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GAMEE (GMEE) traded 1.6% lower against the US dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 11:00 AM E.T. on July 8th. GAMEE has a total market cap of $3.07 million and $514,811.00 worth of GAMEE was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, GAMEE has traded up 19% against the US dollar. One GAMEE coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.0138 or 0.00000063 BTC on exchanges.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- JUMPN (JST) traded 54% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.46 or 0.00018651 BTC.
- CV SHOTS (CVSHOT) traded down 14.8% against the dollar and now trades at $23.99 or 0.00109222 BTC.
- Tether (USDT) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004551 BTC.
- Sweet SOL (SSOL) traded up 600.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Bitsubishi (BITSU) traded 42.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $114.95 or 0.00523468 BTC.
- XRP (XRP) traded up 3.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.34 or 0.00001568 BTC.
- Wrapped Cardano (WADA) traded 0.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.47 or 0.00002129 BTC.
- Lido stETH (STETH) traded 0.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2,947.45 or 0.07417648 BTC.
- Gateway Protocol (GWP) traded down 2.3% against the dollar and now trades at $3.31 or 0.00015077 BTC.
- Polkadot (DOT) traded 0.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $7.14 or 0.00032533 BTC.
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It is usually not currently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as GAMEE directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade GAMEE should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy GAMEE using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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Cyclist Daniel Oss has been forced to retire from this year’s Tour de France with a broken neck after he collided with spectators.
The Team TotalEnergies rider crashed into fans at high speed while they were lined up along a cobbled street during Stage 5 between Lille and Arenberg.
Footage shows Oss getting knocked off balance after clipping one fan before colliding with another who is leaning out to film the race on a phone.
“Complementary examinations have revealed a fracture of a cervical vertebra requiring immobilization for a few weeks,” a team statement read.
“Daniel Oss is therefore forced to leave the Tour de France… The whole team wishes you a good recovery Daniel.”
Multiple crashes occurred, although not all serious, during Wednesday’s Stage 5 as riders raced on cobblestones.
The Italian rider was somehow able to finish the stage despite the crash, which also involved two other riders who were brought down behind him.
During last year’s race, a fan caused a major crash after stepping in front of the racing pack holding a cardboard sign, appearing to display a message for the television cameras. The woman in question was subsequently identified and arrested by authorities.
Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar is now the current overall Tour leader after winning Stage 6. | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/07/08/tour-de-france-cyclist-daniel-oss-breaks-neck-in-high-speed-crash-with-fan/ | 2022-07-08T17:20:25Z | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/07/08/tour-de-france-cyclist-daniel-oss-breaks-neck-in-high-speed-crash-with-fan/ | false | 16 |
Novak Djokovic was jeered by a section of the Centre Court crowd after reaching yet another Wimbledon final.
The six-times champion will face Nick Kyrgios on Sunday but some spectators booed when he clinched a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Cameron Norrie. After the clinching point, Djokovic turned to seemingly make a point and to glare at fans who had disrupted his service game by calling out when he was getting ready to serve.
And that was met by jeering from some amongst the crowd. It was a slightly sour end to a magnificent performance by Djokovic, who is going for a fourth consecutive Wimbledon title.
After starting so well, it was a disappointment for Norrie, who struggled to find his A-game in front of the likes of Wayne Rooney and Sir Alex Ferguson. But there is no shame in losing to Djokovic, who has not been beaten at Wimbledon since losing in the quarter-finals in 2017.
Djokovic will now be bidding for a 21st Grand Slam of his career, which would move him to within one of Rafael Nadal’s record tally. Considering he probably knows Centre Court as well as he knows his living room, Djokovic looked surprisingly edgy in the first set, surrendering his serve on no fewer than three occasions.
In contrast, Norrie had an air of assurance about him and even managed to hit his fastest serve of the tournament - 127mph - on his way to taking the opener 6-2. But that air of assurance evaporated midway through the second set as a flurry of unforced errors and wrong choices from Norrie gave Djokovic a foothold in the match.
And, of course, the six-times champion does not need any second invitations to put his stamp on proceedings. In fact, from 3-3 in the second set, Djokovic won nine of the next 12 games to establish a two sets to one lead.
The Djokovic dominance sucked the energy out of the partisan spectators although they did break into song early in the fourth set in an attempt to try and lift their man. Alas, while they broke into song, Djokovic broke serve and there was only one direction in which the match was heading.
Although Norrie was not on his best form - and had a couple of bad line calls go against him - it was an impressive performance from Djokovic, who is now a hot favourite to beat Kyrgios in the final. It will be his last shot at a Slam this season if the United States’ Covid rules continue to mean he cannot enter the country for next month’s US Open.
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When Does The School Year Begin in Shreveport Bossier?
School isn't supposed to start until after Labor Day. There, I said it. I understand the school system has to provide a certain number of actual 'teaching days' per school year, but do they have to start the new school year in the middle of the summer?. It seems...
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The Chicago Bulls begin summer league play on July 8 and all eyes will be on first-round rookie Dalen Terry, the 18th-overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. And it won’t just be eyes within the Bulls organization, either.
Bulls’ summer league head coach John Bryant said Terry, along with second-year forward Marko Simonovic, would be featured in Las Vegas, per NBC Sports Chicago’s Rob Schaefer.
Simonovic has also received attention for noticeably bulking up over the offseason.
But Terry, whose energy has been raved about since draft night, might have a better chance to make an immediate impact than expected. As one rival executive told Heavy’s Sean Deveney, Terry has an “NBA-ready” skill right out of the box.
Terry Already Has Fans Around the League
The 6-foot-7 athlete played guard in college. But Bulls general manager Marc Eversley has already said he projects Terry will be more of a wing at the NBA level. His versatility was intriguing to Bulls vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas.
Even if he doesn’t get the opportunity to display that in full right away – he will be on a roster that has three All-Star caliber players – Terry has another skill that should get him on the floor.
“The thing about Terry that I think everyone liked was that he is NBA-ready off the bat with his defense alone. It was the same way with Ayo, and I think that can get you on the floor with [Bulls head coach] Billy Donovan right away. Him and Ayo and Caruso coming off the bench could be a hell of a defensive trio.”
Dosunmu, the 38th-overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, was the Bulls’ only draft choice. He earned All-Rookie honors after averaging 8.8 points, 3.3 assists, and 2.8 rebounds while shooting over 52% from the floor and over 37% on three-pointers.
If Terry can replicate that, Donovan won’t be able to keep him off of the floor.
“I don’t know if Terry is ready offensively”, the executive said, “if he can make enough shots to keep him out there. You can’t have a black hole out there offensively. It could take him some time before they’re comfortable.”
Terry’s Showcase in Las Vegas
Terry’s selection came as a bit of a surprise to those expecting the Bulls to either draft a rim protector or trade for one. Neither happened as the team took the late-rising Terry to bolster their wing depth.
His shaky offense was a concern to some pre-draft. He was projected by some to go in the latter stages of the first round rather than the middle where the Bulls took him.
In summer league, he will have ample opportunity to prove why he was the right pick.
As Karnisovas noted during Terry’s introductory press conference, the former Arizona Wildcat improved his touch from beyond the arc as the season wrapped up. He shot 60% on 2.5 attempts during the Pac-12 and NCAA Tournaments.
He also averaged 12 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.0 assists (to just 1.7 turnovers), and 1.8 steals.
But, if his defense is as advertised, his shot can come around at its own pace given the Bulls’ needs around the trio of DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, and Nikola Vucevic.
The Bulls Big Three posted a 114.1 offensive rating, ranked in the 64th percentile, per Cleaning the Glass. But their defensive rating was 114.6 giving them a minus-0.5 net rating.
That ranked in the 32nd percentile.
Karnisovas acknowledged the Bulls’ need to improve on defense if they want to take that next step. Terry could go a long way to helping in that regard if he can make enough shots to keep the defense honest.
Don’t Fall Into the Trap
Donovan mentioned one thing Terry cannot do is lose his enthusiasm and energy throughout an 82-game season. How he bounces back after playing poorly or very little will be important.
Terry also cannot fall into the trap that we have seen from Patrick Williams over the last two seasons.
Williams has displayed aggression when on the floor alone but can disappear when on the floor with the Bulls’ top players. Terry carries a similar warning with him into the league. But his response to questions about that was he was simply playing his role.
His role in summer league play will be a starring one. And, while that won’t be his role this coming season, he can still have an impactful one right away with his tenacity and defense. | https://heavy.com/sports/chicago-bulls/dalen-terry-nba-ready-featured-summer-league-role/ | 2022-07-08T17:25:59Z | https://heavy.com/sports/chicago-bulls/dalen-terry-nba-ready-featured-summer-league-role/ | false | 1 |
PHILADELPHIA, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "In 2008, I brought the "Power of Red" from the highly successful Commerce Bank to Republic Bank. At the time CEO of Republic Harry Madonna heralded my arrival at Republic First Bancorp, saying my record of innovation, customer service brand building and shareholder value creation would result in Republic becoming a major regional commercial and retail bank with a unique brand.
I'm proud to say that the "Power of Red" delivered.
During the next 14 years, the Republic team forged a path of sustained success – growing assets sevenfold, attracting a highly talented leadership team and relieving it of the regulatory challenges. We truly served the people of our region and Forbes rated Republic Bank the #1 bank for customer service in America. And, when small businesses needed us here at home, we stepped up and became one of the largest providers of PPP loans in the country. Importantly, we also served the interests of shareholders by delivering consistently strong results.
Unfortunately, the recent passing of long-serving and dedicated Republic Director Ted Flocco and the decision Wednesday by the U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have allowed four members of the board of directors to seize unfettered control of Republic First Bancorp and has given me no choice but to resign as chief executive officer. I made this decision reluctantly, as the actions of this faction of the board show they are serving their own narrow interests instead of those of the shareholders.
When I leave Republic First Bancorp as CEO, I will be proud of all that was accomplished during my tenure. I am especially grateful to the talented team that we were able to attract to the bank. I'm also secure in the knowledge that I always acted in the best interests of shareholders, customers and employees, and I would like to personally thank all those who made this success happen."
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IHT Real Estate Protocol (IHT) traded up 6.8% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 13:00 PM E.T. on July 8th. One IHT Real Estate Protocol coin can now be bought for $0.0002 or 0.00000001 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Over the last seven days, IHT Real Estate Protocol has traded 14.2% higher against the U.S. dollar. IHT Real Estate Protocol has a market capitalization of $233,435.25 and $2,625.00 worth of IHT Real Estate Protocol was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004612 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded up 3.6% against the dollar and now trades at $21,704.57 or 1.00000000 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded 0.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.97 or 0.00009065 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004608 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded up 4.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.59 or 0.00002700 BTC.
IHT Real Estate Protocol Coin Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “I-House Token (IHT) aims to allow users and institutions the possibility to own a split percentage of a real estate project in the form of cryptocurrency, or in this case, the IHT token. IHT wants to integrate the global real estate markets with the blockchain technology, making possible for anyone to own a quota in tokens. The IHT token is an ERC20 compliant asset in the Ethereum Network and is to be used within the IHT platform. “
IHT Real Estate Protocol Coin Trading
It is usually not presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as IHT Real Estate Protocol directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire IHT Real Estate Protocol should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as GDAX, Gemini or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase IHT Real Estate Protocol using one of the exchanges listed above.
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Frasier star Kelsey Grammer shares promising update on series reboot
Frasier legend Kelsey Grammer has given a promising update for fans about the upcoming reboot. The series originally ran for 11 seasons from 1993 to 2004, and the revival is set to stream on Paramount+. Appearing virtually on CBS's The Talk, Grammer revealed that the cast look set to...
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ hopes to jolt a rebounding theater industry
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business
Two years ago, movie theaters were suffering through the pandemic and many in Hollywood wondered if going to the movies would become a thing of the past.
Now, halfway through 2022, the reports of the death of theaters appear to be greatly exaggerated. Audiences have returned to the cineplex for hits like “Top Gun: Maverick,” The Batman” and “Minions: The Rise of Gru” and there’s hope in Hollywood that these films are the rule, not the exception, for the rest of the year.
Theaters should get hit with another bolt of lightning this weekend when “Thor: Love and Thunder,” Marvel’s latest film, hits cineplexes. Starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman as the God(s) of Thunder, it is projected to have a debut of $150 million in North America. The film made a strong $29 million on Thursday night.
“Theaters have seen a renaissance of sorts this year with traditional blockbusters — sequels, superheroes and slasher pics — leading the box office brigade,” Jeff Bock, senior analyst at entertainment research firm Exhibitor Relations, told CNN Business.
Yet despite the optimism, the industry is still not completely back. Streaming remains a powerful alternative, inflation is squeezing disposable income and the second half of 2022 has a dearth of potential blockbusters.
Where we are
The domestic box office has made nearly $4 billion so far this year, according to Comscore. That total is up 243% over the same time last year, but 33% lower than 2019’s pre-pandemic levels.
This year’s box office numbers present a “Choose Your Own Adventure” of sorts. Being down 33% could be seen as disappointing, but it could also be viewed as a success considering the last two years.
A great example of this dichotomy is “Top Gun: Maverick.”
The biggest film of the year so far, in which Tom Cruise reprises one of his most iconic roles from the 1986 classic, has brought in $575 million in North America — or roughly 15% of this year’s entire domestic box office.
That’s excellent news for the industry, but should one movie represent that much of the domestic box office? Bock called “Maverick” a “box office anomaly that happens maybe once every decade.”
There have been other hits, of course, big moneymakers from franchises such as Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and Universal’s “Jurassic World: Dominion” as well as unexpected upstarts like A24’s trippy “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” which has made close to $70 million domestically despite being a smaller, low-budget film.
So, while the 2022 box office has bounced back, it still has a ways to go before reaching normalcy. But can it get there?
Where we’re going
“As we move forward, box office outlooks begin to focus minimally on pandemic concerns and mostly toward the strength of schedule again,” Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Boxoffice.com, told CNN Business.
He noted that summer films like “Thor,” Jordan Peele’s next horror film “Nope,” and the Brad Pitt led “Bullet Train” all have the potential to “keep a healthy momentum rolling.” However, Robbins admitted there isn’t “a great deal of built-in audience content slated to open from August to mid-October.”
Original films have struggled to find a sizable audience in recent years. If films like the rom-com “Bros,” the mysterious “Don’t Worry Darling” starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles and others are able to find an audience it could bridge a gap to the holiday season.
If theaters can maintain foot traffic until the holidays, 2022 ends the year with sequels to two of the highest-grossing films of all time.
The much anticipated “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is set for November. The latter is December’s “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the first film from director James Cameron since the original “Avatar” in 2009, which has totaled $2.8 billion worldwide.
Can “Wakanda Forever” match the box office of the original without Chadwick Boseman, who played the title character and died tragically in 2020? And will “Avatar” still find an audience 13 years later? The answers are unclear, but bet against Marvel Studios and Cameron — the director of many blockbusters like “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” and “Titanic” — at your own peril.
Bock, the analyst from Exhibitor Relations, believes blockbusters will continue to “breakaway at the box office,” and that this year “overall will likely be considered a major success considering the titles left on the release calendar.”
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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — President Joe Biden took executive action Friday to protect access to abortion as he faces mounting pressure after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to the procedure that had been in place for nearly 50 years.
The actions he outlined are intended to mitigate some potential penalties women seeking abortion may face after the ruling but are limited in their ability to safeguard access to abortion nationwide. Biden acknowledged the limitations, saying it would require an act of Congress to restore access to abortion in the more than a dozen states where strict limits or total bans have gone into effect in the wake of the court’s ruling. About a dozen other states are set to impose additional restrictions in the coming weeks and months.
“The fastest way to restore Roe is to pass a national law,” Biden said. “The challenge is go out and vote. For God’s sake there is an election in November. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote!”
Biden formalized instructions to the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to push back on efforts to limit the ability of women to access federally approved abortion medication or to travel across state lines to access clinical abortion services. He was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, HHS secretary Xavier Becerra and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in the Roosevelt Room as he signed the order.
His executive order also directs agencies to work to educate medical providers and insurers about how and when they are required to share privileged patient information with authorities — an effort to protect women who seek or utilize abortion services. He is also asking the Federal Trade Commission to take steps to protect the privacy of those seeking information about reproductive care online and establish an interagency task force to coordinate federal efforts to safeguard access to abortion.
Biden is also directing his staff to convene volunteer lawyers to provide women and providers with pro bono legal assistance to help them navigate new state restrictions after the Supreme Court ruling.
The court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority, upheld a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks. Justice Samuel Alito, in the final opinion issued two weeks ago, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong on the days they were decided and must be overturned.
Authority to regulate abortion rests with the political branches, not the courts, Alito wrote.
Since the decision, Biden has stressed that his ability to protect abortion rights by executive action is limited without congressional action.
“Ultimately, Congress is going to have to act to codify Roe into federal law,” Biden said last week during a virtual meeting with Democratic governors.
The tasking to the Justice Department and HHS is expected to push the agencies to fight in court to protect women, but it conveys no guarantees that the judicial system will take its side against potential prosecution by states that have moved to outlaw abortion.
This story is developing. Refresh for updates.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.fox46.com/news/u-s/watch-live-biden-to-sign-order-on-abortion-access/ | 2022-07-08T17:34:43Z | https://www.fox46.com/news/u-s/watch-live-biden-to-sign-order-on-abortion-access/ | false | 24 |
Crews extinguish residential structure fire in Paso Robles
Cause of the fire undetermined, no injuries reported
– At approximately 10:45 p.m. on Sunday, Paso Robles Fire and Emergency Services responded to Myrtlewood Drive in Paso Robles for a reported multifamily residential structure fire.
Firefighters arrived at the scene to discover a fire burning on the exterior of the structure and extending into the attic space. Due to the potential, a second alarm was requested but after a quick knockdown of the fire, it was canceled.
The fire was contained within 10 minutes, causing minimal damage. All occupants were able to evacuate safely and return to their homes after the fire was extinguished, according to the fire department.
Two fire engines, one ladder truck, and two battalion chiefs from Paso Robles Fire responded to the incident. Under the city’s automatic aid agreement, two engines and one battalion chief from Cal Fire/SLO County, and one ladder truck from Atascadero responded. Under the SLO County Mutual Aid Plan, three additional engines, a battalion chief, and a breathing support unit responded as part of the second alarm assignment.
The cause of the fire was undetermined.
The fire department reminds residents that all fireworks including “Safe and Sane” fireworks are prohibited in the City of Paso Robles. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2656365172316/crews-extinguish-residential-structure-fire-in-paso-robles | 2022-07-08T17:35:32Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2656365172316/crews-extinguish-residential-structure-fire-in-paso-robles | true | 2 |
New Delhi : In the third and final phase of the three-tier Panchayat General Election-2022, peaceful polling was held in all 92 development blocks. According to the information received till 8 pm, a total of 78 percent estimated voting has taken place. Of these, 79 percent are female, 78 percent are male and 11 percent are other voters.
Estimated polling percentage
State
Female
Male
Other
Total
Madhya Pradesh
79.00%
78.00%
11.00%
78.00%
District wise information in percentage
District
Female
Male
Other
Total
Sheopur
82.90
79
80.80
Morena
81.10
78.50
42.90
79.70
Bhind
75.30
71.40
73.10
Shivpuri
85.10
84.80
84.90
Guna
86.40
87.50
86.90
Ashok Nagar
83.50
84.30
83.90
Sagar
78.20
80.60
79.50
Tokamgarh
75.30
72
25
73.60
Chhatarpur
75.90
72.30
73.90
Damoh
80.40
78
79.10
Satna
75.70
69.30
33.30
72.40
Rewa
72.70
65.40
68.80
Sidhi
71.30
64.80
67.90
Singrauli
69
66.80
67.90
Sahadol
72.80
69.40
14.30
71.10
Anuppur
79.80
78
78.90
Katni
76.50
69.30
10
72.90
Dindori
75.30
75.10
75.20
Mandla
77.50
75.40
76.50
Balaghat
74.40
71.60
60
73
Seoni
84.10
83.80
50
83.90
Chhindwara
79.80
79.10
79.40
Betul
80.60
78.80
79.70
Narmadapuram
81.20
84.60
83
Raisen
77.50
80.60
20
79.20
Vidisha
83.90
86.30
16.70
85.70
Sehore
86.20
86.30
86.30
Rajgarh
84.70
84.40
84.50
Agar Malwa
87.60
89.30
100
88.50
Shajapur
86.90
89
88
Khandwa
77
79.60
20
78.30
Khargone
80.60
81.30
33.30
80.90
Badwani
78.20
83
80.60
Alirajpur
72.90
76
74.50
Dhar
76.80
79.10
4.50
78
Ujjain
83.80
86.70
21.40
85.30
Ratlam
86.70
87.50
62.50
87.10
Mandsaur
86.10
84.70
85.40
Neemuch
90.20
90.30
50
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(WETM) – The Google Maps Street View feature launched 15 years ago, and since then it has amassed a truly huge amount of data, showcasing high-resolution, ground-level photos of roads all over the world.
But how often does Google update the Street View of a given location, and when will it come to the Twin Tiers?
The answer: not for a while.
According to a report from Business Insider, Google updates Street View images with priority given to major cities first, roughly once a year. Cities and regions with smaller populations may take about three years—or longer—to get new photos. You can find the date a Street View photo was taken by looking in the lower-left corner of the screen.
A simple search of local streets shows a wide range of dates the last photos were taken. In Elmira, for example, several downtown streets and West Elmira roads seem to be the most recent, with photos taken in 2018. Several other streets farther away from downtown haven’t been captured since at least 2013.
And more remote areas in the region, like Reading Center in Schuyler County or Lawrenceville in Tioga County, Pa. haven’t been photographed since 2008 and 2009, respectively. Other back roads in these remote regions don’t have Street View photos at all.
Google doesn’t announce exact dates of when the Street View car will visit your area, but it does keep a general list titled “Where we’re headed“, consisting of counties and cities it plans to photograph with the next year.
In New York, Google says it plans to visit several downstate and Capital Region counties sometime in 2022, Other upstate counties on the docket for 2022 include Erie, Monroe and Madison.
In Pennsylvania, the story is much the same. Most of the counties Google says it will visit in 2022 are near the Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas. The closest regions to the Northern Tier—which are still several counties away—include Jefferson and Schuylkill.
However, the list provided by Google isn’t concrete. The company has a note saying factors like weather and road closures can affect when and if the 360-degree camera vehicles operate.
“Please also be aware that where the list specifies a particular city, this may include smaller cities and towns that are within driving distance,” the note adds.
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There was a mixed reaction to the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Grimsby, with some claiming he “should have gone months ago” and others saying he’d done “a lot of good” for the United Kingdom.
Boris Johnson was pressured into resigning as Prime Minister on Thursday after a flurry of cabinet resignations – confirming a lack of unity within the Conservative government.
More than 50 MPs stepped away from their cabinet roles in light of recent accusations and scandals against the government, including the appointing of Deputy Chief Whip Chris Pincher, despite Boris Johnson knowing of his serious allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour.
Mr Johnson’s legacy in power will naturally be the landmark majority he received in the 2019 General Election, tearing down the so-called Red Wall of safe Labour seats in towns such as Grimsby, turning them blue for the first time in generations.
BBC Look North went out to the streets of Grimsby to ask the public’s thoughts on the Prime Minister’s resignation, and it appears to have truly divided opinion.
One resident said the resignation was “too late” and he “should have gone ages ago”, while another said “good riddance to bad rubbish”, declaring that the Prime Minister had “made a mess of it the last couple of years.”
Not everybody in Grimsby sang from the same hymn sheet, though. “What a shame” someone said, before adding that Boris Johnson reminded her of “Winston Churchill”.
Another opinion was that he was “always a maverick”, questioning “why treat him like that now” when we “already knew” what he was like before he became Prime Minister.
Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
The political figures in North Lincolnshire have also had their say on the issue, with Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers saying the Prime Minister’s position had become “untenable”.
Mr Vickers told The Lincolnite: “Boris Johnson’s position had become untenable and it was right that he has decided to step down. His outstanding success was to break the deadlock over Brexit and deliver on the referendum result.
“There are a number of potential leaders but I can’t possibly offer an opinion until I know who is entering the contest. Whoever is successful will have to deal with the challenges posed by the energy crisis, the war in Ukraine, the backlog in the NHS resulting from the pandemic and much more.”
“How the Government deals with these issues will determine the outcome of the next election and I’m confident that we will have a leader and team to deal with them.”
Grimsby MP Lia Nici (Conservative)
Meanwhile, Lia Nici, Great Grimsby MP and also Boris Johnson’s Parliamentary Private Secretary, who remained tight-lipped as cabinet ministers resigned around her, has now spoken out on social media.
On Friday morning she quote tweeted a video posted by controversial GB News broadcaster Sophie Corcoran, who argued that Tory MPs should be “ashamed of themselves” for “letting the media dictate a Prime Minister”. The Great Grimsby MP said she “couldn’t have said it better” herself, before tagging Boris Johnson.
Interestingly, Sophie Corcoran’s Twitter bio declares her as a “broadcaster/journo/student/commentator” with references to her regular appearances on media platforms such as GB News, Good Morning Britain, Jeremy Vine on 5, Sky News Australia and The Daily Mail.
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The works will happen on Church Street, Spalding, taking in the part of the road from the traffic lights up to Stonegate junction.
During the resurfacing works a diversion will be in place which will direct traffic down Albert Street. A weight limit restriction has also been lifted for the short period of works and there will also be a No Parking order on Church Street for this duration.
Works are planned to happen from Monday July 18 and are planned to end on Friday July 22. This programme will happen at night-time only with the crew on-site from 20:00 to 06:00.
Outside the stated working times Church Street will be re-opened to through traffic to reduce any further disruption on the local network.
Karen Cassar, assistant director for highways said: “We have planned these works so as to cause as little disruption to traffic as possible.
“Working through the night means that we can further reduce impact to all road users in the area whilst resurfacing this busy road.
“While our crew gets this resurfacing project complete, I would like to thank everyone effected for their patience.”
Church Street, Spalding – Road closure & diversion Rev A | Photo: Lincolnshire County Council
Church Street, Spalding – 3 way | Photo: Lincolnshire County Council
Church Street, Spalding, Road closure and diversion – Rev A | Photo: Lincolnshire County Council
Two people have been arrested in connection with two separate burglaries in the east of the county.
A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested and charged following a burglary at an address in Morris Gardens, Skegness, on 7 July.
We received a report that a youth had entered a property and stolen a Vauxhall Corsa.
A swift joint response from our officers and CID led to an arrest, charge and remand within 10 hours.
He was charged with burglary, driving a car without a licence, taking a car without consent, and driving a car without insurance. He will appear at court at a later date.
A 38-year-old woman has been arrested following a separate burglary at a property in Sandringham Drive in Louth.
The victim, an elderly woman, woke in the early hours of the morning of 8 July to find someone in her house. The suspect left the house with a laptop, phone, alcohol, a Nissan Qashqai car, and other items.
The incident was called in at 2.06am. An off-duty officer heard the call and spotted the stolen car in a nearby street. Officers were deployed and arrested her on suspicion of burglary. She remains in custody and will be questioned in due course.
These two incidents are not linked.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dies at 67
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dies at 67
Shinzo Abe sought to reinvigorate Japan with bold economic policies and strong armed forces.
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, who sought to lift the economy out of chronic deflation with his bold “Abenomics” policies, beef up the military and counter China’s growing clout, has died at 67. Abe, who left office in 2020, was shot and killed on July 8 during an election campaign speech in an attack his protege and incumbent Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called “absolutely unforgivable”.
The lawmaker first became premier in 2006, lasting just a year before returning for a rare second stint in 2012 pledging to revive a stagnant economy, loosen the limits of a post-World War Two pacifist constitution and restore traditional values. He was instrumental in winning the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo, cherishing a wish to preside over the Games and even appeared as Nintendo video game character Mario during the Olympic handover at Rio, the 2016 host.
Abe became Japan’s longest-serving premier in November 2019, but by summer 2020, support had been eroded by his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak as well as a series of scandals including the arrest of his former justice minister. He resigned in September of that year without achieving his long-held goal of revising the constitution or presiding over the Games, which had been postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic. But he remained a dominant presence over the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), controlling one of its major factions. He was campaigning for an Upper House election two days later when he was assassinated.
ABENOMICS
Abe first took office in 2006 as Japan’s youngest prime minister since World War Two. After a year plagued by political scandals, voter outrage at lost pension records, and an election drubbing for his ruling party, Abe quit citing ill health. “What worries me most now is that because of my resigning, the conservative ideals that the Abe administration raised will fade,” Abe subsequently wrote in the magazine Bungei Shunju. “From now on, I want to sacrifice myself as one lawmaker to make true conservatism take root in Japan.”
Five years after resigning, which he blamed on the intestinal ailment ulcerative colitis, Abe led his conservative LDP - ousted in 2009 - back to power. He then launched a three-pronged “Abenomics” strategy to beat persistent deflation and revive economic growth with hyper-easy monetary policy and fiscal spending, along with structural reform to cope with a fast-aging, shrinking population. Deflation proved stubborn, however, and his growth strategy suffered in 2019 from a sales tax hike and Sino-U.S. trade war. The COVID-19 pandemic the following year triggered Japan’s deepest-ever economic slump.
At the pandemic’s onset, Abe took time to close Japan’s borders and implement a state of emergency urging people to stay home and shops to close. Critics initially branded the response clumsy and later faulted Abe for a lack of leadership. When he resigned citing the same intestinal ailment, Japan’s COVID-19 death rate was far below that of many other developed nations.
DYNASTY
Abe hailed from a wealthy political family that included a foreign minister father and a great-uncle who served as premier. But when it came to many policies, his grandfather, the late Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, seems to have mattered most. Kishi was a wartime cabinet minister imprisoned but never tried as a war criminal after World War Two. He served as prime minister from 1957 to 1960, resigning due to public furore over a renegotiated U.S.-Japan security pact. Five years old at the time, Abe famously heard the sound of clashes between police and leftist crowds protesting the pact outside parliament as he played on his grandfather’s lap.
Kishi tried unsuccessfully to revise Japan’s U.S.-drafted 1947 constitution to become an equal security partner with the United States and adopt a more assertive diplomacy - issues central to Abe’s own agenda. Abe boosted defence spending and reached out to other Asian nations to counter an increasingly assertive China. He pushed through laws to let Japan exercise the right of “collective self-defence”, or militarily aiding an ally under attack.
Revising the pacifist constitution remained a top priority for Abe, a contentious goal since many Japanese see the charter as responsible for the country’s post-war record of peace. Abe’s underlying agenda was to escape what he called the post-war regime, a legacy of U.S. occupation that conservatives argue deprived Japan of national pride. Reforming the education system to restore traditional mores was another of his goals. He also adopted a less apologetic stance towards Japan’s World War Two actions, saying future generations should not have to keep apologising for the mistakes of the past.
TOUGH STANCE
First elected to parliament in 1993 after his father’s death, Abe rose to national fame by adopting a tough stance toward unpredictable neighbour North Korea in a feud over Japanese citizens kidnapped by Pyongyang decades ago. Though Abe also sought to improve ties with China and South Korea, where bitter wartime memories run deep, he riled both neighbours in 2013 by visiting Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, seen by Beijing and Seoul as a symbol of Japan’s past militarism. In later years, he refrained from visiting in person and instead sent ritual offerings.
Across the Pacific, Abe forged close ties with U.S. President Donald Trump, playing golf and engaging in frequent phone calls and meetings. He was re-elected as LDP president for a third consecutive three-year-term in 2018 after a party rule change and, until the COVID-19 pandemic struck, some in the LDP had considered another rule change to allow him a fourth term. | https://frontline.thehindu.com/news/former-japanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-dies-at-67/article65615523.ece | 2022-07-08T17:42:50Z | https://frontline.thehindu.com/news/former-japanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-dies-at-67/article65615523.ece | false | 14 |
‘An inquest date would give us hope’ – brother of girl shot dead in 1972
The brother of a 13-year-old girl shot dead 50 years ago has said a date for an inquest would give his family hope.
Margaret Gargan was one of five civilians killed in a shooting incident involving the Army on July 9 1972.
The other four were Catholic priest Father Noel Fitzpatrick, 40, John Dougal, 16, Patrick Butler, 39 and David McCafferty, 15.
The families and their supporters are set to gather on Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of their deaths.
Speaking to the PA news agency ahead of the event, Margaret’s brother Harry said after 50 years they want answers.
He was 12 when his sister, then aged 13, died. She was then labelled as a gunman.
“I remember my father and I having to crawl on our hands and knees to get to where Margaret was, she was lying there on a corrugated sheet. That sight will never leave me,” he said.
“My mother never recovered from Margaret, she died at 57 of a heart attack.
“She got a letter from a soldier’s mother, apologising that the British Army killed Margaret.”
A fresh inquest into the five deaths is in its preliminary stages.
Mr Gargan said he hopes a date for the full inquest to be heard will be given at the next preliminary hearing in September.
We want to hear what happened. If we get a date for the full inquest at the next hearing, that would give us hope
The UK Government’s legacy Bill proposes to end all legal proceedings pertaining to the Troubles and has made the Springhill families anxious their inquest may not go ahead.
The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill also proposes an effective amnesty for Troubles crimes for those who co-operate with a new information body.
“It has been such a long time. All we really wanted was an inquest, we don’t want prosecutions,” Mr Gargan said.
“We want to hear what happened. If we get a date for the full inquest at the next hearing, that would give us hope.
“We have only one parent left in all the families, that’s David McCafferty’s father, he’s 92, you would like to see him get an inquest.”
Anyone who can assist the inquests is asked to contact the Legacy Inquest Unit.
Sinn Fein MP John Finucane has backed the Springhill families, saying they should not have to wait any longer for truth and justice.
“It is disgraceful that five decades later the families of those killed still do not have answers about what happened to their loved ones,” he said.
“Their courage outshines the shameful actions of the Tory Government that seeks to provide amnesty to the British soldiers that carried out the atrocities in Springhill and all state forces who killed Irish citizens.
“The British Government should listen to the voices of victims, families, political parties and the Irish government who are all opposed to these plans and want them scrapped.
“An agreement which included mechanisms to give victims and families access to truth and justice was reached in 2014 by the political parties and both governments at Stormont House, it should be implemented in full, in a human rights compliant manner.”
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NEZUK, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of people joined a peace march on Friday through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II.
The 100-kilometre (60-mile) march traces a route taken by men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group, which is made up primarily of Muslims, as they tried to flee Srebrenica after it was captured by Bosnian Serb forces in the closing days of the country’s interethnic war in the 1990s.
“I came here with my two sons and 50 other people from my hometown to pay respect to the victims, to remember their plight,” said Ademir Mesic from the northwestern Bosnian town of Bosanska Krupa.
“At some moments, in some places we passed by, I felt my skin creep,” said Mirce Malic from the northeastern town of Tuzla. “It is hard to think about what the (massacre) victims have gone through, walking through here and not knowing what awaits them around the corner.”
In July 1995, at least 8,000 Bosniak males were separated by Serb troops from their wives, mothers and sisters, chased through woods around Srebrenica and killed by those forces.
Bosnian Serb soldiers dumped the victims’ bodies in numerous mass graves scattered around the eastern town in an attempt to hide the evidence of the crime.
Newly identified victims are reburied each year on July 11 — the anniversary of the day the killing began in 1995 — in the vast and still expanding memorial cemetery outside Srebrenica.
So far, the remains of more than 6,600 people have been found and buried at the cemetery. The remains of 50 more victims, recently found in mass graves and identified through DNA analysis, will be put to rest there on Monday. On Friday, people lined Sarajevo’s main street as a huge truck bearing their coffins passed by on its way to Srebrenica.
The truck stopped in front of Bosnia’s presidency where the people paying respect tucked flowers into its canvas. Among them was Fatima Aljic, whose son, husband and brother were killed in the massacre. Aljic is still searching for their remains.
“Every year I come to bid farewell to the victims and it is difficult — it is very hard,” Aljic said before tearing up. “It would be hard even to witness what happened to us happening to someone else, let alone to experience it yourself.”
The Srebrenica killings were the bloody crescendo of the war in Bosnia, which came after the breakup of Yugoslavia unleashed nationalistic passions and territorial ambitions that set Bosnian Serbs against the country’s two other main ethnic factions — Croats and Bosniaks.
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Simon Cowell Pays Emotional Tribute to Late 'America's Got Talent' Star Nightbirde
Simon Cowell has paid tribute to late America's Got Talent star Nightbirde in an emotional Instagram post. Taking to the social media outlet, Cowell shared a photo of himself and the singer, writing in the caption, "[Nightbirde] was one of the most inspirational people I have ever met. She was so incredibly brave and I am very grateful she chose [AGT] to show the world her talent. I will never forget this moment."
Many of Cowell's fans and followers have since commented on the post, with one person offering, "I will never forget that moment when you gave her the golden buzzer it just brought tears to my eyes. RIP nightbird." Someone else added, "Thank you Simon. I don't think any of us will forget her and how brave she was!! Personally I will never forget how you responded to her talent." A third Instagram user wrote, "She was such a talented and very strong inspirational angel on earth. She is missed dearly."
Jane "Nightbirde" Marczewski competed on season 16 of AGT, back in 2021. Sadly, TMZ previously reported that she died on Sunday, February 20. Marczewski had been candid about her cancer battle and prognosis, sharing, "I have a two percent chance of survival, but two percent is not zero percent. Two percent is something, and I wish people knew how amazing it is." Marczewski earned a Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell but later announced that she was exiting the competition due to needing to focus on her health.
"Rest in power [Nightbirde]," judge Sofia Vergara wrote in an Instagram Stories post after Nightbirde's passing. "We lost a shining star today. You were a true inspiration to all. Sending so much love to Nightbirde's family and friends. She was something special."
"We, her family, are devastated by her passing and unimaginable loss," Marczewski's family wrote in a statement announcing her death. "Many remember her from America's Got Talent, where she performed her song 'It's OK' and inspired millions of people around the globe with her messages of faith and never giving up. Those who knew her, enjoyed her larger-than-life personality and sense of humor. She had a witty joke for every occasion – even if the joke was on her. Her lasting legacy will be the gift of hope she gave to so many through her music and the strength she found in Jesus. We thank everyone for their messages of love and support." | https://popculture.com/tv-shows/news/simon-cowell-pays-emotional-tribute-late-americas-got-talent-star-nightbirde/ | 2022-07-08T17:46:36Z | https://popculture.com/tv-shows/news/simon-cowell-pays-emotional-tribute-late-americas-got-talent-star-nightbirde/ | false | 1 |
The beach is making a return to Boston Central Park this summer, offering a host of activities for all ages – most of which are free.
The popular beach area is to be installed in the park on Tuesday, July 19 in time for the school holidays. It will stay for the duration of the school break until September 5 and can be used by anyone during the park’s opening hours.
The beach has proved popular with families in recent years and offers a great opportunity for friends to get together while the children play.
To celebrate the return of the beach, a programme of events – most of which are completely free – has been organised for people of all ages to enjoy this summer facility.
The events include:
• Thursday, July 21 – Teddy Bears Picnic. A free session for pre-school children only from 12noon to 2pm Bring your picnic and enjoy fun games, story time and play on the beach.
• Tuesday, July 26 – Sing-a-long around the beach. A free session for over 50s and those living with dementia from 2pm–4pm. Come along and enjoy singing with Boston’s Singing for Fun Group. There will be games on the beach or just come and listen and watch. All welcome.
• Thursday, July 28 – Fun in the Sun. A free session for those living with additional support needs from 1pm–3pm. Come along and have fun on the beach, play games, build sandcastles and listen or dance to the music.
• Thursday, August 18 and Friday, August 19. Free Family Fun Days on the beach, open to everyone from 10am-3pm. Bring your lunch and stay all day. There will be donkey rides, giant tortoises, bouncy castles, fun sports, face painting, arts and crafts, a magician plus much more. All activities are free.
• Saturday, August 20 – Free Skate Jam on the skate park from 12noon-4pm. Come and roller skate, skate board or BMX on the amazing skate park with Team Rubicon Action Sports School. There will be free riding sessions plus competitions with prizes throughout the event so come along and show your skills. Professional riders will also be demonstrating their skills. Don’t worry if you are new to these sports you will be given a chance to learn new skills.
• Tuesday, August 30 – Free event from RPM Bike Displays from 12noon-4pm. Come along and watch the skills from some of the UK’s most experienced demonstration riders with over 20 years of experience.
Cllr Tracey Abbott, portfolio holder for Town Centre at Boston Borough Council, said: “The beach is a wonderful asset to bring to Boston and I am delighted it is making a return to Central Park. The beach has proved very popular in recent years with families, offering a free day out for many, right on their doorstep.
“I hope many families visit the park and make the most of the events, many of which are completely free. From a Teddy Bears Picnic to fun days, there is something for all ages at Central Park this summer. I look forward to seeing the beach well used and being enjoyed by all who visit this summer.”
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A woman has been told by a court to pay more than £500 after abandoning a car on a Grantham street.
Francesca O’Connor, of Harby Close, Grantham, was fined £220, and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £34 and costs of £264.78. There was no plea entered at the hearing and the case was proved in her absence.
A red Peugeot 207 in a poor state of repair was parked on the highway in a layby on Hornsby Road. It had a smashed offside front door window, the front windscreen was shattered but in one piece and both wing mirrors were damaged.
The vehicle was reported to South Kesteven District Council as abandoned on April 9th 2021 by a member of the public. Both its tax and MOT had expired.
Due to its condition the registered keeper was contacted and a notice was issued meaning that if the vehicle was not removed SKDC would take it away.
As the registered keeper failed to act, the vehicle was removed by SKDC and a Fixed Penalty Notice was issued to the registered keeper for abandoning the vehicle, which was not paid.
Francesca O’Connor was ordered to pay over £500 for abandoning the vehicle. | Photo: South Kesteven District Council
SKDC’s Cabinet Member for People and Safer Communities, Cllr Annie Mason, said: “This case serves as a reminder to all that we will not tolerate environmental crime and will issue Fixed Penalty Notices and, if necessary, pursue the matter through the courts.
“Abandoned vehicles are often unsightly, can damage the environment, and cause harm to wildlife.”
A vehicle can be regarded as abandoned if it has been in the same place for at least four weeks without tax and MOT, if it is insecure, or in a poor condition. Abandoned vehicles can be reported at Abandoned vehicles (southkesteven.gov.uk)
It’s déjà vu for the start of the road rebuild because Anglian Water’s sewer works need more time to complete.
One week on from the last delay and it’s another turnover for the council’s plans to rebuild Boston Road South.
The three-week programme of specific council roadworks, returning the sinkhole-hit road back to normal, is having to wait another week longer for sewer works to be completed before road repairs can get underway.
Originally due to start on Monday July 4, the plan for the stretch of road was extended until Monday July 11 whilst sewer works by Anglian Water were completed. However, AW has now revealed that the sewer works are extending into next week, further delaying the Council’s rebuild.
The news means that the council will not be able to begin next Monday as hoped and will have to wait longer to get going on the deep-level rebuild.
The nature of the works needed means that LCC cannot begin its work until the sewer project is completed.
When it can finally get underway, the road rebuild will happen between Holbeach Primary school and Cecil Pywell Avenue.
These council repair works will happen in two phases. The first part will take care of the sub-layer of the road and the second part of the rebuild plan will deliver the road surface and markings.
The road will remain closed until the works are completed.
Cllr Richard Davies, executive member for highways said: “Once again we find ourselves eager to get going with these works but the issues that Anglian Water are facing are causing the delay.
“The sewer works that AW are undertaking are difficult and proving to be in need of more time than was originally thought. This is not only increasingly more frustrating for the residents and businesses in the local area but also for us and our partners in the project.
“Until these sewer works are complete there’s nothing that we can do in terms of rebuilding the road, so for now we will have to wait until AW has finished on-site.
“We are very keen to return Boston Road South to normal as quickly as we can and I would like to assure everyone affected that we will get on with these works as soon as possible.
“I would, again, like to thank local residents and businesses for their continued patience as the various elements of this set of works continue.” | https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2022/07/summer-comeback-for-beach-at-boston-central-park/ | 2022-07-08T17:46:49Z | https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2022/07/summer-comeback-for-beach-at-boston-central-park/ | true | 1 |
Health and Wellness: How to prevent knee pain when hiking
Hiking is a popular way to stay active during the summer months. But it can also wreak havoc on your knees. Personally, I love to hike. My pup (Bodie) and I are currently in the process of conquering the 48 4K footers of the White Mountains - and the very last thing I want is for knee pain to get in the way of that journey.
The good news is that there is quite a bit you can do to prevent knee pain when hiking.
So when one of my readers asked this week - “How do I prevent knee pain when hiking?” - I couldn’t wait to answer it.
Here are four of my top tips to help you prevent knee pain when hiking.
Strengthen your hips and core
Your hips and core provide much needed support for your knee joint to function properly. The large bone in your thigh, called your femur, makes up your knee joint on the bottom, and your hip joint on the top. Your hip joint is connected to your pelvis, which houses major core muscles groups like your glutes.
Let’s say your glutes (part of your core) and hip muscles aren’t as strong as they could be. When you’re trying to climb up a large rock or steep trail, for example, your glutes and hip muscles are supposed to stabilize your pelvis so that your femur can easily extend your hip.
When not strong enough, your pelvis will tilt to compensate - which impacts the alignment of your femur - and ultimately the alignment of your knee. When I hike a 4k footer - I get in approximately 27,000 steps. If your knee is compensating for everyone one of those steps - it’s eventually going to hurt. If hiking is something you love to do, it’s critical that you strengthen your hips and core.
Keep your knees mobile
One of the biggest mistakes I see when it comes to knee problems is a lack of full mobility. Your knee shouldn’t just straighten, it should be able to hyperextend a little bit. When you bend your knee, you should be able to tolerate a full deep squat without any pain. These full end range movements are pretty essential to have when it comes to hiking.
Your knee needs to be able to squat, pivot, and tolerate stress on those uneven trails. When you lack full mobility, it impacts your knee’s ability to tolerate these micro-stresses and over time - your knees will ache.
If you’ve got pain or stiffness in your knee in either direction of movement - it’s important to try and push that movement and work through it rather than avoid it - even if your knee seems painful at first. More often than not, the more you move your knee joint, the better it will feel. If that doesn’t happen - then you know it’s time to talk to an expert about it and have them take a closer look at your knee.
Work on your balance
Hiking can involve everything from uneven terrain, water crossings, and rock hopping. Good balance is essential for these activities and without it - your knees will suffer. So how do you work on your balance? Aside from the obvious (practicing balance exercises), it’s also important to look at a few other things - namely - the mobility of your toes, foot and ankle joints as well as the strength of your arch (plantar fascia). These structures all play a role in how well you’re going to be able to balance.
You can do all the balancing exercises in the world, but if you’ve got faulty mobility in your ankle, for example, or a flat, weakened arch - balance is always going to be really difficult for you. Perform regular stretching of your ankle and calf muscles, Be sure to move those toes - can you lift your big toe up by itself when you're standing? And use a small ball to regularly massage the arch of your foot to keep it flexible.
These small activities can play a huge role in helping you to be able to balance with more ease - especially on the trials.
Use Trekking poles
Even if you implement every single tip I mentioned above, depending on your overall level of fitness, and the condition of your knees prior to when you decided to get into hiking, you could still have some knee pain despite doing “everything right”. Trekking poles can be a real life saver - or should I say knee-saver. They help take away some of the stress from your knees and lower legs - especially on really long hikes and technically challenging trails. Plus, if you’re carrying a backpack, trekking poles help to disperse that extra weight away from your knees and into your arms. And added bonus - hiking with poles gives your arms a little extra workout at the same time and keeps your hands and fingers from getting puffy on those extra hot and humid days.
If you love hiking as much as Bodie and I do - then I know the last thing you want is for knee pain to keep you from hiking. I hope these tips help you to ease any knee pain you might currently have as well as prevent future knee pain on the trails.
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Tadej Pogacar turns the screw on rivals with thrilling stage seven win at Tour de France
Pogacar increased his advantage at the top of the general classification as he won on top of the iconic La Planche des Belles Filles wearing the yellow jersey
Tadej Pogacar won a thrilling, agonising finish to stage seven atop the brutal Super Planche des Belles Filles, as the reigning Tour de France champion made another major statement in his quest for a third successive yellow jersey.
Pogacar (UAE Emirates) gradually came to the front of the peloton as it hunted down the breakaway, rider by rider, on a 177km route from Nancy to La Planche in the Vosges Mountains, until his teammate Rafal Majka moved aside and waved his leader through to chase the only rider left ahead with 800m to go, German 25-year-old Lennard Kamna (Bora-Hansgrohe).
With the finish line in sight and a wild crowd urging him through a corridor of noise, Kamna seemed set to crawl home to a hard-earned victory, having launched a solo bid for home on the final climb. Yet the painfully steep finale to La Planche takes a toll up high where the asphalt road turns to gravel track, a price too high for a heartbroken Kamna who was overtaken in the final 100m by Pogacar, now trailing his fiercest rival, last year's runner-up Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma).
Vingegaard kicked hard and with barely 10 metres remaining he led a creeping ‘sprint’ finish, grinding his tyres into the dirt as he tried desperately to haul himself over the line, all playing out in slow-motion. Then came the relentless Pogacar, a luminous yellow juggernaut passing barely a bike length from the finish and glancing back over his shoulder as if to ask the Dane whether he could respond. Vingegaard's head dropped as Pogacar raised a triumphant fist in celebration.
This climb has become a modern classic of the Tour de France and it was where the prodigious Pogacar took hold of the 2020 edition. History rhymed two years on, and the increase in his overall race lead to 35 seconds was secondary to the psychological blow of withstanding and ultimately crushing Vingegaard's gutsy assault.
“It was really, really difficult, especially in the end, the last part when Jonas attacked," Pogacar said afterwards. "He was so strong. My boys were working all day so I had to push to the finish line, especially with my family at the bottom of the climb. We have launched a new foundation today for cancer research and I wore special shoes for it, and so I really wanted to win. It was in my mind already since the route was [announced] and it was a big goal to win today.”
Pogacar has now won the past two stages not necessarily because he needed to but because he wanted to, and he has the look of a man who will not be denied a historic third crown, no matter the strength and depth of teams like Jumbo-Visma or Ineos, who have four riders inside the top 10 after Geraint Thomas and co did well to keep pace for most of the final ascent.
With the Alps and Pyrenees still to come this race is far from over, though it will take something extraordinary over the next two weeks to stop him. Vingegaard did take time from Pogacar in the highest mountains last year, and the champion took care to praise his rival at the finish. “For sure [Vingegaard is a threat]. Right now he is one of the strongest climbers in the world, probably the best in the world, with a strong team around him.”
Vingegaard's teammate Primoz Roglic finished third, though he remains almost three minutes down on Pogacar overall after dislocating his shoulder on stage six. Then came a devastated Kamna (who wasn’t even compensated with the most combative rider award, given to fellow breakawayer Simon Geschke) in fourth, before Thomas in fifth.
Thomas’s Ineos teammates Adam Yates, Dani Martinez and Tom Pidcock (wearing the best young rider's white jersey by virtue of Pogacar already wearing yellow) were not far behind and they are all within two minutes of Pogacar overall, with Thomas third in the standings at 1 min 10 sec back.
“It’s good that we’re all there just going into the next two days and the next two weeks as well,” Thomas said afterwards. “We haven’t even done a proper mountain stage yet! We’re all in there, and we’ll try to use those numbers not just attacking for the hell of it but trying to use them, and we’ll see what we can do.”
There are two more days before the second rest day of the Tour: the first is a hilly road to Lausanne, the second an arrival in the Alps with some category-one mountain climbs en route to Chatel. While Saturday could be one for the breakaway, Sunday looks primed for the man in yellow once more. His rivals carry multiple threats but Pogacar is individually stronger than any team, and on this evidence he may yet dish out more punishment before the week is out.
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The online platform that provides accessible, comprehensive resources for treatment and recovery teams with Rock to Recovery to end the stigma of addiction and inspire people to celebrate a sober life
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- All Sober, the game-changing platform to support the millions of Americans impacted by drug and alcohol addiction, announced today that it will be the title sponsor of the sobriety benefit concert Rock to Recovery. The fifth annual concert will take place on July 9 at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles; it is 100% alcohol-free and will raise money to support recovery and sobriety initiatives.
This year's concert honors three-time Emmy-winning actor Keith David, recipient of the Rock to Recovery ICON Award, along with Emmy-nominated comedian Jay Mohr, recipient of the Rock to Recovery Service Award, for their contributions to the recovery community. The lineup features the night's headline band, Sacred Sons, plus musicians from Train, Korn, Madonna's band, Ministry, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Misfits and other special guests. Willie Nelson protege and Heidi Klum's favorite, Lily Meola, will also perform, coming straight off her America's Got Talent golden Buzzer victory.
"We are very excited to have the support of All Sober as the title sponsor for this year's event," said Wes Geer, founder of Rock to Recovery. "We have a shared vision of music as an outlet for healing, hope and expression, and working together, we can raise funds to support recovery and end the stigma of addiction." Rory Pullens, chief education and inspiration officer at All Sober, will kick off the evening's activities with Geer.
All Sober provides support through the entire recovery journey and consists of seven pillars: Help & Information, Group Support, Treatment/Recovery, Community, Relaunch, Sober Lifestyle and Inspiration. The platform showcases inspirational music, videos and blogs from celebrity partners, including Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Ralph Johnson of Earth Wind & Fire, and Ricky Byrd, formerly of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. All Sober emphasizes that sobriety is not only possible, but sustainable and fun as well.
"We are honored to be the title sponsor of Rock to Recovery. This group of performers brings inspiration to those in recovery or battling addiction, and the mission aligns with All Sober's main pillars that make up our platform," said Pullens. "All Sober understands the importance of influencers and celebrities to lead discussions surrounding sober living and recovery. Our platform shares their stories to provide support for our members."
To follow along on social media, the event's hashtags are #rocktorecovery5 and #R2R5.
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For the 192 million Americans who are impacted by drug and alcohol addiction, All Sober provides all the vital resources needed for treatment, recovery and sober life, all in one place. All Sober represents the journey from addiction to a sober lifestyle with seven key pillars: Help & Information, Group Support, Treatment/Recovery, Community, Relaunch, Sober Lifestyle and Inspiration. To demonstrate that sobriety is possible, sustainable and fun, the platform also includes inspiration from celebrities, music, videos, blogs and articles.
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A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Warner Bros.Discovery.
Looking at options history for Warner Bros.Discovery WBD we detected 13 strange trades.
If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 38% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 61% with bearish.
From the overall spotted trades, 8 are puts, for a total amount of $614,045 and 5, calls, for a total amount of $909,893.
What's The Price Target?
Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $10.0 to $22.5 for Warner Bros.Discovery over the last 3 months.
Volume & Open Interest Development
Looking at the volume and open interest is a powerful move while trading options. This data can help you track the liquidity and interest for Warner Bros.Discovery's options for a given strike price. Below, we can observe the evolution of the volume and open interest of calls and puts, respectively, for all of Warner Bros.Discovery's whale trades within a strike price range from $10.0 to $22.5 in the last 30 days.
Warner Bros.Discovery Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days
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Where Is Warner Bros.Discovery Standing Right Now?
- With a volume of 6,521,999, the price of WBD is down -2.93% at $14.1.
- RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock is currently neutral between overbought and oversold.
- Next earnings are expected to be released in 25 days.
What The Experts Say On Warner Bros.Discovery:
- Benchmark downgraded its action to Buy with a price target of $26
- JP Morgan downgraded its action to Neutral with a price target of $22
- Citigroup has decided to maintain their Buy rating on Warner Bros.Discovery, which currently sits at a price target of $29.
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If you want to stay updated on the latest options trades for Warner Bros.Discovery, Benzinga Pro gives you real-time options trades alerts.
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Jury finds RJLF client Roger Austin and other industry executives not guilty
NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A jury acquitted five poultry industry executives in the third price-fixing trial brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ), including Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP (RJLF) client Roger Austin, a former Vice President of Pilgrim's Pride, concerning an alleged scheme to fix prices and rig bids for chickens sold to grocery stores and restaurants.
The not guilty verdict was announced on July 7, 2022, after jurors deliberated for a day and a half, following a four-week trial before Chief Judge Philip A. Brimmer in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. This long-awaited victory follows two mistrials in December 2021 and March 2022 when jurors deadlocked after weeks of trial.
"Withstanding the pressure in cases like this takes immense courage by our clients," said RJLF partner Michael S. Feldberg, lead counsel for Defendant Roger Austin and head of the Firm's White Collar Defense practice. "Our clients continued to stress their innocence even after being subjected to three trials by the Government. The jury worked hard to weigh the evidence in this case, and we are very pleased with the verdict."
The case stems from a DOJ indictment that charged 10 executives with criminal violations of the Sherman Act, which prosecutors allege occurred as part of a scheme that purportedly lasted from 2012 to 2019 to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chickens—a $28 billion per year industry in the United States. The DOJ alleged the executives kept in close contact through text message, phone, and email to coordinate bids made to restaurants, grocery stores, and buying co-ops, according to prosecutors.
Along with Mr. Feldberg, the RJLF trial team included counsel Julie Withers, associates Laura E. Carwile, David A. King, Jr., Parshad Brahmbhatt, and Nathaniel Warner, and legal assistant Jared Rodgers.
The case is U.S. v. Penn et al., case number 1:20-cr-00152, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP (RJLF) is a majority women-owned national trial firm that handles high-stakes commercial litigation, intellectual property, and white collar disputes. RJLF's attorneys are diverse, exceptionally credentialed, and passionate about trial advocacy. From offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, the firm tries cases and argues appeals throughout the country. For more information, visit www.reichmanjorgensen.com.
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Singapore sling for Shinn
After quitting HK, the Aussie jockey swings by Kranji for five race meetings, including Singapore Derby Day
Top Australian jockey Blake Shinn is back in Singapore for a second Derby raid.
The Singapore Turf Club (STC) has granted the 34-year-old Melbourne Cup-winning jockey a five-week visiting jockey’s licence, from yesterday to Aug 14.
The period covers five Kranji race meetings, which include the Group 1 Singapore Derby (1,800m) tomorrow week and the Group 1 Lion City Cup (1,200m) on Aug 14.
Shinn will ride the Jerome Tan-trained Amazing Breeze in the $400,000 Derby.
He enjoyed a brief but successful one-day visit on Singapore Derby Day at Kranji in 2015.
He finished unplaced aboard Twickenham for trainer Stephen Gray in the feature race, then run over 2,000m.
But he compensated for the defeat with two wins on Squire Osbaldeston and Newlands for Gray and Twickenham’s owner, the St George Stable.
Shinn recently cut short a three-year stint in Hong Kong, citing stifling Covid-19 protocols for jockeys as the main reason for returning to Australia.
The short Singapore stay will serve as a springboard to his Australian riding comeback, which kicks off on Aug 20 at Moonee Valley in Melbourne.
The curtain comes down on the Hong Kong racing season next Saturday.
But Shinn bade farewell at his last meeting at Happy Valley on Wednesday, given he is suspended for careless riding from the last three fixtures.
With the reciprocity of suspensions between international racing jurisdictions, it means that Shinn can ride only trackwork at Kranji until Derby Day.
There was to be no fairytale end to his Hong Kong sojourn, though, with a third place as his best showing from five rides.
Shinn rode his last winner, Nunchuks, on June 25 to take his current season tally to 37 winners, for an overall score of 76 winners.
It was by far his best Hong Kong season, during which he also won three Group 1 races – the Hong Kong Sprint on Sky Field, the Hong Kong Gold Cup and Champions & Chater Cup on Russian Emperor.
His first Group 1 gong came in the 2020-2021 season, when he won the Hong Kong Classic Mile aboard Excellent Proposal.
Back in Australia, where his career began in Kilmore, Victoria, in 2003, Shinn boasts a total of 1,700 winners.
They include 25 at Group 1 level, the most recent astride Trapeze Artist in the 2019 Canterbury Stakes.
He also has the distinction of being the first apprentice jockey to win the Scobie Breasley Medal in 2005.
Besides Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore, Shinn has also ridden in New Zealand, Dubai, Japan, the United Kingdom and America.
He goes to scale at 55 kg.
The STC is also granting another one-day visit to Australian jockey Daniel Moor on Singapore Derby Day.
The former Kranji-based jockey again rides the Tim Fitzsimmons-trained Hero, the same horse he partnered at a similar hit-and-run visit on Stewards’ Cup Day on June 26.
Moor did not succeed on Hero, but did not return to Australia empty-handed. He scored on Fast And Fearless for trainer James Peters.
In addition, the dates to jockey Vlad Duric’s recent extension to stay in Singapore until the end of the season have been amended.
Originally meant to start on Aug 1, his new licence is backdated to July 18, meaning that the four-time Singapore champion jockey will also ride at the July 24 and 31 meetings.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Barings Global Short Duration High Yield Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: BGH) announced its monthly dividend for July 2022 of $0.1056 per share, payable on August 1, 2022. Based on the Fund's June 30, 2022 share price of $13.01 per share, the distribution represents an annualized yield of 9.74% per share. Based on current projections through the payable date, the Fund expects that this distribution will be comprised of net investment income.
In addition, the Fund announced estimated monthly distributions of $0.1056 per share for August and September 2022.
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The Fund seeks to pay a distribution at a rate that reflects net investment income actually earned. A portion of each distribution may be treated as paid from sources other than net investment income, including but not limited to short-term capital gain, long-term capital gain or return of capital. The final determination of the source and tax characteristics of these distributions will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during its fiscal year and will be made after the Fund's year end. The Fund will send to investors a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will define how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
The Fund is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company that is managed by Barings LLC. The Fund invests primarily in short-duration, global high yield bonds with the objective of seeking as high a level of current income as Barings determines is consistent with capital preservation, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. The Fund expects to maintain a weighted average portfolio duration, including the effects of leverage, of 3 years or less.
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AGAWAM — Behavioral Health Network will soon begin renovations in Agawam for a new youth community crisis stabilization center.
The center will operate 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It will have individual bedrooms for as many as 22 youths from age 4 to 18, and it will need a staff of 40 to 50, said Steve Winn, president and CEO of Behavioral Health Network. | https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/07/behavioral-health-network-creating-youth-crisis-stabilization-center-in-agawam.html | 2022-07-08T18:09:05Z | https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/07/behavioral-health-network-creating-youth-crisis-stabilization-center-in-agawam.html | true | null |
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore returned to the West African country Thursday, the first time since being ousted in a popular uprising eight years ago.
The former leader arrived at the Ouagadougou airport, according to Western diplomats and the Emir of Lipatko, a traditional leader.
Compaore, who’s been in exile in neighboring Ivory Coast since 2014, came back to be part of an unprecedented meeting on Friday of former heads of state to discuss Burkina Faso’s future, said a statement by the government.
Compaore is to join past presidents Michel Kafando, Yacouba Isaac Zida, Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo and Roch Marc Christian Kabore, according to the statement.
It’s unclear how long Compaore will stay in the country.
Friday’s meeting has been called by the ruling junta led by Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba who seized power in a coup in January and has had himself appointed interim president.
The summit meeting of former leaders comes as Burkina Faso grapples with soaring jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that’s killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people.
Compaore, who seized power from his long-time friend and revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara in a 1987 coup, ruled Burkina Faso with an iron fist for nearly 30 years. He was known for both fuelling regional conflicts in West Africa and playing peacemaker, supporting warlords like Liberia’s Charles Taylor. However, Compaore was praised by the U.N. for contributing to peace and stability in Mali when the neighboring country was nearly overrun by jihadis a decade ago.
Compaore was ousted in 2014 after weeks of protests sparked by legislative proposals to remove term limits, which would have allowed him to extend his rule.
Compaore’s return has sparked mixed reactions.
He was recently tried in absentia and sentenced to life in prison after being found complicit in Sankara’s murder in 1987 and for undermining state security. Lawyers for the Sankara family have called for his arrest upon arrival, said a statement issued earlier this week seen by The Associated Press.
The military junta said Friday’s meeting doesn’t “hinder legal proceedings” against some of those attending, but didn’t elaborate on what that meant.
Compaore’s return is controversial and a step backward for the conflict-riddled nation, say conflict analysts.
“As much as current authorities are trying to make this look like part of reconciliation efforts, it also sends the wrong message,” said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a Moroccan-based organization.
“Removing Blaise from power in 2014 was celebrated as a victory against an authoritarian regime, but his return is yet another step back in Burkina Faso and its fight for a better democracy,” said Lyammouri.
Compaore’s return and the unusual gathering of former leaders is a move by the ruling junta to increase its legitimacy and to get the influential former leaders to endorse its agenda, said a European diplomat in Burkina Faso who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Junta leader Damiba came to power promising to secure Burkina Faso from jihadi violence but is struggling to stem the increasing insurgency. Friday’s meeting is the latest of a series of initiatives to strengthen military operations and improve relations with neighboring countries and the international community.
Last week the junta agreed to a 24-month transition period to elections starting from July, reducing its original timeline of three years, which prompted the 15-nation West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, to drop its threat of sanctions.
Some residents tired of the current violence, see Compaore’s return as a chance to move the nation forward.
“We, the traditional and customary leaders, seek national reconciliation, social cohesion and peace. This is the best security for all,” Ousmane Amirou Dicko, the Emir of Liptako, told AP. “We are not for the spirit of revenge.” | https://www.wjtv.com/news/international/burkina-fasos-ex-leader-compaore-returns-for-crisis-meeting/ | 2022-07-08T18:13:05Z | https://www.wjtv.com/news/international/burkina-fasos-ex-leader-compaore-returns-for-crisis-meeting/ | false | 39 |
The decile system will be replaced with a new Equity Index from next January. Why was the change needed and what does it mean for your local school?
What's changing?
From 2023 every school will have an Equity Index (EQI) number ranging from 344 to 569. The higher the number, the more barriers students face in their educational achievement. The index replaces deciles, where schools were divided into 10 groups - decile 1 being the most disadvantaged, decile 10 was the least.
Equity index numbers have been calculated using 37 socioeconomic factors, including everything from transience and parents' benefit history to the parents' education level, all of them with different weightings. The full list of factors hasn't been published but extensive analysis has found the factors are most predictive of educational outcomes.
Each school's number will determine its share of an equity funding pool, which it can use to counteract educational disadvantage among its students. Previously $161 million of equity funding was shared out among the country's 2500 schools each year, weighted towards the lowest deciles. That's now increased by 50 per cent to $236m.
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Deciles have been around for almost 30 years, but they're now seen as relatively blunt and flawed. They were based on poverty and disadvantage in students' neighbourhoods, not on the students themselves, and were only reviewed every five years - equity index numbers will be updated every year.
Ministry of Education leader of operations Sean Teddy said the ministry now had access to much better data and understood the factors that most affected achievement.
It had taken six years to develop the EQI, which was first suggested by the previous National government. The education sector and Statistics NZ have been heavily involved, the Offices of the Privacy Commissioner and the Ombudsman were consulted and the model was independently reviewed last year.
Will any schools lose out?
There are fears some schools might protest if they lose funding, but Teddy said very few schools would be in that position.
"For the small number of schools that will receive less funding, we've put in transition arrangements," he said.
No school would get less equity funding per student next year, and those losing funding would do so gradually so they had time to adjust. The extra $75m a year should also help ensure few schools lose money even if their position relative to other schools has changed, and a smoothing process means schools shouldn't have big funding changes if their EQI changes from year to year.
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Former Edgewater College principal Allan Vester, who led the sector reference group for the ministry, said a lot of care was being taken to make sure schools understood the index before finding out this September how much money they would get.
That was because "as soon as you tell schools what money is involved, the ones who are going to get more defend the system, and the ones who are going to get less spend the whole time looking for reasons why this isn't fair," he said.
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Schools found out their EQI numbers last Friday, with all numbers to be published by the Ministry of Education in Term 3.
Regional data shows on average the most deprived schools are in Te Tai Tokerau - average EQI 506 - followed by Tairawhiti (491) and Bay of Plenty (489). Auckland and Canterbury/Chatham Islands have the lowest average EQI of 444 - however there will be large variations within regions.
Why is my school's EQI number so different to its decile?
Many deciles haven't been recalculated for eight years because of the poor data quality in the 2018 census, so the makeup of the student body could have changed. It's also possible that the decile system didn't capture the true level of disadvantage students faced.
Schools won't know each others' numbers until they're published, although they will know where they sit overall. Few schools were willing to tell the Herald their EQI number at this stage but two decile 9 schools - Macleans College and Whangaparāoa College - had EQIs of 390 and 463 respectively, suggesting despite their shared decile they actually were serving very different cohorts.
Whangaparāoa principal Steve McCracken said he was unsure what his school's number meant but assumed it would bring increased funding. "I'd love to know the formula and calculations behind it."
Vester expected some principals might protest when they discovered their EQI number was lower than a school down the road, especially if they used to get the same funding.
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Advertise with NZME.Actually, Vester said, "what wasn't fair is that you were getting the same amount - because this more accurate model is now showing the need of your students isn't actually as great as you thought".
How will students' data be kept private?
The data has been taken from Statistics NZ's Integrated Data Infrastructure, which pulls information about every New Zealander from across Government agencies. The data is anonymised and there are strict privacy restrictions around who can use it and how. That means the ministry doesn't know students' identities when it's working out their level of disadvantage, and neither will schools.
"There is no way to infer anything about any student based on an EQI number," the ministry says.
At some very small schools it could be possible to make assumptions about students' backgrounds based on the EQI number; those schools' numbers will not be published.
How will the EQI be used to combat disadvantage?
Because of the privacy rules, equity funding can't be tagged to any particular student. Instead schools are expected to use the money to combat disadvantage across the school - for example, paying for more social services or hiring teacher aides.
Vester said the ministry was taking a "very trusting approach", with no requirement for schools to report how they used the money. "But you would think it would be high on the board's agenda. We have additional funding. Where are we going to do make a difference to our kids?"
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Advertise with NZME.The index will also be used to allocate other funding previously shared out by decile, such as principals' professional development, and the ministry is working with other agencies that use deciles - like the Ministry of Health - to ensure they understand the new system when allocating resources like school nurses.
Free school lunches are also up for review now the EQI has been finalised, as they were calculated based on an earlier version of the index. Vester said no school that already got free lunches would lose them, but more schools would likely be included.
Is the EQI set in stone?
The ministry can change or refine the EQI as New Zealand gathers more data about its citizens. But because the index was started by National, Vester said it was unlikely to be scrapped regardless of who was in goverment.
There is also some concern that equity funding will be spread too thinly - it will be less than 4 per cent of overall school funding compared to the OECD average of 6 per cent. Vester shared that concern but was optimistic that funding would increase in future Budgets.
Could the Equity Index get misused?
Concerns have long been raised about the flaws of the decile system - from real estate agents using "high decile" as a shorthand for quality, to league tables comparing NCEA results within deciles.
That should be harder with the EQI, which Vester pointed out had more of a bell curve with most schools clustered towards the middle. Because so many socioeconomic factors are included, schools with identical EQI numbers could serve very different students - there's no way to tell from the index.
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"The EQI's in no way a reflection of the quality of the school," he said. "Actually, having [a higher EQI] number does have some significant advantages because it has additional money to spend on its kids."
He also opposed even listing schools by their EQI, believing it could be damaging for the schools serving the most disadvantaged students.
"Parents get worried and then they don't send their children to those schools and so we end up with a downward cycle of despair," he said. "That's exactly why we wanted more money to be spent, so those schools which are serving kids with the highest needs could do such a fantastic job that there's no reason to send their children to anywhere but the local school." | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dumping-deciles-whats-the-equity-index-and-how-could-it-affect-your-school/U6LNNTBORV7QGA55XRSR56XHME/?c_id=1&objectid=12536881&ref=rss | 2022-07-08T18:14:05Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dumping-deciles-whats-the-equity-index-and-how-could-it-affect-your-school/U6LNNTBORV7QGA55XRSR56XHME/?c_id=1&objectid=12536881&ref=rss | false | 5 |
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A company that administered more than 1 million vaccine doses and helped staff more than 200 healthcare facilities during the pandemic is expanding its business to become an industry leader in the post-COVID world.
Jogan Health, which is reinventing healthcare staffing and protecting communities through unprecedented private-public partnerships and staffing initiatives, is building upon its success to provide staffing for emergency management agencies, including mass care support, medical team support, incident management and support, short-term, long-term recovery services, and other resiliency services.
"The world is changing, and we are changing with it, expanding the types of healthcare staffing we offer and the services we offer around the country," said Dan Dietrich, president and CEO of Jogan Health. "We remain dedicated to our mission to care for caregivers and care for communities. But care is not just about modern technology or new medicine – it's about people taking care of other people. That is what sets Jogan Health apart in this new world."
An example of Jogan Health's new offerings is in mass care support services. The company's clinical and non-clinical staff can quickly manage a multitude of emergency needs during an incident. Jogan Health has qualified clinical and non-clinical professionals to staff all types of mass care operations, such as special needs shelters for people that require specialized care.
Along with staffing nurses and other healthcare professionals, Jogan Health also offers turnkey vaccination and testing services in communities of all sizes. It provides comprehensive healthcare services for public health and epidemiological services, including contact tracing and case investigation.
Current and past partners have noted the extra steps Jogan Health takes to assess the skills of the caregivers it places and carefully considers both the candidate and the facility, resulting in the lowest turnover rate in the industry. Healthcare professionals also go through comprehensive 7-step screening process before being placed.
"We have been a trusted and dependable partner during the COVID pandemic – staffing hospitals, collaborating with public health agencies, building and running vaccination program and operating treatment centers," said Dietrich. "However, Jogan's work will not be done once Covid is gone. We will continue to expand as long as there are communities in need that we can support."
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Phone: 720-869-9103
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Gabriel Jesus makes dream start to Arsenal career with goal just one minute into debut
GABRIEL JESUS made an immediate impact on his first appearance for Arsenal.
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Arsenal's newest signing Gabriel Jesus took less than 90 seconds to score on his first appearance for the club and grabbed a second late on to round off a 5-3 win. The £45million striker came off the bench at half-time of the pre-season friendly against FC Nurnberg on Friday and struck almost immediately.
Arsenal were 2-0 down at the break after a disappointing first half peformance from Mikel Arteta's side. Goals from Johannes Geis and Kwadwo Duah put the Bundesliga 2 side ahead.
Brazilian Jesus was initially named on the bench by the Gunners boss but was brought on alongside Mohamed Elneny for the second half. Arsenal started the second period fast and Jesus scored his first goal for the club in just over a minute of being on the pitch.
The former Manchester City forward initially picked the ball up out on the right-hand side. He drifted in, played a one-two with Eddie Nketiah and fired high into the net from a tight angle.
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Arsenal were soon level when fellow substitute Elneny let fly with a stunning strike from fully 30 yards. And the turnaround was complete just 12 minutes into the second half.
Jesus was again involved but it appeared as if Nurnberg skipper Christopher Schindler got the final touch as the forward attempted to head the ball towards goal. It was a rampant second-half display from Arsenal and the two substitutes in particular, with Jesus again playing a part in Tim Handwerker turning into his own goal to make it 4-2 to the visitors.
Jesus scored again late on to seal a 5-3 win after Nurnberg had netted. Arsenal were keen on signing the forward for several months and finally completed a deal on Monday. Gunners boss Arteta knows the player well from his time as assistant at City.
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And he explained what he feels Jesus will bring to his new club. Arteta said: “I think it’s a package. Start with his character, the person, the smile and what he represents as a human being.
"Then he’s an incredible professional, with his work ethic and enthusiasm. You will see it the first day he puts on his boots and enters the training pitch; he has the enthusiasm that he is going to create on his own on that pitch.
“And then obviously there are his qualities, his anger to score, his willingness to be coached, to improve. He is used to winning and he knows that winning is the only way to do it. I think he will set different standards at the club.” | https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1637665/Arsenal-news-Gabriel-Jesus-goal-FC-Nurnberg-debut | 2022-07-08T18:19:50Z | https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1637665/Arsenal-news-Gabriel-Jesus-goal-FC-Nurnberg-debut | true | 1 |
Marjorie and Steve Harvey are still living it up in Paris and serving up LEWKS and style goals in the process!
Taking to Instagram, Marjorie shared an IG Reel of her and her husband strutting their stuff in lavish Fendi ensembles that were everything. Styled by Steve’s stylist, Elly, the fashionable couple had all eyes on them as they showed off their lovely style and incredible fashion sense.
For their look, Marjorie opted for an all-white Fendi suit featuring a matching blazer and slacks combo while Steve opted for an all brown look featuring a suit jacket, matching slacks and a brown button up shirt.
Check out their fly looks below.
A couple that slays together, stays together! What do you think about Marjorie and Steve’s fashionable looks?
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Body found in creek after wedding party reports weird smell, sheriff says
Published: Jul. 8, 2022 at 1:05 PM CDT|Updated: 15 minutes ago
PICKENS, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) – A man’s body was found in a South Carolina creek thanks to an observant wedding party.
According to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, people attending a wedding reception called the sheriff’s office to report an unusual smell around 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
Deputies arrived and searched a large, wooded area, where they found a man’s body along a creek bed.
Officials said the body was found less than a mile from the home of Francis Alward, a missing 80-year-old man, although the body has not yet been identified.
The Pickens County Coroner’s Office is continuing to investigate.
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We haven’t had this much reaction to a campaign since AMV BBDO’s terminal effort for Asda a couple of years ago. EE’s ‘Not her problem’ about, inter alia, male sexism in society (it’s supposed to be mainly about England women’s football) has certainly divided opinion. Many men obviously hate it, saying they’re all depicted as sexists, which they aren’t.
It also adds fuel to the “too much purpose” debate. Football, in the UK anyway, has always resided somewhere between a game and a tribal confrontation and this is certainly aggressive in tone. Too much so? Is it making things worse?
And. of course, what’s it all to do with being a mobile provider?
Agency Saatchi and Saatchi has been ploughing its furrow for 50 years or so now so should know what it’s doing. But agencies can be excitable places, sometimes getting carried away when they’re gifted with what they see as an important issue – or opportunity to rehearse one.
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Biden orders U.S flags flown at half-staff to honor Japan's Abe
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Friday he had ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff through July 10 to honor Shinzo Abe after the former Japanese prime minister was gunned down while campaigning for a parliamentary election.
Abe "was a proud servant of the Japanese people and a faithful friend to the United States," Biden said in statement. "Even in the moment he was attacked and killed, he was engaged in the work of democracy, to which he dedicated his life."
(Reporting by Chris Gallagher; Editing br Rami Ayyub) | https://news.yahoo.com/biden-orders-u-flags-flown-165858530.html | 2022-07-08T18:33:48Z | https://news.yahoo.com/biden-orders-u-flags-flown-165858530.html | false | null |
July 1 — Stage 1: Copenhagen, Denmark, individual time-trial, 13.2 kilometers (8.2 miles)(Stage: Yves Lampaert, Belgium; Yellow Jersey: Lampaert)
July 2 — Stage 2: Roskilde, Denmark_Nyborg, Denmark, flat, 202.5 (125) (Fabio Jakobsen, Netherlands; Wout van Aert)
July 3 — Stage 3: Vejle, Denmark_Sonderborg, Denmark, flat, 182 (113) (Dylan Groenewegen, Netherlands; Wout van Aert)
July 5 — Stage 4: Dunkirk (France)_Calais, hilly, 171.5 (106)(Wout van Aert, Belgium; Wout van Aert)
July 6 — Stage 5: Lille...
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July 1 — Stage 1: Copenhagen, Denmark, individual time-trial, 13.2 kilometers (8.2 miles)(Stage: Yves Lampaert, Belgium; Yellow Jersey: Lampaert)
July 2 — Stage 2: Roskilde, Denmark_Nyborg, Denmark, flat, 202.5 (125) (Fabio Jakobsen, Netherlands; Wout van Aert)
July 3 — Stage 3: Vejle, Denmark_Sonderborg, Denmark, flat, 182 (113) (Dylan Groenewegen, Netherlands; Wout van Aert)
July 5 — Stage 4: Dunkirk (France)_Calais, hilly, 171.5 (106)(Wout van Aert, Belgium; Wout van Aert)
July 6 — Stage 5: Lille Metropole_Arenberg Porte Du Hainaut, hilly, 153.7 (95)(Simon Clarke, Australia; Wout van Aert)
July 7 — Stage 6: Binche_Longwy, hilly, 219.9 (136)(Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia; Pogacar)
July 8 — Stage 7: Tomblaine_La Super Plance des Belles Filles, mountain, 176.3 (109)(Tradej Pogacar, Slovenia: Pogacar)
July 9 — Stage 8: Dole_Lausanne, hilly, 186.3 (115)
July 10 — Stage 9: Aigle_Chatel Les Portes Du Soleil, mountain, 192.9 (119)
July 12 — Stage 10: Morzine Les Portes Du Soleil_Megeve, hilly, 148.1 (92)
July 13 — Stage 11: Ablertville_Col Du Granon Serre Chevalier, mountain, 151.7 (94)
July 14 — Stage 12: Braincon_Alpe d’Huez, mountain, 165.1 (102)
July 15 — Stage 13: Le Bourg D’Oisans_Saint-Etienne, flat, 192.6 (119)
July 16 — Stage 14: Saint-Etienne_Mende, hilly, 192.5 (119)
July 17 — Stage 15: Rodez_Carcassonne, flat, 202.5 (125)
July 19 — Stage 16: Carcassonne_Foix, hilly, 178.5 (110)
July 20 — Stage 17: Saint Gaudens_Peyragudes, mountain, 129.7 (80)
July 21 — Stage 18: Lourdes_Hautacam, mountain, 143.2 (89)
July 22 — Stage 19: Castelnau_Magnoac-Cahors, flat 188.3 (117)
July 23 — Stage 20: La Capelle_Marival-Rocamadour, individual time-trial, 40.7 (25)
July 24 — Stage 21: Paris La Defense Arena_Paris Champs-Elysees, flat, 115.6 (71)
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LONDON (AP) — Veteran counterterrorism police officer Mark Rowley will be the new chief of London’s troubled Metropolitan Police force, the British government said Friday.
Rowley, who was head of counterterrorism at the force between 2014 and 2018, becomes commissioner of Scotland Yard after a string of controversies undermined public confidence in the country’s largest police force. He will have the task of restoring the reputation of a force that was last month placed in “special measures” by the country’s police watchdog.
Rowley’s predecessor Cressida Dick quit in February after falling out with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who said Dick wasn’t doing enough to tackle allegations of misogyny and racism in police ranks.
Rowley, 57, promised to “fight crime with communities – not unilaterally dispense tactics.”
“Our mission is to lead the renewal of policing by consent, which has been so heavily dented in recent years as trust and confidence have fallen,” he said.
The force has been under intense pressure to reform since a serving police officer, Wayne Couzens, was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a stranger, Sarah Everard, while she was walking home at night in London in 2021. The police force’s subsequent handling of vigils and protests against Everard’s slaying also came under heavy criticism.
Earlier this year, an investigation slammed a culture of misogyny, bullying and sexual harassment at one London police station, Charing Cross.
The force has been criticized for the way it handled the case of two Black sisters murdered in a London park in 2020 — their bodies found by a family search party because police weren’t looking for them — and for failing to stop serial killer Stephen Port, who drugged and killed four young men he met online.
Rowley’s start date hasn’t been announced. | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/uk-appoints-counterterror-cop-to-head-troubled-london-police/ | 2022-07-08T18:36:16Z | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/uk-appoints-counterterror-cop-to-head-troubled-london-police/ | false | 44 |
PASCAGOULA, Miss (AP) — Huntington Ingalls Industries plans to bring 2,000 new jobs to its shipbuilding division on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The shipyard is hosting a hiring event from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Ingalls Maritime Training Academy in Pascagoula. Ingalls is looking for pipe fitters, pipe welders, structural welders and ship fitters.
In a news release announcing the jobs, Ingalls said workers would receive “competitive starting wages, day-one benefits, 12 paid holidays annually and opportunities for advancement." The company also said employees at the 800-acre facility would have covered workspaces to protect them from the elements.
According to company figures, Ingalls shipbuilding employs about 11,300 workers in Mississippi, making it the state's largest employer in the manufacturing sector. Some workers commute from other states.
“Shipbuilding is hard work, but we strive to make sure our shipbuilders have the tools and conveniences they need to do the hard work well," Susan Jacobs, vice president of human resources and administration, said in the news release. | https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Mississippi-Gulf-Coast-shipyard-set-to-hire-2-000-17292739.php | 2022-07-08T18:36:43Z | https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Mississippi-Gulf-Coast-shipyard-set-to-hire-2-000-17292739.php | false | 12 |
Sheriff: Family was living at children’s museum in Nevada; weapons and marijuana found
CARSON CITY, Nevada (KOLO/Gray News) - The Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada has been a staple of childhood in Carson City for decades, but now there’s closed sign on the door.
The Carson City Sheriff’s Office said they arrested Wilbert Calhoun on June 30 on charges of child neglect and danger after allegedly living in the museum and stockpiling weapons.
Sheriff Ken Furlong said deputies responded to a report of a 2-year-old child in need of supervision.
“The child was actually found by a business. He had gotten out, crossed a very busy main artery,” he said.
The toddler’s father is Calhoun, and investigators said he and his wife, who served as the museum’s manager, had been living inside storage rooms with their five children at the museum.
Multiple weapons, silencers and marijuana were also found at the scene, the sheriff said.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Furlong said.
Both Calhoun, who was a janitor at the museum, and his wife, whose name was not provided, were fired. According to Furlong, she was not present at the time deputies were dispatched.
The man is still in custody.
In a statement, the board of directors said they were “shocked and saddened that this happened on our watch, and we are working hard to make sure that nothing like this will ever happen again.”
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 8 (ANI): Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar's first look from his upcoming untitled film has been leaked.
In the leaked picture, the 'Khiladi' actor could be seen in the role of a Punjabi character as he stands in a mustard field, a grim look on his face. Akshay had donned a striped light blue shirt along with a maroon-red turban on his head, which is typical of many Punjabis. The actor had sported a full-grown beard for his role as well, alongside a pair of glasses.
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The yet-to-be-announced film title, starring Akshay Kumar is produced by Pooja Entertainment. According to official reports, the film will begin its shooting in London. Helmed by Tinu Suresh Desai, this Akshay Kumar-starrer revolves around the story of a rescue mission from a coal mine.
The intriguing look of Akshay is indeed quite intriguing, paving way for the curiosity to rise.
Talking about Akshay Kumar, he has last seen in director Chandraprakesh Dwivedi's historical drama 'Samrat Prithviraj' opposite former Miss World Manushi Chillar. It was produced by Yash Raj Productions and was released in theatres on June 3 this year. Sanjay Dutt and Sonu Sood starred in the film as well.
Apart from that, he is also a part of the comedy-drama 'Raksha Bandhan'. Directed by Aanand L Rai and written by Himanshu Sharma and Kanika Dhillon, the film is produced by Colour Yellow Productions, Zee Studios, and Alka Hiranandani in association with Cape Of Good Films.
'Raksha Bandhan' also stars Bhumi Pednekar, Sahil Mehta, and Deepika Khanna. It is slated to release in theatres on August 11 this year. (ANI)
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Neuchev was selected 74th overall by the Sabres in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft on Friday.
Neuchev has some massive holes in his game, but he also has some clear NHL-caliber traits, most notably his size (6-foot-2), puck handling ability, and massive shot. It's easy to envision Neuchev's offensive skill set taking over games at some point in the not too distant future, but it's important to note he has just one KHL game under his belt to date, having played almost exclusively in the Russia's MHL junior league. Neuchev's effort level is in and out at times and some scouts have serious concerns about the pace at which he plays, but every player selected at this point of the draft has flaws. Buffalo will be patient in hopes it all comes together for Neuchev in the coming years. | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/hockey/news/sabres-viktor-neuchev-upside-play-for-buffalo/ | 2022-07-08T18:40:22Z | https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/hockey/news/sabres-viktor-neuchev-upside-play-for-buffalo/ | false | null |
Omaha authorities search for missing inmate
Authorities have been notified about an inmate missing from the Community Corrections Center – Omaha. John Strickland left the facility today without authorization. He removed the electronic monitoring device he was wearing...
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James Rodwell Cadogan & Zenida April
A former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer is now evading law enforcement authorities after he stabbed his girlfriend and her mother at his Paradise, East Coast Demerara home on Tuesday evening.
On the run is 26-year-old James Rodwell Cadogan also known as “Roddie” of Haslington, ECD.
Injured are 23-year-old Zenida April, a GDF rank and her mother, Nevorn April.
Reports are that the former soldier and his girlfriend, who were living together, were having some issues prior to the stabbing. This publication understands that during one of their arguments on Monday, the ex-soldier threatened to stab his girlfriend.
As such, the girlfriend went to stay with her mother. The following day, the girlfriend, at the advice of her brother, decided to file a police report.
INews understands that the report was made at the Vigilance Police Station but the station had no patrol to send with the girlfriend so she can retrieve her belongings from the former soldier’s home.
The woman then visited the Enmore Police Station and was met with the same situation, so she decided to go without police escort, in the company of her mother and her brother This was at around 23:00h on Tuesday.
When the mother and daughter entered the house, the ex-soldier immediately locked the door from the inside, preventing the brother from gaining access into the building.
The brother told this publication that he heard his mother started to scream. The brother eventually gained entry into the house through a window but by the time he did so, the suspect had already escaped.
The mother and daughter were taken to a hospital. The daughter was stabbed some eight times about her body, including to her chest, neck, arms, and back while the mother was stabbed once to the shoulder.
The mother was treated for her injury and sent away but the daughter remains hospitalised. The brother said on Wednesday, he returned to the Police Station to follow up on the issue but the officers there seemed reluctant in helping.
The brother also contended that while police are dragging their feet in apprehending in the suspect, the family is receiving threats from him on social media. The brother further expressed home that the suspect is arrested soon since him being on the run means their family’s lives remain in danger. | https://guyanainquirer.com/fmr-soldier-escapes-after-stabbing-girlfriend-her-mother/ | 2022-07-08T18:40:39Z | https://guyanainquirer.com/fmr-soldier-escapes-after-stabbing-girlfriend-her-mother/ | false | 2 |
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Over the past several seasons, the NFL has become more and more of a passing league. Increasingly, the most dependable way to be a good team is to have the best pass offense possible. That will likely become even more true as the years go by and teams lean more and more into the data that tells them passing is king.
Obviously, quarterbacks are the greatest driver of passing success. You can make an argument that any number of other factors come next, whether it's the offensive coordinator putting the players in position to succeed, the offensive line making sure the quarterback has enough time to throw, or the pass-catchers who are tasked with finding creases in the opposing defense. Today, we're here to talk about that last group, as we rank the eight NFL divisions by their wide receiver talent.
Without further ado ...
8. AFC South
There was a lot of turnover in this division, with the Titans trading A.J. Brown and cutting Julio Jones while trading for Woods and drafting Burks, the Jaguars splashing the pot in free agency for Kirk, the Colts drafting Pierce, and the Texans drafting Metchie. The departures outweigh the additions, and the AFC South remains the division with the weakest crop of receivers in the league.
7. NFC North
Last year, we had the NFC North much higher on the list, largely on the strength of the top group of wideouts. But Davante Adams is no longer in the division. Neither is Allen Robinson. Thielen took a (slight) step backward last year. Jefferson is the only outright star left, and while the depth of talent in this division is better than it was last year thanks to players like Mooney, St. Brown, and Osborn showing flashes last year, it's still not on par with the next group of divisions, let alone the best of the best.
6. NFC South
If we could be more confident in the health of some of these players, the NFC South might rank a bit higher. But Thomas has barely played over the past two seasons. Godwin is coming off a late-season torn ACL. Landry missed a career-high five games last season. With Calvin Ridley out for (at least) the season, there's just not enough star talent left over to push this group ahead of the next several divisions -- even with stars like Evans and Moore remaining, and potential stars like London and Olave being added through the draft.
5. AFC East
I think we might look back and regret having the AFC East this low. There are two outright superstars here in Diggs and Hill, albeit with one of them entering a vastly different team context than he's had in the past. There are (at least) two more potential stars with Davis and Waddle. There are excellent support players like Crowder, McKenzie, Wilson, Davis, and Berrios. Plus, there's Moore and Wilson waiting to pop in New York, if Zach Wilson can get it together in Year 2. The Patriots having a group of "OK that's fine" receivers is the only thing holding this group back.
4. NFC East
The AFC East probably has two receivers who are currently better than anyone in this division. But the NFC East likely has the next four best players, and has greater depth of surefire-starter-quality wideouts -- at least once Gallup returns from his late-season torn ACL. Lamb is more than ready to assume the No. 1 role in Dallas. Brown and Smith should form one of the NFL's best 1-2 punches in due time. McLaurin is already an outright star, just waiting, desperately, for a quarterback worthy of his immense talents. Toney looked like a star when given the opportunity last year, but couldn't stay healthy. Gallup has a 1,000-yard season under his belt and is one of the best sideline ball-winners in the league. There's a lot here, just not quite as much as there is in the next few groups of players.
3. AFC North
It was an incredibly tough call between these next two divisions, but the volume of established stars of the NFC West ultimately won the day. Still, there is an absolute ton of firepower in the AFC North, including a player who has the potential to be the best wideout in the league at some point in the next few years in Chase. Higgins might already be the NFL's most overqualified No. 2 receiver, Boyd is one of its best No. 3 wideouts, the Steelers have two players who have already broken out in Johnson and Claypool, the Browns brought in Cooper via (an incredibly low-cost) trade, and there's a lot of potential in players like Bateman, Bell, Pickens, and Austin.
2. NFC West
Hot damn there is a ton of talent in this division. Kupp was the best wide receiver in football last year, and his connection with Matthew Stafford should remain strong. Samuel might be the most uniquely talented offensive skill position player in the league. Metcalf and Lockett are each stars in their own right. It wasn't that long ago that Robinson was one as well. Hopkins will miss the beginning of the season, but the Cardinals still have a solid trio behind him. Once Aiyuk got past the weird pseudo-benching early in last season, he began to live up to the promise we saw from him during his rookie year. In any other season, this group might rank No. 1. However ...
1. AFC West
Sure, the AFC West lost Tyreek Hill. But it added Adams, Smith-Schuster, Valdes-Scantling, and Moore, while retaining the Allen-Williams duo, Renfrow, and a Broncos wide receiver trio that is only beginning to scratch the surface of its potential and should reach a new level with Russell Wilson in town. We have been talking all offseason about the various reasons the AFC West should be the best, most exciting division in football, and its wide receivers are among the many reasons that's the case. | https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-2022-nfl-divisions-by-wrs-afc-west-nfc-west-rule-their-conferences-with-these-playmakers/ | 2022-07-08T18:42:05Z | https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-2022-nfl-divisions-by-wrs-afc-west-nfc-west-rule-their-conferences-with-these-playmakers/ | false | 1 |
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The Government will announce an end to the practice of providing emergency housing to "out-of-towners", Rotorua mayoral candidate Fletcher Tabuteau claims.
Tabuteau, who officially launched his mayoral bid at Te Puia on Thursday night, told the crowd a Government source told him about four imminent announcements on emergency and public housing in the district.
Housing Minister Megan Woods refused to comment on "any mayoral candidates' speeches".
Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick said it was for the Government to announce but it would be a move she would welcome.
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Advertise with NZME.At the launch, Tabuteau said he was "on the record with confidence" with his claims, and believed it was a result of a petition he launched in June calling for the move.
"There are people in this room... [who] have been battling the farce that is Fenton St for a long time," Tabuteau said.
"My understanding is that the wheels have started to turn and action is being taken now.
"I have been told the council will be given the power to make determinations on operator standards and be able to notify the Government of non-compliance and shut them down."
"Mixed-use motels have continued to operate, we all know this. The Government will now commit to not funding mixed-use motels anymore," he said.
"There is finally recognition of the terrible fallout that has spilled out to our neighbourhoods and the damage done to our city's reputation as a tourism destination."
He claimed the Government had "not necessarily" been placing Rotorua locals in new public homes, and he'd been told it would commit to only putting Rotorua residents in Rotorua homes.
The claims were met with applause.
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Advertise with NZME.Speaking to Local Democracy Reporting after the event, Tabuteau said out-of-towners already in motels would likely remain.
"No one's told me what the implementation looks like."
"These announcements, I'm told - and because it's before the election, people can hold me to my word on this - will be over the next weeks and months, but before the election day."
According to the Parliament website, by Friday Tabuteau's petition had 51 signatures, but he was also collecting them in hard copy.
Chadwick was asked if she knew about the announcements Tabuteau claimed and whether they were steps she wanted taken.
She said Government announcements were "for the Government to talk about".
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Advertise with NZME.The council had "always been clear" of its expectations that the city's emergency housing "should be for our people and that new public housing should be for locals".
"If the Government is announcing that, it would be fantastic and would show the progress being made in our work with the Government and its agencies."
Kāinga Ora, the Ministry of Social Development, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni were approached for comment.
Housing Minister Woods was asked about Tabuteau's claims.
A spokeswoman for Woods said the minister would not comment "on any mayoral candidates' speeches" and referred Local Democracy Reporting to previous comments.
In May last year, Woods announced the "mixed-use" of motels - taking both Government clients and visitors - would end.
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Advertise with NZME.In May, the Rotorua Daily Post reported fellow mayoral candidate and district councillor Tania Tapsell's claim the practice was continuing.
In the same month, senior council official Anaru Pewhairangi said in a council meeting that the practice was still happening this year.
It is Government policy new public homes would be given to those most in need, although local factors such as schools and work would be considered.
Woods previously told the Rotorua Daily Post she was reviewing the policy and, on Tuesday, a spokeswoman said this was still under way.
In May, a Ministry of Social Development report revealed nearly a third of those in emergency housing were not from Rotorua.
Mayoral campaign launch at Te Puia draws crowd
Tabuteau laid out his campaign platform to a standing-room-only gathering at Te Puia's Rotowhio wharenui.
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Advertise with NZME.The former NZ First deputy leader said being a "strong, positive force here in Rotorua" would give him pride.
He said he would focus on economic growth and business and "sell our place".
"Despite all of the struggles going on at the moment we can and we will turn this around."
Tabuteau said it was "not all candy and roses" and there were "critical issues" to deal with.
He said voters would need to elect people who could come together and "work constructively" to help the council executive carry out a vision for Rotorua.
In his view: "The council has lost its focus and is trying to do too much."
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Advertise with NZME.He said he would "require a laser focus" from senior council officials, "insisting that they deliver the basics right".
"All spending can only be done on your behalf with a fiscally conservative approach that focuses on real return for our community," Tabuteau said.
An example, in his view, were the seven deputy chief executive roles.
In his opinion: ''These positions are simply not tenable... and a glaring example of what needs to change immediately."
Tabuteau would also insist on a "massive internal audit" of council spending and future commitments.
"I will work with whoever the ratepayers vote into [the] council. We're never going to get 100 per cent agreement.
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Advertise with NZME."Open and honest dialogue that is transparent and inclusive will be vital."
On Friday, Chadwick said she did not intend responding to "every view expressed by [election] candidates".
"We're in the pre-election period now but there is still important work to be done and decisions to be made by the current council and that's what I'm focused on."
The council did not wish to respond to Tabuteau's remarks.
Hot topics
Tabuteau expressed his view on a number of hot topics in Rotorua.
•Three Waters: "A travesty. I do not debate the need for action but... it will cost you more as ratepayers."
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Advertise with NZME.•Springfield Golf Course: "This term, Springfield Golf Course will continue to be a golf course. It will not be touched. Rotorua council does not have the capacity to go anywhere near it at this stage. My long-term commitment is to leave it as a green space."
•Reserves proposal: "I don't believe we need to encroach on our public spaces, including our reserves. Rotorua has the opportunity to create greenfield housing spaces [and]... intensify the inner city.
•Fenton St: "Rotorua will look after its own but we're not willing to accept the Fenton St ghetto."
•Rotorua Museum: "We can't stop now."
•Inner city: "The answer is more people. More foot traffic. More tourists. More residents. Businesses given the confidence to invest."
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Three Albanian men who targeted an '8 out of ten drunk' girl when she became separated from her friends during first post-lockdown night out, forced cocaine on her and raped her are jailed for 57 years
- A woman, 23, was kidnapped outside a Bedford nightclub on September 4, 2021
- Gemti Hyka, 31, watched the woman inside the club and bundled her into his car
- He took her to a house and raped her alongside Vullnet Haka and Ibrahim Bezati
- Hyka has been jailed 26 years; Haka for 14 years and Bezati received 17 years
Three Albanian men who gang-raped a young woman in Bedford and 'subjected her to 'every woman's worst nightmare' have been jailed for a total of 57 years.
The 23-year-old victim was enjoying her first night out after the end of Covid restrictions when she became separated from her friend.
She found herself alone and vulnerable after leaving Vogue nightclub in Bedford High Street in the early hours of Saturday, September 4, last year.
Unbeknownst to her, she had been stalked inside the club by Gemti Hyka, 31, who bundled her into his car and drove her to an address in the town centre where he raped her.
Two of his associates, Vullnet Haka, 33, and Ibrahim Bezati, 36, arrived and raped her. During the ordeal, the woman was slapped in the face and forced to take cocaine.
Sentencing the trio at Luton Crown Court, Judge Steven Evans, said they had inflicted 'every woman's worst nightmare' on their victim, adding they had 'treated her like she was less than human'.
The woman was kidnapped in Bedford High Street on September 4 last year by Gemti Hyka (pictured), 31, who bundled her into his car and drove her to an house where he raped her. Today at Luton Crown Court, Hyka was jailed for 26 years
Vullnet Haka (left), 33, and Ibrahim Bezati (right), 36, both of Bedford, were found guilty of false imprisonment and two charges of rape of the woman. Haka was jailed 14 years and Bezati for 17 years
The woman managed to escape from the house in the morning and was found in a distraught state by passers-by.
Giving evidence at Luton Crown Court, she said had no memory of leaving the club in the early hours of 4 September last year.
The woman told prosecutor Martin Mulgrew: 'I begged them to let me go. I was confused and scared.'
Hyka, of Bedford, was jailed for 26 years after he was found guilty of kidnap, false imprisonment and two charges of rape.
Haka, 33, and Bezati, 36, both of Bedford, were found guilty of false imprisonment and two charges of rape of the woman. Haka was sentenced to 14 years. Bezati was sentenced to 17 years.
The victim's friend told the court that when they left the club she went right and the victim went left to avoid a group of men fighting in the street.
The friend, also 23, spent half an hour looking for her on her own and was then joined by a male friend on the search.
The young woman found herself alone and vulnerable after leaving Vogue nightclub in Bedford (pictured) High Street in the early hours of the morning.
Finally, at around half past seven in the morning, she said she received a call from the friend who had been crying. She said she was at Kempston Police Station and told her: 'I need Mum.'
Her friend told the jury that they had gone for dinner in Zizzi in Bedford where they ate Pasta and drank two bottles of wine between them. They went on to the Slug and Lettuce where they had a cocktail, a glass of wine and a Tequila shot before going into Vogue nightclub.
She said it was their first night out after the lockdown. At one point she saw her friend receive a kiss from a man on the dance floor. 'I told him to leave her alone and he left,' she said.
On a scale of 1 to 10 she was asked how drunk her friend was. She replied '7 or 8.'
Hyka told the jury when they got to the address she agreed to have sex. He said: 'She never cried when she was with me. I never did it. I am not a rapist.'
Under cross examination by Mr Mulgrew, Hyka denied that he and the other men spoke in Albanian and laughed at her.
After their conviction, Judge Evans said: 'I am satisfied Hyka targeted her in the club. He formed the idea he would take her to his house. I am satisfied he waited for her to achieve an ambush. He made the other defendants aware she was at his house.
'Hyka is likely to have raped her before their arrival. Once they all attended she was forced to take cocaine and encouraged to drink with the single aim of making her comply with what they intended. An atmosphere of intimidation and fear was created. She was slapped and forced to take cocaine. There was a degree of humiliation.'
Detective Constable Hannah Latton, from Bedfordshire Police's Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) team said: 'This was an horrific case where the victim was effectively targeted by these men, who took her to a property where she was held against her will and repeatedly raped.
'Thankfully incidents such as these are incredibly rare, but the result should serve as reassurance to anyone who has been through the trauma of rape or serious sexual assault. We will believe you and do everything in our power to bring such predators to justice.
'The victim showed tremendous courage by facing her attackers in court, even though they had the audacity to deny the offences, putting her through a further ordeal of re-living the incident during the trial. Her evidence was crucial to ensuring these men will remain behind bars for a considerable amount of time.
'Nobody should feel they cannot speak up about abuse. We will treat every case professionally with the utmost compassion and have specialist officers trained to support people who have experienced such horrendous offences.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10995923/Three-Albanian-men-raped-woman-night-lockdown-jailed-57-years.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-08T18:50:39Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10995923/Three-Albanian-men-raped-woman-night-lockdown-jailed-57-years.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true | 3 |
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Wesbanco Bank Inc. lowered its stake in shares of Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) by 1.6% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 38,081 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after selling 600 shares during the period. Wesbanco Bank Inc.’s holdings in Discover Financial Services were worth $4,196,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
A number of other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of DFS. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in shares of Discover Financial Services during the 4th quarter valued at $354,824,000. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Discover Financial Services during the 4th quarter valued at $225,394,000. Invesco Ltd. lifted its holdings in shares of Discover Financial Services by 43.8% during the 4th quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 2,099,589 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $242,629,000 after purchasing an additional 639,624 shares during the last quarter. Boston Partners lifted its holdings in shares of Discover Financial Services by 13.0% during the 4th quarter. Boston Partners now owns 4,347,646 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $502,490,000 after purchasing an additional 501,073 shares during the last quarter. Finally, BlackRock Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Discover Financial Services by 2.3% during the 4th quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 20,610,036 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $2,381,696,000 after purchasing an additional 457,067 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 85.53% of the company’s stock.
Several research firms recently issued reports on DFS. StockNews.com began coverage on Discover Financial Services in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock. Wolfe Research downgraded Discover Financial Services from an “outperform” rating to a “peer perform” rating and set a $97.00 target price on the stock. in a research report on Thursday, May 12th. Citigroup upped their target price on Discover Financial Services from $154.00 to $157.00 in a research report on Friday, April 29th. Piper Sandler reduced their price objective on Discover Financial Services from $139.00 to $127.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, June 29th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reduced their price objective on Discover Financial Services from $144.00 to $127.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, March 28th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twelve have given a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Discover Financial Services has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $138.69.
Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, April 27th. The financial services provider reported $4.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.58 by $0.64. The company had revenue of $2.90 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.99 billion. Discover Financial Services had a return on equity of 41.57% and a net margin of 38.42%. Discover Financial Services’s revenue was up 3.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $5.04 EPS. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Discover Financial Services will post 14.96 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, June 9th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 26th were issued a dividend of $0.60 per share. This is a boost from Discover Financial Services’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.50. This represents a $2.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.41%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, May 25th. Discover Financial Services’s payout ratio is currently 14.16%.
Discover Financial Services Company Profile (Get Rating)
Discover Financial Services, through its subsidiaries, provides digital banking products and services, and payment services in the United States. It operates in two segments, Digital Banking and Payment Services. The Digital Banking segment offers Discover-branded credit cards to individuals; private student loans, personal loans, home loans, and other consumer lending; and direct-to-consumer deposit products comprising savings accounts, certificates of deposit, money market accounts, IRA certificates of deposit, IRA savings accounts and checking accounts, and sweep accounts.
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The Big Idea: K.B. Jensen
Posted on July 8, 2022 Posted by John Scalzi Leave a Comment
With a story collection title like Love and Other Monsters in the Dark, you might think that author K.B. Jensen has a skewed view on, well, love. But as she explains in this big idea, it may be not all that skewed, when you dig into what love really means for each of us.
K.B. JENSEN:
Love is the most frightening monster of all, because love and loss go hand in hand. In Love and Other Monsters in the Dark, you’ll find monsters of all kinds, as well as the horrors of everyday love.
What scares you most? For many people, it’s losing loved ones, especially the love of your life. Love can inflict pain far worse than any other monster. Love is absolutely wonderful, but it can also gut you.
My stories feature alien monsters smashing office windows, multiple murderers, strange creatures, painfully internalized thunder storms, and skeletons in the wall. But the stories where my characters confront love are the most challenging. The final story about a couple facing terrible complications, “Arnav and the Apocalypse,” begs the question, what choices would you make to protect a loved one during a zombie apocalypse?
Another story, “Remembering the Future,” makes you wonder: If you could travel back in time to save someone you loved from a serious injury, would you? What if your significant other was talking incoherently about the future, what would you do then?
There’s also tenderness, confusion, loyalty and types of disloyalty to contend with. Pairing the two themes of love and other monsters can be playful and humorous at times. Tragic at others.
I’ve always been afraid of the dark, but I don’t shy away from it. Sometimes, when I open a blank document and start typing a story, I find my writer’s mind wandering into oddly imaginative and strange worst-case scenarios. When I was a kid, I used to sit on the floor of my room with a notebook, and stare into the darkness in the hallway, sitting at the very edge of the light. I’d write stories there, my heart racing, afraid of monsters in the dark. The writing comes from dark and light places for me. Both nightmares and dreams. I like to examine the ways we protect, love and hurt.
Some of my stories were written in the before times, but many were my way of clinging to love in hard times. The pandemic is another monster that appears as a character, sometimes subtly and metaphorically, sometimes outright. It brought out that love and fear in a whole new way. I don’t cry easily, but I wept when I wrote “Arnav and the Apocalypse.”
My short stories are not true. They are fiction. But here’s the thing many writers won’t admit—the feelings are usually real on some level. We feel what our characters feel.
The thought of something happening to one of my loved ones, especially my husband, has always been much more frightening to me than if something happened to me personally.
At the beginning of the pandemic, he was top of mind when I donned by first mask at the grocery store, and a pair of rubber gloves you use to wash dishes. Like many people, I hid in the basement away from my family when I caught sniffles. Everything became a risk calculation. I was never afraid of dying from Covid-19. I was afraid of infecting the people I love, especially those at higher risk. While things continue to get better, we’ve all been through so much personally and collectively.
I don’t understand why so much art dances away from our pandemic trauma. My writing comes from the subconscious, like dreaming on paper, and those experiences are a part of my dreams—part of the dance.
In one of my shortest stories, “The Day Time Melted,” a character is stuck making chai in the kitchen. The government couldn’t stop the bombs from coming, but they could stop time. The only thing the woman wants is to tell her husband that she loves him, but he’s in the other room.
I felt like time had simply stopped for my husband and I, when I was writing that during a lockdown. I’ve always loved him, but as the pandemic raged on with its sense of impending doom and our world got smaller and smaller, it made us closer. I’m thankful we avoided the absolute worst-case scenarios I imagined in my immediate family, but also deeply saddened for others who weren’t so lucky or privileged.
There are plenty of horrifying and literal monsters in my story collection. Creepy dolls. Dark angels. Serial killers. But if you ask me, what the most frightening thing is in my new book, what’s the big idea, it’s this: The fear of losing someone you love is worse than any other monster in the dark.
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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a healthy 76-year-old woman, and over the years I've tended to accumulate earwax and periodically have it removed. The doctor used a slim vacuum, and the noise was very significant. Directly after that he gave me a hearing test, and I have hearing loss in my right ear.
Since that incident about two months ago, I have experienced tinnitus, which is debilitating and affecting my quality of life. The ear, nose and throat doctor suggested an MRI, which I decided not to have. I know this is not curable, and I know that there are methods to manage it. My question is, Do you think the decibel level of the vacuum exacerbated the tinnitus? The doctor said that because one of my ears was 100% impacted, I am noticing the tinnitus more now. — A.C.
ANSWER: I think your doctor is probably right, that you are noticing the tinnitus more now.
Tinnitus is most commonly due to hearing loss, from any cause. You are unlikely to experience long-lasting hearing damage from a short duration of a loud noise. A vacuum device, held right next to your eardrum, is very loud, up to 103 decibels. Hearing damage from acute noise exposure is likely to occur when a noise is greater than 120 dB. Had the doctor checked your hearing before cleaning your ear, I suspect it would have been worse than it is with the wax removed, but of course I cannot be sure.
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Using an over-the-counter earwax remover prior to suctioning makes it a much easier procedure (and sometimes makes suctioning unnecessary).
Tinnitus that pulses in time to your heartbeat should always have further evaluation, as it might be due to an abnormal blood vessel in the brain, such as an aneurysm or fistula (abnormal connection from an artery to a vein).
DEAR DR. ROACH: My wife keeps every medication ever prescribed. Some are over 10 years old. Can they deteriorate into something deadly, or do they just lose potency? I haven't been able to get her to throw them out. I hope you can! — R.D.
ANSWER: There is at least one drug, tetracycline, that over time can break down into a substance that can damage the kidney. However, there are few if any other reports of expired drugs being dangerous.
Some drugs are fairly quick to degrade over time. Insulin, nitroglycerine and liquid antibiotics really should be used before their expiration date.
Most other drugs remain pretty stable over time. The expiration date is one that the manufacturer guarantees it will be safe and effective. However, a study done by the Food and Drug Administration for the military showed that 90% of drugs were almost completely unchanged (and therefore safe to use) for 15 years after expiration. Some drugs have been proven to be stable for decades, if not a century or more, if stored in a cool and dark place.
The main concern I have is whether she is taking these medications appropriately. Many people save antibiotics. Don't do that; finish your antibiotics. And don't self-treat for what you think might be an infection. Prescription medicines are powerful and have risks, and your doctor should know when you are and aren't taking them.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
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SimplyCake SF - 132 East 3rd Avenue
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New facility will serve as an engineering and staffing center of excellence for the Duravent Group as the company continues its growth trajectory with revenue exceeding $500 million annually.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Duravent Group, a global leader in HVAC technology systems and solutions, launched its 22,000 sq-ft Grand Rapids Innovation Center today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The event featured a tour of the center's design and prototype labs, airflow testing suites, its state-of-the-art office layout and robust printing capabilities. U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer, R-MI, spoke at the event, which was attended by community, state leaders and excited company employees.
"Duravent is committed to a strong presence in Michigan as demonstrated by our new innovation center in Grand Rapids, and an expanding headquarters in downtown Detroit," said Simon A. Davis, president and CEO of the Duravent Group. "Our ability to innovate, lead and grow in the HVAC and emerging climate technology categories is largely the result of leveraging the deep engineering talent Michigan has to offer."
Since 2017, the leadership team has led the organization through several strategic activities, including the acquisition of 100-year-old Hart & Cooley in 2021, which tripled the size of the company. Today, Duravent has 2,400 employees and $500 million+ in annual revenue.
As part of the Grand Rapids Innovation Center launch, Davis and his team unveiled a new company identity – the Duravent Group – with the goal of unifying the company's culture and its family of established and respected brands, which include the following industry leading nameplates:
- Duravent™
- Hart & Cooley®
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- Ampco®
- Heatfab®
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"The Duravent Group is one team and one company focused on flexibility in manufacturing and distribution while responding quickly and efficiently to customers' needs. I'm proud of our team culture that embraces innovation and change while always putting our customers first," Simon said.
The Duravent Group is a recognized global technology leader in the HVAC industry, and first-to-market with innovations in venting systems. Founded in 1956, this $500 million-plus company is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and has 15 locations across Canada, Mexico and the United States. Duravent leads with best-in-class design and manufacturing capabilities, world-class distribution networks, and customer-first service and support. The company ensures quality and drives safety through scientifically proven materials and unequaled engineering.
Duravent acquired Grand Rapids-based Hart & Cooley in 2021. A leader in the HVAC industry since 1901, the Hart & Cooley acquisition brings a legacy of quality and service, robust manufacturing and distribution capabilities, and a suite of trusted brands into the Duravent family. As a combined company, Duravent is uniquely positioned as the next-generation leader in the interior climate technology industry. Learn more at duraventgroup.com.
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Taste of Beligum - Liberty Center
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Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone arrived Friday on Capitol Hill for a private interview with the Jan. 6 committee about his role in trying to prevent then-President Donald Trump from challenging the 2020 presidential election and joining the violent mob that laid siege to the Capitol.
Cipollone had been a sought-after witness after bombshell testimony revealed his apparently desperate and last-ditch efforts to prevent Trump’s actions. The panel was told he warned the defeated president would be charged with “every crime imaginable” if he went to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, trying to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election. Cipollone was subpoenaed for his testimony.
But the conservative attorney, once a staunch presidential confidant who had defended Trump during his first impeachment trial, had been reluctant to appear formally for an on-record interview. Like other former White House officials, he could claim his counsel to the Republican president is privileged information he is unwilling to share.
The panel said Cipollone is “uniquely positioned to testify” in a letter accompanying the subpoena issued last week.
“Mr. Cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump’s activities on January 6th and in the days that preceded,” Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement. “While the Select Committee appreciates Mr. Cipollone’s earlier informal engagement with our investigation, the committee needs to hear from him on the record, as other former White House counsels have done in other congressional investigations.”
Cipollone’s central role came into focus during a surprise committee hearing last week when former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described his repeated efforts to stop Trump from joining the mob at the Capitol.
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Hutchinson said Cipollone urged her to persuade her boss, chief of staff Mark Meadows, not to let Trump go to the Capitol.
Hutchinson testified that she was told Trump was irate when he was ultimately prevented by his security team from going to the Capitol that day. The Secret Service has disputed parts of her account detailing Trump’s actions when she said he lashed out at the driver in the presidential motorcade.
Cipollone was also part of a key meeting on the Sunday before the Jan. 6 attack with Justice Department officials at the White House threatening to resign if Trump went ahead with plans to install a new acting attorney general who would pursue his false claims of voter fraud.
Cipollone and his lawyer, Michael Purpura, who also worked at the Trump White House, did not respond to requests for comment.
Earlier this week, Trump responded to news of Cipollone’s cooperation on his social media platform, Truth Social, calling it bad for the country.
“Why would a future President of the United States want to have candid and important conversations with his White House Counsel if he thought there was even a small chance that this person, essentially acting as a “lawyer” for the Country, may someday be brought before a partisan and openly hostile Committee in Congress,” the former president said.
Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.courant.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-capitol-riot-investigation-cipollone-20220708-euh5q3fc7vhdtmicvcor7mppjy-story.html | 2022-07-08T19:09:57Z | https://www.courant.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-capitol-riot-investigation-cipollone-20220708-euh5q3fc7vhdtmicvcor7mppjy-story.html | false | 24 |
Gerry Hutch’s lawyers claim he’ll be discriminated against if stopped from trying to dismiss murder charge, court hears
LAWYERS for Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch claim he’ll be discriminated against if prevented from bringing an application before the Special Criminal Court to dismiss the murder charge against him.
Representatives for Hutch, who is accused of the murder of Kinahan gang member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016, say their client will receive unequal treatment.
Hutch's defence counsel, Brendan Grehan SC, told the non-jury court that it would be an “extraordinary situation” if the Director of Public Prosecutions could deny his client “the obvious benefit” of bringing the application simply because he was charged in the Special Criminal Court and not the District Court.
Hutch, 59, who is in custody, was present in court for today’s hearing, where he sported a full mane of grey hair and a thick grey beard.
He wore a white open necked shirt and beige chinos.
The three-judge court heard submissions from Mr Grehan for Hutch, and Michael O’Higgins SC, for co-accused and former Sinn Fein Councillor Jonathan Dowdall regarding Section 4E of the Criminal Procedure Act of 1967.
Hutch’s four co-accused supported the Section 4E application and were present in court.
Paul Murphy, 59, of Cherry Avenue, Swords, Co Dublin and Jason Bonney, 50, of Drumnigh Wood, Portmarnock, Dublin 13 are both are both accused of providing access to a vehicle on the day of the murder of David Byrne.
All of the accused are due to stand trial at the Special Criminal Court on October 3 next.
If the trial goes ahead, it is expected to last 12 weeks.
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Section 4E states that a court can dismiss the charges against an accused person before trial where there is insufficient evidence.
On September 29 2021, Mr Hutch appeared before an out-of-hours sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court charged with murder.
Mr Grehan told the court that Mr Hutch’s solicitors had served a notice of motion pursuant to Section 4E of the Criminal Procedure Act 1967 asking the court to dismiss the murder charge because there was not sufficient evidence to try him.
However, the barrister said today that an issue arose on a literal reading of Section 4E which would appear to preclude Mr Hutch from making such an application because the section states that anytime after an accused is “sent forward for trial from the District Court” he may apply to dismiss the charge against him.
Ms Justice Tara Burns, presiding, sitting with Judge Sarah Berkeley and Judge Marie Keane, will rule on the application on July 15. | https://www.thesun.ie/news/9069811/gerry-hutch-murder-charge-regency-hotel-david-byrne/ | 2022-07-08T19:12:06Z | https://www.thesun.ie/news/9069811/gerry-hutch-murder-charge-regency-hotel-david-byrne/ | false | 1 |
Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday formally appealed her conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls over more than a decade.
The British socialite’s notice of appeal was filed nine days after she was sentenced by U.S. Circuit Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan.
Nathan said the punishment reflected Maxwell’s “instrumental” role in the abuse, and the “incalculable” damage it caused to victims.
Lawyers for Maxwell had argued that she was being scapegoated for Epstein’s crimes.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December after a monthlong trial on sex trafficking and four other counts for recruiting and grooming four girls to have sexual encounters with Epstein, who was then her boyfriend, between 1994 and 2004.
The daughter of the late British media magnate Robert Maxwell could be imprisoned until her late 70s, with possible credit for good behavior plus credit for the two years she has been jailed at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
Maxwell’s appeal was expected, and Thursday’s notice did not say what issues she will raise.
Her lawyers have said the conviction was tainted because of a lack of evidence Maxwell was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, that prosecutors waited too long to indict her, and that one juror failed to disclose he had been sexually abused as a child.
Nathan rejected these arguments in April.
The lawyers have also said jail officials would not let Maxwell prepare adequately for trial, and that Nathan should have used different guidelines when calculating a sentence.
Bobbi Sternheim, the Maxwell lawyer who filed the notice of appeal, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The appeals process will likely last several months or longer.
Epstein, 66, died by suicide in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting his own trial for sex trafficking. | https://globalnews.ca/news/8976686/ghislaine-maxwell-appeals-conviction-20-year-sentence-epstein-case/ | 2022-07-08T19:15:53Z | https://globalnews.ca/news/8976686/ghislaine-maxwell-appeals-conviction-20-year-sentence-epstein-case/ | false | 11 |
Skubic is a three-sport star and class valedictorian
From the time Sophia Skubic entered St. Vincent Elementary School, she has been drilled with the importance of time management.
It was a very good thing. That discipline has helped Skubic be her high school’s best player in three sports, be selected St. Vincent’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year, senior class valedictorian and win a multitude of academic and athletic accoldades.
It wasn’t always easy. Having a free study hall period each day helped, but she acknowledged, “There was definitely a lot of late nights and early mornings” that had to be devoted to studies to free time for sports practice whether it be volleyball in the fall, basketball in the winter or, her favorite, softball in the spring.
It is all about to change. She is headed to the University of San Diego where, as good an athlete as she is, she might have a difficult time finding a spot as a walk-on at the Division 1 school.
“I would like to continue playing softball, but I don’t know if that will be possible,” she said. There are options. She might be interested in club sports or maybe recreation softball. And, since she is going to San Diego to continue her education, she suggests that beach volleyball might be a possibility.
Whatever happens as she moves forward, Skubic will carry with her memories of a senior year at St. Vincent de Paul High School that very, very few have ever matched.
Finally free from the restrictions imposed by two years of pandemic mandates, she excelled from opening volleyball tip to final pitch of championship softball.
In the fall, she was an All-North Bay League choice on a rebuilding Mustang volleyball team. “I really loved playing volleyball,” she said. “It was a great experience.”
In the winter, she was also All-League on a basketball team that struggled to compete in the talent-loaded North Bay League Redwood and was further hampered by continuing impacts of the tenacious COVID virus. For her, basketball was kind of something she did. “I didn’t play my freshman year, but went out my sophomore year because I was bored,” she said.
After volleyball came softball, and all the stars aligned for Skubic’s final high school sports season.
In St. Vincent’s first season real season in the North Bay League Redwood, its first season it could compete for the league championship and its first season under new coach Morgan Selmi, the Mustangs not only exceeded all expectations, but all dreams.
They not only won the league championship, they dominated their new league, going 14-1 against NBL Redwood opposition and 21-7 overall. Playing for the first time as a Division 4 school, they won a North Coast Section game before their season finally ended with a tough 3-2 loss to Fort Bragg in the second round of the playoffs.
As the pitcher, Skubic was the mainstay of the St. Vincent success.
Except for one three-game stretch when she was injured and a one-sided game late in the season when her batterymate, catcher Maddie DeLaMontanya, swithced to pitching, Skubic was in the circle for every St. Vincent inning. She pitched in 25 games, going 19-5 with a 1.02 earned run average. In 151 innings, she allowed just 22 earned runs, while striking out 187 and walking just 28. She also batted .354 with 34 hits, 34 runs scored and 14 RBIs in 27 games.
She was an obvious selection as the NBL Oak Player of the Year.
DeLaMontanya has been a major part of Skubic’s success. She has been behind the plate for all four years of the pitcher’s high school career, and enjoyed her own spectacular senior success, batting .457 with 35 hits in 28 games that included a whopping 14 doubles and 35 RBIs. That doesn’t include what she meant to the team and her pitcher as a dependable, quality defensive catcher.
Selmi said Skubic meant more to the Mustangs’ championship season than even her impressive statistics show.
Í’ve never seen her visibly upset on the diamond,” the coach said. “Everyone has a day when something gets under their skin. I’ve never seen Sophia have a day like that. She always has a smile on her face. She has always been vey coachable. It has been a pleasure seeing her grow.”
Selmi said she hopes Skubic finds a way to continue playing softball. “I absolutely think she can play in college,” the coach said. “I would like to see her give it a shot. She can play any place on the field.”
As she prepares to head south to San Diego to take the next step in her education, Skubic has spent the summer doing what she always does during the summer – playing softball. She started with the Petaluma Steal Breeze youth program as a 9-year-old, and since she has been in high school played for the Sonoma Stack team.
Playing sports year round is a commitment not only for the athlete, but for her family as well, and Skubic credits her family – father Bob; mother Christina; and younger brother Joseph, now a junior at Sonoma Academy for “really great support.” That support also came from her No. 1 fan, grandfather George Caspary.
While sports, in some form, will continue to be a part of her life, she has even more ambitious life goals. She plans to major in neuroscience, studying the causes and cures for different types of dementia.
She just might find a way to be playing softball on her 100th birthday. | https://www.petaluma360.com/article/sports/skubic-is-a-three-sport-star-and-class-valedictorian/ | 2022-07-08T19:21:18Z | https://www.petaluma360.com/article/sports/skubic-is-a-three-sport-star-and-class-valedictorian/ | true | 1 |
LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles-based law boutique Sklar Kirsh LLP announced that Partners Robbin Itkin and Serineh Baghdasarian and Director of Finance & IT Emily Lichtman have been selected as nominees for the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Women's Leadership Awards." The 2022 Women's Leadership Awards honor the impacts and accomplishments of women business leaders in the Los Angeles community.
"Robbin, Serineh, and Emily are some of our most dedicated professionals, consistently proving their ability to provide the firm's clients with the highest degree of strategy and service," says firm Co-Chairman Jeffrey Sklar. "We are proud to see them recognized for their hard work."
Itkin and Lichtman have been selected as nominees for the "Executive of the Year" category, which recognizes professionals who are key members of their organization's executive team.
Itkin is a partner in Sklar Kirsh's Bankruptcy practice group. Her experience restructuring billions of dollars of debt includes insolvency resolutions in chapter 11 cases and numerous restructurings outside the courtroom. As a mediator, Itkin uses her problem-solving strength to advise both healthy companies and those in distress, leading them to negotiate effectively with their own creditors and counterparties who are in fragile economic straits. In the community, Itkin serves on various boards including the Women's Leadership Council of Los Angeles and Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) where young adults are taught about financial responsibility. Throughout Itkin's career, she has mentored and empowered emerging women professionals with support and career development.
Lichtman has been with Sklar Kirsh since 2015 and has served as an integral part of the firm's growth and management since its infancy. As the firm's Director of Finance & IT, Lichtman runs the day-to-day operations of the firm to ensure the attorneys' energy and focus can be client-facing. Lichtman also mentors a number of female professionals at the firm, providing them with guidance and support in their careers.
Baghdasarian has been selected in the "Women to Watch" category, recognizing emerging leaders who have already demonstrated meaningful impact on their organizations and the local business community. She is a Partner in the firm's Real Estate Department. Her experience includes representation of real estate private equity funds, developers, and institutional and non-institutional investors in all areas of transactional real estate and real estate finance.
Sklar Kirsh LLP is a boutique law firm that provides sophisticated and expert advice in the areas of corporate, real estate, bankruptcy, and entertainment law as well as commercial, real estate and entertainment litigation. For more information, visit www.SklarKirsh.com.
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How to Watch Spurs vs. Cavaliers: Stream NBA Summer League, TV Channel, Start Time
The San Antonio Spurs have fully leaned into a rebuild and their young players after trading Dejounte Murray for picks. They enter NBA summer league with five of their rotation players and take on the Cleveland Cavaliers who have their direction plotted out thanks to having a young star in Darius Garland, and a developing young team out in the eastern conference.
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Overall, San Antonio is breaking in three first-round picks after taking Jeremy Sochan with its lottery pick and adding in Blake Wesley and Malaki Branham as well.
The potential homerun pick is Sochan, who is not projected to be a star but rather a star in his role as a stat-sheet stuffer and do-the-little-things wing. He has a lot of Draymond Green to his game as a defender and playmaker who plays bigger than his listed height.
For Cleveland, it brings in Evan Mobley’s brother, Isaiah, who made a name for himself in his one year without his brother at USC.
Mobley also has the do-it-all style: Without being great at one thing, he does everything very well. Ochai Agbaji comes in as its top pick in the first round as an NBA-ready shooter to help bring some offense from the wing.
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TCS Q1 net profit rises 5% to Rs 9,478 crore
Mumbai: The country's largest software exporter TCS on Friday reported a 5.2 per cent rise in the June quarter net profit to Rs 9,478 crore, restricted by the impact of annual wage hikes and promotions that took operating profit margins to multi-quarter lows.
The Tata Group company, which is the first in the country's over $220 billion software exports industry to report earnings, however, said that it does not see any adverse business impact because of worries around recession in its key markets.
It reported a 16.2 per cent growth in the revenue at Rs 52,758 crore for the quarter, with all the big geographies and business segments reporting strong numbers, but it was operating profit margins, which slid down to 23.1 per cent much lower than the aspirational band of over 26 per cent that hurt the profit growth.
Its managing director and chief executive Rajesh Gopinathan hinted that this is the bottom for the margins, attributing the fall to annual wage hikes and promotions, which drilled a 1.50 per cent hole.
Chief financial officer Samir Seksaria exuded confidence that it will be able to claw back and take the operating profit margin number up with every quarter.
At a time when worries are being expressed about recessionary pressures in markets like the US, which is the biggest market for TCS, Gopinathan said it has been doing client surveys to look for any early signs of softening in demand for its services.
"We are seeing steady demand from our immediate conversations with customers for the short term to medium term. So, all projects that are currently going on, pipeline conversions all of that indicates a steady demand environment," he told reporters at the company headquarters here.
"In senior-level discussions, there is increasing discussion about the recession, no different from what you and I are reading in newspapers. We don't see an immediate footprint of it on our demand side. From a pipeline perspective also, the pipeline build is quite strong and the nature of deals is also remaining strong," he added.
Gopinathan also said that he sees North America to be the geography from a business growth perspective in the year ahead.
The company clocked a total contract value of $8.2 billion for the quarter, which included two large deals of over $400 million.
Chief operating officer N Ganapathy Subramaniam said there will be fewer large ticket deals of over $1 billion going ahead, and stated that the TCV will range between $7-9 billion every quarter even though it touched $11 billion on the back of two large deals recently.
On the margins improvisation front, Seksaria said the company is looking to press levers, including upping realisation and pricing, rupee depreciation (currency movements gave a 0.25 per cent benefit to operating profit margin in Q1) and optimising sub-contracting costs, which have gone up due to higher attrition that came at over 19.5 per cent.
Gopinathan said he expects attrition to remain high for another quarter and stabilise in the second half of the fiscal year.
The company added only 14,000 people on a net basis in the reporting quarter because of the excess capacity that it has built up in the last one year, he said, making it clear that it is not driven by any business growth expectations.
Seksaria said the company hired a lot of lateral talent during the quarter and is maintaining its target of hiring 40,000 freshers for the fiscal year.
COO Subramaniam said its clients in the retail and consumer products space — who are most at risk if a recession were to play out — do not mean to pull the plug on IT spends because of the adverse business climate as everyone wants to drive technology projects for easier working and customer experiences.
The COO said he does not expect any slowdown of demand or even re-prioritising of spending by clients in the near term, at least in this financial year.
The company's board declared an interim dividend of Rs 8 per equity share at the meeting held on Friday.
Domestic brokerage Prabhudas Lilladher said the company has missed on both revenue and margins in the June quarter results.
The company scrip closed 0.67 per cent down at Rs 3,264.85 apiece on the BSE on Friday, against gains of 0.56 per cent on the benchmark.
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LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles-based law boutique Sklar Kirsh LLP announced that Partners Robbin Itkin and Serineh Baghdasarian and Director of Finance & IT Emily Lichtman have been selected as nominees for the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Women's Leadership Awards." The 2022 Women's Leadership Awards honor the impacts and accomplishments of women business leaders in the Los Angeles community.
"Robbin, Serineh, and Emily are some of our most dedicated professionals, consistently proving their ability to provide the firm's clients with the highest degree of strategy and service," says firm Co-Chairman Jeffrey Sklar. "We are proud to see them recognized for their hard work."
Itkin and Lichtman have been selected as nominees for the "Executive of the Year" category, which recognizes professionals who are key members of their organization's executive team.
Itkin is a partner in Sklar Kirsh's Bankruptcy practice group. Her experience restructuring billions of dollars of debt includes insolvency resolutions in chapter 11 cases and numerous restructurings outside the courtroom. As a mediator, Itkin uses her problem-solving strength to advise both healthy companies and those in distress, leading them to negotiate effectively with their own creditors and counterparties who are in fragile economic straits. In the community, Itkin serves on various boards including the Women's Leadership Council of Los Angeles and Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) where young adults are taught about financial responsibility. Throughout Itkin's career, she has mentored and empowered emerging women professionals with support and career development.
Lichtman has been with Sklar Kirsh since 2015 and has served as an integral part of the firm's growth and management since its infancy. As the firm's Director of Finance & IT, Lichtman runs the day-to-day operations of the firm to ensure the attorneys' energy and focus can be client-facing. Lichtman also mentors a number of female professionals at the firm, providing them with guidance and support in their careers.
Baghdasarian has been selected in the "Women to Watch" category, recognizing emerging leaders who have already demonstrated meaningful impact on their organizations and the local business community. She is a Partner in the firm's Real Estate Department. Her experience includes representation of real estate private equity funds, developers, and institutional and non-institutional investors in all areas of transactional real estate and real estate finance.
Sklar Kirsh LLP is a boutique law firm that provides sophisticated and expert advice in the areas of corporate, real estate, bankruptcy, and entertainment law as well as commercial, real estate and entertainment litigation. For more information, visit www.SklarKirsh.com.
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LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles-based law boutique Sklar Kirsh LLP announced that Partners Robbin Itkin and Serineh Baghdasarian and Director of Finance & IT Emily Lichtman have been selected as nominees for the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Women's Leadership Awards." The 2022 Women's Leadership Awards honor the impacts and accomplishments of women business leaders in the Los Angeles community.
"Robbin, Serineh, and Emily are some of our most dedicated professionals, consistently proving their ability to provide the firm's clients with the highest degree of strategy and service," says firm Co-Chairman Jeffrey Sklar. "We are proud to see them recognized for their hard work."
Itkin and Lichtman have been selected as nominees for the "Executive of the Year" category, which recognizes professionals who are key members of their organization's executive team.
Itkin is a partner in Sklar Kirsh's Bankruptcy practice group. Her experience restructuring billions of dollars of debt includes insolvency resolutions in chapter 11 cases and numerous restructurings outside the courtroom. As a mediator, Itkin uses her problem-solving strength to advise both healthy companies and those in distress, leading them to negotiate effectively with their own creditors and counterparties who are in fragile economic straits. In the community, Itkin serves on various boards including the Women's Leadership Council of Los Angeles and Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) where young adults are taught about financial responsibility. Throughout Itkin's career, she has mentored and empowered emerging women professionals with support and career development.
Lichtman has been with Sklar Kirsh since 2015 and has served as an integral part of the firm's growth and management since its infancy. As the firm's Director of Finance & IT, Lichtman runs the day-to-day operations of the firm to ensure the attorneys' energy and focus can be client-facing. Lichtman also mentors a number of female professionals at the firm, providing them with guidance and support in their careers.
Baghdasarian has been selected in the "Women to Watch" category, recognizing emerging leaders who have already demonstrated meaningful impact on their organizations and the local business community. She is a Partner in the firm's Real Estate Department. Her experience includes representation of real estate private equity funds, developers, and institutional and non-institutional investors in all areas of transactional real estate and real estate finance.
Sklar Kirsh LLP is a boutique law firm that provides sophisticated and expert advice in the areas of corporate, real estate, bankruptcy, and entertainment law as well as commercial, real estate and entertainment litigation. For more information, visit www.SklarKirsh.com.
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TOBYHANNA, Pa. -- The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency is working to make it easier to gather feedback and improve processes to better serve its customer base.
To accomplish this, USAMMA’s Medical Maintenance Management Division, or M3D, developed a new user-friendly survey system through the Army 365 platform that centrally collects feedback, providing a real-time view of satisfaction rates.
“With customer feedback, we hope to understand what products we provide that our customers value,” M3D Director Jorge Magana said. “We also want to identify areas that may require improvements. For instance, we assume that we respond to customer requirements in a timely manner, because we met the internal metrics we set for ourselves, but did we meet the customers’ actual needs and expectations?”
Magana said the former system, using the Department of Defense Interactive Customer Evaluation module, garnered “little to zero productive feedback” from customers supported by USAMMA’s Medical Maintenance Operations Divisions, or MMODs.
“The intent with utilizing the new process is that we make it as easy as possible for customers to provide us the appropriate feedback related to the support we provided,” he said.
William Kamora, quality assurance and control manager at USAMMA’s MMOD at Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania, spearheaded the development of the new system. He said the process provides added efficiencies by collecting data automatically and centrally reporting it to M3D leadership.
USAMMA, a direct reporting unit to Army Medical Logistics Command, operates three MMODs across the country, including at Tobyhanna, Hill Air Force Base in Utah and Tracy, California.
All three MMODs have adopted the survey system, which went live last month. Participation data is still being collected, but Kamora said they expect to see an increase overall due to the customer’s ease of use.
The data collected will be used to determine customer perception of the agency’s support, adjust for communication gaps and improve overall services and customer loyalty, Kamora added.
“Communication is the most important factor today as customers want to be up to date and informed on the progress of their equipment and this feedback method allows us to fine tune the processes to ensure this happens,” Kamora said.
Added Magana, “By implementing this new method of soliciting feedback, we strive to improve on how our customers communicate with us. And we want to use that feedback and information to improve our processes that produce what the customer requires and values the most.”
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VOL. 46 | NO. 27 | Friday, July 8, 2022
US employers add a solid 372,000 jobs in sign of resilience
Updated 12:05PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's employers shrugged off high inflation and weakening growth to add 372,000 jobs in June, a surprisingly strong gain that will likely spur the Federal Reserve to keep sharply raising interest rates to try to cool the economy and slow price increases.
The unemployment rate remained at 3.6% for a fourth straight month, the government said Friday, matching a near-50-year low that was reached before the pandemic struck in early 2020.
The robust pace of hiring shows that businesses still want to add workers to meet high customer demand — a trend that should ease concerns that the U.S. economy might be on the verge of a downturn. The durability of the job market suggests that the economy remains on firm footing, at least for now.
"For all the doom and gloom that's in the markets right now, companies themselves still seem pretty upbeat on their own progress," said James Knightley, chief economist at ING, a bank. "It sort of dampens the near-term fear that we're heading into an impending recession."
Numerous sectors of the economy posted strong job gains in June. Health care added 78,000, transportation and warehousing 36,000 and professional services — a category that includes accounting, engineering, and legal services — gained 74,000. And a sector that includes mainly restaurants, hotels and entertainment jobs added 67,000.
John Schall, the owner of a Boston-based Tex-Mex restaurant chain called El Jefe's Taqueria, is enjoying strong sales growth and says he's optimistic about his business. He plans to open his eighth restaurant next week in Pittsburgh. Schall has hired five managers there and will add up to 30 hourly workers.
Having opened six stores in the chaotic two years since the pandemic struck, he is relatively unfazed by inflation and supply chain problems. His sales are growing 25%-30% a year.
"All of them are issues, but overall, I couldn't be more excited about where we're at and where we're going," Schall said.
Rising prices have eroded his profits, he said, but he thinks inflation will prove temporary, so he isn't planning price increases beyond one that he imposed nine months ago. Schall is trying to boost the efficiency of his workers, such as buying a machine to do most of the slicing and dicing of the onions, tomatoes and plantains the restaurant uses.
Still, there is plenty of uncertainty clouding the economy's future path. Economic growth has likely been negative for two straight quarters, consumers are slowing their spending with inflation at a four-decade high and home sales have fallen as the Fed has jacked up borrowing costs. Hiring could weaken in the coming months as the Fed's rate hikes increasingly take effect.
And some companies are announcing layoffs, or have paused hiring. In particular, several large retailers, including Walmart and Amazon, have said they over-hired during the pandemic, with Walmart reducing its headcount by attrition.
Tesla is cutting about 3.5% of its total headcount. Netflix has laid off about 450 employees after it reported losing subscribers for the first time in more than a decade. The online automotive retailer Carvana and real estate companies Redfin and Compass have also announced job cuts.
Leah Kirpalani, the founder of Shop Good, a "clean beauty" and wellness business with two locations in San Diego, is watching her sales nervously. She's noticed that consumers are increasingly focusing on essentials like moisturizers and cleansers. Most aren't picking up extra products like serums, she said, and they're being hesitant about trying new products.
For now, she has no plans to reduce staff. But that could change if conditions worsen.
"Until we see a longer downturn," Kirpalani said, "we will continue to staff appropriately to meet customer expectations."
The past year's streak of hiring has itself contributed to inflation and heightened pressure on the Fed to slow borrowing and spending. The central bank has already embarked on its fastest series of rate hikes since the 1980s. Additional large rate increases would making borrowing much costlier for consumers and businesses and increase the risk of a recession over the next year.
The Fed may regard the June job gain as evidence that the rapid pace of hiring is further feeding inflation as companies raise pay to attract workers and then increase prices to cover their higher labor costs. Many employers are still struggling to fill jobs, especially in the economy's vast service sector, with Americans now traveling, eating out and attending public events with much greater frequency.
When the government reports on June's inflation figures next week, it will likely remain high and could even increase from the 8.6% year-over-year reading in May. But many economists expect it to decline after that.
Wages continued to grow in June, though at a slightly slower pace than they did earlier this year. More modest wage gains could help moderate inflation. Average hourly pay rose 5.1% to just above $32 last month, a much bigger increase than before the pandemic though not enough to keep pace with inflation. Wage growth is down from a 6% pace late last year.
For now, there are roughly two posted job openings for every unemployed worker. And the number of people seeking unemployment benefits — a proxy for layoffs and an early indicator of a downturn — remains far below historic averages, although it has ticked up recently.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has held out hope that the economy will continue to expand even as the central bank raises borrowing costs at its fastest pace since the late 1980s. But Powell has also acknowledged that overseas factors, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has elevated gas and food prices, will make it difficult to avoid a recession.
Last month, he conceded that a recession "is not our intended outcome but it's certainly a possibility."
The job market's recovery has been much more rapid after the pandemic recession than previous downturns. The economy has now recovered all the private-sector jobs lost to the pandemic, a little over two years after the recession. It took almost five years to reach that level after the 2008-2009 downturn.
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Woman seriously injured in collision near cricket club
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A woman was seriously injured in a collision near a cricket club in Herongate.
Essex Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage of the crash, involving a pedestrian and a car, in Brentwood Road just before 4.30pm on Tuesday, July 5.
The incident is thought to have happened opposite Herongate and Ingrave Cricket Club in the village near Brentwood.
The pedestrian, a woman in her 40s, suffered injuries which police say are not life-threatening.
The car involved could be a black Ford Fiesta, according to the force.
Anyone with information can submit a report on Essex Police's website or by using its online chat service on Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) between 10am and 9pm.
People can also call 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Russia's financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, said on Friday it was using software to track cryptocurrency transactions and hopes to improve its capabilities, as Moscow ushers in regulation on what one lawmaker dubbed "cryptomania".
The Bank of Russia has long voiced scepticism over cryptocurrencies, citing financial stability concerns, and has advocated for a complete ban on trading and mining, at odds with a government keen to regulate the industry.
Russia has already identified specific criminal cases involved in cryptocurrencies, said Rosfinmonitoring's head Yuri Chikhanchin, adding that the agency wants to improve its systems and identify transactions and blockchains that are currently hidden.
Chikhanchin said it was not currently possible to cover everything, partly because not all countries are so eager to regulate the industry.
"It is very difficult when cryptocurrency accounts go into the unregulated zone and we don't understand who is on the other end," he said. "But I think we will still solve this task."
The blockchain technology on which cryptocurrencies are based records transactions, but not the identity of wallet-owners, making them difficult to track.
Anatoly Aksakov, head of the financial committee in Russia's lower house of parliament, on Thursday said draft legislation on regulating cryptocurrencies would be put to the house in the autumn.
"Obviously there will be strict regulation," Aksakov said, comparing "cryptomania" to addiction in the gambling sector, which is tightly regulated in Russia.
"The same needs to be done with crypto exchanges and trading," he said. "The phenomenon exists and it cannot be ignored."
The crypto industry has been in the crosshairs of regulators, who worry that a recent meltdown in the volatile market could hit the broader financial sector.
The slump - sparked by the downfall of two major tokens in May - has led to crypto lender Celsius pausing withdrawals and Singapore-based crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital entering into liquidation.
Russia's central bank has said it is open to allowing cryptocurrencies to be used for international settlements and has approved other digital asset transactions.
Aksakov also expects a cryptocurrency mining law to be considered soon, an area the government hopes to tax.
Unlike payment companies, most crypto exchanges initially rejected calls to cut off all Russian users, sparking concerns among U.S. lawmakers that digital assets could be used to evade Western sanctions on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.
Major exchanges said they would comply with sanctions by blocking sanctioned users. In April, Binance froze deposits and trading for Russian users with crypto assets of more than 10,000 euros.
The Bank of Russia has long voiced scepticism over cryptocurrencies, citing financial stability concerns, and has advocated for a complete ban on trading and mining, at odds with a government keen to regulate the industry.
Russia has already identified specific criminal cases involved in cryptocurrencies, said Rosfinmonitoring's head Yuri Chikhanchin, adding that the agency wants to improve its systems and identify transactions and blockchains that are currently hidden.
Chikhanchin said it was not currently possible to cover everything, partly because not all countries are so eager to regulate the industry.
"It is very difficult when cryptocurrency accounts go into the unregulated zone and we don't understand who is on the other end," he said. "But I think we will still solve this task."
The blockchain technology on which cryptocurrencies are based records transactions, but not the identity of wallet-owners, making them difficult to track.
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Anatoly Aksakov, head of the financial committee in Russia's lower house of parliament, on Thursday said draft legislation on regulating cryptocurrencies would be put to the house in the autumn.
"Obviously there will be strict regulation," Aksakov said, comparing "cryptomania" to addiction in the gambling sector, which is tightly regulated in Russia.
"The same needs to be done with crypto exchanges and trading," he said. "The phenomenon exists and it cannot be ignored."
The crypto industry has been in the crosshairs of regulators, who worry that a recent meltdown in the volatile market could hit the broader financial sector.
The slump - sparked by the downfall of two major tokens in May - has led to crypto lender Celsius pausing withdrawals and Singapore-based crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital entering into liquidation.
Russia's central bank has said it is open to allowing cryptocurrencies to be used for international settlements and has approved other digital asset transactions.
Aksakov also expects a cryptocurrency mining law to be considered soon, an area the government hopes to tax.
Unlike payment companies, most crypto exchanges initially rejected calls to cut off all Russian users, sparking concerns among U.S. lawmakers that digital assets could be used to evade Western sanctions on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.
Major exchanges said they would comply with sanctions by blocking sanctioned users. In April, Binance froze deposits and trading for Russian users with crypto assets of more than 10,000 euros.
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Federal authorities added three more Montana counties to a presidential disaster declaration issued following last month’s destructive floods around Yellowstone National Park, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday.
The addition of Yellowstone, Treasure and Sweet Grass counties makes them eligible for federal money for debris removal and repairs to public facilities. Park, Carbon and Stillwater counties were previously approved for funding.
Officials have documented almost $5 million in local costs related to the floods that began June 12. That figure is expected to grow and is just a fraction of the overall damages.
Raging waters caused by heavy rain and a sudden mountain snowmelt caused damage to numerous roads, bridges, power poles and other infrastructure across southern Montana and in Yellowstone.
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With the Covid-19 pandemic over the past 2 years, people have been home a lot more, and while restaurants and other businesses had to close their doors for a while, it forced people to have to rely on themselves for their food lot more.
As someone that grew up in a lower-income household, we had to rely on our public school’s reduced lunch program during the school year, and my mother was very good at stretching money to feed me, my 6 siblings, and the daycare kids she took care of during the summers growing up.
One major thing no one should have to worry about is where their next meal is coming from. But the past 2 years especially people have been worried about how they are going to feed themselves and their families.
One New York charity is trying its best to help fed people in need, and it’s called EV Loves NYC.
“We started our grassroots organization in the midst of the pandemic to provide emergency food services to those hardest hit by COVID,” their website states.
“We are all New Yorkers, so we know the importance of having each other’s backs. Every week, our team of fearless volunteers gets together at our headquarters located at the Sixth Street Community Center in the East Village to cheerfully prepare thousands of hearty and healthy meals.”
“These are delivered to fellow New Yorkers in need throughout the city. We are dynamic, efficient and effective, and we can prepare a healthy meal for around 80 cents.”
“We stand for food equality and strive to bring tasty delights to those who need them most, with a wider aim is to build bridges between the various communities of New York City, uniting areas that are often segregated.”
Like most organizations, the current economy has been tough on this non-profit.
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Mountaineer, 27, took grinning selfie and sent it to family moments before dying in avalanche
A YOUNG mountaineer snapped a final grinning selfie just minutes before he was tragically killed in an avalanche in the Italian Alps.
Filippo Bari, 27, sent the picture to his family with the message "look where I am" as he was climbing Marmolada - the highest mountain in the Dolomites mountain range - with his pals.
Just 20 minutes later, a huge chunk of glacier broke off, sending a huge avalanche of ice, snow and rocks down the slope on Sunday.
At least seven hikers were killed and five people are still missing.
Hope of finding the missing climbers alive are fading due to the scale of the avalanche and the difficult conditions facing rescue teams.
Filippo, an expert mountain hiker from Italy, was identified by his family as one of the victims of the tragedy.
His brother, Andrea, said his family always told him to be careful in the mountains, "above all in these temperatures".
Andrea said his Filippo lived in Malo, Vicenza province, with his partner, Jelena, and four-year-old son, Filippo.
He said his brother sent the selfie of him smiling in a helmet and sunglasses in front of the glacier 20 minutes before the avalanche.
Andrea told Italian state TV: "He passed away doing what he loved.
"Filippo was a great lover of the mountains and nature in general.
"He had already done several high-altitude outings, always accompanied by experienced people and with all the necessary equipment."
Filippo had been planning to climb Monte Rosa, which straddles Italy and Switzerland, this week.
The deluge of ice fell on a route usually taken by hikers to reach the summit of the mountain, the Alpine rescue said.
A local official said the part that broke loose was around 200 metres wide, 80 metres high and 60 metres deep - and plummeted down the mountain at nearly 200 miles per hour.
The region has been hit with a heatwave in recent weeks and the Dolomite summit has reached record temperatures - possibly causing the glacier collapse.
The incident led to the evacuation of the Marmolada mountain in the Italian Alps as officials warned there was a risk of further collapses.
The Czech foreign ministry said two of its nationals were among those who lost their lives.
And at least three of the dead were Italians, authorities said
Of the eight injured, two Germans, a 67-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, were said to be in a serious condition.
On Tuesday, rescue teams sent helicopters and drones up for a second day.
"Operations on the ground will only be carried out to recover any remains discovered by the drones, to ensure rescuers' safety," the Trentino Alpine Rescue Service said on Tuesday.
Relatives of hikers reported missing gathered at the town of Canazei, where recovered remains were placed in a make-shift morgue at a gym.
Helicopter pilot Fausto Zambelli said some belongings had been spotted from the air - but it was not yet clear "if that means there are victims there, or if they belong to old hiking expeditions".
He said hope of finding survivors under the ice was slim, but not entirely gone.
"If there are 'pockets' (of air), there's still hope. Time is obviously short, but we still hope to find someone alive," he said.
The Trento public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation to determine the cause of the avalanche as the families of those caught up in the tragedy demanded answers.
Italian news agency ANSA quoted the sister of one missing Italian as saying: "Why did nobody warn on Saturday that water had filtered beneath the glacier?
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During recent cryptocurrency booms, companies have been quick to jump on the trend, whether by reorienting their entire businesses around the buzzy theme, building meaningful crypto features alongside more traditional operations or dipping their toes in the water to ensure they wouldn’t get left behind.
When times were good, companies liked to talk up their crypto involvement, however marginal. But with crypto prices now sagging, it’s worth taking stock of which companies were actually seeing meaningful contributions from their crypto efforts—and which could be in for some pain in a tough climate.
Bitcoin
BTCUSD,
MarketWatch took a look at 13 companies with crypto exposure in various forms. Below we break down how digital assets affect those businesses.
Some companies are all about crypto…
Others are involved to a lesser extent
AMD and Nvidia
AMD
AMD,
Nvidia said that revenue from its dedicated crypto-mining chip was “nominal” in its quarter, compared with $155 million a year before. The prior period’s $155 million crypto-revenue total would have been about 1.9% of the latest quarter’s (larger) overall revenue total, so Nvidia’s disclosure of a “nominal” contribution suggests crypto was an even smaller portion of overall revenue in the most recent quarter.
“The extent to which cryptocurrency mining contributed to gaming demand is difficult for us to quantify with any reasonable degree of precision,” Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said on the latest earnings call. “The reduced pace of increase in Ethereum network hash rate likely reflects lower mining activity on GPUs. We expect a diminishing contribution going forward.”
AMD executives didn’t mention crypto once on the company’s latest earnings call in May or during the analyst-day presentation in June, according to transcripts. When asked at a December investor conference how crypto was impacting the market for AMD graphics processing units in a period of tight supply, Chief Executive Lisa Su said “it’s a very different market than it was a few years ago with crypto” and that she didn’t see crypto as a “meaningful driver” of that business.
Nvidia declined to comment. An AMD spokesperson said that the company was in a quiet period, with earnings scheduled to be reported on July 26, and couldn’t comment beyond the historical statement referenced above.
Block
Block Inc.
SQ,
On paper, it might seem as if Block is hugely dependent on crypto activity: The company reported $10.0 billion in GAAP bitcoin revenue last year, accounting for about 57% of overall revenue. But the bitcoin revenue figure is misleading in Block’s case since it comes with minimal profit from the spread.
In general, Block executives and the analysts who cover the stock focus on gross-profit figures instead of revenue across the company’s business lines, and on that basis, bitcoin accounted for about 5% of company gross profit last year, or about 3% in the first quarter.
“They have a visibility issue more so than they have a fundamental issue,” Mizuho analyst Dan Dolev told MarketWatch. “There’s so much good stuff about [Block] that people are missing because of this bitcoin-centric [narrative].”
Block executives see bitcoin as an important driver for the Cash App. “Bitcoin monthly actives have brought in significantly more inflows to the ecosystem” than those who only use the mobile wallet for peer-to-peer money transfers,” Cash App Lead Brian Grassadonia said at the company’s May investor day. “It’s also a monetization lever where money isn’t actually leaving the ecosystem, so we have the opportunity to monetize those inflows multiple times.”
Bitcoin miners
Bitcoin-mining companies, including Riot Blockchain Inc.
RIOT,
Don’t miss: Bitcoin miners struggle with crypto’s price decline, rising energy costs and increase in mining difficulty.
Marathon Digital classifies all its revenue as mining-related, while Riot breaks out smaller portions that are from hosting and engineering. Other mining stocks include Core Scientific Inc.
CORZ,
While some bitcoin mining companies began that way, others pivoted as cryptocurrencies turned trendy. Riot was once a tiny animal healthcare company, and Marathon was once a patent business.
When bitcoin prices were surging last fall, the companies could see gross margins above 90%, Brendler said, but now their gross markets are down to 60%. “They’re still very profitable, but the market is worried that bitcoin could go lower,” he told MarketWatch.
The biggest problem for the mining names, in his view, is that they’re very capital intensive. That’s partly because the companies need to keep spending in order to keep their market share, but also because they like to hold bitcoin that they mine so that investors have more direct exposure to the price of bitcoin through their stocks, Brendler continued. But the equity markets have turned negative for bitcoin miners, and the lending markets have also soured, making it so “the best miners with the best balance sheets” are best positioned to survive, he said.
Coinbase
Coinbase Global Inc.
COIN,
See also: Coinbase sees crypto trading fall off
“It’s super correlated and that’s what most people don’t understand,” Mizuho’s Dolev said. “People thought this was something they could do outside crypto but it ends up being the same.”
FIS, Mastercard, and Visa
Older-line payments companies Visa Inc.
V,
Baird’s David Koning notes that Visa saw $3.5 billion in payment volume last fiscal year related to crypto-linked card programs, which let people link their crypto wallets to their Visa credentials for spending purposes. That represented about 0.03% of the company’s total volume, he wrote. “Visa also likely has a modest amount of services related to cryptocurrencies,” Koning noted.
Visa declined to comment further on its crypto exposure.
Mastercard probably has similar exposure, Baird’s Koning added, and crypto likely represents “well less than 1% of total revenue” for both companies.
A Mastercard spokesperson said the company couldn’t comment on the estimate as Mastercard doesn’t report that figure.
Meanwhile, FIS provides merchant-acquiring services for crypto wallets, but crypto is “very much on the margins” for the company, according to MoffettNathanson’s Ellis. Baird’s Koning estimates that crypto could account for less than 5% of merchant-segment revenue, and perhaps about 1% of overall revenue.
An FIS spokesperson noted that the company doesn’t break out crypto revenue but pointed to past comments from President Stephanie Ferris indicating that FIS served four of the top five crypto exchanges as of the fourth quarter.
Microstrategy
Microstrategy Inc.
MSTR,
PayPal
PayPal Holdings Inc.
PYPL,
“PayPal’s exposure to crypto would be lower than Block’s (and Block’s is only about 2% of gross profit),” MoffettNathanson analyst Lisa Ellis told MarketWatch, though its exposure is greater than what Visa, Mastercard, and FIS see. “PayPal’s yields/take rates on a crypto transaction are similar to Block’s, but PayPal is just larger and newer to crypto so it is a smaller part over overall revenues.”
PayPal doesn’t break out crypto impacts in its financials.
While D.A. Davidson’s Chris Brendler was “hopeful that PayPal’s crypto launch would be more meaningful to the numbers,” he hasn’t seen signs of it manifesting in the company’s take rate. Because PayPal didn’t see big crypto benefits during better times for digital assets, “the good news is, on the way down, it won’t be a headwind for PayPal,” he added.
Robinhood
Robinhood Markets Inc.
HOOD,
Signature Bank
Signature Bank
SBNY,
The company had $29 billion in deposits from the digital-currency ecosystem as of the end of the first quarter, Long wrote, accounting for nearly 27% of overall deposits.
For his part, he sees Signature’s recent stock selloff as “overdone,” noting that the bank “had more than $26 billion of cash on its balances sheet and capacity to borrow.” In other words, “even if every deposit here was withdrawn, which likely means the value of Bitcoin approaches $0, Signature has the liquidity to meet redemptions.”
Other financial companies involved with digital assets include investment-management firm Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd.
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MotoGP: Remy Gardner: ‘Motocross is a bitch sometimes’, Hard Enduro ‘safer’
MotoGP rookie Remy Gardner has explained why he now favours Hard Enduro over Motocross for training.
Motocross is widely seen as one of the best all-around ways for MotoGP riders to stay bike sharp and maintain their physical fitness while away from the grand prix paddock. Not to mention the fun factor.
But the Australian called time on Motocross training after suffering a wrist fracture in the run-up to pre-season testing at Sepang this year.
It was the second time that Gardner had been bitten by his love of Motocross, after suffering multiple leg fractures in 2018.
The latest big name to be caught out while Motocross training is Gardner’s friend and rookie Moto2 race winner Pedro Acosta, who was forced to miss the recent Assen round after breaking his left femur.
“I spoke to him. He's alright, he’s in good spirits,” Gardner said of Acosta.
“Motocross, in the end, is dangerous and I can't say that I haven't done it [been injured]! I've been there twice already with Motocross, so I’ve actually left it, I'm not doing it anymore, until I'm out of racing I guess.
“Unfortunately, it's dangerous. It's good training and super fun, but Motocross is a bitch sometimes.”
The 24-year-old now uses “lots of Enduro and Trials” instead, explaining: “Not fast Enduro, Hard Enduro for physical training.”
Hard Enduro uses machinery very similar to Motocross. But while Motocross is about riding fast laps on jump-laden tracks, Hard Enduro involves overcoming steep hills and (mostly) natural obstacles to get from A to B.
That means much lower speeds and, while Motocross is about how quickly you can finish, the first priority in Hard Enduro is simply to reach the finish - riders often have to physically manhandle their 110kg bikes just to make it through the toughest sections.
“I think it's much safer than Motocross, because with Motocross you’ve got speed, jumps, I've hurt myself many times in motocross,” Gardner said. “Hard Enduro is all first gear kind of stuff, pushing the bike up rocks.
“I guess you could fall down and slip or whatever. One day maybe, but I think it's much safer. At the moment I've got no injuries from it.”
But like any motorcycling activity, safety is relative.
“I was going up one of these big hills in second gear and I’d been told ‘make sure if you can't make it, you throw the bike [away from you]’.
“So when I was about to fall, I just [launched the bike away] and it went all the way down to the bottom. So yeah, I sacrificed the bike before myself!
“But it's good training. Physically, Hard Enduro is one of the hardest types of training you can do. Just watch the guys at Erzberg.
“We'll go out and do like 5 or 6 hours. And I am dead. I take 2 litres in the camelback and when we get back I’ll drink another litre and a half of water because I'm just dehydrated. Especially now in summer. In Spain, it's like 35 degrees.
“It's pretty gnarly…So I do a lot of that [Hard Enduro] and some Trials and Dirt Track. And with the little bikes, the Ohvales, a bit of training with those as well.
“But I'm not touching a motorbike for two weeks [of the summer break]. I’m going fishing!”
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Christians and civil society members across India paid rich tributes to Jesuit Father Stan Swamy on July 7, his first death anniversary. The 84-year Jesuit, who died a prisoner, is seen as a victim of India’s discriminatory socio-political system as he was detained for nine months without trial.
Indian Christians and civil society groups pay tributes to the indomitable spirit of Jesuit priest and tribal people’s rights activist Father Stan Swamy on his first death anniversary this Tuesday.
The 85-year-old priest had died in under judicial custody on July 5th, 2021, after his arrest in a controversial case alleging his connection with left-wing Maoist rebels in 2020.
He was denied bail and medical services by the courts despite his serious illnesses, including Parkinson’s disease, causing deterioration of his health.
In Ranchi, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, where the he lived for over three decades and in Virgalur, his native village in southern Tamil Nadu state, local communities brought out a rally to mark his death anniversary and erected a pillar in his memory declaring July 5 as “Father Stan Swamy Day.”
Stan Swamy in 2020 (wikipedia)
Hong Kong’s former Vatican representative has warned the city’s Catholic missionaries to prepare for a tougher future as China tightened its iron-fisted control over the former British colony.
Monsignor Javier Herrera-Corona, the unofficial Vatican representative in Hong Kong, had four meetings with representatives of 50 Catholic religious orders before he ended his six-year term in March, warning the missioners about impending crackdowns and urged missionary groups to take appropriate measures to protect the property, record files, and funds of their missions.
Members of the clergy walk next to a US flag on the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the Hung Hom district of Hong Kong on November 21, 2019. (Photo: AFP)
The draconian national security law passed in June 2020 triggered a flurry of arrests and jailing of pro-democracy politicians and supporters including prominent Catholic figures including media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
Many have fled the city and relocated to other countries including Taiwan to avoid arrest and abuses.
In Pakistan, Catholic charity Caritas joined government rescue efforts as devastating monsoon rain and flooding hit the nation leaving at least 77 people dead on Wednesday. Caritas Pakistan says it has activated its emergency response teams in all units in the country’s seven Catholic dioceses.
Media reports suggest most deaths occurred in southwestern province of Balochistan, where some 39 people died by drowning and electrocution. The Balochistan government has declared the provincial capital Quetta as disaster area and imposed a state of emergency.
The collapsed boundary wall of St. Joseph's Church in Gujranwala, Punjab province. (Photo: Kamran Chaudhry)
Quetta-based pastor Irfan James told UCA News that many women and children were missing in the Mastung area of Balochistan as floodwater inundated houses of people with many desperately seeking life-saving aid materials.
Poorly built homes in rural areas of Pakistan are prone to flooding that regularly wreak havoc in the country. The worst flood in 2010 left about 2,000 people killed and more than 20 million displaced.
Hundreds of mostly Christian ethnic Tripura people marched on the streets demanding justice and compensation for four of their men shot dead by an armed rebel group in Bangladesh's restive Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The rally on Sunday was organized by the Tripura Welfare Association to protest the June 21 killing by insurgent group, Kuki-Chin National Front, in Rangamati district. Three Tripura members from the same family died as gunmen opened fire, while another person was hacked to death and two children were seriously injured.
Members of ethnic Tripura community form human chain in Bandarban district of Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts to demand justice for killings of community members on July 3. (Photo supplied)
The latest violence comes as the region experiences a rise in violence and deaths amid a turf war between rival armed groups. The region continues to be restive despite the government signing an accord in 1997 with the main ethnic political party to end more than two decades of deadly insurgency.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts is home to dozens of ethnic groups who are mostly Buddhists and some Christians. Since 1970s it has seen a state-sponsored influx of Bengali Muslims, sparking communal tensions and conflicts.
Catholic bishops and a youth group in the Philippines have expressed disappointment after a lawmaker filed a bill seeking to legalize divorce in the country under the new President Ferdinand Marcos Junior. Lawmaker Edcel Lagman re-filed the “Absolute Divorce Act” on Sunday.
The parliamentarian said it aims to liberate “beleaguered and tormented wives” from “irretrievably dysfunctional marriages or inordinately abusive marital relations.”
Philippine Catholic faithful holding a banner as they take part in a "Walk for Life" protest at a park in Manila, on Feb. 24, 2018. (Photo: AFP)
In an interview with Radio Veritas Asia, Father Jerome Secillano, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said the divorce bill would rather destroy than protect the family. Retired Bishop Arturo Basters of Sorsogon said by supporting the divorce bill lawmakers would contradict their oath to uphold the constitution by safeguarding the family.
Catholic group, Youth for Christ, said that all must protect the family as it is the basic unit of the society where the youth learn to grow in love and to be good Christians.
The number of displaced people surpassed one million in Myanmar as the country remains embroiled in fighting between the military and the combined forces of armed rebel groups, besides recently emerged resistance groups.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that among the displaced people are 758,000 civilians who have been displaced by conflict since the military coup last year. More than 40,000 people have been displaced as fighting between the military and rebels intensified in Christian-majority Karen state.
This handout from Cambodia's Foreign Ministry taken on June 30 shows Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin (right) meeting with Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar, in Naypyidaw. (Photo: Cambodian Foreign Ministry/AFP)
Renewed violence in Bago region has forced 8,400 people to flee their homes in recent weeks. Christians have been caught in the line of fire as the junta forces continues to target churches and Christian villages despite local and global appeals to stop attacking churches.
In the latest attack, two Baptist Christians were killed and several injured after the military bombed a church and a school in Chin state, on Saturday.
Catholics in Indonesia and elsewhere mourned a prominent British missionary priest who promoted interfaith harmony and Bible studies in his nearly five decades in the country.
Divine World priest Father John Mansford Prior, a leading theologian and sociologist, passed away last Saturday, at the age of 76, in Ledalero, Flores, the place where he had been teaching since 1987.
Father John Mansford Prior, SVD (Photo supplied)
Born in Ipswich, England he was ordained a priest in 1972 and came to Indonesia the next year. Father Prior was mostly based in Flores Island, a Catholic-majority region in eastern Indonesia where he taught at St. Paul Institute of Philosophy at Ledalero.
The priest authored numerous books, some 145 articles in journals and presented papers in about 165 seminars and conferences across the world, often prioritizing the importance of interfaith dialogue.
An interfaith group in Timor-Leste has launched a music competition for young people from five religions to promote interfaith harmony. Representatives of the religions gathered on Tuesday to kick off the competition being hosted by Timor-Leste Religious Tourism Association.
The program takes inspiration from the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together, jointly signed by Pope Francis and Ahmed el-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 4, 2019. The document stresses the brotherhood of people of all religions across the world.
Representatives of five religions in Timor-Leste get together at the launch of a music competition on July 5. (Photo supplied)
Organizers say the competition will involve young people, including school children. The participants are required to sing songs from each religion, in addition to the obligatory national anthem.
Catholic majority Timor-Leste has adopted the document on human fraternity as a national document during the inauguration of President Jose Ramos-Horta on May 20.
Catholic Church in Cambodia witnessed the ordination of first priest from ethnic Phnong community last Wednesday.
Hundreds of native Catholics joined a street rally for about a kilometer with traditional music and a peacock dance to express their joy over ordination of 36-year-old John Baptist Bun Prak Hong at St. John the Baptist Church in Mondulkiri province in northeast Cambodia. French MEP missionary Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler of Phnom Penh presided over the ordination ceremony.
Cambodia's first Phnong Catholic priest John Baptist Bun Prak Hong was ordained on June 29. (Photo: Catholic Cambodia)
Mondulkiri province in the central highlands of Cambodia near the border with Vietnam is home to a majority of an estimated 50,000 Phnong people in the country. Most of tribe are animists and only few of them follow Catholicism and Buddhism.
Father Hong is the 10th native Cambodian priest ordained since the local church was reborn in 1990s following the collapse due to brutal persecution during Cambodian civil war and genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. Cambodian Church has some 20,000 members today.
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Front Month Nymex RBOB Gasoline for Aug. delivery lost 24.07 cents per gallon, or 6.53% to $3.4471 this week
--Largest one week net and percentage decline since the week ending June 17, 2022
--Down for two consecutive weeks
--Down 43.77 cents or 11.27% over the last two weeks
--Largest two week net decline since the week ending June 17, 2022
--Largest two week percentage decline since the week ending Dec. 3, 2021
--Down four of the past five weeks
--Today it is up 2.67 cents or 0.78%
--Up for two consecutive sessions
--Up 21.05 cents or 6.50% over the last two sessions
--Largest two day dollar gain since Monday, May 16, 2022
--Largest two day percentage gain since Friday, May 13, 2022
--Off 19.39% from its 52-week high of $4.2762 hit Thursday, June 9, 2022
--Up 76.67% from its 52-week low of $1.9511 hit Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021
--Rose 50.40% from 52 weeks ago
--Off 19.39% from its 2022 settlement high of $4.2762 hit Thursday, June 9, 2022
--Up 52.76% from its 2022 settlement low of $2.2565 hit Monday, Jan. 3, 2022
--Off 19.39% from its record high of $4.2762 hit Thursday, June 9, 2022
--Month-to-date it is down 5.55%
--Year-to-date it is up $1.2186 or 54.68%
All prices are calculated based on the settlement price of the current front month contract.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) —
Mexican prosecutors announced Friday they have seized a half-million fentanyl pills in a raid at a warehouse in the northern city of Culiacan.
The statement came one day after the army announced a “historic” seizure of over a half-ton of fentanyl at another warehouse in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, home to the cartel of the same name.
The enormous seizures came just days before President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is scheduled to visit Washington to meet with President Joe Biden.
In the raid announced Friday, and carried out Thursday, soldiers also found 83 kilograms of powder fentanyl and about a ton of meth, in addition to bales of pills.
Mexican cartels manufacture the synthetic opioid from precursors imported from China, and then press the drug into counterfeit pills made to look like Xanax, Adderall or Oxycodone.
On Thursday, Mexico’s army and National Guard announced what they called a “historic” seizure of over a half-ton of fentanyl at another Culiacan warehouse.
“This is the largest seizure in the history of this lethal drug,” said Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia, estimating the fentanyl had an illicit value of around $230 million.
Synthetic opioids like fentanyl have been behind a major increase in overdose deaths in the United States; as little as two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal. The drug is 100 times more potent than morphine.
The nearly 1,200 pounds (543 kilograms) found at the warehouse could have produced millions of the counterfeit pills in which fentanyl is usually offered. Fentanyl is so deadly because it is pressed into pills made to look like Xanax, Adderall or Oxycodone, or mixed into other drugs.
That has lead to tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the United States because people often do not realize they are taking fentanyl.
However, the purity of the amount found at the warehouse was unclear; fentanyl is often cut with other substances before being pressed into pills. Almost all of the fentanyl smuggled into the United States comes from Mexico, where it is produced with precursor chemicals smuggled from China. | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/mexican-prosecutors-seize-half-a-million-fentanyl-pills/UW7CEOQE3VGNRAVI4L374VK4MI/ | 2022-07-08T20:07:02Z | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/mexican-prosecutors-seize-half-a-million-fentanyl-pills/UW7CEOQE3VGNRAVI4L374VK4MI/ | true | 23 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit the CIA Friday at a time when his administration’s support for Ukraine has pushed the work of the normally secretive intelligence agencies into the limelight.
Biden will commemorate the agency’s 75th anniversary since its founding after World War II. While at the agency’s headquarters in Virginia, Biden will meet with CIA officers who have worked on Ukraine to thank them for their work, according to a U.S. official who requested anonymity to discuss the plans.
Biden has established a more traditional relationship with the CIA and other agencies after former President Donald Trump repeatedly cast doubt on intelligence findings and attacked what he alleged was a “deep state” of opponents.
Still, there were tensions last year stemming from Afghanistan, with finger-pointing across the government during the fall of the American-backed government as the Taliban overran Kabul. Current and former intelligence officials worked frantically to evacuate Afghans who had helped the U.S. during the two-decade war.
The release of predictions that Russia would invade Ukraine in February was a public boost for spy agencies that are often criticized and facing new pressure to deliver insights on China and Russia. Biden authorized an unprecedented campaign to declassify findings about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions to launch a new war. It has been credited with building support for sanctions that crippled the Russian economy and the ramp-up of military support to Kyiv.
Douglas London, a former CIA officer who has criticized the agency’s direction in recent years, said the war had shown the CIA was on its way to becoming “an elite spy service again.”
“Its path to redemption has really been facilitated by Ukraine,” said London, author of “The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence.”
But the intelligence community also underestimated Ukraine’s ability to resist the Russian invasion and wrongly predicted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government would fall within weeks.
The agencies are reviewing how they assess a foreign government’s perceived “will to fight” — an issue the U.S. also badly misjudged in Afghanistan last year when it believed President Ashraf Ghani’s government would hold out for months, only for Ghani to flee and the Taliban to take Kabul as the U.S. was trying to evacuate.
Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who sits on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees, said he’s pushed intelligence officials to review why there were “two significant breakdowns in a year.”
“The quality of the intelligence pre-invasion was excellent and absolutely world-class,” King said in a recent interview. “The problem was the assessment of what would happen after the invasion.”
Most of the intelligence community’s work since the war began has been kept secret. U.S. officials have disclosed that they are providing Ukraine with information that Ukrainian forces have in turn used to hit high-value Russian targets, including the flagship Moskva.
The White House has tried to tamp down suggestions that the U.S. is directly helping Ukraine attack Russians out of concern that Russian President Vladimir Putin may see those suggestions as escalatory. Biden has said he wants to avoid a “third world war.”
As Ukraine successfully repelled Russian forces in the first weeks of the war, and under pressure from lawmakers in Washington, the Biden administration loosened its rules on sharing intelligence and is now providing more information to the Ukrainians. It has also committed $7 billion in weapons systems, ammunition, and other military aid since the war began in February.
But Ukrainian officials and observers say Ukraine is vastly outgunned by Russia in what’s become a grinding war of attrition heavily reliant on artillery fire. Putin is believed by U.S. intelligence to have not given up on his initial aims to “neutralize” Ukraine in his eyes.
U.S. intelligence in the months ahead can be expected to have a large role in Ukraine. The U.S. is involved in shoring up the cyber defenses of Ukraine and other allies against Russia’s capabilities to hack and steal from digital systems. Agencies are also on watch for election influence or interference from Russia amid expectations from top officials that Putin may use U.S. support for Ukraine as pretext to launch another campaign against an American election.
“Ultimately, the U.S. calculus is this: We want to do everything we can to support the Ukrainians while avoiding a direct conflict with the Russians,” said Dale Buckner, a retired U.S. Army Green Beret who now leads the security firm Global Guardian. | https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/us-politics/biden-to-visit-cia-as-intelligence-plays-key-role-in-ukraine/ | 2022-07-08T20:11:14Z | https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/us-politics/biden-to-visit-cia-as-intelligence-plays-key-role-in-ukraine/ | true | 26 |
Hamza Shahbaz will be sent packing after by-polls results: Imran Khan
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Hamza Shahbaz will be sent packing after by-polls results, says Imran Khan
KHUSHAB (Dunya News) – Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said on Friday that a man sitting in Lahore is on a mission to rig elections for the crooks but Hamza Shahbaz will be sent packing after results of by-polls.
Addressing a rally in Khushab on Friday, he said that threats were being received from the unknown numbers to pressurize. “I am telling the man sitting in Lahore to do whatever he want but he will only humiliate yourself as people will callout him.”
The PTI chairman said the by-election in Punjab will decide the future of Pakistan either the thieves will rule the Pakistani nation or a ‘Riyasat-e-Madina’ will be established here.
He challenged that PTI will win all seats despite the registration of FIRs, threats, and rigging from the rulers against him and his party leadership.
Earlier, speaking with the senior journalists, Imran Khan said that he has no fight with the neutrals and government should detain him if it wants but he is not afraid of arrest.
He said that he has no fight with neutrals and asked why he would fight as this would only weaken country.
“Free and fair elections would be the topic of discussion if talked to neutral,” he said and added he will never enter in an alliance with thieves.
The former PM said that sitting in opposition is way better than sitting with the PPP, adding that there is no backdoor communication through any external and internal force, those who destroyed the country s economy took NRO of Rs 1100 billion.
Imran Khan said that throughout his three and half year tenure of PTI government, they had to face blackmailing from the coalition partners.
Apart from Usman Buzdar, the other candidates did not agree on each other s name as Chief Minister, the PTI chairman said adding that if he had made anyone other than Buzdar Punjab CM, there would be corruption in the province.
The PTI chairman said, “Aleem Khan and Pervez Elahi did not agree on each other s name as Chief Minister.”
Khan went on to say that that the country would not emerge from the crisis without clean and transparent elections. | https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/659130-Hamza-Shahbaz-will-be-sent-packing-after-by-polls-results-Imran-Khan | 2022-07-08T20:13:01Z | https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/659130-Hamza-Shahbaz-will-be-sent-packing-after-by-polls-results-Imran-Khan | false | 3 |
NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer accused of causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history told a jury Thursday that there’s not enough evidence to convict him of espionage and other federal charges.
Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, said in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.
Schulte, 33, claimed he was singled out even though “hundreds of people had access to (the information). … Hundreds of people could have stolen it.”
He added, “The government’s case is riddled with reasonable doubt. There’s simply no motive here.”
U.S. Attorney David Denton countered that there was plenty of proof that Schulte pilfered a sensitive backup computer file.
“He’s the one who broke into that system,” Denton said. “He’s the one who took that backup, the backup he sent to WikiLeaks.”
The prosecutor also encouraged jurors to consider evidence of an attempted coverup, including a list of chores Schulte drew that had an entry reading, “Delete suspicious emails.”
“This is someone who’s hiding the things that he’s done wrong,” Denton said.
The Manhattan jury is expected to get the case Friday after receiving instructions from U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman.
The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices. Prior to his arrest, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools as a coder at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Prosecutors alleged Schulte was motivated to orchestrate the leak because he believed the CIA had disrespected him by ignoring his complaints about the work environment. So he tried “to burn to the ground” the very work he had helped the agency to create.
While behind bars awaiting trial, he continued his crimes by trying to leak additional classified materials from prison as he carried on an “information war” against the government, they said.
A mistrial was declared at Schulte’s original 2020 trial after jurors deadlocked on the most serious counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information. Schulte told the judge last year that he wanted serve as his own attorney for the retrial.
On Thursday, Furman complimented Schulte on his closing argument.
“Mr. Schulte, that was impressively done,” the judge said with the jury out of the courtroom. “Depending on what happens here, you may have a future as a defense lawyer.” | https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/us-and-world/ap-us-news/acting-as-own-lawyer-accused-cia-coder-argues-for-acquittal/ | 2022-07-08T20:18:09Z | https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/us-and-world/ap-us-news/acting-as-own-lawyer-accused-cia-coder-argues-for-acquittal/ | true | 34 |
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Coa lmining is supposed to be a macho occupation the world over. It is supposed to have been the basis of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, and there isv a mystique attached to it. But surely it is not supposed to be fatal. The recent flooding of a mine in Jhimpir, Thatta district, Sindh after flooding by rainwater trapped 40 miners, killing eight. Not so long ago, four miners in Quetta district had been killed because of the spread of poisonous gas after an explosion.
The pity is that these are all needless deaths. More the pity, coal mining in particular has been studied and its problems and difficulties are well known. It needs not be said that a careful safety and labour inspection regime should be followed. They are already present, and implementation is supposed to be part of the conditions of granting a lease. As all minerals are supposed to be the property of the provincial governments, they are only mined after the grant of leases for this purpose. Health and safety rules exist on paper, but can be ignored for a consideration. Mining is considered a lucrative business precisely becqause mine-owners can cut corns, with the fatal results that follow.
Coal mining has a msytique of its own, but it is vlearly in need of the kind of regulation that its operators are managing to avoid by methods as black and dirty as the mineral they mine. It could bbe argued that coal mining as a path to industrialization is not going to be very helpful in the present day and age, but there is still a need. Polluting as they are, coal-powered thermal generation plants have only now been set up, making this ancient mineral still the key to the country’s industrialization. | https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2022/07/09/fatal-coal-mines/ | 2022-07-08T20:19:15Z | https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2022/07/09/fatal-coal-mines/ | false | 1 |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Panthers now have two of the top three overall picks from the 2018 NFL draft class on their roster, and both happen to be quarterbacks.
The big question is which one will start this season for Carolina.
The Panthers view their starting QB job as an open competition between the newly acquired Baker Mayfield and incumbent Sam Darnold, one that will ultimately be decided at training camp and in preseason games.
Panthers coach Matt Rhule has previously said he viewed Darnold as his starter, but that was before the team announced Wednesday it had agreed to a trade with Cleveland for Mayfield, whose relationship with the Browns quickly deteriorated after they began pursuing and later landed quarterback Deshaun Watson from the Houston Texans.
Trade talks between the Panthers and Browns had been ongoing for months, but the deal didn’t come to fruition until Mayfield helped bridge the financial gap between the teams by agreeing to take a $3.5 million pay cut. The Browns will pay Mayfield $10.5 million in 2022 and the Panthers will pay him $4.8 million.
Mayfield passed his physical exam with the Panthers on Thursday and the contract is expected to be finalized and signed early next week, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team has deal has yet to be signed.
Both Mayfield and Darnold are set to become unrestricted free agents after the season.
Mayfield enters the competition with a presumptive edge over Darnold — at least on paper.
The former No. 1 pick from Oklahoma is 29-30 as an NFL starter in four seasons with Cleveland, helping lead the Browns to a playoff win in 2020 after finishing 11-5 in the regular season. He’s thrown for 14,125 yards with 92 touchdowns and 56 interceptions.
Darnold, the No. 3 pick in ’18, is 17-32 as a starter with the New York Jets and Panthers and has never posted a winning season, let alone reach the playoffs. He’s thrown for 10,624 yards with 54 touchdowns and 52 interceptions.
But for Mayfield to win the job he’ll first have to win over new Panthers offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo, a former critic of his, and catch up on the team’s playbook installation.
When McAdoo was out of football in 2018, he told the New York Post he had plenty of reservations about Mayfield in the NFL, including his height, athleticism, hand size and the offense he played in with the Sooners.
“I didn’t see a lot of pro-style football in his college tape,” McAdoo said. “And if you’re short you have to be able to make up for it some way, somehow, and personality doesn’t do that. I didn’t think he was a great athlete. This guy is kind of like a pocket quarterback that is short and with small hands, that’s what I worry about.”
And then there’s Panthers wide receiver Robbie Anderson, who earlier this offseason addressed reports that Mayfield may wind up in Carolina by responding with “Nooooo” on social media.
Anderson has since said he was trying to be supportive of his teammate Darnold, and that it wasn’t meant to be a dig at Mayfield. He also tweeted on Wednesday, “I don’t have an issue with Baker stop tryna paint that narrative.”
The addition of Mayfield represents Carolina’s latest attempt to find stability at the quarterback position.
The Panthers haven’t made the playoffs since 2017 and owner David Tepper has said in the past the team’s top priority is shoring up its QB spot.
The revolving door started in earnest in 2000 when Carolina replaced longtime starter Cam Newton with Teddy Bridgewater. Bridgewater went 4-11 in 15 starts before being dealt to the Denver Broncos after just one season.
The Panthers then sent three picks to the New York Jets for Darnold last year, figuring they could resurrect his sagging career. But Darnold struggled with decision-making behind a patchwork offensive line, going 4-7 as a starter with 13 interceptions and nine touchdown passes while being sacked 35 times. The team re-signed Newton midseason, but he failed to win in five starts and was not brought back this offseason as an unrestricted free agent.
It seems the team has been looking for Darnold’s replacement since finishing 5-12 last season.
Carolina set its sights on Watson, making a big push to land the controversial QB only to lose out to the Browns. And Carolina drafted Matt Corral from Mississippi in the third round with an eye toward developing him for the future.
If nothing else, Mayfield’s arrival adds some intrigue to Carolina’s regular-season home opener against the Browns on Sept. 11.
TickPick, a secondary ticket marketplace, reports it sold more tickets on Wednesday for the Browns-Panthers game after the trade was announced than for the entire month of June combined and the cheapest ticket increased from $78 to $133.
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- Canadians can continue to pay their pre-authorized bills and online tax payments
- Over a million Canadians use Dye & Durham's national payment infrastructure daily
TORONTO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Dye & Durham Limited (TSX: DND) ("Dye & Durham" or the "Company"), a leading provider of cloud-based efficient workflow software for legal and business professionals, announced today its online payment platform remains fully operational and unaffected by the wireless and internet service outages being reported across the country.
Dye & Durham's national payment infrastructure platform plays a critical role in Canada's financial system, supporting more than 1 million Canadians daily and processing more than $1.3 trillion in transactions annually. Canadians can confidently continue to make transactions such as pre-authorized payments for bills and taxes across all levels of government, in addition to a range of fund transfer services through their financial institutions.
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Governor McKee Joins Children's Cabinet Members to Celebrate Investments for Children and Families in FY23 Budget
RHODE ISLAND, July 8 - PROVIDENCE, RI – Today, Governor Dan McKee, members of the General Assembly, and the Children's Cabinet celebrated historic investments in children and youth at a meeting of the Children's Cabinet hosted by the Genesis Center. The FY23 Budget recently signed by Governor McKee includes important policies and programs for children and families that will increase access and equity in education, child care, healthcare, and mental health.
"The FY23 budget represents a historic investment for children and families," said Governor McKee. "With this budget, we are increasing income eligibility for child care for the first time in decades and covering all income-eligible kids in Medicaid, regardless of immigration status. This budget speaks to our values of equity, inclusion, access, and ensuring every Rhode Islander has a strong start in life."
"This budget is a commitment to protecting the health and safety of every child in Rhode Island in every year of their life," said Lt. Governor Sabina Matos. "We are meeting the most essential needs of our children and families by investing in affordable housing, empowering healthy choices though SNAP, and increasing health and human services rates for the professionals whose hard work allows our kids to thrive. I look forward to working with our colleagues in and out of government to ensure these programs are accessible to every Rhode Islander who needs them."
"I believe we've made great strides in improving the quality of child care and early learning in this state," said Rep. Grace Diaz (D-Dist. 11, Providence), Co-Chair, Legislative Commission on Child Care. "More and more stakeholders are putting a greater focus on our youngest Rhode Islanders. These actions show a commitment to early childhood from the whole General Assembly and the Governor. We are taking another step closer to the future when we can guarantee early learning to all Rhode Island children, so we can give them the best foundation for all future learning and development."
"This budget was a true and significant investment in Rhode Island's children and hard working families. We as a state can now say that all kids are covered by medical insurance, that we pay our vital child care providers a livable wage that reflects the important work they do in our society, and that our children and families will have access to the necessary medical care and educational services that they deserve. Low income families, families of color and hard working families in Rhode Island have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and for years have been left behind and this budget is a good start to close the gap on these inequities by providing more opportunities for our children and families. I thank all who had a hand in this year's budget and I look forward to keep working to ensure that Rhode Island continues to invest in its children and families," said Sen. Sandra Cano (D-Dist. 8, Pawtucket), Chairwoman, Senate Committee on Education.?
The Children's Cabinet, which is charged with developing an annual comprehensive children's budget, discussed the importance of the FY23 budget in advancing key priorities for children and families.
"With the FY23 budget, Rhode Island families will feel the impacts immediately. People giving birth who are on Medicaid will have 12 months of postpartum care, rather than 60 days. Families up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level will now be able to access the Child Care Assistance Program. And families across the state will have increased access to mental health services and housing supports," said Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services Ana Novais.
"Our students have faced unprecedented challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic, but this budget puts our young people on track to have not only the academic supports but also the wraparound supports they need," said Rhode Island Department of Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green. "This budget puts us on track to develop a plan for universal Pre-K and ensures essential funding for K-12 through continuing to fully invest in the funding formula."
"Here at Genesis Center, we know how important it is to invest in families as a whole," said Genesis Center President and CEO Shannon Carroll. "This budget does exactly that by investing in high quality early learning and K-12 education, extending postpartum coverage for new parents on Medicaid, and increasing access to key healthcare and mental health services. Especially in the wake of the pandemic which further exposed the deep-rooted inequities in our state, this budget helps make progress in closing opportunity gaps through increased eligibility for key programs like Medicaid and childcare as well as improvements to the RI Works program."
The FY23 budget includes the following key investments for children, youth, maternal health, and families:
- Increased eligibility for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), including for families between 180 percent to 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level and for full-time college students at Rhode Island public institutions of higher education.
- Increased rates for CCAP providers to increase equitable access to high quality early education for families utilizing the CCAP vouchers.
- Investments in child care capacity and quality, including in the TEACH scholarship program, a workforce registry and a second-year of the RI Rebounds pandemic educator retention bonus program and the family child care start-up grants.
- Expanded postpartum care on Medicaid from 60 days to 12 months regardless of immigration status.
- Expanded Medicaid coverage to all income-eligible children, regardless of immigration status.
- Increased Medicaid rates for Medicaid pediatric primary care, Early Intervention, and labor and delivery.
- Stimulus investments in Early Intervention, pediatric primary care, First Connections, and Certified Community Mental Health Clinics. Increased rates for DCYF providers.
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NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Cameron Tringale finally saw The Renaissance Club in windy weather and held his own Friday to stay three shots ahead in the Scottish Open as he tries to win for the first time in his 13th year on the PGA Tour.
Tringale stayed on track after making four straight bogeys around the turn and finished with three pars for a 2-over 72. He had a three-shot lead over Gary Woodland (72) and Doug Ghim, whose 69 raised hopes he could earn one of three spots available for the British Open.
The Scottish Open is the first time the PGA Tour is co-sanctioning a European tour event, and it led to the strongest field in tournament history, featuring 14 of the top 15 players in the world ranking. Tringale won't have to contend with half of them.
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, the world's No. 1 player, was among seven of those players who can get an early start on the Old Course at St. Andrews. They all missed the cut.
Most of them got caught on the bad end of the draw. There was only a wee breeze Thursday morning when Tringale opened with a 61 and Woodland shot 64. By the afternoon, the wind was gusting to 30 mph, and the difference was just over three shots.
Friday gave a steady dose of strong wind, typical for these parts and still playable considering the design of the links-like course that allows for the ball to be played along the ground.
Scheffler (72) was on the good side of the draw and got a taste of quirky bounces, finding pot bunkers and other trouble that kept him from making up ground. PGA champion Justin Thomas had a 77 and missed the cut by seven shots. He got the bad end of the draw.
Xander Schauffele and U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick also got the bad end but made it through just fine. Schauffele started his day with a big wind at his back, 225 yards to the pin and an 8-iron in his hand. He was trying to figure out how short to land it, and he judged it well. It rolled out to 15 feet for an eagle, and while the round wasn't flawless, his 65 was the best of the day.
Coming off a win at the Travelers Championship, the Olympic golf medalist was in a tie for fourth, three shots behind.
Fitzpatrick was even stronger. He was 6 under for the day without a bogey on his card until dropping shots on each of the last two holes. His 66 also left him three back.
The difference in rounds?
“Massive,” Fitzpatrick said, knowing full well the scoring average for the Thursday afternoon wave was 3.2 strokes higher. “That's obviously a large amount and to be honest, I feel like the wind sort of got calm as we started this morning. I think it’s safe to say we got the worst half of the draw.”
Also three shots behind were Kurt Kitayama (71) and Jordan Smith, whose 69 featured an ace that made him and his caddie happy. Smith hit 6-iron from 186 yards that rolled into the cup on the par-3 17th. Title sponsor Genesis awarded him an electrified GV70 SUV, while caddie Sam Matton received an all-electric GV60.
The only problem is figuring how to get them home because both have cars this week. That was the least of their worries. Still to come is a weekend of more wind and a dozen players separated by five shots.
Tringale took advantage of downwind holes for birdies, and then started giving them back starting on the par-5 16th through the first hole. He had to make a 5-foot par putt on No. 2 to end the nasty streak and held on from there. The wind's effect was just as difficult on the greens as from the tees or fairways.
“It's so tough to judge how much the wind is going to hurt, and then you get a putt that’s where the wind is going sideways," Tringale said. “It might be a ball, two, a cup, even as close as 7, 8 feet. It's really tricky.”
Woodland referred to it as a mental grind, especially as the temperatures dropped late in the day. Even so, he is excited to be within range of the lead and playing well, which he attributes to putting swing coach Butch Harmon back on the payroll.
Harmon is retired from full-time work, which involves traveling, and Woodland was bouncing around to various instructors. He finally had enough and went out to Las Vegas after the Memorial. He saw differences in his swing now from when he won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach three years ago, and the words from Harmon were both valuable and unprintable.
“I needed it,” Woodland said. “He gets me in the right frame of mind.”
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KeyFi (KEYFI) traded up 2.1% against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 15:00 PM E.T. on July 8th. One KeyFi coin can currently be purchased for about $0.16 or 0.00000739 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. KeyFi has a total market capitalization of $432,264.04 and $446.00 worth of KeyFi was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last week, KeyFi has traded 12.3% lower against the dollar.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- JUMPN (JST) traded 54% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.46 or 0.00018651 BTC.
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- Tether (USDT) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004595 BTC.
- Sweet SOL (SSOL) traded 600.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
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The Lander City Council will hold a regular meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, in the City Council Chambers at 240 Lincoln St.
The agenda begins with a public hearing regarding a new restaurant liquor license for The Antler Restaurant and Bar, 720 E. Main St.
The oral comments portion of the agenda includes the appointment of a new city clerk as well as communication from the floor, which will only be allowed on a “current agenda item.”
One ordinance will be heard on third reading: Ordinance 2022-1, amending Title 4 of the city codes dealing with planning and zoning.
Under new business, the council will consider approving the new liquor license for The Antler Restaurant and Bar, authorizing the mayor to sign two hangar leases, authorizing the mayor to sign a change order for the Maven project, and authorizing the mayor to sign an engagement letter for the city’s annual audit.
The meeting is open to the public for in-person attendance and will be streamed live on Zoom (Meeting ID: 462 679 1690 Passcode: 869970).
The city also posts past meeting recordings online.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
234 PM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of south central Texas,
northwestern Hansford and northeastern Sherman Counties through 300
PM CDT...
At 233 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles southeast of Texhoma, or 19 miles east of Stratford, moving
north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Goodwell and Texhoma.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3628 10148 3619 10157 3620 10178 3646 10206
3661 10159
TIME...MOT...LOC 1933Z 158DEG 9KT 3638 10172
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Hutchinson and southeastern Moore Counties through 300 PM CDT...
At 234 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles northwest of Lake Meredith, or 17 miles southeast of Dumas,
moving east at 5 mph.
Fritch, Stinnett, Sanford and Lake Meredith.
LAT...LON 3567 10194 3578 10185 3590 10159 3582 10143
3564 10148 3562 10167 3562 10178
TIME...MOT...LOC 1934Z 251DEG 6KT 3573 10171
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My Weber grill came with a warning: “The use and/or installation of parts on your WEBER product that are not genuine WEBER parts will void this Warranty.”
That’s not cool. In fact, it’s been illegal since 1975 — and soon, Weber won’t be doing it anymore. According to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Weber Stephen Products will not only have to strike phrases like that from its warranty terms within 90 days, but it’ll have to proactively, clearly, and conspicuously tell customers via mail, email, websites, and apps that the exact opposite is true.
Seriously, Weber will need to use this exact phrase: “Using third-party parts will not void this warranty.”
According to the order (pdf), Weber will also need to post a public notice on its website, mail a notice to the last decade’s worth of customers (assuming they registered their warranty) and keep records for the next five years, in case the FTC wants to check up on (for instance) whether Weber’s improperly denying warranty service anyhow.
Unfortunately, there’s no mention of Weber having to do anything for any customers who might have already been denied warranty service, though. While the FTC says it could have charged Weber with violations of the FTC Act and the Warranty Act, this settlement appears to be happening instead of a lawsuit.
Weber didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
While this is a small win for right to repair, similar to the FTC’s actions against Harley-Davidson and Westinghouse generator manufacturer MWE last month, let’s be clear that it’s not quite the same “right to repair” that most of today’s advocates are talking about.
The modern right-to-repair fight is where advocates are pushing companies to make parts, repair manuals, and software tools available to repair highly sophisticated gadgets. But “Smart grills” and intelligent ovens aside, my Weber is about as dumb and easily repairable a tool as they come. Almost every part on a standard Weber grill is designed to be replaced — a single screw, a twist, and a tug to swap out a burner, for instance — and Weber is one of the many companies that’ll already happily sell you new ones.
And again, what Weber was doing with the warranty has been illegal since 1975, when the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act first hit the books. The original text of the law included these words:
No Warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer’s using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name
Both the courts and the FTC have clarified over the years that, yes, this means you can’t tell the customer they’ll void their warranty just by using an unauthorized part. That part, or the customer installing it, has to be responsible for damage for it to affect the warranty. So this new settlement is just the FTC getting Weber back in line.
The bigger right-to-repair fight is going places, though: New York state passed the country’s first-ever right-to-repair law for electronics last month. And other countries’ legislation has already pushed many smartphone manufacturers to embrace the beginnings of a right to repair as well.
If you like grills and right to repair enough to read this far, I suspect you’ll also be happy to hear: Traeger CEO Jeremy Andrus, whose company produces the popular wood pellet smokers, promised our editor-in-chief Nilay Patel that he won’t add DRM to the pellets. | https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/8/23200649/right-to-repair-ftc-weber-third-party-parts-warranty-act | 2022-07-08T20:49:35Z | https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/8/23200649/right-to-repair-ftc-weber-third-party-parts-warranty-act | false | 2 |
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