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This week, we got a new view of space. And it was epic.
Cosmic cliffs of glowing gas, spinning galaxies, dying stars. The James Webb telescope caught those images of ancient history — billions of light years away — showing what the universe looked like when it was just forming after the Big Bang.
Some 20,000 people worked on the project for almost two decades, including engineer Bill Ochs, who has been the project manager since 2011. He joined All Things Considered to share the journey to this monumental snapshot in time.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On what the project first looked like when he joined
When I came on board, they had just gone through an external review and it was basically concluded that they weren't going to make their current launch date, which I think at that time was 2013. We didn't have enough money.
So when I came on board, I was asked to go ahead and put together a re-plan, which was quite challenging because, you know, you're brand new onto something. To re-plan a mission of this complexity is a pretty steep learning curve. The complexity of this mission and testing it on the ground made us understand we really needed a little bit more time.
On the difficulties of keeping faith for such an ambitious project
In all honesty, I don't think I ever got to that point of really feeling like, hey, it's never going to work. I did hit my retirement age at one point [three years ago], and I thought, you know, maybe I should just retire. And then I'm like, no, I got to see this out to the end.
But that was it. I mean, I tell folks all the time. The type of words I never heard on this project in the 11 1/2 years that I have been here is "give up", "failure" — never heard those words. It was always, "Hey, we got an issue." Whether it was a design complexity issue or, in this case, we did have some mistakes that were made: How do we correct this? How do we make sure this doesn't happen again? And how do we move on?
On the moment it all came together
Well, it actually came in steps. So I really wasn't worried about the launch. The launch vehicle team was outstanding. But those first 2 1/2 weeks of deployment, that's probably the highest anxiety level that we had. I'm a pretty laid-back person. I've done operations before, so I'm pretty calm throughout the whole thing. But definitely, the anxiety level was up.
Prior to launch, folks talk, we had 344 single-point failures. A single-point failure means if this one thing fails, we could potentially lose the whole mission. And a majority of those single-point failures were going to be retired through that first two weeks or so of deployments. So when you think about it, anything in that first two weeks could have maybe taken us out.
When we got through the first two weeks, there was a big sigh of relief when we deployed that final mirror wing. Now you go through a period of checking out the rest of the spacecraft itself, and now we get ready to start aligning the mirrors. But there were 155 motors on the backs of these mirrors to make them function properly for us to do the alignments. Every single one of them worked. Every single one of them survived.
On his reaction when the first images started coming in
So the images that we released on Tuesday, I only saw a preview of a couple weeks ago. So the real images were the engineering images that we took during the mirror alignment phase. And if you saw that, the first image that we released that showed the perfectly focused star. That was actually a cropped image.
But when you looked at the entire image, it was like, "Yeah, OK, that's cool." The star is focused. Let's look at those galaxies in the back. And one of our engineers/scientists started counting. And in that first image, he counted 250-plus galaxies and then made a little photo montage of each of the galaxies. I started carrying this stuff around on my phone. They were like my baby pictures.
Instead of pictures of my grandson, I'm showing people pictures of galaxies. And the structure that you could see was amazing. If you think of Webb in car terms, this thing's a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. Now, we're probably getting close to where we can go into second gear. So at that point, we were barely in first gear, and we're still already seeing this amazing stuff.
On witnessing the world's reaction
Oh, it's amazing. From the day we launched, we started getting reactions from folks all over the world of how touched they were by this, and how excited they were. I participated in a National Park Service/NASA Dark Sky Festival at Death Valley National Park in February, and myself and one of our scientists gave the keynote address.
Afterwards, we're hanging around, and we're talking to folks, and they're asking questions. We had this one lady come up to us, and she said, "Hey, I drove three hours to get here only to hear you guys speak. This is such great news in this world full of trouble." And she started crying when she was talking to us.
And then, just today, there was a special about Webb last night on TV, and one of my communications folks got an email from a rancher in Idaho saying how him and his family were so touched by it. I mean, they now appreciate the fact that they're really in a good dark sky area more, and they can go out at night and see so many stars. It just gave them a greater appreciation. But again, it was related back to [the idea that] with so much trouble in the world, this is just a ray of sunshine.
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It all started eight months ago, when the Indian Shoeb Davda he moved to Russia to work in a pub. There she met the interest of several local customers for all kinds of bets and ran into Asif Mohammed, another Indian who lived on the spot and would soon become his partner. It was this man who had devised a plan that he believed to be perfect, although he only needed to find those who dared to execute it. It was thus that in a bar chat the scam began that this week occupied the cover of the main portals of India and has led to the arrest of four people.
The farce took place on a farm in the Molipur village, belonging to the department of Gujarat, in northwestern India. In that place Asif Mohammed and Shoeb Davda set up a stadium and they offered a “job” to 21 farmers and unemployed youth in the area. What were they to do? Cricket.
Cricket is one of the most popular sports in the Asian country and even its team was world champion twice, 1983 and 2011. In addition, the local league, made up of 20 teams, is tuned in by around 200 million people every weekend. of the week and the best player in the country, Virat Kohli, was the best paid player on the planet in 2020, earning USD 24 million in just one year. Such a context has made this league an epicenter of world betting.
Taking advantage of the fact that the tournament had ended in May, the Indian swindlers put together their own championship. They bought jerseys of the Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans teams for the farm workers to wear, paying them 400 rupees ($5) for each game. In addition, in the rented farm they installed lights and equipment with HD cameras to broadcast the meetings on YouTube.
Also, They added three partners to their plan: Davda, Saifi and Mohammed Kolu. Their function was to act as referees in duels. and yet another Indian, Saqib, volunteered to be a commentator on the broadcasts simply because he was a great impersonator of Harsha Bhogle, one of the country’s most famous cricket journalists.
With the stadium assembled, the players ready, the appropriate clothing, the referees, the cameras and even a reporter, all that remained was to put the plan into action. So, Asif Mohammed flew back to Russia from where recruited dozens of gamblers to play with their money in the “new tournament that the Indian Premier League had launched” and that would be broadcast on YouTube.
In this way, the games began to be played on the Indian farm and no one from Russia suspected that what they were seeing was actually a farce. is that in addition the transmissions had ambient sound effects and even statistical graphicsso there was no reason to discover that the players were actually farm workers and the field was a farm.
To make the bets, a Telegram channel was opened and immediately gamblers from cities like Tver, Voronezh and Moscow appeared. But this is not all. With the mission of making sure to earn money, Asif Mohammed communicated with his partners, dressed as referees, to find out how the bids were coming. In this way, the so-called judges signaled to the players what they should do before each play. “Shoeb Davda accepted live bets through the Telegram channel. He would instruct Kolu, the referee, via walkie-talkie. Kolu communicated the same thing to the batter and the pitcher. Following instructions, the pitcher would throw a slow ball, which would allow the batter to hit it on command,” police officer Bhavesh Rathod explained, in statements published by The Times Of India.
The fake tournament was played until the quarterfinals and the scam seemed to work perfectly, until the police arrested Shoeb Davda Abdulmjeed, Sefi Mahamad Saqib Riyazuddin, Koli Mahamad Abubakar and Davda Sadiq Abudlmajeed and broke up the operation that could have raised thousands of dollars, but was called off shortly after the first rupees were credited.
The news was front page of the main newspapers of the Asian nation this week and it is expected that in the next few hours the arrest of Asif Mohammed, mastermind of the plan, who is in Russia.
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CAIRO (AP) — Floods triggered by seasonal torrential rains in Sudan’s western Darfur region killed at least seven people, including children, the U.N. and an aid group said Sunday.
Heavy rains started late Friday in the Kass locality in South Darfur province, according to the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced in Darfur.
The group said the dead included a pregnant woman and two boys ages 2 and 8. It said at least 100 houses in camps for displaced people collapsed or were partly damaged.
Toby Harward, a coordinator with the U.N. refugee agency, reported the deaths. He posted footage on Twitter showing flooded areas and homes. He said the UNHCR and its partners were working to provide humanitarian aid to affected communities.
Seasonal floods killed more than 80 people and inundated tens of thousands of houses across Sudan between July and September last year. | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/UN-says-flooding-kills-7-people-in-Sudan-s-17310375.php | 2022-07-17T11:50:05Z | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/UN-says-flooding-kills-7-people-in-Sudan-s-17310375.php | false | 10 |
First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF (NASDAQ:FTXO – Get Rating) saw a significant increase in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totalling 4,000 shares, an increase of 122.2% from the June 15th total of 1,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 99,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.0 days.
First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF Stock Up 4.6 %
Shares of FTXO stock opened at $26.59 on Friday. First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF has a 1-year low of $25.12 and a 1-year high of $37.20. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $27.45 and its 200 day moving average is $31.10.
First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF Increases Dividend
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, June 30th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 27th were issued a $0.196 dividend. This represents a $0.78 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.95%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, June 24th. This is an increase from First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.13.
Institutional Investors Weigh In On First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF
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From rule breaker to role model: Writing an explosive memoir that questioned her strict upbringing wasn’t easy for ANITA RANI - One year on, she’s paving the way for the next generation of Asian women
- Anita Rani, 44, was reluctant to draw attention to herself as British-Asian
- The TV presenter has since changed her attitude and now embraces her culture
- This decision to live her life unapologetically was influenced by Rani’s observing the outspoken under-40s and the biggest catalyst was the release of her memoir
Anita Rani is nursing a vodka and soda in the corner of a busy pub near her home in Hackney, East London. She’s led me there from the YOU photoshoot in the startlingly rural Walthamstow marshes where she walks her adored bedlington whippet cross Rafi – ‘I know all the other dog-walkers’ – then along the banks of the River Lea. ‘You wouldn’t believe we’re in London, would you?’ she says. ‘I love sharing my neighbourhood with visitors.’
Finding a slice of countryside in one of the capital’s most urban corners is quintessentially Rani – embracing opposites is what she’s all about. Over the past 20 years she’s established herself as one of the most versatile TV and radio presenters – from dancing into the 2015 Strictly semifinals, to last year joining Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, or hiking across fields on BBC’s Countryfile, which she’s presented for seven years. Yet for decades there was one thing A Rani, 44, was more reluctant to do: draw attention to a key facet of her identity, that she’s a British-Asian woman whose parents had emigrated to Bradford from India in the 1970s. ‘People often didn’t know what to do with me,’ she says of the television executives she encountered starting out. ‘There wasn’t anyone like me around.’
Anita Rani, 44, (pictured) was reluctant to draw attention to herself as a British-Asian woman. Dress and shoes, Lanvin. Earrings, Sam Ubhi
Rani decided to make as few references as possible to her ethnicity. But in the past few years, that’s changed. Take her decision to wear a saree – her community’s traditional mode of dress – to host last month’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the BBC.
‘I didn’t think, “Ooh, I’m going to make a point”, I just felt it was the right time,’ she says, eyes shining with happiness at the memory. ‘For so many years I was made to feel shame: “We can accept you in Western clothes but you need to tone the Asian side down because no one wants to deal with that.” But now I think being able to move between two cultures is a gift. With the Jubilee, I thought: “When else am I going to have a moment like this?’’
‘The reaction was incredible,’ Rani continues. ‘Someone messaged me saying: “My mum cried when she saw you on screen – she was a doctor in the 1970s and wasn’t allowed to wear a saree on the ward.” I came out of the BBC the other day and one of the black, male security guards stopped me to say, “Well done.” I mean, it’s nothing, it’s just wearing a saree, but at the same time you have to take a stand. Sometimes people don’t want [Indians] here and I have to turn around and say, “This is Britain now – so sorry, get over it.’’’
Rani is great company – fun and empathetic but also super-fiery. ‘I can be,’ she says unabashedly. ‘A few years ago someone called me “the sunniest TV presenter” and I was like, “Hmm.” Yes, I am, but I also have the bit between my teeth to make sure things are easier for the next generation.’
Dress, Elie Saab. The TV and radio presenter has since changed her attitude and now embraces her culture
Her new ‘take-me-or-leaveme’ attitude is manifesting itself in all sorts of ways. For example, Rani’s decision to conduct an interview in a swimming costume for her upcoming second series of Channel 4’s Britain By Beach, where she explores UK history through visiting our beaches.
‘I was in Dover doing an item on Channel swimming and the sun was out. Ordinarily I would have sat there covered up but this time I decided to do the interview in my costume. It was quite a moment. I’d spent my entire life worried about my body, never getting into bikinis in my 20s and 30s when arguably my body was at its finest. I had this dysmorphia of thinking I didn’t look good enough. We all do it, it’s so distressing. [Women] waste so much time worrying about their bodies when there are much more important things to be thinking about. So now I think, “Sod it.’’’
Interviewing Naomi Campbell during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Of her decision to wear a saree she says: ‘I just felt it was the right time.’
This decision to live her life unapologetically was influenced by Rani’s observing the outspoken under-40s. ‘We’ve got a younger generation who are confident in their identity and will be who they want to be. I look at young kids now and think, “Oh my god, amazing!’’’ she says.
Yet the biggest catalyst came last year when Rani released her memoir The Right Sort of Girl – which is out in paperback this month. Rather than the usual celebrity flimflam, it’s dazzlingly frank and very moving. Rani says. ‘The day before it came out, I wanted to crawl into a hole and destroy every copy because it’s so exposing and I’m really quite private. I phoned a good friend who gave me my first break in TV and said, “I can’t believe I’m about to do this.” He said, “How would you feel if it was a plain memoir of a girl who moves to London and everything is great?” I replied, “That would be a waste of time.” Now I feel vindicated and relieved because the reaction across the board – but particularly from Asian women – has been immense. [They tell me] “Finally someone has said it!’’’
Hundreds of women confided in Rani about how much they related to her account of growing up with her parents who ran a clothes business and always urged her and her younger brother to integrate into British life. At the same time, she was expected to remain a ‘good’ Indian girl, in a patriarchal culture where it was acceptable for her grandmother to announce when Rani was born, ‘We don’t celebrate girls’, and two of her aunts were ‘traded like a commodity’ with arranged marriages they didn’t want. ‘Men are put on a pedestal and you have to walk on eggshells around them,’ she says. ‘So it felt so good to say, “And another thing! And another thing! And don’t favour boys and sons!’’’
With her bedlington whippet Rafi. Her decision to live her life unapologetically was influenced by Rani’s observing the outspoken under-40s
How did Rani’s mother Lucky feel reading about her daughter’s anger over the absence of conversations around things such as periods, or her constant nagging to find a husband, as if her daughter’s career achievements counted for nothing?
‘The book’s probably the best thing that’s happened to our relationship. My mum’s amazing, she recognised I was carrying a lot and said, “I want you to say these things – you need to get them off your chest.” She also said, “Tell them I did these things and I was wrong – and if you don’t shout about it, nothing will change.” She’s apologised for certain things – not that I wanted or needed her to. Now she’s like, “Yes! Go on, my girl! Tear down the system!’’’
When Rani began pursuing a career in TV, many in her community were horrified she wasn’t following the traditional doctor/ pharmacist/lawyer trajectory. ‘They thought I was mad.’
Now, of course, she’s feted as a role model. ‘I know!’ Rani shrieks. ‘I find it hilarious because I’m the most rebellious person, nothing like the dutiful Indian daughter I was brought up to be. I remember as a kid hearing women saying, “We’ve found a great bride for this boy. She doesn’t say a thing. So quiet.” How is that a good thing? She doesn’t speak! So if I am a role model, bring it on.’
Even if Rani was a self-confessed ‘nightmare teenager’ who boozed and dated white boys, she’s still a devoted daughter – a few years ago helping her parents find a house in London to be nearer to her.
Her feminist views were entrenched when in 2015 she filmed the ancestry programme Who Do You Think You Are? Rani wept on camera, discovering that during the Partition of India in 1947, her Sikh female ancestors had killed themselves or were beheaded by male members of their family rather than be captured by the Muslim enemy. ‘They talk about intergenerational trauma. All of a sudden, it exploded inside me. I realised that for generations, these women had no choice or say. I felt from that point on I was going to exercise mine.’
Honouring those disempowered women has had a huge bearing on everything Rani now opts to do. Having been asked endlessly by both family and strangers when she’d have babies, at the end of 2018 she suffered a miscarriage. ‘It was – and is – incredibly sad,’ she wrote in a piece, which marked the beginning of her new campaign for honesty.
When I enquire if children are still on the cards, for the first time she shifts uncomfortably in her chair, her huge eyes filled with sadness.
‘Oh, the child conversation,’ she sighs. ‘When you’re growing up, there are a lot of expectations on women to be a certain way. But I feel the older I’m getting, the more I defend women’s rights to do whatever they want, whenever they want.
‘What writing the book did was solidify [my belief to] just live the life you want to live. Enough doing what everyone else expects. Do what you want – whether it’s having children, being married or not. You can own it. I have my dog and my music. They make me happy.
'Anyway,’ she continues, laughing as she tries to lighten the mood. ‘I’d be too tired to have a kid now. It would be exhausting.’
It’s hard to imagine Rani tired. On the day we meet she’s been up since 5.15am to stand in for Dermot O’Leary on Radio 2 and later – despite a wobble about whether she’d be better enjoying a night in – she’s heading to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the London Stadium.
Workwise, it never stops. She’s busy writing another book (fiction this time) and hosting a new ITV gameshow Fastest Finger First, a spinoff of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire’s first round, where contestants put their answers to a multiple-choice question in a specific order. The prize is a coveted – guaranteed – place on Millionaire itself.
‘I loved it because finally I’m doing a quiz but also it’s glamorous.’ After all, light entertainment has always been Rani’s dream, not least because there are so few Asians presenting the ‘fun’ stuff.
‘There are all these stereotypes about Asian women – that we’re square and clever. At every single point in my career when someone has said to me, “Do you fancy presenting the news?” I have actively said, “No, my passion is music, entertainment.” They’re spaces where you don’t traditionally see Asian women. Countryfile has certainly taken me where no Asian woman has been before – to a field on Sunday night on BBC1.’
If she has so much energy, it’s partly because she’s finally been released from conforming to everyone else’s expectations. ‘It’s really exhausting to try to be many things for many people – I just want to be myself now,’ Rani says. ‘I used to suffer from imposter syndrome. But now I know I’ve earned my stripes.’
- The Right Sort of Girl will be published in paperback by Blink on 21 July, £9.99*. Fastest Finger First begins on Monday 29 August at 4.30pm on ITV and ITV Hub | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11007235/Writing-explosive-memoir-questioned-strict-upbringing-wasnt-easy-ANITA-RANI.html | 2022-07-17T11:59:35Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11007235/Writing-explosive-memoir-questioned-strict-upbringing-wasnt-easy-ANITA-RANI.html | true | 1 |
Doctors who performed the surgical operation on the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to treat the recurrent pain caused by a fracture in his leg have concluded the procedure, and it was successful.
The Vice President’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, confirmed this in a statement on Saturday following an earlier announcement that Professor Osinbajo was scheduled to undergo a surgical procedure.
According to him, the Vice President is alert and well after the procedure at the Duchess International Hospital in Lagos.
“The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, was admitted to the Duchess International Hospital GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, today on account of a fracture of his right femur (thigh bone), possibly related to a longstanding injury associated with a game of squash,” stated Dr Adedoyin Dosunmu-Ogunbi who is the medical director of the hospital.
“He had a surgical operation performed by a team of specialist doctors, including Dr Wallace Ogufere (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon), Dr Om Lahoti (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon), Dr Babajide Lawson (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon), Dr Ken Adegoke (Consultant in Anaesthesia & Critical Care), Dr Oladimeji Agbabiaka (Consultant Anaesthetist), and Dr Adedoyin Dosunmu-Ogunbi (Consultant Physician & Medical Director).
“The operation was successful, and he is expected to be discharged within the next few days.”
Professor Osinbajo had also announced that he would undergo a surgical procedure via his verified Twitter account. | https://www.informationng.com/2022/07/osinbajo-undergoes-successful-surgery-for-fracture.html | 2022-07-17T12:06:57Z | https://www.informationng.com/2022/07/osinbajo-undergoes-successful-surgery-for-fracture.html | true | 8 |
Beloved Look North presenter Harry died in June of this year, leading to an outpouring of tributes.
His wife Helen now runs his official Twitter account and last night (Saturday 16) she shared a photograph of their dog with one of Harry's shoes.
Her emotional Tweet said: "May I just share with you how, every night, this lovely doggy opens the boot cupboard and brings us Harry’s shoe… every night.
"I guess dogs grieve too… Helen and the boys x"
Harry became a Yorkshire institution after fronting the BBC’s Look North programme between 1982 and 2020 in a career spanning more than 40 years.
Bradford-born Gration joined the BBC in 1978 after working as a history teacher, and joined Look North in 1982, although he left for a spell working on BBC South Today in the 1990s.
He covered nine Olympic Games for the BBC and won two Royal Television Society (RTS) awards for his sports documentaries: White Rose In Africa in 1992 and Dickie Bird: A Rare Species in 1997.
And he won the RTS Best Presenter award twice.
He was made an MBE for services to broadcasting in 2013.
The corporation’s director-general Tim Davie said Gration was “loved everywhere, but especially in Yorkshire”.
He added: “Harry Gration MBE was an outstanding broadcaster and commentator.
“He had a real connection with the public who saw him as one of their own.
“He will be hugely missed by his many fans and friends. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.”
Jason Horton, acting director of BBC England, described Gration as “one of the true broadcasting greats”.
“He was a natural on the television and on radio, adored by our audiences, especially as the trusted face of Look North and South Today,” he added.
“He loved news, sport, his colleagues and fundraising for Children in Need and Comic Relief. Our thoughts are with his family, his friends and everyone across the BBC who he worked with.” | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/wife-of-late-bbc-presenter-harry-gration-shares-touching-image-of-grieving-family-dog-3771334 | 2022-07-17T12:08:37Z | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/wife-of-late-bbc-presenter-harry-gration-shares-touching-image-of-grieving-family-dog-3771334 | true | 1 |
China Shenhua Energy Company Limited (OTCMKTS:CSUAY – Get Rating)’s share price crossed below its 50 day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a 50 day moving average of $12.51 and traded as low as $10.91. China Shenhua Energy shares last traded at $11.06, with a volume of 14,338 shares changing hands.
China Shenhua Energy Price Performance
The company has a current ratio of 2.27, a quick ratio of 2.13 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12. The company’s fifty day moving average is $12.51 and its two-hundred day moving average is $11.71. The stock has a market cap of $54.99 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.87 and a beta of 0.26.
China Shenhua Energy Increases Dividend
The business also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, September 8th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 30th will be issued a $1.3115 dividend. This represents a yield of 10.39%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, June 29th. This is an increase from China Shenhua Energy’s previous dividend of $1.13. China Shenhua Energy’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 81.37%.
About China Shenhua Energy
China Shenhua Energy Company Limited and its subsidiaries engage in the production and sales of coal and power; railway, port, and shipping transportation; and coal-to-olefins businesses in the People's Republic of China and internationally. It operates through six segments: Coal, Power, Railway, Port, Shipping, and Coal Chemical.
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Avon's Flower Lady Opens Her Home to the Public
As a part of Chrissie D'Esposo's daily routine, she spends about 15 hours a day tending to her garden in Avon. She’s known by locals as the flower house lady, and you can’t help but be drawn in from the road by the incredible grounds creeping up a hill layered with...
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BRITS are flocking to beaches up and down the UK today to bask in the 30C heat.
It comes as extreme heat warnings are in place from today ahead of an "exceptional hot spell on Monday and Tuesday”.
Huge crowds have rushed to Britain’s coasts to cool off as the mercury rises.
Snaps from Lyme Regis, Dorset show hundreds of sweaty Brits packed onto the beach.
Meanwhile, in Bristol huge crowds have been sitting on the harbour wall at the Bristol Harbour Festival - celebrating its 50th anniversary.
In London, the lack of sand and sea has pushed sunbathers towards the capital’s parks where young people have been pouring bottles of water on themselves to keep cool.
Today temperatures will hit a balmy 30C - and the Met Office has cautioned sun seekers with an Amber weather warning.
Forecasters issued the amber weather alert from 12midnight to 11.59pm on Sunday, with experts warning it could lead to "potential serious illness or danger to life”.
And it'll only get hotter as the week goes on as the Met Office has slapped a Red weather warning on parts of the country for Monday and Tuesday.
The Met Office issued its red warning, declaring the heat blast could spark "population-wide adverse health effects".
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It also suggested people would need to work from home, insisting "substantial changes in working practices and daily routines will be required".
The UK Health Security Agency has increased its heat health warning from level three to level four - a "national emergency".
Level four is reached "when a heatwave is so severe and/or prolonged that its effects extend outside the health and social care system... At this level, illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, and not just in high-risk groups," it said.
The Met Office red warning, for Monday and Tuesday, covers an area from London up to Manchester, and up to the Vale of York.
Government scientists though are pleading with Brits not to drink alcohol and stick to water instead.
They also claim coffee drinkers should cut down on their consumption too.
Booze and coffee should be avoided because they are a diuretic - meaning you wee and sweat more and therefore lose more fluid.
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THURSDAY UPDATES: Cole County reports 12 new COVID cases
The Cole County Health Department reported 12 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The county reported one new case on Monday, two new cases on Tuesday and nine new cases on Wednesday.
The health department is reporting that 60.9% or 46,756 of county residents have received at least one dose of the COVID Vaccine.
The Missouri coronavirus vaccine dashboard reports Cole County as having a medium COVID-19 community level.
The Jefferson City School District reported no new coronavirus case in a student or staff on Wednesday.
The district is reporting no active cases in a student and one active case in a staff member.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems, according to an Associated Press survey of state election officials across the U.S. that revealed no cases of fraud, vandalism or theft that could have affected the results.
The findings from both Republican- and Democratic-controlled states run contrary to claims made by former President Donald Trump and his allies who have intensely criticized their use and falsely claimed they were a target for fraud.
Drop boxes are considered by many election officials to be safe and secure, and have been used to varying degrees by states across the political spectrum. Yet conspiracy theories and efforts by Republicans to eliminate or restrict them since the 2020 election persist. This month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that drop boxes are not allowed under state law and can no longer be widely used.
Drop boxes also are a focal point of the film “2,000 Mules,” which used a flawed analysis of cellphone location data and ballot drop box surveillance footage to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election.
In response to the legislation and conspiracy theories surrounding drop boxes, the AP sent a survey in May to the top elections office in each state seeking information about whether the boxes were tied to fraudulent votes or stolen ballots, or whether the boxes and the ballots they contained were damaged.
All but five states responded to the questions.
None of the election offices in states that allowed the use of drop boxes in 2020 reported any instances in which the boxes were connected to voter fraud or stolen ballots. Likewise, none reported incidents in which the boxes or ballots were damaged to the extent that election results would have been affected.
A previous AP investigation found far too few cases of potential voter fraud in the six battleground states where Trump disputed his loss to President Joe Biden to affect the outcome.
A number of states — including Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas — said they do not allow the use of drop boxes. Some had not allowed them before the 2020 election, when the coronavirus pandemic prompted wider use of mailed ballots. In states where they are used, secretaries of state or election commissioners may not be aware of every incident involving a drop box if it was not reported to their office by a county or other local jurisdiction.
Drop boxes have been a mainstay in states with extensive mail voting for years and had not raised any alarms. They were used widely in 2020 as election officials sought to provide alternative ways to cast ballots with the COVID-19 outbreak creating concerns about in-person voting. The boxes also gave voters a direct method for submitting their ballots, rather than sending them through the U.S. Postal Service and worrying about delivery delays.
Starting months before the 2020 presidential election, Trump and his allies have made a series of unfounded claims suggesting that drop boxes open the door to voter fraud. Republican state lawmakers, as part of their push to add new voting restrictions, have in turn placed rules around when and where the boxes could be accessed.
Arizona Assistant Secretary of State Allie Bones said drop boxes are “safe and secure” and might even be considered more secure than Postal Service mailboxes. She said bipartisan teams in the state collect ballots from the drop boxes and take them directly to secure election facilities, following so-called chain-of-custody protocols.
"Not to say that there’s anything wrong with USPS, and I think they do a great job as well, but the hysteria around ballot drop boxes I think is just a made-up thing to create doubt and fear,” Bones said.
Arizona has had robust mail-in voting for years that includes the use of drop boxes, and in the AP survey, the state reported no damage, stolen ballots or fraud associated with them in 2020. Nevertheless, Trump-aligned lawmakers in the state pushed for legislation that would ban drop boxes, but were stymied by Democrats and several Republicans who disagreed with the strategy.
Utah is a state controlled by Republicans that also has widespread use of mailed ballots and no limits on the number of drop boxes a county can deploy. The office of Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican who is the state’s top election official, said in the AP survey that Henderson encourages counties to make secure drop boxes accessible to voters.
Of the states responding to the survey, 15 indicated that drop boxes were in use before 2020 and 22 have no limits on how many can be used in this fall's election. At least five states take the extra step of setting a minimum number of drop boxes required.
Republican-led Florida and North Dakota and Democratic-led New York did not respond. Montana and Virginia did, but did not answer the survey questions related to the 2020 election.
Last year, five states added new restrictions to ballot drop boxes, according to research by the Voting Rights Lab. That included Georgia, where President Joe Biden won a narrow victory and where drop boxes were allowed under an emergency rule prompted by the pandemic.
Georgia Republicans say their changes have resulted in drop boxes being a permanent option for voters, requiring all counties to have at least one. But the legislation, which includes a formula of one box per 100,000 registered voters, means fewer will be available in the state’s most populous communities compared with 2020.
Iowa lawmakers last year approved legislation to limit drop boxes to one per county. Previously, state law did not say how many drop boxes counties could use. This year, Louisiana, Missouri and South Carolina have passed laws effectively prohibiting drop boxes, according to the Voting Rights Lab, which researches state election law changes.
Along with incidents recorded in news reports, the AP survey found a handful of cases in 2020 in which drop boxes were damaged.
Officials in Washington state said there were instances when drop boxes were hit by vehicles, but that no ballot tampering had been reported. Massachusetts election officials said one box was damaged by arson in October 2020 but that most of the ballots inside were still legible enough for voters to be identified, notified and sent replacements.
A drop box also was set on fire in Los Angeles County in 2020, but a local election official said the vast majority of the ballots that were damaged were able to be recovered and voters provided new ballots. Another drop box in California was temporarily closed because of a wildfire.
“The irony is they were put in place to respond to a problem with the post office and make sure people had a secure way of returning their ballots,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat. “And so there’s no actual legitimate concern except for, again, potential external threats or people who have been radicalized through misinformation to try to tamper with drop boxes to make a point.”
North Carolina provides an example of how deep-seated the misinformation has become. The state does not allow drop boxes and did not use them during the 2020 election.
“And despite that fact, people are still claiming drop box fraud must have occurred in North Carolina," said Patrick Gannon, public information director for the State Board of Elections. "You can’t make this up. Oh wait. Yes, you can.”
In Wisconsin, Republicans had supported the use of drop boxes before Trump seized on mailed ballots as part of his unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Some voters said they were frustrated by the recent state Supreme Court ruling, which said no one other than the voter can return their mailed ballot and that those ballots can go only to a local clerk’s office or alternate site.
Kelly O’Keefe Boettcher of Milwaukee said she cast her ballot in a drop box in 2020 because of safety concerns during the pandemic and is upset that they’ll no longer be an option for her or for voters who are less able to get to the polls.
“Drop boxes are accessible; they are egalitarian,” she said. “To watch them go, I feel, people can say it’s not voter suppression. But it is.”
Wisconsin state Rep. Tim Ramthun, a Republican candidate for governor, reintroduced a resolution this past week for the GOP-controlled Legislature to decertify Biden’s victory there, adding the state Supreme Court ruling on drop boxes as one reason to do so. Trump also renewed his calls for decertification in Wisconsin, citing the ruling.
According to the AP survey, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said it is not aware of any cases in 2020 in which drop boxes were damaged, had submitted ballots stolen or destroyed, or were used for fraudulent ballots.
“Isn’t a mailbox a secure place to put a letter?" asked Dave Wanninger, who with his wife used a ballot drop box in a Milwaukee public library in 2020. "Why would a drop box be any different?”
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Izaguirre reported from Tallahassee, Florida. Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin; Harm Venhuizen in Milwaukee; and Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix contributed to this report. | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/No-major-problems-with-ballot-drop-boxes-in-2020-17310382.php | 2022-07-17T12:22:48Z | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/No-major-problems-with-ballot-drop-boxes-in-2020-17310382.php | true | 14 |
Kestra Advisory Services LLC cut its position in iShares Morningstar Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:ILCG – Get Rating) by 4.3% during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 20,234 shares of the company’s stock after selling 906 shares during the period. Kestra Advisory Services LLC’s holdings in iShares Morningstar Growth ETF were worth $1,315,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Several other hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Baystate Wealth Management LLC raised its stake in shares of iShares Morningstar Growth ETF by 4.1% in the fourth quarter. Baystate Wealth Management LLC now owns 5,674 shares of the company’s stock valued at $408,000 after buying an additional 226 shares during the period. Koshinski Asset Management Inc. grew its position in shares of iShares Morningstar Growth ETF by 44.1% in the first quarter. Koshinski Asset Management Inc. now owns 2,055 shares of the company’s stock valued at $134,000 after purchasing an additional 629 shares in the last quarter. Kestra Private Wealth Services LLC grew its position in shares of iShares Morningstar Growth ETF by 10.6% in the fourth quarter. Kestra Private Wealth Services LLC now owns 6,870 shares of the company’s stock valued at $493,000 after purchasing an additional 661 shares in the last quarter. Cedar Brook Financial Partners LLC grew its position in shares of iShares Morningstar Growth ETF by 14.4% in the fourth quarter. Cedar Brook Financial Partners LLC now owns 7,175 shares of the company’s stock valued at $515,000 after purchasing an additional 902 shares in the last quarter. Finally, IHT Wealth Management LLC grew its position in shares of iShares Morningstar Growth ETF by 1.3% in the fourth quarter. IHT Wealth Management LLC now owns 75,484 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,421,000 after purchasing an additional 969 shares in the last quarter.
iShares Morningstar Growth ETF Trading Up 1.9 %
Shares of NYSEARCA ILCG opened at $51.68 on Friday. iShares Morningstar Growth ETF has a fifty-two week low of $47.78 and a fifty-two week high of $73.77. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $51.95 and a 200-day moving average of $59.15.
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Russia strikes south Ukraine city, presses attacks in east
POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit industrial facilities at a strategic city in southern Ukraine Sunday as Moscow continued efforts to expand its gains in the country’s east.
Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said that the Russian missiles struck an industrial and infrastructure facility in the city, a key shipbuilding center in the estuary of the Southern Bug river. There was no immediate information about casualties.
Mykolaiv has faced regular Russian missile strikes in recent weeks as the Russians have sought to soften Ukrainian defenses.
The Russian military has declared a goal to cut off Ukraine’s entire Black Sea coast all the way to the Romanian border. If successful, such an effort would deal a crushing blow to the Ukrainian economy and trade and allow Moscow to secure a land bridge to Moldova’s separatist region of Transnistria, which hosts a Russian military base.
Early in the campaign, the Ukrainian forces fended off Russian attempts to capture Mykolaiv, which sits near the Black Sea Coast between Russia-occupied Crimea and the main Ukrainian port of Odesa.
Since then, the Russian troops have halted their attempts to advance in the city but have continued to pummel both Mykolaiv and Odesa with regular missile strikes.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Sunday that Russian missiles destroyed a depot for anti-ship Harpoon missiles delivered to Ukraine by NATO allies, a claim that couldn’t be independently confirmed.
The Russians also sought to reinforce their positions in the Kherson region near Crimea and part of the northern Zaporizhzhia region that they seized in the opening stage of the conflict, fearing a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
The British Defense Ministry said Sunday that Russia is moving manpower and equipment between Kherson, Mariupol and Zaporizhzhia. It said the Russians also are increasing their security measures around Melitopol.
It added: “Given the pressures on Russian manpower, the reinforcement of the south whilst the fight for the Donbas continues indicates the seriousness with which Russian commanders view the threat.”
For now, the Russian military has focused its efforts on trying to take control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland of Donbas, where the most capable and well-equipped Ukrainian forces are located.
Ukraine says its forces still retain control of two small villages in the Luhansk region, one of the two provinces that make up the Donbas, and are successfully fending off Russian attempts to advance deeper into the second one, the Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian military’s General Staff said Sunday that Ukrainian troops thwarted Russian attempts to advance toward Sloviansk, the key Ukrainian stronghold in Donetsk, and other attacks elsewhere in the region.
During a visit to the front lines Saturday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered “to further intensify the actions of units in all operational areas.”
The Russian military said it has struck Ukrainian troops and artillery positions in Donbas in the latest series of strikes, including a U.S.-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launcher. The Russian claims couldn’t be independently verified.
While focusing on Donbas, the Russians hit areas all across the country with missile strikes.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians not to fall for Russia’s attempts to scare them with warnings of horrendous missile attacks to come, which he said were aimed at dividing Ukrainian society.
“It’s clear that no Russian missiles or artillery will be able to break our unity or lead us away from our path” toward a democratic, independent Ukraine,” he said in his nightly video address to the nation. “And it is also clear that Ukrainian unity cannot be broken by lies or intimidation, fakes or conspiracy theories.”
On Thursday, a Russian missile strike killed at least 24 people — including three children — and wounded more than 200 in Vinnytsia, a city southwest of Kyiv, the capital, far from the front lines that had largely been spared from the Russian bombardment before. Three of those missing after the attack were found alive in the rubble Saturday and one person remained missing, the emergency service said Saturday.
On Sunday, relatives and friends attended a mourning ceremony for Liza, a 4-year-old girl killed in a strike. The girl with Down syndrome was en route to see a speech therapist with her mother in central Ukraine when the missile landed. Her mother, Iryna Dmytrieva, was among the scores injured.
“She remembered that she was reaching for her daughter, and Liza was already dead,” Iryna’s aunt, Tetiana Dmytrysyna, told The Associated Press. “The mother was robbed of the most precious thing she had.”
In the Kharkiv region, at least three civilians were killed and three more were injured Saturday in a pre-dawn Russian strike on the city of Chuhuiv, which is only 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the Russian border, the police said.
Lyudmila Krekshina, who lives in the apartment building that was hit, said a husband and wife were killed, and also an elderly man who lived on the ground floor.
Another resident said she was lucky to have survived.
“I was going to run and hide in the bathroom. I didn’t make it and that’s what saved me,” said Valentina Bushuyeva. Pointing up at her destroyed apartment, she said: “There’s the bathroom — explosion. Kitchen — half a room. And I survived because I stayed put.”
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Chicago First Alert Weather: Slight chance of showers, low 80s
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Thunderstorms to our south this morning, much of it in NW Indiana, with heavy rain.
There is a 30 percent chance of showers for the rest of the Chicago area through late morning, with only a slight chance after that. Most areas to the North may remain dry today. Improving sky conditions with a little sun by late afternoon. High of 81 but cooler near the lake.
Sky clearing off tonight, leading to sunshine and warmer temperatures on Monday, upper 80s, then back to the 90s on Tuesday and Wednesday!
Stats
Normals- 85/67
Saturday- 75
Today-81
Sunrise- 5:31am
Forecast
Today- Heavy rain to the south early this morning. A chance of scattered showers and a thundershower through late morning for the rest of the area. High of 81 but cooler near the lake. NE wind 10-15 mph.
Tonight- Improving skies and a low of 69.
Monday- Mostly sunny. High of 88.
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Pope Francis said Sunday a visit to Canada, where he will meet Indigenous survivors of abuse committed at residential schools run by the Catholic Church, was “a penitential pilgrimage”.
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Blackston Financial Advisory Group LLC bought a new position in shares of iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (NYSEARCA:IJS – Get Rating) in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund bought 3,144 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $317,000.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Columbia Trust Co 01012016 acquired a new position in iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF during the 1st quarter worth $292,000. M&T Bank Corp grew its stake in iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF by 8.4% during the 4th quarter. M&T Bank Corp now owns 1,489,055 shares of the company’s stock worth $155,591,000 after purchasing an additional 115,215 shares in the last quarter. Farmers & Merchants Investments Inc. grew its stake in iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF by 15.0% during the 1st quarter. Farmers & Merchants Investments Inc. now owns 8,410 shares of the company’s stock worth $861,000 after purchasing an additional 1,100 shares in the last quarter. Merriman Wealth Management LLC grew its stake in iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF by 1,818.6% during the 1st quarter. Merriman Wealth Management LLC now owns 1,491,341 shares of the company’s stock worth $152,698,000 after purchasing an additional 1,413,612 shares in the last quarter. Finally, First Horizon Advisors Inc. grew its stake in iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF by 85.3% during the 4th quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 4,287 shares of the company’s stock worth $447,000 after purchasing an additional 1,974 shares in the last quarter.
iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF Price Performance
IJS opened at $89.06 on Friday. iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF has a 12 month low of $85.75 and a 12 month high of $111.85. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $92.44 and a 200 day moving average price of $98.29.
iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF Company Profile
iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF, formerly iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Value Index Fund (the Fund), is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the S&P SmallCap 600 Value Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of the small-capitalization value sector of the United States equity market and consists of those stocks in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index exhibiting the strongest value characteristics.
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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today said the floods in the state's Godavari region were the result of a cloudburst -- suspected to be a "conspiracy planned by other countries".
While on a tour to flood-hit Bhadrachalam, Mr Rao told reporters: "There is this new phenomenon called cloudburst. People say there is some conspiracy, we don't know how far that is true, that people from other countries are deliberately doing cloudburst in our country at certain locations. In the past they did it near Kashmir, at Ladakh-Leh, then in Uttarakhand and now we are getting some reports that they are doing it in the Godavari region.''
A cloudburst usually means an extreme amount of rain over a very short period that can lead to flood. The met office defines it as unexpected precipitation exceeding 100mm (or 10 cm) per hour over a geographical region of approximately 20 to 30 square km.
Telangana chief secretary Somesh Kumar who accompanied the Chief Minister on the tour and Palla Rajeshwar, chairman of the government's farmer direct benefit transfer programme, Rythu Bandhu, and others, were seated on the dais when the comment was made.
Incessant rains for nearly a week had caused inundation in several areas of Telangana. At the temple town of Bhadrachalam, the water level was 70 feet, way above the third and final flood warning that was given at 53 feet. Today the levels have come down considerably -- to 60 feet.
On Saturday, the Chief Minister reached Bhadrachalam to personally visit the flood-hit areas where he performed a "shanti puja" for "Gangamma" or the river Godavari that was in spate. He also subsequently visited Eturnagaram.
Last evening, the Chief Minister held a review meeting with ministers, MLAs and the local officials.
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Celanese (NYSE:CE) Will Pay A Dividend Of $0.68
Celanese Corporation (NYSE:CE) has announced that it will pay a dividend of $0.68 per share on the 8th of August. This means the dividend yield will be fairly typical at 2.5%.
Check out our latest analysis for Celanese
Celanese's Dividend Is Well Covered By Earnings
Solid dividend yields are great, but they only really help us if the payment is sustainable. However, prior to this announcement, Celanese's dividend was comfortably covered by both cash flow and earnings. This means that most of what the business earns is being used to help it grow.
Looking forward, earnings per share is forecast to fall by 20.5% over the next year. If the dividend continues along the path it has been on recently, we estimate the payout ratio could be 20%, which is comfortable for the company to continue in the future.
Celanese Has A Solid Track Record
Even over a long history of paying dividends, the company's distributions have been remarkably stable. The annual payment during the last 10 years was $0.24 in 2012, and the most recent fiscal year payment was $2.72. This implies that the company grew its distributions at a yearly rate of about 27% over that duration. It is good to see that there has been strong dividend growth, and that there haven't been any cuts for a long time.
The Dividend Looks Likely To Grow
Investors who have held shares in the company for the past few years will be happy with the dividend income they have received. Celanese has seen EPS rising for the last five years, at 27% per annum. Earnings per share is growing at a solid clip, and the payout ratio is low which we think is an ideal combination in a dividend stock as the company can quite easily raise the dividend in the future.
We Really Like Celanese's Dividend
Overall, we think that this is a great income investment, and we think that maintaining the dividend this year may have been a conservative choice. The distributions are easily covered by earnings, and there is plenty of cash being generated as well. We should point out that the earnings are expected to fall over the next 12 months, which won't be a problem if this doesn't become a trend, but could cause some turbulence in the next year. Taking this all into consideration, this looks like it could be a good dividend opportunity.
Companies possessing a stable dividend policy will likely enjoy greater investor interest than those suffering from a more inconsistent approach. At the same time, there are other factors our readers should be conscious of before pouring capital into a stock. To that end, Celanese has 3 warning signs (and 1 which shouldn't be ignored) we think you should know about. Is Celanese not quite the opportunity you were looking for? Why not check out our selection of top dividend stocks.
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Real Madrid Set To Go 'All Out' For Liverpool Midfield Target Jude Bellingham
Liverpool could lose another one of their targets to Spanish giants Real Madrid, with the European champions considering bringing in midfielder Jude Bellingham for the future of the club.
According to reports, Los Blancos 'will go all out' for the England international but a move next summer is most likely.
The Reds showed heavy interest in now-Real Madrid player Aurelien Tchouameni. The 22-year-old signed from Monaco after a reported €80 million fee was agreed.
Erling Haaland's big-money move to Manchester City has stalled a potential move for Bellingham, at least for this summer.
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However, next year there will be a whole host of big clubs in Europe interested in picking up the 19-year-old.
Now news has come out suggesting that the La Liga Champions will be after the up-and-coming star, it makes Liverpool aware that they need to act swiftly and get a deal done as soon as possible. Losing yet another target to Real would be a huge blow.
Over the last few months, Bellingham has shown his quality and also why he has attracted so much interest. When you take into account that he is still a teenager, it is clear he will be around for a long long time.
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Southern New Mexico county says abortion clinics not welcome
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A local government board in southern New Mexico approved a message Thursday saying that abortion clinics are not welcome in politically conservative Otero County — even though state law allows most abortion procedures. The nonbinding anti-abortion resolution, approved in a 3-0 vote,...
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Kay and Paul Odegaard of Billings have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary with a private event at their home.
Kay Anderson and Paul Odegaard were married July 19, 1957 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Since retirement, they have enjoyed extensive traveling and wintering in Apache Junction, Arizona.
Their children and spouses are Paula Odegaard of Billings, Shayne Odegaard of Kalispell, Troy (deceased) (Sue) Odegaard of Great Falls and Shelley (David) Yager of Aurora, Colorado.
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Police departments across the country have committed to recruiting more women in order to diversify their staffs and reduce the incidence of police brutality. But does it work?
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Opinion: Waterfront golf range planned near airport by Topgolf draws opposition
Traffic congestion and limited park space Downtown are top concerns.
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It’s dismaying that the Port c ommissioners are focused on adding new commercial projects to the waterfront. Some years ago, a consultant told the Port District: San Diego’s tidelands are woefully short on parks and open space. The consultant stated that our tidelands have only “apology parks”.
Now, a port commissioner thinks that a golf facility on Harbor Island can create “a place where people want to go.” My guess is that the 3.3 million people in our region, many living in communities without adequate parks, would be happy to visit a regional park on breezy, scenic San Diego Bay.
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Former union minister and senior Congress leader Margaret Alva has been announced as the Opposition candidate for the post of Vice President of India.
"Opposition's candidate for the post of Vice President of India to be Margaret Alva," NCP chief Sharad Pawar said after an all-party meet by the opposition parties in New Delhi.
Pawar said, "17 parties are on board for this unanimous decision. Our collective thinking is Alva will file the VP nomination on Tuesday."
Earlier, the BJP named West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, a Jat leader from Rajasthan with socialist background, as the ruling National Democratic Alliance's vice presidential candidate.
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"We are trying to contact Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal. Last time they supported our joint presidential candidate," he said, adding that even JMM is together with opposition parties in this election. Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut said, "We are all together in this election".
Among the attendees were Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge and Jairam Ramesh, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, CPI's D Raja and Binoy Viswam, Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut, DMK's T R Baalu and Tiruchi Siva, SP's Ram Gopal Yadav, MDMK's Vaiko and TRS' K Keshava Rao.
The RJD's A D Singh, IMUL's E T Mohammed Basheer and Kerala Congress (M)'s Jose K. Mani were also present. The numbers in the electoral college are firmly stacked in favour of the ruling NDA combine.
Dhankhar's election as vice president, who is also the ex-officio chairperson of Rajya Sabha, is almost a certainty as the BJP has a majority in the electoral college comprising members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
Making the announcement, BJP president J P Nadda lauded Dhankhar as a "kisan-putra" (son of farmer) who, he said, established himself as a "people's governor".
Out of Parliament's current strength of 780, the BJP alone has 394 MPs, more than the majority mark of 390. The BJP parliamentary board in a meeting, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders, picked the 71-year-old Dhankhar after deliberating over several names from different backgrounds, Nadda said.
After the announcement, Modi tweeted, "Jagdeep Dhankhar Ji has excellent knowledge of our Constitution. He is also well-versed with legislative affairs. I am sure that he will be an outstanding Chair in the Rajya Sabha & guide the proceedings of the House with the aim of furthering national progress."
Soon after his name was announced, Dhankhar tweeted, "Thank you Narendra Modi ji for nominating me as the Vice President candidate for the vice presidential election." Since taking over as the West Bengal Governor in July 2019, Dhankhar has had several run-ins with the Mamata Banerjee government.
While his proactive conduct has drawn criticism from the state's ruling Trinamool Congress, the BJP has backed him, noting that he had stuck to constitutional provisions to ask questions of the Banerjee government. The TMC had also demanded his removal as governor.
Unlike the presidential election when the opposition camp had announced their nominee Yashwant Sinha ahead of NDA's Droupadi Murmu, leading to several non-BJP parties including even Congress allies Shiv Sena and the JMM veering towards Murmu, this time the like-minded parties wanted to wait for the announcement of the NDA candidate.
The last date for filing nominations for the VP election is July 19.
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Youth sports can be expensive for parents looking to sign their kids up, but one Calgary father is volunteering his time to make it a little easier for other families. Angel Martinez coaches the Calgary Bulls basketball team nearly every weeknight — and he doesn't make a dime doing it. "Yes it's a lot of work, but I love this game," explained Martinez. "I can see the results, so that is my paycheck for me. That is the money." Not only does Martinez spend his time teaching the U16 team at no char
Canadian goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair should feel right at home at the MLS all-star game next month. The Aug. 10 contest against Mexico's Liga MX all-stars is taking place at Allianz Field in Minnesota, where St. Clair plays his club soccer. Minnesota coach Adrian Heath will coach the MLS all-stars. "It's big for me personally and the club," said St. Clair, who will be joined at the game by Loons teammate Emanuel Reynoso. Fellow Canadian Kamal Miller, a defender with CF Montreal, was chosen as one
MONTERREY, Mexico — Almost a year after Canada downed the U.S. in the Tokyo Olympic semifinal, they meet again — this time with Olympic qualification on the line. The top-ranked U.S. and sixth-ranked Canadian women face off Monday in the final of the CONCACAF W Championship after dispatching No. 37 Costa Rica and No. 51 Jamaica by identical 3-0 scores in semifinal play Thursday at the eight-team tournament. Canada outshot Jamaica 18-1 (9-0 in shots on target), according to CONCACAF. The U.S. out
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are supporting a defensive lineman who has been suspended for four games by the Canadian Football League, the longest penalty ever dished out for in-game behaviour by the league, but have also apologized to the player he injured. The suspension was issued last Friday after the Roughriders' 28-13 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks. Garrett Marino received a two-game suspension for a dangerous and reckless low hit on Ottawa quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, which resulted in
WOLFVILLE — Cody Fajardo isn't sure how much longer he can continue playing on his ailing left knee. The Saskatchewan Roughriders starting quarterback has been playing with a brace on his knee since the second week of the CFL season. Earlier this week, Fajardo expressed optimism his knee was actually starting to come around. But that all changed Saturday afternoon in Saskatchewan's 30-24 loss to Toronto in the 2022 Touchdown Atlantic contest. In the second quarter, Fajardo was in obvious pain af
Carter said Toronto is not an awkward city for African-Americans and called Broussard's comments disappointing.
Athletics Canada head coach Glenroy Gilbert says the country's most decorated track and field superstar Andre De Grasse is healthy and expects the six-time Olympic medallist to compete in the 100-metre, 200m and 4x100m relay at the world championships. De Grasse tested positive for COVID-19 a second time just two weeks ago and has been slowly recovering from symptoms, including shortness of breath. It forced him to miss Nationals in Langley, B.C., at the end of June. But despite a less-than-idea
TORONTO — Bianca Andreescu says she is returning to Toronto's Sobeys Stadium with confidence as she gets set to continue her comeback at the upcoming National Bank Open. "I definitely feel more confident, than for instance, if I came back last year, in Toronto especially. Because it is different playing in Montreal and Toronto," Andreescu said Thursday at a Tennis Canada media conference to announce the player list for the WTA 1000 tournament. "Toronto, I feel like, it’s just the memories that I
Stanley Cup champion Nazem Kadri is in the perfect spot as he considers his next move, with New York offering a potentially attractive balance of competitiveness and contract terms.
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As Olympic bronze medallist Joey Lye steps into the next phase of her life, the Canadian softball star hopes the younger generation heeds one message. "They matter. Their voice matters. And to use their platform to not just continue fighting the fight, but also to be authentically themselves," Lye said in an interview with CBC Sports. After competing at every world championship since 2010, Lye and Team Canada finally got back to the Olympics at Tokyo 2020, landing on the podium with a third-plac
MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens have traded defenceman Jeff Petry and forward Ryan Poehling to the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenceman Mike Matheson and a fourth-round pick in 2023. The trade ends a tenure of seven-plus seasons in Montreal for Petry, who was acquired by the Canadiens in a trade with Edmonton on March 2, 2015. He had 70 goals and 178 assists in 508 games with the Canadiens. Matheson had 11 goals and 20 assists in 74 games with the Penguins last season and added one goal and five
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VANCOUVER — It'll be a battered and bruised Vancouver Whitecaps side that heads to Ohio in search of redemption this week. The 'Caps (7-9-3) are down eight players heading into a Wednesday matchup with FC Cincinnati (7-5-5). That number may grow to nine, depending on how midfielder Leonard Owusu recovers after taking a boot to the head in training on Tuesday. Missing men is simply part of soccer, said head coach Vanni Sartini. "Every team has an issue during the season with injuries," he said. "
Bo Bichette has looked like himself in small stretches this season, they just haven't occurred consistently enough.
HALIFAX — Brett Lauther has some unfinished business to take care of Saturday afternoon. The veteran kicker will return to Raymond Field in Wolfville, N.S., when the Saskatchewan Roughriders face the Toronto Argonauts in the 2022 Touchdown Atlantic contest. Lauther, a native of Truro, N.S., played his final collegiate game there, his tenure with the Saint Mary's Huskies ending with a 17-9 loss to the Acadia Axemen in the '12 Loney Bowl (Atlantic University Sport's football conference championshi | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/video/man-shot-leg-court-ave-132414133.html?src=rss | 2022-07-17T13:45:01Z | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/video/man-shot-leg-court-ave-132414133.html?src=rss | true | 2 |
One person injured after Sunday morning shooting in Aiken
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Aiken Department of Public Safety is investigating a shooting that happened on Abbeville Ave. NW in the early hours of Sunday morning.
According to officers with Aiken Public Safety, one person was injured and transported to nearby hospitals in a personal vehicle.
Officers said details of are very limited at this time as it is still an ongoing investigation.
The shooting follows a recent string of violence in Aiken County as it comes just two weeks, after two men were killed at the Days Inn on Columbia Highway North, and three weeks after three teenagers were killed on Wadley Drive.
News 12 has reached out for more information on today’s story and will keep you updated as we learn more about this case.
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The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Saturday:
02-05-08-26-27-30, Bonus: 9
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7-3-0, FB: 1
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3-4-1
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A man cools off in a fountain at the Courtyard of the Orange trees in the mosque cathedral of Cordoba, in Andalusia, Spain, on Saturday. Spanish state weather agency issued a red alert in five different communities -- Aragon, Cantabria, Extremadura, Navarra and La Rioja -- with temperatues reaching up to 111 degress Fahrenheit. Photo by Salas/EPA-EFE
The heat wave impacting Spain for several consecutive days has killed at least 360 people, according to La Vanguardia. On Friday alone, 123 deaths in the country were attributed to the record-breaking heat.
Of the 360 deaths reported, the community of Madrid reported 22 deaths, while one 60-year-old municipal cleaning worker died Saturday during work.
On July 10, the first day of the heat wave, 15 heat-related deaths were recorded. Since then, the number of daily deaths has increased every day. By Wednesday, daily deaths attributed to the heat rose to 60 as temperatures surpassed 40 degrees Celsius in parts of the country.
Madrid-Barajas airport hit 108 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday, which broke its record for the highest temperature ever recorded in the month of July. Spain reported 93 deaths attributed to the heat on Thursday.
The heat has been baking Portugal and Spain with temperatures frequently topping 100 since Friday, July 8. Seville, Spain, has been one of the hottest spots with the mercury soaring at or above 105 for nine consecutive days.
The temperature of 116.6 recorded in Pinhão, Portugal, on Thursday became the highest temperature ever recorded in the country in July. The country's current July record stands at 115.7, which was set in Amareleja in 1995.
This heat wave is expected to expand across Europe through this week and potentially through the end of the month for some areas.
"There is concern that this heat could become a long-duration heat wave (20 or more days) for many locations from Portugal to central France and interior southeastern Europe as it could last for the rest of July and continue into August," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tyler Roys said. This includes the valleys of Hungary, eastern Croatia, eastern Bosnia, Serbia, southern Romania and northern Bulgaria.
The severity of the heat could rival the 2003 heat wave when over 30,000 people lost their lives, both directly and indirectly, due to the heat, according to Roys. He added that this could be one of the worst heat waves in Europe since 1757.
The source of the exceptionally warm air is Africa's Sahara Desert with heat projected to expand farther north and east each day, reaching Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom later this weekend.
"July all-time records are at risk of being approached, tied or even broken across Ireland and the United Kingdom," Roys said. "This includes individual cities such as Birmingham, Dublin, Manchester and York."
On Friday, the U.K. Met Office issued its first Red Extreme heat warning for Monday and Tuesday, when the "exceptional hot spell" is expected to take hold and bring "widespread impacts on people and infrastructure."
Officials say that during this first-ever-used national heat wave emergency, "illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy - and not just in high-risk groups."
A new all-time record high could be set in the U.K. during the peak of the unprecedented heat. The current record in the country is 102 F (38.7 C), which was set in Cambridge Botanica Garden on July 25, 2019. Londoners could experience temperatures approaching the century mark during the peak of the heat early in the week.
In Paris, temperatures early this week could come within a degree or two of 104 F (40 C). When temperatures reached this territory during a heat wave in 2019, officials allowed Parisians to cool off in the Trocadero Fountain near the Eiffel Tower. This measure could be taken again in the coming days.
Riders and spectators of the Tour de France should also brace for the abnormally high temperatures as the tour weaves its way across southern France after leaving the Alps. Spectators lining the roads should take the proper precautions to avoid heat-related illness, especially when roads are closed for cyclists as the temporary closures could limit access to some healthcare facilities, experts say.
The extreme temperatures are making it even more challenging for the thousands of firefighters working to slow down raging infernos across Portugal, Spain and France.
On Friday, the pilot of a firefighting aircraft died when his plane crashed during a firefighting operation in northeastern Portugal, near the country's border with Spain, according to the Associated Press (AP).
As of Saturday, more than 12,000 people have been evacuated in southwestern France near the towns of Landiras and La Teste-de-Buch in the Gironde region due to an out-of-control forest fire, Reuters reported.
Temperatures more common for Death Valley, California -- touted as one of the hottest places on Earth -- will be possible in eastern Portugal and western and southern Spain during the height of the hot spell.
The AccuWeather Local Max&trade temp is 120 in Spain and Portugal. For comparison, temperatures typically top out near 118 in Death Valley in July.
People planning to travel to Europe for vacation through the end of July should prepare for the heat and be ready to change plans if events are canceled and buildings are closed due to the extreme weather.
"Tourist destinations across Portugal are being closed for the safety of the public and, in some cases, due to nearby fires," Roys said. More closures are possible across Portugal, Spain and France due to wildfires and heat.
Meteorologists say people should be mindful of wildfire activity, especially those with poor respiratory health, as the smoke from the wildfires could produce poor air quality.
Adding further strain to residents and visitors amid the heat is that air conditioning is not used as widely in Europe as it is in the United States. Even where there are air conditioners, they may not cool down buildings as much as those in the U.S.
An initiative in Italy dubbed "operation thermostat" states that air conditioners cannot be set lower than 27 C (81 F) in an effort to conserve energy, according to Politico. Residents or businesses that do not comply with this new law could be fined roughly the equivalent of $500 to $3,000.
Unfortunately, Mother Nature will provide little of her own natural cooling during the overnight hours.
"Many places will not have temperatures drop off very much at night," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tony Zartman said. "Elevated temperatures at night prevent the body from recovering from the stress of the daytime heat. Without this recovery, the risk for heatstroke becomes much greater."
The widespread heat wave is not predicted to let up anytime soon with temperatures remaining well above average through this week across much of Europe, though the northern half of the continent should cool down by the middle to the latter part of the week.
Long-term heat waves are uncommon in Europe, but they are not unheard of.
"Over the last 25 years, there have only been three long-duration heat waves to impact parts of Europe: 2003 (western and central Europe, 32 days), 2006 (western and north-central Europe, 35 days) and 2021 (Italy and southeast Europe, 21 days)," Roys explained. Last summer was also the hottest on record for Europe.
The extended hot spell could also impact local economies, including agriculture.
"The soil across Portugal to Germany is in the process of quickly losing whatever moisture it contained," Roys said. "This drying is not expected to let up but only intensify during the duration of the heat wave as little to no precipitation is expected across much of the region."
The ramifications of this may not be fully realized until the autumn harvest.
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Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF (NASDAQ:KBWY – Get Rating) saw a large growth in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totalling 9,900 shares, a growth of 115.2% from the June 15th total of 4,600 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 181,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.1 days.
Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF Stock Performance
KBWY opened at $22.55 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $22.51 and its two-hundred day moving average is $23.87. Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF has a 52 week low of $20.92 and a 52 week high of $26.43.
Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF Increases Dividend
The business also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, June 22nd were issued a $0.132 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, June 21st. This is an increase from Invesco KBW Premium Yield Equity REIT ETF’s previous monthly dividend of $0.11. This represents a $1.58 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 7.02%.
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Nisa Investment Advisors LLC decreased its holdings in shares of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM – Get Rating) by 8.2% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 116,760 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock after selling 10,433 shares during the quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC’s holdings in Yum! Brands were worth $13,840,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. CVA Family Office LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Yum! Brands in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $27,000. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Yum! Brands in the 4th quarter worth approximately $31,000. Cornerstone Advisory LLC acquired a new position in Yum! Brands in the 4th quarter worth approximately $31,000. Riverview Trust Co acquired a new position in Yum! Brands in the 1st quarter worth approximately $31,000. Finally, Dixon Hughes Goodman Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in Yum! Brands in the 4th quarter worth approximately $34,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 79.23% of the company’s stock.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
A number of research firms have issued reports on YUM. StockNews.com began coverage on shares of Yum! Brands in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating for the company. BMO Capital Markets cut their target price on shares of Yum! Brands from $140.00 to $130.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 5th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut their target price on shares of Yum! Brands from $142.00 to $136.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 5th. Citigroup cut their price target on shares of Yum! Brands from $156.00 to $148.00 in a report on Thursday, May 5th. Finally, Morgan Stanley cut their price target on shares of Yum! Brands from $150.00 to $146.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, April 14th. Seven investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have given a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $138.47.
Yum! Brands Stock Up 1.1 %
Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM – Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, May 4th. The restaurant operator reported $1.05 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.07 by ($0.02). The company had revenue of $1.55 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.59 billion. Yum! Brands had a negative return on equity of 16.34% and a net margin of 24.80%. The company’s revenue was up 4.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.07 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts expect that Yum! Brands, Inc. will post 4.65 earnings per share for the current year.
Yum! Brands Dividend Announcement
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 10th. Investors of record on Monday, May 30th were issued a dividend of $0.57 per share. This represents a $2.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.93%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, May 26th. Yum! Brands’s dividend payout ratio is currently 41.38%.
About Yum! Brands
YUM! Brands, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, operates, and franchises quick service restaurants worldwide. It operates through four segments: the KFC Division, the Taco Bell Division, the Pizza Hut Division, and the Habit Burger Grill Division. The company operates restaurants under the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill brands, which specialize in chicken, pizza, made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches, Mexican-style food categories, and other food products.
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Roman coin hoard and Tudor silver pin declared treasure
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A TUDOR silver-gilt pin fragment discovered buried in a field last year has been declared treasure and could be on its way to Abergavnny Museum.
The find with a metal detector by treasure hunter Darren Jessett was made in Llantilio Crossenny between Monmouth and Abergavenny in March 2021.
It was one three finds declared treasure by Naomi Rees, Assistant Coroner for Gwent, last Thursday, including a hoard of Roman coins discovered in a ploughed field in Caerwent, Monmouthshire, which was home to a Roman town from 75 AD.
The other was a medieval silver-gilt finger ring found in rough grassland in Rudry, Caeprphilly.
The Tudor pin is a spherical head from a ball-headed pin and has a decoration of twisted wire forming four circlets within a larger circle.
Only the upper half of the ball-head survives and traces of a seam joining to the missing lower half is visible in the underside of the fragment.
The decorative style of this pin fragment identifies it as being of 16th century date.
Abergavenny Museum has expressed an interest in acquiring the pin for its collection, after it has been independently valued by the Treasure Valuation Committee.
The hoard of late-Roman silver coins was discovered by Colin Price, and contains 14 silver ‘siliquae’ struck between 360 AD and 402 AD, towards the end of the Roman occupation of Britain.
Alastair Willis, Senior Curator of Numismatics and the Welsh Economy at National Museum Wales, which intends to acquire the coins for Caerloen’s National Roman Legion Museum, said: “The hoard is an unusual and significant new find for Wales, the first hoard of siliquae to have been discovered here and sheds new light on events in and around Caerwent at the end of Roman rule in Britain.”
All the coins have had their edges removed, a process known as clipping, which is generally thought to have mainly occurred from 407 AD until the mid-5th century.
The supply of coins to Britain ceased in 402 and the usurper Constantine III took the remaining Roman legions with him to the Continent five years later, leaving Britain defenceless to raids by the Saxons, Scotti and Picts.
With no new coins or bullion coming in from the Continent, the edges of silver coins were clipped off, probably to be melted down and minted as new coins based on older official designs.
This hoard differs from most siliquae hoards in Britain in that most of the coins date to before AD 388, which possibly indicates that the supply of silver coins to South Wales was restricted, perhaps due to economic or political reasons.
The hoard is also notable for its two siliquae of the Emperor Magnus Maximus, who is popularly linked to Macsen Wledig in the Mabinogion.
He was seen as a mythological founding father of early Welsh kingdoms, and also features in the Dafydd Iwan’s song Yma o Hyd, which has become a popular football anthem and was sung following Wales’ victory over Ukraine in the Football World Cup qualifier in June.
The silver-gilt finger ring was discovered by Graham Carew while metal detecting on a field under rough pasture in December 2020.
The ring has clasped hands at the base of the hoop and a series of seven repeating upper-case letter S’s around the hoop, which were once filled with black enamel, traces of which survive. These stylistic features indicate the ring dates to the 15th or early 16th centuries.
Dr Mark Redknap of National Museum Wales said the ring imitated the S-chain signified support for the Lancastrian dynasty during the Wars of the Roses, and the clasped hands signified fidelity.
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Samsung has broken my heart. I’ve owned three of the company’s smartphones over the years – and tried out many more – and I’ve long raved about them. While I have issues with the company's decision to offer different chipsets in different regions for the Galaxy S line, for the most part I consider their best phones to be the best phones, period.
That’s why right now my main handset is a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, bought with my own money. But this might be the last Samsung phone I ever buy, because no matter how much I try to love it, it doesn’t love me back.
My relationship started with the Samsung Galaxy S2, a fantastic Android phone from 2011, and one that I wasn’t alone in my admiration of, as it achieved a coveted five-star review on TechRadar.
We had many happy days together, until one fateful afternoon I spilled a small quantity of water on it. This of course was entirely my fault, and it was in the days before water resistance was a common feature.
With that in mind I can’t be too hard on my Galaxy S2 for playing up ever since, yet the quantity of water was so small that its impact did make me think twice about Samsung phones for a while.
Second chances
I had a brief affair with the Nexus 4 and dabbled with HTC, but then the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge came along, and proved irresistible.
But that Edge hurt me more than the Galaxy S2 ever did, because just one year into its life it stopped working completely. After sending it off for repair things seemed good again, for a time, but then it developed a large black area in the top right corner of the screen, which was tough to ignore.
Eventually I passed it on to an acquaintance, and from what I gather it enjoyed a long life with them, without developing any further issues. But by then I’d moved on to Honor, and then for a while thought I might have found the one with OnePlus, but I once again found myself returning to Samsung,
Strike three
This time it was the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. The most expensive phone I’d ever bought, and the most beset by problems.
First, just six months or so in, it started slowing to a crawl. Closing all the background apps mostly resolved the issue, but it would inevitably return a day or two later. This continued for weeks before eventually stopping – perhaps the cause was a rogue app that received an update, I’m not sure, but things briefly returned to normal after that.
It wasn’t long though before my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra would start getting choosy about charging. Sometimes it would charge just fine, other times it would do so at a crawl, stop charging despite being plugged in, or just refuse to start in the first place. I worried that the port was damaged, but this issue seemingly resolved itself after a while as well.
Then, most recently, the camera started playing up. Now if I use the main lens to photograph something more than a meter away, it will usually come out blurred. A search of forums for similar issues revealed that banging the side of the phone once or twice will usually resolve the problem – but only temporarily.
This issue is ongoing, and in a handset that I paid quadruple digits for and have only had for around 18 months. And while I adore Samsung phones for their specs and features, none of the handsets I’ve owned from other brands have developed any significant issues.
So with that my love affair with Samsung phones is over, and as much as I’d like to – and will miss the likes of 10x optical zoom – I don’t think I can buy another one.
It's not Samsung, it's me
But you still should – all of these issues are anecdotal, and a quick Google search will reveal numerous people reporting problems with any phone.
Many of these issues may not be widespread, but then every now and again you get the likes of the iPhone’s bendgate, batterygate and antennagate controversies.
Or in Android land there's the myriad of issues faced by the Google Pixel 6 more recently. So Samsung isn’t alone in selling sometimes-suspect smartphones.
I also know plenty of happy Samsung Galaxy owners who’ve never experienced a fault - so perhaps the issue isn't Samsung, but me.
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Gilbert gave up one earned run on four hits and no walks while striking out four over five innings in a 3-2 extra-inning win over the Rangers on Saturday. He did not factor into the decision.
Gilbert continued his positive 2022 campaign with five strong innings of one-run ball against the division-rival Rangers. The hard-throwing right-hander now boasts a 2.76 ERA to go along with 10 wins on the season, and narrowly missed being named to the AL All-Star team. Since Gilbert has an xERA 4.17 through the first half of the year, it will be interesting to see if his numbers regress after the break. His next start is tentatively scheduled for Saturday against the Astros.
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Love Island couples are set to face the fallout from the return of movie night during Sunday’s episode.
Love Island couples are set to face the fallout from the return of movie night during Sunday’s episode.
The segment allows the islanders to see clips of antics which have happened when the couples have been tempted by newcomers.
Friday’s episode saw Luca Bish get angry after watching a clip of his partner, Gemma Owen, flirting with new boy Billy Brown in the kitchen.
After watching the clip, Luca said: “F****** muggy. I got made out to be like a f****** prick.”
In Sunday’s episode, viewers will see another clip of Billy and Gemma chatting in the villa, titled Good Bill Hunting.
After the films have aired, Luca says to Gemma: “You were entertaining it”, to which Gemma replies: “No, I wasn’t”.
Luca calls Billy over to the fire pit to join them and asks: “Did you feel like she was flirting with you?” with Billy replying: “Yeah, it was just flirty banter.”
Gemma interjects: “Did we have a flirty chat? Yes.”
Luca replies: “But just a minute ago you said you didn’t have a flirty chat, you literally said ‘I wasn’t flirting’.”
As the conversation continues, Gemma says: “I don’t think any lines have been crossed.”
Meanwhile, in a clip titled The Italian Stallion Job, the villa watch Davide Sanclimenti’s kiss with Coco Lodge in Casa Amor.
His partner, Ekin-Su Culculoglu, says: “He doesn’t kiss me like that, Davide does not kiss me like that, I have not had a kiss that passionate from him.”
In Friday’s episode, the villa saw a clip of the Turkish actress getting intimate in Casa Amor with another boy and later asking him to keep it a secret, having told her partner, Davide, that nothing happened while she was away.
After the screening, Ekin-Su says to Davide at the fire pit: “Nothing happened between us.
“Firstly, from day one, this boy George (Tasker) fancied me from the minute I got there, I kept saying we’re friends, my heart and my head is here with you.”
– Love Island continues at 9pm on Saturday on ITV2 and ITV Hub.
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Watch: KL Rahul kicks off preparations for West Indies T20I series, hones batting skills in net session
- Rahul missed the England tour and travelled to Germany to be operated on for sports hernia.
KL Rahul is set for an international return after a lengthy injury lay-off. The star India batter was picked for India's Twenty20 squad for the team's five-match tour of West Indies beginning later this month. Rahul, named the captain for the South Africa series last month, missed the assignment due to a right groin injury on June 8. Watch: Pakistan star pulls of Dravid's memorable act after taking 39 balls to get off the mark in SL vs PAK 1st Test
Rahul underwent successful surgery and informed that he is now "headling and recovering well". He also thanked everyone for messages and prayers and said his road to recovery has started following a "tough couple of weeks".
Rahul, the second-highest run-scorer of the recent IPL, missed the England tour and travelled to Germany to be operated on for sports hernia. A video of the right-handed batter has been doing rounds on social media where he is honing his batting skills at National Cricket Academy (NCA) nets in Bengaluru.
"Hello everyone. It's been a tough couple of weeks but the surgery was successful. I'm healing and recovering well. My road to recovery has begun. Thank you for your messages and prayers. See you soon," KL Rahul had shared a post for fans on the Koo app.
Along with Rahul, chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav is also in the squad, subject to fitness. The series will also see ace off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin returning to the T20 format. The Indian contingent also features young left-arm quick Arshdeep Singh. The Rohit Sharma-led side, however, will be without former skipper Virat Kohli.
Kohli, 33, has been going through a prolonged lean patch and has not hit a century since 2019. His slump in form has sparked a huge debate over his place in the Twenty20 set-up.
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Europe to Ration Gas If Nord Stream Stays Shut, Ineos Says
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,(Bloomberg) -- Europe will need to ration natural gas to meet winter heating demand if the Nord Stream pipeline doesn’t restart after planned maintenance, according to Ineos Group.
“It looks pretty dire for this winter now, as to whether we’ll get to the targets we need for storage,” Brian Gilvary, executive chairman of the UK chemicals company’s Ineos Energy business, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “If Nord Stream 1 doesn’t come back, it is inevitable. We will definitely see rationing in Europe.”
Companies in Germany, Italy and France will look to curtail gas use in the event that Nord Stream stays shut, Gilvary said. The pipeline, which carries the fuel from Russia to Germany, went offline for annual maintenance this week amid concern that Moscow will keep it shut in retaliation for sanctions after its invasion of Ukraine.
Ineos, one of Europe’s largest gas users, struck a deal last month to buy 1.4 million tons of liquefied natural gas a year from US exporter Sempra over two decades.
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Assessment will determine future home of MPD, use of City Hall
MISSOULA - As the city and county move closer to taking possession of the old federal building in downtown Missoula, questions over the Missoula Police Department’s future location linger, as does the future of City Hall.
To help answer those questions, members of the City Council on Wednesday authorized the mayor to contract with A&E Design to complete a facilities plan for MPD that assesses potential sites, designs and the department’s future needs.
MPD Chief Jaeson White said the department currently operates from two locations, with administrative functions located downtown at City Hall while detective, patrol and evidence are located at a relatively new but small facility on Catlin Street.
“We’ve outgrown both facilities,” White said. “We’re constantly finding innovative ways to shove people into offices to do their work. As we continue to grow, it has become more and more of a burden.”
The City Council last year included around $100,000 in the FY ’22 budget to fund the study. The contract with A&E won’t exceed $95,000 and will include Architects Design Group, which specializes in studying, planning and locating law enforcement facilities.
“In order for us to make informed decisions in the future, we need to have a space-needs survey completed that would give us all the information we need,” White said. “We need to figure out what we need now and contemplate future growth, so the next move the city makes regarding where the police department is housed has legs and can last a while.”
Barring any last-minute hurdles, the city and county of Missoula are likely to acquire the downtown federal building under the National Parks Service’s Good Neighbor Program. Once renovations are completed, the facility would house both city and county government, creating something of a one-stop-shop of public services.
It would also free up the county’s downtown administrative building and City Hall. The city and county could then consider selling the two properties for redevelopment.
For the city, however, it would have to relocate the police department to another location.
“We knew we needed to look very closely at MPD’s physical plant needs, but the project has taken on urgency with the upcoming acquisition of the federal building,” said John Adams, the city’s facilities manager. “During due diligence on the federal building, we looked really hard at locating the police department there, but it just doesn’t work.”
Placing the department in the federal building with the rest of local government had several issues including the layout of the old building and the spatial needs for the department’s vehicle fleet.
Adams said the planning study will help determine if City Hall is adequate for the department’s needs in future years, or if it could serve a higher purpose if sold and redeveloped.
“We’ll move everyone out of City Hall except MPD, and we’ll have to make a decision on what we want to do with that property,” Adams said. “Part of determining what we do with City Hall is determining if MPD can be there or elsewhere.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2667722496066/assessment-will-determine-future-home-of-mpd-use-of-city-hall | 2022-07-17T14:43:47Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2667722496066/assessment-will-determine-future-home-of-mpd-use-of-city-hall | false | 3 |
President Biden accused Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister of lying when he contradicted the president’s claim that had raised the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and bristled when asked about the fist bump with the royal.
Returning early Sunday morning to the White House after his four-day trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, Biden was asked whether Adel al-Jubier was telling the truth when he said he didn’t hear the president bring up Khashoggi with the prince, commonly referred to as MBS.
“No,” Biden responded bluntly, according to a White House pool report.
The president, moments after arriving on Marine One, was also asked if he regretted the controversial fist bump with MBS.
“Why don’t you guys talk about something that matters? I’m happy to answer a question that matters,” he shot back.
Biden told reporters on Friday that he had questioned the crown prince about the 2018 murder of Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
The US intelligence community has concluded that Salman ordered the operation to kill Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi royal family.
“With respect to the murder of Khashoggi,” Biden told reporters in the city of Jeddah. “I raised it at the top of the meeting, making clear what I thought of it at the time, and what I think of it now.”
But the president said MBS denied any personal responsibility for the killing.
“I indicated I thought he was. He said he was not personally responsible for it and he took action against those who were responsible,” the president added.
But the next day, al-Jubier told Fox News that he didn’t hear Biden confront MBS about Khashoggi.
“I didn’t hear that particular phrase,” al-Jubeir said.
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As NASCAR makes its lone trip to New England this season, the pressure is on for Cup Series drivers hoping to make the 2022 playoffs.
Only seven races remain in the regular season, so winless drivers only have a handful of opportunities to reach victory lane and secure a spot in the 10-race playoff. Sixteen drivers will make the Cup playoffs, which begin Sept. 4, and 13 drivers have already won a race, leaving only a few berths open – for now – for drivers without a win to point their way into the postseason.
Will Sunday produce a 14th different winner and tighten the bubble even further? Here is all the information you need to get ready for Sunday’s Ambetter 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway:
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What time does the NASCAR Cup race at New Hampshire start?
The Ambetter 301 starts at 3 p.m. ET at the Loudon, New Hampshire track.
What TV channel is the Cup race at New Hampshire on?
USA Network is broadcasting the Ambetter 301 and has a pre-race show beginning at 2 p.m. ET.
Will there be a live stream of the Cup race at New Hampshire?
The Ambetter 301 can be live streamed on the NBC Sports website (for those with a cable/satellite provider) and on the NBC Sports app. The race can also be streamed on FuboTV as well as other options.
How many laps is the Cup race at New Hampshire?
The Ambetter 301 is 301 laps around the 1.058-mile track for a total of 318.46 miles. The race will feature three segments (laps per stage) — Stage 1: 70 laps, Stage 2: 115 laps, Stage 3: 116 laps.
Who won the most recent Cup race at New Hampshire?
Aric Almirola led the final 20 laps and held off Christopher Bell by .697 seconds when NASCAR called the race after lap 293 of a scheduled 301 due to darkness.
What is the lineup for the Ambetter 301?
(Car number in parentheses):
1. (19) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota.
2. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet.
3. (45) Kurt Busch, Toyota.
4. (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota.
5. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota.
6. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet.
7. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford.
8. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet.
9. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford.
10. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford.
11. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford.
12. (22) Joey Logano, Ford.
13. (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet.
14. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota.
15. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford.
16. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford.
17. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota.
18. (1) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet.
19. (99) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet.
20. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet.
21. (7) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet.
22. (43) Erik Jones, Chevrolet.
23. (41) Cole Custer, Ford.
24. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet.
25. (31) Justin Haley, Chevrolet.
26. (38) Todd Gilliland, Ford.
27. (48) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet.
28. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford.
29. (14) Chase Briscoe, Ford.
30. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet.
31. (21) Harrison Burton, Ford.
32. (78) BJ McLeod, Ford.
33. (15) JJ Yeley, Ford.
34. (77) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet.
35. (42) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet.
36. (51) Cody Ware, Ford.
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Celebrated in Paris and ripped off back home: an Indigenous art tale
As the late artist Sally Gabori is feted in the top echelons of Paris, a heated debate is swirling in Australia about the art centre boss who stole from her – and whether the paintings he dishonestly sold should be handed back to her family.
It’s been an exhausting couple of days for Dorothy and Amanda Gabori. They’ve made the taxing 1800-kilometre journey by plane from their homes on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria all the way to Brisbane, facing delays, a cancelled flight and an unscheduled night in Cairns.
At last they’re here, to receive an honour on behalf of their late mother, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, whose tale of painting prolifically through her 80s, and finding national and international acclaim in the process, is one of the most remarkable Australia has seen.
Sally Gabori has been named one of this year’s Queensland Greats, and her daughters are here in Brisbane in early June to represent their large
extended family, which includes five surviving children (of 11) and so many grandchildren and great-grandchildren that the sisters have stopped counting. “There’s more coming,” Dorothy, says with a grin as she finishes her eggs on toast. Amanda adds, deadpan: “It goes on and on and on, too many too count.”
I meet Amanda, 56, and Dorothy, 64, at their Brisbane hotel with their helper, the gentle Sue Lee, who’s known the family for more than a decade and was with them by Gabori’s side when the artist died in 2015, aged 91.
It’s a big year for the Gaboris – not only has their mother been named a Queensland Great, she is starring in her first major international exhibition, in Paris at the prestigious Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, which was opened by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on July 1.
Amanda travelled to Paris for the launch, her first time out of Australia, along with two of Sally Gabori’s great-granddaughters, Narelle and Tori. Sue Lee went too, to help smooth the bumps of international travel.
“They are over the moon,” says Dorothy, who is not fond of flying and stayed home. “Tori can’t stop talking about Paris.”
But this year of triumph for Sally Gabori has a tragic subplot, of the kind all too often associated with successful Indigenous artists from remote communities. In her final years, Gabori was cheated by the very person paid to safeguard her interests.
Brett Evans was the long-standing manager of the Mirndiyan Gununa Aboriginal Corporation, commonly known as the Mornington Island Art Centre, where Gabori’s painting life began in 2005. Evans played a central role in promoting Gabori’s early career, but in February this year he was sentenced by the Mount Isa District Court to four-and-a-half years’ jail for fraudulently selling 176 of her paintings while she was still alive and pocketing the money rather than distributing it between the artist and the art centre, as required by the centre’s terms of business.
Evans is in jail in Brisbane, but his crime continues to reverberate. Some of the paintings he improperly sold ended up in the private collections of the rich and famous, bought in good faith by people with no knowledge of his crimes but now caught up in its aftermath.
This is not the first time the art trade has been racked by scandal and it won’t be the last. But this scandal is different. It doesn’t involve fakes, or the grubby deals of so-called carpetbaggers who exploit Indigenous artists by getting them to paint in sweat-shops and under other unsavoury conditions. It centres on ethically produced art dishonestly sold, a celebrated artist denied her due, and what happens to the market for her work as a result.
The debate about whether the Gabori paintings that Evans unlawfully sold should continue to be traded and hung goes to the heart of some of the key tensions in the commercial art world: who has the right to say whether a genuine work should be traded, and by whom; what happens when the gatekeepers don’t all agree, or don’t agree with the family; and who has the right to say that a work of art that nobody says is fake should or should not exist in the public sphere?
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori was around 80 years old when she first picked up a paint brush. “Absolutely everyone was surprised when, all of a sudden in 2005, she took off,” says Nicholas Evans, a linguist at the Australian National University with a long connection to Gabori and Mornington Island (and no relation to Brett Evans). “It really came out of nowhere.”
Before then, Gabori was known foremost as a shy grandmother with a talent for weaving. Belonging to the last coastal-living Aboriginal people to come into contact with Europeans, she barely spoke English and could not write her name.
Born around 1924 on the Gulf of Carpentaria’s Bentinck Island, the traditional lands of the Kaiadilt people, her name, Mirdidingkingathi, means “born at Mirdidingki,” a small creek in the island’s south, while “Juwarnda” refers to her conception totem, the dolphin. Gabori lived a traditional life, doing women’s work such as repairing the island’s stone-wall fish traps, finding shellfish and gathering plant food. As a teenager she fell in love with Kabararrjingathi Bulthuku Pat Gabori. Her older brother, King Alfred, forbid their relationship, following which Pat led an attack on King Alfred, killed him and claimed Sally as his fourth wife. The couple lived together until Pat’s death in 2009, and, I’m told, had an enduring love.
In her 20s, Gabori would face the greatest upheaval of her life. From the early 1940s, the Presbyterian missionaries on Mornington Island had been trying to persuade the Kaiadilt to move to the mission. The Kaiadilt wanted nothing of it. But in 1948, in the aftermath of a cyclone and tidal wave that contaminated Bentinck Island’s freshwater supply, they had little choice, and the 63 surviving Kaiadilt people were evacuated to the much bigger island to their north, Mornington Island. There, Mirdidingkingathi became “Sally”, the name bestowed on her by the missionaries. “Gabori” is believed to be a corruption of her husband Pat’s name, Kabararrjingathi.
Name changes were the least of the Kaiadilt’s troubles. In an all too common strategy, the Kaiadilt were forbidden to speak their language and their children taken from them and placed into dormitories. As Nicholas Evans writes in his essay for the Fondation Cartier, the Kaiadilt’s despair was so great that for several years after the move, no newborns survived. It was during this difficult time that Sally Gabori became a mother. She lost her first three children in infancy, but eventually had eight more.
The traditional owners of Mornington Island are the Lardil people, and the Kaiadilt believed they were only moving there temporarily. They would not return to Bentinck Island until the 1990s, however, when a small housing development was established on the island, at Nyinyilki, following land rights battles. Sally and Pat Gabori were among those who returned and resumed their traditional way of life. But their homecoming was short-lived. In the early 2000s, the lack of healthcare and funding for the community at Nyinyilki forced them back to Mornington Island, where Sally and Pat entered an old people’s home.
At this advanced age, most people would happily wind down, but Gabori would soon find expression in the most vital and startling of ways. In 2005, the Mornington Island Art Centre began holding painting workshops in collaboration with Brisbane’s Woolloongabba Art Gallery. At first, it was the senior Lardil men who were invited to the workshop, but the manager of the old people’s home pointed out that the women needed something to do as well.
Sally Gabori wasn’t all that interested in painting and asked instead to be taken out bush to gather grass to spin and weave. But Brett Evans, the art centre co-ordinator at the time, gave her a small canvas and convinced her to try. With that small gesture, he changed the course of Gabori’s final years and released one of the most original Indigenous artists Australia has seen.
Gabori’s first painting, My Country, is small, 60cm by 30cm, and somewhat ungainly, but it hints at what’s to come: paint thickly applied with assertive brush strokes, confident blocks of contrasting colour, a spontaneity and freedom that marks the beginnings of the radical abstract style for which she would become famed.
Despite her initial reticence, Gabori was hooked. She would eagerly wait for the bus to pick her up from the aged care hostel at 8.30am every weekday to take her to the art centre, and if the bus were late, she would set off on foot, determined to walk the kilometre or so.
Seven months after her first painting workshop, Gabori had her first solo exhibition, at the Woolloongabba Art Gallery that same year. Her canvases jostled with tightly-packed, colourful circles that referred to the glistening schools of fish on Bentinck Island: big black mullet, mangrove jack, black bream, yellow fish. There were paintings, too, of a turtle nest, a crocodile, rock cod swimming, hunting grounds, all rendered in big, bright, blocks of colour.
When I visit the Woolloongabba Art Gallery, a modest space on a busy road in inner Brisbane, the director, Bob Mercer, a chatty, easy-going man in his 70s, describes Gabori’s first exhibition as “incredible”. He gives me a copy of the catalogue, which features the artist on the cover, standing in front of one of her vibrant canvases with a big smile, wearing a polka-dotted skirt, patterned shirt and jaunty, checked bucket hat.
In the catalogue is an essay by Brett Evans, who warmly describes Gabori’s transformation from being “too shy to look at people, to interrogating anyone who came into the studio”. He continues: “She may even be accused of starting to dress like an artist and shows definite signs of eccentricity, wearing her stylish hats to the art centre.”
“She may even be accused of starting to dress like an artist and shows definite signs of eccentricity, wearing her stylish hats to the art centre.”
With the exhibition in tow, Evans approached respected art dealer Beverly Knight, director of Melbourne’s Alcaston Gallery, to tell her about the dynamic new artist on his books. Knight flew up for the Brisbane exhibition and was immediately taken by what she saw. The following year she exhibited Gabori at the Melbourne Art Fair, and in 2007 she held the artist’s first major solo show at Alcaston.
Knight held a solo Gabori exhibition practically every year after that and could be rightly said to have built the market for the artist, who she has represented as her primary dealer from late 2005. “We’ve never not had a sell-out exhibition of Sally’s work,” Knight tells me.
In 2016, following the artist’s death, Knight became the art agent for the Gabori estate. “Beverly was like a second mum to us, and a sister to mum,” Dorothy Gabori says.
As Gabori’s confidence grew, so did her canvases, becoming larger and bolder. Within the space of a decade, the small, unassuming woman had become an art world sensation, shown at international fairs and galleries from the Venice Biennale to London’s Royal Academy of Arts, acquired by prominent private collectors such as Annabel and Rupert Myer, of the department store dynasty, by major state galleries and international institutions including Paris’s Musée du Quai Branly, and commissioned by the Queensland Supreme Court and Brisbane Airport for site-specific work.
What’s all the more extraordinary about Gabori’s meteoric rise is the Kaiadilt do not have a tradition of rock or bark painting, and their body painting is simple. From the very beginning, Gabori was inventing a visual language of her own, joyously mapping her ancestral land in seemingly abstract works, using acrylic paint largely unmixed. Nicholas Evans suggests that Gabori’s native language, Kayardilt, which defines space in topographical blocks, deeply influenced her idiosyncratic vision.
In the year after her death, Gabori was honoured with a retrospective at the Queensland Art Gallery, which subsequently travelled to the National Gallery of Victoria. “Since then, no other Aboriginal artist has explored the immediate power of paint more than her,” writes Judith Ryan, a former long-time senior curator of indigenous art at the NGV, in the Fondation Cartier catalogue.
Brett Evans is a hefty, bald, bearded man whose looks have been likened to that of media personality Rex Hunt. He’s variously described to me as “lazy”, “flighty”, “erratic”, a “poor communicator”, and someone whose office was always out of bounds.
A qualified teacher, Evans arrived on Mornington Island in 1982 from Grafton, NSW, and taught for a couple of years before holding various other jobs. He started at the art centre in 1990, when it was still known as the Woomera Aboriginal Corporation. In 2005, he was appointed its co-ordinator, a role that required him to work closely with artists, supplying and preparing their materials, managing their sales and promoting their work. By 2009, he was promoted to manager, and four years later he was chief executive officer. But Evans did not see out his two-year contract as CEO; he left the art centre in 2014, as details about financial mismanagement started to emerge.
In March 2017, the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC), a federal government body set up in 1978 to oversee the running of Aboriginal corporations and ensure that they operate within the law, launched an investigation into Evans. Three years later, charges were filed by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in Brisbane Magistrates Court, charging Evans with 35 counts of using his position dishonestly to gain an advantage for himself. Twenty-eight of those charges related to the sale of 176 paintings by Gabori, amounting to $415,128.
Community-run art centres are meant to be safe havens for remote Indigenous artists, places where they’re shielded from exploitation. Art centre artists generally receive 50 to 60 per cent of the sale price of their works, with the remainder going to the centre to pay for materials, documentation, travel and other expenses such as staff and rent. But Evans siphoned the money for those 176 works into his own bank accounts.
Gabori was not the only artist he robbed: he dishonestly sold the artworks of seven other women too, including Gabori’s daughters, Amanda and Elsie. But Gabori was the most celebrated of the artists and, as Evans himself acknowledged in court, she accounted for 90 per cent of the centre’s sales.
Gabori was prolific, producing more than 2000 paintings in the last 10 years of her life. But not all of these were considered suitable for sale. Beverly Knight, in consultation with Brett Evans, had set aside paintings deemed low quality or too experimental to be sold. It’s not unusual for a primary dealer to control when and how an artist’s work will be sold, strategically releasing artworks for sale as a way of protecting an artist’s status and market price.
Gabori was prolific, producing more than 2000 paintings in the last 10 years of her life. But not all of these were considered suitable for sale.
Gabori’s lesser quality paintings were stored in a shipping container on Mornington Island, where they were to remain until Knight determined what to do with them. But that container proved too much of a temptation for Evans, who sold the works in it cheaply. What he did with the money is unclear. There are rumours he gambled it away.
Evans claimed Gabori gave him the paintings in gratitude for all the work he’d done for her over the years. The court rejected this story. It found that from August 2011 to September 2014, in the final years of Gabori’s life, Evans faked invoices and certificates of authenticity, so that buyers thought they were paying the Mornington Island art centre for Gabori’s works, not Evans himself.
In February this year, aged 62, Evans was sentenced to four-and-a-half-years’ jail with a non-parole period of 20 months. He pleaded guilty to all 35 charges, sparing a lengthy and expensive trial. The court ordered him to repay the $421,378.20 owed to the artists and art centre, but that hasn’t happened. Many doubt it ever will.
“People are angry,” says the art centre’s new manager, John Armstrong, who took over in 2018 and has had to deal with the emotional and economic fallout. “The most common response I have had is, ‘He only got four-and-a-half years, he should have got 14-and-a-half,’ because he was in the community for so long, he had family here, he was initiated here, he had kids. People felt really betrayed. And it was not just what he did to Sally, it’s what he did to the other artists as well.”
Brett Evans is married to a local artist, Emily Evans, a Lardil woman with whom he has three children. Without excusing the crime, Nicholas Evans offers another perspective on the man. “He was someone who was helping things happen,” Evans says. “As the art centre co-ordinator, he took some decisive early steps which meant that not only Sally but that whole Kaiadilt art movement took off, encouraging her, giving her a paint brush, saying, ‘Look, this could work.’ Not that he’s any form of art connoisseur at all; he’d be the first to say that.
“These were all really positive things about Brett, and the terrible thing about Brett’s story is that it’s just like, you know, a Shakespearean tragedy, of someone who starts off with a couple of flaws, like we all have, and circumstances just amplified them, and some rotten things happened because of that and it’s hurt people in the community and it’s hurt him.
“Then there was this other thing with the famous shed with all of the unsold canvases, which, yeah, it’s a sort of Pandora’s Box waiting to be opened at some point in the future. That’s what did happen and that’s when the top blew off it all.”
The aftershocks keep coming, with differing opinions on whether the paintings Brett Evans dishonestly sold should be returned to the Gabori estate. For Dorothy and Amanda Gabori, the issue is clear-cut. When I meet them in Brisbane they tell me the works were “stolen” and should be given back. They describe Evans’ crime as “elder abuse”. What Evans did remains deeply hurtful to the sisters, and it’s not something they like to talk about. “He took advantage of an old lady,” Dorothy tells me in a near whisper.
Significantly, the court made no ruling on whether the paintings should be returned to the Gabori estate. Nor will ORIC be taking any further action. “ORIC investigated the fraud associated with the sale of the artworks; ownership was never in question,” the organisation wrote to me in February, when I sought clarification of the issue.
But the law is one thing, perception another. In the art trade, provenance – an artwork’s sales history – is paramount, and for some collectors the knowledge that these paintings were initially sold dishonestly may dampen their enthusiasm for owning one. As Judith Ryan puts it, “Once we have someone jailed for such an offence, it means that the works that changed hands as a result of this are tainted, so collectors would not necessarily want those on their walls.”
Ryan, who is now a senior curator at the University of Melbourne art museums, takes a strong stance. “People will say they didn’t know that this is what happened, but that’s why when you have a betrayal like this, it’s so undermining of all art centres and artists. It’s exploiting the vulnerable members of the community, which is not to be countenanced.”
Almost half the works Brett Evans dishonestly sold were bought by one of Australia’s biggest collectors of Indigenous art, well-known Sydney philanthropist Pat Corrigan, who made his fortune in the freight business. Corrigan, who bought the paintings from Evans in several lots before the crimes came to light, feels like the whipping boy in the whole Brett Evans saga. Evans did the crime, but Corrigan feels he’s in the firing line.
“Why is all the focus on me all the time?” he asks when we meet in Sydney. I suggest it’s because he bought so many Gabori paintings from Evans, at bargain-basement prices. “Why aren’t they focusing on the other people?” he responds.
Court documents show that among the other buyers of the Gaboris from Evans are a medical practitioner, Andrew Clift, who travelled to Mornington Island between 2009 and 2011 as part of his work with the Mount Isa Base Hospital. Over two years, Clift bought a total of 60 works, paying $90,000 in total (an average of $1500 a piece). There’s also Hobart gallery Art Mob, which bought 15 works over two years, paying $52,681 (an average of $3512); the Yaama Ganu Gallery, in the regional NSW town of Moree, which bought 12, also over two years, paying $43,000 (an average of $3583); and a few other individuals, including Pat Corrigan’s art adviser, Adam Knight (no relation to Beverly), who bought two works for himself at a total cost of $6000.
Corrigan is a likeable fellow. He has an ease about him, and a mischievousness that seems to act as a kind of foil. He manages to be candid and circumspect all at once. Approaching 90, controversy is the last thing he needs, especially after a lifetime building a reputation as a generous supporter of the arts. He texts me several weeks after we meet, hoping my story will be “All. Joy” and pleading with me to “Leave. Be. Controversy”. Still, Corrigan didn’t hesitate when I asked whether I could visit him in Sydney to discuss the Evans case and his entanglement in it.
At about midday on a sunny, crisp Saturday in June, Corrigan picks me up from my hotel in his small white Suzuki. He looks dapper in a long black coat and a pair of black leather slip-ons with white sneaker-like soles. He may be almost 90, but he’s not skimping on style. He puts on a pair of black designer sunglasses with mirror lenses and off we drive toward his part of town. First, there’s lunch at his favourite Double Bay café, followed by a gallery tour. Wherever we go, people warmly greet him by name and he relishes the attention.
When we finally make it to his apartment in Darling Point, several hours later, the winter sun is beginning its descent over Sydney’s towers. Corrigan’s apartment is a shrine to his joyfully Catholic taste for contemporary art. On display is a cacophony of styles, shapes, mediums, colour: Ken Whisson’s scratchy abstract paintings on the wall; Alex Seton’s marble palm trees on the coffee table; a Ben Quilty painting of a hamburger in one of the halls; the fabulously garish ceramics of Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran on a side table.
No sign, though, of paintings by Gabori – they’re in storage, he tells me – although a Perspex box housing three paint-stained brushes that belonged to her is sitting on the coffee table. The brushes are surprisingly small, about the thickness of a big thumb. Looking at Gabori’s works, one imagines she used huge house-painting brushes, but that’s not the case at all.
According to the court documents, from March 2013 to June 2014 Corrigan purchased 83 paintings by Gabori from Evans, although he emphasises to me that he never dealt with Evans directly, leaving Adam Knight to do business for him.
Corrigan paid a total of $214,447 for those 83 paintings, an average of about $2600 a piece, which Beverly Knight says is well below the wholesale price. She told ORIC that the total wholesale price for those 83 paintings should have been about $1 million at the time of purchase, an average of about $12,000 a piece. (The Australian and New Zealand Art Sales Digest, which records the results of art auctions, shows that from 2011 to 2014, the time of Brett Evans’ offending, prices for Gabori’s paintings ranged from about $4500 to $36,000.)
It’s not unusual for dealers to buy art in bulk in order to negotiate a better price and maximise profits when they on-sell. I ask Corrigan whether this was why he bought so many.
“No,” he says, sounding slightly hurt by the proposal. “It’s because I wanted to do the book.
“I am not a dealer,” he insists. “I’m a collector, and I’m a bit of a nutty collector.” I ask if the very low price of the works, relative to Gabori’s market price, raised any suspicions in him. “If Adam had started offering me some of these for $50 or $75 … I would have got suspicious and pulled out of the deal,” he says. “[But] I paid the normal price.”
The book he refers to is a hardback, 222-page tome commissioned at Corrigan’s expense and published under the Macmillan imprint in April 2015, two months after Gabori’s death. Titled The Corrigan Collection of Paintings by Sally Gabori, it cost Corrigan $150,000 to produce and was launched at a succession of high-profile events across the country, by prominent figures including Rupert Myer, then chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, in Melbourne, and former governor-general Quentin Bryce, in Brisbane.
Beverly Knight was unimpressed when she got hold of The Corrigan Collection of Paintings by Sally Gabori a week after its Melbourne launch. Within it, she recognised many of the Gabori paintings she’d set aside not to be sold. That’s when she realised something was awry on Mornington Island. Knight was so disturbed by the book that she rang all the public art gallery bookshops in Australia, asking them not to stock it. Only the National Gallery of Victoria agreed. Knight continues to condemn the book and wants any remaining copies pulped. Corrigan finds her reaction difficult to fathom.
“This was a fun thing to do,” he says. “Can’t some people work out – certainly Beverly can’t – there’s got to be some fun in this whole art thing? The whole thing is meant to be a happy venture.” He proudly shows me the letter from ORIC thanking him for his co-operation in the investigation.
I ask Corrigan what he thinks about the quality of the paintings sold by Evans. As proof of their artistic merit, he tells me that some were bought by American comedian Steve Martin, a serious collector of Australian Aboriginal art. Martin is one of the major clients of ambitious Melbourne art dealer D’Lan Davidson, former head of Aboriginal Art at Sotheby’s Australia who has been vigorously growing his business in the secondary market for Aboriginal art, forging ties with big international players such as mega-gallery Gagosian. Corrigan sold some of his Gabori paintings through Davidson’s gallery, D’Lan Contemporary, which is where Steve Martin acquired one.
When I ring Davidson to ask, among other things, whether I can speak with Martin about the Gabori paintings, he’s incensed that I even have the nerve to ask. Davidson is a keen self-promoter, but this is not the kind of attention he wants.
In her 70s, with silvery bobbed hair and dressed in layers of black, Beverly Knight has a brusque manner and a reputation for being “territorial”. After so many years promoting Gabori, and building a relationship with the family, she’s protective of her patch.
“It was when this book came out that I knew there was a problem,” Beverly Knight tells me as we sit in her third-floor office in Market Street, Melbourne, around the corner from her gallery, with a copy of Corrigan’s book on the table. “I was knocked off my feet because a lot of the works in the book were works I had put away,” she says.
“I had no evidence up until then what was going on. All I knew was that there were occasional poor works appearing on the market, and people were thinking they were fakes.
“And then getting Sally when she was near death,” Knight adds, pointing to the photos of the artist in the book. “Some of the photos are just appalling, really heartbreaking.”
Knight’s office glows with the works of Gabori. In the entrance hang some particularly strong examples, such as Dibirdibi Country, 2012, sweeps of yellow, orange, magenta and white sparring with each other.
I ask Knight to point out some of the paintings in Corrigan’s book that she considers of lower quality. She indicates a couple, and to my eye they don’t seem radically different to those she’s sold, Gabori’s work being in
essence raw and spontaneous. Might she have sold such work in the future, though? “Maybe,” Knight says. “It wouldn’t be up to me, because the estate owns them. I don’t own them.”
Artists’ works are open to reassessment, Knight explains, and part of the process a dealer goes through entails returning to certain works and looking at them afresh.
Knight’s decision to publicly criticise the paintings in Corrigan’s book has created friction in the art trade, foremost between her and the younger dealer snapping at her heels, D’Lan Davidson, a strikingly tall and confident 40-something. Knight asked Davidson not to sell any works from Corrigan’s collection while the Brett Evans case was pending. Davidson sought his own advice. “In this exceptional circumstance, we made direct contact with the lead investigative body of the case – ORIC – and we relied on the information that they provided to me personally,” Davidson says.
In December 2020, Davidson launched an exhibition of 10 works by Gabori, eight of which were from the Corrigan collection. Prices ranged from $14,000 for smaller works to $88,000 for large works, with two works being price on application, including one that Corrigan had bought from Beverly Knight’s gallery, and had pictured on the cover of his book. This painting Knight had pointed to as an excellent example of Gabori’s work. “I believe in those paintings,” Davidson tells me. “We put them up for sale because we did everything right, we did our due diligence, we paid copyright ($3400) and resale royalty ($18,053), and we were proven right.”
When I ask what he means by “proven right”, he says that “the paintings were purchased legally and have clear title”.
Knight disagrees. She defines “clear title” as a direct line from the point of sale back to the artist, and since Gabori was not paid for the Evans works, Knight says there is no direct line with them. She tells me she’s been contacted by several international collectors concerned about the provenance of their Gabori paintings. One collector asked Davidson for a refund, which he duly provided. As it turned out, this was for a Gabori painting that had nothing to do with the batch that Brett Evans unlawfully sold, highlighting how easily buyer confidence can be undermined when there’s a hint of scandal surrounding an artist.
Knight also asked the auction house Deutscher and Hackett to check in with her on any Gabori paintings from Corrigan that might be coming up for sale while the Brett Evans case was ongoing. It agreed. Navigating the situation was delicate for auction house co-founder Chris Deutscher, who has dealt with Pat Corrigan for 40-odd years. “I think the works are great, there is nothing wrong with them,” Deutscher tells me. “When I saw D’Lan’s catalogue, I was envious. How come Pat’s selling his Gaboris? I didn’t think he ever wanted to sell them … there are some very good examples. Some of them are verging on the spectacular.”
Amid this stand-off, Davidson went on the offensive and pitched for Knight’s job, offering his services as art agent for the Gabori estate. I ask the Gabori estate’s lawyer, Jeneve Frizzo, whether change is likely. She responds via email: “Beverly Knight Art + Business is the Agent for the Estate. The Estate is very grateful to the Agent’s ethical and skilled stewardship of the artist’s legacy. The estate is not considering changing agency arrangements.”
The court case may be over, but the Gabori estate holds the trump card: from now on it can refuse copyright for any of the paintings Brett Evans unlawfully handled, prohibiting them from being illustrated in auction house or dealer catalogues, thereby hampering their sale. “That’s the instruction from the estate,” Knight tells me. “Copyright is denied for any works listed in the [Evans] court documents.”
Whether all this affects the prices for the Evans-sold works if and when their current owners want to trade them remains to be seen, as, too, whether the controversy around them has a dampening effect on Gabori’s entire market. As to legal avenues for the estate to seize the Evans works, it is not known if any exist and, if so, whether they are being pursued. In the meantime, Frizzo writes that the estate “would be grateful to any person in possession of such works who would return them to the estate”.
On the other side of the world, far from the power plays of Australia’s commercial art world, Sally Gabori’s name is writ large on the glass facade of the Fondation Cartier’s spectacular Jean Nouvel-designed building in Montparnasse. Beverly Knight jubilantly texts me photos from Paris: Narelle, Tori and Amanda, standing in front of the massive poster bearing their mother and grandmother’s name; another of Amanda, inside the exhibition, in front of one her mother’s vast “ice-cream” works, painted in luscious pastels.
The Fondation Cartier was established in 1984 by the French luxury goods company to present contemporary art in its broadest sense, including painting, photography, design, performance, video and fashion. Its long-standing director, Hervé Chandès, has exhibited the biggest names in contemporary art, among them Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Matthew Barney and Australians Ron Mueck and Marc Newson. But nothing prepared him for Sally Gabori. When Chandès was first shown a catalogue of Gabori’s work several years ago, his reaction was visceral.
“I said to myself, immediately, and to everyone around me at the Fondation, ‘Let’s do it!’ ” Chandès tells me by video from Paris. “I was completely overwhelmed … by the colours, by the composition, the scale, the size, the beauty, the space. Really, it was shocking. Shocking! And so beautiful.”
Gabori’s exhibition, the first of an Australian Indigenous artist at the Fondation, is a milestone as significant as that experienced by another late-flowering artist, the much-lauded Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who was honoured with a comprehensive solo exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, in 2008, also posthumously.
Thirty of Gabori’s paintings are being exhibited across the Fondation’s two floors, as well as three collaborative paintings created with other Kaiadilt artists including her daughters, Amanda and Elsie. The subterranean floor is exclusively for Gabori’s monumental canvases, those measuring two metres by six metres, which Judith Ryan, who also travelled to Paris for the opening, tells me reminds her of stepping into the room of Monet’s Water Lilies at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris. Following its four months in Paris, the Gabori exhibition will travel to Italy for the Milan Triennale early next year.
“She’s not here, but somewhere, we are talking to her. And the show is her show … it’s not her memories, she’s alive! And it’s for the family, it’s for the community.”
I ask Chandès whether he thinks many French people will have heard of Sally Gabori. “Except us, no one,” he says flashing a charming smile. “That’s the idea, to introduce her work with a solo exhibition and a fantastic selection of artwork. Our wish is to make something important for Sally Gabori. First, for Sally Gabori herself. We are talking to her. She’s not here, but somewhere, we are talking to her. And the show is her show … it’s not her memories, she’s alive! And it’s for the family, it’s for the community.”
Sally Gabori’s Queensland Supreme Court mural was commissioned more than a decade ago, but Amanda and Dorothy Gabori have never seen it. On a cool June morning, we make our way along Brisbane’s Roma Street to the courts, the fresh breeze skipping around the Gabori sisters’ colourful skirts.
On a curved wall in the public square before the building’s entrance, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s Thousands of Eyes installation sizes us up. Sally Gabori is in good company. We pass through security, take a lift to the third floor and go searching for the Banco Court, where the mural is housed, only to find the room is locked. A barrister in long, black robes points us to a judge’s associate who might help. Her face lights up when we explain why we’re here. “What an honour it is to meet you, I love that artwork,” she tells the sisters.
She swipes her card against the court door’s lock and in we go. In the hush of the empty court room, I hear Dorothy and Amanda draw breath. “Oh, it’s so beautiful,” they murmur in unison.
The mural’s scale and energy takes us all by surprise – it’s four metres high and 16 metres wide, sweeping across the entire back wall. Vigorous white brush strokes dissolve into the primary colours layered beneath, giving the painting an ethereal sea light.
Artists Jeph Neale and Hilary Jackman were entrusted with transferring Gabori’s artwork to the Banco Court, travelling to Mornington Island in June 2010 to meet the artist, by then in her mid-80s, and learn first-hand her method of paint application. They have done a superb job; the mural radiates Gabori’s spirit. We all struggle to hold back tears.
“Could I go and touch it?” Dorothy asks shyly. She walks quietly towards the wall, past the judges’ bench, until she is face-to-face with the painting. She reaches up to the mural and holds her right hand against it. Her long, elegant fingers rest there for a sustained stretch of time. Dorothy stands, silent, hand tenderly pressed against the mural as though summoning her mother’s spirit, connecting with her ancestral lands. The moment feels too sacred, too private, to watch. It is a moment of clarity in the complicated story of Sally Gabori.
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The sentencing trial for the gunman who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., more than four years ago is set to begin on Monday.
After nearly three months of jury selection, jurors must decide whether Nikolas Cruz, 23, gets a life sentence in prison or is put to death. He has already pleaded guilty to all charges.
Prosecutors are seeking the death sentence, while Cruz's defense team is hoping for the only other option: life in prison with no possibility of parole. (In Florida, life sentences don't allow for parole.)
A jury of seven men and five women will hear witness testimony and review evidence, during a trial that's expected to last for months.
The jury must be unanimous in deciding to impose the death penalty. If a single juror disagrees, Cruz will be sentenced to life.
The trial has faced repeated delays
When he appeared in court last fall, Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty to 17 charges of first-degree murder and an additional 17 charges of attempted murder. At the time, he addressed victims' family members to apologize for his actions.
"I am very sorry for what I did and I have to live with it every day," he said. "And that if I would get a second chance, I would do everything in my power to try to help others."
In the pre-trial hearings, lead prosecutor Michael Satz laid out Cruz's actions on Valentine's Day in 2018. The former student, who'd been expelled from Marjory Stoneman a year earlier, took an Uber to the school and began firing an AR-15-style rifle at students in hallways and classrooms.
He killed 14 students, three staff members and seriously injured 17 others. He left the scene by hiding among fleeing students and was arrested soon after blocks away.
The sentencing trial has faced a series of delays due to the coronavirus pandemic and attorneys' requests. Cruz's defense attorneys last month requested another delay following May's mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, arguing that the tragedy in which 19 students and two teachers were killed triggered emotions that would unfairly influence the trial. The judge rejected the motion.
The shooting spurred a wave of advocacy from the victims
The tragedy inspired a wave of youth-driven advocacy to push for gun control. Survivors organized the nationwide March for Our Lives rallies in 2018 and again last month after the shooting in Uvalde.
A month after the shooting, Florida passed a law raising the minimum age to buy long guns such as rifles to 21. Cruz, who was 19 at the time of the shooting, had legally bought the AR-15-style rifle he used in the massacre. The law also provided more funding for security at schools and also allowed law enforcement to seize the weapons of anyone deemed a threat to themselves or others.
As a result of the law's passage, law enforcement officials say that over the last four years, Florida has issued more than 8,000 red flag orders to confiscate firearms.
In 2021, Parkland shooting victims and their families agreed to a $25 million settlement with the Broward County school district, after suing the district for negligence in failing to prevent the attack.
After Monday's sentencing trial starts, the jury will also hear statements from the families of those who were killed.
What to expect
The defense is expected to argue that the gunman was impaired by mental illness. Stephen Harper, a longtime public defender who specializes in Florida death penalty cases, previously told NPR that the evidence presented may include electroencephalogram tests and other forms of brain scans.
"His mother was apparently an alcoholic and a drug abuser," Harper said. "And in utero, he would have been exposed to very serious things that could have affected clearly his mental capacity. So those things are very relevant."
Legal experts, however, say that the premeditated nature of the killings will be a tough challenge for the defense.
In a video recorded before the shooting that later surfaced, the gunman described his plans to kill people, and talked about his "lone life" and hatred for "everyone and everything."
The jury will be shown gut-wrenching videos taken by students of some of their classmates' final moments, as well as eyewitness testimonies of survivors.
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Total Clarity Wealth Management Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE – Get Rating) during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 10,437 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $174,000.
Several other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the business. State Street Corp increased its position in shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise by 3.0% in the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 68,369,444 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,086,148,000 after buying an additional 2,015,880 shares in the last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. increased its position in shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise by 11.1% during the fourth quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 17,464,583 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $275,416,000 after purchasing an additional 1,750,972 shares in the last quarter. Allianz Asset Management GmbH increased its position in shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise by 25.9% during the fourth quarter. Allianz Asset Management GmbH now owns 6,709,480 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $105,808,000 after purchasing an additional 1,379,985 shares in the last quarter. KBC Group NV increased its position in shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise by 34.1% during the fourth quarter. KBC Group NV now owns 4,544,801 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $71,672,000 after purchasing an additional 1,156,297 shares in the last quarter. Finally, LPL Financial LLC increased its position in shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise by 836.8% during the fourth quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 1,240,811 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $19,568,000 after purchasing an additional 1,108,364 shares in the last quarter. 82.70% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Stock Performance
Shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise stock opened at $13.27 on Friday. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a 52 week low of $12.40 and a 52 week high of $17.76. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $14.36 and its 200-day simple moving average is $15.74. The firm has a market cap of $17.24 billion, a PE ratio of 4.77, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.93 and a beta of 1.17. The company has a quick ratio of 0.64, a current ratio of 0.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Dividend Announcement
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 8th. Investors of record on Monday, June 13th were paid a dividend of $0.12 per share. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.62%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, June 10th. Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s payout ratio is 17.27%.
Insider Buying and Selling
In related news, EVP Thomas E. Black, Jr. sold 28,347 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.26, for a total transaction of $432,575.22. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. In other Hewlett Packard Enterprise news, EVP Alan Richard May sold 94,705 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.08, for a total transaction of $1,428,151.40. Following the sale, the executive vice president now owns 310,500 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,682,340. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, EVP Thomas E. Black, Jr. sold 28,347 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.26, for a total value of $432,575.22. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 0.45% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
Several analysts recently commented on the company. Barclays dropped their price target on Hewlett Packard Enterprise from $20.00 to $19.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, June 2nd. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut Hewlett Packard Enterprise from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their price target for the stock from $18.00 to $16.00 in a research report on Tuesday, June 14th. Citigroup dropped their price target on Hewlett Packard Enterprise from $14.00 to $13.50 and set a “sell” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, June 2nd. Raymond James reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $19.00 price objective (down previously from $20.00) on shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in a research note on Tuesday, June 21st. Finally, StockNews.com lowered Hewlett Packard Enterprise from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, June 6th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and seven have issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $16.95.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company provides solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze, and act upon data seamlessly in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. The company offers general purpose servers for multi-workload computing and workload-optimized servers; HPE ProLiant rack and tower servers; HPE BladeSystem and HPE Synergy; and solutions for secondary workloads and traditional tape, storage networking, and disk products, such as HPE Modular Storage Arrays and HPE XP.
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Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has broken silence on the just-concluded Osun State governorship election, following the incumbent Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s defeat.
Aregbesola reacted to the outcome of the governorship election in a social media post titled, ‘Osun Le Tente’ on Sunday morning.
He also posted a Bible verse, Daniel 4:17, which exalts God’s power to place control in the hands of whoever He wishes.
“This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.” – (Daniel 4:17),” the minister posted.
The former Osun State governor, who boycotted the election, had remained silent on developments in the State after his outburst against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his political godfather, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in February 2022 over Oyetola’s governorship candidacy.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday morning declared Ademola Adeleke the governor-elect of Osun State after scoring a majority of votes cast in the governorship election in the state.
The victory came for Adeleke nearly four years after he failed by a small margin in his bid to govern Osun State.
On Saturday, Adeleke polled 403,371 votes to defeat his closest rival, the incumbent governor of the state, Oyetola, who polled 375,027 votes.
Though 15 political parties participated in the election, the top contenders were Oyetola and Adeleke.
Both Oyetola and Adeleke contested for the Osun governorship seat in 2018, which Oyetola won after a rerun.
Aregbesola had publicly moved against the second-term ambition of Governor Oyetola.
Instead, Aregbesola endorsed the former Secretary to the State Government, Moshood Adeoti, who later lost to Oyetola at the APC governorship primary election held on February 19, 2022.
In the outburst ahead of the party’s governorship primary election in the state, Aregbesola said that enough was enough for the politics of godfatherism and enthronement by treacherous leaders who equated themselves to the status of a god.
The minister had said he trusted Tinubu, but the ex-governor of Lagos State repaid him with betrayal.
Aregbesola, who was the governor of Osun State from 2010 to 2018, also accused Tinubu and ex-governor of Osun State, Bisi Akande, of forcing the current governor of the state, Gboyega Oyetola, on the people, against popular will.
Though Aregbesola made moves to reconcile with his political boss Tinubu, the efforts yielded no result.
A few hours to the governorship election, a faction of the APC led by the minister, The Osun Progressives (TOP) released a statement, noting that despite the feud, its members would remain in APC and vote for the party.
This was after a stalwart of the APC and one of the closest loyalists to Aregbesola and a TOP mobiliser, Kolapo Alimi, defected to the PDP.
Aregbesola did not partake in the Osun State governorship election on Saturday.
It was learnt that the former governor of Osun State travelled abroad to attend a conference.
According to an aide of the minister, Aregbesola shunned the election to avoid a crisis.
It was learnt that the minister was in Lagos State on Thursday before travelling to Abuja on Friday.
When contacted, Aregbesola’s media adviser, Sola Fasure, confirmed the minister’s absence.
“He proceeded on an official assignment on Friday,” Fasure said.
The media aide noted that Aregbesola was not invited to work for Oyetola’s second-term bid in Osun.
He also said the minister was not named in the Osun State campaign team by the All Progressives Congress.
He said, “Aregbesola is not in Osogbo. He is on an official assignment. He was not invited and not a part of the election council. The governor did not also invite him to be part of the campaign.”
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Chelsea star Armando Broja set to join West Ham on loan transfer with Thomas Tuchel refusing to sell striker for £30m
ARMANDO BROJA looks set to join West Ham on loan as Chelsea refuse to sell him, reports suggest.
That is according to the Daily Mail, who report that the Hammers initially wanted Broja, 20, on a permanent transfer but Blues manager Thomas Tuchel refuses to give up on him.
West Ham have accepted their London rivals' position and are willing to take the striker on a season-long loan and see if they can negotiate a deal, that could cost at least £30million, next year.
Davie Moyes' side appear to have picked up the lead in an intense bidding war over the Albania international.
Broja has been attracting interest from both West Ham and Everton throughout the summer.
Newcastle are also thought to have enquired about a deal involving the 20-year-old.
And Southampton were linked with the centre-forward, who stood out last season while on loan at St Mary's.
Broja scored nine goals and made one assist in 38 matches across all competitions but Saints have pulled out of the race.
West Ham are also keeping tabs on Sassuolo striker Gianluca Scamacca as Moyes is desperate for attacking reinforcement.
But the Hammers' bid for Scamacca is not expected to affect their interest in Chelsea ace Broja.
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Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund trimmed its position in shares of Waters Co. (NYSE:WAT – Get Rating) by 21.3% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 33,400 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock after selling 9,037 shares during the period. Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund’s holdings in Waters were worth $10,367,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Other hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. SG Americas Securities LLC raised its holdings in shares of Waters by 97.0% during the 4th quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 5,600 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock worth $2,087,000 after acquiring an additional 2,757 shares in the last quarter. Vestmark Advisory Solutions Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Waters by 19.4% during the 1st quarter. Vestmark Advisory Solutions Inc. now owns 1,274 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock worth $395,000 after acquiring an additional 207 shares in the last quarter. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. raised its holdings in shares of Waters by 36.3% during the 4th quarter. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. now owns 18,772 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock worth $6,995,000 after acquiring an additional 5,003 shares in the last quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Waters by 0.3% during the 4th quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 20,997 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock worth $7,824,000 after acquiring an additional 64 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Waters by 2.9% during the 4th quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 312,564 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock worth $116,461,000 after acquiring an additional 8,692 shares in the last quarter. 90.65% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Insiders Place Their Bets
In other news, Director Christopher A. Kuebler sold 4,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $328.78, for a total transaction of $1,315,120.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 14,064 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,623,961.92. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Insiders own 0.77% of the company’s stock.
Waters Stock Performance
Waters (NYSE:WAT – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, May 3rd. The medical instruments supplier reported $2.80 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.32 by $0.48. Waters had a return on equity of 221.08% and a net margin of 24.57%. The business had revenue of $690.60 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $634.08 million. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $2.29 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 13.5% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts predict that Waters Co. will post 12.05 earnings per share for the current year.
Analyst Ratings Changes
Several analysts have recently issued reports on the company. StockNews.com assumed coverage on Waters in a report on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “buy” rating on the stock. Cowen increased their price target on Waters to $358.00 in a report on Friday, May 20th. Bank of America upgraded Waters from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and increased their price target for the company from $320.00 to $330.00 in a report on Tuesday, May 17th. Wells Fargo & Company upgraded Waters from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and decreased their price target for the company from $320.00 to $315.00 in a report on Monday, April 25th. Finally, Barclays started coverage on Waters in a report on Tuesday, May 17th. They set an “overweight” rating and a $375.00 price target on the stock. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Waters currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $355.43.
Waters Profile
Waters Corporation, a specialty measurement company, provides analytical workflow solutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe. It operates through two segments, Waters and TA. The company designs, manufactures, sells, and services high and ultra-performance liquid chromatography, as well as mass spectrometry (MS) technology systems and support products, including chromatography columns, other consumable products, and post-warranty service plans.
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CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from days of tribal clashes in a southern Sudanese province climbed to at least 65 people, a senior health official said Sunday.
The fighting between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups in the Blue Nile province also injured around 150 others, said Gamal Nasser al-Sayed, the province’s health minister.
He told The Associated Press that most of the dead were young men who were shot or stabbed.
Al-Sayed urged authorities in the capital of Khartoum to help airlift 15 seriously injured as hospitals in the Blue Nile lack advanced equipment and life-saving medicine.
The fighting in the Blue Nile grew out of the killing of a farmer earlier last week and continued through Saturday, according to the local government.
Authorities deployed the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — or RSF — to bring stability to the region. They also imposed a nightly curfew and banned gatherings in the towns of Roseires and Damazin, where the clashes took place.
Local media reported that thousands of people fled their homes since the clashes began last week.
The fighting was the latest tribal violence to hit Sudan, which is in turmoil since the military took over in a coup in October.
The coup upended the country’s short-lived transition to democracy after nearly three decades of repressive rule of autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
Al-Bashir and his Islamist government were removed from power in a popular uprising in April 2019. | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Sudan-official-says-death-toll-from-tribal-17310486.php | 2022-07-17T15:30:15Z | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Sudan-official-says-death-toll-from-tribal-17310486.php | false | 26 |
Ribbit LEAP, Ltd. (NYSE:LEAP – Get Rating) saw a large increase in short interest during the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totalling 64,900 shares, an increase of 106.7% from the June 15th total of 31,400 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 53,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.2 days. Currently, 0.2% of the company’s shares are short sold.
Hedge Funds Weigh In On Ribbit LEAP
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the business. RP Investment Advisors LP bought a new stake in Ribbit LEAP in the 1st quarter worth $6,170,000. Radcliffe Capital Management L.P. bought a new stake in Ribbit LEAP in the 1st quarter worth $4,734,000. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. grew its holdings in Ribbit LEAP by 12.6% in the 1st quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. now owns 446,914 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,411,000 after acquiring an additional 50,020 shares during the last quarter. Governors Lane LP grew its holdings in Ribbit LEAP by 50.0% in the 1st quarter. Governors Lane LP now owns 300,000 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,961,000 after acquiring an additional 100,000 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Vetamer Capital Management L.P. bought a new stake in Ribbit LEAP in the 4th quarter worth $2,769,000. Institutional investors own 79.56% of the company’s stock.
Ribbit LEAP Price Performance
Shares of LEAP stock traded up $0.01 on Friday, hitting $9.93. 29,954 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 77,206. Ribbit LEAP has a one year low of $9.73 and a one year high of $10.83. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $9.91 and its 200 day simple moving average is $9.90.
Ribbit LEAP Company Profile
Ribbit LEAP, Ltd. does not have significant operations. The company focuses on effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. It intends to focus on businesses in the financial services and technology sectors worldwide.
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A man in his 20s has suffered serious facial injuries after being assaulted with a blade in Glenavy
A man suffered serious facial injuries when he was attacked with a blade in Co Antrim.
Detectives are appealing for information about Saturday's attack in Glenavy.
A PSNI spokesman said: "At approximately 7.40pm, we received a report that a man aged in his 20s had been attacked with what is believed to have been a bladed weapon at a property in the Glenavy Parade area of the town.
"Officers, along with colleagues from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, attended the scene and the victim, who had sustained serious injuries to his face and hand, was taken to hospital for treatment.
"A short time later, a man aged in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of an offensive weapon to cause an indictable offence.
"He remains in police custody at this time.
"Our enquiries into this incident are ongoing and I would appeal to anyone who was in the area at the time and witnessed the attack, or who may have dash-cam or other footage that could assist with our investigation, to contact detectives on 101, quoting reference 1578 of July 16 2022." | https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2022-07-17/man-suffers-serious-facial-injuries-in-blade-attack | 2022-07-17T15:32:11Z | https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2022-07-17/man-suffers-serious-facial-injuries-in-blade-attack | false | 1 |
CHARLOTTE (WJZY) – One of the stars from the hit TV show “The Office” was among those evacuated from a Charlotte comedy club due to an active shooter situation, he said on his Instagram account.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said they responded to calls regarding the incident around 9 p.m. Saturday at the Comedy Zone at the AvidXchange Music Factory.
Comedian Craig Robinson, known for his role as Darryl from NBC’s “The Office,” posted on his Instagram account that he was set to perform at the club when police came in and moved everyone outdoors due to an active shooter situation.
Shooting prompts Charlotte comedy club evacuation
“There was an active shooter in the comedy club,” Robinson said in the video. He explained he had been in the green room at the time of the shooting and that officials moved people from Comedy Zone to a nearby Big Time Rush concert.
Robinson was in the midst of a four-day stretch of performances, according to the Comedy Zone’s website.
“It was just wild,” Robinson went on to say about the incident. He can then be heard asking someone near him if “anybody got hit.” Another person can later be heard telling Robinson, “they got him.”
Officers said the suspect “brandished a firearm inside” Comedy Zone, “which was quickly evacuated.”
“The suspect then discharged his weapon,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said in a Saturday safety alert. The suspect was taken into custody and no injuries were reported.
“I’m glad that nobody got hurt,” a witness told Nexstar’s WJZY. “I’m glad it wasn’t fatal.”
Robinson’s final show is Sunday night at 7 p.m.
Police have not identified the suspect, but say more information will be released as it becomes available. | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/the-office-star-craig-robinson-among-those-evacuated-after-shooting-at-charlotte-comedy-club/ | 2022-07-17T15:33:57Z | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/the-office-star-craig-robinson-among-those-evacuated-after-shooting-at-charlotte-comedy-club/ | true | 23 |
(AP) – Two children are among the six people who died in a Montana pileup after a Friday evening dust storm caused blackout conditions on Interstate 90, a major route in both Montana and the Western U.S.
Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Jay Nelson said investigators so far have found no other factors that contributed to the pileup that also sent eight other injured people to hospitals.
“Everything is indicative of an isolated extreme weather event,” Nelson said of the investigation, calling the crash among the worst he’d seen in 24 years with the state. “What could people do? It really was just panic.”
The pileup was just west of Hardin, with additional ambulances called in from Billings to help. The identities of the dead and the conditions of the survivors are not yet being released.
The crash was reported around 4:30 p.m., as 21 vehicles, including six commercial semi-trucks, lost control in the dust storm that was fueled by gusts topping 60 mph (97 kph), authorities said.
Nelson said there was zero visibility for a mile-long stretch during a peak summer traffic hour for those commuting home from work or traveling for outdoor recreation.
It took more than six hours to fully reopen the road.
“We had a lot of debris and complete chaos,” Nelson said.
Gov. Greg Gianforte said on Twitter: “I’m deeply saddened by the news of a mass casualty crash near Hardin. Please join me in prayer to lift up the victims and their loved ones. We’re grateful to our first responders for their service.”
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said in a statement that the Montana Highway Patrol, which he oversees, was investigating. “We will release more information as it becomes available and is appropriate out of respect of the lives lost and their loved ones.
A video from The Billings Gazette showed hundreds of tractor-trailers, campers and cars backed up for miles along the two eastbound lanes of the interstate.
Before the pileup, storms popped up in central southern Montana between 1 and 2 p.m. and slowly began moving east, said Nick Vertz, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Billings.
Those storms prompted a severe thunderstorm watch that covered Hardin and other parts of Montana from mid-afternoon until 9 p.m. Friday. Meteorologists forecasted the potential for isolated hail the size of a quarter, scattered gusts up to 75 mph (121 kph) and frequent lightning.
A so-called outflow — or a surge of wind that’s produced by storms — flew about 30 miles (48 kilometers) ahead of the storms, Vertz said.
Winds picked up quickly around the time of the crash, according to readings at nearby Big Horn County Airport. A 40 mph gust (64 kph) was recorded about 15 minutes before the crash was reported and in less than an hour another burst of wind hit 64 (103 kph).
The wind easily picked up dust — a product of recent temperatures into the 90s and triple digits over the last week — and reduced visibility to less than 1/4 mile (0.4 kilometers).
“If they looked up in the sky while they’re in Hardin, they probably didn’t see much of what you’d think of for a thunderstorm cloud, maybe not even much at all,” Vertz said. “It was just a surge of wind that kind of appeared out of nowhere.” | https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/2-kids-among-6-dead-in-montana-highway-pileup-8-others-hurt/ | 2022-07-17T15:34:57Z | https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/2-kids-among-6-dead-in-montana-highway-pileup-8-others-hurt/ | true | 63 |
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HOUSTON (AP) — After collecting his MLB-leading 12th win Saturday, Justin Verlander wasn’t ready to reflect on how far he’s come this season.
But the 39-year-old did take a moment to note how his almost two-year absence from the game after Tommy John surgery has made him appreciate his success a bit more.
“I’ve said the word perspective here a lot, and I don’t take it for granted,” he said. “I think in the past I took a lot of things for granted, my health and some success when I was young, certainly not since I’ve been an Astro. But I think age and going through some stuff, has a way to help you grow up and realize some real positives that maybe you wouldn’t have taken a moment to realize before.”
Verlander struck out 10 in six sharp innings and the Houston Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 5-0.
Martín Maldonado hit a second-inning grand slam as the AL West-leading Astros bounced back after a 5-1 loss in the series opener Friday night. The A’s actually outhit Houston 7-6, but had little to show for it.
Verlander (12-3) allowed six hits without a walk and lowered his ERA to 1.89, which ranks third in the majors. Phil Maton, Hector Neris and Bryan Abreu each pitched a scoreless inning to complete the shutout against the team with the AL’s worst record.
Verlander, who leads all active players in strikeouts, now has 3,121 in his career, moving him past Curt Schilling (3,116) and Bob Gibson (3,117) into 14th place on the all-time list.
He was selected to his ninth All-Star game and will attend next week’s festivities in Los Angeles but will not pitch in Tuesday’s game after throwing 106 pitches Saturday.
“He has that inner drive that you can’t really teach somebody, especially with a guy that’s had the success that he’s had,” manager Dusty Baker said. “A lot of people would have just called it in but this guy, he loves to pitch and he loves to compete. We’re glad that he’s put in the time and effort and glad that we’ve got him back.”
Added catcher Maldonado: “That guy, I feel like he’s 25 years old.”
Verlander laughed when told of Maldonado’s assessment of him.
“I appreciate it,” he said. “There’s a lot of hard work that goes into trying to fight the good fight and rage against the dying of the light as long as possible. And I’ll continue to do that as long as I possibly can.”
Five of the six hits Verlander allowed were singles and the only time the Athletics got more than one hit in an inning came when Dermis Garcia and Nick Allen hit consecutive singles to start the fifth. But Vimael Machín grounded into a double play before Verlander retired Ramón Laureano to end the threat.
“That’s classic Justin,” Oakland manager Mark Kotsay said. “Life on the fastball and he threw a lot of breaking balls today.”
Houston second baseman Jose Altuve was in the lineup at designated hitter after missing Friday’s game dealing with soreness after being hit by a pitch in the left knee Thursday. Altuve said he was still sore Saturday and would not participate in the All-Star game because of the injury.
There were two outs in the second when Yuli Gurriel and Jake Meyers hit consecutive singles before Chas McCormick walked to load the bases.
Maldonado then connected off rookie Jared Koenig (1-3) for his third career grand slam on a shot to center field to make it 4-0.
Aledmys Díaz walked to start Houston’s fourth and Gurriel singled, setting up an RBI single by McCormick.
Koenig yielded six hits and five runs in a career-high seven innings for his third loss in five starts this season.
“The second inning kind of blew up, but after that he settled down,” Kotsay said. “Just one bad inning.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Astros: RHP Lance McCullers Jr., who has been out all season with a right forearm strain, said he felt good after throwing about 40 pitches in a two-inning simulated game Saturday. The team hasn’t determined his next step, but he could begin a rehabilitation assignment soon. “This is like the end of my rehab,” he said. “This is that end point, the end of the tunnel for where we feel like we were hoping to be by this point in the calendar. That’s a good thing. As far as my next step, I have to wait and speak to the training staff and the Astros.”
UP NEXT
Houston’s Jake Odorizzi (4-2, 3.38) is scheduled to start in the series finale Sunday. The Athletics have yet to name a starter.
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CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from days of tribal clashes in a southern Sudanese province climbed to at least 65 people, a senior health official said Sunday.
The fighting between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups in the Blue Nile province also injured around 150 others, said Gamal Nasser al-Sayed, the province’s health minister.
He told The Associated Press that most of the dead were young men who were shot or stabbed.
Al-Sayed urged authorities in the capital of Khartoum to help airlift 15 seriously injured as hospitals in the Blue Nile lack advanced equipment and life-saving medicine.
The fighting in the Blue Nile grew out of the killing of a farmer earlier last week and continued through Saturday, according to the local government.
Authorities deployed the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — or RSF — to bring stability to the region. They also imposed a nightly curfew and banned gatherings in the towns of Roseires and Damazin, where the clashes took place.
Local media reported that thousands of people fled their homes since the clashes began last week.
The fighting was the latest tribal violence to hit Sudan, which is in turmoil since the military took over in a coup in October.
The coup upended the country’s short-lived transition to democracy after nearly three decades of repressive rule of autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
Al-Bashir and his Islamist government were removed from power in a popular uprising in April 2019. | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/sudan-official-says-death-toll-from-tribal-clashes-at-65/G46YM6X5KVAK3FAMI35O2ZHCAI/ | 2022-07-17T15:39:01Z | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/sudan-official-says-death-toll-from-tribal-clashes-at-65/G46YM6X5KVAK3FAMI35O2ZHCAI/ | true | 26 |
Philabundance Receives Food And Funds From More Than A Dozen Credit Unions
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — More than a dozen credit unions joined forces to donate to Philabundance. Volunteers carried the donations in Thursday morning.
The canned goods and nonperishable goods were collected in branches and other locations.
Loree Jones, the CEO of Philabundance, said the donations are very much needed. According to her, the organization had hoped that fewer people would need help this year.
“I am sad to say that we see numbers go up again,“ Jones said. “More and more people are coming to our food pantries or food banks in need of help. And that is because of what we’ve all experienced; gas prices are higher, food costs are higher and so the numbers are again going up.”
The financial institutions also presented checks for tens of thousands of dollars to Philabundance. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2667749495525/philabundance-receives-food-and-funds-from-more-than-a-dozen-credit-unions | 2022-07-17T15:42:59Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2667749495525/philabundance-receives-food-and-funds-from-more-than-a-dozen-credit-unions | false | null |
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O volume of consigned credit increased 30% in the last two years and reached a record value, with R$ 516.3 billion contracted this year. According to data from the Central Bank, it is the highest amount ever recorded in this type of loan. The period coincides with the Covid-19 pandemic, a drop in the cost of living due to the impacts of inflation and changes in the regulations for the concession.
The number is from February 2022, the last credit balance released by the Central Bank. In the same period of 2020, the volume was BRL 393.3 billion, and in 2021, BRL 446.7 billion.
The modality is granted to those who have a salary, retirement or pension credited to a current account. Because it is deducted directly from the customer’s payroll or retirement, it is an easy loan option and has one of the lowest rates on the market.
THE cap rate passed in December 2021 to 2.14% per month for payroll-deductible personal loans and 3.06% per month for credit cards.
Since 2020, to face the pandemic, the federal government has edited a provisional measure to increase the limit from 35% to 40% for INSS (National Social Security Institute) retirees and pensioners to contract payroll-deductible credit based on the value of the benefit.
On July 7th, the Federal Senate approved the provisional measure that, in addition to increasing the credit margin to up to 45%, also authorizes this type of loan to those who receive BPC (Continued Payment Benefit), RMC (Lifetime Monthly Income ) and Aid Brazil.
The measure allows you to commit up to 45% of income to a loan. With this, the orientation is to redouble care to benefit from the measure without increasing the indebtedness of families.
For economist Mauro Rochlin, professor of economics at FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas), what most explains this rise is precisely the change in the regulation of payroll-deductible credit. “During the pandemic, the government had already increased the limit that could be granted by financial institutions for granting payroll loans to each applicant. I think this regulation played a decisive role in this result”, says Rochlin.
Rochlin explains that the scenario is difficult to assess because of the contradictory indicators of the economy, such as the fall in the unemployment rate, at the same time with the forecast of decreasing growth, new high interest rates and falling family consumption.
“It is tempting to say that the situation is more difficult and this has pushed retirees to this type of credit because of the need and the lower cost it represents. However, due to the contradictory scenario, the most evident is that the volume of credit due to the change in the regulation”, analyzes the economist, who foresees a new advance for this type of loan.
If it depends on the retired Antonio Everaldo da Silva, 70 years old, membership should increase. Silva says that he already had five contracts signed at the same time in 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. “I managed to pay, but I already took out a new loan, and I plan to make another contract by the end of this year”, he says.
Claims
Complaints against fraud involving payroll and also about the harassment of financial institutions reached 2,695 in the first half of this year, according to Procon-SP. Despite having reduced compared to last year, which had 5,405 complaints in the first six months, the number is still double the pre-pandemic period.
Most consumers complain that they did not ask for or did not authorize the loan and that, despite having questioned the situation with the bank or financial institution that granted the amount, they were unable to resolve it. In many cases, the problem is only noticed when the first installments begin to be deducted from the account.
Measures created to combat abuse impose a 90-day block on newly granted benefits for taking credits with a direct discount from the INSS payroll. In addition, the Não Me Perturbe platform offers a service to block phone numbers to receive telemarketing calls.
The INSS states that the contracting of any loan is a private commercial transaction, carried out between the person and the financial institution.
“For the insured to be able to perform this type of operation, he needs to unlock his benefit for loans. The person can perform this operation through Meu INSS using the gov.br account (gold or silver seal), or by scheduling an appointment by phone 135 to perform this service in an agency”, says the institute in a note.
If the beneficiary identifies unsolicited loans for their benefit, they must access the website https://www.consumidor.gov.br/ and file the complaint. The address is maintained by Senacon (National Consumer Secretariat), of the Ministry of Justice.
If it is a report of a coup, the INSS recommends that the person also file a report.
Learn how to avoid problems with the consignment
• Do not make any kind of advance or payment to obtain the loan.
• Search and compare interest rates and terms offered by other institutions. In particular, notice the Total Effective Cost – CET, which summarizes, in a single indicator, the price of the operation.
• Check if the financial institution is authorized to operate by the Central Bank and if the institution is in agreement with its paying source; for example, in the case of payroll-deductible loans for INSS retirees and pensioners, whether the institution has an agreement with the INSS.
• Never sign a blank contract or contract proposal.
• Do not accept the intermediation of people with promises to accelerate credit.
• Do not give your bank card or password to third parties.
• Remember that this type of operation represents debts that may affect the management of future personal and family income, due to the monthly commitment of benefits with the payment of the loan.
• If you are interested in carrying out contract portability, it is important to carefully read the information on credit portability.
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(NerdWallet)- Inflation is a nightmare for the many Americans who already stretch their dollars to cover basic needs. What happens when these dollars lose value?
Their choice is probably not about whether to cut streaming services or opt for store-brand groceries. Instead, they may have to pick between buying enough food and paying rent.
The families hit hardest by inflation typically have little in savings and other resources. And that lack of access to wealth can be rooted in a history of inequality, says Phuong Luong, a Massachusetts-based certified financial planner and founder of Just Wealth, a financial education and consulting firm.
For example, say generations of your family have been underpaid or limited in where they can live, due in part to racist policies. Then inflation causes everything to become more expensive.
You may have to scrape together cash to support not just yourself, but also family or community members. Perhaps you have to spend money and time traveling across town to the grocery store or doctor’s office.
“Your proximity to people with resources and people with wealth is going to be different depending on where you live and who you are,” Luong says. “There’s a larger context than just expenses and budgeting.”
Whatever context describes your situation, here’s how to combat inflation if money is already tight.
Prioritize essentials
Aim to pay for expenses that enable you to live safely: housing (mortgage or rent), utilities and food. Also try to cover costs that help you work, such as transportation, cell phone and child care.
Next-level priorities are those that trigger major consequences if you don’t pay: taxes, child support and insurance.
For credit cards, aim to pay your minimum at least, because you may need that credit access.
Tap local resources
If you’re struggling to pay bills, find support. Luong suggests Findhelp.org, which lists local programs designed to cut costs across many categories.
Calling 211 or visiting 211.org can also help you find assistance related to housing, health, food and emergency costs.
Pick up the phone
You may also save money by calling credit card and insurance companies, lenders, banks, cell phone providers and other businesses you pay.
With the pandemic affecting so many consumers, these companies “are a little more empathetic than they have been,” says Emlen Miles-Mattingly, co-founder of Onyx Advisor Network, a Sacramento, California-based support platform for underrepresented financial advisors.
They may pause or lower payments, for example, or forgive overdue bills. Or they could lower your interest rate.
But you have to ask. And often a patient phone call with customer service yields quicker, more effective results than an email or online form.
Connect with your community
To overcome financial struggles, “community is going to be major,” says Dasha Kennedy, Atlanta-based financial activist and founder of The Broke Black Girl Facebook community.
Leaning on — or supporting — your family members, friends and neighbors can take many forms. For example, Kennedy points out how temporarily living with others can lower housing expenses. Or you can pool resources by sharing a vehicle or splitting a large expense.
To connect with supportive locals you’ve yet to meet, look to libraries, religious organizations and recreation centers. Or use virtual platforms like Facebook and Nextdoor.
In these in-person and online spaces, you may find free or inexpensive goods and services. Maybe someone will give away secondhand clothes or walk your dog while you work.
Or seek guidance. Your neighbors may point you toward free, nearby health resources, for example, or describe what’s helped them stretch their money.
Profit from your skills
Of course, making more money helps, too. If you’re already working, Kennedy recommends first trying to increase earnings through your employer. Consider working overtime or negotiating raises and role changes, she says.
Or explore side work — with caution. Plenty of online gigs could waste your time, take your money or misuse your personal information.
“It’s high time for frauds and scams,” Kennedy says. Trust your gut, and read reviews. Also check the Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau websites for tips to avoid scams.
The most effective way to make money? “Monetize skills you already have,” Kennedy says. These could include anything from cleaning and organizing to writing and designing.
Assuming you start without clients, she suggests tapping your community once again.
“You may not have the time to build trust and reputation, so you’re going to have to rely on personal relationships,” she says. Ask friends, neighbors and family members to promote and vouch for you.
Mind your mental health
Money struggles are exhausting. So regularly “connect with yourself,” Miles-Mattingly says. Identify what makes you feel better, whether it’s walking outside, calling a friend, meditating or reading.
If time is tight, make your activity quick, and consider Miles-Mattingly’s point: “People, when stressed, don’t have the best decision-making abilities.” And hard times mean hard decisions. It pays to feel centered before negotiating a lower bill or agreeing to a side job.
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Which Gucci handbag look-alikes are best?
Looking for a Gucci-chic handbag without the Gucci price tag? Gucci is well known for high-end perfumes, colognes and accessories made with top-quality ingredients and materials. Whether you want a designer brand with Gucci vibes or something inexpensive and easy that looks designer, there are ways to embody the Gucci sense of style without spending thousands of dollars on it. So which are the best Gucci handbag lookalikes? It depends on which one of its recent stylish lines you’re looking to emulate.
Gucci “Beloved” handbag lines
- Gucci Diana: These bags are known for their bamboo handles and square or rectangular shapes. A few come in prints but most are solid colors that remain timeless and classic.
- The Jackie 1961: This line goes for a simple over-the-shoulder design and gold hardware. Some bags are available in solid colors while others play with print and/or color blocking.
- Gucci Horsebit 1955: These bags are available in a wide variety of materials, shapes and fabrics. Many have fold-over flaps but they are best recognized for their “horsebit”-inspired gold double ring and bar hardware.
- Dionysus: This line is named after the Greek God of wine, pleasure and life. Each bag has a U-shaped metal clasp featuring tiger-head symbols as a tribute to the tiger-led carriage Dionysus was known for riding.
- GG Marmont: Inspired by 1970s Gucci, this line features soft leather bags with a large double-GG piece of metal hardware front and center.
Gucci style elements to look for
- Leather
- Simple color or color blocking
- Fine detailing
- Thick, sturdy hardware
Best Gucci handbag look-alikes for Gucci Diana
Top Gucci Diana look-alike
Daniela Lo Presti Bamboo Handle Italian Leather Bag
What you need to know: This beautifully crafted brown Italian leather handbag measures 13.5 inches in length and 10.5 inches in height and has an authentic bamboo handle.
What you’ll love: The rounded bamboo handle is the closest match you’ll find to the Gucci bamboo handles. The shape, color and overall style of the bag are very reminiscent of the Gucci Diana tote bag.
What you should consider: The colors and styles are very limited.
Where to buy: Sold by Etsy
Top Gucci Diana look-alike for the money
Bostanten Women Handbag Genuine Leather Shoulder Bag
What you need to know: This leather shoulder bag measures 13.77 inches in length and 10.83 inches in height with zipper closures and 10 colors from which to choose.
What you’ll love: This bag is very well made overall. The beige option has a tan/brown handle reminiscent of the Diana bags even though the materials are different. It has separated compartments on the inside plus an outer pocket with a zipper closure.
What you should consider: The handles are all leather, not bamboo.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best Gucci handbag look-alikes for The Jackie 1961
Top Gucci The Jackie 1961 look-alike
Coach Originals Signature Jacquard Coach Ergo Shoulder Bag
What you need to know: Available in five colors, this jacquard leather shoulder bag measures 9.75 inches in length and 11.5 inches in height with a 10.5-inch drop strap.
What you’ll love: This beautiful bag is made from high-quality materials and is made in the same shape as The Jackie 1961. The oak maple option for this bag in particular matches the Gucci aesthetic.
What you should consider: There are no unique prints or gold-toned statement accents.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Gucci The Jackie 1961 look-alike for the money
Guess Jardine 2 Compartment Satchel
What you need to know: Offered in three regal colors, this two-compartment bag measures 12.25 inches in length and 8.5 inches in height with a magnetic tab closure.
What you’ll love: There’s a large gold-toned Guess lock on the front, giving at least a little of that Jackie layout. The colors are close to the colors in which the Jackie bag is available.
What you should consider: There are no additional prints or sizes/styles.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Best Gucci handbag look-alikes for Gucci Horsebit 1955
Top Gucci Horsebit 1955 look-alike
Coach Women’s City Tote In Signature Canvas
What you need to know: Here is a beautiful canvas tote trimmed in leather that comes in more than a dozen colors. It measures 12 inches in length and 11.5 inches in height.
What you’ll love: The coated canvas on this bag is top quality. There’s a clip closure and a zippered pocket on the inside. The Gucci Horsebit 1955 bags come in a number of equestrian-inspired colors and this Coach bag comes in several comparable ones.
What you should consider: There’s no “horsebit” metal accent on the front.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Gucci Horsebit 1955 look-alike for the money
Woqed Shoulder Tote Leather Classic Clutch Purse
What you need to know: This little leather handbag has an eye-catching brown print and measures 9.8 inches in length and 6.7 inches in height.
What you’ll love: This is a very stylish bag at a great price. There is a fold-over flap, which is a stylistic element seen with a number of the Gucci Horsebit bags. The strap is adjustable and there is a large gold twist-lock closure on the front.
What you should consider: The bag only comes in one style/print, and the gold-toned lock looks vertical, while the “horsebit” accent on the Gucci bags is horizontal.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best Gucci handbag look-alikes for Dionysus
Top Gucci Dionysus look-alike
Circus by Sam Edelman Carmen Shoulder Bag
What you need to know: Available in two snakeskin prints, this shoulder bag measures 11.5 inches in length and 7 inches in height with an 11-inch drop-chain handle.
What you’ll love: The U-shaped metal accent on this bag’s fold-over flap is as close a match as you’ll find to the bold U-shaped accent for which the Dionysus bag is known. The shape of the bag itself is similar and both bags have chain straps.
What you should consider: This bag does not come in larger sizes or varied colors.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top Gucci Dionysus look-alike for the money
Beatfull Fashion Shoulder Bag With Bee
What you need to know: Available in four colors, this vibrant faux pearl-studded imitation leather bag measures 8 inches in length and 5.9 inches in height.
What you’ll love: There is a fold-over flap with a magnetic snap closure and a bold gold and jewel-toned bee design on the front. It has a stylish metal strap and a few pockets on the inside for organizing.
What you should consider: It’s a little on the gaudy side compared to most Gucci bags.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best Gucci handbag look-alikes for the GG Marmont
Top Gucci GG Marmont handbag look-alike
Coach Women’s Georgie Shoulder Bag
What you need to know: This cobalt-blue leather handbag measures 10.75 inches in length and 4.5 inches in height with a 9-inch drop handle and a 22-inch drop shoulder strap.
What you’ll love: This bag is made from excellent-quality Nappa leather. It has a fold-over flap with a big Coach logo buckle reminiscent of the GG buckle on the Marmont bags. Both the handle and the strap are detachable.
What you should consider: The sizing is limited.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Gucci GG Marmont look-alike for the money
Kate Spade New York Natalia Medium Flap Crossbody/Shoulder Bag
What you need to know: This black quilted leather bag measures 10.2 inches in length and 6.9 inches in height with a 20.5-inch drop strap.
What you’ll love: It has smooth leather on the outside and a lovely jacquard lining. There’s an exterior slip pocket as well as an interior slip pocket. It has a fold-over flap and chain-link strap like many of the GG Marmont bags.
What you should consider: The metal hardware isn’t as bold and prominent as it is on the GG Marmont bags.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SG Americas Securities LLC lifted its stake in shares of Life Storage, Inc. (NYSE:LSI – Get Rating) by 877.9% during the first quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 175,927 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 157,937 shares during the period. SG Americas Securities LLC’s holdings in Life Storage were worth $24,705,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Level Four Advisory Services LLC increased its position in shares of Life Storage by 3.6% during the fourth quarter. Level Four Advisory Services LLC now owns 2,354 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $361,000 after acquiring an additional 82 shares in the last quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp increased its position in shares of Life Storage by 70.8% during the first quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 222 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after acquiring an additional 92 shares in the last quarter. Stratos Wealth Partners LTD. increased its position in shares of Life Storage by 2.2% during the first quarter. Stratos Wealth Partners LTD. now owns 5,531 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $777,000 after acquiring an additional 117 shares in the last quarter. Hancock Whitney Corp grew its position in Life Storage by 0.6% in the fourth quarter. Hancock Whitney Corp now owns 23,018 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $3,525,000 after purchasing an additional 139 shares in the last quarter. Finally, HighTower Trust Services LTA grew its position in Life Storage by 5.1% in the first quarter. HighTower Trust Services LTA now owns 2,843 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $399,000 after purchasing an additional 139 shares in the last quarter. 91.67% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Life Storage Stock Performance
NYSE LSI opened at $112.80 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $112.23 and a 200-day moving average of $128.16. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.84, a quick ratio of 0.62 and a current ratio of 0.62. The stock has a market cap of $9.52 billion, a PE ratio of 33.08, a P/E/G ratio of 5.07 and a beta of 0.56. Life Storage, Inc. has a 52-week low of $100.66 and a 52-week high of $154.45.
Life Storage Increases Dividend
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, July 26th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 15th will be paid a $1.08 dividend. This is a boost from Life Storage’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.00. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 14th. This represents a $4.32 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.83%. Life Storage’s payout ratio is 126.69%.
Analyst Ratings Changes
A number of research firms recently weighed in on LSI. Bank of America downgraded shares of Life Storage from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their target price for the company from $141.00 to $133.00 in a research report on Tuesday, June 21st. StockNews.com began coverage on shares of Life Storage in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating for the company. Raymond James decreased their target price on shares of Life Storage from $145.00 to $125.00 in a research report on Monday, May 23rd. BMO Capital Markets downgraded shares of Life Storage from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and decreased their price objective for the company from $150.00 to $130.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 19th. Finally, KeyCorp decreased their price objective on shares of Life Storage from $160.00 to $144.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, June 16th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and seven have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $141.73.
Life Storage Profile
Life Storage, Inc is a self-administered and self-managed equity REIT that is in the business of acquiring and managing self-storage facilities. Located in Buffalo, New York, the Company operates more than 900 storage facilities in 30 states and in the province of Ontario, Canada. The Company serves both residential and commercial storage customers with storage units rented by month.
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Nisa Investment Advisors LLC lessened its holdings in shares of Microchip Technology Incorporated (NASDAQ:MCHP – Get Rating) by 0.4% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 193,688 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 755 shares during the period. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC’s holdings in Microchip Technology were worth $14,554,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Emfo LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Microchip Technology by 100.0% during the 4th quarter. Emfo LLC now owns 290 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 145 shares in the last quarter. Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Microchip Technology by 83.6% in the 4th quarter. Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC now owns 303 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $26,000 after acquiring an additional 138 shares in the last quarter. Riverview Trust Co bought a new stake in Microchip Technology in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $26,000. TCI Wealth Advisors Inc. lifted its stake in Microchip Technology by 142.1% in the 4th quarter. TCI Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 305 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $27,000 after acquiring an additional 179 shares in the last quarter. Finally, AdvisorNet Financial Inc lifted its stake in Microchip Technology by 1,083.3% in the 1st quarter. AdvisorNet Financial Inc now owns 355 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $27,000 after acquiring an additional 325 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 89.36% of the company’s stock.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
Several equities research analysts have commented on the company. Stifel Nicolaus upgraded Microchip Technology from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and boosted their target price for the company from $70.00 to $75.00 in a research note on Tuesday, June 28th. Citigroup cut their target price on Microchip Technology from $78.00 to $72.00 in a research note on Tuesday, May 10th. Truist Financial cut their target price on Microchip Technology from $94.00 to $79.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, April 8th. Needham & Company LLC cut their target price on Microchip Technology to $75.00 in a research note on Tuesday, July 5th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company lowered their price target on Microchip Technology from $70.00 to $60.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, July 11th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, sixteen have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $89.30.
Microchip Technology Stock Up 2.4 %
Microchip Technology (NASDAQ:MCHP – Get Rating) last posted its earnings results on Monday, May 9th. The semiconductor company reported $1.26 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.17 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $1.84 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.82 billion. Microchip Technology had a return on equity of 41.89% and a net margin of 18.85%. The firm’s revenue was up 25.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.82 EPS. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Microchip Technology Incorporated will post 5.14 EPS for the current year.
Microchip Technology Increases Dividend
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 3rd. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 20th were issued a $0.276 dividend. This represents a $1.10 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.77%. This is a positive change from Microchip Technology’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.25. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, May 19th. Microchip Technology’s dividend payout ratio is currently 48.57%.
Insider Buying and Selling at Microchip Technology
In other news, CEO Ganesh Moorthy acquired 8,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, June 17th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of $57.29 per share, with a total value of $458,320.00. Following the acquisition, the chief executive officer now directly owns 720,313 shares in the company, valued at approximately $41,266,731.77. The purchase was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. In other Microchip Technology news, Director Karlton D. Johnson sold 594 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $67.35, for a total value of $40,005.90. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CEO Ganesh Moorthy acquired 8,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, June 17th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of $57.29 per share, for a total transaction of $458,320.00. Following the completion of the acquisition, the chief executive officer now owns 720,313 shares in the company, valued at $41,266,731.77. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 9,564 shares of company stock valued at $637,217 in the last ninety days. 2.03% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Microchip Technology Profile
Microchip Technology Incorporated develops, manufactures, and sells smart, connected, and secure embedded control solutions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company offers general purpose 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit microcontrollers; 32-bit embedded microprocessors markets; and specialized microcontrollers for automotive, industrial, computing, communications, lighting, power supplies, motor control, human machine interface, security, wired connectivity, and wireless connectivity applications.
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Q. I am debating taking on the leadership role of a major nonprofit organization. At age 78, my concern is if I will have enough energy to do the job. I know I am less energetic today than I was five years ago. What should I consider before committing to such an undertaking? And would you also address the subject of energy. Thank you. N.S.
“I’m so old I don’t buy green bananas …” is one philosophy of life attributed to the famous football coach and hall of famer Lou Holtz at age 75.
If we applied that to our everyday lives, perhaps we would take no risks and do nothing but sit. Yet, taking on a major project in later life does require some consideration.
Here’s a little historical background on fatigue: It was not always considered a negative. In medieval times, it was a positive sign, indicating that a person worked hard enough to reach the point of needing to rest. That perspective changed during the industrialization period when fatigue was a negative as industry demanded its workers to have endless energy. Further interest in fatigue grew during World War I, when the military wanted to increase productivity of munition factories. Subsequently the interest moved from physical to mental fatigue as the military had more tasks that required sustained mental alertness such as piloting planes and operating radar installations.
Although not inevitable, fatigue is a common complaint among older adults. For many, the gradual loss of energy is considered one of the unpleasant side effects of aging. It is not an issue just for older people. For example, a 30-year-old may complain that he cannot keep up with his younger soccer players. Middle-aged folks may report exhaustion because of the work load, the pandemic, raising teenagers and caring for aging parents.
Yet, in later life we may have a greater concern, not knowing if this feeling is a life sentence or, in fact, we can do something about it. So, what do we know? As we age, cells change that affect our muscles causing loss of muscle mass, strength and flexibility. Researchers estimate that, generally, those between ages 60 and 70 lose 12 percent of their muscle mass; those over 80 lose about 30 percent.
Other cellular changes limit the heart’s pumping ability that, in turn, reduces the flow of oxygen-rich blood that provides energy to the cells. That oxygen-rich blood goes to our brain, which affects cognitive abilities and much more.
Beside cellular changes, we may feel less energetic with age because of changes in our circadian rhythms as noted in the Harvard Business Review article “Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time.” These rhythms are “a natural cycle of physical, mental and behavior changes the body goes through in a 24-hour period” as defined by the National Institute of Medical Sciences.
They often make us fall asleep early and wake up early, disturbing natural sleep rhythms. Furthermore, older people spend less time in deep sleep, which is the most important sleep to restore energy. Having difficulty falling asleep may be due to the decline in the hormone melatonin. Lack of proper rest is considered one of the major causes of fatigue among older adults.
Fortunately, there are some things we can do to boost our energy as we age according to the Harvard report.
Set goals: Write down your priorities and know that you cannot do everything all of the time.
Control stress: Stress is the most common cause of persistent fatigue. Consider stress reducers such as yoga, meditation or tai chi.
Decrease your load: Say “no” to other opportunities and remember that “no” is a complete sentence.
Get regular exercise: This increases blood circulation, reduces stress, improves muscle mass and is energizing.
Improve sleep: Embrace what is considered healthy sleep habits consisting of regular sleep and wake-up time, limit caffeine late in the day, keep the bedroom dark and for sleep only.
Eat for energy: Consider a nutrient-rich diet and avoid quick fixes of candy bars or cookies. Think about eating a few small meals rather than three large ones.
Commune with nature.: Anecdotal evidence suggests that spending time outdoors can be restorative in acting as an energy booster.
Thank you N.S. for your important question. Consider the importance of that position and organization to you. How will you feel if you turn down the opportunity and what can you do to boost and maintain your energy? Buying green bananas and taking an informed risk might be the right philosophy.
Stay well and know that kindness is everything.
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CHARLOTTE (WJZY) – One of the stars from the hit TV show “The Office” was among those evacuated from a Charlotte comedy club due to an active shooter situation, he said on his Instagram account.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said they responded to calls regarding the incident around 9 p.m. Saturday at the Comedy Zone at the AvidXchange Music Factory.
Comedian Craig Robinson, known for his role as Darryl from NBC’s “The Office,” posted on his Instagram account that he was set to perform at the club when police came in and moved everyone outdoors due to an active shooter situation.
Shooting prompts Charlotte comedy club evacuation
“There was an active shooter in the comedy club,” Robinson said in the video. He explained he had been in the green room at the time of the shooting and that officials moved people from Comedy Zone to a nearby Big Time Rush concert.
Robinson was in the midst of a four-day stretch of performances, according to the Comedy Zone’s website.
“It was just wild,” Robinson went on to say about the incident. He can then be heard asking someone near him if “anybody got hit.” Another person can later be heard telling Robinson, “they got him.”
Officers said the suspect “brandished a firearm inside” Comedy Zone, “which was quickly evacuated.”
“The suspect then discharged his weapon,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said in a Saturday safety alert. The suspect was taken into custody and no injuries were reported.
“I’m glad that nobody got hurt,” a witness told Nexstar’s WJZY. “I’m glad it wasn’t fatal.”
Robinson’s final show is Sunday night at 7 p.m.
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Patten Group Inc. grew its position in shares of The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG – Get Rating) by 3.0% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 13,295 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 391 shares during the quarter. Patten Group Inc.’s holdings in Procter & Gamble were worth $2,031,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. BlackRock Inc. increased its stake in shares of Procter & Gamble by 1.2% in the 4th quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 156,813,285 shares of the company’s stock worth $25,651,517,000 after purchasing an additional 1,785,863 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp increased its stake in shares of Procter & Gamble by 1.7% in the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 105,458,164 shares of the company’s stock worth $17,250,846,000 after purchasing an additional 1,716,517 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Procter & Gamble by 2.3% in the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 43,444,122 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,090,497,000 after purchasing an additional 972,826 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in shares of Procter & Gamble in the 4th quarter worth $3,726,603,000. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. increased its stake in shares of Procter & Gamble by 1.9% in the 4th quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 15,710,055 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,569,850,000 after purchasing an additional 293,092 shares in the last quarter. 63.64% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
Procter & Gamble Stock Down 0.1 %
PG opened at $145.07 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $144.64 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $152.83. The Procter & Gamble Company has a 52 week low of $129.50 and a 52 week high of $165.35. The company has a market capitalization of $348.07 billion, a PE ratio of 25.32, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.36 and a beta of 0.40. The company has a quick ratio of 0.47, a current ratio of 0.68 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.53.
Procter & Gamble Cuts Dividend
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, August 15th. Investors of record on Friday, July 22nd will be issued a $0.913 dividend. This represents a $3.65 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.52%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 21st. Procter & Gamble’s payout ratio is 63.70%.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
PG has been the subject of several analyst reports. The Goldman Sachs Group reduced their price objective on Procter & Gamble from $179.00 to $173.00 in a research note on Tuesday, March 29th. Jefferies Financial Group increased their price target on Procter & Gamble from $179.00 to $185.00 in a research note on Thursday, April 21st. Credit Suisse Group increased their price target on Procter & Gamble from $140.00 to $150.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 21st. StockNews.com upgraded Procter & Gamble from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 18th. Finally, Raymond James increased their price target on Procter & Gamble from $175.00 to $180.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 21st. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $165.64.
Insider Activity at Procter & Gamble
In related news, Chairman David S. Taylor sold 60,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $164.52, for a total value of $9,871,200.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chairman now owns 253,933 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $41,777,057.16. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. In related news, Chairman David S. Taylor sold 60,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $164.52, for a total value of $9,871,200.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chairman now owns 253,933 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $41,777,057.16. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Sundar G. Raman sold 1,599 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, July 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $145.12, for a total transaction of $232,046.88. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 4,002 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $580,770.24. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last quarter, insiders sold 110,014 shares of company stock valued at $18,009,102. Insiders own 0.51% of the company’s stock.
Procter & Gamble Profile
The Procter & Gamble Company provides branded consumer packaged goods to consumers in North and Latin America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Greater China, India, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates in five segments: Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and Baby, Feminine & Family Care.
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Buyers duped of Rs 15 crore by Savyasachi Infrastructure: Gurugram Police
According to police, a residential society by the name of Amaya Greens was to be developed by the company in Sector 3 of Farrukhnagar. The director of the firm, Vijay Rajan, had also appointed sales representatives in the area for sale and promotion.
GURUGRAM: More than 75 home-buyers were allegedly duped of Rs 15 crore by a real estate firm on the assurance of providing flats, police here said. Savyasachi Infrastructure Private Limited, a company based in the Farrukhnagar area here, had taken money from the victims on the assurance that their flats will be ready within a year but even after four years, the construction work is yet to begin, police said on Saturday.
According to police, a residential society by the name of Amaya Greens was to be developed by the company in Sector 3 of Farrukhnagar. The director of the firm, Vijay Rajan, had also appointed sales representatives in the area for sale and promotion.
The complainant, Asish Negi, and 77 others had booked flats in the residential society.
At the time of booking, the builder had told the victims that the map of the society was with the DTP department.
"We have made all the payments but even after four years, the builders has neither given us the possession of the flats nor returned our money. The builder is planning to steal our money under a well-thought out conspiracy. We want strict action against the builder," read the complaint.
An FIR was lodged on the basis of the complaint against the company, Rajan and others at the Farrukhnagar police station under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
"We have started our investigation and action will be taken in accordance with law", Sub-Inspector Ramotar, the investigation officer of the case, said. | https://realty.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/regulatory/buyers-duped-of-rs-15-crore-by-savyasachi-infrastructure-gurugram-police/92934023 | 2022-07-17T16:26:26Z | https://realty.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/regulatory/buyers-duped-of-rs-15-crore-by-savyasachi-infrastructure-gurugram-police/92934023 | true | 4 |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The parents of a man shot in the head by a San Diego County sheriff's deputy who fired 13 bullets during a car chase in February plan to file a claim against the county, the family's attorneys said.
Jose and Rosaura Corrales demanded answers from the Sheriff's Department during a news conference Friday about the death of their 31-year-old son, Mizael Corrales.
“Why 13 times? And why does he have to be shot in the head? Why like that?” asked Jose Corrales.
Attorneys for the Corrales family said they will file a claim against San Diego County this week, the Union-Tribune reported. Such claims are typically a precursor to a lawsuit.
The Sheriff’s Department declined comment, citing the pending litigation.
Mizael Corrales was driving a Mercedes in Otay Mesa on Feb. 19 when he tried to flee authorities in a strip mall parking lot, knocking two deputies to the ground as he backed into vehicles, according to police and sheriff’s officials.
One of those deputies, a 16-year department veteran, scrambled to his feet and opened fire at Corrales. Video of the incident shows glass flying as bullets pierce and break the driver’s side window, according to the Union-Tribune.
Family attorney John Burris said Friday that the “evidence is clear here that the officer was not in a position of danger when he shot the car 13 times,” Burris said.
“You cannot create a confrontation, shoot your way out of it and claim self-defense,” he said.
Authorities said the SUV was stolen. Corrales’ parents and their attorneys dispute that assertion, saying Corrales had an arrangement with the owner and had been driving the vehicle for months.
The District Attorney’s Office review of the Corrales case has not been completed, an office spokesperson told the newspaper Friday. | https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/Family-of-man-killed-by-deputy-files-claim-17310575.php | 2022-07-17T16:26:50Z | https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/Family-of-man-killed-by-deputy-files-claim-17310575.php | false | 10 |
(NEXSTAR) — As COVID-19 sub-variants continued sweeping across the U.S., new research suggests your body might not be the only place hosting the coronavirus. Yikes!
Researchers studied two animal coronoviruses’ ability to survive on various meats, including salmon, pork, chicken and beef during both refrigeration and freezing for one month, according to the data published by the American Society for Microbiology’s journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Scientists say the viruses — which were used as surrogates in place of COVID-19, as they are all similar — had greater survival on beef and pork. Chicken and salmon, they write, had greater reductions.
While the main mode of transmission of COVID-19 is widely known to be respiratory, the researchers note previous data shows coronaviruses can survive on even non frozen foods, like produce, and possibly infect someone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says food/food packaging transmission is unlikely, though the researchers write they believe more data is needed.
So how would COVID-19 end up in meat?
Researchers write that living conditions in markets and slaughterhouses, in addition to meat processing plants, that may transfer particles to meat, poultry and seafood during animal slaughter, processing, storage and transport.”
The study’s authors say their data needs more backing but that they hope their findings will emphasize the need for more safety measures in food production and packaging. | https://www.ktsm.com/news/national-news/is-covid-19-living-in-your-freezer/ | 2022-07-17T16:34:57Z | https://www.ktsm.com/news/national-news/is-covid-19-living-in-your-freezer/ | false | 14 |
The Pierz Brewers took the loss on the road when they faced the Fort Ripley Rebels, Saturday, July 16, with the Rebels winning 5-2 in Victory League action.
Both teams played great defense, only allowing one hit each in the first two innings. It wasn’t until the third inning when the teams started to get traction at the plate.
In the third, the Brewers loaded the bases on an Isaac Otte single, a Mike Leidenfrost walk and Rylee Rauch being hit by the pitch. Mike Poser drove in two runs on a single to give the Brewers a 2-0 lead. With Poser at first and Rauch at third, Poser tried to take second after a pitch but was late on the steal. Rebels’ catcher Josh Hukriede threw the ball to the shortstop, Josh Kossan, catching Poser in a pickle. At third, Rauch tried to take advantage of the distraction and steal home, but Kossan gunned the ball back to his catcher, who successfully tagged the runner out, sending the Brewers back to the field.
In the bottom of the third, the Rebels matched the Brewers’ performance and loaded the bases as well. Riley DeRosier beat out a dropped third strike, and Bill Sather and Seth Vagts both singled. With one out, Bryce Flanagan drove in two runs on a single, tying the game 2-2. Nick Jelacie and Brett Kramer both drove in one each on singles, giving the Rebels a 4-2 lead.
The Rebels got their fifth run on a Brewers error in the sixth, for the final run of the game.
The Rebels recorded 10 total hits and the Brewers recorded seven.
For the Rebels, Bryce Flanagan pitched six innings, getting the win on the mound. He struck out four batters, walked one and gave up two runs on six hits.
Pete Schommer took the mound for five innings for the Brewers, striking out one batter and giving up four runs on seven hits.
The Rebels end the regular season 11-3, solidifying the No. 2 seed in the Division Playoffs and the Brewers finish with a 7-7 record, taking the No. 6 seed.
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NY Marine Warnings and Forecast for Sunday, July 17, 2022
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Marine Weather Statement
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1112 AM EDT Sun Jul 17 2022
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WATERS...
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The Open Waters 20 to 40 NM south of Fire Island Inlet to Moriches
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The Open Waters 20 to 40 NM south of Moriches Inlet to Montauk
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A man who told Gardai to f**k off after he was found lying beside his bike on a road has been fined €305.
Frank Byrne, 42, of Hillside Drive, Naas, Co Kildare was admitted being abusive on the Borris Road in Portlaoise and at Portlaoise Garda Station on June 20 last.
Sgt Michael Tarpey said the gardai had found a male lying on the ground after falling off his bike in an “extremely intoxicated” state on the Borris Road at 1.30am on the night in question. When they approached he began “telling them to f**k off”.
Sgt Tarpey explained that at 6am the man had arrived at the public office of Portlaoise Garda Station where he “became abusive” to gardai. He told the court the man had eight previous convictions.
Solicitor Josephine Fitzpatrict said her client “accepts his behaviour on the night was outrageous.” She explained that his employment had ended a few days earlier and he had been drinking in his sister’s house on the night.
Ms Fitzpatrick noted he “compounded matters” when he visited the garda station and “he is extremely embarrassed about his behaviour.” She said he was a qualified electrician and he had cycled to the house as he knew he would be having a drink.
The defendant brought €200 to court and had written letters of apology, she said. The man is “conscious that there will be background vetting done on him for any new employment,” added Ms Fitzpatrick.
Judge Patricia Cronin said “the gardai were there to help him. He was uncooperative and aggressive.” She said: “If he had complied with what the gardai were saying there wouldn’t have been a difficulty.”
Describing the behaviour as entirely unacceptable, Judge Cronin fined him €105 for being intoxicated on the Borris Road and €200 for being abusive at Portlaoise Garda Station. She fixed recognisance in case of appeal.
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Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick marked their daughter Penelope's 10th birthday earlier this week, treating their child to an epic birthday cake laden with sprinkles - see
Can you believe Kourtney Kardashian and her former partner Scott Disick’s daughter Penelope is ten years old? It feels like yesterday the Kardashian sisters were getting ready to welcome Kourt's first daughter on KUWTK in 2012.
LOOK: Kylie Jenner's lifelike birthday cake for daughter Stormi needs to be seen to be believed
Marking Penelope's milestone birthday, Kourtney pulled out all the stops for her daughter's special day - and her jaw-dropping sprinkle cake needs to be seen to be believed. The mother-of-three treated her daughter to an epic multi-layer sponge cake laden with hundreds and thousands and iced with punk pink buttercream.
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A large smiley face was piped onto the cake in pastel pink buttercream icing, matching the motif adorned on Penelope and Kourtney's matching pyjamas.
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Penelope looked thrilled with her epic sprinkle cake
"I feel so blessed to be the mommy of this little lady," wrote Kourtney. "She makes me so so proud every day and brings so much joy to my world. Happy 10th Birthday my Penelope! Filled with matching pajamas, fuzzy slippers, all sleeping together in blow up hearts, outdoor movies and lots of rainbow sprinkles."
Sharing several posts from inside Penelope's birthday party, Kourtney continued: "A dreamy 10th birthday for dream daughter. I love letting my kids lead the way when it comes to celebrating their birthdays.
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"She told me all of her ideas and I helped her bring them to life. For all of the pictures and details go to @poosh.
"Special shout-out to @chefkla for all of the yummy food (and the extra special vegan and gluten-free section for me yum)." Let's be honest, nobody throws a party quite like the Kardashians.
Penelope's punk pink birthday party set up could rival a wedding
Earlier this year, Kylie Jenner gave fans a glimpse inside daughter Stormi and Kim Kardashian's daughter Chicago's joint fourth birthday party - and it was equally as epic.
Kylie unveiled a jaw-dropping pink balloon display that read 'Stormi & Chicago', a giant ball pit, bouncy castle, a photobooth styled to look like a Barbie doll box set behind an unbelievable dessert table laden with pink sweets.
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Published: 16th July 2022
CUET UG 2022: No retest for those who missed exam due to centre change, says UGC Chairman
The first day of CUET UG 2022 exam concluded on July 15, with students complaining of change in centres at last minute
Although the first day of the debut edition of the Common University Entrance Test Undergraduate (CUET UG) 2022 was marred with problems, University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said that there will be no retest for those who missed the exam, as reported by the Indian Express.
Several students who were to appear for the exam on Friday, July 15, missed it due to a last minute change in their exam centre. Earlier, reports claimed that National Testing Agency (NTA) officials had said that such students will get a second chance at attempting the examination. However, the UGC Chairman refuted these claims and said that some students reached the centres late and after the commencement of the session. In such cases, they won’t be offered a retest, according to a report by the Indian Express.
“In some cases, a few students reached the centres after 9.30 pm, after the commencement of the first session in the morning slot. It is a common practice and it has already been conveyed to students that if they come 30 minutes after the commencement of the examination, they are not permitted to enter the centre,” the UGC chairperson said, the report stated.
With 14.9 lakh registrations, the CUET, which is the common gateway for undergraduate admissions in all central universities, is now the second biggest entrance exam in the country, surpassing the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains' average registrations of nine lakh.
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Broadband: Universal Credit claimants eligible for discount on ‘unaffordable’ bills
BROADBAND providers are being urged to create more discounts for consumers on Universal Credit who are faced with "unaffordable" bills.
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The UK’s media regulator Ofcom is calling on companies to assist their customers during the cost of living crisis. Households are dealing with broadband bills which are being artificially inflated due to the rise in the inflation, which has reached a 40-year high. Those on Universal Credit are able to apply for discounts known as social tariffs on their broadband bill, however many are unaware they can get this support.
Social tariffs are concessions created to assist people who are claiming benefit payments, such as Universal Credit.
Recently, the Government invited broadband suppliers to a summit in a bid to convince them to offer more discounts to their customers.
Currently, social tariffs for those on Universal Credit are available for broadband consumers across the UK and claimants can contact their supplier to see if they qualify.
It should be noted that social tariffs are different depending on the supplier and the eligibility criteria could be different depending on the company.
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On top of this, customers are being faced with extortionate exit fees for leaving their contracts early, which sometimes come to around £450.
Earlier this week, Lyndsey Fussell, Ofcom’s network and communications group director, shared why it was “essential” for consumers to gain access to cheaper broadband services.
Speaking to Sky News, Ms Fussell explained: “It's essential that broadband and mobile services are affordable.
“Particularly for those who are really struggling with their finances at the moment, any bill can be a problem.
“And that's why we've been encouraging companies to make available what we call social tariffs. That's low-cost offers for people who are in particularly difficult financial circumstances.
“And we certainly think that telecoms companies really have a moral imperative to make these kinds of offers available, and to make sure that people are aware of them so that people can take advantage of the best deal possible.”
Previously speaking to Express.co.uk, Alex Fitzgerald, CEO of broadband firm Cuckoo, emphasised the importance of the industry going more to protect people from “unaffordable” bill hikes and exit fees.
Mr Fitzgerald said: “At the moment there is very little regulation of broadband price increases.
“It’s at the discretion of each provider to choose to implement these mid-contract hikes - and it’s also up to them to decide how much to raise them by.
“Just last month six of the eight major providers - BT, EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone, Plusnet and John Lewis Broadband - raised their prices for most customers by between 8.2 percent and 9.3 percent, depending on when they initially signed up.
“These hikes are going to hit Brits in their pocket at the worst possible time and because they’re being rolled out mid-contract, customers are powerless to leave for another provider unless they’re willing to fork out for the extortionate exit fees - which can run as high as £450.
“It’s an unreasonable, unaffordable expense and put it bluntly: it’s a price prison.”
As it stands, financial analysts are warning that the country’s inflation-price hikes will continue for the near future.
Experts estimate that inflation will reach 10 percent by September and as high as 11 percent by the end of the year. | https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1641877/broadband-bill-unaffordable-universal-credit-social-tariff | 2022-07-17T16:52:36Z | https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1641877/broadband-bill-unaffordable-universal-credit-social-tariff | true | 1 |
Precision BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:DTIL – Get Rating) was the recipient of a significant increase in short interest during the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totalling 5,440,000 shares, an increase of 93.6% from the June 15th total of 2,810,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,670,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days.
Analyst Ratings Changes
A number of research firms recently commented on DTIL. BMO Capital Markets began coverage on Precision BioSciences in a research note on Thursday, June 16th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $7.00 price objective on the stock. HC Wainwright reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $20.00 price objective on shares of Precision BioSciences in a research note on Thursday, June 23rd. Finally, William Blair lowered Precision BioSciences from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Thursday, June 9th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Precision BioSciences presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $15.60.
Insider Buying and Selling at Precision BioSciences
In other news, insider Derek Jantz sold 18,849 shares of Precision BioSciences stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $2.06, for a total transaction of $38,828.94. Following the sale, the insider now directly owns 4,055,174 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,353,658.44. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. In other news, CFO John Alexander Kelly purchased 33,784 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 22nd. The shares were purchased at an average cost of $1.50 per share, with a total value of $50,676.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the chief financial officer now owns 117,701 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $176,551.50. The purchase was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, insider Derek Jantz sold 18,849 shares of Precision BioSciences stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $2.06, for a total value of $38,828.94. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 4,055,174 shares in the company, valued at $8,353,658.44. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 36,457 shares of company stock worth $75,412 over the last 90 days. Insiders own 8.50% of the company’s stock.
Institutional Investors Weigh In On Precision BioSciences
Precision BioSciences Trading Down 5.3 %
DTIL traded down $0.08 during trading on Friday, hitting $1.42. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,400,471 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,127,571. Precision BioSciences has a twelve month low of $1.11 and a twelve month high of $14.38. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04, a current ratio of 4.61 and a quick ratio of 4.61. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $1.57 and its 200-day moving average price is $3.17.
Precision BioSciences (NASDAQ:DTIL – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, May 9th. The company reported ($0.46) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.58) by $0.12. The firm had revenue of $3.32 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.00 million. Precision BioSciences had a negative return on equity of 44.19% and a negative net margin of 39.10%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted ($0.33) earnings per share. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that Precision BioSciences will post -1.63 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Precision BioSciences Company Profile
Precision BioSciences, Inc, a clinical stage gene editing company, develops vivo gene editing and ex vivo allogeneic CAR T therapies in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Therapeutic and Food. It offers ARCUS, a genome editing platform to cure genetic disorders. The company also provides Ex vivo Allogeneic CAR T Immunotherapy, a form of immunotherapy in which a specific type of immune cell, called a T cell, is genetically engineered to recognize and kill cancer cells; PBCAR0191, which is in Phase 1/2a clinical trial in adult patients with R/R NHL or R/R B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or B-ALL; PBCAR19B, an anti-CD19 CAR T candidate built on the stealth cell platform utilizing a single-step gene edit to minimize the risk of chromosome abnormalities; and PBCAR269A, an investigational allogeneic CAR T immunotherapy targeting BCMA for the treatment of R/R multiple myeloma.
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NEW YORK – Houston's Justin Verlander, the Yankees' Gerrit Cole and Atlanta's Max Fried won't be active for the All-Star Game after weekend starts.
Relievers Liam Hendriks of the Chicago White Sox, Jordan Romano of Toronto and Devin Williams of Milwaukee replaced them on the active rosters for Tuesday's game at Dodger Stadium, Major League Baseball said Sunday.
About a dozen players have changed from the original rosters announced July 6 and 8.
Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Tyler Anderson, Miami first baseman Garrett Cooper, San Diego infielder Jake Cronenworth, San Francisco left-hander Carlos Rodón, Toronto infielder Santiago Espinal, Boston designated hitter J.D. Martinez, Atlanta third baseman Austin Riley and Texas shortstop Corey Seager were among previous additions.
Houston second baseman Jose Altuve, Astros DH Yordan Álvarez, St. Louis third baseman Nolan Arenado, Miami second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., Milwaukee closer Josh Hader, Philadelphia DH Bryce Harper, Rodón and Toronto outfielder George Springer were among those who dropped out, most of them because of injuries.
Altuve was replaced in the starting lineup by Cleveland’s Andrés Giménez, Chisholm by the New York Mets' Jeff McNeil and Harper by Atlanta’s William Contreras.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Marvel sequel “Thor: Love & Thunder” dropped a hefty 68% in its second weekend of release but still held the top spot at the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday, while the bestseller adaptation “Where the Crawdads Sing” debuted with a better-than-expected $17 million.
Taika Waititi's “Love and Thunder” led all films with an estimated $46 million, bringing its two-week global total to $498 million. The sizable decline is more than most Marvel films but in line with recent releases from the Walt Disney Co. superhero studio, including “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (68%), “Black Widow” (68%) and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (67%).
“Love and Thunder" also faced a trio of newcomers, though none came close to toppling Chris Hemsworth's god of thunder. Best among them was Sony Pictures' “Where the Crawdads Sing," Olivia Newman's adaptation of Delia Owens' 2018 North Carolina-set novel. It opened well despite weak reviews (36% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes).
The Reese Witherspoon-produced mystery stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as a woman who raised herself in the coastal Carolina marshlands and focuses on a murder investigation of a local celebrity. Moviegoers liked it better than critics, giving it an A- CinemaScore.
It was a particularly good result for a page-to-screen drama, and another sign that adult audiences — who have also helped fuel the success of “Top Gun: Maverick" (still in fourth place with $12 million in its eighth weekend) and “Elvis” (up to $106.2 million after four weeks) — are nearly all the way back to pre-pandemic levels after going largely absent for much of the last two-plus years.
Appealing to a similar demographic, Focus Features' “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” starring Lesley Manville as a London cleaner who pines for a Dior dress, also opened strongly, with $1.9 million in 980 theaters. Said Focus distribution chief Lisa Bunnell: “Older movie-goers are returning to enjoy the in-theater experience.”
Meanwhile, the Illumination animated sequel "Minions: The Rise of Gru” held the second spot with $26 million in its third weekend of release. The Universal Pictures release has thus far grossed $262.6 million domestically and $532.7 million worldwide, setting box-office records along the way.
The Minions made it difficult for a new family entry: “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank.” The Paramount Pictures animated release, loosely adapted from Mel Brooks' “Blazing Saddles," launched with a modest $6.3 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Thor: Love and Thunder,” $46 million.
2. “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” $26 million.
3. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” $17 million.
4. “Top Gun: Maverick,” $12 million.
5. “Elvis,” $7.6 million.
6. “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank,” $6.3 million
7. “The Black Phone,” $5.3 million.
8. “Jurassic: Dominion,” $5 million.
9. “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” $1.9 million.
10. “Lightyear,” $1.3 million.
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Trudeau, Zelenskyy to talk turbines as Ukrainian supporters ready to protest
Trudeau, Zelenskyy to talk turbines as Ukrainian supporters ready to protest
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to speak with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today as relations between the two countries have been strained by Canada's controversial decision to send repaired parts of a Russian natural gas pipeline back to Germany.
Earlier this month Canada agreed to issue an exemption to the economic sanctions issued against Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
The two-year waiver would allow six Siemens Energy turbines, which were in Montreal for repairs, to be returned to Germany for use in the Russian state-owned Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
Trudeau defended the decision and explained Canada's German ally relies on the natural gas supply from the pipeline, but in a written and video address last week Zelenskyy called the move "absolutely unacceptable."
The Ottawa chapter of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress has planned a protest on Parliament Hill later today to urge the government to revoke the waiver.
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(NerdWallet) – Cancellation is the most popular proposal to address student loan debt, but it isn’t the only one out there. With the interest-free student loan payment pause in its third year, some wonder if 0% interest on student loans is a better answer.
“I think this COVID pause has really illustrated — hopefully for policymakers but definitely for consumers — that the interest is what’s really killing people,” says Betsy Mayotte, president and founder of The Institute of Student Loan Advisors.
She’s talked to many borrowers who say they wouldn’t turn down forgiveness but would much rather have a cut in the interest rate.
The Biden administration is expected to announce $10,000 in cancellation to federal student loan borrowers earning less than $150,000 for individuals and $300,000 for couples. This aligns with the president’s campaign promises but falls short of what some experts think is necessary.
Lodriguez Murray, United Negro College Fund senior vice president for public policy and government affairs, encourages “the administration to go bigger and bolder.”
“When there is a way you can reset the course of history for certain populations, you should,” Murray says.
Tomas Campos, CEO and co-founder of debt optimization software Spinwheel, thinks 0% student loan interest could be a realistic solution. Student loan debt “impacts half of American households. They may not be in debt themselves, but they see their loved ones struggling with it,” says Campos.
According to a recent NPR poll, the majority of the general public supports partial student loan relief, but that support decreases with higher amounts of cancellation.
Here’s how eliminating student loan interest could work based on two existing proposals aimed at borrowers with problematic long-term debt.
Two plans for 0% interest
LOAN Act
Last summer, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, reintroduced the Leveraging Opportunities for Americans Now Act. This act, first introduced in May 2019, calls for the government to disburse all federal student loans at 0% interest and replaces interest charges with a one-time origination fee.
Under the LOAN Act, undergraduate student loans would carry a 20% origination fee, and PLUS loans would carry 35%. These fees would be added to the total principal amount and paid back over the life of the loan.
Borrowers would automatically be placed in an income-driven repayment plan but would have the option to select the standard 10-year repayment plan. Those who repay their loan early would be refunded some of the origination fee.
If a student borrows $27,000 in federal loans at the 2022-23 interest rate of 4.99%, their payment would be about $286 a month for 10 years, with $34,349 repaid in total. With a 20% origination fee and no interest, that borrower would have $270 monthly payments with a $32,400 total repayment.
Low-income borrowers who enter an income-driven repayment plan would benefit most. According to a NerdWallet analysis, a borrower with $27,000 in debt and a starting annual salary of $30,000 would pay nearly $42,000 by the time income-driven repayment forgiveness kicked in. With the Rubio proposal, that borrower may pay about $9,600 less.
Zero-Percent Student Loan Refinancing Act
Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, introduced the Zero-Percent Student Loan Refinancing Act in 2021. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, introduced a version of the bill to the Senate earlier this year.
The Zero-Percent Student Loan Refinancing Act would automatically refinance all loans under the federal Direct Loan program to 0% interest. It would also give borrowers with Federal Family Education Loans, Perkins loans and Public Health Service Act loans the option to refinance to 0% interest.
Borrowers with private student loan debt would be eligible for the 0% refinance, too, according to email statements from Meaghan McCabe, a senior communications advisor with Whitehouse’s office
This proposal was introduced to help student loan borrowers recover from pandemic-induced financial strain and mounting interest totals that have the potential to exceed the original principal loan balance. The proposal would allow borrowers to refinance at 0% through 2024.
Borrowers would be eligible to refinance anytime during the open window of the program, even if they are still in school, according to McCabe. Under this proposal, a student who refinanced immediately and had $27,000 in debt at 4.99% interest would save about $7,349 over a 10-year term.
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The existing proposals are a long way from coming to a vote in either house of Congress, and there isn’t even consensus on whether 0% is the ultimate answer to the student debt crisis.
Interest-free student loans “can be coupled with other actions, really, but it’s not enough to make a real difference,” says Murray.
Mayotte says a reduced interest rate, maybe 1%, across student loans may be a better solution, as borrowers may not take 0% debt seriously. She also believes student loans with reduced interest rates have a better chance of garnering bipartisan support in a divided Congress.
Meanwhile, federal student loans are scheduled to return to repayment in September, and that means interest charges will also resume.
Borrowers should plan for repayment. If you think you’ll struggle, contact your servicer to discuss your options, such as reduced payments or halting payments altogether through forbearance. No matter how you proceed, however, interest charges will continue adding up.
As for interest-free or reduced-interest student loans, Mayotte urges borrowers to make their voices heard. She says, “I think if more consumers start writing their members of Congress asking for that, we might get some more attention and more legs to it.” | https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/are-0-interest-student-loans-better-than-10000-cancellation/ | 2022-07-17T17:25:19Z | https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/are-0-interest-student-loans-better-than-10000-cancellation/ | false | 17 |
Sudan official says death toll from tribal clashes at 65
CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from days of tribal clashes in a southern Sudanese province climbed to at least 65 people, a senior health official said Sunday.
The fighting between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups in the Blue Nile province also injured around 150 others, said Gamal Nasser al-Sayed, the province’s health minister.
He told The Associated Press that most of the dead were young men who were shot or stabbed.
Al-Sayed urged authorities in the capital of Khartoum to help airlift 15 seriously injured as hospitals in the Blue Nile lack advanced equipment and life-saving medicine.
The fighting in the Blue Nile grew out of the killing of a farmer earlier last week and continued through Saturday, according to the local government.
Authorities deployed the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — or RSF — to bring stability to the region. They also imposed a nightly curfew and banned gatherings in the towns of Roseires and Damazin, where the clashes took place.
Local media reported that thousands of people fled their homes since the clashes began last week.
The fighting was the latest tribal violence to hit Sudan, which is in turmoil since the military took over in a coup in October.
The coup upended the country’s short-lived transition to democracy after nearly three decades of repressive rule of autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
Al-Bashir and his Islamist government were removed from power in a popular uprising in April 2019. | https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/sudan-official-says-death-toll-from-tribal-clashes-at-65/ | 2022-07-17T17:26:39Z | https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/sudan-official-says-death-toll-from-tribal-clashes-at-65/ | true | 26 |
As research suggests that COVID-19 has infected roughly half of the Canadian population, the emergence of an even more contagious version of the virus means some people may be in for another round.
But questions remain about the prevalence of reinfection, and the short and long-term health impact that subsequent cases of the virus could have.
With cases on the rise, here’s what the experts had to say about the emerging evidence of reinfections.
How likely are reinfections?
The emergence of the Omicron variant ushered in a tsunami of infections that saw the proportion of the population with antibodies to the virus rise from seven per cent to 45 per cent between December 2021 and May 2022, according to an analysis published by Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force this month.
The task force’s co-chair, Catherine Hankins, said the jury is still out on how likely it is that this previously infected population will catch the virus again, particularly as the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron fuels a summer surge.
“All we know is that it can happen,” said Hankins, a professor at McGill University. ”This particular variant is really capable of evading immunity, including immunity to its previous … subvariant.”
Prabhat Jha, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, said early hopes that Omicron would act as a “benign natural booster,” spreading rapidly but causing only mild symptoms, did not bear out.
“As more evidence accumulates, it suggests that Omicron isn’t the great protector that we all thought it would be,” he said, citing data from the U.K.
Lynora Saxinger, a professor with the University of Alberta’s department of medicine, said BA.5 is different enough from previous strains that the immunity built up by a case of an earlier variant may not prevent infection.
“It’s not impossible to get reinfected,” she said.
How much protection do you get from “hybrid immunity”?
People who have been both vaccinated and infected should be bolstered by “hybrid immunity,” said Hankins. But signs that some people are getting reinfected with COVID-19 not long after a previous bout indicates that any natural immune boost would be short-lived, she said.
“People really shouldn’t think it’s done and dusted. They get it, and that’s it,” Hankins said. “You’re going to get it again if you keep exposing yourself.”
Saxinger said that BA.5 may be even more adept at breaking through hybrid protection, but at this point, it’s uncommon for people who have had Omicron to be reinfected by one of its relatives.
“The combination of vaccination plus relatively recent-ish infection… is not terrible against (BA.4 or BA.5,) especially if you don’t have any risk factors.”
Canadian studies have shown that people with three COVID-19 vaccines and one infection have the highest level of antibodies, Jha said.
Still, he emphasized that people who have been infected can benefit from another COVID-19 shot.
“The evidence does very clearly say that counting on a natural infection to protect you is really risky. We knew that from the start,” he said. “The best protection is at least three doses of the vaccine.”
How does reinfection affect the severity of illness?
Hankins said it’s difficult to track whether people, on average, get sicker the second or third time catching COVID-19.
“It seems to vary a lot by people,” she said. “The general expectation would be that you wouldn’t be as sick the second time around, but we’re seeing everything.”
While governments report a high number of people in hospital – some of whom have had the virus before – may seem to suggest that reinfection leads to more serious illness, Saxinger said, that’s not necessarily the case. It’s just that there are more cases of COVID overall.
“It’s really a function of just the sheer volume of transmission where we start to see increases in severe outcomes,” she said. “But on a per person level, the risk of severe outcome still seems to be quite low, especially if you’ve had a combination of being fully vaccinated, and also previously infected.”
Jha said this is another area where more study is needed.
“But in theory, I have no doubt that having multiple infections isn’t good for you,” he said.
“Some cavalier people say, ‘I’m just going to get infected a few times, and then I’ll be fine,’” he added.
It’s also unclear, he said, whether reinfection increases that likelihood of contracting long COVID.
“There is a suggestion that multiple infections can contribute to longer symptoms. But again, this is something we don’t know enough about.”
READ ALSO: 25 million kids missed routine vaccinations because of COVID
What should we do?
“Everyone wants a quick answer and says, ‘Okay, I want to know what to do. And I want to get this behind me,’” Jha said. “But the virus works on its own timetable.”
“Our immune system is trying to keep up with a mutating virus … And we have to basically be sensible.”
Increasing third-dose uptake is key to protecting people from reinfections, he said. Each shot you receive reduces the severity of disease.
National data shows only 56 per cent of Canadians 12 and older have at least three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, compared to roughly 90 per cent who have two doses.
Hankins agreed that getting a third shot is crucial.
“This is a highly infectious agent, but the more immunity you have on board, the better it is,” she said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Houston's Justin Verlander, the Yankees' Gerrit Cole and Atlanta's Max Fried won't be active for the All-Star Game after weekend starts.
Relievers Liam Hendriks of the Chicago White Sox, Jordan Romano of Toronto and Devin Williams of Milwaukee replaced them on the active rosters for Tuesday's game at Dodger Stadium, Major League Baseball said Sunday.
About a dozen players have changed from the original rosters announced July 6 and 8.
Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Tyler Anderson, Miami first baseman Garrett Cooper, San Diego infielder Jake Cronenworth, San Francisco left-hander Carlos Rodón, Toronto infielder Santiago Espinal, Boston designated hitter J.D. Martinez, Atlanta third baseman Austin Riley and Texas shortstop Corey Seager were among previous additions.
Houston second baseman Jose Altuve, Astros DH Yordan Álvarez, St. Louis third baseman Nolan Arenado, Miami second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., Milwaukee closer Josh Hader, Philadelphia DH Bryce Harper, Rodón and Toronto outfielder George Springer were among those who dropped out, most of them because of injuries.
Altuve was replaced in the starting lineup by Cleveland’s Andrés Giménez, Chisholm by the New York Mets' Jeff McNeil and Harper by Atlanta’s William Contreras.
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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) claimed that there was a “foreign conspiracy” behind the incessant rains in the northern parts of the state, alleging that cloudbursts had been triggered along the river Godavari. The CM said this during his tour of the flood-hit Bhadradri Kothagudem district on Sunday, July 17.
KCR was touring Kothagudem district, which saw large-scale damage due to the rains, along with a team of Ministers and authorities to assess the situation on the ground. After meeting the affected families at relief camps, the CM announced that each relocated family will be given Rs 10,000 as an instant relief measure.
At an onsite review meeting with Ministers, MLAs and officials, KCR said he suspected a foriegn conspiracy behind the recent heavy rains that triggered floods in the state. He said, “There is this new phenomenon called cloudburst. We don’t know how far it’s true, but it is said that there are a few conspiracies regarding this, that some countries are intentionally triggering cloudbursts in some places in our country. Earlier they did it in Leh-Ladakh, then in Uttarakhand, and now we have some gloomy information that they are doing the same along the Godavari river basin.”
KCR said that the Kadem reservoir in Nirmal district had miraculously withstood the floods despite surpassing its maximum capacity. “Though its maximum capacity is about 2.90 lakh cusecs, this time it reached 5 lakh cusecs, and it is a miracle that it is still standing. Thankfully, there was no loss of life in spite of the heavy floods,” he said.
#Telangana CM KCR sees a "foreign conspiracy" behind the incessant rains he claimed that he has a gloomy info on intentional cloudburst along the Godavari river basin.@thenewsminute @dhanyarajendran pic.twitter.com/cL7SE0VhkP
— CharanTeja (@CharanT16) July 17, 2022
A portion of the CM’s aerial survey of the Bhadrachalam region was called off owing to poor weather conditions; however, the aerial survey along the Eturnagaram direction was carried out.
The CM said that he has directed the Kothagudem District Collector to go ahead with a Rs 1,000 crore housing project on higher ground to provide safe residential facilities to flood victims. While urging people to be cautious for 15 more days in view of the situation, the CM stated that farmers who lost their crops will be provided assistance. He also directed officials not to move flood victims from relief camps until the situation gets better. | https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/telangana-cm-kcr-claims-foreign-conspiracy-cloudburst-leading-godavari-floods-165929 | 2022-07-17T17:34:26Z | https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/telangana-cm-kcr-claims-foreign-conspiracy-cloudburst-leading-godavari-floods-165929 | true | 3 |
‘American Idol’ Finalist Grace Leer Opens Up About Her First Single
Two years after making it to the Top 11 of “American Idol” season 18, Grace Leer is ready to release her first single, “After One.”
During a recent interview, the “American Idol” alum spoke about the single, which is about heartbreak and trying to move on from someone while always reliving memories after one drink.
Speaking about her time on “American Idol,” Geer shared, “The experience on ‘American Idol’ was amazing. I truly wouldn’t be here without it. It was an amazing stepping stone and opportunity for me to do what I love. And it was a very interesting season with it being during 2020. But yeah, I look back on [the show] and I’m just so grateful for that experience.
Following the TV show, Geer ended up moving to Nashville with her mom to continue working on her music. Along with discussing the “After One,” the “American Idol” star stated that she toured with Logan Mize. The duo has also released a new track, “Nothing With You.”
Leer then shared that life on the road has been hectic for her. However, she has learned a lot from the experience.
Leer’s debut EP will be released in September 2022.
‘American Idol’ Finalist Grace Leer Says She’s Been Putting Out ‘A Lot of Heartbreak Songs’ Lately
In an interview with Taste of Country last month, “American Idol” star Grace Leer spoke about new her songs. “I’ve been putting out a lot of heartbreak songs lately,” Leer explained. “Every time I play live, I apologize for playing another heartbreak song. It’s funny, because I’m actually in a very happy relationship right now.”
Meanwhile, Leer gets more in-depth about her “After One” track. “We’ve all been in those relationships where you’re trying hard to move on from someone, but you keep going back to that person and those memories after you have that one drink. That’s the drink that just kind of loosens you up enough to start reliving those memories of that relationship. Sometimes, you just can’t get away from it.”
Leer further explained that the single felt so out of her comfort zone, but in a good way. “I think the writing session for this song just opened me up to the fact that music should be a place where you are constantly creating something new and different. And for me, this was that song that was different than anything I’d done.”
In regards to what song she had on her mind while writing “After One,” Geer answered, “I had the Chicks’ song ‘No Ready to Make Nice’ in my brain when we were in the studio that day. I wanted to put some dark strings on it and some cool mandolin, and [my producer] did such a great job of taking the violin and just making it sound big and dramatic. So yea, it was kind of reminded me of the Chicks a little bit.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2666127847191/american-idol-finalist-grace-leer-opens-up-about-her-first-single | 2022-07-17T17:36:41Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2666127847191/american-idol-finalist-grace-leer-opens-up-about-her-first-single | false | 2 |
Alanis Morissette fans have long speculated that her seething 1995 hit “You Oughta Know” was inspired by her relationship with Full House actor Dave Coulier – who played Uncle Joey on the famed sitcom. The pair dated for two years after meeting in 1992.
Morissette has never said who the break-up anthem was about outright, but in a new interview with Sirius XM, Coulier has pretty much confirmed the long-held suspicion. During the interview, the actor recalled how he felt when he first heard Morissette’s iconic track.
Chatting with Jim Norton and Sam Roberts on the Faction Talk channel, Coulier recalled a car ride through Detroit as he heard “You Oughta Know” for the first time.
“Here’s the story. I’m driving in Detroit and I’ve got my radio on,” he began. “I hear the hook for ‘You Oughta Know’ come on the radio, and I’m like, ‘Wow, this is a really cool hook. And then I hear the voice and I’m like, ‘Wow, this girl can sing.’ And I had no idea that this was the record… And I’m listening to the lyrics going, ‘Ooooohh…. Oh no. I can’t be this guy.'”
He continued, “I went to the record store, bought the CD. And I went and I parked on a street and I listened to the whole record and there was a lot of familiar stuff in there that her and I had talked about, like, ‘Your shake is like a fish.’ I’d go, ‘Hey, dead fish me.’ And we’d do this dead fish handshake…I thought, ‘I think I may have really hurt this woman.'”
Elsewhere in the interview, Coulier described reconnecting with Morissette and asking her what she would prefer him to say if he was ever asked about the song.
“Years later, we reconnected and she couldn’t have been sweeter. And I said, ‘What do you want me to say when people ask me about this relationship?’ And she said, ‘You can say whatever you want.'”
It seems Coulier wants to leave things on a good note between him and the singer as he went on to gush about her “lovely” personality.
“I’ll tell you the kind of person [Alanis] is. When my sister Sharon was dying [of] cancer, Alanis was living in Toronto, and my sister was in Detroit. She actually drove to Detroit with her guitar and sat with my sister playing songs and singing with my sister in the hospital. That’s the kind of human being she is. I’ve never had anything bad to say about her. She’s lovely.”
Of course, the radio DJs couldn’t let Coulier off without a little bit of undue prodding as they asked him about the infamous would she go down on you in a theater line. Coulier just laughed it off, replying “You do that popcorn cup trick one time and it backfires on you.”
Watch the full interview with Coulier below.
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Seahawks 2022 Training Camp Preview: Will Reinforced Pass Rush Wreak Havoc in New Scheme?
Less than 24 hours after capping off an otherwise disappointing season in victorious fashion with a 38-30 win over the Cardinals in Arizona, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll wasn't secretive about the area where he felt his team needed to make the biggest jump during the upcoming offseason.
Even after sacking quarterback Kyler Murray five times in the season finale and finishing on a strong note, Carroll didn't mince words in regard to the need to fortify the front line defensively and generate more consistent pressure as a group.
"We need to improve our pass rush. That is an area that we need to get better in," Carroll told reporters. "You saw how dynamic it is when you get going like we did yesterday, but we didn’t have that consistency and that is the important part of it. So many things feed off of that, it is the disruption of the quarterback that leads to all of the issues on the positive side for the defense, so we have to, whatever we can do, we have to work there. That’s one of the focal points for me."
Despite returning most of their defensive line from the following season - including Carlos Dunlap - and adding a few quality veterans to the mix in free agency, Seattle struggled to turn up the heat on opposing quarterbacks and fell well short of expectations. According to TruMedia, the team finished 29th in the NFL in pressure percentage (4.7 percent) and 22nd in sacks (34), ranking in the bottom third in each category. Pro Football Focus graded Carroll's squad 30th overall rushing the passer (63.5) as a team, ahead of only Denver and Atlanta.
Individually, per PFF, not a single Seahawk defender finished with more than 36 quarterback pressures for the entire 2021 season. Second-year linebacker Darrell Taylor finished 77th in the league and led the team, while Dunlap was the only player who posted a pass rush win rate above 15 percent, further illustrating the pass rushing woes that plagued Carroll's defense most of the season.
Looking to remedy a problem that has persistently hindered Seattle's defense for the better part of the past four years, Carroll went back to the drawing board, starting with his coaching staff. Not long after the final media session with reporters in mid-January, he relieved defensive coordinator Ken Norton Jr. and pass game coordinator Andre Curtis of their respective duties.
In their place, Carroll elevated respected defensive line coach Clint Hurtt into Norton's stead and former Alabama assistant Karl Scott took over Curtis' former role in the secondary. Additionally, after considering him as a candidate for defensive coordinator, he lured long-time Bears assistant Sean Desai to join the staff as an associate head coach.
"Clint [Hurtt] was a big part of that hiring, and also a big part of attracting Sean [Desai] to us," Carroll said of the coaching staff changes at the NFL combine. "He was very, very much sought after by a number of clubs. He had all kinds of interviews, he was all over the place, and we were fortunate to get him. We put him in a position where he has a good deal of influence scheme-wise, tactically, and in all ways. And so, I really like that combination. Those two guys together will give us a great one-two punch."
By promoting Hurtt from within and teaming him back up with Desai, who previously worked alongside him on Vic Fangio's staff in Chicago for three seasons, Carroll desires a more aggressive defense with schematic diversity moving forward. In turn, he hopes to see the dormant pass rush improve by default.
With Hurtt at the wheel and Desai advising from the passenger seat, the Seahawks are expected to transition towards more 3-4 "odd" looks with three down defensive linemen and two overhanging hybrid linebackers. Understanding their personnel needed to be altered to run such a Fangio-style scheme, general manager John Schneider, Carroll, and the rest of the coaching staff went to work seeking younger, more athletic edge defenders better catered for the system.
Days before the start of free agency in March, Seattle released Dunlap, Kerry Hyder, and Benson Mayowa, jettisoning the three veterans in cost-cutting measures. Looking for an explosive running mate to link up with Taylor, Schneider adjusted his prior approach in free agency by signing former Chargers linebacker Uchenna Nwosu to a two-year deal.
Only 25 years old, Nwosu took advantage of his first opportunity to start full time and turned in a career year in coach Brandon Staley's defense in 2021, producing a personal best 5.0 sacks, 40 quarterback pressures, and two forced fumbles. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, the ex-USC standout finished 15th in the league in pressure rate (12.9 percent) among defenders with at least 300 pass rushing attempts.
Thriving in a scheme similar to the one Hurtt will be deploying in Seattle, the respected assistant told reporters during mandatory minicamp that Nwosu's familiarity playing in a 3-4 defense has helped his new teammates get acclimated while learning a new system.
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"Smart, tough, dependable. You get a whole team of those guys, you're going to always be in contention and he's definitely that," Hurtt said. "Having some familiarity with the system, coming from the Chargers, has definitely helped out and it's been a big help to the other outside backers in the room, so he's done really, really well. Exciting that we have him.”
Possessing quality burst at 251 pounds, Nwosu ran a 4.65 40-yard dash at the 2018 NFL combine and uses that speed coupled with unexpected power and physicality to win off the edge. His athleticism also plays well in coverage, as he's comfortable defending running backs and tight ends and registered eight pass deflections along with an interception in his first four NFL seasons.
Seeking further reinforcements to pair with Taylor and Nwosu, the Seahawks used the first of consecutive second-round picks in the 2022 NFL Draft to snag uber-athletic Minnesota pass rusher Boye Mafe. A bit of a late bloomer, he finished his collegiate career producing 7.0 sacks and 10 tackles for loss as a senior while starring for a stout Golden Gophers defense and earning Second-Team All-Big Ten honors.
After tearing it up at the Senior Bowl in Mobile and recording 2.0 sacks and a forced fumble in the all-star showcase, Mafe lit it up at the scouting combine in Indianapolis, running a blazing 4.53 second 40-yard dash and jumping 37 inches vertically at 261 pounds. Shortly after, Seattle brought him in for an official top-30 pre-draft visit and he emerged as a personal favorite of Hurtt's, leading to his selection in April.
“Really a big explosive athlete. Very twitchy for a big man," Hurtt said during Seattle's minicamp in June. "I don't think he's done growing. I think he's going to keep getting bigger. But just long and athletic, really, really smart, sharp kid, communicates early really well, which we anticipated. We brought him in here on a visit before the draft and he really impressed us with how sharp he was. He's grasping everything within the system really, really good."
Despite mostly playing out of a two-point stance at Minnesota, Mafe enters the NFL needing plenty of polish technique-wise, particularly as a run defender, before he can develop into a starter-caliber player. But he has ample experience playing in coverage and with his immense physical gifts that Carroll compared favorably to former starter Cliff Avril, Seattle will be banking on him making an immediate impact as a rotational rusher behind Taylor and Nwosu.
Along with signing Nwosu and selecting Mafe, the Seahawks also used a fifth-round pick on Ohio State's Tyreke Smith, who will have a chance to also vie for a reserve role. His top competition will come in the form of returning third-year defender Alton Robinson, who has registered 44 tackles and 5.0 sacks in his first two seasons. Both players will have some adjustments to make after playing traditional 4-3 defensive end roles at the college level.
Examining the edge group as a whole, Seattle lacks experience and a few players may not be as good of scheme fits as others. But there's no question the unit offers a far higher ceiling with a youthful, athletic core headlined by Taylor.
Turning 25 years old in March, the former second-round pick out of Tennessee bounced back after missing his entire rookie season due to a prolonged recovery from a broken leg by finishing tied for second on the team in sacks. Logging 543 defensive snaps at strongside linebacker, while his production waned in the second half, he exhibited elite juice rocketing upfield as a speed rusher and underrated ability turning speed to power as a bull rusher.
Poised for a breakout third season following a strong offseason program, Taylor should be a key part of the foundation the Seahawks will aim to build around defensively moving forward. Praising him for his work ethic, attention to detail, and contagious energy on the field, Hurtt doesn't see a cap on his upside and views him as a player others will follow leading by example.
“He can be as great as he wants to be," Hurtt said of Taylor. "I think the kid has a world of ability.”
Halfway through his rookie deal and oozing with potential, the pressure will be on Taylor to take a big leap forward in 2022. The same can be said for Nwosu, who will earn nearly $20 million over the next two seasons. Behind them, the Seahawks will be patient with Mafe, but he carries plenty of burden on his own shoulders as well after being selected with one of the picks acquired from the Broncos in the Russell Wilson trade.
While contributions from Smith and Robinson will also be welcomed, if not needed, Seattle's pass rush under a new coaching regime will only go as far as that young trio takes them. For the team to exceed low expectations entering a new era without Wilson or linebacker Bobby Wagner, others will need to rise to the occasion to help pick up the slack and Taylor, Nwosu, and Mafe creating consistent chaos off the edge would help their chances of staying in contention immensely. | https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/gm-report/seahawks-2022-training-camp-preview-will-reinforced-pass-rush-wreak-havoc-in-new-scheme | 2022-07-17T17:40:00Z | https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/gm-report/seahawks-2022-training-camp-preview-will-reinforced-pass-rush-wreak-havoc-in-new-scheme | false | 1 |
Learner Reviews & Feedback for Twitter API: Mining Data using Orange Data Mining Platform by Coursera Project Network
About the Course
In this one hour long project, you will mine, analyze and visualize various trending tweets using Word Cloud, Heat map, Document Map and perform sentiment analysis using Orange. Orange is an open-source data visualization, machine learning and data mining toolkit. Without any prior programming experience, Orange allows you to mine Twitter. If you are a corporate employee, marketer, or even a student who wants to explore how to mine tweets, Orange is the best platform for it.
We will begin this guided project by creating a Twitter developer account and applying for elevated access. We will create an app within the Twitter developer portal and get its API keys and then use these API keys to connect to Orange data mining software. We will fetch tweets about trending topics and create a Word-cloud for text visualization and Documents map to get Geo-location data about trending tweets. In the final tasks, we will perform sentiment analysis and explore the emotions behind each tweet using the Tweet Profiler widget. We will also create a Heat-map to understand the overall sentiment of a trending topic.
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IMD-Hyderabad’s Doppler radar may be operational by next week: Dr K Nagaratna
Published: Published Date - 10:34 PM, Sun - 17 July 22
Hyderabad: If you are going through the IMD website to check rain forecasts, you must be aware that Hyderabad’s Doppler radar has not been working since a month, making it tough for the weatherpersons to give their forecasts.
Doppler radars are the most essential tools uses for forecasts, especially in the monsoons. These radars send electromagnetic waves to clouds, and based on the frequency received back by the sensors, the intensity of the rain bands is obtained and analysed to provide a rainfall forecast.
Dr. K Nagaratna, Director, India Meteorological Department (IMD) – Hyderabad, said this is the first time the radar has gone down for this long. A few damaged radar parts worth Rs 25 lakhs have been ordered and will be imported by Monday, she said.
“We ordered the parts from abroad, they were shipped, and we are waiting for them to arrive. We are hopeful that the issue will be resolved within the next week,” she added.
The weather department to provide accurate forecasts in the absence of radar, is currently relying on other tools such as light observation, synoptic charts, and models, she said adding that wind patterns using radars from various other places were also being checked.
“The entire IMD team has been working extremely hard to provide accurate forecasts. It’s a tedious process looking at all these radars, but we’re making sure the forecasts are correct. If our radar is operational, it will be simple for us to provide forecasts,” she said.
Many independent weatherpersons have been expressing their disappointment on social media over the non functioning of the radar.
“It’s almost been a month since radar has gone offline; don’t know what’s the problem. Though we look after alternative resources to give forecasts, DWR is the most important tool, without it, it will be difficult for public to track rains, hoping for quick restoration (sic)” tweeted T Balaji, popularly known as Telangana Weatherman. | https://telanganatoday.com/imd-hyderabads-doppler-radar-may-be-operational-by-next-week-dr-k-nagaratna | 2022-07-17T17:48:18Z | https://telanganatoday.com/imd-hyderabads-doppler-radar-may-be-operational-by-next-week-dr-k-nagaratna | true | 1 |
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