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Stroke Foundation's annual National Stroke Week has once again been embraced by communities across the country, meaning so many more Australians will now know what stroke often looks like, and what to do when it happens.
Stroke Week, which ran from August 8 to 14 this year, always has a pertinent theme.
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This year we drew a link between being able to celebrate "Precious Moments" after a stroke and learning the universal stroke message F.A.S.T.
Acting F.A.S.T means you have more chance of survival and a good recovery - it means you'll be here to enjoy those precious moments with family and friends.
That clever acronym is the easiest way to remember what stroke most often looks like, a drooping Face, inability to lift your Arms, and slurred Speech.
The T is time - time to get cracking and make that triple zero call for an ambulance.
Stroke is always a medical emergency, there is never time to waste. Every minute during a stroke results in 1.9 million brain cells dying, and we just cannot turn that time back.
Treatment can, however, mean a full recovery, or at least, a significant reduction in the degree of disability.
This Stroke Week we saw numerous Australian landmarks light up in our blue and green colours to support our messages.
From Ballarat to Albury, Coffs Harbour to Perth, Melbourne to Brisbane, we were so thrilled to see our colours shining from towers, civic buildings, bridges and even the Big Banana.
We hope that got people asking why, and then taking the important next step to learn that stroke can impact anyone at any time, hence knowing the F.A.S.T message is critical.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped us share our information this Stroke Week.
From our amazing team of volunteers, our fierce community advocates, the stroke clinicians who work tirelessly in their research, treatment, and care, the media who tell our survivor's stories so respectfully, and the community leaders who support us with funding to ensure we can continue to do our important work.
Your generosity, time and dedication has a genuine impact and is very much appreciated. Thank you.
Sharon McGowan, Chief Executive Officer, Stroke Foundation
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Hello and welcome to today's Arsenal live blog on Tuesday!
The Gunners are set for another big week, having already impressed in the early stages of the season. Mikel Arteta's side have managed two wins from their opening two games - making them one of only two sides to have a 100% win rate in the early stages of the campaign.
Next up is a clash with newly promoted Bournemouth, with the hopes of extending that run even further. Should they wish to have new signings available for the game, they would have to registered by midday on Friday.
Speaking of which, plenty of players continue to be linked with a move to the Emirates Stadium over the remainder of the transfer window. With that said, keep the blog locked as we bring you through the latest from the red side of north London.
Caicedo talks
Arsenal are set to hold talks with Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo this summer, according to reports.
Tielemans decision
Arsenal appear to have made a decision over the signing of Youri Tielemans this summer, according to reports.
The Belgian midfielder has been heavily linked with a move to the Emirates and has just one-year remaining on his contract.
Good morning!
Hello and welcome to today's Arsenal live blog. Here's a look at the biggest stories ahead of the day. | https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/arsenal-news-transfers-live-deal-24765783 | 2022-08-16T07:20:09Z | https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/transfer-news/arsenal-news-transfers-live-deal-24765783 | true | 1 |
2022-2027 and Regional Benzocaine Industry Status and Prospects Professional Market Research Report Standard Version
The global Benzocaine market was valued at 122.19 Million USD in 2021 and will grow with a CAGR of 2.06% from 2021 to 2027, based on Research newly published report.
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Benzocaine is a Standardized Chemical Allergen. The physiologic effect of benzocaine is by means of Increased Histamine Release, and Cell-mediated Immunity. The chemical classification of benzocaine is Allergens.The global largest market is China. The market will reached a consumption volume of approximately 501.40 Ton in 2015, and the consumption volume share is 38.76%, and the secondary market is North America, it will reached a revenue consumption volume of 332.26 Ton in 2015, and the consumption volume share is 25.72%.
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Grassley Exposes FBI Double Standards with Trump Raid - Demands Immediate Transparency
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto on Saturday. During the interview, Cavuto asked the ranking GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for his thoughts regarding the release of the search warrant and the affidavit of probable cause that led to the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago.
The warrant was released with Trump’s agreement on Friday, but the affidavit has not been released.
Cavuto asked his guest if the affidavit should be released.
“Absolutely. [Attorney General Merrick] Garland goes on television because he wants to be transparent. Full transparency is going to be when they release the affidavit. And this is such a high profile and very strange way of going about getting documents from a former president that the affidavit is going to be absolutely necessary if we’re going to have full transparency. And this demands full transparency because without transparency government is not accountable. The public’s business must always be public,” Grassley told Cavuto.
Cavuto noted several past instances and investigations, particularly against Trump, where judges were provided false information to justify a search, and asked Grassley if this was another reason the American people should see the FBI’s affidavit.
“Carter Page’s FISA, the Steele dossier, how they handled the Clinton investigation and how they — there was no prosecution there and there was mishandling of classified information just like the same charge against President Trump,” Grassley intoned.
He went on to draw clear the clear disparities between how investigations targeting Trump versus those targeting Hillary Clinton and other Democrat figures and actions have been conducted, describing the evident contrast.
“So just figure: the double standard that we have within the FBI over a long period of time. Not just under Christopher Wray. And I have had enough investigation that has been recently reported by you folks, that there is political bias within the FBI, and I think it’s legitimate to raise the question about possible political bias between the way they handled the Clinton investigation, Carter Page, Steele dossier and the way President Trump has been treated. Particularly, when he has said continuously ‘If you want any more just come get it,” Grassley said.
The Fox News host, went on to play a statement from Attorney General Merrick Garland pointing out his description of the steps leading up to the raid and his personal authorization of it. Cavuto then asked Grassley about Garland’s glaring omission: the investigation’s probable cause.
Grassley responded: “Well, you’ve got President Trump saying that, ‘Just come and get it.’ I think he said that back in June when they previously had taken some boxes from the home there. But I think more importantly is the double standard.”
He continued, “He says ‘less intrusive’ they surely used the less intrusive when they were investigating Hillary Clinton. And look at the raid on the president’s home, it’s entirely a different thing. And it doesn’t look to me like they went very far in using quote, unquote the ‘less intrusive method.'”
Noting carefully the unprecedented nature of an administration prosecuting a former, present and future political rival and the terrible optics the DOJ has created, Cavuto asked Grassley’s thoughts on those optics.
“It looks very political. And I think I’ve talked already in this program over the last two months about political bias. We have evidence coming from whistleblowers within the Department of Justice about political bias, about Hunter Biden’s investigation being stopped and Trump’s investigation getting the go-ahead from a guy, a special agent that had political bias. We know it from his social media statements.”
Grassley concluded with Cavuto by questioning harshly the credibility of the “nuclear documents” narrative and pointing out that if the FBI were convinced Trump possessed such sensitive materials they likely would not have waited three days to conduct the search after the warrant was issued on Friday.
HAPPENING NOW: Trump supporters line street to Mar-A-Lago following FBI raid which took place at the property on Monday.
Supporters have been here all week since. pic.twitter.com/A0Y71do9ox
— Jayne Zirkle (@JayneZirkle) August 13, 2022
Trump supporters and left-leaning users alike have been tweeting #ReleaseTheAffidavit for several days since the Monday raid. The former president’s supporters have also been demonstrating outside of Mar-a-Lago since news of the raid broke.
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – The missing Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) returning officer for Embakasi East constituency has been found dead.
Daniel Mbolu Musyoka was found in a river near Kilombero, Loitoktok by a group of herders who reported the situation to police officers.
The body of the 53 year old was identified by his sisters Mary Mwikali and Ann Mboya at a local morgue in Loitokitok sub mortuary.
“The body of the deceased vide my earlier OB no 20/15/08/2022 has been identified as of one Daniel Mbolu Musyoka by his sisters namely Mary Mwikali and Ann Mboya at Loitokitok sub –county,” the police report read.
Musyoka went missing on August 11 at East Africa Aviation tallying centre after he reportedly excused himself to make a private call at around 9:45am.
Former IEBC commissioner Roselyn Akombe expressed her sadness on the incident and called for speedy investigations on the incident.
“Devastated that the missing RO has been found murdered in a forest. I remember Mbolu as a diligent officer who dedicated his life to public service,” she stated on her twitter handle.
“I send my deepest condolences to his family, friends & colleagues. A public inquest into his death is urgent,” said Akombe on twitter.
Akombe who fled to New York and resigned in the run-up to the 2017 Presidential Repeat election, said she was aware of the struggles her former staff and colleagues were facing during the tallying of presidential elections. | https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2022/08/missing-iebc-returning-officer-found-dead-in-loitoktok/ | 2022-08-16T07:25:20Z | https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2022/08/missing-iebc-returning-officer-found-dead-in-loitoktok/ | true | 2 |
Cricket: Ellyse Perry stars in The Hundred as she re-signs with the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL
Ellyse Perry has laid down a marker for reinclusion in the all-conquering Australian T20 team with two stunning performances in England that proved “class is permanent”.
While the veteran superstar was in the Australian squad at the Commonwealth Games, she didn’t crack it for a game in the gold medal winning team as a result of a back injury that prevented her bowling and doubts over her scoring rate.
But the 31-year-old, who has also re-committed to the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL for this season, has gone to work in The Hundred in England with scores of 58 off 31 balls in Birmingham Phoenix’s opening match in Cardiff on Saturday and then an unbeaten 39 off 28 balls.
It was enough for her captain, and WBBL rival, Sophie Devine to marvel at what Perry can still deliver.
“She is such a fantastic athlete,” Devine said. “The way she has evolved her game as well.
“I know she has her critics around the shorter formats, but what she has done these last two games, she’s shown her class is permanent
“The way she was able to manage that run chase. A few of the players were maybe getting nervous on the sideline, but knowing she is out there, and had full control of it, is full credit to the player she is.”
After re-affirming her commitment to the Sixers, Perry said she was looking forward to playing at home again.
“It’s so lovely to be able to continue at the Sixers for another WBBL season,” Perry said from Birmingham.
“The club has been such a significant part of my career, and I am especially proud of what the team has been able to achieve, both on and off the field, over the last seven years, especially in terms of engaging and inspiring lots of young girls and boys to be involved in cricket.
“I’m really looking forward to the challenge this season presents, and also the opportunity to play at home again.“ | https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/domestic-cricket/wbbl/cricket-ellyse-perry-stars-in-the-hundred-as-she-resigns-with-the-sydney-sixers-in-the-wbbl/news-story/41ae6737eb8248a1e505a1d373f4e276 | 2022-08-16T07:29:36Z | https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/domestic-cricket/wbbl/cricket-ellyse-perry-stars-in-the-hundred-as-she-resigns-with-the-sydney-sixers-in-the-wbbl/news-story/41ae6737eb8248a1e505a1d373f4e276 | true | 1 |
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When we started compiling this list, we thought there’d be a tonne of sci-fi movies on Amazon Prime Video, so many that it was going to be hard to cull them all down into a ‘best’ list. To our surprise, that isn’t the case, but there are still a bunch of hidden science fiction gems on the shopping giant’s video streaming platform.
So we’ve taken a little bit of a pivot. We’ve found you eight sci-fi movies on Prime Video that we think you should watch if you’re a fan of the genre.
Best sci-fi movies on Prime Video
In no particular order, here are the best sci-fi movies on Prime Video worth your time, according to Gizmodo Australia.
Minority Report
There are lots of good Spielberg sci-fi movies, but one of (arguably) the best is this Tom Cruise film about a man who stops criminals before they commit crimes, and is then accused of committing a future crime himself. Rewatching Minority Report in 2022 (its 20th anniversary, mind you) a few things instantly became clear. First, this film hasn’t aged at all. One or two shots look a little wonky effects-wise but everything else, from the visual and practical effects to the compelling story, award-worthy production design and hugely talented cast, all feel timeless.
Chaos Walking
Chaos Walking is set on a distant alien planet called New World. The first wave of human colonists discover that men, and only men, develop a psychic ability known as “The Noise” that perpetually projects their inner monologue in a cloud around their heads. (Oh, seemingly every woman in society has been wiped out, but don’t fear for there is Viola, a young survivor of a crash-landed shuttlecraft from the incoming second wave of human resettlers, who know nothing of what’s happened to their predecessors). Anyway, it’s an interesting premise, but it’s been criticised for its surface-level approach. See for yourself, it’s worth a watch regardless.
Ready Player One
This one is divisive among the team. It isn’t so much a movie about loving old video games and other cultural artifacts. It’s about loving to love those things, which makes Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of the bestselling novel feel hollow despite – or maybe because of – the relentless pop culture references it throws at you. Many references are now outdated, but Ready Player One does make a good social commentary with a little bit of Spielberg sci-fi spectacle sprinkled in.
Last Survivors
Last Survivors is a mystery/sci-fi movie about a father and son who live off-grid and battle to survive against that which lies beyond the barriers of the woodland Utopia they have built together. It’s a typical survivalist film, but it deals with how best to endure a crisis and it’s actually quite an engaging watch.
Back To The Future
It’s shocking how few truly great science fiction comedy films there are, but BTTF would still tower above the rest even if there were tonnes. It’s clever and yet never stops being about Marty McFly and his family. It manages to come up with a coherent theory of time travel, in which you can rewrite the past and the effects are seen nearly instantaneously (luckily, Marty is only missing like an arm and a leg before the timestream rights itself) and never becomes inconsistent. And it’s surprisingly daring, jumping feet first into the tricky waters of time-travelling incest. Plus, it’s one of those science fiction movies that everybody, even genre-hating snobs, will admit to loving.
RoboCop
Another totally subversive science fiction movie from the 1980s, this film picks up Tron’s obsessions with corporate fascism and runs in a different direction, with the evil OCP trying to take over Detroit’s police force and remake the struggling city as Delta City. RoboCop himself is one of the best examples of sci-fi’s struggle with the ways technology changes or negates our humanity, and 20 years before The Dark Knight, this film managed to delve into similar questions about how far we’ll go to keep society safe from crime. A surreal blend of cyberpunk, Frankenstein and action movie, this film remains Verhoeven’s greatest statement.
The Blackout: Invasion Earth
The Blackout: Invasion Earth comes to us from Russia and packs sci-fi tropes in the first half and flat-out action in the second. The plot for this one is quite simple: life on Earth is rapidly destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe. Contact between most towns in Europe has been severed, yet there’s one place with electricity. And aliens.
Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow, starring Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise, takes place five years after a race of nearly invincible aliens called Mimics invaded Earth, turning 2020 into a futuristic hellscape where soldiers of the newly minted United Defence Force have to don bulky mech-suits just to stand a chance against them. It shows how quickly society can adapt when faced with an unprecedented threat, though in this case, it was by creating a massive military-industrial complex. A little different from the 2020 hell that actually was.
There you go, eight of the best sci-fi movies to binge on Amazon Prime Video. Head over to Prime Video to sign up.
If you’re interested, we’ve also got opinions on the best sci-fi movies to watch on Netflix, the best sci-fi movies to watch on Binge and the best sci-fi movies to watch on Stan. | https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/08/best-sci-fi-movies-prime-video/ | 2022-08-16T07:37:31Z | https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/08/best-sci-fi-movies-prime-video/ | false | 2 |
New York Red Bulls (10-8-7, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Atlanta United FC (7-9-8, 11th in the Eastern Conference)
Atlanta; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Atlanta United FC +123, New York +203, Draw +252; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta United and the New York Red Bulls meet in conference play.
United is 4-6-7 against Eastern Conference teams. Josef Martinez leads the eighth-ranked scoring team in the Eastern Conference with five. United has scored 33 goals.
The Red Bulls are 7-5-5 against Eastern Conference opponents. The Red Bulls are fifth in the MLS drawing 136 corner kicks, averaging 5.4 per game.
Wednesday's game is the second time these teams meet this season. The Red Bulls won the last meeting 2-1.
TOP PERFORMERS: Martinez has scored five goals with five assists for United. Ronaldo Cisneros has three goals and one assist over the past 10 games.
Lewis Morgan has 10 goals and three assists for the Red Bulls. Aaron Long has two goals over the past 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: United: 2-4-4, averaging 1.1 goals, 4.8 shots on goal and 6.2 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.6 goals per game.
Red Bulls: 4-4-2, averaging 1.4 goals, 3.3 shots on goal and 4.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.4 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: United: Dylan Castanheira (injured), George Campbell (injured), Brooks Lennon (injured), Miles Robinson (injured), Matheus Rossetto (injured), Emerson Hyndman (injured), Osvaldo Alonso (injured), Brad Guzan (injured).
Red Bulls: Anthony Maucci (injured), Serge Ngoma (injured).
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Missing Teen Alert: Sebastion Wolberson-O’Hara
GRASSTON, Minn. — The Pine County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teen.
15-year-old Sebastion Wolberson-O’Hara was last seen riding his bike this past Friday evening in Grasston where he lives.
Investigators believe he might be trying to travel down to the Twin Cities.
The teen doesn’t have a cellphone. It’s also unknown what he was wearing that night, so there is no clothing description.
If you see him, call 911 or reach out to the Pine County Sheriff’s Office. | https://www.fox21online.com/2022/08/15/missing-teen-alert-sebastion-wolberson-ohara/ | 2022-08-16T07:41:11Z | https://www.fox21online.com/2022/08/15/missing-teen-alert-sebastion-wolberson-ohara/ | true | null |
Innovative Covers Designed to Improve Maintenance, Protect Aircraft & Pilots
SHERIDAN, Wyo., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the US military continues to look for ways to increase mission flexibility and protect its pilots and aircraft, industry pioneer Kennon Products is unveiling its innovative Portable Magnetic Aircraft Covers (PMAC). The entire PMAC line provides superior protection in a highly portable format.
Today's modern fighter jets — the F-22 and F-35 — are high precision, state-of-the-art flying computers susceptible to Foreign Object Debris (FOD). FOD can come from nature — birds, rodents, blowing dust, rain, and snow. It can also come from human error. Such was the case in May 2020, when an F-22 crashed near Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Investigators determined the event resulted from human error — a piece of tape was left on the aircraft after servicing. The piece of tape impacted a flight control sensor and caused the pilot to eject (safely). However, the $200M+ F-22 jet was lost.
Kennon's covers protect aircraft, ease maintenance, and reduce deadly accidents by providing coverage that prevents FOD intrusion. They also reduce the need for tape.
"The best covers are the ones you have with you and the ones you use. Our PMAC covers are easier to see and remove; plus, they stow on board the aircraft," said Kennon CEO Joe Wright.
Unlike standard covers, Kennon's PMAC line of products can be folded and packed into a small compartment on the aircraft. This portability enhances mission flexibility and reduces the logistical footprint of moving traditional bulky covers and plugs from location to location. Because the covers stay with the aircraft, regardless of where it lands, crews can cover up the various intakes, exhausts, and ports. The jet will never be apart from its protective covers. Kennon can also print on the covers, including a squadron's graphics, tastefully displayed when the jets are parked.
The PMAC covers use various advanced composite materials and seals to withstand repeated washings and environmental exposure, including winds up to 70 mph. Kennon's covers protect the fighter jet canopies during maintenance without touching sensitive surfaces.
Kennon designed the F-22 Alpha Cover for line-to-line fitment. Made from UV-resistant polyurethane, the cover seals the probe from the elements without damaging fifth-generation LO (low observable) coatings. The fit is secure, even during extreme weather.
Kennon's PMAC line was born from a prototype first designed by Retired Air Force Technical Sergeant Daniel Caban, who witnessed the logistical challenges of transporting the complete set of plugs and covers that must go with each aircraft. Caban's prototype, featured in the Air Force's Spark Tank competition, prompted AFWERX, the Air Force's technology accelerator group, to award Kennon several contracts.
The initial award was to develop, manufacture, and commercialize the PMAC product line. Kennon has received additional contracts from the US Air Force that address other PMAC products, including multi-purpose wash covers and an advanced canopy protection system for the F-35 and F-22 are now in development.
"These technologies can be applied or scaled to other aircraft platforms, both fixed wing and rotorcraft. American allies worldwide also fly these aircraft, so we know there is a large market for this technology," Wright said.
Founded in 1984, Kennon Products is a leading designer and manufacturer of products that protect people and high-value assets for the military, aviation, and healthcare industries. The company employs more than 60 people at its Sheridan, Wyoming facility. Kennon is an employee-owned ESOP (employee stock ownership program) company. With engineering and manufacturing at its core, Kennon Products says yes to virtually any project whose goal is to protect high-value assets. Learn more about Kennon Products at kennonproducts.com.
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Kathy Bobb
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well darn I guess it could have been shorter and tighter and lower in front. she is pretty but just doesn't need to show it all.
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MANILA, Philippines — Less than a month after her baby-themed birthday photo shoot, social media personality Donnalyn Bartolome is the talk of the town anew when she uploaded on her YouTube channel her "kanto-style" birthday celebration on August 11.
The 34-minute video is currently the second trending upload on the YouTube as of this writing. It features Donnalyn having fun celebrating her birthday last July 9 with friends that include fellow celebrities like Richard Juan, Paul Salas, Mikee Quintos, and Awra Briguela, and social media personalities Zeinab Harake and Jelai Andres.
The video could have been a regular yet special upload, but some netizens took offense and called Donnalyn as "privileged" and "out of touch" as she celebrated her special day with the street-style theme.
Instead of a lavish party in a posh hotel, Donnalyn held it in a regular neighborhood where her birthday spread included balut, isaw and other street food, and her birthday cake was tutong (burnt rice). Her table set-up was casual and relaxed where she and her guests were seen having a drinking spree while enjoying a karaoke session. When guests arrived, she escorted them via a jeepney or tricycle ride. They then took shots on a photo booth that has yero or galvanized iron sheets as background. Guests were casually dressed in mostly shorts and blouses, but some eagle-eyed netizens saw how some of her guests were dressed or were carrying designer items while Donnalyn was gifted with expensive brands.
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Some think that her birthday theme is problematic.
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According to the SP, the width of the road is insufficient and the long-standing proposal to erect a central median from Marapalam to Mullodai so as to convert the highway into a double lane has not come to fruition yet. There is no word yet from the NHAI to erect the central median at an estimated cost of `2-`2.5 crore.
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When asked if he had any comment, he just said “sorry.” pic.twitter.com/0jD7alFrrI
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Pennsylvania State Police issued a statement about the second incident, according to the Standard-Journal.
“Pennsylvania State Police Shickshinney received a call that in Nescopeck Borough, Luzerne County, a male was physically assaulting a female,” the release said.
“Upon troopers’ arrival, they discovered a female deceased,” the release said. “The male, who is the suspect in both incidents, is in custody at PSP Shicksinny, awaiting criminal charges.”
1 dead, 17 injured after man drives car into crowd at fundraiser in Berwick, PA. Man then drove to Nescopeck, PA and beat a woman to death (scanner traffic said with a hammer). Man is now in custody.
(Number of dead & injured is according to police statement)
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) August 14, 2022
Victims from the first incident were taken to four separate hospitals, troopers said.
“These investigations are very active,” the release said. “The Columbia County District Attorney’s Office, along with the Troop N Major Case Team are investigating the homicide incident in Berwick. The Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office, along with the Troop P Major Case Team, are investigating the homicide that occurred in Nescopeck.”
The bar issued a statement about the incident, according to the Times Leader.
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Netflix’s ‘Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist’ documents the real-life incident of how catfishing can be devastating for the victim, harming their reputation and professional career, and even jeopardizing their private lives. The Netflix documentary narrates the scathing tale of senior high American linebacker, Manti Malietau Louis Te’o, who was catfished by an alleged acquaintance. Manti had joined the prestigious institution of Notre Dame on a football scholarship and brought long-lost glory to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, being pegged for NFL glory.
However, Te’o’s fairy-tale rise became more sensational after getting a tragic flavor. He lost both his grandmother and long-distance girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, in a span of 24 hours, and yet saw Notre Dame to the championship game. However, everything took a devastating turn when a shocking truth about his girlfriend was revealed by two Deadspin journalists – Tim Burke and Jack Dickey. Who is Tim Burke, and where is he now? Let’s find out.
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Timothy Burke earned his Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast journalism from Ohio University in 1999 and a Master of Arts degree in Communication and Rhetoric from Eastern Michigan University in 2000. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of South Florida in 2008, researching systems theory and cybernetics in Communication Studies. He also had a graduate certificate in women’s studies, a total of a decade in publishing research in media, critical/cultural, and feminist communication theories, and teaching speech and communication classes.
But Tim’s rise to fame began that fateful Friday when he got an anonymous tip while working at Deadspin from an intern named Jack Dickey. According to Jack, he was “this eccentric master of databases and analysis,” with tools none of them had. Jack even said, “I would wager at that time maybe a dozen journalists in the whole country had (those kinds of tools).” Tim and Jack dug deep into the story of Manti, the wonder athlete from Laie, Hawaii, who was having a dream run, putting up one splendid performance after another.
However, the investigative piece from Jack and Tim brought his world crashing down — Manti had been a victim of an elaborate case of catfishing as Lennay turned out to be a fake account. The story turned out to be one of Deadspin’s most viewed stories ever, and it brought the impact of catfishing to the forefront, playing a major role in introducing the word to the citizens of the nation. The story even got Tim invited on CNN to speak with Anderson Cooper just hours after the story broke in January 2013.
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For the uninitiated, Tim Burke has done much more than co-author that fantastic scoop — he has produced over 10,000 GIFs and videos and was involved in some of the most massive stories of Deadspin, including the now viral montage of news anchors reading from a corporate script at local Sinclair broadcasting stations, and many more. He was a part of a media watchdog advertisement on legendary English comedian John Oliver’s popular HBO show.
Since joining Deadspin in October 2011, Tim Burke had been one of the constants at Deadspin; the organization underwent a vast amount of changes, with Tim being a part of some of the significant victories the sports blog garnered. However, in June 2018, he was one of the dozens of Gizmodo Media Group employees who accepted buyouts offered by the company as part of new budget cuts from parent company Univision. Tim announced his departure from Deadspin after nearly seven years of serving as the Video Director and Video/Assignment Editor.
ANNOUNCEMENT: With great sadness I must tell you that my seven years at @Deadspin will come to an end one week from today. Thank you to my colleagues, who are the best in the business, and to everyone who sent tips, emails, or tweets. pic.twitter.com/PKkFW2AXlL
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Betty Jean Haske, 87, of Ojibwa, died on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at her home under the care of Regional Hospice Services. She was born on April 18, 1935, in Manteno, Ill.
She loved to garden and watch the birds in the feeders. She enjoyed playing games, crafting and taking care of her plants. Most of all, she loved her family more than anything. She was a member of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Winter.
She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Joseph P. Haske; sons, Joseph M. Haske and Michael D. (Kriss) Haske, both of Yorkville, Ill.; daughter, Debra J. (Terrence) Hlava of Maryville, Tenn.; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 16, at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Winter with Father Sunil Kumar Thumma and Deacon Mike Ryan celebrating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. A visitation will be held on Monday, Aug. 15, from 5-7 p.m., at Nash-Jackan Funeral Home in Ladysmith where a Scripture Service will be held at 7 p.m. An hour of visitation will also be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday morning at the church. | https://www.ladysmithnews.com/obituaries/article_481d6aa6-1cb0-11ed-80b9-9316de4aeb00.html | 2022-08-16T08:20:13Z | https://www.ladysmithnews.com/obituaries/article_481d6aa6-1cb0-11ed-80b9-9316de4aeb00.html | true | 1 |
The Supreme Court on Tuesday orally observed that the practice of Talaq-e-Hasan among Muslims for divorce is prima facie not improper, and added that it does not want this to become an agenda for any other reason.
A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said prima facie the court is of the opinion that Talaq-e-Hasan is not very improper. “Prima facie this (Talaq-e-Hasan) is not so improper. Women also have an option… Khula is there,” observed Justice Kaul.
The bench, also comprising Justice M.M. Sundresh, said prima facie it does not agree with the petitioner. Talaq-e-Hasan is the practice by which a Muslim man can divorce his wife by saying the word talaq once a month, for three months. “Don’t want this to become an agenda for any other reason,” said the bench.
Senior advocate Pinky Anand, appearing for the petitioner, contended that though the top court declared triple talaq unconstitutional, it left the issue of Talaq-e-Hasan undecided.
During the hearing, the bench observed that women also have a similar option by way of ‘Khula’ and courts also grant divorce by mutual consent in case of irretrievable breakdown of marriage. “This is not triple talaq…If two people cannot live together, we are also granting divorce by irretrievable breakdown of marriage,” said the bench.
The bench further queried that the petitioner’s counsel, was the petitioner open to divorce by mutual consent, if mehar is taken care of? The top court has scheduled the hearing on the matter on August 29 and asked the counsel to take instructions in the matter.
The top court was hearing a plea seeking a direction to declare “Talaq-E-Hasan and all other forms of unilateral extra-judicial talaq,” unconstitutional for being arbitrary, irrational, and violative of Articles 14, 15, 21, 25 of the Constitution.
The plea also sought a direction to the Centre to frame guidelines for neutral uniform grounds of divorce and uniform procedure of divorce for all citizens. The petition was filed by journalist Benazeer Heena through advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey.
The plea argued that the practice of Talaq-E-Hasan and other forms of unilateral extra- judicial talaq is neither harmonious with the modern principles of human rights and gender equality, nor an integral part of Islamic faith. “Many Islamic nations have restricted such practice, while it continues to vex the Indian society in general and Muslim women like the petitioner in particular. It is submitted that the practice also wreaks havoc to lives of many women and their children, especially those belonging to the weaker economic sections of the society,” it added. | https://www.thestatesman.com/india/prima-facie-not-improper-sc-plea-practice-talaq-e-hasan-1503100675.html | 2022-08-16T08:20:41Z | https://www.thestatesman.com/india/prima-facie-not-improper-sc-plea-practice-talaq-e-hasan-1503100675.html | true | 5 |
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed the candidate of Accord Party (AP) for the 2023 Oyo State governorship election, Adebayo Adelabu, for his comment on its 2023 governorship ticket.
Adelabu had claimed in a recent radio interview that he was robbed of the APC governorship ticket because some national leaders of the ruling party were not happy with his relationship with the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The ex-Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Deputy Governor represented the APC in the 2019 governorship election and lost to Governor Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He also contested the APC’s governorship ticket in May but lost the primary to Teslim Folarin. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary Felix Morka yesterday, the APC debunked Adelabu’s claims. He insisted that the delegates rather than the party decided Adelabu’s fate in the primary “and by no one else”.
It said: “For the record, Chief Adelabu, who was the flag bearer of the party in the 2019 governorship election, participated in the May 2022 primary election and lost to Teslim Folarin. His fate was decided by delegates of the party and by no one else.
“As a former flag bearer of the party, we expected him to explore and exhaust internal remedial mechanisms of the party or seek legal redress regarding any dissatisfaction he may have had with the primary election.
“Having defected to another party, rather than concentrate on his lacklustre governorship project, Chief Adelabu has busied himself with making wild and baseless allegations against some national leaders of the APC.
“While wishing Adelabu well in his new political voyage, we advise that he desists from vilifying and maligning respected chieftains and national officers of our great party.” | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/you-lied-about-oyo-guber-primary-apc-tells-adelabu/ | 2022-08-16T08:21:47Z | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/you-lied-about-oyo-guber-primary-apc-tells-adelabu/ | true | 1 |
It took four years for American pop star Billie Eilish to return to South Korea to perform onstage. Despite the rainy evening on Korean Liberation Day, a holiday that commemorates Korea’s independence from Japanese colonial rule 77 years ago, a whopping 20,000 fans flocked to enjoy her long-awaited return.
“Hyundai Card Super Concert 26 Billie Eilish,” the singer-songwriter’s second concert in the country, took place at Gocheok Sky Dome. She held her first show on the same day, Aug. 15, 2018, at the 2,000-seat Yes24 Live Hall in eastern Seoul. Her audience here has expanded by 10 times, and the “little giant” paid back the love with a jam-packed 90-minute-long event. BTS’ RM and J-Hope, and model and actor Jung Ho-yeon, who rose to stardom in the hit Netflix series “Squid Game,” were among the spectators.
The concert was initially set to start at 8 p.m. but was delayed due to long lines at the entrance owing to rain. As the clock struck 8:17 p.m., Eilish, decked out in an oversized black shirt with the words “Dead or Alive” printed on it, appeared on the stage. Fans’ excited screams greeted the artist, and the singer kicked off the event with “Bury a Friend.”
She greeted fans by shouting “Seoul!” The musician continued, “Come on, stand up, everyone. … Let‘s dance. I want you to move and jump like me,” to hype up the audience. Eilish performed a total of 23 songs, including “I Didn’t Change My Number,” “NDA,” “My Strange Addiction,” “IDWBYA” and “Billie Bossa Nova.”
“It is so good to see you again. This is a very large room, so amazing. Thank you guys,” she said. “I don’t want you to worry about being respectful. I want you to move around, sing, dance, cry and do everything to have fun.” When she said, “I love you,” some fans screamed, “likewise!” in return.
Her delicate and wispy voice was on point, with her trademark low and dreamlike style. She performed exciting songs in between chilled-out numbers to shift the mood. Eilish’s brother Finneas, who is also a singer-songwriter and record producer, joined the stage when she performed her acoustic song “Your Power.” The artist introduced him as her “best friend.”
The star of the show recalled her first concert and said, “Dude, wanna know something crazy? My first time playing (in Seoul) was four years ago tonight. That is so nuts! Thank you for everything. Thanks for having me back here.” In between songs, she checked to make sure that the audience enjoyed the concert to the fullest.
Since it is an English-language artist, concertgoers could not sing along to every song. Many simply clapped, raised their hands above their heads to sway from side to side, turned their cell phone lights on, and waved at the artist. Thousands of people did sing along, however, and their voices filled the venue when Eilish played songs that are popular here, such as “You Should See Me in a Crown” and “Bad Guy.” The performance immediately got fans on their feet.
The 20-year-old musician, who started her musical career in 2016, performed for 90 minutes straight without taking a break. Unlike K-pop artists who often display video clips on screens to change their outfits, she stuck to the same outfit. The pop star was full of energy, galloping on the stage and dancing as part of her performance.
The most memorable moment from the concert was when a fan handed her Taegeukgi, the national flag of Korea, in the middle of her performance of “Lost Cause.” She wrapped the flag around her body, mirroring a performance as she did four years ago. She clearly wanted to share the meaning of the country’s historical event with local fans.
Before wrapping up, she said, “Thank you so much. I love you so much. Good night.” She bowed deeply at the waist several times. The singer also waved her hands and blew kisses. She left the stage and, despite the lack of an encore, she had given all of us a memorable night.
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How my gang killed Bauchi lawmaker, kidnapped his wives for ransom, shot retired DPO dead —Kidnap suspect
Forty-eight-year-old Hashimu Galadima, a suspect and member of a four-man kidnap gang who were arrested by operatives of Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Bauchi State, has opened up on how he and others killed a lawmaker in the state, Hon. Musa Mante, and kidnapped his two wives for ransom.
Galadima also confessed to the killing of a retired Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Garkuwa, as a revenge for the much trouble he caused them while he was in service and after.
Other suspects are Ahmadu Saleh (50); Abdulwahab Alhassan a.k.a Emeka (31) and Abdulwahab Ahmed a.k.a Dan Mama (25).
The suspected kidnappers were arrested by the IRT operatives, led by their commander, DCP Tunji Disu, after intelligence reports on the kidnappings, armed robbery and criminal conspiracy were lodged against them by the indigenes of Dass Local Government Area.
The Force Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who spoke on how the coordinated operation led to the arrest of the suspects, said that they confessed their individual involvement and roles in all the kidnappings and armed robbery operations in Plateau, Bauchi and Kaduna villages and market roads on Mondays.
The FPRO stated further that they confessed to shooting one Suleiman Shuaibu alias Shayi, to death, while his family members were abducted and later released after payment of ransom.
The key suspect, Galadima, said that his gang killed the retired DPO because he was always searching for them every time after any crime incident was reported.
On the killing of the lawmaker, he said that the criminal gang eliminated the man for refusing to assist them with funds after several requests were made of him from his gang members, whereas he always assisted others.
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, had directed that all the weapons, arms and ammunition in the hands of criminal elements such as kidnappers and bandits should be mopped up immediately for security of lives of citizens of the nation.
The FPRO said that all the suspects would be be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of the laws.
In an interview with Galadima, he narrated how he joined a kidnap gang.
Giving his background, he said: “I’m a farmer. I’m married to one wife and have four children.” Galadima continued : “I committed an offence of kidnapping. I joined a kidnap gang about a year ago.
“I was introduced to kidnap operations by friends Yelwa and Shagari, who are Fulanis. I’m Bajari by tribe.
“I was taken for a kidnap operation in December, 2021, about a week before Christmas celebration. The operation was organised by Yelwa and Shagari. Initially, they didn’t tell me the kind of operation we were going for. They just told me that they had some work to do and asked me to go with them. It was when we got there that I got to know that they were into kidnapping.”
My role
“I went with Yelwa, Shagari and Wakayi to the kidnap operation. The three others had AK-47 rifles while I held a cutlass. I followed them to the first kidnap operation I was involved in at Baraza Village, the hometown of Honourable Musa Mante, who was a member of the House of Assembly, Bauchi State, representing Dass Local Government. It was between 10pm and 11pm.
“At the time we got to the residence of Honourable Mante, he was discussing with his family. He had just come back from Abuja. We searched his room but could not find him. Meanwhile, he heard our voices and came out of his wife’s room, asking who we were.
“Yelwa and Shagari went to him and started talking to him about his unfulfilled promises. He had promised to dig boreholes for people in other villages. He gave the job to a contractor who had not finished it then. They told him that he did not fulfill his promise, saying that his end had come.
“We took him to his room to search it. We got a cash of N2 million and took it. Then Yelwa, our gang leader, cocked his AK-47 rifle and shot the honourable member inside his room at close range, killing him instantly. Yelwa and Shagari wore caps to cover their faces but I left my face bare because there was darkness all over the place.
“After killing the honourable, we kidnapped his two wives and took them to Dutsen Maigoshi (Maigoshi Mountain). They spent two days in captivity but were able to escape when we ran away from the mountain due to aerial and ground surveillance by the state government.
“Before the coming of the security officers, we had demanded N5 million as ransom for them to regain freedom, but we could not wait to get it as we escaped to avoid arrest.
“Out of the N2 million we got from our late victim’s room, I was given N100,000. They said that they didn’t want to give me much money so that I would not spend lavishly in a way that would raise suspicion.”
Galadima went on: “We also killed a retired Divisional Police Officer, CSP Garkuwa. This was because the DPO was hated by Yelwa and Shagari because he was disturbing their operations. They were criminals habitually involved in kidnapping, robbery and cattle rustling.
“After the DPO’s retirement, they got information about him and decided to go on a revenge mission.
“We went to Bazali Ward in Dass Local Government where he was living after retirement. It was Wakayi’s friend, Hamza, who organised the operation for us.”
How the DPO was killed
“He was in his compound at almost 11pm where he spread a mat and lay down, resting. We got to him and he was shot once. We didn’t take anything from the house. We were just on a revenge mission,” Galadima said.
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“We did the operation at Bunjang in Bununu District of Dass Local Government Area. We went to the residence of the Ward Head, killed one Dahiru Suleiman.
“What led to his being shot dead was that when we stormed his residence, he tried to resist us, dragging things with us which led to a fight. We overpowered and shot him once in the chest at close range.”
Nigerian Tribune learnt that the elder brother of the killed victim was an orderly to the Borno State governor, so they felt he would be living comfortably.
Continuing, he said: “After killing him, we kidnapped his wife, mother, elder brother’s wife and took them to Dutsen Maigoshi. We demanded a ransom of N2 million, but the family struggled and paid N1 million. They spent three days in captivity before they were released after the payment. I was given N50,000 as my share. They insisted on not giving me much money so as not to be exposed through my lavish spending.”
Another kidnap was said to have been masterminded by Abdulwahab Alhassan a.k.a. Emeka, also of Bajari tribe.
According to Galadima, “Emeka was the one who gave us information on how to kidnap one Alhaji Muhammadu Na-Ndur and his friend, Alhaji Yusuf Yenke. Alhaji Na-Ndur is a businessman and dealer in petroleum products. Alhaji Yenke is also a businessman dealing in raw foodstuffs.
“We took them to Dutsen Maigoshi where they spent two days in captivity. We demanded N3 million as ransom but the family was able to put together N1.5 million.
I was given N100,000 which I shared equally with Emeka, the mastermind.”
Nigerian Tribune learnt that it was Alhaji Ahmadu’s arrest over a case of gun possession that led to Galadima’s arrest.
Alhaji Ahmadu reportedly harboured Galadima in his house in the bush at Panshanu village after he ran away from his village.
Galadima, an ex-convict, had reportedly been jailed three times. He was said to have met Emeka in the prison while he was also serving his own term in Central Prison, Bauchi.
IRT operatives reportedly arrested Alhaji Ahmadu in connection with an AK-47 rifle sold to him by Galadima at the cost of N340,000, it was further learnt.
Ahmadu had paid N140,000 and wanted to pay the balance in instalments, while he hid the rifle. His cousin, identified as Madaki, however took the rifle from where it was hidden after learning about Ahmadu’s arrest. He escaped with it to an unknown destination.
A police source said that it was Ahmadu that made revelations about his link with Galadima. After his arrest, Galadima reportedly poured out everything that transpired within his gang before he led the police to other arrested suspects.
Another suspect, Abdulwahab a.k.a Dan Mama, reportedly took two Fulanis on his bike to Emeka, who is also a drug dealer. The two men were said to have taken the hard drugs given to them by Emeka. Dan Mama also knew the two men he conveyed were kidnappers.
Alhaji Ahmadu said that he bought the AK-47 rifle to protect his family and his business as someone who was rearing goats and sheep, and to escort hunters to the forest for bush meat.
Galadima, who pleaded with the government for forgiveness, said: “Before I became deeply involved in kidnapping, I had never done such a thing. I don’t know what came over me that made me join Yelwa and Shagari in kidnapping. The government should have mercy on me and pardon me of my misdeeds. I won’t do such a thing again.”
In his confession, Alhassan, who further confessed that they worked with the gang leader in the various kidnapping cases, added that he was previously dealing in hard drugs and had interacted and known all the criminals terrorising the villages in Bauchi.
He added that he was an ex-convict who was arrested for drug offences by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and was imprisoned twice bagging two-year jail terms.
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South Korea’s top electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution has recently elevated this year’s sales target to 22 trillion won ($16.8 billion), an almost 10 percent jump from the previous target of 19.2 trillion won, in an upgraded growth plan that aims to achieve a two-digit operating profit ratio in the next five years.
The company offered a rosy outlook for the second half of this year, pinning high hopes on new car launches from its corporate clients, an increase in battery prices due to rising raw materials costs and the operation of the first battery-making plant under its joint venture with General Motors.
The company has poured resources into the North American market, the fastest-growing electric vehicle market globally. EV battery production there is expected to surge to 286 gigawatt-hours by 2025, a whopping sevenfold growth from this year, according to market tracker IHS Markit.
LG Energy Solution is the only battery maker to have secured supply deals with GM, Ford and Stellantis. So far, the company has invested 15 trillion won in building three battery plants in the US with annual production capacity of some 40 to 50 gigawatt-hours each, and one in Canada with an annual production capacity of 45 gigawatt-hours.
“With our advanced technology, stable value chain establishment and reliable quality, we plan to solidify our position as a global leader in profitability as well,” said LG Energy Solution Chief Financial Officer Lee Chang-sil.
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The Airdrie councillor whose defection from the SNP handed control of North Lanarkshire to Labour insists his seismic decision “wasn’t made lightly” and with the aim of doing what he considered “best for the residents of North Lanarkshire”.
Michael Coyle voted against his own party in last Thursday’s vital choice of a new leader of the authority, resulting in a knife-edge 38-37 win for Labour which ousted the SNP from power after only three months.
Speaking exclusively to the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser, he told how he made the decision for the dual reasons of his growing dissatisfaction with the party nationally plus his feeling that future budget cuts expected by the authority will require an “experienced administration” – and that he only fully finalised his vote in the last hour before the meeting.
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Councillor Coyle told Lanarkshire Live: “I’ve got to decide what’s best for the residents of North Lanarkshire – I had to look at everything and weigh it up, and I thought that was what I had to do.
“I’d been feeling this way for the past few weeks with the way events in the SNP had been handled over a period of time; there’s been in-fighting and different things were happening within headquarters, and I just think a catalogue of events made me decide.
“There will also be tremendous pressure on North Lanarkshire, losing up to £100 million over three years, and I felt as if this administration wasn’t experienced enough to handle the deficit that’s going to happen.
"That’s no reflection on anyone as there are lots of good people in the SNP group, but this is hanging over and we have to address this.”
He continued: “It’s preyed on my mind and this been done with a heavy heart, but I feel I’ve made the right decision and I just hope people will realise I’ve done this for all the best reasons.
“People will judge me and have their different views, but I’ve got to look at whatever is best for the council and residents, and I hope constituents and residents would understand that my decision wasn’t made lightly.”
He emphasised that his decision is “not for any monetary reasons”, and has resigned from his job as caseworker for Airdrie & Shotts MSP Neil Gray, saying: “I’ve been very privileged to work for him for many years and I don’t want to embarrass him in any way.”
Councillor Coyle’s daughter Sophia is also an elected SNP member for the neighbouring Airdrie North ward, and he stressed: “I just hope people realise it’s my choice and nothing to do with her.
“It was a sole judgment; I’ve never had any conversations about it and I had to go where my heart told me to.”
He said of the dramatic moment in the nine-minute hybrid meeting when he registered his surprise vote for the Labour amendment: “I think everybody was in shock and don’t think anybody took it in.
"I then got a phone call from Jim Logue who was genuinely surprised.
“It was right up into the final minutes when I made my mind up.
"I knew it was going to be close and that there might have been one or two votes in it; I had to make that decision, and I just hope the administration will take things forward and get back on an even keel.”
Councillor Coyle now plans to sit as a Labour group member, just three months after being elected on an SNP ticket for his fourth term representing Airdrie South, with his decision shifting the political composition of the council to 35 members for the SNP and 33 for the second-placed minority administration party.
He said: “I know people will say I’ve betrayed the SNP and I understand people those who’ll say ‘we voted for you as an SNP councillor’ – but a lot of people voted for me because of my name and my work in the ward since 2007, so it balances itself out.
“I can see both sides of the coin but I’ve got to do things for the best reasons.”
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Australian fitness fanatic and private schoolboy, 30, dies in a hail of bullets as gunman opens fire at a legal marijuana store in Los Angeles
- Azuma Bennett was shot to death outside a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary
- Mr Bennett was raised in Sydney but moved to the US two-and-a-half years ago
- Police are still investigating the shooting and have appealed for any information
A man gunned down in front of a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary was a Sydney-raised fitness trainer.
Azuma Bennett, 30, was shot up to eight times at about 9.45am on Friday while outside a marijuana dispensary on West Slauson Avenue in Windsor Hills, LA.
Police said they found Mr Bennett lying in the doorway of the building with gunshot wounds and declared him dead at the scene.
Azuma Bennett (left) was found dead after suffering up to eight gunshot wounds outside a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary
Mr Bennett was a passionate fitness instructor who moved to LA to help children following the death of his father
Mr Bennett grew up in Sydney with his father, a martial arts expert who passed in 2017, and mother.
He attended Waverley College, a private eastern suburbs school, and worked at Mosman's Fitness First between 2012 and 2018.
One of the gym's trainers, Brad Spence, said Mr Bennett was inspired to move to the US in 2018 following the death of his father.
'Azuma moved to Los Angeles after the death of his father and was helping kids in Compton for free. He wanted to give back to the community and make the world a better place,' he told Mosman Collective.
Mr Bennet's loved one's described him 'one of the best ones out there' and a 'friend to many'
'We are in total shock that this has happened and everyone at Fitness First is in disbelief.'
His former Sydney boxing coach, Tony Del Vecchio from Bondi Boxing, said Mr Bennett would 'walk in and light up a room'.
'Azuma was part of the fabric at Bondi Boxing Club and we will miss the days when he would come in with that smile that would brighten the whole gym no matter how bad your day was,' an emotional post on the gym's Facebook page reads.
Mr Bennett (above) was raised in Sydney but moved to the US two-and-a-half years ago
Mr Bennett (left) was inspired to move to LA in 2018 to help children following the death of his father (right)
'He will be missed by all RIP little brother. Hope to see you on the other side.'
Mr Bennet was just three weeks away from flying home to visit his family in Sydney but now his loved ones are forced to save to fly over his remains.
A GoFundMe to fly his body to Australia has raised over AUD$34,000.
'Azuma was one of a kind. An outstanding athlete, fighter, teacher trainer, and friend/mate to so many,' fundraiser organiser Tamara Fortune wrote.
Mr Bennett and his father (front centre) alongside members of the Australian Now Ga Kung Fu Academy
'We lost one of the best ones out there. He did not deserve this. He was kind to all that he met and always engaged everyone in the gym with his positive energy and engaging personality.
'Rest Easy Azuma and keep punching up there. We love you mate.'
Police have not released any suspect information but confirmed they are actively investigating Mr Bennett's death as a homicide.
Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau or contact Crime Stoppers. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11115399/Australian-fitness-trainer-Sydney-Azuma-Bennett-identified-victim-Los-Angeles-shooting.html | 2022-08-16T08:30:57Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11115399/Australian-fitness-trainer-Sydney-Azuma-Bennett-identified-victim-Los-Angeles-shooting.html | false | 2 |
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After Demise, Focus Shifts To 'Big Bull' Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's Stock Portfolio Worth Nearly $4 Billion
India’s ‘Big Bull’ Rakesh Jhunjhunwala died on 14th August 2022. The ace investor and billionaire’s death has put spotlight on the nearly $4 billion worth of stocks which were held by him.
62 year old Jhunjhunwala, also known as India’s Warren Buffett, had died of a reported cardiac arrest last Sunday. Over his four decade investment journey, the self-made trader had invested in a wide swathe of established businesses and startups, and served on the boards of several Indian firms.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was among the most influential market voices in Asia’s third-biggest economy, with an intense following among the nation’s growing horde of retail investors. The “Big Bull” was known to be a fierce backer of the India growth story. His investing success earned him a cult-like following, with news of his trades occasionally sparking stocks to move by their daily limits, as per Bloomberg report.
As per Forbes, Jhunjhunwala’s net worth was a mammoth $5.8 billion. Shares held by the deceased investor and his wife are worth almost $4 billion, the report mentioned. The key holdings include- around $1.4 billion in Titan, $ 884 million in Star Health, $281 million in Metro brands, $262 million in Tata Motors, $164 million in Crisil and $113 million in Fortis healthcare.
Amongst his wide portfolio, jewellery retailer Titan was one of the largest and most profitable investments for the veteran trader and his wife Rekha Jhunjhunwala, making up for more than a third of their portfolio, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. As per Forbes, Jhunjhunwala’s biggest asset worth over $1.5 billion is Titan shares.
The other top holdings by market value include Star Health & Allied Insurance Co., footwear maker Metro Brands Ltd. (14% stake) and automaker Tata Motors Ltd . Jhunjhunwala held stakes of more than 10% in Star Health, IT firm Aptech Ltd . and video game maker Nazara Technologies Ltd.
His portfolio also includes companies like Rallis India, Escorts, Canara Bank, Indian Hotels Company, Agro Tech Foods, Tata Motors. Overall, he had a stake in 47 companies at the end of the June 2022 quarter, as per Mint.
In 2020, when he featured on Forbes Asia’s list of Heroes of Philanthropy, Jhunjhunwala had said, “ When I became a billionaire in 2008, my father wasn’t interested in my net worth but in how much I was going to give away.” He had said a couple of years ago that he wanted to give away 25% of his wealth within his lifetime, as per Forbes.
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Upon his demise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged the impact Jhunjhunwala had on the investing community. The “indomitable” investor made “an indelible contribution to the financial world,” PM Modi wrote in a tweet on India's Independence Day eve.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was indomitable. Full of life, witty and insightful, he leaves behind an indelible contribution to the financial world. He was also very passionate about India’s progress. His passing away is saddening. My condolences to his family and admirers. Om Shanti. pic.twitter.com/DR2uIiiUb7
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 14, 2022
No Impact On Akasa Air?
There have also been reports that Rakesh Jhunjhunwala backed Akasa Air’s business operations wont be impacted by the ace investor’s demise. The airline had launched barely a week before the 62 year old’s passing. Last year, he had reportedly invested $35 million for a 40% stake in the low-cost airline Akasa Air.
The ace investor and billionaire was not supposed to be involved in the day-to-day operations of the airline, Bergis Desai, former managing partner of law firm J Sagar Associates and an investor in Akasa Air, told ET. He further added that the shareholder agreement has been structured in a way that will ensure the management by the estate, and every commitment that has been made will be honoured.
— Akasa Air (@AkasaAir) August 14, 2022
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A Comic Strip From the 1920s Predicted the Inconvenience of “Pocket Telephones”
A cartoonist named W.K. Haselden seemed to be WAY ahead of his time when he created a comic for the Daily Mirror from either 1919 or 1923 (sources vary) about people having telephones in their pockets in the future.
Haselden’s comic is called “When We All Have Pocket Telephones” and he illustrated how these phones of the future would always be with us AND they would ring in inconvenient times.
Oh no, not when you’re getting married!
Haselden ended this comic by saying “We shall certainly be “rung up” at the most awkward moments in our daily lives!”
I think he was on to something, don’t you…?
But even more surprising is the fact that all the way back in 1906, a man named Charles E. Alden claimed to have invented a wireless phone that could be carried in a person’s pocket.
Take a look at an article from the time period below.
Isn’t history wild?!?!
If these guys could only see what kind of technology we have now…
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The Sri Lanka Cricket board has demanded Rs. 2 billion from the newly appointed Chairman of the National Sports Council, Arjuna Ranatunga.
The Executive Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), at an emergency meeting held today (15th August), extensively deliberated on what it termed as false, derogatory and distorted statements made by Arjuna Ranatunga during a recent media interview.
SLC said that it has decided to take appropriate legal action against Ranatunga, who has spoken with malicious intent, damaging the goodwill and reputation of the SLC.
SLC also said that Ranatunga has made false and defamatory accusations against the Executive Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket.
Accordingly, Members of the Executive Committee have sent Letters of Demand to Arjuna Ranatunga, claiming Rs. 2 Billion as damages for the reputational losses that occurred to Sri Lanka Cricket and its officials by the said false and derogatory statement. (Colombo Gazette) | https://colombogazette.com/2022/08/15/sri-lanka-cricket-demands-rs-2-billion-from-arjuna/ | 2022-08-16T09:07:50Z | https://colombogazette.com/2022/08/15/sri-lanka-cricket-demands-rs-2-billion-from-arjuna/ | false | null |
House Of The Dragon star Steve Toussaint has spoken out about the reaction some Game of Thrones fans had to his casting in the show.
The 57-year-old actor, who has previously appeared in the likes of Prince Of Persia and Judge Dredd, will star in the Game Of Thrones prequel as Coryls Velaryonson.
The seafaring Velaryons are described in George RR Martin’s novels as having white skin, ghostly pale hair, and purple eyes, similar to the Targaryens.
However, for House Of The Dragon the clan has been reimagined as black nobles with silver dreadlocks.
Despite the change welcoming more diversity to the cast, Toussaint has detailed the ‘toxic’ reaction some fans have had towards it.
The actor said one of the first things he saw on social media after his casting was announced was comparison pictures of drawings of his character from the books next to shots of him.
‘And then there was the racist abuse that came with that,’ he said to Radio Times.
‘I kind of thought, “Oh, I get it, when we were criminals and pirates and slaves in the other show, you were OK with that. But as this guy is the richest [character] in the show and he’s a nobleman, now you have a problem with it.” In House of the Dragon [our colour] is just a given – I quite like that.’
Despite the backlash, Toussaint highlighted the importance of speaking out against the comments.
‘I don’t want this to be my story,’ he said. ‘But I’m not going to deny that it happened. Because it does.
‘It’s out there. And it should never be something that puts someone off from doing something they want to do.’
Speaking about his role, the Line Of Duty and Doctor Who actor revealed he had previously auditioned for series five of Game Of Thrones but was unsuccessful.
He also had high hopes of appearing in prequel series The Long Night which was scrapped.
For House Of The Dragon, Toussaint joins an all-star casting including the likes of Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Rhys Ifans, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, and Graham McTavish.
Set 300 years before the events of Game Of Thrones, House Of The Dragon will follow the Targaryen family history, starting right at the formation of Westeros.
House Of The Dragon will be the first in a number of planned spin-off series to arrive from HBO – including one focused on Jon Snow – offering a deeper dive into the history and mythology of Martin’s creation.
House of the Dragon will premiere on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW on August 22 2022.
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More than 50 human rights organisations have called for an end to the “pressing attacks” being mounted by the United States and Israel on the United Nations commission investigating racial discrimination and repression against the Palestinian people.
Last year, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) established an “ongoing” international commission of inquiry to investigate Israeli violations of international humanitarian law.
‘Israel, backed by the United States, has always sought to undermine or sabotage commissions of investigation from the United Nations’
– Professor Norman Finkelstein
The rights groups, many representing and acting on behalf of Palestinians, pledged their “full support” for the UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine, which they said has been facing “mounting attacks” led by Israel.
The letter went on to say that the UN commission has been facing a smear campaign with baseless accusations that members were anti-semitic and calling for its “disbandment”.
“The intense attacks come in light of the unique and historic mandate of the present Commission, the first permanent UN investigative body with a comprehensive mandate covering colonized Palestine,” the latter added.
Israel and Egypt have sought to stifle the commission’s work by blocking entry into the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza to carry out its mandate.
Professor Norman Finkelstein, the author of many books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said “there is nothing new here”.
“Israel, backed by the United States, has always sought to undermine or sabotage commissions of investigation from the United Nations,” he told Middle East Eye.
“The best-known example was the Goldstone report which Israel and [the] US worked assiduously to kill,” added Finkelstein.
“The challenge these reports have is that they lack enforcement power,” he said. “What is also needed alongside such commissions is a “political movement and political leadership that can use those instruments to galvanise public opinion”.
“Israel never passes up an opportunity to kill Palestinians, it really doesn’t,” he claimed. “It’s the same thing here, the Palestinian cause is weak at the moment and there is little regional support.”
Anti-semitism allegations
The latest pressure on the body comes after Commissioner Miloon Kothari gave an interview chastising Israel for not cooperating with the UN investigation, adding that if Israel wants to be part of the UN, it has to abide by its rules.
“I would go as far to raise the question of why are they even a member of the United Nations, because the Israeli government does not respect its own obligations as a UN member state. They in fact consistently, either directly or through the United States, try to undermine UN mechanisms,” he told Mondoweiss.
The commission’s primary critics, Israel and the US, pounced on the statement as evidence of the body’s apparent bias. One pro-Israeli organisation went as far as to accuse Kothari of questioning Israel’s right to exist and of anti-semitism, charges he denies.
The unique setup of the UN commission of inquiry has infuriated the US and Israel. The mandate is not time-limited or subject to renewal, preventing its closure due to intra-state horsetrading or pressure being applied to states to close it.
In a letter defending Kothari, the chair of the UN commission Navi Pillay highlighted Israel’s refusal to cooperate with the commission and “abide by its international obligations to end the occupation and fulfil the right of Palestinians to self-determination”.
In their letter defending the UN commission against attacks, the human rights organisations warned Israel has a “record” of non-cooperation with investigative and fact-finding UN bodies.
The tactic used by Israel includes “preventing the entry into Palestine, leading organised lobbying efforts against such bodies, and engaging smear campaigns accusing the bodies of bias and ‘antisemitism'”.
“As such, the latest attack on the mandate of the CoI is a continuation of Israel’s systematic efforts to shut down internationally mandated accountability mechanisms,” the letter warned.
Just a few weeks ago, the Israeli Prime Minster Yair Lapid, in a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, demanded “the immediate removal of all three members of the Commission of Inquiry tasked with investigating Israel, and the disbanding of the Commission.”
The US has also operated in lockstep with its long-time ally Israel. In June, it corralled 21 other countries accusing the commission of giving Israel “disproportionate” attention.
Such attempts at pressuring the UN body to carry out its work are anecdotally at least chipping away at the commission’s ability to carry out its mandate.
Members of the commission were hesitant to speak to MEE on the record, fearing that anything they might say could be litigated and spun by its critics.
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SANDERSON, Texas (AP) — Four people were killed when a high-speed chase ended in a fiery head-on collision on a remote West Texas highway, officials said Monday. The episode began at dusk Friday on U.S. 90 just east of Sanderson, about 230 miles (370.15 kilometers) west of San Antonio, according to a Monday statement by the Texas Department of Public Safety. A DPS trooper was making a stop on a crew-cabbed pickup when the truck sped away. A chase ensued through Sanderson and north on U.S. 285, then ended when the truck veered into the oncoming lane of the two-lane highway and slammed into an oncoming pickup. Both vehicles erupted in flames, as did a vehicle damaged by debris from the collision. The unidentified driver and a rear-seat male passenger from Mexico in the fleeing truck were killed, along with both Del Rio, Texas, men in the oncoming truck, the DPS said. A front-seat passenger in the fleeing truck, a woman from Honduras, was airlifted to an Odessa hospital, where she was listed in serious condition. The occupant of the third vehicle was not injured, the DPS said. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2704461353356/winning-numbers-drawn-in-daily-4-morning-game | 2022-08-16T09:18:01Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2704461353356/winning-numbers-drawn-in-daily-4-morning-game | true | 14 |
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Everyone is familiar with the fresh earthy scent permeating the air after heavy rainfall, and many people are quite fond of it, too. However, it’s not just down to gratitude for a cool and fresher climate after a drought, there’s actually some chemistry involved and it's been a hot topic for scientists for decades.
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The smell of rain is referred to as Petrichor, and is derived from the Ancient Greek words ‘petra’, which means stone, and ‘ichor’, which refers to the golden fluid flowing through the veins of gods and immortals.
First coined by Isabel Bear and RG Thomas, two Australian researchers in 1964, the warm musky smell hitting after rain is produced from a chemical reaction caused by bacteria.
Why does rain smell?
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Only 17% of 25-34-year-old women have attained a tertiary education in South Africa. This is one of the lowest among African countries according to The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Knowledge is power, especially in the case of female business owners who may not have received formal education because of gendered career paths. If you are looking to upskill, organisations such as Get Smarter and CPUT (Cape Town University of Technology), offer business management short courses targeted at entrepreneurs in SA. A less formal route of financial and business education is also an option, with sites like Fincheck Academy and Sage’s blog, being invaluable resources for entrepreneurs. Financial literacy is key for female entrepreneurs. It allows them to be in control of their money and to make smart decisions about costs and cash flow. This is vital for small businesses, as it can help them increase their chances of survival.
Networking and leveraging your female communities are especially important in your early growth stages. Building these strong networks can lead to business growth, but also increased confidence which is something female leaders often lack. According to Harvard Business Review, women can benefit from taking a strategic approach to networking. The report further states that focusing on a higher level of centrality and connecting with people who are connected to multiple networks should be vital in your strategy. LinkedIn reiterates this need to get started on networking, with 14-38% of women globally being less likely than men to have a strong network – one that’s both large and diverse. Organisations like Future Females, a community-based learning experience for women and Women Who Build Africa, a network for women in tech, offer females in South Africa an opportunity to thrive in the business world.
According to the Digital Gender Gap, 60 % of global GDP is set to be digitised in 2022, this alone proves how critical it is for female entrepreneurs to get on the digital train. Technology plays an essential role in making sure that business growth is accessible. According to Harvard Business Review, access to tech is not only fuel for business growth but also a key driver in accelerating global gender equality.
The UN echoed this sentiment, by making technology a crucial part of its innovation strategy for 2018–2021. Female entrepreneurs all over the world are using technology to get a step ahead – however, a missing piece of the puzzle remains skills development.
In South Africa specifically, action needs to be taken to drastically improve the training and support that is available to female-owned businesses, so that they can access and utilise new technologies. A sad reality in sub-Saharan Africa is that a majority of female entrepreneurs barely make ends meet, and very often are not found in the formal business sector. These women predominantly operate in the informal sector with very limited opportunities available to increase their profits, and this is where technology can play a significant role.
“Mobile phones and digital platforms are already benefiting female entrepreneurs: connecting them to markets, providing multi-lingual training, and facilitating their collective action.” According to the UN high-level panel, if technology is implemented effectively, it provides an opportunity for growth in this sector. Entrepreneurship is empowering for anyone no matter their gender. For women it’s especially empowering in terms of flexibility, being able to take control of their business journey as well as pursuing whatever other passions they may have. Technology adoption in Africa has also made it easier for women to balance their family responsibilities with their careers and skills upliftment.
On the flip side, another contributor to accelerating global gender equality in the business sector is correcting the underrepresentation of women in tech. We need more females designing products with female business owners in mind. Inclusive product design starts with ensuring that the teams building these products are diverse and truly understand the needs of the end user.
Business funding is probably one of the biggest barriers for female entrepreneurs. For example, in 2019 we saw less than 5% of VC funding for African startups going towards companies with female founders. In Sub-Saharan Africa currently, there is a $42 billion dollar funding gap for female entrepreneurs, and if the gender gap is bridged, it’s estimated that a $316bn GDP could be gained by 2025. These statistics highlight the need for new lending models and more women-focused lending institutions.
Female entrepreneurs in South Africa generally own fewer assets than men, and because they don’t have this collateral it often makes the loan process more difficult. Lending networks like Xena Capital, give women access to funding tailored to their needs – by doing so, they are unlocking the potential of the female economy. FundingHub is another such platform, although not only for women, which puts the power at the fingertips of the borrower, by letting shepreneurs choose between offers from various lenders. According to Sage, women manage credit much better than men do, and when invested in, women have a 27% credit turnover, compared to 8% in a male-run business.
By Ashleigh Butterworth 23 Jun 2022
The South African government especially needs to take the necessary steps to give female entrepreneurs better financial support. NEF Women Empowerment Fund and Isivande Women's Fund, are two such funds (aimed at black female business owners) that have been created with the help of both the government and large banks. Having formal financial structures like these in place for women to use, will catapult their businesses from ideation to success in no time. There's no denying that women-led businesses are just as profitable as those led by men, if not more so. But what's even more valuable is that these businesses are more likely to have a positive social impact.
Role models and mentors are crucial for entrepreneurs, especially for female business owners where there aren’t as many female leaders to look up to. It’s alarming that there were only four female CEOs among the top 40 JSE-listed companies in 2021. In addition to that, only 5% of all listed companies have a female CEO. So how do we get more women into leadership roles, and how do more women become thriving and successful entrepreneurs?
Every bit of advice, and guidance is essential on your business journey, but role models you resonate with, give you that extra boost of confidence to reach your goals. “You can't be what you can't see”, is a phrase that too perfectly fits the women in business narrative – budding entrepreneurs need to be able to talk to women who have gone through and overcome the same challenges as them.
Tips on how to stand out from your male counterparts, how to put together an innovative business plan that investors can’t resist, or simply how to get people to buy into your product – are all valuable questions best answered by people who have walked a similar path to yourself.
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Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone has delivered an update on the future of Alvaro Morata amid talk of the former Chelsea striker emerging as a possible transfer target for Manchester United. The Red Devils remain in the hunt for attacking reinforcements after seeing Edinson Cavani leave as a free agent and Cristiano Ronaldo generate plenty of exit rumours at Old Trafford.
Morata, who has spent the last two seasons on loan at Juventus, is a player said to be in the Red Devils’ sights – as he boasts Premier League experience from a previous stint at Stamford Bridge – but La Liga heavyweights insist there is a place for the 29-year-old forward in their plans.
Could Atletico Madrid sell Man Utd-linked Morata?
Morata’s first appearance of the 2022-23 campaign saw him bag a brace for Atletico in their 3-0 victory at Getafe, with Simeone eager to point out after that contest that a Spain international has a role to play for him.
The Argentine coach is aware that a sale could be sanctioned above his head, but told reporters when asked about a proven performer: “I am not the owner of the club, I am the coach. Everyone at the club hopes he continues.
“He is working very well, in an extraordinary way.
“I think that all footballers need to have confidence to do important things. He came back with great humility and wanting to work. He came back trying hard.”
What was Morata's record at Chelsea?
Morata hit 32 goals during his loan stint at Juventus, while 22 efforts were recorded for Atletico across a season-and-a-half prior to that.
He boasts a useful strike rate at the highest level, with the target found on 26 occasions through 56 appearances for Spain, but he did struggle to make an impact during a previous stint in England.
Chelsea splashed out a club-record £60 million ($72m) on Morata in the summer of 2017, but saw him hit just 24 goals through 72 outings before allowing him to head back to Spain.
One of those efforts came against United, who are said to be keeping a close eye on his situation, with a match-winning strike versus the Red Devils recorded at Stamford Bridge in November 2017. | https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/simeone-morata-update-man-utd-transfer-atletico-madrid/bltbfeb5bd690340d2c | 2022-08-16T09:35:47Z | https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/simeone-morata-update-man-utd-transfer-atletico-madrid/bltbfeb5bd690340d2c | true | 10 |
China sets sanctions on Taiwan figures to punish US, island
BEIJING (AP) - China imposed visa bans and other sanctions Tuesday on Taiwanese political figures as it raises pressure on the self-governing island and the U.S. in response to successive congressional visits.
The sanctions come a day after China announced more military exercises in the seas and skies surrounding Taiwan because of what it called “collusion and provocation between the U.S. and Taiwan.” There’s been no word on the timing and scale of the Chinese exercises.
They were announced the same day a U.S. congressional delegation met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, and after a similar visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years. The Chinese government objects to Taiwan having any official contact with foreign governments because it considers Taiwan its own territory, and its recent saber rattling has emphasized its threat to take the island by military force.
Pelosi’s visit was followed by nearly two weeks of threatening Chinese military exercises that included the firing of missiles over the island and incursions by navy ships and warplanes across the midline of the Taiwan Strait that has long been a buffer between the sides.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters that China had overreacted with its “provocative and totally unnecessary response to the congressional delegation that visited Taiwan earlier this month.”
The targets of China’s latest sanctions include Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the U.S., Bi-khim Hsiao, and legislators Ker Chien-ming, Koo Li-hsiung, Tsai Chi-chang, Chen Jiau-hua and Wang Ting-yu, along with activist Lin Fei-fan.
They will be barred from traveling to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, and from having any financial or personal connections with people and entities on the mainland, according to the ruling Communist Party’s Taiwan Work Office.
The measures were designed to “resolutely punish” those considered “diehard elements” supporting Taiwan’s independence, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said.
Premier Su Tseng-chang, leader of the legislature You Si-kun and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu were already on China’s sanctions list and will face more restrictions, Xinhua said.
China exercises no legal authority over Taiwan and it’s unclear what effect the sanctions would have. China has refused all contact with Taiwan’s government since shortly after the 2016 election of Tsai, who was overwhelmingly reelected in 2020.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry tweeted its appreciation for the most recent congressional visit, adding that “Authoritarian #China can’t dictate how democratic #Taiwan makes friends, wins support, stays resilient & shines like a beacon of freedom.”
Tsai’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party also controls the legislature, and the vast majority of Taiwanese favor maintaining the status quo of de facto independence amid strong economic and social connections between the sides.
China accuses the U.S. of encouraging the island’s independence through the sale of weapons and engagement between U.S. politicians and the island’s government. Washington says it does not support independence, has no formal diplomatic ties with the island and maintains that the two sides should settle their dispute peacefully — but it is legally bound to ensure the island can defend itself against any attack.
Taiwan has put its military on alert, but has taken no major countermeasures against the Chinese actions. That has been reflected in overriding calm and widespread ambivalence among the public, who have lived under threat of Chinese attack for more than seven decades.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry announced air force and ground-to-air missile drills would be held later in the week.
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Water and organic matter was brought to Earth by asteroids, finds Japan’s Hayabusa2 space probe.
The findings, published in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy explains the mystery of how the Earth, which consisted almost entirely of molten magma in its initial formation, came to be covered in water, Kyodo News reported.
A team of astronomers from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency drew the analysis based on samples from the Ryugu asteroid collected by the Hayabusa2 space probe.
“In a broad sense, it is possible that small celestial bodies brought things that led to water and life on Earth,” Motoo Ito, a senior researcher of geomaterials science at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was quoted as saying.
In December 2020, a capsule that had been carried on a six-year mission by Hayabusa2 delivered more than 5.4 grams of surface material to Earth from the Ryugu asteroid, located over 300 million km away.
While Ryugu particles displayed a close compositional match to that of Earth’s water, there were some slight differences, leading researchers to hypothesise that Earth may have also sourced its water from places other than asteroids, the report said.
An analysis of eight particles, totalling approximately 59 milligrams, from the Ryugu asteroid found in almost all of them organic matter and water not in liquid form but a hydroxyl group consisting of one oxygen atom bonded to one hydrogen atom, with a composition similar to that of water contained in cosmic dust and comets.
Protected by a “cradle” of phyllosilicates, they were believed to have endured harsh environmental changes after leaving the outer solar system, where water and organic matter are present.
Organic areas comprising a matter known as aliphatic hydrocarbon were also found within the relatively coarse-grained phyllosilicates. The surrounding coarse grains, which are more resistant to heat, may have prevented water and the organic matter from being altered by the environment, the report said.
Hayabusa2 left Earth in 2014 and reached its stationary position above Ryugu in June 2018 after travelling 3.2 billion km on an elliptical orbit around the Sun for more than three years.
The probe touched down on the asteroid twice the following year, collecting the first-ever subsurface samples from an asteroid.
Researchers have previously found that Ryugu, born from a parent body formed in the outer solar system, travelled to the inner solar system and that its particles contain amino acids — organic compounds said to be the “source of life.”
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[Trump/Russia/GOPgate] sock puppet org busted
By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/30/2022 - 6:14am |Previous 5-month long thread here:
http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/barr-trumps-soiled-reputations-35202
New charges may signal a more expansive effort to weed out Russian sockpuppet orgs for influencing elections & public opinion, right and left. ["failure to register as a foreign agent"]
13 Russians charged by Mueller in absentia 4 years ago, but this one seems to point higher up the RU food chain plus charges Americans as well.
The presence of investigation in Tampa (thoselcharging Black Hammer ATL as well) instead of SDNY may also signal a broader effort or different regional approach (good morning, Mr. DeSantis - nice hotbed of dissent you got there, would be a shame to see it go belly up)
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Twitter has made the WaPo Gaetz hot mike story a 'news event'
1 hour ago
Hot mic captured Gaetz assuring Stone of pardon, discussing Mueller redactions
As Roger Stone prepared to stand trial in 2019, complaining he was under pressure from federal prosecutors to incriminate Donald Trump, a close ally of the president repeatedly assured Stone that “the boss” would likely grant him clemency if he were convicted, a recording shows. At an event at a Trump property that October, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) predicted that Stone would be found guilty at his trial in Washington the following month but would not “do a day” in prison. Gaetz was apparently unaware they were being recorded by documentary filmmakers following Stone.
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/30/2022 - 3:10pm
Mho this is VERY well framed:
He always cared more about 'ratings' than real governing, but has now totally gone over to a fantasy land presidential campaign. For him this is now all about winning the most 'fans' and admirers on the right, not about having the job of president. While the fight about the presidency is currently still useful, he doesn't necessarily need that, he can turn around and use an alternative, like, say, representing the worst case scenario of the Deep State coming after you, the ultimate victim, but he is the one superhero savior who can fight back. It always comes down to 'ratings' for this man, it was never simply about politics.
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/30/2022 - 2:47pm
P.S. consider this: when push comes to shove, he may realize that he really doesn't want the job of president as he once deluded himself that he did. Look at how he despised all those minions who pestered him with actual presidential duties and how he paid no real attention to what his cabinet secretaries were doing, caring only if they reflected well on him. Look at how he spent 1/6, shut up in his dining room, enthralled watching his fans fight for him on the teevee and loathe to deal with it in any real way! Look at him trying to record that video and Ivanka struggling with getting him to use certain words. He is not so much thinking 'coup tactics" all he really cares about is not discouraging the fans from continuing to fight for him. He even uses the famous celeb words to fans "we love you"
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/30/2022 - 3:02pm
Sometimes Seth Abramson surprises with his understanding of pop culture (even tho he usually comes off like Joe Friday on 'Dragnet');
this guy's got the reality
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/30/2022 - 3:26pm
According to internal communications reviewed by Rolling Stone, Trump’s team is “quietly” planning for criminal charges as they wait for the Justice Department to make its move
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/31/2022 - 9:23pm
a reminder that Richard William Painter ...is an American lawyer, professor, and political candidate. From 2005 to 2007 Painter was the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration. He is the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota, and since 2016 has served as vice-chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW),[2][3] a government watchdog group.[4]....
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 6:05pm
Trump really did do some really crazy 25th-amendment style stuff in his lame duck period
What impresses me after listening to this is that it got stopped, it didn't happen, we still had a government that worked
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/04/2022 - 3:22pm
Methinks a good buy because their viewership is an older demographic who will know who he is and like him!
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/09/2022 - 6:57pm
saw that and saw how outraged many people are but one wonders what can be done about it until the Nov. elections are over, you have to know what kinda Senate you'll have and it seems to many that there are already a gazillion investigations going on
I guess the point: if you want him impeached first you got to get out there and work hard for a better Senate situation; for just one example:
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/05/2022 - 2:33pm
NYPost's Editorial Board coming out as given up on Trump:
concluding line
It’s up to the Justice Department to decide if this is a crime. But as a matter of principle, as a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/07/2022 - 1:29pm
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals by Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker -
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/08/2022 - 5:04pm
Michael Cohen:
recalling a legal distinction he used ta make for his client?
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/08/2022 - 11:25pm
Good to lighten one's mood; Trae's a funny good ol boy. I especially like the little phrase he slips in there for Trump so you'll have that..
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/09/2022 - 9:07pm
Representative Scott Perry says the F.B.I. seized his cellphone.
Luke Broadwater @NYTimes.com,Aug. 9, 2022, 7:50 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. on Tuesday seized the cellphone of Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania and the chairman of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, according to the congressman’s office.
Mr. Perry, who has been issued a subpoena by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, said three F.B.I. agents seized his phone Tuesday morning while he was traveling with family.
“They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish,” Mr. Perry said in a statement. “I’m outraged — though not surprised — that the F.B.I., under the direction of Merrick Garland’s D.O.J., would seize the phone of a sitting member of Congress.”
His statement was reported earlier by Fox News.
Mr. Perry compared the seizure of his cellphone to the F.B.I.’s search of former President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property Monday, in which agents took out boxes of materials after an all-day search related to an investigation into the mishandling of White House documents.
“My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents and friends. None of this is the government’s business,” Mr. Perry said. “As with President Trump last night, D.O.J. chose this unnecessary and aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys. These kinds of banana republic tactics should concern every citizen.”
It was not immediately clear why the F.B.I. had seized Mr. Perry’s phone. A spokeswoman for the congressman did not respond right away to a follow-up question, and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Perry has refused to appear before the Jan. 6 committee, and his lawyer has argued that there was “nothing improper” about his actions during the buildup to the attack on the Capitol.
In the weeks after the 2020 election, Mr. Perry was among at least 11 members of Congress who were involved in discussions with White House officials about overturning the election, including plans to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to throw out electoral votes from states won by President Biden, according to the committee. Mr. Perry also endorsed the idea of encouraging supporters to march to the Capitol, the committee has said.
A member of Congress since 2013, Mr. Perry also compiled a dossier of voter fraud allegations and coordinated a plan to try to replace the acting attorney general, who was resisting Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the election, with a more compliant official.
Mr. Perry is not the only ally of Mr. Trump whose phone has been seized in recent weeks. In June, federal agents seized the phone of John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who advised Mr. Trump on strategies to overturn the election.
Luke Broadwater covers Congress. He was the lead reporter on a series of investigative articles at The Baltimore Sun that won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award in 2020. @lukebroadwater
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/09/2022 - 10:04pm
OMG - can you say SPIES boys and girls?
Domestic, foreign, or both?
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/10/2022 - 10:34am
DOJ moves to unseal warrant that led to FBI search of Trump’s Florida home, AG Garland says
@ Twitter events. Aug. 11
The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it is moving forward with unsealing the search warrant and itemized receipt of what was taken from former president Donald Trump’s residence at his Mar-a-Largo Club in Palm Beach, Florida, during an FBI search of the property earlier this week. It was Attorney General Merrick Garland’s first public statement since Monday’s search and the first public acknowledgment that the department is actively investigating Trump’s handling of classified presidential records.
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/11/2022 - 5:17pm
and that works with this, where anything "bad" will have been planted:
Former US President Donald Trump has said he will not oppose the release of the warrant that let FBI agents search his Mar-a-Lago home earlier this week.
In a statement, Mr Trump said he was encouraging its "immediate release" - but repeated his claim the search was unnecessary and politically motivated....
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/12/2022 - 2:44am
a little digression, a reminder that on 1/6/21, while basically live blogging on the action on Dagblog, I said something like 'they've been inspired by the BLM defund/abolish protesters." And I got tons of shit from NCD and rmrd that they have nothing to do with each other (both of whom were also supporting the narrative that if they were Black, the evil Capitol Police would shoot them). I got good support from oceankat, who sensibly realized that it was all, both things about RULE OF LAW and society having the forces to support it.
Here you go. You either hate the idea of cops or you don't:
Which side are you on, having rule of law or ditching it for all just politics and identity and interest groups fighting each other to death all the time?
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/11/2022 - 11:28pm
hashtag #TraitorTrump now trending on Twitter; edit to add also #TRE45ON
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/12/2022 - 4:15pm
Judge Denies Trump Executive’s Request to Dismiss Manhattan Tax Case
Allen H. Weisselberg, who was indicted last summer, and the Trump Organization are scheduled to stand trial in October.
By Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum and Lola Fadulu @ NYTimes.com, Aug. 12, 2022, 10:38 a.m. ET
A Manhattan state court judge on Friday declined to throw out the criminal case against Donald J. Trump’s family business and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, clearing the way for a trial in the case scheduled for the fall.
Mr. Weisselberg and the business, the Trump Organization, were charged last year by the Manhattan district attorney’s office with having engaged in a 15-year scheme in which executives were compensated with hidden benefits so that they could evade taxes. The charges stemmed from the office’s long-running investigation into the company’s business practices.
In February, Mr. Weisselberg and the company filed motions to dismiss the charges, arguing that the case was politically motivated and that the defendants were charged only because of their link with former president Donald J. Trump.
The decision marked the latest legal blow to Mr. Trump in a week full of them.
On Monday, the F.B.I. searched his Florida home in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation. And on Wednesday the former president invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in an interview with the New York state attorney general, which is conducting a civil inquiry into some of the same practices that are being examined by the Manhattan district attorney.
The judge, Juan Merchan, granted a significant victory to the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg. His prosecutors argued in May, in response to the motion to dismiss, that there was nothing extraordinary about the charges: Mr. Weisselberg had violated the law in failing to pay his taxes and was being prosecuted for it, they said.
“Over the course of the period charged in the indictment, Weisselberg evaded payment of taxes on a total of $1.7 million in income,” they wrote in a memo filed with the court. “Such illegal conduct is regularly prosecuted and this office would have been remiss not to have done so here.”
Justice Merchan dismissed one count of criminal tax fraud against the Trump Organization and its affiliated payroll company, letting stand 14 of the 15 counts in the indictment against the business and all of the counts against Mr. Weisselberg. The prosecutors had conceded in May that the count should be dismissed because of issues with the statute of limitations [....]
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/12/2022 - 4:13pm
ah just a refresher, as one tends to forget all the shit going down at Mar-a-Lago while he was President
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/12/2022 - 9:37pm
'Taste of his own medicine': Plane flies ‘Ha Ha Ha' banner over Trump's Mar-a-Lago home
Natalie Neysa Alund USA TODAY, Aug. 11-12, 2022
A Florida man on Wednesday commissioned a plane to pull a sky banner with the message "Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha" and fly over Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home as supporters of the former president rallied outside to protest this week's FBI search of the home.
Miami resident Thomas Kennedy told USA TODAY on Thursday that he and a handful of friends paid $1,800 to fly the banner for four hours Wednesday near Trump's estate in Palm Beach.
"We thought it would be funny," said Kennedy, a self-professed Trump critic and Democratic activist. "From our perspective, Trump is a bully, and we wanted to give him a taste of his own medicine." [....]
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/12/2022 - 10:12pm
Trump is effing brilliant for what he does. People who lose track of that are simply retarded
It's not so much that we are simply retarded. It's more that we're not very good at understanding how the simply retarded think.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 08/16/2022 - 12:01am
yez. thank you for piping up cause more and more I am going with the simply retarded angle. I was just thinking on that after looking at pictures of him in Helsinki with Putin; Putin got him acting like a chastised little kid. Kim Jong Un and Saudis wrap him around their fingers. Looking at pictures of him with EU leaders, it's like they are mystified by a village fool and don't know how to handle him. He's got an intuitive feel for what's offensive to the "simply retarded" on the culture wars/politically-correct front but it's not like even Lee Atwater level. In the 90's he'd call the gossip columnists in NYC and say he was John Barron with a hot tip, they all knew it was him but would have to pretend they didn't. The balloons of a baby Trump in a diaper resounded for a reason. Rex Tillerson, a quintessential CEO- establishment Republican type who would at the same time understand at least some basic marketing to the masses really pegged it: fucking moron.
The fans are mostly morons who are sick as hell of being talked down to by elites and he knows how to humor them because he is one, there is nothing genius level at his rallies, they are moronic
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/16/2022 - 3:51am
Bob Costa thread following up on Bolton on Trump's handling of documents:
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/14/2022 - 2:05pm
A reminder of why we all take what Mary Trump says more seriously than the usual family member of a national politician: he is first and foremost a textbook narcissist and she knows him all her life as well as having a PHD in clinical psychology
The only 'party' he really cares about is Trump.He'll switch any allegiances in a NY minute if he sees it as to his personal benefit. There's no other there there.
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/15/2022 - 3:51pm
ego, a lot of it may simply be ego, liking to brag about using power for its own sake, no matter who or what it destroys or hurts
certainly it's what he did in NYC prior his "Apprentice" years
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Congresswoman Liz Cheney is facing a likely primary defeat in Wyoming. She has spoken out against former President Donald Trump and is down by 20 points in primary polls.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Congresswoman Liz Cheney is facing a likely primary defeat in Wyoming. She has spoken out against former President Donald Trump and is down by 20 points in primary polls.
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China sets sanctions on Taiwan figures to punish US, island
BEIJING (AP) - China imposed visa bans and other sanctions Tuesday on Taiwanese political figures as it raises pressure on the self-governing island and the U.S. in response to successive congressional visits.
The sanctions come a day after China announced more military exercises in the seas and skies surrounding Taiwan because of what it called “collusion and provocation between the U.S. and Taiwan.” There’s been no word on the timing and scale of the Chinese exercises.
They were announced the same day a U.S. congressional delegation met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, and after a similar visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years. The Chinese government objects to Taiwan having any official contact with foreign governments because it considers Taiwan its own territory, and its recent saber rattling has emphasized its threat to take the island by military force.
Pelosi’s visit was followed by nearly two weeks of threatening Chinese military exercises that included the firing of missiles over the island and incursions by navy ships and warplanes across the midline of the Taiwan Strait that has long been a buffer between the sides.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters that China had overreacted with its “provocative and totally unnecessary response to the congressional delegation that visited Taiwan earlier this month.”
The targets of China’s latest sanctions include Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the U.S., Bi-khim Hsiao, and legislators Ker Chien-ming, Koo Li-hsiung, Tsai Chi-chang, Chen Jiau-hua and Wang Ting-yu, along with activist Lin Fei-fan.
They will be barred from traveling to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, and from having any financial or personal connections with people and entities on the mainland, according to the ruling Communist Party’s Taiwan Work Office.
The measures were designed to “resolutely punish” those considered “diehard elements” supporting Taiwan’s independence, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said.
Premier Su Tseng-chang, leader of the legislature You Si-kun and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu were already on China’s sanctions list and will face more restrictions, Xinhua said.
China exercises no legal authority over Taiwan and it’s unclear what effect the sanctions would have. China has refused all contact with Taiwan’s government since shortly after the 2016 election of Tsai, who was overwhelmingly reelected in 2020.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry tweeted its appreciation for the most recent congressional visit, adding that “Authoritarian #China can’t dictate how democratic #Taiwan makes friends, wins support, stays resilient & shines like a beacon of freedom.”
Tsai’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party also controls the legislature, and the vast majority of Taiwanese favor maintaining the status quo of de facto independence amid strong economic and social connections between the sides.
China accuses the U.S. of encouraging the island’s independence through the sale of weapons and engagement between U.S. politicians and the island’s government. Washington says it does not support independence, has no formal diplomatic ties with the island and maintains that the two sides should settle their dispute peacefully — but it is legally bound to ensure the island can defend itself against any attack.
Taiwan has put its military on alert, but has taken no major countermeasures against the Chinese actions. That has been reflected in overriding calm and widespread ambivalence among the public, who have lived under threat of Chinese attack for more than seven decades.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry announced air force and ground-to-air missile drills would be held later in the week.
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‘I haven’t done anything harmful’ — Mihlali Ndamase on why her brands are sticking with her
YouTuber and beauty influencer Mihlali Ndamase says she has not done anything that would tarnish her relations with her brands despite the social media trolls.
In an interview on Kaya 959's breakfast show with Dineo Ranaka and Sol Phenduka, she was asked how her brand was dealing with the PR she has been getting from trending almost daily on Twitter.
“I do believe there is certain bad PR because things that are said can have some sort of harm on your brand but it all depends on what base you established your brand. Your work speaks for itself. Negative PR has nothing to do with how you've established your brand.”
When Sol asked her how she deals with t brands panicking when their person trends, she said she has not done anything wrong so she is on good terms with her brands.
“If you are being harmful then you will definitely have an issue with your brand. I've had conversations with my brands and I haven't done anything harmful. I haven't spoken ill about anyone's religion.”
Sol asked if her brands understand and she replied: “So far”.
Leeroy, who is Mihlali's partner, released a statement on August 13 to clear the air. He revealed he had parted ways with his wife Mary Jane in March this year and, while separated, he found love with Mihlali as they were free to “move on in whatever manner” they saw fit “as single individuals”.
While the couple have been leading a private life, Leeroy said he chose to speak up because of the constant cyberbullying his girlfriend was receiving on social media, with some labelling her a homewrecker.
“I met a women I fell in love with. It has been heartbreaking to see her name dragged daily on social media for loving me loudly and boldly. The constant harassment she receives, instigated by my estranged wife's associates, is unbearable and quite frankly not safe for anyone's mental wellbeing.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First International Bank of Israel (TASE: FIBI) one of Israel's major banking groups, today announced its results for the second quarter and first half of 2022, ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter Financial Highlights:
- Net income of NIS 342 million
- Return on Equity – 13.8%
- BoD approved dividend distribution of 50% of net income
- YoY growth of 24% in financing income from ongoing operations
- Cost/Income ratio continues to improve reaching 54.8%
Management Comment
Ms. Smadar Barber-Tsadik, CEO of the First International Bank Group, stated: "The profitability of the First International Bank in the second quarter of 2022 reflects growth that comes from increase in the ongoing operations of the Bank, in a variety of areas, with an emphasis on customer wealth management and credit growth, while maintaining the stability of the Bank and an adequate risk profile. This, together with the continuation of efficiency measures, which allows consistent and gradual improvement in the efficiency ratio. The first International Bank provides optimal service to customers by means of both, its wide branch network, which is twice as large as the Bank's proportionate share in the banking system, and by means of the Bank's advanced and innovative digital capabilities".
Growth
The growth trend is evident in all core areas of activities of the Bank:
Interest income grew in the second quarter of the year by 21% year over year, financing income from ongoing operations grew in the second quarter of the year by 24%, year over year. Commission income increased by 6% year over year, due to growth of the Bank activities.
Credit to the public grew by 18.3% in the past twelve months (as compared with the corresponding period last year) and by 11.4% since the beginning of the current year, amounting to NIS 113,932 million. Growth in credit is seen in all fields of operation: the large business segment grew in the past twelve months by 39%, the middle market business segment grew by 33.4%, the small business segment by 13.8%, credit to households grew by 6.6%, and housing related loans grew by 15%. Credit to the public grew in the second quarter of the year by 6.1%.
Deposits by the public grew by 6.8% in the second quarter of the year compared with the first quarter, amounting to NIS 164,539 million. Since the beginning of the year, deposits by the public grew by 7.2%.
Profitability
Net earning of the First International Bank Group in the second quarter of 2022 amounted to NIS 342 million, as compared to earnings of NIS 322 million in the first quarter of the year, and earnings of NIS 404 million in the corresponding quarter last year, in which the Bank recorded exceptional credit loss income, on background of the exit from the Corona crisis. Return on equity reached 13.8%. In the first half of the year, net earnings amounted to NIS 664 million, as compared to NIS 708 million in the corresponding first half of last year, with return on equity reaching 13.3%.
Credit loss expenses amounted in the second quarter of the year to NIS 31 million, as compared to income of NIS 128 million in the corresponding quarter last year, representing growth of NIS 159 million. This growth stems ,mostly, from exceptional income that was recorded last year in respect of credit losses in the amount of NIS 114 million, representing the decline in the collective credit loss allowance, explained by improvement in the economic indicators upon exit from the Corona crisis. An increase in the collective allowance was recorded in the second quarter of the year following the growth in volume of performing credit.
The volume of problematic credit declined by approximately 21%, as compared to the corresponding period last year, and by 15% as compared to the end of 2021.
Efficiency
Cost/income ratio continues to improve reaching 54.8% in the second quarter of the year, as compared with 57.5% in the corresponding period last year. The Bank continues to implement efficiency measures, which include, inter alia, improvement and automation of work procedures, innovation in digital and the advanced use of data. All these allow consistent and gradual improvement in the cost/income ratio.
Operating and other expenses amounted in the second quarter of the year to NIS 662 million, a reduction of 3.2% as compared to the first quarter of 2022, and a rise of 1.5% as compared to the second quarter of last year. Maintenance and depreciation of building and equipment expenses decreased by 4.7% in the second quarter of the year in relation to the corresponding period last year, following efficiency measures employed with respect to the real estate assets of the Group.
Financial stability
Equity attributed to the shareholders of the Bank reached an amount of NIS 9,973 million. The Tier I equity capital ratio reached 10.15%, which is higher by 0.9% than the required regulatory ratio.
In accordance with the profit distribution policy adopted by the Board of Directors of the Bank, the Bank distributes a dividend at the rate of up to 50% of the annual net earnings. The Board of Directors of the Bank, approved today a dividend distribution of NIS 170 million, representing 50% of net earnings for the second quarter of 2022, this in addition to dividends of NIS 540 million distributed so far in the current year. The annual dividend yield as of July 31, 2022, amounted to 8.6%, the highest dividend yield in the banking system.
* Immaterial adjustment of comparative data.
** Restated.
*** Restated in respect of the new disclosure format on nonaccrual debts instead of impaired debts.
(1) Annualized.
(2) According to instructions of the Bank of Israel the Net stable funding ratio was calculated since 2021. Therefor no comparative data for the six months ended June 30, 2021 is stated.
(3) According to instructions of the Bank of Israel, beginning in 2022, the method for the conversion of return per period into annualized terms was changed, from exponential calculation to linear calculation. Comparative data have been restated.
* Immaterial adjustment of comparative data.
* Immaterial adjustment of comparative data.
(1) Mostly reflects adjustments in respect of actuarial assessments as of the end of the period regarding defined benefits pension plans, of amounts recorded in the past in other comprehensive income.
* Immaterial adjustment of comparative data.
(1) Of which: provision for credit losses in respect of off-balance sheet credit instruments in the amount of NIS 109 million and NIS 79 million and NIS 79 million at 30.6.22, 30.6.21 and 31.12.21, respectively.
(2) Of which: other assets measured at fair value in the amount of NIS 283 million and NIS 353 million and NIS 333 million at 30.6.22, 30.6.21 and 31.12.21, respectively.
(3) Of which: other liabilities measured at fair value in the amount of NIS 337 million and NIS 382 million and NIS 641 million at 30.6.22, 30.6.21 and 31.12.21, respectively.
* Cumulative effect of the initial implementation of US accounting principles in the matter of financial instruments – credit losses (ASC-326).
** Immaterial adjustment of comparative data.
(1) Including share premium of NIS 313 million (as from 1992 onwards).
(2) Including an amount of NIS 2,391 million which cannot be distributed as dividend.
Contact:
Dafna Zucker
First International Bank of Israel
e-mail: zucker.d@fibi.co.il
Tel: +972-3-519-6224
Ehud Helft
GK Investor & Public Relations
e-mail: fibi@gkir.com
Tel: +1-646-201-924
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DISTRICT 9-2A
Predicted order of finish
1. South Plaquemines
Last year: 5-3, 2-2 in 11-2A
2. Thomas Jefferson
Last year: 2-6, 1-2 in 11-3A
3. Fisher
Last year: 0-7, 0-4 in 11-2A
4. Houma Christian
Last year: 2-4, 0-0 in 7-1A
5. Jefferson Rise
Last year: 1-3, 0-0 in 11-2A
Five players to watch
Richie Espadron
DE/RB/K | South Plaquemines
The junior (6-3, 235) does a little bit of everything for the Hurricanes and was the team’s second-leading tackler in 2021.
Jonas Lewis
WR/S | Thomas Jefferson
The senior (5-11, 170) picked off four passes and scored four offensive touchdowns for the Jaguars in 2021.
Deanel McGee
DE | South Plaquemines
The sophomore (6-5, 220) led the Hurricanes in sacks last season with 16 and has received interest from UL, Nicholls State, Jackson State and Southeastern.
Destin Pitre
RB | Thomas Jefferson
The senior (5-9, 170) has started on defense the past three seasons and at quarterback last year and will make the transition to running back in 2022.
Evan Phillips
RB/LB | Fisher
The junior (5-10, 190) started some games at quarterback in 2021 and will play mainly running back and linebacker this year.
Five things to know
1. South Plaquemines is talented but young, as the Hurricanes graduated just one senior last year and sport multiple underclassmen at key positions.
2. Two schools will join the ranks of Class 2A, with Houma Christian making the jump from Class 1A and Thomas Jefferson moving down from 3A.
3. Thomas Jefferson will run out one of the more experienced teams in the district, as the Jaguars return eight starters on offense and seven on defense.
4. Fisher will play the majority of its home games at Hoss Memtsas Stadium this year because of lingering effects from Hurricane Ida.
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Algoma Steel workers to vote on 'final offer'
The United Steelworkers Local 2251 will once again be asking its members in Sault Ste. Marie to vote on the latest contract offer from Algoma Steel.
This comes as the 15-day extension of the previous collective agreement is set to expire.
Algoma Steel has presented what the company calls its 'last offer," and the union executive will present it to union members next week on Aug. 25.
The union is recommending members reject it.
Local 2251 President Mike Da Prat said the union is simply asking for what he describes as a fair share of Algoma Steel’s profits.
"In 2007, when we had come out of a CCAA (Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act), and we became profitable, we received three-and-a-half, three-and-a-half, three-and-a-half [per cent wage increase], plus COLA [Cost Of Living Allowance]," Da Prat said.
"This time, they made double the revenue and they came with the paltry offer that they gave."
The union has set aside Aug. 29 - 31 for its members to vote on the company’s latest offer.
Until then, the company and the union said there will be no work stoppages of any kind -- whether it be a lockout or walkout -- until the vote is complete.
"We stated that we will be withdrawing our services eight hours after the tabulation of the vote to give our people an orderly manner in which to vacate the premises," said Da Prat, who pointed out that the members are only being advised to turn down the offer and that it is up to individual members on how to vote.
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Congresswoman Liz Cheney is facing a likely primary defeat in Wyoming. She has spoken out against former President Donald Trump and is down by 20 points in primary polls.
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Congresswoman Liz Cheney is facing a likely primary defeat in Wyoming. She has spoken out against former President Donald Trump and is down by 20 points in primary polls.
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Milner vows to support Nunez
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James Milner says Liverpool's players will "get round" Darwin Nunez and show their support after the striker's red card in Monday's draw with Crystal Palace.
Nunez was sent off for a headbutt on Joachim Andersen and Milner - who says he "didn't see" the incident - escorted the summer signing off the pitch.
"Obviously he's going to be disappointed with that and it's down to us to get round him and rally," Milner told Liverpool's website., external
"I'm sure he'll learn from it. I think the reaction was the most important thing. The team reacted very, very well and the ground reacted very well – as they always do – they got right behind us and we could've nicked a winner. It wasn't to be but we move on.
"It was disappointing not to get the winner but I think the reaction was incredible from the boys – 10 men and kept pushing.
"It's not the ideal start but you see the readiness for the season and it's obviously a long, long season. It's not the start we would want but you see the fight there.
"We've had a week of tough things that have gone on and preparation hasn't been ideal. I think it's disappointing but you see the fighting spirit was there and no-one can deny that." | https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c3g42047270o | 2022-08-16T10:04:16Z | https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c3g42047270o | false | 2 |
While this coming weekend represents the ‘break week’ for the clubs in the county hurling and football championships, the time will be used to produce the premier senior quarter-final representatives from the divisions/colleges sections.
The hurling semi-finals take place tonight and tomorrow night, with MTU Cork taking on Imokilly in Páirc Uí Rinn at 7.30pm tonight while UCC meet Avondhu in Mourneabbey tomorrow at the same time.
It’s MTU’s first time to compete in the county championship under the name that was adopted in 2020 – Covid-19 restrictions were behind the decision not to compete in that year or in 2021. Their last game was 0-23 to 0-13 defeat by UCC in 2019, while their last meeting with Imokilly was the year before that, a 5-14 to 0-11 loss.
Cork reserve goalkeeper Ger Collins of Ballinhassig is likely to be a key man for the college side, who are managed by Ballyhea’s John Mortell, while his fellow Carrigdhoun man William Hurley (Valley Rovers) should also feature, along with Tipperary native Aaron Browne and Stephen Keoghan from Kilkenny.
Lisgoold’s Liam O’Shea played for MTU in the Fitzgibbon Cup but he will be lining out for the opposition tonight and should be a valuable asset for Imokilly, who now have former Cork minor and U20 manager Denis Ring in charge.
The East Cork division were the team to progress to the county championship proper last year after beating UCC and Seandún and they are likely to be able to call upon many of that side again – though one notable absentee will be Shane O’Regan, whose transfer from Watergrasshill to Sarsfields has rendered him ineligible.
Last year, there was string representation from Castlemartyr (Barry Lawton, Brian Lawton, Michael Kelly and Joe Stack while Ciarán Joyce was on the panel but injured) and Castlelyons (Jack Barry, Colm Barry, Anthony Spillane and Alan Fenton) while Aghada’s Michael Russell and Lisgoold’s John Cronin bring good experience to the fray.
Tomorrow night in Mourneabbey will be the first meeting of UCC and Avondhu in the hurling championship since a 3-20 to 0-9 win for the college in 2018 at the same stage as CIT and Imokilly’s last clash.
Avondhu come into this second stage of the competition having already emerged from the first phase, which involved themselves, Carbery, Carrigdhoun, Duhallow and Muskerry.
In their opening game, the North Cork division saw off Carbery by 2-23 to 3-15 in Coachford, with Colin O’Brien scoring 1-10 while Stephen Condon notched 1-8.
Next up for them was a semi-final against Muskerry in Donoughmore – while O’Brien was absent, Condon kept up his impressive scoring ways, landing 1-10 in a 3-18 to 0-19 victory where the other goals were scored by James Magner and Jack Twomey.
O’Brien was back for the preliminary final against Duhallow in Glantane but had to line out at centre-back as they were without captain Mark Keane. The final scoreline of 1-28 to 0-22 in their favour looks comprehensive but it was only in extra time that they pulled away after a contest where the sides were level on 11 different occasions.
The time since then has been dominated with club action and so chances for the squad to gather have been limited but the games played will stand to them to some degree.
Like MTU, UCC’s squad will depend on player availability given external factors like club commitments outside of Cork, injury and summer travel abroad. Among those involved in the Fitzgibbon and not from senior Cork clubs were goalkeeper Ian Butler (Kildorrery) and inter-county defender Niall O’Leary (Castlelyons),
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Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez has been branded "really stupid" by Crystal Palace defender Joachim Andersen after being sent off on his Anfield debut.
Nunez was given his marching orders shortly before the hour by referee Paul Tierney after aiming a headbutt at Andersen during the 1-1 Premier League draw on Monday.
Footage later revealed the Uruguay international had moments earlier attempted a similar motion towards his opponent having been pestered by the Palace centre-back all evening.
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Nunez became the first Liverpool player sent off during Jurgen Klopp's near seven-year tenure for violent conduct and will now miss the forthcoming games against Manchester United, Bournemouth and Newcastle United.
And Andersen said: “The whole game I sat really close to him, I annoyed him a lot and did well against him. I think that’s why he was angry with me.
“He headbutted me, the first one, at a cross, and I told him he shouldn’t do that. I was angry with him. Then he did it again which is, for me, is really stupid, so it’s a clear red card.”
Liverpool were behind to Wilfried Zaha's first-half goal against the run of play but salvaged a draw through a wonder strike from Luis Diaz.
“It was a good point,” Anderson said to Viaplay. “It’s so difficult to come to Anfield and play against this team. I’m still a little bit disappointed because it’s 1-0 and we are a man up and then they score a goal like that. Brilliant from Diaz but, to be honest, we need to close him down. He was four against one, he drew four guys so we need to close that down.
“For the rest, I think we defended like warriors. We don’t concede many chances, we fight in the box, we squeeze, we fight with everything we know.
“We wanted to play a little bit more on the ball. Especially after the red card, we didn’t do well enough on the ball, but you know how well Liverpool press, it’s so difficult. I know it’s so easy to see from the outside but on the pitch it’s not easy.”
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Findings from 2020-2021 school year buck national trend of sluggish math gains caused by pandemic-related disruptions to learning.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study released today shows students who use MAP Accelerator, a personalized math tool jointly developed by Khan Academy and NWEA, achieve greater-than-projected gains in math. The initial findings suggest that the supplemental classroom tool may be an effective way to address unfinished learning from the pandemic, according to researchers.
The study was conducted in the height of the pandemic during the 2020-21 school year. The sample includes more than 180,000 students in third through eighth grades from 649 schools. Study results showed a number of benefits with 30 minutes of use:
- On average, test-score gains were 19% larger than projected.
- Scores increased across all grade levels.
- Scores increased across gender, race/ethnicity and poverty level.
"I think it's important to remember the enormous challenges students faced in the 2020-2021 school year," said Khan Academy founder Sal Khan. "Despite the circumstances, the students in this study who used MAP Accelerator as recommended made gains in math that are larger than projected, even for a pre-pandemic school year."
The study analyzed data from MAP Growth, a computer-adaptive assessment developed by NWEA, the not-for-profit research and educational services provider. MAP Growth is administered several times per year and taken by more than a quarter of U.S. students. MAP Growth scores are automatically imported into MAP Accelerator to generate a personalized, mastery-based learning plan for every student.
"Waverly Middle School adopted MAP Accelerator to respond to unfinished learning that had occurred due to the COVID-19-related school disruptions," said Elizabeth McIntosh, director of curriculum and instruction at Waverly Central School District in Waverly, New York. "The tool is a great way to support our kids in meeting them where they are instructionally. Our students find it highly engaging while helping them with core instruction, filling gaps, and putting them on a ramp to success."
The results of the study suggest a positive and significant relationship between using MAP Accelerator and score gains on the MAP Growth assessment.
A grade-level view shows student gains. The purple, horizontal lines below represent projected gains based on NWEA norms. The green bars depict gains for students who used MAP Accelerator for at least 30 minutes per week.
For example, fifth-grade students who used MAP Accelerator for 30 minutes per week grew an average 18% more than projected, gaining 1.7 points above pre-pandemic norms.
"The results of this study offer a lot of hope for addressing the impacts of this pandemic, which has disproportionately hit some of our most underserved populations," said NWEA CEO Chris Minnich. "It underscores the importance of increased opportunities for students to engage with targeted math content, and a tool like MAP Accelerator makes it possible for teachers to do that efficiently."
For an explanation of math RIT scores, please see Normative Data & RIT Scores.
For more detailed information on the research findings, please see the technical report.
A personalized learning tool for grades three through eight, MAP Accelerator reduces the manual work of differentiating math instruction by automatically integrating Clever class rosters, MAP Growth scores and Khan Academy content to generate learning pathways — complete with lessons, instructional videos and practice problems. Teachers can adjust individual student goals and learning pathways as students master new skills and concepts. District and school administrators can track usage and monitor the effectiveness of MAP Accelerator with easy-to-use reporting dashboards. MAP Accelerator is available in English and Spanish.
NWEA® (formerly known as Northwest Evaluation Association) is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators in more than 146 countries through research, assessment solutions, policy and advocacy services, professional learning and school improvement services that fight for equity, drive classroom impact and push for systemic change in our educational communities. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we're partnering with educators to help all kids learn. For media inquiries, please contact Simona Beattie, Sr. Manager, Public Relations, at simona.beattie@nwea.org or (971) 361-9526.
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Once again, the poster boy for MG Pakistan, Javed Afridi is trending on social media due to his latest post regarding MG 3’s “imminent arrival”. Javed Afridi has been teasing MG3 for years at this point but has never revealed the official launch date for the car.
In his latest tweet, Afridi can be seen standing next to an MG3, although the exact location is unknown. The caption of the photo says “COMING SOON.”
MG3 COMING 🔜 pic.twitter.com/2XiBBIKpKp
— Javed Afridi (@JAfridi10) August 15, 2022
Public Response
Afridi’s recent social media exploits have received a great deal of heat from the public for three reasons:
- The government is trying to encourage the sale and purchase of small and cheap vehicles in Pakistan, while MG has its sights fixed on the premium vehicle market (MG 3 isn’t cheap).
- Afridi is “all talk and no walk.” He teased several vehicles for Pakistan in recent times, a majority of which never made it to Pakistan.
- MG has yet to sell a single locally assembled car in Pakistan, despite being in the country for almost two years. Chery and Haval — both of which came to Pakistan well after MG — have already started local assembly.
About MG 3
MG 3 is a sub-compact family hatchback that rivals Suzuki Swift, KIA Rio, Toyota Vitz, and other similar vehicles.
In the international market, MG 3 is available in two engine options. A 1.5-liter, naturally aspirated, four-cylinder petrol engine (105 hp, 137 Nm torque) that comes with a 5-speed manual transmission and a similar but differently tuned engine (109 hp, 150 Nm torque) that comes with a 4-speed automatic transmission.
MG 3 has a standard eight-inch touch-sensitive infotainment screen with Apple Carplay, Sat-Nav, rear parking sensors, a reverse camera with dynamic guidelines, multi-media controls on the steering wheel, Bluetooth connectivity, cruise control, AC with dust and pollen filters, a four-speaker premium sound system, USB/AUX connectivity, and other basic features.
Price
It bears mentioning that, in the UK, MG 3 is sold as a locally assembled car. Despite that, its starting price is the equivalent of Rs. 3.4 million. Afridi, on the other hand, keeps insisting that it will cost “less than Rs. 2 million” in Pakistan.
With the features and specifications mentioned above, the UK price seems more realistic compared to Afridi’s tall claim.
Launching Soon?
Earlier this year, a senior representative of MG told ProPakistani that, although the company realizes MG 3’s potential and popularity in Pakistan, its launch is not on MG’s plans for the near future.
He reasoned that MG does not sell its hatchback in many Right-Hand Drive (RHD) markets. Resultantly, the production volume for it is quite low, which would make it a challenge for the company to meet its demand in Pakistan.
He clarified that the company plans to launch MG 3 in Pakistan, but only when it’s feasible. He added that the company’s focus is on bringing crossovers to the market first. Once that’s out of the way, then the company will focus on economy cars.
Based on these remarks, MG 3 is not “coming soon” as Javed Afridi has claimed. | https://propakistani.pk/2022/08/16/mg-3-coming-soon-yet-again/ | 2022-08-16T10:09:32Z | https://propakistani.pk/2022/08/16/mg-3-coming-soon-yet-again/ | true | 1 |
Expansion will bring internet speeds up to 2 Gbps to a growing list of communities in Pennsylvania
EDINBURG, Va., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glo Fiber, powered by Shenandoah Telecommunications Company ("Shentel") (Nasdaq: SHEN), announced they have reached agreements with municipal officials to deploy next generation fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband services to several areas in York County, Pennsylvania including:
- York Township
- Dallastown Borough
- Red Lion Borough
- Yoe Borough
- Windsor Borough
- Windsor Township
- Spring Garden Township
Construction began in York Township this month and will continue into 2023 in the remaining boroughs and townships, bringing a future-proof fiber network to over 24,000 homes and businesses throughout the County. To check the status of their neighborhood and receive updates, interested residents and businesses can pre-register at www.glofiber.com.
"The franchise agreement with Shentel will provide the residents of Windsor Township with an alternative broadband company. We look forward to our continued partnership with Shentel," said Jennifer Gunnet, Windsor Township Manager.
Glo Fiber provides unlimited multi-gigabit internet access with symmetrical upload and download speeds, streaming TV, and phone services in the Mid-Atlantic region. Using Shentel's 7,900-mile regional fiber network, Glo Fiber can ensure high speeds, low latency, and fair pricing. The company has earned a reputation for providing superior local customer service across its markets, including the growing list of communities in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Delaware.
"We have a long, successful history of offering fiber service to large businesses in York County," said Chris Kyle, Vice President of Industry and Regulatory Affairs at Shentel. "It is exciting to continue this work by bringing Glo Fiber to thousands of county residents and businesses. Our network is capable of multi-gig service that will provide the speeds citizens need on a daily basis as well as offering a much-needed competitive choice."
Glo Fiber will offer symmetrical, high-speed internet access, streaming TV, and unlimited local and long-distance phone service to the area. Glo TV service is delivered via an app and is compatible with Apple TV, Amazon's Fire Stick, and many smart TVs with embedded streaming software. Optional Wall-to-Wall WiFi is available, allowing customers to connect anywhere in their home or business. There are no contracts, and pricing is straightforward with affordable options for individuals and families relying on the internet for work, school, and play.
To learn more about Glo Fiber, please visit www.glofiber.com or 1-800-IWANTGLO. For more information about Shentel, please visit www.shentel.com or call 1-800-SHENTEL (1-800-743-6835).
Glo Fiber (Glo) provides next-generation fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) multi-gigabit broadband internet access, live streaming TV, and digital home phone service powered by Shentel (Nasdaq: SHEN). Glo provides the fastest available service to residents leveraging XGS-PON, a state-of-the-art technology capable of symmetrical internet speeds up to 10 Gbps.
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) provides broadband services through its high speed, state-of-the-art cable, fiber-optic and fixed wireless networks to customers in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The Company's services include: broadband internet, video, and voice; fiber-optic Ethernet, wavelength and leasing; and tower colocation leasing. The Company owns an extensive regional network with over 7,900 route miles of fiber and over 220 macro cellular towers. For more information, please visit www.shentel.com.
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Woman, 88, killed in alligator attack while gardening
BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) - An 88-year-old woman from South Carolina is dead after she was attacked by an alligator, according to sheriff’s officials.
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office and other emergency services responded to the scene of an alligator attack in Sun City on Monday. They say they received a call around 11:15 a.m. reporting a large alligator near the edge of a pond in the community guarding what was believed to be a person.
Emergency services arrived and located the alligator, as well as a deceased person, WTOC reports.
According to the sheriff’s office and the South Carolina Department of Resources, the victim has been identified as 88-year-old Nancy A. Becker, of Sun City. Officials believe she was gardening near the pond and slipped into the water.
The alligator has since been removed from the pond and euthanized, according to officials.
Word of the attack spread quickly throughout the community, as some saw the large police, EMS and fire truck presence at the scene. Others said they got alerts from the sheriff’s office that there had been a fatal attack.
A sheriff’s deputy said there are around 200 lagoons and ponds in the Sun City community and that the assumption should be there are alligators in most of those bodies of water.
Several residents said they’re very aware of that constant danger and always have an eye out for alligators.
“Oh, they’re very fast, anywhere from 15 to 30 miles an hour on land, and they can climb,” Marvin Margolies said.
“You’ve got to be real careful where you walk your dogs. You don’t leave your dogs out at night,” Alan Rosenthal said.
The Department of Resources and the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office is investigating the incident.
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by James Morris and Son Nguyen
57-year-old father used an illegal gas gun to fire two shots at his son in the early hours of Saturday morning after being ambushed by him as he launched another violent tirade demanding money for drugs. Son had returned home to Udon Thani from Bangkok in February after losing his job.
The tragedy and torment of Thailand’s ongoing drug addiction epidemic were brought home on Saturday when a 57-year-old man broke down and told police that he could not avoid shooting his 37-year-old son dead in the early hours of the morning as a homicide investigation got underway in the Kut Chap district of Udon Thani.
Police in Udon Thani, in northeastern Thailand, on Saturday charged a 57-year-old man with killing his son after an early morning incident in which the younger man attacked his father with a knife while demanding money for drugs.
(Source: – Asean Now) | http://www.buriramtimes.com/father-forced-to-kill-his-37-year-old-son-in-udon-thani/ | 2022-08-16T10:13:32Z | http://www.buriramtimes.com/father-forced-to-kill-his-37-year-old-son-in-udon-thani/ | true | null |
The wee hours of August 16 marked the manifestation of the darkest nightmare of the Indian footballing faithful. FIFA, the international football governing body, suspended the All India Football Federation (AIFF), with immediate effect, for ‘undue influence’ from third parties.
The decision followed dark clouds looming over the country's footballing future after the AIFF failed to hold its presidential re-election due in December 2020. The Supreme Court swooped in and asked long-serving AIFF President Praful Patel to step down and appointed a Committee of Administrators (CoA) to take over the day-to-day affairs. However, FIFA found the developments to be in violation of their statute and decided to ban the AIFF.
The suspension throws India's footballing future into a mist of uncertainty. Meanwhile, FIFA said that they are in constant contact with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in India and are still "hopeful that a positive outcome to the case may still be achieved." However, a prolonged ban will have a far-reaching impact on the future of the sport.
India temporarily striped of its rights to host the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
The buzz around the upcoming U-17 Women's World Cup, which was to be hosted across three cities in India, was steadily growing. Ticketing sales have started too. However, owing to the suspension, FIFA, in a statement, underlined that the tournament cannot be held in India in the current scenario.
Meanwhile, if the global body awards the tournament's hosting rights to another nation, India's chances for participation could also be nullified. The Blue Tigresses sealed a spot in the tournament by virtue of being the hosts and not by merit.
The only glimmer of hope that remains is that the AIFF complete their electoral process immediately and FIFA end the suspension well before the tournament.
What will be the impact of the ban in regards to international football?
For both the Indian men's and women's national teams, the ban brings along the dreaded possibility of being barred from featuring in any international tournament or matches. The Blue Tigers were meant to play two friendlies against Singapore and Vietnam in September. However, in the current scenario the matches look unlikely to happen.
Earlier in the year, India secured a berth in the 2023 edition of the AFC Asian Cup but a prolonged ban could hamper their preparation or even their chances of participating in the tournament itself.
Meanwhile, the senior women's team too will face similarly dire circumstances where they will not be able to take part in the SAFF Women's Championship next month.
Will the ban impact club football in India?
While the FIFA ban doesn't bring the entire club football structure in the country to a shutdown, there will be evident repercussions. No league in the country will be recognised by FIFA or AFC and none of the clubs in the country will be allowed to participate in continental tournaments -- AFC Women Club Championship, AFC Cup and AFC Champions League competitions.
In the current scenario, Gokulam Kerala FC, who have already traveled to Uzbekistan, won't be able to participate in the AFC Women's Club Championship matches. The suspension has also brought about clouds of uncertainty around ATK Mohun Bagan's appearance in the knockout stages of the on-going AFC Cup.
Furthermore, Indian clubs will now be unable to register foreign players until the ban is lifted.
While a prompt reaction from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports might bring the blackout surrounding Indian football to a end, the first FIFA ban in AIFF's 85-year-long history puts into perspective the plight of game in the country. | https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/what-fifa-ban-mean-future-indian-football | 2022-08-16T10:16:49Z | https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/what-fifa-ban-mean-future-indian-football | true | 1 |
Weightlifting
Anita Chanu: Manipur's secret in churning out world class weightlifters
What is common between all the champion weightlifters from Manipur? It is their coach Anita Chanu, who broke locks for Bindyarani Devi and went to Mirabai Chanu's home to stop her from quitting the sport.
Imphal: Anita Chanu was one of India's first woman weightlifters. She took up the sport in the 1980s, at a time when it was unheard of for women to lift loads for sport, even though lifting heavy logs was supposed to be part of their daily work.
Her contemporary Kunjarani Devi went on to achieve international glory as an athlete, but Anita had to end her career due to a leg injury. Her dreams, however, did not stop there as she turned to coaching and has devoted her entire life to churn out world champion weightlifters since then.
From Bindyarani Devi, who called Anita from Birmingham after her Commonwealth Games silver medal saying she won all because of her help, to Mirabai Chanu, whose parents Anita convinced to not let her quit weightlifting, to Arjuna awardees Sonia Chanu and Renu Bala Chanu before them, it is this coach who is the common link between all of the weightlifting behemoths who have emerged from Manipur over the last two decades.
In a conversation with The Bridge at the Khuman Lampak Sports Complex in Manipur, Anita Chanu said, "When I was I kid I loved to listen to sports news on the radio and loved to dream of myself as a player. Women's weightlifting was not in the Olympics till 2000, by when I had retired, but I did manage a 4th-place finish at the 1990 Asian Games."
Anita Chanu remembers running up the hills skirting her village of Luwangsangbam in an attempt to 'train' for sports because there was no other way to avail coaching in her childhood. Now, almost 25 years after her retirement, the training centre she set up in that village is a boon for those in northern Manipur for whom travelling to Imphal is difficult.
Making a champion - Mirabai Chanu
Like Mirabai Chanu, who showed up all alone at her door as a 12-year-old girl wanting to learn the sport under her in 2006.
"Whenever aspiring lifters come to us for the first time, we try to understand their family background - what their family does, how they come to the training centre, what food they usually eat. Mirabai was from a poor background and had to travel a long way to train everyday, but what stood out about her was her determination," Anita said.
Mirabai was rarely on time, as she had to help her family in the fields before taking the long 25km journey (often on backs of trucks she would take lifts from). It was unprofessional to be late, but Anita realised this was a special case.
"I personally went to her home and talked to her parents, trying to convince them of the amount of potential she had. I asked them to keep sending her to train whatever situation arose," she said.
"Another thing that set Mirabai apart from others was how clean her mind was. There have been many others who had potential but who then fail to perform on the big stage because they have double thoughts. Mirabai had no such problems, she single-mindedly followed every advice her coaches gave her," she said.
When Mirabai finally gave her validation by winning a World Championship medal, Anita found herself crying. When her most famous ward came back to India after her Tokyo Olympics triumph last year, they went to pray together and express their gratitude to the Gods.
Bindyarani's secret ally
2022 CWG silver medallist Bindyarani Devi also has a lot of gratitude for Anita Oja, as she calls her.
In a conversation with The Bridge, Bindyarani said, "The state's training ground is a bit congested, they only have two or three platforms and there are many students. Seeing my efforts, Anita Oja told me to come to her training centre and she gave me a separate training platform there."
Anita concurs, also adding that Bindyarani called her from Birmingham after her CWG triumph, saying that her medal was all because of her coaching.
"In weightlifting, you cannot ever stop training. During Covid, the SAI centre was closed and that was when Bindyarani came to me. We planned to break the lock of the SAI centre so that she could train in secret (laughs)," Anita said.
Giving up national role to focus on grassroots
Anita Chanu holds her identity as a coach working with grassroots athletes close to her heart. She says she was asked many times to join the national camp in Patiala, but that she refused because she wanted to work with work-in-progress athletes - like the 12-year-old Mirabai or the 21-year-old Bindyarani who showed up looking for a place to train.
"My ultimate dream was to win an Asian Games medal, but I didn't succeed in this. I then turned my focus on training other aspiring athletes from here so that they could achieve what I couldn't," she said.
Earlier in her playing days, in her quest to become like the sports heroes she would hear about on the radio, Anita took up various sports like Athletics, Football and Powerlifting before she found her calling in Weightlifting. She won medals at the state and national levels in Shot Put, was selected for the national football team and represented India in international meets in Powerlifting.
After her shift to Weightlifting, she won two bronze medals at the Asian Women's Weightlifting Championships in 1992.
In 2010, she received the Dhyan Chand Award, the lifetime achievement sporting honour.
"God has gifted Manipuris the ability to play sports. Our climate is conducive for sports, it helps in fast muscle recovery. Our food habit is also helpful for sports. Also, our height and physique helps us succeed in sports like weightlifting. Our local festivals like the Lai Haraoba are also important in this regard, as we are encouraged to play sports in front of our Gods," Anita said on how her home state continues producing champion athletes. | https://thebridge.in/weightlifting/anita-chanu-manipur-secret-weightlifting-coach-34582 | 2022-08-16T10:18:15Z | https://thebridge.in/weightlifting/anita-chanu-manipur-secret-weightlifting-coach-34582 | true | 1 |
Cheltenham Festival organisers have taken the decision to cap the daily attendance at 68,500 from 2023 onwards.
The Jockey Club have made the decision in response to customer feedback following this year's meeting, which saw the record attendance for a single day broken on both Thursday and Friday as 73,754 piled into the racecourse on St Patrick's Day before 73,875 attended Gold Cup day.
In total, 280,627 racegoers attended Prestbury Park over the four days in March, but that figure will be down to 274,000 from next year.
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As part of planning the 2023 event, the Jockey Club said it had gathered and reviewed feedback from racegoers and participants about their experience, and while the feedback was “very positive towards the world-class sport on offer and the high standards of facilities at Cheltenham… it was also clear that many wished to see reduced spectator numbers to ease movement around the course and enhance service times”.
Ian Renton, the Jockey Club’s managing director for Cheltenham and the West Region, said: “With Covid-19 spectator restrictions lifted, the Festival made a spectacular return in 2022, welcoming record crowds to enjoy a tremendous atmosphere and the very best of jump racing.
“It was fantastic to attract capacity crowds on both Thursday and Friday to witness some brilliant racing in glorious sunshine. However, we are well aware that our facilities, even after significant investment in recent years, are stretched at these attendance levels.
“Despite the financial implications of reducing attendance numbers, we will be capping daily capacity at 68,500 in the recognition of the importance of ensuring that the Festival remains an attractive and enjoyable experience for the long-term.
“Ticket sales for 2023 have been very brisk and I would advise those wishing to attend to book as soon as possible to avoid any possible disappointment.”
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India's schedule includes home series against New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and West Indies. In the same period, the women's team will face England, Australia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
New Delhi: ICC have unveiled the fixtures for women's cricket in a first-ever Women's Future Tours Program. The FTP outlines the international cricket calendar, including ICC events and bilateral international series. The schedule covers 2022 until ICC Women's World Cup in India in 2025.
“This is a huge moment for the women’s game,” said ICC General Manager of Cricket Wasim Khan. “This FTP not only lends certainty to future cricket tours but also sets the base for a structure that is sure to grow in the coming years.”
India's schedule includes home series against New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and West Indies. In the same period, the women's team will face England, Australia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
The programme for India began with the Sri Lanka away series that comprised three ODIs and three T20Is. India won the ODIs 3-0 and T20Is 2-1.
India's next assignment is in September against England (three ODIs, three T20Is) before hosting Australia for five T20Is in December.
Next year, India will be involved in a T20I tri-series involving South Africa and West Indies.
After a sizable lull in international cricket, with Women's IPL scheduled in March 2023, India women's team will travel to Bangladesh for three ODIs and three T20Is.
In September and October 2023, India have a busy schedule of hosting South Africa and New Zealand with back-to-back three ODI and three T20I series.
At the close of the year, India will host England and Australia in one Test match each - their first five-day assignment since 2021. The series will also include three T20Is (vs England) and three ODIs & three T20Is (vs Australia).
In December 2024, India will be away to Australia for three ODIs; at home against West Indies and Ireland with three ODIs and three T20Is on the cards.
One of the highlights of the women’s calendar is England's trip to Australia for the multi-format Ashes. It will be a standalone series at the beginning of 2025, with the men's series coming later that year.
In total there will be over 300 international women's matches during the next period, which includes a total of seven Test matches, 135 ODIs and 159 T20Is.
Teams will play three-match bilateral ODI series as part of the 2022-25 ICC Women's Championships, ahead of the next Women’s ODI World Cup in India in 2025.
Last month, ICC had revealed every women's white-ball tournament to be played up until 2027. The FTP is built all around those major tournaments.
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While club players have returned in strong numbers after Covid lockdowns, Cricket Australia's annual survey revealed a worrying decline in children aged 12 and under trying out cricket during the 2021-22 Australian summer | https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/sports-news/india-to-play-two-tests-against-australia-and-england-in-first-ever-womens-future-tours-program-11062701.html | 2022-08-16T10:20:03Z | https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/sports-news/india-to-play-two-tests-against-australia-and-england-in-first-ever-womens-future-tours-program-11062701.html | true | 1 |
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Stephen Flavall makes his living by playing video games to an audience of thousands on Twitch. When he first started streaming, he only had about fifteen people at a time watching him. He liked how he could engage with a small community, cracking jokes while people cheered him on.
Unfortunately, the vibe changed as his popularity grew.
"Around 200 viewers was when it started getting exhausting," says Flavall. "Now I have like 2,000 viewers [at a time] and when that many people are asking you questions and telling you what to do, it becomes absolutely unmanageable. I started having anxiety, bordering on full panic attacks."
Flavall's gotten to a better place now, but his story isn't unique. Burnout is on the rise across the country, even for those whose work is — quite literally — play.
Few breaks, fewer vacations
While professional video gaming can sound like an enviable gig, it's not too different from being a performer. Streamers have an audience, a persona, and act in the same role for long hours.
Streamers can't really take breaks, either. They risk their fanbase losing interest during a stream and logging off. Since they're self-employed, they can't rely on paid vacation, or sick leave. That leaves streamers wondering how to navigate making an income that isn't an official "job."
"If you have breaks during your stream, how do they work?" asked a reddit user on r/Twitch. "I've been streaming for a little bit, but found it's been difficult for me to go for much longer than two hours."
Another redditor commented on the appropriate length of a break: "20 minutes is way too long. I recommend five minutes because you don't want people to lose interest."
When Flavall, who goes by jorbs on Twitch, first started out, he also wasn't too keen on taking breaks, and that extended to time offline for vacation.
"I would worry about viewers losing interest in my channel if it was offline for a week or two," says Flavall. "But nowadays my content is unique enough and my viewers are long term enough that my viewerbase consistently returns when I come back."
Yet, even now, many of Flavall's "vacations" are really still work.
"Conventions like TwitchCon, opening celebrations for different game studios and production companies, in-person content creation opportunities, and other private chances to schmooze with sponsors or investors, all give the illusion of taking a break while ultimately actually being another work weekend," says Flavall.
Mixing it up and risking it all
Twitch audiences can also demand that streamers play games they may have soured on. Haelian, another Twitch streamer known for playing rogue-likes, got tired of trying to escape the underworld of Hades day-in and day-out. But that game made his stream popular, and his fans weren't pleased.
"I was already burnt out from Hades, but I was splitting my time 50% other games and 50% Hades," says Haelian. "You get people that you don't really wanna hear say 'When is he gonna switch to Hades?' 'Why hasn't he started Hades yet?'"
What followed was a different kind of hell. Viewer participation dropped when Haelian started dedicating more time to other games. Fewer people would tune in if he wasn't fighting the Furies or squaring off against the Bull of Minos. That risked his livelihood. "How interactive people are with me and how interactive I am with them, all those things directly hit my wallet," says Haelian.
"Every content creator has gone through this, especially the ones that play games," says Haelian. "They start with this one thing that's popular, and then they try to do something else, and it's a struggle."
Stiff competition and inconsistent support
Twitch's competitive culture also fans the flames. It's not just that a streamer can tire of a game or rude viewers; they can also fall victim to a pervasive "always on" mentality.
Taylor Chou, Director of Talent Management at Evil Geniuses, an esports and gaming entertainment company, says that Twitch can be a pretty toxic work environment.
"When you're a streamer, you truly know that every single second that you are not online, grinding, posting, streaming — somebody [else] is," Chou says. "That's a lot of pressure for people to learn how to manage."
Chou also says that communicating with your audience and having a support system is key to mitigating streamer burnout.
"Most of the best ways to deal with burnout start with a support system," says Chou. "When you're a streamer, make sure that your community has a sense that this is a person they're watching."
That support has helped Stephen Flavall get his mojo back. He still plays his favorite game — Slay the Spire — for his audience every week, and has a small team to help manage sponsorship contracts and interviews.
But that kind of structure can take years to build, and while fans have rallied around streamers, they can just as often stress or even harass them. That leaves many burnt out and on their way to signing off for good.
Keller Gordon is a columnist for Join The Game. Find him on Twitter: @kelbot_
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DUBAI - Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced that its High-Water Usage Alert service has helped to reduce 217,370 tons of carbon emission since its launch three years ago and until 30th June 2022.
These reductions were from identifying 1,062,781 water leakage reports, 23,199 defects, and 11,566 cases of increased load. The service sends instant notifications to customers to quickly conduct the necessary maintenance to reduce water wastage.
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA, said, "As part of our vision to become a globally leading sustainable innovative corporation and our efforts to support the Smart Dubai initiative, we harness disruptive technologies and Fourth Industrial Revolution applications to provide smart and innovative services that make the customers' life easy. These also help them raise the efficiency of their electricity and water consumption, detect leakage, and repair interruptions without contacting DEWA.
"Thanks to its smart and advanced infrastructure and smart metres that align with the highest international standards, we provide an opportunity for customers to monitor and manage their consumption proactively anytime and anywhere; without contacting DEWA. This contributes to the sustainability of resources."
DEWA provides the service as part of the Smart Living initiative to help customers detect any leakage in water connections after the metre. It sends instant notifications to customers in case the smart metre detects any unusual rise in consumption to examine the internal connections and fix any leakage in water connections with the help of a technician.
Customers can detect leakages through their bills or smart water metres. DEWA highlighted the efficiency of its systems in detecting any flaws in the external connections after the metre and noted that its responsibility is limited to connections and maintenance until the metre only, while the internal connections after the metres are the customer/owner's responsibility. This applies to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. | https://www.zawya.com/en/business/energy/dewas-high-water-usage-alert-service-helps-to-reduce-217-370-tons-of-carbon-emissions-kbkobjth | 2022-08-16T10:31:12Z | https://www.zawya.com/en/business/energy/dewas-high-water-usage-alert-service-helps-to-reduce-217-370-tons-of-carbon-emissions-kbkobjth | true | 4 |
Backstage at the Rockettes' Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Sagan Rose
: "This is our reindeer costume, which is how we start the show. This is the only costume that we get in our dressing rooms upstairs. All of these bells are hand-applied — everything is so custom, they do an amazing job for us. The leggings have an ombré effect. It's the smallest details that make the biggest difference."
Raley Zofko: "It goes all the way down into our custom-designed LaDuca reindeer boot to look like a hoof of the reindeer. But our favorite part of this costume is our antlers. And — surprise surprise, I'm giving away a little story — they light up at the end [of the number], and we control that. We have a button that we press on a specific count, to specific music, on a specific step."
Rose, left, and Zofko.
pre bonded hairRacked: How much works goes into fitting each costume to each girl?
Sagan Rose: "We start rehearsals at the end of September, and we usually have our fittings a couple weeks before that. But the costume shop is working tirelessly all year. They're so good about it, even if it's the littlest thing — they want to make it so custom and nice for us, because we do spend so much time in them and have so many shows. They want to make sure that we're comfortable. I've been doing the show for eight years now, so they keep my costumes for me year after year. But, you know, things change, bodies change. And if I ever come back and need alterations, it's very easy."
Raley Zofko: "And stuff happens throughout the season because we're moving. We're athletes in our costumes. If something unravels, they instantly fix it either during the show or after the show. Everybody is just so on it and professional, and it's what makes the show run smoother."
Sagan Rose
: "This is my personal favorite. I just feel kinda sassy, like a cliché Rockette. I
t's all about the legs — the numbers starts just from our feet to the top of our skirts showing. So that's the focus of this costume.
This is pretty close to the original version when they started the 12 Days of Christmas number here, which I want to say was about 10 years ago. It's so pretty with the lights and the colors and everybody in line together. So they really haven't had to change much."
Raley Zofko: "The mesh is different because everyone's skin tone is different, so the wardrobe and costume department custom-dye it. And then we have our head pieces that we have to pin on, and then we do a bunch of head turns to make sure that those are bobby-pinned...after our seven and a half-minute minute tap number, we do kicks, which is pretty exhausting. Our show shoes actually have this battery-packed mic that goes in between the heel."
Sagan Rose: "So all the taps are live. We get notes that are like, 'Make sure the heel sound on count is clearer, or sharper, or faster, or together.'"
Racked: You'll go out in costume a lot for charity and publicity. Where are some of the fun places you go?
remy hair extensionsRaley Zofko: "I got to do the New York Presbyterian children's hospitals last year and it was so wonderful to talk to the children that just need some holiday cheer and love. We literally had a dance party with them, so we danced with all of the kids in our costumes and they were looking at us like, 'Oh my gosh!'"
Sagan Rose: "I think it's always fun to do the Macy's Day Thanksgiving Parade. That's when I first saw the Rockettes. I'm from Kentucky, and my grandmother brought my family up to New York when I was little and I was like, 'I want to do that one day.' The parade is a fun place to be in costume because it's a tradition to have us there, and you feel like it's a really big honor."
Raley Zofko: "I have friends and family that come up just for the parade. I'm from Alabama, and they fly all the way up to sit in the stands to cheer on the Rockettes."
Raley Zofko
: "'Soldiers' is my favorite number because it's been in the show since its inception. I feel like I am part of history when I put this costume on. W
e have the jacket, we have the pants, and we have the two and a half foot-high soldier hat.
Sagan Rose: "Liza Minnelli's father [Vincent] designed this, and he choreographed the number. And we do the same choreography, wear the same costume. It's really cool because you can see that Raley and I are not the same height — she is closer to the center because she's a taller girl, and I am on the very very end of the line. And when we line up we all want to seem that we are the same height, so they custom-make these jackets and pants to your height. My jacket might be a little shorter than hers so that everything matches in line."
Raley Zofko: "These pants are foam pants. Because back in the day, when I started the show, they starched-pressed the pants. They stood up on their own — those were very intense."
Sagan Rose: "You walk a little straighter, a little stiffer, and it's easier to perform the 'Parade of the Wooden Soldier' routine with the costume like that. And then we have our tap shoes and these round little fabric cheeks that we put on. We go through about 30,000 of those in a Christmas season. Some girls tape them to their cheeks, but I do Vaseline, because my cheeks are sensitive to the tape."
Raley Zofko
: "We actually get notes if our solider hat isn't straight up and down. What we do is we put their head up against the wall, so that it lines up so and the back of the hat is straight. If someone's hat is too tilted or too back, it could throw off the line completely. We'll get hat notes, like, 'Raley, your hat was a centimeter back!'"
Racked: When you're going from a costume like '12 Days of Christmas' that's all about the legs to being completely covered up as a wooden soldier, what does that change in the way that you're dancing or the way that you're presenting yourself?
Sagan Rose: "The costume department and the designers take into consideration what movement we're doing in each number. So I don't feel hindered because the movement is fit for this costume, and the costume is fit for the movement. In rehearsals, we rehearse for a month and a half without costumes, and you get used to that. Then you put on the costumes, and it changes the way you dance."
Raley Zofko: "Along with what Sagan is saying, I feel like they take into consideration the simplicity of 'Soldiers' or the extravagance of '12 Days.' In 'Soldiers,' it's just about the formations and the history of the number, so they don't need that much movement. And '12 Days' is very in-your-face, and the costume is accordingly descriptive in that fashion."
Raley Zofko
: "This is the 78-second change that we were talking about. We have our dress and the coats — right here we have green stripes but there's also red stripes as well. There are so many pieces to it, and we have to get out of all of ['Soldiers'] and get to this, and it's just organized chaos."
Sagan Rose: "But it's so organized that it's not chaos! Depending on where you are in the line, there's red and green dresses. This jacket has really simple snaps that really get us in and out, because the change is so fast getting into it and it's choreographed getting these off [on stage]. It could be a little stressful if it wasn't so easy. It's kind of fun because, you know, we're human, and there are wardrobe malfunctions. So if someone's having trouble getting out of their coat, because we do get sweaty and things stick to you...
Raley Zofko: "We stand next to each other in this number, too. Which is so funny because I'm so tall and you're so..."
perruques cheveux naturelsSagan Rose: "Short. You can say it."
Raley Zofko: "You're not as tall as I am. We've had the 'take the jacket off!' emergencies where you're praying the girl behind you can hear you and help you remove it."
Racked: Is this where these little guys belong, fastened on the jacket?
Sagan Rose: "These are the earrings, and they're there for the changes. We put them on the collar just to make it easy. You know where everything is — I know where to reach for my earrings even when I'm not looking. This is my last step of getting dressed."
Racked: Is there ever any issue with the heavy makeup? Are you ever getting something on and you just take your face off on your dress?
Sagan Rose: "It happens. We're sweating, we're working hard, and it gets hot underneath those lights. So occasionally, there's white fur near our face and we do get makeup on them, but wardrobe can handle something like that in a snap and by the next show it's clean."
Sagan Rose
: "So we go from glamorous, sparkly, sassy
Rockettes
to this."
Raley Zofko: "This is such a crowd pleaser, actually. This is one of my favorite numbers to perform, too. We get to go through the audience this year, which is so cool because we're dancing and stepping all jolly and you get to look at an audience member right in the face and say 'So be good, for goodness sake!' And some of them are freaked out, and some of them love it. This costume is awesome."
Sagan Rose: "Everyone thinks that this is a real fat suit, like padded fat. But it's not — it's like a harnessed wire inner tube. We fit right in there and there's no padding down here. Everyone is really surprised that we're all jumping with that. It's nice that there is freedom in this, because we are doing such big movements. It's not necessarily pressed up against our bodies, so we can still move and jump around."
Raley Zofko: "The thing that I want to point out here is the wig department — because we kind of get a little messy in our number, they curl our hair and fix this after every performance to make our Santa beards look real and authentic."
Racked: Tell us about the space we're in right now — there are a lot of costumes in here.
Raley Zofko: "This is the nap space, and lots of changes happen back here. The ensembles are back here, the Rockettes are back here — this is the largest space that we have to change."
Sagan Rose: "There can be anywhere from ten to forty [costume] people back here."
Raley Zofko: "We have about ten costume changes, and that's just as much choreographed backstage as it is on stage."
Racked: Are you just throwing things off and leaving them in a pile for people to handle so you can get back out there?
Sagan Rose: "We each have a spot that one or two girls will go to, and there's one dresser to about two girls. We have amazing, amazing dressers. As soon as we come off stage, we're running, and we know exactly where we're going, we know who to look for. It's even choreographed how, if we're changing together, I'll do my earrings first and my dress second and my shoes third, and she'll do her shoes first and her dress second and her earrings third."
Raley Zofko: "It's as organized as a [quick] costume change can be."
perruques cheveuxRaley Zofko: "This was a newly designed costume by Greg Barnes in 2014. There used to be a rag doll dress that was longer and less form-fitting, and this is cinched at the waist and shorter. And we have the cutest red-and-white striped tights. And underneath that, we have our custom-designed bloomers that I absolutely adore."
Sagan Rose: "I wish I could purchase them at a store — they're that cute."
Raley Zofko: "We have our glasses, and we have our wigs. This is a wire material that fits right on top of your head."
Sagan Rose: "And they are actually pretty light on our heads. We keep the wig caps [from 'Dancing Santas'] on for that."
Raley Zofko: "And then we have our Mary Jane tap shoes, which are also miked."
Sagan Rose: "We charge the '12 Days of Christmas' tap shoes and these tap shoes after each show, just to make sure."
Raley Zofko: "It's so much fun to be a rag doll and get to dance and make funny faces at your friend and look at the audience and blow them kisses."
Sagan Rose: "A lot of us come up on the pit of the stage so we are literally this close to the audience, and there will be little kids in the front being like 'Oh my gosh!' They don't know what is happening, their minds are blown, so it's fun to play with them."
Racked: You two are seasoned pros at eight and nine years. Has anyone in this cast been around for longer?
Raley Zofko: "There are girls that have been doing it for 16 years that are still in the line!"
Racked: Do you have a memory of a favorite show that was a little bit out of the ordinary?
Raley Zofko: "There's a gold cast and a blue cast, and I just transitioned from the gold cast."
Sagan Rose: "The blue cast is all the morning shows. while the gold cast is all the evening shows."
Raley Zofko: "But the gold cast hasn't been doing opening night — this year, when I transitioned to the blue cast, I got to do opening night. That was literally spectacular because there is just such an energy on opening night that I've never felt before. I don't really get nervous anymore. I've done it a lot, and the show is very similar in the ways it changes [from year to year]. I focus on the changes so that I know exactly what to not mess up on, or try to not mess up on. But I've never felt that much energy, love, and support. We had the other cast in the theater watching us, too."
lace front wigsSagan Rose: "It was the best crowd I've had in eight years. I felt like a rock star."
Racked: What has it been like to perform on this huge world stage, and how is it different to perform elsewhere?
Sagan Rose: "Well, to me, I feel like Radio City is my second home. I feel so comfortable on stage and I feel like we all have a bond, especially during the holidays, because a lot of us are from different places and don't have families here. I just feel so at home and so at peace on this stage. [But] when we do travel and perform outside, it's always a nice, different energy that you get."
Raley Zofko: "It might be a little bit nerve-wracking in a different way, but it's just as exciting. It's just different — you can't really compare Radio City to outside venues because there's that sense of comfortability on this stage."
Sagan Rose: "This is one of my favorites to wear — like '12 Days of Christmas,' the legs are highlighted. With this design, they really wanted to emphasize that every snowflake, like every Rockette, is different, but we come together to make a beautiful snowstorm. So there are six designs of this costume in six colors. All of these straps [on the top] are the biggest change."
Raley Zofko: "On my purple costume, I don't have any of these straps in the front at all. And then we have multiple cuffs and ribbons with rhinestones, and everything is covered in Swarovski crystals. Like what Sagan said, every Rockette is different, and every costume is different, and that's what they try to do with this design. And I think it's so gorgeous. On stage, it's beautiful — with the choreography in the mix, we're beautiful snowflakes dancing in a snowstorm."
Sagan Rose: "Linda Haberman was the choreographer for this, and she really emphasized that she really wanted to bring our individual personalities to the stage and celebrate that. Because when you think of the Rockettes you think of a big group of women, but we all are different and have different personalities and different ways that we dance. So it's a really nice number to perform."
Raley Zofko: "And then on our LaDuca shoes, the color is painted to match our tights, and the heels have Swarovski crystals on them."
Sagan Rose: "This heel is different than our other ones, because it's about a half inch higher to continue the line of the leg. It's a leggy costume."
cosplay wigsRacked: What advice would you give to Rockette hopefuls?
Sagan Rose: "Taking ballet is very important for dancers, because if you have that good technique background, it will show in anything you do."
Raley Zofko: "Tap is very important, too. All versions and styles of dance are important for Rockettes because we are proficient in all of it. I would say take as many classes as often as you can and focus on your technique."
Sagan Rose: "And any job, especially in the performing arts industry, is so specific in what they need. So one year, they might need a tall girl, or they'll need a shortish girl for my spot. I think it's perseverance — If you have a goal, don't ever take no for an answer."
Raley Zofko: "I would finish that off with dream big, and don't ever lose sight of your dreams. I'm from a small town in the very tip of Alabama and there's not very much dance and entertainment and theater down there. So when I first started dancing, I didn't necessarily know what was out there. And it was just once upon a time — Sagan said she saw the Rockettes at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and so did I — and I thought, 'That is glamorous, that is beautiful. They are dancing, and I dance.' And it just became a tiny little dream that grew into a big dream, and now it's my life. It's just so unbelievable that it actually came true." | http://www.radio3.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5880:2022-08-16-09-16-11&catid=35:2012-05-25-00-23-17 | 2022-08-16T10:31:18Z | http://www.radio3.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5880:2022-08-16-09-16-11&catid=35:2012-05-25-00-23-17 | false | 43 |
Baseball: Ohtani gets no result as Angels fall apart against Mariners
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Shohei Ohtani struck out eight over six strong innings but did not factor in the result for the Los Angeles Angels, who collapsed late in a 6-2 loss against the Seattle Mariners on Monday. Seattle scored four runs in the ninth at Angel Stadium, going ahead 3-2 on a fielder's choice after the Halos botched an attempt to run down Sam Haggerty between third and home. Ohtani surrendered a home run to Jesse Winker in the first before Luis Rengifo tied it 1-1 in the bottom of the inning, with his homer bouncing on top of the wall off center fielder Julio Rodriguez's glove following an outfield colli... | https://www.nippon.com/en/news/kd932156602947567616/baseball-ohtani-gets-no-result-as-angels-fall-apart-against-mariners.html | 2022-08-16T10:33:06Z | https://www.nippon.com/en/news/kd932156602947567616/baseball-ohtani-gets-no-result-as-angels-fall-apart-against-mariners.html | true | 1 |
Can I watch House of the Dragon without watching Game of Thrones?
House Of The Dragon has one of the most enviable tasks in television history: following Game Of Thrones.
Despite the lukewarm response to Game Of Thrones ’ eighth and final season, anticipation is still exceedingly high for HBO’s return to Westeros. Which is exactly as it should be, because Game Of Thrones was one of the smartest, most action-packed, immersive, and shocking television shows ever made. More than that, it was also populated with memorable characters that you just fell more and more in love with over the course of each season.
House Of The Dragon , though, will introduce television fans to a whole new ensemble of characters and actors. This includes Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Emma D’Arcy, Graham McTavish, Bill Paterson, and Rhys Ifans.
There have been some major changes behind the camera, too. Ryan J Condal has been brought in as the writer and executive producer of House Of The Dragon , which he co-created with George R. R. Martin. For those of you who are unaware, Martin is the genius novelist behind the epic fantasy series A Song Of Ice And Fire, which was adapted into Game Of Thrones .
But what if you’re still yet to finish or even start Game Of Thrones ? Can you still watch House Of The Dragon ? This leads us to the burning question...
Can I watch House of the Dragon without watching Game of Thrones?
Yes. While they’re both set in Westeros, House Of The Dragon unfolds during a different time period to Game Of Thrones. But it should be pointed out that if you have watched Game Of Thrones you’re almost certainly going to have a deeper understanding of the narrative, and get the many, many references that will probably be littered through the show.
Condal has already been teasing that House Of The Dragon will have a slightly different structure to Game Of Thrones . During his interview with The Hollywood Reporter back in July, Condal revealed that, partway through this batch of episodes, House Of The Dragon will move ten years into the future.
"This is how you tell this story correctly. We’re telling a story of a generational war," said Condal. "We set everything up so by the time that first sword stroke falls, you understand all the players."
During the same interview, Martin added that House Of The Dragon will be “powerful,” “visceral,” and “dark,” while he even went as far as to compare it to a “Shakespearean tragedy.”
When it comes to exactly when House Of The Dragon is set, there’s another question that has been on the mind of Game Of Thrones fans …
Is House Of The Dragon a prequel?
House Of The Dragon is indeed a prequel. In fact, it is set two hundred years before Game Of Thrones . It will tell the story of how Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) Prince Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), and Prince Aegon Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) start a Civil War to take over the throne as King Viserys I Targaryen (Paddy Considine) nears the end of his reign.
It’s not just the Targaryens that become embroiled in this fight, though. Several other houses, including the Hightowers, Velaryons, and even the Starks, soon get involved and pick sides. Those who have seen Game Of Thrones will be fully aware that this will probably include plenty of back-stabbing and treachery, as each family looks to move their way into even stronger positions of power.
Since Game Of Thrones was based on Martin’s previous novels — along with the two which we are still waiting on — you might be wondering whether House Of The Dragon is from similar source material …
Is House Of The Dragon based on a book?
Technically, yes, House Of The Dragon is based on a book. That novel is Fire And Blood , written by Martin and released in 2018. House Of The Dragon will reportedly cover the last third of the book.
Fire And Blood tells the story of House Targaryen’s rise and fall. Known as The Dance Of The Dragons, this is regarded as one of the most brutal time periods in the history of Westeros.
However, Fire And Blood isn’t quite the same as Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire series. Unlike the former series, Fire And Blood is essentially a fake history book, told from the point of view of a Maester that is trying to piece together the 150 years of Targaryen kings. This style gives the House Of The Dragon ’s crew a lot more leeway to tell the story in their own way.
We’ll finally start to see how they plan on doing just that when the first of House Of The Dragon premieres on HBO on August 21, 2022, with the UK premiere following on Sky TV 's Sky Atlantic and NOW on Monday, August 22.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The world's attention on Russia's war in Ukraine on Tuesday turned anew to the Russia-annexed occupied Crimean Peninsula, where a mysterious ammunition storage fire and explosions injuring two people was the second incident in a week to shake Moscow's sensitivities.
Around 2,000 people were evacuated from nearby areas, the local governor said. Videos of the fire and the blasts posted on social media showed think plumes of smoke rising over the raging flames, and a series of multiple explosions could be heard in the background.
“Crimea occupied by Russians is about warehouses explosions and high risk of death for invaders and thieves,” said a cryptic Twitter message from Ukraine presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, which stopped short of claiming any Ukraine responsibility for the incident.
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The blaze and blasts rattled the village of Mayskoye in the Dzhankoi district of Crimea early Tuesday, Russian media also reported. It was a message reinforced in Kyiv.
“Morning near Dzhankoi began with explosions. A reminder: Crimea of normal country is about the Black Sea, mountains, recreation and tourism," Podolyak wrote, referring to the time before Russia invaded and annexed Crimea in 2014.
The Russian Defense Ministry said a fire erupted at a “site for temporary storage of ammunition of one of the military units.”
“As a result of the fire, the stored ammunition detonated,” the ministry said, adding that it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire.
The Dzhankoi district of Crimea is in the north of the peninsula, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Russian-controlled region of Kherson in southern Ukraine. Kyiv has recently mounted a series of attacks on various sites in the region, targeting supply routes for the Russian military there and ammunition depots.
Crimea’s Russian-appointed governor Sergei Aksyonov said that two people sustained injuries in the most recent incident, and that local residents were being evacuated from the area, as explosions of ammunition continued.
Aksyonov said some residential buildings were damaged near the site of the fire, and about 2,000 people were evacuated from nearby areas. According to Russian media, railway lines going through Mayskoye were also damaged.
Aksyonov said all trains will be stopped at the town of Vladislavovka, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of Mayskoye, and passengers will be able to continue their journeys on buses.
Last week, a series of explosions occurred at the Saki air base near the Novofyodorovka village in Crimea. The Russian military blamed the blasts on an accidental detonation of munitions there, but the incident appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack. Kyiv said the explosions destroyed nine Russian airplanes.
Ukrainian officials at the time stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for the explosions, while mocking Russia’s explanation that a careless smoker might have caused ammunition at the Saki air base to catch fire and blow up. Analysts also said that explanation doesn’t make sense and that the Ukrainians could have used anti-ship missiles to strike the base.
The Crimean Peninsula holds huge strategic and symbolic significance for both sides. The Kremlin’s demand that Ukraine recognize Crimea as part of Russia has been one of its key conditions for ending the fighting, while Ukraine has vowed to drive the Russians from the peninsula and all other occupied territories.
And a British Defense Ministry intelligence update claimed that in the waters off Crimea Russia's Black Sea Fleet surface vessels “continue to pursue an extremely defensive posture,” with boats barely venturing out of sight of the coastline.
Russia already lost its flagship Moskva in the Black Sea and last month the Ukrainian military retook the strategic Snake Island outpost off Ukraine’s southwestern coast vital for guaranteeing sea lanes out of Odesa, Ukraine’s biggest port.
The Russian fleet's “limited effectiveness undermines Russia's overall invasion strategy,” the British statement said. “This means Ukraine can divert resources to press Russian ground forces elsewhere.”
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A porn star who was once one of the industry’s biggest names has had a dramatic fall from grace and is so "senile" he can barely spell his own name.
Ron Jeremy was one of the most prolific porn stars the world has ever seen, shooting more than 2,000 films and holding the Guinness World Record for “most appearances in adult films”.
But the adult actor has since been charged with allegations of rape and sexual assault by a number of women. Jeremy has pleaded not guilty and has denied all the allegations against him. He is currently awaiting trial.
READ MORE: Porn legend Ron Jeremy who starred in 2000 films charged with 30 sex assault cases
Now, a Channel 4 documentary Porn King: The Rise and Fall of Ron Jeremy has tracked the 69 year-old’s fall from grace, with allegations that his health had deteriorated in recent years.
In one scene, former porn star Alana Evans suggested that as Ron’s health became worse, his alleged offences increased in tandem.
“Ron was totally senile,” Alana suggested. “As Ron’s health, his cleanliness, his mental state deteriorated, his behaviour got worse.”
In another scene, Ron could be seen getting confused at the prospect of even signing his own name, asking: “Jeremy right? J-E-R-E-M-Y?” before scrawling illegibly.
“He was a zombie, he could barely talk,” Alana added. “A lot of the time he wouldn’t be super coherent, but still creepy Ron.”
The porn star is currently in jail awaiting trial, but footage of his apartment during later years showed the porn star’s living quarters in a barely habitable state.
Narrating the footage, Ron’s long-time personal assistant Moss Krivin reminded viewers that the scene was the porn star’s home and not a storage container.
“I think Ron’s tendency to hoard things was very indicative of someone in a state of mental decline. Ron’s condo was a disaster,” he added.
In fact, Moss claimed that his boss had even urinated all over his stuff during a hotel stay.
“One time, there was a jacuzzi in the room, he was trying to urinate into the jacuzzi, and he missed,” he recalled.
“I later found out when I was checking out that it went all over my personal toiletries, I threw everything out because it stank.
“Ron didn’t care about urinating all over my stuff, he never thought of any consequences for anything that he did. I’m like, ‘Ron, don’t turn into the stereotype of the dirty old man’, which is of course exactly what he was.”
Ron Jeremy’s lawyers say he is not mentally competent to stand trial. He is currently in jail while he is evaluated by medical experts.
The former porn star has denied all allegations of sexual assault.
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- Ex-footballer turned porn star 'shrivelled up' on first shoot because of bald cameraman
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IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Entering its third model year, the boldly styled K5 sport sedan largely carries over into 2023 with minor enhancements to badging, packaging and feature content. The K5 is available in four well-equipped trim levels: LXS, EX, GT-Line and the sporty GT. The LX trim has been discontinued for 2023. While AWD is no longer offered with the LXS, the GT-Line continues to be available with FWD and AWD configurations.
New for 2023, the GT-Line is now available with a Panoramic Roof Package. The large glass panel lets the light and sun shine in and the package also includes LED interior lighting along with gloss black exterior trim along the B-pillars, windshield and shark-fin antenna, creating a sporty, unified appearance. A heated steering wheel is now standard on the GT-Line AWD. Acoustic glass on the front door windows is standard on EX, both the GT-Line FWD and AWD, along with GT.
Pricing1 – MSRP (excludes $1,095 destination)
- LXS $25,090
- GT-Line $26,490
- GT-Line AWD $28,190
- EX $28,990
- GT $31,490
Engine:
- 1.6T GDI I-4 - 8 A/T: 180 hp/195 lb.-ft. of torque
- 2.5T GDI 1-4 - 8 DCT: 290 hp/311 lb.-ft. of torque
Fuel Economy2 – EPA-est. MPG (City/Highway/Combined):
- LXS: 27/37/31
- EX: 27/37/31
- GT-Line FWD: 27/37/31
- GT-Line AWD: 25/33/28
- GT: 24/32/27
Highlighted Kia Drive Wise Advanced Driver Assistance Features3:
- Driver Attention Warning
- Blind Spot Collision Avoidance Assist
- Rear Cross Traffic Collision Avoidance Assist
- Forward Collision Avoidance Assist – Vehicle/Pedestrian w/ Lane Following Assist
- Lane Keeping Assist
- Lane Following Assist
- Driver Attention Warning including Leading Vehicle Departure Alert
- Parking Distance Warning – Reverse
- Parking Distance Warning – Forward
- Parking Collision Assist – Rear
Dimensions:
- Overall Length: 193.1 in.
- Overall Width: 73.2 in.
- Overall Height: 56.9 in.
- Wheelbase: 112.2 in.
Kia America – about us
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrified vehicles sold through a network of over 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America.
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1 MSRP excludes destination and handling, taxes, title, license fees, options and retailer charges. Actual prices set by retailer and may vary.
2 Based on EPA estimates. Actual mileage will vary with options, driving conditions, driving habits and your vehicle's condition.
3 These systems are not substitutes for proper and safe driving, parking, and/or backing-up procedures. These systems may not detect every object behind or alongside the vehicle or in the vehicle's blind spot or direction of travel. Always drive safely and use caution.
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One API for customer data: Simplify tracking code, improve performance, and reduce vendor overhead.
Maintaining data quality across an organization can feel like a daunting task, especially when your data comes from a myriad of devices and sources. While there is no one magic solution, adopting these six habits will put your organization on the path to consistently reaping the benefits of high-quality data.
In order for data-driven teams to make effective and timely decisions, they need to trust that the information at their disposal is accurate, complete, and up to date. Since modern companies ingest data from a great number and variety of sources, avoiding data quality issues can be a significant challenge. Following these six habits can help you consistently supply growth teams with the high-quality, reliable information they need and avoid the pitfalls of messy, incomplete, and misleading data.
An old adage says that if you want something done right, you should do it yourself. If you want your data to be accurate and reliable, you should collect it yourself from sources that you own. Information gathered directly from your company’s owned digital touchpoints is called
Since third-party data is not restricted to the individuals currently engaging with a company’s apps, websites, and other properties, these datasets are often more extensive than those collected from owned channels alone. Additionally, third-party data can often be easier for companies to acquire since it does not require the strategic and technical investment that implementing a first-party data plan requires.
Convenience is where the advantages of third-party data end, however. When it comes to quality and reliability, third-party datasets can often have conflicting, out-of-date, and generally hazy records. On the contrary, first-party data is much more likely to be up to date, consistent, and transparent.
With greater trust in the quality of your data, you can have much more confidence that these personalized experiences you create for customers will be meaningful and of interest.
You likely have many channels on which customers interact with your brand. The more complex customer journeys become, the more opportunities there are to collect data on your users’ actions and behaviors. While it can be tempting to slide into a “more data is always better” mindset, it is important to resist putting the cart before the horse when it comes to your data strategy.
Use cases and business goals should always inform the data points you collect, not the other way around. When
When you anchor on the “why” behind the data, you’re much more likely to end up with clean, lean, and actionable data and not an expansive sea of information that ultimately results in analysis paralysis.
In order to maintain a cohesive picture of your customers as they interact with your brand across these channels, it is essential to make sure that the data you’re collecting is consistent across these channels.
A critical aspect of establishing consistency across your incoming data is to create universal naming conventions for data events and attributes. When deciding on how to name your data, use syntax that is valid across all programming languages your engineering teams are using. Names should be intuitive and human-readable and make it easy for someone unfamiliar with the data plan to understand what data is being collected at a glance. When data is self-descriptive, it is less error-prone and easier to work with once it has been ingested:
Developing and executing an effective data strategy is a team sport. Given the complexity of collecting and activating data in a modern organization, however, it is extremely unlikely that multiple reference documents will remain up to date with all of the pertinent details of the data strategy. That’s why it is advisable to create and maintain one data plan as your source of truth that keeps teams aligned on this strategy.
This data plan should be one single document (usually a spreadsheet) that serves as an organization-wide reference for all information pertaining to data collection and implementation. Some key details that the data plan should include are the names of the data events, attributes, and user identities that will be collected, as well as conventions for naming these data points. While this plan can and should evolve with the needs of data-driven teams, it is critical that the data plan exists as one single record accessible to every stakeholder who needs it, rather than fragmented documents stored in silos across the organization.
Remember when we said that we should always let specific use cases define the data we want to collect? In addition to thinking about business use cases when modeling your data, you should also bear in mind how that data will eventually be analyzed and queried. What are the things your teams will want to see on a regular basis? What types of audiences will you be creating? What are the customer behaviors that you want to understand?
Most of the data that you will be collecting will describe actions that your customers perform as they interact with your digital touchpoints. Often, customers will perform the same type of action several times as they move through your websites and apps. For the purposes of analyzing these events, it is best to use a generic label to describe the event itself, then use event attributes to capture the specific details of the action.. Having generic names to describe all events of a specific type rather than granular labels that specify individual events makes this data much more meaningful and easier to understand and analyze.
In the case of an eCommerce site, for example, a customer may view dozens of product pages per session. Rather than creating a new event for each individual product page––for example, View Red Sweater
and View Green Sweater
––create a generic View Product
event, then attach information describing the specific product like category
, color
, price
, and SKU
to this event at attributes.
This way, when your View Product
events start populating; it will be much easier to work with this data. If you want to know how many customers viewed products over $50, for example, you can simply filter the View Product
event for records where the price
attribute is greater than 50. If we had more granular event names, we would have to perform this filter operation on View Red Sweater
, View Green Sweater
and all other individual View Product
events, then add them together.
Even with a thorough data plan and close alignment between growth teams and engineers, mistakes can happen. Bad data can slip past initial quality checks and into your internal pipelines. In Data Pipelines Pocket Reference: Moving and Processing Data for Analytics, author James Densemore highlights how common flaws in data like duplicate, orphaned, or incomplete records, text encoding mistakes, mislabeled or unlabeled data points, and others can lead to significant problems with activation and analysis if they are not detected and corrected.
It is critical to create and implement processes to validate data––not just once but at several stages along the data lifecycle. While there are many ways to validate data, the purpose of these checks is to ensure that data at a given point along the pipeline matches the expectations laid out in the data plan. Learn more about what good data validation looks like
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arbe Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: ARBE) ("Arbe"), a global leader in next-generation 4D Imaging Radar Solutions, today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Key Q2 2022 Highlights:
- HiRain Technologies, the leading Chinese ADAS Tier 1 supplier, declared that it is undertaking major OEM and autonomous driving projects with Imaging Radars based on Arbe's chipset, and announced it will reach mass production by 2023.
- Arbe added two new customer engagements in Q2, including a truck OEM that is a leader in Level 2+ truck design, and a new mobility player focusing on Level 4 vehicles.
- Tier 1s submitted five requests for proposal (RFPs) and requests for quotation (RFQs) with Arbe's chipset to major OEMs, committing to supplying the customer with volumes ranging from 400 thousand to 1 million systems per year.
- Arbe is shortlisted in 8 RFPs / RFQs that bring total potential revenues to $7.5B by the end of the decade.
- GlobalFoundries completed the chipset testing setup toward mass production of Arbe's chipset, delivered the first significant customer samples shipment, and signed a long-term manufacturing agreement with Arbe.
- Introduced Lynx, an industry-first Surround Imaging Radar, fulfilling the strong market demand for 360° long-range, high-resolution sensing at an affordable price. Designed for multiple installations around the vehicle – as a corner and a back radar for L2+ and higher autonomous vehicles, and even as a front radar for ADAS - Lynx represents a new and lucrative opportunity for Arbe.
- Arbe shareholders extended their lock-up period with respect to their shares. Arbe believes this demonstrates the shareholders' confidence in the long-term potential of Arbe's business and its ability to execute on the opportunities ahead.
"During the second quarter, we reached a major milestone with our strategic partner and chip manufacturer, GlobalFoundries, who completed the setup of the Arbe chipset testing facility, thus marking significant progress toward mass production," said Kobi Marenko, Arbe's Chief Executive Officer. "GlobalFoundries and Arbe signed a long-term strategic manufacturing agreement that addresses quality assurance, assembly and testing, which we believe will secure the quality and capacity necessary to meet our customer commitments."
Marenko added, "As we enter the second half of 2022, we are shifting our focus to production and execution. We believe that the launch of our new product, Lynx Surround Imaging Radar, represents a tremendous business opportunity for Arbe as well as for our Tier 1 strategic partners. In addition, the HiRain Technologies production timeline announcement, coupled with the progress achieved by all Arbe Tier 1s, is providing Arbe with a strong position ahead of all other industry players."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
Revenues for Q2 2022 were $1.2 million, an increase from $0.5 million in Q2 2021. Backlog as of June 30, 2022, was $1.5 million. Gross margin in Q2 2022 was 72.8%, compared to 31.9% in Q2 2021, mainly related to economy of scale and a decrease in cost as we worked toward production version.
Operating expenses in Q2 2022 were $13.0 million, compared to $6.9 million in Q2 2021. The increase in operating expenses was primarily driven by an increase in research and development expenses from $5.8 million in Q2 2021 to $9.5 million in Q2 2022. The increase was most notably in labor cost and non-cash share-based compensation expenses, and to a lesser extent, an increase in our material and subcontractors cost supporting our research and development efforts. Additionally, the increase in Sales, General and Administration expenses was associated with Arbe being a publicly traded corporation and to the non-cash share-based compensation expenses. As a result, our operating loss increased from $6.7 million to $12.1 million.
Adjusted EBITDA in Q2 2022, a non-GAAP measurement which excludes share-based compensation and non-recurring public offering expenses relating to our business combination with ITAC, yielded a loss of $9.5 million, compared to a loss of $6.4 million in Q2 2021.
Net loss in Q2 2022 was $11.6 million, compared to a net loss of $10.6 million in Q2 2021. The net loss in Q2 2022 included financial income of $0.5 million as contrasted with financial expenses of $3.9 million in Q2 2021. Q2 2022 financial income resulted from the revaluation of warrants partially offset with exchange rate revaluations and financial interest.
Balance Sheet & Liquidity
As of June 30, 2022, Arbe had $71.3 million in cash and cash equivalents with no debt.
Outlook
Management reiterated the outlook for the full year ending December 31, 2022. Based on current estimates, management expects:
- Revenues to be in the range of $7 million to $11 million, heavily weighted toward the end of the year, when some of the projects are expected to mature
- Adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of ($34 million) and ($38 million)
- The company is on track to reach its $312 million revenue goal for 2025
Conference Call & Webcast Details
Arbe will host a conference call and webcast today at 8:30 am ET. Speakers will include Kobi Marenko, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and Director, and Karine Pinto-Flomenboim, Chief Financial Officer. The Company encourages participants to pre-register for the conference call here. Callers will receive a unique dial-in upon registration, which enables immediate access to the call. Participants may pre-register at any time, including up to and after the call start time.
The live call may be accessed via:
U.S. Toll Free: (833) 316-0562
International: (412) 317-5736
A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available until Aug. 30, 2022, following the end of the conference call. To listen to the replay, please dial:
U.S. Toll Free: (877) 344-7529
International: (412) 317-0088
Access ID: 7616586
A live webcast of the call can be accessed here or from Arbe's Investor Relations website at https://ir.arberobotics.com/news/ir-calendar. An archived webcast of the conference call will also be made available on the website following the call.
About Arbe
Arbe (Nasdaq: ARBE), the global leader in Perception Radar Chipset Solutions, is spearheading a revolution in sensing, enabling truly safe driver-assist systems today while paving the way to full autonomous-driving. A critical sensor for L2+ and higher autonomy, Arbe solutions are 100 times more detailed than the most advanced radars on the market, providing full sensing coverage around the vehicle. Arbe has been selected by leading Tier 1s and car manufacturers to deliver advanced sensing and paradigm-changing perception to a wide range of vehicles and applications across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Arbe is a leader in the fast-growing automotive radar market that has a projected total addressable market of $11 billion in 2025. For more information, visit https://arberobotics.com/
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release and the earnings call contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, both as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "expect," "believe," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "anticipate," "may," "should," "strategy," "future," "will," "project, " "potential" and similar expressions indicate forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. The financial results described in this press release are based on Arbe's preliminary financial statements, which are subject to audit by the Company's independent accounting firm and are subject to any adjustments resulting from the completion of such audit. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: (i) unanticipated delays or difficulties in connection with the evaluation of Arbe's products in evaluation and test programs; (ii) Arbe's ability to have products manufactured for it by third parties that meet Arbe's and its customers quality standards and delivery requirements;; (iii) Arbe's ability to leverage its existing relationships and secure orders resulting from the test programs; (iv) Arbe's ability to meet its projected revenue level and its ability to operate profitably; (v) Arbe's ability to meet is timetable for full production; (vi) Arbe's expectation that it will be obtain orders from Tier 1 suppliers and OEMs which would be building the radars based on its Chipset solution; (vii) the effect of inflation and supply chain issues on Arbe's cost and its development schedule, including Arbe's ability to obtain semiconductor products when needed and at a reasonable price; (viii) Arbe's ability to price its products in a manner to enable it to operate profitably; (ix) Arbe's expectation that radars are crucial to the automotive industry and will be deployed in nearly all new vehicles as a long range, cost-effective sensor with the fewest environmental limitations; (x) Arbe's belief that the Arbe Radar Chipset heralds a breakthrough in radar technology that provide Tier 1 suppliers and OEMs to replace the current radars with an advanced solution that meets the safety requirements of Euro-NCAP and NHTSA for autonomous vehicles at all levels of autonomous driving; (xi) Arbe's ability to develop or have access to the latest developments relating to radar and autonomous driving vehicles; (xii) Arbe's ability to attract and retain highly skilled personnel and senior management, including research and development, sales and marketing personnel; (xiii) Arbe's ability to develop and market products based on its radar technology for uses outside of the automotive industry; (xiv) accidents or bad press resulting from accidents involving autonomous driving vehicles, even those using radar products from other companies or based on other technology and the effect of any accidents with vehicles using Arbe's radar system; (xv) the failure of the markets for Arbe's current or new technologies and products to materialize to the extent or at the rate that Arbe expects; (xvi) unexpected delays or difficulties related to the development of Arbe's technologies and products; (xvii) the effect of laws and changes in laws that have an effect on the market for or the requirement for autonomous vehicles; (xviii) the effect of COVID-19 and any new variants or any pandemics or multinational epidemics and actions taken by governments and industry to address the effects of the pandemic and the corresponding macroeconomic uncertainty; (xix) changes or inaccuracies in market projections; (xx) changes in Arbe's business strategy; and (xxi) the risk and uncertainties described in "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and the additional risk described in Arbe's Annual Report on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, on March 31, 2022 and in Arbe's prospectus dated June 22, 2022, which was filed by Arbe with the SEC on June 23, 2022, and its prospectus dated July 11, 2022, which was field by Arbe with the SEC on July 19, 2022, as well as other documents filed by Arbe with the SEC. Accordingly, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements relate only to the date they were made, and Arbe does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made except as required by law or applicable regulation.
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US semiconductor giant Micron is to invest US$40 billion (£33 billion) during the 2020s in chip manufacturing in America, creating 40,000 jobs. This is on the back of incentives in the recent US Chips Act, which has also unlocked major investments from fellow US players Intel and Qualcomm.
The EU is also making moves to boost computer-chip manufacturing at home, having similarly decided to try and take share from Asia following the severe global semiconductor shortages over the past couple of years. Over 70% of chips are currently made in Asia, with precarious Taiwan particularly important, making around 90% of the world’s most advanced chips.
In the UK, however, successive governments have overlooked the importance of having a home-grown industry for this vital component, which underpins not only computers and smartphones, but also things like cars, planes, satellites and smart devices. There is a clear absence of any strategic plan, and no way of riding on the coattails of the EU following Brexit. So what needs to be done?
The new race for chips
Micron’s decision to announce such a large investment in the US is directly related to the Chips Act. The act provides US$200 billion to build and modernise American manufacturing facilities, as well as promoting research and development in semiconductor technologies, and promoting education in STEM subjects to develop the next generation of chip designers.
The US continues to control the majority of IP in semiconductors, but Asia’s dominant manufacturing capacity is rapidly growing on the back of investments from the likes of Taiwan’s TSMC and Foxconn, and South Korea-based Samsung. There is also a need to compete with China, which recently surprised the industry by demonstrating world-beating technology.
Semiconductor manufacturing and ownership by country (%)
Earlier this year, the EU set out the scope of its own legislation to boost its share of production from 10% to 20% of the world total by 2030. It aims to promote “digital sovereignty” by supporting the development of new production facilities, supporting start-ups, developing skills and building partnerships. In total, the upcoming act should result in between €15 billion (£13 billion) and €43 billion (£36 billion) being invested in the sector.
The UK perspective
The UK once led the world in semiconductor manufacturing, with highly internationally innovative companies such as Plessey, Inmos, Acorn, Imagination Technologies and Cambridge Silicon Radio. There remain pockets of excellence and world-leading innovation, particularly in the design of semiconductors. Clusters in south Wales, the south west of England and east of England, for example, have a critical mass of activity. But they have lacked the necessary finance to upscale, and all the major investments elsewhere are putting the industry in an increasingly vulnerable position.
It’s not only the UK’s position in semiconductors that is under threat. A lack of capacity creates risks for the whole electronics supply chain, which could weaken the economy overall. For example UK car production has been severely curtailed by the recent chip shortages.
To avoid such problems, the UK needs to pass a Chips Act of its own. This would aim to kick-start the industry by incentivising investment in manufacturing facilities, called “fabs”. Some commentators have argued against this move, mainly due to the huge costs involved. But it would be money well spent to achieve digital sovereignty.
A UK act should incentivise investment both directly and indirectly. Direct funding would ensure increased manufacturing capacity by building new fabs or expanding and upgrading existing facilities, especially for chips related to sensors, power, consumer electronics and communication devices. The government could then also support the industry indirectly through policies such as tax credits for investing firms, land provision and support infrastructure.
Another priority should be to strengthen existing national competitive advantages around designing smaller chips with more efficient circuits and greater computing power. This would involve both improving the current generation of chips and developing new approaches such as “beyond CMOS” technologies, which promise faster and more dense chips but crucially with a lower energy requirement. Providing R&D grants or guaranteeing loans to explore, test and consolidate new designs would help to return the UK to the forefront of developments in the sector.
University funding
Finally, the UK needs to harness the knowledge and research expertise around design and manufacturing within its universities. This is spread around various institutions, including the universities of Cardiff and Swansea in Wales; Strathclyde and Edinburgh in Scotland; Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, which has its own foundry; and the University of Sheffield in England.
The UK government has funded over £1 billion of university research into semiconductors since 2006, but the US and EU chips acts highlight just how much more is required. There is also a need to focus university funding on commercial outcomes that will translate into sales and increase the UK’s market share. Brexit has limited funding opportunities by raising uncertainties about the UK’s future involvement in the European “Horizon” scheme, which is the EU’s main R&D funding programme. It may therefore require a national replacement.
Clearly, the national outlay to deal with COVID and the current cost of living crisis will constrain potential government investments in the coming years. But the recent semiconductor shortages have also made clear that a degree of self-sufficiency in this key enabling technology will be vital to ensuring economic resiliency in a highly volatile and unpredictable world. | https://theconversation.com/computer-chips-while-us-and-eu-invest-to-challenge-asia-the-uk-industry-is-in-mortal-danger-188604 | 2022-08-16T11:01:22Z | https://theconversation.com/computer-chips-while-us-and-eu-invest-to-challenge-asia-the-uk-industry-is-in-mortal-danger-188604 | true | 2 |
The self-destructive delusion that we are the only species that has a right to life on Earth has led to the ecological crisis.
by Baptiste Morizot
One species has transformed into a material backdrop for its tribulations the 10 million other species that constitute its extended family, its giving environment, and its daily cohabitants. More specifically, it is one small population of this species that has done so, the bearer of a merely historical and local culture. Making all other living beings invisible is a provincial and late phenomenon—not the product of mankind as a whole. Imagine a people approaching a land populated by a myriad of other related peoples, and declaring that they don’t really exist, and that they are the stage and not the actors (ah yes, it’s not a fiction that requires a lot of imagination, as it also comprises vast swaths of our history). How did we accomplish this miracle of blindness toward the other creatures of the living world? We could hazard here—to exacerbate the strangeness of our heritage—a rapid history of the relations between our civilization and other species, a history which leads to the modern condition: Once nonhuman living beings were debased ontologically (that is to say, considered as endowed with a second-order existence, of lesser value and lesser consistency, and thus transformed into ‘things’), human beings came to believe that they alone truly existed in the universe.
It simply took Judeo-Christianity to expel God from ‘Nature’ (this is the hypothesis of the Egyptologist Jan Assmann), to make Nature profane, then the scientific and industrial revolutions to transform the nature that remained (the scholastic phusis) into a matter devoid of intelligence or of invisible influences, available to extractivism, for human beings to find themselves as solitary travelers in the cosmos, surrounded by dumb, evil matter. The last act involved killing off the last affiliation: Alone in the face of matter, human beings nevertheless remained in vertical contact with God, who sanctified it as his Creation (natural theology). The death of God entails a terrible and perfect loneliness, which we might call the anthropo-narcissistic prison.
This false lucidity about our cosmic solitude put the final seal on the serene exclusion of all nonhuman beings from the field of the ontologically relevant. It explains the ‘prison house’ of the philosophy and literature cultivated in the great European and Anglo-American capitals. My choice of this expression is not arbitrary: Not only are these fields now a prison house or ‘closed room’ in the sense of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit”—but also the prison house is the world itself, the universe, which is populated only by us and the pathological relationships with our fellow humans entailed by the disappearance of our plural, affective, and active affiliations with other living beings, nonhuman animals and environments.
This ubiquitous theme in 20th-century literature and philosophy, which foregrounds the cosmic solitude of human beings, a solitude elevated to grandeur by existentialism, is intriguingly violent. Under cover of the heroism of the absurd (as Albert Camus defined it), under cover of having the courage to face the truth, this violence is a form of blindness that refuses to learn how to see the forms of existence of others, negating their status as cohabitants, postulating that, in fact, they have no communication skills, no ‘native senses,’ no creative point of view, no aptitudes for finding a modus vivendi, no political promptings. And this is the great cunning, and therefore the hidden violence of Western naturalism, which in fact aims to justify exploiting all of nature as a raw material lying to hand for our project of civilization—it means treating others as matter ruled by biological laws, refusing to see their geopolitical promptings, their vital alliances, and all the ways in which we share with living beings a great diplomatic community in which we can learn anew how to live.
The human subject alone in an absurd universe, surrounded by pure matter lying to hand as a stock of resources, or a sanctuary for humans to recharge their batteries spiritually, is a phantasmal invention of modernity. From this point of view, those great thinkers of emancipation, Sartre and Camus, who have probably infused their ideas deeply into the French tradition, are the objective allies of extractivism and the ecological crisis. It is intriguing to reinterpret these discourses of emancipation as vectors of great violence. Yet it was they who transformed into a basic belief of late humanism the myth that we alone are free subjects in a world of inert and absurd objects, doomed to giving meaning through our consciousness to a living world devoid of it.
This myth took away from that world something it had always possessed. The shamanists and animists described by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Philippe Descola know very well what this lost state had involved, namely complex social relations of reciprocity, exchange, and predation which are not peace-loving or pacific, and do not follow Isaiah’s prophecy, but are political in a still enigmatic sense, and call for forms of pacification and conciliation, of mutualist and considerate cohabitation. After all, there are meanings everywhere in the living world: They do not need to be projected, but to be found, with the means at our disposal—translation and interpretation. It’s all about diplomacy. We need interpreters, intermediaries, and in-betweens to do the job of starting to speak again with living beings, to overcome what we might call Claude Lévi-Strauss’s curse: the impossibility of communicating with the other species we share the Earth with. “For despite the ink spilled by the Judeo-Christian tradition to conceal it, no situation seems more tragic, more offensive to heart and mind, than that of a humanity coexisting and sharing the joys of a planet with other living species yet being unable to communicate with them,” Lévi-Strauss said in conversation with Didier Eribon.
But this impossibility is a fiction of the moderns—it helps to justify reducing living beings to commodities in order to sustain world economic exchanges. Communication is possible, it has always taken place; it is surrounded by mystery, by inexhaustible enigmas, by untranslatable aspects too, but ultimately by creative misunderstandings. It doesn’t have the fluidity of a café conversation, but it is nonetheless rich in meaning.
As an enigma among other enigmas, the human way of being alive only makes sense if it is woven into the countless other ways of being alive that the animals, plants, bacteria, and ecosystems all around us demand.
The ever-intact enigma of being a human is richer and more poignant when we share it with other life forms in our great family, when we pay attention to them, and when we do justice to their otherness. This interplay of kinship and otherness with other living beings, the common causes they foster in the politics of life, is part of what makes the ‘mystery of living,’ of being a human being, so inexhaustible.
This excerpt is adapted from Ways of Being Alive by Baptiste Morizot and was originally published in French by Editions Actes Sud © Actes Sud, 2020. It was translated into English by Andrew Brown and published by Polity Books in 2022. This excerpt was edited and produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Baptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Aix-Marseille University in France who studies the relationship between humans and other living beings. His many books include Ways of Being Alive and Rekindling Life: A Common Front, both published in English by Polity Books. | http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2022/08/western-naturalism-disrespects-nonhuman.html | 2022-08-16T11:04:33Z | http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2022/08/western-naturalism-disrespects-nonhuman.html | false | 3 |
At the end of the latest market close, Avaya Holdings Corp. (AVYA) was valued at $0.65. In that particular session, Stock kicked-off at the price of $0.67 while reaching the peak value of $0.70 and lowest value recorded on the day was $0.6505. The stock current value is $0.69.Recently in News on August 9, 2022, Avaya Reports Selected Additional Preliminary Third Quarter Fiscal 2022 Financial Results and Provides Business Updates. Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) (“Avaya” or “the Company”) today reported selected additional preliminary financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 ended June 30, 2022. All financial results for the third quarter ended June 30, 2022 and related comparisons to prior periods included in this release are preliminary, have not been reviewed or audited, are based on the Company’s estimates and were prepared prior to the completion of the Company’s financial statement close process. You can read further details here
Avaya Holdings Corp. had a pretty Dodgy run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the company’s stock is recorded $21.6500 on 01/04/22, with the lowest value was $0.5962 for the same time period, recorded on 08/09/22.
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Avaya Holdings Corp. (AVYA) full year performance was -96.62%
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock’s existing status and the future performance. Presently, Avaya Holdings Corp. shares are logging -96.94% during the 52-week period from high price, and 15.50% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock’s price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $0.60 and $22.47.
The company’s shares, operating in the sector of Technology managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 7813227 for the day, which was evidently lower, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the Avaya Holdings Corp. (AVYA) recorded performance in the market was -96.52%, having the revenues showcasing -89.12% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 62.33M, as it employees total of 8063 workers.
Market experts do have their say about Avaya Holdings Corp. (AVYA)
During the last month, 1 analysts gave the Avaya Holdings Corp. a BUY rating, 0 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 3 analysts were recommending to HOLD this stock, 0 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 2 of the polled analysts provided SELL rating.
According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 5.8663, with a change in the price was noted -12.94. In a similar fashion, Avaya Holdings Corp. posted a movement of -94.95% for the period of last 100 days, recording 6,185,888 in trading volumes.
Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the company’s financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders’ equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders’ equity The total Debt to Equity ratio for AVYA is recording 0.00 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 6.54.
Technical breakdown of Avaya Holdings Corp. (AVYA)
Raw Stochastic average of Avaya Holdings Corp. in the period of last 50 days is set at 1.79%. The result represents downgrade in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 4.43%. In the last 20 days, the company’s Stochastic %K was 3.72% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 3.30%.
Bearing in mind the latest performance of Avaya Holdings Corp., several moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company’s stock appears to be encouraging, given the fact the metric is recording -96.52%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably deteriorated by -95.34%, alongside a downfall of -96.62% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by -38.52% in the 7-day charts and went up by -65.74% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were lifted by -89.12% during last recorded quarter. | https://investchronicle.com/2022/08/16/avaya-holdings-corp-avya-a-brand-new-prospect-for-investors/ | 2022-08-16T11:11:12Z | https://investchronicle.com/2022/08/16/avaya-holdings-corp-avya-a-brand-new-prospect-for-investors/ | false | 19675 |
HOUSTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Independence Contract Drilling, Inc. (the "Company" or "ICD") (NYSE: ICD) announced that Anthony Gallegos, President and Chief Executive Officer, will be virtually presenting and holding one-on-one meetings at the Sidoti Micro-Cap Conference on August 17-18, 2022.
The virtual presentation will be webcast at 12:15pm eastern standard time on August 18, 2022 and can be accessed live at https://sidoti.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v329BfsTQhORFlWeSrs8Qg. The presentation will be available for viewing for 90 days following the event.
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Lomit Patel is a growth executive and author of Lean AI. He writes about leadership, marketing, and startups.
The pandemic has changed the workplace dynamic, and many would say it's for the better. More than 70% of workers would like to continue having remote work options, while 65% prefer a return to in-person workspaces. Businesses all around the country have begun to implement the “hybrid workspace” model, which involves a combination of remote and in-person work, which shifts depending on the agreement between an employee and their workplace.
Maintaining a work-life balance is more important than ever in this hybrid landscape. Before the pandemic, a healthy work-life balance was challenging for employees and businesses. With the added obscurity of managing time out of the office, breaks, and work expectations, the hybrid workplace hasn’t made it more accessible. Companies and employees must prioritize a healthy work-life balance.
A unique issue that arises with a hybrid workplace model is over-collaboration. Since the pandemic, companies like Microsoft have reported an increase of 42% of chats sent after hours and double the amount of time spent in weekly meetings.
Collaborative overload is exhausting and distracting employees. A study conducted by cognitive psychologists shows that responding to a message can cause up to a 64-second recovery time to get back on track. A slightly more significant interruption can cause an employee 23 minutes to get back to their original task. As a result of these distractions, employees tend to feel more stressed, frustrated, and pressured by time. Employees who are satisfied with their work-life balance attend 25% fewer meetings and spend six fewer hours per week collaborating than those with a poor work-life balance.
Another problem is the allocation of time off. Microsoft employees’ vacation time dropped by 83% in the pandemic because they stayed in the pandemic home and avoided travel. This negatively affected their work-life balance as employees in the U.S who took vacation during March/April 2020 had an 8% higher perception of a healthy work-life balance. Employees need to take time off and recharge.
Companies are aware of this issue and have implemented different strategies to help their employees. For example, a couple of life science organizations are using network analysis to analyze calendars, identifying ways to reduce the number of redundant meetings. The Harvard Business Review identifies some tactics that make people 18 to 24% more efficient. These practices include blocking out reflective time based on personal rhythms, using triage rules in email, and standing meetings to solve problems quicker.
The improvement of an employee's work-life balance relies heavily on managers' leadership.
Managers must encourage prioritization in the workplace. As a leader, it is crucial to understand that it is nearly impossible to get everything done, so tasks must be segmented and assigned different importance and urgency to be completed. Additionally, to address the issue of having appropriate time off, companies should encourage the ability to unplug and rest on the weekends. Companies may also take after the steps of other organizations like Microsoft, which redefined sick leave to include mental health days.
To provide support during an employee's vacation time, managers can offer to cover the employee’s work while they are gone and implement systems that minimize the number of emails and work an employee on vacation must return to.
Moving forward, leadership needs to empower managers to make decisions that best suit their team, whether defining meeting and in-office expectations or adopting a new piece of technology that will aid in productivity. Managers are the critical drivers of success going forward.
Companies need to adapt to the changes necessary in a hybrid workspace to set employees up for success. Ensuring that employees have a healthy work-life balance will improve the well-being of each employee and encourage a proactive work environment overall.
By taking the appropriate measures, companies can reduce the probability of burnout, anxiety, and other health issues among their employees. Respecting an employee's time off, general health, and overall workload will help build trust and community within a company.
Lomit Patel is the Senior Vice President of Growth at Together Labs (formerly IMVU). Before Together labs, Lomit managed growth at early-stage startups, including Roku (IPO), TrustedID (acquired by Equifax), Texture (acquired. by Apple), and EarthLink. Lomit is a public speaker, author, advisor, and recognized as a Mobile Hero by Liftoff. Lomit's book Lean AI, part of Eric Ries' best-selling "The Lean Startup" series, is now available at Amazon. | https://hackernoon.com/how-to-help-your-employees-maintain-work-life-balance-in-a-hybrid-landscape | 2022-08-16T11:15:02Z | https://hackernoon.com/how-to-help-your-employees-maintain-work-life-balance-in-a-hybrid-landscape | true | 1 |
West Ham are plotting a move for Club Brugge captain Hans Vanaken as David Moyes plans to further strengthen his midfield options this summer.
The Hammers have already signed Flynn Downes from Swansea City but Moyes is keen to add an attack-minded option to his ranks. Vanaken is seen as an ideal player for that role given his experience in the Champions League and it is understood he also wants to make the move to the London Stadium.
Vanaken, who scored nine goals and chipped in with nine assists in the Juliper Pro League last term, is already match fit, having played 90 minutes for Brugge in each of their opening four matches of the season. While Moyes has targeted younger players in the transfer window, Vanaken is turning 30 this month and would add some much-needed experience following the departures of veterans Mark Noble and Andriy Yarmolenko.
Having made over 500 appearances across his professional career, Vanaken will bring extra know-how and quality, while he also scored against Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City last term. Given his European experience, he could be crucial as West Ham compete in the Europa Conference League this season. Vanaken is a huge presence at 6'5" and has a similar profile to Tomas Soucek, who can also dart into the box and score goals.
According to Flemmish outlet Nieuwsblad, Hammers tabled an opening bid of £8.4million to sign Brugge's captain, but it was rejected immediately. The offer is viewed as 'completely inadequate' and Brugge consider Vanaken's departure 'out of the question' in this window as the midfielder is vital to the way they play.
It has been a mixed summer transfer window for West Ham. They have secured eye-catching deals for Nayef Aguerd, Alphonse Areola, Downes, Maxwell Cornet and Gianluca Scamacca, but the Irons have also missed out on key targets such as Wolves-bound Matheus Nunes and Jesse Lingard, who joined Nottingham Forest.
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West Ham are also closing in on a deal for Paris Saint-Germain defender Thilo Kehrer, with the defender agreeing personal terms on a move to the London Stadium. Meanwhile, Chelsea's Emerson has been lined-up as an option at left-back.
Moyes' side have failed to pick up a point from their opening two Premier League matches this season, falling to defeats against Manchester City and Nottingham Forest. Moyes reflected on his side's performance in their 1-0 loss at the City Ground on Sunday and was particularly frustrated with their start to the game.
He said: "The first 20 minutes, I thought were really poor. I thought we grew into the game. We didn’t deserve the result we got, that is for sure, but we did in the end.
"I thought Notts Forest started well. They were powerful, strong, wanted to pick up the first ball and the second ball and put us under pressure, we didn’t cope particularly well in the opening 20 minutes with that, I thought." | https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/west-ham-transfers-hans-vanaken-27752084 | 2022-08-16T11:15:35Z | https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/west-ham-transfers-hans-vanaken-27752084 | false | 2 |
More blasts in Russian-controlled Crimea shift focus of attention in Ukraine war
The world's attention on the war in Ukraine turned anew Tuesday to Russian-annexed Crimea, where two separate fires, including one with massive explosions, injured at least two people and forced the evacuation of about 2,000 residents.
The second incident in a week in Crimea raised increasing questions about whether Ukrainian forces managed to hit the peninsula. Videos posted on social media showed thick plumes of smoke rising over the raging flames, and a series of multiple explosions could be heard in the background.
“Crimea occupied by Russians is about warehouses explosions and high risk of death for invaders and thieves,” said a cryptic Twitter message from Ukraine presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, which stopped short of claiming any Ukraine responsibility for the incident.
The blaze and blasts rattled the village of Mayskoye in the Dzhankoi district of Crimea early Tuesday, Russian media also reported.
Another morning incident was reported in Dzhankoi itself: According to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, a transformer substation was on fire after “a loud thump sound.” Russia’s Energy Ministry reported shortly afterward that the fire at the substation had been contained.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the fire at the substation and the fire at the ammunition storage site were connected.
Kyiv certainly reinforced a message of chaos.
“Morning near Dzhankoi began with explosions. A reminder: Crimea of normal country is about the Black Sea, mountains, recreation and tourism," Podolyak wrote, referring to the time before Russia invaded and annexed Crimea in 2014.
The Russian Defense Ministry said a fire erupted at a “site for temporary storage of ammunition of one of the military units.”
“As a result of the fire, the stored ammunition detonated,” the ministry said, adding that it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire.
The Dzhankoi district of Crimea is in the north of the peninsula, about 30 miles from the Russian-controlled region of Kherson in southern Ukraine. Kyiv has recently mounted a series of attacks on various sites in the region, targeting supply routes for the Russian military there and ammunition depots.
Crimea’s Russian-appointed Gov. Sergei Aksyonov said that two people sustained injuries in the most recent incident and that local residents were being evacuated, as explosions of ammunition continued.
Aksyonov said some residential buildings were damaged near the site of the fire, and about 2,000 people were evacuated from nearby areas. According to Russian media, railway lines going through Mayskoye were also damaged.
Aksyonov said all trains would be stopped at the town of Vladislavovka, about 55 miles south of Mayskoye, and passengers would be able to continue their journeys on buses.
Last week, a series of explosions occurred at the Saki air base near the Novofyodorovka village in Crimea. The Russian military blamed the blasts on an accidental detonation of munitions there, but the incident appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack. Kyiv said the explosions destroyed nine Russian airplanes.
Ukrainian officials at the time stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for the explosions, while mocking Russia’s explanation that a careless smoker might have caused ammunition at the Saki air base to catch fire and blow up. Analysts also said that explanation doesn’t make sense and that the Ukrainians could have used anti-ship missiles to strike the base.
The Crimean peninsula holds huge strategic and symbolic significance for both sides. The Kremlin’s demand that Ukraine recognize Crimea as part of Russia has been one of its key conditions for ending the fighting, while Ukraine has vowed to drive the Russians from the peninsula and all other occupied territories.
And a British Defense Ministry intelligence update said that, in the waters off Crimea, Russian Black Sea Fleet surface vessels “continue to pursue an extremely defensive posture,” with boats barely venturing out of sight of the coastline.
Russia already lost its flagship Moskva in the Black Sea, and last month the Ukrainian military retook the strategic Snake Island outpost off Ukraine’s southwestern coast vital for guaranteeing sea lanes out of Odesa, Ukraine’s biggest port.
The Russian fleet's “limited effectiveness undermines Russia's overall invasion strategy,” the British intelligence update said. “This means Ukraine can divert resources to press Russian ground forces elsewhere.”
The Ukrainian governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported Tuesday that one civilian was killed in the region in the most recent Russian shelling, and two others sustained wounds.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, one civilian was killed and nine others were wounded by Russian shelling, Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Sinegubov said. He added that the overnight attack on the city was “one of the most massive shelling of Kharkiv in recent days.”
Officials in the central region of Dniprotpetrovsk also reported shelling of the Nikopol and the Kryvyi Rih districts.
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Governor’s office denies rumors Alabama leader suffering health issues
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s office said Thursday that the 77-year-old governor remains “healthy and cancer-free” and dismissed rumors that she is having health issues.
Ivey spokeswoman Gina Maiola issued the statement after a week of rumors and media inquiries about Ivey’s health and whereabouts. The press office issued the statement after previously deflecting inquires.
“While I did not want to give any credibility to these bogus rumors, I do want to be sure to clear the air and set the record straight. Governor Ivey is doing great, and she continues to thank the Good Lord for keeping her healthy and cancer-free. We look forward to her leading the state of Alabama for years to come,” Maiola said.
Maiola told The Associated Press that the governor’s last public appearance was last week at an Aug. 2 groundbreaking ceremony in Prattville for the expansion of a fiber cement siding manufacturer. Ivey spoke at the event.
The governor’s office did not immediately respond to questions asking about Ivey’s upcoming schedule, whereabouts this week and whether she had been in the hospital in the past four weeks.
“We will continue keeping you all updated on the governor’s public appearances and any other pertinent information,” Maiola responded in an email.
The Republican governor announced in 2019 that she had been diagnosed with early stage lung cancer and would undergo radiation treatments. She announced in 2020 that the cancer appeared to be gone and that her doctor considered her cancer-free.
Ivey is up for reelection in November after defeating a slate of primary challengers this spring. One of the oldest governors in state history, she faced thinly veiled accusations about her age and health during her 2018 gubernatorial race, with opponents challenging each to release health records publicly, but Ivey easily won the race. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2702760496575/governor-s-office-denies-rumors-alabama-leader-suffering-health-issues | 2022-08-16T11:30:43Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2702760496575/governor-s-office-denies-rumors-alabama-leader-suffering-health-issues | false | 2 |
Markets
Disappointing July Chinese eco data and some PBOC monetary policy easing were the main talking point at the start of the new trading week. The Chinese central bank cut its 1-yr medium term lending facility rate unexpectedly by 10 bps, from 2.85% to 2.75%. It was the first cut since January. The decision came just before the release of July economic data which pointed to decelerating growth in production (3.8% Y/Y; 3.5% YTD YoY), retail sales (2.7% Y/Y; -0.2% YTD YoY) and investments (5.7% YTD YoY). New Covid-outbreaks and the governments zero-Covid policy dampened growth at the start of Q3 while also clouding the outlook. The country last month toned down its guidance for this year’s growth target from around 5.5% to “trying to achieve the best possible outcome”. The monthly eco data amplified global growth worries and provided an early bid for core bonds.
Oil prices were slipping and went into tailspin once Iran’s foreign minister Amirabdollahian signaled that a new nuclear deal is near. The country sent its official response to reviving the 2015 the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to the EU while it’s already nearer to a deal with the US. Relancing JCPOA implies a return of Iranian oil to the market. Brent crude yesterday fell from around $98/b to $93/b.
An empty European eco calendar meant that Chinese growth and the Iranian nuclear deal remained the key trading input up until the release of the August Empire Manufacturing index. NY business sentiment unexpectedly crashed from 11.10 to -31.3, by far the weakest reading since May 2020. Details offered no relief. New orders slumped from 6.2 to -29.6 with shipments collapsing from 25.3 to -24.1. Employment and average workweek indicators fell as well with producer input prices showing a second month of steep decline following over 12 months (April 2021 – June 2022) at sky-high levels. All these sub-indicators are a warning signal for H2 growth. We’ll look for more regional confirmation in this week’s Philly Fed Business Outlook and next week’s Richmond Fed Manufacturing index.
US Treasuries spiked higher after the Empire Manufacturing Survey with the front end of the curve outperforming. The curve turned less inverse with yields ceding 6.2 bps (2-yr) to 0.9 bps (30-yr). German yields lost around 8 bps across the curve. The dollar extended Friday’s gains. EUR/USD’s failure to regain first resistance around 1.0350 (May & June lows / topside downward trend channel) prompted rebound action lower with the pair currently changing hands at 1.0165.
EUR/GBP copied that move south with the pair closing at 0.8428 from an 0.8453 open. This morning’s decent labour market figures don’t spark a market reaction. UK employment rose by 160k in the 3 months ending June, below 268k consensus with the unemployment rate stabilizing at 3.8% over that same period. Average weekly earnings accelerated to 4.7% Y/Y ex. Bonuses. Monthly (July) data showed a 73k net job gains with jobless claims falling by 10.6k.
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The German government decided that consumers will have to pay and extra 2.419 euro cents per kilowatt hour for natural gas from October onwards. Economic minister Habeck said that the levy is a consequence of Russian President Putin’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine and the artificial energy shortage caused by Russia. The levy will be imposed through April 1 2024 and suggests an annual cost of about €290 for a 4-person household. Some households will be granted some subsidies to dampen the impact of the price rise. The latter will deteriorate German inflation dynamics (already at 8.5% Y/Y in July) further.
The Reserve Bank of Australia published Minutes of its early August policy meeting, when it hiked the policy rate by 50 bps from 1.35% to 1.85%. The board expects to take further steps in the process of normalizing monetary conditions over the months ahead, but it is not on a pre-set path. The central bank hinted to get (at least) towards a neutral level of around 2.5% with money markets expecting a 3.25% policy rate by the end of the year. | https://www.actionforex.com/contributors/fundamental-analysis/458708-oil-prices-slipping-and-went-into-tailspin/ | 2022-08-16T11:30:53Z | https://www.actionforex.com/contributors/fundamental-analysis/458708-oil-prices-slipping-and-went-into-tailspin/ | false | 1 |
After the announcement of the debut in Japan and Asia, scheduled for October 27, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment has announced that it will publish Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits also in the West, with the release date scheduled for the following day, the October 28 on Nintendo Switch. It was probably only a matter of time, as the Asian publication will include the English language text.
Below you can see the crazy announcement trailer released by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment.
Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits – Announcement Trailer
For those who do not know him, Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits is a peculiar fishing title, a sequel to the arcade game Ace Angleralso published in 2019 on Nintendo Switch. The game will introduce the water amusement park Marine Medal Maniain which players can try their hand at the various game modes:
- Ace Angler +, The Fishing Medal Game – revival of the classic arcade mode, with all the stages of the previous version and new additions. This mode provides multiplayer for up to four players.
- Story Mode: Legend of the Poisoned Seas – players will have to go on a journey to oceans around the world, in order to clean the sea of waste and pollution for future generations. By completing the timed challenges it will be possible to advance through the story and learn more about marine life.
- Online Ultimate Angler Competition – Four-player online challenges, where the goal is to catch more fish and accumulate stars with each victory, fighting to become theUltimate Angler.
- Ace Angler Party – twelve marine-themed mini-games, combined with other fishing challenges in which players will compete to catch the heaviest or most expensive fish.
- Medal Pusher Game: Shark Fever – the aim of this minigame is to catch a great white shark. By dropping five balls, you can start a Shark Battle and earn numerous medals.
By completing the various challenges proposed by the game, it will be possible to obtain new specimens to add to your aquarium. Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits is expected exclusively on Nintendo Switch for next 28 October.
Source: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Street Gematsu
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CHANDLER, Ariz., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today announced that it is supporting 6G academic and industry research worldwide through its new 6G Forward program. The program is designed to provide vital expertise, technology, and funding to promising avenues of research, which may lead to breakthroughs for the next generation of wireless technology. VIAVI has already supported three universities, Northeastern University and the University of Texas at Austin in the US and the University of Surrey in the UK.
At Northeastern University, VIAVI is supporting the Institute for Wireless Internet of Things and the Open6G cooperative research center led by Professor Tommaso Melodia. The group is exploring large-scale RF propagation channel modeling based on AI and ML technologies to develop a city-scale digital twin of a 6G network. The team is also developing a RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC)-enabled Massive MIMO beamforming optimization testbed using the Colosseum 256-port RF channel emulator and the VIAVI E500 UE Emulator.
At the University of Texas at Austin, VIAVI supports 6G@UT, led by Professor Jeff Andrews, within the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG). The key topic of the joint research is applying end-to-end machine learning, specifically deep reinforcement learning (DRL), using adversarial conditions to re-train more robust cellular traffic forecasters.
At the University of Surrey in the UK, VIAVI is a founding member of the 5G/6G Innovation Centre led by Regius Professor Rahim Tafazolli FREng. The Innovation Centre addresses advanced communication systems and the key challenges in the development of a 5G, 5G+ and 6G infrastructure for providing connectivity for future technologies. Key research areas include: Antennas and signal processing; Artificial intelligence for wireless communications; Intelligent and high-performance networking and service delivery; Intelligent RAN technology and management; Mobile network security; New physical layer; Satellite communications; THz components and communications all under future Integrated communication and sensing.
"At the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, we envision a future in which people and their environment are connected by a continuum of AI-powered devices and networks," said Professor Melodia. "6G research initiatives require collaboration between academia and industry, and the technology, expertise and funding provided by VIAVI are critical to our contributions to making wireless communications exponentially faster, smarter, more energy efficient, and more secure."
"6G@UT is imagining the future of wireless connectivity at the intersection of immersive sensing and machine learning," said Professor Andrews. "VIAVI's unique perspective on enabling the entire network lifecycle from R&D to deployment provides academic researchers like us insights into problems affecting real-world network deployments, and we welcome the collaboration with the VIAVI experts as we embark on this journey towards 6G."
"VIAVI is a founder member of the Innovation Centre at Surrey and we deeply appreciate the support and expertise they are bringing to the table," said Regius Professor Tafazolli. "It enables us to fully explore concepts, to deliver technologies and methodologies that will help define and improve connected communities in the future. This is a good example of academia and business working together to improve technology and people's lives."
"Academic institutions play a vital role in exploring the potential of 6G," said Dr. Ian Wong, CTO Office, VIAVI. "We believe it is important to get involved now and to allow disruptive and productive areas of research to see their ideas come to fruition ahead of formal standards definitions. We have had fascinating and beneficial exchanges with our academic partners and we hope to expand the scale of the program in the future."
VIAVI is also involved with several other 6G-focused initiatives globally, including:
- The Next G Alliance, an ATIS-led industry initiative focused on advancing North American mobile technology leadership in 6G and beyond over the next decade. VIAVI is a founding member of the Next G Alliance, whose projects encompass the full lifecycle of research and development, manufacturing, standardization and market readiness.
- 6G BRAINS, which is developing AI-driven multi-agent Deep Reinforcement learning (DRL) to perform resource allocation in 6G networks for Industry 4.0, intelligent transportation, e-health and other applications. Supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme, 6G Brains initiatives include providing network operators with new options for using and combining sub-6 GHz, mmWave and THz spectrum, as well as optical wireless communications.
- The Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium, a forum for industry, academia and government in Japan to share information about research and development in areas such as integrating cyberspace with the real world, known as Society 5.0.
Further information about VIAVI and 6G is available at https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/solutions/6g.
About VIAVI
VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for communications service providers, enterprises, network equipment manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, government and avionics. We help these customers harness the power of instruments, automation, intelligence and virtualization to Command the network. VIAVI is also a leader in light management solutions for the anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, industrial, government and automotive markets. Learn more about VIAVI at www.viavisolutions.com. Follow us on VIAVI Perspectives, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
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By Zubairu Idris
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has commended a police officer in Kano, SP Daniel Amah, for rejecting 200,000 dollar bribe.
The Public Relations Officer, Kano State Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday in Kano.
He said that a commendation letter signed by the I-G was presented to Amah by the Acting Commissioner of Police in the state, DCP Abubakar Zubairu.
He said that “Amah was highly commended for maintaining outstanding excellent work, uncommon focus, dedication to duty and exhibition of sound professionalism.
“Leading to the arrest and prosecution of one Ali Zaki and some police officers in a case of armed robbery involving the sum of N320.5 million and also rejecting 200,000 dollars offered to him as bribe.”
Meanwhile, 38 Deputy Superintendents of Police in the command who were recently promoted to Superintendent of Police have been decorated by the acting police commissioner.
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WA Portland OR Zone Forecast for Monday, August 15, 2022
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590 FPUS56 KPQR 161004
ZFPPQR
Zone Forecasts for Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington
National Weather Service Portland OR
304 AM PDT Tue Aug 16 2022
Spot Temperatures are for Today, Tonight, Wednesday, Wednesday
Night, and Thursday.
WAZ021-162300-
South Washington Coast-
Including the cities of Raymond, Long Beach, Ocean Park, Naselle,
Cathlamet, and Cape Disappointment
304 AM PDT Tue Aug 16 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy, becoming mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 80. Light
wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 55 to 60. Northwest wind 5 to
10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 85. North wind 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy. Lows around 60. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light
after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 75 to 80. Light wind becoming
northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy drizzle. Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy morning drizzle. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 55 to 60.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 70 to 75.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy. Lows 55 to 60.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 70 to 75.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 55 to 60.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
$$
WAZ020-162300-
Willapa Hills-
Including the cities of Willapa, Frances, Elk Mountain,
and Ryderwood
304 AM PDT Tue Aug 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly sunny. Highs
75 to 80. Light wind becoming north 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 55 to 60. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs 85 to 90. Northeast wind
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 60 to 65. Northwest wind
5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 80 to 90. Light wind.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy. Patchy drizzle. Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy morning drizzle. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 55.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 55.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 55.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
$$
WAZ040-162300-
South Washington Cascade Foothills-
Including the cities of Toutle, Ariel, Lake Merwin, Yale Lake,
and Cougar
304 AM PDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON WEDNESDAY TO 10 PM PDT
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly sunny. Highs
75 to 85. Light wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 65. North wind 5 to 10 mph
becoming light after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer, hot. Highs 85 to 95. Light
wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 65 to 70. Northwest wind
5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs 85 to 95. Light wind.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy. Lows 60 to 65.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 75 to 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 55 to 60.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 75 to 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 55 to 60.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 75 to 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 55 to 60.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 75 to 80.
$$
WAZ019-162300-
South Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center,
Mount St. Helens, and Wind River Valley
304 AM PDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON WEDNESDAY TO 10 PM PDT
THURSDAY BELOW 4000 FEET...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Free air freezing level 15000 feet.
Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Free air freezing level 16000 feet.
Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Free air freezing level
16000 feet. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
15000 feet. Light wind.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Free air freezing level 15000 feet.
Light wind.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly
cloudy. Free air freezing level 15000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 14000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
15000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly sunny. Free
air freezing level 15000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
15000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 15000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
14000 feet.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 13000 feet.
$$
weather.gov/portland
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