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NORTHBROOK, Ill., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hilco Real Estate, LLC announces the bid deadline of Tuesday, September 6, 2022 for El Rancho restaurant, an iconic, rustic pub and brewery in Evergreen, CO. Located in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the 21,900± square foot building has plenty of space and ample parking for a variety of possible future uses, including hospitality, retail and residential redevelopments. An on-site inspection for all interested parties is scheduled for Thursday, August 25.
Originally built in 1948, El Rancho restaurant is among the largest and oldest existing restaurants in the Rocky Mountains. Fully remodeled in 2015, the building features seating for nearly 550 guests between the main dining area, private dining area, banquet rooms and patio space. The space comprises 11,000± SF on the main level, 4,300± SF on the second floor and 6,500± SF on the lower level. Set on 4.4 acres, the property sits immediately off I- 70 at the intersection of U.S. 40 and Evergreen Parkway. With a backdrop of evergreen trees, the property offers commanding views of the Continental Divide and the snow-capped peaks of the Rockies from most windows, patios and decks.
The surrounding area serves as the retail hub of the city, featuring numerous, national businesses nearby, including Walmart, The Home Depot, Starbucks, McDonald's, Comfort Suites and others. The property includes undeveloped acreage with 12 unused prepaid water taps, making it ideal for future development or outdoor event space. All furniture, fixtures and brewery equipment are also included in the sale.
A city of approximately 9,300 residents, Evergreen sits at an elevation of 7,200 feet and is located a scenic 28 miles west of downtown Denver. The small city offers an array of parks, art galleries, theaters, restaurants, entertainment and recreation options. Evergreen is also among Colorado's most affluent communities, ranking 16th by the Denver Business Journal for the percentage of households with incomes of $150,000 or more, putting it ahead of communities like Aspen (17th), Snowmass Village (26th) and Vail (32nd). The desire to live closer to outdoor amenities and the recent popularity of remote work has led to a surge in population growth over recent years. The community has a strong focus in the arts, with galleries lining the downtown streets between quaint shops and local eateries. Several craft, art and music events are also held in the area annually. Evergreen features eight open space parks comprising thousands of acres with hiking, mountain biking and equestrian trails. Fly fishing for trout can be enjoyed in Bear Creek that flows through the center of town. World class ski resorts like Winter Park, Breckenridge, Keystone, Vail, and Copper are all within one to one and a half hours away as well. The area boasts a mountain-town feel with all the amenities of Denver well within reach.
Steve Madura, senior vice president at Hilco Real Estate, stated, "This property could not be better located to take advantage of interstate access, vehicular visibility, proximity to Denver and some of the most spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains available. Whether continued use as a restaurant or event venue, or a total reimagining of this parcel, the sale represents an amazing opportunity to acquire prime land in an area that should see continued demand and desirability."
The bid deadline is scheduled for Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Bids must be delivered to the offices of Hilco Real Estate on or before 5:00 p.m. (EST) on the day of the deadline to be considered. Interested buyers should review the detailed sale terms for requirements in order to participate in the sale process available on Hilco's website. Offers may be submitted via mail to the following address: Hilco Real Estate, 5 Revere Drive, Suite 410, Northbrook, IL 60062, or via email to smadura@hilcoglobal.com.
An on-site inspection will be held on Thursday, August 25. For more information regarding the sale process or to schedule an on-site appointment, please contact Jiovanny Restrepo at (847) 386-2282 or jrestrepo@hilcoglobal.com or Steve Madura at (847) 504-2478 or smadura@hilcoglobal.com.
For further information on the properties, an explanation of the sale process or to obtain access to property due diligence documents, please visit HilcoRealEstate.com or call (855) 755-2300.
Hilco Real Estate ("HRE"), a Hilco Global company (HilcoGlobal.com), is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois (USA). HRE is a national provider of strategic real estate disposition services. Acting as an agent or principal, HRE uses its experience to advise and execute strategies to assist clients in deriving the maximum value from their real estate assets. By leveraging multi-faceted sales strategies and techniques, aggressive repositioning and restructuring experience, a vast and motivated network of buyers and sellers, and substantial access to capital, HRE exceeds expectations even in the most complex transactions.
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The Taoiseach has released white-tailed eagle chicks into the wild in Co Kerry as part of an initiative to reintroduce the native and formerly extinct species to Irish skies.
Micheal Martin released the sea chicks in Tarbert, Co Kerry, on Friday alongside the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).
A total of 16 young eagles are set to be released at three sties across Munster including Killarney National Park, Lough Derg and the lower Shannon estuary as part of the second phase of a long-term wildlife project aiming to re-establish a population of the species in Ireland.
The Fianna Fail leader said: “I have followed this project for a number of years now and watching the eagles take to the skies for the first time is something that will last long in the memory.
“It is wonderful to see the development since the first introduction of chicks a number of years ago. These white-tailed eagles are magnificent birds which will play a key role in a functioning ecosystem, after having been driven to extinction in the 19th century as a result of human actions.”
Mr Martin paid tribute to all those involved in the project from the National Parks and Wildlife Service to local farmers, communities and conservation bodies.
He added that the project underlines, in practical terms, Ireland’s commitment to implementing the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
“I am particularly grateful to the Norwegian authorities and colleagues for their collaboration which has enabled this exciting reintroduction to happen,” he said.
The birds, once a striking element of Ireland’s natural landscape, were driven to extinction on the island as a result of human persecution.
Restoring this lost species is a significant step in restoring the country’s natural heritage and biodiversity. It also has the potential to contribute significantly to rural economies through eco-tourism opportunities.
In the first phase of the reintroduction programme, 100 young white-tailed eagles were released in Killarney National Park in Co Kerry.
As in previous years, the young eagles were collected under licence in Norway by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and co-workers.
All the birds have been fitted with satellite tags in Ireland to enable their progress to be followed and their integration into the existing Irish breeding population monitored.
As they mature, the chicks will join and strengthen the small Irish breeding population that has become established since the reintroduction programme began in 2007.
Some 31 young eagles from Norway have been released over the last two years. The additional 16 birds being released this year, will bring the total to 47.
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Eldorado Gold (NYSE:EGO – Get Rating) (TSE:ELD) had its price objective raised by National Bank Financial from C$15.00 to C$15.50 in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday morning, The Fly reports. National Bank Financial also issued estimates for Eldorado Gold’s FY2022 earnings at $0.30 EPS.
A number of other equities research analysts have also recently commented on EGO. Canaccord Genuity Group raised shares of Eldorado Gold from a hold rating to a buy rating in a report on Wednesday, July 20th. Canaccord Genuity Group raised shares of Eldorado Gold from a hold rating to a buy rating and cut their price target for the stock from C$17.00 to C$12.00 in a report on Wednesday, July 20th. TheStreet downgraded shares of Eldorado Gold from a c rating to a d+ rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 18th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus cut their target price on Eldorado Gold from C$20.25 to C$18.00 in a research note on Wednesday, July 20th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of Moderate Buy and an average target price of $14.10.
Eldorado Gold Price Performance
Shares of NYSE:EGO opened at $6.08 on Tuesday. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $6.73 and a 200-day simple moving average of $9.04. Eldorado Gold has a one year low of $5.27 and a one year high of $12.49. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 2.40 and a current ratio of 3.47. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.12 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -2.54 and a beta of 1.38.
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Eldorado Gold Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the mining, exploration, development, and sale of mineral products primarily in Turkey, Canada, Greece, and Romania. The company primarily produces gold, as well as silver, lead, and zinc. It holds a 100% interest in the Kisladag and Efemcukuru gold mines located in western Turkey; 100% interest in Lamaque gold mines located in Canada; and Olympias, Stratoni, Skouries, Perama Hill, and Sapes gold mines located in Greece, as well as the 80.5% interest in Certej development projects located in Romania.
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Retrospective study in metastatic uveal melanoma patients with liver dominant disease shows an objective response rate of 59.4% and a disease control rate of 89.1%.
The study finds that achieving complete response, partial response, or stable disease is associated with improved survival.
NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Delcath Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTH), an interventional oncology company focused on the treatment of primary and metastatic cancers of the liver, announced the publication of a retrospective analysis of patients who underwent a percutaneous hepatic perfusion procedure (PHP) with CHEMOSAT® at three European centers, one in the Netherlands and two in Germany, between February 2014 and December 2019. The study involved 101 patients who completed a minimum of one PHP procedure for the treatment of unresectable uveal melanoma (UM) liver metastases.
The study, Predictive Parameters in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion with Melphalan for Unresectable Liver Metastases from Uveal Melanoma: A Retrospective Pooled Analysis, by Dr. T. M. L. Tong, et al,, included a total of 212 PHP procedures for the 101 patients included in the study. Of the 101 patients, 66 received PHP as first line treatment and 33 had received prior therapy (status of 2 patients was unknown). Approximately 50% of patients had greater than 9 metastases. Seventy-seven patients underwent at least two procedures and 25 patients received more than two PHP procedures. After a median follow-up time of 15 months, a complete response (CR) was reported in five (5.0%) patients; partial response (PR) in 55 (54.5%), and stable disease (SD) in 30 (29.7%), resulting in an objective response rate (ORR) of 59.4% and a disease control rate (DCR) of 89.1%.
The median progression-free survival (PFS), liver progression-free survival (LPFS), and overall survival (OS) were 9.0 months (95% CI 7.7 -10.3); 11.0 months (95% CI 9.0 – 13.0); and 20.0 months (95% CI 13.7 – 26.3), respectively. Twelve patients who were lost to follow-up were censored in the survival analyses. The study also found statistically significant differences in median PFS, median LPFS, and OS between patients who had CR, PR, or SD; and patients with progressive disease (PD). For example, for patients with CR or PR the median OS was 27 months (95% CI 17.5 – 36.5); for patients with SD the median OS was 21 months (95% CI 11.2 – 30.8); and 8 months (95% CI 5.7 - 10.3) for patients with PD.
Although the study did not find a statistically significant difference in either median PFS and LPFS for patients treated with two or more PHP procedures compared to patients treated with one PHP procedures, the study did find a statistically significant difference in OS (20 months vs. 8 months) for patients who had two or more PHP procedures compared to patients who were treated with one PHP procedure.
The safety analysis was conducted on the first treatment cycle (183 PHP procedures). The most common adverse events were hematological toxicities which were grade 1/2 and self- limiting in the majority of patients and consistent with previous reports on PHP. Other adverse events were thromboembolic in nature. The mortality rate was 1.1% within 30 days after PHP.
"Delcath welcomes this publication and believes its results provide healthcare professionals with further evidence of Chemosat's utility in patients suffering from metastatic uveal melanoma," said Johnny John, MD, Delcath's Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations and Medical Affairs. "We look forward to resubmitting the NDA for Hepzato Kit, the combination of the Chemosat device packaged with melphalan, to FDA by the end of the third quarter."
About Delcath Systems, Inc.
Delcath Systems, Inc. is an interventional oncology company focused on the treatment of primary and metastatic liver cancers. The company's proprietary percutaneous hepatic perfusion (PHP) system is designed to administer high-dose chemotherapy to the liver while controlling systemic exposure and associated side effects. In the United States, the PHP system is being developed under the tradename HEPZATO KIT (melphalan hydrochloride for injection/hepatic delivery system), or HEPZATO, for the treatment of patients with unresectable hepatic-dominant metastatic ocular melanoma (mOM), also known as metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM) and is considered a combination drug and device product regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In Europe, the PHP system is now regulated as a Class lll medical device and is approved for sale under the trade name CHEMOSAT Hepatic Delivery System for Melphalan, or CHEMOSAT, where it has been used at major medical centers to treat a wide range of cancers of the liver.
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New coronavirus cases fell 9% globally last week while deaths remained stable, according to the latest weekly assessment of the pandemic released by the World Health Organisation. The UN Health agency said there were 6.5 million cases reported last week with more than 14,000 deaths. WHO said the number of new cases fell 35% in Europe but increased about 20% in the Western Pacific and 5% in Africa. Deaths rose 44% in the Western Pacific and 26% in the Middle East, while falling about a quarter in Europe.
WHO has previously warned that recent surveillance of COVID-19 has been severely compromised by countries reducing their testing, reporting and other coronavirus alert systems. The agency has said COVID-19 figures are likely being significantly underestimated, which could make it more difficult to spot any worrisome new variants.
In the U.K., the Office for National Statistics reported last week that COVID-19 cases dropped to about 1 in 20 people in England infected, suggesting that the latest wave of the coronavirus may have peaked in the country. It us time that we should not take things for granted. We should maintain vigil. Stay safe. Wear masks. Follow social distance. | https://newstodaynet.com/2022/08/05/safety-first-4/ | 2022-08-05T14:03:44Z | https://newstodaynet.com/2022/08/05/safety-first-4/ | true | 1 |
Graham Potter believes Marc Cucurella’s club-record £60million departure to Chelsea shows Brighton have a recruitment process to be proud of.
Albion were reluctant to lose the defender but managed to negotiate a profit of almost £45million on a player purchased from Spanish side Getafe less than 12 months ago.
The Seagulls have now received around £150million in transfer fees during the past year following the sales of Ben White to Arsenal, Dan Burn to Newcastle and Yves Bissouma to Tottenham.
“It’s part of our strategy, to allow us to continue to develop,” said head coach Potter, who guided the south-coast club to a maiden top-half Premier League finish last term.
“Buying players is the easy part; selling players at the right time for the right price is the difficult bit.
“And the last three windows it’s around £150million worth of player sales we’ve made which is no small feat, something to be proud of from a recruitment perspective, from a development perspective.
“Credit to the players because ultimately it’s them that play the game and get themselves in that position.
“Our job now is to try to improve, to try to go forward and that’s what we’re going to do.”
Former Barcelona youth player Cucurella was crowned Brighton’s player of the year following an impressive maiden season in English football and was heavily linked with champions Manchester City before switching to Stamford Bridge.
While lucrative, the 24-year-old’s exit just two days before Albion start the new season at Manchester United is far from ideal.
The Seagulls have managed to soften his unwelcome sale by bringing Chelsea’s England Under-21 defender Levi Colwill in the other direction on a season-long loan.
Potter insisted transfer talks regarding Cucurella have not been a distraction ahead of taking on Erik ten Hag’s new-look United side and feels the final deal is beneficial for all parties.
“We didn’t want to sell him and we didn’t need to sell him,” said Potter.
“But, at the same time, you understand that if a Champions League club comes with Champions League resources and finance and the player indicates there’s a desire to do it then it’s very difficult for us.
“Then we have to make sure we get the right fee, I think the right fee has been got.
“It’s another situation where everybody’s won in terms of the player’s got a great opportunity, the selling club have got a good fee and the buying club have got a good player, so win, win, win all around.
“Marc was a fantastic player for us, great guy, I like him a lot so I wish him well and we move forward as a group.”
Colwill, who helped Huddersfield reach the Sky Bet Championship play-offs last season, could be involved in the Seagulls’ opener at Old Trafford.
“He’s a young player with some really nice attributes, huge potential,” Potter said of the 19-year-old.
“He adds quality, he had a good loan last year at Huddersfield and he adds good competition for places.
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Paul C. Harris Appointed to the National Defense University Foundation Board
Appointment furthers efforts to ensure National Defense University Provides World-Class Education
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Defense University (NDU) Foundation announced the appointment of Paul C. Harris, Executive Vice President, Chief Sustainability and Compliance Officer at HII, to its Board of Directors today.
"Our military and its leaders are at an important inflection point for our national security, and it gives me great pleasure to be part of the effort to educate and innovate to ensure America remains a beacon for freedom and democracy worldwide," said Mr. Harris.
The National Defense University (NDU) prepares selected civilian and military professionals from the U.S. and over 75 allied countries to serve as tomorrow's decision and policymakers at the highest levels of command in military, government, and key industry sectors. The National Defense University Foundation (NDU Foundation) secures funding and resources to support the academic and professional development programs for senior military and diplomatic leaders attending NDU. The NDU Foundation engages military and senior diplomatic leaders with private sector thought leaders and subject matter experts within and across the national security industrial complex.
HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider, and recognized worldwide as America's largest shipbuilder. With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics. HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions that support and enable an all-domain force.
Before his role at HII, Mr. Hill served as senior vice president at Hampton University. After serving in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, he received his juris doctorate from George Washington University Law School in 1995. In 1997, Harris was elected to Virginia's House of Delegates, serving four years. He later worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, serving as deputy associate attorney general and deputy assistant attorney general of the civil division, torts branch. He then rejoined the private sector, where he held compliance-related positions of increasing authority at several global companies, including Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and Sodexo.
"Mr. Harris' appointment further advances our efforts to expand the perspectives and experience of our members across the defense industrial complex. He's an innovative leader whose military service, public sector service, and corporate leadership directly correlate with the Foundation's mission to support the professional military education and leadership experiences of national security, national defense, and diplomatic professionals studying at the National Defense University," said NDU Foundation President and CEO, James Schmeling.
About the National Defense University FoundationThe NDU Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization focused exclusively on supporting the education and leadership development of national defense, security, and peacekeeping professionals studying at the National Defense University (NDU)., located at Ft. Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C. The Foundation provides NDU with vital resources to protect our democracy and ensure peace by educating and developing agile leaders prepared to think critically and operate strategically in an increasingly dynamic, complex, and unpredictable international security environment. Learn more at NDUFoundation.org.
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A fire broke out at a popular pub in Thailand just after midnight. For many, the bar becomes a deadly prison.
Sattahip – At least 13 people have died in a devastating fire at a large pub on Thailand’s east coast. Around 40 people were injured in the fire on Friday night in Sattahip, eight of them seriously, the Bangkok Post newspaper reported, citing the rescue team.
Most of the victims were found in the toilet rooms and near the entrance. It was initially unclear what caused the fire. Sattahip is about 30 kilometers south of Pattaya.
According to initial findings, all victims – nine men and four women – are Thais, the police said.
Videos on social media show visitors trying to escape the flames at Mountain B Pub with just one open door. People with burning clothes flee into the street and scream, while in the background the whole building is ablaze. The interior of the restaurant was completely destroyed.
According to information from the newspaper “Khaosod”, many guests were trapped in the building because the back exit was locked. In addition, the inside of the pub is said to have been lined with easily combustible foam panels for soundproofing. Eyewitnesses later reported hearing two explosions near the DJ booth.
The bar had only opened a month ago and was particularly popular with young people from the surrounding area.
The tragedy is reminiscent of the fire at the Santika Club nightclub in Bangkok on New Year’s Day 2009 that killed 66 people, Thai media wrote. More than 200 were injured at the time. dpa
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Fosterville South Exploration Ltd. ("Fosterville South") or (the "Company") (TSXV: FSX) (OTCQX: FSXLF) (Germany: 4TU) reports gold assay results from drilling at the Comet-New Trojan prospect at the Lauriston Project, Golden Mountain Project and Providence Project. Gold assays received included 13.4m of 2.08 g/t Gold from 288.1m in diamond drill hole GMDH55 at Golden Mountain and 9m at 1.35 g/t Gold from 58m in reverse circulation hole CRC15 at the Comet prospect (Lauriston Gold Project).
Fosterville South received gold assays from its drill program of the New Trojan and Comet prospects at the Lauriston Project. The drill program at these prospects was designed to test for shallow gold mineralization based upon soil geochemistry and sporadic minor old gold workings.
At the Comet prospect drilling covered a strike length of 300 meters. The results included reverse circulation hole CRC09 that intersected 11m at 0.96 g/t Gold from 41m and reverse circulation hole CRC15 that intersected 9m at 1.35 g/t Gold from 58m. Drill permits are pending for the northern part of this prospect. A significant number of drill holes at the Comet prospect intersected gold mineralization (see Table 1).
At the New Trojan Prospect, which is 2.5 kilometers to the north of the Comet prospect, the drill program consisted of an initial ten reverse circulation holes to test various shallow gold workings and anomalous soil geochemistry. Reverse circulation hole TR05 intersected 11m at 0.79 g/t Gold from 27m and reverse circulation hole TR10 intersected 6m at 0.94 g/t Gold from 27m. Similar to the Comet prospect, a significant portion of the drill holes intersected gold mineralization. A follow up program of an additional four reverse circulation holes was completed to test mineralization at a deeper level and further south for which assays remain pending. Overall, this program has covered a strike length of 700 meters, with the initial access restricted by the hilly terrain and weather conditions.
At the North New Trojan Prospect, which is 1.4 kilometers to the north of the New Trojan Prospect, the drill program consisted of an initial three reverse circulation holes to test 200m of strike length of anomalous soil geochemistry. Reverse circulation hole NNT03 intersected 2m at 2.04 g/t Gold from 60m. Access to the main section of the North New Trojan prospect for further drilling awaits the government drilling Work Plan approval, which also includes the strike interval between here and New Trojan prospect to the south.
At all the prospects, the soil geochemistry and drill results indicate that the gold mineralization has a 'pinch and swell' nature along strike. The cause of this phenomenon is yet to be established but it does suggest that there are individual gold shoots that are structurally controlled within the overall fault zones.
Fosterville South has drilled a total of three diamond drill holes totalling 748.6 meters and fourteen reverse circulation holes totalling 1248 metres at the Comet prospect. At the New Trojan prospect, Fosterville South has drilled a total of fifteen reverse circulation holes totalling 1328 metres. At the North New Trojan prospect three reverse circulation holes totalling 269 meters were drilled. Assays are pending for one hole for the Comet drill program and four holes at the New Trojan drill program.
At the Golden Mountain Project, access has been granted for drilling from the eastern side further down the valley which allows for deeper drilling of the main prospect. The current drill program is designed to test down dip extensions of mineralization from the previous GMDH45 that intersected 55.1m at 3.1g/t from 210m (see news release dated December 18, 2020). Previously unreported drilling from July 2021 includes GMDH53 with a broad zone of low-grade gold mineralization from 354.75 to 409 meters and including 12m of 1.32 g/t Gold from 397m. This drill intersection is north of and deeper than GMDH45. More recently, diamond drill hole GMDH55 intersected 13.4m of 2.08 g/t Gold from 288.1m and diamond drill hole GMDH56 intersected 13m at 1.03 g/t Gold from 221m. Currently, Fosterville South has drilled a total of three diamond drill holes totalling 990.4 meters in this latest program. Assays are being reported for two of the three diamond drill holes with complete assays pending for the third hole. Drilling is ongoing at Golden Mountain to test the potential for high-grade gold mineralization at depth.
A program of deep RC drilling is scheduled for August 2022 targeting the northern part of the main North-South zone as well as the granite contact area to explore for extensions to known gold mineralization.
At the Big Ben mine site, 6 holes were drilled for 522 meters (BBM series), results included reverse circulation hole BBM04 intersected 21m at 0.82 g/t Gold from 23m and BBM05 intersected 15m at 0.73 g/t Gold from 54m. Drilling confirmed a gold mineralized steeply west dipping, weakly quartz veined, pyritic brecciated siltstone-sandstone host rock. Additional shallow reverse circulation drilling will be required to continue to confirm stockwork epizonal gold mineralization which is open in all directions. Further drilling is ongoing at Big Ben mine area. Assays are pending for four additional reverse circulation holes totalling 360m.
Within the Big Ben Prospect Area, Fosterville South carried out 15 reverse circulation holes (BB series) for a total of 1266 meters. The scout drilling program was designed to test for epizonal, and intrusion related gold mineralization associated with various soil geochemical anomalies and small-scale gold workings in the area. Several holes returned elevated gold values over narrow widths.
Permits for further drilling have been received for the Hillsborough prospects located within the Beechworth gold project. Two reverse circulation percussion drill programs will be implemented during August 2022. One program is aimed at follow-up deep drilling of the Homeward Bound prospect where the 2021 drilling of HBDH01 intersected 8.6m of 5.2 g/t gold from 194.6m and HBRC21 intersected 8.0m of 3.8 g/t from 202m (see news releases dated 15/10/2021 and 18/01/2022).
Table 1: Drill Results and Intercepts:
The intercept cut-off grades are shown in the table, and they use a maximum internal waste of 2m. True widths are shown for prospects that have sufficient information otherwise not determined (ND). The assays are not capped. Coordinates are Australian projection MGA94 Zone 55.
All assays were subject to quality control measures appropriate for diamond core and reverse circulation type drilling with duplicates, blanks and commercially available standards with the expected results from the samples submitted. All assays were conducted by Onsite Laboratory Services Ltd (ISO: 9001), located in Bendigo, Victoria, using fire assay techniques with a 50g or 25g charge and AAS or ICP finish. The quality control results are consistent.
Fosterville South began with two, 100% owned, high-grade gold projects called the Lauriston and Golden Mountain Projects, and has since acquired a large area of granted and application tenements containing further epizonal (low-temperature) high-grade gold mineralization called the Providence Project and a large group of recently consolidated license tenement applications called the Walhalla Belt Project, which contain a variety of epizonal and intrusion related style gold mineralization, all in the state of Victoria, Australia. The Fosterville South land package, assembled over a multi-year period, notably includes a 600 sq. km property immediately to the south of and within the same geological framework that hosts Agnico Eagle's Fosterville epizonal gold tenements. Additionally, Fosterville South has gold-focused projects called the Moormbool and Beechworth, which are also located in the state of Victoria, Australia. Moormbool project has epizonal style gold mineralization and Beechworth has mesozonal and intrusion relation gold mineralization.
All of Fosterville South's properties have had historical gold production from hard rock sources despite limited modern exploration and drilling.
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed, verified and approved by Rex Motton, AusIMM (CP), COO and Director of Fosterville South, a qualified person as defined by NI 43-101. Historical records were verified by reviewing annual and quarterly reports from government records by the Qualified Person.
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Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions as of the date of this news release. These statements reflect management's current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations. They are not guarantees of future performance. Fosterville South cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by many material factors, many of which are beyond their respective control. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to Fosterville South's limited operating history, its exploration and development activities on the Lauriston, Golden Mountain, Providence and Beechworth Properties and the need to comply with environmental and governmental regulations. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Fosterville South does not undertake to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.
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Developer Neometro swoops on $9.3m Fitzroy showroom
Developer Neometro has snapped up a Fitzroy showroom, paying more than $9.3 million for a key development site in the heart of Nojo - north of Johnston Street.
The 900 square metre triple-fronted site at 450 Gore Street, on the corner of Leicester Street, fetched a land rate of $10,350 per sq m.
Records show the current vendor, Watermelon, bought the property from the British United Shoe Machinery Company in 1985 for $340,000.
The property, leased to a photographic processing and supplies company Vanbar Imaging on a monthly basis, is in the Fitzroy East and Johnston Street North planning precinct and has mixed use zoning.
Fitzroys agents Chris James and Chris Kombi negotiated the deal.
James said the property attracted interest from buyers who were ready to start work on development plans, as well as landbankers.
There’s plenty going on in the Nojo area. Piccolo has a permit for a $120 million apartment project at 385 Gore Street on the old Australia Post site and right on Johnston Street, the McCoppins site recently sold for $18.5 million and the Streamline Press site is under offer.
Wedged between them at No.159-161, is a showroom on 500 sq m which is on the market for the first time in several decades.
Conquest Estate Agency Luke Conquest is quoting more than $5.8 million.
Meanwhile, on the Brunswick Street strip, south of Johnston, the freehold of the historic Labor in Vain hotel at 197 Brunswick Street is for sale along with its neighbour, occupied by Zetta Florence and Cafe Louis on Moor Street.
The 700 sq m site is going to auction on September 9. Colliers’ agents George Davies, Alexander Leggo, Anthony Kirwan and Alex Browne are handling the listing.
All three buildings are fully leased until 2026 and return a net income of around $259,590.
Martin and King
Some of Armadale’s long past industrial history is up for sale with the listing of 1087-1095 High Street on the corner of Huntingtower Road.
The double-storey building is on a large 1174 sq m site and was once part of the expansive works belonging to carriage-maker and car body manufacturer Martin and King.
The company was one of a handful of Australian manufacturers who built car bodies to fit chassis imported from overseas, including luxury marques Rolls Royce and Bugatti.
Records show the property, long converted into shops, has been owned by the Angelatos Group for 35 years.
JLL agents Jesse Radisich, Nick Peden, Josh Rutman and MingXuan Li are running the campaign with transaction manager O&Co’s Tony O’Callaghan and Patrick O’Callaghan.
Recent deals on the Armadale strip suggest a land rate of more than $11,000 a sq m which would put the potential value at around $13 million.
The building covers 1347 sq m with 867 sq m on the ground floor. It comes with a permit for a five-storey project designed by Fender Katsalidis for ten big apartments and four shops.
“It is one of only five holdings larger than 1000 sq m in this prime retail section of High Street,” Mr Radisich said.
Bubble tea
One of the CBD’s most reliable indicators in the past five years was the bubble tea phenomenon.
Every week, another bubble tea outlet, selling litres of tapioca pearls swimming in condensed milk and tea, would open its doors.
The recent lack of overseas students had deflated the tea market so it is pleasing to report a sub-continental evolution in the tea house, the evocatively named Dropout Chai Wala.
Previously the location for a bubble tea shop, 59 Elizabeth Street was leased to Dropout Chai Wala last November with six months free rent and a discounted $133,993 rent.
After holding it for 20 years, the landlord is selling up via an auction on September 8 handled by Colliers’ Anthony Kirwan. It’s expected to fetch around $2.8 million.
Supa IGA
The Supa IGA in Thomastown has sold for $11.3 million on a sharp 4.15 per cent yield.
A local private family snapped up the 2032 sq m supermarket which has a new 10-year lease to Metcash.
It’s the second strong result for a strata supermarket in as many weeks, following the sale of the Glenferrie Road Woolworths. It is on just 1822 sq m of land.
The deal was part of Stonebridge’s July sales portfolio and handled by Kevin Tong, Rorey James and Justin Dowers. While some were auctioned, others, like the IGA, were sold via expressions of interest.
“Asian buyer demand was very prevalent in this sales campaign with nearly a third of the enquiry coming from this buyer profile. The price point and tenant security is in the sweet spot for a lot of the private Asian clients,” Tong said.
Bottled water
Queensland-based bottled water retailer Nu-Pure Beverages has signed up to a new 9039 sq m logistics facility in Centennial’s Boundary Road Industrial Park.
It is next door to Nu-Pure’s headquarters at 2/391 Boundary Road, where the water bottler is planning to expand its local beverage manufacturing activities.
The deal effectively triples the value of the Truganina property bought by fund manager Centennial three years ago.
One of its funds paid $11 million for 383 Boundary Road, a property which had five new industrial units covering 5521 sq m and 14,5000 sq m of surplus land.
The leasing deal with Nu-Pure Beverages, negotiated by CBRE agent Harry Kalaitzis, revalues the property at $32 million.
Victorian era
A block of Victorian-era shops in St Kilda has sold off-market for $5.56 million to a buyer backed by offshore capital making their debut in the Melbourne market.
Stonebridge agents Sarah Xi, who handled the deal with Nic Hage and Rorey James, said: “St Kilda generally attracts strong interest from Asian investors, notably the younger generation, who are more familiar with the amenity within the area.”
The price reflected a strong yield of around 3.9 per cent and reflected a building rate of $11,809 a sq m and a land rate of $19,113 a sq m.
Ms Xi said more than a third of the agency’s buyers this year have been backed by offshore Asian capital and that activity was expected to increase in the coming months as these buyers are typically less impacted by the cost of debt.
The property, on the corner of Inkerman Street, last changed hands in 2003 for $1.85 million. | https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/developer-neometro-swoops-on-9-3m-fitzroy-showroom-20220804-p5b7c8.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_business | 2022-08-05T14:11:54Z | https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/developer-neometro-swoops-on-9-3m-fitzroy-showroom-20220804-p5b7c8.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_business | true | 9 |
Singer John Legend says his once-close relationship with Kanye West fell apart when the rapper began cozying up to Donald Trump and then mounted his own presidential run. “We aren’t friends as much as we used to be,” Legend said on David Axelrod’s The Axe Files podcast. “I honestly think because we publicly disagreed on his running for office, his supporting Trump. I think it became too much for us to sustain our friendship.” Two years ago, Legend said politics did not cause a rift and the two had just drifted apart. But now he says it was the decisive factor. “He was upset that I didn’t support his run for presidency of the United States of America—for understandable reasons,” Legend said. “I wasn’t alone in that, but, you know, he was not happy about that. And we really haven’t been close since then.”
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More drug-related deaths were recorded in Horsham last year, stark new figures show.
Charities have criticised the Government over a lack of action on drug deaths across England and Wales – which have reached another record high – with experts calling the latest figures an "utter disgrace".
Data from the Office for National Statistics show seven deaths related to drug poisoning were registered in Horsham in 2021, up from four the previous year.
They were among 4,859 drug poisoning deaths registered across England and Wales last year – the ninth consecutive rise and the highest number since records began more than a quarter of a century ago in 1993.
The figures cover drug abuse and dependence, fatal accidents, suicides and complications involving controlled and non-controlled drugs, prescription and over-the-counter medications.
Of the drug deaths recorded nationally last year, 3,060 (63%) were due to misuse, meaning they involved illegal drugs, or were a result of drug abuse or dependence – including four in Horsham.
Around half of the deaths registered nationally in 2021 will have occurred in previous years due to death registration delays, the ONS said.
Niamh Eastwood, executive director of Release, the national centre for drugs expertise, said every drug-related death is avoidable.
“It is an utter disgrace that we are again talking about record breaking drug deaths," she added.
"Drug deaths are a public health emergency across the UK that can and must be adequately addressed. Government inaction is a political choice."
She added that deaths will continue to rise without commitment to "serious policy reforms", such as the decriminalisation of possession and safe supply of all controlled drugs.
The ONS said the overall rising trend over the past decade has been driven primarily by deaths involving opiates, but also those involving other substances such as cocaine.
Just under half of the drug deaths registered across England and Wales last year involved an opiate.
Dr David Bremner, medical director for the substance abuse group at charity Turning Point, called for the Government to continue to invest in “life-saving” health, housing and social care services.
He said: “If these were cancer deaths increasing at this rate, we would expect action at a certain pace that I believe we should expect the same for persons with addiction."
The ONS figures show that the age standardised mortality rate – which accounts for age and population size – stood at 4.4 deaths per 100,000 people in Horsham between 2019 and 2021, below the rate for England, of 7.9.
A UK Government spokesman said its drug strategy will help rebuild drug treatment services and tackle criminal supply chains.
He added: “This will help to prevent nearly 1,000 deaths, deliver over 54,500 new treatment places – a 19% increase on current numbers – and support 24,000 more people into recovery from substance dependency.
“This funding is additional to the annual public health grant spend and builds on the £80 million put into treatment services in 2021 which worked to decrease drug-related deaths by helping services distribute more naloxone, which can help reverse opiate overdoses.” | https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/your-sussex/west-sussex/horsham/more-drug-deaths-recorded-in-horsham-last-year-3794753 | 2022-08-05T14:16:28Z | https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/your-sussex/west-sussex/horsham/more-drug-deaths-recorded-in-horsham-last-year-3794753 | true | 19 |
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‘You can’t turn off death,’ says the chairman of Germany’s cremation consortium, Svend-Joerk Sobolewski. The Russia-Ukraine war has caused numerous global crises, including inflation, supply chain disruption, and food security. However, a new issue has emerged in Germany.
With the threat of Russian gas supply cuts hanging over their heads, Germans are now concerned about what will happen to their dead. Businesses, including crematoriums, are developing contingency plans to deal with rising gas prices and the possibility that it will be unavailable altogether. As tensions between Russia and Europe rise due to Western sanctions, Germany is on high alert for a possible supply cutoff by Russia’s state gas giant Gazprom.
Svend-Joerk Sobolewski told Reuters that if rationing occurs, the industry should be prioritised because most crematoriums require gas to function. Death, he said, cannot be turned off. People in Germany typically prefer to be cremated when they die, which could be a problem if Russia cuts off gas supplies.
According to German undertakers’ association statistics, approximately three-quarters of the approximately one million people who die in Germany each year are cremated. That is a high rate when compared to other European countries, said Stephan Neuser, executive director of Germany’s cremation consortium, in an interview with Reuters.
He claimed that the practise stemmed from the nearly universal practise of cremation in former East Germany and has persisted as a result of relocating families, an ageing population, and a preference for urns over unmaintained graves. Switching from gas to electricity may be an option in the long run, according to Neuser, but it will take time. | https://www.eastcoastdaily.in/2022/08/05/death-cant-be-turned-off-chilling-effects-of-the-russia-ukraine-war-on-germans.html | 2022-08-05T14:21:00Z | https://www.eastcoastdaily.in/2022/08/05/death-cant-be-turned-off-chilling-effects-of-the-russia-ukraine-war-on-germans.html | false | 1 |
CWG 2022: Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula through to the quarter-finals of the women's singles table tennis event
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Defending champion Manika has sailed through to the quarter-finals. She defeated Minhyung Jee. Meanwhile, Shreeja Akula also won her match.
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PLANO, Texas, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Energy (OTCMKTS: UNRG) -- United Energy Corporation today announced 100% acquisition of Integrity Terminals, LLC., adding to UNRG's previous minority ownership stake of 12%. According to Brian Guinn, UNRG CEO, "As a wholly owned subsidiary of UNRG, full ownership and operational control enables UNRG to implement aggressive plans for the project's completion while increasing shareholder value. Profitability. Responsibility. Sustainability. These are the hallmarks of our corporate mission."
UNRG has also acquired the option to purchase a total of 686 acres of land located in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. The land's purchase is subject to due diligence studies and permitting approvals prior to closing on the property.
Integrity Terminals is a planned greenfield facility and sophisticated bulk storage import/export project strategically located in Louisiana's Gulf Coastal area along the Mississippi River. This corridor connects U.S. oil and gas suppliers with domestic and international markets. The world-class and technologically advanced, multi-functional facility will store, blend, and distribute petroleum products, crude oil, biofuel, green energy, and non-petroleum compounds. Phase 1 will focus on rail storage and transport. Phases 2 and 3 will incorporate deep-water and barge access, bulk storage, and more complex rail rack and rail storage systems.
This ambitious project will reduce dependence on foreign sources and interrupted supply chains. Leveraging connectivity to key refineries, pipelines, and the country's network of highways, integrated terminals provide logistical and wholesale oil and gas distribution solutions. The terminal will embrace eco-friendly, LEED® certified building practices, relying heavily on carbon capture and vapor recovery technologies (with the goal of carbon neutrality), contributing to a cleaner, healthier environment.
In conjunction with the acquisition, UNRG also announces it has engaged EXCEL Midstream Solutions, Inc. of Houston, Texas as its strategic design, permitting, and engineering partner. EXCEL provides premier civil, structural, mechanical, fabrication, electrical and instrumentation engineering, construction, and maintenance services. Their dedication to safety, stellar quality, and highly skilled professionals sets them apart in the industry. EXCEL's current roster of exclusive partnerships represents a critical service providing affordable fuels and power along with significant sustainability and carbon reductions. EXCEL has commenced the initial due diligence, engineering, facilities design, and permitting efforts, estimating that construction for Phase 1 can begin as early as Q3/Q4 2023 and Q1/Q2 2024 for Phases 2 and 3.
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NEW YORK – Children's author Angeline Boulley will soon return her many readers to the world of her prize-winning debut novel “Firekeeper's Daughter.”
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers announced Friday that Boulley's “Warrior Girl Unearthed” will come out May 2023. Like its predecessor, "Warrior Girl Unearthed" will be set in an Ojibwe community, focusing on a teenage girl who learns of a plot to make money off the theft of Indigenous graves. Holt calls the book “a complex and compelling mystery, effortlessly exploring themes of identity, family, and reclamation in a Native community.”
Boulley's book will be illustrated by Michaela Goade, whose drawings for “We Are Water Protectors” brought her a Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustration of a children's book.
Boulley's bestselling first book, also featuring a young protagonist, received numerous awards, was selected for Reese Witherspoon's book club and is being adapted by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company for Netflix.
“I revel in telling stories about Ojibwe teenagers — strong in their culture and language — who love their communities,” Boulley said in a statement. “Young people protecting and caring for their elders and ancestors are an inspiration to me and, I hope, to readers everywhere.” | https://www.clickondetroit.com/entertainment/2022/08/05/boulleys-warrior-girl-unearthed-to-come-out-in-may-2023/ | 2022-08-05T14:24:14Z | https://www.clickondetroit.com/entertainment/2022/08/05/boulleys-warrior-girl-unearthed-to-come-out-in-may-2023/ | true | 31 |
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Actually, those who would have to refute the sphericity of the Earth are the flat earthers because the current evidence is that the Earth is round. Humans have already explored and measured the planet in a thousand ways, there are daily plane flights between all points on the map and the distances are well known. There are about 5,000 satellites that orbit the Earth and take daily photos showing that it is round, but many flat earthers claim that all these photos are fake. In other words, this discussion ceases to be a scientific question if there is no confidence in the evidence proposed by others. In my opinion, it is as if we all have an orange in front of us and the flat earthers say that what you see is not credible and continue to affirm that the orange is actually flat.
The Earth has been known to be spherical for more than 2,000 years, long before the satellites and the first circumnavigation of the world. There is much mathematical evidence that the Greeks calculated with their knowledge of geometry and navigation. However, to answer your question I have looked for simple arguments, easily verifiable in daily life and that would not fit on a flat Earth. There are many, but I will tell you five:
First: we all know that the higher we go, the further we can see. If the Earth were flat, this would not be the case. On a flat Earth you would have to see to the end of the Earth in any place without relief, like the sea, for example. From Galicia you should see America with a sufficiently powerful telescope, but it is not possible due to the curvature of the Earth’s surface. As this has been known since ancient times, the lighthouses are placed on top of a tower so that they are visible from a greater distance. And vice versa, if you are in a port and you see a ship arrive, first you see the highest part of the ship appear, the mast; then the sails and finally the hull.
Second: the times of sunrise and sunset are different in every part of the world. If you think about it, this would not be the case on a flat Earth either. Moreover, and in relation to the previous point, the time at which the sun sets in each place also depends on the height from which you are looking at the horizon. Muslims have studied this very well. Tables with sunset times are available online for almost every place in the world to know exactly when you can break your fast during Ramadan. If you look for those tables for Dubai, they warn you at the beginning that in the Burj Khalifa building, which is 828 meters high and is the tallest in the world, the sun sets three minutes later on the highest floor than on the lowest floor. short. This would not happen on a flat planet either.
Third: the water from the sump. On a flat, non-rotating Earth the water should fall into the sink directly towards the center, everywhere equally, but it doesn’t. When you empty a sink (better if it is a large round pool) a whirlpool is formed by the Coriolis effect that can only be explained by the rotation of the Earth. Flat earthers could say that a flat earth could also rotate on its axis and that this could generate a whirlpool like the one we see. The problem is that the eddies of the pools rotate in the opposite direction in one hemisphere and the other (also the storms and anticyclones). For that, on a flat Earth we would need two opposing rotating poles that would each affect half of the Earth.
Fourth: the movement of the night sky. This argument is similar to the previous one. In the northern hemisphere the entire night sky revolves around the Polaris in the counterclockwise direction while in the southern hemisphere everything revolves around the Southern Cross in the opposite direction. For that to be the case on a flat Earth you would have to have two celestial spheres, one for each hemisphere, rotating in opposite directions.
Fifth: the duration of long trips is different if you travel east or west. This fact has no explanation on a flat Earth. I am going to give two very different examples, but both have to do with a spherical Earth that rotates on itself. A fairly everyday example is that the flight from Madrid to New York is longer than the one from New York to Madrid, and this is because the return flight is helped by the jet stream that travels eastward and has its origin in the Earth’s rotation. The other argument, somewhat further away but very curious, is the paradox of the circumnavigator. This paradox is that if you go around the world it does not take the same time if you go west than if you go east. In this case, no matter how long it takes you to go all the way around, if you travel east you win a day, like Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s novel, while if you travel west you lose it, like Elcano and his crew at the end of the first circumnavigation. This paradox is impossible to explain on a flat Earth where the sun rises at the same time for everyone and everyone shares the same calendar date.
Maria Belen Munoz Garcia She is a doctor in Geology, professor and researcher at the Faculty of Geological Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid.
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British Columbia Premier John Horgan suggested Wednesday the approach of a Victoria couple who placed a newspaper ad to find a family doctor could be one of his next steps to pressure the federal government to increase health funding.
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, Horgan said at a news conference.
“Maybe, I’ll take out an ad in the paper, I don’t know,” said the premier. “I’ve been pretty candid with the federal government about this, as have my colleagues. Again, this isn’t a question of partisanship. It’s not a question of a region. It’s the whole country.”
But Janet Mort said 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 response.
“It was tongue-in-cheek,” she said in an interview. “It just made me furious to hear the premier talk about it. We had to revert to exposing ourselves publicly as a family. I’ve tried really hard not to blame the government, but government at all levels is responsible for this.”
Mort said she wrote a letter to Horgan Wednesday asking for a meeting to discuss repairing health care in B.C., with or without federal help.
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 in the coming days with his new family doctor, she said.
“No one in government helped us with it,” said Mort. “We did it ourselves, with compassionate people who responded. I think if we had followed through, I think, about five doctors in Victoria would have taken Michael but we took the first one.”
Mort is an Order of B.C. recipient for her work in public education, and in March she stood between Horgan and Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin for a photo after receiving her medal and plaque.
The Ministry of Health in a statement said it was “grateful this situation has been brought to our attention.”
The statement said the Morts were contacted by health officials about their prescription needs and booking an appointment with a doctor or nurse practitioner if required.
“We know many people in the province are feeling the effects of the capacity challenges our health-care system is facing, and this individual is no different,” said the statement.
About a million people in B.C. don’t have a family doctor.
Horgan said Canada’s premiers lobbied the federal government for increased health funding last month during meetings in Victoria.
“The examples of having to put out an ad to have a prescription filled or other families concerned about being able to access primary care is a real and pressing problem,” he said.
Horgan said he’s confident Prime Minister Justin Trudeau understands the health funding problem.
“I’m hopeful we’ll have some progress before the summer’s done,” said Horgan.
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The topic of cryptocurrency in India has been a spotlight topic for the last couple of years, especially after the lifting of RBI’s banking ban by the Supreme Court in March 2020. That is when the mass adoption started to take shape and people were stirring up the hushed questions to the Indian exchanges and on Google search!
In order to understand the crypto space in India, we will first need to go back in time. On 6th of April, 2018 RBI came up with the circular which prohibited banks or regulated entities to work with crypto businesses. It was not a ban per se it was a banking bank where banks were prohibited to work with crypto exchanges, but people could still buy and sell. But the nature of the industry is such that you cannot do transactions without the banks in place. On the 15th of August, 2018 CoinDCX launched a new product called DCX Insta where two people could directly buy and sell with each other in a matter of a minute or so.
Being the pioneer of the crypto industry, CoinDCX has always believed that it is important to educate the mass about the new asset class along with providing them seamless investing and trading experiences. It is of utmost importance to educate the mass about the new asset class along with providing them seamless investing and trading experiences. Adhering to that, CoinDCX has structured its policies and its products with industry best practices while keeping in mind the various possibilities and huddles that the crypto industry might face.
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Mall of America is expected to reopen Friday as police continue to search for an individual who fired gunshots inside the suburban Minneapolis shopping complex.
Bloomington police say no one was struck by the gunfire Thursday afternoon. Officials temporarily locked down the mall, forcing some shoppers to shelter in place while others fled.
Police Chief Booker T. Hodges said two groups got into an altercation inside a Nike store, one group left, but someone in that group decided to fire three rounds into the store with people around.
Video posted to social media showed what appeared to be a man shouting as he walked near the Nike store then opening fire.
Other video posted online showed shoppers fleeing from the amusement park inside the mall’s ground level, holding their children’s hands and clutching their bags. A pair of police officers, including one with a rifle, could be seen moving through the mall, and people walking quickly away from its large atrium.
Mall spokesman Dan Jasper said the mall will have additional security and law enforcement when it reopens.
The mall, which opened in 1992, is the largest in the U.S. and is a tourist destination and community gathering spot. It bans guns on the premises, but does not have metal detectors upon entry.
It was also the scene of a shooting on New Year’s Eve, when two people were wounded during an apparent altercation. | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Mall-of-America-to-reopen-following-shooting-and-17354026.php | 2022-08-05T14:31:46Z | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Mall-of-America-to-reopen-following-shooting-and-17354026.php | false | 45 |
Coding Franchise Partners with Tech-Forward Brands to Offer Free Online Games, Activities
HOUSTON, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This back to school season, explore a world where kids write the code at Code Ninjas, the world's largest and fastest-growing coding franchise. The brand is announcing new partnerships in its 2022 back to school event, collaborating with Microsoft MakeCode™, Makey Makey™ and HUE Camera™ to offer free online activities to help kids with their end-of-summer blues, all while putting the fun back in back to school.
The back to school event will take kids on a journey to the skies, land, sea and underground with games such as the Galaxy Gazer, Treasure Tunnel and Shark Attack, as well as unique activities with downloadable instructions to create your own animated movies with household items on subjects such as the cycle of the seasons.
"Kids are blazing the trail, and we at Code Ninjas, along with our collaborators, wanted to create a various set of ways for kids to engage during this time of year," says Grant Smith, Code Ninjas VP of Education. "There's a lot of excitement, nerves and anxiety during back to school season. Offering a fun, engaging activity that's also beneficial to learning development to distract kids, potentially calm those nerves and help them ease back into their school routines is what this initiative is all about."
The initiative focuses on encouraging kids to tap into their creative sides to write their own code, honoring their individual outlooks on coding and engaging in the programs that interest them. At Code Ninjas, coding doesn't necessarily always mean codes and programming, it's about whatever coding means to you.
"There is so much to explore and uncover at Code Ninjas," added Sarah Bannon, Curriculum Developer at Code Ninjas. "We are excited to showcase the activities Code Ninjas regularly offers and collaborating with various well-respected global brands allowed us to make this event much more dynamic and unique. Our new games and activities will take kids where excitement and discovery meet."
The free activities are open to the public for everyone to enjoy. They are accessible from now until the end of September. To view this back to school offering, visit codeninjas.com/backtoschool.
Everything about Code Ninjas is built around fun, which keeps kids coming back. The curriculum is self-paced, but not self-taught; kids get immediate help and encouragement from a Code Sensei and fellow ninjas as they advance from white to black belt, on the nine-belt program that makes up Code Ninjas CREATE. Younger kids are able to take part in Code Ninjas JR, and all ages can take part in summer camps where we instill problem solving and critical thinking skills into the leaders of the future. To learn more about opportunities for kids near you, visit www.codeninjas.com
ABOUT CODE NINJAS:
Founded in 2016, Code Ninjas® is the world's largest and fastest-growing coding franchise, with hundreds of locations across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. At Code Ninjas, kids learn to code while building their own video games. They gain problem solving, critical thinking, and STEM skills in a fun, safe, and inspiring environment. Kids have fun, parents see results.®
For more information, visit www.codeninjas.com.
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Nadal pulls out of Montreal ahead of US Open
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Paris (AFP) – World number three Rafael Nadal, who has not played since suffering an abdominal tear at Wimbledon last month, has withdrawn from next week's ATP event in Montreal, he said on Twitter on Friday.
The announcement marks a major blow to the Spaniard's hopes of being fully fit for the US Open which begins in New York at the end of the month.
"We have decided not to travel to Montreal and continue with the training sessions without forcing ourselves," Nadal tweeted in Spanish.
"I sincerely thank the tournament director, Eugene, and his entire team for the understanding and support they have always shown me, and today was no exception."
The 36-year-old has not played since pulling out of his Wimbledon semi-final with Nick Kyrgios after failing to recover from an abdominal tear he suffered in the quarters.
It was the latest in a lengthy series of injuries for Nadal who, in the absence of Novak Djokovic at Flushing Meadows, will be looking to add to his record 22 Grand Slam titles
Before his latest setback, he had already missed 11 Grand Slam events stretching back to his debut in 2003.
He has also pulled out during a Slam five times with injuries.
Nadal won the first two majors of the year, the Australian and French Opens, and was on course to challenge to be the first man to win the Grand Slam -- all four majors in one year -- since Rod Laver in 1969.
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Lightning strike near White House leaves 2 dead, 2 injured
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people who were critically injured in a lightning strike outside the White House have died, police said Friday. Two others remained hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, of Janesville, Wisconsin, died of their injuries after the lightning strike in Lafayette Park, located directly outside the White House complex, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The two other people, a man and a woman, were in critical condition, the police department said. Their identities were not immediately released.
Authorities did not reveal how the people were injured, other than to say they were critically hurt in the lightning strike.
Officers with the Secret Service and the U.S. Park Police witnessed the lightning strike Thursday night and ran over to render first aid, officials said.
Emergency medical crews were called to the scene just before 7 p.m. and had transported all of the victims to the hospital with “critical, life-threatening injures,” fire department spokesman Vito Maggiolo said.
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NEW YORK – Children's author Angeline Boulley will soon return her many readers to the world of her prize-winning debut novel “Firekeeper's Daughter.”
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers announced Friday that Boulley's “Warrior Girl Unearthed” will come out May 2023. Like its predecessor, "Warrior Girl Unearthed" will be set in an Ojibwe community, focusing on a teenage girl who learns of a plot to make money off the theft of Indigenous graves. Holt calls the book “a complex and compelling mystery, effortlessly exploring themes of identity, family, and reclamation in a Native community.”
Boulley's book will be illustrated by Michaela Goade, whose drawings for “We Are Water Protectors” brought her a Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustration of a children's book.
Boulley's bestselling first book, also featuring a young protagonist, received numerous awards, was selected for Reese Witherspoon's book club and is being adapted by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company for Netflix.
“I revel in telling stories about Ojibwe teenagers — strong in their culture and language — who love their communities,” Boulley said in a statement. “Young people protecting and caring for their elders and ancestors are an inspiration to me and, I hope, to readers everywhere.” | https://www.ksat.com/entertainment/2022/08/05/boulleys-warrior-girl-unearthed-to-come-out-in-may-2023/ | 2022-08-05T14:37:21Z | https://www.ksat.com/entertainment/2022/08/05/boulleys-warrior-girl-unearthed-to-come-out-in-may-2023/ | true | 31 |
Shares of Loncor Gold Inc. (TSE:LN – Get Rating) traded down 2.9% on Wednesday . The company traded as low as C$0.33 and last traded at C$0.33. 7,500 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 84% from the average session volume of 45,468 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$0.34.
Loncor Gold Stock Up 1.5 %
The stock has a fifty day moving average of C$0.41 and a 200 day moving average of C$0.50. The firm has a market capitalization of C$49.44 million and a P/E ratio of -9.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a current ratio of 0.81 and a quick ratio of 0.63.
Loncor Gold (TSE:LN – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, May 13th. The company reported C($0.01) EPS for the quarter.
About Loncor Gold
Loncor Gold Inc, a gold exploration company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of precious metal projects in the Ngayu greenstone belt in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It also explores for platinum deposits. The company holds 84.68% interest in the Adumbi project, which consists of 6 mining leases covering an area of 361 square kilometers located within the Archaean Ngayu Greenstone Belt in the Ituri and Haut Uele provinces in northeastern Congo.
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In the November midterms, Republicans are widely expected to win control of the House – possibly by a landslide. However, the Senate is much more highly contested, and a G.O.P. victory is by no means a guarantee.
Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight gives Democrats a 57% chance of keeping control of the Senate, but gives the G.O.P. an 80% chance of winning the House.
This discrepancy is due to the weakness of swing-state Republican Senate candidates, whose extreme positions, lack of experience, or personal vulnerabilities make them far more susceptible to defeat in a statewide race than a more mainstream and experienced Republican would be.
That being said, if 2022 ends up being a red-wave election like 1994 or 2010 – as most predict it will be – the weakness of individual G.O.P. candidates will be less important than the overall pro-Republican tide.
In Arizona, Trump-backed venture capitalist Blake Masters just won the Republican nomination for Senate, and will face incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, who FiveThirtyEight gives a 67% chance of winning in their forecast. Kelly also leads in all public polls conducted this summer by at least 5-points.
As one of the most extreme Republican swing-state Senate candidates, Masters champions far-right conspiracy theories, including Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ about the 2020 election and the anti-immigrant Great Replacement Theory. He is also well outside the mainstream on key issues, as he is anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, and anti-American aid to Ukraine.
In Georgia, Former NFL star Herschel Walker, Trump’s handpicked nominee, is a highly problematic general election candidate. He openly echoes conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election, Covid-19, and evolution, and has been embattled in a number of personal scandals – including the discovery of three children and lying about working in law enforcement.
As a result, even though Georgia is one of the redder swing-states, both FiveThirtyEight and The Cook Political Report rate Walker’s race against incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock as a toss-up – yet, comparatively, FiveThirtyEight gives Republican Brain Kemp an 85 percent chance of winning his statewide race in Georgia.
In addition, though the Senate race in Ohio is likely to break for Trump-endorsed Republican J.D. Vance, recent polling shows Vance’s opponent, Congressman Tim Ryan, trailing by just three points, or in some polls, slightly leading.
The closeness of this statewide race – in a state that Donald Trump won by 8-points in 2016 and 2020 – is indicative of Vance’s weaknesses as a candidate.
Not only is Vance inexperienced, but he has also made a number of extreme remarks. He has called law enforcement “corrupt,” said that rape was “inconvenient,” and suggested that abortion is as morally reprehensible as slavery. Recently, he has come under fire for suggesting that “violent” marriages should not end in divorce.
To be sure, Ryan is also a comparatively strong candidate – as he is running to the center of his party on issues like the economy and crime, and is making explicit appeals to Republicans by running ads on Fox News.
In the race for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat, which is being vacated by Republican Senator Pat Toomey, the progressive Democrat John Fetterman leads television doctor Mehmet Oz by approximately 10-points, and FiveThirtyEight’s forecast Fetterman a 57% chance of winning.
As a progressive running in a swing-state during a favorable year for Republicans, Fetterman’s relative strength in the race is noteworthy. However, Oz endured a bruising primary election – during which opponent David McCormick attacked him for his inexperience and lack of ties to Pennsylvania.
Lastly, in Nevada, Republican Adam Laxalt, former state Attorney General, is running against Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto. Notwithstanding Laxalt’s embrace of Trump’s 2020 election lies, he is one of the more mainstream candidates mentioned here, and is an experienced politician.
The result of this toss-up Senate race – between an establishment Democratic incumbent and an experienced Republican – will arguably be more indicative of Democrats’ overall midterm performance than the races in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona, and to a lesser extent, in Ohio.
While Democrats are by no means a shoe-in to win any of these races, or control of the Senate, the G.O.P.’s failure to nominate more moderate candidates in these races is giving Democrats a reasonable chance of retaining their slim Senate majority.
At the same time, the fact that these Senate races are rated as toss-ups – even though Republicans are running fringe candidates – is indicative of how favorable the national political climate is for the G.O.P.
Clearly, Republicans still have an overall advantage this year: President Biden’s approval rating just hit a record-low, and voters widely trust Republicans over Democrats to handle the key issues facing the country – including inflation, border security, and crime. Historical trends also work in the G.O.P.’s favor, as the president’s party has lost House seats in every midterm election – except for two – since 1946, and has only gained Senate seats in four.
If Democratic candidates in these Senate races, and national Democrats as a whole, aren’t able to sell themselves as a reasonable alternative to extreme Republicans – and just as importantly, aren’t able to create distance from the failures of the Biden Administration – Republicans could very-well win back the Senate and retain control for years to come.
Douglas Schoen is a longtime Democratic political consultant. | https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2022/08/05/democrats-could-hold-the-senate-thanks-to-extreme-gop-candidates/ | 2022-08-05T14:38:38Z | https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2022/08/05/democrats-could-hold-the-senate-thanks-to-extreme-gop-candidates/ | false | 12 |
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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla shareholders on Thursday approved a three-for-one stock split, a move that will make the company’s shares more accessible to smaller investors.
Preliminary results of the shareholder vote were announced at the electric car and solar panel maker’s annual meeting at its new factory in Austin, Texas.
CEO Elon Musk also discussed at the meeting a major factory expansion in the future as the company moves toward a goal of making 20 million vehicles per year. It now produces around 1.5 million per year.
Musk said Tesla might announce another factory site this year, and it expects to have about a dozen in the future. Currently the company has assembly plants in Fremont, California; Austin; Berlin and Shanghai. Musk joked that many had suggested Canada as a site for the next new plant.
The company made its 3 millionth vehicle in the past few weeks, Musk said.
Tesla stock closed Thursday at $925.90, down 12.4% so far this year, but it almost completed a split itself, tumbling more than 40% by May after Musk made a $44 billion bid to buy Twitter in April.
Investors were worried that Musk would be distracted from Tesla if he purchased the social media platform.
But Musk backed out of the deal in July and Twitter sued him to force him to make the purchase. A trial is scheduled for October in Delaware Chancery Court. Tesla stock began to recover in July, boosted by better-than-expected second-quarter earnings.
Tesla announced plans for the split in late March when shares were trading over $1,000. It will not affect Tesla’s overall market value or its status as the world’s most valuable automaker.
Share splits are used by companies when their stock price gets too high for retail investors to buy individual shares, or when a company wants more shares to exist in the marketplace to make the stock more liquid to trade.
Tesla has said it was trying to accomplish both of these goals: giving its employees greater quantities of shares as well as making the stock more accessible to retail investors.
Musk sold some shares of Tesla for the Twitter purchase and had planned on using other shares as collateral.
Shareholders also re-elected Ira Ehrenpreis and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to the Tesla board. | https://www.wtnh.com/news/business/ap-business/tesla-investors-approve-stock-split-musk-to-add-factories/ | 2022-08-05T14:40:26Z | https://www.wtnh.com/news/business/ap-business/tesla-investors-approve-stock-split-musk-to-add-factories/ | false | 29 |
The Supreme Court on Friday protected a TV news channel editor and restrained authorities in various states from taking any coercive actions against him in connection with multiple FIRs for playing a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the telecast of a programme on July 1.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and JB Pardiwala issued notice to Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh governments and said that no action be taken concerning the FIRs lodged in Raipur and at Sikar on the same cause of action.
The bench said that the investigation concerning the first FIR lodged against TV news editor Rajnish Ahuja at Jaipur will continue.
Senior advocate Siddharth Dave, appearing for Ahuja, said he is ready to participate in the investigation launched at Jaipur but there are multiple FIRs lodged against him over the same telecast and he cannot be harassed by being summoned at different places simultaneously.
The bench noted that the channel had withdrawn the telecast on the very next day and had tendered an apology over the issue.
It referred to the order passed by the top court with respect to the news anchor of the show.
On July 8, the top court granted relief to TV news anchor Rohit Ranjan and restrained various state authorities from taking coercive steps against him to take him in custody in connection with multiple FIRs for playing a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the telecast of a programme on July 1.
The interim protection to the news anchor had come from a vacation bench which also issued notices to the Centre and states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh seeking their responses on Ranjan's plea for quashing of complaints or FIRs concerning the telecast.
The news anchor later apologised and the news programme was withdrawn.
Ranjan had told the top court that as of now, three FIRs have been registered against him at Jaipur, Raipur, and Noida against the same broadcast.
He had said an unintentional error was committed in the programme and an apology has been tendered.
In his petition, the news anchor has sought relief including the quashing of FIRs or complaints or their clubbing and transfer to one place.
Ranjan has also sought a direction that no coercive action be taken against him for the withdrawn programme for which he and the channel have apologised.
The petition has sought security for the journalist, his family members, and his colleagues associated with the programme in question.
"The present writ petition is being filed under Article 32 of the Constitution praying for the quashing /clubbing of almost identical criminal complaints. FIRs were filed across the country against the petitioner. The petitioner prays for the stay of coercive action during the pendency of the present petition," the plea by the news anchor has said.
It has said Ranjan "anchored /hosted a programme on Zee News on July 1, 2022. The news show inadvertently misattributed certain quotes and the error was immediately rectified. An unconditional apology was tendered by the petitioner and Zee News and the news show was withdrawn even prior to the registration or filing of any FIR and complaint".
However, subsequently, multiple FIRs and complaints have been filed against the petitioner under various provisions of law for the same incident, it said.
Referring to various judgments, the plea said, "There can be no second FIR and consequently there can be no fresh investigation in respect of the same cognisable offence or incident giving rise to one or more cognizable offences."
"Since it is impossible for the petitioner to approach various courts/police stations all over the country in respect of such FIRs/complaints, the present writ petition is being filed under Article 32 against the violation of the fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 19 (1) (a) (freedom of speech and expression) and Article 21 (right to life and liberty) of the Constitution," it has said.
Furthermore, the issue was covered under the provisions of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 and the Programming Rules against the broadcaster, it said.
"Therefore, when there is special law dealing with the issues in question, there was no question to invoke the criminal statute or registration of FIRs," the plea said. | https://www.rediff.com/news/report/tv-journalist-gets-sc-protection-in-rahul-gandhi-video-row/20220805.htm | 2022-08-05T14:42:13Z | https://www.rediff.com/news/report/tv-journalist-gets-sc-protection-in-rahul-gandhi-video-row/20220805.htm | true | 6 |
Mall of America to reopen following shooting and lockdown
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Mall of America is expected to reopen Friday as police continue to search for an individual who fired gunshots inside the suburban Minneapolis shopping complex.
Bloomington police say no one was struck by the gunfire Thursday afternoon. Officials temporarily locked down the mall, forcing some shoppers to shelter in place while others fled.
Police Chief Booker T. Hodges said two groups got into an altercation inside a Nike store, one group left, but someone in that group decided to fire three rounds into the store with people around.
Video posted to social media showed what appeared to be a man shouting as he walked near the Nike store then opening fire.
Other video posted online showed shoppers fleeing from the amusement park inside the mall’s ground level, holding their children’s hands and clutching their bags. A pair of police officers, including one with a rifle, could be seen moving through the mall, and people walking quickly away from its large atrium.
Mall spokesman Dan Jasper said the mall will have additional security and law enforcement when it reopens.
The mall, which opened in 1992, is the largest in the U.S. and is a tourist destination and community gathering spot. It bans guns on the premises but does not have metal detectors upon entry.
It was also the scene of a shooting on New Year’s Eve when two people were wounded during an apparent altercation.
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A popular destination for hikers in the Shuswap was destroyed by fire.
Vernon resident Jason Reedyk spent Tuesday, Aug. 2, hiking the Eagle Pass Lookout trail east of Sicamous. Reedyk said he’d never seen the historic forestry lookout.
When he and the people he was with arrived at the lookout, they found the original foundation still standing but the wooden addition had been destroyed by fire. Reedyk said part of the structure was still on fire, and they were able to use a bucket at the site to gather some water to put it out.
“I wonder if it was too hot of a stove, or lightning that hit it?” asked Reedyk, uncertain of what caused the fire.
Reedyk said others were heading up to the lookout later in the day to spend the night, and it is a popular destination for hikers.
The historic lookout, originally built in 1922, was the subject of controversy after a new structure was built on its foundation by volunteers in 2016.
The Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRORD) said the work was done without authorization and, in 2021, it was decided the lookout would be, according to an email from Rec Sites and Trails BC, “restored by a heritage professional under contract… to the state it was in immediately previous to the unauthorized improvements in 2016.”
Read more: ‘Beyond belief’: Decision made to remove unauthorized work at historic Shuswap fire lookout
Read more: Options presented for future of former Eagle Pass fire lookout in Shuswap
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A December 2017 Heritage Conservation Impact Statement on the site noted numerous ways in which the rehabilitated (not restored) structure failed to reflect heritage values, along with structural concerns. Among them, the report noted a flat roof may cause “excessive pressure on the historic foundation, as additional weight of the snow load may be more than acceptable for the building’s base.” It also commented on the mortar used, and how “changing the mortar and building method of the stone foundation impacts the integrity of workmanship used to build the foundation from materials found on-location.”
In an August 2021 interview, Sicamous Coun. Gord Bushell, one of several local politicians who worked to preserve work done on the structure, said there was nothing wrong with the structure, although it sustained some damage after volunteers working on it were issued a stop-work order.
“The structure itself was not finished and one of the things they should have done was built some weather shutters to stop the snow pressure from pushing in on the window, because it’s completely snowed in, you can’t use it in the winter time,” said Bushell. “They wouldn’t let us finish it or even work on it, so it’s in need of repair.”
Reedyk said he was satisfied with the “gorgeous views” offered at the lookout, but upset by what remained of the structure.
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Which morning sickness remedies are best?
For many families, pregnancy is a beautiful experience and the start of something new. However, morning sickness can leave you feeling exhausted, irritable and generally ill. And since it can strike at any time during the first trimester, it can add unneeded stress to your life. Fortunately, there are several effective at-home morning sickness remedies you can try to improve your symptoms.
What is morning sickness?
According to Mayo Clinic, morning sickness most often occurs within 9 weeks of conception and continues throughout the first trimester of pregnancy. Despite the name, it can happen at any time, not just in the morning. Symptoms include nausea and vomiting, both of which start to diminish sometime during the second trimester.
Morning sickness triggers
Hormonal changes are thought to be the main cause of morning sickness, but other triggers include:
- Eating spicy, fatty, greasy or sugary foods
- Alcohol or dairy
- Sudden strong smells
- Things that trigger the gag reflex, brushing teeth right after eating
Severe morning sickness symptoms
While nausea and vomiting are normal symptoms of morning sickness, it’s advised to consult a doctor if you experience any of the following:
- Severe nausea or vomiting
- Abdominal pain
- High fever
- Sudden weight loss
- Decreased or painful urination
Ways to help with morning sickness at home
Watch your diet
It’s important to maintain a healthy, balanced diet, especially while pregnant. With that in mind, certain foods can help reduce or prevent the symptoms of morning sickness, such as:
- Starchy foods such as crackers, nuts, potatoes, rice and bread
- Protein-rich foods such as yogurt, seeds or cottage cheese
- Sour candies that are high in citric acid you can suck on to ease nausea and help with digestion
- Ginger to reduce the frequency of nausea
- Other bland foods such as applesauce, bananas, oatmeal, brothy soups or oatmeal
After eating, try to stay upright for a while. This aids in digestion and can help prevent queasiness.
Stay hydrated
Drinking too much water could add to your nausea, but so can being dehydrated. Try to drink enough to stay hydrated without filling full. Beverages that could help include:
- Water with freshly squeezed lemon
- Fruit-infused water
- Ginger ale or lemon-lime soda
- Herbal or fruity tea
Take vitamins and supplements
There are several over-the-counter remedies and supplements that can help ease the symptoms of morning sickness, especially nausea. These include:
- Ginger lozenges
- Vitamin B6
- Doxylamine sleep aids
There are also prescription anti-nausea medications, such as Zofran, which can help if symptoms persist. Either way, consult a doctor before adding vitamins or supplements to your diet, especially if you’re experiencing other complications with pregnancy.
Use essential oils and other scents
Overpowering smells can contribute to nausea, but certain scents can actually combat it. This includes:
- Peppermint essential oil
- Lavender essential oil
- Citrus (orange, lemon, lime)
- Chamomile
- Ginger
Avoid any scents that do not appeal to you or that make you feel queasy.
Use an acupressure wristband
An acupressure or motion-sickness wristband can reduce the feeling of nausea and help prevent vomiting. These bands work by applying a small amount of pressure to the P6 pressure point, the nei guan point, on your wrist. Alternatively, consider acupuncture by a trained professional. This remedy is temporary, but it could improve your symptoms.
10 best morning sickness remedies
Preggie Anti-Nausea Wristbands
This set of four acupressure wristbands is clinically-tested to provide relief from nausea without the use of drugs. The bands are reusable, comfortable and have a snug fit that applies the right amount of pressure to provide temporary relief.
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EmeTerm Relieve Nausea Electrode Stimulator Wristband
This rechargeable wristband uses electrical stimulation to help prevent nausea and vomiting caused by anything from morning sickness to car rides. It has five levels of intensity and is easy to adjust based on your symptoms. It’s also water-resistant and durable, making it ideal for daily use.
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UpNature Peppermint Essential Oil Roll On
This roll-on stick of diluted peppermint essential oil can help soothe nausea, a must for those experiencing morning sickness. It’s easy to use and effective when applied to key areas, such as the back of the neck or behind the ears. Even the aroma can help ease symptoms.
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MegaFood Honey Lemon Ginger Morning Sickness Nausea Relief
These 30 individually-wrapped soft chews contain ginger and vitamin B6 to help ease nausea. They’re gentle on upset stomachs, vegetarian, dairy-free and gluten-free. They also have a pleasant honey, lemon and ginger flavor.
Sea-Band Anti-Nausea Ginger Gum For Motion And Morning Sickness
This 24-pack of ginger gum can alleviate nausea caused by morning sickness and motion sickness. It’s a natural herbal remedy that doesn’t cause side effects, making it safe for the expectant mother and baby. It also starts working immediately.
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The tablets each contain 25 milligrams of vitamin B6 and can be taken once daily with a meal to help combat nausea and aid in digestive processes. They are free from gluten, dairy and wheat.
Lavender Essential Oil Personal Aromatherapy Nasal Inhaler
This portable stick uses pure, organic lavender essential oil to soothe nausea and morning sickness. It’s gentle and safe to inhale for most people and can start working immediately for temporary relief.
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Amazon Basic Care Doxylamine Succinate Tablets
These 25-milligram doxylamine sleep aid tablets can help ease nausea and aid in falling into a restful sleep. They are safe and effective and can be used in conjunction with vitamin B6.
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FGO Organic Chamomile Tea Bags
A cup of organic chamomile tea can help alleviate the common symptoms of morning sickness and aid in digestion. It can also help improve the quality of sleep.
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Traditional Medicinals Organic Morning Ease Anti-Nausea Lozenges
These lemon ginger lozenges are made to help soothe morning sickness. They contain organic, non-GMO certified ingredients and are gentle on upset stomachs.
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Neurosurgeon Grigory Evzikov: most often the back hurts due to muscle tension
Most often, back pain is associated with age-related wear of the intervertebral discs and joints, said neurosurgeon Grigory Evzikov. Interview with a specialist published in the official group of the First Moscow State Medical University. I. M. Sechenov in the social network “VKontakte”.
According to Evzikov, dystrophic changes discs between the vertebrae begin by the end of the third decade of life and are explained by high axial load on the spine when walking upright.
“Two vertebral bodies, connected by a disc, cease to absorb and move normally in response to the load that is presented to a person during movement,” the neurosurgeon explained. “Naturally, the muscles are included in this process in order to additionally stabilize this segment.” This leads to abnormal muscle tension, which is the most common cause of back pain that people seek medical attention for.
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Evzikov added that the back can also hurt due to deforming osteoarthritis – age-related deformation of the joints between the vertebrae. It occurs with wear of the articular surfaces, thinning of the cartilage of the spine and other degenerative changes in the joint.
Back pain can also be caused by the intervertebral disc itself. “There are no nerve endings in it at all, but on the periphery, on the outermost layers of the disc, they are present, and when the disc begins to crack with age, of course, they are involved in the process and can give the so-called disc pain,” said the neurosurgeon.
With further destruction of the intervertebral disc, an intervertebral hernia is possible, in which the spinal roots are compressed. Such a cause of back pain, according to Evzikov, also occurs, but more rarely.
Back pain is the most common reason for visiting a doctor, excluding colds. And, fortunately, only two to three percent of these patients turn to a neurosurgeon.
According to the neurosurgeon, age-related changes in the spine are inevitable, but they can be slowed down. To do this, avoid excess weight, constant axial load and immobility. In addition, it is necessary to develop and maintain the muscular corset – the muscles responsible for the stable position of the spine, pelvis and hips. Otherwise, it will be almost impossible to get rid of back pain. “You can be given a pill, but it will not cancel a degenerative disease,” Evzikov explained.
Earlier, neurologist Pavel Evdokimenko called the main mistake of people with back pain. He noted that in case of pain, the back cannot be warmed and massaged so that the inflammation does not worsen.
#neurosurgeon #called #main #pain | https://pledgetimes.com/the-neurosurgeon-called-the-main-causes-of-back-pain/ | 2022-08-05T14:45:37Z | https://pledgetimes.com/the-neurosurgeon-called-the-main-causes-of-back-pain/ | true | 1 |
TS PECET 2022: Last date to register extended till August 8
The TS PECT 2022 registration process without late fee is extended till August 8. Candidates who have not applied yet can do the same at the official website of TS PECT 2022 at pecet.tsche.ac.in.
Telangana State Physical Education Common Entrance Test (TS PECET - 2022) will be conducted by Mahatma Gandhi University for the academic year 2022-2023 for seeking Admission into B.P.Ed.(2 Years) and D.P.Ed. (2 Years) Courses.
“The last date for Submission & Registration of Online Application Form without Late Fee is extended upto 12-08-2022”, reads the official website.
The TS PECET 2022 examination fee is ₹800 for others and ₹400 for SC / ST candidates.
TS PECET 2022: How to apply
Visit the official website at pecet.tsche.ac.in.
On the homepage, pay the application fee and check payment status.
Fill in all the required details.
Your TS PECET application form will be submitted.
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Joe Valley Volleyball Club to host #Jillystrong fundraiser
Joe Valley Volleyball Club is hosting a #Jillystrong fundraiser Aug. 6 at Doyle Community Center.
All proceeds from the day-long event will go to Jillian Romanyk’s fund held at St. Joseph County United Way, said club owner Brian Jordan.
Jillian was a member of Joe Valley Volley Club, Jordan said. She was involved in a car crash on June 17 on U.S. 12 and was airlifted from the scene, with life-threatening injuries. Jillian’s spinal cord was severed, and her left foot was amputated. Among other injuries, she is paralyzed from the waist down.
The event consists of sand and indoor volleyball tournaments. Jordan said sign-up ended Friday and about 20 teams will participate. A cornhole tournament has been postponed to a later date, to be announced.
A silent auction also is part of the fundraiser. Jordan said about 30 items have been donated for that and he’ll continue to accept items the day of the event.
A number of other activities are planned including a 50/50 raffle, inflatables, food and beverages available for purchase, and #Jillystrong t-shirts. At 11 a.m., the group will Facetime with Jillian.
Volleyball tournaments begins at 9 a.m. Event-goers are invited to watch. There is no admission fee, but donation boxes will be on hand. Food for purchase will continue until about 3 p.m. A dunk tank will feature Sturgis Public Schools staff, coaches and parents, and Jordan himself.
“It’s just going to be a fun day for a good cause,” he said.
Jordan thanked his coaches who have helped put together the event: Melissa Gales, Dave Swartz, Zoe Swartz, Tiffany Lewis and Morgan Mauldin.
He also wished to thank everyone who is making the event possible. Pig Headed BBQ will be preparing chicken and pork donated by Village Market of Colon and Central Meat Market, respectively. Catch A Wave Salon will provide meatballs and macaroni salad. He thanked the Doyle Center for the inflatables, Alliance Sheets for chips, pop, napkins, to-go containers and plasticware, and Rouch World for tents, tables and chairs. Sportsarama is providing Jillystrong T-shirts, which also will be available to order the day of the event.
Vaupell has made a $500 donation for the cause and Modern Woodmen is matching funds raised up to $2,500. Jordan is grateful for all silent auction item donors. | https://www.sturgisjournal.com/story/news/2022/08/05/news-jillystrong-fundraiser-joe-valley-volleyball-club-doyle-community-center/10224247002/ | 2022-08-05T14:47:37Z | https://www.sturgisjournal.com/story/news/2022/08/05/news-jillystrong-fundraiser-joe-valley-volleyball-club-doyle-community-center/10224247002/ | true | 2 |
Makar bringing the Stanley Cup to Calgary
The Stanley Cup is coming to Calgary, just not the way Flames fans hoped it would.
Colorado Avalanche defenceman Cale Makar, who grew up in Calgary, announced on social media Wednesday that his day to take the cup around is next Thursday, Aug. 11 and that he intends to take it on a tour of Calgary.
"Everybody gets it (the Stanley Cup) for one day," Makar said to pro golfer Paul Goydos, in a video posted on the Shaw Classic Twitter feed. "Most guys take it to their hometown and stuff."
For Makar, who grew up in Calgary and played for the Brooks Bandits, that means a one-day Cup visit for a city that had high hopes of winning one of its own earlier this year.
Makar played in the Shaw Classic Pro-Am with Goydos, where he explained why hockey players love to play golf in the off-season.
"I feel like the calmness translates to both (sports)," he said. "I feel like a lot of hockey players love golf because there's such a mental aspect to the game.
"Golf's a good segue way (between the off-season and training camp) in the summer," he said.
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— Shaw Charity Classic (@ShawClassic) August 4, 2022Makar completed one of the greatest seasons an NHL defenceman can have, winning the Norris trophy as the league's outstanding defenceman, and then adding the Conn Smythe trophy as the outstanding player of the NHL playoffs while leading the Avs to a Stanley Cup victory over Tampa Bay, prompting comparisons with NHL legend Bobbyy Orr.
The Shaw Charity Classic kicks off Friday mornng at Canyon Meadows Golf Club. | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/makar-bringing-the-stanley-cup-to-calgary-1.18330938 | 2022-08-05T14:51:30Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/makar-bringing-the-stanley-cup-to-calgary-1.18330938 | false | 1 |
Best solar power generators for off-grid living from Jackery, Anker, Bluetti, EcoFlow
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One of the most useful resources we can harness in the world is solar energy.
Developing technology has meant that over the years, we’ve been able to package up generators and power sources into smaller units, making solar generators incredibly useful to the consumer market, especially when it comes to powering and charging your devices when camping or on the move.
In this article, we’ll be looking at a number of different styles of solar generators on the market at the moment, as well as compile a list of things to watch out for to ensure you find the right generator to suit your needs.
What solar generator is right for me?
This largely depends on the kind of activity you’re doing and the kinds of devices you’ll be powering, but the first thing to know is that there are a multitude of different units and generators, of all shapes and sizes, to choose from.
Their versatility however is one of their key strengths - our recommendation would be to choose a generator that has a fair bit of ‘head room’ for your devices, ensuring you’ve got enough surplus power available.
What size solar generator do I need?
Larger devices will be able to power things like fridges, power tools and televisions, and the smaller, more portable options on this list will be able to store enough power to charge devices such as laptops, cameras, smartphones and tablets.
With many solar generators, panels can be purchased separately, which enables the units to be topped up via the mains if required. There are alternative options available however, and we’ve tested and included a couple of options here that include the foldable panels with the unit itself, either in a suitcase-style carry case or foldable, extendable units.
What wattage should I look for in a solar power generator?
In terms of power available, look for as high as possible watt-hours, which determines the capacity of the battery pack. The running watts is the power that the generator can produce continuously - different device’s requirements are normally listed on the devices themselves - you need to make sure the figures on the generator are higher than the requirements of the device.
Best solar generators at a glance
- Best for large amounts of power: Goal Zero Yeti 1500X
- Best for lightweight power: Jackery Explorer 500 Portable Power Station
- Best for charging on the go: EcoFlow 160W Foldable Solar Panel
- Best for tech: Bluetti Poweroak 500Wh Portable Solar Power Station
- Best for longevity: Anker 521 PowerHouse 200W
- Best for portability: Renogy 100 Watt Solar Panel Suitcase Portable Power Station
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Here are our recommendations for the best portable solar generators on the market at the moment
Goal Zero Yeti 1500X
If you’ve got aspirations of off-grid living, you’ll need a solar generator that can produce enough power to run everyday appliances and tools.
The Yeti 1500X, although expensive, is one of the best on the market at the moment for this purpose - a charge controller means you’re getting efficient solar power, which can also be topped up at the mains if you need, and the unit can happily offer power for tools and home equipment - including a full-size refrigerator if you need.
We’d also happily recommend this option if you’re working on off-grid events.
Jackery Explorer 500 Portable Power Station
If you’re looking for a power option that has a little bit more portability, weight is a key consideration.
The Jackery Explorer 500 is one of the lightest lithium battery generators on the market at the moment, featuring a 518 watt/hour battery and works well when paired with the SolarSaga 100W solar panels, as with many of the generators featured here, sold separately.
Power-wise, we’d be comfortable running smaller items with this generator like mini-fridges, airpumps, mini TVs and laptop and device charging.
EcoFlow 160W Foldable Solar Panel
The instantaneous approach to the EcoFlow 160W Foldable Solar Panel charger is one of its key selling points - once the panels are unfolded the power from the sun can be captured and used to charge devices within a matter of seconds, which makes it a great option for charging devices and equipment when camping or out in the wild.
It also featured IP67 dust and water resistance, and included a kickstand to stand it up to make the most of the sun, no matter where it is in the sky.
Bluetti Poweroak 500Wh Portable Solar Power Station
If your primary consideration is ensuring you’ve got enough charge in your devices, this is the one we’d choose for tech.
It is designed specifically to power drones, laptop equipment, cameras, mobile phones and tablets, and its size makes it a great option for camping and weekend trips away, or if you’re carrying out a van build, for example.
Using a 120W solar panel (sold separately) it can produce enough power for about 4-5 hours of charging time.
Anker 521 PowerHouse 200W
Equipped with LiFePO4 batteries, Anker claims that this generator offers a 6-times longer lifespan than generators using conventional batteries.
Whatsmore, they’ve added a 5-year warranty, so this is definitely the option we’d choose if longevity and long-lasting power is a key consideration.
We like the fact that it has a number of different ports too, so you can leave the adaptors at home - USB, AC power and car outlet power are all available.
It’s also small, portable and whisper-quiet too, which is a welcome feature.
Renogy 100 Watt Solar Panel Suitcase Portable Power Station
This is one of the smallest portable power stations we’ve seen on the market, but is a great option if space is at a premium or you want to take the power pack on adventures.
The solar panels ship with the generator and are folded away neatly in a suitcase, with a durable handle and rugged protective case.
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NEW YORK and CHICAGO, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, a preeminent national consumer rights law firm, is investigating claims on behalf of patients of Avamere Health Services whose information may be have stolen in a recent data breach from January 2022 to March 2022.
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Gaza City, Aug 5 (AP) Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes in Gaza on Friday that it said targeted the Islamic Jihad militant group amid days of heightened tensions following the arrest of a senior member of the group in the occupied West Bank earlier this week.
It was not immediately clear what Israel was targeting or if anyone had been killed and wounded, but the strikes risked igniting yet another war in the territory, which is ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas and is home to about 2 million Palestinians.
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A blast could be heard in Gaza City, where smoke poured out of the seventh floor of a tall building on Friday afternoon.
The Israeli military declared a “special situation” on the home front and said it was targeting Islamic Jihad in an operation named “Breaking Dawn.”
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Israel had closed roads around Gaza earlier this week and sent reinforcements to the border as it braced for a revenge attack after the arrest of the Islamic Jihad leader in the occupied West Bank on Monday. A teenage member of the group was killed in a gunbattle between the Israeli troops and Palestinian militants.
Israel and the Hamas fought four wars and several smaller skirmishes in the 15 years since the militant group seized power in the coastal strip from rival Palestinian forces. The most recent war was in May 2021, and tensions again soared earlier this year following a wave of attacks inside Israel, near-daily military operations in the West Bank and tensions at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited communities near Gaza earlier on Friday, saying authorities were preparing “actions that will remove the threat from this region,” without elaborating.
“We will operate with internal resilience and external strength in order to restore routine life in Israel's south,” he said, “We do not seek conflict, yet we will not hesitate to defend our citizens, if required.”
Ahmed Mudalal, an Islamic Jihad official in Gaza, said the group had made demands of Israel through Egyptian mediators, including the release of the detained militant and another prisoner, a halt to West Bank raids and the lifting of the Gaza blockade. He said they have not yet received a response.
Earlier Friday, a couple of hundred Israelis protested near the Gaza Strip on Friday to demand the return of a captive and the remains of two Israeli soldiers held by Hamas.
The protesters were led by the family of Hadar Goldin, who along with Oron Shaul was killed in the 2014 Gaza war. Hamas is still holding their remains, as well as two Israeli civilians who strayed into Gaza and are believed to be mentally ill, hoping to exchange them for some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
The protesters pushed through two police checkpoints on a road near the heavily-guarded Gaza frontier before stopping at a third.
They held a large sign demanding the return of the soldiers' remains as well as Avraham Mengistu, an Israeli of Ethiopian descent in his late 20s or early 30s. Mengistu's family took part in the protest.
In June, Hamas released a rare video showing another captive, Hisham al-Sayid, an Arab citizen of Israel, in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask and an IV drip. It said his health has recently deteriorated. Reporters covering the protest did not hear any mention of al-Sayid.
Israel and Egypt have maintained a tight blockade over the territory throughout that time. Israel says the closure is needed to prevent Hamas from building up its military capabilities, while critics say the policy amounts to collective punishment of Gaza's 2 million Palestinian residents.
Israel says there can be no major moves toward lifting the blockade until the soldiers' remains and captive civilians are released. Israel and Hamas have held numerous rounds of Egyptian-mediated talks on a possible swap. (AP)
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Putin Meets With Turkey's Erdogan In Sochi, Voices Hope On Boosting Economic Ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin opened talks with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the Black Sea resort of Sochi on August 5, the second meeting between the two leaders in less than a month.
Ending the war in Ukraine and the prospect of a Turkish incursion in Syria are expected to dominate talks, with Erdogan arriving after his diplomatic success in helping orchestrate a UN-brokered deal to resume Ukrainian grain shipments across the Black Sea.
In remarks at the start of the meeting, Putin told Erdogan that he was expecting to sign an agreement to boost trade and economic ties.
"I hope that today we will be able to sign a relevant memorandum on the development of our trade and economic ties," Putin said as the two leaders sat down for talks.
The Turkish leader, who has tried to use his warm relations with both Ukraine and Russia to play a role in ending the war launched by the Kremlin on February 24, told his host that he was hoping the two of them would open "a different page" in bilateral ties.
Ankara's planned military incursion to attack a Kurdish militia in northern Syria is due to be one of the main topics of discussion as well, according to Turkish state broadcaster TRT.
Moscow, which has been backing President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war, had recently advised against such an offensive.
Ankara considers the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia the People's Defense Units (YPG) to be a terrorist group and suspects it is linked to domestic insurgents.
A Turkish offensive in Syria's north has been on hold since 2019 following two cease-fire deals brokered by Washington and Russia.
According to the Kremlin, the potential sale of unmanned combat drones from NATO member Turkey to Russia is also on the agenda.
Putin has recently suggested that Russia cooperate with Turkey's Baykar drone producer, local broadcaster CNN Türk had quoted Erdogan as saying last month.
The Ukrainian Army has been using Baykar's Bayraktar TB2 drones against Russian forces since start of the invasion in February.
With reporting by AFP, TASS, and dpa
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European Commission Rejects Russian Claim That Sanctions Are Holding Up Gas Turbine
A European Commission says Western sanctions against Moscow are not an impediment to the delivery of a gas turbine from Germany to Russia.
Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom cut flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany to one-fifth of capacity as of July 27, saying the move was necessary because it hadn't received the turbine after it was sent out for maintenance. Gazprom says the sanctions make the delivery of a Siemens engine to the Nord Stream Portovaya compressor station impossible.
But both Germany and the EU have said there was no technical justification for slowing the flow of gas and that Russia's moves were politically motivated and linked to EU sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
"There is nothing in the sanctions that prohibits the turbine, which is the Siemens turbine, currently meant for Russia, to go there," Eric Mamer, chief spokesperson of the European Commission, said on August 5.
Some officials in the EU have accused Russia of weaponizing energy supplies, saying the turbine maintenance excuse was another example of Moscow making up excuses in an attempt to break the bloc's unity against Russia over the invasion, which is now in its sixth month.
Since June, Russia has significantly reduced gas deliveries through Nord Stream 1. Gazprom has justified this by blaming the reduction on the absence of the turbine, which had been sent to Canada for repairs.
Siemens Energy has repeatedly rejected the accusations that it has failed to provide the relevant paperwork to ship the turbine.
With reporting by TASS
Religious Cleric In Restive Tajik Region Gets Five Years On Extremism Charges
KHORUGH, Tajikistan -- A noted religious cleric in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan Region (GBAO) has been sentenced to five years in prison on extremism charges that his relatives call "wrong and unjust."
Relatives of Muzaffar Davlatmirov -- one of the most well-known leaders of the Ismaili Shi'ite Muslims in the volatile region, who was detained on July 26 -- told RFE/RL on August 4 that he had been sentenced after a court in the regional capital, Khorugh, found him guilty of public calls for extremist activities.
One of the relatives said the 58-year-old cleric was sentenced for his criticism of local authorities during the deadly dispersal of protests earlier this year.
"In his sermons he called on people to be calm and tolerant, but frequently criticized the illegal actions of the authorities. Law enforcement officers could not stand his fight for justice and the fact that Davlatmirov was well respected both by ordinary people and by informal leaders in the region," the relative said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A close associate of Davlatmirov suggested that the cleric's imprisonment was most likely "retaliation" by local authorities for his leading of religious services at the funerals of three local informal leaders who were killed in May and June by police during what authorities called special operations against extremists.
Davlatmirov also took part in negotiations between the GBAO's nongovernmental organizations and authorities earlier this year regarding protests in the region bordering with Afghanistan.
Deep tensions between the Tajik government and residents of the GBAO have simmered since a five-year civil war broke out shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Protests are rare in the tightly controlled nation of 9.5 million where President Emomali Rahmon has ruled with an iron fist for nearly three decades.
The latest crackdown on activists in the GBAO followed protests that were initially sparked in mid-May by anger over the lack of an investigation into the 2021 death of an activist while in police custody and the refusal by regional authorities to consider the resignation of regional Governor Alisher Mirzonabot and Khorugh Mayor Rizo Nazarzoda.
The rallies intensified after one of the protesters, 29-year-old Zamir Nazrishoev, was killed by police on May 16, prompting the authorities to launch what they called a "counterterrorist operation."
The escalating violence in the region has sparked a call for restraint from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Western diplomatic missions in Tajikistan, and human rights groups.
Gordo-Badakhshan, a linguistically and ethnically distinct region, has been home to rebels who opposed government forces during the conflict in the 1990s.
While it occupies almost half of the country's territory, its population is a mere 250,000. The region's mountainous terrain makes travel difficult, while its economy suffers from unemployment, difficult living conditions, and high food prices.
Russia Expels 14 Bulgarian Diplomats In Tit-For-Tat Move
Russia says it is expelling 14 Bulgarian consular and embassy staff in response to Sofia's "unfounded" decision to expel Russian diplomatic personnel as tensions rage over Moscow's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on August 5 that it had summoned Bulgarian Ambassador Atanas Krystin and handed him a note declaring the 14 employees in Russia as personae non gratae.
Several European countries have expelled Russian diplomats after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in late February.
Bulgaria said in late June that it was expelling 70 Russian diplomats and temporarily closing Russia's Consulate-General in the northern Bulgarian city of Ruse.
After Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into pro-Western Ukraine on February 24, many Western countries slapped wide-ranging sanctions on Moscow.
These measures included the exclusion of several Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system, embargoes on Russian exports, restrictions on investments, asset freezes for government officials and their families, and travel bans for many senior Russian officials.
Greece Extradites Russian Suspected In Bitcoin Fraud To U.S.
Greece has extradited a Russian national to the United States where he is wanted for allegedly being involved in a massive bitcoin theft scheme.
Aleksandr Vinnik, known as Mr. Bitcoin, was arrested on a U.S. warrant in 2017 on a Greek beach where he was vacationing with his family, but eventually was extradited to France where he also faced charges.
The 43-year-old was sentenced to five years on money-laundering charges. He was released on August 4 but immediately sent back to Greece, which had requested his return so it could execute the original U.S. warrant for allegedly operating a digital-currency website that was used by cybercriminals worldwide to launder money. Russia had also sought Vinnik on lesser, unrelated criminal charges.
According to the relatives and Vinnik's French lawyer, he is currently being held in San Francisco, California, and may face up to 50 years in prison if convicted in the United States.
The timing of Vinnik's transfer to the United States, which coincided with a Moscow court sentencing U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drugs smuggling charges, has given rise to speculation Vinnik may be used in a possible prisoner swap.
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed by phone a proposal that Blinken said involved Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who is serving a 16-year prison term in Russia on espionage charges that he and his supporters reject.
He did not say who Russia would receive, but media reports said the swap would likely include Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who is being held in the United States.
Lavrov and Blinken said on August 5 that they were now ready to further discuss a prisoner exchange.
The United States accused Vinnik of operating BTC-e, one of the most popular websites for buying and selling bitcoin.
Vinnik has claimed he is innocent of the charges but also admitted he was involved in hacking and money laundering in Russia and would cooperate with Moscow on his extradition to Russia.
Vinnik was one of seven Russians detained or indicted worldwide in 2018 on U.S. cybercrime charges.
With reporting by RIA Novosti and Interfax
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Russia, U.S. Say They're Ready For Talks On Prisoner Swap After Griner Sentenced
Moscow and Washington appeared ready to discuss a possible prisoner exchange after U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was found guilty of drug smuggling and sentenced to nine years in prison, which U.S President Joe Biden called "unacceptable."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on August 5 that Moscow is ready to discuss prisoner exchanges with Washington through an existing diplomatic channel agreed to by Biden and President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Geneva in June 2021.
"We are ready to discuss this topic, but within the framework of the channel that was agreed upon by Presidents Putin and Biden," Lavrov told a news conference on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting in Cambodia on August 5.
In response, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on August 5 that Washington will "pursue" Russia's offer to discuss a possible prisoner swap.
"[Russian] Foreign Minister Lavrov said this morning...that they are prepared to engage" on a swap for Griner, Blinken said at the foreign ministers' meeting in Cambodia. "And we'll be pursuing that."
The court's verdict on August 4 was expected to spur talks since a conviction is usually needed before arranging a prisoner exchange. Meanwhile, even with diplomatic relations between Moscow and Washington at lows not seen since the Cold War due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Biden has been under pressure to bring home Americans held in Russia.
White House national-security spokesperson John Kirby said after Griner's sentencing that the United States had made Russia a "serious" proposal when Blinken and Lavrov spoke by phone on July 29.
Blinken said the talks, the highest level direct communication between the two countries since Russia launched its war on Ukraine in late February, also involved former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.
Whelan, a corporate security executive, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges in 2020. He denies the charges.
News reports quoting U.S. sources have said the Russian swapped for the two would be jailed arms dealer Viktor Bout.
The two countries have shown that despite their poor relations, agreements are still attainable.
In April, they staged a prisoner swap that saw former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed traded for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was serving a 20-year sentence in the United States.
Griner's lawyers have said they are appealing the court ruling.
With reporting by Reuters, AFP, and TASS
Three More Ships Carrying Grain Leave Ukrainian Ports, Turkey Says
Three ships filled with grain have left Ukrainian ports under a UN-backed agreement to resume exports of grain and other agricultural products through ports on the Black Sea, Turkey's Defense Ministry said on August 5.
The Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul, which groups Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and UN personnel, said two ships were setting off from Chornomorsk and one from Odesa.
The three vessels carrying a total of about 58,000 tons of corn have been authorized to leave Ukrainian ports as part of a deal to unblock grain exports.
The Turkish Defense Ministry said on Twitter the Panama-flagged Navistar, carrying 33,000 tons of corn and going from Ukraine to Ireland, departed from Odesat. The ship will be inspected by the Joint Coordination Center to the north of Istanbul.
The second ship, the Maltese-flagged Rojen, carrying 13,000 tons of corn, departed from the port of Chornomorsk bound for Britain. The Joint Inspection Team was monitoring it.
The Turkish-flagged ship Polarnet set off from Chornomorsk for the Turkish Black Sea port of Karasu. Once the ship -- carrying 12,000 tons of corn -- reaches Karasu, it will be inspected by the Joint Inspection Team to the north of Istanbul.
The Razoni, the first ship loaded with Ukrainian grain to set off from a Ukrainian port since the beginning of the Russian invasion, departed earlier this week.
Moscow and Kyiv agreed in a deal brokered last month by Turkey and the United Nations to resume shipments of wheat and other grain from three Ukrainian ports for the first time since Russia invaded in February.
Based on reporting by Reuters and TASS
Fighting Rages In Donetsk As Russia Building Up Its Forces In The Kherson Region, Ukraine Says
Fierce fighting was under way in Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk as Moscow-backed separatists attempted to push back Kyiv's forces from the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiyivka, while Ukrainian military officials said Russia may launch a fresh offensive in the south.
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Russian forces shelled a Ukrainian city close to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the regional governor said on August 4, while Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, was shelled by the Russians, Ukraine's presidential office said.
Several industrial sites were hit in the city, and in the nearby city of Chuhuiv, a rocket hit a five-story residential building.
Ukrainian forces successfully fought off Russian attacks northeast and east of the Donetsk region towns of Soledar and Bakhmut, while fighting was ongoing to the south of Bakhmut, Brigadier General Oleksiy Hromov, deputy chief of the Ukrainian General Staff, said on August 4.
However, Hromov confirmed that Ukrainian troops had been forced to withdraw from the village of Semyhirya and their positions southeast of Avdiyivka.
Hromov told a news conference that Ukrainian forces had recaptured two villages around the eastern city of Slovyansk but had been pushed back to a nearby town after being forced to abandon a coal mine regarded as a key defensive position.
He said Moscow may launch an offensive in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson to try to win back momentum in the war, and it has been building up forces there.
Russia-backed separatist leaders in the Donetsk region said that Ukrainian shelling had killed at least five people and wounded six in the city of Donetsk.
While the city itself has been controlled by Russia-backed separatists since 2014, the Ukrainian military continues to hold large areas of the surrounding Donetsk region, though Russian forces say they are now making significant territorial gains.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the Ukrainian governor of Donetsk, said on Telegram that three civilians had been killed by Russian shelling in Bakhmut, Maryinka, and Shevchenko and five wounded in the past 24 hours.
Eight people were killed and four wounded by Russian artillery shelling in the town of Toretsk in Donetsk, Kyrylenko said.
The shelling near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant has already caused concern at the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on August 3 that “every principle of nuclear safety has been violated” at the plant. “What is at stake is extremely serious and extremely grave and dangerous.”
Britain's Ministry of Defense said in its daily intelligence bulletin on August 5 that Russia's intentions toward the nuclear plant remain unclear.
However, the bulletin noted, the actions that the Russians have undertaken at the facility have "likely undermined the security and safety of the plant’s normal operations."
The regional governor in Dnipropetrovsk said Russia fired 60 rockets at Nikopol, a city across the Dnieper River from the plant, which has been under Russian supervision since Moscow's troops seized it early in the war.
Some 50 residential buildings were damaged in the city of 107,000, and residents were left without electricity, Valentyn Reznichenko said on Telegram.
“A tense night of alarms and shelling. Two districts of the Nikopol and Kryvorizky regions came under enemy attack,” he said. There were no injuries, but more than 3,000 citizens of Nikopol were left without electricity.
Military experts quoted in U.S. media reports say they believe Russia is shelling the area intentionally, knowing that Ukrainian forces cannot risk returning fire because it could damage the reactors or disturb nuclear waste sites.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused Moscow of using the power plant as a "nuclear shield."
Meanwhile, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on August 4 that alliance members are working closely with defense companies to ensure Ukraine gets more supplies of weapons and equipment to be prepared for the long haul in its war against the Russian invaders.
With reporting by Reuters, dpa, and AP
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Orban Tells U.S. Conservatives His Government Is 'Under Siege By Progressive Liberals'
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on August 4 urged a gathering of U.S conservatives in Texas to join forces with Hungarian conservatives in 2024 to take back institutions in Washington and Brussels from liberals.
Orban said Hungary and his government were "under the siege of progressive liberals” whom he accused of seeking to separate Western civilization from its Christian roots, while his government's pro-family policies, anti-immigration stance, and rejection of gender ideology resist those efforts.
"This war is a culture war," Orban said, speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas. "We have to revitalize our churches, our families, our universities, and our community institutions."
Orban also said the United States needs a strong leader to negotiate a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.
"Only a strong leader can negotiate peace," Orban said. "We need a strong America with a strong leader."
Orban didn't specifically refer to former U.S. President Donald Trump, who has hinted that he will run for president again in 2024.
He and Trump had warm relations when Trump was in office, and the Hungarian leader endorsed Trump ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Orban has been widely criticized in Europe, most recently for comments he made about racial mixing, which were condemned as racist and rooted in Nazi ideology.
He told CPAC attendees that those who accused him or his government of racism were "idiots." He said his government had adopted a "zero-tolerance" policy on racism and anti-Semitism.
The right-wing nationalist also has been slammed by European Union leaders who say he has undermined democracy with measures that restrict immigration and give his government control over the media and nongovernmental organizations.
Orban, who was reelected for a fourth consecutive term in April, said the stakes are high for 2024. In addition to the U.S. election, Europeans will vote on European Parliament seats that year.
"These two locations will define the two fronts in the battle for Western civilization," Orban said.
With reporting by Reuters
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Former Pro-Russian President Of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, Son Hit With EU Sanctions
EU member states have imposed sanctions on the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, and his son for their alleged role in threatening Ukraine's security.
A European Council statement on August 4 said the two were added to an existing EU sanctions list “for their role in undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and the state’s stability and security.”
The council said it was taking the action in response to “the ongoing unjustified and unprovoked Russian military aggression against Ukraine."
Yanukovych was president of Ukraine for four years until his ouster in February 2014 in a popular uprising against his government's turn away from the West and toward Moscow.
Russia responded to the defeat of its ally by seizing Ukrainian territory on the Crimean Peninsula and in the eastern Donbas region. Moscow launched its current full-scale invasion in February.
The EU argues that Yanukovych, 72, still plays a "role in undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and the state's stability and security."
The sanctions document published in the EU's Official Journal accused Yanukovych, 72, of plotting to return to power in Ukraine if the Russian invasion succeeds in toppling President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Yanukovych was part of a Russian special operation aimed at replacing the Ukrainian president during the first phases of the invasion, the journal said, citing “different sources.”
The sanctions against Yanukovych’s son, Oleksandr Yanukovych, were for the same reasons and for “conducting transactions with the separatist groups in the Donbas region of Ukraine.”
As sanctioned individuals, the father and son are subject to an EU visa ban and a freeze on any assets they hold inside the bloc.
With reporting by AFP
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Turkish Defense Minister Says Three More Ships Filled With Grain Set To Depart Ukraine
Three more ships filled with grain will depart Ukraine on August 5 under a UN-backed agreement to resume exports of grain and other agricultural products through ports on the Black Sea, Turkey's defense minister said.
"It is planned that three ships will set sail tomorrow from Ukraine," the Anadolu state news agency quoted Defense Minister Hulusi Akar as saying.
He also said that an empty ship was expected to head toward Ukraine after being inspected in Istanbul.
Akar held talks with Ukraine's defense and infrastructure ministers to discuss the situation around grain deliveries, the statement added.
The statement came one day after the first ship passed Istanbul since the grain export deal was agreed. It had set off from the Ukrainian port at Odesa on August 1 for the Lebanese port of Tripoli.
Moscow and Kyiv agreed in a deal brokered last month by Turkey and the United Nations to resume shipments of wheat and other grain from three Ukrainian ports for the first time since Russia invaded in February.
The agreement calls for an international team that includes officials from Turkey, the United Nations, Russia, and Ukraine to oversee inspections and passage through the Bosphorus.
The team said in a statement that the first ship's successful passage offered "proof of concept" that the agreement can hold.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the agreement's implementation by phone with UN chief Antonio Guterres, Ankara said. Details of the conversation were not disclosed.
Based on reporting by Reuters and AFP
Iran Arrests 10 Alleged Islamic State Militants On Suspicion Of Plotting Attacks On Religious Processions
Iran says it has arrested 10 militants affiliated with the extremist Islamic State (IS) group who were planning to carry out attacks on religious processions during the Islamic month of Muharram, which started on July 30.
In a statement on August 4, Iran's Ministry of Intelligence identified the people arrested as "Takfiri-Zionist terrorists" and accused Israel of hiring them.
The ministry did not provide the names of the alleged IS militants or say where they were being detained.
The statement, published by the Fars news agency, which is affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), said the people arrested were found with explosive equipment, communication devices, and weapons.
The arrests were made in two locations -- one in the west and one in the south of the country -- in the last three days, the statement added.
The ministry said a clash occurred at one of the locations that resulted in the alleged militants wounding two Iranian intelligence agents in an exchange of gunfire before they were arrested.
In recent years, especially after the armed attack on the Iranian parliament and on Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's tomb in 2017, the security institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran have occasionally reported the arrest of IS members before they carried out sabotage operations.
With writing and reporting by Ardeshir Tayebi
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Former Russian Deputy Education Minister Remanded In Custody On Embezzlement Charges
Former Russian Deputy Education Minister Marina Rakova has been remanded in custody on embezzlement charges.
On August 4, the Tver district court in Moscow rejected a request by Rakova's lawyers, who had asked the court to transfer their client from detention to house arrest, saying that she had pleaded guilty and expressed a willingness to provide financial compensation for the damage caused.
The court ruled that Rakova must stay in pretrial detention until at least October 9.
Rakova was arrested last fall along with the rector of Moscow's School of Social and Economic Sciences, Sergei Zuyev. The two were charged with embezzling 50 million rubles ($950,000) from the ministry.
A day earlier, the same court transferred Zuyev from a detention center to house arrest.
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Amnesty Accuses Ukrainian Forces Of Endangering Civilians, Sparking Angry Response From Kyiv
Ukrainian forces have been accused by Amnesty International of endangering civilians by basing themselves in residential buildings, schools, and hospitals, sparking a strong response from Kyiv.
Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said the group’s researchers documented “a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas" as it released its report on August. 4.
The report, which the Kremlin and Russian media have already quoted extensively, is an attempt to "shift responsibility from the aggressor to the victim," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.
"There is not and cannot be, even hypothetically, any condition under which any Russian strikes become justified. Aggression against our state is unprovoked, invasive, and frankly terroristic," he said.
Earlier on August 4, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the rights group had drawn a "false equivalence" between the actions of Russia's invading forces and Ukrainians defending their homeland.
"This behavior of Amnesty International is not about finding and reporting the truth to the world, it is about creating a false equivalence -- between the offender and the victim, between the country that destroys hundreds and thousands of civilians, cities, territories, and a country that is desperately defending itself," he said.
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov called the report a "perversion" for questioning the right of Ukrainians to defend their country.
“Any attempts to even in passing equate the unprovoked Russian aggression and Ukraine's self-defense, like it is done in the Amnesty International report, is evidence of losing adequacy and a way to destroy one's authority,” he wrote.
Callamard said being in a defensive position “does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law.”
She tweeted later on August 4 that Ukrainian and Russian "social media mobs and trolls" were attacking Amnesty International.
"This is called war propaganda, disinformation, misinformation. This won't dent our impartiality and won't change the facts," she said.
The human rights organization said it found evidence of Ukrainian forces launching strikes from within populated residential areas and basing themselves in civilian buildings in 19 towns and villages in three regions of the country. It said its researchers collected the data between April and July.
The report said survivors and witnesses of Russian strikes in the Donbas, Kharkiv, and Mykolayiv regions told Amnesty International researchers that the Ukrainian military had been operating near their homes around the time of the strikes, exposing the areas to retaliatory fire from Russian forces.
"Amnesty International researchers witnessed such conduct in numerous locations," the report said.
Amnesty also said it found Ukrainian forces using hospitals as military bases in five places, which the human rights group called “a clear violation of international humanitarian law,” which requires the parties to a conflict “to avoid locating, to the maximum extent feasible, military objectives within or near densely populated areas.”
But the report also stressed that the “Ukrainian military’s practice of locating military objectives within populated areas does not in any way justify indiscriminate Russian attacks.”
It also said that in locations where Amnesty International concluded that Russia had committed war crimes “the organization did not find evidence of Ukrainian forces located in the civilian areas unlawfully targeted by the Russian military.”
Presidential adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak on Twitter accused Amnesty International of participating in Moscow's disinformation campaign to discredit Ukraine's armed forces.
"Today, Moscow tries to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the eyes of Western societies and disrupt weapons supply using the entire network of influence agents," Podolyak said. "It is a shame that the organization like @amnesty is participating in this disinformation and propaganda campaign."
The report aligns with the narrative that Russia is justified in launching attacks on civilian areas because Ukrainian fighters have set up positions there.
“We’re talking about it all the time, calling the actions of Ukraine’s armed forces the tactics of using the civilian population as a ‘human shield,’” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram.
With reporting by AP and AFP
Russian-Imposed Court In Crimea Launches Case Against RFE/RL Journalist
A court in Crimea set up by Russian-imposed authorities says it has launched a probe into RFE/RL journalist Olena Yurchenko for "activities discrediting Russia's armed forces."
The court in the Russian-controlled Crimean city of Kerch said it had registered an administrative case against Yurchenko, who has been working as an editor at RFE/RL's Crimea.Realities project after she fled Crimea in 2014 following the Ukrainian peninsula's illegal annexation by Russia.
The case does not specify what Yurchenko did to warrant the charges.
The administrative punishment for "publicly discrediting the Russian Army's activities" is a fine of up to 50,000 rubles ($820). According to Russian law, further similar infractions committed within a year may lead to criminal charges that are punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
RFE/RL President Jamie Fly condemned the move, calling the charges "ridiculous."
“We stand by Olena Yurchenko as she faces yet another attempt by the Kremlin to silence and intimidate those who speak truth to power,” Fly said in a statement on August 4.
“These ridiculous charges will not stop journalists like Olena from reporting on the horror [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has unleashed upon the people of Ukraine," he added.
After Moscow launched its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in late February, Russia's Roskomnadzor media regulator blocked Crimea.Realities and RFE/RL's several other websites in Russian.
Russia took control of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 after sending in troops, seizing key facilities, and staging a referendum dismissed as illegal by at least 100 countries, including the United States and most European nations.
Jailed Russian Opposition Politician Kara-Murza Hit With New Charge Over Event For Political Prisoners
MOSCOW -- A new charge has been brought against jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza stemming from his role in organizing an event to support political prisoners in Russia.
Kara-Murza's lawyer, Vadim Prokhorov, said on August 4 that his client had been charged with carrying out activities of an undesirable organization. The noted Kremlin-critic was already in jail after he was arrested in April for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian Army's activities in Ukraine.
According to Prokhorov, Kara-Murza is accused of holding a conference in Moscow in October to support political prisoners in Russia that was sponsored by the foreign-based Free Russia Foundation. That group has been deemed "undesirable" in the country.
The "undesirable organization" law, adopted in 2015, was part of a series of regulations pushed by the Kremlin that squeezed many nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations which received funding from foreign sources -- mainly from Europe and the United States.
Russian lawmakers have since dramatically widened the scope of the law, including barring Russian nationals and organizations anywhere in the world from taking part in activities of such "undesirable" groups.
Russia's Investigative Committee has been conducting an initial probe into allegations that Kara-Murza distributed false information about the army while speaking to lawmakers in the U.S. state of Arizona.
Kara-Murza has rejected the charge, calling it politically motivated.
His arrest came amid a mounting crackdown by Russian authorities on opposition figures and any dissent to the ongoing war in Ukraine, which Moscow launched against its neighbor on February 24.
In early March, President Vladimir Putin signed a law that calls for lengthy prison terms for distributing "deliberately false information" about Russian military operations.
The law envisages sentences of up to 10 years in prison for individuals convicted of an offense, while the penalty for the distribution of "deliberately false information" about the Russian Army that leads to "serious consequences" is 15 years in prison.
It also makes it illegal "to make calls against the use of Russian troops to protect the interests of Russia" or "for discrediting such use" with a possible penalty of up to three years in prison. The same provision applies to calls for sanctions against Russia.
A close associate of slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, Kara-Murza is best known for falling deathly ill on two separate occasions in Moscow -- in 2015 and 2017-- with symptoms consistent with poisoning.
Tissue samples smuggled out of Russia by his relatives were turned over to the FBI, which investigated his case as one of "intentional poisoning."
U.S. government laboratories also conducted extensive tests on the samples, but documents released by the Justice Department suggest they were unable to reach a conclusive finding.
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Griner Sentenced To Nine Years By Russian Court; Biden Calls It 'Unacceptable'
A Russian court has found U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner guilty of drug smuggling and sentenced her to nine years in prison, a punishment that sparked anger from teammates and athletes around the world and which U.S. President Joe Biden called "unacceptable."
A handcuffed Griner, a two-time Olympic champion, was led out of the courtroom in the Moscow suburb of Khimki on August 4 after Judge Anna Sotnikova handed down the sentence, which also includes a fine of 1 million rubles ($16,300). Griner has 10 days to appeal the ruling, which her lawyers said they would do.
Even though a remorseful Griner took responsibility for what she called in her final statement "an honest mistake" by packing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her bags, prosecutors requested that the court sentence her to 9 1/2 years in prison. The maximum sentence allowed under Russian law is 10 years.
During her final statement, Griner made an emotional apology to her family, teammates and the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, where she plays in the off-season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), “for my mistake that I made and the embarrassment that I brought on them.”
With her voice cracking, she added: “I hope in your ruling it does not end my life.”
"I love my family," the 31-year-old said quietly to reporters as she was being led away.
Cannabis is illegal in Russia for both medicinal and recreational purposes.
Griner, an eight-time all-star recognized as one of the greatest players in the history of the WNBA, has been detained since February 17 after police said they found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage upon landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. She was returning to Russia, where she has competed since 2014.
Her detention was made public only after Russian troops moved into Ukraine, as relations between Russia and the United States hit new lows after Washington led the West in bringing sanctions against Moscow.
In a rare move, U.S. President Joe Biden issued a statement minutes after the sentence was announced, saying the case was "one more reminder of what the world already knew: Russia is wrongfully detaining Brittney."
"It’s unacceptable, and I call on Russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends, and teammates," the statement said.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said later that Russia should accept a U.S. offer for the release of Griner and another American imprisoned in Russia.
"We have made a substantial offer to bring her and Paul Whelan home. We urge Russia to accept that proposal," said Jean-Pierre.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by phone on July 29 to discuss the proposal, which Blinken said involved Griner and Whelan in a prisoner swap. News reports quoting U.S. sources have said that the Russian swapped for the two would be jailed arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Outside the courtroom, Griner's lawyers promised an appeal would be filed with the court, adding that some of the case files had been drawn up in violation of the law.
"The court has completely ignored the defense’s arguments and the defendant’s admission of guilt. Considering all that, we view the penalty term assigned by the court as totally unjustified. We will file an appeal," one of Griner’s lawyers, Maria Blagovolina, said.
The case comes during the most strained U.S.-Russian relations since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and has put Biden under pressure to intervene on behalf of Americans detained in Russia, including Griner and Whelan. The U.S. government has deemed both of them to have been "wrongfully detained."
"My administration will continue to work tirelessly and pursue every possible avenue to bring Brittney and Paul Whelan home safely as soon as possible," Biden's statement after the sentence added.
Detained en route to join her Russian team, UMMC Ekaterinburg, after a brief trip home to the United States, Griner had pleaded guilty to the charge of being in possession of the cannabis-oil cartridges, saying she must have accidentally packed them while rushing to the airport for her flight to Russia.
Griner's WNBA team, the Phoenix Mercury, was scheduled to play a game later on August 4. It called the verdict a "sobering milestone" in Griner's "nightmare," while the league, in a joint statement with the National Basketball Association, said the ruling was "unjustified and unfortunate."
A conviction is usually a prerequisite to arranging a prisoner exchange and also allows Griner to apply for a pardon from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
With reporting by CNN and Reuters
Another Tajik Man Goes Missing In Moscow, Relatives Fear Abduction By Tajik Authorities
Another native of Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan Region (GBAO) has reportedly gone missing in Moscow and may have forcibly been taken to Tajikistan where he could face illegal incarceration and an arbitrary trial.
Relatives of Ruslan Pulodbekov told RFE/RL on August 3 that he went incommunicado after he was briefly detained by immigration police in the Russian capital on July 29, the same day two other GBAO natives -- who are now Russian citizens -- went missing from a Moscow airport before emerging later in a video on a YouTube channel saying that they had "decided to return to Tajikistan" by their "own will."
Pulodbekov's relatives told RFE/RL that he was most likely taken into Tajik custody over his close ties with Amriddin Alovatshoev, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison in Dushanbe in April, four months after he was arrested in Russia and later showed up in custody in Tajikistan.
Alovatshoev, known as an informal leader of GBAO youth in Russia, was found guilty of hostage-taking, illegally depriving others of their freedom, and "other crimes," charges his relatives call trumped-up.
Deep tensions between the Tajik government and residents of the volatile GBAO have simmered since a five-year civil war broke out shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Protests are rare in the tightly controlled nation of 9.5 million where President Emomali Rahmon has ruled with an iron fist for nearly three decades.
The latest crackdown on activists in GBAO followed protests initially sparked in mid-May by anger over the lack of an investigation into the 2021 death of an activist while in police custody and the refusal by regional authorities to consider the resignation of regional Governor Alisher Mirzonabot and Khorugh Mayor Rizo Nazarzoda.
The rallies intensified after one of the protesters, 29-year-old Zamir Nazrishoev, was killed by police on May 16, prompting the authorities to launch what they called a "counterterrorist operation."
The escalating violence in the region has sparked a call for restraint from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Western diplomatic missions in Tajikistan, and human rights groups.
Gordo-Badakhshan, a linguistically and ethnically distinct region, has been home to rebels who opposed government forces during the conflict in the 1990s.
While it occupies almost half of the country's territory, its population is a mere 250,000. The region's mountainous terrain makes travel difficult, while its economy suffers from unemployment, difficult living conditions, and high food prices.
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NATO Chief Says Ukraine War Poses Greatest Danger For Europe Since WWII
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia must not be permitted to win in the war it launched against Ukraine, which has given rise to the most dangerous moment for Europe since World War II.
Speaking in Norway on August 4, Stoltenberg said the alliance and its member countries may have to continue to support Ukraine with arms and other assistance for a long time in order to keep Russia from succeeding after it launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
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"It's in our interest that this type of aggressive policy does not succeed," Stoltenberg said.
"This is the most dangerous situation in Europe since World War II," he said, adding, "what happens in Ukraine is terrible but it would be much worse if there was a war between Russia and NATO."
Stoltenberg then reaffirmed the alliance's resolve to defend all its 30 member countries.
"If (Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin even thinks of doing something similar to a NATO country as he has done to Georgia, Moldova or Ukraine, then all of NATO will be involved immediately," Stoltenberg said.
The war has led previously nonaligned Finland and Sweden to seek NATO membership, with the request so far ratified by 23 of the 30 member states, including the United States.
"This is not just an attack on Ukraine, an independent democratic nation with more than 40 million people, it's also an attack on our values and the world order we want," the NATO chief said of the war.
Following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the two traditionally neutral Nordic countries, Finland, which shares a border of more than 1,000 kilometers with Russia, and Sweden applied to join NATO as soon as possible.
Under the fast-track admission process, the U.S. Senate voted 95-1 in favor of the two countries' membership on August 3, making the United States the 23rd of the 30 NATO countries to formally endorse the move so far, after Italy approved it earlier this week.
According to a NATO list, seven member countries have yet to formally agree: the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and Turkey.
Only Turkey has raised a challenge, demanding the intensification of work on extraditing dozens of government opponents it labels "terrorists" from both countries in exchange for its support.
Turkey has said that a special committee would meet Finnish and Swedish officials this month to assess whether the two nations are complying with its conditions.
With reporting by Reuters, AFP, and AP
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Russian Foreign Ministry Says Norwegian Diplomat Should Leave Country Over 'Russophobic' Insults
Russia's Foreign Ministry says a Norwegian diplomat should leave the country because of "Russophobic" statements she made.
Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on August 4 that Norwegian Ambassador to Russia Rune Resaland was summoned over the "unacceptable behavior" of Elisabeth Ellingsen, Norwegian consul in the Arctic city of Murmansk, at a hotel reception that was recorded on a security camera and distributed online over the weekend.
"After what happened, Elisabeth Ellingsen's presence in Russia is impossible," the statement said.
In the video, posted on a Telegram channel on July 30, Ellingsen was seen frustrated as she waited for a clean room and used words insulting the hotel staff and Russians in general.
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry said earlier it "deeply regretted" the incident.
The diplomatic incident comes as relations between Russia and the West have been tense since late February after Russia launched its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
With reporting by AFP
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Talks On Saving 2015 Nuclear Accord With Iran Restart In Vienna
Negotiators have begun a new round of talks in Vienna on August 4 on salvaging a landmark 2015 nuclear accord between Iran and world powers.
The talks opened in the Austrian capital with a meeting between Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, and the EU's Enrique Mora, coordinator of the negotiations. Mora will again shuttle between Kani and the U.S. negotiator, Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, because Iran refuses to hold direct talks with the United States.
The talks are the first since March, when negotiations that began last year to reintegrate the United States into the agreement stalled.
Comments made by Malley and Kani ahead of the talks indicated that neither side was overly optimistic about the prospect of a breakthrough.
Robert Malley, the U.S. special envoy for Iran, said on August 3 that he was headed to Vienna to resume the negotiations "with expectations in check."
He said that the United States "is prepared for a good faith attempt to reach a deal," adding, "It will shortly be clear if Iran is prepared for the same."
Kani put the onus on Washington to compromise, saying in a tweet that the United States should "show maturity & act responsibly."
Under the deal with the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China, Iran pledged to curb its nuclear program in return for relief from economic sanctions.
But since Washington's unilateral pullout from the deal in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump, Tehran has gradually broken from compliance with the accord.
In a last-ditch effort last month, the EU's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, submitted a compromise proposal and called on the parties to accept it to avoid a "dangerous nuclear crisis."
Mora previously said the two sides were close to a deal before talks broke down in March.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House on August 4 that time is getting "very short" for Iran to accept a return to the deal.
There is "a deal on the table" and the Iranians "ought to take it," he said. "You've heard the president say we're not going to wait forever for Iran to take this deal."
Months of inaction and increased international isolation of Iranian ally Russia since the Kremlin attacked Ukraine in February have lowered hopes for a new deal that slowly emerged after another lull accompanying the election last year of hard-line Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration says it favors a return to the deal, including lifting key sanctions, but has rejected an Iranian demand to reverse the blacklisting of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization.
Russia's envoy to the talks, Mikhail Ulyanov, also tweeted about the return to negotiations.
Borrell said the draft text includes "hard-won compromises by all sides" and "addresses, in precise detail, the sanctions lifting as well as the nuclear steps needed to restore" the 2015 pact.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on August 2 warned Iran's program was "moving ahead very, very fast" and "growing in ambition and capacity."
On July 25, Iran said monitoring cameras belonging to the IAEA will not be turned back on until an agreement is reached.
With reporting by Reuters, AFP, and AP
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Poland Summons Belarusian Charge d'Affaires Over Belsat TV Journalist's Imprisonment
The Polish Foreign Ministry has summoned Belarusia's charge d'affaires after a journalist for Polish broadcaster Belsat TV was sentenced in Belarus to five years in jail.
Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina said on August 4 that the Belarusian diplomat was summoned because journalist Iryna Slaunikava "is not only an employee of Polish Television, but one of those journalists who fight for peace and the rule of law in Belarus."
A court in Belarus sentenced Slaunikava a day earlier as the Belarusian government continues to crack down on independent media following mass protests sparked by a disputed presidential election two years ago that handed victory to authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Slaunikava, who is being held in custody, was found guilty of leading an extremist group and organizing activities that disrupt social order. She has denied the charges.
A former correspondent for Belsat TV who went on trial in June, Slaunikava was first arrested along with her husband, Alyaksandr Loyka, in late October. The couple was sentenced to 30 days in jail on charges of "distribution of extremist materials" and "minor hooliganism."
After serving their jail terms, Slaunikava was charged again, this time with "leading an extremist group" and the "organization and preparation of events disrupting social order." Loyka was not arrested a second time.
Lukashenka, 67, and in power since 1994, has tightened his grip on the country since the 2020 election by arresting -- sometimes violently -- tens of thousands of people. Fearing for their safety, most opposition members have fled the country.
Most of the country's independent media have also been either arrested or left the country due to the crackdown.
The West has refused to recognize the results of the election and does not consider Lukashenka to be the country's legitimate leader. Many countries have imposed several rounds of sanctions against his regime in response to the suppression of dissent in the country.
With reporting by Polska Times and Wiadomosci
Russian Lawmaker Put On Most-Wanted List After Failing To Attend Hearing Giving Him 10-Year Sentence
Russian lawmaker Vadim Belousov has been added to the country's most-wanted list after he failed to show at a court hearing where he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on bribery charges.
A Moscow court sentenced Belousov, a member of the Russian parliament's lower chamber, on August 3 and ordered him to pay a 500 million ruble ($8.19 million) fine after finding him guilty of receiving more than 3 billion rubles ($49 million) in bribes from a construction company in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk when Belousov led a local bakery there.
The Interior Ministry subsequently placed Belousov on the most-wanted list.
Belousov’s mother-in-law, Margarita Butakova, was an accountant there at the time and was handed a suspended five-year prison term for her role in the operation.
Both Belousov and Butakova pleaded not guilty.
In late July, Russia's Central Election Commission (TsIK) said Belousov was officially registered as a candidate for the post of the head of the Republic of Udmurtia in an election scheduled for September.
TsIK Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova said on August 4 that it is too early to annul Belousov's candidacy in the election, stressing that the court's decision has yet to take force as Belousov has the right to appeal the verdict and sentence.
With reporting by TASS and Interfax
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Ukraine Calls On Lebanon To Reconsider Decision To Allow Transportation Of Ship With 'Stolen' Grain
Ukraine has called on Lebanon to reconsider a court decision to allow a seized Syrian ship carrying what Kyiv says is stolen Ukrainian grain to travel further.
In a statement issued on August 4, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said it was "disappointed" by the court's decision to clear the Syrian-flagged Laodicea for departure from the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, stressing that Kyiv's point of view on the issue was ignored by the court.
"The Lebanese court's decision allows the ship, which is under international sanctions over the illegal transportation of cargo from temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, to unimpededly leave the port of Tripoli with stolen Ukrainian flour and barley," the statement says.
"The decision under question actually enables Russia to continue stealing from Ukraine's temporarily occupied south with a sense impunity," it added.
A day earlier, the Russian Embassy in Lebanon said it had no information on the ship or the cargo that was shipped there by a private company.
Kyiv has accused Moscow of stealing around 500,000 tons of grain from areas it has occupied, saying 78 vessels involved in the transfer of the stolen grain were traced by Ukrainian experts.
Russia, which launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in late February, has denied stealing grain from Ukraine.
With reporting by Reuters
Ethnic Armenian Forces Say Situation In Nagorno-Karabakh Stable After Deadly Cease-Fire Violations
De facto ethnic Armenian military authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh say the situation in the breakaway region has stabilized after a flare-up in violence with Azerbaijani forces that left three soldiers dead and prompted Baku to take control of several strategic heights in the disputed region.
A day after each side blamed the other for cease-fire violations that saw one Azerbaijani soldier and two from ethnic Armenian forces killed, the de facto ethnic Armenian military authorities said on August 4 that despite some sporadic gunfire, "steps to stabilize the situation continue to be taken with the mediation of the command of the Russian military," which is overseeing the situation.
Armenia lost control over parts of the breakaway region and seven adjacent districts as part of the Russian-brokered cease-fire. An estimated 2,000 Russian troops have been deployed to monitor the situation.
Nagorno-Karabakh, which had been under ethnic Armenian control for nearly three decades prior to the war in 2020, is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.
The recent cease-fire violations drew an immediate international rebuke, with Russia accusing Baku of violating the brittle cease-fire and the United States and the European Union urging an "immediate" cessation of hostilities.
"The recent increase in tensions underscores the need for a negotiated, comprehensive, and sustainable settlement of all remaining issues related to or resulting from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry says ethnic Armenian troops opened fire on August 3 on Azerbaijani Army positions in the district of Lacin, which has been under the control of Russian peacekeepers since November 2020, killing Azerbaijani conscript Anar Kazimov.
Ethnic Armenian military authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh, in turn, accused Azerbaijan of a major cease-fire violation with the use of grenade launchers and drones, claiming that two ethnic Armenian soldiers were killed, and 14 others wounded in separate attacks.
The violence prompted the breakaway region's separatist leader, Arayik Haratiunian, to sign a decree on partial mobilization.
With reporting by Reuters and Interfax
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The 2022 Industry Excellence Awards were presented to 29 vendors across six categories: Overall Leader, Customer Experience Leader, Technology Leader, Service Leader, Credibility Leader, and Trust Leader. Toucan was recognized as a leader in two categories.
Customer Experience Leaders are vendors who demonstrate high levels of sales and service, as well as product/technology. This is the case for Toucan, which since the beginning of the year has signed several dozen new customers (big companies, Fortune 500 and also mid-market SaaS companies). The year 2022 for Toucan will be highlighted by the release of the new version of Toucan, which will be the leader in Guided Analytics with more product capabilities on connections, data preparation, live data and "must haves" that allow customers to collaborate and make data actionable on a daily basis.
Trust leaders are vendors whose customers reported a solid perceived confidence. As such, Toucan has attracted the trust of more than 180 companies, has already renewed more than a hundred contracts since January 2022, has an NPS of close to 50% according to an internal study and since 2014 has continued to consolidate its growth.
"Toucan has cornered the market on customer service and without them, we wouldn't be where we are today." said Courtney Toller, App Developer of DC Power, a long time client and daily user of Toucan Guided Analytics.
"We are thrilled that the service provided by our Guided Analytics platform, the work of our teams and the daily support they provide to our clients have been rewarded by the award of this independent analyst recognized in the data world. This encourages us to go further and offer new innovative functionalities and to continue developing technological partnerships" said Baptiste Jourdan, co-founder of Toucan.
Dresner Advisory Services was formed by Howard Dresner, an independent analyst, author, lecturer, and business adviser. Dresner Advisory Services, LLC focuses on creating and sharing thought leadership for Business Intelligence (BI), Performance Management, and related areas. For more information visit www.dresneradvisory.com.
Toucan is a cloud-based, guided analytics platform with one goal in mind: reduce the complexity of bringing insights from data to business users. From data connections to the distribution of insights anywhere they're needed, Toucan makes it easy. As a result, they see the highest user adoption in the industry at 80%+, compared to an industry average of just 30%. Toucan is trusted by more than 150 clients worldwide, from global corporations to fast-growth tech companies. For more information, visit: https://toucantoco.com/en/.
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Akron police release bodycam video of Oasis shooter incident
Akron police have released body-worn camera videos that show an officer shooting a woman suspected of fatally shooting a woman inside the Oasis Surf and Turf bar on July 29 in the city's North Hill neighborhood.
The footage released Thursday from four body-worn cameras shows different perspectives of the incident, including one showing the officer firing at the woman as she raised her right hand and stepped toward the officer. A still clip from the video shows a gun on the ground next to the woman.
The real-time video is then replayed in slow motion, showing the woman, who police have not identified, raising her right arm toward the officer. The woman survived the shooting.
The released footage does not show the woman on the ground after being shot or what happened afterward. The police narrative says officers immediately began first aid and applied a tourniquet until emergency medical services arrived.
The videos show officers using flashlights, with guns out, as they ran through backyards searching for the woman, then running on a sidewalk when she is spotted in the parking lot of the former Liberty Harley-Davidson dealership. Police cruiser sirens are sounding in the background.
What Akron police videos show
Akron released the video as required under a new city ordinance requiring the public release of police body camera videos of officer using deadly force within seven days. This is the fourth video to be released since December and first since the June 27 fatal shooting of Jayland Walker by eight Akron officers.
Akron police reforms:Where the city stands on implementing recommendations
The first of four video clips shows the officer who fired the shots yelling "Show me your hands!" to the woman while she stood in a parking lot on Cuyahoga Falls avenue.
"I'm on the sidewalk! There she is!" the shooting officer yells. "Show me your hands! Show me your hands!"
The woman steps forward and raises her right arm. Then the officer fires four times.
The videos show other officers, including a cruiser, arrived at the parking lot just as the officer fired at the woman.
Other video footage shows officers running through backyards.
One officer yells, "Show me your hands!"
Then he says, "Keep looking! Keep looking! You got her?"
Another officer is heard saying, "No!"
"Keep checking! Go!" the officer says, then runs onto the sidewalk toward the parking lot before the woman was shot.
What happened at the Oasis Bar?
A little before 3 a.m. July 29, police responded to a report of a shooting at the bar at 830 N. Howard St. Police said a witness at the bar followed the shooting suspect and flagged down police officers, who said they saw the woman had a handgun and then ran after her when she fled north toward Cuyahoga Falls Avenue.
About the same time, police were told the woman shot inside the bar, Chyna Shepard, 21, of Akron, was being taken to a hospital. She died July 30.
Police said officers tracked the shooting suspect to the former Liberty Harley-Davidson dealership parking at North Howard and Cuyahoga Falls Avenue.
Suspect shot following chase: Akron police shoot suspect following shooting at troubled Oasis bar in North Hill
The shooter, who police have not yet identified, was taken to Summa Akron City Hospital. She is expected to recover from wounds that are not considered life-threatening.
The officer involved in the shooting, a two-year veteran of the police department, was placed on administrative leave. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is handling the investigation of the officer-involved shooting. A separate investigation will be conducted by the police department’s Office of Professional Standards and Accountability.
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Israel says it killed Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza airstrike
The Israeli military killed Tayseer al-Jabari, the commander of the Islamic Jihad group, in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli officials said Friday.
The big picture: The airstrike came amid heightened tensions on the border between Israel and Gaza following the arrest of a senior Islamic Jihad member in the occupied West Bank earlier this week.
- Friday's strikes will likely lead to a broader escalation after a year of relative calm in Gaza.
State of play: At least four Palestinians were killed in the airstrikes and more than 20 wounded, according to reports from Gaza.
- The Israeli air force conducted several strikes against al-Jabari and other Islamic Jihad members who Israel says was preparing to conduct attacks, an Israeli military spokesperson said.
- The IDF ordered an emergency in all Israeli cities and towns within 50 miles of the border with Gaza. The IDF spokesperson said it is likely that rockets will be fired from Gaza towards central Israel, including Tel Aviv.
Driving the news: The Israeli military on Tuesday arrested Bassam al-Saadi, a senior Islamic Jihad official, in the city of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
- The Islamic Jihad publicly threatened to retaliate for the arrest. Israeli officials said they had intelligence that the group was planning to attack military and civilian vehicles driving near the border with anti-tank missiles.
- Since Tuesday, all Israeli villages close to the border with Gaza have been on lockdown for the fear of an attack.
In recent days, Egyptian intelligence, Qatari officials and UN diplomats held intense dialogue with Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and Israel to try and avoid an escalation.
- Israeli officials said the mediation efforts didn't bear fruit and the Islamic Jihad continued to prepare for the attacks.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/05/israel-military-gaza-airstrike-islamic-jihad | 2022-08-05T14:57:04Z | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/05/israel-military-gaza-airstrike-islamic-jihad | true | 1 |
HealthLynked to Premier 'Forever: The End of Aging' Medical Documentary at CMX CinéBistro Theater in Naples, Florida on August 28th
NAPLES, Fla., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLynked Corp. (OTCQB: HLYK), ("HealthLynked" or the "Company") a global healthcare network focused on care management of its members and a provider of healthcare technologies that connect doctors, patients, and medical data, today announced it will be hosting a onetime screening of the documentary 'Forever: The End of Aging' at CMX CinéBistro theater on August 28th at 7 pm.
CMX CinéBistro is located at the Coastland Mall at 2000 9th St N, Naples, FL 34103. Tickets can be requested online at: https://foreverendofagingmovie.com/ or by calling 1-239-799-7116. Seating is limited for this premier screening.
'Forever' was written and directed by award-winning film and television writer Paul Castro, writer of the original screenplay 'August Rush.'
The film interviews experts from medical specialties including genomics, cancer diagnostics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, functional and regenerative medicine, and stem cell therapies, while exploring how these technologies are advancing medical treatments that could significantly impact our health and how long we will live.
The film features medical experts from around the country including:
- Bob Gasparini – Cancer Genetics; Former President, NeoGenomics Laboratories
- Michael Dent, M.D. – CEO of HealthLynked Patient Information Network
- Chadwick Prodromos, M.D. – Stem Cell Therapy
- Robert Mino, J.D. – Healthcare Patent Attorney
- David Perlmutter, M.D. – Neurologist and Bestselling Author of 'Grain Brain' and 'Drop Acid'
- Pam Hughes, D.O. – Functional Medicine and Nutritional Expert
- Edwardo Maristany, M.D. – Functional Medicine, Genetic Testing, and Hyperbaric Medicine
- Arnold Pallay, M.D. – Clinical Application of Genetic Testing
- Randy Miller, M.D. – Cosmetic Surgeon
- Ryan Smith – Founder of Tru Diagnostics
- Robert Marx, DDS FACS- Facial Reconstruction
- Jonathan Jay, M.D. - Urologist
- Sharon Hausman-Cohen, M.D. – Harvard Trained Expert in Medical Genetics
- Dr. Larry Antonucci – CEO of Lee Healthcare System
Learn more about 'Forever: The End of Aging' at: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19296904/
HealthLynked, along with its innovative technologies that improve communication between patients and doctors, is featured in the movie to demonstrate how individuals can participate in medical discoveries through information sharing. Hereditary medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease are caused by lifestyle and genetic factors. In "Forever," HealthLynked will discuss the power of data in determining the roles each of these play in diseases and how this information can lead to improved healthcare for everyone.
Dr. Michael Dent, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated "HealthLynked is excited to host the premier viewing of 'Forever: The End of Aging.' We are hopeful that the documentary will be picked up by an online streaming service so that a larger audience can learn more about how HealthLynked is working to advance healthcare through the efficient change of healthcare information. We are hopeful that one day medical conditions such as cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, and even aging will be a thing of the past."
The HealthLynked app is available for download on both iOS and Android devices.
About CMX CinéBistro
CMX Cinemas opened its first flagship dine-in theatre in April 2017 at Brickell City Centre, Miami, FL, ushering in a new era of luxury movie-going experiences. CMX provides state-of-the-art technology and luxurious reclining leather seats, that can be enjoyed through different types of experiences including: CMX CinéBistro, the luxury dine-in theatre concept with in-seat service featuring modern, rustic New-American cuisine from classically trained chefs, CMX Market Cinemas, a gourmet grab-and-go culinary and movie experience, and CMX Cinemas, the upgraded traditional theater with classic concessions.
About HealthLynked Corp.
HealthLynked Corp. provides a solution for both patient members and providers to improve healthcare through the efficient exchange of medical information. The HealthLynked Network is a cloud-based platform that allows members to connect with their healthcare providers and take more control of their healthcare. Members enter their medical information, including medications, allergies, past surgeries, and personal health records, in one convenient online and secure location, free of charge. Participating healthcare providers can connect with their current and future patients through the system. Benefits to in-network providers include the ability to utilize the HealthLynked patent-pending patient access hub "PAH" for patient analytics. Other benefits for preferred providers include HLYK marketing tools to connect with their active and inactive patients to improve patient retention, access more accurate and current patient information, provide more efficient online scheduling, and to fill last-minute cancelations using the Company's "real-time appointment scheduling" all within its mobile application. Preferred providers pay a monthly fee to access these HealthLynked services. For additional information about HealthLynked Corp., please visit www.healthlynked.com and connect with HealthLynked on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
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goleary@healthlynked.com
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Sindhu, Srikanth sail into quarterfinals in CWG
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- United Kingdom
Star Indian shuttlers P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth had another easy outing as they stormed into the quarterfinals of the women's and men's singles events respectively with comfortable wins at the Commonwealth Games here on Friday.
Sindhu, a silver medallist at the 2018 edition, expectedly faced no resistance from Uganda's Husina Kobugabe, winning 21-10 21-9 in her pre-quarterfinal match.
Srikanth, who had also finished second best at Gold Coast, too didn't break any sweat on his way to a 21-9 21-12 win over Sri Lanka's Dumindu Abeywickrama in the men's singles.
Earlier, Indian women's pairing of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly had entered the last eight with a 21-2 21-4 win over Mauritius' Jemimah Leung For Sang and Ganesha Mungrah.
Double Olympic medallist Sindhu will face Malaysia's Goh Jin Wei in the next round for a place in the semifinals.
Sindhu had defeated Goh in two tight games in the final of the mixed team final and can ill-afford to lower her guard against the 22-year-old Malaysian, a winner of the World Junior Championships gold in 2015 and 2018.
Former world number one Srikanth will be up against England's Toby Penty, who is ranked 54th in the world.
Gayatri and Treesa will meet Jamaica's Tahlia Richardson and Katherine Wynter next.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Whit Merrifield said Thursday he is vaccinated for COVID-19 and will be cleared to play for Toronto when the Blue Jays return to Canada.
Merrifield was acquired in a trade with Kansas City on Tuesday for two minor leaguers. The two-time All-Star was in the starting lineup in center field for his first game with his new team Thursday night at Minnesota.
“I’ll be in Toronto when the team gets to Toronto,” Merrifield said, avoiding saying when he received the vaccine.
Merrifield was among 10 players on the Royals who were unvaccinated last month, preventing them from making their trip to Toronto. When asked about his decision, Merrifield drew the ire of Kansas City fans by saying: “Something happens and I happen to get on a team that has a chance to go play in Canada in the postseason, maybe that changes.”
“It was something that I probably could have handled a little better,” Merrifield said Thursday of his comments in July. “But what’s happened, happened. I’m excited to be a Blue Jay. Excited to get to Toronto and play in the Rogers Centre as my home.”
Toronto leads the AL wild-card standings as it tries to make the postseason for the second time in three years. The next home game for the Blue Jays is Aug. 12 against Cleveland.
Toronto manager John Schneider said Merrifield will play almost every day in a variety of positions, most likely second base and center.
“It’s a luxury to have, to have that kind of guy where you can literally put anywhere and feel comfortable about it,” Schneider said. “The days that he’s not starting, he’s probably going to play. I think with having a bench like this now, it allows us to be a little bit more aggressive in some certain spots that we haven’t been earlier in the year. An asset to have, for sure.”
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SC law firm suing beverage company over possible bacterial contamination
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Anastopoulo Law Firm, headquartered in South Carolina, filed a class action lawsuit against Lyons Magnus after the food and beverage company recalled dozens of products that might be contaminated.
On July 29, Lyons Magnus announced the voluntary recall of 53 nutritional and protein drinks that “did not meet commercial sterility specifications” according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The company cited concerns about potential microbial contamination including from Cronobacter sakazakii, a bacteria that can lead to serious infections in people who are very young, elderly or immunocompromised.
Cronobacter is the same bacteria that prompted the large baby formula recall earlier this year.
“We are once again amazed by the lack of basic food safety measures in the manufacturing process,” said attorney Paul Doolittle. “We are dedicated to ending these unsafe processes and providing justice for our clients.”
The lawsuit from Anastapoulo says people who are immunocompromised or in need of a health supplement are the primary consumers of Lyons Magnus drinks.
“Lyons Magnus knew or should have known that possible consumers would drink or administer these sorts of supplements daily, often repeatedly, thus compounding the possible exposures to Cronobacter sakazakii,” the lawsuit states.
According to the FDA, no illnesses or complaints had been reported as of Tuesday.
Complete list of products voluntarily recalled
READ MORE: 53 nutritional and protein drinks recalled for possible microbial contamination
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BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa and a union representing its ground staff in Germany reached a deal Thursday to end a pay dispute, a week after a one-day strike that forced the airline to cancel more than 1,000 flights.
The deal between Lufthansa and the ver.di service workers’ union, covering some 20,000 staff in various ground operations, entails one-time payments of 200 euros ($203) each backdated to July 1.
It also foresees an increase in monthly basic salaries of 2.5% — or at least 125 euros per employee — effective Jan. 1 and another 2.5% from July 1 next year. The deal is valid for 18 months.
Lufthansa personnel chief Michael Niggemann said in a statement that “in view of the still-high burdens from the pandemic and the uncertain economy, we stretched the salary increase over several steps and ensured longer-term security of planning with an 18-month duration.”
Ver.di chief negotiator Christine Behle said that the outcome would even mean an effective raise of up to 18.4% for employees at check-in, arguing that result compensates for high inflation and also means an increase in real wages.
The union had initially sought a 9.5% pay increase this year. The strike it staged on Wednesday last week added to recent travel turmoil in Europe. Lufthansa says that walkout cost it around 35 million euros.
Lufthansa still has to resolve a separate pay dispute with a union representing pilots. That union said Sunday that pilots had voted in favor of possible strike action, but that walkouts could still be avoided. | https://www.wtrf.com/news/business/ap-business/germanys-lufthansa-union-reach-pay-deal-for-ground-staff/ | 2022-08-05T15:19:25Z | https://www.wtrf.com/news/business/ap-business/germanys-lufthansa-union-reach-pay-deal-for-ground-staff/ | true | 35 |
Drake Rescheduled OVO Fest On The Same Day As Lady Gaga's Toronto Show & Fans Aren't Happy
Drake gave fans two days notice. 🙈
Drake has tested negative for COVID-19, so the Young Money Reunion will go on – but on the same night as Lady Gaga's and Burna Boy's Toronto concerts.
The 6ix God posted about the concert's return yesterday, August 4, on Instagram, writing: "Negative test…positive outcome…this was the only date available until the fall and because the family is so solid everybody is flying back in to make it happen for you all…SEE YOU SATURDAY…young moulaaa."
Drake was forced to cancel the concert, which was originally scheduled for August 1, after testing positive for COVID-19. However, the show will go on this Saturday, August 6.
His post explains that the new date was the only possibility other than pushing the show into the fall, but not all of his fans are happy with the game-time decision.
Everyone I know now is selling their tickets to be ripped off by lazy fans who want $100 a ticket. Fuck you Drake. You should have waited at least 2 weeks and given some actual notice. Not everyone has cushy jobs and private jets.
— H3H3 (@emiliehtm) August 4, 2022
"Everyone I know now is selling their tickets to be ripped off by lazy fans who want $100 a ticket. F*ck you Drake. You should have waited at least 2 weeks and given some actual notice. Not everyone has cushy jobs and private jets," writes one Twitter user.
Some fans were even inquiring about refunds on Twitter because they already have tickets to Lady Gaga's show at the Rogers Centre on August 6.
That’s what I want to know too. I have VIP lady gaga tickets that day as well. Worst day they could have possibly done. And Ticketmaster is a bitch
— Zaraxxia (@zaraxxia) August 4, 2022
"I have VIP lady gaga tickets that day as well. Worst day they could have possibly done," reads a tweet.
Some fans even claim they're choosing Burna Boy over OVO Fest, who is slated to perform at Kultureland on Saturday night.
I’m sorry I’m seeing Burna Boy over OVO cause like Drake be in the city all the time
— Anne 👸🏽 (@annunieigh) August 4, 2022
"I’m sorry I’m seeing Burna Boy over OVO cause like Drake be in the city all the time," a fan tweeted.
Others pointed out travel difficulties for fans living outside the city and country.
How you reschedule less then a week after and announce it 2 days before? Some have work, some need to book hotels and trains, some got other places to be etc. Like we wouldn’t mind the show in October or sum atp.
— Chely (@pricey_chely) August 4, 2022
"How you reschedule less then a week after and announce it 2 days before? Some have work, some need to book hotels and trains, some got other places to be etc. Like we wouldn't mind the show in October or sum atp," a fan wrote on Twitter.
I’d like a word w/ @Drake . Your fans in the states who purchased tickets for OVO fest needed a two week notice, friend.
— 🖤 (@_vitaminsi) August 5, 2022
Another fan chimed in, writing, "I'd like a word w/ @Drake . Your fans in the states who purchased tickets for OVO fest needed a two week notice, friend."
Although some fans are just "jealous," they won't be able to attend.
Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne are some of the realest people in the music industry! They always show up for Drake, Always! I’m jealous again at the Canadians and anyone else who is able to go! Canada is about to be so lit on 8/6! #ovofestpic.twitter.com/VNX8onNjcl
— Tenny don’t give a 🎤 🗣 (@nmecantbeblankk) August 5, 2022
"Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne are some of the realest people in the music industry! They always show up for Drake, Always! I'm jealous again at the Canadians and anyone else who is able to go! Canada is about to be so lit on 8/6! #ovofest" reads the tweet.
While others are just thinking about what songs to request.
I ain’t gonna lie, I would like to hear moment for life by Drake & Nicki & how to love by Lil Wayne on Saturday at OVO fest. That’s like literally my only song requests lol.
— ⚫️👑⚫️ (@Blackcrownsss) August 5, 2022
"I ain’t gonna lie, I would like to hear moment for life by Drake & Nicki & how to love by Lil Wayne on Saturday at OVO fest. That’s like literally my only song requests lol," tweeted out a fan. | https://www.narcity.com/toronto/drake-rescheduled-ovo-fest-same-day-lady-gaga-toronto-show-fans-arent-happy | 2022-08-05T15:20:12Z | https://www.narcity.com/toronto/drake-rescheduled-ovo-fest-same-day-lady-gaga-toronto-show-fans-arent-happy | false | 1 |
DALLAS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Access Healthcare, leading technology and business process service provider, has been named in the Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2022 by The Healthcare Technology Report. With the inclusion, Access joins an illustrious list of organizations that are changing the face of the industry.
Arvind Perumbala, SVP of Solutions & Strategy at Access Healthcare, says, "The inclusion in the Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2022 list is a testament to our focus on developing technology products and services to help our clients do more with fewer resources. By leveraging technology to build automation solutions to improve business processes, we help our clients focus on delivering what they do best – provide exceptional care. Further, we have taken our applications services capabilities to our customers and now have competencies across application development, testing, support, and maintenance."
Access Healthcare's technology stack includes its robotic process automation platform echo, which leverages machine learning and AI to develop configurable bots using a designer studio. Using echo, Access has automated many processes, including eligibility and benefits verification, payments processing, and customized automation for various RCM workflows. With echo, the company takes a "full service" approach to help clients realize the benefits of automation faster as against the long implementation times and substantial CAPEX requirements of other commercial solutions. The echo solutions portfolio also includes echosmrt, an intelligent analytics solution to help entities visualize the state of their revenue cycle through powerful dashboards.
Access Healthcare's arc.in solution is a business process management suite comprising 16 tools to manage workflows, client collaboration, enterprise knowledge, automated rewards, recruitment, training, employee engagement, and more.
Prabhakar Munusamy, SVP of Applications Services at Access Healthcare, says, "As a business process services provider, we understand the effort it takes to process each transaction, attend each phone call, and many of the associated wasteful process activities. Our technical competency is a result of the vision of our team to eliminate process waste. echo is a manifestation of our unrelenting focus on developing automated solutions. We have now empowered our people with configurable tools to automate processes on the go with limited involvement of technology resources."
Access Healthcare's application services portfolio covers all stages of the application life cycle, including development, management, maintenance, and modernization. The holistic solutions approach enables the company's clients to achieve better outcomes, reduce costs, and accelerate growth and innovation.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit eastern Kentucky on Monday after the area experienced deadly flooding.
The flooding resulted in 37 deaths and thousands of Kentuckians without homes. The lingering damage left impassable roads, making it difficult for residents to obtain supplies.
The Bidens will join Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. On July 29, President Biden approved Beshear's emergency declaration request, which freed up resources from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"It is absolutely devastating out there. It's gonna take years to rebuild. People left with absolutely nothing, homes, that we don't know where they are. Just entirely gone," Beshear said.
This will mark the president's second visit to Kentucky following a natural disaster. He visited western portions of the state following last December's massive tornadoes. | https://www.wxyz.com/news/national/president-first-lady-biden-to-visit-kentucky-following-massive-flooding | 2022-08-05T15:25:03Z | https://www.wxyz.com/news/national/president-first-lady-biden-to-visit-kentucky-following-massive-flooding | false | 10 |
The bells are heard! Naomi Degreeffone of the new members of the Chicas Doradas de Rústica, revealed that “Zancudito” Olivares proposed to her on August 2, the same day as her birthday.
Naomi Degreeff and ‘Zancudito’ Olivares
The Golden Girls of Diez Canseco, led by his new wife, the Cuban Lisandra Lizama, gave a press conference to announce their return to the stage and the new projects they have prepared for the artistic shows.
The model Naomi Degreeff took the opportunity to confirm her commitment to the footballer and showed her ring. “Engaged. Relationship two years and two months; We have two days of engagement, this happened on my birthday, ”she said.
“We have been in a relationship for two years and two months, engaged for two days because he just asked me on my birthday. I first thought it was a dinner and on the way they blindfolded me. Upon arrival I saw him kneeling with letters and all beautiful. Everything has been very fast. Little by little we are going to plan everything, ”she said excitedly.
YOU CAN SEE: Christopher Olivares surprises his ex-partner with tender details
Naomi Degreeff says she wants to be a mom
The also influencer assured that she wants to be a mother in the future. “My dream has always been to be a mother, but in about 10 years still,” said the member of the Golden Girls.
In turn, he said that the Sporting Cristal striker is excited to become a father, but there is no rush. “For him we would be parents in a year, but everything is a process, so later still,” he said.
#Naomi #Degreeff #model #Golden #Girls #announces #engagement #Zancudito #Olivares | https://pledgetimes.com/naomi-degreeff-model-of-the-golden-girls-announces-engagement-with-the-zancudito-olivares/ | 2022-08-05T15:28:09Z | https://pledgetimes.com/naomi-degreeff-model-of-the-golden-girls-announces-engagement-with-the-zancudito-olivares/ | true | 1 |
Announce the change of the company's chief internal auditor
1.Type of personnel changed (please enter: spokesperson, acting spokesperson, important personnel (CEO, COO, CMO, CSO, etc.) ,financial officer, accounting officer, corporate governance officer, chief information security officer, research and development officer, chief internal auditor, or designated and non-designated representatives):7 Chief internal auditor 2.Date of occurrence of the change:2022/08/05 3.Name, title, and resume of the previous position holder: Bo-Zhen,Fan Jiang/senior manager of audit office 4.Name, title, and resume of the new position holder: Che-Chien,Liu/manager of audit office 5.Type of the change (please enter: "resignation", "position adjustment", "dismissal", "retirement", "death" or "new replacement"):Position adjustment 6.Reason for the change:Position adjustment 7.Effective date:2022/08/05 8.Any other matters that need to be specified:None
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Police searching for Bradley Cooper look-alike accused of stealing from Home Depot
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 11:13 AM EDT|Updated: 16 minutes ago
HENRY COUNTY, Ga. (CNN) – Police in Georgia are searching for a Bradley Cooper look-alike accused of shoplifting from a Home Depot store last month.
The police department posted a surveillance photo of the man on Facebook, showing the suspect casually rolling out a Bosch Rotary Laser Kit on a cart July 23.
According to Home Depot’s website, that kit can cost hundreds of dollars.
Several people have noticed and commented on how much the suspect looks like the actor Bradley Cooper.
In that case, he shouldn’t be too difficult to find, right?
Anyone with information is asked to call the Henry County Police Department’s non-emergency line at 770-957-9121.
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There are few things more exciting to us than a good beauty sale, especially when it's at one of the biggest beauty retailers, Dermstore. And have we got great news for you: starting August 8 through August 17, the retailer is celebrating its 23rd birthday with a blowout Anniversary Event, which means beauty devotees (a.k.a. you) can score discounts of up to 25 percent off top-selling products. This includes a wide breadth of popular brands, such as Sunday Riley, Virtue, EltaMD and so many more. All you have to do is enter code CHEERS at checkout and watch the savings roll in — pretty sweet deal, huh?
And there's even more reason to raise a glass and celebrate. If you're a Dermstore Rewards member, you earn triple points on select brands, including iS Clinical, Revision Skincare, and SkinCeuticals. You can use those rewards towards future purchases, so you basically reap the benefits of this sale long before it's over.
As exciting as a sale announcement can be, we understand that it can be equally as overwhelming to sort through every single deal — so we rounded up some of our favorite, can't-miss picks in the hopes that it helps you find the best of the best deals that Dermstore has to offer right now.
Best Dermstore Anniversary Sale 2022 Skin-Care Deals
If you can't tell by the abundance of choices below, this sale's strongest suit is skin-care products. Whether you're looking to stock up on sunscreen or smartly save on luxury brands, now's your chance to shop beloved skin-care products at a sliver of their normal prices. Cheers to healthy skin.
Perk up your complexion with the radiance-boosting, exfoliating properties of Naturopathica's Sweet Cherry Brightening Enzyme Peel. As its name suggests, this mask is made of a blend of cherry enzymes and lactic acid to slough away pore-clogging dirt, oil, and dead skin while revealing your brightest, glowiest complexion yet.
Neocutis's Lumière Firm Illuminating Tightening Eye Cream is one of the best eye products for addressing fine lines and wrinkles, thanks to its fusion of growth factors and caffeine. Canton, Michigan-based board-certified dermatologist Fatima Fahs, MD, previously told Allure that these ingredients "hydrate and plump the skin while promoting collagen production," but that's not the only effect to look forward to. This silky cream also contains moisturizing vitamin E and hydrating hyaluronic acid to intensely condition skin, leaving it softer and plumper with each use.
Sunscreen is a non-negotiable for your skin-care routine, so why not treat yourself to a top-notch sun protectant? EltaMD's UV Daily Broad-Spectrum SPF 40 is one of our favorite formulas for its white-to-translucent formula that's spiked with hydration-replenishing hyaluronic acid. | https://www.allure.com/story/dermstore-anniversary-sale-2022-beauty-deals | 2022-08-05T15:31:32Z | https://www.allure.com/story/dermstore-anniversary-sale-2022-beauty-deals | false | 1 |
Kristin Cavallari flashes her trim tummy for new pinup post… after saying put on some pounds
Kristin Cavallari shared a pin-up photo on her Instagram page on Thursday to promote her fall collection of Uncommon James jewelry.
The Siren, 35, was wearing a tiny halter top as she flashed her trimmed belly with low-cut leather pants and a belt in a rural setting.
This comes after The Hills vet said she’s happy with her figure after adding a few extra pounds over the past few years. She had also noticed that stress was making her too ‘skinny’.
Hot look: Kristin Cavallari shared a pin-up photo on her Instagram page on Thursday to promote her fall collection of Uncommon James jewelry. She looked very in shape
In an interview with Us Weeklythe reality TV star gave an update on her approach to health and fitness, explaining why she was glad she’d gained weight.
“My goal right now is just to maintain the muscles I have. I’m not trying to lose weight,” the businesswoman told the outlet.
She continued: ‘I don’t weigh myself. I can see how my clothes fit me.’
Kristin added, “I’ve gained a lot of weight over the years, but in a good way.”
The Very Cavallari alumna noted that she recently looked at old photos of herself and that she… “shocked at how skinny” she had once been.
Feeling good: This comes after she said she was happy with her figure after adding a few extra pounds over the past few years. Seen in July 2022
Back then: The Very Cavallari alumna noted that she recently looked at old photos of herself and was “shocked” by how thin she had once been. Seen in 2010
“I didn’t realize at the time how skinny I was,” she admitted. “So I’m glad I arrived.”
Kristin acknowledged that her naturally slim body type made it a challenge for her to build muscle.
‘I’m really small. I have no hips. I’m only small,” she explained.
Muscle building: The TV personality revealed that she now trains three days a week with a personal trainer who ‘kicks me a**’
“And so if I don’t exercise for a week or two, I feel like all my muscles are gone. So for me it’s about consistency.’
The TV personality revealed that she now trains three days a week with a personal trainer who “kicks my a**.”
“He’s pushing me really hard. He makes me lift really, really heavy weight, the heaviest weight I’ve ever lifted in my entire life,” she said.
‘I feel the best I’ve ever had. I feel like I’m the strongest I’ve ever been. I’m just comfortable in my own skin now, that’s a very good feeling.’
Kristin: ‘I feel the best I’ve ever had. I feel like I’m the strongest I’ve ever been. I’m just comfortable in my own skin now, which is a very good feeling’; shows off her new tattoo in July
The designer went on to say she’ll often do a fourth day of exercise alone, including 30 minutes of training on a VersaClimber, adding, “will kick your ass too, man.”
In addition to following a consistent fitness regime, Kristen told the outlet that she follows a healthy diet and rarely drinks alcohol.
“I think it’s kind of everything in a healthy lifestyle, it all works together,” Kristin said.
“I feel like I’m only doing the things I really enjoy now and that feels really good,” she concluded.
‘My work-life balance is perfect at the moment and I’m very grateful for that.’
Change of perspective: The Hills veteran, who shares sons Camden, nine, and Jaxon, seven, and daughter Saylor, nine, with ex-husband Jay Cutler, 39, has previously said pregnancy changed her view of body image and diets
The Hills veteran, who shares sons Camden, nine, and Jaxon, seven, and daughter Saylor, nine, with ex-husband Jay Cutler, 39, has previously said pregnancy has changed her view of body image and diet.
In her 2016 autobiography Balancing in Heels, Kristin wrote, “Getting pregnant made me serious about my health. Before pregnancy, I thought that low-calorie foods were good for you and that every calorie was equal.
Deep down I knew my eating habits weren’t exactly healthy, but I put a lot of pressure on myself to be thin. I was my own worst critic: I hated the way I looked in certain photos.
“Everyone around me was small and I felt like I should be too. I thought counting calories gave me control over my body.’
New gig: She’s been on a new Dear Media show with ex Stephen Colletti
She explained, “But when I got pregnant, I knew that everything I did, and especially what I ate, had a direct effect on my baby.”
Kristin explained that during her first pregnancy, she took a new approach to nutrition, reading food labels instead of counting calories and consuming all-natural foods.
“For the first time in my life, I didn’t care if I gained a lot of weight,” she wrote. “It was a time to eat right and eat smart, and even enjoy foods that were forever off limits in my pre-pregnancy life, including ‘fattening’ things like cheese and pasta.
‘I decided not to look at calories, but instead to read ingredient labels and re-evaluate my ideas about avoiding so-called fattening foods.
No matter what, I would only eat real food, not processed, chemical-laden junk. If it was really good quality food, I’d give in to cravings and enjoy every second of it.’ | https://whatsnew2day.com/kristin-cavallari-flashes-her-trim-tummy-for-new-pinup-post-after-saying-put-on-some-pounds/ | 2022-08-05T15:33:09Z | https://whatsnew2day.com/kristin-cavallari-flashes-her-trim-tummy-for-new-pinup-post-after-saying-put-on-some-pounds/ | false | 1 |
This powerhouse dons a massive 5000mAh mega battery with 18W quick charge and super power saving mode, ensuring an uninterrupted usage. Its 50MP AI Triple Camera setup, consisting of a 50MP (f/1.8) primary camera, 2MP (f/2.4) B&W lens and 2MP (f/2.4) macro lens – all topped with exciting modes - enables users to preserve their memories with ultimate clarity.
realme C25Y is powered by a 12nm Octa-core powerful processor for a seamless mobile experience. It supports 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM, allowing users to save all their important data with no worries.
On top of that, there is also an 8MP AI selfie camera, making users social media ready. This camera setup can undoubtedly be regarded as the best in its price range. The device boasts a 6.5-inch Large Display, for an immersive viewing experience, with an 88.7 per cent screen-to-body ratio. On top of that, its Line aesthetic design makes you stand out from the crowd.
The price of the phone is Tk 13,990. | https://en.prothomalo.com/corporate/ib6oj1yeel | 2022-08-05T15:34:51Z | https://en.prothomalo.com/corporate/ib6oj1yeel | false | 1 |
ROBECO INSTITUTIONAL ASSET MANAG bought a fresh place in Consolidated Edison Inc. (NYSE:ED). Money CNN data shows that the institutional investor bought 162.5 thousand shares of the stock in a transaction took place on 6/30/2022. In another most recent transaction, which held on 6/30/2022, NIKKO ASSET MANAGEMENT CO., LTD. bought approximately 161.4 thousand shares of Consolidated Edison Inc. In a separate transaction which took place on 6/30/2022, the institutional investor, THE OREGON INVESTMENT COUNCIL bought 75.2 thousand shares of the company’s stock. The total Institutional investors and hedge funds own 67.60% of the company’s stock.
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In the most recent purchasing and selling session, Consolidated Edison Inc. (ED)’s share price decreased by -0.68 percent to ratify at $97.43. A sum of 1818595 shares traded at recent session and its average exchanging volume remained at 1.85M shares. The 52-week price high and low points are important variables to concentrate on when assessing the current and prospective worth of a stock. Consolidated Edison Inc. (ED) shares are taking a pay cut of -3.65% from the high point of 52 weeks and flying high of 36.23% from the low figure of 52 weeks.
Consolidated Edison Inc. (ED) shares reached a high of $98.75 and dropped to a low of $97.39 until finishing in the latest session at $98.27. Traders and investors may also choose to study the ATR or Average True Range when concentrating on technical inventory assessment. Currently at 1.84 is the 14-day ATR for Consolidated Edison Inc. (ED). The highest level of 52-weeks price has $101.12 and $71.52 for 52 weeks lowest level. After the recent changes in the price, the firm price to earnings ratio of 22.52 and price to earnings growth ratio of 4.35. The liquidity ratios which the firm has won as a quick ratio of 0.90, a current ratio of 1.00 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.19.
Having a look at past record, we’re going to look at various forwards or backwards shifting developments regarding ED. The firm’s shares fell -1.07 percent in the past five business days and grew 4.65 percent in the past thirty business days. In the previous quarter, the stock rose 4.20 percent at some point. The company’s performance is now positive at 14.19% from the beginning of the calendar year.
According to WSJ, Consolidated Edison Inc. (ED) obtained an estimated Underweight proposal from the 17 brokerage firms currently keeping a deep eye on the stock performance as compares to its rivals. 7 equity research analysts rated the shares with a selling strategy, 6 gave a hold approach, 1 gave a purchase tip, 0 gave the firm a overweight advice and 3 put the stock under the underweight category. The average price goal of one year between several banks and credit unions that last year discussed the stock is $88.00.
DLocal Limited (DLO) shares on Thursday’s trading session, jumped 5.27 percent to see the stock exchange hands at $30.37 per unit. Lets a quick look at company’s past reported and future predictions of growth using the EPS Growth. EPS growth is a percentage change in standardized earnings per share over the trailing-twelve-month period to the current year-end. The company posted a value of $0.28 as earning-per-share over the last full year, while a chance, will post $0.65 for the coming year. The current EPS Growth rate for the company during the year is 162.00% and predicted to reach at 55.34% for the coming year. In-depth, if we analyze for the long-term EPS Growth, the past five years and the scenario is totally different as the current prediction is 45.50% for the next five year.
The last trading period has seen DLocal Limited (DLO) move -58.64% and 99.93% from the stock’s 52-week high and 52-week low prices respectively. The daily trading volume for DLocal Limited (NASDAQ:DLO) over the last session is 1.46 million shares. DLO has attracted considerable attention from traders and investors, a scenario that has seen its volume drop -10.99% compared to the previous one.
Investors focus on the profitability proportions of the company that how the company performs at profitability side. Return on equity ratio or ROE is a significant indicator for prospective investors as they would like to see just how effectively a business is using their cash to produce net earnings. As a return on equity, DLocal Limited (NASDAQ:DLO) produces 32.40%. Because it would be easy and highly flexible, ROI measurement is among the most popular investment ratios. Executives could use it to evaluate the levels of performance on acquisitions of capital equipment whereas investors can determine that how the stock investment is better. The ROI entry for DLO’s scenario is at 26.30%. Another main metric of a profitability ratio is the return on assets ratio or ROA that analyses how effectively a business can handle its assets to generate earnings over a duration of time. DLocal Limited (DLO) generated 15.30% ROA for the trading twelve-month.
Volatility is just a proportion of the anticipated day by day value extend—the range where an informal investor works. Greater instability implies more noteworthy benefit or misfortune. After an ongoing check, DLocal Limited (DLO) stock is found to be 5.89% volatile for the week, while 5.80% volatility is recorded for the month. The outstanding shares have been calculated 313.19M. Based on a recent bid, its distance from 20 days simple moving average is 12.16%, and its distance from 50 days simple moving average is 11.93% while it has a distance of -2.59% from the 200 days simple moving average.
The Williams Percent Range or Williams %R is a well-known specialized pointer made by Larry Williams to help recognize overbought and oversold circumstances. DLocal Limited (NASDAQ:DLO)’s Williams Percent Range or Williams %R at the time of writing to be seated at 0.99% for 9-Day. It is also calculated for different time spans. Currently for this organization, Williams %R is stood at 0.99% for 14-Day, 0.77% for 20-Day, 10.30% for 50-Day and to be seated 26.91% for 100-Day. Relative Strength Index, or RSI(14), which is a technical analysis gauge, also used to measure momentum on a scale of zero to 100 for overbought and oversold. In the case of DLocal Limited, the RSI reading has hit 63.49 for 14-Day. | https://www.bovnews.com/2022/08/05/major-logical-reasons-behind-consolidated-edison-inc-ed-dlocal-limited-dlo-growth/ | 2022-08-05T15:36:33Z | https://www.bovnews.com/2022/08/05/major-logical-reasons-behind-consolidated-edison-inc-ed-dlocal-limited-dlo-growth/ | false | 19813 |
A new episode of Dynasty airs Friday at 9PM on WCCB Charlotte’s CW.
Click to watch episode promo on YouTube.
About DYNASTY:
DYNASTY is back, which means the knives are out and so is the Carrington family backstabbing. After somehow surviving her bachelorette party in the third season finale, Fallon (Elizabeth Gillies) just wants to get married to Liam (Adam Huber) and have a nice, calm life. Those aren’t two words usually associated with Carringtons, and they won’t be this season either as the happy couple faces their biggest challenges yet. Danger and temptation are as abundant as champagne and diamonds! | https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2022/08/05/9pm-dynasty-a-writer-of-dubious-talent/ | 2022-08-05T15:37:02Z | https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2022/08/05/9pm-dynasty-a-writer-of-dubious-talent/ | false | null |
For Valerii and Anastasiia Didenko, the opportunity to move to Canada to escape the war in Ukraine was daunting – but the idea of their five-year-old daughter growing up around battle was unimaginable.
The Ukrainian family arrived to Greater Victoria on May 31 as some of the first to land in B.C. while thousands look to escape the ongoing conflict. Since then, they’ve been staying with a host family in North Saanich, where they told Black Press Media that the community has been welcoming and helpful.
They first arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 15, before taking one suitcase on a flight to move in with retired couple Cathy Jansen and Paul Fussell. During their careers, Jansen developed software while Fussell specialized in airplane electronics and piloting.
Jansen brought the idea of hosting a Ukrainian family to her husband because she wanted to do something tangible to help. They settled on their decision when they learned the Didenkos were arriving in Halifax and relied on the Help Ukraine Vancouver Island organization to navigate the hosting process.
Jansen and Fussell have become quite attached to Nikol Didenko – who calls Jansen her third grandmother.
“They are a joy to have around because they are really lovely people,” Jansen said.
Valerii worked seasonally as a welder in Poland, near Warsaw, for roughly six years – during which Anastasiia and their daughter would visit Valerii for up to three months at a time. The family was there when they learned of bombings near their home cities of Shepetivka and Kryvyi Rih, and they had to decide if they would return Ukraine or look elsewhere.
With a three-year work permit granted, Valerii has been able to hit the ground running as a welder in the area. As the family has a visa that allows them to stay in the country for up to 10 years, the hope is Valerii’s work experience will help them to apply for permanent residency or citizenship, he said.
Valerii learned what it feels like to live with war during the three years he served in the Ukrainian army. The first year was mandatory, but Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 when he was close to completing his service, so he served the military for about two more years.
War zones are horrible and any small mistake could mean the end of your life, he said.
“[Moving to Canada] is scary because it is a big step. But when war starts, it is no longer scary. It is very dangerous [to return], I think it would be a stupid idea to go back to hot [front] line war.”
The move to B.C. was hard for Nikol, because she is too young to fully understand the situation. Anastasiia hopes her daughter’s curiosity and friendly personality will encourage her to socialize when she begins Kindergarten in September.
Nikol is learning English from scratch and takes language lessons from a teacher who lives nearby. She plays with the children in the neighbourhood, but can get disheartened when she feels confused by something and has to look to her parents for help.
“When she does not understand I see she tries to find someone to help… She plays with the neighbour kids, but I see Nika does not understand,” Valerii said. “I think she is the same as me, one day she will just start speaking.”
The couple have been meeting other Ukrainians at the local cultural centre’s Wednesday gatherings, which they say has helped with the adjustments of uprooting their lives. There, many people they’ve met speak Ukrainian as a mother tongue or a second language, and there are other families with young kids.
Anastasiia said many Ukrainians believe the war will end and life will go back to normal, but she doesn’t think that will happen anytime soon.
Even with a visa in hand, some Ukrainians are hesitant to relocate across the ocean — but the peace is worth the difficult changes, she said. Now, the Didenko family is focused on finding a suitable place to rent, which has proven to be a challenge as they work within their budget.
Jansen and Fussell have told them not to rush. While they’ll be sad to see the family move on, Jansen said she understands their yearning to grow their independent lives in Greater Victoria.
“We want to build a big happy family,” Anastasiia said, adding that the pair are considering adoption. “I think now after the war in Ukraine, it will be very popular because many children will not have a home or parents.”
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Lightning strike near White House leaves 2 dead, 2 injured
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people who were critically injured in a lightning strike outside the White House have died, police said Friday. Two others remained hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, of Janesville, Wisconsin, died of their injuries after the lightning strike in Lafayette Park, located directly outside the White House complex, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The two other people, a man and a woman, were in critical condition, the police department said. Their identities were not immediately released.
Authorities did not reveal how the people were injured, other than to say they were critically hurt in the lightning strike.
“We are saddened by the tragic loss of life after the lightning strike in Lafayette Park,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “Our hearts are with the families who lost loved ones, and we are praying for those still fighting for their lives.”
Officers with the Secret Service and the U.S. Park Police witnessed the lightning strike Thursday night and ran over to render first aid, officials said.
Emergency medical crews were called to the scene just before 7 p.m. and had transported all of the victims to the hospital with “critical, life-threatening injures,” fire department spokesman Vito Maggiolo said. | https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/national/us-government/2702625/lightning-strike-near-white-house-leaves-2-dead-2-injured.html | 2022-08-05T15:37:22Z | https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/national/us-government/2702625/lightning-strike-near-white-house-leaves-2-dead-2-injured.html | true | 37 |
The agent of Bayern Munich defender Dayot Upamecano, Raquel Rosa, has told GOAL and SPOX of the influence that former Manchester United interim boss Ralf Rangnick has had on her career, describing him as "very fair" and "very direct". Before moving into player representation, Rosa worked as an interpreter for Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig, with Rangnick serving as head coach of the former between 2006 and 2011.
The 41-year-old agent, who also boasts Leipzig midfielder Amadou Haidara on her client list, says Rangnick taught her a great deal about how to be successful in the business side of football during their time working together at Rhein-Neckar-Arena.
What has Rosa said about ex-Man Utd boss Rangnick?
Rangnick managed 10 different clubs in Germany, including Schalke and Leipzig, before accepting a temporary post at Old Trafford in November 2021.
The 64-year-old was unable to prevent United from recording their lowest-ever points total in the Premier League, but managed to land the top job with the Austria national team before handing the reins to new permanent head coach Erik ten Hag in May.
"Ralf Rangnick was the person who influenced me the most in football. He always gives 120 per cent. He is very fair and very human. But he is also very direct," Rosa told GOAL and SPOX when quizzed on her relationship with Rangnick.
"We once had a business trip and I was two minutes late. First he said 'You're two minutes late!' not 'Good morning!'
"These are things that have shaped me to do my work better."
Ralf Rangnick announces that he will not be staying on at United as a consultant.#MUFC
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) May 29, 2022
Rosa: I wouldn't wear jeans for any Premier League deals!
Rosa's job has given her the opportunity to travel across Europe for transfer negotiations, and she says that every country has a different way of conducting business.
The Brazilian agent, who is also a German citizen and has battled with partial deafness throughout her career, says meetings in England tend to be the most formal as Premier League club owners take it upon themselves to handle transfers.
"For example, the contact persons are different everywhere," said Rosa, who is also the director of the EEFA Player Agents Program and leads a course for the further education of agents. "In Germany, it is clearly the sports director. In England, it's often the owners, i.e. the team owners. In Portugal, it's the presidents. In France, it varies more. For me, it's totally interesting.
"If you can speak to people in their own language, you have an advantage. In all countries, negotiations are different. A business dinner with wine is rather strange for a German. The clothes you wear are also a big difference.
"In Germany, you can dress more casually. In England, people are more conservative. In England, I wouldn't wear jeans and trainers to a negotiation. In Germany, no one cares.
"It's more a question of: Does she know her stuff? Is the price right? It's just different in every country." | https://www.goal.com/en-cm/news/rangnick-upamecano-agent-rosa-ex-man-utd-boss-suit-premier/blt039c0d39847da886 | 2022-08-05T15:38:31Z | https://www.goal.com/en-cm/news/rangnick-upamecano-agent-rosa-ex-man-utd-boss-suit-premier/blt039c0d39847da886 | true | 13 |
'Golden Girls' LA pop-up restaurant has the golden touch
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Picture it: A vacant Beverly Hills bistro has been transformed into the set of a 1980s sitcom about four women living in Miami - but it's also a working restaurant.
Reservations have been going fast at the newly opened The Golden Girls Kitchen. Some patrons have come from out of state to see the pop-up eatery.
Joe Saunders, of Cranston, Rhode Island, his two teenage children and their mother were visiting Northern California when they learned about the pop-up. So they made a special trip south just to see it.
"I was a little hesitant about coming but my kids' mom really wanted to come," said Saunders, who was wearing a T-shirt referencing the sitcom's fictitious Shady Pines retirement home. "It's been a good time... the lasagna, the strawberry daiquiri and I'm going to have a piece of cake with ice cream, too."
Thirty years after "The Golden Girls" ended on NBC, fans still can't let go of the sitcom about four housemates - Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia - bonding over aging, dating and cheesecake. The first month of reservations sold out before the pop-up opened July 30, which the internet deems National Golden Girls Day. It's just the latest example of the comedy rising to pop culture relevancy again. In just the past few months, the first ever Golden-Con fan convention was held in Chicago and a pilot for an animated, futuristic "Golden Girls" series is being shopped around.
Bucket Listers, an online events company, organized the pop-up. It had the blessing of Disney, which owns the rights to "Golden Girls." So, organizers were free to put Easter Egg references in the decor and the menu. Upon walking in, fans are immediately greeted by a bartender at the Shady Pines bar. Further inside is a replica of the women's kitchen counter, complete with a yellow wall phone. Behind the dining room is a recreation of Blanche's bedroom, including the iconic banana leaf bedspread and wallpaper.
Cheesecake dessert items are pictured in front of a portrait of "The Golden Girls" cast at the Golden Girls Kitchen pop-up restaurant, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
"It has been so heartwarming to see my mom light up. I know that she´s watched the show at least 50 times each season," said A.J. Maloney, 23, who came from San Diego with her mother, Shellee, 45.
Derek Berry, Bucket Listers´ director of experiences, has plenty of experience staging pop-ups. Since 2016, he has overseen half-a-dozen restaurant tributes starting with a "Saved By the Bell" diner in Chicago. "Breaking Bad," "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Good Burger" have also inspired fast-casual diners. Berry's criteria for the pop-up treatment is if a show has "staying power" and people are constantly quoting it. "Golden Girls" was inevitable.
"Every time we announce a pop-up, we look at the comments. People are like `I love it, but you should have done this!´ And it´s always `Golden Girls,´" said Berry, who worked with a 45-member team.
One of the most fun aspects was working with executive chef Royce Burke to devise menu items and to name them. The choices of course include lasagna - which the Sicilian-born Sophia often cooked - and various flavors of cheesecake. There are also references to Scandinavian delicacies mentioned by Rose in her stories about her hometown of St. Olaf, Minnesota.
"I like all the St. Olaf items where you never knew if they were real or not," Berry said. "We threw a couple on there. It´s so fun to see my staff and myself try to pronounce them."
The pop-up only has reservations through late October. But its popularity has been beyond expectations. So much so that there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and, of course, Miami, Berry added.
"The Golden Girls" premiered in 1985. None of the four stars are alive. Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty all died in the late 2000s and Betty White died last December at age 99. Yet, because of cable reruns and streaming availability on Hulu, the show keeps finding new life and new, younger fans. The widely varying demographics of the restaurant's patrons are proof of that.
Moses Nicholas and his girlfriend, Johanna James, both 18 and from Los Angeles, had a date over vegan lasagna and vegan cheesecake. Their reservation was a surprise gift from James' mother, who knew both of them grew up watching "Golden Girls" in syndication and still catch it on Hulu.
"There's something so relatable to the show for me for some reason," Nicholas said. "I just find it really funny and it's very comforting to watch."
The couple's ages is just proof the show "never dies," James added.
Shirley Lyon and her three girlfriends, all of whom are senior citizens, came from Palos Verdes, California, with their own drinkware. The quartet, who call themselves "golden girls," brought "Golden Girls" mugs they made but with their faces superimposed over the characters. Just being in the restaurant brought back the joy they feel when watching the sitcom.
"People here I think all love them," Lyon said. "I don´t think anybody comes who hasn´t experienced how precious they are. I just love their friendship."
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A sign referring to the Shady Pines Nursing Home in the television series "The Golden Girls" is pictured behind the bar at the Golden Girls Kitchen pop-up restaurant, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
The theme song to the television series "The Golden Girls" is featured in neon lettering at the Golden Girls Kitchen pop-up restaurant, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
FILE - This Dec. 25, 1985 file photo shows the stars of the television series "The Golden Girls" during a break in taping in Hollywood, Calif. From left are, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur and Betty White. A vacant Beverly Hills bistro has been transformed into the set of a 1980s sitcom about four women living in Miami but it's also a working restaurant. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and, of course, Miami. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
A replica of the bedroom of "The Golden Girls" character Blanche Devereaux is pictured at the Golden Girls Kitchen pop-up restaurant, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
The main seating area of the Golden Girls Kitchen pop-up restaurant is pictured, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Patio seating is pictured at the Golden Girls Kitchen pop-up restaurant, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Cheesecake and cookie dessert items are displayed on the bar at the Golden Girls Kitchen pop-up restaurant, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Shelf decorations are pictured at the Golden Girls Kitchen pop-up restaurant, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
A digital portrait of the cast of the television series "The Golden Girls" is displayed near dining tables at the Golden Girls Kitchen pop-up restaurant, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The pop-up only has reservations through the end of October. But there are plans to take it on the road to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11085027/Golden-Girls-LA-pop-restaurant-golden-touch.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-05T15:42:45Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11085027/Golden-Girls-LA-pop-restaurant-golden-touch.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 21 |
Retired NYPD Officer Thomas Marrinan Killed During Altercation Inside Kensington, Brooklyn Pizza Shop
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A retired NYPD officer was killed in a double shooting in Brooklyn on Monday night while reportedly trying to help a friend.
Sources told CBS2's Jessica Layton the retired officer was shot during a confrontation at a pizza shop in Kensington. He was rushed to and area hospital, where he died.
The Police Benevolent Association identified the victim as Thomas Marrinan.
The deadly incident started with a fight inside the pizza shop and then spilled outside and continued down a block. Distraught neighbors later learned the retired officer was killed right around the corner from where he lives.
Cellphone video shows a desperate attempt to save Marrinan, who moments earlier was being held in the arms of his wife as she begged him not to die.
"He fall down on the floor and his wife came running. She was hugging him, 'Tom, Tom, Tom,'" Sam Saied said.
Sam Saied and his brother, Alex, who own Magic Deli on the corner in Kensington, said they heard a gunshot that left their friend with a gunshot wound to the chest.
"He always offer help to anybody," Sam said.
"He would sacrifice himself to other people. That's what he just did," Alex added.
Sources told Layton the 57-year-old friendly face in his neighborhood was asked by a friend, a retired New York City correction officer, to meet him at the pizza shop on East Third Street and Church Avenue to confront a man who had been causing trouble inside.
There was a struggle for the retired correction officer's gun, and the suspect was shot in the arm. That same bullet then hit Marrinan in the chest.
"At one point, the 57-year-old male and another male, who is 53 years old, came to the aid of the 86-year-old. The two males who are in their 50s confronted the 33-year-old and a physical fight ensured," NYPD Deputy Chief Joseph Gulotta said.
"The guy who shot him, he's a trouble maker. He's really bad," said one friend of the victim.
The friend knows the 33-year-old suspect and the victim's entire family.
"He never had any problems with anybody. He's a really good person and I'm very upset," the friend said. "I was crying. I was crying. I just hope he survives."
Sadly, that was not the case. Sources told Layton the suspect was drunk inside the pizzeria when he started that fight. He was taken to a hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound to the arm. No charges were immediately filed.
Police were talking to the retired correction officer to find out more about the sequence of events. He was not hurt.
CBS2's Jessica Layton contributed to this report.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday linked the Congress leaders’ protest in black clothes over the issues of price rise and unemployment to the party’s “appeasement” politics to convey its opposition to the Ram temple foundation laying by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on this day in 2020.
Speaking to reporters, Shah said everybody saw protests from the Congress leaders of late in regular clothes they wore but they especially chose black clothes for Friday agitation as Modi peacefully resolved an over 550-year dispute which was associated with the faith of crores of people. The construction of the temple is now in full swing, he noted.
The Congress is conveying its opposition to the temple construction and the issues of ED action and price rise are only excuses, Amit Shah claimed.
As the Congress could not have openly expressed its opposition to the temple, it has tried to give a hidden message, he alleged.
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Despite being in power for most of the time since independence, the Congress did nothing to resolve the dispute while Modi found a solution to it in a peaceful manner, the Home Minister said.
Wearing black clothes, the Congress leaders hit the streets to protest against price rise and unemployment with a host of them, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, being detained by police for nearly six hours.
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North Korea-backed hackers have a clever way to read your Gmail:
Researchers have unearthed never-before-seen malware that hackers from North Korea have been using to surreptitiously read and download email and attachments from infected users' Gmail and AOL accounts.
The malware, dubbed SHARPEXT by researchers from security firm Volexity, uses clever means to install a browser extension for the Chrome and Edge browsers, Volexity reported in a blog post. The extension can't be detected by the email services, and since the browser has already been authenticated using any multifactor authentication protections in place, this increasingly popular security measure plays no role in reining in the account compromise.
The malware has been in use for "well over a year," Volexity said, and is the work of a hacking group the company tracks as SharpTongue. The group is sponsored by North Korea's government and overlaps with a group tracked as Kimsuky by other researchers. SHARPEXT is targeting organizations in the US, Europe, and South Korea that work on nuclear weapons and other issues North Korea deems important to its national security.
Volexity President Steven Adair said in an email that the extension gets installed "by way of spear phishing and social engineering where the victim is fooled into opening a malicious document. Previously we have seen DPRK threat actors launch spear phishing attacks where the entire objective was to get the victim to install a browser extension vs it being a post exploitation mechanism for persistence and data theft." In its current incarnation, the malware works only on Windows, but Adair said there's no reason it couldn't be broadened to infect browsers running on macOS or Linux, too.
The blog post added: "Volexity's own visibility shows the extension has been quite successful, as logs obtained by Volexity show the attacker was able to successfully steal thousands of emails from multiple victims through the malware's deployment."
Installing a browser extension during a phishing operation without the end-user noticing isn't easy. SHARPEXT developers have clearly paid attention to research like what's published here, here, and here, which shows how a security mechanism in the Chromium browser engine prevents malware from making changes to sensitive user settings. Each time a legitimate change is made, the browser takes a cryptographic hash of some of the code. At startup, the browser verifies the hashes, and if any of them don't match, the browser requests the old settings be restored.
[...] "When Volexity first encountered SHARPEXT, it seemed to be a tool in early development containing numerous bugs, an indication the tool was immature," the company said. "The latest updates and ongoing maintenance demonstrate the attacker is achieving its goals, finding value in continuing to refine it." | https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/08/04/189208&from=rss | 2022-08-05T15:43:15Z | https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/08/04/189208&from=rss | false | 1 |
The College of Pharmacy ranked #73 out of 143 pharmacy schools in the U.S.
ELK GROVE, Calif., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- California Northstate University College of Pharmacy has been ranked #6 among all fourteen pharmacy schools in California based on current American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) rankings for NIH research funding. Out of 143 pharmacy schools in the U.S., California Northstate University College of Pharmacy is now ranked #73 after being ranked #103 last year.
"Among pharmacy schools in Northern California specifically, California Northstate University College of Pharmacy is ranked second, just after University of California San Francisco," said Dr. Xiaodong Feng, Dean of California Northstate University College of Pharmacy. "This is the highest ranking in California Northstate University history and our faculty members are leading many cutting edge biomedical and pharmaceutical research studies."
"We are extremely proud of our highly improved AACP ranking, and it shows the amount of growth our pharmacy school has undergone in just one year and our commitment to continuous improvement," said Dr. Alvin Cheung, President of California Northstate University. "Our pharmacy students and faculty are dedicated to education, research, and providing competent, patient-centered care, and we are honored to be recognized."
"The California Northstate University College of Pharmacy places a special emphasis on active learning, direct patient care experiences, and the role of research in advancing the profession of pharmacy, and we take pride in producing capable and well-rounded pharmacists," said Dr. Ashim Malhotra, California Northstate University College of Pharmacy Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Accreditation and Program Development. "Our faculty and students make California Northstate University an extraordinary place to learn, and we will continue to work to advance our program."
"At the California Northstate University College of Pharmacy, we are committed to advancing the art and science of pharmacy through research," said Dr. Ruth Vinall, California Northstate University College of Pharmacy Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Research. "Student and faculty collaboration is a critical component of our mission, and we are proud of the success it has yielded."
The California Northstate University College of Pharmacy curriculum is designed to help students become active, self-directed, and lifelong learners. The four-year program is intended to facilitate and optimize student learning in a progressive and integrated manner both in didactic and experiential courses and offers research training and experiences to all students. To learn more about California Northstate University College of Pharmacy, click here.
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California Northstate University was founded in Elk Grove in 2008 to advance the science and art of healthcare. California Northstate University is dedicated to educating, developing, and training individuals to provide competent, patient-centered care. Since its inception, California Northstate University has continued to expand to meet the growing needs to the community. Today, California Northstate University Elk Grove campus has over 2,000 combined students and employees in five colleges, including College of Dental Medicine, College of Health Sciences, College of Graduate Studies, College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, and College of Psychology. To learn more, please visit www.cnsu.edu.
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INTERACTIVE MAP: See the most famous person from your hometown
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 10:10 AM CDT|Updated: 32 minutes ago
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A new interactive map shows the most famous person from your hometown.
Did you know Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar and Barack Obama in Honolulu? Who is the most famous person from your home town?
— Topi Tjukanov (@tjukanov) July 28, 2022
I made a map of the most notable people around the world. Built with @Mapbox.
Check it out here: https://t.co/NR0J7nqTn1
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Mapbox developer and geographer Topi Tjukanov developed an interactive map that includes the hometown of celebrities. The map allows you to break out the celebrities into other categories, including world leaders and sports stars.
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Keke Palmer has "trauma" from being a child star.
The 28-year-old actress - who began her career when she was nine and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award at the age of 10 - believes being a child entertainer is "really exploitative" because the young performers are not yet aware of their own "limits".
She told The Guardian newspaper: “I think performing in general is exploitative. I think that being a child entertainer is really exploitative, because you don’t even know your limits yourself.
"And a lot of what you later envision as a memory is actually trauma.”
The 'Nope' star recently hit out at Twitter comments comparing her and Zendaya - which suggested the 'Eiphoria' star has been more successful because she is lighter skinned - and she's insisted she just "ignores" being subjected to colorism.
She said: “It’s difficult. I’m asked about it a lot, you know? Before that little tweet even came out.” She tries again. “People would always ask me: ‘How do you deal with colorism? How do you deal with being Black in this industry?’ And the answer I’m gonna give you may not be the answer that you want. Because the truth is, I ignore it. I ignore it.”
Keke believes she should be celebrated for her accomplishments, not seen as a victim.
She said: “I just hate when the narrative goes to a place where I think young girls might look and say: ‘I’m a victim.’ When yes, racism is real. Colorism is real.
“You believe I’m not doing enough, not because I’m not but because you don’t believe that I can be enough. And that is colorism.
“You should actually use me as an example of what I was able to accomplish despite what I was up against. Don’t change the story of somebody who has given hope to make them hopeless.
“The real conversation around colorism and Keke Palmer should be that she defied the odds.” | https://nordot.app/928289855688425472 | 2022-08-05T15:43:33Z | https://nordot.app/928289855688425472 | false | 1 |
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill eight, including senior militant
Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes in Gaza on Friday, killing at least eight people, including a senior militant, and wounding another 40, according to Palestinian officials.
Israel said it was targeting the Islamic Jihad militant group amid days of heightened tensions following the arrest of a senior militant in the occupied West Bank earlier this week.
The strikes risk igniting yet another war in the territory, which is ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas and is home to about two million Palestinians. The assassination of a senior militant would likely be met by rocket fire from Gaza, pushing the region closer to all-out war.
A blast could be heard in Gaza City, where smoke poured out of the seventh floor of a tall building on Friday afternoon.
“The Israeli government will not allow terrorist organisations in the Gaza Strip to set the agenda in the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip and threaten the citizens of the State of Israel,” Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement. “Anyone who tries to harm Israel should know: We will find you.”
The Palestinian Health Ministry said eight people were killed, including a five-year-old girl, and at least 40 were wounded. Islamic Jihad said a Gaza commander, Taiseer al-Jabari, was among those killed.
The Israeli military said it was targeting Islamic Jihad in an operation named “Breaking Dawn”. It also announced a “special situation” on the home front, with schools closed and limits placed on other activities in communities within 50 miles of the border.
An Israeli soldier secures a road block leading to the border with Gaza Strip (Ariel Schalit/AP)
Israel had closed roads around Gaza earlier this week and sent reinforcements to the border as it braced for a revenge attack after the arrest of the Islamic Jihad leader in the occupied West Bank on Monday. A teenage member of the group was killed in a gun battle between the Israeli troops and Palestinian militants.
Israel and the Hamas fought four wars and several smaller skirmishes in the 15 years since the militant group seized power in the coastal strip from rival Palestinian forces.
The most recent war was in May 2021, and tensions again soared earlier this year following a wave of attacks inside Israel, near-daily military operations in the West Bank and tensions at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site.
Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhalah, speaking to the al-Mayadeen TV network from Iran, said “we are starting the fight, and the fighters of the Palestinian resistance have to stand together to confront this aggression”. He said there would be “no red lines” in the confrontation and blamed the violence on Israel.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said “the Israeli enemy, who started the escalation against Gaza and committed a new crime, must pay the price and bear full responsibility for it”.
Islamic Jihad is smaller than Hamas but largely shares its ideology. Both groups are opposed to Israel’s existence and have carried out scores of deadly attacks over the years, including the firing of rockets into southern Israel. It is unclear how much control Hamas has over Islamic Jihad, and Israel holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from Gaza.
Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz visited communities near Gaza earlier on Friday, saying authorities were preparing “actions that will remove the threat from this region”, without elaborating.
“We will operate with internal resilience and external strength in order to restore routine life in Israel’s south,” he said. “We do not seek conflict, yet we will not hesitate to defend our citizens, if required.” | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11085035/Israeli-strikes-Gaza-kill-seven-including-senior-militant.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-05T15:44:16Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11085035/Israeli-strikes-Gaza-kill-seven-including-senior-militant.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 10 |
Gold bracelets and millions of dollars in prize money up for grabs on both GGPoker and WSOP.COM during the World's Biggest Online Poker Festival
GGPoker's WSOP Online Main Event to feature $20,000,000 Guarantee
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Series of Poker® (WSOP®) – the richest, most prestigious, and longest-running poker series – today announced WSOP Online 2022, a comprehensive online-only festival with offerings across both WSOP.COM in the United States and exclusive partner site GGPoker for all international territories. WSOP Online 2022 marks the third year of the online tournament series, which established several records in its first two years of existence.
Following the record-breaking success of the 53rd annual WSOP on the Las Vegas Strip, which awarded a whopping $347.9 million in prize money to a staggering 197,626 entrants, WSOP Online 2022 will feature official gold bracelet tournaments and wall-to-wall side action on both GGPoker (Aug. 14-Sept. 27) and WSOP.COM (Sept. 10-Oct. 18). Each bracelet winner from WSOP Online 2022, both international and domestic, will earn a seat at the Tournament of Champions during the 2023 WSOP in Las Vegas.
For the third time, GGPoker will play host to the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, known better to poker players and fans as the WSOP Online Main Event®. That event, which still holds the Guinness Book of World Records mark for prize pool in an online poker tournament, will again feature a staggering $20,000,000 prize pool guarantee.
"No one wanted to see this year's WSOP come to an end," said Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the World Series of Poker, Ty Stewart. "However, in many ways, the return of WSOP Online is even more exciting. Together with GGPoker, we have a clear vision to make this festival annually the biggest deal in online poker so that the WSOP offers players the marquee event in both live and online poker each year."
GGPoker will offer 33 bracelet events with buy-ins ranging from $100 to $10,000. Highlights include the following tournaments:
- $1,111 Every 1 For War Relief – Sunday, August 14
- Million Dollar Mystery Bounty - $10M GTD, 1M Top Bounty Prize - $210 buy-in – Monday, August 22 (Day 2)
- $10,000 Heads UP NLH Championship [No Late Reg, 128 Cap] – Saturday, August 27
- $10,000 Super MILLION$ High Roller NLH - $5M GTD – Sunday, August 28
- $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER NLH - $5M GTD, $1M for 1st – Monday, August 29 (Final Day)
- $100 FLIP & Go NLH - $1M GTD – Monday, September 5 (Go Stage)
- $1,050 WSOP GGMasters HR Freezeout NLH - $2M GTD – Sunday, September 11
- $400 COLOSSUS - $3M GTD – Monday, September 19 (Final Day)
- $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship - $20M GTD – Monday, September 26 (Day 2)
Online satellites for all WSOP Online 2022 international bracelet events will run at GGPoker, allowing players to make their way into these events and take a shot at priceless WSOP gold for less.
New GGPoker players are eligible to claim the poker room's Welcome Bonus, earn even more rewards with the Honeymoon for Newcomers promotion, and automatically join GGPoker's Fish Buffet loyalty program, with regular cash prizes offered.
"Online bracelets are just as prestigious as live tournament bracelets," said Daniel Negreanu, GGPoker Global Ambassador and winner of six WSOP gold bracelets. "I'm glad that we're creating a new tradition to celebrate the online game, and I'm striving to add my first WSOP Online bracelet to my collection."
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The English Premier League decided to make 5 amendments to the tournament, most of which aim to raise the level of excitement in the matches, and provide the best atmosphere for spectators.
audio recordings
The English Premier League announced that, starting from the new season, it will publish audio recordings between the main referee for each match, and the video referee (VAR).
This will raise the level of excitement, and aspire to involve viewers more in the matches, as the viewer will be able to understand the refereeing decisions and how to take them.
Relays
The English Premier League obeyed the global wave, which allows each team to make 5 substitutions during the match, instead of 3.
And those football tournaments in the world began to apply the five substitutions law during the Corona pandemic period, to allow more players to participate, and to maintain the team’s fitness level.
After the Premier League insisted on keeping the three substitutions law last season, it decided to follow the global trend, and announced that five substitutions would be allowed during matches.
knee flexion movement
In the past three seasons, league players used to bend the knee for a full minute, before kick-off, to spread awareness about racism, in a movement linked to anti-racism and adopted by the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
But this season, the league teams decided to stop practicing this movement before the matches, after a meeting of the leaders of the 20 clubs, because it “lost its true value” and became “a cause for division among the team’s players”, according to British sources.
The knee flexion movement will be applied during certain occasions that call for a stand against racism, and will also be applied in the local finals.
balls
10 balls will be ready for use, on each side of the field, to prevent wasting time during matches, which sometimes happens because the ball carrier searches for a ball to give to the player, when the main match ball goes out of the court.
Holidays stop
Due to the start of the Winter World Cup in November, the Premier League will stop in the middle of the season, for the first time in history, before completing its competitions after the end of the World Cup.
The English Premier League will stop for 40 days, between November 14 and December 25, before returning to the expected holiday period.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy has contracted for two straight quarters, intensifying fears that the nation is on the cusp of a recession — if not already in one — barely two years after the pandemic recession officially ended.
Six months of contraction is a long-held informal definition of a recession. Yet nothing is simple in the post-pandemic economy. Its direction has confounded Federal Reserve policymakers and many private economists since growth screeched to a halt in March 2020 as COVID-19 struck and 20 million Americans were suddenly thrown out of work.
One sector of the economy that has remained defiantly buoyant is the jobs market. On Friday, the Labor Department said America’s hiring boom continued in July as employers added a surprising 528,000 jobs despite raging inflation and rising anxiety about a recession. July’s hiring was up from 398,000 in June.
Even as the economy shrank over the first half of this year, employers added 2.7 million jobs — more than in most entire years before the pandemic struck. And the unemployment rate has sunk to 3.5%, near a half-century low. Robust hiring and exceedingly low unemployment aren’t consistent with a recession.
While most economists — and Fed Chair Jerome Powell — have said they don’t think the economy is in recession, many increasingly expect an economic downturn to begin later this year or next.
Either way, with inflation raging at its highest level in four decades, Americans’ purchasing power is eroding. The pain is being felt disproportionately by lower-income and Black and Hispanic households, many of whom are struggling to pay for higher-cost essentials like food, gas and rent. Compounding those pressures, the Fed is jacking up interest rates at the fastest pace since the early 1980s, thereby magnifying borrowing costs for homes and cars and credit card purchases.
As a result, regardless of whether a recession has officially begun, Americans have increasingly soured on the economy.
So how, exactly, do we know when an economy is in recession? Here are some answers to such questions:
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WHO DECIDES WHEN A RECESSION HAS STARTED?
Recessions are officially declared by the obscure-sounding National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of economists whose Business Cycle Dating Committee defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months.”
The committee considers trends in hiring as a key measure in determining recessions. It also assesses many other data points, including gauges of income, employment, inflation-adjusted spending, retail sales and factory output. It puts heavy weight on jobs and a gauge of inflation-adjusted income that excludes government support payments such as Social Security.
Yet the NBER typically doesn’t declare a recession until well after one has begun, sometimes for up to a year. Economists consider a half-point rise in the unemployment rate, averaged over several months, as the most historically reliable sign of a downturn.
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DO TWO STRAIGHT QUARTERS OF ECONOMIC CONTRACTION EQUAL A RECESSION?
That’s a common rule of thumb, but it isn’t an official definition.
Still, in the past, it has been a useful measure. Michael Strain, an economist at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, notes that in each of the past 10 times that the economy shrank for two consecutive quarters, a recession has resulted.
Still, even Strain isn’t sure we’re in recession now. Like many economists, he notes that the underlying drivers of the economy — consumer spending, business investment, home purchases — all grew in the first quarter.
Overall gross domestic product — the broadest measure of the nation’s output — declined at a 1.6% annual rate from January through March because of one-off factors, including a sharp jump in imports and a post-holiday season drop in businesses’ inventories. Many economists expect that when GDP is revised later this year, the first quarter may even turn out to be positive.
“The basic story is that the economy is growing but still slowing, and that slowdown really accelerated in the second quarter,” Strain said.
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DON’T A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK A RECESSION IS COMING?
Yes, because many people now feel more financially burdened. With wage gains trailing inflation for most people, higher prices for such essentials as gas, food, and rent have eroded Americans’ spending power,
This week, Walmart reported that higher gas and food costs have forced its shoppers to reduce their purchases of discretionary spending such as new clothing, a clear sign that consumer spending, a key driver of the economy, is weakening. The nation’s largest retailer, Walmart reduced its profit outlook and said it will have to discount more items like furniture and electronics.
And the Fed’s rate hikes have caused average mortgage rates to nearly double to 4.99%, causing a sharp fall in home sales and construction.
Higher rates will also likely weigh on businesses’ willingness to invest in new buildings, machinery and other equipment. If companies reduce spending and investment, they’ll also start to slow hiring. Rising caution among companies about spending freely could lead eventually to layoffs. If the economy were to lose jobs and the public were to grow more fearful, consumers would further reduce spending.
The Fed’s rapid rate hikes have raised the likelihood of recession in the next two years to nearly 50%, Goldman Sachs economists have said. And Bank of America economists now forecast a “mild” recession later this year, while Deutsche Bank expects a recession early next year.
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WHAT ARE SOME SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING RECESSION?
The clearest signal that a recession is under way, economists say, would be a steady rise in job losses and a surge in unemployment. In the past, an increase in the unemployment rate of three-tenths of a percentage point, on average over the previous three months, has meant that a recession will soon follow.
Many economists monitor the number of people who seek unemployment benefits each week, which indicates whether layoffs are worsening. Weekly applications for jobless aid, averaged over the past four weeks, have risen for eight straight weeks to nearly 250,000, the highest level since last November. While that is a potentially concerning sign, it is still a low level historically.
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ANY OTHER SIGNALS TO WATCH FOR?
Many economists also monitor changes in the interest payments, or yields, on different bonds for a recession signal known as an “inverted yield curve.” This occurs when the yield on the 10-year Treasury falls below the yield on a short-term Treasury, such as the 3-month T-bill. That is unusual. Normally, longer-term bonds pay investors a richer yield in exchange for tying up their money for a longer period.
Inverted yield curves generally mean that investors foresee a recession that will compel the Fed to slash rates. Inverted curves often predate recessions. Still, it can take 18 to 24 months for a downturn to arrive after the yield curve inverts.
For the past two weeks, the yield on the two-year Treasury has exceeded the 10-year yield, suggesting that markets expect a recession soon. Many analysts say, though, that comparing the 3-month yield to the 10-year has a better recession-forecasting track record. Those rates are not inverted now.
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WILL THE FED KEEP RAISING RATES EVEN AS THE ECONOMY SLOWS?
The economy’s flashing signals — slowing growth with strong hiring — have put the Fed in a tough spot. Chair Jerome Powell is aiming for a “soft landing,” in which the economy weakens enough to slow hiring and wage growth without causing a recession and brings inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target.
But Powell has acknowledged that such an outcome has grown more difficult to achieve. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s COVID-19 lockdowns have driven up prices for energy food, and many manufactured parts in the U.S.
Powell has also indicated that if necessary, the Fed will keep raising rates even amid a weak economy if that’s what’s needed to tame inflation.
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Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he said held back necessary information and misled his team about its true user base, according to media reports.
According to The Washington Post, the countersuit filed by the billionaire and Tesla CEO Thursday alleges that Twitter committed fraud, breach of contract and violation of the Texas Securities Act.
Musk's counterclaims were filed confidentially last week and unsealed in a filing late Thursday at the Delaware Chancery Court, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Musk had offered to buy the company earlier this year, then tried to back out of the deal by claiming the social platform was infested with much larger numbers of “spam bots” and fake accounts than Twitter had disclosed.
Shares of Twitter slid more than 9% in the first day of trading after Musk said that he was abandoning his $44 billion bid for the company.
Twitter sued to force him to complete the acquisition. Musk responded by filing his countersuit.
Musk's attorneys argued that Twitter’s own disclosures revealed that it has 65 million fewer “monetizable daily active users,” who can be shown digital ads, than the 238 million that Twitter claims, the Post and the Journal reported.
The filing also said most of Twitter's ads are shown only to a sliver of the company's user base, the Post said.
In an unexpected twist, Twitter filed its response denying Musk's accusations before Musk’s own counterclaims surfaced.
Twitter called Musk’s reasoning “a story, imagined in an effort to escape a merger agreement that Musk no longer found attractive.”
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Designing, testing and provisioning updates to data digital networks depends on numerous manual and error-prone processes. Digital twins are starting to play a crucial role in automating more of this process to help bring digital transformation to network infrastructure. These efforts are already driving automation for campus networks, wide area networks (WANs) and commercial wireless networks.
The digital transformation of the network infrastructure will take place over an extended period of time. In this two-part series, we’ll be exploring how digital twins are driving network transformation. Today, we’ll look at the current state of networking and how digital twins are helping to automate the process, as well as the shortcomings that are currently being seen with the technology.
In part 2, we’ll look at the future state of digital twins and how the technology can be used when fully developed and implemented.
About digital twins
At its heart, a digital twin is a model of any entity kept current by constant telemetry updates. In practice, multiple overlapping digital twins are often used across various aspects of the design, construction and operation of networks, their components, and the business services that run on them.
Peyman Kazemian, cofounder of Forward Networks, argues that the original Traceroute program written by Van Jacobson in 1987 is the oldest and most used tool to understand the network. Although it neither models nor simulates the networks, it does help to understand the behavior of the network by sending a representative packet through the network and observing the path it takes.
Later, other network simulation tools were developed, such as OPNET (1986), NetSim (2005), and GNS3 (2008), that can simulate a network by running the same code as the actual network devices.
“These kinds of solutions are useful in operating networks because they give you a lab environment to try out new ideas and changes to your network,” Kazemian said.
Teresa Tung, cloud first chief technologist at Accenture, said that the open systems interconnection (OSI) conceptual model provides the foundation for describing networking capabilities along with separation of concerns.
This approach can help to focus on different layers of simulation and modeling. For example, a use case may focus on RF models at the physical layer, through to the packet and event-level within the network layer, the quality of service (QoS) and mean opinion score (MoS) measures in the presentation and application layers.
Modeling: The interoperability issue
Today, network digital twins typically only help model and automate pockets of a network isolated by function, vendors or types of users.
The most common use case for digital twins is testing and optimizing network equipment configurations. However, because there are differences in how equipment vendors implement networking standards, this can lead to subtle variances in routing behavior, said Ernest Lefner, chief product officer at Gluware.
Lefner said the challenge for everyone attempting to build a digital twin is that they must have detailed knowledge of every vendor, feature, and configuration and customization in their network. This can vary by device, hardware type, or software release version.
Some network equipment providers, like Extreme Networks, let network engineers build a network that automatically synchronizes the configuration and state of that provider’s specific equipment.
Today, Extreme’s product supports only the capability to streamline staging, validation and deployment of Extreme switches and access points. The digital twin feature doesn’t currently support the SD-WAN customer on-premises equipment or routers. In the future, Extreme plans to add support for testing configurations, OS upgrades and troubleshooting problems.
Other network vendor offerings like Cisco DNA, Juniper Networks Mist and HPE Aruba Netconductor make it easier to capture network configurations and evaluate the impact of changes, but only for their own equipment.
“They are allowing you to stand up or test your configuration, but without specifically replicating the entire environment,” said Mike Toussaint, senior director analyst at Gartner.
You can test a specific configuration, and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will allow you to understand if a configuration is optimal, suboptimal or broken. But they have not automated the creation and calibration of a digital twin environment to the same degree as Extreme.
Virtual labs and digital twins vs. physical testing
Until digital twins are widely adopted, most network engineers use virtual labs like GNS3 to model physical equipment and assess the functionality of configuration settings. This tool is widely used to train network engineers and to model network configurations.
Many larger enterprises physically test new equipment at the World Wide Technology Advanced Test Center. The firm has a partnership with most major equipment vendors to provide virtual access for assessing the performance of actual physical hardware at their facility in St. Louis, Missouri.
Network equipment vendors are adding digital twin-like capabilities to their equipment. Juniper Networks’ recent Mist acquisition automatically captures and models different properties of the network that informs AI and machine optimizations. Similarly, Cisco’s network controller serves as an intermediary between business and network infrastructure.
Balaji Venkatraman, VP of product management, DNA, Cisco, said what distinguishes a digital twin from early modeling and simulation tools is that it provides a digital replica of the network and is updated by live telemetry data from the network.
“With the introduction of network controllers, we have a centralized view of at least the telemetry data to make digital twins a reality,” Venkatraman said.
However, network engineering practices will need to evolve their practices and cultures to take advantage of digital twins as part of their workflows. Gartner’s Toussaint told VentureBeat that most network engineering teams still create static network architecture diagrams in Visio.
And when it comes to rolling out new equipment, they either test it in a live environment with physical equipment or “do the cowboy thing and test it in production and hope it does not fail,” he said.
Even though network digital twins are starting to virtualize some of this testing workload, Toussaint said physically testing the performance of cutting-edge networking hardware that includes specialized ASICs, FPGAs, and TPUs chips will remain critical for some time.
Culture shift required
Eventually, Toussaint expects networking teams to adopt the same devops practices that helped accelerate software development, testing and deployment processes. Digital twins will let teams create and manage development and test network sandboxes as code that mimics the behavior of the live deployment environment.
But the cultural shift won’t be easy for most organizations.
“Network teams tend to want to go in and make changes, and they have never really adopted the devops methodologies,” Toussaint said.
They tend to keep track of configuration settings on text files or maps drawn in Visio, which only provide a static representation of the live network.
“There have not really been the tools to do this in real time,” he said.
Getting a network map has been a very time-intensive manual process that network engineers hate, so they want to avoid doing it more than once. As a result, these maps seldom get updated.
Digital twins as an intermediate step in automation
Toussaint sees digital twins as an intermediate step as the industry uses more AI and ML to automate more aspects of network provisioning and management. Business managers are likely to be more enthused by more flexible and adaptable networks that keep pace with new business ideas than a dynamically updated map.
But in the interim, network digital twins will help teams visualize and build trust in their recommendations as these technologies improve.
“In another five or 10 years, when networks become fully automated, then digital twins become another tool, but not necessarily something that is a must-have,” Toussaint said.
Toussaint said these early network digital twins are suitable for vetting configurations, but have been limited in their ability to grapple with more complex issues. He said he likes to consider it to be analogous to how we might use Google Maps as a kind of digital twin of our trip to work, which is good at predicting different routes under current traffic conditions. But it will not tell you about the effect of a trip on your tires or the impact of wind on the aerodynamics of your car.
This is the first of a two-part series. In part 2, we’ll outline the future of digital twins and how organizations are finding solutions to the issues outlined here.
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Young Farmer Shares How He Found Peace Through Planting, Many South Africans Left Feeling Inspired
- The inspirational farmer has shared his heartbreaking and inspiring story of pushing through tough times
- He has had some family members pass away in recent years, which had put him in a negative mental space.
- Farming has helped him overcome these trials, and South Africans are inspired by his resilience and love of nature
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Romeo Sedibe warmed the hearts of many people online with his motivating story of how farming makes him deeply happy and how it has helped him overcome tough times such as a death in the family.
The inspiring farmer is 25 years old and is a small-scale farmer from Mpumalanga. He mentions a tragic tale of loss and shares it with the world:
"When my mother passed away, I lost all hope and the will to carry on with life"
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In the Facebook post, He was in a bad mental state and lost hope of continuing with his life. His love for farming pulled him out of this negative space, and in his own words:
"rejuvenated my spirit and gave me the courage to be strong"
The heart-melting farmer started farming in 2020. He grows vegetables and raises livestock such as chicken. His passion for farming is inspired by the memory of his mother.
Several people have asked him why he chooses to grow his own vegetables, he had this to say:
"it’s not about trying to save money, but it’s a chance to connect with nature every day"
His back story's warm and fuzzy feeling has resonated with many, who congratulate him on his success and ability to overcome.
Katlego Maboe weeps uncontrollably in emotional video, fans struggle to hold back tears: "I cried too"
Facebook user Ak Ndandani said:
Wow!! I'm really inspired thanks bro keep up doing great work
Another user by the name of Edward Paile, was quite empathetic with Romeo highlighting his long journey by saying:
"Great that u healed through yo beautiful greens.U shall grow successfuly and mom will BLESS u more cos she wants to c u happy.Goodluck."
Mandy Minajmntioned that she too has a little backyard garden:
"u just thouged my heart ❤️ and I'm so inspired, I just my back yard garden I'm planning to go bigger and bigger. thank you so much 4 sharing yr story"
Inspirational farming entrepreneur has South Africans wowed with thriving meat processing company
In other inspirational farming stories, Briefly News reported on A young woman, who is based in Bojanala in the North West province, who has wowed South Africans with her meat-processing farm, called Inyama Yethu.
Meet award-winning author and budding businessman Neo Cholo, who is shining as a beacon of hope in Tshwane
Nomathemba Langa established her farm in 2015, with the business located on the Zvezda Game Resort in Brits in the North West.
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Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals odds, picks and predictions
The Chicago Cubs (41-60) and St. Louis Cardinals (54-48) open a 3-game series at Busch Stadium Tuesday. First pitch is scheduled for 7:45 p.m. ET. Let’s analyze Tipico Sportsbook‘s lines around the Cubs vs. Cardinals odds with MLB picks and predictions.
Season series: Tied 4-4
The Cubs came into the trade deadline as obvious sellers despite coming out of the All-Star break with a 6-3 record. All 3 losses came at the San Fransisco Giants where Chicago averaged just 2.5 runs per game through the entire 4-game series.
The Cardinals sit 3 games back of the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Central. St. Louis took 2-of-3 games at the Washington Nationals over the weekend, including a 5-0 shutout in the series finale Sunday.
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Cubs at Cardinals projected starters
RHP Keegan Thompson vs. RHP
Adam Wainwright
Thompson (8-4, 3.16 ERA) has appeared in 21 games (13 as a starter). He has posted a 1.20 WHIP, 3.0 BB/9 and 8.4 K/9 through 88 1/3 IP.
- 1-1 with a 2.57 ERA over his last 4 starts.
- Has a 4.40 ERA on the road across 6 starts and 2 relief appearances.
Wainwright (7-8, 3.28 ERA) will make his 21st start. He has a 1.21 WHIP, 2.5 BB/9 and 7.2 K/9 through 123 1/3 IP.
- The St. Louis Cardinals average over 5 runs in support when Wainwright pitches.
- Last start: 7 IP, 1 ER, 5 H, 0 BB and 8 K in a 6-1 win at the Toronto Blue Jays Wednesday.
Cubs at Cardinals odds and lines
Odds provided by Tipico Sportsbook; access USA TODAY Sports Scores and Sports Betting Odds hub for a full list. Lines last updated at 10:35 a.m. ET.
- Money line: Cubs +140 (bet $100 to win $140) | Cardinals -175 (bet $175 to win $100)
- Run line (RL)/Against the spread (ATS): Cubs +1.5 (-145) | Cardinals -1.5 (+120)
- Over/Under (O/U): 8.5 (O: -105 | U: -120)
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Cubs at Cardinals picks and predictions
Prediction
Cardinals 4, Cubs 3
The juice is a bit high for this matchup, and with the Chicago Cubs oddly surging its best to AVOID.
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LEAN CUBS +1.5 (-145).
The Cubs cover 61% of the time as road underdogs. The Cardinals on the flip side struggle to cover, especially after a day off.
Although the Cubs are 19 games under .500 they have a winning record against the NL Central (22-21) and even if they can’t win, should keep this game close.
While the average run support for Tuesday’s starters exceeds 9 runs, there are a lot of reasons to BET THE UNDER 8.5 (-120).
The Under has hit 4 of the last 5 games after a loss for the Cubs. The Cardinals have posted Unders in 4 of their last 5 games against sub-.500 teams.
The Cubs also struggle to score when given a day off, going Under 81.8% of the time. The Cardinals have a similar problem, hitting the Under in 72.7% of their games after a day of rest.
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(NewsNation) — How do you hunt Florida’s apex, yet invasive, predator the Burmese Python? In “nose to the grindstone” fashion, of course.
That is how one of Florida’s top python hunters, Dusty “The Wild Man” Crumb, says he goes about hunting, and ultimately removing the gargantuan pythons from Florida’s ecosystem.
“What I know is we’re boots on the ground and we’re taking snakes out of the ecosystem,” Crumb said Thursday on “NewsNation Prime.” “Every snake we remove helps to save our native wildlife.”
Python populations have grown out of control in Florida, but it is difficult to speculate how many there actually are in the state, as the large yet elusive reptiles are masters of camouflage and deception, Crumb said.
Burmese Pythons can grow to be over 15 feet long, Crumb’s personal capture record was nearly 17 feet long, and are known to eat fully grown deer and even alligators in the Everglades. Yet, these snakes are not native to Florida and are believed to be the reason mammal populations have fallen in the area.
That is why Crumb and others like him are contracted to hunt and kill these giants.
“They’re ambush predators; they’re going to lay and wait along the water’s edge and a bird, an alligator are unsuspecting,” Crumb said. “As the mammals are getting eliminated, yeah, they’re turning their sights to alligators.”
A fight between an alligator and a python is “the battle of the heavyweights” or a “Tyson-Holyfield” bout in nature, Crumb said.
“Sometimes the python wins, sometimes the alligator wins,” he said.
Pythons use their “bone-crushing” strength to kill their pray, which could include a human hunter if they don’t respect the python’s power in its natural habitat in the water. Luckily for Crumb, while he has been bitten, he has not had his bones crushed by one of these snakes.
“On the big snakes, if you’re in the water, you’ve got problems because you’re in their territory,” Crumb said. “You get one of these big snakes wrapped around your neck, they could drown you.”
Crumb said he utilizes every piece of the killed pythons, using their scales to create everything from wallets to boots.
“By creating a market for the python leathers, that’s a tool to help eliminate them,” Crumb said. “And also, when somebody pulls one of these wallets out of their pocket in Minnesota, they can tell the story of the Everglades. So, it’s kind of a way to help spread our message.” | https://www.wavy.com/news/national/why-florida-has-declared-war-on-burmese-pythons/ | 2022-08-05T16:00:36Z | https://www.wavy.com/news/national/why-florida-has-declared-war-on-burmese-pythons/ | true | 13 |
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7 Comfy, Breathable Pajama Sets to Help You Sleep Better
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A good night’s sleep is just about the best “hack” we know of to help you function better as a human being. Doctors recommend a minimum of seven hours a night, and the average American isn’t even reaching the bare minimum, with fully one in three of them chronically under-rested, according to the CDC.
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There’s plenty of behavioral changes you can make to help yourself get better sleep, from cutting down on caffeine consumption to using blue-light-blocking glasses when viewing screens in the evening, but one very overlooked area for improvement is sleepwear. If you’re accustomed to just putting on an old t-shirt and boxers, you’re doing it wrong.
The right sleepwear will help keep you cool during the warmer months and warm during the cooler months. It will regulate your body temperature, minimize or eliminate itching or discomfort, and give you the feeling of coziness you need to let your mind shut down for the night. Even something as simple as the ritual of putting on your pajamas will help you signal to your mind that the day is done with and it’s time to prepare for sleep.
There are no shortage of pajamas for men, but they’re not all built to the same standards of design and quality. To help you find the perfect pair for your needs, we’ve scoured the Internet to find some of the most comfortable and stylish pajama sets for guys.
Lacoste Long Stretch Cotton Pyjamas Set
Lightweight, extremely comfortable, stylish – what more could you want from one of our go-to pajamas for men? These Lacoste options are made from stretchy, breathable cotton, and cut to a relaxed fit. Small details, such as the embroidered crocodiles on the chest or the fitted leg bottoms, add a little flair as well.
Bedfellow The Short Set
An entire company dedicated to making men’s sleepwear? Not so long ago, it wouldn’t have been possible, but Bedfellow’s devotion to quality materials has earned them a global fanbase, and The Short Set is a perfect illustration of why. Looks like a humble shorts-and-shirt set, right? Think again. Flat stitch seams, a stretchy, breathable fabric that feels like a second skin on your body, and absolutely no irritating paper laundry labels or stickers – this is your ultimate sleepwear option.
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L.L. Bean Scotch Plaid Flannel Pajamas
Every man needs a comfortable pair of flannel PJs, especially those who live in colder climates, and no one does it better than L.L. Bean. With three fit options, six size options, and ten color choices, the Scotch Plaid Flannel Pajamas have something for everyone, and their extra-strength flannel (with fibers about a quarter-inch longer than the competition) is both durable and comfortable. With added convenience features like pockets and an elastic waistband, these are perfect for everyday wear.
Hanes Plain-Weave Pajama Set
This pajama set from Hanes offers ultra-lightweight and streamlined sleepwear for a bargain price. The cotton-polyester fabric blend keeps you cool and allows your body to breathe, while the styling is straight out of 1950s Americana, right down to the button-up top with chest pocket.
Sleepy Jones Henry Pajama Set
If you’ve got deep pockets and want a versatile, comfortable and stylish pajama set, you can’t do better than the Henry Pajama Set from Sleepy Jones. Made from a luxurious, soft cotton fabric, with folded cuffs, contour stitching, front and back pants pockets and a chest pocket on the button-up shirt, these are the ultimate pajamas.
Parachute Waffle Lounge Set
If you like to blur the lines between sleepwear and athleisure, you’ll love these extra-comfy joggers and matching pullover from Parachute. They’re made from 100% cotton in a waffle weave engineered not to lose its fit over time. We love the deep pants pockets and the finished cotton rib cuffs on both the pant legs and top sleeves.
Hugo Boss Stretch-Modal Pajama Set
If you’ve been tossing and turning in the summer heat each night, you might find some relief with the Stretch-Modal Pajama Set from Hugo Boss. The semi-synthetic fabric known as modal comes from beach tree pulp and is famous for its durability, flexibility and breathability – all things you want in your sleepwear. We can’t talk about this set without also mentioning the styling: a color-blocked top and light beige shorts, offering light, summer-appropriate tones.
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Since opening his first Miami restaurant, Lokal, in 2011, Matt Kuscher has become one of the the city's most savvy restaurateurs by catering to locals and offering value-driven food and drink in friendly settings.
Now, Kuscher is about to embark on his most ambitious project as he takes over the food program at the Clevelander South Beach Hotel & Bar, in partnership with property owner, Jesta Hotels & Resorts.
Kuscher tells New Times that he was approached by Jesta to help upgrade the Clevelander's food operations and to help attract locals back to the hotel, which has become more of a tourist attraction than a spot for Miamians to hang out. "I'm always trying to take Miami classics and bring them back to life," says Kuscher, adding, "This has got me super excited. Everyone has partied at the Clevelander, but not probably in the past ten years. I want to change that."
Kuscher's Kush Hospitality Group has been a presence at the hotel since July 19, when the group took over the back-of-house food responsibilities. Kuscher's team has revamped the menus, focusing on using freshly ground beef, locally baked bread, and housemade sauces. "We wanted to make the transition on the hush because we were training the staff, basically, to go from a "frozen" kitchen to a scratch kitchen," says Kuscher. "Luckily, the staff is super excited. I think they needed the change."
In addition to revamping the food at the Clevelander, Kuscher will open Kush Clevelander, a restaurant and sports bar at the former Games on Sports restaurant, located behind the iconic Clevelander pool. "They had a back room behind the pool bar that they basically stopped using except for big nights. It was a really cool space to do a sports bar, so I saw this as an opportunity," says Kuscher, adding that Kush Clevelander should open sometime toward the end of August. "What we need to do is purely from a design standpoint," he adds.
Though a menu isn't yet set for Kush Clevelander, think burgers, sandwiches, and some vegan options. The bar menu for Kush Clevelander will be designed by Kush's corporate beverage director Cristina Suarez and will offer a variety of craft beers, classic cocktails, and drinks created specifically for the Clevelander. The beverage program at the pool bar and any other satellite bars will continue to be handled by Jesta. Kuscher explains, "Obviously, the Clevelander has a very successful pool bar business and a party vibe. My focus is on the food and the sports bar."
To further delineate the pool party scene from Kush Clevelander, the restaurant will have a separate entrance, so guests can circumnavigate the pool and crowds altogether if they want. "There's a party vibe and that's great. My goal is to create a space that locals who live in South Beach can feel comfortable about going to."
Kuscher has one more goal with Kush Clevelander. "Dan Le Batard's studio is right upstairs from the sports bar. He's known for his Miami pride. I want to make him and his guests say, 'wow' when they walk through the space. I want them to think this is the coolest sports bar ever — and I'm sure they've been to a million sports bars."
Kuscher didn't pinpoint exactly the bar's decor, but factor in the restaurateur's creativity — coupled with his love for Miami — and it's a safe bet to say that Kush Clevelander will pay homage to the greatest moments in Miami sports history, with memorabilia, murals, and nods to figures like Don Shula, Dwyane Wade, Dan Marino, and other greats.
And plenty of televisions to watch sports. "I was in South Beach during the Heat playoffs, and I couldn't think of too many places to watch the game. That's going to change," Kuscher says.
Miamians will just have to wait a few weeks more to see the final product.
Kush Clevelander. 1020 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach; kushhospitality.com. Opening August 2022. | https://www.miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/kusch-clevelander-will-open-at-iconic-clevelander-hotel-in-miami-beach-15004494 | 2022-08-05T16:00:57Z | https://www.miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/kusch-clevelander-will-open-at-iconic-clevelander-hotel-in-miami-beach-15004494 | false | 1 |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Las Vegas police are investigating a deadly shooting at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip that left one man dead and two women injured.
The shooting happened in a hotel room around 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Capt. Dori Koren of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department said early Friday morning.
Officers arrived on the scene within a minute of the 911 call, Koren said.
An altercation happened in the room between four people who all knew each other, according to Koren. One person in the room shot the three others before the shooter left the room, he said.
The injured shooting victims were taken to UMC hospital, Koren said. They were listed in critical condition as of Friday morning.
“Any types of extreme violence in our city we take very seriously,” Koren said. “You’ve seen it in all the investigations we conduct. We are confident we will solve this case.”
On Friday morning, Koren announced that the suspect had been identified, located and arrested within six hours of the incident, he confirmed in an tweet.
The shooting prompted hotel security and Metro police to restrict access to the property. Video from guests showed police entering the hotel and casino with shields.
Police did not issue a photo of the suspect, but said at least one person who was in the room has ties to the area. Koren said there was no threat to the public.
Security allowed guests back onto the property around 10:50 p.m. | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/1-killed-2-hurt-in-shooting-at-mirage-hotel-on-las-vegas-strip/ | 2022-08-05T16:01:10Z | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/1-killed-2-hurt-in-shooting-at-mirage-hotel-on-las-vegas-strip/ | true | 13 |
DENVER, Colo. — The pandemic forced a 15% drop in international student enrollment across the country, and even without travel restrictions, students aren’t coming back as quickly as many would expect.
Administrators and economists have found his enrollment drop could create financial problems for universities and for the U.S. economy.
For international students still in the United States, this drop in enrollment comes as a surprise but makes sense.
“Definitely, COVID was a huge factor. But I do think, too, maybe if students had more like financial support, you know, or more incentives, maybe more extended OPT [visa] options…maybe more students would be attracted to coming to the U.S.,” said Zoe Nassimoff, an international student studying music.
Nassimoff came all the way from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to find her version of the American Dream.
“I was just really attracted by the music industry in America overall,” Nassimoff.
She enrolled at the University of Colorado Denver and started finding the opportunities she’d hoped for.
“Back home, it's really hard to make it as a musician,” said Nassimoff. “And that's not what I want for my life. You know, I want to be a full-time musician.”
Before the pandemic, Nassimoff was one of nearly one million international students studying across the United States, but that number took a deep dive as soon as COVID hit.
“What we saw is a 45% decline in new student enrollment across the United States,” said Alana Jones, the associate vice chancellor of International Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver, of enrollment during the 2020 school year.
Travel restrictions, visa difficulties, and safety concerns kept international students out. Even with restrictions lessened now, a report by the Institute of International Education found that in the fall of 2021, the United States only saw a 4% increase in international student enrollment.
To Jones, that’s a big concern.
“International students at almost every university pay a higher tuition level than domestic students pay,” said Jones. “That can really impact the budgets and bottom lines of universities.”
On top of shrinking the university budget, lower enrollment could increase costs for domestic students, and impact our economy.
“We're losing the opportunity for those students to be in our labor market,” said Jones.
Angelica Bahl, a professor at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, said these labor market losses are certainly contributing to the hiring dilemmas many employers have been and are still facing.
“So, we see the hospitality, restaurants and the services struggling because they have a shortage of workers, and in one of the big contributions of this is international students,” said Bahl. “It's a big contributor of this issue we have right now in the, in the economic development.”
In addition to providing many workers for hospitality jobs, 54% of all international students study in STEM fields, like engineering or computer science, so they’re bringing high skilled labor to the U.S. job market. Jones wants to get those students back before they study somewhere else.
“Canada has been a competitor to the United States in terms of attracting international students,” said Jones.
Nassimoff agreed, “I did look at Canada. I looked in Australia and New Zealand. So, there are like other opportunities."
The question now is: how does the United States get more international students back?
Administrators and students are advocating for several changes:
- Allowing more online courses and options so students can stay in their home countries. This was not widely available pre-pandemic, but it is becoming more common.
- Streamlining the visa process.
- Providing housing assistance.
“There’s a lot of work to be done,” said Bahl.
But more than financial input, Bahl, Nassimoff and Jones hope people see that the cultural value these students bring is far more valuable.
“For us to be successful in a globalized society, in a global world, we need to have experience engaging with people from around the world,” said Jones.
“Just connecting with different people and building a rich like cultural background or cultural self, that's definitely going to help the country grow,” said Nassimoff.
To read the latest Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education on international student enrollment, click HERE. | https://www.kxlh.com/news/national/international-student-enrollment-decline-could-hurt-u-s-universities-and-economy | 2022-08-05T16:01:56Z | https://www.kxlh.com/news/national/international-student-enrollment-decline-could-hurt-u-s-universities-and-economy | true | 10 |
(The Hill) – The U.S. added 528,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent in July, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department, a stunning gain that defied predictions of a slowdown.
Economists expected the U.S. to have added roughly 250,000 jobs in July and keep the jobless rate at 3.6 percent, according to consensus estimates released before the report.
But the economy added more than double the number of jobs experts predicted, even as consumer confidence plunged and gross domestic product shrank over the first half of the year. The jobless rate also returned last month to its pre-pandemic level of 3.5 percent, which in February 2020 set a 50-year low for unemployment.
The stunning July jobs gain will raise questions about how close the U.S. economy actually is to a recession after months of growing concern over a sharp slowdown. The resilience of the labor market also means the Federal Reserve may have more room — or at least feel more pressure — to rapidly raise interest rates and fight inflation without fears of triggering steep job losses.
“If you thought the economy was in a recession, you were wrong. Demand for workers skyrocketed in July, far exceeding expectations. Paired with falling gas prices, the economic outlook for the third quarter starts looking better,” wrote John Leer, chief economist at Morning Consult, in a Friday analysis.
“Today’s numbers also increase the likelihood of more aggressive rate hikes by the Fed as it tries to tame inflation, and downside risks remain elevated later in the year.”
July’s job gain has now brought the total number of Americans employed back to its level before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which wiped out roughly 21 million jobs in two months. The vast majority of new jobs came in service sector industries that have struggled to meet stimulus-fueled consumer demand.
The leisure and hospitality sector, which is still below its pre-pandemic employment level, led all other industries in job growth with gain of 96,000 jobs. Restaurants and bars added 74,000 jobs alone.
Professional and business services firms added 89,000 jobs in July and employ almost 1 million more workers than they did before the pandemic. Health care employment rose by 70,000 and government employment rose by 57,000 in July, helping those sectors continue to recover jobs lost to COVID-19.
Even sectors of the economy hit hard by higher Fed interest rates and high inflation posted notable job gains.
Construction employment rose by 32,000 in July, retailers added 22,000 jobs, and transportation and warehousing added 21,000 jobs.
“Strong employer demand is continuing to support the solid, and increasing jobs gains. With continuing fear and debate over a recession, the labor market does not look like it is teetering on the edge of a recession,” wrote Daniel Zhao, senior economist at Glassdoor, in a Friday analysis.
“The labor market remains a pillar of strength, holding up the economy even as the economy slows around it,” he wrote.
The stunning July jobs gain could give President Biden and Democrats a useful boost with just three months until the November midterm elections. While election forecasters expect Democrats to lose their majority in the House, stronger confidence in the economy could help Biden’s party limit its losses in the lower chamber and preserve—or even expand—its Senate majority.
The Labor Department also revised the May and June jobs gains up by a combined 28,000 jobs, meaning the U.S. has added a total of 1.3 million jobs over the past three months.
“More people are working than at any point in American history. That’s millions of families with the dignity and peace of mind that a paycheck provides. And, it’s the result of my economic plan to build the economy from the bottom up and middle out,” Biden said in a Friday statement.
“I ran for president to rebuild the middle class – there’s more work to do, but today’s jobs report shows we are making significant progress for working families,” he said.
While the July jobs report is welcome break from recession fears for Biden, there are still serious risks looming over the economy that could flip the picture before the midterm elections.
Labor force participation stayed almost stagnant in July, which is little relief for businesses competing to fill jobs from a workforce still 1.3 percent smaller than it was in February 2020. Wages also grew by 5.2 percent over the past year, a rapid clip that some economists fear will fuel higher inflation.
The Fed has been hiking interest rates since March with the goal of slowing job growth to a pace that won’t drive inflation higher or force businesses to rapidly raise wages. A slower economy would also force businesses to avoid raising prices as consumer have less financial room to chase inflation.
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“The Fed won’t take any solace in the strong job numbers. Policymakers’ priority is cooling wage and price pressures, so they want to see unemployment edge higher,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, in a Friday tweet.
“That would take monthly job gains of well below 100k for a while. The Fed will get what it wants in coming months,” he said. | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/economy-adds-whopping-528000-jobs-in-july-shatters-expectations/ | 2022-08-05T16:05:24Z | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/economy-adds-whopping-528000-jobs-in-july-shatters-expectations/ | false | 28 |
Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu was bullied online after gaining weight
I was bullied for gaining weight. It was kind of uncomfortable and really surprising for me to see how people started having their opinions, which should not really matter.
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NEW YORK: Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu has revealed that she gained weight since being crowned in December, but she doesn't mind the change. However, it was the online bullying that got to her and she "broke down" so many times.
"Physically I have kind of grown, got more pounds and increased my weight, which I am totally comfortable about right now," the Indian-born beauty queen told People.
The 22-year-old added: "I was bullied for gaining weight. It was kind of uncomfortable and really surprising for me to see how people started having their opinions, which should not really matter."
"It's not about how you look, it's about who you are from inside and how you treat people and what you believe in." She says that leading up to the competition, diet and exercise was all about winning.
"I was really focused towards my goal and I was (not) thinking about my health," Sandhu said.
"The whole time we were working out, doing so many activities, and just after winning, I had almost a month just to relax."
"During that time, I actually didn't work out, and I was just eating and just enjoying that time with my family," the former Miss Universe says. "I never realised that it would start showing on my body." Some of the online comments were very cruel.
"I definitely broke down so many times," Sandhu admits. "Sometimes in the most unexpected times. I'm just about to go on stage or something and this whole thing comes in my mind. It's really sad."
Sandhu gained weight but also didn't feel well, and a doctor diagnosed her with allergies she never knew she had.
"I have a gluten allergy," Sandhu shares. "I can't have wheat or anything which contains wheat. Apart from that, I also have some soy allergy (and) coconut allergies."I'm allergic to eggs and I kind of realised that when I came to New York," the model and actress says.
"Because (eggs are considered) vegetarian and it's known as non-vegetarian in India. It took me time to realise that the things which I was allergic to, I was still having. I didn't know."
Now that the 70th Miss Universe title holder has gotten a grasp on her health, her mindset has shifted.
"I've gone through that phase of my life where I used to feel bad about everything," Sandhu says. "Now, I started loving everything. It's okay to cry. It's okay to feel sad."
Sandhu hopes sharing her story will help others who struggle with body image and self-love. "We all are imperfect," she says. "We need to realise that there's a point where we understand that we need to embrace our flaws and when you do that, you can conquer anything in this world." | https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/hindi/2022/aug/05/miss-universe-harnaaz-sandhu-was-bullied-online-after-gaining-weight-2484366.html | 2022-08-05T16:09:37Z | https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/hindi/2022/aug/05/miss-universe-harnaaz-sandhu-was-bullied-online-after-gaining-weight-2484366.html | false | 8 |
Bullet Train is essentially Brad Pitt doing a Jackie Chan in Tokyo. He plays a hired assassin codenamed ‘Ladybug’, in sync with his multiple ‘sexiest man alive’ titles. But his slick blonde-hair suaveness is left behind in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and it seems like Cliff Booth is taking a much-needed break after battering the head of an assassin against the wall. His twill bucket hat is on and he has plans of going to a Zen Temple or a park after the mission.
The mission? Retrieving a briefcase (“With money, it’s always money”) from a bullet train going from Tokyo to Kyoto. The catch? There are two hitmen escorting a Japanese mob boss’s son, a psychopathic schoolgirl, a vengeful father and a snake on the train. Hollywood won’t let both Jackie and Brad go on a vacation, without making money out of it.
The gasps and hoots come more from the cameos than from guns going off mid-dialogue. There are special appearances by Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, who probably owed one to Brad after Lost City. There is also Zazie Beetz and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, and it’s amusing to see Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko from The Boys) patiently arranging water bottles in the train pantry moments after Brad and Aaron Taylor-Johnson were matching Karate chops.
All that is nice till the action stops hitting and the jokes run dry. We are eager to know what comes next but what is unfolding on screen has become repetitive. Amidst multiple options, the most inventive gag the makers could come up with was entwining the snake around Brad Pitt’s arm and making him run hysterically. For fans of Snakes on a Plane that’s merely scratching the surface.
There are moments of tickle when Japanese words of wisdom are met with questioning glances by American actors. Some chuckles are gained from figuring out the mechanics of a Japanese toilet to sucker punching wobbly mascots. Even the characters are introduced with anime-like zappy intertitles but at times the satire feels ignorant. Comedic scenes tie like loose bogeys in a screenplay that is waiting to derail. By the film’s climax, the literal and the metaphoric train goes off the track and it, sadly, doesn’t come as a surprise.
The action is signature David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde). Characters will bleed from their eyes and their throats while jokes are flying around. It’s both eerie and facetious to see Brad straining to recognize an assassin who has jumped him.
Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta’s Paperboy) delivers a gleeful performance. His hitman ‘Lemon’ is obsessed with the cartoon Thomas the Tank Engine and his comic timing is impeccable. But all of it seems lacking with a script that dangles in the middle. The resolution seems too fantastical, too full-blown-out and far-fetched.Bullet Train, in its bid to reach the destination, misses crucial stations.
Rating 2/5
Film: Bullet Train
Directed by: David Leitch
Cast: Brad Pitt,Joey King, Bad Bunny, Sandra Bullock,Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Karen Fukunara | https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2022/aug/05/brad-pitts-antics-fail-to-propel-this-action-thriller-2484136.html | 2022-08-05T16:09:52Z | https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2022/aug/05/brad-pitts-antics-fail-to-propel-this-action-thriller-2484136.html | false | 2 |
New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): We've all been very happy and excited to see our parents' eyes beam with pride on our graduation day. It's an emotional feeling but have you ever thought of cheering for your parents on their graduation day? A toddler of Indian origin did just that for her father recently and the video has made many go 'aww'!
In a video that has now gone viral, a little girl could be seen cheering for her father as he graduated from his university. The video shows a young graduate Ashwini Nalawade walking on the stage to collect his degree and his little daughter very cutely interrupted by shouting "Congratulations, daddy".
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The audience then burst into laughter. Ashwini responded by giving his daughter a flying kiss and saying, "I love you". The toddler then reciprocated her love for her father and shouted, "I love you, daddy".
Check it out:
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This cute exchange was captured on camera and has been shared many times on the Internet. Ashwini also shared the video on Instagram and penned a sweet note for his daughter. He wrote, "My heart melted along with all the others present. Rather than the graduation award, I felt 'Being a father to my daughter' is the biggest accomplishment and achievement for me. She is the world's best daughter, but you know what people actually say, 'LIKE DAUGHTER LIKE FATHER.' This was the cutest moment during my whole graduation ceremony that would stay alive in my heart forever". (ANI)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for approximately $1.7 billion, scooping up another company to add to its collection of smart home appliances amid broader concerns about the company’s market power.
iRobot sells its products worldwide and is most famous for the circular-shaped Roomba vacuum, which would join voice assistant Alexa, the Astro robot and Ring security cameras in the list of smart home features offered by the Seattle-based e-commerce and tech giant.
Amazon said it will acquire iRobot for $61 per share in an all-cash transaction that will include iRobot’s net debt. The company has total current debt of approximately $332.1 million as of July 2. The deal is subject to approval by shareholders and regulators. Upon completion, iRobot’s CEO, Colin Angle, will remain in his position.
Also on Friday, iRobot reported its quarterly results. Revenue plunged 30% on order reductions and delays, and the company announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce.
iRobot shares rose 19% in morning trading. Amazon’s were down 1.4%.
Founded in 1990 by a trio of Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticists, including Angle, iRobot’s early ventures led to rovers that could perform military and disaster-relief tasks in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The profits from defense contracts allowed iRobot to experiment with a variety of other robots, producing some duds and one huge commercial success: the first Roomba, introduced in 2002, which pioneered the market for automated vacuum cleaners.
The company spun off its defense robotics division in 2016 to become almost exclusively a seller of vacuums and some other home robots, such as the Braava robotic mop. It planned to launch a robotic lawn mower in 2020 but backed off, citing problems tied to the pandemic.
The purchase of iRobot is Amazon’s fourth-largest acquisition, led by its $13.7 billion deal to buy Whole Foods in 2017.
The deal comes as anti-monopoly advocates continue to raise concerns about Amazon’s increasing dominance. Last month, Amazon said it would buy the primary care provider One Medical in a deal valued roughly at $3.9 billion, a move that expanded its reach further into health care.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who heads the Senate Judiciary antitrust panel, has urged the the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the acquisition, in the mold of other critics who’ve called on regulators to block the purchase over concerns about the company’s past conduct and potential implications for consumers’ health data.” Regulators also have discretion to challenge Amazon’s $8.5 billion buyout of Hollywood studio MGM, which was completed earlier this year. | https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/national-news/amazon-to-buy-roomba-maker-irobot-for-roughly-1-7-billion/ | 2022-08-05T16:11:15Z | https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/national-news/amazon-to-buy-roomba-maker-irobot-for-roughly-1-7-billion/ | true | 22 |
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AEEE 2022 results expected to be declared tomorrow at amrita.edu
AEEE 2022 result: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is expected to announce the results for Amrita Entrance Examination Engineering, (AEEE) 2022 on August 6, 2022.
Once released, candidates will be able to check and download their result from the official website amrita.edu.
The AEEE phase-1 exam 2022 was held from June 17 to 19, 2022 and the phase-2 exam was held from July 31 to August 2, 2022 in computer based test (CBT) mode. The exam consisted of 100 questions for 300 marks.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will conduct the Centralised Seat Allotment Process (CSAP) 2022 after the AEEE 2022 results are declared. The registration process will also begin after the declaration of results.
Candidates will be able to access their result by entering the login details in our admission portal.
The last date to register is August 12, 2022. Trial allotment is scheduled to be held on August 15, 2022 and the first allotment on August 17, 2022. The second allotment will be conducted on August 24, 2022.
70% of seats in each branch is reserved for candidates with AEEE 2022 rank. 25% seats are reserved for the candidates with valid JEE Mains 2022 score.
3% of seats are reserved for the candidates with valid SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) score.
2% of seats are reserved for candidates with valid Pearson Undergraduate Engineering Entrance Exam score.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has reserved 85% seats for meritorious students who score high rank in AEEE 2022, top percentile/scores in JEE Mains 2022, top scorers in SAT and PUEE. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/exam-results/aeee-2022-results-expected-to-be-declared-tomorrow-at-amritaedu-101659709633977-amp.html | 2022-08-05T16:11:46Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/exam-results/aeee-2022-results-expected-to-be-declared-tomorrow-at-amritaedu-101659709633977-amp.html | false | 2 |
(The Hill) — A West Virginia man on Thursday was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison after making threats to White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci and others.
Thomas Patrick Connally Jr. will spend three years in prison followed by three more years of supervised release for his threats against Fauci, former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a Massachusetts public health official and a religious leader.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Connally after he pleaded guilty to using an anonymous email to make gruesome threats against Fauci and others in late 2020 through mid-2021.
One email to Fauci said that he and his family would be “dragged into the street, beaten to death, and set on fire.”
Connally also threatened to attack and kill Collins and his family if he continued to promote mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19.
“Connally admitted that he sent the threats to Drs. Fauci and Collins with the intent to intimidate or interfere with the performance of their official duties and with the intent to retaliate against Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins for performing their official duties, including discussing COVID-19 and its testing and prevention,” wrote to the Justice Department.
Connally threatened the three remaining figures with physical violence and death as well.
“Everyone has the right to disagree, but you do not have the right to threaten a federal official’s life,” said U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron. “Threats like these will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Christian J. Schrank added: “The public, including public servants, deserve the utmost safety and the assurance that they can perform their duties without interference.” | https://www.wlns.com/top-stories/west-virginia-man-gets-3-year-sentence-for-threats-to-fauci-other-officials/ | 2022-08-05T16:12:00Z | https://www.wlns.com/top-stories/west-virginia-man-gets-3-year-sentence-for-threats-to-fauci-other-officials/ | false | 20 |
New Delhi, Aug 5 (PTI) While appreciating the steps taken by the government under tobacco control legislation, top health experts and an activist on Friday said it is time the law is strengthened by completely banning designated smoking areas and advertisements of tobacco products at points of sale.
Over 13 lakh people die due to tobacco consumption in India every year, experts said, adding the stringent COTPA (Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act) Amendment Bill will not only help save lives but also reduce burden on the healthcare system.
Also Read | Mumbai: 20-Year-Old Man’s Body Wrapped With Plastic, Tied With Cable Wires Found in Ambernath Lake.
At a webinar held by Tobacco-Free India, a citizens group, they said gaps in the COTPA Act serve as a tacit approval from the authorities to allow tobacco consumption as, according to them, it sends a wrong message.
Dr Shalini Singh, a cancer specialist and director, ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, stressed on the need to spread awareness about tobacco-related cancers and a plethora of other diseases.
Also Read | Rahul Gandhi Doctored Video Case: Supreme Court Grants Zee News Editor Rajnish Ahuja Protection From Arrest.
Drawing attention towards second-hand smoking, which is equally harmful, Dr Singh said, "Many countries are now moving towards the tobacco endgame strategy. They have also started banning tobacco on streets, beaches and outdoor parks. Smoking zones allowed in our country in indoor spaces like hotels and restaurants pose huge health hazards for non-smokers and we have to ban them immediately."
Shweta Shalini, a BJP leader from Maharashtra, elaborated on the urgency and the immediate need for action to fight against the tobacco menace.
"If we want to make India a world leader, we must have healthy youth. But I feel that there's a strong lobby working against the government's dream. If our youth and kids have ill-health, India can never become the 'Vishwa Guru'," she said.
Indian National Health Policy-2017 comprehensively includes the aspect of tobacco control and sets out the target for achieving 30 per cent relative reduction of tobacco use by 2025 from the levels in 2009-10.
"It's good that smoking is completely banned in many public places and workplaces. The law, however, permits the establishment of smoking areas or spaces in airports, hotels having 30 or more rooms, and restaurants having seating capacity for 30 or more. This gap needs to be plugged," Shalini asserted.
Dr Archana Dhawan Bajaj, a fertility expert, cautioned that tobacco use can have a serious impact on the fertility of both men and women, and consequently, lead to a poor quality of life in pregnancy as well as negative health on the unborn child, besides miscarriage and death.
Dr Bajaj explained that regular smoking has a double whammy on a woman's fertility. Smoking can harm both the eggs and the uterus. It not only affects her egg quality, but can also have an endometrial effect, he said.
From a man's perspective, the carcinogen quality of cigarettes in general affects the motility of the sperm and excessive smoking can lead to poor sperm count and other fertility problems, she added.
"A total ban on smoking in indoor public places will protect men and women from the harms of second-hand smoke, help smokers quit and reduce smoking among youth," the gynaecologist said.
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2022 Mountain West Football Top 50: #33, Nevada RB Toa Taua
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2022 Mountain West Football Top 50: #33, Nevada RB Toa Taua
The Wolf Pack’s veteran running back reaches rarified air by landing on our annual list of the Mountain West’s best for the fourth time.
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A minor bit of history in the making.
Typically, our annual preseason countdown of Mountain West football’s best athletes doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for breaking new ground as stars rise to the top and often makes repeat appearances. Some of the very best appear three times, but Nevada Wolf Pack running back Toa Taua is likely the first player ever to make the preseason top 50 four times.
After being named as the conference’s freshman of the year back in 2018, Taua remained remarkably consistent as a key cog in the Wolf Pack’s burgeoning Air Raid offense under Jay Norvell. He ran for 872 yards and six touchdowns that first year while also catching 22 passes for 202 yards and a score, then contributed 1,102 all-purpose yards and six more touchdowns the following year. In 2020, he added 952 more and then jumped back above 1,000 for the third time last season, with 732 rushing yards and 296 receiving yards on a career-best 39 receptions.
2022 marks his final year of eligibility and there’s a decent chance that, with a wealth of last year’s offensive stars having moved on in one way or another, he comes out with his best campaign yet under new head coach Ken Wilson. He could also finish his Wolf Pack career in the top five by career all-purpose yards, cementing himself alongside program greats like his brother Vai Taua and Trevor Insley, and make defenses miserable one last time along the way.
"Toa Taua. They can't tackle him. That's the whole problem."@NevadaFootball pic.twitter.com/eOT1KFkT0H
— CBS Sports Network (@CBSSportsNet) October 17, 2021
Toa Taua makes it look easy ⚡️@NevadaFootball extends their lead 👏 pic.twitter.com/s3zdvHMBTa
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) October 2, 2021
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2022 Mountain West Football Top 50: #34, Utah State OT Alfred Edwards III
2022 Mountain West Football Top 50: #35, San Diego State S CJ Baskerville
2022 Mountain West Football Top 50: #36, Wyoming LB Easton Gibbs | https://sports.yahoo.com/2022-mountain-west-football-top-132327409.html?src=rss | 2022-08-05T16:14:28Z | https://sports.yahoo.com/2022-mountain-west-football-top-132327409.html?src=rss | true | 1 |
- Genesis Donates $25,000 to the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math at Alabama State University and East Coast Chapter Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesis Motor America's corporate social responsibility initiative, Genesis Gives, donated a total of $50,000 to two esteemed organizations in Alabama to provide scholarships in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Alabama State University (ASU) received $25,000 and the East Coast Chapter Tuskegee Airmen Inc. (ECCTAI) received a $25,000 donation from Genesis Gives. Ceremonial checks were presented to ASU and ECCTAI at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama.
"Genesis recognizes the impact STEM and STEAM education have on cultivating a lifelong love of learning among the next generation of students," said Brandon Ramirez, director, corporate social responsibility and external relations, Genesis Motor North America. "Genesis Gives is committed to investing in and providing opportunities for the future workforce in all communities."
The College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (CSTEM) at ASU offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs across various departments, producing some of the nation's outstanding scientists, including biologists, physical scientists, chemists, computer scientists, mathematicians, technologists and engineers among others. ASU's CSTEM graduates are skilled in critical thinking, leadership, creative design and the application of technological and scientific solutions to complex and challenging problems.
This donation will allow ASU to assist CSTEM students with financial needs such as tuition, fees, books and academic supplies. It will also provide tutors for students who may need additional assistance in some courses.
The East Coast Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. supports many educational, charitable and philanthropic activities in Alabama. It supports the national goals of Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., to motivate, inspire and stimulate young people's minds to aspire to, seek and achieve successful careers in the fields of aviation and aerospace. This donation will provide STEM scholarships ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 for its program's deserving college-bound high school graduates.
Genesis Gives provides STEAM scholarships to support learning in the areas of sciences, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.
Genesis Gives
Genesis Gives is a corporate social responsibility initiative from Genesis Motor North America. Expanding on the brand's commitment to the highest standards of performance and its athletic elegance design identity, Genesis Gives supports nonprofit organizations with the goal of improving access to, and performance in, youth sports and STEAM education in under resourced communities.
Genesis Motor North America
At Genesis, we put the customer at the center of every decision we make. Genesis is a global automotive brand that delivers the highest standards of performance, design, safety, and innovation while looking towards a more sustainable future. Genesis designs customer experiences that go beyond products, embodying audacious, forward-thinking, and distinctly Korean characteristics within its unique Athletic Elegance design identity. With a growing range of award-winning models — including the 2022 MotorTrend SUV of the Year, GV70, along with G70, G80, G90, GV60, and GV80 — Genesis aims to lead the age of electrification by focusing on a dual electrification strategy involving fuel-cell and battery EVs, starting with its Electrified G80 and GV60 electric models. Genesis has stated its commitment to becoming an all-electric vehicle brand by 2030 and to pursuing carbon neutrality by 2035.
Please visit our media site for the latest news at www.genesisnewsusa.com (United States) and www.genesisnews.ca (Canada).
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Great Barrier Reef sees highest amount of coral cover in 36 years
AUSTRALIA (CNN) - Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since monitoring began 36 years ago.
An Australian Institute of Marine Science survey found average hard coral cover in the upper and central areas of the reef increased by about a third.
The institute survey examined 87 reefs from August 2021 and May 2022.
It’s a rare piece of good news for the world-famous reef, which underwent its sixth mass bleaching event in March.
Bleaching is a result of warmer-than-normal water temperatures, which triggers a stress reaction from the corals and from which it can take nearly a decade to recover.
The institute’s CEO said the increase in coral is a sign the reef could still recover from mass bleaching.
An Australian Marine Conservation Society official cautioned that while the report was a sign of progress, the reef remains at risk.
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PATNA: At least nine people died and 28 others were taken ill after consuming spurious liquor in Bihar's Saran district in the last two days. The survivors, 14 of them lost their eyesight, have been admitted to the government hospitals in Saran and Patna districts.
The incident happened at Dhanuk Tola under Maker police station area in Saran district. Altogether 37 people had consumed country liquor after 'puja' at the village late on Wednesday night. Two of them died soon after reaching home on Wednesday night.
Others also complained of vomiting, abdomen pain and losing their eyesight. They were rushed to Sadar hospital at Chhapra, where six of them were referred to the Patna Medical College and Hospital. Two died on way to the hospital. Five more victims died at PMCH during treatment.
Saran district magistrate Rajesh Meena and superintendent of police Santosh Kumar visited the village and inquired about the incident. The DM later said that prime facie it appeared to be a case of suspected hooch.
“A medical team and para-medical staff have been sent to the affected village to ascertain the cause
of death,” he added.
The family members and relatives of the victims told the police that the condition of the victims deteriorated after they returned home in drunken state late on Wednesday night. “They used to consume alcohol on earlier occasions also. But nothing of that sort happened earlier,” a relative of one of the victims
said.
The deceased were identified as Chandan Mahto (25), Kamal Mahto (45), Omnath Mahto (28), Chandeshwar Mahto (60), Rajnath Mahto (45), Sakaldil Mahto (50), Dhaniklal Mahto (55), Vishwanath Mahto (65) and Chandeshwar Mahto (40).
Locals said that 14 people have already lost their eyesight. Those who lost their eyesight have been identified as Jailal Mahto, Bholi Mahto, Chandeshwar Mahto, Upendra Mahto, Devnath Mahto, Prem Mahto, Raj Kumar Mahto, Lakhan Mahto, Kameshwar Mahto, Ram Pukar Mahto, Guddu Kumar, Munilal Mahto, Gyanchand Mahto and Guru Mahto.
They were stated to be residents of Phulwaria and Bhatha Nonia Toli under Maker police station in Saran district.
A senior police officer said that one suspect has been arrested by the police in connection with the suspected hooch tragedy.
The state had come under total prohibition on April 4, 2016. | https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/aug/05/suspected-hooch-claims-nine-lives-in-bihars-saran-district-2484384.html | 2022-08-05T16:17:39Z | https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/aug/05/suspected-hooch-claims-nine-lives-in-bihars-saran-district-2484384.html | false | 1 |
CHEMISTRY TEACHER AND TIKTOK STAR DISCUSSES THE FRIXION FOR GOOD CHALLENGE AND A UNIQUE, ERASABLE PEN THAT MAKES A VALUABLE LEARNING TOOL
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 11:11 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
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Phil discussed simple ways to bring STEM education to life for kids as they head back-to-school. He also shared details about the FriXion erasable pen and the FriXion for Good Challenge - if more than 7,143 people get involved at the same time, they will simultaneously create over 1-million degrees of heat using the erasable pen.
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For one high school chemistry teacher, the power of an engaging demonstration has turned him into a social media star. Phil Cook, well known for his engaging and educational TikTok posts, is making STEM concepts fun and accessible for students of all ages with the help of the incredible thermo-sensitive ink science behind FriXion erasable pens – the first line of pens ever to be Authenticated™ by STEM.org (the leaders in STEM education) as a valuable teaching and learning tool.
Phil discussed simple ways to bring STEM education to life for kids as they head back-to-school. He also shared details about the FriXion erasable pen and the FriXion for Good Challenge - if more than 7,143 people get involved at the same time, they will simultaneously create over 1-million degrees of heat using the erasable pen.
From August 3 through November 8, 2022, Pilot will donate 25 percent of the profits (up to $50,000) from every purchase of the FriXion ColorSticks 10-packs sold at Walmart, Target, and other retailers, and of the FriXion ColorSticks 16-pack sold on Amazon, to Girls Who Code. If 7,143 people were to erase with FriXion pens at the same time it would generate one million degrees of heat. Pilot is also encouraging consumers to join the movement and help generate "FriXion for Good" by writing and erasing with FriXion. Pilot invites FriXion fans to help achieve this goal and to get involved by sharing on Instagram how they use their FriXion pens and including #FriXionForGood. For each #FriXionForGood hashtag used in an in-feed post on Instagram and TikTok through November 8, 2022, Pilot will donate $5, up to an additional $10,000, for a total potential donation of $60,000 to Girls Who Code.
For more information please visit: www.FriXionSTEM.com
MORE ABOUT PHIL COOK
Phillip Cook, known to his TikTok fans as "Chem Teacher Phil," has been a secondary education science teacher for more than 21 years, primarily teaching chemistry, physics, and engineering, and is currently a Senior Science Instructor at Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana. He has a Master of Science, Learning Design & Technology from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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