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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — DeAndre Hopkins darted up the field Saturday at practice, made a quick cut and then a nice catch as Arizona Cardinals fans cheered in approval.
It’s a moment they won’t see again in the near future.
The Cardinals will play their first six games of the season without the three-time All-Pro receiver, who was suspended in May for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs. He can return Oct. 20 for a Thursday night game against the New Orleans Saints.
“It’s football, it’s life, I’ve been through worse things in life than having to sit out six games,” Hopkins said Saturday. “So for me, mentally, I think I’ve prepared for tough moments like this.”
Hopkins is still not exactly sure what caused him to test positive for a substance that he’s previously said was a small amount of Ostarine.
“I’ve never took a supplement, I’ve never took any of that kind of stuff,” Hopkins said. “Obviously, if you know about what it is, it can be a shampoo, it can be in a lot of different things. The NFL is very black and white, so of course, I wish the rule wasn’t so black and white, but it is what it is.”
There’s little doubt the suspension is a big blow for the Cardinals, who have played much better when Hopkins is on the field. Arizona was 8-2 last season in games that he played and 3-5 in games he missed, including a 34-11 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Wild Card round.
He caught 42 passes for 572 yards and eight touchdowns last season, but even more than the numbers, he’s valuable because opposing defenses have to give him so much attention.
“He lifts the entire offense when he’s out there,” Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury said. “He elevates our level of play. We saw it statistically when he was in, when he was out. The way he competes, the way he talks trash, everybody tends to step up when he’s out there.”
The 30-year-old Hopkins is allowed to practice and play in preseason games before his suspension begins in September. Kingsbury says it’s good to have him out on the field during camp, but they also want to make sure he stays healthy. He missed the final five games of last season because of a knee injury.
“You’ve got to save him from himself a little bit,” Kingsbury said. “We’re going to be smart. It does us no good to ramp him up like it’s Week 1 and he’s got two more months to sit.”
The Cardinals will lean on the newly acquired Marquise Brown, A.J. Green, Rondale Moore and tight end Zach Ertz to fill the receiving void while Hopkins is out. Brown caught 91 passes for 1,007 yards and six touchdowns last season for the Ravens — big numbers in Baltimore’s run-heavy offense.
“We’ve got a great team,” Hopkins said. “I’m sure those guys will go out and get it done.”
NOTES: Kingsbury said RB James Conner and QB Kyler Murray were limited at practice on Saturday. Kingsbury said Murray has been “throwing a ton, he reported early with the rookies, so we’re going to rest his arm.” … Kingsbury said he hopes starting left tackle D.J. Humphries (illness) will be back on the field new week.
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Rhett takes on the Tour de France
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A cyclist from Okehampton is on top of the world having completed the world’s most guelling cycling race along the whole Tour de France route, one week ahead of the professionals – in a bid to raise £1 million for vital leukaemia research.
Rhett Groom, 54, was part of a team of 18 amateur cyclists who took on all 21 stages of the 2022 Tour de France, covering 2,429km and climbing 49,700 metres as they scaled the majestic heights of the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Vosges.
Having started in Copenhagen in Denmark, and undertaking the majority of the route through Belgium, Switzerland and France, Rhett and the other riders bumped over punishing cobblestones, endured biblical rain in Vosges area of France and experienced searing heat.
Tackling the epic ascents, just like the main Tour de France riders, was the key challenge of their journey, with four climbs reaching more than 2,000 metres in altitude including the infamous Alpe d’Huez and Col du Galibier ascents. The three-week challenge, before riding into Paris for the emotional home stretch along the Champs Élysées the Sunday before last (July 17). Rhett then stayed in Paris to cheer in the riders in the main Tour de France ride a week later.
Having had family members who have been affected by leukaemia, Rhett decided to do his bit by signing up to the Tour 21 challenge. It was quite a commitment, seeing him put in hours of training on Dartmoor and a coast-to-coast across Devon from Plymouth to Bude. He also trained on the hills in Spain, where he has a holiday home.
Rhett, a South African by birth who came to live in Devon when he married his Exeter-raised wife more than 30 years ago, said: ‘The whole idea is to get the message out about Cure Leukaemia.
‘We started off quite small about two or three years ago and we are now the official Tour de France charity event.
‘Our chairman Geoff Thomas, the retired England football manager, is a leukaemia survivor. He put this together several years ago. It is a group of amateur cyclists who have come together to raise awareness for leukaemia research,’ he said. ‘I was looking for something to do after I sold my business and things just came together, my passion for cycling and and passion for the cause, so I put my name down on the trip. It has taken a lot training and amazing preparation but we have got there. I had a lot of guys helping me with the quality of what I needed to do which was mainly about climbing the hills. It was an amazing experience and it is going to stay with me forever and I managed to do it at the tender age of 54.
He added: ‘We are just shy of the £1 million target we set ourselves. From our point of view it is a massive endeavour to reach that but we have this confidence that we can get the funds we are aiming for.
‘We are overwhelmed at the support and finanicial support we have received both from cyclists or from people who have been touched by cancer.’
‘There was not one second when I wondered why I was doing it,’ he added. To donate, visit https://justgiving.com/campaign/thetour21
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BOSTON (AP) — Bill Russell redefined how basketball is played, and then he changed the way sports are viewed in a racially divided country.
The most prolific winner in NBA history, Russell marched with Martin Luther King Jr., supported Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. The centerpiece of the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years, Russell earned his last two NBA titles as a player-coach — the first Black coach in any major U.S. sport.
Russell died on Sunday at the age of 88. His family posted the news on social media, saying his wife, Jeannine, was by his side. The statement did not give the cause of death, but Russell was not well enough to present the NBA Finals MVP trophy in June due to a long illness.
“Bill’s wife, Jeannine, and his many friends and family thank you for keeping Bill in your prayers. Perhaps you’ll relive one or two of the golden moments he gave us, or recall his trademark laugh as he delighted in explaining the real story behind how those moments unfolded,” the family statement said. “And we hope each of us can find a new way to act or speak up with Bill’s uncompromising, dignified and always constructive commitment to principle.
“That would be one last, and lasting, win for our beloved #6.”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement that Russell was “the greatest champion in all of team sports.”
“Bill stood for something much bigger than sports: the values of equality, respect and inclusion that he stamped into the DNA of our league. At the height of his athletic career, Bill advocated vigorously for civil rights and social justice, a legacy he passed down to generations of NBA players who followed in his footsteps,” Silver said. “Through the taunts, threats and unthinkable adversity, Bill rose above it all and remained true to his belief that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity.”
A Hall of Famer, five-time Most Valuable Player and 12-time All-Star, Russell in 1980 was voted the greatest player in the NBA history by basketball writers. He remains the sport’s most decorated champion — he also won two college titles and an Olympic gold medal — and an archetype of selflessness who won with defense and rebounding while others racked up gaudy scoring totals.
Often, that meant Wilt Chamberlain, the only worthy rival of Russell’s era and his prime competition for rebounds, MVP trophies and barroom arguments about who was better. Chamberlain, who died in 1999 at 63, had twice as many points, four MVP trophies of his own and is the only person in league history to grab more rebounds than Russell — 23,924 to 21,620.
But Russell dominated in the only stat he cared about: 11 championships to two.
The native of Louisiana also left a lasting mark as a Black athlete in a city — and country — where race is often a flash point. He was at the March on Washington in 1963, when King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and he backed Muhammad Ali when the boxer was pilloried for refusing induction into the military draft.
“To be the greatest champion in your sport, to revolutionize the way the game is played, and to be a societal leader all at once seems unthinkable, but that is who Bill Russell was,” the Boston Celtics said in a statement.
In 2011, Obama awarded Russell the Medal of Freedom alongside Congressman John Lewis, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel and baseball great Stan Musial.
“Bill Russell, the man, is someone who stood up for the rights and dignity of all men,” Obama said at the ceremony. “He marched with King; he stood by Ali. When a restaurant refused to serve the Black Celtics, he refused to play in the scheduled game. He endured insults and vandalism, but he kept on focusing on making the teammates who he loved better players and made possible the success of so many who would follow.”
Russell said that when he was growing up in the segregated South and later California his parents instilled in him the calm confidence that allowed him to brush off racist taunts.
“Years later, people asked me what I had to go through,” Russell said in 2008. “Unfortunately, or fortunately, I’ve never been through anything. From my first moment of being alive was the notion that my mother and father loved me.” It was Russell’s mother who would tell him to disregard comments from those who might see him playing in the yard.
“Whatever they say, good or bad, they don’t know you,” he recalled her saying. “They’re wrestling with their own demons.”
But it was Jackie Robinson who gave Russell a road map for dealing with racism in his sport: “Jackie was a hero to us. He always conducted himself as a man. He showed me the way to be a man in professional sports.”
The feeling was mutual, Russell learned, when Robinson’s widow, Rachel, called and asked him to be a pallbearer at her husband’s funeral in 1972.
“She hung the phone up and I asked myself, ‘How do you get to be a hero to Jackie Robinson?’” Russell said. “I was so flattered.”
William Felton Russell was born on Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, Louisiana. He was a child when his family moved to the West Coast, and he went to high school in Oakland, California, and then the University of San Francisco. He led the Dons to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956 and won a gold medal in 1956 at the Melbourne Olympics in Australia.
Celtics coach and general manager Red Auerbach so coveted Russell that he worked out a trade with the St. Louis Hawks for the second pick in the draft. He promised the Rochester Royals, who owned the No. 1 pick, a lucrative visit by the Ice Capades, which were also run by Celtics owner Walter Brown.
Still, Russell arrived in Boston to complaints that he wasn’t that good. “People said it was a wasted draft choice, wasted money,” he recalled. “They said, ‘He’s no good. All he can do is block shots and rebound.’ And Red said, ‘That’s enough.’”
The Celtics also picked up Tommy Heinsohn and K.C. Jones, Russell’s college teammate, in the same draft. Although Russell joined the team late because he was leading the U.S. to the Olympic gold, Boston finished the regular season with the league’s best record.
The Celtics won the NBA championship — their first of 17 — in a double-overtime seventh game against Bob Pettit’s St. Louis Hawks. Russell won his first MVP award the next season, but the Hawks won the title in a finals rematch. The Celtics won it all again in 1959, starting an unprecedented string of eight consecutive NBA crowns.
A 6-foot-10 center, Russell never averaged more than 18.9 points during his 13 seasons, each year averaging more rebounds per game than points. For 10 seasons he averaged more than 20 rebounds. He once had 51 rebounds in a game; Chamberlain holds the record with 55.
Auerbach retired after winning the 1966 title, and Russell became the player-coach — the first Black head coach in NBA history, and almost a decade before Frank Robinson took over baseball’s Cleveland Indians. Boston finished with the second-best regular-season record in the NBA, and its title streak ended with a loss to Chamberlain and the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Division finals.
Russell led the Celtics back to titles in 1968 and ’69, each time winning seven-game playoff series against Chamberlain. Russell retired after the ’69 finals, returning for a relatively successful — but unfulfilling — four-year stint as coach and GM of the Seattle SuperSonics and a less fruitful half season as coach of the Sacramento Kings.
Russell’s No. 6 jersey was retired by the Celtics in 1972. He earned spots on the NBA’s 25th anniversary all-time team in 1970, 35th anniversary team in 1980 and 75th anniversary team. In 1996, he was hailed as one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players.
In 2009, the MVP trophy of the NBA Finals was named in his honor — even though Russell never won himself, because it wasn’t awarded for the first time until 1969. Russell, however, traditionally presented the trophy for many years, the last time in 2019 to Kawhi Leonard; Russell was not there in 2020 because of the NBA bubble nor in 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns.
In 2013, a statue was unveiled on Boston’s City Hall Plaza of Russell surrounded by blocks of granite with quotes on leadership and character. Russell was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975 but did not attend the ceremony, saying he should not have been the first African American elected. (Chuck Cooper, the NBA’s first Black player, was his choice.)
In 2019, Russell accepted his Hall of Fame ring in a private gathering.
“I felt others before me should have had that honor,” he tweeted. “Good to see progress.”
Silver said he “often called (Russell) basketball’s Babe Ruth for how he transcended time.”
“Bill was the ultimate winner and consummate teammate, and his influence on the NBA will be felt forever,” Silver added. “We send our deepest condolences to his wife, Jeannine, his family and his many friends.”
Russell’s family said arrangements for the memorial service will be announced in the coming days.
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Pain of loss keeps some from 9/11 Memorial
Linda Cavalier of Huntington, whose son Judson, 26 -- called "Judd" -- worked on the 104th floor of the south tower, hasn't been to the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero. The memorial is for other people, not for her, she said.
"I'm glad it's there -- they did a beautiful job -- but I don't need to be reminded of that; I'm reminded of it every single day," she said.
Maybe one day, when her grandson Tyler Judd, born in April, is old enough, she will take him to the site. "I would want him to know what happened firsthand that day," she said.
Jane Pollicino of Plainview lost her husband, Steve, 48, a corporate bond trader who worked on the 104th floor of the north tower.
She said she was impressed when she first saw the memorial opened to families on the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks.
"On Sept. 11, when I walked out with my family, it was awesome and breathtaking," she said.
Cavalier and Pollicino expressed similar feelings about tributes to victims -- including the 258 portraits of Long Islanders Newsday began publishing on Feb. 27.
The portraits kept alive the legacy of her husband and the close to 500 Long Islanders who died that day, Pollicino said. But there has been an emotional price. After her son's profile ran in Newsday on May 8, Cavalier said she heard from people she hadn't been in touch with for years.
"I heard from a girl who I was in Lamaze class with," she said.
Pollicino, whose husband's remains were never recovered, said she has had some problems with decisions made about the 9/11 Memorial. For instance, the 9/11 museum, slated to open late next year, will contain still-unidentified remains buried below ground and behind a wall.
"My thought was that I would be able to go on the plaza and have some kind of tomb to visit," she said.
The deeper issue for Pollicino is that many people see the memorial as a tourist destination, not as a sacred site.
"I have to get over the fact that I'm going to be seeing people snapping pictures," she said. "At the same time, I want people there."
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Vito Chirco and John Maakaron, two writers on the staff at Sports Illustrated/All Lions, have plenty to discuss following the first week of training camp in the National Football League.
What is your takeaway from Week 1 of training camp for the Lions?
Chirco: According to my colleagues at All Lions and pundits from a variety of other outlets, the Lions look like a different team thus far. They seem to have more of the right pieces in place, and seem to be ready to make a jump that should lead to an increase in wins in 2022.
Additionally, if it wasn’t evident a season ago that the players love Dan Campbell, it’s clearly visible now. To me, it’ll be interesting to observe whether the players’ undeniable chemistry leads to a more competitive year for Campbell’s squad this upcoming season.
Maakaron: Jeff Okudah is really working to get his career kickstarted. Despite all of the setbacks he has experienced, the former No. 3 overall pick is grinding to earn a starter’s spot playing opposite of Amani Oruwariye. He has had a positive start to training camp so far.
How promising is it to see Aidan Hutchinson acclimating well to playing at the NFL level?
Chirco: I think it is very promising. As the No. 2 overall pick in the 2022 draft, he will start his professional career with very high expectations, and there are some pundits that believe he has the potential to be a generational pass rusher at the NFL level.
So, to see him succeed as much as he has through the first four days of camp is a big-time positive. And, for the Lions’ sake, hopefully it’s a sign of things to come for the 6-foot-6, 265-pound EDGE defender.
Maakaron: In a way, the play of the ex-Wolverines defensive lineman will dictate how this rebuild, led by head coach Dan Campbell and general manager Brad Holmes, will turn out. If he has a solid career, he can galvanize an entire city.
While the offense sells tickets, the play of the defense will determine how many wins the Lions eventually end up with the next few seasons.
Can Jared Goff take a big step forward in 2022?
Chirco: I think the Lions’ starting signal-caller will take a step forward, but I find it hard to believe that he will take a big step forward in 2022.
At this juncture in his career, I think he is what he is, and that is precisely an average quarterback. He can string together a few good weeks, like at the end of last season. But, he won’t be able to keep it up consistently.
So, yes, he’s slightly better than the 24th-best QB in the league (which is where his 39.5 QBR placed him last year). However, at his very best, I think Goff is only the 20th-best QB in today’s game.
Maakaron: I am among the many who believe Goff has peaked. But, that is not to say that he cannot be a productive quarterback.
With a solid offensive line, run game and speedy outside weapons, the veteran signal-caller can play well. But, I do not see him getting drastically better, especially since he is not working with a big arm to launch passes down the field with regularity.
How concerned are you about Josh Paschal?
Chirco: I am at least slightly concerned regarding the health status of the Lions’ 2022 second-round pick. He underwent sports hernia surgery this spring, and also battled the ailment during his time at Kentucky. There’s no timetable for his return at the moment, and this only stunts his development as he transitions to the professional ranks.
Maakaron: It stinks that he is not out on the field with the other rookies. The defensive line is a unit that needs to improve drastically. Detroit has invested heavily at the spot over the past two seasons. I will be more concerned if he is not able to start the season. But, Paschal missing time is a significant setback to the start of his NFL career.
What excites you the most about the team being in pads this week?
Chirco: Just like John, it’s getting to see Hutchinson go head-to-head with second-year offensive tackle Penei Sewell. The two of them are both ferocious competitors, so it will be interesting to see how they fare going one-on-one with each other. It should make for some must-see content coming out of Allen Park.
Maakaron: It’s all about Aidan Hutchinson vs. Penei Sewell. Supporters got a small taste of that matchup over the weekend, as Hutchinson put some moves on the young offensive lineman.
With pads on, the competition level is going to ramp up significantly. Iron sharpens iron, so the hope is both will come away significantly better for having battled each other. I will have a nice view of this battle, each and every day. Cannot wait to report on what happens.
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MIAMI (AP) — Francisco Lindor had three hits and the New York Mets pounded trade deadline target Pablo López, beating the Miami Marlins 9-3 Sunday to sweep their three-game series.
Jeff McNeil singled twice and doubled, and Mark Canha also had three hits for the NL East leaders, who won their sixth straight and finished with a season-high 19 hits — 12 of them against López.
“We focused on getting the good pitches,” Lindor said. “We got them and we didn’t miss. It was one of those days where we got our pitches and we hit it wherever we wanted to hit it.”
Lindor went 7 for 11, doubled twice and homered during the weekend series. He has hit safely in 18 of 19 games.
“I didn’t even know I was 7 for 11,” Lindor said. “Just seeing the baseball and putting a good swing on the ball,”
New York starter Taijuan Walker gave up three runs in 5 2/3 innings. Walker (9-2) allowed seven hits, walked two and struck out four.
The Marlins lost their seventh straight at home.
The Mets built a 6-0 lead against López, chasing the right-hander after 2 2/3 innings. Subject of trade rumors during the week, López (7-6) struck out one in his shortest start of the season.
Pete Alonso’s RBI double and run-scoring singles from McNeil and Canha put New York ahead 3-0 in the first.
Tyler Naquin had his first hit as a Met when his run-scoring triple in the third made it 4-0. Acquired in a trade from Cincinnati on Thursday, Naquin scored on Canha’s single. Brandon Nimmo followed Luis Guillorme’s single with an RBI single that scored Canha and ended López’s outing.
“This is their third time seeing me this season,” López said. “So they’re able to go back to see the previous games and see if I’m doing things in a way that shows a pattern and sometimes they have a good game plan.”
When the series began, the Marlins were in the periphery of the third NL wild card spot and had heightened expectations with ace Sandy Alcantara and López pitching in two of the games. Instead, the Mets combined for 10 runs and 20 hits against Miami’s top two starters.
“Our guys came out with the type of intensity that you need in facing López,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said. “We faced some good pitching here. It was fun to watch. There were a lot of contributors.”
The huge early advantage allowed Walker to pitch into the sixth and earn the decision.
“It was easier today because we scored a lot of runs,” Walker said. “I was just able to attack the zone.”
The Marlins snapped a 20-inning scoreless skid on Jacob Stallings’ RBI single in the fifth.
Jesús Sánchez’s RBI groundout and rookie Charles Leblanc’s solo homer in the sixth got Miami within 7-3. Leblanc’s first major league blast ended an 11-game home run drought in their ballpark for the Marlins.
Nimmo reached on a fielder’s choice that scored Canha in the seventh. Nimmo then raced home from first on Lindor’s two-out hard smash which bounced off second baseman Joey Wendle and rolled into centerfield.
Relievers Tommy Hunter, Stephen Nogosek and Yoan López followed Walker and got the last 10 outs.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mets: RHP Jacob deGrom (stress reaction right scapula) will make his season debut Tuesday at Washington, Showalter said before the game.
Marlins: RHP Sixto Sánchez (shoulder) threw batting practice Saturday at the club’s spring training complex in Jupiter, Florida.
UP NEXT
Mets: RHP Max Scherzer (6-2, 2.09) will start the opener of a three-game series Monday at Washington.
Marlins: Have not announced a starter for the opener of their home series against Cincinnati on Monday.
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Yeezy Day 2022 Kicks Off August 2 — Here’s Everything We Know So Far
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With Yeezy Day 2022 just around the corner, anticipation is mounting as a countdown on the YEEZY SUPPLY website has started ticking away the minutes until the event. The annual two-day Yeezy celebration, which first kicked off in 2019, is one of the most significant dates on any sneakerhead’s calendar.
Throughout Yeezy Day 2022, fans will be able to score restocks of past Yeezy kicks and newer styles expected to drop this year.
This year’s Yeezy Day will kick off on August 2 in the U.S. and Canada and on August 3 in Europe, China, Japan and Korea. Fans may have already noticed a YEEZY day countdown, scheduled to expire at 9 a.m. ET, August 2, on the YEEZY SUPPLY and Adidas websites.
According to Hypebeast, fans can expect to see re-releases of Adidas YEEZY BOOST 350 “Turtle Dove,” the YEEZY BOOST 700 V2 “Static” and the YEEZY BOOST 350 V2 “Core Red,” and others like the YEEZY 450 Utility Black.
YEEZY 450 Utility Black
Residents of the U.S. and Canada can shop the releases via YEEZY SUPPLY and the CONFIRMED app, while the other regions will be able to shop exclusively through the CONFIRMED app. Excited fans should download and sign up on the Adidas Confirmed app on their smart device in preparation. While there’s been no news of clothing releases, Yeezy fans may want to keep an eye on the Yeezy Gap website to keep tabs on any surprise releases.
It’s still unclear how this year’s Yeezy event will run. Last year, the Yeezy Day event saw new drops of popular Yeezy styles released at the top of every hour. Fans must stay vigilant to get the details on all the releases, as they typically sell out fast.
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Green-fingered experts at GardeningExpress.co.uk have put together essential tasks to carry out in the garden during August which include pruning, harvesting and looking out for blight.
n August it’s important to keep your crops hydrated as well as keeping an eye on the general condition of your plants during the heat.
Towards the end of the month you may want to start prepping your garden for the colder conditions that we often get during September by doing things like giving your lawn a final mow.
Chris Bonnett, founder of GardeningExpress.co.uk said: “August tends to be the hottest month of the year, although we can never predict what the British weather is going to do, it's important to be prepared to give your plants some really good hydration.
“A lot of people also go on holiday in August and if you are planning on going away then it’s a good idea to give your plants a good water before you go and ask a trusted friend or neighbour to oversee everything while you’re away.
“This is also when you want to harvest your vegetables like sweetcorn and courgettes. Just be sure you store them correctly and make use of them whilst they’re fresh.”
Gardening jobs for August
1. Begin pruning
Keep on top of pruning once summer-flowering shrubs have fully blossomed, ensuring plants are kept under control. Fruit trees, such as apples and pears, should be pruned once they are trained, and remain in the sunlight for further ripening. Plants such as wisteria should be pruned regularly to keep under control, and lavender should be pruned for it to remain compact and bushy.
2. Start harvesting
August means that vegetables, such as courgettes and sweetcorn, can now be harvested. Lift up potatoes to make summer salads; remembering to store them in a hessian bag to allow darkness and ventilation. Runner beans can be regularly harvested to allow new pods to grow and prevent the beans from becoming stringy.
3. Remove deadheads
Remove deadheads to encourage new flowers to develop and to avoid unsightly gardens. Concentrate removing deadheads from perennial plants – such as dahlias and lilies – to promote an ongoing show of blossoms in the garden. To remove deadheads simply pinch the stem below the faded flower with your finger and thumb.
4. Cut and dry herbs
The late summer month means cutting herbs such as rosemary and sage. Remember to freeze any leftover herbs to use in dishes and drinks over the coming months. Dry out herbs such as dill and caraway in the garden (away from the direct sunlight). Promote the growth and survival of the winter frost, for perennial herbs like oregano and thyme, by simply trimming them.
5. Watch out for blight
Ensure to keep an eye on blight throughout August, especially on tomatoes and potatoes. Blight on tomatoes begins in large brown spots on the stems. Once you see this, pull off the infected plants. For potatoes, blight appears in small dark patches on the edge of the potato leaves. Immediately cut off the top growth to prevent the infectious blight from spreading, then wait a fortnight before harvesting them.
6. Mow the lawn and trim hedges
In August it is important for a final trim of all hedges before they stop growing over winter. Cut the top of the hedge last, and rake away fallen leaves and twigs for a fresh garden. For lawns, do not use high nitrogen fertiliser as this only encourages growth, which will be harmed by the upcoming autumn weather. The late summer means a slower lawn growth, so ensure that lawn mowers are set to a higher cut.
7. Prepare before going on holiday
August often means summer holidays away from home – but it is important to not neglect your garden. Ask friends, family, and neighbours to water plants and flowers, and move potted plants into the shade. If holidaying for a longer period of time, consider installing an automatic watering system whilst away, for both outside plants, and drip irrigation for greenhouses.
8. Regular watering is essential
Watering is fundamental to a blooming and flourishing garden throughout the summer heat. A healthy garden requires frequent watering in August. Top up water features and bird-baths regularly, and water fruit and vegetable plants, daily. When watering, aim directly at the root to avoid dry soil caused from the heat.
9. Greenhouse humidity and ventilation is crucial
To prevent damaging plants by overheating, ventilate the greenhouse by opening vents and doors on August’s warm summer days. To further look after delicate plants from overheating, consider using blinds or shade paint in the greenhouse. Increase the humidity of the greenhouse during the hot weather by dampening the greenhouse by pouring water across the floor each day.
10. Plan for the coming months
Plan winter gardens whilst spending time outdoors in the sun. Plant bulbs such as nerines and colchicums ready for autumn. Prep in time for colder months by planning out garden borders and vegetable patches. In August, plant vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage to ensure they are ready for winter harvesting. | https://www.lincolnshireworld.com/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/top-10-jobs-to-do-in-the-garden-in-august-3780250 | 2022-07-31T23:40:21Z | https://www.lincolnshireworld.com/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/top-10-jobs-to-do-in-the-garden-in-august-3780250 | true | 15 |
Stella Trattoria & Bar opens in Blue Point
Stella Trattoria & Bar is now open in Blue Point in what used to be several other restaurants: Scal’s Trattoria, Blue, and Amara Kitchen and Cocktails.
It’s more subdued than the jewel-toned walls of previous tenants. Inside, a tailored bar is framed by French doors and accented by potted palm ferns, while in the dining room, most tables offer banquette seating near the piano. The restaurant also has outdoor lounge and table seating.
The dinner menu starts with $9 to $14 pizette, salumi tastings ($14-$25) and appetizers like mozzarella in carozza — an over-the-top Italian rendition of grilled cheese, baked clams and grilled octopus ($10 to $14).
There’s panini on focaccia stuffed with veal, chicken or filet ($10 to $13), an array of salads that highlights beets to mixed greens ($9 to $16).
Pastas include linguini and clam sauce, cavatelli Bolognese and penne puttanesca ($9 to $13). Entrees favor Italian-American classics like veal Marsala or Sorrentino, eight-ounce filet mignon, chicken piccata or eggplant rollatini ($11 to $22).
Stella Trattoria & Bar is open seven days a week, from 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. at 7 Montauk Hwy., Blue Point, 631-363-7500, stellatrattoria.com | https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/restaurants/stella-trattoria-bar-opens-in-blue-point-p68557 | 2022-07-31T23:58:07Z | https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/restaurants/stella-trattoria-bar-opens-in-blue-point-p68557 | true | 1 |
(Inside California Politics) — Lauren Sanchez, Governor Gavin Newsom’s Senior Climate Advisor, joined Inside California Politics co-host Nikki Laurenzo to discuss Newsom’s push for more aggressive climate action. Sanchez explains the climate funding in the latest budget signed by Governor Newsom, as well as criticism from former California Water Control Resources Board member Max Gomberg of the steps the Newsom Administration is taking to combat climate change and drought.
“I’m hard-pressed to find a leader as committed to this issue as Governor Newsom is.” Sanchez responded when asked about that criticism.
Sanchez also discussed the governor’s goal to have all new vehicles be zero emmissions by 2035, and whether there is a viable path to attaining that goal. She also talks about California’s role as a global climate leader. | https://www.kget.com/inside-california-politics/newsom-senior-climate-advisor-lauren-sanchez-on-californias-climate-action/ | 2022-08-01T00:09:27Z | https://www.kget.com/inside-california-politics/newsom-senior-climate-advisor-lauren-sanchez-on-californias-climate-action/ | true | null |
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — One auto expert said if you're constantly driving around potholes or slowing down to save your vehicle ramming into one, chances are you're wasting fuel.
"If you're just keeping your foot off the gas and off the brake at the same time, you're going to get less gas mileage, without a doubt," said Rick Cruz, the owner of Rick's Detail on Ayers St. in Corpus Christi.
Your vehicle is hard at work when you're driving on rough roads. Cruz said you really get a bang for your buck when you take the smoother route.
"The car is going to run better," said Cruz. "The car will run smoother, it's going to cut through the wind better. It's just everything in general with the car and road conditions."
Rough roads are not the only contributor to wasting fuel.
"Make sure there's air in your tires. Make sure they're perfectly inflated. That has a lot to do with it. Make sure your car is tuned. If you have an engine check light, it's a good idea to check that out because that might be leading to a lot of the gas that you may be burning or leaking," he added.
He said keeping your vehicle in good shape and respecting speed limits can save folks some fuel money.
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Trio of Mississippi State Bulldogs drafted on Day 3 of 2022 MLB Draft
Collin WilmesMississippi State, MSMississippi State pitcher Landon Sims, catcher Logan Tanner selected on Day 1 of 2022 MLB Draft
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YREKA, Calif. (AP) — Crews battling the largest wildfire so far this year in California braced for thunderstorms and hot, windy conditions that created the potential for additional fire growth Sunday as they sought to protect remote communities.
The McKinney Fire was burning out of control in Northern California’s Klamath National Forest, with expected thunderstorms a big concern Sunday just south of the Oregon state line, said U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Adrienne Freeman.
“The fuel beds are so dry and they can just erupt from that lightning,” Freeman said. “These thunder cells come with gusty erratic winds that can blow fire in every direction.”
The blaze exploded in size to more than 80 square miles (207 square km) just two days after erupting in a largely unpopulated area of Siskiyou County, according to a Sunday incident report. The cause was under investigation.
The blaze torched trees along California Highway 96, and the scorched remains of a pickup truck sat in a lane of the highway. Thick smoke covered the area and flames burned through hillsides in sight of homes.
A second, smaller fire just to the west that was sparked by dry lightning Saturday threatened the tiny town of Seiad, Freeman said. About 400 structures were under threat from the two California fires. Authorities have not confirmed the extent of the damage yet, saying assessments would begin when it was safe to reach the area.
A third fire, which was on the southwest end of the McKinney blaze, prompted evacuation orders for around 500 homes Sunday, said Courtney Kreider, a spokesperson with the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office. The office said crews had been on the scene of the fire since late Saturday but that the fire Sunday morning “became active and escaped its containment line.”
Several people in the sheriff’s office have been affected by evacuation orders due to the fires “and they’re still showing up to work so, (a) very dedicated crew,” she said. A deputy lost his childhood home to fire on Friday, she said.
As the McKinney fire threatened, some residents chose to stay behind while others heeded orders to leave.
Larry Castle and his wife, Nancy, were among about 2,000 residents of the Yreka area under evacuation orders. They left Saturday with some of their prized possessions, including Larry’s motorcycle, and took their dogs to stay with their daughter near Mount Shasta.
Larry Castle said he wasn’t taking any chances after seeing the explosive growth of major fires in recent years.
“You look back at the Paradise fire and the Santa Rosa fire and you realize this stuff is very, very serious,” he told the Sacramento Bee.
In northwest Montana, a fire sparked in grasslands near the town of Elmo had grown to about 17 square miles (44 square km) after advancing into forest. Crews were working along edges of the fire Sunday, and aircraft were expected to continue to make water and retardant drops to help slow the fire’s advance, said Sara Rouse, a spokesperson with the interagency team assigned to the fire. High temperatures and erratic winds were expected, she said.
A section of Highway 28 between Hot Springs and Elmo that had been closed was reopened with drivers asked to watch for fire and emergency personnel. Visibility in the area was poor, Rouse said.
In Idaho, the Moose Fire in the Salmon-Challis National Forest has burned on more than 75 square miles (196 square km) in timbered land near the town of Salmon. It was 21% contained by Sunday morning. Pila Malolo, planning operations section chief on the fire, said in a Facebook video update that hot, dry conditions were expected to persist Sunday. Officials said they expected fire growth in steep, rugged country on the fire’s south side.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday as the McKinney Fire intensified. The proclamation allows Newsom more flexibility to make emergency response and recovery effort decisions and access federal aid.
California law enforcement knocked on doors in the towns of Yreka and Fort Jones to urge residents to get out and safely evacuate their livestock onto trailers. Automated calls were being sent to land phone lines as well because there were areas without cell phone service.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
The Pacific Coast Trail Association urged hikers to get to the nearest town while the U.S. Forest Service closed a 110-mile (177-km) section of the trail from the Etna Summit to the Mt. Ashland Campground in southern Oregon.
In Hawaii, the Maui County Emergency Management Agency said a brush fire was 90% contained but a red flag warning was in effect for much of Sunday.
And in north Texas, firefighters continued in their effort to contain the 2-week-old, 10 1/2-square-mile (27 1/3-square-kilometer) Chalk Mountain Fire. The crews now report 83% containment of the fire that has destroyed 16 homes and damaged five others about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Fort Worth. No injuries have been reported. | https://fox2now.com/news/national/california-sees-its-largest-2022-fire/ | 2022-08-01T00:16:26Z | https://fox2now.com/news/national/california-sees-its-largest-2022-fire/ | false | 39 |
The Taipei Times bilingual pages are having a makeover, with professionally curated content for both English and Chinese learners of all levels.
With our new partners Ivy English, English OK and others, Taipei Times readers can improve their language studies while keeping abreast of important issues in Taiwan and abroad.
A new departure for us is the addition of a Chinese-language learning module, with content provided by the National Taiwan Normal University “Mandarin Training Center.”
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Europe is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave and wildfires are raging across the Mediterranean. Here’s how climate change drives these events. HOTTER, MORE FREQUENT HEATWAVES Climate change makes heatwaves hotter and more frequent. This is the case for most land regions, and has been confirmed by the UN’s global panel of climate scientists (IPCC). Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities have heated the planet by about 1.2°C since pre-industrial times. That warmer baseline means higher temperatures can be reached during extreme heat events. But other conditions affect heatwaves too. In Europe, atmospheric circulation is an important factor. FINGERPRINTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE To find out
Taiwan named 3rd best place to live for expats (1/3) 全球外派人士最愛台灣第3名（一） A: My company plans to send me to Mexico for one year. B: Congratulations! According to a survey conducted by the InterNations Web site, Mexico is the most desirable location for expatriates. A: How so? B: Respondents rated Mexico for ease of settling in, and for how far their money goes. A: 公司要派我去墨西哥工作一年。 B: 恭喜你，根據「InterNations」網站的調查，這是全球外派人士最愛的地點！ A: 為什麼？ B: 因為在當地定居容易，而且物價低廉。 （Translated by Edward Jones, Taipei Times／台北時報張聖恩）
Taiwan named 3rd best place to live for expats (2/3) 全球外派人士最愛台灣第3名（二） A: Aside from Mexico in the top spot, which other locations are rated highly by expats? B: Indonesia took second place, while Taiwan came in third. Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore also made it into the top 10. A: Why did Taiwan make it onto the list? B: Expats lauded Taiwan for the affordability of its health care, a feeling of safety and for its financial stability. A: 除了第一名的墨西哥，外派人士最愛的地點還有哪些？ B: 第二名是印尼、第三名是台灣，泰國、越南、新加坡也都在前十名。 A: 台灣又是為什麼上榜？ B: 台灣是以醫療服務的可負擔性、安全感、財務穩定而榜上有名。 （Translated by Edward Jones, Taipei Times／台北時報張聖恩）
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Altria's $13B investment in Juul e-cigarettes vaporizes
WASHINGTON — (AP) — Cigarette maker Altria's $13 billion investment in the troubled vaping company Juul has gone up in smoke — now worth less than 5% of its original value as U.S. regulators move to ban its e-cigarettes.
Altria slashed the value of its Juul investment by more than $1.2 billion Thursday, pegging its new value at $450 million as it reported second-quarter earnings. The Marlboro maker had recently valued its stake in the company at a vastly reduced $1.6 billion.
Despite the losses Altria said it would maintain its investment deal with Juul, including an agreement not to market or invest in competing vaping products.
“At this point in the process we’ve chosen not to make any different decisions,” Altria CEO Billy Gifford told industry analysts on a call. “We think the right decision currently is to stay under the non-compete.”
Altria, based in Richmond, Virginia, is Juul’s largest investor with a 35% stake. Altria executives signed the $12.8-billion pact in 2018, betting that Juul’s popular vaping devices presented a lucrative alternate to tobacco products.
Last month, however, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to ban the small cartridge-based e-cigarettes, saying Juul had failed to provide key information about potentially harmful chemicals in its nicotine formula. The decision surprised industry observers and experts given that the FDA has authorized several competing e-cigarettes and Juul spent years gathering data to support its application.
In yet another twist to the company's fortunes, the FDA reopened its review of Juul's application earlier this month after a federal court blocked the ban from immediately taking effect. For now, Juul is able to continue selling its products while the FDA review continues.
The Juul decision is part of a sweeping FDA review of all U.S. e-cigarettes aimed at eliminating those that haven’t been shown to help smokers reduce or quit smoking.
Juul rocketed to the top of the U.S. vaping market five years ago on the popularity of flavors including mango, mint and creme brulee. But the company’s rise was fueled by underage use among teenagers who became hooked on Juul’s high-nicotine pods.
Since 2019, the company has been in retreat: halting all U.S. advertising, discontinuing most of its flavors and rebranding itself as a product for older smokers looking to switch from traditional cigarettes.
The financial hit to Juul contributed to a nearly 60% drop in Altria's quarterly earnings of 49 cents per share.
Excluding Juul and other one-time expenses the company’s adjusted earnings were $1.26 per share, just ahead of Wall Street estimates. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research expected earnings of $1.25 per share.
Net revenue slid nearly 6% to $6.5 billion due to lower sales of cigarettes and other core products. The company brand's include Parliament and Marlboro cigarettes, Black and Mild cigars and Skoal chewing tobacco.
Altria, the nation's largest cigarette maker, has been attempting to diversify its product offerings into vaping and nicotine pouches as traditional tobacco use continues to fade.
Smoking has been declining for more than five decades. Some 42% of U.S. adults smoked in the early 1960s. That was down to less than 13% in the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
For the full-year Altria said it expects earnings in the range of $4.79 to $4.93 per share.
Shares of Altria Group Inc. were essentially flat in early trading Thursday.
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The Gray Man: What To Watch If You Liked The Ryan Gosling Action Thriller
By Philip Sledge published
So, you've finished The Gray Man and want more thrilling action movies and shows? Look no further...
In July 2022, Joe and Anthony Russo released one of flashiest and most expensive Netflix productions to date with the star-studded and white-knuckled action thriller The Gray Man. The movie, which stars Ryan Gosling as a CIA black ops assassin being chased by his own agency and the mustached madman played by Chris Evans, has consistently been one of the most popular 2022 Netflix movies since making its debut, and fans just can’t seem to get enough.
But before the eventual sequel and spinoff come out at some point in the future, we’re all going to need to find a way to spend the time before we pick back up with The Gray Man cast (or what’s left of it). One way we can go about this is to watch other titles that have at least one thing in common with one of the biggest new movies of the year. Here are a just few of the best options…
Drive (Amazon Rental)
An unnamed stunt driver (Ryan Gosling) who also works as a getaway driver in Los Angeles finds himself in a delicate situation after a job involving his neighbor’s ex-convict husband (Oscar Isaac) goes terribly wrong.
Similar to Ryan Gosling’s Court Gentry in The Gray Man, his ice-cold character in Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 neo-noir thriller, Drive, is the very definition of calm, cool, and collected even in the most dangerous of situations. But, also like his CIA mercenary on the run in his latest movie, his driver also has a soft spot for children in need.
Rent/Buy Drive on Amazon. (opens in new tab)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Disney+)
Following the events of The Avengers, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) experiences an immense change when he realizes that not only is his long-lost friend, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), not actually dead but he’s a brainwashed super-soldier serving as a deadly assassin.
One of the best Marvel movies to date, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a pivotal point in the MCU as “The First Avenger” learns who he can and can’t trust, especially within S.H.I.E.L.D. On top of the similarities in story, the 2014 movie also marked the first time Chris Evans worked with the Russo Brothers, though his character’s demeanor couldn’t be more different.
Stream Captain America: The Winter Soldier on Disney+. (opens in new tab)
Rent/Buy Captain America: The Winter Soldier on Amazon. (opens in new tab)
No Time To Die (Prime Video)
Years after leaving her majesty’s secret service, a.k.a. active duty, James Bond (Daniel Craig) is enjoying his retirement in peace and quiet. When Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) makes an unexpected visit to ask for help, though, 007 once again finds himself on a mission that could very well be his last.
The No Time to Die cast is full of tremendous actors from top to bottom, with one of the standouts being Ana de Armas’ CIA agent, Paloma, who provides one of the best sequences of the movie. If you liked de Armas in The Gray Man, then you’ll love her here, even if she doesn’t have as much screen time.
Stream No Time to Die on Prime Video. (opens in new tab)
Rent/Buy No Time to Die on Amazon. (opens in new tab)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Paramount+)
In an attempt to stop the terrorist organization known as the Apostles, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the rest of his IMF team join forces with CIA agent August Walker (Henry Cavill) as they search for three plutonium cores the group plans to use to destroy three holy cities.
You could technically watch any of the Mission: Impossible movies to get your spy thriller fix, but the sixth installment, 2018’s Fallout, is probably your best best. There are over-the-top action sequences and fights (including a ridiculous scene involving a plane), double-crossing, and a mustached and psychotic villain in what has to be one of the best action movies of all time.
Stream Mission: Impossible - Fallout on Paramount+. (opens in new tab)
Rent/Buy Mission: Impossible - Fallout on Amazon. (opens in new tab)
Jack Ryan (Prime Video)
Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) is a former United States Marine working as an analyst with the CIA, far from the action. But when he connects some questionable bank transactions to a terrorist organization, he’s thrown into field duty and is never the same.
The Amazon original series, Jack Ryan, features a younger and less experienced CIA analyst and one of the better interpretations of Tom Clancy’s most famous character. With plenty of action, suspense, and fulfilling narratives throughout its first two seasons, there’s a lot to enjoy by The Gray Man fans.
Stream Jack Ryan on Prime Video. (opens in new tab)
Extraction (Netflix)
Hardened mercenary Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is hired to find and rescue Ovi Mahajan Jr. (Rudraksh Jaiswal), the kidnapped son of a prolific Indian crime lord. What first appears to be a simple operation turns into something more complicated as the truth begins to unfold.
Written by The Gray Man co-director Joe Russo, the 2020 Netflix movie, Extraction is a fun, loud, and messy thriller, that finds that balance between explosive action, heart, and humor, creating an all-around fun and worthwhile experience.
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The Raid 2 (HBO Max)
Immediately after he and an elite force take out a Jakarta crime boss, Rama (Iko Uwais) is sent on another mission. The only difference this time is he will be forced to go undercover to infiltrate a vast criminal operation from the inside.
Gareth Evans’ 2014 crime epic, The Raid 2, takes what its predecessor started and turns it up a few notches. Similar to The Gray Man, this instant classic is massive in scope and features some of the most hard-hitting and eye-catching fight sequences of the past decade. It’s just a bummer it looks like The Raid 3 isn’t going to happen.
Stream The Raid 2 on HBO Max. (opens in new tab)
Rent/Buy The Raid 2 on Amazon. (opens in new tab)
Homeland (Showtime)
CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) is tasked with investigating decorated United States Marine Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), who was captured and possibly turned against his country by a terrorist organization. Matters only get more complicated from there.
Like The Gray Man, the Showtime original series, Homeland, is full of espionage, back-channel deals, and untrustworthy characters. With eight seasons, it’s going to take a considerable amount of time to watch the award-winning series, but it’s perfect for fans of the genre.
Stream Homeland on Showtime. (opens in new tab)
Buy Homeland on Amazon. (opens in new tab)
John Wick (Peacock)
After a group of young criminals with connections to a Russian crime syndicate in New York City make the mistake of killing John Wick’s (Keanu Reeves) puppy, which was a gift from his dead wife, and steal his car, the legendary assassin comes out of retirement and turns the criminal underworld on its head.
All of the John Wick movies should be watched, especially with the fourth installment on the way, but this is the best place to start, obviously. If you liked the stylish fights and action sequences of The Gray Man, wait until you see what Mr. Wick can do behind a gun and any other weapon.
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Enemy Of The State (Amazon Rental)
Washington, D.C. Attorney Robert Dean (Will Smith) finds himself the most-wanted man by the NSA after an old college buddy hands him a disc containing video of the agency’s chief, Thomas Reynolds (Jon Voight), murdering a member of congress.
Tony Scott’s Enemy of the State is one of the movies on this list with the most in common with The Gray Man considering they both center on characters who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and become part of an agency’s attempt to sweep the mess under the rug.
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The Night Manager (Prime Video)
Former British soldier and current Cairo luxury hotel night manager Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) is tasked with bringing down one of the world’s premier arms dealers, Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie), kicking off an epic and deadly turn of events.
Although it isn’t as sensational or over-the-top as The Gray Man, the 2016 limited series, The Night Manager, packs quite a punch. If you are fascinated by seedy government agencies, loud personalities, and great action, then look no further.
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The King’s Man (Hulu / HBO Max)
In an effort to prevent a mysterious group of terrorists from thrusting the world into the most devastating war of all time, Orlando Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) puts together a team of spies to prevent the unthinkable from happening.
Matthew Vaughn’s 2021 spy action film, The King’s Man, serves up a great prequel to his Kingsman franchise as well as being a tremendous World War I thriller with its fair share of historical figures. If stylized and unique fight scenes are your thing, this is a great movie to check out.
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Each of these titles have a least one thing in common with The Gray Man, but these aren’t the only movies and shows that should be watched by fans of the Russo brothers’ latest effort. It also wouldn’t hurt to check out classics like Clear and Present Danger, Three Days of the Condor, or Heat for one reason or another.
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Army helicopters have been deployed in Madagascar to search for a criminal gang that killed at least 32 people by setting fire to their homes.
The police said the people were forced inside three thatched houses that were then set ablaze.
Women and children were among the victims of Friday’s attack in Ankazobe district north of the capital, Antananarivo.
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The defence minister blamed cattle rustlers known locally as “dahalo”.
Cattle theft – and the efforts to stop it – have led to extremely violent confrontations in recent years.
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Sydney Tina Turner show seeks the best
The hit musical Tina, based on the life story of rock star Tina Turner, will hit the stage in Australia with a local cast and crew.
UK producers have already held round one of auditions in Sydney for the demanding lead role, according to promoter Paul Dainty.
"We're very optimistic we'll find some great Tinas," he told AAP.
"There's been a few in London because you need a few. We're very confident that we'll have a dynamite cast."
The show premiered in the British capital in 2018 and went on to break box-office records.
Known as the Queen of rock 'n' roll, Tina Turner has sold more than 100 million records and collected 12 Grammy awards.
Having grown up in an abusive household and escaped a violent marriage to her first husband and musical partner Ike Turner, she achieved international stardom as a solo performer in her forties with the smash-hit Private Dancer album in 1984.
Mr Dainty got involved in the musical project seven years ago - before there was a script or signed contracts with the star - believing Tina Turner's life story would make for a hit show when combined with her songs.
"You laugh together, you cry together, you get emotional and hear these amazing songs woven through the show, which not many musicals are able to deliver," he said.
Tina Turner has a long connection with Australia, having first toured the country in the 1970s.
She starred alongside Mel Gibson in the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1985, while her hit song The Best has soundtracked memorable National Rugby League campaigns.
"Australia has always shared abundant love with me ... It is very special for me that we will be reunited," Tina Turner said in a statement released on Monday.
"The joy, passion and message of resilience in my musical is so important now as ever.
"Thank you from the bottom my heart for welcoming me with open arms once again."
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Ramps up for Further Southeast Asia Expansion Following Partnership with Industry Leader Luen Thai and Launch of State-of-the-Art NTX™ Cooltrans™ Facility in Cambodia
SHANGHAI and SINGAPORE, July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NTX™, a global textile technology leader, announced the completion of nearly 200 million US dollars in a C2 round of financing led by Centurium Capital, with additional contributions from existing shareholder NRL Capital. Index Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. The funds will be used to fund operational needs to meet the rapidly rising demand of the expanding customer base.
The funding was secured after the company successfully became a preferred supplier to global international brands such as Adidas. The company also demonstrated continued expansion of its textile manufacturing ecosystem developed around the waterless coloration technology - NTX™ Cooltrans™.
Gary Liu, Managing Director of Centurium Capital, commented: "Through its proprietary dyeing technology, NTX™ brought about revolutionary innovation to the global textile supply chain, effectively solving the long-standing pain points of traditional textile manufacturing of high water and energy consumption and pollution. In addition, NTX adds significant value to the industry by helping improve their production efficiency and service capabilities. With ESG as an integral part of our 'invest to transform' investment thesis, we look forward to a long-term partnership with NTX to make positive contributions to the sustainable development of the global textile supply chain. "
NTX™ has revolutionized the textile industry by introducing NTX™ Cooltrans™, a breakthrough waterless dyeing & printing system that delivers up to 90% in water savings, alongside dramatic reduction in energy usage and virtual elimination of water waste. With NTX™ Cooltrans™ as a foundation, the company has established a Southeast Asia-based ecosystem of textile processing plants to become the next generation sustainable eco- friendly supply chain partner for some of the world's biggest fashion and apparel brands.
NTX™ functions as a complete environmentally friendly textile processing solution provider by putting in place best practices, technical expertise, staff training, raw material sourcing and market opportunities across its ecosystem.
Kalvin Chung, Chairman and Co-founder of NTX™, commented, "We welcome the latest round of funding and we're excited about the future of NTX™. Over the years we've seen NTX™ Cooltrans™ mature into a solution that satisfies and exceeds the requirements of some of the most demanding global brands in the marketplace. Just as important, has been the development of our business models that today give us a clear path to scale up NTX™ into a global supply chain solution provider."
The funding is especially pertinent as the textile industry has recently seen a slew of announcements regarding green initiatives across the globe. Some of the key initiatives include:
- The European Commission's EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles that includes textile waste legislation which will take effect by 2025.
- The Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action updated in 2021 features ambitious goals of dramatically scaling down greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and includes signatories such as Adidas, Nike, Gap and countless other global brands.
- A host of initiatives have also arisen in South East Asian countries exemplified by Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) setting a 2030 goal of reducing energy consumption by 15% and water consumption by 20%.
In aggregate, all of these initiatives have set a stage for textile businesses that either completely re-engineer their processes with green solutions or become obsolete in terms of global competitiveness.
NTX™ Expands Presence in Southeast Asian Market via Partnership with Global Textile Manufacturing Leader Luen Thai
In recent years, the Southeast Asian market has seen tremendous growth as it continues to establish itself as a global supplier of manufactured goods. Most striking examples are the record growth of exports in Vietnam by 48.2% in March of this year contributing to Vietnam's total exports for the quarter equaling US$88.58 billion. Other Southeast Asian countries have also risen one after another, and they are expecting to accelerate development even further boosted by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The free trade agreement is set to further strengthen business ties across Asia and positions the Southeast Asian members including Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and Cambodia - countries with NTX™ presence - to serve as ideal supply chain bases for global clothing and apparel markets.
In response to this trend, NTX™ has doubled down on establishing a strong presence in Southeast Asia where a textile production cluster continues to blossom and attract the right talent and support systems to service global demand. Its most recent joint venture with Luen Thai under the name Luentech Textiles Solutions (LTS) has already resulted in a new state-of-the-art NTX™ Cooltrans™ facility to expand production capacity and satisfy growing demand for green textile supply chain partners. The facility is the first of its kind to be designed entirely around the newest iteration of its waterless coloration technology. The launch of the new plant also aligns with the Kingdom of Cambodia's drive to diversify and modernize its textile industry.
Every aspect of the new facility was designed around NTX™ Cooltrans™, meaning it incorporates all the sustainable eco-friendly factors that the solution provides. NTX™ Cooltrans™ integrates pre and post treatment processes delivering significant savings in energy consumption. The up to 90% reduction in water use is an especially meaningful aspect of NTX™ Cooltrans™. Cambodia is working hard on improving the environmental impact of its manufacturing sector. The significantly reduced water consumption of NTX™ Cooltrans™ waterless technology means that these facilities can operate in environments where water comes at a premium.
NTX™ is focused on a long term strategy of transforming the South East Asian textile industry into a high technology focused hub. Plants and mills that form the NTX™ ecosystem are fast becoming renowned as operations that are exemplary for eco-friendly practices, sustainability, and respectful employee working conditions. This is in line with the vision NTX™ has set at its inception and it is perfectly aligned with the requirements that are increasingly in demand by global brands operating in the European Union, the United States and Asia-Pacific regions.
NTX™ Solution Addresses Key Issues with the Printing and Dyeing Phase of Textile Production
The printing and dyeing phase of textile manufacturing is the bottleneck of the global textile and apparel supply chain. Companies that provide these services are under extreme pressure to deliver in a timely manner the endless designs that are requested by the big international apparel brands. The slightest change in design, material, or finish require an overhaul of the production process causing delays, issues with output quality or consistency. Traditional systems consist of non-standardized production processes that rely heavily on skilled labor often working under agonizing and unsafe conditions. It's a system that depends on having excessive amounts of ready to use inventory of raw materials, generates excessive waste, and requires large capitalization. Furthermore, according to a European Parliament led study the textile industry is responsible for 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, while a study from International Labor Organization found that up to 36% of those emissions came from the dyeing, printing and finishing steps in the process. In short, dyeing and printing is ripe for technological disruption due its technical shortcomings and environmental impact. NTX™and its waterless coloration technology NTX™ Cooltrans™ provides a proven path forward.
NTX™ Cooltrans™ technology and the corresponding production ecosystem addresses all of these issues. It can execute designs precisely and consistently across all materials, within its ecosystem facilities. This eliminates waste generated by quality and consistency issues. It also makes the system agile and able to scale up or down capacity across the plants. The efficiency improvements of NTX™ Cooltrans™ can result in a shortened delivery cycle of finished products by 30 to 50%. NTX™ Cooltrans™ is both accurate & precise at dye transfer and color fixation, which lead to substantial energy and water savings. The state- of-the-art machinery requires less labor and provides safe, ergonomic working conditions. It is a prime example of the technologies necessary to implement environmental protection strategies arising across the globe.
NTX™ Management Team has the Experience, Industry Expertise, and Global Scope to Elevate NTX™ to new Global Leadership Heights
The management team of NTX™ has a rich background in the textile industry complemented by experience in the world's top 500 enterprises.
- Chairman Kalvin Chung is the core technical soul of the company, developing revolutionary and innovative cold transfer printing and dyeing technologies, while guiding the R&D direction for the group.
- The General Manager of Strategic Development Center, Allen Lai, has developed the textile business in the Asia-Pacific region of the Bayer Group and is now responsible for supply chain development and joint venture planning.
- Ryosuke Chono, head of business development for casual wear brands, is a former executive of Japan's Toray Group.
- David Yeh, head of Thailand's LP Group, is the current CEO of NTSG.
- Peter Decorte, Puma's former Sr. Production Head in Asia, and also former CEO of Tong Siang Textiles, is responsible for the global brand fabric supply chain operations.
- Jeffrey Hsu, Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer, has worked with well-known textile enterprises across Europe, the United States, and Asia. He is responsible for the development, marketing and sales of the group's innovative material applications with global apparel brands.
The leadership team has a proven track record of innovation and business development. NTX™ has already obtained over 100 patents for NTX™ Cooltrans™. It has established valuable partnerships and built up a next generation supply chain ecosystem that is ready for the requirements of the decades to come.
Bolstered by the revolutionary breakthrough in printing and dyeing technology, NTX™ became an Adidas certified supplier and established a global supply chain of apparel fabrics for several international brands. NTX™ continues to establish cooperation with a number of leading textile and garment enterprises, and provides services for dozens of leading international clothing brands. As the world of textile production evolves and new environmental requirements, resource and energy use constraints, and business practice demands are revealed, NTX™ has shown to have a comprehensive leading edge to meet the challenges ahead.
About NTX™
NTX™ is committed to creating revolutionary textile solutions through continuous research and innovation that are ecologically and economically sustainable. We are driven to achieve a zero-waste benchmark by conserving energy, reducing and eliminating water use, while never compromising performance or functionality. Our automated and modularizable system solutions allow for local-to-local production, further shortening lead times and cutting down on transportation emissions. Cost is often the unmentionable C word for sustainability, NTX™ believes that sustainability and economics must go hand-in-hand to materialize clean eco-conscious solutions into reality. For more information on NTX™, please visit www.ntx.global
About Centurium Capital
Centurium Capital is a leading private equity investment firm in China and primarily focuses on investing in China's healthcare, technology, consumer and business services sectors. As a transformational capital provider with a focus on business model innovation and resolving structural deficiencies to unlock growth potential, Centurium pursues a hands-on and operations-centric investment approach to drive value creation and generate long term shareholder value. For more information on Centurium Capital, please visit www.centurium.com
About Luen Thai
Sustainable shared success through reinvention drives Luen Thai and makes it an eXtraOrdinary Company. We are a global leader in apparel and accessories manufacturing and in sustainable fashion technology. We are committed to give the best care to our people, communities, and the environment in all our locations. Luen Thai believes that cooperation resulting from working towards sustainable shared success with our stakeholders: shareholders, customers, suppliers, employees, and local communities, will create more positive and lasting benefits to end-consumers, the industry, and the world. At the forefront of our reinvention are quality, speed, flexibility, sustainability, and cost.
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CHESAPEAKE CITY, Md. (AP) — A Maryland auction house has sold a wristwatch that once belonged to Adolf Hitler for $1.1 million.
Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City had estimated the value between $2 and $4 million, describing the watch as a “World War II relic of historic proportions.”
News outlets report that Jewish leaders and others objected to the sale this week, saying it had little to no historical value.
The auction house's president, Bill Panagopulos, defended the auction and said the buyer is a European Jew.
The watch features the initials AH and a swastika. The auction house said a French soldier who was in the first unit to close in on Hitler in May 1945 at his Berchtesgaden retreat seized it as spoils of war. | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Hitler-s-watch-sells-at-Maryland-auction-for-1-1-17341819.php | 2022-08-01T00:38:21Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Hitler-s-watch-sells-at-Maryland-auction-for-1-1-17341819.php | true | null |
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A traveller got a terrific fright unpacking her suitcase after a holiday in Croatia when she discovered 18 live scorpions.
The Austrian woman returned home to Natternbach, in Upper Austria, on Saturday before she found the family of scorpions; a mother and her babies.
Uncertain what to do with the creatures, she contacted Tierhilfe Gusental, an Austrian animal rescue service, on July 23.
Tierhilfe Gusental posted on Facebook to confirm the animals had been safely handed into their care.
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Advertise with NZME."Stowaways have nested in the luggage of their Croatia trip. More precisely, a scorpion with cubs," the post read in German.
The woman had recently been on holiday in the Adriatic country, where scorpions made their way into her suitcase.
"They are currently in the Linz animal shelter until they make their return journey," read a Facebook post from the Austrian rescue centre, which thanked the caller for reporting her find.
As unusual as this seems, it is the third time in less than 12 months and the second time this summer someone from Upper Austria has reported finding scorpions in their house following a trip to Croatia.
Fortunately, the scorpions posed little harm to the woman.
According to the National Geographic, there are almost 2000 species of scorpion known to man. However, only about 40 are poisonous enough to kill humans.
The venom from a scorpion sting can be very dangerous and cause breathing difficulties, bleeding, redness, itching, swelling and severe pain.
Fortunately, scorpions from Croatia, and particularly along the Adriatic coast where many travellers spend their holidays, are not venomous enough to be lethal.
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Advertise with NZME.According to a locals, scorpions are comon in Croatia, but don't pose a serious threat.
"Scorpions are ugly but really there is no danger if you see them," said a resident from Zagreb. "Do not kill scorpions because they are a protected species in Croatia.
"Scorpions are very common on the coast and they tend to come in the houses as well," added another.
"However, they are small and basically harmless, I see them regularly when cleaning around my house in Zadar." | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/austrian-woman-finds-18-scorpions-in-suitcase-after-trip-to-croatia/L7UMEMTNVIDYJSKAZG43Y7S3CE/ | 2022-08-01T00:39:48Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/austrian-woman-finds-18-scorpions-in-suitcase-after-trip-to-croatia/L7UMEMTNVIDYJSKAZG43Y7S3CE/ | true | 2 |
WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 31, 2022
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ISLAMABAD: In order to save Pakistan State Oil (PSO) from default, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet approved the clearance of the “outstanding payments accumulated during the tenure of the previous government and approved an amount of Rs30 billion as supplementary grant”.
A statement issued by Finance Division said that the decision was taken in a meeting, chaired by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, at its office.
The Finance Division said the “Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) had submitted a summary on SOS call for funds for Pakistan State Oil Company Ltd. (PSOCL) to meet international contractual payments during 1-14 August, 2022.”
“For the smooth continuity of oil and gas national supply chain and avoid PSO from being default on international payments, the ECC decided to clear the outstanding payments accumulated during the period of previous government and approved an amount of Rs 30 billion as supplementary grant for PSO receivables”.
The ECC also directed Petroleum Division to work out options in consultation with OGRA for setting up petroleum product prices within a week.
“The ECC also directed Finance Division and FBR to submit a proposal for generation of Rs30 billion through taxes, within a week,” said the statement. | https://arynews.tv/ecc-grant-pso-default/ | 2022-08-01T01:16:41Z | https://arynews.tv/ecc-grant-pso-default/ | false | 1 |
Fire crews continue to spray hotspots at Old Marina Restaurant in Puslinch, Ont.
The day after a devastating fire consumed the Old Marina Restaurant in Puslinch, Ont., fire crews remained on scene Sunday, spraying water on the smouldering ruins of the historic building.
“We’re using an agent in the water right now that’s hopefully going to get the water closer to the seat of the fire,” Puslinch Fire Department Chief Tom Mulvey said.
Mulvey said it’s still too dangerous to go inside and investigate into how the fire started, although it’s believed to have originated in the basement.
He said the building will have to be completely demolished before that work can be completed.
“There’s a large amount of debris that’s fallen into the basement including the steel roof which is making [it] very difficult for us to get to the seat of the fire so we continue to look for hotspots,” he said.
Crews were first called to the blaze around 12:45 p.m. Saturday.
The building is being considered a total loss.
The Old Marina Restaurant and Gift House was built in 1993. It was destroyed in a fire in 2005 before reopening again in 2007.
Previously, the property was home to a dance hall and a hotel.
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LAHORE (NNI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Sunday discussed about the formation of the Punjab Cabinet and other issues.
On reaching Lahore, former prime minister Imran Khan called on CM Elahi and discussed the maters related to mutual interests and political situation of the province.
According to details the PTI Chief congratulated CM Elahi on the ouster of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz-led government. The CM and PTI Chief discussed the political situation and matters pertaining to providing relief to the people of Punjab.
The CM informed Imran Khan about the relief package announced for the flood-affected families of Punjab. The PTI Chief ordered the CM to do his best to provide relief to flood-affected people. Sources said that several names from the coalition parties, PTI and PML-Q, have been shortlisted for the Punjab cabinet portfolios. It is learnt that Raja Basharat will likely get the portfolio of the law ministry, Murad Raas will be given education ministry, Yasmin Rashid is likely to get the health ministry while Hashim Jawan Bakht’s name has been finalized for finance ministry. Moreover, Fawad Chaudhry is likely to get the portfolio of the home minister, said sources.
Mian Aslam Iqbal, Mian Mehmood ur Rasheed, Chaudhry Zaheer ud Din, Hafiz Muhammad Mumtaz, Samiulllah Chaudhry, Sardar Asif, Hafiz Ammar Yasir, Yasir Humayun Raja, Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Taimur Khan Bhatti, and Murad Raas will also get ministerial slots in the Punjab cabinet.
Furthermore, Muhammad Abdullah Waraich, Muhammad Rizwan, Sajid Ahmed Khan, Ahsan ul Haq Chaudhry, and Khadija Omar will be added to the provincial cabinet as ministers. Earlier, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan Sunday reached Lahore to hold meetings with the party MPAs and Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Illahi who briefed him about the administrative affairs of the province. | https://thefrontierpost.com/imran-khan-cm-pervaiz-elahi-finalise-punjab-cabinet-names/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=imran-khan-cm-pervaiz-elahi-finalise-punjab-cabinet-names | 2022-08-01T01:31:29Z | https://thefrontierpost.com/imran-khan-cm-pervaiz-elahi-finalise-punjab-cabinet-names/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=imran-khan-cm-pervaiz-elahi-finalise-punjab-cabinet-names | false | 1 |
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The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling a scalp spray because it contains trace amounts of benzene, a chemical which can cause cancer with repeated exposure.
Edgewell Personal Care Co. announced the voluntary recall Friday. It said benzene was detected in internal reviews of Banana Boat Hair and Scalp Spray SPF 30.
Three batches of the spray are included in the recall, with lot codes 20016AF, 20084BF and 21139AF. Edgewell said no other batches of this spray, and no other Banana Boat products, are included in the recall.
Edgewell didn’t say how many cans it is recalling. The Associated Press left a message with the company seeking comment.
Shelton, Connecticut-based Edgewell said it hasn’t received any reports of adverse events related to the recall. The company has directed retailers to remove the spray from their shelves. It’s also offering to reimburse customers who have already bought the product.
The recall comes a little over a year after Johnson & Johnson recalled five sunscreens because they were found to contain benzene. That recall included Aveeno and Neutrogena products in aerosol cans. | https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/banana-boat-recalls-scalp-sunscreen-spray-cancer-risk-87729136 | 2022-08-01T01:34:48Z | https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/banana-boat-recalls-scalp-sunscreen-spray-cancer-risk-87729136 | true | 20 |
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MANILA: When President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivered his first speech as the newly elected leader of the Philippines at the end of June, he touched on the country’s massive plastic problem.
The Southeast Asian nation was ranked third in the world for failing to deal with its plastic, according to a widely cited 2015 study by the University of Georgia. The Philippines generates about 2.7 million metric tons of plastic garbage annually, 20 percent of which ends up in the ocean.
“We too have our part to play; we are the third biggest plastics polluter in the world,” Marcos had said.
“But we won’t shirk from that responsibility; we will clean up.”
The plastic problem has only grown more recently, with a 2021 study published in the Science Advances journal identifying the Philippines as the largest contributor of plastic waste that ends up in the world’s oceans, emitting more than 356,000 metric tons each year.
Every day, almost 48 million shopping bags are used throughout the Philippines, adding up to about 17.5 billion pieces a year, according to a report by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
In a world grappling with the increasingly devastating impacts of climate change, there has been a renewed urgency to address the plastic crisis in the Philippines.
“The Philippines has a massive plastic pollution problem at the moment, and it’s been a long while coming,” Marian Ledesma, Greenpeace Philippines’ zero waste campaigner, told Arab News.
“It is essential that we act on the plastic crisis right away,” she said. “We need government action as well as the action of large corporations to really shift the tide.”
The Philippines could start by implementing existing laws, Ledesma said, such as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, which critics say has been poorly enforced over the last two decades.
It is also important to reduce the production of single-use plastic and for the government to adopt complementary policies that would help businesses transition to reuse and refill systems, Ledesma added.
Under a new law known as the Extended Producer Responsibility Act, large companies are required to adopt and implement policies for the proper management of plastic packaging wastes, paving a regulatory pathway for the Philippines to combat its plastic pollution problem seriously.
Many environmental groups in the Philippines campaigned to raise more awareness across the country during Plastic Free July, a global movement aimed at real actions to end plastic waste.
Thony Dizon, a chemical safety campaigner with BAN Toxics, told Arab News that finding a solution to the crisis is crucial.
“We really need to address this, we have to find a solution,” Dizon said. “We need action.”
At the individual level, Filipinos should reduce the usage of single-use plastic and switch to alternative materials, such as canvas bags, and bring reusable containers when buying fillable products.
“These are some of the ways to reduce the volume or use of single-use plastic,” Dizon said. “It reaches the main goal, which is to lessen the production and lessen the consumption and throwing away of plastic.”
Plastic waste also contributes to flooding in the Philippines as it clogs drains, he said. Not only does such waste end up in our oceans, but it could also affect our food sources.
Some local governments have moved faster to combat plastic pollution. Quezon City, for example, has banned plastic bags and single-use plastic.
“That’s because they have seen the effects of the problem,” Dizon said. “They have experienced the problem — flooding because of plastic.”
The plastic problem spiraled further during the COVID-19 pandemic as people’s consumption patterns shifted to adapt to life under lockdown and reliance on online deliveries for food and groceries turned into a new normal.
“The pandemic has reshaped people’s shopping behavior,” Dizon said.
“We thought that during the pandemic there would be less volume of plastic waste, but that’s not what happened. Plastic wrappers and packaging from online deliveries added to the problem.”
Filipino lawmakers like Senator Loren Legarda are among those renewing calls to tackle the growing crisis. In July, she pushed for a bill to regulate single-use plastic.
“The plastic crisis we face right now calls for a rethinking of our approaches to our governance and market systems and operations,” Legarda said in a statement.
Though adopting more sustainable practices is important, Legarda said Filipinos also “need to continue demanding more effective policies and solutions” to help address plastic pollution.
Despite calls from environmental groups to highlight the plastic crisis, the issue did not make it to President Marcos’ first state of the nation address in July, which lays out the government’s agenda for the next year.
But in a comprehensive policy speech that outlines plans for growth and development, the 64-year-old leader spoke of the Philippines’ vulnerability to climate change.
“If we cannot mitigate climate change, all our plans for the economy, all our plans for our future, will be for naught,” he said. | https://www.arabnews.com/node/2133421/world | 2022-08-01T01:50:09Z | https://www.arabnews.com/node/2133421/world | false | 4 |
The confrontation between Corinthians and Vasco for the Brazilian Under-20 Championship this Sunday had two completely different stages. A disappointing first half, with very few plays created and a lot of marking. It was all to the end. In addition to the Pelé style attempt by Ray, in a shot from midfield cover, the last minutes were electrifying with Arthur’s goal, from Corinthians, at 36, and the tie that practically guaranteed Vasco’s classification for the quarterfinals at 46 minutes.
Corinthians, with 14 points, will have to decide the spot in the last round against Chapecoense, at CT Água Amarela, next Sunday, at 15h. The team from São Januário, with 15, will face Bragantino, in Nivaldão, at the same time.
Corinthians could not hold back the victory that would guarantee classification against Vasco at Parque São Jorge — Photo: Rodrigo Gazzanel/Corinthians
In order for Vasco not to qualify, a combination of results is needed with victories by Santos, Corinthians and Internacional, the latter of which needs to take a difference of 14 goals. The Parque São Jorge team qualifies with a win or even a draw in the last round, depending on the other results.
– It was not the result we wanted, but we will try to get the three points in the next game. It’s keeping your head up,” said Arthur.
The first half started and ended warmly, with no clear chances for either side and the emphasis was only on the strength of the teams in the midfield. Corinthians got a shot that could lead to danger in the eighth minute, with Caíque, who cleared the mark and hit crookedly.
The home team started to have a little more offensive impetus, pressing Vasco’s ball out, but also couldn’t create. In stoppage time, Paixão had Vasco’s best chance in the first half, but the header left without direction after a cross from the left.
In the first moments, it was possible to notice an improvement in the game in the final stage, with greater movement of the teams and more spaces opening up. Vasco started to impose a touch of the ball with greater speed and started to take a certain advantage in the midfield. In the 17th minute, Ray, almost from the midfield line, tried a shot for coverage, but goalkeeper Cauê, attentive, tapped for a corner.
In Corinthians’ best chance so far, in the 28th minute, Biro received in the area, fell, missed the opportunity and earned a yellow card for simulation. But the goal would come next: in the 33rd minute, Leo Maná made a good move through the middle and played for Arthur, who protected well and placed it between Cadu’s legs.
But the hosts ended up retreating after the goal. Vasco grew, returned to touch the ball at speed, and reached the tie in the 46th minute. Pimentel received at the entrance of the area, played for Rodrigo to cross to GB, with the side of the foot, play for the net: 1 to 1.
– We wanted to start a very strong game. The game in the first half was below what I expected from both teams. Spaces increased in the second half. We asked to increase the approach and speed in the exchange of passes to be able to open these spaces – analyzed Igor Guerra, Vasco’s coach. | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/08/01/vasco-draws-at-the-end-with-corinthians-and-is-very-close-to-the-quarterfinals-in-the-brasileirao-sub-20-brazilian-under-20/ | 2022-08-01T01:53:39Z | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/08/01/vasco-draws-at-the-end-with-corinthians-and-is-very-close-to-the-quarterfinals-in-the-brasileirao-sub-20-brazilian-under-20/ | false | 1 |
Researchers tagging tiger sharks off the southern coast of Belize couldn't believe their eyes when they recently reeled in a different kind of fish. It turned out to be a Greenland shark, which is typically found in the Arctic and can live to be over 500 years old.
The team of scientists thought the shark was dead when they finally hauled it to the surface. Unlike the tiger sharks they were after, this particular shark had black, worn-looking skin and pale blue eyes. Devanshi Kasana, a Ph.D. candidate at the Florida International University Predator Ecology and Conservation lab, said the shark looked "really, really old."
"It was just very surprising and confusing," she said. "As soon as it entered our field of vision, we saw a black figure that was getting bigger and bigger. When it came to the surface, none of the crew with all of their combined fishing experience had seen anything like that."
Kasana and colleagues published an article on the capture in the journal Marine Biology in July.
Kasana said the discovery is especially exciting because it suggests that these sharks, which were thought to mainly exist in the Arctic, can be found in the tropics as well.
Greenland sharks can likely live to be more than 500 years old
Scientists have more questions than answers when it comes the Greenland shark. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, these sharks are the longest-living vertebrates on the planet, living possibly more than 500 years. And that's just an estimate, because there's no definite way of determining their age.
The reason they live to be so old may have something to do with their speed of life, which is slow — very, very slow. Greenland sharks grow approximately one-third of an inch per year and can grow to more than 20 feet in length. And researchers believe the sharks don't reach sexual maturity until sometime after the first 100 years of their life.
According to Kasana, some scientists have theorized that the Greenland shark can be found across the globe, if one knows where to look. They love cold water, which is why they're found in the Arctic. However, they've also been discovered as far south as off the coast of Georgia, thousands of feet beneath the ocean surface.
The theory is that the closer the sharks are to the equator, the deeper researchers have to go to find them. And they go deep, over 7,000 feet down, according to NOAA.
The catch was unexpected
Kasana said their catch was strictly accidental. On April 22, she and her team were working with members of the Belizean shark fishing community and the Belize Fisheries Department to set lines along Glovers Reef, located about 30 miles off the coast. The waters of the reef can be as shallow as 25 feet, but steep drop-offs can reach more than 2,000 feet down.
"It slopes suddenly and the depth goes really deep really fast," Kasana said. "We believe the line dragged from a much shallower depth to the drop-off, which is why we ended up catching this individual."
A report of the encounter published on July 15 claims this was the first Greenland shark to be discovered in the Western Caribbean. Knowing how rare the experience was, Kasana said her team discussed buying a lottery ticket should they ever come across another one.
"If we were to catch another individual it would be sheer luck, we don't set our lines in a way that targets Greenland sharks," Kasana said.
When they reeled in the shark, it looked extremely old, she explained. And though they briefly considered tagging it, they didn't want to incidentally hurt or kill the shark in the name of science. Instead, Kasana and her team measured the shark, took notes and a photo, and sent it on its way.
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Ex-Florida Coach Dan Mullen Reportedly Considering Offer to Join ESPN
Former Florida coach Dan Mullen is considering an offer to join ESPN as a studio analyst, according to Brett McMurphy of the Action Network.
Mullen, 50, has made guest appearances for the network in the past, including last year after he was fired by the Gators in November before the 2021 season came to an end.
He is expected to accept the latest offer from ESPN, per McMurphy.
Following a nine-year stint at Mississippi State, Mullen took over the Florida job in ’18. He was fired last season following an overtime loss to Missouri, which dropped the Gators to 5–6 on the year.
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Mullen ended his time at Florida with a 34–15 record. He was replaced by former Louisiana coach Billy Napier, who was hired last December.
Earlier this spring, Mullen agreed to become a “contributing resource” for the football team and athletic department at Lake Oconee Academy, a high school in Georgia.
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Outman homers in first MLB at-bat, Dodgers top Rockies 7-3
By JACK MAGRUDER
Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — James Outman homered on the first swing of his first big-league plate appearance and finished with three hits and three RBIs as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 7-3 Sunday and closed out July with 21 victories.
Freddie Freeman added three hits and an RBI, passing teammate Trea Turner for the MLB lead in hits. Tony Gonsolin (12-1) bounced back from his first loss of the season as the Dodgers finished the month 21-5, tying the franchise record for most wins in July. They scored 147 runs in the month.
“Obviously I’ve dreamed of it, playing Wiffle ball in the back yard and stuff like that,” Outman said of homering in his first at-bat. “I never really thought it was going to be something that was going to happen. It’s awesome. When I hit it I thought it had a chance. I didn’t want to be the first guy to hit a ball off the wall and have it be a single for my first hit, so I was running out of the box.”
Outman became the eighth Dodgers player in franchise history — the fourth since the move to Los Angeles — to homer in his first career plate appearance, joining Jose Offerman (1990), Garey Ingram (1994) and Keibert Ruiz (2020). Outman had 21 homers in 90 games between Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma this season before being promoted Saturday.
He is the only Los Angeles Dodger in franchise history with three hits and three RBIs in his first game, and he is first major leaguer since Joey Gallo with three hits, including a homer and three RBIs, in his debut. Gallo did it June 2, 2015.
“Historic — what a debut,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “Really fun to watch. You can just see his joy. A day that he has dreamt about, and for it to play out like this. Today was about James Outman, and I couldn’t be more happy.”
The 25-year-old Outman, with a 1-1 count, homered on a 95 mph fastball from German Marquez (6-9) to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead after Cody Bellinger singled to open the third inning. The homer landed in the Dodgers’ bullpen and was retrieved by Alex Vesia, who passed it to Outman in the clubhouse.
“I’m going to stare at it for a long time, and then I’m going to put it up in my childhood room next to all my other baseball stuff,” Outman said of the ball. “I have a shelf of all my Little League home runs. That might top them all.”
Outman singled and scored in the seventh inning and drove in a run with a double to the wall in right-center in the eighth, helping push the Dodgers lead to 7-3. Outman was the Dodgers’ seventh-round pick in the 2018 draft.
“I’m usually just trying to hit the ball as hard as I can, hit a line drive somewhere,” Outman said.
Gonsolin gave up three runs — all in the third inning — and five hits while striking out six and walking one. He has given up at least three earned runs in each of his last three starts, after giving up two or fewer in his first 15. He has pitched a career-high 104 2/3 innings this season.
“Everybody goes through their ups and downs,” said Gonsolin, whose ERA is 2.41. “Hopefully, this is just a quick down and we can turn it around going into the next start.”
Brian Serven homered for Colorado to open the three-run third off Gonsolin, and the Rockies loaded the bases without getting the ball out of the infield on a hit batter, a walk, and dribbler on the chalk down the third-base line. Grichuk lined a two-run single to right for a 3-2 lead.
Grichuk had his third straight multi-hit game and was 7 for 16 in the four-game series.
The Dodgers scored two in the fourth inning for a 4-3 lead, taking advantage of the Rockies’ sloppy defense. With a runner on first and one out, second baseman Brendan Rodgers bobbled a potential inning-ending double play grounder before settling for an out at first. After a walk put runners on first and second, Bellinger doubled in one run, and the second scored when Grichuk misplayed the ball in right.
“Some uncharacteristic things happened,” Rockies manager Bud Black said. “You can’t do that against a good team.”
THE HITS KEEP ON COMING
Freddie Freeman (128) and Trea Turner (127) are 1-2 in the major leagues in hits, Freeman overtaking his teammate with a three-hit game Sunday after Turner extended his hitting streak to 18 with a first-inning single. The two are attempting to become the sixth pair of teammates to finish 1-2 in the league in hits in the live ball era.
Turner led the NL in hits in 2020 and 2021 and would be the second player in major league history to lead the league in three straight seasons. Ichiro led the majors in five straight seasons with Seattle, 2006-2010.
MR. RODGERS’ EXCLUSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD
Rodgers extended his home hitting streak to 12 games Sunday and was 9 for 16 in the four-game series against the Dodgers. Among major league second basemen, Rodgers ranked in the top two in four offensive categories — 100 hits (first), 23 doubles (tied for first), 154 total bases (second) and 49 RBIs (tied for second).
ROSTER MOVES
RHP Chris Martin joined the Dodgers on Sunday, a day after being acquired from the Chicago Cubs for OF Zach McKinstry. defined Martin’s roles as “reliever.”
“Wherever we see fit to take down some outs, that’s when he is going to pitch,” Roberts said.
Martin was 1-0 with a 4.31 in 31 1/3 innings with the Cubs this season, with 40 strikeouts and four walks. The Dodgers optioned RHP Jake Reed to Triple-A Albuquerque to make room on the roster.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: 3B Justin Turner (abdominal strain) missed his fourth straight game Sunday. A recent MRI was negative, but “there is still some sensation,” Roberts said. “We don’t need to push him.” Turner is to play catch and run Monday, and the earliest he could be back in the lineup is Thursday against San Francisco, Roberts said. … IF/OF Chris Taylor (foot) is to begin a rehab assignment Monday. “I really can’t see it being less than seven games,” Roberts said. Taylor has not played since July 4. … RHP Blake Treinen (shoulder) is scheduled to throw a simulated game Wednesday in San Francisco. He has made three appearances this season, the last April 14.
Rockies: LF Kris Bryant (plantar fasciitis) was removed in the top of the sixth inning. After scoring on a single in the third inning, Bryant ran into the clubhouse before returning to the field, only to be removed three innings later. … 1B C.J. Cron had a day off. Cron, who was hit by a pitch in the left wrist July 8 in Arizona, is 3 for 36 with one homer and two RBIs since the All-Star break.
UP NEXT
Dodgers: LHP Andrew Heaney (1-0, 0.47 ERA) is to oppose RHP Logan Webb (9-4, 2.91) in the opener of a four-game series in San Francisco. Heaney struck out four in four scoreless innings of a no-decision against Washington in his first appearance since being activated from the injured list on Wednesday. The Dodgers are 6-0 at home and 0-3 on the road against the Giants this season.
Rockies: RHP Antonio Senzatela (3-5. 4.90) is to oppose RHP Mike Clevinger (2-3, 3.38) in the first game of a four-game series in San Diego. Senzatela is 0-3 with a 6.57 ERA in five road starts this season, and the Rockies have lost all five. The Rockies are 8-3 against the Padres this season.
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Acquisition strengthens Carrier's position in the fast-growing, sustainable and highly efficient variable refrigerant flow (VRF) and heat pump market segments to support customers' decarbonization efforts
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, has completed its acquisition of substantially all of Toshiba Corporation's (TOKYO: 6502) ownership stake in Toshiba Carrier Corporation (TCC). A longstanding joint venture between Carrier and Toshiba, TCC is a global provider of residential and light commercial HVAC solutions, including VRF and heat pump products.
"This acquisition presents tremendous growth opportunities for Carrier in the fast-growing, energy-efficient VRF and heat pump markets," said David Gitlin, Chairman & CEO, Carrier. "Toshiba Carrier's differentiated technology, strong channel and global design and manufacturing footprint allow us to benefit from growing electrification and sustainability trends. We are thrilled to welcome the 6,600 talented TCC employees to the Carrier family."
Building on Carrier's previous acquisition of Guangdong Giwee Group, TCC will join the newly created Global Comfort Solutions business unit within Carrier's HVAC segment. The new business will be headquartered in Tokyo under the leadership of Saif Siddiqui, a seasoned Carrier leader who will report directly to HVAC segment President Chris Nelson. Mr. Toru Kubo, who has served as President & CEO of TCC, will be joining the Global Comfort Solutions leadership team reporting to Siddiqui.
Carrier acquired substantially all of Toshiba's interest in TCC for approximately $900 million, subject to customary closing adjustments. For the fiscal year 2021, TCC had annual sales of approximately $2 billion.
About Carrier
As the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, Carrier Global Corporation is committed to making the world safer, sustainable and more comfortable for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier.
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DALLAS (AP) — Amanda Nunes won a unanimous five-round decision over Julianna Peña in the main event of UFC 277 on Saturday night to regain the women’s bantamweight championship that she lost last December.
Nunes (22-5), nicknamed “The Lioness,” also holds the featherweight belt. The judges’ scoring was 50-45, 50-44 and 50-43.
“Double champ again, baby!” Nunes yelled to the crowd after the fight. “This is the best day ever.”
Peña beat Nunes last December at Las Vegas to claim the title in one of the biggest upsets in UFC history.
Saturday’s fight was the first title defense for Peña (12-5) in the 135-pound division.
Brandon Moreno won the co-main event with a third-round TKO over Kai Kara-France in a scheduled five-round bout to take possession of the interim men’s flyweight championship belt.
Nunes dropped Peña three times in the second round, twice on right hooks and then with a left to the forehead.
Nunes took down Peña midway through the third round and kept her on the mat, punching to the head to open cuts along Peña’s hairline that left blood splattered on the mat.
Nunes had Peña on her back again for much of the fourth and fifth rounds. Peña’s face was streaked with blood that stained much of the mat.
“I could have finished her, but I wanted to go five rounds with her tonight to prove I was better than her,” said Nunes, her right eye swollen nearly shut, using crutches to reach the interview session. “I could have gone six, seven rounds.”
Nunes came out and added a left-handed stance to her normal right-handed stance. She believes that confused Peña.
UFC president Dana White said Peña was taken from the arena after the fight to see a plastic surgeon about damage to her forehead.
“Julianna’s tough as nails,” White said. “Her will to win is second to none.”
Nunes owned the bantamweight belt for more than five years before the December defeat, which snapped a 12-match winning streak that included nine consecutive title fights.
Referee Herb Dean stopped the fight between Moreno and Kara-France at 4:34 after Moreno, sporting a deep cut under his right eye with blood streaming down his face and onto his chest, landed a liver kick that dropped Kara-France. Moreno then finished him off.
Moreno (20-6-2), from Tijuana, Mexico, came in as the division’s top-ranked contender and Kara-France (24-10), from New Zealand, was second. Moreno was backed by a crowd that chanted “Mo-re-no!” and “Me-xi-co!” at times during the match.
Deiveson Figueiredo regained the flyweight belt from Moreno last January with a unanimous decision in a trilogy fight in the 125-pound division. But Figueiredo sustained a hand injury several months ago and could not make a title defense, resulting in UFC creating an interim title fight.
After Saturday’s bout, Figueiredo entered the octagon carrying his championship belt and met with Moreno. Figueiredo said he’d like to host Moreno in his native Brazil for the undisputed title.
“I don’t care (where),” Moreno said. “Let’s go.”
Moreno said he would have told Figueiredo he didn’t appreciate his coming into the cage but didn’t want to set a bad example for his 8-year-old daughter.
Sergei Pavlovich was awarded a TKO in 55 seconds into a scheduled three-round heavyweight bout against Derrick Lewis, the oldest fighter on the card at 37 years old and a fan favorite from Houston. Pavlovich landed a series of punches to Lewis’ head and upper body. Lewis finally went down but jumped right back up as referee Dan Miragliotta stopped it, as Lewis and the crowd both expressed their displeasure with the ruling.
White said the fight shouldn’t have been stopped.
“Miragliotta made a mistake,” White said. “It happens.”
Pavlovich (16-1) went in ranked 11th while Lewis (26-10) was fifth.
Alexandre Pantoja quickly finished off Alex Perez on a tap out only 1:31 into their scheduled three-round men’s flyweight matchup. Pantoja (25-5), ranked No. 4, got atop Perez (24-7), No. 6, along the fence and locked his arms across Perez’s jaw to force the submission.
Magomed Ankalaev scored a TKO at 3:09 of the second of three rounds over Anthony Smith in a men’s light heavyweight bout. Ankalaev (18-1), ranked No. 4, took down Smith (36-17), No. 5, in the first round and then pummeled him along the base of the fence early in the second round when referee Jacob Montalvo stopped the fight. Smith injured his left leg and was helped from the cage, but White said there was no fracture.
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DENVER (AP) — James Outman homered on the first swing of his first big-league plate appearance and finished with three hits and three RBIs as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 7-3 Sunday and closed out July with 21 victories.
Freddie Freeman added three hits and an RBI, passing teammate Trea Turner for the MLB lead in hits. Tony Gonsolin (12-1) bounced back from his first loss of the season as the Dodgers finished the month 21-5, tying the franchise record for most wins in July. They scored 147 runs in the month.
“Obviously I’ve dreamed of it, playing Wiffle ball in the back yard and stuff like that,” Outman said of homering in his first at-bat. “I never really thought it was going to be something that was going to happen. It’s awesome. When I hit it I thought it had a chance. I didn’t want to be the first guy to hit a ball off the wall and have it be a single for my first hit, so I was running out of the box.”
Outman became the eighth Dodgers player in franchise history — the fourth since the move to Los Angeles — to homer in his first career plate appearance, joining Jose Offerman (1990), Garey Ingram (1994) and Keibert Ruiz (2020). Outman had 21 homers in 90 games between Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma this season before being promoted Saturday.
He is the only Los Angeles Dodger in franchise history with three hits and three RBIs in his first game, and he is first major leaguer since Joey Gallo with three hits, including a homer and three RBIs, in his debut. Gallo did it June 2, 2015.
“Historic — what a debut,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “Really fun to watch. You can just see his joy. A day that he has dreamt about, and for it to play out like this. Today was about James Outman, and I couldn’t be more happy.”
The 25-year-old Outman, with a 1-1 count, homered on a 95 mph fastball from German Marquez (6-9) to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead after Cody Bellinger singled to open the third inning. The homer landed in the Dodgers’ bullpen and was retrieved by Alex Vesia, who passed it to Outman in the clubhouse.
“I’m going to stare at it for a long time, and then I’m going to put it up in my childhood room next to all my other baseball stuff,” Outman said of the ball. “I have a shelf of all my Little League home runs. That might top them all.”
Outman singled and scored in the seventh inning and drove in a run with a double to the wall in right-center in the eighth, helping push the Dodgers lead to 7-3. Outman was the Dodgers’ seventh-round pick in the 2018 draft.
“I’m usually just trying to hit the ball as hard as I can, hit a line drive somewhere,” Outman said.
Gonsolin gave up three runs — all in the third inning — and five hits while striking out six and walking one. He has given up at least three earned runs in each of his last three starts, after giving up two or fewer in his first 15. He has pitched a career-high 104 2/3 innings this season.
“Everybody goes through their ups and downs,” said Gonsolin, whose ERA is 2.41. “Hopefully, this is just a quick down and we can turn it around going into the next start.”
Brian Serven homered for Colorado to open the three-run third off Gonsolin, and the Rockies loaded the bases without getting the ball out of the infield on a hit batter, a walk, and dribbler on the chalk down the third-base line. Grichuk lined a two-run single to right for a 3-2 lead.
Grichuk had his third straight multi-hit game and was 7 for 16 in the four-game series.
The Dodgers scored two in the fourth inning for a 4-3 lead, taking advantage of the Rockies’ sloppy defense. With a runner on first and one out, second baseman Brendan Rodgers bobbled a potential inning-ending double play grounder before settling for an out at first. After a walk put runners on first and second, Bellinger doubled in one run, and the second scored when Grichuk misplayed the ball in right.
“Some uncharacteristic things happened,” Rockies manager Bud Black said. “You can’t do that against a good team.”
THE HITS KEEP ON COMING
Freddie Freeman (128) and Trea Turner (127) are 1-2 in the major leagues in hits, Freeman overtaking his teammate with a three-hit game Sunday after Turner extended his hitting streak to 18 with a first-inning single. The two are attempting to become the sixth pair of teammates to finish 1-2 in the league in hits in the live ball era.
Turner led the NL in hits in 2020 and 2021 and would be the second player in major league history to lead the league in three straight seasons. Ichiro led the majors in five straight seasons with Seattle, 2006-2010.
MR. RODGERS’ EXCLUSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD
Rodgers extended his home hitting streak to 12 games Sunday and was 9 for 16 in the four-game series against the Dodgers. Among major league second basemen, Rodgers ranked in the top two in four offensive categories — 100 hits (first), 23 doubles (tied for first), 154 total bases (second) and 49 RBIs (tied for second).
ROSTER MOVES
RHP Chris Martin joined the Dodgers on Sunday, a day after being acquired from the Chicago Cubs for OF Zach McKinstry. defined Martin’s roles as “reliever.”
“Wherever we see fit to take down some outs, that’s when he is going to pitch,” Roberts said.
Martin was 1-0 with a 4.31 in 31 1/3 innings with the Cubs this season, with 40 strikeouts and four walks. The Dodgers optioned RHP Jake Reed to Triple-A Albuquerque to make room on the roster.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: 3B Justin Turner (abdominal strain) missed his fourth straight game Sunday. A recent MRI was negative, but “there is still some sensation,” Roberts said. “We don’t need to push him.” Turner is to play catch and run Monday, and the earliest he could be back in the lineup is Thursday against San Francisco, Roberts said. … IF/OF Chris Taylor (foot) is to begin a rehab assignment Monday. “I really can’t see it being less than seven games,” Roberts said. Taylor has not played since July 4. … RHP Blake Treinen (shoulder) is scheduled to throw a simulated game Wednesday in San Francisco. He has made three appearances this season, the last April 14.
Rockies: LF Kris Bryant (plantar fasciitis) was removed in the top of the sixth inning. After scoring on a single in the third inning, Bryant ran into the clubhouse before returning to the field, only to be removed three innings later. … 1B C.J. Cron had a day off. Cron, who was hit by a pitch in the left wrist July 8 in Arizona, is 3 for 36 with one homer and two RBIs since the All-Star break.
UP NEXT
Dodgers: LHP Andrew Heaney (1-0, 0.47 ERA) is to oppose RHP Logan Webb (9-4, 2.91) in the opener of a four-game series in San Francisco. Heaney struck out four in four scoreless innings of a no-decision against Washington in his first appearance since being activated from the injured list on Wednesday. The Dodgers are 6-0 at home and 0-3 on the road against the Giants this season.
Rockies: RHP Antonio Senzatela (3-5. 4.90) is to oppose RHP Mike Clevinger (2-3, 3.38) in the first game of a four-game series in San Diego. Senzatela is 0-3 with a 6.57 ERA in five road starts this season, and the Rockies have lost all five. The Rockies are 8-3 against the Padres this season.
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PHOENIX (AP) — This is always a stressful time of year for Major League Baseball’s 30 general managers, who are evaluating talent, juggling financial implications and trying to figure out ways to make their teams better as Tuesday’s trade deadline approaches.
Now there’s another factor in the wheeling-and-dealing calculus — COVID-19 vaccination status.
“It’s certainly one of the things that’s new that you didn’t have to think about,” Pirates GM Ben Cherington said. “I think every team obviously wants to feel that the full complement of their roster is available to play, but we’re in a new world and there’s personal choices.”
Those personal choices matter because MLB’s COVID-19 rules affect all 30 teams differently.
Arizona Diamondbacks GM Mike Hazen said the vaccine status of players was affecting trade talks “to some degree” but didn’t believe it would be a deciding factor in many deals, particularly for teams that don’t have to travel to Canada in the near future.
Hazen added that vaccine status is part of a player’s medical file, so there shouldn’t be any secrets, since teams are free to discuss those details.
As the only MLB team located in Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays have by far the toughest constraints. Foreign nationals who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 are not allowed to enter Canada, save for limited exceptions that require a 14-day quarantine.
Unvaccinated players are placed on the restricted list, where they are not paid and do not accrue major league service time.
That means any upgrades for the Blue Jays — who are right in the middle of the American League playoff race — will almost certainly have to be vaccinated. It also means teams traveling to Toronto for the rest of the regular season have to consider if they’re willing to add a player who might miss a crucial series.
The Yankees, Guardians, Rays, Orioles, Red Sox, Angels and Cubs all play games in Toronto after the Aug. 2 deadline. Toronto GM Ross Atkins declined an interview request through a team spokesman.
Several teams have gone to Canada this season without some of their best players. The Kansas City Royals were the most extreme example, losing 10 players ahead of their trip north of the U.S. border.
Several of those players — including hitters Andrew Benintendi and Whit Merrifield — have reportedly been the subjects of trade talks. Benintendi was traded to the Yankees last week. Merrifield, a two-time All-Star, says he may be willing to get the vaccine if it means playing postseason games in Toronto.
Unless all those unvaccinated players change their minds, it sure seems like a home-field advantage for the Blue Jays. They are 34-21 in Toronto and just 23-24 on the road this season.
Missing regular season games is problematic, but the playoffs are even more important.
The Blue Jays are on track to make the postseason, so theoretically, the road to a World Series title could go through Canada. For a team like the Yankees, it would put them at a sizable disadvantage.
Benintendi has said he’d consider getting vaccinated.
“I’m open minded about it,” Benintendi said after the trade. “I’m not against it, but time will tell as we get closer, but for now I’m just focused on getting here, getting comfortable, getting to know the guys and winning baseball games.”
There’s also the possibility that Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions continue into the coming years, which could affect long-term deals. The hypotheticals are nearly endless.
Of course, there’s also a chance the Blue Jays fall out of the playoff race and none of the immediate doomsday scenarios come into play. Many have taken the position of Yankees manager Aaron Boone, who said he hadn’t discussed vaccines with Benintendi in the immediate aftermath of the July 27 trade.
“We’ll cross that bridge if and when we have to,” Boone said.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 — The ringgit opened lower against the US dollar this morning, ahead of the release of the United States (US) nonfarm payrolls (NFP) which affects the greenback.
At 9am, the local currency stood at 4.4510/4535 versus the greenback compared to last Friday’s close of 4.4485/4520.
SPI Asset Management managing partner Stephen Innes said it is going to be a big week for risk sentiments ahead of the release of the NFP data, but noted that it might not be supportive of the ringgit.
“The ringgit has been supported by lower US yields, however, that shift may be interrupted as traders prepare for the US employment data this week.
“I expect the ringgit to trade in relatively tight ranges ahead of the release of the data,” he told Bernama.
Meanwhile, the ringgit was traded mostly lower against a basket of major currencies.
The local currency fell against the Japanese yen to 3.3489/3513 from Friday’s close of 3.3347/3368, depreciated versus the British pound to 5.4186/4217 from 5.4048/4078 and eased against the euro to 4.5489/5515 from 4.5385/5410 previously.
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Rodón dominates amid trade rumors as Giants blank Cubs
Carlos Rodón struck out 10 over seven dominant innings amid speculation he could be traded, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 4-0 Sunday night.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Carlos Rodón struck out 10 over seven dominant innings amid speculation he could be traded, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 4-0 Sunday night.
Rodón (9-6) got help from his defense early. Left fielder Luis Gonzalez reached over the outfield wall to snare Christopher Morel's leadoff drive, and center fielder Austin Slater made a running grab of Nelson Velazquez's hard-hit ball an inning later.
Then Rodon took over. He fanned two in the second inning, then struck out the side in the third and fourth. He yielded two hits, none after the third inning. It was the 18th double-digit strikeout performance of his career and his sixth this season.
San Francisco scored all its runs in the fourth inning by rallying with two outs against starter Adrian Sampson (0-2). Eighth-place hitter Jason Vosler roped an RBI single, followed by No. 9 hitter Austin Wynns’ bases-loaded triple.
The Giants won three of four games in the series, marking their eighth consecutive home series win over the Cubs.
LOOK OUT
Cubs first baseman P.J. Higgins slammed his right hip into the railing of an oddly-shaped photo well in foul territoy chasing a foul ball in the seventh inning. He was shaken up and consulted with a team trainer before remaining in the game. He made a diving stop on Slater's grounder an inning later.
GIANTS, CUBS ENGINEER SWAP
San Francisco acquired infielder Dixon Machado from the Cubs on Sunday for right-hander Raynel Espinal.
Machado, who appeared in 172 games for Detroit from 2015 through 2018, immediately entered the Giants’ starting lineup at shortstop. Injuries to Brandon Crawford (left knee) and Thario Estrada (concussion) left San Francisco particularly thin at that position.
The Giants designated right-hander Tobias Myers for assignment to clear roster room for Machado, 30.
Estrada, who had replaced Crawford, went on the seven-day injury list after being hit by a pitch Saturday night.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: LHP Wade Miley (shoulder) threw off a bullpen mound Sunday and might be ready to make an injury rehabilitation start this coming week.
Giants: Crawford, who’s in his third stint on the IL this season, likely will need a short injury rehab assignment — roughly four games — before returning to the lineup.
UP NEXT
The Giants open a four-game series against their archrivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers, beginning Monday at Oracle Park. Giants right-hander Logan Webb will oppose Dodgers lefty Andrew Heaney.
Following Monday’s scheduled off-day, the Cubs will play a three-game series at St. Louis. Chiccago’s Keegan Thompson and St. Louis’ Adam Wainwright will meet in a matchup of right-handers.
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The unemployment rate continued to rise for McMinn and Meigs counties for the month of June.
The unemployment rate for the month of June for McMinn County was 4.8%, which is a 1% increase from the county's previous rate of 3.8%.
Meigs County had a rate 5.2% for the month of June, which is a 1.2% increase from their previous rate of 4%.
According to State Statistical Analyst Patrick Todd, the increase followed the traditional pattern for the month of June.
"This was very predictable for the month of June," Todd said. "If you go back to pre-pandemic years, this type of increase is the norm and is almost certainly due to schools letting out."
Todd noted the rate increases during this month due to the number of college graduates who enter the workforce as well.
"Sometimes you will see a little bit of growth due to graduates looking for work," he noted. "There was a little bit of an increase in the labor force for McMinn and Monroe counties but in Meigs County it actually went down."
Looking ahead towards the July rate, Todd expects to see little movement, though the recent layoffs at Waupaca Foundry may show up in the July rate for McMinn.
"It will probably be very similar," Todd said. "One thing to note though is McMinn has a foundry closing so we may see some more action from McMinn in the July rate."
The unemployment rate for the State of Tennessee for the month of June was 4.3%, which is a 0.9% increase from the state's previous rate of 3.4%. The national rate also climbed, rising from 3.4% to 3.8%.
The rate rose in all 95 counties in Tennessee for June, leaving the rate less than 5% in 68 counties and between 5% and 10% in 27 counties.
The lowest rate countywide for June was Williamson at 2.8%, while the highest rate across the state was Perry County at 6.8%.
Around the area, Bradley County rose 1% to a rate of 4.4%, Hamilton County increased 0.9% to a rate of 4.2%, Loudon County jumped by 0.9% to a rate of 4%, Monroe County climbed 0.9% to a rate of 4.1%, Polk County rose 0.9% to a rate of 4.3%, Rhea County jumped 1.3% to a rate of 5.3% and Roane County climbed 1.1% for a rate of 4.6%.
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Liger: Vijay Deverakonda's southern magic has resonated with the audience and it was proved again when the star arrived for an event in Mumbai. Vijay and his Liger co-star Ananya Panday were at a mall in Navi Mumbai to greet their fans and as expected a huge crowd turned out at the premises. As the news about Vijay in town spread, the mall got overcrowded, so much so, that the team had to leave the event midway keeping in mind fans' safety. The makers of Liger and Vijay, after the incident shared concerning messages for the fans who attended the event on their social media handles.
Vijay Deverakonda tells fans 'I'm here'
When Vijay along with Ananya took to the stage, the excitement among the fans could be noticed. The young heartthrob experienced the craze he inspires, especially amongst his female fans, which were holding posters and sketches of the 'Arjun Reddy' actor and the crowd started chanting 'We love you' at the event. Meanwhile, Vijay tried his best to control the excitement of the fans and was seen saying "Hum idhar hi hain..thoda araam se.. I am here only" to the crowd but the situation went out of hand.
Vijay shares messages
Late at the night, Vijay took to his Instagram Story to share a message for his fans. "Your love has touched me. Hope you all are safe and back home. Wish I could have been there with you all so much longer. Thinking about you all as I go to bed. Goodnight Mumbai," he wrote followed by hashtag, 'Liger'.
Dharma's concerning note
Taking to Instagram, Dharma Productions shared a note, which reads, "Team #Liger is overwhelmed with all the love that you showered on us today at our mall visit in Navi Mumbai. We would like to thank everybody who came to support us. Unfortunately, we had to leave mid-way for the safety of everyone, but the massive turnout just reinstates the love you have showered on us and would like to send the same love manifold to all our amazing fans! Hope everyone is safe."
About Liger
Helmed by Puri Jagannadh 'Liger' is a sports action film which is slated to release on August 25, 2022, in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, after getting multiple delays due to COVID-19, and the makers are currently promoting their film with full swing. Dharma Productions recently unveiled the trailer and two songs from the film which gathered positive feedback from the audience. The film marks Vijay's debut in Hindi cinema and the 'Khaali Peeli' actor's first multi-lingual film.
Ananya Panday, Vijay Deverakonda's upcoming movies
Apart from 'Liger', Ananya will be also seen in 'Kho Gaye Hum Kahan' along with Siddhant Chaturvedi and Gourav Adarsh. Vijay, on the other hand, will be also seen in a multi-lingual film 'Khushi' alongside Samantha Ruth Prabhu, which is slated to release on December 23, 2022.
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School’s starting and vaccination rates are falling for a host of preventable diseases, warn health officials.
We’re not talking about COVID here. We’re talking about scourges like measles and polio, which are now making a comeback all over the world due to declining vaccination rates.
The COVID pandemic made things worse, disrupting normal vaccination efforts and stoking the already dangerous anti-vaccination movement, according to epidemiologists.
The problem’s especially worrisome in rural Arizona, with the non-reservation portions of Gila, Navajo and Apache counties reporting some of the state’s lowest childhood and COVID vaccination rates, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
As if that’s not bad enough, the Arizona legislature this year enacted additional obstacles to expanding vaccine coverage. Arizona has long made it easier than most other states for parents to skip recommended vaccines. Parents can exempt their children from vaccines without really offering a reason. Many other states allow a child to enroll in school without required vaccines only if they have a medical exemption or an exemption based on a specific religious belief – like Christian Scientists.
The budget bill this year banned “COVID-19 vaccine passports,” which require proof of vaccination for things like international travel and admittance to high-risk businesses and events. It also prevents schools from requiring students to have COVID-19 or HPV vaccines – although the federal Food and Drug Administration hasn’t yet approved a mandatory vaccine for schools. The new provisions also adds a whole series of additional requirements before the department of health services can add any new vaccines to the required.
"The use of exemptions has skyrocketed over the past few years,” reported the Children’s Action Alliance. “Unsurprisingly, our schools are rapidly losing herd immunity to diseases that pose a serious risk to children, older adults, immune-compromised individuals, newborns and pregnant women.”
Even before the drop in vaccinations for measles, mumps, rubella, varicella and hepatitis, Gila County’s vaccination rates had fallen below the levels needed to confer “herd immunity,” which can prevent isolated cases from starting an epidemic. The herd immunity level is based on how easily a particular virus spreads.
For COVID, you need a vaccination rate above 70-85% to protect the whole group. For polio – which is much harder to catch – you only need a vaccination rate of 80%. But for measles – the fastest spreading virus on record – you need 95%, according to a report on the childhood vaccination crisis by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.
Low levels of COVID vaccinations mirrored the low rates for an array of preventable childhood diseases.
For instance, 73% of Arizona residents have at least one COVID shot. But in Gila County only 51% have gotten a COVID shot. In the non-reservation portions of Navajo and Apache counties, only 53% have gotten at least one shot.
So many Gila County children have skipped their vaccines that we’ve lost “herd immunity” for diseases like the measles. Statewide, 91% of kindergartners have had their measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) shot. That’s well below the targeted rate of 95%. But it’s even worse in Gila County – with just 86% vaccinated. In Apache County 89% are vaccinated and in Navajo County just 87%.
So if a case of measles does crop up on campus, it would likely cause an outbreak.
The same kinds of figures apply to Hepatitis B, with vaccination rates of 93% statewide, 94% in Apache County, 93% in Navajo County and 90% in Gila County, according to the State Department of Health Resources.
We’re doing better when it comes to protection from polio – but that’s only because polio spreads much more slowly and so the herd immunity threshold is lower. Statewide, 91% have gotten a polio shot – compared to 88% in Gila, Apache and Navajo counties.
Only about half a percent of the exemptions are based on medical criteria, like a potential allergic reaction to the vaccine. In Gila County, a worrisome 11% of parents have claimed an exemption based on personal belief and another half a percent based on medical issues.
The trend could easily prove deadly in coming years.
A decades-long, worldwide vaccination effort wiped out smallpox in 1977. The disease once killed about 4 million people every year and incurred billions in annual medical costs and disability.
But other efforts to eliminate deadly diseases through vaccination have faltered. We nearly eliminated measles in this country – but it continued to circulate in other countries with low vaccination rates. Now, it has returned to the U.S. The World Health Organization reported that in 2018 the estimated 10 million measles cases worldwide caused 145,000 deaths – a 58% increase in just two years.
The death rate for measles hovers at around 3-6% in developed countries and close to 30% during outbreaks, with several underway right now globally. The virus can kill by causing pneumonia, diarrhea and dehydration. It can also cause blindness, hearing loss and brain damage. Measles can weaken the immune system, leaving children prey to a host of other infections.
Measles has a high “reproductive number,” which reflects the average number of other people a sick person infects. The reproductive number for COVID is two or three. The reproductive number for measles is 12-18, thanks largely to the time the virus can remain in the air or on surfaces and still infect someone.
The same thing applies to polio, which once killed 3,000 U.S. children annually, leaving thousands of others paralyzed for life. Vaccines virtually eliminated the disease in the U.S., but it continued to circulate elsewhere. The virus has begun to spread again, with new cases reported in the United States.
Children from low-income families and families without health insurance are much more likely to skip the potentially life-saving vaccines. Unfortunately, Gila, Navajo and Apache counties have among the lowest medical insurance rates in the state coupled with high rates of child poverty. About 50% of uninsured children get vaccinated compared to 66% of those covered by programs like the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System and 77% of those with private insurance.
“Vaccines are a safe and effective method of reducing the burden of infectious disease,” concluded the Georgetown study authors. “On an individual level, they prevent severe illness, death, and long-term consequences of disease such as neurological disorders. On the community level, they forestall dangerous outbreaks of infectious disease and save money that would otherwise be spent on treating preventable illnesses. Children who receive vaccines on the recommended schedule protect themselves and their communities while also decreasing future health care costs.”
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World’s biggest yacht stranded as Dutch city turns on Jeff Bezos, upending plan to dismantle iconic bridge
By David Segal
Rotterdam: The image would have been a social media phenomenon: a few thousand citizens of the Netherlands’ second largest city, standing beside a river and hurling eggs at the gleaming, new 127-metre sailing yacht built for Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and one of the world’s richest men. By the time the boat passed the crowd, it would have been spattered with bright orange yolk, plus at least one very bright spot of red.
“I would have thrown a tomato,” said Stefan Lewis, a former City Council member. “I eat mostly vegan.”
One recent afternoon, Lewis was standing near the Hef, as the Koningshaven Bridge is affectionately known, and explaining the anger that Bezos and Oceanco, the maker of the three-masted, $US500 million ($715 million) schooner, inspired after making what may have sounded like a fairly benign request. The company asked the local government to briefly dismantle the elevated middle span of the Hef, which is 70 metres tall at its highest point, allowing the vessel to sail down the King’s Harbor channel and out to sea. The whole process would have taken a day or two and Oceanco would have covered the costs.
Also worth noting: The bridge, a lattice of moss-green steel in the shape of a hulking “H,” is not actually used by anyone. It served as a railroad bridge for decades until it was replaced by a tunnel and decommissioned in the early 1990s. It’s been idle ever since.
In sum, the operation would have been fast, free and disrupted nothing. So why the fuss?
“There’s a principle at stake,” said Lewis, a tall, bearded 37-year-old who was leaning against his bike and toggling during an interview between wry humour and indignation. He then framed the principle with a series of questions. “What can you buy if you have unlimited cash? Can you bend every rule? Can you take apart monuments?”
In late June, the city’s vice mayor reported that Oceanco had withdrawn its request to dismantle the Hef, a retreat that was portrayed as a victory of the masses over a billionaire, though it was much more than that. It was an opportunity to see Dutch and American values in a fiery, head-on collision. The more you know about the Netherlands – with its preference for modesty over extravagance, for the community over the individual, for fitting in rather than standing out – the more it seems as though this kerfuffle was scripted by someone whose goal was to drive people here out of their minds.
The first problem was the astounding wealth of Bezos.
“The Dutch like to say, ‘Acting normal is crazy enough,’” said Ellen Verkoelen, a City Council member and Rotterdam leader of the 50Plus Party, which works on behalf of pensioners. “And we think that rich people are not acting normal. Here in Holland, we don’t believe that everybody can be rich the way people do in America, where the sky is the limit. We think ‘Be average.’ That’s good enough.”
Verkoelen was among those who considered Oceanco’s request a reasonable concession to a company in a highly competitive industry. But she heard from dozens of infuriated voters, all of them adamantly opposed. She understood the origins of the fervour, which she illustrated with a story from her childhood.
“When I was about 11 years old, we had an American boy stay with us for a week, an exchange student,” she recalled. “And my mother told him, just make your own sandwich like you do in America. Instead of putting one sausage on his bread, he put on five. My mother was too polite to say anything to him, but to me she said in Dutch, ‘We will never eat like that in this house.’”
At school, Verkoelen learned from friends that the American children in their homes all ate the same way. They were stunned and a little jealous. At the time, it was said in the Netherlands that putting both butter and cheese on your bread was “the devil’s sandwich”. Choose one, went the thinking. You don’t need both.
Building the Earth’s biggest sailing yacht and taking apart a city’s beloved landmark? That’s the devil’s all-you-can-eat buffet.
There are billionaires in the Netherlands and a huge pay gap between CEOs and employees. Statista, a research firm, reported that for every dollar earned by an average worker, CEOs earned $US171. (The figure is $US265 in the United States, the widest gap of any country.) The difference is that the rich in the Netherlands don’t flaunt it, just as the powerful don’t highlight their cachet. The Dutch once ran one of the world’s largest empires, but there’s a certain pride here that the prime minister of the country rides a bicycle to pay visits to the king – yes, the Netherlands has a royal family, which is also relatively low-key – and locks the bicycle outside the palace.
There’s a premium on equality that has survived the country’s struggles to assimilate immigrants and a gentrification boom that is pricing the middle- and working-class out of cities. An ethos endures that nobody is any better than anyone else, or deserves more, and it stems from an unignorable geographic fact. Roughly one-third of the Netherlands is below sea level and citizens for centuries have had little choice but to band together to create an infrastructure of dikes and drainage systems to remain alive.
“The Netherlands is built on co-operation,” said Paul van de Laar, a professor of history at Erasmus University. “There were constant threats of disaster from the 15th and 16th century. Protestants and Catholics knew that to survive, they could not quarrel too much.”
Chip in. Blend in. Help others. These are among the highest ideals of the Netherlands. Does this sound like a country eager to cut some slack to a man with $US140 billion and a $US500 million boat?
The Rotterdam v Bezos brawl first made international headlines in February, when news broke that Oceanco had been granted city approval to briefly take apart the middle of the Hef. (The cost of this operation was never made public.) The assent had come from a civil servant who apparently didn’t see the harm. An uproar ensued.
“I thought it was a joke,” said Lewis, who learned about the permission on Facebook from incredulous friends. “So I called the vice mayor’s office and asked, ‘Is this for real?’ And they said, ‘We don’t know anything about this.’ It wasn’t on their radar. It took them a day to get back to me.”
When word of the accommodation reached the public, fuming residents became a staple of local TV news and a Facebook group formed to organise that mass egg pelting. (“Dismantling the Hef for Jeff Bezos’ latest toy? Come throw eggs…“) One aggrieved council member soon likened the masts of the yacht to a giant middle finger, pointed at the city.
Oceanco, which employs more than 300 people, has not spoken publicly about its decision to rescind its Hef request and did not respond to an email for comment. News reports stated that the company was concerned about threats against employees and about vandalism.
It’s unclear how the yacht, now known as Y721, will be completed. In February, the City Council’s municipality liaison, Marcel Walravens, was quoted in the media saying that it was impractical to float the mast-less yacht to another location and finish it there.
To van de Laar, the real villain in this tale is not Oceanco or Bezos, who probably had never heard of the Hef. It’s the City Council, which completely misunderstood the depth of feelings about the bridge and bungled the messaging about its decision.
“Emotions are important,” he said. “The council didn’t grasp that, which is incredibly stupid.”
Rotterdam is one of the few European cities in which nearly all the buildings, both commercial and residential, are new because the place was bombed to devastating effect by the Nazis in World War II. It turned this into a city of the future, always looking ahead, tearing down whatever doesn’t work or isn’t needed.
Except for the Hef. It has become the city’s most recognisable landmark. After the war, it became a symbol of resilience and to locals of an older generation, the Hef is a rare link to the past.
When there was talk decades ago of tearing it down, residents protested. It was declared a national monument in 2000 and underwent a three-year restoration that ended in 2017. Today, the Hef stands as a triumph of function over form that no longer functions, a monolith that can’t be altered, even temporarily — no matter who asks, no matter the price.
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Seven Bets On Wholesome Love With The Return Of Farmer Wants A Wife
Seven’s Farmer Wants A Wife is returning to Channel 7 and 7plus, despite the fact our appetite for reality love might finally be satisfied.
It’s no secret that every network has a romance reality show that usually performs solid numbers. Nine have Married At First, 10 have The Bachelor series, and Seven’s is Farmer Wants A Wife.
Sure, there are plenty of love dating shows in between, but these are the major players. Interestingly, fewer Australians do seem to be tuning in across the board to watch people find love.
Some would argue there are also fewer people watching television in general, and BVOD numbers across the board are strong for dating shows, so there’s clearly still an interest.
Still, we have even seen a downswing in viewers across the networks when it comes to romance. Nine’s arguably the smuggest because there’s no denying MAFS is still huge, but even MAFS has suffered a slight decline in viewers.
Sure, it’s still pulling the occasional 1.2 million viewers, but there has been an undeniable dip. It hasn’t pulled in over 1.5 million in a year.
10’s arguably felt it the hardest with The Bachelorette series that has now been canned and the network is now about to throw the book at the new The Bachelor series, with three new Bachelors.
A formula that aims to win back viewers and has the potential too! Clearly, drama and scandal are the key ingredients when you consider MAFS enduring success, and three Bachelors are surely going to cause chaos.
Seven’s Farmer Wants A Wife has been a consistent performer for the network. Last year, its premier brought in over 800,000 eyeballs. Plus, in these trying times, a dose of wholesome love might be what the nation is looking for, but can it pull MAFS numbers?
Interestingly, Farmer Wants A Wife isn’t going for a revamp, and there’s no big need; the show has a history of performing well but considering other networks are upping the drama, it’s still a considered choice by the network.
The upcoming season features the return of host Natalie Gruzlewski and a very special new addition: Seven’s acclaimed journalist and presenter Samantha Armytage, joining in as a guest role to help Natalia guide the farmers to find love.
Seven’s bold move to resist the temptation to go for the drama and stick to the wholesome could pay off. We just now need to see if audiences are hungry for it.
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World’s biggest yacht stranded as Dutch city turns on Jeff Bezos, upending plan to dismantle iconic bridge
By David Segal
Rotterdam: The image would have been a social media phenomenon: a few thousand citizens of the Netherlands’ second largest city, standing beside a river and hurling eggs at the gleaming, new 127-metre sailing yacht built for Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and one of the world’s richest men. By the time the boat passed the crowd, it would have been spattered with bright orange yolk, plus at least one very bright spot of red.
“I would have thrown a tomato,” said Stefan Lewis, a former City Council member. “I eat mostly vegan.”
One recent afternoon, Lewis was standing near the Hef, as the Koningshaven Bridge is affectionately known, and explaining the anger that Bezos and Oceanco, the maker of the three-masted, $US500 million ($715 million) schooner, inspired after making what may have sounded like a fairly benign request. The company asked the local government to briefly dismantle the elevated middle span of the Hef, which is 70 metres tall at its highest point, allowing the vessel to sail down the King’s Harbor channel and out to sea. The whole process would have taken a day or two and Oceanco would have covered the costs.
Also worth noting: The bridge, a lattice of moss-green steel in the shape of a hulking “H,” is not actually used by anyone. It served as a railroad bridge for decades until it was replaced by a tunnel and decommissioned in the early 1990s. It’s been idle ever since.
In sum, the operation would have been fast, free and disrupted nothing. So why the fuss?
“There’s a principle at stake,” said Lewis, a tall, bearded 37-year-old who was leaning against his bike and toggling during an interview between wry humour and indignation. He then framed the principle with a series of questions. “What can you buy if you have unlimited cash? Can you bend every rule? Can you take apart monuments?”
In late June, the city’s vice mayor reported that Oceanco had withdrawn its request to dismantle the Hef, a retreat that was portrayed as a victory of the masses over a billionaire, though it was much more than that. It was an opportunity to see Dutch and American values in a fiery, head-on collision. The more you know about the Netherlands – with its preference for modesty over extravagance, for the community over the individual, for fitting in rather than standing out – the more it seems as though this kerfuffle was scripted by someone whose goal was to drive people here out of their minds.
The first problem was the astounding wealth of Bezos.
“The Dutch like to say, ‘Acting normal is crazy enough,’” said Ellen Verkoelen, a City Council member and Rotterdam leader of the 50Plus Party, which works on behalf of pensioners. “And we think that rich people are not acting normal. Here in Holland, we don’t believe that everybody can be rich the way people do in America, where the sky is the limit. We think ‘Be average.’ That’s good enough.”
Verkoelen was among those who considered Oceanco’s request a reasonable concession to a company in a highly competitive industry. But she heard from dozens of infuriated voters, all of them adamantly opposed. She understood the origins of the fervour, which she illustrated with a story from her childhood.
“When I was about 11 years old, we had an American boy stay with us for a week, an exchange student,” she recalled. “And my mother told him, just make your own sandwich like you do in America. Instead of putting one sausage on his bread, he put on five. My mother was too polite to say anything to him, but to me she said in Dutch, ‘We will never eat like that in this house.’”
At school, Verkoelen learned from friends that the American children in their homes all ate the same way. They were stunned and a little jealous. At the time, it was said in the Netherlands that putting both butter and cheese on your bread was “the devil’s sandwich”. Choose one, went the thinking. You don’t need both.
Building the Earth’s biggest sailing yacht and taking apart a city’s beloved landmark? That’s the devil’s all-you-can-eat buffet.
There are billionaires in the Netherlands and a huge pay gap between CEOs and employees. Statista, a research firm, reported that for every dollar earned by an average worker, CEOs earned $US171. (The figure is $US265 in the United States, the widest gap of any country.) The difference is that the rich in the Netherlands don’t flaunt it, just as the powerful don’t highlight their cachet. The Dutch once ran one of the world’s largest empires, but there’s a certain pride here that the prime minister of the country rides a bicycle to pay visits to the king – yes, the Netherlands has a royal family, which is also relatively low-key – and locks the bicycle outside the palace.
There’s a premium on equality that has survived the country’s struggles to assimilate immigrants and a gentrification boom that is pricing the middle- and working-class out of cities. An ethos endures that nobody is any better than anyone else, or deserves more, and it stems from an unignorable geographic fact. Roughly one-third of the Netherlands is below sea level and citizens for centuries have had little choice but to band together to create an infrastructure of dikes and drainage systems to remain alive.
“The Netherlands is built on co-operation,” said Paul van de Laar, a professor of history at Erasmus University. “There were constant threats of disaster from the 15th and 16th century. Protestants and Catholics knew that to survive, they could not quarrel too much.”
Chip in. Blend in. Help others. These are among the highest ideals of the Netherlands. Does this sound like a country eager to cut some slack to a man with $US140 billion and a $US500 million boat?
The Rotterdam v Bezos brawl first made international headlines in February, when news broke that Oceanco had been granted city approval to briefly take apart the middle of the Hef. (The cost of this operation was never made public.) The assent had come from a civil servant who apparently didn’t see the harm. An uproar ensued.
“I thought it was a joke,” said Lewis, who learned about the permission on Facebook from incredulous friends. “So I called the vice mayor’s office and asked, ‘Is this for real?’ And they said, ‘We don’t know anything about this.’ It wasn’t on their radar. It took them a day to get back to me.”
When word of the accommodation reached the public, fuming residents became a staple of local TV news and a Facebook group formed to organise that mass egg pelting. (“Dismantling the Hef for Jeff Bezos’ latest toy? Come throw eggs…“) One aggrieved council member soon likened the masts of the yacht to a giant middle finger, pointed at the city.
Oceanco, which employs more than 300 people, has not spoken publicly about its decision to rescind its Hef request and did not respond to an email for comment. News reports stated that the company was concerned about threats against employees and about vandalism.
It’s unclear how the yacht, now known as Y721, will be completed. In February, the City Council’s municipality liaison, Marcel Walravens, was quoted in the media saying that it was impractical to float the mast-less yacht to another location and finish it there.
To van de Laar, the real villain in this tale is not Oceanco or Bezos, who probably had never heard of the Hef. It’s the City Council, which completely misunderstood the depth of feelings about the bridge and bungled the messaging about its decision.
“Emotions are important,” he said. “The council didn’t grasp that, which is incredibly stupid.”
Rotterdam is one of the few European cities in which nearly all the buildings, both commercial and residential, are new because the place was bombed to devastating effect by the Nazis in World War II. It turned this into a city of the future, always looking ahead, tearing down whatever doesn’t work or isn’t needed.
Except for the Hef. It has become the city’s most recognisable landmark. After the war, it became a symbol of resilience and to locals of an older generation, the Hef is a rare link to the past.
When there was talk decades ago of tearing it down, residents protested. It was declared a national monument in 2000 and underwent a three-year restoration that ended in 2017. Today, the Hef stands as a triumph of function over form that no longer functions, a monolith that can’t be altered, even temporarily — no matter who asks, no matter the price.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times. | https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe/world-s-biggest-yacht-stranded-as-dutch-city-turns-on-jeff-bezos-and-plans-to-dismantle-iconic-bridge-20220801-p5b67r.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world | 2022-08-01T03:18:24Z | https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe/world-s-biggest-yacht-stranded-as-dutch-city-turns-on-jeff-bezos-and-plans-to-dismantle-iconic-bridge-20220801-p5b67r.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_world | false | 13 |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
3-6-2-9
(three, six, two, nine)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
3-6-2-9
(three, six, two, nine) | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Win-4-Evening-game-17342053.php | 2022-08-01T03:19:44Z | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Win-4-Evening-game-17342053.php | true | null |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kyiv area for the first time in weeks Thursday and pounded the northern Chernihiv region as well, in what Ukraine said was revenge for standing up to the Kremlin. Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announced a counteroffensive to... | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2683569816613/russia-attacks-kyiv-area-for-the-first-time-in-weeks | 2022-08-01T03:27:28Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2683569816613/russia-attacks-kyiv-area-for-the-first-time-in-weeks | true | null |
I had no idea there was a cover band specialising in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtracks. I’m happy enough today knowing such a thing exists, but even happier knowing that they had a show on the weekend blow up because the man himself was there and joined them on stage for a couple of tracks.
The 900 — named after a skating move that’s possible in both the game but also very rarely in real life — are a band from the UK who call themselves the nation’s “first and only Tony Hawk Pro Skater cover band”. Which means they only play songs from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtracks.
That’s a lot of material to cover! And while they don’t play the entire spectrum of musical genres available over the series — being a band they seem to only be covering rock/metal/punk stuff, and I can’t find any videos of them playing any of the series’ rap tracks — what’s there is still a fantastic sampling of one of the most important and beloved collections of video game music of all time. If the song has guitars in it and was on a THPS soundtrack, whether it was Rage Against the Machine, CKY, Refused or Fu Manchu, they’ll play it.
Anyway, so The 900 were playing a show in Haggerston, London over the weekend, and after belting out a few tracks were joined on-stage by…well, by Tony Hawk himself, who as he seems to be increasingly doing in his post-pro skating career is happily settling into a Bill Murray-esque lifestyle.
This is the first footage shared of the event, which blew up on Twitter over the weekend:
So I went to see a Tony Hawk cover band in a small bar in East London and @tonyhawk showed up and sang some songs. WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL. @SignatureBrewE8 pic.twitter.com/xxPSQro2Pt
— Isabel Davies (@IsabelDavies_) July 30, 2022
The band themselves had some more professional footage shot, though, and have begun sharing it as well:
Let's talk about last night… @tonyhawk himself came to our show at @signaturebrewe8 and BLEW THE ROOF OFF! Words can't express how grateful we are to Tony for not only watching our show, but nailing 2 iconic songs!
— The 900 (@The900banduk) July 31, 2022
More videos to feature soon.
🎥 – @Rolling_Wheels pic.twitter.com/tKFhaSGT2O
It’s impossible not to love everything about this, from the looks on the faces of the band to the fact Hawk absolutely nails it, as though he’s spent his life dreaming of the chance to get up stage and belt out some tunes like this.
If you want to see more stuff from the band, they’ve got a whole set up on YouTube, but it’s only watchable on YouTube so you’ll have to head there to check it out. | https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/08/tony-hawk-makes-surprise-appearance-for-tony-hawks-pro-skater-cover-band/ | 2022-08-01T03:28:24Z | https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/08/tony-hawk-makes-surprise-appearance-for-tony-hawks-pro-skater-cover-band/ | false | 2 |
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Hello, I used to be a regular member here about 15 years ago under the name GVX and so I knew a fair bit about hardware and I have built quite a few computers in my past, unfortunately my knowledge is now very out of date. I am not an enthusiast anymore and my last build was 12 years ago and was a Shuttle SH55J2 which has been an amazing entry-level computer. I am still using it to this day with practically no issues.
Given my positive experiences with Shuttle, I would like to build another Shuttle system. Like I did 12 years ago, I am looking to build a decent mid-range SFF computer that has enough horsepower to still be usable in 10 years. I plan to do some light gaming and I would like it to be able to at least run most games that are out today at a decent res. I also plan to run some AI applications, do some dvd encoding, as well as run CAD software such as AutoCAD. I want to get the maximum life out of my components and so I am not planning to overclock.
The prices below are all in Canadian. I am trying to keep the total cost of the build at around $1700 CAD (~$1,300 USD). I think that I can save about $100 on the Shuttle SH510R4 from the Newegg.ca price below if I go with an Ebay seller.
Here is what I am thinking:
I am curious if you see any compatibility issues with what I am proposing above that I haven't considered. Some assumptions in particular that I would like your thoughts on:
- I cannot find any images of the motherboard layout for this particular Shuttle box but I am assuming that GTX 1650 Super video card will rule out me using a M.2 M key SSD here as I assume that the spare PCI-E port is going be blocked by the GPU dual slot cooling. As a result, I am going with a SATA-connected SSD.
- I was originally going to go with a GTX 1660 Super as it is almost the same price as the GTX 1650 Super but I found out that it has an 8-pin connector while the Shuttle 80+ Bronze PSU only has a 6-pin VGA power dongle. I assume that the GTX 1650 Super is the best that I can do for a GPU with a 6-pin power connector? I guess that the other option would be the Radeon 6500 XT which is definitely cheaper than the GTX 1650 Super. It's just that I haven't used a Radeon since the ATI days and my experiences weren't as good as with Nvidia, especially around driver compatibility. What is the general opinion of the 6500 XT vs the GTX 1650 Super?
- I tried to keep the power consumption of each component inline with what is in my current Shuttle system as it also uses the 80+ Bronze PSU and so I think that I should hopefully be OK with not exceeding the limits of the 300W Shuttle PSU. At least 12 years ago, it was the case that the Shuttle PSU's were way better than their wattage ratings led one to believe. I am hoping that this is still the case today and that the quality has not gone down, I certainly do not think that a standard off the shelf 300W PSU would be enough for what I am building.
- I am trying to future-proof as much as possible here by going with Windows 11 but I am also a bit concerned about compatibility issues with a new OS. Has the general reception for Windows 11 been positive or are people waiting for 12 to come out before upgrading?
I know that there are lots of questions here. I have been out of the loop for quite a while now when it comes to PC hardware and so I appreciate any help that you might be able to provide.
Given my positive experiences with Shuttle, I would like to build another Shuttle system. Like I did 12 years ago, I am looking to build a decent mid-range SFF computer that has enough horsepower to still be usable in 10 years. I plan to do some light gaming and I would like it to be able to at least run most games that are out today at a decent res. I also plan to run some AI applications, do some dvd encoding, as well as run CAD software such as AutoCAD. I want to get the maximum life out of my components and so I am not planning to overclock.
The prices below are all in Canadian. I am trying to keep the total cost of the build at around $1700 CAD (~$1,300 USD). I think that I can save about $100 on the Shuttle SH510R4 from the Newegg.ca price below if I go with an Ebay seller.
Here is what I am thinking:
Shuttle XPC Cube SH510R4 Mini Barebone PC Intel H510 Supports LGA1200 125W 11th/10th Gen Rocket Lake/Comet Lake CPU No RAM No HDD/SSD No CPU No OS 300W 80+ Bronze Flex PSU ($796.50 CAD, $622.31 USD)
https://www.newegg.ca/p/37E-0008-000C7CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel XMP 2.0 Desktop Memory ($134.99 CAD, $105.47 USD)
https://www.newegg.ca/corsair-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820236541Intel Core i5-11400 - Core i5 11th Gen Rocket Lake 6-Core 2.6 GHz LGA 1200 65W ($189.99 CAD, $148.44 USD)
https://www.newegg.ca/intel-core-i5-11400f-core-i5-11th-gen/p/N82E16819118264WD Blue 1TB SA510 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive SSD ($129.99 CAD, $101.56 USD)
https://www.newegg.ca/western-digital-1tb-blue-sa510/p/N82E16820250229?Item=N82E16820250229EVGA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER SC ULTRA GAMING Video Card, 04G-P4-1357-KR, 4GB GDDR6, Dual Fan, Metal Backplate ($365.51 CAD, $285.57 USD)
https://www.newegg.ca/evga-geforce-gtx-1650-super-04g-p4-1357-kr/p/N82E16814487482?Description=eVGA 04G-P4-1357-KR Video Card GeForce GTX 1650&cm_re=eVGA_04G-P4-1357-KR Video Card GeForce GTX 1650-_-14-487-482-_-ProductPioneer Black 16X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X BD-ROM 4MB Cache Serial ATA Revision 3.0 Blu-ray Burner ($118.99 CAD, $92.97 USD)
https://www.newegg.ca/pioneer-bdr-212dbk-internal-blu-ray-burner/p/N82E16827129091Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 64-bit, DVD ($149.99 CAD, $117.19 USD)
https://www.newegg.ca/microsoft-windows-11-pro/p/N82E16832350882I am curious if you see any compatibility issues with what I am proposing above that I haven't considered. Some assumptions in particular that I would like your thoughts on:
- I cannot find any images of the motherboard layout for this particular Shuttle box but I am assuming that GTX 1650 Super video card will rule out me using a M.2 M key SSD here as I assume that the spare PCI-E port is going be blocked by the GPU dual slot cooling. As a result, I am going with a SATA-connected SSD.
- I was originally going to go with a GTX 1660 Super as it is almost the same price as the GTX 1650 Super but I found out that it has an 8-pin connector while the Shuttle 80+ Bronze PSU only has a 6-pin VGA power dongle. I assume that the GTX 1650 Super is the best that I can do for a GPU with a 6-pin power connector? I guess that the other option would be the Radeon 6500 XT which is definitely cheaper than the GTX 1650 Super. It's just that I haven't used a Radeon since the ATI days and my experiences weren't as good as with Nvidia, especially around driver compatibility. What is the general opinion of the 6500 XT vs the GTX 1650 Super?
- I tried to keep the power consumption of each component inline with what is in my current Shuttle system as it also uses the 80+ Bronze PSU and so I think that I should hopefully be OK with not exceeding the limits of the 300W Shuttle PSU. At least 12 years ago, it was the case that the Shuttle PSU's were way better than their wattage ratings led one to believe. I am hoping that this is still the case today and that the quality has not gone down, I certainly do not think that a standard off the shelf 300W PSU would be enough for what I am building.
- I am trying to future-proof as much as possible here by going with Windows 11 but I am also a bit concerned about compatibility issues with a new OS. Has the general reception for Windows 11 been positive or are people waiting for 12 to come out before upgrading?
I know that there are lots of questions here. I have been out of the loop for quite a while now when it comes to PC hardware and so I appreciate any help that you might be able to provide.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Carlos Rodón struck out 10 over seven dominant innings amid speculation he could be traded, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 4-0 Sunday night.
Rodón (9-6) got help from his defense early. Left fielder Luis Gonzalez reached over the outfield wall to snare Christopher Morel's leadoff drive, and center fielder Austin Slater made a running grab of Nelson Velazquez's hard-hit ball an inning later.
Then Rodon took over. He fanned two in the second inning, then struck out the side in the third and fourth. He yielded two hits, none after the third inning. It was the 18th double-digit strikeout performance of his career and his sixth this season.
San Francisco scored all its runs in the fourth inning by rallying with two outs against starter Adrian Sampson (0-2). Eighth-place hitter Jason Vosler roped an RBI single, followed by No. 9 hitter Austin Wynns’ bases-loaded triple.
The Giants won three of four games in the series, marking their eighth consecutive home series win over the Cubs.
LOOK OUT
Cubs first baseman P.J. Higgins slammed his right hip into the railing of an oddly-shaped photo well in foul territoy chasing a foul ball in the seventh inning. He was shaken up and consulted with a team trainer before remaining in the game. He made a diving stop on Slater's grounder an inning later.
GIANTS, CUBS ENGINEER SWAP
San Francisco acquired infielder Dixon Machado from the Cubs on Sunday for right-hander Raynel Espinal.
Machado, who appeared in 172 games for Detroit from 2015 through 2018, immediately entered the Giants’ starting lineup at shortstop. Injuries to Brandon Crawford (left knee) and Thario Estrada (concussion) left San Francisco particularly thin at that position.
The Giants designated right-hander Tobias Myers for assignment to clear roster room for Machado, 30.
Estrada, who had replaced Crawford, went on the seven-day injury list after being hit by a pitch Saturday night.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: LHP Wade Miley (shoulder) threw off a bullpen mound Sunday and might be ready to make an injury rehabilitation start this coming week.
Giants: Crawford, who’s in his third stint on the IL this season, likely will need a short injury rehab assignment — roughly four games — before returning to the lineup.
UP NEXT
The Giants open a four-game series against their archrivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers, beginning Monday at Oracle Park. Giants right-hander Logan Webb will oppose Dodgers lefty Andrew Heaney.
Following Monday’s scheduled off-day, the Cubs will play a three-game series at St. Louis. Chiccago’s Keegan Thompson and St. Louis’ Adam Wainwright will meet in a matchup of right-handers.
___
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A Tokyo clothing maker has teamed up with veterinarians to create a wearable fan for pets, hoping to attract the anxious owners of dogs — or cats — that can’t shed their fur coats in Japan’s blistering summer weather.
The device consists of a battery-operated, 80-gram fan that is attached to a mesh outfit and blows air around an animal’s body.
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What: GreenCare Collective cannabis facility
Where: 12 Latti Farm Road, Millbury
Owner: OCS Millbury LLC
Built: 2020-2022
A “perpetual harvest system” maximizes the efficiency of GreenCare Collective’s newly completed cannabis cultivation, manufacturing and dispensary in Millbury.
Vantage Builders of Waltham recently completed the 100,000-square-foot facility which includes a rolling tray system that transports plants along conveyor racks in each stage of growth. The project included six 9,500-square-foot grow rooms, processing areas, vault storage, a commercial kitchen for edible preparation and corporate office space.
Approximately 2,200 LED lights were installed and each grow room has four different lighting zones to optimize growing conditions. Updates to the industrial building included electrical service power upgrades and the installation of all- new MEP, fire protection and HVAC systems.
Members of the project team included BKA Architects, BLW Engineers, McClure Engineering and Trinity Engineering.
They Said It:
“Our complete focus is on the cannabis plant, and that means having a world-class facility, where we could combine commercial agricultural techniques with the best practices of cannabis cultivation.”
— Charles Smith, general counsel, GreenCare Collective | https://bankerandtradesman.com/hot-property-greencare-collective/ | 2022-08-01T03:57:05Z | https://bankerandtradesman.com/hot-property-greencare-collective/ | false | 1 |
Star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu brought home India’s first gold medal after competing in the Women’s 49kg category at the Commonwealth Games. She lifted a total of 201kg, including a personal best of 88kg in snatch, to win the contest by some margin. The country has been celebrating her feat as congratulations pour in for her. Chanu has been securing some glorious wins for India at the Commonwealth Games with a streak that has continued since Glasgow 2014.
After her win, Chanu shared a video on Twitter, showing how her mother and other relatives were celebrating her victory. In the clip, they could be seen holding hands and dancing while holding the Indian flag. Onlookers were recording the celebration. The sweet video had more congratulations pouring in for Chanu.
My mom and other relatives celebrating victory at my home ✌️ pic.twitter.com/sTCIoTDVwM
— Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (@mirabai_chanu) July 31, 2022
Amazing nurturing filled with gratitude and grace. Bound to see this success. https://t.co/AlKQRlVmqI
— Parikshit Sharma (@curiousbalance) August 1, 2022
Celebrations to bnta hai es bat pr akhir bharat ki sherni ki jeet huwi hai or ek maa kese apni khushi ko rok skti hai💐💐🇮🇳 https://t.co/tdwSxhgxyg
— Abhishek (@Abhishe47370575) August 1, 2022
Congratulations Mirabai. You bring pride to your family and nation. 🇮🇳🇮🇳 https://t.co/9o11Puqp51
— Nikki 🇮🇳 (@Nikkinkk) August 1, 2022
❤️ celebrations are in all over india #PROUD @mirabai_chanu https://t.co/4rDWhK7Faa
— प्रांजल गुप्ता (@Pranjal_Gupta07) July 31, 2022
This was Chanu’s third consecutive medal at the Commonwealth Games as the streak started with Glasgow 2014 where she won the silver and then followed it up with a gold at Gold Coast 2018. However, Birmingham 2022 was her most dominant performance in CWGs so far as she broke her own personal record with a combined effort of 201 Kg.
Replying to a News18 query at a select media interaction organised by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Indian Olympic Association (IOA), Chanu said that the preparations for the Tokyo Olympics and Birmingham CWG were a bit different as she trained on her snatch technique for the ongoing Games which worked in her favour.
“The preparations were a bit different. I worked hard for 5 years to get prepared for Tokyo Olympics as that process started right after the Rio Olympics. I worked on my shortcomings from Rio to get better for Tokyo Olympics. There is a difference between the Olympics and Commonwealth Games. Everybody knows that CWG is a bit easy for me, but I trained hard for it as well. The process was to improve my game for the future and for that it was a fight within,” Chanu said.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
2-5-2-3
(two, five, two, three)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
2-5-2-3
(two, five, two, three)
¶ Maximum prize: $500 | https://www.thehour.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Pick-4-game-17342045.php | 2022-08-01T04:05:37Z | https://www.thehour.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Pick-4-game-17342045.php | true | null |
WUXI, China, July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NeuroXess announced that it has been included in MIT Technology Review's list of the world's 50 smartest companies – the TR50 list – released on July 29 in Wuxi, China. NeuoXess was recognized mainly for its silk-enabled minimally invasive implantable high-throughput flexible brain-machine interface (BMI) system. It is the youngest company (founded in October,2021) to date to make the list. Dr. Tiger H. Tao, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at NeuroXess, attended the award ceremony.
Every year since 2010, MIT Technology Review has assembled the list of what it considers the world's 50 smartest companies, based on two necessary criteria, technology leadership and business acumen, as part of an effort to give an indication of what the future of technology will look like. The TR50 list has long been regarded as one of the most important guides to the world's emerging technologies and a global technology innovation benchmark. The most important factor taken into consideration when putting together the list, is the ability of the firm to implement and commercialize emerging technologies.
NeuroXess is a high-tech life science company focusing on flexible BMI technologies to protect and better understand the brain. The company has put together an outstanding and synergized team from both the academia and the industry to simultaneously achieve the benefits of cutting-edge research and the realization of commercial value. NeuroXess has obtained financing amounting to $15 million earlier this year, just three months post-inception. It was the largest early-stage financing achieved in this field in China.
A single silk-based flexible neural probe consists of thousands of channels for single neuron recording and brain stimulation while the implantation incision is less than 0.7 mm in diameter. The technology has been applied and tested comprehensively in rodent and non-human primate models for preclinical verification. The company has received the clinical ethics approval for its flexible BMI technology to go to clinical trial.
The brain-computer interface technology submission garnered the Super AI Leader, the highest award given at the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The technology was selected as one of the conference's key new findings together with the Huawei Pangu Large Model technology and Alibaba Cloud's Aurora Heterogeneous Computing Acceleration Platform. The technology is also included on the list of the 2021 AI research achievements at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
NeuroXess has achieved several core technology breakthroughs in terms of the manufacturing of the key device for the invasive brain-computer interface. Some of the NeuroXess's devices have already surpassed Neuralink in terms of certain performance indicators.
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Adobe Stock Adobe Stock Read Less by: Lorie Barber Posted: Aug 1, 2022 / 12:00 AM EDT Updated: Aug 1, 2022 / 12:00 AM EDT SHARE MECCA TWP., Ohio (WKBN) — Starting Monday, a section of state Route 46 in Mecca Township will be closed for five days. Crews will be replacing a culvert between State Route 5 and State Route 88. Detours will be posted. | https://www.wytv.com/news/local-news/portion-of-rte-46-to-close-for-construction/ | 2022-08-01T04:19:34Z | https://www.wytv.com/news/local-news/portion-of-rte-46-to-close-for-construction/ | true | null |
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Share Development Opportunities to Embrace a Digital Future
BEIJING, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Digital Economy Conference (hereinafter referred to as GDEC) 2022 opened at the China National Convention Center in Beijing on July 29. This GDEC is hosted by People's Government of Beijing Municipality, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Commerce, Cyberspace Administration of China, and China Association for Science and Technology, and organized by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, People's Government of Lhasa Municipality, Chaoyang District People's Government of Beijing Municipality, China Association of Communications Enterprise, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and Asia Digital Group.
Cai Qi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, announced the opening of the conference. Opening remarks were delivered on behalf of the hosts by Chen Jining, Mayor of Beijing and Deputy Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, Cao Shumin, Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and Vice Minister of the Cyberspace Administration of China, and Xu Kemin, Chief Economist of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the PRC. Vice Mayor of Beijing and Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee Jin Wei moderated the Opening Ceremony, attended by Yin Yong, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, Zhao Lei, Member of the Standing Committee and secretary-general of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, Cui Shuqiang, Executive Vice Mayor of Beijing, and Deputy Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Leading Party Members' Group of the CPPCC Beijing Municipal Committee, and Zhang Guihua, Member of the Leading Party Members' Group and Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the China Association for Science and Technology.
With the theme of "Embrace a Digital Future—New Factors, New Rules, New Patterns", it covers the Main Conference, six theme summits, and nearly 50 thematic forums in an on-site occasion supplemented with online links, centering on the layout of digital infrastructure, the allocation of new data factors, the incubation of emerging digital industries, the innovation of digital core technologies, the construction of digital governance systems, and the cooperation of global rules and standards, while strictly implementing epidemic prevention and control measures. In addition, special activities such as Digital Economy Experience Week, Theme Exhibitions for High-Quality Products in Digital Economy, Global Digital Economy Innovation Competition, and Achievement Release Conference have been organized. Guests from global governments, enterprises, universities, research institutes and finance as well as end-users have been brought together to contribute to the construction of a global model city of digital economy and promote the exchange and cooperation in global digital economy.
Representatives from friendly countries, including Minister of SMEs and Startups of the Republic of Korea Lee Young, State Secretary of the Austrian Ministry of Finance Florian Tursky, and President of the World Economic Forum Børge Brende delivered speeches online at the Opening Ceremony. The "Connect with Major Guests Worldwide" session for discussing digital economy involved Antonio Muñoz Martínez, Mayor of Seville, Spain, Laura Citron, Chief Executive of London & Partners, Anne McLister, Head of Digital Economy in Glasgow City Council, Fiona Ma, California State Treasurer, America, Asbjørn Overgaard, CEO and Managing Director of Copenhagen Capacity, Michael Otter, Director General at Advantage Austria, Alfred F. Kelly, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Visa, Go Khok, Mayor of Lhasa and Deputy Secretary of the CPC Lhasa Municipal Committee, etc.
Keynote speeches on hot topics such as green innovation and development, digital trade, data valuation, and global rule-based governance were delivered at the Main Conference by guests including Wu Hequan, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Liu Shijin, Deputy Director of the Economic Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, Liu Liehong, Chairman of China Unicom, Crawford Del Prete, Global President of IDC Global, and Wang Haifeng, CTO of Baidu. Zhang Li, Executive Vice President of Asia Digital Group, moderated the "Global Digital Economy Development Cooperation Dialogue", involving such guests as Huang Chenhong, Executive Vice President of SAP Global and president of Greater China Region, Zhou Hongyi, Member of the CPPCC National Committee and founder of 360 Group, Qi Xiangdong, Chairman of QI-ANXIN Technology Group Inc., Diao Zhizhong, Chairman of Glodon Company Limited, and Su Tong, Chairman of Hylink. Centering on "Embrace a Digital Future", the guests, in combination with China's development from an international perspective, had in-depth discussions on the status quo and trends of the digital economy, and offered suggestions for the high-quality development of the digital economy.
The Main Conference witnessed the release of the White Paper on Global Digital Economy 2022 by Yu Xiaohui, President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. According to the white paper, the added value of the digital economy in 47 major countries in the world reached 38.1 trillion US dollars in 2021. Among them, the scale of China's digital economy hit 7.1 trillion US dollars, accounting for 18.5% of the total of 47 countries, second only to the United States. Digital technology and innovation remain a global priority of strategic importance, and digital transformation is extending from improving efficiency to upgrading value, and from within enterprises to among industrial chains and value chains. With the rapid development of industrial internet platforms oriented to the real economy, releasing the value of data as a key factor of production has become a common direction for all countries to explore.
Those who participated in the conference online and offline included the leaders of relevant ministries and commissions of China, CPC committees and people's governments in municipality and district levels of Beijing, commissions, offices and administrations of Beijing, and the heads of enterprises, colleges, institutions and associations in and out of China as well as guests from academia and media.
This GDEC has set up the Theme Exhibitions for High-Quality Products in Digital Economy to select leading and promising companies in various fields, focusing on four sections, including digital transformation, emerging digital industries, digital infrastructure and core technologies, and digital governance and global rules. The latest technologies and products of enterprises such as Baidu, Meituan, 360, QI-ANXIN, Cambricon, Alibaba Cloud, ThunderSoft, ABT Networks, Kingsoft Office, and TRS will be displayed. The newly set up Metaverse Experience Hall, with the theme of "New Era Opens Here", shows the audience the latest technologies, economic achievements and advanced application scenarios surrounding metaverse.
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What to watch in primaries in Arizona, Michigan, elsewhere
In Missouri, scandal-ridden former Gov. Eric Greitens is attempting a political comeback. In Michigan, a crowded field of Republican gubernatorial candidates includes a man charged in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack. In Arizona, a prominent figure in the QAnon conspiracy movement is running for the U.S. House.
Those are among some of the most notable contests in Tuesday’s primary elections being held in six states.
Arizona, which Democrat Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020, is a top target for former President Donald Trump, who tried in vain to get his defeat overturned. He has endorsed a slate of candidates up and down the ballot who have promoted his false claims of a stolen election.
Trump has also been zeroed in on the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him over the Jan. 6 insurrection. Three of them are on the ballot Tuesday in Washington state and Michigan, as are two members of “the Squad,” Democratic Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
Meanwhile, Kansas voters could clear the way for the Republican-controlled Legislature to further restrict or ban abortion if they approve a proposed state constitutional change. It’s the first referendum vote on abortion policy by a state since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
Ohio is also holding a primary for state legislative races on Tuesday, three months after its statewide and congressional contests — a split system that resulted from legal wrangling over redistricting.
What to watch:
ARIZONA
Trump’s endorsed candidates in Arizona all have one thing in common: They have loudly disseminated misinformation about the legitimacy of the 2020 election, despite election officials and Trump’s own attorney general saying there is no credible evidence the race was tainted.
In the governor’s race, Trump has backed former television news anchor Kari Lake, who has said that she would not have certified Arizona’s election results in 2020. Lake faces businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson, who is endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence and outgoing Gov. Doug Ducey.
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a staunch defender of the 2020 election, is strongly favored to win the Democratic nomination for governor.
In the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Trump has backed tech investor Blake Masters as the candidate to go up against Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly in the fall. Masters, whose campaign has been bankrolled by billionaire Peter Thiel, has called for reducing legal immigration and espoused the baseless “great replacement” conspiracy theory, claiming Democrats are trying to “replace Americans who were born here.”
Attorney General Mark Brnovich, another Senate candidate, has been weighed down by lackluster fundraising and fierce criticism from Trump, who says Brnovich did little to advance his election fraud claims. Another top candidate, Jim Lamon, the founder of a solar energy firm, has touted his experience as a military veteran and entrepreneur.
The Republican primary for secretary of state includes Trump-backed legislator Mark Finchem, a state representative who worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss; state Rep. Shawnna Bolick, who introduced a bill to let legislators ignore election results and choose their own presidential electors; and state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, who has long pushed to overhaul election laws. The GOP establishment has rallied around advertising executive Beau Lane in the race.
Ron Watkins, who has ties to the QAnon conspiracy theory, is considered a long shot in his House run. Watkins, a Republican, served as the longtime administrator of the online message boards that became the home of the anonymous “Q.” The conspiracy theory is centered around the baseless belief that Trump waged a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state” and that a group of satanic, cannibalistic child molesters secretly runs the globe.
In the state Legislature, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who testified at a Jan. 6 hearing about Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 election, faces a Trump-backed candidate in his bid to run for the state Senate.
MICHIGAN
The Republican primary for governor was wild from the start, with five candidates getting kicked off the ballot for failing to file enough valid nominating signatures.
Several of the remaining candidates have baggage that could hurt in a general election against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Real estate broker Ryan Kelley has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges after authorities said he rallied Trump’s supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol. Businessman Kevin Rinke was sued in the 1990s for sex harassment and racial discrimination — allegations he says were lies. Chiropractor Garrett Soldano hawked supplements he falsely claimed treated COVID-19. Businesswoman Tudor Dixon, who has been endorsed by Trump, has previously acted in low-budget horror pictures, one of which included a zombie biting off a man’s genitals.
All of the candidates falsely say there was fraud in the 2020 election, with Dixon, Kelley and Soldano saying the election was stolen from Trump.
Republican Rep. Peter Meijer is hoping to hold on to his seat after voting to impeach Trump. The former president has endorsed businessman and missionary John Gibbs, who worked in the Trump administration under Housing Secretary Ben Carson.
MISSOURI
Greitens’ political career appeared over when he resigned as governor in 2018, following his admission to an extramarital affair and accusations of blackmail and campaign finance violations. On Tuesday, the former Navy SEAL officer has a chance at redemption in his Republican primary for the seat held by retiring GOP U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt.
Greitens, Attorney General Eric Schmitt and U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler are the front-runners in a crowded 21-person GOP field that includes U.S. Rep. Billy Long and Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis lawyer who along with his wife pointed guns at racial injustice protesters who ventured onto their private street.
Trump has not made an endorsement in the race, though he’s ruled out Hartzler.
The GOP winner in Missouri, a solidly Republican state, will be favored in November. But Republican leaders have long worried that Greitens — his ex-wife has also accused him of abuse, allegations Greitens has called “baseless” — could win the primary but lose the general election.
On the Democratic side, the nomination appears to be up for grabs between Lucas Kunce, a Marine veteran and self-proclaimed populist, and Trudy Busch Valentine, an heiress of the Busch beer fortune who has largely self-funded her campaign.
WASHINGTON
Two Republican House members from Washington state who voted to impeach Trump face primary challengers endorsed by him.
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who has been in Congress since 2011, has said she voted for impeachment because she had “an obligation to the Constitution.” Trump has endorsed Joe Kent, a former Green Beret and a conservative cable show regular who echoes the former president’s grievances about the 2020 election outcome.
Rep. Dan Newhouse, a congressman since 2015, said he cast the vote to impeach Trump for inciting and refusing to immediately stop the Jan. 6 insurrection. Among his challengers is Loren Culp, a Trump-backed former small-town police chief who refused to concede the 2020 governor’s race to Democrat Jay Inslee.
In Washington, the top two vote-getters in each race, regardless of party, move forward to November.
KANSAS
Voters will decide whether to approve a change to the state constitution that could allow the Legislature to restrict or ban abortion despite a 2019 state Supreme Court ruling that abortion access is a fundamental right. It’s the first referendum on abortion by a state since Roe v. Wade’s reversal.
In statewide races, Republican Kris Kobach is running for attorney general as he attempts a political comeback following losses in races for governor and U.S. Senate in previous years. Kobach, the state’s former secretary of state, served as vice chair of a short-lived Trump commission on election fraud after the 2016 election.
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Associated Press writers Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix; Sara Burnett in Chicago; Jim Salter in O’Fallon, Missouri; Chris Grygiel in Seattle; and John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas; contributed to this report.
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Delhi government extends existing licenses of liquor shops
By ANI | Published: August 1, 2022 09:23 AM2022-08-01T09:23:17+5:302022-08-01T09:30:07+5:30
The AAP government in the national capital has decided to extend the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 by extending the license tenure for shops selling liquor, before it brings back the old excise regime, according to sources.
The AAP government in the national capital has decided to extend the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 by extending the license tenure for shops selling liquor, before it brings back the old excise regime, according to sources.
The government said that it reverted the new excise policy to the old regime that was prevalent till November 16, 2021, for a period of six months with effect from September 1, 2022, while also extending the tenure of the licenses which were expiring on July 31, for a month.
Under the old policy of the government, both government and private vends sold the liquor, which was changed to private only in the new policy. However, the government reverted to the old policy after protests by the Opposition (in Delhi) BJP in the national capital.
The move of the government came after Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena recommended a CBI probe into the alleged violations in the implementation of the policy.
Liquor will be sold only through government-run shops from August 1.
However, the government is considering extending the tenure of the licenses which were expiring on July 31, 2022, to extend for another month till August 31, 2022.
"Considering the tenure of existing licenses, expiring on July 31, 2022, and to maintain the confidence of people at large in the administration, the GNCTD has extended the existing licenses for a month till August 31, 2022, for the transition to take effect," the GNCTD sources said.
"Seized of the fact that the Excise Policy 2021-22 is not able to achieve the desired objectives of fetching greater revenues as envisaged and projected, and owing to the fact that the said policy has been flagged with many an issue that is under detailed examination/investigation by agencies, the Government of National Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) has decided to revert to the old policy (prevalent till 16th November 2021) for a period of six months with effect from September 1, 2022," added the sources.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also heads the Excise Department, claimed that his party's government brought in a new excise policy to curb graft but central agencies were used to threaten shopkeepers as well as state officials. Targeting the BJP, he claimed this was done to encourage the sale of illegal as well as spurious liquor.
"We have decided to withdraw the new policy and ordered liquor be sold only through government-run shops. We have done this so that no one can sell illegal or spurious liquor in the capital. I have ordered the state chief secretary to ensure there is no corruption," Sisodia said at a press conference.
Sisodia claimed that licenses were issued through open tenders in a transparent manner in the new excise policy.
He claimed that before 2021, liquor was sold in Delhi through government shops and alleged there was a lot of corruption.
"I also carried out some raids," he said.
"Our government brought a new policy last year. Earlier, there used to be some private shops, but they would be allotted to near and dear ones. We ended this system and brought a new policy. We carried out a transparent auction. We decided that, like earlier, there will be only 850 shops. The government used to earn a revenue of Rs 6000 crore every year, but under the new policy, the revenue would have risen to Rs 9,500 crore," Sisodia claimed.
He said that there were 468 shops functional and many more planned to leave the shops.
"They (BJP) want to create a liquor shortage in Delhi and want to encourage illegal and spurious liquor trade," he alleged.
The excise policy was passed in chief minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Cabinet in the middle of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic in 2021.
The Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) is also conducting a probe into the matter. There has also been a face-off between Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena and the Delhi government's top brass over the new liquor policy.
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FC Barcelona and ACNUR present their alliance in New York to fight for refugee rights
MADRID, July 29 (European press) –
FC Barcelona, together with its foundation, and UNHCR/ACNUR presented Thursday at the symbolic Rockefeller Center in New York the strategic alliance they signed last June to fight for refugee rights.
This agreement with the United Nations implies joint work with the Blaugrana Team Foundation to implement projects in Colombia, Uganda, Turkey and Malaysia, countries hosting refugees and displaced persons.
As reported by the Blaugrana Club, projects this season will begin in Colombia to promote safe and protective environments for children and youth from Venezuela, internally displaced children and youth affected by armed conflict; In Malaysia, it is expected to improve the living conditions and emotional well-being of Rohingya refugee children and adolescents from Myanmar.
In Uganda, the project will focus on health, sports and environmental protection issues for young people who have had to flee South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Finally, in Izmir (Turkey), increased protection, participation and inclusion of children and youth from different countries of origin, especially from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, is expected.
Fundació FC Barcelona will contribute €400,000 per season and will be distributed equally to each project, it will also make donations of club sports equipment worth €100,000 per season and experts in the Foundation’s “SportNet” methodology will be provided in sports for development and the promotion of peace and social cohesion.
“This agreement is part of the priorities that FC Barcelona and its Foundation have set for this new phase that I have the honor to preside as a focus on the fact that refugees and displaced persons are people like us who have been forced to leave their homes by force. We must protect them, especially girls, boys and young people in different countries around the world,” he said. Laporta, who was accompanied by Xavi Hernandez, Jordi Alba, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Sergi Roberto, Frank Kessie and former players Thierry. Henry and Giuliano Belletti.
On her part, Dr. Marta Sego, Director General of the Foundation, explained the details of the alliance and the projects on which the two institutions will work together, and noted that one of the first results of the alliance is that the male and female LaLiga Genuine football team wear the UN Refugee Agency logo on the back of their shirts.
Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner, also shared a video in which he stressed the need to “work together to ensure that these people, boys and girls, women and men, are not left behind” and that this alliance “means sending a very strong message of solidarity towards refugees and displaced persons, as “Using the power of sport, we help homeless and refugee children rebuild their lives,” he said.
Eric Adams, Mayor of New York, and Ruvindrini Menikdiwela, Director of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees/UNHCR, were other attendees at the event, which witnessed his most special moment when Mary Maker, a refugee and activist from South Sudan, She shared with us his personal experience in a refugee camp in Kenya and the importance of education to changing the lives of refugees.
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There has been a mixture of weather prevailing over Leeds recently leaving residents unsure if they need to pop on their flipflops or take out an umbrella.
Temperatures have remained fairly warm across the city, Monday is expected to be a fine day all around.
Early isolated rain showers are expected but will soon clear. There will also be spells of sunshine across the region.
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However heading into the afternoon cloud will thicken from the west, and rain will spread through the east during the evening. Temperatures are expected to reach a maximum of 24C.
Here is a breakdown of the temperatures for Leeds this Monday (August 1):
6am - 15C - Cloudy
7am - 15C - Cloudy
8am - 15C - Cloudy
9am - 17C - Sunny
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By day, jazz drummer Matt Wilson teaches his craft at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. By night, he practices it with legends like Lee Konitz at storied venues like the Village Vanguard. His band Arts and Crafts, which features Terell Stafford (trumpet), Gary Versace (piano, organ and accordion) and Martin Wind (bass), has a new album called An Attitude for Gratitude.
Wilson says he discovered the drums in the first grade, while listening to records by old-school timekeepers like Buddy Rich and Max Roach.
"When I heard Max Roach — I'll never forget it — it was a summer day," Wilson tells NPR's Guy Raz. "I heard that kind of playing, the drums really singing, and that's when it started to really come together."
Wilson says he isn't exaggerating when he describes percussion as "singing."
"For me, I feel that the drums are a strong melodic instrument," he says. "I hear melody in all rhythm."
The element of the drum set that carries that melody, Wilson says, is the ride cymbal.
"It's really part of the sound," he says. "Like Terell Stafford, for example: He says all the music really comes from the ride cymbal. He's a trumpet player. He says everything really emerges from that sound."
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 31, 2022
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...FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Watch is cancelled for a portion of Southern California,
including the following areas, Apple and Lucerne Valleys, Riverside
County Mountains and San Bernardino County Mountains.
Flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to
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RAJKOT: Four members of a gang were arrested by Gandhidham police of Kutch for pilfering propane gas from a tanker on the Morbi-Miyana highway late on Saturday night.
Those arrested were identified as Deepak Boriya (37), Ramnik alias Dinesh Chavda (49), tanker driver Guddu Nishad (40) and Vipul Miyatra (26). The police have recovered 11 tonnes of propane gas worth Rs 11 lakh, 36 gas cylinders, one gas tanker, an SUV and two phones from the accused.
According to police, the incident took place in Juna Sadulka village on Morbi-Miyana highway.
The accused had an arrangement with tanker driver
Guddu who drove the tanker from Gandhidham to Juna Sadulka village.
The accused then transferred the gas to empty cylinders. However, the police raided the place based on specific information and busted the gang. The gang used to sell the stolen gas to industries at lower rates. | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/gas-pilfering-racket-busted/articleshow/93260132.cms | 2022-08-01T05:09:07Z | https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/gas-pilfering-racket-busted/articleshow/93260132.cms | true | null |
DOUBLE DELIGHT: Sathiyan featured in both the singles and doubles matches. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
A day after the women team's shock exit from the table tennis event at the Commonwealth Games, Indian men kept the country's medal hopes alive by marching into the semifinals with comfortable ease on Sunday.
In a mismatch, defending champions India thrashed Bangladesh 3-0 in the quarterfinal to set up a semifinal clash with Nigeria in the semifinal on Monday night.
The men's team, which topped their group by winning all their three matches by identical 3-0 margin against Barbados, Singapore and Northern Ireland to make the quarterfinals, carried on in the same vein. The doubles pair of Harmeet Desai and Sathiyan Gnansekaran gave the side an early lead by easing past Ramhimilian Bawm and Mohutasin Ahmed Ridoy of Bangladesh in three straight games 11-8, 11-6, 11-2.
Sharath Kamal almost toyed with Md Rifat Sibbar in the first singles winning 3-0 (11-4, 11-7, 11-2) to extend India's lead.
Sathiyan did not want to prolong things as he dominated from the word go to finish off his opposition Ridoy 3-0 (11-2, 11-3, 11-5) to seal the tie.
Plenty to ponder for women
There's plenty to ponder for the Indian women paddlers before the start of the singles events after they crashed out of the CWG team event by going down to Malaysia 2-3 in the seesaw battle in the quarterfinals late on Saturday night.
India failed to seize the opportunity in spite of being 2-1 up at one stage of the five-game contest. Much was expected from Manika Batra, but the country's star player was completely blown away before a lowly-ranked opposition Karen Lyne who thrashed the reigning CWG title holder 0-3 (6-11, 3-11, 9-11) in her second singles match in the quarterfinal.
Staging a dream comeback, Malaysia took the contest to the final game with scores being tied at 2-2. CWG debutant Reeth Tennison did put up a brave fight in the women's singles decider against Ying Ho, but the 26-year-old failed to take India home falling to 2-3 (12-10, 8-11, 11-6, 9-11, 9-11) defeat.
India suffered an early setback as Tennison/Sreeja Akula lost the doubles opening match 1-3 (7-11, 6-11, 11-5, 11-6) to Malaysia's Lyne and Chang. But Batra came to the rescue, getting past Ho 3-2 (11-8, 11-5, 8-11, 9-11, 11-3) in the women's singles encounter to make it 1-1. Akula showed great maturity in disposing off Chang in the next singles tie winning 3-0 (11-6, 11-6, 11-9).
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Paris St Germain's Neymar scored twice with
Lionel Messi and
Sergio Ramos contributing the other two goals as they romped to a 4-0 victory over Nantes in the French Super Cup at the Bloomfield Stadium on Sunday.
It was the ninth time in 10 years that the Parisians had won the traditional season-opening clash between the Ligue 1 champions and the French Cup winners, which has been regularly played outside of the country over the last decade.
PSG’s array of world class talent did not disappoint the Israeli crowd with Messi opening the scoring in the 22nd minute, after a through ball from Neymar that allowed him to round the goalkeeper and net from a tight angle.
Neymar added a second from a curling free kick on the stroke of halftime before Sergio Ramos, who spent most of last season out injured after his move from Real Madrid, added the third with an audacious backheel from close range in the 57th minute.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 1, 2022
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940 PM PDT Sun Jul 31 2022
...FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH MONDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast California and southern Nevada,
including the following areas, in southeast California, Death
Valley National Park, Eastern Mojave Desert, Morongo Basin, Owens
Valley and Western Mojave Desert. In southern Nevada, Spring
Mountains-Red Rock Canyon.
* WHEN...Through Monday evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Low-water crossings may be flooded.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Conditions continue to be favorable for flash flooding
overnight through Monday night. Chances are lesser during the
overnight hours but isolated heavy rainfall will continue to
be possible, especially for parts of Death Valley and other
areas that have already seen extensive rainfall. Another
round of scattered thunderstorms is expected on Monday
afternoon.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast California, including the following
areas, Eastern Sierra Slopes and White Mountains of Inyo County.
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'Biden Is a Disgrace to Humankind': Bongino Gives Potentially Most Brutal Biden Segment in History
Commentator Dan Bongino held nothing back Saturday as he excoriated President Joe Biden over Biden’s failure to put a dent in the flood of illegal drugs corroding lives across America.
Bongino said Biden’s deliberate action to allow drugs to flow across the border by refusing to put in place barriers to illegal immigration is a root cause of the spread of illegal drugs such as fentanyl.
“Listen, I had a bad week, and I’ve had it with the Biden administration. I’m done. My goose is cooked here,” he began.
“Joe Biden is a disgrace to humankind. He is — he’s completely turned his back on the disastrous crisis on our southern border,” he said.
“And because of that, he is a direct accomplice to the mass murder of thousands of American citizens,” Bongino said.
WATCH: @dbongino has an explosive message for Biden on his disgraceful handling of the deadly border crisis👇
“Joe Biden is a disgrace to human kind. He is. He has completely turned his back from the disastrous crisis at the southern border” pic.twitter.com/uwCppixKXg
— Unfiltered with Dan Bongino (@UnfilteredOnFox) July 31, 2022
Bongino said he was being accurate, not slinging mud.
“Listen, I use my words carefully and very deliberately, and I mean every single word of that. Before you say, ‘Hey, slow down,’ let’s take a look at the definition of the word accomplice,” he said.
“According to Merriam-Webster, an accomplice is, quote: ‘One associated with another, especially in wrongdoing.’ Keep that in your head as I go through the rest of this here,” he said.
Bongino then linked the lack of border security with the spread of illegal, deadly drugs.
President Biden’s open border policy is turning every state into a border state.
The fentanyl crossing the border is coming to your community.
Tennessee now ranks top five in the country for drug overdoses.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) July 27, 2022
“It’s a fact, our kids are being intentionally killed and poisoned, intentionally using fentanyl brought in through the border by drug cartels in Mexico, and it originates with the Chinese Communist Party, the chemicals for the fentanyl,” he said.
“Listen, the stats don’t lie, folks. They don’t lie. U.S. overdose deaths in the year ending in February of 2022 surged nearly 20 percent in just one year. And the number’s going up, it’s not going down,” he said.
“But what happens when thousands of these same migrants are put on busses at the border and sent to blue cities like Washington, D.C.? Suddenly it’s a crisis so overwhelming, the Democrats demand federal intervention,” he said.
Bongino said the crisis is not limited to the illegal immigrants seeping through America.
“The drugs brought in by the cartels are poisoning thousands of Americans,” he said, citing Denver, Nashville and Chicago as cities where overdose deaths are ”skyrocketing.”
When will the insanity be stopped? https://t.co/8yY9cxXfuX
— Jules (@julievriahi) July 31, 2022
Noting the deaths due to fentanyl, Bongino doubled down on his bottom line: “Biden is an accomplice to mass murder.”
Speaking of parents who have been pleading for action to stop the fentanyl crisis, Bongino said, “This disgraceful administration has the nerve to spit in their faces and lie to us as our children are dying.”
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Actor Salman Khan gets arms licence after death threats
Mumbai, Aug 01: Actor Salman Khan has been issued an Arms licence after he applied for it for self-protection following threat letters that he received recently.
The Tiger 3 actor had applied for a gun licence for self-protection. Salman met the Police Commissioner in context of the license.
A tweet by ANI read, "Actor Salman Khan applied for a weapon license for self-protection at the Mumbai CP office after he recently received a threat letter: Mumbai Police."
For the unversed, after the assassination of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, Salman Khan and his father Salim Khan received a death threat letter from the same gang which murdered Moosewala. The letter reportedly had two signatories with just the initials G.B. and L.B., which were interpreted as the names of Lawrence Bishnoi and his Canada-based aide Goldy Brar.
Salman Khan meets Mumbai CP over death threat letter, seeks permission for weapon license
Reportedly, Bishnoi wanted to kill Salman Khan over the Chinkara poaching case in Jodhpur, Rajasthan during the filming of Hum Saath Saath Hain in 1998.
Bishnoi, who is currently being probed in connection with the case of Moosewala's murder, had told the cops that Salman and his father Salim Khan will have to render a public apology in Jambaji temple or else the Bishnoi community will kill them.
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Marvel’s Jon Favreau tried to get the Russo brothers to cut major Avengers: Endgame twist
‘You can’t do this. It’s gonna devastate people,’ filmmaker told the directing pair
Iron Man director Jon Favreau tried to talk the Russo Brothers out of Avengers: Endgame’s climactic twist.
Anthony and Joe Russo, who directed the 2019 Marvel team-up blockbuster, revealed that Favreau had contacted them personally when he learned their intentions for Endgame.
Spoilers follow – you have been warned...
Speaking in a new video for Vanity Fair, the Russos revealed that Favreau had pushed back on their decision to kill off the character of Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark (AKA Iron Man) at the end of the film.
In the film, Iron Man dies after using the Infinity Gauntlet to defeat Thanos and save the world.
Anthony Russo said that the filmmakers had faced “pressure” not to kill off Tony, who was arguably the most popular character in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.
“Part of the pressure came from Jon Favreau, who called us up after he read the script and said to us, ‘Are you guys really going to kill Iron Man?’” he said.
“He did,” Joe Russo added. “I remember pacing on the corner of a stage on the phone with Favreau trying to talk him off a ledge. Because he’s like, ‘You can’t do this. It’s gonna devastate people, and you don’t want them, you know, walking out of the theater and into traffic.’ We did it anyways.”
Earlier this week, Marvel boss Kevin Feige revealed how the forthcoming Fantastic Four film will differ from previous adaptations.
Feige also took the oppurtunity to clear up a mystery many Marvel fans had been wondering about since the release of Endgame in 2019.
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Noted Disaster Recovery industry veteran joins Lonestar as Chief Data Officer to bring key data storage and edge processing infrastructure to the Moon.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S.-based Lonestar Data Holdings, Inc. today announced it is scaling its enterprise DRaaS and BaaS division by naming industry IT veteran Will Hawkins as its Chief Data Officer. Hawkins, who founded data protection-focused firm Enterprise Data Solutions, Inc. in 2011, has earned accolades across multiple industries for helping architect and implement customized client-focused data management & disaster recovery solutions. At Lonestar, Hawkins will be rounding out a team of industry leaders from Cloud and Space verticals who are leveraging the unique attributes of the Moon to offer unprecedented immutable data backup and edge services.
As a data protection professional focused on leading data protection, disaster recovery, data management, and business continuity solutions for the industry, Hawkins brings over twenty years' experience to Lonestar.
"I am honored to be a part of the Lonestar team as we develop a blueprint for providing clients with a secure, immutable data storage solution," Hawkins said. "Utilizing our presence on the lunar surface to preserve a digital backup of humanity is an exciting path forward into a developing market, and I am excited to bring the skills I've cultivated throughout my career to help advance the Lonestar mission."
Chris Stott, CEO, said, "Will is a superb addition to our founding team. His experience is beyond compare and he is a great addition to our team as we work to bring a new epoch to premium global data storage."
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. (Lonestar®), headquartered in St Petersburg's Maritime and Defense Technology Hub, has been founded by a proven team of experts from the Cloud and Space verticals to pioneer a future for data at the edge for all of us. Lonestar is fueled by remarkable and visionary investors led by Scout Ventures, Seldor Capital, and 2 Future Holding.
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Homicide inquiry continues after man, 33, found dead in rural Taranaki
Police are investigating a third homicide in less than three months, after the discovery of a man’s body at a rural South Taranaki property.
On Sunday, about 8.40am, the body of the 33-year-old man was found at an Upper Kina Rd address in Oaonui, which is about 10km from Opunake.
The body was found by a person known to the man, who was from Taranaki.
On Monday morning, the body remained at the rural farm property, as a full scene investigation continued.
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Detective Inspector Brent Matuku said the man’s parents had been notified about his death, but his name would not be publicly released until formal identification procedures were carried out on Tuesday.
It is likely the post-mortem would also be completed on Tuesday, Matuku said.
He said the nature of the scene, including the location of the body, deemed the circumstances of the death as “very suspicious”.
While he would not make any specific comment about the possible cause of death ahead of the post-mortem, Matuku said there were obvious signs of physical trauma on the man’s body.
On Monday morning, a lone police officer was on duty outside a weatherboard farmhouse on Upper Kina Rd, where the curtains were drawn, and the house looked empty.
Other vehicles were parked near an entrance just along the road, where a patrol car and police tape blocked the farm access track.
News of the death had shocked a man who lived on a different farm along Upper Kina Rd.
“It’s normally really peaceful around here,” Blair, who gave only his first name, said. “I was gobsmacked, it’s a little bit close to home.”
He had heard the dead man was a farm worker who had been in the job for just a few months, but he had not met him.
The Oaonui inquiry joins two other active homicide inquiries under way in Taranaki, which Matuku said placed a “significant strain” on police resources.
The first is the unsolved, May 7 homicide of Adrian Humphreys, who was found dead at a Tāngarākau campground in east Taranaki.
The other is the May 27 death of Emma Field, whose body was found after a house fire in New Plymouth..
A man is facing charges in relation to her death.
Matuku said police “run a good team” across the central policing district, and staff from Manawatū were due to arrive in Taranaki on Monday to assist with the Oaonui investigation.
“We’ve got enough staff to do what we need to do.”
He added that police do not work in isolation, and also received information from the community which bolstered their inquiry efforts.
“I’m confident, as with other previous homicide investigations, that we will get there.”
Matuku said forensic investigators would continue its work at the Upper Kina Rd scene on Tuesday, and officers would canvas the area to speak to people.
A specialist search team is being considered as well, due to the terrain of the area, he said.
Meanwhile, Matuku was positive a “breakthrough” was on the horizon regarding Operation Bushlands, or the investigation into Adrian Humphreys’ death.
This week a specialist search team will be scouring the Tāngarākau Valley for clues.
Previous searches, including by a police dive squad team, have been carried out to date, but Matuku said bad weather had hampered progress.
In terms of Field’s death, Leigh Matthew Frederick Beer, a 31-year-old man from New Plymouth, is facing charges of murder and arson.
Wensor has yet to enter a plea and his mental health was currently being assessed to determine his fitness to do so.
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By Carolyn Webb
First published in The Age on August 3, 1997
Hanson-mania grips Southland
Wall-to-wall screaming teenagers, mostly girls, jammed the Southland Shopping Centre car park at Cheltenham yesterday.
Anyone who walked away from the American group Hanson mini-concert without ringing in their ears was not really there.
More than 20,000 hysterical fans were in pop heaven when Hanson brothers Isaac, 16, Taylor, 14, and Zachary, 11, performed a short but spirited set.
They are on a whirlwind promotional tour of Australia.
When the group took the stage just after 11.30am, the crowd surged forward, jamming young girls against a barrier.
While security guards were lifting about 50 distressed fans to safety, some being taken away on stretchers, the Hansons pleaded for calm.
“Everybody step hack... we don’t want anybody to die here,” said Taylor Hanson.
From then, the only discomfort was caused by the pitch of the screams once the blond trio, dressed in simple pants and skivvies with their hair in ponytails, had launched into their first song, ‘Madeleine’.
The group, with Isaac on acoustic guitar, Taylor on tambourine and Zachary shaking a maraca, performed three more songs — ‘The Man from Milwaukee’, ‘A Minute Without You’ and ‘MMMBop’, its smash hit.
Tears flowed as each girl mouthed the words and hopped to the beat.
Their devotion was rewarded by an encore of a perfectly harmonised, a cappella rendition of ‘MMMBop’ — and then the idols were gone.
It was all too much for distraught Greenvale youngster Erin Nelson, 14.
“I want Zac to come back – why can’t they ask them to come back?” she pleaded.
The St John Ambulance treated 48 People for minor complaints. “I think for most of them it was just hysteria,” a spokeswoman said.
“It was a very young age group and they got a little bit overcome with hyperventilation or just being tired and emotional.
“Most of them we just sat them down and, once they stopped crying, everything was OK.”
Two people were taken to hospital, one with a back injury, the other with possible concussion.
About 30 people had slept the night in the car park to ensure a front spot.
Mrs Lee Stevens, daughter Tiffany, 11, and friends Brad Osborne, 13, and sister Rebecca. 11, from Laverton, slept in sleeping bags and on blankets near the stage.
Mrs Stevens said: “My daughter said, ‘I’ve got to go, I’ve got to go up the front, I’ve got to see them’.
“And I said yes, without hesitation. This is like the Beatles and Elvis, or Skyhooks, when I was young. If a mother can’t fulfil her child’s dream, who can?”
The crowd started building at 5am. By 11am, with Hanson due, it stretched the length of the undercover car park on the western side of the shopping centre.
The event was to have been in the shopping centre but safety concerns prompted Southland management to stage it in the car park.
The Hanson group screamed on to the rock music charts in May with ‘MMMBop’. Although its words have no apparent meaning, the catchy tune has hooked fans worldwide.
According to the Australian Record Industry Association ‘MMMBop’ was nine weeks at the top of the singles chart before falling to second last week.
‘MMMBop’ is said to have sold more than 140,000 copies in Australia since its release on 19 May. | https://www.watoday.com.au/national/victoria/from-the-archives-1997-hanson-hysteria-grips-southland-20220728-p5b5fc.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national | 2022-08-01T05:48:29Z | https://www.watoday.com.au/national/victoria/from-the-archives-1997-hanson-hysteria-grips-southland-20220728-p5b5fc.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national | true | 9 |
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Stakeholders Advocate Use of Pro-health Taxes to Bridge Budget Gap
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
Participants in a conference on health financing policy in Nigeria have urged the federal government to adopt a robust and equitable distribution of pro-health taxes imposed on alcohol, tobacco and sugar sweetened beverages as a means of bridging the gap in funding of healthcare services for the people.
The conference which was organised by Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN), PharmAccess Foundation, Nigeria Healthwatch and the World Bank in Abuja, had several stakeholders including, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe; the Director General of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Prof. Mohammed Nasir Sambo; the DG of the Budget Office of the Federation, Mr Ben Akabueze; the First Lady of Kebbi State, Dr. Zainab Bagudu, amongst others in attendance.
The conference looked at new health financing approaches in Nigeria while focusing on the implementation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) tax in Nigeria.
The President of the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN), Dr. Pamela Ajayi in her presentation urged government to use the opportunity of the implementation of the taxes to bridge the gap in healthcare funding in Nigeria, a move she said would significantly help in achieving the SDG goals of universal health coverage and the Abuja Declaration.
According to her, HFN had been a strong proponent for the implementation of the pro-health taxes, adding that it had written to the Minister of Finance last year to support the increase of existing taxes on alcohol and tobacco and the introduction of new taxes on SSB, highlighting countries that had successfully used such taxes to improve healthcare.
She said countries such as Philippines, Australia, and Korea amongst others had successfully implemented the policy.
“HFN recommended that these taxes be used to provide coverage to the indigent population and to scale up mandatory health insurance coverage for all Nigerians with a percentage of the revenue being earmarked for specific impact health related schemes as well as research and development particularly in the areas of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer,” she said .
She also called for the creation of a legal framework to secure these funds “ring-fencing” them for healthcare and the formation of a committee with relevant stakeholders (both public and private) to ensure equitable and sustainable disbursement of the funds for the improvement of healthcare in the country.
The Country Director PharmAccess Foundation and Vice President of the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN), Mrs. Njide Ndili, said Nigeria needs to identify innovative and sustainable ways to finance the health sector without reliance on donor funds.
She said that funds from development partners should be seen as additional to the country’s sources of finance for health.
Also speaking in an interview at the event, Mr. Kolapo Fapohunda, the West African Health Policy and Partnership Lead at Roche and Publicity Secretary of the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria (HFN) commended the government of Nigeria for the establishment and implementation of the SSB tax and encouraged the government to ensure the funds are earmarked for the health sector to improve access to equitable health for all Nigerians.
He further stated that just as was the case during the COVID-19 pandemic, the private sector has a major role to play in improving healthcare and ensuring health security of the nation.
HFN is a coalition of Nigerian private healthcare sector stakeholders, an apolitical, non-partisan, non-profit organisation speaking with a unified voice for the purpose of improving the Nigerian Health Sector through advocacy. | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/08/01/stakeholders-advocate-use-of-pro-health-taxes-to-bridge-budget-gap/ | 2022-08-01T05:48:32Z | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/08/01/stakeholders-advocate-use-of-pro-health-taxes-to-bridge-budget-gap/ | false | 1 |
At a Blue Mass July 20 in Seward, a Liturgy that honored first responders, the 1977 Johnstown Flood – the 86 who perished in that natural disaster – were remembered in prayer.
Father William Lechnar, pastor, invited all to recall the victims, those who sacrificed so much and put their own lives at risk during the flood, and those who suffered in the days following the 12 inches of rain that fell 45 years ago on July 19–20.
Additionally, the 2,208 victims who died in the Johnstown Flood of 1889, and the 25 who perished in that same region in the Flood of 1936, were honored.
The tradition of a Blue Mass began at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., to honor the more than 1,000 firefighters and law enforcement officers who were present, many dressed in blue uniforms.
This Mass took place on Sept. 29, 1934, the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, patron saint of those in the military, law enforcement, medical response and those who serve in any first responder role.
Following the Mass in Seward, fire trucks, police cars and other EMS vehicles and equipment were blessed along with those present.
Father William J. Lechnar
Seward | https://www.tribdem.com/news/editorials/readers_forum/letter-to-the-editor-blue-mass-in-seward-honors-first-responders/article_3a900b88-0c24-11ed-b8da-1fb49b251e43.html | 2022-08-01T05:58:43Z | https://www.tribdem.com/news/editorials/readers_forum/letter-to-the-editor-blue-mass-in-seward-honors-first-responders/article_3a900b88-0c24-11ed-b8da-1fb49b251e43.html | false | 1 |
Home | Worstead Festival – Saturday and Sunday, July 30
Date published: 28th July 2022
This weekend (July 30 – 31) the Worstead Festival will return after a two-year hiatus.
The festival will take place in the East North Norfolk village of Worstead, with the main festival area, a car park on Honing Row and a tractor shuttle service to the main festival site.
This event raises money to support local organisations and groups through grants for projects throughout the year. Grants have been previously awarded to the Worstead Parish Council, primary schools, Worstead parent, toddler and baby groups, parish churches and other community organisations.
Visitors will be able to access the Display Ring, which features a circus, egg throwing, sheep, ducks and dogs. There will also be chef demonstrations by award-winning chefs, food stalls, the traditional Worstead game of egg throwing, artisan craft stalls and live music.
Children will get the chance to build LEGO towers, make bird feeders, take on the climbing wall, shoot arrows and jump on the bouncy castles.
The 14th Century St Mary’s Church is also part of the festival, hosting a flower festival, choirs, weavers, a Songs of Praise on Sunday morning and a choral evensong in the evening.
Gates are open between 10am and 7pm (Saturday) and 10am and 6pm (Sunday).
Entry tickets cost £6 or £10 for a weekend pass. Under 12’s can attend for free and parking is also free. It is attempting to be a cashless event.
There is a Tractor Trailer shuttle that runs between the car park, the train station and the main festival site.
Cllr. Saul Penfold, local councillor said:
“I love the Worstead Festival as it has something for everyone – it is a wonderful day out for all the family. I am very proud of how the community in Worstead comes together to put on such a fantastic event. A highlight for me this year will be commentating on the egg throwing in the Display Ring!”
This is a popular event which supports the local community as well as providing a great day out for the whole family. | https://www.newsanyway.com/2022/08/01/home-worstead-festival-saturday-and-sunday-july-30/ | 2022-08-01T06:00:28Z | https://www.newsanyway.com/2022/08/01/home-worstead-festival-saturday-and-sunday-july-30/ | true | 1 |
The creators of pop music are usually able to break down the fundamentals of their craft — that search for the clever rhyme, the killer beat, the singable chorus. They are less articulate, understandably, about the other quest, the one that powers those everyday searches: the pursuit of ecstasy in sound. There's something almost paranormal about that part of the creative process, yet we know those moments, instantly, when we hear them. Michael Jackson throwing everything into the magnetic force field that is "Beat It." The pastel gloriousness of the harmonies in The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows." Beyoncé's deftly swooping siren call in "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)."
If that rush seems scarce these days, blame the grid. Music made on computers and conceptualized within the framework of software tends to be more predictable, more uniform in terms of peaks and valleys. The cut-and-paste method of sound manipulation makes things easier from a production standpoint, but there's a tradeoff: The elements usually line up in orderly fashion. Musical structures built on loops and patterns can be hypnotic, but those comforting repetitions seem to discourage creators from heeding the wild impulse, the reckless full-throttle scramble up the mountain.
It's a kind of velvet handcuff, this technology. So it's noteworthy whenever someone finds a new way to work with it, as Merrill Garbus has done on Nikki Nack, her dazzlingly imaginative third album as tUnE-yArDs.
Like so many electronic pop artists, she starts on the grid, crafting smart and sometimes spastic (see the drum-machine intro of "Find a New Way") rhythm beds that, to listeners of Four Tet and many others, will seem almost ordinary. But in just about every track, when the patterns threaten to settle into a static place, Garbus takes a wide and sudden left turn into the surreal catacombs of her imagination, where beats are happily mangled and narratives no longer move on linear tracks.
In "Time of Dark," the arcing, defiantly sung refrain sounds like a brave leap into the abyss — it's arresting the first time it happens, and it becomes more haunting as she repeats it out of time, crowding the lines together as though the tape has sped up. "Real Thing," one of the most trenchant comments on modern fame in recent memory, begins with a coy, tightly clustered, Destiny's Child-style verse, as well as an asymmetrical phrase ("Aren't you tired of this game / and all the emptiness of your fame?") that Garbus somehow makes fit. Then, the pulse disappears; when she returns, the tempo has shifted slightly and Garbus is at a full roar, "singin' real loud like the real thing." It's a rare moment of pop-hook ecstasy that operates on several levels — as ear candy, pop affirmation and, at the same time, a profound expression of doubt about the enterprise of pop music.
Those contrasting and sometimes conflicting layers run throughout Nikki Nack. Sometimes Garbus creates in a fairly contained realm — like the confiding quiet-storm ballad sound of "Wait for a Minute" — but can't resist dropping in ideas from the other end of the earth. In this case, that means including exacting African polyrhythms and Haitian drum patterns (Garbus studied Haitian drumming while writing these songs) and widely spaced harmonies that might have been cooked up by the ghost of Laura Nyro.
The atypical references and sassy tempo switchbacks give the music a destabilized feeling — one minute, it's head-bobbing time with a looped groove, and the next, you're hanging on for dear life as the vehicle veers off-road, out of GPS range. There's genius in this ongoing struggle between the orderly and the unknown: Even when it's hard to tell where she's going, you follow Garbus, curiosity fully activated. Because more often than not, the haywire swerves lead to the music equivalent of a breathtaking vista — that elusive pop ecstasy that defies description.
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Tourism and Hotel Market in China: Segmentation by type (Outbound tourism and inbound tourism) and product (Chain hotels and independent hotels), Forecast till 2026 - Technavio
NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tourism and Hotel Market in China is segmented into two categories based on the type (Outbound tourism and inbound tourism) and product (Chain hotels and independent hotels). The market share is expected to increase by USD 24.23 billion from 2021 to 2026, and the market's growth momentum will accelerate at a CAGR of 11.81%
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Parent Market Analysis
Technavio categorizes the global Tourism and Hotel Market in China as a part of the global consumer discretionary market within the global consumer discretionary market. External factors influencing the parent market's growth potential in the coming years have been thoroughly investigated in our research analysis, to know more about the levels of growth of the Tourism and Hotel Market in China throughout the forecast period.
Tourism and Hotel Market in China Value Chain Analysis
The end-to-end understanding of the value chain is essential in profit margin optimization and evaluation of business strategies. The data available in our value chain analysis segment can help vendors drive costs and enhance customer services during the forecast period.
The value chain of the Tourism and Hotel Market in China includes the following core components:
Inputs
Inbound logistics
Operations
Outbound logistics
Marketing and sales
Service
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Vendor Insights
The Tourism and Hotel Market in China is fragmented, and the vendors are deploying various organic and inorganic growth strategies to compete in the market. To make the best of the opportunity, the market vendors should focus more on the fast-growing segment's growth prospects while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments.
We provide a detailed analysis of vendors operating in the Tourism and Hotel Market in China, including some the vendors such as Beijing Zhiyuan International Travel Agency Co. Ltd., Emei Shan Tourism Co. Ltd., Expedia Group Inc., Guangdong International Hotel Management Holdings Ltd., Huangshan Tourism Development Co. Ltd., Huazhu Group Ltd., InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, Intrepid Group Pty Ltd., Jin Jiang International Holdings Co. Ltd.
Product Insights and News
Expedia Group Inc.- the company offers various travel and advertising services. Various brands under this segment include Hotels.com, Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, and others.
Huangshan Tourism Development Co. Ltd.- the company operates 6 hotels in the mountain, namely Beihai Hotel, Xihai Hotel, Baiyun Hotel, Shilin Hotel, Paiyunlou Hotel, and Yupinglou Hotel.
Huazhu Group Ltd.- The company offers hotel services through its hotel brands such as Joya Hotel, Blossom House, and Steigenberger Hotels and Resort.
Jin Jiang International Holdings Co. Ltd.- The company provides quality transportation solutions to political VIPs, business travelers, and tourists.
Marriott International Inc.- The company is engaged in the operation of luxury and premium properties located in the US and Canada.
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Key Market Dynamics
The growing appreciation for local and genuine experiences is one of the major reasons for boosting China's tourist and hotel industries. Tourists are putting more emphasis on discovering local communities and their cultures, which are regarded as one of the most important facets of the Chinese tourism and hotel industries.
Additionally, tourists favor:
Choosing local goods over mementos
Utilizing public transportation for adventurous travel rather than a cab
consuming dinner at a place that only uses zero-kilometer ingredients, including primary foods like local, low-impact meat, cheese, and honey.
As travelers become more conscious of the effects that tourism has on the environment, this new style of tourism is anticipated to gain popularity. Such elements are anticipated to propel market expansion during the forecast period.
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Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary
1.1 Market overview
2 Market Landscape
2.1 Market ecosystem
3 Market Sizing
3.1 Market definition
3.2 Market segment analysis
3.3 Market size 2021
3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2021-2026
4 Five Forces Analysis
4.1 Five forces summary
4.2 Bargaining power of buyers
4.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
4.4 Threat of new entrants
4.5 Threat of substitutes
4.6 Threat of rivalry
4.7 Market condition
5 Market Segmentation by Type
5.1 Market segments
5.2 Comparison by Type
5.3 Outbound tourism - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
5.4 Inbound tourism - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
5.5 Market opportunity by Type
6 Market Segmentation by Product
6.1 Market segments
6.2 Comparison by Product
6.3 Chain hotels - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
6.4 Independent hotels - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
6.5 Market opportunity by Product
7 Customer Landscape
7.1 Customer landscape overview
8 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
8.1 Market drivers
8.2 Market challenges
8.3 Impact of drivers and challenges
8.4 Market trends
9 Vendor Landscape
9.1 Overview
9.2 Vendor landscape
9.3 Landscape disruption
9.4 Industry risks
10 Vendor Analysis
10.1 Vendors covered
10.2 Market positioning of vendors
10.3 Expedia Group Inc.
10.4 Huangshan Tourism Development Co. Ltd.
10.5 Huazhu Group Ltd.
10.6 Jin Jiang International Holdings Co. Ltd.
10.7 Marriott International Inc.
10.8 Shangri La Asia Ltd
10.9 Tongcheng Travel Holdings Ltd.
10.10 Trip.com Group Ltd.
10.11 TUI AG
10.12 Tuniu Corp
11 Appendix
11.1 Scope of the report
11.2 Inclusions and exclusions checklist
11.3 Currency conversion rates for US$
11.4 Research methodology
11.5 List of abbreviations
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DEAR ANNIE: When my husband died, my son and daughter-in-law put me in what was supposed to be one of the best homes for the aged. My husband of 45 years died unexpectedly. I was 68 at the time, and I was in shock. I did need some guidance.
The first year I was there, I just did as I was told. However, anyone who knew me would know that was not the place for me. My mind was not damaged.
I am writing to offer advice to people who are thinking about sending their relatives to a nursing home. Make sure the place has a reputation for honesty. I am in a home where too many of my belongings have gone missing.
First, my husband’s coffee cups disappeared. Then clothes, food, money and books — things you could fit in a hand — went missing. When I reported the losses to the head of the place, she told me I was the only one having these problems. But that same day, I said something about it to a fellow resident and was told that this happened almost every day.
In any dispute, the management of our home always backs the employee. They assume that the staff is always right and the residents are always wrong.
For my son’s birthday, I bought him something that had special meaning for us. It disappeared. It was still in my room when I left for a doctor’s appointment, but I discovered that it was gone when I returned.
I reported it to the man who was in charge, and he came to the room and started going through my cabinet. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he was looking for the gift I bought for my son. He didn’t find it.
So if you are thinking of nursing homes, please check them out — with more than one visit. And go on unplanned visits.
It’s a terrible place to go, but if it is needed, please check it out. — Unhappy with Disappearances
DEAR UNHAPPY: Thank you for your letter. Your experience sounds awful. I hope you share all the details with your son and daughter-in-law and that they get you out of there and find a better home for assisted living. I am sorry for the loss of your husband, and I hope that your letter encourages other readers to be extra cautious in checking out elderly care facilities.
Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com. | https://www.lowellsun.com/2022/07/31/pub-date-073122-dear-annie-when-it-comes-to-assisted-living-homes-proceed-with-caution/ | 2022-08-01T06:14:23Z | https://www.lowellsun.com/2022/07/31/pub-date-073122-dear-annie-when-it-comes-to-assisted-living-homes-proceed-with-caution/ | false | 2 |
By Nicholas Pointon for RNZ
Carpet maker Godfrey Hirst says it has dropped a damages claim against local rival Bremworth, but will still pursue court action over what it calls greenwashing.
US-owned Godfrey Hirst, which is a large producer of synthetic carpets, is challenging Bremworth's marketing claims that its wool carpets are better for people and the environment.
Bremworth, formerly known as Cavalier Corporation, announced in 2020 that it was moving to 100 per cent wool fibre production.
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Advertise with NZME.The new strategy was followed with an advertising campaign that talked up the environmental benefits of wool carpets versus their synthetic counterparts.
Godfrey Hirst responded with a number of allegations about the accuracy of Bremworth's claims.
Among them, it said the claim that a nylon carpet in an averaged sized home was similar to the weight of 20,000 plastic bags was misleading and was in breach of the Fair Trading Act because it could confuse consumers into thinking a synthetic carpet had the same environmental impact as thousands of plastic bags.
In a statement released this morning, Godfrey Hirst said it was no longer seeking damages from Bremworth for its "misleading conduct and greenwashing" in relation to synthetic carpets.
"Godfrey Hirst is aware of Bremworth's constrained financial circumstances and, in the public interest, wanted to do all it could to make it financially viable for Bremworth to correct any misleading and/or greenwashing marketing without the risk of Bremworth also having to pay damages."
Godfrey Hirst also criticised Bremworth's contention that it failed to provide relevant documents to the court.
"Godfrey Hirst is not in breach of any such orders and the suggestion that it has not provided relevant material is false.
"This continues the misleading narrative from Bremworth and reinforces the importance of Godfrey Hirst's efforts to protect New Zealand consumers and investors."
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Advertise with NZME.Bremworth chief executive Greg Smith told RNZ Business that Godfrey Hirst's decision to drop the damages claim was "very thoughtful", adding that the US-owned company had not been so considerate in the past.
"But despite that being dropped, I wouldn't have thought it should have been presented in the first place.
"It's an enormous cost to defend these types of things and really it's a waste of time and money."
Smith said he stood by the company's advertising campaign, saying its statements were true.
He said Godfrey Hirst was responding with legal action to protect what he called a "sunset" business.
"We find it quite obtuse that we've got a competitor who actually sells wool carpets who is actually doing the same thing.
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Advertise with NZME."But we know that the makeup of their business is so heavily weighted to synthetic that, you know, they've got a problem with us saying that wool's better - that's their choice … but we look forward to challenging them next year when this goes to the High Court."
Smith said Bremworth and its lawyers stood by its view that Godfrey Hirst had failed to provide relevant materials to the courts. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/godfrey-hirst-drops-damages-claim-against-bremworth-but-greenwashing-lawsuit-still-going-ahead/BYKTS2NRHGQJFLI2EBVPDFCUIQ/?c_id=3&objectid=12542005 | 2022-08-01T06:15:15Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/godfrey-hirst-drops-damages-claim-against-bremworth-but-greenwashing-lawsuit-still-going-ahead/BYKTS2NRHGQJFLI2EBVPDFCUIQ/?c_id=3&objectid=12542005 | false | 3 |
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