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Which kids’ light-up tennis shoes are best?
Every kid loves magical light-up sneakers, and there are plenty of great light-up tennis shoes out there in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Whether your child is into a specific character or just loves the flash and sparkle, light-up tennis shoes are a hit. However, if you choose shoes with a short battery life, your child may be in for a big disappointment.
Battery life and overall quality are some of the most important things to consider when purchasing light-up shoes. Some shoes, like the Puma’s Speeder Illuminescent V Light-Up Sneakers, only light up when you apply pressure, which helps to conserve battery power. Of course, as with all children’s shoes, you’ll also want to think about comfort and materials.
What to know before you buy kids’ light-up tennis shoes
Lighting mechanism
While most light-up shoes feature LED lights, every brand has its own kind of lighting mechanism. Some shoes have their lights on constantly, while others only illuminate when you apply pressure. That can make a big difference in battery life. If you purchase a shoe with pressure-activated lights, there’s a good chance the pre-installed batteries will outlive the shoe. On the other hand, if you purchase shoes with lights always on, you’ll likely need to replace them sooner. And while some shoes come equipped with USB charging ports, rechargeable models have a short battery life, but most recharge relatively quickly.
Light placement
Manufacturers place lights on different parts of the shoe. Typically, LED lights fit around the entire sole, but some shoes only have lights in the heel or toe. Others feature light-up graphics on the side of the shoe, illuminating a cartoon character or brand logo.
Materials and size
When buying light-up shoes, it’s easy to focus on the LED and forget the basics of a good shoe for children. First, make sure the light-up tennis shoes are sturdy and the right size. Kids are notorious for wearing out their shoes quickly, so you’ll want to make sure any light-up model you buy is durable. Another aspect is the shoes’ size — they must fit properly. Shoes that are too big or too small can be uncomfortable, and children may not want to wear them.
What to look for in quality kids’ light-up tennis shoes
Variable light settings
Most rechargeable, good-quality light-up shoes offer adjustable light settings, including static, flashing and even color options. This feature allows kids to pick their favorite color or match their light-up shoes with their outfits.
Remote control
Believe it or not, some light-up shoes have up to 15 different settings. While this offers a lot of customization, it can be annoying if you have to bend over to press a switch on the shoe repeatedly. Light up tennis shoes with remote controls offer the greatest convenience and allow children to change colors or patterns easily.
Waterproofing
All shoes need to be able to withstand puddles and mud, light-up or not, and most manufacturers work hard to ensure moisture won’t affect the LEDs. Nevertheless, the quality of waterproofing does vary from shoe to shoe, and in some cases, prolonged exposure to water can impact battery life. So, check the manufacturer’s guidelines before letting your kids wear their light-up shoes in a rainstorm.
How much you can expect to spend on kids’ light-up tennis shoes
Like most children’s shoes, there is a wide price range for light-up sneakers, depending on the size, brand and materials. Light-up tennis shoes typically cost between $10-$20, but some can go as high as $70 or more.
Kids’ light-up tennis shoes FAQ
Can you turn off the LED lights on light-up shoes?
A. Most pressure-activated shoes can’t be turned off. They will continue to illuminate with every step until the battery dies or the lights give out. If you want a pressure-activated model you can switch off, choose a rechargeable model with a basic design.
How long does it take for light-up shoes to fully recharge?
A. Recharging time varies depending on the brand. Some light-up tennis shoes take as long as 4 hours to charge, but the average shoe reaches a full charge within 2 to 3 hours.
Can you wash light-up shoes?
A. A handful of manufacturers claim you can wash their shoes, but it’s best to use a damp cloth to wipe down the exterior and brush out dirt from the soles with a toothbrush.
What’re the best kids’ light-up tennis shoes to buy?
Top kids’ light-up tennis shoes
Puma’s Speeder Illuminescent V Light-Up Sneakers
What you need to know: These are comfortable shoes with a sock liner and cushioned midsole. They also have big cat LED lights that young children will love.
What you’ll love: The shoe has a standout design, and the LED lights only turn on when you apply pressure. You can remove the sock liner and midsole as well.
What you should consider: The sizes on this model run small, so you might want to size up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top kids’ light-up tennis shoes for the money
YUNICUS’ Kids LED Light-Up Shoes with USB Charge
What you need to know: Easy for young kids to put on by themselves, this shoe boasts multiple light modes and USB charging.
What you’ll love: This shoe is good for youngsters due to its hook-and-loop closure. With a single charge, your shoes will last for hours, and you can even turn off the lights to conserve battery life. There are options for both girls and boys.
What you should consider: These shoes are not very durable, and a few users reported the lights stopped working after a short time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Kids Litebeams-Gleam Ndream Sneaker
What you need to know: This stunning, head-turning shoe opens wide, making it easy for little ones to slip it on and off.
What you’ll love: In addition to its looks, you’ll love the easy-to-use hook-and-loop closures and the overall comfort. The LED lights are pressure activated, so there’s little drain on the batteries.
What you should consider: Durability may be an issue for some. Also, there were some reports of one shoe in a pair not lighting up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Crypto exchange Vauld has suspended deposits and withdrawals on its platforms citing “financial challenges” amid the crypto market’s volatile conditions. Founded in 2018 by Bathija and Sanju Kurian, Vauld provides a suite of products to crypto investors. This includes fixed deposits and asset-backed lending and borrowing platforms. We take a look at why Vauld has halted its operations (withdrawals and deposits).
Financial difficulties
The Vauld management in a blog post said that it is facing financial challenges despite its best efforts. The crypto company said that the current market climate had led to a significant amount of customer withdrawals when the decline of the cryptocurrency market was triggered by the collapse of Terraform Lab’s Terra-Luna stablecoin, Celsius network pausing withdrawals, and Three Arrows Capital defaulting on their loans.
The three-year-old firm, which has raised approximately $27 million from investors including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures, claimed that the market collapse had forced customers to withdraw about $198 million since June 12.
Restructuring
Vauld is currently in discussions with potential investors. The company intends to apply to the Singapore courts for a moratorium i.e. a suspension of the commencement or continuation of any proceedings against the relevant companies to give the company breathing space to carry out the proposed restructuring exercise.
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“We believe that this will help to facilitate our exploration of the suitability of potential restructuring options, together with our financial and legal advisors. We seek the understanding of customers of the Vauld platform that we will not be in a position to process any new or further requests or instructions in this regard. Specific arrangements will be made for customer deposits as may be necessary for certain customers to meet margin calls in connection with collateralised loans,” the company said.
Downsizing
Earlier last month, Vauld appeared to be in trouble for some time because it said it would downsize its employees by 30 per cent in June. The company also stated in the release that it was lowering its marketing expenditures, lowering hiring efforts, and slashing executive salaries by 50 per cent. The business has given the economic downturn as justification for this.
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Empire Company Limited (TSE:EMP.A – Get Rating) has earned an average rating of “Moderate Buy” from the nine analysts that are presently covering the stock, MarketBeat reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a hold recommendation and five have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average twelve-month price target among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is C$47.44.
Several research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. CIBC lifted their price target on Empire from C$49.00 to C$50.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, March 11th. Berenberg Bank dropped their price objective on Empire from C$46.00 to C$44.00 in a research report on Monday, March 14th. BMO Capital Markets dropped their price objective on Empire from C$46.00 to C$44.00 in a research report on Friday, June 10th. TD Securities lifted their price objective on Empire from C$44.00 to C$50.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, March 11th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada lifted their price objective on Empire from C$46.00 to C$48.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Friday, March 11th.
TSE:EMP.A opened at C$39.85 on Thursday. The company has a market capitalization of C$10.44 billion and a PE ratio of 14.23. The company has a quick ratio of 0.35, a current ratio of 0.76 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 145.35. Empire has a 52-week low of C$36.20 and a 52-week high of C$46.04. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of C$40.96 and a 200-day simple moving average of C$40.92.
In other Empire news, Senior Officer Douglas Bigler Nathanson sold 11,321 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, April 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of C$45.06, for a total value of C$510,124.26. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 18,442 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately C$830,996.52. Also, Senior Officer Pierre St-Laurent sold 7,995 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, April 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of C$45.01, for a total value of C$359,854.95. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 1,456 shares in the company, valued at C$65,534.56.
Empire Company Profile (Get Rating)
Empire Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the food retail and related real estate businesses in Canada. It operates through two segments, Food Retailing, and Investments and Other Operations. The company owns, affiliates, and franchises approximately 1,500 retail stores under various retail banners, including Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, and Lawtons Drugs; and approximately 350 retail fuel locations.
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Sheriff Briefs State After Disturbing Discovery in Lake: 'A Horrible Set of Facts Appears to Be Developing'
A sheriff has delivered horrific news after a disturbing discovery in a Minnesota lake.
The tragedy began as an investigation by the Maplewood Police Department into a possible suicide in a Maplewood, Minnesota, trailer on Friday morning. Inside, police found the body of a deceased male.
Later that day, emergency services were alerted to a potential murder-suicide at Vadnais Lake that has now been linked to the day’s earlier death.
According to KSTP, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office immediately began a search of the lake.
Shoes found on the lakeside appear to hint that all three children were in the water at one time.
Along with officers’ emergency vehicles, airboats, helicopters and ambulances were also spotted working the scene.
The tragic story being pieced together by police is sure to devastate the local community.
“A horrible set of facts appears to be developing,” Fletcher said, according to Fox News.
“We do not know the certainty of all three children, but have recovered one child. There’s nothing more tragic than the loss of young children.”
After a two-day search, it appears the rescue and recovery efforts have been brought to a tragic end.
Ramsey County Undersheriff Mike Martin announced at the lake Saturday morning that the remains of all children and their mother have been found in the water after a combined effort from first responders.
As it is still early in the investigation, Martin refused to comment on any details authorities have discovered.
The undersheriff did reveal how the mother and children were located in the first place.
“They had been looking for the mother with the children as a result of the incident that occurred [in Maplewood],” Martin said.
Thankfully, technology allowed authorities to recover and return the bodies to family as quickly as possible.
“They were concerned about her wellbeing and the wellbeing of the children,” Martin explained, “so they began tracking her cellphone which led them to here and her vehicle.”
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Following the rescue of 77 people who were confined to an underground cell of Whole Bible Believers Church, popularly known as Ondo Church in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State, the parents of most of the victims have cried out over the refusal of their wards to go home with them.
According to some of the parents who besieged the police headquarters of the Ondo State command, their children have insisted that they will not leave the station until the arrested pastors are freed.
While lamenting that the children had been hypnotised with what they described as black magic, the parents maintained that the victims should be thoroughly examined psychologically.
A father of one of the victims, Michael Olohunyomi, disclosed that his 21-year-old daughter, Priscilla, had refused to eat since Saturday, insisting that the pastor must be released. The distraught father said: “I was a member of that church and I was there for 32 years. Everything about the church changed when Peter Josiah became an assistant pastor in the church.
He brought in destructive heresy. “After they were brought to Akure on Saturday, my daughter was released to me, but my daughter said she will not follow me. She said until all those who were arrested are released, she will not follow me. At the end of the day, I overpowered her and took her home.
“Since we got home on Saturday night, she has refused to eat up till this moment. She didn’t eat throughout yesterday. I’m seriously bothered because of the situation.” On his part, a brother to one of the victims, Wande Oladapo, who expressed dismay that his 40-year-old brother could be hypnotised said: “My brother has refused to go home after he was released on Saturday. He said he will not leave his pastor alone in the cell.
“I came all way from Lagos to Akure because of him and he was telling me that he will not follow me; that he will rather be in the cell with the pastor. I think they have all been bewitched by the pastor. This is not ordinary; it is a pure case of black magic.”
Speaking on the development, the Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Funmilayo Odunlami said: “Despite all our attempts and placation, some of the victims refused to go home, saying they were going to stay here. We have a child who said she will follow the Lord and not her parents. “We are trying to work out a modality on how the Ministry of Women Affairs in the state can rehabilitate them.”
The Commissioner for Women Affairs said the state government is working towards rehabilitating the victims: “From the ministry, we must do family tracing. We must get some background information on how these children became so hypnotised and got indoctrinated.
On those that will be needing rehabilitation, we will have to work legally to take custody of those ones.” | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/ondo-church-our-children-were-hypnotised-parents/ | 2022-07-05T08:08:04Z | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/ondo-church-our-children-were-hypnotised-parents/ | true | 1 |
Op-Ed: It's Time for a National About-Face - Here Are 3 Ways to Bring It About
Over the past two years, many of us have reevaluated our priorities, beliefs, attitudes and desires for the future, especially regarding our lives here in the United States.
As we have faced a horrific global pandemic, social unrest and divisive politics, we have realized that our actions in this generation have consequences for the next — for better or worse.
Founding Father and second president of the United States John Adams once said, “Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God. … What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.”
Practicing righteousness — living for and investing your resources in God’s purposes — can cause a national about-face and leave a legacy of liberty for future generations.
Let us consider how we can celebrate our freedom and develop the next generation by giving our time, attention and treasure.
Time
I believe our time on this earth is priceless. While money comes and goes, our time is a finite commodity; once we spend it today, it is gone. And we are not guaranteed tomorrow.
We must invest our limited time in what matters most. All of us are guilty of wasting this precious gift, but we must choose to be intentional about investing in meaningful activities and relationships. We can choose each day to spend time with God, love and serve others as we are called, and bring joy, peace and hope to those we encounter. Each day, we have the opportunity to praise God for our freedom.
Let us embrace who God has made us to be so that we can keep our egos in check and resist the urge to make our accomplishments our sole motivation. God has made us who we are for a reason — we should invest our time and talents in the lives of others in ways that will outlast any award, trophy, title or achievement.
Attention
Every day, we interact with the people whom God has placed in our lives: our family, neighbors, coworkers and bosses, team members and clients, friends and the people we may only see once in our lifetime, such as sales representatives, waitstaff, baristas, store clerks and delivery drivers.
We should engage with those around us and give them our undivided attention. When the entire world is hurting, we have countless opportunities to show kindness, patience, respect and encouragement to one another.
In his inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson said, “Let us then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things.”
With compassionate attention, each of us can use our liberty to improve the life of another.
Treasure
While money may top the list of what we think about when we hear the word “treasure,” treasure includes more than just what we earn or give to worthy causes. Everything we receive falls into this category: our jobs, possessions, savings and entire lifestyle. Often, we think too little about how or what we can give and end up keeping more than enough for ourselves.
The choices we make now will shape the lives of future generations in ways we cannot yet understand, just as our forebears’ choices have shaped our own lives. Our Founding Fathers and those who fought in the Revolutionary War gave up immeasurable resources to ensure our freedom today.
One of the significant concerns many people have shared with me throughout the last few years is that their children’s inheritance is in danger. With a virus running rampant, the economy causing financial distress and jobs being lost, many have wondered if all they have worked for has been in vain.
The answer is absolutely not. As in the 18th and 19th centuries, our children will walk upon the ruins of what we bring down in our generation. The battles we are fighting, both internally and externally, become the stepping stones to thriving in freedom for future generations.
Adapted from “From Survive to Thrive: Live a Holy, Healed, Healthy, Happy, Humble, Hungry, and Honoring Life.”
The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by the owners of this website. If you are interested in contributing an Op-Ed to The Western Journal, you can learn about our submission guidelines and process here.
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Singer 3 beses nagpa-abort
Sa isang personal essay for Vogue, pinaalam ng singer na si Halsey ang pinagdaanan niyang tatlong abortion bago siya nagkaroon ng anak last year.
Ang tatlong abortion ng singer ay dahil sa tatlong miscarriages. Inamin niya ito dahil sa pag-overturn ng Supreme Court sa Roe v. Wade sa Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case na pinagbabawal na sa ilang US states ang abortion.
Ayon sa essay ni Halsey: “I miscarried three times before my 24th birthday. It seemed a cruel irony that I could get pregnant with ease but struggled to maintain a pregnancy. One of my miscarriages required ‘aftercare,’ a gentle way of saying that I would need an abortion, because my body could not terminate the pregnancy completely on its own and I would risk going into sepsis without medical intervention… I was desperate to end the pregnancy that was threatening my life.
“I have never felt more strongly about it. My abortion saved my life and gave way for my son to have his. Every person deserves the right to choose when, if, and how they have this dangerous and life-altering experience. I will hold my son in one arm, and fight with all my might with the other.”
Advocate si Halsey ng abortion, reproductive rights, and bodily integrity. Naniniwala siya na may free choice ang bawa’t kababaihan sa kung ano ang gusto nitong gawin sa kanyang katawan. (Ruel Mendoza) | https://www.abante.com.ph/singer-3-beses-nagpa-abort/ | 2022-07-05T08:13:50Z | https://www.abante.com.ph/singer-3-beses-nagpa-abort/ | false | 1 |
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Apex Aviation, a new airline in Taiwan, announced on Tuesday (July 5) it is offering free skydiving rides as it seeks to tap into the unlocked potential of the parachuting market.
Established by the Apex Flight Academy, a flight training school in Taiwan, Apex Aviation secured the permit to provide civil aviation services in April. The company focuses on the recreational and tourism markets, having launched three air sightseeing tour routes in April along Taiwan’s east coast.
To promote the thrilling experience of skydiving, another core service of the company, it has rolled out an event inviting 80 adventurers to participate in a free fall from a height of 10,000 feet. The event will be part of the 2022 Taiwan International Balloon Festival taking place between July 2- Aug. 15 in Taitung, wrote CNA.
Over 10,000 have signed up for a chance to partake in the adrenaline experience as of July 5, and winners will be decided in a draw on July 11, according to the airline. Selected skydivers will be involved in performing sessions with qualified instructors from Russia and Ukraine during the festival.
Skydiving rides have to be made available to the public, according to Apex Aviation, which said relevant services are currently being reviewed by the authorities.
Apex Aviation announces the roll-out of skydiving services at a press conference. (CNA photo)
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Sam Bush brings his bluegrass, new grass glory to Pisgah Brewing July 3
Sam Bush is watching Wimbledon when he returns a call for an interview. It’s the first round and Novak Djokovic has just defeated Soonwoo Kwon to advance (6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4). A hint of an upset ended quickly. Bush, a legendary mandolin and fiddle player, is an avid...
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DOOM RPG is Now Fully Playable on the PC, Here’s How to Get it Running
DOOM RPG started as a mobile phone game in 2005, developed by Fountainhead Entertainment and published by JAMDAT Mobile. It combined the familiar first-person shooter format with role-playing elements. with the storyline incorporating many similar events of DOOM 3, but with different characters....
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In Asia, the Intel Raptor Lake-S block diagram from an Intel event was leaked. It reveals all the facts about the desktop platform that will inherit from Alder Lake this fall as the 13th generation. Intel has already confirmed some details, others are suspect – and they are now confirmed. But there are also surprises.
More cores, more cache
Intel has already announced that Raptor Lake-S will provide more cores. This is accompanied, at least in part, by a change in the configuration of the L2 and L3 cache of the single processor, since the core structure remains unchanged compared to Intel Alder Lake. The doubled number of electronic cores with L3 cache chips ensures that the total volume of L3 also increases. In addition, the capacity of the L2 cache was increased in the cores of both electronic cores and P-cores.
Raptor Lake-S also still supports DDR4
On the other hand, platform equipment only takes a small step forward. The 700 series chipsets around the Z790, H770, B760 & Co now officially support DDR5-5600 along with the CPU, and the overclocking of both the CPU and RAM has been improved. Intel is also highlighting renewed support for on-chip DDR4-3200 memory. Next year, this will be a unique selling proposition, because rival AMD will only offer DDR5 with the AM5 platform.
Graphics cards are again supplied with 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes from the processor, and four lanes are available directly from the CPU for mass storage. This is where the block diagram presents the first surprise: they obviously have to stick to the PCIe 4.0 standard and not upgrade to PCIe 5.0, as rumors always claim. At this point, AMD will be ahead with the AM5. However, it remains to be seen how motherboard manufacturers will implement the foundation offered by Intel, given that there are Alder Lake motherboards that support PCIe 5.0 SSDs, but only then by sharing the lane with a PCIe x16 slot – an example of a motherboard with ASRock DeskMini B660.
Intel is also confirming additional PCIe lanes for the Platform Controller (PCH) in the Raptor Lake-S. The chipset, as it is colloquially called, should, among other things, offer additional 20Gbps USB 3.2 ports, and Thunderbolt 4 is also included.
Core i9/i7/i5/i3-13000 from fall
Early motherboard manufacturers are already preparing their own circuit boards, with a start date expected this fall. Recently, the first standards appeared with early samples, but they gave a very mixed picture. The 13th Gen Intel Core will also work on motherboards with the current 600 and LGA 1700 chipset – assuming a compatible BIOS.
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Sheriff Briefs State After Disturbing Discovery in Lake: 'A Horrible Set of Facts Appears to Be Developing'
A sheriff has delivered horrific news after a disturbing discovery in a Minnesota lake.
The tragedy began as an investigation by the Maplewood Police Department into a possible suicide in a Maplewood, Minnesota, trailer on Friday morning. Inside, police found the body of a deceased male.
Later that day, emergency services were alerted to a potential murder-suicide at Vadnais Lake that has now been linked to the day’s earlier death.
According to KSTP, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office immediately began a search of the lake.
Shoes found on the lakeside appear to hint that all three children were in the water at one time.
Along with officers’ emergency vehicles, airboats, helicopters and ambulances were also spotted working the scene.
The tragic story being pieced together by police is sure to devastate the local community.
“A horrible set of facts appears to be developing,” Fletcher said, according to Fox News.
“We do not know the certainty of all three children, but have recovered one child. There’s nothing more tragic than the loss of young children.”
After a two-day search, it appears the rescue and recovery efforts have been brought to a tragic end.
Ramsey County Undersheriff Mike Martin announced at the lake Saturday morning that the remains of all children and their mother have been found in the water after a combined effort from first responders.
As it is still early in the investigation, Martin refused to comment on any details authorities have discovered.
The undersheriff did reveal how the mother and children were located in the first place.
“They had been looking for the mother with the children as a result of the incident that occurred [in Maplewood],” Martin said.
Thankfully, technology allowed authorities to recover and return the bodies to family as quickly as possible.
“They were concerned about her wellbeing and the wellbeing of the children,” Martin explained, “so they began tracking her cellphone which led them to here and her vehicle.”
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BOSTON (AP) — Trevor Story hit a solo homer, Kutter Crawford pitched 5 1/3 innings of two-hit relief and the Boston Red Sox won their eighth straight Fourth of July game, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-0 on Monday.
Franchy Cordero added an RBI single for the Red Sox, who won their second straight game and improved to just 9-16 against AL East rivals.
“Kutter gave us a lot, helped us out a lot in the pen there,” Story said. “He looked great.”
With a handful of its players wearing long sleeves with stars and stripes on a warm, sunny day, Boston matched its franchise record for consecutive July 4 wins, accomplished from 1901-04 and 1936-39, when teams played doubleheaders.
Tampa Bay had its three-game winning streak halted and lost a road series opener for the eighth straight time. The Rays had just two hits, both singles.
“Kutter Crawford, we’ve seen him twice now and he’s pitched really well against us,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “Big fastball, threw the breaking ball and had the cutter as well. We just couldn’t get anything going. Just never felt like we had a rhythm at the plate at all.”
Story put the Red Sox ahead in the fourth, driving a changeup from Josh Fleming (2-4) into the back of Boston’s bullpen for his 13th homer.
Boston went with a bullpen game because scheduled starter Michael Wacha was scratched Sunday with what manager Alex Cora called a dead arm. The Red Sox started Austin Davis for two hitless innings before using two more relievers.
Crawford (2-2) struck out eight and walked one and John Schreiber got five outs for his third save.
“I had pretty good command of all five of my pitches,” Crawford said. “I was just going right at guys. When I fell behind on the count, I got right back into it with the cutter or curveball. … The last couple of outings I figured something out that’s helped me mechanically.”
The Red Sox added a run in the fifth when Christian Arroyo doubled leading off, advanced on a groundout and scored when Rafael Devers was credited with an infield hit after second baseman Isaac Paredes bobbled his grounder trying to make a backhand pickup. Fleming booted a comebacker with the bases loaded for a run before Cordero’s single.
Fleming gave up four runs in five innings of relief.
TOUGH STRETCH
Boston opened a stretch of 27 games against teams with winning records.
“Just as important as the first 70 or whatever we played,” Cora said. “With our ups and downs and, obviously how we struggled early in the season, if you look at the standings, we are where we’re at.”
In addition to the Rays, Boston faces the Yankees, Houston, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Toronto during the run.
I’LL TAKE CARE OF IT
Tampa Bay’s Yandy Díaz got caught rounding first too wide on his bloop hit to right. Crawford, who came in to cover first, took the throw and sprinted after Díaz before making the tag himself.
“Yeah,” he said, breaking into a wide smile when asked if he was showing his 40-yard dash speed.
RAYS SHUFFLE ROSTER
In addition to Raley and Thompson returning, the Rays recalled LHP Josh Fleming from Triple-A Durham and returned RHP Phoenix Sanders and RHP Javy Guerra there. RHP Cristofer Ogando was optioned to Durham.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rays: Reinstated LHP Brooks Raley and RHP Ryan Thompson from the restricted list.
Red Sox: LHP Chris Sale (out since spring training, stress fracture in his ribcage) is set to make a rehab start for Triple-A Worcester on Wednesday. “Feels good,” Cora said. “One, maybe two more down there.” … Cora also said Wacha would be checked out. “We don’t believe there’s something structural there, just kind of like a dead arm,” the manager said. … Nathan Eovaldi (injured list, back) and Garrett Whitlock (IL, hip) are both slated to throw off the mound Tuesday.
UP NEXT
LHP Jeffrey Springs (3-2, 2.25 ERA) is scheduled to go for the Rays on Tuesday night. Boston RHP Nick Pivetta (8-5, 3.23) is 8-1 with a 1.95 ERA in his last 11 starts.
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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) announced on Monday that it is increasing the number of its direct flights to Skardu, for which operations will commence next week.
PIA’s Spokesperson, Abdullah Khan, said that PIA will run 12 flights a week from certain cities in the country to Skardu.
He explained that PIA added the flights “in response to significant travel demand to northern locations due to summer vacations and Eid holidays”.
PIA’s direct flight to Skardu will be from six cities in Pakistan
Former PM Imran Khan inaugurated Skardu International Airport, which is one of the world’s highest airports, last year.
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Aries
Aries, just a heads-up that the delays and changes I told you about, affecting your career (and also any groups in your life) are now in full swing. I hope you made allowances for that since last week’s prediction. Close to Wednesday 13th January, you will find yourself looking at the chemistry with a key person tied into your travel, publishing, internet or educational agenda. This person has unique alchemy with you. Together the two of you have to try and balance the scales. This is happening against the background of some big, new realities you can do nothing about. Every little bit helps, though. Make this two-way balancing act function for you and it will simply life, not weigh it down.
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Taurus
Taurus, I just need to repeat last week’s prediction that work, university or unpaid work will not be firmly in place until February, as too much is shifting or delayed now. This also applies to your travel, foreign, publishing, educational or internet agenda, as we are seeing a record number of waiting games or changes now. Bear that in mind if you are flying anywhere in January or (particularly) enrolled at University. This week is also important for your money, house, business, charity, possessions or apartment. It’s very clear that what you own, earn or owe is now a rather heavy issue for you. It began at the end of 2015 and it hasn’t gone away. Now, you find yourself dealing with a very important relationship, where both of you must find a way to meet each other’s wants and needs. Try to make this a useful part of your life, rather than another reason to feel weighed down. You do have to live in the real world now, but it is true that two heads are better than one.
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Gemini
Close to Wednesday 13th January you have an interesting chemistry experiment with your former, current or potential partner. This even applies to enemies too. Mix your ingredients very carefully, as the results will make a difference to a situation which is very hard work. You have known about the new realities of marriage, partnership, separation, dating or relating since the end of 2015. Now you have to roll your sleeves up and try to make the experiment work. If you are falling in love, it is essential that you keep it real (even when your own chemistry is going crazy). Ask questions and be savvy about the person in front of you, or his/her situation. What else is going on this week? Your ruler Mercury is Retrograde, as I explained last week, so you must be prepared for delays, changes and even reversals with your travel, foreign, internet, academic or publishing agenda - until February. You are also dealing with uncertain conditions affecting purchases, sales, property, business, banks, cash-flow, charity or your possessions. It all comes out in the wash but this week is really a living laundromat.
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Cancer
Cancer, as I wrote last week, you now have a famously flakey cycle affecting the relationship you have with your former, current or potential partner. And even your enemies! Try to accommodate that in your plans. This also applies to the money, house, business, possessions, apartment or charity. It may not be until February that you actually have things settled, once and for all. This week is also about your work, your life at university or your unpaid work. It’s all about the relationship at the moment, never mind the actual realities of the job, course or project. The more you can do to ensure this relationship serves both of you, the better. It is also possible that it is your body, not so much your work, that is preoccupying you. This is because Saturn moved into your body zone in September last year. Now, you must deal with what is there - not what you would like to be there. A significant relationship with someone who is equal to you, yet different, will help you pursue possible answers and solutions, if you put the energy in.
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Leo
Ever since Saturn changed signs in September last year, Leo, you have been caught between a rock and a hard place with your children. This also applies to godchildren or young relatives. In other cases, the issue has been serious lovers - who may come with baggage under the age of sixteen. There are variations on this theme, ranging from relationships which would make you an aunt, if you were to marry - to deeper questions about fertility, adoption, step-parenting and so on. Now, the middle of January shows you one way this might work. Or at least, work better. Venus, the goddess of passion, is triggering your horoscope near Wednesday 13th January. It’s always better to have someone on your side, even if you are polar opposites. At the same time, you must be a total realist about your emotional, sexual or psychological situation. What else matters now? Mercury is Retrograde in your partnership zone, so you clearly need to aim for February as the time of reckoning, no matter what you decide to do. Until then one issue may go backwards and forwards, stall or even disappear. Factor that in.
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Virgo
Your ruler Mercury is Retrograde in not one, but two signs of the zodiac now. As I mentioned last week, Virgo, you need to allow for delays and changes affecting parenthood, godchildren, youth projects and serious sexual relationships - until February. This also applies to work, university, unpaid work and your body. Let the wheels spin backwards and forwards until you can say you know what the journey in 2016 is actually going to be. This week we also see an interesting question about your house, family, home town, homeland, household or apartment. I am sure you want to do everything possible to make yourself feel more comfortable and secure, as things look rather heavy at the moment. What might help, just a little bit, is getting one particular relationship into such strong shape, that it becomes an asset to you. In fact, near Wednesday 13th January you are positively required to balance the scales with the other person involved.
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Libra
A great deal depends on how much agreement you can reach with the other person involved in your project or idea - no matter if this is digital, on paper or involves the spoken word. There are heavy new realities you must deal with, which were not there before. What happens near Wednesday 13th January when your ruler Venus trines Uranus and Minerva, suggests a real moment of truth. You are so well-known for making your duets harmonise. Your new challenge is to do that, in a far more restricted situation than usual. What else is going on now? As I mentioned last week, Mercury is Retrograde in not one, but two areas of your horoscope. You may already be hitting delays, reversals or changes with the family, the household, your home, property interests, home town or homeland. Allow some weeks for this to correct itself in full and final detail. Children, serious sexual relationships, teenagers or youth projects are also affected by this cycle. Again, allow plenty of time for a new arrangement to be locked in.
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Scorpio
What appears to be about the numbers this week, is actually about the other person. Given what you are now facing with your business, cashflow, house, charity, possessions or apartment - it’s time to read hearts and minds. The other person involved sees herself/himself in terms of relationships, so it’s something worth remembering. What comes out of this, if you get it right, will make a tremendous difference to how secure you feel, about a rather confronting new reality. This week is also about remembering Mercury Retrograde and trying to accommodate this famously flakey cycle. The delays, changes or vanishing acts are related to the internet, multimedia or publishing now. Be savvy about the purchase or repair of phones and computers (for example) or the instructions you give to printers. You also have this cycle affecting the speed and smooth running of plans involving your home, homeland, home town, family or household. Having a back-up plan is a smart idea. So is treating life as a dress rehearsal. If it’s a big deal like a property transaction, though, read the very fine print.
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Sagittarius
Venus in Sagittarius, your own sign, makes her presence felt near Wednesday 13th January. The way you look or appear, now comes down to a healthy relationship. If you are a rock star it may be about your manager. If you are hoping to relaunch yourself in 2016 it may be about your hairdresser or cosmetic surgeon. Image really matters now, as I am sure you know. Your role, profile, title, persona and presence online are serious new concerns, since Saturn also moved into Sagittarius last September. What happens this week tells you - you are not doing this alone. It is also worth repeating the Mercury Retrograde messages from last week. Please allow tons of time and space for the financial, property, business, retail or charity discussion. It may take weeks to call this final. This also applies to your internet, multimedia, publishing or other communication priorities. Keep your schedule very flexible.
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Capricorn
One sign behind your own, Venus lurks in the shadows this week, reminding you that sometimes your secret life, your classified information, your uncredited efforts or your greatest mysteries must come first. The fact that nobody else sees, knows or really fathoms what is going on, makes it impossible to share or explain. That’s fine, but you do at least need a good relationship with yourself. This week also brings a reminder that we are in the Silly Season, as Mercury is Retrograde in not one, but two signs at once! Your Me Agenda will be affected, so allow more time and space for matters affecting your image, name, reputation or profile. This also applies to the money, house, business, charity, possessions or apartment. There is no quick and easy way out of this, as it’s a long and winding road. Just work around it.
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Aquarius
A friendship that feels more like a relationship? A group commitment that feels more like a partnership with one other person? Your horoscope shows Tuesday-Thursday is the time to consider the chemistry. This is more than just another choice about your social life, social media, old friends, team, club or network. It has really big implications for the whole year, so take your time. Ever since Saturn changed signs in September 2015 all your choices about this have been hard ones. Now, you have to figure out the chemistry with the woman (or man) who has such a huge impact on your group, or your view of friendship as a whole. What else matters now? Mercury is well and truly Retrograde. I wrote about this last week, but given the evidence you see all around you with changes, delays or even reversals - make January the month you keep your diary well and truly open.
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Pisces
Between Tuesday 12th and Thursday 14th January, your success in life comes down to one other person. Your issues may be about your work, social status, unpaid work or university degree. The answer (this week anyway) rests with the very particular chemistry you have with someone who is on the other end of the see-saw from you. Together, you two have to make things balance. There are no fast or easy solutions at the moment, as you are well aware. If you two can make this work, though, it will make a tremendous difference to a rather heavy situation. The other priorities now? Keeping a flexible schedule! Mercury is Retrograde in two signs of the zodiac at the same time, and so you are going to hit the usual issues with the computer, the telephone, wobbly ‘agreements’ and plans which change every time you look at them. Be particularly aware of this in connection with a group or team and if you can fast-forward the whole agreement to the second half of February, then do it. Mercury will be out of Retrograde Shadow from that point.
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BRUSSELS — The 30 NATO allies started a ceremony to sign off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals.
The move further increases Russia's strategic isolation in the wake of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February and military struggles there since.
"This is truly a historic moment for Finland, for Sweden and for NATO," said alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
The 30 ambassadors and permanent representatives are formally approving the decisions of last week's NATO summit when the alliance made the historic decision to invite Russia's neighbor Finland and Scandinavian partner Sweden to join the military club.
Despite the agreement in the alliance, parliamentary approval in member state Turkey could still pose problems for their final inclusion as members.
Last week, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Ankara could still block the process if the two countries fail to fully meet Turkey's demand to extradite terror suspects with links to outlawed Kurdish groups or the network of an exiled cleric accused of a failed 2016 coup in Turkey.
He said Turkey's Parliament could refuse to ratify the deal. It is a potent threat since NATO accession must be formally approved by all 30 member states, which gives each a blocking right.
Stoltenberg said he expected no change of heart. "There were security concerns that needed to be addressed. And we did what we always do at NATO. We found common ground."
Every alliance nation has different legislative challenges and procedures to deal with, and it could take several more months for the two to become official members.
"I look forward to a swift ratification process," said Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has given the process added urgency. It will ensconce the two nations in the Western military alliance and give NATO more clout, especially in the face of Moscow's military threat.
"We will be even stronger and our people will be even safer as we face the biggest security crisis in decades," said Stoltenberg.
Tuesday's expected signing-off does bring both nations deeper into NATO's fold already. As close partners, they already attended some meetings that involved issues that immediately affected them. As official invitees, they can attend all meetings of the ambassadors even if they do not yet have any voting rights. | https://www.startribune.com/nato-poised-to-sign-accession-protocols-for-sweden-finland/600187692/ | 2022-07-05T09:03:27Z | https://www.startribune.com/nato-poised-to-sign-accession-protocols-for-sweden-finland/600187692/ | false | 15 |
Anthony Joshua reveals he sacked Rob McCracken and old training team for not telling him he was losing first Usyk fight
ANTHONY JOSHUA revealed he left Rob McCracken and the rest of his training team after they failed to say he was losing against Oleksandr Usyk.
AJ was beaten over 12 rounds last September and immediately his corner work came into question.
Joshua reacted by splitting with long-time coach McCracken as well as assistant Joby Clayton.
Cornerman Angel Fernandez has remained and will be joined by esteemed US mastermind Robert Garcia for the rematch with Usyk on August 20 in Saudi.
And they will be under strict instructions to give it to AJ straight - even if he is in a losing position.
Joshua said: “There was a lot going on in the corner and that didn’t help. A corner is like a pitstop.
"You’ve got probably 55 seconds in total to calm down, hydrate, simple instructions.
"That’s the way you should do it. Too many voices at once is definitely not good for anybody.
“I was being told things like, ‘Double jab, right, left hook’ it wasn’t like, ‘Take the fight to this f***er, listen you’re losing the fight’.
"A trainer needs to tap into that psychological aspect now because if you can overcome your mind, you can give more.”
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Joshua, 32, surprisingly opted to try and outbox Usyk, 35, and never reverted to plan B as the fight raced away from him.
That was because, in AJ's mind, he believed he was ahead and winning.
Joshua admitted: "I swear I thought I was. I thought I was looking like Muhammad Ali in there.
“I can show you sparring footage where I’m on the ropes leaning back. They tell you to train adversity, right.
"So put your hands down and let a motherf***er throw punches at you and you just sit, sit, sit.
"That’s how you gain confidence. So, in the fight in the 12th, I’m doing this stuff.
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“Throughout the fight I thought I was winning but at that stage I kind of knew it was close.
"I thought at that stage I was well in the fight because it didn’t seem like there was any real communication as to where I’m at.
"Like, ‘You’re losing this fight… you’re down by two rounds’. I didn’t get that.
“I’m not blaming anyone by saying that but I didn’t get any impression that I was losing the fight.
"I thought we were well in it. That’s why when they announced the name I was kind of like ‘huh?’
“So, I was jabbing and jabbing. It was hard to accept afterwards.
"Now when I watch it back, I think he won by three rounds, that’s probably from the ninth round onwards.” | https://www.the-sun.com/sport/5703998/anthony-joshua-rob-mccracken-training-losing-usyk-fight/ | 2022-07-05T09:07:11Z | https://www.the-sun.com/sport/5703998/anthony-joshua-rob-mccracken-training-losing-usyk-fight/ | true | 4 |
A former Bihar MLA has been arrested for hiring contract killers to bump off his daughter with whom he has been upset, as she married a man of another caste, police said.
Surendra Sharma was apprehended on Sunday after the hitmen, whom he had paid Rs 20 lakh for the “honour killing”, spilled the beans, said Pramod Kumar, SP, City (East) of Patna.
“An attempt was made on his daughter’s life on the intervening night of 1 & 2 July. The woman, who lives in Shri Krishna Puri police station area, lodged a police complaint that she had been fired at by unidentified persons, who sped away on a motorcycle after missing the target,” Kumar said.
An intensive search operation was launched and on Saturday, Abhishek alias Chhote Sarkar, who heads the gang, was arrested along with two of his associates.
Abhishek told police about Sharma, who had served a term in the legislative assembly from his native Saran district in the 1990s.
Not known to have any party affiliations, Sharma, who had contested as an Independent, is also said to have criminal antecedents.
Three country-made pistols, several rounds of ammunition and a motorcycle without a number plate are among the items recovered from the possession of Abhishek and his associates, the SP added.
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Concerns grow for missing deaf teenager Tammy from Congresbury
Police have launched an appeal to find a missing 16-year-old deaf girl from North Somerset.
Tammy is missing from her home in the village of Congresbury, near Bristol. She was last seen at 11am on Saturday 2 July.
The teenager is described as white with brown hair and eyes. She was wearing a maroon cardigan with floral embroidery (pictured above), dark blue roll-up jeans and black Dr Martens boots with pink laces. She is deaf and lip-reads.
Tammy's family say that it is out of character for her to be away from home and not in touch with family members.
They also say that she is without her necessary medication.
In a message directly to Tammy, police asked that if she sees the appeal to please get in touch, as her family are extremely worried about her.
Anyone who sees the teenager has been asked to call 999 and give reference number 5222157845, or call 101 if you know where she may be. | https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-07-05/concerns-grow-for-missing-deaf-teenager-from-north-somerset-village | 2022-07-05T09:11:14Z | https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-07-05/concerns-grow-for-missing-deaf-teenager-from-north-somerset-village | true | 1 |
Former Pakistani spinner Danish Kaneria has raised questions over India’s decision to leave out Ravichandran Ashwin for the Birmingham Test against England. According to him, the off-spinner could have made an impact in the match by exploiting the patches that have developed on the surface.
The Birmingham Test saw a complete turnaround on Day 4 as England gained the ascendancy following a tremendous fightback with both the bat and ball. After restricting India to 245 in their second innings, the hosts went to stumps in a commanding position at 259 for three while chasing 378.
Criticizing India’s decision to leave out Ashwin from the playing XI for the Birmingham Test, Kaneria said while speaking on his YouTube channel:
“I just can’t understand the logic of leaving out a world-class bowler like Ashwin. Remember, this is the summer season in England. Rahul Dravid has played a lot of cricket here, both for India and in county as well.
"Everyone knows that during the summer, wickets start helping the spinners late on Day 2 and Day 3. Even yesterday, there were patches on the wicket, which Ashwin could have exploited. India are missing him big time in this Test.”
Incidentally, the veteran off-spinner was left out of the playing XI for all four Tests during India’s previous visit to England in 2021.
“The game is almost gone now as far as India are concerned” - Danish Kaneria
Looking ahead to Day 5 of the match, Kaneria opined that the match has all but slipped out of India’s grasp. The former leg-spinner commented:
“The game is almost gone now as far as India are concerned.”
Critical of India’s body language in the field, Kaneria added:
“They were lethargic in the first session. Everybody was down. There was some spark after tea. Bumrah took a wicket and then there was a run out as well. After that, they again looked lifeless. Bairstow and Root played perfect Test cricket. The match is very much in England's grasp now."
India began Day 4 in the ascendancy with a lead of 257 and seven wickets in hand. However, Ben Stokes (4/33) ran through India's lower order to restrict them to 245.
England’s openers Alex Lees (56) and Zak Crawley (46) then added 107 for the first wicket before Joe Root (76*) and Jonny Bairstow (72*) put the hosts in complete command of proceedings.
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BRP (NASDAQ:DOOO – Get Rating) and Wallbox (NYSE:WBX – Get Rating) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Risk and Volatility
BRP has a beta of 2.53, suggesting that its stock price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wallbox has a beta of 3.77, suggesting that its stock price is 277% more volatile than the S&P 500.
This table compares BRP and Wallbox’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
BRP has higher revenue and earnings than Wallbox.
Profitability
This table compares BRP and Wallbox’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for BRP and Wallbox, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
BRP presently has a consensus price target of $132.33, suggesting a potential upside of 113.54%. Wallbox has a consensus price target of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 104.65%. Given BRP’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BRP is more favorable than Wallbox.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
54.4% of BRP shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.2% of Wallbox shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
BRP beats Wallbox on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
BRP Company Profile (Get Rating)
BRP Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, distributes, and markets powersports vehicles and marine products in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Mexico, Austria, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Powersports and Marine. It offers all-terrain, side-by-side, and three-wheeled vehicles; seasonal products, such as snowmobiles and personal watercraft; and engines for jet boats, outboards, karts, motorcycles, and recreational aircraft. The company also provides parts, accessories, and apparel, as well as other services. It sells its products through a network of independent dealers and distributors, as well as to original equipment manufacturers. The company was formerly known as J.A. Bombardier (J.A.B.) Inc. and changed its name to BRP Inc. in April 2013. BRP Inc. was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Valcourt, Canada.
Wallbox Company Profile (Get Rating)
Wallbox N.V., a technology company, designs, manufactures, and distributes charging solutions for residential, business, and public use. The company operates in three segments: Europe-Middle East Asia, North America, and Asia-Pacific. It offers EV charging hardware products, such as Pulsar Plus, an AC smart charger for home or multi-family residence; Commander 2, an AC smart charger for fleets and businesses with a 7-inch touchscreen display that provides a personalized and secure user interface for multiple users; Copper SB, an AC smart charger for fleets and businesses with an integrated socket that makes it compatible with both type 1 and type 2 charging cables; Quasar, a DC bi-directional charger for home-use that allows to charge and discharge electric vehicle, and enables to use car battery to power home or sell energy back to the grid; Supernova, a DC fast charger equipment designed for public use; and Hypernova that allows to optimize available power and adapt to the number of EVs connected for public charging along highways and transcontinental road networks. The company also provides EV charging software solutions, including the myWallbox platform, a cloud based software designed to provide smart management of its chargers in residential and business parking lots, such as workplaces, fleets, and semi-public parking lots; Electromaps, a hardware-agnostic e-mobility service provider and charger management software that enables users to find publicly available charging ports; and Sirius, an energy management solution that is designed to seamlessly integrates the electric grid with solar, on-site batteries, and other renewable energy sources. In addition, it offers upgrades and accessories, which includes energy meters, EV charging cables, pedestals, and RFID cards; and installation, maintenance, and charging network management services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
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The US Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet will begin to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept weapons, drugs and other illicit shipments across the region.
The US Navy will for the first time reward individuals for providing information that leads to the seizure of illicit cargos such as illegal weapons or narcotics in waters across the Middle East, it has said.
The US Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), which is headquartered in Bahrain and covers strategic waterways such as the Suez Canal and Strait of Hormuz, said on Tuesday that the rewards could be in cash or items such as boats.
"NAVCENT could potentially reward a maximum $100,000 payout for information or non-lethal assistance that supports counterterrorism operations or leads US naval forces to successfully seize illicit cargo such as illegal weapons or narcotics," it said in a statement on its website.
"Rewards can also be non-monetary and include items like boats, vehicles, food or equipment," it said.
The statement gave a phone number in Bahrain where tips can be reported, in addition to the website dedicated to the US Department of Defense's rewards programme.
The statement did not mention a specific country as being a target of the reward programme, but its implementation could complicate the shipments of Iranian weapons to Tehran's allies in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon.
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New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): Actor Vijay Deverakonda dropped a jaw-dropping picture on his social media account.
Arjun Reddy star took to his Instagram handle and shared a picture, leaving his fans to go crazy over his look. In the picture, Vijay struck a hot pose and was seen unbuttoning his shirt.
Sharing the picture, the actor wrote, "Unbuttoning - before the shot that broke the internet."
Vijay's social media post garnered several likes and comments from his fans and followers. Some of whom also left fire and heart emojis.
Recently Vijay also surprised his fans by unveiling a new look from his film 'Liger' on Saturday.
In the poster, Vijay is seen standing naked with flowers in his hand. His chiselled abs are clearly visible in the picture.
Sharing his look, Vijay took to Instagram and wrote, "A Film that took my everything. As a performance, Mentally, physically my most challenging role. I give you everything! Coming Soon #LIGER (sic)"
Netizens have been going gaga ever since they saw Vijay's bold avatar.
Ananya Pandey and Vijay Deverakonda will feature in the boxing drama 'Liger' and it is one of Vijay's most anticipated films because it marks his Bollywood debut.
Pan-India film 'Liger' will hit the screens on the 25th of August 2022. The Puri Jagannadh directorial also marks the Bollywood debut of boxing legend Mike Tyson. It will release in five languages: Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada. (ANI) | https://www.aninews.in/news/entertainment/bollywood/vijay-deverakonda-sets-internet-on-fire-in-black-shirt20220705145422/ | 2022-07-05T09:29:53Z | https://www.aninews.in/news/entertainment/bollywood/vijay-deverakonda-sets-internet-on-fire-in-black-shirt20220705145422/ | false | 2 |
Fifth Third Bancorp grew its holdings in shares of Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOLX – Get Rating) by 23.4% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 13,439 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 2,547 shares during the quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp’s holdings in Hologic were worth $1,033,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Fieldpoint Private Securities LLC lifted its position in Hologic by 61.4% in the 1st quarter. Fieldpoint Private Securities LLC now owns 334 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock worth $26,000 after buying an additional 127 shares during the last quarter. CVA Family Office LLC bought a new stake in Hologic in the 4th quarter worth approximately $30,000. Quent Capital LLC bought a new stake in Hologic in the 4th quarter worth approximately $51,000. Rosenberg Matthew Hamilton bought a new stake in Hologic in the 1st quarter worth approximately $55,000. Finally, Whittier Trust Co. lifted its position in Hologic by 219.0% in the 4th quarter. Whittier Trust Co. now owns 737 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock worth $56,000 after buying an additional 506 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 92.70% of the company’s stock.
A number of research firms recently weighed in on HOLX. StockNews.com began coverage on Hologic in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “buy” rating for the company. Citigroup lowered their price objective on Hologic from $78.00 to $75.00 in a research report on Thursday, April 28th. Wells Fargo & Company downgraded Hologic from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and lowered their price objective for the company from $90.00 to $75.00 in a research report on Monday, April 25th. Finally, SVB Leerink boosted their price objective on Hologic to $85.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, May 17th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Hologic currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $81.00.
HOLX opened at $70.14 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.59, a quick ratio of 2.57 and a current ratio of 2.97. Hologic, Inc. has a 52-week low of $66.58 and a 52-week high of $81.04. The stock has a market capitalization of $17.49 billion, a PE ratio of 11.56, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.88 and a beta of 1.09. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $73.20 and its 200-day moving average price is $73.24.
Hologic (NASDAQ:HOLX – Get Rating) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, April 27th. The medical equipment provider reported $2.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.55 by $0.52. Hologic had a return on equity of 42.26% and a net margin of 28.79%. The firm had revenue of $1.44 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.28 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $2.59 earnings per share. Research analysts forecast that Hologic, Inc. will post 5.54 EPS for the current fiscal year.
About Hologic (Get Rating)
Hologic, Inc develops, manufactures, and supplies diagnostics products, medical imaging systems, and surgical products for women's health through early detection and treatment in the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Diagnostics, Breast Health, GYN Surgical, and Skeletal Health.
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New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted searches at 40 locations in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and some southern states in connection with a case linked to a Chinese firm.
Multiple ED teams have been conducting simultaneous raids since morning, said sources, adding the case is already being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
IT department, as well as the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, are also keeping a close eye on the Chinese manufacturing firms. The ED raid is an extension of the probe against Chinese firms.
The ED conducted these searches with respect to violations of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Sources said that local units of Vivo Mobile Communications are under the radar for alleged financial improprieties as part of an investigation into other China-based firms.
Ministry of Corporate Affairs is learnt to have a special focus on potential violations including fraud.
In the case of Vivo, an inquiry was sought in April this year to detect if there were "significant irregularities in ownership and financial reporting". (ANI) | https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/ed-raids-40-locations-in-up-mp-bihar-southern-states-in-case-linked-to-chinese-firm20220705133736/ | 2022-07-05T09:30:22Z | https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/ed-raids-40-locations-in-up-mp-bihar-southern-states-in-case-linked-to-chinese-firm20220705133736/ | true | 12 |
People in Lichfield and Burntwood are being invited to get into the Commonwealth Games spirit by trying free sports taster sessions.
Active Lichfield, Freedom Leisure and local sports club are behind the Festival of Sport taking place across the district from 28th July to 8th August.
Among the activities are badminton, cricket, boxing, tennis, soft archery, judo, dodgeball, Tai Chi and squash.
Wheelchair basketball, disability cricket and multi-sport sessions are also in the programme, together with dance classes for the under 5s, the teddy games mini athletics and rugby tots for children aged two to seven.
Other activities include cycling coaching, a Commonwealth Games-themed park run, Pickleball and Spikeball.
Cllr Andy Smith, Lichfield District Council’s cabinet member for leisure, said:
“The Festival of Sport is an exciting opportunity for people to try their hand at a variety of sports free of charge.
“We are delighted to be able to offer them as part of the celebrations for the Commonwealth Games.
“Be it tennis, cricket, archery, yoga or football, badminton, basketball or Boccia, we hope people across Lichfield will join the fun.”
Cllr Andy Smith, Lichfield District Council
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Gauteng meeting of activists condemns "corrupt forces in our society that are opposed to democratic rule"
Over 100 organisations and over 300 people met at the Birchwood conference centre in Ekurhuleni on 1 and 2 July to discuss the erosion of constitutional rights.
"The Constitution ... is under direct threat due to the ... nefarious activities of corrupt forces in our society that are opposed to democratic rule, the rule of law and constitutionalism," reads the conference declaration.
"We need new and innovative ways of thinking about politics, mobilising and organising to re-ignite people's power," it says. "Our point of departure should be based on clear constitutional principles, economic inclusion, values of solidarity, social and climate justice, ethical behaviour, respect, collaboration, and transparency, which must advance participatory democracy and unity."
The meeting was led by Defend Our Democracy, an organisation that was founded in March 2021. It aims to eradicate state capture, corruption and looting in the public and private sector, speak up against unsubstantiated attacks on the judiciary, demand accountability, deepen participatory democracy to achieve socio-economic justice and support campaigns of organisations that call for democratic rights.
Duduetsang Mmeti, a spokesperson for Defend Our Democracy, said the organisation is bringing together "all sectors of society" to bring attention to threats to democracy.
Reverend Frank Chikane, who was involved in the formation of the organisation, addressed the delegates at the opening of the conference. He called on them to "envision a new political reality that is driven by an active citizenry" to renew constitutional democracy. "We meet here as a troubled nation, subjected to a nightmare by corrupt, corrupted, and compromised political leaders, greedy and rotten business, and the criminal underworld that has become part of this toxic mix."
Chikane said that corrupt and inept leaders "have become a criminal gang that kill those who stand in their way, including whistle-blowers and potential witnesses. They are prepared to bankrupt the country and even destroy its democratic pillars to protect themselves. They want to impose leaders on us to enable them to continue their treacherous activities against the people of South Africa".
In a keynote address, Mcebisi Jonas stressed four ways in which democracy can backslide. The first is when those in power undermine democratic institutions. The second is when governing parties reject the legitimacy of opposition parties. The third is the global economic and climate crisis characterised by extreme inequality. The fourth is the actual curtailment of democracy, for example by undermining elections.
Executive director of Campaign for Free Expression Anton Harber said the mobilisation of civil society organisations is a step in the right direction. "We recognise that we have to partner with other civil society organisations to combine our strength. We are in such a critical time in this country's democracy," he said.
Harber added that the conference was a "very broad church" and "the point is that we all share a concern about our Constitution and democracy. I am hopeful that we can build a strong voice together."
National secretary of Abahlali BaseMjondolo Thapelo Mohapi said his organisation supported the initiative. But he said that Abahlali BaseMjondolo has received minimal solidarity from those calling for the defence of democracy.
"Their silence is very loud when we are killed. When it suits them, we must now be on board. We are part of [the conference] because we want to defend democracy," Mohapi said. "People must speak when Abahlali are killed. Democracy is under threat when people in shacks are killed, when services on the ground are not provided."
Mmeti said there are a lot of issues that the organisations need to reach consensus on in order to solidify a plan of action. But for now, the conference was a clarion call to protect democracy and the Constitution.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Scandinavian Airlines on Tuesday filed for bankruptcy in the United States, warning a walkout by 1,000 pilots a day earlier had put the future of the carrier at risk.
The move adds to the likelihood of travel chaos across Europe as the summer vacation period begins.
The Stockholm-based group said it had “voluntarily filed for chapter 11 in the U.S., a legal process for financial restructuring conducted under U.S. federal court supervision.”
Filing for Chapter 11 in New York puts civil litigation on hold while the business reorganizes its finances, dubbed SAS Forward.
SAS said that its operations and flight schedule will be unaffected by the announcement.
Anko van der Werff, CEO of SAS, said that the strike accelerated the move. “I think we have been very clear that this could happen,” he said.
“The important thing is that this is about bankruptcy protection, it is not about a bankruptcy, but it is about financial reconstruction,” van der Werff said.
The carrier said it is “in well advanced discussions with a number of potential lenders ... to support its operations throughout this court-supervised process.”
The rescue plan, presented in February, is aimed at securing long-term competitiveness.
The pilots reacted strongly to the news of the Chapter 11 filing. Roger Klokset, head of the SAS pilots union, said the group “had stretched negotiations and mediation from November last year until the day before the application, without ever having the intention of entering into an agreement with the SAS pilots."
The pilots in Denmark, Sweden and Norway walked out on Monday, citing inadequate pay and working conditions and expressing dissatisfaction with the decision by the carrier to hire new pilots to fill vacancies at its subsidiary airlines, SAS Link and SAS Connect, rather than re-hire former company pilots laid off due to the pandemic.
Van der Werff said the strike was "devastating for SAS and puts the company’s future together with the jobs of thousands of colleagues at stake.”
The walkout is estimated to lead to the cancellation of approximately 50% of all scheduled SAS flights and impact around 30,000 passengers per day. Flights operated by SAS Link, SAS Connect and SAS’ external partners are not affected.
The airline is part-owned by the governments of Sweden and Denmark. In 2018, Norway sold its stake but holds debt in the airline, and has said it might be willing to convert that into equity. | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Carrier-SAS-files-for-Chapter-11-bankruptcy-17284539.php | 2022-07-05T09:33:41Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Carrier-SAS-files-for-Chapter-11-bankruptcy-17284539.php | false | 14 |
Seven people have been arrested following the track invasion at the start of the British Grand Prix.
The Alfa Romeo of Zhou Guanyu slid upside down across the track before slamming into the tyre barrier and being launched into the fencing in a major crash at the start of the Silverstone race.
As the contest was immediately red flagged and cars headed for the pits, protestors broke on to the circuit at the Wellington Straight, before sitting down.
The protestors were dragged away by marshals as drivers sped by.
Northamptonshire Police later confirmed a string of arrests.
“I’m really disappointed that this group of people ignored our warnings prior to race-day and made the incredibly dangerous decision to enter the track,” said event commander chief inspector Tom Thompson.
“We offered to facilitate a peaceful event at the circuit but they instead chose to put the lives of the drivers, marshals and volunteers at risk. It is incredibly disappointing that anyone would make the decision to do this.
“Thankfully we had plans in place for an eventuality such as this and the group were swiftly removed and arrested by our officers.
“All seven are currently in custody where their details are being ascertained.
“Finally, I would like to thank all of the officers and staff, as well as our partners, who have worked tirelessly on this policing operation. Generally we have had very low crime rates, today’s incident was dealt with effectively and efficiently, and I could not have asked for more.”
Zhou escaped serious injury in the crash and the race was resumed after a 53-minute delay.
“We confirm that after the red flag, several people attempted to enter the track,” said an FIA spokesperson.
“These people were immediately removed and the matter is now being dealt with by the local authorities.” | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/sport/4495188/seven-people-arrested-after-track-invasion-at-british-grand-prix/ | 2022-07-05T09:36:47Z | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/sport/4495188/seven-people-arrested-after-track-invasion-at-british-grand-prix/ | true | 10 |
Zambia’s post-pandemic drive to diversify from mineral exports received a healthy boost as USAID announced an investment package worth over $44m.
Aimed at “spurring private investment at a scale that could never be matched by foreign aid alone”, TradeBoost Zambia will build upon USAID’s new flagship, continent-wide Africa Trade and Investment programme.
Diversification will yield benefits in economic growth and food security
Just three sectors – retail trade, mineral extraction and construction – constituted almost half of Zambian GDP before the pandemic. USAID’s focus on agricultural development will be welcomed in a country where population growth outstrips domestic agricultural production, which accounts for only 5.8% of GDP despite providing employment to 70% of Zambians.
In the short term, it is hoped that an $8.5m export deal with agricultural companies Zdenakie and NewGrowCo will also help to relieve pressure on East African grain importers suffering the consequences of the war in Ukraine. USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced plans to export 1,300 metric tons of grain to struggling neighbours “in a matter of days”, while a revolving credit facility for Zambian grain traders will support the export of a further 30,000 metric tons across Africa moving forward.
In contrast with the food insecurity plaguing adjacent countries, Zambia’s position is relatively advantageous. A record-high maize harvest in 2021-22 has seen prices remain relatively stable, enabling Zambian growers to direct attention towards regional exports. Neighbouring Zimbabwe, which imported $13m of maize from Zambia in 2020, may look to its northern border as it seeks to replace the $11.7m of Ukrainian wheat imports which have arrived in previous years.
High-value crops promise stronger export durability
Sustaining export growth in Zambia’s agricultural sector may prove challenging. A survey undertaken by the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research reveals that on average, new agricultural export offerings in Zambia survive for only 1 to 2 years: just 39% survive past their first year and less than 10% pass the 6-year mark.
Coupled with greater consistency in trading patterns with US buyers, investment in high-value crops promises more stable long-term returns. Maize, sugar, tobacco and cotton have traditionally enjoyed higher rates of export durability than other produce, with 45% of offerings reaching a second year.
In this light, foreign investment in the cultivation of high-value macadamia nuts augurs well for the durability of Zambia’s agricultural export growth. A $200,000 grant from USAID unlocked a $4.5m investment from South Africa-based Foxfin Financial Services, which has since purchased a 165ha farm which will create nearly 100 jobs – the majority to be held by women – in macadamia production.
Empowering female farmers
Female workers and entrepreneurs stand to gain from USAID’s plans: the accompanying Business Enabling Project (BEP), which will generate $14m of incentives for private-sector investment in rural SMEs over five years, “seeks to unleash the power of Zambia’s greatest untapped resource”.
The BEP will “work with women farmers… to improve financial record-keeping, access finance, and grow their businesses”, says Power, who hopes that this will allow “subsistence farmers in Zambia to grow their output and move into commercial farming”. | https://african.business/2022/07/agribusiness-manufacturing/uss-zambia-investment-plan-targets-african-food-security/ | 2022-07-05T09:37:20Z | https://african.business/2022/07/agribusiness-manufacturing/uss-zambia-investment-plan-targets-african-food-security/ | true | 1 |
MALMO, Sweden, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In connection with the release of AAK's Interim report for the second quarter 2022, we invite you to a press and analyst conference to be held on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, at 1 p.m. CET. The conference will be chaired by Johan Westman, President and CEO, and Tomas Bergendahl, CFO. The presentation will be held in English.
The presentation can be followed by phone or via a webcast. Please note that questions may be asked by phone only.
To follow the conference by phone, please use one of the numbers below, followed by pin code 5685569:
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To follow the conference via webcast, please use the following link: https://tv.streamfabriken.com/aak-q2-2022.
It will be possible to watch the webcast after the conference call.
The presentation material will be available under the Investors tab at our website, www.aak.com. The Interim report for the second quarter 2022 will be released on July 19, 2022 at 12:00 noon CET.
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More and more cosmetics brands, from high street to luxury to indie, and opting to avoid animal byproducts in the making of their products. While all of us would demand that our makeup be cruelty-free (animal testing is banned within the EU but remains a thorny topic owing to testing regulations in China and third-party testing), seeking cosmetics containing no animal derived products, with a stringent policy against animal testing as standard, hits two birds with one stone, so to speak, ensuring that your beauty products have been nowhere near an animal in their making. If it doubt, look for the Certified Vegan icon , Vegan Trademark by The Vegan Society or, to be more Sherlock about what’s in your cosmetics, familiarise yourself with common animal derivatives and check ingredients lists for a belt and braces approach. Mintel has reported a 100 per cent rise for ‘vegan’ claims within the cosmetics industry in the past year, and with vegan makeup and skincare becoming as mainstream as vegan diets in modern times, variety, affordability and quality of vegan makeup options have never been better. Get your lips around the following vegan options for further proof…
It’s World Vegan Day, so where better to start with vegan makeup than your mouth? Here’s a bumper selection of vegan lip choices, from sheer balms to liquid lipsticks and everything in between
Whether you’re five of fifty five, this lip balm has multiple cheering elements- from the coloured chrysanthemum locked within the bullet to the pH adaptive formula that changes colour according to your natural colouring (I find that these all tend to veer towards a rosy pink, but that’s by no means a bad thing), to the coconut scent, it’s the makeup equivalent of a smelly gel pen and seriously covetable.
Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick, £15.30
Onto something a lot more bold and vampy, trust tattoo artist Kat to come up with something opaque, non-transferable, long lasting and diverse in shade range- from dusty nudes to metallic bronze and even gothic grey, there’s an Everlasting lip for all. The thin applicator also removes the need for liner, and colour stays precise and even through a reasonable amount of coffee drinking, croissant eating and gabbing.
Illamasqua Lava Lips, £20
Continuing with the quirky lippie innovation theme, this satin-finish swirled piece of eye candy creates a bright, creamy purple or red toned lip look depending on the colourway you opt for, and whipping it out in the ladies is sure to spark interest.
Inika Lipstick, £18
Certified organic and vegan, Inika lipsticks are renowned for their moisturising capacity and practically edible credentials, along with a wearable peach, pink and cherry colour palette. If you’re after something for day to day wear that fulfils all ethical and environmental criteria you could imagine, Inika are it.
Collection Intense Shine Gel Lipstick, £4.99
A high street swipe of juicy vegan colour, this sheeny budget lipstick makes dodging animal derivatives while doing the weekly shop a breeze. It’s more of a balmy stain than a pigmented lipstick in terms of payoff, but at under a fiver I’ve got no complaints.
Axiology Lipstick, £29
An absence of animal byproducts shouldn’t equal a lack of chic- this gold encased, rich lipstick range delivers intense, beautiful colour in spades and makes lips look and feel plump and supple thanks to the addition of organic avocado oil and butter (double avo is always welcome), vitamin E and an abundance of nourishing plant extracts overall. A bullet of this is a treat, but it’s bang on.
Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer, £16
Everyone craves a slice of the Fenty pie at the minute, and for a vegan taste of Rihanna’s much-adored collection, this suits-all gloss ticks the box. If you remain obsessed with rose gold, want a bit of caramelly shimmer without the glitterball effect and basically lust after a nude lip with an edge, Bad Gal Riri went there.
3ina The Lip Oil Balm, £8
This slick tube of lip shine doesn’t quite know what it is, but that’s cool. Available in a traffic-light style lineup of sheer shades, it’s infused with shea butter and vitamin E for moisturising impact, and makes for an easy handbag staple if gloss is your thing but stickiness categorically is not. Perhaps due to the lack of ‘stick’, it does wear off fairly quickly, but you don’t need a mirror to apply it and it’s priced at pocket money baseline so I’ll forgive the slight longevity issue.
B. Lip & Cheek Tint, £6.99
Another subtle high street multitasker, the B range of makeup is cruelty-free, vegan and affordable across the board. Alongside the B. skincare line, it’s setting the bar for high quality yet thrifty and ethical cosmetics- many a budget brand would do well to follow in B.’s footsteps. This sheer wash of colour doesn’t stand out, but then that’s the idea. It’s a face-freshening perker-upper that adds a hint of warmth to lips and cheeks without shouting about it, and the slightly shiny finish is particularly appreciated during the dull winter months.
Urban Decay Metallized Vice Lipstick, £15.50
From subtle to saturated molten colour, the new metallic incarnations of Urban Decay’s already punchy Vice range can be edgy (forest green anyone?) or lustrous and jewel toned, but whichever way you spin it they’re not an au naturel pick in terms of aesthetic, which is quite refreshing in the sometimes ‘safe’ vegan market. They also last for hours without flaking and are loaded with plant butters and oils to keep lips smooth and non-chappy. All. bases. Covered.
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Nantwich had the better of their away draw at Didsbury in the Cheshire County League Premier Division - and then booked their place in the next round of the cup the following day.
The Dabbers headed to Didsbury and posted 223-9 from their 55 overs in the top-flight encounter.
Spencer Byatt fronted the innings with 55 not out, which contained two fours and two sixes, while Chris Simpson chipped in with 47 and Ollie Griffiths added 26.
Steve Green picked up 5-46 for Didsbury, while Nick Anderson grabbed a couple of wickets.
After tea, James Green compiled an unbeaten 52, with Anderson making 37.
There was also 24 apiece from Noah Croes and Marcus Fisher, but Didsbury were left on 178-8 at the close.
Griffiths picked up 5-29, with paceman Jimmy Warrington taking a couple of wickets.
On Sunday, Nantwich won by five wickets at Wallasey in their Cheshire Cup second-round tie.
Philip Stockton’s 4-32 - plus double strikes from Warrington, Griffiths and skipper Ray Doyle - left Wallasey all out for 134. Andrew Ward top-scored with 42.
Sumit Ruikar and Andrew Beaver both claimed doubles after tea, but Doyle’s 37 and Stockton’s unbeaten 27 ensured the Dabbers crossed the line.
HASLINGTON were beaten by four wickets at Mobberley in Cheshire County League Division Two.
Ben Istead (37) and Jack Taylor (21) made the most progress with the bat, but Haslington were dismissed for 120.
That was down to all-rounder Sam Gainsford, who picked up 6-34 - and he then fronted Mobberley’s successful run chase.
He struck 41 and with Osman Butt adding 29, the home side managed to knock off the runs.
Taylor claimed 3-35 for Haslington, while there were a couple of wickets for Daniel Goodier.
IN Cheshire County League Division One, Congleton were beaten at home by Grappenhall.
Tom Leese compiled 33 for Congleton, but Grappenhall’s attack shone to dismiss the home side for a below-par 108.
That target proved to be well within range for the visitors as they reached their target for the loss of seven wickets.
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Kevin Bertolero has a disdain for time.
"How many times do you look at a clock, or look at time, and are happy?" Bertolero said. "When was the last time you were like, 'Oh, sick, it's 10:30. Awesome.'"
That's one of the reasons the 30-year-old has been making watches that don't tell time. They're meant to be worn like a traditional watch, except you won't see a clock face when checking your wrist. Instead, you'll find a tiny 3D-printed pool with magnetic duckies and bubbles.
After leaving a stressful job at a plant-based yogurt startup, Bertolero wanted to engage with his "child self."
He was using all sorts of strategies to work through childhood trauma at the time.
"I think all of us are low-key traumatized — you can't not be living in modern society, to some degree," Bertolero said. He said when people's traumas flare up, they use shopping, socializing or community involvement to mitigate discomfort. Bertolero found another option: cute things.
The idea for watches that don't tell time came to him in a "state of semi-sleep"; a watch that's sleek like an Apple Watch, but fun and interactive like Legos.
Little rubber duckies popped into his mind as something indisputably cute. He knew he wanted to make them tiny, because "the tinier something is, the cuter it is. The more people love it."
Bertolero says the sensory aspect of being able to touch and move the ducks are similar to toys like fidget spinners or slime.
Bortelero said he's always been attracted to art, but has no formal training. He found ways to express himself creatively at his local makerspace, where he learned how to 3D print.
He used a friend's resin 3D printer to print a little pool for the ducks to sit in. He posted the process to TikTok and, to his surprise, the video went viral.
@watchesthatdonttelltime A tiny tiny pool for tiny tiny ducks.#duckling #tinythings #design #KeepItRealMeals #wearableart ♬ Pieces (Solo Piano Version) - Danilo Stankovic
A collaborative design process via TikTok excited Bertolero, and he ended up incorporating some of his follower's ideas.
Bertolero said he has sold over 300 watches that don't tell time, and is on track to sell 1,200 by the end of the year. They're available on Etsy and his website, watchesthatdonttelltime.com.
As far as Bertolero knows, there isn't a genre of watches like his — though there are some products on the market, including terrarium watches and a watch without a time-telling face.
"I created these watches because they made my inner child happy," Bertolero said. He thinks his watches evoke the same reaction in a lot of people.
Crystal Burwell, a licensed professional counselor who works with adults and teens, said reengaging with the inner child takes people back to a place where they can treat themselves with care, and that working through an issue therapeutically doesn't look the same for everyone.
She encourages her patients to embrace their "weird, customized happiness" with sensory toys like squishy stuffed animals. It can help people reconnect with that part of themselves they have disengaged with.
Toy designer Whitney Pollett said that there's a demand for simple, comforting toys. Objects that one interacts with tactilely and act as an emotional reminder.
Bertolero said: "I think basically, people are at their wits end."
"And you know, it's nice to have this little wrist reminder that there are cute and happy things around you in the world," he said.
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The new Disney princess gets violent in ‘The Princess’
Disney wants to show that princess movies have not gone out of style, at least if they are like the protagonist of The Princess, a combination of fantasy, action and martial arts about a woman willing to face anyone who gets in front of her. Therefore, the time has come for all those who wanted the princesses to be less Snow White and more Brave, to see the result in this film directed by Le-Van Kiet.
“It’s a metaphor for anyone who feels underestimated,” describes actress Joey King about her role in this amazing film released on Hulu and Disney+. The actress became known with the romantic comedy trilogy My First Kiss on Netflix.
Her co-star from The Princess, the Vietnamese actress Veronica Ngo, has come to sign, between jokes, that “I never saw a girl fight like that before”.
The factory responsible for immortalizing stories such as Snow White or Cinderella has turned its stories around with a film starring a princess who could well have come out of a Tarantino shoot or the John Wick saga. In The Princess, Joey King plays a young woman who refuses to marry Julius, the cruel and sociopathic man to whom she is engaged (played by Dominic Cooper), a rebellion for which the king decides to lock her up in the highest Rapunzel-style castle.
However, the second plot twist comes when the suitor, spiteful and furious at the princess’s rejection, launches an offensive to seize his father’s throne, something that only the protagonist can prevent. Even if he has to fight the whole court. In addition, throughout the plot there is a third character, that of Julius’s lover, played by Olga Kurylenko (Bond girl in Quantum of Solace, with Daniel Craig as 007)
RADICAL TURN
“When I read the script I knew it was different from anything I’d ever read,” says King of his character. And it is that, after years criticizing the stagnant story model in which a woman waits for her man to be rescued, Disney has made a move by offering a film that not only bets on the opposite, but also sweetens it with action shots and a bloodbath that very few will associate with its title.
The curious thing is that in its hour and a half of footage, you never get to hear the name of this particular princess, a detail that the actress in charge of bringing her to life says “she doesn’t need”. “She’s the princess and she’ll let you know,” King jokes.
The director of the film, Le-Van Kiet, explains more about this decision. “When we finished writing the film we tried to find a name, but we realized that we had invested so much in creating the unique aura that it has that we realized that no name would do it justice,” defends Kiet, known for shooting Furie (2019), the highest grossing film in the history of Vietnam.
The filmmaker insists he was inspired by other recent stories like Brave and Tangled, which were already changing the foundations of princess stories, but “I wanted to do something completely different.”
For this reason, The Princess stands out for long shots, choreographed fights, and impossible fights with weapons of all kinds, from hairpins and pearls to vegetables that prove to be more violent than one might think if they fall into the hands of a willing person. . The film was shot in Bulgaria last year in more than twenty sets inspired by medieval times.
“There is a point of absurdity and a point of exaggeration –defends the director–. (…) she has the necessary humor so that you don’t take her too seriously but at the same time you empathize with the character and have a good time”.
CAST
The film stars, in addition to Joey King, Dominic Cooper (Preacher), Olga Kurylenko (Black Widow) and Veronica Ngo (The Old Guard). The Princess is directed by Le-Van Kiet, written by Ben Lustig (The Thirst) and Jake Thornton (Final Fantasy), and produced by Neal H. Moritz (the Fast and Furious franchise), Toby Jaffe (Total Recall) and Derek Kolstad ( John Wick), with Joey King and Guy Riedel producing. | https://d1softballnews.com/the-new-disney-princess-gets-violent-in-the-princess/ | 2022-07-05T09:54:52Z | https://d1softballnews.com/the-new-disney-princess-gets-violent-in-the-princess/ | true | 2 |
On the heels of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, several big-name companies such as Microsoft, Nike and Tesla have announced that they plan to assist employees who live in places where abortion is restricted to travel out-of-state to undergo the procedure.
But how that might actually work and what pitfalls employers and employees might encounter remains to be seen.
"I think a lot of employers in reaction to the Dobbs decision are making these very public statements that they're going to offer abortion travel benefits," says Bethany Corbin, senior counsel at Nixon Gwilt Law, a firm that specializes in healthcare law.
"A lot of them have not operationalized that yet," Corbin says. "They're still working through how this actually works in practice."
Some employees may be able to go through a company's insurer
While it's still early, experts say a few potential options may soon take shape. If the company has an employer-funded medical plan, for example, abortion-related travel benefits could simply be folded into the coverage and administered through an existing plan.
"You go to your employer or the insurance company that they've retained and you say, 'I want to get an abortion.' And part of that involves travel to another state," says Robert Field, a professor of health management and policy at Drexel University.
The primary benefit of that approach is that "it really protects the privacy of the employee," Corbin says, adding that patient data under such a health plan is typically covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, a federal law aimed at preventing disclosure of sensitive patient health information.
Others might get directly reimbursed by an employer
Another option is to provide supplemental reimbursement for abortion-related travel, run through the employer instead of a company's insurer.
"If it's a low-paying job, presumably employers might have to give the money first because the patient couldn't pay for it on her own and then seek reimbursement and then wait six weeks for the reimbursement to come through," says Sharona Hoffman, a professor of law and bioethics at Case Western Reserve University.
"It might be cash advances of some sort. It could be transportation," she says.
Under this scenario, however, the employer would be collecting medical data from the employee. And that raises concerns.
"That data would not be covered by HIPAA," Corbin says. HIPAA provides for individual penalties of up to $50,000 for each unauthorized disclosure of private medical data. For example, then, an employee in a company's human resources department who willfully or negligently discloses that an employee is seeking an abortion would not be subject to legal penalties.
Then there's the potential chilling effect: If an employee acknowledges seeking an abortion, the company's knowledge of that could serve as "an underlying bias" when making personnel decisions, such as pay increases, promotions or whom to lay off, Corbin says.
Or they might go through an outside provider
Yet another model that could be used is for companies to contract with an outside provider, such as Planned Parenthood. That outside provider would then send an anonymous bill to employers for abortion services.
"It kind of adds in a little bit of separation between the employer and the medical services that are being provided," Corbin says.
One way to look at employers offering a travel benefit for abortion services is to view it in the context of other medical procedures, says Field.
"Some plans will fly people to the top medical provider, say, to the Mayo Clinic, to get specialized surgery," he notes. "You can analogize this to a regular medical procedure that requires travel to get to the appropriate provider."
Offering such services could be a recruiting advantage
Hoffman of Case Western Reserve University says that despite the initial cost of offering travel for an abortion, it could save employers money in the long run.
"It's certainly cheaper than having to pay for pregnancy care and for delivery of the child and then to support the child for 26 years," Hoffman says. "So employers might do a cost-benefit analysis and say if the woman really doesn't want to have a child, it's cheaper for us as well."
Offering travel for out-of-state abortion services could also prove to be a recruiting advantage in a tight jobs market, Field says.
"It's going to apply to younger workers," he says, noting they are "the kind of people that many companies want to have, and particularly the kind of people that high tech companies want to have."
But companies could also face a backlash
Even so, there are political sensitivities to wading into the abortion debate, experts agree.
"Not everyone who's a member of that workforce is going to have the same political beliefs," Corbin notes.
In a state such as Texas, where the law empowers citizens to file suit to prevent the "aiding and abetting" of an abortion after about the sixth week of pregnancy, any company that provides such services to employees working there could be legally exposed, she says.
An employee opposed to abortion might become a whistle blower who could then turn over to law enforcement information related to a company's policy on travel services for the procedure.
"That's going to be a real tough one for employers," Field says. We've already seen the flood of litigation from the Dobbs decision starting to flow in, and that's one of the major issues that's going to arise."
"It is a legal risk for companies," he says.
"A larger company has the advantage of having the resources for legal costs. A smaller company is going to find that more difficult."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.nhpr.org/2022-07-05/how-companies-offering-to-cover-travel-for-out-of-state-abortions-might-work | 2022-07-05T09:58:00Z | https://www.nhpr.org/2022-07-05/how-companies-offering-to-cover-travel-for-out-of-state-abortions-might-work | true | 12 |
Kevin Bertolero has a disdain for time.
"How many times do you look at a clock, or look at time, and are happy?" Bertolero said. "When was the last time you were like, 'Oh, sick, it's 10:30. Awesome.'"
That's one of the reasons the 30-year-old has been making watches that don't tell time. They're meant to be worn like a traditional watch, except you won't see a clock face when checking your wrist. Instead, you'll find a tiny 3D-printed pool with magnetic duckies and bubbles.
After leaving a stressful job at a plant-based yogurt startup, Bertolero wanted to engage with his "child self."
He was using all sorts of strategies to work through childhood trauma at the time.
"I think all of us are low-key traumatized — you can't not be living in modern society, to some degree," Bertolero said. He said when people's traumas flare up, they use shopping, socializing or community involvement to mitigate discomfort. Bertolero found another option: cute things.
The idea for watches that don't tell time came to him in a "state of semi-sleep"; a watch that's sleek like an Apple Watch, but fun and interactive like Legos.
Little rubber duckies popped into his mind as something indisputably cute. He knew he wanted to make them tiny, because "the tinier something is, the cuter it is. The more people love it."
Bertolero says the sensory aspect of being able to touch and move the ducks are similar to toys like fidget spinners or slime.
Bortelero said he's always been attracted to art, but has no formal training. He found ways to express himself creatively at his local makerspace, where he learned how to 3D print.
He used a friend's resin 3D printer to print a little pool for the ducks to sit in. He posted the process to TikTok and, to his surprise, the video went viral.
@watchesthatdonttelltime A tiny tiny pool for tiny tiny ducks.#duckling #tinythings #design #KeepItRealMeals #wearableart ♬ Pieces (Solo Piano Version) - Danilo Stankovic
A collaborative design process via TikTok excited Bertolero, and he ended up incorporating some of his follower's ideas.
Bertolero said he has sold over 300 watches that don't tell time, and is on track to sell 1,200 by the end of the year. They're available on Etsy and his website, watchesthatdonttelltime.com.
As far as Bertolero knows, there isn't a genre of watches like his — though there are some products on the market, including terrarium watches and a watch without a time-telling face.
"I created these watches because they made my inner child happy," Bertolero said. He thinks his watches evoke the same reaction in a lot of people.
Crystal Burwell, a licensed professional counselor who works with adults and teens, said reengaging with the inner child takes people back to a place where they can treat themselves with care, and that working through an issue therapeutically doesn't look the same for everyone.
She encourages her patients to embrace their "weird, customized happiness" with sensory toys like squishy stuffed animals. It can help people reconnect with that part of themselves they have disengaged with.
Toy designer Whitney Pollett said that there's a demand for simple, comforting toys. Objects that one interacts with tactilely and act as an emotional reminder.
Bertolero said: "I think basically, people are at their wits end."
"And you know, it's nice to have this little wrist reminder that there are cute and happy things around you in the world," he said.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.nhpr.org/2022-07-05/rubber-ducky-watches-that-dont-tell-time-clock-in-tiktok-views | 2022-07-05T09:58:30Z | https://www.nhpr.org/2022-07-05/rubber-ducky-watches-that-dont-tell-time-clock-in-tiktok-views | true | 12 |
The “combined effects of fentanyl and cocaine” reportedly led to the death of Baltimore Ravens linebacker Jaylon Ferguson.
The 6-foot-5, 270-pound pass-rusher’s death is being considered an accident by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore, the Baltimore Sun reported. Ferguson, 26, was found unresponsive in his Maryland home shortly before midnight on June 21.
The Ravens described the Louisiana Tech University collegiate standout as “a kind, respectful young man with a big smile and infectious personality” after his death. There were no signs of foul play, Baltimore cops told The News.
Ferguson was drafted by the Ravens with the 85th pick in the 2019 NFL Draft after he broke the Louisiana Tech record for all-time sacks. He leaves behind a son, two daughters and fiancée Doni Smith, according to the Baltimore Sun. Smith expressed her grief on Instagram after Ferguson’s death.
“You really left me in this world alone baby. I’m broken,” she wrote. “I’m hurt. I want you back!!”
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Judging by some recent comments, Danny Murphy is underwhelmed by Christian Eriksen’s impending arrival at Manchester United.
The 30-year-old Denmark international returned to English football six months ago and found a temporary home with Brentford.
Despite enjoying an impressive short-term loan, this summer was always likely to see the experienced playmaker wanted by other clubs.
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Erik ten Hag’s Red Devils appear to have beaten the chasing pack and pending a few details, look set to unveil the former Spurs midfielder in the next few days.
Erik ten Hag wants Manchester United to be fast on Lisandro Martinez deal. The player is pushing to leave Ajax, he’s been very clear – ten Hag wants Lisandro after Malacia and Eriksen. ? #MUFC
Arsenal are still there, working on Lisandro deal – ten Hag wants him strongly.
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 4, 2022
However, although Eriksen will become the club’s first big-name summer signing, Murphy has questioned the importance of the role the Dane will play.
“I really like Eriksen, I’ve always admired him in terms of his creativity and the way he plays,” the former Liverpool midfielder told TalkSPORT.
“He’s free with his football, he tries things, good at set-plays and both feet. Would it excite me if I was a United fan? He’s going to be a squad player, isn’t he? He’s not going to play instead of [Bruno] Fernandes.”
Eriksen or Fernandes?
Although fans won’t like hearing Murphy’s assessment, it is hard to disagree. Fernandes has remained a mainstay in United’s team since his arrival from Sporting Lisbon just over two years ago.
Despite not putting in his best campaign last season, it is unlikely that ten Hag will give up on the Portugal international straight away and that could see Eriksen resigned to a substitute’s role.
Regardless though, the fact the Red Devils now have two of the world’s best and most creative central attackers will come as a major boost as the Premier League’s fallen giants look to return to the top of the table.
How well do you think Eriksen will do at Old Trafford? – Let us know in the comments. | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/07/05/danny-murphy-thinks-christian-eriksen-will-play-second-fiddle-to-current-star/ | 2022-07-05T10:03:38Z | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/07/05/danny-murphy-thinks-christian-eriksen-will-play-second-fiddle-to-current-star/ | true | 1 |
NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of CareDx, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNA) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased CareDx common stock between February 24, 2021, and May 5, 2022.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 22, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in CDNA:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that CareDx, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants had engaged in a variety of improper and illegal schemes to inflate testing services revenue and demand, including pushing a surveillance protocol through inaccurate marketing materials, offering extravagant inducements or kickbacks to physicians and other providers, and improperly bundling expensive testing services with other blood tests as part of the Company's RemoTraC service for remote, home-based, blood-drawing; (2) these practices, and others, subjected CareDx to an undisclosed risk of regulatory scrutiny; (3) these practices rendered the Company's testing services revenue reported throughout the class period artificially inflated; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in CareDx you have until July 22, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased CareDx securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the CDNA lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/caredx-inc-loss-submission-form?id=29464&from=4.
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Your iPhone has a HIDDEN list that will really creep you out – how to find out
YOUR iPhone has a hidden list of apps that are tracking you.
The creepy page shows apps that can follow your activity on the web.
Every app on your iPhone can give you a unique advertising ID.
This lets the app follow you across the internet, including your movements in other apps.
The idea is that by following your online movements, apps can give you more relevant ads.
But it means you're giving up privacy – especially if every app is tracking you.
Apple has already rolled out a feature for the Safari web browser that stops websites doing this.
But you need to check your hidden iPhone list now to uncover any apps that might be following you.
"Apps that have asked for permission to track your activity with an identifier will appear here,"
"Tracking activity is blocked by apps you've denied access to."
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How to turn off ad-tracking on iPhone
The new system is very simple.
When you load up an app for the first time after the update, you’ll see a pop-up.
This notification will appear if the app you’re using wants to track your activity across other apps and websites.
In the pop-up, the app-maker has a chance to explain why it wants to track you.
And then you can either allow the tracking, or ask the app not to virtually follow you around.
If you change your mind later on, you can edit your choice.
Simply go into your iPhone settings, then tap Privacy and then choose Tracking at the top.
You'll find a huge list of apps that you can allow or disallow tracking for.
And you can even turn off the ability for all apps to request to track, effectively blocking them all from following you.
It means a major advertiser like Facebook will no longer be able to “virtually” follow you around the web, to build up a picture of your lifestyle, spending habits and more.
“We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how it’s used,” said Apple chief Tim Cook in a tweet late last year.
“Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before.
“App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 will just require that they ask for your permission first.”
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Inotiv, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOTV) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: September 21, 2021 to June 13, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 22, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in NOTV:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Inotiv, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Inotiv's acquisition, Envigo RMS, LL ("Envigo"), and Inotiv's Cumberland, Virginia facility (the "Cumberland Facility") engaged in widespread and flagrant violations of the Animal Welfare Act ("AWA"); (2) Envigo and Inotiv's Cumberland Facility continuously violated the AWA; (3) Envigo and Inotiv did not properly remedy issues with regards to animal welfare at the Cumberland Facility; (4) as a result, Inotiv was likely to face increased scrutiny and governmental action; (5) Inotiv would imminently shut down two facilities, including the Cumberland Facility; (6) Inotiv did not engage in proper due diligence; and (7) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Inotiv you have until August 22, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Inotiv securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the NOTV lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/inotiv-notv-lawsuit-loss-submission-form?id=29476&from=4.
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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BRUSSELS — The 30 NATO allies are set to sign off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals.
The move will further increase Russia's strategic isolation in the wake of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February and military struggles there since.
The 30 ambassadors and permanent representatives are to formally approve the decisions of last week's NATO summit when the alliance made the historic decision to invite Russia's neighbor Finland and Scandinavian partner Sweden to join the military club.
Despite the agreement in the alliance, parliamentary approval in member state Turkey could still pose problems for their final inclusion as members.
Last week, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Ankara could still block the process if the two countries fail to fully meet Turkey's demand to extradite terror suspects with links to outlawed Kurdish groups or the network of an exiled cleric accused of a failed 2016 coup in Turkey.
He said Turkey's Parliament could refuse to ratify the deal. It is a potent threat since NATO accession must be formally approved by all 30 member states, which gives each a blocking right.
Tuesday's expected signing-off does bring both nations deeper into NATO's fold already. As close partners, they already attended some meetings that involved issues that immediately affected them. As official invitees, they can attend all meetings of the ambassadors even if they do not yet have any voting rights.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kpcw.org/npr-news/2022-07-05/nato-poised-to-sign-accession-protocols-for-sweden-finland | 2022-07-05T10:12:54Z | https://www.kpcw.org/npr-news/2022-07-05/nato-poised-to-sign-accession-protocols-for-sweden-finland | true | 11 |
Turkish-Russian military officials discuss food corridor in Black Sea
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Turkish and Ukrainian military officials had a meeting in Ankara on July 4 to discuss the shipment of grain exports from Ukraine, the daily Hürriyet reported.
The officials exchanged views on bilateral and regional defense and security issues at the meeting held at the Defense Ministry.
The opening of a “grain corridor” in the Black Sea, the evacuation of two A-400 M type heavy transport aircraft of the Turkish Air Force waiting in Kiev, and claims that Russia attempts to transport the grain allegedly usurped from Ukraine to the world markets via Türkiye were on the agenda, the daily reported.
Turkish and Russian military delegations met in Moscow last month as part of the efforts carried out for the exit of grain-laden ships from Ukraine.
Türkiye, Russia, Ukraine and the U.N. have been in talks about making a food corridor from Ukraine to the world markets. Following the Turkish-Russian talks, a Turkish commercial vessel departed from the Mariupol port of Ukraine, which is now under Russian occupation.
Elaborating on the allegations regarding stolen grains from Ukraine, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu earlier said Türkiye investigated these claims and found out that all mentioned products that allegedly arrived in Türkiye were products labeled by Russia.
Türkiye’s two military cargo aircraft were stranded in Kiev on the day the war erupted between Russia and Ukraine. Ankara has been discussing the safe return of the aircraft with both Russian and Ukrainian officials. | https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-russian-military-officials-discuss-food-corridor-in-black-sea-175112 | 2022-07-05T10:13:02Z | https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-russian-military-officials-discuss-food-corridor-in-black-sea-175112 | true | 1 |
In this age of inflation, when people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don't need to blink about rising costs, a new book about a Minnesota oilman and his dynasty seems timely. In his day, J. Paul Getty was known as "the richest man in America."
His father struck oil in 1903. J. Paul made his first million at age 23, and turned oil into gold by the billions. James Reginato's book, Growing Up Getty, is an exhaustive account of how the rich are different from you and me.
The book reveals that the Gettys were different from some of the dreadful rich families in movies and on television: the Guccis in House of Gucci, for example, or the oil-rich Texas Carringtons in Dynasty.
Biographer Reginato says he really doesn't "see any scoundrels" in the Getty family. They're close-knit, keep in touch and have regular family gatherings. It sounds as if they won't get their own TV series, although there are enough of them to fill various screens for several seasons. J. Paul Getty had five wives, five sons, loads of lovers, 19 grandchildren (one an in-law of Elizabeth Taylor) and 47 great grandchildren. Today, there are 57 living Gettys on four continents — and you can bet not a one of them needs to worry about college tuition.
Clearly, the patriarch was a great businessman, buying up smaller companies — and big ones too, like Standard Oil — and making them part of the Getty Oil portfolio. J. Paul had "good instincts, but also followed science," Reginato says. "He got the best geologists he could find, made educated decisions ... and a lot of old-time oilmen sneered at the idea that 'some damn bookworm could tell them where to drill for oil'."
As for his personality, J. (it stands for Jean) Paul was always described as cold, mean, a tightwad and a skinflint. "He was cheap. That was true," Reginato says. But he was more: "He was quite charming and funny." (You wouldn't know it from his photographs. He looks as if it hurts him to smile.)
Reginato says Getty was quite sophisticated. He loved art, travel and learning new things; he even mastered Arabic to do business in the Middle East. It sounds as if you'd like him for a dinner partner. But in a BBC documentary, Getty said, "I always wish that I had a better personality, could entertain people better, was a better conversationalist; always worry I might be a little on the dull side as a companion."
Reginato writes that the driven oilman was not a great father — he was always away on business — but he was a doting grandfather. Here's a 1966 entry from one of the diaries he kept all his life:
Ronnie, Karen and baby Chris here. A fine little fellow. Chris plays with the puppies Sugar and Spice. Valuation of Getty Oil is 2 billion 7 million dollars net. I have 79% of it.
That seems the essence of J. Paul Getty. A charmed life, touched by tragedy — a 16-year-old grandson kidnapped, eldest son dead at 49 from drug complications, other deaths, other drugs. But, there were many golden years of success and achievement, and pleasure from progeny's progeny. Plus, that grand diary finale — what he was worth!
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kvnf.org/2022-07-05/a-billion-here-a-billion-there-a-new-book-tells-the-story-of-j-paul-getty | 2022-07-05T10:13:38Z | https://www.kvnf.org/2022-07-05/a-billion-here-a-billion-there-a-new-book-tells-the-story-of-j-paul-getty | true | 14 |
Chelsea 'hold an interest in Bayern Munich defender Benjamin Pavard... but face competition from Juventus and Atletico Madrid' to sign the France World Cup winner
- Benjamin Pavard could be heading out of Bayern Munich this summer
- Chelsea reportedly hold an interest alongside Juventus and Atletico Madrid
- Pavard has won three Bundesliga titles and the Champions League with Bayern
Chelsea are one of a number of European heavyweights interested in signing Benjamin Pavard from Bayern Munich in the summer transfer window.
According to Sky Sports Germany - and reported by Get French Football News - Pavard is wanted by Thomas Tuchel as well as Atletico Madrid and Juventus.
France international Pavard, 26, predominantly plays at right-back but his versatility has seen him fill in across the back line for Bayern in recent seasons.
Benjamin Pavard has a host of European heavyweights interested in signing him
The France international is reportedly wanted by Chelsea, Atletico Madrid and Juventus
Pavard made 35 appearances for Bayern in all competitions last season and has been playing for the German giants since 2019, when he joined from Stuttgart in a £30m deal.
For Chelsea, defensive reinforcements are crucial this summer after losing Andreas Christensen to Barcelona and Antonio Rudiger to Real Madrid, both on free transfers.
Barcelona also hold an interest in Cesar Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso - it is not beyond the realms of possibility that there are more outgoings at Stamford Bridge before the window shuts.
Pavard (second left) has won three Bundesligas and the 2020 Champions League at Bayern
Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel needs defensive reinforcements in the summer transfer window
With the backing of new owner Todd Boehly, Tuchel is expected to have cash to spend this summer and Raheem Sterling at Manchester City is a key target.
But Pavard would be an astute addition to the defensive ranks. He has 45 caps for France and was part of their World Cup winning squad in 2018.
He has also won three Bundesliga titles with Bayern and the Champions League in 2020. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10983069/Chelsea-hold-Bayern-Munich-defender-Benjamin-Pavard.html | 2022-07-05T10:17:09Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10983069/Chelsea-hold-Bayern-Munich-defender-Benjamin-Pavard.html | false | 2 |
NASHVILLE — At a recent gathering of thousands of religious conservative activists held by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, one thing immediately stood out: the crowd isn't as white as it used to be.
That's not an accident, according to founder Ralph Reed.
"Our goal is, over the coming decades, to build a genuinely multiracial, multiethnic, faith-based movement that changes the demographic location of our movement," Reed said during a lunch roundtable with a handful of reporters.
Attendees listened to Christian worship music — at times sung in Spanish — and attended sessions on how to turn out the vote in this year's midterms. The message, and the movement, is resonating with Black pastors like W.J. Coleman from Lewisville, Miss.
"Many realize they are conservative, but the word 'conservative' and 'Republican' have been made an evil word," he told NPR. "But if you take that out of the equation, many more minorities would find themselves being that."
Social conservatism is having a moment
The Supreme Court is handing down recent decisions in their favor — against abortion rights and in favor of public prayer — and the Republican Party's rising stars, like Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, are eagerly taking on the progressive politics of corporate America.
Reed has been an activist in evangelical GOP politics for three decades. He runs the Faith and Freedom Coalition now, but he is best known for starting the Christian Coalition back in the early 1990s. He has been a controversial figure at times. In the mid 2000s, he got caught up in the Washington scandals involving disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, but Reed was never charged with any wrongdoing.
He found his way back to national prominence after he embraced Donald Trump in 2016 and helped turn out the white evangelical vote in his favor.
Reed's stock is once again on the rise as Republicans see a red wave coming in the fight for control of Congress this November. "We are focused like a laser beam at turning out the largest faith-based evangelical and pro-life vote that we've seen in a midterm elections in our lifetimes," Reed said.
He noted that when he started the Christian Coalition, the outfit built a database of 8 million voters. Today, Reed's database measures at 46 million voters. "We will knock on more doors, touch more voters at the door, not only than we have ever touched in the history of the organization, but than I believe have been touched by any outside organization on the center right in my career," he said.
If Reed sounds optimistic, he has reason to be.
His organization has become a touchstone for any Republican candidate seriously considering a run for president. Trump spoke at his Nashville gathering last month. Plus, the decisive sway of evangelical voters in primary politics has ambitious politicians making moves to win them over.
Florida's fight with Disney was a 'watershed moment'
One of those presidential hopefuls, Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, recently went after the Walt Disney corporation's special tax status in his state after the company opposed a new state law prohibiting educators from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity with children before the 4th grade. Reed said that was "a watershed moment" for the conservative movement.
"For that to not only happen, but for it to happen like that, and for DeSantis to do it and not only pay no political price, but I would argue become a political beneficiary, and then for Disney to basically go radio silent and just take it, was unbelievable," he said.
The Disney fight has emboldened activists to more aggressively take on institutions that have been their traditional political allies. Disney did not respond to a request for comment.
"If the Disneys and the Deltas and the Coca-Colas of the world are not careful, they're going to take the best friend they've ever had when it came to economic policy and regulation — and policies that would benefit their ability to grow their companies — and turn them into adversaries," he said.
Reed sees culture war issues as a draw for nonwhite voters
Reed sees issues involving sex and gender and parental rights as a new avenue for the Republican Party to make inroads with Black and Latino voters who attend church at higher rates than White voters do, according to the Pew Research Center.
"They really, really play and resonate powerfully in these minority communities," he said. "Not among everybody, but it would be a minimum of 25% in the black community, and it would probably be a minimum 30% in the Hispanic community."
Reed spoke to reporters days before the Supreme Court handed down the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, though the outcome was expected after the draft opinion was leaked. He did not think that abortion would be a major issue come November, noting historically only about 5% of voters list abortion as their number one reason for voting.
"I think this election is going to be about what we all know it's going to be about, which is the economy, inflation and high prices," he said.
The impact, come November, could be a Republican controlled Congress emboldened to advance a more socially conservative agenda.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wvxu.org/news-from-npr/2022-07-05/this-conservative-leader-is-trying-to-make-white-evangelical-politics-less-white | 2022-07-05T10:19:45Z | https://www.wvxu.org/news-from-npr/2022-07-05/this-conservative-leader-is-trying-to-make-white-evangelical-politics-less-white | false | 22 |
X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:XFOR) went up by 7.77% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $6.68. The company’s stock price has collected -2.80% of loss in the last five trading sessions.
Is It Worth Investing in X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ :XFOR) Right Now?
Plus, the 36-month beta value for XFOR is at 0.67. Opinions of the stock are interesting as 7 analysts out of 7 who provided ratings for X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc. declared the stock was a “buy,” while 0 rated the stock as “overweight,” 0 rated it as “hold,” and 0 as “sell.”
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The average price from analysts is $9.25, which is $8.21 above the current price. XFOR currently public float of 30.05M and currently shorts hold a 2.19% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of XFOR was 164.90K shares.
XFOR’s Market Performance
XFOR stocks went down by -2.80% for the week, with a monthly drop of -16.13% and a quarterly performance of -40.57%, while its annual performance rate touched -83.88%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 17.22% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 11.90% for X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is -6.75% for XFOR stocks with a simple moving average of -60.75% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of XFOR
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for XFOR stocks, with Oppenheimer repeating the rating for XFOR by listing it as a “Outperform.” The predicted price for XFOR in the upcoming period, according to Oppenheimer is $20 based on the research report published on December 23rd of the previous year 2019.
ROTH Capital, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see XFOR reach a price target of $20. The rating they have provided for XFOR stocks is “Buy” according to the report published on December 18th, 2019.
Citigroup gave a rating of “Buy” to XFOR, setting the target price at $20 in the report published on December 09th of the previous year.
XFOR Trading at -11.60% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought XFOR to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -84.43% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 11.90%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 17.22%, as shares sank -14.75% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -27.27% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, XFOR fell by -2.80%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -78.33% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $1.1063. In addition, X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc. saw -54.59% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at XFOR starting from Ragan Paula, who sale 6,292 shares at the price of $1.21 back on Jun 03. After this action, Ragan Paula now owns 661,806 shares of X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc., valued at $7,613 using the latest closing price.
Ragan Paula, the President and CEO of X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc., sale 13,448 shares at $5.10 during a trade that took place back on Aug 17, which means that Ragan Paula is holding 469,004 shares at $68,585 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for XFOR
Equity return is now at value -147.00, with -83.50 for asset returns. | https://newsheater.com/2022/07/05/is-a-correction-looming-ahead-for-x4-pharmaceuticals-inc-xfor/ | 2022-07-05T10:25:48Z | https://newsheater.com/2022/07/05/is-a-correction-looming-ahead-for-x4-pharmaceuticals-inc-xfor/ | true | 17415 |
NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: November 3, 2021 to May 3, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 15, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in TUP:
https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/tupperware-brands-corporation-loss-submission-form-2?id=29473&from=4
CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Tupperware Brands Corporation made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Tupperware was facing significant challenges in maintaining its earnings and sales performance; (ii) accordingly, Tupperware's full-year 2022 guidance was unrealistic and/or unsustainable; (iii) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Tupperware's financial condition; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Tupperware you have until August 15, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Tupperware securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the TUP lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/tupperware-brands-corporation-loss-submission-form-2?id=29473&from=4.
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
J. Klein, Esq.
Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue
59th Floor
New York, NY 10118
jk@kleinstocklaw.com
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NAPLES, Fla., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vernon Litigation Group, based in Naples, Florida is representing investors with holdings in GWG Bonds sold by Emerson Equity.
GWG issued billions in high yield bonds sold through 145 independent broker-dealers. In January, GWG announced that it was pausing income payments to bond holders and freezing redemptions. In April, GWG Holdings filed for bankruptcy protection leaving its bondholders with little hope. Since 2015, GWG was funding cash flow needs by issuing new debt. Brokerage firms such as Corinthian Partners, and others, should have known that this investment was doomed to fail and stopped selling GWG bonds.
NASD Notice to Members 04-30 governs the sale of bonds and bond funds such as GWG's Bonds. FINRA members are obligated to conduct the following steps when selling such bonds to investors:
Understanding the terms, conditions, risks, and rewards of bonds and bond funds they sell (performing a reasonable-basis suitability analysis);
Making certain that a particular bond or bond fund is appropriate for a particular customer before recommending it to that customer (performing a customer-specific suitability analysis);
Providing a balanced disclosure of the risks, costs, and rewards associated with a particular bond or bond fund, especially when selling to retail investors;
Adequately training and supervising employees who sell bonds and bond funds;
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Häagen-Dazs amps up the humble ice-cream van with celebrity DJs
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AMSTERDAM, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new strategic partnership between Trip.com Group, global travel service provider, and Tiqets, the leading online booking platform for cultural and leisure experiences, will provide Trip.com and Ctrip users with access to the best experiences at over 4,000 museums & attractions around the world.
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- Through the new Tiqets integration, users of Trip.com Group's travel platforms (including Ctrip & Trip.com) will be able to book thousands of experiences at museums and attractions worldwide
- The new partnership will capitalise on the growing demand to visit museums and attractions. Data shows that, in the last year, Tiqets' bookings have soared by 364% in the UK, and 450% across the EU
The new partnership will enable users of Trip.com Group's travel platforms – including Trip.com, Ctrip and partner channels – to book a broad range of travel experiences embedded directly in the Trip.com Group's sites. The partnership follows on from similar deals Tiqets has struck with the likes of Apple Maps and Makemytrip.
Both Trip.com Group and Tiqets are committed to providing travellers with unforgettable experiences at the best museums and attractions across the UK, Europe, the US and the Middle East. Through this new partnership, Ctrip and Trip.com customers will get instant access to Tiqets' extensive product inventory of tours, passes and tickets to over 4,000 of the best museums and attractions in Europe and around the world. Customers will also enjoy a seamless online booking experience, have access to 'skip-the-line' ticket options, and get flexible cancellation options on all bookings.
Chang Liu, General Manager of Attractions International Business, Trip.com Group, said: "We are pleased to partner with Tiqets to provide our users seamless access to more attractions and activities offerings globally. Tiqets' venue partners, now featuring on our Trip.com and Ctrip booking platforms, benefit from high visibility in both global and regional markets, with real-time accurate content, last-minute availability and direct-booking options in local languages and currencies."
With the easing of worldwide travel restrictions and the return of city breaks, the expanded offering comes at a perfect time for travellers to take advantage of the new partnership to explore the world's cultural hotspots. New data shows Tiqets' museum and attraction bookings across the UK and the EU have soared by an average of 400% (when comparing Q2 2022 with Q2 2021). In the last quarter alone (from Q1 to Q2 2022), museum and attraction bookings have leapt by 240% in the UK and 200% in the EU.
Tiqets President & Founder Luuc Elzinga said: "Our mission is to make culture more accessible to people across the globe, so we're thrilled to be partnering up with Trip.com Group to further that mission. Thanks to our new partnership, Trip.com and Ctrip users will be able to easily book the best experiences at iconic museums and attractions. We're excited to bring more ways to enjoy cultural attractions to even more people seeking out these unique experiences."
The partnership aligns with the Trip.com Group strategy to significantly enhance the availability of travel options for customers across its suite of travel platforms, and with Tiqets' mission to make culture more accessible to people all over the world.
About Trip.com Group
Trip.com Group is a leading global travel service provider comprising of Trip.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, and Qunar. Across its platforms, Trip.com Group helps travellers around the world make informed and cost-effective bookings for travel products and services and enables partners to connect their offerings with users through the aggregation of comprehensive travel-related content and resources, and an advanced transaction platform consisting of apps, websites and 24/7 customer service centers. Founded in 1999 and listed on NASDAQ in 2003 and HKEX in 2021, Trip.com Group has become one of the best-known travel groups in the world, with the mission "to pursue the perfect trip for a better world". Find out more about Trip.com Group here: group.trip.com
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Tiqets' mission is to make culture more accessible by making it easier for more people to discover more ways to culture. From the start in 2014, the company has connected millions of people to the best cultural and leisure experiences in the world. Tiqets connects travelers to the best museums, attractions & tour operators all over the world.
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BEIJING, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI, an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, announced on Jul. 5 the latest released interactive drama series The Lord of Losers had achieved high audience participation rate. From interactive dramas to participatory variety shows and XR concerts, iQIYI continues to push the boundary of participation with rich choices of plots and immersive settings.
It further demonstrates iQIYI's commitment to employing ever-evolving technology to enhance user experience and forge greater connection between the audience and the content.
Wider choices and more immersive experience
Released on Jun. 18 under iQIYI's LAUGN ON Theatre, The Lord of Losers is a sitcom featuring the office life of young professionals. In the interactive fifth episode "Virtual Partner," audience are invited to help make choices for the leading character as he experiences the company of the virtual character during the epidemic.
Viewers can choose the clothes for the virtual character as well as decide a major storyline. The episode has 15 optional settings with 22 achievements for the audience to accomplish in total. In addition to a wider variety of choices than existing interactive dramas, the episode has equipped each different possible ending with a unique theme song in an attempt to present more complete and immersive storytelling.
The innovative features resulted in 93% audience participation rate and an average user viewing time of over 30 minutes.
The Lord of Losers marks iQIYI's latest interactive drama series with ever-evolving features, after the likes of the first interactive drama series in the industry titled His Smile in 2019, and the widely anticipated title iPartment Season 5 in 2020.
Laying the foundation with technology
In May 2019, iQIYI introduced the Interactive Video Guideline (IVG), the world's first such framework, and Interactive Video Platform (IVP), to help content creators develop high-quality interactive entertainment experiences more conveniently and efficiently, from concept development to plot-setting.
"The guideline not only lays a good foundation for the industry, but also reduces iQIYI's cost of configuring interactive content across its ever-expanding array of content," said a representative of Interactive Content at IQIYI.
"With growing cases and experience, the content team will be able to transplant existing settings to emerging content and employ IVP with less support from technical teams," said the representative, adding some of the interactive capabilities from The Lord of Losers have been reused in the trailer for The Detectives' Adventures 2.
In addition to dramas, iQIYI has applied interactive functions to different areas, including variety shows and XR concerts. The variety show Game of Shark introduced the Shark Mode, allowing users to directly take on the identity of a character and join their favorite celebrities in collecting hidden clues and identifying the murderer. Meanwhile, iQIYI launched in March 2021 its THE9 "X-City" extended reality (XR) concert. Backed by its cutting-edge XR technologies and interactive video technology, the concert brought to life the high level of immersion and real-time interaction between THE9 and their fans.
ZHENG Xiaoyi, Vice President of iQIYI, emphasized the vital role interactive features play in offering enhanced user experience and building a well-connected community. "iQIYI will continue to develop IP content as a core business strategy, to create a fully immersive interactive experience with technology, to build stronger bond with audience with digital assets, and to build a new social universe based on users' interests."
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My neighbour insists on mowing my garden every few days and won’t stop – it’s creepy
A MAN has told how his needy neighbor insists on mowing his grass every few days and wants to hang out ALL the time.
Despite potentially sounding like the perfect resident, the overbearing local has really ruffled the homeowner's feathers.
The man explained he and his girlfriend had purchased their dream vacation home a year ago, before he became a "prisoner on my property".
In a Reddit post detailing his frustrations, he told how one of the most alluring attractions of the pad was that there were no neighbors closer than 100 meters.
The seller of the holiday home then informed the couple he had an arrangement with one of the locals to mow his lawn.
Despite being puzzled by the importance of the gardening contract and keen to take care of it himself, the new owner got in touch with the green-fingered bloke.
He wrote: "The seller insisted so I called the neighbor and my girlfriend and me went to his place.
"We had a couple of drinks and I kept asking him how much should I pay him to mow my lawn - at least that he has his expenses covered.
"He did not want to tell me and said that we will discuss this some other time."
After failing to discuss the terms of the bargain, the man decided to trim his own lawn with his own device.
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However, his incentive to tend to his own garden didn't go down well with the resident, who "insisted" he should borrow his mower instead.
Although he explained he preferred his own cutter, the overbearing neighbor bizarrely began trimming the couple's grass every three days.
The man said he is then bombarded with messages from the bothersome bloke, boasting "how gorgeous" his lawn then looks.
The homeowner added: "When we come to our place we drive on the street along his house.
"He has CCTV installed and every time when we drive by and do not stop at his place he sends me message on cell phone why we did not come over and that it is usual for people to meet each other often."
He explained to the nuisance neighbor that he and his girlfriend only visit their vacation home for "one day only" and that they don't have time to meet due to their busy jobs.
The Redditor also told him to leave the lawn alone - but the resident insisted he would take his mower to it again in a couple of days.
The post continued: "He also bought a new lawn mower just for mowing my grass since he does not have much land to use it because it is too big for his area.
"I do not know what his intentions are? Maybe he just tries to be nice? I can not understand why my lawn bothers him so much - he is more than 100 meters away and he does not see my property.
"It would be fine to me if he just told me how much to pay for his mowing with no strings attached.
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"Is behavior like this normal in rural communities? We come from the city and maybe we are just not used to it."
Some social media users were sympathetic towards the irritating gardening fanatic, suggesting he was simply "lonely".
One wrote: "He is retired and bored. LOL. Needs something to do and is likely lonely.
"Just let him mow your lawn. He seems to enjoy doing it and probably gives him a sense of accomplishment when he is finished."
Another added: "He is lonely. Have you ever seen any family or friends visiting him? Any wife? It gets lonely out in the country."
But others were more suspicious of his questionable intentions and oblivious attitude to the homeowner's complaints.
One Redditor commented: "Let him also know that you enjoy cutting your own yard. He is really trying to guilt trip you by saying he purchased the lawn mower."
And another chimed in: "Get a fence surrounding your entire property with a gate and lock him out."
While a third said: "You're going to have to set boundaries as kindly as you can. Don't cave if he won't take no for an answer."
The poster then revealed the pesky resident revealed he would charge $300 per year to mow his lawn - and has now even asked to put FISH in the homeowner's pond.
We previously told how another creepy neighbour put a camera on his fence so that he could spy on a family in their own garden.
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A NEW council-backed tourism body is expected to be launched by spring next year despite uncertainty continuing to surround what its functions would be.
A meeting of local authority leaders in North Yorkshire and York heard council officers’ discussions with tourism firms from across the region were set to conclude later this month, the outcomes of which would shape what type of organisation could be developed and its funding structure.
The meeting was told the development of a proposal for a replacement organisation to Welcome to Yorkshire remained at a very early stage, four months after it was placed in administration following years of financial and reputational issues.
While some council leaders say the collapse of Welcome to Yorkshire has seen the loss of potential significant interventions in the tourism economy this year, some councils have used their own staff to take on tasks previously undertaken by the tourism body.
The meeting heard it remained far from clear what type of publicly-backed tourism organisation was wanted across York and North Yorkshire, let alone Yorkshire as a whole, with different areas seeking a body with different functions.
Complications in deciding the way forward, the meeting heard, included agreeing potential deals with Wensleydale entrepreneur Robin Scott’s Silicone Dales, who bought Welcome to Yorkshire’s assets, including the rights to the Tour de Yorkshire, in April.
North Yorkshire County Council chief executive Richard Flinton said following further discussions between the council and the tourism sector a decision on the new organisation’s structure was scheduled to made before Christmas in the hope that the new tourism body could be launched by April next year.
He described the timescale as being “tight and ambitious”.
The region’s official tourism agency was placed into administration at the start of March after council leaders pulled the plug on public funding after years of reputational and financial problems.
Mr Flinton said while Welcome to Yorkshire’s assets had not been bought by a local government body, there was still “a lot of appetite” amongst councils for a body established to protect tourism, promote the brand of Yorkshire and pick up some of Welcome to Yorkshire’s work.
However, council chiefs for York and Harrogate highlighted their areas already had well-established tourism marketing and management services and was looking for a strategic regional body to support.
Harrogate council chief executive Wallace Sampson told the meeting it was important that organisations such Destination Harrogate did not lose their identity.
He said: “What we’d be keen to see is some integration with a region-wide body. We feel there are some strong benefits to marketing Yorkshire region as a whole because it has a strong brand. ”
After the meeting, North Yorkshire County Council leader Councillor Carl Les said: “What we’re looking at as leaders is more about destination management, not just destination marketing.
“It was always thought to have the proper conversations with people in the industry and the councils that it would take until the autumn before an option could be put before the leaders.”
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WWE superstar Gigi Dolin felt ‘terrified and heartbroken’ as she witnessed the ‘panic’ and confusion at the Lake Eola Fourth of July event.
The 25-year-old wrestler – who is one half of the NXT Tag Team Champions alongside Toxic Attraction teammate Jacy Jayne – attended the Fireworks at the Fountain event with her younger brother.
However, hundreds of people were seen fleeing the area, with the Orlando Police Department noting that ‘a noise during the fireworks show’ may have left some spectators confused.
Gigi tweeted: ‘Took my little brother to Lake Eola for fireworks tonight only to be terrified and heartbroken by panic and fleeing.
‘This is not freedom. My heart goes out to everyone involved in the traumatic events today.’
The Fourth of July confusion comes after a number of mass shootings in the United States, while six people died in a shooting at Highland Park – a suburb of Chicago, Illinois – on Monday night.
It’s said a number of people fled during the Lake Eola event, but the Orlando Police Department tweeted a statement reassuring the public that there was ‘no evidence of a shooting in the area’.
They said: ‘To our community members now in Downtown Orlando, please know that there is NO evidence of a shooting in the area. Our officers are now working to secure the area. There is NO public safety hazard at this time.’
In a second tweet, the authorities added: ‘At this time, it appears that a noise during the fireworks show confused some spectators, causing the reaction. No serious injuries have been reported. Only minor injuries suffered by some spectators who fell during the commotion.’
Fans responded to Gigi’s post with messages of support after the scary experience.
‘Please be safe out there,’ urged one follower, while another added: ‘Jesus, I’m glad you’re both safe’.
A different fan tweeted: ‘Hope everything’s okay gigi with ya’ll my heart goes out y’all (sic)’
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British Airways will cancel flights for more than 100,000 holidaymakers in an attempt to avoid the recent travel chaos seen in UK airports.
The airline has reportedly told airport authorities that it will cut more than 650 flights from Heathrow and Gatwick this month to help ease the staffing crises.
More than 76,000 seats are being cancelled from Heathrow and 29,400 from Gatwick on flights to more than 70 destinations including Malaga, Ibiza, Palma, Faro and Athens, according to The Daily Telegraph.
This week the government is allowing airlines a one-off amnesty on airport slots rules, allowing them to cancel flights without being penalised until Friday.
Slots are used to manage capacity at the busiest airports, authorising airlines to take off or land at a particular airport at a specified time on a specified day.
Airlines must use slots a certain amount of times each season to keep them, and this “amnesty” is giving them the leeway to put a more manageable schedule in place without the risk of losing a slot due to cancelling flights.
It comes after ministers warned airlines to review their plans after months of travel chaos.
The cancelled flights represent 14 per cent of those scheduled from Gatwick and nearly 7 per cent from Heathrow.
“As the entire aviation industry continues to face the most challenging period in its history, regrettably it has become necessary to make some further reductions,” a BA spokesman said.
“We’re in touch with customers to apologise and offer to rebook them or issue a full refund.”
Long queues, cancellations and baggage problems have plagued the travel sector’s comeback from coronavirus restrictions. There have also been strikes across Europe adding to the misery.
Part of the problem in the UK is a shortage of security-cleared staff able to handle baggage and use X-ray machines, which is slowing take-offs and creating long queues.
A spokesman for Heathrow said the slot amnesty was “good news for passengers” and would help.
“This amnesty will enable airlines to make early choices to consolidate their schedules, boosting the resilience of summer operations and giving passengers the confidence they deserve ahead of their journeys,” it said.
“We encourage airlines to take this opportunity to reconsider their summer schedules without penalty and inform passengers as early as possible of any changes.”
Rory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: “An amnesty on slot rules is potentially good news for passengers, as it should encourage airlines who need to cancel more flights to do so now rather than at the last minute and could ease disruption this summer by letting better-staffed airlines step in and fly routes.
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NATO nations sign accession protocols for Sweden, Finland
The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals.The move further increases Russias strategic isolation in the wake of its invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February and military struggles there since.
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The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals.
The move further increases Russia's strategic isolation in the wake of its invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February and military struggles there since. "This is truly a historic moment for Finland, for Sweden and for NATO," said alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The 30 ambassadors and permanent representatives formally approved the decisions of last week's NATO summit when the alliance made the historic decision to invite Russia's neighbor Finland and Scandinavian partner Sweden to join the military club. Despite the agreement in the alliance, parliamentary approval in member state Turkey could still pose problems for their final inclusion as members. Last week, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Ankara could still block the process if the two countries fail to fully meet Turkey's demand to extradite terror suspects with links to outlawed Kurdish groups or the network of an exiled cleric accused of a failed 2016 coup in Turkey.
He said Turkey's Parliament could refuse to ratify the deal. It is a potent threat since NATO accession must be formally approved by all 30 member states, which gives each a blocking right.
Stoltenberg said he expected no change of heart. "There were security concerns that needed to be addressed. And we did what we always do at NATO. We found common ground." Every alliance nation has different legislative challenges and procedures to deal with, and it could take several more months for the two to become official members. "I look forward to a swift ratification process," said Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has given the process added urgency. It will ensconce the two nations in the Western military alliance and give NATO more clout, especially in the face of Moscow's military threat.
"We will be even stronger and our people will be even safer as we face the biggest security crisis in decades," said Stoltenberg. Tuesday's signing-off does bring both nations deeper into NATO's fold already. As close partners, they already attended some meetings that involved issues that immediately affected them. As official invitees, they can attend all meetings of the ambassadors even if they do not yet have any voting rights.
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Atrial fibrillation: what it is, symptoms and treatment
Atrial fibrillation is characterized by a disorganization of electrical activity in the atria of the heart, which causes changes in the heartbeat, which becomes irregular and faster, reaching 175 beats per minute, which can increase the risk of stroke, heart failure or other diseases. heart problems.
Atrial fibrillation can be asymptomatic, only discovered during routine exams, or cause symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, and a feeling of weakness.
The treatment is very variable and will depend on the person, the signs and symptoms they present and the causes that are at the origin of atrial fibrillation.
Main signs and symptoms
In some people, fibrillation may not show any symptoms, but in some cases, there may be:
- Palpitations;
- Irregular heartbeats;
- Weakness and rapid tiredness;
- Dizziness;
- Short breath;
- Chest pain.
Usually, the diagnosis is made through electrocardiogram, but in some cases, the doctor may perform an echocardiogram, blood tests to see if there are thyroid problems, or chest X-ray to evaluate the size of the heart area. .
Possible causes
Atrial fibrillation sometimes has no known cause, but in most cases it is due to heart defects or damage.
In addition, some other causes that may favor the installation of atrial fibrillation are hypertension, history of previous heart attack, coronary heart disease, congenital diseases, hyperthyroidism, use of certain medications, consumption of caffeine, alcohol or tobacco, suffering from lung problems, postoperative from recent heart surgery, viral infections, stress or suffering from sleep apnea, for example.
In some cases, the risk of suffering from atrial fibrillation may be increased, such as in elderly people and people who make excessive use of alcohol and certain stimulants.
How is the treatment done?
The treatment will depend on the person’s hemodynamic conditions and when the arrhythmia started, however, it is not always easy to specify the moment of onset, which makes the approach and treatment a little difficult.
The goals of treatment are to normalize the heart rhythm and prevent blood clots from forming, in order to reduce the risk of having a stroke. Depending on the time of onset of the arrhythmia and the person’s clinical status, it may be necessary to perform defibrillation, where a shock is performed in order to reset the heart rhythm and return it to normal rhythm, under sedation.
In addition, the doctor may prescribe antiarrhythmic drugs, which reverse atrial fibrillation in stable patients and can also be used after reversal to prevent further events. Examples of antiarrhythmics are amiodarone and propagandone, for example. Beta-blockers and calcium channel blockers can also be used to control heart rate and prevent atrial fibrillation. For the prevention of clot formation, the doctor may prescribe anticoagulants and platelet inhibitors.
It is also important to practice regular physical activity, control blood pressure, avoid excess alcohol, caffeine or cigarettes, control cholesterol, reduce sugar consumption and maintain a healthy weight.
What complications can arise
Atrial fibrillation is usually not life-threatening, but in some cases it can lead to complications or even need emergency treatment.
Atrial fibrillation can lead to the formation of blood clots within the heart, which circulate to other organs, which can block blood flow, causing ischemia. If they go to the brain, they can block a cerebral artery and cause a stroke, the risk of which is about 5 times greater in people who suffer from atrial fibrillation.
Also, when atrial fibrillation is very common, it can cause heart failure. As these complications are serious, it is important that treatment is given as soon as possible.
Always consult a doctor.
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Allied Telesis Vista Manager EX network management dashboard integrates with Forescout Continuum for unmatched security and management capabilities.
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Telesis, a global leader in connectivity solutions and intelligent networking tools, is pleased to announce an upgrade to its popular Vista Manager EX network management solution that includes integration with Forescout's Continuum platform. The upgrade enables customers to enjoy Forescout's unparalleled device discovery capabilities to enhance the security and manageability of their enterprise networks.
Today's enterprise networks must provide wired and wireless access to support digital resources, BYOD policies, and third-party devices such as IoT, security cameras and IP phones. In the past, software agents were installed on devices to facilitate remote management, however this is no longer practical given the numbers and variety of devices in use today. Therefore, to successfully manage this complex environment, organizations must find ways to collect, visualize, and control network assets without further burdening operational staff.
Vista Manager from Allied Telesis is a graphical network dashboard that simplifies the management of enterprise wired, wireless and wide-area networks. Originally conceived as the graphical interface for the company's network automation tool, Autonomous Management Framework (AMF), this latest update elevates Vista Manager to become a true vendor-agnostic management solution.
Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations trust Forescout to reduce the risk of business disruption from security incidents or breaches, ensure and demonstrate security compliance and increase security operations productivity. Forescout's holistic platform continuously identifies, segments, and enforces compliance of every connected thing across any heterogeneous network.
By integrating Vista Manager and Forescout, complete network topology and endpoint device information is readily available. Vista Manager graphically visualizes the devices in the dashboard map to quickly identify the connected network segment. With any status change, the map updates for continuously accurate information. Device discovery, visualization, monitoring, and traffic analysis features are easily accessible from the dashboard.
The Forescout integration with Vista Manager provides the following benefits:
- Simple plug-in style integration for easy installation of Forescout Continuum
- Automatic detection of network devices using Forescout's unique agentless discovery technology
- Discovered devices are automatically added to the network topology with meaningful icons to simplify identification and management.
- Comprehensive device and status information is available directly from the Vista Manager network dashboard.
"We're delighted to launch an integration with an industry leader like Forescout," said Rahul Gupta, Chief Technology Officer at Allied Telesis. "Their agentless device discovery and automated security features are second-to-none, and together with our Vista Manager network dashboard, we have a powerful solution for enterprises that is very easy to use. "
Vista Manager is available from Allied Telesis in two deployment options: Vista Manager EX is a stand-alone software application ideal for larger deployments; the Vista Management Network Appliance is a hardware option preloaded with Vista Manager EX and the AMF network automation tools, suitable for smaller networks where ease of use is key. The integration with Forescout is supported from Vista Manager version 3.9.1.
For more information, please contact Allied Telesis Sales.
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Forescout Technologies, Inc. delivers automated cybersecurity across the digital terrain, maintaining continuous alignment of customers' security frameworks with their digital realities, including all asset types – IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT. The Forescout Continuum Platform provides complete asset visibility, continuous compliance, network segmentation and a strong foundation for Zero Trust. For more than 20 years, Fortune 100 organizations and government agencies have trusted Forescout to provide automated cybersecurity at scale. www.forescout.com
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For over 30 years, Allied Telesis has been delivering reliable, intelligent connectivity for everything from enterprise organizations to complex, critical infrastructure projects around the globe. We continually innovate the way services and applications are offered and managed, resulting in increased value and lower operating costs. Visit us online at www.alliedtelesis.com.
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Titans of Asset Allocation Discussed Their Big Picture Perspectives and Where to Invest in Today's Volatile Markets
The Next in a Series of Topical Industry Conversations Moderated by Alex Shahidi, Co-CIO of Evoke Advisors and Jim Haskel, Editor of The Bridgewater Daily Observations
LOS ANGELES, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evoke Advisors, an independent wealth advisory and investment management firm with nearly $24 billion in assets, today announced the next Master Speaker Series with special guests Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, and Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO. The conversation was moderated by Alex Shahidi, co-CIO of Evoke Advisors, and Jim Haskel, editor of the Bridgewater Daily Observations.
Evoke Advisors specializes in serving institutional and ultra-high net worth clients (UHNW), many of them highly successful investment professionals. The firm, which seamlessly combines institutional and UHNW capabilities, emphasizes the exceptional intellectual capital that exists throughout its team. The firm's professionals are proficient in research and analysis as the central building block of its investment management capabilities, including unique expertise in private markets.
David Hou, Managing Partner of Evoke Advisors, said, "I'm thrilled we were able to offer our clients access to the insights of industry leaders Ray and Jeremy on our Master Speaker Series. Their considerable expertise provided a deep dive into what's driving the markets today and how the inflection points we are experiencing will impact the future."
Unique Client Access to Global Thought Leaders
During the spirited virtual session, Messrs. Dalio and Grantham, two of the most widely known and respected financial markets experts in the world, discussed the major risks they are seeing in the markets today, including inflationary pressures, political conflict, asset bubbles and climate change. Both speakers also outlined what investors can do to protect themselves and adjust their portfolios to mitigate these risks.
Mr. Hou continued, "Jim and Alex did a fantastic job focusing the conversation for our clients. We look forward to facilitating more of these discussions to expose our clients to experts who bring a wide range of perspectives on the economy, markets and other critical issues of the day. We're proud to provide our clients with access to unique opportunities to dialogue with global thought leaders through our new Master Speakers Series."
About Evoke Advisors
Evoke Advisors is an independent wealth management firm with nearly $24 billion and over 50 employees that seamlessly blends capabilities and service for institutional and ultra-high net worth clients. The firm is committed to delivering an elevated service experience and outcomes for its clients across the country, with an emphasis on building and maintaining a team of professionals with exceptional research and analytics skills. The unique levels of intellectual capital that exist throughout the Evoke Advisors organization enables the firm to serve the most sophisticated and demanding clients, many of them highly successful investment professionals in their own right. For more information, please visit https://www.evokeadvisors.com/.
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A federal judge ruled in favor of three drug companies on Monday in a lawsuit accusing them of being responsible for the opioid epidemic in certain communities in West Virginia.
Judge David Faber rejected arguments from the city of Huntington, W.Va., and the Cabel County Commission that AmerisourceBergen Drug Co., Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson Corp.’s distribution of prescription opioids in Huntington and Cabel County caused an opioid epidemic and a “public nuisance” in those areas.
“The opioid crisis has taken a considerable toll on the citizens of Cabell County and the City of Huntington,” the ruling reads. “And while there is a natural tendency to assign blame in such cases, they must be decided not based on sympathy, but on the facts and the law. In view of the court’s findings and conclusions, the court finds that judgment should be entered in defendants’ favor.”
Faber said the state’s law against public nuisances has only been applied to conduct interfering with public property or resources, not the distribution or sale of a product. He said extending the meaning would be “inconsistent” with the history and “traditional notions” of a nuisance.
Representatives for the plaintiffs said in a joint statement that they are “deeply disappointed” personally and for the citizens of Huntington and Cabel County.
“We felt the evidence that emerged from witness statements, company documents, and extensive datasets showed these defendants were responsible for creating and overseeing the infrastructure that flooded West Virginia with opioids,” they said. “Outcome aside, our appreciation goes out to the first responders, public officials, treatment professionals, researchers, and many others who gave their testimony to bring the truth to light.”
Attorneys said they will discuss possible alternatives with their clients in the wake of the ruling.
Huntington Mayor Steve Williams (D) said in a statement that the case was about holding the distributors accountable and providing medical providers with resources to mitigate the opioid crisis.
“We respect the Court and the judicial system through which we have sought remedy, but my disappointment cannot be measured,” Williams said. “The decision today is a blow to our city and community, but we remain resilient even in the face of adversity.”
Williams said the drug companies are part of a “powerful industry” responsible for fueling the epidemic in the city and across the country. He said he will continue to fight for those who lost their “lives and livelihoods” to opioids.
“The citizens of our city and county should not have to bear the principal responsibility of ensuring that an epidemic of this magnitude never occurs again,” he said.
McKesson said in a statement to The Hill that it maintains and regularly enhances programs to detect and prevent opioid diversion in the pharmaceutical supply chain. It said the company only provides controlled substances to pharmacies that are state-licensed and registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
“We continue to be deeply concerned about the impact that the opioid crisis is having on families and communities across our nation,” the statement reads. “We see prescription drug diversion and abuse as an issue that needs to be addressed through a comprehensive approach that includes regulators, manufacturers, pharmacies, distributors, doctors and patients.”
Lauren Esposito, the vice president of public relations for AmerisourceBergen, said in a statement to The Hill that the company is pleased with the court’s decision. She said AmerisourceBergen and other pharmaceutical distributors have needed to “walk a legal and ethical tightrope” between providing access to medication and preventing the diversion of controlled substances.
“Today’s ruling will help enable our company to do what we do best — ensuring that health care facilities like hospitals and community pharmacies have access to the medications that patients and care providers need – ranging from blood pressure medications to chemotherapies to COVID-19 treatments and, as appropriate, prescription pain medications,” she said.
She pointed to a section of the ruling that stated that the companies “substantially complied” with the Controlled Substances Act to have in place suspicious order monitoring systems.
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In recent weeks, supporters of abortion rights have been reeling from the Supreme Court's decision to revoke constitutional protection for reproductive choice. Some are mounting a political movement for Congress to codify a federal right for abortion. Meanwhile, those on the ground, providing and funding abortion services, now have to navigate a murky legal landscape, which makes their work much more difficult in a vast swath of America.
With 13 states in the process of outlawing or limiting abortion through laws automatically triggered by the court's decision, and 13 more states likely to pass restrictions in coming weeks and months, defenders of reproductive rights now face the fight of their lives. And for abortion providers and funders, the next round of this fight is about more than politics and law. It's become increasingly about money and logistics: providing women in states that restrict abortions the option — and the resources — to travel to states where abortion is legal and accessible.
A long list of major corporations — including Amazon, Tesla, Nike, Google, Starbucks, Disney, and Dick's Sporting Goods — have announced that they will cover travel expenses for employees seeking abortions. Some commentators, like NPR's own Gene Demby, are asking about the fine print of these policy announcements. Who, he asks, are considered "employees"? Doordash, for example, has said it will cover abortion travel expenses for its employees, but most of the people who work for the food delivery service are actually independent contractors who will not be getting this medical benefit.
The reality is the population most hurt by the overturning of Roe v. Wade is impoverished women in red states, not well-paid employees of Fortune 500 companies. They are more likely to be people of color and live in rural areas (other groups of women and people who don't identify as women will, of course, also be affected). And many lack the means or ability to travel to a faraway place and obtain a relatively expensive procedure. According to Planned Parenthood, an abortion can cost "up to $750 in the first trimester, and up to $1,500 later in the pregnancy" — and that doesn't include additional costs like gas or a plane ticket or lodging or the need to take time off from work or providing childcare.
Even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe in the recent case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, many across the country struggled to pay for and access abortion care. Some lacked healthcare coverage. Others had healthcare coverage but their insurance didn't cover the procedure. Still others lived in "abortion deserts," which required making a costly journey to end a pregnancy.
Research finds that women who seek abortions but are unable to get them tend to suffer from a host of social, psychological, medical, and economic problems. One study, by scholars at UC San Francisco, finds that "Women denied a wanted abortion who have to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term have four times greater odds of living below the Federal Poverty Level."
To improve abortion access, a bunch of local and national organizations known as "abortion funds" have formed over the years to help people pay for the procedure. In post-Roe America, money is now even more determinative of who can get an abortion and who can't, and abortion funds are emerging as an even more crucial mechanism to provide poor women in red states the opportunity to access care if they want or need it.
Abortion Funds
Founded in 1991, the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP) is "the largest national, independent, nonprofit abortion fund." It provides financial assistance to people seeking abortions or emergency contraception through a network of 700 clinics and doctors spanning the country.
In 2021, WRRAP spent $538,301 to assist 2,565 patients in getting abortions or emergency contraception. Nearly 60 percent were unemployed. 20 percent were students. And 24 percent had to travel out of state to get an abortion.
Sylvia Ghazarian, the executive director of WRRAP, says that even before the Dobbs decision, her organization was seeing a surge in the number of patients forced to travel out of state to get abortion care. Clinics that provide abortions have been shutting down, due to restrictive laws and economic difficulties. The clinics that remain have found themselves swamped with growing backlogs. These delays have medical and financial consequences. Every week a patient has to postpone the procedure, Ghazarian says, "the cost of an abortion goes up."
WRRAP, like many other abortion funds, only funds abortion services and emergency contraceptives, not travel costs. Recognizing that travel costs present a growing barrier to accessing abortion care, a number of "practical support" organizations have popped up in recent years, including The Brigid Alliance.
The Brigid Alliance was launched in 2018, and it serves clients who must travel an average of 1000 miles to get an abortion. They cover costs like gas, plane tickets, childcare, and food. They also provide virtual support to clients to help them along their journey.
Since their founding, The Brigid Alliance has seen an explosion in demand for their services. Last year, Texas passed Senate Bill 8, which severely restricted abortion access. As a result of the law, Texans have been flooding clinics in neighboring states, contributing to much longer wait times and skyrocketing travel costs for those who want abortions. The Brigid Alliance saw a 900% increase in demand for financial assistance, says Odile Schalit, the organization's executive director.
Now, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, "We are expecting an even more significant surge," Schalit says. The Brigid Alliance, like other organizations, has benefited from a groundswell of charitable donations since the Dobbs decision was leaked and then published. But, she says, "Does the organization have enough money to be able to deal with that need? Quite frankly, no, we don't. And that is one of the most painful parts of doing this work right now." She adds that inflation, particularly surging gas prices, is making the cost of travel an even bigger barrier to abortion access.
WRRAP and The Brigid Alliance are both members of the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF), an umbrella group for over 90 abortion funds that seeks "to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access." Lindsay Rodriguez, NNAF's communications director, says that between July 2020 and July 2021, the funds across their network answered 80,000 calls and dispersed more than $11 million. While they are helping more and more people every year, she says, abortion funds are also underfunded. They are typically only able to fund "a quarter to a third" of the people who request their financial assistance.
While NNAF has raised millions since the leak of the Dobbs decision, Rodriguez anticipates that ongoing demand for financial assistance will continue to surge, dwarfing their available funds. "Basically every time you see an abortion restriction in a state, that's an added price tag for each abortion," she says. This added price tag now includes much more travel from red states to blue states.
Beyond money, there is a growing capacity problem. Blue states are declaring themselves abortion "sanctuary states," but there are increasing worries that clinics that provide abortions in these places will be overwhelmed with a swell of demand from residents traveling from red states.
"Abortion providers in blue states are doing whatever they can to hire more abortion providers, to expand their clinics, and start new clinics," Schalit says. "But we will need more abortion providers."
In this post-Roe world, funding interstate abortion travel and building up an abortion infrastructure in blue states to facilitate it is "going to be one of the critical ways that we support abortion access," Schalit says. "Now without the protections of Roe and the number of bans that have been triggered by the Supreme Court decision, interstate travel is more necessary than ever."
A Minefield For Abortion Funds
It won't be easy for abortion funds to muster the significant resources that are needed to ensure access to abortion care for low-income folks in red states. And even if they do raise the money to bankroll interstate abortion travel and care for those who can't afford it, lawmakers might still torpedo their efforts.
"States that are hostile to abortion rights have clearly signaled that they are not going to be satisfied by simply outlawing abortion within their own borders," says Elisabeth Smith, the director of state policy and advocacy for the Center For Reproductive Rights. "They want to see a national abortion ban."
It's worth noting that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued a separate, concurring opinion in Dobbs that is relevant here. While he agreed with the majority in holding that there is no constitutional right to an abortion, he wrote he does see "the constitutional right to interstate travel." Kavanaugh explicitly wrote that he believes a state cannot bar residents from traveling to another state in order to obtain an abortion.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently issued a statement making the same point. "We recognize that traveling to obtain reproductive care may not be feasible in many circumstances," Garland wrote. "But under bedrock constitutional principles, women who reside in states that have banned access to comprehensive reproductive care must remain free to seek that care in states where it is legal."
Even if companies or abortion funds provide the money to enable people to cross state lines for abortion access, however, legal questions remain open. "States may not be able to stop people from traveling, but what happens when someone comes home?" Smith says. What happens to out-of-state clinics that provide care to residents from states where abortion is outlawed? What happens to a company or abortion fund that helps a resident of a red state get an abortion in a blue state?
In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, Stephen L. Carter, a professor at Yale Law School, writes that he agrees with Kavanaugh that states cannot legally bar their residents from obtaining abortions in other states. However, he adds, "if the travel is paid for by an in-state actor" — like a local employer or abortion fund — "the case might come out differently."
State leaders are already signaling that they want to clamp down on funding that helps their residents obtain out-of-state abortions. In May, after Citigroup announced it would fund interstate abortion travel, a Texas legislator threatened to introduce legislation financially penalizing Citigroup and any other company that has such a policy. And the threats aren't just financial. With the constitutional right to an abortion gone, some leaders in states that restrict abortions might try to make it a crime to help state residents obtain abortions within or outside their state.
"We have not yet seen new criminal laws that would purport to prohibit travel to a state where abortion is available," Smith says. "But we know that states are gonna wanna chill that activity, and they're going to try and do that through a variety of means."
Will federal courts allow states to prohibit companies or abortion funds from aiding interstate abortion travel? We don't really know. Smith says the First Amendment clearly protects speech, so abortion providers and funds should be able provide information to residents of states where abortion is banned. But, she says, "making someone an appointment, funding that appointment and driving them there, that clearly goes beyond just providing information." Because we haven't seen prosecutions yet, Smith says, "it's really hard to fully pinpoint what the risk is."
All of the abortion funds we spoke to expressed concerns about the legal minefield that has been opened up by Dobbs. "There's no question that we and our clients are operating and traveling in a heightened state of fear and concern," Schalit says.
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired common shares of Energy Transfer stock between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, both dates inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 2, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Energy Transfer LP made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) Energy Transfer had inadequate internal controls and procedures to prevent contractors from engaging in illegal conduct with regards to drilling activities, and/or failed to properly mitigate known issues related to such controls and procedures; (b) Energy Transfer, through its subsidiary Rover Pipeline, LLC, hired a third-party contractor to conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling Activities for the Rover Pipeline Project, whose conduct of adding illegal additives in the drilling mud caused severe pollution near the Tuscarawas River when a large inadvertent release took place on April 13, 2017; (c) Energy Transfer continually downplayed its potential civil liabilities when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") was actively investigating the Energy Transfer's wrongdoing related to the April 13 release and consistently provided it with updated information about FERC's findings on this matter.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Energy Transfer you have until August 2, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Energy Transfer securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the ET lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/energy-transfer-lp-loss-submission-form-2?id=29468&from=4.
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Circular Beauty Products Turning Trash into Treasure while Resolving Food Waste Issue, Says Fact.MR
“Beauty product brands should dig deep into the supply chain, from ingredient supplies to packaging. This could comprehensively set a positive tone in the overall circular economy model,” says a Fact.MR analyst.
/EIN News/ -- United States, Rockville MD, July 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global circular beauty products market stands at US$ 2.4 billion and is predicted expand at a CAGR of 5.8% between 2022 and 2032.
The market is growing owing to factors such as changing lifestyle trends, growing market for sustainable beauty products, eco-design packaging solutions, animal cruelty-free products, and chemical-free products.
Rapidly-changing fashion trends and government enforcements to produce zero waste beauty products in a few countries are anticipated to draw people’s attention to circular beauty products, resulting in increased demand for circular beauty products in the near future.
According to the United Nations, one-third of the total food production procured for human consumption is wasted or lost from the primary source. It is high time beauty product manufacturers cater to this issue by investing in developing beauty products from food waste ingredients.
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Skincare and haircare formulation manufacturers have been utilizing food ingredients, especially superfoods from food waste, which is a more eco-friendly and new development. However, food waste ingredients are not a niche idea from smaller beauty ingredients companies but an important step towards the sustainable future of beauty products.
- French cosmetic giant L’Oréal announced an investment fund for improvising innovations in the circular economy on the occasion of Earth Day, on April 22.
Key Takeaways from Market Study
- By product, the personal care segment is projected to provide an absolute $ opportunity of US$ 1.2 billion over the forecast period (2022-2032).
- Among the sales channels, online sales are anticipated to expand around 2.2X in market value by 2032 and create an absolute $ opportunity of US$ 1.2 billion by 2032.
- Female consumers are set to account for an absolute $ opportunity of US$ 1.1 Billion.
- Europe is expected to hold around 33.5% of the global circular beauty products market share by 2032.
- North America is predicted to provide an absolute dollar opportunity of US$ 483 million by 2032-end.
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Winning Strategy
A key strategy for participants in the circular beauty products market has been to salvage waste from food and beverage companies that are intended to go to landfills. In addition, companies are using F&B byproducts that they reclaim and optimizing their utilization in the formulation of skin care products.
Companies are also focusing on manufacturing facilities for capacity expansion for bringing sustainable products to the masses and are investing in the research and development of innovative products, customized to fulfill the demand of niche consumer segments.
Manufacturers should increase their production, and, as a result, aim to offer innovative products that are tailored to the customized needs of consumers, with a focus on sustainability. Additionally, collaboration with retail channels should remain a vital strategy for manufacturers of circular beauty products, as they would become aware of the needs of consumers, and, in turn, develop application-specific products, catering to diverse customers across geographies.
Augustinus Bader, BYBI, Caudalie, Chanel, Circumference Inc., Earth Harbor, Fruu, Mark & Spensors, Monta Monta, Rabot 1745, Superzero, The Body Shop, Three Ships are key manufacturers of circular beauty products.
- Aquafaba (chickpea salt water, usually discarded) has the same properties as egg white and can be used as a replacement for hair care products. Lush has launched a vegan protein shampoo made with Aquafaba, touting its protein and saponin properties to protect and strengthen fine hair.
- British brand UpCircleBeauty launched an oil, scrub, and soap bar based on used coffee waste and chai spice granules.
- Food supplier Daylesford Organic launched a bitter orange hand balm containing cold-pressed citrus aurantium from Seville orange peels.
- Fruu combines locally-produced series of small batches of processed fruit waste bi-product beauty, such as natural lip balm, to create biodegradable beauty products and sustainable formulations, which at the same time brings additional revenue for small fruit producers.
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Key Segments Covered in Circular Beauty Products Industry Research
- Circular Beauty Products Market by Product :
- Personal Care
- Body Care
- Skincare
- Haircare
- Fragrances
- Makeup
- Others Products
- Personal Care
- Circular Beauty Products Market by Consumer Orientation :
- Male Circular Beauty Products
- Female Circular Beauty Products
- Circular Beauty Products Market by Sales Channel :
- Online Sales Channels
- Company Websites
- e-Commerce Platforms
- Offline Sales Channels
- Hypermarkets/Supermarkets
- Modern Trade Stores
- Brand Stores
- Beauty Salons
- Pharmacies
- Online Sales Channels
- Circular Beauty Products Market by Region :
- North America
- Latin America
- Europe
- East Asia
- South Asia & Oceania
- Middle East & Africa
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Fact.MR, in its new offering, presents an unbiased analysis of the circular beauty products market, presenting historical market data (2017-2021) and forecast statistics for the period of 2022-2032.
The study reveals essential insights based on product (personal care (body care, haircare, skincare), fragrances, makeup, other products), consumer orientation (male, female), and sales channel (online sales channels (company websites, e-Commerce platforms), (offline sales channels (hypermarkets/supermarkets, modern trade stores, brand stores, beauty salons, pharmacies)), across six major regions of the world (North America, Latin America, Europe, East Asia, South Asia & Oceania, and the Middle East & Africa).
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Spero Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRO) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: October 28, 2021 to May 2, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 25, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Spero Therapeutics, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the data submitted in support of the New Drug Application ("NDA") for the Company's product candidate, Tebipenem HBr, were insufficient to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"); (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the FDA would approve the Tebipenem HBr NDA in its current form; (iii) the foregoing would necessitate a significant workforce reduction and restructuring of Spero's operations; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Spero you have until July 25, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Spero securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned the wife and son of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan for questioning in a money laundering case being probed against him, officials said.
Khan, 73, is also an SP MLA from Rampur seat.
The agency wants to record their statements under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the case being probed against Azam Khan, they said.
He was released from jail in May after 27 months following the Supreme Court granting him interim bail in an alleged forgery case.
The agency has initiated probe against Khan in 2019 after taking cognisance of at least 26 FIRs filed by the state police against him including allegations that a university run by him in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh has been raised over a land that has been grabbed from a 'enemy property'.
Khan is the chairman of the Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar Trust which runs the three branches of the Rampur Public School.
He has earlier served as the urban development minister in the SP government headed by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh.
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Redmi launched the K20 and K20 Pro models in 2019. Now, the company has teased a new K-Series smartphone on its official Twitter account. The teaser reveals nothing but 'K is back'. Though the company has not revealed the name of the K-Series smartphone, reports believe it to be the K50i device. Redmi Note 11 Pro & Redmi Note 11 Pro+ 5G Launched, India Prices Start at Rs 17,999.
Redmi K50i is said to be a rebranded Redmi Note 11T Pro. It is likely to come with a 6.6-inch display with a refresh rate of 144Hz. It could be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 8100 SoC paired with 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB internal storage. For optics, the handset might get a 64MP primary camera, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle lens and a 2MP macro shooter. Upfront, the smartphone is expected to sport a 16MP snapper.
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The device is said to pack a 5,080mAh battery with 67W wired fast charging support. Connectivity options might include 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, GPS, NFC, a USB Type-C port. The smartphone could also come with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, a 3.5mm audio jack, Hi-Res audio, Dolby Atmos and stereo speakers. Moreover, it is rumoured to run on Android 12-based MIUI 13 UI.
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Two vehicles were destroyed and a third badly damaged during an early hours fire. Emergency services were called to Tadros Court, High Wycombe shortly before 1.30am on Monday, July 4.
A Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: "Two appliances and crews from High Wycombe attended. Three vehicles, located between two buildings, were on fire when they arrived.
"The firefighters used: one set of breathing apparatus, two hose reel jets, a short extension ladder and thermal imaging camera. Two of the vehicles were 100 per cent damaged by fire, and the third was 50 per cent damaged by fire.
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Asus ROG Phone 6 launch event set for today: How to watch livestream, everything we know so far
Asus is expected to release the ROG Phone 6 and the ROG Phone 6 Pro smartphones as part of the event.
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Asus is set to launch its latest flagship ROG Phone 6 series today. The company is expected to release the ROG Phone 6 and the ROG Phone 6 Pro smartphones as part of the event. Asus may also launch a special edition smartphone dubbed as the ROG Phone 6 Ultimate Edition.
The Asus ROG Phone 6 series will be the successor to the company's ROG Phone 5 series. Here is everything you need to know about the smartphone.
Asus will be launching its ROG Phone 6 series via a global launch event today. The launch event will be streamed in Berlin at 2PM, Taipei at 8PM and in New York at 8AM.
If you live in India, you will be able to watch the event live event via Asus Global’s official YouTube handle at 5:20PM today.
Asus ROG Phone 6 series launch event: Here is everything we know
Asus is expected to launch two new smartphones as a part of its ROG Phone 6 series. The ROG Phone 6 series will come with IPX4 certification for added water resistance.
Asus has also revealed that the ROG Phone 6 series will come with improved thermals over its predecessor. It will feature a 30 percent improvement in vapour chamber and an 85 percent improvement in graphite sheets.
The ROG Phone 6 series will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 mobile platform as confirmed by the company.
As per reports, the ROG Phone 6 will come with a 6.78-inch FHD+ AMOLED display with support for up to 165Hz touch sampling rate. It is expected to feature up to 18GB of LPDDR5 RAM and up to 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
As for cameras, the ROG Phone 6 could feature a triple rear camera system headlined by a 64MP primary lens. For selfies, the phone could feature a 12MP front facing camera. The ROG Phone 6 is expected to be backed by a 6,000mAh battery with support for 65W fast charging technology.
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Odisha has topped the ranking of states for implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA), followed by Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, the government said on Tuesday.
Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal released the 'State Ranking Index for NFSA' 2022 during a conference of state food ministers on food and nutrition security in India.
Among the special category states (the states, Himalayan states, and the Island states), Tripura has obtained the first rank. Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim are at the second and third positions.
Despite the logistical limitations in these areas, they displayed a high degree of accomplishment in competing with the general category states as well, the report said.
As per the government's ranking, Odisha is at first position with a score of 0.836, followed by Uttar Pradesh (0.797) and Andhra Pradesh (0.794).
Gujarat is at fourth place, followed by Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand.
Kerala has been ranked at the 11th position, Telangana (12th), Maharashtra (13th), West Bengal (14th) and Rajasthan (15th).
Punjab is at the 16th position, followed by Haryana, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Goa.
The current version of the Index measures the effectiveness of NFSA implementation majorly through operations and initiatives under TPDS (Targeted Public Distribution System).
Goyal said the exercise of ranking the states and UTs was commissioned by the ministry but carried out by a third party.
He said the ranking will lead to healthy competition among states under the NFSA, also known as the food law, under which the Centre provides highly subsidised foodgrains to nearly 80 crore people. The government provides 5kg foodgrains per person per month at Rs 1-3 per kg.
It does not cover programs and schemes implemented by other ministries and departments under the NFSA.
The Index denotes only the efficiency of TPDS operations, it does not reflect the level of hunger, if any or malnutrition, or both, in a particular state or union territory, the report clarified.
The Index focuses on NFSA and TPDS reforms, which can be standardized across the states and union territories.
It rests upon three pillars that consider various facets of food security and nutrition. Each pillar has parameters and sub-parameters that support this evaluation.
The first pillar measures coverage of NFSA, rightful targeting, and implementation of all provisions under NFSA.
The second pillar analyzes the delivery platform, while considering the allocation of foodgrains, their movement, and last-mile delivery to Fair Price Shops (FPS).
The final pillar focuses on nutrition initiatives of the department.
The findings from the exercise revealed that most states and union territories have fared well in digitization, Aadhaar seeding, and ePoS installation, which reiterates the strength and scale of the reforms.
"However, states and union territories can improve their performance in a few areas. Exercises, such as conducting and documenting social audits thoroughly and operationalizing functions of state food commissions across states and union territories, will further bolster the true spirit of the Act," the report said.
Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal released the 'State Ranking Index for NFSA' 2022 during a conference of state food ministers on food and nutrition security in India.
Among the special category states (the states, Himalayan states, and the Island states), Tripura has obtained the first rank. Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim are at the second and third positions.
Despite the logistical limitations in these areas, they displayed a high degree of accomplishment in competing with the general category states as well, the report said.
As per the government's ranking, Odisha is at first position with a score of 0.836, followed by Uttar Pradesh (0.797) and Andhra Pradesh (0.794).
Gujarat is at fourth place, followed by Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand.
Kerala has been ranked at the 11th position, Telangana (12th), Maharashtra (13th), West Bengal (14th) and Rajasthan (15th).
Punjab is at the 16th position, followed by Haryana, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Goa.
The current version of the Index measures the effectiveness of NFSA implementation majorly through operations and initiatives under TPDS (Targeted Public Distribution System).
Goyal said the exercise of ranking the states and UTs was commissioned by the ministry but carried out by a third party.
He said the ranking will lead to healthy competition among states under the NFSA, also known as the food law, under which the Centre provides highly subsidised foodgrains to nearly 80 crore people. The government provides 5kg foodgrains per person per month at Rs 1-3 per kg.
It does not cover programs and schemes implemented by other ministries and departments under the NFSA.
The Index denotes only the efficiency of TPDS operations, it does not reflect the level of hunger, if any or malnutrition, or both, in a particular state or union territory, the report clarified.
The Index focuses on NFSA and TPDS reforms, which can be standardized across the states and union territories.
It rests upon three pillars that consider various facets of food security and nutrition. Each pillar has parameters and sub-parameters that support this evaluation.
The first pillar measures coverage of NFSA, rightful targeting, and implementation of all provisions under NFSA.
The second pillar analyzes the delivery platform, while considering the allocation of foodgrains, their movement, and last-mile delivery to Fair Price Shops (FPS).
The final pillar focuses on nutrition initiatives of the department.
The findings from the exercise revealed that most states and union territories have fared well in digitization, Aadhaar seeding, and ePoS installation, which reiterates the strength and scale of the reforms.
"However, states and union territories can improve their performance in a few areas. Exercises, such as conducting and documenting social audits thoroughly and operationalizing functions of state food commissions across states and union territories, will further bolster the true spirit of the Act," the report said.
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PARIS (AP) — French authorities on Tuesday repatriated 51 women and children from the former Islamic State-controlled areas in Syria, according to a statement from the national antiterrorist prosecutor’s office.
It’s the single largest return of women and children to France from camps in northeastern Syria since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State group in March 2019. France saw more of its citizens leave to join IS than any other country in Europe.
Tuesday's group comprises 16 women, aged 22 to 39, and 35 minors, seven of whom are coming to France unaccompanied by adults. All but two of the women in the group are French citizens. Twelve women returned with their children and four of the women had previously agreed to the return of their children, according to the prosecutor’s statement.
Eight women were taken into custody for questioning and the other eight were detained on arrest warrants. The children were placed in the care of the child protective services attached to the Versailles Judicial Court.
One of the 35 minors is in police custody on suspicion of participating in activities of a terrorist criminal enterprise, according to the prosecutor’s statement. The minor will shortly turn 18, the statement said.
Many European countries were slow to allow the return of women and children for fear they would violently turn on their homelands. France, which saw more of its citizens join IS in Syria than any other European country and suffered multiple deadly attacks beginning in 2015, has been especially reluctant.
French authorities have insisted that adults who fought with IS should be prosecuted in the country where they had committed crimes.
In December, a 28-year-old Frenchwoman with diabetes died in a camp in Syria, leaving her 6-year-old daughter an orphan, according to the family’s lawyer, who had been requesting their return since 2019. | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/France-brings-51-citizens-home-from-IS-camps-in-17284641.php | 2022-07-05T11:32:01Z | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/France-brings-51-citizens-home-from-IS-camps-in-17284641.php | false | 13 |
WA Seattle WA Zone Forecast for Monday, July 4, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Western Washington
National Weather Service Seattle WA
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Wednesday.
WAZ558-052300-
Seattle and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Seattle, Shoreline, Federal Way, and Kent
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
A slight chance of showers late in the afternoon. Highs in the
70s. Light wind becoming northwest around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening,
then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid
to upper 50s. West wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Southwest wind to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South wind to 10 mph becoming
southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the
mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Seattle 75 58 73 / 20 40 10
$$
WAZ559-052300-
Bremerton and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bremerton and Silverdale
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers late in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind becoming
north to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid to upper 50s. North wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind becoming south around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
Southwest wind around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South wind to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bremerton 74 56 72 / 20 40 20
$$
WAZ507-052300-
Everett and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Everett, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Marysville,
and Arlington
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light
wind becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening,
then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid
to upper 50s. Northwest wind around 10 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
West wind around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming west around 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs near 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Edmonds 70 57 71 / 10 40 10
Everett 72 56 72 / 10 40 10
$$
WAZ509-052300-
Tacoma Area-
Including the cities of Tacoma, Lakewood, Puyallup, and Sumner
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers early in the
afternoon. A chance of showers late in the afternoon. Highs in
the 70s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid to upper 50s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Light wind becoming west around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
West wind around 10 mph becoming southwest to 10 mph after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind becoming
west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Puyallup 77 58 73 / 30 40 20
Tacoma 76 57 73 / 30 40 20
$$
WAZ556-052300-
Bellevue and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, and Issaquah
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the 70s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid to upper 50s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the lower to mid 70s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
Light wind.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Light wind.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellevue 76 58 74 / 10 40 10
$$
WAZ555-052300-
East Puget Sound Lowlands-
Including the cities of Gold Bar, Enumclaw, North Bend,
and Buckley
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers early in the
afternoon. A chance of showers late in the afternoon. Highs in
the 70s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid to upper 50s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Lows in the mid to upper 50s. Light wind.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Gold Bar 78 58 76 / 10 40 40
Enumclaw 75 56 72 / 30 40 40
North Bend 78 57 75 / 20 40 40
$$
WAZ503-052300-
Western Whatcom County-
Including the cities of Bellingham, Blaine, and Lynden
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light
wind becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
50s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Lows in the mid to upper 50s. Southwest wind around 10 mph
becoming southeast to 10 mph after midnight. Gusts to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. South wind to 10 mph becoming southwest
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers. Highs
near 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellingham 72 56 70 / 10 20 10
Sumas 76 57 75 / 10 30 10
$$
WAZ506-052300-
Western Skagit County-
Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley,
and Burlington
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light
wind becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
50s. West wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Lows in the 50s. West wind around 10 mph with gusts to 20 mph
becoming south to 10 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. South wind to 10 mph becoming southwest in
the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs near 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers. Highs
near 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Anacortes 70 55 69 / 10 20 10
Mount Vernon 73 56 73 / 10 30 10
$$
WAZ001-052300-
San Juan County-
Including the cities of Friday Harbor, Eastsound,
and Roche Harbor
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light
wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in
the 50s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Southwest wind
to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming south around 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers. Highs
near 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Friday Harbor 69 52 68 / 10 30 10
Eastsound 67 56 67 / 10 20 10
$$
WAZ510-052300-
Admiralty Inlet Area-
Including the cities of Port Townsend and Port Ludlow
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light
wind becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening,
then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower
to mid 50s. Northwest wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind
10 to 15 mph becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming west around 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oak Harbor 66 54 67 / 10 30 10
Port Townsend 66 53 66 / 10 40 10
$$
WAZ511-052300-
Hood Canal Area-
Including the cities of Hoodsport and Brinnon
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers early in the
afternoon. A chance of showers late in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind becoming east to 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
50s. Southwest wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind becoming southwest around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Southwest wind
10 to 15 mph decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind becoming southwest
to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Shelton 77 56 72 / 30 50 20
$$
WAZ504-052300-
Southwest Interior-
Including the cities of Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Centralia,
and Toledo
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers late in the
morning. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the 70s.
Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening,
then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid
to upper 50s. West wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs near 70. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. West wind to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs near 70. Light wind becoming west around 10 mph
in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Chehalis 75 57 72 / 40 40 20
Olympia 76 55 72 / 30 40 10
$$
WAZ512-052300-
Lower Chehalis Valley Area-
Including the city of Montesano
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers early in the
afternoon. A chance of showers late in the afternoon. Highs in
the 70s. Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
West wind around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming west around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 80.
$$
WAZ514-052300-
Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca-
Including the cities of Sequim and Port Angeles
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny until late afternoon then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the 60s. Light wind becoming variable to 10 mph with gusts to
20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
Wind variable to 10 mph with gusts to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the 60s. Light wind becoming variable to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Port Angeles 67 54 66 / 10 40 10
Sequim 69 53 67 / 10 40 10
$$
WAZ515-052300-
Western Strait of Juan De Fuca-
Including the cities of Joyce and Clallam Bay
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s. Light wind becoming
variable to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. Wind variable to 10 mph becoming light
after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Light wind becoming variable to 10 mph with
gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid
50s. Wind variable to 10 mph with gusts to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Sekiu 65 54 63 / 10 30 20
$$
WAZ517-052300-
Central Coast-
Including the cities of Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Westport,
and Ocean Shores
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers early in the
afternoon. A chance of showers late in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
50s. West wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the 60s. Light wind becoming west around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. West wind
around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs
in the 60s. Light wind becoming southwest around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hoquiam 70 56 66 / 30 40 20
$$
WAZ516-052300-
North Coast-
Including the cities of Neah Bay, La Push, and Forks
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers late in the
afternoon. Highs in the 60s. Light wind becoming west around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. Northwest wind to 10 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the upper
50s to mid 60s. Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
West wind around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Forks 68 53 66 / 10 30 30
$$
WAZ513-052300-
Olympics-
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny until late afternoon then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Snow level
near 8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level
near 9500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level
near 9000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Snow level near 8500 feet.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Snow level
near 8500 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Snow level
near 8500 feet.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 10000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 11000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 12500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hurricane Ridge 56 45 53 / 10 40 20
$$
WAZ567-052300-
Cascades of Whatcom and Skagit Counties-
Including the cities of Marblemount and Concrete
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Freezing level near 10000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Snow level near
9500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Snow level near
10000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, a slight
chance of thunderstorms and a chance of snow showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Snow level near
10000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Snow level
near 9000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Snow level near 9000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Snow level near 8500 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers. Snow
level near 9500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mount Baker 61 48 60 / 10 30 40
$$
WAZ568-052300-
Cascades of Snohomish and King Counties-
Including the cities of Snoqualmie Pass, Darrington, and Index
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly sunny. A
slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Snow level near
8000 feet. Afternoon pass temperatures in the mid 60s to lower
70s. Light wind in the passes.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening,
then a chance of showers and snow showers after midnight. Snow
level near 10000 feet. Light wind in the passes.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Snow level near 10000 feet. Afternoon pass
temperatures in the lower to mid 60s. Light wind in the passes.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight
chance of showers after midnight. Snow level near 10000 feet.
West wind in the passes around 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Snow
level near 9000 feet. Afternoon pass temperatures in the lower to
mid 60s. Light wind in the passes becoming west around 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Snow level near 9000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Snow level near 8500 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 11000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 11500 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 11500 feet.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 12500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Snoqualmie Pass 71 49 66 / 20 40 50
Stevens Pass 66 49 63 / 10 40 50
$$
WAZ569-052300-
Cascades of Pierce and Lewis Counties-
Including the cities of Randle, Packwood, Ashford, and Morton
246 AM PDT Tue Jul 5 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the morning.
A slight chance of snow showers late in the morning, then a
chance of showers in the afternoon. Snow level near 9000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level
near 10000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning,
then a chance of showers, a slight chance of thunderstorms and a
chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Snow level near
10000 feet.
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: March 30, 2021 to May 2, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 1, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that IonQ, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) the Company's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) IonQ's quantum the computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; (4) a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper roundtripping transactions with related parties; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were the materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in IonQ you have until August 1, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four months before scheduled municipal elections, Nicaraguan riot police have taken over the city halls of five municipalities that had been in the hands of an opposition party.
Kitty Monterrey, president of Citizens for Freedom, a political party disallowed by the Nicaraguan government before presidential elections last year, confirmed the police occupations in San Sebastian de Yali, El Cua, Murra and El Almendro.
Oscar Gadea Tinoco, mayor of Pantasma and member of Citizens for Freedom, also said that police occupied his town Saturday.
“All mayor’s offices legitimately elected under the flag of Citizens for Freedom, have been taken by the regime,” Monterrey said Monday via Twitter. She demanded that President Daniel Ortega respect the well-being of the officials and mayors who were removed from office.
Citizens for Freedom had won each of those town halls in the 2017 elections. But headed into last year’s presidential election, President Daniel Ortega showed little tolerance for the opposition. Authorities locked up seven leading opposition figures who could have challenged Ortega for the presidency.
Instead, Ortega coasted to a fourth consecutive term in elections the United States and European Union dismissed as a farce and the opposition figures remain in detention.
The Nicaraguan government had not commented on the takeovers.
Noel Moreno, the deposed mayor of San Sebastian de Yali in northwest Nicaragua, said some 50 heavily armed riot police and members of Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front entered town offices early Monday.
“The seat remains under control of riot police,” said Moreno, adding that he was not there when the police arrived. He was not sure if town staff remained inside or had been moved.
He said Sandinista town council members had “already named themselves mayor and vice-mayor” and raised the Sandinista flag. The takeovers appeared to have been similar in the other municipalities.
In Pantasma, Gadea Tinoco said that Sandinista councilwoman Carmen Obando was named as his replacement. The argument was that Citizens for Freedom was no longer a recognized entity because Nicaraguan electoral authorities had canceled its status last year.
After the party was canceled, Monterrey was also stripped of her Nicaraguan nationality and accused of being in the country illegally. She fled into exile in Costa Rica.
Of Nicaragua’s 153 municipalities, Ortega’s Sandinista Front now controls 140. Two allied parties control the other 13.
The opposition organization Open Ballot Boxes, a citizen election monitoring network, denounced “the absence of democratic conditions.” They demanded that municipal workers’ well-being be respected.
“They don’t want anyone to participate in these elections,” Moreno said.
In a statement, Monterrey called the takeovers “a very serious attack against popular will and municipal autonomy.”
“With these actions the regime is confirming that it has no interest in rehabilitating the electoral path or even trying to maintain an appearance of legality in the next municipal elections,” she said. | https://www.localdvm.com/news/us-and-world/ap-international/nicaragua-government-takes-over-five-opposition-held-towns/ | 2022-07-05T11:41:29Z | https://www.localdvm.com/news/us-and-world/ap-international/nicaragua-government-takes-over-five-opposition-held-towns/ | true | 30 |
The recent monetary policy statement from the Reserve Bank of India reflected the change in the thought process of the banking regulator regarding the transient nature of inflation. The Ukraine crisis has aggravated the already existing supply chain problems, resulting in a spiralling increase in commodity prices globally. Inflation is usually a function of three factors – rising demand vis-à-vis supply, reduced supply with the demand being the same and inflation expectations. Any change in one of these variables invariably results in a change in inflation.
What the world is experiencing today is inflation due to supply chain bottlenecks and falling demand due to an uncertain external environment, which in economic terms refers to stagflation. Stagflation is what atleast the world economy is experiencing at large, while the same may not be entirely true for India. However, a high-yield external environment is expected to be a reality. For a world, that has been used to low yields, this is going to be a big change to deal with. The financial services ecosystem globally is structured today to live in a low-yield world and this change towards high yields will possibly create new financial stability risks. Balancing this financial stability risk in a high-interest environment is a big task in front of the regulator.
Some of the key financial stability risk scenarios that the regulator and the financial services ecosystem could take into consideration are:
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Exposure to Foreign Currency Loans – Foreign currency loans were in high demand due to the low yields present globally. A change towards a higher yield structure will result in foreign currency loans no longer being cheaper and a depreciating rupee will only increase the liability further. Portfolio monitoring frameworks within banks would need to focus on this and identify stresses before they are blown out of proportion.
- Liquidity risk within NBFCs – Given that the key source of funding for the NBFCs is bank loans, a rising cost of funding with slow credit growth in the economy. This can potentially disrupt the liquidity position of the NBFCs. Banks will specifically need to monitor the exposure to NBFCs closely, to ensure that the liquidity crisis does not translate into a solvency crisis.
- Assessing the contagion effects – An NBFC crisis can clearly express itself in an unfavourable manner in the capital markets, with the debt papers (a source of market-based borrowings for the NBFCs) losing value and for the investors to lose their savings parked through the various asset management vehicles. The banking regulator will need to continue to work jointly with the capital markets regulator to closely monitor and mitigate such contagion effects.
- Evaluating credit lines to the fintech ecosystem – The fintech ecosystem has been flush with investments on account of cheap capital and as capital becomes expensive, there is going to be a rise in fintech companies, who would go out of business on account of poor fiscal discipline. Credit lines to fiscally undisciplined fintech would need to be evaluated closely by the lenders to identify stresses proactively.
- Deteriorating governance culture – It is usually during times of uncertainty that the governance culture deteriorates significantly, for want of showing superior performance. This could potentially increase instances around window dressing, frauds, diversion of funds, evergreening and so on. Strengthening the governance culture within the governance functions of the organizations is going to be a key focus for the market participants and the regulator alike. While there is enough being done on the same, the momentum needs to be maintained consistently for it to significantly yield results.
While there can be many more scenarios that can impair financial stability risks, it’s been my attempt to highlight some key risks that we have seen play out over the past one and a half decades. History may not repeat itself in the exact same way, but history rhymes. A strong focus on governance culture is the way the regulators globally have been responding to an uncertain environment and a similar focus from the regulator in India would help mitigate this risk greatly.
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Retail chain Shoppers Stop Ltd has plans to launch 12 new stores in FY23, primarily in tier-2 and tier-3 cities, and will continue to invest in store renovations.
Shoppers Stop plans to increase the share of new and refurbished stores to over 50 per cent in FY23, said the latest annual report of the company.
The company will also continue to invest in its private labels, including celebrity endorsements.
Shoppers Stop is investing in the new-age technology and is backing its data analytics project Jarvis to maximise its understanding of customer behaviour and preferences.
"Project Jarvis, a massive data lake and analytics project, will significantly improve our overall analytical capabilities, enabling us to get 'closer' to our customers through the use of a propensity model and better mining of behavioural data and preferences," the report said.
This can then be translated into much more effective marketing and product recommendations, leading to greater customer accretion and stickiness.
"We are enhancing the supply chain function through an automatic inventory replenishment system that can trigger customer-centric product assortments to optimise sales," it said.
Shoppers Stop revenue for the financial year ended on March 31, 2022 was at Rs 3,111 crore, and the company was operating 88 stores that contributed 86 per cent of its sales.
"We have planned the launch of 12 new stores in FY23, primarily in tier-2 and tier-3 cities, and will continue to invest in store renovations, which have a typical payback of about 3 years," it said.
Its omni-channel play is growing stronger with increasing digital sales, while offline sales are improving with increased coverage.
"Our omni-channel transformation has been very well-timed and our aim is to replicate the captivating in-store browsing experience with an array of categories and brands across all the channels," said Shoppers Stop MD & CEO Venu Nair while addressing its shareholders.
Besides, the K N Raheja group firm will also continue to invest in its private labels which continue to be a strong focus area for the company.
"Kashish, Life and Fratini have grown to become power brands and we will continue investing to market them further, including celebrity endorsements," said Shoppers Stop.
In FY22, Shoppers Stop's 16 private labels accounted for 14 per cent of sales.
"In beauty, we are planning to introduce more products in the make-up, skincare and fragrance categories," said Shoppers Stop, adding: "The growth in private label sales will also see a boost with our expansion in tier-2 and tier-3 cities, which usually witnesses higher sales of private labels due to our strong value proposition."
According to Shoppers Stop, it is the largest offline retailer of beauty products in India.
"We are expanding our omni-channel presence with the launch of standalone SSBeauty stores and SSBeauty online in FY23, catering to a diverse customer base -- from teenagers to women in their late 40s.
Besides, Shoppers Stop is also unlocking a diverse and more powerful workforce and is continuously working towards the inclusion of employees from different backgrounds.
"Currently, around 1 per cent of our team are persons with disabilities and LGBTQIA+ community, and we are planning to increase this to 2 per cent by the end of FY23," said Shoppers Stop non-executive chairman B S Nagesh.
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The former Karnataka chief minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy has taken on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over its continuing pitch against dynastic politics by pointing out the presence of several dynasts in the state BJP.
In a series of posts on social media addressed to BJP general secretary CT Ravi in the wake of the BJP national executive meeting held in Hyderabad last weekend, in which the ruling party pushed for anti-dynasty politics, Kumaraswamy said that the “BJP is not an exception to dynastic politics”.
BJP is not an exception to the family politics. I have given list of the State BJP. Should I give the India list? More noise, less development is the BJP policy. Not Operation Kamala, the time is not too far when there will be an operation to the BJP’s existence.
10/10— H D Kumaraswamy (@hd_kumaraswamy) July 4, 2022
“Yediyurappa & sons, Ravi Subramanya-Tejasvi Surya, Ashoka-Ravi, Somanna-Arun Somanna, Limbavali-Raghu, Vishwanath-Vani Vishwanath, Shettar-Pradeep Shettar, Nirani-Hanumanth Nirani, G.S.Basavaraju-Jyothi Ganesh, Jarkiholi, Katti & Udasi families, what are all these?” the JD(S) leader asked Monday in response to the saffron party’s plans to target dynastic parties in South India now.
“Regional parties are strong in South. BJP is unable to break the stronghold. Through Operation Kamala, you came to power in Karnataka. Your efforts failed in other States. Now you are singing the tune of dynasty free Bharat,” he said.
“BJP is not an exception to family politics. I have a list for the state BJP. Should I give the India list? More noise and less development is the BJP policy,” Kumaraswamy charged.
He also asked whether internal democracy in a party was tantamount to standing in fear before a party leader. “You said that there is no internal democracy in JDS. Ravi, does internal democracy mean to stand trembling & shaking in front of Narendra Modi? Is it to say yes to everything?” he said, while referring to the BJP leader’s recent attack on the JD(S), which is headed by HD Deve Gowda, Kumaraswamy’s father and ex-Prime Minister.
In recent weeks Kumaraswamy has been seeking to counter the BJP’s attempts to go after regional parties and labelling them as just “family enterprises”.
In May this year, the JD(S) leader had said that communal politics is a bigger threat to the future of India than dynastic politics in what was a retort to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s warning that dynastic parties would function against the interest of the nation.
“The danger to the nation is not from dynastic political parties, it is posed by communal parties like the BJP. Parties raising emotive issues to grab political ground are the real threat to democracy and pose a threat to constitutional values. I do not think that the honourable Modi is not aware of this,” Kumaraswamy had then said in his social media post.
During a visit to Hyderabad in May, PM Modi had targeted the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao, the Telangana CM, for being a dynastic political party. “Wherever dynasty politics has been wiped out, there has been development and growth. Family politics is a threat to democracy, and as soon as a ‘parivari party’ comes to power, they become corrupt. The family tries to hold on to power for as long as possible,” Modi had then said.
The PM’s attack on the dynastic parties was seen as a move to target several family-driven southern political parties like the ruling TRS in Telangana, the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, and the JDS in Karnataka, where certain established political families continue to hold sway over their respective parties – the KCR family in the TRS, the Karunanidhi family in the DMK and the Gowda family in the JD(S).
“The intent of the Prime Minister is to target regional parties under the guise of targeting dynastic politics. Since the fall of the Congress Party regional parties emerged as the main political rivals to the BJP. The BJP may go to any extent to finish off such regional parties,” Kumaraswamy said in a statement on social media over a month ago.
“Who has disrupted the unity in diversity achieved in the country despite the presence of multiple castes, religions, languages, food, and commercial practices? Who started the unconstitutional practice of poaching legislators from other parties under Operation Lotus?” he asked while attacking the BJP.
With the Karnataka Assembly polls slated for May 2023, Kumaraswamy’s recent attempts to keep his guns trained on the BJP reflect a bid to keep the JD(U) equidistant from the ruling party as well as the principal Opposition Congress, while defending his family from the saffron party’s unrelenting assaults on the dynasty issue.
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The closure plan has been met with vehement opposition from state and local public officials, local physicians and the hospital's own Governing Board.
MNA President and Framingham resident Katie Murphy will also testify, calling Tenet's plan "shameful" with no "medical, moral or financial justification that will allow Tenet to profit from the suffering of the most vulnerable patients in our community."
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Massachusetts Department of Public Health will hold a public hearing tomorrow, July 6th, on a controversial proposal by Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare to close its outpatient oncology services at MetroWest Medical Center's Framingham Union Hospital campus. The hearing, which is the first in-person hearing scheduled by DPH since the onset of the COVID pandemic, will be held in Nevins Hall at the Memorial Building (City Hall) at 6 p.m.
Tenet's closure plan, which includes the loss of oncology infusion and radiation oncology services, has been met with strong opposition from state and local public officials, local physicians and even the hospital's local Governing Board.
The Massachusetts Nurses Association, which represents nurses and health professionals working in more than 85 of the state's healthcare facilities from Cape Cod to Pittsfield including the nurses at Tenet-Owned MetroWest Medical Center (the Leonard Morse campus) and St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, opposes the closure. The organization's President and Framingham resident Katie Murphy will be attending the hearing to offer strong testimony condemning the closure and calling out Tenet Healthcare for yet another attempt to "profit from the suffering of the most vulnerable in our community."
"As a practicing nurse, and on behalf nurses who provide oncology care in the Commonwealth, I can tell you there is no medical, no moral and no financial justification for Tenet's decision to abandon this vital service to this community," Murphy will testify. "For patients coping with a cancer diagnosis, the stress, anxiety and physical strain can be an enormous burden, which makes local access to treatment vital for positive outcomes. It is even more important for a community like Framingham, which has a significant and growing population of residents who lack the means to easily travel the long distances Tenet callously will force them to travel for the care they should be getting close to home."
The MNA was astonished to read in Tenet's official statement on the closure, claiming the decision was made "with the community's best interest in mind."
"To characterize this decision as in this community's best interest is akin to Vladimir Putin calling the bombing of Ukraine a process of urban renewal," according to Murphy. "It appears that the only interest Tenet has in any decision it makes is on how it increases its profit margin and its value for shareholders."
Murphy and the MNA will make the case that Tenet can easily afford to maintain the service, after the for-profit corporation received more than $2.6 billion in Federal and State COVID relief funding and after posting a profit of more than $695 million for 2020 and 2021 and has added an additional $97 million in profits for the first quarter of 2022, catapulting its stock price threefold.
Despite this largesse, Tenet has pursued an aggressive campaign to cut needed beds and services to the patients in Massachusetts, including its closure in October of all inpatient medical beds and the emergency department at MetroWest Medical Center's Leonard Morse campus and the pediatric unit on the Framing Union campus. In 2021 it forced the longest strike by nurses in the state's history to avoid providing safe staffing levels and, as a deliberate means of prolonging that strike, closed more than 100 beds at St. Vincent Hospital depriving the residents of that community desperately needed care during the height of the Omicron COVID surge. And at the same time it announced the closure of the oncology service at Framingham Union, Tenet eliminated its in-person interpreter service for a community where up to 40 percent of its residents speak a foreign language. "Shameful is too kind a word for these decisions," according to Murphy's testimony.
The DPH hearing is required under law to allow the public impacted by any closure to voice their concerns as part of the process for DPH to determine if the service to be closed is "essential" to the protection of public health for the community served by the hospital; and if it is, to require the hospital to either alter the plan, or to provide a detailed explanation of how those service will be delivered in the alternative.
Murphy's testimony includes a warning to DPH to look at any plan or promises made by Tenet in lieu of this process with critical skepticism given Tenet's checkered history. "Having worked with this corporation and Ms. Jackson (Tenet's CEO) we can report that Tenet has shown limited ability to honor the agreements it reaches or the commitments it makes to those they serve," according to Murphy's testimony. "In fact, over the last 20 years this corporation has been subject to more than $1.6 billion in fines and penalties for all manner of fraud and corporate malfeasance."
Murphy will use her testimony to raise public awareness of a glaring weakness in the state's ability to adequately preserve all types of services deemed by DPH to be essential as the law does not grant DPH the authority to stop any closure. In fact, the MNA has tracked dozens of service closures in recent years by highly profitable hospital systems including the decision earlier this year by Tufts Medical Center to close its inpatient pediatric beds, the closure of more than 74 desperately needed adult and adolescent psychiatric beds at Providence Hospital in Holyoke last year, and most recently, the planned closure of the Birthing Center by Northeast Health Corporation and Beth Israel Lahey Health (a hearing on that closure will be held on July 20th).
"Right now, there is no mechanism in the state to allow the Department of Public Health or any other entity in the state to fully protect the public from any corporation that chooses to close any service, no matter how vital it is shown to be for the health and wellbeing of that community. The time has come to provide that authority under law," Murphy will testify. "You can be sure that the MNA, with the support of other concerned residents and policy makers, will be advocating for the DPH to have the authority to move beyond just listening to communities crying desperately for help. The time has come for your critically important agency to finally have the power to make and enforce its decisions for the good of those communities."
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KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in seizing an eastern Ukraine province essential to his wartime aims, the mayor of a city in the path of Moscow's offensive warned residents Tuesday to evacuate ahead of an expected assault.
The warning from the mayor of Sloviansk underscored fears that Russian forces were positioned to advance farther into Ukraine's Donbas region, a mostly Russian-speaking industrial area where the country's most experienced soldiers are concentrated.
Sloviansk, which had a population of about 107,000 before Russian invaded Ukraine more than four months ago, appeared to be the next target. The city has taken rocket and artillery fire during the war, and the bombardment has picked up since Moscow took the last major city in neighboring Luhansk province, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said.
“It’s important to evacuate as many people as possible,” he said, adding that shelling damaged 40 houses on Monday.
The Ukrainian military withdrew its troops Sunday from the city of Lysychansk to keep them from being surrounded. Russia's defense minister and Putin said the city's subsequent capture put Moscow in control of all of Luhansk, one of two provinces that make up the Donbas.
The office of Ukraine's president said the Ukrainian military was still defending a small part of Luhansk and trying to buy time to establish fortified positions in nearby areas.
The question now is whether Russia can muster enough strength to complete its seizure of the Donbas by taking Donetsk province, too. Putin acknowledged Monday that Russian troops who fought in Luhansk need to “take some rest and beef up their combat capability.”
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that the war in Ukraine would continue until all of the goals set Putin are achieved. However, Shoigu said “the main priorities” for Moscow at the moment were “preserving the lives and health” of the troops, as well as “excluding the threat to the security of civilians.”
When Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, his stated goals were defending the people of the Donbas against Kyiv’s alleged aggression, and the “demilitarization” and “denazifaction” of Ukraine.
Pro-Russia separatists have fought Ukrainian forces and controlled much of the Donbas for eight years. Before the invasion, Putin recognized the independence of a pair of self-proclaimed separatist republics in the region. He also sought to portray the tactics of Ukrainian forces and the government as akin to Nazi Germany's, claims for which no evidence has emerged.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian military said Russian forces also shelled several Donetsk towns and villages around Sloviansk in the past day but were repelled as they tried to advance toward a town about 20 kilometers (12 miles) to the city's north. South of the city, Russian forces were trying to push toward two more towns and shelling areas near Kramatorsk.
Meanwhile, Moscow-installed officials in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region on Tuesday announced the formation of a new regional government there, with a former Russian official at the helm.
Sergei Yeliseyev, the head of the new Moscow-backed government in Kherson, is a former deputy prime minister of Russia’s western exclave of Kaliningrad and also used to work at Russia's Federal Security Service, or the FSB, according to media reports.
It wasn’t immediately clear what would become of the “military-civic administration” the Kremlin installed earlier. The administration's head, Vladimir Saldo said in a Telegram statement that the new government was “not a temporary, not a military, not some kind of interim administration, but a proper governing body.”
“The fact that not just Kherson residents, but Russian officials, too, are part of this government speaks clearly about the direction the Kherson region is headed in the future," he said. "This direction is to Russia.”
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials.
In other developments:
— The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals. The move further increases Russia’s strategic isolation in the wake of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February and military struggles there since. Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hailed the signing as a "truly a historic moment for Finland, for Sweden and for NATO.”
— The war in Ukraine has abruptly drawn millions of dollars away from other crises. Somalia, already facing a food shortage largely driven by the war, might be the most vulnerable. Its aid funding is less than half of last year’s level while overwhelmingly Western donors have sent more than $1.7 billion to respond to the war in Europe. Yemen, Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, Congo and the Palestinian territories are similarly affected.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on 1 billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database in a leak that, if confirmed, could be one of the largest data breaches in history.
In a post on the online hacking forum Breach Forums last week, someone using the handle “ChinaDan” offered to sell nearly 24 terabytes (24 TB) of data including what they claimed was information on 1 billion people and “several billion case records” for 10 Bitcoin, worth about $200,000.
The data purportedly includes information from the Shanghai National Police database including names, addresses, national identification numbers and mobile phone numbers as well as case details.
A sample of data seen by The Associated Press listed names, birthdates, ages and mobile numbers. One person was listed as having been born in “2020," with their age listed as “1,” suggesting that information on minors was included in the data obtained in the breach.
The Associated Press could not immediately verify the authenticity of the data samples. Shanghai police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The data leak initially sparked discussion on Chinese social media platforms such as Weibo, but censors have since moved to block keyword searches for “Shanghai data leak.”
One person said they were skeptical until they managed to verify some of the personal data leaked online by attempting to search for people on Alipay using their personal information.
“Everyone, please be careful in case there are more phone scams in the future!” they said in a Weibo post.
Another person commented on Weibo that the leak means everyone is “running naked” — slang used to refer to a lack of privacy — and it’s “horrifying.”
Experts said the breach, if confirmed, would be the biggest in history.
Kendra Schaefer, a partner for technology at policy research firm Trivium China, said in a tweet that it’s “hard to parse truth from the rumor mill, but can confirm file exists.”
Such data leaks are fairly common, according to Michael Gazeley, managing director at Hong Kong-based security firm Network Box.
“There are approximately 12 billion compromised accounts posted on the Dark Web right now. That’s more than the total number of people in the world,” he said, adding that a majority of data leaks often come from the U.S.
Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist at cybersecurity firm Sophos, said that the breach is “potentially incredibly embarrassing to the Chinese government,” and the political harm would probably outweigh damage to the people whose data was leaked.
Most of the data is similar to what advertising companies that run banner ads would have, he said.
“When you’re talking about a billion people’s information and it’s static information, it’s not about where they traveled, who they communicated with or what they were doing, then it becomes very much less interesting,” Wisniewski said.
Still, once hackers get data and put it online it's impossible to fully remove.
“The information, once it’s unleashed, is forever out there,” Wisniewski said. “So if someone believes their information was part of this attack, they have to assume it’s forever available to anyone and they should be taking precautions to protect themselves.”
A major cryptocurrency exchange said it had stepped up verification procedures to guard against fraud attempts such as using personal information from the reported hack to take over people’s accounts.
Zhao Changpeng, CEO of Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, said in a tweet Monday that its threat intelligence had detected the sale of “1 billion resident records.”
“This has impact on hacker detection/prevention measures, mobile numbers used for account take overs, etc.” Zhao wrote in his tweets, before saying that Binance had already stepped up verification measures.
In 2020, a major cyberattack believed to be by Russian hackers compromised several U.S. federal agencies such as the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, telecommunications firms and defense contractors.
Last year, over 533 million Facebook users had their data published in a hacking forum after hackers scraped its data due to a vulnerability that has since been patched.
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AP journalist Emily Wang in Beijing and researcher Chen Si in Shanghai contributed to this report. | https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Alleged-Chinese-police-database-hack-leaks-data-17284722.php | 2022-07-05T12:02:05Z | https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Alleged-Chinese-police-database-hack-leaks-data-17284722.php | false | 39 |
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 5, 2022 / Electric Royalties Ltd. (TSXV:ELEC)(OTCQB:ELECF) ("Electric Royalties" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Manganese X Energy Corp. (TSXV: MN) has filed a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") of the Battery Hill manganese project ("Battery Hill") in New Brunswick, Canada, on SEDAR. Electric Royalties holds a 2% gross revenue royalty on Battery Hill, which is projected to have a 47-year operating mine life.
Brendan Yurik, CEO of Electric Royalties, commented: "We congratulate our royalty asset partner Manganese X Energy on this milestone, which shows significant gross revenue projections for the Battery Hill project of US$177 million per year over an initial forecast mine life of 47 years. Electric Royalties' 2% gross revenue royalty entitles us to 2% of those gross revenues which, once in production, could present a source of significant cash flow to the Company moving forward. The Battery Hill PEA forecasts robust economics and a short payback period for a relatively low capital investment which bodes well for Manganese X Energy as it strives to become the first North American company to commercialize high purity, battery-quality manganese."
Highlights of the PEA (all dollar values are in US dollars unless otherwise stated)1:
Robust Economics
- After-tax net present value using a 10% discount rate ("NPV10"): $486 million
- After-tax internal rate of return ("IRR") of 25%
- Capital costs ("CAPEX") of $350 million with a payback of 2.8 years
- Average annual gross revenue of $177 million per year over the 47 years project life
- Average annual gross revenue of $220 million over the first seven years
- Life of mine ("LOM") operating cost ("OPEX") of $122/tonne material processed
HPMSM Market Price and Sensitivity
- Base case market price of $2,900/tonne for battery-grade high-purity manganese sulphate ("HPMSM") used for the study is well below the long-term forecast price of $4,200/tonne HPMSM estimated by CPM Group2
- Sensitivity analysis shows after-tax NPV10 increases to $914 million at $4,200/tonne HPMSM
Long Mine Life
- 40-year mine production life and seven years of stockpile reclaim feed
- Total LOM production of 3.2 million tonnes of HPMSM
- Average annual HPMSM production of 68,000 tonnes over the LOM
- Average annual HPMSM production of 84,000 tonnes in the first seven years of production
Low Environmental Impact
- Flowsheet produces a filtered residue leach product with initial acid-base accounting and non-acid generating test results showing no acid drainage risk
Superior Project Location
- Hydroelectric-sourced grid power available within 2 km of project site
- Project is located in close proximity to paved secondary Highway 560
Project Objectives
- Project is now advancing towards a pilot project, pre-feasibility study as well as advancing a drilling program to upgrade and expand manganese resources
The Battery Hill project is located approximately 6 km northwest of the town of Woodstock and is accessible to the east via a new two-lane road that connects with Highway 560. The PEA mine plan assumes conventional open-pit mining using a contract mining equipment fleet at a total mining rate of 1.0 million tonnes per year to provide a mill feed of 365,000 tonnes per year, or 1,000 tonnes per day. The proposed process for Battery Hill manganese resources is a whole ore sulphuric acid slurry leach which is further treated to produce a crystalline manganese sulphate monohydrate product meeting all specifications for sale as a battery grade product.
The PEA is preliminary in nature; it includes Inferred Mineral Resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as Mineral Reserves, and there is no certainty that the preliminary economic assessment will be realized. Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability.
David Gaunt, P.Geo., a qualified person who is not independent of Electric Royalties, has reviewed and approved the technical information in this release.
About Electric Royalties Ltd.
Electric Royalties is a royalty company established to take advantage of the demand for a wide range of commodities (lithium, vanadium, manganese, tin, graphite, cobalt, nickel, zinc and copper) that will benefit from the drive toward electrification of a variety of consumer products: cars, rechargeable batteries, large scale energy storage, renewable energy generation and other applications.
Electric vehicle sales, battery production capacity and renewable energy generation are slated to increase significantly over the next several years and with it, the demand for these targeted commodities. This creates a unique opportunity to invest in and acquire royalties over the mines and projects that will supply the materials needed to fuel the electric revolution.
Electric Royalties has a growing portfolio of 19 royalties, including one royalty that currently generates revenue. The Company is focused predominantly on acquiring royalties on advanced stage and operating projects to build a diversified portfolio located in jurisdictions with low geopolitical risk, which offers investors exposure to the clean energy transition via the underlying commodities required to rebuild the global infrastructure over the next several decades towards a decarbonized global economy.
For further information, please contact:
Brendan Yurik
CEO, Electric Royalties Ltd.
Phone: (604) 364-3540
Email: Brendan.yurik@electricroyalties.com
www.electricroyalties.com
Scott Logan
Renmark Financial Communications Inc.
Phone: (416) 644-2020 or (212) 812-7680
Email: slogan@renmarkfinancial.com
www.renmarkfinancial.com
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange), nor any other regulatory body or securities exchange platform, accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
1 Technical report titled "NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Preliminary Economic Assessment of the Battery Hill Manganese Project, Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada" with an effective date of May 12, 2022, available under Manganese X Energy Corp.'s profile on Sedar.com. The Mineral Resource (MR) within the mine plan includes Measured MR of 5.90 Mt grading 7.65% Mn, Indicated MR of 6.37 Mt grading 7.26% Mn and Inferred MR of 4.73 Mt grading 8.26% Mn at 3.3% Mn cut-off. Input assumptions to the pit shells that constrain the MR estimate include an HPMSM price of US$2,900/t, mine operating cost of $7.43/t, process operating cost of $110/t, G&A cost of $7.60/t, stockpile reclaim cost of $1.46/t, closure cost of $3.00/t, selling cost of US$65/t, process recovery of 78%, a gross metal royalty of 3% applied to the HPMSM produced, and a pit slope of 45°.
2 CPM Group generated a single weighted average forecast price of HPMSM (80% North America/20% Europe) for the 2029 to 2035 period of US$4,200/tonne. A risk managed base case scenario for the long-term period covering the LOM for the Project was provided at US$2,900/tonne HPMSM. Wood's QP considers the US$4,200/tonne HPMSM price as a reasonable basis for the upside sensitivity analysis of the Project economics.
Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information and Other Company Information
This news release includes forward-looking information and forward-looking statements (collectively, "forward-looking information") with respect to the Company within the meaning of Canadian securities laws. This news release includes information regarding other companies and projects owned by such other companies in which the Company holds a royalty interest, based on previously disclosed public information disclosed by those companies and the Company is not responsible for the accuracy of that information, and that all information provided herein is subject to this Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information and Other Company Information. Forward looking information is typically identified by words such as: believe, expect, anticipate, intend, estimate, postulate and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events. This information represents predictions and actual events or results may differ materially. Forward-looking information may relate to the Company's future outlook and anticipated events and may include statements regarding the financial results, future financial position, expected growth of cash flows, business strategy, budgets, projected costs, projected capital expenditures, taxes, plans, objectives, industry trends and growth opportunities of the Company and the projects in which it holds royalty interests.
While management considers these assumptions to be reasonable, based on information available, they may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company or these projects to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to risks associated with general economic conditions; adverse industry events; marketing costs; loss of markets; future legislative and regulatory developments involving the renewable energy industry; inability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources, and/or inability to access sufficient capital on favourable terms; the mining industry generally, the Covid-19 pandemic, recent market volatility, income tax and regulatory matters; the ability of the Company or the owners of these projects to implement their business strategies including expansion plans; competition; currency and interest rate fluctuations, and the other risks.
The reader is referred to the Company's most recent filings on SEDAR as well as other information filed with the OTC Markets for a more complete discussion of all applicable risk factors and their potential effects, copies of which may be accessed through the Company's profile page at www.sedar.com and at otcmarkets.com.
SOURCE: Electric Royalties Ltd.
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The idea of having a perfect, slender body that is ‘bikini-ready’ has thankfully been largely dismissed (got a body? You're ready), but that’s not to say that finding flattering swimwear is any less of a yearly mission - we can happily accept our lumps, bumps and curves as part of our natural beauty and still want to look good as we head to the pool.
But whether it’s a bikini for your summer break or a stylish one-piece that you’re after, there’s one part of the swimsuit shopping task that’s hard to nail: the tummy. Some one-pieces stretch over bigger bellies only to make them appear worse (especially if you suffer with bloating ) and an ill-fitting high-waisted bikini bottom can draw more attraction to wobbly bits, not less; but find the right cut with built-in, flattering fabrics and shaping and you’ll feel more confident than ever. Dive in to our edit of the best tummy-taming swimwear below…
M&S Secret Slimming TM Monochrome Print Plunge Swimsuit, £29.50
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M&S has, in my opinion, one of the best ranges for women who want to hide and support any wobbly bits, with a great size range and at decent prices too. I wear their tankinis regularly for swimming at my local pool and the ruched fabric makes you look and feel taut and toned - it’s their ‘Secret Slimming’ technology, and the non-wired padded cups help to enhance your figure too. With animal print everywhere this year, this monochrome colour is ideal for the beach and the size of the print has a slimming effect in itself, but do check out the rest of the range too for bright stripes or bold colours if you’re up for something a little louder.
Next Shape Enhancing Swimsuit, £25
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This Next one-piece is available in plenty of colours but we love this bold red - it’s easy to be tempted to stick to dark colours if you’re wary of your tummy but it’s all about the cut, so plenty of fun can still be had. The wrap design is perfect for curvier shapes with firm support for your tum and soft and adjustable spaghetti straps; two shades are available in their petite range too.
H&M Shaping Swimsuit, £24.99
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With a simple wrapover design for the top that’s lightly padded as well as adjustable straps and ruched gathering at the sides, this chic swimming costume suits all and again is available in multiple colours and prints - we love the khaki for a flattering, tan-enhancing shade. Fully lined, it’s designed to sculpt your tummy, back and bum - and with an impressive size range too.
Boux Avenue St Lucia Floral High Waisted Bikini Briefs (£20) and Top (£32)
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While this option doesn’t have tummy-shaping technology as such, if you are looking for a flattering bikini for a rounder tummy then your best bet is to head to a brand such as Boux Avenue who know their lingerie - and therefore know exactly how to find you the right fit. As with the rest of the range, this pretty floral high-waisted number with an underwired balcony style top is sold as separates so you can buy the bikini top in your bra size and then match with your choice of bottoms, because women’s bodies do not just come in small, medium and large. The top can be worn strapless or as a halter neck too.
Figleaves Icon Spot Mesh Underwired Shaping Halter Black Swimsuit, £60
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One of the brand’s bestsellers, this beautifully flattering black swimming costume has a spot mesh halter design to give it an added ‘something’, while the sculpting material, sweetheart neckline and underwiring creates a super smooth silhouette while giving you support. Plus, at the time of writing, it's in the sale - go go go!
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More than 100 foreigners have been caught out by the scams, with two companies in Phuket having formal complaints filed against them by victims: Phuket Siam Corporation Company in Koh Kaew and Asia Titan Group on Thepanusorn Rd in Wichit.
A group of the victims were called to a meeting at the main Phuket Immigration Office in Phuket Town so officers could “hear their problems” and explain solutions, one of the attendees told The Phuket News.
“If the victim is under 90 days overstay and they have had their passport returned [from the relevant visa company], they must first file a police report. If the payment was made to Siam Corp, then the police report must be filed in Phuket Town. If the payment was made to the Titan Group, then the report must be filed with Wichit Police,” the group representative explained.
“Then they must take the police report to Phuket Immigration and pay the B500 per day fine, up to the maximum B20,000 for overstay,” she continued.
“They will be given a two-month COVID visa according to their last stamp. This can only be done before July 25 as COVID visa extensions will no longer be issued thereafter,” she added.
“They will not have to travel to cross a border. They will not have any problems with their status when they renew their visa next time.”
However, victims who have not had their passport returned by the visa company will not have the same conditions applied.
“We were told that if you do not have your passport, they cannot put your status on hold even though you have made the reports to both police and immigration,” the representative said.
The explanation given was that without a passport in hand, immigration officers had no passport into which they could enter a stamp.
Foreigners stuck without a passport because the visa company had failed to return them must apply for a new passport, immmigration officers advised.
Foreigners who have applied for a new passport ‒ and have already filed a police report ‒ will not be arrested while on the streets, the representative said the group was told.
Any victims without their passport returned who do not have enough time to apply and be issued a new passport will have to leave the country. Immigration officers advised the foreigners to obtain an Emergency Travel Document from their embassy in order to leave the country.
“They will fall into the 90-day overstay and face the current reality [law] that their names will be entered into the immigration system that they have overstayed and face a one-year blacklist of entering back into Thailand,” the representative said.
Even those who have had their passport returned, without the visa extension as promised by the visa companies, and have overstayed by 90 or more days will also see no mercy.
“Everyone who has overstayed 90 or more days will have to pay the B20,000 fine and will need to leave Thailand,” the representative said.
“They will be blacklisted for one year. If they want to join the lawsuit against the company they must first make the police report, then find someone to represent them in court and be prepared to leave Thailand.
“No time frame has been given before they have to leave Thailand. I assume that according to Thai law they need to leave the same day you pay your overstay,” she added.
PUBLIC SILENCE
At time of press, Phuket Immigration and its superintendent Col Thanet Sukchai had yet to give any public statements or give any advice or explanations to victims about what penalties they may face.
The move to enforce the expulsion from Thailand and blacklist penalties for 90-day overstay is the first time they have been reintroduced since they were suspended during the COVID pandemic, when travel out of Thailand was nigh impossible.
The meeting at the main Phuket Immigration Office in Phuket Town last Friday came after Phuket Immigration issued its sole public notice recognising the situation.
The notice urged any foreigners affected by a visa broker or visa renewal agency, by taking their passports, and their money, but failing to have their visa stays extended on their behalf to contact the Phuket Immigration Help Center at 086-4077763 or 076-221905 ext 10.
The notice asked foreigners to have the following documents prepared before contacting the Help Center:
- Passport or copy of passport
- Evidence of action against the company/agent about the visa
- Evidence of legal proceedings such as documents, reports etc (if any)
- Other related information
“Foreigners may file a formal complaint through the hotline or make an appointment to receive assistance,” the notice read.
While the scale of the problem has been largely ignored while being played out on social media channels in English, the news of the widespread scam has made its way into mainstream Thai-language news.
Of note, ThaiPBS in their report marked that money defrauded from foreigners by the visa companies by not providing the solicited service amounted to as much as B3 million.
STALLING
Phuket City Police Chief Col Sarawut Chuprasit last week vowed to prosecute visa agents who have deceived tourists.
However, as of last Friday (July 1), representatives from the Siam Corp visa company had yet to present themselves at Phuket City Police Station.
Victims were told last Friday that police had to first request the company representatives to present themselves. If the request were ignored, police could then issue a summons for representatives to present themselves. If the summons were ignored, police could then move to have arrest warrants issued.
The delay in action is contributing to the problem, the group representative told The Phuket News.
“Many of the victims are still under 90 days’ overstay. They should be able to sort their problems out and become legal again. But without their passports… [that cannot be done],” she said.
“Despite that over 100 people have filed police reports, the process has not been expedited, so many people who have not had their passports returned have no way of getting them back,” she said. | https://www.thephuketnews.com/expats-caught-up-in-phuket-visa-scams-face-being-forced-to-leave-the-country-84812.php | 2022-07-05T12:05:08Z | https://www.thephuketnews.com/expats-caught-up-in-phuket-visa-scams-face-being-forced-to-leave-the-country-84812.php | true | 1 |
The proposals for cooperation to the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, unveiled by the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, during a meeting, last week, with Miroslav Jenča, the Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, have not yet been received by the Greek Cypriot side.
As CNA learns, the Turkish Cypriot side has reportedly requested that Tatar’s letter, addressed to the UN Secretary General, that includes the proposals to the Greek Cypriot side, be delivered to Antonio Guterres first and then handed over to the Greek Cypriot side.
According to press reports in the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus, Ersin Tatar delivered a letter with his proposals for cooperation in four sectors on Friday to Jenča, with whom he had a meeting in the occupied territories. In statements to the media, later the same day, Tatar explained the content of these proposals, saying that two more proposals will follow regarding migration and the demining of Cyprus.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results. | https://www.parikiaki.com/2022/07/turkish-cypriot-leaders-proposals-for-cooperation-still-not-in-the-hands-of-the-greek-cypriot-side/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turkish-cypriot-leaders-proposals-for-cooperation-still-not-in-the-hands-of-the-greek-cypriot-side | 2022-07-05T12:05:51Z | https://www.parikiaki.com/2022/07/turkish-cypriot-leaders-proposals-for-cooperation-still-not-in-the-hands-of-the-greek-cypriot-side/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turkish-cypriot-leaders-proposals-for-cooperation-still-not-in-the-hands-of-the-greek-cypriot-side | false | 1 |
Strong earthquake kills 5 in southern Iran
Published: Published Date - 04:31 PM, Tue - 5 July 22
Tehran: Five people were killed and 44 others injured in a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Iran on Saturday, state television reported.
Rescue teams were deployed near the epicenter, Sayeh Khosh village, which is home to around 300 people in Hormozgan province, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital, Tehran, the report said.
People went into the streets as aftershocks continued to jolt the area after the early morning quake, which also damaged buildings and infrastructure.
The earthquake was felt in many neighboring countries, the report said.
The area has seen several moderate earthquakes in recent weeks. In November, one man died following two magnitude 6.4 and 6.3 earthquakes.
Iran lies on major seismic faults and experiences one earthquake a day on average. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people. A magnitude 7 earthquake that struck western Iran in 2017 killed more than 600 people and injured more than 9,000. | https://telanganatoday.com/strong-earthquake-kills-5-in-southern-iran | 2022-07-05T12:06:42Z | https://telanganatoday.com/strong-earthquake-kills-5-in-southern-iran | false | 20 |
MACON, Ga. — With the digital access we have today, sometimes some of the old school trends fade away, but other trends come back or last for decades.
From music streaming to radio, people around the world have so many different ways to listen to music, books, or see their favorite tv shows.
Even in today's digital age, people are still enjoying the benefits of record players. They've been using them to enjoy their favorite artists for decades.
"Macon's always been a music town. I think more people than not have a stack of vinyl in their closet," Fresh Produce Manager William Rutledge said.
Companies like Fresh Produce Records may be a blast from the past for some people but for others it's opening their eyes to a new world.
Now, after being in Central Georgia for almost a decade they're opening their doors to a new and bigger location.
"It honestly is just us solidifying we are in this for the long haul as part of us being a part of Macon. I think it's also just laying down more structure for what we are trying to do," Rutledge said.
Fresh Produce Records just opened their new store in Macon, and has provided the community with a large collection of music to choose from.
Macon resident Jonathan Lee is happy about the store brings to downtown Macon.
"It's good to see Fresh Produce last a decade and bring a musical retro vibe to downtown Macon. It brings a lot to the music scene and helps it move it forward," he said.
William Rutledge, the manager of the store, says music has no demographic and explained what the new store represents.
He says they've spent 9 years putting together a diverse collection of records from all different genres. Rutledge says they see hundreds of customers on a weekly basis and ship out 9-10,000 packages a year.
Fresh Produce's new home is at 567 cherry street, right in the middle of downtown Macon.
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A controversial oil project that would connect oilfields in a Ugandan National Park to a port in Tanzania breaches global environmental guidelines for banks, according to a new nonprofit report Tuesday.
The 897-mile (1443-kilometer) East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), planned by French oil giant TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation has been mired in allegations of human rights abuses and environmental hazard. The 230,000 barrels of oil produced daily will emit 34 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, according to Ugandan nonprofit the Africa Institute for Energy Governance. Construction will take three years, once a final decision has been taken.
At least 20 banks and eight insurers have ruled themselves out of the project, many coming under pressure from environmental groups. South Africa’s Standard Bank and the Japanese Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) are financial advisers and lead debt arrangers. The UK’s Standard Chartered bank is also considering financing it.
All three signed up to the benchmark Equator Principles, voluntary environmental and human rights guidelines for financing infrastructure projects. A report by the non-governmental organization Inclusive Development International, shared exclusively with The Associated Press, says the project repeatedly breaches these principles and banks would violate them too if they go ahead. Banks are forbidden from financing non-compliant projects. But the scheme is powerless to eject members that do.
Oil wells will be drilled within Murchison Falls National Park, western Uganda. Here the Nile plummets some 130 feet (40 meters) through a gap just 20 feet (6 meters) wide, the surrounding wilderness home to hippos, egrets, giraffes and antelope. The pipeline would then pass through seven forest reserves and two game parks, running alongside Lake Victoria, a source of fresh water for 40 million people.
“An oil spill could prove disastrous for the millions that rely on the lake’s watershed for drinking water and food production,” the environmental campaign group 350.org has warned.
The report says the risk of oil spills breaches an Equator Principle requiring minimal environmental impact. A review of the plans by the nonprofit E-Tech International, which advises communities affected by infrastructure projects, found best practice was not followed.
“EACOP oil spills will occur over the lifetime of the project,” the review concluded.
The pipeline’s environmental assessment doesn’t contain a robust oil spill plan, the report’s authors contend, a further breach of the Principles. The pipeline will also traverse an earthquake zone — the Great Rift Valley — the Inclusive Development International report warns.
TotalEnergies said the pipeline’s state of the art design will ensure safety for decades.
The oil has a high wax content, solidifying at temperatures below 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius) which would stop oil from spreading as liquid, the company said. Emergency plans are being prepared, the company insisted. Summer temperatures can hit 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) in Uganda.
Human rights standards have also allegedly been broken, according to the report. At least four letters from UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights, sent to the Ugandan president and TotalEnergies’ CEO Patrick Pouyanné over two years, detail “various acts of harassment and intimidation” against protesting Ugandans. Numerous activists and a journalist have allegedly been intimidated, forced into hiding, arrested and interrogated.
The Equator Principles are “not being met with regard to the risks facing community members that express criticism,” the report finds.
TotalEnergies said it was unaware of threats emanating from its own staff. The company said it is “vocal about the need” for Ugandan security forces to respect human rights, and had written to the Ugandan president to share its concerns.
“TotalEnergies does not tolerate any threats or attacks against those who peacefully defend and promote human rights,” the statement read.
The Principles have also been violated by a lack of community engagement “free of manipulation, interference, or coercion, or intimidation”, according to the analysis.
More than 120,000 people will lose land to make way for the project, an evaluation by environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth found. There must be “free, prior and informed” consultation with people whose lives may be changed, according to the Principles.
But the report found these requirements were not “sufficiently met”.
The project has “systematically failed” to consult and disclose accessible information, it said.
TotalEnergies said only 13,300 people would be economically impacted across Uganda and Tanzania. Since 2017, meetings have reached over 200,000 affected individuals along the route, the oil major said.
Finally, the project violates standards on land acquisition and resettlement, the report finds. Compensation processes “exacerbated, rather than mitigated” negative impacts, impoverishing villagers who lost access to farmland and faced long delays awaiting compensation.
TotalEnergies said it had already begun paying compensation. The process abides by local laws and is in compliance with the Principles, the company insisted.
Equator Principles chair Amit Puri said each member was “individually responsible for its own internal procedures” to comply. He added that The Equator Principles do not have the authority to respond to concerns about breaching them.
Mr Puri is global head of environmental risk at Standard Chartered, one of the banks that the report says would allegedly be breaching the guidelines by financing the pipeline.
Standard Chartered itself and SMBC declined to comment. The China National Offshore Oil Corporation did not respond to numerous requests for a statement.
Standard Bank said its due diligence on funding the project was being assessed, but no final decision has been made. The decision’s subject to a full assessment of climate change strategies, the bank said, while “full compliance” with the Equator Principles was needed to fund the project.
Despite environmental and human rights concerns, the campaign to stop the pipeline is “unrealistic”, said Angelo Izama, of Ugandan think tank Fanaka Kwa Wote.
“Uganda is being thrust into this role as a poster child for climate damage, and it’s really unfair,” he said.
It amounted to a “dismissal of the national interests of Uganda”.
Ugandan oil officials declined to comment.
But President Yoweri Museveni has said oil wealth can lift millions out of poverty, while other government officials hope Uganda can become a middle-income country.
Efforts to stop the pipeline have left some dismayed at what they see as concerted efforts to sabotage the project.
“TotalEnergies and CNOOC … have the financial muscle and technical know-how to deliver a world-class project” wrote Elison Karuhanga, a prominent oil attorney, in Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper.
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Additional reporting by Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda.
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It’s 18 months since remote and hybrid working changed our day-to-day habits resulting in endless hours on Zoom, as we connect via screen not just with work colleagues but friends, families, book groups you name it. Our screen use has increased 135 per cent since the first lockdown, according to optometrist-founded eye care brand Peep Club. Depending on what industry you work in, that figure could be significantly higher.
Whatever video platform you're using, you've no doubt experiencing serious Zoom fatigue. According to neuroscience experts, our systems find staring so directly not just at our own but at other people's faces on screens unnatural - it gives us so much information to process. It's brain overload. Ophthalmologists too say it also makes us forget to blink leaving our eyes heavy and dehydrated.
“I have noticed fatigue from too much Zoom, not just cognitively but also physically and emotionally,” confirms neuroscientist Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier, founder of holistic coaching platform Make Time Count . “I see clients who have burned out from too much screen time from back-to-back meetings.”
Why are video meetings so much more tiring than IRL ones? After all, we've not had to haul ourselves there or worry about what we look like below the waist? Our experts explain.
1. Focusing on others triggers a stress response
If you’re prone to sitting stock-still on Zoom, this is likely to affect how tired you are. “Keeping focus on other people on Zoom while sitting rigidly immobilises our nervous system and neuromuscular system into what feels like a freeze response,” explains Magdalena. This is a stress response that our bodies detect and relay back to the brain, meaning a dose of stress is sent round the body. Not ideal when you’re just catching up on a work project.
MORE GLOSS: How to stop the stress hormone cortisol messing up your day
2. Eye contact is intense
Normally in a face-to-face meeting, we’d look away from time to time. However, on Zoom this can seem rude and make it appear we’re distracted. “Looking away allows the eyes to relax focus and means our bodies are free to relax, whereas Zoom meetings drive the opposite reaction,” explains Magdalena.
Eye-to-eye contact, which we maintain throughout Zoom meetings is incredibly intense and can be overwhelming for some people, Magdalena says. You're up close with others' faces, staring into their eyes in a way that would only happen in real life if you were dating or in a similarly intimate situation
3. It's yet another way to fill our time with screen activity
Logging into Zoom calls between emails and other screen activity - we’re all guilty of scrolling through our phone as a break from looking at our laptops - means that your brain has to deal with a much higher intensity of information and it’s not sustainable, Magdalena says.
On top of this, we know that when we log off the video call, emails will have piled up, resulting in more information overload. “Every moment being filled creates anxiety, prolongs working hours and erodes our time to relax,” says Magdelena.
4. We can’t read body language
Without even knowing it we pick up clues from the people we're around, be it their body language or reading their facial expressions. This is trickier on video calls and our brain has to work harder to read the room, which can feel exhausting, says Magdelena.
In real life, we would see the whole person and our brain takes safety cues from other people's body language. Do we like them, are we relaxed around them? When you can only see a small part of the person and they are not moving, your brain is working overtime trying to read them, keeping you on high alert, trying to process the little information it has. If there are several people on your call, that effect is magnified.
5. It chips away at our self-worth
How many times do you see people fiddling with their hair or rearranging their facial expressions in Zoom meetings as if they were taking a selfie? We spend as much time trying to assess ourselves as we do others. In real life, we'd never had to attend a meeting, brunch or family do where we had to stare in the mirror for hours. “When you add worries about how one looks, which many people say is a concern on Zoom, to all the other factors, and we have a brain that is overloaded with much more information than would happen elsewhere," says Magdalena.
“The combination of ‘I’m being seen!’ and ‘how do I look?’ raises anxiety which has to be managed in real-time through composure. This means we have to exercise more self-control and this too is exhausting,” she continues.
A new peer-reviewed study from Stanford University released last month has identified four main culprits, as fellow neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart author of The Source: Open Your Mind, Change Your Life , explains "excessive close-up eye contact, the strangeness of seeing yourself in real-time, less mobility and movement, and more effort required to send and receive nonverbal cues.”
As well as the difficulty of connecting with others through a screen, video conferencing forces us to confront how we view ourselves and the experience can be awkward and not very enjoyable, Tara says.
6. Tired, itchy 'Zoom eyes' are a thing
If you’re suffering from heavy, tired eyes that are red, itchy or overwatering, it's a phenomenon that the ophthalmologists at The Peep Club are seeing more of.
“Many new customers are coming to Peep Club with what they're calling 'Zoom Eyes’" says Natasha Salesm Peep Club's co-founder.
"One of the most striking symptoms is customers saying that they just can't stare at a screen anymore by the end of the day.”
When video calling (or looking at any screen) we blink six-to-eight times less than normal. "So your tears, which are like little sips of water for your eyes keeping them hydrated, are not replenished as often," Natasha explains. “Your eyes are essentially parched while you're on a Zoom call,” she says.
How to make Zoom less-tiring?
1. Stretch between (and during) meetings
As someone who hosts online events herself, neuroscientist Magdalena recommends creating a relaxed video-calling atmosphere where people don’t feel they have to have their eyes glued on-screen at all times. She also encourages frequent breaks during long video calls and advises stretching your body to ward off the 'freeze' stress response, which can happen when we're sitting immobile for too long.
2. Do eye yoga
Every 20 minutes look away from your laptop for 30 seconds, advises yoga teacher Mercedes Sieff, co-founder of Yeotown holistic detox retreat in Devon .
* Rest your eyes with 'palming. "Rub your palms together to get them hot and then press the base of your palms into your eyes, take a deep breath is to give the eyes a rest and wet themselves again," says Mercedes.
* Work your focus muscles. Take a pencil, holding it in front of your eyes and focus on it. Bring it towards and away from your face. Let your eyes follow it in circular movements without moving your head, giving them the chance to look in a different direction other than straight ahead.
* Face tapping. Gently with your fingers tap over your face once an hour to release tension, encouraging softness to the face. | https://www.getthegloss.com/health/mental-health/4-ways-to-make-zoom-less-exhausting | 2022-07-05T12:10:35Z | https://www.getthegloss.com/health/mental-health/4-ways-to-make-zoom-less-exhausting | false | 1 |
"Best Test Batsman In World Right Now": Virender Sehwag's Ultimate Praise For England Star
England beat India by seven wickets in the rescheduled fifth Test at Edgbaston to draw the five-match series 2-2.
- NDTV Sports Desk
- Updated: July 05, 2022 04:52 PM IST
Joe Root hit yet another century as he continued his fine form in Test cricket to take England to an emphatic victory over India in the Edgbaston Test. Root hit an unbeaten 142 off 173 as England chased down a mammoth 378 with seven wickets remaining to deny India a series win. The five-match series ended in a 2-2 draw. Giving Root company was Jonny Bairstow, who scored 114 not out, adding to his century from the first innings. On Day 5, Root surprisingly was the aggressor, taking on the Indian bowlers and peppering the boundaries consistently.
Following Root's stellar show with the bat, former India opener Virender Sehwag lavished praise on the England star, dubbing him the "best Test batsman in the world right now".
"4th Test hundred of the series for this amazing Run machine, Joe Root. The best test batsman in the world right now," tweeted the former India cricketer.
4th Test hundred of the series for this amazing Run machine, Joe Root. The best test batsman in the world right now #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/aypOmWLFTW
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) July 5, 2022
In India's second innings, Cheteshwar Pujara and Rishabh Pant hit half-centuries but others failed to contribute as the visitors were bowled out for 245.
It left England needing to complete a record chase of 378 to level the series.
Promoted
No England side had previously made more to win in the fourth innings of a Test than their 359-9 against Australia at Headingley three years ago.
England, though, made mince meat of the target. It was almost seemed like a stroll in the park as Root and Bairstow put on a batting masterclass to deny the Indians a series win. | https://sports.ndtv.com/england-vs-india-2022/best-test-batsman-in-world-right-now-virender-sehwags-ultimate-praise-for-england-star-3129530 | 2022-07-05T12:13:43Z | https://sports.ndtv.com/england-vs-india-2022/best-test-batsman-in-world-right-now-virender-sehwags-ultimate-praise-for-england-star-3129530 | false | 1 |
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