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NEW YORK (AP) — In a city of stars, the Angels’ Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw will be in the spotlight July 19 at Dodger Stadium. “I think it’s been a couple of years since I got to compete in an All-Star Game, and something about Dodger Stadium, too, is special,” Kershaw said after pitchers and reserves were announced Sunday. “I don’t take that for granted. Like I said before, I hope I didn’t take anybody’s spot that was more deserving than me, but now that it’s official and I get to do it, I am very excited about it.” A year after he became the first two-way All-Star, Ohtani was picked for the American League pitching staff as a Major League Baseball selection, two days after he was elected by fans to start at designated hitter. Kershaw, 6-2 with a 2.40 ERA, and pitcher Tony Gonsolin were chosen from the host Dodgers, joining starting outfielder Mookie Betts and shortstop Trea Turner. Kershaw was picked by MLB and is a favorite to open on the mound for the NL, which has lost eight straight All-Star Games and 20 of the last 23 played to a decision. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2662685632341/clayton-kershaw-strikes-out-10-in-win-saturday-night | 2022-07-13T16:18:18Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2662685632341/clayton-kershaw-strikes-out-10-in-win-saturday-night | false | 42 |
HOUSTON, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RockStep Capital is proud to announce its organizational rebranding and repositioning of its investment strategy to include larger metropolitan markets.
Over the last 25 years, RockStep has built or acquired over 9 million square feet of malls and shopping centers, and currently has more than 7.5 million square feet of assets in its portfolio. With more investment properties on its radar, the company decided that now is the time to realign its brand identity with the path of growth they're already pursuing.
RockStep plans to partner with institutional investors to facilitate a move into larger market areas by continuing innovation and leveraging past successes—while retaining key elements that separate them from competitors. Inspired by an authentic heritage and a retailer's perspective, RockStep has the expertise and know-how to create modern, engaging community-centric destinations for generations to come.
As an investment firm, RockStep is performance-driven, growth-oriented and values-focused. Their acquisition decisions will be built upon those pillars, influencing their relationships with investors and tenants alike. RockStep is deeply committed to The RockStep Way, an industry-leading set of 25 principles that guide the company's operations and culture, day in and day out.
To learn more about RockStep Capital, and to receive insights on retail revitalization strategies and company investments, please visit www.rockstep.com and follow the company on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/rockstep-capital/.
RockStep Capital is a privately held, full-service, vertically integrated real estate investment firm that owns and manages enclosed malls, open-air shopping centers and institutional third-party retail assets. We acquire and develop underperforming assets into relevant and vital properties. www.rockstep.com
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 13. Some 1,823 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 in Azerbaijan on July 13, Trend reports referring to the Operational Headquarters under the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers.
The first dose of the vaccine was injected into 459 citizens, the second dose to 178 citizens, while the third dose and the next doses were received by 991 citizens. Some 195 citizens were vaccinated with a booster dose after a positive test result for COVID-19.
Totally, up until now, 13,783,622 vaccine doses were administered, 5,359,933 citizens received the first dose of the vaccine, 4,855,530 people – the second dose, 3,317,503 people – the third dose and the next doses.
Some 250,656 citizens were vaccinated with a booster dose after a positive test result for COVID-19. | https://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/society/3620513.html | 2022-07-13T16:22:49Z | https://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/society/3620513.html | false | null |
DALLAS, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smoothie King, the world's largest smoothie chain and the first health and fitness QSR brand of its kind, is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Bremer as Chief Development Officer. As Chief Development Officer at Smoothie King, Bremer will be responsible for implementing strategies to meet Smoothie King's ongoing rapid expansion plans and overseeing the Franchise Development, Real Estate, Design, and Construction departments. The new addition to Smoothie King's executive team comes as it recently announced several agreements to expand its footprint in key growth markets such as the Upper Midwest and Central Atlantic regions as well as Colorado and Texas.
"We are thrilled to welcome Chris Bremer to our executive leadership team,'' said Wan Kim, CEO of Smoothie King. "Chris is an exemplary, purposeful leader, possessing a passion for leading teams in the food & beverage and hospitality industries and will undoubtedly make invaluable contributions to our rapidly-growing franchise system."
Bremer has a diverse history of driving profitable growth within multi-unit franchise organizations, spending nearly six years with TGI Friday's as the Development Director in Asia Pacific, leading rapid expansion across the region. From 2006 through 2017, Bremer was the Vice President of Global Franchise Development at Brinker International, implementing strategies to help the brand expand its presence from 90 locations to almost 400 in over 38 countries.
During his tenure, Bremer worked directly with franchisees to create strategy and action-planning to impact top-line revenue and bottom-line profit, upheld brand standards, and ensured operational excellence in multi-unit franchise organizations. Most recently, since 2017, Bremer served as Chief Development Officer at Nothing Bundt Cakes, leading the Development Team to double the size of the brand, which helped drive the sale of the brand to private equity.
Smoothie King has repeatedly been recognized as a top franchise brand, most recently ranking number 51 in Nation's Restaurant News' Top 500 Restaurants, moving up from number 82 in 2021. This list recognizes the largest restaurant chains in the country ranked by sales performance and total number of units. The brand was also named the "Top Brand to Buy" in the beverage category of Franchise Times' 2022 Zor Awards and named to its "Top 400 Franchises" list. Furthermore, Smoothie King received the Top Franchises Satisfaction Award for 2022 from Franchise Business Review based on the brand's high franchisee satisfaction. For more information about franchise opportunities with Smoothie King, please visit www.smoothiekingfranchise.com.
About Smoothie King Franchises, Inc.
Smoothie King Franchises, Inc., the original U.S. smoothie franchise, is a privately held, Dallas-based franchise company with over 1,300 locations worldwide, including in the United States, Korea, Grand Cayman, and Trinidad. Founded in 1973, Smoothie King has made it its mission to inspire people to live a healthy and active lifestyle. By blending each smoothie with a purpose, Smoothie King makes it simple and enjoyable for guests to achieve their individual health and fitness goals. Smoothie King has been recognized No. 13 overall on Entrepreneur's prestigious Franchise 500 list in 2022 and ranked one of the "Fastest Growing Franchises." For more information about franchising with Smoothie King, visit SmoothieKingFranchise.com or follow the brand on social media @SmoothieKing.
Contact:
Erin Jacobs
Fish Consulting
954-893-9150
ejacobs@fish-consulting.com
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In reading Ted Diadiun’s July 3rd commentary “Be respectful, but save the language”, I had to chuckle as I felt he was reading my mind. Why does everything have to become so complicated?
And what happened to my rights? I am a woman who is offended by being referred to as “a birthing person,” “an individual with a cervix,” or “people with reproductive parts associated with being assigned female at birth.”
Everyone is concerned with being treated fairly and equally. We are all human beings but these words could not be more impersonal, or really, more inhuman.
And regarding the chest versus breast differentiation, has everyone forgotten the definition of a chest? A chest is defined as the front surface of a person’s body between the neck and the abdomen. You can’t breastfeed with either the former or the latter. And as a survivor of breast cancer, I clearly had breast cancer and not chest cancer.
Let’s hope we all spend as much time looking for lost common sense as we do on pronouns.
Liz Weinhold,
Strongsville | https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2022/07/exercise-more-common-sense-and-stop-making-everything-so-complicated.html | 2022-07-13T16:25:39Z | https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2022/07/exercise-more-common-sense-and-stop-making-everything-so-complicated.html | true | 1 |
How to Choose a Lampshade
Lamps are among the longest-lasting household items. They are easy to repair or rewire, making them instant family heirlooms. You likely have one or two lamps you've inherited from generations gone by (or one or two you've picked up at an antique store). While lamps might last forever, their lampshades do not. Over time, shades might turn yellow, become damaged, or simply go out of style. No matter the reason, the real conundrum is understanding how to select a replacement.
How to Measure a Lampshade
When you choose a lampshade, you should be armed with measurements. Anna Louise Carter, decorator and blogger at Designed by Dixon, says, "A general rule of thumb is that the lampshade diameter should be about twice the width of the widest part of the lamp base." Carter says the shade should cover the bulb socket, and no more than one-inch of the lamp's neck should be visible. "The width of the shade is the priority. Once you have that selected, you may need to adjust the harp as needed."
Types of Lampshades
Another detail to keep in mind is the shape of your lamp. "The shape of the shade should mimic the shape of the lamp," says Carter. For example, a round base should have a round shade while a square base should have a square shade. "You can deviate and get creative, but do so with caution," she explains. The most popular shade shapes include, but are not limited to, bell, drum, empire drum, and tapered square, but the list could really continue from there.
Choosing the Right Material
Shades come in a variety of materials: linen, silk, and even metal are all commonly used. Fabric covered, pleated shades are having a moment in design. While these types of shades are aesthetically beautiful, the amount of light they allow through is determined by their coloring. A dark lampshade is not going to provide as much light as a white shade. "A dark lampshade also sets a more formal tone," says Carter.
Determining Placement
Lamps are used for more than just looks. While they are an important part of decorating, they are an even more important part of a room's function. Besides windows or overhead lighting, lamps are how light enters, exits, and circles a room. Lamp placement, then, is key. A task lamp shade directs light downward and is convenient for a reading chair while a table lamp with a drum shade will provide 360 degrees of light. "Lamps also give a room ambiance and provide a welcoming glow. If you're having company over, you should have every lamp in your room turned on," says Carter.
When in doubt, take your lamp into the store with you, and use these tips as your guide. "So much of getting the lampshade correct is trial and error. It's okay to try multiple before getting the right one," Carter says. | https://www.southernliving.com/home/decor/how-to-choose-a-lampshade | 2022-07-13T16:27:09Z | https://www.southernliving.com/home/decor/how-to-choose-a-lampshade | true | 1 |
Goodwill Industries International Names Joseph "Wes" Sawyer its 2022 Graduate of the Year
ROCKVILLE, Md., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph "Wes" Sawyer grew up in an area where gang activity, drug use and crime were high. Without positive role models or alternate roads to take, he started down the only path he knew. He tried making a move from California to Washington state to escape the violence, but his life of crime and destruction continued, leading to his first stint in prison. It wouldn't be the only time he landed in jail.
Sawyer's true wakeup call came when he faced a medical emergency — open heart surgery — for the second time in his life. That's when doctors told Sawyer that he had a choice to make: stay his current course and confront an early death or make changes for better health and a brighter future for himself and his family. Sawyer chose change. As a result of that decision, Goodwill Industries International is honoring him as its 2022 Kenneth Shaw Graduate of the Year. The award was announced during Goodwill's annual meeting in Toronto, Canada on July 12.
Once Sawyer decided to live, the real work began. And it would not be easy. There were felonies on his record and large gaps in his work history standing in his way of landing the jobs available in his community.
Through the Washington Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, Sawyer discovered that Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest offers work experience and training for people who have been involved with the criminal justice system. In addition to his criminal history, Sawyer lacked work experience and had also suffered a traumatic brain injury. He entered Goodwill's In-House Training and Assessment program with an interest in gaining skills and long-term employment. During the two-month program, he never missed a shift, met the standards for the work, and fostered relationships with other participants, the store staff and his assessment team. His hard work paid off as he was offered a full-time position with Goodwill. Sawyer was employed by Goodwill for three years and received several promotions, beginning in production and working his way up to facility lead, a role that serves as part of the store's leadership team.
"Wes exemplifies the strength and commitment needed to improve a life through learning and work. His resolve led him to providing a future for himself and his family and to becoming a contributing member in his community," said Steven C. Preston, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International. "Through Goodwill, he learned valuable skills and gained a solid work history that makes it possible for him to grow and lead in other professions as well. That is our hope for everyone who walks through our doors for workforce training."
Sawyer's determination and willingness to learn has set him on a fulfilling path and allows him to set a positive example for others.
Clark Brekke, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest, said, "Wes is honest and earnest. He is very introspective. He looks at himself to evaluate everything and to validate himself. That rubs off on the people around him. He does this in such a marvelous way that it is inspiring, and it motivates people around him to become the best versions of themselves. We have watched Wes become motivated to be the best version of himself."
It was this motivation — and the skills that Sawyer learned at Goodwill — that gave him the confidence to apply for a job through a local labor union. He took a leap in 2020 and became a construction labor apprentice, which led to another job with an even bigger company, WM Winkler. His current employer provides medical benefits and an increased income to help support his growing family, including a daughter who was born recently and his son. The stability of work has also made it possible for him to reunite with his eldest daughter, who was adopted when Sawyer was involved with gangs and in and out of prison. He and his wife recently bought their first home, and Sawyer continues to be an advocate for Goodwill and its programs.
"So many areas of my life are connected to Goodwill and its programs," Sawyer said. "I am Goodwill and always will be. I love that Goodwill gave me a hand up not a handout; that I learned how to work and become independent."
About the Award: The Goodwill Industries International Kenneth Shaw Graduate of the Year award recognizes an outstanding person with a disability or disadvantaging condition who completed a Goodwill career services program and is competitively employed by a non-Goodwill employer.
ABOUT GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL
Industries International is a network of 155 community-based, autonomous organizations in the United States and Canada with a presence in 12 other countries. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps people find employment, Goodwill is recognized with GuideStar's highest rating, the Platinum Seal of Approval.
Local Goodwill organizations offer employment opportunities, job placement and training services, and other community-based programs, which are funded by selling donated clothing and household items in nearly 3,300 stores and online at ShopGoodwill.com®.
For more information or to find a Goodwill location near you, visit goodwill.org. Follow us on Twitter: @GoodwillIntl and @GoodwillCapHill, and find us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: GoodwillIntl. Register for our Legislative Action Center via advocate.goodwill.org.
Media Contact:
Amber Shelton
amber.shelton@goodwill.org
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ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel,, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Partner Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner" or the "Company") (NASDAQ and TASE: PTNR), a leading Israeli communications operator, announced today that further to the Company's report dated December 14, 2021 regarding the signing of a collective employment agreement for a period of three years until December 31, 2024 (the "Collective Employment Agreement"), the Company, the employees' representatives and the Histadrut New General Labor Organization (the "Parties"), signed a special collective employment agreement, that is valid until December 31, 2024 (the "Special Collective Employment Agreement"), that regulates, among other things, a salary increase mechanism for the years 2023 and 2024 and a mechanism for employee participation in the Company's profits from year 2023 onwards.
The Special Collective Employment Agreement grants the employees, among other things, salary increases for each of the years 2023 and 2024 in the amount of 3.5% for employees with a seniority of at least 1.5 years, to be differentially allocated, special salary increases for the years 2023 and 2024 for employees with a seniority of at least 4 years with salaries that do not exceed the salary level set forth in the Special Collective Employment Agreement; a mechanism for employee participation in the Company's profits starting in 2023 in accordance with the Company meeting its targets and a one-time retention grant for employees with a seniority of at least 2 years, to be differentially allocated.
The Special Collective Employment Agreement will include the Company's statement that at least until December 31, 2024, it will maintain the Company's assets (the cellular network and the fiber network) under its ownership at least as the situation is on the day of signing the Special Collective Employment Agreement, and will not take streamlining or downsizing termination steps, except in specific cases, and subject to the agreement of the employee representatives.
The Special Collective Employment Agreement exhausts the Parties' claims until December 31, 2024, for the matters settled therein, including all matters pertaining to participation in profits, salary increases and acquisition of control of the Company and the Parties' undertaking to maintain industrial silence on matters regulated therein. As a result, the labor dispute that was announced on April 12, 2022 is cancelled.
The estimated cost of the matters included in the Special Collective Employment Agreement (not including the cost of employee participation in the Company's profits that is conditional upon future results) is approximately NIS 20.3 million for the year 2022 and approximately NIS 41.6 million for both of the years 2023 and 2024.
For further information please see the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 – "Item 3. Key Information - 3D.2j - The unionization of our employees has negatively affected and may continue to affect our financial results" and "Item 6 DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES - 6D. Employees".
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements, as this term is defined in Section 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the safe-harbor provisions of the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "will", "believe", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "strive", "seek", "plan", "could", "may", "foresee", "target", "objective", "goal", declensions thereof and similar expressions typically convey forward-looking statements, but these words are not the only words that convey these statements. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current knowledge and our present beliefs and expectations regarding possible future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including potential difficulties which may arise from the signing of the collective employment agreement and its financial impact on the Company.
About Partner Communications
Partner Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner") is a leading Israeli provider of telecommunications services (cellular, fixed-line telephony, internet and television services). Partner's ADSs are quoted on the NASDAQ Global Select Market™ and its shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (NASDAQ and TASE: PTNR).
For more information about Partner see:
Contacts:
Mr. Tamir Amar, Deputy CEO & Chief Financial Officer, Tel: +972-54-781-4951
Mr. Amir Adar, Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Projects, Tel: +972-54-781-5051, Email: investors@partner.co.il
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BOSTON — A family's beloved pet cat that's been dodging airport personnel, airline employees, and animal experts since escaping from a pet carrier at Boston's Logan International Airport about three weeks ago was finally caught Wednesday.
"Whether out of fatigue or hunger we'll never know, but this morning she finally let herself be caught," an airport spokesperson said of the cat named Rowdy in a statement.
Rowdy was given a health check and will be returned to her family.
"She looks great, is happy to be with people and I am sure will be happy to be reunited with us," her owner Patty Nolet Sahli posted on Facebook.
Rowdy's time on the lam began June 24, as the family returned to the U.S. from an Army deployment to Germany, Sahli previously posted. When their Lufthansa flight landed. the 4-year-old black cat with green eyes escaped her cage, in pursuit of some birds.
Soon Rowdy herself was on the receiving end of a chase, as her getaway set off a massive search involving airport and Lufthansa personnel, construction workers, and animal welfare advocates, as well as the use of wildlife cameras and safe-release traps.
Lufthansa even hired a tracker to trap Rowdy, Sahli said.
Despite numerous sightings, Rowdy always eluded her pursuers — but now, a little calm has been restored. | https://www.startribune.com/cat-on-the-lam-pet-caught-after-weeks-on-the-run-at-airport/600189862/ | 2022-07-13T16:33:47Z | https://www.startribune.com/cat-on-the-lam-pet-caught-after-weeks-on-the-run-at-airport/600189862/ | false | 37 |
Strategic Southeast Michigan Location Enables Face-to-Face Client Service
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BEET, a global leader in manufacturing visibility systems, today announced it has relocated its global headquarters to the Southfield Town Center, a 69-acre development located approximately twelve miles from central Detroit.
The strategically located office will allow BEET to better serve its growing North American customer base of vehicle manufacturers and Tier One and Tier Two automotive suppliers. The move reflects BEETS leadership in Industry 4.0, a new phase in the Industrial Revolution that focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data.
"BEET is enabling organizations to leverage their manufacturing data to make real-time improvements to their operations," said Lance Lehmann, Director of Partnership Management for BEET. "Our North American customers at both the OEM and supplier levels will benefit from real-time, face-to-face access to our team, which will allow us to quickly improve our customers' operations with our game-changing technology."
BEET's proprietary software, Envision Process Visibility System (ePVS), is a key Industry 4.0 enabler, helping manufacturers answer three critical questions: What is wrong now? What might go wrong? Where is the hidden capacity?
By tracking what is wrong now, ePVS helps manufacturers optimize current performance of the manufacturing system at the device level. Tracking what might go wrong helps predict failures and unplanned stoppages by monitoring what parts of the manufacturing system will require attention or maintenance. By tracking where the hidden capacity exists, manufacturers can make changes to manufacturing processes to push the system's limits, improve cycle time and sustain system uptime.
BEET ePVS provides a detailed breakdown of every process step's cycle time, showing how individual process steps deviate from "in tolerance" to "out of tolerance" over time. In addition, it shows a historic view of what happened, and specifically where the fault occurs in the cycle. Providing this data in real time allows manufacturers to take immediate corrective action.
Manufacturers who use ePVS realize a significant return on investment, sometimes within days of implementation.
"Industry 4.0 has ushered in a new era of industrial connectivity where data collection and analysis are allowing manufacturers to make real-time decisions to both optimize and trouble-shoot their operations," Lehmann said. "With ePVS, BEET is leading the way for manufacturers to take advantage of these trends and continuously improve manufacturing operations."
About BEET
Headquartered in Metro Detroit, BEET creates products and solutions that help companies be more proactive, accountable and efficient in their manufacturing process. BEET's guiding principle is to simplify the complicated. BEET's team of automation professionals, technical experts, developers, and seasoned executives has helped some of the most renowned manufacturing organizations reach unprecedented performance and process optimization levels. For more information, visit BEET.com.
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Freedom also means not being forced to pray
In response to the letter, “ Kennedy’s case was an encouragement for Christians. ”
We have a constitution that separates religion and the state. It includes the freedom to
practice your religion. It does not mean you can impose (force?) your religion on others.
Mr. Kennedy had the choice to personally pray anytime and anyplace he wanted, but instead he chose to show off his religion by praying in the middle of the field in front of everyone. Mr. Kennedy said no one had to join him, but we all know the desire and pressure in high school “to be one of the team.” There is now the situation for a team member, who is not a Christian and who does not want to pray, to be pressured to join in praying.
Yes, WWII was fought for our freedoms (including practicing your religion and its dogmas), but it was also fought for the freedom from religion.
Kira Khadem, Port Orchard
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TSX.V: DME
U.S. OTC: DMEHF
Frankfurt: QM01
VANCOUVER, BC, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - DESERT MOUNTAIN ENERGY CORP. (the "Company") (TSXV: DME) (U.S. OTC: DMEHF) (Frankfurt: QM01) From the President of the Company.
Desert Mountain Energy is pleased to announce the spudding of the Gunnar Dome Wildcat Well. The intended depth of this well is 4,500'+- and is designed to test all zones to the top Granite Formation. DME will be utilizing the same successful drilling procedures, including multiple casing strings designed to protect all zones and the environment. Our geologic modelling suggests that the gas composition should contain high concentrations of nitrogen.
Due to market conditions, the Company has decided to cancel the previously announced private placement for $7.5 million dated 2022-06-28.
ABOUT DESERT MOUNTAIN ENERGY
Desert Mountain Energy Corp. is a publicly traded resource company primarily focused on exploration, development and production of helium, hydrogen and noble gases. The Company is primarily looking for elements deemed critical to the renewable energy and high technology industries.
We seek safe harbor
"Robert Rohlfing"
Robert Rohlfing
Exec Chairman & CEO
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in polices of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. The statements made in this press release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ from the Company's expectations.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Such forward looking statements and information herein include but are not limited to statements regarding the Company's anticipated performance in the future the planned exploration activities, receipt of positive results from drilling, the completion of further drilling and exploration work, and the timing and results of various activities.
Forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company and its operations to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Such factors include, among others, changes in national and local governments, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments in Canada and the United States; financial risks due to helium prices, operating or technical difficulties in exploration and development activities; risks and hazards and the speculative nature of resource exploration and related development; risks in obtaining necessary licenses and permits, and challenges to the Company's title to properties.
Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions management believes to be reasonable, including but not limited to the continued operation of the Company's exploration operations, no material adverse change in the market price of commodities, and such other assumptions and factors as set out herein. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or information, there may be other factors that cause results to be materially different from those anticipated, described, estimated, assessed or intended. There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statements or information will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements or information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. The Company does not intend to, and nor does not assume any obligation to update such forward-looking statements or information, other than as required by applicable law.
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Free platform helped O'Rourke's TX Gov campaign facilitate $1M in jobs during trial run
LOS ANGELES, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Capitol Community, a political hiring platform, is now available for free use by any campaign or applicant (staff member, intern, volunteer) seeking a position in politics. The platform is an extension of Career Map, a private-labeled education and career development company.
Capitol Community's mission is to "democratize the political hiring process," making its products available to "any campaign, regardless of size, location, affiliation, or ideology," as stated on its website. The company simplifies the submission process for applicants by matchmaking campaign positions based on the user's skills, interests, and further unique data. The system also includes a free credentialing service to verify past workplace experience, which helps campaigns better screen applicants.
As part of Capitol Community's trial run, the company worked with Beto O'Rourke's 'Beto For Texas' Governor campaign as the exclusive hiring portal for the initial round of staff hires. Within just a few weeks, the platform fielded over 1,000 applicants for various positions in 9 departments, which resulted in 20 senior staff hires and facilitated over $1 million worth of job salaries. Case Study Link: https://capitol.community/case-study
"Political hiring can be complicated for large campaigns, but Capitol Community made it easy," states Nick Rathod, Campaign Manager for Beto For Texas (and former Obama White House Advisor). "Having all applicants in one system allowed us to fill positions quickly and get staff on the ground across Texas. I would highly recommend this tool to any campaign needing to hire staff or volunteers."
Capitol Community is free for campaigns of any size, affiliation, or ideology. The platform's matchmaking algorithm helps connect applicants to opportunities based on various factors, including experience, interests, location, and more unique data.
Capitol Community will soon launch various additional tools, including an online academy, assessments quizzes, academic credentialing services, project management, expert consulting, and more.
All campaigns and applicants are welcome to sign up at http://Capitol.Community
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- Company increases quarterly dividend payment for common stock
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) today declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of $1.005 per share, an increase of $0.02. This dividend is payable on Sept.16, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Aug.12, 2022.
The company also declared a quarterly cash dividend on its Series A preferred stock of $359.375 per share, payable on Sept.16, 2022, to shareholders of record at close of business on Aug.12, 2022. This is equivalent of $0.359375 per depositary share.
In addition, the company declared a semi-annual cash dividend on its Series B preferred stock of $24.375 per share, payable on Sept.16, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Aug.12, 2022.
Duke Energy has paid a cash dividend on its common stock for 96 consecutive years.
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Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos, and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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Tuesday’s January 6th hearings revealed yet another boatload of dirt on what went down behind the scenes in the months, weeks, and days leading up to the insurrection on the Capitol. One of the most interesting tidbits was about a meeting-turned-shouting match that took place on December 18, 2001 until the wee hours at the White House, where Donald Trump had assembled all the usual suspects—plus a who’s who of totally random individuals, including Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne—to figure out his next step in how to cling to power in the wake of a lost presidential election.
As The Washington Post reported, this “motley crew of unofficial Trump advisers [who] had talked their way into the Oval Office and an audience with the president” spent hours offering up all sorts of increasingly bizarre ideas on how the election might have been stolen (spoiler: it wasn’t) and some mostly illegal strategies on how Trump might be able to deny the results and remain in power. When one lawyer tried to explain to the president how “nuts” these ideas were, all hell broke loose, and former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann admitted that he and disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn nearly came to blows. At one point, Rudy Giuliani—classy as ever—called people like Herschmann, who weren’t willing to blow up democracy as we known it, “a bunch of p*ssies.”
Perhaps the most entertaining detail reported about this meeting, which former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described as “unhinged” in a text message sent that night, is that Byrne, presumably one of the nutters who thought Trump could somehow just ignore America’s vote and carry on as president, made more than a meal out of some Swedish meatballs Trump served up as the hours wore on. As The Washington Post wrote:
At some point, the meeting migrated to the Yellow Oval Room in the White House residence, where Trump served the group Swedish meatballs. (Byrne was “nonstop housing meatballs — he ate so many meatballs,” one person familiar with the gathering told The Post.) There the fighting continued.
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— Jim Newell (@jim_newell) July 13, 2022
If loving tiny meatballs and discounted home goods is wrong, Byrne clearly doesn’t want to be right.
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Europe hybrid grafts market is projected to exhibit growth at a CAGR of 8.1% over the next ten years. Terumo Corporation, BD Interventional, Getinge AB, Merit Medical Systems, Inc., and JOTEC GmbH are some of the key players in the hybrid grafts market
NEWARK, Del., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As per Future Market Insights' latest industry analysis, the global hybrid grafts market was valued at around US$ 491.7 Mn in 2021, and is projected to exhibit a CAGR of 5.20% over the forecast period. The global market is estimated to reach a valuation of US$ 858.7 Mn in 2032.
The hybrid grafts market is set to grow at a fast pace due to increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. Rising adoption of unhealthy lifestyles is also expected to boost the market in the forthcoming years with growing cases of obesity.
Inner surfaces of veins and arteries can become infected by viral infections, which can lead to blood clots, minor blood vessel damage, and inflammation of surrounding blood vessels. All of these factors can restrict blood flow to the heart and other organs. It is further projected to boost cases of cardiovascular diseases in the upcoming decade.
Number of cases of chronic ascending aortic dissections has increased dramatically across the globe, which would bolster growth. Additionally, key players are focusing on novel product development with enhanced efficacy in terms of environmental stability, protection from infections, and durability.
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For instance, BD Interventional introduced Distaflo, which is designed with ePTFE with carbon impregnated into the inner portions of the graft wall. The graft is also modified with a proprietary cuff at the distal end, according to BD.
Key Takeaways: Hybrid Grafts Market
- Based on product, the thoracic aortic graft segment held approximately 78.2% of share in 2021 and will dominate the global hybrid grafts market by 2032.
- By end user, the hospitals segment is expected to lead the global hybrid grafts market and showcase a CAGR of 5.9% during the forecast period.
- North America hybrid grafts market is anticipated to generate a share of 42.1% in 2021 and is estimated to lead throughout the forthcoming years.
- China is set to hold a market share of nearly 3.8% in 2032 with expansion of the healthcare industry.
- The Germany hybrid grafts market held a share of 3.5% in 2021 and is set to remain at the forefront during the evaluation period.
"Rising use of minimally invasive devices in medical procedures is set to drive the hybrid grafts market. Besides, increasing number of cardiac and vascular surgeries is anticipated to push demand for hybrid grafts to reduce surgical site complications," says a FMI analyst.
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Market Competition
The market for hybrid grafts is moderately fragmented and there exists a large number of local, emerging, as well as established players across the globe. Key players are initiating promotional activities to introduce new designs to attract more customers. A few other companies are engaging in collaborations and expansion activities to develop innovative products.
- In October 2021, Terumo joined hands with Cell Technologies to open a new manufacturing facility in Costa Rica which will help to broaden its supply chain around the globe.
- In May 2022, Getinge invested 3 million Euros to expand its manufacturing capacity of polyester grafts and patches for the treatment of aneurysmal and occlusive diseases. The investment would help the company to surge the manufacturing capacity in its site in La Ciotat, France.
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Future Market Insights offers a unique perspective and actionable insights on the hybrid grafts market in its latest study, presenting a historical demand assessment of 2017 – 2021 and projections for 2022 – 2032.
The research study is based on the product (thoracic aortic graft and peripheral vascular graft) and end user (hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers), across seven key regions of the world.
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Hybrid Grafts Market Outlook by Category
By Product:
- Thoracic Aortic Graft
- Peripheral Vascular Graft
By End User:
- Hospitals
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers
By Region:
- North America
- Latin America
- Europe
- South Asia
- East Asia
- Oceania
- Middle East and Africa (MEA)
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1.1. Global Market Outlook
1.2. Demand Side Trends
1.3. Supply Side Trends
1.4. Analysis and Recommendations
2. Market Overview
2.1. Market Coverage / Taxonomy
2.2. Market Definition / Scope / Limitations
3. Key Market Trends
3.1. Key Trends Impacting the Market
3.2. Product Innovation / Development Trends
4. Key Success Factors
4.1. Product Adoption/ Usage Analysis
4.2. Product Innovation and Market Sustainability Analysis
4.3. Value Chain Analysis
4.4. Key Promotional Strategies, By Manufacturers
4.5. PESTLE Analysis
4.6. Porter's Analysis
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(The Hill) — Concerns are rising over a new omicron subvariant that is even more highly transmissible, called BA.5. The new subvariant has risen to be a majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States and is sparking concern about an increase in hospitalizations.
The White House held a press briefing with its top health experts on Tuesday to address the rise of the subvariant and urged people to get booster shots if they have not yet.
BA.5 causes concern because of its increased contagiousness and because of its greater ability to evade the protection from vaccines and prior infection.
Importantly, though, the vaccines still provide crucial protection against severe disease and death, especially for people who have received their booster shots.
“There are concerning things about BA.5, but it doesn’t represent an entirely new threat that’s going to upend all of our protections,” said Josh Michaud, associate director for global health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The White House did not announce any major shift in strategy on Tuesday, instead pointing to continued use of booster shots and treatments like Pfizer’s Paxlovid antiviral pills as being effective even against the new subvariant.
“It’s something that, A, we don’t panic on, B, we don’t let it disrupt our lives, but we take it seriously enough and utilize the tools that we have to mitigate,” Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious diseases expert, said Tuesday.
Still, some experts are calling for greater action from the administration, particularly around getting people boosted.
Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, wrote on Twitter that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should finally change the definition of “fully vaccinated” to include more than just the original two doses to highlight the need for booster shots.
“What country has a lower booster rate than Iran, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and 61 others?” he wrote. “The United States.”
Only about half of U.S. adults who received their first two shots have received a booster shot, according to CDC figures.
Uptake for a second booster shot, which is recommended for people 50 and older, is even lower.
Biden administration health officials on Tuesday urged people to get their booster shots now to help fend off BA.5. Because protection decreases over time, they said it is especially important to get a shot if someone’s most recent dose was in 2021, not 2022. They are also discussing opening up second booster shots to people under 50.
Hospitalizations are already increasing amid the rise of BA.5, to around 37,000, according to a New York Times tracker, though are still relatively low compared to other points in the pandemic. Deaths and intensive care unit stays have stayed largely flat so far despite high levels of cases, which experts attribute to the protection of vaccines and treatments.
Richard Besser, a former acting director of the CDC, said the “sheer volume of people being infected” would likely lead to a rise in hospitalizations but that he didn’t think it would be “anywhere near the numbers we saw with the previous omicron surges.”
But Besser, now the CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, noted that while protection against severe disease is holding up in an important way for boosted people, “a lot of people are going to be experiencing COVID on the milder side,” given the new subvariant’s ability to reinfect even people who already had a previous version of omicron.
Particularly for people who are at higher risk, Besser said BA.5 is “something you should pay attention to and consider taking precautions like wearing masks indoors when you’re around people.”
With much of the country going on with their normal lives, the Biden administration has not signaled a return to emphasizing restrictions like mask mandates, though health officials on Tuesday did mention that masks offer protection.
“Each individual is making these decisions rather than political leaders,” said Michaud, of the Kaiser Family Foundation, speaking of the new COVID-19 era. “It’s kind of up to you, for better or for worse, to decide if you want to wear a mask if you want to avoid social gatherings.”
Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University, said steps like that should be reserved for people at particularly high risk who are worried about getting infected at all.
“If you are vaccinated and boosted, the vaccines are still doing their job, which is to prevent you from becoming severely ill,” she said.
Pfizer and Moderna are working on updated vaccines that will better target BA.5, but those are not expected to be available until the fall at the earliest.
In the meantime, health officials say people should not wait for the updated shot and should get their booster now, which will not prevent getting the newer vaccine once it is available.
“The reason to get a booster now is to prevent infection now,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said. “There’s a lot of infection now, an increasing number of hospitalizations now.” | https://kfor.com/news/ba-5-variants-spread-sparks-concerns-about-contagiousness-hospitalizations/ | 2022-07-13T16:42:15Z | https://kfor.com/news/ba-5-variants-spread-sparks-concerns-about-contagiousness-hospitalizations/ | false | 23 |
Trump Enemy: Jan. 6 Was No Coup, And I Should Know Because I've Planned Coups
I’m not quite sure what the big takeaway from John Bolton’s Tuesday interview on CNN was.
On one hand, Bolton — a hawk among hawks who left his post as White House national security advisor in 2019 loathing then-President Donald Trump more than the prospect of eating steamed tofu for the rest of his life — vehemently insisted there was no way the events of Jan. 6, 2021, constituted a coup.
On the other hand, he asserted (rather casually, it must be said) that he knew this because he’d planned a coup or two before, and this definitely wasn’t one.
Whatever you think the lede ought to be from the interview, it was a blow to those trying to weave a grand narrative in which the Capitol incursion was a concerted attempt by the president to overthrow the government of the United States: Bolton, who has accused Trump of impeachable crimes in print, is ruling out any sort of grand conspiracy on the part of the former president. Take that as you will.
(As the Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee spectacle continues apace, The Western Journal will keep you up to date with the latest news and analysis — all from a Christian, conservative perspective you won’t find in the mainstream media. If you support our work, please consider subscribing.)
Bolton, a national security expert and diplomat who served in the George W. Bush and Trump administrations (considerably more amicably in the former, it must be known), sat down with Jake Tapper to discuss the final days of the Trump White House.
Bolton said that “nothing Donald Trump did after the election in connection with the lie about election fraud — none of it is defensible.” However, he also faulted the Jan. 6 committee for how it was trying to frame Trump’s actions.
“It’s also a mistake, as some people have said … that somehow this was a carefully planned coup d’état aimed at the Constitution,” Bolton said.
“That’s not the way Donald Trump does things. It’s rambling from one half-vast idea to another. One plan that falls through, and another comes up. That’s what he was doing.”
“As I say, none of it defensible. But you have to understand the nature of what the problem of Donald Trump is. He’s — to use a ‘Star Wars’ metaphor — a disturbance in the Force,” he continued, telling Tapper it was “not an attack on our democracy” but “Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump.”
A coup, Bolton said, needs “advance thinking, planning, strategizing, building up support.”
“One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup,” Tapper shot back.
“I disagree with that,” Bolton said. “As somebody who has helped plan coups d’état, not here, but, you know, other places, it takes a lot of work.”
Jake Tapper: “One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup.”
John Bolton: “I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coup d’etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work.” pic.twitter.com/REyqh3KtHi
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 12, 2022
You have to give it to him: Half a century into his political career and John Bolton is still John Boltoning as hard as that walrus-mustached man can.
At an age where most politicians are using an airbrush and copious amounts of Wite-Out to beautify their political legacy, Bolton is on cable news essentially telling Jake Tapper, “You call that a coup? All right, see, here’s how you really do it …”
Tapper, unsurprisingly, became slightly less fixated on the events of Jan. 6 after Bolton’s remark and asked about his “expertise having planned coups.”
“I’m not going to get into the specifics,” Bolton said with a laugh.
“Successful coups?” Tapper asked.
“Well, I wrote about Venezuela in the book,” Bolton responded, speaking of his 2020 memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.” “And it turned out not to be successful. Not that we had all that much to do with it, but I saw what it took for an opposition to try and overturn an illegally elected president, and they failed.”
Jake Tapper follows up on John Bolton’s past coup planning.
Bolton: “I’m not going to get into the specifics, but–“
Tapper: “Successful coups?”
Bolton brings up the failed Venezuelan coup, prompting Tapper to add: “I feel like there’s other stuff you’re not telling me.” pic.twitter.com/bJAa07h8Ow
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 12, 2022
Bolton was referring to the Trump administration’s attempt to have illegitimately elected Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro replaced with opposition leader Juan Guaidó, which didn’t quite work.
Neither did the relationship between Bolton and Trump, as you may have gathered from the interview.
Bolton claimed in his memoir that Trump held back military funding in Ukraine as part of a quid pro quo to investigate Hunter Biden’s activities within the country. He also — as you may have gathered from his interview with Tapper — wasn’t impressed by Trump’s intellect.
Trump, for his part, fired Bolton in 2019 and said he “should be in jail” for disclosing classified material in the book.
And it wasn’t just that; former Trump deputy national security advisor K.T. McFarland said Bolton “was so convinced of his superior intelligence that he was condescending to everyone, including the president. He was increasingly isolated within the West Wing; Cabinet officers ignored him and went behind his back directly to the president. He even avoided contact with his own National Security Council staff.”
One can definitely get that vibe from the man, yes.
Take all of the personal invective out of this, however, and there is a point, no matter how you feel about Bolton or Trump. The Jan. 6 committee, despite no opposition members allowed on the panel and a carefully orchestrated format, has arrived at no substantive narrative that implicates Trump or anyone in the administration in a coup that culminated in the Capitol incursion.
Instead, as Bolton said, the events of that day were “not an attack on our democracy” but a “once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.”
If the Democrats want to beat the drum about that for a few more rounds of prime-time hearings, go for it. Go to town. Let’s hear about all the scary Oath Keepers claims we can stuff into a few hours of live coverage. Maybe we can get a few more people who heard from someone who heard from someone else that Trump tried to grab the wheel of the presidential limo and go to the Capitol.
At the end of the day, what they have is neither a “coup” nor an “insurrection” on their hands. Take it from a guy who’s planned a few of them and hates Donald Trump’s guts.
Meanwhile, Americans will still be paying $5 a gallon for gas. Which do you think is going to resonate with voters this November?
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I love a good care package as much as I love a sweet piece of snail mail. It means something to know that a close friend or Clark family member took time to pick out items, carefully assemble them, and personally send them, especially when sending a text or buying something to ship right to someone’s doorstep is so much easier. Sometimes these boxes are a cure for homesickness, or just a way to send something specific — like the time my mom shipped me a USPS medium flat rate box shoved to the brim with 12 mangoes to help me cope through my first-ever East Coast winter.
Of course, no summer camp experience is complete without a care package. And Polygon Summer Camp inspired me and the other Nicole C. on staff, Nicole Carpenter, to do exactly that. Both of us love all things arts and stationery, and here’s a dorky little fun fact: We were pen pals before we both landed at Polygon. Both of us love to sketch and paint (incidentally, we both use Holbein Acrylic Gouache, as well as watercolor) as much as we love to play games. Why not merge our hobbies together and send each other a fun little pick-me-up?
Neither of us had the chance to go to summer camp as kids, so we channeled all of our energy into making sure these care packages delivered on what we had always imagined. What would we want when far away from home? We agreed that this definitely would include some good snacks for sharing around the campfire, plus a little plush to sit on a cabin bed and some craft items for passing the time. With those ideas to jump off of, each of us got to work. Here’s what we came up with.
Let’s start with the reveal
Nicole Clark: I had tons of fun opening up this package in the week leading up to not-E3 — it was the ultimate pick-me-up. I was greeted with a “Welcome to Polygon Summer Camp” postcard which was very, very cute, and looked so much like one of those welcome postcards you can buy during road trips. I have no idea how she managed to get it to look so accurate, but I’m incredibly impressed.
I had just finished my last composition-sized notebook and had been searching for one, so the one here plus the little spiral-bound notepad are absolute perfection. I’m going to cover these bad boys in stickers. I also love the bird watching book — a hobby I’d been wanting to try for a while, and perfect to take on a camping trip. I can also take some cute pics of birds and also adorable wildlife with this disposable camera; because it’s “expired” everything will have a soft, faded look.
Now, moving onto my favorite little guy. LOOK HOW CUTE HE IS.
The snacks were immaculate. I had never had Flamin’ Hot Funyuns before (I didn’t even know they existed!), but now I cannot imagine my life without them. Funyuns are one of my favorite snacks, and I love spicy and tangy foods. I immediately ate half of the bag, using chopsticks to prevent dust from getting on my fingers. I’m not opposed to it, but I did once accidentally rub my eyes after chopping a pepper, and let’s just say I’ll never forget it. The Pikmin gummies were also incredibly good, and I did eat a package while on my daily walk playing Pikmin Bloom.
Last but definitely not least, she made me a friendship bracelet by hand. I’m wearing it as I type this!!!
Nicole Carpenter: Nicole knows how to put together a care package. Somehow, this was perfectly timed to arrive right before the not-E3 busy period, and it included a number of things that have since been essential to my life. For one, the incredible painting of A Short Hike, one of my favorite games ever, is now hanging right above my desk alongside cute art — some also made by friends! My new best friend, Squirtle, is lovingly dangling above my selection of notebooks and pens. (My pen selection has new additions now, too — beautiful soft Mildliner highlighters and Tombow markers that match Squirtle himself!)
Speaking of notebooks, Nicole included a Kirby notebook and other delightful Kirby things — like a cup and saucer! It feels like the perfect set to take camping, alongside the Animal Crossing playing cards she sent along. I truly can’t get over how cute the packaging is — it’s like I’m flush with Bells!
To steal a phrase Nicole uses above, the snacks were immaculate. She hit all the perfect flavor notes: sweet, sour, and spicy. I immediately opened the Sour Patch Kids and ate them all.
Putting together the care packages
Nicole Clark: And now I share how the sausage was made. (Please excuse the horrible phrase; I promise this is cute.) I wanted to try my hand at painting the cover from A Short Hike, a camping-inspired game that just felt right. Do I paint? Not really! Did I have a ton of fun? Yes! At Summer Camp, we might not be good at art, but that doesn’t mean we don’t try.
Later, I stopped by a little gift shop in Japantown in Los Angeles in order to get a handful of items, like the Kirby’s Burger-themed plate and cup — which I thought would be fun and portable for eating a campfire snack — as well as the little Squirtle plushie. I also grabbed some snacks like Pocky and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (incredible that we both went that direction).
I stopped by an art supply shop to get some Zebra Mildliner pens (in Squirtle colors, obviously). They’re my favorite journaling pens because one side has a fine tip and the other has a highlighter tip, so you can use them in multiple ways. Same goes for the Tombow dual brush pens, which have a fine tip on one end and a brush tip on the other. I also know Nicole has a lot of fountain pens and other art supplies, so I tried to get a few that would complement what she already has.
The little Bell bag of Animal Crossing: New Horizons playing cards was from an Etsy shop that also makes sets for Zelda and Genshin Impact fans. I have so many memories of bringing a deck of cards to the beach with friends, or on a family vacation — and putting Animal Crossing villagers on them just felt right.
Nicole Carpenter: Honestly, putting together a Polygon Summer Camp care package for Nicole was one of my favorite Polygon projects. Who doesn’t want to send cute things to their friends?
The first thing I did was start designing the postcard. Arts and crafts had to be a part of this, so I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to plan out the postcard. Eventually I landed on a layout and just went for it. The cute Charmander at the fire was a last-minute addition, and I love him. The materials I used were watercolor, acrylic gouache, and Posca pens, all on watercolor paper.
The next order of business was finding cute and good things to fill out the care package with. I know that Nicole and I share a deep love of stationery, so I knew there had to be a variety of notebooks and stickers; the stickers are Halo- and Animal Crossing-themed.
Of course, there’s her own special friend Pikachu dressed as Snorlax, which I ordered from the Pokémon Center. The Pikmin gummies and little star candies came from a Japanese Etsy seller and took a shockingly short amount of time to get to me. And then to Nicole. Funny thing with the Funyuns, though... I ordered these online because there appears to be a Flamin’ Hot shortage in my area. I purchased five bags, thinking these were snack sized. They were not snack sized, and I’ve also been living off Flamin’ Hot Funyuns.
One of my favorite parts was making us matching friendship bracelets, though. A classic summer camp activity! We share a same favorite color, so picking the beads was easy. Do you know what’s not easy? Stringing these tiny beads onto a stretchy band. It’s been weeks, and I still find beads on the floor.
Lastly, I included a bird watching book because I am of the mind that bird watching is like a game. Gotta catch ’em all... with your eyes!
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022 – The latest opinion poll conducted by Radio Africa Group has revealed the man who is likely to win the Mombasa gubernatorial race in August.
The Mombasa race has attracted several candidates among them former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko, who is vying on a Wiper Democratic Movement party ticket, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) candidate Abdulswamad Nassir, and United Democratic Alliance candidate Omar Hassan.
Sonko was cleared to vie for the Mombasa gubernatorial seat on Wednesday and is the man to beat, according to the Radio Africa poll.
The pollster had asked who they think will win the Mombasa seat in August.
In the poll, over 2500 participated with 54.6 percent saying they will vote for Mike Sonko.
Abdulswamad, who is a close ally of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, came second with 45.4 percent.
Hassan Omar was not rated in the poll.
This is a clear indication that Sonko, who has the support of Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka, is likely to the next governor of Mombasa.
Here is the screenshot of the poll.
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Flying to Europe this year might sound as absurd as opting for premium gasoline. With prices this high, is it really the right time to splurge?
“As a result of labor shortages and all these things going on, travel is more expensive than it’s been in a while,” says travel journalist Oneika Raymond. “Flights are really expensive. Accommodation is really expensive. And revenge travel is a thing.”
Although travel prices continue to soar overall due to constrained supply and mounting demand, pockets of affordability remain.
Europe represents one of these pockets, where weakening currency exchange rates against the dollar and tepid demand have left prices relatively unscathed. In fact, flights within the U.S. have become so expensive this year that some international destinations, including many in Europe, offer a relative bargain.
“If you are willing to pay to fly domestically, check out international destinations,” suggests Hayley Berg, lead economist at Hopper, a travel booking app. “Because there is a good chance that there is a flight to somewhere else in the world for about the same price.”
Airfare is less inflated in Europe
Domestic airfare was 30% higher at the end of May 2022 compared with May 2019, according to data from Hopper.
“Airfare this summer within the U.S. will cost $600 to $800,” says Berg. “At those prices you can get to Reykjavik, Iceland, or Dublin, Ireland.”
Indeed, flights from the U.S. to Europe were only up 13% at the end of May 2022 compared with the same period in 2019, according to Hopper . That trend squares with tourist demand, which remains below pre-pandemic levels: About 19% fewer U.S. travelers left for Europe in May 2022 compared with May 2019, before the pandemic, according to data from the International Trade Administration.
Put simply, prices and demand for flights to Europe are increasing, but not as quickly as they are elsewhere.
“Given how high domestic airfare is, you can get more bang for your buck with longer-haul destinations,” explains Berg.
The dollar is strong
Although 2022 may go down as a bear market for everything from stocks to cryptocurrency, the U.S. dollar has gained ground on many foreign currencies. The dollar was 15% stronger against the euro in May 2022 compared with May 2021, according to data from the Federal Reserve.
“Today what we’re seeing is that a dollar can buy more euros than it has been able to essentially since the euro launched,” says Berg.
This means that anything purchased while traveling in countries that use the euro will be at a 15% discount, if currency exchange rates remain stable. U.S. travelers will enjoy this benefit on everything from food and lodging to events and transportation.
Of course, global inflationary pressures continue to drive up prices everywhere, including Europe. Annual consumer prices in Germany were up 7.9% in May, according to the Financial Times, just shy of the 8.6% increase in the U.S. Yet, while prices may remain elevated nearly everywhere, the relative strength of the dollar can help soften the blow.
Public transportation can help you save
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Inflation has hit no aspect of travel more directly and dramatically than the cost of renting and operating a vehicle. Rental cars prices were up a budget-busting 69% in May 2022 compared with May 2019, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. And everybody knows how high gasoline prices have jumped.
These factors should make this the summer of public transportation for money-conscious travelers. Yet the U.S. offers few tourist destinations that can be explored by train.
Not so in Europe, where most popular cities offer safe, affordable and dependable transit. Cities such as Amsterdam, London and Copenhagen can be explored for only a few euros, which is equivalent to only a few U.S. dollars with favorable exchange rates.
Visiting national parks in the U.S. made sense in 2020 and 2021 for a host of reasons. But saving money in 2022 means skipping cars outright when possible.
Off the beaten path?
We are in strange times indeed when traveling to Europe represents an off-the-beaten-path, budget-friendly choice. Yet the facts speak for themselves. Airfare to Europe is rising less quickly than domestic tickets, and fewer travelers are visiting the continent. The dollar is strong, and the U.S. has dropped its testing requirement for arriving travelers, which made leaving the country a pain.
All this has combined to make Europe a good choice for travelers in an upside-down year. Riding the rails in Zurich could prove cheaper than renting a car in Cleveland.
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Price Alert: Shares of Bio-Path (BPTH) Trade 5.19% Lower at Midday July 12
Equities Staff Follow |Bio-Path Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: BPTH) has dropped $0.22 (5.19%) and is currently sitting at $4.02, as of 11:42:45 est on July 12.
13,403 shares exchanged hands.
The Company has increased 6.27% over the last 5 days and shares advanced 19.44% over the last 30 days.
Bio-Path anticipates its next earnings on 2022-08-11.
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About Bio-Path Holdings Inc
Bio-Path is a biotechnology company developing DNAbilize®, a novel technology that has yielded a pipeline of RNAi nanoparticle drugs that can be administered with a simple intravenous infusion. Bio-Path's lead product candidate, prexigebersen (BP1001, targeting the Grb2 protein), is in a Phase 2 study for blood cancers and prexigebersen-A, a drug product modification of prexigebersen, is under consideration by the FDA to commence Phase 1 studies in solid tumors. This is followed by BP1002, targeting the Bcl-2 protein, where it is being evaluated in lymphoma clinical studies.
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Price Alert: Shares of Rafael (RFL) Trade 9.28% Lower at Midday July 12
Equities Staff Follow |Rafael Holdings Inc - Class B (NYSE: RFL) has fallen $0.22 (9.28%) and sits at $2.14, as of 12:02:34 est on July 12.
120,827 shares exchanged hands.
The Company has risen 19.10% over the last 5 days and shares advanced 21.54% over the last 30 days.
Rafael expects its next earnings on 2022-10-18.
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About Rafael Holdings Inc - Class B
Rafael Holdings is focused on development of novel cancer therapies. The Company is a significant investor in two clinical stage oncology companies, Rafael Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and LipoMedix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Through its wholly owned Barer Institute subsidiary, the Company is developing a pipeline of compounds focused on the regulation of cancer metabolism.
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Amazon handed Ring footage to police without user consent, senator discloses
(AP) - Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission, a revelation that’s bound to raise more privacy and civil liberty concerns about its video-sharing agreements with police departments across the country.
The disclosure came in a letter from the company that was made public Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who sent a separate letter to Amazon last month questioning Ring’s surveillance practices and engagement with law enforcement.
Ring has said before it will not share customer information with police without consent, a warrant or due to “an exigent or emergency” circumstance. The 11 videos shared this year fell under the emergency provision, Amazon’s letter said, the first time the company publicly shared such information. The letter, dated July 1, did not say which videos were shared with police.
Brian Huseman, Amazon’s vice president for public policy, wrote in the letter that in each instance, “Ring made a good-faith determination that there was an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to a person requiring disclosure of information without delay.”
In such cases, Huseman wrote Ring “reserves the right to respond immediately to urgent law enforcement requests for information,” adding the company makes a determination as to when to share video footage without user consent based on information provided to it in an emergency request form and circumstances described by law enforcement.
Some prior requests from law enforcement have raised concerns about how police might be attempting to use Ring footage. Last year, the nonprofit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation reported the Los Angeles Police Department requested Ring footage of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
In a statement, Markey’s office said the findings show a close relationship between Ring and law enforcement and a proliferation of police using the platform.
Amazon said in its letter 2,161 law enforcement agencies are enrolled in Ring’s Neighbors app, a forum for residents to share suspicious videos captured by their home security cameras. That number represents a five-fold increase since November 2019, according to the senator’s office.
“As my ongoing investigation into Amazon illustrates, it has become increasingly difficult for the public to move, assemble, and converse in public without being tracked and recorded,” Markey said in a statement.
Among other things, the senator’s statement also criticized the company for not clarifying the distance Ring products can capture audio recordings. The company had said in its response letter what Ring captures “depends on many conditions, including device placement and environmental conditions.”
The Ring disclosure comes as Amazon is facing broader antitrust scrutiny in Congress about its ecommerce business, and accusations of undercutting merchants that sell on its platform by making “knock-offs,” or very similar products, and boosting their presence on its site. Markey and several other Democratic lawmakers are also pushing for a bill that prohibits the use of biometric technology by federal agencies and tie federal grant funding to states and localities on the condition they put a moratorium on the use of such technology.
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ROCK HILL, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – A woman is accused of stabbing her boyfriend multiple times during an argument at a hotel in Rock Hill early Wednesday morning, according to the Rock Hill Police Department.
Police said officers responded to the Extended Stay American around 1:17 a.m. on July 13 after a man entered the hotel’s lobby with stab wounds.
Officers said they found the 27-year-old man bleeding from his back. He reportedly told police he and his girlfriend were arguing when she stabbed him.
Authorities said there were three visible stab wounds.
Officers went to the hotel room the man was staying in and saw a large amount of blood on the bed. The officers also described the room to be in “disarray” with furniture knocked onto the floor.
A woman, Ashley Miller, was hiding in the closet, police said.
According to police, Miller said she and the man had been living together for around three years and had been arguing.
When Miller was asked about her boyfriend’s injuries, she allegedly told officers that she “blacked out” and that she “didn’t mean to hurt him,” police said.
The man was taken to the hospital for emergency surgery for his injury.
Miller, 27, of New Mexico, was arrested and charged with domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature and possession of a weapon during a crime of violence.
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This summer, The Clemson Insider is taking a closer look at Clemson’s opponents heading into the 2022 season. The series will be rolled out in the order in which each opponent appears on the Tigers’ schedule.
After previewing Georgia Tech, Furman, Louisiana Tech, Wake Forest, North Carolina State, Boston College, Florida State, Syracuse and Notre Dame, Louisville is up next.
When Louisville makes the trip to Clemson on Nov. 12, the Cardinals will bring the same dangerous weapon with them.
Malik Cunningham, back for a sixth season, is entering his fourth season as Louisville’s quarterback, one with a skill set unlike most at the position. Clemson has seen that up close the last handful of years, which included a 134-yard, two-touchdown rushing performance in last year’s meeting. With its top weapon back in the fold and some veteran pieces around him, Louisville will look to make a jump in the ACC after finishing in the bottom half of the Atlantic Division last season.
Offense
Like most offenses, things start and end with the quarterback for Louisville. But Cunningham’s dynamic dual-threat ability makes that even more true for the Cardinals. With a game similar to that of former Louisville great Lamar Jackson at the position, the speedy Cunningham is a nightmare for defenses to try to contain. He was the ACC’s fifth-leading rusher (1,031 yards) and ranked fourth nationally with 20 rushing touchdowns in addition to throwing for 2,941 yards last season. He also completed more than 62% of his passes, though he’ll need some new primary targets to emerge through the air with Jordan Watkins (Ole Miss) and Tyler Harrell (Alabama) transferring out.
While Cunningham is the primary option for Louisville on the ground, the Cardinals have some backs that can take some of the pressure off. Jalen Mitchell (722 rushing yards) is back for his sophomore season while Tiyon Evans, a Tennessee transfer, adds quality competition and depth to the backfield. Four starters are returning along an offensive line that paved the way for nearly 210 rushing yards on average last season, and one of the ACC’s top tight ends, Marshon Ford, is a nice safety valve to have if you’re Cunningham. But the Cardinals will need more consistency from the passing game to take things to another level offensively.
Defense
Louisville has some key cogs back to go with some experienced additions on this side of the ball. The Cardinals’ top two tacklers are gone, but linebacker Yasir Abdullah (17.5 tackles for loss, 10 sacks last season) is one of the ACC’s top pass rushers. Sophomore Ashton Gillotte is back at defensive end after showing promise with four sacks and eight tackles for loss last season, and cornerback Kei’Trel Clark (three interceptions, nine pass breakups) is one of the conference’s best. A handful of transfers, including former Ole Miss linebacker Momo Sanogo, will also be expected to help right away.
The biggest area in which the Cardinals’ defense needs to improve is against the pass. Teams threw for more than 245 yards a game against Louisville last season, something the Cardinals tried to address by bringing in multiple defensive back transfers. Louisville also attempted to fortify the middle of its defensive line by adding Arizona State transfer Jermayne Lole, a 6-foot-3, 324-pounder who missed all of last season with an injury. The Cardinals weren’t terrible against the run last season (157.7 rush yards allowed per game), but Lole will be counted on to help Louisville shore that up, too.
Special teams
Louisville has its top two specialists back in kicker James Turner and punter Mark Vassett. Turner connected on 9 of 12 field goals last season while Vassett averaged nearly 42 yards per punt. Primary kickoff returner Hassan Hall is gone, but Jawhar Jordan, who returned one for a touchdown last season, is more than capable of taking over the role full-time.
Cardinals at a glance
Head coach: Scott Satterfield (fourth season)
2021 results: 6-7, 4-4 ACC (t-4th in Atlantic Division)
Last meeting: Lost to Clemson, 30-24, in 2021
Key departures: WR Jordan Watkins, WR Tyler Harrell, LB C.J. Avery, LB Jack Fagot, DB Qwynnterrio Cole
Key returners: QB Malik Cunningham, RB Jalen Mitchell, TE Marshon Ford, WR Braden Smith, LB Yasir Abdullah, LB Dorian Jones, DB Kenderick Duncan, DB Kei’Trel Clark
Key additions: RB Tiyon Evans, DL Jermayne Lole, LB Mohamed Sanogo, DB Jarvis Brownlee
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California-based agency to complement customer service, industry knowledge and culture of PCF
LEHI, Utah, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PCF Insurance Services (PCF), a top 20 U.S. insurance brokerage firm, announced today its acquisition of Andreini & Company, a full-service insurance agency based in San Mateo, California.
Sherman & Company advised the Andreini team on the transaction.
Founded in 1951, Andreini & Company offers a complete spectrum of insurance products and solutions, with specialized expertise in industry niches such as agriculture, aviation, transportation, oil & gas, equine mortality, and more.
"We are thrilled to welcome Andreini & Company and its team to the PCF family," said Peter C. Foy, Chairman, Founder and CEO of PCF Insurance. "The Andreini team has a notable history and stellar reputation within the industries and geographies it serves and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset that is reflective of their success. They bring a breadth of industry specializations, such as petroleum and agriculture, that will be beneficial to other agencies in the broad PCF network."
PCF Insurance intentionally selects Agency Partners who independently emulate the high-growth PCF business strategy, possess a proven track record of success, are highly entrepreneurial, and are looking to rise above their current watermark.
"PCF and Peter are like us – a people-centric, family company dedicated to supporting our customers while striving for growth," said Michael Colzani, Executive Vice President of Andreini & Company. "We're confident this partnership will provide a pathway to long-term success through operational resources, new growth opportunities, and a network of knowledgeable colleagues."
About Andreini & Company
Andreini & Company is a full-service insurance brokerage offering a complete spectrum of insurance products and solutions, with specialized expertise in industry niches that include agriculture, transportation, oil & gas, equine mortality and more. Founded in 1951 by John Andreini, Andreini & Company remains one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the United States, with over 200 insurance professionals and 15 offices throughout the United States. Learn more at andreini.com.
About Sherman & Company
Established in 2004, Sherman & Company is an investment banking firm dedicated to the convergence of the insurance, healthcare, technology, and asset management industries. Learn more at sherman-company.com.
About PCF Insurance Services
Headquartered in Lehi, Utah, PCF Insurance Services is a leading full-service consultant and insurance brokerage firm offering a broad array of commercial, life and health, employee benefits, and workers' compensation solutions. A top 20 U.S. broker, PCF Insurance's agency-centric operating model and entrepreneurial environment support its tremendous growth profile, offering partners alignment through equity ownership, significant leadership incentives, and resources to over 2,000 employees throughout the U.S. Learn more at pcfins.com.
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Ministers from Germany and Austria have made it clear that there is “no alternative” to ending their dependency on Russian energy and becoming energy independent as Russia shuts down pipelines.
German Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck and Austrian Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler met this week in Vienna to discuss the ongoing energy situation and both agreed on a need to become more independent of Russia.
Both countries have agreed to both bilateral and European proposals to phase out Russian energy and develop new sources of energy to offset reliance on Russia, primarily on Russian gas supplies, the newspaper Kronen Zeitung reports.
“We will only be safe again when we are independent of Russian gas supplies,” Minister Habeck said, while Minister Gewessler added, “there is no alternative” to becoming less dependent on Russian sources of energy.
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Habeck also noted that European countries could be in for months of interruption in energy supplies but assured that no one would freeze as a result of interruptions this coming winter.
Fears were stoked on Monday when Russia halted gas supplies on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for ten days, claiming the halt was due to annual maintenance work. However, Minister Habeck stated that EU countries should be prepared in case Russia shut down the pipeline permanently.
Earlier this month, Germans were told to prepare for gas shortages and do their best to save energy in preparation for the winter, with Federal Network Agency President Klaus Mueller calling on residents to have boilers and radiators checked in order to reduce gas consumption.
“I can promise that we will do everything we can to avoid private households being without gas,” Mueller said and added, “We learned from the coronavirus crisis that we shouldn’t make promises if we’re not entirely sure we can keep them.”
To reduce the impact of a possible shortage of Russian energy supplies the European Union has called on Germany to delay the closure of three nuclear power plants but the German leftist coalition government has rejected the proposal and will go ahead with plans to close the plants by the end of the year.
A senior EU commissioner has once again told Germany to delay shutting down its nuclear power stations as the climate-crazy government sees its popularity fade. https://t.co/bCUYKK3cEC
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Bucs training camp is drawing near and it’s time to preview the Bucs roster position by position. Pewter Report will break down and examine each roster spot, the players on the depth chart and preview the outlook for the 2022 season.
Next up in the Bucs 2022 Camp Preview series is wide receivers.
Mike Evans and Chris Godwin return as one of the top duos in the league. Godwin, who signed a
new 3-year $60 million contract to return to the team, is still working his way back from a torn ACL. To round out one of the NFL’s best receiving corps, the Bucs added former Falcon Russell Gage to the roster. Evans, Godwin, and Gage create a formidable trio that will give defenses plenty of problems.
Behind the big three will be an intense battle for the fourth, fifth, sixth and possibly seventh spots. Ten players will be competing for the final three spots. Tyler Johnson has a strong chance to land a spot on the roster as the team’s fourth leading receiver in yards in 2021. Behind him the group of Breshad Perriman, Scotty Miller, Jaelon Darden, and Cyril Grayson, Jr. will compete for the remaining two or three spots.
The Bucs have some dark horse candidates on the roster as well. With four undrafted receivers vying to crack the roster. Deven Tompkins has already caught the eye of teammates and coaches alike and will be a name to watch, though Jerreth Sterns, Kameron Brown, and Kaylon Geiger are also in the mix. Rounding out the receiver rooms is four-year veteran Vincynt Smith, who last spent time with the Jets.
Mike Evans
Bucs WR Mike Evans – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
Evans has been one of the top wideouts in the NFL since entering the league. Posting eight straight seasons of 1,000 yards and breaking the Bucs franchise record for receiving touchdowns. As he enters his ninth year, Evans looks poised to keep that streak alive. While Evans made plenty of plays, he only had two games of 100-plus yards. Taking over games should be an area he is looking to improve on in 2022.
2021 Stats: 74 receptions for 1,035 yards and 14 TDs with 1 carry for 10 yards.
Chris Godwin
Godwin is the prototype slot receiver for the Bucs offense. Big enough to be a factor in the run game but quick and agile enough to be a problem for slot and perimeter corners alike. Recent reports suggest Godwin could be ready to go to start the season which would be a big boost for the offense. Even missing five games last year Godwin was the Bucs’ leading receiver in both yards and receptions. After receiving a $20 million per season payday, Godwin will look to top his numbers from last year.
2021 Stats: 98 receptions for 1,103 yards and 5 TDs with 4 carries for 29 yards and a TD.
Russell Gage
The acquisition of Gage was surprising to say the least. But the fifth-year pro should play a pivotal part in the Bucs offense, especially if Godwin isn’t ready to return Week 1. While he’s not necessarily Antonio Brown, which is probably a good thing, he posses inside outside versatility and gets his nose dirty in the run game. Over the course of the last two seasons Gage saw his roe increase with the Falcons. Injuries to Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley opened up a path for Gage to start and see the lion’s share of the targets in Atlanta. Not only did he answer the call, the former sixth-round pick excelled in the role. With the Bucs Gage will benefit from an offense that rolls out receiver heavy sets and has the greatest quarterback of all time throwing him passes.
2021 Stats: 66 receptions for 770 yards and 4 TDs.
Tyler Johnson
Heading into his third season, it’s time for Johnson to carve out a consistent role on the offense. He stepped in last season when Godwin went down with injury. But he didn’t perform to the expectations with the opportunity he was given. Johnson struggled to separate from defenders and doesn’t offer much after the catch. His best role is probably as an outside possession receiver as he moved the chains with efficiency last season averaging 10 yards per catch. While probably the safest bet to make the roster out of the next group of guys it will take a consistent camp to earn a spot.
2021 Stats: 36 receptions for 360 yards.
Cyril Grayson, Jr.
Bucs WR Cyril Grayson – Photo by: USA Today
Grayson didn’t come on until late last season but looked like he was going to earn himself a bigger role. After multiple practice squad elevations, Grayson was signed to the roster in January. He started the first three games of his career and had the game-winning touchdown against the Jets in Week 17. Averaging a whopping 21.2 yards per catch, Grayson’s deep speed is an asset to the Bucs offense. A hamstring injury knocked the six-year pro out of the Week 18 matchup against the Panthers and for the teams two playoff games. If Grayson can build off the momentum he was gaining last year, he could earn himself a spot on the 53-man roster.
2021 Stats: 10 receptions for 212 yards and 2 TDs with 1 carry for 14 yards.
Jaelon Darden
Darden is the wild card for the Bucs. Last year’s fourth round pick, the Bucs traded up to get him hoping he would be able to be a solution in the return game as he developed. Darden didn’t exactly set the world on fire and wasn’t even given the role until Jaydon Mickens was released. Even then he only averaged 7.5 yards per return on punts and 19.9 on kickoffs. Darden didn’t fare much better in the limited snaps he was given as a receiver either. But he’s had a strong offseason and will look to build upon that in training camp to grab one of the final roster spots up for grabs.
2021 Stats: 6 receptions for 43 yards with 1 carry for 11 yards.
Scotty Miller
Last season didn’t exactly go the way Miller wanted it to. After suffering a severe turf toe injury in Week 3, Miller was sidelined for eight games before making his return. At that point other receivers on the roster had already carved out roles and it was difficult for him to crack the lineup. Down the stretch he was inactive twice but found a new role on special teams as a gunner where he forced two fumbles. Miller is just a year removed from seeing him lead the team in receiving yards at the halfway point in 2020. He’ll look to get back on track in camp where he’ll be fighting for a roster spot in the last year of his contract.
2021 Stats: 5 receptions for 38 yards with 1 carry for 9 yards and a TD.
Breshad Perriman
Perriman is the oldest receiver on the roster other than Evans. The former first-round pick has bounced around the league and is on his second stint with the Bucs. Signing with the team mid-season Perriman provided a nice boost for the offense after signing to the active roster from the practice squad while Antonio Brown served a three-game suspension. His biggest play however came when he scored the game winning touchdown against the Bills in overtime. Perriman will have some tough competition to make the roster but shouldn’t be slept on with his knowledge of the system and relationship with the coaching staff.
2021 Stats: 11 receptions for 167 yards and a TD.
Vyncint Smith
Smith entered the league in 2018 and has spent the last three seasons with the Jets. Amember of the practice squad last year, Smith was called up for two games but did not record a stat. The 6-foot-3 receiver had his best season in 2019 when he started four games and racked up 17 receptions for 225 yards. With more accomplished veterans and younger options available, Smith will be hard pressed to land a spot on the active roster.
2021 Stats: N/A
Deven Thompkins
Bucs WR Deven Thompkins – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
Thompkins was the talk of the town in during the Bucs offseason workouts. receiving shout-outs from head coach Todd Bowles and Mike Evans. Projected as an outside receiver the 5-foot-8 wideout displays impressive straight line speed to take the top off of defenses. He routinely got behind coverage at camp and made plays on the ball with his ability to fight for contested catches.While he faces long odds to make the roster, his ability to separate and find the ball will give him a chance at sticking around on the practice squad.
2021 College Stats: 102 receptions for 1,704 yards and 10 TDs.
Jerreth Sterns
A highly productive player in college, Sterns is as pure of a pass catcher as they come. He’s a savvy route runner that will get good separation despite a lack of top-end speed. He can track the ball well and isn’t afraid to make catches over the middle in traffic. At 5-foot-9 he doesn’t have the prototypical size the Bucs look for in their slot receivers, and will need to get stronger to handle the blocking duties of the position. He’s a long shot to make the roster, but could make the Bucs practice squad with a good camp.
2021 College Stats: 150 receptions for 1,902 yards and 17 TDs.
Kameron Brown
The biggest of the undrafted free agent receivers, Brown stands 6-foot-3. He made an amazing highlight catch in the back of the end zone in mini-camp where he high-pointed the ball above the defenders head and landed in bounds for the score. Brown would immediately become the second tallest wide out on the team if he were to make the 53-man roster. But he faces tough odds with proven players ahead of him. He could be a candidate for the practice squad after cut downs.
2021 College Stats: 36 receptions for 605 yards and 5 TDs.
Kaylon Geiger
Geiger is a polished route runner with excellent short area quickness and displays the ability to separate on shorter and deeper routes. He can track the ball well and is dynamic with the ball in his hands. Those abilities were on display during offseason workouts where Geiger made plenty of plays with Evans only there for mandatory mini-camp and Godwin, Gage, and Miller all sidelined with injury. An accomplished return man, Geiger saw plenty of action returning punts and kickoffs as well. He’ll will have the greatest opportunity to make the team in that role. Though he could be destined for the practice squad.
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Immerse in the miraculous world of PITERA™ in a first-of-its-kind global-scale experience dedicated to the exclusive and iconic ingredient at the heart of SK-II
SINGAPORE, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A day of firsts. A day of discovery. A day of miracles. Global prestige skincare brand SK-II celebrates its iconic and exclusive skincare ingredient—PITERA™ with the first-ever SK-II World PITERA™ Day.
PITERA™ is at the heart of SK-II, a precious gift from nature and beyond. For over 40 years, every single SK-II product is formulated with PITERA™ and is the key to millions of skin transformations[1] around the world.
Held in Tokyo, Japan, and virtually broadcast to the world, World PITERA™ Day is SK-II's very first global large-scale event dedicated to the iconic PITERA™. Exclusively attended by SK-II celebrity ambassadors – including Japanese actress Haruka Ayase, MINA of global girl group TWICE, Japanese actress and model Ayaka Miyoshi, and Japanese comedian Naomi Watanabe – and some of the biggest names in beauty across the world, World PITERA™ Day features an immersive journey that unfolds the miracles of PITERA™[2] from its origins to its latest scientific discoveries and innovations like never before.
Begin your journey by entering the world of PITERA™ with an immersive retelling of PITERA™'s fascinating origin story and view the first ever bottle of PITERA™ Essence made. Take a virtual trip to visit the one place in the world where PITERA™ is crafted, the Shiga Plant in Japan. Marvel at the miracles of PITERA™[3] pioneering skin health and beauty as well as skin science discoveries and milestones, including an exclusive first-in-the-world showcase of SK-II's latest breakthrough PITERA™ 24/7 Skin Fluctuation Study based on the skin of young women today.
Get up close and personal with SK-II's groundbreaking PITERA™ innovations in Brightening and Early Anti-Aging with the award-winning GenOptics UltraAura Essence and Skinpower. Step into the future of skincare with SK-II's latest, most advanced contactless skin analysis tool, the Mini Magic Scan, to unlock your skin age, health and beauty and receive your very own personalized PITERA™ regimen.
The day of firsts for PITERA™ culminates with an unveiling of SK-II's boldest PITERA™ stress-test yet. SK-II's "Late Night Portraits" campaign features a series of stunning bare-skinned photographs starring SK-II's beloved brand ambassadors courageously captured at their worst moments. Inspired by SK-II's first in the world PITERA™ 24/7 Skin Fluctuation Study that uncovers how women's skin condition fluctuates greatly within a day, even looking almost 10 years older, due to multiple daily stressors, "Late Night Portraits" is testament to the power of SK-II's PITERA™ and PITERA™ Essence stabilizing her skin's daily fluctuations. Powered by PITERA™ and PITERA™ Essence as her skincare essential, her skin is transformed to Crystal Clear Skin3, even when it's meant to be her worst moment.
"PITERA™ is a precious gift from nature and beyond. For over 40 years, it has changed the destiny of millions of women, and we are delighted to open our doors to its full story for the first time with World PITERA™ Day," shared Sue Kyung Lee, CEO, Global SK-II. "PITERA™ has remained unchanged but the miracles of its scientific discoveries and innovations continue to unfold. Through SK-II's partnerships with the world's top scientists and dermatologists on extensive research studies, we have never stopped uncovering new PITERA™ secrets and its ability to transform skin to Crystal Clear Skin. World PITERA™ Day is a recognition and celebration of the miracles that PITERA™ has brought and will continue bringing to the world."
About SK-II
For more than 40 years, SK-II has touched the lives of millions of women around the world through skin and life transformation. The fascinating story behind SK-II began with a quest to understand why elderly sake brewers had wrinkled faces, but extraordinarily soft and youthful-looking hands. These hands were in constant contact with the sake fermentation process. It took years of research for scientists to isolate SK-II's iconic ingredient PITERA™, a naturally-derived skincare ingredient crafted from a proprietary yeast fermentation process exclusive to SK-II. Since then, SK-II with PITERA™ has become a special secret shared by celebrities all over the world such as Chloe Grace Moretz, Simone Biles, Tangwei, Chun Xia, Haruka Ayase and Kasumi Arimura and Naomi Watanabe. For the latest news and in-depth information, please visit http://www.sk-ii.com.
About PITERA™
Iconic and exclusive to SK-II, PITERA™ is a naturally derived skincare ingredient crafted from a proprietary yeast fermentation process that is exclusive to SK-II. Packed with over 50 micro-nutrients – vitamins, amino acids, minerals and organic acids – the unique composition of PITERA™ harnesses the vital force of nature and is one that can't be achieved artificially or synthetically. PITERA™ by SK-II is welcomed in by skin like its own because PITERA™ has a unique composition that resembles skin's Natural Moisturizing Factors. This allows PITERA™ to be absorbed quickly and deeply* into skin delivering all its goodness.
[1] Within stratum corneum
[2] Japan, Indonesia & Thailand to find alternative articulation for "miracle" i.e. wonders of PITERA™
[3] Japan, Indonesia & Thailand to find alternative articulation for "miracle" i.e. wonders of PITERA™
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Kid-Favorite Character Designs Make Mealtime Fun with Kid-Friendly Tableware
NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brand Buzz CP has announced the launch of a family-friendly line of Glad products on GladforKids.com – an interactive website where parents can purchase Glad™ tableware designed specifically for kids.
In 2019, Brand Buzz and Glad launched a Glad for Kids line of paper products to provide mess-free and easy clean-up solutions for families. The Glad for Kids portfolio includes paper products like plates, bowls, cups, snack bowls with lids, straws, and more. What began with four lively prints — Sharks, Rocket Ships, Dinosaurs, and Unicorns — has since expanded into licensed partnerships featuring several well-known children's brands, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Peppa Pig, PAW Patrol®, PJ Masks, Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, and L.O.L. Surprise™.
The brand launched GladforKids.com to showcase the full line of products, as well as fun downloadable coloring pages with activity pages for parents.
Rory Wehrlie, director, Office of Strategic Alliances, Clorox, adds, "We're excited to collaborate with Brand Buzz on a family-friendly line of Glad® products and on a GladforKids.com website. As a health and wellness company, Clorox is committed to providing sustainable and family friendly products."
Glad and Clorox have been the go-to brands when it comes to conveniently containing everything from meals to messes. The Glad™ line of tableware products meet a family's needs for daily dining, parties, storage, and meals on-the-go.
"We are excited to showcase the Glad for Kids products on the new site, where parents can engage with the brand, get new product updates and be a one-stop-shop for all their tabletop needs," said Brand Buzz director of product development, Ashley Chase. "We're hoping these character-inspired products help make mealtime a little less messy and a little more fun for kids and parents alike."
Glad for Kids products are currently sold on Amazon. Contact info@brandbuzzcp.com for additional information.
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Achain (ACT) traded 8.8% lower against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 12:00 PM E.T. on July 13th. Achain has a market cap of $1.92 million and approximately $398,937.00 worth of Achain was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last week, Achain has traded 24.5% lower against the dollar. One Achain coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.0019 or 0.00000010 BTC on popular exchanges.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00005188 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded 3.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $19,310.86 or 1.00041188 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded down 1.7% against the dollar and now trades at $1.91 or 0.00009912 BTC.
- Solana (SOL) traded down 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $33.05 or 0.00171231 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00005178 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
About Achain
According to CryptoCompare, “Achain is a public blockchain platform that aims to enable developers of all levels of experience to issue tokens, smart contracts, and create applications. The Achain team is committed to build a global blockchain network for the exchange of information and value transactions. The platform will use the RDPoS consensus mechanism (Result-delegated Proof of Stake). The Achain token (ACT) will give users the right to access the network services and voting privileges on the platform. “
Achain Coin Trading
It is usually not possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Achain directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Achain should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Coinbase, Changelly or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Achain using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai, Alfred Amoah, and his driver met their untimely death on Tuesday, evening while on their way to stop a demonstration.
The two were involved in a ghastly road crash in between the Akyem – Apedwa to Asafo Junction on the Accra-Kumasi highway in the Eastern Region while they were traveling back to the Municipality after being engaged in a meeting with President Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House.
DGN Online source indicated that the MCE received a distress call that some people were planning to embark on a demonstration in the Municipality.
This pushed the MCE to rush to the area to go and calm tempers down when the deadly crash unexpectedly occurred.
“We were in a meeting with his excellency the president at the Jubilee House, and according to some of his colleagues, he received a call that there is going to be a demonstration at his district tomorrow (Wednesday) so he was rushing back to the district after the meeting to go and calm things down, and that was the result,” the source said.
A Police report cited by DGN Online indicated that on Tuesday, at about 5:15 pm, a suspect driver not yet known was in charge of a Nissan Patrol 4×4 No. GC 2060- 18 belonging to the Municipal Assembly with Alfred Amoah the MCE of the Municipality on board traveling from Accra towards Kumasi direction.
On reaching a section of the road on the Accra-Kumasi Highway, a Man Diesel Articulated truck No. AS 4229-X from Kumasi’s direction veered off its lane and crashed head-on with the Nissan Patrol 4×4.
The MCE and his driver got trapped in the vehicle and both died on the spot.
With the help of the National Fire Service from Bunso and Kyebi, the bodies of the deceased were removed and sent to Kyebi Government Hospital where they were confirmed dead by the Medical Officer on duty.
A Man Diesel Fuel tanker No. GN 8540-20 driven by Habibu Adam aged 35 years old with an empty tank from Kumasi direction on seeing the danger ahead applied his brakes to avoid a crash.
In the process, he lost control of the steering wheel veered off his lane, and landed into a ditch on the offside when facing Accra direction.
Meanwhile, efforts were being made to tow the accident vehicles from the scene and effect the arrest of the Articulated truck driver who is currently at large as of Tuesday night.
The bodies have since been deposited at the mortuary for preservation, identification, and autopsy, as the Police investigation is ongoing.
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Warning: This story contains graphic depictions of domestic violence and sexual assault.
For 19 years, Lisa Banfield lived with a man described as a controlling, abusive psychopath who repeatedly beat her.
This long-term pattern of gender-based violence is described in detail in a document released Wednesday by the inquiry investigating why Gabriel Wortman fatally shot 22 people in Nova Scotia on April 18-19, 2020 — the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history.
Part of the inquiry’s mandate is to examine the role of intimate partner violence, as it formulates recommendations aimed at preventing this kind of tragedy from happening again.
In her own words, Banfield told inquiry investigators about the physical abuse she endured as the killer’s common-law wife.
“The things Gabriel would do to me included: grabbing me sexually (and) physically push me around (out of the way, on the bed, or to the ground/floor),” she said in a written statement provided to the inquiry June 22.
“(He would) pull me up by my hair to get me off the ground until my scalp felt like it was going to rip off — punch me (body, face, neck), and kick me. Though I remember he only raped me once. I felt that I was his wife and what could I do?”
Aside from the physical abuse, there was also plenty of psychological harm, the statement says.
“He pulled a gun on me and came after me a couple of times, saying that we are ‘done.’ And I don’t even know how I talked him down,” she said.
“He would even beat me in front of his friends. They would watch and not do anything about it. I knew no one could help me. They were all scared of him, too.”
Banfield, now 53 years old, is expected to testify at a public hearing on Friday.
Ina series of interviews this year, she told inquiry investigators she first met Wortman at a bar in Halifax in May 2001.
Both had left previous marriages. Three months later, they moved in together. At first, they lived in an apartment above his denture clinic in Dartmouth, N.S.
Within a year, he pressured her to sign a document aimed at protecting his ownership of properties and other assets.
In previously released interviews with the RCMP, Banfield had said the first two and a half years of their relationship were positive, and she described her spouse as “loving, kind and generous.”
But she told inquiry investigators that his violent behaviour began much earlier. In particular, she described an assault she endured in 2001 or 2002 outside a cottage near Sutherland Lake, north of their summer home in Portapique, N.S. Banfield said Wortman threw punches at her when she climbed into their Jeep and insisted on leaving.
“I jumped out and I just ran through the woods,” she said. “And then he caught me. I had blood all over me and he was dragging me back to the Jeep.”
There were witnesses to the assault. Police were called, but no action was taken. When she returned home, she found Wortman removing the wheels from her car in a bid to keep her from leaving.
“Ms. Banfield told the commission that throughout her relationship with the perpetrator, she had to focus on what was in front of her at that moment, rather than what happened in the past as a means of coping,” the 100-page summary of evidence says.
“It was only when Ms. Banfield went back and read some of the journals she kept during their relationship that she recognized the frequency of the violence and how early on the mistreatment started.”
The inquiry’s latest report goes on to describe Wortman’s frequent infidelity, his chronic alcoholism and his persistent efforts to control Banfield through manipulation, intimidation, threats and financial coercion.
“Ms. Banfield stated that the perpetrator always made her feel like she would be taken care of and did not have to worry,” the document says, while also making it clear that he kept her name off of any ownership documents.
For years, she worked as his assistant at the denture clinic, which provided her only source of income. Her family was worried she was becoming too dependent on him.
“I’m close to my siblings and I talk to them every day, but he didn’t like that,” Banfield told the RCMP. “He wanted all of my attention, and if I didn’t give it to him, he was like a little boy ? that needed a constant build-me-up kinda thing …. Throughout our relationship, he’d be very controlling.”
She initially told the RCMP that she could recall about 10 times when she suffered abuse at the hands of her partner. But she later told inquiry investigators that the number was higher, based on what she had written in her journals.
At one point, in 2003 or 2004, a neighbour confronted Wortman at his Portapique home and demanded that he allow Banfield to collect her things and leave, the document says. “No one’s coming in this house,” he is quoted as responding. “And I’m just letting you know, I’ve got guns in here.”
Banfield confirmed that she never told police about her dangerous living situation, despite encouragement from some of her siblings.
At one point, they took photos of her injuries, but those pictures have since disappeared.
“Where am I going to go even if I left,” she told the inquiry investigators. “He knows where (my relatives) all live and I didn’t know what he would do.”
Banfield said she eventually stopped talking to her siblings about the violence, but they knew his controlling, abusive behaviour had not stopped.
“He’s a psychopath or a sociopath, he’s a narcissist,” Banfield’s sister, Janice, told the inquiry, adding that he was a “ticking time bomb.”
The document concludes with a detailed account of the couple’s final days together in April 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was forcing shutdowns and social isolation around the world.
“He loved Trump,” Banfield said in her written statement, referring to the former U.S. president.
“He was constantly on the internet listening to Trump and watching the news cycle about COVID … He’d tell me he wasn’t afraid of dying …. But this time he told me that he knew when he was going to die …. He was talking crazy, and it scared me, so I just changed the topic.”
The four Lisa Banfield re-enactment videos provided to the Mass Casualty Commission by the RCMP can be viewed here.
If you or someone you know is in crisis and needs help, resources are available. In case of an emergency, please call 911 for immediate help.
- Mental Health & Addictions Provincial Crisis Line: 1-888-429-8167
- Visit the Department of Justice’s Victim Services Directory for a list of support services for people experiencing abuse in your area.
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We didn’t hit 10-0 after all. But, we did get to 9-0 as the other play we had is taking off today. Feel free to rebet it, I am not, but my reasoning still stands for taking the Mariners in the first half of the Flexen/Gray game. Good luck however you choose to play it. As for us, let’s try and get to 12-0.
Pirates vs. Marlins
Are the Pirates really going to win the first three games against the Marlins? Last time they took the first three games of a road series was when they swept the Dodgers last month. Stranger things have happened, I suppose. The Marlins have a strong candidate to stop the bleeding though in Pablo Lopez. At home, Lopez has a stellar 2.41 ERA. And, after a tough June, he has rebounded with a strong July. The Pirates send JT Brubaker to the mound, and no matter how you split it, the guy has a 4+ ERA. In six of his past seven starts, he has allowed at least three runs. The Pirates have been playing better, but I think Lopez should put some distance between the teams. I’ll take the Marlins run line at +120. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Marlins go over their 3.5 team total either.
Dodgers vs. Cardinals
I’ve said it before when Tony Gonsolin pitches, I’m playing the opponent to be under their team total. I’ll play it until it doesn’t consistently hit. We’ve made a ton on this bet this season and even against good competition, it has hit. We pushed on it last week, but that wasn’t really his fault, the bullpen allowed a run late. Either way, I’ll play it again tonight against the Cardinals. Gonsolin is now 16 starts into this season and hasn’t allowed three earned runs in any game. I think this game is almost certain to go under the total of 8.5 so I’ll play that too, but I will take the Cardinals under 3.5 as well.
Padres vs. Rockies
Here is another guy that I’m counting on to get under their opponent to under their team total. Joe Musgrove has two games this season in which the opponent has scored 3 or more runs. Only one of those games was four or more runs. Today he faces the Rockies at Coors Field. This is not something you always want to take, but the way he is throwing, contact is coming at a premium. One concern I have about this is he has had a lot of fly balls in the last two games. Either way, he also had a solid six innings of no earned runs allowed. I’ll play the Rockies team total under 4.5 at -114.
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Mumbai court cancels Aryan Khan's bail bond, allows release of passport
Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan can now travel abroad. A Mumbai court has cancelled Aryan's bail bond and has given permission to release his passport.
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- Aryan Khan is Shah Rukh Khan's son
- A Mumbai court has cancelled Aryan's bail bond
- The court has also given permission to release the star kid's passport
Sometime back, Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan's son, Aryan Khan, was given a clean chit in the cruise drugs case by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). A Mumbai court has now cancelled the star kid's bail bond and has also given permission to release his passport.
Reportedly, a special Mumbai court under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act has directed the court registry to hand over Aryan's passport to him.
The star kid, who was arrested by the NCB in October last year in a drugs case, had submitted his passport before the court as part of his bail conditions. He was later given a clean chit due to "lack of sufficient evidence". Aryan had sometime back filed a plea before a special NDPS court seeking the return of his passport.
Special court judge VV Patil said, "Admittedly, no complaint was filed against six persons including present applicant as no evidence surfaced during the investigation. In view of the no objection given by the NCB SIT, prayer for cancellation of bail bonds needs to be allowed and passport needs to be released," as reported by India Today.
"The bail bonds of the applicant hereby stands cancelled and his surety stands discharged," the court said.
Meanwhile, the star kid had recently made headlines when it was reported that he has been working on a script that he is writing and is preparing for direction as well. A report had stated that while directing and writing is Aryan's immediate goal, he also has acting ambitions.
The star kid, who has completed his course in direction and screenplay writing at the University of Southern California in the USA, reportedly assisted and choreographed a few action scenes in SRK's Pathaan.
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The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The share price of Shell plc (NYSE:SHEL) dipped -1.34% to close Tuesday’s market session at $47.69, lower as compared to yesterday’s close. The stock price fluctuated between $47.055 and $47.82 throughout the trading session with the volume trading being 5048865 shares, which represented a significant variation when compared to the three months average volume of 5.39 million shares. The firm’s stock price fluctuated -1.87% within the last five trades and -19.89% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price increased 0.89% in the last 6 months and -14.98% was subtracted to its value over the previous 3 months. SHEL stock is trading at a margin of -7.78%, -14.02% and -5.92% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
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As of the close of trading, SHEL deals in the Energy domain. The stock is trading -22.68 percent below its 52-week high and 31.31 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is null. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Shell plc’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 9.20 percent and the profit margin is 7.40 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 24.40 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $173.27 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio for Shell plc (NYSE:SHEL) is 8.55. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 4.94. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 0.60 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 1.03, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
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Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 0.20 percent of Shell plc shares are owned by insiders, and 7.30 percent are held by financial institutions. | https://www.bovnews.com/2022/07/13/a-tale-from-the-dusty-corner-shell-plc-shel-stock-2/ | 2022-07-13T17:17:19Z | https://www.bovnews.com/2022/07/13/a-tale-from-the-dusty-corner-shell-plc-shel-stock-2/ | true | 16544 |
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia have arrested two people in connection with a shooting in which they say the pair robbed a man as he lay on the ground dying.
Newport News police said Robert Freeman, 32, of Hampton, was arrested on Monday for his role in a July 5 robbery and shooting that killed Dominic Thompson, 34, the Daily Press of Newport News reported. The second suspect, Adrian Demetrice Williams, 38, was arrested Friday, police said.
It's not known whether either man has an attorney.
Officers were dispatched to a gas station early on July 5. Upon arrival, they found Thompson on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a local hospital where he died.
A criminal complaint filed in Newport News General District Court said surveillance footage recovered from the gas station showed one suspect shot Thompson twice and the other suspect helping the shooter with robbing Thompson of his belongings while he lay on the ground dying. | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/2-arrested-in-Virginia-after-man-robbed-as-he-lay-17302395.php | 2022-07-13T17:22:47Z | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/2-arrested-in-Virginia-after-man-robbed-as-he-lay-17302395.php | false | 12 |
Six players from the Broad Acres will contest the world’s oldest major championship representing a wide range of experience and a unique slice of geography.
There are two major winners among them in Danny Willett and Matt Fitzpatrick, two amateurs in Sam Bairstow and Barclay Brown, and two professionals in John Parry and Marcus Armitage.
Such is the prominence of golfers from these parts that four come from Sheffield alone (Willett, Fitzpatrick, Bairstow and Brown), while only three Scottish players are competing at an Open hosted in their own country. And as recent history tells us, Yorkshire golfers are not in these fields merely to make up the numbers.
Fitzpatrick tees off as one of the favourites after becoming men’s golf’s most recent major champion following his nerveless win at the US Open at Brookline last month.
The 27-year-old was not in the field the last time St Andrews hosted the Open in 2015, having only turned professional 13 months earlier, but he famously won the silver medal for leading amateur on his debut at Muirfield nine years ago.
A tie for 20th at Portrush in 2019 is his best Open result in six appearances, but he warmed up for St Andrews with a tie for sixth in the Scottish Open and could take inspiration from his pairing with Tiger Woods for the first two rounds.
Willett also knows how to win a major, doing so six years ago at Augusta. Indeed, only three Englishmen have won majors this century, two of them hailing from Sheffield.
While Willett has been unable to sustain long periods of positive form since the run that took him to his Masters victory in 2016, he still has the ability to pop up and challenge every so often, as he did at St Andrews last October when winning the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, his most recent tournament win.
He was also in contention for the Claret Jug the last time time the Open was staged at the home of golf in 2015.
How Brown and Bairstow fare will be fascinating. Both may be amateurs but they have a professional mindset, witnessed in the calm manner of Brown’s qualification from a field of seasoned professionals at Hollinwell earlier this month and Bairstow’s resolve in matching the achievement at St Annes Old Links, the course where 10 days earlier he had lost the final of the British Amateur.
Both have the potential to be in contention for the silver medal.
It is heartening to see Parry back in a major field. For the 35-year-old from Harrogate, a winner on the European Tour as long ago as 2010, this is his Open Championship debut having flitted between the Challenge Tour, the EuroPro and even the 2020protour in recent years.
He twice qualified for US Opens in the last decade.
And Armitage who plays out of Howley Hall in Morley is back at the Open for the second straight year as he looks to continue establishing himself on the DP World Tour where he was a winner last year. | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/golf/the-open-matt-fitzpatrick-and-danny-willett-lead-strong-yorkshire-contingent-at-st-andrews-3767405 | 2022-07-13T17:26:36Z | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/golf/the-open-matt-fitzpatrick-and-danny-willett-lead-strong-yorkshire-contingent-at-st-andrews-3767405 | false | 1 |
NOEL KING, HOST:
On July 4, 1962, President John F. Kennedy addressed a large crowd at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where he celebrated the durability of the Declaration of Independence.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY: To read it today is to hear a trumpet call for that Declaration unleashed not merely a revolution against the British but a revolution in human affairs.
KING: Here to answer your questions about the Declaration of Independence, both the document itself and the Fourth of July celebrations it gave birth to, is commentator Cokie Roberts. She answers your questions every week about how the government works. Good morning, Cokie.
COKIE ROBERTS, BYLINE: Hi, Noel.
KING: All right. Our first question comes from Twitter from Kurt Rex Cooper. He writes (reading) what documents did they use as a model? I'm thinking of the charges against Charles I and other documents from English history.
ROBERTS: Well, Charles I was a British king who was executed in the 17th century as Oliver Cromwell established parliamentary power. And the whole affair, including the charges against him, were pretty underhanded. So it was not a place where the founders would be looking. Instead, they stuck close to home. They looked at the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which had just been published a month before, and other states' calls for rights. North Carolina claims to have written the first declaration of independence. May 20, 1775, the citizens of Mecklenburg County separated themselves from Britain, but the Congress was not ready to declare independence then. It took another year and pressure from outside, especially among some women.
KING: So women were involved in politics back in 1775.
ROBERTS: Boy, were they - very much so. Mercy Otis Warren was writing plays and poems published all over the country vilifying British rulers. And think about that. You know, that was treason. Abigail Adams was writing incessantly to her husband, John, in Congress saying I long to hear that you have declared an independency. She had no patience whatsoever with attempts to reconcile with the crown.
KING: Get it done, John (laughter).
ROBERTS: Right.
KING: Our next question is about reconciling two conflicting ideas. It comes from Collette Hanna. She writes (reading) I understand what it took to make the declaration, but what was the rationale behind gaining independence from one country while enslaving people from other countries?
ROBERTS: Ironically, Jefferson, the slave owner, had included a paragraph condemning the king for his refusal to allow legislation to, quote, "prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce," meaning slavery. But it was struck from the declaration in order to get full congressional agreement. Decades later, Jefferson said it was the slave owners of Georgia and South Carolina and the slave traders of the North who insisted on excising the language.
KING: Oh, that's interesting. And that actually brings us to our last question.
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SYLVIA BROWN: Sylvia Brown - Hope, Ark. How have black Americans and indigenous peoples been celebrants? Are there equivalent independence events?
ROBERTS: Well, famously, Frederick Douglass, when asked to give a Fourth of July speech in 1852, told his audience that to the American slave, quote, "your celebration is a sham." Now, that changed with emancipation. But some African-Americans do celebrate independence on Juneteenth. That's June 19, 1865, the day the last of the slaves are believed to have been freed. As to Native Americans, after their religious and cultural rituals were outlawed at the end of the 19th century, many took to celebrating the Fourth of July as a way to keep those customs alive somewhat surreptitiously. But, you know, Noel, both groups correctly remind us that their ancestors fought with the colonists for independence and in every American war since.
KING: Cokie Roberts, happy Fourth of July.
ROBERTS: Same to you.
KING: Thanks, Cokie. That's commentator Cokie Roberts. And you can ask Cokie your questions about how politics and government work by tweeting at us with the hashtag #AskCokie.
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The advantages of installing 3D printing across the federal government could be huge, although the technology has been slow to reach that potential. That could finally be changing as the Navy has deployed the first 3D printer onboard a warship that is capable of printing reliable metal parts while underway at sea.
The government has been interested in 3D printing for a very long time. Back in 2015, I wrote an explainer-type story for Nextgov where experts talked about the many advantages that government would eventually gain from investing in 3D printing technology. But while those early printers were extremely interesting, they had limited use because of the substrate they used to create physical objects.
Early 3D printers only used a plastic-based substrate, which was generally fed into them on long spools, which would be melted and then repurposed into whatever object the creator wanted. The early printers were capable of producing some amazingly advanced projects, with some of them able to accept computer-aided design plan files for extreme precision. However, because of the substrate used, the final product was made of plastic, so it was of limited use. Yes, you could print a small combustion engine, a gear for a machine or a work of art, but trying to use the finished product in any practical way would probably cause it to melt or break.
The killer application for 3D printing in government came not from finding something useful that the government could print in plastic, but from improving the printers to be able to handle more durable raw materials, especially metals. Called additive manufacturing, certain 3D printers now allow the government to print products using everything from metals to composite fibers to concrete.
I recently hosted a roundtable discussion with experts in the field of additive manufacturing. Experts working in the field explained the many advances that 3D printing has made over the years, and how that is opening up new possibilities for government service.
“We have a system that prints stainless steel, metal tools and copper,” said Tony Higgins, Federal Leader for Markforged, one of the new leaders in additive manufacturing. “A lot of our customers are using this type of technology to create functional tools, custom parts, work holdings and fixtures.”
So far, the Army has been one of the biggest proponents of 3D printing for complex construction jobs. “We have a number of different systems that can print everything from concrete, to foams, to other types of materials,” said Megan Kreider, Mechanical Engineer for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. Kreider recently worked on an Army project where an entire bridge was constructed of 3D parts that were printed using concrete and other heavy materials.
“You have to go through a structural engineer, and they outline what the reinforcement needs to be, how it’s going to be printed, and it’s highly interdisciplinary.” Kreider said. But after that, the parts are printed, normally right on the job site, and then fitted together to form the structure.
On land, 3D printing structures in the military can save time and money for big projects. But at sea, having the ability to print a critical part on demand might be the difference between having a ship able to continue its mission and requiring it to return to port for repairs. That is why the Navy has been so interested in additive manufacturing as it evolved from more simple 3D printing.
Last year, the Navy installed a liquid metal printer manufactured by Xerox at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Called the ElemX Liquid Metal Additive Manufacturing machine, it is being used to test out manufacturing during deployments, and to reduce the long supply chains needed to support ships at sea.
Apparently, the testing on land went well, as the Navy announced that an additive manufacturing 3D printer is now installed on the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex. The printer is being tested during the massive Rim of the Pacific—or RIMPAC—2022 combat exercises taking place over the summer. The Essex is the first ship to participate in the initial testing and evaluation of an additive manufacturing 3D printer during underway conditions at sea.
During RIMPAC, the 3D printer on the Essex will be tasked with printing many of the parts that Navy ships routinely require while on maneuvers. This includes training sailors how to quickly manufacture heat sinks, housings, bleed air valves, fuel adapters, valve covers and much more. The printer on the Essex can manufacture metal parts as large as 10-by-10 inches.
According to Lt. Cmdr. Nicolas Batista, the Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD) officer aboard Essex, “Additive manufacturing has become a priority and it’s evident that it will provide a greater posture in warfighting efforts across the fleet, and will enhance expeditionary maintenance that contributes to our surface competitive edge.”
If the printer performs well during RIMPAC, the Navy could expand the role of those devices. Batista said in a Navy press release that the “Commander Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander, Naval Air Systems Command have also initiated efforts to establish an AIMD work center, solely designed for the additive manufacturing concept, and are striving towards the capability of fabricating needed aircraft parts with a 3D printer.”
So it seems like if all goes well for the 3D printer during RIMPAC, that we may soon see more heavy metal manufacturing on the high seas, and more complex and larger parts being constructed by sailors, without any assistance or materials from back on land required.
John Breeden II is an award-winning journalist and reviewer with over 20 years of experience covering technology. He is the CEO of the Tech Writers Bureau, a group that creates technological thought leadership content for organizations of all sizes. Twitter: @LabGuys
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Report: Albert Pujols Will Participate in the 2022 Home Run Derby
Albert Pujols is doing more than just going to the final All-Star game of his career on Tuesday, July 19. There is a report that the day prior he will be participating in the Home Run Derby.
As Yahoo Sports reported a few days ago, Albert Pujols was chosen as a legacy selection by the commissioner for the 2022 All-Star Game on Tuesday, July 19. Now, Katie Woo of The Athletic is reporting that Albert will also compete in the Home Run Derby on Monday, July 18. She indicates that she's heard this from multiple sources.
CBS Sports reports that this will be Albert's 5th home run derby as he was also in the competition in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2015.
It was just this past weekend that Albert hit the 684th home run of his career against the Philadelphia Phillies.
If reports are accurate, next Monday will be must-see TV when Albert Pujols swings for the fences against reigning champion Pete Alonso among others one final time. | https://newstalk1280.com/report-albert-pujols-will-participate-in-the-2022-home-run-derby/ | 2022-07-13T17:29:36Z | https://newstalk1280.com/report-albert-pujols-will-participate-in-the-2022-home-run-derby/ | false | 1 |
On Tuesday, shares of Aprea Therapeutics, Inc. APRE experienced volatile short activity. After the activity, the stock price went up +5.14% to $0.94.
The overall sentiment for APRE has been Bearish.
The signal from the volatility alert is trending Bearish. Therefore, the recommendation is to Strong Sell.
The volatility alert was produced on the prior trading date, 7/12/2022, with a volatility change of +84.72%. The current volatility indicator stands at 14.665.
Overview: The securities lending volatility indicator is produced by Tidal Markets, in partnership with Benzinga Insights. Securities lending primarily serves the purpose of providing liquidity to short sellers. When unusual activity occurs in the securities lending markets, it acts as an upstream indicator to what is likely to occur downstream in the regular stock market.
Understanding the Volatility Alert: Overall sentiment is considered "bear" when broad market activity of the stock has been shown to indicate a negative directional basis, or is considered "bull" when indicating a positive directional basis. The securities lending volatility indicator provides a signal when it detects unusual short activity. Unusual short activity is based off a computer generated algorithmic formula utilizing securities lending trade details such as the volume of shares being shorted, the rate being paid to short the shares, and the type of collateral being posted - amongst other variables. The current volatility is the respective trading day's calculated securities lending volatility value. The volatility percentage change is the percentage difference in volatility between the two most recent days. The recommendation is a suggestive strategy, inferred from the strength of the Signal Trending, Current Volatility, and Volatility % Change. Recommendations may include, "Strong Buy", "Strong Sell", "Increase Short Exposure", "Decrease Short Exposure", or "Market Neutral".
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Los Angeles County has 25 state parks, recreation areas, historical sites and beaches. There are 24 more in Orange and San Diego counties. But in the eight counties of the San Joaquin Valley, which stretches from the Tehachapis to the northern edge of San Joaquin County, there are only 15 state sites, and only five of those are state parks.
That is about to change.
In the budget just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, enough money has been dedicated to start creating California’s first new state park since Fort Ord Dunes in Monterey County joined the system more than a decade ago.
The proposed 2,100-acre Dos Rios Ranch State Park in western Stanislaus County has the potential to be as wonderful as it is unique.
River Partners, a conservation group that has completed some 300 river restoration projects across the state — and has dozens more in the pipeline — laid the groundwork. The nonprofit purchased the first 1,600 acres at the confluence of the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers in 2012 and has since added another 500 acres.
Using planting and irrigation techniques any Central Valley farmer would recognize, River Partners transformed a flood-prone farm into a thriving riparian habitat.
Staff and volunteers planted 350,000 native trees, shrubs and grasses and restored natural contours to create a preserve hospitable to the valley’s unique wildlife, such as the endangered riparian brush rabbit, Western monarch butterfly, Swainson’s hawk and steelhead trout, to name a few.
Scientists know that on food-filled floodplains, young salmon grow strong — we call them “floodplain fatties.” Stronger, larger, juvenile salmon have a much better chance of evading hungry bass and surviving the journey through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to the Pacific Ocean.
During this awful drought, it’s hard to recall that the Tuolumne River flooded in 1997, damaging some 1,800 homes near Modesto. In 2017, so much water rushed into Don Pedro Reservoir that officials feared it would spill, causing devastation from Modesto to Stockton.
The draft 2022 Central Valley Flood Protection Plan shows that peak flood flows on the San Joaquin River often could double and occasionally increase fivefold in coming decades because of a changing climate.
All that water needs a place to go.
Dos Rios would act as a pressure-release valve, allowing floodwater to spread, slow and sink, recharging the region’s aquifers. Meanwhile, new forests of valley oaks and cottonwoods will capture greenhouse gas twice as fast as mature Sierra Nevada forests, slowing climate change.
A new park just 10 miles west of Modesto means northern San Joaquin Valley residents won’t have to drive hours to find first-class recreational space. A beautifully restored river landscape will be at their doorstep. Just across the river is the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge — every year a temporary home to hundreds of thousands of migratory waterfowl.
Creation of the park was made possible by California’s historic budget surplus, but we consider it an investment, not an expenditure. Groundwater recharge and flood relief are utterly crucial for the Central Valley. Restoration of the riverbanks will create good jobs for many residents.
This multibenefit conservation model can be used across the state, hopefully resulting in dozens of river parks up and down the Central Valley.
Before that can happen, there’s plenty of work to do at Dos Rios Ranch, and it will require the efforts of everyone who shares our dream. Soon, state leaders will be asking what Dos Rios State Park should include, how it should look and be run. After gathering input from the community, we can begin turning this dream into reality.
Building on what River Partners and an alliance of determined government, industry, nonprofit and science partners started two decades ago, we will be bringing a state park to Stanislaus County and a river back to life. And that will bring more life to the Central Valley. | https://santamariatimes.com/opinion/guest/new-state-park-could-help-california-answer-climate-change-guest-commentary/article_d4cf504e-7463-5544-bd90-c6ddf5cd1890.html | 2022-07-13T17:35:09Z | https://santamariatimes.com/opinion/guest/new-state-park-could-help-california-answer-climate-change-guest-commentary/article_d4cf504e-7463-5544-bd90-c6ddf5cd1890.html | false | 5 |
Peering Into Broadcom's Recent Short Interest
Broadcom's (NASDAQ:AVGO) short percent of float has fallen 12.06% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 4.90 million shares sold short, which is 1.24% of all regular shares that are available for trading. Based on its trading volume, it would take traders 2.0 days to cover their short positions on average.
Why Short Interest Matters
Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope that the price will fall. Traders make money from short selling if the price of the stock falls and they lose if it rises.
Short interest is important to track because it can act as an indicator of market sentiment towards a particular stock. An increase in short interest can signal that investors have become more bearish, while a decrease in short interest can signal they have become more bullish.
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Broadcom Short Interest Graph (3 Months)
As you can see from the chart above the percentage of shares that are sold short for Broadcom has declined since its last report. This does not mean that the stock is going to rise in the near-term but traders should be aware that less shares are being shorted.
Comparing Broadcom's Short Interest Against Its Peers
Peer comparison is a popular technique amongst analysts and investors for gauging how well a company is performing. A company's peer is another company that has similar characteristics to it, such as industry, size, age, and financial structure. You can find a company's peer group by reading its 10-K, proxy filing, or by doing your own similarity analysis.
According to Benzinga Pro, Broadcom's peer group average for short interest as a percentage of float is 3.68%, which means the company has less short interest than most of its peers.
Did you know that increasing short interest can actually be bullish for a stock? This post by Benzinga Money explains how you can profit from it..
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David A Guba, Jr., Bard Early College Baltimore
(THE CONVERSATION) Early in 2022, the French legislature greenlighted the cultivation of cannabis inside French territory to supply the nation’s ongoing pilot program in medical marijuana. The clinical trials were launched in March 2021 with cannabis supplied from abroad and have been overseen by the country’s food and drug office, the Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament, or the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products.
This two-year pilot program consists of 3,000 patients in France using medical cannabis, something that’s been prohibited since 1953.
While the agency has praised the pilot program for its groundbreaking efforts to produce “the first French data on the efficiency and safety” of cannabis for medical therapies to treat cancers, nerve damage and epilepsy, the trial is not the nation’s first foray into the medical cannabis industry. Far from it.
‘A drug not to be neglected’
I am a historian of cannabis and colonialism in modern France. My research has found that in the middle 19th century, Paris functioned as the epicenter of an international movement to medicalize hashish, a THC-rich intoxicant made from the pressed resin of cannabis plants.
Many pharmacists and physicians then working in France believed hashish was a dangerous and exotic intoxicant from the “Orient” – the Arab Muslim world – that could be tamed by pharmaceutical science and rendered safe and useful against the era’s most frightening diseases.
Starting in the late 1830s, some of those same pharmacists and physicians began preparing and selling hashish-infused edibles, lozenges and later tinctures – hashish-infused alcohol – and even “medicinal cigarettes” for asthma in pharmacies across the country.
Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, dozens of French pharmacists staked their careers on hashish, publishing dissertations, monographs and peer-reviewed articles on its medicinal and scientific benefits.
French epidemiologist Louis-Rémy Aubert-Roche published a treatise in 1840 in which he argued that hashish, administered as a small edible called “dawamesk” taken with coffee, successfully cured plague in seven of 11 patients he treated in the hospitals of Alexandria and Cairo during the epidemic of 1834-35. Aubert-Roche was an anti-contagionist in the era before the germ theory – the idea that microbes can lead to disease – became scientific dogma. He, like most physicians then, believed the plague to be an untransmittable disease of the central nervous system spread to humans via “miasma,” or bad air, in unhygienic and poorly ventilated areas.
Aubert-Roche thus believed, mistaking symptom relief and luck for a cure, that hashish intoxication excited the central nervous system and counteracted the effects of the plague. “The plague,” he wrote, “is a disease of the nerves. Hashish, a substance that acts upon the nervous system, has given me the best results. I thus believe it is a drug not to be neglected.”
Reefer madness
Physician Jacques-Joseph Moreau de Tours, organizer of the infamous Club des Hachichins in Paris during the 1840s, likewise heralded dawamesk as a homeopathic wonder drug for treating mental illness. Moreau believed insanity was caused by lesions on the brain, and he also believed that hashish counteracted the effects.
Moreau reported in his 1845 work, “Du Hachisch et l’aliénation mentale” (“On Hashish and Mental Illness”), that between 1840 and 1843, he cured seven patients suffering from mental illness at Hôpital Bicêtre in central Paris with hashish. Moreau wasn’t totally off-base; today cannabis-based medicines are prescribed for depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorders.
Despite the small sample size, doctors from the U.S., the U.K., Germany and Italy published favorable reviews of Moreau’s work with hashish during the late 1840s and across the 1850s. One praised it as a “discovery of much importance for the civilized world.”
Tincture wars
Though physicians in France and abroad touted dawamesk as a miracle cure, they also complained about the inability to standardize doses due to the variation in the potency of different cannabis plants. They also wrote about the challenges posed by the common adulteration of dawamesk, which was exported from North Africa and often laced with other psychoactive plant extracts.
In the early 1830s, several physicians and pharmacists in the British Empire attempted to solve these problems by dissolving hashish in alcohol to produce a tincture. By the middle of the decade, French practitioners followed suit. They developed and marketed their own hashish tinctures for French patients. One pharmacist in Paris, Edmond de Courtive, branded his concoction “Hachischine” after the infamous Muslim assassins often associated with hashish in French culture.
The popularity of hashish tincture grew rapidly in France during the late 1840s, peaking in 1848. That was when pharmacist Joseph-Bernard Gastinel and the aforementioned De Courtive engaged in a legal battle over the patent – then known as the “right to priority” – for a tincture manufactured though a particular distillation method. “L'Affaire Gastinel,” as the press termed it, or The Gastinel Affair, caused an uproar in French medical circles and occupied the pages of journals and newspapers in Paris for much of that fall.
To defend his patent, Gastinel sent two colleagues to argue his case to the Academy of Medicine in October 1848. One, a physician called Willemin, claimed that not only did Gastinel devise the tincture distillation method in question but that his tincture provided a cure for cholera, also thought to be a disease of the nerves.
Though Willemin was unable to convince the Academy of Gastinel’s right to priority, he did convince doctors in Paris to adopt hashish tincture as a treatment against cholera.
Physicians in Paris didn’t have to wait long to test Willemin’s theory. A cholera epidemic erupted in the city’s outskirts just months later. But when hashish tincture failed to cure the nearly 7,000 Parisians killed by the “blue death,” doctors increasingly lost faith in the wonder drug.
In the following decades, hashish tincture fell into disrepute as the medical theories of anti-contagionism that underpinned the drug’s use against the plague and cholera gave way to the germ theory and thus a new understanding of epidemic diseases and their treatment. During the same period, physicians in French Algeria increasingly pointed to hashish use as a key cause of insanity and criminality among indigenous Muslims, a diagnosis they termed “folie haschischique,” or hashish-induced psychosis. Heralded as a wonder drug only decades before, by the end of 19th century the drug was rebranded as an “Oriental poison”.
Lessons for today
In my view, these earlier efforts to medicalize hashish in 19th-century France offer doctors, public health officials and policymakers of today several important insights as they work to return cannabis-based medications to the French market.
First, they must aim to dissociate cannabis intoxicants and medicines from colonial notions of “Oriental” otherness and Muslim violence that ironically underpinned both the rise and fall of hashish as medicine in France during the 19th century. As scholar Dorothy Roberts astutely argued in her 2015 TED Talk, “race medicine is bad medicine, poor science and a false interpretation of humanity.”
As I see it, doctors and patients should also temper their expectations of the benefits of medicinal cannabis and not overpromise and then deliver lackluster results, as happened with hashish tincture during the cholera outbreak of 1848-49.
And they should be mindful that medical knowledge unfolds historically and that staking the new career of cannabis as medicine on contested theories could hitch the drug’s success to the wrong horse, as happened with hashish after the obsolescence of anti-contagionism in the 1860s.
But if France were to engage its colonial past, reform its prohibitionist policies and continue to open up legal room for medical and recreational cannabis, I believe perhaps it could again become a global leader in this new medical marijuana movement.
This is an updated version of a piece that was published on Sept. 24, 2019.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/france-reenters-medical-marijuana-industry-after-more-than-a-half-century-hiatus-a-cannabis-historian-explains-186790. | https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/France-reenters-medical-marijuana-industry-after-17302374.php | 2022-07-13T17:40:05Z | https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/France-reenters-medical-marijuana-industry-after-17302374.php | false | 15 |
As the UK’s summer of celebrations rolls out, almost half of adults consider getting their community together as the best part of street party planning, according to new research.
With any occasion calling for a gathering this summer, garden drinks (28 per cent), BBQs (26 per cent) and just celebrating summer with family and friends (33 per cent) topped the list of reasons to celebrate.
It also emerged that the top faux pas of party etiquette include turning up without bringing anything (42 per cent) and not inviting all the neighbours (33 per cent).
A spokesperson for Barefoot Wine, who commissioned the study, said “This year is shaping up to truly be a summer of celebration, with Pride Month in full swing, Wimbledon, the Commonwealth Games, Women’s EUROs and so many more events that will see the country come together to celebrate.
Parties and get togethers are being planned up and down the country, and we’ll certainly be raising a glass of Barefoot Wine to mark these occasions! Luckily, we’ve got you covered on how to make sure your party is the best, with super-smart party etiquette to be inspired from.”
When asked about what turns a party sour, Brits said to steer clear of leaving half eaten food (29 per cent), not helping with the party prep (26 per cent), double dipping food (25 per cent), playing awful music (25 per cent), not tidying up (20 per cent), double parking (16 per cent) and turning up late (15 per cent).
Another 36 per cent said getting to know neighbours better is a top summer party highlight for them, while 16 per cent simply enjoy drinking a glass of wine with others.
Top summer party faux pas
- Turning up without bringing anything
- Not inviting all the neighbours
- Leaving half eaten food about
- Not helping with the party prep
- Double dipping food
- Playing awful music
- Not tidying up
- Double parking
- Turning up late
Top 5 favourite foods to pair with a tipple and enjoy at parties
- Sausage Rolls
- Crisps
- Sandwiches cut into triangles
- Cake
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NEW YORK CITY — Authorities in New York City said two people, including a 7-year-old boy, died after a chartered boat capsized in the Hudson River on Tuesday.
During a press conference, officials said 12 people were on the boat when it overturned at around 2:46 p.m.
New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said ferries helped police and fire officials rescue people from the water.
Sewell said the two victims were unresponsive when they were pulled from the water by first responders and were later pronounced dead.
The Associated Press reported that three people, including the boat's captain, were critically injured.
During the press conference, New York Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said that the victims were a 7-year-old boy and a 50-year-old woman.
Their identities have not been released.
Officials said during the press conference that the boat owner was on a jet ski following the vessel when it capsized.
CNN reported that the National Weather Service showed winds were at 17 mph when the boat overturned.
What caused the boat to capsize is still under investigation, officials said. | https://www.wtkr.com/news/national/child-woman-killed-when-boat-capsizes-in-nycs-hudson-river | 2022-07-13T17:41:58Z | https://www.wtkr.com/news/national/child-woman-killed-when-boat-capsizes-in-nycs-hudson-river | true | 20 |
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What is Amazon Prime Day?
Amazon Prime Day is an annual two-day shopping event for Amazon Prime members. Each year the sale is met with doorbuster deals on some of our favorite products—think huge savings on headphones, robot vacuums, air fryers and so much more. The exclusive two-day sale is available to both new and existing Prime members. Not an Amazon Prime subscriber yet? Don't worry, there's still plenty of time to sign up.
Do you need to have an Amazon Prime membership to shop Prime Day deals?
Yes. Amazon Prime Day is exclusive to Prime members, hence the event offering the best deals for those with a Prime subscription. If you're not a Prime member, you can shop stellar Amazon Prime Day deals by signing up for an Amazon Prime free trial or a Prime membership today. A standard Amazon Prime membership will run you $14.99 per month, or $139 for a one-year subscription. Meanwhile, students and qualifying government assistance recipients can sign up for Prime for up to 50% off.
When is Amazon Prime Day 2022?
Amazon Prime Day started yesterday, July 12 and runs through tonight, July 13. We saw tons of price drops leading up to Prime Day with even deeper discounts available today. If you're not an Amazon Prime member yet, we even found a few ways for you to sign up for up to 50% off right now.
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How long is Amazon Prime Day?
Amazon Prime Day is a 48-hour shopping event. Although the deals will only be available for two days, the sitewide sale is one of the best opportunities to score must-have gadgets and home goods for well under retail value. To help make shopping the sale even easier, we're saving you time by leading you directly to the best deals—be sure to bookmark this page to be the first to know about new markdowns.
When does Amazon Prime Day end?
Amazon Prime Day runs through tonight, July 13 at 11:59 p.m. PST. While some of the most eye-catching deals with the biggest discounts will expire by the event's end, some will continue past the event's official end. Even better news for savvy shoppers: Other competing sale events—including Nordstrom's legendary Anniversary Sale—run well past the end of Prime Day.
What deals can we expect during Amazon Prime Day?
Whatever it is you're shopping for, there are tons of Amazon Prime Day discounts you can scoop during Prime Day 2022—including several already-live deals you can shop today. The retailer is offering category-wide discounts including price cuts on smart tech, kitchen tools, home products, beauty essentials, fashion staples, fitness gadgets, parenting must-haves and more for Amazon Prime Day 2022. If you have a Fire TV, Kindle, Echo speaker or any other Amazon device on your wishlist, Prime Day will have plenty of deep discounts available.
What competing stores are offering Amazon Prime Day discounts?
Although Amazon Prime Day is exclusive to Amazon, plenty of other popular retailers typically offer similar sales. We're seeing sales on top-rated products at Walmart, Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, The Home Depot, Wayfair and Best Buy. If you don't have an Amazon Prime account it may be a good idea to shop alternate retailers that offer price matching services.
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RAMAT GAN, Israel, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Senstar Technologies (NASDAQ: SNT), a world leader in video management and perimeter intrusion detection solutions, today announced that the Senstar brand has been named one of the top five perimeter intrusion brands according to a reader survey conducted by asmag.com earlier this year.
"As the only company on the Top 5 list that is not a camera manufacturer and with a broad range of security technologies, Senstar is proud to be recognized by the industry as a trusted company in perimeter protection," said Senstar Managing Director Fabien Haubert.
Senstar's perimeter-focused integrated technologies cover a wide range of solutions such as a fence, buried and above-ground sensors, and a modular common operating platform encompassing video and security management, video analytics, and access control. Recently, Senstar introduced a groundbreaking technology, the sensor fusion engine, as part of this platform.
Asmag.com surveyed its readers about the perimeter intrusion detection brands of their choice, features that played a significant role in decision-making, and services that need improvement. Senstar was cited as "an established industry name in perimeter intrusion detection products," offering integrated technologies for multi-layered perimeter protection.
The complete article is available at Top 5 perimeter intrusion brands: 2022 asmag.com reader survey.
"The purpose of the survey was to identify the brands that are 'top of mind' for the security industry and the features they value the most," said Emily Lin, Editor-in-Chief of asmag.com. "For this, we reached out to our readers, mostly based in Asia, who represent the security distribution channel from distributors and resellers to integrators. The survey reveals that the line between brands and product groups is fading. Decades ago, a company might have been limited to a field like surveillance or intrusion detection. But today, companies can combine different technologies for a diverse solution portfolio to address key security requirements. Channel players place detection accuracy as a top priority and want to integrate their intrusion detection systems with VMS and analytics. They look forward to using artificial intelligence to increase accuracy and reduce false alarms."
Senstar Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Senstar Technologies, is a leader in the security industry, providing multiple security solutions for various verticals such as PIDS, VMS, and EAC-Analytics. Senstar's products have been protecting critical assets worldwide for over 40 years. Key to the company's longevity and success is the ability to deliver leading-edge security and risk management solutions backed by deep industry knowledge and world-class support.
About Senstar Technologies Ltd.
With innovative perimeter intrusion detection systems (including fence, buried, and above ground sensors), intelligent video-management, video analytics, and access control, Senstar offers a comprehensive suite of proven, integrated solutions that reduce complexity and improve performance and unify support. For 40 years, Senstar has been safeguarding people, places, and property for organizations around the world, with a special focus on utilities, logistics, corrections, and energy markets.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Such statements are based on assumptions and expectations which may not be realized and are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which cannot be predicted with accuracy and some of which might not even be anticipated. Future events and actual results, financial and otherwise, may differ from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. A number of these risks and other factors that might cause differences, some of which could be material, along with additional discussion of forward-looking statements, are set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, there is uncertainty about the impact of the spread of the COVID19 virus and its effect on the Company's operations, the demand for Company's products, global supply chains and economic activity in general.
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‘American Horror Stories’: Alicia Silverstone, Max Greenfield & More Join Season 2 Cast
American Horror Stories is heading to the dollhouse in the first official trailer for Season 2 of FX‘s anthology spinoff.
Set to premiere Thursday, July 21 on Hulu, the series is part of the same universe where Ryan Murphy‘s hit American Horror Story is set, delving into new stories in each episode. Get ready to step into darkness as the teaser previews plenty of spooky tales ranging from a “private dollhouse” to some questionable autopsy activities.
Created by Murphy and producing partner Brad Falchuk, American Horror Stories is enlisting the help of some familiar faces as several American Horror Story stars are set to appear in Season 2. While a few are hinted at in the trailer, below, there are also plenty of fresh stars joining the universe.
Among Season 2’s cast lineup are Derrick Aguis, Genevieve Aitken, Cameron Cowperthwaite, Cody Fern, Kristine Froseth, Max Greenfield, Nico Greetham, Madison Iseman, Dominique Jackson, Judith Light, Maryssa Menendez, Denis O’Hare, Raven Scott, Gabourey Sidibe, Sarah Silva, Alicia Silverstone, Kyla Drew Simmons, Kyanna Simone, Bella Thorne, Anthony de la Torre, Houston Jax Towe, Quvenzhané Wallis, and more.
'American Horror Stories': FX Unveils First Look at Season 2
The trailer promises gore, thrills, chills, and plenty of creepy dolls that are sure to conjure a nightmare or two, but as fans know by now, that comes with the territory of American Horror Stories. Below, check out the preview, and don’t miss American Horror Stories when it returns with new episodes later this month.
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A new analysis released Wednesday argues the right-wing majority now controlling the U.S. Supreme Court has dragged the institution to its lowest point in history by overtly and repeatedly attacking the bedrock foundation upon which the nation was built: representative democracy itself.
In the report—titled The Supreme Court’s Role in the Degradation of Democracy—researchers with the Campaign Legal Center detail how the Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has issued rulings in a "consistently anti-democratic" pattern and by doing so reversed "decades of work by prior Courts that sought to perfect and protect our democracy."
"When one branch of the federal government has gone this far astray, the only solution is a firm application of the 'checks and balances' the Framers designed to prevent such abuses of power."
According to the analysis:
The Roberts Court has turned on our democracy, choosing in every important case to reach results undermining popular sovereignty and equal voting rights. This behavior has accelerated and become increasingly extreme with the arrival of Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. The Court has greenlit laws that make it harder to vote, especially for people of color, the poor, and the young, and permitted unbridled gerrymandering to entrench political factions unable to win majority approval. At the same time, the Roberts Court has invalidated or critically weakened laws designed to protect voting rights and reduce the undue influence of money in politics. These decisions, taken together, form a stark and troubling pattern of distorting democracy at every opportunity.
Paul Smith, senior vice president of Campaign Legal Center, who has personally argued over 20 cases before the Supreme Court, said the institution is at an all-time low.
"The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has hit rock bottom," said Smith.
"The Court's track record on democracy is particularly woeful and concerning, given that a strong democracy is essential to a functioning America," he added. "The Roberts Court repeatedly tells voters that they can turn to the political process for relief from rulings that they may disagree with, but then in its rulings, increasingly makes it more difficult for voters—particularly voters of color—to participate in that process."
The analysis examines a number of decisions over the 15 years—including Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), Shelby County v. Holder (2013), Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), and others—that together expose how the Court has methodically "weakened laws designed to protect voting rights and reduce the influence of money in politics."
With a focus on decisions that centered on ballot access for voters, partisan gerrymandering, and campaign finance reforms effort, the report concludes that judicial activism and rulings of the Roberts Court "have done, and continue to do, damage to voters, American democracy generally, and to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court itself."
What should be done to halt or reverse the Court's destructive march?
"Better lawyering by advocates for democracy is not the solution," the analysis says in response to that question.
The various rulings coupled with a review of their historical significance, reads the report, "show that this Court acts with determination to undermine democracy, even when its stated reasons for doing so are made out of whole cloth and utterly unpersuasive."
"When one branch of the federal government has gone this far astray, the only solution is a firm application of the 'checks and balances' the Framers designed to prevent such abuses of power," it continues. "Indeed, the Court’s consistent undermining of American democracy is a quintessential example of why our Constitution leaves no single actor or institution immune from correction."
With that, the Campaign Legal Center that only Congress is adequately positioned to reform the court in order to protect a democracy under threat.
"Congress must step up," the report argues. "It has the constitutional authority to correct many—though not all—of the Court's most egregious anti-democratic rulings. Congress has authority over the size, jurisdiction, and other particulars of how the Supreme Court and the federal court system is structured."
The report says the Framers empowered Congress with the ability to institute specific reforms over the court, "such as changing the number of Justices and setting term limits."
In the end, it concludes, "a serious, consistent, and substantial legislative effort to restore American democracy is the only remedy we have left" to put a stop to the Roberts Court's "anti-democratic crusade." | https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-2657668066/ | 2022-07-13T17:57:43Z | https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-2657668066/ | true | 1 |
High-risk offender released in Brantford: police
High-risk offender released in Brantford: police
Brantford police are issuing an advisory after a man convicted of multiple child pornography-related offences and sexual assault was released in the community.
In a media release, police said William Michael Smith, 62, was released on parole on June 28 with conditions to reside in Brantford.
Police refer to Smith as a “high-risk” offender.
In 2016 he was convicted for the following offences:
- Sexual Interference x 15
- Invite Sexual Touching x 4
- Print/Publish Child Pornography x 4
- Possess Child Pornography x 3
- Access Child Pornography
- Indecent Assault Female
- Sexual Assault
- Mischief x 3
Smith was arrested in Guelph in 2013, following an execution of a search warrant at his home.
At the time, police said all the alleged victims in the case were known to him.
Among them were three young siblings, according to their mother, who could not be named to protect the victims’ identify.
In 2013, the mother told CTV News the incidents involving her children occurred in 2010, but said her children have never opened up about them.
“I had no idea until (CAS) showed up at my door,” she said.
The current terms of Smith's release include following a treatment plan arranged by his parole supervisor, no direct or indirect contact with all victims and family members of victims, and abiding by a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
He’s also not permitted to use the internet unless it’s for the purpose of seeking employment and not allowed to be in the presence of any children under the age of 18 without supervision.
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Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups
John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries. | https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/high-risk-offender-released-in-brantford-police-1.5985841 | 2022-07-13T18:02:04Z | https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/high-risk-offender-released-in-brantford-police-1.5985841 | true | 1 |
BOSTON, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Just 10% of U.S. dioceses received scores above 60% in Voice of the Faithful's recently published 2022 report of lay involvement in Catholic Church governance. This is the first online review of diocesan finance councils' composition and compliance with Canon Law as represented on diocesan websites.
"With diocesan finance councils that adhere to the letter and spirit of Canon Law, Catholics can be more confident that diocesan finance councils exercise proper stewardship and oversight of the secular goods of the Church," said Joseph Finn, C.P.A., former VOTF treasurer and trustee and longtime advocate for lay role in Church governance.
However, "In our opinion," the report's authors concluded, "evidence of compliance with Canon Law by the diocesan finance councils is disappointingly low. The fact that only 18 dioceses achieved a passing grade obviously means there is room for improvement." To underscore the hope for improvement, the report notes that, during VOTF's related five-year history of producing its annual online diocesan financial transparency reviews, most dioceses have increased their scores.
Click here to read "Lay Involvement in Governance of the Church By and Through the Diocesan Finance Council: 2022 Report"
For this governance report, independent reviewers examined all 176 U.S. dioceses' websites to ascertain DFCs' level of compliance with Canon Law, regarding the duties, responsibilities, and authority of the DFC. Canon Law stipulates, for example, that DFC membership comprise individuals "competent" in finance, law, and real estate. Considering that clerical formation typically does not focus on these areas, the necessary competencies would be found with professionally educated and experienced lay men and women.
The governance report's reviewers graded dioceses' using a 10-question worksheet and seven of the questions referenced Canon Law directly:
- Is current information about DFC members posted on the website? (Canon 492)
- Are the terms of service for DFC members posted on the website? (Canon 492 and USCCB "Diocesan Financial Management: A Guide to Best Practices")
- What is the nature of DFC membership? (Canon 492 and USCCB DFM)
- Does the posted meeting information indicate that the bishop or his representative attends DFC meetings? (Canon 492)
- Is the DFC responsible for the preparation of the diocesan budget as to income and expenses for the coming year? (Canon 493)
- Does the DFC perform a diocesan financial review at the end of the year? (Canons 493 and 1287)
- Are acts of Extraordinary Administration defined on the diocesan website and does DFC approve their implementation? (Canon 1277)
"Based on our report's findings, we feel more strongly than ever that Diocesan Finance Councils, with appropriate lay involvement, can promote diocesan financial competence, increase financial transparency, and help prevent clergy abuse, and that a properly staffed and functioning DFC can provide a check on financial malfeasance, like that perpetrated within recent memory by the former bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia," Finn said.
Such low scores support VOTF's contention that, had dioceses followed canon 1277 with regard to obtaining "consent" from their finance councils for "extraordinary" payments to clergy abuse survivors, the "scandal and sin and sickness of abuse of children would most probably not have persisted as long as it has," according to the report. Lay involvement would have benefited financial transparency, and bishops would have been able to avoid being criticized for covering up the scandal with secret payments to survivors.
The top five highest scoring dioceses in the report were: Memphis, Tennessee, 95%; Kansas City, Kansas, 92%; Scranton, Pennsylvania, 83%; Atlanta, Georgia, 80%; and Cheyenne, Wyoming, 80%. The two lowest scoring dioceses were Crookston, Minnesota, and Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which each scored zero. Thirty dioceses scored 7% and 26% scored 10%.
With this governance report, VOTF now has three comprehensive reviews of all U.S. dioceses' websites that can give the faithful in each parish enough information to judge diocesan activities within the purview of the reports:
- "Measuring and Ranking Diocesan Online Financial Transparency: 2021 Report" (VOTF's fifth such annual report)
- "Measuring Abuse Prevention and Safe Environment Programs as Reported Online in Diocesan Policies and Practices: 2022 Report" (VOTF's first such report)
- "Measuring Lay Involvement in Governance of the Church by and through the Diocesan Finance Council: 2022 Report" (VOTF's first such report)
VOTF also maintains a webpage called "Financial Accountability" that contains links to resources to help Catholics understand diocesan and parish finances. Click here to view the page. One of the links on that page goes to "Financial Accountability – U.S. Dioceses," a website VOTF developed to provide information on demographics, overall finances, the content of financials and diocesan finance council information for all U.S. dioceses. Click here to access the website directly.
Voice of the Faithful's® mission is to provide a prayerful voice, attentive to the Spirit, through which the Faithful can actively participate in the governance and guidance of the Catholic Church. VOTF's goals are to support survivors of clergy sexual abuse, to support priests of integrity, and to shape structural change within the Catholic Church. More information is at www.votf.org.
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WRAPUP 6-Ukraine targets grain exports breakthrough at four-way talks
Ukraine said on Wednesday that an agreement to resume grain exports blocked by Russia appeared close as Turkey hosted four-way talks, raising hopes of an end to a standoff that has exposed millions to the risk of starvation. Kyiv believed a deal was just "two steps away", Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was quoted as saying before the talks began, though other participants seemed less optimistic, and Turkey's defence ministry gave no details of the meeting's outcome after announcing it had ended.
Ukraine said on Wednesday that an agreement to resume grain exports blocked by Russia appeared close as Turkey hosted four-way talks, raising hopes of an end to a standoff that has exposed millions to the risk of starvation.
Kyiv believed a deal was just "two steps away", Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was quoted as saying before the talks began, though other participants seemed less optimistic, and Turkey's defence ministry gave no details of the meeting's outcome after announcing it had ended. A United Nations spokesman said U.N. chief Antonio Guterres would speak later on Wednesday about the talks because "we believe that this is something positive". Guterres would explain why, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters in New York.
Several Ukrainian cities meanwhile reported heavy Russian shelling and, while not linking a grain deal to progress in talks to end the war, Kuleba was downbeat on prospects for peace. More than 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain are stuck in silos at the Black Sea port of Odesa and dozens of ships have been stranded due to Russia's blockade, part of what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine but which Kyiv and the West say is an unjustified war of aggression.
The talks, in Istanbul between Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish and U.N. officials, took place behind closed doors at an undisclosed location. Kuleba told the Spanish newspaper El Pais ahead of their resumption: "We are two steps away from a deal with Russia. We are in the final phase and now everything depends on Russia."
Igor Konashenkov, a spokesperson for Russia's defence ministry, said Moscow had put forward proposals to resolve the grain issue as soon as possible. Turkey published a photograph of the meeting showing the Russian and Ukrainian delegations sitting opposite each other looking stony-faced.
Ukraine and Russia are major global wheat suppliers. Russia is also a large fertilizer exporter and Ukraine a significant producer of corn and sunflower oil, so clinching a deal to unblock exports is seen as vital for food security, notably among developing nations, and for stabilising markets. TERRITORY NON-NEGOTIABLE, SAYS KYIV
Ukrainian officials said there had been sustained Russian shelling across Donetsk province, which Moscow aims to capture to complete its seizure of the industrialised Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Much of the region was controlled by separatists - labelled Russian puppets by Kyiv - before the war. A separatist official said Russian and separatist forces had entered the outskirts of the town of Siversk in Donetsk province and could take it in a couple of days, according to Russian state news agency TASS. There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian side.
Russia also struck 28 settlements in the Mykolaiv region bordering the Black Sea, killing at least five civilians, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office. Russia, which says it does not target civilians, said on Wednesday it had shot down four Ukrainian military jets, an assertion the Ukrainian air force dismissed as propaganda.
Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield accounts. As the Istanbul talks got under way, Foreign Minister Kuleba told a briefing that Ukraine's overall stance on the war had not changed.
He confirmed there were still no peace talks taking place between Moscow and Kyiv and ruled out ceding territory to Russia as part of any future deal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told a conference in Asia via videolink that Russia had launched 2,960 missiles on Ukraine's cities so far.
"Of course this is Russia's tactic... directed at chasing people out of our cities, and so that every Ukrainian feels fear," he said. 'OBSTACLES' CAUSED BY SANCTIONS
Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of exacerbating a global food crisis by complicating attempts to supply poorer nations with grain, and of fuelling inflation. Moscow has blamed Ukraine, accusing it of refusing to remove mines that it scattered around its coastline to protect itself from Russia's attack and that represent a threat to shipping.
Russia has also lashed out at the West for imposing sanctions on a range of sectors that make it harder for Russia to fund and insure its own maritime freight services. Diplomats say details of the plan under discussion at Wednesday's talks included an idea for Ukrainian vessels to guide grain ships in and out through mined port waters; Russia agreeing to a truce while shipments move; and Turkey - supported by the United Nations - inspecting ships to allay Russian fears of weapons smuggling.
Russia's Interfax news agency quoted Pyotr Ilyichev, head of the international organisations department at the Russian foreign ministry, as saying that Russia wanted to control and inspect vessels itself to rule out smuggling. He said Russia was ready to facilitate the navigation of foreign commercial vessels to export Ukrainian grain.
Russian news agency RIA quoted an unnamed diplomatic source as saying Russia's demands included the removal of "obstacles to exports" created by Western sanctions, citing the areas "of shipping insurance, logistics, transportation services and banking operations." Russia has continued to export grain since the war started on Feb. 24 but there is a lack of large vessels as many owners are afraid to send them to the region. Cost of freight and insurance are also up sharply.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — The United Nations reported “positive” results Wednesday from the first face-to-face talks in months between Russia and Ukraine on a U.N. plan to ship millions of tons of grain blocked in Ukraine because of the war to world markets and enable Russia to also send out grain and fertilizer.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was to brief reporters Wednesday afternoon on the outcome of the grain meeting in Istanbul. His deputy spokesman, Farhan Haq, said: “The important point is we believe this is something positive and he will talk to you at some length about why that is.”
The war has trapped about 22 million tons of grain inside Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. U.N., Turkish and other officials are scrambling for a solution that would empty the silos in time for upcoming harvest in Ukraine. Some grain is being transported through Europe by rail, road and river, but the amount is small compared with the Black Sea routes.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says the war in Ukraine is endangering food supplies for many developing nations, raising food prices globally and could worsen hunger for up to 181 million people.
Russia said meanwhile, it had presented a package of proposals for a “practical and quick solution” to unblock the export of Ukrainian grain but did not elaborate.
The Russian and Ukrainian officials, dressed in civilian clothes, faced each other around a large square table, along with Turkish military officials and U.N. envoys.Turkey’s Defense Ministry announced the talks had ended about 90 minutes after it confirmed that they had begun.
Ukraine is one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but Russia’s invasion and war has disrupted production and halted shipments across the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
Turkey has offered to provide safe Black Sea corridors and worked with the U.N., Russia and Ukraine to reach an agreement. The U.N. would establish a center in Istanbul to control the shipments, Turkish officials have said.
Speaking before the talks, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told The Associated Press that grain exports from his country’s ports won’t resume without security guarantees to ship owners, cargo owners and to keep Ukraine as an independent nation.
Any agreement needs to ensure that Russia “will respect these corridors, they will not sneak into the harbor and attack ports or that they will not attack ports from the air with their missiles,” he said.
Russian and Ukrainian officials have traded accusations over the stuck grain shipments.
Moscow claims Ukraine’s heavily mined ports are causing the delay. Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged that Moscow wouldn’t use the corridors to launch an attack, if the sea mines were removed.
But Ukrainian officials have blamed a Russian naval blockade for holding up the exports and causing the global food crisis. They are skeptical of Putin’s pledge not to take advantage of cleared Black Sea corridors to mount attacks on Ukrainian ports, noting that he insisted repeatedly this year that he had no plans to invade Ukraine.
Ahead of the talks, a senior Russian diplomat said Moscow was willing to ensure safe navigation for ships to carry grain from Ukrainian ports but would press for its right to check the vessels for weapons.
Pyotr Ilyichev, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s department for ties with international organizations, said Russia’s military had repeatedly declared its willingness to allow safe shipping corridors in the Black Sea.
Seventy vessels from 16 countries have remained stuck in Ukrainian ports, Ilyichev said, alleging that Ukrainian authorities had barred them from departing.
“Our conditions are clear: We need to have a way to control and check the ships to prevent any attempts to smuggle weapons in, and Kyiv must refrain from any provocations,” Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted Ilyichev as saying.
Guterres has worked for months to secure a deal that would allow Ukraine to export wheat and other commodities from Odesa, the country’s largest port, and also enable Russia to export its grain and fertilizer to global markets.
Western sanctions on Russia do not ban exports of food or fertilizer. But Moscow argues that Western sanctions on its banking and shipping industries make it impossible for Russia to export those goods and are scaring off foreign shipping companies.
Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kyiv-based Penta Center think-tank, said a key issue at the talks was what country would offer security guarantees and send warships to escort vessels carrying grain.
Ukraine also wants to set up a control mechanism to ensure that Russia doesn’t ship grain from the territories it seized in Ukraine to global markets, he said.
“Ukraine is demanding to work out a transparent and clear mechanism of international control,” he said. “The Ukrainian authorities are using the talks in Turkey to urge international partners not to buy what was stolen or pay to Kyiv for it.”
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador last week after Turkish authorities briefly detained a Russian ship suspected of transporting stolen grain but allowed it to leave and return to a Russian port. A Turkish official said authorities were not able to determine that the ship carried stolen grain.
NATO-member Turkey has retained close ties to both Moscow and Ukraine.
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Suzan Fraser reported from Ankara. Edith Lederer in New York contributed.
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Taoiseach Micheal Martin has offered his “deepest sympathies” as he said he wanted to share reviews into infant organ disposal with the families affected.
It comes after the revelation, published by the Irish Examiner, that Irish hospitals continued to incinerate children’s organs until recently – against the HSE’s own guidelines.
It has also been revealed that multiple public hospitals held organs for more than a year, again against guidelines.
Speaking during leaders’ questions, Mary Lou McDonald said “we can only ever imagine” the hurt caused to families.
“These revelations at the time were met with understandable public outrage, and we can only ever imagine the extreme hurt, the extreme distress, that these families have experienced,” she said.
She said parents at Cork University Maternity Hospital are still waiting for answers.
“These parents have been told on four separate occasions that there will be a delay in giving them the report of the review, despite the fact that that review is complete”, she said.
“These are parents who lost their babies in tragic circumstances, who have had to endure the heartache of hearing that their child’s organs were disposed of alongside medical waste.”
In response, the Taoiseach said: “First of all, I want to express my deepest sympathies to the families involved.
“It is unacceptable, it is very, very distressing for the families concerned.”
Mr Martin said he wants audits and reviews into what happened at the hospitals to be shared with the families affected.
He added: “Again, the needs of the family for transparency should be absolutely prioritised by the HSE.”
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It was March 2020, just before the first lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Ottawa resident Stephanie Fortin had recently lost her full-time retail job.
As soon as businesses closed their doors in compliance with public health measures, it became near-impossible for Fortin to find work. So she applied for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, a hastily assembled government program that offered eligible recipients $500 a week from March 15 to Sept. 26.
Fortin is one of some 20.7 million Canadians who received pandemic supports in 2020, according to data from the 2021 census that Statistics Canada published on Wednesday.
The data show that Canadian incomes trended 9.8 per cent higher during the early pandemic than five years earlier, with Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador seeing the only overall decreases. The median after-tax household income was $73,000, a reflection of slow employment income growth over five years and higher government transfers in 2020 specifically.
Despite fewer Canadians receiving employment income during the pandemic, the transfers pushed the low-income rate down to 11.1 per cent in 2020 versus 14.4 per cent in 2015, the largest decline since 1976. Statistics Canada also attributes a decrease in income inequality to the programs.
Experts cautioned that the income data, which is based on Canada Revenue Agency tax and benefits records, would form a complicated picture of the early pandemic and should be seen as a snapshot in time — longer-term factors are at play in understanding how the landscape has evolved since.
During the time that she received CERB, Fortin was able to cover her bills, pursue long-abandoned hobbies and plan ahead for her next steps toward an education that would land her a better-paying and more satisfying job.
“For a lot of us, it was the first time that we couldn’t identify as our work. We had to truly figure out who we are,” she said in an interview. “And that break, both mentally and financially, where I didn’t have to worry about money, allowed me to envision what I wanted for myself in the future.”
Last year, Fortin enrolled in a dental assistant program at La Cité, a francophone college in Ottawa, and after graduating this spring the 30-year-old is working as an assistant in a dental office.
In every economic crisis, there is a measurable trend of younger workers pursuing more education to make themselves more attractive to employers, economist Armine Yalnizyan explained ahead of the census data being released.
Yalnizyan, who is the Atkinson fellow on the future of workers, argued that young people aged 15 to 34 currently have “the biggest leg up of any generation since the 1950s” in finding the types of jobs they want. Though CERB played a role in helping some young people toward those goals, she said the bigger factor to pay attention to is population aging.
Half a million older adults entered the 65-plus demographic since the pandemic began, with many others taking early retirement. This affects the mobility of younger adults in the labour market, Yalnizyan said, but will also skew average income trends, as retirees form a large population bloc and tend to bring in lower, fixed incomes.
“What the pandemic did was actually pour accelerant on the main story of the labour market for the last 10 years,” Yalnizyan said, referring to the effects of population aging. “It just accelerated what was going to happen anyway.”
That longer-term trend is reflected in the census data, which shows more than 20 per cent of the workforce already fell under the 55 to 64 category by 2020.
Another factor that Yalnizyan said will influence overall income and labour trends in the wake of the pandemic is the widening of Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs, which are admitting larger numbers of non-residents for whom wage growth is typically stagnant.
This year’s federal budget promised to address labour shortages, including in sectors such as retail, food services and health care, by loosening restrictions on the number of temporary workers that can be brought in and for how long they can work.
That labour shortage is a reflection of how quickly employment rates returned to something that looked like normal after the initial pandemic slump, according to Casey Warman, an economics professor at Dalhousie University.
“The bounceback was incredibly fast. Surprisingly fast,” he said in an interview before the census data’s release. “By halfway through 2021, we’re completely back to where we were before.”
Still, the numbers from 2020 offer a valuable snapshot on what people’s sources of income were during the pandemic, he said.
In a news conference Wednesday morning, Statistics Canada Chief André Bernard said it is difficult to unpack what would have happened in 2020 without the impact of the government transfers, though certain year-over-year statistics show the negative impact of the pandemic when viewed in isolation.
The share of Canadians receiving employment income fell from 2019, with more women than men dropping out of the labour market. The gender pay gap remained, with men earning 35 per cent more than women, according to median income rates.
In 2020, 113,835 fewer Canadians received employment income than in 2019, and 415,585 more earned less than $20,000.
Taken in isolation from the pandemic benefits, median employment incomes were down from 2019 in most provinces. The biggest losses came in resource-rich Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan, down 6.3 per cent, six per cent and 4.2 per cent respectively — losses attributed in part to record-low oil prices.
Higher median incomes in British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and the three territories are a reflection of job losses in low-income sectors, the agency reported, because people who did not earn any income are not reflected in the median income calculations.
More than two-thirds of Canadian adults, or 68.4 per cent, received COVID-19 related government benefits, with 27.6 of adults receiving federal emergency and recovery benefits, most often CERB.
More than half of adults also received top-ups to existing federal programs, including 90.5 per cent of seniors, and 4.2 million Canadian adults also received money through provincial or territorial relief programs.
—Marie-Danielle Smith, The Canadian Press
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On June 30, police were called to 46309 Telegraph Road in Amherst Township for a theft complaint.
Panagiotis Kourzis says his two short-hair shepherds were last seen on June 29 at around 1 p.m.
Kourzis reports the lock to the fenced area was broken and the dogs were missing when he returned the next day to the off-site property to feed them, which he does several times per day.
He says he’s kept his dogs in the fenced in area for two years and has had no problem with the surrounding businesses.
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What happened
Shares of ChargePoint Holdings (NYSE: CHPT) are down Wednesday as investors adjust to the news that U.S. inflation shows no signs of ebbing. In response to the June Consumer Price Index readout, the market has bid down growth stocks in general. But that isn't the only factor leading some to unplug from the electric vehicle (EV) charging stock. An insider transaction is also motivating traders to click the sell button.
As of 1 p.m. ET, shares of ChargePoint were down 0.8%, having largely recovered from an earlier slide of as much as 5.7%.
So what
U.S. inflation soared to a new four-decade high of 9.1% in June. Investors, consequently, are betting that higher prices will likely deter people from purchasing new vehicles -- namely, EVs. If that's true, EV-charging infrastructure companies like ChargePoint will see lower demand for their services.
In addition, according to a regulatory filing submitted Tuesday, ChargePoint board member Michael Linse sold 1,696,646 shares of the company in two transactions for a total of about $23 million on July 8.
Now what
While it's understandable that some investors are looking to move away from growth stocks like ChargePoint as high inflation persists, it's important to also recognize that inflation won't be a stake through the heart of the EV industry. It's widely expected that EV adoption will grow in the coming years, and drivers will need places to charge their vehicles.
Similarly, investors oftentimes view insiders' decisions to sell shares as ominous signs, speculating that such moves mean there's something concerning about the company's prospects that the public doesn't know yet. This, however, is faulty logic. There are many reasons why an insider may choose to sell shares -- only one of which may be the knowledge that there's something troubling about the company.
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(CTN News) – There are just a few hours left to take advantage of Amazon’s Prime Day 2022 Apple Watch deal, which delivers a record low price on the popular wearable. Nevertheless, inventory is limited and styles are selling out quickly.
Amazon Prime members can still save $120 on 41mm and 45mm Apple Watch Series 7 styles, bringing prices down to $279. We are seeing the lowest price on Apple Watch Series 7 ever, with limited stock left in select colors as the Prime Day-exclusive deal ends tonight.
Must Read: Apple Watch Series 7 Just Hit A Record Low Price On Amazon Prime Day – $115 Off
Apple Watch Prime Day deals
- 41mm Series 7 (GPS), Aluminum Case, Sport Band: $279 ($120 off)
- 45mm Series 7 (GPS), Aluminum Case, Sport Band: $309 ($120 off)
- 41mm Series 7 (GPS + Cellular), Stainless Steel Case, Sport Band: $579 ($120 off)
- 45mm Series 7 (GPS + Cellular), Stainless Steel Case, Sport Band: $629 ($120 off)
On Prime Day 2022, Apple users can save up to $350 on everything from AirPods to Macs. In this Prime Day (Day 2) guide, we’ve rounded up our best deals for prime day.
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The best amazon prime day deals:
- AirPods Pro: $169.98 ($80 off)
- Apple TV 4K (32GB): $109 ($70 off)
- Apple TV 4K (64GB): $129 ($70 off)
- iPad 9th Gen (64GB, Wi-Fi): $299 ($30 off)
- M1 Mac mini (8GB RAM, 256GB SSD): $569.99 ($130 off)
- 14″ M1 Pro MacBook Pro (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) Space Gray: $1,799 ($200 off)
Even more tech deals
AppleInsider and Apple Authorized Resellers are running specials on Mac and iPad hardware that will not only guarantee the lowest prices, but also include savings on accessories, software and more. Prime Day deals include the following:
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BOSTON (AP) — A man who threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and members of her family in messages sent through anonymous social media and email accounts has agreed to plead guilty, federal prosecutors in Boston said Wednesday.
Marshall Nicholas Fain, 31, of New Haven, Connecticut, was in a relationship with the Massachusetts woman for about two years before they split last August, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office.
From September until December 2021, Fain sent the woman and her relatives multiple death threats, authorities said.
He was arrested in February. He has agreed to plead guilty to cyberstalking and transmitting threats through interstate commerce, prosecutors said.
Under terms of the deal, Fain faces nearly four years in prison, according to court documents.
A plea hearing has not been scheduled. His federal public defender declined to comment via email.
“The language used by this individual made his intent clear," U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said in a statement. “Threats of violence, whether spoken, written, or transmitted over the internet, will not be tolerated. Domestic violence takes many forms. Verbal abuse and threats are one of them and can be precursors to escalated behaviors — like the stalking involved in this case — and, in some cases, physical abuse." | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Man-agrees-to-plead-guilty-to-threatening-17302654.php | 2022-07-13T18:24:22Z | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Man-agrees-to-plead-guilty-to-threatening-17302654.php | false | 19 |
Race teams and tuners will be challenged at high altitude as the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway in Denver kicks off the annual Western Swing.
Teams will begin the three-race series in the mountains outside of Denver, forcing crews to make changes to established power-making combinations and battle lack of downforce to tackle the environs and a chance to sweep the Swing.
The 2022 season marks Leah Pruett, Top Fuel Dragster for Tony Stewart Racing 26th consecutive year for NHRA competition.
Leah will be making her 182nd career Top Fuel start and her sixth start at Bandimere. She has one Top Fuel win (2018) at Bandimere and has two No. 1 qualifiers at the event (2017 & 2018). She is a nine-time NHRA event winner.
Leah Pruett drives the Dodge Power Brokers Top Fuel Dragster and Matt Hagan pilots the Dodge Power Brokers Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car and they will both be offering rides at Bandimere Speedway on Wednesday, July 13th and Thursday, July 14th as part of the Dodge Drive Event. | https://kdvr.com/news/if-speed-and-high-adrenaline-is-your-thing-check-out-nhra-mile-high-nationals/ | 2022-07-13T18:24:22Z | https://kdvr.com/news/if-speed-and-high-adrenaline-is-your-thing-check-out-nhra-mile-high-nationals/ | true | 1 |
Being Black in the United Kingdom Finds More Than Two in Three Black Professionals Have Experienced Racial Prejudice at Work
NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Many have downplayed the existence of systemic racism in the UK, but Black professionals who experience daily microaggressions and barriers to advancement in the workplace know it exists. Coqual, a global think tank, reported earlier this year that nearly half of Black UK professionals surveyed say race is one of the aspects of their identity that most impacts the way people see or treat them at work. Today, Coqual published a new report, Being Black in the United Kingdom, that documents how race shapes the Black professional experience in the UK and uncovers data-backed differences within the diverse Black community along the lines of gender, heritage, social class background, and other layered identities. The new report provides actionable solutions for organizations to build more inclusive workplaces for all.
"For far too long, the voices and experiences of Black professionals have been ignored. This new report sheds light on these experiences while illustrating what's at stake for companies that choose to ignore the bias and barriers Black employees face," said Lanaya Irvin, Coqual's CEO. "Our data and insights reveal that race is a salient and critical factor and provides ways for companies to make real, sustainable changes that will set the course and foundation for Black professionals to thrive in the workplace."
The new report, which employed a rigorous mixed methodology including a survey of more than a thousand college-educated professionals in the UK and in-depth conversations, focus groups, and interviews, finds that:
- Black professionals are 81% more likely than White professionals to say their companies are "not at all" or only "slightly" fair.
- More than half (52%) of Black women and 46% of Black respondents overall intend to stay at their companies for just two years or less, compared to 34% of White professionals.
- When it comes to their aspirations, 63% of Black professionals surveyed say they are very or extremely ambitious – a higher percentage than any other racial group surveyed.
Coqual finds Black professionals in the UK face a steeper climb than their colleagues recognize. More than three in four (76%) Black professionals surveyed say Black employees have to work harder to advance, while only 30% of White professionals, 42% of Asian professionals, and 52% of mixed-race professionals say the same. According to the survey, Black professionals experience 13 microaggressions more frequently than their White and Asian colleagues do—acts that underestimate, invalidate, and tokenize them, among others.
"Black professionals in the UK are experiencing harsh daily realities," said Julia Taylor Kennedy, Coqual's Executive Vice President. "While many companies are having more conversations about race at work, they are not leading to much action – which can be incredibly dispiriting. In our study, we provide a framework for action."
Prejudiced attitudes and encounters take many forms and show up daily, forcing Black professionals to anticipate and endure negative treatment. Coqual finds more than two in three Black (68%) and more than half (58%) of mixed-race professionals surveyed say they have experienced racial prejudice at their current or former companies, compared to White (28%) and Asian (50%) professionals who say the same.
The experiences of Black professionals in the UK are far from monolithic and corporate leaders need to understand the differences that exist within the UK's diverse Black community. Coqual's survey uncovers the unique experiences that Black professionals have based on heritage. Nearly half of Black Caribbean professionals (47%) surveyed say their organization is "not at all" or only "slightly" fair, a higher rate than Black African professionals (35%). Black Caribbean professionals are also less likely than their Black African peers to say they can be themselves at work (40% vs. 59%).
Meanwhile, Black African professionals in the UK face microaggressions that label them perpetual foreigners more frequently than Black Caribbeans do. Colleagues mispronounce their names and assume they grew up disadvantaged or are unfamiliar with UK culture. In interviews and focus groups, Coqual heard how these stereotypes serve as signals that Black African professionals do not belong or should not stay in the UK.
To help companies drive sustained, meaningful change, Coqual has developed a framework for action: Audit, Awaken, Act. This framework provides steps companies can take to advance their work in the DE&I space and build accountability throughout their ranks. The full report gives company examples, pointers, and pitfalls to avoid in each stage of the framework.
- Audit- First, assess the current state. Company leaders need to understand the current state of the Black professional experience and what inequities exist in the way Black professionals are treated, hired, evaluated, promoted, and compensated.
- Awaken- Bring those insights to the rest of the organization through thoughtfully designed conversations and resources for the benefit of all employees. Leaders and employees alike need to have open discussions and educate themselves about the barriers Black professionals face.
- Act- With the knowledge and understanding developed in the Audit and Awaken phases, companies must build solutions that specifically target dismantling barriers for Black employees and establish accountability at all levels.
Methodology: The research consists of a survey; literature review; virtual focus groups; Insights In-Depth® sessions (a proprietary web-based tool used to conduct voice-facilitated virtual focus groups); and one-on-one interviews. Through our qualitative methods, we reached more than 120 experts and Black professionals who are based in the UK or who have expertise on race in the UK.
The survey was conducted online in March and April of 2022 among 1,035 respondents (385 Black professionals, 404 White professionals, 108 Asian professionals, 107 mixed-race professionals, and 31 professionals of other racial groups), who were at least 21 years old and currently employed full time in professional occupations, with at least a bachelor's degree.
The survey was conducted by ORB International under the auspices of Coqual, a nonprofit research organization. ORB International was responsible for the data collection, while Coqual conducted the analysis. In the charts, percentages may not always add up to 100 because of computer rounding or the acceptance of multiple responses from respondents.
Research Partner: The Executive Leadership Council (ELC); Lead Sponsor: Johnson & Johnson; Research Sponsors: Bloomberg LP, Bristol Myers Squibb, Google, Moody's Corporation, Morgan Stanley, and The Walt Disney Company.
Research Advisors: Sophie Chandauka, MBE, Chair and Executive Founder, The Black British Business Awards & Head of Race Equity Group, the 30% Club; Sir Trevor Phillips OBE, Chairman of the Board at Green Park; and Nicola Rollock, Professor of Social Policy & Race at King's College London.
About Coqual: Coqual (formerly Center for Talent Innovation) is a global, nonprofit think tank dedicated to helping leaders design diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces where every person belongs. Founded in 2004, Coqual provides in- depth research, thought leadership, and data-driven, actionable solutions for companies to address bias and barriers to inclusion for underrepresented populations in the workplace. Coqual's cutting-edge research and advisory services focus on gender, race, ethnicity, disability, veteran status and LGBTQ identities, and others—as well as the intersections among these groups. For more information, visit www.coqual.org.
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Newsmax host Greg Kelly is adamant that former President Trump’s alleged attempt to contact an upcoming Jan. 6 witness is no big deal, and that it may have even been a butt dial.
During his broadcast following the hearing Kelly claimed that, having been the recipient of many a presidential phone call, “You actually can’t tell it’s him calling … How do you know the president actually called? They didn’t answer. Hey, maybe it was a butt dial! Tell the Justice Department that!”
Newsmax host: Trump's call to January 6 witness may have just been a “butt dial”https://t.co/cQLNg9koEb pic.twitter.com/IPNAUC8Qde
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) July 13, 2022
At the close of Tuesday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing, Vice Chair Liz Cheney revealed that Trump attempted to call a witness following the committee’s previous hearing. The witness did not answer the call, instead having their lawyer inform the committee. Cheney says the committee then supplied the information to the Department of Justice.
Allegations of attempted witness tampering by Trump allies have been swirling around committee proceedings. During the committee’s hearing on June 29, Cheney revealed that multiple witnesses had received texts or calls from individuals seeking to influence their cooperation with the committee. Cheney read a statement from a witness who was told they would “stay in good graces in Trumpworld” if they continued to be a “team player.”
We commonly ask witnesses connected to Trump whether they have been contacted by anyone attempting to impact testimony.
Below are examples of answers we have received to this question. pic.twitter.com/pwxyJBf7Kl
— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) June 28, 2022
It was later reported that former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who delivered particularly damning testimony that day, received at least one of the messages.
Kelly scoffed at the implication that anything untoward is at play, especially from the president. “Hey Liz,” he added in a tweet on Wednesday. “It could have been a BUTT DIAL. You know, like that time you called me last weekend at 2am?”
The Jan. 6 committee hearings — particular the one that preceded the alleged call — have been filled with damaging revelations, and Trump is more likely to be feeling a fire, not a phone, under his ass. Unless the former president happened to pull up the contact of a Jan. 6 witness before plopping himself on his device, it’s hard to believe the alleged call was accidental. | https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-witness-tampering-call-butt-dial-1382556/ | 2022-07-13T18:25:45Z | https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-witness-tampering-call-butt-dial-1382556/ | true | 2 |
Thirteen years after Orphan terrified horror genre fans, the titular character is back to terrorize another unsuspecting family in the upcoming prequel Orphan: First Kill.
Despite the lengthy wait for a follow-up to the 2009 horror classic, Isabella Fuhrman — who was just 12 years old when she filmed Orphan; she’s 25 now — seamlessly returns to the role of “Esther,” a thirtysomething woman with a hormonal disorder that allows her to masquerade as a child — but a murderous one, at that.
Given the ending of the 2009 film, Orphan: First Kill turns back the clock and takes place prior to its predecessor. In the prequel, Esther pretends to be Julia Stiles’ character’s missing daughter, who disappeared four years earlier.
“It’s lovely to be back,” Esther says in the trailer. “I missed my family very much.”
But the joyous occasion quickly turns deadly when Esther begins to exhibit strange and sometimes adult-like behaviors.
“I think something’s going on with Esther,” says Stiles’ character. “Esther’s behavior has been so erratic.”
“After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family,” the film’s synopsis states. “Yet, an unexpected twist arises that pits her against a mother who will protect her family from the murderous ‘child’ at any cost.”
Orphan: First Kill arrives in theaters and on Paramount+ on Aug. 19. | https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/orphan-first-kill-trailer-1382588/ | 2022-07-13T18:25:51Z | https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/orphan-first-kill-trailer-1382588/ | true | 1 |
Undefeated Mt Barker march on with ninth straight win in GSSA women’s division one competition
Mt Barker continued their domination in the Great Southern Soccer Association women’s division one competition in round 10 on Friday night, thumping Bayswater 12-1 on their way to a ninth consecutive win.
The undefeated Mt Barker sit six points clear on top of the division one ladder with Polonia trailing behind in second place.
The impressive outfit have scored a mammoth 54 goals and conceded only five across the first 10 rounds.
Meanwhile a Stephanie Grant hat-trick helped Caledonians to a comfortable 5-0 victory over Sonics on Friday.
The fifth-placed Caledonians have endured a see-sawing campaign in the GSSA this season, winning four games, drawing one and losing four.
After failing to register a win in the first four rounds, they have notched four wins in six games to move from eighth to fifth at the end of round 10.
Caledonians gained the ascendancy early in the contest, firing home an early goal before adding another shortly after as they breezed into half time 2-0 up.
Abbey Goodall and Kristen Pyrz-Brown both slotted a goal each while Grant’s three goals piled on the misery for the Sonics who slumped to their seventh loss of the season.
In the final division one match, Elisabeth Bosch and Maggie Jayne-Smit both scored four goals apiece in Polonia’s 12-2 annihilation of Polonia B.
Lucy McNamee and Keira Wiegele were the other goal scorers for Polonia while Bella Jeffs and Mya Oreo snagged two consolation goals for Polonia B.
There were no fixtures played in men’s division one, men’s division two and women’s division two due to a general bye.
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While Reece Walsh will return this weekend after contracting COVID, the virus has struck the New Zealand Warriors, and could leave them with two key omissions for this weekend's clash with the Parramatta Eels.
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak wasn't named at all in the Warriors 22-man squad for this Friday's clash, picking up the virus while his team enjoyed their weekend off, handing Edward Kosi a first-grade reprieve.
While the Kiwi international is a certainty to miss away clash at CommBank Stadium, the news isn't as doomy and gloomy for interim coach Stacey Jones, who also contracted COVID late last week.
Jones is currently in isolation recovering, however he will be reportedly free from isolation in time for the Warriors match, becoming more so a question over whether the former Warriors halfback will be fit to attend and make the big calls on gameday.
.@NZWarriors wing Dallin Watene-Zelezniak has Covid-19 and will miss Friday's game v the Eels.
Interim head coach Stacey Jones has also been isolating after a positive Covid test with it yet to be determined whether he'll be able to join the team in Sydney. @NewshubSport— Alex Chapman (@AlexChapmanNZ) July 12, 2022
Assistant coach Justin Morgan has stepped into Jones' shoes for the time being, with a call on his availability to be made by the club later this week.
Despite being struck down by coronavirus, Jones still found the time to speak to NewsTalkZB, confirming Ronald Volkman's omission came down to illness, and used the time to back future Warriors coach Andrew Webster, who will join the club on a three-year deal.
"I think it's a really good appointment from the club. Someone who is outside the square of what everyone was thinking, not getting a coach that's established and recycled" Jones said on the radio station.
"He was at the club for a couple of years, someone I had quite a bit to do with, and his knowledge of the game is right up there after coming from Penrith under Ivan."
The club is expected to announce Jones' availability on gameday. | https://www.zerotackle.com/covid-carnage-as-warriors-set-to-lose-duo-for-eels-encounter-120150/ | 2022-07-13T18:29:33Z | https://www.zerotackle.com/covid-carnage-as-warriors-set-to-lose-duo-for-eels-encounter-120150/ | true | 1 |
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Amid COVID worries, fist bumps for Biden — with exceptions
The White House said President Joe Biden would try to limit physical contact during his Middle East trip because of concern about rising COVID-19 cases — but the president swiftly reverted to his old-school, back-slapping ways after landing in Israel on Wednesday.
He doled out a few fist bumps after stepping off the plane but then threw an arm around Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and shook hands with former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The issue of contact is arising amid intense speculation about Biden's upcoming meeting with leaders in Saudi Arabia and whether he will shake hands with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who U.S. intelligence officials said probably sanctioned the killing of a critic.
It remained to be seen how Biden would greet other Israeli, Palestinian and Arab leaders during his trip, which includes a summit in Saudi Arabia of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
A new omicron variant, which can evade immunity from vaccinations and previous infections more easily, has revived concerns about the pandemic threat.
"We're trying to minimize contact as much as possible where we can," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One with the president.
But such precautions did not appear to be in place on Tuesday before Biden left for the Middle East, when he mingled and shook hands with members of Congress at a White House picnic.
Biden is set to meet with Saudi King Salman and the crown prince when he flies to the kingdom on Friday. The highly anticipated meeting is being closely scrutinized as the White House looks to reset the U.S.-Saudi relationship after a rocky start in the Biden presidency.
As a candidate, Biden had vowed to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" nation for its human rights record. Last year, the president also angered the Saudis by publicly releasing a U.S. intelligence report that determined that the crown prince, often referred to by his initials MBS, likely approved the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a fierce critic of the kingdom's leadership.
The Democratic president's plan to meet MBS has been criticized by human rights activists who accuse Biden of backsliding on a vow to make human rights a central pillar of his foreign policy.
Israeli media reported this week that the White House had told Lapid's office that Biden would refrain from shaking hands during the visit due to the surge in COVID-19 infections in the U.S. and Israel.
Jean-Pierre did not say whether such a message was conveyed to the Israelis.
Before Biden travels abroad, White House officials work with host nations to coordinate COVID-19 protocols, including testing for anyone expected to come in close contact with Biden. It's not a perfect system, as Biden often decides to greet people in large crowds that may not have been universally tested. Separately, everyone traveling in the presidential entourage is required to be tested at least once daily, in addition to any host country protocols.
The no-handshake guidance comes as the White House has emphasized that COVID-19 should not disrupt daily life due to the availability of tests and therapeutics. Biden's prior overseas trips — including a visit to Europe last fall during the surge in cases caused by the delta variant — did not include attempts to curtail Biden's handshakes.
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Madhani reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Zeke Miller and Chris Megerian in Washington to this report. | https://www.ksbw.com/article/covid-worries-fist-bumps-biden-exceptions/40601906 | 2022-07-13T18:31:08Z | https://www.ksbw.com/article/covid-worries-fist-bumps-biden-exceptions/40601906 | true | 69 |
Hindu Girl Abducted In Pakistan's Sindh Province: Report
Islamabad: In yet another case of atrocity against the minority communities in the country, a Hindu girl was abducted in Sindh province.
The girl named Shrimati Kareena was allegedly kidnapped a week ago in Unnar Muhalla, Qazi Ahmed town in Dadu, the Dawn newspaper reported.
According to the report, members of the Hindu community marched on main roads before staging a protest in front of Zardari House in Nawabshah on Tuesday in protest against what they believed was the abduction of the girl.
Police claimed the Hindu girl had eloped with a Muslim boy for love and had contracted marriage with him in a Karachi court.
The protesters chanted slogans against the police and demanded former president Asif Ali Zardari intervene to help them recover the girl.
However, local police said that Shrimati Kareena had not been abducted she had eloped with Khalil Rehman Jono of Meer Mohammad Jono village and had married him in a court in Karachi.
According to police, Asghar Jono, father of Khalil, had been arrested after the registration of FIR under Section 365-B on a complaint lodged by Sundurmal.
Earlier this year, a Hindu girl Pooja Kumari was killed by a man at her home in Pakistan's Sindh province. Pooja Kumari was shot in Sukkur after she put up resistance to attackers.
This incident drew a sharp reaction from various human rights organizations in the country.
Activists say human rights in Pakistan records have touched a new low with several media reports and global bodies reflecting the dire situation for women, minorities, children, and media persons in the country. | http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2022/07/hindu-girl-abducted-in-pakistans-sindh.html | 2022-07-13T18:40:28Z | http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2022/07/hindu-girl-abducted-in-pakistans-sindh.html | false | 5 |
In today’s recent session, 2.47 million shares of the CSX Corporation (NASDAQ:CSX) have been traded, and its beta is 1.21. Most recently the company’s share price was $28.20, and it changed around -$0.22 or -0.77% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $62.33B. CSX at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $38.63, offering almost -36.99% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $28.09, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 0.39% since then. We note from CSX Corporation’s average daily trading volume that its 3-month average coming to 16.64 million.
CSX Corporation (NASDAQ:CSX) trade information
Instantly CSX has showed a red trend with a performance of -0.77% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 29.35 on Tuesday, 07/12/22 increased the stock’s daily price by 3.92%. The company’s shares are currently down -24.41% year-to-date, but still down -0.32% over the last five days. On the other hand, CSX Corporation (NASDAQ:CSX) is -8.82% down in the 30-day period.
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CSX Corporation (CSX) estimates and forecasts
CSX Corporation share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have fallen -24.23 percent over the past six months and at a 17.31% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 12.90%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2022 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will gain 20.50% in revenue this quarter, and will report an increase of 14.00% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 14.90%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 20 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of $3.63 billion in revenue for the current quarter. 20 analysts expect CSX Corporation to make $3.66 billion in revenue for the quarter ending Sep 2022. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were $2.93 billion and $3.06 billion respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 24.00%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 19.60%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 22.70%. CSX Corporation earnings are expected to increase by 39.70% in 2022, but the outlook is positive 13.49% per year for the next five years.
CSX Dividends
CSX Corporation’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released around April 18 and April 22. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 1.41 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.40. It is important to note, however, that the 1.41% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 1.28 per year.
CSX Corporation (NASDAQ:CSX)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.22% of CSX Corporation shares, and 77.14% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 77.31%. CSX Corporation stock is held by 1,981 institutions, with Capital World Investors being the largest institutional investor. By Dec 30, 2021, it held 8.49% of the shares, which is about 184.49 million shares worth $6.94 billion.
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The), with 8.44% or 183.59 million shares worth $6.9 billion as of Dec 30, 2021, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Washington Mutual Investors Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 30, 2021. The former held 63.03 million shares worth $2.37 billion, making up 2.90% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Washington Mutual Investors Fund held roughly 55.51 million shares worth around $1.9 billion, which represents about 2.55% of the total shares outstanding. | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/07/13/future-prospects-and-stock-pricing-of-csx-corporation-nasdaq-csx/ | 2022-07-13T18:40:29Z | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/07/13/future-prospects-and-stock-pricing-of-csx-corporation-nasdaq-csx/ | false | 706 |
PRTC contractual staff shut bus stand for 2 hours, commuters suffer
With the contractual staff of PRTC/roadways department shutting down the bus stand for two hours in a protest against the state government over delay in payment of salary, traffic chaos outside the bus stand and delay in services troubled the passengers and commuters on Wednesday.
The employees slammed the state government stating that they have not yet received the salary for the month of June and the government is turning a blind eye towards their situation. The employees’ union further warned the government of a strike, if the salary is not released by July 19.
As the inter-state bus terminal remained shut from noon till 2 pm, the buses were being operated from outside the bus stand due to which traffic jams were also witnessed.
The officials at the bus stand said the protest hampered the movement of around 50–60 buses. A few buses got cancelled, while the others got delayed due to the protest.
District president of the employees’ union Satnam Singh said the agitation was raised at all the bus stands across the state and they would announce a strike, if the salary is not released by July 19. “We have also been demanding regularisation of contractual employees and will continue to raise agitation until their genuine demand are fulfilled,” he said, adding that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had announced regularisation of employees ahead of elections, but the government is not paying heed to the issue now.
Meanwhile, the passengers demanded that the employees should not trouble public and find another way to make their voice heard at state-level.
A passenger, Kuldeep Singh, said he was on his way to Ferozepur and got late by around half-an-hour, waiting for a bus outside the bus stand on Wednesday. The employees should not harass public. he said.
Bus stand station supervisor Kuljit Singh Sodhi said, “The state department has to release the salaries and efforts are being made to resolve the issue at state-level only.”
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Doctors lodge complaint after 2 persons barge into Jargon hospital
Ludhiana A senior medical officer,Dr Pardeep Mohindra, and other medical officers at Civil Hospital, Jagraon, lodged a complaint with the Ludhiana rural police accusing two persons, posing as representatives of a political party, of obstructing official duty. Mohindra said the accused claimed to conduct a checking of the sub-divisional hospital premises (SDH), Jagraon. On being asked about who had authorised them to conduct the checking, the persons could not provide any valid authority letter and soon, fled the hospital. The SMO and the medical officers have claimed to have the video and audio evidence of the same.
Jail staff conducts surprise check, 8 mobiles phones recovered
Ludhiana Eight mobile phones were recovered from the inmates of Ludhiana Central jail during a surprise check on Wednesday. In the first case, the police have booked Gurvinder Singh and Baljit Singh from whom two mobile phones were recovered. The other two FIRs have been registered against unidentified accused on the basis of the complaint lodged by assistant superintendent Sarup Chand. He said the team had recovered three phones lying abandoned in the toilet of a barrack and three in the premises of the jail. Three separate cases under Section 52-A of the Prison Act have been registered against the accused.
MC Class-4 staffers’ protest enters Day 8
Ludhiana The chain hunger strike by Class-4 staffers of the Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) under the banner of Sewermen/Safai Karamchari Sangharsh Committee outside the civic body’s Zone-A office entered its eighth day on Wednesday. The union has been seeking regularisation of 2,800 contractual employees. MLA (Ludhiana West) Gurpreet Gogi met the protesting employees and assured that he will arrange a meeting with the principal secretary of local bodies department on Thursday. Local bodies minister Dr Inderbir Singh Nijjar is also expected to participate in the meeting. Chairman of the union, Vijay Danav, said that further decision regarding the agitation will be taken after the meeting scheduled on Thursday. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/prtc-contractual-staff-shut-bus-stand-for-2-hours-commuters-suffer-101657736338662-amp.html | 2022-07-13T18:40:37Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/prtc-contractual-staff-shut-bus-stand-for-2-hours-commuters-suffer-101657736338662-amp.html | false | 1 |
In today’s recent session, 5.72 million shares of the Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) have been traded, and its beta is 1.40. Most recently the company’s share price was $163.05, and it changed around -$0.22 or -0.13% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $445.25B. META at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $384.33, offering almost -135.71% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $154.25, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 5.4% since then. We note from Meta Platforms Inc.’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 25.65 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 33.08 million.
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Instantly META has showed a red trend with a performance of -0.13% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 172.72 on Tuesday, 07/12/22 increased the stock’s daily price by 5.6%. The company’s shares are currently down -51.46% year-to-date, but still down -2.93% over the last five days. On the other hand, Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is -11.27% down in the 30-day period.
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Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 31.60%. Meta Platforms Inc. earnings are expected to increase by 36.40% in 2022, but the outlook is positive 7.53% per year for the next five years.
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SAN DIEGO – The 14-year-old boy who was shot dead this past weekend on a City Heights sidewalk was publicly identified Wednesday.
About 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Enrique Medina appears to have been walking in the area of Polk Avenue and 37th Street in the Corridor neighborhood when he was approached by a group of four men, San Diego police Lt. Jud Campbell said in a news release. Police say at least one of the men issued Medina a gang challenge and as he ran away from them, they chased him down and shot him.
They then fled traveling southbound on 37th Street as Medina was left mortally wounded by at least one gunshot on a sidewalk, Campbell said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
All four men are described by police as being Hispanic and aged between 16 and 19 years old. Their individual descriptions released by Campbell are as follows:
- The first suspect was 16-17 years old, standing about 5-foot-4 with a skinny build and he was wearing a blue baseball cap;
- The second was described as being 18-19 years old, standing 6 feet tall and weighing 160-170 pounds with a medium build. He was wearing a gray T-shirt and black jeans;
- The third also was 16-17 years old with an average height and a husky build. He was wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt; and
- The last was only described as being approximately 17 years old. It is unknown what he was wearing.
A memorial since was established near the site where Medina was killed. His sister, Natalie, told FOX 5 on Monday that he had just returned to the San Diego area from Bakersfield where he’d been sent by his mother to help keep him out of trouble.
The deadly shooting remains under investigation.
Those with information to share with investigators were asked to call the San Diego police Homicide Unit at 619-531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477. | https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/14-year-old-boy-killed-in-city-heights-identified/ | 2022-07-13T18:42:28Z | https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/14-year-old-boy-killed-in-city-heights-identified/ | true | 2 |
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Tioga Downs CEO nominated for position in Biden Administration
(WBNG) -- Tioga Downs Casino Resort President & CEO Jeff Gural was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve in his administration as the chair of the Public Buildings Reform Board.
The board operates as an independent agency that seeks out opportunities for the United States government to significantly reduce poverty, which will reduce federal expenses. He was nominated on July 6.
“It’s a true honor to be called into service for our country,” said Gural. “My experience and commitment to making the Southern Tier a better place for all local businesses have prepared me for opportunities like this. I thank President Biden for the recommendation, and I look forward to the appointment process with lawmakers in our nation’s capital.”
Gural also has or has held positions with Newmark Knight Frank, Diesel Construction Co., GFP Real Estate LLC., Statue of Liberty Foundation and the Realty Foundation of New York.
More information about the position can be found by going to the Public Buildings Reform Board website. | https://www.wbng.com/2022/07/13/tioga-downs-ceo-nominated-position-biden-administration/ | 2022-07-13T18:43:46Z | https://www.wbng.com/2022/07/13/tioga-downs-ceo-nominated-position-biden-administration/ | false | 1 |
Memory foam is a brilliant material for contouring your body to create an almost weightless feel during sleep. This takes the pressure off your joints and can help to relieve back pain, depending on whether your doctor says you’re better off with a medium-firm or firm bed.
This year’s Prime Day mattress deals include a wide range of memory foam toppers, and we’ve rounded up three of the juiciest offers right here. So if you’re looking for the best mattress topper for easing aches and pains, and at a cheaper price than normal, you’re in luck today.
If you decide you need an entirely new bed instead, then take a look at our best mattress guide for this year’s top-rated options. Many of them are also featured among the latest Prime Day deals.
Sleeping with back pain is very difficult, but you can reduce how often discomfort wakes you up by ensuring you’re sleeping on the right surface for your particular pain. We’d advise speaking to your doctor or physical therapist for advice before buying any sleep accessories. This includes buying a new pillow as depending on the one you choose, it can either support your neck or throw it out of alignment, which will impact your back pain.
Many people swear by memory foam to create a sense of pain-relieving weightlessness, but others hate it and feel they sink in too much to stay comfortably aligned. All of the toppers featured above come on a trial basis, and you can return them within 30 days if you change your mind and don’t open them.
For the real all-foam experience, take a look at our guide to this year’s best memory foam mattresses for different body types. You don't need to spend a lot to get a good all-foam bed either, as there are plenty of memory foam options among this year's best affordable mattresses now.
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Police: Man cut loose after crawling down pizza oven vent
LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man became trapped while trying to crawl down through a vent from a strip mall roof into a pizza restaurant on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to slice open the vent to free him, police said.
The man was taken to a hospital and the extent of his injuries was unclear.
Police told local news outlets that emergency responders cut open the vent where it extended upward from a pizza oven at a Little Caesars outlet in suburban Lithonia, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) east of downtown Atlanta.
Brittany Davis, a U.S. Army recruiter, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution she could hear the man yelling for help when she arrived for work at a neighboring recruiting office.
“I looked on the roof but couldn’t see anybody,” Davis said. She called 911.
Davis said a Little Caesars employee told her he could hear the man’s voice coming from inside the oven. Davis said she went inside the pizza restaurant and spoke to the man, who reported he was in pain and having a panic attack.
“I’m not sure what time the restaurant closes at night but the oven still gives off heat after they close I imagine,” DeKalb County Fire Cpt. Jason Daniels told WXIA-TV. “For him to get down into the pipe … he had to do it in a certain window of time when the oven was cool enough and obviously nobody was there.”
The man walked to an ambulance shortly after being removed and was taken to a hospital. Police did not identify him or announce any criminal charges.
Photographs showed the vent broken off and laying on the roof and firefighters cutting away the sheet metal vent while standing atop the oven. | https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-strange-news/police-man-cut-loose-after-crawling-down-pizza-oven-vent/ | 2022-07-13T18:44:38Z | https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-strange-news/police-man-cut-loose-after-crawling-down-pizza-oven-vent/ | false | 47 |
On March 11, Naci Altiner, longtime chef at George’s Family Restaurant in Oxford, opened George’s Warrenton Family Restaurant in the downtown area. That enabled local residents to enjoy their favorite George’s menu items without having to drive to Granville County or to the related restaurant in Henderson.
A native of Turkey, Altiner has lived in the United States for 21 years was the chef at the George’s restaurant in Oxford for 20 years. There, he found a mentor in restaurant owner “George” Akyar, whom Altiner describes as being more like a big brother or father.
Altiner’s strong connection with George’s restaurant began not too long after he arrived in the United States. He lived in New York for some time before moving to New Hampshire, where his uncle, a friend of Akyar, was living at the time. Altiner and his uncle moved to North Carolina to work at the George’s restaurant in Oxford.
That was in 2002, and Altiner has made a home in the Tar Heel state with his wife, Laura Murray.
One day last summer, his life would change once again. Altiner was on his lunch break at the George’s in Oxford when he was asked if he wanted to open his own business. Altiner replied, “if I find the right spot.”
That led to local real estate conversations and, as he put it, “Here I am.” Altiner originally was going to give his Warrenton restaurant another name, but word was getting around in the local community that a George’s restaurant would be opening here.
Akyar gave the OK for the Warrenton restaurant to carry the name of George’s and offer its menu items, George’s Warrenton Family Restaurant opened on March 11.
Customers will find a range of popular George’s menu items, including spinach pie, ribeyes, salmon and shrimp, burgers, salads and more. Altiner is proud of the restaurant’s homemade selections, right down to the sauces and salad dressings, and the menu that promises to offer something for everyone.
Local favorites include the Reuben, Philly Cheesesteak, pizza, calzones, Chicken Alfredo, wings, seafood, beef liver, and especially the burgers.
In addition to the food menu, the Warrenton George’s also offers full bar service.
A banquet room is available for private parties and other special events, and George’s offers catering service. Reservations for the banquet room and catering requests should be made at least a week in advance.
Altiner has found a new small town business home in Warrenton and is excited to be part of the community. He and his wife enjoy supporting local businesspeople, many of whom dine at George’s. Altiner described the residents of the local community as friendly and welcoming.
“I like being in Warrenton,” he said. “I really appreciate the people supporting us.”
George’s Warrenton Family Restaurant, located at 111 N. Bragg St., Warrenton, in open from 11 a.m.-9 pm. Mondays through Thursdays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. on Fridays, noon-10 p.m. on Saturdays and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, call 252-879-0136 or visit social media. | https://www.warrenrecord.com/news/article_baca6952-02aa-11ed-a2ce-9370ece02fd0.html | 2022-07-13T18:47:47Z | https://www.warrenrecord.com/news/article_baca6952-02aa-11ed-a2ce-9370ece02fd0.html | false | 1 |
13-Year-Old Black Girl Gets Accepted Into Medical School
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At 13 years old, Alena Analeigh Wicker has accomplished more academically than many adults. According to 12 News , the child prodigy is currently enrolled in undergraduate programs at both Arizona State University and Oakwood University, an HBCU in Huntsville, Ala. However, the young scholar revealed she has been accepted into medical school.
“Today I’m just grateful. I graduated High school LAST YEAR at 12 years old and here I am one year later I’ve been accepted into Med School at 13,” she wrote on Instagram, sharing a screenshot of her official acceptance letter.
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Her caption continued, “I’m a junior in college. Statistics would have said I never would have made it. A little black girl adopted from Fontana California. I’ve worked so hard to reach my goals and live my dreams.Mama I made it. I couldn’t have done it without you. You gave me every opportunity possible to be successful.”
The news outlet reported Wicker has shifted her career goals from engineering—with dreams of working for NASA—to medicine after being inspired during a trip abroad in Jordan.
“It actually took one class in engineering, for me to say this is kind of not where I wanted to go,” she explained to the outlet. “I think viral immunology really came from my passion for volunteering and going out there engaging with the world.”
Wicker continued, “What I want from healthcare is to really show these underrepresented communities that we can help that we can find cures for these viruses.”
As she continues her academic feats, Alena Analeigh Wicker is set to attend the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine and is on track to be finished by the age of 18 years old. She is inspired by her foundation, The Brown Stem Girl , which she created to provide an outlet for girls of color in stem through engagement, empowerment, and education.
“I’ve always thought, Why can’t girls of color do STEM and pursue jobs in STEM like others? I’ve always believed that girls of color can do anything in STEM that they put their minds to, so I created the Brown STEM Girl to give STEM opportunities to girls of color,” she told EBONY when recognized as one of the outlets 2022 HBCU STEM Queens. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2663361921720/13-year-old-black-girl-gets-accepted-into-medical-school | 2022-07-13T18:50:18Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2663361921720/13-year-old-black-girl-gets-accepted-into-medical-school | false | 1 |
Burnley
Significant update emerges in Burnley’s transfer pursuit of Coventry City man
Burnley‘s pursuit of Coventry City attacking midfielder Callum O’Hare could be about to have a positive conclusion, with TalkSPORT’s Alex Crook claiming that things are progressing in the Clarets’ attempt to bring him to Turf Moor.
The 24-year-old has emerged as one of the most exciting talents in the EFL since signing for the Sky Blues, initially on loan in 2019 before making a permanent move from Aston Villa a year later.
A skilful dribbler, the former England youth international scored five times and notched eight assists last season for Coventry in the Championship, and his impressive 2021-22 campaign has seen suitors line-up.
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One of those is Burnley, who will be Cov’s divisional rivals next season having been relegated from the Premier League, and despite already acquiring Scott Twine from MK Dons, it appears that they want to add O’Hare as well.
Having first been linked at the beginning of the month by Alan Nixon, it was reported by Football Insider that the East Lancashire outfit have already had multiple bids turned down for the playmaker.
However, Burnley now appear to be back in the running for O’Hare, with Crook reporting that a deal for the creative midfielder is ‘moving’.
The Verdict
This can only be good news for Burnley fans after it was last reported that the club had been priced out of a move for O’Hare.
If the Clarets are going to lose Maxwel Cornet and Dwight McNeil – or even just one of them – then that creativity needs to be replaced.
In O’Hare, there is a player there that whilst most effective as a number 10, can play out wide and cut inside to create chances by himself.
He can of course improve on his goal tally, which has been pretty modest over the years, but in a more attack-minded side like Burnley, which they are set to be under Kompany given the players they have, then a high seven-figure fee could end up being a good investment if that’s what Coventry are asking for.
It the Sky Blues want eight figures for O’Hare though, then it may not be worth it. | https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/significant-update-emerges-as-burnley-eye-transfer-deal-for-coventry-city-man/ | 2022-07-13T18:51:53Z | https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/significant-update-emerges-as-burnley-eye-transfer-deal-for-coventry-city-man/ | false | 1 |
Bumpy road for AIADMK chief to rebuild party
Newly anointed AIADMK interim general secretary and former Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappady K Palaniswami is facing a tough time bringing up the party as a credible opposition amid the internal churn.
In its general council meeting on July 11, the AIADMK paved the way for the crowning of Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) as its interim general secretary and the expelling of his opponent, O Panneerselvam. With the majority in the general counsel and the support of second-rung leaders, EPS could achieve the feat and expel OPS from the party.
However, OPS has moved the Election Commission of India, Madras High Court, and the Supreme Court against it and has also written to the manager of Karur Vysya Bank, Mylapore branch not to allow anyone from operating the party accounts. IANS | https://punemirror.com/news/india/Bumpy-road-for-AIADMK-chief-to-rebuild-party/cid8026996.htm | 2022-07-13T18:53:23Z | https://punemirror.com/news/india/Bumpy-road-for-AIADMK-chief-to-rebuild-party/cid8026996.htm | true | null |
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A local court here on Monday issued notice to Leader of Opposition in the Kerala assembly V D Satheesan on a case filed by the RSS against his alleged remarks related to the organisation's ideologue M S Golwalkar.
A Munsiff court her issued notice to the senior Congress leader and directed him to appear before it on August 12.
The case was filed by an office-bearer of RSS, K K Balaram alleging that Satheesan had compared the speech of former state minister Saji Cheriyan, containing alleged anti-Constitution remarks, with the content in Golwalkar's book, 'Bunch of Thoughts'.
On July 9, Satheesan rejected the legal notice issued by the RSS with the "contempt it deserves", and said he was ready to face any legal action over the matter.
"I made the statement quoting the page number of the book," he had said.
Cheriyan had, on Wednesday, announced his resignation amid criticism from various quarters, including the Opposition, over his controversial remarks.
During a recent political programme held in Pathanamthitta, the former minister had alleged that the Constitution of the country "condones exploitation" and is written in a way helping to "plunder" the people of the country, drawing sharp reaction from the Opposition parties which sought his immediate removal from the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF Cabinet.
Satheesan had said he stood by his statement that the remarks against the Constitution by the former minister were from a book penned by RSS ideologue Golwalkar.
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John Stockton has been retired since 2003 but he set a very high standard that few point guards will ever live up to.
He still owns the NBA assist record with 15,806; the closest guy to that record currently is Chris Paul, who has 10,749.
That’s going to be a tough record to break.
Stockton, who went to hometown Gonzaga before it was such a big deal, was really old school in a lot of ways. He only missed 22 games in 19 years. He was always pass-first and shunned attention.
But what he was most famous for was toughness. Stockton had the kind of toughness that Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan had.
About the only thing he didn’t do was to get a championship, which, in a way, is hard to believe. | https://www.dukebasketballreport.com/2022/7/13/23204879/youtube-gold-john-stockton-nba-utah-jazz-gonzaga-bulldogs-larry-bird-magic-johnson-michael-jordan | 2022-07-13T19:00:32Z | https://www.dukebasketballreport.com/2022/7/13/23204879/youtube-gold-john-stockton-nba-utah-jazz-gonzaga-bulldogs-larry-bird-magic-johnson-michael-jordan | false | null |
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Historic trends and practical displays intersect with one Victorian-era feature. Picture rails, a form of decorative moulding held at the top of a wall, double as both a charming addition and avenue to display framed pictures or mirrors. Pieces can be hung with movable hooks, with rearrangement made easy and no need to put holes in walls.
This moulding first appeared in the 1840s, in the early Victorian period. Picture railing is traditionally mounted in different positions depending on ceiling height. In homes with high ceilings of over 10 feet, the horizontal picture rail is hung about 11 to 16 inches below the top of the wall. This forms an important decorative frieze portion of the wall.
An alternative installation is the height of the door head, which leaves a frieze area between the rail and the ceiling. Between 1915 and 1940 with lower ceilings, the picture rail was hung about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch from the top of the wall to allow room for hanging hooks.
The Flavel House, constructed in the 1880s, has an alternative picture rail system. Metal tubing was installed under a wide decorative plaster cove molding. This is an original feature of the house and was likely gilded in the past, an ingenious way to hang heavy mirrors and paintings.
While many homes have left their picture rails intact, others have since been replaced. For a restoration project, this historic moulding is readily available at lumber and salvage yards. City Lumber Co. in Astoria and other lumber yards sell the most common picture rail moulding in hemlock by the foot.
The pieces can be lightly sanded, primed and painted. Historically, many different styles and widths of picture rail have been used. The Forsstrom House has a larger picture rail moulding than most available today, though I have found matching pieces at a Portland salvage yard to replace missing sections.
Reproduction hooks of many styles and finishes can be purchased online, with both casted metal and stamped varieties. Consider purchasing one to use for a test fit before buying a large quantity.
Note that a casted hook can’t be bent to fit a picture rail. These are best for situations with ample room above the moulding. However, a lighter stamped metal hook can be bent to fit almost any profile and easily slips between narrow spaces.
Items of light to moderate weight can be hung with decorative cord or light wire. The cording or wire is passed through screw eyes or D-rings mounted on the back of the frame. Mount the screw eyes or D-rings a few inches below the top corner in a sturdy area of the frame. I make a hanging bridal with a square knot at the back of the picture or mirror.
Heavy items should hang with decorative cord with embedded wire, plain wire or chain. Multiple hooks can distribute the weight more evenly if needed. Decorative rosettes, medallions or tassel embellishments at the top of the hook were popular in the Victorian era. Simpler hooks and wire can easily fit a more modern look.
Although the use of picture rail mouldings was in decline by the late 1930s, I’ve seen a resurgence of interest. Recently, I helped a friend who wanted picture rail mouldings in her modern condominium to hang a large collection of framed needlework and family heirlooms.
She wanted to rotate pieces and not disturb her walls. I helped her determine a location for the picture rail, which was installed with cove moulding. This antique idea deserves another look. | https://www.discoverourcoast.com/coast-weekend/coastal-life/life-in-the-big-old-house-victorian-picture-rails/article_907d2242-fc9d-11ec-982e-bf719748b840.html | 2022-07-13T19:02:20Z | https://www.discoverourcoast.com/coast-weekend/coastal-life/life-in-the-big-old-house-victorian-picture-rails/article_907d2242-fc9d-11ec-982e-bf719748b840.html | false | 1 |
Love Island fans convinced ANOTHER islander has quit villa after he ‘disappears’ from episode
LOVE Island fans think Jacques isn’t the only Islander who quit the villa last night, as they spotted Deji was missing from the show.
The Casa Amor hunk, who is coupled up with Indiyah, failed to get any screen time while drama played out elsewhere.
Those watching at home, rushed to comment on his absence, with one person writing: “Lmao did Deji also go home?? 😂😂#LoveIsland.”
“Where are the other islanders? Is Deji talking to Summer? Is Josh? 😩 #LoveIsland,” commented another.
Someone else added: “Where were Deji, Coco and Summer last night though? #LoveIsland.”
While another joked: “MISSING : wheres deji att???? #LoveIsland.”
Indiyah brought Deji back from Casa Amor with her, while Dami coupled up with Summer.
But once the pair were reunited in the main villa they both made it clear they only had eyes for each other.
Indiyah and Dami shared a passionate kiss after she decided to run outside to him when he moved to the outside bed to sleep.
Fans were left unhappy that Indiyah has been easily swayed back to Dami and they called on the producers to run Movie Night.
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Over the past few seasons of Love Island, the producers of the series would run a Movie Night to show the islanders what really happened in Casa Amor.
Meanwhile Deji’s friends were forced to deny he had a girlfriend on the outside world.
A girl who claimed to be his lover uploaded a video to TikTok.
In it, she tagged his Love Island profile and added the caption: "Imagine finding out your boyfriend is going on Love Island."
She then shared an image of Deji on her photo reel and told how she was given the boot in late June.
Yet, after the video went viral on TikTok, the situation was blurred when Deji's mate - who is running his Twitter page - made a controversial comment.
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LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man became trapped while trying to crawl down through a vent from a strip mall roof into a pizza restaurant on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to slice open the vent to free him, police said.
The man was taken to a hospital and the extent of his injuries was unclear.
Police told local news outlets that emergency responders cut open the vent where it extended upward from a pizza oven at a Little Caesars outlet in suburban Lithonia, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) east of downtown Atlanta.
Brittany Davis, a U.S. Army recruiter, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution she could hear the man yelling for help when she arrived for work at a neighboring recruiting office.
“I looked on the roof but couldn’t see anybody,” Davis said. She called 911.
Davis said a Little Caesars employee told her he could hear the man’s voice coming from inside the oven. Davis said she went inside the pizza restaurant and spoke to the man, who reported he was in pain and having a panic attack.
“I’m not sure what time the restaurant closes at night but the oven still gives off heat after they close I imagine,” DeKalb County Fire Cpt. Jason Daniels told WXIA-TV. “For him to get down into the pipe … he had to do it in a certain window of time when the oven was cool enough and obviously nobody was there.”
The man walked to an ambulance shortly after being removed and was taken to a hospital. Police did not identify him or announce any criminal charges.
Photographs showed the vent broken off and laying on the roof and firefighters cutting away the sheet metal vent while standing atop the oven. | https://whnt.com/strange/ap-strange/police-man-cut-loose-after-crawling-down-pizza-oven-vent/ | 2022-07-13T19:09:54Z | https://whnt.com/strange/ap-strange/police-man-cut-loose-after-crawling-down-pizza-oven-vent/ | true | 47 |
Analyse du rapport d’étude de marché sur les tests de résidus de pesticides par concurrence, ventes, revenus, taille du marché, part et données prévisionnelles de 2022 à 2028
Pesticide Residue Testing Market
Pesticide residue testing market is expected to reach USD 1.80 billion by 2027 growing at a growth rate of 7.20% in the forecast period of 2020 to 2027. Increasing consumption of organic foods will act as a driving factor for the pesticide residue testing market in the forecast period of 2020- 2027.
The transformation in market landscape is analysed in the Pesticide Residue Testing Market report which is mainly observed due to the moves of key players or brands which include developments, product launches, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions that in turn change the view of the global face of the industry. Proficient and radiant forecasting techniques used in the report are identical with accuracy and correctness. The report provides classification by companies, region, type and end-use industry. While preparing this Pesticide Residue Testing Market research report, customer satisfaction has been kept on the utmost priority which makes clients rely on us confidently.
By providing an absolute overview of the market, Pesticide Residue Testing Market report covers a range of aspects of market analysis, product definition, market segmentation, key developments, and the existing vendor landscape. This market report encompasses company profiling of key players in the market, carefully analyzing their core competencies, and drawing a competitive landscape for the market. Commitment, quality, dedication, and transparency in the research report are all followed throughout to give the best service to the clients. Pesticide Residue Testing Market report gives insights and data that hold the power to truly make a difference to the client’s business.
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Market Scope and Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market
The major players covered in the pesticide residue testing market report are Eurofins Scientific, Bureau Veritas, SGS S.A., Intertek Group plc., Silliker, Inc., ALS, AsureQuality Limited, Scientific Certification Systems, Inc., Microbac Laboratories, Inc. and Symbio Laboratories among other domestic and global players. Market share data is available for global, North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA) and South America separately. DBMR analysts understand competitive strengths and provide competitive analysis for each competitor separately.
Market segment by Region, regional analysis covers
⦿ North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)
⦿ Europe (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, and Rest of Europe)
⦿ Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India, Southeast Asia, and Australia)
⦿ South America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Rest of South America)
⦿ Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa, and Rest of Middle East & Africa)
Table of Contents: Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market
1 Introduction
2 Market Segmentation
3 Executive Summary
4 Premium Insight
5 Market Overview
6 Covid-19 Impact on Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market in Healthcare Industry
7 Pesticide Residue Testing Market, by Product Type
8 Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market, by Modality
9 Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market, by Type
10 Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market, by Mode
11 Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market, by End User
12 Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market, by Geography
13 Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market, Company Landscape
14 Swot Analysis
15 Company Profiles
16 Questionnaire
17 Related Report
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Important Questions Answered
- What is the growth potential of the Pesticide Residue Testing Market?
- Which company is currently leading the Pesticide Residue Testing Market? Will the company continue to lead during the forecast period 2022-2030?
- What are the top strategies that players are expected to adopt in the coming years?
- Which regional market is anticipated to secure the highest market share?
- How will the competitive landscape change in the future?
- What do players need to do to adapt to future competitive changes?
- What will be the total production and consumption in the Pesticide Residue Testing Market by 2030?
- Which are the key upcoming technologies? How will they impact the Pesticide Residue Testing Market?
- Which product segment is expected to show the highest CAGR?
- Which application is forecast to gain the biggest market share?
This Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market Research/analysis Report Focus on following important aspects: –
- Manufacturing Technology is Used for Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market: – Undergoing Developments in That Technology, Trends Causing These Developments.
- Global Key Players of Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market: – Their Company Profile, Product Information and Contact Information.
- Status of Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market: – Past and Present information and Future predictions about Productions Capacity, Production Value, Cost and Return on Investments in Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market.
- Current Market Status of Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market – Market Competition includes both Company and Country Wise competition in this Industry. Market Analysis of Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market by Taking Applications and Types in Consideration.
- Predictions of Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market Considering Production Capacity, and Production Value. What Estimation is expected for Cost Vs Profit? What Will Be Market Share, Supply and Consumption? What about Import and Export?
- Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market Chain Analysis by Upstream Raw Materials and Downstream Industry.
- Economic Impact on Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market: –What are Pesticide Residue Testing Market Analysis Results?
- Market Dynamics of Global Pesticide Residue Testing Market: – Challenges and Opportunities.
- What Should Be Entry Strategies, Countermeasures to Economic Impact, and Marketing Channels for Global Liquid Handling Technology Market?
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