.
“Republican majorities in these state legislatures are in for a rude awakening when they start taking away people’s rights,” said Vicky Hausman, co-founder of Forward Majority, a Democratic group that works elect Democrats to state legislatures.
“We see a great deal of outrage driven by this decision and that outrage is happening exactly where Democrats need to be winning in these key districts that present a path to a majority in state legislatures,” she continued.
Thomas calls for overturning precedents on contraceptives, LGBTQ rightsFormer Vice President Mike Pence seemed to confirm those concerns when he called for a nationwide abortion ban on Friday.
“Having been given this second chance for Life, we must not rest and must not relent until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in every state in the land,” Pence said in a tweet.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also rolled out a statement exclaiming “Life wins!”
“As this debate now returns to the states and the American people, we know there is still much work ahead. Republicans will continue to advocate for life, uphold the law, and stand against an extreme Democrat Party’s pro-abortion agenda,” McDaniel said.
However, other Republicans are signaling they intend to stay laser-focused on their messaging regarding inflation, crime and the border.
“Today’s Supreme Court ruling returns the issue of abortion to the states and allows voters to decide whether they agree with Democrats’ extreme support for taxpayer-funded late term abortion,” said Samantha Bullock, spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee.
“This ruling does nothing to change the fact that voters’ top concerns are rising prices, soaring crime, and the disaster at the southern border,” she continued.
Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano downplayed the ruling, saying in a statement that Democrats want to use the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe to distract voters from issues that matter more to them.
“People in this area and in my part of the state across the border here are struggling to make ends meet and they don’t care about those issues over there,” Mastriano, who’s up against Democrat Josh Shapiro, said. “They want to have security. They want crime to be down. They want to be able to put food on the table and gas in their cars.”
Democrats say they are keenly aware of the role other issues, like inflation, are playing in campaign discourse, but argue that abortion access is an economic and health care issue.
“We can walk and chew gum at the same time,” said Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D), who also serves as co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association. “This is an important issue. It is not something that takes second seed to any of the other issues and nor do other issues take second seed to this.”
Anti-abortion organizations are signaling they want to play a leading role in the midterms.
On Thursday, the conservative anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America launched a $2 million digital ad buy in Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin for two weeks.
“This is going to be hugely mobilizing for pro-life Americans, who have now seen the fruition of their past political engagement, especially the last 10 years when we’ve focused heavily on Senate races and the White House to give us this court,” said Mallory Carroll, vice president of communications at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
“We’re talking to pro-life Americans, who don’t always vote in non-presidential election years, and people we’ve identified as being persuadable, so the infamous women in the suburbs, Hispanic voters, Black voters, [and] traditional Democratic voting groups,” she continued.
But Democrats and abortion rights groups are pouring in money as well. In April, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund announced a $16 million paid media campaign “to educate and increase urgency around the abortion access crisis facing the country.”
“This is more than a Democratic issue,” Ford said. “You have several folks who are Republicans and Independents who support a right to an abortion and who I think will be concerned about the fact that the Supreme Court has now for the first time in our country removed a constitutional right.”
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The Brush Police Department recently shared on its Facebook page what city residents and visitors need to know about fireworks in the City of Brush ahead of and on the Fourth of July.
“It’s about that time of year again, the 4th of July is only (a handful of) days away. With the 4th comes fireworks. As a reminder for everyone, fireworks are not authorized to be lit in the city limits of Brush until three days prior to the 4th. (July 1, 2, 3). These include ALL fireworks not just illegal ones,” the BPD release states.
In Colorado, illegal fireworks “are not allowed to be lit any time; including the 4th,” the BPD release states. “Illegal fireworks are anything that leaves the ground or explodes. Examples would be bottle rockets, M-80s, and Black Cats.”
State law says that “permissible fireworks are non-explosive and are not intended to leave the ground. Specifically, they are small firework devices that produce audible or visual effects through combustion.” Also, “permissible fireworks may not contain more than 50 milligrams of explosive composition.”
The types of fireworks that are permissible in Colorado include:
- fountains,
- ground spinners,
- illuminating torches;
- dipped sticks and sparklers;
- toy propellants;
- trick noise makers;
- and tube devices.
Illegal fireworks in Colorado include:
- firecrackers,
- rockets (including bottle rockets),
- roman candles,
- cherry bombs,
- mortars and similar items, such as M-80s.
Brush Police Department “will be enforcing any complaints or witnessed violations” related to fireworks and “any illegal fireworks will be confiscated and the owner has a potential to be issued a ticket.”
Brush residents and visitors were also asked by BPD to “please be mindful of your neighbors and surrounding houses” before lighting or setting off fireworks.
“They could have someone in the house that is impacted by the loud noises or a pet that becomes fearful. The police department sees a rise in dogs-at-large this time of year because they flee the loud sounds coming from them,” the release stated.
Brush Police Department reiterated that the goal is for people to have safe, fun, legal celebrations over the Fourth of July.
“We want everyone to enjoy in celebrating our wonderful country’s freedom, we only ask that it be done Safely, Respectfully, and Legally,” the release stated.
Anyone with questions about fireworks can contact dispatch at 970-842-5021.
For more information on this subject, the Brush Police Department also directed people to the state’s orders at: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/14-11_update_2003_fireworks_lawsib.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1J-YsMnk_8-xC7OAhkxQWZF2Tz1aBq-hCVAHEhbmqYVKLMC0x266qyEAI and the City of Brush ordinance that includes fireworks rules at: https://library.municode.com/co/brush/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=CD_ORD_CH10GEOF_ART7WE_S10-7-30FIOTCO&fbclid=IwAR1COum2V3jgHTlB2KqhgZajwnqLxR5vzHbclk44OFUmCpXG_SwnKe6wgrY.
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For the Ukrainians competing at SW19, however, the war never truly leaves them.
On Wednesday, Anhelina Kalinina will face Lesia Tsurenko in an all-Ukrainian second-round match they hope can draw attention to the continued plight of their country.
Since Russia began its war in Ukraine in February, millions of refugees have
fled Ukraine to neighboring countries, and for Kalinina, her family is among the uprooted.
She confirmed to reporters on Monday that her parents’ home in the
Kyiv suburb of Irpin had been bombed, saying “they are alive, they are safe” but “living on the bags and praying every day.”
“There are huge holes in the house, like huge holes,” she said, before revealing the family were now living with her and her husband.
“It’s a very small apartment for my family, because, like, my mum, my dad, my brother, and they have pets.
“They are so happy, and we are grateful … that they have a place to move from Irpin city because Irpin is fully bombed.”
“I’m helping a lot my grandmother and grandfather who are in occupied territory now,” she added.
“They can’t leave. So next door is like Russian soldiers with all their military stuff.”
After Kalinina defeated Anna Bondar 4-6 6-2 6-4 in the first round, she secured ?78,000 ($96,000) to help her family. A win in the second-round would yield a total of ?120,000 ($147,000).
“I understand it’s hard to focus, but for me it matters if I win or if I lose,” Kalinina said.
“If you go further, you earn more money. Then I’m able to help, and I’m helping as much as I can and not only to my family. So for me that matters.”
‘We still have war and we need your help’
Her opponent on Wednesday, Tsurenko, has been working with a psychologist to navigate the trauma caused by the war.
While Tsurenko’s mother continues to reside in the south of Ukraine, her sister now lives in Italy near her having lived through three months of the war in Ukraine.
“I don’t feel good,” she told reporters. “I feel really worried, especially because I know that they are trying to get the one object, which is 100 meters away from my home, from the building where I live.
“When the war started, I start to feel this tension inside of me … This feeling, this tension will only be released when the war will finish. There is nothing I can do about it.”
In previous grand slams this year, Tsurenko was drawn against the eventual tournament champion in the opening round — Ashleigh Barty at the Australian Open and Iga Swiatek at the French Open.
At Wimbledon, however, Tsurenko received a more favorable first-round opponent and dispatched Britain’s Jodie Burridge in a 6-2 6-2 victory.
Like Kalinina, her motivation to continue playing tennis stems from using her platform to help her country.
“I think with all the sportsmen that are able to take part in the competitions, also with all the singers that go to Poland, to Germany, and having all the concerts, that part when Ukrainians can just go and remind the whole world that we are here, we still have war and we need your help,” she said.
“This is the main thing that I would wish to happen, that we get a lot of heavy weapons. We just want to remind [people] that Ukraine is in trouble and we need help.”
On the same day as Tsurenko’s first match at Wimbledon, the war spilled out of the front line once again as a Russian airstrike struck a
shopping mall in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, killing at least 18 people.
The tennis player said the toughest part for her was that she knew people on the front line.
“One guy has been taken by Russians, so we don’t know what is going on with him,” she said.
“We know that he’s alive. Two more guys are fighting there at the moment, and a few people are dead already because of the war.”
On Monday the two players had not decided how to honor their home country during their match.
“It’s great that two of us are meeting in the second round, and so it will be one Ukrainian in the third round,” she continued.
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Planting trees for the future
The Grade 6 kids at L’Envolée in Campbell’s Bay, planted a tree on June 15th in the municipal park by the baseball park in Campbell’s Bay. The tree was given to them by the Municipality of Campbell’s Bay, André Fortin and Bio-Horticentre Méristème in Aylmer. In addition to planting a tree, every student wrote a secret wish for the future that was sealed inside a time capsule that was buried under the tree. The 12 graduates participated in the planting of the bur oak. Pictured from left to right pictured is the Kiana Dorris-Perrier, Lily-Rose Beauregard, Nève Murphy, Bo Paquette-Marion, Paige Hearty, Katelynne-Leigh Gauthier, Finley Dagenais, Raphaël Fleury, Levi Sauriol, John Enmel, Ana-belle Dorris-Perrier, and Gaïa Riopel.
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NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — Four months after suggesting those who defected to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series were sellouts, Brooks Koepka explained Tuesday that he simply changed his mind.
Koepka signed with LIV Golf last week for its first event on American soil, which starts Thursday at Pumpkin Ridge west of Portland.
It was a stunning reversal for the four-time major champion, who was once an outspoken critic of the fledgling series that seeks to challenge the PGA Tour.
“Opinions change. I feel very comfortable with the decision I made. I’m happy, and did what’s best for me,” Koepka said.
In February, Koepka said of LIV Golf: “They’ll get their guys. Somebody will sell out and go to it.”
Former world No. 1 and fellow four-time major winner Rory McIlroy suggested last week that Koepka and others were duplicitous "to say one thing and then do another thing.”
“Look, he’s entitled to his opinion. He can think whatever he wants," Koepka responded. "He’s going to do what’s best for him and his family, I’m going to do what’s best for me and my family. Can’t hate on anybody for that, and like I said, opinions change, man.”
Koepka cited a knee injury that has taken a toll on his body and the desire to spend more time with his family as factors in his decision. He did not mention the multimillion-dollar signing bonuses LIV Golf — which is backed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund — has handed to players. Koepka is one of the biggest names, along with Dustin Johnson and six-time major champion Phil Mickelson.
And there's more money to be made: The 48-man field will compete for a $20 million purse, with an additional $5 million prize fund for a team competition. Charl Schwartzel won the inaugural event outside London and took home $4.75 million. LIV tournaments are played over 54 holes with no cut, and even the last-place finisher gets paid.
Players who spoke to reporters on Tuesday skirted questions about Saudi Arabia's human rights record.
“I understand the topics you’re trying to bring up, and they’re horrible events, but I’m here to play golf. That’s my deal,” said Pat Perez, a three-time PGA Tour winner who also spoke against LIV Golf before changing his mind. “I’ve got an opportunity to play golf, and that’s it.”
Bryson DeChambeau, the 2020 U.S. Open champion, pointed to the good he plans to do in his community with the money he's making from LIV Golf.
“I think as time goes on, hopefully people will see the good that they are doing and what they are trying to accomplish rather than looking at the bad that’s happened before,” DeChambeau said. “I think moving on from that is important, and going and continuing to move forward in a positive light is something that could be a force for good for the future of the game.”
The mayor of North Plains, as well as 10 other local mayors, wrote a letter to the Texas-based owners of Pumpkin Ridge, saying the upstart league does not align with their values because of Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses, including the murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has said the tour is an example of sportswashing, in which countries use sporting events as a way to distract or minimize human rights abuses. He has pointed to the hit-and-run death of an Oregon teenager: The Saudi national accused in the case fled before trial.
The PGA Tour has sought fight off the threat posed by LIV Golf by disciplining players. The tour suspended every active member who competed in the first LIV event. Those who play in Oregon will also be suspended unless they resign their tour memberships.
Perez said the PGA Tour's tactics have backfired.
“You want to be able to play anywhere you want. And you should be able to play wherever you want. We should be able to do whatever we want. We are independent contractors,” Perez said. “The (PGA) Tour has tried to strong-arm us all year and come with bans and suspensions and all that, and how’d that work? Look how many guys are here. That didn’t work at all.”
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Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts reaches labor deal with workers
By MARK PRATT
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BOSTON (AP) — More than 200 employees at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have ratified a contract that includes better pay and benefits. The unionized workers are joining a wave of other recent union developments at some of the nation’s most prestigious museums. Officials said Tuesday that the collective bargaining agreement is the first since museum workers voted to join the United Auto Workers Local 2110 in November 2020. The union’s president says the contract provides a more equitable compensation structure and a democratic voice for the staff. The union represents 227 of the museum’s administrative, technical, curatorial and conservation employees. | https://kesq.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/06/28/bostons-museum-of-fine-arts-reaches-labor-deal-with-workers/ | 2022-06-29T00:57:39Z | https://kesq.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/06/28/bostons-museum-of-fine-arts-reaches-labor-deal-with-workers/ | true | null |
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Karan Johar begs industry friends to appear on Koffee With Karan in new teaser
The seventh season of filmmaker Karan Johar Koffee’s popular chat show With Karan is set to air soon. Judging by the show’s new teaser, released by streaming platform Disney+ Hotstar on Tuesday, Karan is struggling to convince his Bollywood friends to appear on the show. In a new video, the filmmaker can be seen on the phone pleading with anonymous, unseen friends in the film industry, who are apparently reluctant to return to his show. Read also : Ranbir Kapoor urged Karan Johar not to invite him on Koffee with Karan
In the teaser, Karan begins by saying that he knows everyone is waiting for the new season of Koffee With Karan. This is followed by a montage of some examples of the kind of mean remarks he and the show receive online. Following this, Karan says maybe not everyone, but he is sure his Bollywood friends are excited to be on his show.
This follows a hilarious section where Karan is seen on the phone begging and pleading with several celebrities to appear on the show. He even offers bribes in the form of the famous Koffee baskets and a role in his films, but apparently no one is in the mood to give in. Reacting to the video, a fan commented on the video shared by Karan, Hilarious, love the humor. Another said: This is the most honest promo ever.
Koffee With Karan began airing on Star World in 2004. The upcoming season marks the first time it will not air on TV, but will air on OTT instead, starting July 7. controversial opinions.
Many stars have said they often regret the things they end up saying on the show. In 2017, Ranbir Kapoor said on an AIB podcast, He (Karan) makes us money. We come and get fucked all year long. And that’s not fair. Me and Anushka (Sharma, her co-star in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil) was actually going to protest and bring the whole film industry together because it’s not fair.
In 15 years, celebrities such as Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Twinkle Khanna, Rani Mukerji, Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Ekta Kapoor, John Abraham , Lara Dutta and many more have appeared on the show as guests.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Reacting to a surprising and growing monkeypox outbreak, U.S. health officials on Tuesday expanded the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus.
They also said they are providing more monkeypox vaccine, working to expand testing, and taking other steps to try to get ahead of the outbreak.
“We will continue to take aggressive action against this virus,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 response coordinator, who has also been playing a role in how the government deals with monkeypox.
The administration said it was expanding the pool of people who are advised to get vaccinated to include those who may realize on their own that they could have been infected. That includes men who who have recently had sex with men at parties or in other gatherings in cities where monkeypox cases have been identified.
Most monkeypox patients experience only fever, body aches, chills and fatigue. People with more serious illness may develop a rash and lesions on the face and hands that can spread to other parts of the body.
The disease is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals. It does not usually spread easily among people.
Last month, cases began emerging in Europe and the United States. Many — but not all — of those who contracted the virus had traveled internationally. Most were men who have sex with men, but health officials stress that anyone can get monkeypox.
Case counts have continued to grow. As of Tuesday, the U.S. had identified 306 cases in 27 states and the District of Columbia. More than 4,700 cases have been found in more than 40 other countries outside the areas of Africa where the virus is endemic.
There have been no U.S. deaths and officials say the risk to the American public is low. But they are taking steps to assure people that medical measures are in place to deal with the growing problem.
One of the steps was to expand who is recommended to get vaccinated. Vaccines customarily are given to build immunity in people before they are ever infected. But if given within days or even a few weeks of first becoming infected, some vaccines can reduce severity of symptoms.
A two-dose vaccine, Jynneos, is approved for monkeypox in the U.S. The government has many more doses of an older smallpox vaccine — ACAM2000 — that they say could also be used, but that vaccine is considered to have a greater risk of side effects and is not recommended for people who have HIV. So it’s the Jynneos vaccine that officials have been trying to use as a primary weapon against the monkeypox outbreak.
So far, the government has deployed over 9,000 doses of vaccine. U.S. officials on Tuesday said said they are increasing the amount of Jynneos vaccine they are making available, allocating 56,000 doses immediately and about 240,000 more over the coming weeks. They promised more than 1 million more over the coming months.
Another change: Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised that vaccines be given after exposure to people whom health officials identify as close personal contacts of cases. But on Tuesday, CDC officials say they are expanding the recommendation to people who were never identified but may realize on their own that they may have been infected.
That can include men who have sex with men who have recently had multiple sex partners in a venue where there was known to be monkeypox or in an area where monkeypox is spreading.
“It’s almost like we’re expanding the definition of who a contact might be,” said the CDC’s Jennifer McQuiston. If people have been to a party or other place where monkeypox has been known to spread “we recommend they come in for a vaccine,” she said.
The CDC’s expansion follows similar steps taken in New York City and the District of Columbia.
The District of Columbia has identified 19 cases, but case-tracking investigations revealed that some of the infected men had been in gatherings where they were hugging, kissing or in other forms of close intimate contact with people they didn’t know, said Anil Mangla of the D.C. health department.
It was clear that “we were missing something here,” and needed to start offering services to others, said Mangla, an epidemiologist.
Last Thursday, New York City’s health department — armed with 1,000 of doses of Jynneos from the federal government — announced it was opening a temporary clinic to offer the vaccine to all gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men who have had multiple or anonymous sex partners in the previous two weeks.
But all the appointments quickly filled up that day, and the last round of appointments was Monday. “Until we receive more supply we are unable to release additional vaccination appointments,” said Patrick Gallahue, a spokesman for the city’s health department, in an email.
On Monday, the District of Columbia’s health department took a similar step. The department started taking appointments at 1 p.m. Monday but had to stop after 20 minutes, Mangla said.
The department only had 200 doses of Jynneos, and it was clear at the point that it the department didn’t have the vaccine supply or staffing to continue to sign up new people, he said.
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ANAHEIM — A day after nine members of the Angels were suspended for their roles in Sunday’s fight against the Mariners, they revealed that Archie Bradley will suffer the most.
The Angels relief pitcher tripped going over the dugout railing when the fight began, bracing himself with his hand and suffering a fractured right elbow. He won’t be able to throw for at least four weeks, and the total time he’ll miss could end up being “a couple months,” head athletic trainer Mike Frostad said on Tuesday.
Bradley was not available in the Angels’ clubhouse when it was open to the media on Tuesday.
Bradley, 29, has a 4.82 ERA in 21 games this season, but he’s been pitching better after a rough first five games. Bradley has a 2.08 ERA since April 24, holding opponents to a .196 batting average.
“Obviously, the way he’s been throwing the ball recently and what he brings to the clubhouse every day, it’s a big loss,” Angels acting manager Ray Montgomery said.
Further depleting the Angels’ bullpen depth, right-hander Jimmy Herget suffered a setback in his rehab from a shoulder impingement. Herget was shut down after feeling more discomfort when he tried to throw, Frostad said.
The Angels are also going to be without closer Raisel Iglesias and setup man Ryan Tepera at some point, because each was suspended for their roles in the fight. Tepera (three games) and Iglesias (two) each appealed their suspensions, so they remain active until a decision is rendered. Right-hander Andrew Wantz is serving his three-game suspension right now, so he’ll be back after the current series.
The only good news relating to the Angels’ bullpen depth is that right-hander Austin Warren began his rehab assignment at Triple-A on Tuesday. Warren, who is out with a right triceps strain, is expected to pitch in “a few” games, Frostad said.
NEVIN’S PERSPECTIVE
Manager Phil Nevin, who served the first game of his 10-game suspension on Monday night, said it was difficult to watch the Angels’ 4-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
“I didn’t know what to expect,” said Nevin, who watched from the baseball operations suite below the press box. “It was harder. More nerve-wracking. It was tough being up there. The way the guys played and responded and the job the staff did, I was proud of everybody.”
Nevin is still permitted to be around the team during pregame activities and participate fully in planning for the game. He just has to vacate the clubhouse and dugout before the first pitch.
Nevin’s suspension will be over when the Angels play the third game of the four-game series next weekend in Baltimore. That means Nevin will be able to watch the first two games of the series against his son, Tyler, without also being consumed with managing.
“I joked that I always wanted to just see a game of him playing first,” Nevin said, “so I guess the timing works out for that. That’s the only positive.”
Nevin declined to give his opinion on the suspension itself.
Montgomery will manage eight of the 10 games during Nevin’s suspension. However, Montgomery also has to serve a two-game suspension that will include Sunday’s game in Houston and Tuesday’s game in Miami. The Angels haven’t announced who will manage those games.
NOTES
Infielder David Fletcher (hip surgery) is expected to take batting practice on the field sometime this week. The Angels will bring him on the upcoming trip, Frostad said. Fletcher said he expects to be activated just after the All-Star break, if not sooner. …
Infielder Matt Duffy (back) will also travel with the Angels on this trip. Frostad said they are hoping he could be activated by the end of the trip. …
Infielder Michael Stefanic returned to Triple-A Salt Lake on Tuesday after being out with a quadriceps injury for about three weeks. With third baseman Anthony Rendon out for the season and the Angels’ other major league infielders struggling, there appears to be an opportunity for Stefanic if he performs well at Triple-A. He had an .838 OPS at Triple-A before he was hurt. …
Outfielder Juan Lagares cleared waivers and reported to Triple-A. The Angels designated Lagares for assignment after he posted a .460 OPS in 20 big league games.
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Which book light is best?
Book lights may seem like a thing of the past in a world of e-readers and tablets, but rest assured that you aren’t alone in preferring the physical feel of a book. Book lights are made for bibliophiles that enjoy reading late into the night. They are especially handy for use in situations where you wouldn’t want to disturb someone else in the room or airplane cabin with an overly bright light.
The Vekkia LuminoLite Rechargeable Book Light might be the best option for you, thanks to its three different light temperatures, rechargeable batteries and lightweight design.
What to know before you buy a book light
Why use a book light?
Book lights are designed for late night reading, but they are also great for a variety of other things. If you’re a writer, book lights are a great way to illuminate your notebook or journal. Book lights are also great for late-night knitting or crocheting.
Don’t think that book lights have to be limited to use in bed, either. Book lights are great for use on airplanes, buses, trains and cars since their soft light can be used without bothering those around you. Many people even prefer using book lights at their desk as opposed to an overhead or desk lamp since they are smaller, easier to control and can be less bothersome to the eyes.
Book light size and weight
One of the most important things to consider when buying a book light is its size and weight. Book lights, in their essence, should be lightweight so that they don’t harm books when they’re clipped onto either the cover or the pages. Size and weight are usually correlated, so opting for a smaller book light is best if you intend to use it with books.
Different types of book lights
While the clip-on book light is a tried and true design, there are several different types of book lights that you can buy online now. For example, the Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light is a book light that you wear around your neck instead of clipping it to your book or notebook.
Aside from differences in designs, most book lights are differentiated by the type of light they use. The Vekkia Amber Rechargeable 9 LED Eye-Care Book Light is a good example of this. It uses a warmer light that is much easier on the eyes than traditional blue light.
What to look for in a quality book light
Easily adjustable neck
If you opt for a classic book light designed to be clipped onto a book, you’ll want to make sure that the neck is flexible enough to be easily adjusted. Most book lights will have a flexible neck that can be moved around while reading, but some come with stiff necks that can be awkward to adjust. Of course, if you plan on using your book light for knitting or crocheting, this won’t be as important.
Battery life or rechargeable battery
Book lights of old used to require batteries and had a relatively short battery life. Some book lights on the market still do require batteries that will have to be changed out every so often, but most models have an improved battery life thanks to advancements in technology.
Nowadays, it is very common for book lights to be rechargeable, which is a great feature that can save you money on batteries in the long run. So, if you use a book light often, look for this feature in your next book light.
Adjustable light settings
Quality book lights, such as the Vekkia LuminoLite Rechargeable Book Light, will have multiple light settings that can be adjusted to fit your personal preferences and needs. These book lights are best for your eyes and normally avoid blue light, known to disrupt sleep patterns.
How much you can expect to spend on a book light
Book lights normally range from $15-$30.
Book light FAQ
What type of light is best for late-night reading?
A. Go with a light that has a warmer temperature for reading in the dark. Blue light or cooler lights will be hard on the eyes.
Can I use a book light with paperback books?
A. Yes, but if you want to avoid damaging your paperbacks, buy a book light that is on the lighter side.
What’s the best book light to buy?
Top book light
Vekkia LuminoLite Rechargeable Book Light
What you need to know: This rechargeable book light from Vekkia is perfect for those who like to read late into the night.
What you’ll love: Thanks to its long battery life, soft lighting and portability, you will be able to read for hours on end before bed or while traveling.
What you should consider: Some users have complained that the neck is too flexible.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top book light for the money
Glorious-Lite 9 LED Book Light
What you need to know: This book light is great for those looking for a quality book light on a budget.
What you’ll love: This book light has three color temperatures (white, warm and natural) to keep your eyes comfortable for long reading sessions.
What you should consider: This book light is not rechargeable and operates on batteries, but it can be plugged into your laptop or an AC adaptor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Honwell Rechargeable Book Light
What you need to know: This book light from Honwell is perfect for children, thanks to its cute design and color options.
What you’ll love: Since the book light is rechargeable, you won’t have to worry about batteries. Plus, it’s cordless thanks to its convenient USB interface.
What you should consider: Some users have reported that the book light has a short battery life.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — You light it and they will write it! Clark County inspectors were out enforcing the fight against illegal fireworks.
Tuesday was the first day of fireworks sales in southern Nevada. At TNT fireworks, sales have already taken place, and at the same time, safety practices have been shared.
“I bought a bundle to support the high heat baseball team here,” said local army veteran Jorge Plancarte.
Plancarte bought his fireworks early from a reputable stand and told 8 News Now that he’s against illegal fireworks.
“You might cause destruction, not just for you, but for the entire city of Las Vegas.”
That was one of the many reasons for county inspectors to enforce the ban on illegal fireworks by making sure that all booths comply with county regulations.
“All of the product inside the booth has a safe and sane sticker on it,” said fire inspector Mertin Casillas.
Some of the safe and sane fireworks include sparklers, smokeballs, snake-type fireworks, and ground-spinning fireworks. They include anything that doesn’t shoot into the air.
“The fine starts at five hundred dollars up to ten thousands dollars depending on the amount of pyrotechnics that you have on your possession,” Casillas explained.
With almost forty inspectors out working, they plan to crack down on illegal fireworks, Casillas told 8 News Now.
“Contact I Spy if you already know you have a situation because that will allow us to create the data for the following year.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested Tuesday that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani be investigated for filing a false police report for claiming he was assaulted by a heckler who clapped him on the back Sunday at a Staten Island grocery store.
“Someone needs to remind former Mayor Giuliani that falsely reporting a crime is a crime," Adams told reporters, saying he'd watched security video that undercut Giuliani’s harrowing account.
Giuliani, 78, described being hit so hard it felt like being shot with a gun.
The heckler, who police said cried out “What’s up scumbag?” as he walked away from Giuliani, was arrested and spent more than 24 hours in jail before his arraignment Monday on misdemeanor charges including third-degree assault.
Adams said he thinks Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon “has the wrong person that he’s investigating.
“When you look at the video, the guy basically walked by and patted him on the back,” Adams said. “It was clear that he was not punched in the head. It was clear that it didn’t feel like a bullet. It was clear that he wasn’t about to fall to the ground.”
Adams and McMahon are Democrats.
Giuliani, a Republican, served as mayor from 1994 to 2001, gaining widespread praise for his leadership after 9/11. Now suspended from practicing law, he served as the personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump and took on a leading role in disputing the results of Trump’s 2020 election loss.
Sunday’s supermarket incident happened as Giuliani was campaigning for his son, Andrew, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor in Tuesday’s primary.
McMahon’s office declined comment on Adams' calls for an investigation into Giuliani. A message seeking comment was left with the New York City police department, where Adams once served as a captain.
Giuliani gave a profanity laced response when asked about Adams’ comments by the New York Post. He called the mayor a "scumbag.”
The heckler was released without bail Monday. He is due back in court Aug. 17. Court records indicate he is now represented by a private lawyer, who did not respond to a message seeking comment Tuesday. A public defender group that represented him at his arraignment decried the man’s arrest.
Giuliani was standing with a group of people when a man walking past reached out, touched his back with an open palm and then said something as he walked away.
Giuliani said the man accused him of being “a woman killer,” which he took to be a reference to the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
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A reckoning that's come not a moment too soon: Never before has the Met been the subject of such a constant stream of controversies in such a short period of time, writes STEPHEN WRIGHT
As someone who for more than a quarter of a century has been at the forefront of the Daily Mail’s coverage of major police scandals, I cannot recall such a rotten era at Scotland Yard.
The Met’s bungled Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry, which this newspaper had a crucial role in revealing as part of its acclaimed ‘Justice for Stephen’ campaign, marked a particular low in the recent history of Britain’s biggest force.
As was the jailing of the corrupt Met commander Ali Dizaei, for so long appeased by politically correct and cowardly senior officers, afraid to get tough with a sociopath happy to play the race card at the first sign of trouble for him. There was also the damaging fallout from the fatal police shooting of the innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, mistaken for a terrorist, and the appalling blunders that failed to prevent the murder of child abuse victim Victoria Climbie.
But never before has the Met been the subject of such a constant stream of controversies in such a short period of time – many of which could, with effective leadership, have been nipped in the bud or completely avoided.
Three years ago, when I started writing critically about the running of the force under its recently ousted chief Cressida Dick, there was an outcry from her close-knit band of senior officers who briefed against me – occasionally openly – for (in their view) running a one-man campaign against her and the force. One even told a virtual gathering of dozens of top brass not to believe what they read in ‘that rag’. The remark, relayed to me by a stunned source the next day, suggested how out of touch her loyalists were.
Failed by the Met: From left, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Nick Bramall, Alastair Morgan, Harvey Proctor, Michael McManus, Paul Gambaccini, and Lady Diana Brittan
But there were other officers who had a more objective stance on the shortcomings of the Met under Dame Cressida, and her predecessor Bernard Hogan-Howe – who in the wake of the phone hacking scandal banned informal contact between detectives and journalists, making holding the force to account infinitely more challenging.
After succeeding Lord Hogan-Howe as commissioner in 2017, Dame Cressida enjoyed an extended honeymoon period but in 2019, there were serious concerns in the Met about her hands-off, aloof style and questionable judgment.
Following the conviction of VIP sex abuse liar Carl ‘Nick’ Beech three years ago, and the Met’s shocking handling of the scandalous Operation Midland, things deteriorated. Here was a force that did not like being scrutinised by the media. Matters worsened still further in February last year when the widow of ex-home secretary Leon Brittan – falsely accused of being a child sex murderer by Beech – revealed in an explosive interview in the Mail that a ‘culture of cover-up and flick-away’ existed in the Met and that senior officers lacked a moral spine.
Again the Met adopted the ‘bunker mentality’ and refused to accept justified criticism from a woman with impeccable credentials.
The historic meeting organised by the Mail. A landmark panel of victims of police corruption must go - incompetence and malpractice today call for the head of Cressida Dick. In a bombshell open letter to Boris Johnson, they said the disaster-prone Met commissioner should not be handed a two-year contract extension as expected.
Yet Dame Cressida and the Met were back in the news again by June last year, when she was quick to dismiss the key findings of an eight-year inquiry into the unsolved axe murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan, which criticised her personally and branded the Met ‘institutionally corrupt’ in the way it concealed or denied failings over his killing.
This report could not have been more damning of Scotland Yard and its culture. But for Dame Cressida and her team to reject the main conclusions, without even reading it, was gob-smacking – and reflected a wider culture of arrogance and cover-up.
Finally, last September, I brought together a panel of victims of alleged Met corruption, incompetence and malpractice for a joint interview.
They included Baroness Lawrence, mother of murdered teenager Stephen, and the son of D-Day hero Field Marshal Lord Bramall, falsely accused by Beech.
In an open letter to Boris Johnson, they said the disaster-prone Met commissioner should not be handed a two-year contract extension. They also demanded an overhaul of the Met’s senior team, ‘urgent and long-overdue’ reform of the police complaints system and a shake-up of the ‘unfit for purpose’ Independent Office for Police Conduct.
Their pleas were ignored by No 10 but, as it turned out, Dame Cressida only won a stay of execution before being forced to resign in February.
By then, further scandals had sealed her fate, including the police-vetting row in the Sarah Everard case and widespread criticism of how the Met handled a vigil in the wake of her murder, the appalling failings by detectives in the case of gay serial killer Stephen Port and the damning report into the ‘toxic’ culture of racism and sexism at Charing Cross police station.
Scotland Yard is a world-renowned brand facing its worst crisis in modern times
A quick glance at the crime figures for the capital further underline why the Met faced the humiliation of being placed in ‘special measures’ yesterday.
Last year in London, 30 teenagers were killed, the worst death toll since the Second World War. Despite the force having the highest number of officers in a decade, detection rates remain woeful with 22 per cent less crimes solved in 2021 than in 2020.
Scotland Yard is a world-renowned brand facing its worst crisis in modern times. Finally the politicians have woken up to the truth about its failings.
Whoever succeeds Dame Cressida faces an enormous challenge restoring it to its former glory – in terms of its structure, culture and leadership. It cannot happen soon enough.
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RHOBH’s Erika Jayne is forced to hand over $750K diamond earrings from ex Tom Girardi in bankruptcy hearing
RHOBH's Erika Jayne has been forced to hand over her $750K earrings from ex Tom Girardi following a judge's order, The Sun can exclusively reveal.
The controversial reality star, whose jewels are now believed to be worth about $1.4million, lost her battle in a bankruptcy hearing for her ex and his law firm on Tuesday.
Erika's ex, who has been accused of stealing clients' money, was forced into bankruptcy along with his firm Girardi Keese in 2020, and there are more than $500million in claims from creditors.
The disgraced former lawyer, 83, gave his estranged wife the jewels in approximately 2004 or 2005 as a gift but they were stolen around a year later, according to court filings.
Erika alleges their family home was ransacked while they were out for dinner one evening, and she had left the earrings in a crystal container in her bathroom.
The Bravo star claimed in court papers they were not insured so her husband replaced them, insisting: "I had no reason to doubt or question the source of funds used to buy the earrings."
According to court filings, the money used came from settlement cash supposedly for a group of people who "suffered serious health issues from their use of the drug Rezulin."
A source told The Sun on Tuesday a judge agreed during a hearing the trustee in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy case can sell the earrings - purchased from M&M jewelers - in open court.
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They added the value of the jewelry will be determined by experts and the money will go the trustee for the Rezulin victims who are suing in a separate class action lawsuit.
Ronald Richards, who formerly represented Chapter 7 trustee Elissa Miller and is a creditor in the estate, also tweeted on Tuesday: "The Trustee already has @erikajayne's former earrings, the judge is forfeiting all rights of Erika Girardi to the earrings!! What a hearing. The judge agrees with the Trustee. Motion is granted."
The trustee previously claimed in court filings: "Mrs. Girardi in her declaration stated that she first learned of her husband's embezzlement when the issue surfaced in this case – November 2021.
"At that time, Mrs. Girardi had an obligation to return the earrings to the Trustee. She did not, and the Trustee was compelled to file her Motion.
"Mrs. Girardi's response, because of the passage of time, she gets to keep the fruit of the embezzlement. Not so."
They went on to cite legal codes which provide that "every person who withholds any property from the owner . . . knowing the property to be stolen... shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170."
The reality star is not being investigated criminally amid the embezzlement claims and denies knowing anything about Girardi's finances, while her ex has not been charged with any crime to date.
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Girardi, who has been disbarred, suffers from dementia and has moved into a senior living facility amid the legal scandal, his family claimed amid his conservatorship.
Erika, 50, previously alleged she was unable to hand over the earrings as she had been hit with yet another tax bill for $2.2million, according to court documents.
"I am in the midst of trying to figure out the basis of this tax bill with the assistance of my business manager, who is also an accountant," she wrote. "I do not have the ability to pay the FTB tax bill.
"I also do not know if the FTB is claiming any sort of lien on my assets, which include the diamond earrings."
According to a letter from the Franchise Tax Board and viewed by The Sun, she already owes more than $2.5million from 2011 to 2013 for her company EJ Global, which is currently suspended.
It is unclear if she owes tax for the years 2013 to 2019.
During an episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Erika claimed that she currently has "zero dollars" to her name - despite refusing to get rid of her $40,000-a-month glam squad.
While talking to co-star Kyle Richards, 53, she said: "I'm out here rebuilding my life, but girl, I have zero dollars.
"And by the time those trustees are done with him, there will be nothing. So I walk out of this with nothing."
Erika, who has since downsized her home, continued: "And I said that to my lawyers the other day. I said, 'I expect nothing.'
"And one of my lawyers looked at me and said, 'That is the most courageous thing I've ever heard.'
"Every day brings a brand new disaster. It's just full of f**king bulls**t." | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/19032601/rhobhs-erika-jayne-is-forced-to-hand-over-750k-earrings/ | 2022-06-29T01:29:38Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/19032601/rhobhs-erika-jayne-is-forced-to-hand-over-750k-earrings/ | true | 3 |
Trademark Filing Reveals Bray Wyatt’s New Ring Name?
Ever since Bray Wyatt was released from WWE last year fans have been patiently waiting for him to make any sort of move, and he recently filed an interesting trademark. On June 21st the former Universal Champion filed to trademark “Wyatt...
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It was a busy day for British hopes at Wimbledon on Tuesday as 11 home players were in action in the first round.
Here, the PA news agency tracks how the day unfolded.
1.03pm: It was a great start for the Britons as Ryan Peniston, who has had an excellent grass court season, marked his Wimbledon debut with a 6-4 6-3 6-2 win over Henri Laaksonen.
1.23pm: Katie Swan became the first casualty of the day as she was beaten 4-6 6-4 6-4 by Marta Kostyuk. In a match that was postponed on Monday, Swan took the opening set, but the Ukrainian came back.
1.57pm: There was more disappointment as Jay Clarke exited to Christian Harrison in a contest that started on Monday. The British number seven went down 7-6 (3) 6-1 7-6 (6).
2.16pm: A hat-trick of British losses was completed with defeat for Sonay Kartal. The Brighton player had her opponent changed at short notice due to a withdrawal but suffered a 6-4 3-6 6-1 loss to Dutch lucky loser Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove.
3.41pm: Heather Watson stopped the rot with an impressive win on Court One. In another match that could not be finished on Monday, Watson came back to win the deciding set against Tamara Korpatsch to seal a 6-7 (7) 7-5 6-2 success.
3.43pm: Paul Jubb fell just short in an epic five-set battle with Nick Kyrgios. Jubb put up a valiant fight against the Australian but eventually succumbed to a 3-6 6-1 7-5 6-7 (3) 7-5 loss.
5.47pm: It was a memorable day for Jack Draper as he recorded his maiden grand slam victory, beating Belgian Zizou Bergs with an impressive 6-4 6-4 7-6 (4) win.
6.49pm:: Alastair Gray produced an unexpected British victory, marking his grand slam singles debut by seeing off 2018 Wimbledon boys’ singles champion Tseng Chun-hsin 6-3 6-3 7-6 (3).
8.09pm: The biggest surprise of the day came late on when British number two Dan Evans lost in straight sets to Jason Kubler. The Australian, 29, was making just his second appearance at Wimbledon and first since 2018 but hammered Evans 6-1 6-4 6-3.
8.38pm:: Liam Broady kept the wins rolling in, getting past Lukas Klein in five sets. It took three hours and 30 minutes but the world number 132 won 4-6 6-3 7-5 6-7 (2) 6-3.
8.50: Katie Boulter ensured the day would end on a winning note as she became the sixth British success. Boulter, on her way back from injury, had too much for Frenchwoman Clara Burel, winning 7-5 6-3.
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SINTRA, Portugal (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank said Tuesday that it will move gradually to combat soaring consumer prices with interest rate hikes in July and September but will keep its options open to “stamp out” inflation if it surges faster than expected.
In a speech opening an ECB forum on central banking in Sintra, Portugal, bank President Christine Lagarde used strong terms as policymakers target inflation running at a record 8.1% in the 19 countries using the euro. With new inflation figures due out Friday, Lagarde said the bank is using the dual approach to be able to respond to economic uncertainty.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has led to surging energy and food prices that are higher than those seen in the 1970s and ’80s, and “given its energy dependence, the euro area is experiencing these shocks acutely,” Lagarde said.
“The size and complexity of these shocks are also creating uncertainty about how persistent this inflation is likely to be,” she said.
The bank has already announced it will end asset purchases that worked to boost the economy on Friday, and follow with its first interest rates hikes in 11 years at its meeting next month. It will also raise rates in September but is leaving the option open for a bigger hike than the quarter-point increase in July, in case inflation keeps spiking.
The ECB also is trying to avoid further hurting economic growth by acting too aggressively, having “revised markedly down our forecast for growth in the next two years,” Lagarde said.
But “there are obviously conditions in which gradualism would not be appropriate. If, for example, we were to see higher inflation threatening to de-anchor inflation expectations or signs of a more permanent loss of economic potential,” she said, “we would need to withdraw accommodation more promptly to stamp out the risk of a self-fulfilling spiral.”
Other central banks around the world, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, have moved quicker than the ECB to combat runaway inflation. But they face the threat of spurring a recession as they make borrowing more expensive, with Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledging last week that “it’s certainly a possibility.”
The Fed has raised rates three times this year, including an increase of three-quarters of a point that marked its biggest hike in nearly three decades, and has more planned. The Bank of England has raised rates five times since December.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Serena Williams began — and ended — her comeback at Wimbledon after 364 days out of singles competition looking very much like someone who hadn’t competed in just that long. She missed shots, shook her head, rolled her eyes.
In between, there were moments where Williams played very much like someone whose strokes and will have carried her to 23 Grand Slam titles. She hit blistering serves and strokes, celebrated with arms aloft.
Returning to the site of her last singles match, which she had to stop after less than a set because of an injury on June 29, 2021, and seven of her major championships, the 40-year-old Williams came within two points of victory. But she could not finish the job against an opponent making her Wimbledon debut and bowed out with a 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) loss to 115th-ranked Harmony Tan of France.
“It’s definitely better than last year,” Williams said. “That’s a start.”
Asked whether this might have been her last match, Williams replied: “That’s a question I can’t answer. I don’t know. … Who knows? Who knows where I’ll pop up?”
With her older sister, Venus, jumping out of a guest box seat at Centre Court to celebrate the best points, Serena Williams was oh-so-close to pulling out a topsy-turvy match that lasted 3 hours, 11 minutes and was contested with the retractable roof shut for the last two sets.
“For my first Wimbledon, it’s: Wow. Just wow,” said the 24-year-old Tan, who recalled watching Williams on TV as a youngster.
“When I saw the draw, I was really scared,” Tan said with a laugh, “because it’s Serena Williams. She’s a legend. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, how can I play?’”
This is one indication of how things were at the get-go: Of Tan’s first 11 points, only one came via a winner she produced. Others came via errors by Williams, either forced or unforced.
While Williams — who wore two pieces of black tape on her right cheek; the reason was not immediately clear — recovered from dropping the opening two games to lead 4-2, she reversed course again and allowed Tan to quickly climb back into that set with her mix of spins and slices.
When Tan pulled even at 4-all by striking a down-the-line backhand winner, she celebrated with a yell; that shot was so good that even Williams felt compelled to applaud.
Tan came into the day with a 2-6 career record at all Grand Slam tournaments. Clearly enjoying herself — and the setting, the moment, the way it all was going — she broke to lead 6-5 with the help of a cross-court forehand winner, looked at her guest box, raised a fist and waved her arms to ask for more noise from a crowd that was loudly backing Williams.
Soon enough, a forehand passing winner gave Tan that set. At that point, it seemed reasonable to ask: Could Tan pull off by far the biggest victory of her career? Might Williams exit a major in the first round for only the third time in 80 appearances (the previous were a loss at the 2012 French Open and that mid-match retirement at Wimbledon last year)?
The latter is what happened, of course, although Williams certainly played spectacularly in the second set. She won a monumental game to lead 2-0, breaking after 30 points and 12 deuces across almost 20 minutes when Tan shanked a forehand into the chair umpire’s stand.
In a blink, then, it was 5-0 and sure seemed as if Williams was on her way.
Her serves picked up pace and became more accurate, too: After winning just 57% of her first-serve points in the first set, she claimed 80% in the second. Her other strokes were better-calibrated: After making 22 unforced errors in the first set, she made 13 in the second.
In the third set, Williams was two points from advancing while serving for the match at 5-4 but couldn’t get closer.
Williams has spent more than 300 weeks ranked No. 1 but currently is 1,204th on account off all of that time off and thus needed a wild-card invitation from the All England Club to enter the bracket.
“If you’re playing week in, week out, or even every three weeks, every four weeks, there’s a little bit more match toughness,” she said. “But with that being said, I felt like I played pretty OK on some of ‘em. Not all of ’em. Maybe some key ones I definitely could have played better. You’ve got to think if I were playing matches, I wouldn’t miss some of those points.”
Still, Tan was a point from victory at 6-5, and Williams erased that with a forehand winner — beginning a seven-point run that not only sent the match to a tiebreaker but put her ahead 4-0 in it.
Yet Tan would not go gently. She grabbed five points in a row for a 5-4 lead in the new final-set tiebreaker format adopted this year by all four tennis majors: first to 10 points, win by two.
At crunch time, when Williams has excelled so often on so many big stages, she faltered. Tan came through.
Next for Tan is a second-round match Thursday against No. 32 seed Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain. Sorribes Tormo advanced by defeating American qualifier Christina McHale 6-2, 6-1.
Earlier Tuesday, No. 1 Iga Swiatek extended her winning streak to 36 matches by beating Croatian qualifier Jana Fett 6-0, 6-3, while others advancing in the women’s bracket included No. 11 Coco Gauff, 2021 French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova and 2019 U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu.
In the men’s field, the most significant matter Tuesday was the withdrawal of Matteo Berrettini, last year’s runner-up to Novak Djokovic at the All England Club, because of a positive COVID-19 test. Another past finalist, Marin Cilic, pulled out Monday for the same reason.
Both Berrettini, who went 9-0 on grass courts elsewhere this month, and Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, got themselves checked for COVID-19 after developing symptoms; players are not required to get tested in order to compete.
Men’s winners included 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal, No. 4 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, No. 11 Taylor Fritz and unseeded Nick Kyrgios. No. 6 Felix Auger-Aliassime bowed out against serve-and-volleying American Maxime Cressy 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (9), 7-6 (5).
The men’s bracket already is missing six of the top 11 in the ATP rankings: No. 1 Daniil Medvedev (ban on Russians), No. 2 Alexander Zverev (ankle surgery), Auger-Alissiame, No. 8 Andrey Rublev (ban on Russians), No. 10 Hubert Hurkacz (lost Monday) and No. 11 Berrettini.
“I feel very sorry for him,” Nadal said about Berrettini, “because he was playing fantastic.”
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Player revealed by Peixe should not have more space in the future of Paris Saint-Germain, according to newspaper
The news of Brazilian and world football was agitated this Tuesday (28) after the information released by ‘El País’ that Neymar, a star revealed by Santos, should leave Paris Saint-Germain. The athlete would be out of the plans of the French Club and could leave on loan. After the news, presenter Neto, always critical of the player, advised the attacker to return to Peixe.
“I’ll defend you, it’s the following: goes back to Santos, leaves the guys and goes out on loan”, said the presenter, who also criticized the French Mbappé. “Who do you think you are, Mbappé? You know who Kempes, Carlos Alberto Torres, Rivelino were… You’re slutty. When are you going to pass Neymar?”, shot.
Neto also said that Neymar would lead Santos to the Brasileirão title if he returned home. “You have the knife and cheese in your hand. (…) Give these guys a banana and leave Paris Saint-Germain. He comes to Santos and takes out a loan to play in the Brazilian Championship and Copa do Brasil. You bring another three (players) along and Santos wins the Brazilian title. You will go back to your home“, argued.
Finally, the former player and presenter of the program ‘The Ball Owners’ believes that the financial factor should not be the differential when the attacker chooses his destiny. “He’s not going to Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester City, Barcelona… come to Santos. You will be world champion. Do you need this money? Think about it, Neymar”closed.
Neymar, I saw that PSG don’t want you for this season. Do you know what you have to do? GO BACK TO SANTOS, MERMON!
— Craque Neto 10 (@10neto)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Drowned in the Rio Grande. Murdered in Mexico. Perished in the Arizona desert. For migrants traveling to the United States, the journey has always been full of peril.
A tragic reminder came this week when at least 51 people died after being abandoned in the back of a tractor-trailer in sweltering San Antonio. Authorities believe the vehicle was part of a human-smuggling operation.
While the scale of the calamity was shocking, it’s only the most recent example to illustrate how U.S. officials have struggled to find the right strategy for patrolling the border and preventing deaths.
Lax enforcement can encourage more people to travel north in hopes of a better life. But clamping down is not always a deterrent. Instead, migrants may rely on riskier routes to avoid detection, or put themselves in the hands of smugglers who promise that they can evade authorities for a price.
The San Antonio tragedy triggered familiar reactions across the U.S. political spectrum, indicating that a solemn record as the deadliest smuggling attempt in the nation’s history will do little or nothing to reshape a debate that has hamstrung Washington for decades. Finger-pointing began almost immediately.
President Joe Biden, in Europe this week for international summits, said the deaths were “horrifying and heartbreaking.”
“Exploiting vulnerable individuals for profit is shameful, as is political grandstanding around tragedy, and my administration will continue to do everything possible to stop human smugglers and traffickers from taking advantage of people who are seeking to enter the United States between ports of entry,” Biden said.
The migrants were discovered on Monday when a city worker heard a cry for help from the abandoned truck that was parked on the side of a back road. Dozens were already dead; more died at nearby hospitals.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who is investing billions of dollars of state money on border security, tweeted within hours of the grisly discovery that the deaths were “on Biden.”
“They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law,” Abbott said.
Immigration advocates disagreed with Abbott’s criticism and said Biden was too focused on enforcement. A federal judge has kept in place a Trump-era policy that denies many migrants a chance to seek asylum on grounds of preventing spread of COVID-19.
“If the Biden administration continues to illegally turn away migrants and deny their chance to rightfully seek asylum, individuals and families escaping persecution, war, and climate disasters will continue to face violence and death,” advocacy group RAICES Texas said in a statement.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One — as Biden was flying between summits in Germany and Spain — that the administration was focused on the victims and holding human smugglers accountable.
“The fact of the matter is, the border is closed, which is in part why you see people trying to make this dangerous journey using smuggling networks,” she said.
The U.N. migration agency has reported that nearly 3,000 people went missing or died trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States since 2014. The San Antonio tragedy pushed the total to nearly 300 for the first half of this year.
The International Organization for Migration, along with the U.N. refugee agency, called for a swift investigation.
“Without sufficient pathways to safety, vulnerable and desperate people will continue to be preyed upon by smugglers or forced to resort to desperate measures to cross borders,” said Matthew Reynolds, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees’ representative to the United States and Caribbean.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which counts deaths differently, reported 557 people perished on the southwest border in the 12 months ending Sept. 30, more than double the 247 deaths reported in the previous year and the highest since it began keeping track in 1998.
Deaths became commonplace on the border after “Operation Gatekeeper,” launched in 1994, pushed migrant traffic to the Arizona deserts from San Diego. Despite billions of dollars spent every year on border security since then, neither Republican or Democratic administrations have been able to stem the loss of life.
Migrants routinely take risks to cross into the United States.
Jose Castillo, 43, left Nicaragua with his wife and 14-year-old son in January but didn’t cross the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, until May, paralyzed with fear that they would drown. He and his wife finally decided that one of them could die, as long as their child made it safely. They took a chance — and it worked.
“We can never return to Nicaragua,” he said.
Under Trump and Biden, Border Patrol agents have been stretched extremely thin because they spend long stretches of time processing cases for immigration court. Such responsibilities take them out of the field, making it easier for people to cross undetected. The Border Patrol recently began releasing tens of thousands of migrants on parole in hopes of freeing up more agents to be in the field to try to stop migrants.
The number of people found crossing the border illegally is at or near the highest in about two decades. Decisions to migrate are complex, but it could be that many people are getting through undetected and encouraging others to come. Migrants who succeed sometimes tell their stories to family and friends back home, encouraging them to follow.
At the same time, Title 42 has encouraged repeat attempts to cross the border because there are no legal consequences, such as criminal charges or records of deportation, for getting caught. Many people cross several times until they succeed.
It’s unclear whether any of the migrants who died in San Antonio had previously been expelled.
Isis Peña, 45, fled Honduras with a friend, who urged her to cross the border illegally. Peña refused but began to regret her decision after the friend soon called from San Antonio to say she made it easily and U.S. authorities didn’t even ask her any questions before getting released.
The next day, Peña tried to cross. Although she made it across the river, she was expelled to Mexico under Title 42 authority.
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LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reuben Raucher & Blum announced today that Partners Stephen Raucher and Stephanie Blum have been recognized as 'Legal Visionaries' in the second annual Business of Law magazine. The special supplement published by L.A. Times B2B Publishing focuses on trends and updates in the legal profession and spotlights visionaries, attorneys that have "exhibited noteworthy achievements" over the last two years. According to the publication, the "Legal Visionaries" profiled were recognized as "standout attorneys" and selected based on their average success rate, settlements and verdicts won in the last three years, leadership positions within their firm and community and board affiliations and recognitions.
"Steve and Stephanie are not only excellent attorneys but they are both leaders in their profession and in the community," said Managing Principal Tim Reuben.
Stephanie Blum, a certified family law specialist and head of the firm's Family Law Department, has practiced exclusively in the area of family law for 25 years and "supports those who face the turmoil, uncertainty and challenges of divorce," says the publication. "Though her first preference is always to mediate spousal, financial and custody issues, Blum is also a fierce and relentless opponent in a court of law."
Recognized in 2022 as a "Top Family Lawyer" by the Daily Journal, a "Top 100 Lawyer" by the Los Angeles Business Journal and a "Family Law Trailblazer" by the National Law Journal, Blum is active in her profession and the community. She served on the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Family Law Section and has been a long-time supporter of the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law. She worked pro bono with both Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center and the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, representing clients who can't afford legal counsel.
Stephen Raucher, named a "Top Litigator" by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2021, is a partner in the firm's Civil Litigation Department. His practice emphasizes general business litigation, including real estate and contract disputes, and he "has an impressive track record in helping clients resolve insurance coverage issues," says the feature. "Raucher has tried and arbitrated numerous cases to decision and has extensive experience at the appellate level as well."
Raucher has devoted substantial amounts of his time to improving the legal profession and the administration of justice. From 2010-2011, he served as President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, an organization with over 4,000 members on the Westside of Los Angeles. Before that, he had served as chair of the BHBA's Litigation Section, and as a young lawyer, was President of the BHBA Barristers. While in the Barristers, he led a nationally recognized program which provides senior citizens with legal assistance. He currently serves as chair of the BHBA's Amicus Committee, advocating in the appellate courts on matters of public interest. Raucher is also a past member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Board of Trustees.
REUBEN RAUCHER & BLUM has earned widespread recognition as a boutique litigation and family law firm representing a broad spectrum of clients. The firm has an outstanding track record in resolving complex disputes for its clients through mediation and other settlement methods, but also has obtained multi-million dollar results, as well as total vindication and recovery of attorney's fees when representing the defense. For more information, please visit https://www.rrbattorneys.com/.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Clippers have completed the renovations of 350 public basketball courts, unveiling the last of them Tuesday at the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Center.
The project, which was funded by a gift from Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, took four years to complete and was managed by the Los Angeles Parks Foundation.
Ballmer, appearing at the unveiling of the 350th court, said impacting kids' lives “is really what it's about."
“But if we get a few fans out of it, I’m good with that too," Ballmer said. “We're one fan at a time, we’re scratching, we’re clawing. C'mon, man, that's why we're here. We’re here to win championships, excite fans and help kids.”
The “Clippers Community Courts" have also been used as shelters, emergency child care centers and alternative learning sites during the pandemic, the team said. The Clippers also point to the courts as a way to promote youth sports as part of the city's drive toward hosting the 2028 Olympics.
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LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reuben Raucher & Blum announced today that Partners Stephen Raucher and Stephanie Blum have been recognized as 'Legal Visionaries' in the second annual Business of Law magazine. The special supplement published by L.A. Times B2B Publishing focuses on trends and updates in the legal profession and spotlights visionaries, attorneys that have "exhibited noteworthy achievements" over the last two years. According to the publication, the "Legal Visionaries" profiled were recognized as "standout attorneys" and selected based on their average success rate, settlements and verdicts won in the last three years, leadership positions within their firm and community and board affiliations and recognitions.
"Steve and Stephanie are not only excellent attorneys but they are both leaders in their profession and in the community," said Managing Principal Tim Reuben.
Stephanie Blum, a certified family law specialist and head of the firm's Family Law Department, has practiced exclusively in the area of family law for 25 years and "supports those who face the turmoil, uncertainty and challenges of divorce," says the publication. "Though her first preference is always to mediate spousal, financial and custody issues, Blum is also a fierce and relentless opponent in a court of law."
Recognized in 2022 as a "Top Family Lawyer" by the Daily Journal, a "Top 100 Lawyer" by the Los Angeles Business Journal and a "Family Law Trailblazer" by the National Law Journal, Blum is active in her profession and the community. She served on the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Family Law Section and has been a long-time supporter of the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law. She worked pro bono with both Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center and the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, representing clients who can't afford legal counsel.
Stephen Raucher, named a "Top Litigator" by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2021, is a partner in the firm's Civil Litigation Department. His practice emphasizes general business litigation, including real estate and contract disputes, and he "has an impressive track record in helping clients resolve insurance coverage issues," says the feature. "Raucher has tried and arbitrated numerous cases to decision and has extensive experience at the appellate level as well."
Raucher has devoted substantial amounts of his time to improving the legal profession and the administration of justice. From 2010-2011, he served as President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, an organization with over 4,000 members on the Westside of Los Angeles. Before that, he had served as chair of the BHBA's Litigation Section, and as a young lawyer, was President of the BHBA Barristers. While in the Barristers, he led a nationally recognized program which provides senior citizens with legal assistance. He currently serves as chair of the BHBA's Amicus Committee, advocating in the appellate courts on matters of public interest. Raucher is also a past member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Board of Trustees.
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Rafael Nadal battled, clawed and eventually scraped his way through a gruelling first round match to hold off Father Time a little longer.
A weary yet delighted figure embraced an adoring Centre Court crowd three and a half hours after bouncing into this theatre like a prize fighter before the first bell. Nadal soaked in the crackle of applause that permeated Centre Court throughout this gripping contest against Francisco Cerundolo. The 36-year-old has passed another stern physical examination, knowing the fragility of his standing at the top of the game.
Back for the first time in three years after a four-set loss to fellow titan Roger Federer, the Calendar Slam is remarkably still in play for the first time in Nadal’s career. The fact that Nadal was able to stroll onto Centre Court was another victory in a year filled with them.
A difficult build-up involving rehabilitation and treatment has served as a reminder that Nadal’s exhilarating best this year has come out of the shadows of agonising pain that emphasise his stunning longevity in the midst of his 20th year as a professional. Some in the game have lauded Nadal and the “miracle” that is this year so far, with a 30-3 record enhancing his immortal status in the game after outlasting Daniil Medvedev over five sets in Melbourne before underlining one of sport’s great inevitabilities with a 14th crown at Roland Garros.
Here we witnessed the strength of Nadal, pushed to his limited by the world No 41 over three and a half hours as he battles to contain the effects of his chronic foot pain, known as Mueller-Weiss Syndrome. The very real fear around the sport is that Nadal’s next Grand Slam could be his last. Only a few weeks ago he declared there were “no feelings” in his left foot, although he has since avoided one of those “terrible days” where he simply “cannot move at all”.
A glimmer of another improbable Grand Slam shines brighter with Covid dashing the hopes of Marin Cilic and Matteo Berrettini, who pulled out on Tuesday morning, making Nadal’s half of the draw even more appetising.
As the match began, the roar from Court Three echoed around SW19; Nick Kyrgios and Paul Jubb’s five-set classic reached its climax. Meanwhile, Nadal was starting to contend with the Argentine’s aggressive strategy, notably a sledgehammer-like forehand, which left the Spaniard frozen in admiration at times.
But a first ‘vamos’ of the match, signifying the sturdy test ahead, arrived in the ninth game at four games apiece when Nadal saved a third breakpoint. Then the roles were reversed a game later, Cerundolo succumbing instead as Nadal bludgeoned a series of double-handed backhands to his forehand side to pick up the first set.
Both men then showed finesse to compliment their power; a number of exquisite slices were exchanged at a pivotal point in the match at 3-2 in the second. Nadal, making a mockery of his team’s caution at the “very unforgiving” surface just weeks after the clay court season, produced a masterclass at picking the ball up as it kissed the grass each time. And Cerundolo cracked under pressure, conceding the crucial break en route to a two-set deficit.
Then, a stunner: Cerundolo was struck by bolt of inspiration, displaying some fearless tennis to unsettle his legendary opponent as the finish line approached. The third set soon secured and Nadal was clearly on the ropes. The break points piled up against Nadal as he struggled to pick up cheap points; every service game became a grind. Five in the third game of the fourth set and four more in the fifth, but a break down a facing the daunting prospect of a fifth set, Nadal flipped the momentum once more.
But a break back and suddenly Cerundolo was the man looking sorry. Nadal sensed blood and refused to pass up his opportunity as his opponent had done countless times moments earlier. A four-set win (6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4) to underline the true resilience of a champion, the perfect year is still alive.
Kyrgios prevails over Jubb in classic
If Nadal validated his status as the greatest threat to a fourth successive title for Novak Djokovic, then Nick Kyrgios justified his standing as tennis’ rockstar, barely emerging from an engrossing five-set encounter with spirited wildcard Paul Jubb.
If styles make fights, then Kyrgios and Jubb gleefully countered one another to produce an early contender for match of the championships.
Kyrgios’ mood was merely prickly as he woke up Court Three, but it did not take the controversial Australian long to simmer to a boil. The 27-year-old only needed three games, riled by spectators chatting between points, to provide the spark to ignite a feverish crowd.
As Kyrgios directed his ire towards umpire Marija Cicak, the young Yorkshireman seized upon this momentary lapse in concentration to snatch the first set via an array of pure strokes to topple his heavy-hitting opponent.
This intimate bowl, tucked away on the outside courts, quickly emerged as the epicentre of Wimbledon once the former junior world No1 responded admirably in the second set, gesticulating furiously at his racket which failed to come under his spell. With the mere whiff of an upset in the air, Kygios revelled in the occasion to deliver the kind of sumptuous tennis that has seen him labelled as a dark horse to triumph over the coming fortnight.
Whether that comes to fruition remains to be seen, but Kyrgios is more than just a contender during the sport’s month-long jaunt with grass. A comedian, racket-wielding magician and straight-talking spokesman for the sport rolled into one. His exaggerated cries after each of three straight unreturned first serves thrilled the Australians in attendance. Then a series of tweener serves and shots further bamboozled the impressive Jubb, who refused to wilt and extended the match into a tense fifth, only for Kyrgios to outlast the 22-year-old and alert the public to his appointment viewing when he returns on Thursday.
Peniston extends hot streak on Wimbledon debut
If Jubb fell agonisingly short, British interest was buoyed by Ryan Peniston, shining bright on debut in SW19 to outclass Henri Laaksonen and defy his world ranking of 135 with a 6-4 6-3 6-2 win.
Peniston, who overcame a rare cancer as a child, continues to ride the crest of a wave following eye-catching displays to go deep at Eastbourne, Queen’s and Nottingham. There is noticeable resilience from Peniston, who fended off three break points in the second set before quickly countering with a break of his own. A ruthless streak then and at the conclusion of the third, with back-to-back breaks, sets up a compelling match against American Steve Johnson next.
Jack Draper is also through, with a second-round meeting against Alex de Minaur in store. The British No4 rolled Zizou Bergs in straight sets victory (6-4, 6-4, 7-6).
Great Britain lost another wildcard in Jay Clarke though, with his match carrying over from Monday due to bad light. The 23-year-old fell 7-6 (7-3) 6-1 7-6 (8-6) to American Christian Harrison.
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A Chicago area fan of R. Kelly is accused of threatening federal prosecutors in New York. Christopher Gunn of Bolingbrook is charged with making threats involving serious bodily injury or death. Kelly was convicted last September in Brooklyn on charges that accuse him of recruiting women and minors for sex. The singer is scheduled to be sentenced in that case tomorrow. Authorities say a week after that trial ended, Gunn posted a video on YouTube threatening to “storm” the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn. | https://www.wccq.com/r-kelly-fan-accused-of-threatening-federal-prosecutors/ | 2022-06-29T01:57:16Z | https://www.wccq.com/r-kelly-fan-accused-of-threatening-federal-prosecutors/ | true | null |
‘They beat us into submission’: West Moberly’s decades-long fight against Site C dam is over
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All through the spring election, Doug Ford’s incumbent government promised to build 1.5 million more homes across Ontario in the next 10 years. Having won a second term, it now has to deliver.
No one is debating that Ontario needs housing, both for the people who live here now and to serve a rapidly growing population. According to the latest numbers from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Ontario needs to act even quicker than Ford’s pledge to restore affordability: 1.85 million new homes in the next nine years.
What’s controversial is how this housing gets built. At the core of that discussion is the province’s land-use Growth Plan, which outlines what areas of southern Ontario can and can’t be developed for housing and infrastructure.
Big cities and regional municipalities — which group neighbouring small cities and towns together — jump off the provincial Growth Plan to submit their own. The process is deeply important to Ontarians’ daily lives.
Growth plans are intertwined with federal and provincial immigration and transportation policy. They also determine how much funding municipalities receive for several years: money from provincial gas taxes, infrastructure dollars, investments in transit, hospitals, schools and more. That funding is especially needed in rural communities with low populations that can’t generate enough property tax revenue to provide basic services independently.
Writing a growth plan is complex and technical — and has become a political football.
Since coming to power, Ford has made development his policy foundation, promising new highways, single-family homes and big condo complexes, often in the face of environmental backlash. His government has also dramatically changed the growth-planning process to make it easier to build new homes anywhere in the province — even in the Greenbelt and on scarce farmland.
Ontario municipalities must review their growth plans every five years. They last did so in 2018, just before Ford took office, laying out their plans until 2041. But in 2020 — at the start of the pandemic — the province ordered municipalities to plan to 2051 instead, saying the push was to address the housing crisis. The draft deadline was also moved to 2022, not 2023.
Overnight, cities had to double their work and shorten their deadlines.
Meanwhile, Ford began rewriting Ontario’s Growth Plan through a series of omnibus bills that were criticized for a general lack of public consultation and an overuse of Minister’s Zoning Orders, which allow the province to rezone land and fast-track development that bypasses municipal consent and environmental studies.
There were also many criticisms of the neglect for environmental considerations in land-use planning.
“The Ontario government is just opening the floodgates for sprawl,” said Phil Pothen, Ontario program manager at Environmental Defence. “But every inch and acre of land that we can save by approving new homes in our existing neighbourhoods will be a huge win for food security and ecological sustainability.”
As a “stop sprawl” movement grows across Ontario, a string of frustrated cities, regions and towns have until July 1 to finalize their plans to handle population growth until 2051. No matter what they decide, the provincial government has final say: Ford’s minister of municipal affairs could veto any city’s plan or impose their own on municipalities that miss or choose to ignore the deadline.
Here’s everything you need to know.
Urban sprawl — the uncontrolled expansion of city development — runs counter to climate goals in many ways. Building housing far from employment centres entrenches dependency on cars, and transportation is already one Canda’s highest sources of carbon pollution. Transit projects take a long time to complete and won’t get everyone off the road, so a key solution is to create sustainable communities that get people walking around more easily.
Figuring out how to house and service a rapidly growing population without creating more urban sprawl is a challenge municipalities face across Canada, especially the large, urbanized ones.
Sprawl also means the loss of precious greenspaces, and not just those used for recreation. It also threatens endangered species habitat and the headwaters of the creeks and rivers that flow into Lake Simcoe and Lake Ontario, which provide drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people. It diminishes local food security by eating up farmland. Once these lands are paved over, they’re paved over for good.
When cities choose densification, they choose to protect agricultural land and greenspace and to control emissions. And with housing prices at record highs, there’s pressure to increase supply not just of housing, but housing most Ontarians can actually afford, another argument for density.
Unprecedented growth, housing affordability and the climate emergency are tightly interconnected. How Canada’s most populous province approaches the intersection of these three will be a case study of how the good, the bad and the ugly of land-use planning determine the course of the climate emergency.
The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe is the foundation of provincial planning policy for the massive urban region in southwestern Ontario stretching from Collingwood to Niagara and from Waterloo to Peterborough. It became law in 2006 under Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals and has been updated regularly by successive governments.
In the process, the highly technical, incredibly consequential process of urban and rural growth planning has become a point of tension between municipalities and the province.
The goal of the original Growth Plan was to set out a sustainable way to encourage and accommodate provincial population growth. The 2006 plan forecasted growth to 2021. Ford’s plan looks ahead to 2051, when the population of the Greater Golden Horseshoe is projected to nearly double to 14.9 million residents, as one in three new immigrants to Canada settles in the region.
The original Growth Plan was designed to direct municipalities to plan for denser, more affordable, more transit-friendly development in ways that prioritize greenspaces and farmland but also taxpayer revenue. In practical terms, it directed how the new construction of homes could also fund water and sewer infrastructure and result in sustainable and walkable communities.
This first Growth Plan was a game-changer in city building. It even won an award.
Besides drastically altering the timeline, the Ford government significantly scaled back density targets.
Under the original plan, 60 per cent of new development was supposed to occur in “built up areas,” with existing infrastructure, making intensification easier and preventing sprawl. The goal was to create “complete communities.” But the definitions of “built” and “complete” were left to each municipality’s interpretation, which caused problems almost from day one. Ford kept the vague goals but reduced the density target to 40 per cent.
Ford also allowed municipalities to make proposals to expand their urban boundaries — which define where developable land ends and greenspace or farmland begins — whenever they wanted, not just during the planning process.
Ford’s version also gave the green light to development even if it wasn’t serviced by municipal water or wastewater services, a requirement of the original plan. This opened the door to more rural construction and the possibility of new Ontario neighbourhoods without basic services.
All of these changes happened during a public health emergency, as municipalities were transitioning to work-from-home systems. COVID-19 also severely hampered the ability of city planners to hold traditional public consultations.
We don’t know.
Last December, Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk found there has been little accountability or follow-through on whether the Growth Plan has achieved its goals. The provincial government has only analyzed the plan’s results once in the 16 years since it was first tabled.
“Without up-to-date information on the outcomes and results, neither the ministry nor the public can determine whether the Growth Plan policies have been effective in achieving its vision to create communities that allow people to comfortably live, work and play while protecting the region’s natural heritage,” Lysyk wrote in her report.
In the same report, Lysyk criticized the Ford government’s approach to growth, saying that its “numerous changes to land-use planning policies, insufficient collaboration between the ministry and other entities responsible for infrastructure planning, and the province’s intervention in municipalities … have undermined the goals of the Growth Plan.”
There’s the potential for a massive increase in land opened to development across the region, which could lead to loss of farmland, greenspace and endangered species habitat.
Ontario is losing 319 acres of farmland every day, mostly to development, according to the latest federal census of agriculture.
“If we want to think about long-term strategy as we look at building new, sustainable cities and ensure there’s enough housing, we also have to look at how we are to serve the people that live in these growing communities, and that includes protecting farmland,” Peggy Brekveld, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, told The Narwhal.
There’s also the potential for sprawling communities of single-family homes whose occupants work far from where they live without good access to transit. Building Highway 413 — a $10 billion, 59-kilometre roadway running from Vaughan to the Peel Region — has been a central tenet of the Ford government’s approach to growth.
According to exclusive reporting by The Narwhal, the highway would cut through three properties set aside for conservation — not one, as was previously reported — positioning it to cause irreversible environmental damage.
Municipalities across southern Ontario are signalling that they’d like time and independence to decide how to build their communities.
In late 2021, the regions of Durham and Halton each asked for a year-long extension to comprehensively complete studies, technical analyses and public consultation. The province denied these extensions and emphasized the powers available to the minister of municipal affairs to intervene if a plan wasn’t submitted.
“The fact that municipalities have to rush means that opportunities for using land efficiently and avoiding environmental harm are being missed in this headlong rush to get five years of work done all from scratch in just two years,” Pothen said.
Some municipalities are pushing back, including Halton Region, which voted in February against expanding its urban boundaries. The City of Hamilton also voted for a plan that urged “no urban boundary expansion,” choosing instead to intensify already available lands within city borders. Steve Clark, who is continuing on as minister of municipal affairs, threatened to reverse that decision by mandating sprawl beyond Hamilton’s urban boundary anyway.
Durham Region, for its part, endorsed a developer-led proposal in May to open 9,000 acres of farmland to development. The decision was made despite opposition from local planning staff who said the expansion is more than what the region needs to achieve its housing goals.
Durham’s decision came a month after Peel Region approved a growth plan that would open about 11,000 acres of some of the best farmland in the country to development. The farmland is mostly in Caledon, but the region also includes the cities of Mississauga and Brampton and has one of the fastest growing populations in the province, housed largely in pricey single-family homes and reliant on congested highways to get around.
North of Toronto, York Region voted last fall to allow development on 1,400 acres of protected Greenbelt farmland and greatly increase intensification in the Oak Ridges Moraine. It made that decision despite a lack of infrastructure, including for sewage.
Other municipalities say the province’s directions are incomplete. In an April report, city planners in the Halton Region town of Oakville said they hadn’t been told how the provincial government would support the city’s growth plans with funding for schools, hospitals and transit. They also worried the province would approve development without consideration for local housing regulations or strategies.
The 2006 Growth Plan didn’t recognize that 400 small towns and villages in the Greater Golden Horseshoe don’t have designated built-up areas. Ford’s version still doesn’t address small or rural centres.
“I think rural Ontario really needs its own lens and its own framework,” said Matthew Graham, deputy mayor of the Township of Cavan Monaghan, just west of Peterborough. He said the province treats all municipalities the same, disregarding individual growth and funding challenges, as well access to core infrastructure like water and sewage.
Remote and rural municipalities are also growing quickly and the only development option many have is agricultural lands. This makes planning growth that harms the least amount of farmland essential. Yet they aren’t being allowed to define their own boundaries or make decisions about expanding or innovating their water and sewage services. They also aren’t able to take the lead in considering factors such as historical preservation or floodplain mapping.
Graham would like to see a growth-planning process that allows municipalities to create their own boundaries with some provincial monitoring, instead of the top-down, document-heavy, complex policy-laden approach that exists now.
“At the end of the day, the amount of autonomy we have is really nil,” Graham said. “And the overarching planning decisions being made are completely counter to our needs.”
He says the provincial government is “condescending … as if municipal governments weren’t as educated or informed about what’s happening.” For years, his town has asked to be excluded from the purview of the provincial Growth Plan because of its rural nature, but has yet to get a single reply from the province.
“When you’re trying to solve riddles for populations of less than 10,000 and you’re bound by the same planning and growth rules for populations of a million-plus, there are inevitable inconsistencies or conflicts,” Graham said. “At the end of the day, where conflicts are created, there’s very little appetite for reconsideration or acknowledgement or resolution.”
The Town of Ajax, with a population of over 100,000, is subject to decisions made by the council for all of Durham Region, so Mayor Shaun Collier agrees. “This cookie-cutter approach and long-term crystal ball look is a useless exercise,” Collier said.
The mayor of four years has vocally opposed development that would make his town more prone to flooding, or could damage ecologically sensitive areas like Carruthers Creek, a major Greenbelt watershed that remains unprotected. “The province should be looking more at our policies and listening to us. We know our municipalities best.”
To Collier, this heavy-handed approach actually slows the building of needed housing. The growth-planning process is deeply onerous and bureaucratic. Drafting a municipal growth plan takes years. It takes another a year or so for the province to approve or alter it. Then, the plan goes back to regions and municipalities for final approval and, hopefully, implementation. At minimum, it’s a five-year-long process.
“If they’re really serious about housing, why don’t they accept the policies already in place? Give us a process or policy that would allow us to act quickly,” Collier said. “There are huge bottlenecks in my city right now. It’s the provincial red tape that’s a lot of the hold up.”
In Hamilton last fall, a group called Stop Sprawl Ham Ont helped persuade councillors to reject any expansion of the city’s urban boundaries, and focus on building denser housing on land already slated for development instead. In March, Stop Sprawl Halton helped convince Halton Region to vote against opening up farmland for new housing, and consider growing within the city boundaries instead. Similar movements in Peel, York, Durham, Simcoe County and Orillia haven’t been as successful but are burgeoning and persistent.
While housing affordability remains top of mind for residents across Ontario, leaders of the stop sprawl movement question whose interests are being served with the current growth-planning process.
“I think the answer tends to be landowner and developer interests,” said Claire Malcolmson, executive director of Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and Stop Sprawl York Region member. “If they want to do this right for average people and address what is clearly, I think, the biggest crisis, period, in Ontario right now, which is housing affordability, they’re going to have to engage properly with us and municipalities.”
Amendments to the provincial planning act made just before the June election allow Clark, who remains minister of municipal affairs, to extend the government’s time to make a decision on the plans, or to refer the plans to the Ontario Land Tribunal, which could bog them down in consultations for years.
“After rushing municipalities to squeeze this in within two years, there’s no certainty that the province will finalize approval, particularly with a better plan with no sprawl, in a timely fashion,” Environmental Defence’s Pothen said.
With municipal elections are coming up across Ontario in October, the pressure is on for local leaders to show their vision for sustainable, affordable growth while facing provincial pressures. This fall’s voters could define what municipalities look like for the next few decades.
Ultimately the final decision of what happens with development, housing, infrastructure and the protection of greenspace and farmland protection in Ontario rests in Clark’s hands.
“With one swipe of the pen, the minister of municipal affairs can change the course of our cities,” Collier said.
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Keep those umbrellas handy as we continue to see heavy rainfall through the day. Rain totals are stacking up quickly with all the widespread showers and storms this weekend. Santa Fe picked up another 1.50″+ just this weekend alone! Their running tally since last week is approaching 3.5″. This is more than 60% of the total for an average monsoon season. Widespread heavy rain will be in the forecast through Monday as plenty of moisture sticks around the state. Flash flooding has been and continues to be the main threat, especially in the northern mountain zones. Parts of the Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains have already picked up 1-3″ of rain with some flooding over the burn scars. Additionally, we’ll see record cool high temperatures Sunday from all the clouds and the moisture in place. Plus, the cold front continues to trek through the western part of our state. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2647798683131/high-school-hoops-galore-in-rio-rancho-thursday-saturday | 2022-06-29T02:05:01Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2647798683131/high-school-hoops-galore-in-rio-rancho-thursday-saturday | false | 2 |
It was just a side business started in their home 35 years ago, but Carol and John Deters built that business into a thriving company, which has literally made a name for itself, and for quite a few other businesses in the area.
In fact, if you travel through Bowling Green, Louisiana, Clarksville and other towns in the Pike County region, you can see the signs Deters Sign Co. and T-Shirt Shoppe have made over the years. Even the front windows of the Bowling Green Times office and the Southside Bar & Grill, right next door, were done by Deters Sign Co.
John died in 2017 after a long and valiant battle with cancer. During the last Memorial Day event at the Cancer Memorial Garden on W. Main Street, Carol stood before those gathered for the event to talk about her and John’s journey together and his fight with cancer.
When they started the sign company, Carol said she and John had full-time jobs.
“We were doing this part-time, and then we decided: ‘Let’s do this,’” she said.
In 1988, once that decision was made, they also decided to move the business out of their home.
“Sometimes it’s a little different when people come to your house,” she explained. “And then we decided that we really need to be uptown.”
After searching around, they decided to rent space in the CAP building along Bus. 61 by the R-I school campus.
“We rented the office on the end. It had three small rooms,” she said. John and Carol continued to build the business. In the early ’90s, she noted, the need to add a garage to the business had them looking again for a new location.
In 1993, the building they’re in now, became available, she said, so they bought it.
“Joe Sutton had his heating and cooling business here, so they were on one side, and we were on the other side,” Carol said. When Sutton decided he needed his own place, she added, he moved out. “Then we had the whole place. And you know, more space means more stuff,” she said.
“I’ll have you know, I have 35 years of records,” she said, pointing to the back of the building, admitting that, “I need to start getting rid of them.”
She said, she and John focused the business on a 50-mile radius around Bowling Green.
“We’ve had some really good customers (over the years),” she said. And if they’re not customers now, she added, it’s because they either went out of business or passed away.
They used to do all the signs for a home care business in Louisiana, and at one time did all of Abel’s trucks before they were bought out by Fast Lane.
They’ve even gone as far as Jefferson City and Lake of the Ozarks to make signs. They have also done a lot of boat lettering over the years.
“We have done a lot of nice boats,” she added.
A sign of the times
For the past two to three years, there wasn’t a sign in front of the business. Carol said she caught a lot of flak for that. Severe weather had damaged their sign, but not having it up did little to deter people from finding and becoming customers of the business.
“We were always put on the back burner,” she said. “We were always trying to get everyone else’s stuff done.” But she knew something had to be done when people would ask, tongue-in-cheek, if she could find a sign company to put one up for them.
For their 35th Anniversary, new signs, designed by Carol’s daughter, Lindy Ankelman, went up by the road and on the front of the building. Lindy is the shop’s graphic designer. She recently won the Bowling Green Bicentennial Logo Design Contest. In fact, her designs place first and second in the competition. Carol likes to brag on her daughter’s talents because Lindy is not one to boast about herself.
Carol said her dad, Oscar Sunn, was a sign painter in St. Louis. After retiring he went with some buddies to a trade show, where he learned about printing on vinyl.
“He’s the one that introduced us to the vinyl world,” Carol said. That first machine could only use 15-inch material and had no monitor to see what you were doing. Since then, she said, the vinyl world has come a long way. “Now they have computer programs.”
She also noted that her dad painted the first Anheuser-Busch trailer.
A Family Business
“They had to listen to us bring work home (all the time),” she said about their three daughters. At one time or another, all three of them have done something for the business. Lindy, the middle daughter, is the only one who currently works at the sign company. The oldest daughter, Nicole Haden, had done invoices. She lives in Columbia now with her family. And the youngest, Jonelle Deters, works at Bolan Chevy.
The biggest job the company has done, Carol said, is putting lettering on an airplane. The smallest job was probably a pinewood derby car.
“We’ve done a lot of semis,” Carol said. “I could do semis all day.”
She and her staff were getting ready for their 35th anniversary celebration, and Carol said she was planning on printing out and displaying some of the various jobs they’ve done over the years, so people could see what they’ve done when she was giving tours of the building.
They have also done fire trucks, as well as Pike County, Bowling Green, Frankford and Louisiana police vehicles.
“Our community has been good to us,” she said.
In addition to the sign side of the building, they also do a big business in T-shirts and logo products.
The pandemic made their life difficult because it was tough getting supplies for their various products.
Luckily, Carol said, her business was considered essential when most non-essential places were being told to close.
“That kind of surprised me,” Carol said. But they were doing a lot of truck lettering, so the trucks could keep going and making deliveries.
Political signage is also a big part of the business she said, adding that she really likes election years.
She said her dad once told her: You’re going to make it or break it in five years. It’s been 35 years, and they’re still making it.
“We’ve had highs and we’ve had lows,” she added, “but we’ve made it.”
At one time, she and John also owned the bar and grill in St. Clemens.
“I’m so glad I don’t have that anymore,” she said. “That was John’s deal.” But the busy seasons for the bar and the sign shop were opposite of each other, she explained, and that kept them busy all year long.
Not having the bar is a blessing, she added.
In addition to Lindy, there are four other people working with Carol at the company. The company also does promotional products, as well as screen printing and embroidery. They can also do trophies and awards.
Even though she can do all the jobs, Carol said, most of her time is spent making sure everything keeps moving along.
“It’s one of those jobs where it’s not really the same thing every day,” she explained. “Every job is different. And it’s been fun,” she added. | https://www.pikecountynews.com/news/business/deters-sign-co-t-shirt-shop-celebrates-35-years-in-business/article_ae16c234-f727-11ec-b182-27967c4ef7e4.html | 2022-06-29T02:11:04Z | https://www.pikecountynews.com/news/business/deters-sign-co-t-shirt-shop-celebrates-35-years-in-business/article_ae16c234-f727-11ec-b182-27967c4ef7e4.html | true | 1 |
DENVER — Gabriel Landeskog didn't think twice about who he would hand the Stanley Cup to first.
The Avalanche captain took his victory lap around the ice at Amalie Arena and headed straight for his former roommate, long-time teammate and close friend Erik Johnson.
"It was like I watching a video game or something like that. It was amazing," Johnson said after the game. "Gabe was telling me the last couple years, 'When we win it, you're getting it first.' If that doesn't give you motivation to get it done, nothing else does. Just a super humbling gratifying feeling, it's amazing."
Johnson, 34, is the longest tenured player on the Avalanche, having been with the organization since being traded to Colorado from St. Louis during the 2010-11 season. Since then, Johnson has been apart of two of the worst seasons in franchise history — 2010-11 and 2016-17, in which the Avalanche totaled only 48 points. After that season, Johnson signed a seven-year contract to stay in Colorado, despite the lack of success.
"I didn't know If I was even going to be in Colorado after that," Johnson said I sat down with Joe and said, 'Listen, I want to do this here. I want to get this done in Colorado. Keep me a part of it.' And we did it. Amazing. So proud of everyone."
Johnson added that he nearly retired after last season, when the Avalanche lost in the second round for the third consecutive season. Instead, he returned and had one of the best years of his career, playing a key role in Colorado's run to the Cup.
Johnson's future is unclear, with his contract being up at the end of the 2022-23 season and retirement not yet being ruled out, as he's on the backend of his career. For now, though, Johnson is going to enjoy and reflect on the long journey he took to win his first Stanley Cup.
"I got to Denver 12 years ago, we were dead last in the league. We came dead last again four years after that. Five years ago, dead last," Johnson said. "It's just about believing in yourself and surrounding yourself with people who believe in you. Special things can happen." | https://gazette.com/sports/colorado-avalanche/erik-johnson-reflects-on-stanley-cup-win-after-12-years-with-avalanche-i-want-to/article_1cf06a2a-f737-11ec-ae3f-0b61f27bb4a4.html | 2022-06-29T02:13:26Z | https://gazette.com/sports/colorado-avalanche/erik-johnson-reflects-on-stanley-cup-win-after-12-years-with-avalanche-i-want-to/article_1cf06a2a-f737-11ec-ae3f-0b61f27bb4a4.html | true | 2 |
Wauwatosa graduation party armed robbery, suspects wanted
WAUWATOSA, Wis. - Wauwatosa police are looking for three young men who allegedly robbed party-goers at gunpoint on Saturday, June 25.
The men are accused of taking a phone, wallet and car. The stolen car has since been recovered on the north side of Milwaukee.
Beneath the shadows of trees, Wauwatosa's Olde Hillcrest neighborhood is used to travelers passing through.
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"We have a lot of walkers. A lot of dog walkers – everybody's very friendly," said resident Jason Fischer.
On that Saturday afternoon during a backyard graduation, though, that sense of serenity was gone.
Graduation party armed robbery suspects approach Wauwatosa home
"I came outside, and as soon as I came out, sure enough I heard the police on their way," Fischer said.
Police were focused on a crime across the street from Fischer's home. Video from his surveillance camera shows a group of three young men wearing sweatshirts appearing to case the home. About a minute later, the trio entered the backyard – one of them holding a gun.
Graduation party armed robbery suspects head toward target backyard
"It's rather shocking," said Fischer. "It's pretty wild that such a young kid would be running around like that, like it was nothing basically."
The three young men left the backyard within 30 seconds as someone from the party followed them out. Then, one of the suspects drove off in a black Volkswagen SUV while another ran down the sidewalk.
Graduation party armed robbery suspects flee, one suspect driving off in a black Volkswagen SUV
Police said they looked for the suspects, described as between 18 and 25 years old, but have not found them.
Come Tuesday, much of the quaint neighborhood appeared back to normal. But for Fischer, a Marine Corps veteran, Saturday's events are a reminder to be aware of what's around you.
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"If it doesn't feel right, it's probably not right. Keep an eye on your surroundings. Don't be afraid to say something," he said.
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ELMAU, Germany (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest developed economies said Tuesday they would explore far-reaching steps to cap Russia’s income from oil sales that are financing its invasion of Ukraine and struck a united stance to support Kyiv for “as long as it takes” as the war grinds on.
The final statement from the Group of Seven summit in Germany underlined their intent to impose “severe and immediate economic costs” on Russia.
It left out key details on how fossil fuel price caps would work in practice, setting up more discussion in the weeks ahead to “explore … the feasibility” of measures to bar imports of Russian oil above a certain level.
That would hit a key Russian source of income and, in theory, help relieve the energy price spikes and inflation afflicting the global economy as a result of the war.
“We remain steadfast in our commitment to our unprecedented coordination on sanctions for as long as necessary, acting in unison at every stage,” the leaders said.
The G-7 leaders — representing the U.S., Germany, France, Italy, the U.K., Canada and Japan — on Monday pledged to support Ukraine “for as long as it takes” after conferring by video link with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy has openly worried that the West has become fatigued by the cost of a war that is contributing to soaring energy costs and price hikes on essential goods around the globe. The G-7 has sought to assuage those concerns.
Leaders also agreed on a ban on imports of Russian gold and to step up aid to countries hit with food shortages by the blockade on Ukraine grain shipments through the Black Sea.
“We agree that (Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin must not win this war, and we will continue to keep up and drive higher the economic and political costs for President Putin and his regime,” said the summit host, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “For that, it is important to stand together — including in the long haul that we certainly still face.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said Russia “cannot and should not win” the war in Ukraine — as its terrible toll was on full view the day after a Russian missile strike hit a shopping mall in the town of Kremenchuk, killing 18 people.
The price cap — pushed by U.S. President Joe Biden — would in theory work by barring service provides such as shippers or insurers from dealing with oil priced above a fixed level. That could work because the service providers are mostly located in the European Union or the U.K. and thus within reach of sanctions. To be effective, however, it would have to involve as many consuming countries as possible, in particular India, where refiners have been snapping up cheap Russian oil shunned by Western traders. Details on how the proposal would be implemented were left for continuing talks in coming weeks.
The U.S. has already blocked Russian oil imports, which were small in any case. The European Union has decided to impose a ban on the 90% of Russian oil that comes by sea, but the ban does not take effect until the end of the year, meaning Europe continues to send money to Russia for energy even while condemning the war. Meanwhile, higher global oil prices have softened the blow to Russia’s income, even as Western traders shun Russian oil.
Energy themes were front and center at the summit throughout. Europe is scrambling to find new sources of oil and fresh supplies of gas as Russia dials back gas supplies in what leaders say is a political move. Meanwhile high energy prices are a headache for G-7 countries’ consumers.
Scholz defended the G-7′s decision to soften commitments to end public support for fossil fuel investments, saying the war in Ukraine means time-limited support for new natural gas extraction projects may be necessary.
The group showed wide-ranging concern about China. The leaders stressed that it is “necessary to cooperate with China on shared global challenges” but underlined their stance that China should urge Russia to halt the war, respect human rights in Hong Kong, refrain from military action against Taiwan, and improve its non-transparent trade and economic practices.
From the secluded Schloss Elmau hotel in the Bavarian Alps, the G-7 leaders will move to Madrid for a summit of NATO leaders, where fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will again dominate the agenda. All G-7 members other than Japan are NATO members, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been invited to Madrid.
While the group’s annual gathering has been dominated by the war, Scholz has been keen to show that the G-7 also can move ahead on pre-war priorities.
Members pledged Tuesday to create a new ‘climate club’ for nations that want to take more ambitious action to tackle global warming.
The move, championed by Scholz, will see countries that join the club agree on tougher measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the aim of keeping global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) this century compared with pre-industrial times.
Countries that are part of the club will try to harmonize their measures in such a way that they are comparable and avoid members imposing climate-related tariffs on each others’ imports.
Scholz said the aim was to “ensure that protecting the climate is a competitive advantage, not a disadvantage.”
He said details of the planned climate club would be finalized this year.
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Joins deep leadership bench leading accelerating software and technology development program
TOKYO and PALO ALTO, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. ("Woven Planet"), a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation ("Toyota"), today announced that John Absmeier will join the Company as chief technology officer, effective July 25, 2022. He will report to Woven Planet CEO James Kuffner.
Toyota created Woven Planet to help accelerate its transformation to a mobility company through the development of products and services that can improve quality of life by reinventing mobility for people, goods, and services. Absmeier's hiring reflects the growth of Woven Planet's software engineering and technology development capabilities following its acquisition of Lyft Level 5, CARMERA, and Renovo Motors in 2021.
As CTO, Absmeier will apply his deep experience in the automotive and software industries to oversee the company's technical direction. In addition to advising on the adoption of new technologies, he will lead Woven Planet's engineering teams and the company's Security and IT divisions, splitting his time between Japan and the United States.
COMMENT FROM JAMES KUFFNER, CEO, WOVEN PLANET
"I am thrilled to welcome John to Woven Planet. His outstanding academic credentials, proven leadership, and extensive automotive, technology, and business experience makes him an incredible asset as we accelerate the development of advanced mobility products and services. Moreover, his servant leadership principles and values align very closely with who we are and what we believe is possible through mobility."
COMMENT FROM JOHN ABSMEIER, CTO, WOVEN PLANET
"I am honored and humbled to serve as Woven Planet's Chief Technology Officer," said John Absmeier. "It is an opportunity of a lifetime to help accelerate the company's mission to deliver safe, intelligent, human-centered mobility to all. Together with Toyota, we will delight customers with new and meaningful mobility experiences today and into the future. I look forward to helping in every way and with everyone along this amazing journey."
Absmeier is a technology forward business leader with more than 25 years of experience leading software and technology programs at both start-ups and publicly traded companies globally. John joins Woven Planet from Lear Corporation, where he led all aspects of innovation and technology as the Chief Technology Officer. He previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Harman International and Vice President of Smart Machines at Samsung Electronics, where he led the acquisition of Harman by Samsung. He started his career at Delphi, where he held multiple roles of increasing responsibility, including Managing Director of Delphi Labs @ Silicon Valley and Autonomous Driving as well as Business Director for Electronic Controls and Electrification in Asia-Pacific. Absmeier served in the U.S. Marine Corps and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Management of Technology from the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves on the board of directors of Sensata Technologies, the California Mobility Center, and Voltaiq companies.
ABOUT WOVEN PLANET
Woven Planet is building the safest mobility in the world. A subsidiary of Toyota, Woven Planet innovates and invests in new technologies, software, and business models that transform how we live, work and move. With a focus on automated driving, robotics, and Woven City, Woven Planet builds on Toyota's legacy of trust to deliver secure, connected, reliable, and sustainable mobility solutions for all.
Learn more at https://www.woven-planet.global/en
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Yulgilbar Pastoral Company has been crowned triple champions in the weight gain phase of the RNA's prestigious 2022 Paddock to Palate Competition and Wagyu Challenge, presented by JBS Australia.
The Sarah Myer and family owned Baryulgil-based seedstock operation, based on the Clarence River in New South Wales, was the standout entrant in the nation's richest beef competition of its kind, showcasing their outstanding Santa Gertrudis and Santa Hereford crossbreed genetics.
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Yulgilbar won the overall pen of six in Class 37A (100 Day), with their Santa Hereford X recording an average daily weight gain of 3.262 kg.
They also won the highest individual weight gain for Class 37A with an average daily weight gain plus of 3.59kg, rounding out their hat trick by also taking top honours in Class 38A overall pen of six (70 Day), with their Santa Gertrudis pen recording an ADG of 3.186kg.
Yulgilbar's general manager Brett Ellem said the RNA Paddock to Palate team, along with RAS (Sydney Royal Show) Beef Challenge teams, were picked and drafted off at weaning about 12 months ago.
"Once we selected the teams, we run the whole mob together in an improved pasture paddock until it is time to truck them off," Mr Ellem said.
"The Santa/Hereford cross steers were sired by bulls we bought from Yarram Park.
"The purebred Santa Gertrudis steers were sired by homebred bulls, selected from a certain body type to breed and suit replacement females and grower steers."
Yulgilbar has a long history in Australian agriculture and is the third oldest Santa Gertrudis stud in Australia, registered in 1954.
There are 500 stud females who are currently being single-sire mated to Poll Santa Gertrudis bulls.
"We really take great pride and this win gives us confidence that we are heading in the right direction to produce viable commercial cattle," Mr Ellem said.
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The National Treasurer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Abankwa Yeboah has said he does not support the calls for the country to seek financial bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a way of tackling the current economic crisis.
According to him, previous experiences with the IMF has shown that they do not have the right solutions for the country.
“I don’t support going to IMF, that is certainly not the way…what did we achieve when during Rawlings’ time, the IMF introduced PAMSCAD and those things…it made our economy worse…,” he opined on Angel TV’s Anɔpa Bɔfoɔ Morning Show.
Mr Abankwa-Yeboah further urged the managers of the economy to try other possible means of salvaging the country from the recent economic mess instead of approaching the Bretton Woods Institution for help.
“I don’t think we need to go to the IMF, we need to look at all options…,” he added.
A leading member of the NPP, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, started the debate on the country going to IMF for the 17th time when he said he is not against the government seeking economic support from the institution.
According to him, any move or plan by the government to go to the IMF for a programme would be a matter of principle.
“Am I against an IMF programme in principle? No. I am not for an IMF programme that throws peanuts at us but imposes conditions that will end up hurting the poor, jobs and businesses more.
“Covid-19 and War in Ukraine are not of Africa’s doing, but more to our doom. A programme that pretends it is all our doing is doomed to fail,” he tweeted on Monday, June 27.
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Man filmed attacking Asian American family at California drive-thru charged with hate crime
( KTLA ) – The man who was caught on video attacking an Asian American family at a McDonald’s drive-thru in California has been charged with a hate crime, officials announced this week.
Nicholas Weber, 31, of Sylmar, California, faces one felony count of battery with serious bodily injury and one misdemeanor count of battery, along with a hate crime allegation, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The charges stem from a May 13 incident in which a family was attacked while waiting in line to order at a McDonald’s drive-thru in North Hollywood.
Weber allegedly hit the back of the family’s vehicle and “proceeded to yell racial insults” at the family, the DA’s office said in a news release.
‘I did it … the gun’s in the bag’: Wichita man sentenced for shootingVideo shared with KTLA showed Weber saying “You’re so Asian” in an exaggerated accent after pulling alongside a car occupied by Nerissa Roque and her daughter Patricia.
The Roques called police, as well as Nerissa’s husband (and Patricia’s father) Gabriel. Things then escalated into a physical altercation between the two men. Nerissa Roque was also attacked.
She said Weber choked her and she fell to the ground.
“I thought, ‘I’m gonna die,’” Nerissa Roque said.
Weber was cited and released after the incident.
Cities nationwide not reporting crime data to FBIThe Roque family and community members demanded justice outside the Van Nuys courthouse last week where Weber was scheduled to appear, but he failed to show.
A bench warrant was issued for his arrest, and this week, he was taken into custody in Orange County for an unrelated matter and held on the warrant, officials said.
The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.
“The unprovoked assault on members of our community is wrong and will not be tolerated,” District Attorney George Gascón said in the news release. “Our message against violence and racial hatred must be loud and clear. We will hold accountable the people who commit hate crimes in Los Angeles County.”
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Serious injuries reported after a 2-vehicle crash on River Oaks Dr in Myrtle Beach
Published: Jun. 28, 2022 at 9:53 PM EDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - Lanes of traffic are closed in the area of 1301 River Oaks Drive in Myrtle Beach after a motorcycle and car crashed Tuesday night.
Horry County Fire Rescue says lanes are expected to remain closed for an extended period of time and serious injuries have been reported.
Please avoid the area for the safety of those on the scene to avoid possible delays.
HCFR was dispatched to the call around 9:20 p.m.
South Carolina Department of Public Safety is investigating.
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Democratic Illinois Rep. Sean Casten defeated his primary challenger, Democratic Illinois Rep. Marie Newman, by a landslide for the state’s 6th district in Tuesday’s Illinois Democratic primary election.
Casten won with 64.5% of the vote and Newman trailed him with 32%, results showed. He had a total of 29,035 votes at the time of his victory.
The two incumbent candidates faced off after the Illinois redistricting process drastically redrew the districts of the Chicago suburbs. Casten, who has represented the 6th district since 2019, lost a large portion of his constituents, FiveThirtyEight reported. Only 23% of his 6th district constituents are now represented by him, handing Newman an advantage with her representing 41% of the new 6th district.
Newman currently represents the 3rd district but decided to run for re-election in the new 6th in order to represent the plurality of her constituents, according to FiveThirtyEight. Her home, previously in the 3rd district, is now located in the new 4th.
Though having a liberal voting record, Casten was the more moderate candidate compared to his opponent, who supports the Green New Deal and a $15 minimum wage, FiveThityEight reported. He was endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters and received a perfect rating from the pro-abortion organization, NARAL, FiveThirtyEight reported.
His challenger touted her personal experience of undergoing an abortion in the 1980’s and targeted Casten for previously voting for former President George H.W. Bush, a pro-life advocate, FiveThirtyEight reported. She had been endorsed by progressive Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ro Khanna of California and Pramila Jayapal of Washington.
Liberal organizations such as Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Everytown for Gun Safety, Sunrise Chicago, and Our Revolution Illinois, have also endorsed her, according to USA Today. (RELATED: Rep. Sean Casten Details Final Hours Before Teen Daughter Died In Heartbreaking Statement)
Casten’s campaign targeted Newman’s bribery scandal where she allegedly offered a potential 2020 primary opponent, Iymen Chehade, a job in exchange for his agreement not to run. Chehade was hired to advise Newman on issues surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict and had reportedly asked her to agree to a term-limits pledge and endorse him once she stepped down.
The alleged agreement would violate federal law regulating the hiring of congressional staffers and contractors.
The Office of Congressional Ethics said they found evidence that Newman “may have promised federal employment to a primary opponent for the purpose of procuring political support” in a 6-0 vote. The Democratic representative further denied any wrongdoing to the Ethics Committee.
“The factual and legal allegations were fatally defective,” Newman’s attorneys wrote, “spurred by the charges of an adverse third party, and prodded by an ideologically hostile group.”
Casten also raised $3.2 million in campaign funds, a substantial amount more in fundraising than Newman’s $1.5 million, according to FiveThirtyEight.
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'Loving' boy last Texas school shooting victim laid to rest
SAN ANGELO, Texas — (AP) — Like millions of 10-year-olds, Uziyah Sergio Garcia loved video games, swimming and trampolines. He was also a natural at football, taking to it seamlessly when he and his grandfather started tossing the ball together over spring break.
“Such a fast little boy and he could catch a ball so good,” his grandfather, Manny Renfro, told The Associated Press. “There were certain plays that I would call that he would remember and he would do it exactly like we practiced.”
Uziyah, who went by Uzi, was the last of the 21 people killed in the Uvalde school massacre — 19 children and two teachers — to be laid to rest. His funeral was held Saturday at the Immanuel Baptist Church in San Angelo, where he lived before moving last year to Uvalde, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) to the south.
“We will miss saying, ‘I love you and Jesus loves you,’ especially his reply, ’… and Jesus loves you too!” his family wrote in an obituary for the boy, remembering for his contagious laugh, love of silly jokes, and sweet and outgoing nature.
Uzi's favorite after-school snack was a Nutella sandwich with blue Takis, which he would try to persuade others to try, The New York Times reported.
“He was goofy, he loved to make you laugh,” Nikki Cross, an aunt the boy lived with, told the newspaper.
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CANBERRA (BLOOMBERG) - Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said it was "optimistic in the extreme" that any of the country's new fleet of nuclear submarines would be ready by 2030, warning it could leave Australia with a capability gap of more than a decade.
Australia signed a deal with the US and the UK in September 2021, known as the Aukus agreement, which among a range of security and technology measures would also help Australia build and operate its own fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. However no final delivery date was announced.
Speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday (June 29), Mr Marles said the government was still determining the best route to obtaining the submarines but at the present rate of delivery, a date in the 2040s was far more likely.
"We will be looking at every option available to try and bring that time forward. I think bringing it forward to eight years from now would be extremely optimistic," he said.
In the meantime, in an attempt to close the capability gap between Australia's current ageing submarine fleet and the future nuclear vessels, Mr Marles said that "all possibilities are on the table".
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who was the defence minister under the previous government, claimed in early June he was planning to fast-track Australia's acquisition of nuclear submarines to allow the purchase of two US-built vessels by 2030.
The news of the Aukus agreement in September 2021 was met with trepidation among some of Australia's Indo-Pacific neighbours, who were concerned it could lead to an arms race in the region.
Speaking opposite Australia's top diplomat Penny Wong in Malaysia on Tuesday, Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah said he had reiterated Putrajaya's concerns to Ms Wong during their bilateral meeting.
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Aide: Trump dismissed Jan. 6 threats, wanted to join crowd
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump rebuffed his own security’s warnings about armed protesters in the Jan. 6 rally crowd and made desperate attempts to join his supporters as they marched to the Capitol, according to dramatic new testimony Tuesday before the House committee investigating the 2021 insurrection.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a little-known former White House aide, described an angry, defiant president that day who was trying to let armed protesters avoid security screenings at a rally that morning to protest his 2020 election defeat and who later grabbed at the steering wheel of the presidential SUV when the Secret Service refused to let him go to the Capitol.
And when the events at the Capitol spiraled toward violence, with the crowd chanting to “Hang Mike Pence,” she testified that Trump declined to intervene.
Trump “doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong,” Hutchinson recalled hearing from her boss, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Hutchinson’s explosive, moment-by-moment account of what was happening inside and outside the White House offered a vivid description of a president so unwilling to concede his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden that he acted out in rage and refused to stop the siege at the Capitol. It painted a damning portrait of the chaos at the White House as those around the defeated president splintered into one faction supporting his false claims of voter fraud and another trying unsuccessfully to put an end to the violent attack.
Her testimony, at a surprise hearing announced just 24 hours earlier, was the sole focus at the hearing, the sixth by the committee this month. The account was particularly powerful because of her proximity to power, with Hutchinson describing what she witnessed first-hand and was told by others in the White House.
Hutchinson said that she was told Trump fought a security official for control of the presidential SUV on Jan. 6 and demanded to be taken the Capitol as the insurrection began, despite being warned earlier that day that some of his supporters were armed.
The former aide said she was told of the altercation in the SUV immediately afterward by a White House security official, and that Bobby Engel, the head of the detail, was in the room and didn’t dispute the account. Engel had grabbed Trump’s arm to prevent him from gaining control of the armored vehicle, she was told, and Trump then used his free hand to lunge at Engel.
That account was quickly disputed. Engel, the agent who was driving the presidential SUV, and Trump security official Tony Ornato are willing to testify under oath that no agent was assaulted and Trump never lunged for the steering wheel, a person familiar with the matter said. The person would not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
As the events of Jan. 6 unfurled, Hutchinson, then a special assistant to Meadows, described chaos in White House offices and hallways. Trump’s staff — several of whom had been warned of violence beforehand — became increasingly alarmed as rioters at the Capitol overran police and interrupted the certification of Biden’s victory.
Trump was less concerned, she said, even as he heard there were cries in the crowd to “Hang Mike Pence!” Hutchinson recalled that Meadows told aides that Trump “thinks Mike deserves it.” The president tweeted during the attack that Pence didn’t have the courage to object to Biden’s win as he presided over the joint session of Congress.
The young ex-aide was matter-of-fact in most of her answers. But she did say that she was “disgusted” at Trump’s tweet about Pence during the siege.
“It was unpatriotic, it was un-American, and you were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie,” Hutchinson said, adding that, “I still struggle to work through the emotions of that.”
Trump denied much of what Hutchinson said on his social media platform, Truth Social. He called her a “total phony” and “bad news.”
Members of the panel praised Hutchinson’s bravery for testifying and said that other witnesses had been intimidated and did not cooperate.
“I want all Americans to know that what Ms. Hutchinson has done today is not easy,” said Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican who led questioning.
Some of Hutchinson’s former colleagues, too, dcfended her account. Mick Mulvaney, who preceded Meadows as Trump’s chief of staff, tweeted that he knows Hutchinson and “I don’t think she is lying.” Sarah Matthews, a former Trump press aide who has also cooperated with the committee, called the testimony “damning.”
As she described the scene in the White House after the election, Hutchinson depicted a president flailing in anger and prone to violent outbursts. Some aides sought to rein in his impulses. Some did not.
At one point on Jan. 6, Hutchinson said, White House counsel Pat Cipollone barreled down the hallway and confronted Meadows about rioters breaching the Capitol. Meadows, staring at his phone, told the White House lawyer that Trump didn’t want to do anything, she said.
Earlier, Cipollone had worried out loud that “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable” if Trump went to the Capitol after his speech at the rally, Hutchinson recalled.
Before the crowd left for the Capitol, Hutchinson said she also received an angry call from House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who had just heard the president say he was coming. “Don’t come up here,” McCarthy told her, before hanging up.
Hutchinson told the panel that Trump had been informed early in the day that some of the protesters outside the White House had weapons. But he responded that the protesters were “not here to hurt me,” Hutchinson said.
She quoted Trump as directing his staff, in profane terms, to take away the metal-detecting magnetometers that he thought would slow down supporters who were gathering for his speech on the Ellipse, in back of the White House. In a clip of an earlier interview with the committee, she recalled the president saying words to the effect of: “I don’t f-in’ care that they have weapons.”
As a White House insider, Hutchinson told stories of a raging president who was unable to acknowledge his defeat. At the beginning of December, she said, she heard noise inside the White House around the time an Associated Press article was published in which Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department had not found evidence of voter fraud that could have changed the election’s outcome.
She said she entered a room to find ketchup dripping down a wall and broken porcelain. The president, it turned out, had thrown his lunch at the wall in disgust over the article. Trump denied it in his social media posts.
In the days before the attack, Hutchinson said she was “scared, and nervous for what could happen” on Jan. 6 after having conversations with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Meadows and others.
Meadows told Hutchinson that “things might get real, real bad,” she said. Giuliani told her it was going to be “a great day” and “we’re going to the Capitol.”
Eventually, both men would seek pardons related to what happened that day, Hutchinson said. A person familiar with the matter denied that Meadows had ever sought a pardon. The person spoke on condition of anonymity.
Hutchinson had already provided a trove of information to congressional investigators, sitting for four interviews with the panel behind closed doors. She detailed meetings in the runup to the insurrection where challenges to the election were debated and discussed at the White House, including with several Republican lawmakers.
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Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro, Nomaan Merchant, Kevin Freking, Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller contributed to this report.
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For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siege.
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, FARNOUSH AMIRI, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO
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1 teen dead, 2 injured in Georgia shooting
LAGRANGE, Ga. (WRBL) – Multiple teens have been shot in LaGrange, and one of them has died. The shootings, according to police, happened during a teen gathering with an altercation between two groups breaking out and gunfire erupting.
Police said the incident happened at 1009 Hogansville Road, the location of the gathering. Two 16-year-old males and a 17-year-old female where shot, with one of the males dying. Police identified the teen who was killed as Laquan Dewberry.
Police became aware of the shootings on June 24, 2022, when they responded to two locations, 307 Vernon Street and 1009 Hogansville Road.
When police responded to Vernon Street, they found the male victims in a vehicle. Dewberry had been shot in his upper torso, while the second male teen suffered a gunshot to the leg. Both were taken to Well Star West Georgia Medical Center, and Dewberry died shortly after he arrived at the hospital.
Police also responded to the Hogansville Road location, where they found the third victim, a teenage female, who had been shot but had non-life-threatening injuries. She was also taken to Well Star West Georgia Medical Center to be treated, and released a short time later.
According to police, the shootings all happened at the Hogansville Road location, where a “teen” gathering had occurred. Toward the end of the gathering, an altercation happened between two groups of teens, with “indiscriminate gunfire” among some of the attendees taking place, resulting in the shootings.
Police are asking anyone with information about this incident to come forward. You can contact LaGrange Police at 706-883-2603 or Troup County Crime Stoppers at 706-812-1000.
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Across Liberia, when it comes to finding a job and encouraging emerging professionals to excel in their new career path, making sure that graduates have the skills they need for the position that make essential their roles in society, opportunities are grossly limited. Youths who do not have the necessary skills quickly find themselves struggling in communities and some may soon start to lose hope, and begin to feel uncertain of the future.
Companies with the potential to hire Liberian youths with technical skills often feel frustrated as they lose money and time and would consequently find themselves hiring foreigners because of low or inadequate skills set.
But, in the Liberian mining town of Yekepa, Nimba County, ArcelorMittal, the global steel and mining giant is revolutionizing opportunities for acquiring technical and vocational skills, to advert this sad reality, with its internationally competitive three year apprenticeship training program.
The company's state of the arts vocational training center at interval recruits and trains new breed and unskilled young Liberians with no or Limited opportunities to entering the Liberian workforce.
AML Vocational facility is providing young people, especially those from Nimba, Grand Bassa and Bong Counties with globally recognized and certified professional training for roles such as diesel mechanics, electricians, mechanical fitters, etc.
After an intensive recruitment process, the excited and anxious apprentices participate in the most innovative and well-structured vocational and technical program, facilitated by full academic and boarding scholarships: tuition, housing, three meals a day, and a monthly stipend. This fully supported training model is intended to ensure that the students fully committed to their studies and practice to ensure excellence.
In the electrical workshop, Aaron Siahway one of the beneficiaries hailing from Nimba County told journalists on a reporting tour on Thursday that he cannot measure his level of happiness for the opportunity afforded him by ArcelorMittal Liberia.
Attired in orange reflectors laden jumpsuit, protective hand and eye gears, he speaks bold that after the recruitment process he has discovered that this is the most comfortable place to be, and that ArcelorMittal is a blessing to Liberia.
Said Siahway: "I have been here free, comfortable, eat three times a day and they teach me very well, especially we do the things with hands, we see them practical and not just read. It is real all the time".
"How can you describe this opportunity, given you and other," one reporter asked
"For me, it is a life-changing opportunity and I can't describe it any further because nothing like this I ever thought would have happened to me".
In the Diesel workshop, Eliezer Wilson narrated the story of how he was recruited, trained, and is now employed as a trainer.
"I come from Lofa County" he introduced himself and went further. "ArcelorMittal Vocational Training "has completely changed my life"
"These kinds of opportunities don't come too often," he said adding that most time "it is one in a lifetime that you see such opportunity"
Wilson says he feels proud to be associated with AML's training program and that nothing for him is more important than seeing himself as a young man impacting lives though the opportunity given him by the global steel giant.
Globally, women are largely underrepresented in Science Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) - related fields, and Liberia is not an acceptation of this under-representation which is especially prevalent in Africa where women represent less than 20% of the workforce in these fields.
Regardless of this lack of representation in STEM-related work, there are few female engineers from across Liberia who have broken the status quo and stereotype to venture into engineering, especially with the strong policy of ArcelorMittal to minimizing gender disparity in its workforce.
In the Structural Pillar Welding session of AML Training Academy, we found a young woman recruited from Grand Bassa County standing out as the only female in that section.
Interestingly, she finds herself in a department heavily involved with manufacturing equipment for ArcelorMittal mining operation.
"I was schooling in Bassa when I overheard about the recruitment and I decided to apply," said Ruthenia Topka.
"When I was small I used to admire this work (Welding). I use to go to the welding shop, sit there, and developed a passion for this job because it is creative. The more you do things, people admire you, praise you and they like it a lot" she told the reporters smiling".
She added that she has been taught how to draw, design, and manufacture different parts of heavy and light-duty machines to be used up the mine.
"I thank ArcelorMittal Liberia for this opportunity because for us women when we get into this field, we challenge men because the men believe that we women are just supposed to be in the kitchen and cook but this training is helping us to change that"
Tokpa has a big dream and she vows to keep pushing until she is a full-grown engineer with some technical knowledge from outside of Liberia.
Among 15 men Christine Dielin is also the only female in the "fitting workshop" section of the training academy.
Here, they are involved with doing alignments, basic maintenance and producing of gearboxes and spare parts for other essential machine
Recruited from Thinway Town in Buchanan, Christine stands behind the alignment machine and tells the story of how she was a practicing journalist with Radio Jubilee in Buchanan but had to switch profession to engineering, given how "life changing" the AML training is.
For her, the basic way the government of Liberia can solve youth unemployment is to focus on vocation training opportunities like the one offered by ArcelorMittal. She suggested that the Arcelormittal model can be used.
"The Government of Liberia must follow a good example of what ArcelorMiottal is doing", she explained, adding "we need to get young people, the Zogos off the street and provide this kind of training for them".
But unlike Christine and her friends, how many young Liberians will have access to such opportunity to enroll in a state of the art academy with some of the finest instructors and facilitators drawn from Liberia and South Africa?
The manager of ArcelorMittal Technical Program Dawie Loots said, this new TVET initiative supports the company's sustainable development objective of identifying and grooming local talents for future employment at the company and to fast track Liberia's economic development.
The Vocational education and training offered by AML according to him would affect phase two of the company's expansion project and allow students to gain practical experience in their chosen career path before they even graduate.
"The recruitment program is tough and the training is hard and we advertise quite broadly" and "students who finish those rigorous programs, have the credentials and training they need to get started right away in their chosen career path"
Dawie Loots said for a recruitment cycle about 50 students are recruited and that the first 45 recruits who were trained have all been employed by the ArcelorMittal Liberia.
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The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fire has reached 92% containment as of June 27, having burned 341,735 acres. The Hermits Peak fire started April 6 from spot fires from a prescribed burn, while Calf Canyon started April 19.
Officials say the cause of the Calf Canyon Fire was from a pile burn holdover from January that remained dormant under the surface through three winter snow events before re-emerging in April. A holdover fire, also called a sleeper fire, is a fire that remains dormant for a considerable time.
Suppression of New Mexico’s largest wildfire was due to the work of firefighters and monsoonal rain showers June 25 and 26. Some areas of the Carson National Forest and Santa Fe National Forest remain closed to allow for suppression efforts.
According to inciweb.nwcg.gov, the northern zone of the fire has not had any movement in the uncontained western edge. Firefighters continue fixing fences and repairing roads from suppression efforts in Mora, Holman, Guadalupita, Chacon, along the NM Highway 518 and 434 corridors, and in other areas as well. The entire northern fire area has received rainfall from the recent storms, tempering the heat inside the fire perimeter.
Flash floods are still a concern in San Miguel and Mora counties, and a rapid response crew has been monitoring waterways for debris buildup, and are available for emergency response to protect life and property. Saturated roadways are preventing firefighters from accessing areas of the fire and are also impacting the ability to remove heavy equipment from those areas. Firefighters will continue to assist with any new fire starts in the temporary flight restriction area of the fire.
In the southern zone, crews were able to increase some containment in some of the interior islands of the western edge of the fire east of Geronimo, New Mexico. Aerial resources are mostly grounded due to weather and are expected to be limited June 27 as moisture continues. Crews will continue to work on containment and suppression repair as weather allows.
On June 25, InciWeb reported a phase 3 post-fire Burned Area Emergency Response assessment began on the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fires on the east side of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
There are three phases of recovery following wildfires on federal lands. First is fire suppression repair. This is a series of immediate post-fire actions taken to repair damages and minimize potential soil erosion and impacts resulting from fire suppression activities and usually begins before the fire is contained, and before the demobilization of an Incident Management Team. This work repairs the hand and dozer fire lines, roads, trails, staging areas, safety zones, and drop points used during fire suppression efforts.
Second is emergency stabilization of the BAER. This phase is a rapid assessment of burned watersheds by a BAER team to identify imminent post-wildfire threats to human life and safety, property, and critical natural or cultural resources on National Forest System lands and take immediate actions to implement emergency stabilization measures before the first post-fire damaging events. Fires result in loss of vegetation, exposure of soil to erosion, and increased water runoff that may lead to flooding, increased sediment, debris flows, and damage to critical natural and cultural resources. BAER actions such as: mulching, seeding, installation of erosion and water run-off control structures, temporary barriers to protect recovering areas, and installation of warning signs, may be implemented. BAER work may also replace safety related facilities; remove safety hazards; prevent permanent loss of habitat for threatened and endangered species; prevent the spread of noxious weeds and protect critical cultural resources.
Finally, long-term recovery and restoration utilizes non-emergency actions to improve fire-damaged lands that are unlikely to recover naturally and to repair or replace facilities damaged by the fire that are not critical to life and safety. This phase may include restoring burned habitat, reforestation, other planting or seeding, monitoring fire effects, replacing burned fences, interpreting cultural sites, treating noxious weed infestations, and installing interpretive signs.
Preliminary analysis suggests Pecos River headwaters to the Dalton Day Use/Southern forest boundary are susceptible to post-fire flooding that may pose a risk to public safety. Officials are expecting additional elevated flows along the Pecos River to the southern forest boundary to the confluence of Canon de los Trigos.
The BAER team continues to coordinate and share information from its assessment with other federal agencies, including the Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Weather Service and U.S. Geological Survey as well as state agencies and local counties and municipalities who work with adjacent and downstream private homeowners, landowners, and businesses to prepare for potential post-fire flooding and debris flow impacts. NRCS is a federal agency that has post-fire responsibilities on private lands both within and downstream of burned areas.
Homes or businesses that could be impacted by flooding from federal land that result from wildfires may be eligible for flood insurance coverage from the National Flood Insurance Program. Information about NFIP is available through FEMA at www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program, or www.floodsmart.gov/wildfires. Other flood preparedness information is available at www.ready.gov/floods at www.floodsmart.gov/.
For more information about the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fire visit https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8069/.
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New federal government advertisements urging Australians to have up-to-date vaccinations amid a 'tough winter'
The federal government is set to roll out new advertisements "urging Australians to stay up-to-date" with vaccinations, as the Health Minister says "it's clear we still have a tough winter ahead of us".
Health Minister Mark Butler has warned the nation is facing "very real challenges" this winter as he urged Australians to stay up-to-date with their vaccinations.
In an opinion piece titled 'No time for complacency in battle with COVID' released on Wednesday, Mr Butler said while "life is pretty much back to normal", COVID-19 and influenza still poses significant threats to the health of Australians.
The latest COVID-19 data from the Australian Department of Health showed there were 31,766 infections reported in the most recent 24 hour reporting period, with an estimated 231,455 active cases.
"There are currently tens of thousands of new COVID-19 cases reported every day, and thousands of Australians in hospital with the disease. Hundreds of Australians are dying every week," Mr Butler said.
"We also have the significant threat of influenza for the first time in years. To get through winter, we need to increase third and fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccinations.
"The health advice is clear: you are not fully protected against the Omicron variant unless you have at least a third dose of the vaccine.
"New research from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance has found a (third) booster vaccine dose provides 65 per cent greater protection against hospitalisation or death from the Omicron variant, compared to just two doses."
Mr Butler said the federal government will roll out new advertisements in the coming weeks urging Australians to ensure they have kept up-to-date with their vaccinations, including boosters.
The Health Minister added that while Australia still has a "tough winter ahead of us" and the health system was under pressure, "we do have the tools to get through winter safely".
"With COVID-19 and the flu posing significant threats to the health of the Australian population this winter, the message is clear: get vaccinated," he said.
"To parents of young children not yet vaccinated against the flu, make an appointment – today. If you or a loved one have not had a flu vaccine this year, make an appointment – today.
"And if you're eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine booster and haven't had it, make a booking – today. It's safe to have both at the same time." | https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/new-federal-government-advertisements-urging-australians-to-have-uptodate-vaccinations-amid-a-tough-winter/news-story/a825a101e8813d9dfb7ae622aca7d8b4 | 2022-06-29T03:01:43Z | https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/new-federal-government-advertisements-urging-australians-to-have-uptodate-vaccinations-amid-a-tough-winter/news-story/a825a101e8813d9dfb7ae622aca7d8b4 | false | 1 |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
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WASHINGTON — A Florida man has pleaded guilty to three felony charges related to the insurrection and storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.
Mitchell Todd Gardner II, 34, of Seffner, Florida, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in the District of Columbia to civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon, according to court records. He faces up to 45 years in prison at his Oct. 21 sentencing.
Gardner was arrested in Tampa in June 2021.
According to court documents, Gardner joined with others in objecting to Democratic President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory over former Republican President Donald Trump. A mob attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying election results, authorities said. Five people died in the violence.
According to the criminal complaint, Gardner was part of a mob just outside the lower west terrace tunnel of Congress and used a pepper spray device against officers within the tunnel area. The contents hit one officer directly in the face shield and splattered onto two other officers, officials said.
Gardner also urged other rioters to use a ladder to break into a window, prosecutors said. When the ladder was not used, Gardner stood on a window ledge outside of a Senate terrace room and damaged the window with the pepper spray device.
While inside the Capitol, Gardner waved to other rioters to come closer or into the building, officials said. He also handed another rioter what looked to be a table or desk leg, and that object was used to assault police officers, prosecutors said.
Since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 840 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for alleged crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, officials said. More than 250 people have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. | https://www.startribune.com/florida-man-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-2021-us-capitol-riot/600186090/ | 2022-06-29T03:11:33Z | https://www.startribune.com/florida-man-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-2021-us-capitol-riot/600186090/ | false | 13 |
Travis Barker was seen on a stretcher and reportedly hospitalized in Los Angeles, as his daughter asked for prayers on her Instagram account.
The Los Angeles Times and TMZ reported that the Blink 182 drummer was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and his new bride, Kourtney Kardashian, was by his side.
Barker's daughter, Alabama Luella Barker, posted to her Instagram Stories around 5:30 p.m., saying, "Please send your prayers." Alabama is his daughter with ex-wife Shanna Moakler.
Travis Barker also sent out an ominous tweet, saying, "God save me," around 10:45 a.m.
Barker has had health issues in the past, including hospitalization for blood clots.
In 2008, he survived a plane wreck that killed two. Barker suffered third-degree burns on 65% of his body. He was hospitalized for three months and had 26 surgeries.
He took his first flight since 2008 with Kourtney Kardashian in 2021, writing a social media post that said, "With you anything is possible @KourtneyKardash." | https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/travis-barker-hospitalized-la-kourtney-kardashian/2759422/ | 2022-06-29T03:11:50Z | https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/travis-barker-hospitalized-la-kourtney-kardashian/2759422/ | false | 10 |
Volkswagen should open 150 job openings for the Taubaté (SP) plant. The opening of vacancies still depends on the category approving an agreement with the automaker with changes in the calendar of days off and division of the production of the Polo Track with the unit in São Bernardo do Campo.
The proposal will be voted on at the assembly this Wednesday (29) with workers from both shifts. It also foresees the hiring of 135 Senai apprentices by 2025, in addition to the production of a second new car on the MQB (Modular Transverse Matrix) platform.
The Metalworkers Union’s forecast is that 150 hires will take place in the second half of the year, so that the third shift in stamping and framing will be at full operating capacity as of January.
The Polo Track would initially be an exclusive model of the factory in Taubaté, with the inclusion of the MQB platform, a technology used by the company that allows the production of products that are already produced from this unique matrix.
With the renewal of the agreement, the automaker foresees the inclusion of a second model in the Taubaté factory and the production division of the Polo Track with the São Bernardo unit – the volume exceeding two shifts would be produced in Anchieta.
The Polo Track will be the first new model in Taubaté since Up, in 2014. The amount to be invested in the unit to produce the new car was not informed, but the expectation is that the vehicle will hit stores in 2023.
The company also offered a BRL 2,000 allowance with the change in the timetable, but to be paid in installments. Half by December this year and the rest in 2023.
Changes in the work schedule, days off, extension of the third shift in some sectors and changes in medical insurance are also planned.
If the proposal is approved, the hiring will be the first job openings at Volkswagen in Taubaté since 2019. At the time, the company opened up to 80 jobs, but on a temporary basis.
The proposal, according to the union, even with the car production division that is in the plant, is a sign of improvement in the scenario with the investments announced last year. In 2021, the company said it would invest R$7 billion in Latin America, starting with the Taubaté plant.
The factory in Taubaté has around 3,200 workers and currently produces Gol and Voyage vehicles.
Volkswagen was approached by the g1, but did not comment until the publication. | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/06/29/volkswagen-should-hire-150-employees-for-the-factory-in-taubate-sp-paraiba-valley-and-region/ | 2022-06-29T03:14:57Z | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/06/29/volkswagen-should-hire-150-employees-for-the-factory-in-taubate-sp-paraiba-valley-and-region/ | true | 2 |
Finally someone is standing up to the insane and draconian mandates and thoughts of the radicals in charge of America’s government. Perhaps it starts with a grocery store chain named Publix.
The vaccinations are still under an experimental title, despite what the mainstream media and the government tries to tell you. The entire Covid fiasco in the United States is STILL under EUA, the Emergency Use Authorization, and has not been fully approved.
This was posted on June 17, 2022 from the FDA’s own website:
It is mandatory for both ModernaTX Inc. and Pfizer Inc., as well as vaccination providers, to report the following to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for these two COVID-19 vaccines: serious adverse events, cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome and cases of COVID-19 that result in hospitalization or death. It is also mandatory for vaccination providers to report all vaccine administration errors to VAERS for which they become aware and for vaccine manufacturers to include a summary and analysis of all identified vaccine administration errors in monthly safety reports submitted to the FDA.
The EUA amendment for the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine was issued to ModernaTX Inc. and the EUA amendment for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine was issued to Pfizer Inc.
So why is the mainstream media saying that it’s approved? Why do they keep lying to you?
Well, Florida pharmacies aren’t buying it, and neither are we! Last Thursday according to the Tampa Bay Times, the grocery store chain Publiz said it has declined to offer the vaccine approved to children ages for and under “at this time.”
Publix gave no more information, but perhaps they were looking at research that this virus rarely if ever hurts children, it’s super rare if it does so, so why risk it with your child?
Appointments for vaccines for children five years old and older are still being accepted on the Publix website.
A Publix representative confirmed the company’s choice on Wednesday afternoon to Tampa news station WTVT. | https://thedcpatriot.com/publix-grocery-store-chain-refuses-to-vaccinate-children-under-the-age-of-four-with-covid-jab/ | 2022-06-29T03:17:41Z | https://thedcpatriot.com/publix-grocery-store-chain-refuses-to-vaccinate-children-under-the-age-of-four-with-covid-jab/ | false | 1 |
HANGZHOU, China, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STAR.VISION AEROSPACE GROUP LIMITED, a Chinese space technology innovator, has recently won the second place in the Multimodal Learning for Earth and Environment (MultiEarth 2022) competition during the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022). They also topped the rankings in another track "CropHarvest 2022" which focuses on crop classification, using testing data set from Kenya, Togo and Brazil.
Organized by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the MultiEarth 2022 competition focused on using machine learning to address global problems in earth and environmental monitoring such as the decline of the Amazon rainforest. "Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest accounts for the largest share, contributing to reduced biodiversity, habitat loss, and climate change. Since much of the region is difficult to access, satellite remote sensing offers a powerful tool to track changes in the Amazon." stated the organizers. The workshop aims to gather a wide audience of researchers in academia, industry, and related fields to leverage remote sensing images collected by multiple sensors for positive environmental impact.
The Chinese company won honors in two tracks of the MultiEarth 2022 competition, including the "matrix completion" and "multimodal image translation", providing a new perspective for long-term monitoring of rainforest changes, and helping resolve frequently encountered "headaches" in optical satellite image acquisition due to dense cloud coverage.
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), widely recognized as the world's best known AI competition, is a technical event hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on yearly basis. Previous winners of championships include tech giants of Google, Alibaba and top research organizations across the world.
Headquartered in Hangzhou, Eastern China, and specializing in AI-driven remote sensing satellites R&D and business intelligence services, the company is dedicated to integrating state-of-the-art AI technology with the on-going revolutionized space industry.
Dr. Yashu Kang, head of STAR.VISION's AI team, said that the company hopes to use space technology to "improve the earth from space", adding that "as a space company, it is our first time to participate in a top-tier international competition along with many great AI companies and respective players. Achieving such a result is encouraging, which strengthens our determination of improving the remote sensing satellite and its service with AI technology."
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NAUVOO, Ill. — A commemoration of the 1847 deaths of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum drew hundreds to the historic Carthage Jail and Visitor Center on Monday night, with thousands expected nightly for the Nauvoo and British Pageants which take the stage starting Tuesday for the first time in two years.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Illinois Historic Sites President Craig Dalton said this year represents “a learning curve” for everyone involved.
“Few of the missionaries currently serving here have ever experienced Nauvoo and Carthage outside of a COVID-modified situation,” Dalton said.
But working together to support one another is as common today as it was in Nauvoo back in the 1840s.
“They built a city, built a temple and prepared to leave all as a community working together. That’s what we’re trying to do now, to work as a community to provide a wonderful experience for those who come,” Dalton’s wife Sandra said. “Over June, we’ve seen everyone step up. We feel ready.”
It’s a welcome return to “normal” with all sites open without restrictions.
But some positive changes prompted by COVID, what Dalton calls “silver linings of the dark clouds,” continue.
“One was the creation of virtual tours — the ability we have now with technology to share these sites with people throughout the world, the vast majority of which will never have the opportunity to come here physically,” Dalton said.
“I think we would have gotten to virtual tours and things like that because the leadership of the church had been contemplating the possibility, but COVID forced the issue,” Dalton said. “That made it happen almost instantly, and now it’s how can we keep this moving, expanding.”
Guided tours of thematically-related buildings first offered in 2021 continue along with online scheduling introduced last year for attractions that fill up fast or have tight capacity limits, including the wagon and carriage tours as well as performances of The Promise and Love of the Savior at the visitor’s center.
A new app this year will help in-person visitors navigate the sites, find tickets and learn more about places they don’t get a chance to visit, while the website offers a more expansive view of the sites for remote visitors.
“I don’t know that we’ll ever return to where we were before, and I think that’s a good thing,” Dalton said. “There’s progress.” | https://www.whig.com/lifestyles/history/return-of-tourists-a-learning-curve-for-all-involved/article_e577ea18-f700-11ec-81c2-43a8d2c641c8.html | 2022-06-29T03:32:14Z | https://www.whig.com/lifestyles/history/return-of-tourists-a-learning-curve-for-all-involved/article_e577ea18-f700-11ec-81c2-43a8d2c641c8.html | true | 1 |
Retinol has been shown to increase collagen production, eradicating fine lines and wrinkles. Cop these top retinol eye creams right now.
This goes without saying — dermatologists adore retinol.
The vitamin A derivative has been shown to increase collagen production, eradicating fine lines and wrinkles. When it comes to your eyes, however, a product created particularly for the delicate skin around the eyes is preferable to your normal retinol cream. So we’ve compiled a list of the top retinol eye creams you should be using right now.
Best retinol eye creams for every concern
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Because it has the thinnest skin on the body, the under-eye region is extremely sensitive. According to experts, retinol in this region may be overly irritating and, if not used correctly, might potentially induce inflammation. If you’re concerned about irritation, only apply the product in the evening. Retinols have traditionally been used at night because UV exposure can inactivate vitamin A derivatives, and retinols can make the skin more UV sensitive, according to dermatologists.
When used on a daily basis, retinol will tighten and smooth the skin beneath and around your eyes. The best part is that there are so many eye cream compositions available that there is no need to use a one-size-fits-all strategy. Instead, we discovered 8 retinol eye products, each of which addresses a distinct issue while leaving all skin types smooth, moisturised, and irritation-free.
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- Charlotte Tilbury's Magic Eye Rescue
- Glow Recipe's Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask
- The INKEY List's Retinol Eye Cream
- Dr Dennis Gross Advanced Retinol+Ferulic Triple Correction Eye Serum
- Murad's Retinol Youth Renewal Eye Serum
- Laneige Perfect Renew Youth Retinol Eye Cream
- Kate Somerville's +Retinol Firming Eye Cream
Charlotte’s Magic Eye Rescue dramatically enhances elasticity and firmness with a cocktail of cell-energising winter daphne stem cell extract, rice and soy peptides, saccharide isomerate and free radical-fighting vitamins A, C and E – all alongside a proprietary ‘botanical eye contour complex’ that works to increase ‘stretch’, resilience and density for younger-looking eyes. Reparative and protective, this replenishing cream has an instant skin-smoothing and ‘lifting’ effect – ideal for disguising signs of a too-late night – while the inclusion of moisturising coconut oil and shea butter helps to lock in precious moisture to restore skin’s ‘bounce’ and softness.
Intensely nourishing, this luxurious Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask is crammed with moisturising, age-defying and brightening ingredients to leave you looking bright eyed and bushy tailed in the morning. Rich in antioxidants including conditioning vitamins E and C, avocado oil and extract soothe and nourishe the delicate under-eye area while protecting it against harmful environmental aggressors like free radicals.
Other hard-working ingredients include niacinamide, which helps to strengthen the skin’s barrier while visibly improving the appearance of dullness, fine lines and wrinkles, along with caffeine-laced coffeeberry to reduce puffiness and dark circles. The star of the show? Encapsulated retinol, which helps to firm, smooth and plump fine lines and wrinkles without the harsher side effects often associated with retinol.
Vitamin A derivatives have been proven to work at the cellular level to brighten skin and stimulate collagen production. The INKEY List Retinol Eye Cream offers an alternative to traditionally irritating retinoids: a ground-breaking slow-release formula plus rich but lightweight oils so it’s gentle enough to use around the eyes. This night-time eye cream is formulated with Shea Butter to moisturise and soothe while also reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. It’s an eye cream that actually works.
This quick-absorbing serum features the brand’s signature Phyto-Retinol Blend that targets signs of ageing around the eyes through three methods of firming skin, boosting hydration, and reducing the look of fine lines. Besides retinol, bakuchiol, rambutan, and ferulic acid also work their magic to smoothen out visible wrinkles.
A supercharged treatment for skin that shows signs of a cellular slow-down, this revitalising serum is jam-packed with instant and time-released retinol to rev your cells’ engines and rapidly minimise lines while recovering radiance. From firmness to furrows and texture to tone – this breakthrough formula has a rapid impact; smoothing and softening wrinkles and boosting resilience, leaving your face looking less lined and youthfully dewy. Created to deliver results without retinol’s side-effects, this non-irritating elixir is great for all skin types
The Laneige Perfect Renew Youth Retinol Eye Cream penetrates deep into the delicate skin surface around your eyes. Its said to reduce deep and surface wrinkles of each skin layer in only a week by dimishing the number, depth, length and area of wrinkles with pure retinol. Five hyaluronic acids in different sizes work alongside to replenish moisture in the skin to densify the skin and boost 3firmness zones.
This silky, weightless eye cream improves the appearance of skin firmness, texture and elasticity and reduces the appearance of lines and wrinkles around the eye area. It firms with retinol and bioretinols, natural ingredients that mimic the effort of retinol but with less sensitivity. Hyaluronic acid increases hydration and helps smooth the appearance of skin. | https://www.prestigeonline.com/th/beauty-wellness/beauty/best-retinol-eye-creams-for-every-under-eye-concern-wrinkles-fine-lines/ | 2022-06-29T03:36:35Z | https://www.prestigeonline.com/th/beauty-wellness/beauty/best-retinol-eye-creams-for-every-under-eye-concern-wrinkles-fine-lines/ | true | 4 |
Uber driver in Las Vegas attacked by passengers
LAS VEGAS — An Uber driver in Las Vegas said she was grateful to be alive after claiming her passengers assaulted her last week.
“It was horrible,” Victoria Partridge told KVVU-TV. “I never in my life felt so terrified.”
What appeared to be a routine Uber drop-off turned into an attack on June 19 when several passengers began punching and attacking Partridge, KSNV-TV reported.
Partridge is an Uber XL driver who can transport six passengers in her van, according to the television station. She said she caught the incident on her video camera that is installed in the van.
The driver said she was approached by seven women for a ride and told them only six were allowed in her vehicle, KSNV reported.
“I turned around and I said, ‘Girls, I am sorry, I cannot give seven people a ride’ and they said, ‘Why,’ and I said, ‘Because it is against the law,’” Partridge told KVVU.
The women refused to leave the vehicle and pleaded with Partridge until she relented. The driver relented but added she was attacked when the van reached the women’s destination in North Las Vegas.
“The woman in the front seat when they started getting out, she splashed a drink in my face and then they started beating me up,” Partridge told KVVU.
While the attack lasted about 30 seconds, Partridge said the assault felt like it took more than an hour, KSNV reported.
“I was just trying to protect my eyes in the beginning, just because I didn’t want to get blind,” Partridge told the television station. “When the attack started getting harder, punching harder, then I started thinking that I’m gonna die. And when they left, I was just praying (to) God. Thank God I’m alive.”
Partridge added that her phone and tip jar were stolen, KVVU reported.
“Honestly, I thought I was going to die,” Partridge told the television station. “I was so scared.”
Partridge called 911 when she returned to her home and gave police details, KSNV reported. She also contacted Uber, and the company sent a follow-up text on Monday asking her to upload any photos or videos from the incident.
A spokesperson for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told the television station on Wednesday that the department has opened an investigation and would be contacting Partridge soon.
Partridge added that the woman who originally booked the ride gave a tip through Cash App before the ride began, meaning that she has the person’s contact information, KSNV reported.
Uber officials told Partridge that the company will cover all of her van’s repair expenses and put $5,000 into her Uber account, KVVU reported.
“This brutal attack against the driver is horrifying. The riders should be held accountable, and we look forward to helping the police with their investigation,” an Uber spokesperson told the television station in a statement. “Violence of any kind is not tolerated on the platform. As soon as the driver reported the incident to us, we began our investigation, deactivated the account holder, and have been in contact with the driver to offer our support.”
Partridge has started a GoFundMe page to cover her medical and legal expenses.
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Equinix, STT Among Bidders for Time Dotcom’s Data Centers
(Bloomberg) -- US-based investors DigitalBridge Group Inc., I Squared Capital-owned BDx and Equinix Inc. are among potential suitors for the data center business of Malaysia’s Time Dotcom Bhd., according to people familiar with the matter.
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Stonepeak-backed Digital Edge and Temasek Holdings Pte’s ST Telemedia Globe Data Centres are also among the possible bidders, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. The suitors are conducting due diligence on the assets, known as Aims Data Centre, as they weigh making binding offers, the people said.
A potential deal for Aims could raise about $500 million to $600 million, Bloomberg News has reported.
Considerations are ongoing and the firms could still decide against any transaction, the people said. Representatives for Time Dotcom, DigitalBridge, Equinix and STT GDC declined to comment. Malaysia is a potential future location for BDx facilities as the company looks to expand its footprint across Asia, said Braham Singh, chief executive officer of BDx, in response to a query from Bloomberg News.
Data center companies in Asia have been attracting strong takeover interest, in part due to the perception they have stable returns and expectations of ongoing growth as people increasingly rely on technology.
Backed by Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd., Time dotcom offers fixed-line voice and broadband services to consumers and businesses, as well as enterprise solutions in areas such as cloud and security. Beyond Malaysia, it has stakes in providers in Vietnam and Thailand, according to its latest annual report. Its shares have dropped about 5% this year, valuing the firm at around $1.8 billion.
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State government complex, school safety, and more: What else is in NC’s budget
Republican leaders in the General Assembly proposed a new spending plan Tuesday that would revise and complement the two-year budget they passed last November.
The budget includes higher raises for state workers and teachers, with no new tax cuts on top of the schedule lawmakers agreed on last year to gradually reduce the corporate income tax rate over the next few years.
The 193-page spending plan, which lawmakers are aiming to pass through both the state House and Senate by Saturday before the legislature adjourns and send to Gov. Roy Cooper, includes many other spending items, including money to build a new government complex in downtown Raleigh; cover co-pays for students who qualify for reduced-price lunches; and pay for new school safety measures in the wake of mass shootings.
Here are five budget items that stand out.
New office complex housing governor’s staff
The budget includes plans for multiple changes to the existing layout of state government buildings in downtown Raleigh.
Among them is a provision tasking the Department of Administration with planning and designing a new “State Government Executive Headquarters facility” that would host the governor’s staff, personnel and operations for various state agencies, and include a chamber for the Council of State to hold its meetings. The council is made of the state’s top executive-branch officials.
The budget requires construction on the project to begin by July 1, 2023.
Another provision states that the current building used by the Department of Administration, at 116 W Jones St., would be torn down and replaced by a new “Education Campus.” The campus would provide offices for the UNC System and Community Colleges System, as well as the departments of Public Instruction and Commerce.
The proposal would require the Department of Administration, working with the Legislative Services Office, to relocate all employees from the existing building by July 1, 2023. Demolition of the building would be required no later than Oct. 31, 2023.
More safety resources for schools
The new budget addresses some of the elevated concerns about school safety in the aftermath of May’s mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
The budget includes an additional $15 million in grants that school districts can apply for to have school resource officers in elementary and middle schools. Few elementary schools have a police officer assigned to them.
Other school safety measures include:
$32 million in grants to support students in crisis, provide school safety training and purchase safety equipment for schools.
$26 million to help schools cover the salaries needed to keep officers in high schools.
$5 million to help North Carolina historically black colleges and universities prepare for cybersecurity and bomb threats following a nationwide spike in threats against HBCUs.
School choice expansion
The budget also reflects efforts by Republican lawmakers to expand school choice options in the face of opposition from Democratic legislators who say those alternatives are hurting traditional public schools.
The increase in school choice has occurred at a time when enrollment has dropped in traditional public schools. Unlike the past two years, lawmakers didn’t include a provision that would protect school districts from funding cuts if they have fewer kids than they did before the pandemic.
The budget would raise the income eligibility for an Opportunity Scholarship covering private school tuition to 200% of the income needed to qualify for a federally subsidized meal, or about $100,000 a year for a family of four. The proposal also includes an additional $56 million a year for the voucher program.
Free school lunches for eligible students
The budget would spend $3.9 million from the Department of Public Instruction to make school lunches free for all students who qualify for reduced-price meals. This would apply to all schools participating in the National School Lunch Program and would be in effect for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.
Federal COVID-19 waivers have allowed all students at U.S. public schools, regardless of family income, to have free school meals. However, those waivers expire June 30. The state’s budget proposal reintroduces the qualification that only students from families below a certain income level are eligible for the program.
Some other education items in the budget include:
A $250,000-a-year grant program for schools to provide free feminine hygiene products such as tampons. The program was so popular this school year that it ran out of money.
Permission for the state’s two popular but low-performing virtual charter schools to stay open through the 2024-25 school year. Then they could apply to the State Board of Education for renewal of their charter.
Water infrastructure
Legislators would continue to fund drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects. They allocated more than $611 million for 90 projects across the state.
Examples of projects that would be funded in the budget include $10 million for a wastewater treatment plant in Onslow County, $25 million for a water reclamation facility in Clayton and $1 million for a pump station in Elizabeth City.
The federal infrastructure law will provide nearly $223 million in additional grants that can help remediate water supplies and build new infrastructure. Of those funds, more than $86 million is available for projects to remediate lead service lines, while more than $23 million is available to address “forever chemicals” and other so-called “emerging compounds.”
Staff writers Avi Bajpai, T. Keung Hui, Kyle Ingram and Adam Wagner contributed to this report.
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- Series A round saw participation from Indonesian giants PT Astra Digital Internasional, a subsidiary of PT Astra International Tbk (Astra), Blibli, BRI Ventures, SMDV, and Prasetia Dwidharma, as well as global venture capital firms Patamar Capital, Flourish Ventures and 500 Global
- Fresh funds will be deployed to grow product range, expand customer reach, and driving financial inclusion through the introduction of products that remove barriers and provide access to financing
SINGAPORE, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mapan, an Indonesia-based leading startup focused on eliminating barriers to financial access for the masses in the country, today announced it has closed a successful Series A round of US$15 million. The round was co-led by Patamar Capital and PT Astra Digital Internasional, a subsidiary of PT Astra International Tbk (Astra), with participation from Indonesian giants BRI Ventures, SMDV, Blibli, Prasetia Dwidharma, and global venture capital firms Flourish Ventures and 500 Global.
With this successful fundraise, Mapan will now look towards growing their core Arisan service through expanding their product range and partnering with top suppliers. An aspect of Indonesian culture, Arisan is a form of informal social gathering, where members will take turns to purchase products for the group. The firm will also introduce a larger variety of Arisan schemes, and expand its reach, targeting to make their digitised Arisan product available to 10 million households in Indonesia by 2026. In its aim to drive financial inclusion in the country, where 51 per cent[1] of adults in Indonesia lack access to banks or other forms of formal financial services, Mapan will also introduce other products to enhance financial inclusion and improve access to financing sources for the masses.
Since 2015, Mapan has also focused on the empowerment of women leaders of Arisan groups, which are traditional women-run rotating savings groups, through the introduction of its Arisan application. Through the recruitment of women leaders and influencers as agents and creators of Arisan groups, Mapan has provided affordable goods financing to more than three million households to-date. Women influencers and leaders of Mapan's Arisan groups can also count on receiving additional benefits, such as commission from product sales, incentives for recruiting and educating new agents, and other performance milestones, thereby bringing financial equality to women from low-income families in Indonesia.
"In Indonesia, women play a key role in managing their family's finances, and Arisan is the manifestation of this process. We are honoured that through the Mapan Arisan product, they have been empowered to help their communities improve their ability to purchase household goods, thus boosting their quality of life. We are committed to continue to work closely with them to evolve our solutions that provide life-changing financial access at scale," said Ardelia Apti, Mapan's newly appointed CEO.
Mapan was founded in 2009 with a mission to improve the quality of life for the masses in Indonesia through solutions that will help eliminate barriers to financial resources for low-income communities. Through the usage of Mapan's Arisan product, lower-income groups can increase their buying power to purchase household goods such as cookware, electronics, and furniture. The firm also currently provides other products and services such as bills payment application, Mapan Pulsa, and consumer goods resale platform, Mapan Mart.
Director of Astra Gidion Hasan said, "In line with Astra's aim to prosper with the nation, Astra wishes to contribute in advancing the quality of life of the people of Indonesia, one of which is by contributing in the advancement of Indonesia's digital economy. The collaboration with Mapan is one of our ways to enable people from all walks of society to meet their daily needs."
"We love Mapan's unique approach to amplify the power of women in the communities. The concept of Arisan has been core to Indonesian culture for many years, and by digitising it, Mapan brought scalability to the age-old practice. We are excited to play our part in Mapan's next phase of growth, as it looks to improve financial access and the quality of lives of Indonesians.", said Dondi Hananto, Partner at Patamar Capital.
On the sidelines of this fundraise, the firm recently announced the appointment of Ardelia Apti as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Ardelia and her team are committed to delivering Mapan's promise of improving the lives of Indonesians through technology, while driving the firm's expansion and product development.
Prior to Mapan, Ardelia Apti established deep business experience in fintech and deep tech space. She spent 5 years with Gojek, part of the GoTo Group, in several roles. During her time at Gojek, Ardelia co-built its Swadaya programme, a benefits programme for Gojek driver-partners that helps them save on daily expenses, and also headed GoPay's Offline Payments business, driving QR payment solutions for consumers, businesses, and MSMEs. She was also previously country director for AI company Element, Inc., and a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Aldi Haryopratomo, Founder and Board of Commissioner member at Mapan commented, "With this new fundraising round from a strong base of both Indonesian and global investors, we are excited by the new phase that is now ushered in. This represents support for Ardelia's vision of building a community of women to ensure that Indonesian families become financially self-sufficient, and we are excited to further drive this forward."
Mapan currently operates in Java, Bali, Sumatera, Nusa Tenggara, and Sulawesi, and plans to expand its operations across the rest of Indonesia.
About Mapan
Established in 2009, Mapan (PT Ruma) has a mission to increase the Indonesian people's access, life quality, and income through technology. Through 1 application, Mitra Usaha Mapan can access various products and services to earn income and start a business. Mapan has reached more than 3 million members who have joined the Mapan Arisan, Mapan Pulsa, and Mapan Mart services spread across almost all districts and cities in Java, Bali, Sumatra, and Sulawesi. As we advance, Mapan has the vision to be able to reach all parts of Indonesia to help millions of Indonesian families to be able to achieve a better quality of life. Users can now access Mapan products and services through the Mapan application. Mapan app is available on the Google Play Store. Visit www.mapan.id, www.facebook.com/MakinMapan, or on Instagram @MakinMapan for more information.
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All new Maruti Brezza will launch tomorrow, ahead of that the base LXI variant has arrived at dealer yard
Maruti Suzuki India is getting ready to launch multiple new SUVs in the coming months. Their aim is to increase their market share in the SUV segment. Currently, it is Mahindra, Hyundai and Tata Motors who are leading in SUV sales. Maruti will be starting their SUV-offensive strategy with the launch of new Brezza tomorrow.
2022 Maruti Suzuki Brezza has leaked online ahead of launch. Until now, we had seen the spy shots and teasers of top variant of Brezza 2022. Now, for the first time the base LXI variant of the new Brezza has leaked.
2022 Maruti Brezza LXI Base Variant
In an earlier post, we discussed in detail the variants on offer with new Brezza. These are LXI, LXI (O), VXI, VXI (O), ZXI, ZXI (O), ZXI+ for MT and VXI, ZXI, ZXI+ for AT. A total of 10 variants are on offer, 7 manual and 3 automatic.
Thanks to the new leaked video from Deepak Verma, the upcoming Brezza LXI base variant has been detailed. It gets steel wheels, LED DRLs are missing, turn indicators in the front are halogen, chrome slat is present in front, side turn indicators are on the ORVM. Take a look at the detailed walkaround video of 2022 Brezza LXI base variant below.
Interiors have been completely overhauled from the model it replaces. Gone are tacky and low-rent plastics assembled with a bland design. New interiors look vastly superior. It gets a flat-bottom steering wheel from other Maruti cars. On the inside, infotainment is not present, all four power windows are there, rear AC vents are there.
In the earlier leak, we had seen 2022 Brezza top variant. They get a new and improved free-standing touchscreen infotainment display with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as found on Baleno. 2022 Brezza also gets the same automatic climate control unit as the new Baleno with aircraft-style toggles. Lower variants to get a manual AC system. Dashboard gets a bronze finish that runs across the width and neatly rounds off towards the edges. It gets a manual handbrake and cup holders at front. A front centre armrest has been given a miss.
At the driver side, we get buttons to control heads-up display, ambient lighting, traction control, 360-degree view and auto start/stop. Beside them, we get a circular engine start/stop button. The car also looks like it gets a wireless charging pad at front.
Brezza gets rear AC vents and Sunroof
Rear AC vents are one of the most important convenience features for hot and humid India. Previous model didn’t get rear AC vents. This is now standard on the new Brezza. It also gets a sunroof at front on top variant. Even though it is not needed in sunny India, it is a welcome addition. Driver’s instrumentation contains analog dials for speedometer and tachometer and a digital MID is placed in the middle showing various functions. We can also see the HUD (heads-up display) behind steering wheel falling right into driver’s peripheral vision.
Apart from all the design changes on the outside, we hadn’t had a good look at the car’s profile. Because the rear windshield angle has been lowered significantly. This makes the rear windshield more upright, giving the SUV a boxy and MPV-like design. But on the interior, it carves out a lot of headroom for rear passengers and hopefully increases boot capacity when the parcel shelf is taken out.
2022 Maruti Brezza competes with the segment leader Tata Nexon and others like Hyundai Venue, Kia Sonet, Toyota Urban Cruiser and Mahindra XUV300. Maruti Suzuki may launch a CNG option to compensate for the lack of a diesel engine sometime later. Soon after the launch of Brezza, we also expect to see Toyota’s version of the same. | https://www.rushlane.com/2022-maruti-brezza-lxi-base-variant-first-look-walkaround-12438460.html | 2022-06-29T03:50:50Z | https://www.rushlane.com/2022-maruti-brezza-lxi-base-variant-first-look-walkaround-12438460.html | false | 1 |
SHANGHAI, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 28, Huawei was awarded the world's first Carbon Footprint Verification (CFV) for solar inverter products issued by the British Standards Institution (BSI).
A globally-renowned standards body, BSI is a special adviser to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and a producer of standards such as the world's first carbon footprint standard PAS 2050. This CFV proves Huawei's capability to evaluate the carbon footprint of products throughout their lifecycle and acknowledges Huawei's efforts in reducing carbon emissions, increasing the share of renewable energy, and promoting circular economy. Huawei's development concept - green, low-carbon, and sustainable - underpins the entire lifecycle of inverters and is accredited by BSI. It is of great significance to establish and develop a carbon footprint management system in the photovoltaic (PV) industry.
Driven by China's goals of achieving carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, the PV industry, as a major contributor to renewable energy, is experiencing explosive growth. Although PV power generation is widely recognized as an important way to reduce carbon emissions, not all PV products themselves are low-carbon. According to the Clean Production of Solar PV in China report, PV plants cannot achieve zero carbon emissions for 1.3 years of the 25-year lifecycle. As such, reducing the carbon footprint is critical to the decarbonization of energy systems. To this end, it is important to understand and manage the carbon footprint as well as carbon emissions impact during the manufacturing of PV system components. In Europe and other parts of the world, carbon footprint is a mandatory option for device bidding. Only advanced green manufacturing enterprises with low carbon footprints can help customers develop low-carbon and high-quality PV projects.
Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to strengthen its low-carbon capabilities, use innovative technologies to develop more products with low carbon footprints, and accelerate carbon emission reduction for itself and its customers, moving towards a sustainable, greener, and better future together.
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Blue Jays rally for two in ninth to edge Red Sox
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. capped a two-run ninth inning with a walk-off single as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Boston Red Sox 6-5 on Tuesday.
Pinch hitter Alejandro Kirk singled to lead off the bottom of the ninth against Tyler Danish (2-1), and George Springer walked.
Hansel Robles replaced Danish and allowed Bo Bichette's single that scored pinch runner Bradley Zimmer to tie the game to set up Guerrero's winning hit.
Christian Vazquez singled home a run in the eighth inning to give Boston a 5-4 lead.
Rob Refsnyder hit a two-run home run and Trevor Story added a solo shot for the Red Sox, who have lost the first two games of the three-game series.
Toronto right-hander Ross Stripling allowed two runs, five hits and one walk while striking out three in five innings.
Boston right-hander Michael Wacha gave up four runs, seven hits and three walks in five innings. He fanned two.
Bichette and Guerrero took one-out walks in the first inning, and Teoscar Hernandez doubled off the left field wall just beyond the reach of Alex Verdugo, putting Toronto up 1-0. Matt Chapman's two-out double drove in two more runs.
Story hit his 12th homer of the season, with two outs in the second, cut Boston's deficit to 3-1.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. doubled with one out in the third and scored on Santiago Espinal's two-out single.
Vazquez led off the fifth with a single, took third on Franchy Cordero's double and scored on Refsnyder's groundout.
Verdugo extended his hitting streak to nine games with a two-out single against Adam Cimber in the sixth.
Toronto's Trent Thornton walked Cordero with one out in the seventh. After Christian Arroyo's grounder forced Cordero at second, Refsnyder hit his second homer of the season, a blast to center that tied the game at 4.
Xander Bogaerts walked and Verdugo singled to open the Boston eighth against Tim Mayza. Vazquez hit a one-out, RBI single.
Jordan Romano (2-2) pitched around a walk in the top of the ninth.
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Araris Biotech AG to Present at the H.C. Wainwright Preclinical Cancer Drug Discovery Virtual Conference
ZURICH, Switzerland, June 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Araris Biotech AG, a company pioneering a proprietary antibody-drug conjugate (ADC)-linker technology, today announced the company will be presenting at the H.C. Wainwright Preclinical Cancer Drug Discovery: Emerging Targets and Modalities virtual conference on June 29, 2022. The pre-recorded company presentation will be included in Part I – Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs), and virtual 1-on-1 investor meetings will also be available.
The webcast and registration form can be found here: https://bit.ly/3QQgmdf.
About Araris Biotech AG
Araris Biotech AG is pioneering the development of its novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC)-linker technology to enable efficient and precise production of ADCs. Its linker platform enables the attachment of any drug payload to ‘off the shelf’ antibodies, without the need for prior antibody engineering. The resulting ADCs have shown very high activity at low doses and an improved therapeutic index compared to FDA-approved ADCs. Araris is a spin-off company from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zurich.
For more information, please visit www.ararisbiotech.com or follow Araris on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Philipp Spycher, PhD
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Running a quality-first, affordable preschool is not easy: Kshitiz Bhasin on bridging the gap with My Chhota School
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The pandemic-induced lockdowns boosted the edtech industry and brought online learning to the forefront. But, over the last few months as the pandemic slowly loses its grip, countries across the world are gradually moving back to physical education.
Even though online learning has its benefits, the importance of physical education can never be underestimated. Keeping in mind that the early years (0-8) are the building blocks of all learning in a child’s lifetime, it is safe to say that preschool education plays a crucial role in shaping a child’s growth.
A $3.5 billion industry, preschool education is one of the fastest growing segments within the Indian education sector, growing at a CAGR of 23 percent between 2017-22. However, there is a huge demand for affordable private preschools which remains unmet, due to lack of adequate infrastructure. Most private preschool models are not sustainable in low-income areas and rural parts of the country. High franchise fees and royalty charged by preschool chains often lead to franchisee partners not being able to earn profits or break-even, resulting in an undersupply of private preschools in low-income areas.
A play school for every Indian child, My Chhota School (MCS) was founded in 2018 by Kshitiz Bhasin with the aim of providing affordable, world-class education to everyone. The school has incorporated a unique model by integrating the lowest school franchise fees in the industry with high-quality education and is one of the largest, fastest growing, and affordable preschool chains in India today with presence in Tier II and Tier III cities.
The founding years
Kshitiz’s father Sanjeev Bhasin ran a publishing house between 2004-18, through which he supplied books, bags, uniforms, and other school furniture and toys to preschools in India. After graduating from Delhi University, Kshitiz too worked in the family business between 2015-18. The insights and observations that Kshitiz gathered during this period enabled him to come up with a sustainable preschool model for low-income parts of the country, that set the foundation stone for My Chhota School (MCS).
“We have been able to provide education in areas where it has always been a challenge and students earlier used to walk miles to schools. My Chhota School does not only improve kids’ learning but also educates parents on why early childhood education and care is important,” shares Kshitiz.
Though running a preschool is easy, running one that puts quality first, while being affordable at the same time, is difficult.
Standalone preschools in Tier II/ III areas are not able to provide quality education on account of high costs due to lack of scale, while other leading preschool chains which do provide quality education charge high franchise fees of Rs 10-15 lakh and 15-20 percent royalty. As a result, the model is not sustainable in low-income parts of the country, where paying capacity per child is low. My Chhota School has managed to provide quality education, while reducing franchise fees to as low as Rs 60,000 coupled with a zero-royalty model. This has enabled many franchisee partners in Tier II/ III towns to open My Chhota Schools across the country. Even though the tuition fee charged by the franchisee partners from parents is pocket-friendly, they are still able to generate excellent ROIs owing to the MCS model.
Teaching methodologies that leave a mark
Explaining some of the standards for the curriculum at My Chhota School, Kshitiz says, “Our curriculum is based on the research of the most renowned education experts. Designed by our education team, it’s created to support these important early years, to inspire children to be bold explorers today and joyful, confident learners for life. We believe that children learn best through play-based learning.”
The child-friendly curriculum of MCS offers the required flexibility in terms of age and ensures a smoother transition from preschool to early primary classes leading to positive self-concept and confidence, better performance, and better retention – from activity-based exercises that give children a sense of accomplishment to theme-based learning that attempts to tie in various skills and knowledge into a specific topic, to play-based approach through stimulating materials, and a projects /inquiry-based approach that lets children exercise their choices and explore what interests them.
Since the pandemic, MCS also provides live online classes under the ‘MCS@Home’ initiative started in April 2020.
The way forward
With a presence of 850 schools across 325+ locations currently, MCS is targeting 3,000 schools with a user base of 1,00,000 students by 2025. The company is also starting in-house admissions under the MCS+ umbrella. With MCS+, the company will solicit admissions via its website/app and divert them to its nearest existing preschool from the location of the student. Students will get access to an easy and hassle-free enrolment process within minutes from a mobile/ computer, as well as exclusive online content and features like art and craft classes, spoken English classes, dance classes, and more.
MCS+ will offer My Chhota School an additional revenue stream, with higher revenue per student. “Until now, our revenue only came from franchise fees, and selling MCS branded book-sets and uniforms to our students. Under MCS+, we would be working on a revenue sharing model with our franchisee partner schools for all admissions done via the MCS website/ app,” says Kshitiz.
The organisation also plans to invest heavily on brand building, marketing, and team expansion. “In terms of revenue, we should be able to grow from an annualised run rate of Rs 100 million currently to Rs 500 million in the next three years. While a large portion of this growth would come from our existing operations, the remaining would come from new initiatives already in the pipeline. Also, the growth target will be achieved while maintaining our 20 percent+ EBITDA in the medium run. As a company, we are very focused on the bottom line and will continue to do so,” Kshitiz adds.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
4-7-4
(four, seven, four)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
4-7-4
(four, seven, four)
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NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Wells Fargo & Company ("Wells Fargo" or the "Company") (NYSE: WFC) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and docketed under 22-cv-03811, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Wells Fargo common stock between February 24, 2021 and June 9, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Wells Fargo common stock during the Class Period, you have until August 29, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company that provides banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services in the U.S. and internationally.
In 2020, Wells Fargo expanded its so-called "Diverse Search Requirement", also referred to as a diverse slate hiring policy, requiring that at least 50% of interview candidates must represent a historically underrepresented group with respect to at least one diversity dimension (including race/ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ, veterans, and people with disabilities) for most posted roles in the U.S. with total direct compensation greater than $100,000 per year. In addition, at least one interviewer on the hiring panel must represent a historically underrepresented group with respect to at least one diversity dimension.
he complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Wells Fargo had misrepresented its commitment to diversity in the Company's workplace; (ii) Wells Fargo conducted fake job interviews in order to meet its Diverse Search Requirement; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected Wells Fargo to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement action, including criminal charges; (iv) all of the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Wells Fargo's reputation; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On May 19, 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled "At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews". Citing discussions with "seven current and former Wells Fargo employees", including Joe Bruno, a former executive in the Company's wealth management division, the article reported, in relevant part, that "[f]or many open positions, employees would interview a 'diverse' candidate", but that "often, the so-called diverse candidate would be interviewed for a job that had already been promised to someone else." The article further reported that Mr. Bruno was fired after "complain[ing] to his bosses" about the practice.
On this news, Wells Fargo's common stock price fell $0.44 per share, or 1.04%, over two trading sessions, closing at $41.67 per share on May 20, 2022.
On June 6, 2022, Reuters published an article entitled "Wells Fargo pauses diverse slate hiring policy after reports of fake job interviews." The article reported that "Wells Fargo . . . is pausing a hiring policy that requires recruiters to interview a diverse pool of candidates, after the New York Times reported such interviews were often fake and conducted even though the job had already been promised to someone else." The same article also reported that "[t]he bank also plans to conduct a review of its diverse slate guidelines, Chief Executive Officer Charles Scharf told staff on Monday, according to a memo seen by Reuters."
Then, on June 9, 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled "Federal Prosecutors Open Criminal Inquiry of Wells Fargo's Hiring Practices." The article reported that federal prosecutors are investigating whether Wells Fargo violated federal laws by conducting fake job interviews in order to meet the Company's Diverse Search Requirement. The article also revealed that, since the New York Times' May 19, 2022 article focusing on the bank's wealth management business, "another 10 current and former employees have shared stories about how they were subject to fake interviews, or conducted them, or saw paperwork documenting the practice", and that "sham interviews occurred across multiple business lines, including its mortgage servicing, home lending and retail banking operations."
That same day, Wells Fargo issued a press release entitled "Wells Fargo response to New York Times article", which confirmed that "[e]arlier this week, the [C]ompany temporarily paused the use of its diverse slate guidelines", and that, "[d]uring this pause, the [C]ompany is conducting a review so that hiring managers, senior leaders and recruiters fully understand how the guidelines should be implemented – and so we can have confidence that our guidelines live up to their promise."
Following these disclosures, Wells Fargo's common stock price fell $3.68 per share, or 8.62%, over the following two trading sessions, closing at $38.99 per share on June 13, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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Rights groups warned of “far-reaching implications” of the Zionist occupation regime’s controversial move to start the process of registering the ownership of land adjacent to the al-holy Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of al-Quds.
The process of the “settlement of land title procedure” was initiated last week in the Abu Thor area as well as the Umayyad Palaces site adjacent to the southern wall of al-Aqsa Mosque, reports said.
According to Middle East Eye, rights groups Ir Amim and Bimkom said in a joint statement on Monday that the fund allocated to the procedure has been largely utilized to register land for illegal settlements and will ultimately lead to further Palestinian dispossession.
“[The procedure] carries possible disastrous ramifications for hundreds of Palestinian homes in Abu Thor, while the other has an acute potential for escalating tensions due to its highly sensitive location in close proximity to al-Aqsa,” according to the statement.
“There is grave concern that the state is advancing the settlement of title process in the Umayyad Palaces/Ophel site to enable ‘Israeli’ takeover of this territory through its formal registration as ‘state’ land while aiding ‘state’-backed settler groups in their aggressive efforts to gain control of these highly sensitive locations.”
Sheikh Najeh Bakirat, deputy director of the al-Quds Islamic Waqf, in his remarks on Monday stressed that changing the ownership of Umayyad Palaces was invalid and in breach of the Geneva Convention.
In 2018, the ‘Israeli’ occupation regime for the first time began promoting the “settlement of land title procedure.”
In 2020, Ir Amim said the process was being used as a tool to “seize more land in East al-Quds, leading to the expansion of ‘Israeli’ settlements and further Palestinian dispossession.”
More than 600,000 Zionist settlers occupy more than 230 settlements built since the 1967 ‘Israeli’ occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
All ‘Israeli’ settlements are deemed illegal under international law as they are built on the occupied land. The United Nations Security Council condemned the Zionist regime’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in a series of resolutions.
Additionally, the area south of al-Aqsa Mosque is also the scene of ‘Israeli’ excavations that threaten the foundation of the holy site.
On Monday, the Council of Endowments, Islamic Affairs, and Holy Places said excavations made by the Zionist occupation regime in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque were threatening its foundations, saying new cracks have appeared in the floor of the sacred site.
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Marlins third. Jesus Sanchez doubles to deep center field. Miguel Rojas doubles to right field. Jesus Sanchez scores. Nick Fortes singles to center field. Miguel Rojas scores. Jon Berti grounds out to shallow infield, Nolan Arenado to Paul Goldschmidt. Nick Fortes to second. Erik Gonzalez pops out to shallow center field to Tommy Edman. Jorge Soler singles to shallow center field. Nick Fortes scores. Garrett Cooper reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Jorge Soler out at second.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Marlins 3, Cardinals 0.
Cardinals fourth. Tommy Edman doubles. Dylan Carlson singles to left field. Tommy Edman scores. Paul Goldschmidt walks. Nolan Arenado grounds out to shortstop. Paul Goldschmidt out at second. Dylan Carlson to third. Juan Yepez flies out to deep left field to Jorge Soler.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Marlins 3, Cardinals 1.
Cardinals fifth. Albert Pujols grounds out to shallow infield, Braxton Garrett to Jesus Aguilar. Brendan Donovan singles to left field. Edmundo Sosa triples to deep center field. Brendan Donovan scores. Ivan Herrera grounds out to shallow infield, Miguel Rojas to Jesus Aguilar. Tommy Edman singles to shallow right field. Edmundo Sosa scores. Dylan Carlson doubles to deep right field. Tommy Edman scores. Paul Goldschmidt singles to shallow center field. Dylan Carlson scores. Nolan Arenado singles to center field. Paul Goldschmidt to second. Juan Yepez reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Nolan Arenado out at second.
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So you have a medical aid policy, and while it may cover you for some medical possibilities, there is also the possibility that it may not. This is where gap cover comes into play.
According to Michael Emery, marketing executive at Ambledown Financial Services, "it is intended to top up the medical aid cover, to cover the gap between what is charged and what the medical aid pays".
But what is gap cover? Emery explains.
"Gap cover is not a substitute for medical aid; you cannot claim on gap cover where no benefit is provided by the medical aid under that specific plan – it's not a substitute for medical aid but a complementary product. If your medical aid cover excludes a specific treatment, your gap cover won't cover it either.
"Instead, if your medical aid covers 100% of the tariff while the treatment is billed at 200%, your gap cover will settle the difference."
Understanding the difference between casualty outpatient and in-hospital care
Once you’ve understood the basic principle of gap cover and why it’s so necessary, it’s important to look further into the details of how the two work together. It’s essential to understand the difference between casualty and emergency care.
A person who presents themselves to the casualty unit will either be treated as an outpatient or will be deemed to require immediate hospital care and be admitted.
When an individual is being treated as an outpatient in the hospital’s emergency or trauma sector, his or her medical expenses are covered by the medical aid if that is a benefit, and the balance of what is not covered may be claimed from gap cover (depending on your gap cover plan).
In-hospital emergency care
By contrast, an emergency is characterised as the sudden and unexpected onset of a medical condition and is diagnosed as requiring immediate attention by the attending medical practitioner. If the patient is then admitted, they will be covered by their medical aid hospital cover.
As with treatment for casualty outpatients, do not assume that your medical aid and hospital plan fully cover you. Again, the actual charges for specialists can be much higher than the medical scheme’s benefits, and gap cover can be used to make up the shortfall.
Your medical aid hospital plan will cover you for the amount as stated by your plan. If a specialist charges at 300% of the medical scheme rate and they are treating you while in hospital, and your medical cover only includes 100% cover, you will be responsible for the balance. And this can add up to a large amount, depending on how long your stay in hospital is and the treatment required – with the specialist seeing you generally once a day, if not more. Gap cover can cover the balance of what is not covered and still owed to the specialist.
Very often, after a severe illness and lengthy stay in the hospital, patients without gap cover find themselves out of pocket when a large bill arrives from the specialists, charging over and above the medical scheme’s tariff.
Another area in which gap cover is misunderstood is hospital choice. The medical aid plan will typically specify which hospitals should be used – this is a measure aimed at reducing high costs. If non-network hospitals are used, the medical aid would reject any fees above its tariff and may impose a co-payment penalty. In such instances, you need to check your gap cover, as your policy may or may not cover these costs or may provide you with partial cover.
The specialist
It’s also important to note that consultations with specialists who have rooms at the hospital would not fall under the in-hospital patient treatment regime. In the case of non-emergency specialist treatment, while in-hospital, the medical scheme would pay its tariff, and the patient would be responsible for the shortfall, for which a gap cover claim can be submitted.
A final point that needs to be made is that it is impossible for a gap cover provider to calculate upfront what the costs of a treatment and what the patient will be responsible for. This is because the gap cover will only be calculated once all the bills have been submitted to the medical aid and they have determined their liability.
As for specialists, remember that gap cover will only cover up to a maximum of their cover limits (most being 600% of the medical scheme tariff, less the amount paid by the medical aid).
Gap cover should be an integral part of your strategy for mitigating medical risk. It’s worth spending some time to understand exactly how it works. Note, gap cover is designed to cover in-hospital treatment and procedures and certain defined out-patient treatment and procedures (such as chemotherapy and radiation for the treatment of cancer, certain scopes and scans). Gap cover policies are not designed to cover day-to-day shortfalls and charges once your medical savings account has been depleted.
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Troy “Two Dimes” Donovan has been officially written off WWE TV.
During the June 28th episode of “NXT 2.0,” in a segment, Tony D’Angelo and Stacks are on a bridge, where D’Angelo implies that Two Dimes has passed away and tosses Dimes’ leather jacket into the water and says that Dimes is now “sleeping with the fishes.”
As noted, Dimes was released from WWE on June 11th due to a policy violation. Despite his release, for the last two weeks, Dimes was on TV due to NXT’s advanced taping schedule.
He was signed with the mid-March WWE Performance Center Class that also featured Lorenzo, Roxanne Perez, Sloane Jacobs, and Arianna Grace. He made his WWE in-ring debut on the April 8th edition of NXT Level Up, where he and Lorenzo lost to Andre Chase and Bodhi Hayward.
Before signing with WWE, Troy “Two Dimes” Donovan wrestled as Cole Karter in the indies. As Karter, he wrestled several matches on both AEW Dark and AEW Dark: Elevation.
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In order to promote a thriving civic space at EU and national level, the European Commission (EC) should launch a proactive EU strategy towards open civic space and resilient civil society, giving “genuine political recognition to the crucial role played by CSOs” by filling monitoring, support and protection gaps, and clearly linking monitoring and reporting tools to EU enforcement mechanisms to ensure follow-up. In this sense, a joint letter has been sent today to Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, where a diverse coalition of over 300 civil society organisations, including the European Public Health Alliance, calls upon the EC to include the development of a European Civil Society Strategy in its 2023 work programme.
In its recently released report, the European Civic Forum points at the gaps and challenges in the existing European measures and builds on broadly shared proposals for European actions towards a vibrant European civic space. This demand is now supported by a European Parliament resolution on the shrinking space for civil society in Europe (2021/2103(INI)) voted with a large majority on 8 March 2022, and adopted in Conference on the Future of Europe final conclusions and recommendations on May 9. | https://epha.org/call-for-eu-civil-society-strategy/ | 2022-06-29T04:27:00Z | https://epha.org/call-for-eu-civil-society-strategy/ | true | 1 |
Nocturnal enigma targeted by ETF launches
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The first exchange traded funds aiming to cash in on the puzzle of the “night effect” launched in the US on Tuesday.
Academic research has shown that most of the gains chalked up by Wall Street actually happen overnight while the market is officially closed, amid the sparse after-hours trading that occurs on some electronic exchanges.
The same mysterious phenomenon has been noted in a range of other countries, from Japan to Norway.
NightShares, a new ETF provider based in California, is launching funds designed to give investors a straightforward way to tap into this nocturnal trend.
“Though the outperformance of overnight markets has been identified and documented by a large body of research for some time, until now there has not been a simple way for ETF investors to capture the value of this phenomenon,” said Bruce Lavine, chief executive of NightShares and a former iShares and WisdomTree executive. “This is some of the most compelling research I have ever seen.”
Data compiled by AlphaTrAI, a sister company of NightShares, suggest the impact of the night effect is most compelling for smaller companies. As of the end of March, the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) had returned a cumulative 262 per cent during the night time since 2012, but had lost 26 per cent during official US trading hours.
The large-cap iShares Russell 1000 ETF (IWB) delivered cumulative night-time returns of 200 per cent over the same period while its daytime returns were just 19 per cent, according to AlphaTrAI.
Moreover, the larger overnight returns have not been accompanied by increased risk, as volatility has tended to be slightly higher during the day.
The causes of the night effect anomaly remain a mystery, with little agreement on an explanation among academics and analysts.
Max Gokhman, chief investment officer of AlphaTrAI Funds, believed the release of corporate news after the market close was a factor as earnings statements and mergers and acquisitions activity announced in the evening tended to be positive for stock prices more often than negative.
Gohkman also suggested there was “a big structural desire among institutions to de-risk overnight and re-risk in the day”, artificially pushing prices down at the close and raising them at the open.
This may be driven by “the illusion of control”, with traders confident that they can trade their way out of a problem if the market is open, but not when it is closed.
“They think it’s better to have their hand on the throttle than let the autopilot take over, even though the autopilot is safer,” he added.
Traders may also have to pay interest and capital charges overnight, whereas “if you are out by the end of the day you don’t have to deal with any of that”, said Gokhman.
Moreover, higher volatility during official opening hours may be driven in part by the “large community of day traders that add a lot of noise in the day and go home at night flat”, after squaring their positions.
Lavine claimed most of the “really nasty downturns” have occurred during official market opening hours, even though these last for just 6.5 hours a day.
Exiting the market at the opening bell every day and buying back in at the close inevitably drives up trading costs, however.
NightShares is aiming to minimise trading costs by using index futures contracts. The ETFs will hold their assets in cash and Treasury bills rather than the underlying equities. Lavine said the income generated from this approach would offset the “great majority” of ETFs’ trading costs.
Its first two ETFs, the NightShares 500 ETF (NSPY) and the NightShares 2000 ETF (NIWM), will target the night performance of portfolios of 500 US large-caps and 2,000 US small-caps respectively, analogous to the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indices. Both have an expense ratio of 0.55 per cent.
NightShares has also filed to launch 1.5 times leveraged versions of NSPY and a similar product based on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index.
Todd Rosenbluth, head of research at VettaFi, a data provider, said NSPY could have a role as a long-term buy and hold complement to SPY, or as a short-term tactical trading tool.
“There are [already] investors trying to trade after hours, which is a relatively illiquid market, so this provides an opportunity for them,” Rosenbluth said.
“This could be used tactically by an investor who saw the market sell off at the close but who believed it would recover the next day.”
However, Kenneth Lamont, senior fund analyst for passive strategies at Morningstar, sounded a note of caution about the ETFs’ potential to generate alpha, or outperform the wider market.
“If it was a bankable alpha-generating opportunity then you would presumably see it disappear really quickly,” Lamont argued, with the likes of hedge funds stepping in to arbitrage it away.
“I would hazard a guess that the after-fees performance of these funds will be less impressive than the backtested data,” he added.
“Many of these niche alpha-generating products, when they are let loose into the wild of real markets, tend to be somewhat underwhelming.”
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It seems like the next lineup of PlayStation Plus Essential games have been leaked. As expected, this leak is by the one who’s accurately revealed the games since late 2021.
The Dealabs user, billbil-kun, is to blame for the leaks and this month is no different. If true, the leak points to Toys for Bob’s Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan, and Arcadegeddon as the three titles lined up.
Both Crash 4 and Arcadegeddon will have PS4 and PS5 versions available while Man of Medan is exclusive to the PS4.
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Authoritarian Kathy Hochul Scores Easy Win in NY’s Democrat Primary for Governor
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- Report: Lakers expected to be in the mix for Blake Griffin
- LeBron James offers ecstatic reaction to David Fizdale leaving Lakers for front office position on Jazz
- Chris Broussard questions John Wall’s decision to sign with the Clippers: ‘I think he would’ve been better off going to the Lakers’
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Report: Lakers expected to be in the mix for Blake Griffin
- Updated: June 28, 2022
The Los Angeles Lakers need to make some improvements to their roster if they want to compete for a championship during the 2022-23 NBA season.
Big man Blake Griffin could be an option for the Lakers this offseason, according to one Eastern Conference executive.
“There will be a number of teams that look at him,” the executive told Sean Deveney of Heavy.com. “Chicago, Miami, the Lakers, maybe even Boston. They’d be in the mix, at least.”
It would definitely be interesting to see Griffin suit up for the Purple and Gold. Of course, he spent the first part of his career with the Los Angeles Clippers, the Lakers’ crosstown rivals.
Griffin blossomed into an All-Star during his time with the Clippers, averaging 21.6 points, 9.3 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.0 steal per game while shooting 51.2 percent from the field.
The University of Oklahoma product has spent time with the Detroit Pistons and Brooklyn Nets over the past couple of seasons. He’s no longer the player he once was, but he can still be useful in short bursts.
The 2021-22 season was easily the worst statistical one of Griffin’s career, as he only averaged 6.4 points and 4.1 rebounds in just 17.1 minutes per game. However, he could still play a role for contending teams.
Although he’s lost a step, Griffin could definitely be a serviceable backup for the Lakers in the frontcourt and eat up some minutes while LeBron James and Anthony Davis are off the floor. While he’s a natural power forward, Griffin did spend some time at center last season for the Nets.
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Twenty-two individuals were subjects of a special grand jury convened last week in Dixon, the culmination of the yearlong investigation of drug smuggling at the Webster County Detention Center.
True bills were returned on all 22, including one current and two former deputy jailers.
The investigation had previously resulted in the arrest of 10 individuals. That number included one deputy jailer, a Sebree city employee, and five inmates. The grand jury indictments will result in the arrest of 12 more.
According to the Providence Police Department, which conducted the inquiry in cooperation with Webster County Jailer Greg Sauls, several inmates communicated with people on the outside to arrange for contraband to be smuggled into the facility. At least one deputy, Jacqueline McMillen, is accused of physically bringing drugs into the jail.
In addition to McMillen, others arrested earlier this year were inmates Derrick Dempsey, Johnny Daugherty, Adam Gray, and Terry Linkswiler. Sebree city employee Scott Baskett, as well as Aaron Lovell, Maggie Miller, William Barnaby, and Crystal Ferguson, were also charged.
Indictments handed down Thursday include charges against current deputy jailer Jonathan Brothers, former deputy jailer Rodney Puckett, inmates Christopher Belt, Uriah House, Christopher West, Charles Reynolds, James “Buddy” Spink, and John Washburn, along with Keelie Duncan, Hailey Brown, Jared Newcom, and Benjamin Little.
All individuals will appear next in Webster Circuit Court for arraignment.
Following are the names and charges for which each was indicted:
• Scott Baskett — engaging in organized crime, first-degree conspiracy to traffic in a controlled substance, and first-degree official misconduct.
• Christopher Belt — engaging in organized crime and three counts of first-degree conspiracy to traffic in a controlled substance.
• Jonathan Brothers — second-degree official misconduct, a misdemeanor.
• Rodney Puckett — second-degree official misconduct, a misdemeanor.
• Hailey Brown — first-degree wanton endangerment, second-degree possession of a controlled substance, and possession of marijuana.
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Is a 20% tax on STRs too much? Not for Crested Butte and Ouray
Both have effective tax rates that are higher than Steamboat's potential new tax
Before the Steamboat Springs City Council progressed toward asking voters to put a steep tax on short-term rentals, members of the lodging community warned the hike would be detrimental to the local economy.
The majority of council members favored asking voters for a 9% tax on short-term rentals specifically, carving out legacy lodging options like hotels. If approved by voters, it would bring the effective tax rate on a short-term rental stay in Steamboat Springs to 20.4%.
“We would be 10 points above Vail,” said Mark Walker, president of management company Resort Group, referencing Vail’s 10.3% tax rate. “We as a community won’t be as competitive in the future, and lodging is a highly competitive business.”
Walker, echoing the sentiments of several others who spoke to council on Monday, June 20, said the 9% tax would be too much, potentially forcing visitors to Steamboat to look elsewhere. If passed, Walker warned that taxes assessed on short-term rentals in Steamboat would be some of the highest in the state, even surpassing Denver’s 15.75%.
Instead of a new tax on short-term rentals, the lodging community has pitched an additional 2% tax on all lodging and a 0.75% sales tax instead, which would not apply to groceries and utilities.
But there are two mountain communities — Crested Butte and Ouray — that have an effective tax rate well above that, and even higher than the potential 20.4% in Steamboat. Officials in those towns say the high level of taxes hasn’t shuttered their short-term rental markets.
“Our tax rate in the town of Crested Butte, with our local excise tax, is the highest in our community,” said Dana MacDonald, town manager of Crested Butte, where the effective tax rate on short-term rentals is 20.9%. “But we still see ongoing increases in revenues, so it doesn’t seem to be dissuading folks from renting the units.”
Neither of these towns are direct comparison’s to Steamboat, as each has a population of a couple thousand people, compared to Steamboat’s roughly 13,000. Each has far fewer nightly rentals too, compared to Steamboat’s 3,000-plus short-term rentals.
But both are dealing with similar housing and hiring struggles as the Yampa Valley and have turned to additional taxes on short-term rentals as a funding option. In Crested Butte, voters not only approved the initial tax, but they also voted to increase it last year.
“There was no discussion or opposition expressed when council put it on the ballot, nor leading up to the election,” MacDonald said. “Both times, the tax question passed by a very, very comfortable margin.”
Every short-term rental stay in Steamboat is taxed at least 9.4%. This includes 4.5% in sales taxes and 1% in accommodation taxes, each collected by the city. Routt County has another 1% tax it collects, and the State of Colorado takes a 2.9% cut.
Most short-term rentals are within the Local Marketing District, which collects an additional 2% that is used to fund air service and marketing for Steamboat. That makes the current effective tax rate 11.4% for most short-term rentals, which would increase to 20.4% if the STR tax passed.
A rental listed on Airbnb at $160 a night plus fees for Fourth of July weekend projects to cost about $900 total, before taxes. Taxes add about $100 to the bill. If the short-term rental tax passed, the person staying in the unit would pay about $180 in taxes for a four night stay — roughly $80 more than they would now.
Those in Steamboat’s lodging community have argued this extra cost will not only discourage people from staying in Steamboat, but if they do, they would likely spend less money at local businesses.
Eric Treadwell, vacation rental inspector in Crested Butte, said property managers there made this argument when a tax was first considered as well. Since, prices on rentals have generally increased, but the number of them hasn’t dropped off.
“It did not hamper rentals,” Treadwell said of the initial 5% tax, which increased to 7.5% at the start of this year. “It still hasn’t.”
The effective tax rate in Crested Butte is now 20.9%. The town also has a cap on these rentals at 30% of the local housing stock. That limit is 212 rentals, but Treadwell says it grows as more units are built.
Crested Butte has used proceeds from this tax to support the build of a subdivision called Paradise Park that was part of a two-decade old annexation agreement. Primarily, the money has paid for the development’s water infrastructure, which can lower the overall costs of the homes.
Ouray has an even higher, 15% tax on short-term rentals, which puts the effective tax rate for rentals in the city to 27.95%. This was approved by voters last year and went into effect this year. Ouray also has a cap on short-term rentals, maxing out at 120 total.
Lily Oswald, community development coordinator in Ouray, said despite the increase in fees on these units, there hasn’t been a decline in short-term rentals in the city.
“We’ve continued to see applications and we are steadily approaching our cap that council put in,” Oswald said. “I wouldn’t necessarily say that once the (15%) tax went into place that everyone chose to opt out of the short-term rental market.”
Oswald said some of the revenue from this tax has already been used to cover pay at the Home Trust of Ouray County, which has several projects in the works in Ouray and has similar goals as Steamboat’s Yampa Valley Housing Authority. Half the revenue is earmarked for housing, and the other half pays for water and wastewater infrastructure.
Still, this tax has raised a little less than $100,000 through April and can collect a maximum of $600,000 in a year, far below the nearly $12 million a year Steamboat’s tax is projected to garner.
“As a result of the tax, prices did go up,” Oswald said, referring to how much someone staying in one of these rentals ends up paying. “I wouldn’t say (the number of short-term rentals) surged down as a result.”
Heidi Sheldon, the short-term rental officer for the town of Mount Crested Butte — a different municipality about 2 miles away from Crested Butte proper — said they have a lower effective tax rate at about 16.8%.
Despite that rate and an additional pillow tax, Mount Crested Butte has seen short-term rentals increase by about 10% each year, Sheldon said. The 680 licensed units there make up about 36% of the town’s total units and there is no cap.
The housing problems around Crested Butte are similar to problems being dealt with in a lot of mountain towns, Sheldon said. She commutes from Gunnison as many locals do, which is about 45 minutes away. To her, a tax rate near 20% may be a little high, but doesn’t seem that unusual
“I don’t think it’s out of the realm,” Sheldon said.
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Emerging from a 14-candidate Republican primary, former Sen. Josh Brecheen (R-Coalgate) and current Rep. Avery Frix (R-Muskogee) will face each other in a 2nd Congressional District runoff election Aug. 23.
Frix garnered 14.74 percent of the vote, and Brecheen received 13.75 percent of the 76,869 total votes cast after all 546 precincts reported. Because no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will be held for the open 2nd Congressional District seat.
All results posted by the Oklahoma State Election Board online are unofficial until they are certified by the board.
The two candidates ran in a field of 14 Republican candidates to fill the seat which is being vacated by Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK2). Mullin did not seek reelection because he is running for U.S. Senate.
“I’m so humbled to finish first in this race. Markwayne Mullin leaves big shoes to fill, but I am ready to step up and do the job of putting America First,” Frix said in a statement sent to NonDoc. “As your congressman, I will fight tirelessly to fight Biden’s inflation, lower gas prices by making America energy independent again, finish Trump’s border wall, and bring Oklahoma values to Washington.”
Frix is from Muskogee and has represented Oklahoma House District 13 since 2016. At 28 years old, he was the youngest candidate in the CD 2 race. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2016, according to his LinkedIn profile. On his website, he says that he has also worked in his family business, Frix construction, and he owns Oxford Productions, a tourism and facility management company. Frix is also a citizen of the Choctaw Nation.
Brecheen, 42, is from Coalgate. He represented State Senate District 6 from 2010 to 2018 and previously worked for former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn. During his time in the Legislature, he gained notoriety for repeatedly pushing bills that would allow educators to teach alternative theories to controversial science topics.
The winner of the 2nd Congressional District runoff will face Democrat Naomi Andrews and Independent “Bulldog” Ben Robinson, who served in the State Senate decades ago as a Democrat.
With so many candidates in the race for a district that comprises most of eastern Oklahoma, the two runoff candidates ended up being from either side of I-40.
Johnny Teehee, the current chief of police in Muskogee, finished third with 12.95 percent of the vote, or 617 votes behind Brecheen. John Bennett, a former chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party and former representative for House District 2, finished fourth with 11.32 percent, or 1,871 votes behind Brecheen.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling from July 2020 functionally affirmed six Indian Country reservations in eastern Oklahoma, the territory of the 2nd Congressional District.
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Mama Baxter is home! That's So Raven alum T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh makes her anticipated return as Tanya Baxter on the Disney Channel series, Raven's Home, after more than 16 years -- and the actress spoke exclusively to ET about her long-awaited homecoming.
ET first broke the news on June 21 that Keymáh would be appearing on Raven's Home. She last appeared on That's So Raven as Raven's mother in a season 3 episode that aired in 2005, leaving the series to care for her grandmother. At the time, it was revealed that Tanya had left for London to attend law school. Keymáh returns in the upcoming season 5 finale of Raven's Home, when she surprises the family with her unannounced return to celebrate Victor’s 60th birthday.
"It is so exciting. I can't even believe it," Keymáh told ET's Deidre Behar on Monday of her onscreen family reunion. "I was telling my sister, Karen, that I've done so many huge things in my career. And usually you don't realize how big they are until after... But I'm very, very aware of how excited people are about this return because they've been clamoring about it for years."
"I didn't learn till years later that people noticed that I was gone. Then it's like over the years, 'Where is she? Where is she?' And when Rondell [Sheridan, who plays Victor,] did a guest spot, I was like, 'Whoa, I see the dad. Where's the mom?'" she continued. "I'm just thrilled for me and for my fans that finally, finally I get to play a character that I created 20 years ago."
Recently, Raven-Symone revealed that a call was out to Keymáh to potentially reprise her role on Raven's Home. Keymáh shared that it was an easy decision for her when they reached out.
"They asked me if I wanted to come play with them and I said yes. It was kind of just that simple," she said, adding that she had one window in her schedule that worked. "I think they always planned to have me come back on the last episode of this season. And so I'm so glad it worked out perfectly."
Keymáh acknowledged that while she and her That's So Raven family keep in touch off and on, they're not as close as they used to be. But Keymáh shared that she didn't feel there was an "obligation" to appear on Raven's Home, though she revealed they initially reached out pre-pandemic.
"I'm not good at keeping up with my TV daughter, but we've stayed in touch," she said, adding that Raven's Home "felt like it is a different show and it's not the original show and we don't have to be on it... But I'm a fan of shows too. And I like when people come back and you go, 'Oh wow. Now they're all together!' I have that same excitement. I don't think I would ever have said no, but I never felt like, 'Hey, how come...?' It was a different show."
"I would do anything for Raven. She's just my heart. I love her so much. I'm so proud of her. I told a lot of people, if Raven is asking, the answer is, yes. We'll work out the details later," Keymáh added, praising her TV daughter.
Keymáh admitted to feeling nerves before she went to set, but once she arrived, she felt like nothing had changed. "I thought, 'Oh, I'm home. This is my living room. Me, Tanya Baxter. This is my kitchen. This is my husband's restaurant, The Chill Grill. I'm good,'" she recalled. "It just felt like I've been away for a minute and then came back."
"She, Tanya Baxter, was so familiar to me that it was easy to jump back into her shoes -- literally," Keymáh said. "And to have Rondell there and to have Raven there, it just was so familiar. Because I've seen this show, when I looked at Isaac [Ryan Brown, who plays Raven's son, Booker], I thought, 'Well, that's my grandson!'"
She played coy when asked specifically about her season 5 finale appearance, only telling ET that "it's a surprise to everyone when I show up" and the Baxters initially have "a mixed reaction, but they're happy to see [Tanya]." And Keymáh promised Easter eggs for the loyal That's So Raven fans during her appearance. "There's actually a few moments, but there's one moment in particular where you'll go, 'Yeah, that's them. That's them from 20 years ago,'" she said.
If Raven's Home is renewed for a sixth season by Disney Channel, Keymáh was enthusiastic about wanting to dip her toe back into the world as Tanya. "With or without me, I really hope there's a season 6 because it's a wonderful show," she said, adding that she'd be more than open to return in the future. "If they asked me, I'd come back. Of course. And I think it would be lovely and cute."
Though That's So Raven's Kyle Massey wasn't there in person to welcome Keymáh back, she revealed that she was able to FaceTime him -- with Raven-Symone's help -- for a surprise virtual reunion.
"For the first minute, he was just screaming!" she remembered. "[Raven] called him first, so he just saw her. And she goes, 'Guess who I have with me.' And he was, 'Is that...? Is it? Ah! Ah!'... That was lovely."
Keymáh took a moment to reflect on the impact she's made with her character.
"This experience, because it was such a slow boil, I'm enjoying it so much -- the fans and Raven and Rondell, everyone made this happen," she credited. "That the work that I did 20 years ago was so much in the hearts of everyone that they really wanted me to do it again just means the world to me. I've always said I have the best family in the world. And that includes all of my fans and I really, really, really appreciate them."
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WALNUT, Calif., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZERO BREEZE, the inventor of the first real portable air conditioner, is leading a trend by offering the cooling experience to outdoor lovers. As the latest portable air conditioner of the company, ZERO BREEZE Mark 2 is sold to thousands of users in over 40 countries and regions. The company recently upgraded its product solutions, and is going to launch its 1st Fans Day in July.
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The Senate has resolved to continue with its investigation into the crisis in the Supreme Court despite the resignation of Justice Tanko Muhammad as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Lawmakers in the upper chamber of the National Assembly made the resolution during the plenary on Tuesday following a motion moved by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele.
Justices of the Supreme Court had in a petition addressed to the immediate past CJN raised concerns over the deplorable welfare conditions and difficult working environment in the apex court. Days after the development, Justice Muhammad resigned as the CJN on the grounds of ill-health, cutting short his tenure in office which was expected to last until 2023. Barely a day after Muhammad’s resignation, President Muhammadu Buhari swore in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as acting CJN, being the most senior justice of the apex court.
Addressing his colleagues during Tuesday’s plenary, Senator Bamidele who cited Orders 41 and 51 to move the motion drew the attention of the Senate to the assignment given to the committee at the last plenary, relating to the state of affairs of the Supreme Court. The Senate, in its resolution, mandated the committee to go ahead with its assignment in the quest to find a long-lasting solution by interacting with relevant stakeholders to look into the complaints raised in the petition by the justices. | https://www.coretvnews.com/2022/06/28/senate-to-probe-supreme-court-justices-allegations-despite-cjns-resignation/ | 2022-06-29T05:32:29Z | https://www.coretvnews.com/2022/06/28/senate-to-probe-supreme-court-justices-allegations-despite-cjns-resignation/ | false | 1 |
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