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Air Marshal DK Patnaik completes a 4-day visit to Assam
With an aim to improve jointmanship and synergy, Air Marshal Dilip Kumar Patnaik, AOC in Chief, Eastern Air Command visited Air Force Station Tezpur, Assam, said officials.
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With an aim to improve jointmanship and synergy, Air Marshal Dilip Kumar Patnaik, AOC in Chief, Eastern Air Command visited Air Force Station Tezpur, Assam, said officials. Patnaik was on a four-day visit in the territory between July 31 and August 3.
The Air Marshal also flew a sortie in the Su-30MKI combat aircraft during his visit. "Yet another step towards improved jointmanship and synergy between the sister services, Air Marshal Dilip Kumar Patnaik, AOC in C, Eastern Air Command visited #GajrajCorps. He was briefed on key operational issues at the Corps HQ," tweeted the official handle of Gajraj Corps.
He also visited Gajraj Corps and was briefed on key operational issues at the Corps Headquarters. (ANI)
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/2132826-air-marshal-dk-patnaik-completes-a-4-day-visit-to-assam | 2022-08-04T01:54:21Z | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/2132826-air-marshal-dk-patnaik-completes-a-4-day-visit-to-assam | true | null |
Keanu Reeves‘ kind gesture to an 80-year-old fan has resurfaced online after being shared in a Reddit post.
On the website, one person explained how their grandmother had developed a crush on the Matrix and John Wick star, since he reminded her of her late husband.
After suffering a stroke in her early 70s, the grandmother was rendered housebound for 10 years of her life, but found comfort in Reeves’ movies, watching everything from Bill And Ted to The Matrix.
The Reddit user then went onto explain how their uncle bumped into the Reeves at a restaurant in Los Angeles, and how it led to a lengthy phone conversation between the actor and his elderly fan.
“Not too long after The Matrix came out my uncle was in LA for business and was eating at a really swanky restaurant when Keanu came in with a woman,” they wrote.
“When he finished his meal my uncle came up to their table and said, ‘I don’t usually do this, but I just wanted you to know that my 80-year-old mother loves you and has seen all of your movies. You remind her of my dad.’
“He said Keanu asked if he had a cell phone on him and when he confirmed that he did, he said, ‘Give her a call, I want to talk to her.’
“He spoke with my grandmother for several minutes and it absolutely made her year. She was so isolated and his genuine kindness to her and interest in her showed what a truly amazing man he is.”
Over the years, Reeves has grown a reputation for being one of the nicest men in Hollywood, with numerous fans coming forward with stories of the positive interactions they’ve had with the actor.
Last month, the actor went viral after he was recorded having a pleasant exchange with a young fan at an airport.
As documented by TV producer Andrew Kimmel on Twitter, the actor was approached by a young boy who asked for his autograph following a flight from London to New York, when he proceeded to fire off a “series of rapid-fire questions”.
“Keanu happily responded to every single one,” Kimmel wrote alongside a picture of them both, adding: “The man could not have been nicer, especially after an international flight. I thought I’d share this because the dude is a class act and little moments like this can make such a huge big difference in people’s lives. We need more Keanus!”
Reeves is next set to appear in John Wick 4, which will be released on March 24, 2023. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/film/keanu-reeves-kind-gesture-80-year-old-fan-goes-vira-3282969 | 2022-08-04T01:56:29Z | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/film/keanu-reeves-kind-gesture-80-year-old-fan-goes-vira-3282969 | false | 3 |
(NEXSTAR) – That queazy feeling of hitting send on an iPhone message with an embarrassing typo or over-zealous autocorrection will soon be a thing of the past, thanks to editable messages in Apple’s upcoming iOS 16 update.
While the rollout isn’t set to happen until the fall, you can play around with the new feature – and several others – now, by enrolling in the Apple Beta Software Program.
You get to play around with the latest features before everyone else has them, and Apple developers benefit from the early feedback.
Anyone with a valid Apple ID who accepts the program agreement can participate, but there are a few things you should know before signing up. Apple warns that, since the software hasn’t been released commercially yet, it may contain errors or inaccuracies. You should back up your iPhone or other Apple device if possible before installing the software.
“Install the beta software only on non-production devices that are not business critical,” Apple advises. “We strongly recommend installing on a secondary system or device, or on a secondary partition on your Mac.”
The program and software are free, but the program is considered confidential, so you won’t be able to tweet out screenshots of your latest iOS 16 discovery.
Editing messages
Once you sign up and start playing around with iOS 16 on the iPhone, there are a number of notable developments, but one of the biggest crowd favorites may change the way we send messages.
iOS 16 public beta allows you to edit messages. After fixing that unfortunate message-message autocorrection, the other person will see a small “edited” note appear under the message.
You’ll also be able to “unsend” messages, preventing friends and family from judging the trash fire of a text you accidentally sent before cleaning up.
New lock screen options
Apple is offering new ways to customize your lock screen – not a small feature considering the number of times we all look at our phones during the day.
New font styles, a widget display and the ability to showcase your favorite photos with different color filters will be available. Using widgets, you can now see the weather, calendar events, Activity rings and more without having to open your phone.
Live Activities will also allow you to display the score of a sports game or the progress of a food delivery in real-time on the lock screen.
Tap and drag using Visual Lookup
This iOS 16 advancement allows you to do with one finger what might have taken hours of YouTube tutorials and Photoshop experimentation to master.
While iOS 15 provided Visual Look Up to automatically recognize and give additional info about pets, plants and landmarks, for instance, the tap and drag function allows you to separate one of those subjects from the photo’s background.
By tapping and holding on a photo, you can lift the subject away from the background and use it in a different app, such as Messages.
Now you can pay later
iOS 16 will allow you to create your own payment plan when you choose the “pay later” option, allowing you to split the cost of an Apple Pay purchase into four payments over six weeks. The feature comes with no interest or fees.
When it comes to the Apple Wallet, you will also be able to store your ID. For those who don’t want to advertise their birthday, the ID will give the option to confirm whether or not someone is over 21 without revealing an exact age.
Another Wallet feature allows users to share keys with friends or relatives.
See more information about joining the Apple Beta Software Program or a full list of iOS 16’s upcoming features on Apples website. | https://www.ktsm.com/news/national-news/how-to-edit-iphone-messages-and-use-other-pre-release-ios-16-features/ | 2022-08-04T01:58:53Z | https://www.ktsm.com/news/national-news/how-to-edit-iphone-messages-and-use-other-pre-release-ios-16-features/ | false | 27 |
Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara has welcomed her first child with her partner.
Taking to the duo’s official Instagram yesterday (August 2), the Canadian musician shared a photo she’d taken in the mirror of herself cradling her new baby.
“My #crybaby,” she captioned the post, referencing Tegan and Sara’s recently-announced 10th album.
Check out the image below.
Tegan and Sara are due to release ‘Crybaby’ – the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Hey, I’m Just Like You’ – on October 21 via Mom+Pop Music. The band have already previewed the project with the songs ‘Yellow’ and ‘Fucking Up What Matters’. A full tracklist is yet to be revealed.
Produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen) along with Sara Quin and Tegan Quin, the forthcoming LP was recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle and Sargent Recorders in LA.
“This was the first time where, while we were still drafting our demos, we were thinking about how the songs were going to work together,” Tegan explained previously of how ‘Crybaby’ came about.
She continued: “But Sara effectively improves everything of mine that she works on.” Sara added: “Maybe I am the renovator. I’m the house-flipper of the Tegan and Sara band.”
Speaking to NME recently, Sara said: “It was a different way to work and we definitely switched things up, but it’s still this abstract process that’s always been difficult to talk about.”
Tegan and Sara will showcase ‘Crybaby’ on an intimate North American headline tour in the autumn. You can see the full schedule and find any remaining tickets here. | https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/sara-quin-of-tegan-and-sara-welcomes-her-first-child-3282949 | 2022-08-04T02:00:18Z | https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/sara-quin-of-tegan-and-sara-welcomes-her-first-child-3282949 | false | 3 |
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(Stats Perform) – A preseason watch list of 35 players was announced on Wednesday for the 2022 Walter Payton Award, which Stats Perform presents to the national offensive player of the year in college football’s Division I subdivision.
All 15 FCS conferences are represented on the watch list, which includes 10 past finalists.
The preseason watch list:
Quarterbacks
Nic Baker, Southern Illinois, Jr., 5-9, 194
Tim DeMorat, Fordham, Gr., 6-4, 220 (2020 and 2021 Finalist)
Nick Howard, Dartmouth, Sr., 6-2, 230.
Parker McKinney, Eastern Kentucky, R-Jr., 6-3, 208
Tommy Mellot, Montana State, So., 6-0, 195
Shedeur Sanders, Jackson State, So., 6-2, 215
Lindsey Scott Jr., UIW, Sr., 5-11, 220
Trae Self, Stephen F. Austin, Sr., 6-4, 190
Jason Shelley, Missouri State, Sr., 5-11, 197 (2021 Finalist)
Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State, Jr., 6-0, 205 (2021 Finalist)
Reece Udinski, Richmond, Gr., 6-4, 220
Running Backs
Jake Chisholm, Dayton, Sr., 5-9, 191 (2021 Finalist)
Isaiah Davis, South Dakota State, Jr., 6-1, 220
Juwon Farri, Monmouth, R-Sr., 5-10, 195 (2020 Finalist)
Ailym Ford, Chattanooga, Jr., 5-9, 213
Narii Gaither, Gardner-Webb, Sr., 5-10, 181
Ulonzo Gilliam Jr., UC Davis, Sr., 5-9, 189
Malik Grant, Sacred Heart, Sr., 5-9, 200 (2021 Finalist)
Julien Gums, Nicholls, Sr., 5-10, 230
Darius Hale, Central Arkansas, So., 5-11, 225
Geno Hess, Southeast Missouri, Sr., 5-8, 209 (2021 Finalist)
Isaiah Ifanse, Montana State, Sr., 5-10, 202 (2021 Finalist)
Hunter Luepke, North Dakota State, Sr., 6-1, 236
Jaleel McLaughlin, Youngstown State, Sr., 5-9, 195
Jacob Saylors, ETSU, Sr., 5-11, 195
Wide Receivers
Avante Cox, Southern Illinois, Sr., 5-10, 170
Shaquan Davis, South Carolina State, R-Jr., 6-5, 215
Xavier Gipson, Stephen F. Austin, Sr., 5-9, 170 (2021 Finalist)
Taylor Grimes, UIW, Sr., 5-11, 190
Jakob Herres, Richmond, Gr., 6-4, 225 (2020 Finalist)
Jaxon Janke, South Dakota State, Sr., 6-3, 210
Xavier Smith, Florida A&M, Gr., 5-10, 170
Tight Ends
Kemari Averett, Bethune-Cookman, Sr., 6-6, 260
Tucker Kraft, South Dakota State, Jr., 6-5, 255
Ryan Miller, Furman, R-Sr., 6-2, 221
More players can join the watch list during the regular season, and afterwards a national media panel will select the winner. First awarded in 1987, the Payton has watched past recipients such as Steve McNair, Tony Romo, Brian Westbrook, Jimmy Garoppolo, Cooper Kupp and Trey Lance move on to the NFL.
Also this season, Stats Perform will present the Buck Buchanan Award (FCS defensive player of the year), Jerry Rice Award (FCS freshman player of the year), Eddie Robinson Award (FCS coach of the year) and Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete of the Year. | https://www.khon2.com/sports/national-sports/35-fcs-standouts-named-to-walter-payton-award-preseason-watch-list-2/ | 2022-08-04T02:38:40Z | https://www.khon2.com/sports/national-sports/35-fcs-standouts-named-to-walter-payton-award-preseason-watch-list-2/ | true | 5 |
British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he’s considering taking the same approach as a Victoria couple who placed a newspaper ad to find a family doctor in his attempt to pressure the federal government to increase health funding.
Horgan says the advertisement worked for Janet and Michael Mort, who now have a family doctor after months of searching, leading him to possibly employ the same tactic after previous failed attempts to secure more federal health dollars.
However, Janet Mort says she’s not happy she and her husband had to resort to public actions to get health care and she’s offended by Horgan’s “tongue-in-cheek response.”
Mort, who’s an Order of B.C. recipient for her work in public education, says she’s written a letter to Horgan asking for a meeting to discuss repairing health care in B.C., with or without federal help.
Mort says several doctors contacted her following the placement of the ad in the Victoria Times-Colonist and her 82-year-old husband now has an appointment Thursday with his new family doctor.
Horgan says Canada’s premiers lobbied the federal government for increased health funding last month during meetings in Victoria.
About a million people in B.C. don’t have a family doctor.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 3, 2022.
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Mary Lucille Hays teaches writing at UIUC and Zhejiang University in Haining, China.
The marina is a public place. It’s nice, because when you walk the dogs, you might stop and chat with neighbors who are also walking their dogs.
They might recommend a great laundromat, or a nice place to take the kids to dinner when they come. But sometimes you don’t want to be so public, like when Ursula gets excited boarding the boat and slips off the dock.
There might be a bad thirty seconds when a little black lab sinks down into the dark water in slow motion and takes her time coming up. When she finally does surface, she might look like a wide-eyed seal. Maybe Michael will be right there in the cockpit of the boat, and he can jump off and help you when you realize that you don’t have the strength to pull her out yourself, and all you can do is to support her around the middle, so she doesn’t sink down again.
Your neighbors might be watching closely from parallel piers, a little relieved that you have help nearby so they don’t have to run all the way to shore and back out your pier to lend a hand. But if it happens again, maybe your husband will be down in the cabin of the boat and take his time responding to the growing urgency of your repetitions: Michael, I need help now.... Michael, I need help, now.... Michael, I need help, NOW... MICHAEL, I NEED HELP NOW!
And just as he climbs out of the cabin to see what the trouble is, the collar you are holding might slip off of Ursula’s head, so she sinks down to the bottom again, and you lean just a little bit further out to try to stop her and fall into the water yourself, nice shoes, hearing aids, and all. And when Michael jumps off the boat to help you out, you will tell him you’re fine, just get the dog, and he might run over and haul her out as you awkwardly manage to swing one leg up onto the dock while you’re horizontal in the water, but don’t have the strength to get the rest of your body out.
When Michael has the dog secured, he will help you out and you lean on the boat for a minute, letting rivulets of dock water stream down, and you take your batteries out of your hearing aids to try to prevent disaster. Then you might hear a voice from a neighboring pier call, “Are you all right?” And you’ll turn and give them a dripping thumbs up.
It’s those days when, as much as you’re enjoying the community of the marina, you might like a little privacy. And so, I drove back to Birdland to take care of some business. The next morning a mist hung over the cornfields and birdsong filled the air.
According to my bird app, I was listening to the calls of Eastern Wood Pewees, Indigo Buntings, American Crows, Northern Cardinals, and House Sparrows. I sipped my coffee and walked out to the pond where I found water lilies blooming in all colors: pink, yellow, and white. Big buttery Day Lilies were open in their glory on the periphery, sending a delicate aroma, and my Birdland Lullaby is still blooming (a bold, purple and yellow green spider lily, big as a dinner plate: a gift from Rod and Jim at Five Acre Farms. Check out their webpage: 5acrefarmdaylillies.com). I round the corner and see that the expanse of Black-eyed Susans that were just ready to open a week ago has blossomed: a chest-high sea of flowers.
Around in my horse trough victory garden I found cucumbers ready and a few tomatoes. Those from one plant had blossom end rot, so I made a mental note to hard boil some eggs and pour the water and eggshells over that plant. But later a friend told me that she tosses Tums in the hole when she plants tomatoes and no longer has blossom end rot. I’ll try it next year. Circling around the house to the chicken coop, I find that Minnie Mae, my little serama hen, who decided to set some eggs (hers and some from the standard sized hens) is still at it. She has rejected one more of the big eggs.
She had too many eggs to cover, so I removed several last week. I’m not even sure that those big eggs are fertile.
In my corner meadow I found the Ironweed has spread and is blooming its fuzzy purple/red blooms and the plant I suspected was Rattlesnake Master has bloomed, showing that I was right. But my China garden (modeled on those in my campus in China) is glorious! Three sunflowers stand sentinel over the kale and tomatoes. A few of last year’s onions that I missed have gone to blossom and I’m waiting for the seeds. Some purple amaranth adds color, and my liatris is in full bloom. Mexican sunflowers, zinnias, and cosmos have come, and one more feathery plant is ready to flower.
I guess I’ll figure out what it is when it blooms.
Wait in Beauty; Anticipate Peace; Blessed Be
Mary Lucille Hays teaches writing at UIUC and Zhejiang University in Haining, China. You can see pictures about this week’s post on Instagram @BirdlandLetters. Mary can be reached at letterfrombirdland@gmail.com or via snail mail care of the Journal Republican, 118 E. Washington St., Monticello, IL 61856. | https://www.journal-republican.com/opinion/double-vision-lake-life-and-farm-life/article_8c4645cc-11d4-11ed-84c1-77e9f8e71d97.html | 2022-08-04T02:45:32Z | https://www.journal-republican.com/opinion/double-vision-lake-life-and-farm-life/article_8c4645cc-11d4-11ed-84c1-77e9f8e71d97.html | true | 1 |
One of the five accused in the hospital fire case was arrested from Umaria district on Wednesday. Four owners and a manager were booked after eight people perished in the fire. The accuse arrested from Umaria is a doctor and owns 25% stake in the hospital. The hospital manager was held earlier and search for other three is on.
Jabalpur SP Siddharth Bahuguna said that the hospital had taken provisional NoC for fire safety in March 2021, but the hospital did not have adequate number of fire extinguishers, nor emergency exits were identified. The civic body and chief medical and health officer, had written to hospital authorities regarding the expiry of NoC, but no audit regarding fire safety was done. A case was registered against hospital directors Dr Nischint Gupta, Dr Suresh Patel, Dr Sanjay Patel, Dr Santosh Soni and assistant manager, Ram Soni, under section 304, 308 and 34 of IPC.
"One of the four owners, Dr Santosh Soni was arrested from Umaria district. He is 25% partner in the hospital. Search for remaining three accused ison," he said.
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Effective: 2022-08-03 19:53:00 EDT Expires: 2022-08-04 20:00:00 EDT Urgency: Expected Severity: Minor Certainty: Likely Instruction: Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles under any circumstances. Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location. Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1. Target Area: Breathitt; Clay; Floyd; Knott; Leslie; Letcher; Owsley; Perry; Pike HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THURSDAY * WHAT...Heat index values peaking in the 95 to 100 degree range on Thursday. * WHERE...Floyd, Breathitt, Knott, Owsley, Perry, Clay, Leslie, Letcher and Pike Counties. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT Thursday. * IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses to occur. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...With widespread power outages lingering after flooding, and numerous first responders out in the field this week, residents and first responders are particularly vulnerable to high heat index values through Thursday. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2687343069010/flash-flood-warning-issued-for-pike-by-nws | 2022-08-04T02:50:00Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2687343069010/flash-flood-warning-issued-for-pike-by-nws | true | 9 |
Digital facial reconstruction to ID man
It is hoped an image of a man's face that was created using digital reconstruction technology will help solve a 35-year-old mystery.
The image depicts the face of an unknown man whose body was found in Sydney's southwest in March 1987.
NSW Police found his body near the railway line at Guildford, just south of the Hawksview Street Overpass.
Police determined the man's death was not suspicious, but were unable to formally identify him.
The man sustained serious facial injuries when he died, so the reconstruction was created by examining two monochrome post mortem images taken at the morgue in 1987.
Missing Persons Registry manager, Detective Chief Inspector Glen Browne, said it was the first time the unit had employed the forensic tool in the hope that someone may recognise the man's face.
"These types of images are produced only when all other means of identification have failed, yet its margin of error for much of the face is relatively small and the end result quite lifelike," he said on Thursday.
"We hope its release will prompt someone to come forward with information."
The man is described as being of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance, aged between 50 and 55, about 170cm tall, of medium build and with greying brown hair.
Other defining features found on the man include a silver Zenith watch and a silver upper front tooth. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11079309/Digital-facial-reconstruction-ID-man.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-04T02:50:30Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11079309/Digital-facial-reconstruction-ID-man.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 2 |
WTA roundup: Illness KOs Simona Halep in Washington
Former world No. 1 player Simona Halep of Romania was forced to retire from her second-round match at the Citi Open in Washington on Wednesday, allowing Russia's Anna Kalinskaya to reach the quarterfinals.
Halep, seeded third in the event, trailed 7-5, 2-0 before she halted the match.
Kalinskaya continued her success in Washington, as she reached the semifinals there as a qualifier in 2019. The women's tournament wasn't held in 2020 and 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In other second-round matches, sixth-seeded Kaia Kanepi of Estonia rallied past China's Lin Zhu 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Australia's Daria Saville downed the American No. 1 seed Jessica Pegula 7-5, 6-4; and Canada's Rebecca Marino topped Germany's Andrea Petkovic 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.
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Second-seeded Paula Badosa of Spain was pushed to the limit before emerging with a 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (5) win over the United States' Elizabeth Mandlik in the second round at San Jose, Calif.
Elsewhere in second-round action, the United States' Amanda Anisimova upset eighth-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 3-6, 7-5, 6-1, and seventh-seeded Daria Kasatkina of Russia eliminated the Unites States' Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-0.
Third-seeded Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, who made the Wimbledon final last month, was scheduled to play the United States' Madison Keys, a former U.S. Open finalist, later Wednesday night.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief sharply criticized the "grotesque greed" of oil and gas companies on Wednesday for making record profits from the energy crisis on the back of the world's poorest people "while destroying our only home."
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was "immoral" that the largest energy companies in the first quarter of the year made combined profits of close to $100 billion.
He urged all governments to tax these excessive profits "and use the funds to support the most vulnerable people through these difficult times."
Guterres urged people everywhere to message the fossil fuel industry and their financiers that "this grotesque greed is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only common home, the planet."
The secretary-general spoke at the news conference launching a report by the Global Crisis Response Group he set up to tackle the triple interconnected crises of food, energy and finance which have especially hit countries trying to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and deal with the devastating impact of the war in Ukraine.
Guterres told reporters that "we are seeing excessive, scandalous profits of the oil and gas industry in a moment in which all of us are losing money" because of inflation around 7-8%. And "nothing will be more popular than to tax the excessive profits … and to distribute that money to the most vulnerable families," he said.
The crisis group has already presented recommendations on food and finance and Guterres said he believes "we are making some progress" in those areas, especially on food.
The report released Wednesday focuses on the energy crisis, and the secretary-general said it aims to achieve the equivalent of the grain deal he first proposed to the Russian and Ukrainian presidents to enable Ukrainian grain to be shipped from Russian-blockaded ports on the Black Sea to world markets in desperate need of food supplies. The first ship to leave Ukraine was headed to Lebanon Wednesday after a three-hour inspection in Turkish waters.
Guterres said speculators and obstacles to getting grain and fertilizers to global markets during the Ukraine war sent food prices soaring. But since negotiations on the grain deal "gained traction," he said, there has been "a significant fall" and today prices of most foodstuffs and fertilizers are more or less at their pre-war prices.
"But that doesn't mean that bread in the bakery is at the same price before the war, because these are quotations in wholesale markets, some of them related to futures," he said, and there are a lot of other factors contributing to rising prices including transportation and insurance costs and supply chain disruptions.
U.N. trade chief Rebeca Grynspan, who coordinated the crisis group, said wheat prices are down almost 50% from their peak, corn and fertilizer prices have dropped almost 25% in the past month and crude oil is now around $93 a barrel compared to $120 dollars a barrel in June. "Only natural gas has bucked the trend and is still higher than a month ago," she told reporters by video from Geneva.
Falling prices are "good news," Grynspan said, but they have been high for too long and since June forecasts for extreme poverty have risen by 71 million people and forecasts for food insecurity by 47 million.
In another key recommendation, the crisis group urges richer developed countries, especially, to conserve energy including by reducing air conditioning and heating use and by promoting public transport "and nature-based solutions."
Guterres said new technologies including storage for batteries "should become public goods," and governments must scale up and diversify supply chains for raw materials and renewable energy technologies.
The group also recommends scaling up private and multilateral finance for "the green energy transition." And it backed the International Energy Agency's goal of increasing investments in renewable energy by a factor of seven to meet the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to "net zero" by 2050 to help curb man-made climate change.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend are expecting another child nearly two years after the couple suffered a pregnancy loss.
Teigen made the announcement Wednesday on Instagram where she posted two photos of her baby bump. She wrote that joy has “filled our home and hearts again” in a post that comes after she had a miscarriage in 2020.
“We have another on the way,” wrote the 36-year-old model and cookbook author, who shares two children — Luna and Miles — with Legend. She touched on her fertility journey and being too nervous to unveil her pregnancy.
“Every appointment I’ve said to myself, ‘ok if it’s healthy today I’ll announce’ but then I breathe a sigh of relief to hear a heartbeat and decide I’m just too nervous still,” she wrote. “I don’t think I’ll ever walk out of an appointment with more excitement than nerves but so far, everything is perfect and beautiful and I’m feeling hopeful and amazing.”
The couple delivered a heart-wrenching post in 2020 after both announced the lost of their son, Jack, at 20 weeks of her pregnancy. She was hospitalized with excessive bleeding before the miscarriage.
In the same year, Teigen wrote in an essay explaining that doctors diagnosed her with a partial placental abruption. At the time, she urged people to share their stories and “please be kind to those pouring their hearts out.”
Legend and Teigen were married in 2013. | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Chrissy-Teigen-reveals-baby-bump-after-2-year-17349914.php | 2022-08-04T03:19:50Z | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Chrissy-Teigen-reveals-baby-bump-after-2-year-17349914.php | false | 39 |
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Varsities Unions’ Strike: Two Weeks after Buhari’s Ultimatum, Ngige Says FG Awaiting Education Minister’s Report
•Gives reason for not referring dispute to arbitration panel
•Sack Education Minister now, NANS tells president
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige yesterday said the federal government was still expecting the Ministry of Education to conclude and submit the outcome of negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other university-based unions.
The minister said this same day the two weeks ultimatum President Muhammadu Buhari had given the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, to resolve the ongoing strike by ASUU and other university-based unions.
Speaking further, Ngige also gave reason why his ministry adopted voluntary conciliation for the resolution of the strike by ASUU instead of arbitration, saying it did so in order to hasten the resolution process.
Ngige disclosed these while answering questions from journalists at the Joint Workshop on International Labour Standards and Dispute Resolutions, Organised by the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Abuja.
The minister said he could have transmitted the matter to the IAP or the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), but used his discretion to weigh the situation to know if it would cause more delay in the resolution of the dispute in a court process.
He recalled that ASUU embarked on strike on February 14 and he started voluntary conciliation on February 22 and subsequently on March 1.
According to him, by the second meeting most of the issues arising from the 2020 Memorandum of Action (MOA) signed between ASUU and the Ministry of Education with other government agencies involved were conciliated, leaving out only two.
Ngige explained: “The two outstanding issues were the conditions of service, which according to the 2009 agreement would be reviewed every four years. The last review was in 2013 and we started the review in 2018 under Wale Babalakin as the chairman of the renegotiation committee. We could not conclude because Babalakin left.
“A new committee headed by Munzali came. Munzali finished his work and put in his report at the Federal Ministry of Education. All these committees including the previous Onosode committee were all internal committees of the Ministry of Education. They discuss with the unions and give them offers and counter offers vis-a-vis what they have said. Once the committees finished, their products are sent up.
“The major issue here is salary and wage review. That was where they were before ASUU embarked on strike.”
While explaining his role in the ASUU strike saga, Ngige said once a strike occurs, it triggers the content of the Trade Dispute Act (TDA) on how to resolve the industrial action.
He said the Ministry of Education was still handling the matter because he transmitted it back to them.
“If a party wants us to transmit a matter back to them to have a second look, you assist them. That is what you call voluntary conciliation. It is voluntary because if I apprehend and bring all the parties to the negotiation table and a party requests that I should take the matter to NICN, I will do so,” he said.
Earlier in a keynote address, Ngige described the workshop as one of the reforms ongoing in his ministry as hitherto, some arbitrators have not fully understood the tenets of the panel(IAP) and were handicapped in discharging their duties.
He described arbitration as one of the statutory stages in trade dispute resolution commencing with internal mechanisms where they exist in any organisation, proceeding to mediation, conciliation, arbitration and adjudication by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, with the Appeal Court as the final arbiter.
In a welcome address, the Chief Registrar of IAP, Abduhamid Ibrahim, said the purpose of the workshop was to provide unique opportunity for members of IAP and its management staff to acquire sound knowledge and experience in modern skills regarding labour disputes prevention and resolution in line with international labour standards.
Sack Education Minister Now, NANS Tells Buhari
Meanwhile, the National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS) has called for the immediate sack of Adamu over failure to resolve the lingering industrial action.
The students’ body averred that the call became expedient, following the minister’s failure to resolve the strike within the two weeks ultimatum handed down by Buhari.
The NANS National President, Sunday Asefon, in a statement, yesterday, said incapability to resolve the crisis by Adamu smacked of ineptitude and gross incompetence to handle such a pivotal Ministry.
Asefon bemoaned that ASUU had gone on strike for a cumulative period of 18 months within the seven years Adamu has been superintending over the Ministry.
He said the country can’t afford to entrust the Education Ministry in the hands of those he described as lacking the proficiency to manage the affairs of the country’s eggheads.
Asefon said: “You will recall that President Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on the 19th of July, 2022 gave the Minister, Malam Adamu Adamu two weeks ultimatum to resolve the ongoing strike by the ASUU to ensure that students return to classes. You will also recall while this ultimatum subsist ASUU extended the strike by another four weeks.
“It is therefore abundantly clear that the Minister of Education lacks the capacity required to manage such an important ministry as the Ministry of Education.
“He has shown over the years his lack of capacity, know-how, and adequate understanding of the complexity of educational management. This development calls to question his qualification to be appointed as minister of education in the first place.
” His total lack of compassion and empathy for the plight of Nigerian students speak volumes. NANS under our leadership will leave no stone unturned to ensure that our demands are acceded to, as we will do all that is required to reawaken the spirit of the Ali-Must-Go to ensure that Adamu-Must Go.” | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/08/04/varsities-unions-strike-two-weeks-after-buharis-ultimatum-ngige-says-fg-awaiting-education-ministers-report/ | 2022-08-04T03:21:09Z | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/08/04/varsities-unions-strike-two-weeks-after-buharis-ultimatum-ngige-says-fg-awaiting-education-ministers-report/ | false | 1 |
Type II team brought in as Elmo 2 Fire continues to grow
ELMO - The Elmo 2 Fire continued to burn and on Sunday ground crews and an aerial team continued to battle the burn West of Flathead Lake near Elmo.
The CSKT Division of Fire Management and local fire departments have been working to stop the fire since it began Friday night.
“The initial attack was very quick and they spent a long day and night out there and I think they're ready for a break. We bring in a team so that we can bring in more resources and help take care of folks out on the line,” said Northern Rockies Incident Management Team 7 spokesperson Sara Rouse.
A Type II fire team was brought in on Sunday morning to relieve the local firefighters and bring in additional resources to hopefully get the fire under control.
“It's just about that as that complexity increases, especially when you need more and more resources on the ground and type two team can come in and help support those folks,” said Rouse.
An aerial team began helping Saturday morning, making it possible for all of the evacuations to be lifted and Highway 28 reopened by Saturday evening. The planes and helicopters will continue to assist in the efforts.
“So the air, the air support that they had, in terms of the initial attack was very important. It was a big thing to have, they're able to get some return on the line as well as some water using the scoopers and all those things. Combined with being able to help hold some of those indirect lines that they put in with dozers made a huge difference,” said Rouse.
The part of the fire near Highway 28 has become manageable enough for ground crews and fire engines to keep it at bay. An infrared flight Saturday night determined that the most active part of the fire is on the Northwest side.
“And that's kind of all the be focusing their efforts with a bunch of the hotshot crews in the smokejumpers that they have,” said Rouse. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2687436380483/type-ii-team-brought-in-as-elmo-2-fire-continues-to-grow | 2022-08-04T03:26:07Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2687436380483/type-ii-team-brought-in-as-elmo-2-fire-continues-to-grow | false | 7 |
When 24-year-old Lauren Vlach traded the country music, barbecue and cowboy boots of Tennessee for the rolling Great Plains, she was nervous.
Nashville is nearly 750 miles from Lincoln. The distance posed a challenge in getting her personal belongings moved safely and affordably.
As a first-time mover, she wanted to hire help, but with medical bills and student loans to pay off, she had to stay within a tight budget.
Vlach found a website that would give her quotes for a number of moving companies. All that was required to get an estimate was her phone number.
“It was a very mindless, quick thing when I entered the information,” she said. “I was just curious to see how much it cost.”
What Vlach didn’t know was that one of the companies she’d contacted — the one she ultimately chose — had been given an "F" rating from the Better Business Bureau and had a history of scamming its clientele.
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Vlach would become its latest victim.
She's not alone. In 2021, Lincoln-area customers filed 1,100 complaints with the Better Business Bureau against moving companies.
“It's a very personal and tragic situation for any scam victim for any amount of money,” said Josh Planos, vice president of communications with the Better Business Bureau.
After paying a $1,050 deposit, Vlach stopped hearing from the company. On moving day, the trucks never arrived.
Vlach rented a U-Haul and did it herself, adding expense to an already pricey endeavor.
“I've just been hit this last month, financially, from every direction,” she said. “At the moment, I'm about to be in, like, true credit card debt, and that's really upsetting.”
She tried to cancel the moving service — she even contacted her credit card company — but the money was lost.
Planos, who said 40% of moves come between May and August, warned that moving scams are becoming more common.
Consumers should protect themselves from potential fraud by doing research before hiring a moving company, he said.
He said customers should make sure a moving company has an actual address and a brick-and-mortar facility. In addition, he warned to avoid movers who arrive on moving day in unmarked trucks. They have been known to load the moving trucks and never be seen again.
Planos recommends Googling the company’s name followed by the keyword “scam” to see if other customers have flagged the business as fraudulent. Googling a company can produce fake reviews, something Vlach learned when she tried to research her scammer.
Vlach is just one in a long line of people who have been taken in by moving scams.
Last April, Emily Engelbert and her family moved to Lincoln from Edmond, Oklahoma, but, like Vlach, were forced to move themselves after being scammed.
Engelbert became suspicious their moving company was illegitimate when it couldn't remember the day of the move. Then the price of the move doubled to $4,400 without warning.
After receiving payment, the movers quit responding to her phone calls — until moving day, when they said they were on their way just as Engelbert and her family had finished packing up their U-Haul and were on the road to Lincoln.
She told them, "turn around, we’ve already left."
She lost the money, but the movers weren't given the chance to steal her stuff, she said. After looking deeper into the company, she found customers alleging they never received their belongings.
Englebert said she wouldn't use movers again unless a recommendation came from a reliable source or they were a local company.
“I would do a lot more research than what we did with this place,” she said. | https://siouxcityjournal.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/she-paid-movers-over-1-000-to-relocate-to-lincoln-they-never-showed-up/article_f5d0bbd9-96bc-5467-9d20-ec311edbb9eb.html | 2022-08-04T03:27:07Z | https://siouxcityjournal.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/she-paid-movers-over-1-000-to-relocate-to-lincoln-they-never-showed-up/article_f5d0bbd9-96bc-5467-9d20-ec311edbb9eb.html | true | 1 |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
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Joveljic, Pérez lead Galaxy past Chivas 2-0 at SoFi Stadium
INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Dejan Joveljic and Jonathan Pérez each scored, and the Los Angeles Galaxy defeated Chivas de Guadalajara 2-0 in a friendly on Wednesday night.
It was the first soccer match played at SoFi Stadium, which will host World Cup matches in 2026, and served as a prelude to the Leagues Cup competition between MLS and Liga MX clubs beginning next summer.
Joveljic, a Serbian national team player, stuck out his left foot to redirect a corner kick by Efrain Alvarez into the top netting in the 28th minute. With sideline space at a premium because of field-level suites, Alvarez had no choice but to put in an in-swinging ball, and Joveljic got to the near post ahead of two Chivas defenders to put the Galaxy ahead.
Perez made it 2-0 in the 63rd minute with a well-struck shot from outside the penalty box that beat Raúl Rangel to the lunging goalkeeper's left.
Javier '�Chicharito'� Hernández, who was born in Guadalajara and started his career at Chivas, nearly put the Galaxy ahead in the opening seconds. He intercepted a poor back pass by Antonio Briseño after 15 seconds but could not get a shot away before Rangel made a desperation slide tackle.
Chivas had its own chances to score early on, the most dangerous forcing Jonathan Klinsmann to make consecutive reaction saves to deny Miguel Ponce from close range in the 25th minute.
LAFC and Club América were to play in the nightcap of the doubleheader.
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Turkish inflation accelerated again and may be just months away from peaking, soaring to levels not seen since the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis in 1997 as the central bank sticks with its ultra-loose monetary course.
The upward march of consumer prices has already forced officials and economists to rewrite forecasts several times this year, as efforts to stabilise the lira falter at a time when Russia's invasion of Ukraine is inflating the cost of everything from food to energy.
Data on Wednesday showed that annual inflation was up to 79.6 per cent last month from 78.6 per cent in June, gaining slightly less than forecast by economists in a Bloomberg survey. In Istanbul, Turkey’s most populous city, price growth exceeded 99 per cent in July from a year earlier.
Even in a world consumed by the fastest inflation in decades, Turkey is an outlier that ranks behind only a handful of countries, such as Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Lebanon, where the pace of price increases has already topped triple digits.
Loosening inflation’s grip is proving harder to achieve in Turkey because the central bank has refrained from raising its key rate from 14 per cent under pressure from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish leader believes — contrary to mainstream economics — that higher rates cause faster inflation.
“We see no signs of a stabilisation in the macroeconomic environment for Turkey arising from the current unorthodox monetary policy settings and recommend refraining from investing in Turkish assets,” said Nenad Dinic, emerging markets equities strategist at Bank Julius Baer.
The approach put Turkish policymakers out of sync with the most aggressive global monetary tightening since the 1980s and pushed the country’s rates deeply below zero when adjusted for prices. | https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/economy/2022/08/03/turkeys-inflation-nears-80-in-july-and-may-be-about-to-peak/ | 2022-08-04T03:42:53Z | https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/economy/2022/08/03/turkeys-inflation-nears-80-in-july-and-may-be-about-to-peak/ | false | 1 |
China is escalating tensions with the U.S. after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan this week, but the White House will not be deterred in defending its interests in the Western Pacific, according to the President's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
It has been a busy few days for Sullivan as President Joe Biden navigates complex issues on multiple fronts.
Alongside Pelosi's trip, there is the ongoing war in Ukraine, and the U.S. drone strike that took out al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul.
Sullivan sits down with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly to discuss the past week and how the administration plans to address each issue.
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
Interview highlights
On whether everyone at the White House is breathing a sigh of relief since Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan
Well, the Chinese have announced that they are going to conduct a series of military activities around Taiwan over the course of the next few days, and that will raise tensions across the strait. It will create risks and challenges, we think unnecessarily. And so what we are hopeful for is that the PRC acts responsibly and avoids the kind of escalation that could lead to a mistake or miscalculation in the air or on the seas. That is the message that we're sending to China. That's the message we're also coordinating with our friends in Taiwan.
On how risky this situation appears
Look, whenever a military engages in a series of activities that include the possibility of missile tests, of live fire exercises, of fighter jets buzzing around the skies and ships moving around on the seas, the possibility of some kind of incident is real. And we believe that what China is doing here is not responsible. We believe that it is escalating tensions unnecessarily. And this is particularly so because what the speaker did in visiting Taiwan is not unprecedented, it is not threatening to China, it is not out of the historical norm.
Members of Congress travel there all the time, and a speaker of the House has previously traveled there as well. So what we don't want to see is China trying to twist this into a crisis or use this as a pretext to take the kind of military activity that will ultimately destabilize the Taiwan Strait.
On whether some good can come from the visit, and the U.S. signaling to China that it won't back down
Look, from the U.S. government's perspective, from the Biden Administration's perspective, what's most important are the set of actions we take, the substance. And that includes what we do to support Taiwan's self-defense, that includes how we work with our allies and partners on initiatives like AUKUS — the nuclear submarine initiative we have with the UK and Australia — it matters what our force posture is in the region, and it matters the extent to which we are communicating to China that we are going to stand up for our interests.
Whether a particular visit sends the kind of message you're describing, I'll let others make that determination. From our perspective, the most important thing for us to do is through diplomatic, economic and military policy, substance. We communicate quite clearly to China that we are going to defend our interests and our values in the Western Pacific.
On what comes next, and whether the U.S. watches the military drills play out and see what happens
The most important thing for us to communicate is a clear and steady message, both publicly and privately to China, that we are not going to be deterred or coerced from operating as we operate in the Western Pacific. And China needs to understand that. We are not looking to escalate, but we are also not going to be deterred.
On whether the U.S. will get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that
Well, our policy has not changed. It is rooted in the One China policy informed by the Three Joint Communiqués, the Taiwan Relations Act, and the Six Assurances.
The president himself has said the policy has not changed. The president is the commander in chief. He's the guy who sets the policy and he has said it has not changed. And we have communicated that very directly. He has said that publicly on the record. And to the question of the kind of military contingency you're talking about, it is the entire object and purpose of our approach to ensure that that never happens, that it never comes to that. And that is what we are going to keep working to ensure.
On whether it was a CIA drone that killed al-Qaida leader al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan, and where it flew in from
All I will say is that our counterterrorism professionals and our intelligence professionals played a central role in carrying out this successful operation at the president's direction, and he credited them in the public remarks he made for their incredible skill and capacity in pulling this thing off.
I'm not going to get into those kinds of operational details [on where the drone flew in from]. I think it's important that we be able to preserve the space to continue to operate effectively, to demonstrate, as the president promised the American people a year ago, that we would maintain the ability to take out terrorists even without thousands of American forces on the ground. We did that once, we're prepared to do it again.
On whether there was any dissent among top advisors on carrying out the strike
No. There was unanimous support among his senior national security team to take this action at the point in time when the intelligence community briefed the president that they had high confidence that this was al-Zawahiri and that they could do it in a way that they felt would not result in civilian casualties.
On what al-Zawahiri's presence in downtown Kabul says about what the U.S. achieved during the 20-year war in Afghanistan
Well, actually the record, when it comes to our disruption of the al-Qaida network and its capacity to threaten America and Americans, is a record of significant success. Our ability to ensure, over the course of decades, that the kinds of complex plots that led to the embassy bombings in Nairobi and in Tanzania in 1998, that led to the USS Cole in 2000, and then of course to 9/11 in 2001, that we have not seen those kind of plots over the course of the past two decades be carried out against the U.S. homeland — that is a record of significant success.
What I would tell you is that Ayman al-Zawahiri became the emir of al-Qaida in 2011 when Osama bin Laden was taken off the battlefield. That was more than a decade ago. For a decade, American men and women fought and died in Afghanistan and Zawahiri was alive and running al-Qaida. Joe Biden took the United States out of Afghanistan so that in the year 2022 not one American soldier died in Afghanistan. And Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead. I would call that a pretty effective policy.
On whether there is a scenario in which the Taliban didn't know he was there
We believe that senior members of the Haqqani network, who are now part of the Taliban entity running the government in Kabul, that they knew. We also believe that there were other senior Taliban officials who did not know. And in fact, you know, we will now watch to see the extent to which this raises questions within the organization of the Taliban about the wisdom of having al-Zawahiri come back into Kabul.
On if he's watching for possible fractures or divisions in the Taliban
Yeah, I don't want to go so far as to say fracture. But, you know, certainly this is going to raise some eyebrows, we believe, within the leadership.
On how encouraged we should be by the first grain ship to depart Ukraine since Russia invaded
Well, we should be encouraged because it does mean that the possibility of substantial amounts of wheat and corn and other grains getting out of Ukraine is a real possibility. But we should also be cautious, because there is every reason to believe the Russians are going to make this as difficult as possible and that they are going to continue to find ways to disrupt the flow of grain to the world market. And so we think that the international community has to maintain a substantial amount of pressure on Moscow not to enforce a blockade, not to throw up obstacles to the flow of that grain, because it is so important to feed the world, to keep prices down and to ensure that there's not hunger and famine in Africa in Southeast Asia and other places.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a triumph, but I would say this is a good step forward. It should be built on and there should be many steps that follow what, for our part, the United States is trying to do to ensure that these ships coming in and out can have the insurance they need, that there is no challenges with them being able to get the grain to the world market. And we're going to keep doing our part to get as many of those ships in and out of there as we possibly can.
On whether there is mistrust between the White House and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
You just have to listen to President Biden when he talks about Presidents Zelenskyy. He openly admires president Zelenskyy, admires his courage, his bravery, his skill, his stewardship of a country at a time of absolute crisis. The two of them talk regularly. They have incredibly constructive and effective communication. And then at all levels of the government we are deeply engaged. And so this is a very strong partnership between the Biden administration and the Zelenskyy administration, and it is because of that partnership that we have been able to effectively provide them with the military, economic and humanitarian support that they need, and we're going to keep doing it.
For the record, I believe that Ukraine's leadership is leading a country in an incredibly effective and brave way against the onslaught of an invading neighbor and doing so defying all expectations about what they would be able to hold together and stand up against. And it's been an incredibly impressive thing to watch.
On where he would put the chances of there still being an active war in Ukraine in six months
I'm not going to make predictions about six months from now, because I think most of us wouldn't have predicted we'd be where we are today six months ago. We did accurately predict that Russia would invade, but how exactly that invasion would unfold is subject to so many variables and that's true for the six months that lie ahead of us. What I will say is this: Russia could end this war tomorrow if they simply withdrew from the territory that they have tried to conquer by force, which is against every precept of international law. And so Putin could end this thing very rapidly. Our job as the United States is to put Ukraine in the best possible position on the battlefield so that it will end up in the best possible position at the negotiating table. When can we get serious negotiations going? That is an open question, because at the moment it does not seem the Russians are serious about the kind of diplomacy that actually could bring about an end to this conflict.
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A simple blood test to detect the early signs of a brain tumour could soon be possible thanks to emerging research that uses computer modelling to spot telltale signs of cancer.
Researchers at the UK's University of Bristol found mathematical models that helped them examine and compare new biomarkers and tests for brain tumours as they emerged.
The breakthrough is part of wider research into the development of a blood test to help GPs diagnose early signs of a cancerous brain tumour, deliver faster care and improve patient recovery.
Biomarkers in the blood are already used to test for glioblastomas (GBMs), a fast-growing, aggressive type of tumour that attacks surrounding brain tissue.
An affordable and fast point-of-care test to detect a tumour could be the next breakthrough, thanks to the research by the University of Bristol and Cancer Research UK.
The project combined biomarker discovery, development of fluorescent nanoparticles to highlight genetic abnormalities and new testing techniques using computational modelling.
“Our findings provide the basis for further clinical data on the impact of lowering the current detection threshold for the known biomarker GFAP [glial fibrillary acidic protein] to allow earlier detection of GBMs using blood tests,” said Dr Johanna Blee, lead author of the research at the university’s department of engineering mathematics.
“With further experimental data, it may also be possible to quantify tumour and patient heterogeneities and incorporate errors into our models and predictions for blood levels for different tumours.
“We have also demonstrated how our models can be combined with other diagnostics such as scans to enhance clinical insight with a view to developing more personalised and effective treatments.”
Researchers used computational modelling to explore the impact of tumour characteristics and patient differences on detection.
Spotting a brain tumour at a late stage hugely diminishes survival chances.
On average, just 20 per cent of those diagnosed live beyond five years of a diagnosis, often because they present late with large inoperable tumours.
Blood tests for cancer are currently used by doctors to determine tumour markers, protein levels, complete blood count and the presence of cancerous cells.
While a test to measure the level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in samples has revolutionised the way GPs spot early signs of prostate cancer in men, similar success is hoped for in the detection of other cancers where early diagnosis is critical for survival.
Home DNA testing kits are also now available from private testing facilities in Dubai to detect signs of colorectal cancer.
“These mathematical models could be used to examine and compare new biomarkers and tests for brain tumours as they emerge,” said Dr Blee.
“We are hopeful this research will ultimately aid the development of a simple blood test for brain tumours, enabling earlier and more detailed diagnoses.” | https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/science/2022/08/03/simple-blood-test-could-help-doctors-identify-early-signs-of-brain-tumour/ | 2022-08-04T03:48:26Z | https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/science/2022/08/03/simple-blood-test-could-help-doctors-identify-early-signs-of-brain-tumour/ | false | 1 |
A Syrian ship carrying grain suspected to have been stolen from Ukraine will be allowed to leave Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli, the country's transport minister said on Wednesday.
The Laodicea has been docked in Lebanon’s Tripoli port since last week, as investigations were carried out to determine whether the grain had been stolen.
A judge on Monday ordered the Laodicea not to set sail for 72 hours, following a request from Kyiv, but Lebanon’s prosecutor general decided the following day that the ship could leave.
Already in the throes of a severe economic and political crisis, Lebanon has found itself entangled in the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Lebanon is usually reliant on Ukraine for about 60 per cent of its wheat, but the Russian invasion and subsequent blockade of Black Sea ports has disrupted regular grain shipments, causing a global supply shortage.
Lebanese Transport Minister Ali Hamie said on Twitter that the ship, blacklisted by the US in 2015 for its role in the Syrian conflict, would be allowed to travel on to Syria.
The minister added that the ship will be allowed to leave in line with Lebanese law and “based on our sovereignty on our land, sea and sky”.
السماح للباخرة LAODICEA السورية الأتية من روسيا الاتحادية مرورا بلبنان إلى سوريا بالمغادرة من قبل رئاسة مرفأ طرابلس وذلك وفقاً للأصول القانونية اللبنانية انطلاقاً من سيادتنا على برنا وبحرنا وجونا pic.twitter.com/BZwiNYM8Qo
— Ali Hamie | علي حمية (@alihamie_lb) August 3, 2022
Earlier on Wednesday, Ukraine’s ambassador to Lebanon, Ihor Ostash, insisted the Syrian ship was carrying stolen Ukrainian grain and urged Beirut to block the vessel from leaving.
“There is very strong evidence that the grain and flour on board the Laodicea is stolen from Ukraine,” Mr Ostash told a press conference.
He added that Ukraine’s general prosecutor had documented 78 ships being used to transport stolen grain from what Ukraine considers to be the Russian-occupied territory of Crimea to the Middle East.
A senior Lebanese customs official said on Friday that Ukraine’s claims that the ship contained stolen goods were untrue and that, following an inspection, the vessel’s papers appeared to be in order. | https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/2022/08/03/lebanon-allows-seized-syrian-ship-carrying-suspected-stolen-ukrainian-grain-to-leave/ | 2022-08-04T03:48:47Z | https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/2022/08/03/lebanon-allows-seized-syrian-ship-carrying-suspected-stolen-ukrainian-grain-to-leave/ | true | 1 |
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HANNIBAL — Local rock band NOWAKE has a direct connection to firefighting, and their performance in the 10th Epic Music Showcase set for Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Hannibal P.O.P.S. Club is tied directly to a worthy cause in that lifesaving field.
Since the first Epic Music Showcase a decade ago, local charities such as Pinkie Pals and burn victims supported by Hannibal Jaycees have benefitted from the event. When the festival moved to the Hannibal P.O.P.S. Club about four years ago, NOWAKE vocalist Mark Kempker said the focus shifted to supporting the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
"Being that I am a firefighter that has been to two fallen firefighters' funerals in the state of Missouri — and knew both of those individuals in a way — it's very near and dear to our hearts, because it could be us one day that don't go home," he said, stressing the organization covers volunteers, paid firefighters and every other type of firefighter nationally.
An average of 100 firefighters loses their lives each year in the line of duty, aside from Sept. 11, when 343 individuals were lost. Kempker said the foundation provides instant support like mortgage payments, utility bills, rent and food to families affected by the loss of a loved one.
"They step in when you need them, when you can't think straight," he said.
"Our mission is to honor and remember America’s fallen fire heroes and to provide resources to assist their families in rebuilding their lives and work within the fire service community to reduce firefighter deaths and injuries," the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation's website states.
Kempker said donations will be accepted during the event, and people who can't attend the Epic Music Showcase can also contact the Hannibal Fire Department to support the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation's cause.
"Being as three of us are firefighters in the band, it was the right thing to do," he said.
NOWAKE's lineup includes Kempker on vocals, Sean McHargue on guitars, Austin Birkhead on guitars, Ryan Gilmore on bass and Mark VanWinkle on percussion.
Fans who attend the show can expect a variety of rockin' selections from the band's three albums — along with a possible surprise. Kempker said the band is "polishing up" the first song from their upcoming fourth album, and the as-yet unnamed song could make its public debut during the event.
"A lot of our songs are impacted and they are inspired by some of the things we have experienced in our own lives," Kempker said, noting how band members' various experiences have influenced many of the song's compositions and how they are performed. "Hopefully, someone can take away a little bit of that when they listen to some of our songs."
Kempker is excited to announce that the 10th anniversary of the Epic Music Showcase will offer live music and activities for all ages, rain or shine. The gates at the Hannibal P.O.P.S. Club will open earlier this year at noon, with a bounce house for youth, a cornhole tournament, a car show presented by Midwest Menace Car Club, and a wide variety of live entertainment all day.
Acoustic performers Liz Bentley, Seth Wade and Dan Kerns will perform. Greylight Divide, will take the stage later in the day. Discrepancies, NOWAKE and headliner September Mourning round out a day filled with high-energy live music.
Kempker expressed his gratitude to countless community sponsors for making the 10th anniversary of the Epic Music Showcase possible. Karen Munch, Farmers Insurance Agent, helped sponsor the stage. Hannibal Regional Healthcare System has been a major sponsor and 105.9 The Grizz has helped spread the word.
Tickets are $15 each in advance through Eventbrite and will be available for $20 cash at the gate. The event is open to all ages, and fans 12 years of age and under receive free admission. No ATMs will be on site, so all visitors are asked to bring cash along.
The cornhole tournament registration fee is $40. Food, as well as alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, will also be on hand. Kempker said half of the food proceeds will be donated by the P.O.P.S. Club for a local Christmas charity. He encouraged everyone to bring family and friends out for a unique experience.
"That's the joy in it, at the end of the day, everyone had a good time — and more importantly — doing it for a good cause," Kempker said. "These are firefighters, and what it comes to, what it really means, is a firefighter has given his life for someone else in the line of duty. That's what the Fallen Firefighters Foundation is all about."
The Hannibal P.O.P.S. Club is located about two miles south of Hannibal, at 12957 U.S.61, New London, Mo. 63459. | https://www.hannibal.net/news/local/local-rockers-nowake-variety-of-entertainment-slated-for-10th-epic-music-showcase/article_8be56dc0-135e-11ed-9500-d770106cdb1c.html | 2022-08-04T03:52:59Z | https://www.hannibal.net/news/local/local-rockers-nowake-variety-of-entertainment-slated-for-10th-epic-music-showcase/article_8be56dc0-135e-11ed-9500-d770106cdb1c.html | false | 1 |
Two new matches have been added to AEW’s Battle of the Belts 3 scheduled for Saturday.
Current AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa will take on Jamie Hayter with her title on the line. The match comes after the two women faced off in tag team action on tonight’s edition of “Dynamite,” with Hayter and teammate Dr. Britt Baker DMD defeating Rosa and her “Thunderstorm” partner, Toni Storm.
Wardlow will also be taking on Jay Lethal for the TNT Championship. The match was made official after a heated confrontation between the two following Lethal’s win over Orange Cassidy. Lethal locked in a Figure Four Lock on Cassidy to try to break his leg after the bell had rung, which inspired Best Friends to run down to the ring to check on Cassidy as Wardlow would follow them close behind, causing Lethal and allies Sonjay Dutt and Satnam Singh to retreat. Wardlow called for a fight, but Dutt said no on behalf of Lethal and instead challenged him for next week. Wardlow made it clear he didn’t care when or where, but he would get “that a**.”
As noted, Claudio Castagnoli will also have his first Ring of Honor World Championship title defense at the event against breakout star Konosuke Takeshita. Castagnoli dethroned Jonathan Gresham during “Death Before Dishonor” on July 23.
Here is the current lineup for the show:
* Claudio Castagnoli (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the Ring of Honor World Championship
* Thunder Rosa (c) vs. Jamie Hayter for the AEW Women’s Championship
* Wardlow (c) vs. Jay Lethal for the TNT Championship
AEW Battle of the Belts 3 will air this Saturday at 8 PM ET/7 PM CT.
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The Galaxy A52s is a mid-range smartphone that delivers a lot for its price. After all, it has a powerful chipset, premium construction against water and a great quality screen. And today, it’s on a special offer with a coupon coming out at R$ 1,749 in 10 interest-free installments on the card!
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BUIES CREEK — The Big South Conference will lose another school next year.
Campbell University announced Wednesday that it is accepting an invitation to join the Colonial Athletic Conference in all of its sports that the league sponsors on July 1, 2023. The school will remain a member of the Southern Conference in wrestling.
Campbell is the third Big South school to jump to the CAA. Hampton and North Carolina A&T made the move on July 1.
The addition of Campbell gives the CAA 14 schools in most sports and 15 in football. The CAA stretches from Boston to Charleston, but seven of the schools, including Campbell, are in a similar geographic footprint in the Carolinas and Virginia as the Big South, which shrinks to nine full members with the loss of the Camels.
Current members of the CAA in addition to N.C. A&T and Hampton are UNC Wilmington, Elon, College of Charleston, William & Mary, Drexel, Delaware, Monmouth, Hofstra, Northeastern, Stony Brook and Towson. Albany, Villanova, Richmond and Rhode Island are members only in football.
Campbell started a football program in 2008 and moved up to the Big South in 2018.
It will be Campbell’s second departure from the Big South. The Camels were a charter member of the conference in 1983, left for the Atlantic Sun Conference in 1994 and returned to the Big South in 2011.
Camels teams won a school record 13 conference regular season and tournament titles in 2021-22 — winning championships in women’s soccer (regular season), men’s soccer (regular season and tournament), volleyball (tournament), women’s basketball (regular season), men’s indoor track and field, baseball (regular season and tournament), softball (regular season and tournament), women’s golf and men’s tennis (regular season). Campbell also won the 2022 Southern Conference wrestling tournament championship.
The remaining Big South members are High Point University, Gardner-Webb, Charleston Southern, Winthrop, Longwood, UNC Asheville, Presbyterian, Radford and USC Upstate. | https://www.hpenews.com/sports/campbell-accepts-caa-invite/article_29b763a8-ff0a-5044-aa51-ee56fb9e1b34.html | 2022-08-04T04:02:55Z | https://www.hpenews.com/sports/campbell-accepts-caa-invite/article_29b763a8-ff0a-5044-aa51-ee56fb9e1b34.html | false | 1 |
5 Benefits of Using Branded Hashtags on Social Media
Did you know that 67% of small businesses use social media as a part of their marketing efforts?
Since most people are on several social media platforms, businesses that don’t create profiles are missing out on tons of sales and branding opportunities. If you want to get the most out of your social media posts, then your business needs to start using branded hashtags.
Are you wondering why it is so important to use hashtags related to your unique brand? Keep reading to understand five awesome benefits you can reap.
Hashtags Increase Brand Awareness
Back in the day, businesses spent lots of money creating catchy slogans and even jingles to get stuck in people’s heads. In the digital world, you can create hashtags that strike people so they can remember your business.
You can look at bigger businesses to see how they’re using social media. Coke has the successful hashtag #ShareACoke which works wonders for increasing brand awareness.
2. Social Media Hashtags Let Businesses Learn About Their Target Audience
As people start using your hashtag, you can collect data on their profiles to see who your target audience is. From ages to locations and beyond, this information is invaluable when it comes to creating marketing campaigns in the future.
Checking out The HOTH blog will help you figure out the best hashtags and other strategies to use for your social media marketing campaign.
3. Branded Hashtags Are Free Promotion
Creating a new post doesn’t cost a cent, which is why so many businesses are relying on social media to help promote their brand. Whether you want to direct traffic to your business website or raise awareness about an upcoming event, hashtags are efficient.
When other people create posts with your hashtag, they’re working to promote your business for free as well.
4. Hashtags Encourage Conversation
The greatest hashtags have a call to action that encourages others to use the hashtag to join a fun conversation. This increases engagement and helps your business skyrocket to fame.
Hashtags can allow businesses to further develop an identity that makes people feel connected to their cause and become loyal to the brand.
5. Hashtags Make It Easy to Learn About Your Business
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram hashtags create a link that lets people view every post that’s used the hashtag before. Lots of people who are encountering a brand for the first time will investigate their hashtags to learn more about who they are and what they offer.
Curating a flawless social media profile is great, but exploring posts from real people who use your products or services can build more trust.
Hashtags Need to Be Part of Your Social Media Marketing Campaign
It’s easy to see why branded hashtags are crucial for every business out there. Once you start using your own branded hashtags, you’ll be amazed by all of the benefits that you reap.
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A couple from Godalming faced an agonising 14-hour wait to find out whether their premature baby had survived, after she went 11 minutes without breathing immediately after being born. Emily Gore and James Everest, both 33, then endured a three-month ordeal at the height of the pandemic while baby Aylah battled to survive - but she made it, and now mum Emily has opened a business on Godalming High Street that helps other families that are going through similar experiences.
Aylah had been due on January 2021 but Emily went to Kings College Hospital in south London for a check-up three months earlier, in October 2020, after experiencing some unexpected pain. It turned out she was going into labour, and Aylah was about to make her way into the world just 26 weeks into the pregnancy.
Babies born so early can face serious complications because vital organs such as the brain and lungs are not yet fully formed. Doctors, therefore, tried to slow down the labour as much as possible but three days later Aylah was born, weighing just two pounds.
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"I went into shock as soon as I had given birth," said Emily. "That's when they found out I had sepsis - my body was protecting the baby by not letting me have any symptoms, because if I had symptoms then it could have damaged the baby more. So I didn't know that I had an infection because I didn't have a temperature or any of the other signs. Then, as soon as she was born, my temperature shot up and I started convulsing."
While Emily was falling seriously ill, Aylah was not breathing. Three doctors worked on her on a table next to the bed and eventually helped her to start breathing with the help of a tube, but after the 11-minute wait there was a significant risk of brain damage. At that point, Emily was allowed to briefly hold her before she was whisked away to neonatal intensive care.
"It's all very overwhelming and upsetting, but you love them so much," Emily said. "She was literally as big as maybe one and a half times the width of my hand, in the foetal position. It was amazing."
Once she was breathing with the help of a tube, they let her see Aylah and have her rest on her chest - this can be important to start the process of producing milk.
After Aylah had been taken away, Emily and James spent 14 hours not knowing what had happened to their newborn child, as the doctors were so busy and the nurses had not been given an update.
Emily continued: "We were preparing ourselves [for bad news]. Then at about three or four in the morning the nurse came in and said 'she's OK, she's on the ward and she's breathing'. We both burst into floods of tears because we honestly didn't think she was going to have made it.
"At one point during the labour, James thought he was going to lose us both and he would have had to go and tell Alana, who had gone to nursery thinking everything was fine, that not only did she not have a sister but her mum wasn't around either. I actually made a video for Alana to tell her I loved her and to sing her a bedtime song, in case I didn't make it."
Despite this piece of good news, the medical staff were not able to give any assurances about Aylah's prospects, especially in the early stages after she was born. Any infection at that point could have been critical, and this was at the height of the pandemic before anyone had been vaccinated. Emily was discharged a week after the birth.
Two days before Christmas Aylah was transferred to the Royal Surrey County Hospital closer to home, but in total she spent three months in hospital and it was only three days before she was discharged that the medical staff were allowed to say that she was going to make it.
The family had moved house during the time that Aylah was in hospital, so when she was discharged she came back to their brand new home in Godalming. Aylah's big sister Alana, who was three years old at the time, had spent three months unable to meet her new sibling because of Covid restrictions about who could visit the hospital, but was now immediately besotted.
Over a year later, Aylah is now a healthy 21-month-old although she is still vulnerable to illnesses - on one occasion at eight months old, a common cold caused her to be readmitted to hospital for over a week and almost required her to be intubated again. Emily, who only received statutory maternity leave for the first six months after Aylah returned home, decided to use her background in business to start a shop.
The Peppered Pear Pantry opened on Godalming High Street in May this year, and sells a variety of boutique foodstuffs, hampers and craft beers. Most of the products are 'B Corp', which means they are ethically sourced, and the business also supports charitable causes as much as it can - including by providing food hampers to neonatal wards. Emily can now look back at what happened to their family and is grateful to the NHS staff who saved her child's life.
She said: "I make a point of looking through the photographs every now and then, to remember how small and vulnerable she was. I think it's important for one's sense of mind to acknowledge that. Having the shop and talking to other families who are going through similar situations to the one we experienced gives the whole situation a sense of purpose to me, which is important. It's how you get through these things, I think."
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Social Democrats lead by wide margin in latest electoral poll in Romania
Aug 3, 2022
Social Democrats lead by wide margin in latest electoral poll in Romania.
The Social Democratic Party (PSD) led in the poll carried out by Avangarde for the party in July, with 37% of the voting intention. However, only 39% of those polled expressed a preference for one party or another - resulting in an absolute score of only 14.4% (of all subjects interviewed) for (...)
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Match 4" game were:
11-13-18-20
(eleven, thirteen, eighteen, twenty)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Match 4" game were:
11-13-18-20
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Nancy E. MacDonald, age 57, of Quincy, MA, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, surrounded by her loving family and dear friends.
Nancy is the beloved daughter of Carol (Webber), of Rockland and the late John MacDonald. Devoted mother of Tessa Schneider, of Weymouth. Loving sister of Jack MacDonald and his wife, Leslie of Plymouth, David MacDonald and his wife, Cherish of Plymouth, Christine MacDonald and her partner, Tom Briody of Quincy, Michael MacDonald and his wife, Sharon of Plymouth and the late Gregory MacDonald. She is the dear aunt of Kendall Ewell and her fiancé, Ryan Cushing and their son, Ryan “Bubs” of Plymouth, Zoe Mirabito and her husband, Andrew of Quincy, Madison, Gabrielle, John, Marin, and Ava MacDonald, all of Plymouth. Step-grandmother of David and Shyanne Schneider of Plymouth, and Riley and Brady Mulhern of Naples, FL. Nancy will be forever missed by everyone who knew and loved her.
A private burial ceremony will be held at New Calvary Cemetery, Boston and arrangements are being made for a Celebration of Life gathering.
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Dogs could hold the key to retaining employees in today’s competitive job market, according to a new report from Forbes Advisor.
The company surveyed 2,000 employed American adults June 22-23 and found 47% of those who work in a dog-friendly office said they chose their current job because they can bring their dog to work.
Six in 10 pet owners said they left a company because they were forced to return to an office that wasn’t pet-friendly. And nearly half (48%) of remote workers who own dogs said they would work only remotely going forward so they can be home with their dog.
Midtown Kia in Tulsa welcomes dogs of both employees and customers. Manager Roger Williams brings his two small dogs – Sammy and Lucy – to work with him every day.
“There’s just always dogs at our dealership and we love it,” said Jan Lavender, who owns the dealership with her husband, Mike Sullivan, and often brings her own dogs.
“We have lot of customers who bring their dogs in, too,” Lavender said.
With the showroom, large service area and used-car area, she said there is plenty of room to keep pets separate from customers who don’t want their company.
“We’ve made it pretty clear that we’re dog-friendly,” Lavender said. “It’s just a part of who we are.”
Customers likewise are welcome to bring their pets into Stash gift shop in Norman, where dog treats await behind the counter and staff members bring their own dogs in from time to time.
Shop owner Rebecca Bean said she once worked for a woman who allowed her to bring her end-of-life dog to work, and she has extended the same courtesy to her staff. “We see pets as an extension of our own lives,” Bean said.
The pet-friendly shop has hosted vaccine/microchip clinics and adoption events. One woman came to an event with a pet iguana on her shoulder.
“You never know what you’ll find at Stash. Sometimes things get a little zany,” Bean said, adding most customers are “charmed and delighted” to find pets in the store.
June – a rescued and beloved pit bull terrier – was the shop dog for years before she died in October 2020. “She melted a lot of hearts of people who were afraid of pits,” Bean said.
The Forbes Advisor survey asked how non-pet owners feel about dog-friendly workplaces.
It found that 42% of workers who don’t own pets would like to have dogs in the office, while 16% said they would be uncomfortable with that decision and 11% said they would look for a new job if their workplace started to welcome dogs.
Recent studies show that 44% of companies are requiring employees to return to the office at least part time.
The survey asked dog owners what they would sacrifice in order to work remotely with their pets.
It found 23% would take a 10% pay cut. Men (31%) were more likely than women (19%) to accept a salary reduction if it meant they could work from home to be with their dog. That may be because federal data show women are paid 83 cents for each dollar men earn and the pay gap is even greater for women of color.
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GURUGRAM, India, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cielo, the world's leading Talent Acquisition Partner, has launched its first office in India. The new workspace in Gurugram, just southwest of New Delhi, is a critical milestone in Cielo's expansion across the Asia Pacific region.
Cielo's India team delivers fresh and proven talent acquisition solutions to diverse organizations across the IT, engineering, life sciences, automotive and consulting sectors. Beyond Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Cielo provides the India market with world-class consulting services, including employer brand, all backed by its proprietary technology platform, Cielo TalentCloud.
"Establishing a solid presence in India is vital to Cielo's vision – to lead the market with better talent experiences for all," Shailesh Singh, Director India at Cielo said. "We're excited to start this new chapter of operations in India as Cielo cements itself as the leader in global talent acquisition."
Cielo is committed to pairing market-leading talent acquisition solutions with expertise across multiple sectors, including technology and life sciences – both major industries in India. The country's tech industry experienced record-breaking growth in 2022 and its pharmaceutical industry is the third-largest in the world. With unmatched experience and knowledge in these areas, Cielo is well-positioned to provide impactful recruiting and talent solutions to the market in India.
"Cielo's expansion into India is underpinned by our commitment to strengthening Cielo's footprint in key regions, forging closer ties and lasting partnerships with every client to better meet their talent acquisition needs and overall business goals," said Marissa Geist, CEO of Cielo.
Established in 2005, Cielo's 4,000 employees now serve 215 clients across 113 countries in 39 languages. Cielo's global reach and local focus, combined with its expertise, allows companies to get ahead in the race for talent.
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Congress MPs to meet today as ED seals Young India office
New Delhi, Aug 04: The Congress MPs will meet on Thursday early morning at the Congress Parliamentary Party office to discuss the party's future strategy after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) temporarily sealed the Young India (YI) office over a case linked to the National Herald newspaper.
The Congress is also expected to give an adjournment motion notice in Parliament regarding the sealing of the Young India property.
The probe agency temporarily sealed the office space of Young Indian (YI) company in the premises of Congress-owned newspaper National Herald in Delhi as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation.
ED seals Young Indian office at National Herald premises
The seal was put in order to "preserve the evidence" which could not be collected as authorised representatives of YI were not present during the raids that were launched on Tuesday.
The National Herald newspaper is published by Associated Journals Ltd. (AJL) and its holding company is Young Indian. The newspaper office is registered in the name of AJL.
The agency recently carried out the high-profile questioning of Congress president Sonia Gandhi (in July) and her MP son Rahul Gandhi (in June) in this case at its headquarters in Delhi apart from that of Kharge and Bansal in April.
The Congress has said it gave a Rs 90 crore loan to an ailing AJL between 2001-02 and 2010-11 and later, in 2011, the shares of AJL were allotted to Young Indian and this debt was converted into equity and the loan was extinguished in the books of the AJL.
The ED claims these transactions attract anti-money laundering charges as a complex web of transactions and routing of funds were undertaken by the party and its leaders to acquire AJL's assets worth multiple crores of rupees.
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Onooks (OOKS) traded down 0.7% against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 20:00 PM Eastern on August 3rd. Onooks has a total market capitalization of $2.94 million and approximately $71,636.00 worth of Onooks was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Onooks coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.26 or 0.00001146 BTC on exchanges. During the last seven days, Onooks has traded down 8.5% against the US dollar.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- JUMPN (JST) traded 54% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.46 or 0.00018651 BTC.
- Tether (USDT) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004376 BTC.
- The Web3 Project (WEB3) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $144.41 or 0.00631802 BTC.
- Sweet SOL (SSOL) traded 600.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Bitsubishi (BITSU) traded up 37.7% against the dollar and now trades at $98.34 or 0.00428675 BTC.
- XRP (XRP) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.37 or 0.00001620 BTC.
- Wrapped Cardano (WADA) traded 0.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.50 or 0.00002206 BTC.
- Gateway Protocol (GWP) traded up 4.4% against the dollar and now trades at $4.00 or 0.00017483 BTC.
- Lido stETH (STETH) traded down 0.6% against the dollar and now trades at $2,947.45 or 0.07417648 BTC.
- Polkadot (DOT) traded 1.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $8.04 or 0.00035175 BTC.
Onooks Coin Profile
Onooks’ total supply is 12,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 11,221,615 coins. The Reddit community for Onooks is https://reddit.com/r/onooks and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Onooks’ official Twitter account is @onooksdev.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Joe Lupo, who has helped two of Atlantic City’s most successful casinos thrive through years of market turbulence, will run the Mirage Hotel & Casino once Hard Rock buys the Las Vegas property from MGM Resorts International, his company said Wednesday.
Hard Rock told The Associated Press that Lupo will become president of the casino once the sale is completed and approved by Nevada gambling regulators.
The job is among the highest-profile casino leadership positions in the country.
He is currently president of Hard Rock’s Atlantic City casino, which has become one of the city’s top-performing casinos since opening in 2018. He formerly worked as senior vice president of the city’s market-leading Borgata casino.
“The last four years in Atlantic City have been such a rewarding experience for me,” Lupo said. “I feel humbled and excited to be appointed as the new president of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas project, and to return home to my family.”
Hard Rock chairman Jim Allen said Lupo “has achieved amazing results” in his four years leading the company’s Atlantic City property.
“Thanks to his dedication and expertise, financial results continue to outperform expectations, while our team members share an unmatched commitment to guest service and satisfaction,” Allen said. “I am confident Joe Lupo will achieve even greater success at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas.”
An Ohio native, Lupo has history in Las Vegas, having worked at various Boyd Gaming properties there and in Laughlin, Nevada, including the former Stardust Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, where he was the director of the race and sportsbook.
He also served as president of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa, Florida.
Lupo will be succeeded as president at Hard Rock Atlantic City by the casino’s general manager, Anthony Faranca, on Sept. 1.
“I’m thrilled to lead this incredible team and confident that we will continue to accomplish great things in Atlantic City,” he said.
Lupo currently serves as president of the Casino Association of New Jersey, the trade association for Atlantic City’s nine casinos. The group is expected to announce a successor soon.
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Interest rates: What are they and how high could they go?
The Bank of England will announce its latest decision on interest rates on Thursday, and is widely expected to raise them for the sixth time in a row.
Interest rates currently stand at 1.25%, but the central bank could increase them to as much as 1.75%. If so, that would be its highest level since December 2008.
The Bank hopes to slow the rate at which prices are increasing. It has warned that inflation could pass 11% later this year.
Why are prices and interest rates rising?
Prices are going up quickly worldwide, as Covid restrictions ease and consumers spend more.
Many firms have problems getting enough goods to sell. And with more buyers chasing too few goods, prices have risen.
There has also been a very sharp rise in oil and gas costs - a problem made worse by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
One way to try to control rising prices - or inflation - is to raise interest rates.
This increases the cost of borrowing and encourages people to borrow and spend less. It also encourages people to save more.
However, it is a tough balancing act as the Bank does not want to slow the economy too much.
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, UK interest rates have been at historically low levels. Last year, they were as low as 0.1%.
How high could interest rates go?
Many analysts have predicted UK interest rates will rise this month, but further increases are also expected later in the year.
Analysts at Capital Economics think the Bank will ultimately have to lift rates to 3% to quash inflation, but other economists think they won't have to go so high. Pantheon Macroeconomics reckon interest rates will peak at 1.75%.
Last year, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) - the government's independent economic adviser - looked at what might happen if the UK were to experience higher and longer lasting inflation.
This can happen when people think price rises will continue - businesses raise prices to keep making a profit and workers demand wage increases to keep up.
If this happens UK interest rates could hit 3.5%, the OBR said.
How do interest rates affect me?
Mortgages
Just under a third of households have a mortgage, according to the English Housing Survey, which is geographically limited but one of the most comprehensive guides available.
Of those, three-quarters have a fixed mortgage, so will not be immediately affected. The rest - about two million people - will see their monthly repayments rise.
If rates do go up to 1.75%, those on a typical tracker mortgage will have to pay about £52 more a month. Those on standard variable rate mortgages will see a £59 increase.
This comes on top of increases following other recent rate rises.
Compared with pre-December 2021, tracker mortgage customers could be paying about £167 more a month, and variable mortgage holders about £132 more.
Credit cards and loans
Even if you don't have a mortgage, changes in interest rates could still affect you.
Bank of England interest rates also influence the interest charged on things like credit cards, bank loans and car loans.
Even ahead of this latest rise, the average annual interest rate was 20.23% on bank overdrafts and 18.56% on credit cards in June. Lenders could decide to increase these fees now that interest rates have risen.
Savings
The Bank's decisions also affect the interest rates people earn on their savings.
Individual banks usually pass on any interest rate rises - giving savers a higher return on their money.
However, for people putting money away, interest rates are not keeping up with rising prices.
How does the Bank of England set interest rates?
Interest rates are decided by a team of nine economists, the Monetary Policy Committee.
They meet eight times a year - roughly once every six weeks - to look at how the economy is performing.
Their decisions are always published at 12:00 on a Thursday.
Are other countries raising their interest rates?
The UK is affected by prices rising across the globe. So there is a limit as to how effective UK interest rate rises will be.
However, other countries are taking a similar approach, and have also been raising interest rates
The US central bank has announced big rate rises in the last couple of months. The Federal Reserve increased rates by three-quarters of a percentage point in June and then again in July, to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.
The European Central Bank has also raised rates for the first time in more than 11 years, while Brazil, Canada, India, Australia and Switzerland have increased rates too.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Wednesday’s game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals was postponed by rain, allowing the Cardinals to line up their newly fortified starting rotation. St. Louis added four pitchers in deals over the last several days, including left-hander José Quintana, who will make his Cardinals debut in the second game of Thursday’s day-night doubleheader. The twinbill was scheduled because of the rainout. Then, on Saturday, left-hander Jordan Montgomery will make his first start for St. Louis against his former team, the New York Yankees, who dealt him to the Cardinals on Tuesday for outfielder Harrison Bader. Entering Wednesday, St. Louis trailed first-place Milwaukee by two games in the NL Central. The Cardinals were one-half game outside the final NL wild-card spot. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2687393283129/riley-double-in-9th-lifts-braves-over-d-backs-1-0-for-sweep | 2022-08-04T04:59:19Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2687393283129/riley-double-in-9th-lifts-braves-over-d-backs-1-0-for-sweep | true | null |
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SEATTLE (AP) — Breanna Stewart had a season-high 33 points with eight rebounds and five assists, Jewell Loyd added 17 points and the Seattle Storm beat the Minnesota Lynx 89-77 on Wednesday night.
Seattle made its first four 3-pointers for a 12-0 lead and Stewart made the Storm’s sixth of the first quarter, in eight attempts, for a 23-9 advantage. The Storm set a season high with 56 first-half points.
Seattle finished 11 of 25 from distance with four from Stewart and three from Sue Bird. Stewart was 13 of 20 from the field, finishing five points shy of her career high.
Bird scored 13 points and Gabby Williams added 11 for Seattle (20-12). Briann January made her 1,000th career field goal.
Nikolina Milic scored 13 points and Sylvia Fowles added 12 for Minnesota (12-20).
Seattle, which won its sixth straight home game in front of a sold-out crowd of 13,500, hosts Las Vegas on Sunday in Bird’s final regular-season home game before closing with three road games. The Lynx host Seattle on August 12 in the final regular-season matchup between Bird and Fowles. | https://www.theintelligencer.com/sports/article/Stewart-scores-33-Seattle-beats-Minnesota-89-77-17350249.php | 2022-08-04T05:07:47Z | https://www.theintelligencer.com/sports/article/Stewart-scores-33-Seattle-beats-Minnesota-89-77-17350249.php | false | 17 |
A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Sea.
Looking at options history for Sea SE we detected 26 strange trades.
If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 42% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 57% with bearish.
From the overall spotted trades, 9 are puts, for a total amount of $573,430 and 17, calls, for a total amount of $1,957,964.
What's The Price Target?
Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $79.0 to $470.0 for Sea over the last 3 months.
Volume & Open Interest Development
Looking at the volume and open interest is a powerful move while trading options. This data can help you track the liquidity and interest for Sea's options for a given strike price. Below, we can observe the evolution of the volume and open interest of calls and puts, respectively, for all of Sea's whale trades within a strike price range from $79.0 to $470.0 in the last 30 days.
Sea Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days
Biggest Options Spotted:
Where Is Sea Standing Right Now?
- With a volume of 3,673,562, the price of SE is up 2.93% at $79.5.
- RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching overbought.
- Next earnings are expected to be released in 14 days.
What The Experts Say On Sea:
- Stifel has decided to maintain their Buy rating on Sea, which currently sits at a price target of $105.
- Barclays has decided to maintain their Overweight rating on Sea, which currently sits at a price target of $125.
Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.
If you want to stay updated on the latest options trades for Sea, Benzinga Pro gives you real-time options trades alerts.
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NEWS IN BRIEF: August 4, 2022
A round-up of the top UK news
Truss slams China’s stance over US visit
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has criticised China’s ‘inflammatory’ response to a senior US politician’s visit to Taiwan.
Tensions with China have been heightened by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to the island.
Beijing responded by announcing multiple military exercises around the island, parts of which will enter Taiwanese waters.
Taiwan has been self-governing since nationalist forces fled there in 1949 after the communists took control of China.
It is considered to be a rebel province by China, which claims the island as its territory and opposes any engagement by Taiwanese officials with foreign governments.
Ms Truss, speaking on a Conservative Party leadership campaign visit in Ludlow, Shropshire, said: “I do not support China’s inflammatory language on this issue.
“It’s perfectly reasonable what is taking place and I urge China to de-escalate.”
Conservative MP Alicia Kearns said the Chinese Communist Party has tried to make Ms Pelosi’s visit a ‘flashpoint’, telling BBC Radio 4’s World At One: “Because they’ve placed this enormous strategic importance on the visit when they could actually have just dismissed it out of hand as nothing more than a political stunt or a low-level delegation. But they’re choosing to use it to draw a line in the sand and I think that shows how worried they are and how important this is for Xi Jinping as he attempts to reconsolidate his position going into the 20th national congress of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Ms Kearns confirmed the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, of which she is a member, intends to visit Taiwan later this year.
She said: “I think the reason for going, and it was me that suggested that we should visit as a Foreign Affairs Committee, is we visit allies all over the world, we also visit our friends and we try to understand the biggest issues facing our country and also international security.”
In June, Ms Truss called on Western allies to provide greater support for Taiwan so it can defend itself in the event of an attack from China.
Ms Truss, when asked if this meant providing arms, replied at the time: “There are different ways of doing that, and Finland and Sweden have joined Nato as a way of making sure that they are defended.
“Ultimately, it is making sure that those countries have the capabilities that they need.”
Conservative former minister Brandon Lewis was pressed on whether Ms Truss believes that Taiwan should be supplied with defensive weapons.
Mr Lewis, a supporter of Ms Truss’s bid to be come the next Conservative Party leader and prime minister, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think one of the things we’ve seen with Ukraine is the fact that it’s important that we are supporting sovereign democracies, that’s something we’ve got to do.”
5 MINUTE BRIEFING
Bus campaigner dies
Tributes have been paid to a civil rights campaigner who was one of the organisers of the Bristol Bus Boycott.
Roy Hackett, who has died at the age of 93, was part of the successful campaign to overturn a ban by Bristol Omnibus Company on employing black and Asian drivers and conductors. Mr Hackett, who was the co-founder of the Commonwealth Co-ordinated Committee which set up the St Paul’s Carnival in 1968, leaves behind three children.
Teen funfair tragedy
A teenage boy has died at a fair on the Kent coast.
Emergency services were called to Pencester Gardens in Dover yesterday.
The site was hosting the Family Funfair run by Kent-based Forrest Amusements, which was due to open to the public yesterday.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating the circumstances of the incident, which Kent Police said was ‘not suspicious’.
Hosepipes banned
Householders in parts of England are to see hosepipe bans come into force.
South East Water has become the second water company to restrict use of hosepipes after Southern Water last week.
‘Call off rail strikes’
Rail union leaders have been told they are asking for assurances for London Underground workers that no organisation can provide.
Transport for London (TfL) has written to the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) urging it to call off a planned strike on August 19.
Fiona Brunskill, TfL’s director of people and cultural change, pointed to the challenges the organisation is facing as it continues to wait for a long-term funding deal with the Government.
Around the world
One dead in huge fire
A massive fire has engulfed a warehouse outside Moscow, killing at least one person, injuring 13 others and leaving two missing.
The fire, at a warehouse belonging to Russia’s leading online retailer Ozon, affected an area of 50,000 square metres (540,000 square feet).
Emergencies officials said that one person died in the fire, and Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov said that two people are currently unaccounted for.
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If the Red Sox’ trade of Christian Vázquez on the eve of the deadline signaled a sell off was coming, it never came.
As Tuesday’s 6 p.m. trade deadline passed, there were no more big names going out the door – pending free agents J.D. Martinez and Nathan Eovaldi are staying, at least for the next two months – and the Red Sox ultimately made just one move on deadline day, acquiring first baseman Eric Hosmer and two prospects from the San Diego Padres in exchange for Jay Groome, one of Boston’s top pitching prospects.
When the dust cleared, the Red Sox upgraded at first base (Hosmer), downgraded at catcher (Reese McGuire), added a new outfielder (Tommy Pham), didn’t address the bullpen – though they traded Jake Diekman – and are still over the luxury tax threshold. They enter the final two months of the season and beyond without a clear direction on the franchise’s future after they middled between making a few moves in an effort to contend this season while simultaneously building for the future.
“People who felt this group was good enough to make a run at (the postseason) a few days ago, in my opinion, should still feel that way,” an optimistic Chaim Bloom said. “This group looks a little different, but I don’t think it’s any less talented. Depending how you look at what we did, you could say it’s more functional, especially with the stability we hope now to have at first base.”
Bloom said he expected to make more moves than he did on Tuesday – though he didn’t elaborate on specifics – but that the day unfolded in a different way and that he and his staff didn’t want to force anything. The end product is something he’s pleased with, and though they parted with their starting catcher, he believes the moves made position the Red Sox to make a legitimate run at a postseason berth over the next nine weeks.
“We were trying to get greedy and do everything we could, do the right things for the organization in the big picture and get better now,” Bloom said. “We’ll see how this plays out. But I think you could very well say, stepping back and looking at it, and I say this with absolutely no disrespect to Christian, who is an incredible catcher, but also looking at who we brought in, that even though the group looks different, I do think we have at least as good a chance to get in the postseason as we did and I hope a better one. That was our intent.”
There is little doubt that the Red Sox got better at first base – a position that’s arguably been their worst this season.
The Red Sox received a pair of lower-level minor league prospects, infielder Max Ferguson and outfielder Corey Rosier, as well as cash considerations in the deal. According to multiple reports, the Padres are sending the Red Sox $44 million as part of the deal to pay for Hosmer’s remaining contract. He’s owed about $7 million for the rest of this season and then $39 million over the next three seasons. He can opt out after this season.
The 32-year-old Hosmer was initially part of Tuesday’s blockbuster trade that sent superstar Juan Soto to San Diego, but he reportedly invoked his no-trade clause to block a move to the Washington Nationals. Bloom said the deal came together quickly after that, as the Red Sox found a match for a position where they’ve long needed improvement.
Hosmer, who’s produced a .727 OPS this season, is a four-time Gold Glove winner who will bring dependability at first base, where the Red Sox have played Bobby Dalbec and Franchy Cordero (who was optioned to Triple-A). Red Sox first baseman produced a .662 OPS – ranked 26th in baseball – entering the deadline, not to mention the shaky defense over the last month.
“We have struggled to find stability at the first base position this year and we think Eric will provide that,” Bloom said. “I think he’s going to be helpful between the lines and in the clubhouse and we’re excited to get him here. I think he’s going to really enjoy our environment. I think he’s going to love Fenway Park and hopefully he can help us make a push.”
In Houston, where the Red Sox continued a series against the Astros, there seemed to be a different feeling after the deadline passed. Twenty-four hours after the Vazquez trade created uneasiness and uncertainty, manager Alex Cora looked more upbeat knowing who his group, which didn’t lose anymore core players, is moving forward.
“We’re good, and we have a good baseball team,” Cora told reporters. “It’s a business. We understand that. I think at the end of the day, we accomplished a few things we wanted to do and now we just turn the page and be ready to win the series tonight. …
“For how down we were yesterday, there’s a lot of people excited in the clubhouse keeping some of these guys to make a push. … I think we’re going to be OK.”
While franchise shortstop Xander Bogaerts expressed some disappointment in losing Vazquez, Martinez, the subject of rampant trade rumors who even seem resigned to the reality he would be dealt, struck a different tone.
“I’m excited. I think it’s a relief off of everybody,” Martinez told reporters. “We’ll see what happens. We get a couple of more pieces. Everybody got a little bit stronger so we have to step up a little bit. …
“It feels great. We have kind of the same team I would say in a different way. We got weaker in other areas, but stronger in other ones. See what happens. Maybe it’s just a different look. … You never know. It could be what we need.” | https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2022/08/02/red-sox-trade-for-padres-first-baseman-eric-hosmer-per-reports/ | 2022-08-04T05:19:06Z | https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2022/08/02/red-sox-trade-for-padres-first-baseman-eric-hosmer-per-reports/ | false | 3 |
ANAHEIM ― With the first overall pick of the 1992 amateur draft, the Houston Astros selected infielder Phil Nevin from Cal State Fullerton. Nevin reached the majors with the Astros three years later, only to be traded to the Detroit Tigers midway through his first season, in Aug. 1995, for pitcher Mike Henneman.
With the first overall pick in the 2016 draft, the Philadelphia Phillies selected outfielder Mickey Moniak out of La Costa Canyon High School in Carlsbad. Moniak played in just 47 games for the Phillies before he was traded to the Angels on Tuesday.
So when Nevin, now the Angels’ interim manager, said a change of scenery could benefit Moniak, that old baseball cliche bears a little more weight than usual. He’s lived it.
“We were drafted in the same position,” Nevin said Wednesday, when he penciled Moniak into his first starting lineup as an Angel. “Those pressures, you don’t think about it every day. You’re reminded of it once in a while. You can say all you want about ‘that doesn’t matter, there’s no pressure.’ At the end of the day, there is. It’s fan mail, there’s cards, the everyday things, the interviews. Being constantly reminded of that adds pressure to you.”
Moniak started in center field and batted seventh, with Magneuris Sierra stationed in left field and Taylor Ward in right against the Oakland A’s. It was the first time Sierra had started anywhere other than center field since being promoted by the Angels
All 14 of Moniak’s starts for the Phillies this season had come in center field. The Angels were doing their best to keep their newest player comfortable on the field for a day while he slept in his own bed off it.
“Looking back on my time in Philadelphia, I was grateful for it, (being) given a chance as an 18-year-old kid, came up with them, debuted with them. But I think that, you know, for me, I’ve always been a guy that maybe takes a little bit to get comfortable at every level, and once I get comfortable, it’s on from there. So, wasn’t really given that opportunity there, which makes sense. They’re always in a pennant hunt with a lot of money on the field, so just to be here and be told that you’re gonna go out and play and have some fun is huge.”
Moniak, 24, had a solid .859 OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage) with the Phillies’ Triple-A affiliate this season. But he never found his footing in the majors, going 6 for 46 with only one extra-base hit, a double, and 19 strikeouts.
Nevin remembered seeing Moniak play with and against his son, Tyler, as a high schooler. Seeing another familiar face in the dugout can only help him feel comfortable, Nevin said.
“I know this is a place (Moniak) can relax and just go out and play,” he said.
MEET THE NEW HALOS
The other major league players the Angels acquired at Tuesday’s deadline, pitchers Jesse Chavez and Tucker Davidson, were both added to the active roster. Davidson is scheduled to start Sunday against the Seattle Mariners.
Davidson allowed 11 runs across four games (three starts) this season with the Atlanta Braves. The 26-year-old left-hander completed more than five innings once in 10 major league appearances this season. Davidson had a 3-7 record and 4.59 ERA in 15 starts at Triple-A for the Gwinnett Gladiators.
Chavez, 38, reported for his second tour of duty with the Angels later Wednesday afternoon. He had a 2.66 ERA in 44 innings out of the Braves’ bullpen this season.
“He’s going to be in that mix with (Aaron) Loup, (Ryan Tepera), (Jose Quijada), (Andrew) Wantz in that back end,” Nevin said. “He’ll get some big outs for us.”
Chavez and Davidson were acquired in the trade that sent closer Raisel Iglesias to Atlanta.
ALSO
Patrick Sandoval, Chase Silseth and Reid Detmers are expected to start the first three games of the Angels’ series in Seattle. Silseth and Detmers will pitch either end of a doubleheader Saturday. … Seattle hasn’t announced its starters beyond left-hander Robbie Ray on Friday. … Outfielder Dillon Thomas was optioned to Triple-A Salt Lake.
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David Steel popped into a Sydney auto wreckers business in 1995 to see if the owner had any work for his brother-in-law visiting from Cyprus.
But Hasan Dastan was nowhere to be seen until Mr Steel later found him lying dead in the workshop in a pool of blood with his face smashed.
Mr Steel gave evidence in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday at the trial of the dead man’s employee, Kubilay Kilincer.
The 60-year-old has pleaded not guilty to murdering the owner of Esy Auto Dismantlers in Blacktown on Monday December 11, 1995.
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The Crown alleges Kilincer had financial difficulties, was pilfering cash from Esy and was about to be sacked.
But his barrister says freshly washed clothing and shoes seized from his home on the day the body was found didn’t contain any traces of blood, nor was he connected to the scene through DNA or fingerprints .
Mr Steel said he knew Mr Dastan casually through his partner and went to the business about 10am on December 11 with his two brothers-in-law.
He saw Mr Dastan’s car parked across the street but noticed the roller doors to the premises were closed.
He kept on calling out his name but no one replied, even when he went inside, so he came outside when Mr Dastan’s wife pulled up in a car.
“She was starting to get upset because he didn’t appear to be there,” he said.
She was panicking, asking where her husband was, and was very insistent that he should be at the shop.
“She said she had been trying to get a hold of Hasan since about 8.30.”
Mr Steel said he would go inside again and have another look as perhaps he had an accident.
He went to an area he had not been in before and saw on the ground an arm and a face that “looked like it had exploded”.
A car was over 80 per cent of his body, but he could see a metal pipe in his mouth, one of his eyes appeared to be dislodged and his face was smashed in.
He didn’t recognise the person on the ground as being Hasan because of the severe facial injuries.
He stopped others coming inside and rang emergency services, before checking the man’s pulse and realising it was Hasan.
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New principal of The University of the West Indies’ St Augustine campus, Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, says she is concerned about a higher education gap between the rich and the poor because she wants to ensure tertiary education access to all.
Last month, students attending UWI St Augustine had reason to celebrate following the announcement that Chancellor Robert Bermudez had approved a request from the campus to retain current tuition fees for the upcoming academic year.
That request was made in response to feedback from prospective and current students about the difficulty in committing to registering for the new year, given the uncertainty about the new fee levels.
But Antoine said yesterday that a discussion about raising fees at the institution is «inevitable.»
However, there is one thing in particular that Antoine said bothers her about this.
«I would always be concerned that it is not just the rich that would have an education. I really don’t want to see that and certainly not under my watch, that only rich people can go to UWI,» she said.
«So, we always have to consider that and find ways to buffer but there has to be some sort of income coming in.»
For the past four years, the campus has been managing with a reduced subvention from the T&T Government of $517.1 million. It is expected to be in deficit this year due to the cut of funding by ten per cent.
«If the Government is cutting the subvention, then something has to give,» she said.
UWI St Augustine’s fees have not increased in some 21 years.
Antoine said the campus’ fees are currently the lowest in the UWI system and among tertiary education institutions in the Caribbean.
Apart from the issue of the possibility of rising fees, Antoine said security for the students and staff remains critical.
«That is front and centre in the campus but we have made important strides and we’ve spared no expense,» she said.
Antoine, who resides in a university house, said over the weekend there was an issue with a shootout in her area.
«I don’t think any of us are taking (security) lightly, none of us are complacent about that, students and staff,» she said.
Antoine officially assumed office on Monday, succeeding Professor Brian Copeland, who proceeded on retirement on July 31.
Antoine’s UWI journey began in 1989 in the Faculty of Law, Cave-Hill, as a temporary lecturer who became the inaugural director and initiator of the successful Master of Law (LLM) programme, The UWI’s first multi-campus, hybrid delivery programme, launched in 2002.
She was one of the youngest UWI lecturers to be appointed to the rank of professor in 2004 and the first sitting Dean of the Faculty of Law, St Augustine, serving two terms. In 2021, she was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor, Graduate Studies and Research.
The appointment as Campus Principal signals yet another pivotal milestone in her 32-year journey at the regional institution.
Antoine said she is «humbled» by the appointment.
«It feels a little scary because the expectations are high when people come in and think you can change the world overnight, there is a huge or even greater responsibility that I already know I would have had,» she said.
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So far, Ange Postecoglou has made no drastic tactical changes for his second season in charge at Celtic.
But there have been tweaks.
The most obvious is how far up the pitch Joe Hart now plays when Celtic have possession. The grab below, with Hart playing as virtually a third centre-back, is now the norm.
Without recruiting a Kristoffer Ajer-style, ball-playing centre-back, this tactic appears to be an attempt by Postecoglou to address one of his team’s most glaring issues from last season: playing out from the back.
“If you were having trouble playing out from the back, this might be the coach deciding, ‘To get further up the pitch, we start further up the pitch’,” says Matt Pyzdrowski, goalkeeping coach and analyst.
The below grab from the Aberdeen game shows Stephen Welsh returning the ball to Hart. As Pyzdrowski says, they start the passage much further up the pitch than is traditional. Welsh and Cameron Carter-Vickers split wide to increase Hart’s options — he can go short to them or play the ball up the middle.
There was a similar situation during the 2-2 draw with Legia Warsaw in pre-season. Hart receives the ball and Welsh and Carter-Vickers split wide. Legia’s forwards stay central, reluctant to push too wide because Celtic have the spare man. That gives Welsh more space and he picks out Alexandro Bernabei with a nice vertical pass.
It can be used to trap opposition forwards as well. If they decide to press the centre-backs, who are now operating out wide, it opens space in the central area. Here Legia pressure Carter-Vickers and Welsh, giving Hart an easy pass to Callum McGregor in midfield.
“With the ‘keeper now picking up that role, if they can beat that first pressure then the No 6 can receive and turn further up the pitch,” says Pyzdrowski.
“Instead of turning right outside his box, he’s now turning at the halfway line. This obviously allows attackers to push forward, pin the defensive team back, and create from a more advantageous position.”
Another example of how it changes Celtic’s play was illustrated in the dying stages of the Aberdeen game. Anthony Ralston plays the ball back to Hart. Aberdeen’s Luis Lopes then sprints towards Hart. Welsh, who would normally be the recipient of Ralston’s pass if Hart were not so advanced, moves into space to receive the ball.
Hart takes a touch before making a weighted pass for Welsh to run onto before Lopes arrives, allowing Celtic to move up the pitch faster.
Last season, Welsh would have received Ralston’s pass in Hart’s position and then probably would have passed it back to the goalkeeper in the box, or waited for another safe option, or cleared it forwards.
“Playing so high condenses the pitch for the goalkeeper,” says Pyzdrowski. “So if he has to go a bit longer, rather than going to the opposite half from his own box, he could then target the opposition box.
“That gives a real advantage to the attacking team and makes it tough for the opposition centre-backs and goalkeeper. Ideally, this will make defending easier for Celtic too because it helps keep the opposition penned in and under pressure.”
There are downsides, of course. The first is that carelessness in possession might lead to chances. If the opposition react quickly to a loose pass they could exploit Hart’s positioning by lobbing him. That almost happened in Celtic’s pre-season 2-2 draw with Blackburn Rovers but the chance was spurned by Tyrhys Dolan.
There was a similar incident in the 4-2 pre-season win over Czech side Banik Ostrava. Within the opening 10 minutes, they tried to lob Hart after a slack Filipe Jota pass gifted them possession.
But Postecoglou knows the risk, having played similarly at Yokohama F Marinos, where his goalkeepers were lobbed once or twice a season.
It is likely that, at some point across a 50-plus-game season, Celtic will lose the ball while playing out from the back, so Hart could concede an embarrassing goal or two. It is a psychological challenge Pyzdrowski believes the whole team and staff need to consider.
“As a goalkeeper, you have to accept bad things will happen, regardless of how you and your team might be playing,” Pyzdrowski says. “When you’re 30-40 yards from your own goal, then you’re super exposed. If there’s any kind of turnover — whether from you, your centre-back, or trying to play into midfield — your goal is wide open.
“What’s important is that you’re willing to take that risk. If you’re getting caught out, then you don’t tank the ‘keeper for it, because everyone has to accept mistakes will happen. If you feel like the coach and team-mates are questioning your every move, your play suffers. The team need to believe that Hart can play that role.”
Perhaps the other question is how it will work against a high-pressing team. Celtic will only have time to take one or two touches in that situation, with potentially only narrow angles through which to pass.
“If the players are confident on the ball, then it doesn’t matter if they’re being pressed as they’ll still have the numerical advantage,” Pyzdrowski says. “If the defending teams put two or maybe three guys up to press, then it helps to have three guys to play out directly and then the No 6 to offer himself too. Then if you get through that press you have superior numbers going the other way.”
Ultimately, it hinges on whether Carter-Vickers, Welsh, Carl Starfelt, Moritz Jenz and, most importantly, Hart can handle it, particularly if errors are made.
“His experience is going to play a big role,” Pyzdrowski says of Hart. “Obviously it would be different if he was 25, 26, 27, when he didn’t have so many big games behind him and he wasn’t as secure in himself as he is today, but that experience allows him to play freer.
“The big thing for him the last few years since leaving Manchester City was he didn’t have a team who believed in him before Celtic. At Celtic now his spot is secure, and that’s what allows him to learn the system and develop.”
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations headed to Africa on Wednesday, saying she was going to focus on how the United State can help Uganda, Ghana and Cape Verde deal with the food crisis that has hit the continent particularly hard — not to compete with China and Russia.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the long-planned trip is not part of global competition with either of America’s rivals, but it is part of a series of high-level U.S. engagements “that aim to affirm and strengthen our partnerships and relationships with African leaders and peoples.”
Her trip from Aug. 4-7 will be followed immediately by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visits to South Africa, Congo and Rwanda from Aug. 7-11. It also comes on the heels of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit last week to Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of Congo where he accused the U.S. and European countries of driving up food prices.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi began 2022 with a four-day visit to Eritrea, Kenya and the Comoros, keeping a 32-year tradition that the country’s top diplomat make his first trip of the year to Africa.
“We’re not catching up. They are catching up,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “We have been engaging with this continent for decades, and even my own career is very much evidence of that.”
Thomas-Greenfield first went to Africa as a student in the 1970s, and in her career as a U.S. diplomat she rose to be assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2013 to 2017.
She said high energy prices, climate change, COVID-19 and increasing conflict have pushed millions of Africans “to the brink,” and that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 has added to the crisis, “especially since some countries in Africa once got up to 75% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine.”
The U.S. ambassador said the three countries she is visiting — Uganda first followed by Ghana and Cape Verde — all face serious food security situations because of the significant rise in the cost of food and energy. But she said Ghana has been a leader in dealing with it and she will be visiting a market, meeting farmers and going to a grain factory in the country “to see how we can help them improve on their production.”
In an interview and at a news conference ahead of her three-nation visit, Thomas-Greenfield said her trip happens to come on the heels of Lavrov’s visit.
Refusing to call Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a war, Lavrov said: “The situation in Ukraine did additionally negatively affect food markets, but not due to the Russian special operation, rather due to the absolutely inadequate reaction of the West, which announced sanctions.”
Thomas-Greenfield countered: “Russia is there to defend what they know they have to defend — that they took actions that are hurting Africans, and they’re trying to somehow defend their actions and blame somebody else for the impact that their actions are having on the African continent.”
“They can try to do that. But my question to them is, how are you helping Africans to address the food insecurity issue, not whom you’re blaming for the food insecurity issues,” she said. “We’re there to help Africans address those issues. Russia can deal with its own problems.”
As for China, while its trade with Africa last year was dramatically higher than U.S. trade, Thomas-Greenfield said “if you look at our figures, and how far back our engagement has been with the Africans, then we really are far above those numbers.”
“As you look at what China’s doing in Africa, you need to look at the debt trap that African countries, many of them, have faced because of those relationships with China,” she said.
China has become one of the biggest lenders to developing countries through its Belt and Road initiative to expand trade by building ports, railways and other infrastructure across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Wang, China’s foreign minister, insisted during his visit to Kenya in January that there is no “debt trap.”
“The so-called `debt trap’ in Africa is not a fact, but a malicious hype-up,” he said. “It is an 'utterance trap’ created by those external forces that do not want to see Africa accelerate development. If there is any `trap’ in Africa, it is the `poverty trap.’”
Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. is “not telling African countries they can’t engage with China.”
“What we are engaged in is vision for economic development that promotes democracy and that promotes respect for human rights and transparency and strengthening the capacity for Africans to create jobs for their own citizens,” she said. “We respect the ability of countries to decide for themselves whether they want to partner with China or not.” | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/US-envoy-Africa-trip-isn-t-to-compete-with-17350301.php | 2022-08-04T05:37:28Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/US-envoy-Africa-trip-isn-t-to-compete-with-17350301.php | false | 31 |
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Democrats may need to make some changes to the tax portion of their budget reconciliation package to earn the support of Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, including possible removal of a tax increase on investment fund managers and softening a new minimum tax on the biggest corporations.
The bill could also undergo other tweaks as Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough continues her review of the bill. Changes to the prescription drug pricing provisions are already in the works, but many pieces of the package have yet to go through the formal “Byrd bath” to determine whether the language complies with budget rules.
Despite all the work still underway, several Democratic senators said they anticipated voting on the motion to proceed to the reconciliation package as soon as Thursday and beginning the “vote-a-rama” process, in which senators can offer unlimited amendments to the measure, as soon as this weekend.
“As soon as possible, but don’t count on going home on the weekend,” Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a member of Democratic leadership, said. “We’re probably going to be here all weekend, so get lots of sleep.”
It’s unclear if Sinema’s demands might change the anticipated schedule, as it’s unlikely she would vote to proceed without some assurances the bill will be tweaked to her liking.
Politico reported that Sinema wants to get rid of a provision that would lengthen the holding period for carried interest — or investment fund managers’ share of their clients’ capital gains — required to benefit from more generous tax treatment. The provision would raise an estimated $13 billion over 10 years.
Sinema’s office declined to confirm the report, which also said the Arizona Democrat is seeking to add roughly $5 billion in drought resilience funding given her state’s water supply issues.
Separately, CNN reported that Sinema has sent signals to the business community that she may want to pare back a 15 percent corporate minimum tax on businesses that report $1 billion or more in income to shareholders.
Sinema asked business groups during a call Tuesday if the minimum tax was “written in a way that’s bad,” Arizona Chamber of Commerce President Danny Seiden told CNN. Seiden, who voiced the chamber’s opposition to the minimum tax and concerns it would particularly hurt manufacturers who take advantage of accelerated depreciation write-offs, said the call with Sinema gave him “hope that she’s willing to open this up and maybe make it better.”
Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden declined to comment on the status of the carried interest provision but acknowledged the potential for changes when asked about the corporate minimum tax.
“We’re talking to senators because that’s what you do when you’re in the homestretch,” the Oregon Democrat said. “I’m not gonna say anything more about the details and what different senators are interested in and the like. There’s 50 senators and lots of questions.”
Wyden later added that he would be getting some additional data on the minimum tax that would reinforce the argument that “some of these multibillion-dollar corporations are paying close to rock bottom tax rates, like 5 percent.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of the chief architects of the minimum tax, said the tax is about making sure giant corporations that currently pay little to nothing in taxes start contributing.
The Massachusetts Democrat did not appear open to adding additional exemptions to the minimum tax beyond those already in the bill, such as deductions for pension plan contributions. She said the tax code already has “too many carve-outs that work for the giant corporations but not for anybody else.”
“Some of the strongest supporters of the corporate minimum tax are the small businesses that can’t take advantage of all of the loopholes and carve-outs and twists and turns that the giants can take advantage of, and that puts those small businesses at competitive disadvantage,” she said. “The corporate minimum tax helps level the playing field, and it’s important to defend it.”
Major retailers, which enjoy fewer existing tax benefits than some other industries, also back the minimum tax proposal.
Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., who negotiated the final details of the bill with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., has similarly defended the bill’s tax increases as more about ending tax avoidance and “loopholes” than actually raising taxes. Manchin said Wednesday afternoon that he had not heard about either of Sinema’s tax demands.
“Nobody’s talked to me about that,” he said.
As senators contend with Sinema’s demands, they also have to listen to guidance from the parliamentarian about what provisions may not comply with the budget reconciliation restrictions. The Byrd rule requires provisions included in reconciliation to have more than a “merely incidental” impact on spending or revenues.
“We will be bringing Byrd objections to many pieces of the various objectionable portions,” Senate Finance ranking member Michael D. Crapo, R-Idaho, said at a press conference Wednesday. “And we will be bringing targeted amendments, as well as broad amendments to either commit back to the committee to fix the bill or to change text in the bill depending on how the budget rules will allow those amendments to be developed.”
Crapo said the Finance Committee has not yet gone through the “Byrd bath,” in which both parties present arguments on whether different portions of the bill should survive, for tax and climate provisions under its jurisdiction.
“We’re hoping that we could have some of those meetings tomorrow,” he said.
The Finance Committee did go through the Byrd bath two weeks ago on prescription drug pricing provisions, but Democrats decided to change some of the language after that, and Republicans have not yet been given a time when they’ll return before the parliamentarian to review the new language, Crapo said.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee portion of the bill, which the Congressional Budget Office said would cost a net $35.5 billion over a decade, went through the Byrd bath Wednesday.
GOP panel member Kevin Cramer of North Dakota said he’s “not overly optimistic” about his party’s chances of knocking out the EPW provisions focused on reducing methane emissions “because it is a fee and it is revenue.”
“My sense is it probably will” survive the Byrd bath, Cramer said of the proposed methane fee. The CBO estimated the fee would raise $6.4 billion in penalties for leakages from pipelines and oil and gas wells.
The measure also includes $1.55 billion to help producers comply with the new methane reduction program after negotiations with Manchin — doubling the previous version — including $700 million specifically for operators of older oil and gas wells nearing the end of their useful lives.
Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley contributed to this report.
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The northern and central Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began monitoring 36 years ago. However, average coral cover in the southern region decreased due to ongoing crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks. While the Reef experienced its fourth major bleaching event in the past seven years this year, it didn't reach the intensity of earlier events and was not expected to lead to mass coral mortality.Read more https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220803162710.htm | https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/component/content/article/45-environment/962377-highest-coral-cover-in-central-northern-reef-in-36-years | 2022-08-04T05:43:06Z | https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/component/content/article/45-environment/962377-highest-coral-cover-in-central-northern-reef-in-36-years | true | null |
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Abraham Lincoln described the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as “The People’s Department” and it’s fitting that our garden is named the People’s Garden. The garden was created by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on February 12, 2009 – Lincoln’s 200th birthday. The initiative was renewed in May 2022.
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MP Materials MP is set to give its latest quarterly earnings report on Thursday, 2022-08-04. Here's what investors need to know before the announcement.
Analysts estimate that MP Materials will report an earnings per share (EPS) of $0.33.
MP Materials bulls will hope to hear the company to announce they've not only beaten that estimate, but also to provide positive guidance, or forecasted growth, for the next quarter.
New investors should note that it is sometimes not an earnings beat or miss that most affects the price of a stock, but the guidance (or forecast).
Past Earnings Performance
Last quarter the company beat EPS by $0.09, which was followed by a 5.18% drop in the share price the next day.
Here's a look at MP Materials's past performance and the resulting price change:
Stock Performance
Shares of MP Materials were trading at $33.9 as of August 02. Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 5.42%. Given that these returns are generally negative, long-term shareholders are likely unhappy going into this earnings release.
To track all earnings releases for MP Materials visit their earnings calendar on our site.
This article was generated by Benzinga's automated content engine and reviewed by an editor.
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A new investigation carried out on the security cameras that recorded the day of the death of the PT municipal guard Marcelo Arruda, in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, showed that the record of access to the devices was deleted two days after the crime. Thus, the authorities were unable to know who had access to the images.
The information was considered important to identify who showed the videos of the party to criminal police officer Jorge Guaranho. According to a police investigation, one of those present at the barbecue had access to the security footage through his cell phone and accompanied them sporadically to ensure the safety of the club.
When opening the recording on his device, people who were close, including Guaranho, would have seen images of Marcelo Arruda’s party. This would have been a trigger for the criminal police officer, who was drunk according to witnesses, to go to the party and, after an argument, to commit the murder on July 9th.
According to a report by the Scientific Police of Paraná, on July 11, at 8:57 am, the user “admin” of the device pressed the command “clear”, thus excluding the access log. At the time, the recorder’s remote service was enabled.
Criminal police also pointed out that there are no signs that the images have been tampered with.
Guaranho invaded the birthday party after arguing with Arruda outside, and fired shots at the PT during his birthday party. The victim reacted by shooting at the police officer. Marcelo could not resist the injuries and died. Jorge will answer for double qualified homicide for futile motive.
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Stranger Things 4 might have just finished rolling out but work is already underway on the fifth and final season of the hit Netflix show.
The first update on the sci-fi coming-of-age horror drama series was provided by the official Stranger Things writer's team (via Twitter (opens in new tab)), where the account simply posted an image of a blank whiteboard featuring a mockup of the Stranger Things 5 logo. While not the biggest of developments by any stretch of the imagination, fans will be pleased to know that the last series for the families of Hawkins is progressing nicely.
Netflix has yet to provide an official release date for Stranger Things 5, however, looking at its history would suggest that a release in 2024 seems most viable. It took two years for Stranger Things 3 to premiere and due to the pandemic, just under three years for Stranger Things 4 to debut. That's why 2024 seems the most viable, along with comments made by one of the cast members.
Check out the message from the Stanger Things' writers team below:
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“I think we’ll [shoot] next year," David Harbour (who plays Hopper) told GQ in July 2022. "They’re finishing writing it this year, and they need to prep and stuff, so hopefully it’ll be this year. But I think that’s the plan. So it’d probably come out mid-2024, based on our track record."
The full release dates for all previous seasons of Strangers Things can be found below:
Strangers Things – July 15th, 2016
Stranger Things 2 – October 27th, 2017
Stranger Things 3 – July 4th, 2019
Stranger Things 4 – May 27th, 2022 / July 1st, 2022
The good news is that Stranger Things was officially renewed in February 2022 with the Duffer Brothers teasing what's to come:
"Seven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for Stranger Things. At the time, we predicted the story would last four to five seasons. It proved too large to tell in four, but – as you’ll soon see for yourselves – we are now hurtling toward our finale. Season 4 will be the penultimate season; season 5 will be the last.
"There are still many more exciting stories to tell within the world of Stranger Things; new mysteries, new adventures, new unexpected heroes. But first we hope that you stay with us as we finish this tale of a powerful girl named Eleven and her brave friends, of a broken police chief and a ferocious mom, of a small town called Hawkins and an alternate dimension known only as the Upside Down."
More recently, the Duffer Brothers came under fire for going back to earlier seasons of Stranger Things to make edits like Star Wars, however, this was proven not true after speculation started from a TikTok account of all things. What a world.
Stranger Things 4 stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, Cara Buono and Matthew Modine. All four seasons of the show are available to watch on Netflix now. | https://www.t3.com/news/stranger-things-update-release-date-prediction | 2022-08-04T05:49:19Z | https://www.t3.com/news/stranger-things-update-release-date-prediction | false | 3 |
NBC is making a bold move with its daytime lineup with the announcement that Days of Our Lives -- the network's longest-running series after nearly six decades on the air -- is moving exclusively to Peacock.
The network also announced on Wednesday that NBC News Daily will replace the soap's time slot. The network is billing the launch of its new news show as a "first-of-its-kind live news offering." The move to Peacock becomes official when new episodes of Days of Our Lives begin streaming on Sept. 12.
"For the first time ever, all new episodes of the 58-time Emmy Award-winning drama will debut on Peacock daily with the show's robust library already available to stream for Peacock Premium subscribers," a statement read. "The historic move to Peacock creates the ultimate destination for daytime fans to access the library, new episodes and Peacock Original Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem in one place."
Days of Our Lives, which celebrated the airing of its 14,000th episode back in December 2020, first launched on NBC back in November 1965. The soap also celebrated its 55th anniversary in 2020. The series won an Emmy in the Outstanding Daytime Drama category back in 2018, and it's been nominated 26 times in that category, winning four. In all categories, the show has a whopping 372 Emmy nominations.
The move also means NBC is bidding adieu to the soap business, leaving behind only three soaps on network television: The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS), The Young and the Restless (CBS) and General Hospital (ABC).
NBC News Daily aims to provide "signature world-class reporting and breaking news coverage in a first-of-its-kind, live in most markets mid-day news offering." The hour-long news program will be anchored by NBC News' Kate Snow, Aaron Gilchrist, Vicky Nguyen and Morgan Radford.
"This programming shift benefits both Peacock and NBC and is reflective of our broader strategy to utilize our portfolio to maximize reach and strengthen engagement with viewers," said Mark Lazarus, Chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. "With a large percentage of the Days of Our Lives audience already watching digitally, this move enables us to build the show's loyal fanbase on streaming while simultaneously bolstering the network daytime offering with an urgent, live programming opportunity for partners and consumers."
The shift is just the latest move in the ongoing streaming wars as networks position themselves for a larger piece of the market share. Back in April, it was announced that Dancing With the Stars would be moving to Disney+ after 16 years and 30 seasons on ABC.
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Sabrina has dropped new single “Messages From Her” from her upcoming album “No Rain, No Flowers” coming out on 15th of August. In this track, she is remembering and recalling her youth years. The song is very beautiful and the vocals are stunning, the “dadadadadada” chorus will give you chill. The combination of R&B and indie-rock makes the song too good. You’ll feel every single lyric, note, inflection, and meaning. You will feel yourself related to all of it. It’s almost like she wrote out all that you’ve been feeling. It’s like she knew you needed this. You can also check a review of “All To You” by Sabrina Claudio.
Claudio sings, “To life when I was young; That girl inside me stays, If I am not here for me, she will be there”. This song written by Claudio and produced by Sad Money and Kaveh Rastegar, it’s available now at digital and streaming providers Via SC Entertainment / Atlantic Records. It is an inner look of Sabrina’s journey of healing and growth. Rain is a symbol of darkness and an important part of the rebirth. Sabrina also collaborated with DJ Khaled in “Don’t Let Me Down”
She says that she wrote this song during a moment of self-reflection to a happy childhood and on the other hand, adulthood with responsibilities. Finding herself wishing she could speak to that little girl to tell her the true perspective and happiness of a little girl’s life. She has a couple of live performances this weekend at Lollapalooza and then on 11th of August at Outside Lands in San Francisco.
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BEIJING, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI, an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, is excited to dedicate a rich selection of online content and offline activities to the "Qixi" Festival, the Chinese Valentine's Day. iQIYI remains committed to delivering users with creative entertainment experiences that break the boundary between on- and offline entertainment.
A rich content ecosystem with high-quality romantic content
The latest addition to iQIYI's already rich content library, Almost Love, an iQIYI-produced romantic film that chronicles the touching romantic journey of a young couple, is set to hit cinemas nationwide on Aug. 4. Before its official premiere, Almost Love has been screened in close-door events in nearly 100 cities across China and received raving reviews. Viewers noted the heart-pricking plotline and nuanced storytelling of the film, commenting that the realistic yet thought-provoking film far exceeded their expectations.
Also to celebrate this Qixi Festival, iQIYI has set up a Qixi-themed section on the platform to feature romance-themed content such as Love The Way You Are, Forever and Ever, Moonlight, Sweet Teeth, and Love Under The Full Moon. In addition to Love The Way You Are, iQIYI's romance-themed Sweet On Theater has also announced in May the upcoming release of four additional romantic dramas—Love Between Fairy and Devil, See You Again, Mr. Bad, and Love In Time—further enriching iQIYI's already strong offering of romantic content.
Leveraging content ecology to deliver innovative entertainment experience
iQIYI's commitment to providing users with quality entertainment goes beyond the creation of premium content. The company actively explores the options afforded by the latest technology innovation as it seeks new ways to connect between the viewers and the content. On this Qixi, the Sweet On Theater makes its first appearance on Baidu's metaverse platform XiRang. With the chance to win special awards such as an iQIYI annual membership, users of the XiRang app are invited to participate in a "treasure hunt" where they could find clues connected to different Sweet On programs.
Other iQIYI-curated Qixi celebrations likewise showcase iQIYI's dedication to delivering entertainment experiences that break the online-offline boundary. For instance, the original iQIYI variety show The Rap of China 2022 and iQIYI's Sweet On Theater are hosting a contest for romantic phrases that rhyme.
iQIYI is also hosting offline activities across China to celebrate Qixi. For example, an event in Chongqing city invites couples to embrace and celebrate love as it shows the classic scenes from the Sweet On Theatre. Several shopping malls in the cities of Jiangmen of Guangdong province and Yantai of Shandong province will also feature exhibitions co-launched between the Sweet On Theater and the Hong Kong jewelry brand 3DG Jewelry. Lastly, as murder mystery games have become increasingly popular in China, users can obtain a discount for NINES, a murder mystery game shop in China, after they bookmark the Sweet On Theater on the iQIYI app.
With these online and offline activities, iQIYI is committed to providing an integrated and romantic entertainment experience for users during Qixi.
CONTACT: iQIYI Press, press@qiyi.com
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WINCHESTER — CMA’s Subaru of Winchester on Wednesday received a trophy for the dealership’s efforts providing the most bicycles for children during the local 2021 Toys for Tots fundraiser.
Tonja Phillips, Toys for Tots regional coordinator, presented Subaru General Manager Bobby Williams and Service Director Mandy Housley with the Toys for Tots Bike Drive Challenge Trophy at the Subaru location at 3019 Valley Ave.
Toys for Tots, which is an annual event held nationwide, distributes toys to children in need during the holidays. The local effort serves families in the city of Winchester and Frederick, Clarke, Shenandoah, Page and Warren counties. The local Subaru dealership provided 62 bicycles, the most of any area organization.
“You never want to see a young kid without something at Christmas,” Williams said.
In addition to helping children, donating the bikes makes the company’s staff “feel good,” he added.
“I cried,” Phillips said about receiving the 62 bikes. “They brought all these bikes. We were in the old Aylor school in Stephens City and they brought them all down to us and they kept bringing bike after bike.”
Kristin Young, a core volunteer with Toys for Tots, told Williams that his dealership’s efforts was an example of “community.”
“You know you’re helping the less fortunate or just someone who’s having a hard time being able to fill those wish lists,” she said.
Williams said the dealership donated bikes and collected them from staff, vendors and customers before sending them to Toys for Tots.
“It was a total dealership and community effort,” he said. “And every vendor, every single vendor we asked, not one of them hesitated. Everyone brought at least two or more bikes already put together and ready to go.”
Williams said he hopes to increase the number of donations this year to 75 bikes.
“We’re really, really excited about the work you guys do. We know what you have to do takes a lot of effort and we respect that and appreciate that,” Williams told Phillips. “If we can help just a little bit, we want to continue doing that.” | https://www.winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/local-subaru-dealer-receives-trophy-from-toys-for-tots/article_1b53fd3e-661d-5041-b6cb-545ab62c56b0.html | 2022-08-04T06:02:22Z | https://www.winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/local-subaru-dealer-receives-trophy-from-toys-for-tots/article_1b53fd3e-661d-5041-b6cb-545ab62c56b0.html | false | 1 |
Ten wildifires in the South Cariboo and two in the Central Cariboo.
That’s the rundown on the wildfires that are currently burning in the Cariboo Fire Centre, according to Fire Information Officer Adam Nicholas.
The largest fire is the the Chasm Road wildfire.
“It’s 18 kilometres northeast of Clinton and 40 kilometres south of 100 Mile. The fire is in the being held stage at 43 hectares, and it hasn’t grown since Friday. There is a fire guard with an additional 15-foot wet line, which is hosed down plants and vegetation in place around the whole fire, and it’s being actioned by 24 fire fighters who are on site.”
Nicholas says there is also a smaller fire near that one.
“That one is 7 kilometres southeast of 70 Mile which was discovered today (Tuesday) and is estimated to be 3 hectares in size. There is 11 fire fighters on scene with 2 helicopters and a piece of heavy equipment. That incident is being actioned by air tankers and is classified as out of control.”
Nicholas says most of the other fires are quite small, with the exception of the Gang Ranch fire near Dog Creek in the Central Cariboo zone that is estimated at 17 hectares.
He says there are no fires that are threatening structures right now, and he says all of the fires in the Cariboo Fire Centre are believed to be started by lightning. | https://www.mycariboonow.com/82882/featured/a-dozen-wildfires-are-burning-in-the-cariboo-region/ | 2022-08-04T06:03:03Z | https://www.mycariboonow.com/82882/featured/a-dozen-wildfires-are-burning-in-the-cariboo-region/ | false | 1 |
BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 4. Tajikistan revealed the total volume of issued loans from January through June 2022, Trend reports citing the press service of the National Bank of Tajikistan.
"The volume of issued loans in the first half of 2022 in Tajikistan amounted to 6.5 billion somoni ($637.2 million)," the Bank reported.
During this period, out of the total volume of loans issued, 35.6 percent accounted for consumption, 18.9 percent - for agriculture, 15.7 percent - for foreign trade and 11.2 percent for industry.
Of the total volume of loans issued in Tajikistan, 72.9 percent are microcredits - 4.7 billion somoni ($460.7 million), which is an increase of 6.7 percent compared to the same period of last year.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adaptation Financial Advisors welcomes CEO and Founder, Alan Niemann's, youngest daughter onto the team as an Insurance Professional.
Alan Niemann, CEO and Founder of Adaptation Financial Advisors (AFA) has been helping clients build their legacies for 38 years with one goal in mind – taking care of his clients, employees, and their families. Especially over the last 5 years, Niemann has been working towards ensuring his clients and employees will continue to be taken care of after his departure. Most advisors have this same concern on whether it is better to find a successor from within the firm or sell to a third party. Niemann has decided a third option is the best course of action to truly ensure his clients and employees are taken care of – AFA becoming a legacy firm.
At this year's family retreat, it was visible to see the next generation emerging with over 40 children in attendance, ranging in age from newborn to early twenties. Adaptation's goal is to provide each of these children an opportunity to join AFA in the future. To facilitate this, AFA helps our advisors put a buy-sell agreement in place. The buy-sell agreement gives family members the right to pass the relationships that the current advisor has built with their clients onto the next generation. If a family member is not ready, AFA will purchase the practice until they are ready, so that the advisor will not have to worry about how their legacy will be passed down. This is our overarching goal - for the AFA grandchildren to be serving our clients' grandchildren in the future.
Kicking off the legacy program is the founders' 2 daughters, Avery and Ashton Niemann.
AVERY NIEMANN:
March 2021, | Avery Niemann began with Adaptation Financial to act as a liaison for the family and the firm after Alan was in a motorcycle accident and unable to be in office for a period of time. Avery is currently based in Denver, Colorado and has worked her way to becoming Adaptation Financial's Chief Administrative Officer.
"I found my way into the family business out of necessity and during a crisis," says Avery. "I would not wish for a repeat of last year, but I am endlessly grateful for the in depth look into the family business and what my dad has built over the last 38 years. I am so excited to be a part of a legacy business where I can contribute my own strengths and ideas while working with such a talented team to ensure that the next generation after me can one day have same of privilege of working at Adaptation."
ASHTON NIEMANN
August 2022, | Ashton Niemann is welcomed into the firm as an Insurance Professional on track to become a Financial Advisor. Ashton is a recent graduate from TCU where she received a bachelor's degree in Finance and was actively involved on campus through holding leadership positions in her sorority, Alpha Delta Pi. Beyond her academic involvement activities, Ashton worked for the Outdoor Program as a Trip Leader.
"While the name of the business has changed, I have very early memories of Adaptation," says Ashton. "I grew up meeting many of my dad's clients, quite a few who are now like family to me. My dad also taught my sister and me the importance of money management and life insurance from an early age. I'm now looking forward to pursuing a career as a future financial advisor in a business that has been a part of my whole life and will be around for many years to come."
ABOUT ADAPTATION FINANCIAL:
Adaptation Financial, Inc is a Hybrid Independent Registered Investment Advisory firm with over $750MM of client assets under management. The firm currently has 6 office locations across 3 states and caters to individual investors through a variety of financial services – tax and estate planning, property and casualty, stock options with a phantom stock plan, etc. Securities are offered through Registered Representatives of Cambridge Investment Research Inc., a broker-dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services are through Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor. Financial planning services are through Adaptation Financial Advisors, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor. Cambridge and Adaptation Financial Advisors are not affiliated.
Visit www.adaptfa.com or call 800-522-8727 to connect with an advisor in your area.
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Five things to know about Kenya
Kenya is an East African political and economic powerhouse, renowned for its iconic wildlife and stunning tropical beaches.
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It has become a key player on the regional stage, but its economy has been hard hit by the Covid pandemic, a punishing drought and the fallout from the war in Ukraine.
As it heads to the polls on August 9, here are key facts about the country:
End of Kenyatta era
Kenya became independent from Britain on December 12, 1963, scarred by the 1952-1960 Mau Mau rebellion against colonial rule that left at least 10,000 people dead.
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Independence struggle icon Jomo Kenyatta was appointed Kenya's first post-colonial leader. He died in office in August 1978, succeeded by his vice president Daniel arap Moi.
In late 1991 Moi abandoned single-party rule and won presidential elections in 1992 and 1997.
Mwai Kibaki then swept into power in 2002 and went on to win re-election in 2007 against Raila Odinga, now one of the frontrunners on August 9.
Disputes over the 2007 vote count sparked the most serious political violence since independence, with more than 1,100 people killed in ethnic clashes.
Jomo Kenyatta's son Uhuru Kenyatta defeated Odinga in the 2013 elections despite being charged by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the violence.
The court dropped its case against him in 2014 and Kenyatta was re-elected in 2017, after the Supreme Court annulled his initial victory and Odinga boycotted the rerun.
Deputy President William Ruto, Odinga's main rival next week, was also charged by the ICC but prosecutors abandoned the case in 2016.
'Cradle of Mankind'
Kenya attracted about 1.5 million visitors last year to its wildlife parks and idyllic Indian Ocean beaches.
From the Maasai Mara to Amboseli, Kenya boasts about 50 parks and reserves that are home to native wildlife including the so-called Big Five -- lions, elephants, rhinos, leopards and buffalo -- as well as giraffes, hippos and cheetahs.
The Rift Valley that stretches from Tanzania to Ethiopia via Kenya is also the site of major discoveries of fossils showing man's evolution and has been dubbed the "Cradle of Mankind".
The remains of hominids believed to be nearly six million years old have been found in Kenya.
East African hub
Kenya has a mostly Christian population of about 50 million, according to government figures, made up of more than 40 tribes, the largest being Kikuyu.
Along with Ethiopia, it is East Africa's biggest economy with gross domestic product of just over $110 billion in 2021, according to the World Bank, and remains the region's main trading hub.
Agriculture is the backbone of the economy, accounting for more than a fifth of GDP, with key exports including tea, coffee and flowers.
Kenya estimates its economy grew by 7.5 percent last year after shrinking 0.3 percent in 2020 as the pandemic threw hundreds of thousands of people out of work.
It is now grappling with a cost of living crisis, as prices of fuel and basic foodstuffs soar in a country where about a third of the population lives in poverty.
Kenya also suffers from endemic corruption. It was ranked 128th out of 180 countries on Transparency International's 2021 corruption perceptions index, with the watchdog saying its fight against graft had "stagnated".
Athletics stars
Kenya is renowned for its athletes, especially long-distance runners, with a raft of world championship medals and records.
Among its numerous stars are marathon world record holders Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei and Africa's fastest man over 100 metres, Ferdinand Omanyala.
Kenyan athletics is nevertheless struggling to rebuild a reputation tarnished by doping and corruption.
Bloody attacks
Kenya has suffered a string of terror attacks, the deadliest on August 7, 1998 when massive truck bombings against the US embassy in Nairobi killed 213 people and wounded 5,000. It was claimed by Al-Qaeda.
Kenya has also been targeted by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab since 2011 when the Kenyan military entered Somalia to fight the jihadists.
In September 2013, Islamist gunmen stormed Nairobi's Westgate mall, killing at least 67 people. In April 2015 another Al-Shabaab attack killed 148 at a university in Garissa, eastern Kenya.
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In the WROCC August meeting tomorrow night, Tony Bartram will talking about games.
AMCOG has created a wide range of action games for RISC OS. Tony will be talking about these, giving some demos and hopefully some sneak previews of some new developments.
The talk can be attended in-person or remotely on Zoom and is free to all club members.
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To be hired in the PA from now on, just “knowing” will no longer be enough, “knowing how to do”, that is technical skills, and “knowing how to be”, that is behavioral skills, will also count. This is the turning point contained in the ministerial decree issued by the Minister for Public Administration, Renato Brunetta, and by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Daniele Franco, which updates the guidelines for identifying new professional needs by public administrations .
Soft skills
The employee will no longer be asked to simply possess theoretical notions, but also the ability to apply them to concrete cases and to maintain a certain conduct. In the selection procedures, aspects such as the ability to innovate administrative procedures, work as a team and make decisions independently will be considered. “Soft skills” which will therefore be evaluated in the next competitions, as well as having greater weight in training and career paths.
The need for new skills
The definition of the new professional profiles will make it possible to overcome, in the intentions of the government, the automatism in turnover: the new hires will not in fact consist in the replacement of old figures with identical ones, but will look at the new skills that must support the transformation of the PA envisaged by the Pnrr. A process that will therefore result in a progressive reduction of generic administrative figures in favor, for example, of digital experts, e-procurement, green transition, project management.
Overcoming the “mansionism”
Among the objectives of the executive there is also that of overcoming the “taskism”, understood as the attribution to the staff of rigidly defined and standardized tasks, seen as a limit to administrative action. Just as we aim at overcoming the concept of “professional profile”, updating it to the notion of professional family, which lends itself to gathering a plurality of role or competence profiles based on the complexity of the organization.
The professional family
The professional family, explains Palazzo Vidoni, is the area in which employees have common skills or knowledge. For example, in relation to the area of officials of the new Central Functions Contract signed on May 9, 2022, a ministry could identify the family of “legal officers” and, within it, decline various roles, for example related to the law of environment or trade union law. | https://www.breakinglatest.news/news/soft-skills-and-decision-making-skills-the-new-guidelines-for-those-who-will-enter-the-pa/ | 2022-08-04T06:42:44Z | https://www.breakinglatest.news/news/soft-skills-and-decision-making-skills-the-new-guidelines-for-those-who-will-enter-the-pa/ | true | 1 |
TS ICET answer key 2022 releasing today; here’s how to download
Candidates will be able to download the answer keys from the official website icet.tsche.ac.in.
The Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) will soon release the answer key of the Telangana State Integrated Common Entrance Test or TS ICET 2022. Once released, candidates will be able to download the answer keys from the official website icet.tsche.ac.in.
The last date for submission of objections on the preliminary answer key shall be August 8, 2022. The result is scheduled to be released on August 22.
The Telangana State Integrated Common Entrance Test or TS ICET 2022 was held on July 27 and 28. The online state-level entrance exam was conducted by the Kakatiya University, Warangal for admission to MBA and MCA courses in the state.
Steps to download TS ICET answer key
- Visit the official website icet.tsche.ac.in
- On the homepage, click on the answer key link
- Key in your login details and submit
- Check and download the answer key
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Sullivan expresses concern over Iranian-American journalist’s safety
US National Security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke with Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad on Wednesday and expressed his concern over her safety following the arrest of a man with a rifle outside her home in New York last week, an NSC spokesperson said in a statement.
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The man, Khalid Mehdiyev, spent two days last week outside the home of Alinejad, and at one point attempted to open the door, an FBI agent wrote in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court last week. Police stopped him after he ran a stop sign and found the gun in the back seat of the car, according to the complaint.
Alinejad, who saw the incident as an attempt on her life by Tehran, said: “what the Iranian regime did, first trying to kidnap me and now sending someone here trying to kill me, it’s a pattern. It’s a continuation of their way of oppressing dissidents inside and outside Iran.”
On Wednesday, Sullivan said US President Joe Biden will continue to receive updates on her situation, and added that the administration will continue to protect its citizens and dissidents from threats from the Gulf nation.
“...the US Government will use all tools at its disposal to disrupt and deter threats from Iran, including those which target US citizens and dissidents living in the United States,” the NSC statement said.
Last year, Alinejad was said to be the target of a Tehran-backed kidnapping plot. She has promoted videos of women violating Iran’s head covering law to her millions of social media followers.
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General News of Thursday, 4 August 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Newly elected General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Kodua, has conceded that the past few weeks after the party’s delegate conference has proved to be overwhelming, not just to him but to every delegate who contested in the elections.
Many NPP patriots and Ghanaians at large would know the renowned lawyer as a laudable, humble and open individual, but considering the power handed over to him as the party’s General Secretary, many believe he would lose his identity like most politicians along the way.
However, responding to this general assumption in an interview with Don Kwabena Prah on Happy98.9 FM’s “Epa Hoa Daben” socio-political talk show, JFK indicated that despite his new environment, patriots can best relate to him in such a distinguished position.
Justin Kodua shared that he has since received countless messages and immeasurable support after winning the General Secretary position of the NPP.
“I can say the last two weeks have been very challenging but I also understand it. Because after elections, the people who helped in the campaign, from the grounds, the consistency level, regional level and even people without positions yet they sacrificed and came into your camp to help you win. Others could have been mates who we went to school with and have barely heard from them but after the winning they were very happy,” he said
“So, after the elections and all that I had about 7,000 to 8,000 messages and up until now I haven’t been able to reply all of them. As I do new ones keep coming through. Some even take their time to call and indicate that they’ve sent me messages but for now together with my PA we’re going through all and give every one of them a response,” he added.
Justin Kodua Frimpong who held the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) role of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) further revealed that he is yet to hand over his position to a new appointee by the President of the Republic, Nana Akufo-Addo.
“As I speak now I’m yet to hand over the YEA position to the next person and the appointment of the new YEA boss lies with the President as we know of which I have no influence in. Just like he appointed me I trust in his judgement to make the right appointment like he did with mine,” he noted.
Justin Kodua Frimpong beat John Boadu to the General Secretary position of the NPP. He amassed a total of 2,837 votes while John Boadu trailed behind him with 2, 524 votes. | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/First-few-weeks-in-office-has-been-challenging-JFK-admits-1596131 | 2022-08-04T06:55:52Z | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/First-few-weeks-in-office-has-been-challenging-JFK-admits-1596131 | false | 1 |
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Breaking formation: Why one major investment bank thinks Qantas can’t outrun poor service
Elizabeth Knight
Business columnistOne of the major investment banks has broken formation with the financial pack and questioned whether this year’s earnings bounce for Qantas will be as robust as investors are expecting while highlighting the airline’s poor record around on-time performance and flight cancellations.
Citi analyst Samuel Seow posits the thesis that, as a premium airline, Qantas needs to address its underlying service problems - an exercise that comes with the financial cost of hiring more staff and at a cost to revenue.
Qantas has provided some colour around the pieces of the earnings puzzle. It has told the market it has cut domestic capacity by 10 per cent and has slowed the ramp-up in international capacity - both of which apply pressure to revenue. The missing piece is how much of this has been recouped through higher airfares.
On some routes, airfares have doubled - particularly on international business class tickets. But even domestic fares are pitched at the spicy end.
That said, even the higher airfares cannot completely offset the revenue impact of taking 10 per cent capacity out of the market.
And that’s Qantas’ dilemma. It is constrained by a lack of staff from increasing capacity. It is also paying relatively high prices for fuel, which is a disincentive for increasing the number of planes it is running.
For Qantas to maximise profits it needs to increase capacity, which it cannot do without having more staff (both crew and ground staff) or risking service and on-time performance levels.
The endless disastrous airline travel stories crowding social media cannot remain a feature for Qantas. It is better to not schedule a flight than to cancel it or lose customer luggage.
“If industry constraints have caused on-time performance issues, logically, we expect a flatter capacity profile in 1H23 (the current half-year period) as more realistic, which is less than what guidance and the market is indicating,” Citi said in the note to investors.
On Citi’s estimates, Australia’s flight cancellation rate was 5.8 per cent in June and 38 per cent of flights were delayed. But Qantas was above average at 8.1 per cent and had 46 per cent of flights delayed.
To be fair, the turmoil is not confined to Australia, it’s an international scourge. That said, Citi notes that in June, only 2.2 per cent of flights by US carriers were cancelled, and the delay rate was about 22 per cent.
Seow has taken a knife to his previous estimates on Qantas’ underlying pre-tax profit for financial year 2023 - cutting it from $740 million to $514 million. On the back of this, he has lowered Citi’s target share price for Qantas by more than 20 per cent to $4.28 and placed a sell recommendation on the stock. In doing so, Seow managed to knock a bit of the gloss from Qantas’ share price. It fell by 0.3 per cent against the broader market that was up.
This represents a significant divergence from the broker pack - only one other analyst has a sell on Qantas and the majority have a buy recommendation. The consensus for Qantas’ 2023 earnings sits at about $837 million.
In three weeks, Qantas will report its 2022 financial year results and its chief executive (hopefully) will provide some clarity on how the airline is faring financially since the start of the 2023 financial year in July. We will then get a better picture of whether Seow is sitting too far out on a limb or whether the rest of the pack has been unduly optimistic.
Citi is broadly supportive of the positive longer-term trends for Qantas and sees a strong profit bounce in the 2024 financial year - higher than the airline made in the last full year before COVID-19 annihilated its performance.
But Seow is clearly questioning the length of the COVID tail’s impacts on Qantas’ profit performance.
“In summary Qantas charges a premium for tickets, so we expect performance will be a key priority. However, doing so economically appears to be difficult.”
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces that it is investigating claims on behalf of investors of The GEO Group, Inc. ("GEO" or "the Company") (NYSE: GEO) for violations of the securities laws.
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CHAMPAIGN — Issac Bobo Jr., 61, of Monticello, formerly of Champaign, died Tuesday (July 19, 2022) at his home.
Funeral services will be at noon Friday at Cannan Baptist Church, 207 N. Central Ave., U. Visitation will be at 11 a.m. at the church. Walker Funeral Services and Chapel, 704 N. Fourth St., C, is in charge of arrangements. | https://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/issac-bobo-jr/article_7335e55c-1381-11ed-8498-f79225aa3a81.html | 2022-08-04T07:09:42Z | https://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/issac-bobo-jr/article_7335e55c-1381-11ed-8498-f79225aa3a81.html | true | null |
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The exercises, which began around 12 pm (0400 GMT), involve "live-firing", according to state media.
"Six major areas around the island have been selected for this actual combat exercise and during this period, relevant ships and aircraft should not enter the relevant waters and airspaces," state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The exercises will take place in multiple zones around Taiwan -- at some points within just 20 kilometres (12 miles) of the island's shore -- and will conclude at midday on Sunday.
Taiwan's defence ministry said it was closely watching the drills and that the island was prepared for conflict, but would not seek it.
"The Ministry of National Defence stresses that it will uphold the principle of preparing for war without seeking war, and with an attitude of not escalating conflict and causing disputes," it said in a statement.
Beijing's nationalist state-run tabloid Global Times said, citing military analysts that the exercises were "unprecedented" and that missiles would fly over Taiwan for the first time.
"This is the first time the PLA will launch live long-range artillery across" the Taiwan Strait, the newspaper said using the Chinese military's formal name, the People's Liberation Army.
Taiwan has described the exercises as "an irrational move to challenge the international order".
The Group of Seven industrialised nations also condemned the drills, saying in a statement there was "no justification to use a visit as pretext for aggressive military activity in the Taiwan Strait".
'Preparation for actual combat'
Taiwan's Maritime and Port Bureau issued warnings on Wednesday to ships to avoid the areas being used for the Chinese drills.
The Taiwanese cabinet said the drills would disrupt 18 international routes passing through its flight information region (FIR).
Beijing has defended its military operations as "necessary and just", pinning the blame for the escalation on the United States and its allies.
"In the current struggle surrounding Pelosi's Taiwan visit, the United States are the provocateurs, China is the victim," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular briefing Wednesday.
A Chinese military source also told AFP the exercises would be staged "in preparation for actual combat".
"If the Taiwanese forces come into contact with the PLA on purpose and accidentally fire a gun, the PLA will take stern countermeasures, and all the consequences will be borne by the Taiwanese side," the source said.
'Some limits'
Taiwan's 23 million people have long lived with the possibility of an invasion, but that threat has intensified under president Xi Jinping, China's most assertive ruler in a generation.
Just 130 km wide at its narrowest point, the Taiwan Strait is a major international shipping channel and all that lies between democratic Taiwan and its giant authoritarian neighbour.
It is now a flashpoint between the United States, Taiwan and a Chinese leadership keen to project strength ahead of a crucial ruling party meeting this autumn at which Xi is expected to be given an unprecedented third term.
"China's announced military exercises represent a clear escalation from the existing baseline of Chinese military activities around Taiwan and from the last Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1995-1996," said Amanda Hsiao, senior analyst for China at the International Crisis Group.
"Beijing is signalling that it rejects Taiwan's sovereignty."
Nevertheless, analysts have told AFP that China is not aiming to escalate the situation beyond its control -- at least for now.
"Clearly they recognise that there are some limits to what they are willing to do," Chong Ja Ian, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore, told AFP.
And Titus Chen, an associate professor of political science at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan, said: "The last thing Xi wants is an accidental war." | https://en.prothomalo.com/international/asia/aeocm4n30l | 2022-08-04T07:20:53Z | https://en.prothomalo.com/international/asia/aeocm4n30l | false | 8 |
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced Monday that it has received the first payment of more than $6 million from the National Prescription Opiate Litigation (NPOL) settlement funds. Last Thursday, in anticipation of receiving the NPOL funds and in compliance with state law, DHS submitted an updated proposal to the legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance for how to use and invest the nearly $31 million Wisconsin was awarded from the NPOL for calendar year 2022. The NPOL funds are part of a nationwide agreement that was made with three major pharmaceutical distributors and Johnson and Johnson, to prevent, treat, and support recovery from opioid use disorder.
“The settlement funds will go a long way toward enhancing our efforts to help people with opioid use disorder and prevent future misuse, overdoses, and deaths,” said DHS Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake. “We have been committed to continuous collaboration as we have planned for these funds to arrive. Our proposed investments have been informed by recommendations from the public, advocates, providers, first responders, and other partners, to avoid a ‘one-size fits all approach’ to addressing the state’s opioid epidemic”
DHS proposes to invest settlement funds in a variety of strategies, including:
Making immediate investments in harm reduction.
Investing in harm reduction by increasing the availability of NARCAN® and fentanyl test strips around the state.
Making investments in new and updated treatment facilities.
Funding for tribal nations to address the dramatic increase in opioid overdose deaths.
Enhancing data collection and surveillance.
Funding for family support centers to provide information, education, and healthy coping skills, while building resiliency, for family and friends of a person with substance use disorder.
These different strategies will be carried out in phases that will correspond to the specific payments Wisconsin will receive this year, with the entire amount for each payment allocated in the plan.
"By holding accountable those who contributed to and profited off the opioid epidemic, the Wisconsin Department of Justice, states across the country, and county and local governments have secured substantial recoveries to help fight the epidemic,” said Attorney General Josh Kaul. “This payment and those that will follow must be put to use promptly so these funds can begin addressing the impacts of this devastating epidemic as soon as possible.”
On February 25, 2022, the Wisconsin Department of Justice announced final approval of the opioid agreement with three major pharmaceutical distributors, Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen and Johnson and Johnson. Payments from the distributors will continue for 18 years, while payments from Johnson and Johnson will continue for nine years.
DHS is required under 2021 Wisconsin Act 57(link is external) to submit a proposal for expenditure of the settlement funds to the Joint Committee on Finance under the committee’s 14-day passive review process. On April 21, 2022, the Joint Committee on Finance requested that DHS revise its initial proposal to reflect how the payments would be received. Act 57 also requires that DHS receives 30 percent of the total allotment of NPOL funds while counties and municipalities that participated in the litigation receive the remaining 70 percent.
On July 12, 2022, the state was notified that Wisconsin will receive payments from these settlements in calendar year 2022. The initial payment of $6 million was received today. It is expected the remaining $25 million will be paid later this calendar year.
In anticipation of receiving opioid settlement funds, DHS held 12 regional listening sessions in early 2022. Nearly 600 people living with an opioid use disorder, their families and friends, and providers of opioid prevention, treatment, and recovery support services participated in these virtual events. Nearly 900 comments were submitted through an online survey.
Earlier this year, DHS partnered with the Wisconsin Department of Justice to unveil an updated Dose of Reality information and education campaign to change the conversation around the state’s opioid epidemic by providing the tools to prevent or reduce the risk of opioid misuse through open and honest discussions about the dangers of opioids and ways to save lives. This updated campaign includes information on illegally made fentanyl, which has been involved in most Wisconsin opioid deaths in recent years.
Wisconsin’s opioid epidemic began in the late 1990s and has been evolving since, with an almost 900% increase in opioid overdose deaths between 1999 and 2018. Opioid overdose deaths decreased by 10% in 2018, but increased significantly in 2020 to a record high of 1,227. The COVID-19 pandemic, a rapid increase in the amount of synthetic opioids like fentanyl, and rise in the use of many drugs at one time are believed to be responsible for the increase in overdose deaths. | https://www.baldwin-bulletin.com/news/department-of-health-services-submits-updated-proposal-for-opioid-settlement-funds/article_d394d82e-136b-11ed-9e8f-a3fc532de42e.html | 2022-08-04T07:24:19Z | https://www.baldwin-bulletin.com/news/department-of-health-services-submits-updated-proposal-for-opioid-settlement-funds/article_d394d82e-136b-11ed-9e8f-a3fc532de42e.html | true | 1 |
Wisconsin school districts were allotted nearly $2.4 billion in one-time federal pandemic relief funds and have until September 2024 to spend the large amounts that remain. In early spending, districts targeted immediate pandemic needs such as health and safety, educational technology, and remote instruction. Later spending has addressed student and district needs more broadly. With most districts still facing a convergence of financial challenges, strategic use of remaining dollars will be critical for fiscal health and successful student outcomes.
Billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief education funds have flowed to Wisconsin since 2020. Data provided to the Wisconsin Policy Forum by the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) offers the first statewide snapshot of how district leaders have used these dollars.
With the first influx of funding, leaders prioritized immediate COVID needs but they have since expanded their spending to address ongoing operational and instructional issues. As they continue to spend down the remaining dollars before federal deadlines, they must contend with competing priorities and political realities.
Several Sources of Federal Education Relief Aid
Previous Forum research has summarized the total federal pandemic relief dollars allocated to public K-12 schools in Wisconsin so far: $204.6 million through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), including $46.6 million in Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER I) funds and $158.5 million in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER I) funds; $685.4 million through the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) and ESSER II funds; and $1.49 billion through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and ESSER III. (While Wisconsin districts received money from all three rounds of ESSER funding, only the first round of GEER funding targeted K-12 schools.) These amounts do not include a portion of ESSER funds that will be distributed via competitive grants, nor do they include $110 million in federal Coronavirus Relief Funds reallocated to school districts and charter schools by Governor Tony Evers.
Federal legislation allocated the majority of ESSER funds through the Title I formula, which is based on students’ economic status. Public school districts and independent charter schools both receive these funds; any references to districts in this piece also include these charters. Districts serving higher percentages of students from low-income households receive a larger proportion of the federal funds. The average school district in Wisconsin will receive $2,872 per pupil, and the median allocation is $1,843 per pupil. The formula allocated the greatest proportion of federal funds (33.4%) to Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), which equates to $11,535 per pupil. Our upcoming budget brief will delve further into the ESSER allocations for both MPS and the Madison Metropolitan School District.
Congress appropriated the one-time federal relief dollars for a vast array of allowable expenditures to give school districts flexibility in addressing locally identified needs in the face of COVID-19. Most districts faced steep challenges directly related to COVID, and the funds provided an important resource to mitigate those harmful effects and address institutional inequities.
A district must submit plans to DPI for each of the three rounds of ESSER funds to gain access to them. Once DPI has approved a plan and the district has purchased the approved services or materials, the district may begin submitting claims for reimbursement to the state. Our spending data therefore reflect solely a snapshot of what has been claimed by districts thus far and may not reflect their full spending or pandemic costs.
Spending on ESSER I and GEER I
We analyzed submitted GEER I, ESSER I, and ESSER II claims to DPI for a first statewide look at the use of federal pandemic relief dollars thus far, excluding a small handful of schools for which contextual geographic data were not available. (Readers should note that capital investments on items like facilities improvements are not explicitly named in the provided DPI spending categories and therefore cannot be broken out in our analysis. We also cannot account for cases in which districts used non-GEER or ESSER money to meet pandemic needs.)
Statewide, GEER I funds went predominantly toward investments in educational technology (37.8%) and preparedness and response to COVID-19 (36.4%), followed by addressing long-term school closure (22.6%).
ESSER I funds followed a similar pattern, with even larger investments in educational technology (41.9%), followed by preparedness and response to COVID-19 (32.3%) and addressing long-term school closure (18.8%) (see Figure 1).
Sample specific costs associated with each of these categories include student laptops, hotspots, and instructional software (educational technology); personal protective equipment and staff training on minimizing disease spread (preparedness and response to COVID-19); and instructional materials, curriculum costs, staff professional learning, and salary reimbursements for educators’ planning time to adjust to new learning environments (addressing long-term school closure).
When we broke out these statewide ESSER I totals by districts’ locale, size, and demographics, we found that these three categories remained the top categories for spending regardless of district type. Districts in different locales varied somewhat in which of the three they prioritized most, however. For example, urban and suburban districts spent the greatest amount of their ESSER I funds on educational technology (47.3% and 44.0% of their ESSER I spending, respectively), while districts in towns and in rural areas spent the most on preparedness and response to COVID-19 (44.3% and 44.4%, respectively).
The same trends held true for districts of different sizes, with the largest districts spending the most on educational technology and smaller districts spending the most on preparedness and response to COVID-19.
Districts in which students from low-income households comprise less than 25% of their student population spent the greatest proportion of their ESSER I dollars (46.6%) on preparedness and response to COVID-19. Districts with more than 50% of students from low-income households spent the greatest proportion of their ESSER I dollars (49.3%) on educational technology. Districts serving between 25% and 50% of students from low-income households split their ESSER I expenditures more evenly than other districts, spending 35.7% on preparedness and response to COVID-19, 30.6% on addressing long-term school closure, and 30.0% on educational technology.
These figures appear to confirm previous Forum research on the “digital divide” that showed technology needs were greatest for districts serving the most students from low-income households and students of color. Though rural districts and their students also face significant technology challenges, previous Forum research found these districts returned to in-person learning more quickly. The challenge of rural broadband access also may have limited what the federal dollars could accomplish for rural districts.
Spending on ESSER II
Districts’ ESSER II spending is still underway, but claims so far already equate to nearly the full amount of ESSER I funds claimed. Districts have still primarily focused their ESSER II spending on educational technology, preparedness and response to COVID-19, and addressing long-term school closure, but in different proportions than for ESSER I. Addressing long-term school closure is now rising to the top, accounting for 36.4% of ESSER II funds claimed for reimbursement so far. Educational technology has dropped to 20.7% of expenditures claimed. The share of spending on preparedness and response to COVID-19 has remained relatively stable, at 29.4% (see Figure 2).
Rural districts, districts serving fewer than 1,000 students, and districts with less than 25% of students coming from low-income households have all continued to spend the most ESSER money on COVID-19 preparedness and response.
Other categories that accounted for minimal GEER I and ESSER I expenditures are now seeing more use. Spending on afterschool and summer learning accounts for 7.9% of ESSER II spending so far, up from 0.8% of ESSER I. This increase appears to have been largely driven by large urban districts serving a majority of students from low-income households and students of color.
Expenditures on outreach and service delivery to special populations have grown from 0.3% of ESSER I spending to 3.5% of ESSER II spending. Mental health services and supports have ticked up from 0.5% of ESSER I spending to 1.5% of ESSER II spending, a small increase that nevertheless represents an additional $1.4 million going toward student mental health statewide.
These numbers suggest that, as the immediate shock of the pandemic has subsided, districts are starting to look more broadly at student needs and other school priorities in this new landscape.
Strategic Spending Challenges
While these claim amounts and categories provide important data on ESSER spending, additional context provides further insight into districts’ spending considerations. Districts across the country face the challenge of determining how to use federal relief funds on the unique demands of COVID-19 without leaving budgetary holes when the one-time funds expire. Such strategic thinking typically requires intensive time and energy, both of which have been in short supply during the COVID crisis. District leaders and consultants we interviewed pointed to HVAC and education technology expenditures as examples of “easy spending” that can meet COVID needs and will not produce future budget holes. Conversely, supporting students’ academic recovery should be a clear priority and yet investments to address their needs may not be sustainable once federal funds are exhausted.
For Wisconsin districts, the 2021-23 state budget heightened this tension by providing no increase to state revenue limits on local property taxes and state general school aids. With rising inflation adding pressure to district budgets, there appears to be a real risk that districts will need to use at least some ESSER funds for ongoing costs, as opposed to investments in emerging or exacerbated student needs. Such a move could mean fewer recovery opportunities for students and a “fiscal cliff” for districts when the funds run out.
Remaining Opportunities
Data as of March 9, 2022 show that Wisconsin districts have filed reimbursement claims for 72.6% of the state’s GEER I funds, 90.8% of ESSER I funds, 20.8% of ESSER II funds, and 0.6% of ESSER III funds so far (see Figure 3).
The majority of unclaimed funds are concentrated somewhat proportionally in the handful of districts slated to receive the most funds. For example, MPS was allocated 32.8% of the state’s ESSER II funds and accounts for 41.4% of the state’s unclaimed ESSER II funds. As previously mentioned, these claim amounts do not represent the full breadth of expenditures so far. In MPS’ case, the district’s own records indicate that it has spent or encumbered $95.6 million more in ESSER II dollars than its claims currently indicate.
The claims process itself accounts for some of the statewide lag, as do gaps between obligation and actual expenditure. The latter is especially applicable for districts that have obligated ESSER funds for lengthy construction and renovation projects. Some districts may have the funds budgeted for recurring staffing costs that will add up over time, while others may be intentionally reserving some funds in case of additional COVID waves.
Still, it appears that large quantities of federal funds remain to be spent, especially with regard to ESSER III. In claiming only 0.6% of ESSER III funds so far, Wisconsin school districts fall below the national average of 5%. By federal law, ESSER II funds must be obligated by September 30, 2023, and ESSER III funds by September 30, 2024, with a 90-day period after these dates for districts to claim their expenditures for reimbursement. (The U.S. Department of Education recently announced potential extensions for cases in which the funds have been obligated.)
State and district officials attributed the lag in ESSER III claims primarily to the delayed approval of the Wisconsin ESSER III State Plan by the U.S. Department of Education after objections to clauses inserted by the State Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee. The delay affected when districts learned their full ESSER III allocations and when they could begin submitting their claims.
With greater clarity on ESSER III now obtained, districts can take full stock of their needs and determine how to spend their remaining federal funds before deadlines.
The stakes for these choices are great. All available data indicate that students nationally and in Wisconsin experienced negative impacts from COVID. At the end of all of the ESSER spending, the most important question for the state will be: Did it successfully counter those impacts and make a difference for kids? | https://www.baldwin-bulletin.com/news/how-are-school-districts-spending-their-federal-relief-funds/article_2477c480-0f71-11ed-be7f-93875d042dda.html | 2022-08-04T07:24:37Z | https://www.baldwin-bulletin.com/news/how-are-school-districts-spending-their-federal-relief-funds/article_2477c480-0f71-11ed-be7f-93875d042dda.html | false | 2 |
Taiwan – Nancy Pelosi’s Last Hurrah
Gwynne Dyer is a UK-based Canadian journalist and seasoned commentator on international affairs.
OPINION: Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taiwan this week caused great if somewhat confected anger in Beijing, but the Chinese Communist regime was not her main target.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has long supported Taiwan, and she will be aware that both the government and the people are in need of some reassurance at the moment.
The likelihood of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is rising, and the prospect of direct US military support in that event is falling.
Both trends are driven by the shifting strategic balance in the Western Pacific, where China is approaching the status of ‘near-peer adversary’, able to challenge US naval and air operations around Taiwan with some prospect of success.
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Pelosi is not a military strategist, but she cannot have failed to notice the changing tone of the military briefings she gets on the subject from the US navy and air force. They can no longer guarantee that they would prevail in a war fought 12,000 km from home to thwart a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
The official US strategy remains ‘strategic ambiguity’: it won’t say whether or not it would actually fight China to protect Taiwan.
This used to be just a device to get around the awkward contradiction between recognising the Communist regime in Beijing and protecting the separate existence of the island state of Taiwan – but everybody assumed that the US would fight for that if necessary.
Now strategic ambiguity is mostly a way to disguise the fact that Washington would probably not intervene directly to stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
China has accumulated so many ballistic and cruise missiles along its east coast that the US navy is reluctant to risk its carriers in those waters in wartime, and only one air base within range of Taiwan is available for US strike aircraft.
Beyond these tactical and operational considerations, there is the immense strategic fact that neither China nor the United States wants to risk a nuclear war.
However, China might be able to conquer Taiwan without resorting to nuclear weapons.
Hence China’s growing confidence, and Taiwan’s belated anxiety (an $8 billion boost to defence spending last January), and President Joe Biden’s attempts to reassure Taiwan by making impromptu declarations that the US would indeed fight for Taiwan (which are promptly walked back by Biden’s staff).
But the reality is clear from Biden’s ultra-cautious response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine – slow and selective arms deliveries, no Nato troops on the ground, not even a ‘no-fly’ zone over Ukraine.
He’s being very careful and measured because he doesn’t want a nuclear war.
So if he’s that cautious with Russia, how careful would he be if Taiwan is invaded by China, a country with ten times Russia’s population and twenty times its wealth?
Well, if the Taiwanese are still standing after three weeks, and the Chinese military turn out to be another paper tiger, maybe then he’d send help.
The long-standing American policy of ‘strategic ambiguity’ has lost credibility as a deterrent, and Taiwan is really on its own now. This doesn’t mean that it is doomed, but its free ride is over.
Taiwan is an island 180 km from China, which means that it could theoretically defend itself from anything except Chinese nuclear weapons. (Beijing is unlikely to use nukes on fellow Chinese people.)
Getting Chinese troops onto the island in sufficient numbers by seaborne landings and air-drops would be a military operation fraught with risk, and fully prepared Taiwanese armed forces could conceivably defeat it.
However, they are not remotely prepared for that now.
Taiwan’s defence-related spending has fallen gradually from a peak of more than 7% of GDP in the late 1970s to only 1.9% last year, and obligatory military service has been cut to only four months.
As cold reality dawned in Taiwan in the past year, that long decline has gone into reverse, but it would take half a dozen years of defence spending at 5% or 6% of GDP to acquire the weapons and capabilities that might enable the country to defend itself without help.
It’s unlikely that this is the message Nancy Pelosi brought to Taiwan; she just wants to show solidarity with their struggle to remain free.
Biden even thought her visit was poorly timed, given Xi’s impending coronation as dictator-for-life at the October congress of the Chinese Communist Party. It wouldn’t do to spoil his party.
But other American officials have doubtless been breaking the bad news to the Taiwanese government as gently as possible.
The next five years will be very tricky even if President Tsai Ing-wen’s administration goes into overdrive on defence.
Gwynne Dyer’s new book is The Shortest History of War. | https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300654068/taiwan--nancy-pelosis-last-hurrah | 2022-08-04T07:24:45Z | https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300654068/taiwan--nancy-pelosis-last-hurrah | true | 11 |
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