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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday assured All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) of gas provision at a subsidised rate, ARY News reported.
A delegation of APTMA called on PM Shehbaz Sharif under the leadership of its chairman Gohar Aijaz. The delegation apprised the prime minister of the problems in completing the export orders.
PM Shehbaz, on the occasion, assured the APTMA delegation of gas provision at subsidised rate. In his statement, after the meeting, APTMA chairman Gohar Aijaz said all the demands of the export industries have been accepted by the government.
Read more: APTMA asks PM Shehbaz to announce electricity, gas rate
Last week, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) asked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to announce electricity and gas rates for the textile sector.
In a letter penned to PM Shehbaz Sharif, APTMA said several meetings were held with the government teams on the energy rate but no breakthrough made yet.
The textile industry is not receiving export orders as the situation about the electricity and gas rate still remains unclear, the letter read. | https://arynews.tv/pm-shehbaz-assures-aptma-of-gas-provision-at-subsidised-rate/ | 2022-07-09T01:14:17Z | https://arynews.tv/pm-shehbaz-assures-aptma-of-gas-provision-at-subsidised-rate/ | true | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke by phone Friday with the sister of Paul Whelan, an American who has been imprisoned in Russia for more than three years, according to the White House.
Biden’s phone call to Elizabeth Whelan came after Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris s poke earlier this week to the wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been held for more than four months in Russia. Griner pleaded guilty this week to drug charges. Biden also wrote a letter to Griner that was delivered to her when she appeared in a Russian court Thursday.
Elizabeth Whelan criticized the White House earlier this week, arguing the administration was not giving her brother’s case the same level of attention as Griner’s detention.
The White House said in a statement that Biden, in Friday’s call, “reaffirmed that he is committed to bringing Paul home as soon as possible, and the U.S. government will continue its efforts to secure the release of Paul as well as Brittney Griner and all other Americans who are held hostage or wrongfully detained around the world.”
Elizabeth Whelan suggested in a CNN interview Wednesday that her brother was getting less attention than Griner because of her celebrity status. “Why is Paul not getting the same type of level of attention? Why are the Whelans not getting a call? Why is Paul not going to have a letter written by the President?”
White House officials said the Whelans have been included on biweekly calls with the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan had spoken directly with Elizabeth Whelan.
A Russian court convicted Whelan, an American corporate security executive, more than two years ago on charges of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in prison after a closed trial that the U.S. denounced as a “mockery of justice.”
Whelan, a former Marine from Novi, Michigan, has insisted he is innocent, saying he was set up when he was arrested in Moscow in December 2018 while he visiting Russia to attend a friend’s wedding.
Griner was detained in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport while returning to play basketball in Russia, and police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
Griner told the court she had no intention of committing a crime and had acted unintentionally because she had packed for Moscow in a hurry. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
Griner made a direct appeal to Biden in a letter Monday in which she said she fears she might never return home and asked that he not forget about her and the other American detainees. | https://wreg.com/news/your-voice-your-vote/ap-politics/biden-speaks-to-sister-of-us-executive-detained-in-russia/ | 2022-07-09T01:14:22Z | https://wreg.com/news/your-voice-your-vote/ap-politics/biden-speaks-to-sister-of-us-executive-detained-in-russia/ | true | 23 |
India to double steel production in eight years to 240 MT: Union minister
Stating that steel plays a major role in the country's economy, newly-appointed Union Steel Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said India's steel production will double from the current 120 million tonnes to 240 million tonnes in the next eight years.
"In any country's economic development, steel makes an important contribution. Today India is the second largest producer of steel in the world with 120 MT production. I am confident that the target that we have set to double it to 240 MT in next eight years will be done," Scindia told reporters here, 24 hours after taking additional charge as the steel minister.
"I have taken charge of the steel ministry yesterday only and I am not the one who starts lecturing without understanding the sector. I will take some time to understand the ministry and the sector," Scindia added, while expressing gratitude towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders for reposing faith in him.
The middle and small scale industries also play a major role in the steel sector, accounting for nearly 50-52 per cent production through their nearly 3,000 units, he said.
"I will ensure that the production of steel in the country will enhance by taking medium and small industries along with the large units," he said.
Scindia said steel plays a major role in industries like construction and automobiles.
When asked about his plans for the sector, Scindia said he will not comment until he discusses the matter with subject experts to understand the industry.
"I don't believe in making comments but on solid work. So far, only 24 hours are over of my taking over the charge and I am not aware of everything. Give me some time, as you have given me when I became the civil aviation minister," he said.
Scindia, who completed one year as civil aviation minister on Friday, highlighted his work in providing flight connectivity and investment in new airports.
He further said the Prime Minister will next week inaugurate a new airport at Deoghar in Jharkhand. A new flight from Kolkata to Deoghar will also be launched. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-to-double-steel-production-in-eight-years-to-240-mt-union-minister-101657327332697-amp.html | 2022-07-09T01:17:11Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-to-double-steel-production-in-eight-years-to-240-mt-union-minister-101657327332697-amp.html | false | 14 |
For centuries, people have been using mindfulness meditation to try to relieve their pain, but neuroscientists have only recently been able to test if and how this actually works. In the latest of these efforts, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine measured the effects of mindfulness on pain perception and brain activity.
The study, published July 7, 2022 in PAIN, showed that mindfulness meditation interrupted the communication between brain areas involved in pain sensation and those that produce the sense of self. In the proposed mechanism, pain signals still move from the body to the brain, but the individual does not feel as much ownership over those pain sensations, so their pain and suffering are reduced.
“One of the central tenets of mindfulness is the principle that you are not your experiences,” said senior author Fadel Zeidan, PhD, associate professor of anesthesiology at UC San Diego School of Medicine. “You train yourself to experience thoughts and sensations without attaching your ego or sense of self to them, and we’re now finally seeing how this plays out in the brain during the experience of acute pain.”
On the first day of the study, 40 participants had their brains scanned while painful heat was applied to their leg. After experiencing a series of these heat stimuli, participants had to rate their average pain levels during the experiment.
Participants were then split into two groups. Members of the mindfulness group completed four separate 20-minute mindfulness training sessions. During these visits, they were instructed to focus on their breath and reduce self-referential processing by first acknowledging their thoughts, sensations and emotions but then letting them go without judging or reacting to them. Members of the control group spent their four sessions listening to an audio book.
On the final day of the study, both groups had their brain activity measured again, but participants in the mindfulness group were now instructed to meditate during the painful heat, while the control group rested with their eyes closed.
Researchers found that participants who were actively meditating reported a 32 percent reduction in pain intensity and a 33 percent reduction in pain unpleasantness.
“We were really excited to confirm that you don’t have to be an expert meditator to experience these analgesic effects,” said Zeidan. “This is a really important finding for the millions of people looking for a fast-acting and non-pharmacological treatment for pain.”
When the team analyzed participants’ brain activity during the task, they found that mindfulness-induced pain relief was associated with reduced synchronization between the thalamus (a brain area that relays incoming sensory information to the rest of the brain) and parts of the default mode network (a collection of brain areas most active while a person is mind-wandering or processing their own thoughts and feelings as opposed to the outside world).
One of these default mode regions is the precuneus, a brain area involved in fundamental features of self-awareness, and one of the first regions to go offline when a person loses consciousness. Another is the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which includes several sub regions that work together to process how you relate to or place value on your experiences. The more these areas were decoupled or deactivated, the more pain relief the participant reported.
“For many people struggling with chronic pain, what often affects their quality of life most is not the pain itself, but the mental suffering and frustration that comes along with it,” said Zeidan. “Their pain becomes a part of who they are as individuals — something they can’t escape — and this exacerbates their suffering.”
By relinquishing the self-referential appraisal of pain, mindfulness meditation may provide a new method for pain treatment. Mindfulness meditation is also free and can be practiced anywhere. Still, Zeidan said he hopes trainings can be made even more accessible and integrated into standard outpatient procedures.
“We feel like we are on the verge of discovering a novel non-opioid-based pain mechanism in which the default mode network plays a critical role in producing analgesia. We are excited to continue exploring the neurobiology of mindfulness and its clinical potential across various disorders.”
Co-authors include: Gabriel Riegner, Valeria Oliva and William Mobley at UC San Diego, as well as Grace Posey at Tulane University and Youngkyoo Jung at University of California Davis.
This work was supported by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (grants K99/R00-AT008238, R01-AT009693, R21-AT010352) and the UC San Diego T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion. | https://scienceblog.com/531959/mindfulness-meditation-reduces-pain-by-separating-it-from-the-self/ | 2022-07-09T01:21:24Z | https://scienceblog.com/531959/mindfulness-meditation-reduces-pain-by-separating-it-from-the-self/ | false | 4 |
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Tony Sirico, the actor best known as loyal gangster Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri in the HBO drama "The Sopranos," has died. He was 79.
Sirico died Friday morning in an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, his manager Bob McGowan confirmed to The Times. No cause of death was revealed, but the actor had dementia.
"He was a very loyal client of 25 years and he's an ex-Army vet and always gave to charities," McGowan said of his client, who was born Gennaro Anthony Sirico Jr. "He's a big contributor to the Wounded Warriors."
Michael Imperioli, the actor's "Sopranos" co-star, honored Sirico in an Instagram post shared Friday.
"It pains me to say that my dear friend, colleague and partner in crime, the great TONY SIRICO has passed away today," Imperioli wrote. Imperioli played Christopher Moltisanti on the lauded series. "Tony was like no one else: he was as tough, as loyal and as big hearted as anyone i've ever known.
"I was at his side through so much: through good times and bad. But mostly good. And we had a lot of laughs. We found a groove as Christopher and Paulie and I am proud to say I did a lot of my best and most fun work with my dear pal Tony. I will miss him forever. He is truly irreplaceable. I send love to his family, friends and his many many fans. He was beloved and will never be forgotten. Heartbroken today."
While Sirico was most known for his time on the HBO drama starring the late James Gandolfini, his additional credits include "White Hot," "Goodfellas" and "Family Guy."
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Cowboys Rumors: Dalton Schultz Engaged in Contract Talks Ahead of July 15 Deadline
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With one week remaining before the deadline for franchise-tagged players to sign long-term extensions, the Dallas Cowboys are taking a stab at working something out with Dalton Schultz.
Per NFL Network's Mike Garafolo, Schultz and the Cowboys are having talks again after previously failing to agree to terms on a new deal.
Schultz has already signed his one-year franchise tender worth $10.9 million.
This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.
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Blue Jays Kirk, Guerrero Jr. Voted All-Star Game Starters
The Blue Jays will have at least two All-Stars in Los Angeles this year.
Alejandro Kirk and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. won their respective position fan votes and will represent Toronto at the 2022 MLB All-Star Game later this month. Earning spots as American League starters, Kirk beat out Yankees backstop Jose Trevino while Guerrero beat Ty France of Seattle for first base starter.
Guerrero Jr. will make his second consecutive All-Star appearance while Kirk appears in the mid-summer classic for the first time. The pair have been the Blue Jays' best hitters in 2022, with Kirk leading the team with a .312 batting average and .890 OPS while Guerrero Jr. leads in homers and RBI.
George Springer, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Bo Bichette, and Santiago Espinal were all finalists for their respective positions in the fan vote but lost out on starting spots in Los Angeles. Springer finished just behind Giancarlo Stanton of New York for the final outfield spot while Bichette finished a few percentage points behind White Sox SS Tim Anderson.
More Blue Jays, including the four who lost in the voting finals, could still head to Los Angeles as the remaining All-Star spots are decided via player voting and the MLB commissioner's office. The complete rosters will be announced on Sunday, July 11, and the game will be played on July 19 at 7:30 pm. | https://www.si.com/mlb/bluejays/news/blue-jays-kirk-guerrero-2022-mlb-all-star-game-starters-vote | 2022-07-09T01:28:58Z | https://www.si.com/mlb/bluejays/news/blue-jays-kirk-guerrero-2022-mlb-all-star-game-starters-vote | false | 1 |
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union has asked Turkish Cypriot authorities in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus to toughen up measures aimed at reducing the rising number of migrants seeking asylum in the island nation’s internationally recognized south.
An EU official said Friday that the bloc “explained its concerns” about the issue and that Turkish Cypriot authorities “must do what’s necessary” to curb migrant arrivals. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition anonymity because he’s not allowed to speak about the issue publicly.
Cyprus was split along ethnic lines in 1974 when Turkey invaded following a coup aimed at union with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes a Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence. Cypriot government authorities say the overwhelming majority of migrant arrivals occurs via Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot north through a loosely regulated student visa system.
The Cypriot Interior Ministry on Friday again accused Turkey of “systematically instrumentalizing economic migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.”
The EU wants Turkish Cypriot authorities to tighten up vetting procedures for issuing such visas to prevent applicants from using them to reach northern Cyprus, cross a porous U.N.-controlled buffer zone and then seek asylum in the Greek Cypriot south. Although Turkish Cypriots receive EU funding, only the south enjoys full membership benefits.
The EU is also helping Cypriot authorities bolster monitoring and surveillance of the buffer zone to deter crossings in a way that is compatible with EU law, since the 180-kilometer (120-mile) long area isn’t a formal border.
Cyprus’ interior ministry says the number of asylum-seekers in the first half of this year amounted to 12,000 – equal to the number for all of last year. It says asylum-seekers make up an EU high of 5% of Cyprus’ 915,000 people in the south.
Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said Friday that he has proposed setting up a joint, U.N.-facilitated committee of officials from either side tasked with finding ways of curbing irregular migration as well as “strengthening security and surveillance along the buffer zone and increasing patrolling by the coast guards.”
Tatar has insisted that the only way to move forward on a peace deal in Cyprus is for Turkish Cypriots to attain equal sovereign status with the Cypriot government and agree on a two-state accord.
The EU and the U.N. Security Council say that goes against the agreed-upon settlement framework of reunifying the island as a federation composed of Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones. Greek Cypriots reject any deal that would formalize the island’s partition.
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All the Best ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Cosplay on the Red Carpet
Check out some of the best Marvel cosplay from the red carpet event for ‘Thor: Love and Thunder!’
Marvel cosplayers brought the thunder to the red carpet event for Marvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder, where they showed off some costumes fit for a god (or Guardian).
In addition to some glorious Gods of Thunder and Valkyries, a few Avengers crashed the carpet, including Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man, and Clint Barton, AKA Hawkeye. The Guardians of the Galaxy and some other galactic heroes stopped by, such as Nebula and T’Challa Star-Lord from Marvel Studios’ What If...?. Not to be outdone, a few villains put in an appearance, like Gorr the God Butcher himself, as well as Hela and fan-favorite antihero Loki.
Below, see a gallery of the best Marvel cosplay from the Thor: Love and Thunder red carpet, and don’t miss Marvel’s continuing coverage of Thor’s latest, greatest adventure right here on Marvel.com.
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4-star DE, Michigan State target Bai Jobe sets commitment date
One of the top edge rushers in the class of 2023 is ready to make up his mind. Four-star defensive end Bai Jobe of Community Christian School (Okla.) is set to make a commitment Thursday evening, he announced on social media. The 6-foot-4, 215-pound Jobe previously revealed a top...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — What could be harder than looking for a needle in a haystack? Probably retrieving a ring from a river.
But against all odds, divers with the Cambridge Fire Department managed to fish a Chicago woman’s diamond ring from the Charles River after it tumbled into the water while she and her husband were relaxing at a yacht club.
Lynn Andrews told WCVB-TV she had removed the ring on Sunday so she could apply sunscreen and placed it in her husband’s shirt pocket for safekeeping. But it was a hot day, and when he took off his shirt to cool off with a quick swim, the ring fell in the river.
“I said a bad word, and then I took a deep breath, and then I said, ‘Everything’s going to be fine,’” her husband, Ninos Andrews, told WBZ-TV.
Andrews “was obviously quite distraught,” the fire department said on its Facebook page.
The couple alerted a dive team that was patrolling the river, and within five minutes of searching, firefighter Jeremy Marrache located the ring and returned it to its “very relieved and excited” owner, the department said in its post.
“They all had wives, and they all knew how important this was and how sentimental it was to us,” Lynn Andrews said.
Fortunately, Marrache said, the ring lay at an angle that caused the diamond to shimmer as he shined his flashlight over the silty bottom of the river.
“We have open communications via our mask. So when I said I found it, the person attending us relayed that message, so I could hear everybody cheering,” he told WBZ.
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South Dakota's Rep. Erin Healy meets with VP Kamala Harris to discuss abortion restrictions
South Dakota's Rep. Erin Healy (D-Sioux Falls) met with Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democratic lawmakers from across the United States on Friday to discuss reproductive rights in the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Healy, also the state's House of Representatives Minority Whip, was the only one of five state legislators who attended the event, including others from Indiana, Florida, Nebraska and Montana – all states that either have or will restrict abortion access for pregnant people.
"How close to death does someone have to be before a doctor intervenes?" Healy questioned during her opening remarks to the group, which touched on South Dakota's trigger law.
That law, which went into effect immediately following the Supreme Court of the United State's ruling in June, states a doctor who preforms an abortion could be charged with a class six felony. The law has no exception for abortions performed after rape or incest.
More:Will Sioux Falls doctors be charged for performing abortions? Here's what we know.
Harris, who also spoke during the live streamed opening remarks of the meeting, touched on about the impending healthcare crisis before the group went behind closed doors to continue the discussion.
"Women should be able to make decisions about their body," the vice president said.
Healy also spoke about possible restrictions South Dakotans could face if they traveled out of state to get an abortion.
"South Dakotans should have the freedom to travel anywhere they want in this country, no questions asked," she said. "Enforcing some kind of state border laws about who gets to leave and who doesn't paints a very grim future for America."
Healy also mentioned Gov. Noem's plan for a special session tightening the state's already strict trigger law. Noem called for the special legislative session after the high court's ruling. However, as of Friday, no date for such a session has been set as of yet.
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President Joe Biden also announced an executive order Friday protecting and expanding access to abortion care, including how people access medicated abortion pills, as well as family planning services through the Department of Health and Human Services. However, it is unclear how that order will be enacted in states like South Dakota, which has already barred access to medicated abortion.
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Pompeo on Abe: ‘He was the perfect partner for the United States’
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined the chorus of senior international figures mourning the loss of Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese Prime Minister who was assassinated Thursday by a lone gunman.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Pompeo called Abe “the perfect partner for the United States.”
Pompeo had known Abe since Pompeo’s time in Congress and told Fox News Digital, “It’s both heartbreaking and dangerous to have a leader, a world leader, assassinated while he is out making his case to the people of Japan. He’s out campaigning. He was exercising his political rights. It’s something that we all ought to be mindful of in terms of political violence.”
Abe was assassinated while campaigning in the Nara prefecture for his center-right Liberal Democratic Party ahead of Sunday’s election for the country’s upper house of parliament.
Pompeo described his relationship with the late Japanese leader.
“As for me, I got to know him pretty well,” Pompeo said. “I met him first when I was a member of Congress back in 2015 when he spoke to the joint session. And then, of course, got to know him better when I was CIA director.”
Pompeo noted that, as Secretary of State, he found Abe to be candid. “He was always straight up, ‘Mike, here’s what we’re working on, here’s what we need, here are the things we can do to help you,'” Pompeo recalled.
Pompeo, who served as President Trump’s secretary of state for three years, described Abe’s importance to the U.S. in combating China.
“He was the perfect partner for the United States as we began to both work on our economies together and deliver the deterrence that we’re going to need to keep the Chinese Communist Party at bay,” Pompeo explained. “I will miss him. the world, most importantly, will miss him.”
TRUMP MOURNS JAPAN’S SHINZO ABE, ‘A UNIFIER LIKE NO OTHER’ WHO’ CHERISHED HIS MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY’
Abe was a strong believer in the power of a U.S.-Japan friendship and spent his career hosting, wooing and negotiating with American statesmen.
Speaking earlier Friday to Bill Hemmer on America’s Newsroom, Pompeo said Abe was “relentless in putting them first, the Japanese people first,” while also noting that he was “a dear friend of the United States. He knew that a successful United States and a good relationship with us made things better for his own people.”
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Former presidents Trump, Obama, and George W. Bush have all spoken highly of their interactions with Abe.
Abe, his country’s first prime minister born after World War II, was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister. He served from 2006 to 2007 and again in 2012 until he resigned in 2020 after his ulcerative colitis, a chronic condition, resurfaced. He called his decision at the time “gut-wrenching.”
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HSHS Illinois searches for a new leader after CEO, on the job three months, resigns
The chief executive of Hospital Sisters Health System's Illinois division has resigned, just over three months after assuming the job.
Joseph Mullany resigned earlier this week from his role as the president/CEO of HSHS Illinois, according to a statement from Catie Sheehan, HSHS spokesperson. Mullany had been appointed April 25, bringing more than 30 years of experience in healthcare management to the role.
Mullany was in charge of HSHS St. John's Hospital in Springfield, along with St. Mary's Hospital in Decatur, St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield, Good Shepherd Hospital in Shelbyville and St. Anthony's Hospital in Effingham among others.
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Prior to coming to Springfield, Mullany served as executive vice-president of New York-based Nuvance Health System, regional president and CEO of Bayfront Health in Florida and CEO of Detroit Medical Center. He had also served as president of Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, before being let go in 2020, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal, also part of the USA Today Network.
No reason was given as to why Mullany decided to step down.
Damond Boatwright, HSHS president and chief executive, will serve in the role while the organisation searches for Mullany's replacement.
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One United Properties will invest 70 million euros over the next two years in the urban regeneration of abandoned historical landmarks as part of the sustainability strategy
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One United Properties will invest 70 million euros over the next two years in the urban regeneration of abandoned historical landmarks as part of the sustainability strategy.
One United Properties (BVB: ONE), the leading green developer and investor in residential, mixed-use, and office real estate in Romania, published the Sustainability Report for 2021. The annual reporting of sustainability aspects is part of the strategy that One United Properties adopted at the (...)
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Endangered Child Alert issued for missing Rankin County teen
JACKSON, Miss. (WMC) - The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has issued an Endangered/Missing Child Alert for 15-year-old Madeline Elaine Robertson, also known by “Matt DeLuca,” in Rankin County.
Robertson may be accompanied by 24-year-old Emily Nicole Yeary, also known by “Riley DeLuca.”
The pair are supposedly traveling in a 2005 red Dodge Dakota bearing SD license plate RJMM20. The truck was last seen traveling in an unknown direction, believed to be en route to South Dakota.
If anyone has information regarding the whereabouts of either people or the truck, contact the Simpson County Sheriff’s Department at 601-847-2921 or the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation at 605-212-7822.
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Williston trucking firm shuts down unexpectedly
WILLISTON - LandAir, a trucking firm in Williston, has shut down unexpectedly, without notifying the state and leaving an unknown number of employees without jobs.
A person in the office of the company confirmed Friday morning that it has closed, but declined to be named, saying employees had been told not to talk to the media. Calls to the company number were not answered.
Reports of the closure began circulating in trade publications for the trucking industry earlier in the week, saying that employees were "blindsided."
LandAir has not communicated with the state Department of Labor or Agency of Commerce and Community Development concerning any job losses, according to DOL spokesman Kyle Thweatt.
Thweatt said there are federal and state requirements for companies with 100 or more employees to give notice well in advance of mass layoffs.
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"We are trying to reach out to the company to get more information," Thweatt said Friday. "It comes down to wanting to understand the scope. We don't have a grasp on how many employees are affected, or what led to the apparent layoffs."
Thweatt said the Department of Labor wants to know about large layoffs so it can reach out to those affected with resources to find another job. The trucking industry is experiencing the same shortage of labor that many other industries are experiencing because of the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"This isn't just a Vermont issue," Thweatt said. "There are other states being impacted. I know, specifically, Maine is one having issues reaching the employer."
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The company's website says it offers one- and two-day trucking services throughout New England, upstate New York and Canada. It says the company has 450 employees.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
07-20-25-42-45, Cash Ball: 2
(seven, twenty, twenty-five, forty-two, forty-five; Cash Ball: two)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
07-20-25-42-45, Cash Ball: 2
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How stars aligned for unseeded Nick Kyrgios in historic Wimbledon carnage
Nick Kyrgios has taken full advantage of one of the best draws in recent Wimbledon history to stun the world and make his first grand slam final.
You can only play who’s in front of you but Kyrgios could not have asked for a better run to the SW19 decider.
Three of the world’s top four players either withdrew injured or were banned this year, while the eighth seed contracted Covid hours before his first match.
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Russian world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev was barred due to his country’s invasion of Ukraine, while No. 2 Alex Zverev and No. 4 Rafael Nadal had their chances scuppered through injury. Matteo Berrettini - unbeaten on grass this season and last year’s finalist - withdrew two hours before his opening match after testing positive to Covid.
Berretini was the eighth seed and scheduled in the first round to face Cristian Garin, the man who Kyrgios met in the quarterfinal.
Kyrgios beat world No. 43 Garin - in a match he described as “deceptively difficult” - to book a semi-final showdown against 22-time major champion Nadal.
But an abdominal injury forced Nadal to withdraw mid-slam for just the second time in two decades on tour - gifting Krygios a free pass to the final.
“It’s not the way I wanted to get to the final,” Kyrgios said.
“As a competitor, I really did want that match. We’ve both taken a win against each other at this tournament. I really did want to see how the third chapter was going to go.
“Obviously, you never want to see someone like that, [someone] so important to the sport, go down with an injury like that.”
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Earlier in the tournament, seeds 12, 13, 17, 19 and 29 had the potential to meet Kyrgios by the quarters but all five lost in upsets before facing the Aussie.
Kyrgios has beaten two seeded players en route to the final - No. 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas and No. 26 Filip Krajinovic.
Tsitsipas, 23, is yet to develop a reputation on tour for his mental fortitude and imploded after Kyrgios got inside his head. It was a sensational win.
Another headache Kyrgios avoided this year was eight-time champion Roger Federer who missed Wimbledon for the first time since 1998 due to a knee injury.
At world No.40, Kyrgios is the lowest-ranked and first unseeded Wimbledon men’s singles finalist since Mark Philippoussis - ranked 48 - who lost to Roger Federer in 2003.
Kyrgios is also the lowest-ranked grand slam men’s finalist since Marcos Baghdatis - ranked 54 - at the 2006 Australian Open.
The Canberra export has stunned onlookers over the past fortnight but Kyrgios was not-so-quietly confident before a ball had been hit.
“I just know if I’m serving well and I’m playing well, I can beat anyone. I have pretty much beaten everyone in the draw before,” he declared on the eve of the tournament.
“I know where my game’s at. I know if I’m feeling confident, I’m playing well, I’m able to just light it up kind of whenever I want.”
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Juliet Polcsa, the costume designer on The Sopranos, liked to say that most of the HBO Mob drama’s core cast members in real life dressed nothing like the characters they so famously played on TV. On the other hand, there was Tony Sirico as the aggrieved, inflexible, and unforgettable Soprano capo Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri. Polcsa recalled a wardrobe fitting where Sirico was pleased to see that she had chosen a shirt for Paulie identical to one he had in his closet at home. “A year later,” she told me shortly before the series ended, “he ripped his own shirt and said, ‘I need that shirt as a replacement.'”
That anecdote — delivered by Polcsa in a dead-on impression of Sirico’s swaggering Brooklyn-born cadence — is instructive in two ways. One is that the line between Sirico and Paulie Walnuts was thinner than any slice of meat ever served at Satriale’s — as close in public persona, if not in capacity for violence and cruelty, as it is possible for an actor and character to get, unless the performer is literally playing himself. The other is that few actors in the history of filmed entertainment have taken more pleasure in being linked to their most famous role than Sirico — who died on July 8 at age 79 — did, in ways that invite endless stories from anyone who was lucky enough to know him. And those are stories often delivered haltingly, because the resemblance between fact and fiction was so absurdly dead-on that the storyteller can’t help but crack up in the middle of it.
There was a time, for instance, late in that first Sopranos season, when the cast gathered for a read-through of the season finale. Among the episode’s many major developments, Paulie and his protégé Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli) gun down rival wiseguy Mikey Palmice (Al Sapienza). According to Sopranos creator David Chase, in an interview for the book I co-authored, The Sopranos Sessions, Sapienza “campaigned vigorously to stay on the show” and at the read-through made “some kind of wiseguy comment” that Sirico did not appreciate. Chase, through laughter, said that Sirico mimed finger guns at Sapienza and went, “‘Dat dat dat dat.’ Because he’s the one who kills him!”
Or, for that matter, there are the stories of Sirico’s life before acting, when, if he was not exactly Paulie Walnuts, he was definitely someone Paulie would have known and held a minor grudge against. Sirico was arrested 28 times in those days, and served seven years in prison, though the worst trouble he ever got came from a rival criminal who caught Sirico kissing a woman the other guy liked and shot him in the leg. As Sirico put it in the 2001 Rolling Stone cover story on The Sopranos, “At the time, all I thought about was, ‘Fucking ruined my white suit.’”
Sirico could be sensitive regarding questions about his extra-legal past. Before the fourth season, I was working on a feature about the large number of actors on the show who came to acting late in life, after other kinds of work. Sirico took mild offense at even being mentioned in such an article, arguing that whatever he had done before he went into showbiz was long in the past, and that he had been appearing in movies and TV shows for more than 25 years by that point. He acknowledged that he had picked up various elements of his performance as Paulie from the tough guys he once knew, like the way he frequently held both of his hands together in front of himself, to show that Paulie always had his guard up. But he wanted to be looked at as someone who was cast to play Paulie Walnuts because he was a talented performer, not because he used to commit armed robbery.
The backstory regarding his hands was one he told with a lot of variations over the years, frequently crediting James Cagney movies for introducing him to that stance. But however much of his performance was drawn from gangster films, from tough guys Sirico had known, or from Sirico’s own persona, it was instantly indelible. His Paulie Walnuts was vain and petty, at once the bullying defender of an old-fashioned tough guy code and a perpetual victim who always had someone else to blame for his own problems. (Moments after gunning down Mikey Palmice, Paulie is more upset to realize that he crashed through poison ivy before delivering the kill shot than he is with the thought of having taken another man’s life. No doubt, the itching was all Mikey’s fault for running away.)
There is a version of the character Chase created who is an utter caricature in the hands of a different actor. Certainly, The Sopranos had room for that. But the joy of Sirico’s performance — what made Paulie so charismatic and beloved despite the fact that he was a miserable, homicidal, self-pitying prick — was how it managed to have things both ways. Sirico was not subtle, but somehow, he was nuanced. He played Paulie big and loud, but in ways that make it clear that much of it is an act to compensate for his massive insecurities. (In that same Season One finale, when James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano confesses to his crew that he’s been seeing a therapist, Paulie admits that he did briefly as well: “I had some issues.” Say no more.) Much of the time, he is comic relief — spectacular comic relief, never more than in the classic “Pine Barrens” episode where Paulie and Christopher are lost in the frozen woods, Paulie’s immaculate winged pompadour a frayed mess, one of his loafers lost in the snow — but he is never less than terrifying when a scene calls upon him to threaten someone.
Paulie is older than the other members of Tony’s inner circle, a former underling of Tony’s father who is one of the last of his generation from the Family to still be active. He attempts to present himself as a venerable figure, but he’s frequently an object of pity: a lonely old man whose big mouth and constant self-aggrandizement (like his habit of repeating his own jokes to potential new listeners only moments after he just told them) are indulged mainly because no one wants the headache of offending him. (When Tony, Christopher, and Paulie go to Naples in Season Two, every Italian — including one played with silent disapproval by Chase himself — looks upon the obnoxious, ignorant Paulie with contempt.) If Sirico captured only the character’s slicked-down veneer, Paulie would still be an important part of the show. But it was his ability to convey the ridiculous, childish, hurt and hurtful man beneath the overcompensating exterior that made the character special enough to keep around for the run of the series, when so many of Tony’s other allies kept dying.
“This isn’t to downplay anyone else,” Chase said in Sopranos Sessions, “but Paulie… I don’t know. He’s a character you love to write. He has a strange outlook on life, and you enjoy going there. He’s very entertaining.” (Michael Imperioli tended to heavily feature Paulie in the handful of episodes he wrote over the years because, he once told me, he enjoyed hearing Sirico deliver the lines he wrote.)
In one of the best episodes of the series’ final season, “Remember When,” Tony and Paulie take an unscheduled trip to Florida to lie low after the body of Tony’s first murder victim is unearthed by the cops. We know that Paulie has come to revere his boss, to the point where, a few seasons earlier, after Tony threw out a painting of himself with his late, beloved horse Pie-O-My, Paulie retrieved it from a dumpster and had it repainted to show Tony as a respected military commander. Tony, on the other hand, has long had very little patience for Paulie, not only because he’s the worst earner among his captains, but because he is such an annoying person to be around. Forced to spend extended quality time with this aging blowhard, Tony’s patience reaches its limit. After listening to Paulie’s umpteenth story about the good old days, he declares that “‘Remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation.” When they go out on a fishing boat together, both Paulie and the audience can see Tony considering how easy it would be to simply kill the old man and dump him in the ocean — less for any strategic advantage it might give Tony in his desire to avoid prison, than because he just doesn’t want to have to be in this guy’s company anymore. The same episode features a photo of the young Paulie kissing his bicep — a picture, of course, of the real Tony Sirico in the Sixties — and it is clear that he has been unable to let go of the version of himself from that picture as the decades have marched on. (Toward the end of the hour, he responds to a nightmare by pounding his dumbbells, never wanting to let those biceps shrink with age.)
Sirico could be that kind of loudmouth behind the scenes, but in ways his colleagues found endearing rather than exasperating. Chase, a famously exacting producer who did not want his actors improvising or otherwise messing with the script and the direction, chuckled at remembering how “Tony Sirico was a part-time director all the time: ‘Stay, stay, stay over here! Come on over here with me!'”
Maybe the best testament to the nature and specificity of Sirico’s performance and persona came when Chase revisited the world of The Sopranos years later for the prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. He asked Sirico to record all of the young Paulie dialogue for actor Billy Magnussen to listen to — a measure he didn’t take with anyone else in the cast interpreting a famous character from the show.
Chase explained it was because of “the way he talks, his gestures, all this stuff. Nobody can touch his hair. The stories. The way he bugs his eyes when he’s surprised. Great expressions. It was sort of beyond doing.”
In that nightmare from late in “Remember When,” Paulie is confronted by the ghost of his late friend, Big Pussy (Vincent Pastore), whom he asks, “When my time comes, tell me: Will I stand up?” Taken literally, the question is a reference to Pussy asking to sit down right before he was shot to pieces by Paulie, Tony, and Steven Van Zandt’s Silvio. But it’s more deeply about Paulie’s fear of his own craven and neurotic nature, and about his suspicion that he hasn’t done enough — or, really, anything — with his life.
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MIAMI – With 353 more COVID-19 patients hospitalized and a 10% increase from last week, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department data released Friday showed the highest weekly increase in Florida since June 17.
The new HHS data also showed that 3,797 COVID-19 patients remained hospitalized in Florida as of Friday. The state’s positivity rate also increased slightly this week from 22.7% to 22.5%.
With 67,807 new COVID-19 cases, Florida’s total since March 2020 increased to 6,561,833 cases. And with 302 more COVID-19 patients dead, the state’s recorded COVID-19 death toll increased to 76,193.
With COVID vaccinations widely available, The Florida Department of Health estimated that 97% were inoculated in Miami-Dade County, 81% in Broward, and 80% in Monroe.
Epidemiologists are tracking the spread of the coronavirus omicron variant’s subtypes BA.4 and BA.5, which are behind the latest COVID wave.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of data on hospitalizations and testing showed Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe counties had high COVID-19 levels.
The CDC recommends residents wear a face mask indoors in public, stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, and quickly get tested if they experience symptoms.
Those who are at a high risk of severe illness should avoid non-essential indoor activities in public and talk to their physicians about access to oral antivirals.
SOUTH FLORIDA
New case positivity rate
- Miami-Dade: 18.5%
- Broward: 17.6%
- Monroe: 20.4%
New cases
- Miami-Dade: 16,213
- Broward: 7,362
- Monroe: 223 | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/07/09/covid-19-hospitalizations-increase-10-in-florida/ | 2022-07-09T02:36:16Z | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/07/09/covid-19-hospitalizations-increase-10-in-florida/ | true | 1 |
Real growth is not possible without inclusion and without growth the goal of inclusion too cannot be accomplished, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday at the inaugural Arun Jaitley Memorial lecture. India is preparing a roadmap for the coming 25 years with “reforms by conviction” rather than “reforms by compulsion” as the government does not consider reforms as a necessary evil but a win-win choice with national and public interest, he added.
The PM said the government was treating the private sector as a partner in growth. “I want to ask this question to all of you. Is real growth possible without inclusion? Can inclusion be thought of without growth?…the gist of my experiences of 20 years as head of government is that without inclusion, real growth is not possible. And, without growth the goal of inclusion too cannot be accomplished,” he noted.
The lecture was delivered by Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister, Government of Singapore. “India needs much higher growth and much deeper inclusivity … India must grow by at least 8 per cent to 10 per cent over the next 25 years,” he said, adding that India needs to achieve higher economic growth by focusing on exports and expanding production-linked incentive for more sectors.
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Prime Minister Modi, meanwhile, listed out the steps taken by his government to promote inclusive growth. He said nine crore free cooking gas connections have been given, 10 crore toilets have been constructed and 45 crore bank accounts have been opened in the last eight years. “Prior to 2014, on an average 50 medical colleges used to be set up in 10 years, he added. However, in the last 7-8 years, 209 new medical colleges have been set up, which is four times more. In the last 7-8 years, the number of undergraduate medical seats has increased by 75 per cent and the number of annual total medical seats has almost doubled,” he noted.
The country is preparing a roadmap for the coming 25 years with reforms by conviction rather than reforms by compulsion, the PM said. “Earlier, major reforms took place in India only when the earlier governments were left with no other option. We do not consider reforms as a necessary evil but a win-win choice, in which there is national interest and public interest.”
Modi said India’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic is reflective of choosing a people-centric policy adopted by the government and not taking measures based on populist impulse.
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LOUISVILLE, KY. – Brandon Williamson, a graduate of Martin County West High School in Sherburn, Minn., pitched six strong innings for the Louisville Bats in a 4-1 victory over the St. Paul Saints on Friday night.
Saints outfielder Jake Cave went 0-for-4, ending his streak of reaching base safely at 49. Cave had reached every game since the beginning of May.
The 24-year-old Williamson, a 6-foot-6 lefthander, earned his first Class AAA victory in his second start after going 5-2 with a 4.14 ERA in 14 starts at Class AA Chattanooga. A second-round draft pick by Seattle in 2019 out of Texas Christian, he was one of three prospects the Mariners sent to Cincinnati for Jesse Winker and Eugenio Suarez in March.
Friday night, he gave up his only run on a third-inning home run by No. 9 hitter Elliot Soto. Williamson gave up six hits and one walk while striking out four.
The Bats did all their scoring in the fourth inning. Max Schrock led off with a tying home run off Mario Sanchez, and Juniel Querecuto homered two batters later to put Louisville up 2-1. After a walk and a double put runners on second and third, Austin Schulfer relieved Sanchez but gave up a two-run single to Chuckie Robinson.
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MONTREAL (AP) — Cheers erupted from the crowd at Day 2 of the NHL draft when the Los Angeles Kings announced they were taking Jack Hughes with the 51st pick.
No, not THAT Jack Hughes, who already is in the league with the New Jersey Devils after going first in the draft three years ago. There was joy inside the Montreal Canadiens ‘ arena because this Jack Hughes is the son of the host team’s general manager.
Kent Hughes greeted Jack on the draft floor and gave him a hug and congratulations before the 18-year-old prospect could even put on a Kings jersey and hat.
“That part of it meant a lot,” Jerry Keefe, Hughes’ coach at Northeastern University, told The Associated Press in the stands at Bell Centre on Friday. “His whole family grew up here. His grandparents grew up here on both sides. Mom and dad grew up in Montreal. Having it here with his dad being the GM, I think that made it extra special.”
Jack said his father told him he wasn’t planning to take him, sparing him the pressure of being the GM’s son in Montreal. He already has plenty of pressure being the other Jack Hughes and has been in the spotlight playing college hockey.
“I wouldn’t have minded it,” Hughes said of the possibility of getting taken by the Canadiens. “It wouldn’t have really changed anything for me. At the end of the day, I want to play in the NHL … That’s really all that’s important to me. Whether it was Montreal, LA or any other team, I’d be fired up.”
FLAMES KEEP TALKING TO GAUDREAU
MVP candidate Johnny Gaudreau could hit the free agent market Wednesday, barring the Calgary Flames getting a last-minute deal done with the winger coming off a career year. GM Brad Treliving said he continues to talk to his agent in the hopes of keeping Gaudreau.
“Both sides are focused on trying to get a deal,” Treliving said. “These things take time. Johnny’s a really good player. There’s going to be a lot of attention. I think it’s real genuine on both sides to try and get a deal done.”
Gaudreau set career highs with 40 goals, 75 assists and 115 points in helping Calgary win the Pacific Division. He finished fourth in Hart Trophy voting as league MVP and could sign the richest free agent contract this year if he doesn’t return to the Flames.
“I genuinely think that everybody’s heart’s in the right place,” Treliving said. “We want to get the player signed. He wants to be in Calgary. But they’re big decisions. They’re life decisions. If he doesn’t sign with us, he’s earned the opportunity to look at the market. That’s something he’s got to consider. For us, it’s just trying to get our player signed.”
CIRELLI HAS SURGERY
Tampa Bay Lightning center Anthony Cirelli underwent surgery on his injured right shoulder on Tuesday, GM Julien BriseBois said. Cirelli played through the injury on the way to the Lightning reaching a third consecutive Stanley Cup Final before losing to Colorado.
Asked about a timeframe for Cirelli’s recovery, BriseBois said: “We’re still ironing that out. There’s a wide range there.”
USA HOCKEY SHINES
A total of 14 players from USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program were selected — nine more than the next-closest amateur club. The Philadelphia Flyers took two of them with their top picks: Cutter Gautheir fifth and Devin Kaplan 69th.
“Every year it continues to amaze me how many players they produce,” Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher said. “The whole development model they have is excellent. … There’s a lot of highly driven and motivated kids that play for the program, so I think they push each other and challenge each other.”
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DAOventures (DVD) traded down 9.7% against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 18:00 PM E.T. on July 8th. DAOventures has a total market cap of $120,452.59 and approximately $789.00 worth of DAOventures was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. In the last seven days, DAOventures has traded 21.7% lower against the US dollar. One DAOventures coin can currently be bought for about $0.0131 or 0.00000060 BTC on popular exchanges.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- WINk (WIN) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0013 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- CoinField Coin (CFC) traded 2.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.40 or 0.00001280 BTC.
- Volt Inu V2 (VOLT) traded up 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Anchor Protocol (ANC) traded down 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.14 or 0.00000646 BTC.
- holoride (RIDE) traded down 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.19 or 0.00000874 BTC.
- Kleros (PNK) traded 0.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0299 or 0.00000137 BTC.
- MAPS (MAPS) traded up 2.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.23 or 0.00001052 BTC.
- Global Coin Research (GCR) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $2.22 or 0.00007442 BTC.
- Validity (VAL) traded 3.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.84 or 0.00008441 BTC.
- Particl (PART) traded 8.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.38 or 0.00001761 BTC.
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Watch: Zakai Zeigler and Family Move Into New Knoxville Home
This past Spring, Vol Nation showed overwhelming support for one of Tennessee Basketball's most beloved newcomers and players: Zakai Zeigler.
On or off the court, Zeigler never failed to entertain, and despite being under-recruited in high school, the New York native proved to be one of Tennessee's most crucial pieces off the bench in their 27-8 season. This led to Zeigler becoming an instant fan favorite, and when Zeigler's New York home unfortunately burned down in late February, Vol Nation raised an enormous amount of love and support.
Tennessee Basketball set up a GoFundMe for Zeigler in hopes of raising money for Zeigler's family after the fire. The goal for the fundraiser was 50,000 dollars. It reached a staggering 363,027 dollars on 5,600 donations, amassing over 50,000 dollars in just 35 minutes.
The bountiful funds Zeigler and his family received allowed the family to relocate to Knoxville, which Zeigler's mother, Charmane, said was something she was heavily considering after the fire.
Now, Zeigler and his family have officially moved to the 865, as the upcoming UT sophomore shared a video of him and his family moving into the home.
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Zeigler's teammate and good friend, Josiah-Jordan James, was also present for the move in.
Zeigler thanked a local flooring business for assisting in the move in process, and he took to Twitter to thank Vol Nation one more time for their support.
Another perk of Zeigler moving to Knoxville is that the new Knoxvillian will get to have his family present for more games this season, and there will likely be no shortage of Zeigler on the court for the Volunteers in his second year.
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The North boys get accustomed to their surrounds for the day. This is their first game at the MCG sine Round 1.
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In: Jeremy Howe, Josh Carmichael (new), Tyler Brown
Out: Darcy Moore (knee), Jordan De Goey (quad), Isaac Chugg
NORTH MELBOURNE
In: Jack Ziebell, Aiden Bonar, Bailey Scott, Callum Coleman-Jones, Flynn Perez
Out: Aaron Hall (quad), Kayne Turner (concussion), Tristan Xerri (shoulder), Josh Walker, Atu Bosenavulagi
Subs confirmed
The medical substitutes at the MCG are Tyler Brown (Collingwood) and Jack Mahony (North Melbourne).
Why the Suns backed Dew over Clarkson
By Caroline Wilson
On the face of it, Gold Coast’s decision to back Stuart Dew after just seven wins in 16 games this season looks risky when the alternative was to have wooed four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson to the club on a long-term, AFL-backed deal.
At the end of last season the football gods seemed aligned to deliver Clarkson to the Suns from 2023 after another bottom-four finish for Dew, when the super coach chose not to pursue the Carlton coaching job and instead set about a year of self-improvement, kicking back and new business opportunities.
It seems implausible now when you look at North Melbourne’s predicament, but it was Gold Coast at the end of 2021 that was truly testing the patience of its fretting father Gillon McLachlan at head office. Click here to read more.
Paul Dear has passed away
By Peter Ryan and Jackson Graham
Some very sad news to start the day.
Hawthorn are mourning the death of 1991 Norm Smith Medal winner Paul Dear at the age of 55.
Dear had battled pancreatic cancer since being diagnosed in September 2020 and died overnight. RIP.
Click here to read more.
Pies eye off percentage boost
By Ronny Lerner
What a Cinderella story the Magpies are becoming this season.
Nobody tipped them to make the finals in 2022, yet here they are, sitting in sixth spot on the ladder riding a six-game winning streak under first-year coach Craig McRae.
They probably only need two more wins to finish in the top eight, and they will certainly get one of those today.
Let’s be honest, North Melbourne are an absolute rabble both on and off the field and are in the conversation as one of the worst teams in VFL/AFL history.
They’ve lost their last 13 games by an average of 63 points, and their record streak of losses by 47+ points remains active and has swelled to 11 games.
They are languishing in last spot with just one win and a percentage of 49.5, which is exactly how Fitzroy finished their final season in 1996.
It’s hard to see this game finishing any other way than a big Collingwood win.
Today’s milestones
Jack Billings (StK) - 150 games
Nathan Broad (Rich) - 100 games
Marlion Pickett (Rich) - 50 games
Lachie Ash (GWS) - 50 games
Willem Drew (PA) - 50 games
Caleb Serong (Fre) - 50 games
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By Ronny Lerner
Hello everyone and welcome to another blockbuster Saturday full of AFL action.
Kicking things off is a contest between the high-flying Magpies and the woeful Kangaroos at the MCG.
The twilight match at Metricon Stadium promises to be a ripper as the Suns battle to keep their faint finals hopes alive against Richmond who, themselves, are trying to stay in the top eight.
Later tonight, we have another match that will have huge implications on the top eight as St Kilda take on Fremantle at Marvel Stadium.
The Saints are only percentage outside the top eight in ninth spot, while the Dockers will be looking to consolidate their place in the top four.
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This past weekend, the QSA 8-and-under All-Stars from Erath and Abbeville finished as the 2022 South Zone Pinto Super Region Tournament at the Youngsville Sports Complex and will play in the Pinto World Series starting July 20 in Youngsville. Team members from left are Ja’khye Briggs, Ledger Wiggins, Grant Lee, Ashton Toups, Noah Patin, Dawson Perkins, Graham Toups, Andre Dronet, Hudson Landry, Brysen Tyler, Maddux Lege, Maddex Domingue and Hayes Thibodeaux. Coaches from left are Cody Landry, Daniel Perkins, head coach Eric Toups, Garrett Thibodeaux and Ted Toups. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2658170850255/candidates-running-in-november-have-until-sept-4-to-run-announcements-in-the-abbeville-meridional | 2022-07-09T03:05:03Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2658170850255/candidates-running-in-november-have-until-sept-4-to-run-announcements-in-the-abbeville-meridional | true | null |
After Stanley Wales cancels his diving trip to Bonaire, he files a travel insurance claim with TripMate. What’s taking it so long to respond?
Q: My wife and I planned to travel to Bonaire for scuba diving late last year. Before our departure, I went to the hospital with abnormal bleeding. My urologist told me not to travel, especially out of the country.
I canceled my plane tickets on Delta Air Lines and my reservations at Belmar Bonaire Oceanfront Apartments. Delta gave me credit for future use, which I have used, so no problem there.
I contacted TripMate, my travel insurance company, to begin my claim for the rest of the trip. I have been waiting for months for my refund. I have contacted TripMate several times and keep getting the same message that my case is under review. Can you please help me with the refund? — Stanley Wales, Perry Hall, Md.
A: TripMate should have paid you by now. I reviewed your claim. You had a travel insurance policy that covered cancellations for medical reasons. You also had a note from your urologist, on letterhead, explaining that you couldn’t travel.
Now that’s a slam dunk if I’ve ever seen one.
So what went wrong? I suspect your claim came in at a busy time for TripMate. Simple insurance claims take only a few days to process under most circumstances. But higher-value claims (usually anything over $1,000) have to be reviewed more carefully, and you might have to wait weeks or even months to get your check.
I know that because I’ve also had to wait months for my own travel insurance claim to be paid. It can test your patience even if you fully understand what’s going on behind the scenes.
TripMate asks for 30 days to process its claims. By the time you contacted me, you had waited far longer than that. You can reach out to the company directly to inquire about a delayed claim. If it doesn’t respond, you can contact someone at a higher level. I list the names, numbers and emails of the TripMate customer service executives on my consumer advocacy site, Elliott.org.
I contacted TripMate on your behalf. A few days later, you received a check for the full amount of your claim.
Christopher Elliott’s latest book is “How To Be The World’s Smartest Traveler” (National Geographic). Get help by contacting him at http://www.elliott.org/help
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In 2019, there were more than 600,000 abortions in the United States. That’s 600,000 children who never drew their first breath, 600,000 mothers who felt that their “choices” were narrowed to just one, difficult option, and innumerable fathers, grandparents, neighbors and classmates whose lives were different because of the absence of that child.
The Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization limits the danger to children in the womb, but the justices cannot confer dignity, safety or hope by fiat. That’s the continued work required of the anti-abortion movement, work that offers chances for alliances with advocates for abortion rights. We don’t have to agree about the moral weight of abortion to acknowledge that America has neither a culture of life nor a culture of choice. We live in, as Pope Francis has termed it, a throwaway culture.
The majority of abortions in the United States are sought by women who have previously given birth to a baby. They don’t need to see an ultrasound to make the connection between pregnancy and parenthood. When mothers seeking abortion were interviewed in-depth, many said that they wanted to be able to give birth to the child they were carrying, but they felt it wouldn’t be fair to the children they were already struggling to care for. These women pass the test of the abortion-rights slogan “Every child a wanted child.” But they could tell that their children were unwanted by the rest of us. Death was the only “choice” that we, as a nation, made provision for.
Before doctor-assisted suicide was legal, abortion was the only accepted and encouraged form of euthanasia. In both cases, death is offered as a false mercy; an option that only appears kind in contrast to our deliberate neglect. Medical aid in dying was initially legalized for a narrow range of circumstances, but it has been catching up to the “on demand and without apology” rhetoric of abortion.
This year, in Canada, a woman was denied assistance in finding housing that could help her manage her chronic illness and was steered toward medical aid in dying instead. Her government tallied up the cost savings from expanding medical aid in dying, and offering death to patients earlier in the progression of their illnesses. The sooner people chose to die, the more money saved.
In the case of doctor-assisted suicide, putting one more choice on the table did not expand people’s options. It offered an excuse for failing to support every better option, once death was available as the backstop. It offered a way to place blame on people struggling to survive, since living was now their choice, and, thus, their own fault.
Removing an option, even a bad option, will similarly not be a simple fix. Parents deserve more support. They deserve to be free of red-tape hurdles that come from outsourcing the cost of running a program onto the people it is meant to serve. The expanded child tax credit lifted 3 million children out of poverty in 2021, but due to its flawed design, didn’t reach the poorest families. The best pregnancy resource centers act as benefit navigators, helping families receive the benefits to which they’re entitled, but which aren’t truly accessible.
When a mother realizes she’s pregnant, the first doctor she makes contact with should be able to help her sign up for any benefits she’s entitled to (which should be substantially expanded and simplified relative to the status quo). But care isn’t just about signing checks — any mom, whether in a crisis pregnancy or not, should get an introduction to mothers’ groups in her community, easily accessible, possibly at the library, with parallel groups for dads. Churches and other community centers should greet every growing family with connections to teens and young adults who are offering babysitting hours as community service. People need connections of care, as well as financial flexibility.
Many people working to end abortion have offered vocal, sustained advocacy for these material supports, but conservative politicians have often been happy to hold voters hostage over judicial nominations without listening to whole-life demands for justice. Democrats have been more willing to put economic justice at the heart of their platform, but as policymakers, they let the details slide, even for the people they count as people.
Material supports are necessary but not sufficient. Creating a culture of life means embracing the hard cases. I’ve seen some of the most profound tributes to the dignity of human life in the care offered to parents facing a terminal diagnosis for their child in utero.
For example, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is a national network of photographers who offer their services for free to parents who anticipate a stillbirth or getting to have only a short time after birth with their child. Refrigerated bassinets give parents more time to sit alongside their child. The Trappists of New Melleray Abbey make handmade coffins, with pillows that fit in the palm of a parent’s hand, that they send for free to parents who miscarry.
A anti-abortion culture is one that doesn’t depend on appeals to “You might have aborted Beethoven,’’ but which finds value in the shortest life, the most limited life. It’s not about potential, inside or outside the womb. None of us earns our existence. None of us should have our dignity depend on another’s choice. It is the shared vulnerability of the child and the parents that merits our support. We have failed more than 600,000 families every year since 1973. Abortion makes children bear the greatest cost of that failure. The Dobbs decision will make the needs of children and families impossible to hide. It’s up to us to meet it without reservation and with great love.
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25 Must-See Museums and Attractions to Visit in 2022
America is a place of individuals, and our quirks are a piece of what makes us great, so it’s worth celebrating the strange, the amazing, the extreme, the forgotten and the lost, which you can find all over the U.S. From the largest science exhibit in the world to the longest-running mermaid show, there’s plenty to surprise, delight or awe you.
Where to begin? “Wherever you are, that’s the place to start,” says Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas Obscura, the online guide to the weirdest and most wonderful places on earth. “Yes, you could drive across the country and have an amazing road trip, but there’s probably something within 50 miles of you that will astound you.” Here’s a lineup of 25 of the biggest, longest, tallest, best-known, least-known, most unusual, most American things you can encounter in this glorious country.
Related: 60 of the Most Beautiful Places in the World For Your Next Adventure
Darkest sky
In a world brightened by artificial light, it can be difficult to find a pure, black night sky. The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) has certified 20 Dark Sky Reserves in the world, places with “an exceptional or distinguished quality of starry nights and nocturnal environment,” and they are protected, so they’ll stay that way. The Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve (the only one in the U.S.) encompasses 1,416 square miles of rugged, remote lands in the Sawtooth Mountains. Bring a flashlight.
Largest concentration of bald eagles
Every November, hundreds—sometimes thousands—of bald eagles soar into the Chilkat Valley near Haines, Alaska, where churning groundwater prevents the river from freezing, providing fresh fish for the eagles to feast on through December. Haines also sits on the deepest fjord in North America, another astounding sight. Go to alaska.org and search “Chilkat” to find specific pages for these attractions.
World’s largest exhibit
You can walk from the sun to Pluto in ¾ of a mile on the Sagan Planet Walk in Ithaca, New York, along a 1:5 billion scale model of the solar system that was completed in 1997 as a memorial to astronomer Carl Sagan. But to get to the final monument in the exhibit—the star Alpha Centauri, which was added in 2012—you’ll need to travel an additional 4,999 miles, to the Imiloa Astronomy Center on the University of Hawaii’s Hilo campus. “Scale is one of the hardest things for people to interpret,” says Adrienne Testa, director of exhibits and facilities at the Ithaca Sciencenter. “The Planet Walk is a really wonderful way to put it all in perspective.”
One of the world’s oldest trees
Its location is a tightly kept secret, but if you’re hiking in eastern California’s Inyo National Forest, it’s possible you’ll encounter Methuselah, a bristlecone pine that is more than 4,500 years old. Great Basin bristlecone pines grow slowly, as slowly as 5 to 6 inches every 40 years, which means Methuselah was a seedling around the time the last rock was pushed into place at Stonehenge. Nearby bristlecones are 3,000 years old or more.
Smartest brain
Slices of Albert Einstein’s brain shine on at Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum. Shortly after Einstein died in 1955, the pathologist who conducted the autopsy removed the brain and kept it. He had the University of Pennsylvania dissect the organ into thousands of slides and sections, which scientists have analyzed over the decades searching for clues to Einstein’s genius, but finding no definitive answers. (You can see other medical oddities at the Mütter, including the tallest skeleton on exhibit in North America, which stands at a gangly 7 feet 6 inches.)
Most popular museum TikTok star
TikTok, home to viral dances and crazy animal videos, seems an unlikely venue for Howard Hatch, an octogenarian who’s helped the Sacramento History Museum accumulate more than 2 million followers. Hatch demonstrates the 100+-year-old printing presses at the museum and explains printing terms like “quire” (24 sheets of paper) and “quoins” (wedges used to lock printing type in place). Hatch, a retired auto technician, is “absolutely authentic,” says Delta Pick Mello, the museum’s executive director. “What you see is exactly who he is.” While he logs most of his volunteer hours before the museum opens, the museum offers a life-size “Flat Howard” for visitors who want photos.
Most famous movie prison
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield admitted its first prisoners in 1896, with a goal of reforming and rehabilitating inmates within 18 months. The reformatory’s best-known prisoners—Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding of 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption—are fictional. Movie fans can take a History Meets Hollywood tour of the prison, look at movie props in the museum or drive the Shawshank Trail, featuring 15 movie sites. Ghost lovers can take a tour exploring the prison’s long history of paranormal activity.
World’s largest library
The Library of Congress has come a long way since Thomas Jefferson sold 6,487 of his own books to the U.S. government for $23,950 (that’s almost half a million 2022 dollars) to rebuild the fledgling library after it was destroyed in the War of 1812. Now the library’s collection of more than 173 million items includes 40 million-plus books in 470 languages, as well as the world's largest collections of films, maps (5.6 million) and sheet music. Also here: the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, Rosa Parks’ recipe for peanut butter pancakes (scrawled on the back of an envelope) and a Stradivarius violin made in 1704.
Oldest post office
The Hinsdale, New Hampshire, post office turns 206 this year, making it the oldest continuously operating post office in the U.S. It opened in 1816 in a corner of the town’s general store and later took over the entire first floor.
Snowiest spot
Mount Rainier’s Paradise Ranger Station (Washington) averages 671 inches (almost 56 feet) of snow per year (that’s taller than one and a half telephone poles). Rounding out the top five are Mount Baker, Washington; Alta, Utah; Valdez, Alaska; and Mount Washington, New Hampshire. (If precipitation isn’t your thing, the driest place in North America is Death Valley, with an average annual rainfall of less than 2 inches.)
Birthplace of America’s most popular apple
In peak season, David Bedford tastes as many as 500 apples a day—“and I’m a guy who didn’t even like apples as a kid,” he says. Bedford, an apple breeder at the Horticultural Research Center at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, evaluates apples for 20 different characteristics. The best apples have some complexity, with both high sugar and high acid so they’re both sweet and tart. Honeycrisp, which he first tasted in the 1980s, had that flavor and set the standard for texture (although it wasn’t sold commercially until 1991 and became popular in 2005). What’s next? “A cherry-flavored apple with Honeycrisp’s texture,” he says. His only occupational hazard? “That much acid can work away at the enamel on your teeth after 42 years.”
First presidential retreat
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Before Camp David, there was Rapidan Camp, the summer retreat Herbert Hoover had built—paying for the land and building supplies himself—near the Rapidan River in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Three of the camp’s original 13 buildings remain and have been restored to their original condition. President Hoover spent many hours fishing and entertaining (including dignitaries such as Charles Lindbergh and his wife, the Edsel Fords, and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.) at the place he referred to as “the Brown House.” When Hoover left office, he donated the camp to the Commonwealth of Virginia in the hopes it would be a summer retreat for future presidents. It is now part of Shenandoah National Park.
Largest (and smallest) national park
California boasts more national parks than any other state with nine; Alaska is a close second with eight. But Alaska has bragging rights when it comes to the largest national park: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve covers 13.2 million acres, which means it’s larger than Yosemite, Yellowstone and the country of Switzerland combined. The smallest park is Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park; at 5,500 acres it’s 1/2400th the size of Wrangell-St Elias.
Longest-running mermaid show
Mermaids swim every day in the blue-green brilliance of a deep freshwater spring at the mouth of the Weeki Wachee River on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The mermaids have frolicked in Weeki Wachee Springs State Park since 1947, when swimmer and inventor Newton Perry created a breathing apparatus that allows them to stay submerged while dancing, singing, hovering and smiling during their performances. It’s not easy having fins: Mermaids must pass grueling tryouts that include swimming 400 yards upstream nonstop in less than 16 minutes.
Oldest still-running restaurant
The White Horse Tavern in Newport, Rhode Island, began serving guests in 1673, which means it’s nearly 100 years older than the second-place contender (NYC’s Fraunces Tavern) and more than 100 years older than the United States itself. There have been just nine owners in the tavern’s almost 350-year history; save one short hiccup, it stayed in one family for 200 years.
Largest free-flying American flag
It’s big (140 feet by 70 feet) and heavy (250 pounds), and it flies from a 400-foot-tall pole over the headquarters of Acuity Insurance in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In 2020 giant thunderstorms shredded the flag; it has since been replaced and is flying again.
America’s first food trucks
If you were a cowboy driving cattle across the dusty plains of the Midwest in the late 19th century, the dinner that the “cookie” (the chef) stirred up from his chuck wagon was the highlight of your day, even if it was just beans and biscuits. “A good cookie…is going to keep your cowboys coming back,” says Gretchen Jeane, organizer of the Annual Chuck Wagon Festival at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The name “chuck wagon” comes from a slang term for food—“chuck”—and also from Texas rancher Charles Goodnight, who created the first chuck wagon in 1866. Now it’s the official vehicle of the state of Texas.
Most-filmed movie location in the world
New York City’s Central Park has played a role in more than 532 movies, including Elf, When Harry Met Sally, Enchanted, The Avengers, Barefoot in the Park and The Manchurian Candidate.
Most unusual house
“There’s not another place in the world like it,” says Atlas Obscura’s Thuras, who credits a visit at age 12 to the House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin, with igniting his passion for all things unusual. (“I don’t know if there would be an Atlas Obscura without the House on the Rock,” he says.) Built in 1945 by collector and visionary Alex Jordan Jr., the house encompasses the world’s largest indoor carousel, a sculpture of a squid fighting a whale that’s as long as the Statue of Liberty is tall, and an Infinity Room with 3,264 windows, among other attractions. “It’s impossible to encapsulate in a single description,” says Thuras.
First cryptozoology museum
Portland, Maine, is home to the world’s first museum devoted to cryptids, animals like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster that may or may not exist. Items on display at the International Cryptozoology Museum include hair samples from abominable snowmen, a life-size bronze of a thylacine (a real-life dog-kangaroo hybrid from Tasmania now thought to be extinct) and a fur-bearing trout.
Last flag-stop train
Alaska Railroad’s Hurricane Turn Train travels the 55-mile route from Talkeetna to Hurricane Gulch through Alaska’s Indian River Valley. Passengers can stop and disembark at any milepost along the route (they have to let the conductor know in advance) or wave a white flag at any milepost to be picked up.
Most roller coasters
With the opening this summer of the brand-new Wonder Woman Flight of Courage roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, the park will not only boast more roller coasters (20) than any other theme park in the world, but it also will have the tallest (13 stories) and longest (more than 3,300 feet) single-rail coaster. Start screaming now.
Deepest lake
It’s more than 7,700 years old and one of the clearest, purest lakes in the world. And at 1,943 feet, Oregon’s Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the U.S. (and the ninth deepest in the world). It’s also home to what may be the oldest upright floating log in the world: The Old Man, a 30-foot mountain hemlock log first spotted in 1896 (about three feet of the Old Man’s trunk extends above the water). The Old Man is around 450 years old according to carbon dating, but no one knows how long he’s been floating.
Strangest Airbnb
Outside of Boise, Idaho, you can spend a night—or two or three—inside a six-ton potato. The Idaho Potato Commission created the big spud replica for its 75th anniversary celebration in 2012, and the spud traveled to 48 states in seven years. Afterward, Big Idaho Potato Tour spokesperson Kristie Wolfe transformed it into a cozy retreat with whitewashed walls, pink armchairs and an antler chandelier. As one Airbnb reviewer says, “This is exactly what you want it to be—a beautifully decorated, cozy and comfortable potato.”
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Mr. Sato’s hunger for the truth leads him to selflessly eat a bunch of seafood at Kani Doraku for the sake of our readers.
There are a lot of famous landmarks in Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood, like the full-scale Godzilla head, the Studio Alta giant TV screen and meeting spot, and, of course, SoraNews24 headquarters. But while all of those fill passersby with a sensation of wonder and excitement, the Shinjuku landmark that most produces pangs of hunger is the giant moving crab sign.
That delicious-looking decoration adorns the Shinjuku Theatre Building, whose tenant on the seventh and eighth floors is the restaurant Kani Doraku, which translates to “Crab Amusement” or “Crab Indulgence.” It’s hard to not be mesmerized by the enticing movement of the mechanical crab’s legs and claws, but the other day our Japanese-language reporter Mr. Sato realized something. He’s never gone in and eaten at Kani Doraku.
▼ “Mr. Sato, don’t you like me?”
It’s not like he hasn’t had the opportunity. Kani Doraku is just a few blocks away from the office, and Mr. Sato has walked underneath that mecha crab literally thousands of times on his way to and from work. Maybe it’s because Kani Doraku has been a part of Shinjuku’s urban landscape for years, and so he’s never been in any rush to go right now.
But as we’re seeing these days, sometimes Tokyo institutions don’t end up being as permanent as they once seemed, and so Mr. Sato decided it was finally time to find out if Kani Doraku’s food is as tasty as their sign is awesome. Filled with anticipation but empty of stomach, he made the walk from the office over to the restaurant on a Monday afternoon in order to treat himself to a luxurious lunch.
He was a little bummed out that the giant crab wasn’t moving on this day. It wasn’t broken, but had been turned off as part of an electricity-saving plan as the Tokyo power grid deals with increased demands during a huge heat wave. Even motionless, though, the giant crab still looked cool, and once Mr. Sato was inside the restaurant he was also impressed by the wooden statue of a bear chowing down on a salmon, a common carving motif in Hokkaido Prefecture, which is also where most of Japan’s crab is caught (though the Kani Doraku restaurant chain was founded in Osaka).
Kani Doraku isn’t kidding around with its name, as the menu is packed with all sorts of fancy multi-course crab meals, a la carte crab dishes like grilled crab legs or shabu shabu-style crab hot pot, and crab-centric lunch sets.
The multi-course meals start at 7,480 yen (US$55) and go up from there, while the lunch sets, which are served until 4 p.m., are more budget-friendly indulgences from 3,850 yen, not a bad deal for quality restaurant shellfish. Being the fiercely independent and individualistic kind of guy he is, though, Mr. Sato wanted complete control over his meal, and so he decided on three a la carte dishes. After he gave the waiter his order, a server brought him an oshibori, or moist towel. That’s not so unusual, as most restaurants in Japan will give you an oshibori, but the surprising thing was that Mr. Sato had already been given an oshibori when he first sat down, before placing his order. He figured the second oshibori is provided because eating crab can be a messy business, and so he began to think of the first towel as his “welcome oshibori.”
The chopstick set also looked unusual, with what appeared to be a toothpick sticking out of the paper wrapper.
It turns out, though, that this isn’t a toothpick, but a long, pointy tool to help you pull and scrape the meat out of crab shells.
▼ And yes, the ceramic chopstick rest was shaped like a crab.
Like we said, Mr. Sato didn’t order a pre-set meal, so let’s see what dishes he selected, and whether they turned out to be a seafood symphony or crustacean cacophony.
● Crab Salad (2,420 yen)
Crab isn’t cheap, but Mr. Sato’s wallet stopped any whining it might have been tempted to do when he got an eyeful of this. This isn’t a few measly strips of crabmeat that give the impression of seafood, but a very nicely sized slab of crab.
▼ The last time Mr. Sato had this much crab on his plate, it was the imitation kind, but this time it was the real deal!
You get plenty of vegetables, but really they’re here as the crab’s supporting cast. Each bite was primarily about the crab, with the veggies along for the ride, but it all came together wonderfully, making it one of the most satisfying seafood salads that Mr. Sato has had in his life.
● Crab Gratin (1,650 yen)
Gratin is a baked pasta dish made with cheese, white sauce, and pasta. Though it’s now become a uniquely Japanese food, the initial influences come from overseas, and the unique idea of crab gratin, a combination Mr. Sato had never come across before, was too alluring for him to resist.
Though Kani Doraku is primarily known for its traditional Japanese fare, the Crab Gratin proves their chefs are skillful with this more Western-like recipe as well.
Along with a nicely sized crab claw, there’s shredded crab meat mixed in with the white sauce, delivering rich, creamy notes simultaneously with the flavor of the crab.
● Crab Sushi Moriawase/Chef’s Selection (2,310 yen)
Switching gears from the crab gratin, Mr. Sato went all the way to the other end of the spectrum by ordering a crab sushi set. Can’t get more Japanese than that, right?
Arriving in a glitteringly gorgeous box were five types of crab sushi, starting with the orthodox nigiri-style…
…hosomaki (thin roll) and futomaki (thick roll)…
…battera (where the topping is packed tight onto a squared-off block of rice made using a box-like wooden press), and kanimiso gunkan, made with crab innards and a slice of cucumber.
As much as Mr. Sato had enjoyed the salad and gratin, the sushi was even better…and by a wide margin. He’d have been totally satisfied after the first two dishes, and finding out that there was a level of crabby joy above even that was like the proverbial cherry on top of his crab sundae. Not that Kani Doraku actually offers crab sundaes, but by this point Mr. Sato was beginning to think that there’s no limit to their chefs’ skills when it comes to crab, so if they did decide to start serving crab sundaes, those would probably taste amazing too.
Really, there was only one thing that Mr. Sato didn’t like about his meal, and that was the baran, or decorative bamboo leaf placed amongst his sushi pieces. For a bit of artistic playfulness, Kani Doraku cuts their baran in the shape of, you guessed it, a crab, and while the little guy was cute, the shape of his mouth made it look like he was panicking or otherwise under great duress.
Seeing that, Mr. Sato felt just a little guilty, but with the flavors of the meal still lingering on his taste buds, he also felt very, very happy.
Restaurant information
Kani Doraku (Shinjuku main branch) / かに道楽（新宿本店）
Address: Tokyo-to, Shinjuku-ku, Shinjuku 3-14-20, Theatre Building 3-14-20, 8th floor
東京都新宿区新宿3-14-20 テアトルビル8F
Open 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.
Closed New Year’s Eve
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PHILISPBURG, Sint Maarten — The Integrity Chamber has submitted an advice on Supervisory Board positions at the Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA). The advice was requested by the Council of Ministers. In its request, the Council of Ministers asked what a court judgment meant for a Supervisory Board member’s position at the Airport and what policies should be in place to deal with these kinds of matters.
The Integrity Chamber highlighted the importance of corporate and personal integrity. This is essential in ensuring a positive public view of the corporation. Supervisory Board members should display the characteristics, norms and values that represent the organization. Anything that raises questions about the integrity of Board members or the corporation, must be managed and handled as an integrity issue. While the court judgment does not necessarily determine that there is an integrity issue, the mere perception of an integrity issue can lead to several consequences for the corporation, such as damage to their reputation and a loss of trust from employees, stakeholders, and society. Therefore, displaying transparent, honest, and accountable behaviour within corporate and Supervisory Boards is necessary.
In the event of a perceived integrity issue, an assessment should be carried out to determine the relevant course of action. This should be done in a manner that is fair, transparent and impartial to all parties involved.
The Integrity Chamber further provides recommendations to enhance the existing integrity
infrastructure.
The recommendations included the establishment, implementation, and enforcement of the following:
• Code of Conduct
• Conflicts-of-Interest Policy
• Compliance/Integrity Evaluations
• Integrity Trainings/Workshops
• Guidelines for Integrity Incidents
Implementing these policies will ensure a comprehensive integrity infrastructure and provide clarity on how to manage future integrity issues.
The Integrity Chamber trusts that the advice will provide insight into the importance of corporate and personal integrity in corporations, and on methods to improve the integrity infrastructure of the Airport. The advice can be found on the website at www.integritychamber.sx/publications. | https://www.721news.com/2022/07/integrity-chamber-submits-advice-on-supervisory-board-positions-at-pjia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=integrity-chamber-submits-advice-on-supervisory-board-positions-at-pjia | 2022-07-09T03:46:42Z | https://www.721news.com/2022/07/integrity-chamber-submits-advice-on-supervisory-board-positions-at-pjia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=integrity-chamber-submits-advice-on-supervisory-board-positions-at-pjia | false | 1 |
NEW ORLEANS, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until July 18, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Pegasystems Inc. (NasdaqGS: PEGA), if they purchased the Company's shares between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
If you purchased shares of Pegasystems and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-pega/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by July 18, 2022.
Pegasystems and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On May 9, 2022, post-market, the Company disclosed that a Virginia state court jury deliberating over a lawsuit brought by one of its principal competitors, Appian Corporation ("Appian") for stealing its trade secrets and violating the commonwealth's computer crime law had awarded Appian more than $2 billion for the Company's "willful and malicious" trade secret misappropriation.
On this news, shares of Pegasystems plummeted from $65.93 per share on May 9, 2022, to close at $52.25 per share on May 10, a one-day decline of 21% that wiped out over $1 billion in market capitalization.
The case is City of Fort Lauderdale Police and Firefighters' Retirement System v. Pegasystems Inc., et al., No. 1:22-cv-00578.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Contact:
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com
1-877-515-1850
1100 Poydras St., Suite 3200
New Orleans, LA 70163
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Quentin Grimes had 24 points and eight assists, Jericho Sims scored 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting from the field and the New York Knicks overcame Moses Moody's 34 points to beat the Golden State Warriors 101-88 on Friday night at the Las Vegas Summer League.
Moody was 8 for 13 from the floor and 15 of 17 from the free throw line. Mac McClung added 17 points for the Warriors.
Jonathan Kuminga, picked No. 7 overall by Golden State in the 2021 draft, had four points and five of the Warriors’ 23 turnovers. The 6-foot-9, 19-year-old made 2 of 10 from the field, 0 of 4 from 3-point range and 0 of 4 from the free throw line.
Feron Hunt had 17 points on 8-of-12 shooting for the Knicks. Miles McBride had 14 points and seven assists, and DaQuan Jeffries scored 12 points. Sims had 10 rebounds.
BULLS 100, MAVERICKS 99, OT
Marko Simonovic had 27 points, 13 rebounds and blocked three shots to help Chicago beat Dallas.
Simonovic, a second-round pick in 2020, made 10 of 17 from the field and 7 of 8 from the free throw line. The 6-foot-11 center from Montenegro — trailing on the fast break — caught a bounce pass from Carlik Jones near the top of the key, took a dribble and threw down a two-hand dunk with 21 seconds left in regulation to make it 90-all and, eventually, force overtime.
A.J. Lawson and Jaden Hardy — a second-round pick in June’s draft after spending last season with the G League Ignite — finished with 28 points apiece for the Mavericks. Lawson made 10 of 16 from the field and 6 of 11 from 3-point range.
PACERS 96, HORNETS 84
Bennedict Mathurin, picked No. 6 overall in last month's draft, scored 23 points on 9-of-16 shooting and Chris Duarte added 16 points to lead Indiana.
Terry Taylor had 11 points, Duane Washington Jr. scored 10 and Isaiah Jackson — a first-round pick, along with Duarte, in the 2021 draft — finished with nine points, 12 rebounds and four blocks for the Pacers.
Bryce McGowens led the Hornets with 17 points. LJ Figueroa went 6 of 6 from the field — including two 3-pointers — and finished with 16 points. Nick Richards added 15 points and 11 rebounds and Kai Jones had 12 points and nine rebounds, but went 0 for 10 from 3-point range.
CAVALIERS 99, SPURS 90
RJ Nembhard Jr. scored 20 points and Amar Sylla had 19 points and eight rebounds to lead Cleveland past San Antonio.
Ochai Agbaji, picked 14th overall in last month's draft, hit four 3-pointers and finished with 16 points. Malik Osborne added 13 points and Cam Young scored 10 for the Cavaliers.
Blake Wesley and Josh Primo — first-round picks by the Spurs in 2022 and 2021, respectively — scored 20 points apiece. Malaki Branham, picked No. 20 overall in June, had 15 points.
BUCKS 94, NETS 90
Lindell Wigginton had 17 points and seven assists, Sandro Mamukelashvili also scored 17 points and Milwaukee held off Brooklyn.
Mamukelashvili hit a 3-pointer and then made a driving floater before he found MarJon Beauchamp — who made multiple plays down the stretch — for a corner 3 that gave the Bucks a 93-82 lead with 1:17 to play.
Beauchamp finished with 16 points and A.J. Green added 15 for Milwaukee.
Cam Thomas led Brooklyn with 31 points and David Duke Jr. scored 22. Day’Ron Sharpe had eight points, 10 rebounds, three steals and a block.
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The Montana Folk Festival is under way in Uptown Butte after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. This year, 21 groups representing a diversity of musical and cultural traditions are scheduled to perform on six stages in Uptown Butte. Admission is free to all performances, although organizers urge attendees to contribute $20 per person or $25 for a family to sustain the festival this year and for years to come.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Evening" game were:
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Srinagar: Rescue operation was resumed at the Amarnath cave shrine on Saturday where 15 people were killed and over 40 injured in a cloudburst Friday evening.
Authorities have temporarily suspended the Yatra from both Baltal and Pahalgam base camps.
Teams of NDRF, SDRF, BSF, CRPF, Army, police and ITBP resumed rescue operation with the first light on Saturday morning, officials said.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Ganderbal district, Afroza Shah has told reporters that 15 people have died and over 40 injured in Friday’s flash flood triggered by the cloudburst. She said five people were rescued alive from the debris of the flash flood.
The operation to ascertain the exact number of casualties, injuries and missing persons is still going on.
Reports from the disaster site said 25 to 30 tents of the pilgrims and five ‘Langars’ (Community Kitchens) were washed away in the high-speed muddy slush triggered by the cloudburst that occurred around 5.30 p.m. Friday.
The Army has pressed helicopters into service to assist the civil administration in relief and rescue operations. Army said that the rescue operations by security forces continued throughout the night.
MeT department has forecast that another cloud is moving towards the Baltal-Holy cave route which is likely to cause light to moderate rainfall.
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Five stolen bases, two each by Jayden Morene and Henry Rendle, and a solid effort out of the bullpen by Rendle kept Narberth alive in the Main Line Senior Legion tournament with a 4-2 triumph over Wayne Friday night.
Rendle stole second and third after getting hit by a pitch with one out in the fifth inning. He scored on a throwing error to break a 2-2 deadlock. Rendle, who pitched the final three innings in relief of starter Ben Wolf, set down the last six Wolverines he faced in order to get the win.
Morene stole second and third in the second inning and scored on Alex Johnson’s fielder’s choice ground ball to give Narberth a 1-0 lead. Narberth takes on Upper Darby Saturday in the loser’s bracket final.
Broomall-Newtown 10, UDHL 4 >> Owen Mathes was 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles and was the winning pitcher to help second-seeded Broomall-Newtown advance to Sunday’s championship round.
Broomall-Newtown will take on the winner of Saturday’s game between Narberth and UDHL.
Justin Brennan also went 3-for-3 and scored three times. Josh Freiling stroked three hits. Matt Cantwell belted a two-run single and Josh Dell’Arciprete chipped in with two hits.
In the Delco League:
Wayne 7, Chester 1 >> The top of the order did most of the damage for Wayne. Leadoff man Luke Mutz was 1-for-2 with two runs scored and one RBI. Jayce Tharnish went 1-for-3 with two runs scored and one RBI in the No. 2 spot. Steven Wells was 2-for-3 with two RBIs out of the third spot and cleanup man Nate Sides was 2-for-3 and drove in three runs.
Aidan Weitzel and Bill Ford Jr. combined on a five-hitter with 10 strikesouts. Wetzel allowed three hits and fanned four in four innings. Ford gave up two hits, one run and struck out six in three innings.
Pat Warrington knocked in the only run for Chester with a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning.
In the Mid-County Senior:
Brookhaven 7, Aldan 2 >> Kenny Johnson allowed two hits, two runs and fanned 10 in six innings. Randy Blanda drove in three runs and scored one. Colin Porter plated two runs and scored once while Cody Herestofa had one hit, one hit, one RBI and one run scored. | https://www.delcotimes.com/2022/07/08/baseball-steals-help-narberth-stay-alive-in-legion-playoffs/ | 2022-07-09T04:05:51Z | https://www.delcotimes.com/2022/07/08/baseball-steals-help-narberth-stay-alive-in-legion-playoffs/ | false | 1 |
The RAF has deployed fighter jets to Finland and Sweden, countries which recently applied to join Nato, for joint training exercises.
It said the deployment was part of an “increased presence in the region” and were requested by the host nations.
The UK signed mutual security assurance declarations with both countries in May. They are also both members of the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force, a coalition of 10 nations.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: “Finland and Sweden are important defence partners and we welcome their applications to join Nato, which will make the alliance stronger as we face a renewed threat in Europe.
“These deployments highlight our determination to enhance that partnership and ensure our forces can work together seamlessly.”
Two F-35Bs and four Typhoons conducted “high-end warfighting training” with Finnish F-18 Hornets and Swedish Gripen aircrafts, the RAF said.
Swedish defence minister Peter Hultqvist said the joint exercises “strengthen our ability to operate together in response to a crisis in our neighbourhood”.
“This is particularly important in today’s challenging security environment.” | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2022/07/09/royal-air-force-sends-fighter-jets-to-finland-and-sweden-for-joint-training/ | 2022-07-09T04:16:36Z | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2022/07/09/royal-air-force-sends-fighter-jets-to-finland-and-sweden-for-joint-training/ | true | 13 |
Photo of Akshata Murty serving tea goes viral as Rishi Sunak launches bid for PM
Photos and videos of multimillionaire Akshata Murty serving tea to journalists and photographers waiting outside their residence soon after Rishi Sunak's resignation has now gone viral as Sunak has launched his bid to be the next UK PM following Boris Johnson's resignation.
The photos and videos were from a few days ago taken outside Rishi Sunak's family home in London as he left the official residence of the chancellor of the exchequer on Tuesday. Reports said Rishi Sunak did not come out of his residence while Akshata Murty came and served the journalists and photographers tea and biscuits.
The photos went viral on social media as people pointed out that the tea was served in Emma Lacey mugs priced at 38 pounds each ( ₹3,626). "Tone deaf!! The price of that mug could feed a family for 2 days!!" a social media user commented in criticism of Rishi Sunak's move to raise taxes during the pandemic.
Akshata Murty too had her own share of controversies after it was revealed that Akshata, who is believed to be richer than the Queen, had a non-domicile status and did not pay taxes to the UK government on her income outside Britain. After the controversy, Akshata, daughter of Infosys founder Narayan Murthy and author Sudha Murthy, issued a statement clarifying that she would not avail of the non-domicile status and would start paying taxes.
Rishi Sunak launched his bid to become the next UK prime minister on Friday though some reports claimed that the domain ready4rishi.com was planned last year. A domain readyforrishi.com reportedly registered in December 2021 is redirecting to the new domain registered on July 6.
In his campaign launch video, Rishi started his story from his grandparents who came to England with 'hope for a better life'. Their story did not end there. But that is where my story began. Family is everything to me," Rishi Sunak said. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/photo-of-akshata-murty-serving-tea-goes-viral-as-rishi-sunak-launches-bid-for-pm-101657337495328-amp.html | 2022-07-09T04:17:37Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/photo-of-akshata-murty-serving-tea-goes-viral-as-rishi-sunak-launches-bid-for-pm-101657337495328-amp.html | true | 1 |
Byron Dragway
It was a full house in the Winner’s Circle for Randy Folk on Sunday at the Byron Dragway. Folk was the last Door Car standing and the overall runner-up for the $130,000 to win Firecracker Bracket Nationals. Folk masterfully navigated eight rounds of competition in his wheel standing 1964 Corvette. | http://rvpnews.com/2022/07/byron-dragway/ | 2022-07-09T04:29:04Z | http://rvpnews.com/2022/07/byron-dragway/ | true | null |
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Roadrunner Cash" game were:
02-06-21-29-32
(two, six, twenty-one, twenty-nine, thirty-two)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Roadrunner Cash" game were:
02-06-21-29-32
(two, six, twenty-one, twenty-nine, thirty-two) | https://www.mysanantonio.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Roadrunner-Cash-game-17294053.php | 2022-07-09T04:35:51Z | https://www.mysanantonio.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Roadrunner-Cash-game-17294053.php | true | null |
What Do I Get?
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Frequently Asked Questions
What happens after I purchase a domain name from BrandBucket?
Every name on the BrandBucket marketplace is exclusively listed with BrandBucket. That means that all of our sellers are very
responsive, making for quick domain transfers.
A dedicated BrandBucket agent will manage your domain transfer from beginning
to end, ensuring a secure and easy transaction. They will manage the receipt of the domain into one of BrandBucket’s secure registrar
accounts and then complete the transfer to you.
1. Verification and registrar choice
After we receive the payment and verify it, we will reach out via email to confirm which registrar you want the domain transferred to.
We also provide a link to our tracking system, where you can communicate with us, check on the status of your transfer, view your invoice,
and download your logo files.
In most cases, if a domain is moved between accounts at a single registrar, the transfer is quick and usually completes within 48 hours. If a domain changes registrars (in other words, you would like to move it away from where it is currently registered), the transfer is slower. The total transfer time can then be anywhere from 48 hours to 7 days.
BrandBucket has vetted and supports the following registrars:
- GoDaddy
- Namesilo
- Uniregistry
- NameCheap
- Google Domains
- Name.com
- Amazon Route 53
- 123 Reg
- Gandi
- Dynadot
2. We request the name from the seller.
Once we know where you would like the domain transferred, BrandBucket will request the domain from the seller. All of our sellers are very
responsive, making for a quick process.
3. Transfer the name into your account
As soon as we receive the name from the seller, we start the transfer into your account and guide you through the whole process.
4. Verify with the buyer that the transfer is complete
Once we confirm that you have received the name, we consider the escrow process to be complete. Only then do we release payment to the
domain seller.
What happens after I lease a domain name from BrandBucket?
The BrandBucket lease-to-own program is available as an alternative to purchasing the name outright. You're able to buy the domain name with over monthly installments, and at the end of the lease period, if all payments are complete, you would be the new owner of the domain name.
Once you complete the checkout process for a leased domain, you will be contacted by a BrandBucket agent who will help manage your lease. The domain will be transferred from the seller to a BrandBucket escrow account, ensuring a secure hold on the domain during the lease term. We will transfer the domain to you once all payments are complete.
During the lease, you're entitled to use the domain name for your website and email; your agent will guide you through that.
Each month you will continue to receive an invoice with a balance statement. You have the right to cancel the lease any time or complete all payments early to own the domain outright.
Why choose BrandBucket?
Established in 2007, we are the original business name marketplace. Every year, we sell 1000s of premium domains to entrepreneurs and businesses like you.
All of our domain names are handpicked by branding and linguistics experts based on rigorous criteria. You can rest assured that if a domain is on the BrandBucket marketplace, it is a top-tier business name.
Almost one out of every four names sold on BrandBucket is sold to a repeat buyer or a referral, which means that people who buy from us once, keep coming back for more.
Why choose a .com domain name from BrandBucket?
The .com extension is a brand in itself. As the default domain extension of the internet, having a .com domain that is an exact match to your brand
name has numerous advantages:
- Familiarity - People are familiar with .com. Most of the brands and websites they already trust, use the .com extension. Therefore, it serves as a subtle indicator that your business is a legitimate one. A recent study by the NCC Group, a global expert in cybersecurity and risk mitigation, found that roughly half of the consumers are uncomfortable visiting websites ending with a non .com extension, and only 9% are comfortable doing so.
- Brand Protection - When you own the .com version of a domain name, you have the official online version of that name. Owning an exact-match .com can protect your brand name, as it is unlikely another serious business would use the same name when the .com extension is taken.
- Easy to Communicate - .com domains are also easy to communicate. When people hear or see your business name without a TLD, they will inevitably assume it ends in .com, making it easy for them to find you online.
What can I do with the domain I purchase from BrandBucket?
Once you have received the name into your registrar account, you will be able to:
- Use the domain as your website address.
- Setup email addresses, for instance, sales@dsend.com.
- Use the domain and logo on business cards and other materials.
If you don’t have a website built yet, you can put up a simple coming soon page, or you can just leave it until you are ready. You don’t need to do anything right away. Because you own the domain name, you can take your time.
Are logos included with my BrandBucket order? Can I request edits?
Our talented community of logo designers designs all logos on the BrandBucket marketplace. They are paid for their efforts, and BrandBucket owns all copyrights for the logos. We will transfer the full copyright for the logo to you upon purchase of the domain name.
Logo files are delivered to you in the following formats:
- High-resolution image file (PNG)
- Editable vector file (.AI)
Editing your design
Vector (AI) files are entirely editable in programs such as photoshop and illustrator, so you or your designer can make desired changes. If needed, we can make basic color changes/small tweaks to the logo for you after purchase. If you are looking for a complete redesign, we can connect you with a designer from our talented design community at their discretion and price.
Is a domain name from BrandBucket 100% unique?
All of our business domains are carefully chosen for their standout branding qualities. There is only one dsend.com. However, there may well be other businesses that are using the same brand name. In fact, with common keyword names, it is likely. That is why owning the .com is so essential. In holding the .com, you immediately establish your business as the most official version of that name. It's unlikely any serious business is going to use a brand name where the .com domain is already in use. Many companies believe that owning the matching .com version of a business name provides more protection for their brand than a trademark.
Are BrandBucket domain names trademarked?
No, and it’s not possible for us to do so. Trademarks are industry and region-specific, and to file a trademark for a name or logo, you must already be doing business as that name. Because of this, we can't trademark a name before your company is actively using it. Therefore, you will need to apply for trademark registration after you have purchased the name.
Do I have to keep my name registered when I purchase a name from BrandBucket?
When you purchase a domain from BrandBucket, you will own it 100%. However, all domain names worldwide must be kept registered at a registrar like Godaddy or similar that you choose. You will pay the registration fees to whichever registrar you decide to use. The price of registration varies at each registrar, but it generally ends up being around $10-15 per year for a .com domain name. Registration is annual but can be paid up for years in advance, which we suggest you do.
Does BrandBucket offer refunds?
BrandBucket serves as a third-party marketplace and escrow agent for domain names. We only offer refunds if either of these two conditions are met:
- The buyer contacts us within 24 hours of purchase requesting a refund.
- The seller fails to initiate the domain name transfer within 10 business days from the time of purchase.
Buyers are advised to perform all necessary diligence prior to making a purchase.
Is my BrandBucket purchase confidential?
Your purchase is 100% confidential. Any personal information you share with BrandBucket is kept private, even from the domain seller. We never publicize any sale on our marketplace.
What's the difference between a brand name, registered name, and a domain name?
Brand Name
A brand name is a name that you use to identify a family of products, services, or a single line of products or services that a company offers. For instance, Apple is the brand name used on most products manufactured by Apple, Inc. In this example, the business name and brand name are the same, a common use case.
Your brand name is who you are to your customers. It is the pillar your business's public image will be built around. The products or services you offer can also have their own brand names. You may want to create new brand names for products or services that differ from your core business offering, for example:
- UberEats - Food delivery by Uber
- Amazon Web Services - Cloud computing from Amazon
- Google Maps - Web mapping service from Google
Registered Business Name
A business name is the legally registered name of your business. You'll use your business name to create contracts, open bank accounts, pay taxes, and any other administrative related activities. Most business names contain the business's brand name, followed by the company's chosen business structure, for example:
- Walmart Inc.
- Verizon Inc.
- Grasshopper LLC
However, they don't necessarily have to be the same. In some cases, the business name is completely different from the brand name. This is most common in large businesses that have multiple brands housed under a single parent company, for example:
- Brand Name: Google
- Business Name: Alphabet Inc.
- Brand Name: MailChimp
- Business Name: The Rocket Science Group LLC
Domain Name
A domain name is your website name - the internet address where people can access your website. Think of a domain as the address to the online version of your business. Every domain is one-of-a-kind. No website has the same web address as another website.
Ideally, your domain name should be an exact match to your brand name. Think of your favorite companies. Odds are, their domain name is identical to their brand name. Apple's domain name is Apple.com; Amazon's domain name is Amazon.com. Having a matching domain ensures that people can easily find your brand online.
What are the benefits of a premium business name?
What can a top brand name with a matching .com do for your business? Here are few of the many advantages of owning a premium business domain:
Trust - Online, there are subtle clues that all of us subconsciously take into consideration to determine whether or not a business is legitimate and trustworthy. Having a great business name paired with a matching .com (by far the most trusted domain extension) signals to customers that you care about and are willing to invest in your brand. It makes your business and your brand messaging easier to trust.
Authority - Owning a .com version of a fantastic brand name is a big signal to the world that your business means business, right out of the gate. This can lead to accelerated customer acquisition, more industry partnership opportunities, and press attention.
SEO - Having a business domain that matches what customers are using in searches can lead to increased SEO, higher page ranking, and better quality traffic.
Retention - Brand retention is critical for organically acquiring and keeping customers. A short, catchy, and unique business name makes your brand easier to remember, and having a matching .com means that consumers who hear about you offline will find you easily online.
Save on marketing spend - Investing in a premium domain can save you a fortune in marketing spend down the line. You'll spend less of your valuable marketing budget and efforts on brand awareness, as your name will do much of the work for you.
How does BrandBucket price domains?
Our customers are primarily entrepreneurs looking for a quick and easy way to find a great brand name for their company. That's why when evaluating and appraising domain names, our central focus is whether they would also make great business names.
What makes a great brand name? Here are some of the branding and linguistic traits we take into consideration:
- Length - Great names are concise and to the point. The shorter, the better!
- Common phrase/expression - Names that are based on real phrases and expressions make great brand names because of their built-in familiarity and inherent catchiness.
- Letter order - Some letters are more valuable than others and better together, especially when it comes to the first letters of a name.
- Pronunciation and spelling - Names should be easy to say and understand. It should also be spelled as it sounds.
- Industry match - Names should be a good fit for a particular industry, or be broad enough to attract buyers from multiple sectors.
- Longevity - Great brand names are broad enough in scope to grow with a company as it expands and not die when trends fade.
- Uniqueness - Great brand names are easy to spot because they stand out in a crowd.
- Memorability - A brand name is no good unless people can easily remember it.
These criteria, along with historical sales data and current marketplace conditions, are used to determine whether a name is accepted to our marketplace, and how it's priced. Every name on our marketplace must score high in most or all of these categories to even be accepted. With an acceptance rate of only 10% of names submitted to our marketplace, BrandBucket sets a very high bar for the names we select.
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220707-N-YN807-2001 PEARL HARBOR (July 7, 2022) U.S. and partner nations participate in a 5k run during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022, July 7. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Megan Alexander)
This work, RIMPAC participants run 5k, by PO3 Megan Alexander, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/849759/rimpac-participants-run-5k | 2022-07-09T04:42:18Z | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/849759/rimpac-participants-run-5k | true | 25 |
By Sahil Chopra
Contextual advertising has gained much attention, while audience targeting has taken a backseat. As the name suggests, contextual targeting delivers a message matching it to the relevant digital content. In simple words, your advertisement reaches only the people interested in availing of your services.
Contextual advertising is a type of targeting that simply matches the ads with the content of the page where it is displayed. This builds a premise for brands and businesses to connect with their audience while the users are looking at the content related to the ad.
What’s the difference between contextual targeting and audience targeting?
Audience targeting is based on a user’s history, preferences and actions online. For example, you recently searched for sports shoes, and a few days later, you are reading about Elon Musk taking over Twitter, and out of nowhere, an ad for sports shoes appears. In this case, the ad shown is not relevant to the article, but it is to you. Audience targeting benefits from all your saved cookies and browsing behaviour. Contextual advertising is quite the opposite, as it only shows ads relevant to the content displayed on the website. For example, if you are reading an article about fitness, an advertisement for Nike Training Club will be treated as contextually targeted.
Why contextual advertising?
Contextual advertising requires marketers first to understand the content and the context of the pages and utilise the information gathered to create ads supported by relevant content. This increases the probability of interested users engaging with the ads and enhances the click-through rate and returns on ad spend.
Why should advertisers go with contextual advertising?
Contextual advertising gives advertisers an edge in their digital campaigns.
- Cookie-free: With the recent developments, third-party cookies have been shown the exit door. Contextual Advertising does not rely on cookies, which is one of the significant reasons this type of advertising is back in the limelight. We will likely say our final goodbyes to cookies by 2023, and conventional targeting techniques like audience targeting will lose the battle against context-based targeting methods. The bottom line is that contextual advertising will be the most efficient despite the user privacy regulations and third-party cookies.
- Cost-effectiveness: Audience Targeting does not come cheap. These ads require a lot of investment, from market research to marketing experts, to run them. Moreover, cookie-based ads have not shown much profit in terms of click-through rates regardless of the time, money and effort spent on them. On the contrary, contextual advertising is considerably less expensive, requires less investment, and is more effective. Contextual ads can guarantee a three times better click-through rate if done right.
- More relevant: Relevancy is the key to higher click-through rates. Audience Targeting mainly focuses on building a consumer persona and displays ads based on the user’s history. In contrast, contextual advertising shows ads based on what they are interested in at any given moment.
- Less Intrusive: As per the new norms of the General Data Protection Act (GDPR), information-gathering cookies are blocked as they collect a user’s private data. As a result, data accumulation to create a consumer persona is more challenging than ever. As long as one does not have the permission of their audience, they cannot track or analyse any buying behaviour. In addition, internet users find audience targeting annoying and intrusive. This is where contextual advertising wins, as it does not rely on data-gathering tactics. It complies with the new privacy laws and regulations and does not intrude on a potential customer’s privacy. Contextual advertising serves users with non-intrusive ads relevant to their online activity.
- More control: The advent of programmatic advertising brought several questions related to brand safety. The conventional advertising methods give little to no control over where the ads are served as audience targeting focuses on users. No brand would want their ads to be displayed on untrustworthy websites alongside provocative content without their approval. When it comes to contextual advertising, brands are relieved as the ads are only displayed next to content relevant to the brand or the ad.
Since third-party cookies are not here for long, audience targeting is bound to struggle against contextually targeted ads. However, the choice of advertising always depends on campaign goals as there could be a significant difference in the results.
The author is founder and CEO of iCubesWire. Views expressed are personal.
Read Also: How Swiggy addressed the ‘horse in the room’; brand experts call the move distinctive | https://www.financialexpress.com/brandwagon/why-brands-need-to-shift-from-audience-targeting-to-contextual-targeting/2588274/ | 2022-07-09T04:43:34Z | https://www.financialexpress.com/brandwagon/why-brands-need-to-shift-from-audience-targeting-to-contextual-targeting/2588274/ | true | 1 |
An alligator was recently found swimming in a lake – in Wisconsin.
On Wednesday, J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue, based in Menasha, Wisconsin, posted about the 18-24-inch American alligator on Facebook.
The small gator was found in Long Lake in Fond du Lac and Sheboygan Counties, according to the Facebook post.
They typically live from North Carolina to the Rio Grande in Texas, in and around freshwater rivers, swamps, marshes and lakes, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute website.
J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue wrote on Facebook that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources brought the gator to the shelter temporarily.
The animal rescue said it would keep the alligator for just one week before bringing it to a sanctuary.
In an email to Fox News Digital, John Moyles, the director of J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue, said the alligator is doing well, resting comfortably and enjoying meals of alligator pellets, insects and even a frozen mouse.
The alligator’s possible owner has also come forward, Moyles said.
“The individual said that they had [the alligator] in an outdoor enclosure and that his daughter accidentally left the cage open, which allowed the alligator to escape,” Moyles said.
Moyles said that after discussing the options with the potential owner, the decision was made to bring the alligator to an accredited sanctuary.
“We have been working with Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary in Athens, Michigan, and have a plan in place to send the alligator there on Monday,” Moyles said. | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/alligator-found-in-wisconsins-long-lake-possible-owner-comes-forward/253650/ | 2022-07-09T04:46:26Z | https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/world/alligator-found-in-wisconsins-long-lake-possible-owner-comes-forward/253650/ | false | 2 |
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has opted to pull investments from five energy corporations, joining other faith-based groups in targeting fossil-fuel companies over what they say are failures to address climate change.
The denomination’s General Assembly, meeting online, voted overwhelmingly this week for a resolution targeting Chevron, ExxonMobil, Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, and Valero Energy for divestment.
Presbyterian officials have in recent years sought to persuade several fossil fuel companies to take steps to reduce greenhouse gases. The resolution said these efforts “did not produce enough substantial change or movement” by the five corporations now targeted for divestment.
The church’s investments are a small fraction of a percent of the five corporations’ market capitalization. But supporters of divestment said it would send a message and help spur corporations to change policies in response to climate change.
Numerous, mostly progressive faith-based groups in various countries — including religious orders, dioceses and denominations such as the Episcopal Church and the Unitarian Universalist Association — have decided on partial or full divestment from fossil-fuel companies, according to Global Fossil Fuels Divestment Commitments Database, a website maintained by climate advocacy groups.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country, though it has struggled with decades of membership losses. It reported a 2021 membership of 1.2 million.
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Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. | https://www.counton2.com/business/ap-business/presbyterians-agree-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel-companies/ | 2022-07-09T04:51:26Z | https://www.counton2.com/business/ap-business/presbyterians-agree-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel-companies/ | false | 26 |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Night" game were:
1-9-4-0, WB: 4
(one, nine, four, zero; WB: four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Night" game were:
1-9-4-0, WB: 4
(one, nine, four, zero; WB: four) | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Night-game-17293996.php | 2022-07-09T04:55:08Z | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Night-game-17293996.php | true | null |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 3" game were:
2-1-1
(two, one, one)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 3" game were:
2-1-1
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Teen holds man at gunpoint, takes puppy from woman’s arms: Escambia Co. deputies
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — A man has been arrested after being accused of forcing his way into a home, pointing a gun at people inside, threatening to shoot and then leading deputies on a high-speed chase.
Randall Bell, 18, is charged with burglary with battery, burglary with battery domestic violence, criminal mischief, aggravated assault with a firearm, possess of a firearm in the commission of a felony and fleeing and eluding law enforcement at high speed.
The victim told deputies Bell forced his way into his house and ran inside yelling on Monday, July 4. He was holding a gun and pointed it at the victim stating he would shoot him. The victim said while he was pointing the gun, Bell accidentally released the magazine and it fell to the floor. He then quickly reached down to recover it and placed the firearm barrel to the victim’s head and threatened to kill him, according to the arrest report.
Several other people inside told deputies the same story. A woman said while inside the house, Bell snatched a puppy out of her arms.
A gun was never recovered but the puppy was found and safe. Bell was booked into the Escambia County Jail with a bond of $94,000. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2658754723983/teen-holds-man-at-gunpoint-takes-puppy-from-woman-s-arms-escambia-co-deputies | 2022-07-09T05:11:28Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2658754723983/teen-holds-man-at-gunpoint-takes-puppy-from-woman-s-arms-escambia-co-deputies | false | 8 |
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis are scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President J P Nadda on Saturday as the new-found allies move towards constituting their council of ministers.
Shinde and Fadnavis, who assumed office on June 30, a day after the then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray quit in the face of a massive rebellion, are also expected to make courtesy calls on President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.
The two Maharashtra leaders met Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday night and are learnt to have discussed the broad contours of the power-sharing formula between the BJP and the Shinde-led faction of Shiv Sena.
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“I am confident that under the guidance of Narendra Modi, both of you will serve the people faithfully and take Maharashtra to newer heights of development," Shah said on Twitter on Friday night.
The visit of Shinde and Fadnavis to the national capital comes ahead of a crucial hearing in the Supreme Court on July 11 on a petition filed by the Thackeray-led Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of Shinde and 15 MLAs of his faction.
“We have faith in the judiciary,” Shinde told reporters in the national capital, asserting the group led by him had the support of two-thirds of the Shiv Sena MLAs. The Shiv Sena had 55 MLAs before the split triggered by Shinde's revolt. Nearly 40 Shiv Sena MLAs had backed Shinde, who also enjoys support of independents and MLAs from smaller outfits.
“The Speaker has also granted us recognition,” he said, referring to the decision of the newly-elected Speaker Rahul Narwekar.
Shinde was sworn in as chief minister on June 30 with the support of the BJP after he rebelled against the then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, walking out of the Shiv Sena with a large chunk of MLAs leading to the fall of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government.
Shinde won the trust vote in the Maharashtra assembly on July 4.
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Woman charged with throwing passenger from car
Jul. 9—HIGH POINT — A High Point woman has been charged with critically injuring another woman by throwing her from a car along a road in north High Point late Thursday night.
Just before 11:35 p.m., emergency dispatchers were called to the 1200 block of Tarrant Road, where a female caller who was uncooperative with a dispatcher would only tell them that someone had fallen out of a car and needed help, according to the High Point Police Department.
When officers arrived, they found a woman in the roadway suffering from serious injuries to her head and upper body.
After investigating, police determined that Nikiya Banks Gray, 30, of High Point, the driver of the car, and the injured woman, Kendra Shavon Weldon, 26, of Greensboro, were involved in a domestic disturbance.
Gray was sitting in the driver's seat of the vehicle with Weldon standing in the driver's door jamb. The car went into reverse and began to back up with Weldon still in the door jamb, according to police.
Weldon jumped onto the side of the car. The driver fled the area and ended up on Tarrant Road with Weldon still hanging on to the exterior of the vehicle. While on Tarrant Road, Weldon was thrown from the vehicle.
Gray remained on scene and contacted 911 stating that someone had fallen out of a vehicle and needed help, according to police.
Gray was charged with driving while impaired during the initial investigation with bond set at $100,000 secured.
Later in the investigation Gray was charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious bodily injury. For these charges, she is being detained on a domestic hold, according to police.
Weldon underwent surgery for her injuries and was in stable condition Friday at an area hospital with critical injuries not considered life-threatening. | https://news.yahoo.com/woman-charged-throwing-passenger-car-040100967.html | 2022-07-09T05:16:50Z | https://news.yahoo.com/woman-charged-throwing-passenger-car-040100967.html | true | 2 |
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — Abnormally dry weather in north Alabama may have ruined corn plantings and is damaging other crops.
“The hot, dry weather has just hit the corn at the absolute worst time,” said Brady Peek, who farms approximately 1,800 acres in western Limestone County. “We’ll be lucky if we even have a corn crop. Yields are going to be significantly below average.”
Ashley Ravenscraft, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Huntsville, said portions of Lawrence and Morgan counties have been characterized as “abnormally dry” since June 21. In Limestone County, 60% of the county has been in a moderate drought since June 28.
From June 21 through Monday, Decatur received only 0.24 of an inch of rainfall and Moulton had 0.53 of an inch, Ravenscraft said. Athens, she said, had 1.78 inches of rain in that span but she attributes the higher number to pop-up showers the last several days. Ravenscraft said the average rainfall in July is 4.49 inches.
“Typically, around this time of year you’re getting some kind of rainfall from either tropical systems or your summertime storms or a weaker disturbance that will come through and produce some rain. This is typically one of our wettest months out of the year,” she said.
Ravenscraft said the three counties would need about 4 inches of rain in a month to get out of the drought and abnormally dry categories.
“All signals point to at least abnormally dry conditions through the late summer, early fall,” she said.
Peek said he rotates what he grows every year. This year he has grown wheat, soybeans and corn.
Peek planted his soybeans in the last week of April and the second week of June and will harvest in early to mid-September. He planted his corn in mid-April and will harvest in August. He said everything will have to be harvested earlier due to the dry weather. Peek has already harvested his wheat.
While he said his corn crop may be a complete loss, other crops are also suffering.
“Beans still have a ways to go. I was looking at some this morning and they clearly need a rain,” Peek said Tuesday. “They’re still hanging on. There’s still a chance that we can make a crop there.”
Peek said it is too early to tell what yield he will get from his soybeans.
“I would say that they have sustained some damage. How much, it’s just hard to point yet. The beans definitely need a rain to keep hanging on,” he said.
Peek said the crops would be better able to handle the hot weather if there was rain. He said it is common to have hot, dry spells but usually they come in August.
“It’s nearly a death wish on a lot of these crops to be like this in June and July,” Peek said. “Once you get this dry it’s just really hard to overcome that.”
Steve Brown, cotton agronomist for the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, said corn has a narrow period during which it needs a lot of moisture or it will not pollinate well.
“Cotton, we still have time to recover assuming we get some rainfall,” Brown said. “It definitely hurts it.”
He said the cotton yield could be cut by 50% this year.
“If we go another three or four weeks with lack of water with this kind of heat, it will take a serious toll on all crops. We could lose 60% of our yield or even 70%,” Brown said.
Peek said one of his farms has irrigation, but irrigating is expensive. He said mass irrigation across north Alabama is not possible. “We’ve got the water, we just don’t have the infrastructure in place to truly be able to utilize it.”
Brown said only about 10% of Alabama crops are irrigated. “If you have an extreme drought, it might give you a little bit of water, but it can’t sustain the crop through a significant, lengthy drought period.”
Mark Thompson, owner of One Stop Lawn and Landscaping in Decatur, said he stresses to customers the importance of watering lawns and plants as often as possible. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Dry-weather-hampering-corn-other-crops-in-north-17294058.php | 2022-07-09T05:17:54Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Dry-weather-hampering-corn-other-crops-in-north-17294058.php | true | 13 |
Choose your reality: Trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise
Posted July 9, 2022 12:24 a.m. EDT
Updated July 9, 2022 12:25 a.m. EDT
Daniel Charles Wilson believes the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were an inside job. The war in Ukraine is “totally scripted” and COVID-19 is “completely fake.” The Boston Marathon bombing? Mass shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas? “Crisis actors,” he says.
Wilson, a 41-year-old from London, Ontario, has doubts about free elections, vaccines and the Jan. 6 insurrection, too. He accepts little of what has happened in the past 20 years and cheerfully predicts that someday, the internet will make everyone as distrustful as he is.
“It’s the age of information, and the hidden government, the people who control everything, they know they can’t win,” Wilson told The Associated Press. “They’re all lying to us. But we’re going to break through this. It will be a good change for everyone.”
Wilson, who is now working on a book about his views, is not an isolated case of perpetual disbelief. He speaks for a growing number of people in Western nations who have lost faith in democratic governance and a free press, and who have turned to conspiracy theories to fill the void.
Rejecting what they hear from scientists, journalists or public officials, these people instead embrace tales of dark plots and secret explanations. And their beliefs, say experts who study misinformation and extremism, reflect a widespread loss of faith in institutions like government and media.
A poll conducted last year by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 16% of Americans say democracy is working well or extremely well. Another 38% said it’s working only somewhat well.
Other surveys reveal how many people in the United States now doubt the media, politicians, science and even each other.
The distrust has gone so deep that even groups that seem ideologically aligned are questioning each others’ motives and intentions.
On the day before Independence Day in Boston this year, a group of about 100 masked men carrying fascist flags marched through the city. Members proudly uploaded videos and photos of the march to online forums popular with supporters of former President Donald Trump and QAnon adherents, who believe a group of satanic, cannibalistic child molesters secretly runs the globe.
Instead of praise, the white supremacists were met with incredulity. Some posters said the marchers were clearly FBI agents or members of antifa — shorthand for anti-fascists — looking to defame Trump supporters. It didn't matter that the men boasted of their involvement and pleaded to be believed. “Another false flag," wrote one self-described conservative on Telegram.
Similarly, when an extremist website that sells unregulated ghost guns — firearms without serial numbers — asked its followers about their July 4th plans, several people responded by accusing the group of working for the FBI. When someone claiming to be Q, the figure behind QAnon, reappeared online recently, many conservatives who support the movement speculated that the new Q was actually a government plant.
This past week, when a Georgia monument that some conservative Christians criticized as satanic was bombed, many posters on far-right message boards cheered. But many others said they didn't believe the news.
“I don’t trust it. I’m still thinking ff,” wrote one woman on Twitter, referencing “false flag,” a term commonly used by conspiracy theorists to describe an event they think was staged.
The global public relations firm Edelman, based in New York City, has conducted surveys about public trust for more than two decades, beginning after the 1999 World Trade Organization's meeting in Seattle was marred by anti-globalization riots. Tonia Reis, director of Edelman's Trust Barometer surveys, said trust is a precious commodity that's vital for the economy and government to function.
“Trust is absolutely essential to everything in society working well,” Reis said. “It's one of those things that, like air, people don’t think about it until they realize they don’t have it, or they’ve lost it or damaged it. And then it can be too late."
For experts who study misinformation and human cognition, the fraying of trust is tied to the rise of the internet and the way it can be exploited on contentious issues of social and economic change.
Distrust and suspicion offered obvious advantages to small bands of early humans trying to survive in a dangerous world, and those emotions continue to help people gauge personal risk today. But distrust is not always well suited to the modern world, which requires people to trust the strangers who inspect their food, police their streets and write their news. Democratic institutions, with their regulations and checks and balances, are one way of adding accountability to that trust.
When that trust breaks down, polarization and anxiety increases, creating opportunities for people pushing their own “ alternative facts.”
“People can’t fact check the world,” said Dr. Richard Friedman, a New York City psychiatrist and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College who has written about the psychology of trust and belief. “They’re awash in competing streams of information, both good and bad. They’re anxious about the future, and there are a lot of bad actors with the ability to weaponize that fear and anxiety.”
Those bad actors include grifters selling bad investments or sham remedies for COVID-19, Russian disinformation operatives trying to undermine Western democracies, or even homegrown politicians like Trump, whose lies about the 2020 election spurred the Jan. 6 attack.
Research and surveys show belief in conspiracy theories is common and widespread. Believers are more likely to to get their information from social media than professional news organizations. The rise and fall of particular conspiracy theories are often linked to real-world events and social, economic or technological change.
Like Wilson, people who believe in one conspiracy theory are likely to believe in others too, even if they are mutually contradictory. A 2012 paper, for instance, looked at beliefs surrounding the death of Princess Diana of Wales in a 1997 car crash. Researchers found that subjects who believed strongly that Diana was murdered said they also felt strongly that she could have faked her own death.
Wilson said his belief in conspiracies began on Sept. 11, 2001, when he couldn't accept that the towers could be knocked down by airliners. He said he found information on the internet that confirmed his beliefs, and then began to suspect there were conspiracies behind other world events.
“You have to put it all together yourself,” Wilson said. “The hidden reality, what's really going on, they don't want you to know.” | https://www.wral.com/choose-your-reality-trust-wanes-conspiracy-theories-rise/20366569/ | 2022-07-09T05:18:42Z | https://www.wral.com/choose-your-reality-trust-wanes-conspiracy-theories-rise/20366569/ | false | 57 |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As missed warning signs pile up in investigations of mass killings, New York state is rolling out a novel strategy to screen applicants for gun permits. People seeking to carry concealed handguns will be required to hand over lists of their social media accounts for a review of their “character and conduct.”
It’s an approach applauded by many Democrats and national gun control advocacy groups, but some experts have raised questions about how the law will be enforced and address free speech concerns.
Some of the local officials who will be tasked with reviewing the social media content also are asking whether they’ll have the resources and, in some cases, whether the law is even constitutional.
Sheriffs haven’t received additional money or staffing to handle a new application process, said Peter Kehoe, the executive director of the New York Sheriffs’ Association. The law, he asserted, infringes on Second Amendment rights, and while applicants must list their social media accounts, he doesn’t think local officials will necessarily look at them.
“I don’t think we would do that,” Kehoe said. “I think it would be a constitutional invasion of privacy.”
The new requirement, which takes effect in September, was included in a law passed last week that sought to preserve some limits on firearms after the Supreme Court ruled that most people have a right to carry a handgun for personal protection. It was signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, who noted shooters sometimes telegraph their intent to hurt others.
Increasingly, young men have gone online to drop hints of what’s to come before executing a mass killing, including the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school.
Under the law, applicants have to provide local officials with a list of current and former social media accounts from the previous three years. It doesn’t specify whether applicants will be required to provide access to private accounts not visible to the general public.
It will be up to local sheriff’s staff, judges or county clerks to scroll through those profiles as they check whether applicants have made statements suggesting dangerous behavior.
The law also will require applicants to undergo hours of safety training, prove they’re proficient at shooting, provide four character references and sit for in-person interviews.
The law reflects how the Supreme Court ruling has shifted responsibility to states for vetting those who carry firearms in public, said Tanya Schardt, senior counsel and director of state and federal policy for gun control advocacy organization Brady.
Her group said it was not aware of any other states requiring gun permit applicants to submit social media profiles.
The new approach, however, comes amid growing debate over the policing of social media posts and a legacy of unwarranted surveillance of Black and brown communities.
“The question should be: Can we do this in an anti-racist way that does not create another set of violence, which is the state violence that happens through surveillance?” said University of Pennsylvania social policy, communications and medicine professor Desmond Upton Patton, who also founded SAFElab, a research initiative studying violence involving youths of color.
Meanwhile, gun rights advocates are blasting the law.
“You’re also going to have to tell them your social media accounts because New York wants to thoroughly investigate you to figure out if you’re some of those dangerous law-abiding citizens who are taking the country by storm and causing crime to skyrocket,” Jared Yanis, host of the YouTube channel Guns & Gadgets, says in a widely viewed video on the new law. “What have we come to?”
Hochul, who also has tasked state police with routing out extremism online, didn’t immediately respond to a list of questions about the social media requirement, including how the state will address free speech and privacy concerns.
“Often the sticking point is: How do we go about enforcing this?” Metro State University criminal justice professor James Densley, cofounder of research initiative The Violence Project, said. “I think it starts to open up a bit of a can of worms, because no one quite knows the best way to go about doing it.”
It can be tricky, he said, to decode social media posts by younger people, who could simply be expressing themselves by posting a music video.
“Where this will get tricky is to what extent this is expression and to what extent is this evidence of wrongdoing?” Densley said.
Spokespeople for the social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, 4Chan and Parler didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
New York should instead consider giving the job to a trained group tasked with figuring out how to best reach out to people online who are showing signs of radicalization or trauma and may need help, Patton said.
“There’s a lot of nuance and contextual issues. We speak differently; how we communicate, that could be misunderstood,” Patton said. “I’m concerned we don’t have the right people or the right tools in place to do this in a way that’s useful in actually preventing violence.”
Adam Scott Wandt, a public policy professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that he supports gun control, but that he worries the New York law could set a precedent for mandatory disclosure of social media activity for people seeking other types of licenses from the state.
New York’s law is rushed and vague, said Wandt, who teaches law enforcement personnel how to conduct searches on people through social media.
“I think that what we might have done as a state here in New York is, we may have confirmed their worst fears — that a slippery slope will be created that will slowly reduce their rights to carry guns and allow a bureaucracy to decide, based on unclear criteria, who can have a gun and who cannot,” Wandt said. “Which is exactly what the Supreme Court was trying to avoid.”
___
Maysoon Khan is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Maysoon Khan on Twitter. | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/gun-applicants-in-ny-will-have-to-hand-over-social-accounts/ | 2022-07-09T05:32:55Z | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/gun-applicants-in-ny-will-have-to-hand-over-social-accounts/ | false | 77 |
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — Abnormally dry weather in north Alabama may have ruined corn plantings and is damaging other crops.
“The hot, dry weather has just hit the corn at the absolute worst time,” said Brady Peek, who farms approximately 1,800 acres in western Limestone County. “We’ll be lucky if we even have a corn crop. Yields are going to be significantly below average.”
Ashley Ravenscraft, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Huntsville, said portions of Lawrence and Morgan counties have been characterized as “abnormally dry” since June 21. In Limestone County, 60% of the county has been in a moderate drought since June 28.
From June 21 through Monday, Decatur received only 0.24 of an inch of rainfall and Moulton had 0.53 of an inch, Ravenscraft said. Athens, she said, had 1.78 inches of rain in that span but she attributes the higher number to pop-up showers the last several days. Ravenscraft said the average rainfall in July is 4.49 inches.
“Typically, around this time of year you’re getting some kind of rainfall from either tropical systems or your summertime storms or a weaker disturbance that will come through and produce some rain. This is typically one of our wettest months out of the year,” she said.
Ravenscraft said the three counties would need about 4 inches of rain in a month to get out of the drought and abnormally dry categories.
“All signals point to at least abnormally dry conditions through the late summer, early fall,” she said.
Peek said he rotates what he grows every year. This year he has grown wheat, soybeans and corn.
Peek planted his soybeans in the last week of April and the second week of June and will harvest in early to mid-September. He planted his corn in mid-April and will harvest in August. He said everything will have to be harvested earlier due to the dry weather. Peek has already harvested his wheat.
While he said his corn crop may be a complete loss, other crops are also suffering.
“Beans still have a ways to go. I was looking at some this morning and they clearly need a rain,” Peek said Tuesday. “They’re still hanging on. There’s still a chance that we can make a crop there.”
Peek said it is too early to tell what yield he will get from his soybeans.
“I would say that they have sustained some damage. How much, it’s just hard to point yet. The beans definitely need a rain to keep hanging on,” he said.
Peek said the crops would be better able to handle the hot weather if there was rain. He said it is common to have hot, dry spells but usually they come in August.
“It’s nearly a death wish on a lot of these crops to be like this in June and July,” Peek said. “Once you get this dry it’s just really hard to overcome that.”
Steve Brown, cotton agronomist for the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, said corn has a narrow period during which it needs a lot of moisture or it will not pollinate well.
“Cotton, we still have time to recover assuming we get some rainfall,” Brown said. “It definitely hurts it.”
He said the cotton yield could be cut by 50% this year.
“If we go another three or four weeks with lack of water with this kind of heat, it will take a serious toll on all crops. We could lose 60% of our yield or even 70%,” Brown said.
Peek said one of his farms has irrigation, but irrigating is expensive. He said mass irrigation across north Alabama is not possible. “We’ve got the water, we just don’t have the infrastructure in place to truly be able to utilize it.”
Brown said only about 10% of Alabama crops are irrigated. “If you have an extreme drought, it might give you a little bit of water, but it can’t sustain the crop through a significant, lengthy drought period.”
Mark Thompson, owner of One Stop Lawn and Landscaping in Decatur, said he stresses to customers the importance of watering lawns and plants as often as possible. | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Dry-weather-hampering-corn-other-crops-in-north-17294058.php | 2022-07-09T05:34:39Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Dry-weather-hampering-corn-other-crops-in-north-17294058.php | true | 13 |
A 2-acre brush fire burned near the 5 Freeway in Castaic, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The Elsa Fire consumed brush along Porter Road and the freeway, though no structures were threatened, the LASD said on Twitter.
By 10:15 p.m., the fire’s forward progress had been stopped, the Sheriff’s Department said.
“If traveling through, please plan accordingly & allow emergency vehicles to proceed pass,” the Sheriff’s Department added. | https://ktla.com/news/local-news/2-acre-fire-breaks-out-in-castaic-lasd/ | 2022-07-09T05:42:28Z | https://ktla.com/news/local-news/2-acre-fire-breaks-out-in-castaic-lasd/ | true | null |
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Escape Pod 844: The Vaulting Vandals of Termina Celeste (Part 2)
The Vaulting Vandals of Termina Celeste (Part 2)
by Jordan Chase-Young
Our boots echoed through the fuselage as we hurried to the bridge. Nerva lagged behind us, grunting whenever Jacob smacked him with the chrome vaulter he’d taken from the cache.
I ordered Nerva to unlock the bridge door.
When he hesitated, I made the squid tap its poison bone against his nape.
Nerva swore in some Delphine patois and punched a number on the keypad. The latch clicked. I forced the squid to ball up behind Nerva’s head, then sprayed Jacob and myself a couple of light, round shields. Since the spray couldn’t make energy weapons, apparently, I also fashioned us each an arqueblaster and loaded them with armor-piercing bullets.
We hid in the shadows of the antechamber while Nerva made his way onto the bridge, moving carefully, as I’d commanded, to keep the squid out of Hadrian’s view.
“Done already?” crooned the merchant prince from his padded throne at the controls.
“Yes,” mumbled Nerva.
“Had a feeling the spray would take to that one. You can always tell a natural by that flame in their eye.” The throne, which slid on a railgrid in the floor, squeaked and rumbled as Hadrian kicked his way like a child in an office chair from one task to another. “As for Jacob, well, let’s hope his vaulting’s as good as they say.”
Jacob cocked his arqueblaster with a scowl, but I made a sign to calm him.
Although the floor and walls of the bridge were made of the same rickety steel as the rest of the fuselage, the ceiling had been scrapped to make way for a bristling firmament of the black crystals. Which complicated things.
“This is rather embarrassing, Your Fruitfulness,” said Nerva, clearing his throat, “but after a brief review of our balance sheet, it seems we forgot to make good on one of our enticements.”
“Which?”
“The surveillance commissioner. We should head back to Termina Celeste, settle the issue at once.”
Hadrian snorted. “I’ll pay that hairless gerbil when it suits me, not a moment sooner.”
“He has records of our activity.”
“He will behave. Patience is the daughter of fear. And anyway, you know as well as I that the obelisk is more important than such trifles.”
Hadrian’s refusal left one option.
I sprayed the rest of my can at the roof of black crystals, my head aching from the inrush of data to my feedlink. I took another can out of my backpack and emptied it too. A cumulonimbus of black mist spread beneath the crystals, hardening into the densest material I could will. Jacob watched me with envy and amazement. I cocked my arqueblaster and gave him a nod.
We stormed the bridge with our shields raised, our weapons aimed at Hadrian.
The merchant prince raised an eyebrow.
“Take us back to Termina Celeste,” said Jacob, “or we’ll off you and do it ourselves.”
“The rotten apple doesn’t fall far,” Hadrian mused. He told Nerva to turn around, which Nerva did, and whistled. “Very lifelike,” he said, throwing me a look of betrayal. “Though not something I’d expected of you.”
“This is a suicide mission,” I said. “We won’t ask again.”
Hadrian considered the arqueblasters, shrugged, and flicked a few switches. The takeoff monitors suspended throughout the room showed a curved red horizon–the eastern rim of Celeste, gessoed in clouds–halting its slow roll beneath the stratosphere as the ship began to yaw back around. A destination readout switched from ARCHIPELAGO OF SOULS to TERMINA CELESTE.
I was so focused on Hadrian I didn’t notice Nerva until too late.
A dagger-length horn had emerged from his nape, impaling the variolus squid. Nerva looked as surprised as anyone when the creature plopped to the ground.
Jacob turned to fire, but Nerva dove behind a food cart. The bullet blasted a cloche off a casserole. Rolling the cart alongside him for a shield, Nerva scurried into the shadows at the edge of the room.
Hadrian chuckled. He’d used the distraction to fetch a canister from a hiding-place somewhere, and a pane of mist was already congealing in front of him; Jacob’s bullets bounced off it like rubber. Hadrian whirled his hand as if pardoning insults, and the pane became a folding screen around his body, blue and shimmery as water.
“Your friend’s overstayed his welcome,” he told me. “But I’m still optimistic about you. Won’t you reconsider?”
“That depends on your terms.”
Hadrian called my bluff with a tsk and flung the screen at us with a thrust of his palm. The panes slammed us off our feet and sent us sprawling.
A thunderclap rocked the canopy I’d formed beneath the ceiling.
Hadrian glanced up in puzzlement, frowned. “Clever. But won’t hold for long.”
More thunder. My canopy shuddered as Hadrian’s crystals tried to pierce through; desperate, I freed a layer of it as a shower of spikes, but Hadrian whipped a fresh shield above him to deflect these.
Jacob hauled me to my feet, his nose dripping blood.
I conjured up a beach hydra to defend us. Splayed on four gigantic starfish legs–sleek and brindled, with a mat of stubby tentacles under each–the creature lifted a pair of leonine heads and gnashed at Hadrian with demonic teeth.
The merchant prince laughed and sprayed himself a butcher hawk in answer.
The hawk spread its razor-lined wings and launched at one of the hydra’s jugulars, but the hydra jerked away at the last second, seized the hawk in its jaws, and brought it thrashing to the ground. They wrestled: a tangle of blood and flesh and green spittle.
BOOM! BOOM! The crystals hammered on the canopy harder than ever. Cracks were forming across the dense substance, and I couldn’t seal them and focus on the hydra at the same time.
Jacob tried to conjure a Volta grenade–but the sphere had no light at its core.
“Can’t make energy weapons,” I said, unsheathing Drake’s vaulter.
Jacob cursed. He transformed the grenade into a spiked ball-and-chain and swung it around his head–once, twice, three times–and lobbed into one of the butcher hawk’s wings. The spikes hooked deep into the veiny webbing and pinned the hawk down, allowing the hydra to tear out its jugular.
Hadrian’s laughter faded. He fashioned the hawk’s carcass into something else while I vaulted to the other side of the room. I shot at him with my arqueblaster. His shield rippled and sang. He swiveled to face me, but I vaulted again, firing as I went. The shield was iridescing, weakening.
My eyes filled with water as I leapt. My throat tightened; I lost my balance and fell.
Jacob took up firing at Hadrian’s shield. Hadrian pushed another pane into him, a sound like a mallet against a piece of meat.
“NO!” I cried.
I tried to lift myself, but my body felt impossibly heavy.
Nerva came toward me, clad in a gas mask and clutching a potted purple flower in one hand, a can of conjuring spray in the other. The flower was a Lucretian lullaby, the strongest allergen known.
A patch of my canopy burst open at last. A long spar of crystal rushed down through the gap and skewered my beach hydra.
I could hardly speak or move. When Nerva reached me, he ripped off my backpack of canisters, wrenched the vaulter out of my grasp, kicked aside my arqueblaster and shield. Then he siphoned the Lucretian lullaby back into his can, the gas mask too. “I’ve got him, Your Fruitfulness.”
“This is the last time I mistake talent for usefulness,” said Hadrian. “Now scrap him.”
Nerva sprayed himself an arqueblaster and pressed it to my head.
“You let me escape,” I whispered. “You think your master will forget that?”
“That’s no concern of yours,” said Nerva.
“DON’T!” screamed a voice from the entrance.
A pair of molten golems, one fat and one slim, tromped onto the bridge with a dazed Trajan between them, leaving a trail of brown sludge in their wake that stank of compost and drone grease and a hundred other foul things. The slim one had a Faraday rifle aimed at Trajan’s bruised head, while the fat one kept a rifle trained on Hadrian.
I blinked. It was Robin and Hugo.
“Let them go, Hadrian,” Robin continued, tossing aside her visor, “and I won’t turn your servant’s head to smithereens.”
By now the butcher hawk’s carcass had assumed its new form: a flock of flying basilisks, seven strong, their leathern wings twitching to be freed and yellow venom dripping from their fangs.
“Tell me, Nerva,” said Hadrian, a quaver of anger threatening his calm, “when you rewired these urchins, did you happen to forget that itty-bitty algorithm that kills them if they speak my name?”
Nerva’s arqueblaster trembled against my skull. “Your Fruitfulness…forgive me, I did not think….”
“It would matter? Your brother’s opinion may differ.”
Trajan flashed a look of rage at Nerva, then winced from the heat of Robin’s Faraday rifle.
“Do it,” Hadrian ordered Nerva. “I can always make another.”
Nerva’s grip on the weapon tightened. Any second it would puke hot metal into my brain, put me away forever.
But Nerva hesitated. “Trajan,” he muttered. “Brother.”
“Do it,” snapped Hadrian.
Just then, Hugo caught sight of Jacob’s body, sprawled and bloody at the edge of the room.
“Jacob–he’s not moving,” said Hugo. “WHAT DID YOU DO?”
Hugo unloaded his rifle on Hadrian.
The lightning-storm of blue muzzle flashes made Hadrian’s shield scream, and shatter.
The basilisks swarmed Hugo and Robin, a volley of wings and teeth and tails.
In that instant, Trajan tackled Robin and pinned her to the ground–but before he could grab her Faraday rifle, the muzzle flashed blue, and his head became a cloud of grey smoke.
Nerva howled as Trajan’s headless body slumped into a loose, grotesque sprawl.
Robin twisted away from the corpse and unleashed three bolts at Nerva, but the swarm of flying basilisks took them all.
Now was my chance. I let the canopy collapse to the ground as a thick, dark fog.
Nerva fired at me as I rolled out from under him, his bullets clanging off steel. I snatched up my arqueblaster and shot him twice through the heart.
Nerva dropped with a thud. I ripped my vaulter and backpack off him.
Flashes from Faraday rifles cut through the gloom. A basilisk incandesced as a brief blue skeleton; the others were shadows within shadows, writhing through the air and snapping at the shapes of Robin and Hugo.
I ran to Jacob as the now-freed crystals lanced down. One stabbed the floor an arm’s length ahead of me with a shriek of metal.
Hugo got to Jacob first and hauled him up; I slung my arm beneath Jacob’s other shoulder.
Hugo’s stench made me choke as we dragged Jacob off the bridge together.
“It’s a long story,” Hugo mumbled. “The hell’s she up to?”
Robin was whistling in the darkness somewhere.
An explosion ripped across the controls, and Hadrian roared with anger.
More crystals lanced down frantically as Robin darted out the fog.
“We’d better find jetpacks,” she said.
“What did you do?” I asked, scared to hear the answer.
“No time, let’s go.”
Since the main door of the ship was cut off from the fuselage by a forest of black crystal, we had no choice but to use the airlock. I wasn’t about to risk a trip through the waste port as Robin and Hugo had done–not with a homicidal Delphine on our tail.
“We’ll asphyxiate, we’re still too high up,” Hugo said, blasting open the jetpack compartment.
“Not for long,” said Robin.
As if on cue, the floor tilted.
Jacob slipped out of our grasp and went sliding into the wall, and Hugo skidded off balance and barreled into him, hard. Jacob lurched back to consciousness with a cry of pain, and Robin and I pulled him out from under Hugo.
“Damn oaf,” Jacob groaned.
“Show some gratitude,” said Robin. “Hugo saved you.”
Jacob touched his broken nose. “Feels like a work in progress to me. How the hell’d you get back here?”
“You don’t want to know,” said Hugo.
To my horror, only two jetpacks remained in the compartment. I told Robin and Hugo to strap them on.
Before Robin could protest, I said, “I’m still the leader, remember? If you two hadn’t snuck back onboard, Jacob and I’d be dead by now.”
Jacob snorted but didn’t bother to argue. We all knew it was true.
There wasn’t enough spray left in the canisters to conjure more jetpacks, but there was enough for two parachutes, so I made these instead.
“God help us,” said Hugo as he pulled the airlock lever.
The airlock door gave an asthmatic wheeze. One moment I was looking at Robin’s anxious brown eyes; the next, a streak of orange cloud against a cruel blue sky, the air suddenly sharp as a riptide of ice water. The sun on the horizon throbbed into view as my head spun perpendicular with the canyon.
The canyon.
We’d jumped right above the River Andalosi.
In my teary periphery, the Kingfisher was plunging toward the docks of Termina Celeste.
I pulled the cord on my parachute, and it wrenched me upright with a hard snap and unfurling. For a moment I thought I’d pulled too soon. No one else was in sight.
Then Robin torpedoed out of the cloud-glare, banking sharply toward me on the flames of her jetpack.
A dark shape moving across a cloud–I’d taken it at first for her shadow–peeled off toward her with a pair of wings spread wide and swooped into her, ripping her into a tangled downward spiral. I thought I’d imagined it, they were gone so fast; but they emerged from the haze a moment later as a filament of jetpack exhaust in the distance, threading down into the shadows of the docks and out of sight.
“Lucas!” Hugo jetpacked out of the clouds to link an arm with mine; he had Jacob attached to the other. The wind was trying to drown out his shouts. “Did you see that?”
I would’ve answered, but the flood of noise and light from the docks overwhelmed us all.
The Kingfisher had exploded on impact.
#
All the music in Termina Celeste had been buried under sirens and shouts by the time Hugo landed us on the outskirts of the docks; the smells of exhaust and deflector wax, under the reek of burning fuel. In the distance, sentry drone floodlights wreathed the inferno that had been Hadrian’s craft.
“Why her?” Hugo screwed his eyes shut while I washed the brown gunk off him with my conjuring spray. “Why couldn’t they’ve nabbed you instead? Picking that ship was your idea, Lucas.”
“One you went along with,” I said.
“Only ‘cause I’m out of my mind.”
Jacob gazed at the flames of the Kingfisher. “Think Hadrian did it on purpose?”
I shook my head. “It was Robin. That whistling must’ve been her luring Hadrian to break the controls with his crystals.”
“God, she’s even crazier than you,” Hugo said.
“You’re just finding this out?”
#
Hugo scoured the docks for Robin with his jetpack, while Jacob and I traveled with our vaulters.
I told them to be cautious. The fire had diverted the sentry drones’ patrols, so we were open to an ambush from whatever creature had taken Robin.
Jacob’s leaps lacked their usual grace. He landed hard on an old sublunary dhow crusted in red dirt and seized the rudder for balance, wincing at a pain in his ribs. “My brother’ll regret missing all this.”
The claim was so absurd I would’ve laughed in other circumstances, but there was no denying the truth of it. Blaise would envy us all if we survived intact.
“The thing that took Robin, did you see what it looked like?” Jacob asked.
I cocked the arqueblaster I’d conjured a few minutes ago, then put a finger to my lips. Footsteps, slow and shuffling, echoed from the shadows of a solar cruiser in our midst. I raised my weapon.
The footsteps stopped, and Hugo’s round head lifted into a patch of light.
“Think I saw ‘em go this way,” he said.
I sighed in relief.
“Where’s your jetpack?” Jacob asked.
“Had to ditch it,” said Hugo. “Ran outta fuel.”
Jacob and I followed Hugo on foot to keep quiet.
Evening had become night, and the disc luminaires beneath the city roof had switched on, sickly orange above the smoke of the wreckage.
“I could go for one of your sandwiches,” Jacob whispered to Hugo.
“Now’s not the time,” I said.
“What was that one you had earlier? Tuna on rye?”
“Hell if I remember,” said Hugo. “Right down here. Pick up the pace, huh?”
We came to a long concrete service platform between rows of ships. Old-fashioned mooring hooks from pre-hypersilk days rusted beside dry coolant pumps and out-of-service holofeed booths. At both ends of the platform, switchbacking metal stairs led up to a labyrinth of catwalks.
As we hurried to the closest stairs, a meaty crack rang out.
Hugo shrieked and collapsed, clutching a large, bloody wound on his head.
I spun my arqueblaster on Jacob, who was holding his vaulter above him like a bludgeon. “Hickory-smoked ham,” he said. “You think Hugo would forget that?”
Hugo writhed on the ground, whimpering. Something buzzed and crackled in his wound. The implant?
To my horror, Hugo’s belly began to shrink, and his limbs grew longer, skinnier. His face melted into–
Nerva’s.
“I had a feeling it was him that grabbed Robin,” said Jacob. “That horn that came out of his neck, killed the squid, did you see it? He’s some kind of shapeshifter.”
Hadrian’s laughter rang high and cold from somewhere above us. “You surprise me, Jacob. I took Lucas for the cleverer one.”
Nerva’s flesh dissolved from his body as a black mist until only a flexicarbon skeleton remained. No. A drone that resembled a skeleton, save for the blue wires that ran through its joints and vertebrae like nerves.
Nerva climbed to his feet. His breastplate still had two bullet holes from my arqueblaster, and the side of his head with the feedlink now had a dent from Jacob’s vaulter. The arm I’d burned with acid was deeply scarred.
Nerva roved a pair of fluorescent pupils from Jacob to me in confusion. “Where am I?” he asked.
“An old model,” Hadrian said. “We Delphines do love our heirlooms.” He descended from an alcubierre in a jetpack and landed on the service platform, his blond hair sooty, his white uniform torn and burnt. “Alas, unlike ships, a drone’s mind sinks without spectacle.”
“Where am I?” Nerva clutched his head. “You overrode me again.”
“Twice today you hesitated to fulfill my orders,” said Hadrian. “Now look what’s happened.” He gestured to the inferno. “I couldn’t risk a third time.”
Nerva choked in anguish. “Trajan…Trajan….”
“Dead, yes,” said Hadrian, “thanks to you.”
Hadrian flicked his hand, and the mist returned to Nerva as a new kind of flesh, jet-black and barbed on the inside like an iron maiden. Nerva screamed and thrashed as the stuff took root. I couldn’t help feeling pity for him.
“Where are they?” I said.
Hadrian summoned a cloud of locusts from the darkness, so dense it might have been a piece of the night itself. The humming swarm dropped Robin and Hugo onto the platform, scratched and bloody and bruised.
I resisted the temptation to shoot Hadrian right there. I knew his swarm could become a shield at any moment, or worse.
“I’m impressed.” Hadrian sounded sincere. “Half the people in this universe have tried to ruin or kill me, and you four came closer than most. A pack of truants and vandals. A good thing my ship was insured, or I might be very mad at you.” He reached out his hand. “Now if you would kindly return my property.”
I hefted the backpack of cans higher up my shoulder. “How do we know you’ll let us go?”
“Because I’m a gentleman,” Hadrian said.
Jacob gave me a cautious look. After a moment, he put his can in my backpack. “You’re the leader, Lucas. You choose.”
Hugo nodded in agreement. Robin watched me intently.
If I were a liar I’d tell you I only cared about them. Not about the power I’d have to give up, the artistic possibilities I would lose forever.
But I’m not a liar, so I’ll leave it at that.
Nervously, I took off the backpack and gave it to Hadrian. His gaze flitted to my arqueblaster. I stowed the weapon in the backpack as well. Then he touched each can inside to slave them to his feedlink, leaving us with nothing but the vaulters.
I expected the cloud of locusts to devour us at any second. But it just hummed overhead, a patient malevolence, while Nerva convulsed on the ground in his cocoon of torture barbs.
A sentry drone’s floodlights flickered between the rows of ships, basking us in whiteness for an instant.
Hadrian’s jaw knotted. The drone was heading our way. He siphoned Nerva’s cocoon back into his can, leaving his servant a bare machine again.
“You want your real flesh,” Hadrian said, tossing him a can from the backpack, “show me you deserve it, and fast.”
The locusts formed a ring around us, blocking our escape.
“Lucas….” Robin grabbed my arm.
“Don’t do it, Nerva,” I said. “You don’t have to be his slave.”
Nerva rubbed the dent in his head, grimacing.
“Maybe Davenport’s right,” Hadrian told him. “Maybe that’s all you are. A slave. A real son of mine wouldn’t hesitate.”
As Hadrian moved to take back Nerva’s can, the robot yanked him into an elbow lock and rammed a torture barb into his chest.
Hadrian screamed.
Nerva stabbed him again, exchanging the barb for Hadrian’s can, and kicked him off the service platform. The merchant prince fumbled with his jetpack controls as he fell, smearing them with arterial blood, then rode a burst of fuel in a desperate zigzag before sputtering into a long, silent plunge.
Seizing our chance, we darted through the locust swarm toward the closest catwalk.
I halted halfway up the steps. Our implants.
“Come with us,” I said. “Jacob’s father’ll find a place for you. He can fix your feedlink.”
“No time,” snapped Jacob.
The sentry drone’s floodlights washed over the service platform, so bright they turned the fixtures into ice sculptures and Nerva into a ghost.
Nerva was giving himself a new coat of flesh with Hadrian’s canister. “Can he bring back Trajan?” he asked. “Can he revive my brother?” This flesh had the rough brown ribbing of tree bark and patches of yellow-green down like moss–the flesh of a dryad from a Delphine fable, down to the purple klinger vines entwining his arms. “I didn’t think so.”
My instincts were ahead of me: The second Nerva whipped a vine toward Robin, I had my vaulter up to smack it away, the impact running through me like a tuning fork.
I didn’t need to tell the others to run.
Now in thrall to Nerva, the cloud of locusts engulfed the sentry drone.
The catwalk shuddered as we bolted for the city.
Two of Nerva’s klinger vines ripped the latticed floor out from under us, and we spilled hard onto the roof of a frigate.
Jacob grunted in pain.
Hugo grabbed his vaulter. “Get on my back!”
Nerva came vaulting toward us on the vines unspooling from his arms.
“Give me Robin!” he called. “Give me my brother’s murderer, Lucas!”
Jacob clasped Hugo’s back, and Robin hopped onto mine.
“We’ll lure him to the hypersilk jetty,” I whispered.
“Why?” asked Hugo.
In as few breaths as possible, I sketched my plan.
Just as Nerva landed on the frigate, Hugo and I vaulted to another ship, using every drop of energy in the supercarbon to make the jump. We barely crossed the gap; piggybacking cut our reach in half.
As I’d guessed they would, shards of the Kingfisher’s black crystal began to appear everywhere as we approached the inferno, glittering like demonic hail on service platforms and in the crevices of ships.
Hugo and Jacob veered right while Robin and I went left.
Nerva followed Robin and me, naturally, his half-dozen vines groping through the hazy air. But we were nimble in landing and leaping, ducking behind rudders, skidding down wing-stems. Robin jumped off my back when we had to run and jumped on again when I vaulted, digging her fingers into my ribs for dear life.
We had to stop Nerva without killing him; all of us still had his implants.
Endless, tyrannical flames bellied thick and bright as molten gold up the jagged guts of the Kingfisher, and I felt their heat on my cheeks, my hands.
The shards of crystal we passed were getting longer, some still smoldering from the blast. Many were as long as spears.
Almost there….
Swift as a bolas, a vine whipped around my legs, and I fell splat on the roof of a dhow. Robin leapt off my back, snatched up my vaulter, and made a breakneck dash in time to miss the vines corkscrewing up my legs, waist, chest.
She knew what to do.
Alighting on the dhow, Nerva whipped around, glowering, but Robin had already disappeared into the smoke. A thin shower of sparks gushed from Nerva’s feedlink, and he rubbed his head. My vine-trap tightened as if in sympathy. “Where is she?” he hissed.
“You’re not thinking clearly,” I said. Jacob’s blow had loosened something in Nerva’s personality. “You’re free now. Don’t you see that?”
Nerva pinned my head between dryad fingers as sharp as stakes. “No one is free, Mr. Davenport. Not even you. All creatures are slaves, if only–if only to their nature.”
Robin called through the smoke: “Don’t hurt him, Nerva! He didn’t kill your brother!”
Still holding me in his vine-trap, Nerva followed Robin’s voice to the steel jetty at the end of the dhow and dropped onto it.
Narrow as a footpath, the jetty held bollards of hypersilk, which several maintenance drones were harvesting, their arachnoid legs teasing miles of the stuff into their round, steel bellies.
Robin was crouched at the end of the jetty. She’d traded my vaulter for a long spar of black crystal and held it at a defensive slant.
Nerva charged at her, slamming each drone in his path into the abyss.
In his rage, he failed to notice another spar buried in a ship’s hull–and the strand of hypersilk, invisible but for a few glints, extending from it to the eave of an adjacent solar cruiser.
I braced myself.
Robin tossed me her spar as Nerva’s neck met the hypersilk garrote.
TWAAANG.
For an instant Nerva was perfectly horizontal.
The collision sent me flying out of his vine-trap.
I stabbed a ship’s wing at my apex with the spar, then kicked off the hull at an angle. I landed halfway onto the jetty with a heavy thud. Breathless, I almost lost my purchase, but Robin grabbed me with both arms, giving me the leverage to claw back onto the platform.
As Nerva climbed back to his feet, oaring the air for balance, Jacob leapt off the solar cruiser, ripping off a solar tarp draped hastily across its hull, and four holospray tags winked to life from under the fabric: my Klein bottle, Jacob’s chrome tree, Hugo’s sword-wielding alter ego, Robin’s tutued sun bear. I couldn’t believe the tags were still there. They were glitchy and faded, among the first we’d ever made. But they were enough to distract Nerva for a moment.
Which was all Hugo needed.
He skewered Nerva from behind with a crystal spar, punching through bark and flexicarbon with an earsplitting crack.
Nerva collapsed to his knees, his guts crackling. His vines wilted into slithery heaps. He shuddered in what sounded like agony, and the can tumbled out of his hand and rolled to the edge of the platform. I caught it.
Then I siphoned up Nerva’s dryad flesh as the others shambled over, reeking of sweat.
“Good thinking with the tags,” I told Jacob. “When Nerva’s throat didn’t stick to the hypersilk, I thought we were dead.”
“It’s a miracle,” said Jacob, shaking his head. “Someone actually saved our work. After all these years.” He laughed, giddy with adrenaline.
The rest of us laughed too. It was all we could do not to hug each other.
“I just realized what that reminds me of,” said Robin, pointing to the scaly black vaulter Jacob had taken off her hands.
Before I could speak, Nerva lunged at me and clamped a flexicarbon hand around my throat, pressing the spar in his chest against my own.
My heart kicked like an animal about to be put down.
“The can,” said Nerva, his voice crackly, distorted. “Give it to me.”
I held the conjuring spray over the River Andalosi. I knew the moment I handed him the spray we’d be finished.
So I said, calmly, “Since you can fly, Nerva, I’m sure you can swim as well,” and tossed the can into the river.
Nerva watched the black cylinder recede to a dot and then to nothing at all. He gaped at me–so baffled, it seemed, by my sacrifice that he forgot to drive the crystal through my heart.
That was good luck. For the second time that night, and with a presence of mind for which I’ll always be grateful, Jacob demonstrated his philosophy for dealing with robots: He smashed Nerva’s feedlink with his vaulter, a sound like a sledgehammer against a circuit breaker.
And this time Nerva didn’t get up.
#
We didn’t stop running, except to catch our breath or curse our injuries, until we got to Enoch Landry’s safehouse in the Armitage territory of Termina Celeste.
A roomy fortress of duraconcrete and camera-infested bamboo, not to mention half a dozen soldiers loyal to Jacob’s father, the High Capo’s home made a perfect refuge from the drones and gendarmes prowling the city.
Blaise Landry, our leader, opened the towering front door. His black hair was disheveled, his eyes were wild, and he wore a plush blue bathrobe.
“Guys,” he said, “have you seen the…?” His mouth twitched as he took in our wounds. “No.”
“Yeah,” said Jacob, panting. “Yeah.”
Chuckling, I shouldered past Blaise into the safehouse, lay down on the cold concrete floor, and passed out.
#
One billion spacemarks.
That’s how much damage the Kingfisher’s crash was projected to cost when all was said and done, according to the holotrope feeds that were piped through our recuperation room a few days later. The Kingfisher alone accounted for about half that figure, while the other ships that’d been destroyed–seven in all–represented roughly a quarter. The other two hundred and fifty million spacemarks would come from hospital bills, heightened surveillance, the city government’s investigation, countless other things. But at least holotrope ratings were up; that had to be worth something.
All of us were terrified someone would find evidence of our role in the crash. Maybe a sentry drone had caught a snippet of footage of us entering the Kingfisher, or maybe an occupant of one of the ships in the docks had seen us facing down Hadrian. Enoch could protect us from the city government, perhaps, but could he fend off Hadrian’s father Jora Hizad, the Merchant King? The Delphines had probably commenced an investigation of their own by now, and none of us could be sure all traces of our presence in Hadrian’s argosy had been devoured by the flames.
But what worried me most were the implants. How could we be confident they didn’t have trackers?
We couldn’t. Which was why we’d taken Nerva with us to the safehouse–the part of him that mattered, anyway.
Nerva’s severed flexicarbon head felt cool and heavy in my hands as I sat at the edge of the bed in the recuperation room. Enoch had given it back to us after we’d let him download Nerva’s mind for retooling into a simple neurosurgical drone. We considered it our gift in exchange for his protection, and he was pleased to have such quality software in his repertoire. Since Nerva’s architecture appeared to be of custom make, Enoch had fried the drone’s hardware once the download was complete to ensure he had the only version. We didn’t mind. Enoch Landry could do what he liked, as far as we were concerned.
#
“Why d’you think Nerva didn’t kill you when he had the chance?” asked Blaise. He was scarfing down a bowl of savory-smelling koalaroo dumplings in front of a holotrope feed at the table.
Since the night we’d arrived, all Blaise had done was wring details about the events involving the Kingfisher out of us, as if to create a mental simulation of them he might insert himself into.
“He told me he respected my skills with the spray,” I said. “But I think it was something else.”
“What’s that?” asked Hugo. He and Jacob were playing a game of bridge on Jacob’s bed, and Robin was watching them with one of Blaise’s blue teacup elephants in her lap; the animal was diligently trying to wrap its trunk around her thumb.
“He pitied me,” I said, “just like I pitied him.”
“He was crazy, no point trying to make sense of it,” said Jacob, waving a dismissive hand. “Butterlocks probably programmed him that way.”
“Or made him that way over the years with his abuse,” said Robin.
I sighed, setting down Nerva’s ghoulish head on a pile of bedsheets. “You guys deserve an apology. A ship that looks that tempting, I should’ve guessed it was a trap. You tried to talk me out of it.”
“Yeah, I wouldn’t have fallen for any of it,” mumbled Blaise through a mouthful of dumplings.
“Shut up, Blaise,” said Robin. “Yes you would’ve.” She shrugged. “We accept your apology, Lucas.”
“Grudgingly,” said Hugo.
“When my nose is healed, maybe,” said Jacob. “And my ribs. And–yeah, whatever, I accept. Just so long as you help me find that spray.”
“It’s at the bottom of the river,” snorted Hugo.
“I guessed that much.”
“Once we get our implants removed,” I told Jacob, “we won’t be able to use the stuff, even if we found it.”
“So we don’t get ‘em removed just yet,” said Jacob.
“They might have trackers.”
“Maybe,” said Blaise. “But maybe not. The Delphines haven’t come knockin’ yet.”
Robin cocked her head at Jacob while the teacup elephant nuzzled her hand. “You are kidding, right? After all the damage that stuff has caused? Besides, the waters of the Andalosi have probably destroyed it by now.”
“Well, we don’t know that,” I admitted. “But it’s best left where it is, either way.”
Part of me hoped the conjuring spray was ruined for good, given how dangerous it was. The other part, though….
Nerva’s skeletal face might have been whispering to me.
All creatures are slaves, if only to their nature. Even artists, Mr. Davenport. Even you.
How hard could it be to find the can?
With one of Enoch’s gadgets, not very. Blaise or Jacob would have to finagle a submersible drone or something off him carefully, as he’d want to keep the spray for himself if he knew about it. But that was doable.
As I considered this, a thin, stoic man in grey scrubs slipped into the room.
“I’m pleased to tell you everything is ready,” the man said softly, without a hint of Nerva’s accent or tone. Enoch’s engineer had done a remarkable job of building a neurosurgical drone with no detectable personality. “Whoever wishes to get their implant removed first, please come with me.”
We looked at each other.
More accurately, everyone looked at me.
“Leaders first,” said Hugo.
Robin waved for me to follow the drone, while Blaise raised an eyebrow expectantly.
Jacob just smiled. He didn’t need to say another word. I could tell by the devilish glint in his eyes that he knew he’d convinced me.
Previously on Vaulting Vandals, our teen heroes have mastered vaulting, the best, fastest way to move around low gravity places. They use, naturally, to tag spaceships and get away quickly. Their luck runs out when they’re captured by Hadrian Hizad, a self-described merchant prince of the drone trade. Hizad says he’ll give them some super sweet spray paint tech if they’ll do him one quick favor. Greedy and eager, two of the teens agree, and then are whisked off to get implants and crap. Lucas and Jacob then find out that they’re not the first vandals to get this job. And all the others have died. So now they need to deal with their implants and their jailer and the merchant prince and how they can still keep that sweet spay tech! So, it’s storytime.
I remember many years ago I was talking to Cory Doctorow about young adult stories. While I will leave the nuances of this discussion to our good friends at our sister magazine, the YA podcast Cast of Wonders, I do want to talk about teen characters.
When you’re a teen, you start to experience many things for the first time. And that’s been said so many times, the meaning is lost on jaded adults. This goes beyond sexual exploration, I’m talking about someone thinking that you’re the best at something, someone offering you an opportunity, a choice, that only you can make for yourself. And someone baiting a hook with a shiny present that you’re still young enough to not ask “what’s the catch?”
Teen stories are exciting if they can transmit to us the pure joy of experiencing something for the first time. The peek into adulthood, independence, and how they’re totally going to do it better than their parents did. What I find interesting about this story is that Robin and Hugo played the adult part of this story, in that they were able to look beyond the shiny bauble and see the danger lurking behind it. And they nearly had a more complex story, in that they made the mature decision to not take the offer, but then made the wild decision to make a daring rescue attempt of their idiot friends.
But it’s clear that Lucas grows up in the final action scene, giving up his shiny present to save his own life.
Makes more sense than the old lady throwing the diamond into the sea in the final scene of Titanic, anyway.
(Don’t @ me.)
We leave you with the words of Stella Addler: “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
Thanks for listening. be well, have fun.
About the Author
Jordan Chase-Young
Jordan Chase-Young grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where melancholy skies and spectacular scenery imprinted his idea of home. He now lives in Australia with his wife, Caitlin, and their menagerie of cryptids. He loves reading and writing about the distant future, traveling the Australian countryside, goofing around on Twitter, and drawing (he met his wife over one of his illustrations of aliens). His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in F&SF, Unidentified Funny Objects 8, the ZNB anthology When Worlds Collide, and many other venues.
About the Narrator
Justin Thomas James
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The top 7 vegan pizzas you can buy online
Enjoying a frozen pizza at home isn’t as easy when you’re vegan. But with the rise of veganism, there are more options to try, many of which are available online. With vegan-friendly alternative cheeses and meatless proteins, popping a frozen pizza in the oven can become a regular indulgence.
From plain cheese to supreme to building your own creation from a vegan cookbook on a premade crust, there’s something for every vegan who craves a classic pizza night at home. So, grab a pizza stone and preheat the oven.
Best vegan cheese pizza
Top vegan cheese pizza
Banza Plant-Based Cheese Frozen Pizza
What you need to know: This pizza is both gluten-free and vegan, with a crust made entirely from chickpeas.
What you’ll love: The gluten-free crust mimics the crispy, doughy bite of wheat dough. Creamy vegan mozzarella cheese from Follow Your Heart covers the pizza and bubbles to a golden brown in the oven. It contains no artificial colors, flavors, added sugar or preservatives.
What you should consider: Though it’s a crowd favorite, it’s relatively expensive.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top vegan cheese pizza for the money
American Flatbread, Vegan Harvest
What you need to know: When it comes to vegan frozen pizza, this thin crust cheese pizza is both delicious and budget-friendly.
What you’ll love: The thin crust is crispy and chewy. The sauce is sweet and savory with a hint of red pepper flakes. Daiya vegan mozzarella-style shreds top the pizza, along with Italian herbs. There are no preservatives or GMOs.
What you should consider: You need to let the pizza thaw while the oven preheats, and it’s on the smaller side.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best vegan supreme pizza
Top vegan supreme pizza
What you need to know: Amy’s is known for its flavorful frozen meals, and this supreme pizza is no different.
What you’ll love: This pizza is for vegans who crave all the toppings. Plant-based pepperoni and sausage pack loads of flavor while veggies add sweetness and soy-based mozzarella covers. Spices such as mustard seed, paprika, black pepper and hickory smoke flavor make this pizza stand out against other vegan options.
What you should consider: This pizza doesn’t cater to special diets other than vegan, so read the ingredients carefully if you have additional dietary restrictions.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top vegan supreme pizza for the money
What you need to know: This is an affordable frozen pizza for vegans who also eat gluten-free and soy-free.
What you’ll love: Finding a grab-and-go pizza is tough if you have multiple dietary restrictions, but this one might hit the spot. It’s free of dairy, gluten and soy. Instead, it uses a mix of gluten-free starches and flour to create a crispy crust. It’s topped with Daiya mozzarella-style cheese, Beyond Meat Italian sausage-style crumbles and various veggies.
What you should consider: Customers love the crust and sausage but recommend adding more of your own toppings for fresh flavor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Alpha Vegan Supreme Personal Pizza, Pack of 8
What you need to know: These personal pizzas are great to stock up on for when you want an easy meal for one.
What you’ll love: Plant-based crumbles top this personal pizza with 8 grams of protein, along with dairy-free mozzarella and vegetables. The personal size is great as an appetizer or a meal. It’s certified vegan and free from GMOs and additives.
What you should consider: Some customers noted a funny aftertaste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best vegan pizza crust
Top vegan pizza crust
Angelic Bakehouse Reduced Sodium Flatzza, Pack of 3
What you need to know: These vegan crusts make a tasty base for homemade vegan pizzas and are free from eight of the top nine allergens.
What you’ll love: Each bag comes with two thin crusts that bake into a crispy flatbread. They’re free from peanuts, tree nuts, soy, eggs, dairy, sesame and high fructose corn syrup. You can cook them on regular pizza stones or baking sheets, and they freeze well until you’re ready to use them.
What you should consider: They use wheat and multiple ingredients containing gluten.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top vegan pizza crusts for the money
Rich’s Home Cauliflower Pizza Crusts, Pack of 6
What you need to know: These crusts are ideal for gluten-free vegans who want to make their own pizzas.
What you’ll love: The mix of cauliflower, rice, chia, vegetable extracts and spices create a pliable texture and classic pizza flavor. The crusts are ultra-thin and are safe for anyone with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. You can store them in the freezer and thaw them before baking.
What you should consider: These are not low-carb crusts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Ciara Posts A Romantic Reel On Instagram In Honor Of Her And Russell Wilson’s 6th Anniversary
Ciara and Russell Wilson’s Anniversary is today, and Ciara is putting their love on full display. The “Goodies” singer posted a sentimental reel of her and Russell Wilson in acknowledgement of their 6th anniversary, and it’s a tear-jerker. View this post on Instagram
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If you were in love with Ciara and Russell’s relationship before, you’ll probably be head-over-heels after watching this lovey-dovey reel. The video shows short, rare footage of the hot pair being in love as the beautiful Stevie Wonder ballad, “Ribbon In The Sky” plays in the background. The first clip starts off with them walking together with Ciara’s arm interlocked in Russell’s arm. It then shows them kissing each other on the cheek, posing fiercely in stylish threads, sharing a dance, and footage of their picturesque wedding day.
Ciara posted the video with the sweet caption that read, “Doing life with you has been everything I’ve hoped for, dreamt of, and more. It’s the best feeling in the world waking up to you everyday. I’m a better woman because of you. There is absolutely nothing I wouldn’t do for you. Happy Anniversary Mi Amore. My Best Friend. I love you so much @DangeRussWilson God is Good! Year 6. Forever to Go .”
Russell responded with a heartfelt message professing his love for the singer and their kids.
Ciara and Russell Wilson’s anniversary is a celebration for the masses. They have been couple-goals since they first began dating. Their love has set relationship standards for many causing women to even adopt the prayer Ciara prayed to manifest Russell. We love seeing them flex their relationship as they continue to grow in their union.
Best wishes, Ciara and Russell!
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Jersey Shore — Terry L. Boring, 75, of Jersey Shore passed away Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at Rose View Center.
Born June 17, 1947 in Kinport, he was a son of the late Lyle and Louise (Barkey) Boring.
Terry was a proud veteran of the United States Army and served in the Vietnam War. Terry retired from Truck-Lite Co. after many years of service.
Surviving are his children, Scott Boring of Jersey Shore and Sue Boring-Steppe (Bill Bailey) of Jersey Shore; two brothers, Dan Boring of Williamsport and Donald Boring of Jersey Shore; one sister, Brenda Koons of Jersey Shore; three grandchildren, Alyssa Eck, Trevor Boring, and Josh Huffman; and sister-in-law, Becky Sechler.
In addition to his parents, Terry was preceded in death by one brother, Ron Boring and four sisters, Cheryl Boring, Bernadine Oechler, Willavina Wright, and Kay Boring.
In keeping his wishes, there will be no services held.
Arrangements are entrusted to Knight-Confer Funeral Home.
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These represent the Top Relationships Apps to own Relationship, Considering Data
During the 2022, relationship software certainly are the most common implies couples meet. Actually, with respect to the Knot 2021 Precious jewelry and you can Involvement Studies-hence interviewed more 5,one hundred thousand partners just who had engaged or hitched a year ago-one out of four couples satisfied on the web. And, previous wisdom mean that marriage ceremonies molded out-of matchmaking apps may be less likely to bring about split up because people use the web sites so far intentionally. Without a doubt, these aren’t the newest revelations. (Of course, if you have ever tried your own hand at the applications, you are well aware off exactly how popular he’s.) However with a lot of relationships characteristics nowadays, it could be tough to dictate a knowledgeable relationships software having marriage.
Although not group packages an app which have a marriage at heart, many users check out electronic features to obtain a lot of time-long-lasting relationship. Intentional dating is one of the greatest dating styles from 2022, and more than applications are made to help anybody discover genuine, authentic contacts. This current year, daters is prioritizing relationships health inside your, and it may yes performed while using the an application.
So you’re able to influence an educated relationships apps to have marriage, we compiled our very own interior investigation and you can talked so you can real people from the hottest dating programs to determine what characteristics try probably to lead so you can a profitable commitment. Less than, discover their reports and watch the compelling abilities.
Tinder
Even with its reputation to be to own everyday relationship, all of our understanding mean that Tinder is the best relationship application getting Accessories and you can Engagement Analysis, Tinder is actually responsible for pairing twenty seven% off newly wedded couples which came across online, solidifying their location as the most preferred matchmaking application too.
With over 75 billion month-to-month active profiles international, brand new app facilitates millions of matches each day. New app boasts 55 mil matches produced just like the their discharge during the 2012. Plus this new brand’s 2021 review, “The entire year for the Swipe,” internal data suggests that participants-particularly Gen Z pages-proper care a lot more about seeking an extended-lasting relationship. To do so, profiles customize its pages to obtain matches you to definitely display comparable governmental and you can social viewpoints. (A beneficial example, for every single the new brand’s looking for, is inoculation standing: “Mentions out of ‘Vaxxed’ for the bios in the usa became by over 3x due to the fact members advocated to own vaccine condition as an online dating crucial,” it declaration.) Profiles are much more happy to talk about whatever they instance upfront. Tinder reports that “mentions regarding ‘small things’ increased from the 29% year into the 12 months within the Tinder bios,” and therefore demonstrates are clear about your desires and needs during the a love are an option strategy for finding a gratifying match.
Due to the fact most Gen Z pages might not be ready having relationship as of this time (in reality, the average age of relationship is now 34), studies demonstrates Tinder has already been good at making contacts getting all ages, rightfully earning its put as among the most readily useful relationships programs getting relationship.
Bumble
Launched inside the 2014, Bumble try the original software to simply make it females and work out the initial relocate an effective heterosexual match. (Having exact same-sex partners, each other profiles are able to publish the original content.) The brand provides while the getting probably one of the most popular relationships apps so far, whilst submitted more 85 billion users during the more than 150 regions. And you can centered on studies by The newest Knot, it’s one of the better matchmaking applications to possess , all of our studies learned that it absolutely was another-most-common dating website, responsible for matching 23% out of lovers who found on the web. By way of have for example character badges and profile prompts, the latest software allows profiles to make advised swipes-but it’s this new focus on lady making the first disperse you to definitely sets Bumble aside from other dating services. | http://www.theasian.asia/archives/137816 | 2022-07-09T06:23:29Z | http://www.theasian.asia/archives/137816 | false | 1 |
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Part of the state Office of Economic Development and International Trade, the Cannabis Business Office was created to help entrepreneurs who were negatively impacted by the drug war and to increase diversity in Colorado's pot industry. According to a new report from the state Marijuana Enforcement Division, 18.2 percent of the state's marijuana business owners and 33.1 percent of employees in the business identify as minorities.
Because the plant is still federally prohibited, small-business owners often struggle to secure lines of credit, loans and other financial services from banks and credit unions. Financed by state marijuana tax revenue, the program has about $1 million allocated for grants and $2.5 million for low-interest micro-loans, according to Cannabis Business Office program manager Tristan Watkins.
The first round of funding will be grants, according to a joint announcement from OEDIT and Governor Jared Polis's office, with sixteen businesses selected. The majority of them focus on delivery and hospitality. The list:
- Apollo Limited
- Canna-Couriers
- Colorado Kush
- Cb1 Logistics
- Delta-9
- Different Strokes 2.0 Puff N Paint Sip Art Studio
- Flora Cannabis
- Go Harvest LLC
- Grn Bus
- IDY Packaging Distributors
- Kaylx Brands
- Meta-Zon CannClub
- Mile High Lounge (Ganja Games)
- Paly
- Pufflow.com
- Tetra Hospitality Group
The size of the grants is based on business maturity, according to OEDIT, with smaller businesses still in their foundational phases eligible for up to $25,000 and established businesses looking to grow eligible for up to $50,000; grant amounts weren't shared by OEDIT. Under the terms of the program, recipients must submit six-month and one-year progress reports on how their funding was applied.
While more grants and loans will be issued, the next round of applications is not yet open, according to OEDIT. | https://www.westword.com/marijuana/colorado-marijuana-businesses-receive-social-equity-grants-14501365 | 2022-07-09T06:31:31Z | https://www.westword.com/marijuana/colorado-marijuana-businesses-receive-social-equity-grants-14501365 | true | 1 |
"The neighborhood is just awesome," says Amy Burgess, who's managed Don's Club Tavern (aka Don's Mixed Drinks) for the past decade.
The longtime watering hole at 723 East Sixth Avenue was purchased by the Little Pub Company in 2005, after founder Don Aymami passed away. The new owners gave the place a slight facelift in 2010, but it remains a dive through and through — albeit one with pretty clean bathrooms.
On July 9, Don's will celebrate 75 years in business with a party that kicks off at noon and will keep rolling until 2 a.m., as the nights always do here: Don's is open until last call 365 days a year. "During the day, it's a lot of regulars. Then at night, it's party central," Burgess says, noting that the bar's late-night clientele has gotten younger in recent years.
But while the neighborhood demographic continues to change, the staff remains steady; one bartender has been there seventeen years. "We retain a lot of regulars because they know us. We don't have a rotating door of staff that don't care about the business. We're career bartenders," Burgess says.
It'll be all hands on deck for the July 9 celebration, which includes the chance to buy new merch designed specifically for the occasion (the first 100 people in the door get a free shirt), 75-cent Bud Lights for the first 75 minutes, a free pig roast, games like a Montucky bucket-holding contest and more.
"For our seventieth, it was pretty much one in, one out all day," Burgess recalls, so expect a crowd if you're heading down to cheers Don's. If you do make it in the door, be sure to say hello to Jakimo, the name given (though no one is quite sure of its origin) to the now one-armed statue of a chef on the back patio. "About fifteen years ago, before Odyssey [the nearby Italian restaurant] opened, there was another Italian restaurant there," Burgess says. "They left him outside and we rolled him down," and he's been there ever since.
Another Don's staple: games, including pool ("If anyone's looking for a good pool game, you can always find players here," Burgess notes) and the vending machine, which is stocked with everything from corn nuts and koozies to Banquet turkey pot pies and KY lubricant.
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Roughriders extend Redblacks' winless streak to four games with one-sided win
The Saskatchewan Roughriders played their most complete game of the season Friday with a 28-13 win over the visiting Ottawa Redblacks.
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CFL: Redblacks 13, Roughriders 28
REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders played their most complete game of the season Friday with a 28-13 win over the visiting Ottawa Redblacks.
The Roughriders (4-1) took control of the game scoring 19 points in the second quarter to keep the Redblacks winless in four games this season.
Ottawa lost their first three games of the season by a combined margin of 12 points, but they struggled to keep pace with the Roughriders.
Saskatchewan lost defensive lineman Pete Robertson, the CFL leader in sacks with seven, in the fourth quarter when he was injured on a block by Ottawa offensive tackle Dino Boyd.
Robertson left the field favouring his right leg. Boyd was penalized for roughing on the play.
Roughriders quarterback Cody Fajardo threw touchdown passes to Duke Williams and Kian Schaffer-Baker, while rookie running back Frankie Hickson scored his first CFL touchdown on an electrifying 63-yard run.
Kicker Brett Lauther added field goals of 50, 28 and 18 yards for Saskatchewan.
Nate Behar scored Ottawa's lone touchdown catching a 22-yard pass from quarterback Jeremiah Masoli.
Kicker Lewis Ward scored field goals from 42 and 21 yards.
Saskatchewan defensive lineman Garrett Marino was ejected with five minutes left in the fourth quarter for a low tackle that injured Masoli.
Marino dove into Masoli’s legs as the quarterback was releasing a pass. Masoli was carried off the field by two teammates.
The Redblacks took exception to the hit with a number of their players heading toward the Saskatchewan sideline to express their displeasure.
Hickson, who generated 92 yards rushing on five carries, had entered the game with 124 yards on 21 carries. His longest run before Friday’s 63-yarder was a 19-yard gain.
Saskatchewan's passing attack was boosted by running back Jamal Morrow, who caught six balls for 67 yards. He also rushed for 78 yards on 16 carries.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 8, 2022. | https://www.tsn.ca/cody-fajardo-kian-schaffer-baker-saskatchewan-roughriders-ottawa-redblacks-1.1823349 | 2022-07-09T06:37:11Z | https://www.tsn.ca/cody-fajardo-kian-schaffer-baker-saskatchewan-roughriders-ottawa-redblacks-1.1823349 | false | 4 |
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry won the first stage of a libel suit against the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper as a judge ruled Friday that parts of a story about his fight for police protection in the U.K. were defamatory.
High Court Justice Matthew Nicklin hasn’t yet considered issues such as whether the story was accurate or in the public interest, defenses that the newspaper will be able to offer in the next phase of the proceedings.
The suit revolves around the newspaper’s coverage of a separate High Court action Harry filed in an effort to force authorities to provide police protection for the prince and his family when they are in the U.K. The government withdrew the family’s round-the-clock protection when Harry and his wife, Meghan, gave up front-line royal duties and moved to California.
On Feb. 20, 2022, the Mail on Sunday reported that Harry sought a “far-reaching confidentiality order” to keep the details of his action against the government secret. Despite public statements by his spin doctors that the prince had always been willing to pay for police protection, that offer wasn’t made in his initial bid to overturn the government’s decision, the newspaper said.
Harry claims that the Mail on Sunday libeled him when it suggested that the prince lied in his initial public statements about the suit against the government and that he “cynically” tried to confuse the public by authorizing his representatives to put out “false and misleading statements” about his willingness to pay for police protection.
Nicklin ruled that “natural or ordinary meaning” of the article was defamatory. But he stressed that the decision didn’t apply to other issues in the case.
“This is very much the first phase in a libel claim,” the judge wrote in his decision. “The next step will be for the defendant to file a defense to the claim. It will be a matter for determination later in the proceedings whether the claim succeeds or fails, and if so on what basis.”
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History makers, Ons Jabeur and Elena Rybakina will meet in the Wimbledon final after the pair claimed impressive victories in the last four.
Tunisian third seed Jabeur became the first Arab player to reach a Grand Slam singles final with a 6-2 3-6 6-1 win over Tatjana Maria, while Rybakina became the first singles player from Kazakhstan to reach a major final with a 6-3 6-3 dismantling of former champion Simona Halep.
Jabeur has become a favourite at Wimbledon, and she and good friend Maria thrilled the crowd, before sharing a long and loving embrace at the net as Jabeur secured victory.
Ranked second in the world, Jabeur is the first African woman to reach a major final since South Africa’s Sandra Reynolds at Wimbledon in 1960.
“It is a dream come true after years and years of work and sacrifice,” said Jabeur.
“I’m really happy it is paying off and now there is one more match to come.”
She and world number 23 Rybakina, who is the…
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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL have approved plans by the Office of Public Works (OPW) to restore the Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park and for it to be turned into a visitor attraction.
The OPW filed for planning permission in December to restore the former military ammunition store and permission was granted at the end of June.
The fort, which was built in 1737, was used by the British forces to store both gunpowder and ammunition. There were several occasions where the fort was raided, including on Easter Monday 1916 during the Easter Rising.
It was taken over by the Irish Defence Forces in 1922 after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, but the site itself was demilitarised in the 1980s and has since fallen into disrepair.
Under the plan, the entire Magazine Fort will be repaired and restored to allow for the public to visit.
In a statement to The Journal, the OPW said: “The Office of Public Works (OPW) has extensive plans for the restoration and re-development of the Magazine Fort, Phoenix Park, and was delighted to receive the necessary planning permission from Dublin City Council.”
“The OPW is currently tendering for the Structural Stabilisation and Repair Works to the rampart walls, and some other buildings which have been prioritised for conservation attention.”
According to the OPW, construction at the Magazine Fort is slated to begin in early 2023.
Under the approved plans, there will be repair and conservation of the Johnston Ravelin building within the Magazine Fort, which contained officers and sergeants quarters, a sentry box and the men’s hut.
The work includes re-roofing and repairing the outside brickwork of the building, with the outside courtyard set to be refurbished with some salvaged gates and railings.
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The officers and sergeant quarters are set to be turned into visitor and staff facilities, with a visitor reception, tea room and locker room included.
A metal walkway within the fort is also being planned to allow visitors to walk along both the ground level and along the ramparts, looking out towards Phoenix Park.
The Bakery Building will be turned into an exhibition space, with room for visitors to gather in larger groups.
The Magazine vaults are also set to be turned into exhibition spaces, with “immersive audio-visual installations” within two of the three vaults.
The Magazine Fort had opened for guided tours in 2016 as part of the Decade of Centenaries but these have since been cancelled and are not scheduled to resume until further notice. | https://www.thejournal.ie/magazine-fort-restoration-approved-5808555-Jul2022/ | 2022-07-09T06:45:19Z | https://www.thejournal.ie/magazine-fort-restoration-approved-5808555-Jul2022/ | true | 1 |
Crypto scams rocketed 58% to £226m in the last year as fraudsters cash in: Here's how to keep yourself protected from the bitcoin bandits
- There has been 58% rise in fraud linked to digital currency scams
- Victims typically lose £36,250 from crypto frauds according to research
- Phishing emails or texts persuade victims to invest fake cryptocurrency funds
- Some encourage victims to click on links or download an app hiding malware
Cyber criminals are increasingly exploiting interest in cryptocurrencies to scam speculators and prey on British pension pots, new research has revealed.
Crypto scammers have seen their returns nearly double in the last 12 months, according to cybersecurity company NordVPN.
Total losses from UK investment fraud involving fake digital currencies, websites, apps or funds has risen to more than £226million in the year to May 2022 - up from the £143million lost during the 12 months before that.
Bitcoin bandits: Latest figures for reported fraud linked to digital currency scams show a 58% rise in money stolen year on year
This year, scammers have already made off with £118million, and currently pocket £36,250 per fraud.
As cryptocurrencies are not regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, criminals are finding it easier to lure Britons to bogus investment and pension schemes with the promise of market-beating returns.
These fake schemes appear to have become more profitable for scammers despite much of the cryptocurrency market having slumped over the past six months.
The two biggest names, bitcoin and ethereum, are each down 48 per cent and 62 per cent respectively since the start of the year - as of 8 July.
However, while the amounts being stolen is rising steeply, this year's data shows only a small increase in the number of incidents reported, suggesting criminals could be profiling victims to extract more from their scams.
Marijus Briedis, chief technology officer and digital privacy expert at NordVPN said: 'With inflation skyrocketing and traditional savings rates failing to keep up, bogus crypto investment schemes offering the prospect for high returns are the perfect bait for scammers.
'These frauds are thriving, despite the huge crash in Bitcoin and other currencies, and worryingly the clear rise in the amounts stolen per fraud shows the scammers are getting better at fleecing their victims.
'With huge amounts of personal and financial information for sale on the Dark Web, it could be that individuals are now being specifically targeted by hackers.'
How does it work?
Often the schemes will be advertised on social media, using fake celebrity endorsements from respected finance experts like Martin Lewis, or stars of the TV investment show Dragons' Den.
Hackers may also use phishing emails or text messages, either to persuade victims to invest in a non-existent cryptocurrency fund via a bogus website, or to encourage them to click on a link or download an app containing malware.
This can then infect their devices and steal data or drain money from online accounts.
Cyber thieves’ success at touting fake schemes has come despite the crypto crash.
Malibot, a new and highly aggressive form of malware, which targets devices running the Android operating system, is being spread using a website and text messages offering fake links to real cryptocurrency apps, TheCryptoApp and Mining X.
Once these links are downloaded, Malibot, created in Russia, can quickly give criminals access to a victim's phone, enabling them to harvest personal and financial data and send messages to other phones spreading the malware further.
Briedis adds: 'With banking and investing online a part of everyday life it is vital to take steps to keep fraudsters at bay.
'This includes making use of smart tech like VPNs and virus-checking software, and increasing your digital safety by creating strong passwords and checking the source of any link, site or app before you click.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/beatthescammers/article-10995207/Fraudsters-cash-crypto-returns-investment-scams-jump-58.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-09T06:47:57Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/beatthescammers/article-10995207/Fraudsters-cash-crypto-returns-investment-scams-jump-58.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 3 |
Cubs fifth. Nico Hoerner homers to left field. Yan Gomes grounds out to shortstop, Trea Turner to Freddie Freeman. P.J. Higgins grounds out to shallow infield, Trea Turner to Freddie Freeman. Nelson Velazquez flies out to deep center field to Cody Bellinger.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cubs 1, Dodgers 0.
Cubs sixth. David Bote singles to deep center field. Christopher Morel singles to shallow infield. David Bote to second. Ian Happ doubles to left field. Christopher Morel scores. David Bote scores. Patrick Wisdom out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Tyler Anderson to Freddie Freeman. Ian Happ to third. Seiya Suzuki reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield, advances to 2nd. Ian Happ out at home. Nico Hoerner flies out to shallow center field to Cody Bellinger.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cubs 3, Dodgers 0.
Dodgers sixth. Mookie Betts grounds out to shortstop, Nico Hoerner to P.J. Higgins. Trea Turner strikes out swinging. Freddie Freeman doubles. Will Smith reaches on error to right field, advances to 2nd. Freddie Freeman scores. Fielding error by Seiya Suzuki. Max Muncy strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 left on. Cubs 3, Dodgers 1.
Dodgers seventh. Justin Turner lines out to deep right field to Seiya Suzuki. Jake Lamb homers to center field. Cody Bellinger strikes out swinging. Gavin Lux triples to deep right field. Mookie Betts grounds out to shortstop, Nico Hoerner to P.J. Higgins.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cubs 3, Dodgers 2.
Dodgers ninth. Justin Turner singles to right field. Jake Lamb walks. Zach McKinstry to second. Cody Bellinger reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Jake Lamb out at second. Zach McKinstry to third. Gavin Lux walks. Mookie Betts out on a sacrifice fly to deep left center field to Ian Happ. Cody Bellinger to third. Zach McKinstry scores. Trea Turner lines out to center field to Nelson Velazquez.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cubs 3, Dodgers 3.
Dodgers tenth. Freddie Freeman is intentionally walked. Will Smith singles to left field. Freddie Freeman to second. Trea Turner scores.
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Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): On Friday, Netflix revealed that "spatial audio" would soon be available on all devices. Users who don't have multichannel speakers will be able to enjoy surround sound using only stereo speakers.
According to GSM Arena, the feature can convert a stereo audio track from a non-Apple device into 3D spatial audio. To accomplish this, Sennheiser and Netflix have collaborated to add the same 3D audio technology found in the Sennheiser Ambeo soundbar.
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As long as you are accessing the stereo track, the spatial audio will function on any non-Apple device, including smartphones, tablets, and televisions. Since all processing is done within the Netflix app, no special functionality is needed on the playback device.
Only a small portion of the content is currently offered in spatial audio. You must enter "spatial audio" in the search bar to find all the content that is supported. Currently, Netflix is the only source of content.
Make sure there is no 5.1 or Dolby Atmos logo on the title screen to determine if the content is playing in spatial audio. You won't hear the Netflix spatial audio on the majority of televisions, for instance, as the device will automatically play the surround soundtrack without a manual switch option. Instead, you'll hear the TV's internal audio processing.
Fortunately, using Apple devices is much easier. In this case, Netflix merely makes use of the built-in spatial audio feature found in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS devices.
This feature is compatible with all content that has 5.1 or Dolby Atmos tracks. All you need are compatible Apple headphones, such as the AirPods 3, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, and some Beats models, along with a modern device that supports spatial audio, as reported by GSM Arena.
You can access spatial audio content by searching for "spatial audio", it is currently available for all subscription tiers globally. (ANI)
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The manufacturing sector despite its critical importance to economic transformation and job creation tends to be overshadowed by more fashionable sectors these days, CK Ranganathan, CMD, CavinKare. “I urge managers of both manufacturing and services sectors to keep working towards setting higher benchmarks for their peers and young entrepreneurs,” he said at the 20th MMA Award for Managerial Excellence and the 66th Annual General Meeting on Friday.
There have been continuous challenges and disruptions, including Covid, the Ukraine war and the latest one is inflation around the world. “We are in a situation of stagflation and this is worrying. All the industrialists are saying they are doing well. But, there is a high inflation rate,” he said. The prices of vegetable oil and crude oil are coming down and should make the economy come back fast. India as of now is really looking well, he said.
‘Leadership and setting the strategy’
Sujatha Narayan, Senior Vice President and Regional Leader, Wabtec Corporation in India, said that the CEO’s job is to set the strategy; to ensure execution and to take care of the people. Strategy is one space where there is no room for delegation, and is the singular responsibility of the CEO or business leader. Your managers who run day-to-day activities of the business do not have the time. They are delivering the numbers; delivering customer satisfaction to generate the finance.
“What I practised and really worked out well was that I kept my mouth shut for at least two months. I spent it all on learning from everybody I could, especially to people who reported to me and the people who reported to them. Humility to me is one of the most basic competencies that a strong leader has,” she said. Spend tons of time with your customers and salespeople - both of them talk a lot and will have a lot of learnings from them.
It is extremely important to communicate the company’s strategy to all the employees. This increases employees’ motivation and drives performance. An example of this is a $1 billion vision created for Wabtec in India, which is now $500 million, in 3-5 years. Once we built the strategy, in every town hall that I conduct and every meeting that I go to, I talk about the $1 billion plan. When you talk to Wabtec employees, they will talk about the $1 billion plan,” she added.
On execution, she said, the leader’s job is execution excellence. If you are in the midst of this execution, then something is wrong in the organisation because as the leader, you don ‘t want to be in day-to-day execution. It is all about building a strong team, she said.
On taking care of people, she said, periodic review process, career development discussion and strong rewards and recognition; strong employee activity are basics for most companies. However, it's not really done by the people who should do it - not the top leadership but every people manager in that company. One has to spend an extraordinary amount of time in systematising this in the organisation so that this process is well in place, she said.
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Finning International Inc. (TSE:FTT – Get Rating) – Equities research analysts at Raymond James boosted their FY2022 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for Finning International in a research note issued on Tuesday, July 5th. Raymond James analyst B. Fast now expects that the company will earn $2.60 per share for the year, up from their previous estimate of $2.55. Raymond James has a “Outperform” rating and a $46.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for Finning International’s current full-year earnings is $2.82 per share. Raymond James also issued estimates for Finning International’s FY2023 earnings at $2.70 EPS.
Finning International (TSE:FTT – Get Rating) last posted its earnings results on Monday, May 9th. The company reported C$0.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of C$0.50 by C$0.09. The company had revenue of C$1.74 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of C$1.67 billion.
Finning International stock opened at C$26.22 on Thursday. The stock has a market cap of C$4.10 billion and a P/E ratio of 10.87. Finning International has a fifty-two week low of C$24.58 and a fifty-two week high of C$40.22. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is C$31.56 and its 200-day moving average price is C$34.52. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 91.20, a quick ratio of 0.58 and a current ratio of 1.52.
In other news, Senior Officer David William Cummings sold 2,702 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of C$33.37, for a total transaction of C$90,165.74. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 97,607 shares in the company, valued at C$3,257,145.59. Also, Director Harold N. Kvisle bought 3,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 12th. The shares were purchased at an average price of C$32.65 per share, with a total value of C$97,950.00. Following the completion of the acquisition, the director now owns 38,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately C$1,240,700. Insiders have bought 8,800 shares of company stock worth $254,134 over the last ninety days.
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Finning International Inc sells, services, and rents heavy equipment, and power and energy systems in Canada, Chile, the United Kingdom, Argentina, and internationally. The company offers telehandlers, articulated trucks, asphalt pavers, backhoe loaders, cable assist vehicles, cable yarding systems, chip dozers, cold planers, compactors, dozers, drills, electric rope shovels, excavators, material handlers, motor graders, off-highway trucks, pipelayers, remixing transfer vehicle, road reclaimers, road wideners, skid steer and compact track loaders, tack distributors, track loaders, underground-hard rock, wheel loaders, wheel tractor-scrapers, and windrow elevators, as well as attachments.
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Outside any given Harry Styles concert, you’ll see a smattering of feathers and sequins leading towards the venue. At the end of this flamboyant trail you’ll find thousands of fans, decked out in outfits drawing inspiration from or paying homage to the superstar. Since last September, when Styles’ Love On Tour began across the Atlantic, fans have been sharing their outfit ideas on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok under the hashtag #HSLOTOutfit. Now, with the European leg in full swing, the already thriving trend has elevated, with the hashtag garnering over 200 million views on TikTok (and counting).
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To some, months of planning and endless nights spent glue-gunning rhinestones to Lycra flares, just for a two-hour event, might seem pointless. But for Harries (the nickname given to Styles’ fans) there is a genuine joy and camaraderie in prepping for one of his shows.
"I went to the first Manchester show and it was my first concert since lockdown," says Bella Troy-Williamson, a 23-year-old paralegal from Newcastle who went viral on Twitter after using the hashtag to show off her hand-crocheted sunflower dress. "I started crocheting over lockdown so when I got the tickets I felt that I wanted to do something special and also challenge myself. He’s got a song called 'Sunflower' so I thought, Yes, sunflower dress. Let’s go with it."
For Troy-Williamson, who has been a Styles fan since his One Direction days, going viral was never the intention. She just wanted to share her outfit with like-minded people who’d appreciate her effort without passing judgment. "I wouldn't spend three months making a dress for any other artist because there's the risk that I would be out of place in the crowd," she continues. "But I knew that for some reason it would be appreciated and understood at a Harry gig."
Concert fashion is typically characterized by artist merchandise but this trend signals a shift towards curated concert looks akin to the flower crowns and facial glitter seen at the height of festival fashion. For many fans, going to a concert is a similar experience and often an all-day affair. With many Styles fans camping outside venues overnight to ensure they get the best possible view, effectively creating their own festival-esque experience, dressing up adds an extra bit of excitement and distracts from the reality that they’ve pitched their tents on the concrete pavements of sports stadiums as opposed to the fields of Glastonbury or Coachella.
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Meshaa Isaac has been to several nights of the tour, even traveling to Los Angeles from the UK last year. A Styles fan from the age of 9, Isaac is now 21 years old and many of her real-life friends originate from the community of fellow fans that has been built on social media. "On your TikTok For You Page, you often see the same people and you start interacting with them," she says. "When they’re also fans, you end up forming connections with them and even becoming friends."
Given the popularity of the trend on TikTok, it would be easy to assume that this community is made up solely of Gen Z fans. However, 33-year-old Laurel Melsom, a London-based content creator, has found comfort in the community after a few years during which it has been particularly elusive. "The only way to communicate with people over lockdown was through the internet so I met up with a few friends for the first time at different shows," she says. "I have built up a community of people from Instagram that have now become friends and we all go to shows together."
In Melsom's opinion, Covid lockdowns didn’t just bring an already dedicated fanbase closer together. The uncertainty of the pandemic is partially what’s motivated so many people to forgo the typical jeans-and-a-nice-top combination. "I think people have wanted to go that extra mile because you don't know if it's ever going to be taken away from you again," she says.
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That "extra mile" is evidenced by the sheer amount of bespoke outfits, with some fans even enlisting outside help. Without her own Harry Lambert (Styles' longtime stylist) at her disposal, Melsom commissioned a friend of hers to create an outfit for Styles’ Manchester show in the spirit of the singer's outfit in his "As It Was" music video. The collaboration highlights the fact that dressing for a Harry Styles show is a joint effort. "We just went back and forth and tweaked it a little bit to make it more of an inspiration instead of a copy," says Melsom. "It made it feel a little bit more special as it was made to fit me. It was so nice to have people come up to me and say they liked the outfit."
There are other artists, like Dua Lipa and BTS, with similarly dedicated fanbases but the general public has been part of Styles’ sartorial journey for the best part of a decade. Arguably, creatives on TikTok have sought to mirror this by taking their fans along with them as they experiment with their own style. Helped by Lambert, Styles has cultivated a position as a modern fashion icon with a clear aesthetic that emphasizes bright colors and textured pieces, and a temperament that is equal parts whimsical and cool. For fans of all ages, it's an accessible style that is easy to replicate (without the Gucci price tag).
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The time and money that Harries spend on their outfits has the potential to cause competition and anxiety but Isaac suggests that Styles’ mantra – "treat people with kindness" – curbs fans’ fears. They are inherently encouraged to dress and spend within their means. "The fans really do stick to that motto. Everyone that goes to a Harry Styles concert will agree that it’s a safe space and a judgment-free zone so you're not really dressing up to impress other people. It's just fun for yourself."
Troy-Williamson agrees, pointing to inclusivity as a factor in her comfort in dressing up. "I think it's a really supportive fanbase. It's quite inclusive and the atmosphere is so positive," she says. Critics of Styles might be tempted to dismiss the verve and dedication of his fandom as hysteria but for these fans, open-mindedness, belonging and, most importantly, enjoyment are their sole concerns. | https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/harry-styles-love-on-tour-outfits | 2022-07-09T07:14:47Z | https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/harry-styles-love-on-tour-outfits | true | 4 |
Tecsys Inc. (TSE:TCS – Get Rating) – Equities researchers at Cormark lowered their FY2023 EPS estimates for Tecsys in a research note issued to investors on Monday, July 4th. Cormark analyst G. Fairweather now forecasts that the company will post earnings per share of $0.24 for the year, down from their previous estimate of $0.37. Cormark currently has a “Outperform” rating and a $47.50 target price on the stock. The consensus estimate for Tecsys’ current full-year earnings is $0.81 per share.
TCS has been the topic of several other research reports. BMO Capital Markets reduced their price target on shares of Tecsys from C$54.00 to C$47.00 in a research report on Monday, July 4th. Raymond James cut their target price on shares of Tecsys from C$60.00 to C$50.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, June 30th. National Bankshares cut their target price on shares of Tecsys from C$55.00 to C$50.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, July 4th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus cut their target price on shares of Tecsys from C$52.00 to C$48.00 in a research report on Monday, July 4th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, According to MarketBeat, Tecsys presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of C$53.07.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, August 5th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.07 per share. This represents a $0.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.84%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 14th. Tecsys’s payout ratio is currently 100.00%.
In other Tecsys news, Director Kathleen M. Miller purchased 1,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 15th. The stock was purchased at an average price of C$32.48 per share, with a total value of C$48,715.68. Following the completion of the purchase, the director now owns 2,500 shares of the company’s stock, valued at C$81,192.80.
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Tecsys Inc engages in the development, marketing, and sale of supply chain management software in Canada, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company offers warehouse management, distribution and transportation management, supply management at point-of-use, and retail order management, as well as financial management and analytics solutions.
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Jenny is studying journalism at the University of Brighton.
"I think all of us have that one topic that when it comes up in a conversation we would much rather nod along and pretend we understand, when in reality we are completely clueless. For my dad it would probably be modern pop culture and for many of my girlfriends (including myself) it would be football teams and stats, but for me it would almost definitely be politics. I know enough to recognise when the government make a decision that affects the nation and that the cat who lives in Downing Street is called Larry, but then my knowledge draws to a halt. I have no excuse for my ignorance, especially as a trainee journalist. I spent months meticulously revising every sector of the government, how the country is run and the politics of the UK. But the moment I received the email congratulating me on passing the exam, every piece of information flew out of my mind and I am still none the wiser.
"However, despite my confusion surrounding all this, I knew just what it meant when I received the breaking news notification that Boris Johnson is resigning from his post as prime minister. Each and every time my phone screen pinged with the tones of Sky News in the previous few days I expected the news of his resignation to be shining up at me, so when I finally read the bulletin it was almost anti-climactic.
"Boris Johnson was the man who broke the news that I would never be returning to college or finish my A-levels. He was also the man who explained the extent of Covid-19 and its impact, a virus which I contracted and has left me with an incurable chronic illness. I wouldn’t exactly call him the good news guy.
"And as little as I know about the government, one thing I know for sure is that I would hate to be the prime minister. I still remember Theresa May tearfully telling the nation that she just couldn’t deliver and how frustrated she was that she could not serve the country she loved as well as she hoped. I am certainly not suggesting that I am a stoic supporter of Boris Johnson or that I feel he never put a foot wrong, but I cannot help but feel that the stress and relentlessness of the role of prime minister is one that not even the strongest and most hard-working individual could carry out effortlessly.
"I am only twenty, and so I expect to see many more men and women enter and exit 10 Downing Street. My lack of politics knowledge deems me completely ignorant as to who might stand a chance at becoming our next prime minister, but whoever they are, I must say I don’t envy them in the slightest." | https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/education/jenny-bathurst-the-man-who-broke-the-news-that-i-would-never-be-returning-to-college-3761761 | 2022-07-09T07:28:52Z | https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/education/jenny-bathurst-the-man-who-broke-the-news-that-i-would-never-be-returning-to-college-3761761 | true | 1 |
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Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy will be re-elected, this time possibly for a lifetime, as president of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress (YSRC) on Saturday. The election will take place this afternoon – on the concluding day of the YSRC's two-day plenary – after the party constitution is amended to enable Jagan's election as president for a lifetime. Jagan established the YSRC in March 2011 after quitting the Congress. Ever since, he has been continuing as the party president, with his mother Vijayamma as honorary president. Jagan was last elected the YSRC president at the party plenary in 2017.
Vijayamma resigned from the honorary president's post on Friday, reportedly due to an ongoing rift in the family, but she said she was quitting the YSRC to stand by her daughter Sharmila, who is now heading the YSR Telangana party in the neighbouring state.
Upon amending its constitution, the YSRC will have to seek the Election Commission of India's nod to let Jagan be the party chief for life. The YSRC is citing some precedents wherein certain regional parties in other states secured the ECI's approval to have a president for a lifetime without the need for conducting elections every two years. After his election as party president, Jagan is expected to constitute a new committee for the YSRC, leading to the general election due in 2024.
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On any given day upon entering the warehouse-like building on Highway 29 in Bertram, the sound of volleyballs being bandied about rises to the rafters as a host of young apprentices go about the business of honing their skills in the hopes of one day starring for their high school squad.
Country Fire Volleyball was founded in 2015 by Jason and Morgan Tuggle, a married couple that moved to Liberty Hill in 2012 only to discover a void that existed for local players that had to travel to Georgetown, Cedar Park or even Austin to find a place to supplement their respective games.
“Morgan was where it all started,” said Jason Tuggle. “She was the one who said 'I'd really love to start a club here.'”
Initially, the Tuggles built a gym on their property – much smaller than what's known as the “VolleyBarn XL”, the 15,000-square-foot palace that is now their main base of operations.
But, it wasn't long until the “VolleyBarn OG” outlived its usefulness as the club grew in numbers, which necessitated the new building.
“We were running out of room quickly,” said Jason, who is the club director. “So, we knew this was the path we needed to take.”
Sparkling resume
At the heart of the club is Morgan Tuggle, Country Fire's coaching director, who can boast of a quite impressive resume from her playing days.
Morgan was a state champion at Westwood High School in her native Austin, then went on to be an all-American at Trinity University, an NCAA Division III program in San Antonio, where she will be indicted into the school's Hall of Fame in October.
However, for her, it's about more than just what physical skills a player can bring to the court, but the kind of mental approach one has when stepping between the lines.
“We give all of our players an 'attitude evaluation,'” said Morgan. “Because everybody has talent, but coachability is what will get you places.”
According to Morgan, a “me-first” player has no place at Country Fire.
“We want the kind of person others want to be on the court with,” said Morgan. “It's all of the little things.”
Getting ready
On this day, what's known as a “prep tryout camp” was unfolding on the two courts for eighth and ninth-graders – one that is designed to ready them for the rigors they will face when they attempt to crack the lineup for their school teams – specifically the Lady Panthers of Liberty Hill, said Morgan.
“Liberty Hill has crazy talent,” she said. “(Lady Panthers new head) Coach (Marie) Bruce is already doing a lot of good things to build the team moving forward.”
For players that are about to make the quantum leap from middle school to high-school competition, the psychological aspect is just as critical as the physical, said Morgan.
“As teenage girls, they need to have confidence when they step onto the court,” she said. “We help them learn to believe in themselves and love volleyball more on the last day of the season than the first – players who want to be in the gym together.”
Those are the intangibles.
As far as the tangible skills required to make, then succeed on a high-school squad, it starts from the ground up, said Morgan.
“The biggest thing is footwork,” she said. “Having your feet set, being balanced, staying square to your target– we celebrate the little successes like these that lead to overall success. We can do this if we're only evaluating where the ball goes.”
Moving up the chain
Country Fire is divided into five different age groups – each with its own heat-inspired name – including Embers (pre-kindergarten through first grade), Sparks (second-fourth), Flames (fifth-sixth), Blaze (seventh-eighth) and Fire (ninth-12th).
Each has its own unique objectives, said Jason Tuggle.
“At the younger ages, we want them to play all the positions on the court because they don't have set positions yet, so they can be well-rounded,” he said. “Once players reach high-school age, they're more experienced, so we work more on the little things that will make them even better.”
Included in the curriculum at all ages, though, is Position Offensive Defensive System – or PODS – which was developed by the Tuggles to ensure players learn to play the game a particular way that stays the same as they work their respective ways up through the age groups.
“Just because you have two different teams with two different coaches doesn't mean all of a sudden, you'll have to learn something new,” said Jason. “So, that way we have the consistency that will ultimately lead to overall success.”
Building bonds
Club sports in the modern age is about augmenting players' skills in order to maximize their talent, which in turn will allow them to go as far as they can – up to and including playing at the college level.
But, that doesn't mean the individual ever rises above the group, said Jason Tuggle.
“Our motto is 'Team First,'” he said. “We tell parents right up front we guarantee practice time, but not playing time.”
In order to further the relationships that will build the kind of chemistry all winning teams have, more must be done aside from simply practicing and playing together, said Jason.
“We adopted a stretch of highway along 1869,” he said. “We'll be out there bonding and team building, then come back and have a barbecue – I guess you could say we win tournaments by picking up trash.”
After the last ball has been placed in a bin and the lights go out in the gym, Morgan said her goal is to help produce well-grounded individuals.
“We pray and put God first and by building awesome young women, we'll get great volleyball players,” she said. “The biggest thing is reminding the girls we play volleyball because it's fun – you need to be able to find joy in your spirit because that's why we play.” | https://www.lhindependent.com/sports/starting-with-a-spark/article_7c67bc08-ff2d-11ec-8815-9ff6f88834a6.html | 2022-07-09T07:33:47Z | https://www.lhindependent.com/sports/starting-with-a-spark/article_7c67bc08-ff2d-11ec-8815-9ff6f88834a6.html | true | 1 |
Former Liverpool winger Stewart Downing has made bold predictions regarding their summer signing Darwin Nunez.
The Reds have splashed a club-record fee of £85 million for the signing of the Uruguayan international, as per Sky Sports.
Stewart Downing has likened the 22-year-old striker to his former Liverpool teammate Luis Suarez.
The former England international has backed the Uruguayan to fit seamlessly into Jugen Klopp's system.
He told The Liverpool Echo:
“I think watching him, the fans will love him. He has that South America style about him.
“He’s a bit like a Suarez type of player and with the crosses coming in from both sides he is going to thrive on that and the service he is going to get."
“I just see him fitting in really well and Jurgen Klopp very rarely buys players that don’t fit into the way he wants to play."
Downing has claimed that Nunez will offer a new dimension going forward in comparison to Sadio Mane, who has left for Bayern Munich.
The 37-year-old has insisted he could benefit from having a fantastic start to his Liverpool career. He added:
"I just think he will be a great signing and he is a lot different to Mane. But you need different ways of playing and different dimensions.
“I think he will be a fans’ favourite, just the way he plays, 100% the fans will love that and it will be nice if he gets a couple of goals early on, especially at Anfield to get his confidence up.
“That’s what happened with Salah and Mane, they got off to good starts and their careers took off and you hope he does well. He looks like a fantastic player from what I have seen.”
Liverpool could see a significant change in their tactics this season
With the arrival of Darwin Nunez, Jurgen Klopp is expected to oversee a significant change in his system.
The Merseysiders have mostly operated without a natural number nine over the last few years under the German.
Nunez might be an all-action center forward. It is highly unlikely that Klopp will look to use him as a false nine or as an inverted wide forward.
We could see the Liverpool manager reverting to a 4-2-3-1 system that he used at Borussia Dortmund rather than his preferred 4-3-3 system at Anfield. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/news-he-going-thrive-that-stewart-downing-makes-bold-prediction-liverpool-forward | 2022-07-09T07:46:35Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/news-he-going-thrive-that-stewart-downing-makes-bold-prediction-liverpool-forward | false | 1 |
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