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KABUL – A prominent cleric Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani was killed in a suicide bomb blast attack in Kabul, officials said Thursday.
Reportedly, the Islamic State Khorasan (ISK) late Thursday claimed the killing of Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani. The group claims that one of his fighters, Khalid al-Loghari, carried out a ‘martyrdom operation’ which resulted in the killing of one of the most prominent enemies of ISKP.
Investigators in Kabul, Afghanistan told reporters that initial investigation into the incident led them to believe that the suicide bomber who targeted Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani had explosives stored in his prosthetic limbs.
The prominent Afghan cleric had supported the Taliban and was in favour of female education. Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani reportedly died in a suicide bomb blast in Kabul.
Speaking to Reuters, Taliban sources say the religious leader was targeted by a man who detonated explosives hidden in an artificial plastic limb. The Islamic State (IS) group, which has previously targeted the cleric, claimed responsibility for the bombing saying it happened inside his office.
According to local reports, the attack took place at an Islamic seminary in the Afghan capital.
Sheikh Haqqani was a supporter of Afghanistan’s Taliban government and a prominent critic of the jihadist militant group Islamic State Kohrasan Province (IS-K), a regional affiliate of IS that operates in Afghanistan and opposes the Taliban’s rule.
He is one of the highest profile figures to have been killed in the country since the Taliban returned to power last year. “It’s a very huge loss for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” a senior Taliban official told Reuters news agency, adding that authorities were investigating who was behind the attack.
Despite sharing the same name, he was not related to Afghanistan’s Haqqani militant group network.
The religious leader had previously issued a fatwa, or religious decree, in support of female education – a contentious issue inside Afghanistan.
In an interview early this year, he had argued that Afghan women and girls should be able to access education: “There is no justification in the sharia [law] to say female education is not allowed. No justification at all.”
He added: “All the religious books have stated female education is permissible and obligatory, because, for example, if a woman gets sick, in an Islamic environment like Afghanistan or Pakistan, and needs treatment, it’s much better if she’s treated by a female doctor.”
In all but a handful of provinces in the country, girls’ secondary schools have been ordered to remain closed by the Taliban. Sheikh Haqqani had previously survived two assassination attempts, most recently in 2020 when IS claimed responsibility for an explosion at a religious school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar that killed at least seven people. | https://nation.com.pk/2022/08/12/bomb-hidden-in-artificial-leg-kills-top-taliban-cleric-in-kabul/ | 2022-08-12T04:56:10Z | https://nation.com.pk/2022/08/12/bomb-hidden-in-artificial-leg-kills-top-taliban-cleric-in-kabul/ | true | 2 |
Egyptian Evangelical Leader Reverend Zaki Confirmed as 'Agent' of el-Sisi Government in US
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2022 /Christian Newswire/ -- Coptic Solidarity has obtained documentation confirming that the head of Egypt's Protestant Churches, the Reverend Andrea Zaki Stephanous Killini, has been lobbying officials at the US State Department and Members of the US Congress after filing with the US Department of Justice in accord with the Foreign Agents Registration Act "in purpose of explaining the Egyptian's situation in general and in specific the Christian's situation in Egypt and the Islamic- Christian relation." An article by African Intelligence titled Reverend Zaki Discreetly Lobbies Washington on Sisi's Behalf broke the story. Despite being given the opportunity, Rev. Zaki did not reply to the publication's requests for comment.
The article notes that "Rev. Zaki started discretely making appointments in the US capital in Oct. 2021 and has continued racking up meetings all the way through June of this year. (His) aim was to persuade members of the House of Representatives and State Department officials of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's credentials when it comes to defending religious freedom."
Rev. Zaki met with US Representatives as well as the Egypt Desk of the State Department and the staff of their Office of International Religious Freedom (OIRF), responsible for writing the annual report on religious freedom in Egypt.
A possible devastating consequence of Rev. Zaki's misinformation is that the OIRF has published annual reports on Egypt that are misleading and present a far more positive narrative than is warranted. The direct result has been a more systematic denial of asylum requests by Copts, with many asylum officers, throughout the U.S., citing the State Department report on Egypt as grounds to deny Egyptian Christians asylum in the US.
Additionally, the Egyptian government has utilized lobbying firms to spread similar fallacious information such as through a pamphlet titled: Strengthening National Unity: Religious Freedom and Diversity in Egypt, under the header of Embassy of Egypt, Washington, distributed by D.C.'s Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP (contracted since Nov. 2020 by the Egyptian Embassy at a $65,000 per month), which Coptic Solidarity debunked, in painstaking detail.
Coptic Solidarity urges US Government officials and the Members of Congress to be aware of these efforts. A primary tool of the Egyptian government is to invite Members of Congress and/or their staff on Congressional delegation trips to Egypt (sometimes fully funded by Egypt's Government) in which the invitees are presented a meticulously curated message of unity and improvement, as well as through manipulating religious leaders to deliver a pro-government message (on pain of retaliation should it not be to the Egyptian government's liking). The Egyptian government simultaneously utilizes the presence of members and staff of the US government to further their narrative in the media by publishing articles, pictures, and video at their discretion. The cumulative governmental pressure has effectively silenced nearly all human rights defenders and opposition to the el-Sisi government including religious, social, political, and any anyone even perceived as being opposed, regardless of reality.
Coptic Solidarity is an organization seeking to help minorities, particularly the Copts of Egypt. We support those in Egypt working for democracy, freedom, and the protection of the fundamental rights of all Egyptian citizens, and advocate in cooperation with the affiliated organizations in Canada and in Europe (Solidarité Copte). For more information, contact Lindsay Rodriguez at 801-512-1713 or coptadvocacy@copticsolidarity.org.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Rain, wind, lightning, and thunder hit the north end of Las Vegas valley Thursday evening.
An 8 News Now viewer sent in a video after lightning hit a tree in a North Las Vegas neighborhood near Clayton and Washburn.
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A flood advisory was issued for the Las Vegas Valley until 12:15 a.m. Hazards include heavy rain, nuisance flooding, gusty winds, and frequent lightning, according to the National Weather Service of Las Vegas.
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The Hubli Tigers have won just one of their three matches and are currently fifth in the standings with two points. Gulbarga Mystics, meanwhile, find themselves fourth in the table with four points, having won two out of their three fixtures.
HT vs GMY Probable Playing 11 Today
HT XI
Luvnith Sisodia, BU Shiva Kumar, Liyan Khan, Naveen MG, Tushar Singh, Shishir Bhavane (wk), Abhimanyu Mithun (c), Vasuki Koushik, Zahoor Farooqi, Saurabh Srivastav, Sagar Solanki.
GMY XI
Manish Pandey (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Rohan Patil, Jeswanth Acharya, Codanda Ajit Karthik, Krishnan Shrijith(wk), Bangalore Mohith, Manoj Bhandage, Rithesh Bhatkal, Pranav Bhatia, Vidhwath Kaverappa.
Match Details
HT vs GMY, Maharaja Trophy T20 2022, Match 11
Date and Time: 12th August, 2022, 3:00 PM IST
Venue: Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Ground, Mysore
Pitch Report
The pitch at the Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Ground generally favors the batters, especially in the T20 format. The average first-innings score at the venue is 170 runs. Thunderstorms could play a spoilsport in today's fixture.
Today’s HT vs GMY Dream11 match top picks
Wicketkeeper
KL Shrijith has scored 86 runs at an average of 43 and at a strike rate of over 140. Despite being listed as a wicketkeeper, he has picked up one wicket.
Batters
Manish Pandey, who has scored 52 runs in the Maharaja Trophy T20 2022 so far, will be keen to up the ante today.
Devdutt Padikkal has scored only 27 runs, but remains one of the best batters in the competition.
All-rounder
Manoj Bhandage has scored 41 runs and taken two wickets in the Maharaja Trophy T20 2022 thus far.
Bowler
CA Karthik will lead Gulbarga Mystics' bowling attack, having claimed five wickets in the tournament so far.
Top 5 best players to pick in HT vs GMY Dream11 prediction team
CA Karthik (GMY) – 191 points
KL Shrijith (GMY) – 148 points
Manoj Bhandage (GMY) – 142 points
Manish Pandey (GMY) – 82 points
Devdutt Padikkal (GMY) – 70 points
Important stats for HT vs GMY Dream11 prediction team
CA Karthik: 5 wickets
KL Shrijith: 86 runs and 1 wicket
Manoj Bhandage: 41 runs and 2 wickets
Manish Pandey: 52 runs
Devdutt Padikkal: 27 runs
HT vs GMY Dream11 Prediction Today (Maharaja Trophy T20 2022)
Fantasy Suggestion #1: KL Shrijith, Luvnith Sisodia, Liyan Khan, Devdutt Padikkal, Manish Pandey, Manoj Bhandage, Ritesh Bhatkal, Tushar Singh, CA Karthik, Abhimanyu Mithun, V Koushik.
Captain: Devdutt Padikkal. Vice-captain: Manish Pandey.
Fantasy Suggestion #2: KL Shrijith, B U Shivakumar, Liyan Khan, Devdutt Padikkal, Manish Pandey, Rohan Patil, Manoj Bhandage, Tushar Singh, CA Karthik, Abhimanyu Mithun, V Kaverappa.
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Updated August 12, 2022 at 12:19 AM ET
Former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform late Thursday night that he will not oppose the release of documents related to the search of Mar-a-Lago by federal investigators. He added that he encourages "the immediate release of those documents."
In his posting, Trump goes on to attack the investigation in political terms as he has since he revealed it on Monday. Trump's attorneys had been given copies of the documents and the former president could release them at any time if he chooses to.
A federal judge in Florida had given the Justice Department until Friday afternoon to confer with Trump's attorneys and advise the court as to whether Trump objects to the release of the warrant authorizing the search on Monday and the property receipt for what was taken.
Earlier Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Department of Justice has asked a federal court in Florida to unseal the search warrant served at Trump's Mar-A-Lago residence three days ago, as well as a property receipt for what was taken.
Garland made remarks Thursday afternoon at a news conference from the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., the first time the agency has commented on the search since it took place.
"Both the warrant and the FBI property receipt were provided on the day of the search to the former president's counsel, who was on site during the search," Garland said. A property receipt is a document left with the property owner after a search like this takes place.
He also said he personally approved the decision to seek that search warrant, one that the department did not make lightly, he added.
"Where possible it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken," Garland said.
He did not provide any further details about the nature of the search or other DOJ matters but he said more information would be made available.
Trump now has the next move
In order for the motion to unseal the search warrant and property receipt to proceed, Trump had been given the opportunity to respond and object. The federal judge in Florida had ordered the government to give the filing to Trump immediately. Trump has had until 3 p.m. on Friday to advise the court if he will object to the motion.
According to the court filing, the Justice Department calls for the unsealing of the documents given the heightened public interest in the case, but it makes clear that the former president should be given the opportunity to say whether he has "legitimate privacy interests" that could cause harm if they are made public.
Trump said in a social media post shared after Garland's remarks that he and his attorneys had been cooperating with authorities and said, "the government could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it." He did not indicate whether he would oppose the motion to unseal the documents related to Monday's search.
In his statement Monday night, Trump said that his home at Mar-A-Lago was "under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents." He also said they opened his safe.
His son, Eric Trump, told Fox News that federal authorities had given him a heads up that the search was about to take place on Monday morning and he informed his father. Trump claimed in his social media post Thursday that there was no warning that agents were coming. Trump was at his residence in Manhattan when the search took place.
What to expect to learn from the documents if they're unsealed
The documents, according to Andrew Weissmann, a former Justice Department prosecutor, would likely provide details on the crimes that are being investigated, where agents could and could not search and a list of what was found.
"It won't be document by document but that should be helpful in identifying for the public that there was material there," he said.
The underlying affidavit would offer more detail, Weissmann told NPR's All Things Considered, though it does not appear to not among those the Justice Department is seeking to have unsealed. The affidavit would detail the facts — from an FBI agent swearing under oath — that support probable cause for the search warrant.
"We won't, without that underlying affidavit, get all the answers that I think everyone is looking for," he said.
Garland blasted critics who have attacked the FBI
In his remarks, the DOJ head also blasted what he called "unfounded" attacks on the professionalism of the FBI and Justice Department agents.
"I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked," Garland said.
Garland's remarks come just hours after a suspect breached an FBI field office in Cincinnati.
Earlier in the day, the FBI field office in Cincinnati said the subject fled north onto Interstate 71 after an alarm went off and FBI special agents responded.
Hours later, law enforcement officials shot and killed the suspect after a standoff, member station WVXU reported, and there is an ongoing investigation.
FBI Director Christopher Wray was critical of the attacks on those who work in the agency.
"Unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others," Wray said in a statement. "Violence and threats against law enforcement, including the FBI, are dangerous and should be deeply concerning to all Americans."
According to Brian O'Hare, president of the FBI Agents Association, threats made against the FBI "contribute to an atmosphere where some have, or will, accept violence against law enforcement as appropriate. It is not."
"This is not a partisan or political issue. It is a matter of public safety and basic decency," O'Hare said. "Calls for violence against law enforcement are unacceptable, and should be condemned by all leaders."
Garland is also facing criticism from GOP leaders
Garland himself has already faced criticism from top ranking Republicans.
"The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement after Trump publicized the search took place.
McCarthy said if the GOP wins the House in the midterm elections, there would be oversight of the department, and he told Garland, "preserve your documents and clear your calendar."
Trump, in his Monday statement, also blamed political motivation for the search, saying it happened because of his potential to run for president again in 2024.
But President Biden and White House officials found out about the FBI search from media reports, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday.
"The president was not briefed, was not aware of it. No one at the White House was given a heads up," Jean-Pierre said, adding that the DOJ conducts their investigations independently.
A White House official also said Thursday that Biden did not have advanced notice that Garland was making comments today, and learned about them from media reports.
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With owners needing somewhere secure to store their caravans, there is a big opportunity for landowners to open up a new income stream by offering caravan storage.
While the rewards can be high, it is important to follow correct procedures before you start to make sure the service you are offering is safe, secure and legally sound.
There are several main areas which you need to get right before advertising your service to caravan owners.
You can’t just open the gate and invite caravan owners to park in your field – you need planning permission. Usually, the relevant permission will be B8 – Storage and Distribution, which should include outside storage.
Planning authorities might add conditions to the permission to control issues like limiting the number of caravans on site, specifying the hours you can open, and controlling lighting in the area and impacts on the local community and road network.
Failure to comply with these conditions can prompt enforcement action against you, which could damage the business and incur costly legal fees.
Remember that you are more likely to get planning permission if you start with a small, manageable plan – permission to alter the scheme can be sought later as your business expands.
When drawing up your business plan, make sure you also remember that you will have to pay business rates on the land you are using and, if your income meets the threshold, VAT on your income.
Another major consideration is security – caravan owners want to know that their valuable assets are safe from theft or damage, so taking the time to invest in a secure storage area will pay dividends in the long run.
Strong fencing, secure gates and electronic measures like fob entry and CCTV will all help reassure owners that your site is safe (taking care to ensure your planning permission includes those features where required).
And, if the worst happens, you need to make sure that you have comprehensive public liability insurance in place to cover any losses.
Insurance isn’t an area where you should cut corners. Make sure your policy specifically covers commercial caravan storage and will cover all your liabilities if the need arises. This should include the value of the caravans themselves, as well as any accident or incident on the site which might prompt a claim against you.
The Caravan Storage Site Owners’ Association (CaSSOA) has reported that some storage site owners are earning up to £800 per year per caravan, so the financial potential of diversifying is clear.
Caravan owners can shop around to find the best sites, so it’s worth taking the time to make sure you offer a safe and secure service that customers will seek out.
Suzanne Tucker is associate and head of the planning team at FBC Manby Bowdler | https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/farming/2022/08/12/follow-correct-procedures-to-boost-farm-income/ | 2022-08-12T05:44:43Z | https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/farming/2022/08/12/follow-correct-procedures-to-boost-farm-income/ | false | 1 |
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Atlas 3, Queretaro 1
Puebla vs. Pumas, 8 p.m. ppd
Monarcas 2, Chivas 1
Monterrey 5, Leon 1
Santos 4, Cruz Azul 0
Toluca 3, Tijuana 1
Atletico San Luis 1, Necaxa 2
Pachuca 2, Tigres 0
America 2, FC Juarez 1
Queretaro 1, Atletico San Luis 1
Necaxa vs. Monterrey, 10 p.m.
Tijuana vs. Puebla, 10:05 p.m.
Leon vs. Monarcas, 6 p.m.
Pumas vs. America, 8:05 p.m.
FC Juarez vs. Pachuca, 10:05 p.m.
Chivas vs. Atlas, 10:05 p.m.
Cruz Azul vs. Toluca, 6 p.m.
Tigres vs. Santos, 8:05 p.m.
Atlas vs. FC Juarez, 8 p.m.
Monarcas vs. Queretaro, 9 p.m.
Puebla vs. Necaxa, 10:05 p.m.
Toluca vs. Monterrey, 8 p.m.
Cruz Azul vs. Tijuana, 10:05 p.m.
Pachuca vs. America, 10:05 p.m.
Santos vs. Leon, 8 p.m.
Atletico San Luis vs. Pumas, 10:05 p.m.
Necaxa vs. Chivas, 8 p.m.
Queretaro vs. Tijuana, 6 p.m.
Atlas vs. Puebla, 8:05 p.m.
Monterrey vs. Tigres, 8:05 p.m.
FC Juarez vs. Monarcas, 10:05 p.m.
America vs. Cruz Azul, 10:05 p.m.
Pumas vs. Santos, 1 p.m.
Atletico San Luis vs. Toluca, 6 p.m.
Pachuca vs. Leon, 8:05 p.m.
Chivas vs. Monterrey, 8 p.m.
Queretaro vs. America, 10:05 p.m.
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Atlas 3, Queretaro 1
Puebla vs. Pumas, 8 p.m. ppd
Monarcas 2, Chivas 1
Monterrey 5, Leon 1
Santos 4, Cruz Azul 0
Toluca 3, Tijuana 1
Atletico San Luis 1, Necaxa 2
Pachuca 2, Tigres 0
America 2, FC Juarez 1
Queretaro 1, Atletico San Luis 1
Necaxa vs. Monterrey, 10 p.m.
Tijuana vs. Puebla, 10:05 p.m.
Leon vs. Monarcas, 6 p.m.
Pumas vs. America, 8:05 p.m.
FC Juarez vs. Pachuca, 10:05 p.m.
Chivas vs. Atlas, 10:05 p.m.
Cruz Azul vs. Toluca, 6 p.m.
Tigres vs. Santos, 8:05 p.m.
Atlas vs. FC Juarez, 8 p.m.
Monarcas vs. Queretaro, 9 p.m.
Puebla vs. Necaxa, 10:05 p.m.
Toluca vs. Monterrey, 8 p.m.
Cruz Azul vs. Tijuana, 10:05 p.m.
Pachuca vs. America, 10:05 p.m.
Santos vs. Leon, 8 p.m.
Atletico San Luis vs. Pumas, 10:05 p.m.
Necaxa vs. Chivas, 8 p.m.
Queretaro vs. Tijuana, 6 p.m.
Atlas vs. Puebla, 8:05 p.m.
Monterrey vs. Tigres, 8:05 p.m.
FC Juarez vs. Monarcas, 10:05 p.m.
America vs. Cruz Azul, 10:05 p.m.
Pumas vs. Santos, 1 p.m.
Atletico San Luis vs. Toluca, 6 p.m.
Pachuca vs. Leon, 8:05 p.m.
Chivas vs. Monterrey, 8 p.m.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The Aug. 5 demonstrations by India’s main opposition Congress party against soaring food prices and unemployment began like any other recent protest — an electorally weak opposition taking to the New Delhi streets against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s massively popular government.
The protests, however, quickly took a turn when key Congress lawmakers led by Rahul Gandhi — Modi’s main opponent in the last two general elections — trooped to the Parliament, leading to fierce standoffs with police.
“Democracy is a memory (in India),” Gandhi later tweeted, describing the dramatic photographs that showed him and his party leaders being briefly detained by police.
Gandhi’s statement was largely seen as yet another frantic effort by a crisis-ridden opposition party to shore up its relevance and was dismissed by the government. But it resonated amid growing sentiment that India’s democracy — the world’s largest with nearly 1.4 billion people — is in retreat and its democratic foundations are floundering.
Experts and critics say trust in the judiciary as a check on executive power is eroding. Assaults on the press and free speech have grown brazen. Religious minorities are facing increasing attacks by Hindu nationalists. And largely peaceful protests, sometimes against provocative policies, have been stamped out by internet clampdowns and the jailing of activists.
“Most former colonies have struggled to put a lasting democratic process in place. India was more successful than most in doing that,” said Booker Prize-winning novelist and activist Arundhati Roy. “And now, 75 years on, to witness it being dismantled systematically and in shockingly violent ways is traumatic.”
Modi’s ministers say India’s democratic principles are robust, even thriving.
“If today there is a sense in the world that democracy is, in some form, the future, then a large part of it is due to India,” External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in April. “There was a time when, in this part of the world, we were the only democracy."
History is on Jaishankar's side.
At midnight on August 15, 1947, the red sandstone parliamentary building in the heart of India's capital echoed with the high-pitched voice of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister.
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom," Nehru famously spoke, words that were heard over live radio by millions of Indians. Then he promised: “To the nations and peoples of the world, we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy.”
It marked India’s transition from a British colony to a democracy — the first in South Asia — that has since transformed from a poverty-stricken nation into one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, earning itself a seat at the global high table and becoming a democratic counterweight to its authoritarian neighbor, China.
Apart from a brief interruption in 1975 when a formal emergency was declared under the Congress party rule that saw outright censorship, India clung doggedly to its democratic convictions — largely due to free elections, an independent judiciary that confronted the executive, a thriving media, strong opposition and peaceful transitions of power.
But experts and critics say the country has been gradually departing from some commitments and argue the backsliding has accelerated since Modi came to power in 2014. They accuse his populist government of using unbridled political power to undermine democratic freedoms and preoccupying itself with pursuing a Hindu nationalist agenda.
“The decline seems to continue across several core formal democratic institutions... such as the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information, and freedom of association," said Staffan I. Lindberg, political scientist and director of the V-Dem Institute, a Sweden-based research center that rates the health of democracies.
Modi's party denies this. A spokesperson, Shehzad Poonawalla, said India has been a “thriving democracy” under Modi's rule and has witnessed “reclamation of the republic.”
Most democracies are hardly immune to strains.
The number of countries experiencing democratic backsliding “has never been as high” as in the past decade, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance said last year, adding the U.S. to the list along with India and Brazil.
Still, the descent appears to be striking in India.
Earlier this year, the U.S.-based non-profit Freedom House downgraded India from a free democracy to "partially free.” The V-Dem Institute classified it as an “electoral autocracy” on par with Russia. And the Democracy Index published by The Economist Intelligence Unit called India a “flawed democracy.”
India’s Foreign Ministry has called the downgrades “inaccurate" and “distorted.” Many Indian leaders have said such reports are an intrusion in “internal matters," with India’s Parliament disallowing debates on them.
Globally, India strongly advocates democracy. During the inaugural Summit for Democracy organized by the U.S. in December, Modi asserted the “democratic spirit” is integral to India’s “civilization ethos.”
At home, however, his government is seen bucking that very spirit, with independent institutions coming under increasing scrutiny.
Experts point to long pending cases with India’s Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of key decisions taken by Modi's government as major concerns.
They include cases related to a controversial citizenship review process that has already left nearly 2 million people in Assam state potentially stateless, the now revoked semi-autonomous powers pertaining to disputed Kashmir, the opaque campaign finance laws that are seen disproportionately favoring Modi’s party, and its alleged use of military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents and journalists.
India's judiciary, which is independent of the executive, has faced criticism in the past but the intensity has increased, said Deepak Gupta, a former Supreme Court judge.
Gupta said India’s democracy appears to be “on the downswing” due to the court’s inability to uphold civil liberties in some cases by denying people bail and the misuse of sedition and anti-terror laws by police, tactics that were also used by earlier governments.
“When it comes to adjudication of disputes... the courts have done a good job. But when it comes to their role as protectors of the rights of the people, I wish the courts had done more,” he said.
The country’s democratic health has also taken a hit due to the status of minorities.
The largely Hindu nation has been proud of its multiculturalism and has about 200 million Muslims. It also has a history of bloody sectarian violence, but hate speech and violence against Muslims have increased recently. Some states ruled by Modi’s party have used bulldozers to demolish the homes and shops of alleged Muslim protesters, a move critics say is a form of collective punishment.
The government has sought to downplay these attacks, but the incidents have left the minority community reeling under fear.
“Sometimes you need extra protection for the minorities so that they don’t feel that they are second-rate citizens,” said Gupta.
That the rising tide of Hindu nationalism has helped buoy the fortunes of Modi’s party is evident in its electoral successes. It has also coincided with a rather glaring fact: the ruling party has no Muslim lawmaker in the Parliament, a first in the history of India.
The inability to fully eliminate discrimination and attacks against other minorities like Christians, tribals and Dalits — who form the lowest rung of India’s Hindu caste hierarchy — has exacerbated these concerns. Even though the government sees the ascent of an indigenous woman as India's ceremonial president as a significant step toward equal representation, critics have cast their doubts calling it political optics.
Under Modi, India’s Parliament has also come under scrutiny for passing important laws with little debate, including a religious-driven citizenship law and controversial agricultural reform that led to massive protests. In a rare retreat, his government withdrew the farm laws and some saw it as a triumph of democracy, but that sentiment faded quickly with increased attacks on free speech and the press.
The country fell eight places, to 150, out of 180 countries in this year’s Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders, which said “Indian journalists who are too critical of the government are subjected to all-out harassment and attack campaigns.”
Shrinking press freedoms in India date to previous governments but the last few years have been worse.
Journalists have been arrested. Some are stopped from traveling abroad. Dozens are facing criminal prosecution, including sedition. At the same time, the government has introduced sweeping regulatory laws for social media companies that give it more power to police online content.
“One has only to look around to see that the media has certainly shriveled up during Mr. Modi’s regime,” said Coomi Kapoor, journalist and author of “The Emergency: A Personal History,” which chronicles India’s only period of emergency.
“What happened in the emergency was upfront and there was no pretense. What is happening now is more gradual and sinister,” she said.
Still, optimists like Kapoor say not everything is lost “if India strengthens its democratic institutions" and "pins its hopes on the judiciary.”
“If the independence of the judiciary goes, then I’m afraid nothing will survive,” she said.
Others, however, insist India’s democracy has taken so many body blows that the future looks increasingly bleak.
“The damage is too structural, too fundamental," said Roy, the novelist and activist.
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Associated Press journalist Rishi Lekhi contributed to this report. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/At-75-India-s-democracy-is-under-pressure-like-17368703.php | 2022-08-12T05:51:07Z | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/At-75-India-s-democracy-is-under-pressure-like-17368703.php | true | 28 |
Romeo & Juliet spin-off Rosaline starring Kaitlyn Dever gets October 14 release date on Hulu
Soon, Shakespeare fans will get to see what happens to Rosaline, Romeo's first flame.
The film Rosaline, a Romeo & Juliet spin-off centered around the woman Romeo first pines for in the world-renowned tragedy, will start streaming on Hulu October 14.
Rosaline will star Kaitlyn Dever in the title role alongside The In Between actor Kyle Allen as Romeo, Dora and the Lost City of Gold star Isabela Merced as Juliet and Happy Madison star Bradley Whitford as Friar Laurence.
The aftermath: Soon, Shakespeare fans will get to see what happens to Rosaline, Romeo's first flame
Hulu shared several photos from the upcoming film. One showed Dever in an elegant red dress sitting in a chair while an attendant tied a white mask to her face.
Another photo showed Dever staring up into Allen's eyes while enjoying a hearty dinner.
Dario, played by Sean Teale, stood in a fanciful black and gold outfit on a dirt road while seemingly having an important conversation with Dever's Rosaline.
Getting ready for a party: The film Rosaline, a Romeo & Juliet spin-off centered around the woman Romeo first pines for in the world-renowned tragedy, will start streaming on Hulu October 14
Small smiles: Another photo showed Dever staring up into Allen's eyes while sitting at a dinner table
Merced's Juliet sat on a bed in another snap while covered in a white gown with red sleeves and a matching hat on top of her pitch black hair.
The movie, penned by 500 Days of Summer writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, tells the story of Rosaline as she tries to win Romeo back after he falls for Juliet.
The movie is based on the book When You Were Mine and was directed by Yes, God, Yes director Karen Maine.
Gorgeous gown: Merced's Juliet sat on a bed in another snap while covered in a white gown with red sleeves and a matching hat on top of her pitch black hair
Another big film: On top of Rosaline, Dever will also appear in Ticket to Paradise, a film starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney
On top of Rosaline, Dever will also appear in Ticket to Paradise, a film starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney.
The movie centers around a divorced couple that attempts to break up their daughter's wedding in Bali.
Her other movie, No One Will Save You, is in post-production and will come out some time next year.
Though no plot details are currently known, the movie will star Multiplicity actor Zack Duhame and Paradise Lost actress Lauren L. Murray.
Keeping it under wraps: Her other movie, No One Will Save You, is in post-production and will come out some time next year (pictured April 2022) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11104801/Romeo-Juliet-spin-Rosaline-starring-Kaitlyn-Dever-gets-October-14-release-date-Hulu.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-12T05:52:00Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11104801/Romeo-Juliet-spin-Rosaline-starring-Kaitlyn-Dever-gets-October-14-release-date-Hulu.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 2 |
John Bowie* Fresh from its various PR pronouncements and public utterances over the need for good workplace behaviour, the Law Society itself has found itself in the uncomfortably hot epicentre of its own workplace issues with the June resignation of new CEO Joanna Simon, purportedly prompted by ‘behavioural concerns’ involving new President Jacque Lethbridge.
The appointment of highly regarded Joanna Simon, formerly Chief Operating Office at DLA Piper NZ, who assumed her role in July last year and left within her first year, after she had “really impressed” the Society’s recruitment panel.
Her resignation and whatever other factors are involved in goings-on at the Law Society have lead to a widespread ‘culture review’ into the NZLS lead by Mike Heron QC.
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President Lethbridge issued a statement welcoming the review, saying her presidency was one of ‘fairness and transparency’, in the spirit of Arderneque politics.
She also strongly denied allegations about behavioral concerns involving herself, while supporting the culture review itself.
But she was clearly unhappy with the Law Society’s statement pointing the finger at their own president in what can only be seen as a highly unusual occurrence involving their own president.
No one doubts the competence of all the actors in this NZLS drama, but the over-arching theme is somehow being missed.
The Law Society have been silent as to precisely what has lead to the review, notwithstanding talk of transparency in all directions and the recently required need for mandatory reporting within 14 days of bullying, harassment, discrimination and similar in the legal workplace.
The issues of bullying and workplace culture within the profession have been front and centre for the Law Society time in recent years as broiling controversy about law firm workplace behaviour has continued with all sorts of recent, unwanted headline hogging with the recent decisions around James Gardner-Hopkins’ suspension.
It is therefore disappointing, to say the least, to have silence and opaqueness from the NZLS around the enquiry into the Society’s own workplace culture.
Front footing the issue might be more helpful from those allegedly given to transparency and scene-setting for the profession itself.
The Simon Resignation
Joanna Simon’s statement issued on 10 June was understandably brief:
Accompanying my resignation was a letter to the Chair of the People and Capability committee outlining my reasons for my resignation and my concerns. The Board have been dealing with this matter since then and have decided to embark on a culture review of the Law Society. I don’t intend to say anything further.
Whatever is going on and whatever the behavioral or culture concerns may be, the Law Society hardly needs to make itself the centre of such claims, in the broiling wake of the Russell McVeagh bad behavior problems and general professional workplace problems.
Herald columnist Sasha Borissenko outlined frustrations with the very lack of transparency that Jacque Lethbridge had promised with mark her presidency. To be fair, the issue is now one that the Law Society faces as vice-president, David Campbell, made the generic ‘we can’t comment’ statement, noting that New Zealanders must have “trust and confidence in the Law Society as regulators of the profession.”
Really? Is there not more than a whiff of hypocrisy and ‘do as I say, not as I do’ in all this?
As Borrisenko correctly notes, the situation is not the same as a complaint under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act where practitioner complaints are received.
“On an existential level it irks me that human resources or communications departments bark on about confidentiality and natural justice while openly saying they’re “transparent”. It’s an oxymoron if ever I saw one.”
No-one here is talking about court proceedings or pre-judging issues, but hiding behind the skirts of confidentiality until the Heron review is completed hardly prevents rumour-swirls and an unhealthy dose of disingenuousness.
Taking the lead here, in the wake of JGH and everything else that the Society has grand-standed about to clean up the law profession’s act, must begin at home. Otherwise, the regulatory function could be removed altogether and David Campbell’s thoughts of ‘trust and confidence’ will evaporate like a politician’s promise. | https://www.lawfuel.com/blog/the-nz-law-society-workplace-culture-issue/ | 2022-08-12T06:00:09Z | https://www.lawfuel.com/blog/the-nz-law-society-workplace-culture-issue/ | true | 1 |
LOS ANGELES — Anne Heche is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and her survival isn't expected, according to a statement from a representative.
The actor, who is in a coma and in critical condition, is being kept on life support for possible organ donation, according to the statement released Thursday night on behalf of her family and friends.
Heche, who's been hospitalized at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital north of Los Angeles, suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” the statement said. Such an injury is caused by a sustained lack of oxygen to the brain.
“She is not expected to survive,” the statement said. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable."
On the morning of Aug. 5, Heche’s car smashed into a house in a neighborhood in west Los Angeles and a fire erupted with the car embedded inside the home.
Earlier Thursday, police said they were investigating Heche for driving under the influence. Detectives with a search warrant took a sample of her blood and found narcotics in her system, LAPD spokesperson Officer Jeff Lee said.
Toxicology tests, which can take weeks to complete, must be performed to identify the drugs more clearly and to differentiate them from any medication she may have been given for treatment at the hospital.
Evidence is still being gathered from the crash, police said, and they would present a case to prosecutors if it is warranted when the investigation is complete.
A representative for Heche declined comment on the investigation.
On Tuesday, Heche spokesperson Heather Duffy Boylston said she had been in a coma since after the accident, with burns that required surgery and lung injuries that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love,” Thursday's statement said. “She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Heche, 53, was among the most prominent film stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, playing opposite actors including Johnny Depp (“Donnie Brasco”) and Harrison Ford (“Six Days, Seven Nights”). In a 2001 memoir, she discussed her lifelong struggles with mental health.
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DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Standing among rows of Iowa cornstalks, Nico Hoerner had Johnny Bench on his left and Billy Williams right next to him.
“Pretty incredible,” Hoerner said.
For sure. Even for a “Field of Dreams.”
Led by Drew Smyly and a 10-hit attack, the Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-2 on Thursday night in Major League Baseball’s second “Field of Dreams” game.
Nick Madrigal had three hits and two steals for Chicago in a throwback ballpark a short walk away from the main field for the 1989 movie. Smyly (5-6) pitched five scoreless innings and Ian Happ had two hits, including an RBI double that drove in Hoerner during a fast start for the Cubs.
“The atmosphere was amazing,” Chicago manager David Ross said. “Really cool event.”
The night began with Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. and his father emerging from the iconic outfield cornstalks for their own version of a memorable scene from the film, delighting the sellout crowd of 7,823.
“Hey dad, do you wanna have a catch,” Junior said.
“I’d like that,” Griffey Sr. said.
The Griffeys then played catch as more parents and children joined them on the field with their own balls and gloves, followed by the Cubs and Reds, dressed in special uniforms inspired by how the franchises looked in the early 20th century.
Williams and Bench were among a group of Hall of Famers from each franchise that also joined the festivities. Bench stood behind the plate for a ceremonial first pitch from Fergie Jenkins.
“What they’ve done here is incredible. … I think every baseball player should experience this,” Reds third baseman Kyle Farmer said.
Backed by Chicago’s three-run first, Smyly improved to 3-1 with a 2.49 ERA in his last four starts. The left-hander allowed four hits and walked two while celebrating the fifth birthday for his daughter, Parker.
Rowan Wick worked the ninth for his seventh save.
“A game like this … you just feel like a kid again,” Smyly said. “You’re just out there playing baseball in the middle of Iowa.”
Cincinnati dropped its fourth straight game. Matt Reynolds hit a two-run double in the seventh, but the last-place Reds went down in order in the final two innings.
Major League Baseball returned to Dyersville — population of about 4,400 — after its first “Field of Dreams” game was a smashing success. The Chicago White Sox topped the New York Yankees 9-8 on Tim Anderson’s electric homer last year in the first MLB game in Iowa.
One of the highlights Thursday night was a tribute to Harry Caray, when fans experienced an animation of Carey singing his rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”
But the sequel lacked the drama of the original version. Chicago and Cincinnati dropped out of contention a long time ago, and the Cubs grabbed control right at the start against Nick Lodolo (3-4).
Seiya Suzuki and Happ each hit an RBI double in the first, and Hoerner had a run-scoring single. The rally started after Lodolo retired the first two batters.
“I didn’t make pitches when I needed to when I was ahead in the count,” Lodolo said.
Madrigal tacked on an RBI single for a 4-0 lead in the fourth.
REMEMBERING RAY
The 1989 movie starred Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta and Amy Madigan. Liotta, who played the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson, died in May at age 67.
Costner narrated a tribute video for Liotta that was aired in the first.
“Long live Shoeless Joe and long live Ray,” Costner said.
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Hall of Fame right-hander John Smoltz was on the broadcast for FOX Sports after his father, John Adam Smoltz, died earlier Thursday.
“He lived by his faith, he loved family and he would be so mad if I didn’t do this game,” the 55-year-old Smoltz said during the broadcast.
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Cubs: Willson Contreras appeared to roll his left ankle when he tried to scurry back to second after rounding the bag on Patrick Wisdom’s single in the third. He was tagged out, but he was back behind the plate for the bottom half of the inning.
Reds: 2B Jonathan India (leg contusion) was replaced by Reynolds before the start of the fourth. India was hit on his lower left leg by a pitch in the first. Manager David Bell said India is day to day.
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Aug. 11 (UPI) — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday said the Justice Department has filed a legal motion in the southern district of Florida to unseal the warrant and FBI property receipt in the search of former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-A-Lago residence.
“The Justice Department has filed a motion in the southern district of Florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court approved search the FBI conducted earlier this week,” Garland said. “That search was a premises in southern Florida belonging to the former president.”
Garland said he personally approved the search warrant, which was executed on Monday. He said Trump’s counsel was given a copy of the search warrant and FBI property receipt at Mar-A-Lago on Monday during the search.
“The department filed a motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president’s public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances and the substantial public interest in this matter,” Garland said.
“Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy. Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor. Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing.”
Judicial Watch announced Thursday that Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Department of Justice to file a response to Judicial Watch’s motion to unseal the warrant.
Judicial Watch said in a statement that the New York Times and Albany Times Union had joined them in filing for the unsealing of the warrant.
The Attorney General also said during his Thursday he will not stay silent when FBI professionalism and the Justice Department are under attack.
“I will not stand by silently while their integrity is unfairly attacked,” Garland said.
Garland said he has made it clear that the Justice Department will speak through court filings and its work.
Copies of both the warrant and FBI property receipt were provided to Trump’s counsel, Garland said, and the search warrant was authorized by a court upon probable cause.
Agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday night. As expected, the search under authority of a judge’s warrant drew backlash from Trump, who criticized the operation as politically motivated.
The FBI carried out the warrant as part of a court-authorized search related to an investigation into potential mishandling of classified documents that ended up at Mar-a-Lago.
All presidential records are required to go to the National Archives when a president leaves office.
For nearly a year, Trump delayed giving the documents to the Archives.
The agency eventually referred the case to the Justice Department, which is also investigating Republican efforts in Georgia to swing the 2020 election in Trump’s favor and the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In obtaining the search warrant, the FBI persuaded a judge that there was probable cause that a crime had been committed and that evidence might be found at Mar-a-Lago.
As Trump supporters took to social media to accuse the Biden administration and FBI of weaponizing the Justice Department, some far-right Trump supporters threatened violence against the FBI and federal government.
On Thursday, in Cincinnati, an armed man tried to get into the FBI office there, then fled and was surrounded in a corn field by the FBI and police after exchanging fire with law enforcement.
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Jan. 9, 1923—Aug. 9, 2022
QUEENSBURY — Harold J. McAfee, 99, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Born Jan. 9, 1923, in Detroit, MI, he was the son of Percy W. McAfee and Lillian Piper McAfee Cassagne.
In addition to his parents, Harold was predeceased by his brother and sister, Kenneth W. McAfee and Irene D. McAfee.
Harold married the love of his life, Loraine Weston, in April 1948, who recently passed away Dec. 16, 2021.
In 1943, Harold enlisted and served until 1946 in the 10th Mountain Division, a new division formed for mountain combat. Unlike most Mountain Division recruits he had no experience on skis but quickly turned the recommendation of his high school hockey coach and his substantial skating expertise into skiing skills (prior to enlistment he was offered a hockey scholarship at Fordham University). Harold served as a Combat Infantry Squad leader in Italy and on the Italy-Yugoslav border holding the line against Tito’s move against Italy. He was awarded a Bronze Star and two Oak Leaf Clusters at war’s end. He also learned to train dogs while in the military and was a lifelong dog lover.
Harold and Loraine settled on Long Island where Harold had a 30+years career with the U.S. Postal Service retiring in 1980. Their lives were filled with athletics and adventures in camping, hiking, skating, skiing, tennis, biking, golf and boating. They traveled to Colorado, the Alps and British Columbia for skiing in addition to weekends on the slopes of Vermont and New York.
In 1989, Harold and Loraine moved to Queensbury, NY. There, he taught himself ice dancing and shared his skills on the ice, snow, courts and courses with children and youth volunteering for many years as a coach for Adirondack Youth Hockey. His mentorship affected hundreds of children. He taught his grand-nephew (Brian) to skate and play hockey. Brian continued Harold’s legacy as a youth hockey coach on Long Island.
In addition to his athletic activities in Queensbury, Harold was an active member of the Lion’s Club and the High Flyers. His mentorship and athletic activities continued through many years of coaching and playing in the Senior Hockey League and downhill skiing, golf and tennis until age 97 when his attention turned to providing 24-hour care (cooking, cleaning, shopping and personal care) for Loraine who had developed dementia.
He is survived by two nieces and two nephews many grand- and great-grand nieces and nephews and innumerable friends who will greatly miss him.
A graveside ceremony with full military honors will be held at Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery where he will be laid to eternal rest Monday, August 15, 2022 at 1 p.m., next to his beloved wife Loraine.
In lieu of flowers, donations to youth sports organizations and Veteran’s charities to honor Harold’s military and community service would be much appreciated.
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Emefiele spoke at the opening ceremony of the two-day ongoing CBN Fair 2022 holding concurrently in Makurdi, Benue State and Lafia in Nasarawa State.
Represented by Osita Nwanisobi, the Director of the Corporate Communications Department of the CBN, the Governor noted that the e-Naira became necessary for Nigeria to keep pace with other countries of the world.
"Nigeria is incidentally the first country in Africa that has launched the CBDC - Central Bank Digital Currency -- the e-Naira," he said.
He explained that the fair holding simultaneously in Lafia and Makurdi was meant to inform Nigerians about what the CBN is doing, essentially, for three main reasons to educate; to inform the public about its policies and interventions; and how they can benefit from them.
The governor stressed that not many people have heard about the e-Naira, hence the need for sensitisation even as CBN remain committed to ensuring that more people in the country are financially included.
"We will be onboarding so many of you who are not already onboarded on the e-Naira wallet. If you have your smartphones we will help you to do that but for those who don't have smartphones, you know this Nokia; we are coming on to also get you onboarded. We are working on the features and over time, you will also be onboarded.
"The whole essence is to ensure that more persons in this country are financially included. If you see what has happened in terms of evolutions of money from commodity to metallic, then paper, to plastic and now we are talking of digital. And so, we need to be at a pace with where the world is moving," Emefiele posited.
Earlier, the CBN Branch Controller in Makurdi, John Odekina, in his welcome address at the fair, said
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Labrador Iron Ore Royalty (TSE:LIF – Get Rating) had its price objective lowered by Raymond James from C$39.00 to C$36.00 in a report published on Monday, BayStreet.CA reports. Raymond James currently has a market perform rating on the stock.
Several other analysts also recently commented on the stock. TD Securities dropped their target price on shares of Labrador Iron Ore Royalty from C$45.00 to C$36.00 and set a hold rating on the stock in a report on Monday, May 9th. BMO Capital Markets dropped their target price on shares of Labrador Iron Ore Royalty from C$35.00 to C$27.50 in a report on Friday, July 15th. Scotiabank dropped their target price on shares of Labrador Iron Ore Royalty from C$37.00 to C$32.00 in a report on Friday, August 5th. Finally, Eight Capital downgraded shares of Labrador Iron Ore Royalty from a buy rating to a neutral rating in a report on Thursday, April 21st. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, According to data from MarketBeat.com, Labrador Iron Ore Royalty has a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus target price of C$34.58.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Stock Performance
Shares of LIF stock opened at C$29.15 on Monday. The company has a market capitalization of C$1.87 billion and a P/E ratio of 5.23. The company’s 50 day moving average price is C$29.17 and its two-hundred day moving average price is C$35.87. Labrador Iron Ore Royalty has a 52 week low of C$25.24 and a 52 week high of C$51.00.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Increases Dividend
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, July 26th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 30th were paid a $0.90 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, June 29th. This is a boost from Labrador Iron Ore Royalty’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.50. This represents a $3.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 12.35%. Labrador Iron Ore Royalty’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 83.48%.
About Labrador Iron Ore Royalty
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corporation, through its subsidiary, Hollinger-Hanna Limited, holds a 15.10% equity interest in Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) that produces and processes iron ores at Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador. The company's primary products include standard and low silica acid, flux, direct reduction pellets, and iron ore concentrate, as well as seaborne iron ore pellets.
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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA, August 12, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Tidewater Golf Club, one of Myrtle Beach’s most acclaimed designs, has been named South Carolina’s Golf Course of the Year by the South Carolina Golf Course Owners Association.
The SCGCOA evaluated Golf Course of the Year nominees on four criteria: exceptional quality of the golf course, exceptional quality of the ownership and management, outstanding contribution to the community, and significant contribution to the game
The Palmetto State is home to more than 350 courses and golf generates approximately $3 billion in economic impact, highlighting the game’s importance throughout the state. Tidewater became eligible to win state honors after being named the Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owners Association Course of the Year.
“It’s incredibly exciting and humbling to be named South Carolina’s Golf Course of the Year,” Tidewater general manager Chris Cooper said. “There are so many great courses throughout the state and being honored by the Golf Course Owners Association - the people who have their finger on the pulse of the industry - makes the award even more significant. At Tidewater, our goal is to provide every player with an experience that leaves them looking forward to their next trip to the course, and the award is a validation of that effort.
“This honor is also a testament to our owner, Mr. William Cassels, who provides us the resources to ensure Tidewater delivers on its promise, and our entire staff, all of whom work tirelessly to exceed the expectations of golfers.”
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Privia Health Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRVA)
Q2 2022 Earnings Call
Aug 11, 2022, 8:30 a.m. ET
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- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good day, and thanks for standing by. Welcome to your Privia Health Q2 2022 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session.
[Operator instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Robert Borchert, SVP of investor and corporate communications. Please go ahead.
Robert Borchert -- Senior Vice President, Investor and Corporate Communications
Thank you, Kyle. And good morning, everyone. Joining me today are Shawn Morris, our chief executive officer; Parth Mehrotra, president, and chief operating officer; and David Mountcastle, our chief financial officer. This call is being webcast and can be accessed from the investor relations section of priviahealth.com.
Today's press release, highlighting our financial and operating performance and the slide presentation accompanying our former remarks are posted on the investor relations pages of priviahealth.com. Following our prepared comments, we'll open the line for questions and we ask that you please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up so that we can get through the full queue in a timely fashion. The financial results reported today and in the press release are preliminary and are not final until our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some of the things we will make today are forward-looking in nature based on our current expectations and our view of our business, as of August 11, 2022.
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Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Robert, and good morning, everyone. Privia Health delivered another strong quarter of growth and our highly aligned provider partnership model continues to gain momentum highlighted by our 31.5% growth of implemented providers from a year ago. We expect to continue expanding our number of provider partners, increase distributed lives, and into new markets over the coming quarters, while also driving profit margin expansion by leveraging our capital-efficient operating structure. We are executing on multiple opportunities to extend our market reach, drive future growth, and positively impact care delivery.
With continued momentum in existing markets, we remain highly confident in our growth outlook for 2022 and beyond, as we continue to organize physicians into scaled networks across our country. This morning, I'll present an overview of key business highlights and then David will discuss our recent financial performance and updated outlook for 2022 before we take your questions. Privia Health is continuing to execute at a very high level. Practice collections increased more than 67% in the second quarter, reaching over $615 million.
We generated a record quarter of $15.5 million and adjusted EBITDA of 55% when compared to the second quarter of last year, showing the scale of our operating model, while we continue to invest across our enterprise to support this accelerated top-line growth. This business momentum and high forward visibility into our growth metrics are reflected in our updated financial guidance for 2022. Our balance growth is being driven by continued same-store growth and strength in ambulatory utilization across all our existing practice locations. We generated another solid quarter of new provider additions in existing markets in combination with the sustained high level of provider retention.
In addition, our business development pipeline remains robust as we look to enter many new markets over the next few years. On an industry note, in early July, CMS released the proposed 2023 Medicare physician fee schedule rule. Overall, we believe the proposals are a net positive for Privia. In particular, CMS made a significant endorsement of the Medicare shared savings program, and some of the changes positively impact both Privia providers and their patients.
CMS has been vocal in its support, having recently said it wants to use MSSP as a chassis for growth and care transformation. Launched 10 years ago, the Medicare shared savings program now serves 11 million patients across 525,000 providers. The structure of the program has evolved over the last five to seven years into one of the most successful CMS and CMMI programs. We continue to prove our success in the program by lowering costs and improving outcomes, thereby generating shared savings for CMS as well as for Privia and our provider partners.
As I noted, our business momentum has continued to be extremely encouraging across both existing and potential new geographies. Our national footprint now includes more than 3,500 implemented providers, caring for over 3.9 million patients, in more than 890 locations across eight states and the District of Columbia. Our scale and geographic density are also defined by the breadth of medical specialties. As I noted last quarter, we approached, while approximately 60% to 65% of our practice partners are primary care focused, including internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics, and OB-GYNs, we actually partner with over 50 specialty types.
This enables us to offer our primary care providers and our payer partners, as well as consumers, a broad ambulatory care delivery network that can improve patient outcomes and reduce costs across the value-based care spectrum. Our operating model and strategy have led Privia to have one of the broadest, most balanced, and well-diversified balance care, value-based care platforms in the industry. Our more than 80 at-risk contracts now cover approximately 856,000 attributed lives across commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid programs. This is up 15.8% from a year ago, giving us a lot of momentum and visibility and the remainder of 2022.
As you know, we take upside and downside risks and many of our payer contracts covering nearly two-thirds of our attributed Medicare live across our MSSP and Medicare Advantage programs. With this thoughtful move, the risk continues to provide significant opportunities for top-line and EBITDA growth as we execute on our goals to earn greater shared savings in the years to come. Now I'll ask David to review our recent financial results and updated 2022 outlook.
David Mountcastle -- Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Shawn. Our operating model again delivered an outstanding performance in the second quarter of 2022, highlighting both the scale of our operations and our continued business momentum. Our 31.5% growth in implemented providers and 15.8% increase in value-based attributed lives combined with solid ambulatory utilization trends led to all of our financial results coming in above expectations. Practice collections increased to $615.5 million, up 67.6% from Q2 a year ago, care margin increased 36.6%, and adjusted EBITDA was a record $15.5 million, up 54.8% over the same period last year.
As expected, our top line grew slightly faster than EBITDA again this quarter due to the new capitated arrangements, as well as investment across our business enterprise to support this accelerating top-line growth. At the same time, the operating leverage in our model is clearly apparent as our top line and care margin growth is translating nicely into EBITDA growth and margin expansion. Our adjusted EBITDA margin as a percentage of care margin increased 240 basis points from a year ago to reach 20.4% for the first half of 2022, practice collections increased 65.5% to almost $1.2 billion. Care margin was up 36.5%, and adjusted EBITDA grew 51.8% to reach $30.3 million for the first half of the year.
Our capital resources continue to be very strong given the cash flow dynamics of our business. In June 2022, the company repaid all of its outstanding debt with cash on hand. Our balance sheet included cash and cash equivalents of 292.2 million, and our 65 million revolving loan facility remains in place, available, and undrawn as of June 30, 2022. Given our first half performance, business momentum, and visibility through the rest of 2022, we have a high level of confidence in our updated financial guidance.
We now expect practice collections, GAAP revenue, and care margin to be at the high end of our guidance ranges. We raised our platform contribution guidance to a range of $137 million to $142 million and also raised our adjusted EBITDA guidance to a range of $57 million to $60 million, an 8.3% increase at the midpoint. Our year-end implemented provider guidance is now expected to be in the mid to high end of our range, and our guidance for attributed to lives is now at the midpoint of our range. Our growth outlook includes only previously announced new market entries and we continue to expect 90% plus of our adjusted EBITDA to convert to free cash flow with capital expenditures of less than $1 million in 2022.
We remain focused on growing and expanding our business and continuing to execute on our multiple growth initiatives. This includes growing existing practices, increasing attribution in risk-based contracts, adding new providers, identifying opportunities to expand our platform, and opening new markets over time. With that operator, we are ready for the first question.
Questions & Answers:
Operator
[Operator instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Joshua Raskin from Nephron Research. Your line is now open.
Joshua Raskin -- Nephron Research -- Analyst
Hi. Thanks. Good morning. My question, I wanted to follow up on the comment you made about this Medicare, the physician fee schedule, and the proposed changes around the MSSP program.
I'm curious, do you think they're short-term benefits from some of the benchmark changes? Do you think that helps? And then, I'm curious, if you guys are in a position where the changes to the risk score cap actually impact you as well.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Hey, Josh, this is Shawn. Good to hear your voice. As we -- without getting into all the details of it, as we talked about -- it's proposed, we're going through all this. We think it's -- there are a lot of beneficial things to -- within the proposed remarks.
But the biggest thing probably is that -- it's just as we've talked a lot about in the past, it's a huge endorsement, the way CMS wants to kind of invest in MSSP in these changes. And I think some of the ones you mentioned are positive for Privia. As we've had one of the largest, most successful ACOs in the country. And our experience over the last seven years is it's been very positive and it's continuous and headed in that direction.
So. they'll continue to evolve it, and the changes you mentioned are positive for us.
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
And Josh, just to add it's not a program where risk adjustment as a big factor averages scores around one or thereabouts. So that's what differentiates us. It's relative performance and it's harder to execute. So we're pretty happy with how we perform here.
Joshua Raskin -- Nephron Research -- Analyst
OK, that's helpful. And then if I could follow up. I know it's early, but I know you guys have a pretty good lead time on implemented providers. So I'm just thinking, just curious on your thoughts going into 2023.
You had sort of a big bump at the end of last year. I don't know how they ended this year. Based on guidance seems like a sort of continued steady march upward. But I'm just curious, 2023 how we should be thinking about that, and specifically, if there are any new market entries that you guys are expecting.
David Mountcastle -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. Thanks. So obviously, we're not giving '23 guidance today. What I would say is, as we sit at this time of the year, pretty much everybody that's expected to be implemented this year is already sold.
So that gives us a lot of good visibility and that's reflected in the guidance we provided. Our sales pipeline and execution have been ahead of our expectations this year and we continue to see a lot of momentum. So as we close out the year with new providers being added across all of our eight states, that gives -- that will give us very good visibility as we enter '23 and we expect to continue to see that momentum going in the existing markets. And then obviously this guidance does not reflect any new markets that we may enter.
The business development pipeline is pretty robust, similar to last year. Again, the timing is uncertain, but as and when we execute those arrangements, we'll announce them, and we'll update the guidance appropriately and that could impact that metric into 2023.
Joshua Raskin -- Nephron Research -- Analyst
Gotcha. It sounds like there are a couple of big ones in the pipeline. And you're talking sort of similar to what we've heard in the past, but tough to figure out the timing.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Jess. Next question, please.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of A.J. Rice from Credit Suisse. Your line is now open.
A.J. Rice -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Thanks. Hi, everybody. Maybe I'll just follow up on that last one, when you think about 2023, you mentioned some of the -- you mentioned some in response to Josh's questions, but what are some of the big puts and takes when you think about the outlook, what are the biggest swing factors in your mind as to where we might end up and looking at 2023 for businesses?
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah. It's Parth. Appreciate the question. Look, again, generically speaking, the drivers are, as we've stated in the past, its growth in our existing markets.
It's a pretty broad footprint. A lot of them left, we continue to add new providers. So that obviously factors really well. A lot of same-store growth in the existing providers that are already implemented, both on the fee for service book.
Adding attributed lives in existing markets and then moving them further down the spectrum of risk. So it's pretty multipronged on the existing base of business. And then obviously, as we execute on business development and new markets, similar to what you saw last year when we announced California, Montana that accelerates growth even farther, so it just depends on where we end this year. We're focused on just executing pretty strongly, really happy with what we've done in the first half-year.
Positioned us really want to close this year out strong and then we continue to execute here in the next few months, and see what 2023 brings. The one generic comment, we've obviously, given is our long-term guidance of 20% practice collections growth and 20% EBITDA growth. And obviously, we are growing much faster than that this year, as you can see. As a lot of those drivers hit pretty well last year and this year.
So there'll be some years where we grow faster, some slower. We're obviously focused on accelerating that growth as much as we can, as soon as we can, but you'll have variability year over year. Over the long term, 10-plus years at least that's what we see ahead of us. As we're in eight states, we have 42 to go.
So lots more to go.
A.J. Rice -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
OK. Maybe just the follow-up question. A lot of mixed messages this quarter across providers, across people broadly in your space, and around utilization trends. I just wondered if you could comment both on your risk and your fee for a service business, anything to call out, and underlying utilization trends that you're seeing, Are there any areas of surprise or something to highlight?
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Sure. So to break it out on the fee for service book ambulatory utilization, very similar to our comments in the last few quarters have been running ahead of our expectations. We think that is good utilization with patients seeing their primary care provider, pediatrician, and OB-GYN in the community that's been running ahead of our expectations. Our guidance assumes that that normalizes.
So obviously, we're trying to be prudent and it's been tough to predict in and out of COVID, as has been the case with everybody. But we prefer on the side, if you're wrong, there's an upside and not a downside. The inpatient utilization, obviously, has been also very difficult to predict. That impacts a value-based book.
Again, our guidance and accruals reflect what we see today and we try and again, be prudent with our assumptions. There's a lot more variability in the inpatient utilization. You've seen that in the comments from others in the industry. And again, it's a tough, tough environment to just predict that.
So we'll see how it plays out.
A.J. Rice -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
OK. Thanks a lot.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, A.J.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Lisa Gill from J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open.
Lisa Gill -- JPMorgan Chase and Company -- Analyst
Hi. Thanks very much. Good morning. Congratulations on the quarter.
I'm wondering if you can maybe just give a little more detail around the value-based care lives that the 15% or 16% growth. What areas are you seeing growth? That would be the first question. And then secondly, as we think about the improvement in the adjusted EBITDA, what are some of the key drivers? Are you starting to see leverage in the business model? Or is there something else that you would call out, as we think about that, that improvement being that the biggest of the line items that you called out for improvements in the back half of the year?
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Thanks for the question, Lisa. So on the first question, the growth is broad-based. As you can compare quarter over quarter, year over year, we are focused, and I think that's where we differentiate from a lot of peers. We are focused on commercial MA and MSSP attribution as well as Medicaid.
So all four buckets are important to us. We are trying to add lives across those four. There can be some variability quarter over quarter in the mix, but ultimately we are focused on the full patient panel, which I think really diversifies our book and is a key source of differentiation. It's also impacted by which providers we are adding and which markets and what the mix is in that particular geography.
And that could influence it a little bit quarter over quarter, especially as we add new markets and ramp them up. But again, our focus is on growing all of those four buckets from an attribution perspective and then hopefully, moving to increased levels of risk in all of those. So that's your first question. On the second one, again, look at we're really proud that the business already operates at a pretty good scale while we are just in a stage.
If you look at any of our metrics, a number of locations that close to 900, number of patients at close to 4 million, and 3,500 providers, attributed lives over 850,000, and our book of business is at scale and there's a lot of room to grow. So where we are at today is a pretty nice point where if we see an acceleration in the top line that is ahead of our expectation. You can see that translating into very good operating leverage down the P&L, which is what we like to see. Now we obviously don't invest in the business and capitalize on the growth opportunity that's ahead of us.
Like I just mentioned 42 more states to go. And so there'll be quarters where we prudently increase the level of investment if we open up new markets and so on, so forth and of the guidance. But as we see that top line momentum, it's all across the P&L where we see good operating leverage.
Lisa Gill -- JPMorgan Chase and Company -- Analyst
Great. Thanks for the comments.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Lisa.
Operator
For our next question. It comes from the line of Adam Ron from Bank of America. Your line is now open.
Adam Ron -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Hey, thanks for the question. Going back to that fee for service revenue, and I guess the revenue at the point in the quarter, it looks like based on the guidance that you kind of touched on conservatism in the back half, but it looks like there's 46% of your practice collections in the second half versus 56% last year and 53% in 2020. So just wondering how that seems very counter to how I would think about utilization trending, as people kind of hit their deductible in Q4, generally being the highest utilization quarter, is anything else you would call out in terms of the slowdown in your expecting?
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
No, nothing in particular. Again, we are being prudent. everything that we see doesn't point to any material difference from how this operated last year. And again, look we are at the midpoint of the year and we've guided toward the high end of the range.
Like I said, if these trends continue again, we'll update our guidance in three months here, but nothing that we see is different from what we saw last year.
Adam Ron -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
So you're saying that [Inaudible] position utilization is above your expectations, but like what specifically makes you think that it's the actual utilization itself that is elevated enough that you're just gaining share on the same store basis? And --
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
I think that's a good point. I think it's a combination of both. Obviously, all our locations are they have some spare capacity. And if there's increased demand we are able to absorb it.
I think we have gained market share at the care center level, given the strength of our business and our practices and how they've come out of COVID. I think we've increased patient panels at each provider level in aggregate overall. So we see all of that strength playing out. And again, it's hard to predict some of these trends, the overall level of utilization on a per patient basis and then increases in the number of patients at the provider level if they are growing same-store growth on top.
We continue to also see telehealth, which is about 10% of the mix. It's pretty stable, it's in the ambulatory fee for service book. Again, all of those, I think both pretty well for how we are set up, and if those continue, we'll update guidance again in three months.
Adam Ron -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
All right, great.
Operator
For your next question, it comes from the line of Richard Close from Canaccord. Your line is now open. Please ask your question.
Richard Close -- Canaccord Genuity -- Analyst
Thanks for the questions. Congratulations. I was wondering if you could just provide us an update on the new markets you entered last year, West Texas and Bass. I know there's a period of time where you're selling and investing in potential new providers.
Just curious about how that sales process is going now that we call it two plus quarters into it?
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah, thanks, Richard. Appreciate you joining despite your conference. All three markets are up and running. California, West, Texas, and Montana, as we end each of those with an anchor partner in a group joining us, Bass Medical Group in California, Abilene Index in West Texas, and then Great Falls Clinical Surgery Partners in Montana.
So all of those are live. And we have started our sales effort in all of the markets. We have sold our first provider groups in these markets and we are on our way. Obviously, that just takes time to ramp up the effort on the ground, but they're going as expected.
And obviously, Montana and West Texas are smaller towns, but we're really excited about California, a big state with a big population. And we think we can really grow that medical group pretty meaningfully in the years to come. So we're really excited about it.
Richard Close -- Canaccord Genuity -- Analyst
And just to follow up, Shawn, on the -- your comments on the new market potential, it seems maybe a little bit more bullish, although it was bullish in the first quarter. Any big changes with respect to the pipeline that you can call out from? maybe three months ago.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. I mean, Richard, we remain bullish, I guess, to use your words, pipeline's robust. It's we've talked a lot about the core model kind of in position groups. We're still very excited about the health system approach.
So not to get overly specific about what's in our pipeline, but it's a good cross-section. It's geographically dispersed. It's across those the two I talk about. So if you look at our history, these things come in at different times and it's not we're not selling a widget.
So we were out there selling a solution and they take time. But at the same time, we're very excited about the pipeline itself.
Richard Close -- Canaccord Genuity -- Analyst
Great. Congratulations. Thank you.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks for joining. We know you're busy today.
Richard Close -- Canaccord Genuity -- Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Whit Mayo from SVB Securities. Your line is now open. Please ask your question.
Whit Mayo -- SVB Leerink Partners -- Analyst
Hey. Thanks. Maybe just first on the two new full-risk contracts. How did those track versus expectations, what did MLR look like? I don't have your Q yet, but just maybe any early learnings, or observations now that you are sort of six months into standing up a full risk-bearing entity?
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. Thanks for the question. Yeah. Again, yeah, we're again, we're still really early into those contracts and we're taking a, I would say, a conservative approach in how we're recording things.
So at least today we recorded -- and again, you'll be able to see this in our Q that 100% of the revenue we've taken in, we've recorded expense again. We're recognizing zero care margin from the business so far. Really only have about four months of data was some tale out of 12. And so again, just sort of taking it pretty conservative at this point.
But again, I think we feel good about the business. And again, as we get more data from those programs, where I think, we're looking to see them take off.
Whit Mayo -- SVB Leerink Partners -- Analyst
Yeah. Maybe just to follow up, are you finding any additional interest from existing affiliated groups today to explore these arrangements? I'm just sort of curious, like how we kind of think about 2023, 2024, and perhaps the penetration of new full-risk contracts. And I have one other follow-up, sorry.
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah, it's Parth. So, look, I mean, at every point, very evaluating. What part of the book do we move into it, enhanced level of risk could be capitation, could be just enhancing the level of risk that we take without being capitated. And I think, that just goes by payer by payer, geography by geography, and medical group by medical group.
We're looking for good density in each market in our pools. And that's a discussion we continuously have with both providers as well, as well as our payer partners. So we're going through that discussion right now for 2023 and obviously, we will update. The one thing I would say is our criteria, as we've been very clear to take on more risk is always to ensure that at a minimum we're not economically and from an EBITDA standpoint, worse off and ideally we are doing it to enhance the level of EBITDA earnings and share savings.
So that's a fundamental criteria. We're not going to do it just to recognize top-line practice collections or revenue. We'll do it when it makes sense and when we think it is a good financial decision for our physicians as well as the payers and Privia.
Whit Mayo -- SVB Leerink Partners -- Analyst
That makes sense. AR days grew two times faster than revenue. Can you kind of flesh out what's going on there? I presume some of that may be influenced by some of these capitated contracts, but I'm not sure.
David Mountcastle -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. I would tell you, it's a combination of the capitated contracts. And if you want to think about how our shared savings accruals work. We're at Q2 we're at -- whatever, 18 months of accruals related to '21 because again, we keep looking at those.
And then, as we look at '22, we put in additional accrual. So when we get, for example, MSSP, which we're expecting hopefully in Q3, maybe early Q4, you'll see a bunch of that receivable come down. But we're we kind of get to a high point on receivables especially related to shared savings because we've just got so much accrued in that number as of the end of Q2.
Whit Mayo -- SVB Leerink Partners -- Analyst
OK. So it's not really a bad number then. OK. All right.
David Mountcastle -- Chief Financial Officer
No.
Whit Mayo -- SVB Leerink Partners -- Analyst
Thanks a lot.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Whit.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Gary Taylor from Cowen. Your line is now open. Please ask your question.
Gary Taylor -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Hey. Good morning. I just want to ask a question about patient-attributed slides. Small picture question and a big picture one.
The small picture is just I think the ACO lines were down about 4,000 sequentially. We had seen a sequential decline there back in my model. So just wondering what that small change was. And what the bigger picture one is, sort of look at this quarter, I think gross practice collections are up north of 60%.
Providers year over year, providers up like 32%, and attributed lives up 16%. I don't think that's a long-term growth algorithm. So I just wanted to see kind of -- as we think about modeling '23 and '24, and trying to hit that 20% long-term guidance on growth practice collections. I would imagine practice collection lies and providers are all tying a little closer together than we're seeing right now.
So just wanted to make sure I'm understanding that.
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah. Thanks, Gary. It's Parth. So on the first question, there'll always be some quarter-over-quarter variability in the MSSP book.
As these are PPO kinds of lives. There's also some movement from two MA from the MSSP book as those patients can move. And then, the third factor could be if some patients in the first half just simply haven't come in from coming for their PCP visit. CMS classifies them as non-assignable and you can't count them in the period, but when that happens, you count them again.
So again, the movement is pretty small and I think that worries us. Again, our guidance range was pretty tight. And so I think that's kind of the short-term near-term question that you had. On the longer-term question, the model is, we add providers in existing, and then obviously, a new market, and the attribution then follows.
So California has a great example that the medical group that we partnered with Bass doesn't have a big value-based book today, not a lot of attribute lives, even though it's about 400 providers. So the mix of providers matters, and the market matters. But over time, that's a really good market to do a lot of value-based care as we know. And as we add more primary care providers in California, as the existing providers add more patients and attributed lives, the attribution follows the provider growth.
The third aspect then will be the level of shared savings and the profile of the contracts we get into. So even with the same attributed lives over the course of two, three, four, or five years, you can expect the level of shared savings to increase in the same program. And our MSSP book is a perfect example in the mid-Atlantic. If you look at the history over seven years, publicly available data with CMS, you can see we've grown both attribution, the level of shared savings, and the actual percentage of savings under the benchmark.
So you can see the value for life or the yield for life increases over time. And then obviously in the MA book, there's a much more pronounced revenue recognition when you move into capitation. And that's what you saw with about 25,000, 30,000 lives this year as we entered those contracts. So it's a multi-pronged answer to bridging top line practice collections to the provider and attribution, but that's the algorithm essentially.
And again, that plays out over multiple years. So it's tough to pinpoint what happens in one particular year. A lot of the growth in California would likely come from the subsequent years, even though we entered the market last year. Hopefully, that helps.
Gary Taylor -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
It does. Thank you.
Operator
For our next question. It comes from the line of David Larsen from BTIG. Your line is now open. Please ask your question.
David Larsen -- BTIG -- Analyst
Hi. Congratulations on another very good quarter. When we think about 2023, can you maybe talk a little bit about some of your large largest groups? I mean, how are satisfaction levels? What percentage of revenue do some of your largest groups make up? And is there any risk that some of those large groups that you're either in the process of implementing, or implementing now, may, for whatever reason switch off of your platform due to like M&A activity or anything else? Just any color around that would be very helpful. Thank you.
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Thanks, David. It's Parth. As we showed in Slide 5, our satisfaction levels are pretty high, one of the highest we've seen since the beginning. Patient NPS is 84, provider NPS is 57.
They are tough graders, but 57 is pretty high, no matter what benchmark you use. Our attrition is at a record low again, close to a record low across all markets, give or take. And that just -- is a great metric for us to crack internally. We don't disclose it externally, but -- so all of those things point to really good satisfaction.
Ultimately our value proposition is very ROI driven. The providers are making more take-home pay at the end of the day and having pretty robust patient panels. We're moving them into value-based care and adding a lot of value to their overall practice in the functioning of the practice and efficiency, productivity, and so on and so forth. So we're not worried about M&A activity and folks buying out our groups.
We don't have a very big concentration. We had the one group that had left us prior to us going public in 2020 that we had disclosed. And again, that was if somebody wants to come in and pay a big check, we've said, we're not going to chase it. But again, our practices are joining us in a very self-selected manner.
They are vehemently independent. And our health system partners are also very progressive in the way that they are thinking about partnerships with us. So that gives us a very diversified book. And as we grow, there's no really no single practice that really -- we have any concentration risk from that perspective.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Hey, David, this is Shawn. I will add a little color. We've -- over the years, we've talked a lot about physicians are the customers of Privia in their care centers. And we strive to -- when you -- in any business when your customers are referring you other potential customers be that in part through the how we grow that same-store growth, additional providers in existing markets, the addition of doctors, and existing care centers, and even growing new markets.
You're on to something special. You can always improve, but you've headed in the right direction. With that over half of our additions come from doctors referring colleagues to Privia. And I mean, if you think about it and somebody asked a question in the last quarter about how does the inflation factors and is it kind of different? Will it -- what do you think from a driving business perspective? And any time there are, I guess, tough things going on in the economy people are looking for partners and solutions to help.
And we believe that I mean, we've seen it through COVID and we believe that's going to continue to play out in the next few years as the economy kind of gets back on its feet.
David Larsen -- BTIG -- Analyst
Great. Thanks very much. And then one more quick follow-up, for the cap revenue. It sounds like you have four months of data.
I like how you're not assuming any margin there. What's the risk of a loss, though? How do you know you're being sort of conservative enough with that four months of data that you have? Is that within budget or is it over budget? What is that telling you? Thanks.
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah, it's Parth. Look, I mean, when you and the risk business, we've said very clearly it's called risk for a reason, that there is always a potential for loss, there's a potential to have good savings. Generically speaking, again, we're not going to go into any particular contracts or what the data are saying for four months and so on, so forth. Our view has been you enter into these arrangements with the hope that you will do better than when you would just take an upside-only risk.
And you're not on the downside on any hope. So our hope is that we underwrite these properly. That there is not much potential for downside, but anomalies can happen, and events can happen that can impact the book again year over year. But from a long-term perspective, we feel pretty good as we are moving into these contracts that we can perform in them.
And again the diversity of our book also prevents any one particular contract from really impacting the P&L in a big way. And I think we're differentiated in that respect given we are taking -- we're doing value-based care across commercial MSSP, MA, and Medicaid, and capitation is just part of the business.
David Larsen -- BTIG -- Analyst
OK. Congrats on a good quarter. Thank you.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
For your next question, it comes from the line of Taji Phillips from Jefferies. Your line is now open. Please ask your question.
Taji Phillips -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Hi. Good morning. This is Taji on for Brian and thanks for taking my question today. So first to start, I'm just curious, can you give some color on the factors that drove the beat and specifically clarify operational metrics that came in higher than your original expectations?
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yes, sure. It's Parth. Look, it was pretty broad-based, which is what we like to see. The fee for service book performed ahead of our expectations, and the utilization trends were ahead of our expectations, as we just stated.
On the value-based side, again, we are -- our accruals reflect all the information we have and that's been ahead of our expectations, so that's reflected there. And then that outperformance is reflected down the P&L, given the scalability of the business and the inherent operating leverage. So as we have been meaningfully profitable in free cash flow positive and we're managing the expense base pretty prudently, investing where we need to. And some of this outperformance, if it happens translates nicely into bottom-line metrics.
So it was fairly broad-based all across. And that shows our confidence, we paid all our debt from that, and we feel pretty confident in the future here.
Taji Phillips -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Great. Thanks, Parth. And then just one more question. I was thinking about your specialty offering.
Can you provide some detail on patient demand or specialties that are driving the highest patient demand or healthcare utilization and how that's informing -- how you target additional providers for inclusion in your network?
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Sure. So, look, obviously, as Shawn stated in his prepared remarks that were fairly broad-based with 51 odd specialties on the platform today. You know the one differentiation is our specialists are folks that typically take care of the chronically ill. We're not going for surgical specialties specifically we do have some.
And so that is a good reflection of the medical groups. We are trying to create very primary care OB speed focused and then surround them with the right specialists. In some markets, the concentration going to be different with our anchor partner, as is the case in Florida and with Bass in California. But over time, as those medical groups grow, the hope is that that makes normalize, and it's very primary care-focused.
So that's point one. And again, we received early realization all around. We have pretty good in-network referrals with our high-quality lower-cost specialists and that benefits our value-based book. And I think that differentiates us to create a pretty holistic medical group that can perform at a pretty high level across both fee-for-service and value-based arrangements.
Taji Phillips -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
For your next question, it comes from the line of Sandy Draper from Guggenheim Partners. Sandy, your line is now open. Please ask your question.
Sandy Draper -- Guggenheim Partners -- Analyst
Thanks very much. Actually, all my questions have been asked and answered, so I'll pass it back to the operator.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Sandy. Appreciate it.
Operator
For your next question, it comes from the line of Jessica Tassan from PSC. Your line is now open. Please ask your question.
Jessica Tassan -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Hi. Thanks so much for taking the question. So I guess just my first one would be, I know you guys said you're booking the full risk lives at 0% care margin, but then also that you wouldn't enter these contracts if they were going to make you less well off. So just over what time frame --
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah. Thanks for the question, Jess. Look, we look at data, and, as and when we feel comfortable that we see the right trends, we'll -- we look for it appropriately. You should expect to see that happen over the next few quarters.
the data does come with a lag. And it's not almost immediate. So this could flow into next year as well. And that's why you do have prior period adjustments in this business when you're taking risks and they could be positive.
They could be negative in certain cases, and that's why it's called risk. But again, we hope we can manage the book pretty well. And we've entered into these to do well for both our payers as well as our physicians and Privia. So hopefully over time, you'll see that trend.
Jessica Tassan -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Got it. So then just one more on 2022, if the '22 full cap performance does prove to be better than 0% care margin, what is kind of the latest possible date that you'd expect to reconcile that and the upside on the P&L? And then just if you could remind us what was capitated revenue in the quarter. And that's it for me. Thanks.
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah, sure. So in the first half, part of the question is our guidance assumes the existing accrual that we would book medical expense that equals capitated revenue. And that's what's reflected in the guidance we are giving today. If it is better or worse, we'll update guidance appropriately and that could happen again in subsequent quarters this year.
So in Q3 or Q4, when we report Q4 or early next year or it could happen afterward if there are any appropriate adjustments. So again, you'll expect to see that as we close out the year and go into next year. And then David can take the next --
David Mountcastle -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. And as you'll see in our 10-Q when it gets published later today cap data revenue was $57.7 million for the quarter and $106.1 million for the first six months. Now value-based care equals about 29.6% of our total GAAP revenue, up from 12.5% last year, which we'll see in the Q as well.
Jessica Tassan -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Got it. And then just quickly, sorry, is the sequential increase due to capitated rates? Or is it due to just an increasing population of lives under full caps?
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah, it's a combination of all of those. We entered one additional capitated contract from what we announced in our press release earlier in the year. So it's increased in lives, as it's the nature of the capitated arrangement and the top line that we can recognize on a PMPM basis. And then it's also reflected in shared savings across the rest of the book in commercial and MSSP.
Jessica Tassan -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
Got it. Thanks so much and congrats on the quarter.
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Thank you, Jess.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Your last question comes from the line of Ryan Daniels from William Blair. Ryan, your line is now open. Please ask your question.
Unknown speaker
Hey. Good morning, guys. This is Jackson on for Ryan Daniels. Congrats on a solid quarter and thanks for taking my last question here.
So my phone cut out, so apologies if you address this already, but just looking at your total practice collections for the first half of the year, it looks like we're already past the halfway point for the high end of your guidance range for I think it's 2,200. So just curious if you can provide any color on how we should kind of think about the quarterly cadence, as it relates to the back half of the year? And if we should anticipate any sequential step-downs in the third or fourth quarter? Just any update would be great. Thanks.
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Yeah, sure. Jack, I think we did address that one, but no worries if your line got cut off. So look, again, we don't expect any deviations from the trend we saw last year. We're being prudent.
It's tough to predict ambulatory utilization, as we've stated. And so our guidance assumes that there's some normalization of that trend. It's been running ahead of our expectations. If the trend continues, then we'll obviously update the guidance in three months or so.
But again, we don't see any anomalies from what we've experienced previously.
Unknown speaker
Gotcha. Thanks, guys.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks.
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
Thanks.
Operator
There are no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the conference back to Mr. Shawn Morris, chief executive officer, for closing remarks.
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
As always, thank you for listening to our call. Privia Health supports all providers and all patients through all reimbursement models. Our capital-efficient and proven integrated care delivery model, as always, is already running at scale. We have significant momentum in the physician labor market and we look forward to continuing to execute at a high level through '22 and beyond.
We appreciate your continued interest in support of our company and we look forward to speaking to you again and wish you the best. Enjoy the day and the rest of the week. Thanks.
Operator
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Duration: 0 minutes
Call participants:
Robert Borchert -- Senior Vice President, Investor and Corporate Communications
Shawn Morris -- Chief Executive Officer
David Mountcastle -- Chief Financial Officer
Joshua Raskin -- Nephron Research -- Analyst
Parth Mehrotra -- President and Chief Operating Officer
A.J. Rice -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Lisa Gill -- JPMorgan Chase and Company -- Analyst
Adam Ron -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Richard Close -- Canaccord Genuity -- Analyst
Whit Mayo -- SVB Leerink Partners -- Analyst
Gary Taylor -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
David Larsen -- BTIG -- Analyst
Taji Phillips -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Sandy Draper -- Guggenheim Partners -- Analyst
Jessica Tassan -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst
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53-hour maintenance operation in Gauteng ahead of schedule - Rand Water
Residents are being urged to use water sparingly as the work is scheduled to last for 53-hours and ending on Saturday evening.
JOHANNESBURG - Rand Water said that its plans to replace pipes in Gauteng's water system was running ahead of schedule.
Residents are being urged to use water sparingly as the work is scheduled to last for 53 hours and is scheduled to end on Saturday evening.
Rand Water said that this project was to allow for the completion of the connection of a newly installed pipeline to the region’s existing pipeline.
Areas affected include parts of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni.
Rand Water’s Eddie Singo said that this did not mean that residents would not have water for the entire 53-hour duration: "Unless if consumers continue to use water as normal, then they will drain the reserves that we kept for these 53 hours. It is important for consumers to continue using water sparingly." | https://ewn.co.za/2022/08/12/53-hour-maintenance-operation-in-gauteng-ahead-of-schedule-rand-water | 2022-08-12T07:30:07Z | https://ewn.co.za/2022/08/12/53-hour-maintenance-operation-in-gauteng-ahead-of-schedule-rand-water | false | null |
Shore Capital reiterated their house stock rating on shares of Mincon Group (LON:MCON – Get Rating) in a report released on Monday morning, MarketBeat reports.
Mincon Group Stock Performance
Shares of MCON stock opened at GBX 95 ($1.15) on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 23.91, a quick ratio of 1.30 and a current ratio of 3.40. The stock has a market capitalization of £201.85 million and a P/E ratio of 1,583.33. The company has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 99.13 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 103.40. Mincon Group has a fifty-two week low of GBX 91.94 ($1.11) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 119.92 ($1.45).
Mincon Group Announces Dividend
The firm also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, September 9th. Investors of record on Thursday, August 18th will be issued a €0.01 ($0.01) dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 0.93%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 18th. Mincon Group’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 52.50%.
Mincon Group Company Profile
Mincon Group plc engages in the design, manufacture, sale, and servicing of rock drilling tools and associated products in Ireland, the Americas, Australasia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers drill rigs and mast attachments for excavators and skid steers; down the hole (DTH) hammers; DTH drill bits for various rock-drilling applications; rotary drill bits; and construction and geotechnical solutions, including foundation drilling, pipe pile-walls, fore poling, well drilling, and anchoring.
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Cleveland Guardians (59-52, first in the AL Central) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (60-50, second in the AL East)
Toronto; Friday, 7:07 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Cal Quantrill (8-5, 3.88 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 79 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Jose Berrios (8-4, 5.19 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 107 strikeouts)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Blue Jays -166, Guardians +140; over/under is 9 runs
Cleveland Guardians (59-52, first in the AL Central) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (60-50, second in the AL East)
Toronto; Friday, 7:07 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Cal Quantrill (8-5, 3.88 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 79 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Jose Berrios (8-4, 5.19 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 107 strikeouts)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Blue Jays -166, Guardians +140; over/under is 9 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians will try to keep a four-game road win streak alive when they take on the Toronto Blue Jays.
Toronto is 60-50 overall and 34-21 in home games. Blue Jays pitchers have a collective 3.93 ERA, which ranks eighth in the AL.
Cleveland has a 30-30 record in road games and a 59-52 record overall. The Guardians have a 15-5 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.
The matchup Friday is the fifth time these teams match up this season. The Guardians have a 3-1 advantage in the season series.
TOP PERFORMERS: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. leads Toronto with 23 home runs while slugging .504. Bo Bichette is 12-for-42 with three home runs and 11 RBI over the past 10 games.
Jose Ramirez has 21 home runs, 44 walks and 88 RBI while hitting .280 for the Guardians. Andres Gimenez is 13-for-34 with two doubles and an RBI over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 5-5, .249 batting average, 3.93 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs
Guardians: 7-3, .237 batting average, 3.48 ERA, outscored by two runs
INJURIES: Blue Jays: Tim Mayza: 15-Day IL (shoulder), George Springer: 10-Day IL (elbow), Ross Stripling: 15-Day IL (glute/hip), Julian Merryweather: 60-Day IL (side), Tayler Saucedo: 60-Day IL (hip), Hyun-Jin Ryu: 60-Day IL (forearm), Nate Pearson: 60-Day IL (mono)
Guardians: Anthony Gose: 60-Day IL (tricep), Cody Morris: 60-Day IL (shoulder)
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Accused enters child’s home in Worli, picks her up and walks out early Monday. But she foils his plan
The man had lived in Worli before. Representation pic
An 8-year-old girl’s shrieks busted a man who was trying to kidnap her from her Worli home in the early hours of Monday. The police said accused Anil Singh had visited the area to have drinks with a friend. On his return, he entered the child’s home and tried to flee with her on his bike, but her cries foiled his plan.
The police said Singh, 21, had lived in Worli before moving out though they are yet to ascertain his motive for the crime. He works as a security personnel.
Police said the child was sleeping next to her 28-year-old mother in their Worli home when Singh managed to go inside around 3 am on August 8. He picked her up and walked out. Just then the girl began crying loudly.
The girl’s mother woke up due to her daughter’s cries. She checked the bed and found her missing. She came out of the house and saw an unknown man was holding the girl, they said.
“The mother’s screams alerted their neighbours who rushed to her help. They rescued the girl and nabbed the man. They called the Mumbai police control room which relayed the message to us. Our mobile van brought him to the police station,” said an officer from Dadar police station.
PSI Amol Mane of Dadar police said Singh has a troubled past. “He claimed he had gone to have drinks with a friend and he stopped to urinate while returning. Singh said he then decided to abduct the girl. This theory looks hollow, we need more investigation into it,” said Mane.
A court on Wednesday remanded Singh in judicial custody (for two weeks). Inspector Sagar Shivalkar of Dadar police station said, “Singh’s phone calls are under scan. He earlier lived in Worli but recently moved to Lower Parel.”
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Packaging market revenue was $Million USD in 2016, grew to $Million USD in 2020, and will reach $Million USD in 2026, with a CAGR of $during 2020-2026.
Anti-counterfeiting packaging is to help reduce the risks of package pilferage or the theft and resale of products. Some package constructions are more resistant to pilferage and some have pilfer indicating seals. Counterfeit consumer goods, unauthorized sales, material substitution and tampering can all be reduced with these anti-counterfeiting packaging.
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‘Urgent’: Strikes at Ukraine nuclear plant prompt UN chief to call for demilitarised zone
By Tom Balmforth and Michelle Nichols
Kyiv: Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant must be protected by a demilitarised zone urgently, the United Nations chief said, after Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling the site repeatedly.
Ukraine’s Energoatom agency said the Zaporizhzhia complex in Ukraine was struck five times on Thursday, including near where radioactive materials were stored. Russian-appointed officials said Ukraine shelled the plant twice, disrupting a shift changeover, Russia’s TASS news agency said.
Secretary-General António Guterres called on both sides to halt all fighting near the plant.
“The facility must not be used as part of any military operation. Instead, urgent agreement is needed at a technical level on a safe perimeter of demilitarisation to ensure the safety of the area,” Guterres said in a statement.
Russia seized Zaporizhzhia in March after invading Ukraine on February 24. The plant, near the front line in the fighting, is held by Russian troops and operated by Ukrainian workers.
At a Security Council meeting, the United States backed the call for a demilitarised zone and urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to visit the site.
Russia’s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said the world was being pushed “to the brink of nuclear catastrophe, comparable in scale with Chernobyl.” He said IAEA officials could visit the site as soon as this month.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports from either side about circumstances at the plant.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded Russia return the plant to Ukraine’s control.
“Only a full withdrawal of the Russians ... and the restoration of full Ukrainian control of the situation around the station can guarantee a resumption of nuclear security for all of Europe,” he said in a video address.
France echoed Zelensky’s demand and said Russia’s occupation of the site endangered the world.
“The presence and actions of the Russian armed forces near the plant significantly increase the risk of an accident with potentially devastating consequences,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Kyiv and Moscow have previously blamed each other for attacks on the site. Ukraine has also accused Russia of firing rockets at Ukrainian towns from around the captured nuclear power plant in the knowledge it would be risky for Ukraine to return fire.
Ukraine’s General Staff on Friday reported widespread shelling and air attacks by Russian forces on scores of towns and military bases, especially in the east.
“The enemy is trying to make up for the loss of personnel and equipment,” the General Staff said in a statement.
Russia base in Crimea
Separately, satellite pictures released on Thursday showed devastation after explosions earlier this week at an air base in Russian-annexed Crimea. They suggested Ukraine may have a new long-range strike capability with potential to change the course of the war, Western military experts said.
Images from independent satellite firm Planet Labs showed three near-identical craters where buildings of the Saky air base had been struck with apparent precision. The base, on the south-west coast of Crimea, suffered extensive fire damage and the destruction of at least eight destroyed warplanes is clearly visible.
Russia has denied aircraft were damaged and said explosions at the base were accidental. Ukraine has not publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.
Referring to the damage, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters in a message: “Officially, we are not confirming or denying anything ... bearing in mind that there were several epicentres of explosions at exactly the same time.”
Zelensky told officials to stop talking to reporters about Kyiv’s military tactics against Russia, saying such remarks were “frankly irresponsible”. The New York Times and The Washington Post newspapers cited unidentified officials as saying Ukrainian forces were responsible for the Crimea attack.
Russia, which seized and annexed Crimea in 2014, uses the peninsula as the base for its Black Sea fleet and as the main supply route for its invasion forces occupying southern Ukraine, where Kyiv is planning a counter-offensive in coming weeks.
Counter-offensive
The Institute for the Study of War said Ukrainian officials were framing the Crimea strike as the start of Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the south, suggesting intense fighting in August and September that could decide the outcome of the next phase of the war.
Exactly how the attack was carried out remains a mystery but the near-identical impact craters and simultaneous explosions appear to indicate it was hit by a volley of weapons capable of evading Russian defences.
The base is well beyond the range of advanced rockets that Western countries acknowledge sending to Ukraine so far, though within range of more powerful versions Kyiv has sought. Ukraine also has anti-ship missiles which could theoretically be used to hit targets on land.
Meanwhile, the US State Department said that Russian officials trained in Iran in recent weeks as part of an agreement on the transfer of drones between the two countries.
US officials said last month that Iran was preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred drones, including some that are weapons capable, raising concerns that Tehran was now supporting Russia in its war in Ukraine. Russia says its “special military operation” is going to plan, to protect Russian speakers and separatists in the south and east. Ukraine and its Western allies say Moscow aims to solidify its grip on as much territory as possible.
Since the war started, tens of thousands of people have died, millions have fled and cities have been destroyed.
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Serena Williams, who on Tuesday said that she would soon call time on her storied tennis career, departed the WTA Toronto Masters for the last time on Wednesday with a 6-2, 6-4 loss to Belinda Bencic.
The second-round defeat by Switzerland’s reigning Olympic gold medalist was hardly unexpected, with the 40-year-old Williams competing in only her third match of the year.
Bencic fired eight aces and broke Williams twice in the first set and once in the second, advancing on her first match point after 78 minutes.
However, as Bencic herself said in a post-match interview on court: “Tonight is about her.”
Williams’ farewell on-court interview was threaded with emotion.
“I love playing here, I’ve always loved playing here,” she said, choking up as fans who cheered her throughout the match called out their appreciation. “I wish I could have played better tonight, but Belinda was playing so well.”
Williams, who turns 41 next month, said on Tuesday in an essay in Vogue magazine and an Instagram post that “the countdown has begun” to her retirement from the sport.
Williams did not specify an actual retirement date, but is expected to compete next week in Cincinnati before travelling to the US Open, which starts on Aug. 29.
“It’s been a pretty interesting 24 hours,” said Williams, who remains one shy of the all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles won by Margaret Court.
“Like I said in my article, I’m terrible at goodbyes,” she said, her voice breaking. “But, goodbye,” she said, then adding with a laugh “Toronto.”
“I’ve always had an amazing time here on and off the court,” Williams said. “I’ve had some really good matches and some really cool wins. It’s been a joy playing here all of those years.”
Her appearance highlighted a day that saw US teenager Coco Gauff — who says Williams was “the reason why I play tennis” — overcome 13 double faults to battle past Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and into the third round.
Gauff eliminated Rybakina with a 6-4, 6-7 (8/10), 7-6 (7/3) win, while world No. 1 Iga Swiatek sailed past Australian Ajla Tomljanovic 6-1, 6-2 in 55 minutes.
Defending champion Camila Giorgi made it to the third round with a 6-3, 7-5 defeat of Belgian Elise Mertens.
Spanish fourth seed Paula Badosa lasted just 13 games before retiring as she trailed 7-5, 1-0 against Kazakh Yulia Putintseva.
Simona Halep beat Zhang Shuai of China 6-4, 6-2.
Other winners were: Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil, Garbine Muguruza of Spain, Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic, Bianca Andreescu of Canada, Zheng Qinwen of China, Jessica Pegula and Alison Riske of the US, Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus and Jil Teichmann of Switzerland.
In the women’s doubles, Chinese pair Xu Yifan and Zhaoxuan Yang beat Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Shuko Aoyama of Japan 6-2, 2-6, 10-7.
Additional reporting by staff writer
Erik ten Hag’s first competitive game as manager tomorrow should herald a fresh start for Manchester Untied, but familiar failings behind the scenes have made the Dutchman’s difficult job an almost impossible one. Ten Hag’s predecessor Ralf Rangnick signed off from his miserable caretaker spell last season by stating that the United squad needed “open heart surgery” and up to 10 new players after laboring to a sixth-placed finish in the English Premier League. So far, only three new faces have arrived at Old Trafford — Lisandro Martinez, Tyrell Malacia and Christian Eriksen. The United squad is arguably weaker than last season, with
Taiwanese infielder Chang Yu on Saturday made his major league pitching debut when he was pulled off third base in the bottom of the eighth to preserve the Tampa Bay Rays’ bullpen in their 9-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Chang’s chance to take the mound came as the Tigers’ scoring was already out of hand for the Rays. Detroit mounted a rare offensive outburst, leading Rays manager Kevin Cash to preserve his pitchers by allowing Chang to throw an inning. He retired Willi Castro on what the scoreboard called a 40mph curveball, but Detroit’s Jonathan Schoop hit the next pitch for
Australia’s Donna Lobban said she and her Scottish husband Greg Lobban would not be signing “divorce papers” after she beat him in mixed doubles squash competition at the Commonwealth Games on Friday. Donna Lobban and her partner, Cameron Pilley, came back from a game down to win 9-11, 11-8, 11-8 and reach the semi-finals in Birmingham, England. The defending champion, 35, said she was braced for her husband’s reaction. “I might have to put up with him being in a terrible mood for a while, but if I had lost it would have been him putting up with me being in a
Taiwan yesterday outlasted the Dominican Republic 9-5 in a rain-soaked slugfest in Tainan to take home the bronze medal in the WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup. Taiwan, who won the previous edition of the tournament in 2019, were eliminated from gold medal contention on Friday with a loss to the US, and needed a comeback win over South Korea a day later to reach yesterday’s third-place playoff. The US and Venezuela were playing for gold in a game that started at 7:45pm. The US were leading 7-2 at the bottom of the fifth inning as of press time last night. In what was | https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2022/08/12/2003783397 | 2022-08-12T07:54:16Z | https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2022/08/12/2003783397 | false | 1 |
Have no such thoughts: Nitish Kumar denies PM ambitions again
New Delhi, Aug 12: Nitish Kumar, who stirred a massive political storm by snapping ties with the BJP in Bihar, on Friday denied once again any aspiration to become a prime minister.
"I say this with folded hands, I have no such thoughts... My work is to work for everyone. I will make an effort to see that all the Opposition parties work together. If they do, it will be good," said Nitish Kumar on reports of him being the Opposition's PM candidate in 2024.
Nitish stressed that he would want to unite everyone in the Opposition. "I am doing positive work. I am receiving a lot of phone calls, I am doing everything. I will do everything but first I will do my work here," he said.
Earlier, Nitish Kumar had jibed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the next Lok Sabha elections: "He won in 2014, but will he in 2024?" He had told reporters even then that he is "not a contender for anything" when asked if he wants to be PM candidate. "The question to ask is if the person who came in 2014 will win in 2024," he said.
'He won in 2014, should worry about 2024 elections': Nitish Kumar's swipe at PM Modi
Opposition parties have claimed the JD(U) breaking ranks with the BJP and joining hands with the RJD, Congress and others is an indication of the change in Indian politics, asserting that their vision to fight the saffron party and its "politics of intimidation" has gained momentum.
Kumar, who has dumped the BJP for the second time after severing ties in 2013 and reconciling in 2017, is being talked about in the political circles as a probable opposition face against Modi in 2024 but many still view the JD(U) leader with suspicion citing his numerous 'U-turns'.
Also several other opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi have hinted at prime ministerial ambitions. | https://www.oneindia.com/india/have-no-such-thoughts-nitish-kumar-denies-pm-ambitions-again-3447061.html | 2022-08-12T07:55:27Z | https://www.oneindia.com/india/have-no-such-thoughts-nitish-kumar-denies-pm-ambitions-again-3447061.html | true | 2 |
Graduates from a leading UK university who missed out on in-person graduation celebrations due to the pandemic are returning for official ceremonies this week, but for one graduate this trip to the University of Dundee is his first.
Chidi Okonkwo, who is originally from Anambra, Nigeria, secured a Commonwealth Scholarship to study Infection Prevention & Control (IPC), a postgraduate distance learning course at the University of Dundee, in 2017.
Commonwealth Scholarships are given to talented individuals from the least developed Commonwealth countries and are aimed at those who could not otherwise afford to study at a UK university.
Throughout the distance learning course, Chidi (29) stayed in his home country Nigeria, studying online and attending some in-person University events hosted in Ghana. He officially graduated in 2021, becoming Dundee’s first Commonwealth Scholar to do so for the MSc Infection Prevention and Control programme.
“When I saw the opportunity to apply for the Commonwealth Scholarship it was something I really wanted to do, so I gave it a shot,” said Chidi. “While I was hopeful, I couldn’t believe that I was chosen. I have not experienced anything like it all through my education.”
Chidi completed his undergraduate degree in human physiology at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, and the IPC course was a natural progression for him. At the time he was already engaged in health programmes in Nigerian schools, teaching children about the importance of personal hygiene.
“Awareness of infection control and prevention in my country only really started a few years ago,” he said. “After the Ebola crisis people began to realise the importance of hygiene and hand-washing as a prevention method.
“There was a need to inform students in primary schools so they can incorporate the habit of personal hygiene from a young age and know about infections and ways to prevent it, and they can also help their parents when they get home.
“I’ll use the knowledge I acquired from this learning to inform others. It has helped me understand how to create some change, because we need to apply some changed techniques to improve and create newer ways of doing things. This course has helped me immensely.
“I want my education to make a difference, especially in my home country. We have so many health challenges and I want to impact my society, especially a developing country like Nigeria. I want to reach my immediate society and go forward to west Africa, and potentially even further to help influence health practices around the world.”
With the help of the University’s School of Health Sciences, Chidi has flown from Nigeria to Scotland to be able to attend his in-person graduation ceremony on Wednesday 29 June.
“I’m very grateful for the opportunity to come to Dundee,” he said. “This is my first time coming to the UK, to Scotland. I can’t wait to wear my gown and graduate officially.
“I’m excited to meet some of my lecturers who I haven’t met yet, visit and explore the University campus and School and see where the lectures take place. I’m also looking forward to learning more, meeting new people and interact, network and discuss.”
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Swedish economy seen entering low growth phase next year as inflation bites
STOCKHOLM, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Sweden's economic growth is set to be somewhat stronger than previously thought this year while inflation is set to surge and hamper growth next year, the National Institute of Economic Research (NIER) forecast on Wednesday.
The Swedish think tank now expects the Nordic country's economy to grow by 2.4% in 2022, up from its previous forecast given in June for 1.9% and down from 5.1% growth last year.
In 2023, GDP will grow by just 0.5%, NIER predicted, down from 1.2% seen in the June forecast.
It forecast headline inflation will average 7.2% this year, up from 6.8% seen in June, before easing to 3.4% in 2023.
"Pressured households will cut back on consumption this fall and winter, which contributes to the Swedish economy entering a low growth phase next year," NIER said.
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Erik ten Hag has set an ambitious target for his Manchester United team of winning every game after a difficult opening day against Brighton at Old Trafford. A Pascal Gross double condemned the Dutchman to defeat in his first competitive game in charge of the club and has sparked unrest in the club's support.
There are rumours of a walkout in the team's next home game which falls against bitter rivals Liverpool on game week three of the Premier League season.
Ten Hag's target for Man Utd
Speaking to the BBC Ten Hag said: "We know the standards. We know the expectations. We have to win every game.
"That is what we aim for, we will prepare 100% every day and see what happens."
Ten Hag knows a thing or two about winning, holding the record for the manager fastest to 100 wins in the Eredivisie, achieving the feat in just 128 games, and United fans will be hoping that he can find that winning touch as soon as possible.
Erik ten Hag loses his first game in the Premier League 😬 pic.twitter.com/LE2BEbVPbu
— GOAL (@goal) August 7, 2022
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TAMPERE, Finland, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a summary of Bioretec Ltd's half year report 2022. The complete half year report with tables is attached to this release and available at company web pages at https://bioretec.com/investors/investors-in-english/releases
January-June 2022 in brief
- Net sales increased by 35.9% and amounted to EUR 1,422 thousand (1-6/2021: EUR 1,047 thousand).
- Sales margin was EUR 1,018 (778) thousand or 71.6% (74.3%) of net sales, up by 30.8%.
- Net profit (loss) amounted to EUR -1,367 (-2,791) thousand. Net loss for the comparison period was affected by the costs related to the equity funding expenses in June 2021.
- Earnings per share (undiluted) were -0.10 (-0.26) euros.
Key events in January-June 2022
- In January 2022, Bioretec entered into a supply agreement with Meotec GmbH in Germany for magnesium alloy raw materials for bioresorbable RemeOsTM products.
- In May 2022, Bioretec announced having submitted a market authorization request for its bioresorbable RemeOs™ magnesium screw in the U.S. and specified the estimated timing of granting the market authorization. Bioretec estimates the market authorization in the United States to be granted during the second half of 2022.
- In May 2022, Bioretec entered into a distribution agreement with AMI Medical Technologies for bioresorbable Activa products in Israel.
This half-year report is unaudited. Full year 2021 figures are audited.
Key Figures
Timo Lehtonen, Bioretec Oy:n toimitusjohtaja:
" In December 2021, we took the first significant step in the commercialization of the RemeOs™ trauma screws based on bioresorbable magnesium alloy by filing for the CE mark under the new Medical Device Regulation (MDR) for the market authorization in the European Union and we estimate to receive the market authorization in EU during this year. Submitting the De Novo request for market authorization for our new products in the United States was a strategic step for us, as the United States is the world's largest individual market for orthopedic trauma products. Our goal is to be the first to commercialize bioresorbable metal implants in the U.S. market. I believe there is demand in this growth market for our products that contribute to patient healing, safety, and cost-efficiency in clinical care. The De Novo request provides a registration pathway for novel medical device for which there is no predicate device available in the U.S market. Based on the past discussions under the Breakthrough Designation program we estimate to receive the approval of the market authorization in the United States during this year.
Even though our net sales were record high in 2021, the first half of the year brought double digit growth of 36 %, and the positive trend strengthened further in the challenging global conditions where the global orthopedic market is estimated in 2022 to remain largely on the same level as in 2021. According to the estimate, the trauma market is likely to sustain growth in the low 4% range under these conditions. The industry expectation is that the orthopedic market and revenue will stabilize in 2023. The orthopedic market is navigating a time of significant change. It has steadily adapted to the new market realities and societal shifts in the wake of the pandemic while also managing the acceleration of underlying trends like the value-based healthcare and shift to outpatient procedures. We have a golden opportunity to modernize the industry to avoid prominent and costly hardware removals as it prepares for a likely future with fewer resources and more patients.
Our long-term sales and marketing efforts in Asia in particular in China, started to bear fruit. In Europe, the growth was somewhat impeded by staffing shortages of healthcare personnel especially in Scandinavia lowering the number of elective surgeries. The hospital staffing shortages seem to be one of the biggest wildcards globally in orthopedics currently after the pandemic. We currently have sales in approximately 40 countries globally, and we keep identifying new market opportunities all the time. In May, we signed a distribution agreement with AMI Medical Technologies for bioresorbable Activa products in Israel. The world opening after two years of corona restrictions has made it possible for us to again participate in several conferences and trainings for medical personnel and to meet our existing and new customers.
Our sales margin for the first half also grew especially due to increased sales in Asia, while the sales margin percentage of net sales was slightly lower than in the comparison period, because raw material and logistics costs increased. Our supply chains have undergone an unprecedented stress test throughout the pandemic and lately also due to the global political situation. Therefore, we have co-operated closely with our suppliers and signed new supplier agreements such as the one with Meotec GmbH in January to manage this disruption, but the price and availability of raw materials may remain challenging. Logistics and freight costs are another item where we see significant increases. Strong sales and higher sales margin, on the other hand, contributed positively to the EBITDA, which was roughly on the same level as in the first half of 2021.
We are continuing to gather the clinical evidence and experience of our bioresorbable polymer based Activa products and to further expand the indication areas of those products. A post-market clinical follow-up study of bioresorbable intramedullary nail (Activa IM-Nail™) in pediatric diaphyseal forearm fractures continues on schedule, and the first interim results from 76 patients were published in the distinguished scientific journal Children in May with good clinical outcome. An investigator-initiated clinical trial to treat pediatric wrist fractures with Activa IM-Nail™ is also proceeding as planned, with 50% of patients treated at the end of June 2022. Additionally, good clinical results were reported from retrospective clinical studies of using the Activa Pin™ in fixation of children's wrist fractures and elbow fractures.
I would like to thank the entire Bioretec team for their commitment to active sales and product development in the first half of the year, our distributors for their smooth co-operation, and our customers and investors for their trust in us. Together we will enable better care for orthopedic patients."
Tampere, 12 August 2022
Board of Directors
Bioretec Ltd
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Information about Bioretec
Bioretec is a globally operating Finnish medical device company that continues to pioneer the application of bioresorbable orthopedic implants. The company has built unique competencies in the biological interface of active implants to enhance bone growth and accelerate fracture healing after orthopedic surgery. The products developed and manufactured by Bioretec are used worldwide in approximately 40 countries.
Bioretec is developing the new RemeOs™ product line based on a magnesium alloy and hybrid composite, introducing a new generation of strong bioresorbable materials for enhanced surgical outcomes. The RemeOs™ implants are resorbed and replaced by bone, which eliminates the need for removal surgery while facilitating fracture healing. The combination has the potential to make titanium implants redundant and help clinics reach their Value-Based Healthcare targets while focusing on value for patients through efficient healthcare. With the U.S. and EU market authorization for the first RemeOs™ product expected in 2022, Bioretec is positioning itself to enter the addressable USD 7 billion global orthopedic trauma market and become a game changer in surgical possibilities.
Better Healing – Better Life. www.bioretec.com
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Berenberg Bank reissued their buy rating on shares of Secure Trust Bank (LON:STB – Get Rating) in a report published on Monday, MarketBeat reports. They currently have a GBX 1,820 ($21.99) price objective on the stock.
Separately, Shore Capital restated a buy rating on shares of Secure Trust Bank in a research note on Thursday, August 4th. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of Buy and a consensus target price of GBX 1,748.20 ($21.12).
Secure Trust Bank Price Performance
STB opened at GBX 1,100 ($13.29) on Monday. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 1,161.70 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 1,197.64. The company has a market capitalization of £205.43 million and a PE ratio of 625.00. Secure Trust Bank has a 1 year low of GBX 1,030 ($12.45) and a 1 year high of GBX 1,420 ($17.16).
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In related news, insider Rachel Lawrence acquired 1,742 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, August 5th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 1,142 ($13.80) per share, with a total value of £19,893.64 ($24,037.75). In other Secure Trust Bank news, insider David McCreadie purchased 1,808 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 31st. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 1,100 ($13.29) per share, with a total value of £19,888 ($24,030.93). Also, insider Rachel Lawrence purchased 1,742 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, August 5th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 1,142 ($13.80) per share, with a total value of £19,893.64 ($24,037.75).
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Secure Trust Bank PLC provides banking and financial products and services in the United Kingdom. It operates through Real Estate Finance, Commercial Finance, Vehicle Finance, Retail Finance, and Debt Management segments. The Real Estate Finance segment provides loans for residential and commercial investment and development, as well as for mixed development projects.
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In the days of a drought or a flood, maybe the weather is too cold or hot. People rely on the local meteorologist to give them a heads-up on what is coming. However, if the weather continues to be bad and the meteorologist continues to give bad news – what is a community to do? The answer in Forest Lake was to get rid of the weather forecaster.
After an unusual heavy rain in the month of July 1905, the Aug. 12, 1905, edition of the Forest Lake Enterprise printed a petition that was circulated among the residents of the community to make Henry Schiel leave town. It was he that forecasted the heavy rains and that the rains would continue.
The petition read:
“We the undersigned, hereby petition that Henry Schiel leave this country on the first train north, as we believe that he is the principal cause of the heavy and destructive rains of late, by his persistent prophecies of rain and storms, which have caused great destruction to the standing crops.
“We believe by his removal from this vicinity, the country will avoid a great calamity by deporting the said Henry Schiel to some remote place in the northern part of the state. And you, the said Henry Schiel, are ordered to immediately obey this request.”
The petition was signed by more than 40 of the community’s most outstanding citizens. This, of course, needed a response from Mr. Schiel, which was also printed and read:
“Gentlemen, your petition that I leave town has been served by the village marshal and in response I have considered your request in all conceivable lights.
“Of course, the ambitions that have been harbored from boyhood should not be allowed to stand before the public good; and though you have trampled upon the tenderest feelings of the human heart, life’s hopes and life’s ambitions. I can forgive you all, and especially Dr. Swartz who has contributed a dollar towards defraying my expenses.
“I have endeavored to serve faithfully those that I have loved since childhood in my native town, through my capacity as a weather prophet. The seeming precipitancy of my prognostications are the results of years in patient application and profound consideration of the elementary condition of atmospheric disposition depending on the derogatory symptoms of the diaflatical agencies determining the weather, and are no doubt too deep for your understanding.
“However, I will leave Ben Goodine with the mantle of my predictability and hereafter he will have full control of the weather of Forest Lake.
“Like the old Roman maxim – Ratchet, Hatchet, Tomahawk, Collate-o, Hurray for the Potato – to Chicago I go. Farewell! Yours in misjudgment, Henry Schiel.”
Although the community was sick of the weather at the time, this was just a little fun with the local prognosticator. Schiel, the son of the first local settler Louis Schiel, never really hopped on the train and left for Chicago. He was back forecasting the weather and in the Dec. 9, 1905, edition, he proclaimed, “Monday look out for the cold; after that, — cold.”
Today, with the Doppler radar and cold fronts or warm fronts, weather forecasting is a different breed of occupation. Still, there are times when we would all like to kick the weather person out of town – just like they did in Forest Lake.
Brent Peterson is the executive director of the Washington County Historical Society.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans who signed up for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level since November, though the U.S. job market continues to show signs of strength.
Applications for jobless aid climbed by 14,000 to 262,000 and now have risen five out of the last six weeks, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
The four-week average for claims, which smooths out weekly ups and downs, rose by 4,500 to 252,000, also the highest since November.
The number of Americans collecting traditional unemployment benefits increased by 8,000 the week that ended July 30 to 1.43 million, highest since early April.
Unemployment applications are a proxy for layoffs and are often seen as an early indicator of where the job market is headed.
So far this year, hiring in the United States has been remarkably strong and resilient in the face of rising interest rates and weak economic growth.
The Labor Department reported last week that U.S. employers added 528,000 jobs last month, more than double what forecasters had expected. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.5% in July, tying a 50-year low reached just before coronavirus pandemic slammed the U.S. economy in early 2020.
The United States recovered with unexpected strength from 2020’s COVID-19 recession, leaving businesses scrambling to find enough workers.
But the U.S. economy faces challenges. Consumer prices have been surging, rising 8.5% in July from a year earlier — down slightly from June’s 40-year high 9.1%. To combat inflation, the Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark short-term interest rate four times this year.
Higher borrowing costs have taken a toll. The economy contracted in the first half of the year — one rule of thumb for the onset of a recession. But the strength of the job market is inconsistent with an economic downturn.
“Demand for labor remains quite strong,″ economists Thomas Simons and Aneta Markowska of Jefferies wrote Thursday. “The modest pickup in claims suggests that turnover may be increasing in weaker firms that are struggling with slowing growth.″ | https://whnt.com/business/ap-business/us-unemployment-claims-rise-by-14000-to-262000/ | 2022-08-12T08:31:52Z | https://whnt.com/business/ap-business/us-unemployment-claims-rise-by-14000-to-262000/ | true | 35 |
SINGAPORE, Aug 12 — The couple who allegedly swindled more than S$20 million from luxury goods buyers in a high-profile case was hauled to court today, a day after being arrested in Johor Baru and taken back to Singapore.
Singaporean Pi Jiapeng, 26, and his Thai wife Pansuk Siriwipa, 27, each face three charges — two counts of conspiring to cheat and one count of illegal departure from Singapore.
The couple has been accused of scamming victims who made advance payments for luxury watches and bags. The pair then purportedly failed to deliver the goods.
Arrest warrants and Interpol red notices were issued against them after at least 180 police reports were lodged against the two companies they were behind, Tradenation and Tradeluxury, since June.
Court documents stated that both were allegedly party to a criminal conspiracy to cheat Tradenation customers from May 28 last year to June 27 this year, by deceiving them into giving payment for luxury watches.
They also purportedly conspired to cheat Tradeluxury customers over luxury handbags from Jan 15 to June 27 this year.
Both appeared in the State Courts today through video-link, with an interpreter reading the charges to Pansuk in Thai. They were refused bail after a judge agreed with the prosecution that they were flight risks.
Media reports had previously pegged the swindled amount at about S$32 million. Court documents currently do not list any specific monetary sums but Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) David Koh told the court that the total sums across the police reports amounted to more than S$20 million.
Pi, who was born in Fujian province in China, was initially arrested in Singapore on June 27. He had his passport impounded and was released on bail of S$15,000 the next day, pending the completion of investigations.
Pansuk was assisting the police with investigations and surrendered her passport to officers on June 30. Both later could not be contacted.
They then allegedly fled the country by hiding in the container compartment of a Malaysia-registered lorry, which went through Tuas Checkpoint on July 4.
Five weeks passed before the Royal Thai Police informed the Singapore Police Force that Pi and Pansuk may have been putting up in a hotel across the Causeway in Johor Baru, Malaysia.
The Singapore police then sought the Royal Malaysia Police's help to locate them. The couple was arrested by Malaysian police on Thursday and handed over to the police here.
Two Malaysian men — Mohamad Fazli Abdul Rahman, 38, and lorry driver Mohamed Alias, 40 — have already been charged with conspiring to arrange for the couple to be smuggled out of Singapore.
The men recently indicated that they wish to plead guilty. They have been remanded here due to the high risk that they could also flee the country.
No bail
Today, DPP Koh applied for no bail to be granted to Pi and Pansuk because of the "seriousness of the offences and the risk of flight".
He also applied for the couple to be remanded at Central Police Division for further investigations. He told District Judge Brenda Tan that time was needed given the scale of the case.
He also noted that investigations are at a relatively early stage because Pi and Pansuk essentially absconded, and time was needed to take statements from them.
The offences that they have been charged with are non-bailable ones as well, the DPP said.
In response, Pi said it was “not right for us to escape the country without any legal ways”.
“It’s due to the pressure we faced at that point of time, me and my wife were facing a lot of death threats and pressure. Of course it’s not an excuse, it is our mistake... We are clearly very sorry for the trouble we brought to the ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority).
“We will do our best with the SPF and the investigations from now on,” he added.
Pansuk said through an interpreter that she understood why they were not offered bail. She added that she knew she had done something wrong, and that she would cooperate with the police.
They will return to court on Aug 19, after the judge agreed with DPP Koh that they proven to be a flight risk and should not be released on bail. Under the Immigration Act, anyone who illegally leaves Singapore or abets the offence faces at least six months’ and up to two years’ jail and may also be fined up to S$6,000.
Any abetment of offences in Singapore, even if committed outside the country, is punishable under the law here.
Those convicted of cheating can be jailed for up to 10 years and fined for each offence. — TODAY | https://www.malaymail.com/news/singapore/2022/08/12/luxury-goods-scam-fugitive-couple-faces-charges-of-conspiring-to-cheat-illegal-departure-from-singapore-after-arrest-at-jb-hotel/22486 | 2022-08-12T08:34:14Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/singapore/2022/08/12/luxury-goods-scam-fugitive-couple-faces-charges-of-conspiring-to-cheat-illegal-departure-from-singapore-after-arrest-at-jb-hotel/22486 | false | 2 |
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Hundreds of Guatemalans set out from various points of the capital Thursday to protest alleged corruption by a deeply unpopular government, the high cost of living and attacks on freedom of expression.
University students, faculty and other employees marched from the campus of the capital’s only public university carrying signs demanding that the corrupt get out. “If there is no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government!” read one.
President Alejandro Giammattei is under fire for his reappointment of Attorney General Consuelo Porras, who has been criticized by the United States government and others for blocking corruption investigations and instead pursuing the prosecutors and judges who used to carry them out.
Most recently, her office arrested award-winning journalist José Rubén Zamora whose El Periodico newspaper has a reputation for corruption investigations, including against Giammattei.
Marchers were headed for Guatemala City’s historic downtown and the seat of power.
Leaders of Guatemala’s Indigenous population joined Thursday’s march as well, warning that the rising cost of living in the country was harming the people.
Enrique Saquic, an Indigenous leader from Santa Lucia Utatlán, said “they are strangling us, our brothers, our people are those who are suffering all this high cost of living.”
He also noted that the co-optation of the justice system had left Guatemalans defenseless.
Daniel Pascual, leader of the Committee of Farmer Unity, said the cost of living “means an increase in hunger for the poor.”
“The corruption in the end is the stealing of money from the people and those who pay taxes are the poor and middle class, because the rich don’t contribute equitably to the country,” Pascual said.
The United States has sanctioned Porras and included her and others on a list of corrupt actors in Guatemala who pose a threat to democracy. Giammattei however has stood by her, reappointing her to a second four-year term earlier this year. | https://whnt.com/news/international/ap-international/guatemalans-march-in-protest-of-corruption-cost-of-living/ | 2022-08-12T08:36:21Z | https://whnt.com/news/international/ap-international/guatemalans-march-in-protest-of-corruption-cost-of-living/ | false | 43 |
Is YOUR partner really a narcissist or just a bad guy? Psychologist reveals the traits of an abuser - from never feeling guilty to always blaming you for problems
- Dr Sarah Davies is a psychologist who specialises in narcissistic abuse
- She spoke to FEMAIL about how we risk 'over-diagnosing' narcissism
- Dr Davies explained we all exhibit narcissistic behaviour from time-to-time
- She explained how you can tell if you are the victim of narcissistic abuse
A psychologist who specialises in narcissistic abuse has shared her expert knowledge on how you can tell if your partner is really a narcissist.
Dr Sarah Davies, a trauma therapist based in Harley Street, told FEMAIL that narcissism has become a 'buzzword' on social media which carries a risk of 'over-diagnosis' of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
It is estimated that around five per cent of the global population has NPD - although it is difficult to know the true number because narcissists rarely seek help and receive diagnoses for their condition.
However, with more than 1 million posts on Instagram with the hashtag #narcissisticabuse, psychologists like Sarah are concerned people with no clinical expertise are wrongly diagnosing their partners or ex-partners as narcissists.
Here, she shares her expert knowledge with FEMAIL about what narcissistic abuse really looks like, and how you can tell if it's happening to you.
What is narcissism?
According to Dr Davies, who specialises in narcissistic abuse recovery, many people have narcissistic tendencies but only a small percentage of the population have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)
Narcissism is an extreme level of self-absorption to an extent that makes a person ignore the needs and feelings of other people around them.
Narcissists frequently dismiss other people in order to get what they want and do not understand the effect their behaviour has on other people.
Dr Davies explained: 'Narcissism is very much on a spectrum, ranging from being a little selfish or self-absorbed sometimes (which we can all be), through to ‘narcissistic defences’, to a full-on personality disorder, bordering on sociopath.'
She added the so-called 'mid-range' of the spectrum, where 'narcissistic defences' lie, is the most common way in which narcissism presents itself.
Dr Davies described the term as when someone reacts to something in a narcissistic way, but it does not mean they are a 'full-blown narcissist'.
An example of narcissistic defence would be an immediate denial when accused of something, such as eating the last chocolate from a chocolate box.
She said: 'Usually then what happens, somebody feels bad and then may feel remorse and later admit "Yes, sorry I did eat that, I couldn't resist".'
While many people have narcissistic tendencies, Dr Davies pointed out the key difference between this and having NPD is that most people feel remorse when they do something they consider to be wrong.
'Feeling guilt serves to keep our behaviours in check and guide us to live in a way that aligns with our values and moral compass,' she explained.
'Most people, if they do something that they don’t feel good about, will geniunely feel bad, be sorry, and make amends through real action with an alter in ways.
'Somebody with NPD is very unlikely to experience genuine remorse, and therefore won’t feel bad enough to apologise or attempt to change. Instead they may position themselves as a victim and/or blame others in some way.'
How many people are actually narcissists?
'Narcissism is a real buzzword these days,' Dr Davies said.
'Whilst it is helpful that more awareness of this is out there, it also sadly runs the risk of an over-diagnosis and over-vigilance to this in our society.'
The psychologist added that approximately 5% of the world's population has narcissistic personality disorder, according to statistics.
However, while she believes we are being too liberal with our use of the word 'narcissist', she also thinks the true proportion of people with the personality disorder is greater than 5%.
'It may be that there is an under-estimation given that narcissists are unlikely to seek professional support,' she explained.
'A core feature of a clinical diagnosis of narcissism includes an inability for honesty or self-reflection - these are two things that are necessary to engage in effective psychological therapy.'
Dr Davies added narcissists struggle to take personal responsibility for issues and prefer to frame themselves as the victim to pass the blame onto others.
'They are the least likely to seek professional help as in their view, it’s everybody else's fault and therefore everybody else's problem,' she said.
What does narcissistic abuse look like?
According to Dr Davies's website, narcissistic abuse is often known as a form of 'silent abuse'.
She wrote: 'Unlike physical abuse where the results are clear and undebatable in the form of bruises or cuts, narcissistic abuse and bullying is often seemingly very subtle, especially in the beginning.
'Narcissistic abuse is often executed in a way where nobody else, aside from the victim, sees or suspects it.
'In fact, often narcissistic abuse is so manipulative and abusive that often sufferers are left unsure if what they are experiencing is abuse at all.'
She explained that many people who suffer from narcissistic abuse will feel they are being 'too sensitive' or 'imagining things' - because this is what the narcissist will tell them.
'A symptom of narcissistic abuse in itself is being left with a sense of self-doubt, questioning or second-guessing yourself - losing trust in yourself and your judgements and perceptions,' she explained.
How can you tell if your partner is a narcissist or just not very nice?
According to Dr Davies, narcissistic abuse in a relationship can be characterised by long-term patterns of repeated narcissism.
She identified 'core themes' that point to a narcissistic personality, which include:
- Pre-occupation with wealth, status, power and success
- Selfishness and a disregard for others
- Lack of remorse or guilt
- Arrogant, haughty behaviour
- A strong sense of entitlement
- A distinct lack of taking responsibility for themselves or their actions
- Consistently blaming and shaming others
'Core narcissistic personality is difficult to change, so you will see the same thing again and again,' she said.
'There will be unhealthy, destructive patterns to a narcissistically abusive relationship. Like being with somebody who does not take their share of responsibility.'
Dr Davies added that, because narcissists will blame others for their problems and will not self-reflect, it is very unlikely you will ever get an apology out of them.
'Narcissists do not experience remorse or guilt in the same way most of us do.
'They will instead be so defended that they believe they are the wronged party/victim and blame everyone else or anything else. They will rarely, if ever, be accountable.'
How can you spot signs of narcissistic abuse in your relationship?
To be able to spot narcissistic abuse, Dr Davies recommends taking a two-fold approach of making a note of your partner's behaviour and then recognising your own feelings.
'Many people I've work with over the years recognise only in hindsight that they did not give enough attention to how they felt, emotionally or on an instinctual level,' she said.
'What do you notice in the other persons behaviour? How do they treat you and how do they treat others? How do they speak about other people? What are their other relationships like? Do they have patterns of issues with work colleagues, friends, family?
'Equally, how do YOU feel? How are you left feeling when being with this person? How do you feel with this person overall?'
Most importantly, Dr Davies pointed out that healthy, loving relationships should give you a sense of safety and support.
She said: 'If you are left feeling anxious, on edge, insecure or that you can’t rely on a partner, it may be a sign the relationship is an unhealthy one.'
Dr Davies added that human beings can all be a bit selfish sometimes, but it doesn't necessarily make us narcissists.
She said: 'To recognise if your partner is narcissistic or just having a bad day, take an honest, grounded inventory or what happens between you and note how often issues arise.'
She recommended asking yourself the following questions:
- How often are you left feeling bad or upset?
- Do you recognise any of the characteristics of narcissistic abuse? Ie. gaslighting, ghosting, blaming, denial
- How do you overcome difficulties? Can you talk it through and do they ever apologise, or do they blame you?
- Are you the one left to take responsibility every time?
- Is there a pattern to your partner's behaviour?
- Is the relationship affecting your self-esteem or mental health?
Dr Davies noted that arguments are perfectly normal in relationships, but the way you work through disagreements together is how you know if the relationship is healthy or not.
She said: 'In healthy relationships, resolutions are sought and met relatively quickly. Or if there are issues recognised, there is a joint effort to work through them together. There is a shared vision and goal.
Relationships with a narcissist are highly dysregulating, often traumatic and can be highly detrimental to your mental health and wellbeing.
'You can really feel like you are losing your mind and in extreme cases can even lead to a complete nervous breakdown.
'If your relationship is taking its toll on your overall health and wellbeing it's a fairly certain sign it’s toxic.'
She added: 'If you suspect a partner is a narcissist or abusive, it may well be time to consider if it’s a relationship you want to be in.
'If you are concerned it may also be helpful to seek professional support.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11095231/Psychologist-reveals-tell-partner-really-narcissist.html | 2022-08-12T08:37:54Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11095231/Psychologist-reveals-tell-partner-really-narcissist.html | false | 3 |
NEW YORK and LONDON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, today announced exclusive sponsorship of the fourth annual Creative Equals Business, which launched in 2018 to support the development of female leaders in creative industries across the U.K.
Creative Equals Business is a six-month program comprised of 8 modules that frame inclusion as a driver of organizational transformation, impacting creativity and profitability. Through hybrid in-person and virtual sessions, program participants receive invaluable executive leadership development and networking with other cohort members and industry-leading experts on creativity, leadership, and inclusion.
"Tackling gender equity at the highest levels of our organization is a high priority for us," said Stagwell Chief People Officer Stephanie Howley. "With CPB London Managing Director Helen James at the helm, Creative Equals Business has proven to be a force multiplier in the push to improve C-suite representation. We're proud to continue our support of the programme and to have mentors such as Anomaly Global CEO Karina Wilsher helping to diversify marketing leadership for the better."
Creative Equals Business is a subsidiary of Creative Equals, a global consultancy that helps workplace cultures grow through innovation, stronger customer relationships, authentic marketing, and business resilience through volatile times.
"Making progress in business requires that our thinking, the ways we strategize, and how we execute within our organizations are progressive, too – that means having a leadership makeup that's reflective of the communities we communicate to daily," said CPB London MD and Creative Equals Joint Founder Helen James. "Stagwell's continued support helps ensure that women leave our programme armed with the tools they need to adapt and excel as leaders in creative industries that are constantly changing."
Applications for Creative Equals Business are open through August 31, 2022 to senior women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people stepping into leadership positions. Apply here.
To date, the program has supported the growth and leadership development of over 200 women.
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Will it be the Springboks at South Africa’s most iconic stadium, Ellis Park, that put the final nail in the coffin of All Blacks coach Ian Foster and captain Sam Cane on Saturday evening?
It has been a turbulent time for New Zealand Rugby over the past two and a half years that Foster has been in charge, with them going through one of their toughest spells of the professional era.
Following in the footsteps of Steve Hansen was always going to be a daunting task, with Hansen regarded by many as one of, if not the greatest coach to have ever graced the game of rugby.
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During his seven year stint as All Blacks head coach he was in charge of 107 matches, winning 93 of them, drawing four and losing just 10 for an incredible 88.79 win percentage, while he led them to the 2015 World Cup title, which was their second in a row.
No one could have predicted how badly things have gone since he left after guiding the All Blacks to the 2019 World Cup bronze medal.
Tough platform
Admittedly Foster did not have the best platform to start from, with the Covid pandemic in 2020 throwing sport the world over into disarray, but things have not gotten any better as times have slowly returned to normal.
In total the All Blacks have played 25 matches under Foster so far, winning 16, losing eight and drawing one of them.
The most concerning aspect however, is that five of those 16 wins have come against sides that usually sit outside of the top 10 world rugby rankings, with two coming against Fiji (currently 12th), one against Italy (14th), one against Tonga (16th) and one against USA (19th).
Their current dreadful run has built up the most noise however, with them losing five of their last six games, and last three in a row, with three loses against Ireland, one against France and last weekend against the Boks.
With immense pressure on Foster as well as captain Cane, only an enormously improved performance will possibly be able to save them from the axe, but even if their performance does improve, another loss will most likely be the final nail. | https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/3171182/will-springboks-end-tenure-beleaguered-ian-foster/ | 2022-08-12T08:45:18Z | https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/3171182/will-springboks-end-tenure-beleaguered-ian-foster/ | false | 1 |
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‘Wild West’: Who owns the moon and what’s up there?
Missions are blasting off again for the moon as the new space industry hits its stride. Why are we going back and will it be “finders keepers” for what’s there?
By Sherryn Groch and Felicity Lewis
American flags, footprints, broken spacecraft, some plutonium, a couple of golf balls, a bible and a surprisingly large amount of human faeces. This is what humanity has left behind on the moon.
More than 50 years ago, US astronaut Neil Armstrong took that first “giant leap for mankind” onto the lunar surface, and over the following three years 11 more astronauts across six crewed Apollo missions walked on the moon, collecting rocks that changed our understanding of how the Earth and the moon came to be (and even sneaking in a round or two of golf). But humans haven’t been back since.
Now another space race is kicking off, this time driven by not only geopolitical rivalry but a growing private industry (and some enthusiastic billionaires). NASA plans to land humans on the moon again in 2025, the first step to developing a permanent lunar base (with the aid of an Australian-made rover). China, Russia and other powers have similar ambitions. The moon is not only seen as a crucial launch pad for human missions to Mars and beyond, it’s rich in resources of its own, from rare metals to ice water. Consequently, it’s likely to be the first real frontier where space rules are made and tested.
Of course, scientists will tell you the moon is more important than any of that. Without its pull, life on Earth may not even be possible to begin with.
But, if you ask a guy named Dennis Hope in California, he owns the moon – having filed the paperwork at his local council 40 years ago – and all these big lofty plans to develop it will need his sign-off.
So, how are space lawyers unravelling who gets to take what from the moon? What will the rules up there look like? And why do we even have a moon?
What is the moon anyway?
Getting our moon was probably the best and the worst thing to ever happen to the Earth. The best because, without the stabilising gravity of our unusually large moon, we wouldn’t have the tides, and the Earth would wobble on its axis, swinging our climate from searing hot to freezing cold, perhaps too fast for life to adapt. And the worst because it really would have been the worst day in Earth’s history. It’s thought that our planet and another, roughly the size of Mars, collided in the early solar system some 4.5 billion years ago, soon (at least, cosmically speaking) after they had formed in the whirlpool of leftover gas and dust that forged our sun.
Earth would have been engulfed in fire but the other planet, named Theia for the mother of the moon goddess in Greek mythology, came off even worse, shattering apart in the smash. The moon is debris from the fallout, locked in Earth’s orbit.
This kind of ancient, cataclysmic “fender bender”, as astrophysicist Professor Jonti Horner at the University of Queensland calls it, is the leading explanation for why our moon is so big compared to other moons we’ve seen (almost a quarter the size of the Earth); and why it’s covered in a bright, glittery rock (the cooled remains of a magma ocean).
“Even with the naked eye, the moon sometimes seems close enough to reach out and touch,” says NASA scientist Professor Darby Dyar, who still remembers when the “mind-blowing” giant impact theory was first proposed. It is close, only 1.3 light-seconds (or roughly 380,000 kilometres) from Earth, though each year it inches another four centimetres away. Dyar watched the Apollo astronauts “bouncing around [the moon] on grainy television broadcasts” as a kid and in 1979, as a 21-year-old PhD student, she found herself studying the lunar samples the Apollo crew brought home. “You can understand why my hands shook every time I had to handle them,” she says. “They still do!”
Those rocks changed our understanding of where the moon came from. But they threw up new mysteries too. Scientists thought that the moon must be a leftover chunk of Theia, likely its old core. But, while “it’s not made of cheese”, Horner says the moon is not made of the dense, heavy elements, such as iron, we’d expect to find in the core of an old, rocky planet like Theia either. Instead, it’s lighter, more like our Earth’s mantle and crust, with a tiny core. And when we study the moon’s chemical isotopes – that’s the signature of how rocks formed in different parts of the solar system – we find that the moon doesn’t look like a different alien world at all. It looks like Earth. “Every planet bears the scars of how they formed; they’re shaped by those final moments,” Horner explains. “But [chemically] it looks like the moon and Earth formed in the same place.”
A more recent study claims to have since found some discrepancies in moon isotopes, perhaps the first chemical fingerprints of Theia, though they are still small, according to earth scientist Qian Yuan at Arizona State University. One explanation is that the impact between the planets was so big they didn’t just collide, they fused, jumbling elements as seas of magma consumed their surface or perhaps forming a disc-like spread of material that coalesced back into the Earth and moon.
Another strange lead (“and most astronomy is detective work”, quips Horner) lies within the Earth itself. Scans have picked up two dense blobs, the size of continents, straddling the core like a pair of headphones. Scientists aren’t quite sure what they are but Yuan has outlined the strongest case yet that they could be leftover chunks of Theia, swallowed whole in the smash, and now buried beneath our feet in a kind of planetary graveyard.
In recent years, as technology improves, NASA has been releasing more moon rocks from deep freeze storage for study. “The fact that we’re interpreting the entire history of the Moon from a refrigerator-sized” crop of samples analysed so far has “undoubtedly been biasing our conclusions,” says Dyar, who is the lead on one of the new rock studies. NASA’s coming Artemis moon missions plan to bring back samples from different parts of it, including the deepest crater on its surface at the south pole. “It’s so large we believe [the meteorite impact that made it] might have punctured through the moon’s crust and exposed part of the upper mantle,” Dyar says. “We think there are still liquid melts in the lunar interior, we know it’s not done cooling yet.”
Yuan hopes to match any such lunar samples to magma plumes from those two mysterious blobs shot up through volcanoes on Earth. “We’d expect the moon’s crust and mantle to be different chemically, just like Earth’s layers are different,” he says. “So if we could compare the blobs to rocks from the moon’s mantle, not just its crust, we might have a match.”
What’s on the moon?
Our glittery moon is the brightest thing in the night sky – so bright that Horner usually hates when it’s out shining, bouncing back the sun’s light. “It blocks my view of other cool things I’m studying,” he laughs. But the moon offers its own unique window into our solar system. Because it has no climate or ocean, no weathering of its rocks, it keeps a pristine geological record. Scientists have devised ways of calculating what happened in our solar system’s ancient past by ageing the moon’s craters.
Horner himself dreams of setting up a telescope on the far side of the moon, the side that’s always dark to us, turned away. “It’s the quietest place in the solar system,” he says. The radio waves humans have been beaming out into space since the invention of broadcasting have travelled about one hundred light years away by now, but they don’t reach the far side of the moon.
That’s why China landing a spacecraft there for the first time in 2019, when radio signal usually cuts out, was such a feat. “We are exploring more of the moon now,” Horner says. “Who knows what we’ll find next?”
One huge find in 2018 was NASA’s confirmation that ice-water, picked up for years by lunar missions (notably by India), was not just confined to cold, dark craters but spread across its sunlit face. That has made the idea of frequent trips to the moon and even lunar bases suddenly much more feasible, just as rockets are plummeting in price (thanks to lighter and more reusable designs by a new generation of space companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin).
Water is expensive to get into space – it’s heavy and every kilogram of weight means more rocket fuel to escape Earth’s powerful gravity. But water can also be split into its atomic parts: hydrogen and oxygen. Oxygen is obviously handy for life on an enclosed moon base, while hydrogen lets you make rocket fuel, says Horner.
So, another reason the moon’s south pole was chosen by NASA for its next landing? The ice. “That crater is loaded with it,” says Horner. The European Space Agency has also unveiled plans to mine lunar ice and dust by 2025 – announced on the night of the super blood wolf moon of 2019. And China and Russia have their own joint plans to establish an International Lunar Research Station at the south pole in the 2030s.
There have been some big dollar estimates for the value of lunar water mining. Silicon Valley space start-up Moon Express has called water “the oil of the solar system” and the moon “the eighth continent”. But Dyar stresses that water on the moon is “not a renewable resource”, and the exact amount there is unclear. Some imagine the moon will instead become our “gas station” in space, Horner explains, an ideal base to refuel spacecraft as we mine asteroids rich in rare metals nearby or jet off on longer missions, including to Mars and Jupiter’s icy moons.
The moon has rare metals of its own too, the kind used in electronics and green energy tech but difficult and environmentally damaging to mine on Earth because there they are often deeper underground. “A lot of things that are not very rare in the cosmos are very rare in the crust of the Earth,” says Horner. “Some of these asteroids are the metal-rich cores of lost worlds.” One asteroid, Psyche, which NASA plans to map in the coming months, is so rich in metals, including nickel and gold, that it’s said to be worth more than the global economy.
Dyar thinks the moon will not be mined so much as used as a staging post for other space industry. (As Horner notes, debate has already started on how to best preserve the historical and cultural value of the moon.)
But there’s something else on the moon some experts think could turn it into the next Persian Gulf: helium-3. Given the moon has virtually no atmosphere, particles from the sun have rained down it for millennia, including this rare isotope. Helium-3 is said to hold huge potential as an energy source through nuclear fusion, but it’s so rare on Earth that it has an astronomical price tag. (China, in particular, has been mapping estimated reserves on the moon).
Of course, it’s not all about stripping the moon for parts. There are hopes to set up solar panels on its surface to beam down huge quantities of renewable energy too. The moon also has very low gravity – just one-sixth that of the Earth’s. Everything is lighter, including heavy machinery (anyone touching down will need to spend a little time getting their “moon legs”), and so companies such as Blue Origin have already identified it as a new manufacturing hub.
So who owns the moon?
Dennis Hope says he’s owned the moon for more than 40 years. He was struggling to get by and dreaming of owning real estate when he looked up at a full moon one night and thought, now, there’s a lot of property. Then he remembered learning about the Outer Space Treaty – that binding agreement from 1967 that lays the groundwork for governing peace in space. Signed by 110 nations, the treaty rules out any national appropriation of the moon and other celestial bodies (or launching nuclear weapons from them, for that matter). But it doesn’t explicitly mention individuals owning land off-world.
So, Hope quickly filed a notice of ownership for the moon (and the other planets in the solar system) at his local council and set up the Lunar Embassy, a business selling small plots of lunar land for about $US25 (as well as acres on Mars, Jupiter and beyond). Today the company has sold land to more than 6.5 million people, says Hope’s son Chris Lamar, who now serves as CEO. “We’ve had celebrities, actors, former presidents buy.” And, though Hope wrote to the United Nations as well as the two major space powers at the time – the United States and the Soviet Union – asking if his claim was illegal, he has yet to hear back.
The company’s thinking is from old frontier law – many nations have laws allowing people to claim unoccupied land, and Lamar says space is the ultimate uncharted territory. “No one else was doing it and we got there first.”
Of course, according to the experts, Hope’s “loophole” is not the kind that would hold up in any court. The ’67 treaty, created during the Cold War space race, may have its gaps but it views moon (and everything off-world) as a global commons, a bit like the high seas.“We all have a stake in it,” explains Emeritus Professor Steven Freeland from Western Sydney University and Bond University. “By all rights, it would have been great if they had also put up a UN flag” when they made it first to the moon. “That US flag was an expression of national pride and prestige” but even then, America rushed to reassure the UN they hadn’t really claimed the moon with it.
Under the treaty, nations also cop responsibility for ensuring their citizens follow the spirit of international law. So that rules out private ownership. (Freeland’s missing out too – one of his classes bought him a Lunar Embassy plot “with all the title deeds,” he says. “It’s a novelty item.”)
The treaty left room for interpretation too. In ’67, the US and Russia knew they were the big players, Freeland says, and set out some rules to work together – and to reassure the international community about their activities – but “why would they bind their own hands?”
In the late 1970s, as the potential for resource exploitation first came into focus, nations in the UN developed a new “Moon Agreement”. The moon and its natural resources were the common heritage of mankind, it said, but exploitation of those resources shouldn’t disrupt the moon’s environment and the benefits should be shared equitably (including among developing countries). An international regime would also be needed to manage lunar mining. Yet, when push came to shove, only 18 countries agreed to be bound by that agreement. US lobbyists argued it would create “a communistic approach to space”, says Freeland. (Australia ratified the agreement in ’86, under prime minister Bob Hawke, who also marshalled support to stop Antarctica being mined through the Madrid Protocol of 1991).
Now, as travel and industry become increasingly more feasible on the moon, experts such as Freeland are finding a legal way forward. He co-chairs a UN working group charged with examining laws on space resource exploitation. Already, they have managed to get consensus among more than 100 nations, including Russia, the US and China, on how to proceed, even in the midst of Russia’s war on Ukraine. But whether that leads to any new rules or treaty remains to be seen.
What’s clear, says Freeland, is that nations see big opportunities on the moon, including in science. A new crop of robotic missions are launching this year, from early Artemis test flights by NASA and SpaceX to a United Arab Emirates rover delivered by a Japanese lander.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the European Space Agency has called off planned collaborations with Russia’s Roscosmos agency on both the moon and Mars, though the ESA has previously had talks with China about its own planned “Moon Village” base and NASA recently flagged a European astronaut may land on the moon as part of strengthening US-European ties off-world. Russia, meanwhile, is looking to Beijing for moon collaboration, as China rises as a new force in space too, says Dr Malcolm Davis at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. But, while NASA continues to work with Russia in space, it’s banned outright from collaborating with China.
Head of NASA Bill Nelson ruffled feathers earlier this year when he warned that China may be looking to claim the moon, even through a slow, creeping territory grab. “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying, ‘It’s ours now and you stay out,’” he told a German newspaper. China immediately lashed the comment as a “lie”.
To Freeland, nothing could be worse than countries operating on the moon under different rules. “That’s a recipe for misunderstanding, miscalculations, and worse. We have to find a way, that even if they’re not co-operating with one another, they agree on and abide by the rules of the road.”
Who will profit from the moon?
If the first space race was about the race itself, about the prestige of being first, the new push to the moon is, largely, about money. This is the era of partnerships between government agencies and private companies – what people call “new space”, says Davis. “Although the moon is central to a lot of countries’ plans, it’s more about commercial gain now [as well as] national security and defence.”
NASA is contracting companies to bring back moon rocks for small payments– something NASA could collect itself, but, which, experts say will help establish a precedent: a market to buy and sell things from the moon. And crucially, companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin are helping supply cheaper, lighter rockets. Even NASA’s much-feted Artemis mission will use SpaceX rockets.
Lobbying by companies in the US has already led to the 2015 Space Act, which interpreted the Outer Space Treaty as allowing US citizens own, use and sell resources they find in space. The idea is often compared to fishing in international waters – you might not own the water, but you can sell the fish. Luxembourg, Japan and the United Arab Emirates have since followed suit with similar laws.
No one will spend money on space innovation otherwise, proponents argue, and too much regulation could kill the burgeoning industry, even though without it, says Davis, “it’s like the wild, wild West, it’s a free-for-all.”
Experts worry a “finders keepers” goldrush will trump the moon’s intended use “for the benefit of all”. Much of what is extracted in space is likely to stay off-world anyway to further interstellar expansion.
Laws now being developed to regulate deep sea mining in international waters could become models for the moon. A UN-created seabed authority requires nations or companies they sponsor to buy exploration licences beneath the waves. Space law expert Professor Dale Stephens at the University of Adelaide says you could imagine a similar system giving out “a temporary right to mine the moon … with responsibilities” and costs, “and then that money can be given to the UN” for humanitarian programs.
Of course, while developing the moon is no longer considered science-fiction, it won’t be easy either. When NASA’s Artemis mission lands the first woman and the first person of colour on the moon this decade, it will “inspire a new generation”, Horner says. But he thinks the real benefit of the new space race will be in spin-off technologies on Earth as engineers and scientists rush to tackle its challenges. One big one? Moon dust. Unlike on Earth, where dust is weathered down, moon rocks are sharp, made of fine glass, and pose serious risks to both human lungs and equipment. The dust even carries an electric charge.
And, without a protective atmosphere, bases will be exposed to space – including any stray rocket crashes. (When it’s struck by a meteor, the moon rings like a bell. Sometimes it’s rocked by “moonquakes”.) Experts wonder if all the rocket exhaust on a moon suddenly booming with industry could start to build up – as others fret over space junk clogging its orbit. “And if we screw up space … we’ll all suffer because we all depend on space,” says Freeland. “The big [countries], who are the most dependent on space, have the most to lose – and therefore the greatest incentive to ensure this doesn’t happen.”
There’s talk of sustainable lunar development in a new code of conduct known as the Artemis Accords – these are agreements between NASA and some other space agencies (including Australia’s), as well as companies, about how they should behave in space and on the moon. But they are not binding international law, and Russia and China are among nations who won’t sign, claiming the rules are designed to protect America’s edge in space. (They’re more likely to write their own versions.)
So, can we wreck the moon? Technically, we’ve already contaminated it. When the Apollo astronauts left bags of their poo behind to save weight on the trip home, they also dumped whole colonies of microscopic life. If something is still alive in it when humans return, we may have unintentionally proven the case that life can cross-pollinate between worlds, perhaps a crucial new twist in our quest to find aliens.
But, fortunately, Horner says, for all our technological advancement, we don’t have the means to knock the moon out of its orbit or interrupt Earth’s tides.
But could war break out on the moon?
When a group of Russian cosmonauts launch an ambush on a US moonbase, high drama ensues in the TV series All of Mankind. The US astronaut is perplexed at first as the cosmonaut pulls a gun (very slowly, of course) and fires, the bullets cracking a window and sucking out air. The show is a reimagining of history (what if Russia had landed on the moon first?). Yet violent lunar scenarios are already being contemplated by real-life diplomats, politicians and space lawyers. Will the moon need its own police force? What happens if a major war breaks out back on Earth?
Unlike other international zones such as Antarctica, space is now a key war-fighting domain. In the 1960s, it was still “a very niche thing for defence forces”, says Davis. Now “everyone plugs into space, and we can’t fight without it.”
Destroying or jamming satellites, which relay military communications, launching cyberattacks, even taking over strategic points in space (including potentially on the moon). These could all come into play, though space is intended to be used peacefully. Low-orbit weapons around Earth already sit in military arsenals.
The Trump administration was mocked for creating a new arm of the US military, Space Force, in 2019, but many countries also have smaller space units within their existing forces, including Russia and China. And, although weapons testing is illegal on the moon, carrying a weapon is not. Russian cosmonauts, for example, have reportedly carried guns in their landing survival kits. (In 1965, two cosmonauts were stranded for days in the Siberian snow – bear country.)
If conflict broke out on Earth, Stephens says attacks on another country’s lunar missions could even become lawful acts of war. This very scenario has been raised during discussions with countries over the final draft of an upcoming academic guide to space law, The Woomera Manual, which Stephens is helping create. “If you’ve got human activity on the moon, you’re gonna need security,” he says. There is no guarantee humanity will suddenly be on its best behaviour. But would military astronauts from the combative countries conducting peaceful research get protected status or be targeted as soldiers, he wonders. “Are they like medics or chaplains? If one attacked the other would that be permitted? It’s still an open question.”
And, while astronauts pulling guns to contest a lunar claim may seem quaint, Davis says it shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand, even if “I think the vast majority of warfare in space will be done by robots and essentially uncrewed weapons systems, satellites as opposed to X-wing fighters in Star Wars”.
But, he adds, you could imagine a war off-world “20 years down the track when we do have a permanent presence on the moon, and we’ve got an American base and a Chinese base, and they’re both trying to compete over resources”.
Whether technology matches the warp-speed dreams of industry or not, Freeland agrees that our history on Earth sets a precedent worth taking seriously. Wars are “all about countries trying to claim territory or claim resources. I mean, look at what’s happening in Ukraine.”
Then there are citizens complicating the picture – if a new crop of space tourists, asteroid miners and the like take to the skies down the line, they could have varying degrees of training.
Right now, astronauts are “envoys of mankind”, and the expectation is they’ll be rescued if in trouble under international law. “In a settlement on the moon, if you had a taikonaut, a cosmonaut, an Afronaut, [say] 20 people from 20 different nations all living together, all subject to their own national laws … what law applies?” Freeland muses. On the International Space Station, he says, such murkiness is sorted out ad hoc. But as more of us leave the Earth, we’ll need to rely on one another and we’ll need to establish a common code of conduct. “It’s a dangerous [environment]. I can’t open a window because I’ll kill everyone.”
Stephens says we are now entering a “new golden age” both for humans in space and the law. At the moment, “you’ve got the tension of some countries pushing, others pushing back. But then I think [there’ll be] a general recognition by everybody: let’s deal with it.”
Davis is less optimistic, saying that while the West may “go forward with all these new treaties and [regulations], patting ourselves on the back” the Chinese and the Russians might just do their own thing.
“If all we’re relying on is a hope that they have good intentions, well, hope is not a strategy.”
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ018-122000-
Onondaga-
Including the city of Syracuse
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming north in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ022-122000-
Steuben-
Including the cities of Corning and Hornell
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ023-122000-
Schuyler-
Including the city of Watkins Glen
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming north in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ024-122000-
Chemung-
Including the city of Elmira
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ025-122000-
Tompkins-
Including the city of Ithaca
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ036-122000-
Madison-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Oneida
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Southwest winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ037-122000-
Southern Oneida-
Including the cities of Rome and Utica
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
upper 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ044-122000-
Cortland-
Including the city of Cortland
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ045-122000-
Chenango-
Including the city of Norwich
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ046-122000-
Otsego-
Including the city of Oneonta
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ055-122000-
Tioga-
Including the cities of Owego and Waverly
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the upper
70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ056-122000-
Broome-
Including the city of Binghamton
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
upper 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80. South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ057-122000-
Delaware-
Including the cities of Delhi and Walton
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
NYZ062-122000-
Sullivan-
Including the city of Monticello
335 AM EDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
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Missouri Governor Mike Parson traveled to Nodaway County August 10 with an agenda that included visiting the Long Branch bridge project, east of Maryville on Highway 136. The project’s deck is poured and the paving subcontractor has completed the concrete approach pavements. The barrier curb pour is also done. Work slated for this week was to complete the rock blanket, shape slopes, prepare for the short section of asphalt widening and pave the asphalt grade transition, and place the guardrail at the bridge ends. The bridge should be open the week of August 15, which is two weeks earlier than the time allowed in the Phillips Hardy contract. | https://nodawaynews.com/governor-sees-new-long-branch-bridge/ | 2022-08-12T08:55:18Z | https://nodawaynews.com/governor-sees-new-long-branch-bridge/ | false | null |
Coveo Solutions Inc. (TSE:CVO – Get Rating) – Analysts at National Bank Financial decreased their FY2023 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for Coveo Solutions in a report issued on Monday, August 8th. National Bank Financial analyst R. Tse now expects that the company will post earnings of ($0.43) per share for the year, down from their previous estimate of ($0.41). The consensus estimate for Coveo Solutions’ current full-year earnings is ($0.40) per share. National Bank Financial also issued estimates for Coveo Solutions’ FY2024 earnings at ($0.29) EPS.
Coveo Solutions (TSE:CVO – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, June 14th. The company reported C($0.24) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of C($0.17) by C($0.07). The company had revenue of C$32.31 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of C$30.16 million.
Coveo Solutions Trading Up 10.3 %
TSE:CVO opened at C$7.57 on Thursday. The firm has a market capitalization of C$785.98 million and a price-to-earnings ratio of -9.92. Coveo Solutions has a 1-year low of C$4.81 and a 1-year high of C$18.00. The company has a quick ratio of 3.47, a current ratio of 3.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.12. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is C$5.78.
Coveo Solutions Company Profile
Coveo Solutions Inc provides applied artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Its cloud-native, multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) platform is the intelligence layer that injects search, recommendations, and personalization solutions into digital experiences to provide connected relevance for various-use cases across commerce, service, website, and workplace applications.
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Many celebrities took to social media on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan and shared how they celebrated the festival. Famous TV actress Hina Khan also celebrated the occasion with her boyfriend Rocky Jaiswal and his sisters. As Rocky took to social media to share pictures of their candid moments, Hina too was seen posing with a rakhi as Rocky’s sister Nirja Jaiswal has been tying Lumba rakhi to Hina for many years now. Hina Khan Gives Major Festive Fashion Inspiration in Blue Printed Kurti and Dramatic Kohl Eyes (View Instagram Reel).
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TYSON FURY flew to Iceland with his dad John to confront Hafthor Bjornsson - but ended up AXE THROWING instead.
Fury filmed himself arriving at Keflavik Airport with John and business partner Spencer Brown.
And their mission was to "find" Game of Thrones star Bjornsson following talk of an exhibition bout.
But the former world's strongest man was instead in Rome filming a movie, so Fury had to find other ways to entertain himself.
That included buying Vikings hats, heading to the pub and going axe throwing.
After Bjornsson caught wind of Fury's trip to his homeland, he demanded a fight contract be sent his way.
He said: "I'm currently in Rome filming a movie, loving life and guess what?
"Tyson Fury's in Iceland, he tried to find me, couldn't find me because obviously I'm not there.
"But Tyson, if your team is serious, if you're serious about fighting me, have your team send me a contract, lets get serious and I'll find you.
"I'll come to you, I'll find you, no worries."
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Bjornsson, 33, recently beat strongman rival Eddie Hall, 34, in their gigantic grudge match in March but he has not returned since.
Fury, 33, meanwhile retired from boxing a month later knocking out Dillian Whyte, 34, at Wembley.
But it appears his hiatus was short-lived after claiming he was coming back to face Derek Chisora, 38, in an unlikely trilogy bout.
The fight was first eyed for December but shortly after, Fury appeared to suggest his rematch with Chisora was already off.
He said: "Do you know the funny this is - people love to do deals and then ask for more or change the goalposts.
"But the usual thing for me is then I tell them to go get f****d. So there we are."
It would free up Fury to fight Bjornsson in a extraordinary exhibition.
With the Gypsy King still keeping hold of his WBC title, an undisputed decider remains on the cards.
But he first has to wait for Oleksandr Usyk, 35, to rematch Anthony Joshua, 32, next Saturday, following the Ukrainian's win last September.
Fury would then be in line to challenge the winner in what would be a first-ever heavyweight unification in the modern four-belt era. | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/9293579/tyson-fury-iceland-dad-john-thor-bjornsson/ | 2022-08-12T09:04:14Z | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/9293579/tyson-fury-iceland-dad-john-thor-bjornsson/ | false | 4 |
NC Sens. Tillis, Burr face backlash for insulin vote in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act
North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr walked into the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol Saturday morning wearing shorts, sandals and a suit jacket.
A photo of Burr’s fashion faux pas sent Twitter into a frenzy. But it would be his and Sen. Thom Tillis’ vote on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that most people ended up remembering.
The $740 billion energy, climate, healthcare and tax bill creates at least $300 billion in investments aimed at climate change, lowers the price of prescription medications and creates a new minimum tax rate of 15% on large corporations.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer caught Republicans off-guard two weeks earlier when he announced he, Sen. Joe Manchin — a Democrat from West Virginia — and the Biden administration had come to an agreement on the inflation bill, something both Democrats and Republicans had lost faith in happening.
Senate Democrats passed the bill 51-50 Sunday, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote after more than 15 hours of debate.
It was a party-line vote, and since North Carolina only has Republican senators that means both Tillis and Burr voted against it.
“It’s an insult to the intelligence of North Carolinians when politicians like President Biden and Governor Cooper claim that raising taxes and spending $740 billion on their far-left priorities will actually reduce inflation and stop the Biden recession,” Tillis said in a news release Sunday. “I voted against this reckless tax and spending spree because it will cause more pain for North Carolinians already struggling to fill up their gas tanks and pay for their groceries and other essential goods their families need.”
Debate on the bill began Saturday morning and stretched into Sunday. Senators went back and forth on numerous amendments, but one subjected Burr and Tillis to vehement backlash from their constituents: a $35 cap on insulin from private insurance companies.
A contentious cap on insulin prices
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough — who serves as the chamber’s official adviser and rule keeper — deemed an insulin price cap for private insurers a violation of the Senate’s rules for the reconciliation process to pass the bill on a bare majority. Senate Democrats sought to overrule MacDonough’s decision in a vote that needed 60 supporting members.
The New York Times reported that, despite the rule violation, Democrats “dared” Republicans to vote against the cap by keeping the provision in the bill.
Tillis and Burr rarely cave to such political pressure. Both voted against capping insulin costs along with 43 other Republicans, forcing the provision to fail.
Several people took to social media Sunday and Monday ridiculing the North Carolina Senators for their ostensible apathy toward insulin users. The posts and tweets were laced with profanity.
North Carolina’s Democratic Party spokeswoman Ellie Dougherty capitalized on the social media climate.
“While President Biden and Democrats are working day in and day out to lower the cost of prescription drugs, reduce the deficit and fight rising costs without raising taxes a single penny on middle class families, Burr and Tillis’ vote underscores the GOP’s commitment to protecting Big Pharma and special interests over easing costs for North Carolina families,” she said.
Senate candidates weigh in
Senate candidate Cheri Beasley, a Democrat, immediately took to Twitter .
“Both NC senators just voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, which would lower costs at a time when millions of families are struggling,” she wrote. “North Carolinians deserve more. As Senator, I will always fight for the people — not cower to corporate special interests.”
Her Republican opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Rep. Ted Budd, shot back , “Cheri Beasley just endorsed a tax increase during a recession. She would be Joe Biden’s Senator, I’ll be working families’ Senator.”
Budd and Beasley are facing off in the midterm to replace the retiring Burr, who announced he would not run for reelection after almost 30 years in Congress.
Inflation bill moves to the House
The U.S. House began a 45-day recess last week, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she’s bringing members back Friday to vote on Biden’s inflation bill.
North Carolina’s representatives have been largely quiet on the issue, though a few have taken to social media to let their constituents know where they stand.
Rep. Kathy Manning, a Democrat from the Triad, said in a tweet she is proud to support the bill.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes a provision from Rep. Deborah Ross, a Democrat from Wake County, that would repeal the 10-year offshore wind leasing moratorium off the coast of North Carolina and the three states to its south.
“The Inflation Reduction Act is a transformational package that will mark the single greatest investment we’ve made to combat the climate crisis in our history,” Ross said in a news release . “To reach our ambitious climate goals, we must unleash the full power of American clean energy — and that includes offshore wind energy development.”
Their Republican colleague Dan Bishop, of Charlotte, retweeted the House Freedom Caucus’ statement opposing the bill.
Rep. Greg Murphy, a Republican of Pitt County, spoke out directly in a tweet saying , “The #ManchinSchumer bill is nothing but a job-killing partisan gimmick that will destroy innovation, raise consumer costs and worsen inflation.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2697940682934/nc-sens-tillis-burr-face-backlash-for-insulin-vote-in-biden-s-inflation-reduction-act | 2022-08-12T09:04:22Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2697940682934/nc-sens-tillis-burr-face-backlash-for-insulin-vote-in-biden-s-inflation-reduction-act | true | 1 |
Here in the UK, those of us of a certain age remember a TV sketch about the English class system. “I look up to him” said the fedora-hatted middle class Ronnie Barker, eyes raised towards the bowler-wearing city gent to his right. Then, turning to the flat-capped working man to his left, “but I look down on him.” The sketch pokes fun at an England that no longer exists, but it’s a perfect analogy for today’s auto industry.
In the middle are the vehicle manufacturers, making decent returns in good years. They lean on the generally less profitable Tier 1 suppliers which, according to consultancy Berylls, in 2019 (the last representative year before the pandemic) achieved averaged global margins of 6%. In Germany it was just 2.5%. Numbers for 2021 are clearly atypical, but the basic relationship is retained: 11% for suppliers v 13% for vehicle manufacturers, according to AlixPartners’ Global Automotive Outlook published in June 2022.
They both look up to the ‘Tech’ companies where, according to CSI Market, internet and social media firms enjoy an average net margin of more than 60%. Valuation multiples in this sector are also higher: 44 for online services, 31 for software, compared with a modest 19.8 for automotive (including trucks), according to valuation specialist Equidam. What’s the secret source?
For an answer, many analysts point to Apple, the world’s first trillion dollar company, which reached the podium through its exceptional expertise in developing and marketing a synergistic ecosystem of trusted hardware, software and services that together provide benefits that many consumers are happy to pay handsomely for. Can the car industry transform itself into a provider of hardware platforms running trusted, monetised services? Recent announcements suggest a new generation of visionary auto industry leader is going to try very hard to prove it can.
Cloud-based services
“An increasing number of our auto industry customers are developing ambitious plans for a different type of customer relationship that launches exciting new revenue opportunities for them,” states Heiko Wenczel, Director of industry management with Epic Games and head of the company’s Detroit Laboratory. “None of us have a fully formed picture of what the end result will look like, but we have a clear understanding of the opportunities, so the first steps are clear.”
The vehicle manufacturer most open about these opportunities is Stellantis, owner of 14 vehicle brands and recently crowned Europe’s top selling automaker. At its impressive CES press conference, Chief Executive Carlos Tavares announced that to facilitate this digital journey, by 2024 the group will be training more than 5,000 developers and software engineers to ‘accelerate its transformation into a data-driven enterprise in the cloud. He put some very large numbers on their ambition for rapid growth in revenue from software enabled products and services.
“At this early stage, it’s all about enabling the vision,” states Wenczel. “Success will ultimately be driven by the quality of the services and how they are offered and priced. Right now, our task is to put in place the technology that enables this by providing the flexibility to try different services and models without costly hardware change.” Listen to the vehicle manufacturers and there seems to be near-universal agreement that this means a pipeline into the vehicle from the cloud, with impressive software-driven in-vehicle user interfaces that can be updated over-the-air to keep existing vehicles aligned with evolving strategies and offerings.
The main area where strategies currently diverge is equivalent to the different approaches represented by iOS and Android. Vehicle manufacturers must choose if they want a closed ecosystem approach with tight controls or if they are going to offer a more open system, managing the platform and defining edge parameters but enabling developers to freely create within these guidelines. Both roadmaps have been described by major brands setting out their vision.
Controlling customer relationships
It would be wrong to just see this transformation in revenue streams as a move into digital services. It’s also a solution to much greater challenges in the industry.
Today’s vehicle manufacturers have a one-hit profit opportunity. They sell the car, make their money on the metal and the options it carries, then have a trickle of generally high margin but low volume income from their ageing fleet needing replacement parts. Once the vehicle has left the showroom, the customer relationship is owned by the dealer and the major profits are made by the dealer. There may be an on-going relationship through the finance package, but even if it carries the vehicle brand and a monthly payment, the reality is that it’s a sale made at the time the vehicle is purchased.
Can the car industry transform itself into a provider of hardware platforms running trusted, monetised services?
Digital allows vehicle manufacturers to win back the customer relationship and to extend it much deeper into the vehicle’s life. As the business of dealers is transformed by the growing number of electric vehicles, which need substantially less time in their workshops, and by vehicle manufacturers developing a digital sales journey that they control, a whole-life, seamless customer relationship through the cloud becomes both more realistic and an important strategy for flipping challenges into opportunities.
To those who know the online games sector, it’s no surprise that the best companies there are transferring their skills and technology into the auto sector. Wenczel’s employer, Epic Games, is the company behind Fortnite (one of the world’s biggest games) and is a well-established partner for most of the world’s vehicle manufacturers. While many of those relationships deliver real time visualisation systems for styling, engineering, sales and marketing, an increasing number are to provide games-quality graphics in the car. But that’s selling them short.
“We have clients developing astonishingly impressive HMI (Human Machine Interfaces) using our Unreal Engine platform, but being more than cautious about revealing their next-step strategies,” he reveals. “When you map the capability of a software platform like ours against the digital journey, you see why: they have found opportunities to bypass costly and time consuming traditional development and step directly into a proven platform that ensures the long-term power and flexibility they need to enable their digital journey.”
So it isn’t just about the fabulous graphics that show exactly how your SUV is cleverly moving its wheels over every rock as you climb the Rockies, or sensitively indicates those hazards that the active safety systems believe you’ve missed. It’s about providing the vehicle manufacturer with access to proven, totally scalable multi-user systems, with secure, highly robust real-time data streaming, established monetisation techniques built on decades of learning, and an impressive ecosystem of independent expert developers of third party applications.
Wenczel believes the goal is increasingly for each end customer to have an account with the vehicle manufacturer, covering everything from finance, insurance and servicing to the type of apps found on a mobile phone. These will be managed through the vehicle HMI to deliver the brand experience digitally via the cloud.
Tavares summarised the starting point nicely when he stated that digital cockpits are one of the key strategic focusses for Stellantis, delivering as many great immersive experiences as possible.
“People talk about electric vehicles as the major transformation of our lifetimes,” concludes Epic’s Wenczel. “I believe that’s only part of it. Car businesses becoming cloud driven will have an equally transformative impact on our industry,” he states. “That also provides an entry point to something even more exciting: the metaverse.” But that’s another interview.
About the author: Richard Gotch has spent 30 fascinating years providing communications consultancy for many of the world’s largest First Tier technology suppliers. Today he is also non-executive deputy chairman of FISITA, the global mobility engineering association | https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/aiming-for-the-clouds-whats-driving-the-move-to-cloud-first-businesses/ | 2022-08-12T09:09:53Z | https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/aiming-for-the-clouds-whats-driving-the-move-to-cloud-first-businesses/ | true | 1 |
Introduction and StarHub's telco plans
In this article, we’ve compiled Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4 mobile plans from Singapore telcos. Since there are many types of plans and two handsets to walk through, we’ve split the information into one telco per page. Simply select the page(s) for the telcos you're interested in.
If you’re looking for information about the Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4’s capabilities, you can go to this article here. If you want to know about other retail options, we’ve compiled that separately here.
In no particular order, here we go.
StarHub
StarHub has Mobile+, a two-year contract plan that comes with a handset and line.
The telco also has a separate phone payment option if you opt to get its SIM Only Plan. It’s called EasyGo, a contract-free, zero-interest payment mode that lets StarHub customers pay $0 upfront cost for the device, and split the payment into small, fixed, monthly instalments.
Promotions include:
- Instant access to StarHub 5G
- Free one month access to GeForce NOW cloud gaming service
- Disney+ on StarHub for customers getting Mobile+ $95, $125, or $155 plans
- “Huge data and talktime bundles”
- Free SIM card, and registration
- And Samsung’s default promotions (e-voucher etc.) listed in this article
Pre-orders have already begun and will remain open until Sept 1, 2022. Phones arrive in StarHub stores from Sept 2, 2022 onwards.
Below are the prices for both Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4, via Mobile+ or EasyGo.
EasyGo payment (for SIM-Only Plan)
The amounts listed in the table is for the phone's cost over the stated period. The final amount differs after you include the cost of your SIM-Only Plan from StarHub.
The red camp (Singtel) has the Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4 available via its Singtel XO Plus contract plans.
The upfront cost for contract phones can also be paid via BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) options like Atome, which converts that sum into three monthly instalments.
If you are willing to take on Singtel's SIM-Only Plus plans, Singtel also offers their version of phone monthly payment, called Singtel PayLater. This is offered in 12, 24, or 36-month payment options.
Singtel promotions include:
- Free Screen Replacement within 12 months of accidents (Singtel Mobile Protect, underwritten by Great Eastern General Insurance Limited)
- Free 1GB data for the first six months for XO Plus plan customers
- Additional $150 and $200 off in trade-in value for Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4, respectively.
- Up to $300 Samsung e-voucher (as given by Samsung)
- Up to $400 off handset price (stackable) if
- They sign up for XO Plus 68 and above plans or if they upgrade to XO Plus 88 and above plans
- And also signing up for MobileSwop Unlimited Premium
The $200 discount for new XO Plus 88 plan sign-ups is not reflected in the table.
These are monthly instalment costs for the phone. Customers still need to add $30 or $45 for the SIM-Only Plan.
The $200 discount for new XO Plus 88 plan sign-ups is not reflected in the table.
These are monthly instalment costs for the phone. Customers still need to add $30 or $45 for the SIM-Only Plan.
M1 telco plans
M1 has Bespoke Contract and Bespoke Flexi (contract-free) options for Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4.
Bespoke Flexi unbundles the phone monthly payment from the contractless SIM-Only mobile plan. You can choose your preferred upfront payment amount, period, talktime, data, with no hidden fees.
Bespoke Contract pre-order exclusives include:
- Up to $300 Samsung e-voucher (as given by Samsung)
- Extra up to $160 off when trading in an older device
- $80 off Bespoke $65.95 plan for existing M1 customers
- $150 off on Bespoke $78.95 and above plans for existing M1 customers
Bespoke contract
Note that, for the pre-order period, Galaxy Z Flip4 (128GB) is $180 instead of $650 for the $65.95 plan, while Galaxy Z Fold4 (256GB) is $225 instead of $1,060 for $78.95 plan. We included this detail here so that the table doesn't get mixed up with regular versus promo prices.
Bespoke Flexi
For the Bespoke Flexi price plan below, we've included the typical prices M1 gives before discount, and an extra column that shows the S$100 off for the pre-order (under Promotional Price given by M1).
Bespoke Flexi pre-order exclusives include:
- Up to S$300 Samsung e-voucher
- S$100 off with Bespoke Flexi
- Free one-year supply of Nature's Farm buffered Vitamin C1000
- Extra up to S$160 off when you trade in your device
The Bespoke Flexi plan lets you pick your own payment options for the phones. Upfront cost can start from $0 if you so prefer, and payment plans for the phone can go up to 36 months.
Because the data and talk time bundle is also flexible, we've not included the monthly cost in its already complex discount and promotion details.
This article was first published in HardwareZone. | https://www.asiaone.com/digital/telco-contract-and-sim-only-plans-samsung-galaxy-z-flip4-and-z-fold4 | 2022-08-12T09:11:03Z | https://www.asiaone.com/digital/telco-contract-and-sim-only-plans-samsung-galaxy-z-flip4-and-z-fold4 | false | 1 |
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The Nation's Weather for Friday, August 12, 2022
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along the leading edge of the cool air in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and southeastern New England. Much heavier showers
and thunderstorms are in store along a separate, slow-moving
cool front that will extend from Texas to the Carolinas. The
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stricken eastern Texas. In the West, typical heat for mid-
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Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Electronic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Unsolved” is the third full length album by…
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Electronic.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: “Unsolved” is the third full length album by Italian artist Luca Fucci -also known as Hidden Scars, which also was the title of his debut album 2015.
Content: This album is quite versatile, taking off with pure Ambient/Cinematic music played with piano. Quite progressively, the tracks are evolving from evasive atmospheres to heavier cuts empowered by Industrial sound treatments and even Acid sequences. There’s an alternation between slow- and fast rhythms, the composition becoming more melodic and achieved with bombastic arrangements.
+ + + : This album is an interesting production for its diversity and eclecticism. I like the dreamy, evasive tracks from the opening part, but definitely prefer the more elaborated, darker and heavier cuts from the second part. “Gateway” is a cool piece for its Industrialized sound and Acid-like elements. And I also have to mention “Gazing Into The Abyss”, which simply is a beautiful song.
– – – : I don’t have anything against diversity and different music genres, but there clearly is a serious contrast between the first- and the second part of the work, the album being definitely divided in 2 different pieces.
Conclusion: “Unsolved” is a fascinating sound experience covering a wide spectrum of Ambient/Cinematic Electronics.
Best songs: “Gateway”, “Gazing Into The Abyss”, “Flowing Gold”.
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An innovative educational program in the Washington, D.C., jail asks incarcerated people how to stop gun violence.(STATIONS NOTE: Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 8, 2022.)
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An innovative educational program in the Washington, D.C., jail asks incarcerated people how to stop gun violence.(STATIONS NOTE: Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 8, 2022.)
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Southwest Tennessee Community College has found a novel way to help cash-strapped students. The school has made all Friday classes virtual this summer, allowing students to save money on gas.
Southwest is the only majority Black public community college in the state. A large portion of students use Pell grants to help pay for school, and many are adult learners who have to work.
“We knew that as food cost increased, as rent increased, as the cost of gas increased, that for some of our students the decision was going to be fairly easy to stop college," Cory Major, the vice president of student affairs, told WPLN-FM.
The Memphis-based school has an obligation to help struggling students stay in school, he said. While individual students learn skills and get diplomas, their success also feeds the larger local economy, Major said.
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While Kenyans wait for the final results, the electoral commission has done something new this year. It has posted some early results online but that seems to be causing confusion.
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While Kenyans wait for the final results, the electoral commission has done something new this year. It has posted some early results online but that seems to be causing confusion.
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MANILA - Toyota in the Philippines has formed a new company focused on offering mobility solutions such as apps and a fleet management system.
Called the Toyota Mobility Solutions Philippines, Inc., the new subsidiary is the first of its kind in the Southeast Asia.
It will offer a suite of technology and data-driven lifestyle and business solutions helping move people.
Among the initial programs of the company is a fleet management system to help companies focus on their main operations, while TMSPI will help in managing, repairing, and tracking company vehicles.
There are also on-demand shuttle booking app, car sharing or rental program, and other innovative mobility solutions.
In a speech read by a representative, TMP President Atsuhiro Okamoto, believes the new company will help address many mobility challenges in the Philippines.
"We will know that we have succeeded when we see businesses prospering, communities and societies empowered, and individuals fully free and able to move, maximizing their time and potentials through better mobility solutions and options," he said.
Trade Secretary Alfredo Pascual, who attended the launching event, said the new services will help small and medium scale enterprises.
Pascual said it would "improve the efficiency of moving people and goods within the country particularly with the support of digital apps."
Toyota officials said with the new company, more jobs will also be created.
TMP Chairman Alfred Ty said TMP has so far contributed $17.1 billion in terms of auto component exports to the Toyota group worldwide since 1997.
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The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre on an appeal of Vedanta Ltd against a Delhi High Court verdict related to a production sharing contract (PSC) of Vedanta and the ONGC to produce oil from the Barmer oil field in Rajasthan.
Vedanta Ltd has moved the top court against the March 26 judgement of a division bench of the Delhi High Court setting aside a single judge order directing the Centre to extend till 2030 its PSC with Vedanta Ltd and ONGC to produce oil from the Barmer oil field.
“Issue notice,” said a bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Krishna Murari after hearing brief submissions from senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Vedanta Ltd.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and the ONGC, said that he accepted the notice and sought four week’s time for filing the responses.
The bench took note of the submissions and fixed the appeal of Vedanta and co-appellant Cairn Energy Hydrocarbons Ltd for hearing in September.
Earlier, the Centre had moved an appeal before a division bench of the high court against the judgement of a single judge bench directing it to extend till 2030 its PSC with Vedanta Ltd and ONGC to produce oil from the Barmer oil field.
The Centre’s appeal was allowed by the division bench of the high court against that Vedanta moved the apex court.
The single judge had held that Vedanta was entitled to extension of its contract, which was to expire in 2020, for a further period of 10 years on the same terms and agreements when it was first entered into in 1995.
Vedanta had moved the court after its request to the government in 2009 to extend the PSC did not elicit any response. It had claimed that the delay in a decision by the government was preventing it from infusing further investment of over Rs 30,000 crore in the project.
In its plea before the single judge, Vedanta had said the estimated recoverable assets in the block were about 1.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent, of which 466 million barrels are expected to be recovered beyond current PSC period until 2030.
Besides, it was also producing natural gas from the block and supplying it to government companies, the company had claimed.
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Italian tycoon's £20million 150ft superyacht is destroyed after going up in flames in front of stunned tourists off Spanish island
- The 150ft and £20million superyacht Aria SF caught fire Thursday near the Spanish island of Formentera
- Luxurious vessel is owned by 61-year-old Italian businessman who runs a car-parts manufacturer
- Paolo Scudieri ordered the ship in 2019, but only took delivery of it last month.
- Boat used to have five bedrooms, swimming pool and gym but is now destroyed
A £20million superyacht owned by a company boss worth more than £400million has gone up in flames off the coast of a Spanish island.
The 150ft vessel caught fire Thursday afternoon in Cala Saona, on the west of the Mediterranean isle of Formentera, just a month after being delivered to its owner.
Spanish coastguards sent two rescue boats to the area as the nine passengers and seven crew on board Aria SF abandoned ship after a Mayday call following a failed attempt to put out the blaze. There were no reports of any injuries.
A £20million superyacht belonging to an Italian businessman worth £400million has been gutted by fire which broke out off the coast of a Spanish island
The Aria SF, owned by 61-year-old Paolo Scudieri, caught fire Thursday afternoon off the coast of Formentera, in the Mediterranean
The black smoke the fire caused could be seen as far away as the neighbouring island of Ibiza.
The owner of the superyacht, which only left the shipyard last month after being sold in 2019, has been named as Paolo Scudieri.
The 61-year-old is the chairman of car interior components producer Gruppo Addler, which was founded by his father Achille in 1956, and his net worth is said to be around £410 million.
Father-of-four Scudieri, who lives in Naples, is Monaco's Ambassador for Tourism and the founder of a group that owns 19 restaurants in Italy.
It was not immediately clear Friday morning if he was on board, although specialised yachting websites say the vessel is not currently available for charter.
A view of the yacht from the deck of a nearby firefighting boat shows how it was completely destroyed by the fire
Scudieri ordered the ship in 2019 but only took delivery of it last month, and has now seen the vessel go up in smoke
Nine passengers and seven crew were on board the ship when it caught fire, but were all rescued unharmed and taken to safety
The superyacht that went up in flames, which boasted a swimming pool, five bedrooms and a gym, was due to make its official debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival later this year.
It is thought to have been towed to Ibiza by a Coastguard vessel. An investigation into the cause of the blaze is underway.
A spokesman for the Spanish Coastguard Service, speaking after the fire was nearly out late Thursday, confirmed: 'Seven crew and nine passengers are all safe.
'They were evacuated onto a police boat. The fire is now almost out.
'Two Coastguard vessels, Salvamar Acrux and Guardamar Concepcion Arenal, were mobilised by our co-ordination centre in Palma in Majorca after the alarm was raised around 5pm yesterday/on Thursday.'
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The FBI served subpoenas to "several" Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers this week as part of the federal investigation into the pro-Trump fake elector plot, according to PennLive.
While news of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago has dominated the news cycle, the FBI this week also seized Rep. Scott Perry's, R-Pa., cellphone and delivered subpoenas or paid visits to multiple state House and Senate offices on Tuesday and Wednesday, sources told the outlet.
"While we were all occupied punditing about Mar-a-Lago, the FBI was apparently quite busy in Pennsylvania," tweeted Peter Strzok, a former senior FBI official. "Respect to the relentless pace."
The FBI is specifically seeking information related to Perry and the effort to deliver a so-called alternate slate of electors as part of former President Donald Trump's plot to steal the election.
Perry played a key role in Trump's scheme, backing his false claims of election rigging and connecting Trump with former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, who effectively tried to stage a coup at the DOJ so he could become attorney general and advance Trump's Big Lie, DOJ witnesses told the House Jan. 6 committee. The Jan. 6 panel has also turned up evidence showing that Perry was in frequent contact with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as Trump sought to overturn his loss.
Trump ultimately backed off his plan to appoint Clark to lead the DOJ after warnings of mass resignations at the department. Authorities marched Clark out of his home in pajamas in June and raided his house as part of a DOJ investigation.
Former top Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified to the Jan. 6 panel that Perry discussed Trump coming to the Capitol after his rally at the Ellipse ahead of the Capitol riot, which Perry denied. Perry, the chairman of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, was also present for the group's Dec. 21, 2020 meeting with Trump to discuss what Congress could do to block President Joe Biden's win. Former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue testified to the committee that Perry also called him on Dec. 27 to push debunked claims about discrepancies in the state's vote count.
Hutchinson testified that Perry sought a pre-emptive presidential pardon from Trump after the Jan. 6 riot, which Perry also denied.
Perry on Tuesday said he had his phone seized by the FBI at an airport while he was traveling with his family. The Washington Post reported that the phone was seized as part of the FBI's investigation into the fake elector plot.
Perry on Tuesday called the seizure "banana republic tactics."
"I'm outraged — though not surprised — that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland's DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting member of Congress," he said in a Facebook post.
But the seizure, along with the raid on Trump, would have had to be approved by a federal magistrate judge, meaning that the FBI would have had to show significant evidence that a crime likely occurred.
Perry in a statement to PennLive on Wednesday said that he was told he is not the target of the FBI's investigation.
"In a discussion with the DOJ (federal Department of Justice), my attorneys were informed that I'm not a target of its investigation," he said. "I've directed them to cooperate with the Justice Department in order to ensure that it gets the information to which it's entitled, but to protect information to which it's not - including communications that are protected under the speech and debate clause of the United States Constitution."
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Senior Pennsylvania Republicans denied any knowledge of the subpoenas issued on Tuesday and Wednesday.
"Federal subpoenas typically request confidentiality from the witnesses being subpoenaed in order to avoid impediment to the ongoing investigation, so it would be inappropriate to comment on whether members have received subpoenas or not. If subpoenaed as witnesses, our members will certainly comply with requests for documents or information not covered by an applicable privilege," Jason Thompson, a spokesman for Senate President Pro Temp Jake Corman, told PennLive. "We have no indication that any of our members are targets of any FBI investigation."
But numerous Pennsylvania Republicans played active roles in the fake elector plot, including GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. Mastriano, a state senator who has vehemently pushed Trump's election lies, was seen as the "point person" in the state's effort to deliver an "alternate" slate of electors that would ostensibly subvert the will of the state's voters, according to The New York Times. An attorney for Mastriano denied the report.
The "alternate" slate of electors included other prominent Republicans, including former Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., Allegheny County GOP Chairman Sam DeMarco, former Trump Pennsylvania campaign chair Bernie Comfort and Andy Reilly, one of the state's members on the Republican National Committee.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced earlier this year that the fake electors would not face state charges even though the fake elector scheme has come under scrutiny by other federal and local investigators.
"Though their rhetoric and policy were intentionally misleading and purposefully damaging to our democracy, based on our initial review, our office does not believe this meets the legal standards for forgery," Shapiro said in a statement in January.
Along with Perry and Clark, the FBI previously seized the phone of attorney John Eastman, who was the brains behind Trump's plot to block the certification of Biden's win. The DOJ also seized the phone of Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald and subpoenaed Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer, along with other Trump campaign allies in Georgia, Arizona and New Mexico. Nearly a dozen of Georgia's fake electors were also subpoenaed in a separate investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is probing Trump's effort to overturn his loss in the state.
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Foreign investors withdraw from Seplat after President Buhari rescinds approval on ExxonMobil deal
Seplat share slumped on Thursday at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) after President Muhammadu Buhari rescinded the approval given to the firm to complete the acquisition of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPNU).
On Monday, President Buhari had granted the request to acquire MPNU from ExxonMobil, but hours later, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), said consent can only come from the commission, as empowered by the Petroleum Industry Act.
NUPRC ordered that both Seplat and ExxonMobil maintain status quo, thereby, hindering the completion of the deal, and preventing both parties from transferring assets.
With confusion surrounding the deal, President Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on Thursday, stated that NUPRC had received backing from the President, indicating Buhari had withdrawn his approval.
Read also: Foreign investors exit Seplat, amid NNPC lawsuit blocking ExxonMobil acquisition deal
Following the revelation, foreign investors dumped Seplat shares on the London exchange floor, reflecting low confidence in the company’s growth, as the acquisition of MPNU was expected to grow the firm’s production and revenue generation.
Increased revenue could positively impact shareholders’ investment, as it enables Seplat to increase its dividends.
However, with the deal being blocked by Nigerian government eight months after Seplat announced it had reached an agreement with ExxonMobil, earnings growth would be negatively impacted.
Ripples Nigeria gathered that some foreign investors on the London Stock Exchange sold off their stake to withdraw their investment in Seplat, with the sell off resulting to the stock crashing -6.26% after trading hours, to close at GBX116 from Wednesday’s GBX123.75.
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The Karnataka High Court on Thursday, 11 August, disbanded the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in the state, calling its creation "unjustified."
A division bench comprising Justices B Veerappa and KS Hemalekha set aside an executive order from 2016, which had led to the creation of the ACB.
The court observed that its formation was unnecessary since the Prevention of Corruption Act was already included under the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984.
In its order, the high court also restored the powers of the Lokayukta police wing to probe corruption cases, and ordered the transfer of all pending cases to the Lokayukta police wing.
"In matters of prevention of corruption, generally the allegations will be against persons occupying higher positions in the government. If the ACB is given power, it will affect impartial investigation," senior advocate Ashok Haranahalli, who was representing one of the petitioners, was quoted as saying by The News Minute.
The court was hearing a group of 15 pleas filed by Chidananda Urs and Advocates Association of Bangalore among others, which had questioned the powers of the ACB.
"We've seen Karnataka HC's judgment on abolishing Anti-Corruption Bureau. We will discuss our next step in the Cabinet meeting keeping our (2018 Assembly election) manifesto in mind," Bommai said, as per ANI.
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How to combine sneakers with great dresses, according to Victoria Federica and other celebs
It’s been a while since the sneakers They have won the pulse at heels. Both in summer -with skirts, long or short, and all kinds of dresses, from fluid or boho chic to those with a lady cut or mini dresses that define the silhouette- and in autumn in the fanciest tailored suits and palazzo pants, sports have occupied a space previously reserved almost exclusively for stilettos.
And they have even graced the red carpet. Since Blanca Surez a billie eilish either Millie Bobby Brown, many actresses and stars from the world of music have claimed the role of sneakers in big events; even Caroline of Monaco pos in a photocall with them, taking advantage of a problem in one of their feet. “The classic shoe has lost its role of being the only way to dress well,” says Pedro Mir Bernal, Marketing professor at ISEM and fashion brand consultant,who assures that sneakers are now also elegant.
There are many models and marks that at the moment are stomping the street as a complement to all kinds of looks and in any situation, from the most classic sneakers, including the Jordan de Nikethe reebok more vintage or the Converse, to the new arrivals that soon became a must. In this chapter, the Veja sneakers, the great desires of many celebs and also of the royals; are the favorites, for example, of Kate Middleton, Meghan MarkleEmma Watson Y Kate Holmes.
Combine them with dresses it’s easier than it may seem, even with haute couture, as has recently been done Victoria Federica in the Balearic Islands, where she has worn the daring totally transparent dress several times with sneakers that went viral on networks. For inspiration, check out these other great celebrity sneaker looks. | https://codelist.biz/2022/08/12/how-to-combine-sneakers-with-great-dresses-according-to-victoria-federica-and-other-celebs/ | 2022-08-12T09:57:53Z | https://codelist.biz/2022/08/12/how-to-combine-sneakers-with-great-dresses-according-to-victoria-federica-and-other-celebs/ | true | 1 |
What are Megan Fox and her boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly doing in Colombia
Undoubtedly Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are one of the most recognized couples and followed by the press around the world. The American actress and model was seen with the singer at the El Dorado airport, which caused many concerns among the people who managed to see them together in the Colombian capital. What were they doing in the country?
A user on TikTok posted a video of the American actress with her partner lining up to leave the country at the airport. The video quickly went viral on social media and many users could not believe that the couple and the Machine Gun Kelly task force were waiting to be served while lining up.
It is important to point out that the actress from films such as ‘Transformers’, ‘The Dictator’, ‘The Ninja Turtles’, ‘Midnight in the Switchgrass’, among others, is engaged to the singer of ‘Maybe’. Bloody Valentine’, ‘Rap Devil’, ‘Willow’, ‘Bad Things’, among others. According to some people close to the couple, their wedding would have a gothic atmosphere and they hope to have an extravagant ceremony.
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The reason why the renowned actress was in the country was because Machine Gun Kelly was one of the artists who was present at the 2022 Stereo Picnic Festival and performed last Sunday, March 27, on the last day of the musical event that took place. carried out for three days on the outskirts of the Colombian capital. That same day he showed up The Strokes, ASAP Rocky, Doja Cat, Wos, Nina Kraviz, LP and Dj Harvey.
The actress was also present at the presentations made by the American singer at the music festival Lollapalooza in Argentina and Chile. Despite the fact that not many images of the couple have been known at El Dorado airport with their fans since they managed a low profile while trying to leave the country. This generated all kinds of comments from people on social networks who were surprised by the humility of the actress and the singer.
The couple, who recently got engaged after two years of dating, used their social networks to spread the news with their followers. Megan Fox, for her part, published a video in which she stated that, “Yes, in this life and in all life. Beneath the same branches we fell in love under, I brought her back to ask her to marry me. I know tradition is one ring, but I designed it with Stephen Webster to be two: the emerald (his birthstone) and the diamond (my birthstone) set in two magnetic bands of thorns that come together like two halves of the same soul forming the dark heart that is our love. 1-11-2022″,
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In this publication, the singer Avril Lavigne commented: “You two are truly ‘the perfect couple’. Congratulations on your engagement.” Later the American actress added that, “in July 2020 we sat under this banyan tree. We ask for magic. We were oblivious to the pain we would face together in such a short and hectic period of time. Unaware of the work and sacrifices the relationship would require of us, but intoxicated by love. And karma.”
And then he claimed: “somehow, a year and a half later, after walking through hell together, and laughing more than I ever imagined possible, he asked me to marry him. And just like in every life before this one, and as in every life that will follow, i said yes… and then we drank each other’s blood”.
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FBI agents were looking for secret documents about nuclear weapons among other classified material when they searched Donald Trump’s home on Monday, it has been reported.
The Washington Post cited people familiar with the investigation as saying nuclear weapons documents were thought to be in the trove the FBI was hunting in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. They did not specify what kind of documents or whether they referred to the US arsenal or another country’s.
The report came hours after the attorney general, Merrick Garland, said he had personally authorised the government request for a search warrant and revealed that the justice department had asked a Florida court for the warrant to be unsealed, noting that Trump himself had made the search public.
The justice department motion referred to “the public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred in its contents”.
What has Trump said about unsealing the search warrant? He said he would not oppose but rather was “encouraging the immediate release of those documents” related to what he called the “unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in … Release the documents now!” Trump has until 3pm ET to officially respond.
Is it likely that Trump did take classified nuclear weapons documents with him when he left the White House? This is not known but Trump was particularly fixated on the US nuclear arsenal while he was in the White House, and boasted about being privy to highly secret information.
Al Gore hails Biden’s historic climate bill as ‘a critical turning point’
America’s passing of its first ever climate legislation will prove a pivotal moment in history that will help bring to an end the era of fossil fuels, according to Al Gore, the former US vice-president.
Joe Biden is poised to sign a huge $370bn package of clean energy spending, overcoming decades of American political rancor and inaction on the climate crisis. Gore said he was now sure the fossil fuel industry and its political backers will not be able to reverse the shift to a decarbonized world, even if Republicans are able to wrest back control of Congress or the White House.
“In crossing this threshold we have changed history and will never go backwards,” Gore told the Guardian in an interview. “I’m extremely optimistic that this will be a critical turning point in our struggle to confront the climate crisis.”
While the oil and gas industry is currently making enormous profits off the back of soaring fuel prices spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Gore insisted this was “momentary compared to the big wheel that is now turning” on renewable energy.
Will the legislation pass? The legislation narrowly passed the US Senate on Sunday and is expected to ease through the House of Representatives, controlled by Democrats, today before being signed by Biden.
Anne Heche ‘not expected to survive’ car crash, actor’s family says
The family of Anne Heche say the US actor is “not expected to survive” a severe collision that left her vehicle engulfed in flames last Friday.
In a statement, Heche’s family said through a representative that she had suffered “a severe anoxic brain injury” and was now being kept on life support to determine whether her organs were viable for donation. The family said it had “long been her choice” to donate her organs.
“We want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers for Anne’s recovery and thank the dedicated staff and wonderful nurses that cared for Anne at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital,” the statement read.
“Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition. She is not expected to survive.”
Heche, 53, is known for her work on films including the remake of Psycho, Donnie Brasco and Cedar Rapids.
What happened to her? Heche crashed her car into a house in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles, near her own home, at speed on Friday. The collision caused a fire that took an hour to extinguish, according to reports.
In other news …
A Louisiana five-year-old was allegedly forced out of her kindergarten class at a religious school because her parents are a same-sex couple. Emily and Jennie Parker were told their same-sex relationship did not follow the teachings of the school and that they would need to find a new school for their daughter, Zoey.
Top career officials at the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) office of the inspector general (OIG) tried to alert Congress in April that Secret Service texts from the time of the January 6 Capitol attack had been erased, but their efforts were nixed by its leadership, documents show.
Palaeontologists have announced the discovery of a previously unknown small armoured dinosaur in southern Argentina, a creature that probably walked upright on its back legs roaming a then steamy landscape about 100m years ago. The Cretaceous period dinosaur has been named Jakapil kaniukura.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog has called for officials to visit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant as soon as possible amid renewed shelling in the area and warnings of the “catastrophic consequences” of continued fighting near Europe’s largest atomic plant.
A handwritten letter has come to light casting doubt on the critical testimony of a self-confessed murderer who provided the only implicating evidence at the trial of Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma who is to be executed in six weeks’ time.
Stat of the day: Nearly 8,000 Canadians were dying early each year from outdoor air pollution, study finds
A study in one of the cleanest countries in the world could help governments think about future ways to manage air pollution. Census records for more than 7 million Canadians from between 1981 and 2016 were combined with air pollution data to find out if small amounts of particle pollution were still harmful. Despite the relatively clean air, the study found that nearly 8,000 Canadians were dying early each year from outdoor air pollution. Notably, even people in the cleanest areas were experiencing an impact on their health.
Don’t miss this: Scientists look at why mental exertion triggers exhaustion
It’s a familiar feeling on a Friday evening. After finishing a gruelling day’s work, you finally agree with friends on where to meet for a night out. But by the time you have figured out what to wear and where you left your keys, a night on the sofa begins to sound more appealing than one on the tiles. Now, scientists think they may be able to explain why you feel so weary before you have even reached the bus stop: your brain has slowed down to manage the strain. The brain could suffer from something similar to the painful buildup of lactate in muscles during physical exercise.
… or this: I speak more than 50 languages
“At sixth-form college, I completed Spanish GCSE, then A-level. From there, it became a way of life,” Richard Simcott says. “I did a combined languages degree, studying French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. I sat in on Swedish and Old Icelandic lectures, and did language exchanges for Romanian and Catalan. I went to Lyon, playing darts with the French gas and electricity trainees, then to Málaga. I’ve been described as one of the UK’s most multilingual people, which is very sweet. I’ve studied more than 50 languages now. I generally use 15 weekly and more than 30 in a year.”
Climate check: An anxious American west sizes up historic climate bill
The passage of the historic US climate legislation this weekend sparked renewed hope in environmental circles and even tears of joy in Congress. Many who have spent decades on the frontlines feel that, despite its imperfections, the landmark federal funding opens up new frontiers on which to fight in a rapidly changing world. The call to arms rings especially true in the American west, where the devastating effects of the climate crisis – from drought to wildfires to heatwaves – are already hitting home. And there’s little time to waste.
Last Thing: Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle
An Indian lawyer has won a 22-year legal battle with Indian Railways for overcharging him by 20 rupees (25c). When Tungnath Chaturvedi, 66, bought a ticket at Mathura station in 1999 to go to Moradabad, he was charged 90 rupees instead of 70. He complained but did not receive a refund. After 100 hearings, the court ruled last week in his favour, ordering the railways to pay a fine, as well as the outstanding amount plus 12% interest. The ruling was sweet vindication for Chaturvedi. “It’s not the money that matters,” he told the BBC. “This was always about a fight for justice and a fight against corruption, so it was worth it.”
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Sensex rises 138 points; Reliance Industries, Tata Steel surge
The Indian stock market's benchmark Sensex was trading 138 points higher in the afternoon session on Friday led by strong buying support in the index heavyweight Reliance Industries Limited, and power and metal stocks.
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The Indian stock market's benchmark Sensex was trading 138 points higher in the afternoon session on Friday led by strong buying support in the index heavyweight Reliance Industries Limited, and power and metal stocks. The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex was trading at 59,470.89 points at 2.12 pm, which is 138.29 points or 0.23 per cent higher than its previous day's close at 59,332.60 points.
The markets witnessed volatile trading. The Sensex started the day in the red at 59,235.98 points and slumped to a low of 59,113.01 points in the morning session. The index witnessed good buying support in the afternoon session rising to a high of 59,538.08 points. The Sensex had gained 515.31 points or 0.88 per cent on Thursday.
The broader Nifty 50 of the National Stock Exchange was trading 49.75 points or 0.28 per cent higher at 17,708.75 points against its previous day's close at 17,659.00 points. The Nifty had gained 124.25 points or 0.71 per cent on Thursday.
The index heavyweight Reliance Industries Limited surged 1.85 per cent to Rs 2638. Tata Steel soared 3.07 per cent to Rs 112.45. NTPC surged 3.09 per cent to Rs 158.30. Power Grid Corporation rose 1.95 per cent to Rs 227.15. State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, ITC, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, IndusInd Bank and Asian Paints were among the major Sensex gainers.
Maruti Suzuki slipped 1.56 per cent to Rs 8680. L&T fell 1.20 per cent to Rs 1844.90. IT stocks witnessed selling pressure. Infosys fell 1.38 per cent to Rs 1597.35. Tata Consultancy Services was trading 0.86 per cent down at Rs 3392.95. HCL Technologies was trading 0.73 per cent lower at Rs 955. (ANI)
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When British creative director Small Paul found himself locked down in Shanghai, his artistic instincts needed an outlet. Under his artist nom de plume – nom de camera? – XiaoBaoLuo, he set about recreating classic works with only what he had lying about in his apartment.
Let's face it, it was our duty to catch up with him to find out more...
How did you first conceive of the lockdown series?
It started as an idea for a round in a lockdown quiz, I thought I’d recreate paintings and see if people could guess them. I also posted them in a group and they got a pretty good reaction.
So, then I decided to make a series which included a mask in every image. I was going to do 10, then 12, but had too many ideas so I settled on 22 for 2022.
Talk us through the process of creating an image?
Each image is quite quick once I get the idea, but I set myself a few rules as a challenge:
1: Everything must be captured in a single photo, using only the timer – because I didn’t have anyone else to help press the shutter.
2: Shot on my phone (although now I wish I had used a better camera, and a longer timer).
3: Must use stuff I have at home (due to lockdown).
4: The biggest one – NOT to use Photoshop to comp things together or manipulate the image because so much stuff is cheated or faked these days. Some friends suggested using PS, but I was adamant that I wanted to keep it pure.
For example, I could very easily have made myself smaller for the most recent Keith Haring one and comped it into the background the right size, but I think seeing me struggle to fit on the yoga mat is all part of the fun of it.
I will admit I do use PS a little bit, but only to adjust the color and contrast bit closer to the originals. I see this as the same as traditional processing, developing and printing of the image in photography.
In terms of shooting, the hardest part is finding the best spot in the house with the right background / lighting to recreate the image. I realized that the best time of day for me to shoot is in the morning when I get the most natural light through my windows.
This project made me realize what geniuses the Old Masters like Vermeer were at capturing natural light, centuries before photography or electric lighting.
Once I have found the right spot, setting up is quick because I have already planned the props / costume. The first thing after finding the right angle of the lighting is getting the height of the camera right.
Then the posture; the problem with using a timer is that you can’t see yourself posing and you must move out of position to go start the timer again. Plus, you only get 10 seconds to get back in pose, (you can use your watch but then you only have 3 seconds to hide the watch and pose).
When I was doing The Bather I had to run past the window wearing a towel, then drop the towel and get in position, all in under 10 seconds – not sure what the neighbors thought.
Once I’m shooting it usually takes 20-30 shots to get it to a level I’m satisfied with. The last part is coming up with a name. I’m trying to keep a nod to the original in all the names.
How long does each image take to set up / take?
Some are quicker than others; setting up is usually less than 10 minutes, now that I have cleared space in my spare room. Then I’d say probably another 20 minutes jumping up and down to press the timer.
As I said, there is no comping done to the pictures, only color adjustment, so very little time is needed at that stage.
How do you pick which paintings to replicate?
I want them to be funny. That’s the most important part. Some just come to me when I see something in the house that’s sparks an idea (e.g. the red rug on the Miro).
Others, the idea came first and I tried to figure out if it was possible, like the Hirst sheep in the storage boxes or the Cattelan banana one, made out of sofa throws and blankets.
How do you find the props to use?
Everything, so far, is something I found in the house. Yes, I have a lot of random junk!
The Koons gold suit was an old costume from a company dinner.
I also used food like lettuce, bungee cords, a stuffed cat etc.
The crown for the Queen's Jubilee portrait was particularly hard to create; I ended up using belts, clips, Nespresso pods and a guitar strap.
Which is your favorite re-creation so far and why?
Personally, I like the more abstract and ridiculous ones, like the Cattelan Banana, the Miro or the Hirst Sheep.
The most popular ones with my followers seem to be the more classical style images; I guess because with the natural light and detail they technically look better and closer to the original paintings.
Have you tried to do any that just didn’t work out?
I kind of visualize them in my head before I get as far as setting them up. So, unless I have a clear plan, I don’t start setting up. I’ve had a few requests that I haven’t worked out yet (like Munch’s Scream).
Some are harder than others to get the posture right. For example, the Picasso guitarist is physically impossible.
For the Keith Haring, the yoga mats were too small to pose totally accurately. And the banana was hard to get the blanket back in place with my arms inside. But that’s all part of the fun.
Any more similar series lined up?
I am doing 22 for the 2022 Lockdown. I have one left to shoot*. I also did two topical ‘special edition’ one offs; one for the Queen’s Jubilee weekend and one spontaneous one when someone threw a cake on the Mona Lisa a couple of weeks ago.
I’m contemplating Season 2, doing only requests, but that may mean having to buy some props. I have also shot videos for a lot of them but haven’t had time to edit and post on DouYin yet.
I'm also hoping I can find somewhere to print them up and exhibit them properly. Feel free to contact me on WeChat if you are interested in helping make that happen, or would like to purchase any of the images...
*UPDATE: The series is now complete, and the final offering is a work of genius – and by genius, we are referring to Michelangelo and XiaoBaoLuo...
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Missfresh Limited (NASDAQ: MF).
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Marine biologist Ellie was drawn to her chosen field because she loves to learn - and knows there's always something new to discover about the ocean.
After nearly seven years at Sea Life, Manchester, including six on the animal care team, Ellie has found "no two days are the same", and still loves her work.
In this time, she's helped arrange a wedding for a pair of loved-up turtles, served up countless lunches for hungry sharks, and gotten to know and love the many, varied marine animals in her care.
I went behind the scenes with Ellie to find out more about what her day-to-day life looks like, and was very surprised to learn just how much food turtles actually chomp through in a day.
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Speaking with the Mirror, Ellie revealed: "There are things we do every day. So, for example, feeding the animals. Not everyone will get fed every day, but there are some animals, like seahorses, that get fed four times a day, for example."
According to Ellie, seahorses have tiny stomachs and so have to "eat constantly", unlike the aquarium's basking sharks who will only eat about once a week, despite their "eating machine" reputation.
I was asked to measure out one kilo worth of food each for resident green turtles, Ernie and Cammy, who are fond of leafy lettuce, seafood, and cauliflower. In the wild, they would feast on jellyfish for moisture, but here get a similar effect from a refreshing cucumber snack.
Giving some idea of exactly how much food the aquarium gets through in one day, Ellie added: "We on average go through around three kilos of veg a day, which doesn't seem a lot, but when it's out and chopped up, it is a lot.
"On an average day, we can go through over seven kilos of fish and krill and stuff like that. We're quite a small aquarium, so bigger aquariums will go through a lot more, like double what we do."
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I found the deck to be quite a soothing place, although I was a bit afraid of tumbling in and becoming part of the sharks' meal. Turns out, my fears were overblown on this front.
Explaining how aquarists stay safe while working with sharks, Ellie said: "Sharks obviously have a bit of a bad reputation. Most shark species are actually very shy.
"Our sharks, for example, they're only young, but also they are obviously terrified of us. So we make sure we give them as much space as they need and they come absolutely nowhere near us."
As a non-professional, I wasn't allowed to feed the stingrays, which Ellie did while wearing a pair of protective gloves.
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The pair tied the knot in a turtle ceremony complete with a broccoli cake, and it's clear Cammy wears the pants in the relationship, apparently even biting Ernie's tail as a show of dominance.
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Reflecting on her favourite part of the job, Ellie said: "I enjoy getting to know the animals, that's really nice, especially when you're training them, and they learn something."
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Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha flagged off the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' rally at the Dal Lake here on Friday.
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He said the rally commenced with the police pipe band playing the national anthem, adding, that the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign under the aegis of 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav' is witnessing huge participation from the people.
''Tiranga Utsav is a celebration of ideals and aspirations of the country,'' LG Sinha said. I appeal to everyone to join this campaign by hoisting the national flag atop their houses from August 13th to 15th, he added.
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HONG KONG, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining Limited" or the "Company"), a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, today announced that it plans to release its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, before the U.S. market open on Friday, August 19, 2022.
About BIT Mining Limited
BIT Mining (NYSE: BTCM) is a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, with a long-term strategy to create value across the cryptocurrency industry. Its business covers cryptocurrency mining, mining pool, data center operation and miner manufacturing. The Company owns the world's top blockchain browser BTC.com and the comprehensive mining pool business operated under BTC.com, providing multi-currency mining services including BTC, ETH and LTC. The Company also owns a 7-nanometer cryptocurrency mining machine manufacturer, Bee Computing, furnishing its self-efficiency with vertical integration with its supply chain.
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This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "target," "going forward," "outlook" and similar statements. Such statements are based upon management's current expectations and current market and operating conditions and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control, which may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause BIT Mining's actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others: the formation of the JV, the joint development and operation of the Ohio Mining Site, and the execution and anticipated benefits of BIT Mining's growth strategy, including the transactions contemplated under the Agreements. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under law.
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CHIPPEWA LAKE, Ohio — This picturesque Medina County organic farm is thriving.
Sunflowers over ten-feet-tall reach for the sun in the middle of the 20 x 30 foot plot next to the Soja home.
"It's just my garden," says Janelle Soja, the farmer behind the garden. Her green thumb is growing more than corn, heirloom tomatoes, and kale. Now she's looking to cultivate a different kind of green, as in $50,000.
Janelle is a finalist in the Johnny Appleseed Organic Invitational. The other two contestants are from Arkansas and New Mexico. Janelle has been gardening since she was a little girl. "It's been an entire growing season and I've been babying some things," she tells us.
Categories in the organic-only contest include: Best grown-from scratch decorative arrangement, heaviest squash, heaviest sweet potato, hottest pepper and heaviest tomato.
Did you know that ducks like tomatoes? Soja lowered a small fence to do some weeding and her Muscovy ducks took full advantage. Then, chaos ensued. Janelle managed to shoo the ducks away, but not before they went to town on one of her tomatoes, tearing it apart and devouring its red-orange flesh.
Thankfully, it wasn't the one-and-a-half pounder still on the stem she's hoping to weigh in for the contest. We're not sure the ducks would try that with the garden's ghost peppers. Even the leaves have a kick according to Soja. "I went inside and I rubbed my nose and it started burning," she says.
Next to the deep green bushes of ghost peppers lurks something even more sinister. "Death Spiral peppers. They name it that because that's what they do to your insides," Janelle says as she bursts into laughter, but we're not sure why.
For Janelle, organic gardening means more than what she may win in the contest. The hard work of preparing the garden using no-till methods, nurturing the seeds as they sprout, and caring for the multiple varieties of vegetables and flowers throughout the growing season until harvest gives her a huge sense of accomplishment.
"It's been a family thing, a lifelong thing for me. I'm kind of lucky, I think I got all my mistakes, I cut my teeth on gardening," she explains.
Winning the cash would be great, but Janelle gets the most reward providing home-grown vegetables for her family, and that just can't be beat. The contests ends at the end of September and you can follow her progress on her public Facebook page.
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The ambitious plan to build a $5 billion Rivian electric vehicle plant became a surprising flashpoint in the Republican primary for governor earlier this year. Now one of the largest economic development projects in state history has become a dividing line in the general election, too.
It started on Monday when Democrat Stacey Abrams delivered an economic speech that included a veiled dig at the huge incentive package that Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration leveraged to entice the automaker, which is losing money as it struggles with manufacturing issues.
“Now while the governor is comfortable promising billions to companies that have yet to turn a profit,” Abrams said, “he refuses to invest in our young people.”
Kemp fired back at a campaign event on Thursday at the state Capitol where he accused Abrams of hypocrisy. She celebrated the plant when it was announced in December and, Kemp said, supported state legislation that authorized incentives for large projects.
“In politics, you can’t have it both ways,” Kemp said. “You’ve got to stand up for what you believe in.”
Kemp’s administration offered a $1.5 billion package of state and local tax breaks, free land and other inducements to help score a Rivian project that promises to create 7,500 high-paying manufacturing jobs and establish the state as an EV hub.
By far the biggest piece of the package involves a local tax abatement worth more than $700 million that was approved by county officials.
Other generous perks were spelled out in Georgia law, including about $200 million from a recently-altered “mega tax credit” program that offers incentives at $5,250 per job annually for five years for companies readying major investments in Georgia.
If Rivian fails to deliver on at least 80% of its promised jobs and investment by the end of 2028, the company is subject to claw back provisions on a portion of the incentive package. The state says Rivian must maintain its 80% commitment through 2047.
“They haven’t gotten that money yet,” Kemp said Thursday of the job tax credits, “and they’re not going to get that money until they build that plant and hire that worker.”
Fallout over the deal unexpectedly factored into the Republican primary. Former U.S. Sen. David Perdue framed the public incentives as a naked election-year ploy conducted in the “dark of night” to help Kemp’s political career and said he would have nixed the project.
Kemp and his allies maintained what politicians usually say after landing a major project: That incentives just sweetened a deal that hinged on other factors, including Georgia’s talented workforce, logistics network and economic environment.
Perdue’s argument didn’t rev up many votes for him. Kemp routed his GOP rival in the counties surrounding the east Georgia tract where the Rivian plant would be built in the May primary. Still, many local residents remain worried the factory will dramatically change their rural community.
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Cox Enterprises, owner of the AJC, owns about a 4% stake in Rivian and supplies services to it. Sandy Schwartz, a Cox executive who oversees the AJC, is on Rivian’s board of directors and holds stock personally. He does not take part in the AJC’s coverage of Rivian.
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Every year on the auspicious occasion of Raksha Bandhan, sisters tie a Rakhi on their brother's wrist that symbolises the bond they share. Raksha Bandhan becomes more enjoyable with lovely rakhis, sweets, and puja and the Hindu festival is incomplete without religious rituals. During Raksha Bandhan, prayers are offered to god and then sisters pray for the well-being of their brothers while chanting the Raksha Mantra.
According to Hindu Panchang, Rakhi Bandhan is on August 11. However, as per different Hindu beliefs, it can also be celebrated on two dates: August 11 and 12. It is celebrated on the full moon day of Shukla Paksha of Shravan month which is also known as Shravan Poornima. The full moon date of Shukla paksha will begin at 10.38 am on August 11 and it will last till 7.05 am on August 12.
As per the Hindu Panchang, on 11th August, from 11.37 am to 12 noon there is Abhijit Muhurta and between 02.14 pm and 3 pm, there will be Vijaya muhurta. During this time, people can tie the rakhi. Moreover, Shubh Muhurat for Rakhi is between 08:51 pm to 09:12 pm on Thursday, August 11.
Meanwhile, astrologers say that since August 12 will also be Purnima Tithi, Rakhi can be tied at any time on that day. On August 11, anyone who wishes to tie a rakhi can do so, but after Bhadra time. Tying the Rakhi, giving gifts, and performing aarti, are just a few of the customs that accompany Raksha Bandhan. This is the time of year when families get closer and bonds are made stronger.
Apart from the best time to celebrate the auspicious occasion, there is also a time to avoid. Time of Bhadra must be avoided to tie the auspicious Rakhis on the wrist of the brothers on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan as it is considered a malignant time that must be avoided to conduct any auspicious or holy work. Bhadra prevails in the first half of the Purnima day and therefore, people should wait for it to get over before indulging in Rakhi celebrations. | https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/others/raksha-bandhan-2022-date-and-shubh-muhurat-timings-for-festivities-on-auspicious-occasion-articleshow.html | 2022-08-12T10:22:23Z | https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/others/raksha-bandhan-2022-date-and-shubh-muhurat-timings-for-festivities-on-auspicious-occasion-articleshow.html | false | 1 |
Two more Baltic states reduce China ties
Latvia and Estonia have followed in the footsteps of fellow Baltic nation Lithuania and announced their withdrawal from a cooperation group between China and countries in eastern and central Europe.
Known as the 16+1 format, it has been around since 2012 and promised to promote joint infrastructure and development projects between Beijing and a number of European states.
Lithuania left the group last year as its relations with China worsened after Vilnius allowed Taiwan to open a de facto embassy on its territory. Beijing, which views the self-governed island as part of China, retaliated by withdrawing its ambassador from Lithuania and slapping trade restrictions on the country.
Now, Latvia and Estonia have announced that they are also ending cooperation with Beijing by issuing almost identically-worded statements.
Riga said the decision was made “in view of the current priorities of Latvian foreign and trade policy.” Tallinn didn’t provide any reasoning at all, but stressed that Estonia hadn’t attended any of the meetings of the format since a summit last February.
The withdrawal comes amid a spike in tensions over Taiwan provoked by the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this month.
Both countries have promised to “continue to work towards constructive and pragmatic relations with China, which includes advancing EU-China relations in line with the rules-based international order and values such as human rights.”
“We respect and support Estonia and Latvia’s sovereign decision to no longer participate in the 16+1 initiative,” US Department of State spokesman Vedant Patel said, adding that the move was a result of deep concern about China’s strategic alignment with Russia.
According to Patel, strengthening ties with partners in Europe was a “pillar of this [US] administration’s approach” to Beijing.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis also welcomed the decision by his country’s neighbors, insisting that the group had been “already redundant and divisive long before Lithuania quit.” Landsbergis suggested a new format for cooperation with Beijing, which, according to him, should be “EU27+1”.
Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are among the countries that still remain in the original framework, which has now been reduced to 14+1. | https://www.rt.com/news/560685-latvia-estonia-china-us/ | 2022-08-12T10:25:15Z | https://www.rt.com/news/560685-latvia-estonia-china-us/ | true | 1 |
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