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Tavistock AFC goalkeeper and manager ecstatic after clinching league title
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TAVISTOCK goalkeeper Josh Oak has paid tribute to the players who stuck together through thick and thin to eventually mount a successful assault on the Western League title.
The experienced shot-stopper, who has plied his trade at Langsford Park for the past six seasons, said: ‘The way we won was unbelievable – you don’t get many non leagues going to the last day and the last goal.
‘I’m elated for the lads, but it’s not something that’s happened overnight. Stu (manager Stuart Henderson) and Ken (assistant Ken Ord) laid the foundations for this five or six years ago and the same core of players, with a few new signings, have stuck with them.
‘Our squad has had consistency, loyalty and quality and that’s something you can’t buy. I’ve had offers to go elsewhere and I know some of the other lads have as well, but I never wanted to go anywhere else, because it wouldn’t have been right to do that to the other lads.
‘There’s been so many good people working behind the scenes to create an atmosphere at the club which is welcoming to everyone who goes there.’
Hot shot Liam Prynn scored the winning goal against Backwell from the penalty spot in the last minute of the match to send Langsford Park into delirium.
Oak said: ‘I wouldn’t have given it to anyone else. He’d come back from his holidays the day before and he was as cool as you like.’
Lambs boss Henderson said: ‘I’ve said it many times before, we were up there with (Plymouth) Parkway in the last two years which were cut short and when they went up and we didn’t, we felt hard done by, especially as we thought it was two clubs that would get promoted.
‘The lads have stuck at it, everyone was writing us off in pre-season when it was a struggle just to get a team out in some pre-season games because of Covid and injuries and losing the likes of Aaron Bentley, Jack Crago, Tyler Elliot and then Matty Andrew.
‘We had a difficult start to the season but, once we settled, we went on a 22-match unbeaten run after losing at home to Helston and that was the platform really to make the promotion push.
‘I think we have been the outstanding team in the division and have led the table for five months. Fair play to Exmouth, they put in a late charge and their form over the last two or three months has been brilliant as well, but we won our last ten home games on the trot and, at any level, that is a great record.’
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — 8 News Now sports reporter Ron Futrell picks his top 5 NFL Draft picks of all time as the 2022 NFL Draft heads to Las Vegas.
- Bart Starr – a legendary Green Bay Packer quarterback was chosen in the 17th round of the 1956 draft. Starr was the 200th overall out of Alabama and was a 5-time NFL champ. He was the MVP of the first two super bowls back when there were only 12 NFL teams at the time. In 1956 the draft actually had 30 rounds that year.
- Roger Staubach – the Dallas Cowboy played in 5 Super Bowls and was the MVP in Super Bowl 6 but on draft day 1964 the quarterback out of navy was a 10th rounder, 129th overall. The Chicago Bears took Larry Racketstraw two rounds before Staubach was chosen.
- Brett Favre – played as a quarterback out of Southern Mississippi and was taken by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2nd round and was the 33rd overall. Favre became a Hall of Famer with the Packers and Vikings. The Raiders took Todd Marinovich 9 picks before Favre was chosen.
- Joe Montana – was a number two draft pick and taken in the third round, 82 overall by the San Francisco 49ers during the 1979 NFL Draft
- Tom Brady – he was taken in the 6th round, 199th pick out of Michigan. Brady went on to win 6 Super Bowls with the New England Patriots. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/sports/nfl-draft-sports/top-5-nfl-draft-picks-of-all-time/ | 2022-04-28T14:22:44Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/sports/nfl-draft-sports/top-5-nfl-draft-picks-of-all-time/ | true |
April 29
1918 — Center fielder Tris Speaker executed the fourth unassisted double play of his career in the Cleveland Indians’ 8-4 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
1922 — The New York Giants hit four inside-the-park home runs in a 15-4 win at Braves Field in Boston. George Kelly hit two and Ross Youngs and Dave Bancroft hit the others. Youngs also hit for the cycle and added a double while going 5-for-5 and driving in five runs.
1931 — Wes Ferrell of the Cleveland Indians pitched a 7-0 no-hitter over the St. Louis Browns, including his brother Rick. Wes also knocked in four runs with a homer and a double.
1933 — In a strange play at home plate, catcher Luke Sewell of the Washington Senators tagged out two Yankees runners on the same play. Lou Gehrig had held up, thinking a fly ball would be caught. Dixie Walker closed up on him, and both were tagged out trying to score.
1981 — Steve Carlton struck out Montreal’s Tim Wallach in the first inning of the Philadelphia Phillies’ 6-2 victory over the visiting Expos to become the sixth major league pitcher — and first left-hander — to strike out 3,000 batters.
1986 — Roger Clemens set a major league record by striking out 20 batters as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Seattle Mariners 3-1.
1987 — Andre Dawson had five hits and hit for the cycle to lead the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victory the San Francisco Giants.
1988 — The Baltimore Orioles ended their 21-game losing streak by winning their first game of the season, 9-0 over the Chicago White Sox on a combined four-hitter by Mark Williamson and Dave Schmidt.
2005 — In the first matchup between 300-game winners in almost 18 years, the Cubs’ Greg Maddux outdueled the Astros’ Roger Clemens in Chicago’s 3-2 win over Houston. Maddux earned his first win of season and 306th of his career, allowing two runs on seven hits over six innings.
2007 — Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki had an unassisted triple play in the seventh inning of the Rockies’ 9-7 win over Atlanta.
2015 — In what was believed to be the first major league game played without fans in attendance, Chris Davis hit a three-run homer in a six-run first inning and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox 8-2. After a pair of postponements caused by rioting in Baltimore, the Orioles and Chicago White Sox played at Camden Yards. The gates at Camden Yards were locked because of concern for fan safety following recent rioting in Baltimore after a 25-year-old black man died in police custody.
2017 — Carlos Gomez hit for the cycle for the second time and Rougned Odor hit a tiebreaking two-run homer to help the Texas Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-3.
2017 — Yasiel Puig, Cody Bellinger and Justin Turner hit consecutive homers off Hector Neris in the ninth, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers rally for a 6-5 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. Los Angeles trailed 5-2 before the three straight homers. | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/This-Date-in-Baseball-17133360.php | 2022-04-28T14:26:11Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/This-Date-in-Baseball-17133360.php | true |
Luke McShane
No. 700
White to play and draw. Composed by Jan Timman, 2011. 1 h8=Q Rxd5 wins for Black, so how does White escape? Answers should be emailed to chess@spectator.co.uk by Tuesday 3 May. There is a prize of £20 for the first correct answer out of a hat. Please include a postal address and allow six weeks for prize delivery.
Last week’s solution: 1...Qxe2+ 2 Kxe2 Bg4 is mate.
Last week’s winner: Joanne Thompson, Derby | https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/no-700 | 2022-04-28T14:36:01Z | https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/no-700 | false |
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Prince William was worried about Prince Harry’s ‘mental fragility' during Meghan Markle romance, book claims
Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown has written a bombshell book titled 'The Palace Papers'
Prince William was concerned about Prince Harry’s relationship with Meghan Markle, and it wasn’t just because he felt they were moving at lightning speed.
The claim was made by former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, who recently wrote a bombshell book about the royals titled "The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil." It explores "the scandals, love affairs, power plays and betrayals" that have rocked the British royals during the last 20 years and features new revelations based on Brown’s access to palace insiders.
The bestselling author previously wrote a biography on the Princess of Wales titled "The Diana Chronicles," which was published in 2007. For her latest book, Brown said she spoke to more than 120 sources who were close to senior members of the royal family.
Brown claimed that William, 39, didn’t believe the former American actress could handle the pressures of royal life.
"A person close to the Duke of Cambridge told me that William thought she should have more time to build up a life in the U.K. and make friends who didn’t always have to be brought in confidence to the palace," Brown wrote. "It had been hard enough for Kate [Middleton], but Meghan was a glamorous actress who would be the first woman of color to join the royal family, factors that would add enormously to the pressure."
"Unspoken to Harry, the person said, was the older brother’s fear that Harry’s mental fragility was such that he wouldn’t be strong enough to handle all of that on her behalf, as well as his own issues," Brown added.
William’s relationship with Middleton moved at a much slower pace, in comparison.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met in 2001 as students at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. William told The Telegraph they were friends for over a year before a relationship blossomed. While the tabloids reported that the couple called it quits in 2007, they had reportedly gotten back together later that year.
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According to Brown, Middleton wasn’t entitled to official protection from the palace during their courtship.
"William reportedly arranged for a panic button to the local police station to be installed in her apartment to protect her from the constant threats of intrusion," Brown wrote.
She also shared that Middleton would sometimes receive assistance from Prince Charles’ former communications director, Paddy Harverson.
Working senior members of the royal family and their spouses are entitled to publicly-funded police protection. Middleton didn’t become entitled to police protection until she married the prince.
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William proposed to Middleton, 40, in 2010 during their vacation to Kenya. The couple tied the knot in 2011. They share three children.
Brown alleged that Harry’s response to his sibling’s concerns was to try to move faster.
"To his brother’s concerns, Harry’s riposte can be summarized as, I am told, ‘Well, actually the best way I can protect her is marry her as quickly as possible because as soon as I marry her she will then get police protection.'"
Harry, 37, and the former "Suits" star, 40, met in 2016 on a blind date. The relationship was said to have gone from "0 to 60."
Just four months after the two began seeing each other, news broke of their whirlwind romance. Brown alleged that it was a member of Prince Andrew’s household, either with or without the Duke of York’s knowledge, that leaked the news.
"In the first round of coverage, [Meghan] was portrayed as Grace Kelly redux, an actress, humanitarian and gender equality campaigner, making it hard not to believe that the initial leak came from Meghan’s side (though a servant tip from the House of York had been fingered)," Brown wrote. "The second round, however, struck a different tone, forcing Meghan to experience the full-on bare-tooth barracuda swarm of hacks on the royal beat."
"American celebrities often find themselves dazed by the sheer demonic creativity of the British popular press," Brown added.
Brown claimed that a member of Andrew’s household leaked the news to the U.K.’s Sunday Express.
"Harry has been desperate to keep the relationship quiet because he doesn’t want to scare Meghan off," the source told the outlet. "He knows things will change when their romance is public knowledge, but he also knows he can’t keep it a secret for long. It’s too early to say if the relationship will lead to anything long-term but who knows? At the moment they are just taking it a step at a time and seeing how things develop."
Harry proposed in 2017.
A palace spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment concerning Brown’s book. However, a spokesperson previously told Fox News Digital that the palace doesn’t generally comment "on such books." A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex also didn’t immediately reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Markle became the Duchess of Sussex when she married Harry in May 2018 at Windsor Castle. The couple welcomed a son named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor in 2019.
PRINCE WILLIAM, KATE MIDDLETON DODGE QUESTION ABOUT PRINCE HARRY WANTING TO PROTECT QUEEN ELIZABETH
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s departures from royal duties began in 2020 over what they described as the British media’s intrusions and racist attitudes toward the duchess. The family now resides in the coastal city of Montecito, California.
In the wake of quitting royal duties, they gave an explosive TV interview to Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, in which the couple described painful comments about how dark Archie’s skin might be before his birth. The duchess talked about the intense isolation she felt inside the royal family that led her to contemplate suicide.
Buckingham Palace said the allegations of racism made by the couple were "concerning" and would be addressed privately.
In June of that year, the couple welcomed their second child, a daughter named Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. The name pays tribute to both Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, whose family nickname is Lilibet, and his late mother, Princess Diana.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/prince-william-worried-prince-harry-meghan-markle-romance-tina-brown-book | 2022-04-28T14:39:33Z | https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/prince-william-worried-prince-harry-meghan-markle-romance-tina-brown-book | false |
Burger King has launched a new packaging deal which will see some customers charged deposits for reusable cups and containers.
The fast-food giant is providing sustainable packaging for its sides and burgers, taking the form of a 'clamshell' design.
The new range, also features reusable cups, comes after Burger King announced it will phase out all single-use packaging by 2025.
What is the scheme and where will it happen?
Customers partaking in the trial will be charged a deposit of £1, which will be refunded once the packaging is returned.
The new trial is taking place across five restaurants in Ipswich and Newmarket.
These are:
- Ipswich Copdock Interchange
- Ipswich Europark
- Ipswich Westend Road
- Ipswich Anglia Retail Park
- Newmarket Fordham Road
The scheme will run from 26 April to 5 September, and 10 products are available to buy with reusable packaging, including the Whopper and chilli cheese bites.
If the trial is successful, the sustainable packaging will be rolled out to its Whopper range across the UK.
What has been said?
Tom Szaky, from Loop, who provides and recycles the packaging, said: "This enables customers a simple and convenient way to trial re-usable packaging when ordering their favourite burgers, sides and drinks."
Cups and containers can be returned by placing them in Loop bins outside the restaurant, and through other locations on the Loop app.
Nicola Pierce, director of commercial planning & ESG at Burger King UK, said: "The launch of the new packaging from Burger King® UK will include the first-ever reusable and returnable ‘clamshell’ for burgers and sides in the UK.
"We’re excited to see how the trial performs over the next five months and help us reach our goal of eliminating single-use plastic within our restaurants by 2025." | https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/read-this/burger-king-to-charge-for-reusable-packaging-the-restaurants-taking-part-in-trial-3672970 | 2022-04-28T14:41:12Z | https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/read-this/burger-king-to-charge-for-reusable-packaging-the-restaurants-taking-part-in-trial-3672970 | true |
Migrant integration has failed and created parallel societies and gang violence, Swedish PM admits
- Magdalena Andersson said Islamism and extremism have festered in Sweden
- She said: 'We live in the same country but in completely different realities'
- Violent riots erupted in Sweden this month after a politician burned a Quran
Sweden's migrant integration has failed, leading to parallel societies and gang violence, the country's prime minister said today.
Many Swedes were shocked earlier this month after violent riots left more than 100 police injured.
The violence erupted after a Swedish-Danish politician burned the Quran at a rally and sought to hold more in several immigrant-dominated neighbourhoods.
Magdalena Andersson blamed criminals and said both Islamism and right-wing extremism had been allowed to fester in Sweden, in unusually frank and self-critical comments.
A bus burns as a police officer watches on after riots in Malmo, in the south of Sweden, sparked by an anti-Islam Danish politician carrying out Koran-burning stunts around the country
Many Swedes were shocked earlier this month after violent riots left more than 100 police injured
Magdalena Andersson blamed criminals and said both Islamism and right-wing extremism had been allowed to fester in Sweden
'Segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden. We live in the same country but in completely different realities,' Andersson told a news conference.
The number of people in Sweden born abroad has doubled in the last two decades to 2 million, or a fifth of the population.
Andersson's Social Democrats have been in power for 28 of the last 40 years, including the last eight.
Andersson said she wanted to introduce local youth crime boards where social services and police could collaborate.
She also proposed tools to make sure that youths stayed in schools and off the streets without the consent of parents.
Sweden, which holds a general election later this year, has radically tightened its immigration policies
'Integration has been too poor at the same time as we have had a large immigration. Society has been too weak, resources for the police and social services have been too weak,' she said.
Sweden, which holds a general election later this year, has radically tightened its immigration policies since taking in more people per capita than any other European Union country during the migration crisis in 2015.
It now has one of the bloc's most restrictive policies.
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has been critical of Sweden's tightening of policies, claiming it is causing human suffering and making integration even harder for immigrants. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10763755/Migrant-integration-failed-created-parallel-societies-gang-violence-Swedish-PM-admits.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-28T14:46:54Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10763755/Migrant-integration-failed-created-parallel-societies-gang-violence-Swedish-PM-admits.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
BEIJING (AP) — Americans are increasingly seeing China as a world superpower and a threat, though growing numbers perceive it more as a competitor than an enemy, according to a survey released Thursday.
The Washington-based Pew Research Center said that negative views of China reached a new high, with 82% of Americans having either somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable views of the country, a 6 percentage point increase from last year.
About two-thirds of U.S. adults said that China's influence in the world is getting stronger, and two-thirds also consider China's power and influence a major threat to the United States.
At the same time, the proportion of respondents who saw China as an enemy has dropped since January. Currently, 62% of Americans see China as a competitor and 25% as an enemy, while in January 54% chose competitor and 35% said enemy — almost exactly the same as the prior year.
The shift may be a temporary one influenced by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Laura Silver, a senior researcher at Pew, said it’s likely that the war has changed how people define what is an enemy, as opposed to a competitor.
The survey of 3,581 people was taken from March 21 to 27, about a month into the Russian invasion. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.
The opposite shift occurred in the share of Americans who called Russia an enemy. Some 70% of Americans now see Russia as an enemy, up from 41% in January, according to Pew.
“With a clearer sense that what Russia is doing demarcates it as an ‘enemy,’ there has been a corresponding shift in thinking China is more of a competitor,” Silver said.
On the official level, however, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin calls China the U.S. military's leading long-term challenge and the U.S.-China relationship has become more strained on many levels since the start of President Joe Biden's term in January 2021.
Biden has been placing more emphasis on the Indo-Pacific region and has repeatedly criticized China for military provocations against Taiwan, human rights abuses against ethnic minorities and efforts to squelch pro-democracy advocates in Hong Kong. U.S. officials also have expressed concern about signs that China is increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal, although it remains far smaller than America’s.
With China so far refusing to condemn the invasion of Ukraine, Beijing’s partnership with Moscow was identified as the most serious problem for the U.S., with 62% of people polled saying it was.
By contrast, only 35% said the tensions between China and Taiwan were a very serious problem for the U.S. China's human right policies were named a very serious problem by 42%, and 26% said mainland China's Hong Kong policies were a very serious problem for the U.S.
Silver said that changes in news coverage and global events probably affect how Americans view China, noting that human rights was a greater concern last year.
“Negative views of China have been high and growing for much of the last four years but what factors seem most salient has ebbed and flowed,” Silver said.
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Rising reported from Bangkok. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Survey-Americans-increasingly-see-China-as-a-17133399.php | 2022-04-28T14:49:04Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Survey-Americans-increasingly-see-China-as-a-17133399.php | true |
Andrew Scivally, CEO, eLearning Brothers - helping organizations create learning experiences that are immersive, engaging, and effective.
For at least the last decade, experiences have taken the forefront in business. This marketplace, once all about necessary goods, has morphed into an economy based on services provided, leading the way to what is now known as the experience economy.
Rather than buying ingredients for a birthday cake, parents may pay a venue to provide a birthday experience for their child. Instead of saving up for high-end products, families are investing in vacations. Just one recent study revealed that from 2014-2016, consumers spent more personal expenditures on experience-related services than any other type of good.
The Experience Of Corporate Education
In the learning and development space, experts have long recognized that active learning experiences are better tools than passive learning. David Kolb’s publications on his experiential learning theory in the 1980s were already making a case for concrete experiences and active experimentation being better learning tools than lectures and slide shows in which the learner takes no effectual role.
And just as the economy has evolved, so too has corporate training. We are now leaning more heavily than ever into experiences in this realm. Activities such as group exercises, peer-taught skills, mentoring programs and more were on the rise in a big way—until the pandemic put an abrupt halt to in-person encounters.
Overnight, corporations were forced to pivot to virtual learning if they wanted their teams to pull through this unfamiliar and unprecedented situation. Virtual learning experiences skyrocketed. The academic learning platform edX saw a fifteenfold increase in April 2020 alone. My own company, eLearning Brothers, more than doubled in size in the first year of the Covid-19 crisis and has continued to experience rapid growth.
A Question Of Strategy
Online learning is a fantastic tool, but some corporations, new to the game, are utilizing this resource all wrong. There is no reason that we have to start back at the beginning of corporate training simply because we’re in a virtual space. Bland slideshows or lectures are just as passive in an online environment as they are in real life. Here are four strategies that can help you leverage the most innovative and effective experiential techniques available into your own successful and exciting online education experience.
1. Eliminate passively delivered information.
Why wouldn’t you use the same experiential learning techniques that have been honed over the last several decades to draw workers in—the same way they are drawn into the experience economy?
The future of learning is in more and more immersive tech. Instead of static courses, why not allow learners to contribute and comment on content? This is how a platform evolves into a living, breathing learning module that gives employees the information they really need, when they need it. Instead of asking workers to check boxes, why not observe them in game-based scenarios to see what types of decisions they make?
2. Consider VR solutions.
Virtual reality is one technology that I (as a pioneer of the e-learning industry) am betting on heavily as the next big thing in experiential learning for workers. Industry leaders such as KFC, Ford and Walmart have already invested in large-scale virtual reality learning courses.
VR is not only experience-based and fully immersive, it is a low-risk way to try and solve real world problems. Firefighter training VR modules, for example, can afford front-line workers a window into what a high-stress, high-impact scenario will look, sound and feel like without risking lives or serious injury.
A VR experience can also save valuable time and resources. Vanderbilt University put this to the test when, partnered with my own company, they created a virtual ultrasound training course that gave medical students the opportunity to learn how to operate equipment without taking existing ultrasounds out of patient care, where they are desperately needed, or purchasing additional equipment at $85,000 per machine. The program has been wildly successful.
3. Gamify your trainings.
Gamified training is another simple, fun way to give workers an online learning experience they won’t soon forget. In fact, the Game Agency (an eLearning Brothers company) found in a study that more than half of all players of their corporate learning games played an individual game at least three times, and their knowledge retention improved by 58% from their first to third attempts.
4. Don’t forget the power of video.
Video continues to shine as another medium to provide learning solutions that are also experiences. I’m not talking about the kinds of one-dimensional videos produced in the 1980s. Videos today are capable of dynamic interactive capabilities, allowing learners a chance to see concepts in action, pause, reflect and then be led into other immersive activities.
One innovative example of video used as an experience is video coaching. Workers will learn a concept, then film themselves rehearsing a sales pitch, talking about the company mission or practicing another visual skill. Mentors can then review the videos at a convenient time and provide visual feedback in a response video of their own. Alternatively, AI can review the videos, providing an instant assessment.
The Future Of Online Learning
Online learning solutions are here to stay, so it is up to us to find new ways to give workers an immersive corporate training experience. Virtual reality, game-based learning and experiential videos are all excellent building blocks to help move the future of e-learning beyond passive and into active learning.
In this marketplace, fueled by consumers craving tangible experiences and memorable moments, corporate learning and development has to put employees in the driver’s seat.
Forbes Business Council is the foremost growth and networking organization for business owners and leaders. Do I qualify? | https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/04/28/4-experience-economy-strategies-you-should-consider-leveraging-in-your-corporate-learning/ | 2022-04-28T14:51:02Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/04/28/4-experience-economy-strategies-you-should-consider-leveraging-in-your-corporate-learning/ | true |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they thought they were looking at a crime scene, and took the bones to the state capital.
It turns out it was a very cold case.
It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between A.D. 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday.
“Believing they were looking at a crime scene, investigators collected the bones and started examining them in Tuxtla Gutierrez,” the state capital, the institute, known as INAH, said in a statement.
The police in 2012 weren’t being stupid; the border area around the town of Frontera Comalapa in southern Chiapas state has long been plagued by violence and immigrant trafficking. And pre-Hispanic skull piles in Mexico usually show a hole bashed through each side of every skull, and were usually found in ceremonial plazas, not caves.
But experts said Wednesday the victims in the cave had probably been ritually decapitated and the skulls put on display on a kind of trophy rack known as a “tzompantli.” Spanish conquistadores wrote about seeing such racks in the 1520s, and some Spaniards’ heads even wound up on them.
While usually strung on wooden poles using holes bashed through them — the common practice among the Aztecs and other cultures — experts say the cave skulls may have rested atop poles, rather than being strung on them.
Interestingly, there were more females than males among the victims, and none of them had any teeth.
In light of the cave experience, archaeologist Javier Montes de Paz said people should probably call archaeologists, not police.
“When people find something that could be in an archaeological context, don’t touch it and notify local authorities or directly the INAH,” he said. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/mexico-crime-scene-skulls-turn-out-to-be-from-a-d-900/ | 2022-04-28T14:51:08Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/mexico-crime-scene-skulls-turn-out-to-be-from-a-d-900/ | false |
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The union representing police officers in a Michigan city is defending the officer who shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head.
The Grand Rapids Police Officers Association called Lyoya’s death “tragic” but said an “officer has the legal right to protect themselves and community in a volatile dangerous situation such as this, in order to return to his/her family at the end of their shift.”
Meanwhile, a City Commission meeting abruptly ended Tuesday night as residents used profanities and expressed anger over Lyoya’s killing. Police Chief Eric Winstrom watched from the rear of the room.
“Whose city? Our city! Whose streets? Our streets!” people chanted.
Lyoya, 26, was killed by Officer Christopher Schurr at the end of a brief foot chase and physical struggle that followed a traffic stop in Grand Rapids on April 4.
Lyoya was on the ground when Schurr ordered him to take his hands off the officer’s Taser, according to video of the incident.
Schurr told Lyoya that he had stopped the vehicle because the license plate didn’t match the car.
The union said on Facebook that it “stands with Officer Schurr and will continue to give him and his family whatever support they need.”
Lyoya’s family wants Schurr fired and charged with crimes. State police are investigating the shooting. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker said he will not give up the case, despite calls by civil rights activists to recuse himself.
Earlier Tuesday, Winstrom told a community forum that he wants to put more emphasis on officers knowing how to turn down the heat during tense situations. Some experts believe Schurr should have stopped trying to subdue Lyoya when he resisted.
“I guarantee that we can do more,” said Winstrom, who has been chief for less than two months. “Actually, that’s one of the things I’ve already reached out to my colleagues to say, ‘Hey, I need some curriculum, because we are going to beef it up.’”
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I am surprised the Chad should publish Andy Abrahams’ opinion (April 20) that the ‘Prime Minister should resign’.
The Chad is not a political paper, it carries local news not national news.
If he wants to publish his opinion, let him do it in a national paper, such as the Daily Mirror.
I think Mr Abrahams should have a good look around the town he is mayor of and look at the empty shops, broken roads and crime and grime, before interfering in national politics.
I know Mr Abrahams is not responsible for all Mansfield’s problems, but he has the responsibility of mayor, unless he wants to be an MP.
Chris Walker
Mansfield
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Ohio school board member’s typo puts porn link in pro-abstinence Facebook post
BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - The Lakota School Board voted 4-1 to censure a board member for posting a link on Facebook that led to “inappropriate sexual content.”
A separate motion Wednesday passed requesting that board member Darbi Boddy resign immediately, WXIX reported.
Boddy, according to the censure resolution, made the post on her campaign’s Facebook account.
In her post, Boddy responds to the notion of the district hiring a firm to review its curriculum for potentially objectionable content.
Boddy, who ran on a platform opposing critical race theory, objects to hiring the firm without the board ensuring that both board members and the firm have an understanding of CRT. But she also objects to sexual education content she claimed is already found in Ohio schools, and she posts links to such sites as examples of what she would find objectionable, including content “about masturbating, sex toys, anything taught besides abstinence.”
One of the links originally contained a typo that took users not to the intended site but to a site containing sexual content the board found inappropriate.
“To post pornographic content on an official, public-facing school board member account that can be accessed by many of our own students is absolutely unacceptable,” Board President Lynda O’Connor said Wednesday evening. “Furthermore, to make a public accusation that our curriculum contains such pornographic material is deplorable.”
Boddy has since removed the link, according to the school board.
She posted a follow-up statement prior to Wednesday’s meeting. It reads in part: “One of the pornographic sites that was put in my communication as part of my list of what to look for in our schools, was a typo and although it was not meant to be part of my communication, it is still representative of the disgusting material that is being put in front of our children. If a typo brings more attention to this problem so be it.”
The board’s censure resolution contends it doesn’t matter that Boddy might not have meant to post the link in question: “Even if the link was posted inadvertently, Ms. Boddy demonstrated gross negligence and reckless conduct by posting links on her Facebook page without ensuring that the content thereon is appropriate.”
Boddy cast the lone no vote on the censure resolution as she walked out of the meeting, saying, “I will not be part of this political ruse.”
The board then voted 4-0 on the resignation request.
“You exposed our community, including potentially children, to inappropriate sexual content,” O’Connor said. “By trying to raise awareness about what to keep out of our schools, your manner of communication has placed it directly into our school community. Your conduct was fundamentally wrong and we expect you to take responsibility.”
School boards in Ohio do not have the authority to remove one of their fellow board members from the board.
“The steps taken at this afternoon’s emergency meeting are the strongest actions the Board can legally take in response to this situation,” a district spokesperson said.
The censure resolution notes Boddy has engaged in previous conduct unbecoming of a board member, referencing “disrespectful and unprofessional comments” to administrators and other Board members.
An earlier online petition to censure Boddy “for her continued disrespect and aggression” towards district superintendent Matt Miller has more than 1,500 signatures, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The petition reads, “Month after month, meeting after meeting, Mrs. Boddy has repeatedly attacked the integrity and honesty of Mr. Miller. Mrs. Boddy’s statements and behavior serve to undermine the confidence in District leadership at the Board level. Additionally, by her words and statements she is demeaning the integrity of the entire Lakota Staff.”
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The gender wage gap has been a hot topic over the past few years. Men have traditionally made more money than women.
Nationally, the gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers, and the gap varies across geographical areas. According to a new Pew Research Center analysis, in 22 of 250 United States metropolitan areas, women under the age of 30 earn the same amount as or more than their male counterparts.
Jade Gibson runs a collective of musicians who perform at weddings and events. She is a 24-year-old, female entrepreneur in a country where four of every five entrepreneurs are men. She’s doing it in Naples, Florida, where the wage gap between women and men, at least at one level, has been upended.
“I would say more women have hired me than men for huge corporate events, huge nonprofit events,” Gibson says. “Naples is the place to be for a female entrepreneur.”
A new study revealed Naples is one of the 22 metro areas where women under 30 make as much or more on average than men. It’s the same in New York and San Diego, D.C. and Los Angeles.
Smaller regions in central Pennsylvania and coastal Florida are in that group.
Victor Claar teaches economics at Florida gulf coast university, where Gibson graduated from the school of entrepreneurship.
“Since the early 1990s, female enrollment rates at four-year institutions like mine, they’ve been higher than they have been for males,” Claar said. “it's not a surprise that females are moving to places like Naples, where there are opportunities for somebody who already has a four-year degree.”
Naples is known for technology and medical companies. Richmond, Virginia is known for banking, law, and advertising.
Richmond is where Shirley Crawford has spent years running an initiative for women in business.
“We’re not hiding in the corner. We’re sharing good, bad, and indifferent,” Crawford said. “We're actually drawing together to help each other, to let each other up. And we don't forget about the ones who came before us are the ones who are coming after us.”
More women in the workforce have brought more women into management. Greater access to information has made once-private details, like salaries, public. Transparency has grown even as institutions remain stunted.
While women are making progress, there is more work to be done. Women’s participation in the labor force has flattened at around 47 percent. The pew research group projects it’ll stay there. The gender wage gap among all adults hasn’t changed much since the early 90s, and improvements for those under 30 don’t erase the hurdles for those beyond it. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/gender-wage-gap-narrows-in-some-regions | 2022-04-28T15:19:16Z | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/gender-wage-gap-narrows-in-some-regions | true |
Sports News of Thursday, 28 April 2022
Source: footballghana.com
Ghanaian midfielder Nikolas Nartey has signed a contract extension until 2025 at Bundesliga side, Stuttgart, the club has confirmed.
Nartey joined the Reds in August 2019 from FC Köln and was sent out on loan to Hansa Rostock and then SV Sandhausen.
Since the beginning of this season, the 22-year-old has been part of first-term squad of Stuttgart.
Although he underwent arthroscopic surgery in February to remove fragments from his knee and won’t be available again this season.
"VfB Stuttgart has acted quickly to extend the contract of midfielder Nikolas #Nartey through to 30 June 2025."
"The Danish U21 international’s original deal was set to expire on 30 June 2023," the club's official twitter handle posted. | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Ghanaian-midfielder-Nikolas-Nartey-signs-Stuttgart-contract-extension-1526060 | 2022-04-28T15:19:38Z | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Ghanaian-midfielder-Nikolas-Nartey-signs-Stuttgart-contract-extension-1526060 | false |
183 couples tie knot at mass marriage in Dharmasthala
: In all, 183 couple entered into wedlock at a mass marriage ceremony organised by Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Dharmothana Trust at Dharmasthala on Wednesday.
It was the 50th annual free mass marriage organised by the trust. Pattadhikari of Dharmasthala D. Veerendra Heggade, Revenue Minister R. Ashok, and actor Ganesh were present at the marriage organised at 6.50 p.m.
The bride was given a sari and a blouse and the groom was presented with a dhoti and a shawl by Mr. Heggade.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Heggade said that among the 183 couples, 60 had an inter-caste marriage. The trust began the mass marriage in the temple town to avoid the practice of dowry and unncessary expenditure.
In all, 12,393 couples had married in the mass marriages held at Dharmasthala till last year.
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Subsidies will be provided for EWS to start entrepreneurship, says Murugesh Nirani
Programme to promote entrepreneurship held in Mysuru
The Minister for Large and Medium Industries Murugesh R. Nirani said here on Thursday that subsidies will be provided to economically weaker communities to take up entrepreneurship, and start industries.
The Minister was speaking after inaugurating the ‘Udyami Aagu, Udyoga Needu’ (‘Be an Entrepreneur, Become an Employer’) — a program aimed at attracting youth and professional students to entrepreneurship and employment generation.
The program was organised by The Department of Industries and Commerce at the Karnataka State Open University auditorium.
The Minister said students would be hand-held to become entrepreneurs in the areas of their interest and experts from various sectors and government departments will provide the necessary guidance and assistance.
The programme is being held across Karnataka to promote entrepreneurship among the graduates to turn them into employment generators instead of being job seekers. The programme will pan out for a few months and will include extensive training for those keen to start their enterprise.
Mr. Nirani said that Maharaja of Mysuru Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar was a great source of motivation and inspired him to start 22 industries and provide employment to nearly 75,000 people.
The minister also interacted with the students and urged them to start their own enterprises, become self-reliant and create numerous opportunities for themselves and others.
He said Karnataka has emerged as one of the top FDI recipients with a share of 42% in the country and was the most attractive investment destination due to the many industry-friendly policies and progressive reforms of the government Bengaluru has been an Innovation hub with many global companies setting up their R&D center in the city.
Around 5,000 students from various colleges in Mysore and revenue region districts – Chamarajanagar, Mandya, Chikmagalur, Hassan, and Kodagu districts participated in the program through video conferencing.
The daylong program aimed to provide a platform for technical students, youngsters to directly interact with successful entrepreneurs, and industry experts to gain knowledge, and learn about the various schemes and programs of the government. There was also motivational talks by successful entrepreneurs.
Mr. M.T.B. Nagaraj, Minister for Municipal Administration, Small Scale Industries & Public Enterprises, Government of Karnataka, Mr. L. Nagendra, MLA Ms. Gunjan Krishna, Commissioner for Industrial Development and Director of Industries and Commerce of Karnataka, and senior officials of Department of Industries and Commerce, Karnataka Udyog Mitra, Mysuru Chamber of Commerce and Industry etc. were present.
Kaigarika Adalat held
Kaigarika Adalat was conducted in Mysuru after a gap of more than 10 years and 39 grievances received by the authorities were disposed off during the event.
The programme is an initiative to help industrialists and other stakeholders to resolve their grievances and complaints on the spot. As the grievances pertained to different departments of the Government representatives from 15 departments attended the Adalat. This included KIADB, KSSIDC, KSPCB, Labour, Factories and Boilers, Urban Development, Municipal Administration, and Fire Department.
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Mining mafia flourishing in Haryana, says Bhupinder Hooda
Government running away from fair investigation into the issue, he says
Leader of the Opposition in the Haryana Assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday alleged that the “mining mafia” was flourishing across the State and the State government seems to be in deep slumber on the serious issue.
“Illegal mining in Bhiwani’s Dadam took the lives of two more people recently after five labourers died earlier this year. Despite this, no action has been taken against the mafia till date. The families of the workers and employees of the accident in the mining sector should get compensation, one job and justice,” he said.
Mr. Hooda said it is the result of giving a free hand to the mafia that they are doing mining fearlessly even after the lives of taking so many people. “On January 1, five people had lost their lives due to illegal mining in Dadam. Even then, the government neither acceded to the demand for a CBI inquiry under the supervision of the High Court nor did it take any action in recovering the ₹7.5–crore fine imposed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the mining companies,” he alleged.
“Why is the government avoiding taking exemplary action against mining companies? Why is the government running away from a fair investigation of the whole matter? It is clear from the attitude of the government that its intention is to cover up the whole matter and trap the small fish and save the big sharks,” he said in a statement.
He alleged that the entire State is in the grip of the mining mafia, adding that illegal mining continues unabated despite the direction of the High Court, the Supreme Court and the NGT to stop mining of granite stone and sand.
Mr. Hooda said the mafia has been defrauding the State exchequer to the tune of thousands of crores. “Such a big scam is not possible without the collusion of the people holding high positions in the government. The money which should have gone to the treasury is going into the pockets of the mafia due to government protection,” the former Chief Minister said.
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SLIDELL, La. — A man was taken to the hospital after police in Louisiana say he was attacked by a “vicious” squirrel.
Slidell police officers came to the aid of a 78-year-old man on Tuesday when a caller told dispatchers a squirrel was “eating” a man’s hand.
The man was walking outside of his house when the squirrel came from the roof of his home and attacked him unprovoked, according to law enforcement.
Police say the man tried to “choke the squirrel, but was unable to obtain a good grip.”
In a public Facebook post, officers who first arrived described what they witnessed was an “elderly gentleman” struggling with a “vicious squirrel.”
The squirrel was eventually subdued, and police say it died as a result of its injuries.
The man was taken to a hospital, and first responders described some of his injuries as “pretty significant.” He is expected to make a full recovery.
While squirrel attacks are generally very rare, police say this is the second attack in Slidell this year. They say there was a reported attack in February during a Mardi Gras parade. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/vicious-squirrel-attack-sends-louisiana-man-to-hospital/ | 2022-04-28T15:26:09Z | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/vicious-squirrel-attack-sends-louisiana-man-to-hospital/ | false |
ORANGE PARK, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies in north Florida fatally shot a suspect following a confrontation during a chase, officials said.
The shooting happened Wednesday evening, the Clay County Sheriff's Office said in a post on Twitter. They've released few details about the incident.
The chase started with an emergency call in Orange Park, and deputies were later involved in a chase involving the suspect's vehicle, Sheriff Michelle Cook told news outlets.
Officials have not said what the initial emergency call was about, or what led to the chase and confrontation. They also have not released a name or age of the person who was killed.
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Trucking in several South Jersey towns and counties is getting a boost from the state.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation is awarding $30.1 million in grants from the Local Freight Impact Fund, according to a department news release issued Wednesday.
The grants are meant to help local governments make truck traffic safer, renovate aged structures and support new transportation opportunities.
Gov. Phil Murphy said the funds would improve efficiency within the state and reinforce New Jersey’s role in interstate economic activity.
“Funding the preservation and expansion of our freight transportation infrastructure is key to supporting the success of New Jersey’s role in our national supply chain,” Murphy said in the news release.
NJDOT awarded 25 grants out of the 59 grant applications it received. With the $30.1 million in state aid and $75.2 million in local government contributions, over $105 million will be spent on these projects
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Of the 25 grants, one each went to local governments in Atlantic and Cape May counties and five went to local governments in Cumberland County.
Hamilton Township is receiving a $300,000 grant to fund its Atlantic Avenue project. The state will be covering just under 95% of the project’s total cost, which is estimated at about $317,000.
Middle Township is also receiving $300,000 for its Magnolia Drive Roadway Preservation project, which has an estimated cost of about $326,000.
The grants NJDOT awarded for projects in Cumberland County were considerably larger.
Vineland is set to receive a $3.5 million grant for its resurfacing of Landis Avenue and related signal upgrades. That grant will cover over 95% of the project’s approximate $3.7 million cost.
Commercial Township has been awarded two grants, each worth $900,000. The one grant will be used for the overlay of Main Street and the other for the reconstruction of High Street and Yock Wock Road, which have estimated costs of about $1.1 million and $932,000, respectively.
Cumberland County itself was also awarded two grants. It received a $1 million grant for the resurfacing of the Mauricetown Bypass, which will cost about $1.4 million; and an $800,000 grant for its fiscal year 2022 LFIF Road Program II, a $900,000 project that involves work on Friesburg Road.
The criteria with which NJDOT evaluated applications included existing conditions, traffic volume, percentage of large truck traffic, connectivity to freight nodes and crash frequency.
NJDOT Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti said in the news release that the grants would help strengthen a variety transportation networks across the state.
“Local Freight Impact Fund grants are an important investment in New Jersey’s truck routes, helping provide the infrastructure necessary for a strong state and regional economy for years to come," Gutierrez-Scaccetti said.
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New Strong Buy Stocks for April 28th
Here are five stocks added to the Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) List today:
Compania Cervecerias Unidas CCU: This beverage company which operates in most of the South American counties, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 20.65% over the last 60 days.
Compania Cervecerias Unidas, S.A. Price and Consensus
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PetroChina PTR: This integrated oil company in China which is one of the largest producers of crude oil and natural gas in the world, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current-year earnings increasing 19.3% over the last 60 days.
PetroChina Company Limited Price and Consensus
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OFS Capital OFS: This closed-end, non-diversified investment management company, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing almost 16.4% over the last 60 days.
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Rimini Street RMNI: This enterprise software support services company, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 7.7% over the last 60 days.
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Clarus CLAR: This company which is engaged in the design, manufacture, and marketing of outdoor equipment and apparel for climbing, mountaineering, backpacking, skiing, and other outdoor recreation activities, has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 4.6% over the last 60 days.
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6.48 crore policyholders keen to buy LIC IPO, says DIPAM official
Ever since the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) announced unveiling of the initial public offering (IPO), 6.48 crore LIC policyholders have shown interest to get the much-touted share of the largest insurance company in the country, an official said.
“The response to our IPO launch is wonderful. We have some figures: 6.48 crore policy holders have linked their PAN number with the policy details up to the cut-off date (February 28, 2022),” Rahul Jain, director of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) in the Ministry of Finance, told reporters.
The LIC has set a price band of ₹902-949 per equity share. The government intends to raise ₹21,000 crore through the issue.
The officer said 10% reservation is given to the policyholders in the IPO, whose shares have been earmarked.
“Whosoever is the policyholder, if they have linked their PAN with the policy details by February 28, they are eligible to participate in the LIC IPO through reservation category,” Mr. Jain said.
Explaining, the DIPAM director said anybody who is a policyholder can invest up to ₹2 lakh in the reservation category and also ₹2 lakh in the retail category. The LIC policyholders would get ₹60 discount in the IPO, he added.
According to Mr. Jain, the 6.48 crore policyholders are eligible to participate in the IPO if they open their DMAT account.
“As of now, through the depositories we could make out that around 1.21 crore DMAT accounts have been opened by the policyholders,” Mr. Jain said.
To a query on why the LIC intended to float, Mr. Jain said the government wishes to bring corporate governance to the LIC and “to share the good stories.”
“The true value of the company is determined in the capital market. So you have to start with the capital market,” Mr. Jain said.
The bid opens on May 4 and closes on May 9. Minimum bid lot is 15 shares and in multiples of 15 equity shares thereafter.
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As George Hirst’s double cancelled out the Latics’ two-goal advantage, the 28-year-old replaced Michael Jacobs and fired home the winner.
The former Sunderland man is no stranger to rising from the sidelines during his time at the Black Cats and at Fratton Park.
But where does the ex-Millwall man rank among League One’s best super-subs?
Thanks to Transfermarkt.com’s stats, we’ve examined the data – and here’s what we found.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House has given final approval to a Texas-style abortion ban that prohibits abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
The bill passed Thursday by the GOP-led House now heads to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who is expected to sign it within days.
The bill prohibits abortions once cardiac activity can be detected in the fetus.
Experts say that’s typically about six weeks into a pregnancy, which is before many women know they are pregnant.
Like Texas, the bill allows private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion for up to $10,000.
Stitt has said that he wants to "outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma.” Earlier this month, he signed a bill that makes it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Oklahoma's battle against abortion is likely to face legal challenges. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/oklahoma-house-sends-texas-style-abortion-ban-to-governor | 2022-04-28T15:52:30Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/oklahoma-house-sends-texas-style-abortion-ban-to-governor | false |
Runners prefer the same pace, regardless of distance - study
People have a natural tendency to run at a speed that saves calories from being burned – regardless of how far they are running, new research suggests.
For many recreational runners, they share the same goal – to go faster, while some run to burn through calories.
But a new study indicates that speeding up might require people to defy their natural biology.
Researchers found that a runner’s preferred speed is largely unaffected by the distance they run and is consistent with the speed that minimises the energy consumed.
Scientists had previously thought that runners burn the same amount of calories for a given distance no matter how fast they run, because the energy used depends mostly on the weight of the runner and time ran.
With data from more than 4,600 runners totalling more than 28,000 hours of running, researchers compared energy-saving running speeds measured in a lab setting to real-world speeds measured by fitness trackers and found no difference between the two.
Runners prefer the same calorie saving pace, regardless of distance - study (Andrew Matthews/PA)
Senior author, Scott Delp, from the James H Clark Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, said: “When you go out for a run, you run to have your best fuel economy.
“So, regardless of the distance you travel, you run in such a way that you burn the least amount of fuel per distance travelled.”
What surprised the team most was the consistency they found across the two groups.
“We intuitively assume that people run faster for shorter distances and then would slow their pace for longer distances,” says first author Jessica Selinger, a neuromechanics researcher at Queens University in Ontario, Canada.
However this was not the case and most of the runners they analysed stuck with the same speed, whether they were going for a short run or a long haul over 10 kilometres.
Researchers suggest that from an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense that people would run at the speed that uses the least amount of energy, and this caloric conservation is something observed across the animal kingdom.
But in the modern world, humans’ reasons for running have changed, and if the goal is speed, there are some tricks runners can use.
Dr added: “Listening to music with a faster pace has been shown to help speed up stride frequency, which can then increase running speed.”
While running with people who are faster than you may also give you a boost.
The findings are published in the Current Biology journal. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10764017/Runners-prefer-pace-regardless-distance--study.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-28T15:55:47Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10764017/Runners-prefer-pace-regardless-distance--study.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
What The Royal Tour means to Tanzania
Thursday April 28 2022
Arusha. The venue has been spruced up, city roads decorated and optimism visibly high.
This is in readiness to the unveiling of The Royal Tour film in the country’s safari capital today.
After the recent launch of the historic documentary in the United States, President Samia Suluhu Hassan will unveil it for the first time on home soil.
There is a clear optimism among the tourism industry stakeholders that the initiative will bring the expected goodies.
Those interviewed are unanimous that it would boost the sector which was nearly being knocked down by Covid-19 in 2020.
“It is a good initiative. It’s a positive thing. Maybe we will start seeing more foreign tourists arriving,” said Mr Aafeez Jivraj, a tour operator.
He spoke as the landmark Arusha International Conference Centre (AICC) is being spruced up to host the event.
Organisers said President Hassan will grace the event, expected to attract hundreds of people, inside AICC’s Simba Hall in the afternoon.
The film, a brainchild of President Hassan, has already premiered in New York on April 18th and Los Angeles on April 21st.
Industry players from Arusha itself and the northern regions are expected to fill the 1,313 capacity Simba Hall.
In order to allow more viewers, screens will be mounted in other rooms and at the convention centre’s lobby.
“We should expect a doubling of the number of foreign visitors in months,” said the excited Ms Violet Mfukofute who runs a car hire business here.
She said the marketing initiative by the President will have a trickledown effect on tourism which lacked aggressive marketing even before Covid-19 struck.
Recent statistics indicated that tourist arrivals to Tanzania tumbled to only about 600,000 in 2020 from upwards of 1.3 million in the previous year.
Signs of recovery started last year when the figure rose to 900,000 with projection of further increase of incoming tourists this year.
The government had projected that tourist arrivals from abroad would hit a record two million in 2020, the year the pandemic set in.
Alais Morindat, a conservation consultant said the launching of the film here was enough sign that Arusha continues to maintain its status as a hub of tourism.
Despite spirited efforts for diversification, the northern regions - Arusha in particular -remains a preferred destination for most tourists coming to Tanzania.
“In tourism, Arusha has many types of attractions, not only wildlife,” he told The Citizen, citing the rich cultural insights of the Maasai and other communities.
Mr Pascal Shelutete, the assistant communication commissioner with the Tanzania National Parks (Tanapa) was upbeat about the film.
“It is among efforts being made to hit the country’s target of five million tourists by 2025,” he told journalists at the AICC.
The documentary which featured President Hassan was shot in various places in the country, including Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar and some national parks.
Among the sites featured well in the film are the world-famous Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) and Serengeti National Park and leading destinations.
Mr Shelutete said The Royal Tour will serve as a starting point for aggressive marketing of the country’s tourist attractions through the media.
However, some players in the industry insisted that there was a need to make Tanzania an affordable destination for the tourists.
Mr Jivraj, who runs an outfit called Tanzania Private Select Safaris, said the country could be losing revenues because of the high taxation in the sector.
“There are a lot of levies. Let’s make Mama Samia’s drive realistic by making Tanzania tourism affordable. We will not benefit from levies,” he said.
The local launching of the film has come at a time when tourism, recently battered by Covid-19, is showing signs of recovery.
Hotel owners and tour operators said they were back to business as their hotels and tour operations are getting a good number of clients.
“During the Corona days, our rooms were empty. Now we are getting clients, especially for the meetings,” said Ms Sofia Dallo, a sales officer with Hotel Equator.
Until yesterday, workers were mounting banners in various places around the AICC, along the major roads and around the iconic Clock Tower.
According to the Arusha regional commissioner John Mongela, the president will arrive today through the Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA). | https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/what-the-royal-tour-means-to-tanzania-3797120 | 2022-04-28T15:56:27Z | https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/what-the-royal-tour-means-to-tanzania-3797120 | true |
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco Nacional de Costa Rica (the "Bank"), an autonomous state-owned financial institution organized under the laws of the Republic of Costa Rica, an entity part of the Banco Nacional Financial Conglomerate, announced today that it has commenced a partial cash tender offer (the "Offer") for up to US$200 million in aggregate purchase price of its 6.250% Senior Notes due 2023 (144A CUSIP / ISIN Nos. 059613AB5 / US059613AB51 and Reg S P14623AB1 / USP14623AB16) (the "Notes").
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Legislature gives final approval to Texas-style abortion bill that bans the procedure after about six weeks.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Legislature gives final approval to Texas-style abortion bill that bans the procedure after about six weeks. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alert-Oklahoma-Legislature-gives-final-approval-17133537.php | 2022-04-28T16:00:42Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alert-Oklahoma-Legislature-gives-final-approval-17133537.php | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — After years of screaming higher, almost regardless of what the economy was doing, tech-oriented stocks are tanking and dragging down the rest of Wall Street.
Many of these high-profile companies are still making billions of dollars in profits, and they continue to dominate the top of the rankings for most valuable businesses. But two big changes have caused their stocks to come sharply back to Earth this year: Interest rates are rising, and expectations for their big continued growth suddenly look much more shaky.
Consider Netflix, whose stock more than tripled between early 2018 and its peak last November. It’s since lost virtually all that gain, dropping by more than two thirds this year alone for the worst loss in the S&P 500 as of Tuesday.
Similarly, Facebook parent Meta Platforms has lost close to half its value this year. Neither company falls into Wall Street’s “technology” classification; they’re instead categorized as “communications services” companies, along with many other internet-related stocks.
But they are both big parts of the Nasdaq composite index, along with such tech heavyweights as Apple and Microsoft. And the Nasdaq is on pace for its worst month since the 2008 financial crisis. Its drop of 20.2% for the year, as of Tuesday, was much worse than the 12.4% fall for the S&P 500 or the 8.5% slip for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which has less of a tech focus.
The tech stocks in the S&P 500 are down 19.8% for the year through Tuesday, while communications services stocks in the index tumbled even more, 24.1%. The rest of the S&P 500 fell only 6.9%.
Tech-oriented stocks have struggled in large part because interest rates have shot to their highest level in years. The 10-year Treasury yield, for example, topped 2.90% recently after starting the year at 1.51%, though it’s receded in recent days. Yields have surged as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise short-term rates sharply to stamp out high inflation. It’s also planning other moves to push longer-term rates upward.
Higher interest rates are a drag on all kinds of investments. Now that a 10-year Treasury is close to offering a real return for the first time since the pandemic, after taking inflation into account, investors can make money by parking in safe bonds. That makes them less willing to pay high prices for riskier investments. High-growth, tech-oriented stocks are now taking the hardest hits because their prices earlier soared the highest.
Netflix, for example, began 2022 with a stock price trading at 45.6 times its expected earnings per share over the ensuing 12 months. That was more than double what investors were willing to pay for each $1 of expected earnings from the overall S&P 500.
Investors were comfortable paying such high prices for Netflix and tech stocks generally when interest rates were super-low. They also were willing to stretch for stocks of companies that were able to grow strongly, even when the overall economy was hurting.
But now rates are rising and continued growth looks less assured. Netflix recently reported a drop in its number of subscribers for the first three months of the year, for example, with more losses expected in the spring. People have more options for entertainment now that pandemic restrictions are being relaxed.
Google’s parent company Alphabet said Tuesday that its revenue growth last quarter slowed to its lowest pace since 2020. Analysts highlighted slowdowns in search and at YouTube in particular.
Stocks of semiconductor companies have also been big laggards this year, partly on worries that demand for smartphones, personal computers and other hardware will flag after sales exploded during the pandemic. An index of semiconductor stocks has dropped 26.3% this year, a sharp fall after it soared more than 40% for three straight years. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/once-wall-streets-stars-big-tech-falls-back-to-earth/ | 2022-04-28T16:06:40Z | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/once-wall-streets-stars-big-tech-falls-back-to-earth/ | true |
Ukraine is investigating at least 10 Russian soldiers accused of committing war crimes against civilians while occupying the Kyiv suburb of Bucha last month, the country’s prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova said Thursday.
Images of civilians apparently executed in the streets and harrowing accounts of torture emerged from Bucha and other Kyiv suburbs as Russian forces retreated from Ukraine's capital last month, shocking the world and sparking calls for a war crimes trial to be brought against Russia.
The six Russian officers and four privates under investigation allegedly belong to 64th Motor Rifle Brigade, a unit that President Vladimir Putin recently gave the honorary title of “Guards” for their “heroism and courage.”
While stationed in Bucha, the 10 accused servicemen captured civilians, tortured them with hunger and thrist and carried out mock executions, Venediktova said in a Facebook post.
She said the accusations are backed by evidence gathered by Ukrainian police and other investigative units.
Venediktova said Putin’s recognition of the 64th Guard Motor Rifle Brigade indicates that the atrocities in Bucha and other Ukrainian towns were coordinated with the highest ranks of the Russian army, and said Putin bears joint responsibility for the soldiers’ actions.
Russian troops occupied Bucha, a city west of Kyiv, for a month after Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Bucha’s mayor estimates that 20% of the city’s population was killed during Russian occupation, with widespread reports of mass murder, rape and torture of civilians.
Russia has denied that its forces carried out the atrocities against civilians in Bucha, instead accusing Kyiv and its Western allies of staging the scenes.
Ukrainian investigators have identified more than 8,000 cases of suspected war crimes across the country since Russia's invasion, Venediktova told a German TV channel on Thursday.
"It's actually 8,600 cases only about war crimes, and more than 4,000 cases that are connected with war crimes," Venediktova told the Deutsche Welle broadcaster. | https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/28/ukraine-probing-russian-soldiers-on-bucha-war-crime-suspicions-a77530 | 2022-04-28T16:17:38Z | https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/28/ukraine-probing-russian-soldiers-on-bucha-war-crime-suspicions-a77530 | false |
IRPIN, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow’s offensive in eastern Ukraine gathered momentum as several areas came under heavy shelling Thursday, amid suspicions Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to score a major battlefield success in time for Victory Day, one of Russia’s proudest holidays, on May 9.
Ukrainian authorities reported intense Russian fire in the Donbas — the eastern industrial heartland that the Kremlin is bent on capturing — and near Kharkiv, a northeastern city that is outside the Donbas but is seen as key to the offensive.
In the ruined southern port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian fighters holed up in the steel plant that represents the last pocket of resistance said concentrated bombing overnight killed and wounded more people. And authorities warned that a lack of safe drinking water inside the city could lead to outbreaks of deadly diseases.
The fresh attacks came as the United Nations chief surveyed the destruction in small towns outside Kyiv, which saw some of the worst horrors of the first onslaught of the war.U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the atrocities committed in towns like Bucha,where evidence of mass killings of civilians was found after Russia retreated in the face of unexpectedly stiff resistance.
“Wherever there is a war, the highest price is paid by civilians,” Guterres lamented as he visited the bombed-out Kyiv suburb of Irpin. He reiterated the importance of investigating alleged war crimes.
Getting a full picture of the unfolding battle in the east has been difficult because airstrikes and artillery barrages have made it extremely dangerous for reporters to move around. Several journalists already have been killed in the war, now in its third month.
Also, both Ukraine and the Moscow-backed rebels fighting in the east have introduced tight restrictions on reporting from the combat zone.
Western officials say the Kremlin’s apparent goal is to take the Donbas by encircling and crushing Ukrainian forces from the north, south and east.
But so far, Russia’s troops and their allied separatist forces appear to have made only minor gains, taking several small towns as they try to advance in relatively small groups against staunch Ukrainian resistance.
Some analysts say the delay in launching a full-fledged offensive may reflect Putin’s decision to wait until his forces are ready for a decisive battle — rather than rushing in and risking another failure, like the abortive attempt to storm Kyiv, that could shake his rule amid worsening economic conditions at home because of Western sanctions.
Many observers expect Putin will try to claim a big victory in the east by Victory Day, which marks the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Putin, like many of his predecessors, often uses patriotic Russian holidays and anniversaries to make announcements. In March, he used a rally at a Moscow stadium to celebrate the eighth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, taken from Ukraine.
The discovery of the mass killings around Kyiv helped to galvanize support for Ukraine in the West. Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov vowed his country would join others in providing military assistance as he toured another scene of atrocities outside Kyiv, in Borodyanka.
“We cannot be indifferent. We cannot say that this is a Ukrainian problem. We cannot say some people are dying but we are not interested in that,” he said. “This is not just the battle for Ukraine, but it is a matter for civilization to choose which side to take.”
Bulgaria, under a new liberal government that took office last fall, has severed many of its old ties to Moscow and supported punitive measures against the Kremlin.
The visit by the Bulgarian leader came a day after Russia cut off the supply of natural gas to his country and fellow NATO member Poland, in what was seen as a bid to punish and divide the West.
As Russia presses its offensive, civilians again bear the brunt.
“It’s not just scary. It’s when your stomach contracts from pain,” said Kharkiv resident Tatiana Pirogova. “When they shoot during the day, it’s still OK, but when the evening comes, I can’t describe how scary it is.”
Ukraine’s military said that Russian troops were subjecting several places in the Donbas to “intense fire” and that over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces had repelled six attacks in the region.
Four civilians were killed in heavy shelling of residential areas in the Luhansk region of the Donbas, according to the regional governor.
Columns of smoke could be seen rising at different points across the Donetsk region of the Donbas, and artillery and sirens were heard on and off.
Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press also showed evidence of intense Russian fire on Mariupol in recent days.
A video posted online by Ukraine’s Azov Regiment inside the steel plant showed people combing through the rubble to remove the dead and help the wounded. The regiment said the Russians hit an improvised underground hospital and its surgery room, killing an unspecified number of people. The video couldn’t be independently verified.
Hundreds of thousands of Mariupol’s residents have fled. Authorities said the estimated 100,000 who remain run the risk of diseases like cholera and dysentery.
“Deadly epidemics may break out in the city due to the lack of centralized water supply and sewers,” the council said on the messaging app Telegram. It reported bodies decomposing under the rubble and a “catastrophic” shortage of drinking water and food.
Russia, meanwhile, said a city under its control in the south came under fire. In what may have been a Ukrainian counterattack, a series of explosions boomed near the television tower late Wednesday in Kherson, which has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war.
The blasts at least temporarily knocked Russian channels off the air.
Ukraine has urged its allies to send even more military equipment to fend off the Russians. U.S. President Joe Biden plans to Congress for an additional $33 billion to help Ukraine.
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Keyton reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists Jon Gambrell and Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv, Yesica Fisch in Sloviansk, and AP staff around the world contributed to this report.
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BOSTON (AP) — Egypt Lloyd couldn’t hold back tears when she saw the names — her ancestors, Tony, Cuba and Darby — in a study chronicling Harvard University’s involvement in America’s slave trade.
Lloyd grew up nearby, in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, but her family learned only recently of ancestors who were kept as slaves by Harvard benefactors during the first decades of the famed institution.
“I felt that my ancestors were saying ‘Thank you, God,’ for it finally coming to light,” said Lloyd, 42. “I think this is the first step toward healing.”
Among the most startling revelations in Harvard’s reportwas the list of more than 70 people kept as slaves by Harvard leaders and supporters, often on or near the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their living descendants are estimated to number in the tens of thousands, including some who lived and worked in the Boston area without knowing their family connection to the Ivy League school.
The report from Harvard came with a pledge to atone for its wrongs and the profits it reaped from cotton, sugar and other trades that relied on slave labor. The oldest and wealthiest college in the nation, Harvard said it would establish a $100 million fund to enact a series of recommendations in the report.
Among them is a call to identify descendants of the slaves and build relationships with them, with the aim of helping them “recover their histories, tell their stories and pursue empowering knowledge.”
For Lloyd and other descendants, the discovery has brought sadness and joy.
The Lloyd family learned that it descends from Darby Vassall, the son of Tony and Cuba, an enslaved couple kept by a wealthy family that helped found Harvard’s law school. Darby went on to become an abolitionist and prominent figure in Boston’s free Black community.
“They are still living through me, they are still living through my kids, they are still living through my dad,” said Lloyd, who lives outside Atlanta and founded a drone servicing company. “We can’t change the past but we can heal, and it can make us stronger.”
It was all the more stunning, given her family’s chance encounters with Harvard. Her sister, Jordan, for example, once worked as a waitress there.
Harvard researchers have been studying the topic for years and so far have identified a few dozen living descendants. They estimate there could be more than 50,000 scattered across the United States.
Lloyd’s family learned of its ancestry in 2019 through Carissa Chen, then an undergraduate at Harvard researching the school’s role in slavery with the guidance of a history professor.
“The descendants often responded with utter shock,” said Chen, now a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, in an email. “Some felt a wave of joy and excitement, others reacted with a somber sense of understanding and loss.”
Roberta Wolff, 79, also learned only a few years ago that she descends from Darby Vassall. Wolff grew up in Boston’s South End, just miles from Harvard. It was the first time she learned of slavery in her family tree.
“Wow, it was overwhelming. It still is overwhelming,” she said.
Wolff had aspirations to become a nurse, but her family didn’t have the money to pay for college. She went to work for airlines for over three decades, working ticket counters and other jobs at airports around the country while raising a family. More recently, she was working at a casino near her home in Bellingham, Massachusetts, until the pandemic.
She hopes Harvard, through this effort, finds a way to help struggling students.
“I’m hoping Harvard tries to reinvest some of its resources that are tied to slavery so we can help other children in the public schools, like maybe help out the communities that are suffering and low income and help the students go to college. That would be a great idea,” she said.
Some others have doubts about Harvard’s commitment. Tamara Lanier sees the report a “public relations move” and worries there will be no meaningful action.
Lanier, 59, of Norwich, Connecticut, is fighting Harvard in court, trying to gain ownership of several 1850 photographs depicting two ancestors who were enslaved in South Carolina at the time. The photos were commissioned by a Harvard scholar whose discredited ideas were used to support slavery.
Harvard has used the images to promote its own research on slavery and says the university is the rightful owner.
“The way they have treated the descendants of slaves, my family in particular, is shameful,” she said. “I have lost faith in Harvard that they will do the right thing.”
The new Harvard report calls on the university to “make a significant monetary commitment” in its reparation efforts, but it does not recommend financial reparations to descendants. Some critics have said reparations should be part of the effort, especially given Harvard’s $53 billion endowment.
Lloyd is among those who thinks Harvard should make direct contributions to descendants. But she also wants the funding to support education and further research. Last year, her family started the Slave Legacy History Coalition, a Boston-area group that meets to honor the lives of slaves and fight the legacy of slavery.
“I’m not looking for Harvard to make me rich,” she said. “What we would like is for them to come together and support our coalition. Because we’re all in this together.”
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has signaled he might forgive some student loan debt and further extend the federal moratorium on repayments, a lawmaker who discussed the issue with him said Wednesday.
The White House was notably more measured about Biden's stance, but such moves would be a boon to many of the 43 million Americans carrying student loans worth $1.6 trillion, according to federal figures. It would also be a win for Democratic and progressive leaders who have long pressed Biden to carry through on a 2020 campaign promise that as president he would “immediately" cancel up to $10,000 in debt per student.
Biden's remarks came during a wide-ranging Monday meeting at the White House with seven members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, according to Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., who was among them. He said in an interview Wednesday that he asked Biden to extend the moratorium on debt payments through this year, instead of letting it expire Aug. 31.
“He immediately smiled and said, “I’ve extended in the past, and you’re going to like what I do next,’" Cardenas said. “So I said, ‘Okay, wonderful. Next question.’”
Cardenas said he then asked about forgiving at least $10,000 in debt for each student, which he said the caucus believes Biden can do using executive powers. That would preclude the need for legislation from Congress, where there is Republican opposition.
“He said, ‘Yes, I’m exploring doing something on that front,’" said Cardenas. “And he also smiled and said, ‘You’re going to like what I do on that as well.'”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sounded a similar note of optimism Wednesday. “I think the president is moving in our direction. My talks with him and his staff have been very fruitful over the last little while," Schumer said.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that during the meeting, “what he reiterated is that he will make a decision before" the current repayment suspension ends Aug. 31. She said Biden “is looking at other executive authority options he has to bring relief to people who have student loans."
Sweeping student loan forgiveness is anathema for many Republicans and others concerned about its costs to the government at a time of huge federal deficits.
“Desperate polls call for desperate measures: Dems consider forgiving trillions in student loans,” Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, tweeted mockingly Wednesday. “Other bribe suggestions: Forgive auto loans? Forgive credit card debt? Forgive mortgages? And put a wealth tax on the super-rich to pay for it all. What could possibly go wrong?”
Cardenas said Biden didn’t specify when he would take action or detail what he would do, beyond saying, “Soon.”
“I got the strong feeling, and so did my colleagues, that he enjoyed answering those questions with his body language, with his words, with the smile on his face, and encouraging us that we’re going to like what he’s going to do,” Cardenas said.
Cardenas said the question of whether debt forgiveness should be curbed for higher-income students, which could curb the costs of the proposal, did not come up during the White House meeting. He also said when Biden asked if forgiveness should apply to borrowers who attended private and public schools, he and other lawmakers said they wanted students from both types of institutions to be eligible.
Some Democrats fear providing loan relief to students who attended expensive private universities would provide an easy campaign target for Republicans in this fall's elections for control of Congress.
Even so, remarks by several Democrats suggest a broad effort to ease student debt could help the party with minority voters.
Cardenas said he told Biden that Hispanic students with college debt typically face higher long-term debt burdens than white students. “We’re trying to help all former students, but Hispanic households and people trying to get back on their feet, it’s affecting Hispanics at a higher level,” Cardenas said.
Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., chair of the caucus, said in a separate statement Wednesday that Hispanic students “disproportionately carry the burden of student debt in our nation.” He said the caucus would continue working with Biden “to make sure our students have a seat at the table when it comes to their financial health and well-being.”
Schumer sounded the same theme, saying that Black, Hispanic and other minority voters tend to carry more debt deeper into their lives. “This isn't just the right thing to do for our economy. It's the right thing to do for racial equity," he said.
The pandemic prompted then-President Donald Trump and Congress to begin providing student loan relief in March 2020.
After initially letting borrowers choose to suspend payments for at least 60 days, the moratorium was made automatic and eventually extended several times by Trump and later Biden. Interest rates during the suspension have been 0%.
Also at Monday's White House meeting, Rep. Nanette Barragan, D-Calif., said she told Biden he should let Trump-era restrictions letting authorities quickly expel migrants crossing from the Mexican border expire as planned on May 23. Other participants at that meeting said Biden expressed opposition to the restrictions but did not specifically say what he would do.
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Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician, Sneha Pallegar, DO., who specializes in lifestyle and Culinary Medicine joins Gayle Guyardo the host of the nationally syndicated health and wellness show Bloom with an amazing recipe that serves up the fact that food is medicine.
Bloom airs in 40 markets across the country, with a reach of approximately 36 million households, and in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Madison, WI.
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Kolleno is a promising London-based fintech that provides automated key credit control functions and uses intelligent omnichannel communication to simplify B2B accounts receivable management and collections for mid-sized and large-scale enterprises. The firm’s custom-built solution is designed to provide businesses and enterprises of various industries with a 360° view of their receivables, helping them boost their financial productivity and optimize their working capital.
Kolleno’s CEO and co-founder, Dimitri Raziev, identified an opportunity to help B2B businesses to better manage late payments while working at a hedge fund specialized in fintech. He realized how saturated the nonperforming loans market was regarding cash collection, paired with the absence of innovative CRMs to efficiently perform cash flow management.
“The collections industry is behind the curve on its adoption of technology, so we saw an opportunity to create a 21st-century accounts receivable management and credit collections platform” said Raziev.
Following his birth in the former Soviet Union, Raziev’s family made Aliyah to Israel before moving to Montreal, Canada, where he studied accounting and finance at McGill University. He later moved to London, England, and completed a master’s degree in economics at the University College London, prior to working as an analyst for several leading financial services firms, including Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.
He co-founded Kolleno with Ron Danenberg in 2020 to help businesses navigate credit control and collections whilst maintaining positive client relationships. In the past 18 months, the startup has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Eurazeo and Stride.VC with participation from Euler Hermes, HubSpot and a number of angel investors. For the past three years, Raziev has shared his success and expertise on startups through regular guest lectures at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School.
“By digitalizing the credit-control cycle, we're providing a platform that allows B2B businesses to streamline payments for their clients,” explained Raziev. “Kolleno adds a human touch to messaging using key principles of behavioral economics. Through omnichannel, in-app personalized communication methods including email, SMS, and phone call, we facilitate client relationships by using an intelligent approach to communicating with customers.”
The company’s own AI and machine-learning technology constitutes a valuable task management tool for the typical credit controller.
“[Our] software uses AI to ensure the right time, tone of voice, content, and channel for each debtor using machine learning to ensure that all payments are received in a timely manner,” added Raziev.
He argues that businesses, who previously had to hire credit control specialists or give additional tasks to existing members of their team to manually monitor the payment dynamics of customers, can save nearly 35% of their working week by adopting Kolleno’s software — precious time which can be allocated for more value-additive tasks.
According to Raziev, Kolleno’s primary clients are in the mid-sized and large-scale market. While smaller businesses, or those maintaining between 30 and 40 client relationships, may not feel overwhelmed by their accounts' workload, companies with annual revenues in excess of $5 million have greater need for the company’s technology to centralize their information in a single platform.
Indeed, their clients have reported over 90% recovery on their cash collections, said Raziev. CFOs further recognize the benefits of the startup’s technology, which provides a constant read out of the business’ cash flow. This is supported by the platform’s Payment Portal, which is accessible straight from the email or text received by the customer, providing users with a dashboard highlighting data insights and credit analysis to mitigate risks and reduce the number of bad debts.
The fintech offers added convenience by offering an OpenAPI integration and partnering with leading ERP and software solutions, including Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, and Clio to better meet the needs of its clients. As a result, the company has already acquired clients across the U.S., Canada, South Africa, the U.K., and Europe since its launch.
Looking forward, Kolleno’s next big step lies in acquiring its first 1,000 clients and positioning itself as a leading global payment and cash management platform. Its seed funding will be used to scale up the startup’s capabilities to offer even more personalized services. To help businesses thrive, the company is looking to expand its product development, internalize sales and marketing, and develop meaningful partnerships across regions.
“We look forward to continuing to support the long-term success of our clients and are grateful for the faith that our investors have put in us to deliver on this promise,” said Raziev.
Tom Berger, a BCom Candidate at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, contributed to this story. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlmoore/2022/04/28/founding-ceo-of-kolleno-dimitri-raziev-is-simplifying-b2b-credit-control-and-collections-for-smes/ | 2022-04-28T16:27:50Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlmoore/2022/04/28/founding-ceo-of-kolleno-dimitri-raziev-is-simplifying-b2b-credit-control-and-collections-for-smes/ | false |
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda denounced Russia’s war against Ukraine on Thursday as he joined Holocaust survivors and people from around the world at an annual observance at the former site of Auschwitz.
“We are here to show that every nation has a sacred right to life, has a sacred right to cultivate its traditions, has a sacred right to develop,” he said.
Duda joined more than 2,000 young Israelis and others who joined the March of the Living, a commemoration taking place on Israel’s national Holocaust memorialday that pays tribute to the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The route begins under the Auschwitz gate with the notorious slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei” (German for “work will set you free”) and leads to Birkenau, the largest site of mass exterminationduring Germany’s occupation of Poland and other parts of Europe during World War II.
This year’s march, the first after being suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, also included delegations from Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates.
Duda, walking as Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg held him by the arm, took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Death Wall in Auschwitz, where prisoners were shot to death.
Later, during a ceremony at Birkenau, Duda spoke out against war, anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred, and paid tribute to Jewish victims of the Holocaust as well as the other victims of Nazi Germany, including Poles, Roma and Russians.
“We come here to show that while during World War II, Nazi Germany managed to wipe my country off the map, wipe it out and murder Poles, including Polish Jews, we will never again allow something like this to happen,” he said.
“We are also here to show that there is absolutely no consent to the attempt to take freedom and kill the Ukrainian nation with impunity, as is happening today in the occupied territories of Ukraine,” he said.
More than 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen in Auschwitz. Most who were killed were Jews, but the victims also included Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others. In all, about 6 million European Jews died during the Holocaust. When the Soviets liberated the camp, they found about 7,000 survivors.
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The name Derek Chauvin will forever be linked to the Black Lives Matter Movement for his role in causing the death of George Floyd that sparked it all.
Many of us weren’t expecting to hear from the convicted murderer for a long time following his 22-year prison sentence last summer. However, that day unfortunately came far too soon now that he’s making headlines in an attempt to get his guilty conviction appealed.
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ABC News confirms that attorneys for the former Minneapolis police officer asked an appeals court on Monday to either reverse his conviction, reverse his conviction and grant him a new trial in a different venue, or return the case to a lower court for resentencing. They’re citing pretrial publicity, safety concerns made by the jurors, potential riots in the event of Chauvin’s acquittal and physical threats on the courthouse itself as ample reasoning that prove he received an unfair trial.
More details on Derek Chauvin’s current appeal below, via ABC News:
“The court filing argued that a change of venue, which was previously denied by the lower court, was necessary in this case.
‘There are few cases involving such violent threats by the community in the event the jury finds the defendant not guilty. Those cases — which all involved defendant police officers — required transfer of venue,’ the attorneys said in the filing.
The threat of violence was ‘extreme,’ and because jurors were not sequestered, they saw this every day during trial, Chauvin’s lawyers said in the filing.
‘The courthouse was surrounded by barbed wire and soldiers during the trial. Prior to jury deliberations, National Guard troops were deployed throughout Minneapolis, businesses boarded up their buildings and schools were closed ‘bracing for a riot’ in the event Chauvin’s acquittal,’ the filing said.”
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On the option of getting his sentence reduced, Chauvin’s lawyers pointed out that presumptive sentencing for someone without a criminal history is 150 months compared to the 270 months their client received. They even went as far as to claim that Chauvin was authorized to put hands on Floyd under Minnesota law, writing in the 72-page court filing, “Chauvin is a police officer statutorily authorized to commit ‘assaults’ to effect an arrest,” also adding, “in order for a police officer to be convicted of murder, Minnesota statutes require the officer to be using ‘deadly force’ — force one knows will cause either death or ‘great bodily harm.’ Putting your knees on the back of a suspect does not create a ‘substantial risk of causing, death or great bodily harm.’”
…what?! We’d like to see how long they survive if someone put their whole knee on your neck to stop the flow of oxygen — you know, that stuff all of our bodies need to stay alive.
Derek Chauvin is currently incarcerated on second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges stemming from the May 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota due to excessive police force. Let’s hope he continues to serve his full and rightful term behind bars.
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By ASHIFA KASSAM
Associated Press
MADRID (AP) — Algeria has threatened to suspend its gas exports to Spain, the latest twist in a complex triangle of diplomatic tensions between the gas supplier, the gas importer and their shared neighbor Morocco — all against the background of skyrocketing prices driven by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Spain has been in talks with Morocco about helping the North African kingdom boost its gas supplies. That could possibly be done by allowing Morocco to use processing facilities in Spain that could handle imports by ship of liquified natural gas, which could come from a variety of suppliers. Gas could then be sent to Morocco via an existing pipeline that crosses the Strait of Gibraltar.
Spain, however, also imports natural gas from Algeria. And Algeria is in the midst of a deep diplomatic freeze with Morocco, with which it shares a land border. Algeria severed ties with Morocco last August. Then it choked off one of Morocco’s sources of gas by switching off a gas pipeline that runs across their shared border.
Morocco has turned to Spain for help in trying to make up the shortfall — a prospect that appears to be raising hackles in Algiers.
In a statement late Wednesday, Algeria’s energy ministry warned that gas supplies it sends to Spain via a separate pipeline under the Mediterranean could be suspended if the gas is then diverted elsewhere. Such a diversion could be regarded as a contract breach, “and, as a consequence, could lead to the breaking of the contract,” the ministry warned.
With Spain heavily dependent on Algerian gas, its energy ministry scrambled to calm the storm, saying in a statement that “in no case will the gas acquired by Morocco come from Algeria.”
Until last October, part of the supplies of Algerian gas to Spain came via the pipeline through Morocco. Morocco got a sliver of that supply, getting enough gas to produce 10% of its electricity. But the kingdom lost that energy source when the 25-year gas distribution agreement ended on Oct. 31, with Algeria refusing to renew it.
Algeria still sends gas to Spain through a second, longer pipeline direct from Algeria to Almería on Spain’s southeastern shore and in the form of LNG shipped in tankers.
But deprived of gas from its neighbor, Morocco has to go hunting much further afield.
Spain’s energy ministry said Morocco could acquire LNG on international markets and unload it at a re-gasification plant on the Spanish mainland. Once processed, the gas could then be exported to Morocco by sending it down the pipeline that, until October, used to carry Algerian gas up to Spain.
The Spanish ministry said the plans were devised after it was approached by Morocco for help in guaranteeing its energy security. The ministry said it had spoken to Algeria in past months about activating this mechanism and communicated its plans to Algeria’s energy minister on Wednesday.
Spain wants to strengthen ties with Rabat, a key player in the EU’s efforts to manage an increase in immigration from Africa northward.
The triangular tensions over gas come amid a broader international crisis over supplies and prices for the fossil fuel — driven by the war in Ukraine.
Major supplier Russia is using gas for leverage against countries that oppose its invasion of Ukraine. Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom this week informed Poland and Bulgaria, both members of the European Union and NATO, that it is suspending their supplies. Polish and Bulgarian leaders accused Moscow of blackmail.
As European countries seek alternatives to Russian gas, supplies from Algeria have taken on added importance. Italy, which is also scrambling to wean itself off Russian energy, struck a deal this month to boost gas imports from Algeria. Spain is a leader in wind and solar power but continues to rely on energy imports — with Algeria providing more than a third of its natural gas.
The spat between Morocco and Algeria has forced Spain into a delicate balancing act.
The feud between Morocco and Algeria is largely rooted in the disputed region of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony in North Africa that is rich in phosphates and borders fertile fishing grounds. It was annexed by Morocco in 1976.
Algeria backs the Polisario Front independence movement in Western Sahara. In March, it recalled its ambassador to Madrid in protest when Spain backed a Moroccan plan to give more autonomy to the contested territory.
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AP writer John Leicester contributed to this report from Paris.
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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday for an additional $33 billion for new powers to seize and repurpose the assets of Russian oligarchs to aid Ukrainian forces in the fight against Russia.
Biden’s latest proposal — which the officials said was expected to last for five months — includes more than $20 billion in military assistance for Ukraine and for bolstering defenses in nearby countries. Also, $8.5 billion in economic aid to help keep Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government functioning and $3 billion for food and humanitarian programs to help civilians and other spending.
The assistance package, which now heads to Congress for consideration, would be more than twice as large as an initial $13.6 billion of defense and economic aid for Ukraine and Western allies that Congress enacted last month and is now almost exhausted. It was meant to signify that the U.S. is not tiring of helping to stave off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to expand his nation’s control of its neighbor, and perhaps beyond.
“The cost of this fight is not cheap, but caving to aggression is going to be more costly,” Biden said. “It’s critical this funding gets approved and as quickly as possible.”
The request comes with the fighting, now in its ninth week, sharpening in eastern and southern parts of the country and international tensions growing as Russia cuts off gas supplies to two NATO allies, Poland and Bulgaria.
Biden promised that the U.S. would work to support its allies’ energy needs, saying, “We will not let Russia intimidate or blackmail their way out of the sanctions.”
Biden said the new package “begins the transition to longer-term security assistance” for Ukraine.
There is wide, bipartisan support in Congress for giving Ukraine all the help it needs to fight the Russians, and its eventual approval of assistance seems certain. But Biden and congressional Democrats also want lawmakers to approve billions more to battle the pandemic, and that along with a Republican push to entangle the measure with an extension of some Trump-era immigration restrictions leaves the proposal’s pathway to enactment unclear.
Biden also asked lawmakers to include an additional $22.5 billion for vaccines, treatments, testing and aid to other countries in continuing efforts to contain COVID-19, saying “we’re running out of supply for therapeutics.”
But that figure, which Biden also requested last month, seems aspirational at best. In a compromise with Republicans, Senate Democrats have already agreed to pare that figure to $10 billion, and reviving the higher amount would be at best an uphill fight.
Biden said he had no preference whether lawmakers combined the virus funding with the Ukraine package or split them up. “They can do it separately or together,” Biden said, “but we need them both.”
Biden also asked Congress for new powers to seize and repurpose the assets of Russian oligarchs, saying the U.S. was seizing luxury yachts and homes of “bad guys.”
He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to “knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government,” double the statute of limitations for foreign money laundering offenses to 10 years and expand the definition of “racketeering” under U.S. law to include efforts to evade sanctions.
Biden also asked Congress to allow the federal government to use the proceeds from selling the seized assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs to help the people of Ukraine.
The remarks follow more threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who warns of “lightning-fast” retaliation against any Western countries that intervene on Ukraine’s behalf. The fighting picked up pace after Russia suddenly cut off natural gas to two NATO nations, in what was seen as a bid to punish and divide the West over its support for Ukraine ahead of the potentially pivotal battle in the eastern industrial region of the Donbas.
Ukraine has urged its allies to send even more military equipment so it can continue its fight.
Biden’s new ask comes as he announced plans last week to send an additional $800 million in military aid to help Ukraine. The military assistance package includes much-needed heavy artillery, 144,000 rounds of ammunition and drones for Ukrainian forces in the escalating battle for the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. It builds on roughly $2.6 billion in military assistance that Biden had previously approved for Ukraine.
Biden said that the $13.6 billion approved last month by Congress for military and humanitarian assistance was “almost exhausted.”
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'Is he holding him hostage?': Social media reacts to video Vin Diesel posted on Instagram of himself with Justin Lin days before Fast & Furious 10 director quit
- Social media has gone into overload at a video of Justin Lin posted by Vin Diesel
- It was posted the day before the 50-year-old Fast & Furious 10 director quit
- Lin looked slightly awkward as Diesel asked him about the first week of filming
- Social media users joked that Diesel might be holding Lin 'hostage' in the clip
Social media has gone into overload at a video of Justin Lin posted by Vin Diesel the day before the Fast & Furious 10 director quit.
Lin said Tuesday that he will not direct Fast X, the tenth installment in the Fast & Furious film series, just days after production commenced on the action film.
In a video taken the day before, Lin looked awkward as Diesel quizzed him about the first week of filming. It's likely Lin already knew he was quitting as director when the action actor filmed the clip.
Users on Twitter even joked Viesel had taken Lin 'hostage'.
Social media has gone into overload at a video of Justin Lin posted by Vin Diesel the day before the Fast & Furious 10 director quit
In the video Diesel asked Lin where he's 'been'.
Lin said: 'Week one. Just finished week one.'
After Diesel asks, 'How does it feel?' Lin said 'it feels like the beginning of, uh... of an epic... ending'.
The actor asked: 'Is it fair to say this is going to be the best one?'
Lin, looking slightly awkward, replied: 'In my heart, yes.'
Social media user Louie Shmurda said: 'I mean bro, Justin Lin looks like he wants to cry.'
Another added: 'Vin Diesel seemed to be holding Lin hostage.'
Meanwhile, Twitter user Matt said: 'Man Justin Lin looked like he was not having a great time in that Vin video. People like to hate on F9 but I highly doubt it was his fault, he didn't write the script.'
The 50-year-old filmmaker issued a statement on the Instagram account of the upcoming movie, which he penned the script for alongside Dan Mazeau.
'With the support of Universal, I have made the difficult decision to step back as director of Fast X, while remaining with the project as a producer,' Lin said.
'Over 10 years and five films, we have been able to shoot the best actors, the best stunts, and the best damn car chases.
Vin Diesel smiled as he quizzed Justin Lin about the first week of filming, although Lin quit the very next day
It's likely Lin already knew he was quitting as director when the action actor filmed the clip
'On a personal note, as the child of Asian immigrants, I am proud of helping to build the most diverse franchise in movie history. I will forever be grateful to the amazing cast, crew and studio for their support, and for welcoming me into the Fast family.'
Production on the film's main unit - which began April 20 - has been put on hold amid Universal's search for a new director, insiders told Variety, as the second unit is continuing to work on the movie.
Lin last June spoke with Variety about finishing off the film franchise with the tenth and eleventh films, recalling how he 'used to sit around' and talk with Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker about the creative direction the film franchise would take at its conclusion.
'I thought it was just an exercise, I never thought we were able to ever realize it - so it was very much in theory,' he said. 'Then when I came back Vin pulled me aside and said, 'We're doing it.' So, in a way it felt like F9 is about celebrating 20 years of this journey, but also just pointing it into this last chapter that we've been talking about for years.'
The latest: Justin Lin, 50, said on Tuesday that he will not direct Fast X, the tenth installment in the Fast & Furious film series, just days after production commenced on the action film. He was snapped last June in LA at the F9 premiere
The filmmaker issued a statement regarding his status on the Instagram account of the upcoming movie
Lin was seen on the set of F9 working alongside director of photography Stephen F. Windon
Lin had been in the director's chair for five of the films: 2006's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, 2009's Fast & Furious, 2011's Fast Five, 2013's Fast & Furious 6 and last year's F9.
Fast X features mainstays such as Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster, Charlize Theron and Nathalie Emmanuel. Notable additions to the cast include Jason Momoa, Brie Larson, Daniela Melchior and Michael Rooker. Musical superstar Cardi B, who made a brief appearance in F9, is also slated to appear in the movie.
Notably absent from the cast is Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, who has played Luke Hobbs in multiple films in the franchise.
Diesel attempted to recruit Johnson to appear in the film by taking to social media last November in hopes of persuading him to reprise his role of Hobbs.
'My little brother Dwayne... the time has come,' Diesel said. 'As you know, my children refer to you as Uncle Dwayne in my house.
'There is not a holiday that goes by that they and you don't send well wishes... but the time has come. Legacy awaits.'
Diesel said he 'was going to fulfill [his] promise' to the late Walker, adding, 'I say this out of love... but you must show up, do not leave the franchise idle you have a very important role to play. Hobbs can't be played by no other. I hope that you rise to the occasion and fulfill your destiny.'
Johnson, speaking with CNN in December, reiterated 'there was no chance [he] would return' and said that he was 'very surprised' after Diesel went public with his plea after they had 'came to a clear understanding' months before that he wasn't going to come back to the film franchise.
'Vin's recent public post was an example of his manipulation,' Johnson said, adding he 'didn't like that he brought up his children in the post, as well as Paul Walker's death,' adding, 'Leave them out of it.'
The rift between Johnson and Diesel went public in 2016 when Johnson wrote on Instagram, 'Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't. The ones that don't are too chicken s*** to do anything about it anyway. Candy a**es.'
The long-running film franchise is centered around Vin Diesel, who plays the role of Dominic Toretto
Diesel and Dwayne Johnson (pictured in 2011's Fast & Furious 5) have had a long-running rift stemming from their work on the films
Diesel told Men's Health last year that he 'could give a lot of tough love' while working with Johnson on the action films: 'Not Felliniesque, but I would do anything I'd have to do in order to get performances in anything I'm producing.'
In response, Johnson told Vanity Fair, 'One part of me feels like there's no way I would dignify any of that bull**** with an answer. I've been around the block a lot of times. Unlike [Diesel], I did not come from the world of theater. And, you know, I came up differently and was raised differently.'
Johnson said he 'came from a completely different culture and environment' and ventures 'into every project giving it [his] all.
'And if I feel that there's some things that need to be squared away and handled and taken care of, then I do it. And it's just that simple. So when I read that, just like everybody else, I laughed. I laughed hard. We all laughed. And somewhere I'm sure Fellini is laughing too.'
The film is slated to arrive in theaters May 19, 2023.
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Which fondue set is best?
Created in the 1800s to use up stale bread and cheese almost past its prime, fondue experienced a resurrection in the 1960s and 1970s before melting into the background again. But with the expanding interest in interactive food experiences, fondue is set to make a comeback.
The Cuisinart Electric Fondue Maker is easy to operate and great for all types of fondue. It’s excellent for larger gatherings too.
What to know before you buy a fondue set
Heat source
A fondue set melts cheese or chocolate or heats oil or broth, so it requires a consistent source of heat. Traditional fondue pots use the heat of candles or alcohol-based fuel. These make the pot more portable for both indoor and outdoor use, but the heat can be uneven and slow. If you use candles, you’ll need plenty of them, and they won’t get the liquid hot enough to cook meat or seafood.
Using liquid or gel fuels is recommended to properly cook food in hot oil or broth. These fuels get hotter and are safer for meat preparation.
Modern electric fondue pots are simple to plug in and provide quick, consistent heat for all types of food, but you’ll always be tethered to an outlet.
Pot material
The first fondue pots were ceramic or stoneware heated over open fires. Both materials are heat tolerant and durable, and ceramic is a great choice for chocolate fondue in particular.
If you primarily cook meat, you’ll need a pot of stainless steel, cast iron, copper or another type of metal. They’re more suited to the high temperatures necessary to safely cook meat.
Capacity
Consider how many people you’re cooking for when selecting the best fondue set for you. If you routinely serve a large household, look for a 3-quart capacity or more. Dining a deux? You will only need a 1- to 2-cup capacity.
What to look for in a quality fondue set
Fondue forks
Fondue forks are designed to skewer bread, fruit, cheese, meat or other food while keeping hands safely away from the molten liquid in the pot. The handles should be comfortable and easy to hold, and there should be enough forks to match the bowl’s capacity.
Temperature controls
Electric fondue sets should have easy-to-set and easy-to-read temperature controls. Because chocolate and cheese do not require as much heat as broth and oil, adjustments are useful to prevent dessert or classic cheese fondue from burning.
Recipes included
Creating a delicious dessert or cheese fondue is both an art and a science. Look for a set that includes recipes tested for the bowl you have purchased.
How to use a fondue set
Here are a few tips for best results.
- Begin at the end: Prep all foods you will dip in your fondue before you start. Cut up bread, meat, fruit, cake and vegetables.
- Stock up on utensils: Make sure you have extra forks for unexpected guests. Consider buying extras if you want fondue for both dinner and dessert.
- Melt well: For cheese fondue, grate the cheese for even melting. For both chocolate and cheese, a little added oil prevents burning.
- Watch the temp: Some electric fondue sets run hot. Keep an eye on the temperature in the pot, and adjust as needed.
How much you can expect to spend on a fondue set
For an interactive food experience that doubles as sustenance and entertainment, fondue sets are remarkably affordable. Expect to spend $40-$100 on a good-quality set.
Fondue set FAQ
Is there etiquette surrounding fondue?
A. Yes. Whether enjoying it at home or heading out to a restaurant, fondue comes with its own set of rules.
- For savory fondue, start your dipping with bread.
- Do not scoop cheese directly out of the pot.
- Do not use your hands to dip (it’s dangerous and poor form).
- Do not double dip.
- Use the fondue fork to dip, then bring the food to your plate. Eat food from the plate only — not from the fork.
- To reduce drips, dip your food, then rotate it over the pot until whatever you’ve dipped stops dripping.
- Dip and swirl in a figure-eight pattern to keep your cheese or chocolate fondue from forming a crust.
- Take turns.
How long should you cook meat in a fondue pot?
A. Cooking times vary depending on the type of meat you are cooking.
- Beef: Beef should be cooked from 20 seconds for medium rare to 45 seconds for well done.
- Pork: Cook for one minute.
- Poultry: Make sure to cook for at least two minutes.
Thinly sliced meat will cook faster than thick chunks.
What’s the best fondue set to buy?
Top fondue set
Cuisinart Electric Fondue Maker
What you need to know: From cheese to chocolate, this maker is safe for every type of fondue.
What you’ll love: Electric heating easily melts cheese and chocolate and keeps oil and broth at safe temperatures. The bowl is stainless steel with a nonstick interior that cleans easily. It holds 3 quarts and serves eight people.
What you should consider: At just 1 foot, the cord is very short. Some users also report that this maker runs hot.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top fondue set for the money
What you need to know: For an intimate gathering, this simple fondue pot uses three tea light candles as a heat source.
What you’ll love: It uses the candles underneath a dishwasher-safe pot on a stainless steel stand. The design is sleek. It comes with four fondue forks.
What you should consider: Don’t use this when you’re hungry. The candles take a long time to melt the cheese.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Artestia Cast Iron Fondue Pot Set
What you need to know: This is a traditionally styled choice that features a heavy enameled cast-iron pot.
What you’ll love: It holds 5 cups of all kinds of fondue. The heat source is gas gel or alcohol. It comes with a lid and six forks. It’s available in two colors.
What you should consider: The fuel is not included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Deadline for publishing Lebedev peerage documents missed
By Nick Eardley & Justin Parkinson
BBC News
- Published
The government has missed a deadline to publish the security advice it received on awarding a peerage to Russian-born newspaper publisher Evgeny Lebedev.
Parliament voted last month for the material to be made available to MPs by Thursday 28 April.
Labour accused ministers of "bending the rules to dodge scrutiny" and asked whether they had "something to hide".
But the government said it was not possible to release the details before Parliament is suspended on Thursday.
In a letter, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Ellis argued that he could not give out information where it was "not in the public interest to do so" and the government would need more time to deal with "all the necessary considerations".
These included what details pertaining to national security, individuals' data protection and communications with Buckingham Palace could be divulged.
Mr Ellis promised to publish the information "promptly" after Parliament returns from its break on 10 May.
Lord Lebedev, the son of a former KGB agent and owner of the Independent and London Evening Standard, became a non-party, crossbench peer in July 2020, after being nominated by his friend Boris Johnson.
He has denied posing a "security risk" to the UK and has backed the publication of the government's advice on the issue, tweeting: "I have nothing to hide."
The prime minister's former aide Dominic Cummings has said the prime minister was made aware of security service concerns about the plan to award the peerage. Another source has confirmed to the BBC that issues were raised.
A Labour motion calling for the government to publish any advice about Lord Lebedev held by the Cabinet Office or the prime minister's office was backed by the Commons in March.
The government had argued against this, accusing the opposition of being anti-Russian, but the motion passed unopposed after Conservative MPs abstained.
'Come clean'
Following the government's decision to delay publication, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said: "By failing to comply with the democratic will of Parliament and release these important documents, the government is once again bending the rules to dodge scrutiny.
"This last-minute delay just kicks the can further down the road, and has all the hallmarks of a government with something to hide."
She added: "If the prime minister wasn't involved in forcing through the appointment of an individual of concern to our intelligence services, why won't he come clean and publish the guidance in full, as Parliament voted for?"
Earlier this month, Lord Bew, chair of the House of Lords Appointment Committee, which approves peerages, denied it had tried to block Lord Lebedev being given a seat in the Lords.
He told MPs there had been "uncertainty" around the case, which had involved a "a special set of circumstances".
In a lengthy session in Parliament, he said there had been "particular complexity" and protracted conversations with vetting agencies.
But Lord Bew said: "There was no pressure on this issue from No 10 or the prime minister." | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61256397?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA | 2022-04-28T16:50:19Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61256397?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA | true |
Demand For Controlled Emission To Escalate The Piston Ring Market From 2021-2031
Posted on 2022-04-28 by Persistence MR in Automotive // 0 Comments
New York, United States, 2022-Apr-28 — /EPR Network/ —
Engine Emission Control: Need of the Hour
The demand for piston ring is driven by the basic need for engine emission control. As such, piston rings do maintain gas in tank, which helps in prevention from evaporation in the form of gasoline. Advancements are observed on both the fronts – material as well as technology, which is giving the end-users a better scope to choose. Also, extensive research is being carried out regarding development of lightweight products to control emission. Persistence Market Research has mentioned about these facts along with figures through its report entitled “Piston Ring Market”.
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Sales channel-wise, it’s aftermarket and OEMs. The products where piston rings are used comprise cinderblocks, disc brake rotors, manhole covers, pump hostings, hydraulic components, linkages, automotive suspension components, stove parts, steering knuckles, and so on.
Gray cast iron is usually preferred, as it is capable of dampening vibrations, thereby rendering itself ideal for housing applications and machinery bases. Thermal cycling is also handled very well by gray cast iron.
Out of these, LCVs hold the largest market share and are expected to continue with the winning streak even in the years to come due to the convenience factor involved therein. Also, gasoline engine is preferred to diesel engine taking the environment-friendliness into consideration. Persistence Market Research has put forth these facts and also the insights pertaining to the same.
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- Federal-Mogul LLC
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- NIPPON PISTON RING Co., Ltd.
- Riken Corporation
- IP Rings
- Shriram Pistons & Rings Ltd.
- TPR Co., Ltd.
- Hunan ZhengYuanDongli Parts Co., Ltd.
- SamKrg
- Anhui Ring New Group Co., Ltd. (ARN)
- Grover Corporation
- Abilities India Piston & Rings Ltd.
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- Spanish team wins the Farming by Satellite Prize 2020
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the senior facility agreement concluded between Digi Group and a syndicate of banks
- Sportsbooks Getting Ready for NFL Super Bowl LV
- Book your 2021 Wildlife Safari Vacations in Kenya with Cruzeiro Safaris
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- Visual Data Media Services to Partner with Endeavour Capital for Next Phase of Growth
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2020 Financial Results
- PayPerHead Releases Premium Casino Platform
- Haizol Expand its Capabilities into Motorcycle Manufacturing & Custom Made Bike Parts
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- Dutch Police selects bodycams from Zepcam to support police officers on the street
- Palette Life Sciences expands availability of online education and resources for paediatric urologists across Europe
- Sumitomo Corporation Europe Limited and NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS sign Memorandum of Understanding
- Syniti & SAP Expand Partnership to Increase Client Options for Moving Harmoniously to SAP S/4HANA
- China’s manufacturing industry continues to expand according to the latest Purchasing Managers’ Index figures, with Haizol at the forefront of the growth
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- Digi Communications NV announces the extension of the agreement entered into between the Company’s subsidiary from Spain (Digi Spain) and Telefonica Moviles España, S.A. regarding the access to TME’s radio spectrum and mobile communication network and infrastructure
- U.S. Presidential Election Wagering Heats Up
- Tiqets’ US Awakens Week Highlights Exclusive New Experiences From Newly Reopened Museums and Attractions
- Haizol Boosts Companies Operational Agility
- Eveliqure announces the initiation of a Phase 1 clinical study of its combined Shigella and ETEC vaccine candidate
- eFax führt das EMEA-Kanalprogramm ein
- eFax lance un programme de distribution dans la région EMEA
- Mono Solutions partners with Lokale Internetwerbung to launch in leadhub platform
- Syniti Launches Podcast Series to Address Growing Focus on Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, featuring Leading CEOs
- This Year's NFL Season Could Be One For the Ages
- Mono Solutions and Ecwid partner for the seamless delivery of websites with e-commerce for small businesses
- Galata Chemicals to produce Tin Stabilizers and Intermediates at Dahej, India
- INFOCUS CORPORATION AND CELEXON EUROPE SIGN EXCLUSIVE EUROPEAN MASTER DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
- L’Awakening Week de Tiqets en France met en avant les nouvelles expériences exclusives de plus de 15 musées et attractions qui ont récemment rouvert
- Tiqets UK Awakens Celebrates Reopened Museums & Attractions and Sponsors Visits for NHS Staff
- Tiqets Awakening Weeks Brings Together 100+ Museums and Attractions to Celebrate Their Reopenings
- As NFL Season Draws Closer, Bookies Switch to New Software Providers
- A Jewish-Bedouin Partnership is bringing the Negev cuisine to Europe
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the H1 2020 Financial Results
- New Chief Financial Officers appointed at Mono Solutions & Bauer Media Group SME Services
- Bookies Clamoring for Safe and Secure Ways to Collect and Get Paid from Players
- Digi Communications NV announces Investors Call on the Financial Results for H1 2020
- Palette Life Sciences AB and Gedeon Richter Plc. Receive National Marketing Authorization in the United Kingdom for Novel Pain Relief Product, LIDBREE™
- Palette Life Sciences launches Deflux.com/UK, an online resource for paediatric urologists, parents and caregivers in the United Kingdom
- Billionaire Richard Branson Called a Trademark Bully by the Trademark Law Professors of University of Washington, School of Law
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the publishing of Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor of the Company on 30 July 2020 regarding the information included in the current reports issued by the Company under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- The Pavilions Hotels & Resorts Excited To Announce First Luxury Resort Brand In El Nido, Palawan Island Philippines
- RCH Group Cements its International Reach
- New Customer Data Platform Options Emerge During Pandemic Slowdown: CDP Institute Report
- Digi Communications N.V. announces The Competition Council authorized the economic concentration accomplished by the Company’s Romanian subsidiary („RCS&RDS”) by gaining control over some of the assets held by Akta Telecom S.A., Digital Cable Systems S.A. and ATTP Telecommunications S.R.L.
- TABS Score™ Expands its European Footprint; Begins Partnership Discussions Amongst Key Players in EU Venture Ecosystem
- Virgin’s unethical business practices against small start ups and non-profit foundations
- Mono and Brandify partner to bring appointment booking to local businesses
- While major games dropped cases because of social separating conventions, sportsbooks are discovering approaches to keep players inside the action during this pandemic
- Digi Communications N.V. announces ANCOM approval for RCS & RDS S.A. to continue to apply a surcharge for certain roaming services provided in the EEA for a renewed maximum period of 12 months
- DerbySoft Expands Metasearch Coverage for Hotels Around the World
- Palette Life Sciences Announces European Distribution Expansion for Deflux® and Solesta® for More Than Twenty Countries Through Five Leading Distributors and Direct Sales Effort
- Pierre Koukjian and Cedric Koukjian, Designer Duo in Collaboration with Bulgari
- Pierre Koukjian et Cédric Koukjian, Duo de designers en collaboration avec Bulgari
- PayPerHead Agents See Huge Uptick in Online Casino Gaming
- Virgin hires private investigators to spy and find out where VIRGINIC employees live in the US. VIRGINIC wins with Virgin twice in the UK
- Former Duff & Phelps EMEA Leader Yann Magnan joins 73 Strings as Co-founder and CEO
- Concern for the oceans drives consumers to 'vote with their forks' for sustainable seafood
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock option by Marius Catalin Vărzaru, a Non-Executive Director and VP of the Board of Directors of the Company
- USBLockit.com releases Free App to “Password Protect the USB Flash Drive” for Android
- VIRGINIC defends its case and stands up to Virgin after attack on Linkedin profiles of shocked VIRGINIC employees
- SecurLine Certified to Protect Classified Communications
- Digi Communications N.V. announces that a stock option programme was approved for employees and managers of the Romanian Subsidiary of the Company
- Digi Communications NV announces the exercise of stock options by the Executive Directors of the Company
- Matvil Corp. Continues Its Fight Against Illegal Actions of the Legal System of Moldova
- Matvil Corp. продолжает бороться с противозаконными действиями юридической системы Молдовы
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q1 2020 Financial Results
- Digi Communications NV announces that conditional stock options were granted to several Directors of the Company based on the general shareholders’ meeting approval from 30 April 2020
- PayPerHead® Sportsbook Software Helps Online Bookies Stay in Business
- MEDIS medical imaging systems acquires Advanced Medical Imaging Development S.r.l. (AMID) and secures further investment from Van Herk Ventures
- Digi Communications NV announces Investors Call on the Financial Results for Q1 2020
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the availability of the instructions on the 2019 share dividend payment
- Mono Solutions hires Chief Product Officer
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 27 – 30 Apr 2020
- Despite No Sports, PayPerHead® Keeps Players In Action
- Digi Communications N.V.: GSM resolutions from 30 Apr 2020 approving, amongst others, the 2019 Annual Accounts; availability of the adopted Annual Financial Report for the year ended Dec 31, 2019 for the Group
- RCH Embark on Lasting Partnership with Culinary Institute JRE
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 20 – 24 Apr 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13 – 17 Apr 2020
- PayPerHead® Steps Up To Help Small Business Owners
- COVID-19: Digi Communications N.V. recommendation regarding participation of shareholders to the AGM convened for 30 April 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 6 – 10 Apr 2020
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.: Exercise of stock option by a Non-Executive Director of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 30 Mar – 3 Apr 2020
- Chief Commercial Officer joins Mono Solutions
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 23 – 27 Mar 2020
- Digi Communications N.V. reports the admission to trading on the regulated market operated by the Irish Stock Exchange plc (trading as Euronext Dublin) of the senior secured notes issued by RCS & RDS S.A., its Romanian subsidiary
- Delft University of Technology Purchases its Second WebClip2Go Video Production System
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 16 – 20 Mar 2020
- Integrated Services Monitoring Capability Launched by Bridge Technologies
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Convocation of the Company’s general shareholders meeting for 30 April 2020 for the approval of, among others, the 2019 Annual Report and of the 2019 Financial Statements
- Digi Communications N.V. announces The Hungarian Competition Council’s decision to issue a new decision approving the Invitel transaction
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Business continuity in light of the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) outbreak
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9 – 13 Mar 2020
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in February 2020 or in other period but effective in February 2020, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 2 – 6 Mar 2020
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24 – 28 Feb 2020
- EH GROUP ENGINEERING awarded EU Horizon 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17 – 21 Feb 2020
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Preliminary Financial Results for year ended 31 December 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 10 – 14 Feb 2020
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in January 2020 or in other period but effective in January 2020, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Preliminary Financial Results for the year ended 31 December 2019
- Consolidation Looms for Fast-Growing Customer Data Platform Industry: CDP Institute Report
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 3–7 Feb 2020
- Digi Communications N.V. hereby reports successful closing of the offering of senior secured notes by RCS & RDS S.A., its Romanian subsidiary
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 27 – 31 Jan 2020
- Digi Communications N.V.: Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor on 30 Jan 2020 regarding the information included in the current reports under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications N.V.: Rectification of the report published on 15 Jan 2020, regarding legal documents concluded by DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. in other periods but effective in Dec 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications N.V. reports the upsize and successful pricing of the offering of senior secured notes by RCS & RDS S.A., its Romanian subsidiary
- RCH To Present New Smart ECR, Robust and Vintage POS Systems at EuroShop 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 20 – 24 Jan 2020
- Digi Communications N.V.: (i) launch of an offering by RCS & RDS S.A. of senior secured notes; (ii) issuance of a notice of conditional full redemption of all outstanding €550.0m 5.0% senior secured notes due 2023 issued by the Company and (iii) restatement by the Company of its unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the 9-month period ended 30 Sep 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13 – 17 Jan 2020
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in December 2019 or in other period but effective in December 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 6 – 10 Jan 2020
- SuitePad Announced as the Best Guest Room Tablet in the 2020 HotelTechAwards
- Wildlife Safari Vacations in Kenya Travel with Cruzeiro Safaris Kenya
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 30 Dec 2019 – 3 Jan 2020
- Axiom Prepaid Holdings Caps Off Banner Year with a Prestigious Accolade for Its CEO
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23 and 27 December 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the publishing of the Financial Calendar for 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol 16-20 Dec 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 Dec 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in November 2019 or in other period but effective in November 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- American Hemp Processing To Roll Out Mobile Extraction Units
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 2-6 Dec 2019
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- XPAND has launched “XPAND Code Generator”, a website that automatically issues XPAND Code that can be read from 200 meters/700 feet
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 25-29 Nov 2019
- RCS & RDS S.A., Digi Communications N.V.’s subsidiary in Romania, entered into agreements to operate the telecommunications networks of the Romanian companies Digital Cable Systems S.A., AKTA Telecom S.A. and ATTP Telecommunications S.R.L
- Crafting qualifications to accelerate adoption of Additive Manufacturing
- 100,000 Graduation Ceremony of Shincheonji Theology Center Held over 112 countries
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 18 – 22 Nov 2019
- PDA GMP for APIs Education Webinar Now an "ICH Recognised Training Programme"
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 11 – 15 Nov 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in October 2019 or in other period but effective in October 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2019 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 4 – 8 Nov 2019
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for Q3 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 28 Oct – 1 Nov 2019
- Medis to Launch an Innovative 4D Flow Module for Clinical Practice
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 21-25 Oct 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 14-18 Oct 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in September 2019 or in other period but effective in September 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 7-11 Oct 2019
- RCH to Launch WALLE 8T POS for Real-time Access to Data in the Cloud
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 30 Sep – 4 Oct 2019
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23-27 September 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 16-20 Sep 2019
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- Dr. Kurt Lauk, prominent business leader, former chairman of Economic Council in Germany (Wirtschaftsrat), former advisor to Angela Merkel, joins Tachyum
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 Sep 2019
- DIGI Communications N.V.: Decision regarding the participation to the auction procedure related to wireless broadband services supporting the introduction of 5G in Hungary
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in August 2019 or in other period but effective in August 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Fight To Fame Expands Its Search for the Next Action Film Star to Europe
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the availability of Investor’s presentation on the company’s website
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 19 – 23 August 2019
- All occasion personalised pens produced by specialist company Camaloon
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 12 -16 August 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 12 -16 August 2019
- XPAND K.K. will exhibit at the IFA 2019 as a Japanese cutting-edge IT company
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in July 2019 or in other period but effective in July 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the availability of H1 2019 Financial Report (for the six month period ended 30 June 2019)
- PDA Announces Six Regulatory Authorities Speaking at Biomanufacturing in Munich
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 5 and 9 August 2019
- Digi Communications NV Announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for the Half-year ended 30 June 2019
- Customer Data Platform Industry Grew 71% in One Year; Will Reach $1 Billion Revenue in 2019
- Central European Online Travel Agency Group Szallas.hu PLC. further strengthens its international presence
- With The Lure Of High Threadcount Sheets After A Day Trekking, Luxury Travel Blogger THE BOUTIQUE ADVENTURER Champions Chic Solo Explorations
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Syndicated facility agreement concluded between the Digi Group and a syndicate of banks
- LA SCULPTURE DE CEDRIC KOUKJIAN, « LIAISON », SERA EXPOSÉ EN PUBLIC PAR LA COMMISSION CULTURELLE DE COLOGNY, EN SUISSE
- CEDRIC KOUKJIAN’S SCULPTURE, “LIAISON” TO BE EXHIBITED IN PUBLIC BY CULTURAL COMMISSION OF COLOGNY IN SWITZERLAND
- Digi Communications N.V.: Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor regarding the information included in the current reports under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Il 18° tour del lago Qinghai si conclude con la celebrazione della "maggiore età"
- La 18ª Vuelta al Lago Qinghai concluye con la celebración de su “mayoría de edad”
- 18e ‘Tour of Qinghai Lake’ wordt afgesloten met een ‘coming-of-age’-viering
- Digi Communications N.V.: Rectification of reports published on 15 Feb, 15 Mar, 15 Apr, 15 May and 14 Jun 2019 regarding legal documents in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 22 and 26 July 2019
- GEANGO at ENSO ANGO - Summer Culture Retreat in Kyoto 2019
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol (15-19 July 2019)
- Nanto Cleantech Inc victorious in BYK-Altana patent opposition lawsuit
- Mono Solutions Joins Bauer Media Group to Strengthen SME Marketing Services Across the Globe
- UK Investors File Lawsuit in the Canaries Against Blue Explorers for Misleading Shareholders
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 8 – 12 July 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 11 July 2019
- OFERTA de casas vacacionales de lujo para menos de €25 por persona por noche este verano
- Noticias de Turismo: este verano sacarás más partido de tu presupuesto vacacional encontrando precios más competitivos
- TRAVEL NEWS: Your holiday spending money stretches even further this summer in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1 – 5 July 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program approved by the GSM from 30 April 2019 and the duration of this program
- Global Software Innovator, AnyDesk, Announces Record 100 Million Downloads
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 24 and 28 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the launch by RCS & RDS S.A., its subsidiary in Romania, of the Digi Mobil 5G Smart service
- Tauschen Sie Ihren Dripper aus und verändern Sie den Geschmack Ihres Kaffees! HARIO veröffentlicht den Double Mesh Metal Dripper.
- Change your dripper and change the flavor of your coffee! HARIO launches the Double Mesh Metal Dripper
- Matvil Corp. противостоит беспределу судебных властей Молдовы
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17 – 21 June 2019
- Matvil Corp. Fights the Illegal Actions of the Legal System of Moldova
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10 and 14 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in May 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol between 3 – 7 June 2019
- PDA Explores the Transformation of Healthcare at 4th Annual European Meeting
- ASI President John Cross Named AGMA Chairman
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 27 – 31 May 2019
- Breakthrough on laser powder bed fusion technology brings effective production of larger componentscloser to mainstream
- PDA Announces All-Star Speaker Lineup for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products Conference
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by the Executive Directors of the Company
- Digi Communications N.V. announces DIGI Kft., the Hungarian subsidiary of the Company, launches mobile telephony services in Hungary
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 21 and 24 May 2019
- ZYXEL READY WITH 5G SAMPLES IN AUGUST 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the initiation of the share buy-back program as authorized by the Company’s GSM on 30 April 2019
- Digi Communications N.V Q1 2019 Financial Report and the report regarding legal documents for April 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 released
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the new date of the Conference Call for the presentation of the Q1 2019 Financial Report. Update to the Company’s 2019 Financial Calendar.
- Rhenium-SCT® (SCT= Skin Cancer Therapy) now being offered in Hanau, Germany
- Project consortium aims at driving the adoption of selective laser melting (SLM) for large scale metal parts printing
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the availability of the instructions on the 2018 share dividend payment
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 April 2019 – 1 May 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program
- Biodiversity Report Is Urgent Call to Action Beyond Fixes; Geneva Global Initiative Calls on World Community to Focus on Concrete Actions
- Digi Communications N.V.’s general Shareholders’ meeting resolutions from 30 Apr 2019 approving, amongst others, the 2018 Annual Accounts and the availability of the adopted Annual Financial Report for the year ended Dec 31, 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol, 22 – 26 April 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 15 April 2019 – 19 April 2019s
- XPAND Code was successfully scanned from 200 meters/700 feet at Olympics stadium
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- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in March 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8 and 12 April 2019
- Snowman releases new EP
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 1 – 5 April 2019
- Streamlining adoption of high-speed and high-resolution surface texturing delivered with the Prometheus project
- Customer Data Platform Institute Launches RealCDP to Reduce CDP Confusion
- ASI Technologies Focuses on the future as ASI Drives, and New AGV Pallet Robot, FRED2500
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 March 2019 – 29 March 2019
- Towards a Europe of Stakeholder Nations
- Associazione Veneta Lotta alla Talassemia (AVLT) and the UK Thalassaemia Society (UKTS) Clarification on European Regulatory Status of LENTIGLOBIN™
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19 March 2019 – 22 March 2019
- A new flagship project on Additive Manufacturing skills aims to maintain Europe leading position in industrial competitiveness
- Consultancy Partnership Revolutionizes Agile Project Management
- Jeroen Schouten Named Regional Manager, Europe of AeroGo, Inc.
- Digi Communications N.V. Convocation of the Company’s general shareholders meeting for 30 April 2019 for the approval of, among others, the 2018 Annual Report and of the 2018 Financial Statements
- España arrasa con la competencia y es nombrado como el país ideal para estudiar en el extranjero
- Xverify targets European Email Verification market with local data processing, Dublin office
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the resignation by Mr. Sambor Ryszka from his position as non-executive director of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in February 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
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- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 4 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 February – 1 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 1 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 18 and 22 February 2019
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 February 2019
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- Digi Communications NV: New date of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results; Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 4 and 8 February 2019
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 28 January 2019 – 1 February 2019
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- Digi Communications N.V. publishes the Independent Limited Assurance Report in accordance with Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- ERRATA of the reports dated 15 Jan 2019 and 15 Oct 2018 regarding the legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in Dec 2018 and Sep 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 21 – 25 January 2019
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 14 - 18 January 2019
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- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by a PDMR in accordance with the stock option plan approved by the Company for the Romanian employees of the Group in 2017
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for December 2018
- Digi Communications N.V.: resolution of the Board of Directors to convert class 1,200,000 A shares into an equal number of class B shares for the purpose of the ongoing employees and directors stock option plans
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- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 07 – 11 January 2019
- Digi Communications NV: Announcement of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results. Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- A new Government Emergency Ordinance imposing additional corporate taxes with impact on the telecommunications sector in Romania
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 31 December 2018-04 January 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Dec 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17-21 Dec 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Dec 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 December 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 26-30 Nov 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19-23 November 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 12-16 November 2018
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- Amerikaanse Customer Data Platform authoriteit David M. Raab leidt eerste CDP Workshop in Nederland
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2018 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 5-9 November 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 October-2 November 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 22-26 October 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 15-19 October 2018
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- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for September 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8-12 Oct 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1-5 Oct 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Sept 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 17-21 Sept 2018
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- The launch of fixed broadband and fixed telephony services by Digi Communication N.V.’s subsidiary in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Sept 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 Sept 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 27-31 Aug 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 20-24 Aug 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13-17 Aug 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 6-10 August 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 30 July-3 August 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23-27 July 2018
- Digi Communications N.V. publishes report of legal acts concluded by the company in accordance with Romanian Law, FSA Regulation as well as the Independent Limited Assurance Report
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 16-20 July 2018
- RCH Europe Brings New Innovative Selling Solutions to FAFGA 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 July 2018
- European Customer Data Platform Vendors Lead Industry in New Direction
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 2-6 July 2018
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- Digi Communications N.V. announces the publishing of ANCOM approval for RCS & RDS S.A. to continue to apply a surcharge for certain roaming services provided in the EEA for a renewed period of 12 months
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25-29 June 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 18-22 June 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol (June 11-15, 2018)
- Settlement of litigations between RCS & RDS S.A. and Antena Group entities
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- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and Rule no. 1/2006 of CNVM – May 2018
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- Digi Communications NV: The initiation by the Company of the share buy-back program as authorized by the Company’s GSM from 2 May 2018
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NEW YORK (AP) — Holocaust survivors across the world have united to deliver a message on the dangers of unchecked hate and the importance of remembrance at a time of rising global antisemitism.
In a video released Thursday to mark Yom HaShoah — Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day — 100 Holocaust survivors asked people to stand with them and remember the Nazi genocide to avoid repeating the horrors of the past.
The 100 Words project video was released by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference. The group represents the world’s Jews in negotiating for compensation and restitution for victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs, and provides welfare for Holocaust survivors around the globe.
“The world is full of strife – from the pandemic to the crisis happening in Ukraine – on remembrance days like Yom HaShoah, it is so important to stop and reflect,” Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference, said in a statement.
“The call to action these survivors put forth today is not only one of remembrance, but one of action, a reminder that we do not have to be bystanders. We can all stand up in our own way and we can choose to not let our collective history repeat itself.”
The project is being released as Russia faces widespread revulsion and accusations of war crimes over attacks on civilians in its invasion of Ukraine. It also comes at a time when Holocaust survivors — now in their 80s and 90s — are dying, while studies show that younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, in which a third of the world’s Jews were annihilated.
“If we do not remember them, we are murdering them twice because we have forgotten them. And we have forgotten the tragic travesty that was visited upon millions of people,” said Ginger Lane, a Holocaust survivor who along with her siblings was hidden in a fruit orchard near Berlin by non-Jews.
“It is important to remember because it is a part of our heritage and our legacy that we pass on to the younger generation,” said Lane, whose mother was killed at the Auschwitz death camp, and who has made it her lifelong mission to educate others.
“Holocaust denial, we know it has always existed, but it seems to be on the upswing and … a huge number of young people don’t even know what the word Holocaust means … These young people are eager to move forward with their lives. But their lives today are shaped by the past. And they need to know what happened in the past.”
In a 50-state study of Millennials and Generation Z-age people in the U.S. in 2020, researchers found that 63% of respondents did not know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust and 48% could not name a single death camp or concentration camp.
The 100 Word Project statement by Holocaust survivors says:
“Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day
We all survived the Holocaust
We are here to give voice to the six million Jews who were murdered
We are a reminder unchecked hatred can lead to actions, actions to genocide
Just over 75 years ago, one-third of the world’s Jews were systematically murdered
Among them, over 1.5 million children were killed
in the name of indifference, intolerance, hate
Hatred for what was feared
Hatred for what was different
We must remember the past or it will become our future
On Holocaust Remembrance Day we ask the world to stand with us and remember.”
The annual remembrance known as Yom HaShoah is one of the most solemn on Israel’s calendar, with the nation coming to a standstill during a two-minute siren on Thursday morning. According to the Hebrew calendar, Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising — the most significant act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Although the uprising ultimately failed, it is remembered in Israel as a symbol of strength and the struggle for freedom in the face of annihilation.
It means “resilience, tenacity, strength. It’s the hallmark of being a Holocaust survivor, the very concept of surviving, of everyday problems, of fighting until the end,” said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Claims Conference.
“And for some people, unfortunately, the end was the gas chamber. For other people the end was the Warsaw ghetto, where a very small group of people who weren’t well-equipped held out for nearly a month,” Schneider said.
“And that’s why it’s such an important day in Israel, and around the world for the Jewish community because it symbolizes the fight of certainly the Jewish people, but of any people facing this type of incredible adversity.”
The Claims Conference is working with its partners, among them the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, to get as many Holocaust survivors out of Ukraine as possible. Thousands of people have been killed andmore than five million have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24.
Holocaust survivors from Canada, England, France, Germany, Israel, the United States and Ukraine were part of the video statement.
“Survivors from many different countries and languages who have vastly different persecution experiences — some were in concentration camps, some were in ghettos, some fled, some were in hiding,” Schneider said.
“And yet they come together to speak in one voice of the hope for the future.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that he's “taking a hard look” at canceling additional federal student loan debt and will reach a decision within a month.
“I am considering dealing with some debt reduction,” Biden told reporters in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.
The comments came days after Biden had a private meeting with Democratic lawmakers who pressed him on the issue. One of the lawmakers, Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., said afterwards that Biden disclosed he was exploring the possibility.
However, Biden signaled in his Thursday remarks that he wouldn't go as far as some activists want, saying $50,000 in debt forgiveness was not under consideration. He did not give a number for what he was considering.
“I'm in the process of taking a hard look at whether or not there will be additional debt forgiveness,” he said. "And I’ll have an answer on that in the next couple of weeks.”
During his campaign, Biden said he wanted to “immediately cancel” at least $10,000 in student debt per person. So far he's repeatedly extended a pause on requiring borrowers to repay their loans, a moratorium that was put in place under then-President Donald Trump near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although activists have been encouraged by their increasing traction on this issue, some said they were concerned that Biden wouldn't go far enough.
“President Biden, we agree that we shouldn’t cancel $50,000 in student loan debt. We should cancel all of it,” said Wisdom Cole, national director of the NAACP Youth & College Division. “$50,000 was just the bottom line.” | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Biden-taking-hard-look-at-student-loan-17133756.php | 2022-04-28T16:59:31Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Biden-taking-hard-look-at-student-loan-17133756.php | true |
TOKYO (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in Tokyo on Thursday that his country wants to strengthen ties with countries in the Indo-Pacific region that share the same values, and work together to end Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
“My trip is a clear political signal that Germany and the European Union will continue and intensify their engagement with the Indo-Pacific region,” Scholz said after meeting Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Kishida said he and Scholz agreed that as members of the Group of Seven industrialized nations they share a responsibility to work together to end Russian aggression and restore peace, stability and international order as quickly as possible.
“The Ukraine crisis shakes the foundation of the international order not only in Europe but also in Asia. Any attempts to change the status quo must be avoided, especially in East Asia,” Kishida said at a joint news conference.
“If we do not clearly show (to Russia) that this kind of unilateral change to the status quo by force and recklessness has a high cost, it will give the wrong message to Asia,” he said.
On his first trip to Tokyo as chancellor, Scholz said both Germany and Japan are defenders of the “rules-based international order,” the principles of the U.N. Charter and the defense of universal human rights. Scholz said he also wanted to come to Japan because Tokyo will take over as chair of the G-7 after Germany.
Japan has imposed sanctions against Russia in line with other G-7 countries and provided support for Ukraine out of concern that Russia's invasion could embolden China and intensify tensions in East Asia. China has long sought to take control of independently governed Taiwan, and has threatened to do so by force if necessary.
Japan has also provided Ukraine with non-lethal defense equipment in an exception to its policy against exporting military materials to nations in conflict.
Germany had initially refused to send any offensive weapons to Ukraine and later balked at sending heavy equipment such as armored vehicles.
Scholz's government, under pressure domestically and from allies, recently reversed that policy and agreed to send offensive weapons and allow Ukraine to purchase German armaments, and to support weapons swaps with allies who in turn are sending heavy equipment to Ukraine.
Japan hopes to work closely with Germany as strategic partners on “various challenges that the international community faces, including responses to China,” Kishida said.
Scholz said Germany and Japan also agreed to work together to strengthen economic cooperation in areas such as 5G technologies and economic security.
He said ensuring that supply chains become less dependent on individual countries is “a task that is more relevant than ever,” in a reference to China.
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After Rajasthan, BJP gets to settling organisational work in M.P., Chhattisgarh
Assembly polls in the States are due in 2023
BJP president J.P. Nadda on Thursday held meetings with the party’s senior leaders from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to discuss organisational issues and party programmes dealing with outreach to Scheduled Caste and Tribal communities in the two States, where Assembly polls are due in 2023.
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and State incharge Muralidhar Rao, State party chief Vishnu Dutt Sharma and Minister Narottam Mishra were present at the meeting with Mr. Nadda as was BJP general secretary (organisation) B.L. Santhosh and State general secretary (organisation) Hitanand Sharma.
“Party leaders were also told that the frequency alluding to a change in leadership in M.P. was not helping matters and that such things should not be discussed in public,” said a senior leader present at the meeting.
After losing to the Congress in 2018, the party returned to power in 2020 after winning over a chunk of its MLAs, who owed allegiance to Jyotiraditya Scindia, now a Union Minister. Coordination among the party organisation, old-timers and Ministers in the Chouhan government owing allegiance to Mr. Scindia was also flagged at the meeting, a senior leader revealed.
“Home minister Amit Shah’s recent public meeting in Madhya Pradesh in the tribal belt is a pointer to the fact that the party is looking at expanding its base in that community. A woman tribal leader may be made a minister soon,” said the source.
Chhattisgarh meeting
In the meeting on Chhattisgarh , former Chief Minister Raman Singh and State party president Vishnudeo Sai were among those who attended.
While the BJP has performed well in different bypolls in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress has constantly got better of it in Chhattisgarh. While party leaders hinted that Mr. Singh may not be projected as a face in 2023, the problem of an alternative leader remains, and the organisation is also not at its best. The hunt for a face either from the OBC community like Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel or a tribal face is very much on.
Mr. Nadda had also chaired a meeting with leaders from Rajasthan, another State which is scheduled to go to the polls with Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the second half of next year.
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Andhra Pradesh: TDP condemns pelting of stones on Lokesh
PAC Chairman describes it as a ‘cowardly act’
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Payyavula Keshav and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Polit Bureau member Kalava Srinivasulu have condemned the pelting of stone on the party’s national general secretary N. Lokesh’s convoy at Duggirala when he went there to console the family of a woman who was raped and murdered.
Speaking to the media, Mr. Kalava Srinivasulu said that the YSRCP government would face ‘serious consequences’ if the TDP party leaders were attacked like this. “Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had asked for a chance to people before 2019 elections. However, he has lost the confidence of people during that one chance,” he added.
Mr. Keshav described the pelting of stones on Mr. Lokesh as a ‘blot on democracy’ and termed it as a ‘cowardly act’ . He demanded that stringent action should be taken against the culprits immediately.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Thursday rejected accusations that its warplanes conducted unauthorized military flights over Greek islands, pointing the finger at fellow NATO-member Greece instead.
A Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said accusations made by Greece “do not reflect the truth” and insisted that it was Greece’s air force that carried out “provocative flights” near Turkey’s coast, allegedly violating its airspace repeatedly over the southwestern towns of Didim, Datca and Dalaman.
“While Greece is the party which started and escalated the tension — accusing our country of unfounded allegations is incompatible with the recent positive agenda and good neighborly relations between the two countries,” the Turkish statement read.
Turkey and Greece have long-standing sea and air boundary disputes that intensified with moves to explore potential undersea natural gas reserves.
The disagreement has resulted in near-daily air force patrols and interception missions, mostly in disputed airspace around Greek islands that are near Turkey’s coastline.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Thursday he contacted NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to report the alleged airspace violations by Turkey that he said included unauthorized flights over several large Greek islands.
“I made it clear to Secretary-General Stoltenberg that this type of behavior by a NATO ally in the southeast flank of the alliance is simply unacceptable. It undermines European security as well as the unity of purpose of NATO,” Mitsotakis said.
Mitsotakis made the comments at a meeting with Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
On Wednesday, Turkey’s ambassador to Athens was summoned to Greece’s Foreign Ministry to receive a complaint about the unauthorized military flights.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry called on Greece to “stop provocative actions and rhetoric” and to support recently-resumed talks that aim to build confidence between the two countries.
“There is no change in Turkey’s attitude toward resolving all Aegean disputes, including the width of the airspace, within the framework of a sincere dialog, in accordance with international law,” the ministry statement read. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Turkey-rejects-Greek-accusations-of-illegal-17133852.php | 2022-04-28T17:03:53Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Turkey-rejects-Greek-accusations-of-illegal-17133852.php | true |
BEIRUT (AP) — The United Arab Emirates released on Thursday a Lebanese physician after holding him for more than three weeks over a tweet he published years ago, a person familiar with the case said.
The case of Dr. Richard Kharrat came to attention in early April when local media reported that he went missing from his hotel in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the UAE has declined to comment on Kharrat’s case since he was detained in early April during a visit to the oil-rich emirates.
Days after Kharrat’s disappearance, Lebanon’s state news agency quoted Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib as saying that Lebanese authorities are following the case of Kharrat “who is in detention in the United Arab Emirates.”
Lebanese activists have launched a campaign on social media calling for Kharrat’s release.
The person familiar with the case, who requested anonymity to discuss the matter, said the arrest was linked to tweets that Kharrat wrote years ago and were seen offensive to the UAE. In one of the widely circulated tweets, Kharrat poked fun at names of people in the UAE and Lebanon.
Kharrat, a gynecologist, is expected back home within days.
Social media is an often-perilous space in the UAE, an autocratic federation of seven sheikhdoms where the government retains tight control over traditional media and uses courts to prosecute those who express opposition or criticism online.
Earlier this year, the country passed a new, vaguely worded cybercrime law, which rights groups say further restricts online speech and proscribes prison terms for those who use the internet to share, document or report information that could harm the state’s interests, reputation or prestige. It also criminalizes spreading rumors and fake news.
Kharrat's arrest came as relations between Lebanon and the UAE have been tense for months.
The UAE withdrew its diplomats from Beirut in October after Saudi Arabia did so in response to comments by a Cabinet minister at the time who criticized the war by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen. The minister, George Kordahi, later resigned and the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait returned to Lebanon earlier this month. The UAE ambassador still has not returned to Beirut. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/UAE-releases-Lebanese-physician-held-for-weeks-17133653.php | 2022-04-28T17:04:05Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/UAE-releases-Lebanese-physician-held-for-weeks-17133653.php | true |
The last hope for vultures
At least four species are seen in the Sigur plateau in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
The Sigur plateau in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) in the Nilgiris is one of the last remaining regions where a sizeable breeding vulture population is clinging on in Southern India. At least four species of India’s vultures are seen in the region, and at least three are believed to be using the plateau to breed and nest.
The region could potentially help critically endangered vulture species recolonise the surrounding landscapes from where they have become locally extinct over the last few decades because of the use of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) to treat cattle. Due to the use of drugs like diclofenac since the early 1990s, vulture populations across India have plummeted as they died after feeding on the carcasses of cattle treated with the drugs. Four of India’s nine vulture species have been listed as “critically endangered” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Three of the four species seen regularly in the Sigur are on the “critically endangered” list, while the other, the Egyptian vulture, is classified as being “endangered”.
H. Byju, a researcher who has studied vultures in the Sigur plateau and the Moyar Valley, says the future of vultures remains precarious in the Sigur. “For a population of vultures to be considered stable requires at least 800 pairs, while Sigur, which has the largest population of vultures in southern India, hardly has 300 individuals,” said the author of Valley of Hope–Vultures and Moyar.
According to S. Manigandan, a research scholar with Arulagam, a conservation NGO working on protecting vultures in the landscape, the latest surveys in the MTR buffer zone indicate that there are between 110 and 120 white-rumped vultures ( Gyps bengalensis), 11 and 15 Indian or long-billed vultures ( Gyps indicus) and maybe up to 5 Asian king vultures ( Sarcogyps calvus) in Sigur.
Mr. Manigandan says that during the most recent breeding season, only 14 nests of the white-rumped vulture have seen successful hatching of vulture chicks, while three nests of the long-billed vulture are also believed to have hatchlings. Despite the best efforts of researchers for more than a decade, the nesting site of the Asian king vulture, among the rarest of the vultures in India, remains yet to be recorded in the Sigur.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian vulture ( Neophron percnopterus), once widely seen in the Nilgiris, is not believed to have any nesting sites in the region, but is still occasionally spotted.
“Though the vulture population is comparatively much higher than in other parts of southern India, it is still very small. The breeding population is even smaller and the success rate for breeding pairs remains at only 70%,” says Mr. Byju. This highlights one of the reasons the population is yet to see any sizeable increase despite strict protections being enforced in the MTR and the surrounding areas against the use of NSAIDs.
For Chris Bowden, Globally Threatened Species Officer and Programme Manager for Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE), it is of paramount importance to secure regular monitoring of vultures. “Only when this is done will we have a handle on the population trends in the region,” he says. He is “fairly confident” that the population in the Sigur was probably stable. Mr. Bowden, who is also the co-chair of the IUCN vulture specialist group, reiterates the need to ensure NSAIDs, such as diclofenac, nimesulide, ketoprofen and others, are not used to treat cattle in the region to ensure continued protection of the vultures.
“Tamil Nadu is also taking much needed steps, setting examples both nationally and internationally, by prosecuting manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of NSAIDs for treatment of cattle,” he says, referring to the recent announcement by Tamil Nadu’s Director of Drugs Control that his office has initiated 104 prosecutions across the State for the sale of diclofenac for veterinary use in the last two years.
Conservationists and researchers have also outlined steps that can be taken to help vulture populations. “For a start, cattle that die of natural causes and are certified by a veterinarian to be free from poison and NSAIDs can be left out in the open for vultures to scavenge on,” says M. Bharathidasan of Arulagam.
“Invasive species such as Lantana camara and Eupatorium have taken over large parts of the vultures’ habitat, limiting their ability to scavenge for food. One way to help the vultures could be to undertake large-scale removal of invasive species, opening up more grassland where they could scavenge carcasses of both wild animals as well as cattle,” says Mr. Byju.
Deputy Director of MTR (Buffer Zone) P. Arunkumar says the Sigur plateau is home to the largest nesting colony of vultures south of the Vindhya Mountain Range. “This makes conservation of this population extremely important. We have sensitised our field staff to the need for monitoring the vultures, their breeding cycles and the success of their nesting seasons. By doing this, we are also able to ensure that the threats they face are minimised, and our efforts are aimed at creating conditions for the vulture population to increase in the coming years and recolonise the surrounding areas,” he says.
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LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) – New video shows a massive fire that shut down a Turnpike in Ohio for hours overnight.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said two tractor-trailers became engulfed in flames following an incident in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 in Lorain County just after 8 p.m. on Wednesday night. When troopers got to the scene, one truck was on the left shoulder and another was on the right shoulder, and both were already on fire.
One of the trucks was carrying a highly flammable resin or glue, officials said.
Video from the Ohio Department of Transportation shows one of the engulfed trucks continuously bursting with flames later that night.
Video taken by WJW shows the damage left behind after the fires were extinguished. Earlier video shared by WJW also shows both trucks on fire, shortly after the incident.
The Turnpike reopened early Thursday morning, but the road was damaged by the fire. The left lanes on both the eastbound and westbound sides of I-80 remained closed.
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Stokes starts England Test captaincy by demanding Broad and Anderson return
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- Ben StokesCricketer (born 1991)
- Joe RootEnglish cricketer (born 1990)
Ben Stokes was hailed as the epitome of what England need to reverse their Test fortunes after being confirmed as the team’s new captain in Rob Key’s first public appearance as the director of men’s cricket.
Key, 10 days into the role and currently hunting for two new head coaches, called his decision to install Stokes as Joe Root’s successor “easy” and pledged that England, bottom of the World Test Championship after a winless winter, would get back to playing their strongest XI rather than overthinking selection.
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This means that, subject to form and fitness, Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad will be back in the fold. During recent talks with Key about his promotion, Stokes insisted the decision to omit the veteran pair from the recent 1-0 defeat in the Caribbean be reversed before the first Test against New Zealand at Lord’s on 2 June.
Stokes is not due to speak until next Tuesday but described taking on the captaincy as a “privilege” in a statement; Key, injecting a much-needed dose of plain speaking into English cricket at his own unveiling, is convinced the all-rounder can thrive after canvassing a range of views from those who know him best.
“Ben epitomises everything our red-ball team needs,” said Key. “I just want him to go out and lead from the front. I always think that in leaders, one of the most important things – especially if you’re a great player, which, make no mistake, he is – is a lot of compassion and empathy. He has got that.
“He’s always talking about other people around him and what’s best for the side. He’s not someone with a massive ego who is thinking: ‘What’s best for Ben Stokes?’ He genuinely thinks that he’s the best person to lead England forward – and I agree.”
As well as expressing his pride, Stokes used his statement to thank Root for being a “massive part” of his development as a leader in the dressing room after two spells as the Yorkshireman’s vice-captain.
It may be that Root’s decision to stay on as captain after the Ashes debacle and plough through to the Caribbean goes down as a selfless act of friendship, knowing that while he himself was drained, his likely successor was not yet ready either. On Thursday, Root tweeted: “Always got each other’s backs. Congratulations mate, I’ll be right with you every step of the way.”
Either way, Stokes needed those three Tests against West Indies – which featured a thunderous century in Barbados – to get back into form after a rusty, undercooked comeback in Australia that followed his four-month break from all cricket last summer. The hiatus, in part to attend to his mental health, raises obvious concerns about the strains of captaincy but Key does not share these.
He said: “When you [interview someone for a job], if they’re keen they’re going to tell you everything you want to hear, so I talked to a lot of people that know him and that he trusts. Every single one of them said he’d be an excellent captain. And they were very honest about the best way to manage him. So it became an easy decision.”
Key put the break down to a wider issue which left his own predecessor, Ashley Giles, hamstrung during the previous two years: amid a packed schedule and the suffocating nature of the biosecure environments required to navigate the pandemic, England’s focus became fixture fulfilment, rather than how best to win.
To that end, Key described Root’s personal form with the bat while results went south – scoring 1,708 runs in 2021, some 802 more than the next best in the world – as “one of the great sporting achievements”. Key has spoken at length with the outgoing captain in the past week and said he was in awe of his hunger.
Anderson and Broad have similarly been contacted. Key, who will chair selection meetings until a permanent selector is hired, said: “I told them: ‘For my money, you guys are available for selection for that first Test match.’ And when I met Ben one of the first things he said was: ‘I want the best team out there and Jimmy and Broady are a part of that. If they’re the best bowlers, then they play.’ I said I agree.”
It remains to be seen who will serve as vice-captain to Stokes, with Key yet to decide on a role which could have huge significance given the all-rounder’s injury record. Even now, as the 30-year-old prepares to start his season for Durham against Worcestershire next week, he is returning from a knee problem.
Key shared his optimism that red-ball talent in England has not dried up but rather the mentality must change. “Are the batsmen hopeless with no ability and no talent? I don’t think that’s the case at all,” he said. “Have we been getting the best out of them? Absolutely not.”
Key did, however, concede there is much to do after personally witnessing Australia, the No 1 side in the world, secure their recent series 1-0 win in Pakistan. “We’re way off them at the moment. But do I think we’ve got the talent to be able to compete with them? Absolutely. Is it going to take a bit of time to get there? Probably.”
The response will be to split the coaching teams by way of format, with Key “optimistic” about having a Test head coach in place by the end of the month even if the likelihood of an overseas appointment means possible hurdles such as relocation and securing a visa in time. Gary Kirsten, Graham Ford and Simon Katich are the frontrunners ahead of next Friday’s deadline. | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/real-privilege-ben-stokes-succeeds-100002778.html?src=rss | 2022-04-28T17:07:25Z | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/real-privilege-ben-stokes-succeeds-100002778.html?src=rss | true |
29 GOP senators join Johnson, Biggs in resolution to repeal Biden's asylum rule
The lawmakers are introducing a 'joint resolution of disapproval' under the Congressional Review Act in an attempt to remove Biden's asylum rule
EXCLUSIVE: A group of 30 Republican senators led by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., are partnering with Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., in introducing a resolution to repeal the Biden administration's asylum rule, saying the president's plan "exacerbates" the border crisis.
The lawmakers are introducing a "joint resolution of disapproval" under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) Thursday in order to remove a rule by the Biden administration that they say would "illegally upend" the United States' asylum system.
The Biden administration's new rule, which was announced in August 2021 and officially inserted into the federal register on March 29, is aimed at cutting the time for processing asylum claims from years to months.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES RULE TO SPEED UP ASYLUM PROCESSING AS PART OF BORDER STRATEGY
The rule, from the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, will allow U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers to evaluate the asylum applications of people who would be eligible for expedited removal from the country, after such individuals pass a required screening for a credible fear of persecution or torture from their country of origin. Currently, only immigration judges can decide these matters, and this has led to a tremendous backlog of cases which end up dragging on for years.
The group of senators and congressmen take issue with the provision in the Biden rule that they argue would "encourage fraudulent asylum claims" by allowing migrants to have claims processed and approved by USCIS, not immigration judges. In addition, they remain concerned that migrants would not be detained while awaiting the results of their pending applications for asylum.
"The Biden administration is sending a clear message: our borders are open, you will not be kept in custody, and you will not have to see a judge to stay here. In a year where we have surpassed 2 million illegal crossings at the southern border, the proposed rule will only lead to more illegal migration for an already overwhelmed immigration system," Johnson told Fox News Digital.
"We strongly oppose the Biden Administration’s reckless attempt to unconstitutionally rewrite the asylum laws in America. The changes the administration is proposing cannot come from unelected bureaucrats, but rather from Congress," the senator continued.
Biggs called on the Biden administration to "end its illegal catch and release policies and enforce the law" in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"Open border zealots within the Administration are drastically remaking our immigration system under the guise of enhancing humanitarian protections," Biggs said.
"This couldn’t be further from the truth. This proposed rule weakens the integrity of our asylum system and will facilitate mass illegal alien incursions. Rather than focusing on releasing aliens as quickly as possible, the Biden Administration should reimplement Trump Administration policies that worked to secure our border," he said.
The Biden administration lauded its proposed rule, with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayoras saying it would improve efficiency at the border.
"These proposed changes will significantly improve DHS’s and DOJ’s ability to more promptly and efficiently consider the asylum claims of individuals encountered at or near the border, while ensuring fundamental fairness," Mayorkas said in August 2021. "Individuals who are eligible will receive relief more swiftly, while those who are not eligible will be expeditiously removed. We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity."
In October 2021, Johsnon led 23 senators and 66 House lawmakers in submitting public comment to the rule. They claimed it "represents a blatant violation of the laws passed by Congress," focusing on how Biden's plan ignored the "mandatory detention" of migrants claiming asylum.
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The CRA allows Congress to reverse only some federal agency regulations through a joint resolution of disapproval. The rule will be deemed invalidated if the resolution is approved by the House and the Senate and signed by the president.
The Biden administration is also in the process of ending the Title 42 public health order that has allowed the expired removal of migrants due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both Democrats and Republicans are concerned that it will lead to an unsustainable migrant rush at the Mexico-U.S. border.
In addition, the state of Texas is seeking a permanent block for the asylum rule, according to a Thursday lawsuit obtained by Fox News Digital.
Fox News' Ronn Blizter contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-senators-johnson-biggs-resolution-biden-asylum-rule | 2022-04-28T17:08:09Z | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-senators-johnson-biggs-resolution-biden-asylum-rule | false |
LONDON — The second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip have been stripped yet of another title.
On Wednesday, City of York councilors voted unanimously to strip Prince Andrew of his status as a "freeman of the city" in the wake of him being accused of sexual misconduct, the Associated Press reported.
In February, the Associated Press reported that Andrew settled a lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre, who had accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager.
The AP reported that he denied the allegations, but he agreed to pay Giuffre an undisclosed sum that was reportedly worth $15 million.
According to the news outlet, the third child of Queen Elizabeth II is the first person to be stripped of the title, which he was awarded the title in 1987 after his mother named him the Duke of York.
This isn't the first time Andrew has been stripped of a highly coveted role.
In January, his military affiliations and royal patronages were returned to the Queen after news broke that his sexual assault case was moving forward to trial. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/prince-andrew-stripped-of-freedom-of-city-by-york-council | 2022-04-28T17:10:32Z | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/prince-andrew-stripped-of-freedom-of-city-by-york-council | true |
Disgraced MP Imran Ahmad Khan finally submits his resignation letter after sex assault conviction and is set to leave Parliament next week - meaning he gets full pay for April
- Imran Ahmad Khan submits resignation letter - two weeks after he said he'd quit
- The 48-year-old is set to be paid his parliamentary salary up until the end of April
- He was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage boy, who is now 29, in 2008
- His Commons departure will lead to a hotly-contested by-election in Wakefield
Disgraced MP Imran Ahmad Khan has finally submitted a resignation letter - a fortnight after he said he would be 'withdrawing from political life'.
The ex-Conservative, who was this month convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy, is expected to officially leave Parliament on Tuesday.
It means the 48-year-old will paid his parliamentary salary up until the end of April - three weeks after he was found guilty by a jury.
Khan, who was elected to Parliament in 2019, sent his resignation letter on Monday and said he expects the process to finish on Saturday.
But this is not due to happen until the next working day, with Monday being a bank holiday.
His departure from the House of Commons will lead to a hotly-contested by-election in his 'Red Wall' constituency of Wakefield.
The West Yorkshire seat switched to the Tories at the 2019 general election after being held by Labour since the 1930s.
The contest is likely to deliver a verdict on how 'Red Wall' voters view Mr Johnson's government following the Partygate scandal and amid the cost-of-living crisis.
Yet, it will also be a huge test of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's ability to win back those heartland seats his party lost to the Conservatives in 2019.
Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls, who found fame outside of politics on TV's Strictly Come Dancing, recently dismissed speculation he could make a shock comeback as Labour's by-election candidate.
Imran Ahmad Khan, who was this month convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy, is expected to officially leave Parliament on Tuesday
The 48-year-old is to be paid his parliamentary salary up until the end of April - three weeks after he was found guilty by a jury
Khan was elected to Parliament in 2019 as part of Boris Johnson and the Conservative's thumping general election win
On 11th April, Khan was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of sexually assaulting a teenage boy, who is now 29, in 2008.
The court heard how Khan forced the then-teenager to drink gin and tonic, dragged him upstairs, pushed him on to a bed and asked him to watch pornography before the attack at a house in Staffordshire.
His conviction saw him expelled from the Conservative Party.
When he announced his intent to quit the Commons on 14th April, Khan said he would shortly write to confirm his resignation as an MP.
But he will have now delayed his departure from parliament by a fortnight.
Khan, who intends to appeal his conviction, told the Guardian today that he had forward-dated his resignation until the end of April on the advice of parliamentary authorities.
But a parliamentary source insisted that MPs can 'resign at a moment's notice' regardless of any winding-up process for their office.
They pointed to the example of Owen Paterson, the former Tory Cabinet minister who left the Commons following a lobbying scandal.
Mr Paterson's resignation was formally confirmed the day after he said he would quit the Commons.
MPs, unless they are suspended from the Commons, are paid until the day they leave Parliament.
Under archaic rules, an elected MP has no right to resign.
But those wishing to leave the Commons can be appointed to the Steward and Bailiffs of the Chiltern Hundreds and of the Manor of Northstead.
These unpaid formal titles immediately bars a person from being an MP and effectively confirms their resignation. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10764027/Disgraced-MP-Imran-Ahmad-Khan-finally-submits-resignation-letter-sex-assault-conviction.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-04-28T17:15:04Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10764027/Disgraced-MP-Imran-Ahmad-Khan-finally-submits-resignation-letter-sex-assault-conviction.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is rejecting the idea that Russia’s war in Ukraine could grow into a larger proxy conflict between Moscow and the United States and NATO allies that may even bring the world closer to nuclear confrontation.
At an event at the White House where Biden asked Congress for an additional $33 billion to aid Ukraine, the president said Thursday that the idea of a larger proxy war was concerning but “not true.”
He blamed Russian authorities for exaggerating such speculation, saying “it shows the desperation that Russia is feeling about their abject failure” with the invasion of Ukraine.
“Instead of saying that the Ukrainians, equipped with some capability to resist Russian forces, are doing this, they’ve got to tell their people that the United States and all of NATO is engaged,” Biden said.
He added that “no one should be making idle comments about the use of nuclear weapons” and called doing so “irresponsible.”
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Ukraine says Russian offensive in east picks up momentum
— NATO chief says Finland, Sweden could join quite quickly
— Biden seeks new powers to use oligarchs' assets for Ukraine
— A chilling Russian cyber aim in Ukraine: Digital dossiers
— Most in US fear Ukraine war misinformation: AP-NORC poll
Follow all AP stories on Russia's war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
LONDON — The British government says a U.K. national has been killed in Ukraine, and another is missing.
The Foreign Office confirmed Thursday that it is supporting the family of a British national killed in Ukraine. It also said it was “urgently seeking further information” on another Briton who is missing.
The government did not provide further details.
Sky News reported that the Britons were believed to have been fighting with Ukrainians against the Russian invasion.
Volunteers from Britain and many other countries have traveled to Ukraine to fight, despite being discouraged from doing so by their governments.
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ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says both U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin have told him that their talks in Moscow earlier this week were “positive.”
Erdogan told reporters before leaving for a trip to Saudi Arabia, that he held separate telephone calls with Guterres and Putin.
“Mr. Guterres ... informed me that the talks (with Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov) were positive. In our discussion with Mr. Putin yesterday, Putin expressed the same views.”
Erdogan added that the Russian president had “conveyed the opinion that a U.N. intervention is positive for the future.” He did not elaborate.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops defending a steel plant that is the last Ukrainian bulwark in the key port of Mariupol say an intensive Russian bombing has inflicted more casualties.
The Azov Regiment holed up at the giant Azovstal steel plant on Thursday posted a video showing people combing through the rubble to remove the dead bodies and help the wounded after the Russian bombing overnight. The Azov said the Russians hit an improvised underground hospital and its surgery room, killing an unspecified number of people and wounding others there.
The video couldn’t be independently verified.
The Russian troops have pummeled the mammoth seaside plant with relentless airstrikes and artillery barrage, trying to uproot its defenders holed up in a 24-kilometer (15-mile) maze of underground tunnels, passages and bunkers.
Ukrainian officials say that up to 1,000 civilians also were sheltering in Azovstal. They are demanding that Russia provides a safe exit for them under the United Nations aegis.
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WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s border guard agency says that it has recorded 3 million crossings into Poland from neighboring Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, while there have been 904,000 crossings into Ukraine.
Border guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska said Thursday that the number includes people who cross a number of times because, for example, they regularly do shopping in Poland and then go back.
Polish authorities say some 1.6 million refugees have applied for and received special ID numbers that will allow them to work and receive free health care and education in Poland.
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VIENNA — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says radiation levels in “excavations” found in the exclusion zone around the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant were well below the maximum authorized levels for plant workers.
Ukraine’s state power company said after Russian troops withdrew at the end of March that they received “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches in the area.
IAEA director general Rafael Grossi said Thursday that, during a visit this week, experts from his agency took measurements from “excavations” probably made by occupying soldiers.
He said that the levels were “three times or more lower than the authorized levels for workers in areas exposed to radiation.”
As for whether anyone was actually exposed to those radiation levels, he said: “We have asked about possible exposures or situations; we haven’t received any answer.”
Although that suggested the health risk wasn’t as great as feared, Grossi stressed that “it’s not a place to have a picnic or excavate.”
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BRUSSELS — Senior European Union officials say countries or companies bowing fully to the terms of a Russian presidential decree insisting that they pay their gas bills in rubles will be in breach of the bloc’s sanctions.
The Kremlin says importers should establish an account in dollars or euros at Russia’s Gazprombank, then a second account in rubles. They would pay the gas bill in euros or dollars and direct the bank to exchange the money for rubles.
The officials warn that Russia’s central bank could hold on to the money before converting it and in essence use the funds as a temporary loan for the national economy or to prop up the ruble. The EU’s sanctions prohibit any transaction with the Russian Central Bank.
One official said Thursday that “if the member states and the European companies apply strictly the decree … it will constitute a breach of the sanctions.” His job description does not allow him to be named publicly.
The violation essentially comes with the use of the second bank account. The EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, has said that companies could remain in compliance by paying in euros or dollars, as per their contract, and then notifying Gazprombank that their payment obligations are over.
Ultimately, it’s up to the 27 EU countries to judge whether the rules are being broken. Some of those countries are heavily reliant on Russia for gas.
— By Lorne Cook.
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TOKYO — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is defending his country’s ongoing purchase of gas and other fossil fuels from Russia.
Speaking during a visit to Japan on Thursday, Scholz said that “it is a challenge that many European countries, including Germany, are dependent on imports of fossil resources from Russia.”
Scholz said his government aims to end imports of Russian coal and oil this year. He said that “the same will happen for gas, but that is a process that will require more time.”
Asked whether he was concerned Russia might stop shipping gas to Germany, like it did this week for Poland and Bulgaria, Scholz acknowledged that “any interruption would have consequences for the economic situation.”
He said this was also the reason why there no sanctions have so far been imposed on energy supplies from Russia, adding this had been decided “in close cooperation with our partners who themselves are energy exporters and therefore in a different starting position, such as the United States.”
Scholz said: “Whether and what decisions the Russian government takes in this regard one can only speculate, but it makes little sense to do so.”
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed the war in Ukraine in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The leaders also discussed a prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia that took place in Turkey on Wednesday. Erdogan’s office said he told Putin on Thursday that Turkey’s mediation in the exchange was an indication of the importance Ankara attaches to “peace, dialogue and cooperation.”
He reiterated Turkey’s readiness to mediate between Russia and Ukraine and its wish to establish peace in the region “by increasing the momentum” generated in face-to-face talks that were held between the two countries’ delegations in Istanbul late last month.
It was the second telephone call between the two presidents this week. On Tuesday, Erdogan urged Putin to agree to direct talks with his Ukrainian counterpart.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is asking Congress or new powers to seize and repurpose the assets of Russian oligarchs as part of a new funding request to aid Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion.
In remarks at the White House on Thursday morning, Biden will formally ask for billions of dollars in additional U.S. spending earmarked for supplying Ukraine’s military, bolstering its economy and supporting the millions of refugees who fled Russia’s invasion two months ago. The White House said he will also seek new authorities from Congress to strengthen U.S. sanctions against the Russian government and those who profit from it, the White House said.
Biden is asking lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to “knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government,” double the statute of limitations for foreign money laundering offenses to 10 years, and expand the definition of “racketeering” under U.S. law to include efforts to evade sanctions.
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MOSCOW — Russia says that Turkey gave it advance notice before moving to bar Russian planes from flying to Syria over its territory.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that Turkey had asked Russia more than a month ago not to send Syria-bound planes over its territory. She added that “the reasons for that were clear to us and the Russian side isn’t using that route.”
Zakharova made the comment when asked about Turkey’s weekend announcement that it had halted Russian flights to Turkey over its territory from the start of this month.
It wasn’t clear whether the move was related to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. Turkey has close relations with both countries and has positioned itself as a mediator.
Russia and Turkey have backed opposite sides in the Syrian civil war.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — One of Denmark’s largest supermarket chains says it will lay off 100 office employees because of “the situation in Ukraine" and the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.
It said Thursday that both "pose significant challenges to the grocery trade.”
Kræn Østergård Nielsen, the chief executive of COOP Danmark, the country’s second-biggest retailer of consumer goods, said that rising prices for transport, energy and food mean the costs of running the business must be reduced.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov has said during a visit to the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka that he hopes Bulgarian lawmakers will agree next week to send military assistance to Ukraine.
Petkov was due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv later Thursday. He said after viewing damage caused to Borodyanka during the initial Russian advance that “we cannot be indifferent. We cannot say that this is a Ukrainian problem, we cannot say some people are dying but we are not interested in that.”
He criticized the argument of some politicians in Bulgaria that denying military aid to Ukraine would bring about a faster peace.
Petkov said: “If this is the price of peace, if the Russian state continues to fire and no one can defend himself — is this the peace we want?”
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Witnesses and local authorities say that at least three people, including a child, were wounded when a rocket struck a residential area in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia — the first such residential strike since Russia’s invasion began.
They said there were no military facilities nearby.
Emergency services official Pavlo Zhukov told The Associated Press at the scene on Thursday that the rocket had been hit by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft system and that if it had struck directly, much more damage would have resulted.
Several homes were destroyed or damaged. A dog was killed by shrapnel.
The strike occurred as Russian forces move closer to the industrial city that has been a crucial waypoint for people leaving Mariupol and other occupied cities.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Mariupol authorities are sounding the alarm about unsanitary conditions in the ravaged port city that they say pose a “deadly danger” to its remaining residents.
Mariupol City Council said on the messaging app Telegram Thursday that “deadly epidemics may break out in the city due to the lack of centralized water supply and sewerage, the decomposition of thousands of corpses under the rubble, a catastrophic shortage of drinking water and food.”
It said that the lives of 100,000 people who still remain in Mariupol, out of 450,000 pre-war residents, may be in danger — pointing to diseases like cholera and dysentery.
The Telegram post cited Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko as saying that “the invaders are not able to provide the remaining population with food, water and medicines — or are simply not interested in that.” He said that “living conditions in the ruined Mariupol are now medieval” and that “an immediate and complete evacuation is needed.”
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BERLIN — German police have recorded more than 1,700 crimes in the country in connection with the war in Ukraine, most of them property damage and insults.
The group Mediendienst Integration said Thursday that a survey of all German police authorities showed that the crimes largely targeted people of Russian or Ukrainian origin, or their property.
The group said more than 160 cases of violence against a person were recorded. Authorities have also opened 170 investigations over the use of the ‘Z’ symbol that in some contexts is considered to be a show of support for Russia’s war in Ukraine, which Germany deems illegal.
Germany has a large population of migrants from the former Soviet Union. Since the outbreak of the war in February it also has taken in almost 400,000 Ukrainians seeking shelter from the conflict.
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WASHINGTON — A majority of U.S. adults say misinformation around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major problem, and they largely fault the Russian government for spreading those falsehoods.
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 61% of people in the United States say the spread of misinformation about the war is a major problem, with only 7% saying it’s not a problem. Older adults were more likely to identify the wartime misinformation as an issue, with 44% of those under 30 calling it a problem, compared with 65% of those 30 or older.
Misleading social media posts, fake pictures or videos and propagandized headlines have proliferated on websites, from TikTok to Facebook, since Russia’s assault on Ukraine began in February. In recent weeks, Russian state media and social media accounts have operated in lockstep to push tweets, TV reports and posts that claim photos of bombed buildings and bodies across Ukraine have been staged or faked.
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KYIV, Ukraine — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has toured areas outside the Ukrainian capital that suffered damage during the Russian advance there.
Speaking to journalists on Thursday at several points, Guterres urged Russia to cooperate with the International Criminal Court. That’s after the bodies of civilians were found in areas once held by Russian forces, some shot with their hands bound.
Guterres also said that “civilians always pay the highest price” in any war.
“When I see those destroyed buildings, I must say what I feel. I imagined my family in one of those houses that is now destroyed and black. I see my granddaughters running away in panic, part of the family eventually killed,” he said. “So, the war is an absurdity in the 21st century. The war is evil. And when one sees these situations our heart, of course, stays with the victims.”
He also added: “When we talk about war crimes, we cannot forget that the worst of crimes is war itself.”
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BERLIN — German lawmakers have voted in favor of sending heavy weapons to Ukraine, a symbolic decision that reflects the government’s change of course on the issue.
Germany had initially refused to send any offensive weapons to Ukraine and later balked at sending heavy equipment such as armored vehicles.
Under pressure domestically and from allies, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government agreed recently to let Ukraine purchase German armaments and support weapons swaps with allies who in turn are sending heavy gear to Ukraine.
Germany has already sent about 2,500 anti-aircraft missiles, 900 bazookas, and millions of rounds of ammunition, hand grenades and mines to Ukraine, the dpa news agency reported. It now plans to give armored vehicles to Slovenia to replace Soviet-era tanks the country is sending to Ukraine, send mortars directly to Ukraine and let Kyiv purchase mothballed self-propelled armored anti-aircraft guns from Germany.
German companies have also asked to send 88 Leopard tanks, 100 Marder armored vehicles and 100 howitzers to Ukraine, permission for which has yet to be granted.
Thursday’s non-binding motion — with 586 lawmakers in favor, 100 against and seven abstentions — received support from governing parties and the main opposition Union bloc of ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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LVIV, Ukraine — Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show Russian fire is intensifying on a steel mill that is the last Ukrainian-held area in the city of Mariupol.
The images by Planet Labs PBC shot Wednesday show that concentrated attacks have greatly damaged a central facility at the Azovstal steelworks.
An estimated 1,000 civilians are sheltering along with about 2,000 Ukrainian fighters in the steelworks, a massive Soviet-era complex with a warren of underground facilities built to withstand airstrikes.
Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Sea of Azov, is viewed as crucial for the Russians in the war.
The new images come as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits Ukraine and plans to speak to Ukraine’s president about his efforts to negotiate with Moscow for a corridor for people to leave the besieged area.
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(WSYR-TV) — Victoria Afet, who pleaded guilty to murdering 93-year-old Connie Tuori at her Skyline Apartment in March of 2021, has been sentenced to 23 years to life.
Afet, 24, was also sentenced to up 7 years for a third-degree robbery charge, and 4-and-a-half years for assault in the second-degree. The three sentences will be served consecutively totaling.
Details of Tuori’s death were described as “especially cruel and wanton” in the indictment of Afet.
The then 23-year-old was reportedly “inflicting torture” on Tuori by stuffing items in her mouth and down to her throat to suffocate her while also stabbing the victim.
Getting to the guilty plea was a bit of a journey for Afet. “Your honor, I want to plead guilty,” suspect Victoria Afet shouted out loud in court back in May of 2021, as her attorneys tried to stop her. It would not be until January of 2022 that Afet officially pleaded guilty. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/skyline-apartment-murderer-sentenced-thursday/ | 2022-04-28T17:23:02Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/skyline-apartment-murderer-sentenced-thursday/ | true |
Pornography in Commons `unacceptable´, PM says as Tory faces investigation
Boris Johnson has described allegations that a Tory MP watched pornography in the Commons chamber as “totally unacceptable” as senior ministers hit out at Westminster’s “shameful” culture.
The charge levelled against the unnamed Conservative is set to be examined under Parliament’s Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS), which investigates allegations of harassment and sexual misconduct.
Attorney General Suella Braverman said if the subject of the complaint was found to have been watching adult material it should result in them “no longer holding their privileged position as a Member of Parliament”.
During a visit to Burnley, the Prime Minister told broadcasters: “I think it’s obviously unacceptable for anybody to be doing that kind of thing in the workplace.
“It would be the same for any kind of job up and down the country, let’s be absolutely clear about that.
“What needs to happen now is that the proper procedures need to be gone through, the independent complaints and grievances procedure needs to be activated and we need to get to understand the facts but, yeah, that kind of behaviour is clearly totally unacceptable.”
Chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris called for the independent investigation into the pornography-watching claims after the allegations surfaced during a meeting of Tory MPs at Westminster on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for Mr Heaton-Harris said: “Following allegations of inappropriate behaviour in the House of Commons the chief whip has asked that this matter be referred to the ICGS.
“Upon the conclusion of any ICGS investigation the chief whip will take appropriate action.”
Under the ICGS, an investigator would examine the case and Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone would then make a finding.
In a serious case like this a sanction would normally be decided by the Independent Expert Panel (IEP), which would also hear any appeal.
The IEP could recommend sanctions including expulsion from the Commons or a suspension – which could potentially trigger a by-election under the recall process if it is for longer than 10 sitting days.
Only witnesses to the pornography-viewing could make a complaint about the MP under the ICGS.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: “There have been several instances of inappropriate and sexist behaviour recently in Parliament. It is shameful.
“Parliamentarians are public servants and it is their duty to set an example of character and integrity. The culture of Westminster needs to change.”
Ms Braverman said there was a “very small minority of men – and it is men – who fall short and there are some bad apples who are out of order – who behave like animals, and are bringing Parliament into disrepute to be honest”.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour: “I keep running through my mind how and why someone would be so brazen… so reckless, so stupid, so appallingly badly behaved to be watching porn in the workplace, in broad daylight, in the presence of colleagues.”
The minister said if the claims were found to be true, the whip should be removed – “I’m ashamed this person is carrying a Conservative rosette” – and the MP could be expelled or subjected to a recall process.
She told Sky News: “There are many possible sanctions and they go up to suspension or even expulsion from the House of Commons. The most serious sanction could potentially apply in this case.”
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said “there’s no place for pornography in any workplace” and highlighted the need for a cultural change at Westminster.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme “I certainly think they should lose the whip” and they could be subject to the recall process.
Mr Wallace told Sky News: “This is a problem, I think, about the overall culture of the House of Commons.
“It is late sitting, long nights with bars, and that very often leads, and it has done for decades, to behavioural challenges.”
On Times Radio he said the mix of long hours, high pressure and alcohol could be “poisonous”, adding: “My advice to any MP is actually avoid the bars… finish a day’s work and go home.”
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said there was action the Tories could take now, rather than wait for the complaints process to conclude.
“This is an unusual case because the Tory party knows who this individual is,” he said.
“I think that they should deal with it and deal with it sooner rather than later and take appropriate action.
“So, nothing wrong with the independent process, but I think the Tory party, they know who this is, they should take action now.”
The claims about pornography followed reports that 56 MPs, including three Cabinet ministers, are facing allegations of sexual misconduct referred to the ICGS.
They also follow outrage over The Mail On Sunday publishing “sexist” and disputed claims from unnamed Tory MPs that deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner tried to distract Mr Johnson with her legs during Prime Minister’s Questions. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10764089/Pornography-Commons-unacceptable--PM-says-Tory-faces-investigation.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-28T17:24:03Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10764089/Pornography-Commons-unacceptable--PM-says-Tory-faces-investigation.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
AREA BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Chouteau surprises CV Trojans in districts
Following is a roundup of area high school baseball action this week.
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Caney Valley district playoffs
The fickle vicissitudes of fate did not smile Tuesday afternoon on the Trojans (17-9).
After having strung together winning streaks of 10 and six games, the quality squad stumbled at the wrong time, dropping its Class 2A district playoff series to Chouteau-Mazie, 6-5 and 11-9.
The losses closed out Caney Valley’s season in a spring disrupted by rainouts, major schedule changes and a late start due to the extended basketball campaign.
Caney Valley and Chouteau weren’t supposed to meet until Thursday; the Trojans and Oklahoma Union had scheduled a tune-up game Tuesday.
But, in response to a stormy weather forecast for Thursday and Friday, Caney Valley and Oklahoma Union cancelled Tuesday’s meeting and the Caney Valley-Chouteau district matchup was moved up two days.
Whether that took the Trojans — ranked No. 19 in the state — out of their sync, especially coming off Monday’s 11-0 loss to Tulsa NOAH is a moot consideration now.
Chouteau (9-12) challenged the Trojans on a down ramp of momentum and took advantage.
But, all-in-all, Caney Valley pieced together an impressive season — after having started out at 1-4 for new head coach Andy Fox.
The Trojans surged to a 16-3 mark in their final 19 regular season games heading into Tuesday’s best-two-of-three playoff collision.
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CHOUTEAU 6, CANEY VALLEY 5: In the district opener, the teams stood tied, 5-5, after six innings. Chouteau scored in the top of the seven and held on. Fox called on Haden Fiddler as his pitcher. He answered with a superb effort, 6.1 innings, six hits, one earned run (and five unearned), three walks and nine strikeouts. Tanner Ryan took his place to record the final two outs, one of them on a strikeout. But, the Caney Valley offense left 11 runners stranded to watch opportunity slip by.Jacky Black delivered a double, single and RBI to help boost the Trojans’ attack. Fiddler, Ryan and Tate Longan also pushed home a run apiece. Contributing a single each were Fiddler, Bryer Kramer, Daniel Barham and Easton Davis.
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CHOUTEAU 11, CANEY VALLEY 9: Two innings made the difference. Caney Valley erupted to a 7-0 lead through two-and-a-half frames, but Chouteau answered with six runs in the bottom of the third and five more in the bottom of the sixth. Caney Valley splurged with a gritty rally in top of the seventh but came up just short.The Trojans outhit Chouteau, 12-to-five. Barham finished up his storied prep baseball career by smashing two doubles, a single and driving in five runs. Black, also playing in a Trojan uniform for the final time, doubled, singled and scored. Dalton Martin and Rocky Hester each plated one run. Contributing two hits apiece were Fiddler, Black and Hester. Barham started on the bump and worked five innings. He allowed only three hits and struck out seven batters; he also walked nine and gave up five runs (and one unearned).
Davis, Ryan and Black took turns pitching the rest of the way and allowed two hits, five earned runs and four walks between them. Black went to the mound with two outs in the seventh, gave up a hit and then retired the next batter for the final out.
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Bartlesville jayvee
Bixby dusted off home plate with seven runs in the first inning and never looked back in its 11-0 victory.
The Bruins experienced a no-hitter but produced seven baserunners on one walk each — Thatcher Parker, Parker Cole, Damien Niko, Kaden Romesburg, Junior Earnhart, Grant Foote and Justice Pointer.
Justin Swart also was plunked by a pitch.
Bartlesville left seven runners stranded.
Parker, Hunter Shea and Jaxon Zaun took turns pitching for Bartlesville. Shea struck out three batters in 1.1 innings.
The three Bruin hurlers allowed only one walk apiece. | https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/story/sports/local/2022/04/28/area-baseball-chouteau-churns-past-cv-trojans-playoffs/9550514002/ | 2022-04-28T17:27:44Z | https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/story/sports/local/2022/04/28/area-baseball-chouteau-churns-past-cv-trojans-playoffs/9550514002/ | false |
Rout in Teladoc rocks Cathie Wood's Ark
By Medha Singh
April 28 (Reuters) - Cathie Wood's Ark Invest suffered another setback after shares in one of its biggest holdings, Teladoc Health Inc, lost nearly half their value on Thursday following a dismal forecast.
ARK Invest is Teladoc's largest shareholder, with 19.5 million shares worth about $1.1 billion. The holding is also ARK Innovation ETF's third biggest after Tesla Inc and Zoom Video Communications Inc, with a weightage of 6.8%.
The flagship fund, one of the biggest pandemic winners due to its focus on hyper-growth stocks, has come under intense pressure, losing nearly half its value this year, as threats of aggressive interest rate hikes fuel a selloff in the red-hot technology sector.
The top 10 holdings of the fund, including Roku Inc and Coinbase, are down in the range of 50% to 76% in the past 12 months, with the exception of Tesla, which has risen 25% over the past year.
"Aggressive growth managers that benefited by holding pandemic winners over the last two years may struggle in the current environment, and ARK is no exception," said Jason Benowitz, senior portfolio manager at the Roosevelt Investment Group in New York.
Higher advertising spending at Teladoc's mental health segment and longer sales cycle for chronic care segment weighed on the largest U.S. telehealth company's first-quarter results.
Teladoc, which owns online therapy service BetterHelp, lowered its full-year adjusted EBITDA forecast to between $240 million and $265 million from between $330 million and $355 million.
It also cut its revenue forecast to a range of $2.40 billion to $2.50 billion from a range of $2.55 billion to $2.65 billion.
Teladoc shares slumped 47% to a more than four-year low at $29.98. It would be the stock's sharpest one-day plunge, if losses hold. (Reporting by Medha Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel and Anil D'Silva) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10764235/Rout-Teladoc-rocks-Cathie-Woods-Ark.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-28T17:29:02Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10764235/Rout-Teladoc-rocks-Cathie-Woods-Ark.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) More than 80 veterans visited Washington, D.C., to take in the monuments erected in their honor as part of the 35th Honor Flight Wednesday.
Honor Flight No. 35 carried 81 veterans to the nation’s capital: 4 WWII veterans, 28 Korean War veterans, 36 Cold War veterans and 13 Vietnam War veterans. Wednesday’s Honor Flight marked the first flight in 30 months, after trips were grounded in 2020 and 2021.
WANE 15’s Ross Kinsey was on the trip and put together the above video capturing the sights and sounds of the trip. | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/watch-sights-and-sounds-of-honor-flight-35/ | 2022-04-28T17:30:00Z | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/watch-sights-and-sounds-of-honor-flight-35/ | true |
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — A retired Michigan optometrist faces federal charges for allegedly leaving nooses and notes mocking the Black Lives Matter movement inside a couple's truck and near or inside stores as well as placing threatening phone calls.
Kenneth David Pilon, 61, of Saginaw, is charged with six counts of interfering with federally protected activities — a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison and fines, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
The charges allege that “Pilon intimidated and attempted to intimidate citizens from participating lawfully in speech and peaceful assembly opposing the denial of Black people’s right to enjoy police protection and services free from brutality,” an FBI special agent wrote in an affidavit.
Pilon’s attorney, Barry Wolf, was not readily available for comment, the Detroit Free Press reported. The Associated Press left a message Thursday for Wolf requesting comment on the charges.
Federal prosecutors allege that on June 14, 2020, Pilon used racial slurs while calling nine Starbucks stores in Michigan about workers who might be wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts.
Those calls came days after Starbucks announced it was producing about 250,000 Black Lives Matter shirts for employees to wear if they wanted to express support for the movement following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
In one call to a Starbucks store, Pilon allegedly used a racial slur when telling a staffer he planned to lynch someone, according to the court filing.
Then, between June 22, 2020, and July 17, 2020, prosecutors said Pilon left five nooses in Saginaw with handwritten notes reading: “An accessory to be worn with your ‘BLM’ t-shirt. Happy protesting!” Those nooses were left in parking lots in and outside Goodwill, Walmart and Kroger stores, inside a 7-Eleven store and inside a vehicle owned by a Saginaw couple.
That couple, Regina and Donald Simon, told the Free Press that Donald Simon found the noose and note inside his truck one day after they had spent time playing with their puppy in their front yard as they were both wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts.
“I opened my door, and when I looked at it, then I looked at it again, I was amazed,” said Donald Simon, who is Black, adding that he was overcome with anger and confusion at the sight of the noose. “I was in shock. I thought, ‘Is this really what I think it is?’"
After discovering the noose, the couple posted what happened on Facebook, along with a photo of what was found in the truck.
“He was bringing hate to my front door, and that really bothered us,” said Regina Simon, who is Mexican and white. “We’re not hateful people. That really shook me right there." | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Feds-Michigan-man-left-nooses-notes-mocking-BLM-17133952.php | 2022-04-28T17:32:07Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Feds-Michigan-man-left-nooses-notes-mocking-BLM-17133952.php | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a deaf, legally blind woman against a physical therapy business that wouldn't provide an American Sign Language interpreter for her appointments.
In a 6-3 ruling with conservatives in the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that businesses that receive federal health care money can't be sued for discrimination under the Affordable Care Act when the harm alleged is emotional, not financial.
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in dissent that people who suffer discrimination often feel humiliation or embarrassment. “It is difficult to square the Court’s holding with the basic purposes that antidiscrimination laws seek to serve. One such purpose, as I have said, is to vindicate ‘human dignity and not mere economics,’” Breyer wrote, citing an opinion from his onetime boss, Justice Arthur Goldberg, in a key Civil Rights-era case.
Breyer noted in his opinion that some anti-bias laws, including against workplace discrimination, allow for damages for emotional distress.
The current case began when the woman, Jane Cummings, asked for an ASL interpreter for physical therapy appointments to treat chronic back pain with Premier Rehab Keller, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Cummings communicates primarily in ASL. But Premier Rehab said Cummings could “communicate with the therapist using written notes, lip reading, or gesturing,” Roberts wrote.
She went elsewhere, but then sued the business, asking for a court order against Premier Rehab and damages for emotional distress. Lower courts dismissed the lawsuit. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Justices-limit-discrimination-claims-for-17133775.php | 2022-04-28T17:32:18Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Justices-limit-discrimination-claims-for-17133775.php | true |
GONZALES, La. (AP) — A south Louisiana deputy in training has been fired after his arrest on multiple counts of child pornography.
Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre said Brandon Morris, who has been with the agency for eight months in the Patrol Division, was arrested Wednesday following an Attorney General's Office probe.
“We hold our deputies to high standards, and no one is above the law when situations like this occur. It tarnishes our badge and violates community trust,” Webre said in a statement.
Morris, 24, of Gonzales, was booked on 20 counts of possession of child pornography, The Advocate reported. Bail information was not immediately available. It was unknown whether he has an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Deputies said the investigation into Morris' case continues. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Louisiana-sheriff-s-deputy-fired-after-arrest-for-17133844.php | 2022-04-28T17:32:32Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Louisiana-sheriff-s-deputy-fired-after-arrest-for-17133844.php | true |
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Jurgen Klopp ‘energised’ at the prospect of leading Liverpool to further glory
By PA Staff published
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is energised by the prospect of leading a “fresh” club to further glory after extending his stay at Anfield until 2026.
Negotiations over a two-year contract extension took very little time at all and the 54-year-old is now looking forward to building on the incredible foundations he has created since arriving in October 2015.
The speed and timing of the agreement – plus extensions for his key assistants Pep Lijnders and Peter Krawietz – came as something of a surprise with the club embroiled in the quest for an unprecedented quadruple.
We are delighted to announce Jürgen Klopp has signed a new contract to extend his commitment with the club! 🔴— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 28, 2022
But Mike Gordon, president of owners Fenway Sports Group, flying in from America for the Champions League semi-final first-leg victory over Villarreal was the first sign something significant was happening – as was the appearance of Klopp’s agent Marc Kosicke in the directors’ box for the game – and less than 24 hours later the deal was done.
“There are so many words I could use to describe how I am feeling about this news… delighted, humbled, blessed, privileged and excited would be a start,” Klopp told liverpoolfc.com.
“Like any healthy relationship, it always has to be a two-way street; you have to be right for each other.
“The feeling we were absolutely right for each other is what brought me here in the first place and it’s why I’ve extended previously.
“This one is different because of the length of time we have been together. I had to ask myself the question: Is it right for Liverpool that I stay longer?
“Along with my two assistant managers, Pep Lijnders and Pete Krawietz, we came to the conclusion it was a ‘Yes!’
“There is a freshness about us as a club still and this energises me.”
Last season, played behind closed doors when injuries to key players meant Liverpool’s defence of their first domestic title in 30 years never really got off the ground, took its toll on Klopp and the usually-ebullient German lost a lot of his spark.
However, the form his team have shown since, with the Carabao Cup already secured, an FA Cup final to come, a 2-0 lead to take into next week’s Champions League semi-final second leg at Villarreal and a nail-biting Premier League title race against Manchester City, has reinvigorated the Reds boss.
“For as long as I have been here, our owners have been unbelievably committed and energetic about this club and it is clear that right now this applies to our future as much as I’ve ever known,” added Klopp, who guided the club to their sixth European Cup in 2019 and could yet repeat the feat this season.
The boss has a special message for you… ❤️ pic.twitter.com/T4vFwYFN9p— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 28, 2022
“We are a club that is constantly moving in the right direction. We have a clear idea of what we want; we have a clear idea of how we try to achieve it. That’s always a great position to start from.
“When the owners brought the possibility to renew to me, I asked myself the question I’ve mused over publicly: Do I have the energy and vibe to give of myself again what this amazing place requires from the person in the manager’s office?
“I didn’t need too long to answer in truth. The answer was very simple… I’m in love with here and I feel fine!”
That last sentence is a knowing nod to the new fans’ song about him to the tune of The Beatles’ I Feel Fine, highlighting the connection he has with supporters which is why he is so beloved.
👀 pic.twitter.com/PkDRRnsSIg— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 28, 2022
Klopp’s extended stay is also likely to influence the thinking of a number of players who are entering the final 12 months of their contracts, the likes of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino – his original famed front three.
Only last week Salah gave an interview in which he said “I think the fans know what I want, but in the contract it’s not everything about the money at all,” and has stressed on previous occasions he did not want paying “crazy stuff” but that he wanted to win the Premier League and Champions League again.
Gordon, speaking about the man who will become the club’s fourth longest-serving manager with this new contract, said: “Jurgen wanting to make our future to be as bright as our present is a big statement.
“We cannot rest or consolidate. We have to think at all times about improvement and we are now able to do this in the knowledge that we have retained a manager who not only shares our vision and ambition, he remains determined to deliver on it.
“For these reasons and many more, it is beyond thrilling to know Jurgen Klopp will lead us into this new era.”
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Sarah Michelle Gellar is happier than ever to find out that Billie Eilish had eyes for her! The Cruel Intentions star reacted to the news that she was the “Bad Guy” singer’s childhood crush.
On Wednesday, Gellar shared a picture of a screenshot from Eilish's Q&A.
During the session, the 20-year-old GRAMMY winner was asked, “Who’s your childhood celebrity crush?” Eilish responded with a photo of Gellar from her hit ‘90s series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Gellar captioned the post, “I’m dead. That’s all. I’m not a child anymore, but I totally have a crush on @billieeilish Ok… now that’s really all.”
While the pop star didn’t respond to the post, Gellar quickly found out that Eilish wasn’t the only one smitten with her.
“ohhhhh i never told you you were one of mine 🤣💜,” Jordan Fisher wrote.
“Hahaha love it,” Amanda Kloots wrote.
Gellar has been married to fellow actor Freddie Prinze Jr. since 2002. The pair are parents to Charlotte, 12, and 9-year-old Rocky.
The actress isn’t just feeling the love from Eilish. In March, the cast celebrated the 25th anniversary of the series, which ran from 1997-2002, and Gellar celebrated the moment on Instagram with a throwback.
"25 years ago today I had the honor to introduce the world to my version of Buffy Anne Summers,” she wrote. “It was an uphill battle. A mid season replacement, on a new network based on a movie, that was by no means a giant success. But then there was you. The fans. You believed in us. You made this happen. You are the reason 25 years later we are still celebrating. So today we celebrate you as well. #wwbd."
In July, the star spoke with ET about her children finally being introduced to the teen vampire slayer. "My boy was into it for the villains, and my daughter was into it for the love stories," Gellar shared.
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Williamsport -- Lloyd Brooks, Sr., 76, of S. Williamsport passed away Sunday, April 24, 2022 at The Williamsport Home.
He was married on January 23, 1980 to the former Ethel Mae (Pearson), who survives, and they have shared 42 years as husband and wife.
Lloyd was born on December 28, 1945 in Nashville, Tennessee and was the son of the late Mayron and Ruth Marie (Riley) Brooks. He served with the U.S. Marine Corps and served two enlistments during the Vietnam War. He had worked for the prison system for 35 years, with the last being Allenwood, where he retired from. He had attended both Ebenezer and Shiloh Baptist Churches. Lloyd was a member of the Elks, 40 & 8 S.O.L. Club, Masonic Lodge, Marine Corps League and Post 1 of the American Legion. He coached T-Ball for Maynard Little League and was involved and volunteered in numerous charitable organizations such as Toys for Tots and Nurses Training. He enjoyed watching his kids, grandkids and great-grandkids play sports and he was well known and loved by many.
In addition to his wife Ethel, he is survived by one son; Lloyd Brooks, Jr. (Julie) of Easton, one daughter; Ebony M. Brooks of S. Williamsport, one step-son; Andre P. Briscoe of San Francisco, Calif., one step-daughter; Taanasa L. Alfred of S. Williamsport, three grandchildren; Vanessa Paniagua, Carlos Paniagua and Mikaila Rae Brooks, one step-grandson; Tyler Cole, two great-grandchildren; Miguel Francis West and Isaac K. Crowder, sister-in-law; Thelma J. Pearson of Williamsport and numerous nieces and nephews. In addition to his mother and father; he was preceded in death by three sisters; Alice Brooks Armstrong, Louise Smith and Ruth Brooks Bailey, three brothers; William Brooks, Mayron Brooks, Jr., and John “J.W.” Watt Brooks, one niece; Deborah D. Ford, one great niece; Latasha M. Ford and one great nephew; Gerald “Caleb” Brooks, II.
There will be a public viewing held 10 – 11 a.m. Saturday, April 30, 2022 at Love Unlimited Ministries, 734 W. 4th St., Williamsport, where the Celebration of Life will be held at 11:00 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Toys for Tots or Nurse Training.
Arrangements are being handled by Maneval Allen Redmond Funeral Home, 500 W. 4th St., Williamsport.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Orsted, the Danish wind power developer, signed an agreement Thursday with New Jersey officials to use a state-financed manufacturing port to build the components of the state's first offshore wind farm.
Gov. Phil Murphy announced the agreement during an international wind energy conference in Atlantic City, from whose coast the project's turbines should be visible on the distant horizon.
Orsted, which is partnering with Newark-based PSEG to build the project, will lease the New Jersey Wind Port in Salem County for two years starting in April 2024. Murphy did not reveal how much the developers will pay for the lease. The parties signed the letter of intent Thursday, but binding agreements are to be submitted to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority by June.
The pact marks the first return on the state's investment of up to $500 million in the wind port, designed to help the state attract companies interested in building wind power projects here as it seeks to become the East Coast hub of the offshore wind industry.
“This is a huge moment: Today is a vision turning into reality,” Murphy said at the conference, sponsored by the Business Network for Offshore Wind. “This is truly New Jersey's ‘If you build it, they will come’ moment.”
Ocean Wind is to be built off the state's southern coastline, and will provide 1,100 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 500,000 homes. It is one of three wind farms approved thus far by New Jersey regulators, with many more to come.
In February, six companies bid a combined $4.37 billion for the right to build wind energy projects on the ocean floor off New Jersey and New York in the U.S. government’s largest such auction in history. New Jersey plans another round of project solicitations later this year.
Officials broke ground on the wind port, in Lower Alloways Creek Township, last September. The facility is designed to provide a place to manufacture giant blades and other components for offshore wind energy projects.
The turbines to be built there are nearly as large as the Eiffel Tower and weigh thousands of tons. Because of that, they need to be built and prepared for transport in a place free from bridges or other obstacles that they must pass under on their way out to sea.
The port was designed with this and other technical considerations in mind.
The state also is planning a second related facility in Paulsboro on the Delaware River in southern New Jersey to build the huge poles supporting wind turbines.
When Ocean Wind 1 project was approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities in June 2019, the approval was based on the project utilizing an existing out-of-state port to marshal the project. The developers have since decided to use the state wind port instead, officials said Thursday.
Murphy said the lease is expected to create at least 200 pre-assembly, stevedoring and other jobs in a region badly in need of them.
“New Jersey is on the forefront of wind energy technology, and through our partnership, the Ocean Wind 1 project will deliver hundreds of jobs, clean energy, and transformative infrastructure to the region," said David Hardy, CEO of Orsted Offshore North America.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — The man who pleaded guilty to killing a 17-year-old St. Petersburg girl and her unborn child 10 years ago is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday.
Jacobee Flowers, 34, faces 40 years in Florida State Prison for the murder of his girlfriend Morgan Martin.
Martin was 17 years old and four months pregnant when she disappeared in 2012. Four years later, in 2016, Flowers was charged with first-degree murder.
Martin’s remains were never found. Under a deal with the state, Flowers could have faced just 25 years if he led detectives to Martin’s body.
He pointed authorities to a field in Pike County, Alabama. Earlier this month, detectives from the St. Petersburg Police Department went and searched but found nothing.
Earlier this week, a judge signed an order allowing detectives to take Flowers out of the Pinellas County Jail so he could show them exactly where he buried Martin’s body. Again, they found nothing.
When Martin went missing from her St. Petersburg home in 2012, she said she was going to meet with Flowers, but never came home. She claimed Flowers was her child’s father.
St. Petersburg police officers initially classified the case as a missing persons case, but later classified it as a homicide.
A grand jury indicted Flowers for first-degree murder in 2016. He entered a guilty plea to a second-degree murder charge in March.
Sentencing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
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LONDON (AP) — Twitter’s quarterly profit, revenue and the number of daily users on its platform are rising but its quarterly report, released days after agreeing to be sold to billionaire Elon Musk, offered scant details about what it expects on the financial front for the rest of the year.
The social media company on Thursday reported net income of $513 million, or 61 cents a share, but that includes a big one-time gain from the sale of its MoPub business, clouding comparisons with the year-ago period.
Revenue, most of it from ads, rose 16% to $1.2 billion in the three months to March compared with the same period last year, though the company said the figure reflected “headwinds associated with the war in Ukraine,” without elaborating.
Twitter reported an average of 229 million daily active users in the quarter, which was about 14 million more than a revised 214.7 million daily users in the previous quarter.
The San Francisco company canceled a conference call with executives and industry analysts that usually accompanies its results, so there will be little further insight into the company’s current financial condition.
“Given the pending acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, we will not be providing any forward looking guidance, and are withdrawing all previously provided goals and outlook,” the company said.
Musk, who’s paying $54.20 for each outstanding share of Twitter, did not speak publicly on the quarterly report, perhaps among its last as a publicly traded entity.
Shares have yet to reach that buyout price and on Thursday, the company’s stock edged slightly lower to $48.36.
Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter was announced earlier this week and is expected to close sometime this year. But before the deal is completed, shareholders will have to weigh in, as well as regulators in the U.S. and in countries where Twitter does business. So far though, few hurdles are expected, despite objections from some of Twitter’s own employees, along with users who worry about Musk’s stance on free speech and what it might mean for harassment and hate speech on the platform.
Angelo Zino, tech analyst at CFRA, said the results, combined with a slew of challenges facing the digital ad industry, should solidify the board’s decision to approve Musk’s offer.
“We see little reason to believe Twitter could extract greater shareholder value remaining public,” he said in a research note.
Musk, who also runs the electric car company Tesla, as well as SpaceX and other ventures, says he plans to take Twitter private. If he does, the company will no longer be beholden to shareholders or publicly report its financial results, which have been mixed at best since the company went public in 2013.
Twitter has struggled to consistently post profits as a public company while generating lackluster revenue growth compared to the two dominant forces in digital advertising, Googleand Facebook.
On one hand, going private could give Twitter more room to experiment while focusing less on short-term profit and its stock price. On the other hand, even the world’s richest man is likely to want the company to make money.
“I think there is nothing better for Twitter than Elon Musk buying it and ideally replacing the board, and also doubling down on investments into products and new revenue-generating sources,” John Meyer, a technology entrepreneur and investor, told The Associated Press earlier this week.
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Barbara Ortutay reported from Oakland, California.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda denounced Russia’s war against Ukraine on Thursday as he joined Holocaust survivors and people from around the world at an annual observance at the former site of Auschwitz.
“We are here to show that every nation has a sacred right to life, has a sacred right to cultivate its traditions, has a sacred right to develop,” he said.
Duda joined more than 2,000 young Israelis and others who joined the March of the Living, a commemoration taking place on Israel’s national Holocaust memorialday that pays tribute to the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The route begins under the Auschwitz gate with the notorious slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei” (German for “work will set you free”) and leads to Birkenau, the largest site of mass exterminationduring Germany’s occupation of Poland and other parts of Europe during World War II.
This year’s march, the first after being suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, also included delegations from Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates.
Duda, walking as Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg held him by the arm, took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Death Wall in Auschwitz, where prisoners were shot to death.
Later, during a ceremony at Birkenau, Duda spoke out against war, anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred, and paid tribute to Jewish victims of the Holocaust as well as the other victims of Nazi Germany, including Poles, Roma and Russians.
“We come here to show that while during World War II, Nazi Germany managed to wipe my country off the map, wipe it out and murder Poles, including Polish Jews, we will never again allow something like this to happen,” he said.
“We are also here to show that there is absolutely no consent to the attempt to take freedom and kill the Ukrainian nation with impunity, as is happening today in the occupied territories of Ukraine,” he said.
More than 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen in Auschwitz. Most who were killed were Jews, but the victims also included Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others. In all, about 6 million European Jews died during the Holocaust. When the Soviets liberated the camp, they found about 7,000 survivors.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will to travel to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, his office announced, on the latest leg of Ankara’s bridge-building efforts with regional rivals.
It will be Erdogan’s first visit to the kingdom since Turkey dropped the trial of 26 Saudis suspected of involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October 2018.
Talks with Saudi officials during the two-day visit will focus on ways of increasing cooperation, according to a statement from Erdogan office. The sides will exchange views on regional and international issues.
Erdogan was also expected to travel to Mecca, only a short drive from Jiddah, to perform prayers at Islam’s holiest site in the final nights of Ramadan.
The decision earlier this month to transfer the prosecution to Saudi Arabia removed the last stumbling block to renewed Turkey-Saudi ties, in particular in Erdogan’s relationship with de-facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The killing of Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate sparked global outrage and put pressure on the prince, who was said to have approved the operation to kill or capture Khashoggi, in a U.S. intelligence report released a year ago. The Saudi government has always denied any involvement by the prince.
Erdogan, while not naming the prince, said the order to carry out the assassination came from the “highest levels” of the Saudi government.
A Saudi court jailed eight people over the killing in September 2020 — a trial described as a sham by rights groups — but Turkey also launched a case in absentia against 26 Saudi suspects.
The April 7 transfer of the case to Saudi Arabia came at the request of the Turkish prosecutor, who said there was no prospect of arresting or taking statements from the defendants.
Khashoggi’s Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, had appealed against the decision to suspend the trial in Turkey and to transfer the case to Saudi Arabia, but an administrative court rejected the appeal last week.
Over the past year Ankara has embarked on a diplomatic push to reset relations with countries such as Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia after years of antagonism following the 2011 Arab Spring.
Turkey’s support for popular movements linked to the Muslim Brotherhood initially spurred the break with Arab regimes that saw the brotherhood’s vision of political Islam as a threat.
Later developments, particularly the blockade of Turkish ally Qatar by its Gulf neighbors, reinforced the split. The lifting of the embargo by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain early last year paved the way for reconciliation.
Erdogan last visited Saudi Arabia in July 2017 as he attempted to resolve the blockade on Qatar imposed the previous month.
In February he received a fanfare welcome in the UAE as Dubai’s Burj Khalifa was lit up with the Turkish flag and Turkey’s national anthem blared out.
Turkey’s diplomatic drive has coincided with its worst economic crisis in two decades, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and now the war in Ukraine. Official inflation stands at 61% while the lira has plummeted, falling 44% in value against the dollar in 2021.
Turkey has secured a $4.9 billion currency swap deal with Abu Dhabi, following similar agreements with Qatar, China and South Korea. The UAE also announced a $10 billion fund to support investments in Turkey.
The end of an unofficial Saudi boycott of Turkish goods, which cut Ankara’s exports by 90 percent, saw trade to Saudi Arabia reach $58 million last month, triple the level for the previous year but a fraction of the $298 million registered in March 2020.
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(WFRV) – A group of local teens is competing to be named Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s “Student of the Year”. They came together to celebrate their fundraising efforts, through song.
The teams are raising money and awareness with the goal of creating a future without cancer.
They made the video to celebrate the journey of this year’s Honored Hero, a local girl named Harper.
Harper was 5 years old when she and her family learned that she had T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Harper has celebrated birthdays and holidays in a hospital room. She has endured a great deal due to her treatment – chemotherapy, radiation, hair loss, steroids, physical therapy, muscle loss, and social isolation – to name a few.
Fortunately, Harper finished her last day of treatment on April 21, 2021. She has persevered with a smile and remained exceptionally positive.
Harper is a thriving 2nd grader who loves math, and she enjoys ice skating and skateboarding in her free time.
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A rally Wednesday in Las Vegas featuring Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt and his supporter, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, attracted a crowd of several hundred people, some who’ve already made their choice in the U.S. Senate primary race, and some who are still kicking the tires.
“I’m undecided,” said Paul Merriman, who says he’s still considering Laxalt’s opponent Sam Brown. He said he donated to Brown.
Merriman does know who he wants for president on the GOP ticket, even though former Pres. Donald Trump has yet to announce whether he’ll make another run at a second term.
“DeSantis should run and Trump should be Secretary of State and give all his supporters to DeSantis,” Merriman said while awaiting admission to Laxalt’s Rise Up rally at a local nightclub.
Registered Independent Paul Johnson is supporting Laxalt in the general election, should he win the primary. He says he’d probably vote for DeSantis over Trump. “I like his policies – education, health, financial – he’s done a great job.”
He’s especially pleased that DeSantis “got rid of CRT” by not allowing critical race theory, a graduate level college course, to be taught in public schools. He also supports what critics call DeSantis’ Don’t Say Gay bill, which prohibits “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels or in a specified manner.”
Supporters of the new Florida law allege discussion of same-sex relationships in the classroom “grooms” impressionable children.
“You don’t teach kids about sex and transgenderism. How is that appropriate for kids?” asks Johnson, who suggests children are being “groomed from kindergarten all the way up…”
Detractors say the legislation further stigmatizes gay students and engenders shame among young children of gay parents.
“If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of 4-8 year old children,” DeSantis’ press secretary tweeted last month.
Las Vegan Lisa Noeth supports Laxalt for Senate. But the t-shirt she donned for the rally proclaimed a Trump and DeSantis ticket in 2024.
“DeSantis is a great leader. He’s my number one governor for America right now,” she said. “He’s standing up to all these leftist ideologies, including Disney. This heartens me that as much as America’s changed, I’m happy that we have at least this one person standing up for us. He is the only one so far.”
Last week, DeSantis revoked Disneyworld’s self-governance status in Florida, and in remarks at the time suggested Disney productions indoctrinate children about sexuality.
“I’m not comfortable having that type of agenda get special treatment in my state,” he said.
Noeth says DeSantis is a fitting replacement for former Vice-Pres. Mike Pence, who “turned away from us real conservatives. Pence is a part of the old Republican party that is no longer recognizable. They don’t represent the people. This is Trump’s America.”
Melanie Johnston is set on Laxalt in the Senate race, but says she’s hoping she doesn’t have to choose between DeSantis and Trump for president.
“That’s a decision that would be hard to make,” she says, adding she’s heard DeSantis isn’t going to challenge Trump. “I like both of them.”
Twala and Michael Wagner say they haven’t made up their mind about the Senate primary, but they’re likely to split should DeSantis challenge Trump in a presidential primary.
“I’d probably vote for DeSantis,” says Michael Wagner.
“I’d vote for Trump,” says his wife. “I’d vote for the one I think would win.”
Sondra Richardson is supporting Laxalt in the Senate primary but undecided on whether DeSantis or Trump is the best presidential candidate for Republicans.
“That’s a hard question. I like both of them,” she says, adding she voted for Trump twice. “I’m still leaning toward Trump. I hope he runs. I’d like to see DeSantis as his vice president.”
“I’m going to hear what Laxalt has to say today,” says Grace Renshaw, who says she’s not sure about her choice in the Republican primary for Senate. “Actually, I’m here to see DeSantis.”
Renshaw says Trump “has to finish the job” and then “let DeSantis take over.” Pence, she says, is not in the picture. “There’s something very nefarious about that person.”
This reporter was admitted to the rally but forced by Laxalt campaign official John Burke to leave before Laxalt and DeSantis took the stage.
“You didn’t RSVP,” Burke said.
“We know you’re media,” he responded when provided proof of the RSVP.
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From Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja
The Islamic Republic of Iran has responded to reports of the planned national referendum in the territory of Palestine.
Iranian Ambassador to Nigeria Mohammed Alibak, in a statement issued in Abuja, said as a result of the continued expansionist policies, as well as the illegal and inhumane practices of the Zionist regime, the oppressed people of Palestine have been deprived of their inalienable and imprescriptible rights and their living conditions have deteriorated on a daily basis.
Alibak also said such policies and practices, which are in violation of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the rules of international law, particularly international humanitarian law and human rights, have been systematically intensified due to the failure of the international community in taking serious practical measures to resolve the question of Palestine for more than seven decades.
Alibak said: “Even after the establishment of the United Nations, whereas the Charter of the United Nations had included completely, specific rules regarding territories like Palestine (Chapter XI, Articles 73 and 74), these regulations were not taken into account. Even resolution 181(II) A of the United Nations General Assembly in November 1947 on the partition plan for Palestine also was not implemented because the Palestinian Arabs were against it. Therefore, at the time of the formation of the Zionist regime, the right to self-determination of the people of Palestine was completely disregarded.”
The Iranian envoy further said the necessity of exercising the right to self-determination by the indigenous people of the territory has been clarified fully in the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion of 25 February 2019 on “the legal consequences of the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius by the UK.”
“According to this advisory opinion, a country that assumes the trusteeship of a non-self-governing territory cannot, at its own discretion and without observing the right of people to self-determination, detach a territory. As mentioned in this advisory opinion, any detachment that occurred without the consent of the indigenous people is null and void and other countries should avoid such acts.
“Likewise, noting resolution A/RES/194 (III) of 1948 of the United Nations General Assembly On the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland, this Plan includes all genuine Palestinians. Accordingly, holding a fair and inclusive referendum is the most basic mechanism for nations to achieve their right to self-determination,” Alibak also said.
On the implementation of the plan, the Iranian envoy said it involved four phases which were the enforcing of the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their historical homeland, holding a national referendum among the people of Palestine, including the followers of all religions, who inhabited Palestine before the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, for the self-determination and determination of the political system.
He also listed the establishment of the political system determined by the majority of the people of Palestine and deciding on the status of the non-indigenous residents of Palestine by the political system elected by the majority as parts of the implementation plan.
Alibak further listed the implementation mechanisms which included all people of Palestine, including Muslims, Christians and Jews, having the right to participate in the referendum, among others. | https://www.sunnewsonline.com/iran-responds-to-plan-for-a-national-referendum-in-palestine/ | 2022-04-28T18:11:20Z | https://www.sunnewsonline.com/iran-responds-to-plan-for-a-national-referendum-in-palestine/ | true |
NOIDA, India, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Geospatial World is proud to announce the release of its annual GeoBuiz 22: Global Geospatial Industry Outlook Report. The GeoBuiz Report 2022 provides businesses and governments alike with demonstrable evidence of the broader value of unlocking geospatial capabilities and sets out key implications, suggestions, and ambitions to spearhead the shared vision of increasing the adaptability of geospatial information and technology.
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- The global geospatial market is forecasted to be USD 681 billion in 2025,
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- The current growth in the market is driven by technology innovation, integration of workflows, and augmentation of spatial analytics in business processes,
- Increasing government investments, strategic public policy reforms, and the evolving role of national geospatial agencies and governments is expected to drive the market growth post-2025,
- GNSS and Positioning is forecasted to be the largest and growing geospatial technology segment with approx. 45 percent of the total market share, followed by GIS and Spatial Analytics at approx. 25 percent and earth observation at approx. 17 percent,
- The economic impact of geospatial technologies on the global economy is currently estimated to be in the range of USD 2.2 trillion to 5.4 trillion, while it shall expand in the range of USD 5.4 trillion to USD 10.2 trillion in 2025.
"The global geospatial industry is one of the fastest-growing industries today, and is transforming from being a product driven to a solutions driven industry, with embedment across mainstream IT and engineering technologies. By 2030, the revenues of this market is expected to be more than $1.4 trillion, owing to strategic public policy reforms, industry acceleration strategies, and innovations in the digital twin and metaverse paradigm. Geospatial World's GeoBuiz-22: Global Geospatial Industry Outlook Report extensively elaborates on futuristic technologies and business dynamics that are expected to impact the geospatial, and allied industries in the near future. The Innovation to Impact Matrix, is definitely something that would interest geospatial industry leaders as it entails information pertaining to the relative position of the major market competitors within the geospatial space", says Ms. Ananya Narain, Director - GW Consulting, Geospatial World.
The GeoBuiz-22 report has been developed after a comprehensive exercise of interaction with 500 geospatial industry leaders and with quality survey respondents of over 1500+ stakeholders from the geospatial ecosystem.
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Environment, forest and climate Change Minister of Bangladesh Md. Shahab Uddin has said that the country will cut Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 7 percent unconditionally and 16 percent conditionally by 2030.
He made the comments during a meeting with Swiss Ambassador Nathale Chuard in Dhaka on Wednesday, said an official press release.
He said the Bangladesh government had submitted an ambitious updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last year. Bangladesh is in the final stages of developing the National Adoption Plan (NAP), said the Minister.
Outlining the steps taken by the government to protect the environment, Shahab Uddin said that Bangladesh has declared 5.77 percent territorial area of the country as nature conservation areas consisting of 48 protected areas and 13 ecologically critical areas. It has also declared 6.20 percent of its total marine area as Protected Area.
Reaffirming Bangladesh’s commitment to international efforts at environmental protection, the minister said that Bangladesh has signed and ratified all major multilateral environmental agreements including UNCBD, UNFCCC, UNCCD, Basel Convention, Stockholm Convention on POPS, Montreal Protocol on ODS and so on. | https://theindianawaaz.com/bangladesh-to-cut-ghg-emissions-by-7-percent-unconditionally-by-2030/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bangladesh-to-cut-ghg-emissions-by-7-percent-unconditionally-by-2030 | 2022-04-28T18:14:14Z | https://theindianawaaz.com/bangladesh-to-cut-ghg-emissions-by-7-percent-unconditionally-by-2030/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bangladesh-to-cut-ghg-emissions-by-7-percent-unconditionally-by-2030 | false |
Weekly unemployment claims in US drop by 5,000 to 180,000 in latest data as GDP surprisingly shrinks 1.4%
- Jobless claims declined by 5,000 to 180,000 for the week ending April 23
- Four-week average for claims, which evens out the weekly ups and downs, rose slightly to 179,750 from 177,500
- Number of Americans collecting jobless benefits for the week ending April 16 inched down by 1,000 from the previous week
- Gross domestic product - the nation's total output of goods and services - fell at a 1.4 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of this year
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell again last week with numbers still at historically low levels.
Jobless claims in the U.S. declined by 5,000 to 180,000 for the week ending April 23, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time applications generally reflect the number of layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which evens out the weekly ups and downs, rose slightly to 179,750 from 177,500 the previous week.
The total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits for the week ending April 16 inched down by 1,000 from the previous week, to 1,408,000. That's the fewest since February 21, 1970.
American workers are experiencing extraordinary job security two years after the coronavirus pandemic plunged the economy into a brief but devastating recession. Weekly applications for unemployment aid have been consistently below the pre-pandemic level of 225,000 for most of this year, even as the overall economy contracted.
The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the U.S. economy shrank last quarter for the first time since the pandemic recession struck two years ago, contracting at a 1.4% annual rate, even as consumers and businesses kept spending in a sign of underlying resilience.
A "now hiring" sign is posted in Garnet Valley, Pa., Monday, May 10, 2021. Applications for unemployment benefits inched down last week, Thursday, April 21, 2022, as the total number of Americans collecting aid fell to its lowest level in more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Businesses have also kept hiring, adding a record 6.7 million jobs last year, and adding an average of 560,000 more each month so far in 2022.
The unemployment rate, which soared to 14.7% in April 2020 in the depths of the COVID-19 recession, is now just 3.6%, barely above the lowest point in 50 years. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10763417/Fewer-Americans-file-jobless-claims-week.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-28T18:14:25Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10763417/Fewer-Americans-file-jobless-claims-week.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Gathering of power industry and solar science experts in April focuses on early warning needs and opportunities
LOUISVILLE, Colo., April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Often, our electric grid functions at the whim of the natural world's powerful forces – wind, lightning, Sun. As the solar cycle ramps back up in activity, the power grid reawakens to the threat of space weather, which has the potential to push the system beyond its tipping point. Space weather is a global and imminent threat. In 2013 it was estimated to have the same likelihood of occurrence as "pandemic influenza,"1 which we are unfortunately now too familiar with. But society is less prepared for a space weather disaster than we were for a pandemic.
Power grids are complex systems and solar activity resulting in geomagnetic storms can wreak havoc on grid infrastructure. Current ability to predict such storms exists, but is only as mature as weather prediction was 50 years ago. This makes clear communication between scientists, emergency managers, and those in charge of the power grid essential. Such communications are often stymied by lack of common vocabulary and technical focus and understanding between the groups.
Orion Space Solutions' (OSS) Ryan McGranaghan2 and his university and power grid collaborators strive to change this reality through the concept of convergence,3 or a radical merging of innovative ideas, approaches, and technologies from a diverse range of sectors and expertise. Through a National Science Foundation-funded workshop (Award Number: AGS-2131047) and with the understanding that to reimagine grid resilience, data from diverse fields must be open and broadly usable and the traditionally disparate communities must be connected, McGranaghan brought together experts from diverse fields to share expertise and take advantage of the spectrum of innovation, knowledge, and assets available within and across these groups. The group was animated by three questions:
- What are the research and development and operational gaps that emerge from a holistic view of the Sun-to-Power Grid system and what solutions can we imagine to address them?
- What is the composition of the teams that can create these solutions?
- How do we connect these gaps to existing programs and form bridges across them?
"We designed this event based on a convergence approach to Sun-to-Power Grid resilience, recognizing that national-scale societal challenges require transdisciplinary collaboration and novel ways to facilitate it," says Dr. McGranaghan. "So, we created a simulation game enabling individuals from every part of the system to communicate, learn, and understand."
The interactions were facilitated through an extreme space weather simulation game--a table-top exercise coupled with simulation and observational data in an interactive environment designed to reveal novel research and development gaps for the Sun-to-power grid system. The game identified linkages across knowledge areas to better anticipate, understand, and respond to effects of space weather on the nation's power grids.
The three-day workshop generated new understanding about the complex Sun-to-power grid system by converging the range of communities that are involved, identifying research and development and operational gaps, as well as proposing solutions for those gaps. In a close and unique, partnership with RWI Synthetics,4 the group highlighted the human dimension of socio-economic impacts of outage by synthesizing the entire population of Washington DC, including social, economic, and medical details to model individualized impacts of outage on an urban population.
The three days included: the simulation game, synthesizing lessons learned and gaps identified, as well as systems-building, which teamed data scientists and domain scientists and engineers to prototype solutions. Critical outcomes include:
- A "Lessons Learned" database that covers ways to achieve convergent interactions and guidance for future Sun-to-power grid interactions;
- Enumerated and organized R&D gaps to guide the community in setting policy, prioritizing and directing resources, and identifying new research projects; and
- A knowledge base of simulation data, relevant publications, a community exchange platform, and a template for running simulation games.
The workshop is the next step in NSF's successful Convergence Accelerator Project, the "Convergence Hub for the Exploration of Space Science (CHESS),"5 which pioneered the paradigm-shifting convergent approach to Sun-to-power grid research, development, and operations.
"Space weather is about societal resilience, multiphysics, and multiscale. This simulation game embodied all three facets," says Dr. Mangala Sharma, Program Director for Space Weather Research at the NSF.
The community the CHESS project has cultivated, along with existing programs and projects in the field, includes representatives from NSF, NASA, Department of Energy, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, North American Electric Reliability Corporation , United States Geological Survey , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , several national space weather programs, and numerous academic and private institutions.
About Orion Space Solutions: Orion Space Solutions (OSS) was born from the vision to apply fundamental space physics knowledge to real-world problems. Founded in 2005, OSS is a leader in the "New Space" small-satellite industry. We leverage our scientific and engineering expertise to develop unique solutions to address complex space physics disciplines, instrumentation, modeling capabilities, and data analytics; OSS turns science into data, data into knowledge.
Contact: Bill Adams
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Deputies arrest mom for repeatedly calling 911 after son brought home girlfriend
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - Deputies said a mother in South Carolina was arrested after repeatedly calling 911 on her son early Wednesday morning.
The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to a home in Inman just before midnight on Tuesday, WHNS reports.
Upon arrival, deputies found the mother, who seemed to be heavily intoxicated, arguing with her son. The mother told deputies her son brought his girlfriend home after she told him not to.
The son said he and his girlfriend only needed to stay there for the night before returning to New York in the morning, according to deputies. Deputies explained to the mother that due to her son living at the home, he had the right to have guests over.
Deputies said they left the scene but were called back to the same house at 12:20 a.m. and 4:12 a.m. in reference to the mother calling 911 on her son. She left the home before deputies arrived the third time.
The mother was placed into custody after returning home a little more than one hour after the final 911 call, the sheriff’s office said.
She was charged with the misuse of 911 and was booked into the Spartanburg County Detention Center.
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Why hugs, holding hands and caressing feel so good: Scientists uncover the neural circuit that transmits 'pleasant touch' sensations from the skin to the brain
- 'Pleasant touch' is important in all mammals and promotes healthy development
- But it was previously unclear how we derive pleasure from this kind of touching
- Researchers have identified the neural circuit that transmits it from skin to brain
Hugging, holding hands and caressing give us a psychological boost that is known to be important to emotional well-being and healthy development.
But until now, it has been unclear why we derive pleasure from this kind of touching.
Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a neural circuit and a neuropeptide – a chemical messenger that carries signals between nerve cells – that transmit the sensation known as 'pleasant touch' from the skin to the brain.
They claim the discovery of the neural circuit and a neuropeptide in mice may help scientists better understand and treat disorders characterised by touch avoidance and impaired social development in humans, including autism spectrum disorder.
Pleasant touch sensations such as hugging give us a psychological boost that is known to be important to emotional well-being and healthy development
Pleasant touch sensation is very important in all mammals. Now researchers have identified a neural circuit that transmits this sensation from the skin to the brain
'Pleasant touch sensation is very important in all mammals,' said Dr Zhou-Feng Chen, director of the Center for the Study of Itch & Sensory Disorders at Washington University, who led the study.
'A major way babies are nurtured is through touch. Holding the hand of a dying person is a very powerful, comforting force. Animals groom each other. People hug and shake hands. Massage therapy reduces pain and stress and can provide benefits for patients with psychiatric disorders.
'In these experiments with mice, we have identified a key neuropeptide and a hard-wired neural pathway dedicated to this sensation.'
Chen's team found that when they bred mice without the neuropeptide, called prokinecticin 2 (PROK2), they could not sense pleasant touch signals – but continued to react normally to itchy and other stimuli.
'Now that we know which neuropeptide and receptor transmit only pleasant touch sensations, it may be possible to enhance pleasant touch signals without interfering with other circuits,' he said.
'[This] is crucial because pleasant touch boosts several hormones in the brain that are essential for social interactions and mental health.'
Chen's team discovered that mice engineered to lack PROK2 avoided activities such as grooming, and exhibited signs of stress not seen in normal mice.
The researchers also found that mice lacking pleasant touch sensation from birth had more severe stress responses and exhibited greater social avoidance behaviour than mice whose pleasant touch response was blocked in adulthood.
Chen said that finding underscores the importance of maternal touch in the development of offspring.
Holding the hand of a dying person is a very 'powerful, comforting force', and researchers claim
'Mothers like to lick their pups, and adult mice also groom each other frequently, for good reasons, such as helping emotional bonding, sleep and stress relief,' he said.
'But these mice avoid it. Even when their cagemates try to groom them, they pull away. They don't groom other mice either. They are withdrawn and isolated.'
One of the challenges of the study was figuring out how to get mice to allow themselves to be touched – and to interpret how certain types of touch felt to the mice, according to Chen.
'If an animal doesn't know you, it usually pulls away from any sort of touch because it can view it as a threat,' he said.
'Our difficult task was to design experiments that helped move past the animals' instinctual avoidance of touch.'
To get the mice to cooperate – and to learn whether they experienced touching as pleasant – the researchers kept mice apart from cagemates for a time, after which the animals were more amenable to being stroked with a soft brush, similar to pets being petted and groomed.
After several days of such brushing, the mice then were placed into an environment with two chambers. In one chamber the animals were brushed. In the other chamber, there was no stimulus of any kind.
When given the choice, the mice went to the chamber where they would be brushed.
Mice engage in grooming behaviour, experiencing a phenomenon researchers call pleasant touch. The findings eventually may help scientists better understand and treat disorders characterised by touch avoidance and impaired social development.
Next, Chen's team began working to identify the neuropeptides that were activated by pleasant brushing.
They found that PROK2 in sensory neurons and the spinal cord neural circuit expressing its receptor (PROKR2) transmitted pleasant touch signals to the brain.
In further experiments, they found that the neuropeptide they had homed in on wasn't involved in transmitting other sensory signals, such as itch.
Chen, whose laboratory was the first to identify a similar, dedicated pathway for itch, said pleasant touch sensation is transmitted by an entirely different, dedicated network.
'Just as we have itch-specific cells and peptides, we now have identified pleasant touch-specific neurons and a peptide to transmit those signals,' he said.
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« The Loss is Particular to this Economic Modeling that is Part…\nAn Interrail ticket, as it were. All your expenses at… »\nHowever You Would Previous Lay Down the Costs For about 2 billion Muslims around the world – a quarter of humanity – it's Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. There are about 3.45 million Muslims in the United States, and that number continues to climb. But if you're not Muslim, you might still not know exactly what to say (and not say) to Muslim friends, co-workers and colleagues during the month, whether they're fasting or not. Here are a few tips from Muslims across the United States collected over the course of Ramadan!
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Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams calls for masking 'compassion'
Before there were mask requirements or recommendations or candle tests or homemade mask drives, in the very early days of the pandemic, the U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams published what would become a notorious tweet: "Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if health care providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"
As the supply increased and science emerged showing masks were effective in stopping the spread of the virus, Adams encouraged the use of masks.
These days, no longer in his federal government role, Adams is still tweeting about masks in the post-transportation mandate world. He's sharing his anger at how a Delta pilot suggested he take his mask off to breathe free, and describing the challenges of a rideshare driver with a double-lung transplant whose customers no longer needed to mask in his car.
NPR called up Adams to get his thoughts about masking in this moment of the pandemic: how he stands by his original tweet on masks, being in the room when Trump administration officials declined to institute a transportation mandate, and how to practice "compassion" toward each other in this mask-optional world.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What do you think about the federal transportation mask mandate going away? It's been a little over a week now.
I'm frustrated that it's going away, because there are still many people out there who can't protect themselves.
From a scientific point of view, it's important for people to know that masking isn't the be-all and end-all, but it is incrementally effective as a public health mitigation measure in helping to slow the spread of the virus. Two-way masking – when we both wear a mask – is better than one-way masking, but one-way masking can be effective if you're wearing a high-quality mask like an N95. One of the challenges is that there are a lot of people who either can't get, or who can't wear, a tightly fitting mask. A key example would be kids under the age of five. We just don't have good-fitting masks for that population, so they rely on people around them to protect them.
Which leads to mandates. It's clear that mandates are something that stokes a lot of energy, excitement and controversy in this country. What people don't realize is that mandates are the reason why you can swim safely in a public swimming pool. They're why we can eat safely in restaurants without fear that the person preparing our food hasn't washed their hands. These are all public health mandates, and the idea that, 'Hey, everybody is on their own, mandates are inherently bad' is something that scares me, because it's going to have unintended consequences down the road.
When I'm in the grocery store, when I'm on public transportation, I personally still wear a mask to protect me and my family, but also to protect the families of people I may encounter on the way who may not be able to protect themselves.
You've been tweeting about your experiences in travel since the mask mandate has gone away. You were told to unmask by a pilot. You have had discussions with a medically vulnerable rideshare driver. So how are you thinking about masks in our tired and politically polarized society right now?
I am hopeful that now we can actually have a real conversation about when and where and why we should mask. So my tweets lately have illustrated examples of, quite frankly, one of my neighbors not being so kind and compassionate toward me – the Delta pilot who came up to me unsolicited and told me to take my mask off, without recognizing why I was wearing a mask.
One of the reasons I wear a mask is because my wife is being treated for cancer. You don't know by looking at someone what type of situation they're in. And it's important for us to understand that that's why we need to be compassionate for each other.
I've talked about Mr. Melvin, who's a rideshare driver who I met, who had a double-lung transplant. Mr. Melvin was working a job, which is what we say we want Americans to do. He actually had a mask on. It wasn't an N95, but he didn't have access to high quality masks, so I actually gave him a five-pack of new N95 masks that I had on me – something the federal government, in my opinion, should be doing.
We need to emphasize that not everyone has the tools that they need to protect themselves. We need to make sure everyone has an equitable chance to protect themselves, and recognize that in situations where they may not have that opportunity, they're relying on us to be compassionate and to protect them.
I want to talk about your time in the Trump administration as surgeon general during the pandemic. First of all, your famous tweet at the very beginning when supplies were low and there wasn't good data on mask efficacy. I'm sure you've thought about that message a lot – what are you thinking now, looking back on it?
I still come to the conclusion that I made the best recommendation I could to the American people based on the information that I had in the circumstances that were taking place at the time.
The WHO and the CDC were saying the same thing that I was saying, so the science supported me. We knew that supplies weren't there for health care workers, so there was a further crisis being created because of hoarding of masks. And we didn't have the information that we needed from China about asymptomatic spread.
The fact is, once that information trickled out of China and we then knew that it might be helpful for people to wear masks, we changed those recommendations. And that's how science is supposed to work.
People are very uncomfortable watching the sausage actually get made, particularly when it has immediate implications on their day-to-day lives – we've seen this play out over and over again during the pandemic. But I hope that coming out of the pandemic, we can have a healthier respect for the scientific process, and that people are more comfortable with what they say they want, and that's a more rapid translation of the science into reality.
When you were surgeon general, masks became a political and public signal of how someone felt about the pandemic. Looking back, do you think there's more that public health officials could have done to prevent masks from becoming this political symbol?
We had one of the most divisive presidential elections of modern times superimposed on top of a once-in-a-century pandemic that would have been difficult to deal with, no matter what. And that resulted in everything being politicized.
Certainly, conservatives politicized masking to the detriment of society. But we also have people on the other side – liberals – who politicized masking. This was used as a tool to say either you're for Biden or you're for Trump, and that made it difficult.
One of the things that I always tried to do was fall back on the science. I would screen every question through the lens of: What is the science saying? For example, I was asked whether or not people should go to Trump rallies in 2020. And my answer was that people need to understand their risks. They need to understand the environment they're going into, and they need to understand the tools that are available to help them stay safe. But it is not my place – as a scientist – to tell someone they shouldn't go to see the president of the United States any more than it's my place to tell them they shouldn't go to a George Floyd rally, because the science is the same. It's a risky situation, and it's riskier depending on your particular factors.
I think we need to, as scientists, always fall back on the science and not let our biases and judgments about the worthiness of people's decisions enter into how we communicate the scientific risk.
You were on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. I understand that in the fall of 2020, there were discussions about having the same kind of transportation mask mandate that the CDC ended up implementing under Biden. Do you remember those conversations? If the Trump administration had implemented the mask mandate on public transit, would masks have become as politically polarized?
We had continual questions about what we should do from a scientific perspective, what we could legally do and what the public would accept. Those are the components that went into every calculation that we made.
During our administration, there were certainly debates about whether or not we should have a federal transportation mask mandate. We had much greater limits on [mask] supply – that was a bigger variable for us than what it has been for the Biden administration. It was a [higher] bar for us to cross because we had limited amounts to be able to say, 'OK, we're going to mandate everyone do this, but we're not going to give you the tools that you need to actually be able to comply.'
The other thing is that there are several judges out there who are of the opinion that such a mandate was not legal. We had legal advice that we couldn't do it or that it would be likely overturned.
So for those two reasons, the Trump administration chose not to go ahead with a federal mask mandate [on transportation.]
What are your thoughts or advice on how to be kind about masks in this particular moment?
What I want people to understand is that many of us are privileged in different ways. Sometimes we're privileged because of the color of our skin. Sometimes we're privileged because of how much money we make. Sometimes we're privileged because of where we live. I live within 10 minutes of two major hospitals. But I grew up in a rural community where the nearest tertiary care center was over an hour and a half away.
If we don't recognize those privileges, then we may not understand that other people don't have the same opportunities to make healthy choices that we do. When they don't have those opportunities, that's where society has to step up and say, 'We're going to provide you those opportunities or we're going to protect you.'
What I say to people is remember the Mr. Melvins out there – the people who are trying their best to do the right thing but may not have the resources that you have to be able to do those things. I just hope that we can all understand how fortunate many of us are in different ways and how unfortunate other people are, and just have a little bit of compassion for those individuals who might not have the same opportunities to make a healthy choice as we do. | https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/28/1095295980/jerome-adams-masking | 2022-04-28T18:33:08Z | https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/28/1095295980/jerome-adams-masking | true |
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Senate has blocked an attempt to eliminate a registration system created to prevent widespread hepatitis C outbreak years ago.
New Hampshire created the Board of Registration for Medical Technicians in response to David Kwiatkowski, who is serving 39 years in prison for replacing painkillers with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood.
Despite being fired numerous times over drug allegations, Kwiatkowski had worked in 18 hospitals in seven states before being hired in at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire. After his arrest in 2012, 46 people in four states were diagnosed with the same strain of the hepatitis C virus he carries, including one who died in Kansas.
The New Hampshire House recently passed a bill that would eliminate the board, with supporters saying it creates unnecessary bureaucracy at a time when health care facilities are struggling to hire workers. But the Senate on Thursday killed it, citing the importance of patient safety. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/New-Hampshire-Senate-rejects-ending-medical-tech-17134042.php | 2022-04-28T18:35:58Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/New-Hampshire-Senate-rejects-ending-medical-tech-17134042.php | true |
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Delhi HC to hear bail plea by Sharjeel Imam in UAPA case
The Delhi High Court will hear on Friday a bail plea by former JNU student Sharjeel Imam in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the 2020 north-east Delhi riots.
Imam's appeal, which challenges the trial court order rejecting his bail application, is listed for hearing before a Bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar.
In his appeal, the former JNU student, who is accused of making inflammatory speeches against the government on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC), particularly at Jamia Milia Islamia University in December 2019, has submitted that in absence of any admissible material, the trial court wrongly found him to be a part of the conspiracy to cause riots. He added that there is no prima facie case against him for the commission of any 'terrorist act' under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
In his plea, Imam has also said he is a final year Ph.D. student having no prior criminal antecedents and the trial court failed to appreciate that the entire investigation is faulty and that there is no connection between his speeches and the incidents of violence.
The plea has also claimed that Imam was arrested by the Delhi police as “part of a targeted campaign” against him and he was already in custody in connection with other cases when the violence broke out in north-east Delhi and had no communication with the other alleged co-conspirators.
On April 11, special Judge Amitabh Rawat denied relief to Imam who has been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the UAPA.
Communal clashes had broken out in north-east Delhi in February 2020 after violence between the CAA supporters and its protesters spiralled out of control.
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Biden to Teachers: Kids Are 'Yours When You're in the Classroom'
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden hosted the National and State Teachers of the Year event at the White House.
His remarks turned political, to the surprise of no one; education and parental freedom in public schooling are hot-button issues right now, and the president said it was high time for this to end.
“American teachers have dedicated their lives to teaching our children and lifting them up. We got to stop making them the target of the culture wars,” Biden said, according to a White House transcript. “That’s where this is going.”
(The Western Journal has documented, however, how it’s the left that’s been stoking the culture wars in the classroom — and conservatives are merely trying to stop their children from being indoctrinated. We’ll keep fighting for parental rights — and you can help us by subscribing.)
Biden, just moments later, managed to undercut his rhetoric by underlining why there’s a culture war over how our kids are instructed.
“You’ve heard me say it many times about our children, but it’s true: They’re all our children,” Biden said.
“And the reason you’re the Teachers of the Year is because you recognize that. They’re not somebody else’s children; they’re like yours when they’re in the classroom.”
Biden to teachers: “They’re not somebody else’s children. They’re yours when you’re in the classroom.” pic.twitter.com/iiBdxNkqOC
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 27, 2022
It’s saying the quiet part out loud, and not even accidentally: Your children are community property to liberals, never so much so as when they’re in the classroom.
Teachers aren’t professional educators paid to instruct your child in algebra, English or world history. That may be their stated job, mind you. However, to liberals, teachers are a bit like time-share parents.
Sure, you may have them at home, but between the hours of 7 a.m. and 2 p.m., that’s their time. The problem is that it’s not just about reading, writing and ‘rithmatic anymore. Instead, it’s about inculcating values.
Stunner of stunners, you may not agree with those values. For the most part, these educators don’t care. You’re the hidebound one — and they’re going to make sure that whatever you teach them at home is undermined while your kids are “theirs” in the classroom.
Biden’s speech on Wednesday felicitously comes after Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz “exposed” the Twitter account Libs of TikTok. While her doxing of the account’s owner contained plenty of accusations of bigotry, there weren’t too many descriptions of the actual content on the account — particularly as it pertains to teachers.
Perhaps this is why. Here’s a man who was reportedly an Oklahoma middle school teacher who posted a video telling kids, “If your parents don’t accept you for who you are, f*** them. I’m your parents now.”
WARNING: The following video contains graphic language that some viewers will find offensive.
“If your parents don’t accept you for who you are, f*** them. I’m your parents now” – Oklahoma middle school teacher
This teacher was let go last week after complaints of grooming and this tiktok + others containing questionable content were brought to the principal’s attention. pic.twitter.com/eBgAWCW3K7
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 11, 2022
And here’s a fifth-grade teacher detailing “her lesson plan for teaching gender and sexuality.”
5th grade teacher shows her lesson plan for teaching gender and sexuality. pic.twitter.com/iFYdiigFMD
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 15, 2022
Is the “Gender Unicorn” your ideal lesson plan for your children regarding gender and sexuality? Probably not, but your tax dollars are paying her to teach it to your kids while they’re “hers.”
But no: According to President Biden, fears about critical race theory and gender ideology being taught in the classroom are all just coming from the same old fear-mongering prudes who went apoplectic over “Heather Has Two Mommies” back in the 1990s.
“Today, there are too many politicians trying to score political points, trying to ban books — even math books,” Biden said.
“I mean, did you ever think — even you younger teachers — did you ever think, when you’d be teaching, that you’d be worried about book burnings and banning books, all because it doesn’t fit somebody’s political agenda?”
Interesting Biden should talk about those math books recently rejected by Florida’s Department of Education and “somebody’s political agenda.” In excerpts from one of the banned books released by the Department of Education, an example graph identified conservatives as more racially prejudiced than liberals.
Florida’s Dept. of Education released examples of the CRT-inspired material in math textbooks and here ya have it
Kids are being told that conservatives and more racially prejudice than liberals based on data from a debunked test https://t.co/M7wBJkoEvP pic.twitter.com/WvWZaTVjs2
— Chrissy Clark (@chrissyclark_) April 21, 2022
There’s more where that came from, too. But it’s the “politicians trying to score political points” who have the agenda here. Right.
No teacher, no matter how good, has a claim on your child. Your child isn’t “ours.” It’s not like your child is theirs when they’re in a teacher’s classroom, either. There’s no shared ownership of kids, no matter how badly the left wishes there was.
Parents are fed up with this kind of thinking, and they’re expressing their disgust at school board meetings — and the ballot box. Last November, this kind of rhetoric cost Terry McAuliffe what should have been an easy victory in the Virginia gubernatorial election. Instead, education led to a GOP sweep in a state that was becoming increasingly blue.
Things already don’t look good for the Democrats in 2022. The last thing Joe Biden needs right now is to turn to the Terry McAuliffe strategy on the war for the soul of our public schools.
From the sound of things, however, he can’t help himself.
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Assad family likely worth $1-2 billion, US report says
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (center) and his wife Asma (right) cast votes in Douma near Damascus in May 2021
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's family is likely worth $1-2 billion, the US State Department said Thursday, despite US-led efforts to isolate him over the brutal war.
In a report required by Congress, the State Department said it could only provide an "inexact estimate" with the Assads believed to hold assets under fictitious names or through opaque property dealings.
"Estimates based on open-source information generally put the Assad family net worth at between $1-2 billion," said the publicly released part of the report, some of which was classified.
Quoting non-governmental and media reports, the State Department said that the Assads run "a complex patronage system including shell companies and corporate facades that serves as a tool for the regime to access financial resources."
The estimate includes the president's wife, brother, sister, cousins and uncle, most of whom are under US sanctions.
The State Department said it did not have enough information on the net worth of the president's three children, the youngest of whom is 17.
The US Congress has led sanctions that aim to prevent a return to business as usual with Assad, who has regained control over most of Syria after a decade of war estimated to have killed nearly half a million people.
The United States has called for accountability after wide concerns about human rights.
But much of the region is moving on, with Assad in March visiting the United Arab Emirates in his first official visit to an Arab country since the war broke out. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10764515/Assad-family-likely-worth-1-2-billion-US-report-says.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-28T18:53:46Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10764515/Assad-family-likely-worth-1-2-billion-US-report-says.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Caterpillar’s first-quarter sales climbed with demand for construction equipment surging in the face of supply chain challenges that continue to plague businesses from car and phone makers to grocery stores.
Sales rose 14% to $13.59 billion, topping the $13.5 billion that analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research were looking for. Higher prices also fueled revenue numbers.
Construction industry sales increased 12%, propelled by increased prices, changes in dealer inventories and higher end-user demand for aftermarket parts.
Sales in the resource industries division jumped 30% on higher sales volume and higher prices. The sales volume was impacted by better demand for equipment and aftermarket parts and changes in dealer inventories.
Housing demand has been on fire during the pandemic as millions of people relocated or buy a first home, but rising mortgage rates may start to dampen that. Arun-up in rates is setting the stage for a slowdown in home sales this year as increased borrowing costs reduce would-be buyers’ purchasing power.
Caterpillar Inc. earned $1.54 billion, or $2.86 per share, for the three months ended March 31.
Stripping out certain items, earnings were $2.88 per share. Wall Street expected $2.66 per share.
Shares of the Deerfield, Illinois, company rose slightly before the market opened on Thursday. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/caterpillar-sales-rise-in-1q-on-continued-equipment-demand/ | 2022-04-28T18:57:30Z | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/caterpillar-sales-rise-in-1q-on-continued-equipment-demand/ | true |
CHICAGO (RNS) — In America’s third largest city, it’s possible to get a crash course in the world’s religions in a journey of just a few miles — from the University of Chicago’s majestic, ecumenical Christian Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on Chicago’s South Side to the humble Masjid Al-Taqwa, which meets in a converted stable, still under renovation a 15-minute ride to the south.
On Orthodox Christian Easter (April 24), 70 or so passengers took that ride on the Interfaith Trolley, a tour of sacred spaces inspired by this month’s convergence of Ramadan, Passover, Easter, Vaisakhi (celebrated by Sikhs), Ridvan (observed by Baha’is) and Ram Navami (a Hindu holiday).
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Perhaps more reminiscent of speed-dating than a comparative religion course, the tour made brief stops at five religious sites across southeast Chicago, hearing from a series of faith leaders and lay people from different religious groups.
Sponsored by local faith institutions such as American Islamic College, the Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary, the Parliament of the World’s Religions and the Hyde Park & Kenwood Interfaith Council, the trolley was intended to promote interfaith understanding and cooperation.
“This was a beautiful event, far more beautiful than I expected,” said Kim Schultz, coordinator of creative initiatives at the InterReligious Institute, part of Chicago Theological Seminary. “The words shared and the community shared really struck my heart.”
“This is an incredible opportunity to come together to educate our communities and shape the public narrative about what it means to live well together amidst our religious and cultural diversity and difference,” organizers said in announcing the event.
At the Rockefeller Chapel, Mayher Kaur, the leader of the Sikh Student Association gave an overview of Sikh practices and explained that Sikh gurus worked to overcome India’s caste system. A Hindu student told participants about Ram Navami, a Hindu holiday that fell on April 10 that celebrates the birth of Lord Rama, whose story is told in Ramayana. Shradha Jain, a Jain student spoke of her faith’s beliefs and the April 14 festival of Mahavir Jayanti, marking the birth of Jainism’s founder.
At Ebenezer Baptist Church, Patricia Butts, the church’s clerk, recounted the congregation’s musical history — Thomas Dorsey, composer of “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” founded an early gospel choir there in the early 1930s before moving to Pilgrim Baptist Church, where the former bluesman was music director for half a century. Meeting in a former synagogue, Ebenezer remains known for its gospel music and its annual performance of Handel’s “Messiah.”
Butts also told visitors about the church’s Easter observances, including the seven last words of Jesus, and about its vibrant and dedicated congregation.
“Our senior deacon is 102 years old and still going strong,” she said.
At the Claret Center, which offers “resources for the human journey,” passengers learned about the center’s offerings of spiritual direction, meditation and acupuncture, then heard a brief meditation from Heiwa no Bushi, a BodhiChristo teacher from North Carolina, whose spiritual teaching merges Buddhism and Christianity. Bushi encouraged his listeners to “love wastefully” rather than filling their minds with worry.
“If you love wastefully, you are living fully,” he said.
At KAM Isaiah Israel, a Reform Jewish congregation whose Hyde Park neighbors include President Barack Obama, Rabbi Frederick Reeves explained how the congregation was formed over decades as several Jewish synagogues — one of them the oldest in the state of Illinois — merged, gathering in their current building in the 1920s. He also told visitors about the Jewish observance of Passover, noting that one of its key elements is that it is celebrated at home, meaning every family makes Passover their own.
“If you go to two Seders at two different houses, you’ll have two different experiences,” he said.
The tour ended up at the Masjid Al-Taqwa, a predominantly Black mosque whose members are renovating their own building after worshipping in rented space for years. Most of the renovation is being done by members of the community.
“You’ve got to dig deep. And then you have to roll up your sleeves,” Imam Tariq El-Amin told his guests.
On the ride back to the Chicago Theological Seminary for an interfaith iftar, Saba Ayman-Nolley, a retired professor and president of the Hyde Park & Kenwood Interfaith Council, gave an overview of the Baha’i celebration of Ridvan and of the interfaith council’s charitable work. That work includes food pantries, assistance to the homeless and resettling of refugees.
In a talk interrupted by a sidewalk hip-hop group that began singing about “divine prophecy” while the trolley was stopped at a red light, Ayman-Nolley said that Ridvan celebrated the “springtime awakening of humans,” where people can lay down their weapons and embrace a message of love and brotherhood.
Back at the seminary, Timothy Gianotti, president of American Islamic College, gave a brief meditation on the meaning of Ramadan before an interfaith iftar dinner, where he and other Muslims broke their fast as they gathered with those of other faiths.
Ramadan is a time of revelation and a time of disruption, he said, in which Muslims draw near to God by breaking away from the distractions of the world.
“We fast from all the things that are getting in our way,” he said. “We fast from our own sense of egocentric centrality in the universe. We fast from the habits of mind and habits of being that get in our way — or in other people’s way — in terms of the spiritual life.”
Among the passengers on the trolley were Emily Heitzmann, a Lutheran pastor on Chicago’s North Side, and her mom, Barbara Heitzmann, who was visiting from Dubuque, Iowa. Emily Heitzmann said the event was a reminder of our common humanity and that people of different faiths still had much in common. Her mom agreed.
“We’re all striving for peace, being centered, and holiness,” said Barbara Heitzmann, who said she only wished that the visit to each religious site had been longer. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Interfaith-Trolley-offers-tour-of-religion-in-17134044.php | 2022-04-28T18:57:38Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Interfaith-Trolley-offers-tour-of-religion-in-17134044.php | false |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-0-8
(zero, zero, zero, eight)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-0-8
(zero, zero, zero, eight) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17134078.php | 2022-04-28T19:03:20Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17134078.php | true |
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A state court judge has set a May 3 deadline for challenges to a revised redistricting plan for Alaska.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews, in an order dated Wednesday, said the accelerated timeline takes into account a June 1 candidate filing deadline for the August primary. He said given the approaching filing deadline, it would be “impossible” for the courts to hear and decide challenges to the plan if they were filed as late as 30 days after the revised plan was issued.
The Alaska Redistricting Board adopted a revised plan on April 13. The board went back to work after the state Supreme Court ruled that a Senate district pairing part of east Anchorage and the Eagle River area constituted an “unconstitutional political gerrymander.”
Plaintiffs from east Anchorage who challenged the initial plan also asked the court to reject the amended plan. They have raised concerns with the plan splitting the Eagle River area into two Senate districts.
Matthews held a hearing on the claim earlier this week. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Judge-sets-May-3-deadline-for-Alaska-17134120.php | 2022-04-28T19:05:30Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Judge-sets-May-3-deadline-for-Alaska-17134120.php | false |
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