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At least 14 people have been killed in Gujarat as heavy showers continued to batter southern districts and Kutch-Saurashtra regions.
According to official sources, over 31000 have been evacuated so far.
State Disaster Management Minister Rajendra Trivedi said that three national highways in Kutch, Navsari and Dang districts were blocked due to damage caused by rains. He further said that fifty one state highways and over 400 panchayat roads have also been damaged.
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has directed the administration to carry out a survey of the affected districts at the earliest so that people do not have to wait for long for cash and other reliefs to compensate for damages caused due to the rainfall, he said.
In four hours between 6 and 10 am on Wednesday, parts of Junagadh, Gir Somnath, Dang and Amreli received downpour between 47 mm and 88 mm, according to the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC).
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a 'red alert', predicting heavy rains during the next 24 hours in the districts of Saurashtra and south Gujarat.
The weather department said that several parts of Kutch, Bharuch, Dang, Navsari and Tapi districts in south Gujarat received very heavy rainfall in the 24-hour period till 6 am on Wednesday.
Rajkot, Gir Somnath, Amreli and Jamnagar were among districts in Saurashtra region that received heavy downpour, officials of the SEOC said.
Trivedi said 31,035 people were shifted to safer places, with 21,094 still living in shelters provided by the respective district administrations and 9,941 returning to their homes after the rain waters receded.
A total of 575 people stranded due to flooding in low-lying areas of different districts were rescued, he said.
Trivedi further stated that eighteen teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were deployed for the rescue work and two kept on standby.
CM Patel had on Tuesday conducted an aerial inspection of flood-hit areas and also visited affected regions in Chhota Udepur, Navsari and Narmada districts.
The heavy rains have also risen the water levels of various reservoirs in the state, with 30 of them being filled up to 70 per cent or more out of their total storage capacity.
The state's largest Sardar Sarovar Dam is also filled up to 48 per cent of its total capacity, the minister said. | https://www.pratidintime.com/national/gujarat-14-killed-over-30000-evacuated-due-to-heavy-rains | 2022-07-13T10:30:20Z | https://www.pratidintime.com/national/gujarat-14-killed-over-30000-evacuated-due-to-heavy-rains | true | 4 |
Omarion’s brother O’Ryan sends fans wild as he gets NAKED in leaked NSFW videos from OnlyFans page
OMARION'S younger brother, O’Ryan Omir Browner sent fans wild when his naked videos were leaked online.
The singer and actor, 35, strips down in several raunchy clips from his new OnlyFans page.
O'Ryan joined the X-rated subscription service earlier this month and is charging fans $12 a month.
He currently has around 1,000 fans and less than 10 posts - but will no doubt have more after his videos were leaked on Twitter.
Fans went into meltdown over the clips, with one writing: "I literally CANNOT BELIEVE what I am seeing with Omarion's brother."
Another added: "omg i just saw a video of o'ryan doing jumping jacks butt naked."
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A third posted: "I can never unsee the o'ryan videos."
O'Ryan is known for songs like Going Out Your Way and Jus Anotha Shorty.
He released his self-titled debut album in 2004.
O'Ryan dated singer Jhené Aiko from 2005 to 2008 - the year their daughter Namiko was born.
They've kept the reasons for their split private.
Jhené, whose highest chart success was on Omarion's song Post To Be, is now gearing up to welcome her second child into the world with her on-and-off-again boyfriend, Big Sean.
TMZ obtained photos of the pair on Saturday, July 2, 2022, out in Beverly Hills.
Jhené was visibly pregnant and a rep for the couple confirmed the news with the outlet stating that "The couple are overjoyed and look forward to this next chapter."
This will be Big Sean's first pregnancy and Jhené's second.
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Cash-strapped Pakistan may face serious economic crisis amid fast-depleting forex reserves
The country has been facing a serious threat from its external front as the State Bank of Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves fell to single digits despite a USD 2.3 billion inflow from China.
Published: 13th July 2022 01:24 PM | Last Updated: 13th July 2022 01:24 PM | A+A A-
ISLAMABAD: Cash-starved Pakistan could face a serious economic problem as its foreign exchange reserves are depleting fast amid rising external debt servicing, according to a media report on Wednesday.
The country's external debt servicing rose to USD 10.886 billion in the first three quarters of 2021-22 compared to USD 13.38 billion in the entire FY21.
It was just USD 1.653 billion in 1QFY22 against USD 3.51 billion in the first quarter of 2020-21, but it jumped to USD 4.357 billion in 2QFY22 and to USD 4.875 billion in 3QFY22.
The country has been facing a serious threat from its external front as the State Bank of Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves fell to single digits despite a USD 2.3 billion inflow from China late last month, the Dawn newspaper reported.
"The increasing size of the external debt servicing in each quarter indicates the government has been borrowing dollars at higher commercial rates to meet its foreign debt repayment obligations," the report said.
The current coalition government led by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) did not disclose the rate at which it had borrowed USD 2.3 billion from China.
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Initially, Beijing had agreed to roll over the syndicated loans before the ouster of the previous PTI government. However, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's administration had to wait for two months to secure the Chinese loan.
The financial sector and other stakeholders of the economy are still not satisfied with the hidden cost of the Chinese loan. The market is full of speculation that Chinese loans were taken at a very high rate.
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has been assuring Pakistanis that the release of the USD 1 billion tranches is expected in a few days but three months have gone without a satisfactory reply from the IMF.
Bankers believe that the fund is dictating the government like Washington to do more, the report said.
Since the IMF has stopped funding, the country is not getting project funding from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
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A senior analyst said the Chinese knew that Pakistan was unable to return to the international debt market and the IMF was not in a hurry to help Islamabad. This was the reason that the Chinese lent money at a very high rate.
Pakistan has been forced to pay debt servicing through commercial borrowing, which means more external debt in the next financial year.
The governments in FY22 that ended on June 30 could not control the influx of huge imports totalling USD 80 billion creating a large current account deficit (CAD), which alone is enough to understand the external weakness of the economy. Despite record remittances and exports, the country is unable to get dollars from the international debt market, the report said.
Cash-starved Pakistan has faced growing economic challenges, with high inflation, sliding forex reserves, a widening current account deficit and a depreciating currency.
With the rising current account deficit at USD 13. 2 billion in the first nine months and pressing external loan repayment requirements, Pakistan required financial assistance of USD 9-12 billion till June 2022 to avert further depletion of foreign currency reserves. | https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2022/jul/13/cash-strapped-pakistanmay-face-serious-economic-crisis-amid-fast-depleting-forex-reserves-2476086.html | 2022-07-13T10:34:05Z | https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2022/jul/13/cash-strapped-pakistanmay-face-serious-economic-crisis-amid-fast-depleting-forex-reserves-2476086.html | true | 2 |
Set of the Week is courtesy of FINIS, a SwimSwam partner.
This week’s set of the week comes from Kat Wickham, former swimmer at the University of Utah (SKO Utes).
This week’s set is focused on technique; specifically the early vertical forearm in the catch.
400 warmup (100 swim, 50 kick)
4 x 25 skull with instinct paddles, Rest 10
4 x 50’s single arm, Rest 10
2 x 100’s with forearm fulcrums, Rest 15
4 x 50’s descend 1-4, maintain perfect technique while descending, Rest 10
100 easy
*Wear Forearm Fulcrums and Instinct Paddles
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OTTAWA, July 13. /TASS/. One of turbines for the Nord Stream gas pipeline stuck in Montreal due to sanctions against Gazprom is now on its way to Europe and five more will be delivered to Canada within two years, for maintenance, The Globe and Mail newspaper said on Wednesday, citing sources.
"The Canadian government’s deal to allow the repair of Russian-owned turbines covers a period of up to two years from now and would allow the import and re-export of up to six units - a far more extensive arrangement than had previously been disclosed," the newspaper said.
"Global Affairs Canada granted the German industrial giant Siemens Energy an exemption under Canada’s Russia sanctions for two years," The Globe and Mail said. Siemens is now allowed to send turbines from the Nord Stream gas pipeline to Canada’s facilities of the company in Montreal for regular repair and maintenance, the newspaper noted.
One of the turbines stranded in Montreal due to sanctions on Gazprom is being shipped back to Europe, while the other five will be sent to Siemens Canada over the next two years for regular maintenance, the sources told the newspaper. "Siemens Canada will send the turbine equipment to Germany, whose government will then turn it over to Russia. The indirect return route could allow Canada to say it has not reneged on its sanctions," the newspaper added.
Gas supplies over the Nord Stream gas pipeline are being suspended for ten days since July 11 because of the scheduled annual maintenance. Since mid-June, the pipeline operated with just 40% of its maximal capacity because the turbine was not returned in time from Canada after the repair because of anti-Russian sanctions. | https://tass.com/economy/1479353 | 2022-07-13T10:36:58Z | https://tass.com/economy/1479353 | false | 1 |
Dubai: India pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah Wednesday regained the top spot in the ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings after a career-best haul of 6 for 19 that helped India defeat England by 10-wicket in the first ODI at The Kennington Oval Tuesday.
Bumrah had lost the top spot to New Zealand’s Trent Boult in February 2020 after being No. 1 for most of the preceding two years. He has been at the top for a total of 730 days, more than any other Indian and the ninth-most in history.
Bumrah, who has been No. 1 in T20Is in the past and is currently at a career-best third position in Tests, is only the second Indian pacer after Kapil Dev to be No. 1 in the ODI rankings. Maninder Singh, Anil Kumble and Ravindra Jadeja are the other India bowlers to have attained top ranking.
Bumrah’s new-ball partner Mohammad Shami too has gained after grabbing 3/31 and playing his role in bundling England out for 110 in 25.2 overs. Shami has progressed three spots to reach joint-23rd position along with team-mate Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
The Indian opening batting pair too has some improvement to show after taking the team through to their target in just 18.4 overs. Captain Rohit Sharma has bridged the gap with third-placed Virat Kohli to just one rating point after his quick-fire 76 not out while left-hander Shikhar Dhawan has inched up one slot to 12th position after his unbeaten 31.
In the latest weekly rankings update that also considers performances in the first two Ireland versus New Zealand matches that are part of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League, and the first West Indies versus Bangladesh match, England captain Jos Buttler has moved up one slot to 24th after top-scoring for England with 30.
In the ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings, India batter Suryakumar Yadav has gained 44 slots to reach a career-best fifth position after his 117 in the final match of a three-T20I series against England. Nicholas Pooran of the West Indies is up five places to eighth after a match-winning 74 not out in the final match of their series against Bangladesh.
India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar has surged seven places to a career-best seventh position after a haul of 3/15 in the second T20I in Birmingham, while India leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal is up two places to 19th. Harshal Patel (up 10 places to 23rd) and Bumrah (up six places to 27th) have also progressed.
IANS | https://www.orissapost.com/jasprit-bumrah-regains-top-spot-in-icc-odi-rankings-for-bowlers/ | 2022-07-13T10:41:15Z | https://www.orissapost.com/jasprit-bumrah-regains-top-spot-in-icc-odi-rankings-for-bowlers/ | false | 11 |
WA Seattle WA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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ZFPSEW
Zone Forecast Product for Western Washington
National Weather Service Seattle WA
316 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Thursday.
WAZ558-132300-
Seattle and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Seattle, Shoreline, Federal Way, and Kent
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the 70s. Light wind becoming northwest to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. North wind 10 to 15 mph
becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Light wind
becoming northwest to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s. North wind
10 to 15 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. South wind
around 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 60.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Seattle 75 55 79 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ559-132300-
Bremerton and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bremerton and Silverdale
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind becoming east 10 to
15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northeast
wind 10 to 20 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s. Light wind
becoming northeast to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s. Northeast wind 10 to
15 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. South wind to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bremerton 74 54 78 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ507-132300-
Everett and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Everett, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Marysville,
and Arlington
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Northwest wind to 10 mph becoming
west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. North wind
10 to 15 mph decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Light wind becoming
northwest to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind
around 10 mph becoming north to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. South wind to 10 mph becoming
southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Edmonds 70 55 73 / 0 0 0
Everett 70 53 74 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ509-132300-
Tacoma Area-
Including the cities of Tacoma, Lakewood, Puyallup, and Sumner
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the 70s. South wind to 10 mph becoming northwest in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northwest
wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Light wind.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind to
10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Southwest
wind around 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Puyallup 77 54 81 / 0 0 0
Tacoma 77 53 80 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ556-132300-
Bellevue and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, and Issaquah
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the 70s. North wind around 10 mph becoming northwest in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. North wind around
10 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Light wind.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s. North wind
around 10 mph becoming east to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. South wind to
10 mph becoming southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellevue 75 55 79 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ555-132300-
East Puget Sound Lowlands-
Including the cities of Gold Bar, Enumclaw, North Bend,
and Buckley
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the 70s. North wind 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. North wind
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Light wind
becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind around
10 mph becoming south to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Light wind
becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Gold Bar 76 55 81 / 0 0 0
Enumclaw 75 52 79 / 0 0 0
North Bend 77 53 81 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ503-132300-
Western Whatcom County-
Including the cities of Bellingham, Blaine, and Lynden
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph becoming
west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. South wind
10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South wind
10 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph becoming southwest in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. Southwest wind
around 10 mph becoming south 10 to 20 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. South wind 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellingham 71 53 73 / 0 0 0
Sumas 75 53 78 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ506-132300-
Western Skagit County-
Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley,
and Burlington
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming
west in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind
10 to 15 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South wind
10 to 15 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
West wind to 10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South wind
10 to 15 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Anacortes 70 53 71 / 0 0 0
Mount Vernon 73 53 75 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ001-132300-
San Juan County-
Including the cities of Friday Harbor, Eastsound,
and Roche Harbor
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming
south in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. South wind
10 to 15 mph becoming southwest after midnight. Gusts to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. South wind
to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. Southwest wind
to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South
wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid to
upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs near 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs near 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Friday Harbor 70 51 71 / 0 0 0
Eastsound 69 54 69 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ510-132300-
Admiralty Inlet Area-
Including the cities of Port Townsend and Port Ludlow
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West wind 10 to 20 mph becoming
northwest to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind
10 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Southwest
wind to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South wind to
10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oak Harbor 66 52 67 / 0 0 0
Port Townsend 66 52 68 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ511-132300-
Hood Canal Area-
Including the cities of Hoodsport and Brinnon
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
Southeast wind to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northeast
wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Light wind becoming
southeast to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s. Northeast wind 10 to
15 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Southwest wind to 10 mph
increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Shelton 78 52 80 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ504-132300-
Southwest Interior-
Including the cities of Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Centralia,
and Toledo
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the 70s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. West
wind 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Light wind.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northwest wind around 10 mph becoming south to 10 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s. Southwest wind to
10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Chehalis 76 51 78 / 0 0 0
Olympia 77 49 79 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ512-132300-
Lower Chehalis Valley Area-
Including the city of Montesano
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northwest wind to 10 mph becoming
west in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 50. West wind 10 to 15 mph
decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Light wind becoming west to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West wind
to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. West
wind to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
$$
WAZ514-132300-
Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca-
Including the cities of Sequim and Port Angeles
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West
wind 10 to 20 mph becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Gusts to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind
10 to 20 mph. Gusts to 30 mph in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs near 70. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming
northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
West wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70. Wind variable to 10 mph
increasing to northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Port Angeles 67 53 70 / 0 0 0
Sequim 68 52 71 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ515-132300-
Western Strait of Juan De Fuca-
Including the cities of Joyce and Clallam Bay
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 60s. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest in the
afternoon. Gusts to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 50. West wind 10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. Wind
variable to 10 mph becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid
50s. West wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 60s to lower
70s. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower to
mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Sekiu 65 53 66 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ517-132300-
Central Coast-
Including the cities of Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Westport,
and Ocean Shores
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind
becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind
10 to 15 mph decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. Southwest wind to 10 mph increasing to
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hoquiam 67 54 68 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ516-132300-
North Coast-
Including the cities of Neah Bay, La Push, and Forks
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the 60s. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west in
the afternoon. Gusts to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph
becoming north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. Light
wind becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
West wind around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the 60s.
South wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Forks 66 52 68 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ513-132300-
Olympics-
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 13000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Snow level
near 9500 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Snow level near
9500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 12500 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 12500 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 11500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 11500 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hurricane Ridge 57 44 59 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ567-132300-
Cascades of Whatcom and Skagit Counties-
Including the cities of Marblemount and Concrete
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny.
Freezing level near 13000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 13000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 13000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Snow level near 9000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 12500 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 11500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 11500 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 12500 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mount Baker 60 44 66 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ568-132300-
Cascades of Snohomish and King Counties-
Including the cities of Snoqualmie Pass, Darrington, and Index
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny.
Freezing level near 13000 feet. Afternoon pass temperatures in
the mid to upper 60s. North wind in the passes around 10 mph
becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
Northwest wind in the passes around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet. Afternoon pass
temperatures in the lower to mid 70s. Light wind in the passes.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
Northwest wind in the passes around 10 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet. Afternoon pass
temperatures in the lower 70s. Light wind in the passes becoming
west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 13000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 12500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 12000 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 13000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Snoqualmie Pass 68 44 74 / 0 0 0
Stevens Pass 65 44 72 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ569-132300-
Cascades of Pierce and Lewis Counties-
Including the cities of Randle, Packwood, Ashford, and Morton
317 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny.
Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 13000 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
$$
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(CNN) — A backpack, lunch box, crayons and at least 10 hours of sleep each night are all things children need to get off to a good start in kindergarten, according to a new study.
Researchers monitored sleep duration of kindergarteners over four weeklong periods and had the children’steachers evaluate their transition into formal schooling, according to the study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. The teachers did not know how much each child slept over the course of the night.
“The more consistently children got 10+ hours of sleep during the night, the better the children’s peer relationships, relationships with their teachers, overall academic performance, and sight recognition of words and letters,” said lead study author Douglas Teti, distinguished professor and head of the department of human development and family studies at The Pennsylvania State University, via email.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine already suggests that kindergarten-aged kids get 10 to 13 hours of sleep — but that is over the course of the day, and that includes naps.
But the results of the study challenge the guidance in that they showed that the biggest predictor of successful adjustment to school was regularly getting at least 10 hours of sleep over the course of the night, Teti said.
“This suggests that ‘making up’ for inadequate nighttime sleep by allowing one’s child to nap during the day will not help children in their kindergarten transition. It is best to have that 10+ hours of sleep concentrated during the nighttime sleep period, and to try to make this as consistent as possible across nights,” Teti said.
The methods of the study are strong and support what can be seen in clinical settings as well as broader pediatric research, said psychologist Ariel A. Williamson, a pediatric sleep expert in the department of child and adolescent psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Williamson was not involved in the study.
If you have a little one approaching kindergarten in the fall, now may be the time to start good sleep habits. Over the course of the year, it was the sleep habits of the time leading up to kindergarten that made the biggest difference, according to the study.
“The intervention should begin before kindergarten begins in September,” Teti said. “Parents should do what they can to help their children get most if not all of their sleep on a regular basis during the children’s nighttime sleep period.”
Starting good sleep habits
The results of the study do not mean that preschool-aged or younger children should start weaning off naps, which are important during childhood, Teti said.
“For many young children, napping in the afternoon is developmentally typical; however, as the kindergarten transition approaches, families may wish to work on cutting daytime naps to consolidate sleep overnight,” Williamson said.
If your child is transitioning into kindergarten, Teti suggests implementing a 9 p.m. or earlier bedtime and working toward having most of the child’s sleep take place at night.
That may be hard for some families to uphold, especially when the adults have nonstandard work hours, he acknowledged. In those cases, Teti suggested leaning on other caregivers or family members for support.
In addition to sticking to that earlier bedtime, it can be helpful to avoid — not eliminate — use of screens, Teti said. Screens like TVs, video games and tablets should be completely eliminated at least 30 minutes before bedtime, however, he added.
It’s also important to be involved in bedtime, making a routine that is consistent and prepares the child for bed, Teti said. That can mean taking a bath, reading books, talking quietly and creating a calming environment, he suggested.
That regular schedule has been shown to increase how long children sleep over the course of the night, Williamson said.
“Establishing a consistent bedtime routine … could help to encourage a regular sleep schedule and promote optimal overnight sleep duration, especially in early childhood,” she said.
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As it welcomes Music Director and Conductor Michael Repper to the podium, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra will mark its 25thanniversary season – a “Season of Celebration” – with the introduction of a new four-concert Ensembles Series to complement its traditional five-concert Masterworks Series and New Year’s Eve concert.
Both series will be presented at multiple venues on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and in Southern Delaware.
“With growing interest in live performances, we are adding a series of programs featuring brass, jazz, string, and woodwind ensembles comprised of Mid-Atlantic Symphony musicians to make the joy and diversity of music more widely available,” said Board President Jeffrey Parker.
“The new Ensembles Series will allow our audiences to become more familiar with individual players from the Orchestra as they perform together in these smaller groups,” Parker added. “The series will offer programs that appeal to a variety of musical tastes, as well as lower ticket prices to make the experience more affordable for families. Our established Masterworks Series will continue to feature new and familiar repertoire for full orchestra, with acclaimed guest performers from around the world.”
Masterworks Series programs include Florence Price’s rarely performed Symphony No. 1 as well as symphonies by Dvorak and Schumann; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”), with celebrated Irish pianist Michael McHale as guest soloist; Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1, with internationally acclaimed cellist Dominique de Willencourt as guest soloist; and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with BBC Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Igor Yuzefovich as both guest soloist and conductor.
A complete schedule of 2022-2023 Masterworks and Ensembles programs, venues and times is available at www.midatlanticsymphony.org
The Mid-Atlantic Symphony also will celebrate its silver anniversary with its traditional non-subscription New Year’s Eve concert in Easton, MD, featuring acclaimed young singer Anna Kelly and Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition finalist Rachel Blaustein. Tickets are $65 for general admission or $90 for premium seating.
Subscriptions for the five-concert Masterworks Series, which includes the popular Holiday Joy program, are $210,a savings of $50 from individually purchased tickets. Single tickets for Masterworks programs are $50 for the September, November, and March concerts, and $55 for both the December and April programs.
Ensembles Series subscriptions, including a December performance of seasonal favorites by a six-person brass and percussion group of Mid-Atlantic Symphony musicians, are $125 for four concerts, a savings of $15 from individually purchased tickets, which are $35 each. The series also includes performances by a woodwind quintet, a string quartet, and a jazz ensemble.
In addition to single tickets and series subscriptions, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony offers a group discount for the purchase of 10 or more tickets to a single subscription concert.
The Orchestra also makes a limited number of free tickets available for students 18 years and under, with accompanying parents admitted for $10 each. Reservations are required for the free tickets, and may be made by calling 888-846-8600,
For additional information about the 2022-2023 season or to order tickets, visit www.midatlanticsymphony.org. Tickets also may be ordered by telephone at 888-846-8600.
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Last week’s death of former Republican state Sen. Mike Crotts, author of the state’s 2004 constitutional ban on gay marriage, got me thinking about this generation’s premier culture warrior: another Georgian, named Clarence Thomas.
In his concurring opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court Justice Thomas said the quiet part out loud — that the work of the six conservative justices could be just beginning.
Thomas urged the court to revisit precedent-setting cases like Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell, which — respectively — legalized the rights to contraception, same-sex sexual relationships and gay marriages. He notably forgot Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court case which struck down bans on interracial marriage and was settled along the same lines of those other cases. I can’t imagine why a Black man married to a white woman wouldn’t mention that case.
The court’s longest serving justice is a fan of originalism, which takes the Founding Fathers at their word, no matter how much life has changed since bleeding was a prescribed medical remedy. One can only think of what the powdered wig crowd would think of gay people, contraceptives and interracial marriage.
With Roe toppled, we can expect to see ingenious lawyers and legislators crafting cases to outlaw morning-after pills and same-sex relationships, no matter what Americans think.
I was surprised to be reminded in Crotts’ obituary that 76% of Georgia voters supported banning gay marriage in 2004. But polls show Georgians and Americans have embraced the idea, especially after the 2015 Obergefell ruling. A Gallup poll last year said 70% of Americans support gay marriage, up from 42% in 2004 and 27% in 1996, back when even Bill Clinton didn’t go for it.
Life changes.
Credit: Curtis Compton
Credit: Curtis Compton
Along those lines, I called Mike Bowers, the longtime Georgia attorney general whose name graced a U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Bowers v. Hardwick), one that allowed states to ban same-sex sex. It was overturned in 2003 by Lawrence v. Texas.
For years, Bowers was seen in the gay community as Darth Vader in a business suit. But in 2015, a gentler, kinder Bowers lobbied against religious liberty bills that would have allowed Georgia business owners to deny service to gay folks on religious grounds. He called the bills “ill-conceived, unnecessary, mean-spirited.” Legislators didn’t heed Bowers and passed a bill but then-Gov. Nathan Deal did and vetoed it.
When asked what’s next for the Supremes, Bowers said, “there’s really no limit as to how far the court can go. It’s majority says.”
Bowers says he’s politically homeless these days. “I’m too liberal for the Republicans and too conservative for the Democrats.”
On same-sex marriage, he said: “If they want to spend their life with someone and want the same standards of marriage, well, just leave them alone.”
On abortion: “You’re not going to have peace and quiet if you have a bunch of old white men saying how (women) can use their bodies,” he said, adding, “I know an 18-year-old granddaughter, a 52-year-old daughter and an 80-year-old wife who say, ‘That will not work if there are no abortions in America.’“
The Lawrence ruling might have struck down sodomy laws nationally, but it was Atlanta lawyer Steve Sadow who overturned Georgia’s law in 1998 in the state Supreme Court. He did so with a male heterosexual client and is unsure he’d have won if he represented a gay man.
Credit: KENT D. JOHNSON / AJC
Credit: KENT D. JOHNSON / AJC
Sadow doesn’t think many of the other conservative justices are as revved up to break things as is Thomas. He believes the next battles on that front will be along the lines of Texas trying to limit women from traveling out of state to receive abortions.
He did say Dobbs presented a troubling question: “If there’s not a privacy right in the Constitution, then where do all these other rights come from?”
Interestingly, Sadow said, Georgia’s Constitution has a privacy right and abortion may be fought along those lines. However, the court might bat that argument away. “Can you imagine how the right-to-lifers would react if the Georgia Supreme Court ruled the right to privacy includes abortion,” he said. “They’d go nuts.”
Georgia State University law professor Anthony Kreis thinks battles in the near future will be about “religious liberty” or contraception like the morning-after pill.
“I think same-sex marriage is threatened; but is it going away tomorrow? I don’t think so,” Kreis said. “But you’ll see a number of people emboldened to attack these other rights.”
Cole Muzio, president of Frontline Policy Action, which has lobbied hard against abortion in Georgia. “The court is looking at decisions that were wrongfully decided,” he said. However, he added, " No one I know is seriously talking about contraception or the sodomy law.”
At least now. There’s too much work to be done on the abortion front, he said. That means working to get conservatives elected in the fall.
“There’s an effort to go far quickly, but we’re in it for the long haul,” Muzio said. “Dobbs is the beginning of the fight. This story is not over.”
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Mindtree Q1 results: Net profit rises 37% to ₹472 cr; revenue up 36%
1 min read . 04:21 PM IST- Mindtree Q1 results: Revenue from operations, meanwhile, rose 36.2% to ₹3,121 crore as compared to ₹2,291.7 crore in the year-ago period
Midcap IT services company Mindtree Ltd on Wednesday reported a 37.3% year-on-year growth in its consolidated net profit at ₹471.6 crore for the quarter ending 30 June, 2022 as compared to ₹343.3 crore in the same quarter last year.
Midcap IT services company Mindtree Ltd on Wednesday reported a 37.3% year-on-year growth in its consolidated net profit at ₹471.6 crore for the quarter ending 30 June, 2022 as compared to ₹343.3 crore in the same quarter last year.
Revenue from operations, meanwhile, rose 36.2% to ₹3,121 crore as compared to ₹2,291.7 crore in the year-ago period.
Revenue from operations, meanwhile, rose 36.2% to ₹3,121 crore as compared to ₹2,291.7 crore in the year-ago period.
The Bengaluru-based company saw a 0.3% quarter-on-quarter decline in its net profit.
Debashis Chatterjee, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Mindtree, said, “We are excited to report a strong start to FY23 with robust revenue growth, solid margin, and a record order book, demonstrating our continued industry-leading growth momentum."
“With revenues of $399.3 million, up 5.5% sequentially in constant currency on the back of a healthy demand for our digital capabilities, this was our sixth consecutive quarter of more than 5% revenue growth in constant currency," Chatterjee further said.
“Our EBITDA was 21.1%, underscoring our disciplined execution and operational rigor. Our highest-ever order book of $570 million reflects the relevance of our value proposition in delivering business-critical transformation at scale," he added.
Shares of MindTree Ltd closed 2.01% up at ₹2,911.00 apiece on the NSE today. | https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/mindtree-q1-results-net-profit-rises-37-to-rs-471-6-cr-revenue-up-36/amp-11657708625493.html | 2022-07-13T10:55:16Z | https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/mindtree-q1-results-net-profit-rises-37-to-rs-471-6-cr-revenue-up-36/amp-11657708625493.html | true | 1 |
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard libel trial, which generated intense interest for two months earlier this year as a livestreamed, no-holds-barred soap opera featuring one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, is not fading away quietly.
Earlier this month, Heard’s lawyers filed a 51-page motion asking Judge Penney Azcarate to set aside the jury’s verdict, which gave $10 million to Depp and $2 million to Heard on competing defamation claims.
The motion cites multiple reasons that the verdict is untenable, from the surprising decision to declare both sides victorious to one extent or another, to a bizarre case of mistaken identity with one of the jurors.
Among the issues raised:
WHY $10 MILLION?
Depp sued for $25 million in Fairfax County after Heard wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post about domestic violence in which she referred to herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” The article never mentioned Depp by name, but his lawyers said several passages in the article defamed him by implication by referring to highly publicized abuse allegations she made in 2016 as she filed for divorce.
Heard then filed a $50 million counterclaim, also for defamation. By the time the case went to trial, her counterclaim had been whittled down to a few statements made by one of Depp’s lawyers, who called Heard’s abuse allegations a hoax.
The jury awarded $15 million to Depp and $2 million to Heard on her counterclaim. The $15 million judgment was reduced to $10.35 million because Virginia law caps punitive damages at $350,000.
Heard’s lawyers say in court papers that the $10 million verdict is unsupported by the facts, and seems to demonstrate that jurors failed to focus on the fallout from the 2018 op-ed piece — as they were supposed to do — and instead just looked broadly at the damage Depp’s reputation suffered as a result of the alleged abuse.
Depp’s lawyers, though, say the damages are supported by testimony from his agent and others. They say the precedents cited by Heard’s team to support her arguments “are decades old, and none involves an international A-list celebrity.”
Steve Cochran, a civil lawyer in Virginia who was appointed by a judge as a neutral conciliator in the case to try to minimize pretrial discovery disputes, said he always believed the weakest link in Depp’s case was the damages, given evidence that the actor’s reputation had been ruined in Hollywood well before the publication of the op-ed. Still, he said he’s skeptical that Heard can get the verdict set aside.
Scott Surovell, a lawyer and Democratic state senator who practices law in Fairfax, also said he sees little reason to set aside the damages.
“What the judge looks for … is that the verdict was adequately supported at trial and wasn’t based on speculation or conjecture. (Depp) makes a lot of money from movies. That doesn’t sound to me like the damages were based on speculation or conjecture, but on evidence,” he said.
“INCONSISTENT AND IRRECONCILABLE”
Heard’s lawyers argue that the verdicts for Depp on one hand and Heard on the other are fundamentally nonsensical.
“The jury’s dueling verdicts are inconsistent and irreconcilable,” her lawyers wrote.
Depp’s lawyers, though, say the verdict form used by jurors allowed them to express with specificity exactly which statements they found defamatory. When you look at the individual statements, they say, the dueling verdicts make sense.
Jeremiah Denton III, a Virginia Beach attorney with experience in defamation cases, said he doesn’t view the verdicts as irreconcilable. If anything, he said, the award most in jeopardy is the $2 million given to Heard, because he said it’s legally dubious that Depp can be held liable for statements made by his attorney.
“I don’t understand why the judge even allowed that issue to go to the jury,” he said.
JUROR #15
One of the more unusual items in the discussion is a case of apparent mistaken identity with one of the jurors. According to court papers, a 77-year-old county resident received a summons for the trial. But the man’s son, who has the same name and lives at the same address, responded to the summons and served in his stead.
Heard’s lawyers say Virginia law is strict about juror identities, and the case of mistaken identity is grounds for a mistrial. They have presented no evidence that the 52-year-old son, identified in court papers only as Juror #15, purposefully or insidiously sought to replace his father, but they argue that possibility should not be discounted.
“The Court cannot assume, as Mr. Depp asks it to, that Juror 15’s apparently improper service was an innocent mistake. It could have been an intentional attempt to serve on the jury of a high-profile case,” Heard’s lawyers wrote.
Paul Bekman, a Baltimore lawyer who has also tried cases in Virginia, said Heard’s team needed to raise any issues about the juror ahead of time.
“Anybody looking at a 52-year-old and a 77-year-old would be able to tell — hopefully — that there’s a difference of 25 years, and they would have the right to inquire about that,” he said. “I believe it is too late to complain about the juror.”
Cochran also said he was skeptical that the confusion could result in a mistrial or the judge setting aside the verdict, but he cautioned that it’s difficult to predict because the issue is so rare.
“I’ve been practicing for 50 years and never seen that issue come up,” he said.
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Daniel Kaluuya had given up on acting before Jordan Peele approached him about the lead role in smash hit movie Get Out.
During an interview with his Get Out and Nope director for Essence magazine, the British actor revealed he had "checked out" of acting before getting the call about the 2017 horror because he felt so "disillusioned" with the industry.
"I've never told you this, but when you reached out to me and we had that Skype, I was really disillusioned with acting. I had stopped acting for like a year and a half," he told Peele. "I checked out, because I was just like, this isn't working. I wasn't getting roles, because racism and all this kind of stuff - so you reaching out was like, Okay, I'm not crazy. It’s proper. It's going to be all right."
Kaluuya, 33, added that he "understood" Peele's script when it came through and instantly knew "this is a hit, this is a banger".
Following his Oscar-nominated turn in Get Out, Kaluuya appeared in films including Widows, Black Panther, Queen & Slim and Judas and the Black Messiah, for which he won an Academy Award.
He explained that the success of Get Out meant he was able to pick roles that excited him and stretched him as an actor.
"I was just like, If it's not a ‘F**k yeah,’ it’s a no. That kind of cleaned house," he shared. "I want to go into places that I don't know I can. I want three-dimensional characters. I want to tell the story, no matter how big or how small. In Widows, I'm not in the film that much, but my character had an arc - he had a story and an evolution. As long as that’s there, then I can engage with it."
Kaluuya and Peele's latest collaboration, Nope, begins hitting cinemas from 20 July. | https://www.film-news.co.uk/news/UK/94894/Daniel-Kaluuya-gave-up-on-acting-before-Get-Out | 2022-07-13T11:07:39Z | https://www.film-news.co.uk/news/UK/94894/Daniel-Kaluuya-gave-up-on-acting-before-Get-Out | true | 1 |
'Stopping Haaland the same as stopping Benteke' - Chelsea goalkeeper Mendy not daunted by new Man City signing
Edouard Mendy has a tough task ahead of him in the 2022-23 Premier League season, with the top clubs boasting fierce marksmen who can be a nightmare for any goalkeeper. Tottenham Hotspur have Harry Kane in their ranks, while both Manchester City and Liverpool have brought in reinforcements in the form of Erling Haaland and Darwin Nunez respectively.
However, Chelsea's shot-stopper is not losing any sleep over the new arrivals and is confident that he will be prepared enough to prove himself equal to the task.
What did Edouard Mendy say about facing Erling Haaland?
Chelsea's first clash with Manchester City next season will take place in January 2023. Before that, Mendy will be travelling to Qatar to take part in the 2022 World Cup with Senegal.
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However, since Norway have not qualified for the marquee event, Haaland will remain fresh and will look to fire on all cylinders once the Premier League restarts post the World Cup break.
Mendy is ready for the challenge and will not give the Norwegian any extra attention for all the bells and whistles.
"I study. I study a lot. It’s not about one striker or one team - we just have to focus on every striker, every team we play to win. It’s not because it’s Haaland," he stated.
“I look at Haaland like I look at, say, Benteke at Palace - it’s not that different between Crystal Palace and City. You have to be focused because he is a striker and he can score. We have our methods and I don’t need to say what they are. But I study a lot. A lot."
What did Edouard Mendy say about Sadio Mane's transfer to Bayern Munich?
Sadio Mane has left the Premier League to move to Bayern Munich for €32 million (£27m/$34m), with a further €6m (£5m/$6m) available based on appearances and €3m depending on individual and team achievements.
Mendy happens to be a pretty close friend of Mane and believes that the winger's departure is a big loss to the Premier League.
"We’ve lost someone great and I hope for him he will enjoy the Bundesliga," he said. "He’s also a big loss because of his quality, the impact he makes and also because, for the young players, he’s an example. When you lose someone like this it can have a huge impact.
"I think it is a big loss for the Premier League in terms of quality and in terms of the person."
Edouard Mendy pays tribute to Chelsea legend Petr Cech
Former Chelsea keeper Petr Cech stepped down from his role of technical and performance advisor after the Todd Boehly consortium took charge of the club. The keeper had been instrumental in bringing Mendy to London and helped him immensely to settle down in his new surroundings.
He also expressed his gratitude to former goalkeeping coach Christophe Lollichon, who guided the AFCON winner in improving the tricks of the trade.
"Without Pete and Christoph, I don’t think I would be at Chelsea. So I will always be grateful to them and the best way to make them proud is to be the best I possibly can on the pitch, just doing my job," he said.
"We have a new owner so it's a new era. Some people are coming and some have left us. That’s life in the club. But we are excited to start.
“My summer was good. I enjoyed the time with my family and I think we all needed it after a long season, especially with the AFCON. I needed the break to be ready mentally and physically for the new year. Now we are." | https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/erling-haaland-benteke-chelsea-goalkeeper-mendy-man-city/blte8160b8a6f1d6d14 | 2022-07-13T11:08:28Z | https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/erling-haaland-benteke-chelsea-goalkeeper-mendy-man-city/blte8160b8a6f1d6d14 | true | 10 |
CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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Western Nevada-Eastern Sierra-Northeast California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service Reno NV
332 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
This is an automatically generated product that provides averaged
values for large geographic areas and may not be representative
of a specific area. To get a more specific forecast for your area,
please visit www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/?site=rev
CAZ072-NVZ002-140300-
Greater Lake Tahoe Area-
Including the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee,
Markleeville, Stateline, Glenbrook, and Incline Village
332 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Haze in the morning. Highs 77 to 87. Light winds
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze after midnight. Lows 45 to 55. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 89. Light winds becoming southwest
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 48 to 58. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 89. Light winds becoming southwest
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 59.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs 79 to 89. Lows 50 to 60.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs 76 to 86. Lows 48 to 58.
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CAZ070-NVZ005-140300-
Surprise Valley California-Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Empire, and Gerlach
332 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 54 to 64. West winds 15 to 25 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph decreasing to around 10 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. Light winds becoming southwest
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 54 to 64. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99. Light winds becoming southwest
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 54 to 64.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Breezy, clear. Highs 91 to 101. Lows
56 to 66.
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CAZ071-140300-
Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties-
Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
332 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95. Light winds becoming southwest
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 47 to 57. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 40 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. Light winds becoming southwest
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 59. West winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. Light winds becoming southwest
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 59.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs 89 to 99. Lows 50 to 60.
$$
CAZ073-140300-
Mono County-
Including the cities of Bridgeport, Coleville, Lee Vining,
and Mammoth Lakes
332 AM PDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 82 to 92. South winds around 10 mph
increasing to southwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze and smoke in the evening. Lows 45 to 55.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph shifting to
the west around 10 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 93. Light winds becoming south
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Haze and smoke in the evening. Lows
49 to 59. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
evening.
.FRIDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 82 to
92. Light winds becoming southwest around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then clear after midnight. Lows
50 to 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs 83 to 93.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then clear after midnight. Lows
51 to 61.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 81 to
91.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then clear after midnight. Lows
50 to 60.
.MONDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs
79 to 89.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
49 to 59.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 89.
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One of the first phones to look truly different has been announced, but is it more than looks, and will it show its style in Australia?
While every phone comes with a different feature set, there’s a good chance that your phone is going to look similar to another phone you see. That’s not your fault, but rather because phones offer specific styles these days.
A screen on the front and one colour of glass, plastic, or metal at the back, phones these days tend to be very same-samey. It’s normal, and nothing super surprising.
But that’s not always the case. Gaming phones tend to offer a different look, and the first phone from Nothing is also in that bunch, as a new Android phone turns up with a mid-range spec sheet and a totally different look.
It’s been hinted at for some time, but Nothing’s transparent take on technology is making its way beyond the transparent noise cancelling earphones the company launched last year in the Ear 1.
Clearly meant to be used alongside it, Nothing’s second gadget is the Phone 1 (or the “Phone (1)” if you use the exact wording), and it borrows from the familiar phone template while giving the design a bit of a different spin.
On the front is a 6.55 inch 120Hz OLED screen, so nothing necessarily spectacular there, and the same might be true for its mid-range approach to hardware. There’s a Qualcomm 778G+ chip with either 8GB or 12GB RAM, and either 128 or 256GB storage, while the connections cover USB Type C, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC, and 5G. That’s a mid-range phone these days.
On the back, you’ll find two 50 megapixel cameras, one wide and one ultra-wide, and then a totally different look.
While most phones sport a simple look, the Gorilla Glass back is transparent, allowing you to see through to what’s going on in the back of the phone, complete with some light strips that can be triggered at different times. It’s a look that can light up for calls, notifications, and other things, using an approach Nothing calls “glyphs” which are basically light-based notifications.
That’s one major part of what makes the Nothing Phone 1 different, with its different look arriving in either white or black, and sporting flat edges similar to the current iPhone range.
It’ll also get a version of Android with Nothing’s launcher over the top, something Nothing calls “Nothing OS”, but the big question is will we get something at all in Australia?
Will Nothing launch the Phone 1 in Australia?
Initially it seems that Nothing’s Phone 1 won’t be launched in stores in Australia.
There’s been no word from local carriers that Nothing’s phone will launch locally, while Nothing’s stockist locations covers the UK, Singapore, Sweden, Hong Kong, and a bunch of other places. However, one place missing in action is Australia, with no stores set for the launch just yet, it seems.
That doesn’t mean Aussies won’t be able to order it, though, with Nothing listing it for sale on its website from $749 outright, and set to arrive in late July. | https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2022/nothings-first-phone-looks-different-but-will-it-see-australia/ | 2022-07-13T11:23:11Z | https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2022/nothings-first-phone-looks-different-but-will-it-see-australia/ | true | 1 |
Increased social media exposure and the use of drone footage has attracted people to an empty Lake Mulwala in their droves.
The popular summer water skiing location has proven it can still impress in the colder months, with hardly a drop in it.
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Yarrawonga Mulwala Visitor Information Centre team leader Helen Copland said this year's lowering to tackle the Egeria water weed had brought a new type of visitor in.
"I think in 2002, we had a huge influx through here, but back in those days, social media wasn't really a thing. We had to really beat the drum in the traditional media to get people to come up," she said.
"It was great in 2018 when it was drained, but this year it's slightly different and I think the drone photography has been the twist.
"It's people and visitors themselves that are also part of and participating in advertising as to how eerie and awesome it is. A lot of our locals have also been hanging around bringing their own families up and just enjoying the freedom of movement."
Goulburn Murray Water storage services general manager Martina Cusack said next autumn will provide a good indication on the success of the lake drainage.
"In the next week or so the water will start coming back in," she said. "The river is running as it would with no weir at the moment.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Here's a widely held view of Russia's war: Russia had a more powerful army and expected a quick victory. It didn't think Western powers would intervene. Yet a poorly planned military campaign led to a fight much tougher than expected.
To be clear, we're not talking about Russia's current war in Ukraine. We're talking about Russia's war in Crimea in the 1850s.
Even if you're not familiar with the Crimean War, you know some of the monumental figures who emerged from it, like Florence Nightingale and Leo Tolstoy.
But this isn't just history. That long-ago conflict is still relevant today. For starters, when Russia fought the Ottoman Empire in 1853, the focal point was Crimea — the very same territory Russian President Vladimir Putin seized in 2014 when he first invaded Ukraine.
During the first Crimean War, The Economist magazine — the same one that's still going strong — wrote a scathing piece in 1854 on Russia and its leader, Czar Nicholas I.
"That vast state is in great measure composed of spoils which she has torn from surrounding nations," The Economist wrote. "Her frontier provinces are filled with injured, discontented hostile populations ... many of whom wait, with patience and desire, the blessed day of emancipation and revenge."
Sounds a lot like Ukraine today.
"There are very distinct parallels. And I think Putin has probably overstretched himself in the same way that Nicholas I did," says Orlando Figes, a British historian and the author of The Crimean War: A History.
"Nicholas, who wanted to counteract the influence of liberal democracy in Europe, came up with the slogan, 'Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationalism,'" Figes says. "That might just as well stand for Putin's ideology. This is a war backed by the Orthodox Church. He is an autocrat. He sees himself as a bulwark against liberal principles coming from the West.''
Professor Vladislav Zubok, a Russian historian at the London School of Economics, has a similar take.
"It's a classic case when history does definitely rhyme," says Zubok.
He notes that Russia had a huge army in the 1850s but planned poorly for the Crimean War.
"Very quickly after the outbreak of the war, it turned out that Russia was so weak that it couldn't even properly supply the troops on its own territory," Zubok says.
Much like today, where Russia has suffered recurring logistics failures since invading Ukraine in February.
Nicholas I also thought Western powers would not interfere with his war against the Ottoman Empire, which he called "the sick man of Europe." He was stunned when Britain and France joined the fight against Russia.
"He could not imagine that the leading powers of Europe would turn against him," Zubok says. "He definitely provoked the Crimean War by his arrogance, by his wrong assumptions about Europe and other powers. And he essentially blundered his way into this war."
Britain and France aren't fighting in the current war. But recently, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron were among five European leaders who took trains to Kyiv and stood side-by-side in solidarity with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"Putin did not believe that the Europeans and the United States would together push back against what Russia was doing," says Angela Stent, a Russia expert at Georgetown University. She's met many times with Putin during his more than two decades in power, and is the author of Putin's World.
"He also didn't believe that Europe and the United States would agree on these very tough sanctions. So he was wrong on a number of counts," she adds.
Of course, the Crimean War was also filled with folly. A disastrous British military operation was immortalized by Britain's Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his epic poem, the Charge of the Light Brigade, which includes these enduring lines:
"Forward the Light Brigade
Was there a man dismayed
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred."
Tennyson wasn't alone in turning tragedy into art. A young Russian artillery officer, Leo Tolstoy, drew on his experience when he later wrote War and Peace.
And Florence Nightingale became one of the most famous women in the world as she ushered in a new era of military medicine by using more sanitary methods to treat wounded troops.
Decades later, in 1890, she made a recording about her time in Crimea and the place where she set up her field hospital, Balaklava.
"When I am no longer a memory — just a name — I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life," she said. "God bless my dear old comrades of Balaklava and bring them safe to shore."
The war did, however, further damage the reputation of Nicholas I. He died in 1855, while the fighting still raged. His 30-year rule left Russia isolated, impoverished and badly in need of reforms.
Russia lost the Crimean War a year later and was forced to accept humiliating terms.
Russia pledged not to place warships in the Black Sea — where it desperately wanted to project naval power.
Today, Russia is projecting naval power in the Black Sea. In an escalating crisis, some 20 Russian warships are blockading the southern coast of Ukraine, keeping the country from exporting its abundant grain to the world.
"I think this is again a historical continuity," says Georgetown's Stent. "Russia trying to dominate the Black Sea. The goals haven't changed that much."
Russia has long portrayed itself as a leading military power. Putin recently compared himself to Peter the Great, the czar who expanded Russian territory through conquests in the early 1700s.
So its current invasion of Ukraine comes as no surprise to Volodymyr Viatrovych, a prominent Ukrainian historian.
"This is, of course, an imperial war," says Viatrovych, who's also in Ukraine's parliament and is a member of the armed forces who helped defend Kyiv in the early days of this war.
"Russia today acts as an empire. It is intending to expand. They're trying to take land that they perceived to have belonged to them in the past," he says.
While Russia has had many military triumphs, he says its overall record is decidedly mixed.
"If we look throughout the course of history, not only the 20th century, but also the 19th century, Russia lost more than it won," Viatrovych says.
Russia was part of the winning side in World War II. But it was defeated by Japan in a 1904-'05 war, had an abysmal showing in World War I that helped pave the way for the 1917 Russian Revolution, and the Soviet Union lost a war to rebels in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
"Russia, has really built this myth of being a global superpower," says Viatrovych. "But what we've seen since the invasion of Ukraine is that they are not a superpower."
Russia's current leader loves talking about his country's historical conquests. He's much less forthcoming on its defeats.
Greg Myre is an NPR national security correspondent. Follow him @gregmyre1.
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PSA on nuclear attack leaves New Yorkers worried, baffled
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City residents are accustomed to warnings about all kinds of potential threats — severe weather, public health, mass shootings.
But a new PSA on surviving a nuclear attack has rattled some cages.
Released this week by the city’s emergency management agency, the 90-second video advises citizens to stay indoors and wash off any radioactive dust or ash. It opens on a computer-generated street, devoid of life. Damaged skyscrapers can be seen in the background.
Looking into the camera, a spokesperson says: “So there’s been a nuclear attack. Don’t ask me how or why. Just know that the big one has hit.”
Many New Yorkers were left asking, “Why now?”
Christina Farrell, the city’s emergency management deputy commissioner, said the video isn’t tied to any specific threats. She said it’s about raising awareness of something most people haven’t given much thought.
“There’s no overarching reason why this is the time we sent this out,” Farrell told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “It’s just one tool in the toolbox to be prepared in the 21st century.”
She said the agency’s goal is to empower people regarding a scary subject, and despite the mixed reactions to the video, “people have thanked us that we are approaching this topic.”
“I don’t know if there’s ever the perfect moment to talk about nuclear preparedness,” she added, saying city officials have discussed implementing nuclear guidelines for quite some time. New York’s emergency response program, Ready New York, has been around since 2003.
Mayor Eric Adams has said he doesn’t believe the video was alarmist, telling reporters Tuesday “I’m a big believer in better safe than sorry.”
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NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Digital Turbine, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of APPS during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: August 9, 2021 to May 17, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's recent acquisitions, AdColony and Fyber, act as agents in certain of their respective product lines; (2) as a result, revenues for those product lines must be reported net of license fees and revenue share, rather than on a gross basis; (3) the Company's internal control over financial reporting as to revenue recognition was deficient; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's net revenues was overstated throughout fiscal 2022; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bessemer Investors LLC ("Bessemer"), a New York-based investment firm, announced today that it has made a strategic investment in RotoCo, LLC ("RotoCo" or the "Company") headquartered in North San Diego County, CA. RotoCo is the largest franchisee of the Roto-Rooter Plumbing and Drain Service in the US and Canada, with branches and franchises in California from Sacramento to San Diego. Bessemer is partnering with RotoCo's existing management team, including Founder and CEO, Jim Holcomb, and President, Brian McCann, who will both continue to lead the Company in their current roles. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
For decades, Roto-Rooter and its franchisees have been some of the nation's largest and most trusted providers of plumbing and drain cleaning services for both residential and commercial customers, and currently provide service coverage to 90% of the US population and 40% of Canada. Bessemer invested in RotoCo in support of the Company's continued growth, both organically and through strategic acquisitions.
Mr. Holcomb said, "We are delighted to join with Bessemer in the expansion of our business. We have significant opportunity to continue growing the business as we have successfully done since its founding and are excited to work alongside Bessemer through our next phase of business growth."
"Our skilled service technicians provide unmatched service to our customers and the Roto-Rooter name is synonymous with quality," said Mr. McCann. "Bessemer's support will help expand our operational capabilities and provide additional resources and opportunities to our team internally."
"We are excited to be partners with Bessemer whose long-term, flexible capital base will allow us to accelerate our expansion while focusing on long-term value creation," said Martin Szumski, Chief Financial Officer at RotoCo.
Bohdan Tyshynsky, Vice President at Bessemer, said, "RotoCo is a proven leader in residential plumbing services with an excellent operational team and a systematic model and approach to providing its services. RotoCo has a long and successful history of growing both organically and through acquisitions, and we look forward to supporting Jim, Brian and the management team as they continue to build a great platform. Plumbing and drain cleaning services have been resilient during changing economic cycles, and we anticipate growth as homeowners increasingly outsource their home services and from the rising plumbing maintenance requirements of the nation's aging housing stock."
The Bessemer team included David Barr, Andrew Mendelsohn, Bohdan Tyshynsky, and Joe Middleman.
BofA Securities, Inc. served as financial advisor to RotoCo, while DLA Piper and SkarlatosZonarich served as legal counsel. Cowen served as financial advisor to Bessemer Investors, while Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP served as legal counsel. Audax Private Debt and Treeline Capital Partners are providing debt financing for the transaction.
Founded in 1974 by Jim Holcomb, RotoCo is a family-owned business and the largest franchise partner of Roto-Rooter Plumbing and Drain Service. RotoCo operates under the Roto-Rooter brand in San Diego County, Los Angeles County, The Inland Empire, The County of Santa Barbara, Monterey County, California's entire Central Valley region, and north beyond Sacramento County. RotoCo continually invests in its people and technology to offer best-in-class services to both commercial and residential property owners, and has grown into the leading plumbing, drain and flood restoration company in California. For more information, please visit http://www.RotoRooterca.com.
Bessemer Investors is a New York-based investment firm focused on partnering with middle market businesses to support growth and enhance value creation. Bessemer differentiates itself by combining a long-term, flexible capital base with a team of experienced private equity professionals. This approach offers unique solutions to Bessemer's partners and the flexibility to maximize long-term value. For further information, please visit https://www.bessemerinvestors.com.
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Khanapara, Shillong, Jowai Teer result today: July 13, 2022 first and second round number
By The Assam TribuneGuwahati, July 13: Teer Result is a lottery game. People who buy tickets for the Khanapara, Shillong, Juwai Teer game can check the lucky number for the first and second rounds here. Winners are decided on the basis of the number of arrows shot in a particular round.
This teer lottery is a legal game governed by rules framed under the Meghalaya Amusement and Betting Tax Act.
Khanapara Teer Results July 13, 2022:
First Round (4:10 PM): 63
Second Round (4:45 PM): wait
Shillong Teer Results July 13, 2022:
First Round (3:45 PM): 81
Second Round (4:45 PM): wait
Juwai Teer Results July 13, 2022:
First Round (2:15 PM): 88
Second Round (2:45 PM): 26
Guwahati, July 13: Teer Result is a lottery game. People who buy tickets for the Khanapara, Shillong, Juwai Teer game can check the lucky number for the first and second rounds here. Winners are decided on the basis of the number of arrows shot in a particular round.
This teer lottery is a legal game governed by rules framed under the Meghalaya Amusement and Betting Tax Act.
Khanapara Teer Results July 13, 2022:
First Round (4:10 PM): 63
Second Round (4:45 PM): wait
Shillong Teer Results July 13, 2022:
First Round (3:45 PM): 81
Second Round (4:45 PM): wait
Juwai Teer Results July 13, 2022:
First Round (2:15 PM): 88
Second Round (2:45 PM): 26 | https://assamtribune.com/article/khanapara-shillong-jowai-teer-result-today-july-13-2022-first-and-second-round-number-1378804 | 2022-07-13T11:38:23Z | https://assamtribune.com/article/khanapara-shillong-jowai-teer-result-today-july-13-2022-first-and-second-round-number-1378804 | false | null |
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Last year and the year before, in an unprecedented environmental disaster, wildfires in California’s Sequoia National Park and nearby national forests roared through treasured sequoia groves in the Southern Sierra Nevada, generating flames hundreds of feet high and killing nearly 20% of all the giant sequoia trees left in the world.
But the Washburn fire burning now in Yosemite National Park, licking around the edges of the roughly 500 giant sequoias in Mariposa Grove — some over 200 feet tall and more than 2,000 years old — so far hasn’t killed a single one of the massive old-growth trees there.
A big part of the reason, experts say, is that park officials completed 23 projects at the grove since 1971 to thin brush and set controlled burns to remove dead wood and vegetation that had built up over more than century of fire suppression.
That left less dead material on the forest floor, and fewer shrubs and small trees like firs that can make fires burn hotter. As a result, the forest was restored to a more natural condition, experts say, similar to the way it would have looked centuries ago when lightning strikes and burning from native tribes sent low-impact fires through the Sierra every 10 years or so.
In recent days, firefighting crews also were able to build hand lines around the famed grove, and set up a sprinkler system next to the Grizzly Giant and several other massive sequoias.
“We’ve lost no giant sequoias, and the outcome’s looking better every hour,” said Yosemite fire ecologist Garrett Dickman.
Although air drops of fire retardant have helped, he said, controlled burns, the most recent of which was done in 2018, have been key. Dickman said about a dozen sequoias in the grove were scorched by the fire but none were killed.
“The fire that they got came in at relatively low intensity,” Dickman said, “well within their ability to withstand.”
By Tuesday evening, the Washburn Fire had grown to 3,516 acres. It was 17% contained, with 1,045 firefighters on hand. Yosemite Superintendent Cicely Muldoon said Monday night at a community meeting that the fire was “human caused” and remains under investigation.
As the drama plays out, the fire is being cited as an example of how other giant sequoia groves across the Sierra can be saved in an era of hotter, more intense fires made worse by climate change.
“Prescribed fire works,” said Nate Stephenson, a scientist emeritus with the U.S. Geological Survey who has studied giant sequoias for decades. “It greatly improves the odds of a good outcome.”
Giant sequoias evolved over millions of years with low intensity fire. Not only does fire remove debris from the forest floor to allow new plants to grow, it also generates heat that opens sequoia cones and releases their seeds. Although coast redwoods are the tallest trees on earth, giant sequoias, their biological cousins, are the largest by volume, with bark that can be 2 feet thick and resistant to fire. As a result, individual trees are often 1,000 to 3,000 years old, having survived many fires.
But starting in the late 1800s, settlers began dousing lightning fires. Native tribes who set fires for centuries were removed from the land. And the forests became thicker, more choked with dead wood and smaller, flammable vegetation.
In 2020, the SQF Complex fires, started by lightning, killed 7,500 to 10,600 giant sequoias in Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County. The following year, the KNP Complex and Windy fires killed another 2,261 to 3,637 giant sequoias in Sequoia National Park, Sequoia National Forest and surrounding lands.
Stephenson said those fires burned much hotter in groves that had not had any controlled burns.
“Areas that had not seen a recent prescribed fire did really poorly,” he said. “They were moonscaped. It was awful. Not a living sequoia left. Areas that had prescribed fires mostly did really well.”
There are roughly 78 giant sequoia groves over a 250-mile long range in the Sierra Nevada. They total about 25,000 acres, and exist nowhere else on earth.
Save the Redwoods League, a San Francisco non-profit that has worked for 100 years to preserve redwoods and sequoias, estimates it will cost $500 million to treat about 60,000 acres of giant sequoia groves and the forests around them over the next five years with controlled burns and thinning, said Sam Hodder, the group’s president.
“There is an existential threat to the species,” Hodder said Tuesday. “What we have seen in the last five years, in terms of mass mortality events in giant sequoias, is unlike anything we have found anywhere in the tree ring data going back thousands of years.”
Hodder’s group is supporting a bill introduced in the House of Representatives last month, the “Save Our Sequoia Act,” to provide more federal funding and streamline paperwork requirements to allow more controlled burns. The bill has bipartisan supporters, including Rep. Scott Peters, D-San Diego, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield.
Controlled burns can cause controversy because they generate smoke. They also have at times generated opposition from some environmentalists, can be expensive, and occasionally burn out of control. But it can be cheaper, Hodder notes, to take steps to reduce fire risk among some of America’s most iconic landscapes than to battle big fires on them.
“Much of that landscape is vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire,” he said. “Mariposa Grove is showing that the combination of fire and good stewardship to reduce the fuel load can lead to resilience.”
Stephenson said even with climate change, the situation is not hopeless, if people act.
“I really want my grandchildren to walk among living 2,000 to 3,000-year old sequoias and get that sense of awe,” he said. “It’s moved me so much. It has moved people all over the world. They are inspiring.”
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol covered heated meetings inside the White House. NPR Justice Correspondent Ryan Lucas reports.
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol covered heated meetings inside the White House. NPR Justice Correspondent Ryan Lucas reports.
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BERLIN (AP) — Austria's far-right Freedom Party has chosen former lawmaker Walter Rosenkranz as its candidate to challenge liberal incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen in the country's presidential election in October.
The party said its leadership nominated Rosenkranz, 59, unanimously on Tuesday evening. In 2016, Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer lost to Van der Bellen in a runoff vote — which had to be rerun on the orders of Austria's Constitutional Court after the party claimed widespread voting irregularities in Hofer's initial narrow defeat.
Van der Bellen, 78, announced in May that he will seek reelection. He's expected to have broad mainstream support in the Oct. 9 vote, with a runoff to be held on Nov. 6 if no candidate secures an outright majority. Three other candidates, none of them representing a party in parliament, have already come forward.
Rosenkranz was an unexpected choice to challenge for the presidency. He was a lawmaker from 2008 to 2019 and headed his party's branch in Lower Austria province for several years.
The head of state is largely ceremonial but plays a prominent role in times of domestic political crisis. Repeated bouts of domestic political turmoil during Van der Bellen's six-year term have given him high visibility.
After conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s governing coalition with the Freedom Party collapsed in scandal in 2019, the president appointed an interim Cabinet of nonpartisan experts under Brigitte Bierlein, then the head of the Constitutional Court.
Kurz, who had returned in a new government with the Greens, resigned last fall. The country had three chancellors in two months, with Kurz’s successor, Alexander Schallenberg, giving way within weeks to current Chancellor Karl Nehammer. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Austria-s-far-right-Freedom-Party-names-17301793.php | 2022-07-13T11:46:15Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Austria-s-far-right-Freedom-Party-names-17301793.php | false | 41 |
BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust Plc - Net Asset Value(s)
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NET ASSET VALUE BLACKROCK GREATER EUROPE INVESTMENT TRUST PLC 5493003R8FJ6I76ZUW55 The unaudited net asset values for BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust PLC at close of business on 12 July 2022 were: 458.02p Capital only 463.06p Including current year income Notes: 1. Investments have been valued on a bid price basis. 2. Revenue items included in net asset value, with dividends payable deducted on the ex-dividend date. 3. Following the share issuance of 95,000 ordinary shares on 16th February 2022, the Company now has 102,300,411 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding 15,628,527 Ordinary Shares which are held in Treasury). 4. For the latest daily net asset value, previous month end performance statistics, asset allocation and ten largest holdings of the BlackRock managed Investment Trusts; see BLRKINDEX on Reuters or page 8800 on ICB (Topic 3).
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'He's found a home here.' Cincinnati Cyclones re-sign veteran left-wing Justin Vaive
After a 36-32-3 season and a fourth-place finish in the East Coast Hockey League's Central Division, signings for this fall's Cincinnati Cyclones season have begun.
The club announced Wednesday that team captain Justin Vaive, 33, is now set to return. The left-wing had a career season in points in 2021-22 with 48 for the Cyclones on 22 goals and 26 assists. It was his best season since the 2017-2018 campaign when he racked up 45 points on 32 goals and 13 assists.
"We're excited to have him back," Cyclones head coach Jason Payne said. "He's a staple in the community and a staple on our team. He's our leader, our captain and he's there for a reason."
More:Cincinnati Cyclones make Jason Payne professional hockey's only head coach of color
Bringing the veteran back should provide some consistency in the locker room as well as off the ice. Payne calls him the consummate professional.
"There's not one single recipe for every guy on this team," Vaive said of his experience. "Some guys are aspiring to move up. Some are trying to make the team. There's a lot of branches off of that. You kind of have to take time to instill this culture on to different guys."
Part of his role bringing the team together has involved bowling, golfing, dinners and even a Super Bowl party to watch the Bengals last February. The emphasis is on becoming friends outside of hockey.
"Building friendships and a family atmosphere, I think, carries over to on-ice performance," Vaive said.
The four-year former Miami RedHawks player (2007-2011) will be playing his eighth season for the Cyclones dating back to 2011-12. In between, he's also played for San Antonio, Hartford, Bridgeport, Rochester and Belleville in the American Hockey League and Greenville and Fort Wayne in the ECHL. He was part of the Kelly Cup champion Komets in 2020-21 before his most recent stint in Cincinnati.
It will be Vaive's 10th professional season overall.
"It goes by quick," Vaive said. "It makes you really value the grind that you went through and all the guys go through. It's something I can look back on and say it was worth it. The hours and the gyms and travel, I wouldn't trade it for the world."
From Buffalo, Vaive has obviously spent a lot of time here based on his various seasons with the Cyclones. Some have even referred to him as "Mr. Cincinnati." He admits he's spent more time in the Queen City than anywhere in his adolescent to adult life.
"I would consider it my second home," Vaive said. "When my dad was playing and coaching, we were constantly moving. It's been nice to actually have some roots somewhere and experience a city away from hockey. My girlfriend's here now and that adds to the home feeling."
As for Cincinnati recommendations, count Vaive in the Skyline Chili camp. Another favorite is the cheesesteak from The Pony in Over-The-Rhine.
"He's found a home here," Payne said. "He's been able to find his niche. The fans here welcome him and love him as one of their sons. What can you ask more of him? What's ever required, he'll do. If he has to mix it up, put the puck in the back of the net, throw some checks, be an energy leader, calm the guys down, that's why he's the captain."
As a fan favorite, Vaive has reached 100 ECHL goals and registered 500 penalty minutes for his feistiness. More important than the individual achievements, he would like to deliver Cincinnati another Kelly Cup.
Vaive is a former fourth-round NHL pick of the Anaheim Ducks in 2007. His father, Rick Vaive, was an NHL All-Star right wing. Cyclones coach Payne hails from Toronto, one of Rick Vaive's pro stops. He jokes with Justin about once procuring an autograph from his father when he was with the Maple Leafs.
Vaive and the Cyclones begin ECHL play Oct. 22 at Fort Wayne, then have their home opener Oct. 29 against Iowa. They were 23-11-1-1 at the Heritage Bank Arena last season. Of their 36 home games, 25 will come on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays. | https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/Ohio/2022/07/13/cincinnati-cyclones-ink-left-wing-justin-vaive-2022-23-echl-season/10038099002/ | 2022-07-13T11:47:08Z | https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/Ohio/2022/07/13/cincinnati-cyclones-ink-left-wing-justin-vaive-2022-23-echl-season/10038099002/ | false | 1 |
For Third Consecutive Year, 10 Students with Gastrointestinal Disease Will Each Receive a $10,000 Scholarship
LAVAL, QC, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) ("Bausch Health") and its gastroenterology business, Salix Pharmaceuticals, ("Salix"), one of the largest specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world committed to the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) and liver diseases and disorders, today announced the winners of its 2022 Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program. For the third consecutive year, Salix will be awarding $10,000 each to 10 students living with a GI disease.
"Salix is pleased to recognize these 10 outstanding Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholarship awardees who are thriving in their academic journey while living with the challenges of a gastrointestinal condition," said Nicola Kayel, vice president, Marketing, Salix. "At Salix, we feel honored to play a small role in these students' pursuit of higher education, and we look forward to seeing the result of their hard work in the near future."
The 2022 awardees were selected from more than 150 applications. As part of the process, applicants were required to submit essays describing how their GI condition has impacted their educational journey, as well as delve into the role their health care provider played in helping them reach their personal and educational goals. All scholarship applications were reviewed by an independent panel of judges.
The Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program recognizes students across a wide range of educational pursuits, with scholarships in three categories, including the Undergraduate Scholar Awards, for those pursuing undergraduate degrees; the Graduate Scholar Awards, for those pursuing graduate degrees; and the Working Parent's Scholar Award, for parents pursuing undergraduate, vocational/technical or graduate degrees.
The 2022 Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program recipients are:
- Undergraduate Scholar Awards
- Graduate Scholar Awards
- Working Parent's Scholar Award
"It's hard to express my gratitude and how grateful I truly am for this opportunity," said Joshua Swimmer, a recipient of the Working Parent's Award and a student at the University of Southern Indiana. "I was diagnosed with a lifelong chronic disease, and never once would I have imagined something so positive to actually come from it. I appreciate everything this will afford for me and my family."
To learn more about the Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program, visit www.salix.com/scholarship.
About Salix
Salix Pharmaceuticals is one of the largest specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world committed to the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. For more than 30 years, Salix has licensed, developed and marketed innovative products to improve patients' lives and arm health care providers with life-changing solutions for many chronic and debilitating conditions. Salix currently markets its product line to U.S. health care providers through an expanded sales force that focuses on gastroenterology, hepatology, pain specialists and primary care. Salix is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey. For more information about Salix, visit www.Salix.com and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Bausch Health
Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) is a global diversified pharmaceutical company whose mission is to improve people's lives with our health care products. We develop, manufacture and market a range of products primarily in gastroenterology, hepatology, neurology, dermatology, international pharmaceuticals and eye health through our approximately 90% ownership of Bausch + Lomb Corporation. With our leading durable brands, we are delivering on our commitments as we build an innovative company dedicated to advancing global health. For more information, visit www.bauschhealth.com and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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The Scot overcame Sam Querrey in impressive fashion on Tuesday, clinching a 6-2, 6-0 first round victory with minimal fuss despite windy conditions in his first match since exiting Wimbledon at the second round stage.
Murray will now face Australian Max Purcell for the right to progress to the quarter-finals of the final grass tournament of the summer on the ATP Tour. Purcell, seeded sixth for the event, overcame France’s Adrian Mannarino in three sets in the first round.
Murray, the current world No 52, is playing in the Rhode Island event this week in a bid to increase his ranking ahead of September’s US Open and become a seed for the final Grand Slam event of the year.
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Who: Andy Murray v Max Purcell
What: Infosys Hall Of Fame Open round of 16
Where: International Tennis Hall of Fame, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
When: Wednesday, July 13, estimated start around 5.20pm UK time.
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A total of €243m could be saved per year in healthcare costs by increasing awareness and diagnosis of coeliac disease and reopening the Dietary Supplement payment, the Coeliac Society of Ireland has said.
In its pre-budget submission, the society said the savings could be made if coeliac sufferers are identified and placed on a strict gluten free diet to prevent associated conditions like intestinal cancers, type 1 diabetes, infertility and miscarriage, and osteoporosis occurring during their lifetime.
The society says that research shows an estimated 76,500 people have the condition in Ireland – previously underestimated by 26,500.
Research also found that those on social welfare are less likely to be diagnosed
The society also notes that the lack of a dedicated coeliac register in Ireland means that the number of sufferers has been underestimated by as many as 26,500 for many years. Following research in Finland,which has a coeliac register and a similar demographic to Ireland, the Society has conservatively revised it figures from a potential of 50,000 coeliac sufferers in Ireland to 76,500.
Currently only 13,000 are thought to be diagnosed coeliac in Ireland.
According to the society, this means that an estimated 63,500 people are living with undiagnosed coeliac disease and are at risk of serious ill health.
In their Budget submission, the Coeliac Society also calls for the Government to reopen the Dietary Supplement.
The scheme – which is a payment to help with the cost of a special diet prescribed by a doctor or hospital consultant – was discontinued for new applicants in 2014 by the then Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton.
Gill Brennan, CEO of the Coeliac Society of Ireland, said: “The lack of a dedicated coeliac register and a shortfall in awareness among medical professionals and the Government about the disease and its long-term health costs, is placing an unnecessary burden on the health services.
“We have estimated that more than €243m in cost savings can be made. If potential sufferers are identified and registered in the first place, they can receive the right medical advice and be placed on a proper diet which can prevent associated conditions like intestinal cancers, type 1 diabetes, infertility and miscarriage, and osteoporosis occurring during their lifetime.
“However, even if the HSE and Government do implement a programme of awareness and create a register, it is vital, particularly for the estimated 24,000 sufferers on social welfare, that the dietary supplement allowance is reinstated," Ms Brennan said.
“Coeliac disease is a lifelong autoimmune disease, and the only treatment is a strict gluten free diet. But this is not cheap. A recent study we undertook has shown that some gluten free foods cost up to 75% more than non-gluten free foods and people on social welfare, unlike PAYE workers, have little or no support at all to assist them pay for what is a medically necessary diet,” she added.
The society found that those on a lower socio-economic status are less likely to be diagnosed in the first place as there are lower rates of health-seeking behaviour and access to healthcare amongst this group.
It believes that an investment of €7.35m per year to support the purchase of gluten-free foods, in combination with a targeted awareness campaign, has the potential to encourage a significant number of people to seek diagnosis and reduce the risk of developing health conditions associated with coeliac disease.
Ms Brennan said: “The Federation of Coeliac Societies in Spain carried out a survey in March this year and it showed that Ireland continues to be an outlier amongst its EU partners in providing support for coeliac patients who fall outside the PAYE tax system.
“For families on low incomes, treating coeliac disease through a strict gluten free diet can be financially stressful and draining. We estimate that 24,000 social welfare recipients are coeliac and about 14,664 of these will have no dietary supports at all. These individuals will be undiagnosed for the most part and for those who are, they will struggle to afford the gluten free their health depends on.
“The reintroduction of the dietary supplement for these individuals will encourage more to seek help, reduce the burden on the health services, and improve the quality of life amongst an often-marginalised part of our society,” she said.
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Following The Sale of Its Sister Property, Aubrey, Evo Will Join Cortland's Growing Northern Virginia Portfolio
ROSSLYN, Va., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Penzance, a leading owner, operator, and developer in the Washington, DC metropolitan region for over two decades, announced today the sale of Evo, one of its three luxury multi-family properties at The Highlands development in Rosslyn, to Cortland. The property, developed in partnership with The Baupost Group LLC, a Boston-based investment manager, is the second Penzance property at The Highlands to be sold to Cortland.
"After the successful sale of Aubrey at The Highlands to Cortland in May, we're excited to announce another sale of our second apartment tower, Evo, to the same team," said John Kusturiss, Chief Development and Construction Officer of Penzance. "The Highlands project is very special to our team at Penzance after working tirelessly on the project for 11 years, but we are proud to hand over the reins to Cortland to maintain the unique community that we have created here in Rosslyn."
With over 450 luxury units, Evo offers apartment homes ranging from studios to three bedrooms with high-end appliances, floor-to-ceiling windows, and sweeping views of the D.C. skyline, Arlington, and the Potomac River. The 29-story building includes over 30,000 square feet of amenity space including a rock climbing wall, multi-sport simulator, dart alley, coworking hub, private conference rooms, rooftop pool, outdoor grilling stations, several lush garden terraces with lounge seating, and the fitness center's aqua spa. The building's views and unmatched location along Wilson Boulevard offer residents and visitors the best of Northern Virginia living.
"The closing of Evo is the culmination of our investment round that was started in May with the purchase of Cortland Rosslyn, formerly known as the Aubrey. We are creating a seamless, resident-centric and hospitality driven experience with the combination of these two trophy towers," said Mike Altman, Chief Investment Officer at Cortland. "This is just the start of Cortland's investment in the region, driven by our commitment to change the standard of apartment living."
The Highlands is a dynamic 1.2 million-square-foot mixed-use development project along the Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor and is home to the revitalized Arlington County Fire Station No. 10, and the reimagined 26,000 SF Rosslyn Highlands Park, as well as two other luxury residential towers, Pierce and Aubrey, which was recently acquired by Cortland in a trophy Northern Virginia sale.
More details on Evo can be found at evorosslyn.com.
Penzance is a vertically integrated, full-service real estate firm with a focus on investment-grade asset opportunities in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. Since its founding in 1996, Penzance has invested over $3 billion in real estate through partnerships with blue-chip institutional investors, separate accounts, joint ventures and its discretionary funds. Penzance, as one of the region's premier owners, operators, and developers of transformative properties, provides exceptional in-house acquisitions, leasing, development, construction, asset, and property management services.
Cortland is a vertically integrated, multifamily real estate investment, development and management company focused on delivering resident-centric, hospitality-driven apartment living experiences. Headquartered in Atlanta, Cortland manages and is invested in, directly or indirectly, over 250 apartment communities comprised of more than 85,000 homes in the U.S. with regional offices in Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Orlando and Tampa. Cortland has significant experience in acquiring, developing, renovating, owning and operating multifamily communities, leveraging the services of its construction, design, and property, asset and investment management affiliates. Internationally, Cortland maintains a management and development platform in the UK.
Cortland is a National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) Top 50 Owner and Manager, the Top Brand Performer for online reputation in 2021 (Reputation Score by reputation.com), and is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company (2021). For more information, please visit cortland.com.
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HealthTree Continues Its Mission to Support Patients and Accelerate a Myeloma Cure
SALT LAKE CITY , July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The HealthTree Foundation, a patient-driven, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers patients at each step of their disease journey, today announced a name change of its myeloma division from Myeloma Crowd to HealthTree Foundation for Multiple Myeloma. The website address will transition over time from www.myelomacrowd.org to www.healthtree.org/myeloma.
Myeloma Crowd launched in 2012 and in 2018 developed a remarkable patient data portal tool called HealthTree Cure Hub that could advance myeloma research in an innovative way. As the HealthTree Cure Hub is now over 10,000 members strong, uniting the product and foundation names will simplify the Foundation's services. The same founders, staff and programs will continue the HealthTree Foundation's work.
The name change includes new names for individual patient support programs including:
- HealthTree News for Multiple Myeloma (formerly Myeloma Crowd – myeloma news in patient-friendly terms
- HealthTree Coach for Multiple Myeloma (formerly Myeloma Coach) – experienced patients or caregivers who provide one-on-one support
- HealthTree Podcast for Multiple Myeloma (formerly Myeloma Crowd Radio) – podcast episodes with multiple myeloma experts
- HealthTree Round Tables for Multiple Myeloma (formerly Myeloma Crowd Round Tables) – live meetings with myeloma experts
- HealthTree Community Events for Myeloma (formerly Myeloma Crowd Community) – topic and geographic chapters with monthly webinars
- HealthTree Moves (formerly Muscles for Myeloma) – a fitness app and fitness events to keep us healthy
Existing programs with the HealthTree name will continue including:
- HealthTree University for Multiple Myeloma – the only comprehensive curriculum taught by over 150 multiple myeloma experts with hundreds of lessons
- HealthTree Cure Hub for Multiple Myeloma – a myeloma patient data platform helping patients navigate their care and contribute to myeloma research
- Black Myeloma Health.org by HealthTree – black patient navigators and a new website for Black patients and caregivers
- HealthTree Myeloma Specialist Directory – a way for patients to find a myeloma specialist
Founder Jenny Ahlstrom said, "We remain committed to our goal to advance a myeloma cure. We are still driving towards that cure for myeloma patients as the HealthTree Foundation for Multiple Myeloma."
HealthTree resources are free to patients. For more information, visit www.healthtree.org.
About The HealthTree Foundation for Multiple Myeloma
The HealthTree Foundation is a patient-driven, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers patients at each step of their disease journey. Jennifer Ahlstrom and her husband Paul founded the HealthTree Foundation which now has divisions for multiple myeloma and AML providing patient education, advocacy and research initiatives.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden declares Russia’s Ukraine war “genocide,” it isn’t just another strong word. Calling a campaign that’s aimed at wiping out a targeted group “genocide” not only increases pressure on a country to act, it can oblige it to. That’s partly because of a genocide treaty approved by the U.N. General Assembly after World War II, signed by the United States and more than 150 other nations. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2662499418252/2215-grants-pass-station-424 | 2022-07-13T12:04:24Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2662499418252/2215-grants-pass-station-424 | true | 12721 |
KYIV, Ukraine — Here's a widely held view of Russia's war: Russia had a more powerful army and expected a quick victory. It didn't think Western powers would intervene. Yet a poorly planned military campaign led to a fight much tougher than expected.
To be clear, we're not talking about Russia's current war in Ukraine. We're talking about Russia's war in Crimea in the 1850s.
Even if you're not familiar with the Crimean War, you know some of the monumental figures who emerged from it, like Florence Nightingale and Leo Tolstoy.
But this isn't just history. That long-ago conflict is still relevant today. For starters, when Russia fought the Ottoman Empire in 1853, the focal point was Crimea — the very same territory Russian President Vladimir Putin seized in 2014 when he first invaded Ukraine.
During the first Crimean War, The Economist magazine — the same one that's still going strong — wrote a scathing piece in 1854 on Russia and its leader, Czar Nicholas I.
"That vast state is in great measure composed of spoils which she has torn from surrounding nations," The Economist wrote. "Her frontier provinces are filled with injured, discontented hostile populations ... many of whom wait, with patience and desire, the blessed day of emancipation and revenge."
Sounds a lot like Ukraine today.
"There are very distinct parallels. And I think Putin has probably overstretched himself in the same way that Nicholas I did," says Orlando Figes, a British historian and the author of The Crimean War: A History.
"Nicholas, who wanted to counteract the influence of liberal democracy in Europe, came up with the slogan, 'Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationalism,'" Figes says. "That might just as well stand for Putin's ideology. This is a war backed by the Orthodox Church. He is an autocrat. He sees himself as a bulwark against liberal principles coming from the West.''
Professor Vladislav Zubok, a Russian historian at the London School of Economics, has a similar take.
"It's a classic case when history does definitely rhyme," says Zubok.
He notes that Russia had a huge army in the 1850s but planned poorly for the Crimean War.
"Very quickly after the outbreak of the war, it turned out that Russia was so weak that it couldn't even properly supply the troops on its own territory," Zubok says.
Much like today, where Russia has suffered recurring logistics failures since invading Ukraine in February.
Nicholas I also thought Western powers would not interfere with his war against the Ottoman Empire, which he called "the sick man of Europe." He was stunned when Britain and France joined the fight against Russia.
"He could not imagine that the leading powers of Europe would turn against him," Zubok says. "He definitely provoked the Crimean War by his arrogance, by his wrong assumptions about Europe and other powers. And he essentially blundered his way into this war."
Britain and France aren't fighting in the current war. But recently, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron were among five European leaders who took trains to Kyiv and stood side-by-side in solidarity with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"Putin did not believe that the Europeans and the United States would together push back against what Russia was doing," says Angela Stent, a Russia expert at Georgetown University. She's met many times with Putin during his more than two decades in power, and is the author of Putin's World.
"He also didn't believe that Europe and the United States would agree on these very tough sanctions. So he was wrong on a number of counts," she adds.
Of course, the Crimean War was also filled with folly. A disastrous British military operation was immortalized by Britain's Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his epic poem, the Charge of the Light Brigade, which includes these enduring lines:
"Forward the Light Brigade
Was there a man dismayed
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred."
Tennyson wasn't alone in turning tragedy into art. A young Russian artillery officer, Leo Tolstoy, drew on his experience when he later wrote War and Peace.
And Florence Nightingale became one of the most famous women in the world as she ushered in a new era of military medicine by using more sanitary methods to treat wounded troops.
Decades later, in 1890, she made a recording about her time in Crimea and the place where she set up her field hospital, Balaklava.
"When I am no longer a memory — just a name — I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life," she said. "God bless my dear old comrades of Balaklava and bring them safe to shore."
The war did, however, further damage the reputation of Nicholas I. He died in 1855, while the fighting still raged. His 30-year rule left Russia isolated, impoverished and badly in need of reforms.
Russia lost the Crimean War a year later and was forced to accept humiliating terms.
Russia pledged not to place warships in the Black Sea — where it desperately wanted to project naval power.
Today, Russia is projecting naval power in the Black Sea. In an escalating crisis, some 20 Russian warships are blockading the southern coast of Ukraine, keeping the country from exporting its abundant grain to the world.
"I think this is again a historical continuity," says Georgetown's Stent. "Russia trying to dominate the Black Sea. The goals haven't changed that much."
Russia has long portrayed itself as a leading military power. Putin recently compared himself to Peter the Great, the czar who expanded Russian territory through conquests in the early 1700s.
So its current invasion of Ukraine comes as no surprise to Volodymyr Viatrovych, a prominent Ukrainian historian.
"This is, of course, an imperial war," says Viatrovych, who's also in Ukraine's parliament and is a member of the armed forces who helped defend Kyiv in the early days of this war.
"Russia today acts as an empire. It is intending to expand. They're trying to take land that they perceived to have belonged to them in the past," he says.
While Russia has had many military triumphs, he says its overall record is decidedly mixed.
"If we look throughout the course of history, not only the 20th century, but also the 19th century, Russia lost more than it won," Viatrovych says.
Russia was part of the winning side in World War II. But it was defeated by Japan in a 1904-'05 war, had an abysmal showing in World War I that helped pave the way for the 1917 Russian Revolution, and the Soviet Union lost a war to rebels in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
"Russia, has really built this myth of being a global superpower," says Viatrovych. "But what we've seen since the invasion of Ukraine is that they are not a superpower."
Russia's current leader loves talking about his country's historical conquests. He's much less forthcoming on its defeats.
Greg Myre is an NPR national security correspondent. Follow him @gregmyre1.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - New Pacific Metals Corp. ("New Pacific" or the "Company") (TSX: NUAG) (NYSE: NEWP), together with its local Bolivian partner, announce the assay results of the first five drill holes of the 2022 drill program at the Carangas Silver-Gold Project, Oruro Department, Bolivia (the "Carangas Project" or the "Project"). Results are summarized in Table 1 and the drill specifications are provided in Table 2 (see also Figure 1).
So far, 16,754 meters ("m") in 31 drill holes have been completed at Carangas in 2022, of which the assay results of the first five holes are released herein. Assay results for the remaining 26 holes are pending with estimated turnaround time of up to 10 weeks after sample delivery. The assay results continue to show near surface silver horizons stacking over a broad bulk gold mineralization below.
Currently there are five drill rigs deployed at the Project, of which the three larger drill rigs with capability of 1,000 m capacity depth are focusing on both near surface silver and at deeper gold zones, while the other two smaller drill rigs are focusing on near surface silver zone only.
- Hole DCAr0039 intersected 535.63 m interval (from 162.08 m to 697.71 m) grading 1.00 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold ("Au") and 11 g/t silver ("Ag"), including a high-grade interval of 72.16 m grading 3.54 g/t Au and 12 g/t Ag (from 450.34 m to 522.5 m).
- Hole DCAr0038 intersected 58.1 m interval (from 10 m to 68.1 m) grading 507 g/t Ag, 0.60% lead ("Pb") and 0.94% zinc ("Zn"), including 5.17 m bonanza interval (from 43.57 m to 48.74 m) grading 6,236 g/t Ag, 2.62% Pb, 6.23% Zn and 0.42% copper ("Cu").
- Hole DCAr0037 intercepted an interval of 98.65 m (from 10.85 m to 109.5 m) grading 88 g/t Ag, 0.70% Pb and 0.80% Zn.
- Hole DCAr0036 intersected 57.83 m interval (from 13.17 m to 71 m depth) grading 166 g/t Ag, 0.47% Pb and 0.25% Zn and 215.81 m interval (from 280.74 m to 496.55 m) grading 0.73 g/t Au and 18 g/t Ag.
Hole DCAr0039 intersected a silver horizon of 152.73 m (from 9.35 m to 162.08 m) grading 55 g/t Ag, 0.53% Pb and 1.07% Zn, including 36.75 m grading 195 g/t Ag, 1.19% Pb and 2.57% Zn. Immediately below the silver horizon, the hole intercepted 535.63 m interval (from 162.08 m to 697.71 m) grading 1.00 g/t Au and 11 g/t Ag, including a high-grade interval of 72.16 m grading 3.54 g/t Au and 12 g/t Ag from 450.34 m.
Gold mineralization is hosted in strongly argillic-sericitized ignimbrites and volcanic tuff of dacitic composition with disseminated sulfides and cut by veinlets of pyrite and chalcopyrite, similar to the holes reported previously.
The hole was drilled off the drill grid and across the Central Valley from East Dome to West Dome, in an azimuth direction of 254 degrees and at a high dip angle of -66 degrees.
Hole DCAr0036 intersected two silver horizons, the first with 57.83 m (from 13.17 m to 71 m depth) interval grading 166 g/t Ag, 0.47% Pb and 0.25% Zn, the second interval is 95.55 m (from 114 m to 209.65 m depth) grading 35 g/t Ag, 0.32% Pb and 1.06% Zn. Below the silver horizons, the hole intercepted a gold interval of 215.81 m (from 280.74 m to 496.55 m) grading 0.73 g/t Au and18 g/t Ag. This hole was drilled off grid in the Central Valley in azimuth direction of 230 degrees and at a shallow dip angle of -45 degrees.
Hole DCAr0038 intersected a silver interval of 58.10 m (from 10.0 m to 59.1 m) grading 507 g/t Ag, 0.60% Pb and 0.94% Zn, including a bonanza interval of 5.17 m (from 43.57 m to 48.74 m) grading 6,236 g/t Ag, 2.62% Pb, 6.23% Zn and 0.42% copper ("Cu"). A second silver horizon with an interval of 90.90 m grading 28 g/t Ag, 0.47% Pb and 1.25% Zn was intersected from depth 99.25 m. At further depth, a gold interval of 68.03 m grading 0.41 g/t Au, 3 g/t Ag, 0.31% Pb and 0.52% Zn was intersected from depth 334.27 m. This hole was drilled on a grid close to East Dome in an azimuth direction of 20 degrees and at a shallow dip angle of -45 degrees.
Hole DCAr0037 intercepted an interval of 98.65 m grading 88 g/t Ag, 0.70% Pb and 0.80% Zn from depth 10.85 m to 109.5 m. This hole was drilled off grid across the Central Valley in an azimuth direction of 350 degrees and at a shallow dip of -45 degrees.
Hole DCAr0040 was drilled off grid at East Dome in an azimuth direction of 50 degrees and at a shallow dip angle of -45 degrees and intersected a silver mineralization interval of 38.03 m grading 18 g/t Ag, 0.22% Pb and 0.42% Zn from depth 26.42 m and another silver zone of 157.72 m grading 24 g/t Ag, 0.26% Pb and 0.80% Zn from depth 87.55 m, including a high-grade interval of 34.32 m grading 61 g/t Ag, 0.59% Pb and 1.73% Zn from depth 92.25 m.
The Company has initiated preliminary metallurgy tests including flotation and leaching on the mineralized materials of Carangas Project. Five composite samples from rejects of drill cores have been collected and delivered to Bureau Veritas Minerals based in Richmond, BC, Canada.
All samples in respect of the exploration program at the Carangas Project, conducted by the Company and discussed in this news release, are shipped in securely-sealed bags by New Pacific staff in the Company's vehicles, directly from the field to ALS Global in Oruro, Bolivia for preparation, and ALS Global in Lima, Peru for geochemical analysis. ALS Global is an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory independent from New Pacific. All samples are first analyzed by a multi-element ICP package (ALS code ME-MS41) with ore grade over specified limits for silver, lead and zinc further analyzed using ALS code OG46. Further silver samples over specified limits are analyzed by gravimetric analysis (ALS code of GRA21). Gold is assayed firstly by ICP method then by fire assay with AAS finish (ALS code of Au-AA25). Certified reference materials, various types of blank samples and duplicate samples are inserted to normal drill core sample sequences prior to delivery to laboratory for preparation and analysis. The overall ratio of quality control samples in sample sequences is around twenty percent.
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Alex Zhang, P. Geo., Vice President of Exploration, who is a Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 — Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101"). The Qualified Person has verified the information disclosed herein, including the sampling, preparation, security and analytical procedures underlying such information, and is not aware of any significant risks and uncertainties that could be expected to affect the reliability or confidence in the information discussed herein.
New Pacific is a Canadian exploration and development company with precious metal projects in Bolivia. The Company's flagship Project, the Silver Sand Silver Project, is waiting for a new Mineral Resource Estimate Update and a PEA by the end of 2022. Recently discovered Carangas Silver-Gold Project is undergoing a 40,000 m drill program. The third project, the Silverstrike Silver-Gold Project, commenced a 6,000 m initial test drilling program in June 2022.
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Which tech products do experts recommend buying on Prime Day?
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Mega Millions jackpot keeps growing.
The prize is now $480 million with a cash value of $276 million for Friday night’s drawing after no one matched all six numbers to win Tuesday’s jackpot.
It’s now the 10th largest prize in the game’s history. The all-time record jackpot was more than $1.5 billion in October 2018.
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Global Dibenzoyl L-Tartaric Acid Anhydrous Market Analysis by 2022-2028
The Dibenzoyl L-Tartaric Acid Anhydrous market report provides a detailed analysis of global market size, regional and country-level market size, segmentation market growth, market share, competitive Landscape, sales analysis, impact of domestic and global market players, value chain optimization, trade regulations, recent developments, opportunities analysis, strategic market growth analysis, product launches, area marketplace expanding, and technological innovations.
According to our (Global Info Research) latest study, due to COVID-19 pandemic, the global Dibenzoyl L-Tartaric Acid Anhydrous market size is estimated to be worth US$ million in 2021 and is forecast to a readjusted size of USD million by 2028 with a CAGR of % during forecast period 2022-2028. Pharmaceutical Intermediate accounting for % of the Dibenzoyl L-Tartaric Acid Anhydrous global market in 2021, is projected to value USD million by 2028, growing at a % CAGR in next six years. While 0.99 segment is altered to a % CAGR between 2022 and 2028.
Global key manufacturers of Dibenzoyl L-Tartaric Acid Anhydrous include Changzhou Bestar, Zephyr Synthesis Pvt. Ltd., Shandong Wudi Kaisheng, Chengdu Likai Chiral Tech, and Omkar Specialty Chemicals Limited, etc. In terms of revenue, the global top four players hold a share over % in 2021.
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Changzhou Bestar
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Shandong Wudi Kaisheng
Chengdu Likai Chiral Tech
Omkar Specialty Chemicals Limited
Market Segment by Type, covers:
0.99
0.98
Others
Market Segment by Applications, can be divided into:
Pharmaceutical Intermediate
Organic Intermediate
Others
Focus on the following areas:
North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)
Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)
Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)
South America (Brazil, Argentina, etc.)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa)
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Chapter 1, to describe Dibenzoyl L-Tartaric Acid Anhydrous product scope, market overview, market opportunities, market driving force and market risks.
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Chapter 4, the Dibenzoyl L-Tartaric Acid Anhydrous breakdown data are shown at the regional level, to show the sales, revenue and growth by regions, from 2017 to 2028.
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Surveillance video of law enforcement's response during the Uvalde school massacre gives the clearest account yet of how officers waited outside an elementary classroom as the gunman continued firing, killing 21 students and teachers on May 24.
The video, which was published by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper on Tuesday, shows responding officers approaching the door of the classroom within minutes of the shooter entering yet retreating after the gunman opened fire at them. After more than an hour -- with the hallway growing more crowded with officers from different agencies -- the doorway of the classroom was breached by law enforcement and the gunman was shot and killed.
Local officials and families of the victims decried the decision to release the footage before those impacted were able to see it for themselves. And the video, which was lightly edited by the American-Statesman to blur at least one child's identity and to remove the sound of children screaming, still leaves questions outstanding -- in particular, why the law enforcement response was so delayed.
"They just didn't act. They just didn't move," Uvalde County Commissioner Ronald Garza said on CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday. "I just don't know what was going through those policemen's minds that tragic day, but ... there was just no action on their part."
The video also does not answer the question of "who, if anybody, was in charge," state Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) told CNN on Tuesday.
"Even if we see 77 minutes in a hallway, it's not going to tell us who was in charge or who should have been in charge. And I think that's the sad statement of what happened on May 24 is that no one was in charge."
Gutierrez criticized the Texas Department of Public Safety for having a multitude of officers on site yet not taking control of the situation. The state agency has consistently pointed to Pedro "Pete" Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, as the on-scene commander during the attack.
Arredondo was placed on leave as school district police chief in June and has not given substantial public statements about his decision-making that day despite intense public scrutiny, though he told the Texas Tribune that he did not consider himself to be the leader on the scene. On Tuesday, the Uvalde City Council accepted his resignation from his position as councilman.
Families of the victims said they were disturbed by the leaked footage, saying it was just the latest in a long line of examples of their wishes being pushed to the side. Officials say they had planned to show the footage to families this weekend before releasing it publicly.
"There's no reason for the families to see that," Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said of the leak. "I mean, they were going to see the video, but they didn't need to see the gunman coming in and hear the gunshots. They don't need to relive that, they've been through enough," he said.
Officials harshly criticize video's early release
The Austin American-Statesman's decision -- along with TV partner KVUE -- to release the footage was harshly criticized by local officials who echoed the concerns of parents, saying certain graphic audio and images should not have been included.
"While I am glad that a small portion is now available for the public, I do believe watching the entire segment of law enforcement's response, or lack thereof, is also important," the chairman of the state House Investigative Committee, state Rep. Dustin Burrows (R) tweeted.
"I am also disappointed the victim's families and the Uvalde community's requests to watch the video first, and not have certain images and audio of the violence, were not achieved," he wrote.
In the first edited video, which is a little over four minutes long, audio captures frantic teachers screaming as the gunman crosses the parking lot after crashing his truck just outside Robb Elementary School's campus.
He then enters the school at 11:33 a.m., turns down a hallway carrying a semi-automatic rifle, walks into a classroom and opens fire. As the shots ring out, a student who had been peeking around the hallway corner at the gunman quickly turns and runs away.
Minutes later, officers rush into the hallway and approach the door, but immediately retreat to the end of the hall when the shooter appears to open fire at them at 11:37 a.m. Law enforcement continues to arrive in the crowded hallway but do not approach the door again until 12:21 p.m. and wait until 12:50 p.m. to breach the classroom and kill the gunman.
A second edited video, lasting almost an hour-and-a-half, was also published on the newspaper's YouTube channel.
In the footage, the sound of children screaming has been edited out, but the stark sounds of gunfire are still clearly audible and the gunman's face is briefly shown as he comes through the school doors.
"It is unbelievable that this video was posted as part of a news story with images and audio of the violence of this incident without consideration for the families involved," McLaughlin said in a statement.
The American-Statesman defended its decision, with executive editor Manny Garcia writing in an editorial, "We have to bear witness to history, and transparency and unrelenting reporting is a way to bring change."
McLaughlin also shared his disappointment that a person close to the investigation would leak the video.
"That was the most chicken way to put this video out today -- whether it was released by the DPS or whoever it was. In my opinion, it was very unprofessional, which this investigation has been, in my opinion, since day one," he said during a city council meeting Tuesday.
What will happen next
Despite the leak of the surveillance footage, the Texas House Investigative Committee still plans to meet with victims' families on Sunday and provide them with a fact-finding report as originally scheduled, a source close to the committee told CNN.
The report will show that there was not one individual failure on May 24, but instead a group failure of great proportions, the source said. Members of the committee also asked the director of Texas DPS, Col. Steve McCraw, to testify a second time on Monday to get further clarification on earlier sworn testimony before the Texas House and Senate, according to the source.
Meanwhile, some outraged family members took to social media to urge people not to share the video while families come to terms with the footage and the law enforcement behavior it reveals. "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THE VIDEO!! We need time to process this!!," posted Berlinda Arreola, grandmother of Amerie Jo Garza, 10, who was killed in the massacre.
Gloria Cazares, whose daughter Jacklyn was killed, also implored her Facebook family and friends not to share the video, saying it is "the opposite of what the families wanted!"
"If you are a true friend please do not share it, I don't want to see it in my feed nor do I want to be tagged on any of the news stations that are sharing it. Our hearts are shattered all over again!," Cazares wrote.
The Uvalde school district has scheduled a meeting on July 18 where McLaughlin said he hopes the City Council and victims' families will be able to get details about the return to school.
The school district previously announced that Robb Elementary School students will not return to the campus and will be reassigned to other schools.
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Tiger Woods mini golf among tenants coming to Westgate in Glendale this year
Bruster’s Ice Cream (Summer 2022)
PopStroke (December 2022)
Sugar Factory (End of 2022)
Chicken N Pickle (Spring 2023)
Tulum Kitchen & Cocktails (Summer 2023)
Thirsty Lion (Summer 2023)
A handful of new tenants are making their way to Westgate in Glendale this year and into 2023.
According to Kaitlyn Kor of PXG, which is owned by Westgate owner and GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons, Bruster’s Ice Cream will open inside the Entertainment District this summer, followed by PopStroke, a family-friendly golf and outdoor dining experience featuring two 18-hole Tiger Woods-designed putting courses in December.
The end of this year will also see the opening of Sugar Factory, which prides itself on its celebrity-endorsed “Couture Pops.”
Looking ahead to 2023, Chicken N Pickle, the Kansas City, Missouri-based restaurant entertainment company, will open its first Arizona location at the lot on Brandon Lane, directly across from AMC Westgate 20, 9400 W. Hanna Lane, next spring. The two-story complex will include a restaurant and sports bar, 10 pickleball courts, and an outdoor entertainment area.
“When Westgate came on the radar, we were very excited by everything going on out there, all the synergy they’ve created in that environment, the visitors, and the atmosphere there today,” Chase Watson, Chicken N Pickle senior vice president of development, shared this past March.
Tulum Kitchen & Cocktails, and its Mexican cuisine, is scheduled to open in the summer of 2023. Next summer also will see the arrival of Thirsty Lion, a two-story restaurant and rooftop gastropub, on the corner of West Coyote and Sunset Boulevard, which will mark its fifth — and largest — Arizona location.
This past spring the city announced that Tanger Outlets, a mall at the Westgate Entertainment District, will open four new restaurants plus a 14,000-square-foot indoor recreational facility. What isn’t known yet is what restaurants are coming, or what the indoor facility will house.
“The West Valley is growing at a rapid rate and Westgate is right there along with it,” Dan Dahl, director of real estate for YAM Properties, shared in a statement. “Our team is continually searching for new opportunities to grow and bolster our roster to create an ultimate entertainment hub for people of all ages to enjoy.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2662504357983/tiger-woods-mini-golf-among-tenants-coming-to-westgate-in-glendale-this-year | 2022-07-13T12:13:44Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2662504357983/tiger-woods-mini-golf-among-tenants-coming-to-westgate-in-glendale-this-year | true | 2 |
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Tinubu’s Choice of Shettima, a Masterstroke, Says Yahaya
•Sheriff congratulates ex-Borno governor, drums support for APC
Chuks Okocha in Abuja and Segun Awofadeji in Gombe
Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has described as a masterstroke, the choice of a former Governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima, as the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, saying it was a right decision that would facilitate the party’s smooth sailing to victory in the 2023 presidential election.
Also, a former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has congratulated Shettima and called on APC stakeholders to work in unity to ensure the actualisation of a Tinubu/Shettima presidency in 2023.
Inuwa, while reacting to the development, noted that as a committed and loyal party man, Shettima as a great asset to the ruling party, would add immeasurable value to the APC presidential ticket.
“Asiwaju will not have made a better choice. The former Borno State governor is a highly cerebral, eloquent, competent, courageous and cosmopolitan leader, who has succeeded in building bridges, reputation and friendships across the country; and I believe he has the capacity, acumen and political sagacity to deputise the Jagaban,” he said.
While congratulating Shettima, Inuwa said with his background as former lecturer, banker, agricultural economist, ex-governor and parliamentarian with visionary and patriotic ideologies, Shettima would be a ’round peg in a round hole’ as a vice president.
According to a press release issued by the Director-General, Press Affairs, Government House, Ismaila Uba Misilli, Inuwa noted that, “The Tinubu/ Shettima ticket is an excellent combination that has already given APC an upper hand and set the opposition off-balance as we approach the elections.”
He, however, reassured the candidates of his personal commitment and support for the APC in Gombe State, to the Tinubu/Shettima ticket as well as victory for the party in 2023, saying, “Gombe is a strong APC base and we shall deploy our political arsenals to ensure sweeping victory for our great party at all levels.”
On his part, Sheriff, in a statement by the Director-General, Ali Modu Sheriff Campaign Organisation, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, congratulated the APC on Shettima’s nomination as vice-presidential candidate of the party.
“I, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff on behalf of my political associates and family, hereby congratulate Senator Kashim Shettima on his nomination as APC 2023 vice-presidential candidate by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate.
“For the records, Shettima personally notified me of his nomination as soon as he was informed of it, and I have given my blessings to the Tinubu/Shettima APC 2023 presidential ticket.
“We have given him and his principal our blessings and we implore all hands to be on deck as we work in unity to ensure the party’s electoral victory in 2023. All party stakeholders and members must work together to ensure that the APC wins the 2023 presidential election, irrespective of whatever sentiments we may harbour.
“We are all APC members and should come together and campaign for the Tinubu/Shettima presidential ticket and for the party to win the elections at all levels. From the depth of my heart, I support the Tinubu/Shettima presidential ticket and I believe that with Allah on our side, our electoral victory is assured,” he said. | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/07/13/tinubus-choice-of-shettima-a-masterstroke-says-yahaya/ | 2022-07-13T12:16:49Z | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/07/13/tinubus-choice-of-shettima-a-masterstroke-says-yahaya/ | true | 1 |
Scientists from New York University (NYU) have successfully transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people, furthering efforts to address the shortage of human organs for transplant.
The genetically engineered hearts were transplanted into two people who had recently died and who were being maintained on ventilator support, the team from NYU Langone Health announced on Tuesday.
The procedures were carried out in June and July this year, and each recipient was monitored for three days.
No signs of early rejection were observed, said the team, and the hearts functioned normally with standard post-transplant medications and without additional mechanical support.
The hearts were taken from pigs that had 10 genetic modifications - four to prevent rejection and abnormal organ growth, and six to prevent disruption caused by incompatibilities between pigs and humans.
“Our goal is to integrate the practices used in a typical, everyday heart transplant, only with a nonhuman organ that will function normally without additional aid from untested devices or medicines,” said Dr Nader Moazami, surgical director of heart transplantation at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute.
His team’s procedures come a few months after the death of David Bennett, the first person to have received a genetically modified pig's heart.
Bennett had suffered from terminal heart disease before receiving the transplant on Jan 7 at the University of Maryland.
He died in early March, after his condition began to deteriorate. The reasons why his new heart eventually failed are still unclear, however a study following his death said that an autopsy did not find signs of typical rejection.
Genetically engineered pig hearts
For the current experiments, NYU procured hearts from pigs engineered by biotechnology company Revivicor (which also produced Bennett’s heart), and screened them for viruses using an enhanced monitoring protocol, the researchers said.
The hearts showed no evidence of a pig virus called porcine cytomegalovirus that was detected in Bennett’s blood and may have contributed to his death.
In the experiments with brain-dead patients, no presence of porcine cytomegalovirus was detected in either case, said the NYU team, adding that strict protocols to prevent potential transmission were also carried out.
The operating room used for this study will also only be used for xenotransplantation research in future.
Studies with donors who have recently died are critical to gathering the additional human data needed to advance the field, said Dr Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute.
“Our greater purpose is to address the organ shortage and provide another option for the more than 100,000 people nationwide waiting on that lifesaving gift,” he said.
“The paradigm of whole-body donation - when organ donation is not a viable option - is critical to this work moving forward”.
These types of transplantations are also more informative because biopsies can be done more often.
"We were able in real time to capture everything that was going on during that 72-hour period," said Dr Montgomery.
NYU researchers also transplanted pig kidneys into two brain-dead recipients in 2021. | https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/07/13/genetically-engineered-pig-hearts-successfully-transplanted-into-brain-dead-patients | 2022-07-13T12:21:47Z | https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/07/13/genetically-engineered-pig-hearts-successfully-transplanted-into-brain-dead-patients | false | 1 |
Oil and gas companies successfully bid for the right to develop 71,251 federal acres across the West in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s first onshore oil and gas lease sale since President Joe Biden took office. Most of the newly leased federal minerals are in Wyoming — 67,627 subsurface acres, according to the BLM.
But the industry didn’t get nearly what it wanted.
The BLM offered just 21% of the 570,000 lease acres initially nominated in Wyoming, withdrawing large tracts that fall within greater sage grouse “core habitat.” Oil and gas companies picked up just 55% of the reduced 119,565 acres offered for lease in Wyoming.
“It’s just clear that this administration is doing everything it can to make it more difficult for leasing on public lands, which is detrimental to the state of Wyoming given our place as the leader of development on public lands in the U.S.,” Petroleum Association of Wyoming Director of Communications Ryan McConnaughey said.
The delayed and significantly reduced lease sale was a meager step in the right direction, according to environmental groups pressuring federal regulators and the Biden administration to make good on promises to reform the oil and gas leasing program.
“We obviously wish [the BLM] would have lived up to their commitment to take a timeout on leasing and acknowledge that there’s a lot that’s under lease already,” WildEarth Guardians Climate and Energy Program Director Jeremy Nichols said.
Hopeful drillers had nominated nearly 570,000 acres of federal oil and gas in Wyoming at the beginning of the Biden administration — an unusually large request that nonetheless fit a trajectory of increasingly larger quarterly oil and gas lease sales established under the Trump administration.
Amidst administrative appeals, lawsuits, a new administration and Biden’s 2021 indefinite moratorium on BLM oil and gas lease sales (since struck down in the courts), both the Interior Department and the BLM withdrew parcels, citing various concerns. Some were whittled away based on potential impacts to cultural resources and other competing public interests, but most — more than 380,000 acres — were withdrawn because they were located in greater sage grouse core habitat in Wyoming.
The iconic Western bird serves as a barometer for the health of the sprawling sagebrush habitat across the West and the more than 100 other species that depend on it. The bird remains imperiled, according to biologists, and its stronghold is in Wyoming.
“We believe [the BLM] took a fairly responsible step in shrinking this lease sale and making sure that it was less destructive than [oil and gas] lease sales under the Trump administration,” Center for Western Priorities Communications Associate Kate Groetzinger said.
The BLM went too far, however, in withdrawing entire lease blocks that only partially reached into sage grouse core habitat, McConnaughey said. The agency withdrew other lease parcels it claimed had low probability of oil and gas production, he added, yet many were located next to producing wells.
The industry did intentionally nominate more federal oil and gas lease acreage during the Trump presidency because of wildly differing approaches under GOP and Democratic administrations, McConnaughey added. “It pushes these swings in leasing during a favorable administration, knowing that they may not get the opportunity to lease under an unfavorable administration,” he said.
In addition to carving out the bulk of overlying sage grouse core habitat, the sale represented the first BLM lease sale to apply the new increased minimum federal onshore oil and gas royalty rate of 18.75% — a substantial jump from the previous 12.5%. Conservation groups had long pushed for the royalty rate increase, pointing to a 2017 Government Accountability Office report that suggested raising the rate would have a “negligible” effect on the volume of production while boosting revenues to American taxpayers.
About 50% of federal mineral royalties are returned to the state where the minerals are produced. The new rate of 18.75% is “in keeping with rates charged by states and private landowners,” the BLM said.
Implementing the royalty rate increase was “a really good thing that needed to happen,” Groetzinger said. However, several PAW members didn’t bid on some parcels they’d nominated due to the increase, McConnaughey said, because the new rate “changed the economics” of particular development plans.
Despite a higher royalty rate and a strategically reduced lease acreage, the BLM still failed to include more stringent bonding and reclamation requirements — both key concerns that the Biden administration had promised to address in its federal oil and gas leasing reform efforts.
“Minimum required bond amounts must be increased to match inflation and changes in technology, complexity and depth of modern wells,” Powder River Basin Resource Council member Bob LeResche said.
Worse, according to conservation groups pressuring the administration, is that the Interior and BLM for the first time included an analysis of how leasing more federal oil and gas might contribute to the climate crisis, but declared the lease sale would have “no significant impact.” It’s a reflection that federal agencies — laboring under a whipsaw of opposing mandates from changing administrations — are not committed to implementing a climate impact analysis of federal actions, according to Nichols of WildEarth Guardians.
“You can’t just chalk it up to ‘we don’t know’ and then make a determination that there’s no significant impact,” Nichols said. “I mean, we’re in the midst of a climate crisis. So it seems to us that any additive carbon emissions would have a fairly significant impact.”
Nearly 20 conservation groups filed two separate lawsuits against BLM in June for allegedly failing to reform the federal oil and gas leasing program.
“I think we face significant headwinds from the NGO groups who believe that there should be absolutely no more drilling on federal lands, especially with a favorable administration,” McConnaughey said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/oil-and-gas-green-groups-both-pan-reduced-lease-sale/article_71372cb8-d0bc-59bb-b88f-7dabef742fef.html | 2022-07-13T12:29:46Z | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/oil-and-gas-green-groups-both-pan-reduced-lease-sale/article_71372cb8-d0bc-59bb-b88f-7dabef742fef.html | true | 5 |
Donald Trump is reportedly preparing an early announcement of his 2024 candidacy. The White House insists President Joe Biden will seek re-election.
But a lot of prominent figures in both the Republican and Democratic parties are behaving like they don’t believe either will ultimately run – or think they’re eminently beatable.
And the early maneuvering suggests both parties could face free-for-all nominating fights like the GOP in 2016 and the Democrats in 2020, starting the day after the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
Among Republicans, Trump has clearly sought to preempt the field by raising a multimillion-dollar war chest, choosing candidates in many GOP primaries and campaigning like it already is 2024.
But doubts about his real intentions, continuing threats of legal action and concern about the negative aspects of his prospective candidacy always made it likely Republicans would have the kind of contest faced by parties without an incumbent president.
Though the polls show the former president starts as the person to beat, his prospective opponents include many of his former closest aides – including former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
They’re hardly the only ones. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, shown in recent polls as Trump’s closest rival, has pointedly refused to say he’d back off if the former president runs. Outgoing Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, an anti-Trump moderate, has not ruled out a race. Nor has Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, perhaps the former president’s most outspoken GOP foe.
And an imposing array of GOP senators and governors have followed the usual path that prospective candidates make to help fellow Republicans in such crucial early voting states as Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
The Democratic outlook for 2024 is even more complicated: The party has a weak incumbent vowing to seek a second term – and an unsettled nominating calendar.
But Biden’s vows are not deterring other candidates, though most of their moves are more covert than overt.
The reasons are obvious: Biden’s age (he would be 86 at the end of a second term); his unpopularity (job approval below 40); and widespread opposition to his running again (a New York Times poll this week showed more than half of Democrats oppose his seeking re-election – though it also showed him beating Trump).
Those making tacit opening 2024 moves include two prominent big state governors – California’s Gavin Newsom and Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker – and a member of Biden’s own Cabinet, Transportation Secretary and 2020 also-ran Pete Buttigieg.
Newsom, facing weak re-election opposition in November, recently took the unusual step of running an anti-DeSantis television ad in Florida. It urged Floridians to fight GOP efforts to curb freedom through legislation limiting classroom speech and abortions —or move to California to find it.
DeSantis responded in kind, criticizing California’s lockdown policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and accusing Newsom of treating his own state’s citizens “like peasants.”
Pritzker, who recently campaigned for fellow Democrats in the first primary state of New Hampshire and Maine, provided a sharp contrast with Biden’s more restrained response to the recent spate of gun murders, saying he was “furious” and demanding action. Like Newsom, he is heavily favored for re-election this November.
Any list of potential 2024 hopefuls would also include two other Democratic governors – New Jersey’s Phil Murphy and North Carolina’s Roy Cooper – and one former governor – Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Pritzker is not the only potential 2024 candidate making the trek to New Hampshire. Two others who ran last time, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, have also been there.
Meanwhile, Buttigieg’s Cabinet position provides a built-in governmental platform to tour the country, touting the job-creating projects being launched by last year’s massive bipartisan infrastructure law.
The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor also took some political steps. He moved to Traverse City, Michigan, the hometown of his husband, Chasten, ostensibly because the latter’s parents could help provide childcare for their recently adopted twins.
Of course, Michigan, a swing state that often votes Democratic, might provide a better launching pad for future political endeavors than heavily Republican Indiana. And it may wind up with one of the earliest primaries.
Buttigieg also reactivated his political action committee to help endangered Democratic candidates this year. And he was the highest-ranking Democrat to attend a meeting of the Democratic National Committee’s finance council this spring in South Carolina.
The most obvious Democratic alternative to Biden, of course, is his vice president, former California Sen. Kamala Harris. She had a rough year politically, given the negative stories about her staff problems and her lack of influence within the administration.
But the Supreme Court’s decision reversing its Roe v. Wade abortion ruling gives her a powerful platform to campaign on this fall, stressing an issue important to Democrats that could help them counter a potential GOP tide.
Still, Democrats expect Harris to face opposition should she seek to succeed Biden in 2024. And though age could be a factor in deterring Biden’s candidacy, an aide to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said the Vermont independent might also enter an open 2024 race, though he is even older than the president.
Until the Nov. 8 midterm elections, expect a continuation of the shadow 2024 campaign. But once the results are in, it’s likely to emerge openly, in ways unpredictable at present.
(Carl P. Leubsdorf is the former Washington bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News. Readers may write to him via email at carl.p.leubsdorf@gmail.com.)
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Minecraft 1.19.10 patch notes: How to duplicate an Allay
TODAY saw Minecraft Bedrock Edition release a minor update with one big change in store.
The Allay is a new mob added in version 1.19 after winning a fan vote at Minecon Earth 2021.
This cute little angel floats around and collects up more of whatever item you give it. This makes them a great help for automated farms.
Previously, the only way to obtain them was to save them from the cages around Pillager Outposts, but now rather than breeding them like horses, you can make one duplicate itself.
How Allay duplication works - Minecraft 1.19.10
First thing’s first, you need to craft yourself a Jukebox. This can be done by placing a diamond in the centre of a crafting table, and completely surrounding it in wooden planks.
Next, place your Jukebox near an Allay and insert any music disc. These can be obtained either in dungeon chests or by getting a Skeleton to kill a Creeper.
Once the music plays, the Allay should start dancing. Note that it will stop dancing if you take the music disc out, or it gets too far away from the Jukebox.
While it is dancing, give the Allay an Amethyst Shard. These shards will slowly grow on any Amethyst block, which is found in rare geodes added to the underground in Minecraft 1.18.
If you’ve done everything right a heart will pop out of the Allay and a second one will appear. Both the original and new Allay will have a 5-minute cooldown before they can duplicate again.
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Other Minecraft 1.19.10 changes
The llamas that spawn with Travelling Merchants have unique clothes on their backs.
This means that the only way to get your hands on one is to wait for a Travelling Merchant to spawn, mercilessly slaughter them, and take the llamas for your own.
Thankfully this update adds a spawn egg for these unique llamas, so there is another way to get hold of them; even if it requires cheating.
On top of that, a bunch of bug fixes have come to Bedrock Edition, including a bug that crashed the game when The Wither was spawned
Plus, there are some optimisation updates that players of laptop games will be happy about.
You can read the full Minecraft 1.19.10 patch notes on the official Mojang website.
Written by Ryan Woodrow on behalf of GLHF.
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(The Hill) – Former President Trump slammed Elon Musk after the Tesla executive said it is time for him “to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset,” telling Musk to instead focus on getting out of a potentially expensive lawsuit with Twitter.
In several statements issued through Trump’s Truth Social, the former president suggested that he was the reason for many of Musk’s successes and claimed that the Tesla executive had told him he was a supporter of Trump’s.
“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it,” Trump asserted.
“Now Elon should focus on getting himself out of the Twitter mess because he could owe $44 billion for something that’s perhaps worthless,” Trump continued in a separate post. “Also, lots of competition for electric cars!”
Trump was referring to a lawsuit that Twitter filed against Musk after the Tesla executive said he wanted to terminate his $44 billion contract to acquire the social media platform.
Musk’s lawyers argued that Twitter had violated the agreement in several ways, saying sufficient information regarding bots had not been shared by the platform, among other concerns.
Musk earlier this week drew Trump’s ire after he posted a tweet reply in response to a video in which the former president called him “another bulls— artist.”
“I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset,” Musk said. “Dems should also call off the attack – don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.”
“If [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis [R] runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win – he doesn’t even need to campaign,” Musk added in another tweet earlier this week.
Neither Trump nor DeSantis have formally announced a 2024 presidential bid. | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/trump-fires-back-after-musk-says-its-time-for-him-to-sail-into-the-sunset/ | 2022-07-13T12:34:38Z | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/trump-fires-back-after-musk-says-its-time-for-him-to-sail-into-the-sunset/ | false | 22 |
Shares of Greenbrook TMS Inc. (OTCMKTS:GBOKD – Get Rating) rose 0.5% during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $15.12 and last traded at $15.04. Approximately 2,200 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 29% from the average daily volume of 1,706 shares. The stock had previously closed at $14.96.
The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $15.04.
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Tata Steel Netherlands, a subsidiary of Indian steelmaker Tata Steel, has announced that it has launched Zeremis Carbon Lite, steel with an allocated carbon reduction of up to 100 percent. The lower carbon intensity is based on carbon savings that the company has achieved since 2018.
The company will meet the growing demand for low-carbon steel in automotive, packaging and white goods industries with this new product. Thanks to the company’s current carbon savings, it can already offer its customers a significant amount of high-quality low-carbon steel.
The first offering of Zeremis Carbon Lite is a reduction in carbon intensity of 30 percent compared to the European average for steel products, for example hot rolled steel or cold rolled steel. If customers have higher carbon reduction targets, additional carbon reduction certificates can be awarded to ensure that these targets are met.
Tata Steel Netherlands aims to reduce carbon emissions by at least 30 percent by 2030 - when its first direct reduced iron plant installation is commissioned. By 2035, emissions should be 75 percent less. That is when the company will start producing large quantities of high-quality green steel. The company aims to produce completely carbon-neutral steel by 2050. | https://www.steelorbis.com/steel-news/latest-news/tata-steel-netherlands-launches-low-carbon-steel-1251946.htm | 2022-07-13T12:37:27Z | https://www.steelorbis.com/steel-news/latest-news/tata-steel-netherlands-launches-low-carbon-steel-1251946.htm | true | 1 |
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Marcus Mumford "faced his demons" on his upcoming debut solo album.
The Mumford and Sons frontman has announced he's set to release his self-titled LP on September 16.
And as well as revealing his all-star list of featured artists, including Phoebe Bridgers, Brandi Carlile and Clairo, the 35-year-old musician has admitted he went through a challenging time, which inspired the track 'Cannibal'.
In a handwritten note posted to social media, he penned: "In January 2021, facing demons I danced with for a long time in isolation, I wrote a song called ‘Cannibal’.
“I took it to my friend Blake Mills, and we began the process of making this album, dear to my heart, called (self-titled).
“It comes out September 16th 2022, produced by Blake Mills, and featuring Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo and Monica Martin.”
Last month, Marcus hinted at launching his solo career.
He was reported to have performed some new solo tunes for a handful of attendees at a Spotify event for the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2022 in the French Riviera.
A person at the show told the New York Post's Page Six column: “He just said today is day one for his next thing.”
The star also posted brief clips of himself in the studio, including one in the vocal booth, on social media.
Marcus embarking on a solo career comes after the dramatic exit of Mumford's banjo player Winston Marshall.
The 34-year-old musician quit the folk band last summer after 14 years, following the controversy he courted for praising a book by right-wing journalist Andy Ngo.
Although Winston stands by his tweet, he admitted he was sorry that his bandmates were held to account for his beliefs.
He wrote: "To call me 'fascist' was ludicrous beyond belief. I've had plenty of abuse over the years. I'm a banjo player after all. But this was another level.
"And, owing to our association, my friends, my bandmates, were getting it, too. It took me more than a moment to understand how distressing this was for them.
"Despite being four individuals we were, in the eyes of the public, a unit. Furthermore it's our singer's [Marcus Mumford] name on the tin.
"That name was being dragged through some pretty ugly accusations, as a result of my tweet.
"The distress brought to them and their families that weekend I regret very much. I remain sorry for that. Unintentionally, I had pulled them into a divisive and totemic issue."
However, Winston revealed his bandmates stood by him and encouraged him to remain in the band.
He said: "Emotions were high. Despite pressure to nix me they invited me to stay with the band.
"That took courage, particularly in the age of so-called 'cancel culture'. I made an apology and agreed to take a temporary step back."
Winston ultimately decided to leave the band in order to avoid having to "self-censor" and so that he could protect his bandmates.
He said: "For me to speak about what I've learnt to be such a controversial issue will inevitably bring my bandmates more trouble.
"My love, loyalty and accountability to them cannot permit that.
"I could stay and continue to self-censor but it will erode my sense of integrity. Gnaw my conscience. I've already felt that beginning.
"The only way forward is to leave the band. I hope in distancing myself from them I am able to speak my mind without them suffering the consequences.
"I leave with love in my heart and I wish those three boys nothing but the best. I have no doubt their stars will shine long into the future." | https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/150078/Marcus-Mumford-faced-his-demons-making-solo-album | 2022-07-13T12:38:05Z | https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/150078/Marcus-Mumford-faced-his-demons-making-solo-album | true | 1 |
LeBron James Says If He Was Brittney Griner He Might Not Even Want to Come Back to America
WNBA star Brittney Griner remains imprisoned in Russia, and many people have argued President Joe Biden and his administration are not doing enough to bring her home. NBA star LeBron James said she should be questioning her desire to return at all.
In a trailer for a new episode of his talk show “The Shop,” James suggested Griner may feel like she has been abandoned by the United States.
“Over 110 days,” James said. “Now, how can she feel like America has her back? I would be feeling like, ‘Do I even want to go back to America?'”
According to NPR, Griner was initially arrested on Feb. 17, at an airport near Moscow after staff allegedly found vape cartridges containing marijuana in her luggage.
On Thursday, Griner pleaded guilty to drug charges in a Moscow-area court, CNN reported. The charges could carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
“She decided to take full responsibility for her actions as she knows that she is a role model for many people,” Griner’s legal team said in a statement.
“Considering the nature of her case, the insignificant amount of the substance and BG’s personality and history of positive contributions to global and Russian sport, the defense hopes that the plea will be considered by the court as a mitigating factor and there will be no severe sentence.”
While James was not the first to suggest the U.S. government should do more to help Griner avoid having to stay in a Russian prison, he took his comments further than most by saying he would question a return to the country if he were Griner.
Multiple conservative commentators torched James on Twitter following his comments.
“LeBron James thinks America is so bad Brittney Griner might prefer to just stay in a Russian prison for a decade,” The Daily Caller editor David Hookstead wrote on Twitter. “People on ESPN act like this clown is a genius. In reality, LeBron is incredibly stupid.”
LeBron James thinks America is so bad Brittney Griner might prefer to just stay in a Russian prison for a decade.
People on ESPN act like this clown is a genius. In reality, LeBron is incredibly stupid. https://t.co/ShPS4Pym86
— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) July 12, 2022
Outkick founder Clay Travis referred to James as a “professional idiot.”
LeBron James, professional idiot, says he would question ever returning to the United States if he’d been arrested in Russia like Brittany Griner. https://t.co/L2CAJivkpj
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 12, 2022
USA Today interviewed David Whelan, whose brother is being held in a Russian prison for a spying charge he denies. Whelan said the condition of Russian prisons is abysmal.
“When they talk about buildings being Stalin-era, they’re not kidding,” Whelan said. “Prisoners have to maintain the cleanliness of their cell, and so it was at first quite filthy, since the previous occupant had not seemed concerned about cleanliness. You are allowed a weekly shower and a daily walk.”
He said guards show “no interest in nutrition” for prisoners, and friends or family members often have to bring in food for many of them.
Meanwhile, James is enjoying the NBA off-season in America. According to contract information from Sportrac, he is set to be paid a base salary of more than $44 million dollars for the season starting later this year.
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Italian motorcycle manufacturer Ducati has announced plans to launch its first NFT collection in partnership with NFT PRO and Ripple. This will be the first such initiative from a world-renowned motorcycle manufacturer, aimed primarily at increasing contact with its community, Ducatisti, and raising brand awareness. With this decision, Ducati declares its entry into the Web 3.0 space.
🏍️We're excited to partner with @DucatiMotor and @NFTPRO_ to launch Web3 initiatives and bring Ducati #NFTs to life using the #XRPLedger. https://t.co/ban0V8bIY9
— Ripple (@Ripple) July 12, 2022
NFT PRO is supposed to be responsible for the development of the collection as the company specializes in corporate white-label NFT solutions. Ripple, or rather XRP Ledger, will in turn be responsible for the blockchain part for Ducati's NFT projects.
XRPL actively gains popularity in NFT sphere
XRP Ledger is becoming an increasingly popular platform for NFT creation and development. As recently as last month, another car company, Lotus Cars, announced plans to build its own NFT collection and decided to do so based on XRPL as well. Also, just last weekend, the rapidly growing Web 3.0 company CrossTower announced support for XRPL on its NFT marketplace.
Until recently, the most used platforms for creating and minting NFTs were Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA). However, it seems that it is Ripple and XRP Ledger with which corporations are seeking to collaborate. The latter, in turn, are well aware of this and spare no expense to develop their own infrastructure.
Together with the announced launch of the XLS-20 protocol, backed by a $250 million fund, and carefully elaborated innovations such as Hooks, XRPL's presence in the NFT segment is well positioned for continued growth. | https://u.today/ducati-chooses-ripple-as-blockchain-partner-to-launch-nft | 2022-07-13T12:38:56Z | https://u.today/ducati-chooses-ripple-as-blockchain-partner-to-launch-nft | false | 1 |
In the last trading session, 1.48 million shares of the WM Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MAPS) were traded. Most recently the company’s share price was $3.17, and it changed around -$0.05 or -1.55% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $462.76M. MAPS currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $16.95, offering almost -434.7% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $3.17, which indicates that the current value has fallen by an impressive 0.0% since then. We note from WM Technology Inc.’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 0.95 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 974.71K.
WM Technology Inc. stock received a consensus recommendation rating of a Buy, based on a mean score of 1.50. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 0 recommended MAPS as a Hold, whereas 6 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. WM Technology Inc. is expected to report earnings per share of -$0.05 for the current quarter.
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Instantly MAPS has showed a red trend with a performance of -1.55% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 3.77 on Tuesday, 07/12/22 increased the stock’s daily price by 15.92%. The company’s shares are currently down -46.99% year-to-date, but still down -11.70% over the last five days. On the other hand, WM Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MAPS) is -39.62% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 2.39 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 3.27 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $9.05, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 64.97% from its current value. Analyst projections state that MAPS is forecast to be at a low of $7.00 and a high of $11.30. In order for the stock price to hit the forecast high, the stock would need to plunge -256.47% from its current level, while the stock would need to crash -120.82% from its current level to reach the projected low.
WM Technology Inc. (MAPS) estimates and forecasts
WM Technology Inc. share prices are performing particularly well not compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have fallen -39.39 percent over the past six months and at a -38.89% annual growth rate that is well below the industry average of 12.60%. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 34.90%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 6 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of $62 million in revenue for the current quarter. 6 analysts expect WM Technology Inc. to make $67.66 million in revenue for the quarter ending Sep 2022. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were $46.93 million and $50.88 million respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 32.10%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 33.00%.
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WM Technology Inc.’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on May 04.
WM Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MAPS)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 19.66% of WM Technology Inc. shares, and 47.63% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 59.29%. WM Technology Inc. stock is held by 109 institutions, with Senvest Management LLC being the largest institutional investor. By Mar 30, 2022, it held 6.71% of the shares, which is about 5.78 million shares worth $18.32 million.
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The), with 5.44% or 4.69 million shares worth $14.86 million as of Mar 30, 2022, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
ETF Managers Tr-EFTMG Alternative Harvest ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 30, 2022. The former held 3.15 million shares worth $9.97 million, making up 3.65% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 1.51 million shares worth around $4.78 million, which represents about 1.75% of the total shares outstanding. | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/07/13/wm-technology-inc-nasdaqmaps-analysts-see-the-stock-differently-today/ | 2022-07-13T12:40:16Z | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/07/13/wm-technology-inc-nasdaqmaps-analysts-see-the-stock-differently-today/ | true | 706 |
Georgia Tech Football: Early Look Ahead to Virginia Tech's Offense
Virginia Tech is one of four teams in the ACC Coastal that is making a coaching change and that is making them a tough team to predict ahead of the 2022 season. New head coach Brent Pry is coming over from Penn State after being the Nittany Lion's defensive coordinator and he is wanting to bring the toughness back to the Hokies program that was missing under Justin Fuente.
Pry is going to have to fix an offense that was not very good and very bland last season. The Hokies are going to have a quarterback battle that will extend into fall camp, and have to replace their leading rusher at running back, their top two receivers, and starters on the offensive line.
Georgia Tech was not a good defense by any measure last season, but Virginia Tech only managed to score 26 points on the Yellow Jackets. With so many question marks for both teams, it will be interesting who wins the battle between Georgia Tech's defense and Virginia Tech's offense.
So with so much turnover on that side of the ball, who are the Virginia Tech offensive players that should be on Georgia Tech's radar? Let's discuss it below.
Grant Wells- Quarterback
The Hokies are going to have an ongoing quarterback competition heading into the fall, but Marshall transfer Grant Wells may have the upper hand in Blacksburg.
Wells looked like a potential rising star during his 2020 freshman season with the Thundering Herd but struggled with turnovers and consistency last season.
Virginia Tech struggled to establish good quarterback play consistently under former head coach Justin Fuente and Pry is hoping that Wells can change that. He has a strong arm and the physical tools to be a good quarterback but will have to put it all together. Georgia Tech will need to force him into bad decisions to slow him down, much like his opponents at Marshall did.
Malachi Thomas- Running Back
Virginia Tech is replacing last season's leading Raheem Blackshear, but they have a few guys that should give them depth at the running back position. The guy that I think should worry Georgia Tech's defense the most is rising sophomore, Malachi Thomas.
Thomas had 440 yards on 93 carries last season, but I expect him to carry a heavier load this season. He is a quick back at 6-0 197 LBS and is a tough back to bring down as well.
If Wells improves the passing game, it will free up Thomas to have more success when teams are stacking the box in anticipation of him getting the ball. Thomas should be the number one guy on the Hokies offense that Georgia Tech should be looking to control.
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Kaleb Smith- Wide Receiver
Virginia Tech is going to have plenty of questions to answer at wide receiver, with last season's top two guys being gone. but that will leave plenty of opportunities.
Kaleb Smith was the third-leading receiver for the Hokies last season but did not put up eye-popping stats. Smith has the tools at 6-2 221 LBS and could have a breakout season if the quarterback situation gets fixed.
This is the number one target on the outside that should worry Georgia Tech's defense. Smith has the size and could present plenty of problems for the Yellow Jacket's secondary.
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BAYELSA State Government has called for better collaboration with The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) to enable more investments in the state, and to give more value to people of Bayelsa.
The state’s Deputy Governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the call during a business meeting with the management of SPDC in Port Harcourt, recently.
“The relationship between Bayelsa State and SPDC is cordial. Thank you for the investments in our state. Thank you for your contributions to support development efforts in the state. But how do we improve on this and bring dividends to our people? There is still so much more to unearth in our state,” the deputy governor said.
He said, “This meeting is to see how we can work together to create a suitable environment for SPDC to operate and generate value for all of us. We wish to collaborate and expand your portfolio in Bayelsa State and to see how we can partner to reduce youth restiveness and tackle the increased use of drugs by the youths in the state.”
He said the state had recorded a huge success using sports to engage youths in the state so as to keep them away from vices particularly drug abuse and violent crimes. The youths have shown that if we give them encouragement, they can deliver good value.
“For two years now, we have been experimenting with programmes to engage the youths towards positive actions, to reduce restiveness. The state government believes that sports is an avenue to dilute criminality and the prevalent use of drugs. Our efforts have started budding and fruits are coming in.
Bayelsa came 3rd at the National Sports Festival in Edo State. We have the annual Bayelsa Wrestling Classic. The youths have shown that if we give them encouragement, they can deliver good value.,” he said.
Managing Director, SPDC and Country Chair, Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor, said, “We support the government’s effort to improve the environment in Bayelsa. Your statement speaks to focus. It means that there is a plan. As a company, we key into your vision because we know that if you are successful, it will help us and help our business environment. We commend you and His Excellency, Governor Douye Diri, for what you are doing to support business in Bayelsa State.”
Okunbor, who was represented by SPDC’s Director and Head, Corporate Relations Nigeria, Mr. Igo Weli, commended Bayelsa State for the successes in sports including the gold medal in Olympic and Commonwealth freestyle wrestling championships won by Baraladei Igali who is currently the state’s commissioner for sports.
He said, “Thank you for coming back home to Bayelsa State to share your wealth of experience. With your Olympic gold medal, you could have been anywhere else in the world enriching yourself. But you chose to come home to be a model to our young people.”
The Bayelsa State Government delegation included Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Sports, Tare Porri; Commissioner for Sports and former Olympic and Commonwealth freestyle wrestling champion, Igali; Commissioner Mineral Resources, Dr. Ebiere Jones; and Director of Sports, Braveman Wodi.
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NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dyal HomeCourt Partners ("HomeCourt") today announced it has hired Michael D. Jackson as a Senior Advisor.
HomeCourt is managed by Dyal Capital, a division of Blue Owl, a leading alternative asset manager with $102 billion in assets under management. Formed in 2020, HomeCourt provides institutional capital to the NBA ecosystem to support long-term growth of the league and improve market liquidity. It has bought stakes in the Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings, and Phoenix Suns. Jackson will help build upon HomeCourt's existing NBA relationship and refine the team's approach to sourcing team investments. He will report to Andrew Laurino and Andrew Polland, Co-Heads of the HomeCourt business.
"We are thrilled to have Michael on the HomeCourt team as we continue to build on our work within the NBA," said Polland. "His experience speaks for itself, both on and off the court – leading Georgetown to an NCAA championship, three seasons in the NBA and time-tested management experience with the U.S. Olympic Committee, Turner Broadcasting and overseeing market strategy for Nike. His experience, knowledge and passion for the sport will be a huge benefit to our Dyal HomeCourt team going forward."
"I am excited to join the HomeCourt team and further support its mission in providing diversified access and financial capital to the NBA's impressive growth engine," commented Jackson. "Blue Owl has the same collegial team atmosphere that has been a common thread throughout my career, and I look forward to contributing to the continued success of the platform."
Most recently, Jackson served as Vice President and General Manager of Global Basketball for NIKE, where he led the company's global marketing strategy for retail outlets. Prior to this role, Jackson spent six years leading NIKE's basketball efforts for the company's largest markets.
Before joining NIKE, he also held management positions within Turner Broadcasting and Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network and the U.S. Olympic Committee overseeing, sponsorships, international relations and government affairs. A highly decorated basketball player, Jackson was part of Georgetown's 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball championship team, where he also received All-American honors, before playing three NBA season with the Kings.
Among other honors, Jackson was inducted into the National Association of Minorities in Communications Hall of Fame in March 1997. In 2002, The SportsBusiness Journal named him to the "Forty Under 40" sports executives list. Jackson is also an advocate for research and the development of treatment therapies for Alzheimer's Disease, an issue of significant importance to him and his family.
Blue Owl is a global alternative asset manager with $102.0 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2022. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, the firm deploys private capital across Direct Lending, GP Capital Solutions and Real Estate strategies on behalf of Institutional and Private Wealth clients. Blue Owl's flexible, consultative approach helps position the firm as a partner of choice for businesses seeking capital solutions to support their sustained growth. The firm's management team is comprised of seasoned investment professionals with more than 25 years of experience building alternative investment businesses. Blue Owl employs over 400 people across 10 offices globally.
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Firm brings on pioneer in the space to launch new capability
BOSTON, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acadian Asset Management announced plans to introduce a systematic credit capability to serve clients' growing demand and has hired Scott Richardson as Director, Systematic Credit to lead this effort.
Mr. Richardson will build out and lead a team of portfolio managers, researchers, traders, and support personnel focused on this new initiative, with plans to seed the first strategies in 2023. This work will initially focus on corporate credit-based strategies including high yield corporate, investment grade corporate, and credit long-short. Said Chief Investment Officer Brendan Bradley, "We believe these fixed income strategies most closely resemble the equity strategies we manage today and will benefit from our existing expertise in data analysis, signal construction, and trading."
He added, "Scott has had a stellar professional and academic career focused on systematic investing. We have long been familiar with his published research, and we are thrilled to have him on the team contributing directly to our work."
Mr. Richardson has over 15 years of experience in leading both systematic equity and credit investing at BGI/BlackRock and AQR. He has over 25 years of experience in academia at various top-tier institutions, most recently at the London Business School.
Acadian cited changing bond market dynamics (including increases in electronic bond trading and data availability), alignment with their core capabilities, and investor demand as the primary drivers behind their strategy to enter systematic credit. Said Chief Executive Officer Ross Dowd, "We believe incremental investment in our research and resources towards credit will provide differentiated fixed income strategies for our clients. We continue to see investor demand for systematic strategies offering consistent returns paired with clarity around return drivers."
Mr. Richardson previously worked as a researcher and portfolio manager at AQR, with a focus on credit and fixed income markets, and has held senior positions at BlackRock (Barclays Global Investors), including head of Europe Equity Research and Head of Global Credit Research. He is also a Professor at London Business School, where he teaches M.B.A. and Ph.D. classes. Scott began his career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an editor of the Review of Accounting Studies and has published extensively in leading academic and practitioner journals. In 2009, he won the Notable Contribution to Accounting award for his work on earnings quality and accruals. Scott earned a B.Ec. with first-class honors from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
Acadian Asset Management LLC invests on behalf of pension funds, endowments, governments, foundations and other institutional investors, with US$109.4 billion in assets under management globally, as of 31 March 2022. The firm uses an innovative array of disciplined, systematic investment techniques across stock-specific, macro, and peer forecasting models. Acadian offers systematic macro, ESG, alternative alpha, managed volatility, and long-only strategies, including emerging markets, small-cap, and international equity. Acadian has affiliated offices in London, Sydney, and Singapore.
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LAVAL, QC, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc. ("Neptune" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NEPT) (TSX: NEPT), a diversified and fully integrated health and wellness company focused on plant-based, sustainable and purpose-driven lifestyle brands, announced today that Sprout Foods Inc. ("Sprout"), the Company's organic plant-based baby food and toddler snack company, has entered into an amendment of each of its existing Secured Promissory Notes to expand from US$22.5 million to a maximum of US$37.5 million.
In connection with this expansion, investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital ("Morgan Stanley" or "MSEC") have agreed to immediately commit an additional US$3 million under the expanded Secured Promissory Notes to Sprout.
The maturity date of the note facility of February 1, 2024 is consistent with the maturity date of the existing Secured Promissory Notes with MSEC and Neptune. The funds from the expanded facility are intended to be used for the general working capital needs of Sprout and the repayment of certain existing Sprout debt payable to Neptune. MSEC will be issued 372,670 common shares of Neptune in connection with this expansion.
"The expanded facility shows confidence in Neptune's strategic shift towards becoming a pure play CPG company and specifically the growth opportunity for Sprout," said Michael Cammarata, Chief Executive Officer and President of Neptune. "We look forward to expanding our relationship with Morgan Stanley."
Lincoln Isetta, a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, commented, "The expanded facility with Sprout demonstrates our support and optimism for the next stage of growth at Neptune and Sprout, a leader in the organic baby food market. We continue to see exciting potential in this sector and believe Sprout is well-positioned to continue share gains and expand its presence into new categories."
Sprout Organics is an organic baby food brand that strives to make mealtime easy and fun for parents and babies through delicious snacks and meals made with fresh, organic ingredients. The company aims to make life less complicated, give children a head start in life, and explore new foods with excitement with three simple promises: Keep it real, keep it simple and keep it fun. Sprout uses only the best, real and organic ingredients in everything it makes which means certified organic foods in every bite straight from nature, no GMOs. To learn more, please visit www.sproutorganics.com.
Headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Neptune is a diversified health and wellness company with a mission to redefine health and wellness. Neptune is focused on building a portfolio of high quality, affordable consumer products in response to long-term secular trends and market demand for natural, plant-based, sustainable and purpose-driven lifestyle brands. The Company utilizes a highly flexible, cost-efficient manufacturing and supply chain infrastructure that can be scaled to quickly adapt to consumer demand and bring new products to market through its mass retail partners and e-commerce channels. For additional information, please visit: https://neptunewellness.com/.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates, and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements with respect to the potential growth and market opportunities for Sprout, Neptune Wellness Solutions' potential expanded relationship with Morgan Stanley, the potential expansion of the facility beyond the US$3 million committed by Morgan Stanley and the intended use of funds from the expanded facility.
These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to materially differ from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors, among other things, include: the ability of the Company to successfully implement its strategic initiatives; the market acceptance of, and competition with others, with respect to Sprout's products; changes to food standards or other related requirements by applicable regulatory agencies; implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's operations; fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; changing consumer habits; the ability of the Company to successfully achieve its business objectives and cost cutting plans; plans for expansion; competition; political and social uncertainties; inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; the ability of the Company to obtain financing on acceptable terms, the adequacy of the Company's capital resources and liquidity, including but not limited to, availability of sufficient cash flow to execute its business plan (either within the expected timeframe or at all); the ability of the Company to obtain financing on acceptable terms, expectations regarding the resolution of litigation and other legal and regulatory proceedings, reviews and investigations; employee relations; and the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions in the markets where the Company operates. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
Additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties relating to the Company's business are contained under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K dated July 8, 2022, for the year ended March 31, 2022, filed under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
Neither NASDAQ nor the Toronto Stock Exchange accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Durham County Sheriff’s Office offering rabies vaccinations for pets
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ROME (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister insists that his country opposes Russia’s war against Ukraine but stayed vague Wednesday about whether Tehran's military cooperation with Moscow would include sales of drones that could carry missiles.
Earlier in the war, Iran was criticized in the West for not condemning Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of neighboring Ukraine. But Wednesday in the Rome daily La Repubblica, Foreign Minister Hossein-Amir Abdollahian was quoted as saying that "we are against Russia's military attack in Ukraine.''
Abdollahian arrived in Rome on Monday for a visit including meetings with Italian business officials and industrialists, as well as with the Italian foreign minister and Vatican officials.
The Iranian foreign minister was vague when asked about U.S. contentions that Russia is about to acquire Iranian drones that could transport missiles.
“We have various types of collaboration with Russia, including in the defense sector," Abdollahian replied. "But we won’t help either of the sides involved in this war because we believe that it (the war) needs to be stopped.”
He went on to slam Western countries, saying their arms manufacturers want to sell weapons, adding: “We will avoid any action that could lead to an escalation, but we will work to stop the war.”
Nuclear talks with Iran have been at a standstill for months. Abdollahian in the interview contended that the negotiators have made progress on a draft agreement but that " there are other questions to be faced.”
Pressed to elaborate, the minister replied: "We are asking for a strong economic guarantee. If a Western business signs a contract with its Iranian counterpart, it must have the certainty that its project will be realized and will be able to receive compensation.'' The comment apparently referring to business deals affected by sanctions against Tehran.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, reported last month that Iran has 43 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity — a short step to 90%. Nonproliferation experts warn that’s enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon if Iran chose to pursue it.
However, Iran still would need to design a bomb and a delivery system for it, which could likely need months. Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Tehran’s escalating nuclear work has raised alarms, and transparency is rapidly diminishing over its nuclear program. Last month Iran shut off more than two dozen IAEA monitoring cameras from nuclear-related sites across the country.
Asked about the cameras, Abdollahian denied that the Iranians shut them off, saying instead “we took them off the circuit” and insisting they were voluntarily installed.
“In whatever moment that the negotiations reach some result, we will bring back the 27 video cameras installed by IAEA inside our sites," the minister said. | https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/iranian-envoy-is-vague-about-possible-drone-sales-to-russia/DGIVHOB6KNCERJIAZ2XAF72MPM/ | 2022-07-13T12:56:40Z | https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/iranian-envoy-is-vague-about-possible-drone-sales-to-russia/DGIVHOB6KNCERJIAZ2XAF72MPM/ | false | 45 |
Paul Pogba: Can midfielder's move from Manchester United reunite Juventus?
"He is a 22-year-old boy. He cannot behave like a 30-year-old boy. Nobody asks him to score three goals per game and win them alone. I only ask him to play like Pogba, with all that being a 22-year-old boy brings." You could tell manager Massimiliano Allegri was angry....
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media platforms including Facebook and TikTok are failing to stop hate and threats against LGBTQ users, a report issued Wednesday from advocacy group GLAAD found.
Those are some of the internet’s most vulnerable users, with a majority of LGBTQ people saying they’ve faced menacing posts or comments when they’re scrolling through social media. But it’s unclear how social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube are handling those threats.
Instead of protecting their users, GLAAD says in the report, the tech companies are safeguarding information about how they respond to those attacks, revealing few details about how often they take down posts or accounts that push hate speech or harass LGBTQ users.
“The reality is, there’s very little transparency and very little accountability,” said Jenni Olson, GLAAD’s director for social media safety and author of the report. “And people feel helpless.”
Los Angeles resident Peter Sapinsky, a gay musician who said he has faced harassment in the online gaming community, shared screenshots with The Associated Press of dozens of messages he’s sent to YouTube about users and videos that use racist and homophobic slurs. YouTube has responded to only some of the messages, he said.
Sapinsky, 29, said some use YouTube to livestream themselves harassing people at Pride parades. They quickly delete those live videos once they’ve wrapped to evade being detected by YouTube for violating its policies against hate speech, he said. He listed a series of homophobic slurs he’s heard in videos posted by users who are still operating on the site.
“YouTube doesn’t do anything about it,” Sapinsky said. “For someone who says they don’t allow hate on the website, they sure do.”
Hateful or violent speech directed at members of the LGBTQ community is prohibited on the platform, YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon said.
“Over the last few years, we’ve made significant progress in our ability to quickly remove hateful and harassing content,” Malon said. "This work is ongoing, and we appreciate the thoughtful feedback from GLAAD.”
A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement that the company was discussing the report’s findings with GLAAD. A statement from TikTok did not directly address the report but said the company is working to create an “inclusive environment.”
GLAAD recommended that the platforms start releasing the training methods for content moderators as well as the number of accounts and posts the companies remove for violating rules designed to protect LGBTQ users.
GLAAD’s report examines the policies and actions Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter have implemented around LGBTQ issues.
All of the social media platforms have outlined policies that are designed to prevent LGBTQ users from being harassed, threatened or discriminated against by other users because of their identity.
Only Twitter, however, has a specific policy against intentionally misgendering, using the wrong pronoun to describe someone, for example, or deadnaming, which involves reviving a transgender person’s name from before the person transitioned to a new identity. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said it removes similar posts upon request.
Some users bully LGBTQ people on social media by misgendering or deadnaming them. One example came last month, when a conservative social media pundit sent a swarm of Twitter users to harass transgender actor Elliot Page with the wrong pronoun and name. That Twitter user was suspended under the company’s hateful conduct policy.
“The idea that these figures with millions of followers are bullying and harassing trans people, for being trans, is just wrong,” Olson said.
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crocs, Inc. (NADSAQ: CROX), a global leader in innovative casual footwear for women, men and children, announced a judgment of infringement against USA Dawgs and Double Diamond Distribution as a result of both companies' sales of imitation Crocs shoes. In conjunction therewith, Crocs also obtained $6 million and $55,000 in damages, respectively, against the companies.
This case is the culmination of years long battles between the parties after USA Dawgs and Double Diamond Distribution began selling shoes that infringed Crocs' patents in 2006. Both USA Dawgs and Double Diamond Distribution have since conceded the validity of Crocs' patent rights.
"We are fiercely protective of the Crocs brand and our iconic DNA. We have zero tolerance for infringement of our intellectual property rights or for anyone who tries to benefit off the investments that we have made in our brand," said Daniel Hart, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal & Risk Officer at Crocs. "This judgment not only reinforces the validity of our patent rights, it also reinforces our unrelenting determination to take forceful steps to protect our brand equity."
This judgment of infringement comes nearly one year to the day after Crocs filed lawsuits against 21 companies alleging infringement of its registered trademark rights in its clog designs. The lawsuits, filed at the International Trade Commission in addition to various U.S. District Courts around the country, seek an exclusion order against infringing product in addition to monetary damages for violations of Crocs' three-dimensional trademark rights.
Crocs, Inc. (Nasdaq: CROX) is a world leader in innovative casual footwear for women, men, and children, combining comfort and style with a value that consumers know and love. The Company's brands include Crocs and HEYDUDE and its products are sold in more than 85 countries through wholesale and direct-to-consumer channels. For more information on Crocs, Inc. please visit investors.crocs.com. To learn more about our brands, please visit www.crocs.com or www.heydudeshoesusa.com or follow @Crocs or @heydudeshoes on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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First quarter revenue up 5.5% sequentially in constant currency; EBITDA margins at 21.1%; highest-ever order book at $570 million
BENGALURU, India and WARREN, N.J. , July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mindtree, a global technology services and digital transformation company, announced its consolidated results today for the first quarter ended June 30, 2022, as approved by its Board of directors.
"We are excited to report a strong start to FY23 with robust revenue growth, solid margin, and a record order book, demonstrating our continued industry-leading growth momentum," said Debashis Chatterjee, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Mindtree. "With revenues of $399.3 million, up 5.5% sequentially in constant currency on the back of a healthy demand for our digital capabilities, this was our sixth consecutive quarter of more than 5% revenue growth in constant currency. Our EBITDA was 21.1%, underscoring our disciplined execution and operational rigor. Our highest-ever order book of $570 million reflects the relevance of our value proposition in delivering business-critical transformation at scale. We are proud of our dedicated teams who continue to exceed client expectations with passion and purpose."
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Quarter ended June 30, 2022
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- In INR:
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Mindtree [NSE: MINDTREE] is a global technology consulting and services company that enables enterprises across industries to drive superior competitive advantage, customer experiences and business outcomes by harnessing digital and cloud technologies. A digital transformation partner to approximately 275 of the world's most pioneering enterprises, Mindtree brings extensive domain, technology and consulting expertise to help reimagine business models, accelerate innovation and maximize growth. As a socially and environmentally responsible business, Mindtree is focused on growth as well as sustainability in building long-term stakeholder value. Powered by more than 37,400 talented and entrepreneurial professionals across 24 countries, Mindtree — a Larsen & Toubro Group company — is consistently recognized among the best places to work. For more, please visit www.mindtree.com or @Mindtree_Ltd.
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MERRIMAC (WKOW) - The resumption of service by the Merrimac Ferry coincides with the arrival of dozens of motorcyclists intent on including the ferry ride on their routes.
State officials said hydraulic issues with the ferry stopped its trips on the Wisconsin River between Sauk and Columbia counties for portions of Monday and Tuesday. Officials said the ferry restarted Tuesday afternoon. They said they did not anticipate any more service interruptions.
An international motorcycling organization, Women in the Wind, has its annual summer conference planned for this weekend in the Merrimac area. One of the event's planners, Kathy Kunzman, said nearly 200 women and their motorcyclists were expected to arrive in Wisconsin by Friday.
"We have some coming up from Florida, we've got chapters internationally," Kunzman said. "So they're coming from all directions right now."
Kunzman said original plans included motorcyclists convening at the Merrimac Ferry Friday to kick off their ride. But with ferry closures beginning last week, Kunzman said the ride launch at the ferry had to be scrapped.
"I had a panic-struck moment, started telling people to go a different direction," Kunzman said. She said reports on the ferry's operational status were variable. "It was up, it was down, it was up, and it was down again."
Kunzman said the cancellation of the big meet-up was necessary.
"Because people are traveling right now. They wanted a solid, 'is it up or is it down?'"
But Kunzman said riders still intend to incorporate the Merrimac Ferry into their travels.
"It's something that maybe people who live in downtown New York City have never been able to do," she said. "It's just an interesting thing to do when you come out to the country."
The motorcycles will join cars boarding the ferry for trips across the river. This expected influx of ferry visitors comes during the service's busiest month. State officials say an average of 1,500 vehicles per day used the ferry in July 2021.
Kunzman said she's preaching patience to the conference's arriving motorcyclists.
"There's ice cream and then there's a bathroom," Kunzman said of the ferry launch point. "There's the two things we need right there." | https://www.wkow.com/news/merrimac-ferry-resumes-as-motorcyclists-descend-on-area/article_9ca869ce-02aa-11ed-ac4a-e37a68e997ce.html | 2022-07-13T13:09:48Z | https://www.wkow.com/news/merrimac-ferry-resumes-as-motorcyclists-descend-on-area/article_9ca869ce-02aa-11ed-ac4a-e37a68e997ce.html | false | 1 |
DNCC garbage truck kills biker in Dhaka
Earlier, a 17-year-old student of Notre Dame College was killed in November last year after a garbage truck of DSCC hit him in the Gulistan area.
A motorcyclist was killed on Wednesday when a garbage truck of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) hit him in Mirpur area.
The name of the deceased could not be confirmed yet.
Sources told TBS that the driver of the truck has been detained.
Mohammad Mahe Alam, general manager of DNCC transport department, told TBS, "We have sent people after hearing the news of the accident. We will be able to tell the details after a while."
Kafrul Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Hafizur Rahman informed TBS, "We have learned that a motorcyclist who was hit by a garbage truck of Dhaka North City Corporation died at around 6 pm while undergoing treatment. Family members are in the hospital. They have contacted us, A case will be filed soon."
Earlier, a 17-year-old student of Notre Dame College was killed on November last year after a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) hit him at the Gulistan area.
The incident triggered a country-wide protest.
School students came out in numbers wearing uniforms, remembering the nation of the road safety movement that took place in 2018. | https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/dncc-garbage-truck-kills-biker-dhaka-457642 | 2022-07-13T13:11:01Z | https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/dncc-garbage-truck-kills-biker-dhaka-457642 | false | 1 |
NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tandym Group ("Tandym" or the "Company"), a leading national recruitment, contract staffing, consulting, and workforce solutions company is pleased to announce that Cheri Ehrlich Eisen has joined as Executive Vice President of the Company's professional services vertical, Tandym Pro.
Tandym Group Chief Executive Officer Larry Dolinko said, "I am pleased to welcome Cheri to the Tandym team. She is a strong leader with excellent credentials and a proven track record of driving growth."
"I am thrilled to join Tandym at an exciting time in its growth trajectory," said Ms. Ehrlich Eisen. "We are continuously enhancing our ability to serve our clients with broader skillsets in more markets. I look forward to partnering with our clients and our team to deliver exceptional results."
Prior to joining Tandym Group, Ms. Ehrlich Eisen was the Global Head of Talent Acquisition for Bumble. She has over 25 years of experience in managing human capital with AOL, The Walt Disney Company, Prudential Financial, Ryder Systems, Inc., and others. She also founded RAZR Recruiting and Consulting, a talent acquisition and human resources consulting agency.
Tandym Group (formerly The Execu|Search Group) is a leading national recruitment, contract staffing, consulting, and workforce solutions company with offices throughout the U.S. The company serves clients across a broad range of verticals, including Healthcare, Technology, Life Sciences, and Professional Services (which includes Accounting, Financial Services, HR/People & Operations, and Legal). For more information, please visit: tandymgroup.com.
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“NextRide” a new technology that provides real-time public bus locales via app, has arrived in the West Kootenay transit system.
This means BC Transit ridership from Trail to surrounding towns and cities can now use web browsers and smart mobile devices to see the location of their bus along its route and its predicted arrival time at an identified stop.
By downloading the Transit App, customers will know exactly when their bus will arrive and it will allow them to see how full a bus is at any given time.
Earlier this year, BC Transit announced this technology was only a few months away for West Kootenay transit riders after the organization signed a contract with a company called Consat for the next phase of the NextRide program.
The Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) technology has now been installed in communities and regional transit systems across the province on approximately 315 buses operating on all conventional, fixed routes in British Columbia.
NextRide is funded through the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program. This project is being cost-shared with the Government of Canada contributing 50 per cent, the Province of British Columbia contributing 40 per cent and local government partners contributing the remaining 10 per cent.
“Expanding the NextRide program will improve customer experience, increase safety for riders and drivers, improve accessibility for users and provide important data for better route planning that will benefit customers across the province,” BC Transit’s Tim Croyle stated. “We’re excited to introduce NextRide into new transit systems with our new partner Consat to make it more convenient to use transit, no matter where you live.”
NextRide falls under BC Transit’s Smart Bus program, which introduces new technologies on buses that improve customer experience, while also helping grow ridership by making transit more accessible, safer and enjoyable, BC Transit states.
“This initiative aims to leverage recent technology advances to provide improved information for our customers and bus operators, while also providing greater flexibility, scalability, and value to BC Transit and its local government partners.”
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West Nile virus season has kicked off in Solano County with the discovery of a deceased and infected bird, county officials announced Tuesday.
“The Solano County Department of Health and Social Services, Public Health division, and the Solano County Mosquito Abatement District (SCMAD) have confirmed that a bird has tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV),” officials stated in a press release. “The specimen sample was collected in late June in Vacaville. As of July 11, 2022, the California Department of Public Health reports that there are no human cases of WNV.”
Christine Wu, the county’s deputy health officer, advised preparation when spending time oudoors.
“Residents should take the necessary precautions to reduce the risk of getting an infection by using insect repellent when spending time outdoors and removing standing water sources in the home,” she said in the statement.
West Nile virus is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. which becomes infected by feeding on infected birds.
Officials offered tips on keeping safe:
To reduce the risk of contracting mosquito-borne illness by following these guidelines, including:
- Avoid being outside at dawn and dusk, when mosquitoes are most active. When outdoors, wear a long-sleeved shirt and long pants and use insect repellent.
- Drain standing water. where mosquitoes lay their eggs. If you have an ornamental pond, contact SCMAD at 437-1116 for a free mosquito fish.
- Use an EPA-registered insect repellent containing DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus, IR3535 or para-menthane-diol products per the manufacturer’s instructions.
- Ensure doors and windows have tight-fitting screens to keep mosquitoes out. Repair or replace screens with tears or holes.
About 4 in 5 people infected with West Nile will not develop symptoms, while 1 in 5 will develop mild flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, body aches, nausea, vomiting and swollen lymph glands, officials said. Less than 1%, about 1 in 150, develop severe neurological disease. In rare cases, WNV infection can be fatal.
People age 60 and above, and those with medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease and people who have received organ transplants are believed to be at greater risk of developing severe illness and complications.
Report unmaintained swimming pools and stagnant water to SCMAD at 437-1116.
Report dead birds online at https://westnile.ca.gov/ or at 1-877-WNV-BIRD (1-877-968-2473). | https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/07/13/west-nile-virus-discovered-in-solano-county/ | 2022-07-13T13:21:01Z | https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/07/13/west-nile-virus-discovered-in-solano-county/ | true | 4 |
Shares of International Corona Capital Corp. (CVE:IC – Get Rating) passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of C$0.04 and traded as low as C$0.03. International Corona Capital shares last traded at C$0.04, with a volume of 15,000 shares.
The firm has a market cap of C$2.40 million and a PE ratio of -3.50. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of C$0.03 and a two-hundred day moving average price of C$0.04.
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‘Time to change the code’ – NFL’s Eric Decker has nude pictures accidentally posted on Instagram by four-year-old son
FORMER NFL star Eric Decker had nude pictures leaked onto his Instagram - by his four-year-old son.
The ex-Broncos and Jets receiver, 35, retired from professional football after eight seasons in 2018.
Decker is married to country singer Jessie James and the couple have three children, including four-year-old Forrest.
And it's unlikely the tot will be given his dad's phone to play with any time soon after accidentally uploading shots of Decker NUDE in the shower.
Forrest felt like posing for a few selfies on Monday evening as the ex-gridiron star freshened up at their home in Nashville, Tennessee.
But the former NFL star was oblivious to his son's snaps - which as well as featuring Forrest's grinning face, also featured him naked in the background.
The four-year-old somehow managed to log into his dad's Instagram page and uploaded the pictures to 1.1m followers as his oblivious dad continued to shower.
It wasn't until thirty minutes later that a friend texted wife Jesse saying: "I am not even sure if u know [Forrest] has [Eric's] phone but if u don’t go grab."
Jesse simply replied: "omg [oh my god]".
The snaps were swiftly deleted, with Decker taking to Instagram shortly after to apologize for the parenting mishap.
He said: "Time to change the code!
"So much for letting Forrest watch his Avengers videos during my shower."
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Decker and Jesse starred in a reality show called Eric & Jessie: Game On, which ran from 2013 to 2017.
6ft3 star Eric was taken in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Broncos, where he spent four seasons.
During his career, the wide receiver caught 439 passes for 5,816 yards and 54 touchdowns. | https://www.the-sun.com/sport/5765643/eric-decker-nude-pictures-instagram-son/ | 2022-07-13T13:24:25Z | https://www.the-sun.com/sport/5765643/eric-decker-nude-pictures-instagram-son/ | false | 1 |
India has denied the media reports about facilitating President Gotabaya’s visit to Maldives as ‘baseless and speculative’
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India today categorically denied “baseless and speculative” media reports that it facilitated the travel of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled to the Maldives on a military jet in the face of a public revolt against his government.
73-year-old Sri Lankan President fled the country along with his wife and two security officers on a military jet on Wednesday.
“The High Commission categorically denies baseless and speculative media reports that India facilitated the recent reported travel of @gotabayar @Realbrajapaksa out of Sri Lanka,” the High Commission of India in Sri Lanka tweeted.
“It is reiterated that India will continue to support the people of Sri Lanka as they seek to realise their aspirations for prosperity and progress through democratic means and values, established democratic institutions and constitutional framework,” it added.
In a brief statement, the Sri Lankan Air Force said that under the Constitution granted to an Executive President, Rajapaksa was flown to the Maldives on board an Air Force plane on Wednesday morning.
“On government request and in terms of powers available to a President under the Constitution, with complete approval from the ministry of defence, the President, his wife and two security officials were provided a Sri Lanka Air Force plane to depart from the Katunayake international airport for the Maldives in the early hours of July 13,” the statement said.
Rajapaksa, who enjoys immunity from prosecution while he is president, is believed to have wanted to flee abroad before resigning to avoid the possibility of arrest by the new government.
On Saturday, Rajapaksa had announced to step down on Wednesday after thousands of protesters stormed his official residence, blaming him for the unprecedented economic crisis that has brought the country to its knees.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A spate of wildfires is scorching Western Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change.
In Portugal, Civil Protection commander André Fernandes said that multiple fires have caused the evacuation of more than 600 people. About 120 people needed medical treatment, with two people — one civilian and one firefighter — suffering serious injuries, Fernandes said.
Water-dumping planes helped 1,300 firefighters combat the worst of the blazes in the nation’s central area, while another 1,000 worked to bring other fires under control.
The European heat wave is also sparking flames in Spain and France.
More than 800 firefighters battled two wildfires in the region outside Bordeaux in southwest France, according to the regional emergency service. The fires began Tuesday near the towns of Landiras and La Teste-de-Buch, and firefighters hadn't been able to contain them by Wednesday morning.
About 6,500 people have been evacuated from campgrounds and villages in the forested area. The number of injuries is unclear. The two fires have destroyed more than 1,800 hectares (4,400 acres) of terrain, the emergency service said.
Images from firefighters showed flames racing through thickets of trees and grassland, fanned by strong winds, and smoke blackening the horizon.
The regional administration banned activity in forested areas at risk. Several regions in southern France are on fire alert because of hot, dry weather and high winds. Wildfires swept through the Gard region in southeast France last week.
Portugal has long experienced fatal forest fires. In 2017, wildfires killed more than 100 people. No one has died from a wildfire since then as Portugal improved its forest management and firefighting strategies.
Last year, Portugal recorded its lowest number of wildfires since 2011. But a mass of hot and dry air blown in by African winds are driving temperatures in the Iberian Peninsula beyond their usual highs.
The Atlantic country, which has been on alert of wildfires since last week, is sweltering under a spike in temperatures that is forecast to send thermometers in the central Alentejo region to 46 C (115 F) on Wednesday and Thursday. Authorities said that 96% of the country was classified at the end of June as being in either “extreme” or “severe” drought.
More than 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) had been consumed alone in the district of Leiria, just north of Lisbon, Mayor Goncalo Lopes told Portuguese state broadcaster RTP.
Neighboring Spain is likewise set for highs of 42 C (107.6 F) in the southern cities of Córdoba and Sevilla. Over 400 people were evacuated on Tuesday because of a wildfire in western Extremadura, a region of Spain that borders Portugal.
European Union officials issued a warning last week that climate change is behind the extremely dry and hot summer so far on the continent, urging local authorities to brace for wildfires.
Cayetano Torres, spokesman for Spain’s national weather forecaster, said that the “unusual” heat wave and lack of rainfall in recent months has created ideal circumstances for fires.
“These are perfect conditions for the propagation of fires, which when you add to that some wind, you have have guaranteed propagation,” he said.
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Joseph Wilson reported from Barcelona, Spain. Angela Charlton in Paris, and Renata Brito in Barcelona, contributed to this report.
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BALTIMORE, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ-GS: TROW), today reported preliminary month-end assets under management of $1.31 trillion as of June 30, 2022. Client transfers from mutual funds to other portfolios, including trusts and separate accounts, were $1.2 billion in June 2022, and $2.9 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. This brings total client transfers for the year-to-date period ended June 30, 2022, to $7.0 billion. These client transfers include $1.0 billion, $1.6 billion, and $4.9 billion, respectively, transferred to the target date retirement trusts during the June, second quarter, and year-to-date periods.
The following table shows the firm's assets under management as of June 30, 2022, and for the prior month-, quarter-, and year-end by investment vehicle, by asset class, and in the firm's target date retirement portfolios.
(a) Preliminary - subject to adjustment
(b) The underlying assets under management of the multi-asset portfolios have been aggregated and presented as a separate line and not reported in the equity and fixed income lines.
Founded in 1937, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price (troweprice.com) is a global investment management organization that provides a broad array of mutual funds, subadvisory services, and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. The organization also offers a variety of sophisticated investment planning and guidance tools. T. Rowe Price's disciplined, risk-aware investment approach focuses on diversification, style consistency, and fundamental research.
The following table reflects the data with the underlying assets under management of the multi-asset portfolios included within the equity and fixed income lines.
(a) Preliminary - subject to adjustment
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Cardiff MP Anna McMorrin calls for action after ‘torrent’ of ‘deeply, deeply disturbing’ online abuse
A Welsh Labour MP has called for action by tech companies after detailing her own “deeply, deeply disturbing” experiences of online abuse.
Labour’s Anna McMorrin spoke about the “torrent” of online abuse she, her family and other MPs had faced.
The MP for Cardiff North called on the Government to “put violence against women and girls on the face of the Bill” during the Commons report stage debate of the Online Safety Bill.
She said: “As a female MP, I and I’m not alone here, along with my colleagues have faced a torrent of abuse online, attacking me both personally and professionally.
“Images being sent to me such as someone with a noose around their neck… as well as numerous messages, antisemitic abuse, misogyny towards both me and my children.
“It is deeply, deeply disturbing, but also it’s unsurprising that one in five women across the country have also been subject to online abuse and I would actually guess that that figure is much, much higher.”
She added: “We need this action to come within legislation to make sure that these tech companies take action. There is a very, very dark side to the Internet and one which is deeply, deeply rooted in misogyny.”
She went on: “Violence against women and girls is an ever-growing epidemic and time is running out. This Government is more concerned with piecemeal actions that fail to tackle the root cause of the issue.”
‘Gun’
SNP Joanna Cherry (Edinburgh South West) raised the online abuse she had received as she called on Twitter to “apply its moderation policy evenly across society”.
Intervening during Ms McMorrin’s speech, Ms Cherry said: “I’m really sorry to hear about the abuse that she and her family have received.
“Many women inside (and without) this chamber such as myself have received terrible abuse on Twitter, including repeated threats to shoot us if we don’t shut the f*** up.
“Twitter refuses to take down memes of a hand, a real human hand pointing a gun at me and other feminists and lesbians telling us to shut the f*** up,” she continued, spelling out the swear word.
She added: “Does she see the force of my amendment to make sure that Twitter apply its moderation policy evenly across society with regard to all protected characteristics including sex?”
‘Traceability’
Labour’s Dame Margaret Hodge (Barking) called for action on anonymous abuse detailing her own experiences.
She told MPs: “There is a lack of understanding and knowledge really about the extent of anonymous abuse.”
She spoke of “the 90,000 postings” she had received in a two-month period, adding: “I think most of them were anonymous and most of them were abusive. Certainly, there is public support for trying to tackle abusive postings.”
Her amendment she said was “based on strong commitment to protect anonymity especially for vulnerable groups, but we do seek to tackle anonymous abuse, but not by denying anonymity, but by ensuring what we call traceability”.
She added: “It’s only if and when an individual posts something which breaks the law, at that point the individual will lose their right to anonymity.”
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CLARESHOLM, AB, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Alberta, Canada, today the largest solar power plant of Canada, the Claresholm Solar farm has been successfully commissioned and started daily operation of electricity power generation. China leading solar PV module brand Astronergy is proud of the delivery of over 180 MWdc ASTRO series PV panels for this solar farm.
The Claresholm Solar farm locates 13km southeast of Claresholm town in the municipal district of Willow Creek in southern Alberta. With total investment of C$200m ($162.76m), this farm occupies 1,280 acres of agriculture lands and planned an installation of 132 MWac. There are 455,758 Astronergy PV panels shipped from China to Canada since 2020 to be installed in a fixed-tilt racking structure.
The Claresholm Solar farm is expected to directly reduce CO2 emission of around 149,000 metric tons each year when it starts to work. Meanwhile, approximately 33,000 households nearby can benefit from the renewable power it generated.
Claresholm Solar is a joint venture between Capstone Infrastructure, a renewable energy investment company based in Canada, and Obton, a Danish investment company involved in the development of solar and wind power projects.
"I'd like to highlight Astronergy as the supplier and manufacturer of Claresholm Solar's bi-facial panels, which are the most advanced technology available in the market. And I'd like to emphasize the significant increase in generation capacity and efficiency of the panels supplied by Astronergy for the project. Our experience working with Astronergy on Claresholm Solar gave us a high level of confidence in terms of quality and ability to deliver, which is why the company has been selected for two more solar projects currently in development (Kneehill and Michichi)", said by David Eva, CEO of Capstone Infrastructure.
The Astronergy panels supplied for this Claresholm Solar project is ASTRO Series reinforced bifacial module with double glass (front side 2.5mm tempered and rear side 2.5mm semi-tempered). Enhanced with excellent encapsulation structure and strengthened frame, this type is specially designed for severe hail (45mm, 30.7m/s), unfriendly environment with high reliability requirements. The module has passed severe Damp & Heat 2000hours and Thermal Cycle 600 and PID 300 tests which were verified and approved by CSA certificate-C450 and PVEL certificate-PQP.
"We are pleased to join this project to build the largest solar PV farm so far in Canada. We set up a special sales team to follow up the entire process including communications, production, quality control, shipment, installation and etc. We had very good cooperation experience with Capstone Infrastructure." Said by Samuel Zhang, vice president of Astronergy, global sales and marketing.
About Astronergy:
Astronergy is committed to becoming the most competitive PV module manufacturer in the world, focusing on R&D, manufacturing, distribution and sales of high-efficient solar cells and PV modules. As a reliable and technology-leading brand Astronergy was honored by PVEL/DNV GL as "Top Performer" among module manufacturers for six times. And the brand also has been listed as the world's Tier 1 supplier of PV modules by Bloomberg.
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California’s severe drought continues, and mandatory water conservation measures are in place. These climate conditions, along with our limited long-term water supplies, mean it is in our best interest to use water as efficiently as possible. Not just when we’re in drought, but ALWAYS!
On May 24, the State Water Resources Control Board issued new emergency regulations that prohibit irrigation on non-functional turf with drinking water (potable water) in commercial, industrial and institutional sectors since voluntary conservation efforts have fallen short. The emergency regulation also requires urban water suppliers—which includes the Cities of Hollister and San Juan Bautista and the Sunnyslope County Water District—to implement water reduction measures. As such, restaurants and other food service providers in Hollister and San Juan Bautista will only serve water upon request, and hotel/motels will provide guests the option of choosing to not have towels and linens laundered daily.
In May, the Hollister City Council, San Juan Bautista City Council and the Sunnyslope County Water District’s Board all passed emergency water conservation measures for compliance with state rules, which includes restricting landscape irrigation.
For residential customers in the City of Hollister and Sunnyslope County Water District service areas, restricting irrigation of landscapes and lawns is restricted to two days a week, specifically: Tuesdays and Saturdays for odd numbered and numberless addresses, and Wednesdays and Sundays for even numbered addresses. The City of San Juan Bautista limits residents to irrigating their landscapes on Monday and Thursday only.
More on Water Use Restrictions
Water waste is prohibited. The following specific water uses are prohibited: irrigating lawns and landscapes more than two days per week, flooding or runoff, use of a hose without a hose nozzle or shut-off device, non-recirculating fountain or other decorative water feature, outdoor irrigation or watering landscapes or turf between 9am-5pm (exception for drip irrigation, and hand watering), broken or defective plumbing and irrigation systems must be repaired or replaced within a reasonable period. Washing driveways, sidewalks, buildings, structures, patios, parking lots or other hard surfaced areas except for immediate health or safety needs, and irrigation during and within 48 hours of measurable rainfall.
Tips for Conserving Water at Home
Conserving water at home is a great way to get involved in maintaining our water supply. There are many ways to conserve water at home. Residents should consider taking the following steps to reduce water waste:
– Regularly check for leaks (free leak check from the Water Resources Association)
– Replace old toilets (free toilets for those who have pre-1992 toilets from the Water Resources Association)
– Install low-flow showerheads and faucet aerators (free from the Water Resources Association)
– Install automatic shut-off hose nozzles (free from the Water Resources Association)
– Turn off the water when brushing your teeth or shaving
– Add compost to your landscaped areas to conserve water outdoors (free from Integrated Waste SBC) – next free giveaway days: Oct. 8 at Veteran’s Park, Hollister and on Oct. 15, San Juan School, San Juan Bautista
Thinking of Converting Your Landscape to be Water-Wise?
The Water Resources Association is offering a Turf Removal Program to City of Hollister, City of San Juan Bautista and Sunnyslope County Water District customers.
Get paid to remove turf from your landscape. Get $2 per square foot up to 1,000 square feet ($2,000). Special rules apply and funding is limited.
Turf uses up to 50 inches of water per year. Whereas we receive 12-15 inches of rain on average. Use climate appropriate plants!
Free water-wise landscape plans with three different themes are available on the Water Resources Association website.
Drought tolerant and native plant lists are also available on the website with other water-wise landscape information.
Go to www.wrasbc.org or call 831.637.4378 for more information or to schedule a free leak check, irrigation assistance or pre-inspection for the Turf Removal Program.
Shawn O. Novack is Water Conservation Program Manager for the Water Resources Association San Benito County and San Benito County Water District. | https://sanbenito.com/guest-view-conserve-water-all-the-time/ | 2022-07-13T13:34:57Z | https://sanbenito.com/guest-view-conserve-water-all-the-time/ | true | 2 |
Health News Roundup: White House urges COVID boosters to protect against spreading BA.5 subvariant; San Francisco reaches $58 million opioid settlement with Teva, Allergan and more
Hospital-acquired bacterial infections also rose more than 15% in 2020 from 2019, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Amgen's Lumakras/immunotherapy combo data held for August lung cancer meeting Early trial data on Amgen Inc's Lumakras was released on Tuesday by the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC), but meeting organizers decided to hold until Aug. 7 results from a highly anticipated study in combination with drugs that help the immune system attack cancer.
Following is a summary of current health news briefs.
White House urges COVID boosters to protect against spreading BA.5 subvariant
The White House on Tuesday urged Americans over age 50 to get vaccination boosters against COVID-19 as the fast-spreading Omicron BA.5 subvariant takes hold across the United States and said doing so now would not preclude another shot this fall. U.S. health officials warned that the variant, which makes up a majority of cases in the country, was more resistant than previous variants to immunity, including from prior COVID-19 infection.
San Francisco reaches $58 million opioid settlement with Teva, Allergan
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and AbbVie's Allergan unit on Tuesday reached a $58 million settlement with the city of San Francisco just before the completion of a trial over claims that they fueled an opioid epidemic in the city. Under the deal announced by City Attorney David Chiu, Israel-based Teva will pay $25 million in cash and contribute a $20 million supply of the overdose-reversal drug Narcan. AbbVie will pay $13 million.
U.S. deaths from antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' rose 15% in 2020
U.S. deaths from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, also known as 'superbugs', jumped 15% in 2020 as the drugs were widely dispensed to treat COVID-19 and fight off bacterial infections during long hospitalizations, enabling the bugs to evolve, a U.S. government report said on Tuesday. Hospital-acquired bacterial infections also rose more than 15% in 2020 from 2019, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.
Amgen's Lumakras/immunotherapy combo data held for the August lung cancer meeting
Early trial data on Amgen Inc's Lumakras was released on Tuesday by the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC), but meeting organizers decided to hold until Aug. 7 results from a highly anticipated study in combination with drugs that help the immune system attack cancer. The study, which will be the first report of how well Lumakras works in combination with immunotherapies - Merck & Co's Keytruda and Roche Holding AG's Tecentriq - was selected to be part of the press program at the organization's Vienna meeting, WCLC spokesman Chris Martin said.
AstraZeneca says COVID vaccine as effective as mRNA shots in review
AstraZeneca said on Wednesday a review of real-world data showed its COVID-19 vaccine provided equally effective protection against hospitalization and death after two doses as with current mRNA shots from Pfizer and Moderna. (https://bit.ly/3PkllkM)
Last maternity clinic in Ukraine-controlled Donbas a lifeline as war closes in
In the last specialist maternity ward still under Ukrainian control in the eastern Donbas region, the windows are packed with sandbags. Rooms used for births at the Perinatal Centre in the city of Pokrovsk follow the two-wall rule, which says the safest parts of a building are separated from the outside by at least two walls. "Sometimes we've had to deliver babies during shelling," said Dr. Ivan Tsyganok, head of the centre. "Labour is a process that cannot be stopped."
Why world's first malaria shot won't reach millions of children who need it
After decades of work, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine last year - a historic milestone that promised to drive back a disease that kills a child every minute. In reality, efforts are falling well short of that, with a lack of funding and commercial potential thwarting GSK Plc's capacity to produce as many doses of its shot as needed, according to Reuters interviews with about a dozen WHO officials, GSK staff, scientists and non-profit groups.
Adapted, two-strain vaccines to lift COVID protection - EU official
Adapted versions of established mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that address two variants in one shot will soon offer people better protection than vaccines that are now available, a European health official said on Wednesday. Moderna and the BioNTech-Pfizer alliance are working on vaccines based on a combination of the original Wuhan virus and an Omicron subvariant.
South Korea's PM warns of COVID surge as cases hit two-month high
Daily COVID-19 infections in South Korea have jumped above 40,000 for the first time in two months, with the government warning of a potential five-fold surge in the coming months. "Daily infections could soar to as many as 200,000 between mid-August and late September," Prime Minister Han Duck-soo told a government COVID response meeting, citing the view of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) and experts.
Ahead of Saudi visit, White House signals COVID requires Biden to avoid handshakes
U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to reduce direct contact, such as shaking hands, during his visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia this week because of COVID-19 risks, White House officials said on Wednesday. The apparent shift in policy comes as the White House was facing questions about whether Biden would be photographed shaking hands or meeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
(With inputs from agencies.) | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/health/2108286-reuters-health-news-summary | 2022-07-13T13:35:01Z | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/health/2108286-reuters-health-news-summary | true | 3 |
In March 1938, West Columbia began feeling growing pains again as its 20-year-old oil field began production from new wells. At that time, 11 rigs were operating.
O.W. “Pat” Pond, president of the West Columbia Chamber of Commerce, announced that the area would seek to incorporate and build a water and sewer system as well as a city-owned gas system. Housing was in high demand. The school was building more classrooms and J.R. Farmer was constructing a new brick and tile building in which the new post office would be located.
West Columbia citizens voted on Saturday, June 18, 1938, to incorporate the city and installed Alex Seabourne as its first mayor. The election made West Columbia the county’s fourth incorporated city with a vote of 114-79. Two commissioners were also elected: Dr. B.C. Berger and Thurman Gupton.
The first public servants had a hard time bringing modernization to the newly incorporated city. In March 1940, voters defeated three bond issues that would have provided revenue for light and power, waterworks and sewage disposal.
In June of that year, Pond became the second mayor of the new city, for a two-year term. Pond and City Commissioner H.J. Gupton again began the hard work of making plans for a modern water system and sewage disposal plant for its 300 patrons.
In March 1941, the city called for an election to vote on three bond issues totalling $97,000 for those improvements. The city was allotted $35,279 in labor expenses, from the Works Project Administration for the project.
“Their proposal included construction projects for City Hall, the fire department, the city jail and various other city departments, all adjacent to deep wells for convenience and low costs,” according to the West Columbia Volunteer Fire Department’s 70th Anniversary Commemorative Book compiled by Wesley W. Chafin.
Skipping ahead a bit in time, in 1956, Jim G. Scott was mayor until Sept. 8, 1958, when he resigned. Pond succeeded him in November and served through 1962. The Freeport Facts reported, “As his first act, Pond told the five man board of aldermen that he considers it a privilege to be in a position to serve the people of West Columbia.
“If we cannot accept responsibilities, then we should not accept a responsible position. There are times when we may disagree, but we may not be disagreeable. I invite any constructive criticism from anyone, but not destructive criticism as that comes automatically. This city is bigger than the mayor, council or employees, and we must pull together to get a good job done,” he said.
Another interesting tidbit … Brazoria’s mayor resigned the day after West Columbia’s Mayor Scott resigned. Earl Cameron, of Brazoria, submitted his letter of resignation on Sept. 9, 1958. Cameron was also serving his first term as mayor. His term was to expire in April.
The Freeport Facts reported that, “Cameron, who owns a lumber company in Brazoria and a motel between Freeport and Angleton, gave personal business matters as the reason for dropping out of the mayor’s post.
“The ex-mayor is expected to expand his business and would not have enough time to give to the job of mayor in Brazoria, his letter said.
“This resignation of Cameron’s did not come as any surprise to the Brazoria City Council for they had apparently expected it for some time.” | https://thefacts.com/wbweekly/article_595277e9-0033-5a72-9dc8-a09c9c5226e9.html | 2022-07-13T13:35:15Z | https://thefacts.com/wbweekly/article_595277e9-0033-5a72-9dc8-a09c9c5226e9.html | false | 1 |
Scotland has become the first part of the UK to have a female as Veterans Commissioner.
Susanna Hamilton, who has served in the Royal Navy, has just been appointed to the role – with Veterans Secretary Keith Brown saying she is “already a great champion” for former servicemen and women.
Ms Hamilton also has “extensive experience” of working with the voluntary sector, helping former military personnel who have become homeless.
Mr Brown said: “Scotland has had a Veterans Commissioner since 2014, with a primary role to improve outcomes for veterans in Scotland, by engaging and listening to the experience of former members of the armed forces.
“The first-hand experience Ms Hamilton will bring to the role is going to ensure our veterans continue to get the best support and representation possible.”
Ms Hamilton said she was “delighted” to be taking on the job and would be working to “continue improving support, opportunities and outcomes for Scotland’s veterans’ community”.
She added: “Through serving in the Royal Navy and working with veterans in the third sector, I know how much veterans and their families have to offer and I will be focused on highlighting the remarkable contribution they make to society.”
Her appointment came as the Scottish Government revealed £500,000 of cash from the Scottish Veterans Fund is going to help a total of 25 separate projects.
The money available to help organisations working with veterans has more than doubled from the £200,000 made available last year.
While Elgin City Football Club will receive less than £4,000 for football matches for veterans, other organisations will receive larger grants, with organisations including Sacro, the Defence Medical Welfare Service, Walking With the Wounded, The Venture Trust and RFEA The Forces Employment Charity each being awarded £50,000 for their work with former services personnel.
Mr Brown said: “Scotland has a long and proud military tradition. There are some fantastic organisations supporting our veterans in Scotland and this funding will help them continue their good work.
“With the extra money we are able to support a wider range of projects including some brilliant local initiatives.
“We are committed to investing in our veterans and helping them overcome disadvantage experienced as a result of service, as well as aiding projects that help veterans and their families successfully transition to civilian life.”
Of the £500,000 being made available in 2022-23, just over £136,000 was set aside to continue funding for projects which had previously been awarded multi-year grants. | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/politics/4535053/new-veterans-commissioner-for-scotland-will-be-great-champion/ | 2022-07-13T13:35:28Z | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/politics/4535053/new-veterans-commissioner-for-scotland-will-be-great-champion/ | true | 3 |
Honestly, it's always so much fun to shoot Little League Baseball and Softball Tournaments. There's so much action, emotion, and intensity on the field. Northeast took a 14-4 loss to Essex Town on Tuesday, July 12, but it's pretty clear both teams were in it to win it from the heart and hustle seen in David Laroche's gallery!
Who doesn't love the heart and hustle of 9/10 Little League players? Check out this gallery from the Northeast vs. Essex Town game!
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Cape Town - The Paris Criminal Court has sentenced former Prefect of Gikongoro Prefecture Laurent Bucyibaruta to 20 years in jail for his role in the Rwanda genocide.
Bucyibaruta, who has been in this court for the last two months, was found guilty of complicity in the massacre of Tutsi at Kibeho secondary school, Marie Merci, where killings targeted Tutsi students between April 14 and 16.
The former Rwandan prefect is accused of aiding and abetting the genocide that left hundreds of thousands of people dead in the country back in 1994.
According to online news outlet The East African, at the heart of the case against the 78-year-old were several "security" meetings, either ordered or attended by Bucyibaruta, which prosecutors had argued were actually planning sessions for the killings.
Laurent Bucyibaruta, 78, was on Tuesday sentenced by a French court to 20 years in prison for his role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.https://t.co/Yg72NAL65U
— The New Times (Rwanda) (@NewTimesRwanda) July 13, 2022
This follows the closing of the case last week, where the prosecution sought a life sentence for the man who is responsible for the death of thousands in the former Gikongoro Prefecture in southern Rwanda, where he was the prefect, says Rwanda’s The New Times.
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Local media in Rwanda says that Bucyibaruta, who has been dubbed by survivors “the Butcher of Gikongoro” is specifically accused of masterminding the massacres of Tutsis in Murambi, Cyanika, Kaduha and Kibeho.
Particularly, in Murambi over 50 000 Tutsis were exterminated on Bucyibaruta’s command, making it one of the most horrific killing grounds during the 100-day massacre, according to The New Times.
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SEATTLE, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JND Legal Administration -- A Settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit called Andrews et al. v. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. et al., No. 2:15-cv-04113 (PSG:JEM) (C.D. Cal.).
The lawsuit claims that Plains All American Pipeline L.P. and Plains Pipeline L.P. ("Plains" or "Defendants") caused an underground pipeline to rupture, resulting in an oil spill along the coast in Santa Barbara County on May 19, 2015. The Settlement is on behalf of members of the Fisher Class and Property Class previously certified by this Court. Plaintiffs for the Fisher Class allege the spill caused long term harm to commercial fishing in the affected class blocks, including significant financial losses. Plaintiffs for the Property Class allege that owners and lessees were unable to use and enjoy their properties as a result of the spill because oil washed up onto their properties and onto beaches adjacent to their properties. Plains denies any claims of wrongdoing and disputes all claims. The Settlement, if approved by the Court, will resolve all remaining claims in the class action litigation pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The Fisher Class Settlement is $184 million, and the Property Class Settlement is $46 million, inclusive of attorneys' fees and costs.
The Court has not decided whether Plaintiffs or Defendants should win this Litigation. The Settling Parties do not agree on whether Plaintiffs would have prevailed on any of their claims against Plains, or the amount of damages, if any, that would be recoverable if the Class prevailed on the claims alleged. Instead, both sides agreed to the Settlement after years of contested litigation, including at the motion to dismiss, class certification, and summary judgment stages. The Parties had also completed substantial discovery and were preparing for trial to commence on June 2, 2022.
You are a Fisher Class Member if you are a person or business who owned or worked on a vessel that was in operation as of May 19, 2015 and that: (1) landed any commercial seafood in California Department of Fish & Wildlife ("CDFW") fishing blocks 654, 655, or 656; or (2) landed any commercial seafood, except groundfish or highly migratory species (as defined by the CDFW and the Pacific Fishery Management Council), in CDFW fishing blocks 651-656, 664-670, 678-686, 701-707, 718-726, 739-746, 760-765, or 806-809; from May 19, 2010 to May 19, 2015, inclusive; or if you are a person or business in operation as of May 19, 2015 who purchased such commercial seafood directly from the Commercial Fishers and re-sold it at the retail or wholesale level. You can find out if you are a Fisher Class Member by going to www.PlainsOilSpillSettlement.com.
You are a Property Class Member if you owned or leased residential beachfront property or property with a private easement to a beach where oil from the 2015 Santa Barbara oil spill washed up and the oiling was categorized as heavy, moderate, or light. You can find out if your property is included by going to www.PlainsOilSpillSettlement.com, where a list of properties Plaintiffs claim were impacted is posted.
The Settlement, if approved, will result in the creation of two cash settlement funds of $184,000,000 (the "Fisher Class Settlement Amount") and $46,000,000 ("the Property Class Settlement Amount"), together with any interest earned thereon, the "Fisher Class Common Fund" and "Property Class Common Fund," respectively. Each of the common funds less (a) any Taxes and Tax Expenses; (b) any Notice and Administration Expenses; and (c) any attorneys' fees and costs and any service awards to Class Representatives in connection with their representation of the Class, awarded by the Court (the "Net Settlement Funds"), will be distributed to eligible Class Members pursuant to a proposed plan of distribution ("Plan of Distribution"). If you are entitled to relief under the Settlement, the Settlement Administrator will determine your portion of the Net Settlement Fund payable to you pursuant to the Court-approved Plan of Distribution.
The Court has appointed Lieff Cabraser Heimann Bernstein LLP, Keller Rohrback L.L.P., Cappello & Noel LLP, and Audet & Partners, LLP ("Class Counsel") to be the attorneys representing the Class. You will not be charged for these lawyers. Class Counsel will apply to the Court for an award of attorneys' fees in an amount not to exceed 33% of the total Settlement Amount (no more than $60,720,000 from the Fisher Class Settlement Amount and $15,180,000 from the Property Class Settlement Amount). In addition, Class Counsel will apply to the Court for reimbursement of their litigation expenses (in an amount not to exceed $5.2 million from the Fisher Class Settlement Amount and $1.3 million from the Property Class Settlement Amount). If you want to be represented by your own lawyer, you may hire one at your own expense.
If you are a Class Member and you wish to get money from the Settlement, you are required to submit a Claim Form available at www.PlainsOilSpillSettlement.com, or by calling the toll-free number 1‐844-202-9486 to request that a hard copy Claim Form be mailed to you. Your Claim Form and, if necessary, any required supporting documentation as set forth therein must be postmarked (if mailed) or submitted online to the address below on or before October 31, 2022.
Plains Oil Spill Settlement
c/o JND Legal Administration
P.O. Box 91450
Seattle, WA 98111
Email: info@PlainsOilSpillSettlement.com
www.PlainsOilSpillSettlement.com
Telephone: 1‐844-202-9486
If you are a Class Member you may object or tell the Court what you do not like about the Settlement. You will still be bound by the Settlement, and you may still file a claim. Objections must be served/filed no later than August 19, 2022. Go to www.PlainsOilSpillSettlement.com for details on how to object to the Settlement. If you are a Class Member and you did not previously opt out of the Class or enter a separate settlement with Plains for which you signed a full release, you are a member of the Class and you will be bound by the release of claims as part of the Settlement. The Fisher Class was first certified on February 28, 2017, and later amended on November 22, 2019. The Property Class was certified on April 17, 2018. You previously had an opportunity exclude yourself from the Fisher Class and the Property Class. If you did not exclude yourself then, you may not exclude yourself now.
The Court will hold a Final Approval Hearing on September 16, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. Pacific, before the Honorable Phillip S. Gutierrez at the United States District Court for the Central District of California, First Street Courthouse, 350 West 1st Street, Courtroom 6A, 6th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90012-4565. At the hearing the Court will determine whether: (1) the Settlement of $184,000,000 for the Fisher Class and $46,000,000 for the Property Class should be approved by the Court as fair, reasonable and adequate; (2) the Judgment as provided under the Settlement Agreement should be entered; (3) to award Class Counsel attorneys' fees and expenses out of the Fisher and Property Class Common Funds and, if so, in what amount; (4) to award Plaintiffs' service awards (Class Counsel is requesting $15,000 for each of the 14 Class Representatives) in connection with their representation of the Classes out of the Fisher and Property Class Common Funds and, if so, in what amount; and (5) the Plans of Distribution should be approved by the Court.
For more details and to print the Settlement Agreement, go to www.PlainsOilSpillSettlement.com. You may also write with questions or notify the Settlement Administrator regarding address changes to Plains Oil Spill Settlement c/o JND Legal Administration, P.O. Box 91450, Seattle, WA 98111, email at info@PlainsOilSpillSettlement.com or call the Settlement Administrator at 1‐844-202-9486.
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EU tells Hungary, Poland to step up their democracy game
"Russia's war in Ukraine is another reminder of the importance of our work to uphold and promote rule of law in the EU and beyond," European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova said in presenting the report. "We can only remain credible if our own house is in order." The Brussels-based Commission is withhlding Budapest's access to 15.5 billion euros of stimulus funds meant to help lift economies from the COVID dip, and to another 36 billion euros envisaged to Poland, the largest country in the EU's east. The Commission has already approved payouts for 25 member countries.
The European Union told Hungary and Poland on Wednesday to improve judicial and media independence, as well as anti-graft safeguards, saying conditions to unlock billions in aid for the two remain unaddressed and serious concerns persist. The assessment came in the EU executive's new rule of the law report, which includes tips for democratic improvements in all of the bloc's 27 member states, from better financial disclosure by officials to digitalization of public administration.
But eyes are on the two former communist countries where eurospectic governments have been fighting increasingly bitter battles with the EU over migration, human rights, environmental affairs, and democratic values. "Russia's war in Ukraine is another reminder of the importance of our work to uphold and promote rule of law in the EU and beyond," European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova said in presenting the report.
"We can only remain credible if our own house is in order." The Brussels-based Commission is withholding Budapest's access to 15.5 billion euros of stimulus funds meant to help lift economies from the COVID dip, and to another 36 billion euros envisaged to Poland, the largest country in the EU's east.
The Commission has already approved payouts for 25 member countries. Poland is in that group but it has not received any money yet as the Commission vows to refrain from making the actual bank transfer before the Polish judiciary is fixed. To date, the Commission has paid out over 100 billion euros to countries including Spain and Croatia. The Netherlands only submitted its spending plan for approval last week after protracted political infighting at home.
The Commission has yet to approve Hungary's plan. But on Wednesday, the Commission's report said concerns about judicial independence in Hungary "remain unaddressed".
It recommended that Budapest strengthens the role of its National Judicial Council, as well enhancing the independence of media regulatory authority and adopt "comprehensive reforms on lobbying". To Warsaw, it said that "serious concerns persist related to the independence of the Polish judiciary".
It prescribed separation of the roles of justice minister and prosecutor general, improving civil society's access to policy-making and ensuring fair process in deciding on operating licenses for media. That comes at a sensitive time for Viktor Orban, long-time prime minister of Hungary, where the forint currency hit record lows against the euro amid double-digit inflation and surging energy costs.
Eurointelligence consultancy said extensive spending that had helped Orban's latest election victory in April has virtually exhausted a budget deficit envisaged for the whole of 2022 in the first half of the year. "This leaves Orbán with a tricky economic problem to solve, one that would be easier to deal with if he had access to EU funding," it said in a note on Wednesday.
Budapest has said repeatedly over the weeks that it was ready to seal a deal with the Commission but the executive has reported insufficient progress from Hungary, which has for years resisted pressure to step up safeguards against corruption. In the meantime, Orban has complicated the EU's efforts to impose sanctions on Russia for waging a war on Ukraine, or agree on a minimum global corporate tax.
"Hungary and the European Commission... are approaching the mutually damaging stalemate stage of their stand-off over rule-of-law," Eurointelligence said.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman with ties to Oregon and Southwest Washington was arrested last week and accused of participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Lilith Saer was arrested July 7 in Portland, KOIN-TV reported. She’s charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building with the intent to impede or disrupt an official proceeding and disorderly or disruptive conduction in the Capitol buildings or grounds.
Saer appeared in court Tuesday and did not enter a plea. It wasn’t immediately known if she has a lawyer to comment on her behalf.
Court documents say investigators believe Saer was a believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory. Documents say Saer, who had bright blue hair, was seen in several videos at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Investigators confirmed the person in the images resembles Saer’s driver’s license photo, documents said.
The FBI found an open-source video confirming that Saer traveled to Washington D.C. before the insurrection and alluded that Saer was there to “Stop the Steal,” a common reference used by people who believe false claims that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
More than 830 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. More than 320 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor charges, and over 200 have been sentenced. | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Woman-arrested-accused-of-participating-in-Jan-17301925.php | 2022-07-13T13:43:39Z | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Woman-arrested-accused-of-participating-in-Jan-17301925.php | false | 12 |
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Drake might not have been the first rapper to not be afraid to show his “softer” side on a track. Songs like LL Cool J’s “I Need Love,” and albums like Kanye’s 808s & Heartbreak set Drake up to help him become the artist he is today.
In a recent interview with DJ Akademiks, T-Pain took a little bit of credit for Drake’s career, saying that he was “Drake before Drake” because of his “simp” anthems.
T-Pain first spoke on how he was looked at as “corny” for wanting to sing about love in an era where the “gangsta” persona was more popular.
“I’ve been a real corny n*gga and I love that sh*t because that means I’m not doing the same sh*t as everybody else,” he said. “I’m not camping out in front of these f*cking stores for the same shoes as you n*ggas. I’m not doing this dumb sh*t that’s gonna make me cool to all you n*ggas that’s tryna be the same as each other. I don’t want to do that shit. I’ve been corny from the beginning of my life.”
He went on to say how his hit song “I’m Spring” is about him falling for a woman, before saying that he’s “always been that corny n*gga” and calling himself “Drake before Drake.”
“‘I’m Sprung’ is about falling for a b*tch, being that corny n*gga falling for a b*tch,” he said. “I’ve always been that corny n*gga. I’ve always been the simp n*gga. I was Drake before Drake, n*gga! I was in love before n*ggas was really cool with being in love with b*tches.”
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Bala Angbazo, Aren Eggon of Nasarawa is dead
The Aren Eggon and paramount ruler of Eggon in Nasarawa State, Mr Bala Angbazo, is dead.
The Dangaladima Eggon, Mr James Angbazo, confirmed the death of the Eggon paramount ruler on Wednesday in Lafia.
Mr Bala Angbazo, died at the age of 89 after a long illness on Wednesday.
The late Aren Eggon, who died after 41 years on the throne, was installed on July 11, 1981.
Born in 1933, the paramount ruler was born in Wakama District, Nassarawa-Eggon Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. | https://dailypost.ng/2022/07/13/bala-angbazo-aren-eggon-of-nasarawa-is-dead/ | 2022-07-13T13:52:41Z | https://dailypost.ng/2022/07/13/bala-angbazo-aren-eggon-of-nasarawa-is-dead/ | true | null |
MIAMI, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CEO Coaching International, the leading executive coaching firm for growth-focused CEOs and entrepreneurs globally, is pleased to announce Shep Moyle as its newest Partner and Coach.
Moyle has been a leading entrepreneur, CEO, chairman, family business owner, and community leader for over three decades. He has deep experience in retail e-commerce, branding, digital marketing, acquisitions, on-demand manufacturing, and personalization across a variety of platforms, as well as supply chain and sourcing expertise. He is also deeply experienced in family business dynamics and transitions, crisis management, accessing capital, and navigating/anticipating business challenges and difficulties.
As CEO and Chairman of Shindigz (his 96-year-old family business) for over 30 years, Moyle averaged 20% growth every year for 20+ years and built it into the third largest specialty branded retailer of party supplies, decoration, and personalized items globally. During his leadership and family ownership, the company sold over $2 billion worth of products in over 55 countries, more than half of which were manufactured by the company.
"I am excited to welcome Shep Moyle to our team of world-class coaches," said Mark Moses, CEO and Founding Partner of CEO Coaching International. "He has had an incredibly successful career spanning several decades at one of the country's largest party supply retailers, expanding the company to offer over 14,000 SKUs across seven different brands and multiple channels and generating massive sales from new and innovative products. I look forward to seeing him use his expertise to help others also achieve success and Make BIG Happen."
"I am thrilled to be a part of the most accomplished coaching team on the planet," Moyle said. "As I enter my next professional chapter, I want to give back and help other entrepreneurs reach their dreams for their business and their family just as I did. Scaling and growing a business is one of the most rewarding and exciting opportunities for any leader. It isn't easy and it certainly comes with challenges and crises. But with the resources, processes, tools, and discipline of CEO Coaching International, I am excited to work with leaders who want to accept the challenge and climb the mountain together. Building your world-class team, establishing a world-class vision, and exceeding your potential is the core of our journey ahead."
Moyle has been a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) since the age of 28 and served as International Chairman of the YPO Board in 2005-06, focusing on networks, globalization, diversity, and a successful merger with the World Presidents' Organization. In this position, he visited over 100 countries globally representing YPO. He served 10 years on the International Board, chaired Finance, Audit, and the Regional Chairs committee as well as chaired the Global Leadership Conference, led YPO education training, and created the award-winning Raising Responsible Children seminar. He has been recognized with the YPO Legacy award and multiple best of the best awards.
Moyle is a graduate of Duke University, where he has served on the Board of Trustees, as President of the Duke Alumni Association, and on the Duke Athletics and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Boards. He has been recognized with the Charles Dukes Award for lifetime contributions to the University. Moyle is also an Honors MBA graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he has remained active as a member of the HBS Alumni Board, as a Rock Summer Fellow, and as an advisor to many startups.
Moyle is an active triathlete, a passionate Duke basketball fan, and a very proud father of three grown children.
To schedule a complimentary introduction call with Shep Moyle or another one of the CEO Coaching International coaches, visit: CEOCoachingInternational.com/Coach/Shep-Moyle/
CEO Coaching International works with CEOs and their leadership teams to achieve extraordinary results quarter after quarter, year after year. Known globally for its success in coaching growth-focused entrepreneurs to meaningful exits, CEO Coaching International has coached more than 1,000 CEOs and entrepreneurs in more than 60 countries and 45 industries. The coaches at CEO Coaching International are former CEOs, presidents, or executives who have made BIG happen. The firm's coaches have led double-digit sales and profit growth in businesses ranging in size from startups to over $10 billion, and many are founders that have led their companies through successful eight, nine, and ten-figure exits. Companies working with CEO Coaching International for three years or more have experienced an average EBITDA CAGR of 30.4% during their time as a client, more than three times the U.S. average and a revenue CAGR of 18.6%, nearly twice the U.S. average. For more information, please visit: https://www.ceocoachinginternational.com.
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Malky Mackay was glad to eventually get his man after Callum Johnson joined Ross County on a two-year deal.
The cinch Premiership club said in a statement they had tracked the 25-year-old right-back “for a significant period of time”.
Johnson, latterly at Portsmouth, came through the youth academy at Middlesbrough and signed for Accrington Stanley in 2018 after an initial loan spell.
He made the switch to Fratton Park in 2020 and had a loan spell at Fleetwood last season.
Boss Mackay told County’s website: “I’m delighted to bring Callum to Ross County.
“He is a player that our recruitment department have spent time tracking and at 25 years old we feel he is coming in to the prime of his career.
“He has really good experience in the English game, and we look forward to working with him here in Dingwall and welcoming him to our club.”
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Seri Pak’s South Korean Surrogate Children Own the LPGA
Each summer Sports Illustrated revisits, remembers and rethinks some of the biggest names and most important stories of our sporting past. Come back all week for more Where Are They Now? stories.
In late April, for the first time in its 72-year history, the LPGA held consecutive tournaments in Los Angeles, home of the United States’ largest Korean population. This twin bill opened with the DIO Implant LA Open at Wilshire Country Club, where a South Korean dental company served as title sponsor and a food truck near the clubhouse served up Korean fried chicken. After the pro-am—during which her playing group included visitors from as far away as Seoul—seven-time major champion Inbee Park recounted to reporters her surprise at having been recognized by a Korean exterminator who was treating the place she was renting during the event, less than three miles away in Koreatown.
One week later, shouts of the Korean rally cry Hwaiting! (essentially: let’s go!) filled the breezy coastal air as Jin Young Ko made the turn in her third round at the Palos Verdes Championship, tailed by a gallery ranging in age from visor-wearing halmeonis (grandmas) to a pair of young girls who filled dead time by practicing their own swings with invisible clubs. Later, coming off the 18th green, the world No. 1 debriefed with a South Korean television station while a camera-chasing boy frantically flapped the country’s red, blue, black and white flag in the background.
“Palos Verdes was more in the countryside compared to Wilshire, so I was surprised that there were so many Koreans,” Ko says. “I heard a lot of Korean while I was playing. It felt as if I was back in Korea.”
No matter the location these days, such scenes are increasingly par for the sport’s course. Consider: Since 2012, Ko and 12 of her compatriots have combined to claim more than two-fifths of all LPGA majors (21 out of 51); in that same span South Korea has also produced six out of nine tour rookies of the year, most recently ’19 winner Jeongeun Lee6, who uses the digit in her official title as a way to distinguish herself from the five other Jeongeun Lees who preceded her in the professional ranks. All told, as of the end of June, five of the top 13 and 30 of the planet’s top 100 female golfers represented South Korea, more than any other nation. And: That is without counting expatriates like No. 5 Lydia Ko, raised in New Zealand after moving from Seoul when she was young, or foreign-born daughters of Korean immigrants such as No. 2 Minjee Lee, the Australian winner of May’s U.S. Women’s Open.
Now consider that, just a quarter century ago, there were zero card-carrying Korean players on the LPGA tour.
How did we get here? How did a barren landscape blossom so fast? How, long before the age of bulgogi and BTS, skincare sheet masks and Squid Game, did another seismic cultural wave from a nation the size of Indiana crash onto U.S. shores and flood golf’s highest level? Systemic factors no doubt chipped in, namely how corporate sponsorship teamed up with South Korea’s robust domestic tour to make golf an attractive option for young girls. But many cart paths lead back to a lone trailblazer who burst into the LPGA with back-to-back majors as a 20-year-old rookie in 1998, lifting up a society reeling from economic ruin and giving way to a generation of golfing successors—all of whom first took up the sport as a result of her success, many of whom still directly benefit from her tutelage—dubbed by South Korean media as the Seri Kids.
“A lot of people [are] curious why Korean players are so good,” says one such spawn, two-time major winner Soyeon Ryu. “One of the biggest things is we always had a really good role model. Seri opened up the door.”
Adds Jin Young Ko, another Kid: “Back then, in Korea, golf wasn’t that popular. She gave dreams for many Koreans to go to America, to play and also win. Thanks to Seri, Korean women’s golf could grow.”
Says a third, In Gee Chun, winner of last month’s Women’s PGA Championship: “It’s the Seri Kids story: They watch her on TV, they see how she played, they get inspired to be a great golfer like Seri Pak.”
Golf came to the land now known as South Korea around the turn of the 20th century, introduced by foreign missionaries and maritime workers amid an era of Japanese occupation. “However, golf courses completely disappeared from the Korean Peninsula over the course of the Pacific War and the Korean War after the liberation of Korea from Japan,” recounts an April 2020 article in the Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture. “Korean golfers who survived the Japanese colonial era began to rebuild the golf courses, thereby creating the cornerstone of what has today become a global golf powerhouse.”
Equality on the links, however, took longer to attain. “In the 1970s, a woman’s place on South Korea’s golf courses was as a caddie,” Karen Crouse wrote in The New York Times. But that paradigm shifted when the Korea Professional Golf Association debuted its women’s division in ’78 with a single tournament and just eight card-carrying members, among them a former caddy, Ok-Hee Ku, who later became the first Korean player to win an LPGA or PGA event when she prevailed at the former’s ’88 Standard Register Turquoise Classic in Phoenix by a single stroke. (It would be another decade-plus before the first Korean man—K.J. Choi in 2002—would follow suit on the PGA Tour.)
Three years after Ku set the bar, some 100 miles south of Seoul in the smaller city of Daejeon, a middle-schooler named Seri Pak began seriously playing under the guidance of her father, the owner of a construction company and a scratch golfer. The second of Jun Chul Pak’s three daughters endured a strict training regimen, running stairs in the family’s 15-story apartment building and practicing chip shot every day at dusk … in the dead of winter … on the outskirts of a local cemetery. (The latter supposedly doubled as a mental toughness exercise—teenage Seri was terrified of graveyards.)
After turning pro at 18, success came quickly: Pak won six events in her first two KLPGA seasons and signed a $10 million, 10-year sponsorship with Samsung that bankrolled her eventual move to Orlando and hiring of famous swing coach David Leadbetter. “Playing the LPGA was one of my first big dreams,” Pak says now. “I was trying to be [the] world’s best golfer.” But not even she could have forecasted how fast she would get there, winning the LPGA Championship at Delaware’s DuPont Country Club by three strokes as a rookie in May 1998. Then, 50 days later, as television sets across Korea glowed long past midnight local time, Pak prevailed at the U.S. Women’s Open at Wisconsin’s Blackwolf Run, too; in what became an instantly iconic image in her homeland, she peeled off her shoes and socks before wading into a water hazard and striking a perfect second shot from the rough on the 18th hole of a 20-hole playoff against amateur Jenny Chuasiriporn.
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As she reflects on her early days in the U.S., though, Pak remembers not just deep fulfillment but vast isolation. “First couple months, everything is lonely,” she says. “I was not close to any players. I never used the locker room, because they spoke English and I didn’t know [how]. Only parking lot, to the course, back to the car, back to the hotel, back to the course in the morning. Just lonely, lonely, lonely.” A single thought kept her going: “The one thing on my mind [was] my dream to be great,” Pak says.
In a testament to how thoroughly she ticked off this box, Pak was hardly alone for long: By 2007 the number of Korean players who had joined her in jumping from the KLPGA to the LPGA had swelled to more than 40, with three (Grace Park, Birdie Kim and Jeong Jang) even winning majors. “Very proud of myself,” Pak recalls. “Very happy to see that happening.” The following summer marked another seminal moment when the first Seri Kids announced their arrival—and in fitting fashion, too, as 19-year-old Inbee Park surpassed Pak as the youngest U.S. Open champion ever.
“We were going through a tough time in the country,” Park says, referring to the ’97–98 Asian financial crisis that put more than 1.5 million out of work in South Korea alone; led to International Monetary Fund bailouts for the country and others; and left little room for expensive leisurely activities like golf. “She gave a lot of people hope that you can do it. After Seri won, everyone wanted to take their daughter out to golf.”
But the weight of expectations pushed Pak into what she describes as a two-and-a-half-year “slump,” punctuated by her first missed cut at a major, at the 2005 LPGA Championship. “All of a sudden it just happened. I realize this is burnout.” Early retirement beckoned. “I thought almost, ‘This is it, this is done, I give up,’” Pak says. But in the end she resisted, rebounding to not only survive the cut at the next LPGA championship, in June ’06, but to gut out her fifth and ultimately final major with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff against Karrie Webb. The next year she entered the World Golf Hall of Fame at 29, eclipsing Webb as the youngest woman to ever be enshrined. “The biggest thing I learned was to make the right balance,” Pak says. “It doesn’t matter if you winning or not. Just that you’re healthy and enjoying playing.”
It is a message that Pak would seek to pass along as she entered the back nine of her career endowed with a new purpose—a new dream—thanks to her golfing offspring. “[First hearing about the] Seri Kids, it was a lot of pressure,” she says. “I don’t know how to lead the young players that come from Korea [because] I’m still learning myself. But after a couple years I realized: I know what to do, I know how to do it, and if I can stand up a little stronger for them, I should try to help.”
After the 1998 U.S. Open, Pak returned home to a packed schedule of interviews, meet-and-greet events and welcome-home celebrations, including a parade arranged by the South Korean president. Equal fervor awaited her next KLPGA appearance, in Seoul, where among thousands in attendance was a 10-year-old named Na Yeon Choi, whose family made the 10-minute drive from home to witness the spectacle.
“I was holding my dad’s hand, trying to walk all 18,” Choi says. “It was amazing. So many people cheering for Seri. If I think about that moment, it still gives me some goose bumps.”
Having played golf herself for about a year by that point, Choi, now 34, saw the effect up close at her local club. “When I started, nobody played golf in Korea,” she says. “Very expensive, people think that’s not even sports, because it's just walking with a stick. After Seri won, so many people started golf. It was only four or five players at my age, then six months later it was over 100.”
As the Kids grew up and started sharing tee boxes with their namesake, getting over their idolatry often proved tough. “Korean culture, you got to respect the elder, so it was really hard for me to approach her, because she’s a legend,” says Haeji Kang, 31, the world’s No. 162–ranked player. “I think I could barely talk.” Adds Chun, 27, recalling a dinner of Korean barbecue that Pak cooked for her and other Korean players in Orlando when Chun was an LPGA rookie in 2015, “I was happy to go to her house. It was really pretty. But I was really nervous to spend time with Seri.”
Pak remembers this distance. “They try to say hi to me, first time, it’s like they don’t know how,” she says. “They’re so cute, though.” But she slowly chipped away, in part by filling others’ bellies and in part by opening up her soul. “When I first started on tour, I told Seri that she was definitely a lot of inspiration,” Ryu says. “She was like, ‘Omigosh, I feel so sorry, this is such a tough job, I’m sorry for dragging you into a tough job.’”
More than any advice about stances or swing paths, Pak preaches the power of getting away from the game to her Kids—a far cry from her father’s famously intense methods. “What Seri had said was, while playing golf, it’s important to have [your] own hobby outside of golf, so you can become a true, happy golfer,” Jin Young Ko says. Adds Chun, recounting a common message that she receives from Pak on the popular Korean app KakaoTalk: “She says, ‘In Gee, you need a good balance: This is how you keep playing golf longer.”
For Pak, the point is to help the next generation avoid the pitfalls that marked her prime. “I know they do their best; they work hard,” she says. “I want them to know, ‘You’re do great, enjoy your life.’ Not go through this black, dark hell.”
Hampered by shoulder issues, Pak played her final Stateside event at the 2016 U.S. Women’s Open, six years after her last of 25 LPGA wins, wrapping one of her playing partners in a tight embrace at the end. “I didn’t know I was going to cry, but I did when she hugged me,” Ryu says. “That was really weird. For example, Superman’s still on TV. Iron Man’s still on TV. But Seri’s not going to be on TV anymore, at least as a golfer. It felt like I was going to lose a hero.”
But Pak got a shotgun start on life after golf when she served in a manager-coach role for the Korean national team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. There her original Kid protégé, Park, defied both a nagging thumb injury and sky-high expectations—in large part thanks to the prevailing assumption back home that a Pak-coached delegation could never fail—to win by five strokes, becoming the first women’s golf gold medalist in 100 years.
Asked what she remembers most from the Olympics, Pak points to quieter moments with her four-woman squad, such as the nightly dinners that she cooked at her rental house to bring a taste of home to Rio. (Sample menu items included kimchi jjigae, or kimchi stew; and budae jjigae, traditionally a spicy-brothed hodgepodge of Spam, hot dogs, baked beans and other canned foods culled from U.S. military bases in a period of widespread poverty following the Korean War.) Then there were the conversations over Earl Grey tea that followed—about golf, yes, but also balance.
“Just being together,” Pak says. “Just being with Seri Kids, sharing it. That is [the] moment I said, ‘I’m [the] luckiest person ever.’ That is some of the proudest I have ever been in my life.”
Kyoung-yim Kim met Seri Pak way back in the early 1990s, when Pak was still an amateur player. Kim was caddying for her sister at a KLPGA tournament in Pak’s hometown, and both were standing in the clubhouse locker room. Some two decades later, having all but abandoned her dream of becoming a pro golfer herself, Kim spun her lasting love for the game into a 352-page doctoral dissertation analyzing the cultural factors behind the era of the Seri Kids, and how U.S. and Korean media covered them. (Title: “Producing Korean Women Golfers on the LPGA Tour: Representing Gender, Race, Nation and Sport in a Transnational Context”)
Now an associate professor of sociology and women’s and gender studies at Boston College, Kim says that both sides missed the green in emphasizing individual exceptionalism to explain the success of South Korean players—that somehow they were biologically predetermined to be dope at golf—over increasingly corporatized support for the whole sport. Even then, though, it all funnels back to the same single name: “Before Seri, women’s golf and the corporations who are sponsoring women’s golf were gendered products, like kitchen or groceries or fashion,” Kim says. “But after Seri, the sponsorship for women’s golf changed to automobile, bank, and information technology, and many more. Expanding the horizon of sponsorship—introducing women’s golf as a stable and glamorous career—that was Seri’s major impact.”
There is no shortage of ways to measure Pak’s legacy through a commercialized lens. “If a business plan existed for the LPGA five years ago, I don’t think that Korea would necessarily have been in it,” then commissioner Ty Votaw declared in 2003, four years after the first dedicated golf channel launched in South Korea in the wake of Pak’s landmark U.S. Open win, and 11 years before the LPGA established its first Asia office, in Seoul. The ripple effect is even starker today at the domestic level, where the KLPGA regularly offers bigger prize purses, attracts bigger crowds and secures higher broadcast ratings than its male KPGA counterparts.
But to focus on the money and the masses is to miss how Pak has personally impacted her progeny, starting with this: None of them lack companionship on the road. “I’m sure it was a lot more difficult for Seri, because she didn’t have much Koreans around her,” Kang says. “Now we have a lot of Korean friends.” A few of them, including Chun and world No. 11 Sei Young Kim, own houses in the same Dallas neighborhood, gathering for practice rounds and dinners each offseason.
Even amid the bustle of competition, kinship blooms: Ryu recounts her enjoyment swapping “research” with fellow players about the most authentic Korean restaurants in each tournament city. “Not just about the food: Anytime we have a good Korean show, we’re able to talk about it,” Ryu says. “A lot of [non-Korean pros] are curious, ‘What are you guys talking about? We just try not to talk about golfing, because that’s the way we make balance between the golf life and our life.”
Despite Ryu’s fears that she would disappear from television, Pak remains as relevant a symbol in retirement as any fictional superhero, lending her legend’s perspective to the analyst’s booth at KLPGA broadcasts since 2017. She is also a frequent face on wholesome Korean reality-variety programming: Past credits include a hosting gig for Seri Money Club (in which Pak teaches golf to experts in other fields for charity); a recurring role on Sporty Sisters (in which Pak and fellow retired female athletes hang out and try new activities together); and four episodes of the Survivor-like competition Law of the Jungle (in which Pak and other celebrities were stranded on the Cook Islands for five days).
But Pak’s busy schedule hasn’t prevented her from keeping an eye on her Kids. She still extends meal invitations to KLPGA players after tournaments she works, sometimes even grilling up bulgogi and samgyeopsal (pork belly) for small groups at her Seoul condo. And while South Korea failed to repeat at last summer’s rescheduled 2020 Olympics—Jin Young Ko and Sei Young Kim finished highest, tied for ninth—Pak relished the chance to reprise her coaching role, delivering cooling spray to players on the course in the thick Tokyo heat, buying up fruit and other desserts from local convenience stores for their traditional postdinner gatherings.
“That’s how we got closer,” Ko, 26, says. “Because of the age gap I didn’t think it could be possible. But she has been very supportive.”
At the same time, Pak’s ultimate dream is to open a specialized academy for promising young golfers, one that houses practice ranges, training facilities, classrooms and dormitories all in a centralized location. “We don’t have enough sports centers in Korea,” Pak says, adding that she and a business partner have begun scouting sites outside Seoul and forming their fundraising plan. “I want Seri Kids to go through nice conditions, then [pass it on] to another kid and make their dreams come true.”
So a generation of Seri Grandkids, then?
“Yeah,” Pak says. “Hope so.”
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Aston Villa have announced the signing of goalkeeper Anna Leat to a two-year deal.
The New Zealand international joins the Villans from West Ham where she made her senior debut last season, one of four appearances for the Hammers across all competitions.
The 21-year-old scored the winning penalty at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup against Japan to send New Zealand to the semi-finals.
Leat, who will join England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton on Carla Ward’s side, also represented New Zealand at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
She said: “Aston Villa is an incredible club with a lot of history and it is an honour to join.”
“The women’s game, and this league is in such an exciting place and I can’t wait to be a part of this team’s journey.”
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NEW YORK (WPIX) – Three men are accused in a scheme to auction off stolen handwritten lyric manuscripts from the Eagles’ “Hotel California” album valued at more than $1 million, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced in an indictment Tuesday.
Glenn Horowitz, 66; Craig Inciardi, 58, and Edward Kosinski, 59, are accused of possessing around 100 pages of Don Henley’s handwritten notes and lyrics for Eagles songs, including “Hotel California,” “Life in the Fast Lane” and “New Kid in Town.”
“These defendants attempted to keep and sell these unique and valuable manuscripts, despite knowing they had no right to do so. They made up stories about the origin of the documents and their right to possess them so they could turn a profit,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
The manuscripts were originally stolen from Henley in the late 1970s by an author who was hired to write a biography about the Eagles, prosecutors said. The biographer eventually sold the manuscripts in 2005 to Horowitz, a rare books dealer in New York City, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Horowitz then allegedly sold them to Inciardi and Kosinski, authorities said.
Horowitz and Inciardi are accused of making up a fake story about how they came into possession of the manuscripts. Inciardi and Kosinski then tried to get Henley to buy them back between 2012 and 2017, authorities said. However, Henley told them the manuscripts were stolen and demanded they return them, but Inciardi and Kosinski allegedly refused, authorities said.
Inciardi and Kosinski also tried to sell the manuscripts at Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses, lying to auctioneers about how they got the manuscripts, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. When Henley found out that Inciardi and Kosinski were trying to sell portions of the manuscripts, he filed police reports, authorities said.
In 2016, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office executed a series of search warrants and retrieved Henley’s manuscripts from the Sotheby’s auction house and from Kosinski’s home in New Jersey. Horowitz is accused of trying shortly afterward to use the recent death of founding Eagles member Glenn Frey to avoid being prosecuted by claiming that Frey was how they came in possession of the manuscripts.
In an email, Horowitz said, “[Frey] alas, is dead and identifying him as the source would make this go away once and for all,” according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Inciardi, of Brooklyn, and Kosinski, of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, are both charged with conspiracy and criminal possession of stolen property. Horowitz is charged with conspiracy, attempted criminal possession of stolen property and two counts of hindering prosecution.
The attorneys representing Horowitz, Inciardi and Kosinski denied the allegations of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, calling the criminal charges “unjustified.”
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‘Guru ji taught lessons of patience, practice and perseverance’
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‘The one guru that has really shaped my life for the better is rejection’
Actor Aparshakti Khurana says, “My school teachers, cricket coach, parents, seniors from my theatre, have all been great mentors to me. I offering my ‘charan vandana’ to all of them today and always.” “Also, while there have been many gurus in my life, the one guru that has really shaped my life for the better is rejection. And I have faced a lot of it, especially in the initial years of my professional life. But when I look back at all of those rejections, I think of them as lessons that were crucial for me to learn. I’m grateful for them as well,” he adds.
‘Always think of yourself as an achiever’
Artist Gayatri Singh, who works as an assistant professor at SMHS College, Mohali, says, “I share the bond of guru-shishya with Sadhna Sanger. She is my mentor, guide, friend, and well-wisher who stood by me through thick and thin.” “She says one has to be strong-willed to achieve their life goals. And always advises to keep negativity at bay. She believes that you always need to think of yourself as an achiever,” Gayatri says, adding, she sees the true potential of her students and helps them achieve greatness.
‘Knowledge shared is knowledge grown’
Kesari actor Vivek Saini, who is also a writer-director, says actor Boman Irani is his favourite guru. “Boman sir runs a writing group, Spiral Bound, for budding screenwriters. He holds sessions over Zoom meetings,” says Vivek. “I learnt from him hat sharing or imparting the knowledge you attain with the rest of the world is crucial. His passion for teaching is unmatchable. Another thing I learnt from sir is to keep practicing as that alone is the key to success,” he adds.
‘Resilience is the key to reach your goals’
Kathak artiste and teacher at Pracheen Kala Kendra, Samira Koser, says she has three teachers – Guru Kanhaiya Lal, Gurumaa Shobha Koser, and Guru Brij Mohan Gangani. “I’ve learnt from them that there’s no parallel to what one learns under the traditional guru-shishya parampara. For instance, till date, when we take our guruji’s name, we touch our ears (seek apology), whereas these days kids call their teachers by name. They didn’t just teach me the intricacies of Kathak, but also taught me resilience and perseverance,” she says.
‘Be unapologetic and fearless’
Author Simran Singh says she considers her mother Nishu Singh and ‘Waheguru’ as her gurus. “My mom has always taught me to be unapologetic and fearless in life. She says we must constantly try to be the best version of ourselves, both professionally and personally, and never be afraid of changing paths in order to live and achieve our dreams,” says Simran. “I feel Waheguru is omnipresent and always taking care of me and guiding me on the right path,” she adds. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/guru-ji-taught-lessons-of-patience-practice-and-perseverance-101657717017967-amp.html | 2022-07-13T14:01:16Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/guru-ji-taught-lessons-of-patience-practice-and-perseverance-101657717017967-amp.html | true | 1 |
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