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On Sunday, Novak Djokovic beat Nick Kyrgios in what was his 21st career Grand Slam win to clinch his 7th Wimbledon title, and 4th on the trot.
A day after his memorable win, Djokovic was on the empty Centre Court, spending time with his family. The 35-year old shared a video of him on Instagram cradling his trophy as his son and daughter ran around the empty court and frolicked with them. He wrote, “Precious moment with my family this morning. What a joy seeing them run on this legendary court! What a privilege to share my journey with them. Thank you @wimbledon for this opportunity. Taking home many memories for the lifetime."
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Djokovic had also been quoted by atptour.com on Monday, saying, “I’ve said it many times, this tournament is extra special for me because it has been the first tournament that I’ve ever watched as a kid that got me to start playing tennis."
Nadal was among others to reply to his post and congratulate him on his win. “Wow!great moment!ejoy it and many congrats!" he wrote.
Djokovic’s significant win put the Serb in league with ‘people’s champions’ Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, moving past 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer in the all-time Grand Slam list and just one behind Nadal.
Marking his return to the grass court after three years, Nadal had scripted a sensational run at the All England Club this year. Before this, he last played against Federer in the 2019 semis.
The 36-year-old Nadal was set to face Kyrgios in the semis but pulled out due to an abdominal tear he sustained while playing Taylor Fritz in the five-setter quarter final tie. The decision ended his bid for a Calendar Year Slam after winning the Australian Open and French Open titles earlier this year.
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On Sunday, Novak Djokovic beat Nick Kyrgios in what was his 21st career Grand Slam win to clinch his 7th Wimbledon title, and 4th on the trot.
A day after his memorable win, Djokovic was on the empty Centre Court, spending time with his family. The 35-year old shared a video of him on Instagram cradling his trophy as his son and daughter ran around the empty court and frolicked with them. He wrote, “Precious moment with my family this morning. What a joy seeing them run on this legendary court! What a privilege to share my journey with them. Thank you @wimbledon for this opportunity. Taking home many memories for the lifetime.”
ALSO READ| Novak Djokovic Ready to Help Son Follow in His Footsteps
Djokovic had also been quoted by atptour.com on Monday, saying, “I’ve said it many times, this tournament is extra special for me because it has been the first tournament that I’ve ever watched as a kid that got me to start playing tennis.”
Nadal was among others to reply to his post and congratulate him on his win. “Wow!great moment!ejoy it and many congrats!” he wrote.
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Djokovic’s significant win put the Serb in league with ‘people’s champions’ Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, moving past 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer in the all-time Grand Slam list and just one behind Nadal.
Marking his return to the grass court after three years, Nadal had scripted a sensational run at the All England Club this year. Before this, he last played against Federer in the 2019 semis.
The 36-year-old Nadal was set to face Kyrgios in the semis but pulled out due to an abdominal tear he sustained while playing Taylor Fritz in the five-setter quarter final tie. The decision ended his bid for a Calendar Year Slam after winning the Australian Open and French Open titles earlier this year.
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Cristiano Ronaldo and the transfer market background!
Check a background concerning theInter And Cristiano Ronaldoand to reveal it is a former Nerazzurri.
This is Luis Suarez, who played with the Milan cousins shirt from 1961 to 1970, before becoming their coach. Intervened in QSVS studies, a curious one told anecdote about a possible arrival of the Portuguese in Milan.
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These are his statements: “Inter she didn’t push hard enough to get it when she was 17. I went to see him because he called me a Portuguese friend of mine. He played in the Primavera and that time he did some good things, but above all I noticed the fact that everyone was going to beat him, in these cases it means that one is good. I went to see him again and he did well again: it had to be taken. But then Inter did not push and waited. He also sent Branca to see him“.
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GARDAI appealed for witnesses last night after a grandmother died in a weekend road smash in Co Sligo.
The victim, named locally as Mary O’Driscoll from Kinlough in Co Leitrim, died in a collision involving a jeep and a car on the N15 at Creevykeel, Cliffoney, on Sunday evening.
Mrs O’Driscoll, who was in her seventies, was one of four people who were injured in the crash, which happened at around 3pm.
She was rushed to Sligo General Hospital but was later pronounced dead.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Sligo Garda Station at 071 9157000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda Station.
Locals in Kinlough said the community was devastated by the death.
One local said: “She was well-known and respected.”
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SPRINGFIELD, Vt. – The Springfield Art Gym will host a grand reopening on Saturday, July 16, from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. at their new location at 335 River Street behind Joes Discount Beverage Store. There will be a ribbon cutting, raffle prizes, make-and-take craft stations for all ages, chalk drawing, live folk music, food, and fun.
Springfield Art Gym is a drop-in community art room where everyone is welcome to exercise their creativity. For a small donation, you can use the tools and consumable materials on hand to create art. Volunteer staff is on site for guidance. Materials are all by donation from the public. The Art Gym is handicap accessible. Visit Springfield Art Gym on Facebook or at www.artgymvt.com | https://vermontjournal.com/arts-entertainment/springfield-art-gym-grand-reopening/ | 2022-07-12T04:24:40Z | https://vermontjournal.com/arts-entertainment/springfield-art-gym-grand-reopening/ | false | null |
Amid the ongoing drama happening over Elon Musk’s walkout of the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, the microblogging platform has announced that it is rolling out its “Unmentioning” feature that lets users remove themselves from conversations.
Till now, the company was testing the feature with a limited number of users allowing them to remove themselves from conversations they do not want to be a part of. However, the feature is now rolling out for everyone.
“Sometimes you want to see yourself out. Take control of your mentions and leave a conversation with Unmentioning, now rolling out to everyone on all devices,” the platform said in a tweet.
The platform has deployed several features to keep mentions civil, including an anti-harassment Safety Mode.
Recently, it said that “we are experimenting with Unmentioning, a way to help you protect your peace and remove yourself from conversations, available on the Web for some of you now”.
Meanwhile, shares of the microblogging site fell about 6 per cent in premarket trading on Monday, amid the recent walkout by Elon Musk.
Last week, Musk terminated the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, stating that the company was in “material breach” of their agreement and had made “false and misleading” statements during negotiations.
Twitter later announced it was going to sue the Tesla CEO.
“We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery,” Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor said in a tweet.
In reply, Musk poked fun at Twitter and shared a meme.
Musk’s meme read: “They said I could not buy Twitter. Then they would not disclose the bot information. Now they want to force me to buy Twitter in court. Now they have to disclose the bot information in court”.
Musk will also have to pay $1 billion in termination fees to the micro-blogging platform, as per an earlier filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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CALLS FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF OBERT MASARAURE THE ARTUZ PRESIDENT AND ROBSON CHERERE-THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF ARTUZ
On behalf of the membership and leadership of the Teachers’ Union of Malawi (TUM), we condemn the arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention of Mr.
Obert Masaraure the president of Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) and Mr. Robson Cherere the Secretary-General of Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ). One person might ask what interest does our organization have in this matter? The response is simple we firmly believe in offering solidarity to the oppressed workers especially teachers. We also firmly believe in Martin Luther King Jr’s words found in his letter from Birmingham Jail which stated that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” We call upon the relevant authorities in Harare to do the right thing and immediately release the president and Secretary General of ARTUZ.
An injury to one is an injury to all.
CHARLES KUMCHENGA
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL | https://www.zimeye.net/2022/07/12/teachers-in-malawi-call-for-masaraure-chere-release/ | 2022-07-12T04:36:35Z | https://www.zimeye.net/2022/07/12/teachers-in-malawi-call-for-masaraure-chere-release/ | true | null |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
7-7-6-5
(seven, seven, six, five)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
7-7-6-5
(seven, seven, six, five) | https://www.thetelegraph.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17298601.php | 2022-07-12T04:40:15Z | https://www.thetelegraph.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Evening-game-17298601.php | true | null |
At jam-packed neighborhood pools around the country, sometimes the difference between sinking or swimming is a watchful lifeguard.
But this summer there's a nationwide lifeguard labor shortage.
Brad Anderson is the aquatics manager in Englewood, Colorado.
NEWSY'S CLAYTON SANDELL: How many people come here in the summer?
BRAD ANDERSON: We average 1,600 people a day.
The city-run Pirate's Cove waterpark needs up to 60 lifeguards each day to keep the rivers lazy and the slides sliding.
"We need to have that vigilance of a lifeguard that is trained who can sit there and prevent drownings," Anderson said.
But for the first time in its 19 year-history, Pirate's Cove is shutting down on Mondays because they can't hire enough lifeguards. The ones they do have don't always want to work full time.
"They're coming in and they're saying, well, I only want to work one or two days a week, maybe three days a week. And of those days they want to work, it's like, well, I don't want to work eight hours."
It's like that from Tampa to Green Bay, San Diego to Salt Lake. The American Lifeguard Association says the shortage is impacting roughly a third of the nation's 300,000 public pools.
There are so many swimmers and so few lifeguards that the state of Colorado is now offering $1,000 to anyone who wants to add "lifeguard" to their resume.
In Aurora, Colorado, Derrick Tripp, the aquatics superintendent, hopes that incentive will help him beef up staff at the city's 10 public pools. They hired 200 lifeguards this summer. They need 300.
"There's a lot of cities and pools that have had to stay shut down through the summer. Fortunately we have all of our pools open right now. At limited capacity, but they're all open," Tripp said.
This Aurora pool opened in the 1960s. Amanda Hernandez comes here with her three kids and her goddaughter.
"Swimming. If they could do it every day, they'd love to do it," Hernandez said.
When pools have to lock their gates, it often hits poor communities the hardest.
SANDELL: What if this place closed down?
AMANDA HERNANDEZ: It would be sad. For me, we would just go somewhere else. But for families who don't have cars or who don't drive, I would think that would impact them a lot.
And as officials warn about sweltering heat and the potential for a summer of violence, public pools offer a critical retreat — a place to literally cool off.
"A pool is a place where you feel safe and you come and you bond, and traditionally it is a very happy place to be and a comfortable and safe space for kids. And we try to keep it that way," Tripp said.
Brad Anderson wants potential lifeguards to know it's still a pretty sweet job.
"We're doing the best we can. We've done radio ads, we've done social media, we've done a lot of different things that we've never done in the past to get the people to get here," Anderson said.
A job working outdoors earning around $16 an hour, and potentially saving lives. | https://www.newsy.com/stories/lifeguard-shortages-nationwide-affecting-public-pools/ | 2022-07-12T04:50:19Z | https://www.newsy.com/stories/lifeguard-shortages-nationwide-affecting-public-pools/ | false | 1 |
Intel Arc A770M GPU benched, as fast as GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
Intel's higher-end Arc A770M mobile GPU tested in Fire Strike Extreme, where it keeps up with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile GPU.
It's not something big at all, but it's something: a new leak on Intel's upcoming Arc A770M mobile GPU, which has been benchmarked in some 3DMark runs alongside the slower A550M GPU.
We're hearing about the Intel Arc A770M and A550M GPUs from leaker "@_rogame" with some 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (1440p) benchmarks. The lower-end Intel Arc A550M has 16 Xe-Cores, and scores 6017 points in 3DMark Time Spy using the older 1726 driver, but this benchmark was using Intel APO (Advanced Performance Optimizations) enabled... which as VC points out "basically renders it invalid as per 3DMark rules".
This means that the Intel Arc A550M is much slower than the A730M, but so it should be: it has half of the ACM-G10 GPU cores.
The higher-end Arc A770M GPU scored 13244 with the 'graphics score' which means it keeps up with NVIDIA's current GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU (when accompanied by an Intel Core i7-12700H in a gaming laptop in other 3DMark benchmark runs). We don't know if APO is running here, but the test driver version is 9999 (something that OEMs and system integrators before launching new hardware).
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Bitcoin fell back below $20,000 on Tuesday after enjoying its strongest week in more than three months last week, as a surge in the greenback rippled through global markets.
The largest cryptocurrency dropped as much as 2.6 per cent to $19,870, declining for a fourth straight day ahead of US consumer-price data Tuesday. It hit $22,472 on Friday as risk appetite returned to broader assets. Second-largest Ether slid as much as 4.1 per cent to $1,090.94. The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 100 index dropped as much as 2.6 per cent.
“Expect apathetic back-end vol and basis flows in another summer trading week with CPI likely to be the main event on July 13,” Genesis’s Noelle Acheson and Gordon Grant said in a note Monday.
“Notwithstanding a modicum of fireworks around last Friday’s weekly options expiry that saw Bitcoin blow through $22,000 and touch the 200-week moving average, with Ether pushing toward $1,300 in sympathy, the weekend session saw a resumption of choppy, downwardly oriented price action that has characterised recent months.”
The dollar jumped on Monday ahead of the CPI, which could offer insight into the Federal Reserve’s potential rate-hike path. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have struggled as the central bank works to combat high inflation readings, and have tended to trade along with risk assets for the past couple of years.
Wall Street expects the cryptocurrency’s crash to get a whole lot worse.
The token is more likely to tumble to $10,000, cutting its value roughly in half, than it is to rally back to $30,000, according to 60 per cent of the 950 investors who responded to the latest MLIV Pulse survey. Forty percent saw it going the other way.
The lopsided prediction underscores how bearish investors have become. The crypto industry has been rocked by troubled lenders, collapsed currencies, and an end to the easy money policies of the pandemic that fuelled a speculative frenzy in financial markets.
Some $2 trillion has vanished from the market value of cryptocurrencies since late last year, according to data compiled by CoinGecko.
Retail investors were more apprehensive about cryptocurrencies than their institutional counterparts, with almost a quarter declaring the asset class to be garbage. Professional investors were more open-minded toward digital assets.
But overall, this sector remains a polarising one: while some 28 per cent of the overall respondents expressed strong confidence that cryptocurrencies are the future of finance, 20 per cent said they’re worthless.
Bitcoin has already lost more than two-thirds of its value since hitting nearly $69,000 in November and hasn’t traded as low as $10,000 since September 2020.
“It’s very easy to be fearful right now, not only in crypto, but generally in the world,” said Jared Madfes, partner at Tribe Capital, a venture capital firm. He said the expectations for a further drop in Bitcoin reflect “people’s inherent fear in the market.”
The crypto crash is likely to put further pressures on governments to step up regulations of the industry. Such supervision is seen as positive by majority of respondents, since it could improve confidence and lead to broader acceptance among institutional and retail investors.
Government intervention will also probably be welcomed by consumers burned by the collapse of so-called stablecoin TerraUSD and troubled middlemen like Celsius Network and broker Voyager Digital.
Central banks are also considering developing their own digital currencies for use in digital payments.
But neither the recent price drops — nor the potential challenge from central banks — are expected to significantly upend the industry by dethroning the two dominant tokens, Bitcoin and Ether. A majority of respondents anticipate that one of those two will remain a driving force in five years even while a significant share sees central bank digital currencies taking on a key role.
“Bitcoin still is powering large parts of the cryptoverse, while Ethereum is losing its lead,” said Ed Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda Corp., a foreign-exchange broker.
There was a broader consensus about one corner of the market: Nonfungible tokens. NFTs became famous for attracting valuations in the millions of dollars for pictures of monkeys during the height of the crypto boom. But the overwhelming majority of those surveyed consider them to be just art projects or status symbols, with only 9 per cent seeing them as an investment opportunity.
Moreover, those hunting for the next asset-price bubble may do well to look elsewhere, since speculative manias rarely strike the same asset class twice. Ultimately, the next big run-up is expected by most respondents to be entirely unrelated to cryptocurrencies, with NFTs, the next generation of the internet known as web3 and other blockchain developments seen as having low chances of setting off the next frenzy.
“The next financial bubble is always something different than the last bubble, so the majority is absolutely right on this one,” said Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak + Co. | https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/cryptocurrencies/2022/07/12/bitcoin-falls-to-below-20000-as-dollar-rallies/ | 2022-07-12T04:56:53Z | https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/cryptocurrencies/2022/07/12/bitcoin-falls-to-below-20000-as-dollar-rallies/ | false | 1 |
LINCOLN — With the swoosh of a pen and eager applause, Gov. Pete Ricketts proclaims July 11-15, 2022, as NRD Week in Nebraska to celebrate Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) 50th anniversary.
“We are proud to celebrate five decades of protecting, conserving and improving Nebraska’s nature resources,” Orval Gigstad, Nebraska Association of Resources Districts president, said. “It’s amazing to see the conservation progress that has been made these last 50 years and NRD directors and staff know the work we do today – planting trees, water management, soil health – will directly impact our future.”
After the devastation of the Dust Bowl, special purpose districts were developed to solve local soil and water-related problems. But the puzzle of overlapping authorities and responsibilities provided confusion at best. In 1969, Senator Maurice Kremer introduced legislative bill 1357 to combine Nebraska’s 154 special purpose entities into 24 Natural Resources Districts by July 1972. In 1989, The Middle Missouri Tributaries NRD and the Papio NRD merged to become the Papio-Missouri River NRD resulting in today’s 23 Natural Resources Districts.
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Today, Nebraska’s unique system of locally controlled, watershed-based conservation is widely admired throughout the nation. NRDs deliver several state and federal programs including many projects with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE), Nebraska Department of Natural Resources (NeDNR) and the University of Nebraska. These partnerships equate into real dollars for Nebraska agriculture and communities.
“Nebraska policymakers had incredible foresight when creating the NRDs realizing that our strength lies in collaboration with partners to champion conservation,” Gigstad said. “Our partnerships with local, state and federal agencies have helped deliver conservation to millions of acres reducing soil loss and improving water quality and quantity.”
Across the state, Natural Resources Districts construct projects, implement programs and aid landowners in conservation and natural resources management. When necessary, they enact regulations to protect our resources. While all NRDs share the 12 main responsibilities, each district sets its own priorities and develops its own programs to best serve and protect Nebraska’s natural resources.
Often the most recognizable NRD responsibilities include groundwater management, flood protection and conservation trees.
To join in the 50th anniversary celebration and follow the Natural Resources Districts’ special activities throughout 2022, visit www.nrdnet.org and follow #Since1972 on social media. | https://starherald.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/gov-ricketts-proclaims-july-11-15-as-nrd-week/article_da109fde-0165-11ed-9cc3-7f5d995692dc.html | 2022-07-12T04:57:08Z | https://starherald.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/gov-ricketts-proclaims-july-11-15-as-nrd-week/article_da109fde-0165-11ed-9cc3-7f5d995692dc.html | false | 1 |
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Michigan’s largest district court and bail reform advocates have agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit over cash bail practices, which activists say routinely and unconstitutionally jail poor and working class defendants despite evidence of their inability to pay.
Both sides say the reforms, to be announced Tuesday, strike at racial inequality in the criminal legal system. On any given day in Detroit, the nation’s Blackest city, nearly three-quarters of those jailed are Black, a proportion much higher than their share of the population.
If the reforms narrow that disparity, it could be a model for court systems nationwide, where race and wealth are significant factors in the administration of justice, advocates say.
Detroit’s 36th District Court, the American Civil Liberties Union and The Bail Project, a nonprofit that pays bail for people in need, said in interviews ahead of Tuesday's announcement that the status quo wreaks unnecessary havoc on defendants’ jobs, homes and families.
“This is a historic agreement that we believe can and should be a template for how courts around the country can adapt their bail practices to what is lawful, constitutional and sensible,” said Phil Mayor, senior staff attorney for the Michigan ACLU.
Chief Judge William McConico of the 36th District Court said settling the class-action lawsuit, filed in 2019 just before he became the chief, presented an opportunity to show that law enforcement and activists can work together to change the criminal legal system.
“Other African American cities will be able to point to what one of the largest district courts in the country is doing to address this issue,” said McConico, who is Black. “That’s why it is so important that this is starting in a major Black city, that it is not being rolled out in a suburban city or a small court.”
The reforms do not bar judges from imposing cash bail, especially if defendants are deemed a flight risk or a danger to the public. However, all Detroit judges and magistrates must say on the record how imposing bail would protect the community or prevent a failure to appear. Judges must also make an on-the-record determination as to how much a defendant can afford to pay.
The parties also agreed that any defendant who is at 200% of the federal poverty level or less is to be assumed unable to post cash bond. According to the 2022 federal guidelines, 200% of the poverty level is annual earnings of roughly $27,000 for an individual and $55,000 for a family of four.
“This should largely eliminate the practice of imposing what may seem to some like small amounts of cash bail, which effectively serve as a jail sentence for somebody who hasn’t yet been convicted of a crime,” Mayor said.
The sides also agreed to new rules stipulating when and what triggers a bail redetermination hearing, if a defendant's bail has been set but goes unpaid. The hearing would allow for a bail amount to be reduced or withdrawn altogether if it is later deemed unaffordable.
The reforms in Detroit come as some states and local jurisdictions across the U.S. have either rolled back or are considering rollbacks of bail reforms in response to a pandemic-era increase in crime. From San Francisco to New York City and cities in between, rhetoric around the uptick in violence and nuisance crimes has slowed political momentum despite bipartisan agreement that mass incarceration is expensive and has no proven positive effect on public safety.
“We are still moving forward in a very thoughtful way, to say that the presumption of innocence matters, that mass incarceration of pretrial people needs to be reversed, and that racial disparities at the pretrial stage need to be addressed in a very real way,” said Twyla Carter, The Bail Project’s outgoing national legal and policy director.
The ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Bail Project and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP sued the chief judge, court magistrates and the Wayne County sheriff in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in 2019, on behalf of seven Black plaintiffs. The plaintiffs alleged the only reason they remained in jail was because they couldn’t afford bail.
At the time of her incarceration in April 2019, one plaintiff, Starmanie Jackson, an impoverished single mother of 2- and 4-year-old children, had her bail set at $700 over outstanding traffic tickets and a charge alleging domestic violence. Because she could not afford to pay, Jackson, who had never been arrested before, was separated from her children for the first time in their lives.
“I was devastated,” said Jackson, 27. “It was nerve wracking, scary and disappointing, because we depend on our justice system to keep us safe and on track.”
She said her family couldn’t locate her for two days, as jail officials struggled to confirm where she was being held. As a result of her incarceration, Jackson, a certified nurse’s assistant, said she lost a new nursing home job when she didn’t show up for her first shift and was evicted from her apartment after she used her rent money to help pay her bond. The domestic violence charge was ultimately dropped and Jackson never served another day in jail.
The settlement makes for a happy ending to what ended up being a nightmare, said Jackson, now a mother of four children.
“I’m ecstatic because I’m able to help people to overcome some of the difficulties in our justice system, which is already jacked up,” she said.
As part of the settlement, Jackson and the other plaintiffs will split a payment of $14,000. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said the amount was agreed to with the knowledge that the court would also spend money to track bail and pretrial detention. The court did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
According to a 2020 report of the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration, between 2016 and 2018, Black men made up 29% of the jail admissions in the counties the task force sampled, even though they were just 6% of the resident population in those counties. Between 2018 and 2019 in Wayne County, Black people represented 70% of those detained in the local jail on any given day, even though they were only 39% of the resident population.
Nationwide, recent studies show Black defendants make up a majority of people in pretrial detention. However, the jail incarceration rate for Black people had been on the decline between 2008 and 2019, according to the latest federal data.
Former U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder, who is senior counsel at Covington & Burling, commended the Detroit district court for reaching the agreement on reforms. “This is how our criminal justice system should work,” he said. "It can, and should be, a model for other jurisdictions across the country.”
Ezekiel Edwards, vice president of pretrial criminal justice at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic organization supporting research and policy work on justice issues, said bail systems in the U.S. have become more reform-minded over the last decade. But the policy landscape is still a patchwork, he said.
“Cash bail is still used in most jurisdictions around the country and without the necessary regulations or limitations,” Edwards said.
As for achieving racial justice in Detroit, McConico said there will be a racially diverse bar association and a majority Black bench of judges and magistrates working together under the new administrative policies to ensure they have a chance of succeeding.
“It won’t just be symbolic,” the chief judge said. “There will be African Americans making a change on the criminal justice system that disproportionately impacts African Americans.”
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While Bayern continue to insist on a minimum transfer fee of 50 million euros, the 33-year-old Pole has to turn up for his first working day in Munich this Tuesday after some speculation regarding a protest from the player
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The future of Robert Lewandowski remains an obscure poker game.
While Bayern continue to insist on a minimum transfer fee of 50 million euros, the 33-year-old Pole has to turn up for his first working day in Munich this Tuesday.
After the usual medical checks, the first training session for the striker is scheduled for this Wednesday.
The Bavarians claim not to have received a suitable offer from FC Barcelona, but media reports expect a late but convincing new offer currently being prepared by Barca.
The Pole and his management speak of an unpleasant situation as the striker claims to be extremely disappointed not to be allowed to leave after having contributed a flood of goals over the past years, reports Xinhua.
His management denied considering going on strike while Bayern's leaders made clear they don't want their coach Julian Nagelsmann to have to deal with an unhappy player.
Meanwhile, the club is rumoured to be eyeing England international Harry Kane for 2023. The 28-year-old striker's contract at Tottenham Hotspur expires in 2024.
While a possible transfer of Kane seems far away at present, the rumours increase the pressure on Lewandowski and his entourage.
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According to media reports, fans and teammates are annoyed by what many call an undignified tug-of-war. Players anonymously stated that working with the Pole in the 2022-23 season will be near unimaginable if the player doesn't come up with some commitment.
Reports speak of Barcelona having handed in an offer of up to 40 million euros plus bonuses, without having received an answer from Bayern chairman Oliver Kahn.
Inside reports speak of Bayern wanting to set a sign, as the club isn't willing to be blackmailed. Additionally, the reigning German champions are happy about additional income to cover the proposed transfer of Dutch defender Matthijs de Ligt.
Negotiations with Juventus are said to be near the finish line, while Bayern continues to look for a striking replacement for the upcoming season.
As Bayern is taking off for a promotional tour to the U.S. until July 24, the club is hoping to find solutions for its unsolved cases. Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic is said to be travelling to Italy this Monday for final talks with Juve.
Omar Richards and Marc Roca have left, while more fringe players are said to be departing shortly. The club recently signed former Liverpool star Sadio Mane, as well as midfielder Ryan Gravenberch and full-back Noussair Mazraoui from Ajax.
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New Power10 scale-out and midrange models extend IBM's capabilities to deliver flexible and secured infrastructure for hybrid cloud environments
ARMONK, N.Y., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a significant expansion of its Power10 server line with the introduction of mid-range and scale-out systems to modernize, protect and automate business applications and IT operations. The new Power10 servers combine performance, scalability, and flexibility with new pay-as-you-go consumption offerings for clients looking to deploy new services quickly across multiple environments.
Digital transformation is driving organizations to modernize both their applications and IT infrastructures. IBM Power systems are purpose-built for today's demanding and dynamic business environments, and these new systems are optimized to run essential workloads such as databases and core business applications, as well as maximize the efficiency of containerized applications. An ecosystem of solutions with Red Hat OpenShift also enables IBM to collaborate with clients, connecting critical workloads to new, cloud-native services designed to maximize the value of their existing infrastructure investments.
The new servers join the popular Power10 E1080 server introduced in September 2021 to deliver a secured, resilient hybrid cloud experience that can be managed with other x86 and multi-cloud management software across clients' IT infrastructure. This expansion of the IBM Power10 family with the new midrange and scale-out servers brings high-end server capabilities throughout the product line. Not only do the new systems support critical security features such as transparent memory encryption and advanced processor/system isolation, but also leverage the OpenBMC project from the Linux Foundation for high levels of security for the new scale-out servers.
Highlights of the announcements include:
- New systems: The expanded IBM Power10 portfolio, built around the next-generation IBM Power10 processor with 2x more cores and more than 2x memory bandwidth than previous Power generations, now includes the Power10 Midrange E1050, delivering record-setting 4-socket compute1, Java2, and ERP3 performance capabilities. New scale-out servers include the entry-level Power S1014, as well as S1022, and S1024 options, bringing enterprise capabilities to SMBs and remote-office/branch office environments, such as Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CuOD).
- Cloud on premises with new flexible consumption choices: IBM has recently announced new flexible consumption offerings with pay-as-you-go options and by-the-minute metering for IBM Power Private Cloud, bringing more opportunities to help lower the cost of running OpenShift solutions on Power when compared against alternative platforms. These new consumption models build on options already available with IBM Power Virtual Server to enable greater flexibility in clients' hybrid journeys. Additionally, the highly anticipated IBM i subscription delivers a comprehensive platform solution with the hardware, software and support/services included in the subscription service.
- Business transformation with SAP®: IBM continues its innovations for SAP solutions. The new midrange E1050 delivers scale (up to 16 TB) and performance for a 4-socket system for clients who run BREAKTHROUGH with IBM for RISE with SAP. In addition, an expansion of the premium supplier option is now available to provide more flexibility and computing power with an additional choice to run workloads on IBM Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud.
"Today's highly dynamic environment has created volatility, from materials to people and skills, all of which impact short-term operations and long-term sustainability of the business," said Steve Sibley, Vice President, IBM Power Product Management. "The right IT investments are critical to business and operational resilience. Our new Power10 models offer clients a variety of flexible hybrid cloud choices with the agility and automation to best fit their needs, without sacrificing performance, security or resilience."
The expansion of the IBM Power10 family has been engineered to establish one of the industry's most flexible and broadest range of servers for data-intensive workloads such as SAP S/4HANA – from on-premises workloads to hybrid cloud. IBM now offers more ways to implement dynamic capacity – with metering across all operating environments including IBM i, AIX, Linux and OpenShift supporting modern and traditional applications on the same platforms – as well as integrated infrastructure automation software for improved visibility and management.
The new systems with IBM Power Virtual Server also help clients operate a secured hybrid cloud experience that delivers high performance and architectural consistency across their IT infrastructure. The systems are uniquely designed so as to protect sensitive data from core to cloud, and enable virtual machines and containerized workloads to run simultaneously on the same systems. For critical business workloads that have traditionally needed to reside on-premises, they can now be moved into the cloud as workloads and needs demand. This flexibility can help clients mitigate risk and time associated with rewriting applications for a different platform.
"As organizations around the world continue to adapt to unpredictable changes in consumer behaviors and needs, they need a platform that can deliver their applications and insights securely where and when they need them," said Peter Rutten, IDC Worldwide Infrastructure Research Vice President. "IBM Power continues its laser focus on helping clients respond faster to dynamically changing environments and business demands, while protecting information security and distilling new insights from data, all with high reliability and availability."
Critical in the launch of the expanded Power10 family is a robust ecosystem of ISVs, Business Partners, and lifecycle services. Ecosystem partners such as SVA and Solutions II provide examples of how the IBM Ecosystem collaborates with clients to build hybrid environments, connecting essential workloads to the cloud to maximize the value of their existing infrastructure investments:
"SVA customers have appreciated the enormous flexibility of IBM Power systems through Capacity Upgrade On-Demand in the high-end systems for many years," said Udo Sachs, Head of Competence Center Power Systems at SVA. "The flexible consumption models using prepaid capacity credits have been well-received by SVA customers, and now the monthly pay-as-you-go option for the scale-out models makes the platform even more attractive. When it comes to automation, IBM helps us to roll out complex workloads such as entire SAP landscapes at the push of a button by supporting Ansible on all OS derivatives, including AIX, IBM i and Linux, as well as ready-to-use modules for deploying the complete Power infrastructure."
"Solutions II provides technology design, deployment, and managed services to hospitality organizations that leverage mission critical IT infrastructure to execute their mission, often requiring 24/7 operation," said Dan Goggiano, Director of Gaming, Solutions II. "System availability is essential to maintaining our clients' revenue streams, and in our experience, they rely on the stability and resilience of IBM Power systems to help solidify their uptime. Our clients are excited that the expansion of the Power10 family further extends these capabilities and bolsters their ability to run applications securely, rapidly, and efficiently."
For more information on IBM Power and the new servers and consumption models announced today, visit: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power
- Read today' s blog by IBM Power GM Ken King, Announcing IBM Power10 Scale-Out and Midrange Servers: The Right Compute Architecture for Today's Unpredictable and Dynamic Business Climate.
- Sign up to attend the July 14 webinar, Creating business agility with IBM Power, to learn more about the latest from IBM Power and hear from clients and IBM experts about how Power helps create digital advantage with hybrid cloud infrastructure to modernize, automate and secure businesses with class-leading reliability.
- Read more about the expanded IBM Power10 product family.
- IBM Power Expert Care offers a way of attaching services and support through tiers at the time of product purchase. This offering provides the client an optimum level of support over multiple years for mission-critical requirements of the IT infrastructure. Read more about IBM Power Expert Care.
IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider, helping clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,800 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently, and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service. For more information, visit www.ibm.com.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany and other countries. Please see https://www.sap.com/copyright for additional trademark information and notices.
1Comparison based on best performing 4-socket systems (IBM Power E1050 3.15-3.9 GHz, 96 core and Inspur NF8480M6 2.90 GHz, Intel Xeon Platinum 8380H) using published results at https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/rint2017.html as of 22 June 2022. For more information about SPEC CPU 2017, see https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/.
2Comparison based on best performing 4-socket systems (IBM Power E1050 3.15-3.9 GHz, 96 core; and Inspur NF8480M6 2.90 GHz, Intel Xeon Platinum 8380H) using published results at https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/rint2017.html as of 22 June 2022. For more information about SPEC CPU 2017, see www. http:/spec.org/cpu2017
3Comparison based on best performing 4-socket systems (1) IBM Power E1050; two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5; Power10 2.95 GHz processor, 4,096 GB memory, 4p/96c/768t, 134,016 SD benchmark users, 736,420 SAPS, AIX 7.3, DB2 11.5, Certification # 2022018 and (2) Dell EMC PowerEdge 840; two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5; Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.7 GHz, 4p/112c/224t, 69,500 SD benchmark users (380,280 SAPS), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and SAP ASE 16, Certification # 2019045. All results can be found at sap.com/benchmark Valid as of 7 July 2022.
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An exhibition of Russian military equipment destroyed by Ukrainian forces in the ongoing war is being held Czech capital, Prague. The captured war trophies that were put on display include a damaged T-90 tank, Buk air defence system, Khosta self-propelled mortar, Msta howitzer, and casings and fragments from rockets and missiles. The destroyed armour from the battlefield was displayed on Letna Plain, a large open space a short distance from Prague Castle.
Ukrainian embassy spokesperson Tetiana Okopna told Czech Television that they hope to show once again the “horrors of war that Russia’s aggression has brought to Ukraine”, reported BBC.
In one of the photographs published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a Ukrainian man can be seen crying against the hull of a Khosta self-propelled mortar.
“Czechs have bitter memories of russian tanks in Prague, 1968. Now they can see them from a different angle. Today an exhibition of rus weapons destroyed by Ukraine warriors opens in the capital of Czech.Ukraine is a shield in the East of Europe,” the Ukraine defence ministry tweeted. “Give us the tools and we will end the war!”
Meanwhile, Germany and the Czech Republic signed a joint declaration pledging to overcome dependency on Russian fossil fuel dependency and to accelerate the transition to low carbon energy.
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Democrats schedule votes on abortion access but lack a legislative path
July 11, 2022 Updated Mon., July 11, 2022 at 7:31 p.m.
Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-Texas) in Houston, Feb. 19, 2022. "The idea that you can't leave the state to get reproductive health care in a state where it's legal makes this is an essential place to start," said Fletcher. (Annie Mulligan/The New York Times)
Democrats in Congress, under pressure to take quick action in response to the Supreme Court’s decision striking down abortion rights, are planning to hold votes this week on legislation that seeks to preserve access to abortions in the post-Roe v. Wade era.
The bills are all but certain to fail in the evenly divided Senate, where broad Republican opposition means they cannot muster the 60 votes to move forward. But Democrats are pushing forward amid a groundswell of pressure from progressives in their ranks who were outraged by the Supreme Court ruling and irate that their leaders appeared to have no plan to respond.
In the immediate aftermath of last month’s decision that overturned the nearly 50-year-old precedent that established abortion rights, as protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court demanding action, House Democrats convened on the steps of the Capitol across the street, singing “God Bless America” to celebrate passage of a gun safety bill.
The gesture was widely derided by activists on the left, who denounced the lack of a cogent response from President Joe Biden or from Congress to a ruling that had been anticipated for weeks.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are now moving forward with a plan that is aimed at framing the issue for the midterm elections. Lacking the votes to force action, Democrats are using the debate to show voters where they stand and portray Republicans as out of step with a majority of Americans, who polls consistently show support abortion access.
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Forget invisible ink – in the future spies could be sending secret messages encoded directly into the DNA of living cells. Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have demonstrated a "DNA Typewriter" by encoding full sentences into DNA, which may eventually function as a cellular “black box.”
As impressive as our own digital information storage systems are, they pale in comparison to nature’s. DNA is an incredibly dense medium, with a singe gram able to store up to 215 million GB of data – and possibly more, with some tweaking. Unfortunately, writing to and reading from DNA remains a fiddly process.
So the HHMI team developed a new system to record information to DNA easily and sequentially. The DNA Typewriter, as they call it, inserts short segments of DNA into a blank “DNA tape,” one after another from left to right. The team created as many as 4,096 specific symbols that can be inserted, and demonstrated that the DNA Typewriter can lay them out in order to form full sentences that can be read back later.
In their first tests, the researchers spelled out “What hath God wrought?” This Bible verse may sound a bit dramatic, but the phrase was chosen because it was the first sentence transmitted via telegraph using Morse code. The second phrase – “Mr. Watson, come here!” – was similarly historic, as the first line ever spoken over a telephone line. The third and final test sentence was “Bound forever, DNA,” a line from a song by Korean pop group BTS.
But the DNA Typewriter isn’t just for writing quotes into cells. The team says it could eventually be used to track the activity and history of cells, allowing scientists to unravel their development or responses to disease or drugs like a plane's black box. In experiments, the researchers tracked how one cell divided into 1.2 million over the course of 25 days, analyzing their barcodes to reconstruct their family tree.
The research was published in the journal Nature.
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Mon., July 11, 2022
DEAR MISS MANNERS: With things improving with COVID, we are suddenly receiving invitations for children’s birthday parties. We haven’t gone to any before, because our child was too young, and now I’m realizing there doesn’t seem to be a standard rule for time of arrival.
Do we arrive approximately 15 minutes, late like a normal house party or dinner party, or does it depend on the venue?
GENTLE READER: Do you want to be the one to explain “fashionably late” to a small child who is beginning to think that no one will show up and imagining humiliating reasons why?
For that matter, try explaining to Miss Manners what is chic about disregarding the host’s instructions. We only allow that 15-minute leeway because all dinner guests always get stuck in traffic. Not because it is cute.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I attended a reception co-hosted by a friend at the other co-host’s residence. It turned out that the reception, a small social gathering with food and drink, was actually a meet-and-greet function featuring a candidate running for state office. There was a bit of a stump speech and a follow-up Q-and-A.
Had this been a pleasant social occasion, I most certainly would be writing a thank-you note to both hosts. But it was a political event disguised as a social gathering.
The hosts privately contracted a valet for the event, which prompts my question: If I find myself in this situation again, should I tip the valet?
GENTLE READER: Granted, a bait-and-switch gathering – one that is supposedly a party, but is actually about selling something, whether a bowl for leftovers or a candidate for office – is not really a social event. Miss Manners would worry that a letter of thanks would appear to endorse the candidate, if you are not inclined to do so.
However, the valet, being innocent of luring you there under false pretenses, should be tipped as usual.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is there still a stigma attached to gifting paperback books, rather than hardcover? A book that I think the recipient would really enjoy is available in both editions.
While I would not mind the extra expense, I feel that the monetary value of the paperback book might be considered more appropriate for the occasion (a personal parting gift to a co-worker).
GENTLE READER: A stigma attached to giving paperback books? Uh-oh.
And here Miss Manners thought that the magic ingredient was the content, and that even a battered copy of a book that captured one’s interest was better than a shiny edition of the latest bestseller chosen without regard to the recipient’s taste.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am blessed with the most perfect, most well-behaved and most beautiful dog. Naturally, passersby tell me, “Your dog is so beautiful.”
My first instinct is to say “Thank you,” but then I realize I’m accepting praise for someone else. I’ve tried responding, “My dog thanks you,” but who am I to speak for my exceptional dog? What is an appropriate response?
GENTLE READER: And while you overthink this, your dog is thinking, “Can’t we just get on with the walk?”
And can’t you? Compliments are well-meant, and should not be parried with quibbles. Miss Manners asks you to say “Thank you” and move on.
Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com.
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NATCHITOCHES PARISH, La. - A 24-year-old archaeological worker for Shreveport Cultural Resource Analysts collapsed and died from a sudden medical emergency Monday afternoon in the Kisatchie National Forest, according to the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office.
At approximately 2:15 p.m., authorities responded to reports of a hiker possibly suffering from heat exhaustion or a stroke on Forest Service Road #321 Bayou Camp Road off of the Longleaf Vista in Kisatchie National Forest.
24-year-old Kaylen Gehrke, formerly of Missoula, Montana, who recently moved to Longview, Texas with her parents, was pronounced dead at the scene by Natchitoches Parish Asst. Coroner Steven Clanton.
Deputies and the National Weather Service remind the public that heat related illnesses are one of the leading causes of death. | https://www.ktbs.com/news/archaeological-worker-collapses-and-dies-in-kisatchie-national-forest/article_52c4e5ca-0193-11ed-bc7d-173bccbcdfe1.html | 2022-07-12T05:24:29Z | https://www.ktbs.com/news/archaeological-worker-collapses-and-dies-in-kisatchie-national-forest/article_52c4e5ca-0193-11ed-bc7d-173bccbcdfe1.html | false | null |
The Goldman Sachs Group set a €20.90 ($20.90) price target on Evonik Industries (FRA:EVK – Get Rating) in a research report report published on Friday, Borsen Zeitung reports.
A number of other brokerages have also weighed in on EVK. Berenberg Bank set a €28.00 ($28.00) target price on Evonik Industries in a research note on Tuesday, May 17th. UBS Group set a €33.00 ($33.00) target price on Evonik Industries in a research note on Monday, July 4th. Jefferies Financial Group set a €21.50 ($21.50) price target on Evonik Industries in a research report on Wednesday, July 6th. Baader Bank set a €27.00 ($27.00) price target on Evonik Industries in a research report on Tuesday, July 5th. Finally, Credit Suisse Group set a €23.00 ($23.00) price target on Evonik Industries in a research report on Friday, April 8th.
Shares of FRA EVK opened at €19.54 ($19.54) on Friday. Evonik Industries has a 1-year low of €26.78 ($26.78) and a 1-year high of €32.97 ($32.97). The business’s 50 day moving average is €23.84 and its 200-day moving average is €25.83.
Evonik Industries AG engages in the specialty chemicals business. It operates through Specialty Additives, Nutrition & Care, Smart Materials, Performance Materials, and Technology & Infrastructure segments. The Specialty Additives segment provides polyurethane additives, organically modified silicones, isophorones, epoxy curing agents, oil additives, fumed silicas, matting agents, TAA and TAA derivatives, and acetylenic diol-based surfactants for consumer goods and specialized industrial applications.
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- First shipment to China expected by March 2023
- 48,000 T spodumene concentrate annual output projected
- Chinese battery minerals giants flock to Zimbabwe
Premier African Minerals PREM.L, will start shipping spodumene concentrate from its Zulu lithium mine in Zimbabwe to China by March 2023 after signing an offtake deal with Suzhou TA&A Ultra Clean Technology Co 300390.SZ, chief executive George Roach told Reuters.
Zimbabwe holds some of the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium deposits and Suzhou joins a growing list of Chinese firms that have invested in the southern African country’s battery minerals projects, including Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt 603799.SS and Sinomine Resource Group 002738.SZ.
Roach said Suzhou is injecting $35 million for the construction of a high capacity pilot plant at Zulu, output from which would be nearly 50,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate annually.
Construction can start immediately thanks to the funding, Roach said, with an aim to ship by March 31 2023 and ramp up production to around 48,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate 6 a year.
In March, Suzhou became a 13.38% shareholder in Premier through a private placement in which it injected 12 million pounds ($14.37 million) into the company, securing spodumene concentrate supply for Yibin Tianyi, China’s leading lithium chemicals producer, which Suzhou jointly owns with CATL, the world’s largest electric vehicle battery maker.
The prices of lithium minerals, key components in the manufacture of electric batteries, have soared in recent months, thanks to growing demand for clean energy sources, and Zimbabwe, starved of investment for more than two decades, hopes its lithium resources will recharge its moribund economy.
Premier picked Suzhou as a partner from a swarm of Chinese, European and Australian investors kicking the tyres of Zimbabwe’s lithium projects.
“At one point, I was involved with 11 separate negotiations with people all wanting Zulu!” Roach said.
“It was a very intense period.” | https://www.newzimbabwe.com/premier-african-minerals-plans-zimbabwe-lithium-shipments-to-china-by-march-2023/ | 2022-07-12T05:25:47Z | https://www.newzimbabwe.com/premier-african-minerals-plans-zimbabwe-lithium-shipments-to-china-by-march-2023/ | true | 3 |
Harris Dickinson & Taylor John Smith Match in Gray Suits at 'Where the Crawdads Sing' Premiere
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Harris Dickinson and Taylor John Smith both opted for gray suits at the premiere of their new movie Where the Crawdads Sing held at Museum of Modern Art on Monday evening (July 11) in New York City. The handsome men were joined at the red carpet event by their co-stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Michael Hyatt, Sterling [...]
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A new vulnerability has surfaced on Honda cars that allows hackers to access the them, unlock doors and start the engines. The affected vehicles include the ones that that were made between 2012 and 2022, a report by CarScoops said. The vulnerability on Honda vehicles allow hackers to go back to one of those previously used codes and access the vehicle such that they can even drive away with it.
A hacker researcher that goes by the name Kevin2600 on Twitter published a research on hacking Honda keyfob system while another hacker RobDrivesCars, found that he could also recreate the vulnerability independently. Due to the way the vulnerability functions, it is been called Rolling PWN by its finders. “I was able to replicate the Rolling Pwn exploit using two different key captures from two different times," RobDrivesCars wrote.
(Also read | Honda, Sony may join forces to have new EV venture: Report)
The hacking research report posted on Twitter illustrates how the new hack is different from the fixed-code hack and talks about how it might also apply to other brands. The report also suggested an update to the code to close the loophole but it depends on how seriously Honda takes this and if the brand feels that there is something to worry about.
The research also clarified that this is not the technology that allows a person to record a key fob signal and then replay it. However, it was that vulnerability that led to a new type of fob code which is rolling on to a new one. Yet, this should prevent someone from simply recording a code and replaying it, since each time it’s used, a new code rolls over the old one. | https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/news/vulnerability-on-honda-cars-lets-hackers-unlock-doors-start-engine/amp-41657590822133.html | 2022-07-12T05:39:12Z | https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/news/vulnerability-on-honda-cars-lets-hackers-unlock-doors-start-engine/amp-41657590822133.html | true | 1 |
The Welsh Government last week tightened its squeeze on second homes in response to the housing crisis in Wales. First Minister Mark Drakeford and Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price set out their goal to "create thriving communities and to support people to afford a home".
Under the plans, councils will be able to control the number of second homes in their counties, having already been given powers to increase second home council taxes by 300% from next April. A new licensing scheme for owners of short-term holiday lets was also announced.
The Welsh Government fears second homes are damaging communities and pricing local people out of local housing markets. At the start of 2022, there were 23,974 registered second homes in Wales.
Are second homes causing the housing crisis or do we not have enough affordable homes on offer? Let us know what you think in the comments section
Despite curbs on second homes, it's clear Wales doesn't have enough affordable social housing, with reports of a family-of-three living in a cellar in Denbighshire amid a shortage in the county. The number of homeless households housed in emergency temporary accommodation in Denbighshire has remained at around 180 since March 2020.
What do you think? Is the Welsh Government guilty of not building enough affordable housing? Or are second-home owners primarily to blame for the housing crisis? We value your opinion at North Wales Live and want to know what you think in the comments section below | https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/lack-affordable-homes-real-cause-24458041 | 2022-07-12T05:41:21Z | https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/lack-affordable-homes-real-cause-24458041 | false | 1 |
'We cannot afford to continue as we are:' Canada's premiers call for feds to fund health care
For the first time since 2019 Canadian premiers are meeting in person in to discuss how to deal with a growing crisis in healthcare across the country.
From emergency rooms shutting down, persistent staffing shortages and long waits to see family doctors -- provincial leaders are feeling the heat when it comes to healthcare issues.
And they say Ottawa needs to pay up.
B.C. Premier John Horgan is the chair of the Council of the Federation, which is what the group of provincial and territorial leaders calls itself. Premiers will meet Monday and Tuesday in Victoria to speak about healthcare as well as a growing national affordability crisis.
"We have been coming up short across the country for a long, long time because we can't count on a stable partner," Horgan said Monday.
The premiers say Ottawa used to be a 50/50 funding partner and is now only providing roughly a fifth of the costs. They want the feds to put up at least 35 per cent of total funding -- an increase that would cost another $28 billion a year.
Quebec premier Francois Legault said costs for healthcare are increasing due to the population aging, and the need for new technology.
"So we cannot afford to continue as we are doing right now," he added.
FEDS PUSH BACK
The federal government says the provincial and territorial leaders are fudging the number, citing billions in one-time funding to help with memrging and ongoing healthcare woes.
Dominic LeBlanc, the Intergovernmental Affairs Minister pushed back against the premiers' claims.
"That 22 per cent number the premiers use is fake," he told CTV News Channel.
"They choose to take a set of numbers which do not reflect the federal government's support for public healthcare. But, the prime minister has said we will absolutely talk to them about how to increase federal support for healthcare," he added.
Horgan, who is leading the charge to get more money from Ottawa, countered by saying it was 'disingenuous' to suggest the federal government was carrying the load when it comes to funding the system.
Also on the agenda is an intense worker shortage facing nearly every industry -- including healthcare.
Monday’s meeting comes as a group representing emergency room doctors across the country calls for the premiers to address staff shortages.
The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians says the priority needs to be the recruitment and retention of health-care workers.
“What we really need is targeted investment in these areas over many years. They have been underfunded to the point that now we have no redundancy left in the acute care system and it's starting to fail,” said Dr. Michael Howlett, president of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians.
With costs for housing, gas and groceries rising the premiers are also looking for a broader affordability fix, particularly since the economic fallout from the pandemic is still being deeply felt by individuals, households and businesses from coast to coast to coast.
The meeting wraps up Tuesday with a closing press conference where all premiers will be available.
With files from The Canadian Press | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/we-cannot-afford-to-continue-as-we-are-canada-s-premiers-call-for-feds-to-fund-health-care-1.18193572 | 2022-07-12T05:42:35Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/we-cannot-afford-to-continue-as-we-are-canada-s-premiers-call-for-feds-to-fund-health-care-1.18193572 | false | 1 |
The lobbying of Uber should, along with those of other corporate giants, only surprise those prone to pollyannaish escapism. Its hungry, desperate behaviour takes place in plain sight, and denials merely serve to emphasise the point. It resembles, in some crudely distant way, the operating rationale of the notorious British sex pest Jimmy Savile, who preyed upon his victims with the establishment’s complicity.
In terms of the gig economy, there are few more ruthless buccaneers than this San Franciscan ride-share company that has persistently specialised in cutting corners and remaking them. Those taken aback by the latest leaked files about Uber’s conduct would do well to remember the initial stages of the company’s growth, and the protests against it. Globally, the taxi fraternity raged against the encroachment of this new, seemingly amorphous bully. Some authorities heeded their wishes, seeing an alternative option in transportation.
In September 2017, Transport for London refused to renew the company’s license, accusing the company of lacking “corporate responsibility in relation to a number of issues which have potential public safety and security implications.” For all such rowdy, boisterous resistance, the company continued to spread its tentacular reach, inculcating users and drivers with ratings, incessant surveillance and behavioural observation.
The Uber leaks give us ringside seats to the decision making of the company. Files numbering some 124,000 spanning the period between 2013 to 2017, were leaked to The Guardian and found their way to 180 journalists across 29 countries through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). These include the savoury essence of over 83,000 emails, iMessages and WhatsApp messages exchanged between then CEO Travis Kalanick and various company executives.
The ICIJ brings out a big gun from the off. In 2015, France’s taxi drivers showed their incensed displeasure with the company by setting fire to tyres, overturning cars and blocking access to airports. The result of the protest was initially significant, leading to a suspension of the company’s operations and a nationwide ban. “Needing a friend in government to smooth things over,” states the ICIJ with gotcha confidence, “Uber’s chief European lobbyist sought help from a young French minister on the rise: Emmanuel Macron.”
They had good reason to feel plucky. Mark MacGann, the lobbyist in the question, is found sending a text to the then French economy minister on October 21, 2015 expressing concern about the ban. “Could you ask your cabinet to help us to understand what is going on?” Macron promises to “look into this personally” and urges “calm at this stage”.
Within hours, the suspension order was being reconsidered. “The local government in Bouches du Rhones will modify its decision and press release to clean up the statements that set off such confusion,” a relieved and grateful MacGann informs Macron. “Thank you for your support.” Macron expresses his own gratitude for the company’s “measured response.”
This picture, according to the leaked messages, emerges from some dozen undisclosed communications and, at the latest count, four meetings between representatives of Uber and Macron. It prompted French MP Aurélien Taché to call it “a state scandal.” Mathilde Panot, parliamentary leader of the left opposition party France Unbowed gave the perpetrator of the scandal an even better description. Macron had shown himself to be a lobbyist for a “US multinational aiming to permanently deregulate labour law”.
The current French President is not the only one to have been taken in by the service. The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, had some advice to give the company. “Right now you are seen as aggressive,” he said with dreary triteness. His solution to Kalanick: “Change the way people look at the company”. Focus on the good. “This will make you seem cuddly.”
Given the protests against Uber globally, both in terms of drivers and users, the company chewed over a strategy of reverse emphasis. The true problem, went this line of marketing, was the vicious, lazy, monopolising taxi driver. Along the way, the company could also discount the welfare of Uber drivers while extolling the merits of a more liberal marketplace hankering for transportation options. “Violence,” exhorted Kalanick like the privateers of old, “guarantee[s] success.”
Spokesperson for Kalanick, Devon Spurgeon, comes close to degrading the old cabbies, suggesting that the Uber model was refreshingly competitive in the face of industry sclerosis. Kalanick and company, explained Spurgeon to the ICIJ, “pioneered an industry that has now become a verb.” To do so required them to break a few eggs and rules on the way “in an industry where competition had been historically outlawed. As a natural and foreseeable result, entrenched industry interests all over the world fought to prevent the much-needed development of the transportation industry.”
Perhaps most revealingly of all, and typical of the East India Company ethos of this titan, was the delight company members found in flouting laws and soiling regulations. Its “other than legal status” was a point of constant excitement, notably in a range of countries from South Africa to Russia. In the uncoated words of Uber’s head of global communications, Nairi Hourdajian, written to a colleague in 2014 as attempts in Thailand and India to shut down the company were afoot, “Sometimes we have problems because, well, we’re just fucking illegal.”
The battles against Uber’s corporate banditry continue, none more passionately and committedly waged than by the workers themselves. Uber drivers have managed to make a case in the Netherlands and the UK that they are protected by the jurisdiction’s labour laws.
The same cannot be said about the United States, where freedom of contract and the tyranny of uneven pay prevail. As Joe Biden, well wooed by Kalanick as US Vice President, said in his adjusted 2016 speech at the World Economic Forum at Davos, there was a company able to give millions of workers “freedom to work as many hours as they wish, manage their own lives as they wish”. The Uber cofounder was less enthused by the vice presidential vessel. “Every minute late [Biden] is,” he wrote in a text to a co-worker, “is one less minute he will have with me.”
The company’s board can also rest easy in one respect. They have majority shareholder support to ensure that a lack of transparency regarding spending and lobbying activities will be permitted to continue. While the veil continues to operate, current CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is also aggressively pursuing a policy of sprucing and cleaning the company’s image. This pirate of transportation is turning cuddly. | https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/07/barely-legal-the-global-uber-enterprise/ | 2022-07-12T05:45:53Z | https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/07/barely-legal-the-global-uber-enterprise/ | false | 6 |
The 2022 British Open will mark the end of Major Championship play this season. St. Andrews will welcome back the world’s top golfers to the Old Course this week, including golf legends Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Rory McIlroy is the Open 2022 betting favorite but Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, and Jon Rahm are not far behind on the British Open odds leaderboard. No matter where you live, golf fans can stream every second of The Open 2022 from anywhere in the world with a VPN.
Scroll down below to learn how to watch British Open 2022 with a VPN from anywhere in the world.
How to Watch British Open 2022 with a VPN from Anywhere in the World
The British Open is the final major championship of the season and could be the last time fans get to see Tiger Woods compete at the legendary St. Andrews golf course.
While streaming can be a challenge, thanks to some of the best VPNs on the market, PGA Tour fans don’t have to miss a single stroke in 2022.
Using a VPN, fans can encrypt their connection and catch every second of the action at The Open 2022 from anywhere in the world.
Below, we’ll go over how to watch the British Open 2022 using NordVPN.
- Click here to sign up for NordVPN
- Choose a US server
- Create an account with Peacock
- Stream British Open 2022 from outside the US
The Best VPNs to Watch British Open 2022 From Anywhere in the World
British Open 2022 Schedule
- 📅 British Open 2022 Date: July 14-July17
- 🕙 British Open 2022 Tee Times: TBD
- 📺 Streaming Platform: Peacock
- 🏆 British Open 2021 Winner: Collin Morikawa
- ⛳ Golf Course: St. Andrews Links | St.Andrews, Scotland
- 🎲 The Open Odds: Rory McIlroy +1000 | Scottie Scheffler +1600 | Xander Schauffele +1600 | Jon Rahm +1800
Where To Watch British Open 2022 If You’re Outside The US
The 2022 Open Championship will be streamed live from St.Andrew’s Links in Scotland. With early tee times for the British Open, golf fans will have to be up early to catch all of their favorite golfers this weekend. Peacock will be offering a live stream of the British Open and users can sign up using a free trial.
While Peacock offers a reliable live stream, it is only available in the US. NBC’s Peacock applies geo-blocking, which will prohibit golf fans from around the world from watching the Open Championship online.
Still, fans can use VPN services, like NordVPN, to unlock the ability to stream Peacock from anywhere in the world.
Below, we’ll break down the best VPN services available for the British Open 2022.
1. NordVPN —Top VPN Service For Live Streaming Events
One of the best options for both beginners and power users, NordVPN offers a combination of great speeds, unbreakable encryption, and an independently-audited no-logs policy. Based out of Panama, Nord VPN is one of the best on the market in 2022.
What We Like:
- ✅ Excellent performance and speed
- ✅ Great security features
- ✅ Unblocks streaming websites
- ✅ Intuitive apps for most devices
2. PureVPN — Seamless Streaming And Download Services
PureVPN is built for media consumption, making it easy for users to stream from anywhere in the world. With strong data encryption, plenty of secure protocols and easy torrenting features, PureVPN has made a reputation for itself as a user-friendly platform with strong security features.
What We Like:
- ✅ Easy Access to VPN Services
- ✅ AES-256 Encryption
- ✅ Compatible with Android TV
- ✅ Supports torrenting
3. Surfshark — Seamless Streaming And Download Services
A popular VPN service, Surfshark VPN offers unlimited connections on top of competitive pricing. A great VPN for all types of users, it provides thousands of servers worldwide, excellent connection speeds, and military-grade AES encryption.
What We Like:
- ✅ Available in Multiple Languages
- ✅ Unlimited Simultaneous connections
- ✅ Well Designed app
- ✅ Reliable Streaming Speeds
How to Stream British Open 2022 Online Using A VPN
While using a VPN may be confusing for new users, the best VPN services are simple to download and use. VPN services help fans get access to their favorite streaming platforms from anywhere in the world by allowing them to keep their connection private.
Scroll down below to learn how to stream the British Open online using a VPN.
Step 1: Choose a VPN
From the list above, click on one of the best VPN services and download the VPN service to your mobile device or desktop.
Our top-rated VPN for British Open 2022 was NordVPN. To sign up for NordVPN, Click here.
Step 2: Install Your VPN
After clicking on the link above, new users can get started in installing their new VPN by picking a subscription service.
Customers receive the best deals by signing up for a two-year plan.
Step 3: Go To Peacock
After connecting to the VPN service, users can choose the United States server to gain access to Peacock and watch the British Open 2022.
Step 4: Stream British Open 2022 For Free
Simply sign up or sign in to your Peacock account and stream British Open online from anywhere in the world. | https://thesportsdaily.com/news/how-to-watch-british-open-2022-with-a-vpn-from-anywhere-in-the-world/ | 2022-07-12T05:50:42Z | https://thesportsdaily.com/news/how-to-watch-british-open-2022-with-a-vpn-from-anywhere-in-the-world/ | false | 1 |
Xiaomi India has added a new smart product to its kitty and no, it is not a smartphone but a smart fan. The Xiaomi Standing Fan 2 in India. The Xiaomi Standing Fan 2 is the perfect device for people looking for a simple and elegant design that provides them with a natural cool breeze. Equipped with 7+5 wing shaped blades, 100 levels of speed, and voice control support, the smart fan helps users experience natural breeze, all around cooling.
As one of the world's leading consumer AIoT (AI+IoT) platforms, Xiaomi India introduced a new offering to bring a drop of comfort to the microclimate of the home. The 7+5-winged shaped blades rotate simultaneously, increasing the airflow for a more powerful cooling. To achieve the desired airflow, the consumers can adjust the fan speed between 1 and 100 via the Mi Home App as per their comfort. Complementing its high performing features, the consumers can switch between natural breeze, direct blow, set the fan speed using Alexa & Google Assistant prompts.
Xiaomi Smart Standing Fan 2 comes with a Silent BLDC Copper-Wire Motor and dual fan blades, that have been optimized to provide a gentler natural breeze. The smart fan has an ultra-wide angle, 140 degree horizontal and 39 degree vertical rotation with a maximum range of 14m to cool the room for the whole family. The 3kg smart fan comes with a 6-step easy assembly, adjustable height with minimalistic design that will blend into any room. The versatile stand allows for users to enjoy the convenience e of using the product as a standing or a table fan as per need.
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1. Introductory
1.1 Forms of Corporate/Business Organisations
The principal forms of corporate and business organisations in Bermuda are:
- exempted companies, owned by non-Bermudians and carrying on business outside Bermuda from a principal place of business in Bermuda (or within Bermuda with other exempted companies); and
- local companies requiring at least 60% ownership by Bermudians and which carry on business in Bermuda.
Both types of companies are private companies limited by shares. It is also possible to form both exempted and local limited liability companies (LLCs).
1.2 Sources of Corporate Governance Requirements
Corporate governance requirements in Bermuda are regulated by:
- statute – notably the Companies Act 1981 (the "Companies Act"), which applies to companies, and the Limited Liability Company Act 2016 (the "LLC Act"), which applies to LLCs;
- common law principles (arising from case law relating to, for example, directors' fiduciary duties);
- a company's constitutional documents, being the memorandum of association and bye-laws;
- in the case of LLCs, a limited liability company agreement; and
- in the case of companies listed on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX), the BSX Listing Regulations (the "Listing Regulations").
The Bermuda Monetary Authority
Further governance requirements are established by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), the regulator of the financial services sector in Bermuda.
As the principal provider of regulatory oversight, the BMA:
- supervises, regulates and inspects financial institutions operating in or from within Bermuda conducting banking, corporate service provider, digital assets, fund administration, insurance, investment, money service or trust business;
- issues Bermuda's national currency, the Bermuda dollar (BMD) which trades at a fixed exchange rate to the United States dollar (USD), and manages exchange control transactions;
- assists other authorities in Bermuda with the detection and prevention of financial crime; and
- advises the government and public bodies on banking and other financial and monetary matters.
The BMA's principal mandate is to develop risk-based financial regulations that apply to the supervision of entities conducting banking, corporate service provider, digital assets, fund administration, insurance, investment, money service or trust business.
The Bermuda Stock Exchange
The BSX is the world's leading offshore fully electronic securities market, offering a full range of listing and trading opportunities for international and domestic issuers of equity, debt, depositary receipts, insurance-linked securities and derivative warrants.
The BSX is supervised and regulated by the BMA under the Bermuda Stock Exchange Company Act 1992 and promotes effective corporate governance standards through the Listing Regulations. As a self-regulatory organisation, the BSX has the statutory authority to adopt rules governing the conduct of its trading members and listed insurers, including enforcement through disciplinary proceedings.
The BSX is a full member of the World Federation of Exchanges and acknowledged as meeting the highest regulatory operational standards. The BSX has a light but effective regulatory environment and is not bound by the European Listings Directive or the United States Securities Exchange Commission.
1.3 Corporate Governance Requirements for Companies With Publicly Traded Shares
For companies with shares that are publicly traded on the BSX, the Listing Regulations contain certain corporate governance requirements. The extent of these will depend upon the nature of the issuer. For example, in the case of a "domestic issuer", being a local company, the Listing Regulations include mandatory provisions to be included in the company's constitution (being the bye-laws) in relation to, among other things, directors' interests and casual vacancies arising on the board of directors. Such requirements do not apply to "international issuers", being exempted companies or companies incorporated outside Bermuda, but such issuers are required, in certain cases, to inform the BSX of certain decisions of the board of directors.
The Listing Regulations do require the directors of all issuers to act in the interests of the holders of securities as a whole, particularly where the public represents only a minority of the shareholders or where securities are non-voting.
Further, if the BSX considers that any contravention of the Listing Rules is due to a failure by all or any of the directors to discharge their responsibilities, it may:
- censure the relevant director(s);
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The awards recognise the efforts for people aged between 13 and 25 who have gone that extra mile to help others in their communities.
Nominations for this year close on July 31.
Roger Timbrell, chairman of the organising committe, said: "If you know a young person between the ages of 13 and 25 who deserves to be recognised for their kindness, volunteering or service to their school, community or local organisation, please get your nomination in before the closing date."
Finalists will be selected in August and invited to the awards ceremony on September 15. The event will be hosted in the Civic Centre by the Mayor Sandra Samuels, who is one of the judges.
Many of those who are not selected as finalists, but who have made a significant contributions to their community, will receive certificates of commendation signed by the Mayor.
The awards are run by the city's Rotary clubs in partnership with Wolverhampton Council, the Express & Star and Wolves Foundation.
They will be given in two age categories: 13-18 and 19-25.
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– Botswana
– DRC
– South Africa
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– Russia
– Botswana
– Democratic Republic of the Congo
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3 Diamond Assets
3.1 Active Mines
3.2 Development Mines
3.3 Exploration Projects
4 Demand Drivers
4.1 Diamond Value-Chain Analysis
5 Major Diamond Producers
5.1 Company Profiles
– ALROSA
– Anglo American Plc
– Petra Diamonds Ltd
– Rio Tinto Plc
– Endiama EP
6 Appendix
6.1 Abbreviations
6.2 Methodology
6.3 Coverage
6.4 Secondary Research
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Maha: Educational institutions closed after heavy rains in Nashik; 6 devotees injured in flooding near temple
Schools and colleges were closed in Maharashtras Nashik city on Tuesday following heavy rains over the last few days and people in flood-prone areas were asked to shift to safer places, officials said.The city received 97.4 mm rainfall in the 24-hour period till 8.30 am on Tuesday, but the rains later took a break, bringing some respite to residents, they said.On Monday, very heavy rains were witnessed near the Saptashrungi temple in the district.
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Schools and colleges were closed in Maharashtra's Nashik city on Tuesday following heavy rains over the last few days and people in flood-prone areas were asked to shift to safer places, officials said.
The city received 97.4 mm rainfall in the 24-hour period till 8.30 am on Tuesday, but the rains later took a break, bringing some respite to residents, they said.
On Monday, very heavy rains were witnessed near the Saptashrungi temple in the district. Six devotees received minor injuries during flooding on the temple steps, authorities said.
Road communication was affected in several villages due to flooding, district administration officials said. The India Meteorological Department has issued a 'red alert' for the North Maharashtra district from July 11 to 14, predicting a very heavy downpour.
"The decision to keep colleges and schools closed today is taken as a precautionary measure. We are closely monitoring the rain situation," an official from the district collectorate said.
Shop owners and residents of some of the flood-prone areas have already been asked to shift to safer places, he said.
A team of the State Disaster Response Force has also arrived in Nashik for assistance, he added.
On Monday, very heavy rains were witnessed near the Saptashrungi temple, located some 70 km from the city. Water gushed from over a protection wall on the return route from the temple. Six devotees coming down the temple steps were injured. They were initially rushed to the temple trust hospital and later taken to Vani for treatment, temple authorities said.
Nashik city witnessed heavy rains over the last few days, which led a rise in the level of the Godavari river.
But, with rains taking a break on Tuesday morning, there was no water discharge of water from the Gangapur dam, which supplies drinking water to the city.
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Farah says he was victim of child trafficking
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Published: 12 Jul 2022 09:35 AM BdST Updated: 12 Jul 2022 09:35 AM BdST
Multiple Olympic and world champion Mo Farah was brought to Britain from Djibouti at the age of nine and was forced to do housework and childcare in exchange for food, he told the BBC.
The 39-year-old Briton, who was born in Somalia, added his name had been changed to Mohamed Farah from Hussein Abdi Kahin in the fake travel documents used to fly him to Britain by a woman he had never met before.
Once he arrived in the UK, the woman took him to her home in Hounslow, west London, and tore apart a paper with the contact details of his relatives. Her family did not allow him to go to school until the age of 12.
"For years I just kept blocking it out, but you can only block it out for so long," he said in the BBC documentary, which will be broadcast this week.
"Often I would just lock myself in the bathroom and cry. The only thing I could do to get away from this (living situation) was to get out and run."
His physical education teacher Alan Watkinson contacted social services and helped him find a foster family in the Somali community after Farah told him what he was going through.
"I felt like a lot of stuff was lifted off my shoulders, and I felt like me. That's when Mo came out - the real Mo," Farah said.
"I had no idea there was so many people who are going through exactly the same thing that I did. It just shows how lucky I was.
"What really saved me, what made me different, was that I could run."
He said in May his elite track career could be over after he finished runner-up in the London 10,000 metre race and ruled out taking part in this month's World Championships.
Farah, who completed the 5,000 and 10,000 metres double at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, will however run a marathon for the first time since 2019 when he takes part at the London Marathon in October.
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Fantastic Farewell: Dan Slott Reflects on ‘Fantastic Four’
Dan Slott prepares to bid goodbye to Marvel’s First Family with a robust retrospective on his four-year run.
This August, FANTASTIC FOUR #46 marks the final stop of a four year odyssey for Dan Slott. In 2018, the writer brought Marvel’s First Family back from a significant period of inactivity following 2015’s SECRET WARS event. In his tenure steering the ship, Slott expanded the cast, married Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters, brought new twists to the team’s origin, and told a story literally decades in the making.
“By now, when people read this, they know where I’m going and they’ll know why. How fast I can write is a big factor,” Slott says of his FF exit, after which he’ll launch a new SPIDER-MAN series. “I would have loved to have stayed on FF longer. I would have loved to write stories about the FF until the end of time. I got to hit the big notes, and on the way, I got to do stories I didn’t even know I wanted to do!”
We had a lengthy chat with Dan about every aspect of his epic experience!
MARVEL.COM: Before we get into your FANTASTIC FOUR run, talk to me about your time as a fan. What got you started with the FF?
DAN SLOTT: When I was a kid, there were five comics I knew I was getting every month: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, MARVEL TEAM-UP, two books from our competition, and MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE. I loved team-up books.
The first comics I ever read were issues of FANTASTIC FOUR that belonged to my cousin, so I knew who The Thing was, and I liked The Thing. I was obsessed with The Thing and MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE was my favorite book. That and MARVEL TEAM-UP were how I met the Marvel Universe, by whoever was teaming up with Spider-Man and The Thing. I also felt really cheated when Human Torch or Invisible Woman or Mr. Fantastic teamed up with Ben in TWO-IN-ONE; I felt like that wasn’t a team-up book, it was just half of the Fantastic Four. [Laughs]
I would also pick up big issues. If I didn’t follow IRON MAN, I would still get issue #100. If I didn’t follow THOR, I would still get issue #300. I knew who the characters were from the team-up books and wanted to see what they were doing in these big issues. So I remember reading FANTASTIC FOUR #200, which was a big Doctor Doom throwdown in Latveria. So I had FF issues that meant a lot to me: the ones my cousin lent me, MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE, anniversary issues, annuals.
Then comes the magic point where you’re a teenager and suddenly you get more money. Your allowance increases, maybe you get a job, who knows. Suddenly, you have more income and you’re allowed to widen your palette. I was getting four or five books a month because they each cost a quarter. Suddenly, I had more money and decided now I would pick up FANTASTIC FOUR. I would see what the FF were doing.
MARVEL.COM: Who were your favorite creators on FANTASTIC FOUR? What runs did you really enjoy?
DAN SLOTT: I was a weird comic book reader, in that most people were into John Byrne on UNCANNY X-MEN, but I was into John Byrne on FANTASTIC FOUR. John Byrne’s run on FF was so important to me growing up, almost more than the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby run. It was something I was picking up off the rack wanting to know what was going to happen each month. That made me a regular FANTASTIC FOUR reader. I’d pick up collections or Pocket Comics and get caught up on Lee and Kirby, but it was the John Byrne FF that made me a regular FF reader.
MARVEL.COM: Over the course of your Marvel career, you wrote books like SHE-HULK, THE THING, and SILVER SURFER, all featuring prominent FF members or frequent guest stars. It kind of feels like you were always building to writing FANTASTIC FOUR. Did it feel that way to you?
DAN SLOTT: Oh God, yeah!
There was a time when Marvel was not publishing a FANTASTIC FOUR book, and I was getting ready to leave AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Two or three times a month on Spidey was kind of burning me out. I loved Spider-Man, but the thing that kept me going on Spidey was milestones.
It was kind of like running a marathon: you’re looking down the road thinking you can make it to that point. You’re climbing a mountain a little bit at a time, but you can always see what you’re aiming for. The thing that kept me going was knowing if I wrote a certain amount of issues, I had written one fifth of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. There was a point where issue #800 was coming and I wanted to be the guy who wrote #600, #700 and #800. I could keep up the schedule without going crazy because I had my eye on the prize. Once I hit #800, the next milestones were so far in the future that I knew I was done. It was my dream gig, but I couldn’t keep it up.
So I told Marvel that after AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #800, there was one grace note issue I wanted to do, and then I was off Spidey. Around SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN, they had given me a blank check to stay on Spider-Man as long as I wanted. I thought I would never leave, but I hit #800 and I was ready. I went to Axel [Alonso], who was editor-in-chief at the time, and told him I was done, but I gave enough advance notice that they asked me what I wanted to do next.
They offered me some really neat things. At one point, Axel asked me to take over the X-Men franchise. I’ve always been more of a Marvel super heroes guy than an X-Men reader. I knew my X was weak. I hadn’t really religiously read the X-Men in over a decade. I was at the company retreats and picked up issues here and there to know where the characters were or where they were going – “Now they’re in San Francisco!” and so on. I said I would not do a good job, I would totally tank if I tried to do X-Men. [Laughs]
I said no thanks to X-Men and Axel asked me what I wanted to do. I said I wanted to do FANTASTIC FOUR Indiana Jones. Axel said we weren’t doing FANTASTIC FOUR Indiana Jones. Okay. We’d meet up every couple of weeks and he’d pitch me, say, DEADPOOL – eh, I just did Spider-Man, it’s kind of X-adjacent. So he’d ask me what I wanted to do. “I’d like to do FANTASTIC FOUR Indiana Jones.” “We are not doing FANTASTIC FOUR Indiana Jones!” It became a running thing. They’d offer me things and I’d just say I wanted to do FANTASTIC FOUR. Eventually, FANTASTIC FOUR opened up and they gave it to me! Yay!
MARVEL.COM: Like you said, before you came on FANTASTIC FOUR in 2018, the book and some of the characters had been dormant for a few years; it’s not like somebody else was writing them the month before you. How did it feel to bring FF back and write those first few issues?
DAN SLOTT: It was intimidating. It was very intimidating, because they had been left in such a great place. When Jonathan Hickman did SECRET WARS, he really closed the lid on that box, really tightly. You looked at where he left it and it was a really nice happily ever after for everybody. The characters were in such interesting places. It left me with some pretty scary problems, like once you get them all back, they have a son who has the power of God. I had to put an end to that! [Laughs] He could create universes! It was so frustrating.
I knew I was writing FANTASTIC FOUR before anybody else at Marvel did. I remember being in the retreat where it was announced they were coming back and that I was writing them. I said the deal with Franklin was that his power was like a battery that wasn’t recharging; he’s starting at God-level, but within a year or two years he would be a normal boy. He will not have the powers of God. We’re going to watch his descent from godhood to humanity and what it means for him to be normal, to have all that power and then lose it. That’s going to be his story arc.
There were people in the room who liked Franklin where he was. They didn’t have plans for him because he was off in another universe, but they didn’t like that. I said tough. This is what I want to do. I didn’t want the character to leave the book. He’s their kid! It’s a book about family. But I didn’t want him to have the powers of God. This was the storyline I chose to do.
But you grow up reading the FF one way. Then Franklin is born. Then they have Valeria. Then Jonathan is doing the book and they get like 12 other kids. I just want to write the Fantastic Four, but you don’t want them to look like jerks. “Hey, all you adopted children – get out!” [Laughs] That’s not fun! That would make me hate Reed and Sue.
These were the bizarre white elephants and traps. I’ve seen the way other writers at Marvel do things and wish I had the bravery of, like, a Donny Cates. Donny comes in and blows things up and then puts the pieces where he wants. But I want to get there slowly, show how things got where they are, acknowledge the previous run, acknowledge the history.
MARVEL.COM: What plans did you have for Doctor Doom coming in? In many ways, he’s as much a part of the book as the FF themselves.
DAN SLOTT: One of the things working on FANTASTIC FOUR was there were always stories I wanted to do with Doctor Doom. He’s the greatest villain in the Marvel Universe. So many people had written Doctor Doom and taken him to more elevated places. Brian Bendis was right before us and had done this epic redemption run in INFAMOUS IRON MAN for Victor Von Doom. I asked Brian before he wrapped up if he could clean the table with Doom, because if not we were going to. Brian did a story where he put the toy back in the box. His face got scarred again fighting The Hood and he was a recluse by the end of the story.
Yet for many fans, they wanted a continuation of the story that Brian had set up. That wasn’t the stuff I wanted to play with. I wanted Doom! When I was doing SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN, I made sure to put everything back in the box at the end so other writers could play with the Doc Ock they grew up with. The minute Doom was back to a capital D and a clenched fist, every writer wanted to play with him the minute he was the Doom we all grew up with.
One of the hardest things with Doctor Doom is his schedule, because every other book wants to use him. I wrapped my head around it by knowing he was a hero, the hero of Latveria, and wanted to save Earth because Latveria was on Earth. In his mind, he’s a good guy.
MARVEL.COM: Why did you make the call to finally marry Ben and Alicia and then give them their own family?
DAN SLOTT: One of the things I knew I was going to do right out of the gate was to marry Ben and Alicia. When I was working on THE THING, I had a 25-issue plan, and then the book got canceled with issue #8. [Laughs] Issue #25 was going to be Ben proposing to Alicia. For two years, we would do this long term romance of him wooing Alicia back. He was going to turn himself into a man that deserved to be with Alicia.
I was working with [editor Tom] Brevoort and he told me he’d let me write the proposal, but I would not get to write the wedding. Ben Grimm is a member of the Fantastic Four and, if he’s going to get married, it will be in the pages of FANTASTIC FOUR. I could do the proposal, I could do the bachelor party, I could do the honeymoon, but the wedding would be in FF, which at the time was being written by J. Michael Straczynski. Brevoort asked me if I would be ok with that, and I said yes. When I got FANTASTIC FOUR, I reminded Tom that he was going to let me do the proposal in THE THING and asked if we could marry them now. That was going to be issue #5.
Joe Quesada had this idea about the Kree/Skrull War coming to an end and it coming down to these two kids. There would be two orphans, a Kree and a Skrull, and Reed and Sue would adopt them. I could tell Joe really liked that idea and knew it would be something I would end up incorporating. When I pitched it, I did it with a difference: Ben and Alicia would adopt these children and now they’re the new parents and Reed and Sue are the old hands. Reed and Sue have the teenagers, Ben and Alicia have the kids, and now we don’t just have a book about family, but one about two families. Everybody seemed to like that and it became a north star we were aiming towards.
FANTASTIC FOUR #46, which will conclude Dan Slott's run on Marvel's First Family, releases on Wednesday, August 24th. Stay tuned to learn more about his process and his storytelling decisions as we continue to reflect on his run throughout the week!
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Property owners in more than two-thirds of the school districts in Berks County will see their property tax bills go up.
School boards had to approve their 2022-23 budgets and set new property tax rates before July 1. Locally, 13 of 18 school districts did so with property tax rate increases.
That is similar to last year when 12 districts raised their rates.
This year’s tax rate increases range from 0.5% in the Daniel Boone School District to 3.6% in the Wilson School District.
Four districts — Hamburg, Kutztown, Reading and Schuylkill Valley — kept their tax rates level. And the Tulpehocken School District lowered its rate for the sixth consecutive year, dropping it by 0.4%.
The Antietam School District continues to have the highest property tax rate in the county at 45.31 mills. Brandywine Heights School District is second highest at 35.4526, and Exeter School District is third at 34.7 mills.
Reading has the lowest school property tax rate in the county at 17.93 mills. It is followed by Tulpehocken at 25.9 mills and Hamburg at 29.69 mills.
Millage rates can be a bit deceiving because property values differ from district to district. That means higher millage rates don’t necessarily mean higher tax bills for owners of similar homes in different districts.
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Overview:
Even if cosmic alien beings exist "out there" somewhere in space, the search for extraterrestrials is almost certain to disappoint.
“Where is everybody?”
Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, reportedly once threw out this seemingly offhand question to colleagues during a lunch hour in 1950. But there was nothing offhand about it; the question is one of humanity’s most burning, ageless questions.
“[Fermi] wondered, given that our planet was relatively young compared to the universe, we might have expected someone to have visited us by now—but we had no evidence of that ever occurring,” space and science journalist Jonathan O’Callaghan wrote in a Livescience online article last year.
This curiosity has come to be known as The Fermi Paradox.
Fermi’s hunch was that other much older planets in the universe theoretically have had far more time to develop life and civilizations far more advanced than ours—so advanced that, perhaps, they might have had technology astonishing enough (to us) to locate and reach Earth in the seemingly infinite expanses of space. Yet—and this is the paradox—they have yet to show up.
Human beings’ compulsive search for extraterrestrials is rekindled with every alleged UFO sighting or, more to the point with this article, every discovery of yet another exoplanet (a planetary world beyond our own galaxy).
Some 4,000 exoplanets found so far
The National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA) reports that more than 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered to date, and thousands more are candidates that require further study to confirm. The project is building steam. Since astronomers first discovered these remote cosmic outposts in the early 1990s, the number discovered and confirmed has doubled about every 27 months.
However, space experts are still just scratching the surface of possibilities regarding the plethora of planets. To give a sense of proportion, there are believed to be roughly 100-200 billion planets and countless stars just in our own Milky Way galaxy, and one in five planets is believed capable of supporting life, at least theoretically.
Related: The James Webb Telescope, A Journey of Discovery
Astronomers recently discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting in the “habitable zone” of a “red dwarf” star somewhat dimmer than our own.
Alluringly, the so-named Kepler-1649c is a mere 300 light-years away (about 1,740 trillion miles). Which is to say, in cosmic terms, we’re practically next-door neighbors, although we can’t just pop over to borrow some sugar.
Wanna visit Kepler-1649c? Good luck with that.
But even if Elon Musk were to insist he plans to rocket human beings there (as he does, far more believably, to Mars), it’s best to ignore him. No earthly spaceship currently exists that can travel the speed of light, which is, practically speaking, the fastest known standard in the universe (except for some mind-bending, far-out caveats that, to me, are so utterly incomprehensible as to be useless to mere mortals).
Yet, even if such a super-craft existed that could flash along at light speed, it would still take centuries to arrive at Kepler-1649c—and many thousands of years just to reach the other side of our own galaxy. I mean, seriously, who has that much time off?
To put these cosmic distances in perspective, note that our rather modestly sized Milky Way galaxy, in whose outer limits the Earth resides, is 100,000 light-years across (a light-year is the distance light travels in one year). Some other galaxies—the unfathomably massive collections of stars and planets bound together by shared gravity—span multiple millions of light-years across. And that’s before you even arrive at their wilderness edges.
Search for extraterrestrials requires more than curiosity
The enormous romantic magnetism of these impossibly distant worlds within incomprehensibly gigantic galaxies in an infinite cosmos—and I’ll admit I get weak-kneed just fantasizing about visiting one—is just a cosmic tease. There’s simply (or even complicatedly) no way anyone living today or for endless eons hence will ever in all probability be able to reach any of them except in human imagination.
This is probably why, according to not a few space experts, humans have never experienced irrefutable “close encounters” with any aliens—intelligent or otherwise—from distant worlds. (Remember Stephen Spielberg’s 1977 sci-fi movie classic, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (the third kind being direct contact with extraterrestrial “animate beings”)?
Read: For all of humanity’s failings, we’ve never stopped wondering about the stars
Well, for the spaceship in that film to have reached Earth, the beings who piloted it would necessarily have had to come from a civilization seemingly impossibly more advanced than our relatively low-tech world currently has to offer.
Read: Preview images from James Webb telescope ‘moved me as a human being’
The search for aliens: We’re either alone … or not
The late British sci-fi writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke once described the Fermi Paradox thusly:
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
A 2021 article on Livescience website—“What is the Fermi Paradox”—fairly notes:
[W]e are yet to find many planets that look exactly like Earth, orbiting stars like our sun — but upcoming telescopes are hoped to be capable of such detections in the coming decade or two.
Even then, the distances between star systems are enormous, making journeys between them difficult. Our closest star system for example, Alpha Centauri, is four light-years away. The distance from Earth to Neptune, for comparison, is 0.0005 light-years—a journey that would still take us decades with current technology.
So we would be silly to hold our breath for soon (ever?) reaching Earth-like exoplanets many light years away, or even four light years, in the case of Alpha Centauri. Might as well be in another universe, considering our present, inadequate, capabilities for space travel.
And finding other life forms—’Anybody out there?’—would be even sillier to hope for.
On the other hand, if a giant, impossibly elegant flying saucer the likes of the one in “Close Encounters” were to land near New York City, say, and if by some chance we could actually communicate with its crew (if it had one—AI, you know), they might be able to tell us the secrets to intergalactic travel we need to know.
Intergalactic travel remains the stuff of fiction
In the meantime, likely forever in practical terms, we will need to content ourselves with vicarious entertainment fiction the likes of Carl Sagan’s novel “Contact” (and the subsequent 2011 Hollywood film by the same name). In the film, aliens try to communicate with earthlings through visual abstractions.
The best line in that film was uttered by the father of the protagonist Dr. Eleanor “Ellie” Arroway (played by Jodie Foster) when she was a little girl enthralled with stars:
If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space.
In the film, Dr. Ellie figures out that what the abstract images convey are plans for humans to build a spaceship to meet with alien leaders in some distant part of the cosmos. A possibility that instinctively beckons awe and wonder in moviegoers, including this one.
But a lot of cosmology experts and brilliant practical physicists suspect we may very well be alone—wasteful of endless space or not—and that a lack of evidence, in this case, may actually for once be evidence of absence.
Still, we wonder what’s “out there.” We wonder mightily and have for a long, long time.
An article on the website of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences notes that,
According to Michael J. Crowe (author of The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750–1900), no less a philosopher than Aristotle argued in the 4th century BCE that a so-called “plurality of worlds” could not exist because every solar system required a Prime Mover to keep it going, and he had trouble imagining an infinite number of those.
Around the same time, Epicurus penned a remarkably modern rejoinder to the Aristotelian perspective. He suggested that atoms were infinite in number and argued that “…there are infinite worlds both like and unlike ours.” Epicurus asserted that some of these worlds would sustain life similar to Earth.
Sounds reasonable, but do they really?
Late Cornell cosmology professor Carl Sagan, whose uber-popular 1980s Public Television series Cosmos rendered astronomy sexy for the masses, thought, as Epicurus did, that because our solar system and planets are unremarkable among billions and billions of stars and countless planets in the universe, other intelligent-life-sustaining planets were highly likely. (A recently updated Cosmos—the Neil deGrasse Tyson-hosted Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey—also has been critically and popularly acclaimed.)
‘Generating life’ is hard. Intelligent life harder.
But, as the Harvard essay explains, esteemed cosmologists John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler favored the “Anthropic Cosmological Principle,” which posits that even in a cosmos bursting with planets that “generating life on one is difficult—and it’s a big leap from single-celled organisms to large-brained mammals who can debate cosmology.” A lot of things apparently have to come together in exact proportions at the exact right time for life to emerge.
“We should therefore reserve judgment as to whether we are alone or only one overachieving species among many,” Frank White wrote in the Harvard essay.
Or among none?
But in the meantime, until more definitive evidence is in about our possible interstellar neighbors, if any, we should probably concentrate more on questions closer to home. Like how we might save our own planet before we inhabitants destroy it with our wasteful, wanton, self-destructive disregard for the perhaps unique-in-existence reality of its glorious gifts.
“Are we alone?” isn’t the most pressing question. It’s how can we best survive our hubris home alone before the Sun engulfs us a few billion years hence.
Yet, still, hope springs eternal. NASA’s new $10 billion James Web Space telescope, the “out of this world” successor to the astounding and still-operational Hubble Telescope, is now encamped in deep orbit and on Monday beamed to Earth the first full-color images of our universe in its vivid infancy some 13 billion years ago.
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Dothan National appears to be accelerating at the right time in the Alabama Dixie Softball Ponytails State Tournament, while the Dothan entry in the SweeTees tournament ran out of gas Monday at James Oates Park.
Dothan advanced to the Ponytails (ages 12-under) championship game slated for Tuesday by defeating Montgomery Gray 17-5 and then earned a bye into the championship game to face the winner of the Wicksburg vs. Greenville game Tuesday morning, which starts at 10 a.m. The winner faces Dothan shortly after in the finals.
Those three teams each have one loss, but Dothan gets the automatic bye into the title game due to having played the most games of the three. Dothan has played five games, while Wicksburg and Greenville have each played four.
In the SweeTees (6-under), Dothan defeated Montgomery American 13-6 in an elimination game Monday before losing to Troy 23-12 in the championship.
Troy teams also took state championship wins in the Belles (15-under) and Angels (10-under) divisions. Troy beat Greenville 19-1 to claim the Belles championship and the Troy entry in the Angels defeated Montgomery Gray 15-14. In the other state championship game Monday, Montgomery Gray defeated Montgomery American 11-4 to win the Darlings (8-under) crown.
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The lone state championship game remaining is the Ponytails on Tuesday.
The Wicksburg-Greenville game will be a rematch. Wicksburg entered Monday’s game against Greenville as the only unbeaten team in the tournament, but Greenville took a 10-8 win to stay alive and create the three-team tie. Dothan defeated Greenville 18-17 to open the tournament, but dropped its first game to Wicksburg 6-2 on Sunday. The championship game is slated to start shortly after the elimination game.
In Dothan’s big win Monday over Montgomery Gray to earn its way into the championship game, the team got out to a 9-0 lead in the top of the first inning.
“That’s what we preach,” Dothan head coach Brian Lindsey said. “Any time we’re visitors, we want to come out and take pressure off our pitchers by scoring four, five, six, seven runs and we came out of the gate and set the tone.”
Lindsey was proud of how his team responded after losing to Wicksburg the night before.
“Coming off our first defeat, we just told the girls that game was over with and we couldn’t change what happened in the past and we still controlled our own destiny,” Lindsey said. “They came out prepared and took care of business.”
Lindsey believes Dothan is in good shape pitching-wise going into the finale, which is scheduled to start shortly after the elimination game.
“We have four pitchers and they have all done what we needed them to do,” Lindsey said. “We have two aces and they have plenty of innings left, so we like the way we sit for one or two games.”
Lindsey said the two primary starting pitchers are Lanie Brooks Lindsey and Allie Potter, but Campbell Mendheim and Mary Van Rope are also strong in the circle.
Since Dothan was an automatic host team with the tournament being in town, the team didn’t have to go through district competition. Lindsey believes that somewhat put the team at a disadvantage in coming together as a team. However, he said the team has bonded nicely.
“Every girl from the top to the bottom has been nothing but team first and has had great attitudes,” Lindsey said. “I couldn’t ask for 12 better players.”
Wicksburg got in an early hole against Greenville, falling behind 9-1 in the third inning before rallying to make it a close game.
“We started out a little, I would say, sluggish on the bats,” Wicksburg coach Tracy Driskell said. “Then we changed out some pitching and the pitching started shutting down their offense, and then our bats got hot.”
Driskell said the team will be ready to play Tuesday in hopes of getting revenge against Greenville and earning a shot at the title against Dothan.
“Our mindset is we play for the Lord and we’re going to compete,” Driskell said.
In the SweeTees championship game, Dothan scored two runs in the top of the first inning, but Troy responded with six in the bottom half and never looked back.
After holding Dothan scoreless in the second, Troy tacked on seven more runs to lead 13-2. Dothan fought back with seven runs in the third to cut the deficit to 13-9, but Troy answered it with seven in the bottom of the inning to lead 20-9 en route to the eventual 23-12 win.
“We usually hit the ball really well … that’s what we work on a lot,” Troy coach Anthony Dixon said.
However, Dixon said playing well defensively was just as important.
“We made some outs at first base and got some tags,” Dixon said. “If you can get some outs in SweeTees without the strikeouts, that helps you out a lot.”
Dothan coach Marc Hall acknowledged his team did tire a bit in the title game after coming off the elimination game win, but mostly credited Troy in its win.
“That team (Troy) over there is a very good team,” Hall said. “In this league, when you’ve got 12 girls who can consistently hit, it’s hard to be on defense for all 12 batters.
“All the kudos to them, but I don’t know if I’ve ever been prouder of a group of girls who were really at a disadvantage when we put this team together a few weeks ago.”
For Dothan, it had been a strong run in a tournament after adjusting to coach-pitch rules. During the regular league season, Dothan teams played traditional T-Ball by hitting off a tee, but the state tournament required coach-pitch, which the other entries had played throughout the regular season.
“They don’t even understand yet what they’ve done, but I think someday down the road they will,” Hall said of his team’s accomplishments. “We beat Montgomery twice – last night (Sunday) and today – which is considered one of the better teams here. They beat Troy … that was Troy’s loss in the tournament the other night. But I think our girls did run out of gas.” | https://dothaneagle.com/sports/high-school/dothan-in-ponytails-title-game/article_ccdc5096-0166-11ed-aa11-bbd0af6194c6.html | 2022-07-12T06:54:11Z | https://dothaneagle.com/sports/high-school/dothan-in-ponytails-title-game/article_ccdc5096-0166-11ed-aa11-bbd0af6194c6.html | true | 1 |
The Security Council headed towards approval of a UN resolution to extend humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1 million people in Syria’s rebel-held north-west – after Russia won its demand for only a six-month mandate.
Ireland and Norway, which had sponsored a resolution calling for a year-long extension that was vetoed by Russia on Friday, circulated a new draft on Monday that provides for a six-month extension of deliveries through the Bab al-Hawa crossing until January 10 2023.
As Russia demanded, a further six-month extension after that would require a new Security Council resolution.
Brazil’s UN Mission, which holds the council presidency this month, scheduled a vote for Tuesday morning.
The draft resolution is almost identical to the Russian draft resolution that failed to get council support last Friday.
At the heart of the apparent backdown by supporters of a year-long extension is Russia’s adamant refusal to consider any timetable beyond six months, and the fact that the Security Council’s last mandate, for a year, ended on Sunday, stranding UN cross-border deliveries.
In Friday’s votes, the Ireland-Norway draft resolution for a one-year extension was supported by 13 countries, with China abstaining and Russia using its veto to defeat the measure.
Council members then voted on the rival Russian resolution for a six-month extension which got only two “yes” votes, with China the only country to join its ally Russia in supporting the resolution.
The three other veto-wielding permanent council members — the United States, Britain and France — voted against it and 10 countries abstained.
The vetoes were not needed, however, because the resolution failed to get the minimum nine “yes” votes required for approval.
US ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned after Friday’s votes that “I have long said this is a life-and-death issue” and “people will die because of this vote”.
Thomas-Greenfield, who visited Bab al-Hawa in June, said aid workers told her a six-month renewal would be “a disaster” for their supply lines.
They told her it “would mean life-saving assistance would shut off in the dead of winter when needs are at their highest, which would be a nightmare scenario for a region where millions of people are still displaced”.
But Russia’s deputy ambassador Dmitry Polyansky told reporters there was “99% agreement” on a resolution and said Russia would not support a nine-month extension, suggested as a compromise by Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.
Unless council members decide to go with the Russian six-month proposal, Mr Polyansky said, he saw no possibility for an agreement.
Asked whether that meant that Russia would veto any proposed resolution that did not follow its draft with a six-month timeline, he replied: “Obviously.”
That left the rest of the council with no alternative but a six-month extension if they want to see the continuation of cross-border deliveries that secretary-general Antonio Guterres and more than 30 non-governmental organisations also consider crucial.
One addition to the new draft calls for Mr Guterres to provide a report on humanitarian needs in Syria by December 10 to assess the impact of a possible border closing in January if the resolution is not renewed.
The draft also calls for Mr Guterres to brief the council monthly and issue reports at least every 60 days on the progress of cross-line deliveries, humanitarian assistance delivered from Turkey, and “early recovery projects” in Syria that Russia has pushed for.
North-west Idlib is the last rebel-held bastion in Syria and a region where an al-Qaida-linked militant group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, is the strongest.
The UN mandate for delivering aid into NW #Syria through the Bab Al Hawa crossing expires today. We stress that the humanitarian crisis that civilians are experiencing is the outcome of the absence of a political solution and the abandonment of Security Council Resolution 2254. pic.twitter.com/yelM9hsoFp
— The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) July 10, 2022
The UN said recently that the first 10 years of the Syrian conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians, the highest official estimate of civilian casualties.
Russia, a close ally of Syria’s government, has repeatedly called for stepped up humanitarian aid deliveries to the north-west from within Syria, across conflict lines.
This would give Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government more control.
In early July 2020, China and Russia vetoed a UN resolution that would have maintained two border crossing points from Turkey for humanitarian aid to Idlib.
Days later, the council authorised the delivery of aid through just one of those crossings, Bab al-Hawa.
In a compromise with Russia, that one-year mandate was extended on July 9 2021 for six months, with an additional six months subject to a “substantive report” from Mr Guterres.
This was effectively a year-long mandate because a second resolution was not needed.
Before last week’s vote, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric called cross-border aid critical for men, women and children in the north-west and stressed the importance of long-term planning, including costs, in supporting a year-long extension. | https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40916075.html | 2022-07-12T06:54:30Z | https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40916075.html | false | 23 |
Vernon Winfrey, Oprah’s father and former Nashville councilman, dead at 89
Vernon Winfrey, a former Nashville city councilman and the father of media mogul Oprah Winfrey, died Friday. He was 89.
Oprah Winfrey, 68, announced her father’s death in an Instagram post.
Vernon Winfrey, who operated an East Nashville barbershop for more than 50 years, died several days after his daughter and other family members hosted a “Vernon Winfrey Appreciation Day,” The Tennessean reported.
“We wanted to be able to have all his friends come and celebrate him while he is able to receive the joy,” Oprah Winfrey said last week.
On Saturday morning, Oprah Winfrey said her father had “reveled” in the backyard party, which was held on the Fourth of July.
“He FELT the love and reveled in it until he could no longer speak,” Oprah Winfrey wrote on Instagram. “Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside I had the sacred honor of witnessing the main responsible for my life, take his last breath. We could feel Peace enter the room at his passing. That Peace still abides. All is well. Thank you for your prayers and good thoughts.”
Vernon Winfrey was elected to the Nashville Metro Council in 1975, The Tennessean reported. He also served as a deacon at Faith United Missionary Baptist Church.
Vernon Winfrey was born in Mississippi and moved to Nashville after serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, according to the newspaper. He worked as a janitor at Vanderbilt University before attending barber school.
He opened Winfrey’s Barbershop in 1965, in addition to an adjacent convenience shop, according to The Tennessean. He was serving customers as recently as last year, according to the newspaper.
“No one enters or leaves without a hello and a handshake,” Vernon Winfrey said in 2018.
“I offer my deepest condolences to the family of Vernon Winfrey. Vernon served on Metro Council for 16 years and dedicated his life to entrepreneurship, barbering, and mentoring young men in the community,” Nashville Mayor John Cooper said in a Twitter post. “An Army veteran and deacon, he leaves behind a legacy of service.”
Oprah Winfrey’s mother, Vernita Lee, died in 2018, CNN reported. Lee was also born in Mississippi and gave birth to Winfrey as a young woman. Lee and Vernon Winfrey never married, the news organization reported.
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Carrie Underwood finally received her Grammy Award in the mail. The American Idol alum shared a photo of her eighth gold trophy from the coveted academy that she received for her contribution to the album My Savior. "Got a special delivery today! I put her with her sisters! This one feels extra sweet @recordingacademy #Grammys #LuckyNumber8," she captioned a photo of her smiling alongside her new trophy. My Savior is the eighth studio album Underwood, which was released in March 2021 through Capitol Records Nashville. It's a gospel album that features 13 tracks, with production from Underwood and David Garcia. Garcia and Underwood also collaborated on her sixth studio album, Cry Pretty. The album features a few classic gospel hymns, such as "Jesus Loves Me," "Blessed Assurance," and "Great Is Thy Faithfulness – along with some originals. Underwood won the Grammy for Best Gospel Album. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2661932775272/photos-the-dierks-bentley-beers-on-me-tour-at-darien-lake | 2022-07-12T07:05:27Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2661932775272/photos-the-dierks-bentley-beers-on-me-tour-at-darien-lake | false | 6 |
Liverpool release ‘dizzying’ 2022-23 away kit inspired by the 90s dance music scene
Liverpool have released their “dizzying” new away kit for the 2022-23 campaign, with the Anfield outfit taking inspiration from “the 90s dance music scene” in their latest offering from suppliers Nike. The Premier League heavyweights say the jersey is “playing to its own beat” and they will be hoping it leaves rivals in a spin when donning it on their travels.
A bold design boasts “iridescent, multi-coloured marbled pattern over a white base colour”, while on the back there is a “striking block of white to emphasize the individuality of each player’s name and number”.
The reverse of the shirt also features the 97-emblem encased by the eternal flame in memory of the men, women and children that tragically lost their lives at Hillsborough on April 15, 1989.
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A new name and number style has been introduced by Liverpool which they say “takes inspiration from the city, with a contemporary take on historic street signs”.
The product is printed with water-based inks, making it more sustainable, and is “constructed with 100% recycled polyester fabric, which is made from recycled plastic bottles”.
Liverpool 2022-23 away kit price and how to buy
The Liverpool 2022-23 away kit is available in men’s, women’s and junior sizes, with match and stadium versions being produced.
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StockNews.com upgraded shares of Amarin (NASDAQ:AMRN – Get Rating) from a sell rating to a hold rating in a report published on Friday morning.
Several other research firms have also commented on AMRN. HC Wainwright lowered Amarin from a buy rating to a neutral rating and reduced their price objective for the stock from $10.00 to $3.00 in a research note on Thursday, May 5th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. downgraded shares of Amarin from a neutral rating to an underweight rating in a research note on Friday, May 6th. SVB Leerink downgraded shares of Amarin from an outperform rating to a market perform rating and decreased their price objective for the stock from $10.00 to $3.00 in a research note on Thursday, May 5th. Northland Securities lowered shares of Amarin from an outperform rating to a market perform rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 4th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group reduced their target price on shares of Amarin from $1.75 to $1.50 and set a sell rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, May 24th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Amarin currently has an average rating of Hold and an average price target of $2.50.
NASDAQ AMRN opened at $1.43 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $567.72 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -28.59 and a beta of 2.02. Amarin has a 1-year low of $1.11 and a 1-year high of $5.97. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $1.61 and its 200-day moving average price is $2.69.
In related news, Director Olsen Per Wold acquired 55,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 13th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of $1.69 per share, for a total transaction of $92,950.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the director now owns 149,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $251,810. The purchase was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this link. Insiders own 0.90% of the company’s stock.
Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. LPL Financial LLC boosted its holdings in Amarin by 2.8% in the 3rd quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 343,568 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $1,752,000 after purchasing an additional 9,464 shares during the last quarter. Evanson Asset Management LLC acquired a new position in Amarin in the 4th quarter valued at about $622,000. Avantax Advisory Services Inc. boosted its holdings in Amarin by 3.3% in the 4th quarter. Avantax Advisory Services Inc. now owns 174,815 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $589,000 after purchasing an additional 5,550 shares during the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp boosted its holdings in Amarin by 24.1% in the 4th quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 592,533 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $1,997,000 after purchasing an additional 114,987 shares during the last quarter. Finally, FNY Investment Advisers LLC boosted its holdings in Amarin by 193.9% in the 4th quarter. FNY Investment Advisers LLC now owns 9,110 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $30,000 after purchasing an additional 6,010 shares during the last quarter. 35.42% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
About Amarin (Get Rating)
Amarin Corporation plc, a pharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases in the United States, Germany, Canada, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. Its lead product is VASCEPA, a prescription-only omega-3 fatty acid product, used as an adjunct to diet for reducing triglyceride levels in adult patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia.
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Key Companies Covered in the Vibration Control System Market Research are Kinetics Noise Control, Inc., Trelleborg AB, Isolation Technology Inc., Vicoda GmbH, Sentek Dynamics Inc., Resistoflex (P) Ltd.., Lord Corporation, ContiTech AG, Hutchinson SA, Fabreeka International Inc. and other key market players.
Global Vibration Control System Market is valued approximately at USD 4.56 Billion in 2020 and is anticipated to grow with a healthy growth rate of more than 6.5% over the forecast period 2021-2027.
Vibration control system is used in various industries such as automobiles, aerospace and pharmaceuticals. Government initiatives to encourage people to purchase electric vehicles, product innovation and growth of transportation industry are driving the market demand of vibration control system.
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For instance, under union budget 2019-20, the government of India announced to provide additional income tax deduction of Rs. 1.5 lakh (US$ 2,146) on the interest paid on the loans taken to purchase EVs. Also, in 2020, Hutchinson SA launched new generation of vibration control systems. This launch consisted of two new systems in thermoplastic materials for reducing the weight of vehicles and improve acoustic performance. However, high cost of installation and maintenance may impede market growth over the forecast period of 2021-2027. Furthermore, efforts by market players to produce cost-effective variety of products is expected to boost the demand of vibration control system in the coming years.
Regions such as Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, Latin America, and Rest of the World are taken in regional analysis of the global Vibration Control System Market. North America is the leading region across the world in terms of market share due to growth of oil and gas and transportation industry. Whereas Asia Pacific is expected to grow with highest CAGR over the forecast period 2021-2027, due to rapid growth of industrialization majorly in countries such as India, China and Japan.
The objective of the study is to define market sizes of different segments & countries in recent years and to forecast the values to the coming eight years. The report is designed to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the industry within each of the regions and countries involved in the study. Furthermore, the report also caters the detailed information about the crucial aspects such as driving factors & challenges which will define the future growth of the market. Additionally, the report shall also incorporate available opportunities in micro markets for stakeholders to invest along with the detailed analysis of competitive landscape and product offerings of key players.
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Vibration Control
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Aerospace & Defense
Manufacturing
Electrical & Electronics
Healthcare
Oil & Gas
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U.S.
Canada
Europe
UK
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
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China
India
Japan
Australia
South Korea
RoAPAC
Latin America
Brazil
Mexico
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Base year 2020
Forecast period 2021 to 2027.
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FOLSOM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, today announced the Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE), has completed implementation of the latest PowerSchool Unified Insights™ release to better protect and unify the data of nearly 300 schools’ student information into one dynamic and up to date platform for enhanced data-driven decision making. Since implementing the upgrade, HIDOE has noted increased teacher use and application of education analytics.
“Completing this upgrade to PowerSchool Unified Insights and implementing it into our technology stack has transformed our workflow by providing schools statewide better access to detailed student information at the tip of their fingers,” said Shane Hedani, Office of Strategy, Innovation, and Policy, Hawaii State Department of Education. “The implementation of the Unified Insights dashboard has changed the way our department uses longitudinal educational data and has helped schools across the state make better data-informed decisions.”
HIDOE operates as a single statewide school district and was able to utilize Unified Insights to successfully unify HIDOE’s data across its schools by housing student analytics in one centralized location, to provide stronger data protection and help make better data-informed decisions. The PowerSchool implementation team migrated all SIS and assessment data into the cloud environment configuring it for use with the dashboard, resulting in better backend function and front end look and feel. While the state had an existing data warehouse, PowerSchool helped migrate it from on-premises (hosted on physical servers) to the cloud.
“The Hawaii State Department of Education and each of its schools can function more cohesively thanks to the implementation of this dashboard upgrade and migration to the cloud, for PowerSchool Unified Insights,” said Maulik Datanwala, Chief Operating Officer, PowerSchool. “Merging the data from 294 schools into a consolidated and highly functional solution will continue to provide excellent learning outcomes for students.”
Founded in 1840, the Hawaii State Department of Education is the only statewide public school district in the country across the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Kauai. HIDOE is also considered a state education agency and serves 173,000 students in 294 schools, including 37 charter schools, in 15 complex areas. HIDOE also employs about 13,000 teachers, librarians, counselors, and over 12,000 educational officers, civil service, and support personnel at its schools.
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PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC) is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool supports over 45 million students globally and more than 14,000 customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in more than 90 countries. Visit www.powerschool.com to learn more.
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SHAFAQNA FUTURE- Honeybees use a sophisticated dance to tell their sisters about the location of nearby flowers. This phenomenon forms the inspiration for a form of robot-robot communication that does not rely on digital networks.
A recent study presents a simple technique whereby robots view and interpret each other’s movements or a gesture from a human to communicate a geographical location.
Known as a “waggle dance,” this pattern of movements can be used by one forager bee to tell other bees where a food source is located. The direction of the movements corresponds to the food’s direction relative to the hive and the sun, whereas the duration of the dance indicates the food’s distance from the hive.
In tests performed so far, both robots have accurately interpreted (and acted upon) the gestures and waggle dances approximately 93 percent of the time.
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Amazon Prime Day 2022 Has Over 1.5 Million Deals This Year — Here Are the Best 100
Amazon's biggest shopping event of the year has officially started, and this year, there are thousands of deals happening in just about every category.
Amazon's Prime Day sale launched this morning and will continue to roll out new deals through July 13. Right now, you'll find discounts on Apple products, electronics, Amazon devices, home essentials, kitchen appliances, beauty products, and summer fashion staples — all up to 80 percent off. Shop all your favorites (and discover new ones) from top brands like Shark, Dyson, Le Creuset, Levi's, Revlon, and Sony, and move quickly to snap up discounted vacuum cleaners, nonstick skillets, headphones, and coffee makers.
To make things easy for you this year, we've plucked out the top 10 Prime Day deals you're not going to want to miss, including the Apple Watch SE for under $230 and an Amazon smart Fire TV television that's a whopping 46 percent off. And check back often: We'll be constantly updating not only this list, but all of our picks throughout the two-day shopping event.
Best Prime Day Deals Overall
- Apple AirPods Pro, $169.99 (orig. $249)
- Samsung Chromebook 4, $127.38 (orig. $229.99)
- Amazon Fire TV 43-Inch 4-Series 4K UHD Smart TV, $199.99 (orig. $369.99)
- iRobot Roomba 692 Robot Vacuum, $179.99 (orig. $299.99)
- All-Clad Hard Anodized Nonstick Cookware Set, $69.95 (orig. $109.98)
- Calvin Klein Wireless Bralette, $19.65 (orig. $28)
- Ray-Ban Square Sunglasses, $102.50 (orig. $151)
- Apple Watch SE, $229.99 (orig. $279)
- Superga Women's 2750 Cotu Classic Sneaker, $39.99 (orig. $64.95)
- iRobot Braava Jet M6 Mop and Vacuum, $299.99 (orig. $499.99)
This year, you'll find more than 1.5 million deals spread out throughout the two-day sale. This includes a slew of Lightning Deals (limited-quantity items that are only discounted for a set amount of time), Deals of the Day (products on sale for 24 hours), and Prime Day deals that will run for the full two days of the event.
Prime members will also benefit from their subscription thanks to exclusive Prime Day deals designed just for them. If you're not yet a Prime Member, you can still reap the benefits by signing up for a free 30-day trial of Prime, which guarantees free two-day shipping, unlimited access to ad-free songs and podcasts, movies and TV series with Prime Video, free games with Prime Gaming, over 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, and photo storage with Amazon Photos.
Prime Day 2022 also arrives with plenty of new features. This year, there is a larger assortment of brands participating. Plus, small businesses will be highlighted with a special badge, allowing shoppers to more readily discover and support them. And for the first time in Prime Day history, shoppers in India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates will be able to shop Prime Day savings toward the end of the summer.
You'll also find tons of on-sale items that have been PEOPLE Tested and approved in our lab. Shop the likes of these plush beach towels for just $30 and this now-$150 food dehydrator machine that our lab said "easily and evenly dried" out its content every time. And don't overlook the GreenPan SearSmart cookware set that's 31 percent off; our testers recommend it because it provides a "hassle-free cleanup."
Keep scrolling to check out more of the best deals happening during Prime Day. Once you've shopped our picks, head straight to the Amazon Prime Day hub to see millions of other discounts. However you browse, make sure to get to checkout ASAP — these prices are only guaranteed to last until July 13.
Best Apple Deals
This year, you'll find tons of heavy discounts on Apple products, including headphones, watches, laptops, and accessories. Don't miss out on snagging the over-ear AirPods Max — which have been slashed by almost $70 — along with a handy Apple AirTag for as little as $28. For even more accessories, there's the Apple Magic Trackpad that's on sale for just $117 and a lightning adapter that allows you to connect with other devices. Plus, you can grab the newest iPad Air for just $560; shoppers call it "beautiful" and a "powerful tablet."
- Apple AirPods (2nd Generation), $89.99 (orig. $159)
- Apple AirPods (3rd Generation), $169.98 (orig. $179)
- Apple AirPods Pro, $169.99 (orig. $249)
- Apple Lightning to Digital AV Adapter, $39.49 (orig. $49)
- Apple AirTag, $27.50 (orig. $29)
- Apple Magic Trackpad, $116.98 (orig. $129)
- Apple AirPods Max, $479.99 (orig. $549)
- Apple Watch Series 7, $329 (orig. $399.99)
- Apple 10.2-Inch iPad, $309 (orig. $329)
- 2022 Apple iPad Air, $559 (orig. $599.99)
- Apple iPad Pro (12.9-Inch), $999 (orig. $1099)
Best Electronic, Tech, and Gaming Deals
If it's electronics you're after, you'll find a slew of noise-canceling headphones, laptops, smart watches, monitors, TVs, gaming systems, and soundbars from top brands like Beats, Bose, Sony, Samsung, LG, and Microsoft. Start with these Beats noise-canceling headphones that have been slashed by over $100; the headphones will last for up to 22 hours on a single charge. Then you can snag an Acer Aspire 5 Laptop for under $350 and a Samsung computer monitor that's ideal for advanced gaming; it's so popular that one reviewer claimed to have "four of them now."
- Beats Studio3 Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones, $224.99 (orig. $349.95)
- Bose Smart Soundbar, $799 (orig. $899)
- JBL Clip 4 Portable Mini Bluetooth Speaker, $49.95 (orig. $79.95)
- Sony Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones, $279.99 (orig. $349.99)
- Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro, $171.67 (orig. $199.99)
- Acer Aspire 5 Laptop, $348.89 (orig. $399.99)
- Hisense Sound Bar, $79.99 (orig. $149.99)
- Nintendo Switch Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, $19.93 (orig. $59.99)
- Fitbit Versa 2 Smartwatch, $119.95 (orig. $149.95)
- LG 65-Inch 4K Smart UHD NanoCell TV, $829.99 (orig. $1,399.99)
- Microsoft Surface Pro Touchscreen, $844.95 (orig. $1,099.99)
- Samsung Curved Computer Monitor, $169.99 (orig. $189.99)
Best Amazon Device Deals
Nearly every kind of Amazon smart device is on sale right now, whether you're looking to add a new do-it-all speaker or a fast and lightweight tablet to your cart. Plus, you'll find some of the best prices of the year on Amazon Fire TV Sticks, Ring video doorbells, smart TVs, and Blink security cameras — prices start at just $13. Don't miss out on testing out the Fire TV Cube that delivers an uber-fast 4K streaming experience, as well as the multifunctional Echo Show 5 that allows you to make video calls, stream videos, and set alarms.
- Echo Dot (3rd Generation), $29.99 (orig. $39.99)
- Echo Dot (4th Generation), $49.99 (orig. $59.99)
- Amazon Smart Plug, $12.99 with Prime ($24.99)
- Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K, $39.99 (orig. $49.99)
- Amazon Smart Thermostat, $41.99 with Prime (orig. $59.99)
- Blink Video Doorbell, $34.99 with Prime (orig. $49.99)
- Fire HD 8 Tablet, $44.99 with Prime (orig. $89.99)
- Echo Buds (2nd Generation), $69.99 with Prime (orig. $119.99)
- Fire TV Cube, $59.99 with Prime (orig. $119.99)
- Insignia 32-Inch Class F20 Series Smart HD 720p Fire TV, $99.99 with Prime (orig. $179.99)
- Echo Show 5, $34.99 with Prime (orig. $84.99)
- Blink Mini Smart Security Cameras, $29.99 with Prime (orig. $64.99)
- Ring Video Doorbell, $83.98 with Prime (orig. $89.99)
Best Home and Kitchen Deals
Customer-loved brands, including Henckels, Dyson, Ninja, Nespresso, All-Clad, and Shark, are on super sale during Prime Day, so it's easy to grab home and kitchen essentials like vacuum cleaners, multi-cookers, bedding, air purifiers, cooling devices, and mattresses. Right now, in the kitchen department, you can score a rarely-on-sale Vitamix blender for under $300, as well as the Instant Pot Duo for just $75. And for the rest of the home, consider this Inse vacuum cleaner that's a whopping 80 percent off, along with a Dreo tower fan that's sure to keep you cool through the summer.
- Instant Pot Duo, $74.95 (orig. $99.99)
- iRobot Roomba i2 Robot Vacuum Cleaner, $199.99 (orig. $349.99)
- Vitamix E310 Explorian Blender, $289.95 (orig. $349.95)
- Dyson V8 Animal Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, $378.74 (orig. $399)
- Beckham Hotel Collection Bed Pillows, $25.80 with coupon (orig. $49.99)
- NutriBullet Pro, $89.97 (orig. $109.99)
- Danjor Linens Bed Sheets Set, $24 with coupon (orig. $39.99)
- Casper Sleep Element Mattress, Queen, $590.75 (orig. $695)
- Le Creuset Enameled Cast Iron Signature Sauteuse Oven, $239.95 (orig. $300)
- Ninja Air Fryer, $89.99 (orig. $129.99)
- Puetz Golf Handheld Steam Cleaner, $45.04 (orig. $89.99)
- Inse Cordless Vacuum Cleaner, $118.97 with coupon (orig. $598.98)
- PurSteam Steam Mop Cleaner, $69.97 (orig. $109.99)
- Nespresso Vertuo Plus Deluxe Coffee and Espresso Maker by De'Longhi, $191.95 (orig. $239)
- iRobot Roomba i7+ Robot Vacuum Cleaner, $499.99 (orig. $799.99)
- Keter Outdoor Patio Cooler Table, $62.34 (orig. $99.99)
- Levoit Air Purifier, $84.98 (orig. $99.99)
- Dreo Cruiser Pro Tower Fan, $69.99 (orig. $79.99)
- Homelabs 5000 BTU Window Mounted Air Conditioner, $159.97 (orig. $199.99)
- Shark Navigator Lift-Away Deluxe Upright Vacuum, $189.95 (orig. $219.99)
- Henckels Classic Utility Knife, $48.41 (orig. $75)
Best Clothing and Fashion Deals
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Prime Day has brought beauty deals in just about every category — including skincare, makeup, and oral health — meaning you'll find discounted prices on popular brands like Revlon, Burt's Bees, Olay, and Olaplex. You can buy the always-popular AquaSonic electric toothbrush for just $34, which many shoppers say gives you the "dentist feel" at home. And don't forget about the beloved Revlon hair dryer that's earned over 243,000 five-star ratings from reviewers who say you should "believe the hype" and note that it's a "huge timer saver."
- Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus 2.0 Hair Dryer, $68.88 (orig. $74.99)
- Burt's Bees Body Lotion, $8.92 (orig. $11.99)
- L'Oréal Paris Pure Hyaluronic Acid Serum, $18.99 (orig. $32.99)
- iSmile Teeth Whitening Kit, $25 (orig. $39.99)
- AquaSonic Black Series Ultra Whitening Toothbrush, $33.96 with coupon (orig. $59.95)
- Olay Regenerist Whip Face Moisturizer, $13.49 (orig. $29.99)
- Olay Regenerist Serum, $14.99 (orig. $27.49)
- Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstick, $5.48 (orig. $7.49)
- Prism Makeup Eye Makeup Palette, $8.49 (orig. $13.99)
- Terez and Honor Natural Eyelash Growth Serum, $18.69 (orig. $29.99)
- Olaplex No. 3 Hair Perfector, $28 (orig. $30)
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- Naturewell Clinical Retinol Advanced Moisture Cream, $15.99 (orig. $22.99)
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- Kasa Indoor Dog Camera, $27.99 with coupon (orig. $34.99)
- Coolaroo Cooling Elevated Pet Bed, $27.01 (orig. $34.99)
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‘I can’t wait to play rugby again’
Young Kruisfontein flank remains upbeat despite suffering neck injury in quarterfinal against Gardens
Kruisfontein United rugby player Devon Bosman is itching to get back on the field after suffering a neck injury in a quarterfinal match against Gardens Rugby Club on Saturday.
Before doctors undertook a lengthy operation on the young flank forward at Livingstone Hospital on Monday, Bosman, 18, told the club’s president, Calvin Zietsman, about his desire to feel the oval ball in his hands again. ..
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HONOLULU (KHON2) — An Oregon visitor drowned in waters off Kaunaoa Bay near the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel.
Hawaii Island Police said it happened just before 11 a.m. Sunday, July 10.
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Police said lifeguards pulled out an an unresponsive man and started CPR.
He was taken to the Queen’s North Hawaii Community Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Police said he was identified as John Mackenzie of Terrebonne, 61, of Oregon.
Police are investigating.
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Carlos Santana postpones July 9 Cincinnati concert after collapsing on stage Tuesday
On Saturday, legendary guitarist Carlos Santana announced he is postponing the next six shows of his Miraculous Supernatural 2022 Tour: Santana + Earth, Wind & Fire, including the July 9 concert in Cincinnati.
The announcement follows Tuesday's event at the Pine Knob Music Festival in Michigan where Santana collapsed on stage.
In a release, Santana's medical team recommends the artist gets rest to fully recuperate.
“Santana profoundly regrets that these postponements of his upcoming performances; but, his health is our number one concern. He is looking forward to seeing all of his fans very soon," the release stated.
The July 9 show at Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati was announced today as one of the impacted shows.
Officials said a new tour date will be announced for the rescheduled show date. Any previously purchased ticket will be honored for the new date.
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Shares of Earthstone Energy, Inc. (NYSE:ESTE – Get Rating) have earned a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the nine brokerages that are covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, three have given a hold recommendation and three have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1-year target price among brokers that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $23.00.
ESTE has been the subject of several recent research reports. Stephens initiated coverage on shares of Earthstone Energy in a research report on Wednesday, April 13th. They issued an “equal weight” rating and a $15.00 price objective for the company. Royal Bank of Canada lowered shares of Earthstone Energy from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and set a $21.00 price objective for the company. in a research report on Wednesday, July 6th. StockNews.com lowered shares of Earthstone Energy from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, May 13th. Truist Financial increased their price objective on shares of Earthstone Energy from $30.00 to $35.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 29th. Finally, TheStreet lowered shares of Earthstone Energy from a “b” rating to a “c+” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 24th.
In related news, Director Jay Frederick Joliat acquired 20,237 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, July 6th. The stock was bought at an average cost of $11.66 per share, with a total value of $235,963.42. Following the acquisition, the director now directly owns 90,000 shares in the company, valued at $1,049,400. The acquisition was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, CFO Mark Lumpkin, Jr. sold 30,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, April 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $16.47, for a total transaction of $494,100.00. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer now directly owns 208,253 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,429,926.91. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 3.80% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
NYSE:ESTE opened at $11.94 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.30, a current ratio of 0.30 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.50. The company has a market cap of $1.35 billion, a P/E ratio of 62.84 and a beta of 2.19. Earthstone Energy has a fifty-two week low of $7.01 and a fifty-two week high of $22.25. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $16.08 and its two-hundred day moving average is $14.20.
Earthstone Energy (NYSE:ESTE – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 4th. The oil and gas producer reported $0.78 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.56 by $0.22. Earthstone Energy had a net margin of 1.45% and a return on equity of 16.38%. The company had revenue of $196.10 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $166.65 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.17 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 159.4% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts forecast that Earthstone Energy will post 4.61 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Earthstone Energy Company Profile (Get Rating)
Earthstone Energy, Inc, an independent oil and gas company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas properties in the United States. The company's asset portfolio includes the Midland Basin of West Texas, Delaware Basin in New Mexico, and the Eagle Ford trend of south Texas.
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Bullseye: Dart-focused food and beverage venues score big city sites
The traditional pub game of darts is revitalising Melbourne’s CBD where two international players have scored bullseye locations.
The recently shuttered Michaels Camera store in Elizabeth Street will be turned into a multi-level dart gaming and food venue run by Norway-based Oche after the company signed a lease to take over all three levels in the notable building at asking rent believed between $1.3 and $1.4 million a year.
The Michaels family, who ran a shop in the building for more than 100 years, closed in January blaming the pandemic.
Oche opened its first darts venue in Fortitude Valley Queensland.
“We are thrilled to be bringing the Oche concept to Melbourne’s CBD later in the year, we will be revealing more details in the not-so-distant future,” an Oche spokesperson said.
Cushman & Wakefield’s Michael DiCarlo, Stephanie Harding, Cam Taranto, Nathan Thompson and James Summerhays negotiated the lease.
“We’re experiencing growing demand among entertainment sector clients for CBD tenancies,” DiCarlo said.
Another recent arrival in Melbourne is UK-based Flight Club.
David Heaton, chief executive of Perth-based Capitol Corp, scooped up Flight Club’s Australian rights to open its first venue in the West Australian capital and is on the cusp of opening another in Fremantle.
In Melbourne, on the corner of Russell and Little Lonsdale streets, Heaton is refurbishing the two-level Alexandra Building, transforming it into a cross between a traditional English pub and Victorian-era fairground.
The venue features a high-end food and drink menu, booths with real darts and boards, and cameras to pick up where the dart lands to take the friction out of playing the game.
“A lot of money is spent on the inside of the venues, in excess of $5 million. They look amazing, they really do,” Heaton said.
The club will focus on corporate team-building during the day and city revellers at night.
“Large tenancies that have become available post pandemic are attracting strong interest from international groups with strong financial covenants, particularly in areas with tourism and student foot traffic,” Harding said.
The dart-focused entertainment venues follow a string of others like Monopoly Dreams, Lego and table tennis bar, Paddle Battle, that are taking advantage of prime vacant spaces in the centre of town.
Monopoly Dreams opened its first Australian venue in GPT’s Melbourne Central shopping hub where Lego also took space and Paddle Battle is fitting out a 2500sqm site on the lower ground floor of the Aurora Tower in La Trobe Street.
Agents say falling rents and rising incentives are attracting bigger retailers into premium city spaces where they had been price out over the last decade.
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Dog owners in the Lower Mainlain are demanding changes to TransLink’s pet policy.
A new Change.org petition, started by dog owner Portia Zaffaroni, says TransLink should “allow dogs in backpacks and carriers with their heads exposed.”
According to their website, Translink public transportation allows one pet per person, as long as they are kept contained in “small, hand-held, fully enclosed carriers that fit in your lap, with no part of the animal exposed.”
The policy goes on to say that, “drivers may refuse to allow pets on board, at their discretion. This may be because of a risk to other passengers or because of limited space. We recommend travelling during off-peak times.”
However, the petition states that this is not good enough, as it limits the travel options of those with larger dogs. With rising gas and car ownership prices, it is unfair to have such strict limits.
“It’s unreasonable to expect dog owners to own a vehicle or pay for a car-hire every time they want to travel with their pet,” the petition states.
The call demands that TransLink adopt a policy similar to New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which is less strict in its rules surrounding pets.
MTA’s policy requires pets to be “in a bag or other container and carried in a way that doesn’t annoy other riders.”
In 2017, the Vancouver Park Board recommended finding ways to grant dogs more access on public transportation to encourage pet owner to use municipal parks.
TransLink reviewed its pet policy in 2018 but made no changes.
The petition creators have also launched a Facebook page to provide updates on the campaign.
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Wayne Rooney reportedly on brink of clinching DC United job
The former Manchester United and England great left Derby in June after a rollercoaster 18 months.
Wayne Rooney is set for an instant return to management after agreeing to take charge of old club DC United, according to reports.
The 36-year-old left Derby last month following a tumultuous spell where his own stock improved despite chaos off the pitch at the Pride Park club.
Rooney has wasted no time being out of the game with a move back to America seemingly in the pipeline again.
England’s record goalscorer spent a year-and-a-half playing for the Washington-based club, scoring 25 times and helping DC earn a place in the 2019 play-offs.
A switch to Derby occurred at the beginning of 2020 with Rooney able to balance playing alongside coaching at the Sky Bet Championship outfit. He took over as caretaker following Phillip Cocu’s dismissal in November of that year and was officially appointed as manager the following January.
The Manchester United great would experience a rollercoaster 18 months in the hotseat with Derby plunged into administration at the start of last season.
Given a combined 21-point deduction, relegation appeared a formality but Rooney was able to harness an incredible turnaround of fortunes despite a lack of finances or certainty over the future to see the Rams’ fight for survival go into the penultimate month of the season.
Derby were eventually consigned to League One on April 18 and yet it was events two months later that saw their highly-regarded manager move on.
Rooney announced his resignation on June 24 with the club’s takeover still not complete, citing: “I feel the club now needs to be led by someone with fresh energy and not affected by the events that have happened over the last 18 months.”
Instead of remaining in England to continue his managerial journey, the Three Lions 53-goal hitman will return to the United States.
He will take over a DC United side who have been without a permanent head coach since the dismissal of Hernan Losada in April.
Chad Ashton has been in interim charge but suffered a 7-0 defeat to Philadelphia on Friday to leave the MLS side second-from-bottom in the Eastern Conference table.
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July 12, 2022 - 12:19am
All hot rods welcome in Corfu on Thursday evening
If you just like to hang out and check out hot rods, or own one you want to show off, the Village of Corfu, around Dadios at Route 33 and Route 77, is the place to be at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Jim Reinhardt said everyone is welcome to the hot rod night that serves no other purpose than to look at some classic machines.
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Thousands will take to the streets for The Twelfth parades across Northern Ireland on Tuesday.
This year marks the 332nd anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. T he Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland estimates that half-a-million people are expected to participate or spectate in celebrations this year.
Motorists are advised that there will be significant traffic and delays across NI on Tuesday.
Demonstrations are being held in Glenarm, Ballymena, Bushmills, Antrim, Cullybackey, Magheragall, Armagh City, Belfast, Ballygowan, Greyabbey, Newry, Ballymartin, Enniskillen, Limavady, Tobermore, Castlecaulfield, Omagh and Aughnacloy.
The Belfast parade will leave Belfast Orange Hall, at Carlisle Circus, at 10am. As is tradition, the Millar Memorial Flute band will lead the parade as it makes its way along Clifton Street, Donegal Street, Royal Avenue, Castle Junction and Donegall Place to Belfast City Hall.
A wreath-laying ceremony will take place at the Cenotaph in the grounds of the City Hall shortly before 10.30am and the parade will then proceed via Donegall Square West, Bedford Street, Dublin Road, Shaftsbury Square, Bradbury Place, Lisburn Road, Balmoral Avenue and Malone Road to Barnett’s Demesne.
The platform proceedings at Barnett’s Demesne will begin at 2.30pm and the chairman for the afternoon will be the County Grand Master, Spencer Beattie. The return parade is due to leave the field and proceed towards the city centre at 3.30pm.
Follow our live blog below for updates throughout the day.
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Belfast road closures and delays
Road users are advised of traffic disruption throughout the day. In and around Belfast City Centre a number of roads will be closed.
Tuesday morning:
- Shaftesbury Square 08:15 - 19:00
- A12 Westlink offslips at Clifton Street 08:30 - 11:30
- Frederick Street 08:15 - 11:30
- Great Patrick Street 08:30 - 11:30
- Albertbridge Road 09:15 - 11:30
- Short Strand 09:30 - 11:30
- Station Street 09:15 - 11:30
- M3 Bridge off-slip 09:15 - 11:30
- Sydenham By Pass 09:30 - 11:30
- Middlepath Street 09:30 - 11:30
- Upper Malone Road 11:00
NIFRS statement after the Eleventh Night
A Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) Spokesperson said: “Between 6pm 11 July and 2am 12 July 2022, Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) received a total of 203 emergency 999 calls which resulted in our Firefighters responding to 98 operational incidents.
“During this period we attended 35 bonfire related incidents. This represents a 12.5% decrease in bonfire incidents during the same timeframe in 2021.
“Peak activity was between 11pm and 1am.
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Actor Ranveer Singh shared a glimpse of his birthday celebrations with Deepika Padukone. Bollywood’s power couple seems to have enjoyed a biking getaway, a beach trip and some delicious snacks. Ranveer shared photos that featured a sweet kiss from Deepika, footprints on the sand, and a video of Deepika getting ready to cycle. He also shared a clip of himself cycling.
Ranveer wrote, “Love to love you baby,” and added the hashtags of photo dump and birthday. The post was met with a lot of love from fans, including hearts from Rakul Preet and Anusha Dandekar.
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Ranveer turned 37 on July 6 and was flooded with love from Bollywood celebrities, who penned emotional messages for him. Arjun Kapoor, who worked with Ranveer on Gunday, shared a post for Ranveer that was a split of their characters from Padmaavat and Ek Villain Returns, respectively. Arjun captioned it, “Bade parde ke ek bade villain ko janamdin bahut mubarak ho. Ek Villain ko doosre Villain ka salaam. @ranveersingh baba happy birthday.” Sara Ali Khan, Anushka Sharma and Ajay Devgn had sent their wishes for the star too.
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Currently, Ranveer is making waves for his reality show, Ranveer Vs Wild With Bear Grylls. In the interactive Netflix series, the star wants to fetch the rare Serbica Ramonda flower for Deepika. In order to do so, he decided to navigate Serbia’s dense jungles in search of the flower as a mark of his love for her. During the show, Ranveer revealed his love story and how he felt when he met her for the first time. “I remember sitting at the lunch table (at Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s house), ready for the reading and I know Deepika is going to come so I’m already excited about it,” Ranveer said. He added, “I’ll never forget, the doorbell rang and these big wooden doors opened, and she was wearing all-white. The breeze blew just at that time and she walks through the doors with her hair all flying.” He said that ‘time slowed down’. Ranveer and Deepika fell in love during the filming of Goliyon Ke Rasleela Ram Leela in 2013 and tied the knot in 2018 at Lake Como, Italy.
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Health Minister of Ukraine Ilya Emets called the country’s citizens over 65 years old “corpses”. In his opinion, in the context of the coronavirus epidemic, the state and businesses should not spend money to support these people. The head of the Ministry of health said this on the air of “112.ua”.
According to Emets, Ukraine currently lacks the express tests and virological laboratories “even if to take in account the help of China”.
“After all, we know the statistics of how many people we have over 65 years old. <…> I say when financiers will start to count on those people who are still alive (elderly), I don’t joke or try to scare. I keep saying: calculate how much funds we need to allocate for living people, not for corpses,” Emets said.
To this date, 73 cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Ukraine. Three people died and one recovered.
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Banned gambler who lost $950k at The Star wants the casino to let her back in so she can get a second chance to WIN all of her money back
- Gambler is suing Sydney casino to be allowed back in after getting banned
- Kim Huyen Tran Nguyen has lost $950,000 in The Star and wants to win it back
- She claims she has open-ended ban and it prevented her taking a job at casino
- The Star wants the lawsuit dismissed or stayed and will seek its legal costs
The Star casino is seeking to shut down a lawsuit by a banned gambler who lost $950,000 and wants a second chance to win the money back.
In the lawsuit, which The Star wants either dismissed or stayed, Kim Huyen Tran Nguyen has accused the casino of banning her and withdrawing her membership for no reason and making misleading statements to the police.
Ms Nguyen, who works as a beauty therapist in western Sydney, claims she received a verbal one-year ban without an end date in April 2021.
A gambler who has lost $950,000 at Sydney's The Star casino is fighting what she says is an open-ended ban from the venue which is preventing her from winning her money back
The woman, from the western Sydney suburb of Fairfield East, says she accepted the ban without dispute at the time because of Covid-19 and family issues.
Ms Nguyen launched the NSW Supreme Court lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban claiming it is also preventing her from starting a job as a travel host at the casino.
The Star's lawyers are attempting to shut down the lawsuit by having it either dismissed or stayed
As well as wanting to return to the casino to recover $950,000 in losses, she allegedly had $2500 of credit left which was not fully refunded when stripped of her membership.
Ms Nguyen will oppose The Star's bid to terminate her lawsuit, saying she wished the matter to go to a hearing with full evidence.
The Star is also seeking its legal costs of defending the case.
Beauty therapist Kim Huyen Tran Nguyen claims The Star ban is stopping her taking a job in the casino and is still owed $2500 in credit
The Star is also suing another gambler it claims owe them $12million from cashing in an allegedly dodgy cheque
It's a busy time for the casino's lawyers because they are also suing a high roller over $12million in allegedly unpaid debts.
The Star claims that in July 2019 Jingang Hu withdrew $13.2million worth of Hong Kong dollars from a cashing facility based on a cheque that later bounced.
'On 19 July 2019, the said cheque was not met on presentation upon deposit by [The Star] causing [The Star] to suffer loss,' the casino wrote.
The Star claims Hu falsely said the cheque was valid and would be honoured.
While Hu partially repaid the funds, The Star alleges it is still owed $10.7million plus $1.3 million in interest.
The casino is also seeking its legal costs in the NSW Supreme Court lawsuit. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11004875/Star-casino-gambler-Kim-Huyen-Tran-Nguyen-lost-950k-wants-ban-lifted-win-money-back.html | 2022-07-12T07:48:43Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11004875/Star-casino-gambler-Kim-Huyen-Tran-Nguyen-lost-950k-wants-ban-lifted-win-money-back.html | false | 2 |
A mum-to-be who blamed breathlessness on her pregnancy has tragically been told she has cancer at 17-weeks. Victoria Hemmings-Slack, aged 30, was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin lymphoma.
The mum-to-be went to A&E where a chest x-ray unearthed a tumour on her chest. She was also found to have a lump in her neck during the visit. The 30 year old has subsequently welcomed a healthy baby boy after gruelling chemo. She is now, thankfully, in remission following treatment.
She told StokeonTrentLive: "I'm a regular gym goer, I would go about four or five times a week, but when I got married last September I took about two weeks off the gym. I came back from my wedding and found I couldn't catch my breath when I was working out, I thought it was strange because I'm in good shape and I didn't understand. I went to the doctors who said they thought it was a chest infection and I had some antibiotics, but it didn't clear. I then found out I was six-weeks pregnant and I thought that will explain why I've been getting out of breath. But my breathing then rapidly deteriorated, I couldn't walk up the stairs without getting out of breath.
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"My main symptoms were itchy skin, all over itching and night sweats, waking up at night sweating. When I'd lie down I could also feel something on my chest, it was horrible." She said: "I never expected to have cancer, I'd just got married, moved into our first home and we were expecting our first child. It felt really perfect, it was a massive shock.
"I was really excited to be pregnant, but I only got to 17-weeks and then I found out I had this cancer and I was frightened of losing my baby all the time. I was worried I'd have a baby that wouldn't remember his mum, I was worried I wouldn't get through it. was devastated at first, but I adopted a very positive attitude to it because crying won't make me better. I was just so grateful to have this pregnancy and being able to have this treatment and I wasn't having to make a decision of it's me or the baby.
"But as much as I tried to enjoy my pregnancy, I was constantly worried about any reduced movements, constantly thinking what am I doing to my unborn child? It took me a long time before I started buying baby items or decorating his nursery as I was just so frightened of losing him. Luckily, my placenta protected him and he came naturally. I was meant to have a caesarean, as they didn't want me to have a natural birth with a tumour on my chest, but I was told the chemo could induce him. He spent 18 days in the intensive care unit at Royal Stoke. He's strong and gaining weight rapidly.
"I'm now classed as being in remission, but I've still got another four rounds of chemo to go. In total I will have had 12 rounds of chemo. It's hard looking after a newborn while having chemo because I'm just physically exhausted now. It's been the hardest part as every other week I have to spend six hours at the hospital having chemo, but the finish line is near. I was determined to get better and I appreciate life 10 times more now. I do class myself as lucky, I'm able to live my life after this cancer and I've got a beautiful child. For some people, the cancer takes that away from them." She added: "I never thought I'd get cancer at such a young age and I'd never heard of lymphoma.
"It's actually more common than you think. If I had noticed the lump in my neck, the cancer would have been caught earlier but I never checked my lymph nodes. As women we're told to check our breasts, but check your lymph nodes too."
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TOKYO — Japanese bid their final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as a family funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination that shocked the nation.
Abe, the country's longest-serving prime minister who remained influential even after he stepped down two years ago, was gunned down Friday during a campaign speech in the western city of Nara.
Hundreds of people, some in formal dark suits, filled pedestrian walks outside of the Zojoji temple in downtown Tokyo to bid farewell to Abe, whose nationalistic views drove the governing party's ultraconservative policies.
Mourners waved, took photos on their smartphones, and some called out "Abe san!" as a motorcade including a hearse carrying his body, accompanied by his widow slowly drove by the packed crowd. Akie Abe was seen lowering her head to the crowd.
Only she and other close family members, as well as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and senior party leaders, attended the funeral at the temple.
The hearse made a tour of Tokyo's main political headquarters of Nagata-cho, where Abe spent more than three decades since he was first elected in 1991. It then drove slowly by the party headquarters, where senior party lawmakers in dark suits stood outside and prayed, before heading to the prime minister's office, where Abe served a total of nearly a decade.
Kishida and his Cabinet members pressed their hands before their chest as they prayed and bowed to Abe's body inside before the hearse headed to a crematorium.
On Sunday, two days after Abe's shocking death, his governing Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner won a landslide victory in the upper house, the less powerful of Japan's two-chamber parliament.
That could allow Kishida to govern uninterrupted until a scheduled election in 2025, but the loss of Abe also opened up a period of uncertainly for his party. Experts say a power struggle within the party faction Abe led is certain and could affect Kishida's grip on power.
Kishida has stressed the importance of party unity after Abe's death.
In a country where gun crime is vanishingly rare, Abe's shooting also shook the nation known as the world's safest and have some of the strictest gun laws in the world.
The suspect, Tetsyua Yamagami, was arrested on the spot Friday and is being detained at a local prosecutors' office for further investigation. They can detain him for up to three weeks while deciding whether to formally press charges.
On Tuesday, public security chief Satoshi Ninoyu told reporters he has instructed the National Police Agency to investigate security for political and business leaders.
Abe, the son of an earlier prime minister, became Japan's youngest prime minister in 2006 at age 52. He left after a year in office due to health reasons but returned to power in 2012.
He vowed to revitalize the nation and get its economy out of its deflationary doldrums with his "Abenomics" formula, which combines fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms.
His long-cherished goals, held by other ultraconservatives, were to revise Japan's pacifist constitution drafted by the United States during its postwar and to transform Japan's Self Defense Force to a full-fledged military.
Abe became Japan's longest-serving leader before leaving office in 2020, citing a recurrence of the ulcerative colitis he'd had since he was a teenager. He was 67.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kpbs.org/news/international/2022/07/12/japanese-say-their-final-goodbyes-to-former-leader-shinzo-abe-at-funeral | 2022-07-12T07:55:03Z | https://www.kpbs.org/news/international/2022/07/12/japanese-say-their-final-goodbyes-to-former-leader-shinzo-abe-at-funeral | true | 39 |
A gym goer who dismissed her breathlessness on being pregnant was shocked when she was diagnosed with cancer.
Victoria Hemmings-Slack, 30, went to her doctor as she kept being out of breath and later experienced night sweats, itchy skin and a pain in her chest.
She was initially diagnosed with a chest infection but at 17 weeks pregnant was taken to A&E where a chest x-ray revealed a tumour on her chest.
Doctors then found a lump in her neck and Victoria was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin lymphoma, Stoke-on-Trent Live reported.
Victoria said: “I never expected to have cancer, I'd just got married, moved into our first home and we were expecting our first child. It felt really perfect, it was a massive shock.
"I was really excited to be pregnant, but I only got to 17 weeks and then I found out I had this cancer and I was frightened of losing my baby all the time.
“I was worried I'd have a baby that wouldn't remember his mum, I was worried I wouldn't get through it.
“I'm a regular gym goer, I would go about four or five times a week, but when I got married last September I took about two weeks off the gym.
“I came back from my wedding and found I couldn't catch my breath when I was working out, I thought it was strange because I'm in good shape and I didn't understand.
"I went to the doctors, who said they thought it was a chest infection and I had some antibiotics, but it didn't clear.
“I then found out I was six weeks pregnant and I thought that would explain why I've been getting out of breath.
“But my breathing then rapidly deteriorated, I couldn't walk up the stairs without getting out of breath.”
Victoria is now in remission, but still has four more rounds of chemo to go.
She gave birth to her son at 35 weeks on May 7, naming him Gabriel as he is “their angel.”
She added: “I was devastated at first, but I adopted a very positive attitude to it because crying won't make me better.
“I was just so grateful to have this pregnancy and being able to have this treatment and I wasn't having to make a decision of it's me or the baby.
"But as much as I tried to enjoy my pregnancy, I was constantly worried about any reduced movements, constantly thinking 'what am I doing to my unborn child?'
“It took me a long time before I started buying baby items or decorating his nursery as I was just so frightened of losing him.
“I was determined to get better and I appreciate life 10 times more now.
“I class myself as lucky, I'm able to live my life after this cancer and I've got a beautiful child. “For some people, cancer takes that away from them."
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David Pitcher passed away peacefully on July 5, 2022, at the age of 80. After David's birth in Los Angeles, his parents, Clifford and Gloria, moved to Napa where he grew up on their small farm-ranch on Redwood Road. After graduation from Napa High School in 1960, he enlisted in the Navy and enjoyed his service in the Western Pacific aboard the destroyer USS Chevalier as a Machinist Mate. David continued his long machinist career at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1964 until his retirement as a Machinist Instructor in the Apprentice Vestibule School. He was always proud that he was able to help shape the early careers of hundreds of apprentices.
It was while attending a friend and coworker's wedding that David met his future wife, Lois Beaman. Married in 1967, David and Lois raised their family in Napa. David was a devoted husband and father, he loved spending time outdoors with extended family and friends, camping, boating, and hunting. Always involved with his kids' sports teams, he was both a coach and a fan. David enjoyed home improvement projects and as a skilled craftsman in woodworking and welding, he loved helping family and friends with their own projects. David loved people, was unfailingly sociable, and was an enthusiastic and vivid storyteller.
David left an indelible mark on his family. He is survived by his loving wife of 55 years, Lois, their children and their spouses, Troy and Olga, John and Courtney, Craig and Holly, and Jinnifer and Anne, and grandchildren, Zachary, Lauren, and Taylor. RIP 5-Shot!
The family will hold a private service in the fall. Inquires can be directed to loispitcher@outlook.com. | https://napavalleyregister.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/david-pitcher/article_9f2ce75e-e23d-59d6-a045-f00dd6ae38dd.html | 2022-07-12T07:56:09Z | https://napavalleyregister.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/david-pitcher/article_9f2ce75e-e23d-59d6-a045-f00dd6ae38dd.html | true | 1 |
SGTC’s Daniels and Reeves presented GADA automotive scholarships
Published 5:31 pm Monday, July 11, 2022
From Staff Reports
AMERICUS – South Georgia Technical College Automotive Technology students Zillie Daniels, Jr., of Americus and Chase Reeves of Leesburg were presented with the Georgia Automotive Dealers Association (GADA) scholarship recently by the South Georgia Technical College Foundation. SGTC President Dr. John Watford made the presentation.
Daniels, who is currently employed in public works, attends the South Georgia Technical College Automotive Technology program at night and Chase Reeves attends day-time classes. They were both recommended for the scholarship by instructor Brandon Dean. Daniels is in his third semester and Reeves will be entering his second semester this fall.
The Georgia Automobile Dealers Association (GADA) recently committed $100,000 to the Technical College System of Georgia Foundation to fund scholarships for automotive and automotive collision and repair students attending TCSG colleges across the state. The scholarships are designed to promote careers in the automotive industry in Georgia.
“On behalf of the South Georgia Technical College Foundation, it is our pleasure to present both of you with the GADA scholarship,” said SGTC Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Foundation Executive Director Su Ann Bird.
SGTC President Dr. John Watford thanked Daniels and Reeves for selecting South Georgia Tech and the Automotive Program to continue their education and on their scholarship award. “We appreciate both of you attending South Georgia Technical College. Congratulations on earning this scholarship and we look forward to seeing what you both have planned after you complete the Automotive Technology program.”
Both Daniels and Reeves credited their father’s for encouraging them to pursue a career in the Automotive Technology field. Daniels enrolled at South Georgia Tech after his job transferred him from Live Oak, FL to Americus, GA. “I work at the Water Treatment Plant here in Americus and when my job was transferred here, I came out and visited South Georgia Tech and wanted to continue my education,” said Daniels.
“When I was growing up, my dad instilled in me a love for repairing cars and trucks, so when I had the opportunity to come here at night, I jumped at the chance,” said Daniels, who is named after his father, Zillie Daniels, Sr.
Chase Reeves is the son of Chris and Christy Reeves in Leesburg. He also said he choose this career field because of his father. “My dad taught me a lot about repairing cars and this is something that I thought I would like to pursue as a career. One day I hope to own my own business like my mom and dad,” said Reeves.
Reeves chose South Georgia Technical College after he visited Lincoln Tech in Tennessee. “I thought I wanted to go to school at Lincoln Tech, but after I visited there and then visited here, South Georgia Tech is where I wanted to be. Mr. Dean is an awesome instructor and I really like this school and would recommend it to other people interested in this field.”
South Georgia Technical College is currently accepting applications for Fall Semester. The college will be hosting Fall Semester Orientation and Registration on Tuesday, July 19th at 9:30 a.m., 1:30 and 5 p.m. in the John M. Pope Center in Americus and at 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.on the Crisp County Center campus.
Students can apply online at www.southgatech.edu and attend the in-person orientation and registration on July 19th. For information about attending South Georgia Technical College contact Candie Waters atcwalters@southgatech.edu in Americus or Katrice Taylor at ktaylor@southgatech.edu in Cordele.
For more information about the SGTC Automotive Technology Program, contact instructor Brandon Dean atbdean@southgatech.edu or 229-931-4625. Fall semester begins August 18th and it is not too late to apply. Financial aid is available. | https://www.americustimesrecorder.com/2022/07/11/sgtcs-daniels-and-reeves-presented-gada-automotive-scholarships/ | 2022-07-12T08:06:17Z | https://www.americustimesrecorder.com/2022/07/11/sgtcs-daniels-and-reeves-presented-gada-automotive-scholarships/ | true | 1 |
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese bid their final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as a family funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination that shocked the nation.
Abe, the country's longest-serving prime minister who remained influential even after he stepped down two years ago, was gunned down Friday during a campaign speech in the western city of Nara.
Hundreds of people, some in formal dark suits, filled pedestrian walks outside of the Zojoji temple in downtown Tokyo to bid farewell to Abe, whose nationalistic views drove the governing party's ultraconservative policies.
Mourners waved, took photos on their smartphones, and some called out “Abe san!” as a motorcade including a hearse carrying his body, accompanied by his widow slowly drove by the packed crowd. Akie Abe was seen lowering her head to the crowd.
Only she and other close family members, as well as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and senior party leaders, attended the funeral at the temple.
The hearse made a tour of Tokyo's main political headquarters of Nagata-cho, where Abe spent more than three decades since he was first elected in 1991. It then drove slowly by the party headquarters, where senior party lawmakers in dark suits stood outside and prayed, before heading to the prime minister's office, where Abe served a total of nearly a decade.
Kishida and his Cabinet members pressed their hands before their chest as they prayed and bowed to Abe's body inside before the hearse headed to a crematorium.
On Sunday, two days after Abe's shocking death, his governing Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner won a landslide victory in the upper house, the less powerful of Japan's two-chamber parliament.
That could allow Kishida to govern uninterrupted until a scheduled election in 2025, but the loss of Abe also opened up a period of uncertainly for his party. Experts say a power struggle within the party faction Abe led is certain and could affect Kishida's grip on power.
Kishida has stressed the importance of party unity after Abe's death.
In a country where gun crime is vanishingly rare, Abe’s shooting also shook the nation known as the world's safest and have some of the strictest gun laws in the world.
The suspect, Tetsyua Yamagami, was arrested on the spot Friday and is being detained at a local prosecutors’ office for further investigation. They can detain him for up to three weeks while deciding whether to formally press charges.
On Tuesday, public security chief Satoshi Ninoyu told reporters he has instructed the National Police Agency to investigate security for political and business leaders.
Abe, the son of an earlier prime minister, became Japan's youngest prime minister in 2006 at age 52. He left after a year in office due to health reasons but returned to power in 2012.
He vowed to revitalize the nation and get its economy out of its deflationary doldrums with his “Abenomics” formula, which combines fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms.
His long-cherished goals, held by other ultraconservatives, were to revise Japan's pacifist constitution drafted by the United States during its postwar and to transform Japan's Self Defense Force to a full-fledged military.
Abe became Japan's longest-serving leader before leaving office in 2020, citing a recurrence of the ulcerative colitis he'd had since he was a teenager. He was 67. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Japanese-say-final-goodbye-to-former-leader-Abe-17298761.php | 2022-07-12T08:07:01Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Japanese-say-final-goodbye-to-former-leader-Abe-17298761.php | false | 39 |
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LONDON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ION, the largest global provider of trading, analytics, business information, and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities, and treasury management, has appointed Carlo Purassanta as Executive Vice President for Strategy and Corporate Development.
Andrea Pignataro, ION's Founder and CEO, said, "Carlo's extensive experience in leading top global teams at the forefront of technological innovation is strategic for ION as we continue to expand and innovate in a growing number of segments."
Carlo Purassanta, ION's Executive Vice President, said, "I am thrilled to join ION. The company holds a unique, strategic position in a constantly expanding global sector. I am enthused by its model to combine the financial sophistication, skills, and speed of execution of large private equity funds with the depth, stability, and long-term approach of an industrial operator at scale. ION's growth over the past 20 years is outstanding and I look forward to contributing to support it further."
Carlo has been President of Microsoft Italia (2013–2017) and Microsoft France (2018–2021). Before this, Carlo worked for IBM and has been Business Development Executive for Southwest Europe, and Director in France and in EMEA. He holds an Engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano in Italy, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Henley Business School in the UK.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The killing of a woman at an annual political event in Sweden earlier this month is now being investigated as an act of terror, authorities said.
Sweden’s domestic security agency, known by its acronym SAPO, said that the 32-year-old man who is in custody over the July 6 knife attack is now suspected of "terrorist crimes through murder,” meaning SAPO has now taken over the investigation.
Agency spokesman Gabriel Wernstedt told Swedish broadcaster SVT on Monday that “information has emerged that has led to the new suspicions.” Wernstedt declined to give further details.
The suspect, identified by Swedish media as Theodor Engström, was detained on the spot, and has confessed to the killing. SVT reported he has links to the neo-Nazi group NMR, the Nordic Resistance Movement.
The victim, 64-year-old Ing-Marie Wiselgren, was a medical doctor and psychiatric coordinator for Sweden’s municipalities and regions.
There is no other suspect in the case, SAPO said Monday.
The Almedalen Week is an annual event attended by leading politicians from different parties, lobbyists, pressure groups and interested members of the public. It takes place in and around Almedalen, a park in Visby, the main town of the island of Gotland, and features debates that are more informal than the ones in parliament. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Fatal-stabbing-at-Sweden-annual-event-now-labeled-17298794.php | 2022-07-12T08:36:53Z | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Fatal-stabbing-at-Sweden-annual-event-now-labeled-17298794.php | true | 35 |
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In a move that will see it enhance its cloud video network capabilities with a set of OTT content processing solutions, Synamedia has acquired cloud video delivery platform Quortex.
Founded in Rennes, France, in 2018 by a team of video industry experts with more than 100 patents, Quortex offers a pay-as-you-stream’ model designed to optimise resources and reduce energy usage. The service is designed for any live streaming provider including telcos, cable operators, direct-to-consumer (DTC) players, and broadcasters. Current customers include beIN Group Media, M6 and Red Bee Media.
Quortex’s multi-tenant SaaS technology also builds video streams on-the-fly, based on the end users’ requirements and matched to viewers’ locations, devices and time zones. It is designed to adapt to unpredictable network, infrastructure and audiences, and automatically scales cloud resources up and down, using spot instances that take advantage of spare cloud capacity at what is said to be a fraction of the typical cost, while maintaining quality of experience.
The also company sees its just-in-time technology as providing exactly the resources required at any given time. If no-one is watching a channel, it simply frees up those resources. It believes that such a methodology provides time to market and considerable cost advantages over existing cloud approaches, while ensuring that every deployed resource has a purpose. For example, Quortex calculates that for long tail content technology its platform reduces cloud costs up to 67%.
Through the acquisition, Synamedia says it will enhance its cloud video network capabilities, complementing its VIVID Workflow as-a-Service (WaaS) with a set of solutions for OTT content processing, disaster recovery, long tail content processing for large service providers and live events. Quortex employees in France and the UK will be joining Synamedia and the company will continue to operate under its own brand while taking advantage of Synamedia’s customer base, financial strength and global presence.
“By pioneering just-in-time video streaming processing and delivery, Quortex has broken new ground with live services that dynamically spring to life when processing a user request,” commented Julien Signes, EVP and general manager of video network at Synamedia. “This radical change in the economics of cloud processing will accelerate the migration of live video services to the cloud. We see enormous potential as we expand Quortex’s reach globally - for the fast-growing DTC live streaming market as well as our traditional service provider customer base who want to reduce infrastructure costs and meet their CO2 reduction commitments.”
Marc Baillavoine, CEO and Founder of Quortex, added: “With our breakthrough just-in-time approach, we have turned the live streaming model on its head, ditching the need to wastefully provision streaming resources just-in-case. We believe that with Synamedia’s global reach and complementary product lines, we can accelerate our mission to transform the agility and cost of streaming and slash its carbon footprint.”
Quortex’s multi-tenant SaaS technology also builds video streams on-the-fly, based on the end users’ requirements and matched to viewers’ locations, devices and time zones. It is designed to adapt to unpredictable network, infrastructure and audiences, and automatically scales cloud resources up and down, using spot instances that take advantage of spare cloud capacity at what is said to be a fraction of the typical cost, while maintaining quality of experience.
The also company sees its just-in-time technology as providing exactly the resources required at any given time. If no-one is watching a channel, it simply frees up those resources. It believes that such a methodology provides time to market and considerable cost advantages over existing cloud approaches, while ensuring that every deployed resource has a purpose. For example, Quortex calculates that for long tail content technology its platform reduces cloud costs up to 67%.
Through the acquisition, Synamedia says it will enhance its cloud video network capabilities, complementing its VIVID Workflow as-a-Service (WaaS) with a set of solutions for OTT content processing, disaster recovery, long tail content processing for large service providers and live events. Quortex employees in France and the UK will be joining Synamedia and the company will continue to operate under its own brand while taking advantage of Synamedia’s customer base, financial strength and global presence.
“By pioneering just-in-time video streaming processing and delivery, Quortex has broken new ground with live services that dynamically spring to life when processing a user request,” commented Julien Signes, EVP and general manager of video network at Synamedia. “This radical change in the economics of cloud processing will accelerate the migration of live video services to the cloud. We see enormous potential as we expand Quortex’s reach globally - for the fast-growing DTC live streaming market as well as our traditional service provider customer base who want to reduce infrastructure costs and meet their CO2 reduction commitments.”
Marc Baillavoine, CEO and Founder of Quortex, added: “With our breakthrough just-in-time approach, we have turned the live streaming model on its head, ditching the need to wastefully provision streaming resources just-in-case. We believe that with Synamedia’s global reach and complementary product lines, we can accelerate our mission to transform the agility and cost of streaming and slash its carbon footprint.” | https://www.rapidtvnews.com/2022071262669/synamedia-adds-just-in-time-live-streaming-with-quortex-acquisition.html | 2022-07-12T08:48:19Z | https://www.rapidtvnews.com/2022071262669/synamedia-adds-just-in-time-live-streaming-with-quortex-acquisition.html | false | 1 |
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House of accused in Assam activist suicide case razed
The authorities in Assam’s Dibrugarh district on Tuesday razed the house of Baidullah Khan, one of the four accused in the suicide case of businessman and animal rights activist Vineet Bagaria, on grounds of illegal construction.
The two-storey structure of Baidullah Khan located at Ghoramara was brought down by bulldozers. Khan is among the two accused arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of Vineet Bagaria, a 32-year-old resident of Dibrugarh who died by suicide at his residence at Shani Mandir road on July 7.
“The house was constructed without having the necessary building permits. The structure was unstable and unfit for people to reside. It was built right on the edge of the road, which is illegal, and electric connections were found to be precarious,” said Biswajit Pegu, deputy commissioner (DC), Dibrugarh district.
The DC added that since the building was unstable and violated several legal parameters, it was razed under provisions of the Disaster Management Act. Pegu said that Khan and his family didn’t reside in the premises and it was given on rent.
Apart from Baidullah Khan, the police have arrested Nishant Sharma in connection with Bagaria’s death. Two other accused, Sanjay Sharma and Izaz Khan are still at large.
Bagaria died by suicide after recording a video in which he named people responsible for his death.
The family had given a shop on rent at their premises to one of the accused, who in turn sub-let it to another accused. But when the family asked the tenants to vacate the property, they stopped paying rent and started threatening the family.
In the video, Bagaria accused the four persons of constant threats that forced him to end his life. The family filed complaints against the accused with the local police, but no action was taken.
The Opposition Congress termed razing of Baidullah Khan’s house as a deliberate act by authorities to target one community. It accused chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of giving communal tinge to Bagaria’s suicide.
“Our CM tries to communalise everything. In this case there are four accused, two of them are Hindus and two Muslims. But Sarma targets just one accused who happens to be a Muslim,” said Congress MLA and leader of Opposition in state assembly Debabrata Saikia.
“The CM has set a bad precedent. It’s a threat to democratic values and is against Assam’s cultural ethos. Criminals can’t be branded based on their religion. This sends a very wrong message to one community,” he added.
The chief minister visited the Bagaria family’s home in Dibrugarh two days after Vineet’s death and apologised for police inaction on their complaint. He also castigated the deputy commissioner and superintendent of police for failing to put a lid on Baidullah Khan’s activities.
“I can’t even imagine how Baidullah Khan reached this town. I am very ashamed. Has our government become so weak? I have never been so ashamed in my life,” Sarma said.
“Is this Dhubri or Goalpara?” Sarma questioned referring to two districts in lower Assam. “My mind isn’t able to comprehend whether I am hearing of an incident in Assam or in Jammu & Kashmir. This is just one incident. There may be many Baidullahs roaming around here,” he added. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/house-of-activist-suicide-case-accused-razed-in-assam-101657614582516.html | 2022-07-12T08:56:13Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/house-of-activist-suicide-case-accused-razed-in-assam-101657614582516.html | true | 2 |
Ebaiyra was a good third at Newmarket last time out and drops down in grade - she looks a warm favourite to bag a first victory of the season (2:30); flat and jumping domestic action comes from Bath and Southwell; watch live on Sky Sports Racing
Monday 11 July 2022 11:20, UK
The classy Ebaiyra will bid to put a frustrating run of three placed efforts behind her when dropping down in grade for the Listed Prix de la Pepiniere (2:30) at Chantilly, live on Sky Sports Racing.
Eclipse winner Christophe Soumillon takes the ride on the Group Two-winning mare, who was beaten just a short neck into third last time out at that level in the Dahlia Stakes at Newmarket, behind Dreamloper and Ville De Grace.
Francis-Henry Graffard's five-year-old takes on arguably her easiest assignment for some time, although notable opposition does include Solania for last year's winning connection of Carlos Laffon-Parias and the Wertheimer family.
Andre Fabre runs two in the race, while Jessica Harrington sends My Holy Fox over to France from her County Kildare base - as she looks to find some improvement for the step up in distance.
With temperatures heading towards 30c over the coming days, expect firm ground at the Somerset track and the Cazoo Handicap (3:00), looks a particularly competitive heat.
George Scott's Jack The Truth could be the place to start, having won at this venue on similar ground last week under Callum Shepherd.
The eight-year-old has to carry top weight, giving 3lbs to Watchya, who has won on two of his last four starts, although did finish outside the top nine in the other two for the Clive Cox team.
Others to note include likely favourite Ruby Cottage under apprentice rider Harry Davies, and Neptunian for the Derby-winning rider Richard Kingscote.
Evening jumps action comes from Southwell, with Tom Lacey sending Neville's Cross to the Nottinghamshire venue for the feature Good Luck To Joy And Jake Handicap Chase (6:40).
It's a marked step down in grade for the seven-year-old chaser, who contended the Summer Cup at Uttoxeter last time out, but as a result he gives away plenty of weight to all of his rivals.
Two of his opponents won last time in Topofthecotswolds and The Vollan, who has rattled off two wins and a second in three starts for the Laura Morgan team.
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Global Industrial Radiography Market is valued at approximately USD 575.09 billion in 2021 and is anticipated to grow with a healthy growth rate of more than 8.10% over the forecast period 2022-2028.
Industrial radiography is a method of non-destructive testing that uses ionizing radiation to scrutinize the components and materials to locate and quantify shortcomings and degradation in the properties that can lead to the failure of engineering structures. Industrial radiography is used for detecting cracks and flaws, as well as surface infection of products in manufacturing plants.
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Woman hospitalized after picking up $1 bill at McDonald’s
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Kentucky couple is speaking out after the wife claims she overdosed on fentanyl after picking up a dollar bill at McDonald’s.
Renee Parsons said picking up a dollar bill Sunday afternoon at a McDonald’s in Nashville, Tennessee, landed her in the hospital. She believes it was a fentanyl-laced dollar bill, and she had a bad reaction.
“It is like your body is just shutting down,” she said.
Renee Parsons and her husband Justin, of Lexington, Kentucky, were on their way to a work conference in Dallas with two of their children when they stopped at McDonald’s.
“As I was walking inside, there was a dollar on the floor just hanging out, so I picked it up, not thinking anything of it,” Renee Parsons told WSMV.
Within 10 minutes after picking up the dollar, she said her body went numb. She said she could barely talk or breathe before passing out.
“She hadn’t said anything for a while, then she said, ‘Justin, I am sorry. I love you.’ Then she just quit talking,” Justin Parsons said.
The family drove to St. Thomas Ascension Hospital. Paperwork there showed Renee Parsons had an accidental drug overdose.
The couple believes the dollar she picked up was laced with fentanyl. Her husband said he even started to feel symptoms after his wife touched his arm.
“What I do know is how I felt, what happened. It can’t be made up,” Renee Parsons said.
WSMV talked to Dr. Rebecca Donald, a fentanyl expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, about the incident.
“I think it is really unlikely the substance this lady got into her system is fentanyl based on the symptoms she had,” Donald said.
Donald is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Vanderbilt. She said skin-to-skin contact is not a way people are exposed to drugs at levels that would cause them harm.
“It is much more likely for her to have a reaction if she had inadvertently rubbed her nose and exposed that drug to some of the blood vessels in her nose or licked her fingers or rubbed her eyes,” she said.
Donald said it is possible for the drug to get aerosolized and inhaled.
“That would take more of a volume of drug or quantity of drug,” she said. “It is certainly not impossible for that to happen, but one would think it would be a significant amount that you could see it on the hands and dollar bill to get into the air system.”
Donald said someone’s medical history and medications they are taking may also contribute to symptoms. She said fentanyl contaminating anything is a safety threat and could be life-threatening.
Police responded to the hospital on Sunday. A spokesperson told WSMV that officers did not see any sort of residue on the dollar bill, but it was not tested for fentanyl since no one is being charged.
Police are still going to destroy the dollar bill.
Last month, the Perry County Sheriff’s Office said there were two separate incidents in which meth and fentanyl were found in folded dollar bills on a gas station floor. Police said this is not an issue they are seeing in Nashville.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian ammunition depot was apparently targeted by Ukrainian forces overnight, resulting in a massive blast captured on social media.
The Ukrainian military’s southern command said the rocket strike targeted the depot in Russian-held Nova Kakhovka, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of the important Black Sea port city of Kherson, which is also occupied by Russian forces.
Video on social media showed a massive explosion. The nature of the strike suggested that Ukrainian forces used U.S-supplied multiple-launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, to strike the area.
Russia’s Tass news agency offered a different account, saying that the target was a mineral fertilizer storage facility that exploded, and that a market, hospital and houses were damaged. Some of the ingredients in fertilizer can be used for ammunition.
Ukrainian authorities also said that Russian fire struck the southern city of Mykolaiv on Tuesday morning, hitting two medical facilities and residential buildings. Four people were wounded in the shelling attack, Mykolaiv regional governor Vitaliy Kim said on Telegram.
Air raid sirens sounded early Tuesday morning in the western city of Lviv and other areas of Ukraine as Russian forces continued to make advances.
According to a Tuesday intelligence briefing from the British military, Russia is continuing to make “small, incremental gains” in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where heavy fighting led the province's governor last week to urge its 350,000 remaining residents to move to safer places in western Ukraine.
Yet many in the Donbas, a fertile industrial region in eastern Ukraine made of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, refuse — or are unable — to flee, despite scores of civilians being killed and wounded each week.
The death toll in a Russian rocket attack that struck an apartment building in eastern Ukraine on Saturday has risen to 34. The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, made the announcement on social media, saying nine wounded people had been recovered from the building in Chasiv Yar.
The British intelligence briefing said Russia had seized the Ukrainian town of Hryhorivka and continued to push toward the Donetsk province cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
“Russian forces are likely maintaining military pressure on Ukrainian forces whilst regrouping and reconstituting for further offensives in the near future,” the intelligence briefing said.
However, Russia may be relying more heavily on private forces, like the Wagner mercenary group, to avoid a general mobilization, the British said.
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Jon Gambrell in Lviv, Ukraine, contributed to this report.
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The red dirt of the Pilbara will be making its way to the Big Apple as two Port Hedland creatives showcase their fashion brands on the 2022 New York Fashion Week runway.
Kariyarra, Ngarluma, Nyul Nyul and Yawuru designer Bobbi Lockyer of Gantharri and Bardi, Nyul Nyul and Nyikina designer Nat Dann of Ihraa Swim have been selected to show at New York Fashion Week.
Ikuntji Artists based in Alice Springs have also been selected to show.
Lockyer and Dann’s collections will walk the runway of the Flying Solo show on the rooftop of the Flying Solo SOHO store in September this year.
Both Lockyer and Dann applied to show at NYFW on a whim and are still surprised they’ll be heading to New York in September.
“I had seen applications open for New York Fashion Week, Flying Solo Ones to Watch runway so I just through I’m going to apply,” Dann said.
“It was more out of curiosity than anything, to see how my label was received on an international level.
“A week later I got an email back saying they would love for me to showcase my label there…it’s crazy I just thought what do I have to lose and now I’m going to New York.”
Lockyer is currently designing a new collection, an ode to native wildflowers, which audiences might get a taste of in New York.
September will be the first time Lockyer leaves Australia and she said she is excited to bring representation as an Indigenous designer to NYFW.
“Being part of the fashion industry itself, not just my label, is about representation for us Indigenous people,” she said.
“It’s really important to me and important for our culture because growing up, I felt like I couldn’t wear fashion.
“Fashion was for the white, skinny girls and it wasn’t for me a big black girl.
“So it’s really important for me to help enable that for everyone else.”
Both Dann and Lockyer said they wanted to be known as iconic brands in their own right and not just as the token Blak brand in the room.
“I really want international exposure for Ihraa Swim and I want it to be known as an iconic Australian brand,” Dann said.
“I don’t actually want to be known as just an Indigenous brand…I don’t want to be pigeonholed really.”
Lockyer said she doesn’t want there to be a separation of fashion brands and Indigenous fashion brands.
“I am incredibly proud of being part of that Indigenous runway at Australian Fashion Week,” she said.
“I also don’t want to be recognised as just an Indigenous designer I want to be recognised as a designer to elevate all of our mob.
“That’s why New York feels like it’s really special, I’m going there because they love my designs not just because I fit in that sort of box.”
Dann and Lockyer are currently fundraising through GoFundMe to raise the $6000USD to take their collections to NYFW.
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The Trust provides free real hair wigs to children and young people who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or other conditions.
Helene received help from the College’s hair and beauty department for the special hair cut. She had extra hair to spare after growing it throughout the pandemic.
She said: “This donation will make a massive difference to some young person’s life and thank you to the College for helping me.
"My student stylist, Orla, was very professional, ensuring the hair was collected carefully for donation, and did a great new short haircut. I hope this will encourage others to donate to this fantastic cause.” | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/dudley/halesowen/2022/07/12/halesowen-college-governor-donates-spare-hair-to-the-little-princes-trust/ | 2022-07-12T09:23:41Z | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/dudley/halesowen/2022/07/12/halesowen-college-governor-donates-spare-hair-to-the-little-princes-trust/ | false | null |
Geoffrey Goodwin (1971-2022)
Writer Geoffrey H. Goodwin, 50, died of heart failure on June 15, 2022 at home in Fly Creek NY. Goodwin was a prolific freelance writer, publishing essays, interviews, fiction, and poetry. His first...
locusmag.comWriter Geoffrey H. Goodwin, 50, died of heart failure on June 15, 2022 at home in Fly Creek NY. Goodwin was a prolific freelance writer, publishing essays, interviews, fiction, and poetry. His first...
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Mulcair Tug of War Club recently competed in the Felton Eccles International Tug of War competition
LIMERICK'S Mulcair Tug of War club have just returned from Bristol in the UK, after having competed in the Felton Eccles International Tug of War competition.
The event was run by the UK club, to mark its 75th anniversary. During the three-day event, Mulcair fielded t two mixed teams in the 600kg category and one ladies team in the 580kg.
Mulcair competed in and won a number of ends in over 60 pulls against some of the best teams in Europe. These included the UK's Bedford, Ladies Lincoln and Sandhust teams, the Swiss, Sans Obedorf and the Dutch Monnikedam among others.
Coach Eddie O’Malley commented: “We have very experienced pullers in our club, winning British and Irish championship medals. We also have relatively new pullers. International events such as these really pull the team together and allow less experienced pullers to compete at the standard expected at this level.
"The next focus is the 2022 British and Irish Championships, taking place in Wales in mid-August. Mulcair will field a mixed team in the 580kg category. “This is another level up now. The pressure is on to perform. I feel we have a great opportunity to make waves in the European circuit as we build on fitness and experience at this level.
"All of our competitive pullers are participating in the High Performance Unit and have been through a programme of fitness testing. This is important in order to track and document progress. Especially now, since our next objective is the World Championships in September”.
However, Tug of War is not just for elite athletes. There is a place for all levels of fitness, stages of life and indeed age. Anyone interested in knowing more about the club, please check out Mulcair Tug of War Club on Facebook, or www.tugofwarireland.com
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Did the Biden officials know what they were doing when they announced a broad expansion of export controls on China? China is the world’s second-largest economy, which is intricately intertwined with the economy of the U.S. and other nations. This is mainly due to U.S. multinational companies exporting huge slices of our manufacturing economy to China for its cheap labor.
What is the White House and the Department of Commerce thinking? China is not Venezuela nor is it Russia, a weak and dependent economy with a GDP smaller than Italy. Do these brazen Bidenites realize the consequences of a grand list of technologies and knowhow being barred from China?
As the dominant imperial world power, the U.S. is struggling to understand how to deal with an aggressive rising power like China building spheres of influence around the world through exports, loans, development contracts, and technical assistance. It’s okay that we have military bases in over 100 countries whose leaders know the U.S. as the premier overthrower of elected governments with policies displeasing to Washington and Wall Street.
As a result, the Bidenites are unleashing export controls, arrived at through administrative secrecy, that will surely invite black markets, high-tech smuggling, and retaliation to make these controls a nightmare to enforce.
Provoking China to play its own cards is not smart. China, thanks to the greed of coddled and subsidized U.S. drug companies, produce much of our pharmaceuticals. These companies have left America, for example, with no production domestically of antibiotics – certainly a national security priority!
China possesses “rare earth” minerals and produces technology crucial to our own defense and high-tech industries. Its government allows U.S. factories to be built in China on the condition of a flow of latest “technology transfers.” Ask General Motors.
How are export controls – based on asserted national security grounds – going to work, other than to accelerate a new arms race? “We need to retain technological overmatch” declared Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, adding that export controls “are at the red hot center of how we best protect our democracies.” Tell that to the mass victims of the next round of viruses from China due to our minuscule weak public health programs and early detection systems, while we spend more than 2 ½ times as much as China on our military budget having had a huge head start in past years.
The New York Times reports that U.S. officials also don’t like China’s deep surveillance of its people. It is as if surveillance capitalism (See, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Professor Shoshana Zuboff) and the NSA’s dragnet violations of the 4th amendment are chump change.
China is already in the front ranks of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing. To declare a cold war on China’s access to technology, as a Commerce Department official said, “that advance the country’s scientific advancement” including on foreign companies that use some U.S. products, is ludicrous. Aren’t they aware of the traditional open exchange between scientists all over the world, not to mention China’s own allies or collaborators in this regard?
What is also well known, but not uppermost in people’s minds, is that China, Russia, and the U.S. have embedded malware in each other’s cyber worlds that if triggered could cause catastrophe. The concern about China’s tens of billions of dollars invested in U.S. Treasury bonds should also be an issue for Mr. Biden.
Another calculation underweighted is the quiet opposition to export controls by U.S. companies that salivate over the present and future profits with Chinese trade – Apple CEO Tim Cook (who, by the way, makes $833 a minute on a 40-hour week) got a special waiver treatment from Trump, continued by Biden, for importing tens of billions of dollars annually of iPhones and computers from its Chinese contractors without tariffs.
This is another way of noting that export controls invite both raw corruption and special lobbying for waivers. They were tried by the U.S. against the old USSR, which developed elaborate circumventions.
So here we go again. Of course, certain lethal products need to be embargoed by all countries protective of their people. The U.S is expanding its so-called “entity list” cutting off hundreds of foreign companies and groups from certain U.S. technologies unless U.S. suppliers get licenses to sell goods to them. Don’t these government officials know that blacklisted companies can mutate through other corporations chartered in tax havens or dictatorships abroad?
U.S. belligerence will be met with more Chinese belligerence and vice versa as the perils and risk increase.
William Hartung (See, Center for International Policy) points out – a far brighter future would come from intense U.S. and China cooperation on the climate crises, averting pandemics, ocean preservation, and international arms accords including cybersecurity. Wage peace and pursue mutual self-interest as if our children and grandchildren matter.
Where is our Department of Peace, once advanced by Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA) and former Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), when we need it?
Relations between major nations are shaped by momentum in one direction or another. Both U.S. political parties have chosen a militant path without an exit strategy – one that must please Lockheed Martin and the rest of the military-industrial complex.
The forces for muscular peace and cooperation must show there is an alternative path to secure the common interests of the two nations. That’s called robust diplomacy in this era of recurring pandemics, expanding ransomware, bloated military budgets, and interconnected economies. | https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/12/u-s-china-policy-a-perilous-arms-race-instead-of-waging-critical-cooperation/ | 2022-07-12T09:31:53Z | https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/12/u-s-china-policy-a-perilous-arms-race-instead-of-waging-critical-cooperation/ | true | 3 |
Heavy rains paralyse normal life in Telangana
Heavy rains paralyse normal life in Telangana
Mumbai/Hyderabad: The IMD issued an orange alert for Mumbai till July 14. For the next 24 hours moderate to heavy rain in the city and suburbs is likely. The possibility of very heavy rainfall in isolated places is also predicted. Heavy rains are expected in Mumbai, Thane and Konkan. Therefore, for the next three days, Mumbaikars have been advised not to venture out of their houses.
The torrential rains in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra for the past three days have caused floods in many places. Many villages have lost contact. Considering the situation there, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis paid a visit to Gadchiroli. A red alert has been issued in the Gadchiroli district due to continuous rains for the past three days. Besides, it has been raining heavily in the Nashik district for the last two days. A red alert has also been issued there. Similarly, Dhule, Palghar, Nandurbar, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts are also receiving continuous rains.
Heavy rains disrupted normal life across Telangana, especially, the northern Telangana districts. Heavy rains lashed 370 areas from Sunday morning to Monday morning. Another 200 centres received moderate rains. Heavy rains lashed many districts on Monday. In the state, maximum rainfall of 19 cm was recorded in Kaleswaram of Jayashankar Bhupalapalli district. "Heavy rains were recorded in the combined districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Warangal and Khammam. In some mandals of these districts of the Godavari basin, streams and rivers are overflowing."
Life has come to a standstill due to heavy rains in many districts of Telangana. Hyderabad, too, witnessing moderate to heavy rains for the past three days. Meanwhile, commercial complexes wore a deserted look in many district headquarters in Telangana. The movement of RTC buses from mandals to district headquarters has been slowed down. Vehicles were stranded for hours on the main roads between Bhadradri and Mahabubabad districts due to small streams overflowing in many places.
Also read: Telangana rains: Bhupalapally records highest rainfall, rescue ops continue
In Illendu, Pinapaka and Mulugu constituencies, traffic has been stopped in many mandals. As the Godavari overflowed in Bhadradri and Mulugu districts, the flood stopped in the low-lying areas of many villages. The same situation was seen in Vajedu, Venkatapuram and Dummugudem mandals. While Kinnerasani, Munneru, Murredu, Maneru and Nakkavagu rivers are overflowing.
Meanwhile, three people died in rain-related incidents across the State. Bitwar Ganesh (45) was electrocuted while going to wash clothes in Badabhimgal village pond of Bhimgal mandal. While bodies of Makkala Nadipi Sailu and Darangula Reddy were recovered from Nemlikunta in Nizamabad rural mandal's Lingitanda suburb as they were washed away in floods. The government has announced financial assistance of Rs 3 lakh each to the bereaved families. | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/heavy-rains-paralyse-normal-life-in-telangana/na20220712131420587587404 | 2022-07-12T09:32:41Z | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/bharat/heavy-rains-paralyse-normal-life-in-telangana/na20220712131420587587404 | false | 1 |
Cemtech MEA 2022: Session 6
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Model spent $600K to be Kim Kardashian, now paying $120K for 'detransition'
Model spent $600K to be Kim Kardashian, now paying $120K for 'detransition'
Washington (US): Versace Model Jennifer Pamplona, after spending nearly $600K on procedures to transform herself into a Kim Kardashian lookalike, has now paid $120K to "detransition" back to her former appearance. According to reports, the 29-year-old model had about 40 cosmetic operations over a 12-year period in an effort to imitate the celebrity, but she eventually realized that her pleasure was only at the surface level.
"People would call me a Kardashian and it started to get annoying," she said to a webloid. "I had worked and studied and was a businesswoman. I had done all these things and had all these achievements in my personal life, but I was only being recognized because I looked like a Kardashian."
Pamplona was 17 years old when she underwent surgery for the first time. Kardashian was just starting to gain popularity at the time. Pamplona rapidly developed an addiction to procedures that would make her seem like the freshly minted A-lister after her first operation. Three rhinoplasties and eight operations on her bottom, including butt implants and fat injections, to mimic Kardashian's enormous booty, were among the more than 40 treatments she underwent.
She rapidly attracted international notice thanks to her metamorphosis into Kim Kardashian's twin. Additionally, she amassed more than a million Instagram followers, but happiness did not follow.
"I discovered that I was addicted to surgery and I wasn't happy, I was putting filler in my face like I was in the supermarket," Pamplona admitted. "It was an addiction and I got into a cycle of surgery equals fame and money, I just lost control of everything. I went through a lot of hard times."
Pamplona claimed that she had been upset for years before realizing that she had body dysmorphia and that she wanted to go back to her natural appearance. She located a physician in Istanbul who claimed to be able to assist her in return to her former appearance."I saw on the computer beforehand how I would look and it was like I was having a rebirth," she said.
READ | Cardi B takes times off to 'fully recover' from plastic surgery
"I had a face and neck lift, buccal fat removal, cat eye surgery, a lip lift and a nose job all at once," she said. "I went into the operation room as one person and I came out as another."
Pamplona, on the other hand, reported problems following the "detransition" procedure, claiming that an illness caused her to "bleed from her cheeks" for three days. "I thought I was dying," she explained. "I was thinking to myself, 'What the hell have I done with my life?' "Thankfully, the brunette is currently making progress toward recovery, but because she still has significant swelling and bruises, the procedure's final effects are not yet clear." But, the Brazilian said she already knows the painful procedure was worth it.
"The best feeling is knowing I'm not in a fight with myself anymore," Pamplona said. "I am now who I wanted to be and I really now understand the meaning of life."
"There are people who make it (surgery) look good on Instagram but life isn't perfect, and being addicted to surgery isn't a good thing," she explained, revealing she is working on a documentary, titled "Addiction," about the dangers of the operations.
In order to help those with body dysmorphia, the model has teamed up with a physician to establish a foundation in Brazil."I feel like I can help a lot of people with my life story, but my face is beautiful and now I look even more beautiful," she said. Pamplona is now posting selfies taken following her "detransition" operation in an effort to expose the unsightly reality of cosmetic treatments.
(With agency inputs) | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/entertainment/tv-and-theater/model-spent-$600k-to-be-kim-kardashian-now-paying-$120k-for-detransition/na20220712140148996996149 | 2022-07-12T09:33:25Z | https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/entertainment/tv-and-theater/model-spent-$600k-to-be-kim-kardashian-now-paying-$120k-for-detransition/na20220712140148996996149 | false | 2 |
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The killing of a woman at an annual political event in Sweden earlier this month is now being investigated as an act of terror, authorities said.
Sweden’s domestic security agency, known by its acronym SAPO, said that the 32-year-old man who is in custody over the July 6 knife attack is now suspected of "terrorist crimes through murder,” meaning SAPO has now taken over the investigation.
Agency spokesman Gabriel Wernstedt told Swedish broadcaster SVT on Monday that “information has emerged that has led to the new suspicions.” Wernstedt declined to give further details.
The suspect, identified by Swedish media as Theodor Engström, was detained on the spot, and has confessed to the killing. SVT reported he has links to the neo-Nazi group NMR, the Nordic Resistance Movement.
The victim, 64-year-old Ing-Marie Wiselgren, was a medical doctor and psychiatric coordinator for Sweden’s municipalities and regions.
There is no other suspect in the case, SAPO said Monday.
The Almedalen Week is an annual event attended by leading politicians from different parties, lobbyists, pressure groups and interested members of the public. It takes place in and around Almedalen, a park in Visby, the main town of the island of Gotland, and features debates that are more informal than the ones in parliament. | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Fatal-stabbing-at-Sweden-annual-event-now-labeled-17298794.php | 2022-07-12T09:40:41Z | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Fatal-stabbing-at-Sweden-annual-event-now-labeled-17298794.php | true | 35 |
Bobby Deol extended greetings and warm hugs to Kajol, director Rajiv Rai, Udit Narayan, and others at the reunion
Picture courtesy/Kajol's Instagram account
Kajol and Bobby Deol-starrer 'Gupt' completed 25 years and it looks like the star cast had a gala time as they reunited to celebrate the film! The star cast of the film joined each other for celebrations under one roof and it looks a lot of fun. A special screening of the film was also organised. Bobby Deol gave a glimpse of the celebrations on his Instagram. He shared a video and wrote, "There is no bigger appreciation than to see your film get such love even after 25 years."
"Hey everyone, on my way to celebrate the 25th year of Gupt," Bobby said as he waved at the camera at the beginning of the clip. The video starts off with him walking inside a theatre where they screened the film once again.
Also Read: Bobby Deol celebrates 47 years of his father's hit flick 'Pratiggya'
Bobby then extended greetings and warm hugs to Kajol, director Rajiv Rai, Udit Narayan, and others. Well, it's safe to say the entire team had a blast as they reminisced the old days. Bobby Deol and Kajol also cut a cake and shook a leg to some of the film's songs inside the theatre.
Take a look:
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Kajol, too, shared glimpses from the celebrations. Kajol and Bobby posed with knives in the video. Kajol wrote, "Because posing with hearts is too cliche."
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Helmed by Rajiv Rai, 'Gupt' was released in theatres in 1997. It was a massive hit back then and Kajol bagged the Filmfare Award for the 'Best Performance in Negative Role'. Apart from Kajol and Bobby Deol, 'Gupt' also starred Manisha Koirala, Om Puri, Prem Chopra, and Paresh Rawal in pivotal roles.
Also Read: Kajol 'seizes the day' in a never-seen-before throwback picture; see post
Meanwhile, on the film front, Kajol was last seen in the historical drama 'Tanhaji', alongside her husband Ajay Devgn. Saif Ali Khan also starred in the movie. Currently, she is busy shooting for her film 'Salaam Venky'. The film which was earlier titled 'The Last Hurrah', is helmed by none other than famous director Revathy.
Bobby, on the other hand, will be seen sharing screen space with his father Dharmendra and brother Sunny Deol in 'Apne 2'.
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PR Newswire
GUIYANG, China, May 23, 2022
Earnings Call Scheduled for 8:00 A.M. U.S. ET on June 8, 2022
GUIYANG, China, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd. ("FTA" or the "Company") (NYSE: YMM), a leading digital freight platform, today announced that it will release its first quarter 2022 unaudited financial results on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, before the open of the U.S. markets.
The Company's management will hold an earnings conference call at 8:00 A.M. U.S. Eastern Time on June 8, 2022 or 8:00 P.M. Beijing Time to discuss the financial results. Listeners may access the call by dialing the following numbers:
United States (toll free): +1-888-317-6003
International: +1-412-317-6061
Mainland China (toll free): 400-120-6115
Hong Kong (toll free): 800-963-976
Hong Kong: +852-5808-1995
United Kingdom: 08082389063
Singapore: 800-120-5863
Access Code: 8265791
A replay of the conference call will be accessible by phone one hour after the conclusion of the live call at the following numbers, until June 15, 2022:
United States: +1-877-344-7529
International: +1-412-317-0088
Replay Access Code: 6570381
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will also be available on the Company's investor relations website at ir.fulltruckalliance.com.
About Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd.
Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd. (NYSE: YMM) is a leading digital freight platform, connecting shippers with truckers to facilitate shipments across distance ranges, cargo weights and types. The Company provides a range of freight matching services including freight listing service, freight brokerage service and online transaction service. The Company also provides a range of value-added services that cater to the various needs of shippers and truckers, such as financial institutions, highway authorities, and gas stations operators. With a mission to make logistics smarter, the Company is shaping the future of logistics with technology and aspires to revolutionize logistics, improve efficiency across the value chain and reduce its carbon footprint for our planet. For more information, please visit ir.fulltruckalliance.com.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd.
Mao Mao
E-mail: [email protected]
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Emilie Wu
Tel: +86-21-6039-8363
E-mail: [email protected]
In the United States:
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
E-mail: [email protected]
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